The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

NT A POT. f_,ON. esmen who f knoished ienry Lord Brought,* Light, Ludgate-bill. le armies Of the Repo, and Carn Ot hinisen:; excesses hi lions achievements, or of all the at l eng th been drive° at swayed her tlestiaieh French people , svas for nd the perio d of fhl •e arrived. A new oh ° then begun, under • s ; certainly the 010 ear ed in modern times , io parallel can be fut in ' For t he human ra ce • ler were more extenleei 2a , ,sar was ernbellis nl ;s, and the invader%s ,urposos of subiteof the military g ait' , 0 , peculiarly its 00'0 1 alone, when we ill' e those conque r:, civilisation or di orst w ith its as well ordered or provided as his 004 ung trim a good 1.9",,4 fixed the attentioo xions. In early ey ; he soon gsineo:6o mmanded at tweeild ated and diffi cu lt or t y terior command bY led the French att°l,,l t h en unexampled, ei i after-achievemelt be suddenness, th e 00 the operations. joi• from the mechsaie7;eol formal rules of 0,, our Wellington _Ay !,umstances, and li e d onists, i n all co. But in th is heel ? e soldiers bred iOY 0 for the most P",fol' !terate propensiti %or nce, not even the d e'ol e to subdue ; a n j rid time the vietia'? eilj'i Lich had, in F r i_ ed e sl 34 rr numbers b3' di' mmon r;10 ough this consicie the great warrior, "0 is thus detr actd c ' ev k i he accompii sbed as his glory neyeirh nself ; nor evere },,00 he could not rdt/ )efore it was ti° 40 of ten the fortune,' to of his mind Wen, ()fusion. After thesistl. Lill, as well as constivl and the struggle, ;Id e dreadful CO Of many regarded Nor lot us forge's( weer, the m ight , ' e f si bo 1 error only. The, L—the combinatioo led and moved 0 - ' 51) 0 • I tingle corps , or ,•,, nent in his halluleS a great genius ob, which he was eve° gain :the ground 'cgsff rescued from hi' di no human povveretpt • cavalry, nor a 0° f spline of veterslls4 By , only Hannon certainly, when i ` !ulties of the Cog], r time during .v 014,0 ;—still more, wh er torl; l o ne recorded his 5 0 0 1 annalist—justicesrsol [ld yield to the se t 4 1 led to his dowei;e'llo vast capacity as less ambition We l e r dt 11 might , the coo toga , too anx iously id been for t welve ) 0 00 of France had f oe command. The de s ' d . re ced the martial pr°so ed the multitudes banners. The 0, 14 10 i oled, but the &lad . secures had succe.,,y4 d as great 0317;.4 ss hosts which Frr,d is consan3roate wart:" half the ancient thre pitals o f half her plisive; monarchy esta.b and of RUSSSIa al he great conciV oustarduous Lct°:,s u ndertaken vets exampled in 0 °l,OO Russian empir e d sl of the enemy ,t° 3 t surrounding purpose. Ile b 10 (1) , e world ever sOe'iceP td eat hered his IV mplexion, orloqier ong his line ;• „"" o i# nium ger) ti(110, ‘ibitto nmunis ; al i s alia sacraithoioo?, through the lo r e 001 the artillery es,'orissP; cattle on a I ", m y the myriads w"))10' Europe, where 4 r ! is whitened with 'roe 'prise, uniforMlioto hiect, when me, 1t op~ba and t il e lied for petteeL•stlo°, night bega° Pljetek ther night co O IP A o fg,; of unnunibere' tie • s their magazine 00,0 SG e by flake, t he siL ce is frigoris to d nentorturanluees re vellet, at , ix flectere artos4 s lml • , ere blighted ; ; and his c lood l ' O O O onqueror of a ,e, battle, and Mi n n subsequent c oo n k` r succeeded in iv night. The fl re ° than ever; than human, ", fore, his valor, for—but all Os ei to band—his son re quailing 11°'eto discovered hit° ~y, • 1 bold in their 0' h ree centuries ljeo je i vere subject W nd such was the 11 ;1) ty gen ius 0 f e ;10' he was one 0 v i ; he is to be PI, class, if isdeeClit, laced on a 101; Os the councilandilcoo; aceor opliSb eu e w indeed li sc- re r so great an 031'11 he might 1 ft ( Thu tactics 0 11 1 1 4 , an d with s ec is well deny 7 o r ", as to NaP° le t are. The gres,Lier, nnecting tore" :"ampaign _l' o 9 " ving vast bat/ as to fight ;e. This reqt les of tactics ; Ilse formidable 140, words " ditfe e fo l 11 1 ,bulary. In Pot Pol e operations f./„t0 iho the certtio;',l.4o) echaniCal gett e .h ti posed. So solivde' essors of these h ° 0 ' r o anic school, 513°/ eat extension 0 11 j•I°: dir e ction, w f) hi e s ,o4 etely taken 11°,tg and his fe'' en at Itos bar b ' r t es tended and . 0p ® 5 indeed. P O pro' lie field • n°" e , ;heir support; opt; sd ters upon oee ii P e isands w hot°,„ bi te the fate of t''`ola te with such an 00 at. lie 130 or re' the art of 0 11 0 LPPreCiatiOnWY' hiffit s memory eac eac h regim e t o 4 war, and is vast fore° ;tiofi' intuitise Eleg° are y r s, • 11-E ivE,,r ) TH E 0- - U IWO Vl"' 5 111 un office, C flilti . 9- 146. No. 16,567. ledge of his enemy's condition, and movements, and Plans; so nicely could he unravel all conflicting ac counts, and decide at once as by intuition which was true. In the field his eye for positions, distances, eleva tions, numbers, was quick, and it was infallible. All L his gener a l s at a ll t i mes su b m i tted their judgment to citn, and without the least reluctance or hesitation, not deferring to his authority, but yielding from an absolute conviction of his superior skill; nor ever doubting, be cause firmly assured he was in the right. His own self confidence was in the same proportion, and it was un erring. tying under so me cover i n fi re , h e wou ld rema i n f or an hour or two, receiving reports and issuing his orders, sometimes with a plan before him, sometimes with the fac e of the ground in his mind only. There he is with his watch in one hand, while the other moves constantly from his peeket, where his snuff-box, or rather his snuff, 1:e:1 - y 4 : pa n:de-de camp arrives, tells of a movement, answers shortly some questions rapidly, perhaps p•m is dispatched with the order that is to solve the difficulty of some general of division. Another is ordered to attend, and sent off with directions to make s ome distant corps support an operation. The watch is a g a in consult e d ; more i mpat i ent symptoms; t h e name of after one ai e l e -d e - camp is constantly pronounced; question .question is put whether any one is coming from a certain quarter; an event is expected; it ought to have a PP e ced ; at length th e w i s h e d- f or messenger arrives. -- "II:h Bien ! Qu'a t-on fait la hie?" "La hauteur eat tg e4 e; le mar6ehal est la." tionne forme—pas P a : de mouvement." Another aide-de-came is ordered to bring up the Guard. Que le mereehal qui Mee very l a tour en d4 Slant par sa gauche—et tout ce 8 batw trouve sa droite est prisonnier."—Now the jA con su l te d an d t h e snuff is taken no more; the Z - "le is over ; th e f ortune o f t h e d ay i s d eci d e d ; the est captain indulges in pleasantry; nor doubts any t hti i re ,of the certa i nty an d of the extent of his victory - Apl f he had a l rea dy seen i ts d eta il s i n t h e b u ll et i n. Isi i ,; ‘ ," i ev all, th e gran d secre t o f b ot h F re d er i c k' s an d wetV t "tes successes, the movement of the masses which app eo ° Pisee their enemy in a disadvantageous position,. obv• tO be, like all great improvements, sufficiently on t i ,1 11 . 3 ; for it is founded on the very natural . principle reeds,"tch the modern naval plan of breaking the line pro his e n If either at sea or on shore one party can place his b a t between two fires, or on any material part of f___,eattle bring double the force to bear upon the de teiru.ere of that point, the success of the operation is cer dici In order to execute such a plan on shore, a pro -81;4°,11s eainbination of military resources is required, to at `," e Y only who are so amply furnished can venture ' el cPt it. That Napoleon had this capacity beyond i r name ia altogether incontestable. a h is genius was not confined to war: he possessed and,,e e csPacity also for civil affairs. •He saw as clearly, of i . e t ci e i :k e l s y pe ( c ie ia te ll r y mined on his course, in government formations field. His public works, and his political re- his Code of Laws, are monuments s• 1115 wisdom and his vigour, more imperishable, as ti _ tod, h a s already .proved, and as himself proudly fore brit "an all his victories. His civil courage was more the 'ant than his own, or most other men's, valour in fe n e fie hl• How ordinary a bravery it was that blazed t_li at Lodi, when he headed his wavering columns i p e r r ess the bridge swept by the field of Austrian artil ti,le com.pared with the undaunted and sublime courage or carried him from Cannes to Paris with a handful men, and fi red his bosom with the desire, and sus a:te ere! it with th e conf id ence, of overthrowing a dy ,. n a nd overwh e l m i ng an emp i re, b y t h e terror of his No r were his endowments merely those of the states tete and the warrior. It' he was not, like Caesar, a con ettsunate orator, he yet knew men so thoroughly, and P e e ci allY Frenchmen, whom he had most nearly stu , WI, that he possessed the faculty of addressing them to t . r ains of si ngu l ar eloquence, —an eloquence peculiar il:ln:,l?!taself. I t i s not more certain that he is the greatest that whom F rance ever produced, than it is certain fttr t his place is high amongst her greatest writers, as • bulletin ' ls :lmposition or di c ti on i s concerned. Some of his s are models for the purpose which they were intended to serve; his address to the soldiers of his Old rdGuard at Fontainebleau is a masterpiece of dignified pathetic composition; his speech during the Hun ted Days, at the Champ de Mars, beginning, " Gene tali Consul, Etnpereur, je tien s t ou t d u P eup l e ," i s to b e Placed amongst the most perfect pieces of simple and n ?ajestie e l oquence. These things are not the less true f or being seldom or never remarked. But with these great qualities of the will—tl highest Co urage, the most easy formation of his resolutions, the Most steadfast adherence to his purpose, the entire de votion of all his energies to his object—and with the equally shining faculties of the understanding by which that firm will worked—the clearest and quickest appre hension, the power of intense application, the capacity of complete abstraction from all interrupting ideas, the Complete and most instantaneous circumspection of all difficulties, whether on one s id e, or even providently ae on in prospect, the intuitive knowled g e of men, an d * 1 „"e Power of mi n d an d o f t ongue to mou ld t h e i r w ill to bra these qualities, which form the character Tod great es t by vu l gar m i n d s, t h e panegyr i c of Napoleon t close. He was a Conqueror;—he was a Tyrant. to pttify his ambition—to slake his thirst of power— sati"eatY a lust of dominion which no conquest could have trampled on Liberty when his hand might a. o ,l 3 ,,vaised her to a secure place; and he wrapt the n ' 4 , i i s u fl ames, which the blood of millions alone could kindl y BY those passions, a mind not originally un ee,t__Y, teasw Perverted and deformed, till human misery s ense move it, and honesty, and truth, and pity, all ppitseciffrottaheodhuottyhuwse owe to God and to man, had de bent given up to a single and a selfish Tantas animi virtutes ingentia vitia tequa eihil ummana crudelitas; perfidia plusquam Punica; je ran y ,eti, nihil sancti, nullus Deum metus, nullum jus queen), nulla religio." The death of Enghein, the Jufferings of Wright, the mysterious end of Pichet ho e 1 2,e, Punishment of Palm, the tortures of Toussaint, mit e the been dwelt upon as the spots on his fame; be 41rriotia...;t8eve :o,llu,erfoferet.luinnegss of individuals presenting a more de rouse to . the mind, strike our imaginations, and more than wretchedness in larger refiect;_mas distinctly perceived. But to the eye of calm Pelee (", the declaration of an unjustifiable war, or the tins Ore g, in it a day loner than tm ti o n necessary, implies a dii_ esiei e g ri evous object con e p , l'PeDreb°l.naore pernicious to the world, and calls down a %Qua more severe. General T RE rien RIVER PLATE. Ayresity : , y order of g iv es the captiv' b O'B no s e as f , oll G ow ev in er account B o u f e e h e i s s :f4.7rleticect from General Rosas, to confine myself o.i.ua:‘,.isite,ilisarmrtytti wish sib in detailing the treatment .I_ toex; si on rtain myself concerned, not to use a harsh expre President of' Bur • of the facts as they occurred, and, a s s_ ‘. I etzeting him. at the request of General Santa Cruz, t . he , treaty With the united provinces of Buenos A . l" vi is are v -- via, undertaken to form a commercial Changepro natural Potoi doll was most willingly ace,,ded to is am This proposal . oftlle country—receiving in ex - and th ti on stra !.iY the governors of the different provinces, hey evinced their feelings in marked demon 3 of Their ft- - - d ard for him who h ad be r a ection, respect, an reg the n own en entrusted to make it. In every greatt pubiliigli which I passed, from Lima to Buenos h Ayres, o. vern e entertainments were given to me by t e d ir g e I ~ r cirs, My old associates in the war of indepen enc . •ei er • '°nal N. to these testimonies of affection, not from per jteeth vanity, but because in them I can alone trace the em ( l'es far the conduct of Rosas. They had excited histhey hm 48Y---lhey had perhaps aroused his fears, and ey e Political ind uced him to believe that a plain man, bent o encli l, tig the benefits of a free intercommunication be 'ell th e • provinces of South America, was a formidable e, agent ras49'ere was not the slightest found d ation fecsirtastuecsh to att44 lo a, if it were entertained. I had m l y wished that '4l l to, and, in improving their value,dto analyse the doersti toight prosper. Ido not pretend ithout the to hi l'4B of Rosas—l have on a l l y th e e n e d g e h avo e u e r e ed vi yo attribute B haa ci til a probable cause, to *of foundation in fact, for his unprovoked enmity ti . received ray arrival at Buenos Ayres I was most kindly 4 i' ,4 by the Ministers of Rosas. W hich 11 th e course of a few days I found that the treaty tlthr,:e.tneotherprovinces were most willing to make -.14 determine d - Upon rejecting; and, not content with agm JeetiOn, resolved upon making a declaration of war , ast General Santa Cruz. Was 4 far, th en, as my negotiation with Buenos Ayres wil'lchcapeerned, t had been a failure. The object for on e 4. had visited it was at an end, and I desired at , tie to leave it. Per'tl had as a matter of course, applied for my pass ato to the Chief of police at twelve o'clock in the day, 13 4 0 the same evening I was waited upon by that kr n, sere by Colonel Pereira. Both were _, f o rt, and told me that Rosas desired to speak to me. I deil"'ed them, but instead of conducting me to his resi a.nrce' ahoy brought me to the Cuna—a prison of the titaisnt••d"criPtion, and there, without a charge made al e _ _..4 me—vrithout any explanation demanded from , IN i ,l' was placed in a cell, measuring six yards by fi% . e, in,/,105 that cell I was never permitted to stir for six ,ii s and twenty-five days. lieri o h ad Wen an acquaintance of Roses at a former h ad dof lift' might even say his friend. No thought w a , eve,r entered into my mind of injuring him in any set to & could not believe it possible that he could thus and vvards one whose life was so well known to him, stra,),er I ~° whose ma opinion s and habits he could not be a d e a demand e d an interview with him, but I 4 that demand in vain. aiunb‘jveheit'ehanldreassidoende, nlottvayskelnattiintlgedtitloe tittEthinrlventsPior!tatells:tajoeßn4oiltifitsrtitYhe British flag, and to the intorposi frieia why British Minister on my behalf'. My former Cs in 7 gaoler, and the representative of the British `-4'?vvia did not enforce for me the rights of a oth er, tibject. The one would not see me, and of the Which Pi MY incarceration, I beard nothing but that 1. shall state hereafter. ke,l:?pilc_e that the door of my cell had been closed upon pnp;:B never opened, except occasionally, for the g''neraii g iv ing me my dinner, which was more If I Y handed to me through a hole cut in the door. ;lOUs 3 P °l, e, no one condescended to answer me; and 431111fie45,111titwill)icinhi$hent inpietedupoa me—solitary 11 ' of Stronhasg passions madmen, and to reduce those p 4 " ' „ lotto**, of weak minds to a state of idiocy. Its terrors are un utterable, and never can its saddening, its mind-destroy ing horrors, be adequately conveyed to those who have never endured it. " Upon me this punishment was inflicted in a place too ;narrow for exercise, in a cell that was damp and filthy, that was overwhelmed with noisome insects, that was exposed to the invasions of the rats of that country, end that was constantly pervaded with noxious exhala tions, arising from the ordure of the prison, that was collected almost immediately beneath it. "It was in such a place that the sufferings of a Buenos Ayres winter constituted the climax to tortures that ap peared intolerable. This last completed my misery; my health, which had been suffering, finally gave way. Loss of appetite was followed by loss of sleep, and to this suc ceeded a swelling of my legs, which felt as if the process ' of mortification and death had commenced in the lower extremities, whilst life and sense were left to the brain and the functions of the b )3y. "Patiently, and even calmly, had I waited out each slow and lingering hour, and watched the tardy pace of every long and dreary day, hoping, calculating', and self-convinced, that the next must bring with it the ap pearance of the British Minister in my cell—to hear him say that the meanest subject of the British Crown should not be thus treated unaccused, untried, unconvicted. I waited and—alas! I grieve to say it—l waited in vain. I was personally known to the British Minister. I came at last to the conclusion that he must be utterly ignorant of my arrest—of my incarceration—and of the frightful torture that was inflicted upon me. "I had contrived many plans for my escape ; they were the sole amusement of my prison hours, and each had been in turn rejected by me as cowardly. At last, my entire thoughts were fixed upon a communication with the British Minister, being perfectly certain that once he knew my position he would procure my release. " I did succeed in effecting that communication ; and, in order to show how closely and jealously I was watched. I must explain the plan that I adopted. "At the time that I was arrested I had in my side coat-pocket a small memorandum book and pencil. This was a fortunate circumstance for me ; for I had frequently applied to the gaoler to supply me with pen, ink, and paper, and these were constantly refused to me. If I spoke it was seldom that a simple affirmative or ne gative were conceded to me ; for the orders given to the gaoler and his assistants were not to take any notice of me.' I was treated as an idiot, in the hope that I might be visited with idiocy. " The only favour conceded to me was this—l was allowed to receive my meals from the British hotel. These were always brought to me in a portabiandes.* This was sent at dinner-hour ; but before it was handed to me through the door, I observed that every dish was strictly examined by my gaoler, lest any communication should reach me from abroad ; and when I gave it back in the evening the same rigid examination took place, lest I should attempt to seek thus sending a message to any friend. " I could see, through the hole in the door, this double examination taking place every day ; but I perceived that there was one portion of the po, tabiendes that was not looked into, and that was the lowermost portion, which came containing fire, and returned filled with the cold ashes. Upon that circumstance I rested my only hope of communication with the British Minister, and my subsequent chance of escape from a prison which I felt was fast hurrying me to a premature grave. " I had a pencil to write, but no paper to write upon. None would be given to me. Upon two or three occa sions, however, pastry was sent to me rolled in white paper, and at another time a few oranges were wrapped in paper. Every scrap of this was taken and carefully concealed by me. " Then, for the purpose of seeing if the portabiandes would bear my message safely, I removed the ashes from the lowermost parts, to try if my gaolers would notice the alteration. They did not do so ; and .1 snatched the first moments that I was sure I was not watched to write, in pencil, a few lines to the British Minister, Mr. Mandeville. The purport of the note was, that my health was fast declining ; that such con finement, if much longer protracted, must inevitably cause my death ; that I was quite sure it was resolved I should not leave that prison alive ; that as I had a con siderable amount of property in Chili and Peru, and some in Ireland, I wished to make my will, in order that my sister might inherit my estates ; and that I therefore, begged of Mr. Mandeville to come to me, if it were but for a moment, in order that, having arranged my worldly affairs, I might the better submit to that cruel fate which, without a single fault or error on ray part, had been manifestly reserved for me. " This, to the best of my recollection, was the sub stauce of my note to Mr. Mande v ill e , an d all my hope was that he would receive it. lam sure that a British subject, without a single charge alleged against him— unarraigned before any species of tribunal—unques tionel, unexamined, and unaccused by any one, or under any form of law—would not be permitted by the representative of my Sovereign to be left thus—a pri soner, suffering the worst sp Ties of punishment—with out finding in that Minister a defender, a supporter, and a vindicator of the country which was thus outraged in my person. These were my feelings as I wrote that note. My calculation was, as I removed the ashes from the porta biandes, that the person appointed to clean them out be fore putting in fresh fire would fine the note, and, as it was addressed to Mandeville, would forward it to that gentleman. That calculation the event proved to be correct. The man found the note, and, being ignorant of what it contained, at once delivered it to his master, Mr. Beech, the proprietor of the British Hotel, who performed his duty, by placing it at once in the Molds of Mr. Mandeville. " Mr. Mandeville did not act as I had anticipated he would have done, for, instead of coming to see me, he went to the Minister of Rosas, Arena, and informed him that he had received a communication from me ! The result was an immediate visit from the Chief of the Po lice (Victorino) to the prison, and the attempt by him to extort from me a knowledge of the means by which I had communicated with Mr. Mandeville. I denied the fact—l pretended that the communication was an inven tion of that gentleman's brain—and I denounced him in the strongest terms I could use, calling him a humbug of a British Minister.' " I conceive, that in acting in the manner that he did, Mr. Mandeville did not bear himself as a British Minis ter should have done in such circumstances. He com mitted, I think, a great error, and one that might have cost me my life, by thus betraying my act to the Minis ters of a man who he knew had acted outrageously to wards me —who could not allege any excuse for my de tention, but that it was a precaucion,' because he had heard and believed that I came to Buenos Ayres to make a revolution bringing with me 15,000 doubloons ! when the fact was, all I had with me was 5,0001. in bills on London, and that my own property, carried for the purpose of going to England, where it was afterwards received by me. " Even if Mr. Mandeville did not choose to come and see me. I do not think he should have told Rosas's Mini- ster that I had found the means of making a secret com munication to him, for as a British subject—deprived of no right that attached to mo as such by crimp—l was, I think, entitled to communicate with him and to beg his protection. " It was a great error in judgment, but it was no more. I think the act was wrong—l do not think so of the motives that prompted it ; and least of all do I suppose that it was done with the slightest intention to injure me. " I am aware that Mr. Mandeville was peculiarly situated with the Governor of Buenos Ayres. He was in. Buenos Ayres, I think, for three years before Rosas con descended to speak to him. The respect which is due to a British Minister was not shown to him. He could not but be aware that frightful atrocities were committed, under the special direction of Rosas, and it might be that apprehensions for his own safety induced him to apprise the Minister of a fact that might subsequently be learned through spies, and that their denunciation might bring down upon him that fate from which neither the sacred character of long friendship nor the respect due to the sacerdotal functions could pre • serve others ; and he might have felt that a British Mi nister was not safe where a British subject was treated as I had been. Whatever may have been the motives of Mr. MAndeville, I am quite positive they could not have arisen from any unkindness towards me ; for I was honoured with his hospitality before my imprisonment, and with the testimonies of his sympathy when I escaped from the miserable death to which I had been destined. The first result of my letter to Mr. Mandeville was a visit from th• police—the second was most useful to me, for it brought me at the same time a physician, who ex amined me in the presence of the police-officer and a lawyer, with whose aid I made out my will—the third was the immediate change of my gaolers, double sen tinels placed on the door, and a third at the top of the house—and then came a consultation between Rosas and his Minister Maza, as to whether I ought not to be re moved to the Retiro barrack (a short distance from Buenos Ayres), as I could there be, with greater facility, deprived of life, and my death attributed to illness. " This was the proposition of Rosas; but Maza op posed it—he represented that I was a British subject, long known in South America—that my death would certainly excite attention, and that, if I were got rid of by violence, it would, most probably, be afterwards dis covered by some one of the numerous friends I had in the different states, and its consequences fatal to Rosas himself. Liam found that his remonstrances were sin vain ; that Rosas had resolved on dispatching me. Finding all his arguments useless, he told the facts to the wife of Rosas, and she went down on her knees to 139 g my life; and it is to her intercession that I attri bute that delay which subsequently saved me. " I did not, at the time, know any of these circum stances. I had never been spoken to ; but from the moment I had written to Mr. Mandeville, and that he had m ntioned it to Rosas's Ministers, I regarded my death as inevitable. I was treated as a man doomed to death ; and I prepared for death. I expected to be taken out and shot, and I cut down a light green surtout that I had brought with me to the prison into a jacket, so that, if I were given a soldier's death, I might ap pear as a soldier, with that care bestowed upon my habiliments which becomes a soldier ; and that, in my last moments, it might be seen I was not unworthy of those companions in arms with whom I had often faced that danger which was now inevitable. " I had settled my worldly affairs, and it was in the daily expectation that I should be called out for exe cution—that having made up my mind to die, and to * The portabiancles consists of five or six dishes, placed one above the other, and fastened together with a strap—the undermost dish, or closed receptacle, contain* fire, 30 as to keep all above it warm. 2 , / LONDON, SATuRDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1845. meet it as became me, that then, what appeared far worse than a soldier's sudden and violent death, over took me. I was at last utterly broken down, and unable to move from my bed. My room was filled with noxious insects, my health was utterly prostrated : at night, thousands of rats gathered round my bed, and the last feeble effort of my decaying strength was to use a stick which the gaolers in mercy gave to me, to prevent those horrible animals, three times as large as the European rat, from attacking me in my bed. So frightful were these days, and so horrible these nights, that I confess, I was at last so unmanned by them as to wish fordeath. " That death did not come to me, but it did to those who were confined in the same horrible prison. One was a Frenchman, Backly, who died in consequence of his sufferings, and for whose unjust treatment Buenos Ayres was subsequently blockaded by the fleet of France. The other was a German who had been a captain in the service of Rosas, and who, for some trivial offence, was placed in this prison, where he had not long been confined before he was driven to despair, and in the madness of that despair, he cut his throat. I was not aware at the time of the manner in which his death had been produced, but when I saw the dead body carried from the prison I envied the fate of one who had been the victim of Rosas, and had at last escaped from him. " The inte-position of the wife of Rosas had procured me one respite—another was obtained for me through a letter which arrived from Paris, in the middle of De- comber, from General San Martin to the Ministers of Row, recapitulating the services I had performe./, pointing to the fact that it was to me those colours than now waved in the cathedral of Buenos Ayres had been intrusted—that for eleven days I had been shut up in a cachuca in the Cordilleras of the Andes in a snow-storm —that these very colours were for that time my only covering at night—that I had sacrificed much to gain and much to preserve them—and that I was a man, years of experience enabled him to say, incapable of intrigue or dishonour. " The generous interference of my old and beloved commander protracted my fate—but whether it could have saved my life I know not. It did not procure me my liberty—that only was obtained by a dispatch from Lord Palmerston, as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in sisting on my immediate liberat ion. " The order for my prison doors being opened was brought at nine o'clock on Christmas morning. The chief of police tendered me my discharge, on condition that I would give security in 60,000 dollars, that in sailing for England I should not touch at Monte Video or Rio Janeiro. " The doors of my prison wore thrown wide—wide open for me—and the cold, sweet, fresh air was at last permitted to penetrate the fetid atmosphere in which I had been expiring. I thought I should never have enough of air—l tore open my jacket, that I might feel it on my skin ; that it might be as balm to my body, which had been withered and wasted without it. This is all I can recollect ; for I am told I was delirious with pain, with misery, and suffering. I could not walk—the nerves had become torpid—my flesh so incapable of pain that I could prod my thigh with a nail and not f ee l it. "Iliad to lie carried, as if I were a child, in a carriage, from the prison to my hotel. There the watchfulness of a skilful physician and a valued friend, Dr. Hogan, at length brought me back to life. Constant friction re stored the natural action to my limbs, so that, at the end of a month, I was able to go on board a ship ; but so ill was I, on my arrival in England, that Dr. Jefferson, of Leamington, told me he could not guarantee my life ; and it required his care and attention for three months before I was restored to my usual health. " This is the narrative of my imprisonment by Roses. I have fulfilled my promise ; for in the course of it I have not used one harsh epithet in depicting his conduct towards me, and the sufferings I endured. " And now the reader—the English reader—will bear this fact in mind, that neither in word, in thought, nor in act, had I provoked such treatment. I had done no act against Rosas—l was ant accused of having done any act against him. The pretext was that he suspected me—for that suspicion he never even alleged that he had the smallest proof —and my imprisonment was, in his language, a precaution ; and when pressed by my friends—for I had friends anxious for my release—he evaded their intercession, by repeated promises that I should next week, or the week after that, be set at large. "It appears incredible that a British subject, who bears with him the right to a habeas corpus, should, in any country where the British flag is flying, and a Bri tish Minister received, be thus incarcerated for six months and 25 days, and yet no criminal charge pre ferred against him before the constituted tribunals of that country. " All reason for doubt upon a circumstance seemingly so improbable , rests upon a w a nt of knowled ge o f th e perpetrator of this iniquity. Without a knowledge of the character of Robespierre, of Denton, of Marat, the crimes of the French revolution would be incredible. " The reign of Roses in Buenos Ayres is ' a reign of terror,' and that terror is inspired by him through the instrumentality, first of his secret assassination society— the Masorca Club—and next, by his open, avowed, and audacious cruelties. " Th. man who thus dared to defy the British flag and to reduce a British Minister to silence, whilst he tried, by a torturing incarceration, to kill a British subject, is a man, the world may be assured, who, when his pas sions`and his interests are bound by no check, will commit crimes that nature itself will shudder to hear of. " If men did not know that an innocent subject of the Queen of Britain had been thus treated by Rosas, they would, for the sake of humanity, doubt that such crimes would be committed as those that I am now about to mentic.n. They will be found appalling ; but, what is more appalling than their dreadful details, is the reflec tion that they are not all the evil Ruses has done—they are specimens of the crimes that he has committed, and that he is even now perpetrating." ONLY A FIDDLER .r and O. T.; or, LIFE IN DENMARK. Ti apish:lid by Mary Howitt. 3 Vols. This is another of Mrs. Howitt's admirable transla tions. The English public owe her a debt of gratitude for thus enabling them to enjoy the literature of the North, which has, hitherto, been as a sealed book. it is only a few months since we were first introduced to Christian Anderson, in his beautiful tale of the " Impro visator° ;" and already we have a second work by the same author, translated with equal fidelity and spirit. Mrs. Howitt seems to have thoroughly understood the authou, and gives us his ideas in her own beautiful lan guage. These volumes contain two stories of a very dif ferent character —they show the versatility of the writer's genius. The second tale, "O. T.; or, Life in Denmark,' is, app arent l y intended to contrast with the " Improvisator° ; or, Life in Italy." Instead of the rap turous descriptions of American skies, or the glowing language with which he panted the fair country of his heart, we have minute details of domestic life, finished portraits of private individuals, and admirable sketches of Danish life, both in. the country and the capital. But it is in the first story of Only a Fiddler!" that we recog nise the author of the "Improvisatore." Here the poet is himself again. It is a beautiful and melancholy history, full of tenderness and truth ; the sorrows of the child of poverty and genius, toiling on his weary way, unknown and unloved, are powerfully pourtrayed by one who has felt them all. In writing the history of Christian, the author remembered his own adventurous childhood, and, probably, the following advice has been more than once offered to himself : " The Count looked compassionately on him, and Christian pressed the hand of the kind gentleman to his lips, wetted it with his tears, and besought him to let him be his servant. He would clean his boots and shoes, rim errands for him, or whatever else it might be, if he would only assist him, so that he might be able to learn what was necessary, that at length he might become such an artist as those of whom he had told him. " ' Yet, my good youth,' said the Count, ' that is not so easy as you fancy it to be. Besides this, you must be pos sessed of a great deal of genius; and whether that is the case or no, time can only prove. You must never forget that you are a poor child! If you are possessed of real genius it will make for itself a track, though you may have to buffet about en the sea for yet another long year. Per aspera ad astra Adversity purifi(m If it be so that anything i s to come out of you, a higher power will help you ; that you may of a surety believe! I, alas! can do nothing for you; I have so many others to care for' " Withithese words he drew out his purse and gave the boy a silver dollar, repeating at the same time the consoling assurance that real talent always made for itself a way. Ile then folded his cloak more closely about him, and leaned his head on the wall in order to sleep. " Those wore Icarus-wings which he fixed on the shoulers of Genius—boldly formed wings ; but they were of lead. His words, however, were the old theme, which from generation to generation has sounded in the ears of Genius, and which will yet, for centuries to come, be variously sounded, as long as the world remains the same as that which gave the poison cup to Socrates and to Christ the crown of thorns." The history of the poor youth, who was " Only a Fiddler," is full of interest, for it is full of truth ; while the adventures of the beautiful Jewess, Naomi, possess all the adventitious charms of romance. Every page contains some beautiful expression or some bright thought, like the following : " Dead! a world of sorrow lies in this one word. It is a two-edged sword, which, at the same time that it murders the beloved of our heart, penetrates so deeply into the bosom that everything around us becomes dark, even though the sun shine upon millions of happy beings. A single word, short as the other, is able to drop consolation into the sick heart and vouchsafe assistance ; it is We find here the same ardent love of Italy which cha racterised the former work, but it is no longer a joyous description of the beautiful country—it is the distant as pirations of a child of the North for the road of smiles and sunshine. The Alps are the goal of all his desires. He wishes to fly with the storks from the snows of his own home, and seek the land of his lo ve an d hi s dreams. The following is one of his numerous allusions to his be loved Italy : " Her thoughts were dreaming of the peninsular, and therefore she did not enjoy the present; they flew to the true country of the Fata Morgana, towards Italy's sacred halls of art. The Alps are their portals, the eagle a sparrow, which builds its nest in their cornice; the pine -trees lift up their lofty columns with their evergreen capitals. Here is the home of music ; here blooms the rose in the Alpine snow. The earth on which thy foot treads is drunken with the blood of her noblest, is sanctified by the marble with which the temples of antiquity are raised. Into the dead stone is life breathed; it becomes an image which ravishes thy soul. The sea is beautifully blue as the petal of the corn-Bower, transparent as the drops of the fountain. Houris, lovely as those from the paradise of Mahomet, smile on thee, land of music and of colouring—ltalia! " Thither! ' sang the poet of Mignon, and a thousand hearts repeat, as a lamenting echo, the words of painfully sweet longing, which will never be realised." SPANISH DEBT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—as the time for announcing the nature of M. Mon's new arrangement approaches, the different creditors seem on the qui rice as to their allotments under it. Some say, " Carry out the arrangement of 1843," and they are forth with answercdby other creditors, who say, " It never has been carried out in its real meaning, and at any rate is now de funct by bankruptcy." One thing appears tolerably clear, viz :—That it was unfair to the Cortes bondholders, ab initio, and therefore that a just Minister of Finance would hail any lawful opening for adjusting the equities of the various claimants upon the Spanish Treasury; at the Pame time the odds are fearful, and it needs a firm mind to resist the many importunities assailing him to continue the dishonest advan tages which appear hitherto to have been practically obtained ( whatever was the intent) by the previous French creditors, and those who became new creditors in 11134, over the Cortes loan holders in respect to their unpaid interest. The parties either by themselves, or by representation, are as follows :—Gueb herd's Loan, Rentes Perpetuelles Loan, New Loan of 1834, and all holders of principal with simple interest, r. Arrear of interest from 1823 to 1834 on the Cortes Loans, and its com pound intores—or, four to one. Will the righteous and just principles of the gpanish financier turn the scale ? Verrons. Your obedient servant, and subscriber, AN OLD HOLDER OF CORTES BONDS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHAMPTON RACES.—MONDAY. The Southampton Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added ; the second to save his stake. One mile and three quarters. Mr. Roles Hampton, 6 yr 5...... Mr. Death's Misdeal, 6 yrs ••• •• 00000 2 Mr. Treen's Wild Rose, 3 yrs The Maiden Plate of 30 sovs., added to a Sweepstake of 3 sovs. each ; three yrs old, 7st 51b ; four, Bst 61b ; five Bst 101 b; six and aged, 9st; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs. if demanded, &c. If entered to be sold for 80 sovs. allowed 51b ; for 60/., 101 b ; for 40/., 141 b. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. R. J. Southby's b g Waterloo, 6 yrs (Parr) 0 1 1 Mr. Wilson's Jessie Hammond, 3 yrs (40) 1 0 3 Mr. Hardy's Corinthian Tom, 3 yrs Mr. Goldsworthy's br g Strap, 6 yrs (40) The Shirley Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added; two yrs old, Est; three, 7st 71b; four, Bst 101 b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 41b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Th e winner to be sod for 120 soya., if demanded, &c. Winners extra. T.Y.C. Mr. E Dyson's b h Devil-to-pay, 4 yrs (Mann) 1 Lord G. Bentinek's br f Malvoisie, 2 yrs 2 Mr. Wilson's ch f Miss Diggory Diddle, 4 yrs 3 The Member's Plate of 501, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each. Three-yrs-old, 7st 21b; four, Bst 61b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st. 41b. Mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Winners, &c. Heath, once round and a distance. Mr. Bray's Paul Clifford, 5 yrs TUESDAY. The Stoneham Park Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added. Weights, &c., the same as for the Member's Plate. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Treen's Wild Roe, 3 yrs (150) ... 1 • .... Mr. Sadler's Idleness, 4 y - rs (150) Mr. Death's Isleworth, 6 yrs (60) Mr. Pearce's Florine, 3 yrS (CO) Mr. Dorrien's b c by Slane, Out . of Adela, 3 yrs 5 dr The Hunters' Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added; four vrs old lOst, five 1 Ist, six and aged list 71b; thorough bred and winners extra. The winner to be sold for 200 sm. if demanded, &c.; gentlemen riders. Mile and three quarters. Mr. R. Southby's Waterloo, 6 yrs Mr. Hardy's Little Dan, aged Mr. Bray's Paul Clifford, 5 yrs The Borough Stakes of 3 sous. each, with 25 added (three yrs old 7st 41b, four Bst 61b, five Bst 121 b. six and aged 9st llb ; mares, &c., allowed 31b; heats, once round and a dis tance) were won in three heats. by Mr. Bray's Adrian, aged, Bst, beating Mr. Godsworthy's Strap, 6 yrs, Bst, Mr. Sadler's b fby Venison, out of Folly, 3 yrs, 6st 31b, and Mr. Wil son's Freystrop, 4 yrs. The Champagne Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 30 added, for three yrs old and upwards (winner to be sold for 80/., once round (6 Subs.), were won in four heats by Mr. Hardy's Corinthian Tom, 3 yrs, beating Mr. King's The Artful Dodger, 6 yrs, and Mr. J. Southby's Waterloo, 6 yrs. The Handicap for the beaten horses was won by Mr. Death's Isleworth, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Wakefield), beating Mr. Wilson's Miss Diggory Diddle, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b, and three others. UXBRIDGE YEOMANRY RACES.—TUESDAY. The Handicap race was won in four heats by Mr. Draper's Bobby, 12st (owner), beating Mr. T. Williamson's Maid of the Mill, 12st, Mr. F. Norman's King of the Gipsies, and three others. The Sweepstakes, catch weights, were won, in two heats, by Mr. Roadnight's Ten of T rum p s , beating Rubens.i The Yeomanry race was won, in two heats, by Mr. Bayley's Gardener (owner), beating Alice Gray, Beeswing, Fanny, and several others. REDDITCH RACES—MONDAY. • The Hack Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Haly's br g The Bird, 6 yrs, I Ist 71b (Bradley) 1 0 1 Mr. Wycherley's g Heir-at-Law, 3 yrs, 9st 41b Mr. Dan's br g Fickle, 6 yrs, list, 71b Mr. Hatherley's b h Young Economy, 6 )79, list 101 b Mr. Palmer's bm by Wamba, 6 yrs, 1 Ist lib Mr. Perks na Ranger, aged, 11 st 71b The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 15 added, two miles, were won in two heats, by Mr. Perks na Ranger, aged, list 91b, beating Mr. Williamson's Lawyer, Ilst 91b, and Mr. Godwin's Pretty Doe, I Ist 91b. The Sweepstakes of 1 soy. each, with a purse added, were won in two heats by Mr. Custree's na Jem Crow, 6 yrs, beating Mr. Perks na Warwickshire Lass, aged, Mr. Hum phrey's Little Fanny, and Mr. Richards's Young Deputy, 3 yrs. NEW ZEALAND. The Terror schooner arrived on Sunday from Auck land, and the Lady Leigh from Kaw-an. They bring no tidings of new disasters, but intimate that the colo nists of New Zealand are not at their ease. Seven hun dred names are enrolled as a militia, for the defence of Auckland. We have no account of Wellington in this respect, but troops had been sent there in her Majesty's ship Hazard. The Commander, Captain Robertson, we are happy to say, is recovering from his wounds, but is not yet able to leave his bed. In consequence of a son of a chief, named Nene, the most powerful of those re siding near the now desolate village of Russell, at the Bay of Islands, Heki, whose party had had the misfor tune to kill him, gave satisfaction to Nene by a skirmish with his followers, whereby one of Heki's party was killed, and the two chiefs then became reconciled. The chiefs of the Ngatiwhstua tribe had informed Governor Fitzroy that Heki had asked their permission to pass throu l ih their lands to attack Auckland, If this be true, Heki has altered his mind, and is beginning to think of general hostilities against the British. Heki's request was refused. The settlers generally, backed by some of the members of the council, ecutinue their hostile feelings against Mr. Clarke, the protector of the aborigines. But the Governor had declared that that officer is more essential to him, through late events, than ever. We are glad the Governor is firm in keeping this officer to his duty. Mr. Clarke has very likely not acted prudently in all his dealings with the natives ; he may have erred in over kindness to them ; but to his prudence and talents ge nerally the Governor has given the strongest testimony. He is essential to Captain Fitzroy's Government. Gold, silver, and copper money had all disappeared equally from circulation. What the ship masters had left behind became hoarded. Debenture notes as luw as five shillings were passing, and notes of individuals were issued and taken as low as a penny. Fourpenny pieces and halfpence, it seems, were thought worth hoarding in the present state of the settlements. Governor Fitzroy's new property-tax having completely failed, the old customs duties had been re-enacted. We ex pected this would be the result. New colonists will never pay direct taxes, without law ; and law," when every settler is a defendant, is out of the question. The salaries of public officers were in arrears. We deeply sympathise with our brother settlers in New Zealand, one and all. But they may console themselves with this reflection—though it will prove barren for ten or twelve months—that the deeper their pre sent distress, and the greater the confusion which may at present prevail, the more effectual will be the arm which Parliament and Downing-street will, for the honour of old England, stretch out for their present relief and permtmeut support. Forty. five passengers arrived by the Terror, of whom half were children ; and eight by the Lady Leigh. We expected a much great number. The Governor was personally sanguine that all the chiefs but lieki would remain peaceable ; but the community was doubtful. We are glad they were, for danger will make the settlers cautious, and keep them alive in defence. To sup pose that the New Zealanders, so long as they think them selves the strongest (and perhaps at present they are), will forego the prospect of war and plunder, after the success at Russell, is what we will not believe, until we hear of the ar rival in those islands of troops from England. The troops sent there hence may keep the natives quiet at present, but war is in their hearts, or the character of the New Zealander has hitherto been strangely misrepresented. They are a people who delight in war. lieki may not be a plunderer, and only a national patriot. But, as a patriot, he is as dan gerous as his plundering brother chiefs. His morals may be good, but his feelings are anti-British. That is enough for us. The only man who, it appears, is likely to keep the New Zealanders quiet, is Mr. Clarke, and the clew , and mis- Piionaries of all sects, Protestant and Roman. let the set tlers wish to get rid of the former, and we rather suspect of the latter too. We are glad. this wish cannot be realised.— The Australian, April 29. The Kate, which arrived yesterday evening from Auck land, brings intelligence from the Bay of Islands to the date of her sailing. She touched at the entrance of the bay on the evening of the 18th ult., and left the following morning, when she saw her Majesty's ship Hazard, from Auckland, going in there, with ammunition for the chief of Hokianga, Tomati Walker (Ni who, with his tribe (being very numerous), are at war with John Held, in consequence of the tribe of the latter having killed a child belonging to Ni Ni. When the Kate left the tight was still going on, and several on both sides were killed and wounded. Shortly after the affray at Kororarika, nine American set tlers, who resided about six or seven miles from the Bay were killed by the natives. It appeared that when the oc currence took place, they had gone to Kororarika, to obtain some of ohe spoil which the natives had taken from the European settlers, when they were butchered in some man. ner not described. _ _ _ The barracks and town of Auckland were being fortified. The natives were daily expected there. Heki and hi s p arty would, no doubt, have been there prior to the Kate leaving, but for the engagement with Ni Ni at the Bay. The Militia Bill had passed at Auckland, and seemed very obnoxious to the inhabitants. Her Majesty's ship North Star was lying there.--The A ut t ra li an ,May 6. LOVE ON THE OCEAN. " Oh I is there not something, dear Augustus, truly sub lime in this warring of the elements ?' But Augustus's heart was too full to speak."—M.S. Need by Lady i " ". They met, 'twas in a storm, On the deck of a steamer ; She spoke in language warm, Like a sentimental dreamer. He spoke —at least he tried ; His position he altered ; Then turned his face aside, And his deep- toned voice falter'd. She gazed upon the wave, Sublime she declared it ; But no reply he gave— He could not have dared it :I A breeze came from the south, Across the billows sweeping ; His heart was in his mouth, And out he thought 'twas leaping. " 0, then, Steward," ho cried, With the deepest emotion ; Then totter'd to the side, And leant o'er the ocean. The world may think him cold, But they'll pardon him with quickness, When the fact they shall be told, That he suffered from sea.sickness. —Punch. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. A Parliamentary paper has been issued containing copies of the correspondence on the subject of the Colo nial Land Fund of South Australia. There aro fifteen letters and dispatches in the correspondence. Several holders of special surveys i n S out h A us tralia com plained in Aug us t, 1844, to Lor d S tan l e y, as Co lonial Secretary, that they purchased land under the 4th and sth William IV., c. 95, on the faith that the whole o f th e purchase-money should be ap plied to the giving a free passage to labouring emigrants, which promise had not been kept. The reply was to the effect that South Australia having become insolvent, the resources of that settlement did not supply any means of sending out emigrants in respect of the previous purchases of land, and that no vote was taken of British funds for the purpose. The memorialists again urged their claims on Lord Stanley, remarking that, however, as individuals they regretted the insolvency of the colony, their money was paid under the guarantee of an Act of Parliament, and trusted that his Lordship would bring their claims before Parliament. Lord Stanley, by his Secretary (Mr. H o p e , M.P.), repudiated the construction put on the Act, and re fused to make any application to Parliament. The holders again addressed his Lordship in January last, which called forth a reply, without relief. In February another letter was sent by the holders of special surveys, in which the following passages appear :—" We beg to assure your Lordship we feel confirmed and fortified in the jus tice of our claims, by the consideration that at one time you regarded them favourably, and we trust we may be excused expressing our ignorance of aught wh ich may be excused expressing our ignorance of aught which may have occurred since to alter our views. Our patient endur ance of delay, and our urging our claims at a period when the fulfilment of them would be most beneficial to all parties, we trust, gives us an increased demand for a favourable consideration." His Lordship merely re ferred in answer to his former letter. It appears that Governor Grey recommended to Lord Stanley that a further sum of 2,0001. should be applied for the purpose of emigration to South Australia, in con sequence of the purchases of waste land therein; and by the concluding document in the correspondence, bearing date the 7th July last, Lord Stanley stated that, un d er all the cir cumstances, and adverting to the satisfactory progress of the Land Fund, the advance of the 2,0001. would be made for the purpose of emigration. THE HERRING FISHERY. WICK, SEPT. 11.—Contr ary to g enera l expectation, our fishing has not yet en t irely terminated, although it has only bean prosecuted during the week by a few boats. The following has been the result :—On Monday night only a few boats were out , highest 22 crans. Tuesday, 70 boats out ; average, 5 crans. Wednesday, 100 boats out; average, 4 crans. ST. MARGARET'S HOPE, SEPT. 10.—Since I wrote to you last we have had excellent fishing. M ore herrings have been caught in this district during the past week than all that was got during the previous part of the season. Our average now is about fo r ty- seven crane, and we expect herrings yet. LERWICK, SEPT. 8.--The fishing has done better here this week than during any previous week this season. The whole of the east side of the island has also done pretty well. SKERRIES (ZETLAND) —Twenty boats have caught 1,000 crans during the week, and should the weather continue good there is good ground for expecting. an abundant fishing this weak, as there is a very large shoal on the coast. WHALSAY (ZETLAND). — The boats fishing here ca ug ht 380 crans during the week. — John o , Groat Journal. EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE.—An extensive dairy man, named Jenkins, residing near Mitcham, in surrey has hitherto adopted a remedy against the prevailing distemper in cattle, which has proved in every instance efficacious. Then he perceived a cow to fall off her food, 11-, without any loss of time, caused a l arge pan of warm gruel to be prepared, and administered t o th e i ndisposed animal two gallons of the same, three times a day, by means of a drenching horn. This plan he continued to follow up for seven or eight days following, when the creature's ruminating properties be came gradually restored, and as she returned to her usual food, she was found to regain her health and strength. This, ho avers, is all that he did in above fifteen cases of vaccine distemper, and he holds it as his belief that it is on account of the animals being unable to eat, owing to the whole of their palates being abrased and exeoriated, that they pins away and die, whiled, if they were supported and sus tained by artificial remedies, until the palates of the beasts were fur nished with a new coating, they would, in almost every instance, SurrlT6 the starving malady. TUESDAY. The Tradesmen's Plate of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added, two miles, was won in two heats by Mr. Barton's Glide-away, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (FlintotT), beating Mr. Wycherley's Heir-at- Law, 7st, and Mr. Simm's Kitty, 9st Sib. The Hurdle Race of 4 soy& each, with 20 added, two miles, was won in two heats by Mr. Robertson's Wasp, aged, 1 Ist 91b, beating Mr. Robinson's Man-trap, list 91b, and Mr. Wil liamson's Lawyer, list 91b. The Stewards' Purse of 20 soya., added to a Handicap of 3 sovs. each, two miles, was won in three heats, by Mr. Perks na Ranger, 9st 71b, beating Mr. Wycherley's Heir-at-Law, 3 yrs, 9st 71b, and Mr. Flintoff's Exciseman, 5 yrs, 109 t. HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S RACES.—THURSDIT. Match-50 soya., h ft, Bst 71b each, once round. Mr. Royd's Treaty received from Mr. T. Smith's Five-times-Five. The Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft, with 35 added. 'Heath, once round and a distance. _. Mr. Dockerav's Lady Charlotte, 4 yrs (Hornsby) 1 1 Mr. S. Smith's Beggar Girl, 5 yr 5....... Mr. Shelly's Alkali, 3 yrs 2 3 The Town Plate of 50 sous. Heats, twice round. White's br f Teresa, 4 yrs (Wakefield) 1 1 Nunn's b c Dalesman, 4 yrs Cook's b f Petrowna, 3 yr 5..... Way's ch g Fee Simple, 4 yrs 3 dr Mathews's ch f The Handmaiden, 5 yrs BRECONSHIRE RACES.—WEDszsnAr The Ladies' Plate. Heats, two miles. Mr. Smith's eh g Sands, 5 yrs ... (Griffiths) 1 1 Mr. Pow ell's ch h Delamere, 3 yrs Mr. Parr's ch m Ninety-one, 4 yrs Mr. Ball's b c Derision, 5 yrs Mr. Henderson's br f Lady Charlotte, 3 yrs 0 dr The Usk Stakes of 5 sons. each, 2 ft, with 15 added ; the winner to be sold for 501. Heats, one mile. • Mr. Parr's b f Lady Harriet, 3 yrs (Leppard) 4 3 3 1 1 Mr. Williams's ch in Linnte, 6 yrs 3 0 1 2 2 Mr. Henderson's b h Comet, 5 yrs 1 0 3 dr Mr. Bosley's b g Brewood, aged ... 2 0 dr The Free Handicap of 2 sous. each, with 15 added. Heath, Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. once round and a distance. Mr. Smith's ch g Sands, 5 yrs ...(Griffiths) 1 1 Mr. Simmond's b g British Grenadier, 3 yrs .. Mr. Ball's b g Derision, 5 vrs NEWMARKET SECO INTELLIGENCE ND OCTOBER EXTRA. MEETING, 1845. Acceptances for the Cesarewitch Stakes. Gorhambury, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—Discord, aged. Bst 91b— Trueboy, 6 vrs, Bst 91b—Red Deer, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Stomacher, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—General Pollock, 5 yrs, Bst Hlb—Lightning, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Rowena, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—I-am-not-aware, aged, 7st 101b—Intrepid, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Miss Elis, 3 yrs, 7st 71 b—Vol-au-Vent, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Poussin, 5 yrs, 7st 51b Nottingham, 5 yrs, 7st slb Teetotaller, 6 yrs, 7st 51b—P an t asa, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—The Nells, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Red Rover, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Hope, 3 yes, 7st 21 b--Annandale, 3 yrs, 7st—Wee Pet, 5 yrs, est 131 b —The Baron, 3 yrs, 6st 131b—Arctic, aged,• Est 121 b —Plantagenet, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Longitude, 3 yrs, Est I lib—My Old Hack, aged, Est 1 Ilb—Pergularia, 4yrs, Est Illb —2Egis, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Paint Brush, 3 ps, 6st 81b—Laird o'Cockpen, 3 yrs, est 81b—Lady Wildair, 3 yrs, Est 81b— Boarding-school Miss, 4 yrs, est 71b—Alice (h b), 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Clumsy, 3 yrs, fist 41b—Metal, 3 3 , rs, est—Remorse, 3 yrs, 6st—Seven's-the-Main, 4 yrs, sst 1 Ilb—Kesheng, 3 yrs, sst 1 lib—Jenny Wren, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Ruff, 3 yrs, sst 81b— My Mary, 3 yrs, sst 81b—The Cook, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Petit Morceau, 3 yrs sst 41b—Y. Eclipse, 3 y rs , s s t 41b—S eaman, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Sister: to Ma Mie, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Devil's Dust, 3 yrs, 4st 1 11b—Deodara, 3 yrs, 4st 111b—Jet, 3 yrs, 4st 71b —f by Velocipede, out of Amaryllis, 3 y rs , 4 s t 41b . NEWMARKET HOUGHTON' MEETING. Acceptances for the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Coranna, 6 yrs, Oat 21b—Discord, aged, 9st 21b—The Cure, 4 yrs, 9st—Queen Mab, 6 yrs, Bst 121b—Gorhambury, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—Lothario, 5 yrs, Bst 91b—Bishop of Romford's ea, 5 yrs, Bst 61b—Trueboy, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—Garry Owen, aged, Bst 31b—Needful, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Extempore, 5 yrs, Bst 21b— Red Deer, 4 yrs, Bst—Yardley, 5 vrs, Bst—Somiseria, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Crcesus, aged, 7st 111h—Mentor, 3 yrs, 7st 91b—Alarm, 3 yrs, 7st 91b—Example, 4 yrs, 7st 91b —Espoir, 4 yrs, 7st Mb—Young Lochinvar, 5 yrs, 7st 81b—Lightning, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Perkin Warbeck, 4 yrs, ist 81b—Little John, 4 yrs, 7st 71b— Refraction, 3 yrs, 7st 51b—Nottingham, 5 yrs, 7st'4lb—lron master, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Pantasa, 3 yrs, Tat 41b—Rowena, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Mid-Lothian,3yrs, 7st 4 1b—Bliss Elis, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Hope, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—titmouse, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Red Rover, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Wolf-dog, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Duc-ar- Durras, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Vaudeville, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—St. Ber nard, 6 yrs, 7st 21b—Caen, 5 yrs, 7st—Ould Ireland, 3 yrs, 71b—Valerian, 4 yrs, 7st—Connaught Ranger, 3 vrs, 7st— Annandale, 3 yrs, Est 131b—The Baron, 3 .yrs, oat 1211) .Secundus, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Wee Pet, 5 yrs, 6st 1 Ilb Longitude, 3 yrs, est 111b—Everton, 5 yrs, est I lib—Dean Svrift, 3 yrs, est 101b—Comrade, 3 .yrs, Est 91b—Physalis, 4 yrs, 6st 91b—/Egis, 3 yr s , e s t 91b—Lady Wildair, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Laird o'Cockpen, 3 yrs, est 91b—Elemi, 4 yrs, Est 91b—Fitzallen, 3 yrs, 6st 91b—Chcrtsey, 3 yrs, Est 71b— Paint Brush, 3 yrs, est 71b—colt by Slane, out of Cobweb, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Alice (h b), 4 yrs, est 61b —Croton Oil, 4 yrs, Est 61b—Hartshorn, 5 vrs, est 61b— Clumsy, 3 yrs, Est 61b—Venus, 3 yrs, Est 41b —Mongrel, 3 yrs, Est 21b—Best Bower, 4 yrs, 6st 21b—Event, 3 yrs, 6st 21b— Remorse, 3 yrs, fist—My Mary, 3 yrs, 6st—Kesheng, 3 yrs, sst 1 9 1b—c by Elia, out of Mopsa, 3 yrs, sst 111b—Praise, 3 yrs, sst 91b—Stamp, 3 yes, Sat Mb—Jenny Wren,_ 3yrs, sst 61b—Lyons, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Devil's Dust, 3Yrs,lt 91b— Jet, 61. t,3 b yrs, 4st 91b—f by Velocipede, out of Amaryllis, yrs, 4f RATS.—These obnoxious and disgusting vermin are so numerous in the vicinity of Messrs. Goodhall's wharf, situate on the margin of the Regent's Canal, St. Pancras, that they may be observed in open day parading on the foot way, despite of dogs and cats, which appear to entertain a neighbourly re'pect for them. They have burrowed the banks through until the latter assume the complexion of an extensive honeycomb, and they are so daring that they will walk into persons' houses and sniff about the rooms in the presence of the inmates, who (females in particular) are fear fully alarmed at the sight of these obtrusive aninials. - : 77Z \ TRANSPORTATION. In the last report of the inspectors of Millbank Prison, the following information is afforded on the subject of transportation :—After a careful personal examination of the prisoners and of the documents transmitted with them, the inspectors recommend such disposal with re ference to the age, crime, sentence, and previous convic tions of each prisoner, as in accordance with the general principles of the system of convict dir•cipline which has been established lay Lord Stanley in the penal colonies, under which the convicts have to pass through certain stages of detention and discipline before they become free. The following is an outline of the mode of dis posal of male transports under the instructions of the Secretary of State :—Adult male prisoners sentenced to transportation for life ; th e more aggravated cases of convicts sentenced for any term not less than fifteen years ; all prisoners sentenced for transportation for any term for burglary, arson, rape, forgery, or for robberies attended with personal violence ; and pri soners sentenced to transportation for any offence or term who have been previously transported —are sent to Norfolk Island for terms of not less than two or more than four years. After the pre scribed period of detention in Norfolk Island they have to pass through certain terms in Van Diemen's Land, first in the probationary gang, afterwards as probation pass-holders, and finally as holders of tickets of leave before they obtain their freedom. Other adult male prisoners, with the exception of those selected for Pen tonville Prison, are sent to Van Diemen's Land for a term'of detention in the probationary gangs of not less than one year, nor, in except incases of misconduct, of more than two years ; these prisoners afterwards pass through the stages of probationary pass and ticket of leave•holders before they obtain their freedom. It ap pears that other prisoners are sent to Gibraltar and Ber muda and Pentonville Prison, before they are sent to the Australian colonies, or Van Diemen's Land; others, who are unfit for active lablur, to the invalid hulk at Woolwich. Juvenile male prisoners under sentence of transportation, who are deemed tit subjects, are sent to Parkhurst Prison, and the remainder are sent to Point Puer in Van Diemen's Land, where there is an (tete, blishment for convict boys. METEOROLOGICAL PREDIC TIONS, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEA THER TO THE MONTH OF DECEMBER IN CLUSIVE. (From the Cheltenham Journal of Sept. 1.) The statement of th e weat h er , as published in the Cheltenham papers in May last, and subsequently in the Morning Herald and Sun newspapers, was to the follow ing effect :—" June, to the 10th of the month, will be generally cold for the season"—the result exactly corre sponded. " From the 10th to the 21st the heat will in crease considerably." It will be well remembered that from the 11th or 12th to the 21st of June, the heat became excessive. Prediction, from the 21st to the end of the month, " considerably colder ;" the result corre sponding. • July prediction.—" From the 2d to the 10th the heat will again increase, though not so powerfully as ex perienced during the period frem the 10th to the 21st of June." The result of the weather from July 3d to the 10th was a return of the heat to a considerable extent ; from the 10th of the month the weather became un settled, cold at intervals, and much wet. The cold and wet on the approach of August, to the Bth day, con tinued as stated in the prediction. August, "cold to the 7th." Prediction from the 7th of August.—The weather would be very hot, and fine harvest weather would suc ceed to the month of September. Result.—The Bth of August proved a fine day, but was followed on the 9th and 10th by two wet ones. Since the 11th inclusive, the weather continued gradually improving until Monday (18th) 10 P.M., when it rained much until Tuesday evening. With the exception of this one wet day the weather has been progressing to fine, and to the day I write, 22d August, is splendid The error to be acknowledged in this prediction is, that it has been cold generally from the 17th to the 21st, in place of being hot, as predicted, arising from an in clement aspect with the Sun and Herschel!. which I had omitted to calculate. The science of Meteorology is one of groat magnitude, wherein many aspects are to be mentally weighed and considered. The improvements commencing from the 11th of August, within throe days of my prediction, will generally continue until Sept. 3, and probably longer, which interval will balance with the published statement in May last, viz., that from the Bth August and September would be fine for the harvest. We will now treat upon the month of September. From the present date, 22d of August, to the 3d of Sep tember, the atmosphere is under the favourable influence of a trine of the Sun and Jupiter, and will, as observed in May, produce " fine harvest weather." About the Bth, the Sun being in parallel to Venus, will tend to occasional showers ; on the Isth the Sun is in declination to au inclement planet, therefore it will be cool for the season, as the 15th approaches. From the 10th to the 18th, I conceive, if cold, it will be fine, but the period is dubious, and I am not over confident, suc ceeded as it is on the 21st by inclement action, which will render it cold from the 21st to the end of the month. October, from and after the 9th, will be as warm and as fine as any October on record, to the end of the mouth, and although late may nevertheless prove in valuable to the harvest—there are no inclement aspects operating. Noveciiber we have several inclement aspects, such as the Sun in square to Saturn on the sth, and parallel of that body on the 13th, and a continuous semi-square of the planet Venus all the month, which, collectively con sidered, will cause cold and moisture to prevail during the month, but not intensely so. Near the end rather frosty. _ December, 1845. Near the 7th or 10th, the weather will be mild for the season to the 21st, and though occa sionally showers will occur, from the continuous semi square of the Sun and Venus, still the weather may be considered favourable and mild for December. About the 21st it will be fine but a frosty air, as the Sun forms two inclement aspects, and to the end of the month it will incline to frost severely extending to January, 1846, inclusive. If this study, which from its magnitude requires con siderable diligence, together with the closest appli c ati o n, may conduce to the assistance of agriculture or other scientific advantages, why a purpose of some utility will be answered by the time devoted to it. C er t a i n l am that all the minute and important changes in the state of our atmosphere are greatly connected with the elec tric action of the planetary bodies conjointly with each other, and their magnetic attraction, when forming cer tain angles, with the Sun and the globe we inhabit. That the attention, gratuitous as it has been, has not been un succesful, I may instance several important epochs. Firstly, the rains continuously almost of 1841 and 1842, in autumn of the former year ; the drought* published in April, 1844, to last until August, a period of four months, " with but slight intermissions ;" and the incle ment winter of 1844 and 5, published in June, 1844, to be "such a winter" that had not been experienced since 1814, and as the term winter lasts from December till March inclusive, the sting then felt will not be readily forgotten. . _ But in all the predictions submitted, I have repeatedly stated that the balance of testimony must decide. I do not pretend to the accuracy of a single day. Petty ob jections were made upon the drought the very first shower, still it was nevertheless a drought, and keenly the farmer felt it, the great average of the period pre dicted being dry. So it was with the predicted severe winter because there was a remission of cold in January, 1845, for nearly three weeks ; December previously, and February and March subsequently, but too severely proved the average amount of time implied in the term " winter" was but too well fulfilled. Again, in the prediction published last May, we have June the periods of weather accurately defined. Also in July, and in August, the cold to the 7th, so unusual, and the progression to fine wea• ther from the 11th inclusive to the present time, so promising, all correct (excepting the intense heat) for a period of three months. The public) have now a further period before them, as a test of the principle on which my Meteorological observations are founded. Subsequently the winter predic tions will appear, and the balance of testimony will decide on the correctness of the system, or my knowledge of that system. Not the intervening con verse effect of a day, for even to the 3d of September the most promising aspect we have, may admit of such a remission, when the bias to a stormy period prevails so long, and its operation not completely neutralised to the time I write. G. T. F. SMITH. • We have no account in any of our English publications of any competing announcment of the drought above mentioned, there fore it is fair to assume that, with the above exception, such was unnoticed by any authority in Europe. And scientifically consi dered, as a demonstration of cause and effect, is deserving attention, for whilst the drought was operating the attributed cause was the conjunction of Ilcrschell and Jupiter in north declination, aspected by Saturn, lasting until August, that on their separation it would cease, and on their return in winter, 1844-5, would produce such a winter of severity, not equ died since the one of 1814. This state ment appeared in June, three months previous to 31. Arago's coin ciding prediction of the winter being announced in England. The Court of Assizes of the Seine was occupied yesterday with the trial of Jacques Ribiere, aged 23, for rol'n bery and incendiarism. It appeared that die prisoner was, e _ January, 1843, in the service of an old officer named barracks.S fus, holding the post of concierge at the Popi t n h ceouerthomchamber of One night a cry was heard to the prisoner, and on some persons opening Another room was also found that the room was On tire• and the froin the door is was prisoner appeared discovered to be in the same state, eo much overcome with the iers smo ke got ec under ndroo as to be nearly suffocated: By the exertions of the h in both places. I d d iscov t e h r e el a th n l e t s in we t r h e e a secretary andlt7rciatsintgfdesk had been forced open, and large SUMS of money in notes and gold taken out. Suspicion f e ll on the prisoner, and he was arrested ; but as no property was timed on him, and as no proof could be procured, after some time he was dismissed. Ile then went to Bella; his native place, and there spent large sums of money, for the posses sion of which he accounted for differently and contradictorily. He afterwards disappeared, and nothing was heard of him until lately, when he was arrested at Marseilles. He was brought up yesterday to take his trial for having robbed M. Saurefus, and then set fire to the place to conceal his crime. When asked to explain the possession of the large sums of money which he spent in his native place, he replied that he had found the treasure of Courvoisier. The latter, it may be remembered, had committed a number of robberies in the Faubourg St. Germain, and had succeeded in concealing from detection the property which he had accumulated. When confronted with Courvoisier the latter denied positively that the prisoner's story could pcsly be true. The prisoner per sisted in his assertion, and declared that having been detected by Courvoisier he had given him back a I,ooof. note. Courvoisier allo we d th a t the prisoner had handed him such a note, but it was for the purpose of getting it changed for hirn. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to hard labour for lace.. Galignatti of Tuesday, GRATIS. THE MURDER OF MR. THOMAS PEACOP, NEAR ROCK FERRY. (From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.) Yesterday the prisoners were again brought up before the Rev. R. M. Fielden, W. Jackson, Esq., and W. Porter, Esq. The Court was, as on the previous day, crowded with per sons of all classes, and the greatest excitement was mani fested. The first evidence taken was that of Mr. John Fisher Kevzar, commercial traveller, who said that he lodged at New Ferry, near the turnpike-gate. On the slight of the 31st of December last he came from Liverpool by the nine o'clock boat, and after landing he proceeded towards his home by Rock-lane. When he had reached the top, and was turning into the road to Chaster, be heard a cry of "murder." It did not strike him that it was anything more than a drunken brawl, and he did not take much notice of it. The cry was repeated again and again, and apparently became fainter. N% hen he had gone about 200 yards he per ceived something lying on the ground from which the cries proceeded, and he hastened to the spot. The night was very thick and dark, and he had to get quite close before lie per ceived that a man was lying on the ground wtth two men dressed in white clothes on him. One was at his head try ing to stifle his cries, and the other was riding his pockets. Witness said, " Come off the man, you would not murder him?" He took hold of the coat °lone to pull him oft; when he suddenly perceived a third man in dark clothee, who struck him a blow on the forehead, and knocked him sense less. He distinctly sass' the stick with which the blow was given. It was apparently about two feet long, and had a lump at the end of it ; the lump seemed Wry large to what the stick was, IN'hen witness came to himself, he found that he was lying on the road. Ile went into Butler's public house and told them what had happened. Witness was con fined to his bed a week from the effects of the blow; the large scar on his forehead was the result of it. He arse received - a severe blow on the shoulder, but he did not recollect that being inflicted. It was done after his senses were gone. Cross-examined by Mr. Chew—Could not swear to the stick if he were to see it again. Superintendent M‘Kay produced a stick found in Lynch's house, about eighteen inches in length, with one end covered for several inches with lead ; but on its being shown to the witness he said that had not the appearance of the weapon with which he was wounded; the knob was not sufficiently distinct. The head of a pavier's hammer, con sisting of a lump of iron about an inch and a half long, an inch broad, and an inch thick, also found in Lynch's house, was next shown to the witness, and he said it would make such a knob as the one with which he was wounded. Mary Sparks, daughter of a farmer at Rock Ferry, remem bered the night of the Stst of December. She came from Liverpool with her sister in the nine o'clock boat. Mr- Keyzar . went on the lane before - them. On reaching the wood they heard the cry of " Murder," and " Pray, spare my life." They went on, but hearing a noise, were afraid to proceed, and waited in the road mall constable Newton came up. They saw two men run away over the field on the road side. Alice Sparks corroborated her sister'll testimony. John Newton, police-constable, said that he saw the Rock Ferry nine o'clock boat land, and the parties who had given evidence go on the lane. Ile followed, and heard a noise, but not the cries of murder. lie found the Misses Sparks in a state of great alarm ; and they went on under hie pro tection. About half way between Mr. Peacop's shop and the end of the Rock-lane, he found a man lying on the cause way. Ile lifted him up, and the blood fell like rain en his hand. He took the man towards Butler's public-house, and met some parties coming from thence in search of the do ceased; and he then found it was Mr. Peacop. After the examination of other witnesses, Mr. Palmer, special high constable of the hundred of Wir rall having deposed upon oath that he had further important evidence against the prisoners, they were remanded until this day (Wednesday), at two o'clock. The prisoners were then removed, and the crowds of people who were collected in the neighbourhood of the courts shortly dispersed. We have been informed that Burns, who has impeacheti his accomplices, was in the habit of making dangerous hints while in Birkenhead, and that his life had been threatened by the others if he were not more discreet. They then found the money to take him to his own country ; but change of scene could not quiet the stings of conscience-, and that, making known his crime to a priest, under the seal of confession, the reverend father advised him to make a clean breast by giving information. BIRKENHEAD, WEDICESDAY.—The further examination was proceeded with to-day. A company of the 47th Foot took up their quarters at the Town-hall, which adjoins the Bridewell. During the whole night, and up to the period of the removal of the prisoners this evening, all sides of the prison were guarded with double sentries. A disg-raceful scene occurred just before the opening of the court One after noon. Several of the soldiers were in a most beastly state of intoxication, one so dead drunk that he was carried through the court into the Bridewell. Two others were also obliged to be locked up in consequence of their disorderly state. The magistrates on the bench were the Rev. R. Fielden. Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, J. R. Shaw, Henry Winch, William Jackson, and William Potter, Esqs. There were also in court, amongst other gentlemen from the surrounding neighbourhood, Sir Joshua Walmsley, Mr. Rushton, the stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool, and Mr. Dobbing, the head-constable. The prisoners Tullant, Lynch, Nowlan, and Burns , having been placed at the. bar, the' first witness called was Mr. J. C. Foulkes, the surgeon, who attended the deceased, and after wards made a post mortem examination of the body. He described the nature of the injuries he had received, from which it appeared he had been most dreadfully beaten about the head and face, but the two fatal wounds were one which divided the upper part of the nose, and fractured the base of the skull. The other was over the left eye ; either of which were fatal. The former he thought was most likely to have been inflicted by a kick with a strong boot, and the latter with some blunt instrument, such as the loaded stick found in the house of Lynch. Mr. W. Stevenson, who had also attended the deemed, confirmed this statement. Mr. James M'llarg, superintendent of the Birkenhead po lice, deposed to apprehending Lynch, when at work in the turnpike-road near Rock-ferry. He was engaged in Vexing down gas pipes; and, when pounced upon, took up an im mense wooden mallet, used for driving plugs into the mains, but was seized just as he was swinging it. After he was placed in prison, his house was searched. In his bedroom were found three pistols and a mould for casting balls ; and, concealed in a cupboard, were found one pistol, a stick about two feet long (loaded with lead at one end), and the head of a hammer, such as are used by atone-breakers. Lynch, on being told the nature of the charge, was much agitated, and. after a pause of about a minute, said—" I am innocent" Michael Burns was then addressed by the Rest. Mr. Fields', and told that a statement had been made by him privately. If, however, he wished to make any statement openly now, and in the presence of the other prisoners, he was at liberty to do so ; but whatever he did say would be taken clown*_ writing and would be read against bhp when tried, if he were tried. Burns then proceeded to say that he had been to Chester to look for work, and that he was returning to Birkenhead on the afternoon of the last day of the old year when he met the prisoner Tallant, who asked him (Burns) to go along with him (Tallant) to Rock-ferry, and they would get some money from the baker (meaning Mr. PeaceP), And desired him to see Lynch. It was then agreed that he (Burns) and the other prisoners should all meet together at the toll-gate at Rock-ferry at half-past eight o'clock. He and Lynch walked to the place together, Lynch saying Nowlan had gone before, and Tallant, living in that neigh bourhood, had gone home previously. At the time ap pointed all met at the toll-gate, which is almost directly op posite Mr. Peacop's place of business. The prisoners then posted themselves in various parts of the road, but not far from each other, Nowlan being placed to watch the shop door to see when the baker (as the deceased was called by the pri soners) left; and when he came up to Tallant he (Tallant) was to whistle, when all were to make to the spot. They waited about half an hour or more, until about half-past nine, when he (Burns) heard the whistle, and on going to the place found Lynch and Nowlin fighting with the biker. The latter then made a struggle across the road, when Lynch knocked him down with a whip he bad in his band. Burns described the whip to be the same instru ment as the stick loaded with lead found in the house of Lynch. He said there were tyre of them belonging to Lynch, but the other had more lead at the end, and was in the possession of Nowlan that night. After Lynch had knocked the baker down ho struggled on his right side to rise, when Nowlan struck him on the head with one of the whips. He fell, and Nowlan threw himself upon him, and took twenty-live or twenty six shillings out of his pocket. When the baker was do i wn, another per son • came up the road from towards Rock-fbrry. Nowlan struck at the man and hit him, hut coul d not tell whether he fell or not, as he (Burns) ran oft towards Birkenhead. He Grossed over the road into the fields; and came part of the way along the fields. He then waited opposite a public-house at the lower end of Back Chester-street, where in about twenty minutes he was joined by Nowlan, who said he had got four or five-and twenty shillings, and gave him (Burns) half-a-crown. Ho then went over to Liverpool and lived in Bannister-street for about two months. Three days after the jobbery he again saw Nowlan, when he told him (Burns) he could not give him more than another half-crown, as it did not turn out so much as he thought it was, and he gave him the half-crown. After being in Liverpool for two months doing odd jobbs, such as getting in coals, he returned to Birken head, and got work for two or three days, and then worked for seven weeks at Oxton. Then, in consequence of hio life being threatened by a woman connected with e the a lni t r e e r rs; he went to Dublin. After he got to Dublin e the i m rs agistrates. but wila bhaedtoleldg,laiiimld t h o e m w a e k n e t doirtiescattatoteFmaetahterteßckng m h t ad o co e w n b fes ß it, ur a n n s, d During the time this statemetntbwe es t bei 'n a most dreadful state the prisoner Tallant appeared c, m r , pt e ed rs o rer ad e not so so m e u b :h ne a h fiected. presented. ed by the attorney for the en ta te ti d r, Th ant! o a n tk c e e r a p tt n_e.x.min Burns was of Wicklow, and served his appren ticeship the county other prisoners.thenllerZd he was a native of Pleasant town in to a stonemaso_r y ie since . Has he first been in England about s ix - ea rs, and it is about fife Was in the r my, and left on his own ac coun t Never committed anv robbery before, nor any other offenoe, except getting drunk. Had known Lynch about a year and a-half. Was not aware of there being a reward of 3001. offered in this ease Did not want it if there was. The reason he did not give information sooner was because he had not gone to u con fession before, or he should have been told to do so. Be lieves, with the help of God, the priest can forgive him after he has done penance, but must do penance the remainder of his life. Lynch and he went about a month before to rob Mr. I'eacop, when he was armed with one of the whips and Lynch with the other. They did not rob him, because the opportunity did not serve. There was an oath among them. Lynch swore him at his house to be the same as him self and .;owlan and Tallaut in anything they did. In an swer to further questions by the attorney, lcurns repeated nearly the whole of his former statement in nearly the same terms as he had previously given it, The magistrates, after consulting together for a short . time, announced that they would remand the prisoners until that day week, Mr. Palmer, the special high constable, stating that he expected by that time to be ready with a good deal . _ more evidence. The prisoners were then remanded, and for their greater security, they were removed in the evening, under escort, to Chester Castle, followed to the railway by an immense crowd. SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—This great negotiator arrived at Douglas' Hotel en Wedziesday last. On Thursda be v.a:tsi several places in the city, and *loo drove to Portobello, Yap selintrzb, and other quarters. Sir Henry'lett br the south on Tilde'. At starting he was recognised by several persons near the hotol, who evinced great respect towards o'u,; distinviated .—zEdeloires Et tiring Pod of Wtylanday. ?~ -~~L~P._ _z ~,~.