The Sun. — London, England, 1850-12-09 00:00:00

~? ~--~~; Busine o 0101 1 to-dSY. 15% 16 ()facial Li° I '014'60610.0 Fa turd 3 7, Aeqi BOP 0 00 ed avu to „ut o 2113( CL )37 . pre gs 4 0 1 Y a s " 0 1 itbdr° r o j A , d Pr bo a 00 , • bro 1 ,11 tbo of dric ei are fh pora in s • o fete F o re ig n Most Vol I 5 fie" 6s , A •st oer° Vico geto 0 3 4 ' .-e ; 113 6 e s 10 f 10 011° 00 fratiC 9 t b Ore c 1 whi 5, 0 telis ive p rte' i t the ' I) pel el° cee 3 pe. 8 1 t ve— t ot bend ii „ eet scribe ,gRO . '.~ `~L~~ g 00 3 ", O pSr Aa" Al A ItliE T N CORN EXCHAI•:iGE-311.,NDAY. Mt. , st of the provitleid irark , ts, re'd S.t.urday, were vv.+ suppliH witt. WhCar, in WhiCli Only htntrei bilr!). St; Wits a , :3 vied, pi g There wasu, tits d and tlr B e.s2. ci ally malting gatnples, Malt, arid Ow a ; bth all o her grain, as wve li as Flour, commanded very In France, large quantii•ies of FFur continue to change hands on limzlish account ; yet, owing to the large supplies of Wheat coming forward, prices are with difficuky supported. The navigation in the Baltic is now rapidly closing, but large quant ties of Wheat are on passage from the Blank ,‘,4,•.1. Up to our market, last week, the receipts of home grown produce were small. Fr,m abroad we received 6,7 79 quarters of .heat, 1.220 bathiy, 5.482 oars, 273 beans, 1,913 peas, 260 tares, 2 257 liti:,eed, 312 rep-aced, 8 6 sundry seeds, 8,133 sacks :and 3,700 barrels of flour. Fresh up to this li morning's a , atlett the arrivals of Eng sp coastwise. were on a very modera•e scale, end (4 middling quality. By land carriage end sample the rcceipts acre comparatively t, - iffng. 1. 1 / 4 •Litwith,tand.ng that the vow of all kinds ot Wheat of home produce was far from good the d,inand for that grain, owing to the thin attendance of both town and country millers end the heavy preiA , ure of foreign Flour for sale, ruled very inactive, at prices barely equal to those &awned on thia day se'nnight, and at which a total clearance was with difficulty effected. Several offers came to hand from the east coast to chip wheats at a trifle less money ; hut the amount of business doing for forward delivery was trifling. With foreign Wheat, ecpccially fresh arrivals, we Were scantily supplied ; yet the show far exceeded the Wants of the buyers. Really floe parcels changed hands slowly, at last we-k's currencies, Lamp and inferior kinds commanded scarcely any attention, yet we cannot call them cheap, r. The total supply of Barley was on the decrease. Se lected samples fur malting purposes were held firmly at full quotations. In grinding and distilling sorts, very little was doing on somewhat easier terms. Malt, the s upply of which, ready for delivery, was small, sold Steadily, at full prices. The supplies of Oats being on the decrease the Oat trade ruled firm, at an almost general improvement in value of 6d per quarter. In Beans very little a; doing, at late rates. White Peas were very dull, but grey and maple were field at full quotations. No change took place in the top price of Flour; but foreign and inferlr country marks were somewhat lower, CURRENCY PER IMP W heat—Essex & Kent, Red, New.... 38s to 44s Ditto,White, New 40s 50, Norfolk and Lin coln, Red..• .. 36s 42s Ditto, White• • • • .. 38s 44s Irish, Red.• • • • • .. —8 —s Ditto,White • • • • • • —s ' 7O -01d ............ 26s 28s Bar ley —Grinding. • • .. 20s Malting 26s Chevalier •• ... 29s +sa lt —Suffolk and N0r f01k........ 43s 48s Brown 408 42s Xingstonand Ware 47s Ms SE ERIAL I'jEASURE. Malt—Chevalier.. Oats— Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feed. 17e Ms Potato ...... • • Youghal and Cork, Black. 158 178 Cork, White . 15s 15s Scotch, Feed. . 19s 238 beans—Tick . Pigeons • • 278 33s Peas—Grey Maple ...••• • • • • • 27s 33s White... .. • • Boilers ..... •• • Flour—Town-made 3ss 40s Suffolk •••• • • Stocktn & Norfolk 29s .44s EDS. --- Canary Seed is very d ul quarter lower. All other Se at late rates. Cakes almost 74 rnIP,White, per bush. Ils to 12s Red and Green.... 10s 12s Ninstard, Brown, new 8s lOs White, new •. • ... 6s Od 7s Od 'arcs. New Winter 5s Od 5s 6d Old ..4s Od 5s Od Can D .. --- arY, per quarter • • 46s 54s grass.. • • ... 24s 30s 1 Clover, Reel Ern,. (cwt.) 32s 48s White 32s 48s Foreign Red.... .. 30s 44s I White.... 28s 463 1 Trefoil 18s 22s I in sale, and fully 3i r er , eds hare moved off heavpy, nominal. Carraway .• •• .• •• •• 29s 33s Coriander •... 194 21s Hempseed, per quarter 3is 35s Linseed, Eng. ;owing.. 548 568 Crushing •• •• • • 408 43. Baltic ...... •• .. 388 44. Odessa .....• • • 428 46. Linseed Cake,pr.l,ooo— .... .8/ 5s 9z Foreign, per ton 6,5 s 71 5s Rape Cakes, pr ton 415 s 41 15 Rapeseed,New,prlst 2510 s 2714. s sraxTurxmr.33. Although our market offers but little inducement to the foreign breeders and graziers, the imports of Stock r wz abroad into London, since Monday last, have been large for the time of year. The total arrival has amounted to 5,703 head, against 4,511 ditto at the cor reBPonding p.riod in 1849, 3 ; 155 dttto in 1848; and 1,913 ditto in 1847. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN Till PAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 0 5tend........ . . 144 ... n _ rh eppe ••• ronni ngen ... 724 ... 371 ... Harnbu rg h 5 51 ..• ••• ••• Rarlingen 75 ... 1,652 .. "'3 .. 62 Rot 50 ... 23 terd am 6'29 1,451 ... ... 335 ... 76 •.• ..• 33 Total ..... 1,433 .. 3,675 ... ... 399 ... 196 Onl l - about 300 head of Beasts. Sheep, Calves, end Pigs, have been landed at the northern outports. The yearly comparison of the weekly imports is as under: — Beasts. •Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1 849......... 553 ... 3.683 218 ... 27 143 ........ 625 ... 95 ... 2 ..... 358 1,584 71 ',.. r ° 41 the for ego i n g, it will be perceived that the prin. pal increase in the arrivals during the week has been th ar e result of the struggle in Schleswig-Holstein, but we a ot i"N sn:icipating a rapid falling off in the imports ti t o - I; 4 ad Beasts, at least two-thirds of which have come t rons a al this year in very interior condition. Letters eh, — Spain state that really good Oxen may be ru t/ B , s e d in the neighbourhood of Vigo at 3/ 10$ to the each but the heavy expense of freight and 'ow prices reale.ed here forbid all speculation Owing to the prevailing dense fogs several of the Dutch la laden with cattle, and which ought t o h ave this mor n i ng , were not re tided t h e i r cargoes ear ly Ported at the usua hour, hence the numbers of foreign stock on offer here to-day were smaller than for some time past. , With home-led Beasts we were again exten. sively supplied. With the exception 01 about 500 fit for Christmas consumption, the general quality of this kind of stock was very inferior. Notwithstanding that the attendance of both town and country buyers was on the increase the Beef trade was in a very depressed state. However, the primest Scots, &c., sold at prices about equal to those of Monday last, but most other breeds were somewhat ea s i er , an d a tota l c l eara nce was not effected. From the northern grazing districts we re ceived about 3,500 Shorthorns; from other parts of England 500 Herefords, Runts, Devens, &e. ; an d from Scotland 212 horned and pulled Scots. The Supply of Sheep being somewhat on the increase, the tlintton trade was in a sluggish state, but we have no decline to notice in the quotations The primest old Llowni wore selling at from 4s to 4s 2.1 per 81bS. The • quality of the Sheep was decidedly good. Calves, the numbs-r of which was small, moved off heavily at Fri day's decline in value of 2.1 per 8113% The Polk trade r uled exceedingly heavy, and large Hogs were again the turn in favour of the butchers. Per albs. to sin?.the offal. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to d. Lliterior Beasts.— 2 4 2 6 inferior Sheep . .2 10 3 2 cond quality .... 2 8 210 Second qua'. Sheep 3 4 3 6 pri me ` ar se O'Len • 3 0 3 6 Clarse-woolledditto3 8 310 L ai ! lil ' Scots .. 3 a 310 *outhdown 'ether 4 0 4 2 Suckdbithil-41,°arse Calves 2 6 3 0 Ditto out a the wool 0 0 0 0 , 1 - 1 1 ditto .. 3 0 3 6 Large flogs ......2 6 3 6 L A - r eidves .18 0 24 0 Small Porkers .... 3 8 4 0 "• • • • 0 0 0 0 , Quartz'. old Pigs ..16 0 22 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARZET Beasts : Sheer. Calves. I Pigs 4 ' 'i67 I 25,210 178 329 FOREIGN SUPPLY. ',east!. I Sh ee p. Calves ' I 557 2,090 136 NENITGATE BENILEILDENUALM., D uring the pa s t week upwards of 22,000 carcases of l a t, chiefly Pigs from the west of England, and Sheep , ° l :n the midland counties ts ; The s u ppli es offer, have arrived fur , these mar bing killed in the metropolis s avin g been on an equally extensive scale, the general 1;4111nd 11,s ruled heavy, and prices have had a down- Is ar Ll tendency, especially those cf Veal and interior 10 hand Hamburgh 10 packages of Beef.bave come S. At per ,tone by the Carcase. e t ... 8. d. to s. 8. d. to a. a. 2 2 2 4 I ;Sutton, inferior 2 4 2 10 ) Mi ddling .... 2 6 2 8 middling•• 3 0 3 4 Prirnelarge .. 210 3 0 --prime 3 6 3 1 0 P ui. P . rilize small •• 3 2 3 4 Pork, large.• •••• •• 2 6 3 6 •• "•••• •- • • 2 6 3 8 small .. 3 8 4 2 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. and /.l or all n ew H ops t h e demanddemandis exceedingly heavy, fe w " some instances prices are almost nominal. Very . re Yearlings or old Hops on offer. Factors' prices, viz., littY,..recney—New East Kent pockets, SO, to 140); di t 7 weald of Kent ditto, 63s to 84s; New Mid Kent Fa 65 s to 130 s; New Sussex ditto , 54 s to 755 ; New rtilaanus, 90s to 145 s per cwt. N r • TALLOW. Wh in i ng the past week the delivery of Tallow had some the i ncreased, it having amounted to 2,502 cake; but dee i ' M Port did not exceed 521 casks. On the w hole, the ap p kid to-day is steady, and previous rates are well clau p tZted in every instance. P.Y.C. on the spot is s ince 41 27s 3d to 37s 6d per cwt. laving a rise of 3d ep t our last report. Town Tallow is 37. to 37s 3d per St, i r : l s 't cash; Rough 2 id per Bibs, Letters from Th e e tersburgh bring very firm prics for next year. wil b. , found below. 1849 1846. j 18N. St43el C this day .... 22,771 Price °I IC . C. f to 488 08 ° O d & D itto fro l ast .ast week • • 3,200 et, ' June u 49,025 i„,‘Arrinals last week, • 439 to (rota Ju ne 1 , „ 64,203 ? doe of Town . • ... —51 s CONCLUDING iTATEMEI ST. 1847. 1848 11.662 32,507 48,715 56,621 46s 6d 44s 6d 38s Ad to 37s 3d to Os cd to Os Od 39s 01 to 37s 6d 2,485 2.144 2,950 2,502 51,506 55,061 50,197 49,484 41 1,001 7,138 '521 55,069 80,035 73,439 80,461 498 6d 468 6d 41s Od 39s 61 U OF TALLOW MIFFING AT -.................._ ST. PETEESI3UIiGn. 1850. 1849. 1848. 1847. 1846. Tallo w - fr__ dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. ir,!!11 Cronstadt to /1 1 `',,,%• 8 0,0.5.. . _ - - - _ '',llll loading. • • liklit and 1•„ ~ ers .. .. ...... _ - - - - ' -y\.42,loaded off, let -- --. Nov,, O.S. ...... _ - _ ...., _ ~...1.1_4n141 afterwards.. - ;L i m e at the close of n avigatioo-. 119,216 118,3611 129, 04 131,864' 113,223" London , -•• •• •• •• •. 64,i 3 . 50,13 70,617 60,820 55,508 .B~rPool ........ 10 , 325 17,944 i 4,_4- 1a,182 14,402 8 101 ... 5,8 i 2 4,214 1.0 - 4,451 3,787 I °Ther Engllsii - p . o . ;t ' s 8,968 13.54 , 14,733 10,946 13,669 rel am . .. Sc o u,,,, ••• • • 3947 4,906 4,110 6,483 6,787 German-"''' •••• • • • • 4,366 5,849 9,767 9,837 7,546 France •••• • .. 12,216 14,5430 1),1444 14,776 8,598 %also ........ 3,4 - 5 7,341 423 8,978 8,741 119,246 118,369 17.9,504 131,473 113,056 WOOL. The aloes public sales of Colons Wool were brought to a or, Saturday afternoon. The totul quantity offered 28.624 bales-24,925 b inlr from our oistatit _ colo ln Nearly the whole changed bands, at,an'edvance - e quuts.tiona.of from ld-tsr_2d per lb, althongh the ik.!; t i t Y.ltAktfm hy.cOuttuear law rs "was:4llloW Last *3 4 , 8 1 1 : 1 tt i c ato WAX* , 38 bales _ &Jolla Ant i .rem rune om:GcnStan 41mh.....Pigs- 614 bEilkS from 277 Ja , ttonl --- """ b 12 bales from .osteurli and-:105bile1 from 27s 29s 23: 28s 31s THE SUN, R , lte dim. By p: vat- e r 3ot prices aro on tho advatic Try Tittle is cuing.. ner, sTIC-hT 2.7.".77.111,177EM.D.5. For t•lyk - ar very Ji,att(d sulviips of iorPign P,•tato- s 1 - !H v- —the to rf, twen (,niy 159 !o , s trom and :30 Ilaaq,e.,-; 1;, m e. , ntlnued tf trom Franco nod e!:•ewhere, hos goon confidt roe to th, home-growers. alilough they have forwarded about 3,FCO tons. Not withstanding ftat, the trade is by no bri!,k,T,,rices are from 5s to 1U:. nigher than art this day Ee'nnight. Present rate; as under Per Ton. Per Ton. Yorksh. Regents. t.se, to 100, Esstx Shows ... 70s to 75s Scotch Regents 80s to 90, Bent Regents.... 70s to 85s Wisbeach &Cam- Ls,ex R,gents... 70s to ;-.5s bridge ...... 71's to 805..1 Middling Ware_ 40s to 45s Foreign €ss to 75sIKentish Red Kid. 70s to 7:•.s Lincoln. Shows —s to t• l Cambiidge ditto 60s to 75s Kent Shows 7os to 75:, Chtts QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi P,im, sat Westimin!t , . , r, 1.)::!ore Lord CAMPBELL v.nd a Spfcial Jury.) SMITH U. COOK.-LIBEL. This was an veli(11 to rceover con;peLsatitn for a libel in charging the with havirg becn guilty of pi racy. Tue defendant pleaded not guilty, and a jttstifi- cation Mr. E. James, Q.C., Mr. Lush, arid another learned gentleman were c,:unsel for the plaintiff; and the de fendant was represented by Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Parry. The alit gcd libel on which the action was broug was a letter which oppeare.l in the 7 intes.on the 20th June, 1850, in the shape of a letter sign, d by the de fendant. This letter bad reference to certain statements which had Leen made by the plaintiff at a meeting of the Puce Society at the London Tavern in the summa r et this year on the subject of the the n late destruction of pirates at Borneo, at which meeting, it will be renaem • bered, Mr. Cobden, M.P., was prestnt, and took a con spicuous parr• in the proceedings. The]. tier char ; . : ed as litellous was as follows: " THE CHARGE OF PIRACY AGAINST CAP AIN AARON SMITH. "TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Sir,—Ou my return to town, after an absence of some we, ks in Scotland, my attention has been drawn to a number of ktt, rs published in the C Imes relative to Captain Aaron Smith, but more especially to one that appeared in your columns of the let inst., from a Mr. E. Garbutt to Mr. Cobden, ;d.l ) . In this letter, the writer, atter defending his friend, goes on to state that Captain Cook, on the first trial, was a witness for the prosectnion, and on that occasion gave the whole stste , ment of his own capture from the Industry. Further on he says—' Captain Smith afterwards published a eat - rative of the capture of these ships, in which he clearly shows that what Captain Conk had stated was untrue, and the latter party has never had the manliness to answer it, or in any way to defend himsi lf.' " Now, sir, as statements such as these, when given t the world through the medium of your columns, are calculated to affect injuriously my character for probity, I musr, therefore, beg the faveur of your obliging me so tar as to insert the following brier narrative of facts, with a few observations which 1 have to offer theron, in your widely-extended and iefluential journal:— " On Wednesday, August 7, 1822, when in command of the brig: Industry, on a voyage from Jamaica to the island of St. Thomas, I was, atter a six hours' chase. boarded and taken possession of by a boat from a pira ticel schooner near the island of Cuba, which boat was commanded by an Englishman named Aaron Smith, whom I immediately recognised by his voice, though his lace was blackened. This man, . the moment that he set his fcot on board, gave directions that a sentry should be placed on each hatchway, and that no one should be permitted to pass up or down. All orders which he subsequently gave were strictly attended to by the pirate crew. He commenced to bully and black guard niyselr, even before he came out of the boat, for not heaving to when he first fired. Somewhat ifritated at this, I asked him who he was that I should obey him? His reply was, ' You will soon find who I am.' I then called him by name, but he denied his name, and said he had never seen me. Shortly after this I was ordered by the raid Smith to take my ship's pspers and crew, and to accompany him on board the piratical vessel, then a short distance off, and in chase of the brig Vic toria, afterwards captured also. In passing between the two vessels we were, as netz as I can remember, about twenty minutes in the boar, with no other of the pirate crew but himself with us, and we weze et such a dis- lance from both vessels, that it was impossible our conversation could be overheard from either. Then, I think was the time when he should have opened his mind, if he had been acting under compul sion, as he afterwards stated in his defence; bat he never uttered a word on the subject. I steered the boat and bmith tat beside me. On my remarking to him how often his schooner had changed her colours since I first saw her in the morning, and asking for an explanation, he said his vessel was a patriot snan• of-war, under the Cart hagenian flag, but that all colours were lawful in time of war. Nut - liking such questions, I suppose, he moved from me to the bow of the boat. When we got alongside the schooner I observed the deck crowded with armed men of the most ferocious aspect, sharpening their long knives and looking at us as if they were im. plitientiv aitirg to cut our throats. On my s t e ppi ng on board,. a brute (whom I afterwards found to be the chief) made an immediate attack on me with a drawn sword. I parried his blew with the tin-box containing the ship's papers, till I disarmed him. During the scuffle I recei vsd several wounds, not very serious. I was then put down the hold and kept in confinement; then com menced a af ries of cruelties, the bare recital of which, even at the distance of twenty-eight years, makes my blood run cold. Amongst other arts practised to make me confess to the possession of property which I had not in reality, I was tied to the windlass of my own vessel, and after witness ing the loading of three muskets, my eyes were baudapd, and the pieces discharged close to my head, which It ft me in doubt for a moment whether I was dead or alive ; suffice it to say, that after suffering a great deal more thau I can relate here, I was suffered to de part with my vessel, end the captain and crew of the Victoria, after being plundered ofelothes, stores, &c. " A lull and detailed statement of the capture of those vessels, and of all that occurred to myself, will be found in the evidence given by tate before the sitting magis trate, at the Thames Police, in August, 1823, when Smith was committed to Newgate. He was tried at the Admiralty Session, hela in Decemier following, and ac quitted en the first count of the indictment, namely, for with the Victoria ; and as the Counsel t r ai for running the imivg allay Crown (for reasons best known to ihim self) abandoned the second count without calling a single witness, he was acquitted on that also; so that I had not an opportunity of saying one word relative to the capture of the Industry, or the brutal and cruel treat meet which I had experienced. " So far from regretting this (to me, and, as I have reason to know also to the prisoner) unexpected termi nation of the trial, and though I did not acquiesce in the verdict, yet I can truly say that no one in court, not excepting the unfortunate man at the bar, rejoiced more than I did it it, as I was thereby relieved from a painful recital of facts which I then relieved and still believe would have been fatal to the prisoner. "It will have been observed that the prisoner rested his defence upon having been compelled to act as he did by the, pirates. On this I could remark, that if he was acting under compulsion during the time he was in my company (judging from the z: , al and spirit in which he performed mpany ( t j he part assigned to him), he acted so admi rably that, for my life, up to this hour, I have never been able to divest mys e l f of the idea that he was a real pirate and no mistake.' And yet, sir, I am not sub ject to nervous delusions, nor do I know the meaning of the word except by the name. " It is quite true, as Mr. Garbett states, that shortly after his trial the captain published a book containing sundry grievous charges against himself, and had they not been reiterated by the Times, they might have re- Mained unanswered till doomsday. But I promise if the captain will only favour the world with a second edition of his most wonderful work, that I shall amply atone for all past sins of omission by reviewing his book, and proving it to be a tissue of falsehoods interlarded with a few unavoidable facts. I now, sir, leap) the matter in your hands, merely ob serving that, in publishing this document, I am actuated by no vindictive or personal motives, my only object is to defend myself from a wanton end, as I think, a most injudicious attack. " I wish it also to be most distinctly understood that I am in no way connected with the Peace Society, nor do I coincide in the views and opinions held by it as respects the late destruction of pirates near Borneo. On the con trary, I hold that as pirates are the common enemies of mankind, so it is duty of every man to root out, destroy, or bring them to justice wherever they can be found, no matter whether in tbp Eastern Ocean or Gulf of Florida. Apologizing for the length of this letter, I am, Sir, your obedient' servant, " W. Coos.. " Scottish Equitable-office, 61 A, Moorgate street, June 15." Mr. E. JAmEs having stated the plaintiff's case, call( d the following witnesses to suport it:— Mr. Dubie, the solicitor to the Times ' produced a let ter tram the Times of fi ce, of the date of the 15th Junr, 185.0, and also a letter dated the 18th June, 1850. Mr. John Burton. a clerk in the London and Joint Stock Bank, proved that Mr. Wm. Cook, the defendant, has an account at their bank. He is a private gentle . man. Had often seen the defendant's handwriting. (Shown the letter dated the 15th June, 1850.) That was the detericiant's handwriting. (Shown also the letter dated the 18th June.) That was alsoin his handwriting. Mr. David Bost, a surgeon, residing at Hartford bridge. Hampshire, said he was a connexion ot the plaintiff's. Knew Captain Smith in 1823. Remembered his arrival in England about the middle of that year. He was brought home in custody on board a frigate. He was in the greatest distress, and had no clothes or money. Remembered his trial at the Admiralty Sessions in that year on a charge of a piracy, in piratical y boarding the brigs Industry and Victoria. Saw the de fendant there as a witness. He gave evidence for the prosecution. W itness heard that evidence. Captain Cook was acquitted. ReMembered his cross-examination. He admitted onone occasion that the captain of the pirates pointed a pistol at him, and be believed he should have been shut had not Smith pushed his (the captain's) arm on one sid e . H e a l so state d' t h at h e an d his men assisted In rowi ng . t h e the ship Victors; dthey pirate's vessel to chase and take ? t' at not done SO, the pirates wouitUrive cut them to pieces, and pat them to , death in the_mcit cruel manner,- He admitted that he hems if Ostaiited in- loa t irn ge on truing4itid o,ls INfchel be „ a l yvkki_ offal' to tip: am and placed itiiiporVet around tivag..rin 8f i i, . that yrribut bled ; •ue,orcliw, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEIVITIER 9, 1850. the same to Smith, whrse legs were in eons! qttence in a tad shoe. Witness saw Smith's legs, which appeared as if they had been scathed by gunpowder. Winters gave evidence to that *freet on the trial. The whole of the prosecutor', witnesses were examined. Smith was etikd or: for his c:Ourice, when he stated that he acted uncle: cerni..uisien. His wit- t :FPS were then heard; gr. e.t Lumber of them were cAcci to speak to his pros • pects Led connexions in England, and to his previous good character. The Judge was Mr. Baron Garrow. He summed up the case to the jury; and stated in doing SO, that it was quite clear that Smith was acting under compulsion, and he particularly directed the at tention of the jury to the evidence of Capt. Hearn of the trig Industry. Captain Smith was instantly acquitted after the J udge's summing up. Witness remembered a son or the owner of the Zephyr, captured by the pirates with tiisnith, was examined f‘r the defence, and he aerated the circumstances of the piracy of the vessel, and the cap ture of Smith on his voyage home from Kingston, and stated that Smith was forcibly taken away from the Z,phyr on board the pirates' vessel. Captain Smith had 1, ft England about eighteen months before the trial, as mate of a vessel called the Harrington, trading to the West Indies. He was returning home as chief mate of the Zephyr when he was captured, Captain Lumsden bi ing the captain. Witness remembered the trial of 1829. Capain Smith was then present at the trial for the capture of the Prevoyant, which lasted about an hour. The case was tried before Lord Chief Justice Titdal. When Captain Smith sailed he had 3001. or 4001. in the funds; and when he was captured he was re taining home to be married, and he was married very soon afterwards. Cross, x :reined by Mr. Sergeant SMEE—I am a cousin of Captain Smith's. lam now in practice as a surgeon. I practi6cd twenty years in the Old Kent-road. I hi,d a farm at one time near Windsor. I have been occasionally engaged in bill transactions About 15 years ago Captain Smith was in the habit of di counting bills for me and other parties, to the extent of 200/. or 3001. at a time. After 18 . 29 Captain Smith went to sea again, and returned to stay on land about 1834. He has not to my knowledge carried on any busi ness. I have had no communication with him since that time. I was charged by Smith and a person named Shields for forging the acceptance to a bill of exchange, and the grand jury ignored the indictment. I indicted Shields and Smith afterwards for a conspiracy to charge me with forgery; but it fell to the ground. I was not guilty of forgery; there was no foundation for the charge at all. I will swear Smith has not lent me money since the trial for the conspiracy. At the trial iu 1823 Smith admitted in his cross-examination that both he and his men assisted in rowing the pirates' boat, and that he personally assisted in loading the guns. The skin was .11' Smith's legs when he returned, le,d apparently that bad been done with gunpowder. The surgeon of the prison, who was examined at the trial, gave it as his opi won that the sores on Smith's legs had been occasioned by Gunpowder. _ Mr. Gurney, senior, the short-hand writer, produced a transcript of his notes of the trial in 1829, for the piracy of the ship Prevoyant. The trial terminated by the jury stopping the case. Mr. Berkeley, a watch and chronometer maker, in the Commercial-n ad, said he knew Captain Smith in 1823, nod was present at the trial at the Admiralty Ses sions in that year. Had heard the evidence given to day by Mr. Bost, which was substantially correct. Cross examined by Mr. Sergeant SHEE—Only knew Captain Smith in the way of his (witness's) business. lar. John Batheroyd—ln 18231 was a hatter. Cap tain Smith lodged with me six or seven years before he sailed to the West. Indies. I was present at the trial in 1823. I have heard the evidence given by Mr. Bost to day. I remember Mr. Cook, the defendant, being exa mined at the trial. Ile was captain of the Industry. Cook said that the captain of the pirates was such a ferocious man that he did not dare to intercede with him. The Judge in summing up said "It is in this case, like all others; where the mind and the hand don't go to gether there cannot be any guilt; and the prisoner can not be found guilty." I remember Captain Smith re turning to England; he was i❑ a very destitute condi tion. I took him a suit of clothes on board and many other necessaries. Mr. Wm. Cragg—l was in China in 1836 and 1837. I saw the plaintiff there. He had then the command of a vessel called the Mary Ann, which traded from London to China. _ _ Mr. James Holmes—l am a warehouseman in Regent street. I know the plaintiff very well; I have known him for six or seven years. He has resided in Camden villas during that time. I have always supposed he was living in a respectable manner, on his means, and moving in very good society. Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—I don't know that Captain Smith is now a bill-discounter. I never beard of his having been tried for an assault upon an attorney's clerk. This was the plaintiff's case. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY,) [Wore the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Common Jury.) MARSH V. CRATE. This was an action i❑ forma pauperis brought by the plaintiff, who is a cowkeeper and grazier at Edgeware, to recover the sum of 45/. for money lent, and other ex pemes incurred on behalf of the defendant. The plaintiff conducted his own case, and Mr. O'Malley, Q C., appeared for the defence. It appeared that the parties had been for some time in partnership with each other in the management of a gracs farm, and the defendant, though admitting the account, contended that it was incurred on behalf of the partnership. The whole of the items were for dinners and drink paid for by the plaintiff for the defendant, or money lent at dill,-r -;•nt peliods. The defendant also pleaded a set off in the shape of a cross account. Tne LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left the jury to say whether such items, as these could be said to enter into a partner hip account. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintifffor 301. 10s. MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN A BROTllEL.—Elizabeth Coe, a woman of the town, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with stealing from the person of Mr. Richard Rouselle, a French gentleman residing in Albe marle-street, a bill of exchange for 2,100 f:, and a gold pencil.case, at a house of ill-fame in Sheppard-street, Oxford• street. The prosecutor deposed that he had lately arrived from Paris, and that about ten o'clock on Saturday night he tact the prisoner and another woman in Oxford street, and was induced to accompany them to a house in Sheppard-street, and on entering a room he gave the prisoner 145., and proceeded to retire to rest. While he was sitting on the sofa the prisoner demanded 10s. more, and on his refusing to comply with her request, she ran out of the room, followed by the other woman. Witness, as soon as he had attired him self, telt Li his great-coat pocket, and missed his pocket book containing a bill of exchange for 2,100 francs, and a gold pencil case. Ile immediately alarmed the house, and went in pursuit of the prisoner, but not succeeding in finding her, he gave information to a constable. King, 39 0, said he was on duty in Oxford-street on Sunday morning, about two o'clock, when the prosecutor came up and informed him that he had been robbed i❑ a house in Sheppard-street. Witness went with him to the house in question, and searched the room in which the prosecutor said he had been, but could not find any portion of the property. From the people of the house he got a description of the prisoner, and apprehended her last night as she was about entering the house. The prisoner, in defence, said she did not steal the pocket-book, it was the other girl by the name of Levy, us she saw her (Levy) with some papers and a gold pencil case in her hand when she left the room. The prisoner was remanded, and a warrant was granted for the apprehension of Levy. On Saturday Lord Chief Justice Campbell enter tained at dinner a party of her Majesty's Counsel, compris ing Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Chilton, Q.C., Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., Mr. Crowder, Q.C., Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Greenwood, Q.C., Mr. Keating, Q.C., Mr. Knowles, Q.C., and Mr. Watson, Q.C. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner on Saturday, at Carlton-gardens, the Russian Mi nister, Baron Brunow ; the Belgian Minister, M. Van de Weyer; Baron Batheman ; the Duchess of Inverness, the Duchess of Somerset, Earl and Countess Grey, Lord and Lady 'Truro, Lord and Lady Ashley, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. Lady Palmerston received a large party in the evening, comprising most of the leading members of the corps diplomatique and many fashionables. His Excellency the French Ambassador, his Excellency General Radowitz, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Baron Koller, the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, &c., were among the visitors. EARL SPENCER AND THE PRICES OF AGRICUL• 'MEAL PRODUCE.—We have been favoured with a copy of the following letter addressed by Lord Spencer to Mr. Beasley, in reference to his Lordship's recent communication to his tenantry : _ " Althorp, Dec. 5. " My dear Sir,—The letter I wrote to you on the subject of rents, not intended for publication, has found its way i nto some of London and some of the country newspapers, and I understand that an expression in it has been considered to convey an opinion which I certainly did not intend it should —namely, that my expectation is that prices of agricultural produce will be lower than they now are.' What I meant to say was, that I was inclined to believe prices would be lewer than they had been before the alteration of the law. I believe prices will be higher than they are now. For a con siderable time I have stated that belief, and you know I have acted upon it on my own farm. "I am, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, " SPENCER. " Mr. John Beasley, Chapel Brampton." Northampton Mercury._ __ LEEDS MECHANICS' INSTITUTION AND LITERARY Socisai.— The recent discovery by Dr. Faraday that all bodies are ii fiuenced by the magnetic law, formed the subject of a highly scientific lecture on Wednesday week, by W. Sykes Ward, Esq. It had been formerly supposed that iron, and a few substances besides, were exclusively the objects and conveyors of magnetic force, but Dr. Faraday, in investiga ting some of the more subtle properties of light in connexion with electromagnetism, was led incidentally to suppose the existence of the uhiversitality of magnetic action He found that a large number of bodies were repelled by both poles of the magnet, and further discovery showed that the mere aggregation of particles would serve to render a body mag netic or diamagnetic. These curious phenomena were very ingeniously txnibited on a screen by the aid of the hydro- ON gen light, and among other things a piece of fresh meat was shown to be subject to the magnetic current, and no doubt a man would be invo.untarily turned about if sus ended between the poles of a very powerul magnet. M. Huggon moved .a vote of thanks to Mr. Sykes Ward for his eXcellent lecture, which was heartily responded to.—Leeds aiercury, SECESSION_ TO `Rums,—The' Rey. R. J. Butler, oi Brasenose , College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the 149/4 11§311:_couirnissioner or the lonian Islands, was' received int.‘ the Catholic Church tit Rome on the:23d- of November last. This gentleman was formerly warden of the Home of Charity in Roe-street, 50hQ. MAGAZINES, &:c.---t CON TIN UED.) NEW M ONTHLY. Under tho expe riot ctd editorship of Mr. Harrison Ainsworth the veteran Ncu• Monthly still continues to fiouri3h as it has continued to do, more or less, during ninety volumes. Its second title, that of " Huxnorist," is sustained not ineffectively from num. her to number by two of its oldest contributors, Mr. Jolly Green and Mr. Soapy Sponge, one in his "Sporting Tour" (by this time, we should conjecture, drawing towards its conclusion), and the other this month in a bizarre and ludicrous "Account of the late Papal Aggression." Foremost, however, among the articles adorning the pages of the Neui Monthly for December, foremost at once in point of position, importance, and interest is the first contribution, containing the five first chapters of a "Memoir of the late Sir Robert Peel—by the Dean of York." This most attractive memorial will be found fraught throughout with new information as to the life and character of the great statesman, information such as justifies yet more the popular admiration for his genius and integrity. His dauntless courage is illus trated by the following anecdote : " I went with him and his father (says the Dean) to look at an estate in Herefordshire, called Hampton Court, which Sir Robert thought of purchasing. We slept at the inn in Leominster. It was full of company, and only two bedrooms could be obtanard. Young Peel was obliged to slee p oa a sofa-bed, in a kind of cupboard attached to the principal room. Soon after he got to sleep he was awakened by a light, and saw a man stand ing by his couch with a drawn sword. The man being questioned, hid hire not to be alarmed, for that he would not hurt him, but that a freethascn's meeting was being held in the next room, and that he was placed there to prevent any intruders from breaking in upon their ce remonies. Mr. Peel turned round and went instantly to sleep again. I asked him if he had not been frightened? He said, ' No—that he was surprised at first, but did not suppose the man would do him any harm.' " On inquiry from the waitr in the morning, we lesrnt that the armed man had remained three hours in the room where the fearless youth was soundly and c dully sleeping." _ _ Of his imperturbable self-possession the Very Rev. Biographer observes, — "I never knew him to be in the least excited by any thing but once, and that was at the death of Mr. Per cival. He (Mr. Peel) had assisted to secure the mur derer; he had supported the head of his dying friend, whom he greatly admired and loved; and when he came out of the House of Commons his face was certainly flushed, and some emotion shown; but less than would probably have been shown by any other person under such powerful excitement." His quarrel with O'Connell, his course of action in regard to the Catholic Question, and his refusal to join the Canning Administration, are all referred to, and new light is thrown upon each topic by private letters hitherto unpublished. From what we have here remarked it must be evident that the "Me moir" is both a valuable and attractive feature in the magazine. Besides the articles already particularised, the New Monthly for December contains an histo rical narrative of " The Revolt of Naples in 1647," an amusing fragment about the appearance of " A Frenchman in Cairo," a continuation of Nicholas Michell's novel of "Hester Somerset" and another instalment of " Paul Masterton's dventures." Added to these, we have, as poetical contributions, a ballad called "The Dying Bridegroom," by William Charles Kent, and a song of the month for December, by J. E. Carpenter. The number is brought to a conclusion by a more than usually lengthened notice of current literature. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEC. 7. The Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince el Wales drove out in a pony phaeton this morning. Colonel Eouverie was , n attendance on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing this morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps and Sir Frederick Stovin. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings. The Royal dinner circle at the Castle included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Mr. Birch. The Queen's private band attended after dinner in the Castle, and performed the following selections : Overture, " Les Chaperons Blanes" Auber. Selection, " La Part m du Diable" Auber. Romance, " Guido et Ge,.evra" Helevy. Andante, Minuetto, Trio, and Finale Mendelssohn. Dec. 8. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took walking exercise in the grounds around the Castle. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Court and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also al tended the service. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, and Baroness de Spetb, left her residence, Clareoce House, St. James's, at half-past one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for Kew, and visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meek lenburgh Strelitz. Her Royal Highness afterwards proceeded to Frogtnore. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at his official resi lance in Downing-street. Mr. Case and Mr. Townsend, from Birkenhead, had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office. The Right Hon. R. L. Sheil had an interview on Saturday with Lord John Russell. Mr. Hind marsh (of the Temple), and Mr. Macrory (of Duncairn, Belfast), a deputation from the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Company, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways on Saturday, at their office in the Board of Trade. A deputation from the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sowers, consisting of Viscount Ebrin g t on , M r . Lewes, and Mr. Woolrych, had an interview with Sir George Grey at the Home-office on Saturday. Viscount Ebrington had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. Sir Alexander Spearman had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet on :Saturday, at his official resi dence in Downing-street. THE DYING BRIDEGROOM. (From the New Menthy Magazine) BY WILLIAM CHARLES RENT, AUTHOR OF "ALETHEIA, The lattice trembled open, And cool the summer air, Thro' the woodbine wafting sweetness, Stirred the dying student's hair, And on evening's purple silence streamed, His voice breathed like a prayer: " Come nearer, Alice, nearer; Lay your hand upon my brow: I am free from suffering, dearest, And my thoughts are calmer now, And I love to feel you clinging, Like the blossom to the bough. " Let me clasp your blessed fingers— There—l press them to my lips:' They are thin with all this watching How Time's sand too glibly slips: Mine were warmer when my fancies Felt the fever's dire eclipse! " Nay, shudder not so wildly; It is past—that gloomy strife I All my mind's delirium vanished With this ebbing out of life: I'm a very child in weakness now, My gentle-hearted wife ! "Draw your arm around my shoulders—so And,let me lay my bead, Weary —weary, love, but loving,: On your breast—my sweetest bed; And perhaps sometimes you'll fancy me Still here when I am dead. " Shall you find it very lonely, When the twilight drawing 'round, You will watch my empty corner On our hearth's beloved ground; And you pause to hear—alas! in vain— My tongue's familiar sound? " Oh, weep not, Alice, weep not! I cannot bear those tears; I would staunch them with my kisses, And dispel your better fears, With our memories of bygone hours, And hopes of happy years. " How sweet the breezy vesper Spreads abroad its faint perfumes, Fanning thro' the open window 4 Where the honeysuckle blooms: Think you, Alice, there are blossoms Such as those among the tombs? "Nay, do not shut the lattice, For the mild air sheds a balm O'er my temples. 'Tis not chilling; And the eve is hushed and calm, And its fitful murmur rises With the sadness of a psalm. " Hark! the village bells are chiming— Do you hear them down the dale? They were joyful once, beloved, When they told our wedding tale; But their merry sounds ring harshly now, With tones of no avail. " To me their plaintive music, As they vibrate to and fro In the ivied belfry w inging, When the winds of evening blow, Seems like the solemn dirges sung O'er friends gone years ago. "Yet think not idle sorrows Such as these I now can feel; No, my heart's adored treasure! Other griefs around me steal, Thoughts of agonised affection, Broken words but half reveal. " I am thinking, 0 my fairest! Of those days almost divine, When to these poor arms that beauty You were willing to resign. When your virgin faith you plighted, And I found you—Alice—mine. " Mine, unworthy in my eeskness; Mine, though humbly, I could own Not u rood of fair possessions Where the leaves of God are grown: Mine, though poorest and obscurest— Mine, my Alice, trine alone! " Brief and golden are the moments That have vanished since that morn When hit her to our cottage From the bridal you w re borne; Scarce, since then, three moons have lip. < el Milky greenness in the corn. " It has pleated the God who made us, In His wisdom to afford But few glimpses of that rapture That we dreamt of and adored, When you chose me from all others For your proud though lowly lord. "Yet, with all my pangs of anguish, White I see you by my sloe, Looking down with tender patience On the love by death denied, • I am filled with glad emotions, O my glory! 0 my bride! " All the fame I yearned to vanquish, This frail mind no more can seek. Clasp me nearer to thy bosom— Let me kiss thy pallid cheek. • Ob, my Alice, grief is stronger, Though my tailing voice be weak. " But the chalice of my sorrows God is filling to the brim. Kiss my forehead, Alice, quickly, For my eyes are growing dim; Kiss my lips, love—clo se r, closer. Oh, my sens es f a i nt and swim!" She is bending o'er him fondly, Shedding fast the briny rain; On Les heart her palm she presses, And—like madness in her brain— Feels, oh God! it beats no longer, Knows it ne'er can throb again. CAMBRIDGE.—The fines imposed by the borough magistrates on the Proctor (the Rev. John Fenwick, M.A.), and his two attendants, Boning and Robinson, for an assault upon Miss Thompson, at the hearing on Tuesday last, were paid on Saturday. The matter had remained in abeyance till that day, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Hyde (the Rev. Proctor's legal adviser) from Cambridge. The Rev. Gentleman declined to pay the money until the form of cap ture was gone through, in order to afford ground for an ac tion for false imprisonment, which it is alleged is to be pro secuted cm the part, of the University against the borough magistrates. Mr. Fenwick was according formally appre hended by the superintendent of police, with whom an ar• rangement had been made for the purpose, in a room in Nr. Hyoe's office, and he would in due course have been con. veyed to the borough gaol if the fine and costs had not been discharged. A cheque for the amount was handed over, and the Rev. Gentleman was released. The same form was then gone through, but in another room, with his subordinates, or " bulldogs," and the m at t er was concluded. The Town Council will, of course, support the magistrates, and so "a very pretty quarrel" may be expected. MON UM EAT TO LORD thaFFERY.—The committee of subscribers to the monument to the memory of the late Lord Jeffrey met on Friday to decide whether the memorial should be a work of sculpture or of architecture. The deci sion was in favour of sculpture. - A. small sub-committee was accordingly appointed to take measures for procuring a statute of the late lamented judge and critic. The subscrip tions in the hands of the committee amount to 2,2001., a -um which, it is hoped, will suffice to defray the cost of the statute, and to leave enough besides for the erection of a slight monument over the grave in the Dean Cemetery. The statute will probably be placed in the Outer Filament lbaileoPFord &Midi 111411. COURT-MARTIAL ON AN OFFICER OF THE lOUS-all REGIMENT. A general; court-martial assembled on Tuesday at the Ca7alry Barracks, Exeter, to try Lieut. Arthur Vaughan Donniiherne Harris, 4th King's Own Regiment, on the following charge of ura,ffietrlike and insubordinate con duct, to the prejudice of good order. and discipline, in the following instances:— First Instance—For having on or about the 19th of November, 1850, he being at that time on duty as re gimental detachment orderly officer, 4th King's Own Regiment, stationed in the citadel of Plymouth, ex hibited, or caused to be exhibited, at the window of his barrack-room, and in the same, within the above-men tioned fortress, a placard of whighly insulting tendency towards his superior officer, Captain John Josiah Hort, of the 4th King's Own Regiment, to wit:—" I hereby proclaim Captain Hort, of the 4th King's Own Regiment, to be e liar and a coward—Signed, Christopher Arthur Harris;" or words to the like eff, ct. Second Instan ce —l n h aving, on or about the 19th of November, 1850, spoken to a non-commissioned officer, Reg. No. 1,302, Corporal John Mcßride, 4th King's Own Regiment. in words to the following effect:—That Captain John Jo,ish Hort, of the 4th King's Own Re giment, was a scoundrel and a bully, and had behaved so to him; that he could not and would not fight—" I could make a drummer-boy beat him," or words to that t ffect—he, the said Captain John Josiah Hort, being his (Lieutenant Harris's) superior officer. The court having been opened with the usual forma lities, and the members duly sworn, Lieut. Harris pleaded not guilty to the charge. Lieut.-Col. Gold, of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment, appeared ,as prose cutor ; the prisoner was professionally assisted by Mr. J. Beer. Ensign P. N. Beeton, saw the placard in Lieut. Harris's room, and he described it as printed in large letters on yellow paper. The question as to what was on the placard was objected to by the accused, on the ground that it ought to be produced, and the court was cleared. (It may be stated here, once for all, that ob jection to a question was followed invariably by clear ing the court, and was of very frequent occurrence.) On re-opening, the President overruled the objection, and the witness said from recollection he thought the words were—" I hereby proclaim Captain Hort to be a liar, and a coward, signed Christopher Arthur Harris." Witness said he thought it was carrying things too far. The placard was stuck against the wall, at the upper end of Lieut. Harris's room, and was conspicuous to all en tering it. A question by the accused, whether similar placards had not been posted over the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, was o bj ecte d to, and not permitted t o b e put. At four o'clock the court rose. The trial was continued on Wednesday and Thursday, when witnesses were examined to prove the case against the accused; but they were ordered not to answer ques tions put for the purpose of bringing before the court the circumstances out of which the quarrel between Captain Hort and Lieutenant Harris arose. After the case for the prosecution had been closed, Mr. Beer was permitted to read a written defence, ex pressing Lieut enant H arr i s ' s regret for what had oc curred, but ascribing it entirely to the treatment he had received from Captain Hort, whilst at Drake's Island. That treatment consisted of many trifling things, and many of a more serious nature, but he refrained from going into them, as all the other officers who had been implicated in it bad apologised to him. He expressed his regret also that he had not left the quarrel in the hands of his father, instead of rushing into it himself. Several officers gave Lieutenant Harris a good cha racter; and the defence being concluded, the court rose. The sentence will not be known till coufirmed at head quarters. A correspondent says— " The history of the circumstances leading to this un pleasant branch was not permitted to transpire through the defendant's witnesses, but rumour ascribes it to Lieutenant's Harris having been made the butt of the mess, with the sanction of Captain Hort, and subjected to the most disagreeable system of practical joking; wine beii.g poured over his shirt and rum and water down his back, and Himself thrown into the water whilst the regi ment was at Drake's Island. His father, to whom he complained, sent a challenge to Captain Hort; but that officer wrote denying any cognisance of the treatment complained of, and refused a meeting, whereupon Chris topher Arthur Harris, the father, posted him as a liar and coward, in the manner disclosed, which has brought the son into a position which may cost him his com mission." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. PAPAL AGGRESSION. CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 7.—Members of the University who purpose atteuding at the presentation or the address lately voted to her Majesty on this subject, are re quested to meet the Vice-Chancellor on Tuesday, the 10th instant, at the White Hart Elotel in Windsor, ia their proper academical dress. The hour fixed by her Majesty for receiving the address is a quarter-past twelve o'clock. The following order of precedency is to be strictly observed by all members of the University who join in the procession to Windsor Castle:— The Bedells. The Vice-Chancellor, accompAnied by the Registrary. The High Steward. The Commissary. Noblemen. Privy Councillors. Heads cf Colleges. Members of the Caput. Public Orator. Proctors. Doctors in Divinity. Doctors in Civil Law. D. , ctors in Medicine. Assesor to the Vice• Chancellor. Professors. • Scrutators. Taxors. Librarian. Bachelors of Divinity. Masters of Arts, Non Regents. Masters of Arts, Rt gents. Bachelors of Law. Bachelors of Medicine. Bachelors of Arts. THE CHURCH. The undermentioned preferments and appointments of gentlemen connected with this University have recently taken place:— TRINITY COLLEGE.—The Rev. W. T. Blathwayte, 8.A., appointed curate cf Fisherton-de-la-Mere, Wilts. The Rev. E. R. Frauks, 8.A., to the rectory of Down ham Marke', Norfolk. The Rev. Alexanuer Ronald Grant, M.A., to the vicarage of Belion Bumpstead. Essex. The Rev. IV. Esdaile Richardson, 8.A., licensed to All Saints' curacy, Northamp , onshire. .The Rev. John Montague Valpy, 8.A., to Crobsthwatte curacy, Keswick, Cumberland. ST. PETER'S COLLEGE.—The Rev. John Townshend Bennett, M.A., to the ►ub-deanery and of first minor cartonry in St. Paul's Catb:Alral. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.—The Rev. G. G. Holmes, M.A., to Weston by-Welland curacy, Northamptonshire. The Rer. Charles Watkins Lewis, 8.A., to Lilbourne and Claycoton curacy, Northamptonshire. The IL-v. P. P. Smith, 8.A., to Kingst , -rndale perfklual curacy, Derby shire. QUEEN'S COLLEGE. —The litv. James Be , elicno, B.A. to 1 - , t , 'll .•ut:•cy No; ham vousl , ire. Y. tl eu , hcy, amptunshi re. EMMANUEL COLLEGE.— Th.- Rrv. Edward Gills t! M.A., to Bratifit.:ci S. Geor g e cur4cy, Z4.utoik. , POST 'arms NOTICE. GENERAL POST-OEFICR, DEc., 1850.—0 n and atter the 15th inst. mails will be made up monthly tor the C:;pe of Good Hope, to be cony. you front Plymouth try the packetsot the Gcncral Screw Steal, Ship ping Company, tower contract wit;, her M7j. , :y . , went. All lettirs and nem rpapers addressid to the Cape ut Good Hope, as well as those fin Siena Leone, which have hitherto be sent, as a general rule, by one of her Majesty's ships dispatched at the beginning of each month to the N 1 ast Coast of Africa, will be forwarded on and from the I.sth inst. by the contract packets from Plymouth, unless sped ally addressed to be otherwise sent. Letters and newspapers for the Cape de Verd Islands will also be forwarded by these packets, as well as by the new line of Brazil rackets, about to commence running next month, according as such corres pondence may be posted in time for either line of packets. The mails to be conveyed by the General Screw Steam-ships will be made up in London on the evening of the 14th of each month, aid in Plymouth on the morning of the 15th. Those postmasters whose instructions direct them to send their letters for Plymouth by cross post will of course for ward the correspondence intended for these mails in the same manner. The postage chargeable on letters and news papers, which must in each case be paid in advance, will be as follows, viz. : Letters not exceeding ounce in weight. s. d. Cape of Good Hope ... 1 0 ... free Sierra Leone ... ••• 1 0 free Cape de Verds 1 10 • 2d. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTER.. SHIRE JUNCTION RArusva.y.--The ordinary half-yearly meet ing of this company w;-..:s held on Saturday, at the offices in Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street ; Mr. R. G. Alston in the chair. A report was presented from the directors, which stated at some length the result of certain legal proceedings. These proceedings it was stated, would, in the course of a few weeks, place the shareholders in a condition to consider their ulterior measures; and it was, therefore, suggested that the meeting should be adjourned to an early day in March. The report added that Mr. Wintour Harris had been ap pointed secretary in the place of Dr. Mackenzie, resigned; and, in conclusion, the directors expressed a confident hope that the difficulties they had to contend with, when they took office in December, 1847, were rapidly approaching their termination, and that the time was Rot distant when mea sures of permanent benefit to the shareholders might be devised and carried out. In accordance with the suggestion in the report, the meeting was adjourned to the 7th of March. INTENDED ERECTION IF LEJCESTER-SQUARE..---M8 protracted litigation between the Tuik family and the repre sentatives of the late Mr. M o xhay as to the title to the area of Leicester-square, and the light to build the reon, has just been brought to a satisfactory termination. The open space will now be let forthwith to Air. Wvld, of Charing cross, who intends to . erect . a huge globe, showing upon a large scale the mountains, rivers , lcofth of glass, eknownw anorldd. ,i,h external building be• chiefly rs 1‘ composedbe above seventy feet iu height. The globe will be hollow, and the spectator will view the different countries from the exterior. Newspapers. ILLNESS OF THE B!surr OF OXFORD.--The Bishop of Oxford arrived at the Palace, Fulham, on Saturday, on a visit to the Bishop of Loudon, with the intention of preaching at Lambeth Old Church yesterday morning, on behalf of the Southwark fund for building churches and schools (in that deanery). The Bishop was suffering from a cough and vio lent irritation of the windpipe on Saturday; but it was hoped by nursing and a night's rest his Lordship would have been relieved; but on Sunaay morning he was much worse and quite incapable of exertion. The sermon at Lambeth Church was preached by the senior curate. the Rev. J. Cave Browne. The church was crowded 11114 if 0 11bstal rot lection made. THE LATE DREADFUL MURDERS AT LAN Gli UR NE . A good deal cf excitement has prevailed during the past week in the neighbourhood of Carmar then, in consequence of its having been currently rumours d that Elizabeth Gibbs, who was recently committed upon a charge of murdering, by poison, her mistress, the lady of T. 11. Severne, E•q., of Brixton, and a fellow-servant, named Rebecca Uphill, had made a full confession of her guilt. In conse quence of this rumour, and of some official commu nications made to them, the magistrates deemed it to be their duty to commence an iiquiry into all the circumstances of the murder, so as to bind over all the necess ar y w i tnesses ; an d three days were devoted to this purpose, during which some facts, not disclosed before the coroner, were elicited. Among the new witnesses examined was a girl named Mary Jones, who had lived in the service of the Governor of Carmarthen gaol. She deposed that she remembered the prisoner Elizabeth Gibbs being brought into the gaol. One day in conversation she told witness that her master directed her to go up to her mistress, and when she went to her, her mis tress said to her, " 0, Betsy, wby have you given me something ? I wish 1 bad not taken it now." She also told her on one occasion, that Peggy brought her the arsenic, and that when she asked her where she got it from, she replied from a chemist's shop in Langharne•street; she went from the house to get it. On another occasion she said to witness, "I could not sleep, night or day, till this was done to my mistress, or my fellow -servants." She also said that she had seen lights passing her window, and that it was the devil who told her to do it, and who kept her from sleeping. On another occasion the prisoner told witness, that one Sunday morning she had to give her master some camomile tea, and that she put some arsenic into it. The prisoner, who was present during the investi gation, contradicted the truth of the girl Jones's tes►imony, and said there were other witnesses in the gaol, who could, if they would, prove what the truth was. The Magistrates said they considered the evidence against her sufficient to send her for trial, and they lodged a commitment against her. THE ARCHBISHOP or CANTERBURY IN AID OF THE SOUTHWARK .I'u/cp.—Yesterday morning his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury preached a sermon in the parish church of Streatham, in aid of the Southwark Fund. The text was taken from John xii. 32 :—" And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me. The Archbishop, in enforcing the duty of liberality on the congregation, strengthened his appeal by adverting to the recent attempt of the Pope to regain his ancient supremacy over this country. "Our ad versaries," said his Grace, "had lately shown a bold front in assuming a jurisdiction to which they had no claim. They had usurped the right of assigning certain districts of England to their priests, where they might practise a super stitious worship,an inculcate doctrines which had no warranty of Scripture. They were the children of darkness, but they were wiser in their generation than the children of light, who neglected to employ those means by which alone their (the Romanists') designs might be counteracted. In the faith of the Romish.Church, which was now again attempt ing to supplant our true religion, there was much that found but a too-ready acceptance in the human heart, not to speak of a form of worsbip which was addressed to the out ward senses, designed to catch the eye and captivate the ear. We know how effectively many of their practices had mis led mankind in past ages. It was very alluring to be told that a nun of like passions with ourselves had the power to forgive sins--that when a true confession is made to him with a profession of repentance, absolution is procured, and the sinner departs in peace. Such a doctrine was not un likely to gain success among a population, many of whom were as uninstructed in the knowledge of God as the natives of a heathen land. Such were the effects of human weak ness on the one hand, and of Romish plausibility on the other, that many who had known the Scriptures from their youth had been ensnared by the pernicious tenets of Ro inanisrc. What then might be expected from those who were as ignorant of their spiritbal condition as heathens ? He trusted, in conclusion, that Christian benevolence would be largely displayed to provide religious instruction for a district in which there was one clergyman to 1,000 persons. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are entertaining company at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. - - - The youthful Marquis of Lothian, we bear, has succeeded to the bulk of the fortune and estates in Norfolk of the late Dowager Lady Suffield. FESTIVITIES AT WoBURN ARUM—The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are surrounded by a numerous and dis tinguished circle of friends at their princely seat in Bedford shire. Among the visitors are the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, the Earl of Strafford, the Earl and Countess of Sefton, the Earl Fitzwilliam and Ladies Fitzwilliam (3), the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Countess of Kerry and the Hon. C. Gore, Lord de Manley, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord Sidney Osborne, Viscount and Viscountess Enfield, Mr. and Mrs. Morier and the Misses Morier, Mr. and Miss Dawson Darner, &c. The Countess (Dowager) of Sefton and Ladies Molyneux, the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe,and Viscount and Viscountess Ebrington are among the recent departures from the abbey. BURSTING OF A PORTER VAT.—On Thursday morning one of the large vats of Messrs. Beamish and Craw ford's brewery bust with a loud crash, throwing down a large portion of the adjacent wall The porter which it con tained rushed in a torrent through the vat room, and thence escaped to the river, with whose waters it mingled. The vat is said to have contained 500 hogsheads, and the damage done is estimated at nearly 2,0001. -- Cork Examiner ARREST OF THE ALLEGED MURDERER OF MR. NORTH, J.P. A man named Walsh, the alleged murderer of Mr. North, some few week, since, and who had absconded from that period, was arrested by the Wolf-hill police near Timahoe, Queen's t ounty, on the morning of Wednesday last, after a sharp chase. The prisoner was transmitted to Maryborough gaol, preparatory to his removal to the county in which the murder was committed.—Carlow Sentinel COUNTY OF LIMERICK ELECTION.—The nomina- tion takes place on Tuesday next. v The Nation of Saturday states that " the canvas:i of the League has been everywhere successful ;" but obser ves t h at " the landlord i,,fluence is gradually rallying to Dickson's tally-rooms." The struggle will be between Captain Dickson and Mr. Michael Ryan, the tenant-leaguer; and if Mr. Gould do not resign, Captain Dickson is likely to be the sitting member. AN AMERICAN EDITOR'S FIRST CITULD.—The New _Englander gives a rhapsody proceeding from a western editor, on the birth of his first child—" I am this day multi plied by two—l am a duplicate —I am number one of an in definite series, and there is my continuation ! And you observe, it is not a block, nor a block-head, nor a painting, nor a bust, nor a fragment of anything, however beautiful, but a combination of all the arts and sciences in one—paint ing, sculpture, music (hear him cry!), mineralogy, chemis try, mechanics (see him kick !), geography, and the use of the globes (see him nurse!). And withal, he is a perpetual motion—a time- piece that will never run down! And who wound him up?" OLYMPIC THEATRE.—Aniong the recent visitors to this attractive theatre were the following: —The Duke of Somerset and party, Earl of Durham and party, Earl Fitz hardinge, Earl of Hardwicke, Earl Stanhope, Marquis of Clanricarde and party, Lord Gardner, Lord Exmouth, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Louthberry. Lord Chesterfield, Lord Seaham, Lady Talbot and party, Lady Conroy, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Sir Wm. Anstruther, &c. THE COURT. —The first of the proposed dramatic entertainments to be given this winter at Windsor Castle by her Majesty, is appointed to take place on Thursday next. A select party of about 100 distinguished personages have, by her Majesty's command, been invited by the Lord Cham berlain, and several of the Cabinet Ministers are among the number invited. RUTLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT.—The annual meeting of this society for the show of stock was held at Oakham on Wednesday. The Marquis of Exeter took the first prize in the all England class for sheep and oxen. About 80 gentlemen afterwards sat down to dinner, Mr. Talbot Clifton presiding. DISCOVERY OF COAL NEAR CHELTENHAM.—A (Hs.. covery has just been made which is likely to be of immense importance to the town of Cheltenham and neighbourhood. Last week some men were sinking for water at Hatherly, on one of the estates recently purchased of the Rev. Dr. Roy by Mr. Thomas Pickernell, when they came upon appear ances which gave evident indications of the existence of coal. An engineer was called in, w h o examined the strata, and, hie report being highly favourable, arrangements are now being made for sinking a shaft. THE ROMISH ARCHBISHOP or DUBLIN.—Tbe statement which appears in the daily papers to the effect that the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Arch bishop of Dublin, had been a cardinal for some years, is wholly incorrect. No such appointment could take place privately, nor without the fiat of a convocation of cardinals. It is understood, however, that the archbishop could have had the distinction conferred on him some years ago had he chosen to accept it. DISMISSAL OF THE SECRETARY BY THE BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF ST. MARYLRBONE.—On Friday a very large meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor of St. Marylebone took place at the board-room of the workhouse. for the purpose of considering a motion, of which notice had been given by Mr. Machie, " That the board, at their next meeting, do proceed to act upon the resolution passed unanimously on the 22d ult., and confirmed this day, that the office of secretary to this board be declared vacant." Sir James Hamilton moved, out of delicacy to the feelings of the secretary, that he be permitted the option of retiring, if he thought proper, during this discussion. Mr. Thorne said he would rather remain. Mr. Mechie then brought forward his motion for the dismissal of the secretary, stating his reasons. He was in hopes that the secretary would have saved him (Mr. Mechie) the trouble, and the board the pain, of hearing him , by going out of office volun tarily, and he would have advised him to have resigned his office. Mr. Powell seconded the resolution. Mr. Thompson said, under all the circumstances, it was impossible that the conduct of the secretary, notwithstanding his length of service, could be justified. Sir James Hamilton said, how ever much he deeply regretted and sympathised with Mr. Thorne in his present position, he must confess there were some parts of his conduct which deserved censure; and when he (Sir J. Hamilton) remembered his past services, he more deeply regretted that he was compelled to acquiesce in that censure. After Mr. Thorne had been heard in defence, in the coupe of which he said his services of seventeen years had been referred to. and till this unfortunate occurrence he had never had even the whisper of an accusation against him; but the proceedings of the board put him in mind of the and was told of it never; y— was told of it eve r ." The question was then put, and on a show of h an d s th ere Once complaint nw ciec e lld u di f di dt wroth right, e r o p i i t o,r and b 4 .13 ; against it, 8 ; ma j or i ty f or motion, from hi s o ff ice , 5. a the REDUCTlON ppedlirseind—i ssfaolroft ht o eh r erns ti, ENT. —The governors of Bet hien Hospital have estates in Lincolnshire producing a rental of 6,0001. a year, and (with Lord Yarborough and other land lords) they have returned to the tenants 15 per cent. upon the last half-year's rent, on account of the depression in the price of agricultural produce. A very sudden death occurred at Caine yesterday morning. Mr. JallleS Bewley, of the iqkirsl i , retired to bed on, Tuesday, night -in his-usual health, • an d w h en M rs . Bewley rose in the morning, be observed no change in him. The servant girl having occasion to go Upstairs, heard - him eof ceased age.... t to iTut breathe. shir groaning; m was medical aid w promptly se. t t or , b ut b e f ore Mr. Toe d C e a c r e t a w se r d igh w t as ha s d e v e a n r arrived, , he yearshati Independent. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE. The recent work of Sir Francis Head on the de- fenceless state of Great Britain is, as might have been expected, largely commented on in this number of the United Service, and as warmly commended. We have the first of a series of " Random Recollec- tions of a State of Griffinage in India," which pro mise well ; we would, however, advise the author to eschew al! classical quotations for the future, his ram act do not betoken any very intimate acquaint ance with the language of ancient Rome. " Lady Sale and Lady Harriet Acland" is the title of a ' paper giving a very interesting narrative of the heroic conduct of Lady Sale during the retreat from Caubul, and of the equally heroic conduct of Lady Harriet Acland, who, during the American war of Indepen dence, shared with her husband, Colonel Acland, all the privations and dangers of General Burgoyne's cam paign. When her husband was tHken prisoner danger ously wounded in the action at Stillwater, she at once embarked in open boat and proceeded during the night down the river to the enemy's camp to request permission to attend upon him. She was ac companied by a clergyman, Mr. Brudenell, by a female servant, and by her husband's valet. The American sentinels stopped the boat, and threatened to fire into it if it stirred before daylight, and Lady Harriet was detained the whole night on the water. In the morning she was permitted to land and join her husband in hiw captivity, and was treated by the American General Gates with every respect, humanity, and kindness. The whole story will be found nar rated in General Burgoyne's history of his disastrous campaign, and every edmirer of female heroism will feel obliged to the editor of the United Service for having again directed public attention to it. We have in this number a minute account of the action at ' Ramnuggher, preceded by a review of the circum stances which led to the second Seikh war, in which the errors of those in authority in the Punjaub are unsparingly exposed. There are several other excel lent professional papers in this number. HARRISON AINSWORTH'S ROMANCES. Vol. XII —AURIOL. For wiling away a winter's evening, about the fes tive time of Christmas, commend us to this little volume from the pen of Harrison Ainsworth ! As the twelfth instalment of his republished and collected writings it will be found a delightful pendant to his more well known productions. " Auriol" we re member on it appearance as a magazine story, espe cially that famous conceit about the " enchanted chairs," which at the time fixed itself indelibly on our imagination. The narrative is interesting, if for no other reason, as a study from the literary portfolio of the novelist—revealing to us the power, and facility with which he can dash in those broad touches of light and shade which make up the chiaroscuro of his re markable compositions. The perusal of " Auriol," in this respect, is, to our thinking, investAl with some what the same pleasurable feelings with which we might take up an outline sketch in crayons from the hand of Salvator Rosa. It betrays the play and vigour of our author's mind in the creation of a ro mance. The materials—previously employed by Godwin in his " St. Leon," and subsequently by Bulwer Lytton in his " Zanoni"—are admirably selected, and as admirably grouped together. They consist of a prologue, a first and second book, and an intermean—with such headings to the chap ters as "The Elixir of Life," "The Hand and the Cloak," "The Dog-fancier," " The Statue at Charing cross," and " The Tomb of the Rosierucian." After the abrupt conclusion of " Auriol " we have two of the minor sketches, from the same master hund, one entitled "The Old London Merchant," and "A Night's Adventure in Rome." Besides these there must assuredly be other and earlier effusions of a similar character, not yet exhumed from the obscurity of forgotten magazines—sketches we should gladly see reproduced in just such another, volume, and the reprinting of which, we are satisfied, would be far from proving detrimental to Mr. Ains worth's reputAtion. Let us see these before the issue of the concluding volume, containing the tale of Mendel Forest, called " Tne Lancashire Witches." We have good ground for believing that the Portu guese Government contemplates the raising of a loan to the extent of about two millions sterling, bearing an interest of three per cent., to be guaranteed upon the sinking fund, which at present yields 400 contos of reis per annum, a conto being equivalent to 250/. sterling. The sinking fund, there fore, producing an annual amount of 100,0001., and the inte rest on the proposed loan taking from this a sum of 60,0001., it seems highly probable, according to arithmetic as under stood in England, that only 40,0001. will remain annually applicable to the gradual absorption of the already existing public debt of Portugal. If we be correct in this little cal culation, we cannot persuade curtelves that English capi talists will easily overlook the facts from which we have drawn our inference. In our country, at least, a proceeding similar to the one contemplated by the Portuguese Govern ment would not be held likely to fortify the national credit, or to add to the security of the national creditor.— Post. GAME.Lsws.—The poachers connected in the Scareliffe-park affair were committed to Derby gaol, on Sa turday last, for trial at the March assizes. In this affair there is another plain illustration of the evil effects of game preserving and the severity of the game-laws. The exces sive preserving is a strong temptation to poach, and the se vet ity of the law for night poaching prompts both poachers and keepers to severe conflicts. In this Scareliffe aflair the head keeper (who is recovering from the attack upon him) was nearly killed by one of the poachers; one of the poachers was shot and died in three hours afterwards; and it came out before the magistrates last Saturday, that the principal keeper would have been shot by a poacher had not another poacher interposed. Consequences such as these are almost weekly happening; families are thereby rendered miserable, a heavy charge i thrown upon the cetunty purse (alio often upon pat ishes), and all for what the propensity of many of the aristocracy for excessive game preserving. In no county i- that propensity more displayed than in the " Dukery" small unty of Nottingham. ECLITSIS IN 1451 —There will be four eclipses in the terthconting year, the most prominent of which will be a great :inn visible eclipse of the sun. The first is a partial 3110 visible eclipse of the moon on Friday, January 17, commencing at 40 minutes pc.st three in the afternoon, and terminating exact]) at six o'clock ; nearly one-half of the :noon will be obscured. The Eecond is an annular eclipse of the sun ttn Saturday, Feb. 1, visible to us. The third is a prtiat and invisible eclipse of the moon on Sunday, the 13th °fluty, and the fourth is the great eclipse of the sun on Monday, the 28th of July ; the greatest solar eclipse we shall have in England until blareh 1858. It begins 2h. 3m.-18s. THE LAST PlrE.-41Wil1 the Thatcher," who way seen proceNting from Bonvilstone, with a lighted pipe in his mouth, on Thursday night last, was found next morning burnt to death by the roadside, supposed to have resulted from 'lacing his lighted ripe in his pocket, and his clothes igniting, while he slept by the hedge.--Nonmouth $(1 , ,10 115. 1 6" 6 6 0 616 8 61 73 DO t' rel. Self ;0 1 ; i jo ilti , 014 D rif; ,„ to o 'l4' leo ) 000°' d• 11 , ,p; bob l obiOt 50' 0 0 '1 ei, , 0 11 0, 1 vf