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tbirt 'zilb-itton £HE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Consols ... 100 99% 100 1 ,E South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account..... ...... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., PAd 6O 58 Ditto 5001. . CLOSING PRICES. 100% 99% 10C% pm. 60 pm. 60 pm. 61 Pm. - 61 - Ditto Small Ditto Advertised CLOSING PRICES. ONE rUICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and ]839 B9 Ditto 1843 87% 88% Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • B •"'"___Ditto, Deferred - Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 14% 15 15 Mexican ' 5 per Cent. 1 837 Ditto. Account ... ........... 3676 Ditto, Deferred Peruvian Bouds, 6 per Cents 33 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent i. Ditto, Converted 67 Ditto, Account Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto Account Ditto, Passive Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent.' ... .. ...... Ditto, Account — Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9 9 1A% PRICES OF CLOSING ram. AT ONE O'CLOCK. II A HATA 'V SHARES PRICES. 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Paris and Orleans 2O . .. 52 Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 • Sambre and Meuse .... 2 Tours and Nantes, Mac ' kenzie's Ditto, ditto, Levevres... 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. London & Westminster. 20 67 1 % ...._ 304 40% 31 A- 10 7 8% 6% 23 21' 3% 1% 234 44% 31. 1 / 4 62 1 ,4, 7N3 18 IA 141 1 /, 14% 108 1 lg 17 4% 21 83 11% 11% 521/ 2 454 2N 27% DE CONFERENCE OF TRADES' LEGATES.-(THIS DAY.) A General Conference of Trades' Relegates, from al parts of the kingdom, commenced its sittings this morn ing at the Parthenium Club-roams in St. Martin's-lane It originaled in a meeting of delegates from the Londoi Trades, held at the Bell Inn, .Old Bailey, on the 6th of February, when resolutions were passe( by which the present position of the trades was described as " extremely perilous," and it was an nounced that a conference would be held at Easter, " to devise means by which an effect.;al resistance may be given to and: measure introduced in the present session of Parliament, tending to impair the interests of the work ing abases." A hope was express( d in the circular issued by the C ,mmittev appointed to prepare for the Confer ence, that it " would be all powerful in preventing the ictroduction, or cluterrir,g the prosecution, of any mea sure in Parliament of a similar character to that of the Master.' and Servants' Bill." • Shortly after two o'clock the chair was taken by T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P. The Cneinmasi then proceeded to open the meeting in the following words:—Gentlemen, in assuming the office Which 3 our confidence rather than my own will or fitness has imposed upon me. I feel some difficulty—a dif ficulty not arising out of any misgiving as to your ability to devise and power to execute any plan that the majority of this highly important assembly shall deli berately agree upon, .but the difficulty of deciding upon the most proper and apt machinery for the purprse of giving effect to your judgment. Gentle men, I learn that you have wisely de cided ujon excluding all political topics from your consideration; but I feel convinced that, should the day arrive when the English mind shall sic that " a fair day's wages for a fair day':, work" can only be achieved through the fair representation in Parliament of those seeking their just rights, that then my countrymen will, with their characteristic boldness, demand such a change in the system as shall ensure to them not only the pass: ssion, but the protection of the fruits of their inclustry.—(Cheers.) It is wise, how vz.r, that you should • first test the willingness of those who have the power not only t) remedy your grievances, but to renderCany greet tolitical change valueless in your eyes.—(Hear, hear.) It is better to persuade Int n than to coerce thew, and should your first move have been in a poli tical direction I fear that the vi 7 ried elements of which this national assembly must naturally consist, would have presented an appearance of internal contention and strife, rather than of organisation and union, two inure thetas indispensable to the success of your project. Gentle men, although I am here rather to learn t: an to instruct, yet I hope I may, without presumption, he permitted to suggest such a course as I conceive best calculate d to in ' sure success. You may, and most probably will, evince great wisdom and astuteness in those several discussions. bearing relatively or p,..sitiv: ly upon your several .pos'tions, while the manifold interests which are re• presented upon this occasion may lead some to suppose that there is difficulty in combining those interests in any one common plan. Such, however, is not my opinion, for while there 'may appear no connexion between a cotton-spinner and a shoemaker, nevertheless, we must come to the conclusion, that that machinery cannot be perfect which does not represent and equally protect the interests of both.—(Hear, hear.) This, then, is the important point to which I would respect fully direct your attention :—'lhe establishment of such a devising and controlling body as shall give effect to, and fully carry out, whatever plan the majority of this assembly shall decide upon. You will have done but little, if you meet and separate, after having merely pro claimed your wrongs and suggested your remedies. You must do more —having the power, you must boldly pro claim your determination to redre-s yourselves ; and, humble as I am, I shall have sufficient confidence in your importance and integrity, when backed by y our concur. rence, to declare in my place in Parliament, that the hour has at length arrived when Englishmen know their rights, and are determined to p ossess them.— (Cheers.) In the debate upon the " Ten Hours' Bill," during the last session of Parliament, when the House of Commons stultified itself by preferring the ascendancy of a Minister to the interests and even the well-being of the working etasses, my mind was for the first time directed to the pr , apes principle of rtstrietion, and to sblit;tjuesttrott rwotilcr tiow draw your most serious atten tion, You will naturally confider whether or no any, or all the measures submitted by Parliament to the coun try, are calculated to cause an equitable distribution of the profits on trade between capitalists and labourers, and if they are not calculated to do so, you will then, I hope, enter upon the consideration of some well digeste plan to effect an object of the most vital importance, one upon which I do not hesitate to say the existence of the middle classes and of the landed aristocracy depends, and for this reason :—lf our mechanical powers of production go on increasing according to well-founded anticira tions, one cf two results must necessarily follow, either new markets must be discovered as consumers, or the surplus of idlers must progressively . increase. As then the discovery of new customers is at best but problematical, we must look upon an increasing sur plus as the more rational result from improved machinery, and how to deal with that surplus is the question of paramount importance to those who are as yet allowed to labour and to live.—(Hear, hear.) Whether this sur plus should be maintained by those employed to avert competition, or by the Government—that is, by the country, according to the rules of justice, is the grand question. I hold that those at work cannot and ought not be called upon to apply any portion of their earnings to the support of a surplus created by the operation of a new system, over which they have no control ; and I further hold, that the Government has no right to tax one portion of the community for the maintenance of another portion, rendered dependent, while willing to labour.—(Hear, hear.) Those who I.ave read the ac counts stated by me in the House of Commons, relative to the effect produced by practising the principles of restriction at Sheffield, must ce me to the conclusion that short hours of labour do not lead to a reduc tion of wages, although it may tend to reduce the inordinate profits of capitalists, accumulated rather from their rower over the labour market than from the just sources of trade or speculation ;—in fact, that calculations of profit and loss are now based upon the ability of the powerful to reduce the wages of the powerless, rather than upon the ordinary rules by which we are told commerce should be regulated. The reasons, however, why your employers have been cnsbled to bold your labour in complete subjection are so well known to all who have taken part in strikes, whether just, unjust, or speculative, that I should abstain from any comment npon that part of the subject, were it not necessary for the direction of your minds to the adoption of such measures as would enable you in future to judge, first, of the justice of a strike ; and secondly, of your effici ency to carry it out. In all cases where strikes have taken place they have been for the meat part entered upon rashly, though perhaps justly ; and the justice of ye ur case has been lost in the rashness of your measures. However righteous your claims may aprear at first sight, it has too often happened that your own rashness has enabled your masters to enlist the power of the law to insure their own triumph, and hence have been compelled to fight against the two edged sword of capital and legal persecution. When ever a strike takes pace the local authorities, who are for the most part employers, have been able to warp some enthusiastic and justly indignant minds from their original purpose, to the adoption of what is easily con strued into constructive conspiracy or sedition, and thus your imperfect ',machinery has beet, unable to con Pete against the more perfect machinery of your opponents. Through the legal acumen, perseverance, and steady watchfulness of the miners' law adviser, Mr. Roberts, that large body of men were enabled to continue what I will call the most justifiable and extensive strike upon record, for a period of many months, notwith standing that the vesgeance and tho power of their masters was directed against them, and the power of the law was at their commsnd, if the conduct of the men had authorised its interference. This strike failed, not because it was capriciously (sacred upon, but because there was wanting a proper plan of national or ganisation to insure its success. Gentlemen, tit's I un derstand to be a national body, and I must, therefore, presume that one of your main objects will be the e sta blishment of some permanent machinery for the regula tion of trades' matters and trades strikes. That that body shall be legally constituted, with power vested in its members to hear all matters connected with trades' business, and in all cases where the rights of any one trade are threatens d or invaded, that that trade, if a strike should be sanctioned by the governing body, shall be sustained, upheld, and supported during the struggle, however long it shall continue: the terms to be submit ted to, and agreed upon by a majority of the governing body. I think that such a plan would divest a strike of that local and personal feeling which is in general attribute d to the prime movers, and would give protec tion to those who, if struggling alone, must necessarily be subject to sll those disadvantages which unprotected poverty experiences in its struggles with protected wealth.—(Hear, hear.) Of course, in the formation of such a body, you must take local machinery into vour consideration ; ant is, suppose a strike takes place in Sheffield or in Manchester, sanctioned by the ruling body, in such case you i ut yourselves in communication with the leenl delegates of that trade, appointed by their body—who become honorary meml•err, for the time, of the general body—and, if necessary, you appoint one or more as commissioners from your permunent executive, to re pair to the spot where the strike takes place, acre to instruct themselves upon, and to inform you of, all matters connected with the movement, and in such cases it is my opinion that any excitement necessary to sustain the strike; should be transferred from the place where it occurs to the metropolis, where of course the governing body will hold its permanent sittinge. By these means ' strikes, when just, would be of short duration, because the united 1 ow er of the Rational trades of Great Britain, when prop rly and justly directed, as I feel assured they would be, would prove an tee er-match fur the poi% er of the cal masters, or even the whole masters of the kingdom, should a counter-organisation be attempted. By systematic organisation of this kind the political minority in each country has been enabled to hold the ascendancy over the disunited and disorganised majority. You will perceive that I have thought it necessary to dwell more at length upon the description of machinery by which your plans are to be carried out, than upon the means you shall adopt for the adjustment of the several differences that exist between you and your masters, or that may hereafter occur. Gentlemen, you will also observe that I have not only abstained from comment upon all matters upon ee Ira you must neces sarily be better instructed than myself, but that I have also abstained from noticing any political questions with which, from my position, I might be supposed to be more conversant than yourselves. I have thought this the wisest and best course for the achievement of our common object, which I understand to be " a fair day's wages for a fair day's work."—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, whatever view the curious, the idle, or the timid, may take of this great movement, I assure you, it gives the to very serious considerations in my mind. If this be in truth, as I believe and hope it is, a fair representation of that growing spirit of Englishmen of which we hear so much, and to curb which i equires so much artifice and cun ning, its matured deliberations must go to the world with an irresistible effect.—(Cheers.) You have looked with anxious hope to each political party, and to every poli tical party, for that amelioration in your condition which you have at length wisely decided can env to effected by your own united energies. Gentlemen, those who shall scan and criticise what may be decided upon by this tepresentation of the industrious English pi eple, should recognise in your intentions the practical carry ing out of their own theories. '1 hey one and all admit the vast increase that has taken place in the national wealth, while they are compelled also to seltnit your legitimate title to a share of it, but by some inexpli cable deficiency, in what may be called the division of legislation, all have failed to put you in posse lion of your admitted rights. If then, as no man can deny, that the genius and industry of our people have given rise to a vest accumulation of national wealth, and if the principle of professing philan trophists be true, that you are pre-eminently entitled to your share of this new-born wealth, I can characterise, this assembly no otherwise than as the new-born genius of England righteously, peaceably, boldly, and honestly, looking for its share of the property that itself creates — (Loud applause)—while your willing' ess to submit your social claims to be arbitrated upon by others, must com vince even your traducers that your demands are so just that you are indifferent as to the character of the tribunal to whose judgment they shall be submitted. Gentlemen, it you see prudence, safety, and succees in the course that I have pointed cut, as 1 never recommend what I am not prepared to attempt and believing your cause to be just, your motives honour able, and 3 our objects desirable, I shall hold myself in increased estimation if I cau be instrumental either within ter without the walls of Parliament in advancing your in terests.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, however the self satisfied, or the expectant may ridicule this your peace ful cmleavour to achieve your right, I feel fully im preseed with the import:met of the working hand, and as fully resolved upon persevering with you, until, we test the value of English union, English organisation, English justice, and Englishmen's bravery.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, cur cote cils must be so pure, that we may defy the espionage of the Home Secretary, as well as the legal lash of the Attorney-General ; what my judgment prompts me to advise, my heart will encourage me to support, while the justice of your cause and the strength by which it is backed, will preclude the necessity of other than perfectly peaceful, mild, and constitutional means for its achievement. Gentle men—lf out of this first important experiment in the right direction should arise an annual repreeentittin of the industrious people of England, and you de em it recessary to manifest the outward and visible sign of your greatness and power, as your several opponents have done by the erection of club-houses as places of resort—(He ar, hear)—and as a means of multiplying and i concentrating your res o urces, I shall be most happy to assist n any way that can tend to the furtherance of that or any other object promotive of the national cause.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen—Feeling pride as an Englishman and honour as a man, in the situation to which your confidence has this day called me, and rejoicing exceedingly that my humble exertions in your behalf should entitle me to your esteem. I shall now conclude the remarks which I have deemed it my duty to offer, and shall open what I proudly call " Labour's Parliament"--(Cheers)—by inviting those de legates who have anything to urge to proceed to business, trusting that your deliberations may prove beneficial to yourselves and satisfactory to the country.— (Cheers.) (The meeting had not concluded when our report left.) SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAN. GLOBE.—The increased grant to Maynooth will be propose d by Sir Robert reel on the 3d of April (to morrow wtt k), end not on the 3d of May, as stated in our article of Friday—a blundur into which we were be trayed by adopting the erroneous date given by a morLing journal, which we assumed to be correct. The motion of which Mr. Ward has given notice, " that all further money grants for the purpose of re ligion be made out of the funds appropriated for the matotenar.ce of the Prot ,, stant Episcopal Church," is welt framed and well timed, It raises the whole ques tion in issue. It is the " appropriation clause" contro versy revived, It revives that controversy under cir- TH1 1 4.: SUN, LONDON, MONDAY_EVENING, - MARCH 24, 1845. cumstances which de price the party who formerly strenuously resisted the application of any portion of the revenues of the Protestant Established Church of Ireland to the use and ben. fit of the Roman Catholic majority in that country, of the power of con sistently voting with the Minister in his attempt to endow Popery out of the national reverue. It is not the first tiwe that this question, in the same bands, has produced commotion in a Cabinet, and disruption of party ties. In May, 18.34, Mr. Ward's motion on the Irish Church produced the resignation of Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Duke of Rich mond, and Lord Ripon ; and six weeks after wards, Lord Grey's retirement from office, and the formation of the Melbourne Ministry. Though riot precisely simi'ar, there is sufficient resemblance in the leading principles and tendencies of the two mea sures to pro Luce similar results. No act of the present Administration has excited so much surprise—certainly none will be met with more determined opposition from different points of the religious zodiac, nor be followed with more damaging effects on the influence and stability of the Government, than will be provoked by this coup. d'aut. From the most accurate estimate, it appears that the population of Ire land comprehends, in round Lum bers, eight millions, which are distributed among the re ligious sects in the following manner : Roman Catholics Protestants (Estabishtd Church) 850,000 Presbyterians 8,000,000 The annual revenues of the Irish Church Establish ment have been estimated at not less than 860,0001, the whole of which is appropriated to the support of that institution; constituting it, beyond all question, taking the small amount of its members into account, the richest endowed Church Establishment in Europe. The proposed largely-increased grant to Maynooth out of the general taxation of the country, as a measure of conciliation to the Irish ReFealers, will fail of its design. Mr. O'Connell, while he declares that he will take the money, repudiates the notion of its being regarded by him, or his followers, as any thing ap proaching to a satisfactory " instalment" of their claims. " Were it 70,00D1 he would take it ; but would offer no thanks !" They must, indeed, be sanguine who sup pose that the Irish Roman Catholics will be reconciled by such a measure as this. A large portion of the English people, in the mini. hand, see in the Premier's proposal that which shocks their religious principles, and alarms them for their pecuniary interests. In the largely-increased grant to Maynooth they see the Ro man Catholics supplied w ith additional funds, placed at their disposal by the Government, to educate their clergy. A larger number of priests of that Church will thus be provided, to propagate its doctrines and increase the number of its converts. In this additional grant they also see an additional burthen laid upon them for the support of another Church Establishment. They fear that the education of the Roman Catholic clergy by the State will be spec lily followed by a proposal fur the support of the Roman Catholic clergy hy the State. Ii t'unds are to be provided for these purposes, what fund so proper to furnish the requisite supplies as that of the wealthy E-tablished Church of Ire land ? The vast revenues of that Church were derived from the prof erty transferred from the Ro man Catholic l'hu. ch to the Protestant Establishment by Act of Parliament. If it be now found that the in terests of the country require: that the Roman Catholic Church be, either in whole or in part, endowed, by the State, is it not just and reasonable that a portion of the funds which were originally Roman Catholic, and which are ample for both nurposes, should be made available for the education and partial support of the clergy of the large majority of the people ? STANDARD.—On Wednesday, at Chelsea, a poor woman, a domestic servant, but, as it is said, respect ably connected, destroy cd herself by cutting her threat, the Coroner's jury said, "in a fit of temporary insanity, caused by the dread of prosecution for shoplifting." In the particular case the dread of prosecution was, we believe, groundless, fur the gentleman from whose shop the w retched woman had stolen some ribbons, upon his oath disclaimed any purpose of prose. uting ; and we have no right, even if an honest man's oath were not conclusive, to surmise such savage cruelty, as prosecuting the stealer of a few ribbons, to any one. The unhappy creature was the victim, not of the gentleman whom she had plundered, but of others who have made the prosecution of "lady thieves" notorious. We have as little compassion as any can have for the offences of persons above ihe reach of want, who commit offences for which want it:elf is an imperfect apology ; but we have, and we suppose all ought to have, compassion for that infirmity of intellect ss hich alone can cause persons in a respectable station of life to hazard what to them is not merely punishment, lut utter ruin and degradation, for the sake of trifles which, if their intellects were not infirm, must be things wholly beneath their care ; and we have no feeling but that of loathing, for those ~ho pursue such unhappy beings to the utter ruin and degradation that, by their weakness of understanding, they may incur. It is good to support the law, no doubt, but the law is not supported ; it is made hateful when it i.l made the instrument of ruin to weak-minded trans gressors, and of torture. if not extortion, to their innocent connections. We should like to know whether these fierce chi-sapiens of law never violate the law them selves ? It has been suggested to us that there is an ingenious policy in taking every opportunity of x posing and ruining "lady thieves." There are some dealers who find it more convenient and more profitable to treat with servants than with principals, but such cannot devise a better mode of excluding the latter than by now and then destroying a "lady thief." COMMITTEE-ROOM, STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 19, 1845.—At a Meeting of the Committee for General Pur poses, held this day, it was Resolved, " That the lours of business in the Stock Exchange be from -A—past ten to 1-past 3 o'clock, N% ith the exception of Saturday, when the House will close at 2 o'clock ; and that the Corn ntittee will recognise no bargains that mss not be done within those hours. The above to commence on the 26th inst." _ _ MR. WALLACE, M.l'.—We regret to learn that the Honourable Member for Greenock became seriously un well last week, in London, while attending his Parlia mentary duties, and that he has returned home to Kelly (Ruse. We hope the fresh air of that beautiful locality will soon restore him to his wonted health and vigour. We are afraid Mr. Wallace has been over-working him self in the House too early this session ; and certainly he has undergone more drudge ry and fatigue than any of our ether Scotch Memliers.—Sects Reformers' Gazette ANOTHER FREE" DESERTER.—We understand the Rev. Mr. M'Phie, late an ordained minister of the Established Church in the Island of Harris, but who joined the ‘• Free" at the disruption, has since seen the error of his ways, and been restored to the Establish ment, which he regrets he ever left. Others will soon fiilow this example. We expect to record rather a re ruaileahie one in the Gaulle of next Sa . urday.—Sects Reformers GozeW.. BLACKBURN.—SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The Com mittee appointed to carry into effect the anniversary in aid of the fends of the Mechanics' Institution have received 101. from Sir R. Peel.— Pre.q-m Ch. onicle quainted one with the other, and were in the constant habit of seeing each other. In 1842 Cupid appears first to have made an attack on the gallant deft ndant —for a gallant gentleman he is, holding the rank of lieutenant in her Majesty's 66th Regiment of Foot. He was then at the very susceptible age of twenty, and the fair plain tiff, a beautiful girl, at the bewitching age of seventeen. He told " a flattering tale," and told it so well that it found its way to the heart of the fair listener, and awoke corresponding emotions there with those which flowed in his own. The young people loved with all the fond ness and fervour with which young people alone can love. But, alas ! they had fathers, and fathers never will let those interesting matters alone, but are ever dis posed to interfere where their children the least desire their aid or interference. Mr. Commins, the plaintiff's father, was the first to find out the love that had stolen into the heart of his daughter for the gallant defendant ; and feeling assured that the match would not be approved of by the defendant's father, he wrote that gentleman a note, communicating the fact to him. Mr. Wiilisford, sen., replied to that note, expressing his obligations to Mr. Commins for the handsome manner in which he had acted. An interview then took place between the old gentlemen, the matter was talked over, and both ap peared agreed that the match was not, under all circum stances, a desirable one, and that it was, therefore, to be interdicted. This consultation and its results were communicated to the parties interested, and it was agreed upon between them that the silent love of their hearts must be extinguished. Time passed on, and, living in the same town, they often saw each other. It is easy to command a heart not to love, but it is often very difficult to get that heart to obey, especially when it is found beating in the breast of a young man of 21, or a girl who has about her all the warmth and fancy of 17. The flame that had only been smouldered for a time, burst out with renewed energy, and as the young people could not meet at the houses of their parents, they enjoyed the delight of stolen interviews at the house of a married sister of the plaintiff, who with sisterly affection contrived this happiness for them. But a second interruption was made to the lovers' dreams, and from some cause or inter ference, the exact nature of chick did not transpire, a fresh separation took place. The disconsolate fair one returned the letters that had breathed of love and devotion to him from whom they had come, and to whom she had given, in all its warmth and purity, her virgin heart and aft ctions. She bad deeply felt the first separation which had taken place ; but this second was a blow which bid fair to blanch her damask( d cheek, and dull the lustre of her lovely eye. Her health was impaired, to recover which her father, with parental affection, sent her to London for change of air and scene, and kept her there as a parlour boarder for almost a year. In the meantime the defendant had left, the place, and gone to join his regi ment, which he entered us an ensign about this time. Some time in 1842 the father of the defendant died, and left the defendant about 4,000/. or 5,000/. After his father's death, the defendant returned for a time to Ta vistock. He had separated from that maiden who had awakened all his youthfu. fire, and at the desire of his deceased parent had promised to give up all pretensions to her love ; but as it appeared the shaft which had been fixed in his heart had never been withdrawn, and his heart was still beating with the warmest emotions of love for the young and beautiful Eliza Hillyard Commins, the - rtatna.of the fair p!aintiff. He first met . her at a party, where it did not appear any communica tion took place between them. A few nights after he again met her at a public ball, where his reserve was broken and his resolution taken that she should be his wife. He employed one of his sisters as his mediator, and she confessed her task was not a difficult one. The plaintiff lent a ready ear to the wish the defendant had expressed, and the parties once more stood in the ro mantic and endearing relation of lovers. The defendant at this time called on the plaintiff's father, declared that his affection remained unabated for his daughter, and requested his sanction and permission to renew and continue his addresses. Mr. Commins replied, that the death of the defendant's father had removed the principal obstacle to his consent, and that if his in tentions were pure and honourable he should not ob ject. " But," added he, " remember, there must be no more breaking off the affair, if it is again commenced." The defendant assured him that his intentions were most honourable, that he had resolved on making her his wife, and nothing would ever induce him to forget or forsake his darling Hillyard. On this assurance Mr. Commins gave his consent, and from that time the gal lant soldier was received in the plaintiff's family as her affianced husband. A few days after this the defendant was obliged to quit Tavistock to join his regiment. Then began the correspondence, extracts of which were read to the Court, and which convulsed all present with laughter. So hotly did the love of the gallant son of Mars burn at this time, that he could net proceed fur ther titan Exeter, before he found it necessary to ease his over-charged heart by writing to his lady-love, from whose arms he had just been torn away. He commenced his letter, "Hy dearest ever devoted Hillyard." He then went on to depict the misery he had suffered from the moment he had been torn from her, and declared that he had been crying almost every moment since. A thousand loves and angels, dears and darlings, followed, with a conclusion vowing eternal love and fidelity. The next day! the valiant ensign had got as far as Bristol. Distance had only increased his passion, and rendered his misery more acute. Ile sat down and wrote another letter. This commenced, "My dearest dear, dear, dear, dearest dear;" and then, attempting to declare the effect of his anguish, he declared it had so operated on him that he had hardly a bit of hair left on his he s a tolae d lgulmo . lfotykvi: A feveraa l l)a - ss.. though he had thus in his anguish made himse:f bald, it was necessary that he should proceed, and the next 'etter was dated from Birmingham, where at that time his regiment was lying. The correspondence continued, and one might judge by the number of " dears," " sweets," " angels," " pets," and " darlings," the love of the valiant ensign by no means decreased. On ono occasion he so far forgot his fair correspondent as to write a word or two about himself. He writes thus : " You don't think it, but I assure you the ladies fall very e te av parson, r t io l s e th . ahwninisacdoisesa't bad h o a m Y e d a t o o l 4 , n d ue ee a i a l n s t n rt h d i at la y : sd a t a : • ‘ 111 Judge judge, u el t k e d n nr t e i i eg e a i e nt nt l nd l m b l n o l e c c , t k h a b cs u i o n t an l: : in much the thing I assure you."—(llere there were roars of laughter, compelled to join.) At last the def en d ant wrote to say that he gained his lieutenantcy wi t h out purchase, and that he longed to have his beloved with him, and that she must fix a day for their wedding. The answer was not real, but at no great distance of time from this lie once more came to Tavistock. The happy day was fixed, t e g d l c i l t ing an —l' interview heri ' with the plaintiff's lo and behold ! the false dresses were made, the bridesm a id c h osen , f r i en d s in vited, cakes prepared, together with a ll th e usua l para phernalia of o liars of sot a wedding—when, father, and informed him that he had found, from com municating with his brother, who lived in Tavistock, that his means would not be so good as he expected ; and he therefore thought it was no use to marry. The father expostulated, but in rain ; he had made up his mind, o the plaintiff Under these circumstances n f Court to seek that compensa tion insulted feelings which the , a r n d h would hadr%o t gonei trot tide change.intted jury should determine her to be entitled to. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE addressed the jury for the defendant, contending that what he had done was nn act of prude nce, for which the plaintiff would have great cause to rejoice, and which, therefore, ought not to be visited with heavy damages. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up. The jury then requested permission to leave the Conrt. This they did, and were absent a considerable time. On their return they gave their verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 700/. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Erma.) Samuel Hayden was indicted fur the murder of his in fant daughter, Mary Hayden, by giving her a quantity of hartshorn. Mr. Tyrrell and Mr. Kekewich prosecuted ; the pri soner was defended by Mr. Cox. It appeared that the prisoner had lived at Bradninch, is this county, and that in February last he heel lost his wife in giving birth to the child whom, by the indictment on which he was arraigned, he was charged to have mur dered. The wife died about eleven days after the birth of the child. He then made arrangements with his wife's sister to take and keep the child, for which he was to pay her 2s. 3d. per week. In consequence of this, she took the child to her house, and commenced the duties of a foster-mother to it, and up to the day of its death the poor little thing appeared in good health. On the 17th of February the prisoner's wife was buried. He had been ill for some little time, and had kept his bed. He ex pressed a hope that his sister-in-law, who was coming to the funeral, would bring his child with her, as he said he very much wished to have her with him whilst trey were burying his wife. The child was brought and carried to the prisoner, who was in bed. There it was left whilst its foster-mother went down stairs and saw the funeral depart. On her again taking the child she perceived that its little mouth was very much swollen, and found that it refused the breast. She mentioned this to the prisoner, who did not say that he had given it anything, but remarked that it had appeared to suck with difficulty before. The child continued to moan, and appeared to grow worse and worse. The woman took it to the house of a medical man, whom she did not find at home, and consequently she carried the child back to her own house, without any medical advice. At four o'clock that morn ing the child was a corpse. Suspicions were awakened. An examination oft& child took place, when the cause of its death was discovered to be some irritant poison, which had most dreadfully burnt and excoriated its mouth and throat, from the effects of which it died. Evidence was given that the father had, a few days before, purchased a pennyworth of hartshorn, and a constable, on searching his room, found concealed in a hole in the floor of the room in which he slept a bottle, which, it was proved, was the one in which the hartshorn had been fetched. The prisoner had been taken up and ex amined before the Coroner. When in custody he had stated to the constable and the foreman of the Coroner's jury thet the child was cry ing and appeared ill, that he had been taking some hartshorn himself immediately before, which had done him a great deal of good, and that thinking it would benefit, the child, he had given it about half a teaspoonful ; that he had no idea it would injure it, or he should not have given it, and that he should not have given it at all, had he not been in such distress of mind as not to know what he was about. Medical men had stated that they had no &edit, the child had died from taking the hartshorn, which was a poison if administ, red by itself and undiluted with water. But they had never known a person killed by hartshorn before ; and it was constantly taken mixed in water by the peasants in that neighbourhood as a very wholesome medicine. It was proved by another witness that the prisoner had, as he stated, taken some in water a few days before. Mr. Cox addressed the jury for the prisoner. Mr. Justice ELME summed up, pointing out the many circumstances in the case which tended to throw a doub& on the guilt of the prisoner. After a short consultation, the jury returned a verdic of Not Guilty. Carmarthen, March 20. MURDER, DE A 130L—Eucut Lloyd, a boy aged_ nine years, was charged with having, on the 13th September, 1844, thrown stones at, and struck, a boy named Daniel Jones, and that Daniel Jones died on the 14th of Sep tember, and that he (Evan Lloyd) feloniously and with malice aforethought killed Daniel Jones. The prisoner, a little boy with a downcast look, pleaded not guilty. Mr. Chilton, Q.C., and Mr. N. Carne appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. V. Williams defended the prisoner. Mr. CHILTON, in stating the case to the jury, said that in his long experience he had never had the misfortune to meet with a case in any respect its parallel. The pri soner was a boy of the age of nine years, a son of Thomas Lloyd, of the parish of Llanfihangel-ar-arth. The father of the unfortunate deceased was a labourer, named John Jones, residing in the same parish. The boy who was murdered was a mere infant, three years old, and certainly could have injured•no one. That the infant died on the 13th of last Septemberwould be placed beyond all doubt, and that he died from the effectS of external injuries was equally certain. That these inju ries could not have been inflicted by the deceased him self, and that they were not the result of accident was al-o certain. The child was found in a ditch, with a number of stones lying about him. He had bled pro fusely, and the stones were covered with blood. The jury would have two questions to determine ; first, whe ther the prisoner threw a stone and struek the deceased with it; and secondly, whether at the time he did so, he had a guilty knowledge that he was doing wrong. Until from circumstances the contrary was made to appear every killing of a fellow creature was accounted by the law to be murder. However, there could scarcely, he would confess, be m dice aforethought in a child like the prisoner. Under seven years of age no proof whatever could justify the conviction of a child of felony. Above fourteen a child was subject to the same laws as those of mature age. Between those ages the law said that an infant should be deemed prima facie incapable of com mitting a crime, unless the eontrery should appear. Malice, however, supplied the proof which is requisite, that is the criminal intent. The presumption that the child is incapable may be rebuttt dby strong and fre quent evidence of its capacity to do a guilty action. There was no proof that the child's body had been hid den in the ditch, but after the child had been missed and a search had been instituted, the prisoner had denied any knowledge of him. Again, while the search for the child was proceeding, and 14 h en the people were going in the direction where the body was afterwards fund, the prisoner told them that that part of the field had already been searched. Mr. CIIILTON then proceeded to call witnesses for the prosecution : John Jones—l live at Llanfihangel-ar-arth. I had a little boy named Daniel Jones, who died on the 13th of September, 1844. He was four years old wanting six weeks. I saw him the day before he died on the boun dary hedge between Coedlaney and my place. He was playing with Evan Lloyd. I saw him next between six and seven o'clock that night in my house. I was not in the house when he was brought in. Ile was covered with blood. Hannah Davies—l live at Llanfihangel-ar-arth. I heard that Jones's child was missing. Between four and five in the evening I was searching for him. I saw pri soner at the bar at the top of the field called Panty bro. I found the child. Panty bro is the field I afterwards found him in. It was a large field's breadth from the place where I found the body that I met the prisOner. I asked him if he saw the little boy of Danywaun. Ile said " Yes." I asked him where be was playing with him—a-lkttle before dinner. Where did he go to after wards, I said. He said that he had sent him home. He said that the boy went from him to sit by the side of his father's house. I then went with the people to search. Another woman, named Lydia Davis, saw the child first. I saw her when she found him. lfhe child was found in the field of Pantybro-Gellyvelin. That was divided from the one I met the prisoner in by a road. He was all over blood. The blood that was not dry was on the back of his head. It was bleeding then. I saw some stones there. They were white stones ; from I Pb. to 21b. in weight. I saw about six stones. Some were stained with blood. The stones were lying by the child's side. Lydia Davis carried him home to his mother. I showed Sarah Thomas the place where the child was found. Cross-examined by Mr. V. WILLIAMS—The field where I spoke to the prisoner was adjoining the field where the body was found, only divided by a lane. By the COURT—I found the child about seven o'clock. Sarah Thomas—l live at Highgate, in the parish of Llanfihangel-ar•arth. I was near the prisoner's father's house on the 13th of September, reaping. I met the prisoner at the bar about half-past six—he was coming out of the field in which the child was found who had received the injury ; it is called Pentybro-Gellyvelin. He was coming out over the stones which filled the gap. There was no gate. I asked him if he hail seen the child that was missing. He said " No, I did not." Hannah Davies showed me the spot where the child was found next morning. That was within sight from where I saw prisoner coming over the stones, about ten yards. I met some people looking for the child. Cross-examined—l did not know how far it Was from the gap. She told me ten yards.' I' showed William W illiarns where I stood, and where the prisoner came out of the gap. It was here stated by Mr. Chilton that he would take his Lordship's opinion as to whether the statements of the prisoner to a policeman could be received as evidence. Ills LORDSHIP said that it appeared by the deposition that the first statement made by the prisoner was to the policeman, and he told the prisoner that it would be better for him to tell the truth. Under these circum stances, the admission or confession could not be re- eel ved. Mr. CHILTON said that he had no further evidence to offer, and he would therefore decline proceeding to the jury. His LORDSHIP then directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, and the boy was then ordered to be handed over to his parents. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. William Boggriss, aged 35, a respectably dressed person, was charged with obtaining from Messrs.Ranken and Co. of Honey-lane-market, a quantity of damask, value 5 1. 10s ,in the name of Messrs. Cowper 'and Co., of St. Paul's Churchyard, and afterwaHs disposing of the same without cuthority. Mr. William Husband, a salesman, in the employ of Ranken and Co., proved that, on Thursday last, the pri soner obtained three packages, containing a dozen and a half of table-cloths, of the value of 5!. 103., which were delivered to him by witness. Knowing that he had pre viously obtained goods for Cowper and Co., the invoice. was made out in the name cf that firm by a fellow clerk named Young. Mr. H. Nash, of the firm of Ccwper and Co., St. Paul's Churchyard, stated that the prisoner had been in their employ as warehouseman for upwards of seven years. On Thursday last a " corrected" invoice of the above goods was sent from Messrs. Ranken and Co., with a request. that the one given to the prisoner might be re turned. The prisoner immediately said that the goods wire for himself, but witness's suspicions being aroused he proceeded to R3nken and Co.'s warehouse, where he was informed that the prisoner had obtained the goods, whereupon the latter said he had purchased them for Mr. Kidd, of Tottenham-court-road, who paid him 31. 13s. for them. _ . Mr. Andrew Kidd, of 120, Tottenham-court-road, was then sworn. _ _ Alderman FAREBROTEER thought it proper to caution him against saying anything which might in the slight est degree criminate himself, as it was proved he had purchased the goods at an extraordinary low price. Mr. Kidd said he wished to tell all he knew of the transaction. When the prisoner brought the goods to his shop he stated that they belonged to his cousin, who lived in Essex, and he wished to tiitpose of them, as he was short of money. The goods were purchased fora 12s. At the request of the solicitor who appeared on behalf of the prosecution, the prisoner was remanded until Saturday, when it is expected keveral other charges of a like nature will be brought forward againat him. BO W-STREET Two men, named Boyd and Phillips, were charged with having in their possession a quantity of cambric handkerchiefs, alleged to have bet n smuggled. It appeared from the evidence of a person named Palmer, who described himself as a captain on half-pay, that he met the prisoner Phillips in Holborn, and in consequence of certain representations made by him, he was induced to accompany him to a public-house in that neighbourhood, where he found the other prisoner Boyd. That some cambric handkerchiefs were then produced, which the prisoners represented to be of foreign manu facture, and which witness was ultimately induces to purchase at the price of one sovereign, but afterwards, having reason to suspect that he had been imposed upon, he made an excuse to leave the room, to which he after wards returned with a policeman, and gave the prisoners into his custody. The prisoners, in order to convince him that the articles were of foreign manufacture, gave him a foreign bill of parcels for them, which they told him he might keep for his own satisfaction. Mr. Bayley, an officer of the Customs, attended, and he stated that he had examined the articles, which were undoubtedly of British manufacture. He then called the attentic n of the Court to the Act of Parliament, which stated that no person was justified in giving any party into custody for an offence of this description, unless he was expressly authorised so to do by the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs. Mr. JARDINE, on reference to the Act, found that officers on full pay of her Majesty's army, navy, or marine, had power to detain goods of this description, in whatever possession they might find them, but all other persons detecting an offence of the kind must p rocee d b y information, and subsequent summons, or in the Court of Exchequsr. Mr. Bayley said he did not know anything of the pro. secutor in the present case, and at all evetits he had not the authority of the officer of Customs to give the pri soners into custody. Mr. JARDINE said that under these circumstances the prisoners could not be detained, and he ordered them to be immediately discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREE7. Margaret Dobson, an Irishwoman, living at No. 23, Crown street, Soho, was brtaight htzfure Mr. Ifor,lwiek, charged with stealing an infant four months old, and its clothing. When the prisoner was put to the bar, she bad an infant in her arms. She hugged it. and caressed it, evi dently with the intention of attracting notice towards her extraordinary exhibition of fondness, and when the real mother made her appearance she called out, " You're the woman that w :zits my dear baby, but you'll not get it ; you'll get my life first." Caroline Swan, when sworn, said she was a brush maker, living at No. 11, Playhouse-yard, Whitecross street, and she got her living by going about the streets selling her goods. On the 15th of last February she was out selling her goods, when she " put in" at the Spot ted Dog public-house, Goodge-street, T9tteuhara•cogt. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIR CUI T.—Ea - der, March 21. This being Good Friday, the Learned Judges attended Divine service in the Cathedral. The Courts, therefore, were not opened for business till one o'clock. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.) Mary Hayes vies indicted for having maliciously set fire, on the 25th of January last, to a dwelling-house, eith intent to defraud John Pyke. Mr. Kirkwich and Mr. Cornish prosecuted. The prisoner was defended by Mr. White. This proved a most singular and extraordinary case in all its details. It appeared that the prisoner was a servant to a person named Lashbrobk, who was a farmer rentint , and occupying a farm belonging to Captain Pyke. On the Monday before the 20th of January last, the farmhouse was on fire. The fire was extinguished. On the following day the house was again on fire, which was again put out. On the Wedtit.sday, the day after, the roof of the house was again seen to be on fire by one of the workmen of Mr. Lashbrook, who was at work at the time in the farm-yard. lle mounted a ladder which was standing by the house, and, seeirg where the fire was in the root; he succeeded in putting it out. Whilst thus ergagt d, he saw the prisoner, through a hole in the ceiling of the room, w Welt had been made the day before, fling a quantity of lighted reed through this hole, under- Leath the thatched roof, and she tolit him that he was not to touch it, but let it burn if it would, as her mistress had given orders to that effect. It appeared that the witness did let it burn, and the consequence was that the entire house was consumed. When the prisoner was taken up she admitted that she had set fire to the house, but added that it was by her mistress's express orders, who had said that the sin would lie at her door, and that it w as quite right the 01l house should be burned, as she bad lived there thirty years, and nothing had been done to it except nailing up a few boards to the stairs. She also said that she would not care if old Pyke was on the top of it, as he refused to do anything to make them comfortable. Mr. WHITE addressed the jury for the prisoner, con tending that the prisoner had acted under her mistress's orders, without being at all aware of the consequences of the act she was committing. Mr. Justice EIILE summed up, telling the jury that a party in the eye of the law are always taken to intend the consequences which his acts were likely to produce. After a long conversation, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Thc Learned JUDGE remarked, as there were very peculiar circumstances in this case, he should not then pa s sentence, but consider as to what judgment he ought to pronounce. . Ma:eh 22. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and a Special Jury. DREAM OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. COMMIES V. WILT ISFORD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation from the th lendunt for a breach of pro mise of marriage. The defendant pleaded that he did not promise, with a second pica, which amounted in sub stance to a release. . Mr. Crowder, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Butt, and Mr. Col lier, conducted the plaintiff's case; Mr. Sergeant King lake and Mr. Smith appeared for the defendant. The facts proved on the part of the plaintiff were shortly as follow:—Loth the parties were native; of Tavistock, in which place the father of the plaintiff of as cashier and bead clerk in the Tavistock Bank, whilst the defendant's father had for many years practised as an attorney there. Living in the same country town the young people were of course ac- road, to refresh herself with half a pint of ale. While drinking, the ale the prisoner came and sat alongside of her, and began asking some questions about the child. The prisoner looked at the child, and said it was a very pretty boy, and then she told witness she was wait ing for her sister, who was about to leave her place, at No. 15, London•street, Fitzroy-square. The prisoner asked her to carry a message for her to her sister's, to say she (the prisoner) was waiting for her. The prisoner said it would appear strange to take a baby to a respectable helve, especially as the lady was very particular, and, therefore, she begged complainant to leave the baby with her. The prisoner then took the infant, and complainant went to London-street. She had not been away more than two minutes, when she found, on her return, that the prisoner had gone and taken the baby with her. Complainant made search and inquiry, but could hear o tidings of the prisoner until last Wednesday night, when she met the prisoner accidentally near St. Giles's Church. She had only seen the prisoner once before, but recognised her imme diately, and the prisoner also knew her again, for she instantly ran off towards Crown-street. Complainant pursued her and said, " You wretch, you stole my baby." The prisoner struggled to get away, and asked her what she wanted with her. Complainant called " police," but no assistance came, and the prisoner broke away from her and made her escape. Complainant at last as certained who she was and where she lived, and went with the constable to No. 23, Crown-street, and on going upstairs and knocking at the door of a back room, the prisoner opened it, but on seeing complainant imme diately shut the door in her face. Complainant got into the room, and saw her baby on the bed. - Mr. HARDWICK--`'''ere any clothes found in the pri soner's room by which the infant can be more com pletely identified 7—Police-constable E 102 found a child's shirt and bed-gown, fi Melt he now produced. The complainant said these articles were part of the infant's clothing vk hen the baby was stolen from her. The constable further stated that when the prisoner was accused of stesling . the baby she protested it was her own child, and that she had been delivered of it in the house of a woman named Sullivan, living in Upper Gren. ilk-street, Somers -town. . Mr. HARDWICK (to the prisoner)—Where were you confined, and when ? Prisoner—l went on the 14th of February to be confined at my friend's place ; they wanted me to go into St. Giles's Workhouse, but I would not, and so I eras confined. Mr. IlAnnwwx—Then you were confined at this woman's house ? Prisoner—No ; I was confined in the street near the church. Mr. llAnDwicK—Where did you take the baby? Pri soner— To Mrs. Sullivan's, and 'stopped there some days. A woman, named Sullivan, was called. She said she recollected the prisoner coming to her about nine c'cluck one night in the middle of last February. She had a child with her, and she appeared very poorly. The child had a cap and clothing on. It. appeared dre. sed as infants generally sire. The prisoner was carrying the child, and walking without assistance. The chief clerk (Mr. Fitzpatrick) told the gao'er to bring the infant to him, to give him an opportunity of judging of its age. The prisoner banded him the child, which was immediately given to its real mother. The prisoner, seeing this, said, " Won't I get back my baby ? then see how I'll (lie ;" at the same time setting up a sort of a prolonged cry, known as an " Irish howl," until lodged in the lock-up cell. In addition to the evidence, the infant's clothes found in the prisoner's room, and the identification of the in fant by its own mother, the constable found the dress worn by the prison when she stole the child, in ber room, of which dress the complainant had given a de scription when she mentioned the loss of her child. The prisoner was fully committed. CROYDON. Mr. Richard Messenger. a paw nbroker at Croydon, was charged, upon information I.id by Mr. Cilarles Leigh Hoskins Master, the Chairman of the Godstone Board of Guardians, with having taken certain articles on pledge from one names Herriett, and with having neglected to make a proper entry of the transaction in his book, and also neglecting to make the proper inquiries of the person who pledged the property as to whether he was a lodger or housekeeper ; and likewise with neglecting to place the letter L. for the former, or 11. for the latter description of the person, upon the ticket. Mr. Richards attended on behalf of the Board of Guardians of the Godstone Union, by %horn the pro ceeding was instituted, and Mr. R. Russell appeared for the defendant. It appeared that some time in March of last year a man named James Herriett, who was at the time an in mate of the Godstone Union Workhouse, absconded with some blankets and other articles, the property of the guardians. Inquiry was set on foot, and it was at length ascertained that llerriett had pledged the stolen articles at Mr. Messenger's, and upon his being appre hended Mr. Messenger was requested to attend and give evidence. He at first did not do so, but on the se- cond examination he attended and produced a duplicate, which, upon being examined by the officers of the union, did not appear to them to be in conformity with the re. quirements of the Act of Parliament ; they, therefore, directed the present proceeding to be adopted. Mr. Richards observed,•in opening the case to the bench, that it was very important for the public that pawn brokers should be compelled to act up to the letter of the Act of Parliament, and comply with all those regula tions which were necessary to prevent facilities being given for the disposal of stolen property. James Ilerriett, the prisoner alluded to in the infor mation, and who stated that he had come from the county gaol, a here he was undergoing a sentence of im prisonment for unlawfully disposing of the articles in question, was c xamined as a witness, and deposed that on the 21st of March, 1844, he pawned two blankets at the defendant's shop for 45., end the name he gave was James Strep. He adds d, that he did not recollect that Mr. Messenger asked him arty questions as to whether he was a housekeeper or a lodger; but he said that all he did was to give him a ticket and 4i. That ticket he had since destroyed. Some discussion here took place as to whether parole evidence could be given of. what appeared upon the du plicate produced by the defendant before the bench at Godstone, and at length Mr. Russell said that to save trouble upon the point, Mr. Messenger was ready to produce his book, and also the duplicate. Mr. Messenger accordingly produced a duplicate, and a book containing entries of pledges made in the month in question. The duplicate and the entry appeared to be both in the proper form; but Gower, the master of the workhouse, who had been summoned as a witness, ex pressed his opinion that the duplicate now produced was not the same that was brought to Godstone. Mr. Messenger requested the witness Gower to be cautious in what he stated, for ulterior proceedings would certainly be taken if he stated what was fal e. Mr. LUCAS told the witness that he was throwing a very serious imputation upon Mr. Messenger, and be requested him to look at the duplicate again carefully, and then say whether he persisted in his former state ment. Gower having done so, declared his belief to be that the duplicate now produced was entirely different from the one he formerly saw in Mr. Messenger's possession. Mr. Russell -I hen addressed the Bench and submitted that the charge against the defendant had altogether failed in proof. He said that Mr. Messenger had been long known in the town as a most respectable tradesman, and far from his ever having given any facility in the disposing of stolen property, he could, if it were neces sary, show by the evid,nce of the police that he had on several occasions given them valuable information and assistance to discover offenders. _ _ _ The Magistrates, after a very short deliberation, ex pressed their ►pinion that the evidence was not sufficient to support any of the charges against the defendant, and the information must therefore to dismissed. THE CONVICT TAWELL. AYLESBURY, SATURDAY.—The unfortunate Tawell is said to be somewhat more composed and resigned to his fate to-day than he has hitherto been. The authorities of the gaol are as close as possible in regard to him, and it is therefore with much difficulty that any inform ation can be obtained. He continues to be supplied with dinner from the White Hart in the same way as he used to be previously to the trial. It is remarked by some, that this indulgence to him is such as most pro bably would not have been granted to a poorer man if he was placed in the same position ; at least, such has never been the case before. As it is, however, near nine years since any one has been executed at Aylesbury, and then, perhaps, the party under sentence might not have been enabled to pay for a dinner sent to him from an inn in the town, it is just possible that this inference may be, unjust. It is expected that his wife will pay him another visit on Monday. She is in a dreadfully depressed state, and seems even now to be thoroughly impressed with a conviction of his innocence. A petition has been got up in the town, to be presented to the Secretary of State, praying that the sentence may be transmuted to transportation for life. The petition, however,goes more upon the general principle of the impolicy of capital punishments than upon any assumed probability of the verdict of the jury in Tawell's case not being strictly in accordance with the truth. The petition has been signed by about 120 persons ; amongst these are the names of one Baptist minister (the only clergyman who has signed it),' and the foreman of thejury who found him gulty. In the town there ap pears to be a very general aversion to capital punish ments ; and many even who do not go so far as to say that capital punishments ought in all cases to be abo lished, appear to think that executions ought not to be public. It is said that on Friday next, when i; is fully expected that the execution will take place, the shops will be closed. The general impression as to the guilt of the unhappy man appears to increase. The more calmly all parties are enabled to think upon the subject, the more fully do they seem convinced that the verdict of the jury is a proper one. Within the last few days a circumstance has come to light which would hare been of material importance on the trial, and wh'.ch now has the effect of corroborating the impression of his guilt. It is stated that in the omnibus, in which it will be recollected he travelled a short way after he had left the deceased, Sarah Hart, an empty bottle was found, having a label on it marked "Schecle's Prussic Acid." This was found by the conductor, but some of Tawell's friends not intelligence of the fact, and through their in fluence,'backed, perhaps, with "substantial reasons," it was kept " dark" until the trial was over. It is supposed that the tinfortunwe man must, in Lis confusion, have dropped this in the omnibus. Although the Quakers have expelled him from the society, yet, with a strange inconsistency, many of their body continue to visit him. Many religious tracts have also been forwarded to him by them, which, it is said, he reads with the greatest attention. The part of his con duct, since his conviction, which is considered to be the most strange and unaccountable is the fact that he never makes any allusion to the awful crime of which he has been found guilty. Many, from this, are inclined to draw conclusions unfavourable to him ; and it also tends to strengthen the conjeettite that he will not make any con fession. TIIE CONDEMNED CONVICT TAPPING. FINAL IN lER,VIEW WITH HIS RELATIVF' S '„i All hope of saving the life of this wretched eric etne i has been set at rest by the reply of the Secretalit, State, Sir James Graham, to the petitions forwardt d him to be presented to her Majesty. According to previous desire, Saturday was apPei llt , for his final interview with his relatives, and—distilesi ing, as certainly such event might appear—certain it, that the parting took place in a manner rather prising, as far as regards their deliberate self-pes se o, mon. At noon, his sister, who is a very pleasing , '', l o behaved girl, about sixteen years of age, with younger brothers and sisters, and an elder breib e ' visited him in his condemned cell, which eireunistall',. afforded him much consolation. Ile appeared d e eply s' wiled to the younger branches—very so ; a nd quently kissed them. His sister begged that he "° a ; confess to his sins, assuring him that such a step the only sure means of gaining that mercy w hl i c ie could not be shown to him in this world. replied, " What am I to confess ? Surely I 1' 1 , 5 3, not dic with a lie in m mouth. She is " 6 and so shall I be ; and God Almighty Nill 40,1), know I cannot confess more than what I have." was his general replies ; and, after being with hil n e about an hour, they bade him adieu—a most a ffeetiel7if, adieu—of this world ; and, with an extraordinary'.. possession that marked the whole party, this intero ended, and the relatives left the prison. "' l°s The present destitute state of the culprit's fangl ) excited a fi eling of much commiseration, and a subg r q,:f tion has been set on foot amongst the tradesine.%, Pe:hnal green to in some way alleviate their suff erl ( N They arc left fatherless and motherless ; and, bi te J Tapping may have been ;considered, yet he surerto them, with a little assistance or his sister, for neer l s:,,ipg years. They are at present in the receipt of one s h " b. and sixpence out-door relief from S. Matthew's, 8et,11,111 green, and, unless some benevolent hand is stretc hed in their behalf, their sufferings from want will be s evere t, felt. They live in a narrow court, in Mancheste r-sir mr, Bethnal green, and either of the guardians of the or the vestry clerk of the parish, or even the rector !eif we are sure, receive any amount towards relieving tu condition. THE CONDEMNED SERMON. Yest , relay, tl.e nntortunate man James Tapo l ' pt stands condemned for the murder of Emma Whitentio Bethnal-green, heard the condemned sermon in to chapel of Newgate. The Rev. Mr. Davis, chap lain the gaol, officiated. At a quarter pest ten o'clock, at which time those e d, were favoured with cards by the Sheriffs were adin it A t e t, a number of applicants, not having the necessary 191.-15 were refused ; and among these, the unfortunate Inith brother was one of the most pertinacious. He met n.„r, an indignant remonstrance from the worthy goverue're Mr. Cope, on the indelicacy of his request to sit sill spectator of his wretched relation's demeanour. the A considtrable number of those who did IS ss t be gateway were ftmah s ; and certainl7 the taste latP c eil a very morbid one, indeed, which 'could have Win, them to lay aside the delicacy of their sex in the g ril • cation of an unfeminine curiosity. off The Sheriff and one or two of the Aldermen present at the service. I'Or °. Shortly before eleven the prisoner Tapping gass ),f duet d. Ile was shortly followed by Thomas Henry 110 c oft and they were accommodated with chairs placed.,ariloel. from the rest of the audience, and on opposite sl'ose the room. They were, however, facing the clerg Ole Tapping seemed stouter than when last seen at Wei Batley. His manner was grave and resigned, 11,13,fir15 evidently paid the deepest attention to the differei" j be ee of the beautiful Church service. Occasionally, .I'olo the subject of the lesson seemed applicable to hi o ls , painful situation, he covered his face with his hi! Hecker exhibited the same callous indifference `.,e19 has marked his manner all along, lie sor netita cs .4 $ 0 a furtive glance at the other prisoner, as if wisbljtioo observe with what spirit he bore his peculiar riocet and until the service commenced his eyes wanders tedl° the general body of the prisoners who were permit be present. c i Tapping made the responses in an under tone , on Hecker made them in a voice firm and audibferg' during the service of the communion, when the c,iso,: man rehearsed the Commandments, at the title ° e " thou shalt do no murder," while Tapping q - e r response, Hecker, in a voice easily heard 13,roclilit/ chapel, replied, " Lord have mercy upon . us , and our hearts to keep this law 1" o ePi; After the morning service bad been recd, 1h 1 lain preached from the 4th verse of the 130th , c 6 ; 0 0 "For there is forgiveness with the e, that thou be found." .t The preacher, after adverting to the fag° el' of man, and instancing the cases of several of ,t_ be , 1b 1 wise and holy of the Scripture worthies to sn, - e,; they and all had need of pardon and indulge°c;:ose` seeded to state, that though earthly judges vvere P: c - t ;11 0 error, and often capricious in their decisions, )foit,t't One Judge above, supreme over all, the infinite, , ate immutable, would deal mercifully with the v, e h rl a of sinners, if he but came before his throne wit", a jy‘ trite and a humbled spirit. There had been eir' fered an all-atoning sacrifice the blood of hi 6 ° ,5 to loved Son, and through him there was 'forgiver' found for the meanest of his creatures. But th e „sem i hardened in his iniquity, might not hope to, (beo; There was no hope that at that bar there escape, from any informality or irregularity in !, — Lis dure. His guilt e ould be clear as noonday, an "nre# nishment would be certain and eternal. The r;„po' then referred to the spirit of the English law 55 1111P . ,,4 1' to gratuitous concession on the part of the c' cow, i Clergymen were liable to be called into oCc a , y o l , •, / there to reveal what might have been told t o the seal of confidence. They were, therefore, e t hn f obliged to address prisoners in the first instan,coose:; " The lessyou say to us the better for ) l i s f!:.! and, therefere, y keep us in ignorance." W as n ot i imo e: f tern quite opposed to the principle of the Ssee,rato Oh, that men of judgment, that the their country would think of these thing s. 11th„.h„ eto of voted much time, and care, and iettent i en , to ujito qd dation of every fact connected witli the painfu l ." rite re',! l e the unfortunate young man more immedi ately t he is in the proceedings of that day, and it apPeare bretbeot, had been most kind and gentle to his you n g e o r V l oe l —that his labour had been given to supp ort i t in fact, he had been as a father to them ; singuLr, then, that he should stand th ere „ o f 101 kind and so gentle. charged with a crim e c5O. enormous magnitude? The problem Ibis iii!" solved. Unfortunately, neither he nor I nce srl e s , tunate victim had had any religious ' 1 % 0 14 1 00 She had been in the habit of using certaiongies pressions calculated to raise in a jealous 10101 doubts of her constancy ; and other parties 13 % tittC those differences more, by penning the 1090,olithe insinuations under the cowardly and the up v ell h ,ll eurity of an anonymous signature. What h a o , bie result ? Oh !at that dread judgment, before hello, must appear, that sin, if untepentad, rous t u ,, c f one to answer for. He found that the rnorais, i ' feeii, l ll ,e l fortunate young man had been containinatt"oo3('ol operation of two causes ; first, the beer-shelllce i ll', places of nightly resort, dens of infamy frerocti the young female used to visit ; and, secondit, o ff I ,e l society of the prison inmates with whom t u t. " 14 0 00 e$ laws of his country had before cast his 1 00 trf 0 #' been three times before the judges of his c. ° „, con/ to r, r 0 acquitted, the second time committed for eo be 50 t and the third time si ntenced to die. The P r ea ciuded by a powerful exhortation to those P r i iee r e' walk in the truth that their end might not i. e „ oer e ,er The prisoners then left, and as soon as °r o le the conducted to their cells, the remaining P r sons present were dismissed. ~..e ef_ EXECUTION AT REAPlZeltilli). The wretched man, Thomas Jennings, 6 , 1 P - t roll - .., Creme penalty of the law on Saturday, in - , JD% new gaol, Reading. help - , 6. i was W i ., 9 i It will be remembered that the crirairsi -- sge o, i!,fe -i ry fore Mr. Baron Platt, at the Berkshire ns t s .a '' o ttrw . the above place, on the 3d inst., for the Wil l " - A 1 1 ' 8 his daughter, at the village of Thatchain• y i s itc", 0 0 ' At an early hour the Rev. Chaplai ll „ the 10tel wretched man, and remained with him untni.n,,rlo J; ment of his earthly career. Pretisely St j'A-Ao toll. di past twelve o'clock the prison bat cominencel'io tbe47P that time the whole of the vacant ground ° c oed 1 ), to the front of the railway, nearly .two W.,. f: cek was literally studded with human beings, los`;',,fo l o iti` bad [yen waiting many hours to witness the l at iothet,o l „: Mr. Mitchell, superintendent of the Reading, *„/ Ch a d or Mr. Collard, chief inspector,. pany's officer, were required to keep the i : ie prer o or getting upon the line. Owing to the adrnir iL ha d s t be!,,, i‘ tions made by Mr. Willats, the Mayor, w ho lia p o e . 4o e bur of barriers erected in the Forbury, w, c ( t he rr ' , d i that a single accident occurred, althougo ' v Or e 0 0 was very great. and several- rem 0,,i, About five minutes past twelve o'ninc k til led l' e f rl procession reached the top of the gallows' f ass f' aoll; chaplain, who read in a most impressivs s, l ob burial service, the wretched man, Jen nin er e , e 9 with his eyes turned heavenwards, but we ko F rs), fo rt,,, to hear whether or not he responded t 0 tPrelifoldf'',, In the course of a few minutes all t° P,der. bo; _ ....00 / being finished, the fatal bolt was drawn ns tl ' 'PIO 1 wretched man was sent hence into eterniti•to to having hung the usual time was cut down , it 0 side the gaol. , e sr BIRTH N. ?,(O.' lP- ft tle On the 18th inst., at Finsbur - uare , Af ° Y 6 g ow he of a daughter. . e .tli e ~f t'' On the 15th inst., at Tarte' a ham Recta h i r. e . • Hon. and Rev. Francis Clemengts, of a daug""e P ) ' ' I l'' r e tell , ,e On the 18th inst., the lady of Edward Madras Civil Service, of a daughte r. e , Reg e'it' On the 18th inst., at C u mberland - te rrac ort t v, P iiil the wife of G. Rainy, Esq., of a son . v D. , • els B D On the 21st inst., at 18, DIE Great Stuart-sLf et' c i te, ' Alexander Blackwood, Esq. late 14t. ei le'' On the 15th inst., Elizabeth, relict of the rtb Dando of CheapsidP, ao-ed 82. 1 ., if t ': x p On t ' he 17th inst., aCCheltenham, F-An l ';'o'l e- . 0. ill' Leopold E. Dryden, Vicar of Whitnasli, NV 3 , k ,i3O r iqt t . 0 On the 18th inst., at I[alstead, Kent, 51r:ii.5110. ;001 On the 18th inst., at Chipping Nortou , i''' 13e ll ' l e e'- le (formerly Downing, ag.,'d 67, On the 19th hist., Elizabeth, the wife of then ttj3e ,o, , 0 0 Puckle. Rector of Gratiham, Hunts. gllt ei pil l .. r On the 19th inst., at Rochester, Ann, c l3ll l OlOD e 0 John and Mary Cook, of Booth street, Sr it „ 3 , l ce s l i dg et ,i. 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