The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-20 00:00:00

THE CORN QUESTION. The Constitutionnel, speaking of the prevailing scarcity, observes—" The difference in the harvests from one year to another are decidedly not so considerable now as formerly. The progress made in agriculture has done away with a vast number of those causes which formerly comprised the harvests. The falling off formerly was one-third, one-half, and even two-thirds of the quantity requisite for consump- , tion, and the last century shows the most afflicting souvenirs in that respect, but since that period the produce of corn has never been below the ordinary quantity more than 20 or 25 per cent. We have not in reality for upwards of 40 years had more than one really bad harvest, and that was in 1817. The falling off of 20 or 25 per cent., although very con siderable, certainly does not bespeak a famine. Was tile deficiency to be equally divided among the consumers they would not undergo any very serious deprivation ; but un fortunately such is not the case. The high price of bread does not diminish the consumption of the higher classes, and scarcely alters that of the middle classes, so that the deficiency falls almost entirely upon the lower classes, and the deficiency, instead of being at the rate of 25 per cent., is augmented to at least 40 or 45 per cent. This difference is enormous for stomachs accustomed to a food, a large quantity of which contains in reality but little nourish ment, and as the misery increases, the physical powers diminish in a proportionate ratio. The difference in the consumption of food in different countries, under the same latitude, is very remarkable. In England the consump tion of corn is 220 kilogrammes each person in the year. In Russia it is 400; in France, 200; in Bavaria, 220; in Saxony, 160; in Austria, 145. It is somewhat singular that the consumption of the article salt should follow in nearly the same progression as that of bread. In Austria, for instance, the consumption is 5 kilogrammes per head; in Bavaria it is 9, and in England 11. The quantity is even more considerable in Thissia. This fact completely de stroys the assertion which has frequently been made, that vegetable nourishment requires more salt to make it wholesome than animal food. In England, Where the consumption of meat is 31 kilogrammes per head, three times the quantity of salt is requisite, as in Austria, where the consumption is only 14 kilogrammes. The same observa tion will apply to Bavaria, where the consumption of meat is 22 kilogrammes per head per annum. The greatest con sumption of meat is in Munich; it is said to be 115 kilo grammes per head, and is almost equal to that of bread. The consumption of beer is also greater there than in any place else. It is, iiadeed, something extraordinary, being 800 quarts per head per annum, and is consequently four times greater than that of England. Now that a famine threatens Bavaria, the deprivations which the people will have to submit to, and how much the inhabitants of the capital will have to reduce their wants, real or imaginary, may be easily conceived. The Austrians are probably the most sober people of the Continent, yet they are nowise de ficient in physical strength. The preceding details prove that the problem of subsistencies has been, up to the present period, but very imperfectly studied, notwithstanding that it. is the question of all others in which the human race is most interested." _ _ The Emancipation (a Brussels journal) contains the fol lowing account of the measures taken to meet the scarcity in Belgium :—" The Central Board of Relief held a meeting at the Hotel de Villa on the 11th instant. Upon the propo sition of M. Sehuermans, president of the sub-committee, the following propositions were agreed upon with regard to that sub-committee The lists of labourers and other persons who shall be admitted to make purchases in the depots of-the Board shall be drawn up by the committees of charity of each parish by the societies of beneficence, by the manufacturers and shopkeepers. For this purpose set forms of lists shall be addressed with the least possible delay to those respective parties. There shall be delivered to the persons admitted to make purchases in the aforesaid depots cards numbered, and bearing the name of the person coming to effect such purchases, the nature of his calling, his residence, the number of persons com posing his family, and the disposition of article 15 of the organic regulation. They shall moreover be stamped with the seal of the Board (article 11 of the organic regula tion).' The cards shall be withdrawn by the sub-committee entrusted with their deliverance when it shall be found that they have become useless, or when they shall be made a bad use of ; and upon being returned they shall lose their value. The lists and the number of cards distributed and withdrawn, shall be communicated to the Central Board at each of its sittings. The six members of the com mittee shall exercise a continual surveillance, visiting and controlling the office of inscriptions by turns once every week. They shall assemble at the Hotel de Ville every Friday at six o'clock in the evening, upon pain of forfeiting 3f., and such as shall arrive beyond the hour shall forfeit If. The money thus forfeited to be placed at the disposal of the Board. Upon the proposition of M. Boets d'Hamer, secre tary to the second committee entrusted with making the ne cessary purchases, the Board decided upon the nature and quantity of the articles which the bearers of cards might be allowed to purchase. The following was the decision of the Board in that respect :--‘Evtry two days for each person one loaf weighing one kilogramme. Each person weekly seven kilogrammes of potatoes, or seven tickets for a quart of soup each (the Board decided that by way of trial it would cause to be made and offered for sale every day soup made from meat). Children between the ages of three and twelve years to be allowed half the above quantity. Weekly for every family fifty kilogrammes of buck wheat bread.' The Board, moreover, decided upon the proposition of the sub committee-1. That it would apply to Government, in order to obtain the free transport, or at a very low charge by the Government railroads, by the canal of Charleroy, or any other means, the purchases of grain, &c., which it might be necessary to make. 2. That it would demand of the college of burgomasters and sheriffs authority to purchase, at the lowest possible price, the corn, rice, potatoes, &c., in such quantities as might be deemed necessary by the sub-com mittee, the said quantities, however, to be approved of by the college in conformity with article 6 of the organic regu lations. 3. That it would demand permission to have the supplies of butter and coals, which might be deemed necessary offered to public adjudication." MILITARY SAVINGS BANKS. CHARGE OF MURDER ON BOARD THE SHIP TORY. EXAMINATION OF CAPTAIN JOHNSTONE. On Tuesday, George Johnstone, late master of the ship Tory, from Hong-Kong, was brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police-court, charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Reason, a seaman, on the high seas, within the juris diction of the Admiralty of England. The prisoner is rather above the middle size, thirty five years of age, of florid complexion, and rather sunburnt. He is a man reckless appearance and manners, and seemed to treat the serious charge against him with indifference. "Mr. Pelham appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Hum phries, of Newgate-street, attended for the prisoner, who was apprehended on Monday evening by Inspector Evans, of the Thames police, and lodged in the station-house of the Thames division. A bed was made up for him in the lock up, and two men sat up with him. He passed a very restless night, and frequently groaned aloud. On the charge being made known to him, he denied that he had been guilty of murder. Soon afterwards he had an interview with his wife, and gave utterance to a wish that he was dead. He is a native of Scotland, and is very respectably connected. It will be recollected that sixteen of the crew were charged by Captain Johnstone with mutiny on Wednesday last, and they stand remanded until this day. When Mr. Clarkson, counsel for the 'prosecution, first mentioned the case to the magistrate, he said that three men hsd been killed on board —Rambert and Mars, the first and second mates, and an able seaman, named Reason. The Learned Counsel intimated that Reason bad been poisoned. Singularly enough, the cap tain, in his long and very unconnected narrative, alluded to the deaths of Rambert and Mars, but he never alluded to Reason, except that he had put him in irons, with two others, when the ship was near the Island of Ascension, and subsequently released him. Some of the prisoners, in de scribing the appalling scenes of bloodshed on board, and the savageness of the captain after passing the Island of Ascen sion, said that Reason was one of those who had fallen a vic tim to the ferocity of the captain, and that he cut him in a brutal manner with a sword about the head and body. Their statement was partially confirmed by Sinclair, the carpenter, a witness for the prosecution, who said he had seen the cap tain strike Reason several times with a sword in various parts of the body, but he could not say whether he inflicted more than one wound. The evidence given yesterday will be seen to throw additional light on the transaction. On the prisoner being placed in the felon's dock, the most lively interest was manifested by the people in the Court, which was crowded to excess. It was expected that the pri soner would be arraigned for three murders, but in the charge as entered in the police-sheet he stood accused of the wilful murder of Thomas Reason only. Mr. Humphries said he had been retained by some friends of the prisoner to defend him, a fact of which he was probably not aware, for he had not yet communicated with him. James Flower, a sailor boy, Was then sworn. He is one of the apprentices of the ship, and said he recollected the death of Reason, but he did not know the date. The de ceased expired one night in the cabin. Before he went into the cabin, he heard Reason say, "Spare me, captain, spare me." The captain afterwards spoke to Thomas Lee and Thomas Reason, but witness did not hear what was said. The prisoner here beckoned Mr. Humphries, and remarked that the witness was quite mad. Witness, in continuation—The captain again called for William Mars, and spoke to him, but he did not recollect the words. The captain then struck William Mars, but he could not say what the blow was with. After the blow blood flowed from Mars. Mars was after this put in irons by the orders of the captain. He was in irons about three-quarters of an hour, and was then called down into the cabin. Wit ness heard some words, but could not tell what they were, not being there. He was outside, on the companion-way. Mars was again sent up. and placed in irons on the main hatch. He remained there about three-quarters of an hour. He was then called down again into the larboard after cabin. Witness was in this cabin at the time. Mars was handcuffed. The captain struck him with a cutlass, and blood flowed in consequence. Mars was then ordered upon deck, and placed upon the main hatchway. Having remained about half-an-hour or three. quarters, to the best of his recollection, he was called down again by the _ _ captain. Mars came dOwn handcuffed. The captain struck him with a cutlass about the head and hands. Mars spoke, but witness could not recollect what was said. Mars after this was again placed on the main hatchway, and he bled again. His face was all covered with congealed blood, so he could not say whether there were any fresh cuts or not. There were cuts also on deceased's hands, which bled. After this he was placed on the main hatchway. Shortly Mars was again called down, but by whom witness could not say, as he was on deck. An order came for witness and Julian to go down into the cabin, and they did so, the cap tain being at dinner. Mars was sitting down, and seemed in a very weak state. The captain told witness and Julian to make Mars stand up. We told him to get up, and he got up, but he immediately fell down again, saying he was not able to stand. Witness had the cutlass in his hand at the time, given him by the captain. Witness had hold of the handle of the sword, and Julian the other end. They told Mars to lay hold of the back of the sword, which he did, and they raised him up from the table; but Mars let it go, saying he could not hold it, he was so weak. They put a piece of cord through a hook in the beam, and passing it round Mars, en deavoured to pull him up. Mars groaned and moaned, say ing he could_ not stand it, and his head fell on one side. They then let him down, when he seemed very weak, and in a dying state. The captain ordered him to be taken out of his sight, saying, " He has got the look of a murderer in his face." Mars was then removed. The captain ordered Tucker to remove Mars, which was done by passing a rope round his body. He was taken on deck, witness following. There was a strand of the rope round his limbs. Julian called all hands on deck, saying that it was by the captain's orders they had to come. He saw David Johnson and Franklin Tucker, heave another strand of rope round his legs; others of the crew being there. Witness was standing by with a cutlass in his hand. Mars asked for a drink of water, which was given him. After he had got the drink of water there came a worm out of his mouth. All hands said it was an evil spirit that came out of him. Witness then went below, and reported these things to the captain. He stood a few minutes there, when French came down and said that Mars was dead. The captain said, " Are you sure of that ?" French said, " There was no fear of his telling him so unless it was so." William Dunn came down and asked for` a prayer book to read the service. This was immediately after Mars was reported dead. Dunn got the book and went up. A few minutes after Dunn came down again, and said that Mars was buried. The captain, in the interim, had not gone on deck. Nothing further passed until about half-past five or six o'clock. All the hands then came down except witness, William Burton, Julian, William Dunn, French, Alexander Sinclair, James Glover, and William Spence. Witness was in the carpenter's berth in the captain's cabin, and heard what took place. To somebody who came down the captain said, "Are you implicated in this affair or not?" The answer was, "Yes, Sir." They all came down the same way, and were questioned, and answered in a similar manner, " It is all concerning Mars ;" and this was all that was said. With regard to the death of Thomas Reason, he would state what he knew. He was lying in his berth in the morning of a day during the voyage which he did not re collect, when William Burton came and asked where he could get a little wine. Witness asked who it was for, and he replied, "For Thoma s Reason, who is very nigh dead." Witness told him to ask James Glover, the steward, for the dipper in the pantry, and he could get the wine out of the casks. Witness got up in a few minutes, and went up on to the gangway. He saw Barton put a little sugar in a glass of wine and take it towards the forecastle. 'Wit ness followed into the forecastle, and on uncovering Reason's face he was found to be quite dead. Witness saw blood flowing from one of his sides. Reason was covered with a rug that was stained with blood to the extent of a foot. David Johnson sewed up Reason in some old canvass, after which witness went aft, and stopped on deck about half an hour. Witness had seen Reason the same night in the cabin, when he did not appear to be in a very bad state, though he was bleeding from the wound on his forehead, which he had got when the captain was striking at Mars, the sword missing the latter and grazing his forehead. Wit ness did nut see Reason buried. This was all he knew of the matter. To Mr. Humphries, in cross-examination—He was sixteen years old. He had given the same account before to Mr. Hawley, to whom he had been sent to give his evidence. This was on Saturday night, when his evidence was taken down in writing. He was alone with Mr. Hawley at the time. Arthur Gilmour Spencer examined—He went out an ap prentice in the Tory. He was apprenticed to Messrs. Duncan and Gibbs, of Liverpool, the owners. He was with her the late voyage. On or about the 23d of September he was informed by Captain Johnstone that Barry Yelverton, another apprentice, had told him that Stephen Cone and Thomas Reason had said, when off the Island of Ascension, that " if the ship did not reach the island before the morning the captain would be a dead man." The captain said no more at that time to witness. Shortly afterwards witness was called upon to come on deck, and write down anything the men had to say. The crew were all aft when he came on deck. He heard the captain ask them if he had not treated them always most humanely, or something to that effect. Most of them said, Yes. He saw Thomas Reason and Stephen Cone in irons by the break of the poop en the starboard side. They seemed to have been severely wounded, and he saw the blood flowing down their faces. He heard no report or state ment made at that time to the captain. He went be low, and sometime afterwards he heard Richard French state to the captain that the crew, or part of the crew, had sharpened their knives, as witness un derstood him, with the intention of having the captain's life. The captain seemed to be in a great state of excitement at the time. He heard French say also that, if the captain went forward, they intended to seize him, and sail the ship to the continent. NY itness also heard Dunn make a statement to the captain that Richard French had sharpened his knife on both edges, with the intention of taking the captain's life. Tbis was the object as far as he recollected. Cone and Reason were kept. in irons till next day, when Lambert, the chief mate, jumped overboard. He believed that during part of the time they were in irons up on the tops. Always when witness came on deck he saw the officers in charge of the poop armed. On the 25th lie saw J. Rambert on his knees before the captain, who was standing up. The mate prayed the captain to forgive him ; the captain several times pointed the sword to his breast, threatening to run it through him, but he did not see him touch Rambert at that time. Wit ness saw the captain the same day aim a blow at Rambert with a sword. The latter was unarmed. The blow took effect on the body of Rambert. He was after this called upon by the steward to take evidence on the part of the men, which he did, and the written papers were given to the cap tain. Witness had since seen them in the hands of the solicitor. Mr. Hawley here handed in six 'written papers, four of which the witness identified as the evidence of the men, taken by him on September 25, and signed by several of the crew ; the others were taken in the following month. The ship was in peace until the 22d of Octotnr, when the ship was off Fayal. The captain went on sbore, and returned with the harbour-master, whom he invited into the cabin to take a glass of wine. After this Mars was called below by the captain. They were, apparently, on friendly terms at that time. A few days folloring this witness was in the cabin, and Reason was called. Tne captain had a bayonet lying by his side. He shook Reasceii violently, on which witness went out. About three-quecers of an hourafter the steward and witness went into cabin, and Dunn, the cook, in pre sence of the captair.l, said that Reason was dead. Witness thought Dunn ‘;:as joking, and said " Oh, nonsense ;" when the cook immediately took hold of his hand and it was quite cold. Witness was greatly horror-stricken at the time. The captain waned quite calm, and appeared to be in no way affects. Witness was much surprised and shocked at his manner at that moment. (The examination of this witness 'was continued somewhat longer, but to a similar effect, being mainly corroborative of the evidence of the previous wit nesses.) The further examination of witnesses was then adjourned, Mr. BaoromP—Did he say anything else? Witness— Nothing else. Mr. BRODERIP, observing some timidity in the boy, ad dressed him, and said, this scene was no doubt new to him, but he had no occasion to be under any apprehension what ever. He was to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, whether it made for or against the prisoner. He exhorted him to attend to the questions put to him, to conceal nothing, and not to be alarmed. The boy continued—l went into the cabin shortly after Reason said " Spare me, captain." I saw Reason, who ap peared to be in a dying state. I saw the captain examining a wound in his left breast. I saw the blood flowing from the wound. Thelcaptain had a bayonet in his hand. There were two other wounds, one on his temple, the other on his forehead; they were fresh wounds, and bleeding profusely. Reason died about ten minutes after that. I was present when he expired. Mr. BRODERIP—Are you quite sure you heard Reason say " Spare me, captain ?" Witness—Yes, sir. Mr. RRODERTP—Did he say anything in the cabin ? Wit ness—l don't recollect hearing Reason say anything in the cabin. Mr. BRODERIP—Did prisoner say anything about any lint? Witncal Yes, he asked me for some lint? Mr. BnonEßlP—What did you say in return? Witness—. I told him it was all used. Mr. BnobnaiP—And was it all used? Witness—Yes, it was, sir. Mr. BRODERIP asked Inspector Evans, who conducted the case, if he had any further evidence to lay before the Court? Inspector Evans—Not at present, sir. Mr. BRODERIP—WiII you be prepared to lay any further evidence before me? Inspector Evans—Yes, sir, a good deal of evidence. Mr. BRODERIP said, before he remanded the prisoner, it was his duty to ask him if he had anything to say ; and cau tioned him in the usual manner, that what he did say would be written down, and might be used in evidence against him hereafter. Mr. Humphries spoke to the prisoner, and said that under his advice he would not say anything. Mr. BRODERIP—Then it is my duty to remand the prisoner on this charge of wilful, murder till to-morrow. Mr. Humphries asked the magistrate to name the time. Mr. BRODERIP said, the charge of alleged piracy against the seamen belonging to the Tory was remanded till Wed nesday, end the hour fixed upon was twelve o'clock, at which time Mr. Clarkson was likely to be present, but he could not promise the case should be taken at twelve. It depended entirely on the number and duration of the night charges. The prisoner was then removed from the dock. We understand that no further evidence will be adduced against the seamen charged with mutiny, who stand re manded till this day, in which case they will be forthwith liberated, and sworn as witnesses on the part of the Crown, to sustain various charges of murder against Capt. Johnstone. Mr. BRODERIP said he.had received a letter from the father of William Beresford, one of the prisoners, whom he re manded last Wednesday on a charge of piracy on board the Tory. The father of the prisoner did not know where his son was confined, and had inclosed the letter for his son in another directed to him (the Magistrate), with a request that it should be forwarded to him. He handed the letter to the sergeant of the police van, and ordered him to deliver the letter to Beresford, in the Westminster Bridewell, to which place Captain Johnstone was remanded. It was erroneously stated in a morning paper of Thursday last, that the lad Barry Yelverton, one of the prisoners charged with mutiny on board the Tory, was " the grandson of the celebrated Lord Avonmore." A gentleman came to the Thames Police-court on Tuesday, and stated that the youth was not related to the Avonmore family. He is a Lancashire lad, and never pretended to claim kindred either with the present or the first Lord Avonmore. Nothing whatever was stated during the examination on Wednesday to justify such a statement. An important communication, under the signature of Mr L. Suliven, the Deputy-Secretary at War, addressed to the commanding officer of every regiment in the army, is now in course of issue. It proceeds—" With reference to article 8 of the warrant of the 11th of October, 1843, establishing regimental savings' banks, by which it is required that a soldier convicted by court-martial of desertion, or recorded by a board of officers in the usual manner as a deserter, shall forfeit to the public all moneys he may have in the regimental savings bank, I am directed to acquaint you that in all cases of soldiers deserting from the regiment under your command, and not returning within three months, or who may be convicted of desertion within that period, the deposits of such soldiers in the regimental savings' bank are to be withdrawn by the captain of the troop or company to which each man belongs, and placed in the hands of the paymaster for the purpose of be ing inserted in the next pay-list, tendered byhim to the War office, not as a credit in the man's non-effective account as part of his effects, but as a specific and distinct credit to the public in the general state under class Q. All sums in the regimental savings' bank belonging to the deceased non commissioned officers and soldiers are in like manner to be withdrawn ; but the amount is to be credited in their non effective accounts as part of their effects. The account of every man, whether dying or deserting, which is transmitted with the regimental pay-list, is to 'be accompanied by a certificate, showing whether he had or had not any moneys in the regimental savings' bank, and if he had, the parti cular account in which the amount had been credited as above directed. With regard, to the deposits of discharged men, as the means are now afforded of transferring the amount of their savings direct from the regimental to a Go vernment savings' bank, although exceeding 301., I am to request that you will point out to all men about to be dis charged,, whose savings exceed .that sum, the necessity of their deciding before they quit the regiment whether they wish this course to be adopted or not, is order that the neces sary steps may be taken at the regiment for effecting the transfer. by Ailing up the proscribed certificates. In the event of their quitting, the. regiment, leaving their money in the regimental savings' bank, as provided for in article 6 of the warrant, they cannot afterwards be allowed to avail themselves of the advantage offered of direct transfer to the Government savings' bank when the deposits exceeds 30/."- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Mary Smith and Henry Thompson were brought up for further examination, charged with having most grossly imposed upon the public. The Secretary to the Mendicity Society attended to pro secute. Worledge,* City policeman (442), said that about four o'clock on Wednesday, the 12th November, the female pri soner was point td out to him as an impostor. He followed and saw her go into some houses in Friday-street, for the purp(ne of begging, and she dropped a letter, which was partly in print and partly in writing, and contained a list of the contributions of the charitable. Witness took her into custody. The male prisoner, who had been talking with her, waited outside while she entered. Mr. J. W. Taylor. a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Liddiard and Co., of Friday street, stated that the female prisoner called and asked for Mr. Liddiard, who was out at the time. She then went to Mr. Liddiard's partner, who, upon hearing her, gave her ss. She called again on the 12th, and was taken into custody, intelligence having been given that she was a notorious impostor. Mr. William Curling, merchant, carrying on business at No. 5, George-yard, Lombard-street, stated that, between six and seven weeks ago, Mary Smith called upon him at his office, and presented to him the paper produced by the officer, of which the following is a copy:— "Secretary of State's Office, Home Department, Whitehall, Aug. 4, 1845. " Before any intelligence can be given respecting convicts, the following questions must be correctly ans wer ed, vi z . : — " Convict's name—John Wilson. " Where tried—Old Bailey sessions. " When tried-'.January, 1841. " Sentence— , Seven years. " To what hulk or prison removed—York. • " If sent on board, the name of the ship by which trans. ported—Asia. " The bearer, Mary Ann Wilson, is the lawful wife of the above rn94n, who left this country through embezzlement, and she is anxious to join her husband with her two children at Hobart Town, New South Wale s , b u t un f or t unate l y is with 'out the necessary funds to defray their expenses and passage out. I have every reason to believe her deserving the assist ance she implores.', " J. IL Capper, 11. "When this paper has been fined up as above directed : it must be sealed or wafered, the name and address of the per son making the inquiry Iroing been previously inserted in this place. _ _ P- - " 'opottiswood : 11-.; nev. H. Legge, V.; C. Han bury, ilk • J. Deacon, 1!. " And then put in the post, when an answer will be re turned; but it will be useless for the applicant to proceed with the inquiry unless the above p ar ti cu l ars can b e accu rately furnished. " The foregoing directions must be strictly observed in all particulars, as personal applications cannot be attended to." Witness said that to the paper just exhibited were affixed several signatures, with various sums opposite, purporting to be contributions. Believing the paper and the signatures to be genuine, he gave the prisoner, he believed, half-a sovereign, and put his name down on the paper as a con tributor. Horsford, one of the officers of the llfendicity Society, stated that the female was the most thstormined and inde fatigable imp9gtor in. the metropolis. The / 490104 ; she Tiih s§rm, LONI)ON, TililitriA.V : 146.00140-, - 1: 1. ...9,y_10..M . 11itirR .2a,: 1t340, served her term of irnpritalitent in one case, she began at the old work with increased skill and activity. Since the year 18110 slit had been charged at various police. offices, dnd bran imprisoned in several gaols. Mr. itichard Ferguson, clerk to the Mendicity Society, stated that he had searched at the proper offices, and found that no such per 41..1 as John Wilson was tried in April sct sion, 1841, for embezzlement. He had also searched the list of convicts for the Asia and found that there was no such person in that list. Witness knew that the prisoners had lived together as man and wife, and also w present when they were sent toprison together as common im- postors. The female prisoner said that she did not recollect having called upon Mr. Curling, and that she believed the gentleman must be mistaken as to her. ➢lr. Curling said he had not the slightest doubt of her identity. - The LORD MAYOR then stated that he should to-morrow (this day) commit the woman for trial at the Central Crimi nal Court, and his Lordship at once sentenced the male prisoner to Bridewell for three calendar months. BOW-STREET. DISHONEST LETTER CARRIERS.—John Gord, who has been a letter carrier upwards of nine years, was charged before Mr. Jardine with stealing a letter containing money, the pro perty of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, conducted the Jesse Tay'or Mid that son seeing Tyne on the ground, and the prisoner kicking him in the head, he went to pick him up, when the accused knocked him down with the quart pot, and kicked him with such fearful violence as to dislocate his shoulder. Witness on partially recovering was about to leave the place, when the prisoner rushed into the room with an axe in his hand, which was fortunately taken from him by a man who stood by his side. Benjamin Goodal said he was in the street advancing to wards the house, when the prisoner struck him a violent blow with his fist, which knocked him down. He then throw two large flint stones at him, which cut his head open, and he was also conveyed to the hospital, where he remained for a month, and was afterwards an out-patient for five weeks. He never spoke to the prisoner before he struck him. JamesCobbetts, foreman over the men emploped in making a sewer in the King's-road, proved the dreadful condi tion in which he found the victims of prisoner's brutality. On hearing that some of his men had been treated with great violence, he went into the Colville Arms,- and found the f them on the floor, weltering in their blood. He immediately put them in a cart, and had them driven to the hospital. In the course of a long, rambling story, prisoner said that Tyne wanted to fight, and lifted his hand as though he would strike, when he (prisoner) gave him a blow with his hand, and after that he took his part as well as he could. Mr. BOND committed him for trial on the whole of the above charges at the Central Criminal Court. WORSHIP-STREET. James Harrison and William Edwards, alias Setter, were brought up for final examination, on suspicion of having been concerned in breaking into and robbing the house of Mr. Roper, one of the parochial guardians of Hackney; and in several other burglaries committed in the same neighbour hood. Two other men, who gave their names Samuel Trindle and John setter, were now placed at the bar with them, before Mr. Greenwood. The two first-mentioned prisoners were apprehended on the morning after the burglary, at Mr. Roper's, by Inspector Cooper, who found upon them several pieces of wax taper, one of which appeared to be the counterpart of a piece left by the robbers at Mr. Roper's. Upon one of them also was found a piece of prepared liver, calculated to entice and silence watch-dogs, and a similar piece had been found upon Mr. Roper's premises. A fresh charge was now stated of a burglary committed at the house of Mr. Sewell, Dalston-rise, early in the morning after the burglary at Mr. Roper's, and a few hours only be fore the two first-named prisoners were taken into custody. James Summers, gardener, in the service of Mr. Sewell, whose house is within a quarter of a mile of Mr. Roper's, said the family were out of town, and the house was broken into about half- past two last Friday morning. While in bed, he heard a noise in the next room to him, and he got up, and went out to ascertain the 'cause of it, when a man rushed past him and ran down stairs; after which, a second man came behind him and knocked him over the banisters, and then escaped also. The first one,. who was in appearance like the prisoner Edwards, dropped a basket full of plate, The other was a tall man like Harrison, but there was not light enough form him to distinguish the features of either of them. The thieves had entered through the coal-hole. There was a dog upon the premises which commonly barked and made an alarm at the slightest noise, but was not heard at all that night, and next day it seemed to be stuffed up and stupified as if swelled up with something that it had eaten. Policeman 77 N said he saw the prisoner Trindle near Mr. Sewell's house, and apparently taking particular notice of it, about half-past ten o'clock on Thursday night. Circumstances of suspicion were stated against all the pri soners, who are well known. Trindle was at the bar of this Court not long since charged with stealing two valuable dogs belonging to a country farmer. He has a remarkable voice, and it having transpired that the voice was the princip as al means of identifying the real dog-stealer, the 'prisoner w desired by his legal adviser (Mr. Robinson) not to say a word during the examination. " No, I wont," said the prisoner, and the farmer no sooner heard that spoken, than he ex claimed, " I swear that is the man," and the result was that the prisoner was summarily convicted. Inspector Cooper produced a handsome mourning-ring which he had found in the pocket of Harrison, " In memory of Frederick Jago, who died in 1839," but he had not dis covered any claimant for it. Mr. GREENWOOD finding that there was no evidence against the prisoners as to the burglaries in question, dis charged them all prosecution. Wm. Abbot, a letter carrier in the London district of the General Post-office, stated, that on Monday evening, about half-past seven o'clock, he was on duty with the prisoner, at the branch office in Charing-cross, sorting letters. The pri soner was engaged on his right hand side at the time. On the arrival of letters from the chief office in St. Martin's-le- Grand, they were sorted by the junior letter carriers for the different walks, a fter which they were taken from the boxes and. divided for delivery. Witness observed the prisoner take the letters from the Golden-square box with his left hand, at the same time turning round towardshis desk,which was at the upper part of the office, and as his huh was turned he put a letter into his right hand trousers pocket. It was not part of the prisoner's duty to have removed the letters from the box, but to have left them for the senior letter car riers to take out and divide them among the carriers of the Golden-square walk, of whom the prisoner was one. Witness immediately made a communication of what he had seen to the inspector, and shortly after the prisoner went into an ad:: joining room leading to the water-closet, which witness men tioned to the inspector, and haying followed him, he came oat again after a short delay. Mr. James Smithers, inspector of letter carriers, said, that in consequence of what he heard from the last -witness, he watched the prisoner into the water-closet. Witness then got on a step, by which he was enabled to see that the pri soner had a letter in his hand, and having asked him what he was doing with it, he said " nothing.' He then came out of the apartment, and the letter turned out to be di rected to the "Secretary of the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey mouth Railway Company, 449, Strand," upon which a con stable was sent for, to whom he was given in charge. After the other carriers had gone away, the prisoner sent for wit ness, and told him that he did not intend to do anything with the letter he held in his hand, but it was a mis-sorted one which he happened to have about him. The letter was torn near the seal when taken from the prisoner, and as it was not in his delivery, he should not have had it in his pos session. It appeared to contain coin with the stamp of eight o'clock on Monday evening, the time at which it should have been sent out. Mr. George Willis, a clerk in the railway-office, having opened the letter, found that it contained the transfer deeds of conveyance for ten shares, with a half- sovereign on ac- count as fees. The prisoner said that when any letters were mis-sorted, it was customary to take them back to the sorters, and that was his intention when the letter was taken from his hand which had not been broken open; besides, what was seen in his hand when he left the office was not a letter, but a bit of waste paper. He was ordered to be remanded. Francis Cope, another letter- carrier, was next chargedwith stealing three letters. Matthew Peake, a constable employed in the General Post office, stated that on Monday night, about seven o'clock, he went to the Paddington branch-office, where he met the pri soner, and having searched him, he found a small tobacco box, containing secret springs, which he desired him to open, at the same time asking him what was inside, upon which he replied " two letters," and having set the hands of the springs, it was opened, and contained a letter torn into pieces. Witness then proceeded with him to search his lodging, No. 8, St. John's Wood-terrace, and having asked him on the way what letters were in the tobacco-box; he replied that one contained a sovereign, and the other, which was only addressed to a servant girl, nothing. He was then asked if the sovereign found upon him was inclosed in the letter, and he said " yes." On searching the tobacco-box at the sta tion, a letter was found addressed " Jane Stagg, St. John's Wood-terrace, Regent's Park, 75 ;" and also the fragments of a letter, addressed " Mr. Bastin, at Mrs. Harris's, No. 2, Wellington-place, St. John's Wood-road, near the chapel, London." Mr. Cole, after corroborating the evidence of the last wit ness, said that the letter addressed to Jane Stagg bore the London stamp of the 11th, five o'clock in the evening, and the other the 17th, which would in the course of business, be forwarded to the chief office at ten o'clock in the morning. George Harper, principal change taker at Paddington branch-office, said that the prisoner had been an auxiliary about twelve months. The letter addressed to the female Stagg would have arrived at the branch office about twenty minutes past seven o'clock in the evening of the 11th, and the other about ten o'clock in the morning. The prisoner assisted in sorting letters on Monday, and the last letter which was not in his delivery might have come into his pos session through mis-sorting ; but in that case it was his duty to have brought it back to the office, and have the words "taken out by mistake," written upon it. Mr. Bastin proved that the letter produced was addressed to him by his sister, Mrs. Matilda Kemp, of Wood Hill, near Grantham, and contained a sovereign. Eliza Vale said that she wrote the other letter to Jane Stagg, containing a piece of paper with directions from her mistress upon it. The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was ordered to be remanded. The prisoner was again charged with stealing another letter containing money. It appeared from the evidence, that a letter containing a marked sovereign, a shilling and a sixpence, was addressed by Mr. Walter Culthrope, a president of the General Post office, to a Miss M'Kensie, of St. John's Wood, and although another letter was delivered on the same evening by the prisoner at the same house, nothing was heard of the letter in question. the contents of which were found upon his per son. He was again ordered to be remanded upon this charge. THE ALBERT ELASTIC STOEK.—Thomas Smith, of No. 4, King William-street, Strand, appeared on a summons, to show cause why he was in possession of a quantity of elastic stocks, the property of Mr. Edward Joseph Weston, well knowing the same to have been stolen. Mr. Wontner appeared to prefer the complaint, and Mr. Gale for the defence. The case occupied the Court many hours, and it appeared from the testimony of several witnesses that the complainant, who had• purchased- the patent of the- articles in question from Messrs. Hughes, of Holborn, observed, on passing through Duncannon-street, Strand, some elastic stocks in a window, and as they resembled his -own manufacture, he sent a friend to make a purchase, and on opening the article, having found that it not only corresponded in every particu lar with his patent, but that the materials were composed of his property, he applied to this Court for a search warrant, which was granted, and the man in attendance in the shop was given in charge. The name of Thomas and Co. was over the door, and it being ascertained that the concern be longed to the defendant, who kept an ale store in George street, Adelphi, and was also an advertising agent for news papers, a summons was issued for his appearance. The com plainant had a lad named Pierce in his shop in the Strand up to the month of May last; but was obliged to part with him in consequence of a large deficiency in the stock; and his mother also managed another establishment for the corn• plainant in Holborn ; with both of whom the defendant was on the most intimate terms, and after the discharge of the youth, had been known to have frequently visited the mother at the house in Holborn, who was also discharged for malpractices. On the part of the defendant it was proved, that the de fendant employed a person in Brownlow• street, Drury-lane, to manufacture the goods, amounting to abuut fourteen dozens of springs for stocks, produced, which being stripped of the satin, turned out to be correct, with the exception of one, the pattern of which was furnished by another person not connected with the complainant; but the other materials, such as lining, India rubber, arc., were identified by the com plainant as his property. Mr. JARDINE said that the case was the first which came under his notice under the particular clause in the Police Act, and, therefore, he considered it necessary to pay the greater attention to it. The defendant must have known he was possessing himself from time to time of stolen property. Had the case, which was of a very grave nature, been investigated by him on a former occasion, it might have been sent to another Court, but he would prefer dealing with it in a sum mary manner by sending the defendant to hard labour for six weeks, and the goods to be delivered up to the complainant. CLEBKEN WELL. BURGLARY IN A WORKHOUSE. —Eight female paupers were , nally examined, charged with a burglary in St. Pancras , workhouse. The particulars have already been detailed. The prisoners, it will be recollected, broke through the oakum-room, where , they slept, into the pauper school-room, which they rifled, and on the robbery being discovered, the property was found concealed in the beds of the prisoners. Five of them were committed for trial, and the others dis charged for the want of sufficient evidence. ASSAULT ox THE POLICE.—John Peters. a powerful man, was charged with having violently assaulted policemen 339 and 432 N, whilst in the execution of their duty, by which the former officer was severely injured. The prisoner was committed to prison (without fine) for one month, with hard labour. SOUTHWARK. ALLEGED FRAUDS OF A LOAN SOClETY.—Several persons, male and female, attended to solicit the magistrate's advice under the following circumstances : From the statement of one of the parties, who was spokes man on the occasion, it appeared that, being engaged in trade, and wanting some money to carry on his business, he applied to the Surrey Loan Society for an advance of 101. The money was accordingly advanced, on his giving the neces sary security of a stamped note for the full amount, which was to be paid by weekly instalments of 4s. 4d. Having re paid the money he borrowed, the persons belonging to the society refused to deliver up the book or voucher in which the different instalments were entered, and to the inquiries of the applicant and other borrowers, a Mr. Jermand, in the City, is now suing many of them and their securities, where it can be proved the loans have been repaid. In reply to Mr. COTTINGHAM, the applicant said that one of the principal parties belonging to the loan society was now a bankrupt, and that upon an application to a Mr. Loyd, he admitted advancing money to the =pagers of the society on the loan notes,, but says that they promised to redeem them as the loans were paid off. That many of the applicants' books, containing the entries of cash they repaid, were now in the hands of the secretary, who refused to re turn them; and proceedings had been actually commenced against several of the borrowers, to compel them to pay the money over again. The managers got the books as vouchers s from the borrowers, by pretending that th:y were e the office for the purpose of being examined. Mr. CorristonAss said that, assuming what the applicant had stated to be correct, a very gross fraud had been at tempted by the parties complained against. Although the case did not come within his jurisdiction, still, if the circum stances were as represented, he would advise the applicants to lose no time in employing a respectable solicitor. The applicants, amongst whom were several respectable • , looking females, having thanked the Magistrate, then with drew. William Steadman, a cab driver, was charged with caus ing an obstruction at the terminus of the Brighton Railroad. Shields, a policeman of the Company, stated that he was stationed near the platform of the above railway, to prevent the obstruction of vehicles arriving and setting down pas sengers for the trains. The defendant's cab was driven up to the usual place of setting down passengers, and although his fare had alighted and gone on to the train, yet the vehicle was left standing in a situation which ought to have been taken by the next in rotation ; and when witness went up to remove it, the defendant interfered, abused him, and cre ated a considerable degree of confusion at the terminus be fore his removal was effected ; in adelition to which, he wore his badge turned upside down in such a manner that it was impossible to take his right number if it was found neces sary. The witness added t hat the secretary ,sf the Company, being made acquainted with the circumstance:Z. gave direc tions for the defendant to be taken into custody. Mr. CorrINGHAst said that when cases of this description were brought before him, he was determined on puoishing the offenders, with a view that travellers by railroads should experience as little impediment as possible at the commence ment of their journeys. The Magistrate then imposed a fit,: of 20s. and costs on the defendant, or fourteen days' impri sonment in default of payment. The defendant, not being prepared with the money, was locked up. LAMBETH. ASSAULT BY CAUNT, THE PUGILIST.—A person named Marshall applied to Mr. Henry for summonses against Ben jamin Caunt, the well-known pugilist, and at present the landlord of the Coach and Horses public-house in St. Mar tin's-lane. From the statement of the app licant it appeared that, on the evening before, Caunt drove along the Walworth-road at so furious a rate, in his gig, as to endanger the lives of the passengers, and ultimately ran " smack" against applicant's chaise-cart. The applicant remonstrated with the big bruiser upon his conduct, but the only return he received was two severe lashes from his whip, which cut his (applicant's) coat right through. In reply to a question from the Bench, the applicant said the damage done would take at least 21. to repair; and Mr. Henry at once granted him two summonses against Caunt—one for the wilful damage, and the other for the assault. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A RICH BEGGAR.—An aged countryman, in a smock frock, was seen by Bostock, one of the Mendicity Society's officers, to beg of various persons in Oxford-street, on Monday after noon. His venerable appearance and seeming poverty attracted general sympathy, and he had alms bestowed on him by charitable passers-by, whose condition appeared to be but a shade better than his own. Bostock took the old man into custody, brought him to this Court, and, according to the usual practice, proceeded to search him, to ascertain if he had any property about him. The old man suddenly shook off the infirmities of age, and made such a vigorous resist ance, that it took the united strength of six persons to over power him. He was at last subdued, and the search com menced. In a pocket in the smock frock the officers found two pounds in copper money. In a pocket in his clothes they found between two and three pounds in silver money, and in his wallet, which formed A lOrt of capacious trousers pocket, they found concealed among potatoes, bacon, bread, and provi sions sufficient for three or four persons, !Elall bag which contained sixty-four sovereigns and half sovere;g-s• The amount of money found on the old impG2tor ex ceeded 691. The defendant gave the name of Jesse Grover, and stated that he was a native of Hemel Hempstead. He said the money was his own, he had saved it out of the wages of his labour, and he declared that he had never begged a penny from any body. MI. MALTBY sent the defendant to prison for a month, as rogue and vagabond, and directed that a portion of the money found on him should be applied to cover the expenses of his maintenance in prison. QUEEN-SQUARE. UNPROVOKED MURDEROUS ASSAULTS —Thomas Howard, a powerful fellow, was charged before Mr. Bond with a suc cession of assaults of the most desperate character. There were no less than four distinct charges of feloniously assaulting and wounding clearly proved against the accused, independently of another in which the injured man could not be found. Henry Tyne, a labourer, stated that on the evening of the Asked him if he 1. youl ti - 1 21st of last July, he went in company with three other men into the Colville Arms, King's-road, Chelsea, where he ret ' us.. - 1 _ dec . _declared he saw the prisoner, who on his entering the room immediately sight, and on woo- , i„ Knock him thlwo. riStilier then advanced tower... him and Struck him on the heed with his hand, and then, selling a quart ilbt Nom the tab e; dire* the , beet it con tained away, and kiie hint a Violent blow on the heAd with the rot, which felled him to the ground, and whilst in that defenceless condition the prisoner kicked him desperately in the eye. The blow the prisoner inflicted with the pot cut his head open, and it was found necessary to take him im mediately to the hospital. James Foreman, another labourer, after confirming the account given by the last witness, said that on going to his assistance when on the ground, prisoner gave him, without the least provocation, a desperate blow on the head with a quart pot, which knocked him down. He got up and de fended himself as well as he could, until he became senseless from the loss of blood. The wound in his head was five inches long, and be also received a very severe injury in the back. He was taken to the hospital, where he remained ten we eks, and never expected that he should get up again. Witness , on concluding his statement. said, •• wag eo gljurecl, that I WWI ilem be Vie um d YNIS bef(lfl:t THAMES. Mr. Daniel Ferguson, master of the ship China, and Hyam Levy, a Jew slopseller in High-street, Shadwell, appeared before Mr. Broderip to answer a charge under the " Act for the protection of seamen entering onoard merchant ships," the Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 116, which enacts among other things, that the Board of Trade shall license such per sons as they may deem fit to procure seamen for merchant ships, and that no person not duly licensed, or not being the owner, part owner, master, or person in charge of a ship, or the ship's husband, shall be concerned in procuring seamen to be entered. The 4th section enacts that no owner, part owner, master, or person in charge of any merchant ship, or ships's husband, shall knowingly receive, or accept to be en tered on board, any seaman who was procured contrary to the Act. The penalty for each offence Is 201. In this case Mr. Wells appeared as solicitor for the pro secution, at the suit of a person named Ward, of Albert streci, :.",hadwell, who has procured a license from the Board of Trade to h 1;:ze, engage, supply, and provide seamen." Mr. Pelham wii.l for the b. fence. The summons against Levy charged that he noi men wily licensed by the ords of the Council for Trade and Committee of her Majesi. Privy the C. Foreign Plantations, and not r . .),;: n g weer, part owner, or a ship's master, or person in charge of a mercii:;!lt shit. seamen for husband, did unlawfully supply and provide two vainst a certain merchant ship, called the China. The summo ns . Captain Ferguson charged him with knowingly receiving' the two seamen so procured by an unlicensed person contrary the provisions of the Act. Mr, Wells stated the case, and said this was the first pro secution under the Act, which was one of great importance to the shipping interest. He called two seamen, from whose evidence it appeared they went on board the China to obtain berths, and were referred to Levi. Upon going to his Whop they saw Mrs. Levy, who said she wanted to engage hands forth e China, and a card of recommendation was given to them, which they were to present to the defendant Ferguson. At that time Levy's son was on board the China, but Levy himself was nett there, nor did lie appear to have had much to do with the transaction. On the first occasion, when the sailors We'tl , W the shop, they asked Mrs. Levy if she had to engage the hands fear the China. and she replied in the affir mative. Her husband, wilt, w standing by, did not say AWS. shop, and also o n board anything. The men ca lled at J the ship, several times , but, after all, were not engaged. Mr. Pelham urged there was no providing of seamen, as ' contemplated by the Act, and that Levy bad nothing to do with the affair. There was really no case, forfor him to answer. Captain Ferguson said he had not receicgd any seamen provided by Levy. Mr. BROPERIP said it was easy to see there had been an attempt to evade a new Act of Parliament, which was like) y to be a very usefu l one, and was passed to protect sa guilty ilers from a class of pers ons termed " crimps, t; of gross impositions. If a conviction was there to be made, it bef must ore be founded on goo d evidence, and was none him. He was undoese necessity of dismissing both sum monses ; but he beggit might be distinctly understood that when a case was made must expect should enforce the law, and if any one offended they must expect to be visited with a severe penalty. The A a .gt of riatUllOnt was pamod moot righte- ously to put down a very bad system of engaging seamen by crimps, slopsellers, and others, who exacted large gratuities from seamen. The new law prohibited any unlicensed per son interfering with the engagements of seamen, except owners, masters, and ship's husbands; and the Act expressly prohibited any person whatever from receiving any remu neration from seamen, either directly or indirectly, on ac count of their being hired. lie would discourage any at tempt to revive the old system, which the law was passed to put down. The licensed agents were under the control of the Board of Trade, and they alone had the right to procure sea man for merchant »hips, with the exception of the persons he had named. The summonses were then dismissed. HAMMERSMITH. Edmund Ankens, a lad in his fourteenth year, the son of Mr. Joseph Ankens, a bricklayer, of No. 1, South-street, Hammersmith, was charged with having stolen,a silver watch, a pair of silver spectacles, a gold ring, and a tortoiseshell snuff box, the property of his father. The prisoner has been repeatedly charged at this Court with robbing his parents and other relatives. About six weeks since he was committed for trial at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing a pistol, the property of his uncle, to which he pleaded guilty, and the witnesses not being in at tendance at the time, he was sentenced to twenty-four hours' solitary confinement, and then discharged. Mrs. Ankens deposed that she was the mother of the pri soner, to reclaim whose vicious propensities every possible effort had been made. On the morning of the previous day the prisoner left home about eight o'clock, and some time af terwards, on having occasion to go to a chest of drawers, she missed her husband's silver watch, silver spectacles, gold ring, awl snuff-box produced. The value of them was 3/. Other evidence having been given, the boy was committed for trial. ROBBERS IN INDIA. Various classes of robbers, under the designations of Thugs, Dakoits, Choars, Kuzzaks, and Budhukes, infest the entire country. The first and the last would appear to be identical, be-. ing sets ofvillainsdistinguished by their practice of strangling unsuspecting travellers with whom they may contrive to fall'in upon a journey ; they are sometimes formed into secret societies, not dissimilar from some of those in the middle ages : and it was vainly hoped that Lord William Bentinck had utterly extirpated them. The Kuzzaks are mounted rob bers, who singly beset the highroads, or, being collected into parties, attack and plunder entire villages : in other words, they are Turpins, or Robin Hoods, or Rob Boys, as occasion may re quire. The Dakoits and Choars are more like the early com panions of Gil Blas—thieves who naturally and constitu tionally assemble in gangs, and who usually limit their de predations to the houses or persons of those reputed to pos sess valuables or money in concealed hoards. These were once the most formidable. being thoroughly organised under Birders, or leaders: they commonly meet for their lawless procedures under cover of the night, being by day, to all ap pearanas, among the most peaceable and quiet members of the community. Their grand characteristic, wherever they subsist, still continues to be that of Dan—" an adder in the path." They have watchwords and secret signals. Com panies, variously armed with swords, clubs, pikes, and match locks, will grow, as it were, out of the ground, coming to.. gether nobody knows how, and gathered from no one kr.ows where, in numbers from fifteen to fifty. The spot will be some tope or grove adjacent to the desired spoil. The fol lowing is a midnight picture of what these worthies were some thirty years ago, as also of what they too often are now :—" When collected, their !marauding excursion was preluded by a religious ceremony—the worship of the goddess Durga—the patroness of thieves, typified by a water-pot, or a few blades of grass. The ceremony was conducted by a Brahmin of degraded condition and dissolute life. Having propitiated the goddess by the promise of a portion of their spoil, they marched with lighted torches, and little attempt at concealment, beyond disguising their faces by pigment, or . covering them with masks, to th e o bj ec t o f their expedition, usually the dwelling of some shopkeeper or money-changer, in which it was expected to discover treasure. Occasionally the motive of the attack was ven geance; and informati on g i ven by the imuseholder, or any mem ber of his family , agai ns t some , :nember of the gang, b rou ght upon him the res!•ntm en t of the whole fraternity. ' Upon entering the village, it was customary to fire a gun as a signal for the inhabitants to keep within their dwellings • the house against which the operation was des i gned was then surrounded ; and whilst some of the gang forced an entrance, others remained as a guard without. Unless ex asperated by resistance, or stimulated by revenge, the Da koits did not commonly proceed to murder ; but they perpetrated atrocious cruelties upon such persons a. 9 re fused to give them, or were unable to give them, infortnation regarding property which they suspected of having been con cealed ; burning them with lighted torches or blazing straw or wrapping cloth or flax steeped in oil around th e i r li mbs , and setting it on fire ; or indicting various tortures which caused immediate or speedy 'death. Theobject being accom plished, and the booty sec'ared, the gang retired before day light, and the guilty individuals resumed their daily occupa tions." In Bengal alone, six hundred and ninety such atro cities disgraced a single year.—Eclectk Review for July. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.--The new opera of Maritana bids fair to become as popular as we had pred i cted. The principal singers have acquired smoothness and an im proved knowledge of the nuances of their characters, and the chorus and orchestra have attained unity and precision. The dramatic action has been brought closer together, and the third act excised of its super-abundance and quick succession of ballads. A second hearing has convinced us that Mr. Wallace possesses a rich vein of original melody, poetical imagination, and an intimate knowledge of orchestral treat ment. He seizes with vigour the dramatic points of bis cha racters, and carries out the thought by picturesque harmonies. Last night the theatre was crowded at an early hour—the encores were numerous, and the applause vigorous. The principal performers were called for—and the successful com poser s s ued before the curtain to receive the loud gratu latim of o WINN& C ASE OF MUTINY AND MURDER ON BOARD THE TORY. ACQUITTAL OF THE PRISONERS.. THAMES POLICE-COURT.—Yesterday the mquiry into this mysterious case of the crew of the ship Tory was resumed at one o'clock. At an early hour the front of the Court-house was besieged with parties eager to obtain admission; and such was the pressure, that it was with the greatest difficulty our reporter gained access to the Court. No case for many years has created such a sensation in this neighbourhood ; end the excitement was much in creased by rumours current, that certain most startling and horrid disclosures would be made, inculpating the captain of the ship in a very serious degree. Captain John stone, the master of the ship, was taken into custody at the beginning of the week from suspicions raised against him at the first examination of the men, coupled with the circum stance that he was making preparations to leave the country. He was brought up on Tuesday, and after the brief examination of ono witness, he was remanded till yesterday, to be brought up, when the men underwent their second examination. Mr. Broderip occupied the bench on the occasion. Mr. May nard, of the firm of Crowder and Maynard, Mr. Hawley his clerk, and Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, appeared for the owners of the ship ; Mr. Humphrey for Captain Johnstone, and Mr. Pelham and Mr. Ballantine, barristers, for the sea men. It appears that up to a late hour on Saturday evening Messrs. Maynard and Hawley were employed in examining into the case, and it was in consequence of the disclosures re sulting therefrom that the statement was made before the magistrates on Monday, already published, and on which the captain was taken into custody. Twelve o'clock was the hour fixed for the examination to commence, but owing to some bungling management on the part of the police, who had not the prisoners ready in Court when the case was called on, the inquiry did not begin till the hour already named. On the arrival of the prisoners, the constable who had charge of them was called up by Mr. Broderip, and severely reprimanded for his gross negligence in keeping all;partiee waiting beyond the appointed time. The excuse offered was the heaviness of the road, but that, the worthy magistrate ob served, was no excuse at all, as in such an important case they should have been brought down at the earliest hour. The seamen, sixteen in all, were then placed at the bar, and seemed ravel improved in appearance since the last ex amination. :lair, the wounded man, was also present,whose head was shaved and covered all over with patches. 'Mr. Clarkson opened the case by recapitulating the state ment he made on a former occasion. He said that having been •informed by the owners of the ship, through information derived from the captain, he had caused the men to be takee i up on the arrival of the Tory, on the charge of attempting to revolt off the Island of Ascension, and carrying off the ship with her valuable cargo. The object of the owners was to obtain the strictest and fullest inquiry. Since that time certain disclosures had been made which had operated on the minds of the owners to abandon the charge brought against the men. He would not make reference to the charge on which the captain had since been taken up, beyond correcting a statement which had gone abroad, that at the time the captain was taken into custody he was contemplating going abroad. Such was not true. This he stated in justice to that party. In conclusion, he was now nstructed to abandon the charge against all the men. Mr. BRODERIP—In that case there is no evidence against the men, and they must be discharged. This declaration was received with ?bud cheers by a crowded Court, which was instantly suppressed by the officers in attendance. Mr. Ballantine said lie had 'a remark to make befog the men left the Court. It was this—that so far from their being pirates, it was through their good conduct, passive endurance, Christian submission, and sailor-like fortitude, that the ship ever touched this country. The men left the bawithouta blemish on their characters, and no party need be"shamed td employ them in similar service to that in which they had been engaged. Mr. BRODERIP said that, looking at the whole case, he thought it very strange that the captain, on arriving on the coast, should not have appealed to the civil power, instead of putting the men ie irons. This was a very extraordinary proceeding. There was now nothing left him but to dismiss the men from the bar. The seamen then left amidst manifestations of th's greatesb satisfaction from all present. George Johnstone, who appeared about 40 years of age, the captain of the ship, was next placed at the bar, on tile charge of murdering William Mars and Thomas Ream. part of the crew of the ship Tory. Mr. BRODERIP said that a note ha d been Turk into his hand from the medical attendant of the prisoner, stating that he was labouring under erysipelas infl: Lmmador., arising from 2 puncture in the left leg, and should be aecummodated with a chair. 1 The prisoner was then supplied wit ht the accommodation required. Henry Slack said he was! apprentice on board of the ship Tory. Ile served in bi!..-r during the last voyage. Wh en t h e ship was at Fayal the captain went ashoi.e in a boat. On his return to the ship he spoke to several of till seamen, and then asked where Mars (the chief mate at that ime) was. Mars came, and the captain spoke to him, but vitness could not hear what he said. He (the captain) then struck William Mars. Witness could not say exactly wit la what, but he thinks with a piatoL Ile NW a fletol in thy captain's hand. GREENWICH. - John Brelsford, keeper of a beer-shop, New Kent-road, appeared to an information, charged with selling beer by retail in a booth at Hatcham Races, without being duly licensed so to do, on the 22d of Sept. last, whereby he had incurred, under the Acts of 7th and Bth Geo. IV., a penalty of 20/. The information was laid at the instance of Mr. Sly, su pervisor of the district. Mr. Evans, solicitor, of Lee, ap peared for the defendant. The evidence was, that he supplied a pint of porter to William Bennett, an Excise officer, on the day and at the place mentioned, and that he was, therefore, amenable to the penalty, Hatcham Fair not being chartered for such purpose. The defendant had been cautioned previously not to act as he had done. A plea of mitigation, on the grounds that the offence was a first one; that the defendant's house was but three doors from the field where the fair and races were held; and that the defendant committed the offence in ignorance of the law, was strongly urged by Mr. Evans. Mr. JEREMY fined the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 5/. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. On Tuesday morning a commission for inquiring into the sanity of Mr. Richard Read Parry, of No. 11, Colebrook-row, Islington, was opened at the Angel Inn, before Mr. Barlow and 17 jurymen. Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Prior appeared in support of the commission, and Mr. James in opposition to it. It appeared from the evidence of a number of witnesses, that Mr. Part 7 was the second son of Mr. Roger Parry, who filled a situation in the Bank of England, and who died in 1838, leaving two sons and a daughter. The gentleman whose state of mind was the subject of inquiry early in life embarked in theatrical pursuits, much against the wishes of his family. He was manager of several provincial theatres, and was himself a performer. His affairs became embarrazsed, and in 1822 he went to reside abroad on an allowance of 2001. a-year from his father. On the death of his elder brother, in March, 1844, he returned to this country, and succeeded to the family property, consisting of the freehold residence in Cole broole• row, 4,700/. Three per Cents. Reduced, 4,0001. in vested of: mortgage, and furniture appraised at 300/. and odd, including 181. worth of jewellery. Probably the sudden ac cession to this property overturned a mind predisposed to insanity, for early in March last his manners became strange. He had been a man of peeuliar habits, liking to be alone; he now dismissed his servants, and appeared for a time to be without food or fire. Mrs. liravhew, an old friend of the family, sent him a pigeon-pie and some other articles of food, and communicated the circumstance to his married sister, who had been estranged from her family through marrying contrary to their wish. A person was then engaged to attend on him. He began to attach excessive value to the family plate, and to fancy that pewter articles were silver. He said he had discovered 10,0001. worth of plate in a closet in the kit chen, and a quantity of china still more valuable; he wore brass curtain rings, and said they were gold. He said he was worth 15,0001. a-year. He announced his intention to keep four horses, and said he could keep them all for 40/. a year and the sale of their manure. He professed that he should keep the first society. The Lord Chancellor and his lady, and several of the nobility, were to visit him. The New River, which ran in front of his house, he meant to have brought through his garden, and ladies were to bathe before break fast and gentlemen afterwards. He said, he should fit up a gallery with all Wilkie's pictures, and another with Ho garth's ; and he bought some. He purposed, as he was " immensely rich," to throw his own and the next house into one. He said, one day, that a beggar had been to the doer and he had sent him with a sovereign to get change, and meant to give him pomethine when he returned ; however, no such person returned. When he considered it to be Sunday, he read prayers and a sermon, but he generally fixed on some other day than that which was really Sunday, and was very angry with any one who said it was not Sunday. In the same way he confounded the hours of the day ; at four o'clock in the afternoon he would insist it was nine in the morning ; he generally car ried several watches about with him, some of which had stopped, and whatever hour was indicated by the first he looked at, he would insist on that being the time. He had gas laid on in the drawing-rooms and parlours; this must have cost him 30/., but he said it was only an expense of a few shillings. Oue night be went to Sadler's-wells ;he sat all the time with his face buried in his hands, and refused for a long time to come away when the performances were over, saying, it was quite early. He said he had become proprietor of Covent-garden Theatre ; that Mr. Macready and Miss Cushman had called on him, and entered into engagements with him; at another time he declared that Mr. Bunn had engaged him for Drury-lane at 1501. a-night. He told his friends he was going to be married to a young lady, his cousin ; he had not asked her, he said, but he had only to go down and put his brother's diamond ring on her finger, and it would be all right, and then he and her father would sit down to dinner on rumpsteak and onions. He wrote to her mother proposing to marry the young lady on the 3d of July, "and then return to Colebrooke mansion, for one hun dred years the seat of the Danes; in case of any impediment, application would be made to the executors of the good and great Sir Hugh ; in jewellery be would present her with 1,0001.; by mere accident he had found the family estate quadrupled, and had discovered in a closet in the kitchen an i m mensity of china and plate, estimated at 100,0001." His conversation was generally jocular and facetious. During this evidence Mr. Parry was in the room, and ap peared to take great interest in the inquiry ; he communicated frequently with his couusel, and conducted himself so properly that the jury were evidently puzzled. After the letter about the marriage. was read, he observed that it was a mere pro posal, and was never sent. As to the china and plate, he said he certainly found some; he was an ignoramus as to the value, but the jury might see it ; his father said he gave a guinea and a half for the smallest china plate ; it had been 200 years in the family. The jewellery belonged to his mother; the jury might say the articles were copper, but he really believed them to be diamonds; he could not help it if that was called insanity. He believed the tea-kettle to be silver, with marks on it to define it as such; but if his word was not to be taken, let people judge for themselves. It was no great presumption that he was mad that he did not know the quality of such things. At this stage of the inquiry the jury proceeded to visit his house. Two pewter tankards being produced, with a large crown, and the letters "W. R." upon them, he said he was no connoisseur, but he believed them to be silver. A com mon tin tea-kettle was in the parlour, and he expressed his conviction that it was silver. This delusion was so gross as to make an impression on the jury that quite decided the case. Some further evidence was gone into, chiefly medical. Mr. Skelly, a suor,eon, stated, that he was insane upon sub jects reiging to bit.: property, and meditated projects based upon his extravagant` notions of it. He would probably never recover. Dr. Hunter also judged him insane ; he went by the general appearance of the case, not easily expressed in words, but which medical men have no difficulty in discern ing." Dr. Seaton, ,who had ?lad him under his care in the country since July, thought insane, but that under judicious treatment his recovery ivas very possible. He had improved since July. His mind had been kept occupied, and he bad not been left alone to have opportunity for delu • sive impressions. He had been told last Sunday that his wearing brass rings and calling them gold Vas to be proved before the jury, and to-day the rings had disappeared. The jury found unanimously that he had beefs from the ' 15th of March of unsound mind, and incompetent to take care of himself and his property. THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE. On Tuesday Mr. William Baker, coroner for the easi - em. division of Middlesex, held an inquest at the Bleck H orse, Kingsland-road, on the bodies of Sarah Moore, aged 42, and George Hall, aged 11, the unfortunate individuaig who perished in the recent fire in Tabernacle-square, Shoreditch- The jury having been sworn, and a foreman chosen, they proceeded, accompanied by the coroner, to Shoreditch wo,-k -house, for the purpose of viewing the bodies. Upon their return to the inquest-room, the following evidence was taken Mr. Richard M. Moore said that he was the proprietor of the St. Agnes Le Clair swimming -baths, in Tabernacle square, Finsbury. The deceased, Sarah Moore, was the wife of Charles Moore, an assistant at the baths. Qn the morning of Sunday last, about a quarter before one o'clock, he was awakened by his brother Frederick, who told wit ness that he thought the place was on fire. He then ran down the stairs and traced the smoke to the parlour, and upon opening the door the smoke rushed out, but he could not see any fire. Witness told his brother to go down into the kitchen and procure a pan of water, which he did, and which he threw in the direction thesmoke arose from. Wit ness afterwards escaped up stairs, and was found nearly suf focated upon the roof of the cold bath, and was rescued by a policeman. The kitchen adjoins th parlour. Mr. Charles Moore, his wife, and the deceased George Hall, slept in the same room. They were all alarmed; but Mr. C. Moore and her son were unable to escape, and they were burnt in the building. He could .not tell how the fire originated. It was not from gas. The baths were lighted only by oil and can dles. There was no combustible material in the parlour except the furniture. Witness was in the parlour about eleven o'clock, and turned the oil-lamp out, but left an other burning in the patisage. There was a report that the fire arose from cigar smoking, but he was positive that it did not arise from that cause. The baths had been insured for the last ten years and upwards in the Royal Exchange Fire-office. By the Conarga—l had not smelt fire during the previous evening. By a juror—The smokin g and bagatelle room was at the back of the building, in a d itferent part to where the fire com menced. Mr. Frederick Augustus Moore gave similar testimony. Denman, police constable 162 G, deposed to having discovered and having aroused the inmates of the house. Witness had no reason to believe that the fire had arisen from any other cause than mere accident. A question having arisen as to the identity of the bodies, the Contonzu inquired G f Mr. Charles Moore if he had any doubt as to whether the remains were those of his wife and child? He having ~.inswe red in the negative, the Coroner asked him if he could bra w any additional light upon the subject, but he wad unable to do so. summed up, the jury returned a The CORONER having' .t of " Accidental death. CIiASING - CROSS BRIDCE.—On Tuesday surveyors and engineers and a bevy 01" their assistants commenced operations on the Surrey side of the river, with a view to complete the specifications and p,lans necessary to be depo sited on or before the 30th inst., in order to enable them to uPPIY to Parliament for p f owers oorm it railway terminus At Chain-cm Bridge. verdict THE YARMOUTH MLItIL (From the Cambridge Advertisev:.) „ )fts. The following is the copy , of a statement L'eade b y to l a ta Dick, before the Mayor, relative to the murder of th Mrs. Candler : " The information of Sarah Dick, wife of John Illek,altaa,keeril, the 25th day of October, 1845, befo re William HurrY P . Ab o ut --- Esq., Mayor (now deputy), who deposeth as follow s Ti dlerf : three weeks after the trial for the mur der of Harriet C_,,, I met with Samuel Yarham at the top of the Market-.1',.! on the pavement in the Market-place near Mr. Fenn 's in vt,!; forenoon about 11 o'clock ; he stopped me and said, hoW l i you do? I said I don't know you, He said, Yarham, and sa,, , do either of these men interfere with you, either Bolt', Hall, or Mapes? I replied, not so much with me as they . a!" .. with the girl (meaning my daughter). I said do they i . n . t t el t fere with you ? He said as they knoweel better. I sao that if it had been me that you said so much, I would have pyre:: it to you well when I got out, if I bad to go to gaol fo i_u t seven years. He again said they knowed better, and 1 are upon the road way to come away, and made answer,n t; 'l it; either the murderer yourself or you know well who he touched me on the shoulder and said stop bar and I'll il, you all ;about it. I said Ido not want to hear it ; he ti ag l , said I'll tell you all about it. I said well what do yo _,ba, , about it. He then said he was not so much to blame asaidial Royall, and Mapes. n H ev e e s r ai w d o t u h l e d y heard Mrs. Csat,ndblieirt h ail i go s t . wanted him to let them in, and they harl Catchpole was going to the .Angel, and they wanted t .0 10 ~,.'' that night, and he made a bargain with them mot!. rl. meddle with her, but to go in when she went for the Dfe; for sometimes she would be out a quarter of an hour; ,li: h / e , were not to touch her—to use her badly—but theyoge'..l„l, money—so they came, and he was to le t them in ; cPfas at first between 10 and 11 to the bark door, a nd`he ", e d Royaatcu going about, and the shop was notshut ' ' IT, SO heard th o at_ ... 1, let the al about till very near 11, till she went for the beer, -e , o ise, in, and there was a deal of drinking in the Swan, and and he told them to go into the bed-room firsts the sbe was always there. She came in sooner than Nr" i c t i 101 l generally did, and he said, he and the boy MaPes f n „d a nd were in 'her bed-room, and he had a candle in bia 1 4 , a " tbef Royall was at the back of the counter, and wu*" iod heard her he put the candle out and sat down on the beLo.s, did not know what to do, and sat for a few minutes, a;L ci t tbs Candler sat down at the fire•side, and Royal' move R„ a ,41, back of the counter and she came out and a sked 1 1) ,• 7 be what he wanted. I know you, says she, and he ga l( ` tt. wanted half an ounce of tobacco. She t urned round tuca7l-0, the tobacco, and he struck her; then th e others thle best out, and Hall had a pair of pincers in his hand, an d , a get her about the head, and they left her lyi n g till they P a d g o all the money, as they expected, and he (Yarhaled op Mapes went into the bed-room again , and Jigger a! he y all something over the lights and shut the door, and they 3 sought the money. He said they might have long 50'501 hammer, for it was Jigger's pincers that did it--tna•lii die might have seen that it was no hammer—so they g ( '`,; ( l 00" money, as they expected, and were going away s "a, 0' looked at the old woman and they thought she was'des,siog;, they listened to hear if any one was passing or rel,, 0 and Mapes went out first and went across the street W A - , s od or a woman; so then they all three (Yarham, Rct:131: 0 Hall) came out together, and they three went uP t",",d till Swan-row, and Mapes and the woman followed 'there and a n d woman hearing a great noise in the Swan went in 50S called for something, to see who was there, and s i lpier e there was a deal of the Angel men drinking there , / let tts happy enough, for the words they made use of Were% ° ea have another pot, some old mus t pay for it thia d 0 saw it. Then they all went to hide the money , IT t ore ° met different people they knew, and when they ge: o ccl ~ the market they saw one of the policemen, which pro be Layton house,so Jigger went round the fish-market toe, his father's and the others made on with the : i i tilt Then he beard a noise like a whistle somewhere aurboasB Bleach, and he told them to go on and hide it, for his n t bef was sure to be searched, and to give him a signal W be- ndl is eC , had hid it. Then he went home, and he heard Mrs' 1 0 P" moaning, and he went in to see, for he was a fraid , lie f / ills surely . knew them all, and the lard knife was laYloC c ut 11 e ,, r went in ; and she turned her eyes upon him, and r that ir,7, throat, and she put her hand to grip the knife; the -that be the way her poor hand was cut. I told hint the o . 4 " OP; was the murderer himself, and he said 'No, it / ' ; ' - 1,, a 13° , v , and Royall beat her so with the pinchers that she c ° ',,,cdti .A ' have lived.' And I said, ' Did not Mapes - lend er " with her ? ' and he said, 'No • he only l boo the house.' And I told him 'he ought to bile spoken the truth at first, and things would havi,e,cale° different. He then told me to say nothing about it, r i ; eio that his solicitors told him that they wanted to fe tc A ':,,b lo ,i it, that I had done it with him. I forgot to say that .".;. till; after cutting her throat, said that he went uP i tl h ' s st ll ," washed his hands, and he was much put about, Art b -- O ' d wife had had leeches on but was not to say eic t "..:s fr ° .,' down the next morning apparently well, whether it s ae te a agitation or not be could not tell, and that when WY - blit' t t to give the signal he (Yarham) threw the window up o at ' could not see him, but came down stairs and loonplal..A; the front passage after him, and he saw him going P its ,o o l,4 son's shop, and the policeman Waller coming dow ° " s od i l't him (Yarham), but they did not speak to each °tilt ig, bat (Yarham) went in again. Re said he let his yeast'anolse.;d he ya ri d l aidm;noatndsay theyany w tl e i n in t g a t w o a h y im t . og e S .t o h m e r e . on l e h t a ll v en e : t ot sC'' Yarham since to speak to. j)10 " The >4 mark of EIARAgi but y The above extraordinary statement was rnau e '„eb t ° ,9 Mayor declined administering an oath. It is . 1111 ,L ia of" feared that it will not prove available to the conv - P murderer. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GA.ZJE— TO A IVIDENDS. Dec. 9. T. and C. Loc D khart, Cheapside, florists, 11'kilsOtio the Court of Bankruptcy, London—Dec. 9 . D . L°lr,, court, Old Broad-street, merchant, at half-past onjerAy Court of Bankruptcy, London—Dec. 9. J. Wilson' 1 3 ' 31 „0' street, St. James's, bootmaker, at one, at the Cop ' p oo,„ 1 1 , ruptcy, London—Dec. 9. J. Knowles and Co., f street, silk brokers, at half-past one, at the Cour' ~° O O -s „ t s ruptcy, London—Dec. 9. J. Knowles, Throgt o l,;o, l silk broker, at half-past one, at the Court of P',i e fr:, London—Dec. 12. J. Law and E. Hudson, R 393 ,t S- Of Lancashire, cotton spinners, at twelve, at the CO' -_„od, ref ruptcy, Manchester—Dec. 12. Law, Ram,sden-Yl,-ialtor cashire, cotton spinner, at twelve, at the Court of 13 '[. T04;0 Manchester—Dec. 12, J. Law, Ramsden-wood, o e3 ' t he den, Lancashire, cotton spinner, at twelve, _ at. put olit i ° of Bankruptcy, Manchester Dec. 10 . • 'TO A ry 0 0' Liverpool, merchant, at twelve, at tile A bet'? Bankruptcy, Liverpool—Dec. 10. R. Edw.ards , ,, ,I;r 11 ,10 Merionethshire, draper, at eleven, at the Court of P 3 t Liverpool--Dec. 10. J. Milne, Liverpool, painter, Iror at the Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool—Dec. 1. 2 • it o f l i ve' sen., Birmingham, jeweller, at twelve, at the c011.,' o iai o tcP ruptcy,. Birmingham—Dec. 10. J. Ashbarry • ,''', ol lo ; te Herefordshire, farmer, at eleven, at the Court of _,- 11 Birmingham—Dec. 16. W. Butteril, Sheffield, Vileti er ,teP Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds—Dec. 11. F. L o raint,o lll ,l e alr upon-Tyne, bookseller, at two, at the Court of Y as " tle'V Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Dec. 11. P. Hansen, Nesv c ,tel,, , Ao Tyne, merchant, at one, at the Court of Ban kruv tb ode castle-upon-Tyne—Dec. 11. J. Jobling Ayton, ScljeW er , draper, at eleven, at the Court of BankruptcY , u pon-Tyne—Dec. 11. W. Broomhead, Birining u .:13 ,1r chant, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy , ni r i -1 4 51 CERTIFICATES. „R" e; H. Kohne, Lawrence Pountnev-lane, City, w rr Th rP e r manufacturer, at the Court of Review—JO ' -° o lY e a l tr A Brentford, Middlesex, paper hanger, at the Coaq e Co f , —J. L. Tabberner, Birmingham, auctioneer, at ti &cl 6l , e ,r,, a r Review—C. Ridings, Manchester, cotton rnali ll ' - n rin"; ir the Court of Review—W. Best, Southampton, ra, the Court of Review—J. Shorland, Bristol, 6 1°c- Court of Review. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Ljsllo 1/: I. and H. Green, Halifax. woolstaplers -3- V . C19:4 Co., Plymouth, merchants, as far as regards J• V• don—T. F. Clay and S. B. C. Barrett, Sloane-551-OP.F. sea, surgeons—W. Wreford and Co. Bristol' bet s cree, —T. K. Rowbotham and Co., Manchester, bleO ft , ri s J a.s regards T. K. Rowbotham—J. Bloor and S; inil Tutbury, Staffordshire, farmers—J. A. Hanti" . ", S. Revell, Penton-row, Walworth. booksellers Winter and J. B. Crampern, New North-stree`O'.stowheel' sawyers—J. Brodrick, jun., and H. Clarke, Ki l lifs/i c 4 . 6 0_,',1 Hull, wine merchants—J. Ridsdale and Co. , iije!;,tl stockbrokers—J. Clarke and G. C. Bennett,,,lllscr•e Lincolnshire, agricultural implement dealers—.iirr • feffe o : o , Co., Lakenham, Norwich, nurserymen—E. o`,ll, Co., Manganese merchants, as far as regards :: p ort , t ter and Co.—W. M. Collings and A. J. Essery, e " b pd e j mouthshire, painters—J. Houghton and E. Owes, Lancashire, provision dealers—F. and T. DOrr— well-road, wharfingers. Pec;oo SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ad John Scott, Annan, coal merchant, Nov. 22 arid at twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Faris' 014 Annan. ant' 1 1 George Kinlock, Kair, Kincardineshire, mere'of.t and Dec. 22, at twelve, at Melvin's Inn, Stare b it* ' Thomas Blue, Rothsay, baker, Nov. 2 2 ar i " twelve, at the Bute Arms Inn, Rothsay. if ) I) 7 - .:-... .01 MARKET NEWS.--(YES'- 1 ' E fie • fig eL CORN CORN-EXCHANGE R be' tli , O . The supply of English Wheat on sale ber - ic ro o 4 ,tilt l ',l and the attendance of buyers somewhat 1 1 . 1 " 11. ,„' 6 4 11 , 1 ri 511 0 mand for, that article was steady, andaMon"s• Pie 0 ''',li , in 0 it were well supported. Free foreign Wheat was ity• d ' J r quest, yet prices were maintained without diffic ° le y 3 t 9/ 1 under lock next to nothing was doing. I 3 r j, n' be d e t )o the supplies of which were seasonably g0 ° ,,. ( 1 la t ill',4 inquiry, and the rates had a downvo" 06 1 , 0 0 ' The receipts of Oats being large, that article r I Fi e , prices were somewhat lower. Beans, Peas, 111. 1 .5` 1 4, dull, yet we can notice no material ateration 111 fi' .0' ARRIVALS. ( I stg 1 "°' / Wheat. Barley. c 790 (iri / 1,860 qrs. 4,270 cira. 3 1 3 ';440 i 300 330 61° 15,150 1,220 11, 01 fi rl 'e lf MaR. 2.400 ors. , ft- , • he WHITECHAPEZ. t 91' 01 W We had a steady sale tor most kinds of 11, 45 Ito pl Beef, from 2s $d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 6d .0 8 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d r carcase. Englk . qh • • • • • • Irish . •••• • • • Foreign ••• • • • -- tie -40 —.le ,a, r i ll ------ sox „ J r c o GRA.T's Iraq, Nov. 19.—The u nder°, 9te rl,' o A . ti l oo'' men were this day called to the degree of Bar — j o seP h o ' the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, vii,,„'' d J°' Esq. ; James- Brownlow Hoskins, Esq.; '"`" _____,7 40 , Esq. Co .......--- o f p BIRTHS. On the 21st of October, at Newcastle, Jamaica' tbe IfireA - ilpfP' dish Boyle, Esq., 48th Regiment, of a son. 0* P (ar' f 0 61. 00 3 lit e ' On the 16th inst., at Oxford, the wife of th e ea 4 01 0 M.A., of a daughter. oi l ', cl'' .jel* o r On the 17th inst., at Edmonton, Mrs. J. P. 111;irtq',e10°,; i'l On the 11 th inst., at St. Leonard's Hill Mrs. ga r Oh •cst 3r ~,er , s uli , jit) On the 220 of October last, at the Britis Britannic , „. , lady of Franeis Iliff Stevens, Esq., her $.44 ' Consul thereat, of a son and heir. 00' tar 010 Or On the 13th inst , the lady of Alfred Bradley .- ',Ai* bridge-street, Hyde Park-square, of a daughter- orit 0 0 On the 10th inst., the lady of the Rev. D* r ecte- Christ's College. Cambridge, of a (laughter. Il i° f 11 h Va /le g r bt ero MARRIED. re- , d ea.. On the 17th inst., at St. Pancras New Chu „ n ly Boddy, Esq., of Witney, Oxon. to Martha Alio , `',. o nir e * CO ' liam Ruding, Esq., late of St. Clear's, Carmartlw 9 ,4 .e 0 °te d" Vl' li , o liA e DIED. 0, On the 16th inst., at Clifton, near Bristol , E ll 1 F ( se terbury. On the 14th inst., Jane, the wife of Jarne B Well6ted:OliCt of street, Edgware-road. et ' 0 orri" e 1 _, On the 16th inst ,at the Close, Winchester, 000‘-'O, V 0. ,' late Rev. Brownlow Poulter, Rector of Buritcrhso of v eto On the 16th inst., R. J. F. Fitzherbert, onq ii c ite 0 0 ' bert, Esq., of Ravenscourt-Park, liammerstrotbiou 11 00 On the 16th inst., at Hall-square, - 13 1 5 q. _„,,g, $ ~, youngest surviving daughter of E. Edwards, .., poll , i V tore On the 16th inst., Harriet, wife of lar . . P " o f o' Lamb's Conduit-street. Wir e Alice, ,os 4. On the 17th inst., at Cambridge-squsr o, O l '" or Esq., aged 82. t, Ill°. to On the 17th inst., in Great Frescott-street' Ar man, aged 68. 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