The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

Provost and Magistrates," by Mr. John Richardson, W.S.—and " The City Members," by Mr. Macfarlan. The company broke up shortly after eight o'clock. THE BANQUET. The banquet in the evening took place in the large Waterloo-room, which was by eight o'clock com pletely filled. Mr. Hume did not arrive till after the proceedings were begun, having been detained at the dinner. Mr. Dunlop, of Brockloch, was, on the motion of 19r. Purdie, called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN referred to the proceedings of the day, and congratulated the meeting, that in this city of palaces and monuments, they had now laid the foundation of one monument, on whose pedestal would be inscribed the motto of liberty, to mark the progress which the principles of freedom were acquiring as time went on. The act of justice which had been that day done to the memory of these early reformers showed unequivocally the determination of the present race of re formers not to allow the expression of their politi cal opinions to be put down by legal flaws and forms, and to maintain and enforce with boldness the principles held by the martyrs of the last century. — (Cheers.) The Chairman went over some of the more marked and expressive sentiments and prophetic enunciations of the political martyrs—sentiments 'which, so far from being the evidence of a criminal disobedience to the law, were now believed in almost universally by the people of this country. Posterity, in fact, had given its verdict in favour of these princi ples, and, they would maintain and defend these prin ciples even if another Braxfield should arise; although le felt assured that Scotland would never again be subject to the dictation of such a character.—(Cheers.) The Rev. W. Mansn,ua, proposed the art senti frnent—" The people, the' sole element of national greatness, and the only legitimate source of political power." The CHAIRMAN then introduced Mr. Hume, as the long-tried and persevering champion of economy and popular rights. Mr. Hu &a was received with loud and continued expressions of applause, and after briefly addressing the meeting, proposed, as a sentiment, Honour to the memory of Muir, Palmer, Gerrald, Skirving, Nargarot, &c., and their compatriots. Mr. SKIRVING, of Kirkaldy, (the son of one of the martyrs) then addressed the meeting, whom he thanked for the interest they had shown in the cause (,f the reform struggle of 1793 and 1794, and for their kind expressions towards those who had suffered in connexion with it. Upwards of fifty years have now (lapsed since the reformers in this country associated under the name of the " Friends of the People"—and if we examine attentively the principles of these early reformers, and take into view the history of reform since these societies were suppressed by an arbitrary power, we shall find that these associations, claiming as the citizens of a free country individually—a voice in the choice of their representatives—and the annual exercise of that right showed that they formed just ideas of representations, as that alone by which their enintry could enjoy that political regeneration of 'which they found her so much in need. And what is the reason that we at this day, notwithstanding the strength of the reformers' ranks, appear so far from obtaining a free and full representation simply be cause as a body we have no fixed principle respecting the extent to which the principle of representation ought to be applied in order to secure effectually the liberty cf . the subject on this point. At the period of which I am now speaking I was a young man, indeed a mere boy, but I have a distinct recollection of many 4 . f those who distinguished themselves in the cause of reform. And it has often struck me, in taking a view of the characters of the leaders of that move ment, that perhaps on no occasion was there tver such a number of men eminent alike for their moral and religious worth, united for the attain ment of a popular right, all of them, with few excep t ions, being men who enjoyed the confidence of their fel low-citizens, being selected by them to manage their affairs both of a religious and civil description. And with regard to those whom you have this day pro nJunced worthy to have their deeds commemorated by a public monument, I would just remark, that their political career affords the most incontestible proofs of the purity of their motives, disinterested patriotism, and unfeigned love of liberty. May the generous ef forts of the reformers of the present day to perpetuate their sen.c of their worth, prove a stimulus to the pa triot, and a terror to the oppressor.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. ItxrcutE spoke at some length to the next sentiment, " Success to the principles for which the martyrs suffered," anal was followed by Mr. Somers and Mr. C. G. Scott. • The Rev. P. BaElvsT•Ra, 'a a long speech, moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Hume, and the other projectors and contributors to the monument. A. vote of thanks having been moved to the Chair man, the meeting separated at half-past eleven o'clock. SL_kVERY. The proceedings of the Glasg,ow Emancipation Society, sAhich held its annual meeting on the Ist of August, bring out one or two points of considerable 1. terest. We notice Is ith some surprise that, after the strong measure taken by this Society in relation to the re ception by the deputation of the Free Church in the United States of slaveholder's money, the Committee should have selectel one of this very deputation, hose conduct they so justly (as we think) disap provel (the Rev. Dr. Burns, of Paisley), to move the adoption of their report. They pave the way for his acceptance of this post, however, by a modification of their report on the one hand, and by giving him free dom of speech on the other ; so that we have at length a public defence, by a member of the deputation, of the course which was pursued. That portion of Dr. I3urns's address which related to this subject we have given entire, and our readers will be able to estimate its worth. For ourselves, we remark principally the Doctor's acknqsvledgment that neither_himself nor his companion, Ur. Cunninghame, was prepared for so complete an identification of the churches with slavery as in some instances they found ; and that, if the Free Church were to send another deputation, they might find it necessary to pursue a different course. It ap pears that a letter has been written by the Rev. Henry, as Moderator of the Assembly of the Free Church, intimating that the matter had been found surrounded with difficulties, and that it had been referred to a Committee. We trust that the Committee will act a wise and salutary part. At the same meeting the fact transpired to the pub lic that, on board one of the vessels of the British and North American Mail Steam Packet Company, in July last, a gentleman of colour was excluded from the use of the saloon during the voyage, having paid the full fare. It is certainly no enviable notoriety that the Acadia and Captain Judkins have obtained for themselves, by being the first to introduce into English ships this piece of American insolence and inhumanity. We are glad to find that a remon strance, signed by twenty-one saloon passengers on board the Acadia, has been sent to the Directors of the Company; and we trust they will have good sense and good feeling enough to put an immediate step to so un-English, un-christian, and revolting a practice. A third point of much interest in the meeting we are referring to, was the reference made by Mr. George Thompson to the law for the abolition of slavery in British India. He said he was not aware that any slaves had actually acquired their freedom under that law, and that measures ought to be taken by abolition societies to induce the Government to adopt measures for making it more fully known. We entirely sympathise with Mr. Thompson's feelings on this subject. The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in their deep anxiety in rela tion to it, have, on two occasions, sent out letters of inquiry to their correspondents in India, soliciting information ; and, from intelligence they have re ceived, they have reason to fear that the fact is, as Mr. Thompson states it. It is clearly the duty of the Goverment, to cause this important law to be translated into the vernacular languages of India, and to be widely diffused among the population. And, if some measures of this kind be not promptly and effectually taken, it will be the duty of Anti slavery Societies to make representations by which attention may be drawn to the subject. The British people can never be satisfied that a law which they hailed with so much delight should remain a dead letter. —Anti slavery Reporter. [ADVERTISEIIENT.] THE CURE OF DISE A SES THE ONLY REMEDY Let doctors trEeaOtßdQiseUaAses . Medicine QUACKERY. Let ought to be treated, they will then cure ed p ie a l ti n e e nt i s s , aand simplethu s u put an end to all quackery. science, which should, and can, be understood by all persons. If Nature's laws are opposed (which it i s submitted they are , under the organic theory of the faculty) all the learning and re search in the world will not enable doctor s to cure dis eases , So long poisons * are used as medicines, and useless visits made upon the sick, the science of medici ne w ill not cease from being (what it ought never to have de scended to), viz., a trade!! ! Issued by the British College of Heath, New-road, London, for and on behalf of the body of Hygeista. * Poisons have been introduced as medicines, in order that the public should not attempt to cura their own diseases. GORDON CASTLE.—The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are at present entertaining a large circle of friends at this magnificent seat, where his Grace has just arrived from his shooting quarters. The following are among those who are partaking of his Grace's hos pitality. The Earl of Uxbridge and the Ladies Con stance and Eleonora Paget, the Earl of March, Lord and Lady Templemore, Colonel Rotten, Mr. Cox, Mr. Mr. Russell, Mr. Ricardo, fr„c. The family circle ir.cla , des tlagf Ladi es C aro li ne, A ugusta, an d C ece li a Gordon Lswinox , and Lords George, Henry, and Alex under Lennox. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We presume our readers have not for gotten Lord Lyndhurst's triumph over Lord Campbell in the House of Lords, on the occasion of the latter Nobleman's proposing a measure for shortening con veyances of land. On Lord Campbell's exhibiting a form of conveyance on the palm of his hand, to show what he could do under his Act, Lord Lyndhurst im mediately thrust forward another specimen, to show what he could do without any Act at all ! To be sure, by Lord Lyndhurst's plan the purchaser was to be con tent to take his land without the usual accompani ments of light and right of way, and such little conveni ences which are—mistakenly, of course, but still com monly—supposed to help somewhat towards the com fortable enjoyment of the property; while by Lord Campbell's draft, all these, with lio greater length, were carefully, and even strictly, preserved. And if we remember rightly, there was one other difference ; so trifling as, perhaps, to be scarcely worth recalling; namely, that under Lord Campbell's plan, if the purchaser did chance to find himself in a hobble, he was not under the neces sity of lodging the property in Chancery, with , the hope that in about half a dozen years' time it might, perhaps, be restored to him. Under Lord Camp bell's plan this was not necessary. The purchaser was to have a complete chain of covenants for title secured to him by Act of Parliament; and if any of them were infringed, he had a cheap and speedy remedy by the old common law of the realm. But Lord Lyndhurst interposed ; and the House of Peers threw out Lord Campbell's mea sure. The public had been taught latterly to expect something in the way of cheap and concise convey ancing; and we grumbled a little at being disap pointed, without any apparent cause. But still the thing seemed inevitable ; and we resigned our selves to it, with the best good temper we could summon up at so short a notice. But just as we had fairly given up all hopes of seeing our title-deeds reduced to a reasonable length, such as we might con over of an evening for an hour's amusement, Lord Lyndhurst hurls an Act at us, without note or comment; and tells us we may go and simplify our conveyances and make the best of it !. The boon was unexpected ; and, as we were half asleep when it came, we were almost inclined to grum ble at its arrival. But still, there it was. So we deter mined to do as we were bid, and make the most of it. It is not exactly what Lord Campbell proposed. Those long " general words," and the long covenants for title, are just as necessary as ever. But we are bound in common honesty to admit that it confers benefits which we really believe Lord Campbell did not think of. In the first place—we love to begin at the beginning. Most of our readers, we hope, are the owners of title-deeds ; and most of them, we dare say, have had occasion, at one time or other, to look at their contents. They most probably observed the waving boundary line, which the professors of our jurisprudence— keenly alive, no doubt, to the delicire of Hogarth's line of beauty, which it so closely resembles ; and ever solicitous, it must be admitted, to blend the utile cum dulci—have placed at the head of most of our parchments. Perhaps they wondered what it was for. Perhaps they did not think at all about it. At all events, they have Lord Lyndhurst's free per mission to snip it away, at once and for ever. We now proceed to unfold higher mysteries ; which none but the initiated, we fear, will be able fully to understand. Such of our readers, however, as have attained to years of discretion may remember that, in what Cleopatra calls their " salad days," they were sorely puzzled to know why two deeds should be necessary to convey one property. They were, perhaps, told that, owing to certain technical reasons, which they could not understand at all, the purchaser was obliged to take a lease of the land for one year before he could ac quire it out and out. lie was further informed, probably, that the method was invented by a great lawyer, and not in other respects unknown to fame— by no less a man, to wit, than Sir Orlando 13ridge m In. And, what is more probable than all the rest is, that when he was told all this, he knew nearly as mirih about the matter as he did before. Three years ago, however, a learned conveyancer, anxious to simplify the transfer of property to common under standing—he could have no other possible motive for what he did—drew an Act, and after some little trouble passed it through both Houses of Parliament, to make one deed sufficient for all time to come for one property. To conciliate the " Stamps and Taxes," he enacted that the one deed should pay duty for two ; and, to gratify a very pardonable vanity, con sidering the consideration he had evinced for the wishes and feelings of the public, he enacted that a clause should be inserted in future conveyances, stat ing that they were made in pursuance of Ste wart's Act! 'this clause, gentle reader, has Lord Lyndhurst— contriving, we fear, and unlawfully, wickedly, and maliciously intending to injure and prejudice the said J. S., and to deprive him of his good name, fame, credit, and reputation —enacted shall be used no more. We come to the end. If any of our readers ever happened to read through to the end of one of their deeds, they noticed a clause of two lines and a half (neither more nor less), providing that the trustees should have power to give valid discharges for such moneys as might come to their hands. This clause will henceforth have to be expunged. Of course, we can have no manner of doubt that Lord Lyndhurst's Act will do just as good service as that clause; but we must own we are surprised that the three estates of the realm—who, to be sure, make Acts of Parliament now-a-days, like Mr. `Valley's poetry, by the mile— should have given their solemn sanction to an Act which, by way of simplifying the transfer of pro perty, cuts off a crooked line from the top of a deed, three more straight lines out of the middle, and two and a half at the end I MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Aug. 23.) SUGAR.—The market has presented a firmer appear ance for all descriptions of Sugar subject to the 24s duty and 5 per cent this week. To-day there was no public sale of Colonial Sugar of any sort. For Westlndia pre vious rates were sustained, and a fair demand existed ; bright yellow sorts are still the most in request. The total purchases for the week are 1,750 hhds and trcs, the market closing with a firm appearance. REFINED.—There has been a much better demand for refined goods for home consumption this week, the re• finers are not so eager to sell, and large parcels have been disposed of, but at no improvement in prices. Brown Lumps have been selling at 72s 6d to 735, Standard Lumps 73s 6d to 745, Tittlers 73s to 80s, Ham burgh Loaves 73s 6d to 81s, double ditto 82s to 925, and wet Lumps 70s to 73s per cwt. To-day several parcels of refined goods were taken by the home trade; brown Lumps at 73s to 73s 6d, and standard 74s to 74s 6cr per cwt. For crushed Sugar made under bond there continues to be a good demand, and it is difficult to purchase first sort under 27s 6d per cwt. Of Loaves large parcels have been disposed of at rather higher rates. Fonmox.—Previous rates have been fully supported for yellow llavannah Sugar, the demand has been good, and the private purchases are 1,300 chests good quality for refining under bond here at 21s, and 600 chests for exportation at 19s to 22s for middling to fine. Brown Brazil is much wanted, and prices remain firm ; the private transactions are 200 chests Bahia at 18s 3d to 18s 6d per cwt—in white rather more business trans acted. MAURlTlUS.—lmporters are less inclined to realise, and have supplied the market sparingly this week ; more inclination has been shown to purchase, and privately several parcels have been disposed of—the better quali ties are the most wanted, but of such the supply is still small. This afternoon there was no public sale, but pri vately some parcels were sold at very full rates ; the quantity remaining in first hands is greatly reduced. EAST INDlA.—There has been no public sale ofForeign East India Sugar this week. Holders still manifest firmness, and nothing is pressing for sale privately. The demand has been only for small parcels, at the previous currency ; there are, however, purchasers of Manila and Java to a large extent at a slight reduction in prices. To-day at public sale 290 baskets of Java Sugar were sold at the full value, middling foxey yellow at 17s 6d to 18s, low yellow 17s to 17s 6d, washed 16s 6d, sound grey, 19s 6d to 20s, and good white at 21s Gd to 22s per cwt. Of white and strong yellow Bengal Sugar several parcels were sold privately at full rates. MOLASSES.—A good business has been transacted in "West India, but at low rates. The purchases amount to 300 puns St. Vincent at 225, Antigua, 24s 6d, St Kitt's 20s to 22s per cwt. The demand is still principally for the outports. East India Molasses could only be dis posed of but upon low terms. Cocoa.—Foreign is held with firmness, and the de mand is on the increase ; some parcels have been dis posed of privately at ful rates, nono has again been offered at auction ; West India has met with increased attention, at stiffer rates. Grenada sold at 44s to 44s 6d for fine red, 43s to 43s 6d for good, 42s 6d for middling rather dark, and 31s to 43s 6d per cwt for sea damaged ; Trinidad fetched 46s Gd for good bold red, 45s to 45s 6d for good middling gray, 36s to 38s for old wormy, and 28s to 34s for very inferior ditto. RlCE—Bengal has met with less attention this week. Importers are more inclined to realise, and have sub mitted to a reduction on previous rates of 3d per cwt ; by private contract, the operations are upon a small scale, middling white at lOs 6d to 11s, good middling bold 1 I s t o 11 s Gd , goo d 1 ls 6 d , sea -d amage d 5 s to t lis, and Indigo damaged 11s. The market has become quiet f or F ore i gn East India Rice, and at a pu bli c sa l e Madra s declined 3d to Gd per cwt ; low to good yellow selling at 8s to 8s Cd, and small pile of middling white lOs Gd per cwt. Carolina at 21s to 265, and Patna at 14s to 18s per cnt. COCHINEAL has brought full rates, and a fair busi ness has been t ransacted by private contract. None has been offered at auction, EE.but 40 ser o ns Honduras are declared I T Vit e h Westsday India Coffee the market has coFF fof been better supplied this week, still the trade have pur chased sparingly, and the limit e d b usiness transacted has been at a reduction on former rates of 2s per cwt. This afternoon Rio partly sold at 30s for ord rather mixed, and 283 for sea damaged, being the full value ; Savanilla fetched 28s, and triage 20s 0d ; Ceylon mid coloury went at 81s to 85s 6d, low mid 71s to 73s 6d, fi ße ord 62s 6d, pea berry 73s to 92s 6d, triage 42s to 528 ; Mocha was nearly all withdrawn ; Havannah privately, 37s 6d to 40s per cwt. TEA.—There has been more activity in the market this week, and importers have shown firmness. The rates previously established are fully sustained for Congou, and the demand has been good for all descrip tions: lOid to lld paid for large parcels of common sound, I lid to is Old for good common, is ld to is 6d for middling and good blackish leaf, and is bid to 2s 4d for fine and Pekoe descriptions. Pouchong has met with increased attention at 5d to 9d, and for superior sorts 10d to is per lb have been paid—this is still the cheapest description of Tea. Seuchong, however, is not much wanted, and the supply exceeds the demand. Scented Orange Pekoo is greatly wanted, and prices rule high, awing to the smallness of the supply; sales made at 3s id to 3s 5d ; Plain Orange Pekoe at Is 7d to 2s 4d ; Twankey at is 2d to is 3d per lb ; the better kinds is 4d to is 8d ; and superior Hyson kind is 9d to 2s sd. Imperial and Gunpowder are in good request. Hyson common at 2s 4d to 2s 6d per lb. For Caper there has been a much better demand. In Flowery Pekoe and young Hyson the operations are upon a more extended scale, and prices rule firm. To-day the mar ket was firm, and a fair business was done in most de scriptions, common and good common Congou cash fetched Ild to is per lb. SPICES.—HoIder; Of Black Pepper have shown firm ness this week, and none has been offered at auction. To-day Cassia Lignea met with more attention at public sale, but a decline on former rates of is to 2s per cwt, good middling 11 lb bundles went at 58s 6d to 61s, mid 56s 6d to 58s, good ord 50s 6d to 51s, half bundles 51s to 545, mouldy 48s 6d to 53s 6d, cockroach damaged 49s 6d to 54s 6d, sea damaged 445, broken 47s 6d to .48s 6d per cwt. Of Nutmegs 16 casks were offered, and mostly sold at firm rates, good mid brown Singapore fetched 3s 6d to 3s 7d, good 3s 8d to 3s 9d, fine 5s 2d, mid 3s 4d to 3s sd, low mid 3s. and worm eaten 6d to is Id ; sound for exportation only taken in at is 6d to 2s 2d. Mace, good bright Sin gapore fetched 5s 7d, good mid 4s 6d to 4s 9d, mid 3s 2d to 3s 6d, ord 2s Bd, and mouldy Is 10d. Cloves were not much in request, and 41 chests Penang at public sale sold Id to 2d per lb cheaper, and went at 2s 5d to 2s 7d for fine bold bright Penang, and 2s to 2s 3d for good. Pepper was little inquired for. SAGO has been inquired for, 1t,2 . bags at auction were bought in at 14s per cwt for midoling small brown Pearl. Sago Flour at 18s to 20s per cwt. Holders remain firm and supply the market sparingly. This afternoon of Sago 190 chests at auction were all taken in at 24s for fine small white Pearl, and 21s for fine large Brown being above the value. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Of Jamaica Rum, in second hands, extensive parcels have been taken by the shippers and the home trade, at prices showing an advance on those previously quoted of ld to 2d per gallon. The purchases amount to 400 puns at 3s 8d to 4s 6d for 32 to 38 per cent over proof. Leewards at 2s 4id to 2s 5d per gallon proof. Demerara at 3s 5d to 3s 7d for choice marks 36 to 41 per cent over. Calcutta Rum at 2s 2id to 2s 3d per gallon proof, with certificate. The arrivals of Rum are still small. Brandy—Cognac best brands, of the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 4d, puns at 5s 2d ; ditto 1839, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s ld, puns 4s lld ; ditto .1841, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d; middling and good middling 3s 3d to 4s 6d, and low 2s lld to 3s Id per gallon; of the last mentioned sort the supply has become scanty. Geneva fine for home consumption is fetching 2s 6d to 3s fid per gallon. English Corn Spirits remain at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash. FRUlT.—Grocers have taken several parcels of Cur rants, paying 47s to 49s for Patras, and 41s to 43s for Zante and Cphalonia. Importers show much firmness. INDIGO. —An increased desire has been shown to pur chase East India this week. All descriptions have been in excellent request for exportation, and several parcels sold for home consumption. Picked lots are fetching a profit of 2d to 4d per lb ; at public sale, however, 100 chests were withdrawn at stiff rates ; Madras at 2s 3d to 2s 4d per lb for low quality. Spanish is wanted, and the tendency of prices is upwards ; the market is sparingly supplied. SALTPETRE.—In the early part of the week the mar ket for rough, without any apparent cause, suddenly be came dull, and previous rates were with difficulty sus tained. To-day some purchases were made privately. At auction, 850 bags Calcutta were taken in at 6d per cwt above the value, 5 per cent refraction good dry yel lowish white at 26s 6d, the remainder, however, sold at very full rates, and fetched 24s to 24s 6d for middling grey, rather dump 13ftl per cent refraction. OILS.—In common descriptions of Fish Oils few pur chases have been made this week, and former rates are with difficulty maintained. Pale Seal at 351 to 35155, and Cod 33/ 15s to 341 per tun. Sperm Oil is wanted, and prices rule high. Linseed is again cheaper, but at 25s per cwt a good business has been transacted ; the supply is, however, on the increase. Rape Oil at 36s 6d to 37s for pale, and 353 6d to 36s per cwt for brown. Olive Oil at 451 to 46/ for Gallipoli, 431 to 44/ for Spanish, and Barbary 40/ per tun. Holders show firmness. Palm at 26s to 28s per cwt for good and tine quality. Cocoa Nut Oil at 28s to 30s per cwt. This afternoon at public sale 140 tuns of Sperm Oil went at 831 15s to 851, and Headmatter 901 to 911 15s ; of 130 tuns of Southern a small part only sold at 29/ 104 to 311 for good and fine, and 261 lOs to 28/ lOs per tun for inferior. TALLOW.—An increased desire has been shown to purchase Russian Tallow; on the spot the demand has been very good, and an advanced rate paid, P Y Candle selling at 41s 3d to 42s per ewt for fine quality. For delivery the operations are upon a more extended scale at 42s per cwt for the last three months of the year. Town Tallow has brought stiffer rates and the market has been rearly cleared at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt nett cash. For other sorts of Tallow prices are still improving. This afternoon at public sale New South \Vales Tallow sold at 36s to 42s 3d ; Taganrog 38s 6d to 40s 3d ; South American 353 to 39s 6d ; fine Sheep Odessa 40s 3d to 405 6d ; and East India 42s to 42s 9d per cwt. COURSE OF EXCHA3 Amsterdam CF. 12 41 Ditto, at sight l2 2 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp 25 85 Ilamburgh M.B. 13 131 Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles 25 90 Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine l2l I GE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice Naples 39i Palermo, per oz llBl Lisbon s4fr Oporto s4i Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 4 11 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effee. il. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—We learn from a quarter on which we place reliance—without, however, undertaking to vouch for the fact—that the long-looked-for visit of her Majesty to Ireland will cer tainly take place during the present autumn. Our inform ant states that the first week in October is actually named for this gratifying excursion. We are also assured that, in the event of the judgment against O'Connell and the other State prisoners being affirmed by the House of Lords, an act of Royal grace in their favour is contem plated, and that the remaining term of their imprison ment will be remitted, Such an act would be as ap propriate to the occasion as it would be conciliatory in its influence upon the Irish people, and would cer tainly conduce to the public tranquillity. We under stand that, should the weather prove favourable, her Majesty is desirous of taking a short aquatic excursion in the early part of September. The arrival of the King of the French is expected about the 17th, and will extend to a week or ten days ; during which every means of welcoming and entertaining his Majesty, on a scale suited to his dignity, and the magnificence and state of our beloved Sovereign, will be employed. On the departure of the French King, the preparations for the royal visit to Ireland will commence. The royal yacht has been ordered to be in immediate readiness.— Evening Paper. EXPERIMENTS IN THII WOOLIVICII MARSHES.— Major-General James Webber Smith, C. 8., Director- General of Artillery, Colonel Peterson, Colonel Lacy, Royal Artillery, Colonel Sir George House, C. 8., Royal Engineers, Lieutenant-Colonel Densey, C. 8., Lieutenant- Colonel Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, As sistant Director-General of Artillery, Lieut.-Colonel Colquhoun, Major Hardinge, K.H., Captain and Ad jutant Mitchell, Royal Artillery, Brigade Major Sand ham, Captain Stotherd, Captain Howorth, and Captain Lloyd, Royal Engineers, assembled in the Marshes, at half-past one o'clock, P.m., yesterday, to witness expe riments with four 24-pounder guns, placed at 600 yards distance from a target, and recoiling on a platform, the invention of Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, of the Royal Engineers. Ten rounds were fired from each gun, and out of 40 shots fired, exactly 30 entered the target, which was knocked down in the last round of the second gun on the right. Previous to the commencement o f t h e practice 100 shots had been piled in rear of each of the four guns, and it is intended to fire the whole 40 rounds to test the strength and efficacy of the platform. The principle on which the platform is constructed is very simple, consisting merely of eight pieces of timber, 3f inches by 41 inches thick, and 9 feet long, joined together into four sleepers 15 feet long, over which is placed crosswise 36 pieces of similar dimensions, held together by wooden pegs about three quarters of an inch in dia meter, and having only the two outer pieces attached by bolts to the sleepers. At the conclusion of the practice to-day one of the platforms was taken to pieces, and the wooden pegs were found to have held all the pieces per fectly together without any of the pegs being in the least injured or strained out of their original position, and the sleepers retained their position without the slightest ap pearance of having been displaced by the weight of the large guns and carriages during the recoil. Before leaving the marshes Mr. Hale exhibited specimens of his rockets in the presence of several members of the Select Committee. Nine of the rockets were fired at 900 yards range, and ten at 1,100 yards range from wooden tubes. Some of them went as far as the butt, and others fell considerably short of that distance, and it did not appear that a straight line could be depended upon. One other rocket on a different principle was fired, and it pro ceeded, after escaping from the tube, a distance of about 150 yards, at an angle of about 45 degrees, and entered the ground of a raised bank to imitate the walls . of a fortification, against which the balls used in r i cochet practice are directed. The practice during the experi ments was carried on under the command of Captain Garstio, with Lieutenants Thomas and Turner, Royal Horse Artillery, and Lieutenants Barker and Strange, and five non-commissioned officers, 46 gunners and drivers, and three buglers. The Earl of lladdington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and the Military Secretary to the Commander-in- Chief, had interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON,"FRIDAY, AUG. 23. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 22. CIVIL SIDE.---(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) SMITH V. BOUTCHER. This was an action to recover the amount of a com mission claimed by the plaintiff for obtaining freight for a ship of the defendant's. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Crompton were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Edwards for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant was a ship-owner in London, and the plaintiff a ship-broker in Liverpool. Some communication was opened between the plaintiff and the defendant, and the former procured a freight for the vessel to Laguayra, with liberty to call at any island in the West Indies. After the charter-party had been signed, the defendant entered into a contract with Government to convey some troops to the Bermudas on the same voyage. The party on whose behalf the plain tiff had made the original contract objected to this, on the ground that the Bermudas are not in the West Indies, and required that the charter-party should be cancelled, which was done. The defendant, however, objected to pay the plaintiff his commission, the voyage which he had negotiated having been given up. The plaintiff alleged that this was no fault of his, nor any matter to him. He had done his work, and desired to have his reward. It was shown that the defendant got about 2601. by the passage of the troops, and that the freight saved by the vessel was somewhere between 500/. and 800/. The commission was Si. per cent. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 351. M'CLEERE V. FRANCE AND ANOTHER. This was an action for an assault and battery. One of the defendants, William France, pleaded that he was not guilty, and that the plaintiff first assaulted him. The other defendant, Thomas France, pleaded not guilty. Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cowling appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton for the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff is a gentleman of for tune, living in Wall-street, Wigan, in this county, of which place he is also a magistrate. The defendant William France is a shopkeeper, whose premises open into a yard into which the plaintiff's premises also open, and there is a common passage to the yard from the street. In the yard are the stables and coach-house of the plaintiff, and a warehouse of the defendant, William France. The other defendant, Thomas France, is his brother. On the 27th of May last there was an election for the southern division of the county. Wigan is one of the polling places. The plaintiff had been dining with his party, and had returned to his house about nine o'clock in the evening, and immediately went into the yard, where, according to the evidence of a young woman who was a daughter of the plaintiff's coachman, the defendant William France came up with a stout walking-stick in his hand. Something was said between them, which the witness did not hear, when the de fendant William France struck the plaintiff several very violent blows on the head and face ; so violent that his hat was cut through and knocked off his head, and a swelling produced the size of a hen's egg. Just at that time, Mrs. M'Cleere and a neice were coming out of the plaintiff's back door to go to the stable to see a pony of Mr. M'Cleere's She, seeing her husband assaulted, began to shriek, and a Mr.f Isherwood, the superintendent of a factory, hear ing the cry, ran up the yard. He saw the defendant William France strike the bare head and face of the plaintiff twice with the stick. Ilis face was covered with blood. Thomas France, the other defendant, had the plaintiff by the shoulder and held him, as it appeared to the witness, not to prevent mischief, but to give his bro ther a better opportunity. The witness rushed between them, and said, " No more sticks," and they all went down on the ground together, with Mrs. Kirk the plain tiff's niece, who had gone to the spot. She and Smith, the coachman, gave similar testimony. Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury for the defendants, and called witnesses to prove that the plaintiff on his way home from the election dinner had struck with a stick a little boy of the defendant William France, who acciden tally ran between his legs ; that the child ran home cry ing to his mother ; that when the defendant came into the yard she went to him and complained, to which he replied, " Go to the devil," on which she fetched her husband. Some of the witnesses also swore that when the parties met the plaintiff struck the first blow, and that the only object of Thomas France in interfering was to separate the parties. On cross-examination it appeared that most of the witnesses who deposed to those things were on the other side of the street, and could only see that part of the yard which was in a direct line with the passage ; while most of the plaintiff's witnesses were on the spot. A servant girl of the defendant, however, stated that she saw what took place from the steps of her master's back door, which opened into the yard. Mr. WORTLEY replied, and the case having been summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages 501. In the Crown Court the Lord Chief Baron was en gaged during the whole day in trying cases of rape. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 22. CROWN CO URT.—( Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.) HORRIBLE ATROCITY.— Thomas Goatman, aged 17, was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding a mare, the property of William Humpidge. Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, Mr. Francillon defended the prisoner. It appeared that on the 10th of April last, the prisoner, who was a farm servant of Mr. Humpidge, for some rea son or other which did not transpire, was dissatisfied with one of the horses committed to his charge, a fine and valuable young mare; he was observed by some by standers to go from the stables anti to cut a short thick stick from a " service" tree in a neighbourin g hedge. And shortly afterwards he was seen punching the animal about the hind-quarters, with a piece of stick about twelve or fourteen inches in length. No one witnessed the brutal and atrocious act which the scoundrel next committed, but the evidence left no doubt that, after some further ill-usage, he thrust the piece of wood, which he previously tapered with a knife at either extremity, up the hind-quarters of the poor mare, as the meatus urinarius, the bladder, and intestines were lacerated in a horrible manner, and the poor animal, in the convul sive throes induced by the agony she underwent, actually caused the weapon in question to work its way forward through her body until it reached her chest, whence it was cut, after death, by a labouring man who came up shortly afterwards. It was suggested, on behalf of the prisoner, with more ingenuity than probability, that the mare might have swallowed the stick while browsing in the field. As both ends were, however, trimmed with a knife, and as the ground under the tree was strewed with leaves and chips, and the prisoner had been seen using his knife there, he was at once convicted by the jury. The Court passed upon him the comparative lenient sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. INFANTICIDE.—Sarah Hyland, aged 22, spinster, was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of her new-born child. After the evidence had been heard, Mr. Ballantyne addressed the jury for the prisoner, when Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and put the case to the jury as one of concealment of birth. The - jury deliberated for a considerable time, when they retired to consider their verdict. They were locked up nearly eight hours, and at length they re turned a verdict finding the prisoner Guilty of con cealing the birth, and not guilty of murder. Faith Bowerman, 17, was also indicted for the murder of her female illegitimate child, by casting it upon the ground, and thereby giving it divers mortal wounds and fractures, of which it then and there died. , Mr. Simon conducted the prosecution. Mr. Char nock appeared for the prisoner. , In this case it appeared that the prisoner was a country girl, and in the month of April she came to London on a visit to her brother, who resides in the Belvidere-road, Lambeth. Shortly before the Ist of July the prisoner had complained of being unwell, and her sister-in-law went out on that day to get some salts for her. Upon her return the sister saw some appearances which induced her to suspect that the prisoner had been delivered of a child, and she taxed her with it, but the prisoner denied that it was the case. Shortly afterwards, however, the body of an infant alive was found in a gateway close to the house where the prisoner lived, but there was no dis tinct evidence that she had been delivered of an infant. At the time the infant was found it had some marks of violence upon the head and upon the body, and the inference was that the child had been thrown over a wall that adjoined the prisoner's brother's resi dence to the place where it was found. When the prisoner was questioned she denied all knowledge of the child, but appeared dreadfully weak and agitated. Mr. Oliver Duke, the surgeon of Lambeth parish, who examined the child at the workhouse, proved that the head was very much contused, and the bones of the skull were fractured. The back was also very much bruised. The infant, notwithstanding these injuries, was. alive when he first saw it, but it died about two hours afterwards, and he attributed that event to the injury that was received upon the head. In cross-examination the surgeon said that the in jury that appeared upon the head might have been occasioned by falling upon the stairs. He also said that the loss of blood consequent upon the delivery of a child would in some cases almost occasion a state of frenzy in the mind of the mother. Mr. CIIARNOCK addressed the jury, and contended that the evidence was altogether insufficient to war rant the jury in convicting the prisoner of the heinous offence of which she was accused. Mr. Justice WIG [IT lAN having summed up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. Judgment was respited. Amelia Alfrey, 26, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Mary Anne French, and casting her into the water, with intent to drown and murder her. Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. William Alfrey, a little boy, deposed that the pri soner was his sister, and he lived with her, by th e ' water-side, at Wandsworth. On the 29th of July he was on Wandsworth-common, and saw the prisoner there, accompanied by her tWo children, a little girl and a boy; their names were Henry French and Mary Anne French. The prisoner lived with a man named French, and the children went by his name. Shortly afterwards he heard the prisoner scream, and on going to her he found her in a pond with her children. It was very shallow water, and he ran in and held up the children's heads, and also tried to hold up the pri soner's head. A little time before this occurred, he had seen the prisoner walking about, and she told him to go home. He did not see the prisoner carry the children into the water, but he thought they walked in. [ Cross-examined—There were plenty of people about at the time the prisoner was in the water. The water was not deeper than just above the knee. George Steer deposed that on the evening in question he heard a scream, and went to the pond, and found the prisoner and her two children in the water. Witness assisted to get them out, and ascer tained that one of the children was tied to the prisoner's body with a shawl, but he could not state whether the other was attached to her. The prisoner was lying upon her back in the water, and appeared in an exhausted state, and all she said was, " My children ! my children !" in a low tone. The prisoner and her children were then taken to the workhouse. By Mr. CHARNocK—In witness's opinion the mother and her two children all screamed together. The pond was not at this time very deep. The prisoner appeared very much exhausted, and her hands had changed colour. Witness had heard that the prisoner was once confined in a lunatic asylum. William Lee, a police-constable, said that he found the prisoner in the state described by the last witness, and assisted to convey her to the workhouse. He produced the shawl taken from the prisoner. By Mr. CHARNOCK—He heard the prisoner say it was trouble that had made her do it. Emily Alfrey, the prisoner's mother, deposed that she was not married to the father of the children in question, but they had cohabited together for six years. tie had latterly deserted her, and she had in consequence become very ill, and was confined in a lunatic asylum for six weeks, and when she was dis charged she went to live at witness's house. Before the Ist of July witness had observed symptoms in the prisoner's conduct of her head becoming bad again. John Busain, an inspector of police, proved that he received the prisoner in charge, and told her that she was accused of attempting to murder her children and to commit suicide, and she replied, in a faint tone, It is distress that drove me to do it." The witness then produced a letter found upon the prisoner when she was taken to the workhouse. The mother was re-called, and she stated that the letter in question was written by the man French, and in it he expressed his intention to abandon her. (The letter was read.) The witness said that after the prisoner received this letter she observed the ymptoms in the prisoner's conduct that she referred to. In cross-examination the mother said that French had been charged with some offence, and the prisoner had exerted herself very much to obtain a lenient sen tence for him. She appeared very fond of her children. Mr. CUARNOCK, in his address to the jury, said it was impossible for an advocate to do so upon a more distressing case than the present. He then proceeded to comment upon the facts, and said it was evident that the cruel manner in which the unhappy prisoner had been deserted and abandoned by the man for whom she evidently felt an ardent affection, had unsettled her mind, and that in a paroxysm of frenzy she committed the act imputed to her. Mr. Baron GURNEY, in summing up, remarked upon the distressing nature of the case, and said there did not appear to be the slightest ground for believ ing that the prisoner entertained any malice towards her children ; but if the jury thought that she went into the water with the intention of destroying them and herself, she would, in law, be guilty of the offence imputed to her. If they thought the facts proved, it would then be a question whether, at the time the act was committed, the prisoner was in such a state of mind as t,) be accountable for her actions. The jury, after a very short deliberation; acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and she was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. The first witness, the prisoner's brother, was then re-called by Mr. Baron GURNEY, who told him that the courage he had shown, and the manner he acted at the time, did him great credit, but he regretted to see, by the depositions, that he had not to-day stated all he knew. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1844. Dividend per _ AABUM. 61 per cent. 41. 22k ISL 41. 100. 81. cent. 41. 401. .15s. 71. 1k 56. 91 128.8 d. ..58. .I.loe. 341. 101. 171. SOL % /75. 6d. 101. 8 percent, 28 151. 201. I/. 10s. 151. 321:10s. 101. 81. 10s. 41. 11. 4s. 3 per cent. per cent. 4i per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. S per cent. 154 per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. IN per cent. I/. is. Bcl. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 72. 9s. 10s. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 36..6:1. ..pr eh 51.55. Ts. per snare 5 per cent. 34 6s. 5 per cent. 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The Court was much crowded, in consequence of its being imagined that this would be the last sessions which would be held in the Broad Sanctuary, on account of the junction of the sessions for Westminster and Middle sex at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell-green, under the new Prisons Act. TREASURY PROSECUTIONS.--Two most respectable looking men, who carried on extensive business as tradesmen in the Vauxhall-road, named Thomas Meadows and Robert Hill, were indicted for violently assaulting 'William Robert Anstell, a constable of the B division of the metropolitan police force. The prosecution, which was instituted at the in stance of the Treasury, was conducted by Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Doane ; and Mr. Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Wylde, appeared for the defence. Perhaps there were fewer cases ever tried in this Court in which the evidence, which extended from half-past ten until near seven o'clock, was more contradictory. _ _ Mr. BODKIN, in stating the case for the prosecu tion, said this was a case of sufficient moment to call for the intervention of a Treasury, or special Govern ment prosecution, instead of leaving it to the ordinary and less certain course. On the evening of the 13th of May last, the two prisoners, accompanied by Mrs. Meadows, were passing along Vauxhall-bridge-road, Meadows being, at the time, in a very drunken and excited state, when they overtook the constable, An stell, who was on duty at the time. Some months previous to this Meadows had a dispute with the con stable, since which time he entertained an angry feel ing towards Austell. Hill, who was perfectly sober, requested the constable to take Meadows, but he re plied it was contrary to his duty to do so, all he was allowed to do with a drunken man was to see him to the station-house. Meadows, upon this, contrary to the entreaties and endeavours of his wife, rushed at Anstell, knocked him down, and, while lying on the ground, kicked him violently in a vital part of his person, and otherwise inflicted severe inj ur i es u p on him. After considerable exertion, the constable got upon his feet, and other policemen arriving, they tried to take him to the station-house, but such was his violence, kicking and biting all around him, that they had to send for an additional reinforcement from the station-house. They then placed him on a truck, after strapping all his limbs, and wheeled him to the lock-up, where he struck several of those around him. The Learned Counsel then called about twenty-- five witnesses, amongst whom were nine policemen, in support of his statement. After which, Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury, and stated that it was his client, Hill, who had here most right to complain. The object in mixing him up in the in dictment was to prevent Meadows from having the advantage of his evidence as a witness. He thought the jury and the country could not sufficiently strongly mark their reprehension of the system of dignifying every little common assault into a Go vernment prosecution. Besides, they should recollect the vast expense which it entailed upon the country, by all the unnecessary and cumbrous machinery of Treasury solicitors, first-rate coun se l, & c . I n th e present instance the conduct of the police had been gross and brutal in the extreme ; they had dragged the unfortunate man along the gravelled way on his face, like a dead dog, instead of rendering him that assistance which his helpless condition, and the en treaties of Mrs. Meadows, would suggest to the mind of any man of ordinary feeling. As for Mr. Meadows assaulting the policeman in the manner described by Mr. Bodkin, it was preposterous, for he was a diminutive man, while the constable stood about six feet high. Evidence was then called in support of his state ment, and in refutation of the witness for the pro secution. The merits of both sides may be best guessed at by the verdict of the jury, which was one of Ac quittal in favour of Hill, and of Guilty with respect to Meadows. The COURT sentenced the latter to two months' im prigonment, with hard labour. The names of no less than twenty persons ap peared in the calendar for trial to-day, upon an in dictment charging them with having committed a violent assault upon Henry Maynard on the 26th of July. The facts of the case, which have been already before the public, arose out of an attempt on the part of one of the steam-boat companies which ply upon the river to pull down the pier established by a rival company, for the purpose of landing their passengers, adjacent to Temple-bar, and which attempt caused considerable excitement and alarm in the neighbourhood, in consequence of the conduct of a gang of long-shore -men who were engaged in the attempt. Owing to the pressure of other business, and the number of witnesses likely to be examined on both sides, it was deemed advisable to postpne the hearing until the 12th of September, the last day of sessional sittings in Westminster Court-house. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLERKENWELL. REPORTERS AT POLICE-COURTS.---A change has been made within the last few days in the interior arrangements of the Clerkenwell Police-court, pro ductive of great inconvenience to the reporters for the morning newspapers who attend them. The box which had been designed and constructed for the ac commodation of reporters, and which has been ex clusively occupied by them since the erection of the court, is now, by direction of the magistrates, only used by police officers. A seat at the rear of the box has been placed for the reporters, and this is the only part of the court, except the body, which they are permitted to occupy. At other Police-courts, the Th ames , for instance, reporters are allowed to sit at the table when they find it more convenient, although there is a box for their especial accommodation, the very same as that from which th e reporters have been expelled at Clerkenwell. But no such privilege is allowed at Clerkenwell--they have been forbidden even to lay their hats upon the table, a convenience denied to no other persons. Owing to a defect in the construction of the court, the difficulty of hearing is very great, and one of the magistrates, at least, com plains of the defect almost every day he sits ; but re porters are now placed at a greater distance from the applicant, the witness, the prisoner, and the rases' trate, than before. The applicant and witness are at one side of the 'court, the reporters' seat by the oppo site wall. In addition to the inconvenience of dis tance, the new seat has been placed directly between the gaoler's door and the magistrates' fire-place, s° that there is a current of air constantly rushing flw- 11 , the cell-yard, which, in cold weather, will be most prejudicial to the comfort, if not to the health, of those who sit there. The reporters, in the first instance, remonstrated with the chief clerk on the subject, but finding it fruitless, memorialised the Secretary ° I State. The subjoined answer has been returned t° the application : " Whitehall, Aug. 22, 1844. " Gentlemen,—l am directed by Secretary Si r James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of ycn t letter of the 17th inst , complaining that an alteration which has been recently made in the position o f the reporters' box at the Clerkenwell Police-court causes inconvenience to the reporters in the discharge of their duties. And I am to inform you that Sir Jame s Graham is desirous that every opportunity should he given for affording to the public accurate informatio n of the proceedings at the Police-courts. " Sir James Graham has made a full inquiry 0f the magistrates respecting the alteration, and WI the report which he has received, it appears that the change has been made with a view to the conve nience of the public and of those engaged in the con duct of business in the Court; he directs me, there fore, to inform you, that under the circumstances, h e must decline issuing any instructions to disturb the existing arrangements.—l am, Gentlemen, your off" dient servant, " 11. MANNERS SUTTON " To the Reporters, &c." IVORSHIP-STREET. Two men, named John Hunt and James Waterloo+ the former a journeyman locksmith, and the latter e weaver, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Brough . ton, charged on suspicion of having stolen a lalr quantity of jewellery and other articles, the pro r of Mr. Joseph Burns, landlord of th e Bl ac k public-house, in School-house-lane, Mile-end. ' The prosecutor stated that the prisoners wer e , members of a Society called " The Old Friend a the meetings of which were held at his house, an d they both attended there at a general meeting of the members on the previous night. On going u pstairs t soon after the company had dispersed, he found th e the door of his bed-room, which was situated inuo r diately over the club-room, had been broken open' and that a quantity of jewellery, consisting of thr/ gold brooches, several rings, seals, breast-pins, other articles, had been abstracted from the differeni compartments of three chests of drawers, the who le of which had been forced with some iron instri t i rnent. In consequence of the equivocal conduct of the prisoners during the evening, he immediate i ! suspected that they were implicated in the robber!' and caused them to be taken into custody. Mr. BROUGHTON inquired if anything was knotylle as to the habits and general character of tb prisoners ? Sergeant Barker said that he knew nothing t ilt s all prejudicial to the character of Waterloo, but 0 0 Hunt had been known to the police for some tim e as a suspected person. Mr. BROUGHTON said that there was no eviden A es to inculpate the prisoner Waterloo; but he ec,n''' dered the conduct of Hunt was so full of suspict li that lie should certainly remand him for furtl" in quiry. The prisoner, - Waterloo, was discharged, and ail other prisoner was ordered to find substantial for his appearance on Wednesday next. QUEEN-SQUARE. George Smith, alias Samuel Beeeington, was chill! with having on two occasions fraudulently . obtai nc " the enlistment money as a recruit, he having c °11 ; cealed the fact of his being a discharged soldier fr °— the 2d Life Guards. Prisoner enlisted with Sergeant Greaton of the Grenadier Guards, on Friday, and in answer to the r interrogatories of whether he had ever been a soldi% or discharged on any prior enlistment, replied in t b n , negative. It was subsequently ascertained thal.. fe had been dismissed for bad conduct from the 2 d P i fi t Guards, and he was brought before the Magistrate ,h this Court on Saturday. On reference to the 3SIO section of the Mutiny Act, Mr. Burrell felt 0 111 0 doubt upon the interpretation to be put upcm. th tl3 0 words of the clause, and dismissed the man wt . ted caution. On Wednesday the prisoner with Sergeant Philips, of the East India Company._ service, and was brought to this Court yesterday ,ti° be sworn in. He had answered the several questio: put to recruits in the outer office, and was taken Id again Kilts before the Magistrate to be attested, when some .„ the officers of the Court recognised him as the an who had been charged on Saturday. Th e fellow 4 1 first stoutly denied it, but finding that there three or four persons ready to swear to his identity"' admitted the fact, and added that he was now dir posed to make a gcod soldier. Mr. BURRELL, on turning to the latter part of of section in the Mutiny Act, before referred to, w a • opinion that the concealment of his having be en ras tig soldier before the justice at the time of his co for attestation was clearly an offence, and comm; defendant for one month as a rogue and vagabogn• MAI?YLEBONE. ti p ASSAULT ON TOLL-COLLECTORS.—Yesterw A -/ j u Henry Dawes, a veterinary surgeon, residingo. Stephen's-mews, Fitzroy-square, and John U ri . wood, a man in his service, were charged before Rawlinson with the following violent assault Thomas Staples, a toll-collector, at the HamP s of turnpike, deposed that on the previous Wedge ty the defendants, who were in a gig, drove UP gate, when Mr. Dawes asked for change fora sh" 0 - 0 1 Complainant gave him a sixpence and three P e a , be pieces, expecting of course that the shilling vo ll s ea handed to him. He, however, did not receive it, Mr. Dawes was in the act of driving on when — o it) plainant laid hold of the horse, and asked for th e e i d to which he was entitled. Mr. Dawes then de lj u o, that he had had ninepence from him (compla?, 1 , 8 0 8 and logged him with considerable violence with whip. He (Mr. Dawes) then knocked him done(' did also the servant, who in addition thereto kle him as he lay on the ground. sad William Easum, another toll-collector at the l e gate, stated that on geeing the way in which St41)00 was treated he spoke to Mr. Dawes, telling hiol he was acting wrong, when he (Mr. Dawes) infli c t a flogging upon him ; he was also struck IT servant. h it t 118 Mr. Dawes, in answer to the charge, said ti a • gave Staples 6d., and received from him 3d. % /l e d , ticket. He (Staples) seized the horse by the t iolif and used language of a most disgusting descriPoo and he then got out of the gig and knocked os down. His servant used no more force thattfroto necessary towards Staples to remove his hand the reins. The defendants entered into security for thel,,Hoi pearance at the sessions, in the event of their '- indicted. CHICKEN MANUFACTORY.—Nature is gettdl' SW t°' perfluous. We rather think she will soon be votca ° o oh fashion, and dispensed with. There's a chap just oc4efor publication office hatching chickens in a big b 0 ,1 4 ,, , R trca', day, having a thousand eggs always doing. . I .'"littl a ,' ble of attending them is slight ; the heat costs veil t h ey and the chickens crack their shells and walk up t „ ° , r , ° C , dough and water like wood-choppers to their aqiiveli: sailors to their grog. They are clean, strong, a n " h roer grow fast, and rarely die (not being draggled tr ca: the grass) ; and whoever has a hatching mac h an d have " Spring Chickens" every week in the year , p) small expense. If we could only invent a maeh' l 3r - f iba eggs, now, hens would be done with.—Neu Y0rh,_10,01..„,- All paid 85 0 0 125 0 0 150 0 • 12 10 0 140 0 0 125 0 0 145 0 0 79 9 8 100 0 0 26 9 5 50 . 0 19 5 8 100 0 0 100 0 0 78 8 • 67 10 8 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock M -; 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 180 0 0 70 10 3 60 0 0 40 0 0 be 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 5 O 0 i 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 • 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 II • 0 6 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 9 6 5 0 20 0 0 107 31U 641 141 71 1140 160 120 130 11 4€o 230 360 137 114 q 72% is% - 6q 16% E 7 6% 5% 400 1 11.):31. 49% 1 6% ISB 15% 27 40s. .21s. 25% 45% 17 14% 23% 9 265 38 4 21i 105 52% ii % a 10% 9 4% 118 1a36 2S ells r. 4: 4 1 4 17 28% 104 tides ever been in a BIRTHS. e Ai f m On the Ist ult., at St. Vincent's, West Indies, v• - Alexander K. Wight, Esq., manager of the Col a ' .r PV thOnere, of a son. E ber t the 23d inst., at Upper Harley-street, Mrs. - ° of Anders On the 2d inst., at Bedford-row, a son. Mrs. C. J. Sh ou g . On the 22d inst., at Stoke N ew ington, the la ,h, ofC c ri Miller, Esq., of a daughter. the $1 On the 22d inst., at Holnawood Parsonage, Sp e y' of the Rev. J. S. Utterton, of a son. .10 MARRIED. e r r „ ti f On the 22d inst., at Streatham Church, John, 1°";;0101- sf Joseph Dawson, Esq., of Streatham-hill, to Mari , I .6 daughter of the late William Bousfield, Esq. Weste i;- ; On the 22d inst., at St. John the Evangelis stree t , Vireo/ ster, Barnard Wight Holt, Esq., of Abingdon-evt, minster, to Sarah Margaret, only child of Dy er Walcot-place, Kennington, Esq. Or e ' ver- 54 On the 22d inst., at St. George's Church, lialr, sl ' IP - 0 1 Giles, eldest son of Giles Redmayne, Es+ , eL ". EA" street, to Eliza, third da ug ht er o f Francis Sa dler, Highgate. lED. On the 22d inst., at T ew ke sbury, 'William of O S Hawkes, the infant son of W. M. Richards , surgeon, town On . the Re of the 3d inst., at Cronstadt, Wtntemberg, 10 1 Parsons, Vicar of Sanderton and Arundel , a nd late -.41 Magdalen College, Oxford. On the 17 , th inst., at the Grand Hote l de Eull' 51 110 Maria, the wife of G. Suttor, Esq., of Sydney, " Wales. , n don, On the 20th inst., Sophia, widow of G. IN • w ars'iy On the 22d inst., at Connaught-terra ce, Euge Luke Wade, Esq , aged 77. Younoetv On the 21st ult ,at Otley, Su ff olk, the Rev. _ se nd, On the 22d inst., at Haver-court, near Gray,. rietta, the youngest daughter of Mr. C. A. Becr 131 3 Per On the 23d inst., at Hornsey, John Cooper, ' sco Fal" Bedford-place. On the 23d inst., at Tredegar - place , Bow, Mrs. D O cher, relict of Mr. Henry Fulcher , aged 76. London : Printed and Published by 5. ,, ..- rin7l)° , o , lrv ge. 17 No. 112, Strand, Printer , at The Stag Oxu „ mul ti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the "I" Middlesex, Saturday, August 24, 1844.