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Also mly be had, Cowvan's Canton Razor Strop Paste, at Is. per packet, he Shaving Powder Is. 6d. per box. Caution—None are genuine, except those marked and Spelt B. and S COWVAN N.B. A liberal allowance to the trade aria shippers. ARO PUBLICATIONS. Tl* PIITVIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body, what improve; Truths as relined as Athens even heard." The Fiftieth Thousand. Forty Engravings, price Is., by post, Is. 6d. ON CHA STITY —its Abuses and Diseases—On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—On Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions—Curiosities of Medical Experience—Law o Divorce, &c. By R. J. CULTERWELL, M.D., Member sf the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of the Hall, and twenty-three years Resident Practitioner in London. " Of human ills mid frailties I discourse, Those taught by nature and by art acquied. Of griefs conceal'd, and disappointments keen, Which young and gentle—the matured and sage— The lonely and the mated—all sustain ; In kindly spirit herein counsel's given, Hew health, bow hope, how happiness to gain." Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalhe, 147, Fleet-street , Hannay, 113, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Comilla ; and the Author,2l, Arundel-street, Strand.—A• horns daily till Two : Evenings, Sevez till Nine. THE NINTH EDITION. Just Published, in a s2aled envelope, price 2s. Fd. and sent fro*, on receipt of a Post-ofbee Order, for 3;.6c1., ANLY HEALTH: a Popular Inquiry into the lr Concealed Cause of its Premature )eeline, with In,true. tions far it Complete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering from the iesstructive consequences of excessive indulgenco, termi nating in mtlital and nervous debility , lo c al or constitutional weak nes., indigestion, and consumption. Including a comorehenslve Dls sertation on MARRIAGE. Illu.trateci with Ca-es, &c. By C. J. 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Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from ten till two, and from Ave till eight in the evening, at their residence, No. 60, New. man-street, Oxford-street, London, and country patients may be successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and inclosing the usual fee of 11. for advice. A NEW AND IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE siLENr FRIEND ON HUMAN FRAILTY. Just published, price Ss. 6d., 3 d ic a n free by post (in a sealed envelope), Pre s. 641., T HE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on Human Frailty and Physical Decay, its causes and the b a neful e ff ects of excessiv e indulgence and infection, illustrated by engravings, with observations on Marriage, and directions for the removal of certain disqualifications. By R and L PERRY and CO. Published by the Authors, and sold at their Residence, 19, Berners. street, Oxford.street • also by Strange, 21, Paternoeter-row ; Purkis, Compton-street, Soho; i Noble, 109, Chancery-lane; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; J. Gordon, 146. 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SALE of WATCHES, JE WE I,- r st ano th L E " RY, kc until the 26th December, when the shop closes er business. r SPlendid Stock of Fancy Jewellery, Gold and Silver Watches, l ktt ` , Plated Goods of every description, Tortoiseshell Work.. s ttio , I nkstands, T ea C a ddi es, an d a grea t variety of other fancy Opp" In Gold and Silver, Shell, Ivory, and Jet, are new SELLING r , lt an immense sacrifice, by Messrs. HOTON and 41,e-street, who are retiring from the retail business. Co., at 38, NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ATTCE SOCIETY, 16, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. DITISION OF PROFITS. The steady seccess and increasing prosperity of the Society kas enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation declare a second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the =wants Inv on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. CRIIIICSIIANKS' COMIC AIIMANACK. Now ready,pries Half-a-Crown, COMIC ALMANACK, 1845 ; containing Twelve Engravings by GEORGE CRIIIKSHANIC, and numerous other Illustrations. " To those disposed to be merry, we commend this annual, as being as merry as ever. The illustrations are full of the comic."—Literary Gazette. 1 1-----4 TRAYS, Tea Urns, Knives and Forks, 1 114 1, 1)1 ,.'h Covers, &c., at C. WATSON'S, 41 and 42, BARBICAN, 't O RTON-FOLGI TE. Established half a century—A 'set Palterticittr, Tea-trays, including the largest size made, 358. ; very 141.4. r haMented all over, SOs. a Set of Three, and up to 141. ; .Ta -44 i, t raYs, 7s. id. a Set, and upwards ; a Five Quart Landon `tlte • 'onze Tea-urn 355., with the newest patterns up to live gul ; a e st h is hlix patent raisel London made Dish Covers, 18e. 6d. ; set ed, . Set of Sla. Elegant silver shape, 525. 6d. T ab.e-kraveS, Is. per dozen, Dessert, es. ; Carvers, 3s. 6d. TABUS. DESSERT. CARVIRS. 4.1,„ doz. doz. pair. 1.1 • aro._ 5.141„ '..onse balance handle ..• • les. Od. 14s. Od. 6s. 6d. 14 4104 'nee handle, largest and best , t t3 ''' ...... •••• • • • ••••• • • • • • 204. Od. 16s. Od. 7s. 6d. 44a d r`. Watson's Albata Plate equal to silver.. •. • • .... 225. 6d. les. Od. es. 6d. C, Forks half the above price. t n , '. handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Current t~n tl 9 ,L"hshed, and families who regard economy and elegance, "tit, assess themselves of this useful book, which may be had kNt Post IYee, froth the above address. ro vekrantor of the celebrated Albata Plate, which is so rapidly PA. r ., ng Silver ti„7l, a , ARAGON CAMPHUSE LAMPS.—The perfection of ,'"Ps over the Vesta has been happily attained by the inven -4."4 t Parallel flat rings—a larger and a smaller forming a cone aki r aWarght of the wick, which cause a rapid reverberation of n istt the flame—thus consuming every particle of volatilized fi'es from smoke or smell, having perfect combustion, t'LC:iV:ti!ac,tion, emits a light equal to 16 wax candles. ),1 11 ° n s Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Fol -014 Contain, throughout the season, all the most elegant re e„l. 41 1 1, now patterns, comprising Ormolu, China, Glass, and ' Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for 215.; and the s. _ rt, n a lVaratu s applied to the Vesta for 6s. The spirit analysed ts r - t ' in ended by Dr. Ure, is delivered in screw cans by C. Wat -41 , 1 at 45. per gallon. 144 4 2, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON FOLGATE. ,-1 i 1-1 . B onus Premium. gadded . Bemis in Cash. 6-:m a6i g s 4 . x s. d. s. d. 77 5 1 14 3 9 64 6 16 4 51 511 711 9 e. d.' IZ a. d. 1537 170 9 3 74 3 4 1838 144 2 2 1839 116 16 0 X s. ds ao 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 b The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De cember of the present year. This institution offers many important sad substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, en all oceasiens, the power to borrow, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED. This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL INCOME being UPWARDS of 72,0001. In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class from the time they weie effected. The Bonus added to olicies from March, 1834, to December 31, 1840, is as follows : Sam Time Sum added Sum Time Snm added Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy. £5OOO 8 yrs. 10 mths. £683 6 8 £5OOO 4 years £4OO 5000 6 years 600 • 0 5000 2 years 200 The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur ance is for Life. Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. D 1 ii,, , L1) ENGLISH CUSTOMS. k el. . IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! t o.. l lo st bpc are specially informed that during the re-erection o f "%eh ' and SON'S premises in Aldgate, the entrance to their tient is only at 154, Minories. T he hearty customs t,f the olden time, k. certainly, deserving of a rhyme. rare we much inclined to be remiss, With such an o ,portunity as this. I lia pleasing to assemble once a year, 48 1 ad festivity and social cheer. V l5 Pleasing, while we view the cracking log, Tp crack a joke, or hold a dialogue. he bough of holly, with its crimson berry— e plenteous feast—the wine which makes us merry 41 1 teed to make us welcome Christmas here, 11,,thd hail its customs with a hearty cheer. ttit sllall we not our happiness express, 1 4 7,„ } aalling Christmas with a change of dress OaSES and SON are anxious to revive . 1 O ld cu which we all should keep alive. In times, glad Christmas (merry Sire) . ' as hail'el by young and old, with new a' tire iind shall this custom quite forsake the hod B i ° , -- not while MOSES' splendid show-rooms stand. w e ,e winter garments may be bought so cheap, Te 11 still to this old Engl , sh custom keep. h e W ell - stock'd Mart of Moses seems to say— L et t) .Te. buy a suit of clothes for Christrn . as-day." ilLtx rose who wish for such a custom still, eely c ,..anto, in ready answer —" So we will I" 115n1N,. ,- ,..erk, entitled "THE COMMERCIAL PHE/..70.- ' ill - 4,7'th full directions for Self-Measurement, ea applica. k,,,,, , ' ° rlvarded post free. li Atto ens eith READY MADE. X s. d. b ltto t ht `t °t g ue Lit t° ...esiri,.,elds , ~r e ntlir T na Ol3 6 +1 ,, , ~-.4er c sat e s. tit thole, Pultoes and every description of W ii i: Winte r - ,'"andsomely trimmed bi tt : , „Wi nte •ats, In every style • • 6 b ) .„. Ibs en , r 1 rousers, lined PpCoa t n ................................................... • • I 11 0 O tk ditt '' eli g*d &c 1 • 0 5 11ie,,,,,•.ditt 0 ,. . ' ................. ...., , 1 3 g iilii:_lellar v ~t .... -............ .......... 0 1 • "Zs' i . :`,..a , ted . Ditto • 17 6 !IttNllCrnt:lly braided W .' G•th MADE TO MEASURE. I, 416 a Coats, velvet cellar and cuffs from 118 • ~, 11,,i r „,,CCiats in every style and Shape, handsomely trimmed I 5 • 'I, t ~-"' [ weed' Wrappers • 17 6 . N ik t k i '', , lttto, Trousers 0 8 6 ,_"v., ; : i 'ln Ditto ilvt ~,u Ditto, any pattern • 12 0 p!,',ll; ti r Dress Trousers " eat • 7 • 'l6 V 44'tcr IYitt ' t i ,se,., at °, in endless pattern ~.......... ....... 1 12 0 t e i rk t i V t to. best manufactured 2 15 • i tte, th o e at h)r). 1 „ best manufactured 3 2 0 Vtts r uni c Suit 1 7 0 'scit orbi nie 1 8 • 1 , 4 to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the ,etas -,.. following prices : s ii‘ t x t i ts, dre sis coat, vest, and trousers from 1 16 I til,Neredacket, vest, and trousers from 0 18 • ' k l,.Xch.„ &re T.— Any article purchased or ordered, if net approved Iy2ter,,"ged,.,, or the money returned. 4,7lsi t; ''''',_ - t;. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail i,les,,,aPers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, Mi. ikZactrrlZZEks. Aldgate, City, opposite the Church. 1 404 i — "E. Moses and %on are obliged to guar the public s4thomroPosition, having learned that the untradessnanlike l'iltleeeri of tieing connected with them, or it's the same concern, 141 y hav esortecl te in many instances, and for obvious reasons. 1 11 4 th0,, * no connexion 'Whatever with any other establishment, , li i l l t, n egh ° desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to pr event ),:io4lll.telst .l e c h k u k rc e- h ) . call or send to, 154, Minories, or 86, Aldgate ti l Sy up nets transacted at t 8 Establishment from sunset en " , k. ' l n' .set on Saturday. when business is resumed till twelve ,S LADIES 11 , , 9 t w T L A NI O )K AL YD 0 R. i ; Orit„, Q uised by the several Sovereigns and Courts of Europe bieral a d'al Botanical Discovery, and perfectly free from all tliq I ' l lriN t i ru xture. 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Bankruptcy and Insolvency ; with a Selection of Adjudged Cases recently reported. Owen Richards, Law Bookseller and Publisher, 194, Fleet-street. [ADVERTISEMENT.] MISS CLARA WEBSTER'S BURNING. TO "DOCTORS " MARSDEN, LISTON, &C. state of Miss Webster The dangerous " feverish s sickness at four o'clock still unabated, and her " emetic o'clock on Monday evening convinces me that your experimental treatment in her " casemetics u i s n t t o h e the upper extreme. " by exter na l Physics, n i e s ra a l b e s s tomach is a round-about way into the s y s t em ; as and aperie h n le t ed ap in p g li , ca o t r ion m s i they, by ferment agitation, must unite with the blood forming at the moment ;—whereas my mode, as that of the " antient physicians," is to counteract the fer mentation already created, through nervous shock, by taking away the CAUSE for it : by instant purification of the bony fabric. The following is offered as a " New Year's Gift" for 1845 to the humane in Memorandum for wil ful or accidental bodily suffering by fire. The 66 caloric" thus sucked out of Miss Webster's system by the substance of the flame—on her being burnt on Saturday night last at Drury-lane Theatre. This deprivation of natural caloric is only to be regained to the body of this young lady in balance for healthy temperature—by the purest " caloric-spirit heat," as existing in " virgin -wax." Hence ! as heat repels heat, as cold-chill by snow-cold, heat, from pure white flame, must be brought in contact, and must be applied through the nostrils direct to the vessels of the lungs, to and from the brain, under aid of " the VITAL AIR LAMP,"-or after " its" manner—for the gradual rarification of" breath" for obtaining a regu lar moist tongue in " proof" of the absence of fever. This mode, with purified ssILX, instantly restores " the oxygen of the blood," expands for fibril circula tion the epidermis, or outer skin for the hair's growth, under a gentle perspiration; and at the same time— as if at " the FoNT" of nature—lubricates generally " the balls and sockets" of the joints, with their car tilaginous parts, for expansive ease, appetite, and tranquil sleep.* Mark this, philanthropists! If the above " Memo randum" is not adopted, the hair of the head and " eye-brows" will never grow, the skin will become like " parchment," or else nervous languor, mortifica tion, and death will speedily terminate the now excru ciating spasmodic suffering of this young, fascinating, and popular actress. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Liverpool, Dec. 16. MURDER.— Thomas Shaw was indicted for the wilfu. murder of Alice Nolan, at Manchester, by cutting her throat. Mr. Brandt and Mr. Whigham conducted the prose cution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. James, who was assigned to him as counsel. Mr, Brandt stated the case, and proceeded to call the following witnesses : James Kearsley, who stated that he lived in Cannon street, in Salford, and that Alice Nolaa lived there for from nine to ten months. She was there on Sunday, the 7th of July. She left the house from half-past ten to eleven. Witness saw her no more alive. Saw her dead body on the Monday at the Rob Roy public-house. Sarah Shepherd stated that she resided in Cork-street, and knew the deceased, Alice Nolan. They worked to gether. Knew the prisoner. He visited the deceased. He was courting her. On Sunday, the 7th of July, Alice Nolan was at witness's house. She came up from half-past ten to eleven in the morning. The prisoner was there. After dinner they went out. When they came back she came in first. He came in in about ten minutes. She had tea. He did not have any. About half -past nine she said she would help herself to some bread and meat. He said he would have some too. He took a mouthful of the bread and meat out of her hand. They went out together shortly after. He came back at about ten minutes or a quarter-past ten. As he came down the yard he seemed to be dancing, and was sing ing " Jim along Jo." He said something, witness could not tell what, and then she heard him say," Here goes." lie seemed to make a catch at the latch, and the first time he missed it. He tried the latch again, and opened the door. He made one step into the house and fell on his face. He lay with hie arms under him. There was blood issuing from his throat. Witness made an alarm, and tried to get him on his feet. He threw bis hands about. Witness said, " Ob, Tom, what have you been doing this for ! Where is Alice ? HASA you been fall ' ing out ?" He stared very earnestly at witness, and began taking off his coat. He was gurgling in his throat. Witness ran out, and went for a surgeon. There was a surgeon in the house when she came back. When the witness and the deceased came in after dinner she was smiling. He was very pale, as if he were vexed. Witness turned to her and said, "Alice, you have been vexing him." He sat down beside her. She looked at him and smiled. He crept towards her and laid his hand upon her shoulder. She had not a bonnet. They ad dressed one another as Alice and Tom. Cross -examined—When they came in between dinner and tea time she went up to witness, put her hands round witness's neck in a playful manner, and asked her to go and wash herself. She played with her hands round witness's neck a minute or two. When they went out he jumped up hastily. They had been fondling with one another. Witness's husband and the prisoner worked together. Witness understood the prisoner had lost his situation some days before. He had not been drinking at the witness's house the night before. He -.vas out with witness's husband for about ten minutes. The deceased and prisoner were together in the course of Saturday evening. He had two glasses of beer. Witness has known him about four months. Does not know if he was in the habit of drinking. It was from knowing the deceased he came to witness's house. Re-examined—When she put her hand on Witness's neck she played with it, and asked witness to go and wash her. She had done so before. There was nothing in it which induced witness to feel any alarm. Martha Wilson stated thrt she knew the prisoner and Alice Nolan. They came into witness's house about half-past three. They remained about two hours and a half. They seemed very comfortable. He st emed very fond of her. Witness went out with the deceased. When they came back he was gone. Cross-examined—The prisoner left about ten minutes before her. 'I hey seemed very comfortable while they were there. Witness's husband and the prisoner worked together. Hugh Broadhurst stated that he lived in Salford. The prisoner on the Sunday came to his house to borrow a razor. He asked for a latherbox and razor to shave. They were laid on the table, and witness told his wife to put some water on. The prisoner said, " Never mind; there's water yonder," pointing to Mrs. Shepherd's. He .ut the razor and lathorbox in his pocket, and went out. Witness saw the razor afterwards with Mr. Ward. It was the same he had lent the prisoner. Joseph Jones stated that he lived next door to Mrs. Shepherd. Was in the necessary on the Sunday evening. Heard a noise, es of the prisoner singing. He seen.ed to be going to Mrs. Shepherd's. He stooped down and said " Here goes it ; here I will die." He stooped for a short time, and then rose-up, and some thing dropped He opened Mrs. Shepherd's door, and fell in. Witness went to the place where the prisoner stooped down, and found a razor. Gave it to Edward Ray. There was some blood upon it. It was about half open. Witnes went into Shepherd's house. The prisoner was bleeding from the throat. The surgeon came in about a quarter of an hour. Cross-examined—Did not observe the prisoner until he stooped. Could not see if he put his hand into his pocket. Edward Ward—Received the razor from Edward Ray. Went to the Rob Roy public .house, and found the body of deceased there. Went to Mrs. Shepherd's. The prisoner was lying on the floor with his throat cut. Took him to the infirmary. There was a blue pilot coat in the house, in the pocket of which was a latherbox and brush. The coat was much sprinkled with blood on the skirts. Thomas Huxley stated that on Sunday, the 7th of July, he was in Bridge-street. It was near ten o'clock. Came up to a man and woman near the corner of Alfred street. Heard the man say, " Well, Alice, must we be married ?" She replied, " No, not yet." He said, " You won't?" The woman answered, "No, not these six months, Tom." Witness went on about fifteen yards, and heard the Woman cry out, " Oh God, Tom!" She was at the corner of Brigg-street. She was then leaving the man. He came towards witness. He walked very quick. She went in the direction of Ar lington-street. Witness spoke to the man, and said, " What's to do?" Ile answered, " Nothing; good night." When witness first passed them the man had his arm round the woman's neck. lle had a blue pilot coat on, and he seemed to have iron heels to his• boots. The woman had no bonnet. She went in the direction of Richmond-street. The young woman had on a dark dress and cream-coloured boots. Cross-examined—Did not see other people about at the time. The two persons seemed to be courting. Did not notice anything peculiar about them. Was about five yards past them before he heard anything said. Was not paying any particular attention. Is sure of the words. They were," Well, Alice, shall we be married?" Is sure it was by way of question. When witness heard the words, " Oh God, Tom," thought the man had struck her. It seemed to be an expression of pain. Was fif teen or twenty yards off at the time. The man could have gone to Mrs. Shepherd's house, at the pace he was walking, in about ten minutes. Had particularly ob served the woman's dress before he heard her cry out. Was five yards past before he heard the words about getting married. Witness's attention was not particu larly directed towards them. They were talking when witness passed. They talked in the same tone all along. Had observed the man's boots in passing. Judged they had iron heels from the sound. The man crossed by Albert-street. Thinks he passed over flags, but cannot say. It is not soft ground there. Seemed to have laceup boots. Coul i not see what both parties wore be fore passing them. Had not seen the body of the de ceased before giving his evidence. Saw her the night before she was buried. It was before the Coroner's in quest. Believed she was in her c'offie. She was laid out. Saw part of the clothes after he had given a description of her dress. Saw her boots and a neckerchief. The clothes he saw were a dark-coloured dress, a crape hand kerchief, and cream-coloured boots. lam sure the word she used was Torn. Will swear it was not John. Was about fifteen yards off at that time. Re-examined—Described the young woman's dress before he saw the clothes of the deceased. The man in running away crossed a brick croft. Ann Kershaw—Lives in Brigg-street, Salford. It is a corner house with Albert-street. There is a back window into Albert-street. Saw a man and woman opposite the back window just after the clock struck ten. Both were dressed in dark clothes. Saw their heads. She had no bonnet on. She had a cap. They came in the direction of Brigg-street. They would turn to the left to go into Albert-street. They seemed as if they were quarrelling. The woman made a sudden start from the palings in the direction of Brigg-street, and the man after her. throat, about eight inches lonz, in an oblique direction. The windpipe was severed. That wound was the cause of death. Thinks it must have been inflicted by the right hand of another party. Examined the prisoner at Cook -street oa the evening of Sunday. lie had a very large wound in the neck. The windpipe was nearly cut in two. He was sent to the infirmary. lie was unable to speak. The large blood vessels seemed to have escaped. Cross-examined—It i s p oss ibl e t h e wound might have beeninflicted by th e l e f t h an d of the deceased.' It wa. in an oblique direction from the front of the throat, up towards the left ear. Thinks the course of the wound would have been different if it had been made by the left hand of the deceased party. Cannot speak positively. Mr. Shepherd recalled —The deceased had on a second mourning dress and light bouts. Prisoner had on a blue pilot coat. Did not notice his boots. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for the prisoner, going minutely through the evidence, and contending that there was nothing in it that could justify the jury in saying, beyond any reasonable doubt, that it was the hand of the prisoner at the bar which inflicted the wound of which the unfortunate woman died. He urged that from the inconsistencies of the statements made respecting the man and woman described by the witnesses, that there must have been more than one couple seen by them, in itself the most probable thing in the world, in such a town as Manchester, on the Sunday evening. Nor were the prisoner and the de ceased identified as either of them. The dress and ap pearance described were of a kind the most usual and common in the class of life to which the prisoner and the deceased belonged ; and the supposition that they were identified by the fact of their using the names of Torn and Alice, was one based on the most rash assumptions. The only witness on whom the truth of this fact depended was paying, as might be supposed, no attention to the casual conversation of two persons whom he was acci dentally passing in the streets. He was even, by his own account, at some considerable distance before he professed to have heard the names, and his loose recol lection of the conversation would be most likely to be deceived when, once having got the idea th it those whom he had seen were the parties in question, he learned that their names were what he had now stated. That this unfortunate woman died from a wound inflicted in her throat was most certain ; but could they say with certainty, upon this evidence, by whom that wound had been inflicted ? It was possible, on the medical evidence, that it had been inflicted by herself. Could they say it was not ? They would recollect the singular circum stance of the deceased playing with her fingers round the neck of Mrs. Shepherd. Who could tell what sin gular ideas, passing in her mind, had prompted this strange conduct ? Was it not possible that the fact of the prisoner losing his situation, the consequent post ponement of her marriage, a matter of necessity, of more importance to her than to him, might have prompted the rash act. But even if they should think themselves jus tified, amid all these unsatisfied doubts, in coming to tl.e conclusion that the prisoner really inflicted this in jury on the deceased, was it not clear that on that evening he was not aware of what he was doing ? They would recollect the strange way in which he was stated to have come to Mrs. Shepherd's singing a foolish song, and stampi-g with his feet in the strange way which Mrs. Shepherd had described. And when they found, as would be clearly shown, that the prisoner was since beyond all doubt, insane—that he had been treated as a lunatic, and been subjected to the restraint of a straight-waistcoat, as the only means of security, it would strengthen beyond measure the probability, that at the time of this occurrence, should they think that he par ticipated in the death of the deceased, he was not ac countable for his actions. The great loss of blood was the most likely thing to produce an interval of sanity. When that depletion was supplied by a generous diet he became insane, ani was only restored to sanity by sub mitting him to a rigorously lowering regimes. He would call the surgeon of the gaol, and leave them to form their judgment on his evidence as to the prisoner's sanity, contending, however, that in the first place there was no evidence on which they could rely, that it was by his act the deceased came by the injury which caused her death. Mr. Chalmers, surgeon to the gaol, was called, and stated that for some weeks after the prisoner came into the gaol he treated him as any other patient for the wound in his throat. After that time he became morose, irritable, and ill-behaved in his manner. Ile had been placed on a more generous diet than the prison diet. He became at last very violent and incoherent. Witness thought he was insane, and summoned other medical at tendance, Dr. Fornby. After a joint examination with Dr. Formby, was still of the same opinion. He was put in a straight racket, and persons appointed to watch him. Ilis diet was reduced, and he is still kept on the same diet. He remained in that state for nearly a fortnight, Thinks he is now sane, but would think it his duty to watch him for fear of a recurrence of the malady. A de pleting mode of treatment may produce the appearance of sanity for the time, insanity being liable to recur when that treatment is abandoned. Cannot from what he saw speak as to the state of his mind iu the July preceding. His LORDSHIP summed up, and stated that of late years the plea of insanity had been set up on very weak grounds. If a man showed any peculiarity, any morose ness, had any unreasoaable quarrel with his relations or friends, it was made a ground for representing him as insane. To establish that plea, however, they must be satisfied that the party was at the time the offence was committed unable to distinguish right from wrong. His Lordship then went through the facts as they bore upon the question, whether the prisoner had, in fact, caused the death of the deceased. The jury, after a short absence from the box, returned a verdict of Guilty. _ _ His LoßDstm , than proceeded to pass sentence upon the prisoner. Towards the close of his Lordship's ad dress, the unhappy man sank back, apparently partially insensible, in the arms of the turnkeys. At the close of the sentence he seemed to wake, as it were, from a dream, and clinging to the front of the dock endeavoured to ad dress the Court, but a few hoarse, unintelligible whispers were all that could be beard; his tongue refused its office, and he was led half fainting from the dock. At the same moment some person at the back of the dock was seised with a fit apparently of epilepsy, and his cries and struggles were appalling. The crowd endeavouring to rush to the spot increased the confusion, and it was only by great exertions on the part of the officers in attend ance that the unfortunate man was carried from the Court, and order finally restored. Durham!, Dec. 16. The Commission for this county was opened by the Worshipful the Mayer of Durham, on the 14th inst., and Mr. Justice Coleridge arrived in the eveninff, and attended Divine service at the Cathedrial on Sunday ' morning. _ _ The number of prisoners in the calendar is twenty six, and the number of charges twenty-two, comprising two charged with tiring a gun into a dwelling-house, with intent to do some grievous bodily harm ; three charged with rape, one with manslaughter, two (one of whom is a gentleman possessed of considerable resources) with an unnatural crime; six with cutting and maiming, with intent to murder or do grievous bodily harm ; four with forgery, and uttering 5/. notes of the Stockton and Durham County Bank ; three with burglary, and two with feloniously receiving the proceeds of the burglary ; one with forging and uttering a bill of exchange ; and one with attempting to sink a ship on the high seas. The crimes are thus all of a highly serious character. 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The hall and two of the principal apartments were prepared for this solemn occasion, and ingress was freely given to all who presented themselves between the hours of two and four o'clock. In the centre of the saloon, which was carpeted with black cloth, was placed, on a platform covered with a black velvet pall, and displaying the armorial bearings of the family, the coffin, covered with bl ac k velvet, on the lid of which is a plate bearing the style and titles of the deceased Lord, and at the head of which was placed, resting on a cushion of crimson velvet and gold, the coronet of an Earl. Six colossal silver candelabra, containing wax lights, stood round the bier; and two of the nearest re lations sat as mourners at the head of the coffin, and two members of the establishment attired in deep mourning sat at the feet. Behind the mourners was placed the lid of feathers, and at the upper extremity of the room hung a large esctucheon, displaying the armorial bear ings of the deceased Nobleman. The apartments were lighted by wax-lights placed at intervals round the walls. At ten o'clock yesterday morning the mournful caval cade left South-hill Park for Ireland, and will arrive at Limerick House on Saturday, where the body will again lie in state on Sunday next; and on Monday, the 23d inst., the remains of the lamented Lord will be deposited with those of his ancestors in the burial-place of the family under the Pery Chapel, in Limerick Cathedral. Tull EXPECTED BREVET.--It is confidently said that the long-expected brevet will take place at the commencement of the new year. This h a s been long due to the army, and we are sure that it will be gratefully received. — Herald, William Henry Kershaw—ls the son of the last wit ness. His mother sent him to see what the man and woman were doing. Saw the man part from the woman, and as he was running he stumbled into a gutter. That was at thirty yards off, and in the middle of the brick croft. He ran away towards Dale-street. As he ran away she turned the corner, and put up her hand to her throat. Witness went into the house. Heard an alarm of a woman having been killed about a quarter of an hour after. Went to the place where he had seen the woman, and found a pool of blood. Cross-examined—When the man ran away he ran from me. It was about four or five yards from the corner of Brigg-street. I saw them separate. Mary Barlow—Lives in Arlington -street. Saw a woman, about the hour mentioned, passing up Arlington street, opposite Dean's-buildings. She was staggering. She had her left hand to her throat. There was a gurgling sound in her throat. She passed near witness, and put her hand on witness's shoulder with a sort of push. She went up Arlington-street, until she got opposite Mr. Senior's shop, when she fell against the door. Witness gave an alarm, and the woman was taken to the Rob Roy public-house. She had a cap on, and no bonnet. His LoRDSHIP, in charging the grand jury, expressed an opinion that the grand jury and others would feel great inconvenience from having to attend the Winter Assizes at this inclement season of the year. The county which he had just left (Yorkshire), however, showed that the course pursued was not without necessity. The advantage of frequent gaol deliveries was great in one respect, that it prevented persons wrongfully charged from being long confined in prison ; but the evil was as great individually in cases where there were few prisoners as in those where many were confined. During last year between 8,000 and 9,000 prisoners had been discharged without conviction, from one cause or another, and at the last Winter As sizes 306 had thus received their discharge. The ground of a long commitment, however, did not at tach in this case, for, with the exception of five, all the rest had been committed to gaol since October. His Lordship observed, at some length, on parties procuring themselves to be inserted on the special jury lists, in order to get quit of attendance on the petty juries —a practice which, he said, was much to be deprecated, not only on the ground that it inflicted an onerous and unjust burden on the lower classes of jurymen, but also because it deprived the Judges of the assistance uf men of greater moral and intellectual attainments in some of the more important cases—such as murder, manslaughter, for gery, and the like. The power of remedying this by the magistrates was so difficult as to be almo,t impos sible. His Lordship then proceeded to remark on the cases in the calendar, but nothing of a general nature was contained in his obsei vations. Thomas Barber—Saw the woman fall, and helped to raise her up. She lived about ten minutes. Joseph Chrichton, surgeon, stated that on th e Bth o f July he went to the Rob Roy public-house, and saw the body of a female, There was a large wound on the MANSLAUGHTER AT WINGATE GRANGE COLLIERY.— Jane Shaw, aged 52, was charged with killing and slay ing her husband, Thomas Shaw, at the parish of Kello, on the 17th of August last. Mr. Otter conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Grainger the defence. In this case it appeared that on the day the unfortu nate occurrence took place, the deceased and his wife had been both drinking in a public-house kept by a man named Anderson, at Wingate-grange Colliery, in which they resided. Some bitter observations, indicating a certain extent of jealousy, had been made use of by the prisoner to her husband ; but it yet appeared that" she had made some attempts to get him home. On the road he was seen to be bent nearly double and to sink upon a form in a disabled state ; and after he was raised the blood was seen to gush from a wound in his breast, and he fainted. The surgeon called in deposed that he survived for a few days, but ultimately died from en effusion of blood internally, which effusion • 7 ') _______„./ ...../. 2-1 / - _-- -3 2- ---- --e . -- -7 6 74 --1----t----/K-- 1 _ ..... 7 /41 ..1t " - , • ,o .1- - . , • ' ~ . ~.. - . e iii ' 1 7 •441.. .• k ,, \, 'o' 4 - -•k -lii ~6', • ';', 1 1 ; " Is ',-- - __.,* , . ..,..:::::. Ofi rit ..s t tii, I S ' - -- --. 1' 4\ t - Ir. „... ...,,, 4.. : I74A I ql, 4 I; : . • r , . .._ - ti ll A y . ' '. V'? , 41 0 1 * 4C.1L(4k, 111 . .. , ' 1 1 ' 3 .. -- irill'L - - 4 ,' • . . 04 , - , ;.'" `"' s 6 lll l k e ' ....--. ~074 0 61. 4 14 - .. ' l ' 17 - - , igth : . ...: ... , 9., % ....: 5 . 0 6 ,.. . A 6 , 44 4. 1 ,::', - --,,,, --, • \lii; - •,! - 1 ' - er,C , .- • 4 ~. \ ,-. 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ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereiy insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. was caused by the wound already mentioned, describe] as about half an inch in length and two inches in depth, and likely to be produced by a penknife or a pair of small s;•issors. Two witnesses deposed to the deceased sa) inn to his wife, after being conveyed home, "You villain, it was not this way when you stuck the gully into me." Rut a third, the wife of one of the other witnesses, and who had not previously been examined in the case, swore that the expression of the deceased was, " You villain, you know where you put the gully into me." That a person exclaimed it had not been dune by a gully, but by a penknife ; and that on his wife hearing this she went to a table in the room and took up a penknife, which she put into her pocket. Much stress was laid b e y Mr. GRAINGER in his defence on no blood being found in the prisoner's house, no knife with blood upon it, about her or the premises, and no marks of blood upon the person. The wife was tipsy at the time of the unfortunate occurrence, so much so that, on being informed of his state, she said she knew nothing about him, and was going to seek him with a lighted lantern ; and the Learned Counsel suggested that the deceased's death might have been occasioned by falling upon some low palisades in front of his house ; and, although the evidence of medical gentlemen were quite contradictory of this hypothesis, yet the jury seemed to agree with it, and Acquitted the prisoner. The Court adjourned at seven o'clock. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) MURDER OF SIR TIIO3IAS BOUGHEY'S HEAD-GAME KEEPER.-At nine o'clock this morning Paul Downing, aged nineteen, and Charles Powys, aged seventeen, were arraigned, charged with the wilful murder of William Cooper, at Audley, in the month of August last. Mr. Yardley and Mr. Boughey appeared on the part of the Crown ; the prisoners were defended by Mr. Allen and Mr. liuddleston. The facts of the case having been succinctly stated by the senior counsel for the prosecution, a model and plans of the premises where the horrible transaction took place were put in and duly proved. Daniel Colclough was then sworn—He stated, I am a collier. I lived near the deceased, Cooper. On Sunday, the 4th of August, about nine A.M. and about five P.M. he called on me. We went together to Audley Chapel, and left about eight in the evening, when we went to the King's Head, where we remained till ten. The deceased walked with me home. I arrived there at a quarter to twelve. As we walked home we met an uncle of the de ceased. I went to bed as soon as I reached my house. Shortly after I was called up by the father of the de ceased and another man, named Shuker. I went with them to Cooper's house, and found him lying there dead. Thomas Cooper, the father of the deceased, deposed as follows :—I live in the parish of Audley. I and my son were gamekeepers in the service of Sir Thomas Boughey. On the night of the 4th of August I went to bed a little after ten. I heard the clock strike eleven and twelve. Soon after twelve I heard the report of a gun, accompanied by a loud scream, close to my back premises. My bed-room is in the front of the house. I immediately jumped out of bed, knocked against the wall for my neighbour Shuker, and ran down stairs. I found my son lying on his right side with his head in the kitchen and his body in the yard. There was a con siderable quantity of blood around him. On finding what had taken place, I called in Lawrence and his wife, and Lightfoot. They came up by the cart-road to the house, and entered the kitchen. I sent for Mr. War burton, who lives at Betley, and is a surgeon ; and I went to Colclough's and Shuker's. It was about four o'clock when I left the house myself. I then sent Shuker to Newcastle, about fi►e miles off, far the police. Before going, however, he called my attention to some foot-marks in a fallow field, which had gone through the gate near Lawrence's garden. They were the traces of two persons, one rather larger than the other. I also observed that where they had come across the pasture field the dew was taken off the grass. The footmarks were in a line from my back pre mises down the field. I could only track them for eight or nine yards. The two lines of steps were about three or four yards apart. There was so much dew that I could see the steps distinctly. I examined the cow-yard as soon as Shuker was gone. I there saw four or five footmarks. Two were very perfect ; a brick was also displaced in the footway. I ordered the footsteps not to be disturbed till the police arrived. I was absent at Betley about an hour. About ten o'clock the police ar rived, Mr. Mqinight first. I pointed out to him all the footmarks. I had been in the covvhouse-yard about nine o'clock on Sunday evening, and left the gates closed as usual. Between three and four in the morning I disco vered the one leading into the foldyard open. There were no footsteps in the midden then, nor was the brick at that time displaced. I know both prisoners. On four different occasions I have had to lay informations against one of them, and on one occasion my son was with me when we caught the prisoners poaching ; but I proved the case. The first time was about January last, and the last the 26th of May. The information was heard on the 4th of June. An information has been laid against Powys. My house is eleven minutes' walk from Enoch Wood's. Cross-examined—l came out at the door my son was shot at. Lawrence and his wife came with me after I gave the alarm. Saw Lightfoot on my premises at two A.M. My attention was attracted to footmarks between three and four o'clock. No one had left my house between the two periods. Do not recollect any search having been made up to the time my attention was called to the footmarks. Told Shuker not to say any thing about footmarks or marks on linen. Lawrence's cottage is about 15 or 20 yards from the road. I was never a witness, or made any charge against the pri soner Powys. Ours is a very bad neighbourhood for poaching. The poachers are very bold and daring, and a most desperate sot of characters. I have had, during the last two years, to lay many informations against poachers. A fearful and most barbarous murder of a gamekeeper was committed there about a year ago. My son was not a witness on that occasion. Once he laid an information against Downing. He used to go out and help us. He was a labourer. I saw Downing whilst in custody, but never spoke to him about this business. I never said to him he had better tell all about it. I had not been shooting either on the Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday. Willcam Price—l am a policeman. Was at Hamer end on the sth of August, at Enoch Wood's house, and apprehended Downing there between one and two. I took him to Cooper's house ; took him all along the footpath leading across the field to Cooper's house. I know the field by Cooper's back premises. Go t into that field through a gate adjoining Cooper's garden, furthest from the house. When the prisoner arrived at the pro secutor's house I delivered him over to another man's custody. Saw Powys that afternoon, at three. Ile was coming up the pasture field. I know Lawrence's house. I live there. I saw Powys above the road in the pasture field. I went to him and took him into custody. Mr. ll'linight was with me. Made him take off his right boot, which I gave to Mr. M'liitight. I remained half :an hour with him, and went atterwards to Cooper's house. The left boot was taken off in my presence, be fore he went to the house. Ile walked up to the house across the turf barefooted. James Wright APR - night—l am the chief superin tendent of the constabulary force at the Potteries. Went to Cooper's house at nine o'clock A.M. on the Monday. Saw deceased. Saw footmarks. They were in the midden in the yard ; the other in a gateway leading from a pasture to a fodder field. Cooper pointed them out,. They were right footmarks. Observed particularly a footmark in the gateway ; there was the impression of three nails in the front mark ; the centre nail was smaller than the other two ; I had not at that time seen the boot. The footmarks in the midden and gateway were of the same size and shape. I considered them to be made by the same boot or shoe. There were other marks, but not so distinct. Went into the fallow field. I only observed one footmark there. Observed more than one near the gate in the fallow field. There were at least two footmarks in the field ; perhaps as many as of three or four persons. Considered, from the size of the smaller footmarks, that the persons who had been in the yard had gone in that direction. I traced marks up to the hedge, which seemed to have been broken through. I did not trace them any further at that time. Saw a boot taken off Powys. Examined the boot with reference to the footmarks. I think Cooper and Shuker were with me. I compared the boots with the marks. I measured with a twig the impression and boot. Found them exactly to correspond. (The boot was here .produced.) I afterwards compared it with the marks in the gateway. Found them to correspond. Was making the comparison when Mr. Hatton arrived. We measured the boot and marks together in every di rection, and found them all to correspond. Made other comparisons at Clemley Park-bank some little time af terwards. Saw marks in a ditch there in a grass field adjoining. Had then another boot from the policeman, Slater, at the end of the field. I saw footmarks at the further end of the field. This witness remained for a great length of time under examination and cross-examination. On his re-exami nation it was clearly proved that one of the footmarks, which was more particularly examined, corresponded precisely with the shoe of one prisoner ; one nail was deficient in the toe of the shoe, and also of the impres sion, and the other nails corresponded in number pre cisely. Thomas Shuker—l am a labourer. On the night in question I heard the report of a gun on Mr Cooper's premises, a little after twelve. I got up and saw the de ceased lying there. I went in about four or five minutes after to Lawrence's. I then searched "bout the premises and observed fresh footsteps. I went afterwards to Newcastle for the police. This witness proceeded to describe the direction in which the footsteps went which it would be impossible to render intelligible without a map to refer to. He added, that in the back yard of Cooper's house he saw a small piece of blue paper lying in the yard, near to where the deceased had been lying. The paper was open. On the following day I found two pieces of blue paper partly wedged under a brick in the yard. _~ Cross-examined—Nothing was said to me about looking for wadding o n Monday night. Mr. Hatton inquired on the Tuesday mbrning about paper or wad ding, and I told Mr. Hatton that I had seed it the cny before. Captain Hatton, chief of the constabulary of Stafford shire—l saw Mr. M‘linight at Mr. Cooper's house when I arrived there on the morning of the sth of August. I observed some footmarks fuel boots, which wer e p o i n t e d out to me. They tallied precisely in every respect. (The testimony of this witness corroborated in every par ticular the preceding evidence.) Captain Hatton pro duced a single-barrelled gun, which he found in the bed-. room of the elder prisoner. It had evidently in his opi nion, been recently used—in all probability 24 hours be— fore. He brought also a powder-horn, contaking charge of powder. The horn was stopped with a pledget of blue paper rolled up, of precisely the same colour and quality as that which was used as wadding for the gun. This circumstance, as will be seen hereafter, formed a very important link in the chain of evidence which con nected the prisoners with the crime. Captain Hatton was present when the last witness found two pieces of blue paper in the yard, which had evidently been used as wadding. He then compared them with the pledget of paper twisted up and used as a stopper to the horn found In the bed-room of one of the prisoners. This comparison was repeated in Court, and no doubt could exist as to the pieces of paper found on Cooper's premises having been used as wadding to a gun, nor of their having been torn off the larger piece already alluded to. The gun was found in a drawer of a chest of drawers, locked up and covered over with clothes ; and the witness further stated, that his belief as to its having been recently fired was founded upon the appearance the nipple and of the cock, which, as every one skilled in the use of fire arms is aware, differs totally from that of the same parts when the gun has laid by for a few days. Mr. Harding, one of the Coroners of the county, proved that, in his opinion, he entertained not the least doubt but that the boot taken off the elder prisoner had made the impressions noticed near the house, each of which was most accurately and carefully measured by him and by several other parties. In fact, too high an encomium cannot be passed upon Captain Hatton, and the police under him, for the great care and pains evinced by them in the investigation of the case, and the detec tion of the prisoners. Thomas Furnival—l know the Samson colliery, an 4 recollect the Audley wake Sunday. I was at the col liery- about four or five o'clock. I saw Powys and Smith there; the former had a gun with him, which he wai ramming down." He then went down by the wood. Hannah Sinister, the wife of Charles Sinister, of Leycet, in the parish of Madeley—l know the Samson colliery. I lire about 200 yards from it. I remember Audley wake Sunday. Between four and five that after noon I heard a gun go off. I looked out and saw Powys, Smith, Burgess, and Harding. They were op posite my door. Don't recollect which had the gun. James Smith—l remember the Sunday of Audley wake. I know the prisoners and the last witness, Mrs. Sinister. I live at Leycet. I was in company with Powys, Burgess, and Harding on the afternoon of that day. None of us had a gun. We were at Enoch Wood's till a late hour in the evening. I got home at a quarter to twelve. I last saw Powys about eleven. Downing was in his company at that time. George Madders—My father is a butcher at Orator end. I know Charles Powys. I saw him on the even ing of Audley wake Sunday. James Smith was with him. He asked me to gut him some powder and some caps from Burgess's. lie said I was to fetch them in a pocket handkerchief. I did not fetch them, because a little lad had just died in the house, and I could not for shame go. Downing lived close to my father's house. I saw him one day washing his hands, and he said he wished he was washing them "in William Cooper's heart's blood." Cross-examined—Dowing was at home when he said this. It was the day Mr. C( oper caught him in Audley wood. It was more than a work before the wakes. I said nothing of it until a month after the wakes. Tho►nas Bolton, a collier, living at Audley-end—l was at Enoch Wood's on the night of the wakes, about eleven o'clock. I saw Powys there, and Downing too. He was with James Smith. Powys said something to Mr. Wood. I went away in the direction of Alsager's Bank. I passed the Greeley Arms, kept by Mrs. Jones. When there I heard the sound of a gun. The sound came from towards Betley. I heard a scream at tho same time. Robert Weatherleyi: (police-officer).--I remember Audley wake Sunday. I went to Ormerend that night, and left Audley after clearing the public-houses, at a quarter before twelve. I left Wood's beer-shop as the clock struck twelve. I afterwards went to the Gres ley Arms, and to Silverdale. While going along I heard the report of a gun in the direction of Cooper s house. This was nearly half an hour from the time of leaving Wood's. I sent the two lads, Furnival and Bolton, to school, by order of the chief constable, about three weeks ago. At a late period of the evening it became aprarent that the case for the prosecution could not be closed for some hours further ; and his Lordship, after directing that the jury should be kept in safe custody, adjourned the further investigation of the case until nine o'clock to-morrow morning. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. (From the Chronicle.) We are not among the number of those who think the possession of the Channel Islands a matter of no importance. Mismanaged and misgoverned as they undoubtedly are, they are nevertheless valuable de pendencies of the Crown, containing a faithful and loyal population of more than 70,000 souls, encom passed on all sides by the sea, and employing a ship ping amounting to more, we believe, than 30,000 tons, according to the latest accounts. But it is not solely at their intrinsic worth that these islands should be rated. A British Minister should consider not only their actual value, but what they have cost, during the progress of the war, to the parent country. In that gigantic contest from which Great Britain came out victorious, it has been com puted that our country was obliged to embody and maintain upwards of 10,000 men, solely for the de fence of the Channel Islands, independent of a squadron of ships of war. The amount of the civil and military establishments maintained in Jersey and Guernsey during that eventful period, has been com puted alone at no less a sum than 284,1631. 16s. sd. annually, in addition to a million of pounds otherwise expended. So immense an outlay as this was only justified by the universal opinion that if these islands were in the hands of the enemy the trade of the Channel would be placed in peril. And so it unquestionably would previous to 1815 ; for the possession of the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, would then have placed in the hands and at the disposition of France that numerous host of priva teering vessels which, in the hands and under the guidance of Britons, inflicted such serious injury on the trade and commerce of our then most implacable enemy. But the introduction and the general use of steam in our navy has since materially diminished the importance of this branch of the question, as we took occasion to show in reviewing the pamphlet of the Prince de Joinville ; though we are not insen sible to the advantage in the event of war (which Heaven avert !) of having a naval station either at Benlay Bay or at Alderney. But, in war, or in peace, it is only fair that dependencies such as these —enjoying not only protection but valuable immu nities, and on the erection of one of whose fortresses, the foundation of which was laid in 1806, no less a sum than 800,0001. was expended by the British nation—should be governed by British laws, British usages, and British customs. It is high time that in the year of our Lord 1844, Jersey and Guernsey should emerge from the barbarous code of feudalism; and, being British in heart and British in feeling, should adopt not only our laws and municipal insti tutions, but our language, as the code and the lan guage of her judicature and her people. The moral and intellectual condition of the people of the Channel Islands, notwithstanding the facilities afforded by railroads and steam, can never be thoroughly im proved till the use of the English language and the adoption of the English laws present a universal medium of communication, and contact, and homo genity with the parent country. These general observations—true at any time, and important as true —derive augmented interest from recent occurrences. For the last week the Court of Privy Council has rung with the echoes of Jersey and Guernsey ; and her Majesty's representative, the gallant and chival rous Lieutenant- Governor of one of those islands, finds himself at issue with the Royal Court. It may so happen, too, that before the close of the next Hilary Term, the Court of Queen's Bench, where her Majesty in person is supposed to preside, may come into legal conflict with the Supreme Court of the Island of Jersey, and these collisions— always unseemly, if not always unseasonable—can only be prevented for the future by rendering St. Heiler and St. Aubin as much part and parcel of the realm of England, as St. Albans and St. Neots. It may and will be said by the Jersey and Guernsey people, that their islands are prosperous and flourishing ; but the prosperous and flourishing condition of the islands is due, not to the right of electing their own judges—not in being governed by their own Legislature —not in the in operativeness of certain British writs and certain British laws—not in the exemption from the impress service, under the old system of manning the British navy, and in the existence of some other privileges too trifling to notice—but, hear it ye anti-free traders, who are perpetually declaiming against freedom of commerce—hear that the prosperity of the Channel Islands arises altogether from a system of free trade and low duties ! The late H. D. Inglis, who resided in the isl an d s from 1832 to 1834, and who, during a two years' reoidence, commanded not only the opportunities to observe, but, what is still better and far rarer, the capacity and discriminition necessary to accurate observation, thus speaks of the causes of the pros perity of the Channel Islands in his agreeable work:— " The flourishing condition of the island is not, how ever, owing to the privileges which are so much valued by the people, and which may be termed political privi leges, but is owing to its great commercial privileges. When I come to speak of the commerce of the island, these will be enumerated and explained ; meanwhile, I would only observe, that it is these commercial privi leges which have filled its harbour with shipping, and ex-. tended its commerce over the world—these winch confer i -- -- ~G~': __-~i till it ,, tti g 1d ttri‘' the ki 00 13 • x4'l Der g, , a V0 1 1!' gr. a reg i ti ; oec i ; pc t, / rri t 1 ej 'l3or° i" pridt t, .1C° c1)1 citg' ugl'''' r:0? rig W 0 S sr* yf t bs MO' ;. , a , 1.01('' 1, , ,1