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MEAT mann:F..7 . s. SOUTHALL, JAN. 2.-I'mile Beast, stir] Sheep m tvrd °f l. ut full prt,:es. In oth,r k!utls of stock ilc '"144 of A. hich w,s but moil« rve, very vus 1, ••‘", from 2s 6 i to 4s; Mu:t. , ;:i, 3, 01 to 4, 21; Vez.l, Si 01 to 33 8 , .1; and l'otk, 3s to 3s 8d per Bibs, to sink the offs,. --- ROMFORD, JAN. 2.—Our market was tolerattly steat'y 1 0 dv, ou t he toll , wln4 tenni ; —Beef, from 2, Sd to, 4s; Mutt o n, 3, 01 to 4s 2:1; Veal. 35 4 Ito 3s 8 , 1; and Pod:, 3 ' 01 to 358 1 r Sibs. Sucking Grlves. 185 to 23,, Quarte r- old Stole Pio, 17,, ro 22,; arr 7 Mileh Cow:. I ‘ith their small CAlt, 151 to 181 eiteh. HAILSLIAM, JAN. 2.—Our m rket was rather fl rt. to d4.Y, t p ice.* were well support. d. Beef from 3.8 23 to 48 4.1; .glutton, 3; to 4,4 t ; Veal, 3s -LI to 3 83; airi Pork. 3s 4ito 3, S per Sibs. ARUNDF.L, JAN 1 —Prim , Be-;its at..el Sheep were ite an, dear, ahli , ,ugh the tlermo:d tor th , xis was in, "tire- Caves anti Pigs rut, d dull. Beef from 35 2:1 to 4 ; 2d; Mutton 3s 41 to 45 4.1; Vral, 3s 21 to 3, 81; 4101 Pork, 3i t 3, SI rr 811,5. Curcrirsmt, JAN. 2.—Gentraily the dcman'i was in- Reny,orl tae :—B , ef from 3-t. 4 1 to 45 4 , 1 ; Mtut o n, 3,61 to 4s 61; Yeal, 35 21to 3s 83; and Pork, 3. 2d t o 3. r; Ciirea IS. to 20; Quarter-old Store hp, 16; to 21; and Alilch Cows, their small Call, 15/ to 181 each. CORN AVERAGES. For iILNEHAL AVERAGE I'ItI(7ES OF BEITISII CDR , I .Qr the Week eindel Dee. 27. 1849, ;nade up from thu Returns o! ire i n , Peeturs in the different Cities and Ton ns in El.:gland awl Wales Per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. 1 I BARLEY.' OATS. 1 RTE. 1 BEANS. TEAR. PRICE •• I 39s 4:1 I , 54 9d 1 Iss 6d i 21s 02 1 26s Oil I 29s Od DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 7/ AT BARLEY. I OATS. I S. I BEANS. I TEAS. "Od is 02 Is 0,1 Is 02 is Oil Is Od 8 li ERIFFS' CO THIS DA Y•) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuRcHELL n Licx. V. ZULUETTA AND OTHERS.-BREACH OF coNTn ACT. This was an action to recover damages for breach of contract. The facts of the case were these :—The Plaintiff, with several other persons, was engaged by , t he defend an t s , w h o are f ore i gn merc h ants i n the C ity, as stokers on board a steam-vessel in the service of a firm at Cadiz. The terms of the contract were, a n engagement for twelve months at Cl. per month, , 11 , 11 d V. per month for provisions ; or , i n th e event o f t he men being discharged without fault on their part, th e Y were to r ece i ve th ree mont h s ' wages. Some d ispute arose, and plaintiff and others were discharged. The case occupied the whole of the morning, but was of no general interest. the . „ jury gave a verdict for 24/., the amount elai in e ed ; and in t wo o th er cases ver di cts were entered fo r 2 11. each. RREY SESSIONS.--kTHIS DAY.) (Before THOMAS PUCKLE, Esq., Chairman.) .IVilli am J o h nson, 20, was indicted for stealing at RlLlnno n d a great coat, the prop er ty o f W i lli am D o ll y. Mr. Clark prosecuted ; and Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. G llr wiecutor said he was co o k a t th e St ar an d arter Tavern, Richmond-hill, at which place the October, was also employed in th e ear l y part o f On the 13. h of th a t mont h h e missed his gr ea t coa t f rom the porter's them' and cn th e 23d t h e pr i soner left e house for the purpose of taking another sit uation at B r i ghton. Witness had a brother at a t Place, who saw his coat in the prisoner's 0 88e38 ion- 'Witness identified the coat p ro d uce d as ' B ,,P!operty by a hole burnt in the skirt with a cigar. "illiam Dolly, prosecutor's brother, said he was "Prentice to Mr. Ellis, of the Bedford Hotel. —i Xbright,,„ .is and at th e l a tt er en d o f O cto b er, we pri soner came to that place. While there t nesa saw his brother's coat in his possession, Which he obtained, and sent up to London. A con table afterwards came and took him into custody. Police -constable 200 V said, he apprehended the Prisoner at Brighton, and when he told him of the Orge h e sa i d he fought it of a man on the 4th of eober, at Croydon. Mr. CHAR srocrc, in his address to the jury, said, all e. had to rely on was the statetnent made by the Prisoner, and he believed such to be a fact. He then called several respectable witnesses, who gave him an excellent character. ;Elle CHAIRMAN briefly summed up the case. Th e jury returned a verdict of Acquittal. J 3 OW -STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A middle-aged man named I?oirlands, a journey- Irian shoemaker, was charged with s t ea li ng a d ea d h are . DThe complainant, a poult erer in Blacktnore-street, rury l ane , stated that yesterday evening he observed e prisoner lurking about his shop. Shortly after- Ward s the prisoner disappeared, and suspecting that s omething was wrong, he pursued and overtook him, When he found that the prisoner had the hare now Produced in his possession. The prisoner said to the Wi tness, " You did not see me take it !" and then Witness said he did not; but, nevertheless, he should give him int o cus t o d y, an d h e di d so accordingly. The are was identified by Mr. Day, the owner. The p r i soner said nothing, and he was fully corn Initted for trial. _ Jcili a .illecabe, a young man described as a painter, 7 48 char ged ball-with stealing Hillis. of lead pip e , an d a cock' Valuedat 5 - • theT,he prisoner is " foutid in the cellar attached to doUse of the prosecutrix with the lead pipe ready but a nd packed to r carrying away. He tried to escape, did not su d nd Ln officer being sent for, he le i . wll 2 iiven iet c o ct c e us ' zc a dy. Mrs. Cooper, of No. 15, h ivy-street, identified the property. The piping ball been cut from the ceiling of the cellar, and the 'Ad from a water tat k. or The prisoner denied all knowledge of the lead pipe to the ball coc k , declaring that he went to the house re visit a fell ow - workman named Macgrath, and the of "on of his being down stairs was to relieve a call natur e . - ule was fully committed for trial. A l ARLBRO . ..ST RE ET—(THIS DAY ) NTLEAIANLY AAIUSEMUNT.—James Stoat, No. 3, :)trecknock-terrace, William Freeman, 11, Huntley thr99t, and John C. Angnis, 25, Harewood square, . r ee medi ca l students. were brought before Mr. -uingi Arn, charged with disorderly conduct in the dPll4blie.street. Stoat was also ch arge d w i t h w il fu ll y jiltgg a signb oar d belonging. to Mr. IVilliam oward, the proprietor f a coffee-house in Wind- Nil -street Tottenh couort-road. It appeared from the evidence adduced that on the previous evening, about seven o'clock, the three de fl(latits, who were i n a merry mood, were proceeding 110 bg Windmill -st ree t, havin g what hi termed a lark " with each other. They were observed, Ittnong4t other pranks, to pull down one ° l' two hoards from a shop-door, and throw them into the Street. Stoat, who appeared to have been more larkish " than the rest, went up to Mr. Howard's sh op -door and deliberately tore down a signboard, Which he threw down an area acid ran off, followed b y his companions. They were pursued by several Persons, and, after a sharp chase, were taken into custody in John-street. A witness, namTd Watling, proved seeing Stoat Pull the board from the door of the coffee-house, and thro w anyt . it down th e area. H e did not see the others do The defendant s d en i e d th e c h arge o f dis orderlhing y condu c t, an d ca ll e d a w i tness, who, however, Proved nothing in their favour. Mr. BINGRAM thought the case clearly proved against Stoat, and fined him 20s. The other two Were discharged. 1) -RSTRUCTION OF BRUNSWICK HOUSE BY FIRE.— .This morning, bet ween s i x an d seven o ' c l oc k , a fire of dePrvery fierce character broke out in the large range of emises terme d Brunswick House, formerly the resi de. • nen of the Duke of Brunswick. situate in Belmont .oerAcee Wandsworth-road. The flames commenced in oh of the l ower apartments, and so rapidly did they r -- qui that in the course of a few mmutes the r 9aer po r ti on of the place became ignited. In a very , f l ef period the engine belonging to the West %. England Company reached the scene, and 15 followed by numerous others of the London este t , merit. Plenty of water having been obtained from "? Lambeth and Vauxhall mains, the machines were called into operation, but in spe of the most strenuous exertions of the firemen the werk of devastation eon nanousnit and when the roof fell in, the fire mounted tamed tefrrilically, and great fears were enter- The firemen, the safety of tho adjoining house. e therefore, exerted themselves in cutting off Which fUrther spread of the flames in that direction, in ti they fortunately succeeded. The couflagra in", w as not e n ti re l y ext i ngu i sheu unt i l twelve o ' clock i h t_ne day, and not b e f ore the main building was gutted. h' , Premises at t h e time of the disaster were occupied c a two or three policemen and their families, the latter r Ye been bereft of all their humble furniture, and un iortunately they were not insured. t h Yllia BOROUGH OF BIRMI NGUAM.—Very recently irteen new borough magistrates were added to the oeraraission of the peace for the town of Birmingham, T h Whom nine were Liberals and four Conservatives. C 843 aPpointments have led to a memorial from the -etay ~,°P, aldermen, and burgesses of Birmin g h am , a d. ssed to the Lord Chancellor, in which it was sub 74'ttild that though the power of appointing justices was to the Crown, yet that it had been usual for the Minis the of °f the Crown to receive recommendations from o c „ - t ,nwn councils, and complaining that on the but'43l° in question that body had not been consulted, methat the appointments had been wade at the instance r e ly of the present and the ex-Mayer of Birmingham, rdee • „„ a mistaken impression that those gentlemen were ; 'ung Officially. The rnemoria!ists concluded by pray ts;'lng that the recently -appointed magistrates might be a l Perseded. A t the list meeting of the corporation fl„nan who were chi e fly i nterested in the appuint'ceuts erred to defended themselves; lung and angry discus ai esee of c ourse ensued, but eventually memorials were re solved, upon, and forwarded not only to the, Love ;,,tillticellor, b ut to L a rd John Russell and Sir George " r eY• The result is l oo k e d to with some interest. %West. ExErtmos.—A down east spendthrift re etteitntlY said, " F ive y ears ago I was not worth a cent in , W orld; now see where I um through my ex er ti ons !" , ' Well,• where are you?" " Why, I owe more than 000 dollars I"—Keetecky Muderater. TUE Su N, LONDON, THURSDAY to fi.'"Zbittop FRANCE. The Legitimati,ts and parti pretre, by uniting with the Mountain, mar aged yesterday to secure a victory over the Ministers, and to defeat the progress of a measure which they profess to have most. sincerely at heart. M. Purrieu, the Mi n i s t e r o f Public ✓ lnstruction, proposed that the law pre sented by the Ministers, giving to the prefects the power of dismissing the schoolmasters of primary tchools should be declared - unjust, and he went through all the usual accusathms which have any r line for the last six months been brought forward by the parti pretre against these school no:sters ; but, strange. to say, he found him self opposed by M. Berryer aid the parti pretre, on the growl(' that if the law presented wt re pes , ed it might occa,ion the indefinite post, pone meat of the discussion on the organic law. The Mountain we re bus too glad to secure the co-operation of the parti pretre, ard the strange sight was presented of M.‘i. .13,-rryer and Jules Favre voting together against MM. Varier and Mo'e —the result was a tie, the numt.ers being on each side 312; the victory, therefore, remains with the Mountain: and if there be any truth in the cemplaints of M. Berryer and his friends, that Socialism is on the increase among the peasantry in consequence of the propaganda carried on by the primary schoolmasters he has now only himself to thank for its continuance. The real victory is in this instance that of the Moun tain, who, by exploiting the hatred and bigotry of the Legitimatists and parti pretre, have not only pre vented the dismissal of the Socialist schoolmasters, but have succeeded in breaking up the majority. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING Six O'CLOCK, LITERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Vain Hope 10 to 1 agst Proceed CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 agst Mahon 1000 to 15 agst Mounseer—taken 2000 to 25 agst Van Dif man—taken 2000 to 30 agst Rowland—ttiken 2000 to 25 agst Chantrey—taken DEBBY. 20 to 1 agst Mayors—taken 5000 to 50 agst Yew Tree—taken METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 25 to 1 agt Testator 30 to 1 a e gst Borneo 30 to 1 agAt Black Eagle THE OLD BAILEY SESSIONS FOR 1850.—The fc lowing n.re the days on which the scssions for the jurig diction of the Central Criminal Court will be held in the current year:—Monday, Jan. 7 inst.; Monday, Feb. 4; Monday, March 4; Monday, April 8; Monday, May 6; Monday, June 10; Monday, July 8; Monday, Aug. 19; Monday, Svpt. 16; and Monday, Oct. 21. ATTEMFTFD HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Frl ay night last, about one o'clock, Mr. Richard Fleet, land lord of the Rose Inn, Tovil, was returning from Far leigh, from a visit to his brother, when he met three nr-n near Farleit.;ll Priory, whom he was about to wish good night, when one of them seized him by the collar nehind, tripped him up and fell upon him. The others were about to assist in robbing him, when Mr. Fleet calling his dog, the faithful animal rushed upon them and quickly rut thi m to flight. The other villain, find ing this, attempted to follow tht m, but for some time was unable to escape Mr. Fleet's grasp, who in his turn became the assailant. Owing, however, to the latter being somewhat disabled by a recent injury to his knee, he was unable to hold his prisoner, who escaped.—Maid stone Journal. THE RURAL POLICE AND AGRICUL TURAL DISTRESS. GLOUCESTER, WEDNESDAr.--=-The quarter-Sessions for this county opened yesterday, and one of the most crowded meetings of the county magistracy ever brought together (numbering nearly 100) assembled on the occasion, in consequence of notice having been given that a proposal would be made for reducing the county police force one-fifth, and for reducing the salaries of the remainder of the force, and also the salaries of all the other officers of the county, in cons , quence of the existing distress in the agricultural districts of the county, and also on ac count of the cheapness of provisions. Among the magistrates present were the Duke of Beaufort, Earl Fitzhardinge, Hon. Grantley . .. Berkeley, 11. P., lion. Craven Berkeley, Mr. Mullings, M.P., Sir W. Co drington, M.P., Hon. Mr. Talbot, Sir M. H. Beach, Sir John Guise, Mr. Ricardo, ALP., &c. Mr. Pur nell in the chair. The CHAIRMAN read the report of the special com mittee appointed at the last quarter-sessions to consi der the practicability of reducing the police force and diminishing the salaries of the county officers. The report was a very long one, but it recommended that the salaries of all th,, officers above 50/. per annum should he reduced 5 per cent.; all salaries above 100/. and less than 2001. to be reduced 10 per cent. ; and all above 2001. per annum 15 per c. nt. A revision of the dietaries of the county prison was recommended, with the view of lower ing it, as it was considered too high, and as affording a premium to crime. The Secretary of State for the Home Department had sent down tables of dietaries for adoption by the Court, but the Chair man said it was the duty of the courts of quarter sessions to form the dietaries, and lay them before the Secretary of State for approval. It was recom mended that in future there should be only one chaplain to the county prison, instead of two ; and that the salaries of the chaplains to the various houses of correction should be reduced from 1001. to 601., where they performed other clerical duty. The clerk of the peace's fees were also recom mended to be reduced. As to the police force, the present number of constables was 250, and it was proposed to reduce it to 200 ; the second class con stables to be paid, as now, 15s. per week ; the first class to be reduced from 18s. to 17s. 61, and the ser geant* from 21s. to 205.; the officers of superior grade to he subject to the per centage reduction of 5, 10. or 15 per cent. according to amount. This would effect a total saving in the police force of 3 1601. per annum. The county treasurer's salary was to be reduced from 150/. to 60/. per annum. The discussion s hich followed the reading of the report occupied about three hours. Mr. HooKtasoN moved the adoption of the report. Sir W. CODRINGTON, ALP., seconded the motion. lie hoped that at a time ot agriculturist distress like the present, when wheat was 20s. per quarter lower than Sir Hubert Peel had said it ought to be to give the agriculturist any remuneration, the Court would not call upon the ratepayers of the county to pay snore than was actually necessary for the maintenance of the peace and order of the county. The Hen. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, M.P., said the only way in which he would support the motion before the Court was, with the understanding that at the expiration of the present year the whole of the rural police force should be discontinued altogether. From the experience which he had had of other counties, where there was no rural police establish. ment, he was satisfied that the peace of the county could be maintained and crime repressed without their aid. Earl Fierzuaanixon opposed the reduction of the force and of the salaries. They would not get good officers to remain in the force if they reduced their pay and increased their work. As to the argument that the police force was not fairly distributed, and that Cheltenham had more than its fair share, his Lordship pointed out that a large proportion of the criminals came from the Cheltenham district. Out of 108 prisoners for trial at these sessions,26 were from the Cheltenham district. 'the Hon. C. BERKELEY maintained that Chelten ham had only its fair proportion of the police. The different recommendations of the committee were put to the Court seriatim, and all adopted, with the exception of that recommending reductions in the police force and salaries, which was reserved for the last. When it came on for discussion, Lord ELLENBOROUGH addressed the Court at some length. He blamed the committee for not keeping a re c,,rd of the evidence received on their inquiry, to lay be fore the Secretary of State. For his part he regretted . that the Court had not gone to the utmost when they established their police force. He was inclined to thick that the County Constabulary Act was itt tended to be made comp u l so ry. He was of opinion that a large proportion of the expense of the rural po• lice force should b e d e f ra y e d ou t o f th e national ex chequer. That was the original intention of the Metropolitan Police Act. The Irish police were established on the same principle, and now the whole of the cost of the Irish police force was paid from the public revenue, and he thought this principle should be carried out for all the police. Without looking to the particular cir cumstances of the pressure on the agricultural interest, which h a d b een a ll u d e d to, and which to a certain degree was to be attributed to the legislative measures of the Government, there was suffi c i en t t o j ust if y thi s Court, instead o f procee di ng w i t h the proposed plan of reduction, to go at once to the Legislature and ask to be relieved of one half the expense of the force, in order to enable them to continue it in its efficiency. lie had made such a p roposition in his place in Par liament, feeling that the Government out to bear half the expense of the rural police force. They dared not make such a proposition f or reducing the pay of an armed force. The principle was not equitable; it was a breach of agreement, and contrary to public policy. The Duke of BEAUFORT expressed his entire co incidence with what had fallen from Lord El!echo rough ; but if he had not had the advantage of hrnring his Lordship, he could not have voted for the reduction proposed. Earl FITZUARDINGE expressed similar sentiments. After a good deal of discussion on the Fart of other magistrates, the Court decided by 50 votes to 30 against . any reduction in the police force, or in the officers' salaries, except that of the chief constable (.550/ per annum), on which a reduction of 15 per per cent. was to be made on 300/. THE KING OF DELHI In our report of the proceedings at the hat Court of the East India House, only a summary of the debate with respr ct to the Royal Family of Delhi appeared in this paper ; but as the subject is an important one, we give be'ow a full report of the speech of Mr. Sul livan, the proprietor who brought the question before the attention of the Court. Mr. SULLIVAN rose to move for the production of all the correspondence that had taken place between the Marquis of Wellesley and the Emperor of Delhi, and between the Government of India and the Court of Directore, during the years 1803, 1804, and 1805, in relation to the recognition of the rights of the Emperor of Delhi, as the G-eat Mogul of Ilindoostan. Ile said his attention had been attracted lately to sclera! extracts from the hall's!' newspapers on the subject of a meditated aggression on the rights of the li - trig of Delhi. Among others was the following, which re vealed some curious particulars of the relations between the King of that city and the British Government : "It is asserted by the native papers, and we b. Here on the whole with correctness, that the King having a ppli e d to Government for a sum sufficient to relieve him of his debts, and fer the increase of stipend, sanctioned by the home authorities, has been told in reply by the Lieu'enant- Governor, N. W. P., that such increase shall be paid him, and his debts discharged (they are said to be tour and a half lass) on conditioes of whi.:h the following are some :—That the King and all the members of the Royal Family shall give up fur ever all right and title in the lands, villages, houses, &c., he and they may respectively possess in and about Delhi, including the Chandney Choke Garden (a very hotbed of malaria in the town), Kote Kassim, and other places. That the pensions of indi viduals, members of the family, shall cease on their demise. That a specified number of the present inha bitants of the palace (including all collateral branches, not the immediate descendants of Shah Alum), shall quit its precincts, and reside elsewhere. That the King shall send in quarterly to the agent a return of the deaths that may have occurred among the pensioners. That a school shall be established in the palace at the expense of the King, for the benefit of the children. That the place shall be repaired under the superin tendence of the agent, at the expense of the King. That the pensions of all members of the family shall be disbursed by the agent or his assistant ; and lastly, that the King shall defray the expenses of the palace guard. His Majesty is understool to have declined compliance with those very reasonable terms." Now I have heard, from what I consider undoubted authority, that the Governor-General has actually announced not only his intention of doing all me ditated in this dispatch, but also his determination to deal with the property and rights of the Royal FaMily of Delhi in much the same way in which, and he was sorry to say with the sanction of that Court, they had recently dealt with the rights of the Royal Family of Sattara ; and he therefore thought it his duty to take the earliest opportunity of raising up his hand against what he conceived to be a second violation of the sacred rights of the native princes of India, and that without the least pretence at justification. That this would be a violation of a sacred right he felt persuaded would be proved by the production of the papers for which he intended to move, and he should show that all those papers ought to be lard before the Court. He would now give a rapid sketch of the relatiods between the Emperor of Delhi and the British power in India, and for this purpose he should refer to Lord Wellesley's dis patches, which had already been before the public, and to other sources' of information of an equally in disputable character. In 1803 the Emperor of Delhi, Shah Alum, placed himself under the protection of Lord Wellesley, and that Noble Lord, as the repre sentative of the British Government, entered into certain obligations with the then Mogul. What was the nature of those obligations ? It was to that point he desired the attention of the Court. First, let him show them Lord Wellesley's opinion of the Mogul as a political character. In writing to the Secret Committee, on the lath of July, 1804, his Lordship said— " Notwithstanding his Majesty's total deprivation of real poWer, dominion, and authority, almost every state and every class of people in India continue to acknowledge his nominal sovereignty The current coin of every established state is struck in the name of Shah Alum. Princes and persons of the highest rank and family still bear the titles and display the insignia of rank which they or their ancestors derived from the throne of Delhi, under the acknowledged authority of Shah Alum, and his Majesty is still considered to be the only legitimate fountain of similar honours. The pride of the numerous class of Mussulretns in Indil is gratified by a recognition of the nomi nal authority of the illustrious representa tive of the House of Timour over territories which once constituted the extensive and powerful empire of the Mogul, and the Mussulmans are still disposed to acknowledge the legitimacy of pretensions or demands ostensibly proceeding trom the authority of the imperial mandate. Under these circumstances, the person and authority of his Ma jt•sty Shah Alum might form a dangerous instru ment in the hands of any stare possessing sufficient power, energy, and judgment to employ it, in prosecuting views of aggrandizement and ambition. The Mogul has never been an im portant or dangerous instrument in the hands of the Mehrattai, but the augmentation of M. Perron's influence and power, and the growth of a French interest in Hindostan had given a new aspect to the condition of the Mogul, and that unfor tunate Prince might have become a powerful aid to the cause of France in India under the diree lion of French agents." The accomplishment of that object, viz., placing the Mogul under the protection of the British Go vernment, was also considered by the Governor- General " to b e a princip a l o bj ect, though not a cause of the v. ar, and an indispensable condition of the peace." There they had Lord Itielleeley disclosing that such was the importance of the Mogul's political character, that on no account would he make peace with the Mahrattas. Again, Lord Wellesley, in writing to Lord Lake, evinces his extreme anxiety to have this important political character in his own hands. Lord IVellesley says, in writing to Lord Lake—" The point of most urgent importance connected with the destruction of R. Perron's force is, in my opinion, the security of the person of the Mogul and of the heir apparent, and it is therefore my earnest wish that early measures should be taken for the purpose." And then, under the date of the 27th July, 1803, they had Lord Wellesley's urgent invitation to Shah Alum to place himself un d er British protection, and his Lordship's promise if he did so. " Should your Majesty (says Lord Wellesley) be disposed to accept this offer, you may be assured that every demonstration of respect aryl every degree of attention which can con tribute to the ease and comfort of your Majesty and the Royal Family will be manifested on the part of the British Government, and that adequate provision will be made for the support of your Majesty, and of your family and household." Then let him (Mr. Sullivan) call the attention of the Court to the instructions given by Lord Wellesley as to the manner in which his Majesty Shah Alum was to be received. " When that event shall have taken place (says his Lordship, writing to his re presentative,) it is my anxious desire that his Majesty and the Royal Family should imme diately experience the benefit of the change, receiving from your Excellency and from all persons acting under your authority every demonstration of reverence, re spect, and attention. Then let the Court observe how the instructions were observed by the representative of the Governor- General. Writing to his Royal Highness the Duke of "York, Lord Lake says, " In testimony of the sentiments his Majesty entertained on this oc casion he conferred on me a title, the second in the empire in rank and importance, and would have con ferred the first, had it not been previously bestowed on Dowlut Rao Sindiah. On my part I paid every deference, respect, and honour to the royal dignity, and encouraged every hope of future comfort and independence from the generous conduct and acknow ledged liberality of the British Government." Now he (Mr. Sullivan) would point out to the Court Lord Wellesley's distinct recognition of Shah Alum as Emperor of Hindostan, with all the hereditary rights, prerogatives, and privileges which belonged to that, high office: On the 16th November, 1804, Lord Wellesley wrote thus to Sir D. Ochterloney : " It is not his Excellency's intention to solicit any concession from the Emperor, or to interdict or oppose any of those outward forms of sovereigrety to which his Majesty has been accustomed. 'His Excellency is desirous of leaving his Majesty iri the unmolested exercise of all his usual privilege's and prerogatives. The Governor- General, the'refore, directs the Resident to continue to observe towards his Majesty all the forms of respect considered to be due to the Emperor of Hindostan, and upou all occa sions to employ his utmost efforts to ?remote the ease and comfort of his Majesty and of the Royal Family." Now, the next point to which Ise wished to draw the attention of the Court was a, letter from Shah Alum, in which he reminded Lorell Wellesley of the obligation which he had voluntarily come under, to provide an adequate support for himself and his family. Writing to Lordl Em elle p sl e e r y o , r t s in ai d d e L, tb ß e e d t a h t i e s of the sth October, 1833, the great victory and splendid success happy and prosperous to us and to all the servants of our illustrious Court, especially to your Lordship. As the designs of our faithful servants have happily succeeded, the tim,, has arrived for your Lordship, in conformity to the distinct and obligatory engagement described to us by your Lord- ' s 'ei t e into yourself theletter happiness,which temporal tr: tn in s d n e li t t e t r e n d a , l t , se cure and a i d permanentby carding i reputation, nto ebffyecitultfihlalitnvegbttaht seas ,engagement,' for the interests and welfare of the:serv:v,t „f t h e provid Imperial Court (meaning his Majlsty and family), E ENING, JAN UARY 8 , 1850 I and for the happiness of the people of God, through the aid and services of the office rs of the Company's Government." Now let him (Mr. Sullivan) show the Court the nature of the arrangement which Lord Wellesley contemplated. In writing to the Em peror on the Bth October, 1803, his Lord ship said, " My attention is now directed with great solicitude to the formation of a permanent arrangement calculated to provide durable secuEty for the happiness, dignity, and tranquillity of your Majesty and Royal Family, conformable to the inti mation contained in my former address to your Majesty. I trust that the testimony of my early attention to your Majesty's service may be acceptable to your Majesty, until his Excellency, General Lake, under my orders, can be enabled to offer to your Majesty's consideration the plan of a permanent settlement of your affisirs, secured by the power of the British Government." Agaip, two years after ward.;' namely on the 23d of May, 1805, M r . Secre tary Ednaonstone, in addressing the Resident at Delhi, communicated for his information and guid ance, " the final determination of his Excellency in Council on the important question of the establish ment of a permanent arrangement for the support of his Majesty Shah Alum and of the Royal Family at Delhi." Mr. Secretary Edmonstone's consmuni cation went on to say—" That in consequence of the Emperor having at his instigation placed himself under the protection of the British Government, hi, titles, dignities, rights, and prerogatives should be preserved to him, and that a permanent provision should be made for his family of not less than thirty lacs of rupees per annum, exclusive of the jagheers of his family." That permanent arrangement was an nounced in the same letter to be " the assignment to his Majesty of all that portion of the territory on the right bank of the Jumps, ceded to the Company under the treaty , of Serjie Anjengaum. The revenue will be collected and justice administered in the name of his Majesty, who is requested to appoint a dewan and other officers, for the purpose of ascertaining and reporting to his Majesty the amount of revenue received, and to see that no part of such revenue be misappropriated." At the same time it was ordered that no capital sen tence should be carried into execution without the previous sanction of his Majesty. In conformity with these instructions, an agreement was delivered by Sir D. Ochterloney, to the King, on the 23d of June, 1805, the first article of which ran thus " All the Mehals to the west of the Jumna, situate between the west and north of Mowza Kabilpoor, shall be considered the crown lands of his Majesty ;" and the arrangement for the Mogul was not to be of temporary importance. In 1804, the preceding year, Lord Wellesley had sent instructions to the Resident at Delhi for the instant recognition of the heir apparent as the sovereign, in the event of the King's death; and in writing to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, in July, 1804, his Lordship said he considered the arrangement he had made for placing the Mogul under the protection of the British Government to be a subject of national and political importance. Now, there the Court of Directors had Lord Wellesley's distinct enunciation of his intention to make a permanent arrangement for the support of the Emperor of Delhi and the Royal Family, a perma nent, not only as contradistinguished from a tempo rary provision, which had been made for his support when he first placed himself under the protection of the British Government, but in point of duration. A territory was ceded to him, the revenues of which were to be administered in his name; his son was recog nised as the heir to that territory, and his grandson, now on the throne, subsequently received the same recognition. It was in Lord Wellesley's opinion an object of national importance that the titular Emperor of Delhi should be known to all the inhabitants of Hindostan as living under the protection of the British Government until he died. How could the restoration of an old man, then 84 years of age, and whose death was daily anticipated, be a question of political and national importance ? That could not be ; but the perpetuity of the title and honours of Emperor of Hindostan in the family of Shah Alum, under the protection of the British Government, was, in the eye of Lord Wellesley, an object of great national importance, and it was for the accomplishment of that object that Lord Wellesley made a permanent provision for the support of the imperial dignity. It was Lord Wellesley who made those promises to the Mogul. The language of Lord Wellesley to the royal house had been religiously observed. But had not Lord Wellesley's successors frequently violated the pecu niary part of those obligations on the plea that there was no specific contract in the case, and that it was a mere intimation of an intention of doing cer tain things for the Mogul, but ,no formal deed. Now certainly there was no formal deed ; that was impossible. Equals treated with equals, princes with princes, serfs with serfs, but subjects did not treat with princes. The Court of Directors had acknowledged in former times the Mogul as their sovereign, and thsy did so when he placed himself under their protection. Now, when it wes contended there was no specific contract, it was quite obvious that the instructions which Lord Wellesley addressed to the Resident at Delhi, under the date of the 231 May, 1805, were entirely over kioked. Ills Excellency in Council, in that docu ment had been pleased to say, " The territory to be as•ignEd to his Majesty is to comprise all that portion of the territory on the right bank of the Jumna, ceded to the Honourable Company under the treaty of Serjie Anjengaum, which is situated to the north west of a town or village named Kaboolpoor in the map of the ceded and conquered provinces constructed by Lieutenant Colebrooke." And so his Lordship went on in express terms to assign that territory to the Emperor of Delhi and his family. Well, now, he (Mr. Sullivan) would leave the Court of Directors to judge whether it was possible to be a more distinct obligation to assign those Crown lands to the Empe ror of Delhi ? All those obligations were fulfilled by Lord Wellesley; but the pecuniary part of them had been violated by his successors, whilst those which had reference to prerogatives and privileges had, by the Marquis of Cornwallis, Lord Amherst, Lord llastings, and others, been respected. Those were so highly valued by the Mogul that he had refused Lord Hastings to be seated in his presence. In the time of Lord William Bentinck his Lordship administered a rebuke to the President at Delhi, wire proposed to discontinue the presentation of Nuzzurs to the Mogul. " His Lordship in Coun cil (wrote Lord William. Bentinck) strongly disap proves of the proposition. submitted, as it would tend to create alarm in the mind of his Majesty, and at the same time throws down a long established custom without any reasonable grounds whatever." Then came a Governor-General of another mind who was less tenacious of the national usages. Now that was the story that the papers for which he (Mr. Sullivan) moved would tell, but that was the least important part of the story. Those papers would leave the Court of Directors under the mischievous impression that the Mogul was, to use a favourite expression of their own, a creature of their bounty, that he received everything from. them and they nothing from him ; whereas the page of history would tell them that that was the result, of their connexion with the family, which had begun 50 or 60 years ago, and which had continued feet 20 years almost without interruption; and during all that time the Court of Directors had received almost inestimable benefits. The nego tiation of 1803 was but a renewal of the connexion, and did nut date its origin from that time. In the year 1764 the Mogul granted the valuable Zeman dary of Benares to the British Government, and in 1765 he granted Dewaney; after that the Northern Circars, Burd ware, and confirmed all the Company's possessions in Bengal and the Climatic. Now, at what time was it that the Mogul made all those con. cessions ? It was when England was first emerging from a desperate struggle with France for ascen dancy, and when it was considered that the Mogul might be made a great means of offence in the hands of France. The Mogul granted an empire to the East India Company in 1765 ; and, in return for those benefits, the Company, in 1805, settled a pittance upon the Emperor, which they had since diminished, little by little, till now it was proposed to an riihilate it altogether. New it would be said, and said with truth, that the Mogul was no longer of that political importance that he was in those days. But tempera mutantur, and he (Mr. Sullivan) might acid, et nos mutamur in illis. So long as the Mogul could be of use to the Company, the Company made use of him; and they promised to make a per manent provision for himself and his family. They bad allowed his grandson to receive all; and now because the Mogul had fallen into a state of com parative insignificance, they were about to break their solemn engagements with him.—(Hear, hear.) Now, let the Court listen to the acknowledgments made by the Governor and Council of Bengal to the Secret Committee of the benefits they received from the Emperor. " His Majesty (said they) has been pleased to bestow on the Company the most important grants ever yet obtained by any European state from the Mogul Court. Besides confirming to the Company all their former possessions, and securing to them in perpetuity of Lord Clive's Jagheer, he has conferred on them the Dewaney of Bengal, Bsboe, and Orissa, and ratified in the strongest terms an agreement we prepared, concluding with the Nabob, it the King's consent could be procured." Now it was the grandfather of the present man who made the Company all these splendid gifts. Were they quite sure, although he had no longer the power he once had, that he was really so insigniffcant that they could trifle with his rights ? Now the way in which the natives clung to every relic of their ancient greatness was almost incredible. He found an extraordinary instance of that related by Colonel Todd. "I overheard (says Colonel Todd) the following dialogue between two of my native sepoys. The sovereignty is ours,' said one, which was stoutly denied, by his antagonist, who called the other aan usurper of his rights.' On irquiry I found the disputants were a Cholan and Juar:llajpoot, who were thus contesting the claims of their respective tribes to paramount power in India, which had been settled seven centuries before." Now, whether that was true or not, there was one thing patent to every body, which was, that every Mussulman in India clung with the greatest tenacity to every vestige of their fallen greatness; and the British Government could not wipe out those vestiges without inflicting a deep injury on the feelings of the whole Mus sulman population,'including some seventy thousand of the Company's native fiefs. Now, whether the Court of Directors were in a condition to run such a risk as that he would leave it to them to say. What was is, he would ask, that induced the con querors and usurpers of Mysore and Sattara, among other places, to uphold the ancient dynasties, but the knowledge they possessed of the tenacity with which the Mussulman chiefs clung to those vestiges of power? 11'hat else was it that induced Lord Wel lesley to make this errangement for the Mogul ? What else was it that induced Lord Hastings to re store the Raja of Sattara but the consideration that in doing so he was censulting the feelings of the native population ? lie (Mr. Sullivan) would put this serious question to the Court of Directors—Who was the present Governor-General, and Rho were his present advisers, that they should taus wantonly pull to pieces the fabric that was so carefully put together by their predecessors ? lie would ask whether the Court of Directors would give their sanction to a proceeding of that kind ? It was a serious, but it was a very pert i nent question. Where, he n) would ask them, did they find a precedent in the whole history of the civilized world for any such proceedings as those? IVhat did they see the other day, when Russia and Austria united together in an attempt to exercise despotic power ? They saw that the whole commonwealth of Europe rose as one -voice against it. And what did those despotic powers . do ? Why, they shrunk from their pur pose. When the East India Company were totally unable to take a single rupee of the property of one of the meanest subjects under their dominion, could they strip the native princes of India of their possessions without so much as a hearing ?—(Hear, hear.) Why should not all the native princes have an impartial tribunal in the Court of Directors, before whom they could bring their wrongs to be redressed ? He would say there was a tribunal which, by infusing into it a little Indian blood, could be made available for the redress of those wrongs. Let the Court of Directors assimilate them selves to a tribanal like that of the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council. He (Mr. Sul livan) did sincerely hope that those members of this Court who held up their hands against the spoliation of Sattara would hold up their bands against a similar spoliation in this case. He did sincerely hope that the Court of Directors would adhere to all their solemn engagements with the Mogul, and that they would preserve to his suc cessors all his rights and prerogatives, such as were conceded to him by the former Governors of India.— (Applause.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving that copies of all correspondence arising out of the engagements which were contracted by the Government of India with Shah Alum, the Emperor of Hindostan, in the years 1803-4, and 5, be laid be fore the Court. Lieutenant-General BRIGGS seconded the motion, and expressed his regret that the Government of India should make these repeated attempts to infringe upon solemn treaties one after another. Their strength in India depended upon public opinion. They had only about 740 European civil servants, administering the whole affairs of the social government of that coun try, while the population consisted of 150 millions. Of those 740 persons, about one-third only were invested with power; so that each individual had to administer civil justice among no less than 600,000 inhabitants. lie hoped the Court would do all they could to resist the strong anti-Indian spirit which at present threatened to drive them out of the country. Mr. LEWIN suggested that the natives in India should be represented in Parliament. The CHAIRMAN—The question which has been raised by the Hon. Mover of this resolution, I have to inform the Court, is under consideration by the Government of India, and the authorities in this country. The Court of Directors attach great im portance to the subject, and the Proprietors may feel assured that they will give it their serious attention. Under these circumstances, I hope the Court will not insist upon the production of any papers of this description, and I feel myself under the necessity of negativing the motion. After ashort conversation the motion was put, and he Court divided. when there appeared— For the motion Against it Majority The motion was consequently lost. The Court then adjourned. SCO'T'TISH HOSPITAL. A quarterly court of the governors of this institution was IR:11 in the Scottish Hall, Crane•court, Fleet• street, yesterday afternoon ; Mr. Nesbitt in the chair. The minutes of the last court having► been read and confirmed, The Hos. SECRETARY submitted a statement of the accounts of the Kinloch Trust Fund for the year ending Dec. 31, 1849. The receipts were :—Cash in the Bank of England, 551. 10s. Bd.; dividends in Stock, 1,6081. 15s. ; Stock sold, 409/. 18s 91—total, 2,0741. 4s. od. The payments were :—Pensioi.s granted during the yt ar, 1,8221 ; salaries and ex penses, 1891. 9s 7d. ; which items, together with a balance at the Bunk of England of 621. 14s. 101, made up a total of 2,0741. 4s. sd. The total amount of the stock of the trust is at present 53,750/. These accounts having been unanimously adopted, Dr. IVensTrsa rose to read an address of condolence 1 from the governors of the hospital to the family of the late Sir Charles Forbes (formerly vice-president of the .charity), and which had been ordered to be prepared by a committee appointed at the previous mt eting. The address was unanimously agreed to, and or dered to be presented to the family. Dr. WEBSTER then rose to propose that an address of condolence should be presented to her Majesty on the Death of the late Queen Dowager, and warmly eulogised the character and conduct of that illustrious lady, the circumstances attending whose decease and whose obsequies he considered to be among the most remarkable events ever recorded in history. The address was then read at length, and was as follows : " We, the president, vice presidents, treasurer, and governors of the Scottish Hospital, humbly approach your Majesty to offer our sincere condolence on the demise of your Majesty's illustrious relative Adelaide, the Queen Dowager —a bereavement which has oc casioned deep grief to all your Majesty's subjects of the United Kingdom. " W beg leave also to express the sorrow which we share, in common with our fellow subjects, from the patronage and liberal support which her late Majesty was pleased to bestow on this ancient charity, and the deep interest which that illustrious lady always evinced for its prosperity, at the same time that her late Majesty was a generous benefactor to many other most useful charities of this country. "It is a source of high gratification that this an cient charity, instituted for relieving the necessitous and deserving portion of your Majesty's Scottish sub jects, has been long honoured, not only with the favour and support of your Gracious Majesty, but also with that of your Majesty's royal mother, and we venture humbly to solicit that your Majesty will be pleased to continue to the Scottish Corporation that countenance and protection which it has now en joyed for more than two centuries from your Majesty's royal predecessors. We likewise beg permission to offer to your Majesty our sincere and truly heartfelt wishes that Providence may long preserve your Majesty to reign over a loyal, united, and religious people, and that all prosperity and happiness may be vouchsafed to your Majesty, to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and to all your Majesty's illustrious family." This address was also adopted unanimously, and having received the seal of the corporation, was ordered to be forwarded to Sir George Grey, at the Home office, for presentation to her Majesty. There being no further business to transact; the court then broke up. How TO CURE CORNS !—THE BAILERS U. THE CHIROPODIST.—Some few day a ago our town was ho noured by the visit of an itinerant " professor " of the art of removing corns from the feet of the afflicted " without cutting or causing the slightest pain." No sooner had he arrived than be issur.d his circulars, and deluded by the specious promises set forth in the an nouncement, two respectable bakers of the town, martyrs to corns, determined upon placing themselves under the " professor's" hands. Accordingly they became patients of the chiropodist —the operations were duty performed —and the fees were paid. But, un f ortunate ly, in the course of a short time the men of dough became dissatie. fled with their bargain. Their feet began to hired and they hunted the corn-doctor from house to house, de manding a return of the money. To this application he refused to accede, but they determined on obtaining satisfaction by some means or other. They pursued him all over the town, and pummelled him so severely in the Arcade, that the fellow thought he should best consult his own comfort by at once bidding adieu to Chelten ham. —Cheltenham Journal. THE UNITED STATES.—LIVERPOOL, TUESDAT, MIDNIGHT.—The New York packet. ship Ashburton arrived here to-nigbt, from New York. She was expected to have brought the President's Message. She left that city on the 11th ult.; and therefore, like the other late arrivals, departed without it. FOREIGN Cm-La.—The steamer Free Trade has just arrived at the Brunswiek•wharf, illackwall, from Oporto, bringing the large number of 139 bead of oxen, c )nsigned to a metropolitan fi rm , as a port i on of h er cage, the production of Portugal. COURT-MARTIAL. A court-martial assembled on Tuesday morning, on board her 111 ,, jesty's sloop Impregnable, 104. in Hutnoaze, for the trial of William John Lowry, acting•lit utenant of her Majesty's sloop Britomart, 8, on the following charges :- 1. For that the said Wi , liam John Lowry, %%then acting lieutenant of her Alajesty's sloop Britomart, and in :actual service and full pay in her Majesty' s fleet, did, on the 1.4 of April, 1849, on board the said sloop sleep upon his watch, 2. For that the said William John Lowry, when such acting lieutenant, and in actual service, and in full pay as aforesaid, was, on the lit day of April, 1849, drunk on board the said sloop. 3. For that the said iVilliam John Lowry, when such acting-lieutenant, and in actual service and full pay as aforesaid, did, on the 16th day of November, on board the said sloop, disobey the orders of William Charles Chamberlain, &q., the commander of the said sloop, his superior officer, by getting upon the poop grating of the said sloop during the watch of the said William John Lowry, although ord,red by the said Commander William Charles Chamberlain not to do so. 4. For that the said William John Lowry, R hen such acting lieutenant, and in actual service and full pay, as aforesaid, did, on the 16th of November, 1849, on board the said sloop, behave himself with contempt to the said Commander William Charles Chamberlain, his superior officer, being in the execu tion of his office. The Court was composed of Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir John Louis, President; Captain Hope Johnstone, of the Agincourt, 72 ; Captain Robert Smart, of the Indefatigable, 50; Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, of the Impregnable, 104; and Commander Charles Hall, of the Agincourt. William East lake, Esq., officiated as Judge-Advocate. The prisoner, by permission of the Court, was defended by Mr. John Beer, jun., of Devonport. The Judge-Advocate read the correspondence of Commander Chamberlain, of the Britomart, to Commodore A. Fanshawe, C. 8., in command of the station on the west coast of Africa, authorizing the assembling of a court-martial, when most expedient, for the trial of Lieutenant Lowry on the above charges. William Charles Chamberlain said—l was com mander of her Majesty's sloop Britomart, and was on board on the Ist of April last. The prisoner was acting lieutenant, and was in full pay, at that time serving in her Majesty's service. I was absent from the Britomart on the evening of the Ist of April upon duty. I returned to the ship between eleven and twelve o'clock that night. I was received at the gang way by Mr. Townshend, the midshipman of the watch, the sergeant of Marines, and the boatswain's mate. I turned round to address the officer of the watch, and, not seeing him, I asked where he was. I asked Mr. Townshend where be was, and he replied that he was below. I added " Where ?" The answer was, "In the berth." I then gave him orders to go with the boatswain's mate and sergeant, and that all three were to report to me where he was, and in what state he was. They went and shortly returned, and each reported to me that he was asleep upon the table in the midshipmen's berth, and that he was drunk. I sent for the first lieutenant, and whilst waiting for him I observed the prisoner get up the main hatch way and stagger against the gangway ladder quite drunk. I placed him under arrest. Q. State what you know relating to the third and fourth charges against the prisoner P—A. On the 16th of Nov., 1849, I was walking the deck during the six to eight watch, of which the prisoner was the officer, and observed him to be standing cn the poop gratings, in company with the surgeon and master, holding conversation. I went up to him, called him down, expressed regret that I should have to speak to an officer for disobeying an order which I had before given him, not to stand on the poop gratings, and desired him never to stand on the poop-gratings whilst officer of the watch, but to keep his watch attentively on the weather side of the quarterdeck. He replied, " I was speaking to the Master, Sir, about the log." I told him that, as the officer of the watch, it was his duty to see the log written himself; without conversation with the other officers ; and that, if there was occasion to refer to the master, he could do so when relieved. I went on to say that there was no earthly necessity for an officer to be upon the poop-gratings, to which he replied in the most disputatious, contemptuous tore of voice, " I don't think so at all ;" and added, " Do you mean to say, Sir, that I am never, at any time whatever, and on any account whatsoever, to get up on those poop gratings ?" I told him that he was to go and walk the deck, reserve his conversa tion, and not get up on the poop-gratings any more." He walked the deck for a tew minutes, and then got up on the poop gratings, and looked slowly round the horizon, got down again, and walked the deck. He again got up on the poop-gratings. and as I saw him wilfully defying my order, I called him down, and in a peremptory manner again repeated my order—" Ile was never again, on any account, to get up on there gratings whilst officer of the watch." lie said, in a tone highly improper, " Then, Sir, I have not charge of the watch—l cannot be answerable." To which I replied that he was to continue in charge of the watch. He said something may go, and I cannot be re sponsible if I am to continue in charge of the watch. I will go upon_the poop; and if I cannot go up on the poop I won't sign the log: , I sent for the first lieutenant to witness the execution of this threat, and mentioned to the first lieutenant what the prisoner said be would do, and then I said to Mr. Lowry, " I desire you, sir, to walk the quarter deck immediately, keep charge of the watch, and sign the log." He obeyed the order, and very shortly after he was relieved by another officer, and after consider ation of what happened, I thought it my duty to place the prisoner under arrest. By Captain Johnstone—When the prisoner came up the hatchway, I was about four yards from him He was dressed as officers usually are, with the exception that he had no shoes on over his stockings I did not observe the prisoner walk after he came on deck, but I observed him to reach the gangway by the help of the main bits and the third gun. I did not speak to the prisoner on that occasion. I heard the prisoner speak, and his tone of voice was that of a drunken man. It was a clear light night, but I forget whether the moon was above the horizon. I had not given a general order previously that the officers of the watch should not stand upon the poop gratings, but I had given :a special order to Mr. Lowry, as I had so frequently observed him lounging about the poop. I considered the prisoner's manner with reference to the fourth charge decidedly con temptuous. Evidence was called which fully corroborated Commander Chamberlain's testimony. In his defence the prisoner admitted the truth of the first charge, but urged it was the first time in his life he had been guilty of such misconduct, and denied having spoken contemptuously to his com mander. At the conclusion the court was cleared for about an, hour. On re opening, the JUDGE-ADVOCATE read the sentence, which was, that the prisoner, William John Lowry, be dismissed her Majesty service. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—On Tuesday evening, one of the most dread ful accidents which has occurred in this locality for a long period of ti me happ e n s d a t the Maghull station on the East Lancashire Railway, attended by a fearful loss of lite. It appears from the narrative of a passenger that a train left Preston at a quarter before 8 o'clock last evening for Liverpool, with only one carriage attached to the engine, consisting of first . and second class compartments. At the Ormskirk stat ion there was a considerable accession of passengers, for whom it did not appear that there was adequate room. When the train arrived at the Maghull station there was a spar e carriage on the siding, and to get hold of this carriage the train crossed the line on to the other rails, and fur about 10 minutes was moving up and down on the rails on the wrong side of the line, when an alarm was given that a train was coming up; and being in the way of any train on the wrong rails, it was apprehended by the passengers that a train might be coming up on the same line as that on which they were moving, and under this apprehension several of the passengers jumped out, when a train towards Liv e rp oo l p asse d at a ra pid ra t e , an d t h e night being dark, and the passengers on the track of the advancing engine in a state of the utmost confusion and alarm, three of them were caught by the engine and killed on the spot. Their bodies were immediately picked up, but in a shocking state of mutilation. We have i not be r! able to obt a i n t h e names o f t h e part i es, but i t s ved they were country people who had b n transacting business et Orinskiik. Had these un fortunate people retained their seats, they would have sustained no injury, but the continuous moving of the train up and down the line at the station, the knowledge that they were on the wrong rails for their own train, and the sound of the app roac hi ng engine, appear to have caused a panic resulting in this melancholy termi nation. Whether blame attaches anywhere or not. cannot, as yet be ascertained, b ut no doubt the iehole of the facts will transpire at the inquest to be held on the bodies of the unfortunate passengers. —Liverpool Courier. ABRIDGED REPORT OF PHILLPOITS v. GORHAM.-- The Pope. his compassion for sinners to prove, Sends Bulls, without mercy, to bore 'em; Our Phillpotts, to show his more fatherly love, Refuses permission to gore 'em. —Punch. -- DEATH OF A YOUNG M'011.14,2 FROM BURNING. Air.s4 ?- It becomes our melanchi4 duty this - xfsek - s4v record another death from burning. The , tinfortis. nate individual in this case was a young wonntri named Elizabeth Jones, aged 1.7, who resideC "tit!) • her sister, a married woman, .in the upper part of Bath-road, near the Norwood Arms:, She' was engaged on Friday evening, at half past six o'clock, in frying pancakes for the family suplifiti''. when her apron caught fire, and the whole of - her garments were enveloped in flames. She screamed loudly for assistance, and ran .into the passage, but before aid could arrive she was Idea. fully burnt. Mr. Askwith, surgeon, of Huntley. lodge, Suffolk-ro a d, was sent for, and was proteptly in attendance. He did everything which was pos sible under the circumstances, but medical assist ance was of no avail. The poor creature lingered in great agony until nine o'clock on Saturday morning, when death put a period to her suf ferings. The lower part of her person ssas literally Saturday burnt to a cinder, iti,d th e upper part of her body was also trost dangerously irijured An inquest w a s Arms son Inn,the bod: before on Smue Samuel at the N o rw oo d &q., deputy coroner, and a respectable jury. After viewing the body, the following evidence was taken : Henry Nash—l. am a labourer, residing in Bath road, and work for Mr. Jonathan Bowles, of Leck hampton. I reside in the same house where deceased lived. I was sitting in the kitchen ab. ut half past six o'clock, when I heard loud screaming up stairs. I ran up, and found deceased in Homes running about tic passage. Her clothes were burning rapidly. I ran dos; n stairs and fetched up a bucket of water. I threw it over her; but the first bucket did net put out the flames, so that I had to fetch two more bucketafell,. She was burning all the time. Several per sons arrived soon after, and we sent for a medical man. Mr. Askwith arrived in about half an hour. He ordered some liniment to be applied to the burnt parts. It was applied according to his orders. The deceased lived with her brother-in-law, Mr. Bolton, and his wife, for whom she kept house. Anne Bolton—I;am the wife of _Henry Bolton, who is a haulier. Our house is in the parish of Chelten ham. The deceased was my sister, and she has lived regularly with me for the last ten months. She assisted me in taking care of my children, and in housekeeping. After the unfortunate acci dent which caused her death had occurred, she told me she was frying a pancake arid that her apron caught fire ; she sa id she was un a bl e t o put it out. - I was away from the house at the time of the accident at work. Her stays were much burnt. She seemed to know that she would die; she lingered in much agony until about half-past nine o'clock this morning, when she expired. The CORONSR here put it to the jury whether they were satisfied as to the cause of—death, without further evidence, and being answered in the-affirma tive, he closed the inquiry. After a brief consultation, the jury came to a verdict of " Accidental death from burning:'--,C4l tenham Journal. DIAMOND DUST. (From Eliza Cook's Journal) The most strict and severe, and suspicious persons, are precisely those wbo are most often deceived. Suspi- cion is so rarely directed aright, that cunning is more than a match for it; and oppreloion ever begets canning, which is the dwarfed and deformed cleverness of the slave. The young should be spared from sorrow as muck as possible. Never dim the sunshine of hope and joy, so as to leave them without even the memory of its glory. Rob charity of its name, by the delicacy of your be qutsts, and you give it a fair chance of proving the divinity of its origin. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. FATAL CoLLIERT EXPLOSION.—An explosion of vulphareous gas, attended with fatal consquences, oc curred at a coal-pit at Kingswinford,' on Thursday morning last. The miners resumed their labours at the ordinary hour, after testing the workings of the pit with a safety lamp, and pronouncing it safe. About an hour and a half afterwards, however, an explosion took place. All the lights were put our, and the even (several of whom are slightly injured) thrown down by the current. A boy named Jabez Burks, about thirteen years of age, was killed. An inquest was held on the body at the Sampson and Lion Inn, Pensnett, before T. M. Phillips, &q., coroner, on Saturday last, when a verdict is ac cordance with the evidence was returned.—Wolver hampton Chronicle. BERLIN, DEC. 28 —The Court has received the satisfactory intelligence that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Dessau, saved, as it were, from the jaws of death b) Dr. Wasemeyer, of Berlin. contifinevto im prove, and that hopes are entertained of her ultimate recov, r). Dr. We haemeyer is understood to have re sorted to an ingenious mode of applying a douche to the patient's head. Her Iti.yal Iligtice,4 was removed from her bed into a warm bath; the dt.c or then moon - c I ladder placed against the well!, wh, nee he pound down Liu ket aft. r bucket upon, the Duchess's head. This ,imple and efficacious mole of applying the remedy, in CairS of .p , plexy, or paneysiN of the brv:n, merits bt big recottivd. RAILWAY FErTIVITI/S IX MANCHESTER . .—On Tuesday evenit g, within one of the arches of the lion don and North ICrt,te•rn liailway, an e•ntertainneent was given to the fit , ti ruopioj kfi iu e he goods department of the line, by Mr. ~su,ue•l Snit, the general manager. The arch, which i. upward:. of 200 feet in length, and proportn nobly side•, o a.ll4ht4cl Kith gad. ahtl decorated with ere•rgreeus mot arrifie,i.l tl 'veers. The t umbe r persona present was from 650 to 700, and nearly one halt of these were the wives and sweethearts of the men. Upon the platform, erected at one cud of the arch, the guest•' table were placed; and at these were seat' d the principal officers in various departments of the company's service, together with their ladies. The usual loyal and other toasts appropriate to the occasion were girt-n, and the entertainup nt concluded with • dance. THE AMERICAN PRESS —The enterprise and libe rality of the New York press are, we apprehend, un• equalled in any other city in the world, except, perhaps, the city of London. Among the late enterprises of the press for procuring early foreign news was the establish ment of a weekly express between this city end St. John, New Bruns wick,'a distance by land of nearly 300 miles, which was ru►► from February to November at a rate of speed, over most of the route, or nearly 20 miles per hour. From St. John the news has been ri gularly tele graphed to New York, some 600 miles further, et an additional expense of 1001., making the total weekly expenses for a single dispatch of 3,000 cords nearly 200/. The completitm of the telegraph to this city renders the centinutince of the horse express unneces• sery, but the telegraph tolls are still to be paid, and they amount, for 3,000 words, which the press contract to receive, to a very heavy sum, say 6,000/. to 6,0001. pe•r year. A good deal has been said, and not a little oppo sition exists, in this community, against granting the exclusive use of the wire for the transmission of the foreign news' dispatch to the New York press, and as the merits of the case do not appear to bo fully compre hended by the public, we propose to give what we be lieve to be a correct statement of the matter. The. New York Associated Pre,s embraces all the leading papers in that city, and the committee appointed by the different publishers also represent, in this fort ign hews business, the morning papers of &Item, the principal papers of Philadelphia, and all intermediate cities to New Orleans. The leading object the committee of the press profess to have in view is to place the principal commercial news before the whole public in advance of its receipt for speculative purposes; and their arrangements for giving the public the benefit of their enterprise are the most perfect that can be devised.—HaVaz Sun. THE IIIAII,B.—SOUTHAMPTON, WEDMISDAY, JAN. 2.—The Royal Mail Steam-packet Compaq's ship Trent, Captain W. Clarke, took her departure this after noon with the usual mails for the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, in charge of Lieutenant O'Reilly, R.N., Ad miralty agent. Her route is Liu Bqtuda, the Bahamas, Havannah, and Mobile to the Gulf of Mexico. She - hat 33 passengers, amongst wh m were Paymaster Gibbs for Jamaica, Quartermaster Macdonald for BarbadOes, M. Sotomayor for Havannah, &c. The freight list com prised 8,0001. in specie, 100 bottles of quicksilver, value about 1,600/., and the usual cargo for various parts of the West ludies. Some alteration has been made in the rigging of the Trent, which has had the 'effect of im proving her appearance considerably. She now carries topsail and topgallantsail yards on the main as well as the foretopmast. This addition, besides enabling the steamer to carry a vast deal more canvass in fine and moderate weather, make s h e r l o ok mere warlike, and has greatly augm e nt e d h e r " shiphap." appearance. The Avon, with the West India and Pacific mails, may now be daily expect( d. A PRISON BREAKER. —Frederick Grim wood, Some time since, when wider sentence of transportation for walkebeteoatintfhr7ritielpswich t° He then in dulged in u plundering ex p e dition throughout. Norfolk, Huntingdon. and Cambridge, and ultimately found his seventhe utter )ears, c t iLt?r u n k a l t l i y ou of t way trite the Bury Assize Court for robbery. Here he was co nvicted, and was *also rt cognist d by Superin tendent GStrafin%ro, oa n , lio n f h is o pp t t ia n i e l d a t t o f, p e t in court hi n a lt o the f f o i: r oisitti. t irad h gr e orbai ,n ei r e eud t i e l s e tteh o rn t rt . dw at h o thecthhe h e e x . S tit te n i7h, wns stntet.ced to six months' ie prisonment s piseta"t%don convi c t e d, ? t i t e ta t 't. te *.ern s h ; a t , Ipswich gaol, preliminary to his former sentence. On Wetinesoay afternoon, however, 1 e took a distaste to her Maj st3's gaol at Bury art ascordiegly walked. off on his own account, with, ni iii any measure etudyieg the ft cling ot the governor, e h o h a d b een qu i te unsex-us tomedto lose lis prisoners. We learn tha his escape was a ffectt d by the negligence of the plumber, in leaviug R !Adder which be had been us'ng in the well. The prisoner c.eild see the ladder tr ,, in his yard. end he im tnedi,itely elernb, d over the i•on railings. seized the ladder, mounted the wall, and dragged the:ladder over the wall to descend by. But it appears the ladder dipped sideways out of his reach, and he bad to drop from the top of the wall, a distance of 20 feet, as a deep indenta tion was made in the sod by his feet in the talL The officer having had occasion to have the yard for about a minute, it appears that he took immediate advantage of bis absence. Officers are scouring the country, but nothing has yet been heard of the prisoner.—./psseich Express. t the lion. H. Fitzroy had an interview with Sit George Grey yesterday at the Home-office.