The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. than one instance, The people of England, indeed, rejoice at the success of its members in the conversion MOM THB EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. of the heathen, as they rejoice in the success of GLOBE.—The Times of this morning contributes American missionaries in the same glorious work, a rather large instalment towards balancing its ac- and the people would anxiously support them in count on the Otaheitian question. For some days the protecting their converts from the errors of Roman entries in its columns were principally on the other ism—but we are too well acquainted with the habits side; and a large amount of sound argument, inter- of some of the missionaries to hold ourselves respon spersed with wholesome invective, were introduced to sible for all their proceedings, or to wish that they be show the unprovoked and indefensible character of the allowed to claim from the Government more than outrages perpetrated by the French authorities at Ota- the protection to which they are entitled as heite ; and also to impress upon our Government the British subjects. Nor have they any right to obligations by which it is bound to demand and claim more : as Dissenters they renounce the au enforce indemity and reparation for the indignity thority of the State to govern their movements, offered to the British flag in the person of Mr. and it is too much for them to expect that the Pritchard, the Consul of this country, and for the state shall support a line of conduct which it is not abuse of the powers assumed by the French officers permitted to influence. It certainly was an nn under the " Protectorate" they had set up. No fortunate choice which selected a Dissenter as the longer than yesterday an article of this cha- British Consul at Otaheite; for that gentleman, how ratter, of no ordinary excellence, enforcing these just and honourable soever his disposition, could views, appeared in the columns of the Times. not help considering himself more as the represen " A change has this morning come o'er the spirit" tative of the Missionary Society than of the Sove of our Contemnorary. As if scared by the sounds reign of the United Kingdom. So far, there itself had made: apparently fearful of having assisted fore, as, regards the effect upon the mind of to rouse tbs spirit of the nation ; or, possibly, of hay- this country, we apprehend no evil from fee ing " roared" too loudly in the ears of Lord Aber- demonstration yesterday, which, indeed, shows how deem, and disturbed the dreamy repose which con- very slight has been the political connexion be stitutes his delight; the Times suddenly becomes tween this country and Otaheite, and so slight, mild as a sucking dove ! Recently so-big with rage chiefly because of the care of the Dissenters to keep against French aggression and outrage, for which re- the Queen and her people in their own hands, to the paration must he demanded, and atonement made, our exclusion of the British in common with every other Contemporary—in the spirit of Shakspere's popinjay, Government. It is in France—where the absence of now " talks like a waiting gentlewoman ;" of " the rank and total want of political importance of the pity, so it was—" speakers at Exeter-hall must be less known, and " That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd where the interior politics of our Dissenting sects Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, can hardly be appreciated that the mischief (if Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd any) of the display to which we refer will ope- So c nvardly." rate. It becomes, therefore, our duty to set forth The occasion of this marked change—at once both the truth as plainly as we can, and we surely say no sudden and complete—is not very obvious. The more than truth in asserting that the meeting at meeting at Exeter llall yesterday, convened for the Exeter-hall does not speak the sense of the purpoie of enabling the Directors and members of the people of this country, but the sense of a London Missionary Society to make a public demon- class which hardly ever concurs in sentiment with stration of their views and sympathies upon the state the great majority of the nation, and certainly of things at Otaheite, is made the peg upon which the will not bring the people to concur with it Times hangs its new opinions on this question. We by coming forward in its Dissenting character neither adopt the whole of the views put forth by the to dictate to the Government upon a m - speakers at the meeting referred to, nor undertake to mentous'and most delicate question of foreign policy. defend the language in which some of them gave We have not disguised our opinion that the French utterance to their opinions. There are, however, officers at Otaheite have been in the wrone• from first strong provocations to regret and indignation in t o l as t. Th e fi rs t error was, however, the parent of -- the ministers and gentlemen on whom the Ti m e s a ll th a t f o ll owe d, b y a very • aural transition, and pours out the vials of concentrated c o nte m pt th e gra d ua l a d vance and wrath for their interference. The argument or i g i na l p a lt r y fle 4. ..t0m the imposition of the upon grounds which no pub of our Contemporary will induce an opinion lit law can ;• 4 „ cfv that the Society which met yesterday on this matter the se:- afer° of the sovereignty—is, after 11, perhaps had obtruded itself into a dispute with which it had " -46Thest excuse for what appears at a hasty view so no peculiar concern—that, in fact, their interfere- 1 shocking. -etas sh rxing. It seems to us, however, that the proper is impertinent, and their a g itation mischievoe_s. b H the Times forgot, or did it never know course to be pursued by England in such circu , stet y the stances is, while she takes care to protect her Sub patient; persevering, and devoted I "::semrs of the agents jects, and to assert the honour of her flag, to refer of this Society—not composed _xclusivelvofDissenters, all besides to the native justice and generosity of the but of clergymen and lw:snbers of the Establishment, French people. A few incendiaries and Jesuits uniting with Disse:.sers - in this noble enterprise— may deny justice to poor Queen Fomare, but it is Otaheite and t....5e other islands in the Georgian impossible to suppose that an intelligent, a high groupe were tdvilised and Christianised ? hied the minded, and gallant people, like the French, South Se".. Islanders continued in their state of bar- will permanently, and after all motive for barisni, they would not have attracted the regards of national jealousy shall have ceased, pursue a the - french, nor would the subordinate authorities of course of unjust aggression, such as every man must that nation have forced their " protection" upon them. consider that, which has hitherto been pursued towards They were reclaimed from barbarism by the agents the Queen of Otaheite. We have spoken with many of the Society which met yesterday to express Frenchmen upon the subject, but we have not met its sympathy with the islanders whom they had with one who does not acknowledge that the justice of raised from the debasement of senseless idolatry, and the case is wholly against his country, and acknow the vices and cruelties which follow in its train. ledge also that the judgment of posterity will be as Those shores, once unsafe for any vess's' to touch at, unfavourable to France in this affair, as all admit the - were rendered approachable and hospitable through public opinion of Europe to be at present. the heroic courage and indorfitable energies of the missionaries who were 'sent forth to, and supported by the cont :, • I :Louttons of, the Society which is upbraided by rr the 4 tines, in one of the fitful changes for which it remarkable, with exceeding their vocation by :expressing their views on such a subject. If the Times did " not know what particular call" the meeting of yesterday had to " involve itself in such matters," it is now informed ; and will doubt less admit the ignorance which induced the reflections upon the meeting and its proceedings, and apologize for the discourtesy and injustice of which it has un wittingly been guilty. The marked discrepancy of our Csmtemporary's present opinions on the main question, With those it has recently put forth, may be less easily reconciled. But as we are not the " protectors" of our versatile fellow-journalist, we refrain from dwelling upon what we cannot explain, and are not called upon to defend. The Times thinks Otaheite too insignificant, in a commercial sense, to deserve the attention of the British LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUI)GES y CHAMBERS, Aug. 14. (Before Mr. Justice MAULE.) nation. Would you provoke a war between the two Governments about " a row in Otaheite ?" This ques tion is, however one of those which cuts two ways. If Otaheite be of little value to England, it is of far less importance to France. Yet France has deemed it worth putting forth its best acts of circumvention to secure it! France has juggled Lord Aberdeen into _ _ .conceding the " Protectorate of Otaheite to itself. And now, when outrage and havoc have grown out of the " Protectorate ; ' and indignity and outrage to the British Consul have followed the deposition - and banishment of the Queen, the question is gravely asked, whether this had not better be hushed up ? Who would think of disturbing the pacific relations existing between two great nations, because " a row has taken place at Otaheite ?" Otaheite is not altogether so contemptible, even in a commer cial point of view, as some persons suppose. The following return of the average yearly number of vessels of commerce, belonging to different nations, which touch at Otaheite, is from a quarter on which . implicit reliance as to its accuracy may be placed : it will also show that France has less interest of a com- mercial kind in Otaheite that any other civilized State : Yearly. English Merchant Vessels American ditto French 2O Queen Pomare and her people have a strong claim on the British Government itself. This must be ad mitted, if the promises of protection they hare re ceived from successive Administrations be regarded as of any worth. STANDARD.—If we were not well aware that the first, nay, the only consideration with particular classes of persons is to keep themselves constantly be fore the public, we should be at a loss to guess the purpose of the gentlemen who collected to make speeches at Exeter-hall yesterday. These gentlemen, one and all, deprecated the suspicion of a wish to involve the country in war ; but we defy the most sagacious to suggest any purpose consist ent with the preservation of peace their meeting and their speeches can serve ; taking them upon their own representation, they adopted a pro ceeding which can do no good, but which it is obvious to every one may be productive of evil. Let us not be misunderstood ; we are very far indeed from undervaluing the beneficial effect of missionary labours, but we protest against the interference of missionaries and missionary so cieties in the direction of the Government of the country. The useful missionary is in spired by one and one only feeling, zeal for the propogation of true religion ; but zeal. is passion, and government, like law, ought to be " mind without passion. If, in the administration of the complicated affairs of a great empire feelings, even the most noble and exalted, are allowed to take the command of calm reason, there must be an end of con sistency and systematic government. Without even departing from the subject immediately before us, we can see a striking example of the danger of this inver sion of the proper order of influences, in the prevail ing temper of a considerable portion of the French people, acting so powerfully upon the Government of the country as to threaten it with an overthrow, if it do not persevere in a course which every unprejudiced human being must see to be both imprudent and unjust. We do not wish to say it offensively, but we certainly anticipate the judgment of posterity when we assert, that each successive step taken by the French officers in Otaheite has been wrong. We have it, indeed, upon the acknowledge ment of the best and wisest men in France, that the princip a l s t ep t h us ta k en i s i n d e f ens ibl e, an d suc h as ought to be retracted. Nevertheless, by a misappli cation o f one of the most honourable feelings of our nature, patriotism, our neighbours insist upon maintaining as just and right the unauthorised wrong -doing of the officers of France with all its injurious consequences. This may be unjust and unw is e, a and so it is, but it is, n honourable nevertheless, the eff ec t of passion. The French people are, as they ought to be, jealous of the rank and honour of their country, and their jealousy is naturally directed against the most eminent in power and in reputation of the rival nati ons can afford to submit to a wrong from Naples or France Bel gium, because submission in either case could be ascribed only to the magnanimity of the more powerful state ; but it is hard for human passion to yield, even to right, in a dispute with an equal, because such submission may be miscon s t rue d . This state of things, of whi ch we have the evidence before our eyes, demonstrates the danger of p era ,i t . ting passion to interpose in the higher concer ns of Government. Yet, if not to excite a passionate feeling of resentment against the French people, though not, perhaps, against the French .Govern ment, what can be the effect of a meeting and speeches like those of yesterday at Exeter-hall ?It is true that the effect in this country will be incon -1/4i 1 lidtiralle, because the speakers and their general prae tiees are pretty well known here. The speakers all with the, exception of Mr. Baptist Noel (if it is right to except him), Dissenters from the Established Church, and as mach separated by political opinions (in this Mr. 8.:35kiel i 3 no exception) as in religious profes . ston.froix the vast majority of the people. The Mis smnoriSociety is a society wholly unconnected with the—Gov:ll"l... Government, the Church, te _ and all the other insti . g o zn i ; o f crwa tz w h ich it is pretty generally Os - 4 95 bays experienced in more NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 13.—The Thunder, 6, Com mander Barnett, arrived yesterday from Bermuda, which she left on the 20th of June. She has been employed for the last three years, and a longer previous period, in surveying the Bahama Islands and the Gulf of Florida, She will now be paid off. The Queen, 110, Captain Martin, was removed from alongside the dockyard jetty to moorings off Cold liar bour, Gosport, usually occupied by the flag-ship, this morning. She is completing hands and stores for flag service at the Nore. The Collingwood, 80.—This ship has not yet receive sailing orders, although it was in very positive terms stated by a generally well informed weekly print that she would sail on Sunday morning last. We believe there will be some alterations in her appointments, as we are informed Captain Eden will not go out in her in consequence of impaired health, and that Commander Broadhead, who commissioned her, will be posted. Thus two of the most important offices will have to be filled, which will necessarily cause some delay in her sailing. The gallant Admiral, Sir G. Seymour, is on leave. Much speculation is afloat as to who will be appointed to the flag captaincy. The Mercury, tender, Second Master J. Scarlett, re turned on Sunday evening from Sheerness and Wool wich, with newly entered men for the Collingwood and Queen. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander W. Tring • ham, was recalled from the coast of Sussex, where she had been cruising for some months past, on Saturday week. She came into harbour last night. Her crew will be employed forthwith in fitting up the royal yacht (to which she is tender). Indeed, she is now nearly stripped, and will be laid up until winter. The Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, having been partially rigged, and got all her spars and stores on board, was removed this morning from the basin to moorings in the harbour, where the crew from the Nautilus joined her. She is now very rapidly fitting for sea, and will try her engines and new boilers to-morrow, it is expected. The Vindictive, 50, was dismasted on Monday, prepa ratory to being docked for overhaul and repair. - The Dwarf steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander W. Chamberlain, is in dock, having her boilers repaired. She will be in future the tender to the royal yacht, being peculiarly adapted for that particular service. The Canton transport is hourly looked for at Spit head with the remaining detachments of the 55th Regi ment from China. _ _ The Firebrand steam-sloop bas been tried out at Spithead, and her engines and machinery found to work splendidly. She is now ready for the pendant in the harbour. The Lily, 16, is undergoing repair and refit in the basin, in order to form one of the experimental brig squadron. The Hornet, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Miller, left Nassau for Jamaica on the 14th ult., where she expected to receive orders to sail homeward and be paid off, hay • ing been nearly five years in commission. The Nautilus transport, Lieutenant Sanders, agent, called at Teneriffe on the 11th of July, en route to Rio, with stores for the squadron. The works of the new steam basin, in this dockyard, are progressing very rapidly. Several slips in the earth have lately taken place, one on Sunday week, which it was feared would retard the work. Should the present showery weather continue, further slips are feared. The Prince Regent, 120, in process of razeeing to a 90-gun ship, is progressing rapidly in her alterations. It is reported in the dockyard that when she is completed the Camperdown, 104, will take her place, to undergo the same beneficial operation. GONE TO THE DOGS. (From Punch.) The papers have informed us of the death and burial of Yeos, a greyhound to which her Majesty and Prince Albert were both " greatly attached." The death of the beast appears to have been so sudden, that the Queen suspected foul play, and Air. Brown, of Windsor, who is, it seems, the royal dog doctor, was immediately sent for, that a post mortem examination might take place immediately. Several of the servants gave evidence at the inquest. The following- extracts will show how carefully the investigation was conducted. Sarah Scrub, the scullery-maid, was now brought in, and cautioned by Mr. Brown that her testimony would be taken down, and might be used elsewhere against her. Her examination then proceeded—Knew the dog Yeos. Saw her last alive poking her nose into a dish of sweetbreads on the pantry dresser. The dog was allowed to go everywhere by her Majesty's command, and was not to be thwarted in anything. The dog was a very great favourite with the Queen and Prince Albert. Witness was in the habit of feeding Yeos : gave her a pate de, foie gras the day before her death. She seemed in good spirits, and ate it with appetite. By Prince Albert—Did you make him too risho by too much of de nastie salt buttare? The witness replied distinctly that fresh butter had been used. Prince Albert—Can you sware dat? Witness—l can.—(Great sensation.) Dr. Prwtorius, who had been watching the case on the part of Prince Albert, thought it would be useless to carry the criminal part of the matter further. He (Dr. Prwtorius) would candidly admit he had no stronger evidence to offer. Mr. Brown—Then I suppose, Doctor, you withdraw from the inquiry ? Dr. Prxtorius—Certainly, unless you think there is enough for a remand. In the case of the Marquise de Brinvilliers, which a good deal resembles the present, a remand was allowed. Or to come to later times, if we are guided by the rule in the prosecution of Madame Laffarge— Mr. Brown (interrupting)—No, Doctor, I think we must not do that. The surgeon then, assuming the office of Coroner, proceeded to sum up as follows :—This affair was appa rently involved in a good deal of doubt, until this in quisition was held. The deceased (weeping) might have been poisoned, or might not, and here the difficulty ossibn l no vedoubtr y h thecomes in to d e t erm i ne w h e th er h e was or wa sn't. On a post mortem examination, there was a good deal of vascular inflammationabout gbl),affaro f the the coatsswee sweetbread, the e adh w nose, whie and a I have s p these appearances. keppered, had something to do with "1) luicuLse had, of course, stopped ; but, as far as I ilOulajPidge from circumstances,' I should say it had been pretty regular. The ears were perfectly healthy, and the tail appeared to have beets recently wagged, showing that there could have been nothing very wrong in that quarter. The conclusion at which I arrive is, that Yeos came to his death from old acre, or, rather, by the lapse of time ; and a deodand is therefore imposed on the kitchen clock, which was rather fast on the day of the dog's death, and might have accelerated his demise. This verdict having been regularly entered, the in quest was broken up, and the scullery-maid set at liberty tilt SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MO NINE, AAJOATPir comrades, had had leave on the night in question to go to the play. They were seen about the hour described by the prosecutor passing the market place, in company with a person in plaid eldthea. About five o'clock the next Morning they were at a public-house, and paid for what they had in silver. The same day they paid a score which had been standing against them for a long time at the Wile house, and both about that time head more money than usual at their disposal. Some days after Hampson was seen in possession of a small silver watch, and the next day one of his comrades saw him with a watch, which he recognised as having belonged to the prisoner Stanley, and which Hampson said he had purchased from Stanley fur two sovereigns. On the 27th of June Stanley showed the colour• sergeant of the regi ment a watch which he said had been sent him by his father, and which the sergeant observed had the number 8,785. The next day the sergeant asked to see it again, but Stanley said he had sold it, and gave several different accounts of the parties to whom he had disposed of it. His room was searched, and, sewed up in one of his epaulettes, which was hanging against the wall, was found a watch, which proved to be the watch stolen from the prosecutor. On the close of the case his LORDSHIP said he thought there was no case against Wood ; and Mr. JAMES ad dressed the jury for the other pris , ners. His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury found both the -prisoners Not Guilty, stating that they were not satisfied from the statement of the prosecutor that he had not lost the watch without any robbery at all. IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE NEW INSABVENT DEBTORS' APT.—••IN RE WILLIAM SMITIt tHE ELbER. printed, offering a reward for his apprehension, but it appears he went to Germany, and only returned to England a short time back. Lately he took lodgings in the house of Mr. Evans, in Stafford-place, Pimlico, stating that he had just arrived from Guernsey, and expected his luggage by the Southampton Railway. in a few days he absconded, and it was discovered that he had stripped the lodging of everything portable. At the beginning of last week he applied for work to Mr. Turpin, a watchmaker, in Banner-street, from whom he received a valuable movement to repair, but he pawned it immediately afterwards, and it was as certained that he had served other tradesmen in the same manner. At length Sergeant Brannan, 20 G, who had been on the look out for him since 1841, got hold of him, and brought proof of the several charges against him. Mr. BROUGHTON said he thought he knew the pri soner, and had committed him before. Sergeant Brannan said the Magistrate had com mitted him twice before. Four years ago he was summarily convicted for making away with a watch movement belonging to a tradesman in Cornhill. Oa the other occasion he was committed to Newgate for trial for stealing a gold watch belonging to Caspv, the watchmaker, who was one of the parties impli cated in the famous gold dust robbery some years back ; but he was acquitted of that, as it turned out that the prosecutor had attempted to compromise the matter with him. This was an application by summons on th# at torney for the detaining creditor, to show cause why the prisoner should not be discharged out of the cus tody of the Marshal of the Queen's Prison, under the 58th section of the Act to amend the law of insol vency and execution, on the ground that the debt for which he was detained did not exceed .the sum of 201. On the part of the prisoner, it was proved, by a copy of causes, that the debt was under the amount prescribed. Mr. Justice MAULS asked if there was any affi davit of the fact ? He should in all cases require an affidavit. It was stated that the summons was opposed, and therefore no affidavit was needed. Mr. Justice ]MULE said he had already made orders ex parte on affidavit that the debts were under 201., leaving the parties to apply to the Court out of which the judgment was obtained, if there WWI any fraud. Several objections were urged on the part of the detaining creditor. The prisoner was in custody on a judgment obtained in the Palace Court, to which Court he should have applied, as the creditor could then show that he came within the exceptions of the 59th section, and was not a party entitled to his dis charge. His LORDSHIP decided that he could entertain the application. It was then urged that circumstances could be shown to prevent the prisoner being discharged ; the Act contemplated that at " any time" it could be shown that a party was not entitled as a matter of course to his liberation. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 13. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.) WHISTANCE V. GRIFFITHS. For the plaintiff were Mr. Valentine Lee and Mr. Cooke ; for the defendant, Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and Sir Thomas Phillips. The prisoner was then committed on three charges, and the sergeant stated that he had several others against him. Some time in August, 1832, a person of the name of Joseph Bennett, an auctioneer, and landlord of the Packet Inn, Chester, died, leaving his furniture and the bulk of his property to his widow, who, shortly after his decease, took up her abode at Bristol, where she lived for fifteen months ; and afterwards removed to Cheltenham, where she also lived fur fifteen months, sup porting herself by the proceeds of a boarding-house which she then furnished. Amongst her lodgers was a man of the name of Jeremiah Smith, who soon after his residence under the plaintiff's roof, received from her 30/. for the purpose of purchasing a piano, and some additional furniture of which she stood in need. For many years a young girl had been domes ticated in the house of the plaintiff and her husband, whom she was in the habit of calling her parents, though, in fact, they were only her aunt and uncle. This young woman, during the plaintiff's residence at Cheltenham, became acquainted with a Welsh harper of the name of Griffiths, who had an engagement in that city, and whom during his sojourn there she married. As the plaintiff at this time proposed leaving Chelten ham for Bristol, in order to stay with some friends there, she offered her niece, Mrs. Griffiths (according to her own account) the use of the household furniture to enable her to fit up a cottage which her husband was about to take at Tredegar. The Griffiths gladly availed themselves of the proposal, and the furniture was ac cordingly removed to Tredegar, where it was for some months regularly used by the defendant and his wife. During Mrs. Bennett's stay at Bristol, she formed an intimacy which matured into a matrimonial alliance, with a person of the name of WThistance, and as she now proposed to resume housekeeping, she wrote to Mrs. Griffiths requesting the return of the furniture, with the loan of which she had accommodated her. To this commu nication the defendant sent a very short and not very courteous reply, to the effect that possession was nine points of the law, adding that be would be before he gave them up. It was for this conversion that the present action was brought. On the close of the plaintiff's case Mr. WHATELEY submitted that the misjoinder in the declaration of the plaintiff's present husband should bea ground of nons u it. After some discussion the objection was overruled, a Learned S.-rgeant, who was present, remarking— " The only answer which I think is needed, Is that the ground of nonsuit is not pleaded. The issue joined, I understand to be, Upon the ante-nuptial property ; And, therefore, I would almost lay my life The plaintiff has been right to join his wife.' " Mr. WIIATELEY proceeded to open to the jury the de fendant's case, which the Learned Counsel supported by the testimony of three witnesses who stated that the plaintiff had in their presence made a gift of the pro perty in question to the defendant. After a careful summing up by Mr. Sergeant ATCHER LET, the jury remained in deliberation some time,.finally returning a verdict in favour of the defendant. The JUDGE—I can only say, Gentlemen, that had I been in the jury-box I should have found a similar verdict. BOW-STREET. On the part of the prisoner it was contended that such circumstances could only be shown on the trial of the cause, and that, at all events, the words " that if at any time it shall appear to the Judge who shall try the cause," could not have reference to his Lord ship, as the action was brought in the Palace Court. It was contra insisted that the words of the 59th section had reference to subsequent application ; the provision mentioned, besides the improper contract ing of a debt, other points, such as a fraudulent transfer of property, which could not be proved on a trial; and further, the concluding part of the clause showed that such applications could be heard " whe ther or not execution against the goods" had been issued. Mr. Justice MxuLE held that he could make an order of discharge, which he made accordingly. It is understood that application will be made to the Court out of which the judgment was obtained to bring the party under the 59th section, in order that he may be retaken. The point is an impor tant one. Several applications were made ex parte on affida vits, and entertained by his Lordship, leaving the parties open to their remedy if the discharges had been fraudulently procured. By the decision in the above case it will be seen that an application can be made to a Judge at Chambers on an execution of " any Court," the words of the 59th section being " to a Judge of one of her Majesty's superior Courts of Law at Westminster, or to the Court in which such judgment shall have been obtained." Boultle, a hair-dresser, was brought UP, charged with having, in June last, while in the service of Mrs. Taylor, of Craven-street, stolen a quantity of articles, her property. Mr. Henry Henshall, the superintendent of police at Bury, in Lancashire, stated that the prisoner applied to him for relief on Saturday last. He said that he had a statement to make as he was very uneasy in his mind. He said that in June last he was in the service of Mrs. Anne Taylor, of Craven-street, Strand, as hair-dresser, that one Sunday, in the month of June, he remained out all night drinking, and on the following morning, before any person got up, he went to his mistress' house, and stole a quantity of razors, fourteen or fifteen in number, a quantity of heir-brushes, combs, &c., two boxes, and sundry other articles. Several of the razors belonged to Mr. Chiffney the jockey, who had left them to be set. He went to Liverpool from London, and on his road sold the razors for drink at various public-houses, that he was in great distress, and had come to the determination of giving himself up to justice. After the prisoner had made this statement, the witness said he should detain him on a charge of felony. Mr. HALL committed the prisoner for trial. CLERKEN WEL L. An elderly man, decently attired, and of demure IDok, was charged with stealing a newspaper and other articles from the Lady Owen's Arms, in Doswell-street. The prisoner went into the tap-room on the previous evening, called for a glass of ale, and, whilst drinking it, pocketed the evening paper, snuffers and stand, and everything else that was capable of concealment on his person. The potman follnwed and arrested him, and the prisoner offered him a'-sum of money to allow him to escape; but a police-constable came up and secured him. He was committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Williams, who refused to give his address, was charged with having the care and management of a certain common gambling house, at No. 2, Bennett street, St. George, Hanover-square, and (so entered on the police charge sheet), Thomas Watson, of Northamp ton, currier, Wikiani Brown, of No. 2, Bennett-street, St. James's, wine-merchant, John Thompson, of Charles street, Euston-square (no occupation), and Charles Crayen, of No. 1, Great London-road, tobacconist, with being found in the same without lawful excnse. In pursuance of the w ry laudable intention of the Commissioners of Police to put down all gambling houses, an entrance to one of those dens, No. 34, Coventry-street, Haymarket, was effected yesterday afternoon, between five and six o'clock. The parties had, no doubt, received information, by some means, of the intended visit, and consequently no person or gambling implements were found within. Superintendant Hughes, of the 1) division, produced the order he had received, signed by one of the Police Commissioners, to enter the house, No. 2, Bennett-street. He went there, accompanied by Sdperintendent Beres ford, of the C division. Mr. Beresford rung the bell, and it was answered by Williams. Beresford then asked if there would be any play that night. Williams said "No." The police then entered the house. In the:parlour a gas • light was burning. A door on the stair-case, leading to the first floor and the upper part of the house, was found to be locked. Beresford asked him how he was to open it, and Williams produced the key. The other defendants were found in different apartments of the house. There were not any gambling tables or im plements on the premises. Superintendent Beresford said that there was a tele graphic communication by means of bell wire with the outer-door, and they only played hazard now, and it was easy on the slightest alarm to "plant away" the box and dice used in the game. The house had been en tered before and the defendants were the known fre quenters of such places and the associates of common gamblers. Mr. HenDwicK said there could be no moral doubt as to the character of the house in question, but there was not the legal proof necessary for a conviction ; the de fendants must, therefore, be discharged. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Aug. 13. CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) Thomas Hitchon was indicted for a burglary in the house of John Bulcock, at Burnley, on the 7th of May last. Mr. Thomson appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Wil kins for the defence. It appeared that, on the evening in question, after Mr. Bulcock had shut up his house, and was about retiring to rest, he received a visit from four of the police, who informed him that they had reason to believe that an attempt would be made to rob his house that night. The officers were accordingly disposed so as to keep R etch in the different parts of the house. Two were posted at the back, and two in front in one of the par lours. The lights were extinguished, and the house pre sented the usual appearance of the inmates having re tired to rest. Matters had remained in this way for some hours, when the officers who were on the watch in front heard some one quietly forcing the catch of one of the windows in a room at the other side of the hall. Some one appeared to have effected an entrance, for footsteps, as of a person without his shoes, were almost immediately heard in the hall. The noise of lighting a lucifer match was then heard, and the front door was stealthily opened, when a second party was heard to enter. • The • robbers approached the door of the room where the officers were lying perdu, and tried to open the door, but one of the officers pressed down the latch, and prevented their entrance. Voices were then heard in consultation as to the course to be taken, and while they were doubting whether they should force the door or go on to the kitchen, the officers rushed out upon them. The light was immediately extinguished in the scuffle which ensued, but one of the officers seizing both the intruders, pinned them against the wall. He was, however, unfortunately attacked by his fellow officer, who, in the dark, mistook him for one of the robbers, and the result of the contest was, that one of them escaped, having struck his captor a severe blow with a small crowbar, and wounded him in the head with a chisel, which was subsequently found in the hall, and which seemed, from the marks on the window, to have been the instrument used in effecting an entrance. One of the robbers, however, remained in custody, and proved to be the prisoner at the bar. His face was blackened, and he was without hat or shoes. Near him, however, was found a hat belonging to one of the officers, which had been left in another part of the house. On finding that escape was impossible, he offered to show the officers where his hat and shoes were, and finally took the officers to the place where he had put them before en tering the house. A hat was found which he admitted to be his, but the shoes he said had been changed, and those left belonged, he alleged, to one Smith Hargreaves, who had been his companion in the attempted robbery. Before the magistrates the prisoner made the following statement :—A chap came to me on Monday, and said he had seen some money put in a drawer in this house, and wanted me to go with him that night. I promised him I would go, but I did not go near him on Monday night. On Tuesday he came to me again,.and I had got some drink, and he persuaded me to go with him, and when we got part of the road I stopped and would not go further. He called me a soft fool, and said I had no occasion to go into the house. When we got to the place he lifted the window shutter up, and went in and opened the front door and called me in. He lighted a candle and went into a room, but there was no furniture in the room where the money should have been. He then said, "Let us go forward," and we went through the kitchen. Five men came up and seized me. The other man passed them, and went away. They call the man Smith. It appeared frona the other evidence in the cause that one Smith Hargreaves had on a former occasion given information to the police of a burglary, and had been a witness for the prosecution. None of the officers exa mined were able to say from what source the information of the robbery was received on the present occasion. It had been given to the superintendent, from whom they received their orders. The prisoner was found Guilty. His LORDSHIP observed that he thought the 'police had much better have their eyes on the conduct of this Smith Hargreaves, than their ears open to his communi cations. James Hindle was indicted for the manslaughter of Thomas Lomax. Mr. Hulton conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Drinkwater. It appears that the prisoner is a getter of coal at a col liery at Oswaldtwisle, and the deceased was a drawer to him. On the 9th day of May last, the deceased com plained of pains in the arms, and of lumps under his armpits, which hurt him when he worked. The prisoner was annoyed at his not getting on with his work, and, after some angry words, he gave the deceased a push, which threw him against one of the tubs used in the col liery. He fell with his right side on the edge, and com plained of being hurt. On going home in the evening he suffered much from pain in his side. He had some me dicine, threw up some blood, and was for a day or so confined to his bed. He recovered, however, so far as to resume his work, and for four or five weeks attended his duties at the pit as usual. He was then, however, at tacked with inflammation at the place where he had re ceived the blow ; it resulted in mortification, which ter minated his life. The prisoner, it appeared, displayed much feeling on the occasion, and expressed much regret at having struck the deceased, saying, that when people were angry they often struck harder than they intended. It did not, however, very clearly appear that the subse quent inflammation was traceable to the injury sustained by the act of the prisoner.—He was acquitted. Amos Hampson, John Wood, and Edward Stanley, ' were indicted, the two former for robbery, and the latter for receiving, with a guilty knowledge, a watch, the pro duce of such robbery. Mr. Hutton conducted the prosecution ; Mr. James appeared for the prisoners Hampson and Stanley. The two persons accused of the robbery are privates in the 6th Regiment of Foot, and the party indicted as receiver is a stripe-sergeant in the same regiment. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, a Mr. William Duncan, that on the 14th of June last he was on a visit at Preston, to which town he had before that time been a stranger. He remained at the Bull Inn until a little after twelve o'clock, when he left for the purpose of going to Butler-street. He, however, was somewhat intoxicated, and taking the wrong turn on leaving the inn, became rather bewildered. He met, however, three soldiers, and a man in plain clothes, of whom he asked his way. They went some distance with him in the direction, as they said, of Butler-street, and on the way he told them if they could find a house open he would treat them to a glass for their civility. They Black t T oo ig k e h r i ; m b t o o t a t h p o u i b n l m ic a -h te o s u r s pc-house f c u a s l e l d ed, to h o e b pe e n l i t e h v e e d d , o t o h r e , s a a s m it o w s t a r s e e p t, a s andtt twelve e t l h v e e p o' c ro lzk. ut r T t They hen returned perceiv ed along that at onthee of the soldiers and the civilian had gone away. The other two soldiers accompanied him until he got to a pice of waste ground, when one of them tripped him up, and kneeling on his breast, he, assisted by the other, rifled the pockets of the prosecutor, taking from him his watch and about 255. in silver. The prosecutor was not able to identify either of the prisoners as the parties who had robbed him, though he thought that Hampson was like one of the men. _ _ The prisoners, it appeared, with a number of their MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a full Bench of Magistrates.) Yesterday being the day fixed for taking into con sideration the proposition of Sir James Graham with respect to the erection of a New Prison in place of the one in Clerkenwell, now so named, and of adapting the former to the observance of the separate system, there was an unusually numerous attendance of ma gistrates, the bench being so full that many were obliged to sit in the counsels box. After the disposal of some matters chiefly connected with the appointment of surveyors, in which there appeared but little general interest, Mr. ROTCH rose to propose the following resolu tion :—" That a Committee be appointed to consider the best steps for carrying out this proposition re specting the state of the New Prison, and alio to con sider the plans laid before the Court by Secretary Sir James Graham, and to report thereon." He said that the present state of the New Prison was a dis graceand its present state totally t to r a e n c y l u c d i e v d i t i s h e e d m c o f r u o n m t r y ea , rrrying into effect the provision of the new Act with respect to prison dis cipline. The Government had in the most commend able manner passed that Act, and it now became the duty of the magistrates to erect such prisons as would enable this Act to be effective. After considerable discussion, Mr. Kilsby, the keeper of the New Prison, was called and examined. He stated that the prison was totally inadequate for carrying into effect the proceedings of the Bill. He was examined at great length. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, after this evidence, thought there was quite enough to warrant the bench in finding the presentment. Mr. TOWNSEND having seconded :the motion, after some discusion the resolution was'Unanimously agreed to. ENLARGEMENT OF /lANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM• After Mr. Sergeant ADAMS had alluded, in strong terms, to the report of the Metr o p o litan Commission ers of Lunacy, which had been referred to the Court by Sir J. Graham, and which reflected upon the con duct of the Visiting Justices of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, Mr. Enmorms, the Deputy Clerk of the Peace, read the report of the Committee appointed to in quire into the state of the pauper lunatics, which stated that there were, at the present moment, 449 pauper lunatics in the county of Middlesex for whom there was no room in the Hanwell Asylum, and re commended strongly that land should be purchased adjacent to the asylum for building and enlarging it, and other means taken for the complete accommoda tion of the pauper lunatics of the county. Mr. POWELL moved that the report of the Com mittee be received, and that the Committee be autho rised to negotiate for the purchase of land near the asylum, and to report on it to the Court on the next Court clay. It would be desirable if they could pur chase from thirty to fifty acres, but there was about fifteen acres near the North-road, close to the asylum, which he thought was a most desirable site. An amendment negativing the resolution having been proposed, a long discussion ensued, which even tually terminated by the original motion being carried, with only one dissentient. Some other unimportant county business having been disposed of, the Court adjourned at half-past five &clock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HO USE. EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION.—A tall, elderly, military-looking man, giving the name of Bichtn Hilton, who stated that he was a Frenchman, pro ceeded to read to Sir J. Pirie, the sitting alderman, a sort of speech from a written paper. He commenced by saying that he was well known to the French Government and the French Embassy; that in France he was, in 1830, colonel of the 65th regiment of the line; that he raised at his own ex pense, and paid from his own pocket, the two regiments called Voluntaires de la Charte, and in other respects contributed to the downfal of Charles X., and the establishing Louis Philippe on the throne of France, who had thus become his (complainant's) debtor to the amount of 6,0001. Louis Philippe was well aware that he had aided in levelling his road to the steps of the throne, and at first duly acknowledged it; but when he got more firmly established he forgot the claim, and on pressing for it he was banished. Alderman PIRIE wished complainant to discon tinue reading, and say briefly what he wanted. Complainant—A warrant t o apprehend Louis Philippe, as soon as he lands in this country, for a debt of honour, amounting to 6,0001. Alderman PIRIE—The King of the French will not be here for a month; but we cannot interfere in the matter. You must apply to a civil court. The applicant then left the Court, saying he would take the magistrate's advice. WORSHIP-STRE ET. Charles Salmon, a watch finisher (who was stated to be a capital workman, but a very dishonest one), was brought up for re-examination upon various charges of robbery. In November, 1841, he was engaged to work on the premises of Mr. Church, watchmaker, in the Westminster-road, and was placed in an upper 'work shop, as he requested that he might not be put in the ' sale shop, within sight of the street. On the 11th of November a very valuable gold watch (maker's name Brocklebank) and another watch movement were handed to him for some slight repair, but, instead of taking them up to his workshop, he went through the private door and absconded. Handbills were LAMBETH-S7 REET. Wednesday Augustus Jamas John Larouche, a youth of seventeen, in the garb of a sailor, and Edmund, a little fellow of eleven years of age, were placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, on a charge of stealing a large quantity of stays, the property of Mr. Moss, a wholesale stay manufacturer, of 112, High-street, Whitechapel. From the evidence it appeared that the younger prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Moss for some days, as an errand boy, and through him his brother ascertained where a number of the workpeople of his master resided. lie also got a number of Mr. Moss's cards, upon which he had written orders, and by this means, and representing he had come by Mr. Moss's desire, he had obtain e d s e ve ral d oze n s of pairs of stays, which he took, some to the house of a Miss Jackson, and more to the residence of Miss Mary Ann Owen, to both of whom he had been " paying his addresses." Some of the stays were in an unfinished state, and to complete them he had applied to a young woman named Vaughan, with whom he had " kept company." Miss Vaughan, while giving her evidence, handed in a note which she received from the prisoner, of which the following is a copy : " West-street, August 13, Six o'clock. " Dear Mary,—l send these things by my brother, as I cannot come quite so soon, but I will in about two hours, and bring some more pieces. Finish the white ones as soon as you can, and believe me to be, for the present, yours affectionately. " AU6USTUS L. R. " Miss Mary Ann Vaughan." While arranging the finishing of the stays, a cir cumstance `occurred which led to his unexpected and. immediate apprehension. Mrs. Myers, a young mar ried female, called upon Miss Jackson, and the elder prisoner, in accounting for the stays, said that they had been sent to him from Essex, and that the young woman to whom they had originally belonged had been transported. At the request of Mrs. Myers, he agreed to let her have a couple of pair of the stays at 2s. each. Mrs. Myers selected two pair from the lot, and before closing the bargain she took them to the shop of Mr. Moss, their actual owner, for the pur pose of ascertaining what they were really worth, and what it would take to finish them. The young woman in the shop at once recognised them as her master's property, and knowing they could not have been sold in such a state, she informed Mr. Moss of the circumstance, and this led to the apprehension of the prisoners. The greater portion of the property has been recovered, and the prisoners were remanded, to give time for the attendance of other and necessary witnesses, and also to enable the officers to trace the missing property. DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN DEPTFORD DOCKYARD. —On Tuesday, between the hours of one and two o'clock, p.m., as Jacob Pope, a shipwright, was employed in moving a heavy piece of African oak on board her Majesty's ship Pheenix, he met with an accident by I which he was crushed to death in a most frightful man ner. It appears that the deceased was adjusting a piece of oak timber, weighing about two tons, from a crane into the hold of the ship, and by some unforeseen cause it swung round, and catching his temple, crushed his head with great force against another timber, which had been made fast beneath the deck. The poor fellow was im mediately relieved from his perilous situation, and re moved to the Dispensary in the Victualling-yard; under the care of Dr. Browne, the medical storekeeper. On the arrival of the surgeon, a minute or two afterwards, it was manifest that life had become extinct within a few seconds of the unfortunate occurrence, his skull, on examination, being found crushed like a broken egg. His clothes and the place from which his body was removed were literally deluged with blood. An inquEst was held on Wednesday, before Mr. Carttar and a respectable jury, in her Majesty's Victualling-yard ; and after a long and patient investi g ation of the circumstances, a verdict was " returned of Accidental Death." The deceased was twenty-nine years of age, and has left a widow far ad vanced in pregnancy, and two children to deplore his untimely death. EXECUTION.—George W. Thompson, the murderer of Catherine Hanlin, was executed at Lower Sandusky, on the 12th instant. He died a hard death, as after he had been suspended twenty minutes his pulse could be distinctly counted. When on the gallows he made a few remarks, but nothing more than to express sorrow for his crime, and to warn others against similar offences, &c. Thompson committed the murder some two years ago, and once or twice escaped from gaol, and was re taken, previous to his ignominious end.—New York Journal. There was a terrible encounter on the 23d July, in the morning, on Wall-street., Louisville, between Dr. Holland and a chap pretty well known in these parts by the fancied cognomen of " Judge Rowan." We under stand that the fight was for a long time of doubtful issue, but that. the Judge fin. Ally bore off the Doctor's spectacles as true trophies of victory. Expectation ' ^ all on tiptoe.-2Vinc York ,uOl now Mr. W. M. Price said it was evident that his client was not a participator in this affair, as the vessel was sold before she left Rio. Gustavus Shozette was called by Mr. Price. He said he was a green hand on board the brig Hope. Left her unto all hands before the negroes came on board. The Portuguese colours were hauled before they left. The American flag was taken on board for a short time, because the King made a signal that there was a vessel of war outside. The Hope sailed the same night, and we all stayed on board the Por poise. The Hope sailed on the 2d December, and we stayed until the 9th, and then sailed for Rio. The Learned Commissioner was of opinion that the whole question rested upon, whether the accused had parted with the ownership of the Hope before the slaves were put on board of her by the Portuguese captain and craw. He was not prepared to give his decision to day, but would look into the case, and the accused must be remanded until to-morrow (Friday). The Court met on the following day, and stated that it had come to a determination to commit Cap tain Driscoll, and Bartlett Mansfield, second mate of the same brig (the Rope), for participation in th e same offence. " 4 Tis DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT," SCO.- W 6 propose that Captain Warner be allowed to try the virtues of his " long range " on the " Mauvais " cornet, as being the object furthest off ; or, as the insurance offices might object to this, what does Sir Robert P: O. say. to the Captain being allowed to have a shy at the - repeal of the income-tax ? It is th e niost remote obitet any "long range" could reach ; and, if " Captain 00 w 0 e l. ar b e o willlV r w n }'Varner l r i i ' n ' ; l a y n a o , ri a l3 r - d b i r i i i i l l n g t i i t l e d 0 40 7v 0 n , s al ut o •e le tl:l o e ,,y. Lit a t! . l: i r s for the exp i. experiment.—Punch. - On Sunday, the inhabitfaro. - - - had the opportunity of tray-''' or Preston h h. , - 1 - ' - 'to Ze'twu' d " a ~.‘og, by railway, -,..,„ ty Il es ~f raj.- e shilling and sixp . ace. , 4; 4 1 , .1 0 n eed of Mr. —.,.. 'or uo Ilina for re at P eston Chron icle . way trave• ~ ...,,, ra te o ..-- i -.... vtal hare. ap, Aug. ...--_-... • i i iCTVRE Or Tilt SL A7_ 17 .4 TRADE MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERDAY.) (tfcini ti New York Paper.) it.A.N . atimirgrs. On the arrival of the United Stales ship Columbus i.TwSaftuirrdintrtioEL4Dl.--6sCtooil4rfie2sea:noew Hay, at this port a few days back, the United States Upland3l d t itt os o, to 4l 4 14 / s 4s t :: Marshal received dispatches from Mr. Proffit t United Wheat Straw, y 1/ 8s to 1/ 1.9 s per load. SuPPIT 5/ . ; Clover ' Ha 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 6s to lc States Minister at Rio, and the Consul at that place, tolerably good, and trade rather dull. containing information that Cornelius F. Driscoll, the CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Ha 31156 to 41 5s master of the brig Hope, of this port, had infringed , U-eful ditto, 416 s to 4/ 15s1 fineUilan y d ditto, A/ 163 _ 0 . the Jaws of the United States, in taking on board a 5/ 5f.; Clover Hay, 4115 s to 61 ; Oat Straw , 118, to 111 US cargo of slaves whilst he was in command of that Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s p er load. A fair a.vt:rage ; vessel. ' Four witnesses were sent home iu the supply, and a steady destand Columbus, who had been part of thcf crew of the WHITF,CHAPEL.—Coarse Mead ,w Hay, 3110 s t_o Hope. They were d e livered over to the custody of Useful ditto, - 4/ Ss to 41 12s ; fine Upland_ ditto, ‘ 41 1. 5_ s w__ the Marshal by Captain Cooper, of the Columbus, 51; Clover Hay, 4/ 15s to 6/ les ; Oat Straw, 1_6 0 1" 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 11 Ss to 11 lOs per load. 1 5 : together with the following letter Consulate of the United States. Hay and Straw sold slowly, at the above quotatio,as 1, " Rio Janeiro, April 1844. New Meadow Hay sold at from 31 to 4146 ; and IN 01 " TO Ttili MARSHAL OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE I Clover, 41 to 5 1 5 6 p . r lon l- MEAT 1111.112113ZETS. NEW YORK DISTRICT, CITY OF NEW YORK. 1 of each kin't " Sir, You are hereby required to receive from Cap • SOUTHA LL, AUGUST 14.—The supply hue , of tat Stock on sale here was only moderate,w tain Co4er, commanding the United,States ship Cohan gen.eral desuand was steady at full prices. Beef, bus, Joseph Carroll, David Henderson, James Lewis, and Abraham Post, late of the brig Hope, of New York. fat 2s 6d to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 46; Lamb, 2s 46 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; and fork, • 6d . to 3 ?.."' "These men are sent home as witness -s onthe part • of the United States against Cornelius F. Driscoll, bee per 811/s. Supply :—Beasts, .40 ; Sheep and Lamm , master of said vessel, charged with being engaged in the 2,960 ; Cal yes, 61 ; Pigs, 38._ solci slave trade. The proper documents and dispatches have Romroan, AUGUST 14.—Prime beasts and sheep In other kinds of stock cornrow' been transmitted to the Hon. Secretary of State, and briskly at full pi .es• you will, therefore, keep the men in safe custody, untill Veal, .3 6 tip little was Becf from 2s 6d to 4s , iuttu 9 o 2s 8d to 4s ; Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 10( ; s you receive instructions from the proper department at Washington. rigs, 16s to 20s • and Mild' 4s ; and Pork, 2s 6d I.? 3s 8d per 81bs. Sucking Calve!' 18s to 32s ; quarter-old s_..tore , "It may be well to remark that the witnesses came 161 to 191 each. forward voluntarily, and gave their testimony. Cows, with their small Call: LEWES, AUGUST 13. —l3.e ef; " I am, respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant, Bcl • VC" " GEO. W. SLOCUM, Consul, U.S.A." Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s ; L am b, \ 3B 6d to 4s , A. from 2s 6d to 491 Mr. Rapalje, Deputy U. S. Marshal, took imme- 3 s4dto 4s • and Pork 2s 4d 3s 8d per Sibs. '- moth rate supply and a steady demane • diate measures to arrest Capt. Driscoll, and on Wed nesday night he was taken into custody. This after noon the accused was brought before Mr. Rapalje, United States Commissioner, for examination. Mr. W. M. Price attended as his counsel, and Mr. Barrett on the part of the United States Government. The following is the testimony in the case : Mr. W. M. Price, as counsel for the accused. said that before proceeding he should ask that the District Attorney should elect which witness he should exa mine first, and that the others should retire. Mr. Barrett said he had no objection. He should examine Carroll first. The Learned Gentleman then went on to cite the Act of Congress, 4th sec., 15 th May, 1820, and the Act passed 10th May, lts,?`, l , • Ire said the affidavit had been prepared with a view to a conviction under that section of the statute which made the offence merely punishable with a fine or im prisonment, but he thought the testimony was strong enough to justify a committal under the other statute. Joseph Carroll examined -I was seaman on hoard the brig Hope on her voyage to Gibraltar. I signed shipping articles. The crew were four men and two boys. George Henry, David Henderson, John swan, and myself. Captain Driscoll was the mss ter. He is present. The two mates are here now. We were told that we were bound to Gibraltar, from thence to Rio, and to any other ports in South Ame rica. She was under American colours. We sailed on 7th or Bth March, 1843, and- arrived the 30th of March. We had a good cargo, which we discharged, and took in sand ballast. We arrived at Rio 4th of June, 1844. We were there two- menths, and left 4th August. We were at the discharging ground, and we heard we were going to Africa, and we applied to the Consul. He said he would send for us. We went to Mr. Slocum, and he said the brig was bound to Bahia. A Portuguese, by the •name of Don Pedro, sailed with us. Afterwards he took the command of 'the vessel. He was rdpre - sented as the mate of a vessel then lying in the river Congo. He could not . speak English. We sailed on the 4th of August. We did not, go to Bahia, but to a place called Victoria. That place is on the coast of Brazil. George Henry - was left be hind at Rio. We came to anchor at Victoria, off the harbour, and Don Pedro went up to the town. We next received orders to haul over to the opposite side and discharge the ballast, whe:e we took in a large quantity of Brazilian fire -wood-120,000 sticks. Don Pedro was frequently there. Some casks, which we were told contained liquor, came down ; about 250 pipes. They contained water. Captain Driscoll said they contained rum. We next took some plank, after wards used for a slave deck, and three beams ; a large box also came, which the captain said contained hats, it was a sheet-iron cooking machine ; two boxes, said to contain soap, but they turned out to be hand cuffs—another large box, said to be a medicine chest, it contained arms, pistols and cutlasses, with a few medicines. We took from another vessel 76 cases of muskets and bayonets; also a quantity of jerked beef, farina rice, and beans. After this we took a Portuguese crew. Don Pedro was also on board, and proceeded on the voyage with us. On the 23d of April we sailed from Victoria to the River Congo. Captain Driscoll was in command. We had ten Por tuguese; We got to the River Congo the latter end of November. 11 c were bound to Pointalina, and got ashore one. night. Don Pedro went up to the town and brought a negro down with him. Ho was called Emanuel. He went with Don Pedro and the captain down into the cabin. After the black man came up, he said to one of the crew, " You are going round to Cabinda." We got under weigh the 3d of December, the day after we arrived there. The next day we commenced dis charging the goods. The dry goods and the muskets were put on boterd the American brig Porpoise. Four additional Portuguese seamen were also taken. The Captain next paid one off, and wanted me to pay my passage to the Brazils in the brig Porpoise, but 1 re fused to go, to pay my passage. While I was there I saw 100 or 150 negroes taken on board, and stowed forward. ; There were in all 602 negroes taken on board, but we left before they all came, and we took the American.flig with us. The captain was also pre paring-to leave, and he left in the same boat as I did. The boat was near enough to the brig for me to see the negroes taken .on board. The captain said the negroes were King's men to take the cargo up the country. The American flag was flying at the time the negroes were taken'orr board. The brig was about 200 tons, and would carry 600 negroes. While the Porpoise was there a vessel hove in sight, and being afraid she was a man-of-war, they landed the negroes, and went on board the Hope, and hoisted the American flag. At this time •some of the negroes were on hoard. Captain Driscoll assumed the command, and when we found that the 'strange sail was not a man of-war, the captain ordered us to efface the brig's name from the stern. Mansfield heard what the captain said. Don Pedro then came on board and took the command. After we had defaced the,name Captain Driscoll was on board and the negroes were taken in again. He talked Spanish to Don Pedro. I went on board again to get a spy-glass, and I saw the negroes all standing together, neck, and heels. There were then 602 men, women, and children. The most of the men were naked. The women had .very little clothing. They were put aft. The men forward.. I think we sailed on the 9th of December. I worked my way to Rio. I saw the crew at Rio that belonged to the Hope after I got there. I knew they were the same, as I saw a negro girl belonging to one of the crew. A few days after we got to Rio some misunderstanding occurred be tween Captain Dri3coll and his chief mate, and they went to the Consul. What occurred there I don't know, but the Consul sent for me. At six o'clock that night we went to the American Minister, Mr. Proffit, who sent us on board the United States ship Columbus. Captain Driscoll went to Baltimore in a barque. Cross- examined--The dispute between the first mate and the captain was this :—The captain wanted to pay him up to Cabinda, and the mate demanded to be paid up to the time we arrived at Rio. The Consul there claimed as much for me. I am an American, and was never engaged in the slave trade before, but have seen many slave-vessels in the Havannah—a great number. I was satisfied before I left Rio that the captain was going on a slave voyage. David Henderson, another of the crew of the brig Hope, corroborated the previous testimony. Mr. Barrett said he had other witnesses, but should rest here. . CORN AVER.AGES. kik:l'l:llAL AVERAGE. PRICES OF 1111'1184 C 00149 F. , the Week ended August 10, 1e44, made up frma the Retursts: the Inspector, in the different Cities and Town s in Englan d Iv ales, per imperial QuarterQd Wheat......... 483 104. f Oats Earley 34 .. 64 Rye .. ...... 355. 9d 1 Pea5e......... 3101. AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIZ WEEKS. Weeks ending WHEAT. BARLET.I OATS. I EYE. j BEAFHL 6 July 6......... 55 8 34 5 2* 11 35 0 39 5 13......... 51 10 31 10 22 3 ;4 2 3' 8; 3 4 5 20 5l 1 3i 5 21 5 36 4 37 7' 5 ,4 29 52 9 34 2 2 1 •It 33 9 37 1 3 5l 01 , 34 0 20 3 37 6 34 7 E. g 10 ..... -1 48 10 ,34 6 20 1 35 9 35 0 , IMPERIAL AO.REG ATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX v r i u- eg Wheat-- ..... 52. 104 I Oats Oarlej... ...... 343 5 . 1 1 Rye DUTIES OH FOREIGN COSH. 184 Odd Oct. Cd a: Barley °`l* r'it'e '7g. 64.1 Pease FAIRS IN SCOTLAND. 311 FALKIRK TRYST.—The first of these great anvil ma rkets was held on Tuesday on the usua l g roans, Stenhouse Muir ; and the show was principally eor 3 ; posed of grazing stock. The supply of good fat id about an average of the last August market, a nd so, about 7s. per Butch stone. 'Cattle fine for fog st gins, and turnips, from 4 s. to 4 s. 6 d. per imperia: ~4 leaner stock, from 3 s. to 3 s. 6 d. In consequence ariot failure of the grass in the south, a limited nuMber English and border jobbers were o n the ground, 313 i, about eleVen o'clock a number of sa les were etrectl'it, Both buyers and sellers were disappointel - ' buyers hiving bought too dear in the markets r e f ; cently held, in the north, and the south count dealers pa - ying here more money than they an_ ii ti c " . pated. Although the market was above a n ,ave 7( stock, there was a good demand for grazing the Aberdeen, Angus, and Fife breeds ; an =l g°s Argyleshires were not neglected. Six-quarter viej, Highlanders, of a good quality, were also in deins°o It was generally allowed that about ten per ce oo a -above last August market was obtai ned for 5 beasts. MELROSE LAMB FAlR.—This great tamp ;10 held on the 13th inst. on the base of the Eildon we t The numbers brought forward were above an avica of former years, it being calculated that fully sevei five thousand appeared upon the ground, which is i s ig thousand more than were shown at the Lammas of last year. Bred lambs of the best descriPt,. le o could be bought upon much the same terms as 0 ,1 at St. Boswell's, running from 18s. to 225. each; s o secondary lots, or such as had been draughted f r o , those sent to St. Boswell's and other markets, j ` q . o .,, selling, according to quality, at from 15s. to 17s- ' 3 It The same remarks are applicable both to Orel; bred and half.bred, according to their different Vs " a;? SEIZURE OF ANOTHER ILLICIT STILL.--11. - t o tillation is at present carried on in the metropou s g reater extent than ever, and in addition to se ci v i e, seizures that have been effected within these few mr ,e information has been received that several were lo:Ider tion in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green' 11 ,, , e js3o cordingly, Kay and Parzeter, two o ffi cers of th e e dea aided by two constables of the H division, Pr, about noun on Tuesday last to the premises 1 4° , 5 ' o cco' and 11, Temple-terrace, Bethnal - green , said to oebe pied by John' Teake. Entrance could only a nd fected at No. 11, wi;en they passed into the yar" aie over the walls to Nu. !11. where a private still WO covered in full work. It Wa.q fully charg..d with rnohu - •• wash; there were several locks filled with wort t ) quantity of casks containing spiti:s, some molasses, it) the usual apparatus and utensils ne'ressary to mult i , a considerable trade in spirits. The 4 , 1101 e of tn;,„• were seized, and two lads who were disco: Bred on co ';, premises fled, but having been ultimately foillidd cealed in two adjoining houses, were capture d so of veyed to the station-house. Vans were procur ed for bid purpose of removing the articles, when a mob asse in li j ig and endeavoured to prevent the removal, by aslcel the o ffi cers with mud, brick-bats, stones, &c. T he exhibited their fire-arms, and a pistol was diaeu il ",,d, over the heads of the assailants, but to no purposi.7o an, they were compelled to remove the prize in the 031 - jai repeated volleys of missiles, and succeeded in con:v e / ree t , it in safety to the Excise warehouse in Old Broad -4 W The Excise-o ffi cers escaped without any personal i f iV o ltll their clothes, however, were woefully bespatterea. ea' mud and dirt. The police were less fortunate , br ideat stable 49 H was violently struck on the hat with a t bd bar; by which it was broken through, and Lis hea l severely SER wounded. lOUS ACCIDENT.—An accident, feared may be attended with fatal results, ,7CO tir ,, r a e 130' the evening of Tuesday last, to a private in be,,` ; „,13 ,1f ,' tallion of the Soots Fusilier Guards, stationed at ":tirk named Hannent. The unfortunate man, in at temp Of to climb up the ragged pieces of granite of wi'li at e pedestal of the bronze equestrian statute of Geo "e l i‘„ ) (on Snow-hill, at the extremity , of the Long -w ; fro', which i d t a ; composed, unfortunately missed his footing, and fen e ri ll a height of upwards of twelve feet, terribly shn. e " himself against the projecting stonework, bei c k ' reached the ground. It was feared that his 10 c "-, t h broken, and he was conveyed to the hospital, ": ‘ ,"ear: little delay as possible, in the most excruciating ''",, io Up to Wednesday afternoon he was considered to l ir . tha most dangerous state. From the manner in wll t i fe 0t : stonework of the pedestal is constructed it is a "„, - 0 0' tended with extreme danger to climb to the a' l 7bos; but it is next to an impossibility to descend aga in n spe ` +. ever great the caution used) without the aid of a r",ttil; ladder. This is nut the first accident of a similar P vo i which has occurred at the statue, arising frcn li hardiness. Inc ill; LONDON TO BRUSSELS IN A DAY.—It Maijetle,;, teresting to some of our readers to know that the Ppir c from London to Brussels can be accomplished regtibjec in one day. The arrangements for this gre o ,l, io j f commenced on Sunday last. The train left Lon° Dover at half-past 5 A.m., arrived at Dover at 9 13 ; g S° e.nbarkation on board the Princess Mary, belong!•011' the Dover Railway Company, took place is:ll l V' ro o r s and the voyage to Ostend was performed in li tt ' e oste • than four hours and a half. The passengers left a$ at a quarter-past .4 o'clock, and arrived in Bro si est , -.-0 quarter past 9 the same evening, the whole oi (238 miles) having been accomplished in 15 lle tlfs. stoppages in Ostend exceeded two hours. BIRTHS. ut t er 01 On the 7th inst., at Bitteswell Vicarage , near TAett Leicestershire, the wife of the Rev. George Monninefull i ricitt Master of Monmouth Grammar School, and late 0, of Rockfield, of a son. lag On the 10th iEst., in the Close, Salisbury, the B. Townsend, Esq., of a daughter. ~. ha g‘ tsP On the 12th inst., at Coventry, the wife of 00- - ...da of ff ()COi: Thomas h hle e es l3t Ryle,h i n s E t s . , q a . , t 0 f P . a a Park-road, daughter.o ad , Upper Esq., staff-surgeon, of a daughter. f , , th e l ' - (3 0 , the it' On the 13th inst., at Pelham-crescent, BrornP t° ,,uter' tlO I J 3 o t p h li i n n g st s a q t ., l o v f e t s 'a t ' b in o s u — rn a e- s gr on oN a .e n , d doe;swateri c''' lady of H. S. Hood, Esq., of a son. IV• an On the 4th inst., in Paris, the wife of the Rev. • cl, olei lin, of a daughter. w roit On the 10th inst., at Mountfield House, Hart lady of H. R. Abraham, Esq., of a son. On the 11th inst , Mrs. Richard Hunter, of 13111115‘41i . c -:. f '' • 101 ° f On the 11th inst., at Ardfert Abbey, Kerry', th e T s q . u o C a i r i r o e ib o e i f e j a 2 E t s h s o c n i ; Li , s o t f . , a at so n . r Clapton, of a son. On the 12th inst., at Borrowbv, Yorksbire.rotin. .._, Moon, of Dorset-place, Regent's-park, of a daughte go MARRIED. • bare' 1 1 ' On the 10th inst., at St. George's Chapel, Edit) da oA e ldest ..are Charles James Scott, of London, to Elizabeth,l ijosr 1 NTai's ter of J. Scott, M.D., R.N., late of the Royal - 0 84 ‘ Haslar.• tbe C , Chelsea , D i v On the 13th inst., at Trinity Churebt o f the James O'Brien, to Octavia, youngest daughtert.. stree t ' Hopkinson, Esq., of Cadogan-place, and Regen . Sin t ' DIED. ik, the }Tall Safe On the 10th inst.. at Heveningham ' o , Mrs. Georgmr: b 01 1 1 . e i: Hon. Joshua Lord Huntingfield, aged 6 6 - . c .,„.,., sur6:4oo B On the sth inst., at Penrith, T. Bowman, It igg. On the 10th inst., at Camden -town, Sara the w ife Abington, aged-76. • beth' of OnO lv t h h .e e i‘ll l 2a o t3 t h. l o c i ini,:stEtygaiinliGaluii_lpilif,oi e r e d: B s Guildford -stre et, ; 0 : 5 1 i e z p a ti . jd0 , 2:4,05. 0 e r i hurst Pevta,rbite' On the 12th inst., aafrern ef South-grove, RN e- . 9 ~ care, 6 - On, the - 12th inst., ." la *ton-sq at 1. orr 1., ~, ~,... Butt` ,stephe n Oc t ' Esq.,l94te of' the 2d Life Gu'ar.dos,‘„ifiellioof Cat Elizikbe Eti , agiql 62. Sactlinc::lualeri)zrelseveollainn.' 'llea: if f jc4311 . EEtdley, aged r 6. kb ath Emma,---r -at BlackhQath, f' f E''o:l)."ll3tth'hC;::, ri;li3tOttlifl ii n ' i c sn i ts i . i t, i t , y ( a :11:::: get_oai.nll:b. ~..roir,.oi:sv".e, t he w ... e o_, • Ou the 13th final' .----. ( John-street. Cgs, ~ James Hooper, of St. ..,, ___ - - I.l l ig, ---- -- - 7 , tiNDO I - /qv. ----- --.— A 1 .'ublisbed by ." t oice, ' ,t oy * ..and: ,: l'rmt,. 3114. 1. riot . t. 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