The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 24. (Sittings in Banco.) QUEEN V. SIIARPNELL. _ JUDGM: The ATTORNET-GENERAL moved for the judgment of the Court, upon the defendant. Charles Needham Scrope Sharp nell, who bad pleaded guilty to informations that had been filed against him for a misdemeanour under the 45th George 111., which prohibited' any sale or traffic in public situations or offices held in the service of the East India Company. It appeared, by:the informations, that the defendant had written a letter to Major-General Robertson, one of the East India Directors, in which he proposed that he would make an arrangement with the General for an appointment as a cadet, which was in the General's gift. Defendant also wrote to Mrs. Robertson, stating that she would be paid an annuity if he got the appointment. The defendant was also accused of having written similar letters to other East India Directors and their wives. The Attorney-General said he wished to leave the punishment to the merciful consideration of the Court, as the defendant, when he wrote the letters in question, was labouring under severe domestic affliction and pecuniary embarrassment, to such an extent as to affect his mind ; for he had lost his father and four children in one and the same day. It also appeared that he was the sole support of his mother, and was in expectation of a situation, which he would lose if he were to be imprisoned. Counsel for defendant prayed that he might be let out on his own recognizance to appear when called on. The ArronNET-GENERAL said he would not oppose that course. The COURT, after observing upon the impropriety of de fendant's conduct, sentenced him to four months ; impri sonment. BAIL COURT, Nov. 24. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. ' Mr. FEANCILLON applied for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding the Great Western Railway Company to issue a writ requiring the Sheriff of Gloucester to assemble a jury and assess the damage sustained by a person named Cliff, from that Company. It appeared that the applicant had, in 1837, purchased a piece oflaud, on which stood five houses, and he had a right of way expressly given to him in the deed as far as Russell street. He called the place Bath-place, and built five mere houses on it. On the commencement of the formation of a junction line with the Great Western the works materially mpeded the way claimed by Mr. Cliff, and the only means of communication with the town was blocked up. That junc tion line had since been incorporated with the Great Western, and the line of rails crossed the way to which a right was claimed, and in consequence of the danger incurred by per sons in crossing the rails several. of his tenants had left, and the value of the houses was materially decreased. Application granted. THE QUEEN e. DAVID THOMAS WILLIS. The-ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, directing David Thomas Willis, clerk to the guardians of the poor for Winslow and Buckingham, to render up for inspection certain accounts lie held in his possession. It appeared that a Mr. Cowley had been auditor to the two workhouses mentioned, but by a recent Act; the Bth Vic., c. 101, it was made lawful for the Commissioners to place the poor-houses of many parishes into one class or district and with one common auditor. The Commissioners had thought proper to classify the tWo poor-houses above-mentioned with many others into one district, and they had appointed Mr. Alfred Heyward additor. The guardians of the poor for Winslow and Buck, ingham entertained the idea that the power of the Commis sioners could not depose Mr. Cowley, as he was already the auditor of the two unions, and which constituted a sort of district, and on those grounds he refused to submit the accounts to the inspection of the new auditor.—Rule granted. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Mary Elliott surrendered to answer an indictment, charg ing her with keeping a house for the reception of lunatics without having the same duly licensed according to the pro visions of the statute. _. _ -... -- The defendant — pleaded guilty, but upon the understanding that the house should not be carried on by her in future, she was discharged upon entering into her own recognisance to appear and receive the judgment of the Court in case the terms of the agreement were not complied with. Mark Glazier, late a porter in the service of the Great Western Railway Company, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment charginghim with stealing a dressing-case, con taining a gold chain and other articles, the property of a gentleman named Husband, who was a passenger upon that railway in July, 1843. In another count the desk was laid to be the property of the Company. Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Ballan tine appeared for the prisoner. From the evidence adduced for the prosecution it appeared that on the Ist of July, 1843, Mr. Husband came to London from Bristol by the train. His dressing-case, which formed part of his luggage, was seen to be placed safely in the lug gage carriage at Pe istol, but on the train arriving at the station at Paddington it was missing, and although placards and advertisements were issued, giving publicity to the logs, nothing was heard of it until a short time back, when it was found in the possession of a man named Morse, who was formerly also employed as a porter upon the Great Western Railway. and who was now the principal witness against the prisoner. According to his statement, shortly after the robbery he met the prisoner at a public .house in White chapel, in company with another person, named 'Williams, and the prisoner there produced the case in question, and asked "Williams to sell it, and also a gold chain which he produced at the same time. Williams took the articles away with him, but brought them back to him the next day, and he sold the chain to a refiner and retained the proceeds, and eventually also retained possession of the dressing-case. He admitted on cross-examination that the prisoner had eever received any benefit: from the proceeds of the articles stolen, and that he was himself employed on the goods side at the railway at the time the train from which the case was stolen arrived at Paddington. It also transpired that he was himself taken into custody and charged with stealing the case when it was found in his possession, and it was not until thee that he made the charge against the prisoner. In order to coroborate Morse, the other prisoner Williams was examined, and deposed that be was present when the prisoner produced the case, and he undert , ok to sell it for 91. 135., but he said that upon find ing the next day that the case had been forced open, his suspicions were aroused, and he therefore took the dressing case and the chain back to Morse. These witnesses, how ever, contradicted one another in some particulars, and the account they gave of the transaction was of a most unsatis factory character, and it was very evident that Morse's share in it was, according to his own showing, of a very doubtful description. It was admitted that the prisoner had borne an excellent character. At the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr. BALLAN TISK applied for the opinion of the Court as to whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury, taking into conside ration the character of the witnesses. . The RECORDER said, that if the charge rested upon the j evidence of Morse, he did not think the ary would be likely to'convict, hut as his evidence was corroborated by Wil liams, it was a question for the jury whether they believed his evidence. Mr. BALLANTINE then proceeded to address the jury; but he had hardly commenced his observations when they stopped him, and stated that they had made up their minds to acquit the prisoner. The REconDER said that, if they disbelieved the witness Williams, that was the only conclusion they could come to. The foreman of the jury said they did not believe Wil liams's testimony. In answer to an observation from Mr. CLARKSON, The REcour)Eß said it was a very proper prosecution, and the Directors of the Company had done no more than their duty to the public compelled them by instituting the present inquiry. Tim public were very much interested in the safety of their property while travelling upon railways; and the Di-rectors acted most properly in taking care to have full inquiry into every case where there was the slightest sus picion against any individual. The jury were understood to state their opinion, that the prisoner was entirely innocent, and expressed a hope that the Company wotNld reinstate him in his siteation. _ _ A verdict - of Noi Guilty was then recorded, and the pri• :loner was ordered to be immediately discharged from custody. Mr. CLARKAON applied for the expenses of the prosecution. The Itmccattwit said, certainly, they ought to be allowed. It was aprosecutiou of cousiderable importance to the public. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A bill-sticker, of the name of William Burgess, was charged with posting immense bills in the City during divine service., Police constable 109 stated that yesterday morning he observed the prisoner sticking bills in Farringdon street, against the Fleet Prison walls. Defendant had been posting other bills up about nine o'clock, relating to the Adelphi, Haymarket, and other theatres. Ile had several times. told him not to do so; but during church time on Sunday he put up one of the largest bills he ever saw, with the words " Covent-garden, M. Jullien's Concerts." The bills 'were more than nine feet long. The defendant said; the bill he had put up was the largest he ever saw. It contained 170 sheets of paper, and the letters were three feet long. It took him nearly three, hours to put up the bill, but as yet could not tell what he would be paid for so doing. Alderman HUGHES said that although it might be discreditable for a person to follow his trade on the Sabbath, still there was no law to prevent it. He wished to know whether the prisoner bad received the sanction of the . Corporation to stick bills up against the Fleet walls? The defendant said he had not. Alderman HUGHES said that under those circumstances he should fine the defendant in the mitigated penalty of five shillings, The fine was immediately paid and the defendant re leased. A middle-aged man, named Richard Riley, was brought up for examination, charged with forging a cheq ue for 161. 75. 7d.;in the name of Arthur Mor gan , o f Staffordshir e , an d u tt er i ng th e same t o comp l a i nant. From the statements of the various witnesses it ap peared that the prisoner lodged for a few days at t h e complainant' s (Mr. Grimell's) house, when he got the latter party to take a bill si g ned " Arthur Morgan," i n lieu of money d ue ; this Mr. Grinsell in having re sided Staffordshire knowing Mr. Morgan. Before it became due the prisoner called for the purpose of taking it up, when Mr. G. told him he had paid it away to his brewer. Ile was then given into custody. The policeman gave evidence to the effect that the prisoner, when taken into custody, saidlhe should be a ruined man. Mr. Perry, the counsel for the prosecutor, called M r . Jarvis, the solicitor on the same side, to prove th e con fession of the prisoner t h a t " h e didit, and there was no help for it ;"and also that Mr. Morgan, who i$ 8 years of age, was unable to come to London to disprove the signature to the bill. Mr. Perry applied far a warrant to compel eithe r M r. Morgan, for some one who knew his handwriting, t o come forward, and see if he could identify it. After some further discussion, Alderman lIRGUEs said he had no objection to certify for costs in . bringing either Mr. Morgan or a witness up from Stafford, and he Should for that purpose remand him (the prisoner' until the 15th of December. BO W- S TR EE T. Ireelerdav, three young men, of respectable appear anes named Bclius, lie Costa, and Felling, were placed at the bar, b e f ore M r . H a ll , c h arge d w i t h creat i ng a dis tarblinee at the promenade concerts in Covent-garden Theatre, and with obstructing and asl.aulting the officers in the execution of their duty. Inspector Martin, A division, stated that shortly after nine o clock on Saturday night, a numbor of young men, among whom Were the def en d an t s, commence d f orm i ng themsclires into circles, to the great announce of the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER, 25, 1845. persons who were walking about, and upon his requesting that they would desist, and allow the performance to pro ceed without further interruption, they pushed him about as if determined to eject him from the theatre, causing such confusion that the music was stopped. They were quite sober, and as Felling refused to attend to any remon strance, he was taken into custody. The conduct of the defendants and their companions was so violent that a gentleman, in his trying to get out of the crowd, was knocked down. and must have been seriously injured, the defendants crying out to the company to turn out the police. The defendant Felling said that he was not known to any person in the theatre, and the only reason he had for remaining close to the officers was that they might afford him protection. Constable 19, A division, said that when he and his brother officers endeavoured to check the disturbance they were forced into the refreshment•room, where the chairs and tables and ices were thrown about; in addi tion to which, witness had his hat knocked over his eyes and a chair thrown at him, the defendant all the time crying out "The Polka ; let us have a dance." The defendant was then taken into custody, while Belius cried out "`Down with the police," and took hold of him to get him away. The defendant Belius also struck witness twice with his fist, while he received a blow with a stick from behind. A rush was then made, which enabled Belius to escape, and while witness was receiving several kicks and blows he succeeded in conveying De Costa to the station, his companion being subsequently appre hended in the street. Several persons cried out for the police to interfere, there being upwards of 3,000 in the theatre at the time. Mr. Thomas Harper, who was engaged in the orches tra, said that he could not speak to the conduct of the young men at the bar, but there was great disorder among the company in consequence of some trying to get up a dance, pulling about respectable females, many of whom took refuge on the platform to save themselves, and, being at the rear of the orchestra, he advised M. Jullien, who was in the centre, to suspend the performance until the riot was put an end to by the police. There were all sorts of cries kept up by a number of young men, who appeared not to be partial to the sort of music the greater part of the audience wished to hear. Mr. HALL ordered Felling and De Costa to pay a fine of 5/. each, or go to prison for 15 days each, and the other defendant to be sent to the House of Correc tion for 14 days. Richard Jones and Archibald Hamilton were next put to the bar, charged with taking part in the riot, and similar evidence being given as in the last case, they were fined 5L each, or 15 days' imprisonment. CLERKEIV WELL. Mrs. Elizabeth Beswick, a genteel looking elderly woman, was charged with assaulting and annoying Mr. George Beswick, who was said to belong to the thea trical profession, and who resides at 34, Clerkenwell green. Mr. COMBE asked the complainant, on being sworn, if the accused was his wife ? Complainant was silent. Mr. COMBE repeated the question. Complainant— That is a question which is to be tried in another place, and which I don't wish to answer just now. Mr. COMBE—Then hare you been living as husband and wife? Complainant (hesitatingly)—Yes ; oh yes. Mr. COMBE—Has she not passed as your wife? Com plainant—Yes. Prisoner (with evident surprise)—l am his lawful wife. Complainant went on to say that he had been sepa rated from the prisoner, and had allowed her 10s. a week for the support of herself and two children, but discon tinued the allowance a month ago. He had put the matter into the hands of his attorney ; and if she thought herself aggrieved, she must take the proper legal steps. The prisoner said she was in want of the common ne cessaries of life, and was about referring to a paper which she held in her hand and entering into a state ment of her condition, but The MAGISTRATE told her he could not listen to it. The complainant, in support of the charge, said the pri soner had struck him, on Saturday night, in John's-row, St. Luke's, having found him in a house in the neighbour hood. She struck him several times in the face, and attempted to tear the clothes off his back, and he was reluctantly obliged to give her into custody. The prisoner, being called on for her defence, burst into tears. She said that, having had nothing from her husband for the last month, she went to Wenlock-road, where his paramour resided, and where he generally stopped. She was in great distress at the time, but did not commit any offence until the paramour called her bad names, and her children " bastards." The com plainant was by, and did not say a word to check this insolence, though she had been his wife for twenty-seven years, and the mother of his two children. Enraged at such conduct, she certainly did strike him. Some days ago, being absolutely destitute, she was obliged to throw herself on Shoreditch parish% but the :officials there refused to take up her case. She repeatedly waited on her husband's attorney, but he did not give her any satisfaction, He said he did not know Mr. Beswick's address. Her two children as well as herself had been in great distress. Complainant—Children! why your son is 23, and that lassie there (pointing to the daughter, a modest, genteel looking girl, who stood behind her mother) is more than 20. The poor girl came forward, and stated that what her mother said was quite true; they had been in the greatest distress. She had been endeavouring to support her mother out of her own earnings, but they were half starved upon it. Her brother got into a situation about a fortnight ago, and up to that period their condition was even worse than it had been since. The landlady of her father's paramour was present, and would corrobo rate her mother's statement. She did not think it right that her father and that bad woman should be allowed to treat her mother so. Mr. COMBE (to complainant)—You should not allow the woman to starve. Complainant—l do not call upon your Worship to decide between us. The Clerk—That is not the proper way to speak. You ought to continuo the allowance. Will you do so? Complainant—Decidedly not; she has injured me in my business. Mr. COMBE—WiII you let the woman starve? Com plainant—Let her take the proper steps. Mr. COMBE—Are you aware that for refusing to maintain your site a warrant can be issued for your apprehension if she throws herself on the parish? Complainant—l am quite prepared to meet such a pro ceeding, but I am not going to give her weapons to fight me with. I want to be protected. Mr. COMBE—WeII, she has committed an offence. Will you be satisfied with her entering into her own re cognisance to keep the peace ? Complainant—l don't think a wife can enter into her own recognisance whilst her husband is alive ; but I don't wish to hurt the woman. The poor woman said the complainant had taken away her furniture and everything that belonged to her, and she was now pennyless and friendless. Mr. COMBE, who seemed to sympathise in her helpless condition, discharged her upon promising not to y Mr. Beswick in future. SOUTHWARK: James Morris, a respectable-looking young man, clerk to Mr. Gardner, house and estate agent, Newington causeway, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Cottnigh:" charged with taking a quantity of laudanum for thA pur pose of destroying himself. A police-constable, of the M division, sas' that about " half-past ten o'clock on Saturday pi nt he was called into Mrs. Gardner's house, where t.e found the prisoner in a stare of lethargy. Believ2 ing that he had taken poison he took him to the, station-house, from which place Inspector Yates sr ;,it him to Guy's Hospital, where the stomach-pump used twice, and a quantity of laudanum was er.racted from his stomach. He was afterwards takr:a to St. George's workhouse, where he remained urtil brought to this Court. An Prentice to Mr. Bellamy, chemist. Brigdehouse place% igewingtun-causeway, said he had known the pri sor..er some years, his mother being in business on the opposite side of the road. He came into his master's shop about ten o'clock on Saturday night, and asked for fourpennyworth of laudanum, saying at the same time, in a laughing manner, that he intended to poison him self. Not believing he had such au intention, he served him with twopennyworth, when he said that as he would not let him have the quantity he desired, he should go to another chemist, and purchase twopennyworth more. Ile then left the shop. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said he had actel very wrong in supplying him at all, after his making use of such lan guage. His mother said that sho believed that he was not in his right senses. Ile had formed an attachment to Mrs. Gardner's daughter, and the banns of marriage had been published in St. George's Church, but Mrs. Gardner refused to sanction the marriage. He was, however, a very bad lad, having robbed her to a very serious extent some time ago. Mrs. Gardner said she knew nothing of her daughter's attachment to the prisoner; she did not believe that there was any truth in the matter. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that on Sa turday evening he had been letting a house, and after wards partook of some liquor. Not being used to such indulgences it affected his head, but he had no idea of poisoning himself ; in fact, he did not take enough to to do so. his mother would hang him if she could, and he had not a friend in the world. Mr. COTTINGHAM said, it was quite clear that he in tended to poison himself, therefore he should order him to find bail for 12 months, and remain in prison until sufficient security was forthcoming for his future conduct. He was coinniitted to prison in default of the required bail. Jokn Lawrence, a horse-dealer, was placed at the bar on a charge of having intermarried with Sarah Burkett, his former wife being still alive. The circumstance attending the discovery of the pri soner having a plurality of wives arose out of a quarrel that he recently had with a third female, with whom he had latterly cohabited. In the excitement of passion this woman gave such information as led to his appre hension, but when he was brought up for examination she absented herself, and a warrant was therefore issued for her apprehension as an important witness in the ease. The prisoner's two wives, however, attended, and from the production of the certificates it appeared that he was married to Ann Collis on the 28th of March, 1823, and to Sarah Burkett on the 11th of June, 1844. When the prisoner was placed at the bar he declared that at the time he contracted the second marriage ho heard that his first wife was dead, and he believed so up to the present moment. The first wife, however, was h ere confronted with the prisoner, and he admitted that he was married to her at the period specified in the certificate. He added that he had not seen her until then for 13 years. Mr. COTTINGHAM said the woman who gave the first information, but who had now very properly absented herself, stated that at the time she W5/3 1,1Y113,7, under the protection of the prisoner she heard him admit that his first wife was alive at the time he contracted the second marriage. The Magistrate added that he should commit the prisoner for trial, but that he should be brought up again in order that tire evidence of the woman before alluded to might be•included in the depositions. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—There is a certain work on " Corn and Currency" most respectfully and sympathetically ad dressed to the landowners by one of their class, and dis playing more than sufficient information and ability to account for its having come to a second edition. Long ere this, however, it would have been overlaid and for gotten under the subsequent accumulation of literature on and about those recondite subjects, but for one little circumstance. If it has not conferred celebrity on its author, its author has done that service to it ; for it is by no less a person than Sir James Graham (of Ne thezby), Bart., M.P. Though rather pass& in some of its topics—for it was published in 1826—it possesses, under the circumstances, a freshness ever new, and an interest just now more than ever on the ascendant. It -has been carefully investigated by those who consider it discreditable to modify a published opinion, and, we are bound to add, that their generous industry has not been entirely without its reward. How far the Right Hon. Author may himself be haunted by his litera scripta or his vox miBsa—those once for midable bugbears of political men—perhaps we are not the party to guess. But if there ever was a time when be might turn over the leaf not only with that mental and visible composure which practice alone can impart, but also with advantage to the nation, that time, we think, has now arrived. The currency is the chief subject of the book, and would undoubtedly have been first in the title had that been an euphoneous arrange ment. On this point Sir James Graham exhibits a very keen apprehension of the misery and injustice occasioned by the alternate expansions and contractions of the cir culating medium during and after the war. how far these vicissitudes were entirely artificial, how far they resulted from political and commercial events, and how far they are now completely under the control either of Bank or Parliament, are questions apparently beside the scope of Sir James's inquiries. He makes out a case against the Act of 1795, and not less against the Act of 1819 ; he describes the crisis of 1825, and one or two more ; he exhibits some striking tables ; detects some considerable wrongs ; but perhaps leaves no impression so definite as that a depreciation of the currency, from whatever reason arising, has an almost exactly proportionate effect in in creasing the price of corn and other principal commodi ties of life. It is the now Right Hon. Baronet's view of the corn-laws which gives to the work its chief present in terest; and fortunately this also is the point on which he happens to be most explicit. Addressing himself to his brother landowners he probably felt that figures would be asked for, and while he assures them of their abstract right to some equivalent boons which a just Legislature would certainly allow, he recommends them to volunteer the first step in the adjustment by surrendering their share in the existing injurious compromise. He asks them, in fact, to give up all attempt to fix the price of corn, and content themselves with what he calls a " pro tective " duty of 15s. a quarter,—to accept a fixed duty in lieu of a fixed price. Advice so unpalatable is intro• doted with a preface so much to the purpose, so gene rally significant, and so peculiarly appropriate to the Right Hon. Baronet's own career, that our readers will thank us for the extract : " I am aware that you will not be inclined to attend to the suggestions which I am about to offer; past errors are ad mitted with reluctance; measures of precaution, especially if they be of a decisive character, are slowly adopted against dangers which are not immediate; and the course of legisla tion is very rarely the result of previous wisdom; it. is rather guided by circumstances, and influenced by the occasion." Sir James makes it his purpose to view a prohibitory system of corn-laws in the bearings as an attempt to regulate prices. Wishing well to the landowners—nay, avowing a decided predilection in their favour—for that very reason he advises them to renounce a compensation which does not really save them from the losses entailed by gold payments and contracted issues. " It may be doubted even whether the existing (1826) system of prohibition be so entire a benefit to the landowner himself as he would seem tc imagine; for, in the variety of seasons, it is impossible that the land cultivated within these islands can, year by year, from one harvest to another, pro duce a supply of corn exactly commensurate with the de mand. At one time the prohibitory system is unjust to the grower; at another, to the consumer. The grower is injured when, after a harvest somewhat deficient, the ports are opened by a sudden rise of price, and a large accumulation of foreign corn is poured at once into this country ; bringing on the farmer the losses incident to over-production, and ultimately to the landlord a correspondent decline of rent. The consumer is injured in the interval between the rise of price and the importation of foreign grain ; he is even exposed to the horrors of famine ; for in proportion as the demand for foreign grain is unusual, the supply in case of emergency must be precarious. Thus the alternate evils of redundancy and scarcity, unsteady prices and uncertain rents, are the inevitable consequences of the present system of our corn-laws. Farming is therefore made both a gambling and a hazardous speculation. No caution can guard against ruin ous losses, for no prudence can foresee the chances on which they depend ; whether the price •f wheat will rise to 78s. per quarter, when the profit of the farmer would be enor mous, or touch the maximum of 80s., when by the opening of the ports and of the granaries of corn in bond, wheat would instantly fall at least 50 per cent., to his entire ruin, is a matter almost of accident, frequently influenced by fraud; thus the full operation of the present corn-laws ex poses agricultural capital to losses rather incident to the hazard table that to fair mercantile speculation." As the writer proceeds to prove, the conclusion is that " thus revenue from the soil is literally made the sport of wind and of weather." It is unneces sary to observe that the argument applies to the present sliding-scalo as much as to that against which the enlightened Lord of Netherby was levelling his indignant remonstrances. Still less is it neces sary to remind our readers of a recent instance which fully illustrates the tendency to a sudden ruinous downfal. Amongst the numerous resources and claims c : dy e s. s we t oanfg e te as i of the present Ministry is the stock of credit it has gained by a certain million pounds sterling, or therea bouts, paid at once into the Treasury on the importation of several millions of quarters of foreign corn, the effect of which, pleasant as it might be to the manufacturers and her Majesty's Ministers, was to lower the price of corn immediately more than the Baronet's 50 per cent. It is only just now that the national and universal cala mity of a bad harvest has rescued the agriculturists out of that slough of despond ; though we are by no means sure that the agriculturists will not find the remedy worse than the disease. But let us go on with Sir James. We shall find him keeping up the spirit of his argument : shr ei t gml o yh m uos e pnt r r ibichseei high t ih h it manufacturer; o e gyhrreoerfidtut sc:eti.t whichi(ftiss, wages tbg theteii sst must dec”, 1? thehis" p T a r s o h ,o s e p w l e a e r d n i t ( y l t l e o d n r e d i e s e n n must be lower; tlitia our foreign compe titors had demonstrated above.) If corn be dearer In Eng land ig th h a e n r, el p s r e o w fi h ts ere obtain the greatest possible advinitage; and if the sys ftoermthb ee home ome market, surely it is not the inters • de cease this country ; and me of any class so to enhance the successfulprice of labour a provisions as ft) secure to the foreigner the -r - • • ~,mpeution, and to chok e w ith o b s t ruc ti ons • e rincipal channels of native industry. The :eeling of the public must be hostile to the present corn-law ; the receivers of rent are a very small body ; backed by public opinion they are almost omnipotent; in violation of public opinion they cannot long retain an exclusive advan tage. The contest is fearful ; for on what ground will it be decided? On the very topic which inflames to madness; that hunger which breaks through walls will be arrayed against them, reason will be heard no longer, the barriers of society will be broken down, and estates, distinctions, honours, swept away in one resistless torrent." It is impossible to suppose that arguments so cogent in themselves, so e mphatically and so eloquently expressed, can be either forgotten or unfelt. We are sure, how ever, that we do the writer a service in recalling them as well to his attention as to that of his many admiring readers. Even from the grave and obsolete antiquity would we search for reasons and motives on such a theme; much more then from the early writings of one who happily still lives to give them their full, mature, and practical force. In a day or two we will present our readers with a little more virgin ore from the same mine. POST.—No language we could use would be too strong to express the indignation which every just man—which every man who loves truth—ought to feel, at the present moment, against those who are labouring in the public press to excite an alarm of famine. That this iniquitous project is undertaken solely for a party purpose is evi dent. The enemies of the law which gives protection to the British agriculterist, hope, by exciting a public cla mour, and producing a pressure from without, to cause the Government to ,open the ports fur the reception of foreign corn free of duty. They further hope that this grand object having been accomplished, they will have influence enough to obstruct for ever the revival of the law which restricts and regulates the import of foreign grain. It is the grossest hypocrisy to pretend that the exaggeration and violent declamation about impending famine, to which we allude, arise out of a real concern for the British consumers. They who are acquainted with the subject know very well, that the real opera tion of the opening of the ports would be an imme diate rise of the price abroad, and, in fact, a putting into the pockets of the foreign holders the diffe rence which now exists between the price of free corn and foreign corn in bond, and liable to duty. The foreign holders are closely watching our proceedings, and the moment they have reason to believe that we must buy from them at any price, they will make us pay accordingly. During the short time that an in fluential journal led the world to believe that the ports were about to be opened, wheat in foreign ports rose some seven shillings a quarter, and it has fallen again since events have proved that the journal in question had been misled, and had consequently misled the public. It is difficult to say whether the falsehood or the nonsense promulgated on the foreign-corn question by the alarmists is the more conspicuous. We look on, say they, and we see other nations supplying themselves in the foreign ports which we refuse to enter. Refuse to enter ! What outrageous absurdity is this ! Does any one suppose that the duty imposed upon foreign corn, when brought to market for consumption in England, prevents our merchants from purchasing foreign corn ? The very reverse is the truth. Our merchants are now steadily and leisurely supplying themselves with foreign corn at every port in the world where it can be bought. They are carrying on their operations subject to the gradual effects of the sliding-scale, upon which they can calculate, and beyond all question our chance of foreign supply is infinitely better under this system than if all were thrown into a state of confusion and chaos by the opening of the ports. Then, indeed, a helter-skelter scramble would take :place, and all the well-planned operations of trade would be rendered of no avail. There is no nation in the world supplying itself in foreign ports as England is at this moment. At this moment offers of cargoes of wheat from the Mediterranean are daily arriving to our merchants. It would not be so, if, in a paroxysm of madness or of fear, the Ministers we re to open the ports. This would be hoisting a signal of distress which, far from bringing succour, would make the foreigner hold off till we paid double for assistance. It is said we are looking on while our neighbours lay in stores which they will be prevented by restrictive, j laws from sharing with us. Another most a b sur d] untruth. It is we who are laying in the stores. Our merchants, and not foreign merchants, are buying up the surplus corn of foreign countries, for our mer chants can afford to pay, while others cannot. Why then should we derange that which is going on steadily, as business ought to go on ? If there be an insufficient supply, the price thereby produced will open the ports. The sliding-scale will open the ports, and by that time (though not before) something will have been provided by our merchants worth opening the ports for. To open them now, would serve no pur pose but that of gratifying the factious views of the Anti- Corn-law League. It is said that we knowingly post pone our demand for foreign wheat till the time when the supply will be most costly. Another absurdity— another falsehood. We do not postpone our demand. Our demand is now steadily proceeding, and we are ac quiring foreign corn at less cost, because we are acquir ing it while a considerable barrier exists between the foreign produce and the British consumer. The propa gators of lies on the subject of the supply of foreign corn leave entirely out of account the operations of our merchants in anticipation of the future demand. They assume what they must be ignorant, indeed, if they do not know to be false, that until our ports are open, no purchase, or no important purchase, of foreign grain takes place. It is strange that any portion of the public should be gulled by nonsense such as this. We believe the sliding-scale to be right in principle, but whether it be right or wrong, the operation of those whose business it .is to watch and calculate upan the facts which they are at the utmost pains to ascer tain—the operations of the great dealers in corn, have been adapted to the machinery of the sliding-scale. In conformity with what may be expected from it, they are making their preparations, and to open the ports suddenly, while their measures are in progress, would be to ruin them, and to destroy our own means of safety, if, indeed, it be true that we shall require considerable aid from foreign supply. If, again, it be true that our own produce is considerably short of our ordinary con sumption, what palpable madness it is to be clamouring for cheapness of price ! Does not every one know that a rise in price is the natural remedy which the habits and the reason of mankind supply to induce economy in the use of the commodity of which a scarcity is appre hended ? Shall we by any desperate measure seek a momentary depression of the price of home-grown corn, and thus induce a greater consumption at the very mo ment that we say we have not enough to sustain the pre sent rate of consumption till next harvest ? Really, such representations are too preposterous to be borne with common patience. We have the satisfaction, however, of believing that the Government is not misled by the lies which are pelted about town and country with such vehemence ; and we hope Government will have manli ness enough not to give way before clamour,, which it well knows to be dishonest. CHRONICLE.—The Nation recommends to the con sideration of repeal wardens, to be read in their parishes, a " few short and easy rules " as to the uses to which railways may be put. We had the gratification of printing them in the Chronicle yesterday : " A hint on this subject," the Nation says, " may be thought enough; but we see noobjection to speaking plainly; and, therefore, we give a few practical views, which may be improved as engineers turn their attention to the subject. " First, then, every railway within five miles of Dublin could in one night be totally cut off from the interior coun try. To lift a mile of rail, to fill a perch or two of any cutting or tunnel, to break down a piece of an embankment, seem obvious and easy enough. " Second—The materials of railways, good hammered iron and wooden sleepers, need we point out that such things may be of use in other lines than assisting locomotion. "Third—Troops upon their march by rail might be con veniently met with in divers places. Hofer, with his Tyro liens, could hardly desire a deadlier ambush than the brinks of a deep cutting upon a railway. Imagine a few hundred men lying in wait upon such a spot, with masses of rock and trunks of trees ready to roll down—and a train or two ad vancing with a regiment of infantry, and the engine pant ing near and nearer, till the polished studs of brass on its front are distinguishable, and its name may nearly be read ; Now, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost !—now .' " But 'tis a dream. No enemy will dare put us to realise these scenes. Yet, let all understand what a railway may, and what it may not do." It requires a fine philanthropist and legislator to dis cover such advantages in the railway system—one of those obstinate martyrs who would cut off his nose in order to spite his face. Suppose the rails are down and the tunnels complete, the Irish philosopher instantly begins to think how it would be easy to lift the former and fill up the latter again. This also would give fresh work to the neglected poor ; and, causing a wholesome and perpetaal demand upon capitalists, would enforce a circulation of money through the country. " Second — good hammered iron and wooden sleepers" would be capitally handy to make pikes with. The " second" is admirable : the logical precision and neatness of the rules to be read in parishes. Get your subscriptions and your Parliamentary Acts ; pay your engineers, landowners, and workmen ; and you have at once good hammered iron and wooden sleepers ready for demo lishing Saxons. The cheapness of the weapon is unde niable. The boys could have the pikes for nothing. There are historical examples for the practice. The refined and intrepid Vandals, when they invaded Rome, pulled out the iron clamps of the Colosseum for the same purpose : the Turks (an exceedingly civilised and maligned race) fired off the heads and limbs of Phidias' statues from the Parthenon, when be sieged there. There is also the case of the enlightened Chinese, mentioned by Charles Lamb, who having eaten a pig which was roasted in the burning of a house, burned down a house every day with a pig in it, in order to get his favourite crackling. Young Ireland is for legislating in this way. Travellers, who have visited the country, have seen the system many times put in practice; and in the Irish domestic, economy have admired a piano figur ing very handsomely as an apple-cupboard, or a window replaced advantageously by a pair of pantaloons or a wig. Here it is proposed to employ the plan on a grand and noble scale, and to put arms in the hands of ingenious patriots who are about to levy war. Then we wind up with the night attack—the Irish in ambush, with the rocks and trees handy; the smashing of the engine, and the roasting, crushing, and slaughter of the Saxon regiment in the train, And the whole of tke wretched, tawdry romance finishes with that accustomed invoca tion so commonly used among certain patriots in Ire land now—not the Nation writers merely. The Captain Rocks and Molly Maguire's men used a similar one before they went out to murder. Has Swift left no suc cessor? Are these people, who could listen to sense and wit once, to be led by such harangues as those of Mr. Sinnott the other day, and as this of the Nation ? Fancy a country in which popular journals are found which call these plans of incendiarism "practical views"--a country where starvation is imminent, and employment is the only chance of averting it. The native legislators do their best at this moment to frighten out of Ireland its sole means of livelihood, as if in such a time, and to starving men, bread were not more necessary than the best Parliament that ever was devised, or all the spouters that ever roared through lungs ! You want your land lords to come and live among you ; shoot at those who are there, and so encourage the rest back again. You want money and work ; curse and threaten the only people in the world that can give it you. You want railroads to develope your own internal resources ; pro mise to destroy them, so that you may get pikes to kill the Saxon with. This argument goes on day by day, and is talked to the best, wisest, bravest, cleverest people in the world. If Swift were but by to listen to it ! But they seem to prefer an orator out of Swift's Hospital now—a bedlamite with a murderous monomania. SENTINEL—The total abolition of the corn-laws seems now at hand. The friends of the farmers who rejected the fixed duty of the Whigs, will ere long be driven by the man of their choice to surrender the whole of their monopoly. There is no longer any opportunity for parly or compromise. Impending famine, the precur or of riot, it may be of revolution, threatens to extort the opening of the ports. We may have soon to select between the downfal of the landowners or the sub version of the monarchy. The gigantic fraud of pro tection against foreign growers of corn has been laid bare in all its details. It is now known that protection means robbery, since it throws taxation on the indus trious classes and exempts the property classes from its pressure. But more than this is known. It is well understood that the imposition of the taxes on food was originally consented to, on condition that the landlords would support the Bullion Committee in the Bill which compelled the Bank of England to resume cash payments. Sir James Graham is our authority, and he has called that bargain an imprudent bargain; we denounce it as a base one ; and punishment is now, though tardily, about to overtake the criminals. But let us attempt to exhibit the bearings of this question without heat or rancour, neither as exclusive partisans of manufactures or agriculture, for there has been too much of vituperation s too little of argument on both sides. We will endeavour to write in the spirit of a bltfo4 thishe)eeland ownersveytegafonrpxueeenedr teferroey::amvioriginallybeodo ulfromlrndthanotota national n ttacdthhioheeemme debtpar eenhhstdieotgamoth with t t tte h hhm e e N pt V t aaehwrxha exclusioncok y oeeerdt d i od i ?fd. labour tbB Becauseh comparatively r twiooieeff mediator between extreme parties. d landlords would not have sought or required any legis lative protection ; therefore, in reality, it was not the dread of the foreign producer, but the dread of the domestic tax• gatherer that guided their polity. Or, if this mode of stating the fact be deemed ambiguous, we would say that the domestic tax-gatherer immediately and the foreign producer mediately created the corn laws. In simple truth, high taxes render high prices necessary ; monopoly is favourable to high prices ; therefore the landlords claimed a monopoly for the commodities which they sold. So far, they only acted as all other traders would act, had they the power ; they threw off taxation from themselves and placed it on the consumers of grain and other farm produce. Now, had the Legislature granted to all other classes of producers the same amount of protection as they conceded to the agriculturists, there would have been no cause of complaint. But the very reverse was the case. The next measure was Peel's Bill of 1819. That Bill, overlooking the fact, that taxes ought to enhance prices in exact proportion to such taxes, enacted that gold, at its natural cr untaxed value, should be the standard measure of all taxed commodi ties. The consequence was, that, while all agricultu ral produce remained high, all other industrial produce became low ; so that the landlord was enabled to sell his produce dear, and buy all other produce cheap. This is the real iniquity of the system. The nobility, by a fraud, became as fiscally privileged, as were the French nobility before the Revolution they suc ceeded by the joint action of the money laws and the corn-laws wholly to escape taxation ; for, whatever they paid to tho tax gatherer ',they always got back again, and generally with a high bonus from the con. sumers of the food in which they traded. Repeal the corn-laws and retain Peel's Bill. and then the landlords would have to sell as cheap as other traders. It is the knowledge of this fact that makes them so tenacious of their priviloge. Is there any mode by which, on sur endering their monopoly, they could still obtain high prices to cover their just share of taxation as pro-, ducers ? Undoubtedly there is. it is by reverting , to that currency under which prices rose during the war, and there is no other mode. To this the manufacturer would not object, as such high prices, being paper prices, and not gold prices, his trade with foreigners would not be effected. The manu facturer would still be able to sell cheap to the foreigner, while he would sell dear at home ; and, thiv, he also would throw his share of taxation on the consumer. If agriculturists and manufacturers could only sre these points, they would form ono common league against the usurers and moneymongers to whom both are the unconscious victims. As to the working classes, they also would receive high wages; and, by high wages, we specially mean, such wages as would cover all the indirect taxes they now pay on all they consume. Thus, all the industrious, of every grade, would be liberated from fiscal burthens, which would fall, where they ought to fall, on property. Such is the equitable and honourable adjustment we propose between the lords of the plough and the loom.. EXTRAORDINARY MORTALITY. Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, Mr. Wakley, M.P., resumed an adjourned inquiry, in the board• room of Mid dlesex Hospital, relative to the respective deaths of William Lambert, aged 17, and Henry Lambert, aged 12, brothers, forming two of a numerous family, who had died in that institution under the following extraordinary and mysterious circumstances. Many medical gentle men attended the investigation. It will be recollected that on the former occasion it appeared in evidence that the father of the deceased, who carried on business as a painter and glazier, at No. 33, Cumberland-market, died about twelve weeks since, sub sequent to which his widow, three sons, daughter, and grand-daughter, had been seized with a malady which they considered was the scarlet fever. The grand-daughter however dying, and the sons becoming daily worse, they were on the 4th inst. removed to the hospital, where on the 13th, William died, and on the 15th, Henry. As the cause of their deaths could in no way be accounted for by any of the medical gentlemen who saw them, Mr. Corfe, the house apothecary, communicated with Mr. Wakley, and the result was the present investigation. On the re-assembling of the jury yesterday, the de puty coroner having read over the evidence before ad duced, the following witnesses were examined:— Mr. Corfe stated that the deceased were admitted into that hospital on Tuesday, the 4th instant, together with another brother who still remained there, and was gradually progressing towards recovery. They all ex hibited precisely the same symptoms, and had been at tacked in the same manner. The indistinctness of their articulation rendered it very difficult for them to explain the nature of their complaint. Witness considered them to be labouring under a poisonous effluvium arising from the sewer in the neighbourhood in which they had re sided. The eldest brother, John Lambert, still survived. There was a great swelling about the jaws and throat, with an excessive foetid discharge from the mouth and nostrils, and from the cause before mentioned they could not be questioned as to their condition. Anothersymptom was a most voracious appetite. Leeches were applied to the jaws, and the knees and elbows became very much swollen and painful. On examination of the body of the de;reased, Wm. Lambert, after death, he found both the knee joints to contain a thick fluid. The membrane of the larynx was reduced. Nothing unusual was found in the stomach. The lower part of the mesphagus was healthy, but there was a laceration about the gums. In a case of poisoning recorded in a German periodical, and translated by Dr. Harrison (an extract of which was read by the witness), the symptoms very much corre sponded with those of the deceased. On a post mortem examination of the deceased Henry, ulceration of the larynx was discovered. The veins did not exhibit any inflammation, and the stomach as well as the other organs were quite healthy, but the breast and ankle joints were found to contain putrid matter. He (wit ness) had never during his fourteen years' practice at that hospital met with so peculiar a case. The disease was quite new to him, and as he had stated to the Co roner when he forwarded his communication, it was his opinion that death was the result of some poisonous animal matter, but what that animal matter was he was unprepared to say. The case had struck all the medical gentlemen who had heard of it as one of the most in comprehensible in the annals of medicine. Francis Amelia Lambert, sister to the deceased, was next called, and said that on the 4th of October last she went to nurse, during her illness, her sister, Mrs. Win grove, wife of a brewer's vat maker, living in Whet stone-park, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Two or three days afterwards witness was seized with sickness and pains in her loins, with sore throat and a rash all over her. She remained there till the 10th, when becoming worse, she returned home to her mother's, where her voice failed her, and on the 14th her skin peeled off. She was better the following day and very hungry, but was unable to open her mouth, arid her sister (Mrs. Wingrove) was the same. Witness, however, eventually rallied and re covered. On the 19th her (witness's) child aged ten months, became ill under similar symptoms, which were stated by an apothecary in the neighbourhood to be scarlet fever, and it died on the 2d inst., before which time witness's mother had been also attacked, but re stored to health. Between the 28th and 30th ult., the deceased and her (witness's) brother John, whose age was 20, had been seized in the like way as herself, and were removed on the day before mentioned to that hos dital in a cab. The CORONER—Mr. Corfe, have you no means of con veying persons here ? Mr. Corfe—No, sir. CORONER —That is a very wrong thing. Here are three persons brought to this place in a vehicle, all of whom are labouring under a most frightful and infecti ons disease. The consequence is, that after they had alighted, others might have got into the same convey ance, and thus the disease might spread. Was there no application made to the hospital relative to the deceased prior to their admission ? Mr. Corfe—No, sir. Charlotte Lambert, mother of the deceased, corrobo rated her daughter's evidence. Mr. Headland, surgeon, of Guildford-street, Russell square, deposed that he was called about a month since to attend Mrs. Wingrove, who was suffering from swell ings in the throat, which rapidly ran into suppurations. They occurred so quickly below both jaws on either side as to keep her mouth closed for fourteen or fifteen days, during which time she could scarcely swallow nourish ment. Before twenty-four hours had elapsed his atten tion was attracted to her child, an infant at the breast, which had swellings of a similar character, and which, in two days after ran into large cavities, one in the face and the other in the neck. Witness believed that to the velocity of the suppuration was to be attributed the saving of life, otherwise the constitutional disturb ance would have been so great from the frightfully in fectious and contagious nature of the disease as to have caused their deaths. On his second visit he gave orders that all persons should be kept away from his patient except a nurse, but no one seemed inclined to attend her, where Mrs. Wingrove sent for her sister (the witness Frances Lambert), who immediately came. On a sub sequent visit he saw the witness at Mrs. Wingrove's, and thought she was ailing, and on his next calling she had returned home. It occurred to him as to whether these cases might not be some of the forms of scarlet fever, but he could find no rash in either case, and it was now his decided opinion that such was not the fact. CORONER—Did you at that time, or have you subse quently, endeavoured to trace the source of the matter? Witness—Yes, I am induced to ascribe this malady to some special peculiarity of the atmosphere, and I must say, that the house and premises, in the yard of which there are pigs, fowls, Ste., is altogether an unwholesome place. By a juror—He certainly considered the disease was attributable to some atmospheric circumstance of a spe cific character. By the CORONER—He had never met with any other such cases, although he had had for years a most ex tensive practice. It was one of the most extraordi dinary eases perhaps on record. Witness had done all he could to prevent the spreading of this very peculiar and unprecedented disease. He would further remark, that there was a drain in Lincoln's Inn-fields, near to the house occupied by Mr. Wingrove, which was, with out exception, the worst drain in all London. The CORONER (emphatically)—Ah! you had better mention that fact distinctly, because there are some very rich and influential people in Lincoln's Inn-fields, and that drain it would seem is in the very midst of 4, . part they inhabit. Witness (in continuation)--There are three or four houses in that neighbourhood positively unfit for habi- tation. The CORONER—Can you name the disease of which the deceased died? Witness—No, sir. CORONER (to Mr. Corfe)—Can you? Mr. Corfe—l cannot, sir. The same question was put to several gentlemen in the room who had assisted in the case, and whose replies were also in the negative. There being no further evidence, The CORONER proceeded to sum up. lle remarked that the disease which occasioned the deaths of the de ceased was quite as unaccountable to him as it was to the gentlemen who had spoken, and it would be remem bered on the first assemblage of the jury there was rea son to suspect that it had originated in the vicinity of Cumberland-market, but it was now quite evident that it was not so. He (the Coroner) felt quite satisfied that it did not originate there at all, and he could conceive nothing could be plainer than that it had been car ried there from Whetstone-park. The observations of Mr. Curie precisely corresponded with those of Mr. Headland, and it seemed true that it was a specific disease, which was communicable appa rently by contagion, as also by infection. Mr. Code, a gentleman of many years' practice at that establishment, had stated that ho considered it to be caused by 9. poisonous effluvium from animal matter, and that the case was of an entirely new character. He (the Coroner, however, did not believe, although it was evi dent that the deaths of the deceased had been caused by poison, that anything of a deleterious nature had been administered. After some further observations, the Coroner) concluded by complimenting the jury on the great attention they had paid to that which he con sneered an important public inquiry, and which he trusted would gain a publicity whereby the attention of her Majesty's Commissioners of Sewers would be called to the immediate locality of Lincoln's Inn-fields ; and at the same time he hoped the distressing condition of Mrs. Lambert, who had so suddenly suffered a domestic affliction, would attract the notice of the benevolent. The jury then, after some consultation, returned the following verdict :—" That the deaths of the deceased William and Henry Lambert were caused by some poi sonous effluvium, to the jury unknown." James Steel, Esq., editor and proprietor of the Carlisle Jourrail, and a Liberal in politics, was, on Monday week, re elected Mavor of Carlisle by the unanimous votes of a full meeting of Town Council. M;ss Stuart, the young tragic actress, who has made so great a sensation at Liverpool, is daughter of Mr. Stuart, of the Haymarket Theatre, and was born in Ply mouth in the latter part of 1.527, consequently is scarcely eighttsu years of age, LAMBETH. Yesterday Mr. John Webster, a middle-a7ed man of respectable appearance, was charged before Mr. Henry with embezzling upwards of 1001., the monies of Mr. Young, a glue manufacturer, to whom he had been tra veller. Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and the prisoner was without professional assistance. Three witnesses were called who had paid bills to the prisoner on his master's account, which he had entered in the books as paid, or paid over to his employer. Mr. Humphreys here read a letter which the prisoner had viritten and addressed to the prosecutor after his ap prehension. In it the prisoner had expressed much con trition for what had happened, and gave a list of the diffefent amounts which he had received and not ac counted for. By this he admitted to have received 1051. 18s. 9d., and deducting his quarter's salary 451., left a balance due to his employer of 601. ISs. 6d. . . . - Mr. HENRY directed that the evidence of the witnesses in attendance should then be taken, and remanded the prisoner until this day week. George Baron, alias Brown, was charged before Mr. Henry, on suspicion of stealing a silver watch, the pro perty of Mr. Wm. Webb. The prosecutor stated that on Friday evening he was at the Queen's Arms public-house, in Kennington-lane, when the prisoner came in there in the garb of a sailor, and complained of being in great distress. A youth named May sat on one side of him, and some time after, on his going home, he missed his watch. He subse quently saw the prisoner, and on asking him about his watch he said that May had taken it, and had subse quently pawned it. Theepiisoner denied this, but the policeman who ap prehended him confirmed the evidence of the com• plainant, and said the prisoner had made the same ad mission to him. The prisoner said ho did not know that May had ac tually pawned the watch, but admitted he had seen the duplicate of a watch in his possession. The policeman said, that on questioning the prisoner as to where he had been on Friday night, he said he and May slept in an out-house ; but on searching him he found eight shillings in his possession ; and he had no doubt that, if time was given him. he could fins May and the watch. The Prisoner was remanded for a week, to give the policeman the time he required. BROMLEY POLICE. Mr. Benjamin Roberts, the postmaster at Chislehurst, yesterday attended beforn "Viscount Sydney, IV. Norman, Esq., and H. C. Morland, Esq., to answer two informations laid against him at the instance of the Board of Excise, charging that he, being duly licensed as a postmaster, neglected to insert in his return to the Excise-office the particulars of the letting of a horse by him on the 3d July, whereby the revenue was defrauded of the amount of duty payable thereon. Mr. Jaques, the supervisor of Excise, appeared in sup port of the complaint, and from his statement, and the evidence of the witnesses, it appeared that on the 3d July a fly, drawn by one horse, was let by the defendant to go to Peckham, and the usual Excise ticket was deli vered at the New Cross turnpike-gate, but no entry of the hiring was inserted in the weekly return made to the Excise. Lord Sydney inquired why so long a period had been suffered to elapse before proceedings were taken against the defendant. This alleged offence appeared to have been committed more than four months ago. The supervisor said that these matters were always a long time under consideration by the Board of Excise. They first examined into all the circumstances, and then called upon the party against whom complaint was made for an explanation, and the matter was thus referred to the solicitor of the Board. The defendant, in answer to the complaint, admitted that the entry had not been made, but he declared that the omission was accidental, and he said that the fact of his giving a ticket chewed that there was no intention on his part to defraud the revenue. The Supervisor said that the tickets were merely as a check, and the only thing upon which the duty could be claimed was the entry in the return made to the Excise. Thr Magistrates, after a short consultation, said they should convict the defendant upon this information, but they would hear the evidence on the other before they decided upon the amount of the penalty that ought to be nil icted. The defendant was then charged upon a second infor mation, with a similar offence on the 4th July, the amount of duty exacted being half-a-crown. In this case the Excise ticket left at the turnpike-gate was produced, and a witness swore that the particulars of the hiring, which appeared upon it, were in the hand writing of the defendant, and that no entry referring to it, was made in his Excise return. Mr. Roberts declared that on the day in question he did not send out any job as that referred to in the ticket and that there must be some mistake. The supervisor said the Excise had nothing to do with mistakes. It appea.red by the ticket in his own hand writing, that he had let a horse and had made no return of it. This had been a very coamon practice, and he believed that one-half of the post-horse duty was evaded. The Board of Excise, therefore, were deter• mined to take the necessary steps to put an end to such a system. The Bench convicted the defendant upon this informa tion also, and adjudged him to pay a fine of 51 upon each, and also the costs. NOBLE INSTANCE OF INTRE PIDITY—A SHIP'S CREW SAVED. About the middle of October last, the barque Helen, Captain Clayton, of this port, left Quebec on her home ward voyage, with a cargo of timber. The weather proved favourable till towards the end of the month, when it began to blow a stiff gale from the eastward. Early on the morning of the 31st it increased in vio lence, bet the vessel, under double-reefed topsails, rode gallantly on, and, as she was stout and trim built, the crew felt little fear. About half-past eight o'clock, while off the east end of one of the Newfoundland banks, they discovered a vessel less fortunately situated, and Captain Clayton was not so selfishly concerned for the safety of his own ship as to have no sympathy with the crew of another, seemingly in a most perilous state. He hailed the vessel, and asked whether they had any boat which might bear them on board the Helen? The answer returned was in the negative, accompanied with an earnest prayer that he would do his best to save them. Captain Clayton hesitated for a little what to do. The vessel was water-logged, without a rudder, and her mizen mast and foremast carried away; and if he aban doned her to her fate she must soon be buried with he• crew beneath the billows; on the other hand ha ordered some of 1- ,ls own men to off in is a b o a t own andvess attempt el their rescue, they ..night perish, a nd would be left with too few hands to wor k her with, eff ic i e n c y. dil emma h e placed a boat at tt e di s p osa l o f any ' or h i s crew who would volunteer ".-e a forlorn hor.:,4' to the 111-fated vessel. Three men. ' without hesit:Leion, offered themselves. We feel pleasure in recording the names of the men who could thus cast aside till ideas of personal safety, that they might at least make an effort to rescue their fellow -creatures from a watery grave. The men who a c t e d th us no bl y, were, I Daniel Mearns, second mate, a native of the north of Scotland ; James M'Kenna, the carpenter ; and John Martin, of Belfast. Without much loss of time they entered a small two-oared boat, the only one they could command, and rowed on to the wreck, which they reached after encountering a host of dangers. " The ship hung heaving on the verge of death," and the crew, in number twenty-two, were standing on the poop, their voices rising loud above the air of the tempest, en treating deliverance. Seven of them were got without accident into the boat, and the captain of the vessel, which proved to be the Harrison of London, told the boatmen to return for the others, and he would reward them. But they did not require a pecu niary inducement to stimulate them in their mis sion of mercy. Again and again they returned to the Harrison, and at length every individual was placed in comparative safety on board the Helen. A poor cat, too, it is worth while mentioning, which had shared the fate of the crew, also participated in the deliverance. The storm raged with increasing violence all the day, and during the following night, and there was no doubt on the minds of any that the Harrison must have sunk very soon after her crew had been rescued. The Harrison had been in a disabled state for nearly a week previous to the 31st, and the storm of that day made the wreck complete. The crew had been on short allowance for some time, but there was no fear of immediate famine, as they bad luckily a good stock of biscuit and beef, the latter of which was stowed in a "stow-house" on the mainmast. Their joy at being saved was, it may be con ceived, extreme, and the captain on reaching the deck of the Helen, fell upon his knees and openly expressed his gratitude to heaven for their wonderful deliverance. About the 10th instant the Helen fell in with a vessel bound for Greenock. which relieved her of nine of the crew of the Harrison, as the provisions of so many men pressed rather closely on their supplies. On Monday last the Helen reached the port of Belfast, where the captain of the lost vessel acknowledged the services of the three men who had acted so heroically, by giving each of them a handsome clouceur in money, as he pro mised.—Banner of Ulster. A BULL IN A BUTTER-3110P.—Yesterday consider able alarm was occasioned by the vagaries of a bullock which had been purchased at Smithfield by a butcher at Knights bridge, but on the wayfrom market escaped from the drovers, and ran off towards the City-road, followed by a multitude of boys and idle fellows, and it at last having become quite wild from the noise and shouting, and after dodging somo time around the omnibuses and other vehicles, made a rush into the shop of Mr. Brook, a cheesemonger, &c., near the City. road turnpike. Passing round one of the counters, where its carcase completely filled up the passage, the animal stood panting and gazing through the window into the road, while, by his occasional efforts to get free, the butter and eggs were scattered about the shop, and part of the counter was thrown down. Nearly an hour elapsed before it could be extricated. Relieved from that situation, the animal was pursued by the disorderly rabble into Iloxton and back again to the City-road, and finally ran into the yard of a wheel wright in the Curtain-road, where a cart was broken and other damage done. Being at length secured, it was conveyed in a cart to Knightsbridge, to the promises of the purchaser, Mr. Boyne, who promised to pay the various parties for the mischief it had committed. STATE OF TRADE. - Trade is again a little flatter this week. Yarns and wools remain the same. The woollen glove trade is drawing to a close for the season. Some manufacturers are putting their hands on half-work, others on cotton. We fear 'there will be a diminished de mand for labour next year, if there should be no alterations in our cern-laws in the meantime, and if the price of pro visions should rise, as it must do from present appearances,— Leicestershire Mercury. _.„ r .n Am THE HEALTH OF THE ~-. - CHANCELLOR• theCponerssidbebrvaibflreieabladrsmorhaLsobrdeeLn3citredabtteidrs,t7obtuotincilTtialoboer°ol:igiiite of the public generally, by the rumours wh . t',..,,' o f his days past have been afloat respecting the st ate of ea Lordship's health ; and a paragraph which aPPe s.sin t ist Saturday, and which we extracted on Monday:7 ,„de Berkshire Chronicle of that date , has tended a nd to the to increase the prevalent anxiety with regt eso tstr Lord Chancellor. Doubting the accuracy u °f t adiet l benl ' remits, but not being fully prepared toe ontr .s _ . flti _ it i e s we have thought it necessary to have Pheselisleiblel°o made of' gentlemen now in attendance on he coreo3l°. at his mansion in Oxfordshire. From their _ er ..d i s . cations, it appears that his Lordship felt rath r _i .s u t b e s' posed on last Friday se'nnight; day following not unable to travel, and wsnt wo os accompanied by one of his secretaries, to s , o i l e.' Short) near Henley-upon-Thames, where he st i i s lt . r c l isoo i. he was, howeiTreorifiutPow Shortly after his Lordship reached borne h . ', R o jo,* tion assumed so serious a character, that the Dir• er destl surgeon, who resides at Henley, and who is ark, ' f° medical attendant of the family sent for. That gentleman considered the o se s it e byli* so grave a character as to require the advice ot ned r te h a at Turville-P to b , et clan, and Dr. Locock was forthwith stim me d , 11/ o ° . Lordship's bedside. During the wh ole of Son)eloatb), day, and Tuesday (the 16 th,lith , and 18thhl' __ e s sr the malady under which the Noble Lord laboured s, sumed a very alarming character, and a gen er s s si s Dad' sion began to spread that there was no chance ol os e_ 4 0- ship 's recovery. It appears that his illness at . , L e . ,r oiell pally from obstruction of the bowels, an ailmentr7oo,iiee he has on former occasions been assailed. Thessaseslli necessary for repelling an attack of this natureaa_yer, 810 a tendency to debilitate the patient, and, gor e : aus tioa I effects of the disorder itself lead to great e%"_.titatio.,o so that their combined operation upon of one who has reached the advanced age e ffe ts. S e g o . not fail to have produced most distressing e, toil edi j vertheless his Lordship's indisposition yielde°efeebl2 treatment on Tuesday ; and, though gr eetli o e ttait s 7e cas e Thers-,.. and able to take very little food, his symptoms of improvement on WednesdaY• °I L 10. ~ r the Isis coos and Friday he was much better ;on attlri."10001 was able to get out of bed ; and since then li l lh iesee s [4. has been gradually advancing towards ee e to ON - , 8 He is himself cheerful and sanguine e nough i ii be . l , a hope that on Thursday se'nnight, whieh: l er to. first seal day, it possibly may be in his r t 'j l e dl his seat in the Court of Chancery. Be t as " hi , 0 , with which a young patient ree ev- a n s'alcsi sted poll can hardly be expected in the case of a t it suffered " the wear and tear" of professional a° to Pr bl life for nearly half a century, who never aPP s e aiettS s 0 band his strength or take advantage of to e pl• op which longevity is promoted. His case, h o t r ic bs ' 's of ) e ' likely to terminate satisfactorily, and it rar,l, the s t to that, with a constitution naturally good, °nailig. and caution which a warning like this IS 1 : 1 6 4 od g i ro superinduce, and with a full use of the e s l ..sa"" 'sbe s ' e6I ances which a high state of civilisation °" - t , l o bos d country will for many years continue to OP) ,assos is ,o of his services, and his personal friends the4aser witnessing,;, and, as it were, enjoying the '- • longation his valuable life.—Times. ---.....----...... i re? NAVAL INTELLIGE NC% ! , , g Sill?, Y, PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Her Mases.li pers- d o e s dent, 50, with the flag of Rear-Adw i _ j ri " 510P 4 ,50 Commander-in-Chief at the Cae of Get s , thermos yesterday morning, with a steady 'rid fru - ph 1 wi • h itst A great number of merchant vessels, Win c h , Os detained at the Motherbank and Coves '''' 0,4 winds, sailed in the course of the day. The Admiralty have ordered the 0°er : 1 : 14°111 wanderer, 16, to be repaired by job, or ts sit , ° of , 1 0d got ready for three years' service, without 00041 , they will be brought down to the harbour Ib i l e 1 . . a. , taken in hand. Another brig, the Harle l l it s t r i ce s be moved out of dock this week, and fit ted j,° ‘ , ' etv io* sion with all expedition ; it is conjectured iiltbsstiliat of these brigs will be required in India, or ell at 01 ;4 The Rattler screw-steamer, has been broth% jo s 4, basin, and yesterday orders were received f°,, tlio ' o f docked and repaired with all speed ; to d° s "'titit e t i 0 fieers at work on the Amphitrite have he r to o'oll ; and put on the Rattler. She will be pu t m ' n er, 0 10 11 , Friday. Being an experimental screW-steereeerad to probably be kept on home service until 1 (1 1 1 - ho si t ° , have been made, and in that case she Iv; ger' ; Ireland, in place of the Stromboli, and th e. atl , ordered to fit for foreign service. 41117° 6 N i ' 'The Doe steamer will sail to-morrow 's„ s it !a i l°, , and, having taken some marines on board , g f " ies tsr d ol fOrd Haven, and land them there. She is e ' s ' s , - ell e " . proceed to Cork, and to be placed . under l'" Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot. „ s ea Or de The Retribution, Alarm, and Lizard are Q7, 1 1 ) 1;00 1 from the eastward. The Retribution wil l s c ief ,O A tachment of marine artillery, under colnot l ' A ,, - a ere' " Lieutenant Hall, and the crew ' be paid in s - Gert s sio° at present it is intended she shall relieve tli e otol 10 0 , the Brazils, she having been threo years 1 1 , 1 , e si ille! t el a The Alarm is to go to the West Indies, an,' ~. D or, , Captain I). Pring, C 8., and his family i li t ' be ' l A ls, , Jamaica, being appointed to command the e l/ reciving ship at that island, and hoist 11 ",, til, 11 0 commodore's broad pendant, and carry 'l4'lood' duties in the absence of the commander the $e - Lizard is intended for packet service in tR " t oori ranean. s a the pr Arrangements are ordered to be made l e i the i r A r ling-yard. n o ag n m. i)l o ya f rad h n. e d r is, A ui ;Majesty, j e e ,r s ot t yo y -a , ml P opr r ar i ro n twy c 7 at t b Albert, e ci n it e r :l o l l r o c„, are expeel ° ,,, ti staltti and the branch railway from the Gospor t - t ,be° sd oll , the yard having been completed some tiol e f seer will go direct to the jetty, and one guard i ch re j tsi a n be requisite. The Bth Regiment are 0 .f rc1 e ..,,, 0 1e5,,,1; it, and Major-General the Hon. Sir Her fir - off barn, Colonel Daly, and the staff of the' k r Olt Ill: cross to Gosport by the ten o'clock bridg e :ol o ;f, tains and commanders of her MajeStY - ''' .. i s' port are ordered to be at the landing st ays, ,bo r t,'" respective boats, and escort the rol e .; 1 , the Fairy yacht, in which the Que" Av, i , fr party will pass over to Osborne-hocse- A t o ")0 Sir Charles Ogle, Bart, will be in a i ,l le , P lar ei l, ) 1° eeive her Majesty. Captain Lord A. x" - e b e t ; ' 1 ;6 7 4 0 arrived to take the command of the Ye,„ e s O j e a Victoria and Albert yacht has had her en',,, a 0, 4 0' i and fires lighted in case she should b; '' - sel,,,wd' Royal Highness Prince Albert, before 1° , 4 0. sow.- ,r London, will inspect the suite of apartinefih;ls ilia miralty House in the docky a rd, which filled i pies i pressly fitted up, and uraed for he r I' and now ready for occupation. The carriage and j the A , will be sent to Trinity-wharf, Cowes, in ' steamer, Lieut. Prettyman. g iir e p ri r i° • do 1 ,i 0 A report has been prevailing this day, 111 ,,,, Ow 1 that the Bth Regiment are to be sent to Il e :, r. d . s " tics augment the force, now absolutely ne e- :br i lare'r k s colony. We can safely state than unless - ,, 0 0 - O Y. troops should be sent out the Bth will not g;talid d it 47 service yet. The 24th and 32d Regiments - rel s 'el o ro de r ; 0 ir •, Roster First, and there are not !any the 24th, than that they are to come °r ef r is P i :: in the spring. pith , e ll A. ,-, oIIEERNESS, Nov. 23.—Yesterday t es9r tcb• leek brought orders h • • ' all disrss El -l9 ere to refit, with il the i,bl small craft available in this ordinary ; 14 "; or° i ' t f i ro 18, the Snake, 16, and the Ferret, 10, ?Ir e , cc lsle ss . " llll _, s ' be taken in hand on Monday, and . it is PIT:: stor",,, f s or Griffin, 6, when the - probation of the ii.lcloW se tl ty" which she is loaded is over, will also be rell " , 'i; mission, 000 sit The Bittern, 16, just commissioned h l s der s re .,Vg'i Hope, and the Dido, 20, and Viper, 6, under Os h „lchti . : dock, Pre also ordered to be expedited ill '',*lo ;s1 rft: The Euryalus, late convict ship, arrive oto - or„ tow of the Wildfire steamer. She is to 7, 12 ifo g r ef coal depot for this pert, a convenience 0 , 1 , 5 ' 0 01 e$ , wanted here, in consequence of the trourLdp „sr ~ in eoalin by boats and carts from the coals' e polPiao . The St. Lawrence, 46, has had the o ver S t/ sal moved from her bottom, and delivered 0 / -- , e aor s ventor, Mr. Fullerton. , The j ,:ta i a s e; The Trafalgar (120) Flag-shIP " - j oin 0 - ; (Holasee) who lost both his arms a by th e th e i ll nil;y p!osion of a gun, while exercising du ring i d ~,,, . perimental cruises , is going on favourablY e beet" Hospital , Chadians. Upwards of 300/. h ey giA „i c e 1 ,,. scribed for him by the officers and men "' Trafalgar. Mr. Thomas Lewis, leading man of l iP o n writi s feh i taili ll .ll. : been superannuated from the Dock-Sit* n se ° t ee of 32/, per annum ; and John Co ult°- ci 1 51 Walshe, labourers, on pensions of 241• an i tively. • i , II" ----------...-! g ast i ~,, WEYMOUTH, NOV. 24.—An irritOi lise tli O si. to 1 00° ..,,li L ao „ s herrings was caught this morning in WeY'siist ats• 0 04 inquiries made from the fishermen, I lero oh° 0 O l d upwards of 500,000 caught in the space 0f.1 6 000_, Wi i , 1 net in a single haul brought to shore from oul t bei; e ls ' t e and it was with some difficulty they eecu •log mi ce tg e° breaking their net. Two or three small °;,,, 111 Wh i ell o ,... ° Ol 4 taken large quantities to Portsmouth , fr ° Thotl°,.''' - acme many of them will be • dispatched t() ...0 fir). have gone inland. They are said to be "'__,,,,ide" • Of selling at Is. 6d. per hundred.—From a ......,...---..--.. P 44 10 04 BIRTIIR. ~, At Neuchatel, in Switzerland, the Wile o f f . ~, soss s v. //f ' Woburn.place, Russell-square, London, of a 8 ,1",i' den, 0 , - ,ao l e On the 15th inst., at Aberdeen, Mrs. ' S .. F. -7a-wife °' ilte On the 17th lust., in the Clone, Salisbuil, the srl o ' Re f ' K. Hamilton, of a daughter. sloth of tio On the 19th inst., at Beath House, Nairn, ..- , ha l f I, if. of J. C. • C. Ft eebairn, Esq., of a son r the On the 19th inst., at Thicket Priory, Yorkshir-, Of o. e t Joseph Dunnington Jefferson, of a son. li'Sir sre ' tee On the 20th inst., at Guildford-street, Russ . es • ,l , Corresr. el t Rowland, of a daughter. airs. ck On the 20th inst., at Russell Farm, Harts , „,' lirasroof, ~,, u- , a daughter. On the 20th inst., in South Andley-strect, ti me la"' ' tit r 00 0 0° OPP round Butler, Esq., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., Dirs. Benjamin Henderson' 0. it. •I. Westhourne-grove', Bayswater, of a son. ~,d. Dit s ' )0 1. On the 21st inst., at Inhalmes, near Hungerw.- „tilt, of a daughter. , ~kheat p-r- 40 0 ' On the 21st inst., in Up or Park-place, ilia Melhuish, of a daughter. P On the 21st inst., at Clarges-street , Mrs. -- "* "1111111°°' d'ij. si I I ; e r t: MARRIED , cram' 1 n• t' • it P.... On the 22d inst., at St. James's Church, 040 14 , 0 0 .e.5t000 , Esq., M.P., to Tyne Jesse Cotterell, .....Out the 22d inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, T ate a''" daughter .1,..,a10._,101 Eels or Rochester, to Julia, daughter of "'w o oer' Buncombe, Esq., of the Ordnance Department, ' 0 1. 6 10 r . 3 - DIED. ha Co' jell tr• On the 20th inst., at Iv terrace, lioidon, Jo her raj , a 0 "' On the 20th inst., John Parke, Esq., lin lncrif „co _,,,, ~,,rnef , ' .ealI F for tile Roman tes, aged 7(*. On the 20th Inst., at Tor, Devon, Elizabeth ~,- Y ter of It. Barclay, Esq., of Lombard-street. wilbralj' On the 21st init., at Bloomsbury' it tor ? l' a , 0 , infant son of the Hon and rev. Montag, On the 22d inst., in.Regen't's-square, R. )lede !, r ,os P. , ,, d ~ On the 22d inst., in Ilart-street, ItloornsburY,,c;orvlAP ''' 4 ,0* el o sr In Queen-square, Bath, Ithamar Hodges, u of the late Hon. Rose Herrin}, May. , rp oottr °e ' ils. On the 21st inst., Mr. Thomas Ilaivea, of ''"-- 4 id. Ilarborou;;11, Leicestershire. - :f „,,1 .r.,!......................„.„ ". 0 .11.5 0 -ipe • London : Printed and rublished by 310 1 „ 1) .strsa c S,if, / 0 Strand, Printer, at !Be Sun Oftico, 5 0 . ' _,.,4" , TaM ^ of th e Savoy, 14 tbe Coat) , of laddle"" u iiiio7,, F,50.0,0, 0-A091; S6P 1845.