The Sun. — London, England, 1850-08-23 00:00:00

31ARliET NEWS. -(THIS DAY.) C(111.-• Doti to EX CH AN GE.--( (1 . Wheat of ~; ' l the Preteut we , k only 990 quarters F RI D.A Y.) our market to kit '''e produce have ci me so hand for fresh w t ise • By land carriage about 100 Kent, in petal° hand quarters came ; this morning from EaLex and weigh- IN Y .reproved condition, some of the corbels i i n I Galb IN )3 S per bushel. Although the show_(f. samples ttitH nalll i the demands fur all kinds of English The ►ev rY inactiv , at about stationary prices. looon goa"rtrettsse. f l'f ' °ll,igneWh eat ye rather exceeded 13,000_ Ne e or 'MA dry qualities were mostly /opera • co tit ely lit eurren cY. In all other , kinds English Barley held at full ofrerin Ile business was transacted. No Th e tt E and the show of foreign was but supported. lite k_l,ue raltd steaiy, and prices were well._, . s , u _ reF rates. Ihti.sitacs_ rather more inquiry for Malt, at fully late any togiiiiiPP'Y ready for delivery was small. be from Lbabree sv(-)8:-';04.v7e9roe brought forward. 'rho supply rearretez. 14 (Notations 11 m k ai a n ' tained. Beans, P: , c ies progressed steadily, s I°4 ' 4 re firm ; but Indian Corn was ARRIVALS TILTS WEEK. negkcfed Wheat. Barley. i Oats. Malt. Ik t 41 4 -- QZ. -- - - -- - i „Tr s — . —47 r - . I (2 rs ' N./L...." 990 130 I 640 ..." 13 ' 310 774.0 10,790 i wets tilltebzris of Th e Srarrittrixi.D. day's Beasts on oft•r in to marke N "%°')auy extensive but of very infetiJr quality. irs_, Prtraeet Scuts ' I d 4144 apes conanatitu e a steady sale,som of2d.pag,slight improvement in the quotati . ons,.say . atiate ratmos, but all other breeds were a slow • fleeted. ,With Sheep `est and a clearance was with clifficul,y e were inquiry, ltetivily hboth English and foreign— Ill ' e tiie e Plie d• On the whole, the Mutton tr w a e d tb e e r e u o le r d_ Neje, ', L ti t we have no actual fall to notice in Ni 2 ,, "ne extreme value of the best old Dow . " 1111 a . ". Per albs. The inquiry fur Limbs was in a very being 148114 state, at & fall in ' sof 2d per Sibs. primelve 61441."4"tieftein pri d e at 4s 6d per Blbs. id „,. kr eal ,, fo r _ g quote . 11114111 la te 1 7-- • eal ves,. the supply . of_w te h d ic b h us w in a e s s g s o: lts , I,7isesed I, u ,! t s• In Pigs only a limited - (18i ' .ulch Cows moved off slowly, at from 141. 'each, including their small Calf. Stier b Per B lbs. to sink the offal. s . el. to s. d• .4.- . .481t4.. ll_. d. tO S. d, 4111'T:114414 .. :: 211 8 ! 4 nferio ct r ,i tk ai eer sh • e . e ; 3 62 3, 84n 8 84102.41., 3 4 3 : J e o c ge_woolleddltto3 10 , a , ; 1.44:4111:16ti;2••8 1;1 1 (6) to t i t i t t e h o d u ow t o n blether 4 f wool° 0 ( 6 ) 1444. CBip l e tt : "3 8 310 Large Hogs i• •• •• 8 4 0 ~ ..1 : ( 6 ) 2: 6) ruaariL,Pro o rlr.,;„ .. ....l. 0 20 0 8%4. • ' TOT S SUP PLY AT MARKET. eittt s r D 23 . I Sheep, ( Sheep 16,120 . I 0 308 Is. 300 14i im SC OTCH. 200 1 Calves. 1 rig s B e4 itt FOREIGN SUPPLY. ri, 5. 112 I Sheep. I calves. 1 10 0 ze4v4 3 ,860 150 NALL!, '441 4 t lirill4terlibUitSinbre6b3 W L : A tr p af tr acted in to-day's Yet prices svere Well supported. lt esti„. At per to by the Carcase. to \ 'enor e• 41. to 8 i 2 10 3 4 \ ,-"„,4,1114..." 4 2 6 I Mutton, inferior .. 3 6 3 8 N,'„'rael43."" 2 8 2101 -- middllng•• ft41.74e 4;1, a 0 3 2 prime ••••:' 10 3 4 '......-.•• 4 3 6 Pork, large •.•••• '' 6 a lO "••• 3 o 310 , .._._ mnall ** •• .. Lib, 3s 6d t• 48 4d. ()11 th 440401:r icT ti Ckli 8 WllO -44 80P ri"La f ro m the Planta' th , this mor n the accounts at hand . R e %lid n g are trt,1.4,6,. is said , e favourable , notsv . ith s s e ta m n e d p in a g rt t s b o a f t ',. Th e 8., m to be on the increase in the duty is We? batlteduthe ia mostly in burr, and tils. 4 :e 4 44.2,1 200,000/. Some parties call it more. N t - +liferi mend for the finest Hops at . 1 and East 41s och% °r k i n d s very little is doing. MI full prices. 14, I to 6/ ~ to 11/ 1 ls; 'Weald Year of Kent ditto, la i 1/ is to 31 Sussex ditto, 4/ 15s to 5/ 12s; ato 3/15s; Old Hop a, 16s to 2/ lOs per cw t . BD Q Item att..qh d COZONXAT., It Yo and fulle emend fur British Plantation has been 14' 4 o stte,. sets orfayteesll have enerally been obtained. th„,. ee„ . ow ands trop y e l l ' o l o 4 w etit d earer _. in *male instances. e e es ev b e y n g gr ß ey arb h a a d v 42, ''', kid alt 33s for brown, 36s 0 36s 61 for low 40a 61 to b 6 i. B tO 383 6d for low mid; fine Mtp 10, t0zta....., gt°slB 61."reWn grocery lumps have been sold at ks"l Itin I,,rtitial 14---Full prices have been obtained for 1,,64 Yelllthiell 0 . has been sold publicly at 393 to 3 4 0 1 : 4„-til km -., 37s to 38s G I for good, and 27s to „ii.4lBl,,,,ettnics brown; refining sort up to 33a and__ ft 38s. yei 10444 4.09 1 ; t 32, Gd to 343 for ord and mid soft 2 /ii 3 Ei , 10 Meta Pena - Se sold 6 : . to ~good yellow ns. sold 6d to is better, w d h b it r e o 3 w 7 o s 32s to 36s 6 1 , a b n s has Se 1 1°1 4 Ili, -4Yed Manilla, about 6,000 I tt4: t ge prii,:rlY at 36s to 375. Foreign, bo boxes yellow lo 8d tlah ~,,,,,, e transactions, and 12,000 . there ag have stu d was t :0 at 20s 3d to 235. At auction mid and it 2n itt 4 6...eii in at 403 6d to 42i, and fine, and very sold oliOapd 1 2 to 45s 6d. White Havannah bas Itoe:i ti 36 a t o 3 ; 61 for mid to fine. b oo e 4b e o n a ss fr oe ; tad to 261 for low and mid, P a o n r d to 3B ß s ic t toh,rrkt er,' INI-.E'llki....ti,"Ylon has been rather firmer as regards trti,iAtitre Cere hes not been a great deal d :ing ! good held (1,,Y: foodsrealised 41s to 425. Plantation t t CA ° 4 9 i °as been sold at 56a 61, fine and fine ls ord at , IN" t ' ' 'w mid • f NAA,%588 and mid at 49s to s, 'ori-` INO. h 14 .....R• and tilt:/` .408,„ -ingapore sold at 35s 61 to 365, The 't P 4 at 34. R. d -I brought 355. . -isetseraii . to, ainage , 14, '44,..,1. Y flat a better tone. • Th e b 41 hpid as bee p moredemand red. tli, te.,,Til.sd 443 6d to 483 for mid and good and at stiffer kt:Ger, but h is arti cle was dull early in white Ohl gay en rallied a little since. Good mid lel'iets,b'en sold at 103 61 to lis 6d. the week end It 441 i "P Per h a 4 led full as been firm thoug el I ti ito7 l p rates. J amaica Ginger has been sold teoa ..,,,/, evr cwt. iitOog,ll:ittiarket looks firmer, and ord to good c0in „04,,,,.11 144 to I b. tipvs,l.teN,' is article is steady. At'ls4^t,i');;2.r being somewhat depressed, an im- IthA`rr, Old in prices and demand, Gil - Bpet.j.t Y.C. is 363 3d, and new 37s per is observable.e cwt. 1t08,,,1 „? "1 : 1 is 35s 61. 'En !crot h;-The market is quiet. A slight c4qt:eseriitsie°_ceurred in the price of Lemons. Nutssupply 4 .4 y t ie, has be are dull of sale. An increased We of 4 sw,etneeli received by the Lisbon stean_a_er e , and t ~lit We . character realise good prices. Th i t ' . lt ild 4" In dia p . good ed on onday til t. iv, - lee Apples occurr . 11 ......... °t e an increased consumption M ot this blth. ----, ~._ 4 tr OUSI I MEETING, (11) t (Tins DAY.) tt , .. c --_-,...._ -t:'ritlc TELEGRAPH.) tit l i i . %w et Conso lation Stak es. 4* tth •.. Flour. Sacks 680 4,000 1 Seg. •• • ••• ••• The Co nv i vial S takes. ••• / Pt 't(l ••• alked over 8 ) , 41 '• reitt • Yorkshire Stakes. e t l e ••• ••• Ir on b y l .."."--........_, a et ... ... ... 3 b. .ngtb. ur,,'4:4J3A.Y POST DELIVERY. A I),RAN. i From Punch.) es:),_ K•a(-doodle•doo I .1!)'11s Sabbatarian crew, cu. pet ters that stoppid, z,kt have been whopp'd; 't Which th k know who ! tna,,, 4 t g an --you 1444 y, oNt st . —'''''--•----.,._ ttlttcit,:er, exhiiptv.--These curious specimens of hu t (l he ' a wdeo ' It ed Et Tot e on Monday and Tuesday Vilti 4 titv r flir . andi e ne ' s was looking in h,„ ail tette') tices. 'While the keeper 1.:14i, het 4 g of them slipped off the stag e ? into the ,s_4rorri"ed• Iu a moment dreadful shriek , s rm we e r d e . jetteeer b , at which the ladies were much thereaia was tkiiM I,,ltt),_re:4.rhthe company to be easy, as qUar -1144rt tl/41,4 hi B ~," elder man had a few days beforevan A kt Nite'alltap.sl,o,. who remained i n the card had ? goneaau ;it,1114,._ o v r his (the keeper's) absence he ut w 11 4tiitz kttl, Zoerree itt.e a il ud e ie w n a c s e. fo s n h g er u b i o e r te n d e qti„ 4, BCApt , j h oaurfenmal o .a u le ld , !li t R g OPEN, _,"'"tle day last week, as keq WelLt4titct d'Yno resides in the village of Duncton,_ was IN, With ° De. l% the Well, she fell in, but held f e a id st en t r o , ilpi ri ` Is kiieh - ` l)r "Y standing near observed the ac r y al. I%P ki te ltt4l iele c i , eBe nce of mind and with an e IA th e with inAlllediately to the well andd n dre g w h at e! , Wen ~,,"I'4l eearcel a bruise about her person, e ti 4 t r ps et4ll , ll B4, Was forty feet d eep. --Brighton Gazette. From tier,73,ll47hieh 1 ,411 k AND CHELSE A BRIDGE. VOt e 'eed ~as just been issued it appears that a t r h i e ( e, tgl tq I.),,earls for the formatiOn of Battersea- expendedli opt'rli 68.)272/. as. 9d. j and the amount a 1111. NO N Y .; Th. ° Q , of which 58 322/. was for PT A " l ess A la 4lltt t - Cash balance n' 31st March, 18''. °4 lt k llert 0 various ersonsefor purchase tol of their intee -0(14 borro: IQ tattePrs 16s. Ild. The 14 1 h ei ll 4t1 d a eq f or the '."‘`l er.,,,t •awas 31m,8ban. kment, ChelfisceL, tt,lqt er-hifirisroaches thereto, m ar e a s s, e cash, 21,7181. I_2ds. was i'k rti. l4 ' ln 11 3 )01 R,, .. ' vd. i -i: The amount expen" chases of je t - 41, ) i)- which 6 ,0001. was for Pu fipYs 1.. 4 ? o p It a l b ti s,, p i„, T Rii 1::) _ Her Ma.,-, ~ ) zi tii ge t ‘;on let , P $ b• FRITH.— cers, "ill k 11,4tvey 01, 'ainialander Otter and ofti (.! 41) the 4 eur,"..- toe Pentland Frith in about two kilitltit,,ratila,e toiaJpetefttehae efarsotnalnitihneor.tFhrictohasbtooff lif,1"1„, e tte,, 4 , 11 ; d the , Ad re -eq -,(.1 tir.ing Whole published , . a Scotland j oi e es t, '4lllati, th e Part between Dunc tl a h'o n er 'b th -h t Y üb otil, 4 v e °II as ti -4 Head rhich will also 1 ), of itst,N t i 'Q ei.tile Pentland Frith is completed. A 5 9 9 ' , et e ' l r e , 11484°14 fathoms has been di: covered midway phoN klll 41)4 '' talle I ay Rea d anll causing the (lan ei t t rl forr ea ` ti the Lore of Duric . a7s.:bay. Much more t ,4,,tlit.4,ll°tßic)el°f the"tiTa3' be expected' , especially the rt, s n e t ilitil,,,,.ht th,oveBtii,,XB, which will form an 711'soto b e t,(selper‘tlvtly's I n 1 .), and when published IL i i lith.ean t i lt eaty. ,;,rdous navigation will .be reudered Ni l th Iv N alin .m s ,inportant service will afford to -4.kkitlittltl4e t hel,s'ene r : t ° ,. l , ll na: ions that itivaluabl- iroorma ,itiliii. Ir.eetlato ,!sn. them as much confidence in na kv,ith , t et th s Y fe t , ‘:-`,_ ..e rith as if they were on the . b e r a o ln ad . ile a r4 l re _ l'spid ,48,e1s In the service are equal to st Tirl11041! tzler:ces" of the Frith, the velocity L one Illie,r% k-:'.43/1,2 o,,;red being 8-6 10ths knots, or 10 tot t o the 414150, o f ~reat's Journal. The vist kttepaifieri, tioLLAND's PleTuttEs.— . _ INI, is th 41 b, L Collectiu f Ki ng continues l e r e beBer Nmoiss la i thelate il k 4 1' th tPt e , e Pleture, ha` from all parts of Europe. )I,it t ki o t tt pled 1.),, ! oave ben purchased for does not Dotopt g4itiand 11-47,4tit8 of experience. d li1:n 4 t111)1°F nie"ri 0441/4 E old 104E1 pictures by the purchase The • ' PO 2. l'ilatters 40 3' measures fo l r t en , la aa rg e in o g f • 4 1r Ally igovici lloW offered 19r RIP_ THE SUN, CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. (B T,ro Mr. Baron PLATT.) CHARGE OF MURDER. Mary Rook, aged 39, and described as a married woman, was put to the bar, charged with the wilful mur der of Elizabeth The prisoner was a masculine-lcoking woman, and when placed at the bar appeared somewhat indifferent to the position in which she stood. When called upon to plead she said " Not guilty" in a firm voice. Mr. Parry defended the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON stated the case for the prosecution, the circumstances of which will be found in the following evidence called to support it. Catherine Wallis called—ls no relation to the de ceased child, Elizabeth Wallis. Lives at the Grove, Ealing. The prisoner and her husband also live there. Keows the prisoner. Knew the deceased Elizabeth Wal lis; she was a daughter of the prisoner by the first husband. The deceased was about 17 years of age. The prisoner Lad six children by the second husband. The prisoner has get her living by taking in washing. The dece .s d died on Thursday night, the Bth August instant. \Vas present at her death. Have been her ill treated by the pris , nor, within six months of her death. At her death observed marks of bruises on her person. The deceased was ill about five weeks before her death. She was ;attended by the medical man of the parish. Have seen the deceased struck at the top of the stairs by the prisoner and knocked down stairs. That was about six months before her death. After she had fallen down stairs the prisoner followed her down stairs and beat her again. The stairs have about ten steps. The mother beat her with her hand down stairs. The child cried out. She beat her perhaps about a minute. The deceased was perfectly healthy about that time. Have not seen her beaten much at any ether time—not more than is usual with mothers, Have seen her beaten across the shoulders, about twelve months ago, by her mother. Have seen the family of the second husband at meals. The de ceased was not fed like them when witness had seen them at dinner. Have seen her (the deceased) have a piece of dry bread, and a piece of bread thrown at her by the mother, while the other children would be having bread and meat to dinner. The deceased did not sit at the same table with the rest of the family. The girl never complained to witness until the day before she died. Witness thought and told the deceased she was dying, and urged her to prepare for death by - Praying to — God to pardOn the sins she had committed in this world. She said she would pray to be forgiven. Knew that the deceased had committed some sins, and urged her to make a confession of tEem before she died: in which case she would not be likely to have so much to answer fee in the next world. The deceased said she would pray to be forgiven those sins, and then she repeated the Lord's Prayer and part of the Creed in presence of witness. Asked deceased if she really felt she would die, and she replied sbe did. She complained that she was hungry. Witness then took a mutton-chop, which deceased said was in the prisoner's house, and cooked it along with some potatoes, and took them upstairs to the deceased. She complained of her ear aching very much. Remember the inquest being held. It was on the Saturday. The body of the girl at that time was in her mother's house. During the progress of the inquest, heard the mother say, if she got her liberty, she would go home and throw the b— out, (meaning the body of the deceased), box and all. The prisoner was then in custody at that time in the tap room of the public-house where the inquest was being held. The prisoner went to the station-house along with her husband and witness; and on the road she charged her husband not to follow the body of the de ceased to the grave, and that if he did she (the prisoner) would remember it when she came out of prison. She told her husband not to bury the deceased, but to let the parish doctor do it. Cross examined by Mr. PARRY—Am the wife of a chimney sweep, and take in needlework. I also let ponies and donkeys for hire. Have children of my own; six, all living. Have had occasion to beat my own children, with my hand and with a strap also, when they have been disobedient. May have beat them with the stick I drive the donkeys with, but not to injure them. I have daughters. I know the pri soner had been drinking at the time of the inquest, and was, in fact, very much excited when she made the ex pressions I have related, at the time of the inquest. The prisoner is a laundress, and her husband is a labouring man. She has always worked very well for her Tamil} ; but she does net toil from morning to night for their support. The deceased used to wash also; she like wise went out to wash occasionally. I believe the de ceased was the only child of the prisoner's first mar riage. I believe the prisoner was pregnant when her first husband died. I was not on very friendly terms with the prisoner. I have, however, been in the habit of going to her house, and she has come to my house occasionally. The prisoner has a mangle, and I have had my clothes mangled there. The prisoner and the family had meat generally to dinner; but Ido not think I have ever seen the deceased have meat to her dinner, or sit down to dinner. I have known the family for six years, and may have seen them sit down ten times to dinner. I have had words with the prisoner, but not recently. I have often had words with her respecting the deceased, when the prisoner has ill-treated her. I have cautioned her about beating the deceased, and have told her some day or other she would give her an un lucky blow which would cause her death. Wm. Brooks, a hay-binder at Ealing, said he knew the deceased. Had seen her ill-used by her mother. Saw he r so ill-used a month ago yesterday, when the mother entered the outer door of their house, and struck the de ceased on the head with her fist. The deceased was ill at that time. She tumbled on the stairs from the blow ; th,-, mother saying at the same time to the deceased, " D—n your -- eyes•." The deceased was about seventeen. On another occasion the deceased was bang ing out clothes in her mother's garden, when the pole which supported the clothes fell down, and the mother came oto, and, taking her by the hair of her head, teat her for some minutes and swore at her. Witness occa sionally cut the neighbours' hair. About twelvemonths ago cut the deceased's hair, when he found three bruises on her bead; her left ear was also cut and covered with matter. Heard the mother say after that she would be her (the deceased's) -- butcher or murder her. Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—I believe my wife has quarrelled with the deceased, but I have had no quarrel myself with her. I have not he en in the prisoner's house since I cut the deceased's hair. The quarrel between my wife and the prisoner wee very bitter on both sides. She said she would be my wife's b— butcher, and wash her hands in her blood. I did ' not hear the pi ironer use that expression, but my wife told me she used it. I don't know that the prisoner has been in the habit of drinking. I have not seen her drunk to my knowledge. Mary Turner said—l live in Ealing-grove, ❑ext door to the prisoner. I knew the deceased. I have seen her ill-used very often by the prisoner. My garden adjoins hers. lam a laundress. I have seen the-prisoner peat the deceased about five or six weeks before she died; she beat her with her clenched fist about the head or any part of her body that came first. I have heard her being beaten in the garden, and the girl cry out. I have also heard her driven into the mangling house and beaten by her mother. When the girl came out on those occasions she was sometimes all over blood about the nose and mouth. That might be about three months before she died. That beating used to go on every day while the mother was at home. I have seen the mother heat her with a birch-broom, but I don't know on what part of her person, for I did not like to see her, and I would run away. I have seen the deceased rather stagger under the weight of the aet linen, and whilst her mother was wringing it out. That was about a week before her death. Tnat was after the parish doctor had been to attend her. - Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—Fridays and Satur days were wry busy days, and the prisoner seemed more in a hurry and more irritated to get her work done, and on those days she was more in the habit of beating the deceased. I have always seen the prisoner work very hard while she was at her work. Mrs. Wallis recalled—The deceased was in the habit of thieving; but I did not know she had b?en taken into custody once. I knew acts of theft which the mother did not know of. Her mother has told me that table cloths were missing, and that she had to supply articles to her customers which she suspected the deceased bad stolen. Mary Massey—l live in a cottage in Ealing-grove, opposite the prisoner's. I went on the 24th of last July to work at Mrs. Payne's, which is a short distance irons the prisoner's hence. I saw the deceased at Mrs. Payne's, sitting by the breakfast table. She appeared very ill indeed. She was unable to do her work. I bought a half-pint of beer, and gave it to the deceased with a piece of bread. She was not better after taking the beer and bread, and was unable to wash. Cross-examined—l know nothing of the deceased's habit of thieving. She never took anything from me; but I have heard very bad accounts of her. She was in the station of.ce. Louisa Cutting—l am a married woman, and live in Ealing-grove, about three doors from the prisoner. Have known the prisoner for four years. Have seen her throw the flat-iron at the deceased's legs, but I don't know that it hit hor. That was about twelve months ago. I have seen the prisoner beat the deceased with a mangle rope severely over her back. I have also seen her beat her across the head with a copper-stick, which is a little thicker than a broom-handle. These beatings were about twelve months ago. Cross-examined—l have heard the deceased was in the habit of thieving, but I don't know it of my own knowledge. The prisoner, more than twelve months ago accused me of stealing some diaper from her. I have worked for her since. Wm. Henry Turner corroborated the testimony. of his wife Mr. Wm. Jonce, one of the relieving officers of the Brentford Union, said on the 11th of July the deceased came to me and applied for an order for the district sur geon, as she was iil at that time. I gave her an order on Mr. Goudchild, the surgeon. I went to the house where the deceased lived on the Saturday before she died; I found her in bed, and I wished to have her taken to the workhouse, but she refused. She wanted t go to an heave' and I gut her taken there. The mother said she had an or& r from the vicar for her admission into the hospital. I got a cart to take her there; but I don't know that she ever went there. The mother ap plied on the Wednesday, the day before her death, to the board of guardians to hare her taken into the workhouse, as they had refused to admit her into fbe hospital. An order was obtained to take her to the workhouse, bat she could not be removed. She, how ever, had meat and eine from the workhouse. Cross-examined—l have seen the prisoner very bard at work, and believe her to be a very hard-working woman. She has applied to me occasionally for relief on §coeuut of A ccoplgo; oho has had is her legs put LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUG UST 23, 1850 never gave any relief, thinking that her and her hus band's income was sufficient to maintain them. _ _ Mr. John Goodchild—l am the parish surgeon at Eel jog, and live there. I received a❑ order to attend the deceased girl on the 11th July. I found the girl suffer ing from coil ; I found her at her mother's house, sit ting up. I treated her complaint as an ordinary cold at first. I atteneed her until her death, on the Bth August. I made a post rnortem examination of the deceased, and found that the cause of her death was in flemmation of the air tubes of the lungs. There a ere three or four slight bruises on her person. With the exception of the lungs, the other parts of the body were healthy. I knew the inflammation of the lungs had ex isted for a month, and Ishould think it had existed longer, perhaps five weeks before ber death. The bruises on her body bad been inflicted perhaps nine or ten days before her death, and they were wearing off. I think they had been inflicted on her after I had commenced attending her. The three bruises I speak of were on the shin, but in addition to that there was a very slight bruise on the thigh, and a slight puffi - ness on a part ef the scalp. I examined the ear by the direction of the Coroner, but I could not determine whether its state bud been caused by violence or whether it was constitutional. I have heard what the witnesses have said with respect to the treatment of the deceased, and I think it was liaely to bring her into a state of debility such as would render her liable to in flammation of the lungs. It the icfhmwation existed before, such treatment would aggravate it. By the JUDGE—The bruises might have been occasioned in getting out of bed or in striking herself against a chair or such a thing. I should doubt that the puffiness I saw on the head aas attributable to pulmonary action. I did not bleed the deceased, because I thought the inflam matory action was not sufficiently active to warrant it. Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—I have no doubt the puffiness on the head tad existed more than twelve months, and it might have been born with the deceased. Thomas Tull, T 22, apprehended the prisoner at the instance of the Coroner. When she was taken to the station-house, she addressed some words to Mrs. Wallis, but witcess was not near enough to hear what they were. She was intoxicated on that occasion. Cross-examined—The deceased was once taken to tie station•house for stealing tarts. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. PARRY submitted there was no evidence to go to the jury. Mr. Baron PLATT thought the evidence did not bear out the more serious part of the charge, but as the assualts on the deceased formed part of that charge, within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, he thought the case should go to the jury. Mr. PARRY addressed the jury on behalf of the pri soner, and afterwards called several of her neighbours, who had known her for many years, and who gave her a general good character for humanity, admitting, how ever, that she was harsh and hasty at times. Mr. Baron PLATT having summed up the case, The jury immediately gave in a verdict of Guilty of an Assault, and they begged to express their thanks to the parish authorities for bringing the case before the Court. Mr. Baron PLATT then sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—Benjamin Sheppard, and Sarah, his wife, were brought before Mr. fiardwick, charged with stealing two silver candlesticks, two valu able gold watches, and a large sum of money, the pro perty of the late Colonel Charles Ryan, who died about six weeks ago, at No. 3, Upper John•street, Golden square. _ _ _ _ _ A gentlenian who attended to prosecute on behalf of the heir to the late Colonel's property, stated that the prisoners were the landlord and landlady of the house in which Colonel Ryan died. After the Colonel's decease his effects were examined, and amongst other things the property named in the charge was missing, and on being traced to the prisoners they were given in custody. Mary Hawthorn, servant to the prisoner, deposed that the late Colonel Ryan was a lodger in her master's house, and bad been lodging there for about eleven years. On la-it Saturday six weeks the Colonel died, and at the time of his death he had several gold watches, chains, and a large sum of money in a cash box. The watches and chains produced, with the cash-box, be longed to the late Colonel. She remembered a gentle man telling the male prisoner if he had any of the late Colonel's property to give it up. The prisoner replied that he had not any of his property, as it was all under lock and key in the Colonel's bed-room. About three weeks ago the prisoners left the house, and witness saw no more of them until last night, when she saw them in custody. Last night she heard the male prisoner admit taking two a. notes from the Colonel's box, one of which he had paid towards the funeral expenses, and the other he bad with him in his pocket. Mr. Linklater, for the defence, said the gentleman who had attended to prosecute had not shown the least title or claim to the property, or to act on the part of the heir at-law. He therefore contended that his clients, who were honest and respectable, bad been hardly dealt with in being taken into custody. There was at present 4001. i❑ the Court of Bankruptcy ready to be given up, with all the remt of the property, to the heir-at-law whenever he thought proper to come forward and claim it. His clients admitted having possession of the property, and were willing to give it up to the person entitled to it. They bad ni t held it with a felonious intent. Mr. HARDWICK thought it quite time enough to pro secute the defendants fur felony when the roil owner came forward to do so, but at present there was no distinct heir or rightful owner to claim the property, and he should therefore discharge them, and recommend them to make out an inventory of the deceased's effects and &liver it to the real claimant. The parties then left the court. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK RACES.—Tnunsoey. RACE-COURSE, FOUR O'CLOCK.—The races havingcom• menced late this afternoon, we have only to state that the weather was cold and showery in the early part of the afternoon, and the attendance much larger than on the first day, but still below what we have usually seen here on the grand day. The Bramham Park Stakes of 100 toys. each, 30 ft, for three yrs old colts, Bst 7,b; fillies, Bst 21b; winners extra. Mile and a halt: (6 Subs.) Mr. Jaques's Mildew walked over The Chesterfield Handicap of 10 soya. each, with 60 added; the winner to pay 10 soya. towards expenses. One mile. (15 Subs.) - - Lord Stanley's Uriel,4 yrs, 7st 10Ib (Flatman) 1 Lord Zetlaud's St. Ann, 5 yrs, Bst 41b...(J. Marion) 2 Mr. Metklam's Polonaise, 4 yrs, 6st llb ...(Arnold) 3 Mr. Allen's Cuba, 3 yrs, sst Blb (T. Dots) 4 Sir J. Hawley's Hippie, 3 yrs (West) 5 Betting-5 to 4on Uriel-4 to 1 agst St Ann—and 5 to 1 agst Hippia. Won in a canter by four lengths. —Run in 1 min. 48 secs. the Filly Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 25 added, for three yrs old, Bst 71b each; winners extra. One mile and a quarter. (4 Subs.) Sir J. Ilawley's Tiff, Bst 121 b (Templeman) 1 Mr. Jas. Pilling's Lady Eden, Bst 121b..(G. Abdale) 2 Butting-11 to 8 on Lady Eden. Won by hag a length. Run in 2 min. 46 secs. The Old Three yrs old Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 51b; fillies, Bst 21b. Two miles. (12 Subs.) Mr. Jaques's Mildew, Bat 21b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Bowes's Mickleton, Bat 51b (F. Butler) 2 Betting-2 to lon Mildew, who won by a length. Run 3 min. 57 secs. The County Plate of 100 SOW:, added to a sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, &c. T.Y.C. Mr. Halford's Harriott, 3 yrs, Bst 71b...(Whitehouse) 1 Mr. Dawson's Tightwaist, 2 yrs, Est 91b Lord Zetland's Radulphus, aged. 9st 31b The following alas ran:--Mr. Morris's Meridian, 5 yrs, 9st 61b—Lord Zr.tland's Miss Ann, 5 yrs, 9st 31b —and Mr. Davidson's Fleur-de-Sein_,P 5 yrs, Bst 71b. Betting--2 to 1 agst Harriott. Won in a canter. The Great Ebor Handicap of 200 soya., added to a sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 15 I', and 5 only if declared; the second to receive 50 sovs. (93 Subs., 62 of whom declared.) Mr. Dawson's Mark Tapley, 3 yr 3, sst 91b (Arnold) 1 Mr. Parr's Clothworker. 4 yrs, bit 2lb (Hiatt) 2 Colonel Anson's Champion, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (Charlton) 3 The following also started: — Mr. Bolt's Oollingwood, aged, Bst 121 b (Nat) 0 Mr. Walt rs' Maid of Team Valley, 7st 41b(Metalle) 0 Mr. Wrather's Maid of Masbam, Bst 1 llb (G. Abdale) 0 Mr. Pedley's Chatterer, 4 yrs, Est 121b...(Holloway) 0 Mr. Meiklam's Cocktail, 4 yrs, 6st (Aldcroft) 0 Lord Zetland's Cantab, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Osborne) 0 Mr. Walter's Reality, 5 yrs, sst 41b (Harwood) 0 Mr. Stopford'a Elcho, 3 yrs, sst 21b (Wells) 0 13etting-7 to 2 agst Champion, 7 to 2 agst Coiling wood, 5 to 1 agst Mark Tapley, 6 to 1 agst Cantab, 7 to 1 agst Clothworker, and 12 to 1 agst Elcho. A very fine race from the Stand. Won cleverly by half a length; Clothworker beating Champion by a length, Cantab, Collingwood, and Maid of Masham well up. Run in 3 min. 22 secs. The Lottery Plate of 25/., added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for three yrs old, tic. The second to save his wake. One mile. (7 Subs.) Mr. H o b son 's Gladiola, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b ...(Osborne) 1 Sir C. Monk's Gulliver, 4 yrs, 9st 71b...(Sampson) 2 Mr. Hesseltine's Andalusian. 4 yrs, Bst 2lb (Longstaff ) 3 The following also ran : —Lord Cardross's Scarborough, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Mr. Walter's Mary Nobbler. aged, Bst 91b—and Mr. Meiklam's French Susy, 3 yrs, 7st 11b. Betting-2 to 1 agat Andalusian, and 3to 1 agat Gladiola. Won by two lengths. The Scurry Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added for three yrs old and upwards. Gentlemen riders. T.Y.C. (5 Subs.) Mr.lltaidsun'sFleurdeSeine,llstlolb(Capt Broadley) 1 Mr. Nicoll na o.baldwick, 3 yrs, lOst (Ld. Cardross) 2 Won in n c.nter. YOlil FRIDAY MORNING. LATEST BET LING. THE YuRKSHIRE STAKES. 1 t , w 8 on Pitsf :rd 10 to 1 ugst any other 6 to 1 apt Cyprus (Jay), beating Cayenne, 4 yrs, Bst 61b, Second Sight, 4 yrs, Bst 1016, and the Lioness, 2 rs, 6st 101 b, by a length. The County Members' Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heate, one mile. (2 Subs.) Sir E. Lacon's br c by Dromedary, d by Mulatto, 3 yrs, Sat 4113 ........................ (Thorogood) 1 1 Mr. Harvey's Dover, Bat 121 h... (Bartholomew) 2 dr Won by a length. The Consolation Scramble of 5 sovs. each, h ft, and 25 aided, three-quarters of a mile (4 Subs.), was won easily by Mr. Ongley's Camilla, 4 yrs, 9st (Norman), beating Cayenne, 4 yrs, Bst I.olb, and Anchor of Hope, 5 yrs, Bst 91b. CRICKET. MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND v. COUNTY OF SUSSEX. This match was concluded on Wednesday morning, Marylebone winning in one innings by 40 runs. The score was as follows: SL'SSEX. First Innings. Second Innings. Dean, b Sherman It.dson, b Lillywhite ... Picknell, c Dakin, b Sherman 2 c Diver b Sherman... 4 Mr. E. Napper, hit wi c k er , b , Lillywhi:e Box, b Sherman Mr. W. Napper, b Lillywhite 4 b Lillywhite .... Bushby, b Caffyn . . 18 b .-herman Pennikett, b Sherman Mr. H. M. Curteis, b Sherman 2 b Sherman Mr. A Smith, run out ...... .. 10 run out .. 0 Wooller, not out 0 b Li11ywhite............ 2 Byes 3, wide 2 .. 5 83,1 b3,w b 5 Total MAKYLEBONE CLUB. Mr. W. Nicholson, b Hodson 3O Royston, b Dean .. Cafryn, b Wooller •—• 4 Mr. J. Walker, c Picknell, b H0d50n......... 83 Dakin, b Dea n Mr. R. - Kynaston, b Hodson Mr. C. H. Hoare, b Wooller Diver, not out Chapman, c Dean, b Pennikett ....• Sherman, c W. Napper, b Hodson ° Lillywhite, run out .... .. .... Byes 1, leg byes 9, wide 2, no ball 1 Total .. 268 HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last evening was the first of the extra perform ances at her Majesty's Theatre, and we had the last act of Lucia di Lammermoor, with Miss Catherine Hayes as Lucia and Mr. bins Reeves as Edgardo, and the ever fresh and delightful ii Barbiere, with Madame Sontag as Rosina, who sang and acted deli ciously. N ever did s h e s i ng Rod e ' s air more bril liantly than last evening, and on being encored she substituted " Ah I vous dirai-je," in which she was applauded to the echo. Then we had a divertisse ment, in which Amalia Ferraris created a perfect furore by her admirable execution of her pas, and the last act of Ernani by Mademoiselle Parodi and Gar doni. The whole concluded with Les Plaisirs d'Hiver, in which Amalia Ferraris was again rapturously ap plauded. The house was crowded in every part by a brilliant audience. LITERATURE. THE FOURTH ESTATE. 2 Vols. By F. Knight Hunt. Fortunately for himself the compiler of these two volumes has disarmed criticism by at once acknow ledging them to be mere " contributions towards a history of newspapers." Otherwise he must infal libly have incurred the blame of all impartial re viewers, supposing him to have arrogated to himself the title of an historian of journalists. Any such pretension, as we have intimated, is waived by Mr. Hunt with a grace and modesty befitting the delicate office upon which he has adventured. As " contri butions towards a history of newspapers," therefore, his volumes will prove not altogether unacceptable, though at the same time it must be confessed that their deficiency of information, in a thousand parti culars, must render them, in many instances, and in the highest degree, unsatisfactory. The opening sentence of the narrative, if such it can be termed with any degree of accuracy, though picturesque and striking in itself, seems in its tone to be a vast deal too pretentious considering the baldness of many of the subsequent passages. It runs thus : " When the reign of James the First was drawing to a close ; when Ben Jonson was poet laureate, and the personal friends of Shaksperei were lamenting his then recent death; when Cromwell was trading as a brewer in Huntiugdon ; when Milton was a youth of sixteen, just trying his pen at Lain verse, and Hampden a quiet country gentleman in Buck inghamshire, London was first solicited to patronize its first newspaper." After so very dignified and sonorous an introduction it is impossible to peruse the very confused and fragmentary details into which the work not long afterwards degenerates without expe riencing very considerable disappointment. A ram bling superfluity of quotations from Ben Jonson's " Staple of News," a casual reference to the acta diurna, an incidental allusionlto the Venetian Gazettes, and an inadequate account of the newsletters and newswriters preceding the rise of journalism, bring the reader rather abruptly to the establishment of the first newspaper,:the Weekly Nerves, the earliest number of which was printed on the 23d of May, 1622. After this we are introduced at intervals in succession to Sir Richard Knightley, to Sir Lionel Craufield, and to Sir Roger L'Estrange. We read some insufficient remarks on the origin of the Censor ship, and have our attention directed but for a moment to the Star Chamber persecutions. Having glanced at the press as it was under the Common wealth and subsequently to the Restoration, Mr. Hunt pauses when he arrives at the period of the revolution, and thereupon ensues a somewhat more orderly and coherent arrangement of the narrative, which, nevertheless, in spite of all contrivance in the way of sequence and symmetry, still remains flawed by many unnecessary omissions. A century of news papers conducts us from 1688 to 1788, from the Orange Intelligencer to:the Times. During this period references are intermittingly made to Tutchin, Defoe, and Judge ;Jtfferies, to Pope and Bolingbroke, to Swift, Steele, and Addison, to Fielding,Foote,Burke, Johnson, Smollett, Wilkes, Churchill, Junius, and Chatterton. Afterwards, while following the pro gress of journalism, from 1788 to 1800, we find mingled among those of the professional members of the press the names of Paine, Crabbe, Erskine, and Sheridan. The second volume contains a general survey of the press of the present century, followed by separate chapters on the London Daily Papers, on the Evening Papers, on Reporting and Reporters, and on the Mechanism of a Morning Journal. For the amusement of our provincial readers, and maybe of some also of our readers in the metropolis, we transcribe from Mr. Hunt's work on " The Fourth Estate" the following graphic and accurate descrip• tion TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF NEWSPAPER LIFE. "A sketch of twenty-tour hours of newspaper life will give some idea of how the complex and expensive ma chinery moves for the collection, preparation, and publi cation of a daily paper. Perhaps the earliest contributor at work is the Dublin Correspondent. By the present Post-office arrangements, via Holyhead, a steamer leaves Kingston harbour, soon after eight in the morning, for Holyhead, and special dispatches sent by that convey ance reach London the same day. By this mode we have news at night in London dated Dublin the same morning. To prepare this the correspondent must be up betimes, get early copies of the morning papers, write his dispatch, and be off by railway to meet the steamer by breakfast hour. He is then tree till evening, whilst his copy is making its way across the Channel towards the Loudon office. The French Correspondent, meanwhile. has risen, dressed, and is deeply immersed in the Debuts, the Constitutionnel, and the Moniteur. Flimsy paper and rapid translators are in requisition; a brisk drive to the Hotel de Ville, or to the house of a brother journalist, or a call at some other point where additional information, or a confirmation, or contradiction of current rumours may be gained, and then ' Our Paris Correspondent' sits down to complete his dispatch. Quick pens and quicker thoughts speed on the work, and when all has been said, a capacious envelope receives the slips; it is seated, and away to the post-office in the Rue J. J. Rousseau before eleven. The day is yet early, and a stroll through the city, a call upon friends, a gossip at some public office, and in a cafe, another glance through the newspapers, an overhaul of the letters from Rome, from Naples, from Turin, from Madrid, which the post has brought, and the correspondent is ready to prepare his more elaborate dispatch for the five o'clock post. This is a matter of importance, and takes time. If the Chambers are sitting, a reporter has been placed there to give the proceedings, and, as the hour of five draws mar, the copy' accumuktes. The dispatch is written; extracts from the leading Parisian papers have been made; Ga lignani has been laid under contribution; some digests of French statistical papers have been summarised into readable and valuable pars ; the report of the Paris Bourse, and of the Madrid Boise, come is, followed quickly by that from the Chambers, dtlayed till the last half•minute, that the proceedings might be brought up till the latest posaiblo moment before the words • left sitting' closed the copy. Again the capacious envelope, with its printed address, is ready, and the abundant con tributions of Paris towards the London stock of news finds its way to the post just two seconds and a quarter before the bureau closes. Whilst these French and Irish ambassadors of the Fourth Estate are thus em ployed, their brethren at Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, and elsewhere are occupied much in the same way, each col lecting his batch of news and commentary in time fir the mails. Special correspondents, meanwhile, are less systematic. One, it may be, is vibrating between con tending armies, as in the recent cases of Radetsky and Charles Albert, or of Bem and Windischgratz; another is an attach& to the fallen fortunes of Kossuth at Widdin; another hovers about the Golden Horn, to learn whe re the English fleet will r e ally ma k e a warlike demonstra tion against Russia ; another is gathering news of California amongst the Wall-street speculators of the wf stern world; whilst another chronicles the doings of the Sooloo pirates in the suffocating atmosphere of the East. " The reporters at home are as busy as the correspon dents abroad. Amongst the earliest afoot in the morn ing, is one noting at Smithfield the prices of cattle; others, at Wakefield and Mark-lane, the price of corn; another, in Southwark, the prices of hops; and in Minc ing -lane, the qualities and rates of coffees and sugars; At Liverpool, the cotton; at Manchester, the yarns; and at Leeds, the woollens, are being watched, their prim; jotted down, and the tone of the markets noted. Stocks and shares, also, are being inquired about in all these and many other towns; nhilst corn prices, and supplies, are ((pally attended to. Wh ere large local meetings occur, there also the reporters are to be seen taking up their places on the platform to note the thrice-told tale, of agricultoral distress; and the equally familiar pro mises of prosperity to come from free trade. In one part of the country a railway collision is being reported; in another, an inquest on a mine explosion; in a third, an assemblage of persons favourable to church extension; in a fourth, a lecture on separation of Church and State; in a fifth, some terrible accident or appalling murder, — be it where it may, there is a busy pen at work for the London paper. Post hour has less importance fur the newspaper man in England than abroad. The last train is the point of Interest here. As the hour for that ap proaches the names of the sufferers by the collision, of the speakers for church extension and for church disrup tion; the described horrors of the fatal choke damp; an equal account of the murderous looks and deeds are all quietly packed up together in little brown paper parcels, and steam-power is bearing them away towards the sub editor's table. Before this London is contributing its quota. In each law court there is .a pencil busy in a note-book, or on the back of a brief; in each police court the reporter's box is occupied; in each coruber's court the ' highly respectable jury' look with surprise upon the often tattered habiliments of the penny-a-line representatives of The Papers.' Does an engine rattle through the alarmed streets? there goes a reporter with it; dues a gentleman fall down in an apoplectic fit? a surgeon and a reporter are sure to be ready,—the one to use every means that medical skill could afford,' and the other to earn a few shillings by writing a paragraph. The Court Circular is chronicling the Queen's proceed ings; the Morniny Post has its fashionable friend buaziig about Gunter's to hear of fashionable routs, or about Banting's to learn full particulars of a fashionable funeral. Every district has its penny-a-liner; every dis aster its historian. " These minor contributors are not more active than their superior officers. The editor has been reading offer the morning papers of London and Paris.; has glanced at the debates; and mentally arranged many of his topics for the night's leaders. He has written to a , me of his literary aids, and received an ar ti c l e from one, a review trem another, a suggestion from a third, and he fin sties his breakfast, and goes off to call Lt his club or oil a political friend —his mind the while shadow ing forth the arguments to be employed; the illustrstions to le used; and thei points to be etude, in the paper of to-night. The sub-editor, if any remarkable meetings, or other reports, are:.spitted to come, has been to the office to consult with the editor, secretary, or other exe cutive thry/ight officer of the paper, about t xpres, es or telegraphs; to talk over the character and usefulness c f candidates for employment; to discuss suggestions; to decide who shall attend various meetings in London and the provinces, and settle the various points w hich con stantly arise in the progress of working a daily journal. "If Parliament is bitting, another large mass of manu script is now growing up under the pens of the re porters. Fourteen or sixteen of these gentlemen each in his turn' sits in the gallery of the House, and I,r three-quarters of an hour, or an hour, according to ar rangement, takes his note of the debate. Vyken the time; of one is up, and his seat at St. Stephen's has been cocupied by a wow, be basteue write out in exteno the speeches he bas been listening to. If the de bate is prolonged, by the time his first notes have been prepared he must be rr.ady to go into the House again, and it sometimes happens that a third turn is taken on the same night. When the speakers are good, or the debate irrip , rtant, this combined labour of so many pens completes a formidable mass of copy.' "By nine o'clock the editor, the sub-editor, the forei„,em editor are all busy; the editor with his leaders, the foreign editor with his Getman and French, and the sub editor with the mass of multifarious thing: that now load his table. The law reports being on matters of fact, and usually prepared by barristers, give little trouble; but eith this exception, scarcely a line comes to the sub-editor which does not require preparation at his hands. Meetings reported to please speakers instead of the public, railway and commercial statements full of !erg tabular accounts to be summarised and made read. able; letters from indignant constant readers,' in which libels lurk in the midst of long statements of wrongs endured, or reforms demanded; reports of police courts, of inquests, of disasters, all a ritten on fliaasy"puper, and requiring great quickness of eye and mind to decipher at all; papers from all quer ters of the kingdom; state ments of markets, ( f shipping, of bit tits, deaths, and all other conceivable and inconceivable things, demand Lt tendon and preparation for the print, rs, who by : this time are ready for the six hours' rapid and skilful labour that shall convert this muss of contributions of all sizes, characters, aid qualities into a shapely morning paper. With the help or an assi,rant or leo, the load rapidly diminishes, and by midnight 'here is a tolerably clear table, pre} arafory to the arrival of the late railway dis patches. These received, a new labour has often to be commenced. Although the troublesome search through tiny county papers has aforded a great quantity of local news, the late dispatches often bring up much more; the Irish and Scotch advices come to hand, and with this addition e f hum- news very often comes a file of papers from America; from the West Indies; from Brazil; from France, Germany, or Hamburgh. An hour or two clears off all these new accumulations, and then the proof sheets having been attended to, and the place and ar rangement of the articles being decided upon; —the num ber of leaders, and the number of advertisements set tled, the columns calculated, and the decision made as to what shall appear, and what stand over, the editorial work of one day is done. By half-past four the paper is at press, and news-boys and morning mails distribute the papers to all parts of the country to meet their' con stant readers' at breakfast tables, in counting-houses, and at country fire.sides " Just as the wet newspaper, fresh from the news- boy, is being opened at the eight o'clock breakfast table of the early-rising city merchant, the Dublin correspondent is again handing his dispatch on board the steamer at Kingston fur to morrow's journal—and so the twenty four hours of a newspaper life are up." As we have more than once intimated, in our pre vious observations, it is fortunate for the author of these volumes that he repudiated, on :his very title page, all intention of assuming to be the annalist of journalism. His labours, as here collected together in these volumes, are little better than loose notes, gathered from a variety of miscellaneous sources for the benefit of some future historian. For inasmuch as he has attempted to pioneer the way for his des tined successor Mr. Knight Hunt must be com mended : and, considering the novelty of his subject and the scattered nature of the materials, it is assu redly anything but surprising that numerous parti culars of importance have been all but, and some times entirely, overlooked. These blemishes upon the work under consideration are solely attributable, to our thinking, to the embarrassing amplitude of theme so large as journalism, and not to any depreciation of the value of completeness on the part of the com piler. The motto selected by him for the title-page is of itself a sufficient evidence that he has formed a highl estimate of the importance of the Fourth Estate, being nothing less than that brilliant sentence of M. de Tocqueville—" What is it that drops the same thought into ten thousand minds at the same moment ?—the newspaper." Perhaps the most feli citous remark in the book here submitted to our criticism is where the author says that a daily news paper is "a great mental camera which throws a picture of the whole world upon a single sheet." With that admirable epigram upon the literary microcosm —a newspaper—we bring our comments on the " Fourth Estate" to a conclusion. A MONUMENT TO LORD ASHLEY. (From Punch.) Yesterday will long 13-1 remembered in the annals of the libro d'uro of the Beadle of Exeter hall. There never has been such a meeting in the memory of the oldest Sabbatarian ; and it was confidently prophesied that Time may stand upon tiptoe to watch the advent of such another and never behold it. It is the peculiar felicity of a grand idea to beget anumber of smaller notions, bearing some re-semblance to the original thought. Alike, but very different. Thus, it was no sooner determined to erect a monument to the benevolent genius of a great statesman: of a man who, whilst he patronised the cheap loaf, did not loftily eschew the patronage of art and letters—than a monument was determined for his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge; a monument, as it now appears, put off until next season, in consider ation of the calls upon Parliament, by grouse and the German spas. In the meantime, the architects of England have until February next to mature their de signs for a monument to departed royalty, whose peculiar goodness it was—boldly avouched Lord Grosvenor— to have subscribed every minute cf time, and every farthing of money, towares the necessities of human rature. To eternise such a fame (when d u ly p rove d, as no doubt it will be when the shooting season ends), will tax to the highest the creative genius of England's sculptural worthies. In a while, and progressing at the rate we have trays lied for the past month, monuments will start into stony exigence rapidly as mushrooms. Lord Ashley is to have a monument; and his Lord ship deserves one. It was this deep conviction of his merits—a conviction throbbing at the hearts of his ad mits rs—that yesterday filled Exeter hall with the elect of the wicked city of London, gathered together to pay homzge to the bold and subtle genius of that " pious and excellent nobleman," as the limes fleeringly called him, who " stoke a march upon Parliament" on the day of the Derby, to shut up the Sunday Post-office; and, with the dexterity of a professor of the persecuted art of pea-and-thimble, worked a work of zealous holiness. The chair was taken by Mr. DE NEWGATE, who called upon every really pious man with a heart in his breast and a shilling in his pocket to come forward with his sixpence. They would build such a monument to the good intentions of the Noble and Pious Lord, that ?,n admiring posterity should go down upon its knees to it. Their opponents had flung it in their teeth that a certain place, to which at that meeting it was not neces sary for him more particularly to allude, was paved with good intentions; he, however, came not there to dwell upon the enlargement of that pavement, but to propose a monument to good intentions. Lord Ashley had been defeated—(Grouns)—wickedly defeated by a mammon loving Government; but his Lordship's intentions re mained the same: lee would not ,only have gone the whole hog, but have compelled every man, woman, and child to wear a Sunday inner garment of its bristles.—(Cheers ) Mr. SLEEHLOCKS rose to move a resolution. For his own part, he wished to express to the noble, the heroic, but defeated Lord, the pious admiration of his disciples in the most significant and touching material—of course he meant gold. The iniquitous Sunday letter-delivery had been stopped. A miner under sentence of death had been reprieved; but—the mail-bag remaining at the Post-office—the evil doer was, for the day, kept in igno rance of the mercy ; and thereupon had his thoughts directed as they ought to be; whereas, had the sinful post run upon that day, the malefactor would have been rejoicing. Mr. Sleeklocks thought that a handsome gold inkstand in the shape of a death's bead should be presented to Lord Ashley in commemoration of his triumph —a triumph to be renewed next session— (Cheers)—over the carnal authorities of St. Martin's le- G rand. Mr. Pursrrion thought a lucifer•box, delicately chased with the armorial bearings of his Lordship, would—to use the express words of the speaker—" find an echo in the heart of every genuine Sabbatarian." Here ensued a long and desultory conversation, which it is needless to report. We shall therefore omit all details, coming at once to the determination of the meet ing, which was, namely— To erect, immediately opposite to the Post-office, an obelisk to the memory of Lord Ashley's fleeting tri umph, made of the very best and most enduring black sealing-wax. DEATH OF MR. LEY, CLERK •O F THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.— In our obituary of yesterday we recorded the death of Mr. John Henry Ley, clerk of the House of Com mons, the duties of which office he has executed for the lengthened period of 29 years. Mr. Ley's connexion with the House of Commons dates from the 2d of July, 1801, when the House resolved that, in consi teration of the in crease cf the public business, "the clerk of this House be per mitted to appoint an additional clerk to assist at the table." Mr. Hatsell offered this appointment to the subject of this notice, in consequence of the valuable services of his uncle, Mr. Ley, who was at that time acting as deputy-clerk of the House. Mr. J. H. Ley performed the duties of second clerk-assistant until 1814, when, upon the death of his uncle, the deputy-clerk, and the promotion of Mr. Dyson to that office, he succeeded to the office of clerk-assistant, the duties of which he performed until the death of Mr. Hatsell, and the expiry of his patent in 1821. Mr. Ley then received the appointment of the Patent-office as Under-Clerk of the Parliaments, to attend upon the House of Commons, or, as the office is usually designated, the Clerk of the House of Commons. Altogether Mr. Ley has served the House of Commons without intermission for a period of 49 years. During the recess Mr. Ley generally resided on his estate of Trehill, in the parish of Renn, in Devonshire, where he was much respected. He married on the 23d of October, 1809, Lady Frances Dorothy Hay, the second daughter of George, seventh Marquis , of Tweedale, by whom he leaves one surviving daughter and five sons. Mr. Ley was a bencher of the Middle Temple, and a magistrate of the county of Devon. DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACA• DEMI'. —The much-esteemed President of the Royal Aca demy, Sir Martin Archer Shee, F.R.S., died on the 19th instant, at Brighton, after a long and severe i!lncss, at the venerable age of 80 years. lle was second son of Martin Shee, Esq., of Dublin, by the eldest daughter and co-heir of Francis Archer, Esq., cf the same city, and was grand nephew to the late Sir George Shee, first baronet of Du, more. He married in 179 G the eldest daughter of James Power, Esq., of Youghal, county of Cork, was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1798, a Royal Academician in 1800, and was chosen to fill the president's chair on the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence is 1830, on which election he received the honour of knighthood. He was an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and of the academies of New York, Charl es t on , an d Philadelphia ; was author of Rhymes on Art," " The Commemoration of Reynolds," 4. Masco," a tragedy ; Bic, ST. LEGER. -• -------- 6to 5 egst V o lii geur - 7to 1 agst Windischgriez 7 to 1 agst Pittfurd 10 to 1 egst any other GREAT YAIZMOUTEI RACES.— WEDNESDAY. The Great Yarmouth handicap of 10 sous. each, 5 ft., an , t 60 added. One mile and a quarter. (17 Subs.) Mr. Drivkald's Juggler, 4 yrs, Tat 4!b (Rodney) 1 Mr. a Oilgley' s Bird of Paradise, 7st 91b (Norman) 2 Mr. Cowley's Second Sight, 4 yrs. Bst 21b (Crickmore) 3 Mr. Gurney's St. Fabian, 3yi 8,7 st llb (Thorogood) 4 Mr. Derriau's Selt-defence, 5 3re, 7st 9;b (J. Mann) 5 Won by a length. The Nelson Stakes were won in two heats by the Dromedary colt beating Goiedwood by half a length. The Subscription Elardicap of 5 soya. each. 3 ft., and 20 added, about three-quarters of a mile (4 Subs.), was yfo coloy by M. Clork'a Asy-dity r 4 Yu, $Dt 41b ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. L'Elisir d'Amore was performed here last evening with a very strong cast. Madame Viardot Garcia appeared for the first time as Adina, Ronconi for the first time as Dr. Dulcarnara, and Mario and Tambu rini resumed their old characters of Nemorino and Belcore. Madame Viardot Garcia made an excellent Adina; gay, coquettish, and full of life, she seemed the very beau ideal of a joyous Italian peasant girl, and in the latter scenes her tender pathos contrasted beautifully with ber joyousness during the earlier portions of the opera. No artiste understands the power of contrast better than does Madame Viardot Garcia. Her singing was exquisite. Ronconi's Doctor, although sometimes too exaggerated, was on the whole an admirable re - presentation of the impudent quack, and excited roars of laughter ; even his exaggerations were most laughter-moving; he was applauded to the echo, and deserved the applause that be received. Tamburini's Belcore was, as usual, excellent, and Marro's Nemorino the best on the stage. His ren dering of " Una furtiva lagryma" was perfect. This was, of course, rapturously encored. The opera went off most brilliantly, and was felt to be a pleasant relief to the heavy five act operas which have, during the greater part of the season, formed the staple of the amusement here. The house was crowded. HAYMARKEI"fHEATRE. Mr. Wright took his benefit last evening, and, as might have been expected, the house was a bumper; in fact it was as full as the most adroit packing could cram it, and many persons went away unable to se cure admittance. The performances were Paul Pry, The Spitalfelds Weaver, Domestic Economy, and My Precious Betsy, in all of which Wright appears, and is himself! ay, every inch himself ! He acted judiciously in selecting The Spitalfields Weaver for his benefit. It was the first piece in which he appeared before a London audience, and in which he at once assumed the high position which he has ever since held. The character of Simmonds is, more over, not that of a mere farceur—it is a bit of genuine comedy, and we should like to see Mr. Wright appear more frequently in pieces of this nature, which are much more worthy of his high talents than many in which he too often appears. He was excellently supported. The Adelie of Miss Emma Harding was a beautiful specimen of genteel comedy of a very high order. Miss Harding has made a vast advance in her professional career by her very ladylike and artistical delineation of this character. The other performances went off with great eclat, and the applause and laughter were throughout vociferous. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Last night the interesting drama, Tune Tries All, was presented at this th ea t re, f or t h e deb u t o f Miss Clarissa Doris, in the character of Laura Leeson. Miss Doria is possessed o f muc h hi str i on i c ability, combined with natural taste and appreciation. Her manner of acting is free and unconstrained, and the absence of all timidity gives to it a reality and truth fulness which cannot fail to have their due effect. In addition to these qualifications she is remarkable for her personal attraction s . Sh e yester d ay evening rendered the part of the wayward Laura with an ease and elegance which evinced that she had studied the character attentively, and was determined to do it all justice. In the open ing portions of the drama her light, gay air, and the merry ringing peals of laughter into which she ever and anon burst forth, reminded the auditor most for cibly of the fascinating Mrs. Nisbett. In the second ac t, when remorse and regret take the place of former forwardness, the fair and youthful actress threw into her manner a feeling and taste worthy of the highest commendation. She was lo u dl y applauded throughout. The other portions of the drama were carefully given b y Mr. Howard, Matthew Bates; Mr. Rogerson, Mr. Leeson Mr. 11. Lee, the Hon. Colonel Jawn ; Mr. H. J. lurner, Tom Tact, a character which he rendered 'uslY ; Mrs. H. J. T urner; FannyFac v t e , ry sze. hum h. or a , ddition to the drama alre a dy programm e con t a i ne d t h e m fa e re n e ti o on f. emd,atihde:vewnlimgs Wife, which Mr. Payne, wh ose benefit it was, ably a cqu it ted himself as Sharp; the ballet Le Diable a Quatre, and the farce of The Lot tery Ticket. The house was crowded. SADLER'S WELL s THEATRE. Leigh Hunt's play of A _legend of Flo re nce was eTarnbh and Mr. e t r r e e s s Au o m snt da e ien y r es e do a n r b. s y s ot i g o nr , st. h w ce b hp e ar r r a el se t e h s n e iti e p oa r en i c t: a e s kh i o a rn l . revived here last night, with a success fully equa l that which marked its first performance at Coven t t o . garden • ch a r it c Moore,t these characters were played by Mr. Phelps, Mr. Waller (an,actor new„to the London stage), and Miss Glyn, and their combined efforts tended to give full effect to all the leading features of the piece. Of the play itself it is almost superfluous to speak in criti ca l terms. It may, however, be stated that the L egen d of Florence is a play of purely domestic intere s t, an d its object is to show to what extrerneties a h us b and may be driven by an infirmity o f temper, rendered more intolerant by the meddlin g i nterfer ence of his wife's friends. The scenes in which Francesco Agalante, the hero of the play, and his gentle wife Genevra take th e most pro m i nent part, are fraught with numerous po ints of affecting interest, and the attention of the audience is constantly ex cited by the reflection that the characters before them are not " the mere fiction of a poets dream," but are such as may too often be met with in our every-day existence. The story, in its gradual and poetic deve lopment, appeared to be fully understood and appre ciated, and the result of the performance gave abun ant proof that the management of this theatre con tinues to be marked by judgment and good taste. - - MACKEREL—On ►Saturday last, a large number of fine mackerel were taken at Weymouth ; they sold from 9d. to Is. per dozen. The fish market throughout the even ing presented a most business-like appearance in consequence. an}:iTuesitNbefGo therße Arbvel —Am b :rue Journal. It is understood that the three Commissioners un prE.esaii:idnd er , coroner of this un der the New Ecclesiastical Commission Bill have been nomi tlecuirtrenheaes, within b ee been nomi nated. The Crown nominates, as first Commissioner, the Earl of Chichester; the Archbishop of Canterbury nominates the Eight Hon. Henry Goulburn, MA?. ; the third Commis sionerdestructive is Mr. John Show Lefevre.—Norithig Ilerulc 1 . borough, on the late fire, so immensely destructive of property in the principal part of the town fur business—the High street. The property destroyed is so great, the liabilities of the insurers so extensive, and fires in this town so remarkable, that the inhabitants, the insurers, and the public in general, are perfectly justified in a period of six or seven years, of such sweeping their anxiety for an inqairy. The coroner has fixed this day for the inquest. MANCHESTER TRADE.. REPORT, AUG. 2 2.—The market to-day has shown a little more animation than on LitichlY. DO tint, 4PO 14 1 19 b /214441 " 49i/18, PriCil um, THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO OSTEND. OSTEND, AUG. 21.—1 n my communication of yea.. terday, I mentioned that King Leopold was expected to arrive here from Brussels by special train in the course of the evening, and that the inhabitants were beginning to show some symptoms of animation in the near prospect of his arrival. His Majesty arrived at the station at about eleven o'clock in the evening, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Major the Count de Moerkerke, and General the Count Goblet. Three carriages were in waiting to convey the King and his suite to his house in the Long -street. The reception given to his Majesty by his faithful subjects of Ostend was rather a singular one, and calculated to surprise those who have been accustomed to the warm enthu siasm with which the English Sovereign is received when she appears in public. As I mentioned in my last, no official intimation of the King's arrival was given, but the fact of his coming was known on all hands, and even the hour at which the special train might be expected was generally understood. But not • withstanding this, the phlegmatic citizens were not to be put out of their ordinary course. Su far as the erec tien of triu m ph a l arc h es went, or the hanging out of fl igs, they wer e perfectly willing to incur the trouble; hut to proceed to the rail way station, .to welcome among them their Sovereign, was an entirely different affair, and one of which they could not see the utility. Accordingly, when his Majesty arrived, at about eleven o'clock, there were not more than fifty or sixty people assembled in front of the rail way.sta. Lion around the royal carriages. When King Leopold appeared, one solitary voice did certainly raise the cry of " Viva le Roi, ' but it met with no response whatever. Scarcely even a hat was taken off, and the King steppm d into his carriage and drove off, amidst the respectful demeanour, certainly, but with out one loyal demonstration from his assembled sub jects. So it was on his progress through the streets. There was no more crowd —not so much, indeed—at the door of the King's house than there had been at the railway station; and as he proceeded up the silent and deserted streets, on his way to the house, a head might be seen peeping out here and there from the windows, which was as instantly drawn in as the carriages passed. No reception of Royalty could have been quieter than that which greeted the entrance of King Leopold into this his ancient town of Ostend. It must not be inferred from this reception, however cool it may appear in the eyes of an Englishman, that there is any want of loyalty among the inhabitants. On talking to some of them about the quiet manner in which they had received a Soverign who had not appeared among them for some years before, I was told that it was well known that the personal feelings of his Majesty are averse to all noisy acclamations or ostentatious display, and, there fore, that his subjects thought they showed their at tachment to his person and government by consult. ing his wishes in this respect as much as if they had rent the air with vivats. That this quiet mode of reception is not disagree.. able to his Majesty was still further proved by the free and fearless way in which he mixed among his subjects this morning. The Prince de Joinville and the Princess Clementine, with the children of the latter, took their departure to-day by the steamer for Ramsgate, after a visit which they have been paying to their sister, the Queen of the Belgian., who, it appears is at present in delicate health, and who will not, therefore, be at Ostend to meet the Queen. King Leopold accompanied his relatives to the steamer, and on this occasion the carriages were not even put in requisition. Their luggage having been sent on before, the whole party wa lk e d down to the steamer, th e Chemin de Fer, which was then about to embark. The royal group partook so much of the appearance of an ordinary party pro ceeding through the streets, that it was some time before they were recognised. At last one or two of the inhabitants turned round to look at them as they passed—others, becoming a little more bold, followed in their course, till by the time they reached the steamer some twenty or thirty persons had surrounded them, keeping, however, at a respectful distance, and dividing their attention between their own sovereign and the children of the exiled French Monarch. His Majesty proceeded directly on board with his brother and sister-in-law, and remained on deck, conversing familiarly with those about him, and particularly with the children, till it was time for the steamer to start on her voyage. He then bade his friends farewell, and left the steamer, accompanied only by his aide-de-camp. By this time the crowd had increased to a con siderable number, but there was the same sombre and quiet air throughout, nor even when the steamer hauled away was there a single cheer raised; only when his Majesty came ashore room was re spectfully made for his passage, and every hat was raised as he passed—a compliment which he cour teously returned. Instead of returning home his Majesty proceeded along the quay, and walked to the end of .the jetty, Count Moerkerke accompany ing him. This was the usual hour for the promenade of the bathers, and great numbers were returning from their baths at the Digue ; but there was so little in the ap pearance of Leopold to mark out the monarch, in his white hat, his brown frock coat, and his light grey trowsers, that many passed without recognising him, and the attention of others was only directed by ob serving the crowd that still continued to follow his movements. It was curious to mark the military men, of whom the town is now becoming full, as they sauntered carelessly along, suddenly finding them selves confronted with their Sovereign, and almost suffering him to pass before they offered him the military salute. Meantime his Majesty, entirely un attended except by his aide-de-camp, pursued his way along the jetty to the end, and returning back, cour teously saluting all that met him on his way, pro ceeded along the sea wall, tracing the fortifications of the town, and thence horse to his house in the Long street. It has now been ascertained that Queen Victoria is not to be here till to. morrow. A message to that effect, which bad been forwarded to Dover, was brought over this morning by the Dover steamer. It is understood that her Majesty will embark at Os borne tonight, and be here by eleven o'clock to-mor row forenoon. W hether she will land or not is again uncertain, but the general impression still is that she will disembark in the harbour and dine with his Ma jesty in the town. Under any circumstances, it is said she will return to England the same evening. Some speculation has been excited by the departure of the Prince de Joinville so immediately upon the eve of her Majesty's arrival, but it is probable that the Prince felt his stay might have imparted a pli tical complexion to the meeting in the eyes of his sen sitive countrymen, while his presence would be a re straint upon the intercourse between the Queen and her royal uncle. The town is again gay with flags end streamers, and triumphal arches are erecting at each end of the Grand Place ; and across the Long-street lines are run from one house to another, from which are hung crowns and floral wreaths, got up in an exceedingly tasteful manner. Soldiers also meet you at every turn in the street, as, in addition to the 7th Regiment of the Line, two companies of the Corps d'Elite (the Belgian Guards) have arrived from Brussels, with the celebrated band of the Guides, and a squadron of that corps, together with a detachment of the Artil lery. Tne vessels in the harbour are all dressed with flan and the ensigns of all nations are waving from their masts, among which the new German flag is displayed by one solitary vessel from Altona. The freshness of the preparations has, however, been con siderably taken off by a violent shower of rain which has fallen in the course of the day, with every pro spect of a continuance of wet weather. Among the vessels which are expected to accom pany her Majesty to Ostend to-morrow, are the Vivid steamer, in which it is supposed she will land, as the Vivid draws much less water than the Victoria and Albert. The Blenheim, 50 gun ship, is also ex pected; but it is not supposed she can come much withi❑ two or three miles of this flat coast and shallow sea.— Chronicle. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, AUG. 22. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Prin cess Alice, embarked shortly after five F.M. on board the Victoria and Albert for Ostend. The royal suite consisted of the Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring, First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lady in Waiting, Viscount Canning, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Maid of Honour, and Miss Hillyard, Major-Gen. Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, the Hon. Charles B. Phipps, Mr. Birch, and Sir James Clark. Colonel Berkeley Drummond _remains at Osborne until the return of the Court. The Chancellor of the Exalt-quer has left the seat of the Right Hon. Pox Manic, Birnam, Dunlreld, Perthsilire, for Ardverike, Kinwusse. E XTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—Duriog yesterday numbers of persons were collected at the top of the Old Bailey, it having been currently rumoured that a quantity of human bones had been dug up at that spot, and a leg bone with a felon's leg-iron attzched. Upon inquiry it appeared that when the men employed in laying down the pipes for thr i i•ew City of London Gas Consumers Company had dug d0,,7:, a bout six feet, opposite St. Sepulchre's Church, one of them turned up a number of, human bones, chiefly rib bones, and one leg, N ith an iron-which was formerly put on felon's legs, but which bas.long tiace been disused except in extraordinary cases. In lhe•course of the afternoon more bones were found near the same spot, together with another shackle. 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