The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. !BOX THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We had an arrival from India and China yesterday. There is more than usual absence of news of a striking nature in the letters and . papers thus conveyed. The pacific character of the intelli gence cannot fail to gratify the people of this country. The breaking out of a war between the British Government in India and any of the native Powers, or the interruption of tranquillity by revolts of any of the tributaries of those Princes, and " the consequent employment of force to subdue them, are events to be deprecated whenever they arise. Their existence is prejudicial to commerce, and impedes the progress of the natives in those habits which are not less beneficial to themselves, than they are to the consolidation and solidity of the British em pire in the East. The changed character of the tidings brought by these arrivals since Sir Henry Hardinge displaced Lord Ellenborough in the Government, is not more rplarkable than gratifying. Durng the adminis tration of the latter, restlessness pervaded the European portion of the inhabitants of India. They felt their pro perty and their prospects insecure under a Government the head of which was possessed by a penchant for mili tary display. They felt that their interests ware jeopardised by the constantly recurring warlike de monstrations which the Governor-General projected ; the military expeditions he set on foot, and per sonally headed ; and the dread he managed con stantly to excite. Fears prevailed lest new wars would be undertaken, and new territory seized upon and annexed. Tim; the interests of com merce, which are founded in peace, were in jured ; and the integrity of the empire itself— based as it is on the confidence of the natives in the advantages they derive from the British Government —was perilled by the provocations to distrust the pledged faith of that Government. Seeing—as they had seen—its violation of treaties with the Ameers of Sinde, and the threatened interference with the Pun jaub, as the preliminary of dealing with that territory in the same way as had been taken with the Sindian territory, a jealousy and distrust of British faith would be excited. Distrust would engender intrigues among neighbouring native Powers. These would ripen into hostile confederacies against our rule. The employment of an immense force, to break up and disperse the confederates, which must be kept up to prevent a recurrence of similar embarrassing circum stances, would impose an immense demand upon the re venue, and endanger the stability ofour Eastern Empire. That such results would certainly be produced by Lord Ellenborough's policy was evident to the Hon. Court of Directors, who repeatedly remonstrated with him, and with her Majesty's Ministers who selected him for the post. Finding remonstrances, repeatedly urged, utterly unavailing—each successive arrival bringing some new proof of the Governor-General's determination to pursue his expensive and dangerous policy—they at length interposed their power of recal. The mischiefs Lord Ellenborough had wrought were arrested, and began to subside from the hour that Sir Henry Hardinge set foot in India. Where dissatisfaction, perturbation, and alarm pervaded the population, tranquillity has resumed its sway. The commercial interests are no longer the prey of apprehensions that some new freak of the Governor- General will unsettle the basis of trade, and entail loss, if not ruin, upon the enterprises in which they are embarked. Sir Henry Hardinge seems, in every respect, to offer a perfect contrast to his predecessor. There is no obtrusion of himself—no bombastic procla mations of his policy. His experience in war, and the prominent part he, in form e r y ears , occu pi e d i n military operations, has established his fame, and would impart confidence to any undertakings of that kind which any events might demand. But that very experience has produced in him a conviction that a warlike policy is, of all others, the most de trimental to British interests. He is, therefore, the cultivator of peace. The following remarks of the Times are in accordance with facts, and express our views of the effect of Sir H. Hardinge's policy, so far as that policy has been developed : " We are glad to heir that Sir H. Hardinge seems inclined to follow a judicious, a cautious, and a dis criminating liwe of conduct. He seems, if his policy be as we anticipate, to have a fair chance of carrying his intentions into full effs!er, as there is neither war, nor a prospect of war in any quarter ; and even the civil war in the Punjaub app-ars for the present suspended. The prospects of commerce, too, are brightening. and, on the whole, the contents of our Indian dispatche::, the first received this year, are as satisfactory as we could wel desire." There hare been inany powerful and justly-merited exhibitions of the follies and feults of Lord Ellen borough's administration of the Indian Government : the most effectual condemnation it has yet received is found in the opposite character and influence of his successor; in the same high office. STANDAR D.—A long and not very well written article, upon the existing relatione between the Papacy and the several nations of Europe, appeared last week in a morning paper. This article, though published in a journal which can scarcely he said to support the policy of the Government. has, by a certain air of diplomatic mystery, im • posed upon some simple persons as a half-official manifesto, and been eagerly seized upon by others not so simple, to serve their oan purposes of agita• tion. The truth, we have reason to believe is, that the British Governmen is no more responsible for the article in question than the Government of Washington or Pekin ; and we know that the writer can tell nothing new of the relations be tween the British and Roman Governments, because there is nothing new to tell. For many years— for twenty years at the least—every succe ss i ve Bri tish Government has been under the necessity of maintaining a correspondence with the Pope as a temporal prince, for commercial purposes, and for the convenience of travellers. Previously to the separa tion of the kingdom of Hanover from the British Crown, this correspondence was pretty generally carried on through the Hanoverian Minister at Rome, though occasionally the ser vices of an Austrian or Prussian Minister were employed. When, however, the Crown of Hanover devolved upon King Ernest the late Administration employed a stipendiary, but unofficial, agent of its own to manage the rather unimportont correspondence we have described; and upon the death of that gen tleman last summer, Mr. Petre was named as his successor. This is the whole truth upen which have been raised so many fanciful stories of arrange ments, concordats, &c. Before men allowed them selves to belieee that Sir Robert Peel's Government was engaged in a violation of the law, and acting a part 30 inconsistent with its character, as to attempt by an indirect course what might be as easily and much more honourably effected directly, if it could be effected in any manner, they would have done well to consider whether the object pursued was attainable, or worth the trouble of pursuing it. That object we presume to he, some official control over the Roman Catholic clergy in her Majesty's dominions—spiritual control being, of course, what no Protestant Government has a right to claim. Now, in order to give such official control as is here supposed, the Pope must first himself have it—but he has it not, at least in Ireland. The Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops, and pries s, in Ireland, care just as much for the authority of the Pope as they care for the authority of Queen Victoria. The allegiance of the Irish Roman Catholic Church to the Roman see is merely nominal. They use the name of the Pope when it serves their own purpose ; sm.! employ the shadow of his Holiness's authority in matters indifferent to them ; but let the Pope only show tha least disposition to control them, and they will pay as little respect to his mandate's as to a Queee's speech. This was proved in the case of the veto controversy., more recently in the case of Bishop O'Finan's deerivation, and in the cruel persecution of .Dr. ho, when he ex hibited the Pope's order to restore him to his parish, sealed with seal of the Vatican, and counter signed by Cardinal Franzoni, the Pope's Secretary of State.—(we have seen the order such as we de scribe it)—had the document all but flung in his face. I t 13 perfectly untrue, therefore, to say that the Polac , has more power i n Ireland than in Austria, Prussia, or France. The Pope has no power whatever in Ireland. The independent power of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is an anomaly, but like the other anomaly of the Pope's concordat with Pro testant Prussia, on which the changes have been sci otten rung, it is an anomaly inseparable from the free constitution of the United Kingdom. It is the simplest' thing in the world for a despotic Sovereign, who can by a word or nodcom mand the civil o b e di ence of all a his subjectsin t all temporal things, t o arrange with an ecce.a at home or abroad, th e li m i ts o f spiritual and csivi2ii submission, and thi s i s j ust w h at is done by a con cordat. But how can the Government of a free country, in which every man claims and enjoys the right to think as pleases him, to believe as pleases him, and to act as he thinks fit, make any such arrangement ? France is just now in the agony of the attempt to reconcile estab lished Roman Catholicism with civil liberty ; and the symptoms of the experiment hitherto developed, are the very reverse of encouraging. The United States sought to get rid of all difficulties of the kind by altogether rejecting religion from their political constitutions ; but late events at Baltimore and Philadelphia, and late alarms at New York, seem to prove the inefficiency of this expe dient. To us it is as clear as any proposition can be, that no free Government can ever come to any satisfactory and useful arrangement with Rome, and, whatever our opinion of the ge neral policy of the Papal see, we do not found this conviction upon any offensive hypothesis, but upon the consideration, that as under a free form of go. vernment, the clergy must be as free as the laity, a Roman Catholic priest under such a government, in vested as he is with inure car less of personal power, will, if perversely disposo.d, resist the Pope, by virtue of his civil privileges, and evade obedience to the civil Government in right of his quasi Roman citizen ship. Take the case of Ireland. Is it from the Pope that the Roman Catholic priest who leads his 10,000 to a monster meeting, derives his power ? does he even use the Pope's name to muster them ? Nothing of the kind ; his power is the power of elaborate craft over gross ignorance— the demagogue's power over all whom he can terrify, and all whom he can teach to believe in his skill and in his sympathy with their wishes, over all in whom he can inspire the passion of vindictive hatred, and the hope of indulging that and other gross or vile passions. No, it is not the Pope that is to blame for the state of Ireland ; the blame is due to our ancestors, who inflicted upon an ignorant and barbarous country the fatal gift of premature freedom, which al ways turns to real slavery—such slavery as that in which the mass of the Irish peasantry are now held by the oligarchy of priests. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—This has been a day of some excitement in the Share Market, on account of the notice issued by the Board of Trade on the subject of the proposed rail way extensions. As far as feelings in the City can be ascertained, they are generally in favour of the Board's decision, and the manner in which they have communi cated it, simply stating the results at which they have arrived, without entering into the particular merits of the question as regards any particular undertaking. The Commissioners appear to have acted on a distinct principle, as their present announcement shows—viz., that of taking the country divided between the two great lines of the Great Western and South-Western Rail ways. The decision in favour of the extensions pro posed by the Great Western in preference to those proposed by the South-Western seems to be generally considered favourable to the public at large, and to maintain the best line of road. The consequence of the announcement has been that the shares of the Great Western Company have advanced, while, on the other hand, those of the South-Western Company (espe cially those recently issued) have been depreciated. It has had, moreover, the beneficial effect of check ing reckless speculation in .many undertakings uncon • nected with these, since the parties interested are more cautious in their operations now they see the prudent and clear manner in which the counsels of the Board are directed. From the sample of the business just given it is now expected that the remaining sections of the country through which railways are proposed to pass will be disposed of in a similar manner, and there is reason to hope that in the selection hereafter to be made results equally judicious will be obtained. Another feature in the act of the Board of Trade that receives general commendation is its publicity. A few days ago we pointed out the danger which would ensue if the Board communicated its decisions to a few individuals, who might be able to take advantage of their exclusive information, instead of addressing the public generally. By publishing their determinations in the Gazette in the first instance, the information is obtained at the same time by all to whom it is of interest. The fluctuation of prices in the Share Market shows a rise in the value of Great Western and Bristol and Exeter, both of which have considerably improved, the Board of Trade accepting the principal extensions of the Great Western Company, and the rejection of the Yeovil and Exeter line saving the Bristol and Exeter Company from competition. The shares of the Great Western Company from 74 to 76 premium have risen to 78 to 80 premium, and the shares of the Bristol and Exeter have improved from 69 to 70, yesterday's price, to 73 to 75 to-day. Original South-Western shares have been pretty well supported, though in the early part of the day they were flat. The new 401. shar es , h owever , f rom 8i have gone back to 3to 6, their last price. Much business is transacting in the French lines of railway. A purchase of 1,000 shares in the Great North of France line was made to-day at 2i- premium. SURREY S ESSIONS. Before Mr. PUCKLE, Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates.) Lucy George, a young girl, fourteen years of age, was found guilty of stealing two shawls, a gold ring, a half- sovereign, and other articles, the property of h er aunt, Ann Murr a y. I t a pp eare d that the prisoner lived with her aunt, and took an opportunity of plundering the house and then absconding. The aunt begged the Court to deal lightly with the prisoner, whom she stated to have been led away by bad acquaintances. She was a well-educated girl, and had hitherto behaved well. The COURT sentenced the prisoner to fourteen days' solitary confinement at Brixton, with a view of placing her in the Surrey asylum for the reformation of juvenile prisoners. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Sarah Phillips and John Lewis were brought be fore the Lord .Mayor, charged with having attempted to rob a gentleman on London-bridge. The woman, it appeared, from a City policeman's statement, lect the male prisoner to follow the gen tleman, who evidently wished to be released from her importunities. After having met with a decided re pulse, she returned to the gentleman and tried to get at his pocket, and the policeman went up and asked him whether he had lost anything. He replied, upon searching his pocket, that he had not been robbed, but he said that he might have been robbed of a pocket-book containing 501. The policeman having known the woman to be a thief, and having seen her for three hours about the neighbourhood in inti mate conversation with the male prisoner and another man, took her and the former into custody. Sarah Phillips declared that she had come to town very lately from Bristol, in the expectation of being engaged by the celebrated Mr. Moses, in the tailoring tine, but she was unfortunately disappointed, and she then determined to get into work as well as she could. The LORD MAYOR—How did you happen to look for business in the tailoring line on London bridge ?—Sarah Phillips replied that she had acci dentally met a gentleman, who entered into conver sation with her, and appointed to meet her on Lon don-bridge, and when she WAS speaking to him the policeman interfered and improperly accused her of an intention to commit a robbery—a thing which never entered into her contemplation. John Lewis said he was passing at the time the policeman took the woman into custody, and he just stopped to see what was the matter, when he was charged as an accomplice in a robbery. The policeman stated that Lewis attempted to escape when he perceived that the woman was ap prehended. The LORD MAYOR said he clearly saw how the thing was planned between the two prisoners and their friend, who had escaped, but the evidence was not strong enough against John Lewis to justify the committal of that prisoner. His Lordship, however, thought it necessary to mention that he expected to see Lewis again at the bar. As for Sarah Phillips, his Lordship was sure there was quite enough to authorise her committal to Bridewell. Committed accordingly. A man names Thomas Evans was charged under the following circumstances : A respectable stationer stated that the prisoner, who had been employed by the persons engaged to print for him, called and gave up a duplicate for the amount of money received for a quantity of paper delivered to the firm in whose service the prisoner was to be printed. The paper had been delivered but a short time before it was sent to the pawn broker's shop and pledged for twelve shillings, anti the prisoner had left the ticket for the purpose of riving the owner an opportunity of redeeming it 1 ;.:;:mn its discreditable situation. The prisoner stated that the printers by whom he was employed were in the habit of sending him out with paper just received from the stationers to pawn ,)roker's shops for the supply of their immediate necessities. On the present occasion he had re• ceived the prosecutor's paper to put in pledge in con -,equence of his employers' inability to pay him his wages, and he thought it was most proper fur him to deliver the duplicate to the owners of the property. The LORD MAYOR—Have your employers always taken the paper so pledged out of pawn ? Prisoner —Always. They furnished me with money to take it out. The LORD MAYOR—Have you frequently done business in this way ? The prisoner —I have been three or four different times a day to the same pawn broker, Mr. Grant, of London-wall, with paper for my employers, and I took this paper in yesterday. The assistant to the pawnbroker said that he knew perfectly well the person of the pris oner as an habitual customer, and that on one day the prisoner might have pawned, at three several times, reams of paper at the shop. The complainant—Does i not your Lordship con sider that the pawnbroker s very culpable for taking such an article as paper from such a man as the pri soner, who, he must have known, could not be the proprietor ? The LORD MAYOR—Certainly ; I do think him most culpable. Ilis LORDSHIP then directed an officer to desire the presence of one of the firm to whom the prisoner alluded as having employed him. One of the partners in the printing firm attended, and stated, in answer to questions from the Lord Mayor, it was true that upon some occasions they had, to answer an i:nmediate emergency, sent reams of paper w hi c h t h ey had rece ivedfrom persons who employed them to the pawnbrokers, but in a few p hours they i nvar i a bl y redeemed the 'roperty. With respect to the present p aper the prisoner had uttered a falsehood, for he had been sent for the paper in the morning, and he h a d never returned from the com plainant's. The LORD MAYOR—You owe him wages, do you not ? Witness—Ab ou t fi ve s hilli ngs. The prisoner declared that the sum due to him was considerably more. The LORD MAYOR--I shall bind over the prisoner in his own recognisances to appear here if the pro perty be not released ; and I shall expect his employers to appear also. Probably many persons who pawn goods which are not their own do not know the se rious extent to which they are liable. Now I can tell such persons that, by the Bth section of the 39th and 40th George 111. , cap. 99, it is enacted that, if any person pawn any goods or chattels the property of another, without being employed to do so by the , owner, it shall be in tl-.e power of any justice of the peace to inflict upon the person convicted of so pawn ing a penalty not exceeding 51. and the full value of the good, and. in case of the non-payment of such penalty, to commit the offender to hard labour for three calendar months, and if, within three days be fore the expiration of that period, the forfeiture be not paid, the justice may order the convicted person, to be publicly whipped. This piece of information made a sensible impres sion upon several persons in court. His Loßnsuir said, in conclusion, that he hoped the Act from which he had quoted would not be for gotten by those who 'night, for a temporary accom modation, be tempted to violate it, and therefore be subject to all the consequences. BOW-STREET. STEALING IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—A young man named John Oxford, was brought before Mr. Twyford, charged with stealing a silver watch and a quantity of wearing apparel from the house of Mr. Joseph Jewel, 17, Alfred-street, Tottenham-court-road, under the fol lowing circumstances : It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor's wife, that at about half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday evening her brother paid her a visit, and on showing him over the house she attempted to open the door of the back parlour, but finding some obstruction from the in side, she used more exertion and forced it in, when she found the prisoner staring her full in the face. She im mediately called him to account how he dared to enter her house, and her brother coming to her assistance, the prisoner was brought into the front parlour, until a con stable could be sent for, when he tell upon his knees and prayed that he might be forgiven and liberated. On searching the back parloar it was discovered that the prisoner had lighted a taper oil the mantelpiece, and bad filled a large black bag he had brought with him with every portable article in the room, consisting of shirts, dresses, bed furniture, trousers, and a flageolet, which had been taken from a chest of drawers, together with a mantle and dress that hung behind the door. The silver watch was subsequently found concealed in the bed, and, on the arrival of the constable, he found eight skeleton keys and a quantity of lucifer matches upon the pri soner's person. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said the servant girl having gone for beer, left the street door open, which enabled hint to enter the premises, and to act in the manner described. He was fully committed to New • gate for trial. CHARGE OF STABBlNG.—Laurence Wright, a shoe maker, was charged with stabbing Joseph John Corn wall, his landlord, in the temple, with a case knife. The complainant stated that the prisoner was his lodger, in Ship-yard, for about two months, and occa sionally worked for him. On Tuesday morning his wire went into the room for the purpose of cleaning it, which the defendant objected to in such terms as to compel her to leave the place. In the course of the day, understand ing that some articles of furniture had been removed, he went to the room, thinking the defendant was out, to ascertain if such was the case, and finding him there, he told him, as he had conducted himself in such a manner towards his wife, he should in future cease to occupy the room, and must seek an apartment elsewhere; when he instantly seized a knife, similar to that produced, from the table, and rushing at him, drove it into his temple, within the eighth of an inch of his left eye, from the effects of which he instantly fell down stairs, and was conveyed in an exhausted state to King's College HospitaL Mr. Cannon, house surgeon of the hospital, proved that shortly before nine o'clock the complainant was brought in, baring a punctured wound about an inch deep, inflicted with some sharp instrument, near the orbit of the left eye, and as it was of a dangerous cha racter he considered it necessary he should still remain in the house under medical care. The constable who was called in said he found the defendant in the room, and he instantly admitted having committed the offence, at the same time pointing to the knife produced, which lay on the table, as being the in strument he had made use of, adding that he would re peat the same if the complainant made a similar attack upon him, which he repeated at the station-house. The defendant accounted for his conduct, by saying that the complainant struck him on the previous night because he refused to allow his wife to dash a quantity of water on the floor of his room, as he was in a delicate state of health, in consequence of having some of his ribs broken when he was in the army, from which he was discharged and then entered the police force, which he was also obliged to leave from ill health. When the com plainant, who was well skilled in the art of " self de fence," entered the room he put himself in a fighting attitude, threatening to throw him out of the house, al though he owed no rent, and upon his putting his threats into execution he seized a weapon (not the knife pro duced) which he used in his trade, and defended himself in the best manner he could. Mr. TWYFORD said the charge was of too serious a nature for him to deal with in a summary manner, and in order to enable the surgeon to give a decisive opinion on a future day, he should order the defendant to be re mended for that purpose. • MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Joseph Salomons, of No. 7, Windmill-street, Fite roy-square, charged Robert Franklyn with having as saulted him, created a disturbance at his house, atiol threatened to do him at a future time some bodily harm. Mr. Salomons said the defendant, who was one of bi► late clients, came on Tuesday afternoon to his house, and though he had received a message left for him with the clerk, he insisted on obtaining admission into the office, and staying there until he got some money. In effecting his entrance, the defendant struck him on the chest, and when he did get into the office, began using threats and gross abuse, calling him (complainant) a scoundrel, a swindler, and a rascal, and swearing that he would tear out his - guts. Complainant begged the defendant to go away peaceably, but the defendant declared he would stay and smoke his pipe there, and unless dragged out he would not leave the place until he got some money, for money he had come for, and money he would have. It was necessary to send for the assistance of the police. The complainant said he was sorry to have occasion to appear against a person fur whom he had transacted business, but as the defendant had used threats of vengeance at some future time, he had found it necessary to press the charge. The defendant said the complainant had conducted a suit for him, and had received all the money recovered, not a farthing of which would he refund, either to him or to the witnesses for their expenses. An old man got into the box and said he believed the defendant's story was true, for he had been obliged to get a judge's writ against Mr. Salomons. Mr. Salomons said he had his bill of costs and legal charges to show how the money had been disposed or. At all events, if the defendant thought he was wronged, there was a very easy remedy which he might adopt. Mr. MALTBY fined the prisoner W., or one month's im prisonment. Edward Morgan and John Attwood were charged with having committed a violent assault on Thomas Redford, one of the constables at the Princess's Theatre. The constable said the prisoners wanted to pay but threepence for admission into the gallery, and because refused they caused a disturbance. He was called to re move them, when he was violently a ssau l te d b y M organ , who struck him, bit a piece out of his finger, and threw him down. Attwood assisted Morgan in trying to get away, and was also very violent. The prisoners said they offered copper at first, but afterwards they paid a shilling, and received two checks, one of which was still in Attwood's possession. The money-taker said he could not say whether the defendants paid or not. Mr. MALTBY fined Morgan 41., or sixweeks' imprison ment, and Attwood 305., or 21 days. WORSHIP -STREET. Me. Fraser, a middle-aged man of respectable ap jearance, was charged before Mr. Broughton with hay. trig obtained, by false pretences, a large quantity of spirits, from various licensed victuallers in the neigh. bourhood ot Spitalfields. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Elizabeth Con nor, ot the Elder Tree, in Norton Folgate, that the pri soner called at her house on the 23d ult., and ordered a gallon of the best gin to be sent forthwith to the residence of Mr. Matthews, in Spital-square—it was wanted for immediate use. She accordingly dispatched the liquor by her servant, who, on reaching the house, found the prisoner on the door-steps. After severely chiding him for his delay, the prisoner told him to leave the spirits and hasten back for two bottles of the best sherry. The man did so, but the prisoner not being there when he returned with the wine, he knocked at the door, which was answered by the servant, who told him no spirits had been left there, and that the parties in the house were entire strangers to the transaction. The second charge was preferred by Mr. George Smith, landlord of the Salmon and Ball, Lamb -street, whom the prisoner visited on the 26th ult., and ordered a gallon of gin and half a gallon of rum to be sent to the house of Mr. Poole, a manufacturer, in Spital square. The goods were accordingly sent, and received by the prisoner under precisely similar circumstances to those in the last case ; and a subsequent application for the money exposed the imposition that had been practised Mr. Gill, a puUlican, in Gun-street, Spitalfields, stated that between seven and eight o'clock on the preceding evening the prisoner called at his house and gave direc tions for the same quantity of spirits as in the second case to be instantly sent to the residence of one of his customers, named Good, in Church -street, Bethnal green. having, however, been previously informed that numerous robberies had been practised on publicans in the neighbourhood by means of - fictitious orders, witness determined to accompany his messenger, and, on reach ing Mr. Good's house, left the spirits with the servant, who was not aware of any such order, but received the spirits, her master being absent. Witness then returned home, but, soon after his arrival, the prisoner (who had evidently missed them on the road) called again and de manded to know why the order bad not been executed. The character of the transaction being now quite mani fest, a policeman was sent fur and the prisoner was given into custody. Police-constable,ll 46, produced a hamper containing half a dozen of wine and two stone bottles, which he found at the prisoner's lodging; and two of the prosecu tors identified the bottles as having held the spirits ob tained from them by the prisoner. as prisoner The w having formerly s recognised carri ,do on business the officers siness inthe in district Court as a respectable licensed victualler, butwhohad, himself fro gra dually in veterate habits of intemperance, reduced dually to disgrace and ruin. The prisoner, who appeared overpowered with shame and grief, and buried his face in his hands in the front of the dock, on being called upon for his defence, de• clined saying anything.. Two of his daughters were present in a state of pitiable affliction ; and it being evi dent that they had been suffering from extreme want and privation, the magistrate ordered them some tempo rary relief from the poor-box, which they gratefully accepted. Sergeant Coleman requested that the prisoner might be remanded, as he was satistied he should be able to establish many more charges of a similar description against him. - Mr. Broughton at once acceded to the application, and the prisoner was accordingly remanded. CLERICEIV WELL. A STURDY BEG9AR.—An Irishwoman, well known as a beggar, was charged with the following gross mis conduct:— She met a gentleman named Kelleck at the corner of Red Lion-street yesterday evening, told him she was a widow with a large family, and that she was starving. Ile refused to give her anything, upon which she said, " I'll stick to you like brick; I'll not leave you till you give me something." The gentleman again re peated his determination; upon which she launched out into a volley of abuse, coiled him a - Sassenach, and dogged him all the way through Lamb's Uonduit•s.reet, and, fearing that her abuse would be understood by the police, gave full vent to her fury in the Irish languaze. At the corner of Guilford-street Mr. K. gave her into custody. Although she said she was starving, there was plenty of money and food found on her person. Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced her to twenty-one days' imprisonment. Mr. Kelleck said he never had given anything to street beggars, but handed over 10s. for the poor-box. Mr. GREENWOOD thanked him, and said he thought his, resolution a very prudent one. BUEGLARY.—Jamis Horne was charged with burglari ously entering the house of Mr. John Cox, No. 9, Gib son-square, and stealing therefrom a ltrge quantity of plate, consisting of silverforks, spoons, goblets, ewers, &c. The evidence went to show that on Friday night last the plate was deposited in the locker in the parlour. The prosecutor and Mrs. Cox returned home between eleven and twelve o'clock, examined the windows, and found the shutters secured. On the following (Saturday) morning the servant, on,entering the parlour, found that the window had been broken open, and that the plate was missing. Early on the same morning, police constable Miles, 110 N, met the prisoner, carrying a bundle, in Maiden lane, which he (the prisoner), upon being interrogated, said was a piece of beef that he was carrying home. The constable, however, insisting on knowing the contents of the bag, he threw it down and attempted to run away, but was arrested. The bag, which was nearly full, contained the stolen property. Mrs. Cox and Mary Skelton (her servant) having identified the plate, the prisoner, who reserved his de fence, was fully committed for trial to the Old Bailey. SUPPOSES INFANTICISE.—Frances Holmes was charged with concealing the birth of her child. The prisoner was in the service of Mr. Jay, a solicitor, residing in Harper-street, Red Lion-square, and her pregnancy was noticed by some of her fellow serva•.ts. On the 16th ultimo the body of a full-grown child, much lacerated, was found in a water closet in Mr. Jay's house. Mr. Jay at once gave information of the fact to the police. The prisoner admitted that she had given birth to the child and placed it there, but alleged that it was born dead. She has been since the 14th in St. Giles's workhouse, and during a great portion of the time was dangerously ill. Mr. COMBE decided on committing the prisoner for trial. SOUTHWARK. Thomas Walsh, a man advanced in years, was charged with stealing a pair of candlesticks from the house of publican. It appeared- the prisoner had just come out of gaol, after having suffered six months' imprisonment, and that he went into the complainant's house an.i took a pair of brass candlesticks, with which he was in the *et of leav ing, when he was taken into custody. The prisoner's defence was, that he came out of gaol pennyless ; that having .lost his character no person would employ him ; the pangs of hunger impelled him to take the, articles with a view of procuring some food. being sent t o -He had no-wi s h to concea l t h e facts, and would prefer gaol to remaining at large without the means of subsistence.—He was committed. • LAMBETH. George Jefferson, a highly respectable looking elderly man, was brotight before Mr. Henry, the sitting magis trate, charged with being drunk and disorderly. Mr. HENRY, the magistrate, asked the defendant what he had to say to the charge ?—Why, said the veteran, it is all owing to the lumbago, and seeing the old year out and the new one in. The MAGISTRATE —Yes; but that is no excuse. The prisoner pleaded hard for forgiveness, for he would shortly have the honour of making a declaration before his worship for half-pay. He had served his king and country faithfully for these last forty years. He had honourable scars, besides a severe wound in his head. He had fought bravely his- country's battles, and had even rescued his commanding officer from great peril, "when bullets around him flew ;" but the "lumbago," and the parting glass with the old year had overcome his reason. Upon the understanding that the prisoner would turn over a new leaf with the new year, the magistrate said, in consideration of his services, he was disposed to let him off, The prisoner promised amendment, and thanking the magistrate for his kindness, was discharged. GROSS CRUELTY 07 A FATHER TOWARDS HIS CHILD. —Robert Pratt was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, on a charge of grossly ill-treating his son, Richard Pratt, a child of five years and a half old. The first witness called was Eliza Kingate, who de posed that she resided next door to the prisoner, in Hooper-street, Westminster-road, and that the first time she had observed the child was about eight weeks ago, when he was crying bitterly at his father's door. The house was occupied by the prisoner, his wife, and brother, and •the child was frequently left alone, and shut up from morning until a late hour of the night, which was the time its parents were in the habit of re turning home, and frequently complained to her of being cold and hungry. About four weeks ago she (witness) took the poor little fellow into her house, and gave him some food, and while at her house the pri soner came hOme, and called oat for him. So great was the horror of the child at hearing the voice of his father, that the poor fellow rolled down the whole of the stairs. •On that occasion she heard the prisoner ill-use the child, and make use of horrible expressions, and say he would do for him, while the child cried out for mercy, and said he would not go out again ; so that from this she inferred that the cause of his ill-usage was that of his Child's coming to her house. On Tuesday morning, about half-past two o'clock, she was awoke by the violent screams of the child, and distinctly heard him cry out to his father for mercy, while the tatter was evi dently severely ill-using him. She knocked at the wainscot, and also threw up her window, and upon her doing so the prisoner ceased. So frequent and severe were the injuries inflicted upon the poor child, that the witness went on the same morning to the police station house to request the interference of the police, and was told that this must be done by the parish officers. Be tween ten and eleven o'clock she saw the child with its head through a broken pane of glass in the bed-room window, and he then complained of being fastened in and very cold and hungry. Some of the neighbours had resolved upon taking him out of the room. A young man, named Cronin, succeeded in doing so, but he WAS found to be in so shocking a state that they put him into the room again until the police or parish officers arrived. In a few moments after the prisoner came home and went up stairs, leaving the street-door ajar after him. Witness went to the door to listen to what took place, and distinctly heard the prisoner say, " Up with you, up with you," and immediately after the violent screams of the child. She knocked at the door, and upon the pri soner making his appearance she asked him what he was doing to the child? He replied that it was no business of hers, and began te abuse her, and soon after left the house. In reply to the Magistrate's question, the witness said she had never heard the child's mother ill. use him. On the contrary, heard her once beg of the prisoner to desist from ill-using the child. Witness, however, thought she could have very little of the feelings of a mother about her to allow her unfortunate offspring to be treated in so cruel a manner. Four other witnesses corroborated the evidence of the last witness in every particular. One of them, a trades man who lives opposite the prisoner, added that one day he heard a violent screaming issue from Pratt's house, and on hurrying across, and looking through the window, he saw the child hanging from the top bannister by a rope, with a noose round his neck, and his feet about six inches from the ground. He instantly forced open the window sufficiently to put in a lad who was in his em ployment, and wh o cut the child down. The witness added, that he did not impute to the prisoner or the others in the house the dreadful crime of attempting to hang the little fellow, but his impression was that he had been tied to the top bannister, and by endeavouring to relieve himself had got into the position in which he had before described, and had he not been observed so soon, his death in a few moments must have been the conse quence._ Mr. HENRY observed that the witness had put a very charitable . construction upon the act. The prisoner in reply to the charge, declared that the greater part of what the witnesses had stated was false, and wished to have the child examined. Mr. HENRY observed that the witnesses had given their evidence in such a way as must convince every person of their truthfulness. They could have no motive rot; coming forward as they did, except one, namely, that of humanity ; and their conduct reflected so much credit upon them, that he would omits them fire shillings each, for their loss of time in attending. The prisoner again reiluested that the child should be examined, upoh which Mi. Henry remarked that he had examined the poor child, who was really in a shocking state, and what he said fully confirmed the evidence of the witnesses. • Mr. HICNRY, addressing Dann, one of the beadles of Lambeth, said the case was one which should be prose cuted by the perish, and he should therefore request that the vestry-clerk should. be informed of the pa. ti culars, with a view of prosecuting the prisoner at the session. To affo r d th e necessary t i me f or t hi s , h e s h ou ld remand the pris oner unt i l Mon d ay next . The prisoner was accordingly remanded. THAMES POLICE. WORKING AN ILLICIT STILL.—Two young men, brothers, n ame d Edward and William Smith, were charged with wor ki ng an illicit st i l l , i n Frederick place, Bedford-street, Stepney. Colley Atkinson Davis, an officer of Excise, stated that from information which he received, he watched the house, No. 11, Frederick-place, about nine o'clock last night, and saw th e two prisoners go into it. He waited awhile, and having stationed a constable and another Excise officer, named Pearse, to watch in the front, he succeeded in effecting an entrance at the back door. On searching the place, h© found a copperistill in_ the i'fi E •.$4 . 01 - 5 . L tiN 1.1 ON, 4 9 ItIOAV MOR ;4.11. N . G eIANATA it V 3 ' i 346. kitchen. It had recently been worked, and the end of the worm tasted of spirits. The prisoners were out then, so he secreted hitnselt in the front parlour, and shortly after heard a low knock at the front door. No answer being returned, tee door was opened from the outside With a key; atid the two prisoners enteredB He seized the elder prisoner, Ed-, ard, On which it struggle eiv. sued, and they ;ioth robe.' into the street. William, who ran on, was arrested by the constable and the other officer. In the pockets of each there were bladders, still wt-t, strongly smelling of spirit, and books containing menior«nda of materials uscd in distillation. The head of a button, which corresponded with those on the elder prisoner's coat, was found on the still, and such a one was missing from the back of the coat. A deposit bank book in the name of Richard Thompson, was found on the elder prisoner. There were seventy gallons of wash on the premises, which Davis subsequently worked off, and it produced six gallons of spirit 20 de grees above proof. Nam and the constable cenfirmed the evidence as far as they were concerned in the transaction. The prisoners boldly denied that they had any con nexion with the still, and insisted that they had not been in the house at all. The officer, they said, pounced out on them as they wets passing by the door, and they ware taken on a groundless suspicion. Mr. BRODERIP thought otherwise, and ordered them to pay a tine of 301. each, or be committed to hard labour for three calendar months. MURDER AT ULVERSTON. The conclus;on of the inquest on this horrible affair took place on Saturday last, the 28th ult., before W. Blendall, Esq., when a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned . against the prisoner, Thomas Donahoo, for murdering his wife on Friday, the 20th, by striking her with an iron bar. The inquest occupied three days. The following is the most important evidence which came before the jury connected with this tragic affair. Mr. Barton, surgeon, stated that there were three wounds on the deceased's head; any of which were fatal; 4iit . that the immediate cause of death was a severe wound on the back part of the head, which might have been done by some obtuse instrument. He found about a spoonful of extravasated blood pressing on the brain. He also stated that the whole body, especially her legs, thighs, and arms, were severely bruised ; and on being shown a piece of square iron, round at the end, like a pistol, said the marks and bruises corresponded with this iron, and that he had raeasered them with it. That he had no doubt whatever but the deceased's death was cased by the wounds in her head, and that they could have been produced by such an instrument. He also distinctly stated that the deceased could not possibly have received such wounds by falling down stairs, as stated by the prisoner. That he had particularly exa mined the iron, and was confident that there wa:, a spot of blood on the end, and that it had the appearance of being recently washed. _ _ Police•con4able Sandwell examined—He had met the deceased between twelve and one o'clock on Fri ; , ,y morning, and talked with her. .'sh! was dru k. and h, then no bruises upon her. Soon after he 50..., h,r ruts band, who inquired for her, and he told hita she had gone home ' • when he said he wanted money, and would go home and give her a " d—d good kicking." That afterwards he went to the prisoner's house, and 6aw Donahoo and his son, a b•.y about 12 years of age, sit ting by the fire. Dinahoo was talking to the buy about his mother, and saying, the " d---d b —h" came in and sat down on his stool, and he knocked her off ; and said she had been " spreemg ;" and then he took a can, apparently having water in it, and a cloth, and began washing about the foot and on the stairs, and took a stone after he had washed and scrubbed the flag. Soon after thr;y went up stairs, and be went away, concluding all was peaceable James Walker stated hat he lived next door to Donahoo, and he was awoke by a violent falling against the wall which separated his room from theirs ; that it was a thin lath and plaster wall, and he could hear any ordinary cot versation going on. When he awoke, he found that Do - nahoo and his wife were engaged, as he thought, in a quarrel, which was quite common with them, and he heard the deceased cry out, " Don't murder me, don't kill me," and immediately he heard a violent blow or kick given, which was quickly followed by two unnatural groans. Soon after he heard a dragging along the floor, and something falling down stairs like a dead weight, when he heard the boy exclaim, " Oh, you have killed, or will kill my mother," and then the prisoner gave a violent stamp with his foot, and said something which he did not catch. The jury were about to adjourn. it being half•past eight, but on being informed that the boy had 4: xpressed a desire to give a statement of the affair, he was sent for, and gave an account that his father had kicked and struck his mother both up and down stairs, and dragged her by the hair of the head, and in various other ways abused her. The prisoner is a travelling razor-grinder and tinker. He is a fresh-coloured, strong muscular man, and stands about six feet high, possessing a most brutal and savage temper. The prisoner and his wife have bad six chil dren, all of whom are dead, with the exception of a boy of about twelve years of age, and a little girl about three. AFFRAY WITH GAMEKEEPERS (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) IfAVERFORDWEST, PEMBROKESHIRE, Dxc. 31.—One of those featful affrays that are continually taking place indifferent parts of the kingdom—arising from the evil tendency of the game-laws—occurred on Friday night last, at Picton, on the estate of Sir R. B. T. Philipps, Bart., M.P. for the borough of Haverfordwest. It will pro bably be attended with the loss of one or two lives. It appears from the different flying reports, that on Friday night and Saturday morning the gamekeepers heard the report of fire-arms in a plantation very close to the man sion of the above-named gentleman, and collecting assist ance proceeded towards the place from whence the sound issued, and lay in wait for the poachers until the should retire, with the intention of surrounding and cap turing them. But, unfortunately, this intention was frustrated in the following manner :—One of the poachers wounded, but did not bring down, a bird, which he im mediately pursued to the edge of the plantation, and was laid hold of himself by one of the keepers or assistants. He gave the alarm to his comrades, and they quickly came to his support. The keepers endeavoured to se cure their man, hut failed to do so, and in the fight the poachers inflict' d an awful blow on ono of their p4rty, which he will not prob.shly long survive. The pouch. rs 'hen made off, carrying with them their wonnded n3o k ; however, one poacher covered the r..tr,lxt in such an of 'ectual manner, that on the keepers utterupting to is rend a bank on a Bich he stood, th.y w •re down quickly one after the other. The bank or grip o n which the poacher stood was rends-red inaccessible by the circumstance of a deep ditch being at the bottom. At last he thought proper to decamp, taking away all the game. splinters of the butt end of &c , and the whole party got safe of'f. Of the keepers and assistants, elevet. a:together. eight - , received very severe wounds. One person had his skull fractured, jaw broken, and teeth knocked out, and was unable to speak until Monday. The others got off with severe bruises about the head, &c. The poacher, five in number, have not been taken, although af-tive means are being used for the purpose. It is supposed from the immense pool of blood left that he will expire troll' the effects of his comrade's blow. Picton Castle estate is situated about three miles from Haverfordvvest, and the game is preserved. . The planta tion in which the poachers were heard is close to the house, of one of the keepers, the birds being fed there. On Sunday and Monday, persons were apprehended on suspicion, but on being brought before the magistrates at a private hearing, the keepers failed to identify any of them. The appearance of the keepers was ludricrous in the extreme with their heads bound up. Sir Richard Phillips is at present in France. Persons in the neighbourhood of this town are sus pected, but proof cannot be obtained on account of the unwillingness of the peasantry to give information. They view poaching as a very venal offence against law, if any at all. This is another consequence of class legislation. We shall probably be able to give the result of the search of the police in a few days. FIRE AT CROTDON.—Wednesday morning, between two and three o'clock, an alarming fire, which was not extinguished until property to a serious amount had been destroyed, broke out in the extensive range of pre mises in the occupancy of Mr. R. S. M'Leod, maltater, at Thornton's Heath, Croydon. When first discovered, the flames were raging with great violence in the kiln and stove room ; and not many minutes elapsed before the whole became one sheet of fire. From that portion of the premises the flames extended to two malt-floors stored with grain, one 110 feet long by about 30 wide ; the other upwards of 60 feet long by 32 wide. Before any of the stock contained in the loft could be rescued, the fire reached the same, and broke through the roofs of both buildings. A spacious coach-house and a two-stall stable, belonging to a Mr. Maud, next became ignited, and, in spite of every effort to save them, they were speedily burned down. The fire con tinuing to spread, it was deemed advisable to dispatch an express to London for the aid of the brigade. As soon as intelligence was received in town of the disaster, Mr. Henders"n, one of the chief officers of the fire eats blishment, started to the scene with an engine and a strong muster of firemen ; and by the comb ned efforts of all parties the flames were eventually extinguished. The damage done is as follows :--Malt-kiln and store room burned down. The two malt-floors have their contents and roofs destroyed, and about 300 quarters of barley are extensively damaged by fire and water. Coach-house and stable belonging to Mr. Maud con sumed. The fire originated from the over-heat of the kiln. Fortunately a portion of Mr. M'Leod's loss will be made good by an insurance in the Guardian office, but Mr. Maud's premises were wholly uninsured. " TUB RULING PASSION STRONG IN DRATH."— Wednesday afternoon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest, a tthe Flag and Lamb, Clerkenwell-green, on the body of Frances Gardiner. It appeared that the deceased was greatly addicted to drink, and that she frequently almost deprived herself of the commonest necessaries in order that she might fully indulge her propersity for ardent liquors. Her husband, who is a must abstemious alai!, 'returned home on the night of the tith of last month, when ho found her drunk, and craving for more drink. In order to get her to bed he gave her rum. Upon awaking in the morning he found her a corpse at his side. Verdict, " Natural death." Mr. Wakley said that he lately held an inquest upon a lady inordinately given to drink. Her medical attendants informed her husband that she could not live without drink, but that drink would kill her. The husband, of the two evils, chose what to him appeared the lesser, as it secured him peace, And gave her what drink she desired. In two months she drank 137 bottle , of port wine and brandy, exclusive of malt liquors. She shortly afterwards wall seised with mortal sickness, and such was her craving for drink, even in the agonies of death, that her attendants were compelled to keep constantly in her mout,b a rag saturated with brandy. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON Tli MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. When Mr. Justice Patteson the other day &fined manslaughter to the grand jury at Nottingham, he was dealing with more interests than he dreamed of. He was not only disposing of the cases of the respective individuala a 110 stand accused of the crime in question, hut he was also, it seems, most thoughtlessly annihi lating the law of a very great constitutional tribunal. He forgot that coroners' juries had a character to lose. He forgot that he was making ducks and drakes of the legal reputation of very high and learned authorities. He overlooked the fact that " crowner's 'quest law" had been before him. There was not only a law for him to expound, but a decision to reverse. The case required not only learning, but delicacy. Reputations were at stake—authorities were in peril —much legal wisdom was exposed to ambiguous mis construction. It was an occasion for wary and tender walking. yet Mr. Justice Patteson went, as the boys say, "slap at it." He walked straight through the question, as if there were no such thi ng as " crowner s 'quest law" in rerun: natura. He was as provokingly silent . about the legal speculations of the juries who had committed Messrs. Lightfoot and Raven as if the jurymen had neither the intention nor jurisdiction to decide legal questions at all; as if, in short, they had been actually and physically shorn of all perception and comprehension whatever, beyond that required for the mere ascertainment of facts, and had had no idea that such a thing as law had ever existed. Poor Mr. Justice Patteson ! What has he suffered in return 1 Or, rather, poor unfortunate " public " for the public it is that, as usual, has most particularly to pay the piper. The unhappy " public," in common with Mr. Justice Patteson, has been visited with a pamphlet-defence of the juror's law, signed by ten of the jurors who sat on the inquests upon the late Mr. Dean and the late Mr. Bolestridge, and vindicating, with as much display of learning and acumen as can be mustered for the occasion the claim of all " crowners"quests" in general, and of these two " crowners"quests" in particular, to the character and functions of judges learned in the law. All this weight of learning the public, or we who represent the public, are now expected to read ; and that for two reasons—namely, first, in order that we may for the future know and recognise better the legal weight and authority of coroners' juries; and, secondly, that we may have the satisfaction of thinking, as often as we travel on ill-regulated railways, that if we are annihilated by a concussion, or smashed by a break down, the jury that sits upon us will probably com mit the engine for manslaughter, and defend the legality of the course by a pamphlet. This would. of urse, -r• t••••• We b •v , - • . tee p Imphlet of rt e . ; 1 • grieved tvel • i-:1 ju• o s who committed \lr. L,gir - foot and Mr. It-0/ n for tnitnslaughter on a..count of the late ac•iiiient on the Midland Counties Raale ay. The hare fact of its eublic iti••n firms a startling epoch in the annals of eel- lace's' jai its. A coroner's jury bandying law with one of her Majesty's justices of as size is itself a splendid ;ioviAt . :. .I"ht. flaring bravery a the attempt is alone al ..ost erit)t4h t i att.';ct apt tniration and syttwathy to Erie men who have ori ginated it. Lidt us, at any rate, give the " crowner's 'quest" men fair play. But the quarrel bet aeen the judge and the jure, setting apart the qeestiota of the weanded rttaj sty— thc.. 6. sprrfce injuria fin-me—v.l' the lac ter i ti , d;ap pity. plain and •tcabzhit;) ward e'e A coilisioo n•.eurs on the MiqUand Counties Railway, !ran a cuss understanding between the officers of tha company. Death ensues. Juries sit on the bodies. They exa mine the facts for several days together. They have proof that great deal too much trouble is taken by Mr. Lightfoot, and none at all by Mr. Raven (he having, in fact, no authority to interfere with the btpi ness), to prevent a collision. But, by reason of a blun dering, and certainly meat unpardonable, mistake, of Mr.Lightfoot's, the collision occurs. The juries, wishing to punish, find that the mistake is manslaughter, and that the excessive trouble taken by Mr. Lightfoot arose from a"a want of due diligence." Mr. Justice Patteson comes down and tells the grand jury that manslaughter means no such thing at all as any error of judgtnent—that if a man has honestly done all he can to prevent accident, and yet is unfortunately miss taken, this is no crime, and cannot possibly be man slaughter. So the bill is ignored. And the judge adds, that if the misunderstanding could be proved to have arisen necessarily from a want of the proper means and machinery for carrying on the railway, then, of course, " such a fact would be decidedly in favour of the accused—the blame would rest on a higher party." " He," Mr. Justice Pattes on , " did not see that such a charge was made out against the company; but if it were, it could not be used as an argument against, but in favour of, the prisoners." This we take to be the plain, common-sense view of the matter; and if the juries, instead of speculating whether Mr. Lightfoot's over-anxious, but mistaken care could by any means be brought under the defini tion of manslaughter—a definition which describes the crime as A want of due diligence—had only col lected facts to prove that the charge alluded to against the company, was, in truth, supported, they would have done more service to railway travellers and railway pr iprietors than by the publication of 500 legal (or illegal) pamphlets. • Their law-learning, indeed, is somewhat funny. „., Their ..hji , ct is to prove Mr. Lightfoot guilty of man slaughter, in opposition to Mr. ,Justice Pa..te!.ion, who affirms that "no man can be indicted tor manslaughter for a mere mistake or error in judgment.” The pam phleteers, therefore, are very learned in the outset in defining what manslaughter is. They tell us it., is " a want of due caution," a "want of due diligence," and the like. Thi , , however, is not at first sight very inucii it vartan.. , e with the judge's law ; and as all they call orovt , ;.tiri:,t the accu-ed v-ally only artiouoes to " in utg lent, they are obliged to qua:Tel a little with the which defines error to be crime. The, therefore, proceed. Their reference to " the books" are as facetious as they are overwhelm " When a ioioi tileing a bonne lets fall a tile knowingly, and without giving warning, and so kills a man, it is manslaughter." fherefore, say the pain. nbleteer,, Mr. Justice Patteion is wronz ; fir these is a pa4iable similarity be, weep dropping A know ingly from a high station to ki:l a twin, and dropping down a railroad one , ielf from a high s'arion, as Mr. Lightfoot did, to prevent people c9ming up it to their destruction. " So. if. a man have a dangerous ox," continue the pamphleteers, " and he does not use all due dilig , nce to keep him up, and the ox gets loose and kills a man, it is mansiaughter." And by parity of reasoning, we presume, they would conclude that if the ox is, for greater caution, tied up, e.g., by the heels instead of the head, and it turns out that the ox in question is a knowing animal, and, unlike other oxen, is able to untie his own heels, whereas he could not have untied his own head, and so gets loose, it is manslaughter (not in the ox, but) in the man that tied him up, to use this mistaken diligence in doing Mr. Lightfoot, they go on to say, was in error He " mainly erred" in going down to Beeston ; but error is proved by the ox and tile cases to be the same thing as " knowing and wilful negligence ;". ergo, the crime. of manslaughter was committed. Again, Mr. Lightfoot was " in error" in thinking that the ob struction on the up-line would be removed in time; ergo, he was guilty of manslaughter, fur manslaughter . is, not error, but want of diligence. Such is the logic of the railway juries. We recommend these jurymen, who place so strong a reliance on their own versions of the precedents of the broken tile and the vicious ox, to stick to their lasts. They will take nothing but hard knocks by a "collision" with Mr. Justice Patteson. If, indeed, they hal traced the cause of the "misunderstanding" in question to its real source, and not attributed it to a mere " want of diligence" in this or that individual, and that especially in a case where the real fault was an anxious excess of diligence—an excess and an anxiety probably caused by the want of sufficient force for a due and regular organisation—they might have done service; as it is, they are only making them selves ridiculous. COUPAR-ANGUS.--- . .-MELANCHOLY AND FATAL AC CIDENT.—On the afternoon of Saturday, a melancholy accident happened to a Mrs. Taylor, the wife of a mason, in the village of Burrelton, in this neighbourhood. After dinner time on Saturday, Mrs. Ta)lor, accompanied by her daughter, a girl of somewhat tender years, went. to a neighb •uring plal,tation for the purpose ur watherirg brushwood, which she had accomplished, and, in return ing home, she had occasion to g - t over a paling, and while in the act of doing so, and after she bad got over herself, the load remained on the other side, and there being a noose on the string, which was over her head, she swung on the one side and the load on the other, and was thus strangled. The girl observing the predi cament in which her mother was placed, made all pos . Dile haste 14 assistance; but, ere any person had ar rived, the vital spark had fled.—Edinbitigh Advertiser, SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. Saturday week, a lady, w ho Eldersiie. left Paisley by the second cla,s railway tram., at liblf-pist one o'clock, for (.41 eg. W. After passing through the tunnel at Arkleston, she dis covered that she had been robbed, by her pocket being cut near the bottom, and about fifteen shillings abstracted. All the persons Ares , at b ing, to appearance, most respectable, it never occurred to her that any of them could be the perpetrators; but on stating the circum stance to her fellow;pa&sengers, one of the gentlemen suggested that the whole party should be taken to the stivion-house and undergo an examination. Circum stances led the inspector to suspect that the person who sat next her in the carriage was the guilty person. He was remitted back to Paisley gaol, and has been ex amined by the Procurator Fiscal. He still remains in custody. He was most respectably attired, had a gold watch, gold rings on his fingers, and about 201. in gold and silver in his pockets.-r-Glasgoto Argus. REMARKABLY LOW flDE.—WedneSday at noon the river presented a most remarkable appearance in conse quence of the tide, which was considerably lower than it has been for some years. From Waterloo-bridge to Blackfriara bridge the river was scarcely navigable. E xtra li g ht e rs at the several steam-boat piers were thrown ou t -to facilitate =the landing of the passengers, who wro not very numerous above Inidp LLO YD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JAN. 2.—Wind northerly, fresh breese an d eloul;'.. inclining to brtow and rain. On I)t.:YER, JAN. I.—Warlock, Shields, for OSICIIttIh PORTIMon Li, JAN. I.—Wind N.E. to E.,--Arrd• Tat tar. Legom, London for Madras ; Wellingtou, Lon' don, and sailed for New York. - - - - - LIVERPOOL, JAN. I.—Wind S.S.E., light, thick fuk. -- Arrd. Aigle, Charleston.' Off, Theresa Jane, Marsnhaln. CLYDE, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Calypso, Brown, Maranhao DUBLIN, DEc. 30.—S1d. Success, Detnerara Ch a r' lotte, Harri s on, N ew Orleans .'' 31. Hugh, for T rinidad CORK, DEC. 30.—Wind N.E., light breeze..:—All 4 Helvellyn, Tullidge, Singapore ; 'Monkey, Cassuphl Jamaica, for Londo n , muc k s t ra i ne d, and with Joss 0 foremast, &c. limnusn, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Defence, Mietuniebi, aoa sailed for Liverpool. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Symmetry, Quebec' DUNGENESS ROADS, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Banjo!, Ba r " kim, Cornelius, Bernaud Edouard, Mellena, Baaviert W,lgu. 30. Vangalau, Prins Mennitz, and • stadg Utrecht, Jaski—all from Batavia. MILFORD, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Abeona, Port Madoe, London, leaky. lintusn, DEC. 29.—Arrd. Defiance, Douglas, St' John's, for Liverpool, short of provisions. SHEERNESS, DEC. 31.—A brig, painted black, With red streak and billet head, is reported ashore on the up' per part of the Maplin Sand ; and on the ShOebull Ness Sand, a schooner painted black, with Yellow streak., ISLE OF WHITHORN, DEC 29.—The ketch'Betsh and from Mary port fur Newry, came on the rock* at the entrance of the bay this afternoon, and is expected to become a wreck crew and part of the stores saved: TYNEMOUTH, DEC. 30.—The Highland Lass G ran t, of and for Colditigharn, struck the North Car ROck 24th inst., sank, and has gone to pieces ; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind E.—Arrd. Belisairef Martinique, for Havre. OFF FOIVEY, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Lady Flora Haatior g i Hoseason, Calcutta. OFF THE LIZARD, DEC. 31.--Indiaman Calcutta. BRISTOL, JAN. I.—Sld. John Cock, Ichaboe. LYNN ROADS, JAN. I.—Arrd. Amelia, Brunton, SG John's, Now Brunswick. SOUTHWOLD, JAN. I.—The Ceres, May, of North Shields, struck on llaisbro'Sand on the 30th ult., acrd-ITN abandoned in a thick fog ; crew saved. Hum., JAN. I. Wind N.W., light.—Arrd. Itobinsun. Qaebec ; Redwing, Stuart, Miramiohi. IcHAnoE.—Arrd. Mary Halket, Brazil ; Fonda* Laidley, Liverpool, MARKET NEWS.. --.t YESTERDAY•) HAT ATILESSIT3. SMITHFIELD.--Coarse MeadoW Hay, 3/ lOs to 4110 11 1 Useful ditto, 4116 s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 55 $ 9 5/ 103 ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 11,-IWtf, 1/ 17s ; Wheat 5tra,,, , ,. 11 16s to 11 18s per load.- A - filP avenge stpl a, glug•F4.-J1 rlitmand. Ct , mtp:pir,AN i).-• +ll.rse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4112 0 , 41 14, to . 51 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 6s 5/ ; Clove 4/10s to 5! 18a ; Oat Straw, 11 l‘ i to to 18s ; tV l l ,, at Straw, 1/ les to 21 per load. Supply hut limit d, and trash! rather dull. • • V HITECRAPEI..—t mrseMeadlw Hay, 3/ lOs to 4/10'; Useful 4s lt,:s to 51 45 : tine Upland ditto, 51,5 9 ° 51 10 , ; Clovvr Hay, 4/ 10s to 61; Oat Straw, 11 14 11 to ' 1116 s; Wheat Straw, 1 1 16s to 11 18s per load. Trl.lo through.put toleralAy steady, 4t full prices. mragur IVL4LI;I,MaiT2I. SOUTHALL,:; JAN. I.—Although tho sapplies of t stock ti offer hore to-day were limited, both as reppre s nwobers and quality, the eeneral demand ruled boil' dr-oping currencies. Beef, from. 2s 8d to 4s 2 Mutton, 2. 8d to 4s 4d; .Veal, 3s" 4d to 434 d; and Pork ds Bcl to 3 - told per Blbs, to sink the offal Supply:' Beasts. 30; Sheep. 960; Calves, 20;: Pigs, 40. littetvotto, ,JAN. I.—For prime olti'Downa wit had I s steady sale . at full prices, but otherwise the trade vr° dull, on easier terms. Beef, from 2s Bd' to As 2d; Mutton, 2s sd to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 41 4d ; and Por k, 2s 8d to 3s 10(1 per 8113 s. Suckling Calves, 18s to 3Qs Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Milch Cora , with their smsll Calf, 161 to 191 each. • LEWES, DEC. 31.—Beef, from 2* Vto 45 4d ; Mate 3s to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 84 to 45 ; and Pork, 35 to per 81b5. A limited supply, and a heavy demand. COAL MARKET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Cheltel Main, 24s 6d ; W. E., Acorn Close, 25s ; W. E., Be and Brown, 26s ; W. E., Heaton, 26s ; W. E., Wharlr 265; W. E., Lambton, 275; W. E., Lumley, 2 5 . 11; W. E., Stewart's, 273 ;. W. E., Adelaide, 27s ;. W. P . ' EVenwood, 25s 6d ; W E., Seymour Tees, 263 ; W. South Durham, 26s • Brancepeth Coke, 30s ; Garns ° , Stone, 2gs ; Graigols, 24s 6d ; Lewis, Merthyr, 22,!" W. E., Ki llingworth, 253.—Ships arrived, 23. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN. A g For the Week ended Dec 211, 1814, made up from the Returned: In pector in the diirere-t Cities and Town , in England and WV ~ per Imperial Quarter. 0 1 41 Wheat 453 Bcl Oats 20s led I Beans ......... 355 a Barley AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending WHIAT. BAILLIST. OATS. ItY . i BIANII. 21 8 30 2 3B 11 21 8 :+2 9 M 0 21 10 31 2 37 3 21 11 32 9 34 9 21 10 31 0 , 33 11 20 10 ,31 9 33 7 NOY. 23 •••••••••! r Slit 45 10 45 4 45 9 45 1 45 3 45 • 35 2 35 1 34 9 34 5 34 2 34 3 Dec. - 7 ....:: ''''''' 14 ..«•-•• 41 ••••••••• 211 •••••••••, 36 3d 4 35 • 35 • - IMTBILIAL 4144 ILIGATE AVZLASES or THI SIX 1 , 211 0 Wheat.........45g. 4d. Oats 21a 111.1 34.. &Li Rye 31.. Bd.l DUTIES OD rOILEIEN COLX. , Wheat Od. I Oats ••••••••• 6 1. &LI --• 0 Barley .......... 4* Oct Rye 10. 6d. Pease 7` MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of "A Table of Mortalil, in the Metropolis, showing the N um b er o f D eat h e 'f% all Causes registered in the Week endi ng Saturday,.":., 28th of December, 1844." The Table is iss ue d f rom t h e Uw of the Registrar-General:— Weslal.l Total. Arerago.,4 Fire Yo'" Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseates 223 - 176 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat ' 112 111 Diseases of the Brain, .Nerves, and Senses 180 157 Diseases of the Lung. and other Organs of Respiration 415 285 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 33 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other CAUSES OF DEATII. Organs of Di:restion 91 69 ilixe,stses of the Kidneys, &c Childbirth, Disease 4 of the Uterus, &e. • l7 . 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles lO i Diseases of tilt skin, etc , . .1 •. . Old Age, or Naturul Decay By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 1249 942 Deaths from all Causes ...... ' 1239 940 DEATHS FROM Tag PRINCIPAL DISIEABK3 INCLUDZD Mgr° THE ABOVE HEADS. Ayer Total. A o r f eipl i T e -t ra* o . Consumption l6O 147 Scarlatina - Pneumonia . . . l2O ~ 79 , Dropsy ....... .. ..... 35 (looping Cough - 34 33 Typhus Small Pox 5O 15 , Disease of the Heart Measles 29 28 Apoplexy .......... ... ....... 30 ' 18' Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhoea.. . 9 12 Sudden Deaths ......... ..... ... 30 - 15 DISTRICTS. . West l7O 138 North 234, 171 Central! 224 18$ East ... . ... 250 207 . South 37l' 242 Total ..... .....1249, . . . CHILD EXPOSED.—The dead body of a now-bo l l malo infant was found in a field at tfillhousefield; Fi May last. It was enclosed in a small wooden bolo - Edinburgh Advertiser. BIRTHS. .. On the 27th ult., at Newick, Sussex, the lady of J$ Hepry Hurdis, Esq., of a son. still-born. On the 28th ult., in Upper Charlemont-street, Dublin, lady of Captain Money Kyrie, 32d Regiment, of a eon. _ 0 On the 29th ult., the lady of Thomas Harwood Dan' Esq., of Preston. Hefts, of a daughter. On the 29th ult., at Lonsdale-square, the wife of J. Lord, ` { the Inner Temple, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. A . On the 31st ult., Mrs. Eldred, the wife of Ed war d Elar` — Esq., of the Middle Temple, of a son. On the 31st ult., at Springfield, Herefordshire, the ladf 1 J. W. R. Hall, Esq , of a son. On the 31st ult., at Islingt on , M rs . Ch ar l es F ur l onge r, °f 1 daughter. OR the Ist inst., at Bedford-row, the lady of Edward Holmes, of a &tighter. MARRIED. On the 31st ult., a t T r i n it y Church, Co'den-common , t li : Rev. Edward Kilvert, B.A. Curate of Binsted, to Elias/ 0 7f Emma, second daughter of the late . Major J. E. Gabriel , the Hon. East India Company's Service. .oa 4 On the 31st u lt., a t W e d more , Somerset, William, et t o son of John Golding, Esq., Ditton-place, near Maidstone, Sarah, third d aug ht er o f J. B arrow , E sq., M anor Wedmore. On the 31st u lt., a t Sp e ldh urs t, th e R ev. George T,L.lldiirt Rector of L a p wor th, l ate F e ll ow o f M erton C o ll ege , to Jane Powell, daughter of the late Joseph Kaye, Mn" Wandsworth-common. Aar At Downham-road, Kingsland, M r . Willi am L o cks, t'7 . of Walbrook, City. o , On the 4th ult., at Jersey, Ed war d G eorge Bonino t 0 0: Esq., late a Lieutenant in the sth Dragoon Guards. 0, On the 27th ult., at Denmark-hill; Camberwell, SO relict of the late Rev. John Madgwick Jones, M.A. On the 28th ult., at Chathstn-place East, hackney, '— Bailey, widow of J Bailey, Esq., of Dalston. On the 30th ult., at Chert.se3, Surrey, Mrs. Sarah Bac o On the 30th ult., Mr. Aaron Carter, of the King's Inn, High street, Southwark. Tha ws On the 30th ult , at Saville-place, Mile-end, Daplyn, Esq., aged 85. On the 30th ult., in the Close, Winchester, the Abt• 6o .- , Vaux, 8.D., Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, ag Oct On the 30th ult., Mrs. Mary Bagnall, of Barnebnrrp a relict of the late T. Bagnall, Esq., aged 85. Thozss l On the 31st ult., at the Fishery, Boxmore, Herta, Reynolds, Esq., aged 75. of St. M ar On the 31st ult., M r . Th omas D e l arne Ki p li ng , tin's-lane. her B 41 . On the 10th ult., at Adrianople, John Kerr, Esq. , tannic Majesty's Consul at that city. On the 24th ult., Mrs Elizabeth Woodh am,age d 86. our On the 27th ult., Mi ss Ch ar l otte Jones, of Upper SeY l2l street West, Connaught -square. Or' s- On the 28th ult., at Abbey Lodge, Merton, SutTeTt -w o rth beth, wife of Capt a i n G . Mackay Sutherland, of Udsit i t Britain. —OOl --- o f onion: Printed and Published hy MURDO YO" kat No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t The Saa Odioet, t.ird Pvw iy of Strand, in the Preciact 4,0484170 n ill 6140^ " . " • ' M icl4l63 e'xi Fri Ist January 3, + 184 ' ~~~~ t;: 744 Terra GRES Cap; 41111 RosE WILLIAMa‘ T HOMAS •0 1 . 1 N nu 111 °X1AS C HARLES ? ht E ‘ PERIC N~RY Cl A TRANI 1 4°11 X 110 1 _o RN . wu THOMAs I . SOLlcrroi 411Ctivra9' This divi Piration of and subsegt Wending sit SOO. the vrl visteel amon Th,,s folio five yettrs' Gross Inca Deduct for and all o Preazlurn lutenist on 4 ftnd Yea Leann pr, biteren 011 blitd yet bedu e t po deaths* lute ten 0 Third TM 4 ethiCt I A gleathii Inter e , t 0 Fo urth y biduct 1 delithe Initt ee t 14ulertiO P., 08 , to th e ; Om", To the Ge n t mipp 4 ° Pay ed t, %ft...... * T %fn.. '''. l ll .)k. wt.., ...... ;.3 Wc rlar "..... 1.._