The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS PROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The near approach of the period when Parliament will be called upon to decide whether the property and income-tax shall be abandoned, or con tinued in a modified form for a longer period, invests with peculiar interest the question of its superior fit ness as a means of obtaining the necessary supplies for the government and defence of the country, to an indirect system of taxation. This question is dis cussed, with considerable clearness, in the pamphlet on the property-tax by G. P. Bushe, Esq., to which we alluded on Monday. We resume our notice of that pamphlet, for the purpose of examining the writer's views on the expediency of continuing, and even perpetuating, the tax on property as a sub stitute for the existing system. Mr. Bushe strongly advocates a modification of the present income-tax, so as to convert it into a property tax, which shall be levied upon every description of property in the United Kingdom, whether the proprietor resides at home or abroad. One of the arguments—the expense of collect ing the indirect taxes—adduced in support of this re commendation, is worthy special attention. The pro portion which the means bear to the end, will always be a' consideration in the fiscal arrangements of a wise Government :—" The Customs produce annually about 22,000,0001., and the expense of the establish ment, in all its department, civil and military, for collecting this sum, is about 2,400,0001., or nearly 11 per cent. on the amount received. Now, according to the best authorities, about 19,000,0001. of the Customs' duties are obtained with comparative little difficulty or expense ; and it is to secure the other 3,000,0001. that a great part of the establishment is required ; the proportion of which is estimated at about 1,000,000/., or 33 per cent. on the sum collec ted." This most improvident expenditure—this waste of public money, the impolicy of which a careful re vision of our present system of taxation would expose, and thus prepare for its abandonment—is thus illus trated :—" If a merchant sends his clerk to call in moneys due to him ; and, on his return, the clerk makes out a bill for expenses amounting to one third of the sum brought home, the merchant will assuredly investigate the matter, and introduce very material alterations into his system of proceed ing." Yet it is in a precisely analogous manner that England, the most commercial nation in the world, has for a long time collected a large portion of' her revenues, and still continues to collect them. An abo lition of the Customs' duties which produce these three millions, would enable the Government to reduce the expense of a Customs' department by about a million —a clear saving to the country to this considerable ex tent. It is certain that the demands of the revenue must be supplied. The great mass of the labouring poor can only be enabled to pay an increased rate of taxation by an increased rate of wages; so that, after all, the means of taxation must be furnished by the wealthier classes. Some of these may be tempted to cry out against the increase of taxation to which they would be subjected by a tax upon property; but without reason. The further taxation is removed' from capital, and the more indirect its operation, the greater must be the cost of its collection ; or, in other words, the greater must be the sum lost in gather ing it in, and the greater the gross amount re quired for the services of the State. Nothing can be more unequal than the pressure, nothing more expen sive than the collection, of revenue from the great masses of' the population. If the labourer is to pay one shilling, the capitalist will have to supply him with much more than one shilling, in order to make up for the waste and profits of capital while passing through so many hands—downwards, from the capitalist to the labourer ; and upwards, from the la bourer to the tax-gatherer. The ultimate saving to the community by a system of direct taxation would be immense. Nor is this the only form in which the people would find relief from the substitution of direct for indirect taxation. It is under the veil of indirect taxa tion that monopoly, with all its miserable conse quences, has been allowed to stalk through the land. It is ,only because the evil is not discovered in its natural hideousness, that a bread-tax in the shape of corn-laws, or sugar-tax in the shape of protection to the West India interests, has been allowed to carry on its inordinate exactions. Were the wants of the State supplied from the property of its subjects, with out any circumambulations, the benefit would be felt by all. The burden would be equally distributed; and payment for protection would be made in pro portion to the value of the property protected. STANDARD.—At a late hour yesterday it was determined to withdraw the addition to the statute "de auctoritate," &c., intended to be proposed at the Oxford Convocation on the 13th prox. We deeply regret this determination, but we have been some time prepared for it by the multitude and variety of objections to the intended proceed ings which we have heard from different quarters— objections not proceeding from the Romanist party only or principally, but from men who highly prize the Protestant character of the Church and, Univer sity, prize it above everything, except—each man's display of his own private wisdom. It is a melan choly reflection that in the age in which we live, no united effort can ever be made upon mere reason and conviction—passion is the only feeling that will so far discipline our rampant self-opinion as to bring us to act in perfect harmony. Tell any one in cold blood that he must sacrifice this crotchet or that scruple to ensure the success of a common enterprise, and he will tell you that his crotchet or scruple is very precious in his eyes, and that he is not a man to compromise his own convictions in even a trifling matter; while in this very obstinacy about trifles he is making the meanest and most unprofitable of all compromises—selling a noble end for the saving of some petty means. This wretched temper of the time is almost a sufficient excuse for those who inflame men by appeals to their most violent passions before calling upon them to act in pursuit of any important object, a complete excuse for the authorities in the Church declining to take any definite course in repressing the evils that threaten the Church, and ultimately the State, with ruin. Men can be brought to concur in nothing definite, because such concurrence involves the humiliating confession, that there are others in the world as wise as one's self ; the offer of the most simple definite proposition is a sum mons to the exercise of that most vulgar and universally diffused of talents, the talent for " picking holes." What simpler proposition, in deed, can be imagined than this, that " men ought to be made to say only what they mean, and to mean what they say ?" Yet this is the proposition which cannot be safely hazarded at a convocation of a Christian Protestant university. This state of the public mind is distressing, not merely as affording protection to the most serious evils, but as proof of a great intellectual decline. Great men wrestle with or dispose of objections that little men weave about themselves, like some insects, until they are smothered in them. We need not reflect long to know whether the manufacturers of or the tramplers upon objections most advance the knowledge and the happiness of mankind ? Not all the Germans that ever lived—and they have ever been and are the great artists in this line—have done so much for human knowledge and learning as Locke and Butler, Bentley and Porson—men more remarkable for nothing than their contempt of the objection trade. The most eminent objector that ever disgraced this country was Mr. Malthus. He objected to feeding the poor, lest they should exhaust the granaries of Providence. He shad his day, as the objectors to making men speak truth will, we suppose, have theirs. Posterity will look upon both with equal contempt and pity. But Mr. Malthus was the cause of inde scribable evil ; and the objectors of whom we have now to complain will, we have no doubt, be the authors of even worse evil. Let us not be understood as imputing blame to the Oxford Board ; they have done their part nobly in, framing the sta tute, and perhaps they have used a sound discretion in withdrawing it. We know not whether it is com petent to a single %ember of Convocation to propose the measure. If to, we have no doubt that it will be proposed—aye, and carried too—while the Board will be relieved rom the responsibility of having it carried by a small majority. RESIGNATION OF MR. BARON GURNEY.—Mr. Baron Gurney, in consequence of continued ill-health and increasing weakness, has sent to the Lord Chan cellor his resignation of the high office of one of the Barons of the Exchequer, which the Learned Baron has tilled for some years with great ability and satisfaction to the bar a n d th e pu bli c . Th e genera l op i n i on i n West minster Hall is that Mr. Platt, Q.C., will succeed to the vacant seat on the Exchequer Bench, but of course no arrangement has at present been made.—Evening paper. WHITTLUSET.—AA an early hour on Sunday morning, or lat e on S aturday se ' nnight, some thieves brokeinto St. Andrew's church, by removing the glass from one of the windows. The communion chest was also found broken open, but fortunately the plate had previously been removed to a place of greater security.— Cambridge Advertiser. STATE OF TRADE.—The yarn market continues very active and buoyant, showingan advance one eighth . per pound in several descripti ons of y a rn, or n daily in 40's mule, suitable for th e India market, earslr.t, and some particular counts and qualities of w ater twist. The goods continue much the same a s last week ; prices are perfectly firm, and stocks low ; but, except for good 40-inch shirtings, which are in de mand, there is no great activity in the market.—Man chester Guardian. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 20. -There has been but a very indifferent market. Few buyers have attended, and the business transacted has been upan a limited scale. Manufacturers are asking more for pieces, on account of the increased price of the raw material—Manchester Guardian. Dispatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were re- Nived yesterday at the Colonial-office. TH A BISHOP AND A RECTOR. There is, in the north of Devon, a gentleman of large fortune, rector of a parish, who keeps a pack of hounds. He is celebrated all the country round for his old-fashioned hospitality, his love of rur 11 sports, and his encouragement of wrestling and other athletic sports. He is rather getting beyond his prime, or otherwise he would have been backed to take all the bench of bishops, " one down and t'other come on," with his " mauleys." He is not a man of refined mind ; not so good as Fielding's Parson Adams, nor so bad as his Parson Trulliber, but a cross between the two. Well, respecting this reverend man and his parochial doings, strange rumours reached the ear of the bishop, and he determined to "take him in hand." He had tried him at an early visitation, and addressing the reverend gentleman as he stood amongst the assembled divines, he said to him, " Mr. —, I wish to have a few words with you in private." The honest divine roared out in a broad vernacular twang, " Nothin' privut betwin yue and me, my lard; whatever you've got to zay to me zay it heer." The bishop declined in his blandest tones. But in vain. The reverend gentleman, who professes to be as open as the day, and, indeed, is so, still reiterated his desire that his reverend brethren should have the benefit of any advice the bishop had to bestow on himself. The bishop still declined ; he must talk to him in private. " Very well, my lard (exclaimed the divine), your lardship will find me at my quatters (quarters) at the George." The bishop did not go to the George (a respectable farmers' inn), and the interview did not take place. It was destined to be held at the reverend gentleman's own house, and this brings me to my story of the brandy. The bishop had written to this exemplary divine, and ' received no reply; in short, no notice of any kind was taken of his letter. Having to make a pastoral tour into the neighbourhood, and being determined to see for himself into matters which had been literally reported to him, the bishop one fine morning found himself travelling in his episcopal equipage, just as the apostles travelled, very near the house of the rector. That diligent minister was on horseback, and arrayed for hunting. Seeing the bishop making towards his house, he turned round and galloped home. He told his housekeeper that a gentleman was coming, to show him into the parlour, and call him down. She was not to notice that the expected visitor had been seen, or that her master had been out. The bishop came, and the bishop was shown into the best parlour. Great was the flutter around the rectory when they found who it was that had come. In a few minutes the reverend gentleman en tered, and to his astonishment found the bishop ac tually in his house. He moderated the ecstacy of his admiration so far as not to give the bishop a stage hug. But he ran over to the bell, pulled it violently, and thus brought in the domestic at a gallop. " Did yue knaw that the bushup was here ? " he roared. " Ees," exclaimed the terrified maiden. " Then why didn't 'e bring un some brandy?" he retorted, rushing up and down the room, stamping and storming at this neglect of his bishop. The servant stood aghast. The bishop exclaimed " Si lence, silence !" turned up the whites of his eyes, and endeavoured to look like a primitive Christian. But he was in the wrong place to make any impression in that line. " Silence !" roared the divine ; " Si lence ! When you've come over the North Devon hills this cold morning to zee me, and her not to give 'e no brandy ! Why, it was enough to make a man go stark mad to see the hospitable character of his house endangered by such unpardonable neglect." The indignant divine was not to be pacified. The bishop raised his voice authoritatively ; he demanded silence ; "he wanted no brandy." But he had to deal with one who could storm too—aye, and storm him blind if it came to stentor-proof trial. The pious bishop descended from command to entreaty—he really wanted no brandy—" Why didn't you answer my letter ?" he asked. " Letter, my Lord !" inquired the Rev. Gentleman, " why, whatever could your Lordship have to write to me about ? I thought I was indebted to your friendship for the honour of your visit." The bishop was very much surprised to find that his missive had miscarried. " How did 'e zend ut ?" asked the divine. " Through the post, of course," replied the bishop. " Oh, that accounts for't," said the divine, " I never take up letters by the post—when I write to a gentleman, I zend my servant wi ut!" I will not occupy your space by stating all that is reported of the denouement. It is sufficient to add that the bishop got out of the house with all reasonable alacrity, after stating what his letter was about, and hearing such ex planations as the reverend gentleman very frankly tendered. One point was that "he kept hounds." He said, " Show me a canon of the Church against keeping of hounds, and I'll put them down." Another was that people were seen to come out of his house drunk. He pleaded that he was "main glad to zee his friends at all times ; he put the best his house could afford cheerfully before them ; he could not guage their stomachs, and say, thus far shalt thou go and no fur• ther," &c. Having replied in this orthodox fashion to the bishop, his Lordship took his leave, and has never been in the house since. Now Ido not mean to vouch for the whole truth of these stories. What passed between the bishop and the reverend gentleman has never been mentioned by the former; the story is, therefore, one-sided. I can only say that it was the rage of clerical circles, and was most righteously be lieved to be true in substance, and I believe it to be substantially true. Morning Chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 22. (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) EMPERINGHAM V. SHORT. This case had been before the Court on Saturday and Monday last, and his Honour, on the conclusion of the latter day, stated that before giving his decision he would read the notes of the common-law judge before whom certain issues directed in the cause had been tried. In February last the case came before the Court on ex ceptions to the Master's report, when the validity of a sale of property, as between father and son, was im peached. On that occasion the two issues above mentioned were directed, to try whether a con sideration had been paid, and, if it had, whether the conveyances were executed, on the part of the son, to the purpose and intent to delay, binder, and defraud the plaintiff; also whether certain moneys were receiv able under a sequestration. The issues having been tried, a motion was made for a new trial, and this mo tion was now to be decided. HIS HONOUR, having informed himself of the opinions of the Learned Judge who tried the issues on the various questions then decided, thought that there were no grounds to warrant a new trial ; he therefore refused the motion, with costs. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 22. ',sittings at Nisi Prius, before M. Baron ROLFE and a Common Jury.) READING V. ROWORTH. This was an action on two bills of exchange for the respective amounts of 16/. Ms. and 5Z ss. The defendant pleaded that she did not accept. Mr. Petersdorff appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Piggott for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant is a very old lady, up wards of 80 years of age, and that some two years since a person of the name of Symonds, the son of the de fendant by her first husband, took the bills in question to the plaintiff to be discounted. This the plaintiff, after having made inquiries as to the fact of the acceptances being in the handwriting of the defendant, consented to do, and eventually handed over the money for them. The bills, however, on arriving at maturity, were not duly honoured, and remained unsatisfied down to the present moment. Hence the action. A gentleman of the name of Sayer, who was the managing clerk at a solicitor's in Bedford-row, was called as a witness to prove the handwriting of the ac ceptances to be that of the defendant. He had seen her sign her name to legal instruments. He entertained not the least doubt of these acceptances being in her hand writing. Mr. PIGGOTT, on behalf of the defendant, stated that she was now upwards of eighty years of age, and was not free from exhibiting the infirmness of a person who had arrived at that advanced period of existence. That lady most positively denied that she had ever accepted these bills.!lt was not a little singular that if the plaintiff had really entertained an opinion, after their dishonour, that they had been accepted by her, he should not have taken any steps upon them for upwards of two years. But such had been the fact ; and on the part of the lady he was there that day, not simply to repeat her declara tion, but also to prove by evidence—evidence of a far more satisfactory and conclusive character than that which had been offered on the other side—that the ac ceptance to these two bills was not in her handwriting. Mr. R. Cooke was then examined.—He stated that he was a conveyancer, and had known the defendant for several years. She was eighty years of age, and wrote a very feeble hand,. a fact h e was we ll acqua i nte d with, because he received her half-year's dividends, for which she not only gave him her receipts, but frequently wrote to him on the subject of them. These acceptances, he should say, were no t wr i tten by the defendant. The writing was very muc h too firm and bold for au old lady like her. She wrote her name, as on the bills, at full length; but then her writing was distinguished by great tremulousness. IYere he to receive instructions with such a boldness of signature, he should not act upon them, because the writing was far too firm and bold for a woman at her advanced age, and most certainly for the defendant. :Cross-examined —Ile did not know were the defendant lived at present. She usually called or wrote for her dividends, and therefore, as he had no other transactions with her, he had no occasion to know where she resided. Mr. PETERSDORFF—May I ask whether you did not belong to another branch of the profession than that which you have now stated? Witness—Yes; I was, and am. I consider, a member of the bar. Do you mean to say that you believe yourself to be a member of the bar now?—Yes, certainly. Why, hav e y ou —l l ament at b e i ng compe ll e d to put such a que s ti on —h ave you not been disbarred ?—Yes, I have been disbarred, but only by the benchers, and an appeal has been lodged against the decision of those gentlemen. What was it for ?—lt was in reference to a bill which I had discounted, and the B enc h ers were of opinion that too much interest had been taken upon it • but I feel 1 that I have not done so, and that I stand before the SUN, LONDON, THURSD'A'Y EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1845, world as free from the imputation of any dishonourable or improper action as any man possibly can be. The Benchers, however, with respect to this particular trans action, appear to have entertained a different opinion ; but my character is as unblemished as asy character can by possibility be. With regard to these bills I may be allowed to state that I knew nothing about their exist ence until now. Mr. PETERSDORFF having replied, Mr. Baron ROLFE told the jury the question was one upon which they alone could decide. They would have to say to which of the two witnesses they were inclined to give the greater credence. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.— Damages, 241. 3s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A respectably-attired female, who gave her name as Mary Keele, and stated her age to be thirty-nine years, but whose appearance denoted that she had seen some twenty summers more, was placed at the bar before the Lord Mayor, charged with bigamy. The facts of the case are somewhat novel and curious, the charge being preferred by the mother of the husband by the second marriage, a young man who only at tained his majority in the month of August last. Mrs. Sarah Keele, the prosecutrix, stated that she was the wife of George Keele, who was not in any business, and that she resided at St. Stephen's, near Canterbury. The prisoner at the bar had contracted marriage with her (the witness's) son some time about last Michaelmas. Witness had known the prisoner for about a fortnight before the marriage took place. The prisoner's husband by the first marriage was a man of the name of John Weller, who went to Aus tralia about three years ago, and there, as the pri soner had stated, died. Weller has a sister living at Canterbury, who had informed the witness that her brother (the husband) was still living, and in perfect health, in Australia, and that a letter had recently been received, which could be proved to be in his handwriting. On learning this, the witness came up to town and gave the prisoner into custody as she was getting out of a Hackney omnibus in Bishops gate-street. The LORD MAYOR—Is there anybody here to prove the former marriage ? Witness—lt can be proved by the first husband's sister, who resides at Canterbury. William Gurney Keele, who appeared to give his testimony with great reluctance, stated that he lived in Back-lane, Hackney, rand was in the service of Messrs. Marnett and Manley, nurserymen. He was married to the prisoner some time in the month of October last (he could not remember the day), at St. George's, Hanover-square, which was the church in which the first marriage was solemnised. He had become acquainted with the prisoner from going to her house on the business of his employers at Canter bury. Witness believed her to be a widow—indeed, he heard about three or four months ago that her first husband was dead. He heard this from the prisoner who told him that some person had called upon her and told her that her husband was dead, and that in formation had been corroborated to her by a gentle man, who had stated that he had seen " the last of her husband" in Australia. This the prisoner told witness before the marriage, or he would not have proposed to her a marriage. He had engaged to marry her about a fortnight before the marriage ac tually took place. John Dixon, 619 City Police, proved that he took the prisoner into custody yesterday morning on a charge of bigamy, preferred by the prosecutrix, Mrs. Sarah Keele. He had not had time to obtain a certificate of the first marriage from the register of St. George's, Hanover-square. The prisoner, when called upon for her answer to the charge, and when questioned by the Lord Mayor, manifested the most perfect self-possession, and evinced, both in manner and deportment, that she had moved in a superior station in life to that into which she had descended by her marriage with the son of the prosecutrix. She stated that when she mar ried the young man Keele she fully believed that her first husband, Weller, had died, and her belief had been founded upon the information of a female, four years ago, and also of a seafaring man, who had called upon her about the same time, and stating he did so at the dying request of her husband, of whom he had seen the last in Australia. She did not know the name of either of these parties, nor could she pro duce them ; the last told her he was going back im mediately on a voyage to Australia, and she had never seen him since. The LORD MAYOR—Have you any objection to state when it was you were married to your first hus band? The prisoner—Not the least, my Lord, as far as I recollect it. I think it was in the month of June, twelve or thirteen years ago. I forget the pre cise day. My maiden name was Mary Frances Witham. The LORD MAYOR directed the constable to search the register of St. George's, Hanover-square, for the certificate of the first marriage. The LORD MAYOR, intimated that the prisoner must be remanded, in order to procure the attendance of the witness from Canterbury, and inquired from the prisoner if she had any friends in London who would be answerable for her appearance. The prisoner replied that she had been out of London for many years, and she had been so unex pectedly taken into custody that she had not had an opportunity of communicating with any person. She had, however, friends to whom she could send. The husband (Keele) hereupon came forward, and expressed his readiness to be answerable for his wife's appearance on any future day the Lord Mayor might appoint. The LORD MAYOR, addressing the young man, said—Well, as you are the aggrieved party, I will take your recognisance in 501. that the prisoner shall appear here this day week to answer any charge that may be then preferred against her. The parties then withdrew. Sinop s Kent, charged with sending a threatening letter to Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co., was brought up for re-examination. No further evidence was adduced, but the depositions taken on a former day having been read over to the witnesses, they were bound in recognisances to prosecute, and the pri soner was committed for trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court. LAMBETH. James Jennings, Patrick Ford, and Henry Robin. son, were charged before Mr. Henry, by police-con• stable P 112, with a robbery under the following cir. cumstances The constable stated that on Tuesday night he was on duty at Mill-row, Brixton, when he heard the creaking of a basket, and on putting his lamp over into the garden he saw the three prisoners, and on going up to them, he asked them what they were doing, to which the prisoners replied that they were going to sleep in an open shed ; they had been to Croydon, and had no money, and were quite tired. He took the prisoners to the station-house, and went back to search the garden, when he discovered a basket full of lead ready to be carried away. On examining the premises of No. 8, he found there was a bed-room which projected from the building, and on examining the roof he ascertained that upwards of two cwt. of lead had been cut from the roof, rolled up, and ready to be carried off. The gardener of Mrs. Whittaker stated that yes terday the lead of the roof was all right, and the garden-gate was bolted ; and the prisoners must have climbed over the fence. Remanded for a week. SOUTHWARK. Cato Fernando, a seaman belonging to the ship Taglioni, lying in the West India Docks, was charged before Mr. Cottingham with stealing three cotton shirts, the property of Joseph Frowski, a Jew crimp, residing in East Smithfield. _ Complainant stated that the prisoner was in the habit of lodging at his house on his return from sea. About eleven months ago, previous to the last voyage, he sold the prisoner some clothing, and lent himis. 6d. After he was gone he missed several shirts, but had no suspicion of the prisoner. Yesterday he heard that the vessel had arrived in the docks, and that the pri soner, instead of coming to his lodgings, had taken up his quarters with a prostitute in Martin-street, Borough. He, however, proceeded on board the vessel yesterday afternoon, to seek payment for the debt due to him, amounting to 1/. 12s. 6d. Although the prisoner had been paid, he refused to settle with him. At a latter part of the evening he came for his chest, when it was searched, and the shirts were found therein. He identified them as his property. The prisoner (a coloured Portuguese) gave quite a different version of the story. He said that the shirts had been placed in his chesb without his know ledge ; in fact, he did not discover that they were there until he arrived at sea, when he thought the com plainant, who packed up his chest, had placed them there in return for a quantity of cigars which he gave him. As for the money, he certainly should have paid him, but he was drunk last night. The com plainant had been in the habit of robbinif him for many years, which made him quit his lodgings ; and he believed the charge was made through spite. Frowski said h e did not t hi n k h e s h ou ld h ave given him in charge if he had paid him, and returned to his house as usual. He d en i e d ro bbi ng hi m ; he treate d the prisoner as he would one of his children. The prisoner paid the crimp the 1/. 12s. 6d. and was discharged. WORSHIP-STREET. A LIBELLOUS PLACARD.—Mr. Phillip Meedon Hewitt, a respectable elderly-looking person, residing in Gloucester-street, St. John-street-road, appeared on summons before Mr. Broughton, on the complaint of Mr. John Stewart Kipling, a solicitor, charged with having, on the 14th instant, caused to be written and publiihed a false and scandalous libel concerning the said John Stewart Kipling, with intent to excite him to a breach of the peace. Mr. Smith, a solicitor, attended for the defence. The complainant stated, that in May a stock-job. bing transaction took place between Mr. Heseltine and the present defendant, and the latter came to con sult complainant, stating that he had deposited Spa nish bonds to the nominal value of 9,0001. in the hands of Heseltine, and could not recover them. Com plainant commenced an action of trover for him against Heseltine, and another action against Messrs. Master man and Co., the bankers, for 841., which had been at tached in their hands, in the Lord Mayor's Court. The result of the latter action was the recovery of the 841., minus Messrs. Masterman's expenses (about 91.), and complainant handed over the proceeds to Mr. Hewitt, the present defendant, his own costs (about 81.) being paid. The action against Heseltine is still pending. It is a special jury cause, and the costs out of pocket in bringing that to trial will amount to about 30/. for counsel's fees, fees in court, &c. The plea set up was that the bonds did not belong to Hewitt, and that he did not sell them. The present complaint against his late client, the present defendant, was for publishing an infamous libel in a paper which had been stuck on the wall of the workhouse, and was now produced, and which he said was in the handwriting of the de fendant. The writing on the produced paper was as fol lows : " NOTlCE.—Unless Mr. Kipling, solicitor, 8, City road, makes his appearance, and give up Mr. Hewitt's property (9,0000, he will be advertised as a rogue and vagabond, and there will be a reward offered (1001.) for his apprehension. " JOHN HEWITT." Mr. James Whitehouse, a grocer in the City-road, stated that between three and four o'clock in the after noon of the day above-mentioned, he saw a person who appeared to him to be in the act of putting up a paper against the wall of the workhouse, and he had little doubt that the defendant was the person, but he should not like to swear to it. The prisoner went away directly, and the witness went and read the paper that had been posted up, and then knocked at the workhouse lodge and pointed it out to the porter, who also read it and tore it down. Richard Morgan, clerk to Mr. Kipling, the com plainant, said he had seen the defendant write, and he believed the paper now produced to be in the de fendant's handwriting. The complainant being recalled, said that about three weeks ago the defendant came to him in an ex cited state, and told him that if he was an honest man he would, without delay, conduct the cause to trial. He replied, with some anger, that the defendant was already in his debt, and that it would take a consi derable sum out of his pocket to carry the cause to trial. The defendant then said he would never pay him his demand, and would give him an ill name, or word's to that effect. All the money he had had of the defendant was 151., which paid the costs of pro ceedings against Messrs. Masterman, and left about Si. in hand. The solicitor for the defendant said he could say nothing as to the produced document, but he was in structed by his client that the paper had not emanated from him, but from his brother. Mr. BROUGHTON said the evidence left no doubt on his mind that the defendant was the author, who had stuck up and published the libel, and that a breach of the peace was highly probable. The paper contained what was no doubt a most gross and wicked charge against the complainant, accusing him of defrauding defendant of 9,0001., and threatening to offer 1001. reward for his apprehension. He should therefore hold the defendant to bail to answer any indictment at the sessions. The bail required was two sureties in 150/. each, and the defendant's own recognisances for 2001. Prisoner—l only want to test his evidence as to the time ; because I don't recollect a syllable about it. Mr. BORRER (to Sergeant Smitl, who attended to charge the prisoner)—l suppose you have no reason to believe that the man would have done anything if he had not been under the influence of liquor ? Sergeant Smith—No. Mr. BORRER (to the prisoner)—The sentinel has done nothing more than his duty. Tie has a eat-o% nine tails hanging over his head. What have you to say for yourself ? Prisoner—Why, I'd been having a little, and a little's too much for me. That's a fact. But I can't think how it was. I must have tumbled over some friend.—(Laughter.) Mr. BORRER—I think you have been here before ? Prisoner—Yes, I have, that's a fact. I was taken up drunk, and I was fined ss. Drunk, and drunk I was —there's no denying it. Mr. BRINIER (to the sentinel)—l suppose he didn't mean to do you any harm ?—No, Sir ; he was only drunk. Prisoner—Do any- harm to a soldier I Lord bless you, Sir ; I wouldn t do any harm to a soldier for the world.—(Laughter.) I love the army, and can shoulder a musket with any of them. Look here, comrade (and prisoner, who is a little spare man, with anything but a soldierly demeanour, went through the imaginary process of shouldering arms, presenting arms, and firing, with a rapidity that would have startled a drill-sergeant). Look at that, comrade, and say whether I'd harm a soldier. Nature intended me for a soldier myself, only father bound me to a shoemaker. Prisoner was running on in this way, when loud sobs were heard in the Court, and, looking round, we saw a neat little body, who, with her hands up to her face, made her way towards the dock, ejaculating in her progress, " Oh, Field—oh, Field ?" This inter ruption put a stop to prisoner's military exercise, and, turning to the female, " Oh, be quiet," he said, " It's all right now—it's all settled. I'm coming, my dear." Mr. BORRER—YOU must pay ss. for being drunk. Prisoner put his hand in his pocket, and then turned to the little sobbing lady below—" You've got ss. my dear ?"—Yes, I've brought 55." " That's right. Pay the ss. Be quiet. It's over now." But the little woman continued to sob until Mr. Field had been let out of the dock, and then, as she took his arm, she gave a little stamp with her foot, and, with an indescribable look at the culprit, who still kept up a little of the military air, she exclaimed, " Oh, Field, how can you make such a fool of yourself ?" " Hush, hush, my dear," responded Mr. Field to this ejaculation, and, with a somewhat crest-fallen look, made the best of his way out of Court.— Brighton Herald. THAMES POLICE. SMUGGLING CIGARS.—SEIZURE OF A SHlP.—Yes terday Emmelino de Arrandiago, master of the Spanish ship Joven Victoriana, and Antonio Martinez, a sea man, and one of the crew of the Spanish ship Pepita, both lying in the St. Katherine Docks, were brought before Mr. Broderip, charged with smuggling cigars, by which they had incurred penalties of 1001. each. Mr. Potbury, of the Customs Solicitors'-office, attended on the part of the Crown. The case against Martinez was first heard. He was charged with carrying 281bs. of foreign manu factured cigars, which had been unshipped before the Customs duties had been first paid. George Little, a revenue officer, stated that he was stationed on board the Joven Victoriana on Monday night, and hearing a noise on deck he left the cabin, and went up and saw the defendant on board his own vessel, the Pepita alongside. He saw the seaman on board the Joven Victoriana, whose faces he could not distinguish, hand to the defendant several boxes, which appeared to be cigar boxes. They were brought out of the forecastle of one vessel and received by the defendant, who took them into the forecastle of his own. He was unable to obtain any assistance at the time, but, on the following morning, he made a communication to his superior officer, who seized the cigars. Robert Macdonald said he was also a Custom-house officer ' and in consequence of what he heard from the last witness, he rummaged the Pepita, and under neath a quantity of canvass and sailcloth he found three boxes, containing cigars, and in a chest belong ing to the prisoner he found two more boxes of cigars and about two pounds of loose tobacco. The pri soner gave him the key of the box, and admitted it to be his. On searching the fore peak, immediately below the forecastle, he discovered five hundred cigars secreted among the coals, making in all 281bs. The defendant admittted the whole of these to be his. Thomas Cornell, appraiser of condemned goods in the port of London, said the cigars were real Havan nahs, liable to a duty of 9s. sd. per pound. The value of them was 21. 17s. 6d., and the duty 131. 18s. 9d., making in all 161. 16s. 3d. de fendant, h evidence been interpreted to the de fan h e stated hedatving through the same medium that he was innocent, and that, when the officer came on board, he acquainted him with the fact of cigars being concealed, and showed him every place where they were found. Mr. BRODERIP said he had no alternative but to sentence the prisoner to pay a fine of 1001. to the Queen, and to be imprisoned until it w a s p a id. The Spaniard, with a sorrowful air, said he was in his captain's debt, and not worth a farthing. He was then committed to Clerkenwell prison. Captain An andiago was next called upon to answer an information, which charged him with being on board a certain vessel liable to forfeiture, not driven into this port by stress of weather, or other immediate causes, and having on board divers contra band goods, viz., 141bs. 8 oz. of cigars, the same being imported in packages less than 3001bs. weight each. Robert Macdonald stated that the Joven Victo riana was alongside the Pepita, and that overhauling the captain's state room he discovered seven boxes of Havannah cigars, secreted under a quantity of bis cuits in a locker. They weighed 141bs. Boz. On asking the captain what quantity of cigars he had reported, he said he had taken them all out of the locker, and given a true account of all he supposed he had on board. Witness pointed to the seven boxes and the captain said they belonged to him. The officer said the Joven Victoriana had been seized by the Crown, and was now under detention. Mr. Phillips, a professional gentlernan,:who at tended with the brokers of the ship and others, who expressed great anxiety for the captain, asked if it was usual to rummage a ship before she discharged her cargo ? The officer—Certainly it is; we rummage ships the moment they arrive. Mr. Potbury—Vessels are rummaged at Gravesend, coming up the River. The officer, in answer to other questions by Mr. Phillips, said the seven boxes of cigars had been put in the locker, and the 3001bs. of biscuits loosely thrown over them to conceal them. The defendant made a long statement in reply to the charge, the substance of which was, that he took the cigars on board at Havannah, and that he intended to insert an account of them in the ship's manifest, but owing to the neglect of his boy, they were not removed from the locker, where he had deposited them pro ternpore. Mr. Potbury said, the presumption was, that the cigars, the subject of the last information, had been smuggled out of the Joven Victoriana into the Pepita. Mr. BRODERIP said this information was different from the last, and the mere fact of the defendant being on board a vessel in which tobacco in packages less than 3001bs. weight was found rendered him liable to the penalty. The proof of a guilty knowledge was not at all necessary, nor was any proof required that the tobacco belonged to the captain. He sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 100/. to the Queen. The captain was led away in custody of Roche, the gaoler, and in about two hours afterwards the penalty was paid, and he was liberated. BRIGHTON POLICE. A MILITARY AMATEIJR.—John Field, a shoemaker, who has been several times in custody on charges of drunkenness, was on Friday placed at the bar before J. Borrer, Esq., on a similar charge. Private Drunton, of the Inniskilling's, deposed that while on duty as sentinel at the southern entrance of the Palace, opposite the Blue Coach-office, about one o'clock that morning, the prisoner came up to him in a state of drunkenness, swore at and abused him, and then said, " D---n your military laws ; you can't try me by court-martial and give me three hundred for breakfast." Witness took no notice of this, and the man proceeded, D---n your eyes; if I had a pistol I would blow your brains out." H e th en went away; but in about a quarter of an hour he returned and said, " I will take your piece, and blow your brains out with it." Witness then took him into custody, and called a policeman, who took him to the sergeant. Prisoner—What time was this ? Witness—About one o'clock. Prisoner (to night Thohurn)--What time was it, I say ? Mr, BolutEn—No, no;' this won't do. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MAN CHESTER. Last evening a fire was discovered in the warehouse of Messrs. Smith and Ingle, paper manufacturers, Piccadilly, which spread with a rapidity very similar to that of the conflagration which destroyed the ware house at the corner of New Brown-street, about two years ago, and soon ravaged through every floor of the warehouse, and left merely the shell standing. The alarm was given about twenty-five minutes past nine o'clock, the police constables in the neigh bourhood of the warehouse springing their rattles ; but, from what we could gather, no one seems to have perceived the fire till it was bursting forth from the windows. Mr. Superintendent Sawley, of the borough police, states that he was past the place at a quarter past nine o'clock, at which time there was no appearance or smell of fire. Intimation was given at the police-yard about half-past nine o'clock ; and, in ten minutes af terwards, the Niagara engine was on the spot, The warehouse of Messrs. Smith and Ingle is a long building, four stories in height, with the end (four windows in breadth) fronting Piccadilly, and one side (ten windows in length), forming one side of the Mosley Arms Yard, which is a narrow yard, open through, from Piccadilly to Back Piccadilly ; the other side of this yard being formed by the Mosley Arms Hotel. We believe the upper part of Messrs. Smith and Ingle's warehouse was occupied ;by Messrs. Taylor, Humphreys, Hurst, and Co., flannel and drugget manufacturers. Adjoining the warehouse, in front, to the west, is the White Bear Inn; and the aspect of the conflagration, when we reached the spot at twenty minutes to ten o'clock, was truly alarming. The whole of the ware house of Messrs. Smith and Ingle appeared to be in flames, which rushed from the side windows, spread across the yard, and soon communicated to the wood work of the Mosley Arms Hotel, the cornice and window frames of which house were re peatedly on fire. Fortunately, the latter were immediately forced outwards by men stationed in the different chambers ; and the interior was thus preserved, though not without the greatest exertions of the firemen. The heat was so intense that it was impossible for any one to enter the yard, and the chief efforts of the firemen were directed from within the Mosley Arms and from its roof. Meanwhile the White Bear Inn was in the most imminent danger, and many bystanders declared that nothing could save it. Under this impression, the furniture, bed ding, &c., were hurled out of the chamber windows, and much mischief was done by the hasty and thoughtless way in which the property was thrown about in removal. Much of it was conveyed across the street, to the Talbot Inn, for safety. Behind the White Bear is a crooked yard, which also leads through into Back Piccadilly ; and several branchmen were stationed in this yard, and played their jets on the walls and roofs of some low cottages and other tenements and outbuildings, so as to pro tect the White Bear premises from the impend ing peril. In one tenement in this yard was a poor woman confined to her bed by sick ness; she was hurriedly removed in her night dress, and conveyed away, seated on a pile of bedding, &c., in a large porter's cart, filled with goods removed from the premises. Some pigs and other animals were also removed from the outhouses. Both the Mosley Arms and the White Bear were re peatedly on fire, both on the roof, the cornices, and the window-frames ; and as often the firemen suc ceeded in extinguishing the flames ; not, however, be fore they had penetrated into the bar of the White Bear, and quite destroyed one side of that room. Some idea may be formed of the rapidity with which the flames raged, when we state that in about ten minutes after the alarm of fire was given, a portion of the roof of Messrs. Smith and Ingle's warehouse nearest Piccadilly fell in. But little damage is done by fire to the adjacent inns ; but in both the injury will be considerable, by the removal of furniture, and the floods of water poured from the engines. We. have not heard even a speculation as to the cause of the fire. There was a large body of the police promptly on the spot, under the command of their principal officers ; they rendered great service by keeping the streets from being impeded by the curious spectators, who speedily collected in a large concourse ; for the illumination of the atmosphere, from the blazing pre mises, must have been visible for miles around. We did not hear of any personal injury sustained by any one during the fire.—Manchester Guardian of Wed nesday. MORTALITY in the METROP OLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 18th of January, 1845." The Table is issued from the,Office of the Registrar-General:-- 'Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Avorego of Five Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions Diseases 229 184 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat BB 106 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 143 159 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood•vessels 37 24 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 8 6 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. lO 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 5 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c. Old Age, or Natural Decay BB 70 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified... lOO7 954 Deaths from all Causes , lOlO 963 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER THE ABOVE HEADS. Total. Weekly Average of Five Years. Consumption 146 147 Scarlatina 45 36 Pneumonia . Dropsy . ... 29 33 Hooping Cough 24 33 Typhus Small Pox 54 20 Disease of the Heart Measles Apoplexy 0000000000 ... ..•• ••• 21 19 Diseases of the Brain ...... .... 7 10 Diarrhoea.. Sudden Deaths ll 15 DISTRICTS. - _ --- Deaths Weekly Births in Average of in the Week. FlveYears. the Week. West . 146 142 179 North 2OB 176 221 Central East 2OB 209 306 south ••••••••• N..... ....., Total . . 1010 963 1351 JERSEY.- - A meeting of the committee for the defence of the island was held yesterday morning at the residence of his Excellency the Lieutenant -Governor. The colonels of the several militia regiments of the island were present. Measures for immediately com pleting the arsenals were resolved upon. The new militia fittings, accoutrements, &c., will be sent to the island as soon as the Lieutenant-Governor reports that the arsenals are completed, and ready and fit to receive them. They may, therefore, be expected in a few weeks. —Jersey tier* Jan, 19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The Tories tell us that they are better men of business than the Whigs. That Sir Robert Peel is a clever man, though a treacherous one to his own party, cannot be denied, and none of his acts prove it more than his adjustment of the timber duties; but the Board of Customs is defeating his object of en couraging the importation of timber in the bulk in preference to that of deals or planks. By a ridiculous mode of measurement, deals or planks above twenty one feet long pay less duty per load than shorter deals, thus sacrificing revenue in a most unnecessary manner. I believe an enormous amount of revenue is wasted by the incompetency of the Board in this, as well as many other matters. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, W. R. FRANCE AND OTAHEITE. ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS. The two following documents have been communi cated to the Chambers by the Minister of Marine. The first relates to the Gambier Islands; and the second gives some details respecting the intercourse established with the chief of Wallis's Islands : " NOTE ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE RELATIONS OF FRANCE WITH THE CHIEFS AND POPULATION OF THE GAMBIER ISLANDS. " The French Catholic missionaries, established for the last ten years in this little archipelago, have been fully successful amongst the chiefs and inhabitants, whom they instruct and direct, without hindrance, in a course of moral culture, and by the most pacific means. This state of things, which was perfectly well known at the departure of Captain Bruat for Oceania, has caused those islands to be designated, in the instructions given to that officer, as part of those over which the Protectorate of France could be most easily established. It is in consequence of these in structions, and on the occasion of the frigate Charte anchoring at one of those islands, that the captain of the vessel was present on February 16, 1844, at a formal declaration made by the principal chiefs, of their intention to place themselves and their territory under the protection of the French authority. This act was not followed by any military occupation, nor by the installation of any administrative agent. The French missionary, the Rev. Father Liausie, was recognised by the head of this little society. The instructions addressed by Admiral de Mackau to Governor Bruat, under date of July 16, 1844, formally recommend him to abstain from all proceedings that might tend to engage the King's Government farther than what was already accomplished. Before deciding on any decisive part with respect to this simple recog nition of the French authority in these islands, it appears indispensable to wait for new reports, and the conclusion, more or less speedy, of the difficulties which have arisen in other points. The group of the Gambier Islands, situated windward of the Society Archipelago, and possessing a good port, is but thinly inhabited. The Methodist missionaries have not attempted to penetrate there, and have left the inha bitants wholly to the influence of the French mis sionaries." " INTERCOURSE ESTABLISHED WITH THE CHIEFS OF THE WALLIS ISLANDS. " In the month of November, 1824, the Embuscade corvette, Captain Mallet, had to put in to the Wallis Islands for some pressing repairs, which kept the vessel for forty days in the principal port of the islands. There the King and the principal chiefs, having de clared that they made a profession of the Catholic faith, in which they had been instructed by the Rev. Father Bataillon, Bishop of Enos, and several other French missionaries residing amongst them, mani fested their intention to place themselves under the protection of our flag. The effects of the great influence exercised over the inhabitants by our missionaries, to whom they are entirely devoted, are manifest in this circumstance. The Rev. Father Bataillon, established amongst them for seven years, has reaped the happiest fruits of his apostolic care ; the public morals have become considerably ameliorated ; polygamy has ceased, except with two of the chiefs; the population of the archipelago, composed of 3,000 souls, are re markable for their exemplary habits of order and re gularity. Captain Mallet, perceiving that the state of this young society was so satisfactory, concluded with the King and the chiefs a treaty—a certain harbour regulation, having for its object to assume a general regulation as favourable as possible to the strangers that should visit the islands, and these regulations were decided on with the concurrence of the English and American trading captains, in a meeting held for the purpose. Nothing exclusively applicable to French vessels was stipulated in the clauses of these regulations, and no act of authority to be exer cised in the name of France was amongst the number of the conditions agreed on. Neither was the national flag raised on any point of this little archipelago, and Captain Mallet confined himself to allow the chiefs to display a mixed flag, chosen by the missionaries, and the colours of which could only call to mind the fact of the participation of an officer of the French navy in the manifestations on the part of the chiefs. The instructions addressed to Captain Bruat by Admiral Roussin, dated July 20, 1843, contained, amongst other instructions on this subject, the following:—' The declarations transmitted by Captain Mallet imply, on the part of the chiefs, no alienation of sovereignty. They must not lead us on to form an establishment in this archipelago, nor even to engage us to keep up there permanently a vessel of the State,' &c. In the new instructions sent to Ad miral Hamelin on July 16th, 1844, by Admiral de Mackau, in reference to those just quoted, the Minis ter prescribed to restrict still more the protection to be exercised at these islands, and confined its action to friendly relations ; to visits which our vessels might be able to pay them from time to time to support the moral influence of our missionaries, but without any active intervention of any kind in the affairs of the country. Such is the situation of our present rela tions with the chiefs of these islands, and such have been the results that were proved to exist beyond all possibility of conflicts or difficulties from without, when the Bucephale corvette put in and remained there in November and December, 1843." ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—A vast number of workmen have been incessantly employed ever since the close of last season in effecting the most extensive improvements and alterations in all parts of the grounds. Nor has the Zoological department been forgotten. The collection has lately been materially in creased. In fact, the visitors to these delightful gardens will hardly be able to recognise them in their improved and extended state. ENTERTAINMENT AT TIIE MANSION-HOUSE.---The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a very ele gant entertainment to his brother Aldermen and their ladies, and to some of the municipal officers and their ladies, on Tuesday. There were amongst those present, Aldermen Lucas, Sir Peter Laurie, Farebrother, Kelly, Wilson, Marshall, Sir John Pixie, Humphery, Sir G. Carrol, Farncomb, Hooper, Wood, Johnson, Challis, Hughes Hughes, Moon, Hunter, Sidney (Sheriffs), the Chamberlain, Wm. Maz...terman, M.P., the City Solicitor, Mr. Secondary James, Mr. Secondary Potter, the Town Clerk, the Comptroller, &c., &c. It was a full-dress party, and all the Aldermen came in their scarlet gowns. The company assembled in the state drawing rooms, and went from thence through the saloon to the long par lour, in which the dinner was laid out in remarably fine style. All the massive gold and silver plate of the Mansion-house decorated the sideboard, and the great silver epergne, which was presented by the Board of Guardians of the City of London Union to the Lord Mayor, as Chairman of the Board, stood on the middle of the top cross table. The wines, which were most abundantly supplied and freely partaken of, were of the finest description. Tea and coffee were served in the saloon. The company separated at eleven. NEW Wottx oN TURKEY.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborou g h- s t ree t, h as this day published " Three Years in Constantinople ; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks," by Charles White, Esq., 3 vols., with numerous illustrations, pri ce 31 s . 6d. bound, which can now be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new works :—Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Nubia, &c., in 1843-44, by Ida, Countess Hahn- Hahn, 3 vols., 31s. 6d. bound.-3. Adventures of an Officer in the Service of Runjeet Singh, by Major Law rence, Bengal Artillery, 2 vols., with portraits, 21s. bound.-4. The Crescent and the Cross ; or. Romance and Realities of Eastern Travels, by Eliot Warburton, Esq., 2 vols., with illustrations, 255. bound.-5. Colonel Maxwell's Adventures, 2 vols., with portraits, 21s. bound. HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-VESSEL THUNDERBOLT, ICHABOE, Nov. 20, 1844.—The island of Ichaboe is dis appearing fast ; there are at this present moment about 380 vessels here, and arriving five or six of a day, one half of whi c h will not get loaded. I should think it will ruin a great many vessels of 1,000 and 1,500 tons, lying here—several vessels have been wrecked on the coast that we have heard of, and been to their assistance, and we suppose a great many that we have had no intelli gence of, except from pieces of wreck and boats having been seen on the coast by vessels arriving here. We leave this for the Cape about the Ist or 2d of December. I hope we may then have a trip to the Mozambique, to make a little more prize-money.—Devonport Telegraph. Mr. Dyke, the son of Sir P. H. Dyke, has been appointed to the lucrative situation of Queen's Proctor, vacant by the demise of Mr. Iltid Nicholl. The annual average of the present fees of office, on a moderate com putation, is 2,000/.—formerly they were much larger. During the war, when the condemnation of prizes, and other proceedings connected with international law, to which the Crown was a party, occupied the Admiralty Court, the fees of the Crown Proctor have been known to amount to between 30,000/. and 40,0001. NARROW ESCAPE FROM SUFFOCATION IN A SEWER.—On Tuesday three excavators, in the service of the Commissioners of Sewers for the county of Surrey, proceeded down one of the iron gratings facing the Old King's Head public-house, Blackfriars-road, for the pur pose of cleaning out the sewer, and when they had gone about 150 yards, the foul air became so powerful that they were about to return, but found that it was utterly impossible. They accordingly called loudly for help, when a young man named Maris, a blacksmith, residing at No. 17, Surrey-row, Blackfriars-road, hearing their cries for help, very promptly procured a crow-bar, and dug up the flooring at the end of his back yard and re leased the poor fellows, two of whom were quite men , Bible, but recovered after a glut time. ----------°°'...—,.,1711 0f THE FRENCH CHAlvw---- DEPUTIES. If we were not actual witnesses, throughofol reports, of the debate which is now geivg_ o oloP . Chamber of Deputies, such a proceeding 1 _ s e pear altogether incredible and impracticableW legislative assembly. The avidity of the sP7gl lll deficiency of truth or interest in the te o themes, the rambling character of the deb e s is inconclusive arguments of the speake rs . ts llo o lii disclose the extraordinary fact that all this .. . 6 . in reality, about nothing at all. It so bsProse the misfortune of aspirants for Parlianientslon, either side of the Chamber, that there is 11 1 A his of general policy to be more fully elueickliiiiii, nisterial statements, or combated by or iol e r y arguments. The only two events which t l oo n rise to questions of any political intereste prorogation in August last are long since tioss bi lot and disposed of; a great deal will unque s e i t het said about them, but nothing more can be _ he/ i i or undone. The Government will, of be 1 sured by one party and applauded by th e ir; the questions on which these deraons Ai be made to rest are happily defunct. e d 10:4 and Otaheite are for the present consign ed tender keeping of the Annual Register I° m l WO we trust it will not be in the power of st lec e(l .4 to revive any portion of the irritation PA7ther autumn by the occurrences themselves. 0 4 ' 10 0 l t e of Europe survived the reality of that the b $ oil/ sume that it will not be affected by the ec he t•rjo port : and we hold it to be beyond t h inte r iy eloquence or ingenuity to impart a,f tes sk e thle the past details of these subjects. O por°, l ,y stract character of this discussion still . toi biP i e minent, it appears that the only quest? u tbe, l b Chamber professes seriously to entertal; $ll3 and the con of what is termed the ~..,1 1 0 1 clo / P IS But, as was very ably put by the ve_ . . ee b , A o ll 0 in his temperate and masterly 5r,, 0 9 address in the other Chamber, it haPr o prit, there is not at the present Ine,,raetantolls fay question of European policy "%vol e ' of t ie military or diplomatic interfereni.:nee ai d d or Powers —as, in fact, the whole raer d eePU,' 0/, national relations is at a stand-srl", k io: 4 o ' as private interests are concerned, there 'ie . ', such thing as an alliance, in the PrePeil; a 0 the word. The experience we be" a tot!, former occasions of the fidelity of Fre n- oe y, r i ventions in which she has taken a Per t : r , 0 0 0 not encourage us, whenever an eccas'°; to s oo to seek for her co-operation in prefernk it: g til, other nations, or other nations InaY - , 't CP ciate themselves with England and Fran Devi°oo preposterous, at a moment when no ban, or ''''j. tt predict when such an occasion will oeelhepreJ nature it will be, to pledge ourselves t . ° ll be dic l nance of an abstract principle, which Wi n atifs A ef el in an instant when it is opposed by sr, 0;40 of interests. We are perfectly viii"%ith.,;pool anxious, to remain on the best terri nt tonair and we appreciate at its just value the u ; it to ha iiti tion of our own countr3 which ent—dels,V taro the relations of an ', equally gee',.:.,Rato f , lll with both the great sections of Conie=s di/ ; but we esteem ourselves no , a blio " that no impending danger or PI tb°, tion compels us to take Per t _,;:t :oil sent moment with the one 0 61, 5 A ' As far, then, as the English alliance 1 .',, $ 0 0 7 4 0 conflict in the Chamber of Deputiee " or ki m iro of shadows • for the politics of til! si t by ,7,., 1 governed by' general propositions!. u t1 ,1 1 . 0 OLIO this of each case and the rules of gli. : ma ' this debate, which will probably i ; Or", and occupy the Chamber till the 111 . . p i ' Of r : session has slipped away, is but the 73 ( 1. , ..,;*; one act of importance. Is the presee" a to n41; 1 to remain at the head of affairs? or is 4 ,T e d c oA l . for a long Ministerial interregnum/ ir te rOr m i,`, l and counter-plots of every kind, W nti s r, - the accession to office of a heterogell",o tr i will strive to ape the policy defeated ? The vote on the Address:the 1 o f the on;iode matter for the present; and, a lthouP e Cie of tb still very uncertain, the adherents , t 5 o pf are far more confident of success tbile itt ' of 0 and the balance seems to incline in fay tinuance in office.—Times. GAME FOR THEM m V (From Punch.) letter Pe t i We have received the following t of Pi o), who preserves his game for the hell e ; r gei r creatures. We think we ought to ei' lise rtit'io , vertisement ; but as we give it free al with fl , that the Stamp-office will also view ' Ofili 11;1 tenderness : Nog ts t " Mr. Punch,--I address you, as th j be ? ' most readily get at the world at large , . 0e 11 the middling and working classes a P ri b a s4, Ili game, at the following low charges ; „a r although a peer of the realm—t 0 e"ojent poulterer, whoever he may be, in them s' 4 my articles : $ $ " A prime hare. ...................... "‘ 5 $ j " A pheasant .... .. ......... e': 942 " Partridges (the . bi:a.Ce) ............... oe,i, " These charges will, I trust, be reeve: vi whelming evidence of my desire to ol e o the o'o of the poor, and to bring ga me dowo bw i to, pacity of pocket. lam h one stly ell s t he , ' O O above articles at the prices a ffixed--- 49 be itig,4 me scarcely anything for keep—th e Y of 'Ai fed upon the wheat, oats, and barleiP A A K farmers.—l remain your obedient ser,„„liPiy* NOP hio rs pl "P.S.—The highest price given f: . ! .. r . „...... -• "0 _- in A „ r ov o n r THE CMARG E AGAINST Du. PE ; „to b; t sl day morning Dr. Penfold took occa9'o3oosat ii sermon to the recent charge brough t ix st itin,ecir Marylebone vestry, which he had s i ° , h ob s l i , r fated. He took his text from the 2 :,"; 19: t o ,I Acts of the Apostles, 16th, 17th, i'v,„'",, t 9 eoVl,) verses—" And herein do I exercise 'This , 1 r tovi fir cel ° t ways a conscience void of offence „ 4. I d p? wards man. Now, after many Y el/ Whe re d 7p, i : alms to my nation, and offerinas • th e t e " t "or Jews from Asia found me purified in Os', with multitude nor with tumult, wil e ° jot(' 5 , 6 " Pi here before thee, and object, if theY„,/ 10 ;0) me. Or else let these here say, if they ee.aferl evil doing in me while I stood before the '" h o . 0 1 Rev. Gentleman, with great feeling, 113 ,,,,bi0h .. bro a l allusions to the painful position io „" ra dtr?" I/ placed, and his address appeared to r f upon his bearers. mom:" FATAL ACCIDENT AT ASTLEV %, ,, ~ o t v - On Monday evening last a fatal aceluee 501 ;pe ,- I stage of this theatre to one of th o l e .„l A t named William Blake, aged 38., r forP'etr 0 0 , pe oo c )0 00 t i Johnny Gilpin was in the course one of its scenes representing a Je s t bell, c number of supernumeraries, deceas A eac 119 7 be seen making purchases within- Al o wa ` b i e ; i ii trick was played upon him by the rope'' tq l , r the Pantaloon (Bradbury) holding $ Or' ch P 10 0 the door, and which tripped up eit ; , ca 0 1e exit. The deceased did not malte . ";,i e d ' - ,fie A loi easy fall, and in consequence tuo l ;„ge.,, o and fell flat with great force on the 5 7, io y o .1 the metallic part of a truss that he 1 3 iui ti lt4/ part of the abdomen, causing intern his t ool 1 deceased died yesterday morning at ua l v ieg • sant-place, High-street, Lambeth, " I , k 4: seven young children unprovided f° l :; o efi t) ri, r 1) SUPPOSED SUICIDE FROM DO: . 0 14 day Mr. Baker held an inquest at ti" 6 ,00,..,')0 East Smithfield, on the body of a Ill on itern4 twenty years of age. James llill, a h wat er about nine o'clock the same morning en be /$ ',' i Alderman-stairs, East Smithfield, cable tfilit‘ of the deceased rise to the surface. , pl io t r ashore. Deceased was dressesine grill 0 0,,, trousers and waistcoat, and a ~ sail' i fie laced boots. The summoning eme e h i t bo o s? pearance of the deceased showe d t .:, e 10 t i le / of great destitution, as his clothes ,". you his shoes worn out. The jury found' /..,.1 drowned." c i _, 139 r s ?I SIR. JAMES GRAHAM ' S 3 1 " " tford ,c a' ing of the medical profession of Bre a o i n g, - 0 1 v . bourhood was held on Tuesday e l n e g i s ioll, 9 0 Hotel, Brentford, to consider the P ro 07:4 Graham's Medical Bill. The u lee j is ir, ee r I Fe l attended. Dr. Day was ist the 5,1, and e 4 -I were agreed to condemning th e 131" iety o! At tr currence in the proposal of the S °c for r ati ot for the establishment of a Coll/ to. tho it 00,1 tioners. Some gentlemen (Me et us 13 114 !‘i ° oi d any other subject than the obnoxio. ~ to they conceived all their efforts oughtropesitidirr but they ultimately acceded to the P I oe orr - 9 -0 107 Bonny was appointed honorary hl ea o elitt l° to y AO t4O ' communication with the Central mr , yo Practitioners. Thanks having ' s esti man, the meeting separated afterhe cussion. low I, _....—,--- tio 0 11 t ' . Br-Bros%• vi ttots , t y i On the 17th inst., at the Vicarage' 6 V ' Rev. Hyde W. Beadon, of a son. near 0 4 11 olt 0%, 1 Tt:fweeo O li :Ran,: Rev. S . jso. l uf. B nai th :soo i u n ng s .h t. to a n t 'sDhoewranrb(rottlal-ortztlighot:4oo, ' ri g I t ih i ti ki, op 0 0 7 40 41 On the 20th inst., at RoehainPte idaeS tilt 10 0 0 n the th e 21 5t21 i i n ns st t , iant Sussex - t , ( 1 .1 ; 0 : 4 01 : 4,4,4 4 is4bit,tik .44 . a d . aught er ' the ' a il 00010_ 0 0 : : 1 / 4 : 01 1 . Ij E i .a B InT q On . e ' rn o t rt h f e e : a s to 2 r s fe l o ae s n t t . :o i E n on ' f s sq . t a . . l , : . ' :o in o ' n f Bernard -54-eet.- i 4 1 P P* l " c 4 V ° t N I N On the 20th inst Mrs. George r riulc- iJ 4 1.. 4 da O ug n h t t h er e 02:Rst.obilleartt.,stGokle!ti:1:11:-6:l:93.lo%oOffrrtsl:nofitoit 10 , 6/ : 1 1. 1 '441114 : 16,kt Hertslet, Esq ,of College-street:4.U) salli e r , Nkft, ti D./E-Th . bu tt* " if ol oc i V On the 12th inst., at Brent fod. . s. 40 0 4, 1 ,441 Esq. , late Captain of Surrey gil it ic i , si' a lp '6 1 % 11 On the 16th inst., at Bognor , Slo se- ...,, of " 0 .L 4 14: 11. ' i l Jackson, C. 8., aged 73. TiFi''' ' cl -' I I 't On the 18th inst., Mr. Williara m il 7 , / 6 51 4 place, Brighton, aged 6r 09 1 St. -- 7- 1 14 ' '' u terrg e i do On the 20th inst., at VauNlll2-sio ..° .1 1 IVil lY o oi V London : Printed and Published 11, Si" 01 sNtor.anldl, in 2,S t t h ran e d,preePiruientteornarcf, th at e :iv i a ti. IP ilidcllesex, Thursday, Jo