The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

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Ditto, 1842 Ditto, 154 a...... Ditto, 1844 Ditto, 3 per Cent ....... Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French, 5 per Cent., —r. - I French, 3 per Cent —l. . Exchange Dutch, 24i per Cent Ditto.:s per Cent RES. SHA, Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid 2% Churnet Valley, 2 paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds (70 paid, Ditto, Half Shares, SO paid Midland (100 paid) Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid N Yarmouth and Norwich (I 8 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Ditto Selby Scrip, 20 paid 69 Ditto Extension ..... ... Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid lO Faris and Orleans (20 paid) ..••• 40 COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) MUNN v. DENTON. This was an appeal from the borough of Bury .;t. Edmund's. The claim to vote was made for a house, which was in reality but a cow-house, with one roan occupied by the person in care of the cows. The COURT held that where there was a habitat le room actually occupied as a dwelling, that constituted a house, and the claim was good. MOSS V. THE OVERSEERS OF ST. MICHAEL'S, LICHFIELD. The appellant occupied a house jointly with his fath( r, who alone was rated, although the son paid the rcr.t. The barrister refused the claim, and the Court now c e cided against the appeal on the ground that the payment by the son was a voluntary act, and could not entitle him to vote, as he Was cot rated. MARSHALL V. BROWNE. This appeal was also trom Lichfield. It appeared that the appellant, with five others, took a house jointly, or the purpose of procuring votes for the city of Lichfield. The barrister disallowed the claim on the ground that it came within the meaning of the Act the 7th and Bth Win. 111., for the prevention of splitting votes. The COURT took time to consider their judgment. There being now but nine cases decided out of thirty three, and this being the last day set down for hearing registration appeals, Mr. COCKBURN begged to ask their Lordships whether they would name a day for resu m i ng t h e h earing ? The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said they must appoint a day out of term, as Monday would be the last day of term, and it was impossible to take any of the remaining appeals in the meantime. The Court then rose. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAL GLOBE—As the Court of Aldermen has shown a disposition to listen to the remonstrances and recom mendations of Sir James Graham in the matter of the evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court, we venture to suggest to the Right Hon. Baronet that he offer a hint to their worships as to the expediency of taking the state of the City prisons into their serious consideration. An intimation from him, that the Government may find it necessary to interfere, if the civic authorities do not undertake the obvious duty of rendering their prisons sufficiently capacious for the peeposes of health, and to admit of somethieJg like classification of the prisoners, might act as a spur upon the proverbial indifference of the Court of Aldermen to such matters. Really, it is too bad that, while every other city and toe n of the empire has provided suitable buildings for the purpose of introducing the plans which are requite d for rendering prisons not merely places of confine ment, but of discipline, the criminal prisons of the City of London, provided and controlled by the Corpora tion authorities, should be, ,as they are, miserably de fective i n every thi ng t h at i s required for the attain ment of this important object. Were it not notorious, and thus placed beyond all controversy, it would scarcely be credited that, in the very centre of the metropolis, stand ill-constructed buildings for the re ception of prisoners, placed therein for the punishment of offences against society—buildings which ought t• be so constructed as to conduce to the reclaiming of those of the inmates who have not yet become har dened in crime. When surprise is expressed at the manifestly defective state of these City prisons, tl e answer which the inquirer in the cause receives is— " The Government has no control here : the Copora tion has absolute management of these prisons ; is extremely jealous of its privileges ; and, though the funds at its command and disposal are immensely large, it has not found either time or money for such purposes." Newgate—the principal criminal prison, situated in the heart of the metropolis, is notoriously in competent in point of size, and inconvenient in its construction, for the required purposes. We admit that there have been attempts to improve the system of management in this prison ; and that a marked change for the better has been effected. But the de fects of the building cannot be cured. These would prevent the best intentions of the most efficient prison disciplinarians from being carried into execution. The site of the prison is too contracted, and the formation of the wards and yards too confined, for the purposes of preserving the health of the prisoners ; classification, on which their reformation so much depends ; and stringent discipline, without which mere deprivation of personal liberty is no punishment to a London thief. But if Newgate be objectionable, as a pri son, for the reasons we have assigned, what shall be said of Giltspur-street Compter ? That prison was constructed according to the crude and im perfect notions of the prison architects of nearly a century ago ; when to thrust the largest number of prisoners within the narrowest pos sible space, and to surround them with immensely thick walls was regarded as the perf ec ti on o f prison building. With these now-exploded notion; Giltspur-street Compter was constructed to accom modate about 1.50 prisoners. It is now by no means an unusual occurrence for 200 to be incarcerated therein :-210, and even 220, have been huddled to gether within its walls, exposed to the malaria arising from almost living putrescence ! We are not now describing things that were, and have passed away. Within the last few days, as we have reason to know, this was the case in Giltspur-street Compter ! What renders this state of things the more blameworthy is, that there is literally no excuse for their existence. So valueahle is the site occupied by this ill-constructed and inefficient prison —especially to the Governors of Christ's Hospital, whose edifices it adjoins— that the latter have offered to build the Corporation of London a new prison, constructed after the best model, and on a convenient spot, in exchange for Giltspur-street Compter, and the site it occupies.. Yet the prison stands—a monument of reproach to the City of London, and to the age and nation in which a Corporation is permitted to perpetuate a building which lacks every requisite, as a prison, suited to reclaim as well as punish its wretched in mates. STANDARD.—We insert to-day a great number of communications and letters upon the subject of some late proceedings in the diocese of Exeter, and of some further proceedings in the same diocese, which are expected with anxious alarm. These communi cations are not one-twentieth part of the communi cations and letters upon the same subject received at our office within the last two days ; and we can state with perfect truth, that, in selecting them from the voluminous mass, we have b een actuated chief b a HINTS NEWLY MARRIED.—In comme nc i ng y y e a r n , c S e t : r s t h W a i t h induce a d determin a ti on th at ma T h e co y m o e uspend vi desire to publish those only which appeare d t h e most your no matrimonial o Tn ordinary ci lEl rcu c m ar s e t moderate in their views and the most temperate in more than two-thirds of y our availanbleu style. Let us not, however, be understood a s con - resolve d upon t hi s, most rigidly adhere thereto ' tou . This .n i g damning the spirit of those correspondents whose fa- t h e fi rst e l emen t o f success, if accomp an i e d w i th industry yours we suppress. We hope that the channel of pub- an d perseve r a nce. Pay all your household expenses, at lication which they have preferred is warrant that any rate, at the time they arise. Take no credit upon they are good Protestants and zealous Churchmen; but such items of expenditure; if you can adopt the same Van in your business, you are on the high road to fortune. the best men, when they are dissatisfied and in earnest, will, as was well remarked by the late excellent Michael Ftno foolish pride,. no ridiculous example, no superficial make you incur expenses in furnishing your house Sedley, say bitter things ; and the case is one from advice, the consideration of which we would, if possible, ex- which your present means will not warrant. Your atten , tion must also be specially directed to the propriety of elude all bitterness. Every Protestant must feel n I limiting your circle of friends to such a compass and to deep debt of gratitude to the Bishop of Exeter—all such a class as will n o t i n t erru pt your business, or tempt acknowledge his stupend ous t a l en t s , so l ong an d , you into expenses : the se are ro cks upon which the hap so indefatigably devoted to the service of our piness of hundreds have been wrecked. Are you to have Protestant Church ; and they who are acquainted I a servant or servants ? is another question of no mean with the kindn ess , th e pur it y , an d t h e s i ncer i ty I i mportance. Each servant, upon an average, will cost of his private life, must unite love of the man from thirty to forty pounds per annum; besides the waste, with their veneration of his public character. I the breakage, and the destruction through unnecessary The errors of such a man are, it is true, roughness. Spend your evenings at home. the least to be overl oo k e d, b ecause th ey are b y t h e i r A specimen of Irish linen, denominated " the golden example, the most danger ous ; b u t, sure l y th ey are flax," has recently come bef ore us , as a manu f ac t ure i n to be t rea t e d w i t h gent l eness i n the exposure of them, this neighbourhood ; a l gid we canno t w i t hh o ld our testi mony to the beauty of its bl eac h an d f a b r i c , un i t i ng th e The f ee li ng t h at the serious errors, into which we greatest softness and brightness with the strongest fibre. conscientiously believe the Bishop to have fallen in This bids fair to put further off than ever all foreign the recent proceedincomma nd such , - competition with Ireland in the linen fabric, and to ex , ment, might have of the articles relatingb caused us to modify even those tend our home consumption for this beautiful manufae tion, which will foundto the proceedings in ques- ture ; affording at the same time an additional encou we dislike to meddle .in our columns, but that ragement for the production of the finest qualities of flax friends when we can . th the writing of our at home, for which our soil and climate are found in and also consider it necessary that the Bishop p a n it c i, every way suitable. We cannot help indulging the hope disposed to imitate him, shall hoethierfs who may b e that ere long Belfast may be to the linen trade what trehmeoefdthe best impression made upon the minds of same the Manchester is to the cotton, with this further advantage th u e side p t of the former—that her looms may be work- Protestants and best Churchmen o f b i y his Lordship's treatment of the Helstoc n oun e t a r s y e , u g tendino• it ejair f ouctof a throughout our industry—gradually ex } ully apprised of that impression, the Bishop of scooumtlfa-2-yielding food and o t u tr iut g agricultural ana d p i p a r t ec ric ia tti o n n th o o f Exeter would, we are convinced, be among the issuin g t in w me ans n for d its gratification—and, above all, very first to labour in effacing it by the manly discerni -rig, a and darin topenudeuce of mind, capable of gchoos©, the truth,—Belf Abandonment of a course which, though re- , paper.use Let one single case be taken before a Judge of Assize, and all this contumacy of the law will soon be put a stop to.—l am, Sir, yours, &c. &c. Nov. 19, 1844. NOT : CANT., U., R. TERMINATION of the TURN-OUT. STOC )(Form—At the beginning of this week the mills in full work were those of Messrs. Orrell,Gee, Fernley, Wilkinson (Heaton-lane), Axon, Littlewood, Pen - dlebury, Little, Hollins, Andrew Stuart, and Henry Hunt. Partially —Messrs. W. and C. Howard, John Lee, Robinson, Jessie Howard, Marshal, Mayer. Spinners all out—Messrs. Wilkinson (Portwood), T. Leigh, Whitelegg, Barlow, Holt, Lingard and Crut tenden, Reid, Eskrigge, T. Hunt, and Ogden. In consequence of the turn-out of the spinners, great numbers of hands employed in the other departments were reduced to a state of compulsory idleness. the effect, however, was evident at the end of last week ; their resources were becoming exhausted, and in order to attain their object they were necessitated to resort to practices of an unlawful character. On Friday and Saturday, " picketting" the mills became very general, and some inconvenience was experienced in consequence. Mr. Howard's, Mr. Robinson's, and Messrs. Marshall's hands were, in some instances, ob structed. The police had information of the circum stance, and, by four o'clock on Monday morning, were on the watch, going round to the mills at work, to afford protection to the hands as soon as the mills started. Nothing material, however, occurred. Several private meetings of the spinners were held, and, on Monday afternoon, a public meeting of the power-loom weavers was held on Waterloo road, at which speeches were made and re solutions passed, expressive of sympathy with the spinners under present circumstances, and of a determination on their own part to persevere in their demand for a second rise of five per cent. Com mittees of each party were also recommended, as efficient means to attain that object. Yesterday, how ever, it was notified to the masters that the hands were disposed to return to their employment at the old rate, and that the whole of them were prepared to re sume work this (Wednesday) morning. Messrs. Eskrigge's hands returned to work yesterday morn ing, and Messrs. Hole, Lingard, and Cruttenden's hands signified their willingness to do the same. The turn-out may therefore be considered at an end.— Manchester Guardian. TliE SbN l _ i4OITDON,_ THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1844. commended to Min by his fullest conviction leadt; as he knows, to nothing essential in religion, to nothing at least both essential and good (for it may, in many ways, lead to essential evil), while it causes both offence and fear, not to say scandal. We have already more than once lamented the prevailing propensity to make such questions as this before us the subject of newspaper discussion, but what can we do ? Views are presented and even acts are done that excite discontent and alarm from one extremity of England to the other, and the discontented and alarmed classes are composed precisely of those whom we are most accustomed and most bound to respect. Are we to impose silence upon their remonstrances, even if we our selves could say that we stand indifferent in the matter, which certainly we cannot say ? The able and truly learned correspondent, - whose letter we annex to these observations, proves, we think, most satisfactorily, that even the letter of the law does not enjoin any rigour of rubrical con formity, like that suggested in the Helston case, upon either bishops or clergy ; but what it the letter of the law did enjoin such rigour ? The letter has been a dead letter for at the very least two centuries. Now this long desuetude would be treated as an absolute repeal of the law in every country of the world except England; and upon these obvious grounds of reason, that in the lapse of many years changes of manners arise, new institutions have birth, new laws are enacted, to which it is natural to suppose the dormant law would have been adapted had not the law slept in the practical disregard of the people. IN the secular code of England, and in this code only in all the world, desuetude, as we have admitted, does not work a repeal ; and why ? Because in England, the Legislature has for centuries been presumed to be always alive, and awake, and vigilant to relieve our code from mischievous or frivolous and useless laws ; an un merited compliment to the Legislature of the coun try, as was provel by all the cloud of disused and obsolete laws swept from the Statute-book in 1824 by the present Premier ; but a complimen tary notion which sufficiently explains why in Eng land only desuetude does not work the repeal of a law. " Cessante ratione," however, " eessal et lex. - Our ecclesiastical legislature is not constantly sit ting—on the contrary, it has not for more than a century sat for any effectual purpose; and, therefore, by the analogy of all other codes in similar circumstances, we are bound to con sider as repealed all ecclesiastical laws that have fallen into desuetude. Even supposing therefore, in defiance of the clear demonstration of our corres pondent, that the law relied upon by the Bishop of Exeter was ever of force, it is of force no longer; and why in the name of peace and common sense should it be'now revived, with no other possible effect than to distract the Church ? LAW COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 20. BURGESS V. BEAUMONT. This was an action for services in the tuition of the defendant's family. The defebdabt pleaded that the plaintiff had hveti guilty of dishonest and immoral conduct, and was not fit to fill the situation of governess in a gentleman's family. To this plaintiff demurred, and the argu ment came on this day. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd appeared in support of the demurrer; and the Court, after hearing Mr. Sergeant Ryles for the defence, resolved that the plea was bad. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION'-HOUSE. TIIE FRENCH FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY.—This case, which has created very great interest in this country and abroad, as being the first application under the Convention Act, was again brought for ward, upon an application to the Lord Mayor to grant a warrant to arrest Jaques Besset, a French merchant residing in London, accused of the French crime of " fraudulent bankruptcy." Mr. E. James applied as counsel for the pro secuting creditors, and narrated that the Court of Queen's Bench held the warrant bad upon the ground of a defect in the statement of the crime and the direction to the gaoler, and had made no decision as to the substance of the crime itself. By granting a warrant, the Lord Mayor would afford an opportunity of initiating proceedings de novo, and thus clear away a difficulty only occasioned in the first instance by the illegality of the instrument upon which Besset was committed to the custody of the keeper of the gaol. The necessary documentary proofs recognised by the French law were ready, and the Learned Counsel submitted that there could he no valid ground for refusing the warrant under all the circumstances. The LORD MAYOR intimated that he would attend to any witnesses the Learned Counsel might think proper to call. Mr. Jean Elme Vincent Dubois then produced the original warrant against Jaques Besset, which charged that individual with " fraudulent bankruptcy," a com plex offence, committed by more than one person. Witness knew Besset, and that the warrant, signed by a competent authority, had been issued against him upon the depositions and documents of correspondence proved before the Tribunal of the First Instance, in Paris. M. Alphonse Dost Noel, a French notary, stated that he was acquainted with the French law, and the criminal law of France. He deposed to the legality of the French warrant, and the course of proceeding from which that warrant resulted. The LORD MAYOR said that he had looked very particularly into th© Act, and as the person accused of fraudulent bankruptcy could not be committed for such an offence in this country, he did not see how he, as a magistrate, could be justified in issuing a warrant for the apprehension of an individual so charged. Mr. James impressed upon his Lordship the very grave importance of such a decision. If this warrant could not be granted, the whole object and intention of the Act would be defeated. The object of the Convention would be frustrated if a large and liberal construction of the Act were not given. It was not necessary that the crime should be a crime known to the laws of this country. It was a crime against the laws of France, but must be supported by such evi dence as, if it were a crime by the laws of this country, would justify a magistrate in committing. The LORD MAYOR—He is charged as being an accomplice ? Mr. James—No. He is charged with having com mitted a crime of " complicite"—a very different thing. The Learned Counsel then cited French authorities upon the subject, and urged his Lordship to grant the warrant. The LORD MAYOR said he was not convinced, by what he had heard, that he would be justified in acceding to the application. Mr. James—Really the effect of this decision of your Lordship will be to neutralise the important objects of the Act of Convention. The LORD MAYOR—I have looked through the Act with great care and attention, and I cannot come to any other conclusion. Thomas Batt, a labouring man, was charged under curious circumstances. On Saturday last the prisoner was brought before the Lord Mayor. A policeman stated that at nearly half-past ten o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner in the street with a cask on his head, and stopped him. The pri soner said, upon being questioned, that a person named Darby had given it to him to carry. This ex cuse, in such frequent use with thieves, and the igno rance of the prisoner as to the contents of the cask, caused very strong suspicion that the property had been stolen out of some cart or warehouse. The prisoner, upon being asked by the LORD MAYOR what he had to say about the matter, de clared that a Mr. Darby had given him the job at the end of the Minories, and had told him to go to the corner of Chiswell-street, where they would meet, but the policeman thought proper to take him to the station. house. The prisoner was remanded, and inquiries were 'Mrected to be made respecting the cask, which was ind to contain mustard. acs Yesterday, when the prisoner was placed at the /Iv, a man of respectable appearance, who stated his !line to be James Darby, came forward and ex plessed much regret that the prisoner, who had not lommitted the slightest offence, should have under ,gene four days' imprisonment, and be placed at the bar as a common felon. `ln answer to questions from the LORD MAYOR, the witness who thus came forward stated that he resided at No. 5, Paradise-place, Finsbury, and was a drysalter. That on Saturday morning, as he was sitting at his breakfast, the prisoner, of whom he had no knowledge, called upon him with a recommenda tion from a person with whom he was well ac quainted, for employment, if any opportunity should occur. Having been requested to call in half an hour, the prisoner was punctual, and walked with witness td the top of the Minories, near Tower-street, where witness gave him the cask of mustard, and desired him to go on with it to the bottom of Chiswell-street, where they would meet. Witness never had seen the man since until he saw him at the bar, and ac • tually thought that he had been run over in the streets, and probably consigned to an hospital. The LORD MAYOR asked how it happened that the witness delivered the cask of mustard to the prisoner in the street, and not at his house or warehouse ; and intimated that the very remarkable description of the delivery was of itself calculated to excite suspicion against more than one party. Mr. Darby handed to the Lord Mayor an invoice of the cask of mustard, which it appeared had been purchased at a house near the spot in which he had delivered it to the prisoner. He stated at the same time that he was not obliged to let people know his way of conducting his commercial transactions, and he asserted that the officer had no right to stop the prisoner, but ought to have accompanied him to Chiswell-street, where the whole mystery would have been solved at once. TRY THE CIVIL COURTS-LAY BAPTISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt,—Great dissatisfaction appears to reign at many of the decisions given of late by Bishops upon com plaints made against many of the clergy. Now, as it is not generally known that charges against the clergy for non-conformity to the Book of Common Prayer may be made before the civil courts, I beg to solicit space to point out the authority, in case parties should prefer a civil to an ecclesiastical tribunal. The Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, of the Ist Elizazeth, declares, that" it is enacted and or dained by the authority aforesaid, that all and every Justice of Oyer and Determiner, or Justice of Assize, shall have full power and authority, in every of their open and general sessions, to inquire, hear, and de termine all manner of offences that shall be done contrary to any article contained in the present Act, within the limits of the Commission to them di rected, and to make process for the execution of the same, as they may do against any person being in dicted before them of trespass, or lawfully convicted thereof." It also enacts, that if the offender first re ceive punishment from the Ordinary, no proceedings shall be taken in the civil court, and if the party have had punishment awarded by a civil court, the party shall not be liable to be brought afterwards to answer for the same offence before the ecclesiastical court. This Act of Elizabeth was not repealed by the sub sequent Act of Charles 11. for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, but was confirmed fully by this latter Act, enacting, " That the several good laws and statutes of this realm, which have been formerly made, and are now in force for the uniformity of prayer and administration of the sacraments within this realm of England, and plans aforesaid shall stand in full force and strength, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, for the establishing and confirming of the said book, intituled, ' The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England,' &c. &c., hereinbefore men tioned, to be joined and annexed to this Act, and shall be applied, practised, and put in use, for the punishing of all offences contrary to the said laws with relation to the book aforesaid, and no other." I believe, at the present time, there ariV suits before different ecclesiastical courts ftler= gymen of the Church of England for refitSV:. parties who have been baptised by Dissegitiiiitnisi, tars, and this after the decision of the C9trre - of,llrivi' Council against the Rev. Mr. Escott Icethb *same offence, and his suspension from the performanCe ot. the functions of his office for three months. The LORD MAYOR said the policeman was perfectly justified in apprehending a man under such suspicious circumstances, similar as they were to those under which numbers of thieves were daily taken into cus• tody. Whatever might be the opinion of Mr. Darby as to the confinement of the poor man, he (Mr. Darby) certainly was the cause of it himself by the extraordinary course he had pursued. Witness—l shall deliver my goods how k i d w h ere I please. The L•RD MAYOR thought if the witness did so he might subject his messenger to similar treatment at another time, The prisoner was then discharged. CLERKEIV WELL. Four fashionably-dressed young men, named Walter Sap, William Allen, William Foy, and Chlrles Ross, were charged with knocking at doors, ringing bell s , b rea ki ng w i n d ows, and otherwise annoying the inhabitants of Brunswick-square and its vicinity, on the p rev i ous n i g h t. R oss described himself as a clerk in the office of an army agent. Police-c ons t a bl e D unne, 71 E , d eposed that being on duty in Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, on the previous night, he heard this prisoners, with six others, shouting and hallooing in Hunter-street. Soon after h2 in 7e , l 3 l ßrunswi c k- e a r wS n a g i T h t _ and d se qs night-dress, Foy arpe knock arAe n apparently ay d a my t the door of 26 and u c c a h me al t a o rm th e e d w . i n ß d o o s w s then rung the bell of Mr. Maddox, a surgeon, in the square, very violently. They then returned to Hun ter-street, throwing halfpence at the windows as they went, along, and shouting loudly. They continued this conduct along Judd•street, and into the New road. Witness once attempted to stop their pro ceedings, but they pushed him away, and seeing so large a number, he thought it better to follow them until he could meet assistance, which he did in the New-road, where the four prisoners, who were by far the most ill-conducted, were captured. It was then two o'clock. Mr. George Worrall, 28, Hunter-street, Bruns wick-square, deposed that himself and family were greatly alarmed by the shouting and the smashing of glass. A pane in his parlour window had been broken. Emma Andrews, servant to the Rev. Mr. Cum ming, deposed that Mrs. Cumming had been so much alarmed by the noise that she was still in a state of great nervous excitement. Her mistress was under the impression that the house was on fire, and jumped out of bed and knocked at witness's door in the greatest terror. Mr. Herbert Sniggs, of 17, Hunter-street, deposed that his family had been greatly alarmed from a similar cause. A pane of glass, value Bs. 6d., had been broken in his window. The prisoners said that they had been at a harmonic concert in Lamb's Conduit•street. They denied the charge. Cctiirth said it was most disgraceful conduct, and their demeanour in court, which Was expressive of anything but regret, was not at all creditable. Tie sides, they had imputed gross perjury to the police man, who, it was evident, told the truth. He would fine them each in the full amount of damage proved to have been conlinitte6 4 . by them, l is. 6d., and 21., or a month's imprisonment. expression used in it of property detained " without any just cause." The MAGISTRATES, after perusing the Act of Par liament, expressed their opinion that they had juris diction in the case, and if the defendant thought he had any legal justification, he should have appeared and pleaded it, and then the matter would have been properly argued. At present it was positively sworn that the pony belonged to the complainant., and as it appeared to be unlawfully detained, they should make an order for its restitution. The defendant soon afterwards entered the court, and he was informed of the decision of the magis trates, when he stated that he had refrained from attending to answer the summons in accordance with the instructions he had received from the authorities of the Court of Requests, and if the order was made he would not obey it. He added that he had no desire to treat the bench with any disrespect, but he must express his opinion that the magistrates had no jurisdiction in the case. The BENCH said they should certainly sign the order, and Mr. Latter received instructions to draw it up in the usual form. HORRIBLE MURDER AT YAR MOUTH. One of the most brutal and unprovoked sacrifices of human life which it has ever fallen to the task of public journalists to record, took place yesterday at Yarmouth, under the following circumstances :—The deceased, named Harriet Candler, was a widow woman, very quiet and respectable, was a member of the Wesleyan Society, and managed a kind of chan dlery shop, selling flour, oatmeal, pollard, &c. The night policeman on duty found her street-door par tially open ; he called to her, but receiving no answer, proceeded to examine the till, suspecting some robbery had been committed. Lying down by the side of the till, with her head forced under the counter, he found the deceased, literally deluged in her own blood. 11er skull had no less than five wounds inflicted upon it; one of them in the left side so severe as to throw the upper portion of the bone so as to *verlap another brokers part of the skull. On the right side of the neck a wound had been inflicted suffi ciently severe to sever a portion of the vertebrae of the neck, and one of her fingers was cut off, probably whilst uplifted in defence. The following is the pro bable history, as gathered from the evidence at the coroner's inquest (proceeding when this report left): — Deceased lived quite alone in the house, and went to a public-house opposite to purchase her supper beer, leaving the street door closed, but unlocked, whilst she was gone. During an absence of ten minutes, the murderer or murderers (probably two) secreted themselves in a bin where peas or bran was kept. The deceased sat for a time reading a religious work, and drank a portion of the porter; she then went into a shop to take the money out of the till, when she was felled to the ground by the murderer's hammer. The first blow rendered her insensible ; the remainder were given lest the " intent and not the deed" should confound them. A knife covered with blood lay by the side of the deceased, but the surgeon was of opinion that the wound in the neck was inflicted with the cheese-cutter (a kind of short axe) which contained a portion of blood upon it. Last Saturday deceased had taken a division of property amounting to 1501., left by her husband's mother and uncle. Several of her relatives live in Yarmouth and neighbourhood, and received similar sums ; it became common talk amongst them, and the deceased was incautious enough to say that 'as the 150/. was for her son, she should put it under her bed until she could hear from his trustee, as she expected a much larger sum. This got noised abroad, and parties doubtless sedulously watched her movements on the night in question, in order to plunder her, and as they were recog nised and known by her, to murder her rather than be detected. The 150/. was taken without disturb ing the bed; 1001. was in a cheque on Messrs. Gurney and Co.'s hank. During the inquest a portion of money, consisting of gold, silver, and about 8/. or 10/. in coppers, were found near the Bat tery, in a bag which was taken from the deceased's premises the night of the murder—the contents of the till, doUbtless. It had, wrapped up in it, a man's purse_coataitiing-a token, enveloped in four papers, and written upon, in a man's writing, " The Lord said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy 'enemies my footstool." No clue has been at present found: A reward will, we believe, be of fered; but at this moment no-tidings of any noise in the next house, or anything likely to lead to the de tection, has been discovered. There were several places where the murderer had wiped his hands upon, and the till was found thrown up in one corner of the shop, empty.—Yarmouth Chronicle of Tuesday. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality is the Metropolis, showi g the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in tile Week ending Saturday, the 16th of November, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of Five Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 255 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lOl 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 154 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3B 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion . Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 9 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 69 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 1069 942 Deaths from all Causes .. 1072 946 DEATHS FROM THB PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER THE ABOVN MEADS. Total. Weekly Average of Five Years. Consumption Scarlatina B4 34 Pneumonia Dropsy ... . . . 24 35 llooping Cough 23 33 Typhus 32 31 Small Pox 5l 15 Disease of the Heart Measles 25 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... .... 5 9 Diarrhoea.. Sudden Deaths ... 17 15 DISTRICTS. West North l9l 171 Central East South 333 Z 42 Total ..» .......»..1019 946 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. beg to contradict the statement in the re port of the proceedings at Bow-street on WednesA day last which emanated from your journal, and which was circulated through the majority of the other daily paperc Your report stated, that on the fine of 21. being in flicted, and the money not forthcoming, I was locked tip (or to that aeect); in contradiction of which, I beg leave to assert that the fine was immediately paid, and, also, that if the amount had been 101. I was prepared to meet it. In giving publicity to this, you Will greatly oblige, Sit, yours, very obediently,, It. HATT. Eagle Coffee-house, 97, Drury-lane, Nov. 19. ACCIDENT.— About twelve o'clock yesterday g serious accident happened in Piccadilly, to a breaks man in the employ of Messrs. Dickensons, of Curzon street, Mayfair. It appears thet he was breaking in a horse prefiousl?% to puttink in harness and on its attempting to run aw a y w i t h kith, he pulled it up rather sharply, and consequently it fell over, break ing the unfortunate man's leg off short a little above his ankle, by reason of his being thrown under the horse. He was itruhediately carfied to St. George's Hospital, ith(frt lie nt_it lies lti a Very precarious, state. ADvEutrBE4Fia. Ai4ifitEti E*ittAdttnii,*aßi CURE OF ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S Casey, residing at No. 1, Compton-place, Brunswick spluarei had suffered from a chronic asthma for more than three years. Phis pc,'ci than iirtis rio peat sufferer that he did not dare go to bed for fear of the phiegih him ; indeed, he could not even lay his head upon a table ftl half .an hour lest he should be suffocated ; nevertheless, this person ig from, morning to night, sleeps as well as ever he did in his lite, fact, is completely cured by the use of Holloway's Pills. Aold 1-1611oW4's Ointmes9at 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), anu alinbllt all tespevtable vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. . eauut f tdE lounEttv . .—Last night information was circuiateu iu pf thmietropolitan police of another of those daringcarnagerouticilt‘e *h el have of late become so frequent, having occurred at the west-end. It appears that while the carriage of the lion. E. Phippo i of 64, Mount -street, Grosvenor-square, was proeeeding through Hanover-square or Brook street, soilie thieVes Cobtrivea to detach a large wicker basket that had been fastened to tile port 9f the car riage by straps, which were afterwards found io !lave been cut. The basket, which was covered with oil skin, contained a great quantity of very valuable property, in cluding Cashmere shawls, velvet scarfs, barege shawls, lace collars, and robes of lace, two capes trimmed with point lace, a lace bonnet, silk bonnets, blonde caps, ostrich feathers, flowers, parasols, and many other ex pensive articles of ladies' apparel. AFRICAN NITRATE OF SODA.-7t is said that nitrate of soda has been discovered in large quantities on the coast of Africa, and that samples have been re ceived in Liverpool, equal in quality to that brought from South America. It is expected that this article, like guano, will give employment to a considerable amount of shipping. It is said to be found in beds on the surface of the ground, fifteen inches, in thickness.— Liverpool Times. We understand that his Majesty Louis Philippe has presented the sum of 10,000 francs (4001.) to the Sociiti de Bienfaisance, established in London by the Comte d'Orsay, for the relief of distressed Frenchmen. NEW RAILWAYS FOR CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE. In the movement going on for extending or im proving existing railways, and providing new lines to ne et the wants of districts and towns hitherto with out such aids to cheap and expeditious locomotion, this portion of our country, as it was amongst the foremost to embrace the advantages of the railway system, is not behind other portione of the kingdom, or the least extensive in its projects; and it is satis factory to observe that these are, without an exception, legitimate projects, and such as must eventually be profitable, as well as useful, in their results. It was naturally to be expected that, as the system pro gressed, and its advantages became universally re cognised, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ceula not long remain the sole connecting line between the River I . ..iere.ey and •the manufacturing; districts to the east and north, by which the com merce of Liverpool is fed, and which draw from us their raw material. The important towns of Preston, Lancaster, Bolton, Wigan, &c., would not long con tinue satisfied with the imperfect and circuitous com munication originally provided for them ; whilst the traffic of the a uth as naturally would require the shortening of the elbow formed by taking it along the Liverpool and Manchester line to a junction with the direct southern line at Warrington. Accordingly, we now see proposed a number of lines, northward and eastward, diverging to these towns from Liver pool as a centre, with a line to the south materially shortening the route to Birmingham and London. But, in addition to these lines, a new feature has presented itself to us, in the projection of a number of new railways from the opposite side of the Mersey, hitherto isolated, to Manchester, Yorkshire, and the southern counties. The proposed formation of ex tensive docks at Birkenhead, and the spirit of enter prise existing in that rising locality, have originated a desire to connect it directly with the seats of manu facturing industry; and, accordingly, measures have been taken for an application to Parliament in the ensuing session for powers to carry out these projects, which are far from being insignificant in their extent, or without a degree of feasibility and public, as well as local, advantage. To enable our readers to appre hend at a glance the direction and connexions of all these schemes, on either side of our river, we have prepared as accurate a map of the country and the lines proposed as circumstances would allow, and sufficiently so to convey a fair idea of their direction and objects to which we beg the attention of our readers, while we proceed briefly to notice them in detail. And first we shall examine the Cheshire lines. The first of these in importance, is that proposed to connect the Cheshire side of the river with Man chester, Stockport, and Yorkshire. This line com mences near the Sutton station of the Chester and Birkenhead line, and proceeds, skirting at a short distance from the estuary of the Mersey, by Childer Thornton, Whitby, Thornton, Elton, and Frodsham, to Preston Brook ; fiom thence by Daresbury, Grap penhall, Bollington, Warburton, Dunham-Massey, Bowden, and Lymm, to Altringham, thus passing through one of the most fertile valleys in Cheshire, or the kingdom, from which the population of Man chester at present draw a great portion of their agri cultural produce. From Altringham the line pro ceeds by Sale and Ashton-on-Mersey, where it crosses the river, through Stretford and Chorlton cum-Hardy, to a junction either with the Manchester and Liverpool, or with the Manchester and Bolton Railway, in Salford. Powers are also proposed to be taken for the erection of an independent station ad joining that of the Liverpool and Manchester and Manchester and Leeds Companies, near the Victoria bridge. The distance by this line between Birkenhead, or Liverpool, and Manchester, will be about eight or nine miles more than by the existing railway com munication. There will, however, only be 33 miles of new railway, viz., from Hooton station to Man chester, to construct ; and, when we consider the favourable nature of the country to be traversed, the absence of any great works, and, above all, the im proved state of railway science, since the Liverpool and Manchester line was formed, its comparatively inexpensive character will constitute it a very formidable competitor with that line, even for the , traffic of Liverpool itself. To connect Chester with Manchester, Stockport, &c., it is proposed to make a branch from the line above described, commencing near Elton and running by Crouchton, Backford, and Moston, to a junction with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway in the townships of Upton and parish of St. Mary-on-the- Hill, Chester. It is important to mention that the promoters of this latter line (generally called the Chester, Preston Brook, and Stockport) have joined interests with the direct Birkenhead line. To con nect Stockport with both Birkenhead and Chester another branch is proposed to diverge from the main line at Altringham, and, passing by Northern, Bids bury, Cheadle, Mosely, to join the Manchester and Birmingham Railway at Heaton Norris, near Stock port. It is also proposed to connect the line with the Churnet Valley line, and a proposed Buxton line, by a branch to Bramhall ; and by two other branches it is proposed to be connected with the Manchester and Leeds line near Oldham, and the Manchester and Sheffield line, between Ashton and Hyde, thus se curing a portion of the traffic of Yorkshire, Lincoln shire, and Derbyshire. As might have been expected, at a time when capi talists are so eagerly seizing hold of every line of country which offers facilities for railway schemes, so favourable a country as the route of this line from Birkenhead to Manchester is not without claimants to its possession. Amongst these we observe that a Company, or rather a combination of three powerful Companies—the Midland, the Sheffield and Manches ter, and Manchester and Birmingham—have given notice for a line from Altringham to Manchester, passing by almost the same route as the Birkenhead and Manchester line. This proposed line, we may remark, possesses a valuable feature, inasmuch as, instead of communicating with the Liverpool and Manchester line, and using their station at Victoria bridge, its promoters adopt the southern entrance into Manchester, in allowing themselves to be bullied out of which by the Leeds Company the Liverpool and Manchester Board committed so fatal a mistake. We do not think, however, that any serious appre hension need be entertained as to the success of the scheme from this or other competing claims. On the contrary, we consider it very likely, and in deed advisable, that such a compromise will be en tered into as will enable the Birkenhead people to go to Parliament with the influence of these parties in aid of their own. The giving up a portion of their scheme into such hands might even operate advan tageously, by securing to the Birkenhead Company a greater portion of the vast traffic of which these . Companlee have the -disposal. We speak, however, mer4y our own opinion, with no authoritative in formation as to the course likely to be pursued. Another project is by the Directors of the Birken head and Chester Railway—viz., a tunnel from their atation In Grange-lane to the docks forming at Wallasey 1 1 001, Upon this, however, we need not remark as a noveltee for, in fact, such a communica tion was a necessary to these docks. To the south of Chester :noportant projects are also on foot. Notices have been even of an application tit Parliatnent for the necessary powers to construct a line of railway, commencing at Shrewsbury, and passing, almost in a direct line, hi Hadnall and Wem, approaching the town of Wellingte: n, which it peeeee a little to the left, then crossing a detached portion of Flietehire, and proceeding thence, on the Cheshire side of the valley of the Dee, to hete.:`' l % This line will make the distance by railway between Shrewsbtify and Chester about thirty-six miles; and, in connexion with the proposed Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton line, will form a competing line from Birkenhead and Chester to the south. A re fetenee to the map in our paper will show the capa bilities of this line to accommodate, by branches, the important mineral and agricultural towns and dis tricts through which it passes. A connexion is also proposed to be formed between the Cheater and Holyhead line and the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, by means of ' iitaneh to the proposed Birkenhead and Manchester line, the Value of which, as affording to those districts a shorter route for the passengers and goods traffic of Treland and the mineral produce of Wales, we shall not ettiarge upon, having already exceeded the limits we proposed to Quote t, the Chester undertakings. On the Lancashire side of the Mersey, one of the , tfiNat striking prospects is the line from Liverpool to Bolton still WssTan. This line passes through the heart of the great coal district of Lancashire, inter secting the Wigan coal beds, and proceeding by those of Peititterton, Winstanley, Billinge, Knowsley, &c., through Walton teral Bootle to a station near the North Docks of Liverpool. By this line the im patalist towns of Chorley, Preston, &c., will also obtain a shorter , communication with Liverpool. By another line, commencing at the north end of Liverpool, it is proposed to connect that port still LIEL . Gr° °° more directly with Ormskirk and Preston ; and, by On the 23d ult., at the Royal Naval Graff the formation of branches from it, to join the pro- Lieutenant Vosper, R.N. bill On the 11th inst., at Hull, Miss Priscilla g0e,1)„..,,, nosed Blackburn and Burnley line near Blackburn, On the 13th inst., at Reading, Henry Gat_ and to fx - m a communication with Southport. vil e/4 We co/ Le now to an examination of the lines pro of - 6 r aonds Esq., aged 61. _ y o n the 14th inst., at Arlington-street, Caw ~A nd Junction, and first, as the 'nest the ' • jeeted by the la.. the by which £t . we- take line Hall, Essex. 14th inst the Rev. Edward H. Greene, ol ive' important to this toNs._. •;•pute into Liverpool. The I O. the 16th inst., at Howland-street , is proposed to shorten the .. fleeted commences i n ,Sar, ah Eyre, aged 74. 310 1 ° 91 branch by which this is to be 4 , M the 15th inst., Rebecca, the wife Of esP the township of Kekewick, runs .. nrough those a St.. Helen's-place. de-park' d ' crosses Daresbury, Norton, and Runcorn, am. ncy . rn. Q. On the 16th inst., in Oxford-terrace , 7:e l4 . ° lif e river at a narrow about two miles above h. On the 16th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth liver St. John, late of the 31st Ma.dr„as_nyclispbot ~0 0 4). _ „0 From this point it proceeds, almost in a direct ' by Cuerdley, Widness, Upton, Speke, and Childwall, r o n jo t the e n 2Cohtlaipilni Chaplin, Fitzroy-- csrot, aitghp-osntrdeeert,,s_Peuntdn,eke•r:, Thricoradissirp crossing in its course the Runcorn Gap Railway, to On the 20th inst., at Half-Moon -str e e t, E a junction with the Liverpool and Manchester Rail- Lan, bert, Esq., 40 aged 22. way at or near. H ' uyton. By the formation of this iial)o.o,l ff 1 4 . line a saving of distunce is effected between the two O Th : : Printed and i'ublish® hY S%" l two t 2. Strand, Di Printer, at e`l" points of about eight milee. — ete ,`" in 124 Thursday, November 1, the Precinct of the 80 1 1 • Another important line of the same Com•pay is that proposed fx.egt Crewe to communicate wYtli ew- bliddff*, 2 castle and Stoke, at which latter place it joins a line to he formed by the Trent Valley Company to Staf ford. These projects, we are glad to find, have been recently laid before a public meeting held at Stallbrd, over which the Mayor of that town presided, and, with some additional accommodation to be given to the Pottery district, have been received as satisfactory , and meeting the requirements of the towns in terested. With respect to the communication to be given to Shrewsbury from the Grand Junction line, upon which, it will be remembered, the difference occurred between that Company and the London and Birming ham, two projects will be offered to the consideration of Parliament; one a line running from Shrewsbury. by Wellington, to Stafford, and another branching off near Wellington, and proceeding on to Wolverhamp ton. Another line is also projected, we believe, by the London and 13iriningham, proceeding from the proposed Chester and Shrewsbury line, near Wen), to the Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton line near Wel lington, then cutting off the angle formed by carry ing their lines to Shrewsbury, and reducing the dis tance between Wolverhampton to Chester by this route to something near that by the Grand Junction route. A communication is also proposed to be made from the Chester and Shrewsbury line passing by th e town of Wrexham and joining the Chester an d ; Holyhead line about midway between Holywell and Chester. We now come to the new projects of the Liverpoo l and Manchester Company. It has long been acknovi: ledged that the stations both in Lime-street and at: Wapping were insufficient in size and arrangerne n : for the traffic of the Manchester and Liverpool and the Grand Junction lines. To remedy these defects it is proposed to purchase the buildings adjoining th e station in Lime-street, as fin- back as Hotham-stree t, including some on the east side of the same streett the north side of Gloucester-street, and the south Sidney-street; the dwelling-houses adjoining thl station at the bottom of Gloucester-street and LOP" Nelson-street. Upon the site thus formed an exte!, sive station will be formed, capable, it is thought, '°` furnishing the accommodation requisite. The state l at Wapping is to be extended, by the purchase cfls e a f and buildings, warehouses, &c., on the north side Crosbie-street, and adjoining the station ; the War e : houses and buildings on the west side of Waypip . ,f and on either side of Iromnonger-lane, fronting t King's and Queen's Docks. The funnels and weW at Edge-hill are likewise to be enlarged ; a new We. nel to be made to Smithdown-lane, and another frl Edge-hill to terminate at or near the Waterloo D oc t in the north end of the town. By the carrying l i n of these several projects much greater facilities 11 : be afforded to the commerce of the port than at pe r sent it enjoys. Another project is the formation of a line brand: ing off from the main line at Barton, and passing w il l Worsley, Swinton, and Pendlebury, to a junction Clifton with the proposed Manchester, Bury, s v ; Rossendale Railway. A short line is also to be take, from a point between Newton and Parkside to North Union line, to reduce the an* at present r ct be gone over in order to get from the latter line lb Manchester. It is further proposed to form a brsn c a r from Barrownook Moss, in Rainford, in the parish at Prescot (there to unite with an intended railway A l f , the St. Helena and Runcorn Gap Railway, near itu t ford, a junction with the North Union at Eux t°l3 „; and terminating at or near Lightbody-street, 136411 dary-street North, Victoria-road, Great flovir., street, and Regent-road, in this town. Of this It: we have not been able to procure a plan in time enable us to include it in our map. The line fr % Barrownook Moss, however, is intended to reduce ti present distance by the Liverpool and Manchester s; North Union lines to Preston and Lancaster, antl it passes close to Ormskirk, is expected to remove ,„n necessity of the proposed Liverpool, Ormskirk , Preston line. The communication with the north of the town will, of course, be a valuable featur e the line, if constructed. of In conclusion, we shall regret if in the course,.. these remarks, explanatory of our plan or in the r itself, we shall be found to have done injustice o, l° o of the lines enumerated. Our object was certaill e j be impartial and just to all ; and if we have den us we shall be most willing to make all the reparation our power.--Liverpool Standard. 641 BRUTAL Cast.—Between five and six Monday afternoon last, the hackney-coach No- 19 h,„„ble called off the stand in Farringdon-street, by a reejle c- 00 looking man, in company with a young female. 00 coachman was ordered to drive to Eaton-square', t he arriving in that locality, the man jumped out of coach, and, closing the door after him, intimated to coachman that he was known in the neighbourh.oe n, s ic, did not wish to be seen in company with the tenter whom he directed to be taken to " Wright's," 6 eg u t , mews, Grosvenor-square, where he would call the f ell ing morning, mid pay whatever expense might b ß re j, curred. Ile then paid the fare and quickly disapPe is% The coachman having now some doubts as to being all right, got from his box, and, on opening the coach-door, he perceived the female lying ac ross t co seats with her clothes disordered, and on fineingflel all his efforts to arouse her were fruitless, be e.;O, a police-constable, and she was driven to the ,staildot house, where she was attended by a surgeon, wi' ° „ ( jef mediately discovered that she was labouring , 11 : t 0 the effects of some powerful narcotic, and w: gross outrage had been perpetrated whilst unclelol influence. She was directed to be immediately reni cP o il to St. George's Hospital, where the stomach puWP other remedies were promptly applied, and in a P; s l time nearly the whole contents of the stomach wer f Ld tracted, and the patient was gradually brought to a e7,of of consciousness, and the following morning the_Loll girl, whose mental sufferings appeared to be very S',,so gave the following statement:—She said her natne to e Ann Ball, and that her friends resided at No. 7, P"„i0 court. She had left her situation as housemaid i n 5 fig tleman's family about a fortnight since, and Wa s lizer ceeding along Piccadilly on Monday afternoon, 00 way to inquire after another situation, when she Wei s ,, o6 o costed by the above individual, who, although she of nothing whatever of him, had spoken to her on e n yr two former occasions, and who now prevailed uP li t hei to accompany him to the City, where on arriving .00( went to a tavern and had some brandy and wat er : 'O l which, on entering the coach, she almost s uddenl e;o o her senses, although perfectly sober before that ti e [This latter statement with regard to her being sobeivil, coachman has corroborated.] A description of th e e s oll lain has been given to the police, who are in activ e s lo e of him, and it is sincerely hoped he will not long e that punishment he so justly merits. lsT 01 j AGRICULTURAL SERVANTS' HIRINGS IN T ILE - -Whitsuntide and Martinmas are the usual 6 (1 210 0 hiring agricultural servants in the more ne_." — slo I counties. At nearly all the hirings this Martingi'boti wages of servants of both sexes, taken altogether, been on the advance, and the engagements more n e 0 0 1 rous. At Carlisle the attendance of servants WOOOO usually large on Saturday week, and good men ser , 0 were engaged, at wages ranging from 61. 105., ./. 91. 10s. for the half-year ; half-grown lads were ea § er for 4/. 10s., SL, and 5/. 10s. each ; known woraen_ n ef vents were hired at 41., 4L 10s., to 6L ; and the r u hit el girls got from 31. to 41. 10s. each who wer e ,, The servants get their victuals, and lodge and ei'v p their masters' houses in the northern counties above quotation of wages, with very little variation'ogi apply to the hirings which took place at CoekeZ t er Keswick, Wigton, Brampton, Penrith, Appleby , and other places.— Provincial Paper. Nre te ruf IMPORTATION or DUTCH OXEN, -I afternoon, at four o'clock, the steam-packet Captain David Dunlop, arrived at the St. Kathy fifif steam-packet wharf, from Rotterdam. She brouge"4," six head of live oxen and cows, and an immen ee d A I ; thy of live poultry, chiefly geese, turkeys, se " The importation of all kinds of live poultry I s . 00 tied on to a greater extent than usual, as the le,° nee Dutch coast may be expected to put a stop to toy ow in a few weeks, and dealers are bring 00 fattenedll:, quantities at present to be fattened for BIRTHS. - - the rloi On the I :st inst., at Porde House, Devonshire , - „ t i, , ight, Esq., High Sheriff of the GO' .0 Henry Cartw. 0 daughter.lab° On the sth inst.,. at Malta, the lady of Ro bed It o Hunter, Esq., of a son. e he Vicarage, Guilsboraug h ' 94 On the 17th inst., at 11. of the Rev. J. D. Watson, o: a daughter. vfotilkea' I On the 18th inst., the lady o)` Jo hn Jocelyn - - ie A of Eriviatt, near Denbigh, of a daughter. uth , the On the 19th inst., at Regency -squar,l, Btig"l3 of Captain William Preston, R.N., of a so. n. ° Ai l On the 19th inst., Mrs. Gambier Parry, ol - a B °`':,.., th o On the 18th inst., at Norwood-green, of Lewis Berger, Esq., of A daughter. Pt Vilf 4 On the 19th inst., in Wilton-street, the lady „ c elo miGidlee-, f, Is. Jenner, Esq., of a daughter. g e nii On the 19th inst , at Camberwell, Mrs. Smithers, jun., of a son. - „ d MARRIED. On the Bth of October, at the Episcopal Chaf r a ss 4 AO:00 Y' Cairo, Duncan M'Plierson, Esq., M.D , of the ga_ 004,4 , attached to his Highness the Nizam's service, tu v Aiebi`li• daughter o.f Archibald Iver, Esq. Carlton-street, f',7oZev,tsP, On the IVth inst., at Layton 'Church, Esselc 'S e nt G o o f Kemble, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, lac ti _d a ugb t Michael's Chit - eh, Lambeth, to Charlotte, sewn,' Stephen Wildman Cattley, Esq., of Layton. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a person named Edward Roche was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with inter marrying with Elizabeth Flack, his former wife being still alive. _ It appeared that the prisoner was married in Cork 26 years ago, and that after living with his wife about seven years he deserted her, and left her doatitute with three young children. About five years ago he met with Elizabeth*lack, and having married her, he took the Sun public-house in Heddon-street. The first wife having obtained information of her hus band's proceedings, came over to England, and, find ing that she was renounced by her husband, threw herself upon the parish, in order to compl hint to allow her a maintenance. The second wife having been put in possession of unquestionable evidence of the prisoner's infamous conduct towards her, immedi ately separated from him and took a coffee-shop in Sherrard• street. In proof of the double marriage, the first wife was put in the witness-box. She produced her certificate. Mr. HARDWICK said that the evidence of this wit ness could nit be received. The first marriage must be proved, not by the wife, but by witnesses. The wife said all the witnesses were deal but one, and that one was living in Cork. Mr. Heanwicil said the question now appeared to be one of expense—who was to defray the expense of procuring the personal attendance of the witness? A solicitor, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, said, even admitting that clear evidence could be brought forward of the validity of the first marriage, a point, however, in dispute, he had a complete answer to the charge. He would admit that the first and second marriages had taken place, and his answer was that the defendant could not be called upon to pay the penalty of bigamy, inasmuch as he had lived apart from his wife for more than seven years. The 9th of George IV., chapters 31 and 32, expressly stated that when either husband or wife continually remained absent from each other fur the space of seven years then last past, and had not been known by the other to be living within that time, "that he should not be liable to the consequences of bigamy." He could prove that the alleged first wife and the defendant had no intercourse or communication with each other for ten or twelve years, and that therefore the husband had a perfect right to consider his first wife dead, she being really dead in law, and to marry again. Mr. Haßnwicx wished to know how proof could be given that the party charged with bigamy did not know of the existence of his wife ? the solicitor said he apprehended it was not necessary to furnish any proof. It was only necessary to show that the parties had been asunder for seven years, and that they had had no communication with one another for that period, to entitle a party to the benefit of that clause. Mr. Haanwicx said, such a construction of the Act involved a manifest absurdity. According to this view of the law, it was only necessary for either husband or wife to conceal him or herself for a space of seven years to entitle them to marry again without rendering themselves liable to an indictment for bigamy. In the present case, the husband deserted his wife and family. He knew where to find them, but they knew not where to find him. He chose voluntarily to conceal himself from them for more than the space of seven years ; there was no want of evidence of the existence of his wife, and it brought him within the meaning of the Act. The solicitor said he would not attempt to argue the rationale of the Act. What he contended for was, that a penal Act ought to be literally and strictly construed. The Court must look to the words, and must be guided by their plain meaning. The Act in question did not require the husband to make himself acquainted with the existence of his wife, any more than it required the wife to know that the husband was alive. However, he proposed to reserve further discussion on the objection, as he was in a situation to disprove the validity of the first marriage. Mr. Haitnwica said, the first step would be to procure evidence of the first marriage, as the parties were not in a situation to defray the expense, and application must be made to a judge at the Central Criminal Court, to allow a sufficient sum to cover the necessary charges. Police-sergeant Whall was then desired to make arrangements for procuring the attendance of the sur viving witness of the first marriage. The defendant was then remanded for a week. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a miserable-looking man, named Cannell, stated to have formerly been a milkman in lloxton, waited upon Mr. Broughton, and asked his advice. The applicant said—l am a native of Ely, in Cam bridgeshire, but had a good business in Hoxton here, for many years, until I unfortunately went out of my mind. When I came out of the madhouse, in July last, I attended to my trade as usual, but an other man started in the same business in opposition to me, I was ruined by it. Finding myself in this state, I applied to Mr. Coste, the relieving officer of Shoreditch, and asked him to write a letter for me to the board of guardians to my native place, asking them for only 3/. or 4/. to set me up again, and, as I am very well known to several gentlemen down there, I was certain of receiving the money. But Mr. Coste told me he sihould not do any such thing, and I was obliged to go and get work as a common sewer labourer, and worked in that manner all through the last winter. . _ Mr. BIOUGHTON - Why do you not try to get work now ? Cannell—l can't ; there is no surgeon in the country would say that I am fit for work now, for while I was employed at the sewer-work a few weeks ago, and standing on the edge of a bank that was thrown up, a wretch of a boy came behind me, and pushed me down into the sewer, by which three of my ribs were dislocated. Mr. BROUGHTON — Why did you not give the boy into custody ? Cannell—l could not, for I was so stunned and injured that they carried me home imme diately, and before I had sense enough to think about it, the boy had gone away. The foreman of the works of course discharged me, and gave me 45., but that was of no use in my state, and I applied to the parish for assistance, but they refused to give me anything, and though I have applied a great number of times since, they still refuse me, Staines (the beadle of Shoreditch)—l don't know anything of the case myself, Sir, but I will give him an order for the house immediately, if he likes to go in. Cannell—The order's of no use to me, for they won't take me in—l know they won't—they've told me so several times—unless my wife and children go in too. My wife has the strongest dislike possible to go in, and is determined not, and as she can contrive to keep herself out of the house, though she can't support me too, I am willing to separate myself from her and go into the house by myself ; but they will not take me in alone, and here am I wandering about almost starving, for I have not had a bit or sup in my mouth all this day. Mr. BROUGHTON—But, as that is the case, why don t you try to perFeL-.,;, house with your wife to !3o into the 0111 Cannell---She determined not, and cant force her to do it. I have pawned and sold everything I had that would fetoh any money, till now I have not got anything more to sell. It's very hard to be refused relief, after paying rates for many years. Mr. BROUGHTON—Perhaps you have not properly explained yourself to the parish authoritiet if you had I should think they would take you in at once, and pass you in the regular way as soon as possible to your native place. Cannell—Oh, yes, I have, Sir ; I have explained it a great many times, but it's all of no use, for they won't listen to it, and tell mo as positively as possible that they don't int e nd t o t a k e me in unless my wife goes in too, and that she won't. Mr. BRONGHTON—WeII, I'll give you, is. from the poor-box, to provide you with food am lodging for to-night, and one of the officers shall call upon Mr. Costs, and explain to him the nature of your applica tion and the distress you are in. dare say thh officer's intercession on your behalf will induce Mr. Comte to take you into the house without your family, and pass you in the regular way to your own Parish: BROMLEY. A case of a novel character, atising ptit 6f the Pd lice Act, was br ou ght before the Rronney magistrates on Monday. The bench was composed of Lord Sydney, Mr. Ward, and Mr. Berens; and Robert Sutton, the officer of the Bromley Court of Regnests; was summoned before them to show cause why he unlawfully detained a certain pony, the property of William Akehurst. The defendant did not appear, and upon proof of the service of thesummons upon him, the case was proceeded with in his absence. The nephew of the complainant deposed that he had borrowed the pony in question of his uncle, and as he was driving it in a cart through Bromley town, the defendant came up to him and took the pony by force out of the cart, and went away with it and the har ness. The witness, in answer to questions put to him by the uncle, said that an execution had been served upon his goods by the Court of Requests, and he :,up posed the defendant was acting under that authority, but he told him distinctly at the time that the pony was not his property, but belonged to his uncle. Mr. Latter, the clerk to the bench, said there was no doubt that the defendant considered he was jus tified in :seizin g the property under the execution, believing that the pony was the property of the party against whom the execution was issued. He then referred the bench to the section of the Police I Act under which the summo ns was granted, and the