The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

'ambition THE FUNDS-(C OSING PRICES.) _ BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock :1 per Cent. Red 98% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. ...... ... 995, Ditto Old Annuities 314 per Cent. Red .... ..... 101% Ditto New Annuities — 'New 334 per Cent.-- 102 34 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 114 d 7l pm. New 5 per Cent............. Ditto 5001. 73 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 73 pm. Jan. 1880............ 1234 Bank Stock for Acct 199 Oct. 1859............ 12 .:-16 ! Consols for Acct. 99% Jan. 1860 ..... ....... 12% India Stock for Acct — FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian. 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent 103)6 Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds ....... Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... -Russian, 5 per Cent 118)i s' hllian, 6 per Cent Ditto, Metallic — ...:lombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent 34% Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — ,Ditto, Deferred......... ......... D.inish, 3 per Cent!French, 5 per Cent. —f. —c. Creek, 18.5, 5 per Cent Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent ..„ ..... 35h French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. — ,Dutch, 2% per Cent 61% Peruvian, 18 - 25, 6 per CenC... Ditto, 5 per Cent .......„100h SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 9l Bristol and Exeter (;0 paid) Bristol and Gloucester (30 paid) Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid Eastern Counties (23 paid) Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ' 12 paid 2l )6 Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid. — Ditto, Locke, 2% paid 2% London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) Lonion and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (122. 15s. 4d. paid) ...... London and Croydon (Trunk)... ............... Ditto, Scrip, 10 paid lB% Manchester and Birmingham 56 North British, 2% paid 2)6 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) North Midland (100 paid) _Ditto. Thirds, £2l 13s. 4d. paid 29 Norwich and Brandon ( '2 paid) 7 % South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid) Trent Valley, 2 paid 9 Paris and Rouen, 20 paid SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—As Ireland seems resolved not to rebel, nor Mr. O'Connell to accept the crown of that country at present, Sir James Graham, like Alexander, naturally feels somewhat at a loss for new worlds to conquer. Government, and the grand Moguls of Leadenhall, not having, as it was once rumoured they intended, given him the opportunity of outshining in the East the glories of Sinde and Gwalior—Roley roley being deposed at Epsom, sans coup ferir, by the whiff and wind of the fall sword wherewith the Home Secretary menaced that time-honoured dynasty—to what field could the all victorious Graham look for further fruition of That stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel? Sir James Graham has looked—he fondly deemed not in vain—to the Channel Islands. Our readers have probably. been not a little puzzled by the repeated announcements of embarkations of troops for Guern sey. The late precautionary armaments to Ireland have been repeated to the smaller island on a smaller scale. First of all the Government steamer the Dee appeared in its roads, and landed a Queen's messenger with missives in hot haste for the Governor—Major- General Napier, the historian. What these nays torious dispatches might contain, the harmless natives were left to conjecture—but evidently something too momentous to be trusted to come by the penny post. Presently appears another war steamer, the Blazer ; and it is now clear the affair is no joke. "Soon," says Le Pil,te, " a military chief is seen to disembark from the steamer—a man of colossal stature, a la figure hslaffe, and girt with a sword full four feet long. 11 si'avait pas lair d'un phisant, celui-la." This redoubt able chief, and near four hundred troops; land in boats, from the Blazer. Further arrivals of troops follow. lfer Majesty's transport brig Nautilus arrived from Cowes on Tuesday, the 21st. having on board about 170 men of the depots of the 23 d and 97th Regiments, and of the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; and the Lax t morning the Atalanta steamer, from South ampton, brought three officers and ninety men of the Rifles. It was understood at Southampton that a c o mpany of artillery had also been ordered ; and that taree or four hundred more soldiers had been embarked in the Lightning steamer. These however did not make their appearance. The peaceful inhabitants of Guernsey:have been asking each other ever since, what these armaments mean—against what spec tral enemy Sir James Graham has lauched them ? On the arrival of the Blazer in our roads, says Le Pilote, the commanding officer of this protecting army, asked! the pilot, as he came on board, with a more than ordi nary degree of interest, "How are you?" " Much obliged to you, M. le Commandant," answered the brave pilot, " pretty well,"—Et vous ?—" That is not it," said the ralicer, " I wanted to know if there are not troubles in ti•te island ?" " I have not heard of any," said the pilot: "but it is possible these are, and if you like, I will go and inquire for you." The broad farce of all this is beyond Bumbastes Furioso, or Major Sturgeon. It is evident that some one has been a Great Alarmist, and that Sir James Graham has been a Great Alarmed. One would think we were under the ad -ministration of some junta of Physical Force Chart --ists —some fire-and-sword Committee of Public ;Safety, who had heard from the Channel pro-con isul that the trio of liberty had been cut down in Guernsey, or that patriotic warriors could get drunk there for next to nothing. Lord Ellenbo rough's swaggerings have been compared by the Edin -I,:ygli Review to Barere's Carmagnoles—but here is o rd Lilenborough, or Barere, in little—here are s'rmies of invasion—colonnes infernales—for the con (west, or chastisement, of—Guernsey ! This last Home office escapaile may seem too ridiculous for comment. But is it a saran matter that the Government of this empire should make itself ridiculous? Is it a small matter that troops should be poured into , a perfectly tranquil islet, where there were no bar r, cks ready for them—and no possibility of force being resauired Suppose drunken quarrels should take place bets seen these uncalled-for protectors and the inhabi tants. Who will answer for the blood that may be shed in consequence of crowding troops, where troops could not possibly be wanted ? The only approach to a probable solution of this extraordinary false alarm at the Home officeis afforded by some supposed grave motive for disarm - ;ing the local militia. In what degree the Guernsey militia anay be supposed formidable to theßritish empire,we cannot aretend to say, as we cannot pretend to penetrate the , ;qty mind, and preternatural powers of apprehension, of ifse Home Secretary. But sure we are of this : that it the Guernsey militia gave all this umbrage to her m a j est y's Ministers, there was nothing required but to nigairy orders from the Queen in Council that this ter rible flirt v--should disband. " In ta , e Queen's name I charge you all to drop Your it% •ords and daggers!" The present aa, wernor, it seems, is at loggerheads with the civil authoi ities of the island, and had already threateried railitu v force on a small scale, to cut the knot, and e ff ec t iminealiate release of a pardoned eonvict—a ithout tha order of the local court. But it seems that General vier disclaims all previous know ledge of this military ,;e, - !upation of Guernsey. He has ; 'Tightened Government ,-aore than he meant fur the i„ axe of this warlike and a airbulent dapendency. 3TANDARD.—The Soot,'. Lanea, hire election ha: ter urinated by the return of the Cons et Native candidate wit a a majority of nearly 600 ; wh, ale number of ..ieNtors polled being 14,453. The result e s f the South Laaeashire contest is, on many accounts, reserving of ~.aservation.. An election at which betwee n 14,000 and L_ - .000 electoral polled must be, of course, free from euspi- E a ts I of anyexte.nial influence, whether of the % - slovernmeat or the Aristocracy'; and an election in a distri 'et almost as (lamely peopled as .a great city, must be t squally free from the suspicion of any local territorial ! influence. Tae population of the not very extensive d istrict now represented by the Conses-vative Mr. Entwi. the and the Conservative Lord Francis' Egerton, must amount to nonsiderably more than half a million, and it includes tiae important towns of Manehestes* and Live spool 4towns la, ger and immeasurably richer than n any capital citing), Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Busy, &c. Whatever infitiance, then, it is possible to imagine to ; exercised in a South Lancashire election, must be a , mercantile a ind inaeufacturing influence, and indeed of this in h tense the party of the League have bee n very pro fds -!y boastit, g for the last year or two. W e know not wheat er all our 7eaders will recollect; some eel Mainly must, that t,.‘e journals of the League have recent ly set down huuth Lancashire' .as a sure conquest, assigning, among ,`he other graunds of their con fidence, the reduction, by no less than 2,800 votes, of the Conser-. votive force, which they se id had been effect , 3d by a dili asent attentien to the rent, :try. These ri duced votes would K n raise M r . twisle's ma a 'ority to 3,4a 1 ' As it is not said that the Coaservatives anifested c vesponding retivity in the registration courts, it appe s but fair to allow far some considerable increassa of .7 tfe. , Zntwisle's najority on this head. Let however, b. 'acute(' to .h o t h e majority us,3 o - as it actually stands—a , • 550. Is not sty a majority in favour of f a Conservativ . camlidate— in district which is constituted, as it w e of a federa tion of mercantile and ma nufacturing tows as--a district w hich may in truth be called zlietropolis—:s nut such a victoryeienesgurehat a n l anufacturing conclu sive testimony t,.• the real feeling of the e ercplaee ie man ufaz - tturing in tt. rests in the country ? e t tha,ndti°cis on be treats(' Ludy ,a test of opini on--a s a test of the popularity of free traL T e on ot:e side, or pro tectiun on the other ; and it will ht,' admitted, we think, that the friends of free trade could t; of in „,:! , ngland • 'street to End inure favourable judges ; ana .yet___}.‘rotect: o n carries oh' the great majority of votes. We ha- tot as yet 7beard any reason assigned by the flee . tittle asivooates for the deft-at of their candidate, i bough defeat 1.28 tolerably certain even at no on on Mon day, and we own we are at a loss to c anjecture what apology they will offer. As we have sale' Government influence, ,aristocratic influence, local to rritoriai .11 influ 4ce, are wholly out of the question in a district like South Lancashire, all cut up into snit A possessions , with a population of more than half A million, and beta een fourteen and fifteen thor sand electors actually brought to the poll. Neglec tof the regis tration, the next common excuse to ma nence and inti midation, is n ega ti ve d b y t h e b oast to So h ich we have re ferred, th e boast namely,. struck that by 1- en dill en oe at the regis tries, the free trad ers had $ off near! ly 3,000 Conser vative votes. And as to corruption, if it to talk of the possible influeuce of oma were not absurd electors, the Ming any 15,000 f ee-traders oitre cerar the most traders .nly the party bribes. Th??ln the suspicion c ,f administering mens e Brown, and his iib eria , of their candidate, Mr. peted even to nausea,— aaw ,"t •th be ou s t teW a d in r in the journals of the Leage, from tl g it, were election.trum rlf the iy's intermission, eancy to the day of the ,ao day of the va t irs base enough to look for apprised by advertisement ribes ' the re were any whereelee to lo; are not, howe ver , d es i r o us of im 7 were sufficiently P At for them. W e Brown or his fri en d s ; t h e election full g bribery to Mr. 7 ap titsfie s us upon the hypothesis that it has been a fair election. As such it must impose silence upon the unfounded, dishearten- Log, and most mischievous predictions of those who, like the Times and Morning Post, have been bewailing the near downfal of thQ Conservative party ; and as a fair trial of strength it prostrates the League into a posi tion from which that vile and hateful conspiracy can never recover. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL. NEWTON, TUESDAY NIGHT. Districts. Brown. Entwisle. Newton Ashton Bolton Bury Manchester Oldham Rochdale Liverpool Ormskirk Wigan 6,934 7,524 Majority for Entwisle, 590. STATEMENT BY MR. BROWN'S COMMITTEE. For Mr. Brown ... 6,974 For Mr. Entwisle Majority for Mr. Entwisle.. . 573 ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MAY 27.—Not so many buyers attended to-day as usual, and the county election almost put a stop to business. Considering the bustle necessarily occasioned by such an event, there has been a good demand for goods at former prices.— Manchester Guardian. STATE OF TRADE.—At Manchester, owing to the county election, and the holidays, there was little busi ness done yesterday, and there was no change in prices. —Manchester Guardian. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of May 28.) SUGAR.—For West India Muscovado Sugar the de mand was extremely limited on Wednesday and Thurs day ; but on Friday grocers and refiners were induced to purchase more freely, in consequence of merchants submitting to a reduction on former rates of 6d to is per cwt. REFINND.—To-day Refined Goods were not to be purchased on the terms of last week; brown lumps were sold at 76s 6d, and Standard Lumps 77s 6d to 78s per cwt. The grocers are, generally disposed to get stocked with Refined Sugar. Tho market is firm for bonded Crushed Sugar at 26s per cwt, and several orders are unexecuted. MAURITIUS.—Fine yellow at 64s to 655, good 62s to 635, middling 60s to 61s 6d, low 58s to 59s 6d, and common to fine brown 52s to 57s per cwt. EAST INDlA.—There has been an improved demand for Bengal Sugar, and rather higher rates have been given; Manilla 17s to 225, and Java 18s to 24s per cwt. FOREIGN.—For yellow Havannah Sugar rather higher ratee have been paid. White Havannah all taken in above the value, middling to good at 26s 6d to 29s 2d, and ordinary 25s 6d to 263. For Brazil full prices have been given ; good yellow Bahia at 19s for refining here under bond, and small parcels of low to good white at 21s to 23s per cwt. MoLessns.—West India at rather lower rates, Antigua of good quality and fine Dominica at 26s to 27s 6d. Bengal 15s to 17s per cwt. COCOA.—Prices are still on the decline for West India ; none has been offered at auction, and the few parcels sold privately have been rather under former rates. COFFEE.—Of West India none has been offered at public sale. In Jamaica purchases to a fair extent have been made privately at full rates; mid quality has fetched 88s to 935, and superior 94s to 96s per cwt; some vessels from Jamaica are daily expected. To-day Ceylon Coffee at 49s to 49s 6d per cwt for good ordinary ; other sorts at the 4d per lb duty are unal tered in value. Foreign Coffee was sought alter, Rio at 29s to 32s for ordinary to good ordinary, and good ordi nary St. Domingo, 31s 6d. TEL—There has been a falling off in the demand for Black Tea, and the limited business transacted has been upon easier terms ; common Congou for cash selling at 110 to Is, good common is Oid to ls, and Pouchong ord to good ord at 4d to 9d per lb, but for Green Tea prices are firm, the supply being small. To day the operations were extremely limited, and former rates were with difficulty sustained. SAGO.—Fine large bright Pearl has fetched 20s per cwt. The lowest price of common small Pearl is 12s 6d. Sago Flour at 19s to 20s per cwt. THE LAW OF ARREST IN THE CITY. A curious circumstance exemplifying the benefit of the law of arrest in the City occurred a few days ago. A mercantile house in Jamaica having determined upon a speculation of shipping a large quantity of goods for the markets of Central America, engaged a German, who was proceeding to those parts on some business of his own, to undertake the management of the speculation. The German accordingly proceeded on his errand, and the house in Jamaica received from him several letters announcing sales from time to time made, until it appeared that nearly 5,0001. had been received, when the correspondence suddenly ceased, and the house could get no more answers to their letters. Under these circumstances, the firm naturally became alarmed, and set on foot inquiries concerning the German, when they learned that he had gone to New York, and subsequently that he had sailed for England. They forthwith dis patched one of their clerks to England by a steamer, which was fortunately on the point of start ing in search of the party. The clerk arrived in London late on the evening of the 11th instant, and on the following morning proceeded to the house of the correspondents of his employers. The corre spondents without delay accompanied him to their solicitors, an eminent firm in the City, and on their way to adopt means of frustrating the palpable object of the German, they were lucky enough to meet the identical person coming out of the offices of the Co lombian Mining Company. A messenger soon learned that the German had called at the offices of the Com pany in order to obtain an introduction to a bul lion broker, and that he had been referred to a well known City house of that description. At this critical time the parties ran off to the bullion broker's, who informed them that the German had left with them to be assayed, a very large quantity of bullion and gold dust, and was to call at two o'clock that after noon to receive the value. Application was then made to a judge for the arrest of this wholesale robber, to effect which a warrant was granted, and an officer was posted ready to meet him at the place where the treasure lay. As might be expected, the German was punctual to his appointment; and, on making his appearance, was shocked and astonished at being grabbed for the sum of 5,0001. On being arrested, he exclaimed " Hang dis England. Half an hour more, and it would have been all right." He could not, of course, procure bail, and the only alternative he had was to make a full acknowledgment, and to give up the keys of his luggage, which, upon being searched, was found to contain bills and other securities, amounting, together with the bullion and gold dust, to nearly the full sum for which he had been seized. The not least curious part of the story is, that the German arrived in London only a few hours before the arrival of the clerk of the Jamaica house, and that both put up at the same hotel, neither of them being aware of the locus in quo of the other. The business of the clerk, it will be observed, was completed in the most satis factory manner in two hours, and in less than two days from that of their arrival, they were both pas senger.s in the same vessel for Jamaica. state of trade or manufactures, by voluntary contri butions, made on the emerging of such periods, and the improved system of administration, with reference to the funds thus raised, which, under the teaching of experience, has been gradually going forward.. . . We strongly advise, therefore, that the Poor-law of Scotland, with reference to the important section of it which has been now under review, shall be continued unchanged." Having thus given our readers a brief outline of the report of the Commission, from which so much was expected, we shall conclude our notice for the present by inserting the protest against the report by Mr. Twisleton, but with the intention of returning to the subject when the document itself shall have been a short time in the hands of the public. The cool way in which the Commission and their favourite witnesses dispose of destitution will not readily be forgotten. They propose to offer work at a reduction of 25 per cent..; they tell the workman his wages must be re gulated by the demand—that the wants of himself or family must not be taken into consideration—and that when he cannot find work in one place, he must travel to another, and another, and another, but he is never to seek assistance. Such a remedy was surely easily discovered before the appointment of this Com mission, whose disposal of those in want to die, or continue suffering, sets all the calculations for improv ing the condition of the population as coolly aside as if the members had lived during the days that burn ing for witchcraft was in fashion, or though those whose wants they refuse to relieve were some inferior class of beings living in the moon, and not endowed with the same sympathies and the same wants as themselves. REASONS OF DISSENT FROM THE FOREGOING REPORT. I. Because the proposed alterations in the Scotch Poor-law are, lam afraid, insufficient to remedy the defects which are admitted to exist in their adminis tration. 11. Because, while it is admitted that the provision at present made for the relief of the aged and infirm poor is in many parishes of Scotland inadequate, the main reliance for the supply of this deficiency seems to be placed on a proposed board of supervision, or standing commission of inquiry, with ample powers of inspection, but with no administrative control or direct authority. But it appears to me, that the striking inade quacy of the allowances at present made to the aged and infirm poor in a large proportion of the unassessed rural parishes of Scotland, arises, not so much from ignorance of facts as from want of funds, which again is owing, in no small degree, to theories respecting the effect of any provision for the poor, even when it is restricted to the relief of the aged and the infirm. And any statements made annually in reports, tending to show that this class of poor are in a destitute con dition, will be met by the usual answer, that the only cure for such evils is in the moral and religious edu cation of the young; and that a provision for the poor creates much of the misery which it relieves, but does not relieve all the misery which it creates. 111. Because no proposal is made for requiring the managers of the poor in unassessed rural parishes to assess themselves for the destitute, aged, and infirm poor; using these terms in the most comprehensive sense, as including all those who are entitled to relief under the present law. It appears to me that the mischiefs which have been attributed to assessments for this class of poor have been remarkably exagge rated, even although they may not be altogether vi sionary. On the other hand, this mode of providing for the aged and the infirm is the most equitable which can be adopted ; its general tendency, as dis tinguished from its invariable result, is to insure an ampler supply of funds than can be raised by volun tary contributions ; and it reaches non-resident heri tors, and others who may give either nothing, or com paratively little, in aid of the church collections. IV. Because it is not proposed to render it com pulsory on the managers of the poor to provide mo dical attendance for paupers. The arrangements for medical relief, and the power of fixing the scale of remuneration to medical practitioners, are to be left exclusively to the local authorities, who may deem that they have a direct pecuniary interest in fixing the scale of remuneration as low as possible, or in throwing altogether upon medical practitioners, as is very frequently the case at present, the burden of at tending the sick poor gratuitously. V. Because it is not proposed to authorise, or to render it compulsory upon the managers of the poor in large towns to provide houses of refuge, or poor houses with wards for able-bodied persons. But establishments of this kind, which are, in fact, iden tical with English workhouses, appear to me essen tial to the proper management of the poor in large towns ; and without them I do not see how the beg ging, which prevails to such an extent in the chief towns of Scotland, can be suppressed, consistently with humanity, or in accordance with public feeling. VI. Because, while in reference to towns with a population above 5,000 inhabitants, the advantages of poorhouses for the reception of certain classes of poor, entitled to assistance under the present Scotch poor law, are clearly pointed out, as subsidiary to out door relief; yet the erection of such poor-houses is proposed to be left entirely to the discretion of the local authorities. But while I admit that the arrangement of various details may be safely vested in the managers of the poor in each parti cular town, it is my opinion that the principles of dealing with a subject so difficult as that ofadminister ing relief, should be settled by the more enlarged wisdom of Parliament. And a matter of such im portance as the erection of poor-houses ought not to depend either on the honest judgment, or possible caprice, partial knowledge, or narrow views, of acci dental majorities in particular localities. VII. Because no ,proposition is made for dealing with the case of large towns, when, during seasons that and largetowns become ltseemsdesirable, in employment, all Nhichhavea poor-house with wards for able-bodied men, the managers of the poor should have a dis cretionary power, with consent of a board of super vision, to assess the inhabitants, for the purpose of setting to work destitute unemployed persons, with out requiring them to enter such poor-house. The aid of a poor-house, with wards for able-bodied persons, materially facilitates the operations of those who, in periods of depression of trade, under take the duty of giving out-door relief to a certain number of that class. VII. Because no alteration is proposed in the Scotch law of rating, which is peculiarly anoma lous and defective. The usual mode of levying the rate on what is called " means and substance," is similar in its main features to the income-tax, but is unaccompanied by those safeguards with which the levying of the income-tax hi.s been surrounded by the wisdom of Parliament. Either, therefore, safe guards should be introduced, for the purpose of in suring secrecy and fairness, or the attempt to assess supposed means and substance should be abandoned, and the mode of levying poor -rates in Scotland should be assimilated with that which is in operation in all other parts of the United Kingdom. EDWARD TWISLETON. —Glasgow Evening Post. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 210, 1844. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. --- VESSELS SPOKEN WlTll.—Mediterranean, Liverpool to the coast of Africa, 3d inst., lat. 44, lon. 11, by the Lusitania, Gibbons, arrived off Brighton. Solway brig, 2d ult., on the Equator, in lon. 22 W.; Gentoo, Liverpool to Madras, 3d, on the Equator, in lon. 20 W., by the William Bailey, Tyack, arrived in the river. Gratitude, Africa to Falmouth, 10th ult., lat. 3 N., lon. 23 W. ; Emu, China to London, 16th, lat. 13 N., lon. 33 W. ; Eleanor, Sandwich Islands to London, 26th, lat. 33 N., lon. 33 W. ; Barbadian, Africa to Falmouth, 15th inst., lat. 42, lon. 17, by the James • Campbell, Pitcairn, arrived off Plymouth. Anne Wise, Cadiz to Felix, New York to Stockholm, 13th inst., let. 47, lon. 22 ; Circassian, Cuba to Swansea, 15th, lat. 49, lon. 19 ; Mary, ship,l6th, let. 49, 10n..18, by the Triton, arrived off Falmouth. Onderneiring, for Batavia, Jan. 23d, off Prince's Island ; Sultana, Breda River to London, 11th ult., lat 4 N., lon. 25 W.; schooner Candidate, 12th inst. lat. 47, lon. 12 ; barque Bee, of Liverpool, same day ; Hambro barque, showing D. P. over 3645, 16th inst., lat. 48, lon. 10 ; Legatus, of London, same day ; Sarah and Maria, from China, out 179 days, 23d, lat. 49, lon. 5, by the Harmony, arrived off Falmouth. Ironsides, Li verpool to Pernambuco, 21st inst., by the Jamaica, arrived off Plymouth. Chusan, New Orleans to Liverpool, 12th inst., lat 47, lon. 19; Chilian, Liverpool to Lima, 16th, lat. 47, lon. 10, by the Independence, arrived at Liverpool. Republican, firemen to Quebec, 14th inst., lat. 48, lon. i 5; Emelia, bound to Miraniichi, same day, lat. 49, lon. 15, ky the Regalia, arrived at Cork. Harriet, Jamaica to London, 9th inst., lat. 47, lon. 26; Retson, Savanilla to Liverpool, 10th, lat. 48, lon. 23; Oporto, London to Quebec, 11th, lat, 49, lon. 21; a barque, with white -bust head, twenty-lire leagues west of Scilly, with loss cf mainmast, &c., by the Mary Campbell, arrd. off Cerk. 1 Tan SAXON MosA.ucß —The King of Saxony, though only a third-rate Sovereign, will yet be received with the greatest t;istinction o ftlelty is the Sovereign to whom more eswially the Ho wie Saxe Coburg owes alle giance; they are all Dukes of Saxony; and the King will re cognise, in the infant i*Tinee of \lll one of his future nobles. All the male branches of the English7 a ' o Royal Family to the laws will now hold that rank in Saxony r o din t t llV i ontinent. which regulate the succession of nobility the igh coin- It was to this Sovereign that her Majesty paid pliment of sending a special mission to invest him order of the Garter; and though the Emperor of Russia witll not come, still the British Court will be called upon may dis play all its magnificence and hospitality as d 0 a sort of avan courrier to the illustrious personages who were, and, perhaps, are to visit us. We have the Crown Prince of Denmark, who, though not coming on a visit to the Court, will, doubt less, be invited there, His Royai Highness purposes making a tour through Scotland. The Danish Minister left town some clays ago,.. meet the Prinee.—Cheltenhom Looker-on. A HAT BY Poi'. —A straw hat was sent thrQugh the post last week for the iii r, ). H orton, of P:PstoD, paid by six postage stamps 1 THE POOR-LAW COMMISSION REPORT. The Poor-law Commissioners for Scotland have had their report presented to the House of Commons. Public attention has long been attracted to the issue of these appoi.ltments. The people at large, looked to obtaining a more uniform and equitable mode of assessing for the poor, and more ample provision for them. A considerable portion of the ratepaying minority, on the other hand (or those rather who should pay rates but do not), with the expectation of no change being permitted, have waited with equal anxiety that they may continue as they are doing, to absorb for their own use that portion of the national property which in reality belongs to the poor, and which is the first claim that should be paid from all property whatever. The object of the Government, by institut ing this inquiry, undoubtedly was to meet the demands of those desiring a change, but from the report before us, there is no prospect that any change will be effected, at least on authority of the Commission. By selecting Scotchmen exclu sively, by constituting two-thirds of the Commission from landed proprietors, who most likely pay no poor-rates at present, and the other third from clergy men, who had taken an active part in the management of the system as it exists, a Commission was selected of men unanimously wedded to the continuance of the abuses that have been complained of, and who, in their report, shut their eyes to all the suffering and its causes that had been presented to them, and conclude by recommending a continuation of the present prac tice in all its deformity ; or at least such slight changes thereon as would not be worth, to the poor, the paper that an Act with the alterations would cost. _ At the time the Commission was appointed, we ex pressed our approbation of Mr. Twisleton having been made a member of it. We had every reason to believe that Mr. Twisleton would do his duty faith fully and effectively, taking an enlightened and hu mane view of the case. In these expectations we are glad to say we have not been disappointed. Mr. Twisleton, though a public servant, and standing alone, has had the firmness to dissent from the report in all its conclusions, and to publish along with it his reasons for so doing. The first part of the report is taken up with a pretty lengthened statement of the general working of the Scotch system of relieving the poor • and the first conclusion come to is, "That the funds raised for the relief of the poor, and the provision made for them out of the funds raised for their relief, are in many parishes throughout Scotland, insufficient." The next conclusion, after the introduction of some pages of evidence and reasoning on the subject, is " That it is not desirable that there should be any appeal from the decision of the parochial managers as to the amount of allowances:' Having thus summarily decided that there should be no appeal from the parochial managers, the Com mission next consider whether they may not also, as at present, continue to assess themselves or not for the poor as they :have a mind. On this subject the Commission state that, — "Not only has no case been made out for so great a change upon the system now in operation, accord ing to which it is left to the parochial authorities to provide the requisite amount of funds for the poor, either by an assessment or otherwise, as they may deem most expedient ; but the voluntary method of providing these funds, to which a preference is still given by a large portion of the intelligence of the country, has appeared to us, in a great variety of in stances, to work in a satisfactory manner, and to be productive of beneficial effects. In these circum stances, to introduce a measure necessarily subversive of it, would certainly be inexpedient." Having thus decided that there shall be nothing but voluntary assessment, and that there shall be no appeal from the parochial authorities, the Commission next recommend "that a board of supervision, all the members of which should be unpaid, shall be established for a limited period, to which board re ports shall be made, at least twice in the year, from the plrochial boards, stating specially' the numbers and condition of the poor in each parish, and the amount of relief, in such form as shall be prescribed by the board of supervision ; that complaints may be made to such board, and that such board shall have the fullest power of inquiry and remonstrance. That the board of supervision shall make a report annually to the Secretary of State on the condition and manage ment of the poor throughout Scotland." The Commission next recommended " that the heritors and kirk-session, or other managers of the poor in each parish, shall be bound to appoint a sala riei clerk, or other officer, who shall be required to mike the reports to, and conduct the corespondence with, the general board of supervision, and that the remuneration which such officer shall receive shall be fixed by the parochial board of management." In the rural parishes, it is recommended " that those persons only are to be considered heritors, and held entitled to vote as such, who have a valued rent to the amount of 51. Scots, or upwards." " Subject to the limitation which we have above suggested, (the Commission says) we would further propose, that in rural parishes in which an assessment is raised, the body to be entrusted with the power of imposing such assessments and administering the funds, shall consist, in addition to the heritors and kirk-session, of a certain number of persons, to be chosen by the rate-payers not being heritors as above defined." For the town parishes the Commissioners say— " We are of opinion that it is desirable that all parishes, which, either in whole or in part, are situate within the parliamentary boundaries of any burgh, should be united and held to be one parish, for the purposes of providing for the poor, and of settlement. " We would farther recommend that the managers of the poor in such united parishes, should consist wholly or chiefly of managers, to be elected by the rate-payers, and also of the provost or chief magis trate, ex qfficio. The number of votes which each rate-payer shall have, being regulated by the amount of the property on which he is assessed." The report then goes on to recommend that two or more parishes may unite to build poor houses. That medical relief should be supplied more exten sively than at prZsent. That where there are no poor houses there should be dispensaries established, and after detailing a number of cases given in evidence regarding the inadequate treatment of poor lunatics, the report recommends that lunatics should be sent by their parishes to lunatic asylums. Parish autho rities are recommended to relieve all cases found des titute in their parishes, the expense to be recoverable from the parish of the pauper. A relieving officer is recommended for every parish, and the same facility for removing English and Irish paupers from Scot land, as exists fir removing foreign paupers from England. Further, that "in each parish the board of managers should be required to defray from the funds provided for the relief of the poor, the expenses of educating pauper children." In addition to the remedies in existence, it is re commended that " husbands or fathers neglecting to maintain their or families, be punishable crimi nally by a sum nary process, in the event of the wives or families becoming chargeable on the parish. And that, in like manner, fathers of illegitimate children, where such fathers admit their liability, or have been found liable by decree of a competent court, shall be punishable criminally by a summary process, if they neglect to pay the aliment, and the child become chargeable." It is next recommended that the period for obtain ing a parish ~, t tlement should be extended from three to seven year& After some other unimportant recommendations regarding settlement, the report proceeds at great length to consider the important question for which the Commission was appointed, viz., the relieving of able bodied persons when thrown destitute for want of employment. Against the granting of relief the authority of a great number of witnesses is quoted, but none of the witnesses favourable to relief are no ticed in the report. The situation of the unemployed at Paisley and Dunfermline during the late distress is also examined at length. Against the granting of relief to the able bodied when unemployed, some Highland innkeeper, an underling to the Duke of Richmond or some of the Highland lairds, we suppose, is quoted, and nex t th e Duke of Richmond himself, Sheriff Campbell, of Pais ley, the Rev. Mr. Chalmers, of Dunfermline (who last year made himself famous by his hasty desertion of the Free Church), and lastly, Mr. Hunt, of Pit tencrieff, Dunfermline, a manufacturer who, by his business, has raised himself to possession of a man sion-house and country estate—Mr. Hunt's evidence will give an idea by what means—and as it is about the longest quotation in the report against relieving the destitution of the unemployed, we insert it as it appears. Mr. Hunt— " A manufacturer anti dealer" his evidence bears, "in t; - ,e coarse description of goods above mentioned, offered a few days ago to employ from 500 to 600 workmen, now idle, at a reduction of 25 per cent. on their wages. A committee of these workmen waited upon witness yesterday to ask him to subscribe for the relief of their distress, and to consult him as to the propriety of accepting the offer of work at re duced wages. Witness told them that he would sub scribe for the relief of their immediate wants, but that it was necessary that they should employ any money which they received from subscriptions in sending their young men to find work in other places, Ili it was obvious that there were more people in Dunfermline than could find employment in it, unless they chose to work at the reduced rate of wages ; that with regard to the question of wages, it was quite plain that the rate must always be regulated by the proportion which the demand for labour bore to the number of persons wanting employment, that is by the supply and demand." The Commission conclude this part of the subject as follows:—"In fine, having in view the not inade quate relief hitherto afforded in periods of a depressed A GEN TLEMANLY SWINDLER. About two months ago, a person of gent ee l exte rior, nearly six feet high, and about fifty years of age, arrived at an hotel in this city from Monmouth shire, in a fly. On his arrival he alighted and walked into the hotel, and requested the landlord to pay the hire of the fly, and the usual fees to the driver ; this was, unsuspectingly, complied with, and the gentle man took -up his platters with mine host, staying there nearly a fortnight. In the meantime he conversed with the landlord about taking a house in the neighbourhood, suitable to his apparent condition in life; at length he resolved upon engaging lodgings in the city, on the plea of economy, u ntil the difficulty of obtaining a house pleasing to the taste of a lady-like woman who was with him, and whom he represented as his wife, about 40 years of age, with Scotch accent, together with a little boy, between seven and eight years, could be accomplished. Subsequently to taking these lodgings he took a house at Portson, and commenced gardening operations, preparatory, as he represented, to going there to reside. During his stay in Hereford he rode out every day, and con ducted himself in all respects as a man of fortune. His real character, however, having arrived, several of the tradesman whom he had " patronised," pressed him for the money, and an early day was fixed for payment. The day previous to that fixed, he hired a gig and ordered it to be sent a little way out of town at an appointed hoar, under pre tence of going a short distance for a ride. In order to get away his luggage, a carpet bag (pre ' viously obtained on trust of a tradesman in the city), the lodging-house keeper's attention was diverted to something at the back of the house, whilst the bag was given to a person waiting outside to convey it to the g ig. Off they started to Bromyard, and on their arrival he got a man to take the gig back to Hereford, telling him the person of whom he had hired it would pay him for his trouble. The unsuspecting man paid the gates on his return, and when he arrived at Hereford, found the owner of the gig, not hav ing been paid himself, of course would not pay the poor man, and he had to walk back minus his dis bursements for the tolls. From Brornyard he went to Worcester, and from Worcester t o Birmingham or London. He victimised the Hereford people t' the extent of about 1001., having paid for one month's lodging only.—Abridged from the Hereford Times. THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, FOR 1844. We understand that a leading article, on the present year's Exhibition of the Royal Academy, by one of the most distinguished critics of the day, will appear in the Juno Number of ColGurn's New. Monthly Magazine, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HO USE. William Clough, master of the brig Bolden, of Shields, was summoned to answer the complaint of John Whit ing, for having unlawfully detained him a month longer than necessary for the discharge of the cargo of that brig in the port of London. The question which came on a few days ago, before Sir Peter Laurin, as to un reasonable delay, excited a great deal of interest, particularly as the Lord Mayor had expressed much in dignation at the unpardonable treatment of the poor families of the crews of the colliers, resulting from the prodigiously long detention of the vessels in the port of London. _ _ _ Alderman Humphery was at the time sitting with the Lord Mayor, in consequence of some serious cases of smuggling for adjudication, on which the presence of two magistrates was necessary. The complainant stated that he had signed articles of agreement to work the vessel from Hartlepool to Lon don and back, at 41. the voyage ; but he had no notion when he signed that he would be detained beyond the three market days allowed by the Act of Parliament ; but twenty market days had elapsed since the arrival of the brig, and no money had been distributed amongst the crew, and therefore their wives and children were in a state of des'itution, and, in some instances, they must be obliged to appeal to the cold humanity of the unions. The LORD MAYOR—On what day did the vessel arrive in the port of London ? Complainant—Upon the 13th of April. The LORD MAYOR—Why, Captain Clough, has not the cargo been sold ? The defendant said it had been sold on Friday. It was not, he believed, in his power to oblige the factor, to whom it was consigned, to sell. The inconvenience experienced by the delay of vessels pressed heavily upon the captain, as well as upon the men, but blame did not attach to the former any more than to the latter. The complainant (backed by several other men in similar circumstances) said it happened that the captains took good care of themselves, for they had a claim of so much per ton upon the owners for any delay which took place beyond the three first market days, while the men were compelled to wait until the factors chose to sell the coals, without receiving the smallest remuneration. The LORD MAYOR—As I read the Act of Parliament, the men must not be detained beyond a reasonable time. Now seven weeks I consider to be must unreasonable. If the poor men who are complaining of this oppressivo course supposed that such detention were contemplated, they would not have engaged to work the vessel. They were morally, and in my opinion legally, entitled to extra pay for this delay, which interferes so lamentably with their ability to support their families. The captains, by holding over the cargoes, enhance the price of coal to the public, and according to the arguments used by the defendant they may delay in the port of London for six months, and aggravate beyond endurance the suffering of the crew with impunity. The conduct of the de fendant in this case, and the agreement drawn up by him, are not in accordance with the spirit of the Act of Parliament. Alderman HUMPHERY—The public are sufferers by such conduct to the amount of seven or eight shillings per ton more than they ought to be charged, a matter which it would be strange to overlook when such a noise is made about the duty of fourpence a ton upon the article. My advice to the defendant is that he pay his crew for a voyage and a-half at any rate. The complainant said he would be satisfied with that arrangement. Since the vessel had come into port another vessel had made two voyages. Here one of the crew said that a vessel from Hartlepool had been ordered not to be cleared of its cargo until the coals should be sold at twenty-five shillings per ton, and that vessel had been in the port of London upwards of six weeks, and might, under such circumstances, be de layed a good deal longer. The LORD MAYOR then asked the defendant whether he was prepared to agree to the proposition to pay the man for a voyage and a half. If not, the law should certainly be put in force against him. The men were entitled by Act of Parliament to all reasonable informa tion, as to the duration of the ship's delay. The object appeared to be to exclude the public and the crews of those -vessels from the advantages of the voyages ; and the offence was the greater, as the Thames was crowded beyond all example with shipping. Alderman HUMPHERY—By holding back these cargoes, the additional pbnalty inflicted upon the public is to the extent of 40,0001. a-year. The LORD MAYOR—I shall require an answer from the defendant on Wednesday, as to his intentions with respect to remuneration to these poor men, whose fami lies must now be undergoing severe privations. The complainant and the crews of the several vessels most gratefully acknowledged the benevolent inter ference of the Lord Mayor, who evidently considered that the owner, the factor, and the captain, were all actively concerned in himlering the sale of coats, for the purpose of enhancing their price, and thus abridging the comforts of those who were daily undergoing some pri vation or other. Johan Eivart, the mate of the ship Alexander, from Rostock, was charged with having been on board that vessel, with the knowledge that she had stowed away amongst her cargo a large quantity of tobacco, made up into parcels, each of which weighed one pound. Two of the crew had been committed, a few days before, upon a similar charge. The mate was not brought up with the convicted defendants, because of the inconvenience likely to arise from capturing an officer so prominently engaged in the vessel. Captain Schroeder, the commander of the vessel, stated that he knew nothing whatever of the tobacco. In the course of the investigation it was stated by Mr. Davis, one of the Revenue officers, that two-thirds Of the tobacco used in the metropolis were smuggled, and that the tobacco on board the Alexander was found amongst a quantity of rags, is which there happened to be extreme heat, and which would, if the detection had not been made, in all probability have ignited and consumed the ship. The LORD MAYOR suggested the propriety of, in all cases, making the captain responsible. If instead of the infliction of a penalty, the captain was sent to prison for a few months, smuggling would not flourish as was now the case. Captain Schroeder said the mate had gone three voyages with his vessel, and he had reason to be well satisfied with him and never suspected him, and could not at that moment suppose him capable of winking at such a shabby exhibition. It was stated that some of the steam vessels had been fined forty times for conveying smuggled goods, and that 20,000 pounds weight of tobacco had been lately cleared out of the Custom-house in Dutch cheeses. The LORD MAYOR and Alderman HUMPHERY then declared the defendant to be guilty, mad fined him 100/. Mr. Cutler, ono of the officers of the Watermen's Company, applied to the Lord Mayor for a summons board John a rd his boat Williamson, the ehi l t d h r e h e nfawt who or wereof th e l b s t o y w int h h o e T t o h o a k o m es n . The LORD MAYOR said he was glad to find that the Company was about to adopt a proper course. Mr. Cutler said his object was to have the father made answerable for having allowed his son to work his skiff on the 19th instant, on account of which three children were drowned, without having taken out a license from the Waterman's Company. He also applied for a sum mons for George Scott, who was his apprentice, calling upon him to answer for having taken eight passengers on board his skiff, the skiff being licensed to carry no more than six passengers. The LORD MAYOR said that, by a little vigilance, the serious evil of crowding boats would be effectually re- medied. Mr. Cutler observed that on Sunday last the Thames was so crowded with vessels that the navigation was in a great measure blocked up, and the steamers, with great difficulty made any progress at all. His LORDSHIP issued the summonses in both cases, and appointed that the defendants should be directed to attend on Friday next. Captain Rowland, the Harbour Master, waited upon the Lord Mayor, as Conservator of the River Thames, and reported to his Lordship, that in the month of April, as he was employed in raising a wreck about a mile and a. helf below Tilbury, he observed, on the 25th of that month, a ship with a signal of distress flying, towed down by a steamer; and believing that something was amiss, he manned his boat, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the John Woodall ; that he ascertained that the master was absent, and that the ship was on fire, and, after, due examination, directed that she should be scuttled as the only means of extinguishing the fire. That after the vessel had been sunk in shal low water, near the bank, he succeeded in raising her by means of two steam-tugs ; and that if such course had not been followed the vessel would have been de stroyed. Captain Rowland stated to his Lordship that the navigation was thus cleared of what, if at once blown up would, in all probability, have beeis, a very dangerous impediment. The LORD MAYOR expressed his gratification at the skill and success of Captain Rowland's experiment, and said he infinitely preferred the plan of raising wrecks to that of blowing them, as the latter mode was not only calculated to obstruct the navigation, but to do much mischief to the nets of the fishermen, who supported their families by the use of their nets. CLERKENIVELL. Putrid Carroll was charged with the following savage assault upon Thomas Prince, a coach-maker, residing in Turnmill-street The prosecutor appeared in Court with his head bound up ; he seemed to be faint from loss of blood, and declared he was suffering great pain. It appeared frem the evidence that, on the previous night, the m the wound. pro secutor and his f a th er , b e i ng per f ec tly so b er , were passing th roug h Cl ar k e ' s -b u ildi ngs, G ray ' s I nn - roa d , when they saw th e 7p r i soner b eat i ng a woman , w h o was screaming violently. Th e p rosecu t or , ac t ua t e d b y motives of humanity, i n t er f e red, and begged of- th e prisoner to desist ; b u t th e p r i soner i mme di a t e ly k noc k e d him down. He th en ran i n t o hi s house, whi c h was h ar d armed by, and with rushed iron b out,ars. Before i t co m company prosecutor with recovered man, from the f ormer bl ow , th e p r i soner , ra i s i ng t h e b ar, inflicted a deep and extensive wound on his h ea d. Th e bl ow ca himd b n Connor, having been senseless, and he bled disarmed of ;1 prof u s 1 Y; tro bar, seized a broom-stick, with which he struck the prostrate and insensible man on the arms and sides, until he was bruised all over, and his left arm pi:merle:4. Police constable 144 G came up some time after, and, with much difficulty, secured the prisoner. The prosecutor was removed to St, Bartholomew's Hospital, where the wound, which is an inch and a half long, was dressed. , Mr. BROUGHTON remanded the prisoner until the re- sult of the injuries the prosecutor received should be as certained, as in the event of erysipelas occurring, the wound in the head might prove fatal. Thomas Bresnahan was charged with stealing a large quantity of lead, the property of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. In trder to complete the now line of communication between Oxford-street and Holborn, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have purchased several houses in George's-street, Bloomsbury. Qn the roof of one of f these houses the prisoner was seen ripping off the lead between 9 and 10 on the previous night.' The police hastened to the place—one of them, 140 E, got upon the roof, whilst the others were posted in the street below. As soon as the prisoner saw the constable on the roof, he immediately " gave chase;" the constable followed; at length the prisoner dipped into the roof, the con stable popped in after him ; the prisoner ran along the space between the roof and the ceiling, followed closely by his pursuer. At length the consta ble was alarmed by a crash, and on advancing a little perceived that the ceiling having given way, Bresnahan had partly fallen through, and having been caught be tween the joists in falling, remained, like Mahomet's coffin, suspended in space. The painful position of the prisoner was much aggravated by the endeavours of his friends in the room below to pull him down, whilst the constable strove to keep him where he was. At length the police came up stairs, and the prisoner was secured. About a hundred-weight of lead was found piled on the roof, which had been recently cut from the gutter. The prisoner was remanded. William Hogg was charged with the following mis chievous conduct. The prisoner was standing by the window of Mr. Foxwell, a linen draper, residing at 26, Judd-street, at three o'clock on the previous day. The shopman de sired him to leave, but he struck him on the face, and then thrust his hand through a large pane of plate glass value 21. 55., and damaged artificial flowers and ribbons on the inside to the value of 3/. more. In default of paying the amount of damage done, the prisoner was committed to the House of Correction for two months. MARYLEBONE. A girl named Reynolds, alias Ellen Fitzpatrick, was placed before Mr. Rawlinson on the following charge: — Francis Cole Himbert, of the Hyde Park Hotel, said that the prisoner had entered his service about six weeks ago, representing that she was Ellen Fitzpatrick. She referred him to Mrs. Dymond, of 22, Frith-street, Soho square, for a character. He went there, and that lady told him that she had had a girl named Ellen Fitzpa trick, and could ♦ouch for her honesty and sobriety. Ho upon these representations, and believing the prisoner to be the Ellen Fitzpatrick to whom Mrs. Dymond re ferred, took her into his service. He had reason to be lieve that the prisoner, from the time she had entered his house, had committed robberies upon the different ladies upon whom she waited. Unfortunately, however, he was not in a condition to prove either of those, but he had written to some of the aggrieved parties, and they had given instructions to their solicitors. What those instructions were he was not prepared to say. He wished therefore, merely to go into the question of the false character, and he would, therefore, call Dr. Dymond to prove that the prisoner had never been in his service. Dr. Dymond, 22, Frith-street, said that the prisoner was known to the real Ellen Fitzpatrick, but that her name was Reynolds, and she had never been a domestic in his house. The prisoner made a rambling defence, after which the worthy Magistrate said that she had not even the excuse of a girl who, getting into work by means of a false character, was determined to make a good one by honesty, diligence, and sobriety. She, on the contrary, had from the house that she had been admitted to, Mr. Ilimbert's, pillaged all who came near her, and he, there fore, felt it his duty to inflict the highest penalty the Act would allow, which was to pay 201., with 10s. costs, or go for three months' to the House of Correction. Mr. Himbert said that there were wages due to her to the amount of 14 11s. 6d., and her box of clothes yet remained in his house. The prisoner directed that her sister, who was in Court, should receive them. WORSHIP-STREET. Monday a man named Thomas Patterson, and Eliza beth Patterson, his wife, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, on the following charge of robbery and attempted murder, upon a young man named George Allen, a linen-glazer, residing in Monkwell-street, Fore street, Cripplegato. The prosecutor, whose face was a mass of cuts and contusions, and in other parts of his person bore mani fest evidences of severe ill-treatment, stated that as he was passing through Aldersgate-street, at eleven o'clock on the night of Sunday, the 19th inst., he was accosted by a young woman, with whom he ultimately went to numerous houses, and lastly to a very wretched one, where he was attacked, robbed, and then wounded. The whole proceedings were of the lowest and fiercest cha racter. At last the prosecutor made a violent struggle, and succeeded in breaking away and running into Ar thur-street, where he met a policeman, and while telling him of the ferocious attack that had been made upon him, the two prisoners passed the end of the street, and were immediately pointed out by the prosecutor as two of the persons implicated. Henry Turpin, an officer, who searched the prisoners' house, deposed to finding the outer case of the watch and the prosecutor's money-bag there, and to the floor of the room being in several places dyed with coagulated blood.—Both prisoners were fully committed to New gate for trial. Brown and Smith (officers) stated in the course of the examination that the female prisoner had belonged to a desperate gang, which had been routed out by the parish authorities from Granby-street, Waterloo-road, where they had located themselves, and afterwards distributed themselves in other parts of the metropolis. The male prisoner was stated to be very respectably connected, but had been discarded by his relatives in consequence of his marriage with the other prisoner. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. EDINBURGH, SATURDAY, MAY 25. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN ENGLAND. Mr. CUMMING, of London, said that since last year a most important change had taken place in the de signation of the Presbyterian Synod in England. They had agreed to exchange that portion of their title "in connexion with the Church of Scotland," and immediately agreed to receive a deputation from a body who were known by the title of the "Free Church." This had taken place immediately after the late secession, and the result was that the Synod, which was recognised as in communion with the Church of Scotland, had ceased to exist in any way whatever. It had been said, that the declaration in favour of the Free Church had been come to unani mously, but the true cause of unanimity was because many of the ministers of the Church of Scotland in Eng land were so dissatisfied with the statements made in the Synod, that they studiously, and by concert, absented themselves from its meeting. It was not, therefore, right to suppose that all the ministers who had been in connexion with the Church of Scotland had alien ated from that connexion, or lost their affection for it. On the contrary, some of the best and ablest minis ters in England not only maintained the connexion unimpaired, but had become more attached to the Church than they had been before.—(Hear, hear.) Ile rejoiced that that attachment had become stronger, and that he had it in his power to say, that many who had separated in consequence of the ex citement, were now rapidly returning within its pale. There was one church within the Presbytery of Lon don which could not contain the number that had returned, and who were sick to the heart of the at tempts made against it.—(Hear, hear.) All that he wished to ask of the Assembly was, that the tie which knit the ministers in England to the Esta blishment should be as broad and palpable to the eyes of the public as it could with consistency be made. The reasons for this were extremely cogent, for state ments were circulated in England to the effect that the churches there were disowned—that the Church of Scotland had nothing to do with them. All that was necessary, then, was simply that they should be recognised—that the Assembly saw in them a useful outpost of the National Church.—(Hear, hear). He could make statements to the house which would prove that some ministers in England had rendered no unimportant services to the interests of the Church. It was reported throughout London, that all religion had evaporated from the Established Church of Scot land—that scarcely an evangelical minister was to be found within its pale--and that tbosexho remained were absolutely Socinian in their principles. When ap plication was made to the Presbytery of L ondon for in for -mation on the state of the Church, they gave a true statement of the facts of the case. The Presbytery in London had divided itself into two parties —one half of whom, whose trustees were less specific as to their connection with the Church of Scotland, re mained attached to it, while the other parties, whose trust-deeds stated distinctly that they should be in connection with the Established Church, had alien ated itself from it. He believed that, as, soon as those had light to see their duty, there would be seven or eight, instead of only three churches in con nection with the Church. In Liverpool there were two churches-,rone retained its connection with the Establishment, and he believed the other would very soon be the same.--(Hear, hear.) Several ministers in England were anxious that something should be done to rally the scattered forces throughout that country, and he had received letters showing how desirous they were that the Assembly should adopt some measure which would mark the line of demarcation of such as were ministers of the Church of Scotland. Many in England were anxious to combine the status of being connected with the Church 'of Scotland, while they courted all the popularity of the secession —they having never f orma l ly renounced their con nection with the Establishment. He would suggest that in these circumstances the Assembly woe!,,,' b e pleased to request the scattered minis t .ers of the Church in England to form t h .mselves into presby teries, and th a t those T E ',7esbyteries should form them is.elves, into it synod—composed exclusi ve ly o f th e licentiates of the Church, and allow the synod to send a deputation to the Assembly ; or perhaps it would be still more advantageous that a small committee of the Assembly were appointed to confer with the ministers in England as to the way in which their relation to the Church of Scotland should be recog nised.—(Hear, hear.) The connexion with England was of great importance to the Church, for many persons came to the metropolis to spend a few years —perhaps but a few weeks ; and if there was no Church connected with the Establishment, they would go either to the Episcopalian Church, and thus be in danger of forsaking the Church of their fathers, or they would join those who were hostile to it, and then return home to exert themselves to its ; prejudice. But if the Church kept up its connexion in London, there would be every prospect of ; those who - visited that city being sent home better Christians and better men. 'JChe connexion with English churches was also valuable and use ful in regard to the schemes of the Church. The Epish copalian Churches entertained much sympat h y wt the Church of Scotland, there being a general con viction that its position was the right and true one; and that it ought to have their sympathy and co-uPe". ration.—(Hear.) He had conversed with several ot the most celebrated ministers of the Episcopalian Church on the subject—a minister who had sent ten guineas to the five schemes which he (Mr. C.) be ge lieved he would annually co ntribute.—(Hear.) repeated his earnest request that the Assembly shou ? give some distinct expression, indicating the tie whien subsisted between it and the Churches in England. word Dr. BROWN, of:Greenock,. said, that in every which had been so well expressed by his Rev. Friel he most cordially concurred. He would simplY ad that there was a very crying reason why a committ ee should be appointed a 3 requested by Mr. Cumming' I and that was that from representations made to hire refrom Liverpool and London, it was absolutely Dee sary that some deliverance should be given h i, t ; Assembly, in order that those places of worship wi'L e but formerly were in connection with the Church, , which now had separated from it, should be re claimed by judicial procedure—that, in short a plea ioreq uiti might be entered. Dr. Coot( said it was certainly of great impertall to the Church to be on a most intimate footi n g H e t i the Presbyterians in England attached to it. knew there were many zealously attached, and will by the communications they had sent, showed !1:1 anxious desire to know in what relation they reallf stood to the Establishment of getting its suPr rt ": that they might manage their churches, and earl 1$ the different offices in a manner consistent with 1 views. The church at Liverpool had given a strilliti evidenoe of its attachment to the Establishment, expressing its great anxiety for guidance in this resPe.c . After a few observations from Dr. Muir an d Y rl/1 cipal Macfarlan, Mr. PRINGLE, M.P., expressed his cordial satisfse: tion at the readiness with which the Assembly ore to accede to the request of Mr. Cumming, an d ee d. Committee was appointed ; and after some Pru e A A . ing3 of no interest in the evening sederunt, the 4" sembly adjourned till Monday. FREE CHURCH—SATURDAY. Mr. BRIDGES brought up the subject of the i provement of the church psalmody, gad enforced it , , necessity of taking up the matter with more bell:cell energy than it had been in time past. lie r- 4 .,, ti 0 r the great attention paid to this part of Christia n " 00 . ship in the early part of the Church's history, in.„ c h it trast with the comparative indifference with Yo l " fie was generally regarded in modern co ngregation s. es , hoped the subject would be taken u p by the Eau thst tional Committee of the Church, for it was th ere it or should be seriously considered that the rnu 3 ic si lr' lifications of their schoolmasters might be more n et rally enforced. He proposed a sub-committeelo! tio the Educational Committee to take the subje ct SI consideration.o O4 Mr. MACFARLANE, of Renfrew, said, that L. bop had music of a simpler kind as a sort of leo".4 0 n„. to for their congregations, and c o uld interest &a s " is take an united interest in their improve: o % l %o psalmody, he had no doubt that much god result.—lt was agreed to appoint a committee' OVERTURE ON UNIVERSITY TESTS. to Mr. Sheriff SPEIRS said, it was use l e ss for bi m ;;;IWIt go minutely into the hi s t or y o f th ese tests, "" subject had been so amply discussed elsewhere',ooo was well known that until lately they hA d ,,,,J; virtually abolished in all the Universities of Sc'' rt hs and that their revival at the present time was n° t ,S t heit purpose of embarrassing those persons who would sat have been particularly obnoxious to the Senot ti l o ko• to deny the honour to those who, for conscience 01 had become members of the Free Church of S eo gtieei —(Applause.) All the professors in the Uni v 1 3 , of who had become adhere n t s t o th e F re e Cm"; te sts Scotland, had at one time subscribed these very ogbt which were now so mu c h s p o k en o f ; an d theY, ° O , to to be considered, in all f a i rness , as ye t ad:ierifj)° them in spirit and in s u b s t ance —(Apr)latl el t oat great clamour had been raised about the 50170 1 of doors; and th e y k new th e result d the aPr ac t fe r to the House of Commons. The atter% to their abolition, in the form of an a pplican c hs Parliament, had fail e d ; b u t i t h ad f a il e d in , s orge way as to leave no d ou bt th at t h e coun try s' t ie a would soon set this ma tt er to r i g h ts , a nd tba tesiO short time they would cease to suffer from thol e a l l techwhh bore so heavy upon those professors " g ott• n appen to be members of a Church P>°'''t ment.—(Applause.) The Assembly, at ';:ne Intit time, was unable to do anything in t „. l - ie m atter:o he trusted that by th e nex t Asser. - 2: 0 1,- they w ° ,,i subject. gh t better prepared to act up on the. b The,' "AO remit the overture to a c(mamittee, with instruotelt upon the subject gr:.nerally and directions t ° o f lb' specially over the interests of the mernbe. si nrs ities: Free Church, Who were pr o f essors i n the U.nri—gtbir Dr. CANDLISH said he entertained no alafu l : tb e i. ever for the r esu lt o f th e present agitation. Si,nbarc' disruption from th e E s t a bli s h ment, the F re e ‘-' l . t ype' had been th e means o f extending the caus e :oos: religion gen era ll y , an d stirring up a spirit tian brotherhood in many evangelical d e nornino.4 l and might it no t reasona bl y expect, that by they 'tse ing for war d th e quest i on of univers i ty t es ts, .. t i o st accession would b e ma d e to t h e cause of e (l nttst both moral and religious'.? Even should t:ne 4 1j * swell out into popular excitement --- shoo good' Maule's excellent proposal not be carried soe t-- Aaa t ° ll great go o d, h e h a d no d ou b t, would be a tteu. the result. cota' The subject was, a ccor di ng l y, rem itted to $ mittee. TO P. f) DEPUTATION TO TH E UNITED ASSOCIA TE 5 Of o Dr. CA NDLISH sa id t h at, in the absence .014'. 'Welsh, he h a d mere l y to report verbally , a s nalove• of that deputation, that, notwith s tanding ti' e aii elf4 ante to be m a d e for the difference between tint wee t 0 and the body which they visited, upon the Church Establishments, they with had been rece;v the and cordially, an d were deeply i m pressed 7, 0 friendship s h own them. There could be coot render of our p r i nc i p l es i n thus +he tVi° ing that f r i en dl y i ntercourse between fro g . : bodies, The Free Church had got tee; them ; and they, in their own peculiar circa — goo 0. might derive much benefit from their conne' rea dt . ;: it. He trusted that they would always be , christs4 welcome every denomination of evangeliet the W I , —that they might draw tighter and tight e . of Christian unity—so that our branch of byterian Church might be found to be 8131113 one soul and one spirit. fiea t° Mr. HENDERSON, of Glasgow, also t osti w ith, brotherly reception the deputation had Inetif;Dast to The Assembly then adjourned until ha" o'clock on Monday. LONDON AND B IRMINGHAM R IIL IVA— y jnsinf. a gratified to find that thi s company are in t„ - ~von second class carriages —an improvement loTh ip pro. The third class carriages are also undergoig went, being now covered over, although Vt.:tol—tic but so long as the journey occupies eight h eurs ,,f the ,be Birmingham and London, there is little f+ter creased accommodation inducin an y . t . ; - poorest from resorting to these slow conveyance;ji are indeed sufficiently uncomfortable for the n flies is especially in wet and wintry weather. li ham Journal of ye el CHANGES IN THE SERVICE.—The Iric il i v r nc ese , ; 1 4 , has been presented to the Chancellor of the u""d e ns „/ through him to the Bishop, by the chitreh ylar -ntre" . 4 - the principal part of the lay members, for the l op ret o p; Lion of certain changes into the service ; ett ell l i e h • ing in his surplice, reading the prayer foil 006 'deb militant, eausing public collections on ss i ,„ ll rAi 1 - 60 ; days from the congregation, dismissing t he Ael o %* days, without a benediction, and for certain alleged to be very offensive in reference to d regohr,L6,,Pliv' and more especially i n th e b ur i a l of the • Free Press. ,I• 6 ' BIRTHS. 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