The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-05 00:00:00

lii.vENlNa EDITION. scy Jkl haepia.ten place in our city as that which oc c- .ed on Monday, becanse we doubt not it w illbe tibL'a advantage of by the friends of the iron rule as 11;- , evidence that the country have no sympathy with Ix - insures of conciliation and justice, and that the pope "pity which attends such acts for a while is fleeting and vain. We remember that some years ago the lame men who on this occasion hooted down an attempt to approve of a just and conciliatory policy towards Ireland, wemcd with unexampled enthusiasm the man whose nrighty exertions have been in a great measure the means of rescuing his country frorru micry and oppression ; heard with breathless and. indignant silence his narrative of the wrongs which hiS countrymen had suffered, and heartily echoed his exult ing anticipation of the better day that seemed dawning on the land. We did not expect, when we contem plated that scene, that when the people of Edinburgh —celebrated as they have been for their shrewdness and consistency—should be called upon again to give their opinion oil the subject of the best policy towards Ireland, they would treat the call with angry disregard, .rd break in with unmannered ruffianism on the pro ocedings. That the people of Edinburgh in general feel less for Ireland—that they are less a•ivo to the wisdom and justice of a conciliatory po:cy there, than they formerly were—we do not believe ; yet the scene which took place will, we need cot doubt, be employed to prove how worthless such ts policy is in their eyes. Well might the Chart ' chairman call on the Tories to come liberally for w with pecuniary assistance in aid of their pro ct!edings Certain individvals have banded themselves together to- declare, that no public meeting shall be held, except trier their auspices, and for their purposes ; and there is sip doubt that they have in the mean t: put an end in Edinburgh, to this eco ns,,eieal, manly, and exhilirating form of collecting p),d - :ie opinion. That a meeting should be a place for ocliberating and voting, is out of the question. The ceiling of a meeting, is an invitation to those partial to purposa for which it is called to come forward ; and .here are persons of a different opinion, who wish to v their strength also, the proper form of doing so is •:; a . separate meeting. _ We . must admit to the persons who so effectually cititslietrfhe proceedings, the credit of having been much setter disciplined than the original holders of the meet ing. They were in the room before the hour of meet ing, ready packed and arrayed, and in considerable numbers. They had been, indeed, gathered together ..with great pains ; the villages for some miles round Edinburgh baying been taxed for the metropolitan sup• ply. We do think that when the show of hands was Wort, there was a majority in favour of the Lard Pro yost, but it undoubtedly was not a large one, and the force en the occasion was very different in tit of number to the little knot of dissentients who t,t!inpted to disturb the meetings in favour of the ti alot and against the Corn-laws. Before leaving this 1: - .pleasing subject, we are bound to say, for the infor :nation of our friends at a distance, that much impru dont zeal was displayed in this attempt, which was by no means the doing of the Reformers of Edinburgh cs a body. When the question was, whether they •!;ould respond to the call' after it was made, no man who has observed the difference between the old and modern rule in Ireland—who has, in the words of an i;lustrious orator, traced Ireland through the statute ok, like a wounded man, by the track of blood—could :!iFsent from a declaration in favour of the Normanby policy. The names, however, of those of the tried Re formers of Edinburgh who attended, are by no means an ii;,lex to the number who thought the time a prudent nod fitting one for such an attempt, a nd those who has ti;y and unaclvisedly persisted in it, have incurred no ait, - meable responsibility. NATIONAL CONVENTION. YESTE RDA Y. Mr. CARDO, Delegate from Marylebone, in the Chair. GREAT CHARTIST MEETIN• AT STR.OLID, LEEDS, AND BIRMINGHAM. Letters were read from Mr. Frost, which gave an ac ount of hi! proceedings since ha left London on Thurs.. :lay. On that night he got to Gloucester, and on Friday uoceeded to S!roud to - have a little serious conversation e ith little Finality's constituents. When he got there he poreelved the walls of the town placarded with a notice for a public meeting. On getting into the town he pro -1 •-esded to the inn, where he found the committee were reting, and upon his announcing himself he was hailed - es.: , h three rounds of cheers. The people were assembling ` ie thousands in order to go to the place of meeting at iledbororigh Hill. As soon as the preliminary arrange meets were concluded, the Committee, together with tlse Delegates frolU Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester, a d other placce, accompanied by the multitude, pre , e , led by a most excellent band of music and beautiful e• . appropriate colours, went to the place appointed to L :.1 the meeting. When they arrived there the view e - the assembl a ge wa s o ne o f th e mos t b eau tif u l an d in -1 t .",,Cng that could ho imagined ; the hill teeming w .11 living beings ; not less than ten thousand could be l ecet, From the summit was a view of the beautiful 1 - • ..1 interesting valley of Stroud, with the fertile eadows, bordering the silvery Severn immediately • eatla and around you, and in the dis e t eicos the blue hills of Monmouthshire, lending -.:eir sombre outline, to fill up the background of the ' e cite ; indeed, so fine was the day, and spirit-stirring he scene, that he fancied he could see his beloved home, end witqess the anxious watchings of his own household and of his neighbours for his return. Gathered around were a multitude of labourers and weavers, whose pale and heart-worn countenances depicted that they lived in the most extreme poverty. The view of those poor creatures te s ede him phil osop hi se on the enorm i ty of a ' - :system which could bring men to such a state of poverty and starvation amid the abundance which reined around them. Here, heexclaimed amidst the works of nature and of art in a most fruitful country, an abundance of every et thing calculated to make life easy, are beings with out food or raiment ; and there sits Lord John Russell, the patron of religious education societies, exerting all his powers to render the situation of those beings miser able who raise the food and produce the raiment. Eight shillings per week is the average wages, out of which taxes to be paid reduce the real income to only four shillings. The Learned and Very Pious Secretary of State receives 6,000/. and perquisites for filling, no, not filling, but doing the work, and dirty work it is, of his office. His Lordship quarters himself on six hundred of these poor heart-broken weavers, who, amid their own destitution and poverty, must contribute to his support the half of their scanty earnings —to give a moity of their meagre sustenance to support him in the lap of luxury. The system which allows this must be one that all ought to revere !! ! Would it not be a good plan if his Lordship and his colleagues were to go about and collect thoir own sa laries, and to get them in kind as tithes were formerly obtained ? How pleasing it would be to see this scion of the house of Bedford accompanied by Cupid, going nmong the shopkeepers and others seeking for the means of support, and returning with their wallets loaded with the miscellaneous produce of their day's toll —tea and sugar, rolls of butter, pieces of soap, and meat, See., to crave a breakfast from one poor weaver, and a di nner f rom another. If this were so, would his Lordship:see the thing in its true colours ? then would himself and Cupid find out that they were actually swallowing 1,200 weavers alive. Can the patience of God suffer this to last much longer? The chair was taken by a working man, who stated the objects of the meeting in a short and sensible speech. The first resolution, which was of confidence in the Convention, passed with enthusiasm. The second, appointing the writer (Mr. Frost) to represent the industrious classes of that neighbourhood, was also carried unanimously. If Lord John Russell heard the shouts with which this resolution was carried, he would feel that " Othello's occupation eves gone." In speaking to it he told the people of Stroiid that on his return to London he would send a copy of its to his Lordship, and challenge his Lordship o meet the people of Strom! in his presence, when he teould repeat all the charges which he then made, in crrder that they might test his Lordship's fitness to be their representative, and should his Lordship refuse t.) do so he would consider himself their true repre e ntative, and leave Lord .T. Russell to represent the four manufacturers of that place, if they could again thrust forward as the representative of the electors and '474iabitants of Stroud. He gave the history of the causes of the e•reot ilitreis of the people, and the means 'o he adopted to remedy that distress. Of the opinions Ind principles of Lord J. Russell, before he attained 4 7 - Ace, and how much those opinions were changed in ‘‘lesequ.ence of receiving the pay for official duty—in ids conduct in the hateful and tyrannic Irish Coercion 13ill—in regard to the Russian loan, which empowered Ciat country to enslave the Polish people—in the des potism used towards the Dorchester labourers—in the Calthorpc-street affair ; and last, though not least, in his conduct on the New Poor Law Amend ment Act. He gave them the history of the Poor Laws, and of the rapacious courtiers of Henry he Eighth, among whom was a Mr. Russell, the : , nce i .star of Lord John, who was rewarded by tno.narch for his subserviency by obtaining i.he confiscated property of the church and poor, s witness Woburn Abbey, Tavistock Priory, Co nt and other properties ; how the Mem i-:rs of Edward the Sixth's Parlinment made laws to rob the poor and the Church, to enrich themselves. He tl:en spoke of the miseries entailed on the people by the n . -3v Nor-law. His audience were most attentive, and he riought Lord J. Russell would have much trouble to xif)e away the impression w hi c h he had made. He then alluded to his int en ti on o f b ecom i n g a candidate for Stroud which announcement was responded to with d eafening shout s ; an f 7 ,- qn a d he received promises of support great"roany electors. He gave a history of his dis t-issal from the magistrac, hec,luse of his independence, y rod concl u d e d this part of his e pi s tl e by stating that , a vote of cengure was p asse d on the Government, au d ! rin Lord John R ussell in particular, for their conduct regard to the, happi neas and wishes of the nation . ; and t i i:a went on to describe the great success of the ( 'watt . 7,lo,llncotliedii.; G:ouecstershire. , He saw The Sun of Monday, in which it was stated 1 that in consequence of the resignation of their Bir mingham Delegates that paper predicted the dissolution of the Convention. Dissolve, indeed ! No, no. There are to trimly firm men in the Convention to allow of its being dissolved for the seceding of some few of its members. No, they were determined to nail their colours to the mast, and go down with the vessel sooner than give up. Resign, indeed ! because a few had not nerve enough to abide the coming struggle. He longed to see The Sun of Tuesday, which he hoped would have an account of the great Birmingham meeting ; and coucluded by stating that he would be at his post on Monday morning. A letter was read from Dr. Taylor, stating that he proceeded on Sunday to Leeds, at which place a meet ing was held on Monday, attended by no less than 30,000 persons. It was the first open air meeting in that place, and every thing went on as merry as a marriage bell. No opposition---the Convention, and nothing but the Convention. Ile returned that night to Birmingham, and on Tuesday found that everything was arranged at a previous meeting, held on Monday, for the great display to be held on Wednesday. The pre paratory meeting was attended by 15,000 person., and the resolutions to bo adopted on Wednesday were got ready and sanctioned. On Wednesday the great meeting was held at Holloway Head, the people assem bled intens of thousands at the Bull Ring, and marched forward to the scene of the meeting with music, and banners, and the cap of liberty. There were from forty to fifty thousand persons present. Resolutions condemnatory of the conduct of the members who resigned, were passed with acclamation, and measures adopted to elect in their room men more worthy of the confidence of the working classes. _ _ A letter from Mr.:Jones, Member for Wales, stated that a great many of the middle classes in his part of the countrywere cominc into the ranks of the Chartists. AGITATION OF THE METROPOLIS. It was resolved that a proper and immediate system of agitation should be got up in London, to procure sig natures to the petition, against the sixth of May. MR. FROST AND TIIE RADICAL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. CARPENTER brought up the petition to be pre sented to the Houses of Lords and Commons for the restoration of Mr. Frost to the commission of the peace, which passed unanimously, it being first signed by the Chairman on behalf of the Convention. A lengthened and interesting discussion took place on the question of which of the Members of Parliament should be entrusted with its presentation, during which the relative merits of Messrs. T. Attwood, Fielding, Whittle Harvey, and others, was canvassed with great freedom, Mr. Richardson (of Manchester) contending that Mr. Fielden ought to have the honour of present. kg it, on account of his refusing the honour of the ma gistracy, knowing well how independent men would be treated by the present Government. Mr. DEEGAN contended that as Mr. Harvey bad the car of the House, he would be the best to bring on a discussion on the merits of the question ; and, more over, it was known that Mr. Attwood was never beard in the House. Mr. CLEAVE said that Mr. Harvey had identified himself with the Chartists, not only in his former con duct, but more especially in his speech on the Corn laws. Mr. Wakley also signed the Chartist declaration, but latterly he did not attend to his duty as he should do. Notwithstanding which, they ought to ask his assistance when the petition should be presented. They ought not to be too severe on these gentlemen, if they are willing to do their duty ; indeed, to some persons, General Johnson does not come up to the mark. Mr. Moon said it was not a Charter question, but one appertaining to the duties of the Secretary of State, in regard to Mr. Frost. He therefore thought that Mr. Hall, who was the personal friend of that gentleman, should have the petition to present. Mr. SANREY gave his testimony to the manly and independent conduct of Mr. Wakley ; and he had also a conversation with Mr. Attwood, who disapproved of the conduct of the Birmingham Delegates who had re signed. Mr. HARNEY would support the motion of Mr. Dee gan, because he thought where all were bad one was as good as another. Mr. Harvey would just answer as well as any other of the Members. Mr. Deegan's motion, which entrusted the petition to Mr. Harvey, was carried by a majority of three. Mr. CARPENTER moved that Lord Brougham should present the petition to the House of Lords. He hoped —na♦ he was sure there would not ho a dissentient voice on this question. Mr. lICLLY seconded the resolution. Dr. FLETCHER moved an amendment that it be given to Lord Stanhope, who was ever the friend of the poor and labouring classes. He did not think with Mr. Carpenter that there could be no second opinion on the conduct of Lord Brougham. For if there was env man in the British empire who for decided truckling of con duct deserved the contempt of the people, that man was Lord Brougham. There is no po litical wind of doctrine, hut what has affected his Lord ship.—( Hear, hear.) lie has not omitted any oppor tunity of showing how little he cared for the rights of the people, unless his own interest was at stake. Mr. PITKEITHLEY coincided with Dr. Fletcher in all he said about Lord Brougham, who was the framer of the accursed New Poor-law.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. RICHARDSON said when Lord Brougham was Lord Chancellor, he increased the Magistracy to an enormous extent to bolster up the cause of the base and bloody Whigs. It was resolved unanimously to give the petition toLord Stanhope. D. WHITTLE HARVEY, ESQ., M.P. A resolution proposed by Mr. S. Knighton, and se conded by Mr. Pitkeithley, proposing to receive the of fered legal services of the above named gentleman for the use of the Convention, was carried, after a pro tracted discussion. After disposing of three or four other motions relative to the most effective means of consolidating the different Radical Associations of London into one body, the meeting broke up. CARRIER PIGEONS.—Some of these aerial messengers have recently found their way from Amsterdam to Frankfort in thirty-eight hour!, the distance between the two cities being one hundred and eight leagues. Out of six pigeons started at Amsterdam on the 14th, at seven in the morning, two reached Frankfort at nine in the morn. ing on the 16th. TIIE STORMING OT CONSTANTINA.—The ravines at the foot of the rock were filled with the bodies of those who rolled from above ; heaps were seen of the dead, the dying, the wounded, and the mutilated. Men, women, and children lay in masses, perishing miserably and in agonies; for all others were too occupied to assist them. Thu sight of men who have been killed fighting is one which does not inspire any sensibilities, for it is nothing more than you are prepared to see ; but when women and children are included among the killed, such is not the case ; and few can gaze upon them in this state unmoved. In the town I was witness to a little scene which con siderably affected me. Entering a house whose passage was paved with the numerous bodies of the valiant defen ders, we found a door which was locked ; the soldiers burst it open, and found that it had been still further se cured by the inmates with boxes and trunks placed against it. A woman bad locked herself in with two children ; one of them at the breast. She thought herself secure, but we found all three killed, a shell having entered by the ceiling, and burst in the room. The mother and the little boy appeared to have been, when struck, at different extre mities of the room. We found them in the centre, em bracing each other with the grasp of death, and the train of blood showed that they had dragged themselves there from opposite corners. The door was strewed with toys and playthings, many dabbled in blood. Although these are events which unfortunately often occur in besieged towns, still you cannot avoid starting with horror and pain when they present themselves to view.— United Service Journal. JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.—The Congress of the United States have taken up this long-mooted project, and are likely to bring about its accomplishment. On the 2d ult. a resolution, accom panied by a report and voluminous appendix, interspersed with sundry maps and diagrams, was presented to the House of Representatives from the Committee on Roads and Ca nals. The resolution was adopted :—" Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to consider the expediency of opening or continuing negotiations with the governments of other nations, and particularly with those the territorial jurisdiction of which comprehends the isthmus that connects North and South America, and to which the United States have accredited ministers or agents, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of open ing a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the construction of a ship canal across the Isth mus ; and of securing for ever, by suitable treaty stipula tions, the free arid equal right of navigating such canal to all nations, on the payment of reasonable tolls." SINGULAR ACCIDENT A T GREENIVICII FAIR. —Between eight and nine on Wednesday morning a me chanic, named James Finch, was drinking at a public housa in Greenwich, and, while in the act of putting a pipe into his mouth, one of his companions, who was "larking," as it is termed, pushed against his arm, and forced the stem through the root of his tongue, into the back part of his neck, to the depth of between three and four inches. He was conveyed, in a state of great agony, to St. Thomas's Hospital, where, after much diticulty, Mr. Green, the principal surgeon of the establishment, succeeded in ex tracting the piece of pipe. The patient, however, is not considered to be out of danger. Two similar accidents have occurred within the last eighteen months, and both of them terminated fatally. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—The officers of the Animals' Friend Society, in Brighton, last week caused Samuel Boore and James Baker, to be fined 31. and costs, each, by Mr. Seymour and Bench, for cruelty and furious driving ; Daniel Preston, G. Johnson, and Burrough (donkey riders at Greenwich fair), to be fined in costs, by Mr. Smith, for cruelty to their donkeys ; and at Lambeth street, James Evans; Nichols, and drover 50, to bo committed fur fourteen days for cruelty to oxen ; also at Birmingham ; three men to be fined for cruelty to horses, making eleven convietions'hy this necessary Society. The sympathy of the people of Hungary for M. Ko.4sutii ie such, that a subscription has been opened fer hint, which already amounts to 730,000 francs (30.0000 , and a great number o f t h e members of the Diet have resolved to petition the Emperor and Kin , ' for a ; full pardon. PROFESSOR RIGAUD. It was our painful office to announce in our last Number the death of the Savilian Professor of As tronomy. Professor Rigaud was matriculated of Exeter College at the early age of sixteen, and had never been absent from Oxford so much as a single year during the period which has since elapsed, little short of half a century. The character, conse quently, of few persons could be better known, and certainly none could better bear a close and search ing inspection ; for he was constantly applying to his own moral improvement the accuracy of obser vation and correctness of judgment which qualified him for mathematical pursuits, and enabled him to recover and ascertain so many particulars respecting Bradley, Harriot, Hadley, and other eminent sci entific men, the biography of whom had been pre viously neglected. No one could be more desirous of fulfilling all the duties of life, and nine, we can confidently affirm, for we speak from personal know ledge, ever surpassed him as a son or as a parent. Twelve years ago he had the misfortune to lose his wife, a bereavement which he felt most acutely, though he endeavoured to conceal the extent of his feelings from others, and from that time devoted himself with all the energy and ardour of his cha racter to the education and care of his children. Henceforward this was the object for which he lived, yet even this attachment was not suffered to absorb his thoughts and to interfere with his pro fessional duties as a lecturer and an observer ; and he was ever forward to promote the cause of science, either in London or in Oxford, where he was one of the originators of the Ashmolean So ciety, and a frequent contributor to it of papers, most of which have been published. The simplicity and innocence of mind which has, in many instances, characterised men of dis tinguished science he possessed in a peculiar de gree. He was no less remarkable for integrity, for the strictest veracity, and for genuine humility ; and these valuable qualities were combined with great forbearance in judging others, with the warmest and most zealot's affection to his friends, and with the most devoted and grateful loyalty to the four Sovereigns whom he had, in succession, the honour of serving. His illness, which was sudden and unexpected, he bore with resignation and Christian fortitude. His sufferings were most severe, but happily they were of short duration, yet long enough to show that his virtues were the fruits of faith, and could stand the trial of a dying hour, proving that he rested his hopes of salvation wholly and un reservedly on the only true foundation—the me ritorious death and sacrifice of our Redeemer. " Mr. Rigaud, in 1831, printed the miscellane works and correspondence of Dr. Bradley, to which, in 1833, he added a supplement, including an ac count of Harriot's papers. In 1838 he published some Tal u a ble notices on the first publication of Newton's Principia. These were all printed at the University press ; and at the time of his death he was diligently employed in editing a very valuable collection of original letters from men of eminence in the scientific world, from the originals among the papers of Mr. Jones, father of Sir Wm. Jones, now preserved in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield. Mr. Rigaud was a frequent contributor to the scien tific Journals of his day—to the Transactions of the Royal Society, to Brewster's Journal, and to the Nautical Magazine. In the Transactions of the Ashmolcan Society will be found, by him, remarks on the proportionate quantities of rain at different seasons in Oxford ; a paper on the Arenarius of Archimedes ; and an account of some early propo sals for steam navigation ; and at the commence ment of the present term he read before the same Society an interesting paper on Captain Savery and his steam engine, which we hope and believe will appear in the next volume of their Transactions."— ayard Herald. DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN FROM DRINKING BRANDY.-Wednesday morning an inquest was held at the Shard Arms Tavern, Camberwell, on the body of Mi. Edward Venner, a gentleman of fortune, aged 10 years, who reskled at the house of his cousin, Mr. Rouse, of No. 3, Canal-place, Old Kent road. The deceased kad for some time past been in the habit of getting in a dreadful state of intoxication. On Saturday morning last ho went out about half past seven o'clock, and returned in about two hours with a pint and a half of brandy. He retired to his room, and was found quite dead in bed the same night, about six o'clock, by the servant, with the bottle empty. A surgeon promptly attended, but pro nounced him to have been dead several hours. On a post mortem examination of the body, near a pint and a half of blown fluid was found in the stomach. Verdict— " That the deceased died in consequence of having taken an immoderate use of raw brandy in a short time." LINNEAN SOCIETY.—At the ordinary meeting on Tuesday evening, the Bishop of 'Norwich, President, in the chair, Mr. Ingpen exhibited fcr distribution a quantity of the root of the crocus vernix, the original English variety, which is not found in any part of the country with the exception of the Nottingham meadows ; and a flowering specimen of scilla :precops. Mr. Owen read a long paper on a new species of lepidosiren found by M. Natterer in the Brazils, which was an amphibious animal, having many analogies with the eel. The most curious articles in the room were some specimens of photogenis etching from Mr. Willmore. The glass being first covered with varnish, is etched out by a graver, the same as with copperplates, and this is exposed to light with the prepared photogenic 'paper behind, where the effects of a very beautiful etching are immediately produced. M. Kossuth, Advocate of Pest, in Hungary, was, on March 10, convicted of publishing a manuscript journal, of Liberal politics, and condemned to imprisonment for three years in a fortress. A law of the Press in that country expressly allows any Hungarian Nobleman (come of age) the right of publishing whatever he pleases, with out incurring any personal responsibility, providing he does not publish anything against the person of the King or the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. M. Kossu:h belongs to a noble family of the highest rank, and had distributed only a few copies of the paper in question among his friends, who entertain the same political opinions. The article, which was written in a very moderate tone, simply expressed a desire for some material improvements. It was contended by the public prosecutor that the law did not apply to manuscript notes, and as the defendant had published a journal, the object of which was to create wants among the people which they did not feel ; and as they might thereby be rendered discontented with the present ate.• of things, the accused ought to be ranked with the disturbers of the public peace, and condemned to the pu nishment which the law inflicts on such delinquents. A SOLDILPC3 NOTION OF TILE OPPOSITION. —Two soldiers were the other day talking together; the more ingenuous one said, " I hear Right and Left of the Government and Opposition, of the Opposition and Go vernment, what do they mean by that?" " I'll explain it," replied the other ; " For example, there's Marshal Soult; you know Marshal Soult ?" " Yes." " Well ; when he is in the Opposition he has won the battle of Toulouse, and when be is in the Government, he has lost t —that's all. "—French Paper. COUNTESS PASKEWITSCII'B GRAND BALL. —Before we had recovered from our fatigues, we were invited by the Countess Paskewitsch to a grand ball and supper at the palace, where we saw the whole of the Royal Family of Georgia seated together 'upon sofas, at one side of the room ; the Countess and Khosrou Mirza occu pied a couch at its head, and Paskewitsch, Prince of Eri van, appeared among his numerous staff one blaze of dia monds ; the very etrings to the scabbard of his sword, and the scabbard itself, being entirely studded. The Persian order of the Lion and the Sun, which he wore on his right breast, equalled the full moon in size, and the Countess displayed the greatest number of large pearls Mrs. M. Lad ever witnessed on one individual ; they were the size of a big pea. A double row was tacked round the top of the body of her dress, but on the shoulders they were left in several loops three inches long ; on the left shoulder to the front, the miniature of the Empress was suspended ; a little further back, on the same shoulder, that of the Em peror, both set in brilliants. The same costly pearls, in two long rows, were hung around her neck, and a ti ara o f diamonds graced her head. Her countenance was very pleasing, though her features were large, her complexton most excellent, and her dark eye had great depth of ex pression. I should judge her to be a gifted and sensible woman. Indeed she received the attentions of the com pany with that ladylike and graceful familiarity w hi c h would have made a pupil of the Almack school of tours" ready to faint.--Capt. Miynan's Journey to Koor distaste. The Rev. Francis Thornburgh has been ap pointed by a majority of the electors to the living of King s . wood. There were 24 candidates. The benefice is in the gift of the Minister's rate-payers. The commercial crisis becomes every day more felt, and the Tribunal of Commerce at Paris is, in conse quence, quite encumbered with new business. For a month not a week hai passed without about 2,000 causes being placed on the paper. The number of failures has increased in proportion. —French Paper. INCENDIARY FlRES.—Between eight and nine o'clock on Sunday evening last, a fire was discovered on the farm premises of Mr. Burrows, of Hcadington, near this city, and although an alarm was instantly given, yet before any effective assistance could arrive, the fire had ob tained such an ascendency that a very capacious barn, in which were about twenty quarters of corn, a new waggon, a winnowing machine, and other farming implements, were destroyed, together with two straw ricks in the yard, where the firo first broke out. A large wheat rick in the yard escaped, owing to the wind carrying- the flames in an opposite direction. The peculiar manner in which the fire broke out, from a heap of straw which communi cated with the roof of the barn, together with other cir cumstances, leave no doubt but that it was the act of some villanous incendiary. A vindictive feeling, it appears, has manifested itself on the part of some few labourers toward Mr. Burrows, jun., which can be traced to only one source, and that is, the circumstance of Mr. Burrows being active, (and with the best intentions) in promoting the objects of the Poor-law Bill.. —Reading Mercury. Tahl SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1889. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. Ann Lock was indicted for stealing a washing tray, the property of Richard Creedy. The prosecutor swore to the property, and said the pri soner lodged in the same house with him. William Morley, a pawnbroker, bought the tray of the prisoner for one shilling. The prisoner in her defence said she had never seen a tray like the one produced during the two years she had lived in the house. Mr. WALEsev (who had taken the chair which had been vacated by Mr Sergeant Andrews) summed up the case. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. James Thompson, aged 20, and James Welch, aged 17, were indicted for stealing 3 cwt. of lead, value 305., the property of John Johnson and another on the 21st of Ja nuary last. Policeman B 110, saw the prisoner Thompson in Peter street, on the day in question, come out of a house No. 52 ; he had a baker's barrow wheeling out of the house. Witness asked what he had in his barrow, and he said nothing. Witness looked into the barrow, and found some lead co►ered with a sack, he took the property and the prisoner to the station house, then went to the house No. 52, and saw AL.. Sherborne ; he asked Mr. Sherborne to go up stairs with him. Mr. Sherborne ran out of the house, and witness went to the top of the house and found some lead there rolled, and the appearance of lead having been cut away. Had seeriWelch within 200 yards of the place where he had met Thompson on the same evening, about ten minutes before. He took Welch into custody. Searched Thompson at the station-house, and found a knife and some nails. Compared the lead in the barrow with the lead on the roof of the house, and it matched. Cross-examined by Mr. PAINS, on behalf of the priso ner Thompson—Could not tell how he let Mr. Sherborne go. He had been examined before the Magistrates, and bound over. Understood Mr. Sherborne had been remov ing fixtures. Swore before the Magistrates that the knife had the mark of lead on it. The knife had been laying by, and the mark might have been obliterated. Frederick Brown is an agent of the prosecutor's. Was employed to let the house, 52, Peter• street, and let it to a person named Sherborne. Examined the house on the 24th of February, and found the lead of the centre gutter nearly all gone. Mr. Sherhorne bad no authority to remove the lead. The value of the lead taken away was about Si. Cross.examined by Mr. PAYNE—Mr. Johnston's name is John. There is another partner. Did not let the house with fixtures. Ilan not seen Sherborne since he was be fore the Magistrates. John Sherborne was called but did not answer. Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury for the defendant, and commented severely on the conduct of the police in detain ing Welch, and in letting Sherborne escape, who, he con tended was .he real culprit, the prisoner Thompson being merely employed as his servant. The Jury here interrupted the Counsel, with a view of giving their verdict. The CHAIRMAN said the Jury must hear him be fore they gave their verdict. Mr. PAYNE said that this was conduct unknown in the Superior Courts, and he hoped the Jury would in their own minds answer any observations that might be made by those in high places. The Jury said they had made up their minds, but that they bad no objection to hear the Learned Chairman. The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, it is your duty to do so. Mr. PATHS commented, in severe terms, on the conduct of the Chairman, in preventing the jury giving their ver dict, and said that he at all events would not waste their time, whatever others might do. The CHAIRMAN said that lie had heard, with some sur prise, the declamatory speech of the Learned Counsel. He felt convinced that the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench would have thought it obligatory on the jury performing their duties, on their oath, to listen to the summing up of the Court, as this was a case requir ing great consideration— with regard to Welsh, he agreed that there was no cause against him. The Learned Chair man then summed up the evidence as to the prisoner Thompson, and dwelt on the fact of his having denied there was anything in his barrow. Mr. PAYNE attempting to interrupt, The CHAIRMAN said he should not enter into any alterca tion with the bar, because he had seen the ill effects of it in other places, but those interruptions were excessively disagreeable at the conclusion of the summing up. Mr. PATNI asked the Chairman to tell the Jury it was their duty to acquit, if they had any reasonable doubt. The CHAIRMAN—They know that as well as you do. The Jury acquitted both prisoners. The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I happen to know, what you do not, that James Thompson is as incorrigible a rogue as any in the City of Westminster. Mr. PAYNE—That I beg to deny, I have witnesses to his character. Hannah Jones was indicted for stealing sundry articles of wearing apparel, the property of Richard Evans. The prosecutor's wile missed the articles which were found on the prisoner, who lodged in the same house, by the police. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended her to mercy, and she was sentenced to one month's im prisonment and hard labour. Mr. BALLANTYNE rose to move, on the affidavit of Samuel Evans, that the estreat be taken off his recog. nizances, as he had not kept out of the way to avoid taking his trial on the charge to which he bad that day pleaded, but on account of a verdict of a Coroner's Inquest in ano ther case. The CHAIRMAN expressed a doubt as to the power of the Court in this ease. Mr. BALLANTTNE was of opinion that the Court had the power. On reference to the Act of Parliament, the CHAIRMAN said he did not think the Court could interfere ; but he would hear Mr. Ballantyne again on the subject should he have anything additional to urge. William Lemon was indicted for stealing two bushels of horse provender, the property of Edmund Lucas. The prosecutor is a coal-merchant, and the prisoner was at his yard with his master's waggon. He searched the prisoner's waggon, and found there certain horse provender, consisting of oats, clover, and chaff mixed together, which corresponded with the provender in the prosecutor's bin. John Bailey is the prosecutor's horse-keeper—Missed a quantity of provender from the bin at the time the pri soner was in the yard. Found the provender in the pri soner's waggon. It corresponded with that in the bin, but not with that in the prisoner's nose-bags. The prosecutor's clerk and servant corroborated this testimony. The provender was produced by the policeman, and also a sample from the bin for the purpose of comparison Mr. Thomas Marsh - ill, the prisoner's master, did not supply him with any food of the description on the day before, but there was a machine in his loft, and he might have cut the clover himself, but he never had beans to mix with it. He gave the prisoner a very good character. The prisoner said he cut it up and brought it from home, and the beans were the emptyings out of the drill. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but strongly recom mended him to mercy. The CHAIRMAN called Mr. Marshall, who said the prisoner was a man with a family, and he would not object to take him hack again.. He believed it to be his first offence. The CHAIRMAN having read the prisoner a severe lecture on the nature of his offence, sentenced him to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. Maria Wright, aged 13, was indicted for stealing a pair of trowsers and other articles, the property of John Edwards. The wife of the prosecutor deposed, that she had employed the prisoner to nurse her baby, and she saw the trowscrs drop from her person as she was walking across the room. The trowscrs were kept in a box under the bed, and the prisoner told her mother she intended to bring them to her. The pawnbroker's clerk pro duced a frock which the prosccutrix swore to, and said the prisoner had confessed to having taken it, and that. she had induced the prisoner to confess. The prisoner made no defence. The Jury said they should wish the mother to be called. The CHAIRMAN said he should wish it also. He had a strong opinion on the case, and after the inducement to the confession held out by Mrs. Edwards, the confession of the prisoner could not be used against her; yet, independently of that, they thought if there was sufficient evidence. they must convict. _ The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended her to mercy on account of her youth. The CMAIRMAN having made inquiries into the circum stances of the girl's family, s,lntenced her to one month's imprisonment without hard labour, in order to give an op portunity for inquiry into her case, with a view to her being taken care of at her discharge. Jane Walker, aged 15, Was indicted for stealing a pit cher, belonging to Elizabeth Harland. The prosecutrix missed a pitcher which the prisoner had offered for sale. The policeman who took her into custody said, he had asked her to confess. _ _ _ The CHAIRMAN-Then you exceeded the bounds of your duty. I wish that the Metropolitan police should know that it is no part of their duty to put prisoners upon the rack and try to extort evidence. Stand down, Sir. • The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and recommended her to mercy. The Governor of the gaol said he never knew a child of such tender years behave so ill. The CHAIRMAN sentenced her to three months imprison ment and hard labour, and said that should she he again convicted she would be transported, as she was a no toriously bad character. In Loth the last cases, the Court refused to allow the pawnbrokers their expenses. William Bowler and C. Johnson were indicted for steal ing a pair of boots, the property of Mr. G. Smith on 26th February. Mr. J. Webb, in Victoria-row, Pimlico, saw the pri soners in close confab on the day in question, they had a pair of boots ; witness followed them up Brewer -street. they tried to conceal them under the skirts of their coats; he pointed them out to a policemen. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Payne. The policeman produced the boots which were sworn to by the prosecutor's formals. Mr. PANE addressed the Jury for the prisoners and commented on the conduct of Lieutenant Tracy in making secret communications to the Court. He took this oppor lunity of sayin,g that notwithstanding his little brush with him, there was no man for whom he had a higher respect than for the Learned Chairman. Several respectable tradesmen who had employed John ston gave him an excellent character. The Jury found them both guilty, but recommended Johnston to mercy. The CHAIItMAN, after the verdict was given, defended Lieutenant Tracy from the observations of Mr. Payne, and said that Bowler had been committed previously, and that afforded grounds for making a distinction in the sentence, which was on Bowler imprisonment for six months, bard la bour, with a week in each month of solitary confinement ; and on Johnston three months' imprisonment with hard la bour—a week in each month of solitary confinement. The Grand Jury were discharged in the course of the day. The price of the 4 lb. loaf of wheaten bread at !aria has b een fired atls sous Od,), for the test fort night of April. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. James Green, remanded from Tuesday on a charge of having attempted to impose upon Mr. Houlditch, the coachmaker, of Long-acre, by means of procuring a false character from a person with whom he was in league, was again placed at the bar. Ballard, the officer, stated that he had been to Cook ham, in Berkshire, and made inquiry of the clergyman of the parish, the churchwardens, and other respectable per sons, as to whether any person named Kinnaird did at pre sent, or hat at any previous time, lived there. All assured him that no such person had been a housekeeper in the parish, or had resided there at all, within the memory of the greatest of all authorities, " the oldest inhabitant." The Magistrates fined the prisoner in the penalty of 201. for the offence, and in default of payment he was committed to the House of Correction for three months. Pierre Bogie, an old Frenchman, with three dancing dogs dressed in red robes, and one with a cocked hat on his head, was brought before the Magistrates by one of the officers of the Mendicity Society. charged with begging in the streets. The Frenchman shrugged his shoulders, and spat in his pocket handkerchief, while the dogs, after making their " bow" to ths bench, took their seats, one in front of the Magisterial fire-place, and the others at the feet of their master. The officer stated that he had taken the prisoner in Chan dos -street, St. Martin's-lane, who, after exhibiting the performances of his dogs to the music of a whistle, went round with his hat to collect money ; and for this act of vagrancy he conceived it to be his duty to bring him hefore their Worships. The Magistrates committed the Frenchman and his dogs to the House of Correction for ten days. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Cuthbert Lawton was brought before Mr. DYER for re examination, charged with bigamy. With this case are connected some rather peculiar circumstances. Some time ago Mr. Montagu Bantun was charged by his father, the Rev. Mr. BAyniun, with an assault. Lawton, who is the Rev. Gentleman's valet, gave evidence in favour of his master on that occasion, and Mr. M. Bayntun was held to bail. Very soon after these proceedings the pre sent charge was bronuht forward against Lawton. Mr. Bowditch, solicitor for the prosecution, applied to the bench for further time. 111 r. DYER consented to postpone the case for a week, with the intimation that there would then be an end of the proceedings if the evidence was not forthcoming. MARYLEBONE. CHARGE OF Ronaaay.—On Wednesday a very respect ably-dressed middle-aged man named William Harris, who for many years filled a lucrative situation at a mer chant's house in the City, and has lately been residing with his aunt, a lady of property in Penton-street. •Pentonville, was brought up in custody by Jones, an officer of this esta blishment, and placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with having stolen a valuable gold watch and ap pendages, the property of Miss Mary Ann Bowen, a young lady on a visit at the house of Mrs. Scanlan, 10, Thayer street, Manchester-square. Mr. E. Wolff, from the office of Mr. Flower, solicitor, Hatton-garden, attended for the prisoner. Miss Emma Scanlan deposed that on Monday, 25th ult., the prisoner knocked at the door and requested to look at some apartments which were to be let. Witness accom panied him to the second floor (then in the occupation of Miss Bowen, who was r.bout to leave), when he expressed his entire approval of the rooms, and before going down stairs begged that she (witness) would furnish him with a card of address. Not liking to leave him alone, as there was much property in the rooms, she told him that she had no card, and that it would be no difficult matter for him to remember that the house was No. 10. He agreed for the apartments, and with a quick step went away, but had not been long gone before a gold watch, &c., were missed from Miss Bowen's bed-room. The evidence of a pawnbroker of Miss Bowen and others having been heard by Mr. Bawlinson, he asked the pri soneriwhat he had to say. Prisoner said " Nothing." Mr. RAWLINGON—You are committed to Ncwgate for trial. The mother of the prisoner here slept forward, and said that her son was in some measure an idiot, and that she had frequently cautioned Mr. Berwick against purchasing any thing of him. Mr. RAWLINSON told her that if she thought fit she might state that upon the prisoner's trial. Mr. Wolff applied for the prisoner to be conveyed to his destination in a coach, but Mr. Rawlinson refused to accede to the request. THK SOIJERS•TOWN CAT SKlNNERS.—Yesterday Eli zabeth and Maria Rogerson (mother and daughter) and Margaret Dunn, residing at No. 3, Weller's-place, So. meta-Town, where for some months past they have been carrying on the inhuman trade of skinning cats alive, were brought before Mr. HOSKINS for final examination. O❑ their way to the Office they were greeted by the execrations of an immense mob, and cries of " Bow-wow soups," " Hot-tile mutton pies and sausages," resounded through the ail to a great distance. The Office was also crowded by the owners of the departed feline race. Edward Sholer, 114 S, the constable who detected the wretches on Thursday night at their detestable calling, gave the same evidence as on Saturday, which it is unne cessary to repeat, the whole particulars having appeared in our Paper of Monday last. He also again produced the ten sacks and seven brass-cut collars, which he found on the premises. One of the former was identified by Mr. Muggridge, the corn-dealer, of Tottenham-court-roai ; and Mrs. Maria Newby, of No. 16, Mecklenburgh-square, claimed one of the latter, which had her name and address on it. She stated that it belonged to a black cat, which she lost nine months ago, and many more had since dis appeared. Mr. HOSKINS said he should dispose of the case sum marily, and sent the old woman, Rogerson, for two months to the House of Correction. The other two were dis charged. _ _ The discovery has craved such a sensation, that two po licemen have been stationed, night and day, at the house, to prevent the mob from pulling it dawn. It was also stated that the prisoners have been before in custody for a similar offence HAT 7'ON-GARDEN. ASSAULT.—James Bowler, James Welch, and Richard Perkins. were charged with having assaulted Mr Adams, a collector of Church-rates, belonging to St. Pancras parish. The whole of the defendants wore ordered to find bail. SHORT WEIGHTS AND IIEA•f PENALTIES.— Yesterday Mr. George Fisher, master baker, of No. 5. Cow-cross street, Clerkenwell, was summoned before Messrs. Bur rell and Thistleton, under the sth and 6th of William IV., cap. 63, to answer the complaint of Mr. Child, In spector of weights and measures for the second district of the county of Middlesex, for having unlawfully in his pos session a scale of false balance and light weights, &c , which subjected him to a penalty of 10/. The defendant pleaded guilty, but denied having had any guilty knowledge, The inspector's witness proved that on the 21st day of March he accompanied Mr. Child to the house of the defendant, when they found that the balance of the scale was fa'se, and deficient one ounce without the loose crumbs. in the scale. They also found several weights Ilb dell. cient 2 drachms, 2 lb. 4 ditto, 2 lb. 2 ditto, 7 lb. 2 ditto, 1 cwt. 1 oz., 28 lb. 1 oz., a half cwt. 14 oz., and others of light weight. Mr. Child said that some of tile weights were unstamped. The defendant said that the weights, &c. were in a dirty and imperfect state, and Mr. Burch. field, the maker, was about to repair them. Mr. THISTLETON said that the neighbourhood in which the defendant resided consisted of the poorer class of per sons, who could not afford to be cheated, and it was the duty of the Magistrates to protect them. Mr. BURRELL concurred, and told the defendant as he had pleaded guilty, and the case being proved, he would convict him on both charges in the penalty of N. and costs. It was his '(defendant's) positive duty to see that his weights and scales were just, and stamped. They could inflict the penalty of 10/. if they thought proper. The whole of the weights however were forfeited. The defendant paid the penalty. Mr. James Spry, a master baker, of No. 90, Covvcross street, was summoned under similar circumstances. The Inspector's witness proved having found several light weights on the defendant's premises, being deficient 6 drachms in 2 lb., 1 ditto in 1 lb., &c. The defendant could not say how long he had used them. Mr. THISTLETON said the object of the Legislature was to protect the poor from such depredations.—lle made a very suspicious defence.—Mr. Mould, the Clerk, said that there could be no excuse, for the parties could always have their weights stamped. The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 51. and costs, and the forfeiture of his weights. Mr. THISTLIEON, addressing Mr. Child, said that he had performed his duty strictly, and the public were much indebted to him for it. fie recommended him to persevere in his duty in the poorer neighbourhoods, and bring for ward such cases, and hoped that publicity would be giver, to them as a caution to deter others from such practices. Mr. BURRELL concurred, and said there was too much reason for the future exertions of the inspector Mr. Child promised to follow the Magistrates' recom mendation, and said that he meant to prosecute the parties, Q UEEN- S Q UA RE. Mr. Allred Waddilove, a student at law, residing at No, 19, Kensington Gore, yesterday appeared on a summons charging him with furious driving, and seriously injuring Mrs. Partridge, of 16, Whiteeross-street. Mr. Partridge stated that he was returning to town on Sunday evening with his wife, in a gig, and arrived oppo site Wilton -street, Knightsbridge, when defendant, who was driving at a most furious rate, came against him with such violence as to break his near side •haft, and throw complainant and his wife several yards out of the gig. The effect of the injuries received. by Mrs. Partridge were such as to confine her to her room, which he expected she would not be able to leave for some time. James Webster Jones, 59 B, proved witnessing the oc currence. The complainant was driving on his right side, at a very slow pace and perfectly sober, while defendant drove at his topmost speed and was quite drunk. The latter he took to the station-house. Mr. Waddilove agreed to a settlement proposed by the Magistrate, and made compensation to the complainant to the amount of 101. UNION-HALL. Yesterday John llfory an alias iVilliumson was brought before Mr. JEREMY, charged with stealing three cases of surgical instruments, the property of Mr. Esdall, a sur geon, residing in Bermondsey, and also on suspicion of stealing " Pharmacopoeia." the property of Mr. another medical man living in Kennington-lane. Mrs. Louisa Ellen Esdall stated that about a fortnight ago her husband put an advertisement in a newspaper for an apprentice. The following day the prisoner called, as he said, for the purpose cf making inquiries respecting the advertisement, and was shown into the surgery, where he was requested to wait a short time until Mr. Esdall was made acquainted with the nature of his visit. Witness then left the surgery with the intention of going into an adjoinirg room, and in her absence the prisoner suddenly let ttbe house, and after his departure three valuable Qast_s of post mortem examination instruments were found to have been taken front the surgery. The witness added, that the prisoner was out of sight when the robbery was dis covered, and that she had not seen bim since until that day at the bar of the office. It was here stated that the prisoner was given into cus tody that morning by Mr. Miff, a surgeon, of Kennington lane, who identified him as having called at his house a short time ago under the pretence of having medical ad vice, and that from the room in which he had waited, a book, called " Phillips's Pharmacopoeia," was missed soon after his departure, and there was no doubt that he had taken it. Since the robbery Mr. !riff had kept a very sharp louk out for the prisoner, who is rather a remarkable-look ing man, and in the course of that morning he happened to call at the house of a medical friend, and saw the pri soner waiting for an interview. The moment the prisoner saw Mr. Miff he held down his head, and it was evident he would have "made a brush" if a policeman had not been called, into whose charge he was given. It was stated that a great number of medical men had been robbed of instruments and books, and other articles ; and the prisoner, whose appearance is calculated to put people off their guard, was remanded until next Wednesday, when it is expected that other charges will be preferred against him. THAMES-OFFICE. ASSAULT AT SEA—Yesterday Mr. King, mate of the barque Stratford, a West Indiaman, was brought before Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Broderip, charged with committing an assault upon James Gould, a seaman, on the 24th of last month. It appeared from the evidence of ►he complainant that the ship was about two miles from Beachy Head, coming up the Channel, when a man fell overboard from the rig ging and was lost. He (the complainant) was sent aloft to set up the main -boom, and while doing so he called out for the gear to be cleated below. There was no one upon deck at the time but the mate, who, supposing the words were addressed to him, said that when the man came down he would serve him out. He kept his word, for the com plainant no sooner reached the deck than he was knocked down by the mats•, and when he got up he was again felled, and while he was down the mate " leaped" upon his head and stamped upon it, and the blood flowed from his mouth, cars, and nose. When lie got lip, bleeding as he was, the mate struck him again. He got away, and told the m , m not to interfere, but to bear witness of what they had seen another time. Three witnesses were called, who deposed to the assault, and that Gould was bleeding profusely. They also said the man was lost just before, and it was blowing a burri ricane at the time. The mate hail been up to his waist in the water, endeavouring to save the man who bad gone overboard, and 4ppeared somewhat irritated. King, in defence, said the man had been insolent. The Magistrates, after a long investigation, said the as sault could not be justified, and the mate had no business to strike the man under any circumstances, but there was some mitigating evidence adduced. The ship was in dif ficulty, a man had been lost, and there was no doubt the complainant was insolent. The defendant's conduct was very cruel in kicking the man ; but taking all the facts into consideration, and the provocation given. they thought the ends of justice would be satisfied by the mate paying a fine of 20s. to the Queen. THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY. Wednesday, after the usual business had been dis posed of at Lambeth-street Police-office, Harris Casper and Lewin Casper, father and son, and both Jews, were placed at the felons' bar, before John Hardwicke, Esq., on the charge of being concerned in stealing two boxes, containing gold dust to the amount of 4,6401., from the Dublin Steam Company's Wharf, in St. Katherine's, on Monday week last. Mr. J. B. Le Mole, the solicitor, and Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Yates, a Hebrew solicitor, attended on behalf of the prisoners. Mr. Clarkson addressed the Bench, detailing the circumstances which have before appeared in The Sun. The Learned Gentleman then called Mr. James Hart ley, of the firm of Messrs. James Hartley and Co., to whom the property had been consigned, who stated that he was in Dublin at the time the robbery took place, but, on being apprised of the circumstance, he instantly came to town, and arrived here on the 28th. The firm of Messrs. Carne, of Falmouth, were cor respondents of his house, and were in the habit of shipping goods by their vessels, and had forwarded the two boxes of gold dust, as specified in the bill of lading now produced, and of which they were apprised. Mr. AIUMICKE—Look at these two letters ; are they genuine or forgeries ? Mr. Hartley—Forgeries, certainly. Are they such letters as are generally sent from one mercantile house to another ?—Certainly not.. The hand-writing and style altogether are vastly different. Then you think from their being written in different hands, and their style, that they were sufficient to excite the suspicion of your clerk, the younger prisoner ? Most certainly. Then was it his duty, as your clerk, to make inquiries before delivering property on such orders ?—Most un doubtedly. Mr. Clarkson again drew the Magistrate's attention to the letter which was represented to have been brought and given to the younger prisoner b) the person to whom he had given the order, and observed that when ques tioned about it the younger prisoner said he did not know whether it was in its present state or not. The letter alluded to had the back, or that part on which was the address of the party receiving it, torn off. Mr. Clarkson proceeded to put some further ques tions to Mr. Hartley, to which he replied that the younger prisoner was the principal clerk in his office, and had a salary of 150/. per annum. In February last he applied to witness to increase his salary ; and be then told him that he could not, and that if he could better his situation elsewhere, he (Mr. H.) should be happy of it. The prisoner at that time, on receiving this refusal, gave notice to leave his service ; and it was arranged that he was to go away as soon as he (Mr. Hartley) returned from Dublin this last time. Lea and Roe were then sworn, and, in reply to questions from Mr. likapwicxE, said that, from in formation they receeived, they had no doubt that both the prisoners were implicated in the robbery. Lea pro duced some of the embers of wood and nails which he found in the house in New-street, where the boxes were . destroyed The prisoner's solicitor said he feared that anything he could urge in defence of the prisoners would not prevent his Worship from complying with the request made by the other side, while, at the same time, he had no doubt of being able on a future day to show the entire innocence of the parties accused. Mr. Clarkson said he should request a short remand for the present ; but it would be his duty subsequently to request further remands, so as to pass over the ensuing sessions, as it would be necessary, for the com pletion of the case, to bring witnesses from a consider able distance. Mr. Yates requested that the prisoners might be sent to the Compter instead of Clerkenwell, as they were both in a very delicate state of health, and both highly respectable, the father having, for many years, carried on the business of a watch maker, in Finsbury pavement. . . Mr. HARDWICKE replied that be recollected a similar application being made on the occasion of the examina tion of the persons who had committed the Custom House robbery, but he found that he had no authority to commit to Giltspur-street Compter. He had no doubt, however, that every indulgence, consistent with the regulations of Clerken well, would be allowed them. Mr. Clarkson begged, on the part of the respect able prosecutors, notwithstanding their severe l oss , t h at the prisoners should not be debarred of anything they might require. _ _ The prisoners were then remanded to a future day. During the examination the office was crowded with Jews, all of whom seemed to take a considerable inte rest in the investigation. The letter of 'Mr. Hamilton Fitzgerald, which has appeared in the Examiner, fully hears out all that we have said upon the recent disgraceful occurrences at Court. We may now add, what we have hitherto from motives of delicacy forborne to do, that we have seen a letter from the Marchioness of Hastings, fully corroborating, if indeed corroboration were necessary, all the substantial parts of Mr. FitzAerald's letter. On orte point only will the reader be incredulous, and that is as to the part assigned in this transaction to a medical attendant of the Queen.—Brighten Guardian. ' I At one o'clock on Tuesday morning a mechanic . ' named David Pemberton, livi ng at N o . 3, Thomas-street,Curtain -road, conveyed to the police station -house, in Ft atherstone-street, St. Luke's, an infant child about a month old, of which be gave the following account:—He was passing, he said, through Crown -street, Finsbury, a :bort time before, when a woman suddenly thrust it into his arms, and requested him to hold it whilst she was en gaged in a fistic encounter with another woman who was waiting for her in the road A great crowd collected to witness the set-to between the female fighters, at the dis persion of which lie sought in every direction for the ama zonian owner of the luckless infant, but she was nowhere to be found. The police have been since actively engaged in the same pursuit, without success, and the little east-away remains at the :residence of the man into whose charge it was so carelessly consigned. AMERICAN MILITIAMEN.—NEAR-SIGHTED NESS. —While our militia have generally acceded with alacrity and with cheerfulness to the orders which called them out. there have been a few who have been suddenly seized with diseases that never before developed themselves, and these offered as excuses for not bearing arms. We have heard of one most amusing case which comes under this head, and that is a man in one of the towns of a neighbouring county who was very suddenly afflicted wifh near-sightedness. On his examination before the surgeon of the regiment, and in his eagerness to make the correct ness of his complaint apparent, he said tp the surgeon, " Why, Sir, my sight is so bad I can't tell whether that pig yonder is a pig or a cow. "—Portland (American) Advertiser. THE LATE FATAL FIRE IN PETTICOAT- L&NE.-Wednesday afternoon an inquest took place at the London Hospital, on the 'remains of Mrs. Mary Gri gg , aged 45, who lost her life at the late disastrous fi re i n Cox's-square, Petticoat-lane, Whitechapel. I n a ddi t i on to the particulars then given, it further appeared that the Ideceased was of intemperate habits, and the husband, who was from home at the time, stated that, with regard to the origin of the fire, he was of opinion that it Was occasioned through the deceased's carelessness. .Verdict, " That the I deceased was accidentally burnt." EVUNING EDITION. THE CHARTISTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUM. SIR,—I beg to inform you, (for insertion in your Poper) that the Chartists held a most numerous as sembly on Friday last, (Good Friday) on Redborough Hill, in the neighbourhood of Stroud. There were at least ten thousand persons assembled. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Frost, the dismissed Newport magistrate, and Mr. Vincent, and by many other of the local mechanics and weavers. The meeting passed off without the least disturbince. Mr. Frost announced his intention of opposing Lord John Russell, at the next election for Stroud. Messrs. Vincent and Frost were exceedingly well received at Stroud, where a Chartist Association is being formed, which already promises to be a very numerous and in fluential body. Mr. Vincent delivered a lecture to the Association on Saturday evening, which was well at tended. I am, Sir, yours, &c. April 4,1839. J. W. LEWIS. ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION NEAR GUILFORD, AND APPREHENSION OF THE MURDERER. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) On Saturday the 16th of March, about seven o'clock in the evening, a diabolical attempt was made on the life of Edward James Baker, Esq., of Fren sham Hall, Surrey, whil e re t urn i ng w ith hi s horse and chaise from Guildford M ar k e t. At a t urn ing off the turnpike road, at Htnst e ad, i n hi s own plantations , about a mile from a pl a ce ca ll e d th e H u t s , Mr. Baker , hearing the report of a g u n f oun d, th a t h e was shot and wounded by a large bullet which entered his right arm, in which portions of his coat were lodged, and after penetrating the hind part of the horse, passed about a foot in length by th e s id e o f th e c hine. On receiving the contents of the gun the horse started off , and on being pulled up, Mr. Baker being fearful to re• turn by the same way home, went by a circui tous route, and on examining the horse dis covered the bullet which he cut from the ani mal with a razor, and which he kept, in hopes it would lead to the apprehension of the assassin. 0 ° the following day he dispatched his brother to town 10 give information of the circumstance, but on learning that Goddard, the Bow-street officer, was in the neigh bourhood of Guildford, endeavouring to apprehend some men who had a few nights back cut the throats of 2 0 sheep on a farm belonging to Mr. Pritchard, a Magic trate, he returned, and he exhibited the bullet to him- The officer, on maki ng i nqu i r y, f oun d strong ens P i. cions attached to a m an o f th e name o f Whit e , rill underwent two examinations before the Magistrates,an u was finally committed to Guildford gaol on the capital charge. BOUNDARY QUESTION. The author of a new map of the United States, Pub" lished at Philadelphia in 1829, Mr. H. S. Tanner , makes the following remarks on the boundary question " The profile of the Grand Portage is inserted in th e map, with a view of exposing the unfounded statement of the British regarding the topography of the re gion traversed by the boundary between Canada and the United States. One of the arguments used to enforce, the claims of the British Government to the north °' Maine, is founded on the assumption that no highland s sufficiently distinct to exhibit, with precision, the 1 10° claimed by the United States, exist ' between the r ivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence, and thos e which fall into the Atlantic Ocean.' By this profile It will be seen th a t hi g hl an d s , or rat h er . mounta i n s, d ° exist along the entire course of the tine, from the source/. of Connecticut river to those of Restigouche. Some el these mountains attain an elevation of 2,000 feet above the level of the St. Lawrence. " The map in question, t oge th er w ith th e pro file, af ford a view of the physi ca l geogra phy o f t hi s part tr our country, essentially different from its former deli neations ; and completely reverse the general as pec . t given to it by th e a d vocates o f t h e B r i t i s h claims* They affirm that the route claimed by the American*, as the line contemplated by th e f ramers o f t h e t r eaty °` 1783, is nearly destitute of highlands, and that ro o ° °. tains, of considerable elevation, extend westward from Mars Hill, dividing the waters of St. John's River fr° Pl , those of the Pe no b sco t, & c . S uc h, h owever , is o °' the fact ; for we find along the former r oute continuous ch a i n o f hi g h hills, if not mountai n* broken, it is true, occasionally by the action of II ,t l l water ; and the latt er , w ith th e except i on o f M a rs ' itself, presenting an undulating surface merely, but li t " tle elevated above the surrounding plain. 'Phis line assumed by G rea t B r i ta i n as t h e boundary ig b dary t s t issue, which is ca re f u lly t race d on my map . These' Croix forms a part o f th e b oun d ary b etween t h e Vo te . States and British possessions, which has been defini tively settled. The principal course of the St. Cross was ascertained in the year 1797, by the commissioner. of the United States and Great Britain, under th e treaty of 1794. In the year 1817 the surveyors of the two Governments a ga i n mar k e d t h e po i nt at w hich $ line due north was to commence. As no other survey i has yet been ma d e w i t h spec i a l re f erence to the d i spu ted boundary, its course cannot be stated with precision; enough, however, is known to justify the Unite d States . Government in res i s ti ng t h e extravagant Al unfounded claim of the B r iti s h G overnment. I n o °' mitti,ig the disputed points to umpirage, the Govern ment of the United States never contemplated, I apPre‘ prehed, granting the power to depart essentially from ill oundary always claimed by it, and until lately acquiesced in by that of Great Britain. The power conferral on the King of the Netherlands, as umpire in this mat te /. is unqu es ti ona bl y restr i cte d to the simple adjustme nt °, the boundary in question ; nor does it admit of any 1 °, 11 „ terial variati on front the line, as d e fi ne d by the tre', of 1783, and as then understood by all the parties c° ° cerned. Th e t reaty , on which alone the United Stet e, may rely with con fid ence , d escr ib es t h e boundary vilthia precision so nearly app roac hi ng t o a certa i nty , as to forb id any misunder s t an di ng w i t h regar d to t h e l i ne, i n t hou° , of a disinter es t e d o b server . O t h er and ample / . v ideo m . ght be addu ce d i n suppor t o f t h e A mer i can t i t l e to e y e disputed territory—this can scarcelybe deemed n ecessa i r ii as the treaty i s su ff ic i ent l y exp li c i t an d conclusive. All the acts of the B r iti s h G overnment, f rom t h e proclo°l- tion of 1763 t o th e treaty o f 1783, recogn i ze the botl: dary claim e d by th e U n i te d S tates as the one separated the provi nces o f Q ue b ec an d Nova Se°-0 from the then province of Maine, and declare that t a , line should pass along the high lands which the rivers that empty themselves into the St. 142 ,1 36 rence, from tho se th a t f a ll i nto t h e sea ,' an d t h a t 0 province of Quebec is bounded on the south bl d , line from th e B ay o f Ch a l eurs , a l ong t h e hi g h 10 4 &c.,' reciting the precise words that were subsequS o transferred to the treaty of peace in 1783- treaty, however, in letter as well as in spirit, is obviouv, and decidedly w ith th e A mer i can government . 00 t o side of the British, they rest altogether on their /ag o notions of an equitable division of the country PP l e which their claim with regard to the north.west Og le , of Nova Scotia is founded. This claim places the °le at the point in the lin e runn i ng due n o rth frail o t source of the St. Croix, w hi c h meets the high lan u t s t be or near Mars Hill ; an d, accor di ng to t hi s v i e w 0' o p subject, the angle thus formed is the commencemen t ' , t the east, of the north boundary of Maine, from that P,lbis to the westernmost head of Connecticut river. er . line, among the imaginary high lands, it will be P o . ceived, divides th e wa t ers o f th e A n d roscogg i n , 1 ‘ .61 „01 bee, and Penobscot, from the Aristook, Alaguashi t he Wellostook, branches of the St. John's, and depvivel o t State of Maine of nearly one-third of its area, or " fo e 12,000 square miles. The point in the due nort.ll!e from the St. Croix, which the British affect to bebe l b i c h the north-west ang l e o f N ova S co ti a , an d u pon " do e the whole matter rests, is about 40 miles from the s °" t be of the St. Croix, and about the same distance from 00 place where this line, in its prolongation, intersects St. John's." logo— t9ii a GENTLEMEN'S ELEGANT FLAT -- 0 10, WATCHES are offered, price Nine Gui neas each, 0 ' "bsr° suited to wear in the waistcoat pocket, engine turned eu e4 ,: t enamel dial, and hand to mark th e secon d s . Th e movefity:e tt on the celebrated horizontal construction, with going , i — n tedis continue going while windi ng , j ewe ll e d, Ace., and war t- T. COX SAVORY'S, fr° l3 ' Watchmaker, he., Ne. 47, Cornhill (S ovw doors Gracechurch-street), Londom. N.B. Second-hand Watches, Plate, ecc. purchased in 01 .. .../l issgP PLATE SUITED FOR PRESENTA A. B. 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P. far the county of Ayr. ° r - ----- youNG' •, Lendeu : ;Printer' and Published by MOW° otra nd, 1 Na. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 11 1 , s. the county of Middlesex.—Friday , Ap ril 5, 111.4"