The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

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N ew Mid an d E ast ~.eat ro c k ets, 61 lOs to 101 8s ; new Weald of ° 31 4e at ditto, 61 to 8 1 ; new Sussex ditto 51 5s to 61 RI 105 ; new F arn h ams, 12 1 to 13 1 ; year ling lientF, lit to 41 5s ; yearling Sussex, 21 8 s t o 3/ 2 s; old Hops, Os per cwt. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the MASTER of the ROLLS.) Th e • d . OWEN V. HOMAN. lu gment in this case was, that the plaintiff was tsatitled to a receiver, unless the ' defendant tlieurity for the amount, which might be recovered by gave proper e P l aintiff in the suit. The motion was adjourned Until to the first day of next term, to enable the defendant '? provide such security, she undertaking that nothing thebe d one to alter the conditions of the propert y i n tue meantime. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sintings in 13anco, before Lord Chief Justice CAMPBELL, an d Justi ces P ATTESON, W IGH TMAN, and ERLE.) IN RI THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Sir p, age tion ruIeTHESIGER said he had to show cause against the obtained by the Attori ey-6 eseral, on behalr ut Electric Telegraph Company, for a criminal infor agaiust Messrs. E. Wilmer and David Smith, new spapers mid correspondents, at Liverpool, for various Published in Liverpool, and also for a newspaper whi o t e d in America, in consequence of a letter was published in the Morning Herald by On the 11th October last. This question was one vuLen Undoubtedly would be found to be one of great but not only to the public press of this country, °t also to the public at large; and considering the ctn. _a!_instances which would aps ear in the affidavits filed in to boldness to this application, he was dispostd to adinire tut_ boldness and prudence of the Electric Telegraph t rPany in calling the attention of the public to the th e powers with which they were entrusted, and Powers ; great danger which arose froth the abuse of those understood anything at all of the " i ta r o i ee d i r o s s l; c e r s a i n p o d t n ih w n i f h t i o c h h a the Court interposed in cases of grant criminal informations, he had doubt ithuaieaii th th e e result of this inquiry would be that this , te ',e would be discharged. They might not only super :private news-agents, but they might have eonforetatrP.oul:Aic press of this country completely under their and it.was impossible to imagine any power more the !dable than that which was entrusted to the comany l i d incorporated for those purposes, when the Courts oo " e ll 3 d that the power which was invested in them would to enable them to influence the springs of commerce, and even command the sources of intelligence which might be of hP i rance to the tranquillity of the kingdom. Letters lip were sent through the Post.office were kept e eref, but messages sent by the Electric Telegraph 4 ° ° ,,,, 41 1 ) %nY were necessarily sent open. There might be 'lans devised of a cypher, tor the purpose of pre titan th. g the co mmun i ca ti ons w hich were made through he el ectric telegraph transpiring to the company, but j ugenuity of people might and would be excited to e o r v er the secret of that cypher, so that secresy could euensiob pt Oserved. The Court would fin thos a ns were not without foundation, d and that ep that in a Xisty of • Xi instances, which he was about to detail, the bad Telegraph Company bad made a most unfair Improper use of the power which the Legislature tb` u nguardedly entrusted to it, and that in those parti cases a variety of instances would be found in which t rt , company had misconducted itself with regard to those to n.ssetions in such a way as wholly to disentitle them Smith consideration of the Court. Messrs. Willmer and % ;',t l l had been established for a great number of years hl'slverpool as news-agents, and were in the habit of lie d intelligence which arrived by the American lie u Other foreign packets for insertion in the London *B l 3 %Pers, and they were also in the habit of receiving Th e p of the London news to send to America by ekets which started periodically from Liverpool. t z eY had also entered into a contract to supply the s °lenges at Manchester and Liverpool with intern rune for an annual payment. They had Ia 1 occasion to I: 4l Plain of various blunders made by the Electric Te t4lpPlt Company in the transmission of their messages, th of most unwarrantable delays with regard to e delivery o f th em . Th e y had a l s o telt sa -4,6 that there was an intention on the 't of the company to drive them out of the field by -se ats b e , of various contrivances. At last, on the 11 th tube r , 1 849, they found it necessary, for the protection p ` o ,their i nterests an d the v i n di cat i on o f t h e i r c h aracter . to u lish the following letter in the Morning Herald, which „Int the subject of the present inquiry : 41LEcen MIaiCONDUCT OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Sir THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. ° lr,—Perceiving that the Electric Telegraph Com nr-1 have addressed you on the subject of their late in ruption to the transmission of our dispatches for your lot r * may we beg the favour of your inserting the fol . „"g statement : th The matter is one in which not only ourselves but d e !„ l3 , r ess of Great Britain and the public generally are ley interested. IDs 1 • It behoves the country to know if this company of ‘, g e their affairs as they are bound to do by an Act ~r ar liament, and 2 , • Whether the whole is not a monopoly. I , 3 . Favouritism the most glaring. 4 . Blunders the most monstrous and unpardonable. 3 . Delays the most monstrous and unpardonable. th is 6 . And ch arges th e m o s t e xorbit a nt ever h ea rd of in o r any other country. s h uti each of these points we hope to establish a case ,h the most sceptical cannot deny. 7 . Commencing first with Mr. Fourdrinier's letter. 1,1 reporter, who took the message in question to the opj le trsph office in Liverpool, has at our request drawn % statement of the real facts. He says:— . d o r I entered the Telegraph office with your message, j iligned and ready for transmission, about midnight. * s ° , t uld there the correspondent of the Times and - rk, Mr. France. The latter told me that I I s e ," not be in any hurry, as the wires were ;;, a ' then out of order. At this time the corre rldent of . the Times had not received his files of r :Pera from the steamer. I instantly handed in the th" 84 .3.e I had brought from her. The message was t‘erefore in the hands of, and counted by, the clerk be tuare the correspondent of the Times had any materials 114 4 up his message. It would not have occupied til° r h •t id ten minutes in transmission. Mr. France, the dirk said it could be sent in five. Thus you will see Is e l ',Pourdrineir's statement is not borne out by the facts. : 14 UPS, it may be well to add that in leaving the office t o 4 t lnired when the message could be forwarded.; I was er f i b y another clerk, who had just then entered the ert ive !g that th e corres p on d en t of th e Times had prepared • in troductio no f some four or five lines before he re eg d i toi h i s papers from the steamer, which were then s o ,„ li g on, but that after that I was the first in, and my s io -3 age should be then sent. This you will se is gadmission that the message which I took to the Tele raph-office had, according to the company's regula fer-s' the piority, and should have been, were there no N u nritism, sent on to Loudon without the least delay. j 00 . 131 Y return to Church-street I overtook two of our th lor clerks, sums suspecting, from previous experience, h ts tt ot foul play ght be practised, I sent one of them fo r with instructions to remain there until he was in poll that the message which I had left was in Lon ; a nd Qn no account to allow any other party to get 5-638i ° 11 of the wires before us, as we were first in. " C. J. Ross.' ` The lie t pclerk so left remained at the Telegraph-office after one o'clock, when he was informed the rues le, had not then commenced, but that its transmission l lo `ud he guaranteed before half-past two, fully two k r tit ,, a and a half after it was handed in. On hearing this, !It o ' "Rimer went to the Telegraphic-office, taking Mr. s av as with hi m . M r . Will mer d e manded why the mes hie was not sent, and urged its instant transmission, Soi r . w fts told it could not go until what was then on the ,(tt dispatch for the Company 'a news-rooms at ter ster) had been completed. He remonstrated in op-i s Y strong l anguage with Mr. Ansell, the clerk in by i r e, against the injustice which was then practised pia e outrageous attempt which had been made to injure t0 0 , 1 6 ... r m in their business as correspondents for . the je; d 'uu Press. Mr. Ansell replied that as the Tunes the h tlirga sum for their intelligence, they were to have tie r"edenc e; that when in Newcastle he had received • se tt u rder from the company's office in London to that %nd that it never was rescinded. Mr. Ross the e , Co t Ansell's attention to the 51 st section of the c on , constitutin g and forming the Electric Telegraph lie t i r ,P a nY, which attaches a penalty of 201. on the con do % „"! 1 , 0 1 any officer who shall wilfully or negligently e tit 1 . - / matter or thing whereby the transmission or de sltirbe any m essage o r s ignal shall not take place, or e silti tie del a y e d or prevente d, or s h a ll wilfully or negli hy re 'Y omit to d o or p er f orm a ny act, matter, or thing, he tt Il son whereof any message or signal shall not tis to lin riiitted or delivered, or shall be delayed in its 4, 64118 5i0n or delivery. On reading this section, matltAnsell admitted that in point of law he had no i tuth o ,!. o delay otir message, but took his stand on the w ow . r or their mpny orders, remarking that he Mo ts ° Observe instructions, regardless of the pron eet:le.:l:h; Act. Mr. Willmer waited at the telegraph- It w ., until he ascertained the message was in London. prol'itttthee half -past two. Had he not remained, the is that the message might have been burked; th e p events. kept back until it was too late to answer tak:LPeae for w hi c h it was s ent. Mr. Fourdrinier's tittle f ur the t h e message b e ing in London in th in or the first edition of the morning papers, has no be,,tgbto do with the charge of wilful delay, and is at t nre es ti ; t a Puny effort to bolster up an illegal act. The ttore,:°,4 being the facts of this case, we refrain from deei ds v a u!lng oil the impropriety of such conduct.. Its PUtei o ' il legality, and the great inconvenience which the • im ed, must suffer if such a system be any longer tole -111111,47 so plain, that they suggest themselves even to s. 4 teg taieds. t o ° Another case, equally glaring, we now proceed . ice . ot sets ° On the 20th March last, the steam ship tur4,l4_nrrived here, bringing President Taylor's inau eo,„ress, We had a message, containing that do di.spauteth' ° handed in to the telegraph-office the instant our with h a. were landed. It was taken and prcceeded half- way tne clerk a t the instrument.' When aboutTondo° throneh the message, an order came from the Bean s ,rlea to step Willmer's message, and send Mr. oho lip the correspondent of the Times). This was ' our message wilfully kept back from 30 to 40 nte s , `I ou r Own " e are prepared to prove this delay, not only reporter, but also by some of the company's officers wh Rust, „, have sines, left the service in complete dis thia stet set at rest any cavil that may be made to 'afil e oernent., we append the following communication ii Charge h received from Mr. Spalding, l a t e c l er k Of the Liverpool station :- 4,, tleseen " Liverpool, 10th Octsber, 1849. ,—ln reference to inquiry respecting the eot tpan ° the transmission by the Electric Telegraph tb o li s t your summary of the President's Message 'reassest,t 01 from • March last, I beg to state that during its Liverpecl te Laden, I rete sted THE SUN, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE asked if the magistrates were Liable for casts? _ _ Mr. CREASEY did not think they were, but had the conviction been quashed, they would have been liable to an action for false imprisonment. Besides a technical objection which appeared upon the warrant of commit ment, there was the additional ground of objection that the two convicting magistra , es were ratepayers of the parish of Dinechurch, to which the prisoner's family bad become chargeable, and hence they were interested in maintaining the conviction. Mr. Justice COLERIDOE—You may take a rule. Rule nisi accordingly. IN RE AN ATTORNEY. Mr. RowNsoN;riilied to the Court for a rule calling upon an attorney of the court to show cause why he should not be struck off the rolls. The application was supported by a couple of affida vits, which stated that the attorney in question had bee❑ concerned in a couple of cases which had bean tried at the York assizes. Some of the witnesses applied to him for payment of their expenses, but he told them he could not comply with their request, as he was without funds; and yet it would scern that he had included their ex penses in his bill of costs, which had beau taxed, and had actually made an affidavit, shearing that the witnesses attended the assizes for only one case, whereby he in duced tt e Master to allow expenses in the two cases which had been tried. Application granted. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COURT: The May session of the Central Criminal Court com menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Re corder, the Common Sergeant, Mr. Alderman Hunter, Mr. Alderman Sidney, Mr. Alderman Carden, the She riffs, &c. According to the calendar there are 155 prisoners for trial. The grand jury having been empanelled and sworn, The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to them. The calendar, he observed, contained a list of 155 prisoners for trial, and that number, as he had often had occasion to observe, would no doubt be considerably increased be fore the termination of their labours. The calendar pre. sented the case of parties charged with various offences, some of them, he was sorry to say, of a grave and se rious character, such as to require patient investigation at the hands of the grand jury, and involving serious cir cumstances as respected the parties charged, and the public at large. The larger portion of the commitments were in cases of larceny. There were no less than 52 cases of ordinary larceny, and a variety of other cases of aggravated larceny, such as those being committed in a dwelling-house, on the person, and by servants. There were also several cases of larceny on the person com mitted with violence, which amounted in law to robbery. There were altogether 88 cases of lar ceny, to which tight be added six cases of robbery, because in those cases property was taken from the person in the commission of the crime. Of the remaining cases on the calendar, there were five charges of cutting and woanding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and there were also seven charges of forgery. There was also in the calendar a charge of murder, but the grand jury would not have to consider that, as the bill was found in the former session, There was another case of feloniously administering poison, and one of feloniously cutting and damaging trees. With regard to the cases of poisoning, of cutting and wounding where the intent was charged to be to do grievous bodily harm, and the cases of robbery with extreme violence, he would only,administer to the grand jury this caution, that in proportion as the charge was of an aggravated nature they would exercise due caution, and sift the evidence to the utmost, in order to see whether the case was a fit one to be made the subject of future inquiry, because if the grand jury were of opinion that the evidence was insufficient, they were bound to throw the shield which the constitu tion had given them around the party charged, and not put him to the obloquy and trouble of a further trial. With respect to the charge of administering poison with intent to murder, that was still an offence of a capital nature. In the present instance the charge was preferred by a father against his daughter under circumstances which the grand jury were bound calmly to investigate. They were bound not lightly to enter tain so serious a charge; but, if upon weighing the evi dence they thought the case called for, they would put it in a course of further inquiry by finding a true bill. As to one case of larceny the grand jury might have to encounter some difficulty in its investigation; he alluded to the charge of stealing a cheque belonging to a company, in which the party charged was said to be the servant of the company. If the evidence sustained the charge which would be brought before the grand jury, then it would be desirable that the case should b.: put in a further course of investigation, because it in volved the character of a servant who had the greatest facility to commit the most extensive frauds upon his employers; but, unless it was proved that the cheque was the property of the employers of the party charged, there would be a failure of evidence. If from the evidence adduced the grand jury should be satisfied that the party charged had employed the cheque of his employer other than for the pur pose for which it we; intended, then a case would be made out calling upon them to put the case in a farther course of trial. There was another case that would come before the grand jury, which was one of great peculiarity—a charge which by law was a misdemeanour. He alluded to the charge of stealing a deed. In that case a question might arise how far the owner of the deed caused it to pass into the hands of the party charged. The Act cf Parliament relating to this subject was the 7th and Bth George IV., chap. 29, and as the subject might involve a nicety in point of law, he would recom mend the grand jury, if they considered the party had got fraudulent possession of the deed, to find a true bill and leave thereby the cate to the Court and the petty jury. For his own part he was not prepared to say the evidence did not amount to that contemplated by the statute to which he hai re ferred. The Learned Judge, after referring to several of the minor cases in the calandar, remitted the grand, jury to the discharge of their duties, and the Court then proceeded to swear in the petty jury. several messages from London, ordering me to stop your message, and send Mr. Bean's message, if ready. I informed the clerk in London that Mr. Beau was then iu the Liverpool Telegraph-office, when an order imme diately came from London to this effect:—' Stop Willmer and Smith's message, and send on Bean's,' which was done. I may also further sate that your business, during my management at the office here, met with fre quent interruptions by order from head-quarters. "'I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) " JAMES SPA.LDING. 'Messrs. Willmer and Smith, Liverpool." We should observe that for this message, which occu pied about ninety-eight lines in the columns of the Morning Herald, we paid the Telegraph Com pany about 211, and were, notwithstanding, thrown off the wires for more than half an hour to satisfy the mo nopolising spirit of the company. This, you will see, is another violation of the 51st section of the Act already quoted ; nay more, it is another attempt to injure us in our business, and an effort to deprive the London Press, of which we are the correspondents, of the news until it was published in all parts of the city by a favoured paper. It, would be interesting to know who bent the order to stop our message on this occasion. We doubt not but Mr. Boys could tell. As he is fond of affording the public all important news, he may, no doubt, supply the required information. We represented the case to the company, and, after the board had considered the matter, we received a letter from the secretary, stating that the company regretted the annoyance to which we had been subjected, and promised that a repetition should not again occur, as arrangements had been made where by all messages would be transmitted in the order in which they were received. For a time this regulation wai partially acted upon, but it was only for the purpose of a arding off an action at law and public exposure, which we then threatened. "9. The third case of delay in the transmission of our messages to which we shall allude isone so singularly monstrous and unjustifiable that all loyal men will de precate and despise. Yea, even the Minister who holds a large stake in the company, must feel ashamed of the base conduct of his officer. On Saturday, the 30th of June last, a message sent to us from our London office, stating that an attempt had been made to assassinate the Queen, reached Liverpool at seventeen minutes past nine P.M., but was not delivered to us till half past seven A.M. on the following Monday. The reason assigned for the non-delivery on Saturday night was, that our office was closed. The private residence, however, of Mr. Will mer was posted on all the doors, so that the messenger could have easily found it, especially as he had more than once been to both Mr. Willmer's and Mr. Smith's private residences. The excuse of the company was, therefore, paltry, and, as in the preceding cases, proves that their promise as regards instantaneous communica tions is a mockery, a delusion, 11.114 a snare, unequalled in the annals of business. " 10. On the 27th of July last year a hoax was played upon us by fictitious news from the south of Ireland being handed to us for publication in the London morn ing papers. The news was of a very astounding de• scription, and proved to be utterly untrue; but that fact is quite immaterial to the case at present. Upon taking it to the Electric Telegraph-office the clerks said the wires were engaged on their own message, but on seeing the news sent to us they agreed to forward it at once to the Morning Herald without charge, on the condition that they might afterwards use it themselves. This arrangement, to save time, we consented to; the condi tions, however, were entirely broken by the company, for the intelligence was first made known in Capel court, afterwards to Sir George Grey, in Downing street, and at eleven o'clock was delivered at the Morn ing Herald office, though it had been given to them at Liverpool at a quarter-past seven. So much for good faith! _ _ 11. Again, when the verdict was given upon Mr. Smith O'Brien's last trial, we procured the intelligence by special messenger from Dublin and Holyhead, and having reached Crewe, where the company have a sta tion, our reporter commenced to have the intelligence telegraphed to London. It was late, and we were anxious to get it into the first editions of the papers. The message had to be transmitted through Manches ter; and when about ha;l' finished the reporter was sur prised to hear an order from the office, Stop W. and S.'s message, and send the Company's own.' This, however, by his peremptory remonstrance, be prevented being done; but we found next day that the company, resolved not to be thwarted by our greater activity, had delayed the delivery of the message to our agent in London until they had delivered their own version of the news to the whole of the morning piers, and who had agreed to pay them for it. " We have now noticed a few of the many cases in which this company have either " 12. Wilfully impeded the transmission of our mes sages to the London press, " 13. Or else attempted to impair their efficiency by a delay in their delivery. "It would be easy to multiply them to a much greater extent; in fact, were we to notice in detail all the cases of complaint which we have had to make, the one-half of your double sheeted journal would not con tain them. Those now given will, we suppose, suffice for the present; and should Messrs. Fourdrinier and Boys, or their master, Mr. Ricardo, desire more, we will not fail to supply them with fifty other instances equally damning as regards the " 14. Disgraceful tricks of the Lothbury officials. But it is not only of the delays of the transmission and delivery of our messages that we complain; we have also been subjected to extreme annoyance and incon venience by the very inefficient manner in which they have been transmitted to and from London. " 15. Errors of the grossest kind have been made, words left out se as to render the sense incomplete, and in cases where cypher has been adopted others substi tuted, which, when translated, had an entirely opposite meaning to that intended. " You will, no doubt, be surprised hen we tell you that in messages of twenty-seven or thirty letters it has not been an unfrequent occurrence to have four, five, and sometimes six mistakes. Even no later than Monday night last we received a message from London, in which the company's officer, for reasons best known to him self, substituted the word allowances for annoyances, thus entirely altering the sense of the message, and ren dering it perfectly useless, notwithstanding they charged 10s. for their services. " We must not omit to state that Parliament granted to the Electric Telegraph Company an Act to communi cate intelligence. " 16. At uniform rates, and " 17. Without preference to any party. " Their present price from Liverpool to London is over sixpence per word. It is reported that to some papers they charge Is. for every nine word!, others Is. per line, and others 6d. per line. To the Glasgow Daily Mail they supply more than a column of news per day for 2001. a year. The North British Daily Mail for the same intelligence 3001. The Hall news•room is supplied with all intelligence for 1501. per annum, whilst the Liverpool Exchange do not get more than half the quan tity given to the Glasgow papers, although they pay 3001. a year. " The foregoing statements just made will afford you, Sir, and the London Press, a glimpse into the working of this gigantic scheme of monopoly. " 18. They will convince you that you can have no security that your interest will be guarded, and that, notwithstanding the utmost watchfulness, activity, and zeal of your several correspondents throughout the world, you will be baffled should the company have a game of their own to play. " 19. They will satisfy you that schemes the most shameful, and such as persons pretending to the title of gentlemen should detest and abhor, have been resorted to in order that the Telegraph Company may enjoy an illegal monopoly, and keep the public and the press at their mercy, so far as the promulgation of all late and important news is concerned. " We are, Sir, yours respectfully, " WILLMER AND SMITE." The Learned Counsel was proceeding in the state• went of a great number of instances of blunders and de lays on the part of the company in the transmission of messages intrusted to them when our report left. The case is likely to occupy the Court the whole of the day. COMMON PLEAS.-.(THIS DAY.) Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and Justices CRESSWELL, WILLIAMS, and•TALFOURD.) LANDUYT V. STEVENS. Mr. MASON, on behalf of the defendant, applied for a rule to show cause why the award of certain arbitrators, appointed by order of the Court to decide all matters connected with this case should not be set aside, on the ground that no notice of the meetings of the arbitrators had been given to the defendant, nor any opportunity afforded him of entering into his defence. It ap peared that the defendant, a merchant in London, ordered from the plaintiff, a manufacturer of oil cakes in Belgium, two cargoes of oil•eake of the best descrip tion, t.. be made of Alexandrian seed, which was re-sold by him to a Mr. Crofts, who, however, returned the first cargo on delivery, alleging that it was not made of Alexandrian seed, but of the common description, and also refused to charter a vessel to Belgium to fetch the second cargo. The first cargo was ultimately disposed of at Yarmont at a loss of 130 L, and the re mainder in Belgium at a loss of 2001. Upon this the plaintiff required that the defendant should make good the loss of 3301., and an action was brought by him to recover it; but by consent of both parties arbitrators were appointed and the matter referred to them. The defence set up was, that the defendant had ordered the oil-cake merely as a commission agent, and not en his own account; and again, that the goods were not of the description ordered. The arbitrators, however, on the correspondence between th e p ar ti e s being laid before them, gave their award against the defendant, taking the first point merely into their consideration, and afforded the defendant no opportunity of proving the second part of his defence. It was upon these grounds that the application for a rule was brought. Rule granted. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) QUEEN V. JUSTICES OF RUNISEY MARSH. Mr. CriEASY applied to the Court for a rule calling upon the Justices of Rumsey Marsh to show cause why a conviction and an order of session should not be quashed. On the 6th of March a man named Tillhurst was convicted, before Messrs. Blake and Plater, two of the aforesaid justices, as a " a rogue and vagabond," for having neglected to support his wife and family, whereby they had become chargeable to the parish of Dine church. The man appealed against this conviction; and on the 3d of April the appeal came on for hearing at the Rumsey Marsh Session, before the two convicting ma gistrates and two other justices, Mr. Blake acting as chairman. The sessions confirmed the conviction, but as the two convicting magistrates were interested parties, and had therefore no right to act on the trial of the ap peal, their order was clearly illegal—a dictum established by " The Queen v. Justices of Hertfordshire," and many I other owe. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Alfred Parker and his wife Mary Ann Parker, both of whom were very respectably attired, were placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, charged with the following mur derous assault on a"police-constable : The prisoners were defended by Mr. Lewis. Police-constable 128 F deposed that he was on duty on Saturday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, in Hol born, nearly opposite Day and Martin's blacking manu factory, when he heard a great disturbance in Bull-in- Gate-yard. He went there and found the prisoners quarrelling with a number of other men and women, all of whom live in the yard. He told them that they must not create such a disturbance at that hour, and that if they did not desist be must take them into custody. He then left them to go round his beat again, but before he had got half way he was followed by a gentleman who implored him to go to Bull-in-Gate-yard as a murder was being committed. He hastened thither and found a general melee between the whole of the residents in the yard. He again endeavoured to quiet them, but all he said was of no avail. On the contrary, they assailed him in the following manner:—They threw him to the ground, trampled on him, took his truncheon from his pocket, with which they struck him on all parts of the body, and broke a pitcher on his head having previously thrown the beer which was in it in his face in order to blind him. Had it not been for the assistance of his brother constables who arrived directly afterliards, he had not the slightest doubt he would have been murdered. Yesterday he was hardly able to move from the effects of the blows which he had received. The cross-examination by Mr. Lewis did not shake in ,he least the evidence of this• witness. Police-constable 156 F deposed that he was on duty in Little Turnstile about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, when a gentleman came up to him and told him that a policeman was being murdered in Bull-in-Gate yard. He went there and found constable 128 on the ground surrounded by a number of cabmen who were striking him in a most brutal manner. The prisoners were with the greatest difficulty conveyed to the station. Inspector Dodd said that the first witness was very ill from the blows he had received, and that he was obliged to send him to bed. Mr. Lewis then called several witnesses to endeavour to prove that the conduct of the police was brutal in the extreme, but the evidence altogether showed that a murderous assault had been made on the constable. Mr. HENRY said he should adjourn the case till Mr. Beal could attend, a gentleman who witnessed the whole transaction, and the assault on the police. The prisoners were accordingly liberated on bail. HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH. The following bulletin of the Queen's health was issued this morning : " BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAT 6, 1850, 9 ♦.M. " Her Majesty's recovery goes on favourably. " The infant Prince continues well. " JAMES CLARK, M.D. "CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. "ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D. " The next bulletin will be issued on Wednesday morning." THE BEITANNIA-BRIDGE.—The engineers are now busily engaged in the preliminary preparations for floating the parallel line of tube, the first great section of which it has been arranged by Mr. Stephenson, Captain Claxton, and Messrs. Clark shall be turned round upon a fixed radius at one end, and swung into the excavations at the close of this month. This intiatory operation, expected to be a very beau tiful one, will have the effect of bringing the tube 200 yards nearer its appointed position, but it will then, owing to its having been constructed at that greater distance down the coast, be only in the position occupied by the other tubes on their first starting. With this additional difference, the operation will be a counterpart of the first floatation& The final removal of the monsters is fixed to take place on the 10th and 11th of June, and the arrangements are progressing for that purpose. APPOINTMENTS.—Lord Seymour, Chief Commis• sioner of Woods and Forests, has appointed 'Mr. Patrick Vernon (son of Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P.) to be his Private Secretary. Mr. George Lowenfeld is appointed Receiver- General of British Guiana. Mr. Thomas Springfellow is appointed Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Fort Beaufort, Cape of Good Hope. Mr. W. Inglis is ap pointed a Stipendiary Magistrate of the Bahamas; Mr. and Mrs. Milner Gibson received at dinner, last week, the Turkish Ambassador, the Portuguese Minis ter and the Vicomtesse de Moncorvo, the American Minis ter and Mr. and Miss Lawrence, the Earl and Countess of Ducie and Lady Georgians Moreton, the Earl and Countess of Lovelace, Sir William and Lady Molesworth, Mr. and Lady Theresa Lewis, Lord Clarence Paget, the lion. Charles Villiers, Mr. Hope, Mr. Bentinck, &c. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. I Due Foscari was revived here on Saturday evening, Coletti resuming his gre,.t character of the Doge, Beau carde appearing for the first time as Jacopo Foscari, and Madlle. Parodi as Lucrezia. The Lucrezia of V Parodi was intensely impassioned; as she warmed in her past she became positively sublime. Beaucarde was ad mirable as Jacopo Foscari. His opening scene of the third act was exquisitely rendered, the pathos which he infused into this scene was most touch ing. The Doge of Coletti has long been cele brated as one of the gems of lyrical tragedy, and on Saturday it was perfectly rendered. The last scene was the very perfection of heartrending passion. The applause at the conclusion of this scene was most en tausiastic. The celebrated quartette in the second act was encored as a matter of course. The overture to Guillaume Tell, which produced such an effect ou Thurs day, was again performed last evening, and the latter part of it was again honoured with an encore, a com pliment moot justly merited by Mr. Balfe and the orchestra, for nothing could exceed the firmness end the precision with which this exquisite overture was given. Trio new pas de trois, Les Gropes followed, and the furore it excited was even more intense than on Thurs day. Both Atnalia Ferraris and Carlotta Grisi, were encored in their respective pas, and were both vehe mently applauded. Les G ra p es i s cer t a i n ly th e most classecal ballet that has been produced fir years. The theatre was brilliantly attended. CLOSE of DR URY-LANE THEATRE. The Drury-lane season came to an abrupt conclusion on Saturday evening. The performances consis e 1 of The Beggars Opera, Family Jars, and The Devil's fling. At the conclusion of the farce, Mr. Anderson came for ward and addressed the house as follows: " Ladies and Gentlemen,—la appt aring before you at the close of this my first campaign, my address, like my season, shall be brief. I have the melancholy duty of announcing to you that this night will finish the present season, but that I hope to have the honour of appearing before you again at Christmas, when, after a disastrous Peninsula, I hope to achieve a glorious Wa terloo. It would be useless for me to attempt to deny that I have suffered a great loss in my private re sources, but though disappointed I am not discouraged. I well knew that, in undertaking the management of an establishment like this, in a building, too, so long devoted to purposes far different to its legitimate ones, I had essayed no ordinary task; but still I hoped that, when three foreign theatres were supported, it would not be too much to hope that sufficient' patronage could be found to support the temple of the national drama. Arguing thus, I hoped the light of your favour would shine upon me and cheer me in my labours. The sun which shone so brightly at Christmas last could not, in the nature of things, be expected to last lone; I was soon doomed to feel the depressing influence of the succeed ing gloom. Not the least of the discouraging impedi • ments that have beset me has been the coldness of the public press; with scarcely an exception, I have had no cheering words from that quarter. In the name of a grateful company, I again bid you farewell, hoping to meet you under more favourable auspices in the season of 1851." The accusation of coldness brought by Mr. Anderson against the public press, does cot certainly apply to ourselves. Anxious for the success of the very praise worthy attempt in which Mr. Anderson was engaged, we have taken every opportunity of directing public at tention to those efforts, and we have been by no means chary of " cheering words of encouragement." We cannot but regret the present ill-success of Mr. Anderson's experiment, an ill success which, however, we are glad to perceive will not prevent him from attempting a renewal cf it, and we doubt not but that warned by the past, and having ascertained the causes of his present failure, he will remove those causes and conduct his renewed experiment to a triumphant termination. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. — SATURDAY. CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigott's Essedarius, 4 yrs, 7st 91b —taken freely 8 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Peep-o'-day Boy, 6 yrs, 9st 12 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Roland, 4 yrs, sst 81b 13 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—t 13 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 4 yrs, 7st 15 to 1 agst Mr. H. Hill's Osterley. 4 yrs, 7st 15 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman, 5 yrs, 7st 16 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b —taken 20 to 1 aget Mr. Eddison's John Cosser, 5 yrs, Bst 51b —taken 20 to 1 agst Capt. Harcourt's Ellerdale, 6 yrs, Bst 31b 25 to 1 aget Mr. Pedley's Cossack, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—t 25 to 1 agat Major Pitt's Mounseer, 4 yrs, 6st 91b 33 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Cockermouth, 5 yrs, bat 101 b 1,000 to 5 agat Mr. Murphy's Dough, 5 yrs, Bst 51b 5 to 2 agst John Day's lot Essedarius was backed eagerly near the close at 8 to 1, and lett off with the call of Peep o'-day Boy, the latter, however, having plenty of friends; Glauca, Chantrey, and John Cosser were also in favonr, but Osterley and Fogleman, after being backed at 12 to 1 each, receded to 15 to 1, layers. DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher 6 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke 9 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Mayors 11 to 1 agst Lord Zotland's Voltigeur—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. Gretwicke's The Nigger 15 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Mildew , 30 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Penang—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Cariboo. Clincher was backed for upwards of 4,000/. at 5 to 1; Bolingbroke at 6 So 1 to 300/. (afterwards offered); and Lord Eglinton's two at 8 to 1 to 4004 THE OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Captain Delme na Gillyflower. CHESTER RACES. CHESTER, YESTERDAY EVENING. The following horses have arrived:—Atalanta filly,' Receipt filly, Margaretta, Harlequin, The Anchorite, Mr. Merryman, Alonzo, Stepping Stone, Decoy colt, Shilmalier West, Leonidas, Camelides, Boadicea, Cos sack, Peep-o'-day Boy, Es se d ar i us . Woolwich, Westow, Fugleman, Osterley, Woodlark, Tarn Wadlin, Mona seer, Whim colt, Gaffer Green, Fleur de Seine, Mini mum, Gladiator colt, General Sale, Osbaldeston, Laura, Concertina colt, Sprite filly, Greenwich, StGeorge, Cockermouth, Lady Speedy, Stanton ' Saucy Dick, Bee. hunter, Eagle's Plume, Mrs. Taft, Sir Philip, Forest Deer, Diana, La Voleuse, Lethargy, The Cantab, 4 yrs, Wilmont, Colleen, Rhue, Lady Godiya, &o. SPORTING NOTES• No. 6. I , Away; the corner' is deserted; Away to Chester's ancient walls! A thousand screaming trains have started; 'ris neck or nothing—pleasure calls; From every ingle of our islands, From east to west, from north and south, From Wahner to Glengarry's highlands, From Galway to the Bull and Mouth, Away they come !" ANONYMOUUS. si Some there be that by due stops aipire To lay their hands on that golden key That opes the palace of futurity: To such my errand is: Now to my task. " MASK or COMM. Sm—The Olympics of the past week at head-quar ters have furnished myself and the world with a few ex amples of the glorious uncertainty of racing in its most certain form; forcibly reminding me of Byron's idea— " There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain As any of mortality's conditions; So little do we know what we're about in This world, I doubt, if doubt itself be doubting." The race for " the key to the Derby," the Two Thousand Guineas' Stake, was the first great illusion of the week ; it was run in the manner best suited to acshtrbeyggtlhee merits of , Pitsford and Har din g e, whil e Beehunter, unfortunate pursuer of the sweet s, ha d to cut out his own work, and consequen tly stood a great chance of being defeated, as h ; this was, however, ac complished, Pitsford, as by the admirable jockeys hi p of that crack artiste, Alfred Day, who landed the s on of Epirus and Miss Horewood e was' in not the s final o much by a neck I Had the Goodwood hero been favoured with a pioneer to show him the way to Victory, h e m us t have , won ! but as I remarked in my 'anticipation s " last Mon day, " the struggle will be between'Beehunter and Pits ford," while Hardiage would be third, which was verified to the letter, The result of the race elevated Pitsford, in the Derby market, to 16 t.) 1, and Bolingb ro k e pro tem. (on the strength of hav i ng given the victor 6 lbs and a beating in the Prendergast last year) to 5 to 1, which position he only retained until. the decision of the Newmar ket Stakes (illusion No. 3), when the triumph of Cariboo (by the trial 101bs. worse than Lord Airlie's horse) gave the premiership to Clincher, and sent Bolingbroke to 13 to 2 layers; and on Saturday, by way of a clincher to their argument, the admirers of the Stanton nag actually backed him in the aggregate, for some 21,000/. to 4,2001., to beat such cattle as Ghillie Callum, Bolingbroke, The Italian, The Nig ger, and Sweetheart; fr om such proceedings, I deduce the presence of a superfluity 13- f cash, or expect to hear in the next return from St. George's Fields an increased demand for jackets and vests of the kind de nominated straight. I attribute Cariboo's victory to the course (D.M.) being over the flat, which suited his speed; had it been the Rowley mile he would have suc cumbed to Nutshell, as he did on this course to Longinus a week or two back. The public, who never seem to look below the sur face, ought to bear in mind w hat the late Mr. Apperley (a first-rate judge in these affairs) remarked in his celebrated work, " The Chase, the Turf, and the Road ;" he says-6. The first great point is obviously to ascer tain the maximum speed, and the next to discover how that is affected by weight; but here there are difficulties against which no judgment can provide, and which, when the best intentions have been acted upon, have led to false conclusions. The horse may not be quite up to his mark on the day of trial, or the horse, or horses, with which he is tried may not be so ; the nature of the ground, and the manner of running i t , may like wise not be suited to his capabilities or his action, and the trial and his race may be very differently run." Re member these observations of Nimrod, and bear in mind how well they are illustrated in Ides backed at 2 to 1 for the Derby of 1845, in Conyngham at 11 to 4 for the Derby of 1847, in Glendower at 4 to 1 for the Derby of 1848, and in Nunnykirk for that of last ye ar . Exotic filly just won the 1,000 Guineas from Tiff (il lusion No. 2), - but the latter will turn the tables upon the Exotic for the Oaks. :Queer, quaint old Chester now attracts my mental eye, and for such an important meeting I shall dispatch it in a very few words. To-morrow, Ilarriott or Estafetto will wilt the rola- MAY 6, 1850. tine Stakes, and the Receipt filly the Mostyn. Stakes, Mr. Merryman or Louis Napoleon filling the second place. For the Cup from thirty to thirty-four probibly run, to Le selected from the following:— yrs. at. lb. yrs. st. lb. Collingwood .... a 9 2 Mounseer Cossack Peep-o'-Dayßoy 6 9 0 Grief Dough 5 8 5 Keleshea 6 6 6 John Cosser 5 8 5 Gaffer Green ... a 6 3 Ellerdale Essedarius Priestess 5 ` S' Glauca 4 7 5 The Miner Woolwich Westow Fogleman Osterley Miss Ann 4 7 0 Captain Grant... 3 5 0 Woodlark Rhesus 4 612 St. George Cockermouth 5 610 Sprite Lilly Chantrey I consider those who will have an thing to do with the result will te Coiling wood, Cossack, E.lertiale, Esse &trios, Osterley, Chantrey, Glauca, Gulliver, Captain Grant, St. George, and Cockermouth; and silting them should plact— OSTERLEY or CHANTREY 1 ELLERDALE COSSACK . . 3 ESSEDARIUS Collingwood and the rest of my front division being well up. Bee-hunter will win the Dea Stakes, Cantab second ; Mickleton or Sir Philip the Cestican; and Pirouette or Anchorite the Wirrall Stakes. .„ I am, Sir e yours, Sce., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 6, 18501 TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday Ist May, the Landlord and Tenant Bill was read a second time. The object of this Bill appears to be, to encourage cultivation by enabling owners for life in certain cases to make agreements with the tenants wt..lich shall be binding on successors. One danger manifestly attending, i s that owners for life should make away with the inte rests of their successors. It is possible to imagine an owner for life saying to the tenants, Give me five shillings more per acre, and I will sign anything you can propose under the Act. This danger apart, it is probable that the whole effect of the Bill will not be much, except affording considerable cover for country solicitors. If a land lord sets, up one claim under the Bill, it does not ap pear difficult for the tenant to set up another; so that the tendency will probably be, for landlords and tenants to counteract each other. In the Benefices in Plurality Bill, the Member fur Montrose moved to stop at the Nord " Benefices," leaving otit the "unless" and all that followed. This may be very well as a joke; like the Frenchmen who voted the indivisibility of their heads from their bodies. 'But in practice, bt fore a thing is enacted, it is necesAtiiy to show the way bow. It is clearly not the seriotti 'object of anybody, to settle by a vote in Committee, that parishes of incomes insufficient to support a clerical teacher shall have none. There may be those who would make a sweep of the whole Establishment ; but, even fur them, this is not the way to go to work. Leaving then the sweeping question to wait its own time, the present question is, what is to be done with parishes baying revenues only sufficient to support the third or the fourth part of a clergyman. One way that may suggest itself may be, to put three or four such together. But sup pose they are not there. Suppose the case is, of a parish able to support only the fractional part, but having no other case of the same kind near it, and bordered only by rich parishes supporting incumbents it may be in wealth and splendour. Unless the time is come for a general re-organization of the whole (which is not to be done by a vote in Committee), the Committee must make the best provision it can fur the poor parish having somebody to marry and buiy its inmates at all. And this there seems to be no why of doing in the case described, except by allowing the poor parish to cohere to a rich one, under certain provisions with respect to distance. To which point the proceedings of the Committee, as far as they have gone, appear to have tended. On Thursday the Bill for repealing the Attorneys' and Solicitors' annual Certificate Duty was carried against the Government by 155 to 136. It would seem to be a very ordinary piece of policy, fur a Government to find out when public opinion has prac tically concentrated itself against a tax to the extent implied in such a parliamentary majority, and avoid the contest. The argument set up and supported by the minority, was that there were other taxes which in the opinion of individual Members more wanted removing. Which may be quite true, and still it may be a ques tion whether it was wisdom in Members zealous to diminish' taxation, to vote for maintaining a bad tax which theie was a great present probability of re moving, because they could point out a worse tax, which there was no present probability of removing at all. On Friday Sir George Grey gave notice of his Amendment and Clauses to be proposed in Committee on the Factories Bill. The marginal descriptions of them are as follow : " No young person or female to be employed before six A.M. or after ►ix P.M. or on Saturdays atter two P.N." "Provisions of 7 and 8 Vic. c. 15, requiring notices of times of beginning and ending work, to be hung up, repealed." " Meal times to be taken between half•past seven A.M. and six P.M." "Young persons or females not to be employed in re covering lost time (under 7 and 8 Vie. c. 15, § 33),. after seven P.M." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, N OLD REFORMER. London, 6th May, 1850. COURT CIRCULAR. The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was issued on Saturday : " Buckingham Palace, May 4, Nine A.M. " The Queen has had another good night. " Her Majesty and the infant Prince continue well. " JAMES CLARK, M.D, " CHARLES Lococx, " ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.." The next bulletin will be issued on Monday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highnes the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty on Saturday afternoon. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen paid a visit to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Yesterday, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen. The nobility and gentry called on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, to read the bulletin. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince of IVales, Prince Al fred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gor don and Mr. Birch, honoured the Colosseum with a visit on Saturday morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, hor Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, the ladies and gentlemen cf Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa, took their usual exercise yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen went to Frogmore on Saturday, returning to Clarence House, St. James's, in the afternoon. His Royal Ilighness the Duke of Cambridge at tended Divine service yesterday morning in the chapel of the Lock Hospital. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with their presence. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge vi• sited her Royal Highness the ; Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester House. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign-office. It was attended by the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey. Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hob house, the Earl of Carlisle, th e Ri g ht H on . 11. La bouchere, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. The Council sat one hour and a half. Lord John Russell was prevented by indisposition from attending the Council. Governor lligginson had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo nial•office from the Governors of the - West India colonies. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleugb and family arrived at their town residence, Montagu house, on Saturday, from Northamptonshire. The Marquis of Anglesey and the Duchess of St. Alban's attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Fox Cm:Tu.—The members of the Fox Club met on Saturday evening at Brookes's. There were present the Right Hon. Earl of Zetland, Right lion. Lord de Mauley, Viscount Ebrington, M.P., Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, Viscount Anson, M.P., Mr. Edward Ayshford Sanford, Sir Robert Heron, Bart., Right Hon. Earl of Gosford, Right iN r . de An,, o l is d i e . , lion. Viscount Cremorne, Hon. E. L. Moityn, 111,p., Right lion. Lord Marcus Hill, N.Y., Hon. Hamilton Du ncan, M r. Rowland Alston , Mr . 11. F. Stephenson, Ith Fitzpatrick, M.P. , Ho n. R. S. Carew, Colonel Elliceo Anion, B np r o , Mr. . A Lord. K. Stephenson, SayFredericke a D n u d n sd Colonela s o e , , Right Colonel Hon. Hn F o er . g E u Gd s e o wo n rar , g Ai.gp. t , Hon. Right . G . lion.W. AI r. M.P., Mr. Ed war d Ellice, jun., M.P., Right li on . E arl of Strafford. an d the Right lion. Viscount Enfield, 11. P. ' R E PRESENTATION OF EAST KENT.--We have only space this week to direct our readers, attention to a curious s eries of addresses on this subject which; appears in cur ad vertising columns this day, the contending parties being the brother Protectionists, J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P., Sir Edward Cholmsly Deering, and Sir Brook Bridges, Baronets. —Kent Hera'd. The Nottinghamshire Guardian states that Mr. Tanner, of Buckholt, has lost nearly 200 sheep which had eaten sprouted corn, the seeds of which had been steeped in a solution of arsenic. TIIE NEW MAIL CONTRACTS FOR BRAZILS AND THE WEST INDIES.—The Lords of the Treasury have just sanctioned the contract with the Royal West India Mail Packet Company for the conveyance of the Brazilian mails, and a new mail route scheme for the West India mails. The Brazilian mail route scheme is as follows: Steamers are to run between Southampton and Rio de Janeiro, touching at the Cape de Verd Islands and, Pernambuco. Branch mail steamers are to run between Rio de Janeiro and the River Plate. According to the terms of the new West India Mail route scheme steamers are to run twice a month between Southampton and Chagres, calling at Madeira and St. Thomas. These steamers are to return by the same route they St. Thomas is to be the foreign packet station at which th inter-colonial mails are to be deposited, and from which _et), are to be distributed. These arrangements are to come into operation as soon as the necessary ships are complete. The Hibernia, Captain Lang, sailed frtm Liver pool on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston. COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A C Court wa s Council held odudrThursday immediately before the Common as sembled, for the purpose of voting an t% s , to (queen, congratulating her Majestyty upon h birth of the the infant Peter L aurie, seconded by and attachment to Prince. The address, which abounded, aswe are given to understand, with expressions of loyalty Aldermanher blajes t adopted by the unanimous vote (~f the Court. FINE Eiso.—A few days ago a net was put into the 3, Musgrove,."'a moved and by Ouse, at Bletsoe, and at one haul six pike were taken , which i weg lie d t o gether upwards of 801b8.—Northampton Herald. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Paymaster and Purser—W. Hamilton (1829), for merly of the Thunderbolt, steam-sloop, and the author of a clever pamphlet on the navigation-laws, has been appointed to the Indefatigable, 50, squadron of exer cise, vice Brenton, deceased. Naval Cadets—Charles Hotham and Elliot Colvin, to the Victory, flag-ship Portsmouth ;L. C. Keppel, to the Fisgard, flagaship, Woolwich. Carpenter—William Pollyblank, to the Imaum, depot-ship, Port Royal. THE LOSE OF TILE AVENGER--The Avenger com mittee at Portsmouth paid their final monthly in stalment to the widows, orphans, and relatives of her lost crew, on Saturday last. There is still a little money in hand, which, we understand, will be appor tioned between some orphans that have been placed at school, amongs and sometthewido widows. The the m closed Tbem. it,iuy o s ! t i we necessitous sh3,,n)f ate n abstract r a r ais charity will be ntirely statement of the receipts (amounting to about 3,0000 with an account of the exuenditure, will be probably published in the leading journals. ATTEMPT TO REGAIN reSSESSION OF A SLAVER.— The following additional particulars of the attempt to recapture a prize of the Cyclops stuain-fligate, has been brought home by the Sealark :—" On the 27th of January the Cyclops, when off the south-coais, captured a fine Brazilian brig, with 433 slaves on board, having shipped them at Benguela. Lieutenant Hodgkinson was put in as prize -master, and took her to St. Helena. On her passage an attempt was made by some of the slaver's crew and the slaves to recover the ship from the prize crew, but they were speedily put down, a few of them being shot in the affray, while others . jumped overboard and were drowned. Neither the captain nor the officers of the slaver par ticipated in the attempt. The facts are as follows: the slaves, in number, 100, headed by the cook of the prize and two or three Portuguese, most of whom were armed with knives or billets of wood, made a fu ous onset on Mr. Vimson, acting mate, who instantly gave the alarm, when Lieutenant Hodgkinson, who was below, hastened to assist in the melee, which was maintained with great spirit by the slaves and party, until they saw their leader, the cook, fall by a musket-ball, after which they gave in. The quarter• master, one marine, and a krooman belonging to the Cyclops, were wounded with knives, the former very seriously. An ordinary seaman was struck by a piece of wood, and while insensible was thrown over board, but by a fortunate chance some of the run ning-gear caught his arm, and he was towed for nearly half an hour, by which time the poor fellow recovered his presence of mind, and was enabled to haul himself on board his vessel, where he was at tended to and soon restored to health. Nine of the slaves and party were killed - or drowned. The cook, who headed them, is now in hospital at St. Helena. Dauntless is to be tried, with all her weights on board, early in the week, at Portsmouth. She has nearly all her stores on board, but floats still very buoyantly, and will require to be brought a foot deper into the water. Daedalus, 20, Captain Wellesley., was at Valpa raiso, March 1. She bad a very good passage out, remaining three weeks at Rio, then touching at Monte Video and the Falkland Islands, where she re mained a week. The latter islands are said by the officers to be, without exception, the most wretched place they ever were at ; however, they got plenty of snipe shooting there. The most interesting part of the voyage of the Daedalus was when she approached the Horo. She went through the Straits of Le Maire, and then anchored twice to the southward of Terra del Fuego, passing through on New Year's day. She arrived at Valparaiso 14th January, and was waiting to be relieved by the Meander. All were well on board. The only exchange that has been made is between Messrs. Brine and Bridge, the latter first lieutenant of the Champion. The Devastation steam-sloop, at Portsmouth, was removed from the basin on Saturday, alongside the Blake hulk ; she is all ready for hoisting the pendant; her sea stores are on board. The Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. Beauclerk, having under convoy the iron steam frigate, Simoon, jury-rigged, arrived on Friday night at Spithead, from Greenock. Soon after sailing from that port on Wednesday last, the Simoon came in contact with the merchant schooner, Hetty Clifton, and from the effects of the collision the latter vessel soon after sank ; but the crew were all saved. On Saturday morning the Simoon came into harbour, and has gone, for the present, alongside one of the hulks. She is a handsome looking vessel, especially about the bow, but is very much by the stern. She is painted frigate fashion, with a broad light yellow streak, and appears to have a great distance between her main deck ports. The Stromboli is at Spithead waiting orders; it is supposed she will return to Greenock to convoy the Greenock iron steam frigate to Ply mouth. SQUADRON or EXERCISE.—The Prince Regent, 92, Commodore Martin ; the Hogue, 60, Captain APDougall ; the Leander, 50, Captain S. C. Dacres ; the Indefatigable ' 50, Captain Smart, K.H. ; the Arethusa, 50, C aptain Symonds ; the Phaeton, 50, Captain George Elliot ; the Arrogant, 46, Captain Robinson ; the Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, C.B. ; the Encounter, 14, Captain Gordon ; the Conflict, 8, Commander Drake ; and the Lily, 14, Commader Bedford, were all in the Tagus on the 29th ult., the latter refitting for prosecuting her passage to the coast of Africa station, with the mails. The Terrible, steam-ship, 21, Capt. Adams, was detached from the squadron to join that of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.8., on the 23d ult. Commodore Martin was about starting the four 50-gun frigates on a trial cruise. Mr. Brenton, paymaster and purser of her Majesty's ship Indefatigable, died on the 17th, and was interred ashore with all the honours of the fleet. He was succeeded by Mr. Jennings, senior clerk of the Price Regent. All well in the squadron. Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Gorgon arrived at Valparaiso on the 18th of February from Panama, with the English mails of the 17th of December; she sailed again on the 26th for the Straits of Magellan, to tow through the vessels sent in search of Sir John Franklin. The Daedalus, 20, Commander Welles ley, 44 days from Monte Video, arrived on the 12th of January, and was in Valparaiso Bay when the packet sailed. The Dutch brig of war Koesin, 18, 70 days from San Francisco, arrived on the 23d of January. Her Majesty's brig Swift, 6, 35 days from Wel lington, New Zealand, arrived on the 7th 'of February, and sailed on the 14th for the Sandwich Islands. The sloop Daphne, 20, Commander Fanshaw, sailed from Valparaiso on the 23d of January for Canoe; thence she was to proceed to the coast of Honduras , wh ere the Asia, 80, flag of Rear-Admiral Hornby , was s s a t l t e i o d n o e nd the b by 14 0 t u h r o l f a l s , t e barcucaoruyn forts . Pe i ru 'he and C P ha a in na p rn io a ll . The Dutch corvette Courier, 18, sailed on the 14th s o c f h l o ' o eb ne ru r a N ry for Rio D Jiro o an , eir 4, Co d Rotterdam. schooner The schooner Nancy D awson, 4, Commander Aile, ar rived on the 27th of February from Mazatlan, and, with the French frigate L'Algerie, remained at Val paraiso. The French ship-of-war Thisbe, 32 guns, arrived on the 7th from Rio Janeiro, and departed on the 12th for Otaheite. The Pacific steamer Peru reached Valparaiso on the 24th of February, with the mails from the north ward and specie of the value of 280,000 dolls. The American steamer Tennessee, from the United States, had arrived and sailed again for San Prancisco on the 27th of February. Th e B r iti s h steamer Sarah Sands arrived the same day, and was to leave on the sth of March for California. PORTSMOUTH, MAY s. —The Simoom steam frigate came into harbour yesterday. On her pus sage hither she ran down and sank a schooner on Wednesday morning ; crew saved. The „Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amtlius Beauclerk, will return to the Clyde in a day or two and take charge of the Greenock iron steam-frigate to Devonport. The Ajax, GO, Captain Quin, will lAvf.,?nl" comple ment for temporary service of only `..)YO Itie n, ='° f _ whom will be Marine artillerymen. Her cop3yl3 be e• l will be adjusted to-morrow, and she will probab l y at Spithead during the present week. to the station Rear-Admiral Austin had not Arriv e d _. , B the acting at that date. Commodore Plumri . d (.; We have letrere from China to the 9th of March. ury, with his red pennant y commander-in-chief, was at Singapore fl ) i3l4l°Villcoz. Sbionarggead'potLee at _t_ha , t date, Com mander (since Captain •. The Hastings, and ' • Bate • the hospita l receiving 6, Commander Ba , Alligator; and the troop ship C C ap a ta t i a n in b T lo r r o g w an k ; id th ge, Ro w y as alis a t' t ships Minden and Hongkong. were a t i:on 2 : 24, p Ap T o h ll e o, Amazon, Penang. i into Farquhar,t h e The Albatro ss, 12, was at M alacca. Commodore Pl um ridge has promoted his flag-lie u t enan t, IL M. E tpromoted by mand othe A d m iralty. The Reynard, 11, C ommander Cracroft, was on her lltibote t, Aflbtabtreo, C ambrian, vice e passage from Poo -chow-Poo to Hongkong. The Mariner, 12, Commander Matheson, was at Amoy. Ttie Pilot, 12, Commander Ince, was at Shanghai. The West India and Pacific mail has brought us letters from the latter station, and one from Mazat lan, dated March 8, of which the following is the substance :—" The Inconstant, 36, Captain Sheppard, is here. She arrived at St. Blas on the 18th of February. On the 21st the Amphitrite, 24, Captain Walker (acting), made her appearance there from Mazatlan. The Inconstant left St. Bias on the 22d, and arrived at Mazatlan on the 24th, where she found the Cockatrice schooner, and on the 27th dispatched her to Guyamas to look for freight. The Amphitrite was to take in about 1,000,000 dolls. at St. Blas, and then call at Mazanilla (about 150 or 200 miles to the southward), where they expected about 250,000 dolls. more—if they embark this they will carry home about 1,500,000 dolls. MAGAZINES,_&c.. 7 (CONTINUED). NEW MONTHLY. An unusual variety characterises the contributions to the New Monthly for May, and sustains the re vived reputation for excellence recently imparted to it by its accomplished editor, Mr. Harrison Ains worth. Leigh Hunt, who, though not "so old," is yet among the living veterans of our literature, Leigh Hunt, the evergreen, "ever joyous, ever young," sings, in his clear and resounding voice, an "Ode to the Sun," in many parts beautiful. J. B. Carpenter, in fainter but melodious accents, carols . a hymn of greeting to " the merry month of May." " Anatole de Salis," the opening paper, is an agreeable story of the late French Revolution, containing among other things a rather petulant sneer at M. de Lamar tine, in spite of which, we, nevertheless, found its chap ters readable. "Railways" is an able though incomplete criticism on the work lately written by Dr. Dionysius Lardner. Dudley Costello has an amusing trifle entitled " L'Homme Propose," and Mr. Soapey Sponge is as rollicking as ever. Among the miscellaneous con tributions, moreover, we should particularise Charles Hervey's " Habitué's Note Book," and Nicholas Mic'nell's "Hester Somerset," with other papers in their respective proportions lively and entertaining. AINSWO.RT.II' S. Four additional chapters of Mr. Ainsworth'a popular romance of " Guy Fawkes," re printed in the present number, with an other of the well-known illustrations by George Cruikshank, bring the narrative down to the last night spent at Ordsall Hall by Viviana. Thomas Roscoe contributes a brief but striking paper, curiously desig nated " The Shadow Shower." Julia Addison charms us with a delightful little tale called "Florence Hamilton," told in her old agreeable way. E. P. Rowsell scarifies a certain class of most abominable bores in a Laman Blanchard-like essay on "Talkative Individuals." Among the other imaginative contri butions to the present number of Ainsworth are the " Confederates,' " Valdarno," and the continuation of the romance of " Jacob Van Der . Ne4ss," by Madame Paalzow. LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. No. V. Slump Orator. A world of wisdom has been condensed in these fifty pages by Thomas Carlyle, and well would it be for the multitude if they would forego for the time being any covert antipathy for the rugged ness of style of our great thinker—one of the strongest and manliest thinkers of the century—and pore over the weighty truths contained in his present utterances. Mr. Carlyle conceives that much of the evil now pressing upon this generation is attributable to the everlasting volu bility of our talkers. All of us, moreover, he regards as more or less cursed with the propensity to speak, to hold forth, to jabber and declaim ad infinitum. " Tongue" he looks upon as the malady of the age ; and he coincides implicitly with a friend of his who suggests that for the benefit of the world the tongue should be cut out of the mouth of every new-barn child, so as to doom to dumbness an entire generation. The gist of the whole argument is in favour of action in preference to declamation. Hence the title of the essay—" Stump Orator." It closes in mournful tones—tones of very sad earnestness. HARRISO N AINSWORTH'S ROMANCES. Yol. Y 11. St. James's. Gradually and almost imperceptibly the cheap re-is sue of the works of this popular novelist have swollen into goodly proportions—already ranging on the book shelf to the extent of seven compact and comely little volumes. The largeness of the circulation which the series attained almost from the first period of its commencement, is a sufficient testimony that the re publication was welcome to the multitude ; and the extraordinary cheapness of the monthly instalments was of itself almost enough to secure purchasers, even if the celebrity of the writings had not been an ample temptation. " St. Jam es ' s ; or , th e C our t of Queen Anne," is compressed, certainly, by small, but at the same time, by very clear and readable type, into the compass of the seventh volume. And those who are at all acquainted with the prominent features of this purely historical romance will find in that simple announcement a large and persuasive attraction. In " St. James's," as in several others of the fictions of Mr. Ainsworth, as, for example, in " Crichton," or again, as in " Rook wood," the prose is decorated at intervals with snatches of song such as prove the capacity of our romancist to render his ideas in the form of lyrical poetry. Instance this, the stirring stanzas " Malbrook to the Wars is Coming," the humorous and satirical lines on the " Boots of Malbrook," and the capital song of " King Frog and Queen Crane"— " Old King Frog, he swore begar! Croakledom creel cre.diledom croo! That he with Queen Crane would go to war, Blusterum boo! thrusterem through!" But apart from all the charms of lyric and romance, as combined in the books and chapters of "St. James's," the work is va l ua bl e as presenting a vivid and accurate picture of English society, and especially of London society, in the reign of Atossa. HOUSE OF CommoNs.—The estimated amount re quired to finish the official houses for the Speaker and offi cers of the House of Commons, is 30,1001- • the expense incurred for them having been 74,0001 Since the year 1835-6, there has been paid in rent for the temporary official residence of the Speaker, and in allowances for rent to the other officers of the House of Commons, a sum of 27,196/. 11s. sd. FOREIGN VESSELS.—From a return of the sums paid for the difference of rates and charges due for foreign vessels admitted into the ports of th e U n it e d Ki ng d om ( un d er reciprocity treaties), at the same rate of charge as British vessels, it appears that the amount paid by the consolidated duties of customs in the year ending 31st December, 1849, was 23,5801. The amount paid up to ilst December, 1848, was 702,293/., making a total paid under reciprocity treaties of 730,873/. COURT OP LIEUTENANCT,...A very numerous meeting of the members of the Commission of Lieutenancy took place on Saturday last at three o'clock, for the purpose of voting an address of congratulation to the Queen upon the birth of the infant Prince. Amongst those present were Sir Henry Polly, Sir Moses Montefiore, Sir George Carroll, Aldermen Thompson, Wilson, Humphery, Hooper, Musgrove, W. Hunter, Carden, Sidney, Challis, Sheriff Lawrence, Mr. Hankey, the Governor of the Bank of England, Deputies Britten, Obbard, Bedford, Lott, Mr. Cornelius Wilson, Mr. James Bentley, Mr. W. Hughes, Mr. Walford, &c. Alder man Wilson was unanimously called to the chair—an honour which, he assured the Commissioners, he felt the highest gratification at receiving upon such an auspicious occasion. He congratulated the country upon the excellent state of health enjoyed by the Sovereign, who was becoming every year more and more dear, if possible, to her people. ♦lder man Musgrove moved the address after a few words ex pressive of the feeling diffused amongst the people of this great empire at the event. Sir Henry Pelly seconded the motion, which was carried amidst acclamations. The Court then adjourned. A MISERS STORE.-011 ,Seturday last, by the death of Alexander Dempster, flax-dresser, Brechin, one of those anomalies in human nature, " a storing of wealth for another's use," was discovered here. The Brechin miser was about 56 years of age; for about 20 years, and up to within a few days of his death, he denied himself, even during the storms of winter, the luxury of fire and light. He was sup plied with his daily food, which was of the scantiest and meanest description, by a neighbour, but he slept in his own house. After a few days' illness, Dempster unexpectedly died on Saturday; and, i❑ looking over his humble dwel ling, there were discovered 125/. 10s. in silver, M. in gold, and also nine 1/. notes, which were stuck behind the window shutters. Besides the above, there have also been discovered hank cheques amounting to about 1,0001., and, with other property, the old man is said to have been worth about 1,5001. —Montrose Standard. Jackson, the " American Deer, " has been running a race against two horses, at Bingamon, in the United States. The horses were to trot ten miles against the man's five miles and a half; the horses performed their distance in 29 min. 4 sec.; Jackson his in 29 min. M secs.; the man thus losing by 47 seconds. The stakes were a thousand dollars. FIRES AT EXETER.—On Thursday, the cottage ornee of Kent Kingdom, Esq., and on Friday, Mount Wear House, the residence of John Follett, Esq., both in the neighbourhood of Exeter, were accidentally burned to the ground.—Exeter Gazette. THE WHEAT CROPS.—The parish of Willingham is suffering severely by the wire-worm, many farmers are engaged ploughing up several acres and planting potatoes; should the cold weather continue we are afraid many far mers will auffer to a great extent.— Comb, Wye Chronicle.