The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-23 00:00:00

'HE PALACE OF THE SUN AND THE ANDES. The subjoined interesting paper was lately read before the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila delphia, by J. B. Quinby, Corresponding Member. "The following paragraph is now going the rounds of the newspapers of this city : " It was reported in Chili that the j ewe l s o f th e Temple of the Sun, which at the time of the conquest of Peru the natives had concealed from the Spaniards, have lately been revered near the Cerro de Pasco, in Peru; the value of them has been calculated at 180,000,000 dollars.' " The palace of the Inca and the Temple of the'Sun here referred to, we presume to be Hunanuco Viejo, which is situated on the east side of the Andes, twenty leagues north of the Cerro de Pasco, on the right bank of the river Chucabamba, one of the head branches of the Amazon (or Marinon), at an ele vation of about fourteen thousand feet above the level of the ocean, in latitude 10 deg. south, and longitude 74 deg. west, nearly. It is known that when Pizarro, now more than three centuries ago, took the Temple of the Sun at Cuzeo, which is some twelve degrees south of that at Huanuco Viejo, and despoiled the Inca of his immense treasures of gold, and, finally, when threats could extort no more, put him treach erously to death,—the Inca of Huanuco Viejo, ad vised of what had taken place at Cuzco, secreted the jewels of the Temple and the gold of his palace in the fastnesses of the Andes and the neighbouring rivers and lakes. Avarice and ambition have made these hidden treasures the object of continued search from the days of Pizarro to the present time. But as yet no clue has been found to this El Dorado, unless the above announcement is well founded, which we are inclined to doubt. " The writer has been five different times at these magnificent ruins, and always found many persons employed in their vicinity in searching for the hid den treasures of the Incas. The whole of the River Chucabamba, for a number of leagues above and below the Temple of the Sun, is auriferous, and the inhabitants of the province of Huamelies through which it passes, obtain by washing the sand, and by means of sheeps skins, two or three hundred thou sand dollars annually. The wool on the skins is cut until it is about half an inch in length, the skins are then anchored down with the whole side up by means of loose stones placed on them, in and below the various falls and rapids, in which position they are suffered to remain from six to twenty-four lours they are then carefully raised out of the water, turne I wool side down into a batea (tub) of water, and thoroughly washed, the gold falling from the wool of the skin, and it is finally collected from the bottom of the batea. Sheep were unknown to the Incas, and as they had obtained an amount of gold from this pactolean stream, it is presumed that they used the skins of the llama (cements lacina of Lin.) and those of the vicuna (camelus perunus or vicugna of Lin.) " When we reflect on the fact that the Indians and Spaniards have obtained by their rude washings on this river during two or three centuries, one, two, and three hundred thousand dollars of gold annually, and that they have not, probably, secured the one hundredth part of the amount that has passed down the current of the stream, we may form an imperfect idea of the exhaustless source of this perennial supply. The stupendous Andes are alone capable of furnish ing such countless riches. " We shall not attempt a description of the magni ficent Temple of the Sun at Huanuca Viejo, its Powerful fortress, and the ruins of the great city which they overlook. When, and by whom they were built, neither history nor tradition informs us. The Incas had no written language, and we are left to conjecture. But their great magnitude and mas sive walls, composed of huge blocks of square, ob long, and elegant wrought marble, greenstone, and greenstone porphyry, weighing many t ins, bear minute but eloquent testimony to the untiring industry of the Incas and their advances in the arts of civili sation. The ravages and earthquakes of centuries haVe left these monuments almost as perfect as they were when Pizarro conquered Peru. Even the greatearbhquake which destroyed the City of Callao, built by the Spaniards, with its thirty thousand in habitants, did not throw down the massive walls of the Temple of the Sun, and the writer can testify that they withstood, with but slight injury, the great earthquake of 30th of March, 1828. The Seraglio and its various compartments with the exception of the roof, the voluptuous baths for a numerous train of wives, cut out of massive rocks, are almost as en tire as they were on the l an di ng o f Pizarro. "If there is any situation on the whole range of the Andes more sublime than all others, it is at the base of the peak of Raura, in sight of this Temple. The writer has crossed the Andes, from side to side, twenty-four times, at seven or eight different passes— twice from Naranjal, on the Gulf of Guayaquil, 24 degrees S. of the equator, to the city of Cuenca, the capital of the province of Azuay, a little south of Chimborazo—and, having spent more than two weeks at the foot of the peak of Raura, at least one thousand feet above the line of perpetual snow, he has no hesitation in saying that it is comparably the most sublime spot he has ever visited on the Andean range. Besides the peak of Raura, which we be lieve to be at least as high as Chimborazo, there are innumerable smaller ones rising on the range of the Cordilleras to the north and south, having their bases resting in the perpetual snow, and throwing up their snow-clad apexes thousands of feet into the pure and attenuated air, almost out of the reach of the eye, and above the untiring wing of the immense condor or South American eagle. The largest and nearest of these peaks is that of Nuevo Potosi, the base of which approaches within a league of that of Raura, and is little inferior in height and magnitude to Raura itself. The intervening space between these two peaks is occupied by the lake of Nueva Potosi, the surface of which is almost five hun dyed feet above the lowest limit of perpetual snow, and as this line, within the tropics, is known to be about fifteen thousand five hundred feet above the level of the ocean, the surface of this lake must be sixteen thousand feet high. It is completely em bosomed by a ridge of the Andes on the west, another on the east, the base of Raura on the north, and that of Nueva Potosi on the south. Its copious waters find a subterraneous channel through a high western limestone ridge, and break out at the western side of the Andes, at a point where the mountain is very nearly vertical, and from a magnificent cascade of many hundred feet in height, falling into a lake of several leagues in circumference. A short distance to the north-west of this cascade there is a large cerro (hill) of yeso (gypsum or sulphate of lime.) The lake of Nueva Potosi is the head source of the river Huara, which makes its way down the sides of the Andes in very nearly a westerly direction, and falls into the Pacific ocean at Huacho, the famous salinas of the western coast, which supply the greater portion of the southern hemisphere with salt. " On the north-east of the base of the peak of Raura is the lake of the same name, one league north of the lake just described, and from which it is 3epa • rated by a high trap dyke and amygdaloid. This lake, which is about one hundred and fifty miles from the Pacific, is a little higher than that of Nueva Potosi, and has an open outlet to the east down a crazgy precipice of several hundred feet in height. It forms the head of the river Chucubamba, one of the prin cipal branches of the Amazon, and probably it is the highest and most distant source of that great river. The waters of this lake traverse the continent of South America from east to west, at its widest expanse, almost from the margin of the Pacific to the Atlantic, a distance of nearly five thousand miles. Both of these lakes are the receptacles of ava knches from the peaks of their respective names. No less than two were precipitated into the lake of Raura whilst I was encamped on the snow in the vicinity. The first occurred at midnight, and which, from the great noise and the trembling of the earth, I for a moment mistook for an earthquake. The second took place at ten o'clock in the morning. At the time I was in the rear of a small hill; know ing what was taking place, I hastened as rapidly as I could to its summit, which commanded a view of the lake and its outlet, a distance of not more than two hundred yards. But such was my exhaus tion subsequent on the difficulty of breathing at an elevation where the barometer stood at but 15} inches, notwithstanding I stopped for respiration -a number of times, on reaching my destination I fell upon the snow, to the sublime and for a f ew m i nu t es was i nsens ibl e scenes before me. When I recovered, I found that immense masses of the ice of the gla cieas, some of it froth fifty to a hundred feet thick, bad been broken &con its site by the pressure of the snow that was piled up literally thousands of feet to the very summit of the peak, and snow and glaciers were in the la p ke, heaped on each other in wild con fusion. The bosom of this inland sea, which but a few minutes before was as placid as • mirror, was now heaving like the Ocean off Cape Horn, and every swell threw a mighty volume of water over the preci pice to find its way through the Amazon to the Atlantic." A white swallow was taken out of a nest in Twyn. ing Church last week by a Mr. Thomas Brown, plum ber, of Tewkesbury, and was kept alive for a couple of days. It has since been stuffed.—Gloucester Chronicle. E'CARCITY Or SEAMEN. —A great scarcity of sea men exists in this port at present, and wages have con sequently advanced 6/. (20 dollars) per month, or 12/. (40 dollars) for the run to England, are demanded. Unemployed sailors in Nova Scotia, or at St. Andrew's, Eastport, Boston, &c., could not, perhaps, do better than come on immediately to St. John, where several new vessels are fitting out at present, and they will be sure of employment. St. John's (New Brunswick) Courier, July 27. We regret to announce the death of the Baroness Rossmore, which took place at the Dell, near Windsor, on Tuesday morning. The memory of this amiable lady 1 4 1 1 be long rep Bred by a large circle of friends. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—If the French Ministerial journals are to be believed, the affair of Otaheite is to be arranged between the two Governments by the sacri fice of Mr. Pritchard. This gentleman is to be treated as the scapegoat, on whose head the violent proceedings of the French authorities is to be con fessed as unjustifiable in exitent ; but as provoked by alleged indiscretions on his part, by which he had excited the jealousy of the watchful French "Pro tectorate,' and induced the treatment of which the English Government, whose minister he was, has very properly complained, and required explanation. The Paris Globe states, as an established fact, that which is not merely unsupported by a tittle of evidence, but has been expressly contradicted by distinct testi mony :—" Have the French authorities been guilty of any wrong ? If so, England has a right to demand reparation, • and France should not hesitate to grant it ; for it is only by avowing our wrongs that we can maintain our rights. Now, it is evident and proved that the French authorities had a right to arrest Mr. Pritchard, and deport him, because of his exciting disturbances, and neither the English nor any Government can deny the legality of such an act. There was, how ever, on the part of a French officer, an abuse of force and an inexcusable prveeding—a fact which may and ought to be ackAtivledged. No body can find fault with the English Govern ment for demanding that that proceeding and gratuitous violence be censured, and no man of sense can condemn the French Government for ac quiescing in that demand." The Presse (also a Mi nisterial journal) follows in the same track ; and, upon the faith of a letter in an English journal, for mally accuses Mr. Pritchard of having been " the in stigator and exciter of all the disturbances which broke out in the island (of Otaheite)." Such a mode of settling the differences between the two Govern. ments might be, doubtless, very convenient to the apathetic Minister who dreams over the Foreign de• partment in Downing-street. Lord Aberdeen, it is supposed, will say :—" If you, M. Guizot, will re move M. D'Aubigny from Otaheite, and pass a slight censure upon him for his indiscreet zeal in imprison• ing Mr. Pritchard, our Consul, we (the Britisl Government) will admit—without questianing the grounds of the imputation—that Mr. Pritchard dii; not act qUite prudently in the very delicate circum stances in which he was placed. M. D'Aubigny is of com paratively trifling importance to you, when compared with the embarrassments which are thickening around your heads, as a Ministry. As for us, we are a peace loving Cabinet—l am , emphatically, pacific. We would deliver over a thousand Pritchards to con tumely, censure, disgrace, and ruin, could we do so with safety to our position as a Government, and diminish the difficulties which surrounded our policy, by pitching them out of our way. All things will now proceed smoothly. The dignity of the great nation, of which you are th Minister, will be maintained ; and the English people, less romantic in their notions, will be easily reconciled to the means,'so that we can but prevent the threatened visitation of war." Now, this may appear to Lord Aberdeen a very easy, if not a very dignified, mode of getting out of the difficulties created by the proceedings of the French subordinate autho triies at Otaheite. But, however his Lord ship may view the matter, we do not anticipate the acquiescence of the British people in such a com promise; nor do we think that the House of Com mons is so perfectly subjugated as to permit such an arrangement to pass unquestioned, and its base truckling to French prejudices and passions to pass unexposed. If there be proof that Mr. Pritchard has acted improperly or indiscreetly, let it be adduced ; and let the French authorities at Otaheite derive every fair advantage, in the way of extenuating their insult to his office, and their violence to his person, which such proved impropriety of conduct can supply. But these assumed errors, or faults, in Mr. Pritchard's conduct, must be specified and established by proof. The mere after-thoughts of his ruffian-like assailants must not be received against him as ascertained facts. Nor must Ministerial convenience be regarded in comparison with the claims of personal rights and national honour. The Duke of 'Wellington and the Earl of Aberdeen, in the House of Lords, an :I Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons, speaking on this very subject, have borne testimony to Mr. Pritchard's personal virtues and public merits. These testimonials were not delivered in a corner, but in the face of the British Parliament and nation. They are on record ; and cannot be de stroyed or removed by French slanders, even though they be grounded on anonymous or obscure libellers of his reputation in this country. The desire which prevails in France to exhibit Mr. Pritchard as un worthy of public regard, and thus to induce English acquiescence in the treatment he has received, is ma nifested by the statements which were industriously put forth by the French press, and circulated by means of some journals in this country, that a Mr. Pritchard, who had been guilty of some improprieties at Caen, in Normandy, is the same Mr. Pritchard whose treatment at Otaheite has provoked public resentment in this country, and induced the English Government to require explanation and reparation from that of France. STANDARD.—We have been favoured by Messrs. Gabriel Kennard, Thomas Cull, and Edmond Post, with copies of a series of letters which have passed between these gentlemen and the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the subject of the unhappy dis putes that have lately distracted the parish of East Farleigh. The gentlemen who have sent us this correspondence wish us to make it public ; but this is a step upon which we crave time for deliberation. There certainly is nothing in the letters of Messrs. Kennard, Cull, and Post, of which we do not entirely approve, and which does not, in our judgment, reflect high honour upon the writers. Nevertheless, they and all reasonable men will agree with us, that parties in their position may say things, and if they are sincere will say them strongly and bitterly, in a remonstrance to their diocesan, which it might be inconvenient and mischievous to publish in a newspaper; there is in our opinion something answering this description in the third letter of the correspondence, which though very proper for the attention of the Metropolitan, would hardly bear the press. Meanwhile, it is impossible not to admire the whole conduct pursued by the dis satisfied—in our opinion most justly dissatisfied— parishioners of East Farleigh. They have with drawn from the ministrations of the clergyman who, by his innovations, his religious millinery, and reli gious dramaticism, and by his Tractarian doctrines, showed a disposition to convert a Protestant pa rochial temple into a Romanist mass-house ; they have turned their backs upon his candlesticks and his chanting, and his distillations from Doctor Pusey's defence of transubstantiation; but they have not turned their backs upon the Church, faithfully attending the services of an adjoining parish church, where the doctrines of the Church of England are decently and faithfully inculcated. It would appear from the correspondence before us, that the candlesticks have been removed (as it is supposed, upon a suggestion of the Archbishop) but that the chanting is continued, and that the Trac tarian doctrines are still promulgated from the pulpit, with this extraordinary sanction from the Archdeacon, that the laity not being qualified to understand the doctrines of the minister, have no thing to do with these doctrines but to accept them implicitly. Now, of the three innovations complained of, the only one removed (the candlesticks) would ap pear t) most reasonable persons incomparably the least offensive. For chanting in a parish church there is no excuse whatever ; the practice, which in our time, it is not easy to reconcile any where with thb decent and unaffected gravity of religious worship, had its origin in the necessity of sustaining the human voice by an artificial disci pline and distribution of its power, so as to fill large buildings which the ordinary speaking voice could not fill. There was to choose between shouting and semi-singing; and in those simple times, when mobbing was more frequent, and the opera not quite familiar, the semi-singing was thought to have less tendency to desecrate the solemn prayers of the Church Phan mere shouting. We are not quite sure that the reverse is not the case at present. In parish churches, however, chanting was never necessary, because parish churches are rarely, if ever, too large for the articulately delivered hu man voice, and as chanting in parish churches is unnecessary, so is it improper. Every one is ex pected to attend, and ought to attend his parish dhurch ; but every one is not affected in the same way by music, or by the unnatural tones employed in chanting. We know that, of all people on the face of the earth, musical people are the most incredulous of the existence of any unlike themselves, the most intolerant of any impeachment of the universality of the influence of that which influences them. Nevertheless, it is very certain that a great many reasonable (and, the question here), responsible creatures are as little affected by musical notes as blind men are by colours, and upon such the unnatural tones of the chant and the something like grimace by which it is accompanied, have an influence the very reverse of edifying; at the most innocent, it wearies them. What right, then, has a clergyman to impose this hardship upon it may be one half, b u t ca ll i t b ut a twent i eth of h i s congre gation ? They wish to attend their parish church ; why are they t o b e annoyed in it, or driven from it ? It will not b e d en i e d that our noble Liturgy, read distinctly, feelingly, and unaffectedly, is the perfect fulfilment of the gr ea t requ i site of worship— " prayer with the spirit, and prayer w i t h t h e understanding also." Now, in this worship every one, by Divine grace, is able to join, whatever his defect of musical ear; and surely this ought . to be en oug h f or the service. The clergyman and Ins family, p er h aps, delight in music—let them enjoy it at home, or at any friend's who delights in it 11150 ; but let not a clergyman incur THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1844 1 the risk of forcing upon his congregation that which 1 does not in all cases "tend to edification." SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 21. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.) Philip Turner, a respectable-looking man of advanced years, was indicted for having, on the 15th of July last, feloniously sent a letter, threatening to kill and murder one William Salmon. Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Hud dleston defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor, being the son-in-law of the unfortunate man charged with this offence, had had frequent disputes and quarrels with him on the sub ject of his wife, to whom he had been married for a period of only 12 months. Much angry feeling being mutually excited, and the prisoner goaded almost to madness by these vexations, and also -by the loss of a situation as an exciseman, which he had previously filled, wrote and subsequently sent to his daughter the following strange letter : "My dear Mary Anne,—l have this day purchased a pair of pistols with a determination of shooting your husband, and if he has any affairs to settle with you, he had better do it immediately, as I intend to end my days in Gloucester Gaol anon. I shall make him pay the forfeiture of his life ; I know where to lay wait for him, so tell him not to deceive himself. You will excuse this writing, as I never could write well with a steel pen.— I remain your affectionate father, ~ PHILIP TURNER. " I shall allow him only three days from this date: " July 15, 1844." To the policeman who took him into custody he repeated the threat contained in the letter, but in a manner which evidently showed he was under the influence of liquor or strong excitement. At the close of the case on the part of the prosecution, Mr. HUDDLESTON objected that the offence contem plated by the Act 4 George IV., c. 34, s. 3, was not made out., as the sending of the letter must be to the person threatened ; and that even if the jury should find that the sending to the daughter was with the intention that she should hand it to her husband, upon this in dictment such a verdict could not bo found, as no one of the very numerous counts charged that the letter was sent to the prosecutor, but all the averments were that the sending was to the wife. He also raised several ob jections on the ground of variance between the original and the letter set out in the indictment. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY, having consulted the Lord Chief Justice, said that their united opinion was, that these being points of very considerable importance, they should be reserved for the opinion of the fifteen judges. His LORDSHIP at this stage threw out a suggestion that upon the prisoner pleading guilty, the object of the prosecution and the justice of the case would be met by binding the prisoner in his own recognisances to keep the peace, and come up for judgment if called upon ; which being at one concurred in by the prisoner's coun sel, he withdrew his plea of not guilty, and having gone through the necessary forms, was discharged, after a suitable admonition from the Learned Judge who presided. Lord Chief Justice Tindal has been engaged the whole day in the civil court with the tithe issue, which is only in part heard. NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Liverpool, Aug. 21. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CREssWELL.) GREGORY V. IVILLIAMS. This was an action for a libel by the defendant upon the plaintiff. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Crompton appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson for the defendant. It appeared from the statement of the Learned Coun sel for the plaintiff, and from the evidence, that the de fendant had been in the employ of some parties who were engaged in working some slate quarries, out of which a royalty was payable to a Mr. Wynne. The plaintiff was the agent of that gentleman, who, from time to time, took an account of the quantity of material won upon which the royalty would be payable. In April last a letter was received by Mr. Wynne to the following effect:—" Sir,—Permit me to inform you that I have certain occasion to know that the accounts rendered to your agent, Mr. Hallins, respecting the quarry are far from what they ought to be, and if they were investi gated, it would be found that you have been defrauded of scores, if not hundreds, of pounds. I have not a doubt but that if inquiry was made of Mr. Jones, of Festiniog, such disclosures would be made as will lead to a re covery of a great part of the money of which you have been defrauded." It then stated, that any letter ad dressed to him upon the subject, was to be addressed to Mr. Roberts, at the post-office. In consequence of this, a letter was written and put into the Oswestry post-office, addressed to Mr. Roberts. The defendant called for the letter. The postmaster, on his saying it was for him, said your name is not Roberts. To which defendant re plied that Roberts was a man in his employ. It was then given to him. A clue being thus obtained, it was discovered that the defendant was the writer of the li bellous letter. The gentleman to whom it was addressed deposed that he had caused examination to be made, and he had no reason to believe that. any fraud had been practised. Mr. WATSON addressed the jury for the defendant, and the case having been briefly summed up, the jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages, 150/. Mr. KNOWLES rose and said that the plaintiff was a moderate man, and had only claimed 1001. in his decla ration. The verdict was accordingly taken for that sum. DRESSER, PUBLIC °mean, V. CLARE AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover the sum of 130 L for money paid to the defendants' order. Mr. Baines and Mr. Addison appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Tomlinson for one of the de fendants, a lady named Whiteside, the other defendants having suffered judgment to go by default. The plaintiff is the public registered officer of the Yorkshire District Banking Company. The defendants were members of a committee who, , lin 1839, undertook to superinteNk the building of a chtech, near Wetherby, in Yorkshire., • TWPatties who bacivontracted to erect the buildinglilikd saliftie.capitaras ICA to be able to pay the workmenthim thAriwn resouros, and it was ac cordingly ttranged'igkip t e subscrWons for the build ings shouletle paid the aboveAmed bank, and that the defendant's should each be se4rity to the bank for the repaymani of the9ito ney to a certain amount. The money was drawn ottill?y cheques sied by the different defendants, 44 and one at' least purp6sted to be signed by the lady who now resisted-the action. The matter had been allowed to stand . over till hist spring, when the action was brought. The proof was long and tedious, and Mr. Baines, amongst other witnesses, called Clarke, one of the co-defendants in the action, who had allowed judgment to go. by default. Some argument took place on this point ;'.but, on the authority of two cases—one in the Quees4, Bench, and the other in the Common Pleas—Mr. Justice Cresswell admitted the evidence, and Mr. Martin tendered a bill of exceptions to it. Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury, and called several witnesses to show that the cheque was not, in fact, signed by the defendant, and that she was not liable. Mr. BAINES replied, and His LORDSHIP, telling the jury it was one of the plain est cases he had seen this assizes, they returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damao-'es, 1301. and interest. Mr. BAINES appli e d for speedy execution, but His LORDSHIP said he doubted if he could give it pending the bill of exceptions, but he would consider it. CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) Thomas Hurst was indicted for shooting at George Taylor, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Ilulton conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Brandt the defence. It appeared that the prosecutor lives in the town of Duckinfield, in Cheshire, but works in the county of Lancaster. A small bridge of planks was laid over the river Tame, which it was necessary for him to cross. The bridge is a temporary erection by a railway com pany now forming a railway at that part. A witness, named John Runs, stated that on the evening of the Bth of August he saw the prisoner, who is a! lad of about seventeen years of age, standing near the end of this bridge. He had a gun iii his hand, and twelve or four teen boys were about him. He left them, and went on the bridge, where he remained for a short time, and then walked about twenty yards on the other side. There was then a great shout from the boys, upon which he turned round, and levelling the gun, pulled the trig ger. It did not go off. He presented it again. It again missed fire. He then presented it a third time at the boys, who stooped as if to avoid the shot. The witness perceived that on their doing so, he lowered the gun, so as again to cover them. On the third attempt the gun went off, and the prosecutor and Joseph Chadwiek both had received several shots about the head and shoulders. On seeing they were wounded, the prisoner seemed alarmed, and expressed great regret ; he said, however, they could not be much hurt, as the gun con tained nothing but a little powder and some split peas. The prisoner had been employed to assist a watchman about the works, and who usually carried the gun in question. On the present occasion the man was absent, but left the prisoner in charge. What directions he had received did not appear. At this stage of the case his LORDSHIP put it to the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, whether he could sustain the felonious intent laid in the indictment? The leaving such an instrument in the hands of such a lad was highly reprehensible, but he thought it could not amount to more than a common assault. Mr. Brandt acceding to this view of the case, The jury returned a verdict accordingly.—Sentence deferred. SECOND CHESS MATCH BETWEEN MR. STAUNTON AND M. ST. A3IANT.—The preliminaries of another match at chess between these distinguished champions of England and France have been arranged, and is to come off at Paris in about a month. It was at first wished that M. St. Amant, who was desirous of another trial of skill with Mr. Staunton, should come over to London to fight the match; but, as that could not be arranged, Mr. Staunton, rather than seem to shrink from the contest, agreed to go over to Paris a second time. The Liver pool Chess Club has contributed 50/. towards the ex penses of the match. Musnaooms.—Mushrooms have recently, in this neighbourhood, been so abundant, as to have become almost a drug in our public markets and streets. They have been sold, of good quality too, at from 11d. to 2d. per quart—a price which, considering the toil of gather ing, and the expenditure of shoe leather in the morning wet or dew of the old meadows, can scarcely be remu nerative. Pains-taking housekeepers have been enabled to bottle up an ample supply of ketchup.—Liverpool paper. AN OLD TOPER.—Thomas Wyer, a brewer at the Boat Inn, Kidderminster, and who has numbered up wards of threescore and four years, has drunk for thirty-five years one gallon of ale per day, and spent ninepence per week in tobacco. The total amount he has expended is—for ale 1,2771., for tobacco 671.; in all, I ,3444—Worcestershire Chronicle. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OLD COURT. TRIAL OF BELANEY.-STEPNEY POISONING CASE. Mr. BODKIN (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday), said—Would he not, as a medical man, hav ing been told by his wife that she had taken prussic acid, have given an alarm, and called for those remedies with which, as a medical man, he must have been acquainted, and which were at once at hand—cold water, a smelling bottle, and brandy ; for, as one of the witnesses had said, as long as there was life there was hope. Why had he not adopted these means? Why, because he would either have restored to life a person he did not wish to live; or by the use of the remedies betray his knowledge of the fact that she had taken poison. It was said he was alarmed, but would alarm lead him to coin upon the moment a falsehood, and to go through a mock ceremony in applying remedies which he knew to be perfectly useless. The deceased was represented to have been in bed and awake ; there were no curtains to the bed. Why his wife must have observed him attempting to open the bottle, and must have seen what he did ; and yet he represented that his wife got out of bed, poured water upon the prussic acid, and drank it. The odour of prussic acid, when spilled, remained in the atmosphere of the room some time. No odour was observed in the room. The room was swept. No broken glass was discovered ; but outside the street door, on the steps, some broken gla9s was afterwards found. They would not fail to observe that on his arriving in the front room he represented that suddenly a thought came into his mind of writing to his friends in the north; but this was more deliberate, for he desired the girl to leave the room, and not to bring up the breakfast until he called her. They would have to say whether having thus removed a person, who might have inter rupted, he availed himself of that opportunity of re turning to the bed-room, and administering, first the salts, and then the prussic acid. If he had at once given his account of the transaction it would have been open to the gravest suspicion, even if it had been taken alone, but when taken in conjunction with the letters which he had written to the north, he feared it was a ease pregnant with much more than suspicion.—[The Learned Gentleman here read the letter, dated from the Euston Hotel, and sent to Mr. Bell, and which was given yesterday, in the Solicitor -General's opening.] Had that letter stood alone, it would have been nothing, but it was the commencement of a series. On the 29th May the will was executed, on the Ist June they set out for Lon don, and on the 3d of June this letter is written, in which allusion is made to th e d e li c ate state cf her health. On the 6th June he wrote another letter, intended, as it appeared to him, to prepare the way for the news of her death, and stating that two medical gentlemen were in attendance on her. Now, that letter was written on the Thursday, the very day on which the prisoner had ob tained the poison from Donaghue. Undoubtedly the pri soner had been in the habit of using prussic acid up to the year 1841, but there was no evidence that he had been in the habit of using it since that period. It was also true that he obtained it where he was known. The prisoner was entitled to the benefit of that circumstance, although it should be remembered that he might have found difficulty in obtaining it where he was not known. He now came to the letter written to Mr. Bell on the Bth June. This was written on the Saturday, the day of the death. [The Learned Counsel here read the letter, which was given in the Solicitor-General's opening address yesterday.] That letter was posted after half-past five on the evening of that Saturday on which the death took place. That letter, describing her dangerous state, and saying that she was attended by two medical men, who pronounced her to be labouring under a diseased heart, was written hours after he had seen her expire, and after he had applied at the cemetery on the subject of the funeral. That letter had been written before the necessity of a coroner's inquest and a post mortem examination had become manifest. The post mortem examination took place on the Monday, and the prisoner had expressed a desire to be present. He was not permitted to be present, but Captain Clarke was there, and described to the prisoner that the contents of the stomach had been analysed by the medical men, and had been placed in a glass and removed. This was ample notice to a medical man. He went to Mr. Gar rett, and received, what was evidently intended to be an evasive answer to his inquiries, and then, and not till then, lie expressed a desire to get Captain Clarke into a private place, and made to him that communication which Captain Clarke had stated to them. It would be their painful duty to consider the evidence, and to pronounce a verdict on which the life of the prisoner would depend. They should remember his statement to the registrar, that his wife had died of diseased heart, which was an hereditary disease, as her mother had died of the same disease in Northumberland some months before ; while at the same time there was existing in the register in Northumberland a statement, under his own hand, that she had died of bilious fever. If they could entertain any doubt as to the prisoner's guilt, it would be their bounden duty to give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt ; but if they could entertain no such doubt, it would be their duty—and however painful that duty migh t he, he was convinced they would not shrink from its per formance—then he repeated, it would be their painful duty to pronounce him guilty. Mr. Baron GURNEY then summed up the evidence. The crime charged against the prisoner was that of the most odious nature--the crime of murder ; and the per son whom he was charged with murdering was one whom he was bound to protect and to cherish, for she was his wife —she was young, and beautiful, and fascinating. The case differed from most other cases that had come under his observation, for the doubt in other cases generally arose as to the person who committed, and the means by which, the crime was committed. Here there was no doubt of that kind, for it was perfectly clear that the prisoner was the person who purchased the poison, and that that poison was the means of the death of his wife. If the jury were of opinion that he had admi nistered the poison himself, or had left it in her way know ing she would take it, they would find the prisoner guilty; but if he had not administered it himself, or had not left it in her way with a guilty, intent the prisoner was not guilty of any crime whatever, however blameable his want of caution might be. The secrets of the heart were known to the God of all, and to him alone. It ap peared that the prisoner and the deceased lived, ap parently, in a happy state, so that the state in which they lived together afforded no probale motive for committing such a crime. Neither did the way in which the property was so circumstanced afford any probable motive for his committing the crime with which he was charged. But, though neither of those circumstances afforded any probable motive, yet it sometimes happened that great crimes were commit ted, for which no reasonable motive could be assigned. He was aware that, in the present state of the press of this country, it was impossible for twelve gentlemen to come into the box without knowing the circumstances iu which great crimes were committed before they came to decide on them in a court of justice. If eny of them had received the least impression of prejudice from what they might have read of the present case, he begged of him to dismiss it from his mind, and to weigh the case, and decide upon the evidence which they had heard. and by that alone. Some stress had been laid on the prisoner taking a lodging in Stepney, but he did not think, under the circumstances, that there was any rea sonable ground of suspicion in that. Those were the general observations which he thought it necessary to address to them. The Learned Judge then proceeded to read those portions of the evidence which bore upon the case, com menting on them as h e went a l ong . When his Lordship had gone through the oral evidence he referred to the letters written by the prisoner, which were of great importance in this case. It ap peared from the first letter which he wrote to Mr. Bell and Mr. Downing, that he had been practising a decep tion upon them, in telling them that his wife was ill, and that he had two physicians attending her. With regard to the letter of the Bth, in which he reiterated his statement that his wife was ill, it was evident tha it was posted after his wife was dead, but who• ther it had been written before that even they had no means of knowing. If the letter was written before the death, he thought it furnished a strong argument apainst the prisoner, for it would seem to be a portion of that deception which it was evident he had been practising on his friends. If it was written after the death, this view might be taken of it 7 -that wishing to conceal that his want of caution, if his story was true, was the cause of his wife's death, he wanted to prepare them for that event. The question which they had 'to try was, whether the prisoner had administered, or caused to be administered, this poison, for the purpose of destroying his wife's life. If they were of that opinion, they would find the prisoner guilty ; but if, on the other hand, they believed that he was only guilty of an indiscretion, and had been guilty of falsehood in order to conceal it, they would acquit him. There were some very peculiar circumstances in this case. The prisoner had been guilty beforehand of a falsehood in stating that two medical men were attending his wife --that falsehood was subsequently repeated. lie stated that his mother-in-law died of a disease of the heart, whereas he had given it under his own hand that she died of a bilious fever. All this was for their consider ation. If they thought under all these circumstances that the pris one r was gu ilty,' they would, however, painful to themselves, perform their duty to society, but if they had any reasonable doubt of his guilt, they would give the benefit of it to the prisoner, knowing that it was . better that ten guilty men should escape than that one innocent life should be destroyed. The jury then retired to consider their verdict. After an absence of about an hour, they returned with a verdict of—Not Guilty. NEW COURT. Octavius Clarke ' aged 28, son of the celeb rated cler gy .. man, was indicted for stealing a gold watch, two seals, and a key, va l ue 20 1. , t h e p ro perty of Mr. Leese, in the dwelling-house of M r . Alexander T. Sweat ; also with stealing a p urse con t a i n i ng li/., the proporty of George Boothl,' ; and a l so w ith stealing 10/, the pr o p erty o f Ri c h ar d R.° goods, to the value of P ea rce, in his dwelling house. The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the whole of the in dictments. The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner was a whole sale plunderer, and sentenced him to ten years' tran sportation. Jane Robinson, aged 40, was indicted for stealing a silver tea-pot, a silver coffee-pot, and various other arti ties, the property of her mistress, Mrs. Mary Hoffman ; and Mary Anne Robinson, aged 40, sister of the prisoner, and Sarah Batley, were indicted for receiving the pro perty, knowing it to have been stolen. The first prisoner pleaded Guilty. From the evidence adduced against the others, it ap peared that the property had been given to them by Jane Robinson to pledge, but it did not appear that they had a guilty knowledge.—The jury acquitted them. The COMMON SERGEANT inquired how long the con victed prisoner had been in the service of the prose cutrix ? Mrs. Hoffman said she had been in her service four teen months. The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner had been guilty of' a very serious offence, and sentenced her to seven years' transportation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A man named William Harden, was charged be fore the Lord Mayor under the following circum stances : William Murton, a person in the employment of Messrs. Nathaniel Fenn and Co., of Botolph-lane, Aldersgate-street, stated that on Tuesday last a person called to look at some sugars, which witness showed to him, an d h e c h ose thr ee bags, containing between five and six hundred weight, and value from 161. to 201. He then ordered that the sugar should be sent to the Nag's Head, Bow, addressed 0. M., in the name of Joseph Morris, of Kingston. Witness forwarded the bags accordingly. The prisoner upon being asked, said that his name was Joseph Morris, and witness told him it was the usual practice of the firm to have cash for the first purchase, and a refe rence for any future purchases, and he told the witness to send the invoice to Sir Charles Prices, and to mention in the invoice the day he would call with the discount taken off. Witness, therefore, considered it to be completely a ready-money transaction. The prisoner referred him to Messrs. Lowell and Nash, and Thompson, Ross, and Co., and the former house, to which witness applied, gave him a very high character of Mr. Morris. In order that there might be no mistake, witness asked the prisoner a second time his name, and the prisoner gave him a card, with the name of Joseph Morris, tea dealer and cheesemonger, Collaton-bridge, Kingston. Witness afterwards saw the sugars in the possession of Mr. Russell, and identified them. Mr. Joseph Morris, of Collaton-bridge, grocer, stated that the prisoner called upon him on Monday last, with samples of sugar, and, after receiving an order from him for two bags, asked him where he dealt in London. He replied, at Sewell and Nash's, and Thompson and Ross's, and was then asked by the prisoner for his card, which he accordingly handed to him. Witness asked him what house he repre sented, and he said he represented Messrs. Hands and Co., of Mincing-lane, brokers. Witness had not given the prisoner any authority to apply to Messrs. Fenn and Co. for any goods in his name. William Bashford, a man in the employment of the proprietor of the Nag's Head Inn, Bow, stated that whilst he was at work in the yard on Tuesday, a man entered and produced an order for three bags of sugar. The goods were given to the man, and witness as sisted in loading the cart, but in consequence of in formation which he received, he followed the cart to the Swan on the Dover-road. The cart then re turned to Mr. Russell in High-street, Borough, where witness, seeing the prisoner help to unload it, gave him at once into custody. Mr. Thomas Russell, of No. 72, High-street, 80. rough, stated that on Tuesday the prisoner came to his shop and said he was a traveller, and asked him if he was a buyer of sugar. The prisoner stated that he represented the house of Hands and Co., Mincing lane, that he was selling on commission ; and he exhi bited a sample, which he said was a remnant of three or four bags from off a large parcel which they had, and asked 60s. per hundred weight for it. Witness offered him 595., and the prisoner observed, that as it was to clear a remnant, he would take it. Yesterday the sugar was brought to the door, and the prisoner presented the invoice produced, made out in the name of Dent, who he said was a commission-agent. Witness hesi tated, and the prisoner wanted to take the sugar away, but witness said, " No, if it's all right I'll keep them, as I bought them; if not, you have no business with them ;" and then the last witness came in, and asked whether witness knew the prisoner, and where the sugars came from, and witness sent to the Nag's Head to ascertain who had booked them, and found that they came from Fenn and Co.'s. The prisoner was then given into custody. The LORD MAYOR said the prisoner had adopted a most ingenious and systematic plan of robbery, and committed him for trial. GREENWICH. Yesterday Mary Ann Kendall, a fine-looking young woman, aged 22, was brought before Mr. Jeremy, charged with attempting self-destruction by throwing herself into the Grand Surrey Canal, at Black Horse-bridge, Deptford. William Arthur deposed that he was going to his daily labour, and when near Black Horse-bridge he heard a scream repeated three times loudly. He saw the prisoner jump into the water. Supposed she was trying to save her sister, who had previously jumped in and sunk. She resisted witness very much, and said she was determined to go in again. He got her out of the canal with the assistance of the police and other persons. W. Padgam, 278 M, deposed that he conveyed the prisoner to the station-house. On the way she de clared that she would go into the water again. She would go with her sister, but assigned no reason for so doing. Prisoner said she did not know her sister Eliza was going to drown herself. Her sister dipped her hand kerchief in the canal, and wiped her face. Witness turned round• and in an instant she heard a splash in the water. On again turning she saw deceased sink ing. Don't recollect saying I would follow her. Jane Kendall deposed that she and her sister went out to get from the sight of their father ; they left home early in the morning, at five o'clock ; there are five in family, her father, self, and three siste rs; they all work at shirtmaking;for a slop-house at Ber mondsey ; the person they work for is a Mr. Nor man ; deceased and her sister had pledged some shirts; witness lent them ss. to redeem them; it was money given her by her father to pay the rent with. They could earn by working very hard indeed, early and late, 3s. 6d. or 4s. per week. They received from Is. 6d. to 3s. per dozen for making them. Mr. JBREAIY—That's from to 3d. each. It was not mentioned to her father that the money had been misapplied, to their knowledge ; but they much feared his knowledge of the fact ; ss. was all that her father had to pay his rent with. Mr. JEREMY said she had much better have told the truth, that the money had, been applied to redeem shirts. The father of the prisoners stated that he got his living by working along shore among the shipping. He had made no complaint of her pledging the work, or redeeming it with his money. Mr. JEREMY said the present case was one of those exhibiting the effects of the grinding system in pay ing for labour. Here was a scene of distress and misery; two young girls going out deliberately in the mor4ing for the purpose of destroying them selves, and one of them at that moment lying a corpse. After reading to the prisoner a most feeling admo nition, Mr. Jeremy ordered her to be delivered over to her father, who promised to sooth and keep a watchful eye upon her for the present. The unhappy parent and- his daughters then left the Court, absorbed in grief. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday John Jackson, a waterman, belonging to the Lower Custom-house-stairs, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, on a charge of smuggling 41bs. of foreign manufactured tobacco. Die case was a somewhat remarkable one. The prisoner was seen by a river inspector, named Joshua Judge, leaving the Earl of Liverpool steamer, off Pickle herring wharf, Horselydown, and, suspecting he had smuggled goods about him, called upon him to stop, which he refused to do, and rowed away as hard as he was able. Judge directed his men to give way, and they pulled after him. The prisoner, however, had a very light short boat, and got ahead of the police galley ; but happening to get athwart hawse of a mooring-chain, brought him up all standing. The police galley bore down upon him, and he g o t away again, and " dodged" the river police among the tiers of vessels for some time, when be suddenly left off rowing, and put his hand inside his bosom for the purpose of removing some tobacco concealed there. Judge called out to him that it would be the worse for him if he threw anything overboard, and away he rowed again. The police galley continued the chase, came up with his boat, and Judge boarded him, and found seven papers of compressed tobacco secreted about his person. The prisoner's defence was, that some man he did not know gave him the tobacco to carry ashore, to some place he could not name. Mr. BALLANTINE fined the prisoner 505., and in default of payment sentenced him to 14 days' im prisonment. THE STATUE OF GOETHE.—The Journal des De bats announces that the colossal statue of Goethe, which was cast in bronze at the royal foundry of Munich, according to the model of Schwanthaler, has been com pleted and exhibited to numerous visitors. This statue is intended to ornament one of the squares of Frankfort-on the-Maine, his native place. Goethe is represented clad in a mantle, but having his hands free. He wears the simple costume of the present period. His right arm is resting on the trunk of an oak tree, and in his left he holds a laurel crown. His eyes are turned towards Heaven. The subjects of the bas reliefs on the pedestals are borrowed from the works of Goethe. In the front, three female figures represent the natural sciences, and dramatic and lyric poetry. On the oppo site side is seen, at the right, Gcets of Belichingen, Eg mont, Tasso, and a fawn. On the left the Bride of Corinth, Prometheus, and the King of the Aulmes. One of the lateral surfaces represents iphigenia, Orestes, '['hoar, Faust, and Mephistophiles ; and the other, Mignon, Wilhelm Meister, the Harpist, Hermann, and Dorothea. CONSCIENCE.—The following is a verbatim copy of a letter in our possession, addressed to Mr. William Thompson, of Settrington Wold, near Mallon :—" Mr. Thompson, I have sent you the enclosed sixpence, thinking it was my duty, having got from your house three or four eggs between 20 and 30 years since. That was the only thing upon my mind that made me un happy: now, I'm happy. 'Go thou and d o th ou like- Diethodigt,"—Yorkehire Gazette. ,=DEATH OF A REMARKABLE CHARACTER. On Saturday morning, a remarkable character, well known to all classes of our citizens by the name of "Dr. Syntax," but whose proper patronymic was John Shirreff, died in the Royal Infirmary. He had been missing from the streets for the last six or seven weeks, indisposition having seized him, the result of a severe cold, which, to some extent, had also confined him to his house during a portion of last winter. This strange and eccentric individual, for twenty-five years, had managed to cut a strange figure in the metropolis, and although his peculiarities displayed much of the monomaniac, there was a harmlessness and innocence about him which made him a general favourite. In early life he had been a clerk in the City Cess- office, and it was while in this situation that his mental aberration first manifested itself. For the last quarter of a century he devoted his time to frequenting all public places, more particu larly the University and City Churches. In the College, by the favour of the Professors, he had a free right of access to all the lecture-rooms, and it was his boast he had attended more than a hundred courses of lectures. Like all half-witted persons, he had his tale to tell of persecution and oppression, endured at the hands of mysterious enemies, and the same notion in duced the feeling that, notwithstanding his knowledge of the medical science, these same enemies had con spired to deprive him of his license as an M.D., long a favourite object of his ambition. A desire to show them that they had not altogether crushed him, seemed to be a ruling motive for his celebrated Sun day exhibitions. Dressed with the most scrupulous care and cleanliness, in an antiquated costume of a semi-military character, with Hessian boots, he was to be seen every Sunday stalking through the streets at a rapid pace, with his stick over his shoulder. His appearance was rendered still more grotesque by his wearing a deep green shade over his eyes with a pair of unusually large green spectacles poised near the extremity of his nose. He was sure to plant himself in the principal seat of the front gallery of one of the City Churches, where he made himself still more con spicuous by standing up, sometimes sketching the portrait of the preacher while the rest of the congre gation were composedly attending to the sermon. The High Church was his favourite resort for this purpose, and happy man was he when he could con trive to secure his position without molestation in the seat of royalty. On the Sunday following the Town Council's resolution not to attend the High Church, the Doctor coolly and consequentially took possession of the empty seat, as he himself said, " to set the ma • gistrates an example." He always stood during the singing of the psalms, and he had an idea that he, and not the precentor, led the congregation in this part of Divine worship. He kept neither the time nor the tune of the precentor; so that his discordant per formances had a painfully ludicrous character. Several years ago, on account of the marked conspi cuousness of his behaviour, he was ejected from St. George's Church, and this was an affront which he never forgave, or ceased to enlarge upon, when re lating the malicious doings of his persecutors. As a sketcher of portraits, he used also to attend the meetings of the Town Council, the Presbytery, the General Assembly, and the Parliament House. Many of these sketches possessed considerable merit. Though he never followed any occupation by which he could gain a livelihood (with the exception of an eighteen months' connexion with a London newspaper), it is satisfactory to know that his wants were pro vided for by the united liberality of a few benevolent citizens, who gave him liberty to purchase to a cer tain extent weekly. He inhabited alone a good house, but meanly furnished, attending to all his household concerns without any assistance. It was by dint of no little manmuvering that he was prevailed on to quit his own house, and he did not know that he had been taken to the Infirmary till some days after his -removal. His death was hastened by his dogged re fusal to take the medicine prescribed by his attendants, under dread of poison, and after lingering ten days he expired early on Saturday morning. He was, we believe, a native of the Borders, and about sixty-nine years of age.—Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday. ALARMING AFFRAY IN BALFRON (From the Glasgow Chronicle of Wednesday.) On Saturday night last an outrage of a most daring character was perpetrated in the vicinity of Balfron, which alarmed the whole country for miles round, and for a time placed the lives of two persons in imminent jeopardy. It appears that there is a road now in course of formation between Blane toll and Gartmore, at which upwards of two hundred Irish labourers are employed. These men are gene rally paid weekly; and on Saturday afternoon last, as usual, after receiving their wages, they proceeded to occupy most of the public-houses in Balfron, where they continued drinking till an early hour on Sunday morning. Of this number, two men named McCormick—an uncle and a nephew—who were sub contractors on the line, both powerful athletic fellows, went into the toll-house at Kepculloch, where they remained fuddling until the night was far advanced. Latterly, the toll-keeper refused, to supply them with any more liquor, and they took their departure in rather an excited state. After a short time, however (the house having been locked up and secured), the uncle and :nephew returned, a n d were re f use d ad mittance, when they, without any ceremony, de liberately smashed in the window of the toll-house, and, having effected an entrance in this way, they at tacked the toll-keeper, and nearly killed him in the presence of the police .officer of the district and a farm servant, who were in the house, but who were afraid to attempt rendering any assistance, in case their own lives should be forfeited. The McCormicks having perpetrated this outrage, made their escape. An alarm, however, was quickly conveyed to Bal fron, and ultimately nine or ten special constables were collected, who at once went in search for the delinquents, and succeeded in tracing them to a farm house on Auchentroig estate, where they were ac customed to lodge. By this time it was after mid night, and very dark. (in reaching the farm-house the constables apprehended the elder McCormick, but the officer who accompanied the force foolishly re frained from putting handcuffs upon him, and, while others of the men proceeded to search for the nephew, the old man seized hold of the pickaxe that lay con venient to him, and with it aimed a deadly blow at McLane, excise -officer in Balfron, who, it seems, had joined the party, which took effect upon his forehead, and stretched him nearly lifeless on the ground. On this the force of specials took flight and ran for their lives, and on reaching Balfron alarmed the whole dis trict. A party of from forty to fifty weavers and other inhabitants then turned out and marched to the scene of action, where they found Mr. McLane, not dead, but severely cut on the head, and both the McCormicks fled. Information was next dispatched to Stirling, whence Mr. Sconce, fiscal for the county, accompanied by officers, arrived on the Sunday, and on being informed of the circumstances, that gentle man suspected that the McCormicks, wbo carried with them from 401. to 501. of the men's wages, had made across the country for Helensburgh, on their way to Ireland, of which country they are natives. Mr. Sconce, on this understanding, proceeded direct to Greenook, where he was fortunate enough to ap prehend the two blackguards, with the assistance of John Blair, the efficient criminal officer of Balfron, on Monday last, just as they were stepping on board the Belfast steamer. Yesterday the McCormick's were safely lodged in Stirling gaol, to await their trial for the offences above mentioned. We are happy to learn that, althoUgh still in a most distressing con dition, McLane and the tollman are considered almos' out of danger. LIVES OF THE SAINTS.-Mr. Newman is now publishing a number of works under this title. We turn to the biography of St. B rtholomew, one of the choicest of these saints. his history begins at page 128, and contains, in the words of his biographer, many startling and even grotesque stories." The biographer thus warns the reader at the very beginning of his nu.- rative, and very properly too—" We may feel startled and disgusted that such a figure, with an ill-smell of goat skins, should come betwixt the wind and our nobility, but he is the genuine product of an age of faith ;" when St. Bartl'emy " was born, the blessed Virgin looked upon him with a sweet countenance," and " the figure on the crucifix stretched out its arms to welcome this new soldier of the cross." We are told that "by his prayers a clear stream gushed from the hard rock." Besides a saint, no easy business in " Catholic" estimate, he was " a grazier, fisherman, labourer, and pilot." In the midst of these labours, to, " a rough shirt of hair was worn by him next his skin," and he slept "on a pallet from which the hardiest of the world's soldiers would have shrunk." The " seagulls and the cider ducks" were fond of the saint's company. One dark morn ing Satan, we are gravely told, got into his throat, and nearly choked him. " For some time he was un able to speak, but at last he shook off the impedi ment and called upon Mary. Against these attacks his only weapons were the sign of the cross and holy wa ter." The biographer of the saint closes with his burial in Fame; and it is conjectured by the writer that Grace Darling was in some way connected by succession or de scent with this monk of the olden time. ""The spirit of these holy men who once lived in Fame seems still to dwell there. It was on Bartholomew's Island that that Christian maiden lived, who, not many years ago, ven tured her life to save the crew of a shipwrecked vessel." The writer forgets it was not by beads and holy water and crucifixes, but by hard rowing and strong-hearted courage, that Grace Darling did service to the wrecked. Are these the productions of illustrious Oxford ? We rejoice to answer, they are not. They are printed in Derby and published in London, and drawn up by men who have unhappily associated the name of Oxford with publications replete with the dogmas of Trent, and they are too palpable proofs, not that the Church of England has become Burnish, but that Messrs. Newman, Ward, and Pusey, should be in person where they are in prineiple and predilection, in the Church of Rome.— Manchester Guardian. MORTALITY in the METROPOL The following are the results of "A Table of Moran in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths 5 all Causes registered in the Week ending SaturdaY, , 17th of August, 1844." The Table is issued from the ' of the Registrar-General:— Vea l !, Total. ATO.gt,4 Five 3 1 * Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 251 17' 111 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lOO 7 1 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l5B .° Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 25 6 lisspiration 216 21 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3l CAUSES OF DEATH. Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 69 Organs of Digestion .. Diseases of the Kidneys, &c Childbirth,. Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 1 Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 ,71 i Old Age, or Natural Decay 4l i 26 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 931 94:7 Deaths from all Causes . DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED 1.74'' THE ABOVE HEADs. - veld , Weekly' —... Total: of rive, lam' Consumption Scarlatina 6B 34 Pneumonia Dropsy . . . . looping Cough .... ....... Typhus Small Pox Disease of the Heart Measles Ap;)plexy Diseass of the Brain ...... Diarrhoea,. Sudden Deaths nisTftiCTS. West North Central East .. South .. 147 13 8 .. 161 171 .. 177 188 .. 223 207 .. 224 242 Total ... ...... . ...... ..... 932 ANNOYANCE JURY.—We see the Inspectnio Weights and Measures were very busy last week' 00 wish they had paid a visit to Sir Robert Peel to tes,.. o measures of . ast session ; for we are sure they ive lli V found them not only false and hollow, but many , of tli ci ; o 4 no weight at all. The Q u i T am a nd Columns o bei measures, we are confident, ought to have been 50 long ago.— Punch. 1 4 11 1 * [ADVERTISEMENT.] —THE TURN or CURE EXTRAORDINARY BY HOLLOWAY'S ..VSh, $lO 1-1 respectable woman, aged forty-seven, named -" - p ed l residing in Scotland-road, Liverpool, was in the_.. o critical and dangerous state for nine months, being', times almost choked with phlegm, with s hort o V breath, palpitation of the heart, together with age derangement and debility of the whole system , c ol life was in the greatest danger, when she corner_ r 1 the use of these miraculouS pills, which restored ee the highest state of health in five weeks. medicine They ere finest in the world for females of ill' ido Vr Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor .., It way's establishment, 224, Stra,ndi (where advic e °P i s (' had gratis), and by almost all respectable ren d° medicine throughout the civilised world. o se ILLICIT DISTILLERIES.—For some time' Pas",,,, r jed cions have been entertained by the excise ell tu e ie that an illegal distillery of whisky existed in th e itt' a e lir bourhood of Cockermouth ; but so careful were ts \e io s quents, that no clue could be obtained to their v ies At length Mr. Robinson, the supervisor of e determined upon a personal inspection of the 1( 0 " to in the district. Having obtained the aid of Mr. 13 : 0 , 0 superintendent of the Derwent police, and of Saec police-officer, he proceeded on his search, and __ A lik f ti come to some high hills near Corton, they Per t s.ls, some smoke curling through the tops of some t— e the neighbourhood of which there was no bouse , ? being satisfied their quest was successful, they anti" the plan of their attack. They crept adroitly ro° P fell until within a short distance of the spot, s° rt , approach it unperceived, when they made a s ucklen A ts to the place where the fire was, and there they lot:1p parties stripped to their shi r t, and busily eng, their illicit manufacture, at a pl ace called Mere G il 4 1s , moment the distillers perceived they were disc i to ts they made a rapid retreat. One, an old man, water, .but after a severe struggle was captUred w i to tl . ! Robinson ; another, a boy, after a long chase ? w_., 115 by policeman Sancton ; a third, named 80- 1 1 e caught by Mr. Brown; and the fourth was t a ke's, gel:: exciseman. The excise officers remained, an u r g' custody of the still, &c., which they found in full 4 53 10 Lion. There were four tin water pails, a spades a ppe t an iron scope, a furnace, flour sacks, a valuable c-p worm sixteen feet long, a lar ge mash' tub, a fer me o sb' tub, an eighteen gallon ca s k, a f o ur gallon cask , AO long tin vessel, calculated to hold about ten g bad fitted to be carried on a person's back, and used to whisky through the country; the still, which "'fl it tlit i j enough to hold eighty gallons ; nine gallons of sk i to lle had been " run" th e fi rs t ti me , and about ort e P and fifty gallons of wash ready for distillatl°, l l; o s o prisoners were taken before the magistrates_s Tvces d; E. Fawcett, M.A., and Mr. John Watson, ,c'" 3; yfu and gave their names Patrick M`Culloch, age"' 11 f 9 his son, aged 13; Patrick Gibbons, a ged 5 5-4 di the Emerald Isle; and Francis Burns, of Cockertn, fog aged 29. They . were committed to Carlisle gem • three months, with hard labour, in default of pa the penalty under the statute, namely, 301. e Carlisle Paper. PUBLIC OPINION.—If we wanted a proof how ld the temper of public bodie s an d th e language did public meetings are indicative of the opinion, an 0 1 1 present the feelings, of the general populatiesbielt country, we have an instance in the meeting 'doe assembled on Wednesday last at Exeter Hall, 1 1 t he and which was conv e n e d by th e Directors I tlis' London Missionary Society, to consider the steP st lo ito should be taken regarding the late outrage at Ota%s' The speeches there delivered by the different co ° O l4 ( senting ministers w ere b u t li t tl e i n agre ement e ftip with their own calli ng or w i t h t h e f e elings people of Engl a nd, f or h a d t h e meet i ng b een an ass e beal of soldiers, the tone of defiance could not liat, e rs eeo louder or fierc e r. S uc h p rocee di ngs , re p or ted in' e sleg might very n a t ura lly l ea d t o a f a l se conc l us ion W i t oil the opinions and views of E ng li s h men; partici-1 11 900 i would be reasonable to inf e r th a t, w h en religieu s the Or appear in such a character, they fairly represent:os' tional feeling. And, yet, how m an if es tly erronee ll 4 ' o eel . ; this conclusion be. The only sensa ti on w hich th l " . ; 3 thr, ing has produced in the mi n d s o f a ll i m p ar tial men' of regret that it should ever have been held ; thet ;es' ing that individuals whose peculiar duties are t,r` ° t „ quietude and peace, ought, instead of being the 14 11 i 0- 4 have been the last to move in the matter ; esPef is ofl a the question at issue was, and now is, emphat' c A bo", the hands of the responsible Government. We fir lioe' pity, living in days far different to those when grievances were redressed by men who held the Bib one hand and a pistol in the other.—Derby Merle?) ARTFUL TRICK.—In the c ourse o f last we e wist booksellers of this city were visited by a fellow: 0 g an appearance of respectability, wh o f avo ured tm e o of s ordering in some cases s i x , an d o th ers e i g ht, dog 11 pamphlet published in Lo n d on . Having giv e % of, reference, the name of a c l erg y man i n t hi s cit Y e ll tr, picion was excited, and th e goo d s were o rderee I sl; regular way of business. The copies of the Paldi arrived in due course, but the person ordering t he es 01 not, and the booksellers found themselves in pes s d of a bundle of thorough trash, for which they 111,,,r9 is the cash. From what has since transpired, t_ A ' s 10: reason to believe that the party ordering the go`L p iod: the author of the pamphlet (who had hit on this ier te rat: but not very creditable mode of disposing of his Jiksoo - for on application being made to the a c o rtla t s !edged author, livin g in W a l es , h e rea dily gave tilts era matters the repayment of the mo ne y ! Thi s a ppeare" e r" matters to right, but lo ! on appli ca tion, the publis h oris' London refused to ref u nd, un l ess th e b oo ksellers 1 11 Oli f tol would take legal measures against the author.reseet fellow-citizens must thus either submit to their P„pe° loss, or call in the aid of the law. Some of thee ] ti % dis to thick that " the cure w ou ld b e wor se than ease."—Bristol Mercury. We cannot close this account of the races (said Of Boulogne Gazette)svithout expressing our disges t „ il bs rl dignation against ail who joined in the truly '111.,' t ,eo,, occupation of throwing at a poor cock, who was '`,7"birr, to a stake behind the booths. One of these po . d fuly had both wings and one leg broken, his head drea o the wounded, and there he was standing on one l e e ls rh other hanging down broken, while monsters to e ge t of men were flinging at the poor bird with all LILA. I of savages. This should not have been toler created unmitigated disgust. aft er Mr. and Mrs. Edward Seguin, the vocalists/ ti0 ,.0 few years' profitable r es id ence in th e U n ited Str e rl o ' in town on a vi s it. H av i ng , p rev i ous to l ea ving l ow made various engage men t s , th e y h ave b e en coletl a sSs' refuse good offers at Drury Lane and the Prior 1188 They leave us again, in the Hendrick Hudson , e n re' York, on the 9th September, for one year. and : P „ thei r turn to resume their position in the pro f e ssion ' own country. --- _ c m, .. BIRTHS. old It. 'lo On the 12th inst., at Berlin, the lady of LOP / s soll Professor of History in the University of Berlin, 01 heir. p . d, 94' M On the 18th inst., at Brecon, the lady of A • Lloi of Glanseoin, Carmarthenshire, of a daughter. s p. SO' On the 21st inst., at Nowgate-street, Mrs. Georg _..--- cox, of a daughter, MARRIED.nef. On the 20th inst., at Newington- reen Chapel , the n .- flig h Madge, to Eleanor, daughter - of J. - Bischoff , E s q ' -f t bury-terrace. only daughter of the late John Colley On the 20th inst., at St. John's Church, Chester; Tope°, Wynne Denton, Esq., M.D., o f Den bi g h, to Mal:P re —A. On the 20th inst. at Ringstead, William HenrYt el u tie hter of J. G. La Serre, isq. of Hackney, to Mary, second da__ . ' Esq., of LiVerrrest sou of T. Wilkins, Esq., Esq., of ps i, n o itice e On the 12th of Ma 1844 at Hansi, north-west pr_adial of Bengal, Manbv Nightingale, Esq., of the titer of establishment, to - Frederica Ellen, only daughter 0 , `" _......--"" P. Hurst, Esq DIED. lost' Accidently drowned, near Kingston, Jamaica , in June Henry Thomas, the fourth son of Lees Shaw, Esq. On the 19th inst., at Finchley, B. W. Barker, Est ks biret wr O ill n ia t in he ß 3 o d th in w s e t i , L a E t sSqu,mamgeerav7il3le. H ou se, Halifax, °r $, vi her On the 11th inst., at 'Topsham, Devonshire, Allure herd, Esq., late of the India House. „Aghton• On the 19th inst., at Carlisle, John Borrer, Es+ , n f I " fgt. , On the 19th inst., Mary Sophia, the wife of J. Robson, of Camelford • __.-------',. . w yyulsOr London: Printed and Published by i s T o . 112 4)" ( No. 112. Strand, Printer, at T he Sun °,..'"ce'eguittY Strand, in the Precinct of the S avo y , in thy Middlesex, Friday, August 23, 1844. (