The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-13 00:00:00

FRANCE AND MOROCCO. (From the Times.) have been favoured, through our Paris Corre spoiii,mt, with of the following important dispatches, which will be found to elucidate much that was but imperfectly understood while the trans actions to which they refer were in 'ingress. The is from M. Guizot to M. de Nyon, the Plenipo tentiary of the King of France, and contains the in structions upon which he was to act:— X. GUIZOT TO X. NYON. Paris, June 12, 1844. Dispatches from General Lamoriciere, dated May 30, apprise is that on the same day he had been attacked within our frontier by a corps of 1,300 to 1,400 Moor ish cavalry, and from 500 to 600 Arabs ; but this ag gression was severely punished ; and as it occurred without any provocation on our part, and without any declaration of war, we trust we are not deceived in pre suming it to be a mere accident, and not an absolute rupture ordered by the Emperor of Morocco. But we have a right to complain of it, as being a signal viola tion of this rights of nations, and of the treaties by virtue of which we are at peace with that empire. You will, therefote, immediately, 034 the receipt of the present, luvve to write to the Emperor, to make the strongest representations against an attack which nothing can warrant—to demand that satisfaction which is due to us, especially the recal •f the Moorish troops collected in the neighbourhood of Ouchda—and to place him in a situation to be compelled to explain what his intentions are. Is it peace or war which he seeks ? If, acting in accordance with his real interest, he holds to good terms with us, he must put an end to these arma ments which are threatening Algeria, respect neutrality by withdrawing all support from Abd-el-Kader, and forthwith give the strictest order to prevent a recurrence of the past. If he desires war, we are far from desiring it ; we should indeed sincerely regret it, but we do not fear it, and if we are compelled to fight we shall be found ready to do so with vigour, with the confidence founded on a just cause, and so as to make the aggressors repent. I, however, repeat it, we ask no more than to remain on friendly terms with the Emperor of Morocco, and we firmly believe that he is not the less interested in keeping up the same relations with us. I advised you by my last dispatch that ships of war were about to be sent to cruise on the coast of Morocco. A division, under the command of his Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville, consisting of the Suifren, of the steam-frigate Asmodie, and of another steam ship, is about to sail thither, first touching at Oran, where his Royal Highness will put himself in communicotion with Marshal Bugeaud. The Prince will also have to be in communication with you ; and I have no doubt of your readiness to place yourself et his disposal, and to give him all the assistance in your power. Nevertheless the instructions to his Royal Highness are pacific, founded on this—that war is not declared between France and Morocco. His presence off the coast of that empire, at the head of a naval force, is more with a view of imposing and restraining than that of threatening. Let us flatter ourselves that it will in this respect produce a salutary effect. P.S. This is how I sum up your instructions. You will require of the Emperor el Morocco 1. The disavowal of the inconceivable aggression com mitted by the Moors upon our territory. 2. The breaking up of the corps of troops collected at Ouchda, on our frontier. 3. The recal of the Caid of Ouchda, and of the other agents who have provoked the aggression. 4. The expulsion of Abd-el-Kader from the Morocco territory. You will close by repeating 1. That most certainly we have not any intention of taking an inch of the Morocco territory, and that we are only desirous of living in peace and on friendly terms with the Emperor. 2. Bat that we shall not suffer that Morocco becomes for Abd-el-Bader a place of inviolable refuge, whence aggressions such as that which has taken place may pour forth ; and that if the Emperor does not himself do that which is necessary to prevent them, we shall signally avenge ourselves. It will be seen by the foil ,wing dispatch to M. de Nyon, with whom the Duke de Glucksberg was by , this time associated, that M. Guizot contented him self with renewing these instructions after the suc cessful attacks upon Tangiers and Mogadore had given him the means of extorting more favourable terms from the Moors : Paris, August 30, 1844. Gentlemen,—The signal victories which our land and sea forces have obtained in the contest between us and the Government of Morocco have caused no change in the intentions which the King's Government had mani fested before the commencement of that contest. What we then demanded as the necessary condition for the re-establishment of amicable relations between the two states, and as the sole guarantee sufficient to re-assure us against the return of incidents which have disturbed those relations, we now demand again, without making any addition to them, because the object we proposed remains the same, and no view of aggrandisement is joined with our determination not to suffer the rights and dignity of France to be disregarded. That the extraordinary assemblages of Moorish troops formed on our frontiers in the environs of Ouchda shall be immediately dispersed. That an exemplary chastisement be inflicted on the authors of the aggressions committed on our:territory ainee the 30th of May. That Abd.el-Kader be expelled from the Moorish ter sitory, and that he shall not hereafter receive any sup port or assistance of any kind. In tine, that a complete and regular boundary between Algeria and Morocco be agreed on and concluded, con :erns:ably to the position acknowledged by the Emperor ,;:r.orocco himself, at the domination of the period of the Turks at Algiers. Nothing then can prevent the establishment of peace. The Conn of Morocco, after all the injury it has caused us, does not perhaps expect so much moderation on our part. In order to give it a remarkable proof of that moderation, and in order to afford it an opportunity to reply by accepting our proposals forthwith, the King commands you, gentlemen, to proceed to Tangiers on hoard one of the ships of our squadron, and to cause to be forwarded to the authorities of that place a letter aaldressed to the Emperor, in which you will announce to him that if he accepts purely and simply the conditions of our ultimatum to which I have referred, you are still saesthorised to treat on that basis. It is to be well understood that this proceeding is not to have the effect of suspending hostilities, and that our land and sea forces shall be free to continue their ope yations until the Emperor shall have accepted our offers. It is likewise to bo understood that the negotiator who may be dispatched to us to communicate the Emperor's aciheslen should proceed on board one of our ships, and that there the arrangements should be signed to which the negotiat ions may give rise, and that under no circumstances should you set foot on land to meet the Ailoorish negotiator. The Minister of Marine writes this day to his Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville to inform him of the course which is prescribed for you, and to assist in its execution by placing a ship at your disposal. Receive, Gentlemen, &c. The following, is from M. de Nyon and the Duke de Glucksberg to M. Guizot Suffren, Tangiers-roads, Sept. 10, 1844. Nine o'clock in the Afternoon. Sir,—We arrived this morning in Tangiers-roads. M. de Martino came on board immediately, and informed us that considerable impatience prevailed in the city, and that Sidi Bousselam was waiting with anxiety our arrival, and the communication we had to make to him. He likewise announced to us, that we were about to receive a visit from the Governor of the town, the Caid Ben Abbou. He, in fact, went for him, and he came on board the Sutfren, accompanied by the Captain of the Port. Ben Abbou repeated to his Royal Highness that the Emperor of Morocco expected peace from him, and that his pleni potentiary, Bousselam. was ready to sign it. He with drew evidently flattered at the reception given to him. A few minutes afterwards M. Warnier proceeded to the Paella, bearing the convention arranged between us and approved by the Prince de Joinville, and of which your Excellency will find hereto annexed a copy. The in structions given to M. Warnier were, to see the Pacha and to demand of him, without permitting or entering into any discussion, whether he was ready, by virtue of the full powers he held from the Emperor, to affix his signature to a convention. The reply of the Pacha was affirmative. We were apprised of this by a signal, and we immediately proceeded to land where the consular body at Tangiers were waiting to receive us. We were likewise received by the Governor of the town and by a guard of honour ' by whom we were conducte d to the Casbah, where we were introduced to Bousselam in the imperial apart ment. He was attended by the chief director of the Customhouse, a person who performed a political part of some importance during the late events. After having exchanged some compliments, we asked the Pacha if he were in fact disposed to sign the treaty which we had submitted to him. He desired some explanations as to the nature of the engagement which the ith article im posed on his Government, and appeared satisfied with our replies. On our part, we insisted on the urgency of the measures relative to the delineation of the boundaries, of which the principle is laid down in the sth article of the conventi on , and we reminded him of the stipulations relative to the evacuation of the island of Mogadore, oictated by the kindness and generosity of his Royal highness, and we signified to him that as soon as the convention should be signed, the consulate should be reinstalled, and the functions of it intrusted to M. Mau ;..oussin, until the exchange of the ratifications. It was th,:n agreed that as soon as the French flag should be hoisted on the Consular building, it should be saluted with 21 f:uns from the town, and that the admiral's ship should rett:,rn the salute. Nye then proceeded to sign the convention; One copy in French, and an o th er i n Arabic, duly s i gh ed and sealed, remained in th e h an d s of Sidi Bousselam. Two others are to be brought to Paris by the Duke de Glucksberg, who thinks it neces aary to take the orders of your Excellercy relati ve to the new mission with which he is charged. This mis sion will moreover be retarded by the delay in forward ing the orders of the Emperor. We trust, Sir, that our conduct;will obtain the appro bation of the King and of his Government. It is true that we have not strictly confined ourselves to the exe cution of the orders of your Excellency, but, directed by the counsels and encouraged by the approbation of the Prince de Joinville, we considered that whilst we carefully preserved throughout the affair the character which our instructions conveyed to us, it was permitted us to endeavour to strengthen every stipulation, and particularly that which relates to Adb-el-Kader, with 3,11 the guarantees necessary to render them as efficacious as' possible. Our first idea was to stipulate for a pecu nia.vy indemnity for the French who experienced losses in consequence of the war or of the previous acts of the MoOril4b Government ; but we were restrained by the !ear of compromising by this exigency the success of a negotiation which his Royal Highness desired to con clude with the shortest possible delay. It was likewise for that reason that we suppressed an article relative to the offer of the mediation of France in the differences which exist between the Courts of the North and the Emperor of Morocco. We were satisfied with leaving an opportunity, through the 7th article, for your Excel lency to open negotiations with the Emperor. Your Ex cellency appeared to give us an implied authority to that effect in your dispatch, No. 2. Besides, we received the same morning the original dispatches (1 and 2) of your Excellency, and in two different ways. the telegraph dispatch of the 2d of Sep tember. We will not terminate this dispatch without giving fresh testimony of the utility which the important services rendered us by M. de Martens have constantly been to us. They have most powerfully contributed to the result which we now lay before your Excellency. We desire equally to call your attention to the energy and zeal which Messrs. Mauboussin and Fleurat have displayed in the King's service. —Receive, &c. The Prince de Joinville first appears in the fol lowing dispatch addressed to . the Minister of Ma rine : THE PRINCE DE TOINTILLE TO ADMIRAL DE MACHAIL On board the Suffreia, Sept. 6, 1844. M. le Ministre,—Pacific overtures have been made, in the name of the Emperor, by Sidi Bousselam, Pacha of Larache, at present at Tangiers. In a letter, addressed to M. de Nyon, Sidi Bousselam announces that he is authorised to give us satisfaction on the four points explained in the demands of France. The Emperor, he says, never ceased to be at peace with France. Bousselam has, moreover, requested M. Mar tino, Consul-General of the Two Sicilies, to convey his letter to us in person, and he told him verbally to inform us that if we had any other application to make, he was empowered to grant what would be just. He concludes by asking that plenipotentiaries be sent to Tangiers, and giving the assurance that they would be well received. What faith are we to place in these words ? I cannot tell ; but, although I do not consider them entitled to much confidence, I am of opinion, nevertheless, that his overtures should not be rejected. The intelligence received for some days since states, that the truth respecting the events passing on the fron tiers, and those of Mogadore, is beginning to be known. Muley Abderahman is at Fez, amidst a demoralised population, which dreads to see us arrive in spring, and entreats the Emperor to conclude the peace. lam posi tively informed by every body that such is the real dis position of the public mind. We must avail ourselves of it. We have already obtained a great result. Morocco, for many years, had not been exposed to attacks from European Powers ; all the attempts hitherto made against it had not succeeded. Now it has felt the weight of the arms of France, the result should not be com promised by showing ourselves too exacting. If they seriously desire peace, we should hasten to conclude it. It now remains to ire known if Bousselam is fully authorised to treat with us. There lies the greatest diffi culty. Hitherto he has refused to exhibit his full powers; perhaps his instructions are merely verbal. The letter of the Sultan, conferring those powers, may, on the other hand, say more than he is willing to admit. I reply to this objection, that the affair of Spain was concluded without his being required to produce his full powers. Now, we are in a better position than Spain to act in an off-hand manner, and overlook any irregularity in the form. The most important point, in my mind, as I had the honour to inform you in my preceding dispatch, is to bring the affair to a speedy termination, under the im pression of the military facts, which gave satisfaction to public opinion in France, and insured the tranquillity of Algeria.—Receive, &c. _ _ _ The next dispatch from the Prince to Admiral de Mackau will be read with much attention. It affords the most signal verification that could be desired of our remarks, on the 2d of September last, upon the announcement that the island off Mogadore was oc cupied : On board the Snffren, Cadiz, Sept. 8, 1844. Monsieur le Ministre,—l hereby lay beforo you the situation of affairs ; and I beg you to have the kindness to give a prompt solution to the questions proposed in this letter. I have had the honour to inform you of the pacific overtures which were seat us from Tangiers, as well as of the mission confided to M. Warnier. M. Warnier arrived at Tangiers yesterday morning, and was received with such honours as were never be stowed upon any European. The Caid came on horse back to receive him, and all the troops were under arms. When introduced into the presence of the Pacha, Sidi Bousselam, he was told by him that the Emperor had always been a friend to the French ; that he was de sirous of peace, and deplored what had passed ; that everything had been done contrary to his orders. He was well aware that it was impossible for him to pretend to contend with France. The Pacha added that they were ready to accede to all our conditions, and that he entreated that the situation of his master might be taken into consideration. He had met, he said, with but little obedience before the war ; had found still less since it had broken out, and was threatened with the loss of all authority, if it continued. Bousselam has given by writing, and before witnesses, an attestation that he is furnished with full powers by the Emperor to treat with us. In the face of facts so positive, there is only one line of conduct to be pursued—to profit by this favourable turn to make a good treaty. I return to-morrow to Tangiers, to this intent, with the Inflexible and the Suffren, taking with me our plenipotentiaries. I shall be joined by the Getnappes as soon as it shall have completed taking on board a month's water and four week' provisions. This latter fact may give you an idea of the material difficul ties against which we have to contend. At Mogadore events have taken place which appear to have modified our position. You will be able to judge of this fact by the letter which I have received, and which I transmit to you. Admitting of some natural exagge ration, and of the emotion which may have been felt after the departure of the squadron, which was rendered necessary by the want of provisions, it is no less true, however, and I em now obliged to recognise it, that the occupation of the island in winter is very difficult with out that of the town. In fact, it is very possible that the authority of the Emperor and his desire to put a stop to the hostilities may be set at nought, even after the conclusion of the peace, by the bands of Kabyles which are the masters of Mogadore and the country round. In this case nothing can prevent their bringing into the town either from the interior, or from;other places on the coast, fresh cannon ; the batteries of the island may be able to silence them, and we may be able to go and spike them ; but they place their batteries in the sands at a great distance, and if numerous bands come to their defence, it becomes very difficult to go and destroy them with only a handful of men. Now, the firing from these pieces of artillery will render the possession of the harbour perfectly impossible to the vessels on the sta tion. Without the harbour, when the bad season comes on, it will be impossible for our vessels to remain in the outer roads ; the naval station of the island will then become very difficult to keep, and our vesse employed upon it would be doubly compromised,—on the one side by the enemy's fire, on the other, by the nautical diffi culties of the position. Besides, although the island may be impregnable to any forcible attack of the Arabs, if they establish themselves in the town with mortar batteries, as the island has no casemates, it will become a most painful and difficult position for our garrison to remain in. If I were only to listen to my own feelings, as soon as the peace was signed, I would evacuate everything, for in the occupation of the island I only see a source of perpetual difficulties. But, as it may be possible that the Government may attach a great importance to this position, I will still keep it until we receive fresh orders from you, unless, when upon the spot, I may consider the difficulties still greater than I now imagine ; and then we may be obliged to take the town and occupy it. The occupation will not be an easy task, as we shall only find brackish water to drink, the aqueduct being destroyed ; we shall have, after all, only 1,600 men to take it and keep it, and the getting provisions for its maintenance will be a matter of the greatest difficulty. But that appears to me to be the only means of assuring us the quiet possession of the harbour, rand, conse quently, the naval station at the island. The plenipotentiaries having :begged me to come with them to Tangiers, I have been obliged to give up my in tention of going immediately to occupy the town. I have confined myself then to sending the Belle Poule and the Triton, in order, if it be necessary, to reinforce the moral force of the garrison. As soon as the foundations of the treaty shall be laid, I shall go thither myself with the steam boats, taking all the companies intended to be disembarked from the vessels. I cannot take with me the vessels themselves, on account of the want of provisions, and the commencement of the bad season. I will then see what is to be done. But what I parti cularly request you to answer me is relative to this point —When once the treaty is concluded, are we to keep the island ? If it be considered desirable that :it should be kept during the bad season, it will be necessary to make all haste to occupy the town. In that case send me 1,500 men on board steamers, and send me also provisions, cannon, and ammunition, to defend the town, which will probably be attacked every day. Or, is it to be evacuated ? I must again repeat it, that before your answer arrives we may, perhaps, be forced to take and occupy the town of Souetah, with the feeble means in my power, or to evacuate everything. But in any case, you must see of what importance it is to answer me immediately. P.S. September 9.—The more I reflect upon the diffi culties of our establishment at Mogadore, and the dis agreeable consequences that may result to our policy at the moment we are,treating for a peace by the occupation of the town, the more I am of opinion that we ought to profit by the conclusion of this peace to evacuate every thing. It would be much easier for us to retake it in the spring, than to keep it new. All that being well considered, it is probable that if we make a favourable peace, I shall give orders for the immediate evacuation of the island. The following dispatch from the Prince de Join vine to Admiral de Machu narrates the circumstances under which peace was concluded : On board the Suffren,:Tangiers, Sept. 10, 1844. Monsieur le Ministre,—l have given you an account of the demand of peace made to us at Cadiz by Sidi Bousselam, having full powers from the Emperor of Morocco. I proceeded to Tangiers with two ships and four steamers, and cast anchor there this morning. Ge neral Ben Abou, Caid of the town of Tangiers, immedi ately came on , board ray ship and declared to me that the Emperors intention was to make peace and to ac cept our terms. very e x pli c i t an d d rawn up on by the Ki ng ' s G overnment, T th h e e had been prepared by the Pleni potentiaries, and trans latedbases project pointed of treaty,o ut into Arabic with care, and Ras taken on shore by Mr. Warnier, with this notice, that to obtain peace, the treaty must be signed in the course of the day without the alteration of a single word ; that, were it not so, it was war. Mr. Warnier told the Pacha, that from all the letters found in the tent of Sidi Mohamed, after the battle of Isly, we were as well ac quainted as he was with the situation of the Emperor and of the empire, that we were desirous of making a friend of Muley Abderahman, and that it was worthy or a great nation like France to be generous after vicLory. The Pacha accepted the terms with joy. The Plenipoten tiaries went ashore under a salute from the artillery of the town, and were received by the oonsular corps. They proceeded to the Pasha's house. All was signed. Thus in a few hours our conditions were notified and accepted under our cannon. The treaty being signed, I conceive that I am conforming to your instruction by ordering the immediate cessation of hostilities, and the evacuation of the island of Mogadore. Being desirous of removing the very vast trace of our disagreement, by leaving only a salutary souvenir of the blow we have struck, we have again put up the flag of the Consulate-General. The troops occupying the place have saluted it with 21 cannon, and I have return d the salute. We leave an eleve consul to conduct the affairs of the Consulate. This measure will insure posi tively the ratification of the Emperor; for were he to refuse now, it would be a new and serious case of war. But the severe lesson we have inflicted upon him will constantly induce him to avoid the consequence of a refusal. Thus, Monsieur le Ministre, by the actions of this day we have obtained even more than the Government de sired, and more than we ever obtained at Morocco, and that without the co-operation of any foreign influence, and by the cannon of our own vessels, Friendly diplo matic relations have been established, and all that re mains of our disagreement is a salutary fear of our name and of the force of French arms. Muley Abderahman, after having felt the weight of our sword, has received a proof of our generosity—his interests are ours, and we have made a friend, who may hereafter be very useful t© us. I have sent to Commander Hernoux, who commands at Mogadore, the order to evacuate entirely and to return to Cadiz, whither I shall return to-morrow. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY _lB, 184 5 FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. B.—An exaggerated notion has been formed of the fortune of the late King William 1., Count of Nassau. M. Van Gobbelschkoz, formerly one of the Ministers of the Netherlands, who is per fectly in a position to know the facts, has published a letter, in which he states the facts as they really are. He promises a history which might be highly interesting. "It is not possible now," he says, "to seek for the source of the fortune of the late King in the colonial revenue, whence it was derived. It has been affirmed that the late King left a fortune of 100,000,000 florins. All Holland knows that it was only 30,000,000 (2,445,0001. ster ling), which does not seem an immense fortune for a King. But again, whence was it derived ? M. Von Gobbelschroz announces that the King, who was very simple in his tastes and habits, ard, as far as his own person was concerned, ♦ery economical, saved annually a considerable sum out of his civil list. During a reign of twenty-six years he took a share in all commercial and manufacturing undertakings the object of which seemed to him to be useful. "His capital served to found and to support associa tions which became the source of a degree of prospe rity unparalleled in the history of the country which he governed. If he generously assisted private undertakings, it must be remembered that he founded the two most important institutions of the country—the general Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures at Brussels, and the Commercial Company at Amsterdam, which owed their creation to the King, and became so prosperous that the value of the original shares increased 50 per cent. It was thus, Sir, that the late King, always saving of a treasure destined to increase the welfare of the country, was able to leave thirty millions to be divided between his three children. Everybody in Holland, all parties, the Opposition of 1844 as well as the Conservative, acknowledge the accuracy of these facts, which cannot now be disputed." It is in contemplation in the department of the in terior to form a commission to examine the question of banks of savings. The Minister of the Interior gives notice to the holders of coupons of interests of the Belgian loan of 50,850,000 francs Three per Cent. due on the Ist of February, 1845, that they may receive payment from this day of the Cashier-General of the State, at Brus sels, and of all the agents in the provinces. HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAIL. NIMEGUEN, JAN. 7.—The accounts of the rivers here and elsewhere are favourable. The Maese is quite free from ice; on the Lower Rhine the ice is everywhere in motion, and in some places has wholly r disappeared. THE HAGUE, JAN. 9.—The accounts received to day of the state of the rivers, bring the favourable in formation that the breaking up of the ice has not yet been attended with any accident. TEEL, JAN. B.—We have before stated that his Majesty had directed the application of a certain quantity of gunpowder to blow up the ice in different parts of the river Waal. The first attempts failed ; but the following have been more successful, and it is intended to repeat the experiment in other places if it should be found necessary. ROTTERDAM, JAN. 9.—We mentioned some time ago that a parcel of wine from Bordeaux, direct, had arrived at Batavia, where it had been seized by the Government, and thrown into the sea, because it was found to be adulterated with deleterious substances. The fact was denied, probably by some interested parties. But a letter from Batavia, of the 16th of September, addressed to a respectable person in this city, confirms the fact. It says that a French ship, direct from Bordeaux, lately brought 200 hogsheads of wine, consigned to an eminent house in this city. Portions were sold to different persons, one of whom was the President of Batavia. This gentleman, after having drank less than half a bottle, was suddenly taken ill, and ascribing it to the wine, ordered it to he analysed by some per sons of the faculty, who found that there was not a drop of real wine in it, and that it contained such noxious ingredients that any one who should take two bottles, might be considered as poisoned. Several persons had been taken ill in consequence, and he master of the band of the general staff had lost his AMSTERDAM, JAN. 11.—A royal ordinance, datelt the 9th of this month, is published, which contains regulations for the better observance of Sundays, and on the holidays observed by the Christian Church. No work is to be done, no goods exposed for sale, no public amusements, such as plays, concerts, dancing, horse-races, &c., to be allowed; no public-houses to be open during Divine service, &c. BERLIN, JAN. 4.—Colonel Von Skiratia, Aide-de camp to the Emperor of Russia, arrived here yester day. He has been on a mission to the South of Ger many, supposed to be relative to the affairs and the return of the Duke of Luchtenburgh. The day before yesterday Captain Guthrie arrived express irom St. Petersburgh, on his return to London. Several persons have also arrived belonging to the suite of the Grand Duchess Helen. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 3.—The financial account for 1843 is very favourable; the public debt has been re duced half a million (in addition to the million an nually allotted for this purpose), yet there is an over plus of 350,000 rix dollars. HAMBURG", JAN. I.—ln the course of last year the number of births here was 5,222, and of deaths 5,213; marriages 1,832, christenings 5,012. ST. PETERSBURG" , DEC. 28.—An imperial uk ase o f the 14th instant is of the following terms :—L'eute nant-General Baron Von Rennenkamp has purposely laid before the Emperor a false report, in which he mentions, by name, several persons, as having distin guished themselves in an action with the mountaineers, near the Aul Blrik, who had no share in it ; as an ex ample for others, he is removed from his post, and is to be tried by a court-martial. DUTCH FUNDS. AmsTERDAM, JAN. 10. M 76 o B4 nr il . 76 13 95: 5. Actual Debt, `2l/ t per Cent Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, 5 per Cent. Amort Sy ii.iic, 41!, per Cent 993/4 001?„ 100 4 Ditto, 3 1 A per Cent. Commercial Company,4 l / ! , perCt 146 1471 East India Loan, 4 per Cen;, 9 8 3% 99 1 / Exchange on Londor, one month 12 12 Two months l2 17,2 At sight — On Hamburg Two months 35 50 On Paris Two months — - -Dutch Papers, Jan. 11. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLDT, JAN. 7. Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent 993,E 99 Pruss. English Bonds, 1830,4 per Ct — Exchange on London, 2 months —Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 8. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JAN. 7. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares — 1680 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate 105 1 ,( 105i,4 Ditto Ist series Inscription — 105 1 / 2 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series 99 1 / 2 Ditto, in Certificate 9 9 1, New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co — 9114 Ditto Stiegl it z 90% 90 Spanish New 5 per Cent 22 21 !! Ditto 3 per Cent. Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2 1 / 2 per Cent. Dutch Actual Debt, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Polish New 4 per Cer Loan, 1844 87 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Centi t National Bank Shares 134 Exchange on London. Petersburg, Three months Bremen,l wo months —hamburg Borsenhalle, Jan. 7. FATHER MATHEW.—Upwards of 7CI. have been raised in Lancaster for relieving Father Mathew from his pecuniary difficulties. Of this sum the clergy of the Established Church resident in the town and neigh bourhood, have liberally contributed — nothing!! Such expansive benevolence is worthy of record, and we therefore give it a place in our columns.—Lancaster Guardian. Wf . if ~ le•Y 4 %1 iihout meaning. The letter from the College of Proppganda proves two things—vz., that the Pope'-us the will, but has ant the power, to arrest the Irish agitation. It appears from this letter, that in March, 1639, nenrly six years ago, the Pontiff addressed the Rt ma o Catholic Bight pa through this same College of Propaganda, vehe mently exhorting them to reprove such of their brother bishops, and such of the priesthood has had embarked in political agitation, and to bring them by persuasion to more sane counsels. Now the whole world knows—and indeed the last letter of the Pro paganda confesses—that the admonition of 1839 was utterly inoperative; and what reason is there to sup pose that the admonition of October, 1844, would be one jot more effectual if the spirit of 1839 con tinued ? The spirit of 1839 is, however, happily ex piring, in some degree, because of the overthrow of the chief incendiary by the Attorney-General for Ireland ; in still greater measure because of the ex traordinary prosperity with which, under Providence, Sir Robert Peel's Government blessed the island. The Papal admonition of 1839 is now, we believe, for the first time made public. If we are correct in this opinion, its long concealment is deserving of con sideration. Why did not the Romanist bishops make the admonition public ? Without pretending to hold a very high opinion of these gentlemen, we must give them credit for so much common sense as enables them to see that they would gain nothing, but must lose much, by an anarchical jacubin revolution, though prosecuted under Romanist co lours. They must be perfectly of one mind with the Pope in this respect, and, in their secret con science, as inimical to the repeal agitation as his Holiness. Why, then, did they suppress the letter of March, 1839, if, as our impression is, it never was made public ? The plain answer is, that they did not like to expose the Pope's authority, and their own authority, to contempt, by making public a document, upon which either they could not dare to act or could not hope to act successfullly. 'We challenge any other explanation. How happens it then that Archbishop Crolly and his brethren now venture to obey the Pope, and even hope that their own subordinate authority will be respected ? Ask the Right Hon. T. B. Smith, or Sir Robert Peel, they are the parties who have so far rescued the country from an insane anarchy, as to allow scope for the course of civil and peaceful influence whether having, or not having, legal authority. In 1839, Ireland was enjoying the blessings showered upon her by the Mulgrave Administration, and then no Roman Catholic Archbishop or Bishop dared to open his lips for peace, though " vehe mently" urged to do so by the head of his Church. In 1844, however, after three years of " Orange 1 domination," as it has been called, the Roman Ca tholic Bishops find themselves perfectly free to pro mulgate and to enforce the pacific admonition of Rome. That this is a happy change no one will dis pute, and if the Right Hon. T. B. Smith and Sir Robert Peel are n , :t its authors, we know not to whom it is to be ascribed. THE FUNDS—ICLOSIIs ,, G PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12 1 , Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Consols Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11%d 64 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian Bonds 6 per Cent l 4 l /a SHARES. 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A storm is brewing which will require all his skill in State-pilotage to weather. The Ultra-Protestant party in Ireland—dissatisfied and alarmed by the indicated policy of the Government, so contrary to the expectations they had been led to entertain of the course which would be adopted by the Right Hon. Baronet when he supplanted the Whigs—have been for some time preparing for a decisive movement, by which their sentiments would become fully known and:under stood. The first step has been taken ; and will, it is understood, be followed by others equally explicit. Nine out of the fourteen Bishops of the Irish Church have united in a protest against the Na tional System of Education in Ireland. The Right Rev. Prelates who sign the document thus place upon record the reasons of their own opposition, and the necessity which impels them to seek the co-operation of the clergy and laity of their Church, in endeavouring to procure the abrogation of the system they thus condemn, at the hands of the Government. The Prelates who head this formidable movement are :—The Lord Primate, the Bishop of Kildare, the Bishop of Clogher, the Bishop of Kilmore, the Bishop of Down and Connor, the Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, the Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert, the Bishop of Ossory and Ferns, the Bishop of Cashel and Waterford. The Bishops whose names are not affixed to it are ;—The Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Meath, the Bishop of Limerick, the Bishop of Tuam, the Bishop of Derry. The Bishop of Limerick is resident abroad, in consequence of ill health. Whether the Right Rev. Prelate would have concurred in or dissented from the act of the majority, is, therefore, not known. Three of the dissentients were created bishops under the Whig Government. Dr. Stopford is a Conserva tive, of the moderate school ; and at the time of his elevation to the Bench was known to enter tain views on the National System of Eduction in harmony with those avowed by Sir Robert Peel since his accession to office in 1841. When leader of Opposition, the Right Honourable Baronet deemed it expedient to veil his views by the adoption of lan guage so ambiguous that, like the answers of the ancient oracles, it would bear any interpretation which subsequent circumstances might render necessary, without exposing the utterer to the charge of direct falsehood. The High Church party in Ireland inferred, from the Premier's care fully-studied ambiguity of phrase, when the ques tion of National Education in Ireland was dis cussed in Parliament, that he lacked nothing but the opportunity to gratify their wishes with refe rence to the constitution of the obnoxious Board, and the system of education which was conducted under its superintendence and control. The disap pointment, not to say mortification, of the party expectant, when the Premier's policy indicated a disposition respecting this question the direct re verse of that which, they supposed, from his con duct in Opposition, he would adopt, has been often embodied in words. They saw with dismay an increase of the Parliamentary grant, proposed by the Government in the last session to extend the operations of the system which they fondly ex• petted would be curtailed, if not withdrawn. Their consternation was immense. The intimations also given by Sir Robert Peel respecting Maynooth, which implied that an increased grant to that semi nary will be proposed to Parliament by the sanction of her Majesty's Ministers ; added to which, that the constitution of the University of Dublin will be placed on a mere liberal basis, by which certain Professorships to which Protestants only are now eligible, will be thrown open to Catholics, have prcduced such a shock to the sensitive orthodoxy of Irish Protestants, especially of the sacerdotal infer, that " remonstrances," " demonstrations," and la protests," against a policy " manifestly injurious to the interests of Protestantism," will be sent forth. Fulminations, characteristic of the furor which ani mates the remonstrant-Protestant Bishops—though couched in the subdued language which Churchmen are wont to adopt when most wrathful—are scat tered throughout the document, which we publish in extols() in another column. Of this document, the Dublin 3lail (the organ of the most powerful section of the Irish Tories) says:—" The paper itself is drawn up with consumm a t e a bilit y. an d sp i r it. It is, in its nature, at once a firm and independent Re monstrance with our Protestant Government, and an honest, uncompromising protest against the errors, superstitions, and tyranny of the Church of Rome. It is worthy of the earliest and best days of our Re formed religion; it is an honour to those later times, when the policy of the State would depress, but cannot subdue, the spirit which ani mated the Fathers of our Church." We need scarcely say that we have no sympathy with the Episcopal protesters; although we can readily excuse the apprehensions of diminished i nfluence they so strongly express. The questions with which the Government of Lord Grey, with whom the system of National Education in Ireland originated, had to deal, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. was, " Shall the great majority of the Irish people MANSION-HOb SE. continue in ignorance, and all the consequences of that Three men, named respectively Howell, Smith, and deplorable ignorance be perpetuated among them ? or, Franklin, the last being a young man of colour, were Shall such a scheme of national education he adopted brought before the Lord Mayor charged w ith h av i ng as will comprehend the mass of the people ?" B y committed a burglary in the George and Vulture enabling them, consistently with the prejudices of creed Hotel and the hostility of party, engendered by rival churches ,in George-yard, Cornhill. The justice-room to embrace the advantages of secular education, leaving was crowded during the investigation. religious instruction to their clergy, a powerful Ea- Eliza Ann H ug h es s tated that she was in the ser chineryvice of Mr. Warren e r, the proprietor of the George for bre a king down the barriers which had and Vulture Hotel, and that at a little after ten been long and con quent interp ces and demoralisation osed b e tween the brutal the Irish of o'clock on Frid a y n i g ht, u pon going up stairs, she was l se vi s peasantry, wa s se t i n motion. The objections of the surprised at fi n di ng th a t the door of No. 6 bed-room, which had been locked, was then unlocked ; that she Roman Catholic clergy were removed ; and the people went in, and did not immediately see anybody, but is is to d b h e lamented that began to appreciate and allowed their children to upon turning round, she beheld, to her great astonish receive the benefits which the Government had wisely should have impeded the ment, the two prisoners, Howell and Smith, whom sectarianism progress ot. undertaken to supply. much more so, that the she had never seen before; that she asked them what ; es they wanted there, to which they replied, they wanted i t n h the i s g y h s tpelma c Mr. Gattier, a gentleman who lodged in the hotel ; timidity or dishonesty of Sir Robert Peel, when the leader of Opposition, s h uu ld have induced s uc h a that she ran out, screamed, and came do wn s t a i rs , demonstration against his adopt ion of the system a s and that the two men followed, and overtaking her, ' put their hands upon her mouth ; that she thrust her that at the head of which the majority o f . the Irish hands away, halloed out, and that Mr. Warrener then Bishops have placed themselves. This movement made his appearance, and took them into cu s tody. must embarrass, if it do not actually check, the p ower Mr. George Warrener, who appeared with his arm of carrying out a liberal and enlightened policy in his in a sling and his eye blackened, stated that at about government of Ireland. ten minutes after ten o'clock he heard the screams of STANDARD.—The Irish journals received this the last witness, and upon running to her assistance, morning are unusually affluent in interesting docu , saw the two prisoners, Howell and Smith, and imme ments. They present, in the first place, the resom- diately seized them. They violently resisted, struck tions of the Irish Bishops upon the Education ques. him violently, and not only blackened his eye, but tion ; a paper, the consideration of which we . will sprained his thumb and wrist. They were, howtver, when • take leave to postpone for an opportunity it will secured and taken to the station-house. Pranklin, not be placed in contact with subjects and parties less the third prisoner, had been seen by one of the dignified than its subject and its subscribers. Se- 1 waiters lurking about the hall of the hotel part of condly, the concluding instalment of Mr. O'Connell's the house. letter to Bishop Cantwell. Thirdly, a bona fide letter Inspector Marchant deposed that at half-past ten addressed to Archbishop Crolly, by the Roman Col- o'clock Howell and Smith were brought in custody lege of Propaganda, at the special instance of the to the station-house, in Tower-street, upon the charge Pope. Mr O'Connell's c oncluding instalment is heavy .of housebreaking. Witness went to the George and and perplexed. It manages to carry !on objecti ons t o 1 Vulture Hotel to ascertain whether any property had twenty-secondly, by constant l y rin g in g changes on i been removed, and upon looking about the neighbour the same topic, and, by way of excursus, thirteenthly' hood found a cab waiting in Lombard -street. The shoots out side branches, to the number of firstly, ' cabman stated to witness that h e was waiting for secondly, thirdly, and 50 on t o sixthly. It is useless ! three gentlemen, and witness sent him to the station to remark upon such a lumbering sample of elaborate house, where he identified Franklin, who prolixity as nobody will read. Mr. O'Connell's array was subse quently apprehended. Upon Howell sotne '':eys were of twenty-two objections, with satellites, is the found, one of which opened the door of the bed-room Clearest possible proof that he has not one in which that prisoner and Smith were found by the valid objection to offer. The man is too e n ; - -1111- ng servant girl. to dilute one such, if he had it, with twenty- one I Isaac Florry (a City policeman) deposed that h e others that are either mere repetitions, or absolutely s earched the lodgings of Smith an t i of Howell. In DR. CROLLY'S LETTER TO MR. O'CONNELL. The follovsing is a translation of the brief of the Papal See to the Roman Catholic Primate of all Ireland, on the subject of the recent polititical agita tion in that country ; the original appears in Crolly's letter to Mr. O'Oonnell in our first page : "It will be arsuredly in your Grace's recollection that a letter was forwarded to you from this sacred congregation on the 12th of March, 1839, strongly urging your Grace, on the part of our holy father Gregory 16th, to whom it had been represented hat one or two prelates and some ecclesiastics of that king dom had mixed themselves up too much with political affairs, and had harangued the people on the state of the commonwealth, should each report prove correct, care fully to suggest to them the propriety of altering their conduct and adopting a demeanour inure becoming their sacred ministry. Undoubtedly the sacred congregation trusts that you have used every means in your power, and all that earnestness which the importance of the matter re quired, and which your devotedness to the Apostolic See led to expect ; nevertheless, that the desired result has not followed your earnest efforts is apparent, parti cularly from the public journals of those countries where speeches are published as spoken of late by some membees of the clarical, some even of the Episeopai order, both at meetings and at banquets, nay, even in temples of God, before a concourse of people. which speeches, if correctly reported, are far from showing that the speakers are, as they ought to be, ex clusively devoted to the salvation of souls, the good of religion, and the honour of God, and, consequently, utterly adverse from the pursuits of political faction and the turmoils of the world. It is not to be concealed that such results have been most distressing to this sacred congregation and to his Holiness himself, be cause they tend to the detriment and disgrace of the universal church ; and they create a feeling specially prejudicial to the Holy See itself, inasmuch as it would seem to be unmindful of imparting salutary coun cils to the clergy in question, or was favourable to the views and projects above described, or con nived, in any form, at their promulgation ; and in reality your Grace is not, perhaps, aware that such complaints, or rather accusations, have actually found utterance. as the Holy See, by sad expe rience, can sorrowfully attest. And for these mo tives the sacred congregation hastens, at the command of his Holiness himself, to address you again on this most important subject. You are, most Illus. trious Prelate, fully cognisant of the nature and cha racter of ecclesiastical functions ; how far it is become ing--how far it is of vital importance to the safety of religion, that those who are enraged in holy orders, the ministers of the Prince of Peace, the dispen sers of the mysteries of God—men especially placed over the faithful for their spiritual guidance, should avoid mixing themselves up with seular affairs—should assiduously foster among the people a spirit of quietness, calm, and peace, which is the bond of Christianity, should inculcate by word and example a due obedience to temporal power in all matters of civil life, and thus exhibiting a decided moderation and prudence, content to preach Christ alone and him cruci fied—shouli studiously keep aleof from whatever was calculated in the least to disturb the flock confided to their care, or lead it astray from the mildness of the Gospel law. Such is and ever has been the doctrine of the Catholic Church, which the Apos tolic See has, mindful of its sacred office, never ceased to hold, and on every occasion to promulgate. It Rill be your Grace's duty to adopt this line of conduct, and, by propounding at every fitting opportunity these sentiments of the sacred congrega tion and his Holiness on this most important subject, to admonish such ecclesiastics, and especially of the epis copal order, as may deviate from the prescribed conduct, with all patience and charity, but yet efficiently. Con fiding these matters to your well-established prudence, and zeal, I take leave to express the personal considera tion in which I hold your Grace, praying God to give you every blessing. " home, frUm the Palace of the Propaganda, Oct. 15, 1 1" „ " P h. Cardinal FRA.NBONI, JOHN BRUNELLI, Sec. " To the Most Rev. Wm. Crolly, Archishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland. (A true Copy.) k WM. CROLLY." THE FRENCH AT OTAHEITE.—A communication has been received by the London Missionary Society from his Majesty Louis Philippe, in answer to a memo rial presented to him by a deputation from their body, praying for the restoration of Queen Pomare to the sovereignty of Otaheitu ; and to the Missionaries of the privileges they enjoyed previously to the interference of the French squadron. A meeting of the Directors of the Society was called for this afternoon for the purpose of opening this communication, and its contents will pro bably be made known to-morrow. I Smith's room he found a number of duplicates, and he observed evidences of poverty. In Howell's lodg ings he found some keys. While the last witness was giving his testimony, Smith and Howell declared the police were prompt ing }lorry. The LORD MAYOR desired that no one should communicate with any person giving evidence. Nothing could be more prejudicial to the ends of justice. Mr. Filix Gatter was next examined. He is a French gentleman, and his evidence was translated by an interpreter. He stated that he occupied the bed-room, No. 6, in the George and Vulture Hotel ' during the last two months. He had double-locked his bed-room door at half-past five on Friday ev-ning, and taken the key into the bar. Upon going into the room after the apprehension of Howell and Smith, he ascertained that he had lost two rings, which he placed on his toilet. One of them represented a serpent, and the other was a small topaz, but neither was of much value. The LORD MAYOR—Have you any knowledge of any of the prisoners ? The witness said he knew nothing of any of them, but it struck him that Franklin was the son of a man who made clothes for him. Henry Taylor, a cab-driver, stated that three gen tlemen, of whom Franklin was one, called him off the St. Paul's rank, in Cheapside, at nine o'clock, and got into his cab, telling him to drive to the neighbourhood of the India House, when two of them got out, leaving Franklin in the cab. Witness was then desired to wait near George-yard. Franklin, about twenty minutes afterwards, got out, and abuut ten minutes subsequently returned and got into the cab again, ob serving that his friends were staying a long time, but he would see witness paid. At about ten o'clock wit ness saw Franklin go up George-yard, but never saw him afterwards until he went to the station-house. Witness could positively swear to the identity of Franklin, but he could not swear that the other pri soners were the persons who were Franklin's com panions. _ _ . The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoners, what have you to say in answer to this very serious charge? Howell—l don't know anything of these two men (the other prisoners). The LORD MAYOR—What took you into the room in the hotel ? Howell—l merely just walked into the hall, and I heard a scream, and I went upstairs to see what was the matter. I thought the police ought to be sent for, and I wished to know if that was the case, when the gentleman thought proper to collar me.— (A laugh.) I said to him I knowed nothing of any thing. lam quite sure the servant girl can't swear to me. I wasn't in no room at all. Smith—Please, your Lordship, I was so very tipsy that I didn't know what I was about at all. 1 havn't got the least recollection of what passed. The LORD MAYOR—You were so far gone in drink that you don't recollect how you got into the house at all ? Smith—Just the case, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—What does the servant girl say to that ? Eliza Ann Hughes—He semed as if he was tipsy after he was apprehended. The LORD MAYOR—HOW did he appear to be when he spoke to you in the bed-room ? Eliza Ann Hughes —Not at all tipsy. The LORD MAYOR —Well, Franklin, what have you to say ? Franklin—l was so very tipsy last night that I have not the least recollection of any thing at all ; but I know nothing at all of these two gentlemen next to me.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—I shall remand the prisoners till Thursday. Here a person, who said his name was John Field, and that he resided in King-street, begged that the Lord Mayor would allow him to make a statement, as he had been robbed of all he possessed on the evening of the same day on which the burglary had been committed. He kept, he stated, a coffee-shop, which he had let to the father of Franklin, a foreman to a tailor. Another son of the old man had been backwards and forwards to applicant's house, and on Friday morning his bed-room had been entered and plundered of coats, waistcoats, trousers, and silk dresses. The applicant was then directed to attend at the next examination of the prisoners on Thursday next. HORRIBLE CASE of FRATRICIDE, AND COMMITTAL OF THE BROTHER FOR TRIAL. The county of Stafford has become the scene of a shocking murder, and there is too much reason to fear that the diabolical crime was perpetrated by a brother. The condition of the unfortunate parties was that of small farmers. Thomas Brough, the de ceased, lived at the New Brent Farm, in the parish of Biddulph. It would appar that he was a man who, by parsimonious habits, had succeeded in accu mulating some little property, and was the owner of Whitefield Farm, which is situate near his own house. Whitefield Farm had been in the occupation of his widowed mother and his brother, John Brough, for a little more than twelve months. The mother was the recognised tenant, though it would seem that the brother John managed the farm, and was applied to for the rent when due. On Friday, the 3d inst., about dusk, a distress was put in by the direc tion of Thomas Brough, at 'Whitefield Farm, for rent, amiunting to 291. 12s. In conse quence of some conversation which one of the bailiffs had with the mother and John Brough, the bailiff sent for Thomas Brough, in order to an ami cable settlement, if possible, without enforcing the distress. The deceased Thomas Brough shortly after wards came to Whitefield. There does not appear to have been any quarrel between the two brothers in the house, but the deceased complained very much about his rent not being paid, and intimated that he must have it; he also refused to return two boxes, which had been removed by the bailiffs to his house, until the following morning. The two bailiffs left the house, and the brothers remained in conversation. Shortly afterwards Thomas Brough went into the fold, were some further conversation ensued. He was about to leave, when his brother John said, " Stop a bit, I will go and kin (kindle) my lantern, and will go with you as far as the barn, and sweep two or three oats up." John Brough then returned to the house, lighted the candle in the lantern, and went towards the barn ; and his brother Thomas walked down the meadow towards his own house. Thomas Brough was not afterwards seen alive, and nothing was heard of him until Saturday, about noon, when his body was accidentally found in a sand-pit on Biddulph Moor. THE INQUEST. The inquiry as to the cause of death, which was commenced on Tuesday, terminated on Friday, at the Talbot Arms, in the parish of I3iddulph, before Mr. C. Harding, the coroner. The following were the principal witnesses examined : John Brough, the son of Jude Brough, proved seeing the prisoner cross the meadows at the time with the deceased, which was the last time he was seen alive. Mr. John Harrison, surgeon, of Barsham, who made a post mortem examination, said he found the head on the left side was much fractured, and several pieces of bone were found driven completely in, which were sufficient to cause death. It was the result of some severe blow with a heavy instrument, such as a hammer. James Brough examined—l live at Blackwood-hill Farm, and am servant to Mr. Challinor. On Friday night, while I was supping up my horses, my brother John and Isnmael Lancaster came to me. They opened the door and came into the stable. Ishmael Lancaster then said, " I am come in to kill thee." My brother John said that Thomas had taken my box and his, and was going to sell him up, and he wanted me to go with him to settle it. I said, " it is so near the week-end, it's no use my going with thee to-night, he won't sell thee up this week." He said, " bed them down, and come with me now." I said, " I'll clean this mare, I've been to Leek with her, she is all of a sweat." As soon as I had cleaned her down, I went with them out and locked the door. After I had locked the door I went to look after the cows, to see if they were all right. We all three then went into the house. John Brown, another servant, got them bread and cheese, while I got ready to go with them. We all three went on till we gnt to Ishmael Lancaster's house, where Ishmael stopped. I and my brother came on. Just before we got to my brother Thomas's house, John said, " I will tell thee what thou must say when thou goes in. Thou must say, What is my box doing here ? where is Tom ?' " I did go into Thomas's, and saw the box. I saw my brother Thomas's wife. She said, in answer to my question, that she did not know ; she was at Tunstall when they were brought there. I said to her, it was a strange thing they could not be quiet. I would go over to my mother's, and would call as I came again. As I was going along the lane trommv brother Thomas's house, I overtook my brother :Jan. He said, " Is he in ?" I said, "No, he ,tas never been seen since hc , came from the WhitfAield." Thomas's wife had told me this. John began crying, and said he did not know what he must do ; and I asked him what for. He said he reckoned he should be hung. I said, " What for ?" He said he had hit my brother Thomas on the back of the head with a hammer, ant he reckoned he had killed him. I said, " Oh, dear, John, you should not have done so, you're sure to be hung." I th en sa id, "Wh ere i s he?"—[The prisoner, John Brough, was here sent for, and on being brought into the room, the Coroner told him that the witriFFs who was th en b e i n! examined was beginning to give evidence which affected him (John Brough) as being implicated in the murder of his broth er , Thomas Brough. It was, therefore, his (the Coroner's) duty to have him brought into the room, that he might listen to what was said. The Coroner then read over to the prisoner those parts of Jam es Brough's evidence which affected him. T he examina tion of the witness was then resumed.]—lle said that he was at the bottom of the meadow, and that I must help him to do something with him. I said, " Oh, i dear, John, I cannot go near him." He kept heigi n i g i to of me to help him to take him somewhere. him it was no use asking me, I could not go near his° I went.into my mother's house, and he kept follown;_g_ after me to ask me. My mother asked what 57 must get for our suppers. I said nothing, I bad l i t; mine. She then warmed some milk, and whilst was doing so John went out milking. When the milk was warmed she gave me mine, and I drank c , 19 ,7 1 spoonfuls, the remainder I set down for the dog. ; asked me if I was going to stop all night ? I seed 11 I was going back again. She begged of me to stop all night. When John came in I told him I was going ; he said don't go to-night, start early in the mortal; I said lam obliged t o go t o - n ight, if anything h a r e i s i at Blackwood-hill, and m e here, Mr. James wil it all on me. I set o ff t o th e Blackwood-hill. . 0 % came out with me, and followed me to Thoni!sie house. I did not go in; there was a lock on the outsleed of the door. I came out of the yard and John hegit er of me to help him to do something with my br °t e , Thomas. I said, "Ah ! John, it's no use asking I can't go near him." He then began crying, e t said, " Good night," and I started. Up the lane 1 r e d Ishmael Lancaster and Th o mas's wife. She T lis , a ' icl me whether I had seen my brother Thomas ? e no. She said she d ou bt e d b u t that he was I° ,o away, as he had never been home. I said if he he would be found. I said if I could have seen 1u 131 , 0 , could have settled the matter. She went down 'Ol wards home, and I went to Blackwood-hill. Of ti c got there John Brown was gone to bed, but he r o t to let me in. It was then a little more than hanl eleven by my watch. We then went to bed. Job Bailey—On Saturday evening I found°l; hammer now produced in a meadow which is P r ; hs the Whitefield Farm, and in the occupation of leo Brough. It was about sixty yards from a spot t he there was a quantity of blood. When I fouso,4o hammer it was wet, and there was blood on i t s 1 ;p black hairs. The blood on the ground was on s _ 4 bank, at the bottom of which there was a little 541-te, of water, and it was in a direct line from the) tti ff field Farm and the house of the deceased. l'i„, fn ei on the bank appeared to have been recently to of up, as though to hide the blood. The str e 7 he rs water appeared as if it had been damned sP ; —is was blood about the place. There w as also lb o° d another hole. eg m t r° The prisoner here said that th e b an k s o f the 1- ss o were red with carr water, which c am e fo rli v - iron works ; that it was so from year's end t ° d ear end. After the Coroner had recapitulated the 01 0 40 he asked the prisoner if he had anything to Of, into respect to the charge ? 'The prisoner burs poi tears, and uttered some expressions which ° e t° osf, distinctly audible ; but we understood him that he "must suffer for other folks." He s#o l something in reference to transportation, or bei ll e out of the country. 0 Wil ful The jury then returned a verdict of 0 0) murder" against John Brough for the murder brother, Thomas Brough. Brough was then committed for trial. EXECUTION OF MARY SHE/ 4/14 0 bl IPSWICH., JAN. 11.—This wretched wolnal was condemned at the late assizes at Bury woman{' mond's, for the murder of her grandchild, at WO lesham, near Woodbridge, expatiated hero f O O , e lA the drop in front of the county gaol this day, st t o p o'clock. From the time of her condemnation toi ) the period of her execution she uniformly main rid her innocence of the crime, and endeavoured 0 0 , 1 , 0 0 alternately upon two of her daughters, one of.„ 0 is now confined in the gaol under a convict l ' larceny, and whose imprisonment expires TIP course of a few days. Yesterday she took 11 , 6 ' 0 0 leave of all her relatives, and mutual f o rgiven exchanged, after which the unhappy woman 1. 0 0 her religious duties. Notwithstanding all the of the ch:iplain, the culprit could not be induced to any confession. Upon arriving at the press- 0 1 / sighed heavily, and when the executioner attenP pinion her arm, she complained, in a firm tol' e 'lfd he hurt her wrists, and begged that he would the cap over her face, so as to prevent her brew oP 6 Beyond this, she never spoke a word to s l ;?fte u except asking for a female attendant who had J P' and upon being informed that she was gon.: r culprit walked firmly up the stairs, and took he t i se i on the platform. The executioner adjusted th e o tic and she was left standing alone and unsol d ) i fP during the remainder of the prayers. The _ ... . a u r olf about five minutes after twelve, and the W culprit, after a few struggles, ceased to exist' 4 1 4' [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A NEVER-FAILINv av SO .4 4 FOR. 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At ilt eeglei On Saturday afternoon, the 11th of Januarit d o, 6 1 1 aged 40, Joanna, wife of Mr. Samuel NValter 1311rvetes' ,60 tart' of the Lansdowne Statistical Society, to tii ° u f• of her husband and family. sell° On the 7th of May la s t, a t C a l c utta, Ethr Ar d A Or el . l Herneman ' Esq . . On the 11th ult , James Day, Esq • RiG hrn°l" S 944 On the Ist inst., Warwick, Wick, William. Cook es ' yel *lsit li , Grosvenor-street, Eaton-s qu are. i-so fi t,' On the 3d i ns t., in Upper Rerkelestreet "71, Jov Garland, Esq., of Michaelstone Hall,y-Essex, ag,,,rspi re ' A On the 6th in st ,at Abberley Hall, NVorces' -- fe" . Lewis Moilliet, Esq., aged 75 ei nlll346l s Vicjt On the Bth inst., at Hackney -terrace, John --, oaf , „t On the Bth inst., the Rev. William Carper,"` re v s of iloreham, Essex, aged 77. goal' .., B ._ 01 On the Bth inst., in the Peckham-road, Lur EA' ~ of the late J. R. H a rdy, Es q . . .... ~ On the 9th inst., at Blackheath, John 1 1 " i P cto" • Queenhithe, aged 66. Gec r g 0 On the 10th inst., at Walworth-terrace, Mr. of Shoe-lane, aged 79. • • 10 61 . . - 1 14 21 Loidon: Prirted and Published by M 13.1; 003ctif pt, No. 112, Strand, Pr:nte - .. at The Sus AirCO Strand, in fie Pr3eißct of the Savoy La - ididdieleZi biontlay, JautAry Is, 150' ' - BI.RTHS. ......kloo tlf( ,t On the 10th irst., Mrs. C. J. Bloxam, of De!'" '' square, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Bury St. Edmunds, Ole ffl' ' Rev. George C. Hodgkinson, of a son. w ife ° f A On the 10th inst., at N orwoo d , S urre y , the /I' 0 Goodhall, Esq., of a eon. - „. A. 1 4'4 i, On the 10th irst., th e w if e o f W . E . SWe'''-' Or FolOen thea y-plce, of a so rt otof r° 0 4 11th inst., n. Mrs. Francis Lowe, MP -- Po On of a son. Ifor' ,, On the llth inst., at Greavenor•square, t he OP Capel, of a son. e eeot l' On the 11th i ns t., M rs . J osep h Taylor, of Cle - Lombard-street, of a daughter. ,o, 0 ,i , p l rf MARRIED. Jo o t 0 o , i On Itlat 2d inst., at St. Mary's, Donnybrook, op, o son of James Jameson, Esq., of Mont Rose, R e th eel e bella Anne, eldest daughter of Lieutenant -o 'i Cip' „ PAO( of Jones, Royal Engineers, of Flora Villa, same c- v u , l edey tie On the 9th inst., at St. Pancras, the Rev.. - to ti field, to Sarah Weller, youngest daughter of t he Pi 4 11.( li . Channer, Esq. ,_ 10 14 o f On the 9th inst., at Bishopstene, Wilts, W e btef ~e K. Hamilton, to Isabella Elizabeth, eldest dant 1 , 1 ,11 t, Venerable Archdeacon Lear. fhe Il e t.ot re‘ cd On the 9th inst., at St. James's, Ezter, - f Fil, pu Lewis, M.A., eldest son of James Lewis, Esq. , ' 9 : ijar Grosvenor-square, to Lacy, second daughter 0+ delton Ellicontbe;Esq. ~.sO/1.1,