The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TROM THE EVENING PAPERS or SATURDAY. GLOBE.—Mr. O'Connell has been check-mated, and repeal agitation discouraged, by the interference of the Papal See. A Rescript from his Holiness the Pope, addressed through the Propaganda, to the Catholic bishops and clergy of Ireland, commanding their abstinence from all interference in the political agitations by which Ireland is distracted, is a heavy blow and sore discouragement to the repeal cause. The document in question states that the distrac tions which exist among the faithful in Ireland are " most distressing to the Sacred Congregation, and to his Holiness himself," as " tending to the clan tnent and disgrace of the Universal Church." And he enjoins on the clergy to "avoid mixing themselves up with secular affairs, and to assiduously foster among the people a spirit of quietness, calm, and peace, which is the bond of Christianity, and a due obedience to temporal power in all matters of civil life. The leader of the agitation saw, with instinctive perception, the effect of such a document on the re peal cause, and the necessity which existed for neau traliaing its power by denying its authenticity. He therefore asserted that it was a fabrication—a weak invention of the enemy; framed with some skill, but still betraying its destitution of authority by internal marks of its illegitimate origin. Its latinity was also severely examined. It was submitted to the crucible of criticism ; and two or three somewhat clumsily-constructed sentences were detected, and commented upon—as proofs that the Rescript could not have emanated from Rome. The Pope's la tinity must, of course, partake of the infallibity of his office. Any defect which criticism could detect in the construction of a phrase, would detract from the claims of the document to reception and re spect. The admission of its authenticity would be to impugn the claims of his Holiness to exemption from error. Such a discovery would, therefore, in itself, be sufficient to raise doubts in the minds of the Re peaters. These doubts were further strengthened by some assumed irregularity in the mode of its transmis sion. The Pope's Rescript was therefore pronounced a vile forgery. The Roman Catholic clergy were assured that they were still "free as air" to aid the " hereditary bondsmen" to effect a separation of Ireland from England, by agitating for the repeal of the Legislative Union of the two countries. The laity, encouraged and sanctioned by the clergy, would con tinue, with undiminished energies, to subscribe to the funds, and throng to the meetings, of the Repeal Association. Mr. O'Connell, therefore, in a letter to Dr. Cantwell, impugned the integrity of the Rescript, and avowed his belief that it was " not a canonical document." The Roman Catholic Archbishop Crolly has, however, set the question of the authenticity and imperative obligation of the Rescript upon the Bishops and Clergy of the Ca tholic Church, entirely at rest. The Archbishop states, in a letter to Mr. O'Connell, that " The Re script has been laid befor the assembled Catholic pre lates in Dublin, " who " not only acknowledged it to be authentic and canonical, but to be a document of such importance that they entered it on their minutes, and unanimously resolved that they would regulate their conduct according to its injunctions, and use their influence with their clergy, in their respective dioceses, to prevail on them to follow its salutary instructions." The Pope's Rescript, and the prelate's letter affirm ing and enforcing it, have placed Mr. O'Connell in a position of serious embarassment. We see no path way of escape for them. He is transfixed between the horns of a dilemma. If he obey the mandate, his political existence, as an ag itator, is at an end. He has hitherto professed to act in the most perfect ac cordance with the bishops and clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, to the authority of which he has bowed with deep devotion. The presence of some of the bishops at the repeal meetings, and the active aid of the inferior orders of clergy in every way in which that aid could be given, has contributed to keep up the influence which Mr. O'Connell has wieldedover the public mind in Ireland. To the sanction and aid of the priests, O'Connell has been wont to refer the multi tudes. He has thus animated the popular excitement by appealing to the presenceand sanctionof the minis ters of religion to the cause of repeal. But the bishops and clergy of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland .must implicitly obey the orders of the Holy See, and must at once detach themselves from the political agitation. The withdrawal of the clergy will be the signal for all good Catholics to do the same. The re sults seem already to be anticipated and prepared for in the repeal councils. Retrenchment, the necessary conse quence of diminished resources, is already commenced. Still further reductions of the repeal staff are an nounced. " The first report of the Finance Commit tee, read to the General Committee on Tuesday, and adopted, recommenls the reduction of eighteen clerks, and also some out-agents, including Mr. W. J. O'Connell, the London Head Repeal Warden, and several others of minor note in Dublin. The salaries of the officers retained are to be reduced, with the ex ception of 'My dear Ray,' who is to be continued, with his present allowance of 4001. a year, besides im portant sundries. A reduction in the printing and stationery departments is under consideration; - after which the newspapers in the pay of the Associa• tion will come under the notice of the retrench ing committee." To denounce the authority of the Pope, and exhort the inferior clergy and the laity to refuse obedience to the I:escript, is the alternative of admitting the holy See to interfere with repeal, and thus withdraw the clergy from agitation. Such a course would, by its desperation, defeat its design. It would be fatal to his influence as an agitator of the people, while it would be destructive of his reputation as a member of the Church, which enjoins upon all its members implicit obedience to spiritual authority. In this the crisis of his fate, Mr. O'Con nell's tactics will be subjected to a test such as they have never yet been called to endure. He , pro poses that " a lay deputation be dispatched t o R ome,' to avert what he designates " a conjuncture which in volves their civil and religious liberties in the most imminent peril." Report this morning states that Mr. O'Connell is about to proceed to Rome on this mission. Ile will thus be able to with draw himself from Dublin at a time when it is peculiarly embarrassing for him to be there. The circumstance of his proceeding to Rome on the re peal business would keep up the delusion a little longer. He would be thus gently let down from the • elevation of political power, which he has so long oc cupied, instead of finding himself hurled from it suddenly, and unprepared. Mr. O'Connell's apology for having denounced the Concordat between this country and Rome, negotiations for which never had as existence, is remarkable for its puerility. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has set this bugbear at rest. In a letter, under his own hand, addressed to Archbishop Murray, his Lordship denies that there was any, the slightest, ground for the story respecting " a negotiation for a Concordat." The torrent of obloquy and abuse which Mr. O'Connell poured forth upon Archbishop Murray, for his sup posed privity and assent to this negotiation, is thus shown to have had no provocation. "There has never existed," says Lord Heytesbury, " the slightest inten tion of entering into any negotiation with the Papal See upon the subject of a Concordat." Fifty of the clergy in the diocese of Dublin, of which the (Ca tholic) Archbishop Murray is the head, have sub scribed an address to him, couched in terms of the most reverential and affectionate respect, and pro mising in all things to be guided and governed by his advice and authority. These are unmistakeable signs of repeal declension. If the Government be wise enough JO improve the opportunity, there is hope for Ireland. But if there he nothing effectual done for the improvement of the people, and the day of pro pitious events be allowed to expire, without remedial measures for the grievances which have produced re peal agitation—then will agitation, under another name, and in another form., be re-kindled, and the last error will be worse than the first. STANDARD.—We never complain of fair war, how fiercely soever it may be waged, by the press. Indeed, we conceive a kind of affection for the adversary who hits hardest, if only his blows are straight, and de livered in a manly manner. We should infinitely prefer shaking hands with John of Tuam to the touch of Dr. Posey, Mr. Newman, or Mr. Oakeley. Nay, even among the Tractarians, we would respect Mr. Ward for that challenge—which Dr. Tait says is his only offence—had not the challenge been soiled b' his subsequent shabby refusal to acknowledge his own book containing it. This is, we suppose, bad taste, becalm it is not, we believe, the common taste. However, it is our taste, and we think that the public i n t eres t s would gain, as the interests of truth certainly would, if it were made general. This, however, by the way. In proportion as we respect fair war, do we dislike fool blows ; and it is our business to-day to expose a system of foul play on the part of the Morning Chronicle, to which we slightly alluded yesterday, and which our Contemporary seems resolved to persevere in. We mean the imputation upon the Foreign Minister that the Times is his organ. The Morning • Chronicle, in a leading article of this morning, re• peaty the foul imputation—foul in every sense— no less than three or four times in one short column. If our Contemporary retorts upon us, that we ascribe its articles on foreign policy, and similar articles of the Globe, to the dictation of Lord Palmerston, our answer is, that the charging any nobleman or gentleman with writing in the llforning Chronicle or Globe, or dic tating an opinion to either of these journals, im putes nothing disgraceful, more particularly when the nobleman or gentleman happens to be a Whig, whether " juvenile" or mature. The .case of the Times is notoriously otherwise ; craw li ng . through all parties, it has left some of its . ~, i • aclp,;, p:pclit is a re mar k a bl e c i rcu mstance 7). ° x • . , ~w ilitVAt journal, that w h enever a ny . .ou ~o , ,ra i ty . :,r aNs cast upon an ri. ' supplied r , -, " lite e i rse conduct of ythepartryi,lneist, yi. d u ring ' . ita tonnAn with that party in the `-' . , lif•lfoglortivi i! fal!aer. The Reform Bill, - L'!--- • - --/--, - say the evicted proprietors of Schedule A , was carried by brutal violence, because the Reform journals called for " brick-bats and bludgeons ;" the Times being the only Reform journal that ever made the savage and treasonable appeal. The Whig Ministers, say their sorrowing friends, were driven from office by a fanatical rage, excited by the orators of Exeter Hall ; the Times, the Standard, and the Morning Herald de nouncing the Roman Catholic clergy as " sur pliced ruffians," a " demon priesthood," &c. &c., the truth being that no Exeter Hall orator ever used such foul and gross language; nor did any journal, except the Times, ever print such phrases—as, indeed, we lately had occasion to explain in our own defence. Thus it happens that the Times leaves its stain upon every party which it encumbers and soils with its temporary support. The stain is, how ever, a wound when inflicted upon a public man, and we are sorry to be obliged to declare that we be lieve that in this case it is intended to attack the peace of Europe through the sides of Lord Aberdeen. The Times is known to be odious—most justly odious in France—and let Frenchmen be once persuaded that the Foreign Minister of England entertains as his organ the journal that for a year has done little in its foreign department but heap the foulest insults upon France, her functionaries, fleets, and armies, and they must regard that Foreign Minister as . an enemy, and even their own ministers as treacherous servants in keeping on terms of civility with such a Minister, and vouching for his good in tentions. The Times will not disclaim the Foreign office organship; for when did the Times ever sacri fice the chance of a shilling upon its day's sale to any public object ? And, therefore, we, who know just enough of the Foreign-office to know that it has no connection direct or indirect with any newspaper, are therefore under the necessity of exposing the foul and mischievous misrepresentation. Of course ene mies will ascribe the part we take to jealousy, as the Standard has been so often untruly called "the Go vernment organ;" our reply to such a charge is that we never, either directly or indirectly, pretended to the title, and never omitted an opportunity of respect fully but explicitly disclaiming it. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. OBSERVER.—It may be conceded as a favour able indication of the rising prosperity of the country that the purchases of the Government brokers on account of the savings -banks, is a feature- not to be questioned, as exhibiting the resources of the middle, and we may truly say, no small portion of the lower classes. In all districts of the United Kingdom where savings-banks are now formed (and the establishment of other similar most excellent institutions is in rapid progression), the deposits are, we believe, without ex ception, in a ratio far exceeding the withdrawals. WWhen, too, it is recollected that those gradual accu mulations of resources, the fruits of honest and per severing industry, are periodically transferred to the Commissioners for the Savings Banks, and by them laid out in the purchase of Stock, not much wonder need he excited at the present high values paid for the Public Securities. And, notwith standing the " Reduced" Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have scarcely been so firm this week as previ ously, owing to some sales for temporary purposes, yet, at the termination of business yesterday after noon, a value equal to 4*l per cent. above par was most willingly paid. If, as it is very currently believed, the Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to attempt a reduction of the Three per Cents. Reduced in the course of the forthcoming session of Parlia ment, how fortified will he be by the result of the last conversion. Figures speak for . themselves. At about the period when it was pretty well known that Go vernment intended to reduce the Three-and•a-Half per Cents. to the present rate of interest their quota tion was about 102. For some time past—say from the commencement of the present year—the Three and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities have reached within a fraction of 4} per cent. above par. Among the more prominent articles of foreign pro duce imported into this country, and which may, with the utmost truth, be said to be interwoven with the domestic economy of the mass of the population of the United Kingdom, is that of tea. In the more distant ports of Great Britain—in Liverpool—in Bristol, &c., a movement has long since been made to impress upon her Majesty's Ministers the policy—nay, the absolute nesessity—of an important reduction in the duties upon the leaf. At the eleventh hour the influential merchants connected with the trade to India and China have held a meeting—a private one, to which the trade only were invited—at the Jerusalem Coffee• house, and at which there was a pretty full attendance. The resolutions passed were in accordance with those which have previously been sanctioned in the pro vinces. But in the opinion of many, it would have been much the wisest course to hare called a public meeting on the subject, and then a memorial to the Prime Minister would have received the signs- tures of the mass of the tea-drinking public of the I City and elsewhere, in favour of the concession,which I is asked for on the part of her Majesty's subects. If a reduction of the duty to ls. the pound were to be made, it is the opinion of competent judges and of practical men, that, with the rising prosperity of this country, the consumption would be so far increased, as to leave but a small deficit in the duty under this item of revenue, at the end of two, or at the utmost of three years. An immense boon would thus .be yielded to the poorer classes, and golden opinions be formed of the administration of Sir Robert Peel, under which many important concessions have been already made to popular feelings, by the new tariff. Such is the competition of the traders now, that were the duty to be lowered to the point referred to, i. e., ls. per pound on teas all round, the millions would have the full benefit of the reduction of the duty. As so much is said and written upon the eve of the new Parliamentary campaign, relative to conflicting claims for a reduction of duties, it is very fairly a matter to bring prominently before the attention of every patriotic Member of the House (who, without being wedded to particular crotchets, or trammelled by particular interests, sincerely desire the welfare of his country). How great might be the advantage of simplifying our tariff, by striking off a multitude of minor articles, which bring but an unimportant sum in the aggregate towards the revenue, and yet lead to an enormous expense in collection relatively to pro ductiveness ? Thus, about five hundred articles could he struck off, to the great relief of trade, and with a loss of only about half a million sterling. LAW ‘.INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 18 . EX-PARTE THE VICAR OF TIVIVERTON. This was a petition by the vicar of Twiverton, other wise Twerton, Somersetshire, and the provost and scho lars of Oriel College, Oxford, for payment out of court of a sum of money paid in under the Great Western Rail way Act, and that the Railway Company might pay the costs thereof. The vicarage, with the garden, orchard, and offices belonging to it, was purchased by the Great Western Railway, and the purchase-money was paid into the Bank of England, as directed by the Act, and laid out in the purchase of 2,f1861. 17s. 9d. Three per Cent. Consols. The Act contained a direction that in case the Railway Company required the vicarage and land, the purchase-money was to be laid out in the purchase of other lands, or in erecting another vicarage-house. The vicar upon his house being taken, purchased land as a site for a new vicarage for the sum of 1,286/., which money was paid out of Court for that purpose, and the costs paid by the Railway Company. A new vicarage house had since been built by the petitioner for 1,775/. 16s. being more than the residue of the sum paid by the Railway Company for the original vicarage. The present peti tion was by the vicar and the provost and scholars of Oriel College, Oxford, who were the owners of part of the land about the vicarage, and it prayed that the re mainder of the snm of 2,8861 17s. 9d., might be paid out of Court for the building of the new vicarage -house, and that the Railway Company might be ordered to pay the costs thereof. Mr. Osborne, for the Great Western Railway Com pany, contended that the Court had no power to direct the Company to pay the costs. The VICE-CHANCELLOR :said he bad nothing to do with the abstract juctice of the matter, nor could he speculate upon what the Legislature intended to do ; he could only construe a certain set of words con tained in the Act of Parliament. His Honour then read the 9th section, as before quoted, and stated that, in this case, the application was, not to have the purchase-money paid out of Court simply, but to have part of the money paid out to defray the expense, not of purchase of land, but of building the vicarage-house on land which had been purchased by the Government securities already paid out by order of the Court. He could not, there fore, allow his mind to be influenced by his personal notions of what was justice in the abstract. He could only say, that on the true construction of the Act, the case for which the vicar contended had been omitted or had not been provided for. The vicar must, therefore, pay the expenses; but as to the costs of this application he had a discretion, and he should not give the costs to the Company. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 18. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court took the Crown paper to-day, and were occupied the whole morning with a case as to the liability of a parish to be rated, which possessed no public in terest whatever. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) HA RRISON V. BILLING. This case was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe on Tues day lest. The action was brought upon a promissory note for 49/. 10s. made on the Ist of March, 1839, by the defendant, payable to the order of Potts, and endorsed by him to the plaintiff, lb solicitor in Birmingham. It was pleaded by the defendant that the note was made for the joint accommodation of himself and Potts, that it was given to the plaintiff for the purpose of being eis counted, and that it was now held by him without con sideration, the promised advance upon it having never been made. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. Mr. M. D. HILL, on behalf of the plaintiff, now moved, on the ground of misdirection, fore rule calling on the defendant to show cause, why the verdict in his favour should not be set aside, and a new trial had. The argument turned on a point of special pleading.-- Rule ret E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1845. MARY LEBONE VESTRY. EXPLANATION OF DR. PENFOLD. At a meeting of the Marylebone Vestry on Saturday, the Rev. Dr. Penfold offered the following explanation on the subject of the accusation which had been made against him, of having taken a bank note, marked " Tithes," from the subscription plate of tl e Girls' School at the Church. He had, it appears, received various contributions by post, similarly marked, on previous occasions, and having learned the name and address of the person who had placed this money in the plate, he found it was the sane that had sent the former contributions by post. This person, who did not wish his name to be known, said that he intended the money for Doctor Penfold, and not for the charity. Doctor Penfold, in order that he might have the word of another to corroborate what he had said, had induced this person to call on the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, and state his intention in giving the money. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. BURGLARY.—Thomas Howell, Frederick Smith, and Robert Franklin, were brought up for final ex amination. It will be recollected that two of the pri soners were found concealed in a chamber at the George and Vulture, Cornhill. The depositions of the witnesses were read over and signed, and the parties were duly bound over to pro secute. Howell and Smith were then fully committed on the charge of burglary, and Franklin as an accessory. The prisoners displayed the most hardened indif ference throughout, Howell humming a tune the greater part of the time. Howell addressed his Lordship about the cab fare having been taken from his pocket. It was 4s. LORD MAYOR—Apply to the Court at the trial. Howell—Till then I suppose my wife must go with out. I never rode in the cab. It is not proved. he should not have offered the remarks which he had just uttered. He did not see that he could with pro priety allow evidence of another character to be pro duced, now that the 'peculiar circumstances relied upon by the police in the first instance had not been found sufficient to warrant a conviction. Mr. Hard wick then dismissed the information. A DESPERATE BEGGAR.—John Ellis, a very powerful young man, and a female, who passes as his wife, were charged with begging. Police-constable, No. 28 of the C division, stated, that between six and seven o'clock last evening he saw the prisoners begging, in company . together, in Pall-mall. The male prisoner had his arm in a sling, and actually followed two gentlemen into one of the club-houses. He was then taken into custody, when he resisted, and it was with the greatest difficulty he was overpowered. In the cell he twice broke the handcuffs off his wrists. There was nothing whatever the matter with his arm. Wm. Horsford, one of the constables belonging to the Mendicity Society, stated that the prisoner was a noto rious begging impostor, and had been several times con victed. Mr. HARDWICK sent him for another three months, and the female for one. The LORD MAYOR—I cannot interfere. The prisoners were then removed. GUILDHALL. A s martly-dressed young man, of the name of Ellis,' who is supposed to be some City warehouseman, was charged with having offered a dozen silk handkerchiefs in pledge, the same being suspected as stolen. Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker, of Fleet-street, said that on Friday afternoon the prisoner came to his shop, and desired to pledge a piece of silk handker chiefs for four shillings. There appearing something suspicious about his behaviour, he was induced to ask him several questions respecting where the property came from, and where he lived. The prisoner replied that he had purchased it in the early part of the week for 10s., at a public-house, and that he resided some times in Laurence-lane, and at Cole's-place, Com mercial-road East. lle then requested him to walk with him (witness) to the former address, so as to ascertain whether he spoke correctly, and on their way there the prisoner stopped and admitted that he had told falsehoods respecting his address. Wit ness then, believing that the property had been im properly obtained, gave him in custody to the first policeman he met with. Mr. Alderman MusGnovE—Well, prisoner, per haps you will tell me where you got the handker chiefs, and your right address ? The prisoner gave the same story as he did to Mr. Attenborough, and remarked that he should not have attempted to pawn them, had he not been pushed for a little money. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE wished to know whether the prisoner was known. The prisoner said his friends were highly respect able. He had two brothers filling very important situations in the City. A person here, in the body of the Court, cried out that the prisoner's friends were highly respectable, but they would not help him now he had got into such a disgraceful situation, as he had mixed with bad cha racters. Mr. Alderman MUSGEOVE observed that he could not part with the prisoner until some inquiries were made about him, and accordingly remanded him till Wednesday for that purpose. WORSHIP-STREET. William Pavanes, a weaver, was placed before Mr. Broughton, for final examination, upon a charge of embezzling upwards of 401. worth of silk velvet, which he had been employed to weave for Messrs. Everson and Co., silk manufacturers, in Spitalfields. Mr. Humphreys attended for the complainants. The prisoner, it appeared, had three looms, and at different tines since September, received materials to make three pieces of velvet of thirty yards each, re ceiving, as the work progressed, a more than usual advance of cash on account of wages. Mr. Gascoigne, the foreman, visited occasionally to inspect the works, and on the last occasion, in December, the prisoner said, " if you come on Christmas-eve you shall have the whole." When he next went, however, he found the place empty and locked up, the looms and the whole of the property were gone, and the prisoner had absconded. Last week the prisoner was discovered at work at Loughborough, and there apprehended, brought to London by railway, and delivered in custody at this Court. It was now proved that dur ing the progress of the work he had contrived to draw his wages in advance to the amount of upwards of 10/. from his employers, whose loss altogether was CLERKEIV WELL. A tall powerful-looking man, named Richard Johnson, was charged as follows : The fellow went into the eating-house of Mr. Clamin, in the Hornsev-road, yesterday, and having regaled him self sumptuously on the best the house could furnish, drank seven pints of porter. He had no sooner finished the last pint than he called for tea, rashers, and eggs, and ordered them to be got ready by the time he had finished this meal ; the landlord, however, refused to serve him with more until the former reckoning was paid. The prisoner said he wanted change of a 5/. note, but having no such thing. nor any other species of money on hi person, was given into custody. Mr. GREENWOOD discharged the gormandizer. BOW-STREET. BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—Thursday Richard Elliot, described as a tobacconist, and Richard Vincent, an om nibus driver, were brought up for: final examination, charged with being concerned in breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr. Cox, a clericel robe-maker, 29, Southampton-street, Strand, on the night of the 24th of December, and stealing several pieces of silk, and other articles, amounting to nearly 200/. It may be necessary to state, that information being given of the circumstance, the officers of the detective force discovered that the prisoners had disposed of a piece of silk, consisting of seventeen yards, for 11. ss. 6d., to Mrs. Dismore, the landlady of the King's Arms public house, in the Coal-yard, Drury-lane, who was unable to identify the prisoners, but they being subsequently ap prehended in Paddington, the remainder of the property was discovered in the house of Elliot, together with a considerable quantity of other valuable property. Inspector Shackle said, as a wrong impression was made on the Court at the last examination, respecting the public-house where the silk had been sold, he had received a letter from the landlord, offering to produce persons, who were in his house when the property was disposed of, to speak to the identity of the prisoners. Inspector Shackle said, he was bound to add that Mr. Dismore gave every assistance in tracing out the parties by whom the property had been sold, and he thought he was entitled to such a statement. Mr. JARDINE considered the matter required only to be corrected, and, as the officers were satisfied with the assistance they had received, it was sufficient to remove any wrong impressions that might have been made at the last examination. James Bachelor, a coach-lace manufacturer, proved that on Saturday, the 28th of December, about four o'clock in the afternoon, being at the bar of the King's Arms for the purpose of getting change to pay his men, he saw two men enter, one of whom was Elliot, with a parcel under his arm, and on asking the landlady if she would purchase a piece of silk, seventeen yards, she re plied she did not require so much to make a dress. He then said he had taken it for a bad debt, allowing 3s per yard for it, but he would take Is. 6d. a yard for it, upon which she gave 11. ss. 6d., and pieced the parcel under the counter. Mr. Robinson applied for bail to be taken for Vincent, as he had heretofore held an irreproachable character, and the officer could bring no other charge. Mr. JARDINE agreed to accept of bail, himself in the sum of 1001. and sureties in 501. each, to answer the charge at the Central Criminal Court, and the wit nesses being bound over, the prisoners were committed for trial. ROBBERY OF THE LEICESTER BANE.—The prisoner, Elliot, was then charged with stealing the sum of 1,071/. 16s. 10d., the property of Messrs. Pares and Co., the Leicestershire Joint-Stock Banking Company. Mr. Henry Thomas Hill, a clerk in the service of the prosecutors, stated that on Wednesday, the 13th of Sep tember, 1843, he made up a parcel containing the sinister of Bank of England, country notes and cheques, amount ing to 1,071/. 16s. 10d., which consisted of one hundred and forty-six 5/, notes, and nine 101. notes, with nine cheques. directing it to Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, of Lombard-street, London. Having made up the parcel he sealed it, and took it to the book ing-office at the George Hotel, Leicester, where he deli vered it into the hands of Mr. Henry Hacket, who was then a clerk, for the purpose of having it forwarded to London. The dexter halves of the notes he made up in a letter, which he directed the same evennig in the same manner, and put into the pst-office. lle did not take the number of the notes, as it was net then the custom, nor had he seen them since. Witness identified the sinister half-note produced of the Bank of Englare , for 51, dated the 2d of Nov., 1842, No. T. 0. 26,785 which passed through the Bank 9th t'f Sept., 1843 or 1844, but he could not tell which without referring to the books; also the sinister half of another for 51, dated 2d Nov., 1841, No. S. P. 26,364, as having passed through the bank on the 11th of Sept., but he could not tell the year ; and a third for 5/., dated 16th of Feb.. 1842, No. S. A. 83,413. passing the bank on the 13th of September. In cross-examination, witness could not say the notes were part of the parcel that had been made up and posted in the manner described. Inspector Haynes informed the Court that as Pares and Co. had indemnified the Bank of England for the loss, they declined to interfere in the prosecution. The same objection had been made by the Midland, and the London and Birmingham Companies, on the ground that the parcel had not been lost by their servants ; and as to Smith and Co , they considered the expense too great, which obliged him to get the evidence in the best way he could. Mr. Henry Hacket proved that in the month of Sep tember, 1843, he was bookkeeper at the George, in 'Leicester, and recollected the parcel being brought on the 13th of September of that year, to be sent to London. It was directed to Smith and Co., and after remaining in his possession about half an hour it was sent to the railway station by George Mason, the porter. Cross-examined—He was positive about it, as it was the only parcel on that day for London, and he entered it on the book produced, for which as. 3d. was paid, but he could not say by whom it was brought, and he gave a receipt as for a banker's parcel. George Mason having proved the delivery of the parcel, George Wade, a porter employed at the Midland Rail way station, in Leicester, said he recollected receiving the parcel from the last witness shortly after nine o'clock in the evening, which he put in the usual place for par cels in the office, where it remained till the mail train arrived, and then it was sent to London, having put it in the bag himself. When he put the parcel in the office he locked the door and put the key in another office, and after returning from supper he found it in the same state he had left it, and then he forwarded it. Mr. JARDINE observed it was very serious to find such important companies, for the purpose of saving expense, refuse to come forward and assist the officers, which would be the means of dispensing with the attendance of several persons, which would not have been the case had legal advice been taken, the object being to prevent a recurrence of such robberies. Inspector Haynes said the inconvenience was incalcu lable, for as the house of Pares and Co., had been indem nified, several tradespeople who could not afford it exe cuted orders to considerable amounts upon the receipt of half-notes, being as a matter of course ignorant of any understanding that might exist between the company and the Bank of England. The witness Wade being recalled, said the keys of the parcel van were kept at the termini, and there was no possibility of opening during the transfer by the guard, who merely carried the way bill. Mr. JARDINE said it would be well if more distinct evidence as to the practices were given, in order to show that no person could by any possibility get even at the lock. James Smith, foreman porter at the Euston-square terminus, recollected the parcel coming to the station in a very good condition, being sealed. He called it over and handed it to another porter. In answer to the Court, witness said the keys of the Leicester van ho kept, and it was the universal practice there should be no other key kept but at the other ter minus in London. Mr. Thomas Greenhough, clerk to Smith and Com pany, identified the parcel produced as having arrived on the 14th of September, 1843, wrapped in light coloured paper, on which he put a number. On opening it he found it contained several pieces of waste paper, and the outside cover of an old book produced, but no bank-notes. Mr. James Ball, another clerk, said that on the 14th of September, he received a letter, directed to his em ployers, containing the halves of several country notes, amounting to 8201., and also several cheques, amounting to 2511. 16s. 10d. Witness here described the dexter halves and their numbers, as spoken to by the first witness. Inspector Shackle stated that on Monday, the 30th of December last, he apprehended the prisoner upon an other charge, and on searching him he found six halves of the Eank of England notes produced, three for 10/., three for Si., being joined together to form three notes, bnt having different dates and numbers, being the notes missing from the parcel John Draper, Jun., of the Globe Tavern, in Hatton garden, identified the prisoner as the person who came, about the month of October last , to the house t o request some parcel containing guns would be directed to John and asked if it had com e , was Moore, from Mr. Bradley , of B irmin g ham, w hich he ' he took it a wa y on hi s shoulder he called again, an d as k e d ex pected, and the housekeeper g ave him p e rmission in his sot to i whenßle e o presence. He never saw the p ilsoner b efore, and in a few days aft:r the parcel , as described, w hich was a long deal box, arrived. It was heavy, and paid for, and the answered.nfhrecooxamurt Bleeding heart-yard, d d- my a er day the r. Bradley, t di h ln, en and prisoner, r i ed f e s haw o i n s d e ar r amws , havingaffirmative, avffe oprr r one r) a s lived for ed n t if a letter addressed to Mr. John Moore h a d arr i ved called for the beer. Mr. Draper, wen., said 110 saw the p r i soner on l y once, when be took away the parcel i but or , reoeiyhj it • cond letter he kept it, AA be underst oo d 0-- fraudulent trldillegticSl little short of 501. The prisoner admitted having made away with the work, hut alleged that he had been driven to it by the persons employed under him, who got from him more than he received, and reduced him to distress. Mr. BROUGHTON said it was a most aggravated case, and a person plundering his employer of even a twentieth part of the property, under other circum stances, would be liable to transportation, but he could only sentence the prisoner, under the Silk Act, to three months imprisonment--a punishment wholly inadequate to the offence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. An information against Mr. Hunt, the proprietor of Morland's Hotel, Dean-street, for keeping (as alleged) his house open for the sale of liquors after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, was heard before Mr. Hardwick, the sitting magistrate. Inspector Squires, of the C division, proved that he went to the defendant's house about half-past twelve o'clock on the previous Saturnay night, and on gaining admission he went up-stairs, and in a room on the first floor he saw nine or ten gentlemen seated around a table, with refreshments before them. Everything wore the appearance of a convivial and social meeting, and one of the party was singing at the time witness made his appearance. When witness entered the room he was told by the company that the society was a literary one, and that they were in their own club-room. Witness went over the defendant's house, but with the exception of one person before the bar, and the gentlemen up-stairs, there was no one in the house. The lights were also extinguished, and the house was otherwise closed. Mr. Duncombe, who appeared for the defendant, said his answer to the complaint was, that the police had intruded themselves into a place where they had no business to show themselves. A number of lite rary gentlemen and artists of celebrity had for many years rented rooms of the defendant. In these rooms they established a club, the members of which met to discuss subjects connected with literature and the arts, and to refresh themselves with a social glass. They had a right, he contended, to remain in their own room as long a s they pleased, and to be exempted from the surveillance of the police. The information could not be sustained against the defendant, he being charged with "keeping his house open for the sale of liquors after twelve o'clock on Saturday night," be cause the principal witness himself proved the house for business purposes was closed, and that the only part of the house in which persons were found was a club-room, over which tho defendant had no control. Besides, no proof had been given that liquors had been served after twelve o'clock. The proprietor of' the hotel proved by the boelca of the club proceedings, that the room in which the ten persons were found by the inspector was rented of him by a number of gentlemen, who paid him a yearly rent, and who had appropriated the room to the pur pose of a literary and scientific club. Mr. HaanwicK said it had been distinctly proved that the room visited by the inspector, although forming part of the defendant's house, was in reality in the nature of a separate tenement. The landlord received a yearly rent for his room, and therefore the right' of occupancy was entirely vested in the members of the club. The renters of these rooms had a right to use them for their own purposes, and if they so pleased, to remain in them all night. He must therefore consider that eve rything done in th ese cluh-rooms was precisely the sa me as if done in the next house, or any house not a public-house. The members of the club had a perfect right to indulge their convivial tendencies, but then, if the landlord of the house supplied them with refresh ments after the hour of twelve on Saturday night, the landlord committed an offence and was clearly liable for having violated the provisions of an Act of Parliament. The evidence before him went only to show that a number of gentlemen were in their own club-roomwith refreshments before them, but in a case like the present he considered it was his duty, in order to justify a conviction, to have proof that the defendant actually served liquors after twelve o'clock. Inspector Squires said he had a witness who would prove that a person came out of the house with a pot of porter after twelve o'clock at night. Mr. Duncombe, with considerable warmth, pro tested against the course pursued by the inspector. 'Fhe inspector had closed his evidence, but finding he had not stated enough to ensure a conviction, although sworn to speak the truth, and the whole truth, he at tempted to re-open the case by introducing evidence of a totally different character. Had the inspector attempted such a proceeding at the Central Criminal Court the judge would have instantly ordered him out of Court. Inspector Squires said he had only partly given his evidence, when he was interrupted by the defence set up by Mr. Duncombe. Mr. HARDWICK said he actually thought the evlr deuce on the part of the rolice had ceased otherwise EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Jan. 18. THE IPSWICH MURDERERS —APPESI. TO THE JUDGES. The judges assembled this afternoon in the Exchequer Court, for the purpose of hearing the argument of counsel on behalf of the two Howells and Shipley, who were sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Williams, at the late Ipswich assizes, for the murder of a policeman named M'Fadden. The error assigned was the inadmis sibility of certain evidence received. The evidence was the confession of the parties. Mr. PRENDERGAST, who appeared on behalf of the prisoners, addressed the Court in a long and ingenious speech, contending that part of the evidence adduced on the trial was inadmissible; and in support of his argu ment quoted several law cases to show that the evidence in question ought not to have been admitted. Mr. GORDON arose and was about to address the Court, when Lord DENMAN, on behalf of himself and his learned brethren, intimated that they did not think it necessary for him to do so, as they (the judges) were of opinion that there was no argument before them to show that the evidence was not admissible. The decision of the judge who tried the case was, therefore, confirmed, and the unfortunate men are left for execution. CONSISTORY COURT, Jan. 18. BRITTEN V. BRITTEN. This was a case of divorce by reason of adultery, pro moted by Thomas Britten, Esq., against his wife, for the commission of adultery with Mr. Edward Henry Keeling, of the firm of Clark, - Keeling, and Clark, wine brokers, in Great Tower-street, City. Shortly after the case was opened by Dr. Addams, the Court inquired whether it was a suit in pmnam? Dr. ADDAMS—It is, sir. The CoURT—I have no sort of occasion to trouble you. Dr. ADDAMS—I submit it is clear. The COURT—It is impossible that a case can bo wore clearly proved. It is quite unnecessary to enter into the circumstances of the case. It can do no good to the parties or to the public. Let the parties be called. The REGISTRAR—They have been called. The Court then signed the sentence of separation. SHERIFFS' COURT. Jan. 18. (Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.) FORD V. DAVIS. Mr. VALENTINE LEE, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated that his client is a bootmaker, on Holborn-hill, and had brought this action to recover 14/. from the de fendant, Cyrus Davis, the ex-pugilist and landlord of the Plough public-house, in Giltspur-street,West Smithfield. In the month of October last a watchmaker named Shimmell, being in want of money, deposited a gold watch with the plaintiff as a security for 141. Shortly afterwards, Shimmell told plaintiff that he could dispose of the watch, and it was deposited with him, the defen dant undertaking to pay the plaintiff the 14/. in the event of a sale, or to return the watch. Ford having ascertained that the watch had been raffled in a billiard foom belonging to Davis, called on him and asked for his money in the presence of witnesses, and on that oc elision the defendant said that he had forgotten the cir cumstance, but would settle with him in a few days. Several days elapsed, and no money being forthcoming, Ford again applied to Davis, when he guaranteed the payment of the money. High words then ensued ; the defendant calling the defendant a liar, and, finally, putting down two 51. notes, and offering to bet that amount that he had never made any promise relative to the watch or money. The plaintiff, in his excitement, was rash enough to put down a similar amount, where upon defendant handed the 201. to his wife, saying, " Here, old woman, you stick to this," and the same is still retained in spite of the interference of mutual friends, so that Ford is minus his 10!. and his watch, or the value thereof. This action, however, was only brought for the 141., leaving the bet of 101 the subject of future pro ceedings. Two respectable witnesses were ealled, and they proved the promise to pay the 141., and also the raffle. For some reason, however, unknown to them, he (defendant) handed the amount paid by the subscribers to the raffle to Shimmell. Mr. Lusrf, for the defence, contended that there was not sufficient proof that his client was bound to restore the watch, or give 141 to the plaintiff. The defendant had the watch raffled. but he considered that it was for the mutual benefit of Ford and Shimmell, and he thought they would settle the matter between them. Mr. Davis was willing to restore the watch, and would have done so on the first application, but his son, who was the winner of it, had gone to the theatre with it on his person. On the following day it was offered to the plaintiff. and he refused to accept it. Mr. Shimmell was called for the defence, and, in his cross-examination, he admitted the receipt of the produce of the raffle, and the application of it to his own use, and that he afterwards placed in defendant's hands a watch of much greater value as a security to repay the plaintiff, which watch was, to the best of his knowledge, in de fendant's custody. He added that he was present when Davis objected to pay the 141, and had recently heard him say that he would bet 101. that he never undertook to pay the 141. He saw each of them put down 101, and likewise saw the defendant pass the 201 to his wife, telling her to keep it. Ha believed that it was in her possession at the present time—in fact, he heard de fendant admit that such was the case within a very few days. Mr. Luau here rose from his seat, and consented to a verdict for the plaintiff for the 14/. Mr. VALENTINE LEE remarked that the matter would not end there, it being his client's intention to take other proceedings for the recovery of the 10/. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 18. IN RE TITOMAS COWLEY JONES.-CLAIM TO PROVE UNDER TEEN STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. This was a rule to show cause why a previous judg ment, pronounced in this Court by Mr. Commissioner Law, should not be set aside. The facts of the case were as follows :—The insolvent had been indebted to a person trimed Young, which debt became waived by the Statute of Limitations. After hia insolvency, he wrote a letter, acknowledging the debt, but in which there was no ditect promise to pay. Mr. Commissioner Law refused to allow the proof, and Mr. Nicholls, on behalf of Mr. Young, moved for the present rule. The COURT held that Mr. Commissioner Law was right in the view he took of the case, and discharged the rule, at the same time ordering that no re-assignment should be made to the insolvent without due notice being given to all his creditors. IN RE JAMES SHALLIS.-EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. The insolvent appeared in Court to be liberated on bail. Upon the two persons who offered themselves as sureties entering the witness•box, one of them, named William Whitecombe, demurred to being sworn upon the Testament. Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS (to Mr. Whitecombe)— Why do you refuse being sworn upon the Bible I Do you believe in it ? Mr. Whitcombe— I believe in all the parts of it which are moral. I believe in those parts of it which denounce falsehood and bearing false testimony against my neighbour. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Then do you only believe in the Bible so far as those principles are concerned in the same manner as you would believe in a novel or any other profane work which embodies the same maxims ? Mr. Whitcombe—Most certainly. I only believe in the truths themselves and not in the general book in which they are contained. Mr. Commissioner POLLOCK—IS the Court to conclude that you deny the Divine origin of the New Testament, or that it is a work of Divine revelation? Mr. Whitcombe —I do deny it. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—You may retire Mr. Whitcombe. The Court does not require your presence any longer. Mr. Whitcombe and the other surety then left the Court, and the insolvent was taken back to the Queen's Bench Prison in default of bail. THE HIPPODROME RACE• COURSE.-IN Till MATTER OF JACOB CONNOP. An application was made in the case of this insolvent, who had been connected with the Hippodrome Race course, to appoint en assignee before the hearing, with the view of making the property at Notting-hill available for the numerous creditors under the estate. The in solvent had sojourned among the Poor Knights of Wind sor, and a question was raised whether his residence in the Castle-yard, New Windsor, was for him a privileged place. He had, however, been taken in execution, and was now a resident in Reading gaol, and his case had been appointed to be heard on Feb. 7, before Mr. Cora missioner Pollock on the ensuing circuit. The schedule filed by the insolvent for public inspection, of which notice has been given to the creditors, extends to many pages. The debts in the aggregate are set forth at 67,240/. lls. 3d., and the debts owing to the insolvent, all of which are bad and doubtful, to 36,239/. 12s. The consideration debts from January, 1840, are mentioned at 63,232/. 95.; those without con sideration, 2,2001.; and those more than twice entered, to 1,571/. 2s. 3d. The insolvency is attributed to the insolvent not having had sufficient capital to work so extensive a building speculation as the Hippodrome, and farther, to his liabilities for three persons, inserted as debtors in his schedule. He was a bankrupt in the year 1829, when he obtained his certificate, and the debts still unpaid were in amount 80,000/. It seems that the insolvent's income had been about 2,0001 a-year, and his wife had a separate property of 2501 From a statement in the general balance sheet, it appears that the insolvent has an expectation that if the property be properly worked it would produce as much as 10,0001. over the debts due on the same. The debts due to various creditors on simple contracts, for work done and mate rials supplied, amount to 9,0001.; and the charges on the buildings to secure debts to creditors, are in amount 40,369/. There are . lo6 creditors and nine debtors in the schedule. Mr. WOODRUFFE now applied to tnake the rule, which was granted a few days ago, absolute, for the appoint ment of Mr. R. Laurence, a builder, who was a creditor for upwards of 2,000/., as assignee. The Learned Counsel remarked that the insolvent had been lessee of the Hippodrome, and employed the various parties to erect buildings on the ground, which belonged to Mr. Ladbroke, who was anxious to benefit the creditors. The arrears of ground rest amounted to about 6001, and work had been done by the simple contract creditors to about 12,000/. ; and Mr. Ladbroke had it in his power to work a forfeiture, but he was willing to continue the leases on the payment of the ground -rent. The object of the application was, therefore, to clothe a creditor with the office of assignee, in order that the buildings might be completed and sold for the benefit of the creditors. The CHIEF COMMISsIoNER asked whether the insolvent was in attendance ? Mr. WooDRUFFE said he was not, but he supposed be would like to be.; he was in Reading gaol. The Learned COMMISSIONER said he meant whether he showed cause ; he might have been out on bail. The COURT ordered Mr. Laurence to be appointed assignee. The Earl of Ellenborough is still prolonging his so- ours at Leamington Spa. Mr. JARDINE said the officers should do the best they could to get up further evidence, and ordered the pri soneY to be remanded for a week. LAMBETH. Upon the Hon, Mr. Norton taking his seat this morn ing on the bench, the Magistrate was informed that about half past six o'clock last night a most determined at tempt was made by five prisoners, confined in one of the cells of the new Court, to make their escape, and which was very nearly successful. Last night the five prisoners were locked up in the cell, waiting for the arrival of the van. Cook, the gaoler, hearing an unusual noise, went to the cell in which the prisoners were confined, and soon ascertained that they had succeeded in removing the whole of the iron lattice-. work attached to the windows, and in a very few minutes more the whole of the prisoners must have got clear off. Mr. NORTON gave directions that the clerk of the works should be sent for, and acquainted with the cir cumstance. MUIWEROUS ASSAULT BY POACHERS. Saturday information was received of an assault of a most deadly nature committed upon Henry Tebby, a gamekeeper in the service of Rousby, Esq., of Collisford House, near Bicester, Oxfordshire. The keeper, it appears, was proceeding to Hethe, about seven o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of engaging a man to work on the following morning, and was passing a plantation, when he heard the cry of a hare, as if caught in a snare, and, going to the spot, he met three men, one of whom he knew, and addressing him, he said, "Ah ! Jesse Willis, is that you ?—I know you." The fellow instantly struck him down with a heavy bludgeon, and as he lay on the ground all the three men beat him most dread fully, and then made off. He was so much injured as to be unable to move for some time, but at length made his way to the house of the Rev. A. Maguire, a Roman Catholic priest, and requested that some one might be sent to Collisford to inform his brother and his master of what had occurred. The Rev. Gentleman himself immediately went into the village to look for a messenger, and on the way asked a man whom he met to go to Mr. Rousby's, at Collisford, and inform him one of his keepers had been dreadfully beaten by poachers. The man, how ever, who afterwards proved to be no other than Jesse Willis himself, declined the mission, and some one else was sought for. In the meantime a constable named Harris had arrived, and from what Tebby told him he went into the village and apprehended Willis, and took him also to Mr. Msguire's; and the keeper, being asked if he knew that man, said, " Yes, that is Willis—that is the man that struck me." Mr. Jones, a surgeon, was sent for to attend Tebby, who he found ,to he in a dangerous state, frightfully cut, and suffering from a concussion of the brain. The poor man was afterwards removed to his own house, and the next morning Willis was taken before the magistrates at Bicester, and remanded for a week, a medical certificate being produced, stating the danger in which Tebby was. THE SHAPWICK MURDERS. Yesterday (Friday) the Coroner's jury assembled at Shapwick, to ascertain the cause of the death of James Dimond, an illegitimate child, aged seven years, of Sarah Freeman, who died in November, 1843. The body was exhumed on Saturday last, and a portion of the contents of the stomach was subjected to analytical tests by Mr. Herapath, who pronounced it as his opinion that the child had been poisoned by arsenic. Evidence was given which incul pated Sarah Freeman in administering the poison ; and a verdict of Wilful Murder against her was re turned. Five other sudden deaths of children have, it is said, lately taken place in one family in this parish, which Sarah Freeman was in the habit of visiting ; and it is expected that further exhumations and in quiries will in consequence take place. BRISTOL, SATURDAY MORNING.—The inquest held at Shapwick on the bodies of the husband, Henry Freeman, and the illegitimate child of Sarah Free man, concluded late last night, the jury returned in both cases verdicts of wilful murder against her. The facts adduced in evidence in the case of the illegitimate child (a boy about seven years of age) showed that it died suddenly in the month of No vember, in the year before last (1843), and at the inquest which was held on the body, the following day, a verdict of natural death was recorded. On the body being exhumed, on the 11th instant, the surgeon took away from the coffin the whole of the intestinal canal and the liver, and placed them in a jar. Since then they have been carefully examined, and it was distinctly discovered that the child's death had been occasioned by arsenic, a portion of which had been ex tracted and produced to the satisfaction of the jury. In the case of the death of the husband, which hap pened shortly after that of the child, and whose body has also been exhumed, Mr. Ilerapath, the surgeon, stated he had analysed the contents of the stomach, and was of opinion that the death had resulted by the same poison—arsenic. On the 27th of December the prisoner gave notice to a burial club that her husband had died, he having been a member of the club ; 201. was paid to her, with which she expressed herself much dissatisfied. The inquest concluded at nine o'clock last night. MORE SUPPOSED MURDERS.--At the conclusion of the above inquests, the Coroner made the subjoined remarks to the jury :--" Gentlemen, lam afraid I shall have further 4ccasion for your services. I have received a letter from highly respectable persons, the statements made in which are very alarming—namely, that five other deaths have occurred in the parish very recently, and all of them in one family. It is also stated to me in that letter, and I do not know how far it may be true, that the woman (Sarah Freeman) was in the constant habit of visiting that house. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT UXBRIDGE. Since Wednesday last the greatest excitement has prevailed throughout the town and neighbourhood of Uxbridge, in consequence of a most diabolical at tempt made by a young man, named Thomas Deck man, to murder his wife and child by means of poison. From the inquiries made into the circumstances b♦ Inspector Cooke, T division, and other officers of the metropolitan police, it appears that Thomas Deckman, who is not yet twenty years of age, and is by trade a journeyman baker, was married to his wife, Eliza beth Deckman, last October twelve months, and they have one child six months old. For some time past the husband has been out of work, in consequence of which they had been compelled to remove from their lodgings, and took up their abode at the house of the wife's father. From the period of their mar riage they had not been a happy couple, and the hus band had often threatened to do for her, and had on one occasion sharpened a razor, and placed it under his pillow for that purpose. On the morning of Wed nesday last the husband got up before his wife, and left the bed-room, saying he was going to enlist for a soldier. Before, however, he left the house, and while he was in the sitting-room, the wife heard a rattling of crockery, and thought that her husband was get ting himself breakfast. She afterwards got up, and made some coffee, and about nine o'clock sat down with her sister to breakfast. On adding sugar and milk to the coffee she noticed that the milk immediately became curdled, not withstanding which, she, however, drank the contents of the cup, and, in less than five minutes afterwards, was seiaed with a feeling of sick ness. She then poured out another cup of coffee, and again added sugar and milk, when the latter was again curdled, when her suspicions became excited, and :the poured some coffee into a basin, and added some milk, and found that it did not curdle. She then tasted the sugar in the sugar-basin, and finding that it had a strange taste, she concluded that some poison had been mixed with it, and sent her sister with the basin and contents to the shop of Mr. Chave, chemist, in the High-street, who, on tasting and examining the sugar, declared it to be mixed with oxalic acid. The wife was, during two hours after taking the coffee, exceed ingly ill, and it was only by administering emetics that the poison was extracted from her stomach in time to save her life. Information of the occurrence was immediately forwarded to the police station, when a search was made after the husband, but he could nowhere be found. A description of his person was then distri buted throughout the police districts, which re sulted in his apprehension in the course of the fol lowing night. On Friday he was brought up for examination before Mr. T. T. Clark, a local magis trate sitting at the offices of Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, the clerks to the magistrates at Ux bridge, and, after a short examination, was remanded until the result of the analysis of the sugar remaining in the basin, which has been placed in the hands of Mr. Rayner, surgeon, of Uxbridge, to analyse, can be ascertained. The magistrates' room and the road outside was crowded by hundreds of persons anxious to hear the evidence, and to obtain a sight of the pri soner. On Saturday our reporter ascertained from .k. r. Rayner that he had found in the portion he had al ready analysed a quantity of oxalic acid. FIRE IN MARYLEBONE.—Saturday morning, be tweon two and three, a fire broke out in the premises of h ° a u nd t , h‘ t ) h^: l3 ', ) , t : e was got under Mr. Ilusherbrook, a tailor, carrying on business at No. 19, High-street, Marylebone, nearly opposite the entrance to the police-office. It appeared that, about two o'clock, a policeman, on duty in High,treet, observed a bright light, apparently in the back of the premises. Shortly afterwards smoke issued from the crevices in the door, when he gave an alarm, and the ininatesanh:da plentifu lsearcely time to put on portions of clothing and proceed into the first floor. In ...,, i ew street, when the flames burst forth with considerable whole of the property supply fury, tyeasn:lfif five e o a o et n ne graibsnceeeienn being d ap tr `Yore o tll a ° O c f l°c th k. e . the premises was destroyed, the in shortly th e lower after ti ::::.: up.- -.. f the house not being much damaged, portion o 1 . • r r oo p k ou i r e ed ine in ure a d t . t hi t windows.known —. ueuirwred it to the officers. how the fi re originated' ...ere was son; bexelcieePvte Mbyr.tßheushweartbe ATURDAY) MARKET COVENT-GILEZZN . tible l Although the supplies of both Fruit and Vege h ere were seasonably large, the general demand Id steady, at our quotations :—Potatoes from 3s to 41 , j , per cwt; Turnips, Is 8d to 25 9d ; Carrots, 58 to 1 7; Coleworts, or Greens, 2s to 3s 3d ; 4d per dozen bunches ; Apples, 2s to 48 ; Pea rs ' o 7 and Leeks, 8 d , t° 4 4s ; Spinach, is 6d to 2s ; and Onions, is 8d berg par half sieve ; Pine Apples, be to 10$ ; an d 5O and Cobb Nuts, 10d to Is 3d per lb ; Savoys , per dozen; forced Asparagus, 6s to 75; Horse Balor to be ; Broeoli, 2s to 3s 6d ; and Celery, 5 t4 2.: -00 1 per bundle ; Oranges and Lemons, 85 to 10s ra Seakail, Is to 2s 6d per punnet. NzweALTll AN la D NADDIWZIASIO Prime fall Beef, Veal, and Pork sold readily, at ve its il prices ; but otherwise the trade was in a sluggi lll a 34 8 Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2 s 10d to r sibs, Veal Sc 6d to 4s 6d ; and Pork 3s 4 d t o 4s 6d P e e b o th by the carcass. We had a very large auppll r uled Game and Poultry, owing to which the trade 11 heavy, at low prices. Geese, 3s 6d to 5s 6d 14,9'1110 6d to 2s 6d ; Turkeys, 5s to 12s ; Pa rtrid g e:, 2s ; and Pheasants, 3s to 3s 6d each. 8up703311,r03 13) . es' tst f ll/ There was rather more business doing in Arbeeli prices. All other articles wore a dull sale, at previous rates. WILITSCIULPSS. t a n Prime Veal and Pork were in steady req ues t ° do of advance m of 2d per 81bs In the value of other ki n 86 c ro w 2 9 Meat we have no alteration . to report. Bee f , to to sd 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2 g 10d to 3s Ed ; Veal, 9 3 *- ; and Pork, 3s 2d to 4s 6d per Sibs. NEIVIPONIT. t (41i/ There was rather more business doing here. a of jo previous rates. Beef from 2s 10d to 35 Sd } tt° i 0 lod to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; loc i pork , 2 to 4s 6d per albs. BILLIN GSGATE. t _ Tfs def The supply of Fish was extremely abundan in consequence, was dull. BED. lig J s The prices of wheate n BAread i n the lietror 410 from bid to 7id ; of household ditto , 5d to clPe` loaf. Alleiferi DIC SIDE AZIEST. Raw hides at per stone of 141bs.—Best steers an- ; is' 5s 6d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 4s 8d to SO , 4 r o , tenor hides, 4s 2d to 4s 6d. Sheep and calf n o ollei per skin— Market calf, 6s 6d to 8s • l °, l t. sheep, 3s 3d to 4s 6d ; short ditto, 2s 9d ' to os RAY n t• 4 11 1 SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3i 'l O 65 1 Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 51 5s ; fi ne Upland ditto' l llots 51125; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 61; Oat Straw , T ro 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per las' on the whole dull, at barely ststionarY prices., 01 1 ' . CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay , 31 51711 Useful ditto, 4/ 17s to 516 s ; fine Upland cut"''' 51 13s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 5/ 18s; Oat Stris:i. to 1/ 16s; Wheat Straw, 11163 to 11 17s Per l° ll, ol3 ,{ best Meadow Hay, the supply of which was herol)3l manded a steady sale at full prices. In o Hay, also Straw, very little was doing. I qgto 4i , l 4 ° WRITECHIPEL.—Coarse Meadow flay, 3 i sl' )° Useful ditto 4/ 178 to 5/ 5s • fine Upland l;t16 11 111 rf 5/ 12s Clo ver Hay, 4/ 10s ' to 61; Oat Str a° l 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11148 to 1/ 161 pear losa•witli tolerably good, and trade rather dull, ieePt best Meadow Hay. F 0119° 0 4. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.--whest, poi We have again to note a large arrival 0f sruet.,elo fair arrival of other grain to this day' s ° rt WA" ~ til°: samples of both Wheat and Barley suPP°.,d di,e prices ; other qualities are rather lower, 11:0003. sell. Beans fully as dear, and in goo d slow sale, and lid. per stone cheaper. to tal Per qr. of Wheat Suffolk, Easex, and Kent 5l 4 1 1 4 1 Ditto ditto ..... White... 43 f l ... ........... Red , Ditto ditto "" 42 Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red..... 3 1 ., 4 ', 14 0 Ditto ditto 4* 41 , Yorkshire...." ................. Red..... 50 k Ditto ditto '' 48 l ef ok Foreign 5 OlO r o. Ditto ditto ..... W hite V e r cI OI 2I II .A # Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ...... 3 4 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire OA Grinding .......... . ..... 0 0'0 4 Foreign ................. 16 91b ' 44 Scans, Small fine .... .......... ....... Ticks ..... .«.•..• Foreign. ..... .......... p el Oats, Potato and Poland s to. „s in 1 4 , &foaling.— UM uo to 12d., Foreign l.„ 1 ,0 ....... 255. ter n , 4.9.r0f Malt Rapeseed..., 231.04 251. 0 e. " * irvierilS° of RAILWAY RETu RAILWAY Taarric.—The following are the Tots. Ao , 3 le i i pl ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the nipta o. respective returns are made, together with th e rec. 0 week In the previous year: 10 1 WO' Week entilsg NAME OF RAILWAY. Jan. 11 10 Arbroath and Forfar ••••• • • • • Birmingham and Gloucester • • • • • • ' • • • Brandling Junction . • • • • • • • • ''''" • .• Bristol and Gloucester • • ••ip• • • Chester and Birkenhead. •• • •• •• •• Dublin and Dregheda• • •• • • • • • • • • •' .• Dublin and Kingstown .... • • •• •• • • Dundee and Arbroath . ....... • Durham and Sunderland ...... Edinburgh and Glasgow .... • • •• •• Eastern Counties and North Eastern .• Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • " Glasgow and Greenock. •• •• • • • Grand Junction•....... Great North of England •••••• ••••' Great Western. . • . LiTerpool and Manchester • • • • • • •• •• London and Birmingham . • • • • • • • London and Blackwall.. • . • • •• .... London and Brighton. • ....• •• • • •• Londoa and Croydon • • . • • • •• • • " London and Greenwich ....• .• •• •• London and South Western. • • •• •• Manchester, Bolton, and Bury •• •• Manchester and Birmingham• • •• "•' Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc•' Midland C0untie5................... Newcastle and Darlington •• •• • • • • Newcastle and Carlisle...... • • •• • • Newcastle and North Shields •• •"• North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans •• •• • •• Paris and Rouen • • •• • • • '''''" Preston and Wyre•• •• •• • • . 6 45 / 1 1 1 91 I ' o °l t ' al MELANCHOLY DEAT.-„ / Al/f , ' - Of d, KE y last,RS an , in r uest D w U o It h r isira be_ ol 7:: On Th S ur i s N Maynard, Esq., Coroner for Easingt 0 o- vii , ' 3 on view of the bodies of James Ito - :soli , 4 Crl i 4' eight years, Joseph Elsdon, twenty-six Ye,t'vrelcrtly dick, thirty-eight years, and John 1 - inn te lfia l " i 4 years, sinkers, who were killed in the . ,A,, Durham, under the following circumstancetToreci They had been in company with son 3° I t. 0 0 40! f at the bottom of the Ludworth Pit sh fi 'fhir m ol ° , l , : being about to be fired for the plan s° ° ere„ - t ' 4 stone, the deceased got into a corf, 5n", 11 0 1V,0 4, ' ,' to the five quarter seam, so as to be oll .i . " o ftl • r eT the explosion. Shortly after they wer e the flol i Vi men who remained at the bottom for i i.a ;1, firing the powder, heard something 61 `, i f 0 131 fl if r shaft, and immediately afterwards the ef', 3l be F i men fell to the bottom, the whole of I Lie- , t b B p oi t t i i v m O e e n th i e t e upon the spot. ~.,,,e 0; • - 0, 1 dent was working at the bottom of th e 1130 e° o l,je c i i 4 that the corf ha o lh f eor t to h kt e hwe witnesses (who at the t i w b - i p- ri ot y without the spring having been pushed"; cr i cildi diately on the corf reaching the i ii tia r- e a 11,1 Le r (where the men were to get oat) had 't 13 OF d the perpendicular or hanging positiouLd 0 . tt i ', whilst ascending the shaft, and thus or- a 0 and fell to the bottom. adbsootfntaol fastened it e r on e fe s dttehde securelyo p n i t , t hbtel tit a l-. Pi 14 Y ige o 0 lit a clol i I , Verdict—Accidental Death, with A de ° fr o of one shilling. -•••'i .-- .e,to4 r ; r- 0) i f - Sheffield and Manchester . • •- • • •• " • South Eagtern Taft Vale •• • • • ••• • . ti later . ........ Yarmouth and Norwich ...• • . •• •• •• York and North Midland. •• • • •• kyn M s :T o w f ir E i a c t E o r -plac ßs e, NLvo F T. ri Eic a s•;;lloy. i i r :B ' e f .4 funds of that valuable charity Friday n °l s Ad for the d Nen e dD s t: t t i huo t a u rled t x. e .rf s om i ir ck, in Gray's Inl l-19$ " . J'/IP I d iits [ sosL A misn D itgAt VERTISEMENT.]—PIS, FI ST I If ' ' ° Afi t ' l ' l ' , i r fi ws residingct usi-nDobwei besides . d — se st A . aH g n e el E E:nee s i NterhT : hr.a n j—ael i c dee rA A btsy ßi yh i :fg C ,ll.b.spn i: r odus : soyffre : er.,7 t ai l l ei: je tt i l t o il r, io ::, a 1) )) . ; A yet,bu t to notwithstanding n o pnr p os gether with a debilitated constitution, h e t° the 00 04 cured of all his infirmities, and restored, oe 4 4 4 !,4 joyment of health, by Holloway's riblatt, 4 444 !;f p li c ation ° fi si c f ° o ll,4 Sold at Professor Holloway's EstabliOrt-d bi g es (where advice may be had gratis), tot respectable vendors of medicine throug° world. an d this a t c l a o s rn t gave han se f c oill Or, sßw.ui 1000 0 0fser.effninn i .o l ionertf t titdti h etialGi,leri e leeeki.09, 1 3RfiltIt 6 aeis t stt h ii dhn ,isnitrn.s inst., tq1 ,.. ,, I i terrace,fuae:li dooll'i' BIRTHS. 4 .11, or 'tV 1 On the 16th inst., Mrs. P. St. L. Gren; coc ebet gbt : 4'l , the Rev. George Barons Norilicote, of st i s i t ' s ool lf o r) , On the 16th inst., Mrs. William Bi c s e ' .. , 1 1 Stainton, k liile tt 1 fr . . 0 A Court ch of: aaottr Clarence - terr i s icfr i e :l:: e t ; jell efa. jj' i'j Esq. , of Biggarshicells, to Gra ce, i lifltg c Alexander Gillespie, Esq., of Sunni +g, aboreissff On the 15th inst., at St. Leonard's, i'dot 0 n the - — l6 t lit h l o . . .nr Stratford, . nt i . .n fs , :t s r.a t u d' . t , t S , ltitn e All t 'lrla;dsnßi3i Emily, E a f. AnLj:ll:d i nh. :II :seliel: I 11°'4:: 'A:i'' 1 Aicto fr; P c ' 0 cl• London, e ..,,„ s° l srlfj , Ct'' ' j o ffreY pot ogf r , o, miss 10. 1,, On the 9th inst., at Torquay, De l.° sta° to isc i : Clerke, aged 42. lace , 6' / On the 10th inst., at Darlingtolfr kelef.,to Der- 01 0 ' Elizabeth Meears, aged 66. nesfr et 0 ' o ' On the 10th inst., at Ilill-courf% 130 .00 ~,, ,olj? l' tershire, Sir John Dutton Colt, fourth ~.---;(;/ - ---- iii t/Sv O tre# A X 10/ 1 No. 112, Strand, Printer, , tt . t , N -011 &hind, in the PreCill,:: ..4 n o 1 05. Middlesex, Moudg• Jsu ulirl ' I,3ntion : Printed and Publis" had ,Ab V , St.A Lo 10 Zmancery.hard Richards, 1..-1., . • ililuogfhatetri.aughfer.