The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

.., lIP COURT OF SEVERS. - A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the Cor.nty of Middlesex, was held on Friday, at the Sewers'-office,. ( Ureek-street, Soho-square. This being the first Court held 'in the new year, at which the annual nomina tion of Chairm an flu- the year ensuing takes place, there was an unusually f all attendance of Commissioners. F. L. Dortaa.nsoN, Esq., took the Chair at twelve o'clock, and some of the routine business of the Court having been disposed of, at two o'clock announced that the time had now arrived whsen it became the duty of the Court to elect their Chairman for the year ensuing. In retiring from the office the Court had conferred upon him for the last year, he begged to return "his thanks to every member of the Court for the kind ness he had met with, and the disposition that had been shown to aid and assist him in the arduous duties he had to perform. Mr. Donaldson then retired, and Mr. Willoughby was una aiimously called to the Chair. At this time among the Commissioners present, we noticed Mr. Tufnell, M. P., and the Hon. Fred. Byng. On Mr. Willoughby taking the chair, and the question of the election of a Chairman being put, Mr. LESLIE wished to know under what statute or authority they elected a Chairman for a year. He greatly deprecated the election of a perpetual Chairman, believing it to be bad in principle and injurious to the public good. He felt persuaded that it would be much better that the Court should elect its Chairman every day. The adoption of such a course, he be lieved, would be most ualutary—would expedite the business of the Court, and would relieve it of many of the evils by which it was at present surrounded. It was his firm belief, and, until he was convinced to the contrary, he should maintain it, that the evils and mischiefs to which the Court had been ex posed arose mainly through the Chairman being a permanent officer. Many things had been done under the autho rity of the Chairman which had been totally unknown to the Court and quite inconsistent with the Statute of Sewers. lie thought the Court ought to pause and consider well before they appointed a Chairman, whether they should elect him for a twelvemonth or a day. He thought it unwise and inex pedient to appoint an annual Chairman. Sir J. J. HANSLER. moved that T. L. Donaldson, Esq., the late Chairman, should be appointed to that office for the year ensuing. Mr. W. B. FRANCK seconded the motion. Mr. TOFNELL - wished to say nothing in disparagement of their late Chairman, but he must be allowed to say that he could not altogether agree with the principle of the Chairman conductinc , the proceedings of the Court upon questions pro. posed and brought forward by himself—( Hear, hear)—and, in fact, sitting both as judge and jury on his own case.—(Hear, hear.) H'e thought some alteration in the constitution of the Court i.tt this respect ought to take place, and if something were not d'Jne on the subject, he should feel it to be his duty to bring it forward by a specific motion. The CHAIRMAN trusted that the Hon. Commissioner would 'put his threat in execution, because he felt if he did so, he -would discover that it was necessary that the Chairman should take the conduct, in many instances, of the business of the Court and the public. Mr. LESLIE would assert, without the fear of contradiction, that the Court had no authority under the Statute of Sewers , to elect a permanent Chairman.—( Hear, hear.) Their clerk was the responsible person, he was recognised by the courts of law, while the Chairman was not—( Hear, hear)—and any mistake that was made would be visited on the clerk, and not upon the Chairman. Under these circumstances, he should move as an amendment—" That the Court had no authority -under the Statute of Sewers to appoint a permanent Chairman, and that no such appointment should be made." Mr. A'BECKETT seconded the amendment. The CHAIRMAN had no hesitation in deciding that the amendment could not be put according to the bye-laws. Mr. BYNo agreed with the Chairman, that in point of form the amendment could not be put, but at the same time he felt bound to state that he thought the worthy Commissioner, Mr. Leslie, right in stating that the Chairman ought to be appointed daily. He thought, however, that so important a subject ought to be made the subject of a specifics motion. He must confess that he had witnessed on certain occasions a species of whipping-in of Commissioners, which could never take place if their Chairman was elected daily.—( Hear. ) Mr. J. GUNTER supported the amendment. After a few observations from Mr. BEECH, Mr. HAWKES said that he felt compelled to hold up his hand against the nomination of a fixed Chairman. In doing so he meant no disrespect to their late Chairman, but he thought the time had arrived when the subject of the election of Chairman ought to be well considered. He considered it unjust to the public and the members of that Court to give such extensive powers to their Chairman.— (Hear, hear. ) Mr. LESLIE wished to know from the Chairman whether he refused to put his amendment ? The CHAIRMAN felt bound to say he could not put it. Mr. LESLIE said that he would get rid of the objection of the Chairman by stating that his worthy friend to his right, Mr. Tufnell, had agreed to be put in nomination, not for the purpose of being appointed Chairman, buf, merely to raise the question whether the election of Chairman should be annual or daily. He also wished to give notice that it was his intention at another Court to move the alteration of the 17th bye-law. Sir J. J. HANSLER considered that the Court ought to know whether the gentleman who had been proposed by Mr. Leslie would serve if elected. Mr. BEECH considered that frankness, candour, and English like honesty required that the candidate for the Chair should state whether, if elected, he would serve or not. Mr. TCFNELL, AI.P., trusted if he was elected that his conduct would show whether he was willing to serve or not. The CHAIRMAN said that there could be no doubt that the course taken by Mr. Leslie was one that was consistent with the practice of the Court. Another candidate for the Chair having been named, the only question was as to the day on which the ballot for the Chairman should take place. A long discussion took place, which terminated in the fol lowing arrangement—that on Friday, the 12th inst , Mr. Leslie should bring forward his motion for rescinding the 17,h bye law with regard to the election of Chairman, and that the ballot for that election should take place on Friday, the 19th. Mr. LESLIE gave notice of his intention at the next General Court to move to rescind the orders of the Special Court of the 22d of December, 1843, as to the appointments of a new Assistant-Surveyor and a fourth Clerk of the Works, because— First, Ihe repeated statements of the late Chairman of the area of the Eastern, Western, Itanelagh, and Counter's Creek Districts being 25 square miles, of which the Clerks of the Works Alr. Bell has to sup rintend 9 square miles, Air. Jenkins has to superintend 9 square miles, Air. Aslat has to superintend 23 square miles, are most inaccurate, the Chairman being in error in the su perficial measurement of the four districts at least 28 millions of square )ards. Second, That such appointments by the Special Court afore sa;d, if carried out, wouid be illegal, con , rary to the orders of Court, the statutes, the laws, ordinances, and constitution of sewers. The other routine business of the Court having been dis posed of, the Court adjourned at a late hour to Tuesday, the 9th, at eleven o'clock, when 3lr. Leslie brings forward his 27 dreaded resolutions for purging the Court of Sewers of many of its impurities. Mr. Willoughby was in the chair to the rising of the Court, Mr. Donaldson did not make his appearance after his retire ment in the early part of the day. From the feeling, exhibited in the Court to-day, if Mr. Leslie persist in his motion of nominating Mr. Tufnell, there is every probability of that gentleman filling the most unen viable post of Chairman of the Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Wedminster, and part of the county of Mid dlesex. ROYAL TIIANtES YACHT CLurt.—A meeting cf the members was held on Thursday evening, at the British Bo' Cockspur. street. Stewards for the forthcoming festival were appointed. _ _ _ LICENSED 'VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM (OLD KENT ROA n).—On Friday the half yearly Court of the Governors of this charity, which is established fur the benefit of decayed iicen .id victuallers, was held at the Bridge House Hotel, Mr. Georga Hedges, President, in the Chair. The mi nutes of the several courts that were held during the bear having been read, and confirmed, Mr. Jones read the report of the Boars of Management fqr the past year. The Poard of Management commenced with congratulating the supporters of the charity on its prosperous condition. His. Royal Highness Prince Albert, acceding to the earnest soli citation of the Board, h d graciou - dy consented to become the future Patron of the charity in the room of the late Duke of Sussex. Thus the institution was honoured with the patronage of her Majesty and her Royal Consort The subscriptions for the year amounted to 2,218/. 15s. 6d., a larger sum than had been subscribed daring the previous three years. The receipts for the year were 2,6191. Os. 7d., and the disbursements reached that amount minus 11. 2s. 9d. The funded property amounted to 6,4111., producing 2121. 9s. 10d. in dividends. There were in the asylum one hundred and three inmates, who, in addition to lodging, fuel, and candle-light, received 6s. and is. a week, the former be ing allowed to single and the latter to married persons. The foilowieg lega , ies had bren bequeathed to the charity :- 19/. I9s. by Mr. Allison, Streatham-place, Brixton ; 1001. by Mr. Harrison, Paddington ; and 20/. by Mr. Jones, of Bishoph gate-street Without. Upon the motion of Mr. :.slunton, seconded by Mr. Osborne, the Report was adopted. The vacancies amongst the several officers of the Corporation, were then filled up, and thanks voted to the Chairman, after whits the Court was dissolved. THE HACKNEY CIRRIAGE PROPRIETORS AND THE mways.—On Friday there was a meeting at the York Arms, High Holborn, of the hackney carriage and cab pro prietors of the metropolis, in pursuance of a requisition, calling upon all persons whose interests were injured by the present monopoly of hackney carriage and cab conveyance, carried on by some of the metropolitan Railway Companies, to attend,with a view to adopting prompt measures for bringing the subject under the notice of Parliament early in the ensuing session. From the statements made by Mr. Philpott, Mr. Powell, Mr. Yeoman, and other large proprietors, it appeared that, accord ing to the opinion of Sir William Follett, the practice of the various Railway Companies, - of employing vehicles at the various stations exclusively for their own use, and to the exclu sion of those plying on the public stands, was not only illegal, but rendered the Companies so acting liable to the payment of the post-horse duty. Interviews had been had by a deputation from the body with the Commissieners of Stamps and the Board of Excise, and during the last few days with Sir George Clerk, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, who, after paying considerable attention to the case, and stating that their Lordships were aware of the monopoly complained of, recommended the deputation to apply to Sir James Gra ham, her Majesty's Secretary of State, which will be done in the course of the ensuing week. The meeting resolved on drawing up a petition for presentation to Parliament in the en suing session, with the view of getting a clause inserted in the Acts of Parliament regulating hackney carriages and Railway Companies, to remedy the grievances complained of. HORRIBLE INFANTICIDE.—The Court of Assizes of Bouches-du-Rhone was occupied on the 2d ult. with the trial of the widow Clavelly, aged 62, her daughter Marie Clavelly, aged 31, and th e aun t o f t h e latter, Rosalie Ducros, aged 60, for having, on Septe m b er th e 22d, murdered a new born child by pouring boiling -water down its throat. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoners all lived together at Aix, in great respectability, with the mother of the two elder prisoners, an old woman of 90, whom they treated with the most filial affection. On the night of the murder the younger prisoner was suddenly taken ill, and, after an hour passed in great pain, confessed to her mother and aunt that she was in labour, and would be soon delivered. The two elder prisoners were horror-struck at the disgrace thus about to be thrown en flit family, and they determined to kill the child. As soon as it was born they poured hot water down its throat, and then pressed the windpipe until life had fled. They informed the younger prisoner that the child was dead, and the aunt went and laid it in the street. Some persons in passing found it there, and the authorities having been informed of the circumstance, immediately instituted an investigation, which brought to light the fact that the you n g er p risoner was ill, and had lately been delivered of a child. The family were taken on.suspicion, and the two elder prisoners confessed that the child had been made away with by them as stated above. On the trial, when asked what could have tempted them to commit such a crime, they declared that "they had lost their senses to a certain degree in seeing their fami ly dishonou y had net been moved by any fear of the justice of God, d thoug h they had dreaded the opinion of men . The j ury considering that nothing had been proved against the younger prisoner acquitted her, and she was set at liberty after a very affecting address from the Court. The two other prisoners were found guilty, end sentenced to imprisonment for ten years, with hard labour and exponre on the pillory.— Galignanea Alein/t,Yer! EXTRAORDINARY UPROAR. LECTURE ON MESMERISM. On Thursday evening a lecture was given at the Greenwich Literary and Scientificlnstitution by Mr. Vernon on Mesme rism' which has latterly excited great attention, particula rl y in that district. At eight o'clock the lecture hall, which will con tain upwards of 1,000 persons, was crowded to excess. Amongst the company were a great number of ladies, several of the county magistrates, gentry, and professional and scientific men. On the platform, which was devoted to the lecturer, patients, and medical gentlemen, who attended to take part in the pro ceedings, were Dr. Oak, of Blackheath ; Dr. Purvis, of Green wich ; and Messrs. Oak, Mitchell, Sherwin, Atkins, Apple ton, Smith, and Addison and Hope, surgeons of the Dread nought Hospital ship ; besides a number of medical students from the London hospitals in the gallery. Mr. BENNETT, silversmith, of Stockwell-street, Greenwich, was called to the Chair. Mr. VERNON then came forward and introduced three mes meric patients—namely, the boy Cook, a very intelligent look ing youth; a young man, apparently about 20 years of age, and the very reverse in appearance to Cook ; and a young woman, about the same age. She was very pale, and having looked timidly round vat down and appeared to pay great attention to the lecturer's address. Mr. Smith, jun., who it will be remembered mesmerised the boy Cook, was also present. Alr. VERNON said that, from the great number of persons present, he felt assured a strong interest was felt on the subject of mesmerism. The cause which had mere directly brought him down was the case of the boy Cook, whom he had been requested to visit, and he now came forward more particularly to meet the gentlemen of the medical profession, who had so boldly asserted that it was a delusion from beginning to end. He had no doubt he should show effects which would convince any unbiassed mind that mesmerism was not a delusion, but deserved to be ranked amongst the sciences. He then went on with a formal lecture on the subject, and was occasionally saluted with laughter from the medical gentlemen, and on two or three occasions audible hisses greeted his ears. The Lecturer then cleared the front of the platform, so that no persons might touch the patient or be near enough to nega tive the mesmeric influence. The female was then seated in a chair facing the auditory. Mr. VERNON requested any two or three gentlemen to stand by during the operations. He hoped to have seen Mr. Hope, who had so positively denied the existence of mesmeric in fluence over the boy Cook, come and defend his assertions if he could. There was a general call for Mr. Hope, who, accompanied by Mr. Addison, another surgeon on board the Dreadnought, stepped on to the platform. The LECTURER, in answer to questions, said he had mes merised the patient four times before, but never publicly. He had done so six weeks ago at a private soirée at Dr. Partridge's in Upper Montague-street. Dr. OAK said that only a few minutes before the girl said she had only been mesmerised twice; her memory, therefore, was, at all events, very defective.—(Hear.) Mr. MITCHELL—WeII, if there is any truth in the argument, I ask the lecturer to mesmerise me. As a professional man I shall be a better patient.—( Laughter.) I must confess I am sceptical, but if I am wrong I am willing to become a convert —the test, however, must be my being subjected to the mes meric influence, and here I am to submit to it.—( He seated himself in a chair amidst tumultuous applause, which appeared at first to astound the operator. Mr. VERNON appealed to the Chairman whether it could be expected of him to do any other than appeared in the bills. He had attended, not of his own accord, but by special invitation ; neither was he doing it for pecuniary gain. He had no hand in drawing up the bill, but had prepared himself to act up to the promise held out in it. He thought he would be doing sufficient in demonstrating what he could do, without attempting that which might be successful, or from many causes an utter failure. It was a subject which ought to be acted upon with solemnity and calm ness, and not in the manner which the gentleman who had strutted out and thrown himself into antics something amount ing to mountebank-ism.—( Hear, hear, and laughter—and " No shuffling.") The person who cried "no shuffling" had put himself hors de combat—he kept aloof and proved he could not approach the subject as a matter of science. With regard to the gentleman (Mr. Mitchell) he would undertake to say that on any future occasion he would mesmerise him—if he could.— ( Hear, and laughter.) Mr. SHERWIN said that by the invitation of the Learned Professor they had left the pleasures of private life to meet him on the occasion, and all they asked was a fair opportunity to in vestigate the matter. Mr. V ERNON—Don't call me a learned professor.—( A voice, " Hold your tongue, don't quarrel; who can go to sleep in such a noise f")—( Laughter. ) Mr. VERNON—I say it was not my summons for you to attend. I had no interest in the matter, and have only come to prove facts within nay own knowledge.—(Hisses, and much confusion. ) The CHAIRMAN called loudly to order, and begged to know whether it was desired that the lecture should proceed? Dr. PURVIS said it was a matter which ought to be met fairly, calmly, • and dispassionately; and, as Mr. Vernon had come to oblige, it was not treating him fairly. They could not tell what those phenomena were, and it was not fair to chal lenge him to do what he had not professed. Order having been restored, Drs. Purvis and Oak were called 'on by the audience to act as judges, and give their impartial opinion as to the result of the experiment. The Lecturer then made the usual passes, and in less than one minute the patient was declared by the operator to be in a state of mesmeric coma. Mr. Addison and Mr. Sherwin then applied a bottle of strong ammonia to her nostrils and mouth, for several minutes, and the patient showed but very slight oppression. Mr. Sherwin afterwards unclosed her eyelids and introduced his fingers into her mouth, without any visible effect, but caused loud cries of " shame " from many persons. On being loudly called on to state his opinion as to whether the patient was in a mesmeric trance, he, after sonic ambiguous answers, said there was more the appearance of a person assuming sleep than otherwise. She evidently had a will and responded to the touch. Mr. VERNON said she was not sleeping the sleep of death, nor was it pretended that she had no will or imagination; the real question was, was it a mesmeric or natural sleep. The test of the strong ammonia which Mr. Sherwin had adminis tered at half the strength and applied for half the time, would have awoke him out of the soundest natural sleep. Dr. OAK said he had been thirty-five years in the profess:on, and he hoped he might venture an opinion on the case. He wished to be convinced whether there was any truth in the matter, but, looking at the patient, it was evident she was hysterical, and not in health ; at present she was labouring under hysteria ; besides that, he had just previously heard her peak. Mr. VERNON—Yev, to be sure you did, to me. Dr. OAK (vehemently).—N. hen I hear the operator speak to the patient, who answers rationally, how the devil can you think otherwise than that she is awake ?—(Loud cries of " re turn our money," and great confusion. ) Mr. VERNON—Dr. Oak said that from 33 years' experience he was qualified to decide whether it was a ca,e of mesmerism or not. Dr. OAK—I did not say mesmerism. I don't believe in it, and I won't have words put into my mouth. Mr. VERNON—It is one of the facts connected with the phenomena.—( Great uproar, and cries of " you are practising an absurdity—the imposture is sufficiently apparent," &C.) The CHAIRMAN—ShaII the meeting be dissolved ? (Up roar. ) The lecturer, of course, does not expect to make every ,nan here of the same opinion, but he is entitled to a hearing. Those who are dissatisfied might have their money returned if they thought proper to leave.—( Hear. ) Mr. VERNON said he expected to have met with a profes sional reception, instead of the uproarious conduct which was more like that in the gallery of a theatre, than of those met for the acquirement of scientific knowledge. Whatever the ge neral tenor of their minds might be at that time they were not capable of appreciating any scientific explanation. Unless, therefore, some pledge was given of more orderly conduct he would not demean himself by continuing the lecture to them.—( Great uproar, during which the lecturer led the patient ff ; he then returned). Such uproar was truly disgraceful. Ile must be excused, if, after such treatment, he was some what excited. He had not run away, but had been perform ing an act of common courtesy to a female who had voluntarily come forward for their information.—( Hear, hear.) She was not kindly treated by the medical gentleman, and the mes meric influence had been partially destroyed.—(Cries of "It's all a humbug," &c.) Mr. WADE (of Deptford) said there were two facts which ought to be stated, which were, that Mr. Vernon had come forward purely for the sake of truth ; and the next, that the money received for admission was to go to the institution, and :at a farthing went to him—( Applause). order having been in some degree restored, the lecturer said it was quite impossible for him to say what the mesmeric phenomena might now be, as he himself had been excited and flurried by the riot and uproar, and so no doubt had been the young man whom he was now about to operate on. tie then made the passes, and after a few contortions of the face he dropped for a moment apparently in a state of coma, but startled up and rubbed his eyes. The operator placed his hand on him, and let him gently down. He frequently started up, exclaiming "I am so hot—be quiet—let me go—you are bothering rile about being mesmerised again." He then ap parently fell into a state of profound coma, and a lengthened conversation took place between Mr. Appleton and the lec turer as to the tests to be applied. The lecturer said he had never operated on the lad before, but was told that whilst in that state he was susceptible of feeling, smell, and partial sight. fie could, however, be laid in a state of catalepsy, or one arm could be catalepsed, and there would be a difference in the pulsation, which he thought would be a sufficient test. Mr. APPLETON said it would not in his opinion, for he could by the extension of the muscles of one arm reduce the pulsation in the other. Dr. Purvis and Mr. Taylor examined the pulse of each arm, and the difference when the - left arm was in a state of catalepsy was four beats in a minute, and when reversed only two beats. The left arm appeared as immovable as a statue, but the most magical change took place by the operator pass ing his hand slightly down,—it fell instantaneously. At this juncture, a Mr. Harris, a cabinet-maker, in South ' street, Greenwich, in a ruffianly way, struck the patient a tremendous blow on the hand with a stick; the blow sounded above the buzz and noise of the meeting. In an instant there was a simultaneous burst of indignation even by those who had been most prominent in their opposition to the lec turer. There were loud cries of " Turn him out," " police," " shame, shame," &c., and he was pretty roughly handled. Several accidental collisions led to the exchange of blows, and for a few minutes the confusion was indescribable. At length Harris was taken into custody by the police. Mr. VERNON again appeared. He said he must absolve every one in the place of any participation in the dastardly con duct of the Party who had struck the inoffensive lad whilst in such a state ; but he could not think of continuing the lecture that evening when there was so much excitement, but hereafter he would meet the gentlemen of the profession and their friends as many times as they liked, and explain his knowledge, and would undertake to mesmerise any of their family. Mr. Hope should even be the agent, and should be able to mesmerise a person by his Mr. Vernon's, power and communication; the patient should also disclose the taste of whatever he gave to Mr. Hope, or Mr. Hope gave to him. He felt certain of the truth, but could not define it, or reduce it to a principle—it was like the laws of gravitation, motion, and heat, only known to exist. Physiology and pathology had been intensely studied for upwards of 2,000 years, and yet there were doubts. Mes. merism, therefore, ought not to be condemned as chimerical without a fair inquiry. —( Applause). The lecturer th en w ithd rew with his patients. Strange to say, the lad never flinched under the blow, nor did his hand show the least mark. melPMr. HOPE, who w l a ee s de l: t no h ne e dt fi hp r ea s s t as ui t n o t hgcontradicti some o t nh medicalexistence e n o f , w er a i s c p in ub fi l u ic e l n y ce st'a that the students had come down purposely to create a dis turbance, and stop the lecture. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths during the week ending Dec. 30, was 1,007, exceed ing those of the preceding week by 39, and the average at this season by 60. The increase is chi e fl y cause d b y d eaths from scarlatina, hooping cough, croup, bronchitis, and asthma. Those from pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs, which some weeks since were nearly 200, have fallen to 99, only 9 above the average. Deaths from small-pox are on the increase ; of the 1 5 persons who died last week 11 had not been vaccinated. The table contains the death of a man who died at the age of 100 years and 9 months, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY IVT,ORIgING, .TANITAR''' 8, 1844. WINTER ASSIZES. CHESTER, Wednesday, Jan. 4. (Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) CHARGE OF MURDER.— SamueI Maddocks, ageds3, was charged with the wilful murder of one Matthias Bailey, game keeper to Mr. Wilbraham, at Cuddington. The Attorney-General, Mr. Townsend, and Mr. Egerton, were for the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Temple. It appeared that the prisoner was a tailor, and lived with his brother, who is a farmer, in the vicinity of the place where the murder was committed. The deceased was gamekeeper to Mr. Wilbraham, of Delamere-hall, and had f:equently suspected the prisoner of poaching. On the 28th of July, the deceasesd went out about 4 o'clock with his gun, and John, the brother of the prisoner, was sees soon after running without a gun, the deceased running after. It was the habit of the deceased. to pull off his coat and throw down his gun on those occasions, to enable him to run faster. The prisoner had a gun, and when the deceased was running after his brother, it was alleged that the prisoner came behind the deceased, and discharged the gun, the charge of _which penetrated the nape of the neck ; he in stantly fell and died. The principal witness in the case was Joseph Clarke, who, upon examination before the Magistrates, had sworn to have been an eye-witness of the murder. Several witnesses were called on to prove the state in which the body was found. Joseph Clarke then deposed—l am a labourer, residing in Noxley. I remember getting up on the 28th of July to get turnips ;it was about half-past three o'clock. I met Matthias Bailey at Smallbrook, about four o'clock. I knew Bailey be fore, and I asked him to give me leave to get some turnips from Mr. Wilbraham's field that was alongside Camomile-lane, where the murder was committed. Bailey and I parted at the turnip field gate. Bailey went along the woodsicle when he parted from me. I heard the report of a gun shortly after ; it came from the direction in which the body lay. In five minutes I saw Samuel Maddocks coming down the lane into the turnip field. He had a gun with him. As soon as he saw me he laid himself down. I was then 100 yards from him, and then I saw Bailey running down the lane, and as he was going past Samuel Maddocks, the latter rose up, clapped his gun to his shoulder, and shot him. He was about two yards past him when the prisoner fired. He was running very fast. He did not run above a yard or two afterwards, but the hedge inter cepted my view, and I did not see any more. The prisoner then jumped over the hedge, and ran down the lane. I did not speak at all. I stopped about five minutes, pulled a few plants, and then went home. I did not say anything about it. I have known the prisoner a great while. I did not attend th• inquest. I heard of a reward being offered soon afterwards. I gave no information of what I had seen. I first gave informa tion three weeks ago last Saturday. I did not give informa tion at the time, as I wanted to let it stop till near the assizes. I gave it to Mr. Wilbraham. I went myself. I heard of the Maddockses being taken up about a week after the murder. I have never had any quarrel with either of them. Cross-examined by Mr. TEIIPLE.-1 never told any person until I told Mr. Wilbraham. I don't usually get up at 3. I got up to pull some plants without leave. I have never shot before 3 o'clock in a morning in my life upon my oath. I will swear I went on picking turnips after I saw the shot fired. I walked home and did not speak. I did not go to the place. I saw the gun fired. I know Humphreys; he went with my brother Samuel to Mr. Wilibraham's, and I know the account they gave of it. Ido not know who told me ; my brother did not. They said I did it. I did not tell my brother that the keeper was running after me, and I then charged my gun with shot out of my pocket. I did not tell him that the keeper called out my name. I did not say that when the keeper said " You must come and go with me," that I then walked down the lane, that the keeper walked first a little, and I then put a cap on, and shot him, and that the keeper dropped when he was shot. On being asked whether he had given information on account of the reward, he said, " I do care about the re , ward, it belongs to me already for telling the truth. Ido care about getting myself out of the scrape. lam out of it. I was taken up and confined half an hour in a public-house, and then released." Thomas Pickering deposed to hearing a gun fired about 4 o'clock, and on looking in the direction saw a man come out of the wheat, but could not tell who he was, on account of the distance. He heard a shout from the deceased ; he said, " That's you, John." He could not undertake to swear that it might not be " Joe," instead of " John." James Rowland, a shepherd, saw tracts out of the lane into a turnip field. The prisoner and his nephew were working there. Frederick Baker, special high-constable, apprehended the prisoner on the sth of August. On the road the prisoner said he could clear himself from this. He could prove he was never out cf his bed until after six that morning. He said that neither himself nor any of his family had borrowed a gun. Three witnesses were then examined, who swore that on going to work that morning at about half-past five o'clock they met the prisoner, and spoke to him. Catherine Lewis remembered the deceased and the prisoner meeting at her house, where they had words. This was not long before he was shot. The deceased d—d the prisoner, and said he was the worst poacher he had about. The prisoner as soon as he was gone, said he would shoot him if ever he came across him. He repeated his threat twice. Mary Robinson examined—The pri s oner came to her house to do some tailoring. Whilst there the prisoner saw the de ceased in a field. He said he wanted shooting. Prisoner said he was once lying in a ditch, and the deceased and his dog went over him. If he had had a gun then the would have shot him. Maria Gresby—Recollected John Maddock's daughter coming to her father's house. She asked her to go to Thomas Cook for her. Thomas Cook brought out a bag and gave it to her, and she gave it to Maddocks's daughter. 'Thomas Cook remembered the last witness coming to his house. There was a gun in the bag. "haddock's daughter wanted to borrow it for her father. T he gun was retur , ,ed on the 4th of August, by Mary "haddocks, and she said her father was much obliged for it. Samuel Smith, surgeon, deposed to an examination of the body, and finding a gun-shot wound on the nape of the neck. The orifice was as large as a crown-piece. He afterwards made a post modern examination when the body was much decom posed, and extracted two shots from the spinal marrow, between the first and second vertebrm. Death, he should think, would be instantaneous, from paralysis. The wound must have been received :rum behind. „... .... James Bland, surgeon to the Macclesfield Infirmary---A per son might run several yards, even if the spinal marrow was divided. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. TEMPLE addressed the jury in a long and powerful speech for the prisoner, contending that the evidence was most vague and unsatisfactory ; and, with regard to the witness Clarke, not to be relied upon for a moment. The Learned JUDGE then went into an analysis of the whole of the evidence, commenting upon the discrepancies as they arose. He said, the whole weight of the testimony rested with the witness Clarke, and it was for them to consider what credi bility, if any, attached to his evidence. The jury retired, and were absent for about 20 minutes, during which a statement was made by Mr. Wilbraham, who was in Court, which affected materially the truth of Clarke's statement. Mr. TEMPLE, for the prisoner, hoped his Lordship .would interrupt the deliberation of the jury, so as to give the prisoner the benefit of this piece of evidence. Joseph Clarke was recalled. By the JUDGE—Did you go to Mr. Wilbraham's in Sep tember last ?—I don't know what part of the year September is in, and I never told Mr. Wilbraham that I knew nothing about the matter. Mr. Wilbraham examined—Did the witness come to you in September about the story which his brother had told the night before ?—I think he came voluntarily. I asked him if he knew anything about it, and he replied that he knew nothing about it. The jury then again retired, and, after an absence of an hour, returned with a verdict of Not Guilty. The announcement was received with loud cheers, which were promptly suppressed. John Ready, a collector of rents in Macclesfield, was ar raigned for divers embezzlements, of the moneys of James Frost, and others. He pleaded Guilty. The Counsel for the defence wished to recommend the pri soner to the merciful consideration of the Court. He had been a Captain in the army for 23 years, and had risen from the ranks to be Captain and Adjutant by his merits. He had also been a collector for 20 years, and his friends had offered to make good the default. He was 66 years of age.—Sentence defers ed. CHARGE OF MURRER AT STOCKPORT.— George Fox, a bai liff at Manchester, was then indicted fur the wilful murder of his wife Charlotte, by kicking and otherwise abusing her, which caused her death. The Attorney-General and Mr. Trafford were for the pro secution ; Mr. Temple was retained for the defence. It appeared that the deceased was a bonnet-maker, residing in Stockport. On the Ist of December the prisoner went out from home early in the morning, and did not return until ten o'clock at night ; he was somewhat intoxicated. His conduct was brutal. When he came home he said to deceased, " You have been drinking at the Robin Hood." She denied it. He said he would fetch a Bible, and make her swear to it. Dur ing his absence, finding him infuriated, she ran out of the house, and her mother persuaded him to go to bed. She then came in, thinking the prisoner would be asleep; but he then came down stairs again, and she again left the house, and, being very cold, went into the Robin Hood and called for a noggin of gin. When she was about to return home, the pri. soner was waiting for her at the door, and he commenced beating her. She ran away screaming, and went into the house of a neighbour. The prisoner followed and beat her drsidfully, and kicked her brutally several times; and in her endeavours to release herself by going up the steps, he caught hold of her gown and pulled her backwards, and, falling on the stones, shestruck her head, and never afterwards spoke. The prisoner after wards with great brutality would not go for a doctor, and said she was not dead. He had been heard to say, when an inquiry was made for his wife, that he wished she was stiff. Betty Day, mother of the deceased, proved the whole of these allegations, which were mainly supported by the testi mony of other witnesses. The Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter, and The Learned JuDGB sentenced him to two years' imprison ment with hard labour. CARMARTHEN ASSIZES, Jan. I. THE REBECCA RIOTS. His Lordship entered the Court at nine o'clock this morning. Thomas Hand, David Thomas, David Gower, David Williams, and William Thomas, were placed at the bar, charged with riotously and feloniously demolishing a house at Kidwelly. There was a second count in the indictment for a riot only. All the prisoners pleaded "Not guilty." His LORDSHIP addressed the jury, and said that this was an indictment that had been found at the quarter sessions and re mitted to the assizes for trial. The case had been carefully examined, and counsel and he also had read over the deposi tions, and it was thought that the evidence did not bring home the charge. Ho had therefore been applied to to allow the prosecution to be abandoned. This, he thought, could be done without prejudice to public justice, and the jury would, there fore, return a verdict of acquittal. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty accordingly, and the prisoners were discharged. SENTENCES ON THE PRISONERS. John dones, alias Shony Scybor-fatvr, and David Davies, alias Dai-y- Cantwr, were then placed in the dock. Jones immediately handed up a letter to his Lordship. His LORDSHIP, addressing them, said that the prisoner John Jones had been convicted of shooting at a fellow-subject with the intention of doing him a grievous bodily harm, and had also pleaded guilty to a charge of riotously and tumultuously demolishing a house. The Court had but too much reason to suppose that he was implicated in other offences of the same character as both of these. The prisoner David Davies had pleaded guilty to a charge of demolishing a house with others, and his Lordship knew from his own statement that he had been guilty of many similar outrages. As far as the Court was able to judge from the facts that had been laid before it, they were both strangers to this part of the country. What induced them to visit it his Lordship knew not, but it was rather curious that their appearance was noticed here not long after the commencement of those outrages by which this county had been disgraced. Whatever had been the motives that had actuated them, they appeared to have been willing agents, and had not been seduced into a breach of the law. The prisoner John Jones might feel grateful that the shot he fired did not take a fatal effect, as, if it had, instead of the Court passi ng on hi m a sentence of banishment from the country, it would have been obliged to pass the dreadful sentence of a violent death ; but after the proof the poisoner had given of the disregard he entertained for the safety of his fellows and the rights of property in this country, it would be utterly impossibl e f or hi m ever to return to it. The prisoner David Davies would not be banished for so long a term, but still for a very long period of time ; although pro bably the greater portion of his life would be spent in a foreign land. The sentence of the Court was that John Jones be transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural life, and that David Davies be transported for twenty years. The prisoners, who had been very attentive to the Learned Judge's address, were then removed from the dock, which they left laughing. Philip Phillip and William Phillip were then brought up to receive sentence. His LORDSHIP said, that the prisoners Philip Phillip and William Phillip were now to receive sentence for the very serious offence of which they had been found guilty—of a riot and assault on the person of a bailiff who came to a distrain on the premises of William Phillip. It was a sad thing to see such an old man, the father and his son, brought up together to receive sentence for an offence of this description. It ap peared to have been committed, not hastily or unadvisedly, but it seemed that the prisoners prepared to do it deliberately, and even threatened the bailiff on the day before. The sen tence of the Court was, that William Phillip be imprisoned for twelve months and kept to hard labour ; and that Philip Phillip be imprisoned for twelve months. David Evans and James Evans were then placed at the bar to receive sentence. The JUDGE said—That the prisoners David Evans and James Evans were brought before the Court to receive sen tence for a riot—a riot attended with circumstances of very great cruelty to a very old man, who had since in some man ner or other lost his life. They armed and disguised them selves, and conducted themselves in such a way as to excite terror and alarm in the minds of all peaceable subjects, and proceeded to drag the old man out of his bed in the dead of the night, and James Evans personally ill•used him. The jury recommended him to mercy, and his Lordship strongly wished he could think it was on good grounds. One reason was that James Evans was a servant, and might have been influenced by his master. He knew not, however, how the jury could consistently recommend him to mercy on the ground that, as he was a servant, he might have been influenced by his master, and could then recommend the master himself to mercy. Some of the jurors said they had always heard he possessed a good character. If he had hitherto possessed a good charac ter, it was, his Lordship feared, because the truth was not known of him. The defence he had set up proved his charac ter anything but good. The exhibition of his poor little trem bling brother and sister in the witness-box was most revolting and shocking. The act of violence was bad enough, but the betrayal of his relatives into such a position was much worse. His Lordship was sadly afraid that people did not look with sufficient abhorrence on the crime of perjury. There was no crime more injurious to society, or mere perversive of the pro per administration of justice. Who could be safe if witnesses would come to a court of justice, and call on Goal to bear wit ness to a falsehood? The Court did not punish him for this, however, but his Lordship mentioned it to show why he did not take the recommendation to mercy into consideration. The sentence of the Court was, that each of the prisoners be impri soned and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. David Morgan, James Morgan, George Thomas, John Lewis, and Evan Walters, were arraigned on a charge of bur. glariously entering the dwelling-house of Evan Davies, of Llanarthney, and feloniously stealing a sword. No evidence of the felony was offered on the part of the pro. secution, and a verdict of Not guilty against all the prisoners was recorded. The same prisoners were then indicted for the misdemeanor of a riot. All of them, except David Morgan, pleaded guilty. No evidence was offered against him, and he was discharged; the others were also discharged, on being bound over to keep the peace, and to appear to receive judgment whenever called upon. Thomas Davis, a smith, charged with having broken into the house of William Thomas, of I%laesbaeh, Llangendeime, was acquitted. David Jones, a farmer, was charged with attempting to suborn and instigate one Daniel Lloyd to commit wilful and corrupt perjury. There was another count for attempting to suppress evidence. It appeared that Daniel Lloyd was about to give evidence on a charge of assault preferred against John Thomas ; the pri soner, David Jones, gave Lloyd a sovereign to withhold his evidence against John Thomas. 'f he prisoner was found guilty of attempting to withhold evi dence, and His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said the jury had taken a very merciful view of his case. Had they found him guilty of attempting to persuade the witness to commit perjury he would certainly have been transported. It was of the utmost importance to the administration of justice that witnesses should be allowed to state fully and freely the whole truth on their oaths. It was of the utmost importance to the welfare of society that such should be the case. The prisoner had en deavoured to subvert the the due performrnce of that duty, and should be made an example of. He was then sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. James Evans INas then placed in the dock to receive sen tence for assaulting his wife in Newcastle Emlyn. He was sen tenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve Ca lendar months. _ . William Williams was sentenced to six months' imprisonment fora riot at Pentrebach turnpike-gate. David Jones was brought up to receive sentence for haying sent a threatening letter to Mr. T. Williams, of Llanegwad. His Loansuir said that the jury had recommended him to mercy on account of his ignorance of the consequences of send ing such a letter. On a consideration of the case, his Lord • ship could not think that it was well founded. He had com mitted this sort crime before, and h.id used threats in the pre sence of Mr. H. Lloyd Harris, a solicitor, who very kindly cautioned him. It would be well for him had he attended to his advice. The sentence of the Court was, that he be impri soned for nine calendar months. Bridget Williams was brought up to receive sentence for sending a threatening letter. His LORDSHIP said that the verdict and recommendation of the prisoner to mercy were very proper and just. She could neither read nor write, and he was disposed to believe that some wicked and ill-natured persons put it into her I,ead to send it, she not knowing the consequences. She was then sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Lewis Henry, for the robbery at Gaterven, near Abergwilly, was sentenced to ten sears' transportation. His LORDSHIP observed that the prisoner had had the hardi hood deliberately to tell the policemen that he would commit the robbery. He was unfit for the society of this country, and must therefore be removed. Several prosecutions for breaking down gates and for riots were abandoned. His LORDSHIP then dismissed the petit jury, and the assizes terminated. His Lordship left town that night. SURREY SESSIONS. Frederick Herbert, a stout athletic young man, and a member of a formidable gang of thieves, whose rendezvous was in the neighbourhood of Lock's-fields, was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 18th of Deteember last, a boa, the property of Solomon Aarons. In the course of the trial, however, it was discovered that the boa was only part of one, and upon that technicality the prisoner was acquitted. The prisoner was about rejoicing on his lucky escape when it was intimated to him that there was a second indictment Against him for stealing a pair of trousers, a circumstance which the prisoner seemed to have entirely overlooked. On this indictment the prisoner was again placed at the bar, when he was convicted on the clearest evidence. In answer to a question from the CHAIRNIA N, the police officer stated that the prisoner had several times been in cus tody on a charge of felony, but had escaped conviction at the Old Bailey. He had been an associate of thieves for years, and was a most desperate character. When taken into cus tody he went very qu ietl y until he got to a very lonely and unfrequented part of L ock and made a s i gna l f or th e ass i stance c p e o r iiceman sp r i ng i ng hi s ratt l e, hi s com 's-fields, w h en h e ma d e a most v,o venture, several of th em '° b e i ng wante d." of fa n nt t iho a en s s sg a ,av u na l t gr e o ; a n fbr t ua h it e d t o tho f fi e Mr. Keene, the governor of the county gaol, said the pri toner's name appeared o n the black list. The prisoner was sen tenced to seven years' transportation. t was found guilty, and sentenced to th ree labour at Brixton , for feloniously stealing, in th e mo C nt h h a s r , le hsar Dd Noe:hv-ecsuatai,eLsmamanbe.th, a cap, the property of Cha r l es P a dd on, el James E inu was also found g uilt y , and sentenced to 21 d ays ' solitary confinement in the count y g aol, for stealing a hat, the property of the same prosecutor. 3 The CHA IRMAw—Pray M Ir. addon, w ere no t t h ese goo d s exposed for sale after d ark ? Mr. Paddon—Yes, Sir. The Cir aI Is MAN —At what hour? Mr. Paddon—Near upon twelve o'clock. The CrrainMAS---"Wilat .at midnight? Mr. Paddon— Yes, sir. A /11.aorsTRATE—Which is clearly illegal, and contrary to the Act of Parliament. Mr. Johnson-1 think, Mr. Paddon, you had one or two eases here last sessions? Mr. Paddon—l had, Sir. Mr. Johnson—And, if my . memory ser ves me r i g h t , t h ere i s scarcely a sessions b ut you have a prosecution ; this practice mu't be discontinued ; it is holding out a temptation to commit crime. Mr. Paddon—i a m compelled to do it ; the competition in trade is so great ; and if 1 did not, I should be forced to close my shop. Aly losses by robbery are severe. It is only re cently I transported three men at Kingston. A MAGISTRATE —You are doing an illegal act, Sir, and en gendering crime. The CHAIRMAN eventually told Mr. Paddon, if he came to this Court again, under similar circumstances, he should not have his expenses. There was no occasion for any tradesman to expose their goods but butchers. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A French gentleman, who resides in King William-street, was summoned by a - cab-driver, before Sir John Key, for having refused to pay four shillings fare, after having traversed a much greater extent of ground than he could have demanded to be conveyed if an agreement had not been made. The cabman stated that as the day happened to be a frosty one, and there was no " cab life a moving," he consented to take four shillings for drivin g the defendant a six shillings' distance, and he was to put the gentleman down at the exact spot where the hiring took place. He just did as he promised, but the defendant refused to pay for the long jaunt, and the summons was the consequence. Sir JOHN KEY, having very sc rupulously investigated the , charge, and asc er t a i ne d that t h e cabman had actually:taken the defendant furth er t h an four sh illi ngs would have paid for under the usual circumstances said—Well, Sir, this man seems to have performed hi s part of the contrac t —what is your objec tion to pay ? Def en d ant — Y ou see, sare , I often go in de cabs, and I see him vid de cab, end I ask him vot he take me fort so he say six shilling. I say four shilling, no more, and I walk on. Ver well, he com e u p again, and he open de door, and he say jump in ; and I say four shilling, and he say, yes, yes ; and I jump in.—( Laughter. ) Sir Jour; KEY—This was near your own house? De fendant—Yes, yes. Dis was near my own office. Ver well ; he ride me round to de places vot I vanted to go, but he stop at public-house to drink himself and his hoss in Oxford-street, though I was in a much hurry to march on.—(Laughter.) Yell, Bare, I don't tink nothing of dat, so he drive on. Sir JOHN KEY—He drove you back to King William-street? Defendant—Yes, sare, he drive me in King William -street, but he say he would not drive me in my own office. Vell, when he come in de street he fling open de door, and he say, " Come, you jump out."—( Great laughter.) So I say I won't jump out till you take me in.my office. " Aha," he say, " I won't drive you no more." Den I say, I won't give you no more four shilling.—(Laughter. ) Sir JOHN KEY—But it appears that he had driven you to the spot at which you engaged him. The cabman—Jist so, your Worship. I driv the gent to the wery place vere he hired this here wehicle of mine; and had'nt I a rum go •to bundle rich a big-un as him a long six shilling fare for four shillings on such a starving day ? _ _ — befendant-- - Alla, I vould'nt care for forty-four shilling. Four shilling ! no, no ; dese cabsmen be sheats—common sheats ; and 1 was intend to come to de Mayor, for I often jump in de cabs. Aha (shaking his hand at the cabman), you shoat.—(Laushter.) Sir JOHN KEY was astonished to learn that the defendant's office was actually within two doors of the spot at which the cabman stopped his cab and demanded his fare. " How did it hapren, cabman," said Sir John, " that you did not drive the gentleman a couple of yards further ?" The cabman 7 -Please your Worship, our agreement was, that I should drive him back to the very spot where I shoved his body in ; and as he wouldn't stand a farden more than four bob for that precious yarn of a drive, how could I, in honour to myself, drive him the eighth of an inch furder ?—( Great laughter. ) Defendant—Ah, Sare I He know I don't speak de English much well, and so he sheat me—(Laughter)—lam glad I hate come here, for I wish to have punish dese cabsmen. Sir JOHN KEY—The cabman has not acted with proper consideration, certainly ; but he has performed his contract. You must pay him the four shillings for the fare, half-a-crown for his loss of time, and two shillings for the serving of the summons.- The defendant, who evidently did not care a farthing about the money, but was shocked at the rudeness of his adversary, then paid the amount demanded, and said he would take the advice of Sir John Key, who told him he would never be cheated if he invariably gave a cabman whatever he demanded, and summoned him before a Magistrate for overcharge. CII Y POLICE CO3I WITTE E. Mrs. Jones, a widow, proprietress of the Bull's Head public house, Wood-street, Cheapside, attended before Mr. Alderman Kelly, the presiding Magistrate, to answer a charge laid against her by the police, for having her house open, not for refresh ment of travellers, after the hour of twelve on Saturday night last, whereby she incurred a heavy penalty, and endangered the license of the premises. She pleaded not guilty. Mr. Wire, the solicitor, appeared on her behalf. The police-constable, No. 101, deposed that at about twenty minutes before one o'clock on Sunday morning last he passed the defendant's house, and found the door ajar, and on pushing it open saw a man standing near it with a pot of beer in his hand. He went in and found three others in front of . the bar, and two in a passage leading to the tap-room. There were pots on the bar counter, but he could not swear that they contained any thing. It was for having persons in her house after twelve o'clock that he summoned the defendant. Mr. Wire said he should clearly prove, to the Magistrate's satisfaction, that no offence had taken place whatever, and proceeded to question the officer. Mr. Wire—Among those in front of the bar, and in the passage, did you see Mrs. Jones ? Witness—Yes, I believe I did. Mr. Wire—Was she not standing at the foot of the staircase with a candle in her hand ? Witness—Yes, she was. Mr. Wire—Had you any conversation with her on the sub ject of persons being in the house at that hour of the night? Witness—Yes. Mr. Wire—What did she say to you? Witness—She told me they were her own people and were going to bed. Mr. Wire—Have you:any doubt that they were otherwise ? Witness—No, I have not. Mr. Wire—This, your Worship, is the case. Mrs. Jones ad mits they were there when the officer entered the house. The house is much frequented by travellers and mercantile men from the country, and several were sleeping there that night, which assertion she was ready to substantiate, if requisite. Mr. Alderman KELLY inquired of the police-constable if he saw any beer or liquor drawn or paid for. The officer replied in the negative, Mr. Alderman KELLY said he did not consider the case of that importance to call for a conviction, and therefore dismissed the summons. Mr. Mottry, the landlord of the Rose and Crown, in the same street, also appeared in answer to a summons charging him with a similar offence. In this instance the same officer laid the information. His evidence went to show that on Sunday morning last, about twenty minutes after twelve, see ing a light in the shop, he listened and heard several persons talking. He knocked at the door, but received no answer, the lights being put out, and apparently great confusion in clear ing pots and glasses off the counter. He knocked again, call ing out, " open the door, it is the police." It was then opened, when he entered and discovered several persons congregated together in front of the lar. He saw three immediately leave the house, but the remainder stopped inside. The defendant assured the magistrate it was not his inten tion to infringe the law, and would explain the cause of their being in his house after the proper time. A few minutes before twelve o'clock a party called for some liquor, which he refused to serve them with on account of the hour. This occasioned some conversation, and they refused to go until the police en tered. The rest of the persons whom the police saw were lodgers, which they knew to be the case, having seen them some time before. The Magistrates dismissed this summons also, but ordered the defendant to pay the amount of costs. BO W-STREET. John Harris, alias John Aldridge, was examined before Mr. Twyford, for keeping a house of ill-fame and a common brothel, in St. Clement's-lane, St. Clement Danes. One of the parish officers swore to the prisoner as a person keeping a house of ill-fame, and Mr. Twyford ordered the prisoner to find bail, two sureties in 201. each, and to enter into his own recognizances to answer the charge at the Westminster Ses sions. The required bail was immediately procured, and the prisoner was liberated. The parish authorities are vigorously endeavouring to abate the nuisances which exist in the neighbourhood of Long acre, and so thickly pervade the parish of St. Clement Danes. About twenty persons have already been indicted, and warrants and summonses a-e now out against others, who will be in dicted at the next sessions. 111ABLBOROUGII.STREET. A summons having been applied for and obtained against the coachman of Count Polio'', the Sardinian Minister, f,r re fusing to pay the reward adjudged to the firemen who attended to extinguish a fire which occurred at the Sardinian Minister's stables, the following note was received by Mr. Hardwick, the sitting Magistrate, yesterday " '1 he Sardinian Minister presents his compliments to the sitting Magistrate, at Marlborough-street police-court, and has the honour to acquaint him, that in the exercise of his privilege as a Foreign Minister accredited to this Court, he has ordered his coachman, Richard Doyle, not to obey the summons he has received to appear this day at the Marlborough-street police office, in consequence of the demand made upon him of the sum of 175., the amount of .the reward given to Frederick Berryer, engine-keeper, for bringing his engine to Count Pollon's stables on the 27th of December ult. " Should this demand be founded on right, the Sardinian 3linister would not have resisted it ; but he will claim his righ to resist it, as he is convinced of its injustice. " POLLON. " No. 11, Grosvenor-street, Jan. 5, 1844." " Richard Doyle, coachman to the Sardinian Minister, has been returned as being part of his establishment on the annual list delivered to the Foreign-office for insertion in the Sheriff's book, ancLis, in consequence, protected against arrest for debt." Lacy, the messenger of St. George's, Hanover-square, was called in and made acquainted with the contents of his Excel lency's note. Lacy said, the fire was a very bad one, and when application was made.to the coachman, Doyle did not mention that he was Count Pollen's servant ; on the conti ary, he said the stables were his own, and the furniture in them. Mr. HARDWICK said the fact must be taken from the Sar dinian Minister's note. • The coaehman was part of the estab lishment, and, as Count Pollen had pleaded his privilege as a Foreign Minister, the summons must be cancelled. Lacy, the St. George's messenger, begged to state that, since the passing of the Act requirin3 machinery to be only used for the sweeping of chimneys, the number of firs in chimneys had very greatly inerea.sel. This he attributed principally to the inefficiency of the machinery employed in this service. If a chimney was not used for a short time the soot became damp and then adhered like mortar to the sides of the chimney. The machine would not fetch this off, and as soon as the chimney was used the cake of soot would become dry and burn like turf. All the soot that lodged in the elbows or holes in chimneys was left untouched by the machine, and the consequence was that a spark from the fire when cooking was going on was sure to set the chimney in a blaze. Many complaints ,had been made to him from gentlemen who had suffered from this cause, and this was not the only circum stance, for the fires themselves were now of a more dangerous character than before, and in many instances endangered the safety of the house. Mr. HARDWICK said it would be as well to ascertain whether a larger num b er o f fires had occurred in chimneys since the passing of the new Act than had occurred within a similar period before the alteration. He would recommend Lacy to procure a return o f the rewards paid by his parish in the two periods, and this would perhaps lead to attention in other quay ters to this important subject. A donation for the indigent of 10/. is thankfully acknow ledged. CLERKENWELL, Mary Thomas was charged with stealing 141. 105., the money of Michael M'Laren. The prosecutor stated that on Friday morning he landed in the London Docks, from Corfu, having been serving as a sol dier there, and in other British settlements, for upwards of seventeen years. He immediately proceeded to Greenwood and Cox's, the army agents, and received a sum of 151. on account of a gratuity which the Government had awarded him, and then walked about until he had become so tired, that he was led, being a stranger to the metropolis, to ask a man to whom lie was unknown, to act for him as a guide to a place where he could in comfort and security test himself. This was at one o'clock in the day, and before ball an hour after that time witness was conducted into a house, situate, as he had been given to understand, in West -street, Smithfield, where he went to bed by himself, and did not awake until between eight and nine on the same night, when he found the prisoner with a light in her hand emptying the money out of his pockets. He endeavoured to seize her, but she was too quick for him, and escaped from the premises, and the next time he saw her she was in custody of the police. Mr. BROUGHTON asked the complainant the reason he had come over to England ? He said he had been discharged from his regiment, and produced documentary evidence of that fAct. Mr. BROUGHTON, having examined the evidence, said, " I perceive that you leave with a good character, and as an able bodied man, and that your grant is only one year's pay. Why, if you had served three years longer, you would have been en titled to a pension for life. Don't you think that you acted very foolishly, then." Prosecutor—l now begin to think that I did. Mr. 13aouonTon—Have you any more money to receive. Prosecutor—Yes. Three or four pounds, which are in the hands of the officer of the vessel in which I arrived in London. Mr. BROUGHTON—What did you first do, after you had missed your money ? Prosecutor—l went into the street and told a constable. Mr. Bitoucrron—lt seems to me very odd that you should have gone with a strange man, into a strange house for a bed, with so much money in your pocket, when you could have got back to your ship, and received the best advice from the com manding officer. Prosecutor—l was regularly knocked up. Mr. BROUGHTON—I suppose you told him that you had been discharged from your regiment ? Prosecutor—Yes, sir. Mr. BROUGHTON—And that you had gat plenty of money, and wante3 to be robbed ? Prosecutor made no reply. Police-constable, 144 G, stated that he met the prosecutor in West-street, and heard from him that he had been robbed by a woman at No. 2(a brothel), which he pointed out. Witness searched the house, but, the prisoner not being there, he ob tained a description of her person, and afterwards, at the earnest request of the prosecutor, who complained to him of being extremely fatigued, he took him to a respectable lodging-house. In the course of the night witness had dis covered the prisoner in the neighbourhood, and took her into custody, and the prosecutor, on seeing her, instantly recognised her as the woman who had plundered him. Only a few half pence was found upon her. Mr. BROUGHTON observed, if she had had the money, she would have found no difficulty in putting it into other hands in that neighbourhood. The conduct of the prosecutor, from the time he left his bread in Corfu to the present, seemed to be that of a lunatic, as now very likely he would be reduced to a work house.—The prisoner was remanded. The attention of Mr. Broughton, the magistrate, was four times called in the investigation of a case of the utmost import ance to the public. A young man named Magnis, a butcher, hurriedly entered the Court about two o'clock in the afternoon, and stated to the bench that he had just passed the premises of Mr. Lans downe, a sausage-maker, in Cow-cross-street, and seen three calves carried therein, and feeling satisfied they were unfit for human food, and being afraid they were to be cut up for sausage-meat, he felt it to be his duty to direct the attention of the magistrate to the matter. Baylis and Waddington, officers of this Court, remarked that they knew Mr. Lansdowne to be a very respectable man, and, in their opinion, incapable of injuring any one. Mr. BROUGHTON asked the applicant if he knew anything of Mr. Lansdowne ? He said no ; they were entire strangers to each other. Mr. BROUGHTON—What attracted your attention to the calves ? Applicant—My knowledge of the trade. The men, while taking the calves out of the cart, made a noise as if to rouse up a live one, and being suspicious I looked into the cart and saw that they were dead, and had not been killed ; they seemed to have been not more than two days old when they died. Mr. BROU cHroN—What use is made of calves' flesh under such circumstances? Applicant—lt is often chopped for pork sausages, which are packed in baskets in London, and sent to meet the Epsom, Dorking, and other couniry carts, and then brought into the London markets, and sold as lia:ving been sent from those places. Mr. Benno-from—But would not a judge of saUsages be able to di , tinguish between a pork and a veal sau.age? Ap plicant—No ; I have tasted each of them, and could not ratako a distinction, in consequence of the seasoning. Mr. BROUGHTON— Have you any motive in making this' statement beyond one for the protection of the public ? Appli cant—N6t in the least, Sir. _ _ Mr. Baotitosrox—You say you are a butcher ; where, pray ? Applicant -I left my situation a week ago. I have been in the trade seven years. and my father is chief manager of the Excise Dining-romns, Eislaopsgate-street. Mr. 13aolicsurox. having observed that he had no doubt of the applicant's respectability and disinterestedness, ordered two officers (Coles and Boyson) to proceed to Mr. Lans downe's premises with the applicant, and make a survey. In the course of an hour the officers returned, and reported that not only were three calves, which had died in calving, or some other " natural death," there, but that two quarters of beef, which the defendant had told them was for use, appeared to them in a very shocking state, and unfit in any way for human consumption. The only sausages they understood that were made on the premises were German ones, saveloys, and black puddings. Mr. Baylis, as well as Mr. Waddington. the gaoler, said they were certain Mr. Lansdowne ma.le nothing else. The applicant said that he saw the beef alluded to by the officers, and he never saw worse—it was only fit for dogs. Shortly afterwards, in pursuance of a request of an officer, Mr. Lansdowne appeared in the Court, and was addresed by the worthy Magistrate, who stated all that had transpired to lead to the examination. He said Mr. Lansdowne had been represented to him as a very respectable man, and he did not wish to disturb his good reputation, but he might depend upon it that it would be disturbed if he allowed a similar exhibition to the one of today. To say the least of it, it was a matter full of suspicion. Mr. Lansdowne admitted that it looked suspicious, and as sured the Court that his only object in having the calves on his premises was to skin them, and then send the carcase to a knacker's premises adjoining. He contracted with Mr. Johnson, a cattle jobber, Highgate, for cattle unfit for the market, and he had the three calves, as well as a live disabled cow, from him on that day. BitotiornoN—How do you suppose the calves died? Mr. Lansdowne—They were stifled in being conveyed to town in carts. Mr. BROUGHTON—WeII, you make sausages, do you not? Mr. Lansdowne—Yes, but neither beef or pork, and I have not done so for thirty years. I make large and small Germans, and black puddings. Mr. BaonassioN—You said the beef which has been de scribed as unfit for human consumption was for use. Do you not use meat in the making of German sausages? Mr. Lans downe—Yes' and that which is said to be bad is good. The inspector of Newgate-market would say so. Mr. BROUGHTON—WiII you abide by the decision of com petent persons in this neighbourhood, and burn it, or give it to the knacker's, if I order you? Mr. Lansdowne said he would, and he fetched it in his cart to the Court yard. It looked very offensive, but it was decided that it had been killed, and was fresh. One of the butchers who examined it said if he co:lid get no better, he might eat it, but heaved at the thought of it. Mr. BROUGHTON having also looked at it, said to the de fendant, " My decision is, that it is unfit for the consurm.stion of man, and I order the officer, Cole, to see it conveyed to the knacker's." On Friday a poor famished-looking girl, 18 years of age, was brought before the magistrate by Baylis, the messenger of the Court. On being introduced to the bench, the unfortunate creature burst into tears ; she seemed quite abashed at the stare of the spectators, and sobbed bitterly throughout. Mr. COMBE asked her what she applied for ? Applicant— Indeed, Sir, I am starving, and I know not what to do. Mr. COMBE—What parish do you belong to ? Applicant— My father and mother belonged to Clerkenwell. Mr. COMZE—And why did you not apply there? Applicant —And so I did, Sir, but they refused either to relieve or to receive me. Mr. COMBS—Where did you sleep last night? Applicant —ln Clerkenwell. _ _ • Mr. Co3lBE—Where ? Applicant—ln a passage ; I had no money to get a lodging. The Clerk said that the Master of the Clerkenwell work house was then in Court, and would probably receive her into into the workhouse at once. Mr. Harriett (the master)—Oh! really I cannot say that she will be received. I suppose the overseers examined her case before they refused her. Mr. COMBE—Then let the overseers come here, and state why they did not receive her. The poor girl, in answer to further questions by the magis trate, stated that she was employed at slop• work in the Com mercial-road, by which she did not earn as much as supported her even with the coarsest food. The season for making these articles was now over, and a great many girls were discharged, who had no means of subsistence. She declared she had not tasted a morsel of food from the previous morning. Mr. COMBE, with prompt humanity, ordered her an imme diate supply of nutritious food. The overseers, probably not wishing to encounter the inter rogations of the Magistrate, sent a messenger for her, and she was received into the workhouse. LAMBETH-S7 REET. At a late hour on Saturday Nehemiah Shahspeare sur rendered to his bail, to undergo a further examination before Mr. Norton, on a charge of having wilfully and maliciously caused the explosion of a steam-boiler on the extensive pre mises of Mr. Robert Johnston, cigar manufacturer, at No. 35, Gloucester-street, Commercial-road East, and severely en dangering the lives of nearly eighty person.. The first witness, Wm. Henry Dought, proved the prisoner was aware that some large casks, placed over the boiler for supplying it vi ith water, were empty on Tuesday morning, and that they ought to have been kept full, and that a few days before the occurrence there could not have been six inches of water above the arch of the funnel. Mr. George Fennell, an engineer in an extensive way of bu riness, stated that he had examined the boiler, and had no earthly doubt, from its appearance, that the sole cause of ex plosion was a want of a proper supply of water, and the boiler getting red hot. This witness th-mght it must have been negligence of the person attending the engine not to have dis covered the want of water. Mr. John Adams, a feather merchant, said he had two engines on his premises, and the boiler to one of them had burst in the same manner as that on the premises of Mr. John ston, and the cause could not be accounted for, though he as knowle iged Mr. Marshall had assigned as a cause that the funnel was not quite circular. Mr. John Marshall, boiler-maker and practical engineer, gave evidence in corroboration of that given by Mr. Fennell. The case having la,ted beyond the usual Court hour (five o'clock), the prisoner was remanded, but admitted to bail in two sureti.s of 110/. each, and himself in 2001. Mr. Isaac Manvell, formerly a brewer, in a large way of business at Homerton, but some time back engaged by Messrs. Manners and Furze, of the King's Head Brewery, in Castle street, Whitechapel, was placed within the felon's bar on a charge of embezzling moneys to a consideraWe amount belong• ing to that firm. It appeared that the prisoner was engaged by Messrs. Man ners and Furze as an agent, on an agreement that he was to receive ten per cent. for all moneys received by him from his connexion,i and an abatement on certain descriptions of malt liquor. In April last he left the firm, and was succeeded by his son, but from information which had reached the firm last week they caused an investigation into his accounts, and dis covered that he had received money to a considerable amount on account of the firm that he had not accounted for. Proof being given of one account of 61. 17s. having been received by him of which he had not rendered any account, he was re manded, but the Magistrates consented to take heavy bail for his appearance on a future day. A POLICEMAN SHOT BY THE R EV ._ JAS. BROGDEN. —At one o'clock on Sunday morning the Rev. Jas. Brogden, residing at Chilelwick-hall, near Harpenden-common, St. Alban's, believing, as he alleges, that some thieves were on his premises, posted himself at the up-stairs landing window of his house, with his double-barrelled gun, commanding a side view of the road. Police-constable Wintle, of the Herts con stabulary, was making his customary round of the premises, when he beau' the report apparently of two guns from the house. He immediately came up the Harpenden-road, leading to the hall, a distance of sixteen yards from the outer gates, when he received the contents of a gun in his face, and up wards of thirty shots in the scalp of his head, abdomen, and ether parts of his body. He staggered several yards, and fell bleeding to the ground from the wounds, exclaiming, " Oh ! Mr. Brogden , lam shot." The Rev. Gentleman immediately alarmed the inmates, and every assistance was rendered, but from the serious nature of the wounds, and on the surgeon's recommendation, he was removed to the West Herts Infirmary, where he lies in a very precarious state. LORD DUNFERMLINE.—At the meetinz held in Edinburgh on Wednesday, to take steps for establishing baths for the working classes, Mr. Simpson, in seconding Lord Dun fermline's resolution, said--" He had great honour in being placed is the same resolution with the Illustrious Nobleman who had just addressed the meeting. There was no better friend to the working man that he was acquainted with than the Noble Lord. With the permission of the meeting, he would give a striking proof of the great interest he took in their welfare, by relatina• a circumstance which he learned a few years ago from his own lips. When living in the neighbourhood of Ches• terfield, his Lordship exerted himself to promote a Mechanics' Insiitution for the benefit of the working men of the town, and one evening he attended a meeting, where, such *vas the state of accommodation, that the Noble Lord had to sit on an old beer barrel.—( Laughter, and lohd cheering.) He was then occupying one of the highest stations in the kingdom--the Chair of the House of Commons—having a mace-bearer---( A laugh) before, and a train-bearer behind him. (Loud cheers ) Let the meeting judge of the honour which reflected on so distinguished a Nobleman occupying a position so humble as that to which he had alluded."—( Renewed cheering.) TRADE OF DUBLIN.—On the Ist of January, last year, the stock of sugar in the bonded warehouses of this port, including East India, had been 18,280 cwt. This year, on the same day, it amounted to 11,440 cwt., or 6,840 cwt. less. During the year 1842, the quantity quoted here gave—from the West Indies direct 126,338 cwt. ; from the same source, but had coastwise from English and Scottish ports, 31,608 cwt. ; of East India produce, direct, 2,233 cwt. ; coastwise, 17,963 cwt., giving a total of 178,139 cwt. The receipts for 1843, from the West Indies direct were 148,900 cwt. ; coastwise, 14,228 cwt. ; East Indies direct, 11,247 cwt. ; coastwise, 4,213 cwt., making a total of 178,588 cwt., which shows an increase in the receipts of the present year of 449 cwt. only. The most pleasing feature of the synopsis is, that the 'direct im portation of sugar has increased on the last year 31,476 cwt., and the cross-channel trade has receded 31,00() cwt. ; thereby giving promise of the revival of our own direct West India trade, and the speedy decay of that branch of it which contributes to make fortunes for the enterprising natives of the sister kingdom. In reference to this subject, it is to be hoped that the few cargoes of East India which are expected will soon arrive, and thereby preclude the necessity for purchasing, at secf.nd-hand, from our neighbours on the other side of the Channel, of this de scription of sugar, the consumption of which has increased so much of late, it being required to mix off with the inferior West Indian, the quality of which, coming into this port just now, is very bad indeed. The total deliveries for home con sumption for the year before last had been 164,382 cwt. ; the year just ended 168,659 cwt., giving but the trifling increase of 277 cwt. in favour of 1843, a circumstance which may be con sidered somewhat extraordinary when compared with the great improvement in the revenue receipts of the port. The reason why the consumption of raw sugar has not kept pace with the other necessaries of the breakfast and tea-table arises from the improved habits of the people, who are beginning to discover the economy of confining their purchases of the article to what has passed through the hands of the refiner, the trifling diffe rence in price being more than trebly compensated for in the superior quality of the latter over the former. All the lump sugar used in this country is manufactured in England and Scotland, the duties on which are paid before shipment for Ire land.—Freeman's Journal. A plot has been discovered amongst six of the pri soners of the borough gaol, to assassinate the Governor, Mr. Owstcn, and effect their escape. This dark scheme was brought to light by a prisoner named John Newman, convi , ted last Monday (who has in consequence had his sentence of four months remitted). The authorities have thought it conducive to the ends of justice sot to furnish us at present with the par ticulars in detal—laciecater Mercury Ohio day). CITY OF LONDON SESSIONS. The sessions for the City commenced yestertlaY the Recorder, Mr. Alderman Hurnphery, and Me.. Alder' man Kelly. The RECORDER having addressed the jury a number of a" sault cases were disposed of, after which Edwin. Bates was brought up from the Compter, where kie had been confined since the 6th of last June, in default of fi e l: ing bail to keep the peace towards John Masterman, jun., " well-known banker of Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street. before The prisoner, who is a most respectable and gentlemanly/ looking young man, described himself as an artist, and steel' t.he bail which he was required to find was two sureties 14 ,9/, each, and himself in 20u1. He said he was unable get more than one person willing to become his surety, ell to cei•ta;n transactions with the Northern and Eastern Collo Railway, by which he lost a deal of money. He was he re about to wt 'r . into very lengthened details as to the nature . those transamtb, 11 and the part which Mr. Masterman took ' them when, The REeParn, . said, this was quite irrelevant to the matter before the Court. ".curt then proceeded to read the s fg. The Clerk of the a. davit of Mr. Masternm.• It was a most voluminous doe % frss ment, and nearly an ~:r was occupied in reading it. r ' 'Tiber of letters addressed to tni detailed the contents of a deponent, by the prisoner ; and ‘. ben went on to state, that I a matter of kindness, he had from time to time given stns °, money to the prisoners in order to' .enable him to pursue b . : °. profession as an artist, until lie thotvg those donations given as a matter of right. At lengti his demands beconuT so frequent and importunate, the deoonent was eventoss compelled to refuse to give him any m,sre. The letters Of tained most dreadful threats against Mr:. Masterman 't .. 1 7; such sentences as the following appearing in them are a moral butcher." You shall find' to your aort a that. I am no coward "—" You are a murclaver in heart , , your father, having other sons, he would not care if you wes,"' shot, provided the honour of the family was kept ,'lear; ol d ", for myself, all that would happen to me for shootin k 7 woulo to be shut up in a lunatic asylum." Several other esquallY 11 " lent expressions appeared in those letters. Alderman HUMPHERY said, as the prisoner had ba___...e n brought before him, and he considered the life of Mr. 131- 01 `,11 man to a certain extent to be in danger, he had fixed the hi so high. He now suggested that the prisoner should be bro tig before his Lordship to fix the amount of bail. The prisoner said he hoped the Court would consider months' imprisonment a sufficient punishmeat. The RECORDER said the character of those letters 1 c ,! . . marked by such a strong spirit of wild revenge against all ,t"", parties, by whom the prisoner imagined himself to have De 7; injured in connection with his transactions with the No rthe s ; and Eastern Counties Railway, and more particularly air i c e those who showed him most kindness, that it would be aL„' of the greatest cruelty to Mr. Masterman, and the " -- jo would lie under an awful responsibility if any unfort uo ' c i event occurred were the Court not to grant him the proteclitt, the law from an individual who had been capable of ot",S such threats to any person. He (the Recorder) thought su Mr. Masterman, in requiring the prisoner to find bail, pursuing the most merciful course towards him. Under. the circumstances of the case he thought the amount of Under required in the first instance by the Lord Mayor was by means exorbitant, and he should nut reduce it. that The prisoner, who said when he was leaving the bae , , - be his professional prospects by the course new adopted wou l d blasted for ever, as also his property ruined, was then Ow back to prison. MARKET NEWS.-SATURDAY•, COVENT-GARDEN. Notwithstanding the supplies of both fruit and vet tablet were large for the time of year, the general tin ruled a Ctive, and, is most instances, the prices of in week were' well supported—Potatoes from 2s 6d to 4s S' per cwt ; c uleworts, or greens, Is 9d to 3s ; tureiPg; Is 9d to 35, 14 ,72 d carrots, 4s 3d to 6s 6d per clod: bunches ; onions, 2s to 3s 3d ;.apples, is 6d to 3s ti pears, 7s to 8s ; broco;_i sprouts, 10d to is Bd, ri half sieve ; walnuts, 8d t o is 2d, and new oranges 411 4 s lemons, 8s to 11s per 100 ; o,l,reelona nuts, 21s to to' per bag ; Brazil ditto, 2s 6d to 4;; and Spanish (lite, 2s 6d to 4s 64 per peck ; endive, is 911 to 2s 6d, savo y 8d to is 9d, and parsnips, 6d to is 3d pa &zen. NEW - GATE AND LEADENZM ki ll e d The large supplies of both town and couns` r Y"the Meat caused the general demand to rule heavy.. . °T t i to s following terms :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; 1V .1 1,5 10 ' 3s to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d • and Pork, 3s: • 4 ' 1 ,01 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. Although these me 0 r were by no means heavily supplied with either Game' Poultry, the trade was dull, and prices had, in some stances, a downward tendency :—Fowls, 2s to 'l f Chickens, is to 2s ; Ducks, is 3 d to 2 s 3 d ; Ge ese, 6d to 6s ; Pigeons, 6 d to 10 d ; Turkeys , 5s to Ili, Rabbits, 4d to Is 6d ; Hares, is 6d to 3s ; Grouse , 5 ,4 6d to 2s 3d ; Partridges, is 6d to 2 s 6 d ; Pheasants94j; to 3s 9d ; Wld Ducks, is 6d to 2s ; Teal, Is to n o , Widgeons, is to is 6d ; Snipes, 6d to 9d ; Woodeo4 Is 9d to 3s 3d; and Plovers, 3d to 6d each ; Lark* to is per dozen. ICHAPEX. A ll - v. _ Prime mutton was in demand at full prices. other kinds of Meat were a mere drug, and the t i ll: 0 lower. Beef from 2s 6d to 3 s 6 d ; Mutton , Ss 4° dt i 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4 5 per Sibs, by the carease.7', BILLINGSGATE. 'We had a fair average supply of Fish, which biq ;0 oil' steadily on the following terms :—Turbots B _, ° „jcif 20s ; Cod Fish, Is to 8s ; Brill, is to 4 s 6d ; Heildu'A ; 4d to is 6d ; bsters, is to 3s ; Whitings, 2d to 4 : t u Scate, 2s to 4s 6d ; Gurnets, 6d to Is ; Plaice, 4 ' 1 ,, • 9d ; Smelts, ld to 4d ; and Salt Fish, 4 d to tyleacyo: Soles, 6d to 3s per pair ; Eels, 4 d to 10 d per lb ; Fi tt ders, is to is 6d per dozen ; Oysters, 6s to 485 r bushel ; and Herrings, lOs to 20s per barrel. NEWPORT. • 9- el There was a fair supply of each kind of Mee t ' . the demand ruled heavily, on the following teTol.,treol, Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; 3s to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per 81bs. HUNGERIPORII. a fa We had on the whole rather an improved dema n Fish, at fully previous rates. In all other articles, boW ever, a very limited amount of business passing. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis from 8d to 9d ; of Household ditto, 6d to 8d r 41b Loaf. HIDE MARKET. 0 134 Raw Hides at per stone of 141bs :—Best Steer!, 2tl Heifers, 5s 4d to 5s 10d; middling Hides, 43 8d to ' 7 4o§ inferior ditto, 4s 2d to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf at per skin :—Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8s 6d; Long W° ° Sheep, 2s 9d to 3s 6d ; short ditto, 2s to 3s 3d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 105 to useful ditto, 3/ Is to 3112 s ; fine upland ditto, 3 s to to 3/ 18s. Clov er H ay, 3/ to 5/. Oat Straw, 1 / ",rbo 1/ 8s ; Wheat St raw, 1/ 8 s t o 1/ lO s p e r Ic ad. 'b i tl best old Meadow Hay sold freely at full prices...' tes' otherwise the demand was inactive, at barely late q 341 CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 15s to Q i 13 5 useful ditto, 31 5s to 31 12s ; fine upland ditto, 3 1 /1 0 to 41; Clover Hay, 31 5s to 41 18s ; Oat Straw , to 11 9s ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12s pet bo o; A moderate supply ; trade throughout dull, at $s . statimary prices. gli WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 5 s , t i o ls !.() useful ditto, 315 s to 31 lO s ; fine upland ditto, 3 '1 6 . t", 4/ ; Clover H a y, 3/ 5 s to 5/ 5s ; O a t Straw, I ,‘ o ' pl) 1/ Ss ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1110 s p e r load. ° liv good, and trade heavy. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FiaDA T ' t of There is a fair ar r iv a l o f Wh ea t t o thi s d a y' s market, b i l i ir i bt# l much of other Grain. The Millers have parchased ad o4 with m or e con fid ence t h an f or some ti me past , an d a n rid ' of Is. per quarter has been realised. Fine South 13 ' i i i yip' scarce and sells readily at an advance of is. to 25., e e • IA; coin:lire and Yorkshire must be noted Is. p er quarter, of $ In Oat s , B eans , an d Sh e lli ng no mater i a l alteration, eith price or demand. sb e/ ' Per qr. of 601 b to the bu 1 , 10 00 OLD. 60 0 51 Wneat, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent Red. 53 to 54 461 Ditto ditto White... 56 60 47 01 Norfolk Red ...... 52 53 61 )1 Ditto ditto . . ...... Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red 5l 52 Ibi Ditto ditto Whit e ... 53 56 el 0 Yorkshire R e d 49 53 . 50 / Ditto ditto White... 51 55 .... / Foroigi tied 53 5 5 ....:. A O Ditto ditto White... 55 59 inipe."o - Per guano 06 s o Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire a d LincomsHire — . / Grinding Foreig -• 29 31 ,ic t isb e ,) Per qr. , f 631 b. t'' t" h Beans, Small n- 3l 3 3 ... 2 0 $0 0 Tic , s Foreign — ..."' Oats, Potati. a d Pola d Y •••guil' ealing lO t. to 11d., Fer,ign —d to —d. Pe i - 1,0 1 "; Shilling Malt Ripeseed s. SY 1 0 1 :14 There are at present in 23 : l7 lST 'llir e :i n 'is a sfl.. g n2sc h :'24: :a PPJr ie l 'cirt 11 : e's!lt. o persons accused of the awful crime of murder, and three ac e of conspiring to sacrifice human life.—Dublinpaper• .." !MENEM. MARRIED. On the I s t i ns t., a t B ownes Ch urc h, Windermere,,lthel ite oil James Burr ow , nep h ew t o t h e R ev . Si r Richard r h o ce° Bart., Rector of Windermere, &c., to Maria Skelton, , daughter of Captain D. J. Sk e lt on , Rayrigg Hall. , la iefifin, On the 4th i nst ., a t Ch a lf ont , S t . P eter ' s , John,,f,"ipefei - Esq., to Anna Elizabeth, eldest daughter of T. Esq., of Gerrard's-cross. 0 1 DlEn. t son On the Ist of November, at Calcutta, Lieute ose ' 0111 Edward Sney,l, aged 21. 'n W illi On the 28th of November, at Sierra Leone, 0 0 1 Rhodes. • k sp On the 27th of December last, Charles Frederick an _,.... Esq., of the Examiners'-office, Rolls'-yard, Chancery . g ey . Pr On the 29th ult., at the Rectory, Templemoret the '" . b , Holmes, Chancellor of Cashel, &c. , of 04 On the 4th inst., John Robinson Harrison, -' 9( l . ' e ls bury-vale. A Ps" A ross. , On the 4th inst., at Acton place, Kinelen`4 — i• gr Bullen, Esq., of the Bank of England, aged I 7 . oo d, On the 4th inst., at Grove-terrace, St. John 'e-Ti re Lucy Ann Sinclair Sutherland.. 51r oeo On the Ist inst., at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, Crewe, Bart., aged 49. Captai , London: Printed and Published by 111URDO Ittgrincittg No. 112 Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 1 121 1' the County of Middlesex, Monday, January 8, I 111". BIITHS. On the 4th inst., Mrs. F. W. Mr,unt, of a son. , ossfl e* On the 4th i ns t., i n L ang h am-place, the wife 0 ' Baring Youn g , E sq .. o f a d aughter. of ". On the sth inst., the lady of Colonel J. Holbroeff Bengal Army, of a son. On the sth inst., in Whitehall-place, the wife of - Iham t/ Seymour Fit zgera ld , Esq., of a son. • ste.f til On the sth inst., in Great Geo rg e- s treet, Westnn° lady of T. Tomlinson, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a 0 1 '000 On the 2d inst., at Leytonstone, the lady of John duke Teesdale, Esq., of a son. On the 2d inst., at North Lodge, Little Stanmore, the l a dl sol u of Joseph Sladen, jun Esq ,of a daughter. On the 3d inst., in Arling . ton-street, Lady Mary Sfer hell of a son. On the 3d i ns t., at F o l ey H ouse, near M a id ston e, tbe la" t , Francis Daniel Tyssen, Esq , of a daughter. c ieg u On the 3d inst., at Farringdon-street, Mrs. Fran 0 chinson, of a d aug h ter. ds c l uar On the 4 t h i nst., t h e w ife of M r. Sam b ourne, o f r 100 of twin boys (one of whom was still born). 'tat MC! 11 Nisei eaer Sign, Year