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did not appear alarmed, and said it was a pity_he did not know about it, as he would have liked to have had a cut at Sandy, meaning Captain M'Kenzie. Some time after, on the same day (Sunday) we all swore on a Bible to be loyal and brotherly to each other, The day after a carving knife, which had been in the cabin, was missed, which gave us all some uneasiness. A pair of pistols were discovered under a table by Johnston, and when he was going on deck he beckoned to me not to go up ; I, however, went up ; Fielding was then on deck, and wanted a screen put down the skylight in the after cabin. He said he it to air the cabin. Hazelton and Johnston came afterwards on deck, and the latter told the former about the pistols under the table *hick caused us all alarm, as we had thrown, as we Thought, all the fire-arms overboard, except a musket in he after cabin, which Fielding wished to keep to shoot fowl. We went below and asked Fielding what he knew about the pistols ; he said he knew no thing. After a search we found a large copper vessel with powder, and threw it and the pistols over board, with which Fielding expressed himself satisfied. Anderson informed us then that Fielding purposed to do away with the cook, Galloway, Johnston, and myself ; when we heard this, we accused Fielding, who denied it. After this we discovered a bottle of poison in a locker, of which Fielding had kept the key, and the carting knife which had been missing. The cook then said he would not rest until Fielding was thrown over board. Fielding was then secured by Johnston, his hands and feet being tied ; he was kept thus for some time, asking us to heave him overboard, screaming and shouting so that Johnston gagged him by our request. He was led upon deck by Hazleton and Johnston, and was laid down close to the, quarter. After breakfast, while we were all sitting on the hencoop, the cook and Galloway requested that he might be thrown overboard. We all then agreed he should go, and the cook and Galloway went immediately forward, with out saying to us what they purposed doing. The first we heard were the screams of the boy as they were put ting him overboard. While clinging to Galloway the boy (Fielding's son George) tore some of Galloway's clothes. We then agreed that Galloway should take charge of the ship as navigator, he being the best scholar. It was proposed to go to the Coast of Cape Breton, or Newfoundland, to scuttle the vessel, and take the long boat up the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The money was di vided amongst us all. On the night before the mate was killed, when I came on deck, I was going aft with Captain Fielding' and An derson ; we stopped about the mainmast, and I turned back, being frightened, and. there seemed a sort of panic, from whichlthought they might give up the plan altogether. Fielding then came after me,, and asked " What is the matter ?" My answer was not satisfactory. He then said, " D— you, if you don't go back and not make a fool of yourself, I will kill you right out." Fielding had a carpenter's adze in his hand at the time. I was quite alarmed by the threat and returned with him. (Signed) GEO. JONES. U . he confession voluntarily made in the presence of Hon. MICH. TOBDT, Hon. J. W. JOHNSTON, Attorney-Gen., J. J. SAWYER, Esq. High Sheriff. From the foregoing confession it mly be inferred that it was the wish of the wretch Fielding to murder the whole of the ship's company, with the object of possess ing himself of the entire treasure on board, although it is true that in so doing he would have left but himself and youthful son on board. The following details in connection with the affair, condensed and extracted from a file of the IMO= Courier, will show that an act of murder and piracy, per haps unexampled in atrocity, has been committed, and no less than eight persons barbarously massacred. The Saladin was a Newcastle ship, sailed from Val raraiso ou the 17th of February , havi n g a rich car g o on board, consisting of 70 tons of copper, 13 bars of silver, each weighing 1501bs. weight ; 9,000 dollars in specie ; and a large quantity of guano. The . Saladin was 550 tons burden, and commanded Ely Captain Mackenzie. The first suspicions of the horrible affair were aroused on the 20th ultimo, when the ship ran ashore on the back of an island' in a country harbour near Halifax. On being boarded, the crew r e aported that the captain had died at sea on the sth ultimo, and the mate three days subsequently, and That two of the crew had fallen into the sea. 'They stated that they had latterly been sailing , they knew not where, and were astonished to find that they had leached Nova Scotia, of which place they alleged they had never beard. Captain Cunningham was the first per son who went on board. He found all in disorder ; the men were well dressed, and had evidently been faring aumptuoutl s• for several days. Bottles were lying about in every direction, a chest of dollars was open, and the ship's papers, and all sorts of valuables scattered about. There were ind:nations of a female and a little child having been on. bated ; but of these the crew made no mention, and the entrisla, in the log-book ceased on the 14th of April. The agent for Lloyd's (the Hon. Michael Tobin)on learning these p aa sticulars, hastened to the spot and arrived at the same cone 'lnsion that Captain Cun ningham had previously done, n eaely, that the crew had mutinied, and seized the vessel. The parties on board were taken into custody and conveyed to Halifax, where in the course of a very few days disclosnrCs in relation to the melancholy affair were made, fui! of horrible details. The two individuals who have confessed are !Ica and Galloway, who held the respective offices of coc,4 and steward of the ship. Their confession was made to* the Hon. Mr. Tobin, Lloyd's agent at Halifax, in the pr' sauce of the Sheriff, the gaoler, and subsequently of the Attorniy-General. Carr, the cook, is a native of New castle-upon-Tyne, and a middle-aged man. Galloway, the steward, is a native of Scotland, and not more than nineteen years of age. Both of them were shipped at Newcastle, and had accompanied the Saladin throughout her voyage. From this statement then it appears that several of the crew of the Saladin having deserted at Valparaiso, others were shipped to supply their places ; among these a man named Fielding. who had formerly com manded a vessel which had been seized by the Chilian Government end confiscated for an infringement of the revenue laws of that country ; this man had a son also on board, a lad about fifteen or sixteen years of age. The Saladin sailed` , from Valparaiso, having a crew in all of fourteen persons. All seems to rave gone on well until a 'lout the middle of April. when a plan to murder the captain, mate, and a portion of the crew was concocted by Fielding and the sailmaker, who engaged in their scheme the assistance of a Swede and two others of the crew shippeLl at Valparaiso. The whole plot was planned and execute in less than forty eight hours. It was on a Sunday nieit in the larboard (a mate's) watch that the mutiny bro:s-e forth. The mate was the first victim. He was in a delicate state df health, and while reclining on the poop he wiis struck with an axe and knocked overboard without fig least noise being made. The captain's watch was then nailed, and as the men came on deck they were knocked orf head and pitched overboard almost without a groom. Two of the murderers then went below to dispatch the captain, but his faithful dog was beside him on the berth, and they were afraid to approach him lest he might be aroused by its barking. Another man, who came on deck about this time, and who was in the mizen chains, had his head split open with an axe, and he fell into the sea, his blood streaming on the deck. The wretches at this juncture, in order to draw the captain out of his cabin, raised the cry " A man overboard ! " The plan succeeded but too well, and, as he ascended the companion-ladder, he received a blow on the head with a hammer from one of the mutineers. The blow did not, however, take good effect, and he rushed upon the deck With the hope of defending himself, but was attacked by others, sow overpowered, and thrown overboard. Carr and Galfiway state that they first heard an alarm at this period, baying been exempt from keeping watch. Carr went on deck,' and upon inquiring what was the matter, was informed of all that had occurred, and then saw before him those w:.o remained of the crew, except Galloway, who was still beYow. The attack appeared to have been most systematic. Six men were lost without a struggle, and almost without :caving a trace of mu r der behind. Fielding, who seems to have bee' a most desperate 'villain, 'soon after the murders became suspicious and fearful, lie threw overboard all the armg and ammu nition in the ship, except a brace of pistols, which he secreted under the cabin table,and a large carving-knife in the possession of his son. Galloway states that he Made a proposal to him to murder all the crew, except two besides themselves, run the ship ashore, sink her, and then make their escape. Galloway would not consent to this hellish project, and told the crew of the proposal. They immediately became aroused at lielding's treachery, and resolved to pitch both him and his son overheard in self-defence. The money on board was previously divided, and, as is generally the case on such occasions, the ring-leaders were not satisfied with an equal share of the plunder. Fielding and his son, however, were tied hand and foot, and left in the captain's cabin during the whole of one night, and thrown overboard 'the next morning ; the former by Carr and others, he (Carr) having been Obliged to act, and the latter by Galloway, also against his will. • was the only navi- After Fielding's death Galloway gator on board the ship, and his intention was to have gone up the St. Lawrence, where the crew were to have scuttled the vessel, and escaped with the specie and bullion. They were, however, led astray by the com mander of an American schooner, which they spoke only few*days previous to the time when the Saladin struck and.this, providentially, has been the cause of the mur derers being brought 0 justice. Fielding's chief associates in the bloody scheme appear to, have been four men, named Johnston, Anderson, Jones, and Hazen. The murdered mate's name was 13yerIey, and the names of. three of the seamen are stated to have been James, Moffatt, and Collins. The Halifax Herald of June 12 says," We understand from "good authority that all the miscreants will plead 'guilty. The judge of the Admiralty, who is at present `staying at his country seat, has been sent for, and the * trial is expected to take place in about ten days." The Saladin belongs to Messrs. Johnson and Cargill, of Newcastle: Wti Ectio is FnmiNtNE.--,When the exhibition vas over, and we were 'plodding up the Gap, I asked Spil lane wlitEcho was always of the feminine gender! The • bugler scratched his head, as if trying to elicit something from his brain; but soon acknowledged that he was unable to give a satisfactory answer- Ile observed that, although he heard her every day. yet he had never seen her, and could not tell whether she wore petticoats or small-clothes. All at 'once Spillane seemed struck with some new ideas, and ex claimed, " Maybe, your honour, that Echo is represented as A female, because she always has the last word." A newly married couple were walking with us when Spillane delivered himself of this brilliant conception, and to the bride I re ferred the solution of the enigma. She quickly and spirit edly replied, "What, Sir, w ou ld t h e l or d s o f th e creation wish to engross both the first and the last word? In that • case, we poor women might lock up our tongues, as we do our jewels, to be used only on gala days."--Dr. James Johnson's Jour in Ireland. IRELAND. ORANGE PROCESSIONS. DUBLIN, JUNE 27.—The Dublin Evening Post of this after noon contains the following address from Mr. Daniel O'Con nell, jun., " to the Repeaters of Ulster, and particularly to the Catholic Repealers :" " June 27,1844. " Fellow-countrymen—The days are approaching on which, for many years, processions of Orangemen took place in your province of Ulster. It is not my intention to make any re marks on the proceedings of the persons heretofore engaged in such processions, or on the consequences that followed thereon. I wish to bury all those bygone circumstances in a generous oblivion ; and I call upon you, repealers of Ulster, to do the same. Let us forgive and forget the past; let us do all we can for the future to conciliate and reconcile all parties. " It is said that it is intended in some places to hold Orange processions on the ensuing Ist and 12th of July. I hope the report is not true—and I believe that it is not time. But if it should happen to be true as to any locality, I do implore, adjure, and, I will say, command the repealers of Ulster not to oppose or interfere in any way with any such procession. You, repealers, should be too manly to beo ffended with any expressions that can be used by your deluded fellow-country men. Let the Orangemen amuse themselves with their pro cessions as much as they please for what you care. Should they—which is not probable—make any actual attack upon persons or property, seek the protection of the law and of the constabulary, and do not give your enemies any pretext to accuse you of riot or violence. " In short, brother repealers, your duty is, not to take offence at words, or colours, or foolish processions. Your business is, to offend nobody, and to conciliate, if possible, everybody. " Peace, and good humour, and conciliation, and Christian forbearance are the duties—the pleasing duties—of all honest repealers. There are many honest Irishmen in the ranks of those who were Orangemen. " Do not omit to inform your Protestant fellow-country men that, in looking for the restoration of the Irish Parlia ment, you are looking for that which would be of equal advantage to Irishmen of every class, creed, persuasion, and party. "Signed, on behalf of my father, " DANIEL O'CONNELL, jun." ORANGE OUTRAGE AT PORTADOWN. There has been an investigation respecting the recent Orange outrages in this place. The result was, that infor mations were granted against thirteen of the Orange party. This outrage indicates the spirit in which the Orangemen would celebrate their anniversaries, should the Government allow Lord Stanley's Act against processions to die out. THE LATE TRAGEDY AT GORT. A coroner's inquest was held on Saturday on the bodies of the two sons of Peter Larkin, an account of whose horrible butchery by their own father was published in the Times of Monday. The first witness was Mary Larkin, the daughter of the murderer. She deposed as follows :—Her father is a pensioner at 9d. a day, from the 87th regiment of Foot. He went from his residence at Shanaglish to Gort on the morning of the 20th June (distance fire miles) to buy potatoes ; he returned about 10 o'clock that night, at which time her mother, Bridget Larkin, was in bed in a room above the stairs. Witness was also in bed in an ad joining room (which had no door) with her two brothers, Bernard and Martin Larkin, aged 15 and 12 years. Her mother got out of bed and went down stairs to let her father in. They both in a short time returned. Her mother had a lighted candle in her hand, and her father a small bowl, and a bottle which contained about a pint of whisky. He poured about a noggin of the liquor into the bowl and gave it to her mother, who said, " Have you a mind to kill me ?" He said not ; that hewould take part of it himself, and they both drank it ; he then went into the room where his daughter and two sons were, and compelled his sons to, take one glass or better each, although they refused it several times •, he then poured out into the bowl a glass for his daughter, who refused to take it as she was a teetotaller, but he compelled her to drink it, and said that he would take the sin of it upon himself. Shortly after the two boys began to play in bed from the effects of the whisky ; but he told them several times to go asleep which they soon did, but be fore this he said he should go down stairs to dry himself ; her mother told him that the fire was raked out, but he went down and returned in a short time and extinguished the candle. He did not take off his clothes, and was quite sober. Witness fell into a sleep, and about four o'clock A.M. next morning she was awoke by an unusual noise in the bed. She saw her father leaning over her with a razor in his hand. He made an effort to cut her throat, which did not take effect, by means of a handkerchief that was about her neck ; he then drew the razor across her right breast, and round her left breast, which he nearly severed from her body. She then put up her hands to save herself, and received a wound on the left hand and finger, at which time she plunged out of the bed from him, and then saw her two brothers lying in their blood, and crying out " Father ! father! father !" at which time she saw her father draw the razor across their necks. He then made a desperate effort to catch herself be fore she got to the top of the stairs, but she was too fleet for him, and made the street door, calling her mother, and in a moment removed a table that was against the said door and escaped, her father in chase of her. She was naked, and cried out murder, holding up her mangled breast with her hand, and wherever she walked the street was covered ith blood which streamed from her person. She re turned shortly after, met her mother at the door, having her youngest son Martin in her arms dying. A number of persons collected. The razor was taken from her father. He was sober. Cannot ascribe any cause for his having com mitted the act. Bridget Larkin, wife of Peter Larkin, corroborated . her (laughter's testimony in all that came under her notice be fore she fell asleep, and also that she and her husband drank about a noggin of the whisky in the kitchen before they went up the stairs ; and that she was awoke from sleep about four in the morning by her son, Martin, who came to her bed, and said that his father had killed them. She saw the boy co vered with blood at the time, and his throat cut. She took him into her arms, and carried him down the stairs, where she saw her husband with a razor open in his hand. He then made furiously at her. She threw down the child to save herself, and with an effort threw her husband from her; in doing which she received a wound in the thumb, but es caped, having but her smock on. The two boys died almost immediately after. The prisoner was brought into Court at the latter end of the proceedings in custody of the police. He is a man between 4tr and 50 years of age. The Coroner read the depositions, to all of which he listened with great attention, and at the conclusion said he did not want to deny having committed the murder, and expressed a wish he might suffer death for his crime. The jury retired for a few minutes, and returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Peter Larkin."_ SHOCKING CHILD MURDER.—Friday night, at seven, Mr. lliggs, the Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster concluded an inquiry, adjourned from Wednesday, at th 3 Savoy Palace, Savoy-street, Strand, as to the death of a full-grown male child, the offspring of a young woman, named Sarah Hyland, who was house-maid at the above house, but is at present in the custody of the police. It will be recol lected that on Tuesday last the mother was discharged, and requested that her mistress might not look into an unlocked box which she left in her room. This caused suspicion, and upon opening it the body was found with a petticoat tight over the head, and the string tied with a double knot round the neck. There was also a severe bruise on the head. The evidence left no doubt that the young woman Hyland had delivered herself between the hours of six and eight the same morning, though she had always denied that she was enceinte, and the inquest was adjourned, for the purpose of having the body opened. Mr. Walker, of Drury-lane, sur geon, having stated particularly the mark of the string round the neck, the pressure of the nose on the face, and a large swelling from the ear to the top of the head, said he had since made a post mortent examination of the body. On the head being opened, a quantity of reddish fluid was found extravasated on the brain. The lungs had been inflated, and upon being cut, bubbles of air exuded ; they also floated in water. He was of opinion that the labour had been a natural one, and Oat the child was born alive. The death had been caused by strangulation, suffocation, or extravasation on the brain, produced by pressure or violence, or the three causes might have operated almost simultaneously or conjointly. Mr. Snitch, also a surgeon, was examined, and stated, that on Tuesday he was sent for to the station-house at Bow-street, and saw Hyland, who at first refused to be examined, but at last consented, and upon his doing so was satisfied she had recently had a child. She could have delivered herself. After a great deal of immaterial evidence, the jury consulted, and at eleven o'clock returned a verdict of " Wilful murder," against Sarah Hyland. STRANGE FREAK OF A MADMAN.—On Wednes day evening police-sergeant Squire, No. 14 K, was sent for to the Sunderland Bridge public-house, in Wapping-wall, Lower Shadwell, to take charge of a seaman named Raphael Brown, who was conducting himself in a very strange manner. He was calling out for a knife to cut his throat, and it was with great difficulty he was prevented laying violent hands on himself and others. Squire succeeded in pacifying him, and ascertained that he had been lodging at the Ship, King James's-stairs, since last Saturday evenmg, and that he had engaged a passage on board a steamer bound to the north, and when the vessel was ready to start he left his clothes on board and came ashore. He then began drinking enormous quantities of soda water, and, from Saturday night , when he first came to lodge with Mrs. Cooper, at the Ship, until Mon day evening, he managed to swallow 120 bottles of that liquid, and during the short time he was in the Sunderland bridge public-house, he drank 35 bottles of soda water, but so far from cooling him, every bottle he drank increased his excitenient. Squire managed to get him away from the Ship, under a promise to allow him more soda water, and after a further consumption of 15 bottles, he conveyed him to the station-house, and procured an order from Mr. Ser geant, the relieving officer of St. Paul, Shadwell, for his ad mission into the union workhouse at Mile-end, where he now remains. appears that the poor fellow was paid off fifteen days ago, when he received 371., and soon afterwards a letter from his father in the north reached him, stating that his sister had gone out of her mind, which preyed so much on his feelings, that he became insane himself, commenced drinking large quantities of soda-water, and at one house, where he staid for a short time, he broke all the chairs and tables. While Squire was conveying him to the workhouse, he insisted upon entering a ginger-beer and mineral-water manufactory, where he dispatched seven bottles of soda water and ginger-beer in three minutes, and called for more ; but the proprietor, fearing the man would burst, declined opening him a farther supply. ICING'S COLLEGE.—On Friday the distribution of prizes among the pupils of this establishment took place in the theatre of the College. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury presided on the occasion. The theatre was crowded by ladies and gentlemen, and within the circle sat the members of the Council. the Professors, together with the Bishop of Liehfield (the late Principal of King's College), Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Justice Coleridge, and other persons of distinction. Dr. Jelf (the Principal) addressed the company on the onerous duties he had to perform, and briefly descanted on the incalculable advantages of education, when coupled with moral and religious instruction. The prizes (copies of the classics, &c.) were then distributed by the Most Rev. the Primate to the successful students in the various depart ' !twits of literature and science taught in the College. Among the youthful scholars who were conspicuously/2140i guished in classic lore was a son of Mr. Barry the architect of the New Houses of Parliament. HER MAJESTY'S CORONATION. -011 Friday being the sixth anniversary of her Alost Gracious Majesty's coro nation, the Tower and Park guns fired royal salutes at one o'clock, and in the Tower the national standard was displayed throughout the day, and the church bells in the metropolis rang merry peals at intervals ; but there was certainly a con siderable lack of this kind of demonstration yesterday. At the entrance of the 13t. Katharine Dock the Union ,Jack was hoisted, and similar manifestations of loyalty were displayed from some of the monuments aed other eminences throughout the metropolis. The shipping in the river and in the docks had their colours hoisted on the auspicious oce.esi,on. A settler in the neighbourhood of Mount Barker has produced this year fourteen quart; of prime strawberries, which he sold at 55.. per quart, or id, exiiae told, sixty s trawberries filled a (heaped measure) as we are quart, We hear of fine fruit in every direction. Many of the i mpor t e d trees have thriven so wall as to promise great encourage ment for future importations at tl4g proper season. —Austra lian ?ape , . • Tuu NEW VICEROY.—We have learned than Cap tain Willis, who laeid,tixe office of Gentleman Usher, for eighl or nine years peat, has received a renewal of the appointmtut atom Lord ileytosbury.—Dabiin Zvenits, POO SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EYDNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—Thanks to Sir James Graham fur invest ing the fag-end of a dull, do-little session with un wonted interest! But for his Paul Pry practices at the Post-office, Somnus would have re-assumed his reign in Parliament, and the nation would have caught the soft infection. The mutiny in the Ministerial camp, and the rumoured resignation of the Cabinet, gave a fillip to the slumbering public. But the report was too good to be true. The quarrel of Friday was patched up on Monday ; the nation re sumed its nap ; and Peel was himself again. The Home Secretary excels his Chief. His proceed ings are not likely to pass into forgetfulness. He has aroused the public mind to indignation. The topic in every circle, where politician, or commercial men, " most do congregate"—in the house, or on the way— the astounding fact, that the correspondence of the public, foreign and domestic, which is committed to the Post-office, in the full confidence that it is there alike safe from curiosity or cupidity, so far as the sane tions and penalties of law can render it secure— that this sanctuary is liable to be entered and ran sacked, and selections made from it at the pleasure of the Home Secretary—that by virtue of a " general warrant" from him, any and every letter addressed to any individual may be stopped, detained, opened, read, and its contents communicated ; a revelation of such a state of things, so unexpected and alarming, was well calculated to awaken public attention, and to arouse the dormant feelings of Englishmen. And it has done so. The subject was again brought before the House of Lords last evening, to be resumed on Thurs day evening next in that House. A motion on the same subject is also to be brought forward in the House of Commons in the course of the ensuing week. Lord Radnor introduced the subject to the House of Peers on presenting a petition from Mr. Mazzini, si milar in terms to that presented to the House of Commons by Mr. Duncombe from the same person, complaining of the detention and opening of his letters by the Post office authorities. The discussion which ensued, though almost exclusively a legal argument as to the import of the terms of the statute under which the obnoxious prac tice is defended, is invested with extraordinary interest. A great constitutional right is placed in question. A privilege only second to the boasted inviolability of an Englishman's house—be it a palace or a cottage, a mansion or a hovel—is jeopardised. The impression of a man's seal has, in England, been hitherto regarded as securing a letter against every individual except the person to whom it was directed, or his authorised agents, as completely as the lock upon a man's house, or upon his desk, secured them from invasion against all but himself, or those to whom he entrusted the key, as the only authorised mode of effecting an entry. This delusion has passed away. We are now told that this is a popular error, which Sir James Graham has taken upon himself to dispel, and Lord Lynd hurst and Lord Brougham—par mobile fratrum I—to defend. The old practice—so consonant with the notions of Englishmen—of respecting the seal of a letter, or, at least, if it be opened, to apprise the party most concerned that it has been broken and the contents of the letter read, is now abolished. Every man in England—the 'boasted birth-place and dwelling of freedom, based on and defended by constitutional law—who commits a letter to the Post-office, or who receives a letter from his correspondent, does so under the humiliating apprehension' that it may be, or has been, opened and read at the Post-o ffi ce by some autho -I..ised spy of the Home-office—the original seal broken up, and a counterfeit impression skilfully executed, and adroitly applied, affixed in the place of the original ! The legal point raised last evening is one on which the Law Lords differ in opinion. It will, however, be observed that the affirmative is adopted by Lord Brougham and Lord Lyndhurst ; the soundness of whose opinions will be impugned by their relative po sitions. Those, on the other hand, who contend that the power of detaining and opening letters is limited, and can only be exercised over a particular letter—specially described in a warrant issued by the Secretary of State with reference to that letter, authorising its detention and inspection—are not open to the objection we have stated as applicable to the Noble and Learned Lords to whom we have alluded. The latter view was maintained by Lord Denman and Lord Campbell. In a doubtful matter, where far greater ambiguity exists as to the construction of the words employed by the Legislature, we should be quite as much disposed to take the law from the lips of the Lord Chief Justice of England— cool and dispassionate as his Lordship is in temperament, and removed as he is, by virtue of his office, from the turmoil of party strife—than from the Noble and Learned Lord who occupies the woolsack, whence he would be hurled by the overthrow of the Cabinet of which he is a member. With reference to Lord Brougham, whatever admiration may be excited by his powers of oratory, his talents as a lawyer were never rated at a high value ; while Lord Campbell has been regarded by all parties as a lawyer par excellence. In the present case, however, we think the construction to be placed on the terms in dis pute is sufficientlyobvious. Lord Campbell had "carefully read, and attentively considered, the several Acts under which the power exercised by the Secretary of State was claimed and defended ; and he had no doubt that they did not confer the power of issuing a general war rant." Lord Denman, in the most decided language, expressed his concurrence in the interpretation of the law given by Lord Campbell. " He was of opinion that every letter which was opened in the Post-office, should be opened tinder the authority of an express warrant." The Lord Chancellor referred to the Act in support of his construction of the words the meaning of which was in dispute, but stopped short of the part of the clause which made against his argument. The principle of law, which requires'that all penal statutes shall be construed strictly, and not with a latitude of interpretation against the parties to be affected by them—the constitutional right placed in issue—the resemblance which the case bears to the case of " general warrants," in the celebrated case of Wilkes, whose person and papers were seized by virtue of " a general warrant" issued by Lord Halifax as Secretary of State, the illegality of which was decided by an appeal to the constitutional tribunals of the coun try—whatever view be taken of the question, whether as to the terms of the statute, or by analogy, as supply ing illustration from cases similar to that now in dis pute ; all tend to the same conclusion, that the practice complained of is as unjustifiable in law as it is odious in the estimation of the public. That it must be abolished by special enactment, if not voted by Parliament to be a positive infraction of existing law, is now no longer doubtful. STANDARD.—As we anticipated, the Post-office case is not likely to be let drop. Lord Radnor brought it forward last night again in the House of Lords. There is an obvious reason for all this. Signor Mazzini in this way obtains nightly an advertisement as " a lite rary person "—an advertisement of which he apparently stands in need, for we imagine that his contributions to literature are as much a secret to the rest of the world as they certainly are to ourselves ; and the grievance is moreover an excellent grievance, and one that will wear well, for it is impossible for tha Ministers to explain it away without a gross violation of duty, and unexplained it must remain for ever odious. All the habits of thinking and feeling, which we form from our social experience, are repug nant to the notion that it can be right to pry into private letters ; and even the cases in which " the safety of the commonwealth, the supreme law" has been pleaded in excuse for violating the secrecy of private correspondence, have not been uniformly such as to reconcile us to the irregularity. Dr. Frank lin, the Deputy-Postmaster of North America, not only stole but published private letters in 1773, for the pur pose of kindling war between the colonies and the mother country ; he pleaded the public good as his apology ; but he received a chastisement from the Solicitor-Gene ral Wedderburne, which few men would undergo for all the fame, whether ail writer. politician, or discoverer, that attaches to the memory of the American philosopher. Again, some years ago the Whigs received, and published, and made use of--if they did not themselves actually steal—a letter of the late Chief Justice, Lord Norbury— employing it for the aid of the disaffected faction in Ireland, but of course pretending the public good. Now these abuses of confidence naturally enough make more hateful what our habits of private life cause us to detest, and therefore the grievance is one of the most promising kind. Still the difficulty remains. What is to be done ? Nobody ventures to say that, under no circumstances shall letters be opened in the Post-office ; and how are you to find the proper limits ? The law has left it to the discretion of the Home Secretary to fix those limits pro re nata, subject, of course, to the responsibi lity to which every act of a Minister is subject, and we do not see how, in this respect, the law can be improved upon. Lord Campbell, indeed, and Lord Denman, hol that the exercise of the discretion is hampered to the extent of requiring a particular warrant fur each letter opened. We must always dispute any opinion of Lord Denman's with extreme diffidence, and, more particularly, a legal opinion, but we cannot assent to his Lordship's doctrine, which seems to us to involve a whole knot ofpractical contradictions. Let us, for example, sup pose, the case of an officer of the Post-office indicted for opening one of Signor Mazzini's letters. The officer pleads in his defence the act of Queen Anne, and a warrant, under the hand and seal of the Home Secretary, authorising him (the officer) to detain, open, and copy all letters addressed to the Signor. The clause in the Act of Anne is not, as the Morning Chronicle to-day sagely ! remarks, a penal clause to be construed strictly ; it is, on the other hand, a remedial and enlarging clause ; and, therefore, entitled to the most liberal construc tion. Nobody knows this better than Lord Denman. Now, we ask his Lordship, would it be con sistent with such liberal construction to reject the plea of the prisoner in the case supposed ? But we will put the case still more strongly against the Home Secre tary's right, and suppose that the warrant was directed to the detention and examination of a single letter to Mr. Mazzini ; still the officer would be safe in detaining all the letters addressed to that individual, because each might be the letter anticipated; and upon whatever letter he might be indicted the warrant would be a good defence, for the prisoner would be in a condition to say that that was the letter intended. Mr. Mazzini says that in the course of two or three months he received seventy letters, which would be, on the average of post days, three a day at the least. How could a warrant distinguish the letter suspected out o three ' We, alas, know those who sometimes receive twenty times, and even thirty times three letters in the day. Now suppose, ab sit omen, any of us, who give such work to the letter carriers, suspected of seditious practices. How could a warrant, applicable to a single letter only, afford the means of Sifting our correspondence? The question of law was, hOwever, too completely disposed of by the arguments of Lerd Brougham and the Chapeellor to permit that we say more about it. The power ests legally in the Government, to the full extent or while Sir James - Graham has exercised it, and probably it must Aoßtinue to exist, if for no other reason, to detet men from using th 9 Post-o ffi ce as the vehicle of criminal correspondence. M' the pubic has a right to claim is, that it shall not be wantonly exercised — exercised for any unworthy purpose—or exercised without using every precaution against Injurious consequences either to the public or individuals. Now, it is not even insinuated that in Mazzini's case the power was exercised wantonly, or with any unworthy motive, and no injury to any human being can be traced to its exercise. How different the cases of Franklin's stolen letters, and of the Whig employment of Lord Norbury's stolen letter : there, breach of trust —breach of trust, too, without any sanctir of legal authority—was used as the means of exciting sedition, fomenting public hatred, and calumniating individuals. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, June 29. The Lord Chancellor:sat in Lincoln's-inn Hall to-day shortly after ten o'clock. DT THE CASE OF DYCE SOMBRE, A LUNATIC. The LORD CHANCELLOR, On taking his seat this morning, said, that he was desirous of stating a circumstance that had taken place in the case of Mr. Dyce Sombre. There were certain persons, it appeared, appointed to superintend Mr. Dyce Sombre, with his own consent—officers of police, and so on. Those individuals had communicated to his Lordship that Mr. Dyce Sombre the other day, while walking out, had dropped a letter down the area of No. 2, Park-lane. The officers had sent that letter to his Lordship ; it was sealed, but not addressed. His Lordship had inquired of what description this house was, and he had been told it was a public one of some sort. His Lordship, not feeling himself justified in opening the letter, wished to know from the Gentlemen of the Bar engaged in the case what they desired he should do on the subject. Sir THOMAS WILDE knew nothing of the letter, and was willing that his Lordship should adopt any course he pleased upon the subject. Mr. KELLY, on behalf of Mrs. Dyce Sombre, would leave the matter entirely in the hands of his Lordship. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the letter must be opened at some period or other, but he would consult Mrs. Dyce Sombre herself upon it. He thought that it might be convenient to the Bar that he should state that he was obliged to leave Court to-day at half-past two; he was the more sorry for that, because he was convinced, frein what he knew of the case, that it could not be finished to-day, and next week he would have to sit in the House of Lords every day, with the exception of Wednesday and Saturday. Sir T. WILDE said that, since the subject was last men tioned, affidavits had been filed of considerable length, cover ing twenty or thirty sheets of paper. Those affidavits had been filed on Wednesday, but not delivered till yesterday; it eras, therefore, impossible that Counsel could make them. selves acquainted with them. He doubted, therefore, as his Lordship was obliged to rise at half-past two o'clock, whether it would be a useful occupation of the time of the Court, to proceed with this important case to-day. He trusted, there fore, that the Court would order the matter to stand over. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, if this was an ordinary case be would consent to the application, and adjourn the case to a future day; but he was afraid the adjournment would have Ouch an effect on Mr. Dyce Sombre, that he must decline cceding to it. He was afraid of the consequences, unless the Learned Counsel could obtain the consent of Mr. Dyce Sombre. I Sir T. WILDE could obtain the consent of Mr. Dyce Sombre to anything but delay. ' The LORD CHANCELLOR—Then you must go on with the Sir T. WILDE then proceeded to open the petition of Mr. Dyce Sombre, praying for the supersedeas of the commission which was issued in July, 1843, against Mr. Dyce Sombre. (We decline entering further into the case until the matter shall have come more fully before the Court.) VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, June 29. (Belem Sir JAMES WIGRAM.) i WOODROFFE v. WOODROFFE. His HoNoun pronounced judgment in this case. The sole uestion w as, whether a gentleman who had been named as guardian alitem to an infant defendant, should be dis harged. There was no imputation against him, except that he had employed a solicitor of the name of Hutnell, who, it },vas said, had conducted the proceedings in such a manner that he ought to be removed. He had read the bill, and lie had never seen one drawn with more professional skill. Poe of the grounds on which the plaintiff's case rested was, that he had appointed as guardian a gentleman who was in no way connected with the family. He would not give any opinion as to whether or not it was right that such a person should act as guardian. With respect to , Mr. Hutnell, if an mistake had been committed, it was the mistake of counsel, land he, therefore, was not to blame. Still, considering that there had been great exasperation between the parties, he thought it right that Mr. Chapman should undertake to ap oint a new solicitor to conduct the proceedings in the cause n behalf of the infant.. The question of costs must be sus- Oended. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 29. Sittings at Nisi Prius before Chief Justice DE AN and Special Juries.) TIIE QUEEN V. UPTON. This was an indictment preferred against the defendant, a solicitor, and a partner in the firm of Messrs. Baxendale, Tatham, Upton, and Johnstone, of Great Winchester-street, by Mr. Benjamin Hope, a solicitor, at Wells, Somersetshire, charging him with suborning the prosecutor's brother, Mil Henry Payne Hope, to commit perjury, which he was alleged , to have done in the form of an affidavit, stating that he Pak . Hope) had refused to execute a mortgage unless the arrant of attorney contained a defeasance of 6001. and nterest. Mr. Hope conducted his own case ; Mr. Martin, Mr. Crow er, and Mr. Bristow appeared for the defendant. Several witnesses were called by Mr. Hope, among whom as his brother, but the charge was not proved, and the jury, nder the direction of Lord Denman, immediately returned a 1 erdict of Not Guilty. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 29. (Sittings at Nisi Prins in London, before the LORD CHIEF BARON. ) BALDWIN V. ALSAGER AND OTHERS. This was an action in trover against the assignees of a Mr. Sewell, who in the year 1843 became a bankrupt, to recover the sum of 2084 the value of 72 barrels of ale. Mr. Jervis and Mr. Petersdorfl' appeared for the plaintiff, !and Mr. Cockburn for the defendants. _ ...._ ~..,....... The plaintiff in the action kept the Queen's Railway Arms, Charles-street, Paddington. In the month of May, 1842, he went with Sewell to the brewery of Messrs. Harris, in the Hampstead-road, and there ordered 78 casks of ale, at 58s. per cask, and they were sent to his house. In the autumn of that year Sewell succeeded to the business, and part of the stock in question, 72 barrels, by a memorandum, dated August 4, 1842, was still to remain the property of Baldwin. Sewell afterwards became a bankrupt. The assignees, after ja protracted dispute sold the ale for about 1081., and the object ;of the present action was indemnification to the plaintiff. IMr. COCKBURN, for the defence, said the assignees had an II "nterest the very reverse of depreciating the value of or tam pering with the ale which had by the opposite side been im puted to them. The point upon which he mainly relied was that Sewell, in the eyes of the world, was the reputed owner of the ale which was certainly in his own order and disposi tion. A claim against it from the creditors might well arise on the sole ground of their allowing debts to be incurred when they saw the, security. The j ury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 100/. 108 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) GUILDHALL. Mr. Robert Reeves, a pawnbroker, carrying on busi ness in Redcross-street, Cripplegate, appeared before Messrs. Aldermen T. Johnson and Hooper, to answer an information filed against him by a man named M'Callan, a common informer, for having exacted a larger amount of interest than was allowed by the Pawnbrokers' Act, to which offence he pleaded not guilty ; and Mr. Hum phries, the solicitor, attended to defend him. James Hurst stated, that on the 27th ult. he was en trusted with a duplicate to redeem two books, which were in pledge for 45., in the name of Ann Parker, from the 15th of April, 1843. He tendered ss. as payment, and received 7d. as change, sd. being charged as interest, which was an overcharge, 3id. and four -tenths of a far thing being the legal and just amount of interest due on the loan. _ _ M'eallan hating stated that that was all the evidence he had against the defendant, Mr. Humphries proceeded to cross-examine the witness, from which it will be pretty well seen the kind of crea tures that so callously pounce upon and victimise timid tradesmen, who prefer compromising the affair to being dragged before the public, and their affairs made known sn a police-court. Mr. Humphries—Now, Mr. Hurst, do you know this Miss Anne Parker—did you ever see her ? Witness — No, I do not. Mr. Humphries—But you have redeemed several pledges in the name of Anne Parker ? Witness—Yes, I have ; perhaps about four. Mr. Ilumphries—What are you by trade ? Witness —A bookbinder. Mr. Humphries—But you don't work at the book binding now ? Witness—No, Ido not ; lam painting and decorating Mr. M'Callan's house. Mr. Humphries—Oh, indeed ; you are then a painter and decorator, besides being a bookbinder. Pray, in what capacity did you start in the world ? Witness — In a little dragooning—(Laughter)—about seven years ago. Mr. Humphries—And you then turned a life-guards man, and afterwards a policeman. Witness—Exactly so.—(Much laughter.) Mr. Humphries—ln fact, within the space of seven years, you have been a dragoon, a life-guardsman, policeman, painter and decorator, bookbinder, and, above all, a common informer's witness.—(Continued laughter.) Witness (with an impudent air)—Just so, I can turn my hand to anything.—(Roars of laughter.) Mr. Humphries—Not a doubt of it, sir. You have no regular occupation, either in the bookbinding, painting, or soldiering ? Witness —None whatever ; I get my living the best way I can. Mr. Humphries—Nuw, how does M'Callan pay you ? —by the job ? Witness—No, by the lump. Mr. Humphries—How much did you get for the day you called at the defendant's? Witness—five shillings. I called at four other pawnbrokers on the same day. Mr. Humphries—And you go out in the hope of the unfortunate pawnbrokers making a slight overcharge, so that you may lay an information against them? Wit ness—lf they charge too much I certainly do inform against them. Mr. Humphries—You have been in Mr. M'Callan's employ some time, and given evidencein numerous cases? Witness—l have so. _ _ . Mr. Humphries—ln fact, you are paid for swearing, are you not? and are also paid before you do swear. Witness—l am generally paid before I give evidence. Mr. Humphries then in a very spirited manner ad dressed the Bencb, and submitted that the defendant could not be convicted upon the evidence of a man like Hurst. They proceeded quite in a systematic manner to ensnare their victims, and in the hope of convicting them, it was evident that they would strain their con sciences to the utmost to answer their purpose. The Magistrates then consulted together, and after a few minutes Mr Alderman JOHNSON said that they fined the de fendant 10s., but remarked the worthy Alderman, not one fraction of it will be allowed to the informer. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Wm. Dunn, Esq., of Tredegar-square, and Henry Nor ton, Esq„ of Russell-square, gentlemen, were brought before Mr. Hardwick, 'charged with having assaulted Mr. Wiltshire, confectioner, 332, Oxford-street. There was a second charge against Dunn for having also as saulted the police. From the statement of Mr. Wiltshire, it appeared that the defendants brought two females into his shop the previous evening to treat them to some pastry. 'The conduct of'the defendants while in the shop was noisy and unbecoming, and when one of them began beating with his whip upon the table, it was necessary to make an ap peal to them to behave themselves with more propriety. The defendants demanded to know what they had to pay, and when told the price of the delicacies they had con sumed was 4s. 6d., one of them told Mr. Wiltshire he was a liar. Mr. Willshire was eventually paid, but was subjected to great abuse, and ultimately he was struck by Mr. Dunn with his whip. Assistance was called, and some of the journeymen came to protect their mas ter, but they could not interfere time enough to prevent Mr. Willshire from being again beaten with the whip, and also struck by Mr. Norton. In consequence of this violent outrage the police were called, and then the de fendants made their escape out of the shmp, but they were pursued and taken into custody. When police constable C 68 laid hold of Mr. Dunn, he was asked whether he had any charge against him, and on being told he had none, but that Mr. Willshire had insisted on being released, and gave the constable a smart push, or blow in order to effect his object. It was further stated that the defendant did not appear to be sober. The defendants said they were quite sober. They had been dining at Verrey's, and had drank not more than about two bottles and a half of wine, and this would not make them drunk, as Mr. Verrey would prove, if sent for. With respect to the charge, they said the affray had arisen in consequence of some remarks having been made on the behaviour of the ladies who were then under their protection, and whom they had just met with in Regent-street, and at their solicitation treated to some refreshment. Mr. HARDWICK said the evidence to establish an assault on the police was sufficient to satisfy him, as well as that a gross assault had also been committed on the complainant. The law gave magistrates a power to commit at once to the House of Correction, where a charge of assault was proved on a constable, and in the case of a poor and uneducated man this power was frequently made use of. Persons of station and educa tion, guilty of the same misconduct, were less entitled to 'forbearance, for they had the means of knowing their duty to society, and the necessity for respecting the laws, which persons in an humbler station had not. If the defendants had been assaulted they would have ap plied for protection to the police, and it was therefore but right that the police should be protected in their turn. Taking the whole of the charge into account he was very much inclined to think that a money penalty was an inadequate punishment, and that it was his duty to commit at once to the House of Correction. Mr Dunn exhibited undisguised alarm at this intima tion, expressed his sorrow for what had occurred, and added that if any assault had been committed on the police, which he certainly never intended to commit, it was of a very slight character. Mr. HARDWICK said the slightness of the assault was the only circumstance of mitigation in the case. He de sired it to be understood that when the police were sub jected to ill-usage in the execution of their duty, it was his determination to inflict the punishment of imprison ment, and not to impose a fine, and neither the rank or station of parties should shield them from the penalty of their misconduct. Mr. HAnDwicK then adjudged Mr. Dunn to pay 51. for the assault on Mr. Willshire, and 51. for the assault on the police. Mr. Norton was fined 51. for the assault on Mr. Willshire.—The fines, 151. in amount, were im mediately paid. The parish authorities of St. James's brought John Horne Diamond, a person dressed in handsome sailor's clothes, before Mr. Hardwick, for having deserted his his wife and children. It was stated that the wife was the daughter of a clergyman named Pascoe, who died suddenly a few years ago in the pulpit while preaching a charity sermon ; up wards of 9,000 L was collected for the support of the widow and her children, one of whom was the present complainant, who having picked up the defendant, a common sailor, married him, and gave him the control of some hundreds of pounds, which fell to her share. Her husband soon squandered the whole of the money by the most reckless profligacy, and he then abandoned her and went to sea. The wife had suffered very great privations, and had been obliged to have recourse to the parish. The husband, who had never contributed a farthing towards the support of his family, recently re turned from sea, and took up his quarters in the next street to where the wife lived ; but he never made the smallest inquiry about her, though he was very particu lar in inquiries about the mother, who lived on the pro cc eds of part of the charitable fund, at whose death a portion was likely to come to his wife. The defendant said he had not the means of supporting his wife. ➢lr. Blizzard, the vestry-clerk, said the man came home with . meney, spent it upon himself, and then went another voyage. Mr.,IFIARDWICK said no punishment could be too great for such unprincipled and unfeeling conduct. He should go as far as the law allowed, and send the defendant at once to the House of Correction for three months. MB SUN, LONDON, MONDAY moRSTI44, JULY 1, 1644. THAMES POLICE. Mr. J. Cochburn Belaney, who stands charged on sus picion of having caused the death of his wife, by admi nistering to her a dose of prussic acid, on Saturday, the Bth inst., was brought up on remand before Mr. Broderip. When the prisoner was brought up yesterday he ap peared in good spirits, and a great number of respectable persons attended to witness the proceedings. Mr. Hayward, clerk to the Solicitor to the Treasury, attended on the part of the prosecution, and requested to have the case remanded, as the Treasury had only then given instructions to proceed upon it. It would be impossible, he said, to be prepared with sufficient evi dence at the next session ensuing, and he requested that the witnesses might be bound over to appear at the Au gust sessions. Mr. Clarkson, on the part of the prisoner, had no ob jection to the application. On the contrary, he was rather pleased that it had been made, as both he and his client were anxious to have the case investigated with the fullest scrutiny, and if the present application had not been made he would himself have sought for a postpone ment. He was happy, As regarded the highly respect able but unfortunate gentleman at the bar, that the con ducting of the prosecution ,had been taken up by the Solicitor to the Treasury, as there was no doubt it would thenceforward be carried on in a fair and impartial spi rit, without any desire to crush the unfortunate gentle man who was the object of the inquiry. The time which would elapse would afford an opportunity for allowing the prejudices to subside which the weak and irresolute conduct of Mr. Belaney was calculated to create, and his friends, whom he (Mr. Clarkson) was glad to see crowding around him, in full confidence of his innocence, would be enabled to brini , forward such testimony as wo uld prove that the whole tenor of his previous life was abhorrent of the a,ct imputed to him. Mr. BaonEmpconsidered the application well-funded, and was happy to find it was not opposed. The case was a very serious one, involving other inquiries, and the ends of justice could not possibly be fulfilled if it were hurried on to the session commencing on Monday, as no reason able time would be allowed for preparing the briefs. As the Coroner had bound over the witnesses to appear at the Old Bailey on Monday, it would be as well if Mr. Hayward moved the Central Criminal Court to respite the recognizances until the succeeding session. The prisqner was then remanded until Wednesday the 7th of August, and Inspector Haynes was bound over to prosecute. UNION-HALL. Ann Finden Creasy, alias Pain, was brought up for final examination, charged with obtaining money under false pretences. Since the last examination several let ters have been addressed to the magistrates, relating various acts of imposition practised by the prisoner on different persons, and disclosing that she had been pre viously in custody on charges of a similar description, and examined at Guildhall ; that on a recent occasion she was taken to the Mansion-house for obtaining a sove reign from Mr. Moss, the solicitor of Queen-street, Cheapside, under false representations ; that on the same occasion another charge was preferred against the pri soner by the widow of Captian Headbury, whom she had duped of a considerable sum of money, besides stealing her wearing apparel. The prisoner was remanded on the latter charge, but in the interval Mrs. Headbury de stroyed herself by cutting her throat, owing to the ex citement produced by the base manner in which she had been imposed upon by the accused. Mr. Hill, the landlord of the Red in Poppin's court, Fleet-street, stated that he was one of the victims of the prisoner's deception; that she called at his house and described that she was the holder of Exchequer bills to a large amount, and induced him to write to Mr. Fox Maule on the subject, and at the same time she bor rowed two sovereigns of him to proceed with a trial of a Chancery suit, which would assuredly be decided in her favour, and would put her in possession of 13,0001.; that she boarded in his house,- and afterwards decamped without paying a farthing. Mr. Hill added that he sub sequently ascertained that she was a gross impostor, and had swindled several other persons under similar cir cumstances. Some other witnesses were examined, when Mr. COTTINGHAM said that it was evident from the notes he had just read that the prisoner had no expec tations of money from the source which she alleged she had; -that some time since she had a cause pending in the Court of Chancery, but it was long since decided against her. The Magistrate added that it was obvious the prisoner had been for a length of time going about and committing the most gross and barefaced frauds on the public; that in some instances she had plundered her dupes of clothes as well as money, and in order to put a stop to her career, at least, for some time, ho should commit her for trial. The prisoner, who said that she should reserve her de fence until before another tribunal, was then committed. The driver of cab No. 7,464 was summarily convicted, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment, for assaulting a police man of the Q division. It appeared that the defendant was observed driving along at a most reckless speed, to the im - minent danger of the passengers. When he was at length stopped by the policeman his conduct was of the dost violent nature, striking the policeman right and left in the face. Several of the bystanders advised the policeman to strike his assailant, but he refused; and a gentleman named Bell, who witnessed the transaction, in giving his evidence said that be never saw greater forbearance than was manifested by the policeman on the occasion. Mi.. Cormaxast said that he should not inflict a fine, which could easily be paid, but at once commit the defendant for a month to the House of Correction. . . The defendant begged hard to have the sentence remitted but the Magistrate was inexorable, and he was sent to gaol. 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Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and Bl ckwall London and Greenwich London and Birrnyngh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Third 5........ London andS. Western London and Croyidon Manchest,r and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Midland Con ties North Midland Do. 14-Sh., iss. 10 dis. Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. dts Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Stockt-n & Darlington South East. and Dwer Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditt Scrip Brazil. imp. iss.sl. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. 51. p.m General Mining Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Mex., iss.2l. pin Ditto Scrip Ditto New Literary. Londn, with Sin. Ticket Loudon University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada ....... .............. Upper Canada Bonds Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 11. Mex. and S. American New Bruns wick i Land) New Zealand ...... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel. .... Van Diemen's Land 11. 4s. 11. 15.. (per cent. b per cent. .4jss. and ts.6d. bs. bper cent. iper cent. Mi per cent ti per cent LIST OF SCOTTISH COM JUNE 19, Bank of Scotland Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scot'. Edinburgh Lite Insur. Scottish Union Insur Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Rail way Eden. and Glas. Railwy Glasg. end (imam. Rail. ;Li u eeanel Ache Rail. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent 7 per cent. 6 pe► cent. d per cent. 6 per cent. 7 per cent. 0 par cent. per cent. Epee cent. per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 2 per cent gj percent X a. la. 100 1 0 41 13 4 Imo 0 0 100 0 0 er cent. 61:153. 7i. IL 53. Si 12s. Bd. -ss. 1 10s. 34/. 101. 51 701. 171. 301. 3% 17s. (M. 104 6 percent. 28 151. 201. IL 102. 151. 321. - 10 s. 10/. 81. los. 42. 11. 4s. 3 per cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. thi per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 1% per cent. 1/. Os. Bd. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. 3i, 10s. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13s. 6d. pr sh 5/. ss. 4 per cent. Is. per share 5 percent. 31. 6s. 5 per cent./ k 30s. bds. 5% per cent. 5% per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. 18. 6d. per cent. 'l9s. sh. & bds. 1/. ss. low 10s. per cent. per cent. 5 per cent. I/. ss. 5 per cent. B},i per cent. 1/. 45. spe Cent. lON per cent B per cent 6 per cent. 5 per cent. sper cent. raper cent. per cent. percent. 3 per cent. 6 per cent. 218 per share 6s. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. 11. ss, 11.75. 5/. and ba. 434/. and tn. per cent. I cent. 101. 101. 8/ per sh 15s per sh 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent. 114 per cent. 31. 12s. 21. 10s. 2/. 10s. 21. 10s. 5 per cent. 4/. 16s. 14 148. 10s. per sh 11. 411. per cent. Ss. per sh. 21. ss. perch In per cent g per cent. 31. ss. per sh 2%1. per sh. 12s. per eh. 4 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 134/. per sh 101. Par sh. 11. 14s. 31. per share 834c1 per sh 31.175. pr sl /13s per sl 14 11. - Ios. 11. 58. 159. 11. lie. 10d. 15 per cent per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. II 11. Si. ns. 6d. /, 10s. lOper cent. 10s. per sh. 11. 101. per sh. 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 9 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 59 0 0 200 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 • 17 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 16 0 0 18 9 0 19 9 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 WO 0 0 75 0 0 31 5 0 28 0 0 50 0 0 50 e 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 39 0 0 80 0 0 1 25 0 0 48 0 0 10 O . 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 12 0 0 i 6 6 50 0 0 ioo 6 o 6 o 100 0 0 50 e 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 '2O 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 ,100 0 0 50 0 0 18 0 0 50 0 0 ,25 0 0 31 0 13 10 0 100 0 U 25 0 ( J5O e e 21 0 0 25 0 15 0 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 - 1 40 0 0 tO 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 10 0 10 0 0 3 0 0 60 0 0 59 0 0 25 0 0 I 7 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 150 9 0 50705000 25 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 1 . 10 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 - 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 15 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 C 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 8 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 - 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 29 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 3.spm 4% 17 1 0 2 8 4 5 3 / 4 4 'ANIES' PRICES. 844. 17334 170 226 109 V 95 78 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 IQ 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 2L4 13% 21 17% 20g, 4% 50 66% 12 29% LORD BLOOMFIELD.—We are happy to state that, to the great gratification of the garrispA at Woolwich, the Gallant and respected Commandant of the Artillery, Lieut.- General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., G.C.H., is rapidly reco yffl;g corn his late severe indisposition. His Lerdship is htlie to take his usual daily carriage exercise. All paid 19 5 8 100 0 0 100 0 0 78 8 0 67 10 8 105 0 0 110 0 u 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 10E1 0 0 70 10 3 100 0 0 100 0 0 20ii 0 0 40 0 0 56 7 0 101 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 %.0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 00 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 WO 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 11 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 1 4 :0 0 0 Dm 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JUNE 29.—Wind S.W., light breeze and fine. • DEAL, JUNE 28.—Wind N.N.W. to N.W. rm. W.N.W. to W.S W. light.—Shl. Claudine and Isabella, Ichaboe ; Re newal, Honduras; Mary Cawlne, St. John's, New Bruns wick; Warrior, Montreal. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 28.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Bucepha lus, London for Calcutta. Off, Helen, Port Republicain for Antwerp; a ship, supposed to be the Fairlie, with troops from China. COWES, JUNE 28.—Arrd. Elizabeth Gumner, M'Bean, Porto Rico. OFF TORBAY, JUNE 26.—Charles Brooke, St. Vincent's. SALCOMBE, JUNE 27.—S1d. Jessamine, St. John's, New foundland. Off, Le Narvin, Josephine, Martinique. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 28.—Wind N.—Sld. Kerswell, Boston. POOLE, JUNE 27.—Sld. Albion, Newfoundland. CLAY, JUNE 27.—The Louise, of Frederickstadt, from Norway to Dieppe, i s as h ore at C romer, waterlogged and with loss of keel and rudder • crew saved. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 28.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Stirlingshire, Davidson, Bombay; Hero, Sedgley, Buenos Ayres; Elizabeth King, La Guayra ; Columbine and Sara cen, New Orleans. Sld. Brunswick, Calcutta • Countess Arran, ichab o e ; K a t e , Rib ; Reliance, Pernambuco ; Mary Marselen, St. Tho mas ' s; Richmond, Providence ; Amelius. Boston; Caledonia, St. John's, New Brunswick. 27. Fife shire, Cape of Good Hope ; Triton, Africa ; Stephen, Lurnter, Baltimore; Henry Duncan and Standard, Quebec. Off, Lancashire Lass. HULL, JUNE ' 2 7.—Woughton, St. John's, New Brunswick Woodhouse, Miramichi. :11A N E S.-( SAT URDAY. C °ENT-GM:IA. Although the supplies of both fruit and vegetables were very extensive. even the time of year considered, the trade was throughout active, on the following terms :—Old Potatoes, from 5s to 6s, and New ditto, 8s to 16s por cwt ; Onions. is 3d to 2s 6d ; Turnips, 2s to 3s 6d ; and Carrots, 5s to 6s per dozen bunches ; Spinach, IC to is 6d ; Goose berries, is 6d to 3s ; Currants, 2s to 3s 6d; Broad Beans, is 3d to 2s; and Peas, is 4d to 2s 6d per half sieve. Aspa ragus, ls to 4s fid • Oranges, 8s to 14 s ; L emons, 8s to 14s ; and French Beans, 9d to is ad per 100 ; Pine Apples, 58 to lOs ; Hot-house Grapes, 3s to 6s ; and Cherries, 2d to 6d per lb ; Peaches, 12s to 25s ; and Cabbages, 6d to is per dozen. Strawberries, 3d to 6d per pottle ; Cucumbers,4d to is 6d per brace. Cauliflowers, 2d to 6d ; and Melons, 3s to 7s each. Horse-radish, 4s to 6s per bundle ; Small Salad, 2d per punnet ; Radishes, 3d to 6d per dozen hands; Lettuces, 6d to 2s per score. N ENVIIATE Ag r a LEADIENB.tf►Z L. Although the supply of meat was seasonably large, the general demand was firm at prices quite equal to those noted in our last report. Beef from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d • to 4s ; Lamb, 4s to 5s 2d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Pork 2s 4d to 4.s per 81bs. by the carcase. We had a very scanty supply of Poultry, yet the demand was in a sluggish state, at barely previous rates. Capons, 4s to 7s; Guinea Fowls, 3s to 4s ; Chickens, Is 3d to 3s 3d ; Ducklings, 2s to 3s ; Goslings, 4s to 6s; Pigeons, 5d to 9d; and Rabbits, tame, Is to is 9d each. HUNGEIEPORD. There was a fair average supply of most kinds of meat and vegetables, as well as fisti, while the general demand ruled steady, at full prices. _ _ _ NEWPORT. There was a fair average supply of Meat, yet the deniand was firm at full prices :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s ; Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. For Most kinds of Fish, the supplies of which were tole rably good, we had a steady inquiry at last week's quota tions. Wit XTECHAPEL. A fair business was doing in each kind of Meat at full prices : Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; Lamb, 4s to 5s ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4$ per 81bs. - _ _ BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 8d to Sid; of Household ditto, 6d to 74 4 d per 4lb loaf. HIDE MARKET. Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs—Best steers and heifers 5s 4d to 5s 10d; middling hides, 4s 6d to ss; inferior ditto, 4s to 4s 4d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin—Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8s; shearlings, 9d to is 3d; and Lamb skins Is 6d to 2s 3d each. HAT AZARZETS. SMITIMELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41; use ful ditto, 4/ 5s to 4l 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 143 to 514 Clover Hay, 5/ to 61 lOs ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11143 to 1/ 163 per load. A moderate supply. and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay 3/ 15s to 414 s ; use— ful ditto, 41 5s to 4/ 15s ; fine Upland ditto; 4/ 163 to 5/ 5s ; Clover Hay, 5/ to 6l ; Oat Straw, 1114 s to 1/ 16s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather brisk. WHITECTIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s'to 41; use ful ditto, 414 s to 4/ 123; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 14s to 5/ ; Clover Hay, 5/ 5s to 6112 s ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off steadily, at full prices. New Meadow Hay was selling at from 31 5s to 4/ per load. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY. We have a good supply of Wheat to-day, the finest qua lities of which are dull sale, at barely last week's price!, • while other descriptions must be noted fully Is. per quarter lower. Barley continues in moderate request, and fully main tains its value. Oats and Shelling are steady both in price and demand, but Beans have been taken off freely at an ad- • • vance of Is. per quarter. . . Per qr. of 601 b to the bushel. EXTRA. NEW • Wneat Suffhlk, Essex, and Kent... Red. —to Si 54 55 Ditto ditto White... 60 57 56 Norfolk Red 55 51 53 • Ditto ditto White... 56 51 5 4 Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red — 54 52 53 Ditto . ditto White... . 56 54 55 Yorkshire Red. 5i 53 54 Ditto ditto White... 57 54 56 • Foreign - 54 Ditto ditto White... 57 54 55 Per quar cr imperial ' Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshirc Grinding 29 23 Foreign — 32 30 3 1 Per qr. ~ f 631 b. cg th. bushel. Beans, Small 6ne — 33 36 31 • Ticks Foreign Oats, Potato at.d Pols d........ — —s ••• —s• Mealing... ... Ild to 136 , Foreign —d to —d. per Stone. S'iraling... ....... ......... ................ ..... :6/. to 27s Od. per Load. 51 Ilt R lueseed....., ....... 27.. fie ‘ :8!. /is. -4. os. oer L , ts RATING OF THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAIL' WAY.—Among the Appendices to the Fifth Report of the Select Committee on Railways, there is an elaborate table of parochial assessments in the several parishes intersected by the London and Birmingham Railway. From this table it appears that the railway passes through eight parishes in the county of Middlesex, ten in the county of Hertford, twenty three in Buckinghamshire, twenty in Northamptonshire, eighteen in Warwickshire (including the county of the city of Coventry), and one in Worcestershire. The total of as sessment on the railway and buildings in these parishes wag, oe the 31st December last, 134,1591. Is. Bd.; the "value of the land occupied by the railway at the average rateable value per acre, of the several parishes," 2,4451. 2s. 7d.; and the " additional value derived by the landed property of the parishes from the assessment of the railway with reference to rates only—assuming such value at twenty years' purchase, of the annual rent-charge from which the rating of the rail way has relieved the parishes" not less than 360,312/. Surely the rate-payers have reason to rejoice that the railway wag established !— Railway Record. . _ _ LOVE OF TITLES IN AMERICA.—A well-known gen" tleman at Winchester, in this State (Virginia), re lated an amusing anecdote to me on this subject Crossing the Potomac into Virginia, with his horse, in a ferry-boat, the ferryman s,id, " M tjor, I wish you would lead your horse a little forward," which he immediately did, observing to the man, " I am not a major, and you need not call me one " To this tbe. ferryman replied, " Well, K u rn e l, I ax your par d ( -n. and I'll not call you so no more." Being arrived at the landing-place, he led his horse out of the boat, and said, " My good friend, I am a very plain man, I am neither a colonel nor a major, I have no title at all, and I don't like them. How much have Ito pay you?" The ferryman looked at him and said, " You are the firs 4 white man I ever crossed this ferry that warn't jilt no' body at all, and I swear I'll not charge you nothing."- -- . Featherstonhaugh's Excursion. NEWLY •IN VENTED SPECTACLES, TELESC O PES, OPERA. GLASSES. MICROSCOPES, &C —ll,-ssrs, S. and B. Solomons, Opticians 39, Albemarle -street, Picca dilly, have succeeded in effecting a most scientific inn provement in Spectacle and Telescope Lenses, &c., ° I the greatest transparent power. The extraordinary advantage derived from this invention is that visico becomes preserved and strengthened and very aged per: sons are enabled to employ their sight either by day °r candle light at the most minute occupation, and can t'ee with those Lenses of a much less magnifyinz power. n" f will they require th- fi equent changes to further helps as the Spectacles now in common use. Also newly-in' v-nted Achromatic Waiscoat picket Telescopes and Opera Glasses which are i nv al ua Ll e a t th e sea s id e an i" on the race-course, as well as at the theatre, &e.—Everf kind of Telescope for Shoct;ng, Sea purposes, and up° stand for astronumical observations with the celebrate" Lenses of the most clear transparent brilliancy ; posers are so great and the Lenses so bright and bril liant that minute objects at an extraordinary distanc e are brought completely under the eye , .—SportstnelP Tourists, and sea-side vi,itors will indeed here have great treat. Their invisible Voice Conductor gives mediate relief to old standing extreme cases of deafnes s ' Caution.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians an' Aurists, are not in any w a y connec t e d w i t h a pe rsoP of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood' nor in any part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be cautious, and observe.—Only to be had at 39, Alb tnarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. BIRTHS. On the 24th of June 'ultimo, at ChAteaubourg, oa the Rhone, France, the lady of Monsieur L. Giraud, of the / 10 v .- of Faure pere and fils, of Saint Wray, of a son. On the 20th ult., Mrs. John Belcher, of a son. On the 21st ult., at Thorp, Essex, the lady of the Ref. llale, of a son. On the 24th ult., at D o l guog M ac h ynlleth, North Wa les Mrs. Edward G. Bartlett, of a daughter. On the 25th ult., at Norwich, Mrs. Henry Mat-sham , a son. MARRIED. On the 25th ult., at Upper Clapton, the Rev. William , Tiverton Preedy, o f Sheldon, Warwickshire, to Fanny, "'— daughter of the late Samuel Leney, Esq., of Lewes, Suistd On the 27th u lt., a t All S ouls, Langham- place, Ile - Boyle Boyle Lee, E sq ., t o A nne E milia, only daughter of the '- Richard Debary, Esq. On the 27th ult., at St. Mary's, Islington, Martin Broom' Esq., of her Maj es ty' s O r d nance -office, Tower, to Georgisil youngest daughter of G. Blackburne, Esq., of Islingto DIED. On the lith of May, at Nassau, New Providence, Babel ° Lieutenant T. V. E. Reynold s , 3d W est I n di a Regiment v,, On the 22d ult., Mary, the wife of John Aikenhe,ad, 0 1 ' of Manchester. On the 22d ult., Mary A nn B ra db y. w i fe of the Rev. - 1010 Barney, Vicar of East Charlton, Somersetshire. of On the 24th ult., the Rev. 'William Sitwell, Rector Morley, Derbyshire. co n 4 On the 25th ult., at Littl e H ampton, Frances Ann, daughter of the late Henry Woods, Esq., of Godalw . `" Surrey. On the 25th ult., at Grosvenor-place, John 80wden!....,/04.‘ t" - London: Printed and P u bli s h e d b y MUR D O YOU) 1 ' a l No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 1 4 °:,. 01 rand, in the Precinct of th e S avoy , i n the Cielw" Middlesex, Mendip-, July 1, 344. 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