The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS. I ound the bricks about eighteen inches in extent, and The new number of the British and Foreign Re- n order to prevent the work bei n g seen, he had, view Contains an article under the title of " Coin and when " done work," filled up the vacuum thus Currency." The article, instead of discussing fully created by a quantity of oakum, which he coated and fearlessly the question of banking, which occu- over with the appearance of lime to look like the y ries so much of public attention at this moment, prig- other part of the cell. This he accomplished b , cipally consists of a retrospect of the history of bank- it is suepesed, scrapings some lime off the wail ing in England. So far, however, as the writer's and mixing it with his= own water. His intention views can be discovered froth the casual references to appears to have been to get into the ye the principles on which the , business of banking ought and unhinge the door of the water-clos et, to be conducted, he concurs-. with us in the opinion ! which would have assisted him on to a shed to that the joint-stock banks have been of the greatest which he could have grasped the spouting of the roof, ' service to the country; and ••that: any attempt ()U tile : and by main strength lifted his body upon the roof , • . • pert of the Government to interfere with them ought from which he would have doubtless descended b• to be resisted by every - constitutional - means: same scaffolding poles, forming the various stages 4f . There is a very decided and. general impression in , the new wing in course of erection as a prison fqr the monetary circles of the country, that Ministers ! soldiers. The keen look-out kept by the gaoler, how'- contemplate some imps:it-tent changes in reference- to ever, frustrated the deep laid scheme, the successful the constituti )n and. powers of the joint-stock bank- issue of which would, doubtless, have been worked, ing companies. The impression, we fear, is too well but for the good watch kept. The prisoner has been grounded. Deputation after deputation from the put in irons, and two men are constantly with him directors of the joint-stock banks have, within the when in his cell, and will remain with him until re lastmoved for trial either to Winchester or Maidstone. few weeks, waited on Sir Robert Peel, with a view to learn his intention in r e lation to these este- It is supposed he will be removed by habeas to the blishments. Not an atom of information on the sub- latter place, especially if the Government prosecute ject could be elicited from him. He shrouds his for the Post-office rubbery. designs in the deepest darkness; ' The conclusion to 1 , which the joint-stock banking'companies have con- ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. sequently come is, that he does meditate some inva- 1 NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 4. siun of their powers and privileges. If_he - ski s in,any (Before Mr. Baron Bairn.) way assail these associations, he will soon discover TUE LAST WRIT OF BIGHT—RUSHT O N, DEMANDANT, V. that he never committed a greater act of folly for NESBIT, TENANT. . is was a writ riht to tr the title to a -M very - himself, as he could not contemplate one more fraught sid T er h able property, of situa g te - in Cho y rlton-uponedlock. con with evils to the country. It will be strange indeed 7 The writ of right was an ancient remedy for the reco if, instead of curtailing the exclusive privileges of the very of lands in fee simple, when by length of ti me Bank of England, as every one expected he would or other circumstances, the claimant was s hut out from when the question of a renewal of the charter came asserting his right in the action more usually adopted to be discussed, he should bring forward a measure for that purpose. Evidence having been adduced, for abridging the resources and impairing the useful- Mr. DENDAS stated that his Learned Friend (Mr. ness of the joint-stock banks. Archbold) and himself had carefully watched the case Though the Premier persists, in defiance of all the throughout, and that he must admit he was not able to entreaties for information, of those who are most in- ;answer the evidence on the other side, or to i m pugn w ith ectha set up. terested, in concealing his intentions either as regards eff A verd the title the re tenant ict was turned a c ordingly. the colossal corporation in Threadneedle-street or the Friday, April 5. joint-stock banks throughout the country, the period (Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.) is at hand when he must make an unreserved revelae ALDERSON V. WAISTEEL AND OTHERS. tion of his plans and purposes. Immediately . after the This was an action to recover damag es for assault. Easter recess he is to make an exposé of his intentions The plaintiff and the def e nd a nts i n this case are far and measures in reference to the question of the cur- i mere, residing at Birkdale, in Yorkshire, and are of ree rency. Until then, we suppose', we must wait with phi- 1 spectable standing in their calling. The plaintiff and iusophical patience. One feature, we have reason to be- : one of the defendants are severally possessed of certain to deprive the '!alai at Birkdale, and entitled to common pasture on Belle, in his future bankingpolicy, will be oint-stock banks of their right to issue notes of their t csrtain wastes there situate. The sheep of each person own, and to confer on the Bank of England the ex ' Isere tended in a particular part of the common, which elusive privilege of "making paper issues. There is keptwas called the heat h " heaf " of that party ; and after being i f o o d r ue s e o d in t e o time . the within n ep h were, e' somethino- so evidently fraught with the most serious we li t t n tle t h e difficul e t mischiersto the monetary interests of the country, in scribed limits. The plaintiff had r t e wo l b n iel w ds, or s t to e n e pr in e. - arty scheme of this kind, that did not what seems to closures, to shelter the sheep in rough weather, on the us irresistible evidence of the fact crowd upon tie common, as well as the defendant ; but the latter took from all quarters, we could not believe that such an it into his head that besides his own, he would take idea had ever entered the Premier's mind. To with- j pos,ession of one of the plaintiff's Melds. On Sun draw from the joint:stock banks the privilege of day, the 4th of February, the nephew of the plain i tiff was at the . bield, tending his uncl e 's s h ee p, issuing their own notes, will be in many, perhaps the majority of cases when the elder defendant came up t o hi m , an d , the same as if these banks were to . 1: said he would have one of th e i l a i n tift' s bi e ld s . be annihilated by Act of Parliament. Sir Robert I The plaintiff might retain which he liked, but he (the Peel professes to be a great stickler fur maintaining the efendrintwould have the other. On the day vested Interests : if he carry his understood intention ~bier plaintiff a nd his nephew were at the bield, when the into effect, he will earn for himself the unenviable re- : ,er defendant came up on horseback, using very violent putation of having committed a wholesale robbery of language towards the plaintiff. Ills son, ' aother of the the shareholders in joint-stock-banking companies.. defendants, was crossing the common with some sheep, Divest them of the right to issue their own notes, and and both proceeded to drive the sheep towards the bield you despoil them at once of their property. Their of he plaintiff. The plaintiff and his nephew drove their main source of profit lies in their having a paper issue flock:so as to be interposed between the bield and the of their own. It was "on the faith of such right being sheep of the defendants, and the two flocks becoming continued that they commenced business; without it mixed together, a contest arose between the parties, the plaintiff and his h nephew trying to keep the defendants' business could not, in many instances, be carried on at t dan r ts urging them forward. The without incurring a ruinous loss. Consequently, • • : 3 1Te e r p defendant ae ' t e stuck him plaintiff knocked dow n. . he plaintiff the joint-s ock ba .king business will receive a blow, did not return the blow, but rising, still endeavoured to Ciotti the effects of w hich it will never recover. make the sheep turn back. The defendant then snatched Nor will the injury in the supposed case be con- a larger stick from the hand of his son, struck the fined to tie shareholders : It will be extended to and plaintiff another severe blow on the head, knocking deeply felt by the public. The infinite service which him down a second time, and then seizing him by the the joint - s tock banks have been able to reader to the heels dragged him over the stony ground, and flung country, has been chiefly through means of their him into a ditch at same distance. The younger defen pr:vileee to hake issues of their own paper. The davit also threw a stick at the plaintiff and struck him. country knows, and is forward to acknowledge, the This was the assault complained of. services of the joint- stock banks. But for them the t,. . 7. D t u i r i s a o t he a t saddressed the jury for the defen ce , con natureofthe assault had do nehad been much national distress would, in times of pressure, have " ee ' s ' g i g n e g rated, and chat the defendant issued, in all probability, in a national bankruptcy. : than was necessary to remove the obstruction whic h n o more They alone, on repeated occasions, have neutralised plaintiff offered to his driving, as he had a right to do, his the injurious effects of capricious contractions of the own sheep off the common. currency, on' the part of the Bank of England. A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiff— To deprive the joint-stock banks of the right to Damages lOL As to the younger defendant a verdict of issue notes of their own, and to place, as it is sup- not guilty was returned. posed the Premier means to do, the entire paper cur- - Saturday, April 6. . rency of the country in the hands of the monetary THE QUEEN AGAINST WILLIAMS, BROCKLEHURST, AND monopolists in Threadneedle-street, would be one • This was an indictment ßßESTON for a conspiracy to defraud ofthe must audacious anti-free-trade deeds ever her Majesty of certain duties of the Customs. perpetrated. It would be the grossest outrage and Mr. Starkie, Mr. 'Wortley, and Mr Cardwell, were for greatest - . insult to the country, which ever ' t he niroseCution. The prisoner ' Williams was defended Toryism committed in the-days of its unresisted do- b y M r Ramshay, Brocklehurst by Mr. Sergeant Murphy, initiation. The country loudl q complains of the an d Beestoieby - Mr. James. extent to which it already suffers from the caprices The principal witness against the defendants was a of the Bank o England ; and Peel purposes to person of the name of Booth, a locker in the Customs, place the nation still 'more at the mercy of that gigan- who stated that on the 17th of July last, while he was tic establishment. The cry everywhere is—in Eng - standing under the dome of the Custom-house, Beeston, lend, Scotland, and Ireland, for an abridgment of te who is a landing-waiter, came up to him and said he present powers of the Bank ; and Peel purposes to wanted to speak to him. They went together to a public h Will iams e useeand . ig h there met Williams. They dinedstogether, confer upon it much more enlarged and important the reckoning. reckoning. Nothing particular was powers than ever. The country calls, in the spirit of then After said payi t Booth left the house, Williams fol free-trade principles, for an extinction of the moue- loved him, and said Beeston wanted to see him at the tery monopoly so long enjoyed by the Bank ; and I Globe public-house on Copperas-hill. They went there the Premier intends to make that monopoly greater together, but did not see Beeston. Williams said he than betbre. This is progress in free-trade principles 1 knew what Beeston wanted, and that if he (Booth) was es ith a vengeance. It is the 'crab-like progress of on a station for articles that paid a heavy duty, they going backwards. might make 1,0001. each a month; that there would be But will Ministers succeed in carrying out their four in it—the witness, Williams, Beeston, and another. currency projects? .It still be passing strange ifthev The witness said he could not do it. Witness was away n leave on the 18th and 19th. On the 21st was o n do. We have too much faith in the omnipotence of " duty as a locker at Green's warehouse . One Richards public opinion; when fairly and fully expressed, to a l; d bo h ut half past wantede to,r th together, a o l , s e o loe a k loc w k i e t r h t ß he r re. kie ße hu e i st t on ca d me s . suppose that any Government will be su ff ered to an- e " , a u s r nihilate the joint-stock banks, Merely to play into see witness. On locking up .s th ' ey tir. went away the hands of a corporate band of monopolists, who Brocklehtirst walking behind. Beeston then - b a e sketi . are ainbitious of possessing an exclusive control over witness if he had seen Williams. Wtness said he the currency, and the consequent monetary destinies, had, and the subject of their conversation would not do. of the country. Of this n e are certain—that the Beeston then said, " Well, Booth, you know best, but Williams has made 3,0001. by getting goods out in most tigorous and determined opposition which Peel has bad t., encounter on any measure, is now in the that way, which ' he, ,has melted." Witness met course of organisation on this question.—Advertiser. Beeston and Brockle h u rst again at the Waggon and Horses public-house in Whitechapel, but Williams _. _ ___ . . _ I was absent and nothing particular occurred. Did not ANOTHER JACK SHEPPARD. see any of them again until the 25th. Was at Nuttal's, foure.h e bags of ti nWillitunscame in. Ile said he. had bought forty- There is at present in Portsmouth gaol a yoyoung , ee ;h a e n t d he w r a h n e ‘, ted .o t u l d ke l ' e o t w if they came to man named John Smith, alias George Baker, whose . , A It n e SSS deeds as a burglar, though not- so extensive in paying duty. Witness gave an evasive r t e he l m go without their nature, are quite on a par as re- i horst was at that time on the other side p l . the ''- street. gerds management with those perfbi-med by ; Witness t;ommeinicsitsd what took place the Ainstvorth immortalised Jack , Sheppard.: ,don to Mr. Bt . :keel, the acting surveyor, and Mr. Br own, This candidate 14 Government patronage is by trade' ow superintendent locker. .By their direction he went a bricklayer, and apparently about 19 years o f age,'l to Nuttai's with - Richards. He saw Williams and s:itn in make, with a small head and hard features, with ' Br. cklehurat. He told them he could not do what was a simplicity of expression, .Which, but for the strong- • wanted without the knoa ledge of his partner, Richards. eat evidence, wou:d go far towards impressing an 1 Wi'liams said he had no objection. A conversation : th, n took plac e as to the mode in which the object was ordinary jusiy with an opinion of his incapacity for the t i :: , t effected. an . It appears when goods are in one ware pe, fern:lance of such deeds as we are about to mention. ' it a ts rem sought to trans'er there to another, Allis first exploit in . this locality nits breaking into the , w!,at is called oval-sufferanse is made out and are louse of a clothes salesman, named Byerly, situate in sented to the warehouseman, and if there is a sufficient Hanover-street, Portsea ; this he accomplished on the " bond fur the payment of the duty in the name of the evening of the sth March (Sunday), by removing , person signing the removal, an order tm permit is written eome bricks in a systematic and workmanlike way ; on the removal sufferance, as authority fer tire. ware from the outer wall of the dwelling; the hole thus ' man. The goods are then sent in a locked cart with a inede led into a passage communicating with the shop. • cart follower, and a cart note is delivered to the officer But the thief was not rewarded with a rich booty :et the second warele . use, a hich empoe e ra hi m t e re ceive the goods. Williams produced a delivery order, merely a few articles of wearing apparel and carpenters : and said he was going to pass a removal-sufferance for toe's, with which he got clear off; notwithstanding forty-four bags of ctiffee h to Green's wet ehouie; that he ' the bundle they formed was a very large one. Ile sieeamped to Southampton, and there offered:some of tiv;oluilltdi allow t o w o out - ittennesbs agansdi i e iio n h e a x r t ds d fi ay ve w s i o t % hout . duty, a i nd the articles for sale; but Southampton becoming un- ! ten. He.said witness's pay was very smal Tre a ig o i d is t f h o a r t t h t e e eannfertable, he returned to Portsmouth with some of the , might make a fortune in a short time. He said Beeston articles from Byerly's on his person, which were re- rut them up to it. The next day Brocklehurst came to cognised by a loci' police-officer, as those described : Green's warehouse. Mr. Bulteel was concealed near the by Byerley as having been stolen ft ern his house. ' locker's desk. He said that he had not been able to pass The prisoner. was lodged in gaol, and brought up be - ; the removal-sufferance in time, but would remove them .fore the borough magistrates on Thursday the 14th of the next day. Witness shortly after met Brocklehurst in the street. Whil e th ere M r . B u l tee l passed. Be had :March, when, the evidence being very conclusive, he that . he might not be known. Brockle was committed to take his trial at Winchester next . ' 4 h l u7s t t ae a l sk s ed on tli h e e w d a i n d e n ss ot if li r l h k e new who that wan Wit assizes. On searching the prisoner, at Portsmouth re ss replied ex i t 'day Brocklehurst gaol, about 30s. in silver and halfpence were found ; came, about half-past two and sa id l t i . e fi ten bags l Williams f coffee - upon him, which led the authorities to suppose that ' wire comings The cart c ame ' shortl y he had been robbing some till at Southampton during ' e ith it. The cart note was dehve a red er io u v;itn V essnd his short stay, which circumstance being published i n Richards, and Wi Hams got the cart follower away. a local paper, speedily brought two persons fram Brocklehurst stood at the corner of the street, abou ' i Southampton, who recognised the prisoner at once as i twenty yards otE Williams paid witness and Richards the man who had entered the house of Mr. Maurice i three sovereigns; he said he would remove the thirty 13atchelose called the Queen Charlotte, in * Simnel- . four bags the next day. The cart then went away with street, Southampton, on the night of the 10th of the coflee, Williams following. Witness went to Breckle- March. In this case the prisoner had secreted him burs', and while they were standing together Mr. Eul tecl passed. Brocklehurst said, " That's the same gen-- self in the house, and remained concealed until the in . th man I saw yesterday. He's a superior officer to you. mates were all gone to bed, when he stole forth, and I should know him a quarter of a m'le off." He said if .after arming himself with a cleaver and a carv' 'he thought he was following the cart he (Brecklehurst) iknife, proceeded to the till, which he broke open LI i would o bring th it back. d It appeared that,lMnheel did emptied of its contents ; he then collected w h a t other fo' w property he could, with the assistance of a lareern, wh ic h removing it ftarito, into, s v, e n iz r e e hl o t u h s e e a coff t e a e eh wh i wh il e Wi l liams l' s i om spirit n-as he found in the kitchen, and made good his esc a p e . vaults, kept by a p erson o f the name of e Ri 'aide e n. The money and property was the same as found upon i A number of witnesses were examined a to show that him when captured by a local sub-inspector of police, Booth met the several parties he mentioned at the time who searched him. These desperate robberies he- alleged, and Richards was of course able to speak to the corning known through the local press, on Thurs- s li e u seral I , a r tber conversations with Brocklehurst and Wil day evening last a sergeant of local police from B , , m et s h . 's teseinciaose, h l owever, against Beeston rested. on -Greenwich arrived at Portsmouth gaol, and asked to - The Learned u jo a m o is u e e l . :see the prisoner. He was conducted to his cell by the defence, and his . Lords h ip severally ba addre ssed summed up, the I Abe Hunt, the Governor, and immediately identified jury retired fir some time, an dee eisoner as the noted George Baker, who, with a verdict of Guilty against Williams and Br oc kl e h urst, ttbree thers, already in custody, have been the terror Beeston Not Guilty. nil the p . sable and loyal good men western of the le \ic I WESTERN CIRCUIT T t April A • . awn on, -. part of Kent. They have committed no less than 'this being Good Friday, ,the Courts were not opened three burglaries, and One - sac . rilege, all in the neigh • tillone ' lo k g _ for the bourhoed of Lewisham. - At one of the houses broken purpose o delivering gaol. Mr. Justice Wighttnan , into a booty of 2001. rewarded their desperate - elm., . presides in the Crown, Mr. Justice Cresswell in the Nisi tione • ,they broke open the Post-office, cut open the PeiusCotirt, and Mr. Cockburn sitting is • ' in a room et I nail bags, and scattered the letters about, and stole ' the Market•house. others supposed to contain money. The Portsmouth - Saturday, April 6. :prisoner has also, in emulation of his celebrated pro- ' John Britton was indicted for having assaulted James - ..totype, made a bold stroke at an escape from the ho- Bartlett on the 21st of August, 1826, and robbed him of ravigh gaol. He had possessed himselfof . of a pair of boots, a pair of braces, and a sovereign. a piece .: rim hoop about six inches long,whi ch Mr. Stock and Mr. Fitzherbert coriducted the case for ! he sharpened uprise the stone sink of the pump in the yard , and the pros-cution; and Mi. Cockburn, Mr. Kinglake, and . it towards the , point like a saw ; iththis,notched ; air. Stone, defended the prisoner. I i and the i It appeared that on the 21st of August the prosecutor assistance of an iron shoe-heel, he cent to 'ilk wis at a fair at Priddy, near Wells, and that about out the mortar from between the bricks o r ti vel the . side eleven o'clock at night, hearing cries of "Murder," he of his cell next the yard, he had made an incision neat out of a " bush-house" (beer-house at a fair), and TULE StTN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1844 was knocked down and beaten till he was insensible, his boots taken off, and a sovereign taken out of his pocket; when he recovered his senses he could not crawl, but was carried home... Although so long ago, he had not yet re covered from the injuries he received that night. A man of the name of Burton was afterwards apprehended for the offence, was tried, convicted, and executed. In quiries were made for the prisoner, who was at the time a kind of horse-dealer, but he could not be found. A witness named Lapstone gave the following account of the transaction:—He saw Britton and Burton coming from-towards the "bush-house;" he stood on one side. He saw Bartlett coming along after the two men. Brit ton and Burton returned and gave Bartlett the meeting. Britton went up to him, and knocked him down with a whip which had a hammer at the end of the handle. Burton then beat him with a large stick, which was the leg of a trestle. Britton fell with one knee upon Bartlett's breast. More of the party, who were gipsies, then came up and surrounded them. He saw Robert Burton, the brother of the man who was exe cuted, carrying away Bartlett's boots ; he heard them talking about the division of the property they had taken. The witness swore most positively that he had never said he could not swear to the person who had knocked Bart lett down. Another witness, named Charlotte Neill, who had a standing close to where this occurred, swore that she-saw Britton knock Bart!ett down, and Burton take his boots off, and Britton kneel upon him and unbutton his small clothes ; heard Britton say, " We've got the boots, and now let us cut." They tried to pull off his small clothes, but could not. She had known Britton from a child; he at first sold oranges and lemons at fairs, and afterwards dealt in horses. She subsequently saw Burton try on Bartlett's boots. James Loxton, who was a waiter in a booth, saw Britton and a largo party of , men going about the fair together, and he said, to Brit ton, " You devils, what are you going about, you'll kill same one or other ?" Britton replied, " You hold your tongue, we are going to have a spree to-night, and no one is going to injure you." At break of day next ra , rning he heard some one groaning outside the booth. He went out, and saw Bartlett lying on the ground with his face covered with blood. John Higgs, who was at the fair, swore that the, prisoner and three others knocked him down and robbed him. In his cress-exa.. mination he swore that he had never said he did not know who had robbed him. Other persons swore' that they saw Britton and Burton together at the fair that night. It then appeared that in September list a person who had formerly resided in Somersetshire, and is now a sergeant in the London police, saw the prisoner at Smithfield market, and gave such information that the prisoner was apprehended at Walton ' in Leicestershire, at a fair on the 19th of September. When told of the charge the prisoner said he had nothing to do with it, that it must be a mistake, Burton must be the man, and the names Burton and Britton were very similar. 7. he prisoner had 118/. in his pocket, and some horses. To another constable the prisoner said it was a bad job. He was at the fair, but had taken no part in the affair ; and that, if he luid thought he should have come to this, he would have put a rope round his neek. For the prisoner witnesses were called, some of whom stated that they saw the row, and that Britton had no thing to do with it. Another said that Bartlett had fre. quently told him that be did not know who had struck him, and that the witness Higgs had said he did not know who had robbed him. Other witnesses were called, who said they would not believe Lapstone on his oath. Several persons from Leicestershire, Staines, New bury, and London, were called, who had known the pri soner for fifteen years, and they gave him a most excel lent character. The Learned JUDGE having summed up sith grey minuteness. The jury returned a verdict of Not guilty. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Bury &Edmund's, Aprils. (Before Mr. Justice Perrzsos.) Frederick Borley was indicted for setting fire to a building in the occupation of Mary, Rust. The first count of the indictment described the building as. an out house, the second as a warehouse. Mr. O'Malley was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Crouch for the defence. . It appeared that the building which the prisoner. was accused of setting on fire stood in a hop-ground belong ing to the prosecutrix, and could be seen from her house, but it was unconnected with any of the buildings at tached to the house. It was open on the lower floor, which was used by the hop-pickers employed by the prosecutrix, and also for the stowing away of hops in their green state until they became fit for drying in the hop-oast. The chamber above the picking-room was covered in on all sides, and was used for laying up the hop-skips and the various tools in use in the hop busi ness. No hops in a dried or marketable state were kept in any part cf the building. Mr. Justice Pe'rrEsost was of opinion that the pe• stroyed building was neither an outhouse nor a ware: house within the meaning of the statute on which the prisoner was indicted. With respect to the former term, it had long been settled that in order to constitute an outhouse, it must be connected with a dwelling-house, and in some respects parcel of it. This building was a solitary and unconnected erection, and could not be called an outhouse within the meaning of the Act of Parliament on which this indictment was framed. Nei ther was it a "warehouse ;". to come under that deno mination, the building must be such as factors or traders kept their goods in for sale, and where customers went for the purpose of viewing them, and not such as were used for the safe-keeping of goods merely. In this case the building was not even used for the safe-keeping of goods. He was therefore of opinion that the prisoner must be acquitted. The jury accordingly found the prisoner Not guilty. (Before Mr. Sergeant BYLES. Arthur Hammond and Robert Berry were indicted for feloniously shooting at Thomas Firmin, with intent to do him some grievous bodily , harm, or with intent to resist their lawful apprehension. Mr. Sanders conducted the prosecution, Mr. Gunning defended Hammond, and Beery was his own counsel. The prosecutor is under-gamekeeper to Mr. Browning, who hires the right .of shooting in an extensive wood called the Hyde, near Bury, of which Sir Thomas Gage is the owner, and a Mr. Brown the occupier. The prisoners are labourers living in Bury, whose labours, however, appear to be pursued by night !either 'than by day, being persons somewhat. given to the of fence of poaching. The prosecutor. and one Taylor were watching in the Hyde in the night between the 6th and 7th January, and about the hour of two in the Morn ing of the 7th they saw two men in the wood, one of whom was armed with a gun ; this man was the prisoner Berry—the other was sworn to be Hammond. The keeper pursued the prisoners, and when about sixty yards off them, Firmin fell down, whereupon the pri soners began to stone his assistant, Taylor. Taylor called out to the prosecutor, " They are stoning me ;" to which the prosecutor replied, " Let them, I'll stop 'em." The prosecutor had by this time risen from the ground, and went to the assistance of his companion, whereupon the prisoners ran away, pursued by the gamekeepers. When the respective parties were within six or seven yards of each other, Berry turned round, levelled his gun at the body of Firmin, and fired it off. Taylor swore to having seen the wadding fly from the gun alight, and also having h ear d something like shot " fly from the gun past him.' Hammond was at this time sev, nor eight yards in advance of Berry and running away, and he continued to run as fast as his legs could carry him, not taking any part in the actual assault on the prosecutor. As soon as the gun had been fired Taylor came up and said to Berry, " Why, you villain, you would have shot that man if you could," and forthwith he struck Berry 'nine smart blows on the head and felled him, after which he was secured. Mr. GUNNING, for the prisoner Hammond, submitted that there was no evidence to go to the jury against his client. It might, p,rhaps, be conceded that they were in the wood with a common intent to take game, but it by no means followed that they. had a common purpose to resist whoever might oppose them. Indeed, at the time the prisoner Berry fired the gun, Hammond was some yards in advance, and there was no evidence to show that he saw it fired, or was aware of Berry's in= tention to fire ; he was running away at the time, and did not use any word whatceer *to - encourage his coin paniou.to fire. The Learned JUDGE" took the same view of the case, and directed him to be acquitted. In summing up the evidence, his Lordship left two questions to the jury, the first being whether Berry fired the gun with the intent charged in the first count, namely, to do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm ; and if he did not, then, secondly, whether he fired with intent to resist his law. ful apprehension ? With respect to the first, they would observe that the prosecutor did not, in fact, receive any injury, and there was no distinct proof that the gun was loaded with anything but powder and wadding, and the keepers had both spoken to the fact of the report being a " very faint" one, which tended to show that the gun did not contain a lull charge. On the second question, he was of opinion that the prosecutor had no right to apprehend the prisoner. Ile was under-gamekeeper to Air. Browning, but that gentleman had only the right of shooting in the Hyde. He was neither the Owner nor the occupier, nor was he the lord of the manor. That being so, he was of opinion that the prisoner could not be convicted on the second count, as his apprehension by the prosecutor, had it been effected, would not have b-en " lawful." But, although that were so. and altheugh Berry might not have intended to do any grievous bodily harm to the precutor, still the firing of the gun at him was an illegal act, and amounted to an assault, and he might be convicted of that offence. The jury acquired Hammond, and found Berry guilty of an assault only, and he thereupon received sen tence of six months' in:prisonment. Saturday, April 6. Leech Body was indicted fer setting fire to several barns and stacks of corn, the property of John Gaylord. Mr. Prendergast and Mr. O'Malley prosecuted, and Mr. Dasent defended the prisoner. The prosecutor is a tenant of the Duke of Grafton, under whom he occupies a large farm, at Rymer's-point, in the parish of Trows:on. The prisoner. in November last, was a labourer in the parish of Sapston, a village; distant four miles from Trovtston. He had been some weeks absent until the night of Sunday, the 19th of November, when he was seen in-the parish of Ingham, which adjoins Trowston. He there overtook on the road one James Rosier, of whom he inquired the way to ltymet's-point, saying "he had very particular business to transact th ere w ith M r . G a yf or d." He was told the ay, an d cont i nue d to walk on w i th Ros i er. As they jogged along, t h e pr i soner sa i d to h i s compan i on "I'll tell you w h at, old friend, there'll be a fine fire to-night at old Gayford's ; a regular flare-up, I may say." .He also observed, "Them stacks," pointing to some which stoo d make a fine blaze, they by the w a y s id e, " woul twhoeuGldr. Griffin n it p o t s ib ie li r e t - h h e o n us l ee ! a t. t h i i n u) ; h a a t i i n d , hwehsevraes he n repeatedly seen at asked the way t o R ymer ' s . point, and said he would give any man 2s. that e ou ld show him the way. (This he appears to hare said in ord.r to avert suspicion, as he Lad formerly worked for Mr. Gaylord at Rymer's-point, and knew the way intimately.) He also pulled out a pair alight shoes, and remarked " they were his shoes - when he wanted to scour across the country in double: quick time." He left the Griffin at ten o'clock, and the tire, which was three miles from that public-house, was first teen at eleven. At half-past twelve he was seen skulking under a wall at Honington, a place midway betwixt Rymer's-point and his own house, which he reached at one o'clock. He told the woman who was sitting up for him, that 1 - there was a noble fire at old Gaylord's, and his stacks and all were levelled with the ground, and he wished Gayford was burnt as well." He added, he should like to serve two or three more of them so ; that was the only way to get rid of Kersey Cooper. (Mr. Cooper is steward to the Duke of Grafton, the prose cutor's landlord). He further said, the proper way to be sure to get rid- of Cooper was to set his ricks on fire, and drop a note for the Duke of Euston-hall, saying " Duke, if you don't get rid of your steward, you'll hear more about it" On the morning after the Ere the foot steps of the - prisoner were traced from a gap in the hedge of a field which adjoins the prosecutor's. stack yard, in a direction from the Griffin to the property that was burnt, and also from the stacks in a direction that led to Honington and Tapston. The prisoner was after wards apprehendedon this charge, and gav e a n a cc o un t to the constable of the way in which he went home from the Griffin, which was consist-nt with his innocence, but wholly inconsistent with the evidence of his being seen at Honington, and of his footsteps being traced-as already mentioned. In. addition to this evidence, one Shadbolt a convicted felon, who was in the gaol with the prisoner, depoied to a circumstantialconfession whit h he said the prisoner made to him. _ Mr. DmiENT addressed the jury for the prisoner, whom they found Guilty after the Learned Judge had summed up the evidence, and he was sent e nced to b e transported for life. After the - prison Pr's condemnation, he was handcuffed to another convict, and taken from court in order to be removed in the van to prison. As he was passing from the door of the court to the van, he contrived to get his hand free of the handcuff, and to make his escape through the crowd. It was past eight o'clock when this oc curred, and it was of course dark ; for a minute or two he was not missed, and he has not since been heard of. No blame whatever is attributable to the gaoler or his assistants. Mr. Justice PATTEsort (assisted by Mr. Sergeaw AT- CrIERLEY) then disposed of two or three other cases 01 arson, and the assizes for:the county and the circuit ended, CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT. The sixth session of the present Mayoralty commenced yesterday;' before the .Right lion. the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Sheriff, and other Civic authorities. There are at present 260 prisoners for trial ; but that number will eery probably be increased to about ario before the Grand Jury are discharged. Upon the Court being opened, • The LORD MAYOR said that he wished to allude to the circumstance of the public being refused admission to the galleries of the Court, which were the only places where they could be accomm,idated without paying sums of money, varying from five to twenty shiilings, accord ing to the importance or interest of the occasion. lie thought that this ought not to be. The public had a right to admission to a court of justice, and no money should be demanded from thein. The RECORDER said, undciubtedly, as a general rule, the public were entitled to admission, but at the same time, care should be taken that order was-preserved, and the Court protected from inconvenience. If any rules had been framed relativ e t o t h e a dmisSion of parties to the Court, it wasn question whether, upon a sudden, those rules should be interferedegith without considera tion, or that the publi c should-be admitted indiscrimi nately without some regulations for the preservation of order. The LORD MAYOR said that all that was required was, that an officer should be in the gallery to see that .the persons con-lucted themselves properly. It was mon strous that when any case of public interest, such as that of Barber and Fletcher was brought forward, the public should have to pay for admission to hear the trial. Mr. Sheriff MUSGROVE wished it to be distinctly un derstood that he was no party to the taking money for • admission to the galleries. The Sheriffs had the charge of the Court, and were bound to keep order in it, and so far they were responsible; but he had determined to have nothing to do with the subject of remuneration,- er the receipt of money fur :the admission of persons to the gallery. The LORD MAYOR *was not aware what was done with the money, but he believed that some portion of it had h en applied to the payment of the Lord Mayor's sword hearer. He, however, would .not receive any portion of it, and it Was his desire that the public should be admitted freely to the Court. • The RECORDER expressed his opinion that this was hardly an occasion to discuss so important a question, and he would. merely remark, that the charge of the Court was vested in the Sheriffs, and it was their duty to preserve order, Under the authority of the Lord Mayor, who was the head of the Court. There could be no doubt that it was illegal to demand money for admission to a court of ;ustice i and any persons who received money would do it at their - peril, and would subject themselves to be indicted. • . . . Mr. Sheriff MOON begged to be allowed to state that he had nothing to do with the .receipt of money for ad mission to the galleries. The conversation then droppede - and the Grand Jury were sworn. ' • The grand jury having been sworn, The Reconuen proceeded to delieer his charge. The calendar, he said, contained the names:of more than 260 prisoners, a great number having been committed since Friday last. He feared, therefore, that the 'labours of the grand jury would be somewhat protracted. The offences contained in the calendar were some of. them of a very serious character ; but he did not apprehend that there would be any difficulty with respect to the de cision them. There were several charges of f o r g ery, an d ut tering forged instruments, and the grand jury wouldan have d one e of to the c s ( e im h e ad t9 cre u- a po ted il. enti, a great deal of publiC interest, and in which' several persons were implicated. These persons were charged with obtaining, by means of forged instruments, dividends which had remained for a considerable time unclaimed. It appeared that by obtaining the names of the persons to whose credit certain unclaimed dividends had been placed, the names of the relatives ptsuch partiei, and the whole history, of the parties themselves, they were enabled to forge wills, which purported to have been made by such parties ; and by those wills they. were enabled to appropriate the un claimed dividends to which. the ferged wills related to themselves. Of course, in conducting such proceedings as these several persons must-be engaged, end these persons had aeieral parts assigned to them for the pur pose of carrying on the Theejury would have to take into their consideration the Whole, evidence which would be laid before them, and they : would have to say whether there was sufficient evidence to implicate the whole of the partie&, indicted, or only part of them. The evidence would be laid before them, and it would be for them to consider whether that evidence was sufficient to justify them in returning a true bill on the ground of the parties knowing that the wills in question were forged. No doubt there would be such' evidence laid before them as would lead to the conclusion that other parties besides those in custody had been engaged in the frauds which had been committed. (The Learned Judge then read section nine of the 7th George . IV., C. 64, which bore upon the tae to ';which he was then referring.) The- evidence ould be presented to the grand jury, and the question inquired into before the petit jury. they would have to decide would be merely whether theth a t evidence ase to There was another case to which he would turn their at•ention in particular—it was a charge which had been instituted against the owner and commander of a vessel of casting her away. The ca be w as fully sufficient ptain was charged with the act itself; and the owner with - instigating, counselling, and abetting him in Si) doing. It' would be fer the jury tint to consider the case as against the captain, because if the case against him should fail, of course there would he no case against the other person accused. He next adverted to a charge of rape'which had occurred under somewhat peculiar circumstances, the young woman who had made the charge having, previous to the offence being committed, been some time engaged to the-person who was charged. It would be for the grand jury to apply their own common sense and experience to this case, and to say whether, under such circum stances, the young woman could be expected to make the same outcry as she would have done had the party been a stranger. It appeared that she had made no outcry w hatever. He (the Recorder) lamented to say that the calendar contained the names of . two persons charged with murder. He did not, however, think it necessary to make any observations upon these cast s, because they were merely cases of fact. His Lordship having briefly alluded to the minor charges contained in the calendar, then remitted t he, grand jury to their duties, and the Court proceeded to swear the common jury, The grand jury then retired. In the course of the day, Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON addressed the Recorder from the gallery, and said, that although he bad given directions that the doors of the galleries: should be kept locked, some one had opened them, and sever :1 per:ons who were then in the gallery had'informed him that they had paid money for their admission. The RECORDER gave directions that the person who had received the money should •be brought into, the body of the Court, and this was accordingly done. In answer to questions from the RECORDER, this person said that he took the money under the authority of Mr. Dornton. who rented the gallezies from the Sheriffs. The RECORDER said there could be no doubt that he was taking the money at the peril of being indicted. Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON requested the Court to give an order for the restitution of the money that had been receiver. The RECORDER said he could not take upon himself to make such an order, but the parties who had paid it had their remedy. Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON said he was informed that the doors of the gallery had been firced open by order of the Lord 'Mayor. It was impossible for the .Siwritis to keep order in the Court if they were not per mitted to adopt their own measures for that purpose. The RECORDER thought it would be better not to dis cuss the matter any farther at that moment, particularly as the Lord Mayor had left the Court. All that could now be done was. to: place an officer in the gallery to preserve order, and the public would be admitted without interruption. THE WILL FORGERIES. The followint; is the form in which the several parties charged with being concerned in the Will Forgeries, stand indicted in the calendar : Thomas Griffin, 60, tailor ; William Heitry Barber, 35, solicitor ; and Joshua Fletcher, 50, surgeon; are in. dieted for feloniously aiding, abetting, and assisting a female unknown, to personate an owner of certain stock, called the Long Annuities, standing on the books of the Bank of England, to wit; the sister of one John Stewart, &c. William Saunders, 47, fishmonger, Barber, and Flet ch,r, are indicted—Saunders for forging and uttering, end Barber for feloniously uttyrin , r, a testament ar y do cumentary writing, purportin g t o 'be the last will and testament of Mary Hunt, deceased, with intent to de fraud our Lady the Queen. - Fletcher is charged with feloniously meeting, and procuring Saunders to commit the felony. Georgiana Dorey, 32, and Barber and Fletcher, are indicted—Doi ey for uttering a forged writing, purport. ing to be the last will and testament of Eliza Burchard, deceased ; and the other two prisoners are charged with inciting Dorey to the commission of the offence. Lydia Saunders, 38, and Barbs and Fletcher are charged upon a fourth indictment—Saunders with utter ing a forged paper, purporting to be the last will and testament of Anne Slack deceased ; and the other pri soners, as in the former indictment, with counselling and prccuring her to commit the offence. The trials are not expected to conic on before Mon day next. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLERKENWELL. • . Two•inen, nimed Lee and -Porter, were charged as fol'ows:-- It appeared . from, the evidence that on Sunday,niorr.- ing the prisonevs we.:e knocking at the door of a man namned Day, in Eld e r. wa lk, Islington, without any law ful purpose. Po!iee-constable, 422 N, desired them to away.go They did So, but - returned again as soon as the officer had left the walk. The constable,' again hear ing knocking at the door, went hack, and saw the pri soners striking at the'-same door, Mr. Day'begged of the officers to remove them ; but 422 had no sooner placed his hand on Lee's collar' than the latter turned upon him, and struck him three bloc s on the breast, but not so as to produce any serious injury, Porter did not strike the constable, but threatened to do his business for him. Walker, 88 - N, came up, and with his assistance the prisoners were secured. Police-sergeant Pagin, N 19, said Lee had three times undergone six months' imprisonment for assaults on the police, and was not more than a day or two out of pri son. Porter had undergone three months' imprison ment for a similar offence. The prisoners, who could urge nothing to palliatetheir conduct, wer. s , ntcnced—Lee to pay afine of 10s., and Porter to find hail. UNION-HALL. William Kellich was charged with committing a most violent assault on his wife, whose life is at present con sidered in danger. It appeared that on Sunday morning the defendant went into a house where his wife happened t o b e , an d, havinc , had a previous quarrel with her, h e aga i n renewe d it; and, having knocked her down, kicked her in such a dreadful manner that her life is in danger. The prisoner's defence was, that he found a man named Potter in bed with his wife, and that he inflicted summary vengeance oh the guilty pair. • Potter, the man alluded to ; was present, with his head frightfully cur, and he denied that any improper con nexion took place between the prisoner's wife and him. Mr. Trail! remanded Kellick until the state of his wife will allow her to attend. • WORSHIP-STREET: ROBBERY AT A BROTHEL.—Yesterday Robert Wendover, a tall thin man, who wore a shade over his eyes, and Thomas Dennis, a short and thick-set man, wearing a smock frock, were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, the Magistrate, on suspicion of having been concerned in stealing a valuable gold watch, which was now proved to be the property of Mr. Bennett, a surgeon, resident in Upper Southwick street, Hyde Park. About noon yesterday the prisoner Dennis offered a gold watch in pledge for 51., at the shop of Mr. Peachy, a pawnbroker, in Goswell-street, stating that he had been sent with it by Mr. Richards, of North ampton-square. Mr. Peachy detained him in order that he Might make inquiry, as he suspected the watch to have been stolen, but while he turned his back the prisoner ran away, but was pursued and taken back to the shop. He got away.again, however, but was again pursued, and after a hard run and much chasing, in the course of which he was lost sight of for a few minutes, he wiis at last found concealed in a cow-shed, and was given in charge to police-con stable 92 G. ;He then said the fact was, that he had not been sent to pawn the watch by Mr. Richards, but had it from a man with a shade over his eye, and he mentioned where that person was then to be found. Policeman 142 G, said that he went to the St. John of Jerusalem publx-house, Jerusalem-square, where he found in the top room the prisoner Wendover, who had a shade over his eyes, and answered . the descrip tion whiCh the other prisoner had given. Wendover being told that he was taken into custody on suspi cion of stealing a gold watch, said he would say no thing about it till he got to the station-house, where -he made a statement to the sergeant on duty. Sergeant Ellis, who received the charge at the sta tion-house,.said Wendover told him that he had found the watch in Tottenham-court-road, and that he did not know what had become of a gold chain whioh he admitted was then attached to it. On searching him a knife and case, now produced, were found upon him ; and also a document, produced, which pur ported to he the Queen's free pardon from seven years' transportation. Mr. Bennett, the surgeon,• now identified the gold watch, and also a knife and case now produced; and stated that on Thursday se'nnight he went to a place in Brook-street with a female, whom he had met in the New-road. and there lost his watch with gold ,Chain, &c., and also his gold pin, silk handkerchief, tooth pick, knife and case, and about 19s. in cash. The prisoner Wendover, who felt his way as he moved as if nearly blind, now repeated that he had found the watch; and sent his fellow-prisoner tb pawn it. He admitted that he had been convicted 'and trans ported, but afterwards pardoned, as shown in the pro duced document ; but neither he nor the other pri soner would state' where they lived. _ , Mr. BROUGHTON remanded them both. OCCUPATIONS - OF THE POPULA TION, ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 1841. That portion of the census which relates to the'oc cupations of the population is only completed. as to 27 counties ; those not yet finished being the follow ing thirteen, viz. :—Lancaster, Salop, Somerset, Hants, Stafford„Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, _ Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcester, and York. These , 13 counties inducte the principal manufacturing counties of England—viz" those of •Lancashire, York shire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire; and there fore it may be presumed, that ,the proportions ex hibited in the other 27 counties will become still More favourable to the manufacturing and trading portion of ..the people, when these great manufacturing .districts . .are intluded. The proportion: of the various Classes in 27 counties .in Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Corn wall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset,. Derby, Durham, Essex, Gloucester; 'Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon, Kent, Leteeqter, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Notting ham, Oxford, and Rutlandshire, comprising a popula • tion of 28,048,321 —are as follow : Farmers, graziers, yedmen Agricultural labourers 523,294 640,222 Persons employed in trade and othefoceupa tions Persons returned as of independent means 249,635 Residue of population, consisting of almspeo ple, pensioners, paupers, beggars, other per- . sons (of course including females not in trade, and children) 4,871,609 Total population The decimal proportions of the different classes may therefore he thus anted : Farmers and agriculturid labourers 8 per cent. Persons t mplo_,,cl in trade and other occupations - 28.50 „ Persons of independent means Residue of population " 6 0 .36 „ 100• per cent BARRACK ALLOWANCES.—It has been decided by the authorities, upon a return called for of all married officers in Great Britain and Ireland living nut of the barracks, that cads married officer so living out of bar racks in Great Britain shall receive 2s. 6ci. a week for oals and candles, and in Ireland 2s. 93. As EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.—On Saturday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, a gentleman was observed limiting in front of the White Horse Tavern, Fetter-lane, arm e d with a r idi ng w hi p of unusual dimen sion.;, and apparently in a state of great agitation. On the arrival of one of the omnibuses connected with the London and Birmingham Railway, the person in ques tion loudly called ou t t o those inside, " Is Mr. there ?" A gentleman, after a short pause, answered that his name was that of the individual for whom in quiry was made. The interrogator, thereupon, furiously told him to get out of the omnibus, but. which the other declined doing, at the same time desiring to know for what purpose he was required. " I want to horse whip you," replied the enraged gentleman, " for your infamous conduct to my daughter last week." He then seized the person so charged by the leg, and endeavoured to drag him out of th e v e hicl e , a pplying also the formi dable weapon in his hand to the boby of the said alleged delinquent without mercy. The assailant repeatedly vociferated, " Mr. Chaplin, come out, come out, and see me horsewhip this miscreant." Ile likewise used many other epithets of the most opprobrious description. The byestanders at length interposed, and the omnibus finally drove off.—Sunduy Times. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—The virtue of this most ex traordinary medicine is so admirable and efficacious, that it wonderfully preserves man in health and strength of body, and of all the powers and faculties of his mind. It is a sovereign remedy for all diseases, however bad, that admit. of a cure. All persons suffering from gene ral debility, nervous affections, liver, or bilious com plaints, sick headaches, indigestion, want of appetite, as well as every complaint brought on by sedentary habits; for all such these pills will be found to give almost im mediate relief. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's establislunent, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. THORWALDSEN. ne first efficient patron of this great artist was an ishman. In the year 1800, Thomas Hope, who had heard of the skill of the young Danish sculptor at Rome, ordered from him a copy of his colossal statue of " Jason," in marble, and enabled Bartel Thorvaldsen to remain and prosecute his studies in the capital of the arts. Thorvaldsen (it is thus he wrote his own name) was born in 1770, during a journey made by his family from Iceland to Copenhagen. His father, Golskalk Thorsvaldsen, was a carver of figure-heads for ships, his - mother the daughter of a clergyman. The child showed an early disposition for drawing, and was placed by his parents, whose circumstances were narrow, at the Arts Academy of Copenhagen, where he was received without charge. He began early to exercise his skill, it is said, upon the figure heads at which his father laboured, and at which the young Thorvaldsen would work when he carried his dinner to the carver at the wlrtrf. At the academy he gained no prize, however, until 1787, and the great silver medal two years later, when the historical painter, Abild,gaard• took a_ fancy to him, and gave him fukther instruction in the general principles of art. In 1791, Thorvalclsen gained the small gold medal for his composition of " Heliodorus chased from the Temple," and at the same time the pa tronage of the Minister of State, Count Reventlow. In 1793, his mezzo-relievo of "Peter healing a Lame Man at the Gates of the Temple," obtained for the young man the great gold medal and the three years' travelling studentship.. But before he took advantage of the means thus afforded to him for visiting the wonders of art in the south, he devoted a couple of years to labour at home, and completed several pieces of sculpture. On the 20th of May, 1796, Thorvaldsen left Co penhagen in a Danish ship of war; but the voyage of the young sculptor was so tedious and dangerous that he did not reach Rome till May, 1797, having passed by Malta, Naples, and Palermo. Th e pr esence o f th e great works of art which here surrounded him, if they inspired hi m w ith energy an d emu l at i on, filled him often at the same time with despair; and stories are told of works which were "completed by the young man, and then broken to pieces and thrust aside in a corner of his studio. However others might praise him, he was the last to be contented with himself. His three years' salary was come to an end, and he had made preparations to return to Denmark, with the clay model of the Jason statue, which he had completed for the academy (after having broken up the first figure of the natural size), when Mr. Hope ordered the marble of him, and enabled him, by , his, munificent remuneration, to remain in Rome. It is to this timely patronage that we probably owe much that has been left us by the greatest of modern masters. Wealth and honour now flowed in upon him. All the great patrons of art throughout Europe were anxious for works from his hands, ard he remained in Rome until the year 1819; occupied with prodigious activity. Having to make a monument for the Swiss who fk , ll at Paris in 1792 (the wounded Lion), he determined to visit the place where the monument was to be erected, and at the same time to take the opportunity of revisiting his native country. While in Copen hagen the Government ordered from him statues of the " Saviour," the "Baptist," and the " Twelve Apostles," for the Frauenkirche, then newly built ; and it was with these works that he occupied himself, especially on his return to Rome. - He refurned to Copenhagen finally in 1837, having completed, in the forty-two years of his labour, about two hundred great works and a great number of busts. A series of outlines from Thorvaldsen's works (Stuttgard, 1839), from which the above biographical sketch is taken, mentions the English possessors o f some of his principal pieces. Mr. llope was the pur chaser of the " Jason," the "Psyche," and the " Genius and Art ;" the Duke of Bedford . of the bas relief of " Briseis ;" Lord Lucan of the famous " Day and Night ;" Lord Ashburton of the " Hebe ;" and Lord F. Egerton of the " Ganymede." We have received the following from' an eminent sculptor, to whom Thorwaldsen was known, and the details he gives of the character of the great man, of whom he himself is a worthy disciple, and whose in tense love of art for its own sake, he shares, will be read with interest "Before leaving England, Lady R- took me to Chantry's studio, that he might give me some advice how to study. A footman opened the door, and Cliantry's conversation was all about dukes and royalty. He never spoke a word to me, but sneered several times at the idea of any one going to Italy to study. " Three weeks after that, one fine morning saw me knocking at a door in a common stair on the Pincian hill at Rome, covered with names in chalk, a mode adopted by people instead of leaving their cards, on not finding any one at home. I was fortunate ; and the artist himself opened the door, in a dressing gown, old and worn, and his long grey hair flowing on his shoulders, round a square-shaped h ea d, a broad and rather low •forehead, under which shone a pair of the mildest grey eyes I had ever seen. Bene volence and simplicity marked . his character. He carried a piece of clay in one hand, and a modelling stick in another. The room I entered, upon his cour teously asking us to do so (Wyatt, the sculptor, was with me), had a plain tile floor; the tables were covered with prints and casts, and the walls were hung.with early pictures of young artists and parts of his " Triumph of Alexander." He was making a small model in clay of his , equestrian statue of " Maximilian of Bavaria." I used the name of Lady R- as commissioned to do. He immediately in vited me to call on him whenever I chose, at this, his private studio; and said that any work I wished to copy in the collection of his works I.was at liberty to do; that all that was necessary was to inform the custode of the studio, and the work would he brOught out for me; -and that if I 11,-.d no materials of my own, everything in that shape was at my service. I lost no time, and commenced a. study of his Mer cury. • Every day this benevolent, and good, and true artist came into the principal studio about mid- . day; he would come up to me, praise my work first, and then point out errors, and as the most positive language, take the modelling tool hi mse lf , an d b y a few strokes inform me of my error, .and in a manner which excited in me the most devotional feeling to this father in art. " This conduct was uniform, and during my resi dence in Rome, for two years, I never, experienced any difference. I had the use of his study wheneVer I chose; and whenever I got up a statue at my own place, Thorwaldsen vt as ever ready to come from the the Piazza Barbaririi, to the Piazza del Popolo; where I was, to give me his advice; he -has come these two miles in a day in July; found me out,. written his name on my door with a piece of chalk, and that he. would be back in one. hour, as it might be. He:would then go off to some other student to perform a office, 'assist in arranging his draperies, and then re turn to• Me. All this he did for me, and he . never. expected, 'and I never paid him one farthing. Similar traits in his character are innumerable, and I believe no artist yet asked his advice that he did not • feel noxious to give it ; he really lived, as I have heard him say an artist ought to do, for art itself. Though simple in his .manners, he was the companion of princes, apparentl:, estitnating them only as they loved art, and approximated to the artist. The present King of Bavaria was lila pupil and friend. The Giar dino di Malta, belonging to his Majesty opposite Thorwaldsen's studio, was itself a studio. Everybody loved Thorwaldsen, and the enthusiasm of his coun trymen, when he returned to Copenhagen, having bequeathed the results of his long life to them, speaks volumes as to the man. "Among his principal works were the model of the Triumph of Alexander, a bas relief, .140 feet long and 3 feet high, conceived and executed in three months, Thorwaldsen having volunteered to execute it for Napoleon's residence, the Pope's Palace, on the' Quirinal, showing the most masterly modelling ever seen.. His Mercury slaying Argus is unrivalled, mid among a collection of the antique appears where it ought to be. His - equestrian 'statue of Poniatowsky is a large work, not equally worthy of him ; brit Poniatowsky standing is perfect, only eclipsed by Flaxman's Sir John Moore. His great group of St. John preaching in the Wilderness, is charaterised by a species of Raphaelesque expression, and one portion, a youth leaning on the shoulder of an old man, is the most divine thing ever seen ; the intellectual expres sion of calm old age, and the awakening intelligence of the youth, elevate the soul to a degree r.ot to be conceived unless seen. His Saviour and the Twelve Apostles, a colossal work—Christ being eighteen feet high, and the others twelve each —are wonderful draperied figures, characteristic to the highest degree of the different men ; the draperies strm as if one could raise them, they are so exquisitely cast and executed. His great monument of the Pope Pius, in St. Peter's, contrasts unfavourably with Canova, who was the greatest artist of the two in the nudo— wit ness Palamedes, the Nix us -Th eseus, an d t h e C entaur, contrasted with Thorwaldsei,'s Mars ; but in female form and simple beauty of expression, Thorwaldsen was immeasurably his superior, witness the contrast of the two Hale s, Night and Morning, Hercules and 10, and the multitude of beautiful little exqui site bas-reliefs Thorwaldsen was ever producing. Art must feel his loss as European ; and it is to the ho nour of our country that Mr. Hope gave him his first commission, Jason with the Golden Fleece. I have always understood that Thorwaldsen was sent to Rome Iy the academy at Copenhagen, having got a passage to Naples in a Danish frigate, and that for the first two years in Italy he did nothing except study the German and Italian languages, and when his time was nearly expired he began his Jason, which contrasted favourably with Canova's style ; it was a novelty; it was seen al.cl appreciated by Mr. Hope, and thus was fixed Thorvvaldsen's career in Rome. " He had a natural daughter, a very - beautiful wo- man, who has been marritil to a Baron • , Gentle' man of the Bedchamber of the King of Denmark. "He was :wow ri, e ft..; i; , h t. t and a portrait, Lately punli,lied of 01/k0 may be seen at Molteno's, is a perfect likeness." :MARKET NE WS.—(YEST E RDA V') CORN XCHANGE. • Fresh up, a v,-ry limited quantity of English Who; came to hand. The finest qualities of both red and white at prices quite equal to those noted on 'Monday'. last. Middling and inferior kinds at barely late rates. For Foreign Wheats at barely stationary prices. Best; malting qualities of Barley at full quotations ; grinding and distilling sorts unaltered in value. Malt at previous figures. Oats - at full rates. Beans, Peas, and Flour without alteration. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT—Essex & Kent, MALT—Chevalier......... 635 to:-.• red 4ls to 58s OATS--Yorkshire and Ditto, a hite • 52. to 63s lincolneh., feed 235 to: Norfolk and Lin Potatoe ... ..... 2.5 s W, coin, red 4oe to 43s Youghalt andCurk, Ditto white 42s to 17s black Irish, red 47. to 50s Cork, white ... ...... 19. to 20. Ditto, wh:te RYE—Old 2bs to 33s Beans— Tick ...... 30 30a to New - 36 s to 38s PEAs Grey telei BARLEY—Grinding 25s to 281' Map 'e Malting 33s to 36s Wh.te 30s to ' Chevalier 32. to 35c Boilers. j 3- t 031 6 0,, MALT—Suffolk and Nor- 'FLOUR--I'9wil _made 49t to folk 565 to 62s Suflo . ...... 3.0 to 33 8 Brt,wo ..... .... . 5O. to sh, Stockton 847N " orfolk 34i to 3' Kingston acid Ware 56a to 625! „ • , 3 • WHEAT— Dai l FOREIGN GRAIN 48. to 62s AND BE NS FLOUR ..... IN 8057 D.. to ,„,(4 , 208 Hamburgh 36s to 40s , P As ........ .. ... 43s to g BARLEY 3os to 33s FLows.—American • f to OATS—New Feed l4s to 16s SMITHFIELD. The Beef trade was, on the whole, steady,' at prit , . quite equal to those obtained last ii:eek, the prilffet lots producing, without difficulty, 35 10d per Sibs. T 1 1" supply of Sheep was but moderate; prune old' tiown , 4s to 4s 4cl per Sibs; the value of all other kinds well supported. Although the Lamb trade was by na means brisk, prices were tolerably well supported: Cta#!, at late prices. Pork remained unaltered. - • _• : Per 81bs, to sink the. offal. s d. to s. d. s d, tO Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 8 Second qualityditto... 3 2 Secon.i quality ditto 2lO 3 2 Coarse-woolled ditto_ 3 S Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wethers 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. I arge coarse Calves 3 2 310 Larg e H ogs .3 2 6 Prime'small ditto 4 0 4 'mall Porkers 3lO • • 11 . ,s Suckling Calves, each 18 028 uarter old Pigs, eachl6 '0 2!•-gt Inferior Sheep ...—.... 2 8 3 robs ........... 4 , 9 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calv e s, I pips; 2,407 21,910 62 I 340 . .• 111 EVYGATE AND LEAD EN 72 AL le. t" For Lamb the demand has been ver y act i ve, at an sw# vance of 4d per 81bs. In other kinds of meat very has been doing, and the rates have had a Cownwe'. tendency. • At per stone, by the Carcase s. d. to s. d.. s. 41. 9 °' Beef, 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior 4 g 2 -- middling ........., 2 4 2 Oi ---- middling 210 -- prime large 2 8 2 10, prime 3 4 a 5ma11.... 3 0 3 2, Pork, large 2 Veal ........3 - 0 4 21 —small 3 8, 4 -,.• Lamb. 5s 4d to es. 10d. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pi k Scotland s :-so Yorkshire Norfolk 8 Suffolk Cambridgeshire 1 ' Essex Surrey. lB 270 , 190 aws" Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts aj • so 1,790 750 2 . 0 1 128 3,029 1,010 3, Difference since our last... 39 1,439 2e.0 BOROUGH AND SPITALPIBLDS• The supply of good and sound Potatoes being Q om ' ratively limited, the demand for such i s active, at - req. , full prices. In other kinds but little is doing. • ; - BOROUGH HOP MAR KET• ' As is almost invariably the case during the comparatively little business has been transacted iin„ our last report, in this market, • yet pric e s are genfrs'.'; supported. WOOL MARICET• „ c:/do Privately, a st e ady bu s in ess h as b een doing id tia, Mal Wools, atltill prices 3 but the demand for 'hr has subsided, and, in some instances, the rates given way Id per lb. TALLOW.• The, foreign market continues very: firm, and the" livery is good. Town Tallow at 40s 6d net cash. price of Russian 42s for the last three montlis, "rd. 42s eid for swparate months, trom August ,to Deceinv 7 ; , inclusive. • Total Previous week's arrival. POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS —On and after , 12th instant, the Edinburgh night mail will arril r ki., Carlisle at 10 A.m., i ns t ea d o f 9 , -20, as at pres ent...;, GlAsgo , ,v mail will arrive at 10 A.M., instead of9..f; l Pt i o. The Dumfries at 9. 53,•inste , ad of 8. 53 A: At. -The .bolt` night Mail will arrived at 2. 35 P.M.„ instea dand after the-13th instant.—gCarlisl e Juuinal. • =-:,.. 4 41; RAiiiyirs.—On Saturday a return was issiletl., all monies raised under act s w h ere b y railroad corapilT A, je, have been incorporated, frian January 1826, to Jant,ri" 1844, distinguishing the s um s raised as prineip,als , _ the SUMS to be raised by loanor mortgage. contains the names of 121 railways andthe oli• fewer than 250 Acts of Parliament, which passed:W A years mentioned, under which the moneys were rat it ) The entire sum was "seventy-nine minions,- twenty thousand and three hundred inciseventeeri pounds r m i which enormous sum 57,387;785/. was 'capital in •.I °- e ,„. stock, and 21,638,582/ .to be raised by loan or Mort 'fit From May 1833 the London and thrinilfghain RS r` was empowered to raise 5,500,000/ 4 of which' ad l6 ` l 6t-,, 3,500.0001. in joint .stock, and 2,060,0001 by I°l mortgage. This appears th e l argest amount set WV the return.— Sunday Paper. n AVARICE EVEN IN DEATH.—An mow aged female dicant, named Margaret Kerslerinn, being attended' her death-bed by her s i s t er , who- also' livedltuniCil T„ e . tirely on charity, desired with great earnestness tha . "':,,, might be buried in the cap she the n wore, as S.bC be c greatly attached to it f rom i ts h aving been given P 1 by a benefactress: The promise was" given;a rid ' Margaret. died in evident contentment : ,The sister Off the cap. to prepare it. for its last office * , but SedulP". fJ a band round it, which she thoUght might 'be to herself, set to work to unpick it: This cperation o r,. not proceeded far when the Omer of a pie 6e t ber. paper appeared, and going on with ter work, ,;(" - 0 0 Metes, to the number of 1, came fOrth; whic,'"i n o being examined,.proved tr. be bank-noteS of 10 nt,iit% , . each, and consequently worth 1,110 florins, or 2,500 francs. —Observer. •-", A HARD CASE:—It is most probably KnOWn readers that in 1830 an or d er emanated from the t I Guards declarin g th at t h e w id ow of no officer whoto served for a less period than ten. years should be to a pension. It is not our present pqrpose to dis To' the propriety of such •ari order, so far as it relgL e si the widows of those who. have 'entered the serwrat# commissioned. officers, but we• notice the subject .70 the most sincere wishes that the' authorities itSet Horse Guards will, up in considerati on , come to tb%-"vt and charitable conclusion that the :ease which w for lay before our readers does not - cerae: - wil•J'7 o l spirit of the order of 1830—a cold interpretati94!. > bring it within th e l e tt er. The ,sadease,4 Of s ' gallant soldier served f or twentp•eight years . the 11 0 0 of the 78th Regiment;4 for 'twenty.five 'of ..whichhfk 9 1 a noncommissioned officer.He rose to the' "edi t + sergeant-majOr : serving in th e West: and EaSt 41 1,00 and was at length, through-the Unaided recomplett' st h of his own Merits, prOinot e d t o an-rnsigncy intft ' t he Regiment. From 'that co r p s ,he Was removed Poo' 22d Regiment, and served inthe late campaigns l! d Sir Charles Napier, in §i tu l e ,' w h ere he fell a vivo pe a .. that illness which, inore . th an th e enemy's fire,. th in t hiP our brave army. At the time of his death t o t , 'adjutant;Me l o officer was, acting to a wing of the reg add we art 'asgured that had a vacancy occurred ' o fico gallant commander, Colonel Pennefather, who has ;doe,. spoken of him as one of the best 'officers and sO, he ever kn.*, would have made him adjutant regiment. The widow of this ()Id soldier and 01 5 , 4 ff r or plies for the usual pen s i on ; s h e i s met by the OrOv b e 1830, and to!d that she' has no dein), ra inasmuch ii ! e : 0 00 hosband hail not served his Sovereign as a oodlifq,„„'-'4O : officer for 10 years. In the name of common j115,!!,79,01 this the fitting an s w er to g i ve to the widow of a ..P;00 soldier who, though not prom o t e d t o an ensigoo44o 1838, had been faithfully serving in every subor i :.7 t his • grade of the prof ess i on f rom 1816? The case of widow is still further aggravated by the her having to maintain two daughters by a foriverdoe riage of her late gallant h us b an d . Moit sincerely „ye • hope that the a u th or i t i es at the Horse guards t.; o; ig,.. consider this case, w hi c h is not More distressing d 413°: - • will be disgracef u l t o th e national honour, ahc 4ll , o just claim of the afflicted wido w b e rep a lse d by t 1 tet;'). feeling interpret a ti on o f an order which never COri plated such is claim.—Observer. BIRTHS. On the 2d inst., Mrs. George Putnam, of FILS of a son. - ftt On the 3d inst., at Goodrest Lodge, near Rea e' lads- of Bulkley J. M. Praed, Esq., of a son. , On the 4th inst., M rs . T . P . Turaer, Bedford-row, ' J " o r still-born. On the 4th inst., the wife of F. H. Dickinson, Ems' Upper Harley-street, of a daughter. MARRIED. Calcu tts ' • On the 10th of F e b ruary, at the Cathedral, - gb Udny, Y., Civil Servi.-- to Am-' ^nd dso .. , Esq . . ice, __nnie Lydia, secom of Samuel Tomki ns , Esq., of Lombard-street. ugti ste On the 2d inst., at Southwi c k, H an t s , William .- ,11.' Raper, Esq., M. 8., to Mary, daughter of Charles Wink^ Esq., Controller of h er M a j esty ' s Customs, Ramsga te. ....--.... • DIED. Glow` On the 29th ult., J o h n G ou ld, E sq., so li c i tor , o f Glou , street, Queen-square, aged 74. „ r v-rog iw On the 31st ult. at Gainford-place, Barn s—h lot ' Islington, Mrs. P. Allan, widow of the late G. Allan , . a f On the Ist inst., a t W arm i ns t er , Willi am Lye Se•." - Esq., aged 30. tho On the 3d inst., at Egliugham Northumber anu l. Venerable Edward Thomas 13igge, Archdeacon of Lindlsae, On the 3d inst., at Worthing, John Bradley. Esq. , a g e liter On the 3d inst., Frances Margaret Davies, eldest dat,g of Captain Chandler, 17th Lancers, aged 15. r f oe, On the 10th inst., Agnes, eldest child of Mr. W. Pr° of Cheapside. r h a trt , On the sth inst., Emily Susan, only daughter of , Baker, Orr the 3 Esq E ~ lt., oth uof ndsle at ig Writtle h-street Essex, Mrs. Elisabeth . &I * , On the Slat ult., at Manchester Lodge, Warvricksm Mary, the wife of Richard R. Je, Esq. On. the 2d inst., at Brighton Harriet Emily, the Rife °fj ‘ • Brightman, Esq., of Lavender-Lb Surrey. On the 3d inst., at Barnes, Surrey, Mary Margar et, th /fife of Henry Cremer, Esq. ' „i London : Printed and Published by MURDO YO II. ?"13 ,12 6 i , No. 112, &rand, Printer at T I he Sun Office ' StFand, in' the Precinct of ' the Sawn in the Counq Middlesex, Tuesday, April 9,1844, . • : as C. tak e Eleei 45. At , or ...—___ k kat This . 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