The Sun. — London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

I , l°A ifti) ';atbition ;UN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock, GERMANY. There was a dangerous flood at Vienna on the 13th, which destroyed all the bridges but one. Eight hundred copies of the supplement to the Allgerneinc Zeitung have been seized by the police in Munich, and confiscated. The authorities acted on instructions sent from Stuttgard by telegraph, and were waiting for the packages, of whose contents they were quite aware before they arrived. It is stated that the zeal of the police has on this occasion, for the first time, been rebuked by a high personage, without whose knowledge the seizure was made, and who was thereby deprived of his usual morning paper. The cause of the confiscation is not given. In Wiesbaden the police are also busy, but as re formers of the bad manners that have been introduced since the revolution. A custom has grown up of wearing the hat in the pit of the theatre in the pauses between the acts, especially by the visitors from Mayence, who are losing much of their German formality in trifles. On two occasions the offenders have been officially called to order, and warned of the breach of decorum. The Treasury of Baden has brought a formal ac tion against the widow of Bobning, one of the leaders of the insurrection, executed in 1849, to recover a sum of several millions of gulden, with a minimum of one million, U the amount of the damage sustained by the Tr easury of the Duchy dur i ng th e revolt. That the widow can pay any part of it is out of the question. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. layseroot.,Av 20. —There was a good attendance to day, and a fair demand for fresh wheat, which was quite as dear. Stale and out of condition lots were rather cheaper , Flour, both sack and barrel, being pressed for sale, rather cheaper. Oats, oatmeal, and beans, each in good request it rather better prices. Barley, malt, and peas, unchanged in value. Indian corn dull of sale, at 6d ver quarter decline. LEEDS, MAY 20.—The market was well supplied with wheat, and millers bought very sparingly; holders, however , did not give way,and last week's rates were maintained. Bar ley steady. Oats and beans brought fully as much money. Other articles as before. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, MAY 20.—The supply " 1 ,, wheat of all d escr ipti ons at mar k et to-day was moderate, an d was readily taken off at the extreme prices of Saturday lest , and in some instances more money was got. Grinding barley still excites attention at fully former terms. Oats is per qr dearer. In flour and other articles no change. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MAY 20.--The supply of beasts was a trifle less than on last Tuesday; quality good 2 32 ,.. 4 trade brisk at former rates, with a f a i r c l earance. About 16" more sheep and lambs than last week; the quality of the for mer moderate, but the latter indifferent ; business for both kinds of stock active, at prices a shade higher, and all sold. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MAY 20.—There were iII the meal market to-day 18 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs imperial, which sold thus:-1 at 1/ 12s, 2at 11 Ils 6d, end 15 at 11 lls ; average price of the whole 1/ Ils Id 4-12 tbs. 8 sacks flour, which sold at 28s. 5 sacks pot-barley, whereof 4 sold thus :-1 at 26s Od, 1 at 255, and 2 at 22s 6d. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, MAT 20• — Oat straw, from 7s 6d to 9s Od per kemple of 16 stones n wheat ditto, 6s 6d to 7 s rid ; b arley ditto, 6s 6d to 7s Oh' Hay, from 10d to Is per stone. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, MAY 19.—There were 44 bags oatmeal and 9 of barleymeal at this day's market; sales dull. Oatmeal up on the top and second price is per bag; that sold at 28s per bag was of inferior quality; barleymeal the same as last week. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second imperial .. ..• 315 Od 30s 6,1 Barleymeal, per ditto 18s 6d —s Od Peasemeal Od —s Od Flour .. —s Od —s od Pot barley ... Od —s Od Third. 283 Od —8 Od —3 Od —s Od --3 Od Bate's West H C a O r AL tley. M . AR I4s K O E d . Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 6d Carr's Hartley ..... l4s 6d Chester Main 129 9d Howard's W., H. Neth l4s Od Holy well North Percy Hartley l4s Od New Tanfield Tanfield Moor ranfield Moor Butes l2s 6d Townley ... West Hartley West Wylar Et Wylam Wall's End, &c ;f,...-YESTILIMAY• Scarborough Polisher . 13s 9d 14s Od Jonasohns .. 12s 9d Lambton Keepier Grange N. Hetton Lyons . 143 3d Sunderland,,, . ..... Russell's Hotton Stewart's .................. Whitwell Caradoc ..... .. fleugh Hall Hartlepool South Hartlepool ..... 143 9d Thornley West Kelloe Whitworth Adelaide Tees Backhouse Richardson's Tees l2s 93 Clavering Tees ...... Tees ...... .. ........ West Cor n f ort h Cowpen Hartley DerwentwaterHartley 14s 6.1 Hartley . 133 ad Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff ... 14s Od ..... 12s - 9d 133 6d 13s Od) Ac 138 Od v a°l Northumberland h oiwsod a iwri r nonr n nt c t . n C105e 3 . ................... .. d d Eden Main Lambton P rimrose Bell ..................... 14s 3d J Belmont... ............ 1 45 3d Braddyll ............. . 1 4s 3u kletton .............. 15 2 6d Haswell... ~ . .........'.'• 15s 6d Ships iit market, 309......, Sold, 102... .Unsol 147. rA L DyERTI SEMENT.]---Holloway's Pills a certain speeific for N ervousness, Lowness of Spirits, and Disordered s t machs.—The wonderfully egenerating effect s produced 139 these i nva l uable Pills are trul y astonishing. This fine medi cine acts in so peculiar a mauler an the system that by follow ing the directions affixed to each box as to the mode of using t hem, nervous irritability is allayed, the tone of the stomach strengthenf3d, the digestion improved, freedom of circulation given to the blood, and a robust state of health attained. Per sons of studious and sedentary habits being especially liable to the class of disorders alluded to, should take Holloway's Pills to insure a good state of health.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. OF A SOW. On the 16th inst., at Geneva, the lady of the Hon. Thomas Preston. On the 19th inst., the wife of the Rev. Charles Alerivale. OF A DAUGHTER. On the If ith inst., at Douro-place, Kensington, th e w if e o f J. W. P. Gr aham, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Doncaster, the Wife of William' Marratt, Esq , coroner. 41 On the 17th inst., at Chiddingstone, Kent, the Rev. Henry W. 0. Polhill, rector of Illington, Norfolk, to Frances Char lotte, on'iy daughter of Henry Streatfeild, Esq., o f Chld dingston e. On tb.e 19th inst., at St. lark's, Kennington, Captain Woodwa e rd, H. M. sth Fusiliers, to Elizabeth, e ld est daugh ter of th late . Johnson, Esq., of Rlichaelstown, county of Cork, Ireland, and widow of the late Capt. F. A. Robinson. Gosford, 107 L, who deposed that the prisoner Lynn had Leen left in his care ; after he had been taken into the cell, and while sitting with him, I e asked him if he had been at the raffle at the White Lion public house, on the night before, and he replied that he had. He next inquired if he had left, the White Lion with the other prisoners, who were th e r e , and he said e did, but added, that he had gone before them with a young woman, down Vauxhall•walk, and parted with her in Lambeth-walk, and that on his return be saw the policeman lying dead. Mr. Neill here complained of the conduct of the sergeant in putting these questions to the prisoner, without giving him the s li g ht es t cau ti on , or anyinti mation that the answers he should give would be used against him elsewhere. Thomas Jones, a shoemaker, was here sworn, and stated that on Monday morning, the sth instant, he was locked up in one of the cells connected with the court, on a char ge o f ma ki ng away w ith a pair of boot-uppers belonging to his employer, when the pri soner Harri ng t on was b roug h t i n an d l oc k e d u p with him. Soon after he heard him say that if he had 00 clinker i n hi s h an d he would spl i t the pol i ceman 's head into pieces. In reply t o th e quest i ons of the Mag i strate , the witness said, that i t was a b out n i ne O' c l oc k i n Or morning that those assertions were made by the pri soner, who was lying on one of the seats at the time, but not asleep. In reply to a qu es ti on as t o h ow o f ten h e h a d been in prison, he declared that he had never been locked up before the morning in question. Mr. Games applied for the discharge of FaheYl William Burke, Shanahan, and Slattery, agains t whom, he contended, there was not a tittle of evi dence. Mr. Neill also applied for the discharge of Thomes . Burke, Lynn, and Harringt on , an d sa id that swans; the former two there was no evidence whatever, sou that, notwithstanding the strange evidence given . 1 4 the shoemaker against the latter, there was nothing to justify his further detention. Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that in a charge so serious as the present he felt it to be his duty to remand the whole of the prisoners, to give the officers engaged.!U the case sufficient time to make all the necessary 01 ' quiries, and get up the evidence ; but after the state ments that had been made, and the evidence giyen,.be did not consider that he should be justified in detain: ing any of the prisoners besides Cane, Hickey, sr M'Ellyott, against whom the evidence was sub' ciently strong to send them for trial on the charge 0 murder. Harrington he should also remand to s future day with the other three prisoners, and all al° others should be discharged. The court, during the investigation, was much crowded. THAMES. Yesterday, William Edwards, a labourer, w ill brought up on remand, before Mr. Ingham, charge!, on a Custom-hous e i n f ormat i on w i t h carrying and conveying 10 pints and a quarter of rum, the duty 011 the same not having been first paid and secured, b f which he had incurred a penalty of 1001. He ear.; neatly pleaded not g uilty t o t h e i n f ormat i on, and sa id he was an innocent man. It appeared that on Tuesday afternoon the prisoner was met by a police-constable named Barnes, No. 881 11, in Church-lane, Whitechapel, and suspecting that he had contraband property in his possession 11 . 8 stopped him, and naked him what he had under his coat, to which he replied nothing. Barnes took fro m him a bundle, cons i st i ng of a handkerchief, in Nv Web were two bladders containing rum. Before thef were oper.ed the prisoner said he did not know what they contained. Th e s ki ns were del i vered to W AY " a custom-house officer, who seized them in due form on the part of the Crown. They contained 1 gallon and s.l6ths of a gallon of rum, 23 under proof. The prisoner, in defence, said a gentleman with carpet bag in his hand, met him in Whitechapel, 1 113 .‘` asked him if he wa s ou t o f emp l oyment, and on ills . replying in the a ffi rmat i ve , gave hi m the handercluet containing the skins, and said he was to carry t h e bundle to Spitalfields, wher e h e p rom i se d t o meet bon and give him a shilling for the job. Mr. INGHAM—Wh o is this gentleman ? Prisoner —I don't know. I never saw him before. Mr. INGHAM thought the case might have been made the subject of a summary proceeding, wit.b" t en information. Mr. Cornell said the quantity of rum cr real spirit had been considerably reduced by its being so much under proof. It was valued, with the duty, at 151. per gallon. Mr. INGHAM fined the prisoner 11001., and, in de fault of payment, committed him to prison for six months. He recommended him to memorialise the Board of Customs for a mitigation of punish meat. THE SUN, LONDON: THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1851. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Sir G. CLERK wi.;hed to ask the RiOlt llon. Ger tle't an at the head of the Bard of Trade what steps Ind been taken by the Rail Ti ay Board in relation to the tv%o late railway accidents ; and whether, if the Railway Board bad not power to adopt regulations for the public safety, it was the intention of the Right Hon. Gentle ' man to introduce a Bill for the purpose of enabling that Board to interfere for the safety of life and limb to the public ? _ _ Mr. LABOUCHERE said the subject had been for some time, and was still under the consideration of the Railway Board. With regard to the first accident, a very able report had been presented to the Commissioners on the subject by the gentleman who hid been sent down for the purpose, which report he should feel it his duty to lay upon the table of the House.—(Hear, hear.) An inspector had also been sent down to attend the inquest on the second when it took place. With regard to the most material part of the Right Hon. Baronet's inquiry, the propriety of the Railway Com missioners undertaking the special control of railway ar rangements, in order to ensure public safety, he would take the liberty of asking the House to be very cautions before they adopted the opinion that the public safety would be increased by being placed under the control of a railway board. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Mr. EWART rose to move that it is expedient that the mitigations which have been made in the laws in flicting capital punishment in England be extended to Scotland, and (as far as possible) to the colonial posses sions of this country. He thought there could, at all events, be no objection on the part of the House to in stitute an inquiry into the law of Scotland on this sub ject. With regard to the colonies, he observed that the laws of several of them presented many anomalies as compared with those of England. In St. Lucia the penal laws of Louis the XlVth. were now in force; in Ceylon the Dutch laws prevailed, and arson, coining, homicide, receiving stolen property, and other offences were punishable by death. At the Cape of Good Hope the same enactments existed which were introduced in the time of Charles V., and by them; the crimes of coining, forgery, housebreaking, rioting, and stealing, were visited with capital punish ment. There still remained, also, at Malta, a remnant of i the Justinian code, and among other offences punished by death were attempts to poison, and even the breaking of the quarantine laws. He believed that many of our colonies had themselves effected considerable changes in their laws, but he was anxious that the laws of all the colonies should be made conformable to the laws of England. —(Hear, hear.) He was not aware whether the House had power to do this. It might be that the principle on which it acted was first to improve the constitution of the colonies, and then allow them to make laws for themselves—a principle to which he was favourable, but he thought, at the same time, that a suggestion made by the House in the shape of a resolution such as ho proposed, would have con siderable influence in the colonial legislative assemblies. Many governors of colonies had already expressed an anxious wish that the law should be assimilated, and he hoped, therefore, that no opposition would be offered to his motion.—(Hear.) Mr. FOX MAULE said he could himself really see no objection to the proposition of the Hon. Member viz., that the law of Scotland and the colonies should be assimilated to that of England, but he questioned very much the propriety of the House adopting a resolution of such a vague character. As regarded the colonies, the House could not legislate for them in these matters, and they were themselves the best judges of that which best suited their internal arrangements. Mr. HUME did not think the Right Hon. Gentleman had done justice to the motion of the lion. Member. With regard to Scotland, he should like to see what was practicable done by Jaw ; but in reference to the colonies, where they had the right of self-government, he was disposed to leave the matter in their own hands. Many colonies, however, did not enjoy that privi lege ; and in so far as he w as concerne d , h e thought their criminal laws ought to be assimilated to our own. He hoped, therefore, the Home Secretary would take up the subject and call for the opinion of the Hous, upon it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HAWES did not deprecate discussion upon this subject, but he certainly was adverse to legislating upon it at present. The motion, however, was defective • so far as it related to Scotland, because the proper mode of proceeding for altering the law of Scotland was by Bill, and not by resolution. Considering all the House had heard of late on the question of local self government, he did think it would be highly impolitic to adopt that part of the motion which had reterence;to the colonies. But, in point of fact, as regarded the majority of our colonies, there was no necessity for this species of le gislation, because their criminal codes, as nearly as was possible or expedient, had already been assimilated to those of the mother country. In proof of this ho need only refer to the papers which had been laid before the House in the course of the present session, wherein it would be found that even in colonies whose codes were severer than our own, a desire was always ma nifested by the authorities to follow the example of the mother country, and adopt a system of transpor tation in preference to resorting to the punishment of death.—(Hear, hear.) Sir G. GREY was understood to say that instructions had been forwarded to Scotland to make the law there in criminal cases as lenient as it is in England,—(Hear.) Mr. EWART said the purpose of his motion had been answered by the discussion which it had given rise to, and he would not, therefore, put the House to the trou ble of dividing upon it. The motion was accordingly withdrawn with leave. SECULAR EDUCATION. Mr. W. J. FOX then rose, pursuant to notice, to move that it was expedient to promote the education of the people, in England and Wales, by the establishment of free schools for secular instruction, to be supported by local rates, and managed by committees, elected speeially for that purpose by the ratepayers. He said he rose with some encouragement to make this proposi tion, because, at the recent anniversary of the British and Foreign School Society, the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, who presided over the meeting, ex pressed his conviction that the present was a fitting time for making additional efforts to promote the educa tion of the people. The proposition, therefore, that he was now making to the House was not in its object ill-timed. He did not, however, think the Noble Lord's language was sufficient to warrant him in expecting that the Noble Lord would honour this motion with his sup port, but it did warrant him in expecting that it would be received in no obstructive spirit by the Government. He thought this was peculiary the time when efforts for education were necessary, because passing events were such as to make them sensible of the position of their country in this particular. In almost every department, military, constitutional, and literary, there was room for self-congratulation, but on this one of education, it was not a question whether England was first amone , the nations, but ninth, tenth, or twelfth. If they looked, too, at their own internal condition—at the mass of pauperism and crime which existed among them, they would also see what necessity these was for an educa tional movement. They heard a great deal of the over -crowded state of the labour-market, but if they looked at the report of the inspectors they would find that in many iiistricts, while there was a super fluity of uneducated labour, there was a great deficiency of that which required skill and education. The constitution of the country supposed knowledge and education in all subjects, and called upon all citizens to discharge duties which could not be discharged by un educated men. The means now pursued fur the promo tion of education were not sufficient to carry out a system of education sufficient for the wants of the peo ple. To prove this, he would rely enly on the reports of the Government Inspectors themselves; all cf which were nothing more than a continued illustration of the necessity of some measure being introduced for the compulsory adoption of a general system of education. He did not mean to charge the committee with inten tional partiality, but apparent and inevitable partiality was inherent in the system. There was another point which gave the appearance of partiality to the adminis tration of these grants. Of all the school inspectors ap poin'ed there were only .3 who did not belong to one profession, and that was the Church. There was also another show of partiality induced by the in structions which the committee of council laid down in regard to the bestowment of grants. Money was given, not in proportion to the educational wants of a district or locality, but the amount of volun tary subscriptions which were collected for the purposes of education. He found that an application for a grant was refused, because no particular religious education was given in the school, )et in many schools of this description, a more sound and really moral and religious education, was afforded than in many establishments professing to be of a higher character. In rural districts the greatest difficulties had to be encountered in the formation of charitable schools, and the owners and occupiers of land contributed very trifling sums towards the funds required for the purpose. Henc e th e n ecess it y b ecame apparent of the i ter position of the Governm en t t o ma k e a ll classes pay not ac In prep ort: co nap io i : i t i o their means to the e d uca ti on o f t h e people. Another r eason w hy th e present system could that a the pu r p oses o f a nat i onal education was religiou s difficulty stood in the way, and that people refu dle t o - puy for that which did not agree with their religious tenets. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung has the follow ing paragraph, probably one of the last that will ap pear, on the Dresden Conferences : " After their formal close they will be forgotten as a total failure, and the re-organization of Germany will immediately bo discussed at Warsaw by the Monarchs in person, and the Presidents of their respective Ca binets. All the agitation, labour, and exchange of notes has only led to the recognition of the old Constitution innovationsfuture,en and and the old Diet as the basi s and b ody of the political bystem. The reforms , i m pro ve ments , andd e lie still veiled in the deepest obscurity of the will first become visible is the second half of the present month. Perhaps conditions may b e ma d e in Warsaw that may favour one State at the cost of another; now is the right moment for Prussia to beware, l es t un d er th e a ppearance of an increase of pow er over the small States it is not itself placed in the rank of secondary tt owers." SERVIA. A misunderstanding is said to have arisen between the Porte and the Servian Government. The Porte asserts that the insurrection in Turkish Croatia has been aided and abetted by Servia. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 3rriteatcyeeriip7hrasof ' S 111:41;:-----The following le VAN DIEME ----"" ( been received by lAkrd My Lord, I have the holZ it t ° o 27 6:3 lW rt h edran it g e se h m a rh l i your Lordship's letter of the 1 4th '—° tion to the Queen from the wo ration to that colony , i t e ling a peti laid the same , praying the discontinuance of t eana l Van Diemen's Land to have and to acquaint your Lordship that` before her Majesty. I have the honour 1 2 0 7,,: Lordship's obedient servant, G. GRE T . ,, im y : Lord, your QUIN'S INCOHERENT STORY.—Quin issosaniite'l betted Foote a wager that he would speak which Foote could not repeat off-hand after biro. 4Q. n c r' i l_ue produced the following string o f incoherencies:— ruin went into the garden to pick a cabbage-leaf to make j apple-pie of! and a she - bear coming up the street , put her l head into the shop and said, 'Do you smell any snap?' s, she died, and very imprudently married the barbei • ; and the powder fell out of the counsellor's wig, and poor 'Mrs. Mac kay's puddings were quite entirely spoilt; and there was present the Garnelies, and the Gobilies, and Piennes, and the great Pangendrum himself, with the little round button at top; they played at the ancient game of `C latch who catch can' till boo „ , the gunpowder ran out of the heel iof their ... —.Not es and Queries. at the Disco ERIC OF A NEW PLANET.—MT. J. Hind has just discovered ticorpii and Lib e ; an Scorpio, aboutered another new planet in the constellation light is about equal time eight degrees north of the ecliptic, And form ingequilateral triangle with tie stars It is of a pale bluish coloav, rand its i PZTERHEAD. tor that of a star of the ninth :magnitude. seals. A d. Pomona, Greenland, with 7,00 u i LitßwicK,—..Sld. Enterprise, Davis's Straits. don, he being the holder of the warrants ; hence the last ? Witness—Three or four minutes, your Wor present issue. It appeared that the ten casks of nut- ship. megs were lying at Brewer's Quay-wharf, and that if Air. BROUGHTON—Do you really believe there delivered for home consumption about 2091. would were as many passengers as you have stated ? Wit have to be paid as duty, but if they were exported of ness—l do, Sir; but of course I had no opportunity course no duty would be payable. of counting them at the time. Mr. LOCKE submitted that the plaintiff's case could Defendant, when asked by the magistrate what he not be sustained, as the attachment was against ten had to say, replied that the passengers numbered no casks of' nutmegs which had never been in his posses- more than twenty-two, which was just one more than sion, he being merely the holder of the warrants. The the vehicle was licensed to carry ; the near horse was latter, and not the goods, should have been attached. a " jib," and he did not whip him more than two or The RECORDER, held that the nutmegs were in three times ; be had no witnesses to call. Mr. Scott's possession really, though not actually, in Mr. BROUGHTON remarked, that the case had been the same manner that a person who had money at a very properly taken up by a useful society, and fined banker's was in possession of that money. the defendant 203. and costs, or in default of payment Mr. LOCKE then addressed the jury, and urged that 14 days' imprisonment. If it had been shown that he unless they were thoroughly satisfied, from the evi- had been brought up upon any former occasio❑ for dense that the nutmegs were actually in Mr. Scott's conduct of a similar nature, he would now have been possession, they could not find for the plaintiff, more severely dealt with. The Learned Counsel then put in as evidence a WORSHIP-STREET. deed of assignment, executed by Cleland and Day, at Yesterday James Hurley and George Cator were Boston, on the failure in December, to show that when placed at the bar for re-examination before Mr. the attachment was issued in February, the nutmegs Seeker, charged with a daring assault and robbery had been formally assigned to Mr. Scott and other upon the person of Mr. Benjamin Collins, a blind creditors, for the benefit of the creditors generally. man, carrying on business as an ironmonger in High- The names of Mr. Posuo, Turkish Consul at Ant- street, Shoreditch. weep, and Mr. Da Pests, Turkish Consul General at The circumstances which led to the detection and Brussels, appeared as parties to the deed. It ap- apprehension of the prisoners were of a somewhat peered, however, that the deed had not been executed singular character. It appeared that on the afternoon until after the issue of the attachment. of Monday, the 9th instant, as the prosecutor was The jury, witb.out hesitation, found that the gar- passing through New Inn-yard, Shoreditch, under niskee had in his possession ten casks of nutmegs be- the guidance of his daughter, a child eight years old, longing to the defendants—which was a verdict for be suddenly received a severe kick on the back of the the plaintiff. leg, which flung him forward upon his face, but he was immediately raised up by two men, one of whom, while affecting to commiserate his misfortunes, sud denly thrust his hand into his waistcoat pocket, from which he abstracted his watch with a violent jerk that detached it from the guard, and both of them in stantly made off with their booty. He gave imme diate information to the police, and having been sub sequently apprised that a man was in custody charged with a murderous assault upon a married woman, who had denounced him as one of the gang who had robbed him of his wateh, he proceeded to the station house, where he was confronted with the prisoner Hurley, and at once recognised him, by the pecu liarity of his voice, as one of his assailants. Ellen Wateman, the wife of a bedstead-maker, in Christopher -square, Shoreditch, in whose house Hur ley had formerly lodged, was then examined, and de posed that she accidentally witnessed the robbery while proceeding through New Inn-yard, on the afternoon in question, and having described the par ticulars in the same terms as they had been detailed by the prosecutor, and thoroughly identified the pri soners as the perpetrators, proceeded to state that she met Hurley again, near her own residence, on the same evening, and after an exulting observation upon the daring character of the transaction, he informed her that he had since sold the watch for 16s. to a Jew receiver. Witness remarked that it was a cruel act to commit such a robbery upon a poor blind man, and told him that she had a good mind to communicate the circumstances to the police, to which he replied that he would certainly cut her throat if she ven tured to do so. In consequence of these threats she was deterred from divulging what she had seen, but carefully avoided all further communication with the prisoner, and kept out of his way until the night of Saturday se'nnight, when he followed her home, and commenced a most unmerciful attack upon her, de claring that he would have her life, and after striking her repeatedly on the face, he seized her by the throat, and attempted to strangle her, but her cries of " Murder" were fortunately heard by a policeman, who rescued her from further ill-usage, and conveyed him to the station-house. Witness then preferred the charge of robbery against him, and furnished the police with further information, which resulted in the apprehension of the other prisoner. The prisoners, who denied the charge, were or dered to be remanded for the completion of the depo sition, but on being removed by the gaoler they turned fiercely round upon the female witness, and assailed ber with a volley of imprecations for giving evidence against them. SOUTHWARK. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 21. (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE RICHARD JOHN MOSCROP. This insolvent, who was a corn-dealer at Holloway, was opposed by Mr. Sargood for Messrs. Charring ton. He had no counsel. An objection was taken to the petition in this case, which was filed under the Protection Act, on the ground that the debts exceeded 3001. It appeared that the insolvent had given a Mr. Bilton a bill of sale for 1101., which, with his present debts, would make them exceed 300/. It was, how ever, alleged that Mr. Bilton had taken possession of the property secured by the deed, and had realised the same, which was in effect an extinguishment of the claim. The deed was exhibited in court, and ap peared to be a mortgage. Mr. SARGOOD submitted that the deed to Mr. Bil ton had not been extinguished, and that it must be calculated in the amount. Therefore the debts ex ceeded 300/. and the petition must be dismissed. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER concurred in the view taken by the Learned Counsel, and dismissed the petition. The petition was accordingly dismissed. His HONOUR granted several final orders, and heard other applications, neither of which presented any feature of public importance. (THIS EVENING.) CLEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The StrEAKER took th e Ch a i r at Four o'clock.. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. HAYTER a new writ was ordered for the Borough of Newry, in the room of Vis count Newry, deceased. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Mr. A. HASTIE moved that the order of the Com mittee of Selection or the 11th April, nominating the Committee on the Caledonian Railway (Motherwell 'Branch Extension and Lesmahagow Branches Lease) Bill, Group 15 of Railway Bills, be discharged: that the Bill be withdrawn. Tim; leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to pro . vide for the construction Of certain Branch Railways in the county of Lanark. That on the >aid Bill being pre rented, and read the first time, it be reterred to the 4 .xarniners of Pthitions for Private Bills, with leave to . fit and prrceed to-morrow.—Agreed to. THIRD READINGS. e tw .." l :_ hl :feLlowine., Bills were read a third time and passed: otreirny uininfornr s tiinhur h Railway LiverpoA Ducks Asylum for the Insane w e6ton.super., l; e (Al ro I teration of Management, &c.) E 03 1 t ImprovementOF a F n d i3 .`,Market Lrs. The fellowi AG on l: o vy fi e d r a e ti c o o tt nsidered and agreed to:— Brackley R ig Great Western mingham ao Mi r l f waY (Railways to connect the Bit drin and ri d ge and Junction Railway with the Lon quays Sc anucrovements Ray ling Bridg e and stern Railway at Birmingham, &c.) North Shields Sunderland Improvement On the m NE W WRIT . of Mr. CU writ was ordered for the count ll lI NG BRUCE, a new Z e r Argy in the room of Mr. _Duncan Mac Neil w h o one of the judges in Scotland. acc *Pted the o ffi ce o f _ PETITIONS. Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from presented tvvo peationspraying favour of the Improvement of TOM'S Susses ill lazes the An Hort. MEMBER tbe repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty for Sir JAMES DUKE presented five poutious f rom city of London, praying for the repeal of the knowledge. en The MASTER of the ROLLS presented a petitio n from an individual holding the office of Clerk o f Enrolments in the Court of Chancery, complaining that r ecent acts of the Legislature had completely annihilated tee fees of his situation, and praying the House to in ke awn e provisi on for him in the new Couaty Courts Bill. ReSigiri;4,WL.onJu. FOX presented a petition against the Sir B. IlArLgrant. presented favou r of the a petition from St. Pancras Af r . pu bic Grolidation paving boards. tanshire'and Sh ire against Papal aggres9ion. Mr. DUNCAN Mr. IL B?fixtzt ! Le r t hen u t e e a ct i t o w n o ß p ii e j t . itions from places i n Scotland against presented a petition from the cOachmakera of Bristol, p raying the carriage-tax. for an equalization of Presented a petition from the Sir EORGE CLERK Sy node Lothians against the Education Bill forscot, land; also a petition from th e Scot- Jew Bid. name place against the Mr. KERSHAW presented a petition from Liverpool against the Regiunz Donuni. a taxes on knowl : d ctl Titles Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition f rom Manchester praying for the rtpt-al of net lion from Ipswich eg thf.) a mit the E oo l ea i . . ti B: ; also Bill. Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN presented petitions from the parishes of St. Michael's. St. John's, and St. Munchin's .In favour of t h e T owns I mprov ement Bill, and t h e reten: Von of the 26th clause. ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY. Lord R. GROSVENOR announced that it was n ot his iLtention to bring forward his motion on this subject. ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET. Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that the Islington Cattle Market Bill be referred to the Committee on Smithfield Market Removal Bili.—Agreed to. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gAve notice that, on going into i :Committee on this Bill, h e s h ou l d move t h e; the first lllanse be pnstponed until th e H ouse b e i n posses sion of 41fthe brief, rescript, or letter apostons on which the said olau,s? idefounded. fir. HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANcELLoa took his seat upon the Wool lack at Five o'cl )(A. PETITIONS. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from Ne , wErkagaingt Papal vggression. The Duke of ARGYLL pre3ented several petitions from places in Scodand to a imilur purport. Earl FORTESCUE presented several petitions from places in Devonshire against Papal aggression; also a petition from Barnstaple in favour of the Copyhold En trauchisemen..; Bill. Lord STANLEY presented a petition against the Episcopal and Capitular Eitatrs Management Bill from the Dsan and Chapter of Wells (44 WP understood). PROPERTY-T BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE this 'till was road a thrd time and passed. EPISCOPAL AND CAPI T [MAR ESTATES MANAGEMENT BILL. The Earl of CARLISLE, in moving the second read ing of this Bill, claimed their Lordships' indulgence. The Bill was one of a most complicated nature, on a subject to which he had not until recently directed his attention, and one the provisions of which were sure to militate against the interests of powerful parties. Re had, however, the encouragement to know that it was one which was unconnected with party politics, and he hoped that after giving it a second reading their Lorci ships would consent to refer it to a Select Committee— (Hear, hear, from the Tory benehes)—carefully consti tuted, when its provisions might be carefully considered, and he hoped that it would not be considered that by consenting to this second reading any peer would be pledged to any one of the provi sions of the Bill, or to any principle, except that it would be advisable to introduce a better management of Church property, so as to make it more profitable and more available for ecclesiastical purposes.—(Hear, hear.) It was admitted that the present management of that property was unsatisfactory both to the lesson] and the lessees. It was stated, upon high authority, that these estates might be let on terms more advantageous both to the Church and to the lessees. Tl:e Committee of the House of Commons had reported that the system of fines was equally unpro titab/e to the Church and to the lessee, and militated against the improvement of the property. It had long been expected that some legislation would take place on this subject, and this expectation had materially interfered with the formation of agreements between the Church and the lessees. In 1849 a Commission had been ap pointed to consider the subject. In 1850 the Commis sioners, who were the Earl of Harrowby, the Dean o Canterbary, the present Solicitor-General, Mr. Archbold, and Mr. Jones, presented two reports, and the Bill now on their Lordships' table embodied the recommendations et those two reports. The Commissioners recommended to give to the lessees a perpetual right of renewal, and to give to the Commissioners to be appointed under the Aet the power of substituting a term of years in leases for lives for the third life in the lease, so as to reduce eventually all episcopal and oapitular leases to leases fur terms oft years. TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEATIEIV'S LAND. The following is a copy of a petition to Parliament on this subject:— The humble petition of the undersigned merchants trail ing with the British colony of Van Diemen's Land, and others connected with the said colony, Respectfully shevveth— That the colony of Van Diemen's Land having, in the year 1840, been made the sole receptacle of convicts sentenced to transportation, a most fearful state of things was engendered in the said colony, to the great dismay of the colonists, and the scandal of the nation at large; and that it was a ccor di ng l y d etermined, during the ad ministration of the late Sir Robert Peel, to establish a new settlement in Northern Australia for the reception of offenders. That the administration which followed Sir Robert Peel's resolved to arrest the formation of the settlement of Noth Australia, and to suspend the transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's Land for two years; and afterwards, apparently on profound reflection, they de termined to abolish transportation altogether to Van Diemen's Land, and to adopt a system of secondary punishment, of which the distinguishing features were the punishment of offenders in penitentiaries in this country, and their subsequent wide dispersion through various colonies of the empire. That her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies accordingly advised the Lieutenant- Governor of Van Diemen's Land, on the sth of February, 1847, that it was not intended to revive transportation to that colony at the expiration of the two years for which it had been decided that it should be discontinued; and that the Lieutenant-Governor announced this in struction to the Legislative Council of the colony in the following words :- 1 " I take the earliest opportunity of bringing before you the decision of her Afejesty's Government, that transportation to Van Diemen's Land shall not be re sumed at the expiration of the two years for which it has already been decided that it is to be discontinued. Her Majesty's Government, in coming to this determi nation, have acted in accordance with the expressed , wishes of a large proportion o f th e f ree i n h a bi tants o f the colony." And, furthermore, that the said Lieutenant-Governor, on the 20th of August, 1847, in a dispatch to the Secre tary of State, warned her Majesty's Government against . the revival of transport a ti on t o t h e co l ony i n any form, in these words:— "As her Majesty's Government have decided that transportation is to cease, and as that decision has been publicly made known in the colony, I do not consider that it would be possible, or desirable, to carry out the suggestions contained in my dispatch, No. 83. The feelings of a large portion of the community are so fully enlisted in the op position which has been raised to the convict system here, that any attempt now to revive the system, in any form, would be looked upon by them as a breach of faith, and would cause, I have no doubt, feelings of hos tility which would be very embarrassing to the Govern ment." That, in the year 1348, her Majesty's Government, notwithstanding its promises, resolved to continue the transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's Land; and that the great body of transported offenders have been sent to the said colony ever since. That, between the year 1840 and the present time, petitioners have heard and believe that no less than 30,000 convicts have been sent to Van Diemen's Land; that upwards of 12,000 free people have, in consequence, been driven forth from the colony, to seek homes and employment elsewhere; and that, by the census of the colony, taken in 1848, it would appear that three-fourths of the adult population were, or had been, convicts—a proportion which, it is believed, has since increased. That the colonists are in a state of the utmost discon tent at this revival of transportation, in the face of the pledges of her Majesty's Government, as solemnly an nounced by her Majesty's representative. That bishop and clergy, the ministers cf various denominations, members of the Legislature, magistrates, merchants, pa rents, and guardians, on behalf of their children, and the respectable free people generally, of all ranks cud stations, have over and over, in various petitions to her Majesty the Queen, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, or your Honourable House, prayed relief against the in credible wrongs done to them by the continued trans portation of criminals to Van Diemen's Land, and that the pledges of her Majesty's Government should at length be honourably fulfilled. That, finally, the women of the colony have lately ad dressed her most gracious Majesty the Queen, appealing to her sympathies as a mother as well as the sovereign of a great empire. That, nevertheless, her Majesty's Government still persist in sending large numbers of convicts to the said colony. That, unhappily, a feeling of hostility to the free colo nists seems to be arising in the minds of some of the convict classes in the said colony; who, falsely, no doubt, interpreting certain statements of her Majesty's Govern ment, appear to regard the colony as theirs, and the free colonists as intruders. That, with the discontent of the colonists on the one hand at what, in the language of their governor, they must inevitably regard as a breach of faith, and the exasperation of the convict classes on the other, your petitioners entertain the most serious apprehensions that calamities may arise in the said colony which your Honourable House will ever deplore. That the wrongs inflicted on the said colony have aroused the sympathies of all the neighbouring colonies, and the whole of Southern and Eastern Australia is agitated on the subject of transportation; while in Van Diemen's Land leagues have been entered into among the colonists not to employ convicts arriving after a cer tain day of the last year; at the same time petitioners have heard and believe, that among the convicts active efforts are being made, on every homestead, to intimi date and drive away any free labourers employed by the colonists. That, in this alarming state of things, your petitioners, as deeply concerned in the well-being of the colony of Van Diemen's Land, humbly, but confidently submit to your Honourable House, that every consideration of jus tice and good faith, religion and morality, as well as of good policy, requires that henceforth no more convicts be sent to the said eolony; and they submit that it would be grievous indeed if the future nations of Australia should date their alienation from this country from such a cause as their compulsory contamination by the parent state. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honourable House, taking the pr em i ses i nto serious consideration, will adopt such steps as to your Honourable House may seem meet, at once to arrest the further transportation of offenders to the colony of Van Diemen's Land. London, Nay, 1851. BRITISH LADIES' FEMALE EMIGRANT SOCIE i Y. On Wednesday the second annual meeting of this so ciPty was held at the Hanover-square Rooms; the Earl of Harrow by in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said the meeting was aware of the increasing efflux of enligants from this country to distant colonies, and that that those emigrants would constitute the pa rents of future communities, possibly of future em pires. It was true that some abuses had occurred upon the passage outwards ; but the object of this society was to protect the female passengers from insult ing danger. This visa done by the selection of religious and moral matrons, who were generally appointed by the Government, and by providing the female emigrants with snitable employment on the voyage. The society required support and sympathy, the more particularly at present, when emigration was greatly upon the increase. It appeared, from the report, that the society had from its commencement proposed to itself four objects:— " 1. To establish homes for the reception of the female emigrants, where they may be instructed and prepared, prior to their leaving their native country. 2. To pro vide visitation at the psrts, where the emigrants are formed into industrial classes, and supplied with means for their instruction and employment during the voyage, through the agency of the visiting committees. 3. To secure the appointment of judicious,and efficient matrons for the supermteneenee of the young women on the voyage, through the agency of the matrons' committee. 1. To form corresponding _societies in the colonies for the protection and assistance of the female immigrants on their arrival. " During the past year twelve matrons have been ac cepted by her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, and five by the Committee of the Female Emigration Fund, on the recommendation of the Matron's Committee. From many of these letters have been re ceived, and others may be now daily expected. The Com mittee are anxious to have a supply of matrons in readiness, that they may have leisure to prepare for their duties before they sail. Such matrons as are approved by the committee, while waiting their appointment, meet the secretary weekly, to go through a course of religious reading, such as they will find useful with the female emigrants, and also to arrange the needlework which will be committed to their charge during the voyage. " The following briefly shows the state of the finances for the present year:—From April, 1850, to April, 1851—Lotal receipts by annual subscriptions, 3081.48. 2d.; donations, 3601. 14s. 6d.; collections, 621. 55.; ba lance remaining from last year, 4054 193. 4d. Total, 1,1371.35. Expenditure, 8114 12s. 6d. Balance in hand April, 1851, 3254 10s. 101" , The report was adopted, and after the passing of reso lutions in favour of continued support being exteneded to the society, the meeting separated. DISCHARGE OF CAPTAIN PAULETT SOMERSET.-- Yesterday morning Captain Paulett Somerset, having corn.. pleted the term of his imprisonment, was discharged from the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields. A great number of persons had assembled to witness his departure at the usual hour, but the gallant officer had been discharged about an hour before that time. FALAIOUTET, MAY 18.—On Saturday morning James Williams, a young fellow representing himself to be a seaman cast a w a y a t L un d ay I s l an d, an d t o h ave t rampe d from Padetow to this pl ace , w ith w hi c h t a l e h e h a d i m p ose d Just before on the Custom House authorities to procure a new register ticket, was committed to take his trial at Bodmin, charged with stealing a bag and two rabbits from the Ord nance Farm at Pendennis. The patrol of the coast guard met with him at midnight with the bag near the farm-house, and suspecting him of having contraband goods detained evening, Ai rs. him until th e arrival of the constabulary. V°RaVORACITY or A R AT AT HULL.—On Wednesday Carr, child abo • , ut ei ght months o ld , and then fast asleep, in bed, and left the h ouse on business. On her return, in about thr scr ee-quarter eaming dreadfully ; and ru s hi ng t of English-street, placed her infant s of an hour, s h e was alarmed at hearing it to the bed was horrified to find it actually dren c h e d in bloodf A brief examination sufficed to discover a nu m b er of small wounds, evidently inflicted by teeth, and doubtless those of a rat, about its nec k , face, and arms, from all-of which the blood was issu ing profusely. Dr. Bell was immediately called in, and 1 under his judicious care the wounds were staunched ; azd i the little sufferer is now doing we 11...-26411 Packer. LAW INTELLIGENCE. EXCHEQUER 12:JAMBER, May 20. (Before Lord CAM2D.LL, Mr. Justice PATTESON, Mr. Justice COLERID GE , M r . Justice Unme t Mr. Jus tice CRESSWELL, and Mr. Justice TALFOURD.) BOOSEY V. JEFFRIES. Lord CAMPBELL, in delivering the judgment of the Court, said that in this case the action had been brought by the plaintiff against the defendant for the pirating and using a musical composition, being a cavatina in the opera of La Sonnambula, which was composed by Bellini. The declaration was in the common form, alleging that the plaintiff was the pro prietor of the copyright of the opera, and that the composition in question was first published in Great Britain. To this declaration there were two pleas— first, that the plaintiff was not the proprietor; and secondly, that there was no copyright. At the trial, which took place before Mr. Baron Rolfe, now Lord Cranworth, evidence was given that the opera was composed at Milan in February, 1831, by Bellini, who was an alien, and who then resided i n th a t c it y . By the law of Milan, he was entitled to a copyright of his work ; and accordingly, in May, 1831, he assigned his copyright to Giulio Ricordi, an alien, also residing at Milan, who, on the 9th of June following, assigned the copyright for Great Britain and Ireland to the plaintiff, a native of Great Britain, and he published it in London on the 10th of June, 1831, there having been no prior publication of it in any other country. On the 12th of June, the plaintiff entered his work at Stationers' Hall, and deposited copies at the British Museum and other places required by the Act of Parliament ; and on the 13th of May, 1844, he made entries at Stationers' Hall, as required by the sth and 6th Victoria, c. 45, for the purpose of conti nu i ng hi s right. The Learned Judge, in accordance with the decision of the Court of Exchequer, in the case of Boosey and Purday, directed the jury to find a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the evidence was not sufficient to establish a copyright. The jury, therefore returned a verdict for the def en d ant , upon wh i ch a bill of excep tions was tendered to the ruling of the Learned Judge, and so the present writ of error was brought. After listening to a learned argument, and carefully consi dering all the authorities, we are of opinion that the evidence was sufficient to support both issues, and that there ought to be a venire de novo. The first question was, whether the author had a copy right, but that is not essential in the present case. If it were, we should be of the same opinion as my Lord Mansfield in the case of "Miller and Taylor," 4 Bur roughs, 2,380. 'We think that, un d er th e statute of the Bth of Anne, c. 19, the plaintiff was entitled to maintain the action. In Boosey and Purday, in which the Court of Exchequer overruled the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, which are authorities directly in point, it was decided that a foreign author residing abroad, who composes a work abroad, and sends it to this country, where it is published under his authority, acquires no copy right therein, neither'does a British subject, to whom that work is assigned by the foreign author, gain any such right. If these premises be sound, then a Bri tish subject who resides abroad cannot be in a better position ; but with great deterence to that decision, which must have been strongly maintained, we are of opinion that it was not the intention of the Legislature to debar a foreigner from the power of holding a copyright in this country. The Parliament has no power to legislate concerning foreigners residing in foreign countries, but it has power to grant the monopoly which the statute of Anne confers, to be enjoyed here, on the conditions to be performed here. The statute of the Bth of Anne, c. 19, is an A c t f or the encouragement of learn ing, by vesting the copies of printed books in the atithors or purchasers of such copies during the times therein mentioned. Assuming that the Legislature looked only to the benefit of Great Britain, without regard to general literature, it is not for the literature of Great Britain that it should have the benefit of foreign authorship? If Rapin and De Lolme had written their valuable works without visiting our shores, could it be said that they would have been deprived of the privilege of disposing of their works to a publisher ? It has always been the policy of Parliament to introduce foreign literature into the country; thus by the Ist Richard 111., c. 9, which was lt al a a n n n c e t r p c h a s a s n e t d a for r g e h g t u l a sellt n g the m er c m h o a d n e d n a e which other restraints on aliens, it is enacted by sec. 12, that aliens may bring any books written or printed into this country, for selling by retail or otherwise. The question truly is, whether a foreigner composing literature abroad, by sending it and first publishing it in Great Britain, is deprived of his copyright, whereas, if he resides and composes it here, it is admitted that he would be possessed of it. If he bad composed it abroad and brought it over in his memory, or even brought over the manuscript, would it have made any difference in his right as an author ? Can his presence here alter his right as an author ? If he can bring it over and enter it at Stationers'-hall himself, which is admitted, why should he not able to do so by an agent? Where is the necessity of his crossing from Calais to Dover? The law will give him redress, though he never set foot in England ; for, by the 6th of Henry VIII., the Court of Common Pleas held that an alien residing in France could maintain an action of debt in this country, though he could not do so with regard to real property; and that great judge, Chief Justice Tindal, held that an alien, though he has never been in this country, may maintain an action for a libel published in this country ; and, on delivering judgment said that it would create in the minds of foreigners a very unfavourable impression of the justice of our laws, if we were to hold that an alien's friends could not maintain an action of that description in our courts, unless by some interval of residence here he has incurred the onu.s of what Lord Coke calls igeantia localis ; and Mr. Justice Maule, in the same case, said that every day's experience showed us that actions are maintained here by fo reigners —for example, those for running down vessels on the high seas—without objection. Gibbons wrote his celebrated work of the " Decline and Fall" in a foreign country ; can it be doubted that he might have published and sold his work here had he con tinued to reside abroad? What difference can there be then between a foreigner or a subject domiciled abroad ? For these reasons we think that if an alien author, residing in his own country, should cause his work to be published here, he would be an author within the Acts, and could maintain an action for piracy ; but we wish it to be understood that it must be first publiihed'in this country, for if it bad been published Pieviously in any other country he could not gain a copyright here. The origin of the doctrine / 40 s up by the de fendant seems to bare arisen from a dictum of the late Vice-Chancellor Shadwell, against the right of a foreigner, expressed in the cases of Guichard v. Mori, and in Page and Townsend, which turned on the construction of several Acts protecting engravings, one only of which was expressly confined to plates engraved in Great Britain ; but' these opinions were merely obiter dicta, and the cases had no connexion with copyrights. Looking at the context, there is reason to believe that the Vice-Chancellor only meant to say that the Court would not protect a foreigner who publishes abroad. As to the other points, viz., that the assignment by Bellini to Ricordi was not ac cording to the Act of Parliament, viz., in the presence of two witnesses, we think that there is sufficient to show a good title in Ricordi, which be assigned to the plaintiff in England in the presence of two witnesses. Upon the whole, therefore, we are of opinion that the direction of the Learned Judge was wrong, and tha he ought to have directed the jury to find a verdic for the plaintiff on both issues. They must, there. fore, be a venire de novo. ADMIRALTY COURT, May 21. (Before Dr. LUSHINGTON.) THE IMRE—SALVAGE. In this case the crews of two fishing-smacks of Harwich proceeded against the Bure for services ren dered her on the 9th of November last, off Harwich, she having run aground on the Pye sand. The sal vors asserted she was in a dangerous position, and were employed in heaving the vessel clear off the sand. On behalf of the Bure it was asserted she merely dropped alongside of the sand ; the assistance of the boatmen was not solicited or required, but that they forced their services upon the vessel, and that some coals had been given for the services they had ren dered. Dr. Harding appeared for the boatmen, and Drs. Addams and Twies on behalf of the Bare. The COURT considered a trifling service had been rendered, and awarded the salvors 51. and costs. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, May 21. (Before the RECORDER.) HULSCIIOFF V. CLELAND AND DAT DEFENDANTS, SCOTT GARNISHEE. This was a customary attachment in an action for debt for 700/. The garnishee pleaded that he had neither moneys nor goods of the defendants in his possession. Mr. Ryland and Mr. Randall appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Locke appeared for the garnishee. The plaintiff was a merchant at Amsterdam, the defendants were merchants at Boston, United States, and the garnishee was Mr. James Scott, merchant. of Nicholas-lane. In April or May last year, Mr. F. Saville Lee, who was the authorised London agent of the firm of Cleland and Co., of Boston, purchased on their beh a lf e l even cas k s of nutmegs, of the value of 7001., of Mr. Adrian Meyer, the representative in London of the plaintiff's house, but one of the war rants was returned to Mr. Meyer, be having sold one of the casks, and the ten others were given by Mr. Lee to Mr. Scott, the present garnishee, who it ap peared was a creditor of Cleland and Day's, to some amount. To December the house of Cleland and Day failed, whereupon the plaintiff availed himself of the process of the Lord Mayor's Court to recover from Mr. Scott the nutmegs which were still in his posses- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Mr. Bell and Mr. Corbett, the pro prietors of the G-racechurch-street premises, which fell on Saturday last, waited upon the Lord Mayor on the subject of the disastrious occurrence. Mr. Bell addressed his Lordship in the justice room, in an interval of the ordinary business of the day. He said, "We wait upon your Lordship for .a twofold purpose. First, to express our sincere thanks to your Lordship for the promptitude you have shown in commencing a subscription in guns public capacity, as chief magistrate, for the unfortu nate poor men who are now lying in the hospital, ami the families of those who were killed by the disastrou s fall of the premises in Gracechurch- street ; and., secondly, to assure your Lordship that we ar e doing, and still continue to do, all in our power t.e assuage the afflictions of the objects of the public: solicitude. We have given directions, that the wages shall be regularly paid, and that every comfort re quired be abundantly supplied, and we hand to your Lordship a cheque as an earnest of our feelings to - wards the poor fellows who have suffered, and thei r families." The LORD MAYOR said it was most gratifying t him to find, that the gentlemen who must be loser a to a very serious extent by the fall of the premises., came forward to give such unquestionable evidence o tbeir:sympathy. He would take care that the press, which the notice of the contributions received hay already appeared, should be informed of the libera act of the gentlemen who had thus waited upon him., and he entertained no doubt that he should be agaii considerably indebted to the newspapers for thei r powerful assistance, in circulating the claims of the injured parties, and announcing the amount of sub • scriptions for their service. Mr. Bell—lt is our duty also to state to your Lord - ship our sense of obligation to several gentlemen fo r their extraordinary exertions immediately after th a accident occurred. We in particular allude to Mu .. Tress, Mr. John Stevens, Mr. Edmond Woodthorpf Mr. S. Wood, Mr. Ashpital, and Mr. Bailey. All these gentlemen rendered the most valuable as - sistance in superintending, in places of the most im minent danger, the efforts to rescue the workmen who were buried in the ruins. Of the labour and skill of those gentlemen, it is quite impossible to speak too highly. The lives, in fact, of some of them were constantly exposed to the greatest peril in their anx iety to save the lives of their fellow-creatures, so that the community must feel, upon seeing the acknow ledgments o f the witnesses to their efforts day and night, that the emergency was met by the greatest intrepidity, as well as by the greatest zeal and talent ; we are also bound to speak in terms of gratitude of the exertions of the police who acted throughout with the most remarkable fi.rmness, resolution, and judgment. The LORD MAYOR said he had every reason to be lieve the police had supported the high reputation they enjoyed by their conduct on the occasion. He was perfectly aware of the active labours of the pro fessional gentlemen alluded to, whose services upon the premises were described as having been so effi cient, and he was proud to say that they had shown as great intrepidity as skill. His Lordship then said he would feel much indebted to the editors of the daily press by their acknowledgment of his receipt of the following sums for the sufferers on that day, and his anxiety to receive most bountiful contributions : Messrs. Bell and Cc rbett, the proprietors of the pre mises, 24/. ; Mrs. Jane Ogden, 5/. ; a family subscrip tion, 55.; James Thomson, Esq., 11. Is.; A Friend, 10s. ; John Wagg, Eaq., 2/. CLERKEN WELL. Yesterday Alfred Walker and Sarah Mortlake, the former a sturdy-looking young man, 23 years of age, and the latter a young and interesting-looking girl, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged by Inspector Brennan, of the G division of police, with having been concerned in manufacturing counterfeit coin. It appeared from the evidence of the Inspector, that in consequence of information received by the police that parties were constantly employed in the extensive manufacture of bane coin, at a house situate 69, Golden-lane, St. Luke's, he, with other officers, made arrangements to pay a visit to the place, for the pur pose of making a rapture. On their arrival, at about half-past four o'cl oc k on F r id ay afternoon, they pro ceeded to the first floor apartment, and on opening the door, they saw the male prisoner at work at a bench, in the manufacture of base coin. He had a file in his hand, finishing off some shillings. On see ing them (the offic•ers), he dropped the file. The female prisoner sat quietly in the room, and merely said to the male prii.3oner, " If you had not introduced that party this earould not have happened." They immediately secur ed the prisoners and took them to the station-house, after which they proceeded to search the place. On the mantel-shelf they found 43 counterfeit shillings, In the cupboard three moulds, two of which were so made as to cast three and four shillings at a time. I n a d rawer they discovered counterfeit half-cro , wns, and on a further and more general search not? ards of 200 pieces of counterfeit coin were found, all. of superior make and imitation. Also two galvanic t ia tt er i es, with plates and jars con taining strong solul ion, ladles for melting, Queen's metal spoons, plaint er of Paris powder, and all the necessary implements usually applied to the manufac turing of base coin, the whole of which they seized and conveyed to the station-house. The property was row produced in court. Sergeant Cole ra,d White, &c., who accompanied Inspector Brennan, gave confi rma t ory ev id ence. The pnsoners Cul iabited as man and wife ; the latter was much affected whilst at the box, and the male prisoner supported. her, kissed her and held his arm round her neck. Mr. TYRWHITT 'remarked that he never before wit nessed the pro'luc ton of so large a quantity of coun terfeit coin, &c, highly complimented Inspector Brennan for having conducted the case in the manner he had done. H e d ec id ed on eventually committing the prisoners to Ne.wgate for trial, but they should be brought up again , an a fature day for the formal com pletion of the der ositiona. AURYLEBOIVE. Yesterday Petit,- Fisher, an omnibus driver, was charged before Mr. Broughton, at the instance of Mr. Henry Thomas, Secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following misconduct:— Lock, 660 A, deposed that as he was on duty in Bayswater-road, he saw the defendant driving his omnibus towards. town. There were from thirty to forty passengers in and upon the vehicle, the sprin gs of which at length broke in consequence of th e tre mendous load, 2,nd the horses came to a compl e t e stand-still, upon which the defendant flogged them, but all to no purpose, as they were unable to draw the omnibus along. The near-side horse in particu lar was lashed in a most violent and scandalous manner, and a number of persons who had collected at the spot cried out " Shame." Mr. 13KouGEtTori—Llow long did the whipping Yesterday William Cos, a well-dressed boy of fourteen years of age, was placed at the bar b e f ore Mr. A'Beckett, c h arge d with breaking into the house of Mr. Edward Ralph, landlord of the Queen's Head, Freeschool-street, Horselydown, for the purpose of committing a felony. Policeman William Thrussell, 148 M, stated that at half. past two o'clock that morning, while on duty in Freeschool-street, in passing the Queen's Head, he observed that the glass fanlight over the private en trance in Short-street was broken, and an aperture made sufficiently large to admit of a man's arm. Knowing up to twelve o'clock the same night that the glass was perfect, he suspected that the house had been entered, and he knocked at the door, and listened, and distinctly beard footsteps within, but received no answer, upon which he rung the house bell and aroused the landlord, who carne down, un bolted the door, and admitted him. He (the police man) then pointed out the aperture over the door, and hinted at his suspicions that some person had effected an entrance, and was probably then concealed on the premises. They accordingly instituted an examina tion of the parlour, tap-room, bar, and other parts at the lower part of the house, but failed in discovering any person, until at length they proceeded to the front of the bar, in a corner of which stood an empty puncheon, underneath which, the heading next the floor being out, the prisoner had concealed himself, and when discovered he stated that he got into the house before twelve o'clock the night before, and hid :himself in the puncheon where he was found. On searching his pockets a box of lucifer matches was found. The policeman added, that a short time pre viously to the discovery he saw two suspicious-lookin g men lurking about the neighbourhood, who, when pszticularly noticed by him went away, and he had no doubt now that they were acting in collusion with the prisoner, who, in all probability, intended to have admitted them into the house by unfastening the door; that the fan-light was a considerable height from the street, and that the prisoner must have been lifted up by other persons, in order to give him an opportunity of breaking the glass, and making an aperture to admit his arm, so as to enable him to draw back the bolt by which the window was fastened, and through which, it being partly open when discovered, he must have introduced his body, and thus obtained an entrance. He (the policeman) further stated, that the prisoner, although so young, was a lad of very bad character, and always in the company of thieves ; that he had been in custody before, and had only re cently come out of gaol after three months' imprison ment, and suffering the punishment of flogging besides. The complainant stated that the prisoner's assertion that he got into the house before twelve o'clock, and concealed himself in the puncheon in front of the bar was destitute of truth, for he (the landlord) did not quit the bar himself till past twelve o'clock, at which time he fastened the fanlight over the private door, the glass of which was perfectly sound and secure at the time. He added, that after he was aroused by the policeman in the way described, when they commenced their search in front of the bar, he par ticularly noticed that the empty puncheon had been removed a short distance from the usual spot where it stood, and underneath which the prisoner was found—that it was a matter of much surprise how the prisoner managed to lift up the vessel so as to get inside, without knocking it down in the attempt; but however difficult, he surmounted it, and was found inside in a sitting position. He was also of opinion that the prisoner's intention was to admit other housebreakers—his associates—to rob the house, if the discovery bad not been made in the first instance, through the attention displayed by the policeman in the performance of his duty. The prisoner, who declined saying anything inan- an swer to the char ge , was comm itt e d, and directionswere given that th e recor d o f his former conviction might be produced on his trial. LAMBETH. Yesterday Patrick Cane, John ( v - 1 William F a hey , james 11 , PEllyott, Dennis Harrington, William Burk e , Edward Shanahan, Thomas Ly nn, Thomas Burke, and Edward Slattery, who stood charged with the murder of Henry James Chaplin, a the L division, were a • constable belonging to at placed within the felons' . dock before Mr. Elliott. Mr. Bodkin, the barrister, and Mr. Powell, a clerk in the offices f the solicitor to the Treasury, attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Games and Mr. Neill appeared on behalf of the prisoners. Mr. Evans, the s uperintendent of the L division of Pon ce, and Mr. Inspector Carter, who has the management of the case, were also in attendance. Mr. Bodkin, addressing the magistrate, said, that since the case had been last before his Worship, Mr. C ar ter, the inspector, a n d the officers engaged nder his directions, had exerted themselves to the utmost, to discover the whole of the parties engaged in the disgraceful and brutal outrage, that led to the death of the unfortunate man Chaplin, but he (Mr. Bodkin) regretted to say, th a t up to the present time they had not been able to procure evidence beyond that which brought home the serious offence to more than three of them, namely, Cane, Hickey, and M'Ellyott. _Against thes e , h owever, there was in his (Mr. Bodkin's) opinion, sufficient to place them on their trial on the charge of murder. It was perfectly clear from the statement of the witnesses, that there were a greater number of persons, if not assisting in the murder, at least present w h en th e ou t rage w as com mitted, than those whose names he had mentioned, and though there could be as little doubt that others at the bar, besides Hickey, Cane, and M'Ellyott, were present when the deceased received his fatal in juries, no information or communication of any kind had reached the police from any of them. With re spect to two of the prisoners, Barrington and Lynn, he had some additional evidence to offer, and after doing so, he should apply to his Worship for a further remand. The Learned Counsel here called Sergeant Thomas NED On the 19th inst., aged 3 9, Georgina, wife of J. Anderson, Esq., lessee of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. On the 17th inst., the Rev. John Palmer, M.A., aged 77, thirty-four years rector of Peldon, Essex. On the 16th inst., at Milton-next-Sittingbourne, Kent, John Hinds, Esq., one of the coroners for the county. On thy ; 18th inst., in Lower Belgrave-street, Eaton-square, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, aged 51. On the 18th inst., at East Farleigh, Kent, Edward Norton, Esq., Diss, Norfolk, aged 49. On, the 20th inst., at Addington -place, Camberwell, Sophia, the tsife of S. IL Shepheard, Esq. London t Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of N o• t l 2, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Xo. 11 2, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cosine's Middlesex, Thursday, May 22, 1861.