The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-30 00:00:00

EYI4‘.N ING EDITION. SECOND EDITION. S , 2%. * OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUE EVENT:IG PAPERS CV THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) Mr. Joseph Sturge and the Herald are emp;oyed in the agremble occupation of quoting one another, and trying to show that the opium meeting of Friday last was of some importance. They accuse a portion of the London press of endeavouring to depreciate the said meeting by the use of " falsehood and ridicule." Of the former they must know we were not in tentionally guilty, as we stated the numbers on the authority of the Post—accurately we still believe. On Monday the Herald became angry, called names, and said at one period the room contained 800 persons ; and to-day it is a thousand, and " crosided." We were not there, but should be glad to know at what hour " by Shrewsbury clock" it would have been difficult to swing a cat in the crowd. At this rate of progres sMn we shall not be surprised to hear in about a week that many hundreds of respectable. per sons—" in buckram suits"—were unable to obtain ad- ' mittance. Mr. Sturge says—" A conclusive proof, if any further were wanting, of the number and respecta biiity of the meeting, was the triumphant defeat of a large and apparently a regularly organised number of persons who attended the meeting for the purpose of opposing the objects for which it was convened, and moving amendments on the resolution." Yet this nu merous body, according to the Herald, mustered only five bands in support of their amendment. No doubt the majority was with Mr. Sturgr, hut that is surely no proof of the respentibility of the meeting. That, moreover, is a point which we did not dispute. We only said that it was unimportant, and that the only names which we had ever heard before were those of the Chair man, Mr. Burnett, the Reverend Boatswain Smith, and Mr. Sturge. Had any other person whose name was given ever sail or done anything worth mentioning, we do not doubt that Mr. Sturge - and the Herald would have told us. In the absence of all information on this head, we still boll that the meeting was insignificant. (From the Standard.) _ . .. I It is well to remind the Duke of Wellington ar.d his friends, as the Times does with characteristic abi lity, that no one of the conditions, upon the fulfilineut of which it was intimated that a favourable conside ration might be given to the Municipal Bill, has, in fact, been fulfilled : far from it —every one of the douses guarded against by these conditions has been practised with shameless effrontery ; but we say again, that if ev(ry one of these conditions had been fulfilled with perfect fidelity, new proofs of the dengor of the Municipal Bill arising in other quar ters ought to be decisive against entertaining it. And have we not these new proofs in the present tem per of the Irish, Romanists, which is said by the hroniele to be, in a " fierce flame," and iviaase;" agitation ."7 werlearn from the same authority "is starmy:ifild univerSiik" And why ? Because it is proposed to prevent the practice of fraud, and , eersotiation, and perjury at elections. Is this the neeperit for cUnferring power upon persons animated by 4 ‘.llAmes " and " storms ?•',! Are persons who can be so gaily affected by a danger threatened only to perjury, fraud, and personation, exactly the men in whose bands it is safe to place at any time the govern ment of their more peaceable fellow-subjects, with a power of tax itiou ? Again, is the repeal of the action likely to be retarded or •to be accelerated by incorporating the masses of repeulers by char ter, and giving them money and authority to promote their objects ? But some one will say, perkaps, though we can scarcely imagine the notion to come from any one who has not " outslept Endymion" _concede the Municipal Lord Stanley with draw his measure of reform, and the Romanists will be content. To such simple siumberers of the last twelve years we reply, in the words of Mr. Daniel O'Connell himself at his mob-meeting of Tuesday - Why, ticy did not give us religious liberty until the year 1829—and then did they give it to us, even? Was it a free gift? Were wo not imploring them to give it to us before they consented ? Oh ! yes, we were imploring, to be sure, but we implored. with five or six millions at our backs. Whenever you want to persuade a stubborn fellow, wet) won't go on, bring five or six and twenty fellows with y ee •_.if p,u want to cow a fellow who won't do what is right, by all means have as many of your neighbours lookinir at you a , you earl. - So ccc cock five or six mi lions to look at Wellington- and Peel and Co., and behold they 1.01,k the infection ',in:it as if we fad the cholera. Pea and Wellington took the emancipation cholera, and we Boc ce( ded in infteting• them:—( Great cheering.) Yes, v e got tne emancipation, and how ? We got it, and no thanks to them—that is the way we got it." Tnis is the gratitude to be .expected from Mr. O'Ct naell and his party, this is the peace that is bought by conee;sion. [Gratitude truly I Gratitude for what ? Far granting what- could no longer be re fused—Catholic Emancipation l This is sheer absurdity. —En. Sias.] . _ (From the Courier.) The assassination of Mr. Gaudin; West, the bro ther of the late Conservative Member for Dublin, is an addition to the enormous mass of guilt, which a b got ed and infuriated faction have accumulated upon our un happy Sistur Kingdom. After this atrocious murder, i!. . will be difficult for the most unscrupulous advocate of the s 3 stem that preserves an Administration in offices, of which it does not appear to comprehend any one of the duties, to contend that the measures of the Whigs for the government of Ireland are not calculated to render life and property there worth the purchase of a day, or even an hour. The murder of Lord Norbury, which took p!aae on his own grounds,in the broad light of day, and nritii the foreknowledge of the vicinity, through whose criminal misprision the assassins have hitherto eluded the hands of justice, ought to have caused an immediate and thorough revision of the Whig system of misgovernment. To these murders we may add the numerous crimes of all descriptions arising from poli -6,111 agitation and priest . ) , encouragement, which were brought to light by Lent Roden's Committee. A fur ther proof of the miserable condition to which Ireland has been reduced in order that Ministers may continue to receive unearned salaries, is found in the official returns on the state of crime, which, although some were obvious y garbed, corroborated the fact, that the R.. roan Catholic populat.on of Irel .nd, under the ;to,;pi.teS of the L.beral Whi gs , ren d er t h e i r co untry a I.,i.:..azit upon civil sed Europe. QUEEN'S BENCH.-CIHIS DAY.) (S.ttings in Banco.) SCALES V. KEY. This was an action which hadlleen brought by Mr. Michael Scales against Sir John Key, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1831, for a false return to a man damus. It wilt be in the recollect'on of our readers, that in 1831 M. Scales was elected Alderman of the Ward of Port! oken, but that the Court of Aldermen refused to swear him in, whereupon be obtained a writ of mandamus, calling. upon the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to admit him. The return to the man damus stated that, from time immemorial, a right had existed on the part of the Court of Aldermen, not only of examining into the details of elections of Aldermen, but also into the qual fications of persons elected as .Aldermen, and if, on a petition from any persons in terested, they should find a person so elected was not a fit and proper person, then the Court had always exercised the right of rejecting such person. To try the validity of this return the present action had been brought ; it had been tried before Lord Denman, and the Jury had found that the custom bad existed from time immemorial, up to 1699. This the Lord Chief Justice had ordered to be entered as a verdict far the defendant. The counsel for the plaintiff had requested the Learned Judge to ask the Jury if the right had exi s ted s i nce t h at per i o d ; t hi s hi s L or d S h ip had refused to do, saying the Jury could not find that, as it was a matter of law. In 1834 a rule had been obtained to show cause why the verdict should not be entered for the plaintiff, or a new trial had. The case bad, however, been put off from time to time, as the very same question had arisen in the case of Scales v. Johnson, which had been carried by writ of error into the Exchequer Chamber, and eventually into the House of Lords, and by the decision in that case the present case would be regulated. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and the RECORDER. of the CITY of Loarnox this day showed cause against the rule, and Mr. MICHAEL SCALES was heard in support of it in a long rambling speech, during the course of which he was frequently interrupted by their Lordships, and desired to confine himself to the matters bztore the Court. The arguments hay.'ng been concluded, Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE having gone into the facts of the case, said that the custom having been proved to exist up to 1699, it remained to see it any thing bad occurred since that time to set it aside, and he consi dered that all the Acts of Common Council and the Act of George 11., which had been relied on as having done away with the custom, had no Ming on earth to do with it, but related solely to the elections 01 Aldermen by the Wardmote, and not to the manner in which such elections tver., afterwards dealt with by the Court of Aldermen. The question had already bee❑ decided in the Exchequer Guatliber, hut if e ven i t had not been so decided he should have been of opinion that the verdict of the Jury was rightly enter e d as a verdict ter the d e f en d an t, a nd, ti,cretore, that the rule must be discharged. The other Judges concurred.—Rule discharged. EXCHEQUER, COURT. THIS DAY. VAUGHAN V. WATT. Th's was an action of trover, brought to retre:),y.erithe value of a quantity o f li nen p l edged with the by the plaintiff ~wife . It was tr i e d b efore Mr. lirar'ionitt Rolfe, when a verdict was found f ur t h e plaintiff; Last term Mr. IVHITE moved for, and obtained a rule N:si, for a new trial upon tip: ground of ouist re(C,a; on tbe part of the Lcaned Judge. Mr. PIKE now showed caL:c against the rule, an contended that the verdict org'it not to be dis- I turbed, the direction of the learned Judge having been perfectly right, both according to the law and the facts. The goods were pawned for 10/. by Mary Hubbard, .)n behalf and in the name of the plaintiff's wife, on the 2-I.th July. The plaintiff found the duplicate, and on 6th August be went to the premises of the defendant, offered the money due upon the goods, and demanded them as his own. Between those dates Mary Hub rd, as the agent of the wife, had applied for and obtained two forms of declaration, having lost the du plicate. tinder these circumstances, the pawnbroker refused to give up the goods until one of the decla rations came in, or he found that the goods were actually the property of the plaintiff. The parth s went before a Magistrate, but he had no l urisdiction, and the mat/er was dismissed. As the plaintiff could obtain no redress, he was reluc tantly compelled to bring an action of trover. The Learned Gentlemen contended that the refusal upon the 6th August was a full conversion of the goods, and the Judge was perfectly right in so directing the Jury. There was plenty of time for the defendant to make enquiry into the facts of the case, indeed, he must have known the goods were the property of the pl a i nt iff from what took place before the Magistrate, and h e had no good and reasonable ground for his refusal to deliver the goods, as the action was not commenced until August 21. Mr. WHITE and Mr. COCKBURN, in support of the rule, contended that it ought to Lve been left to the jury to say whether, alter the party pledging the goods had obtained two forms of declaration previoLs to Cie 6.1 i of August, tke pawnbroker had not just and reasonable grounds for believing the goods to be the bona fide pro perty of the person pawning. • In place of that his Lord. sip told the jury that if the goods were those of the plaintiff, then the refusal to deliver them up, was a conversion of the property, and If so they ought to find for the Vaintil. They contended that wh.t the Learned Judge had assumed was a question for the Jeri, and ought to have been left for their coi slderatian. Tne LORD CHIEF BARON said it was with great regret that he concurred in sending the case down to a new trial, fur the expenses must be infinitely greater than the sum in dispute; still the question of reason ableness of time ought to have been left to the Jury. Tne cause must azain go down, although no one could for a moment doubt but that the result would be the same. The defendant, however, had a right to have the question left to the Jury. The Rule, therefore, must be made absolute. Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Baron ROLFE concurred in the question of law, as well as in the regret expressed by the Lord Chief Baron. Upon the interference . of the Court, Counsel on both sides, proceedings were ordered to be stayed upon the defendants delivering up the goods, and paying all costs, exdusively of the costs of the trial. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazcttc.) PORTSMOUTH. --Commander the Hon. Dudley Pd ham (son of the Earl of Yarborougc) has given up the command of tie Wasp, 16, at Gibraltar, and is on his way home. His successor is Commander George Man sell, 1826. The remains of Captain William Burnett, of the Magicienne, 24, in this harbour, were cor.s . gned to the tomb in the Garrison Chapel here on Wednesday, at tended by all the nnval and military authorities, and a large assemb'age of private friends. His successor in the command is Captain Frederick Michell, 1130. The ship will be r'idy to prucced to the Mediterranean in about a fortnight. The Pique, 66, Captain Boxer, has left Spithead for Cro❑stadt, to await the arrival thc,re of the Marquis of Cianricarde, from St. Petersburgh, and to land him at Sheerness. The S;leerness command hailing expired, it is confi dently.put forth that Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Dieby, R.C.8., of the Whit e S qua d ron , w ill succeed• Sir Tho• masOtway, Bart. The Persi 111, 16, new brig, Commander Qu'n, is ready for sea at Plymouth, but will not proceed to her destina tion, the coast of Africa, until the Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Beaufoy, shall be also ready. The brig, Dolphin, 3, Lieut. Littlehales, is in the harbour, repairing damages sustained by a steamer run ning foul of her, when on hsr way to Spithead from the river. She will, in conseqoence, detained for a short period from proceeding to S:eria Leone. The Seaflower cutter, and tender Crack'r, are shortly expected from the Jersey station, the fishery having nearly terminated. Accounts from the Seringapatam, 46, Captain Leith, of the 10th of February, report that ship in Carlisle Bay, Bartradoes, crew well. The Sapphire, troop ship, was also there, having arrived from Gibraltar on the 25th of the previous mouth, and was to leave on the 12th for Demerara and Jamaica. The troop ship, Athol, had proceeded to Trinidad and St. Vincent's. The Seringapatam, it was expected, would reach tog land in July next, to be paid off. The Wolverine, 16, Comm ,rider Tucker, was cruis ing off Prince's Island on the sth February, expecting daily to go to Cape Coast to meet the Admiral, to re ceive her orders for England. The crew had been rath4r sickly, but no fatal cases had occurred. The corvette Pearl, 20, Commander Franklan( 4 , des tined for the Soutn American station, is hourly ex pected to depart with despatches for Rear-Admiral Ross, and for Commodore Sullivan. Co'onel Pesky, Royal Engineers, is engage 1 at Woolwich, superintending preparations for further pro ceedings for the removal of the Royal George from Spithead. Operations will shortly commence. The Success, hulk, has been again moored at Spithead for the undertaking. AT SPITHEAD—PearI, 20. IN HARBOUR—Britannia and Victory, flag ships ; Vanguard, Jupiter, Magiciennc, Victor, Dolphin, Mes senger, Excellent, and Royal George yacht. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. There hating been only 27 Members present at Four o'Clock, the House adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition against the Tithe Commutation Act. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented petitions from the Isle of Wight, in favour of the_Corn-laws, to which he said the addresses of petitioners were affixad, 1,200 in number. Earl FITZWILLIAM said he had a petition to present signed by 10,000 persons against the Corn iaws, ali affixing their addresses to their names. The Earl of Ic . IALMESBURY—It is of the greatest importance to know who are our petitioners. Earl FITZ W IL LIA NI—No doubt. The Bishop of RIPON presented many petitions in favour of Church Extension. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The Earl of ABERDEEN—My Lords, I beg to give notice that on Tuesday I shall lay before your Lordships a Bill to remove doubts respecting the ad mission of ministers into benefices in Scotland ; and as it is possible that I shall for some time delay the further progress of the Bill, 1 shall on that occasion fully state the nature and design of the measure.—(Hear, hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the dis charge of the order for committing the Tithe Cummu• tation Bill,-and its renewidforTuesday. IhELAND. The Marquis of WESTMEATH wished to ask the Noble Viscount (Melbourne) opposite a question. A new and intense system at agitation had commenced in Ireland for the purpose of severing that country from Great Britain. The Noble Viscount must of course be aware of the motives assigned for that agitation, which were that the other House of the Le gislature had thought fit to entertain a Bill brought in by the Noble Lord (he believed) the Member for Nerth Lancashire. He believed the Noble Viscount would not deny that he had the support of the Honourable and Learned Gentlemen who ex- , cited the a gitation, and who on this occasion and most others professed that he alone understood the interest of Ireland, and what might De considered justice to that country. The nature of the Bill would be best understood by reference to the three volumes of Reports on fictitious votes in Ireland, which lay on their Lordships' table, arid which exposed a catalogue of systematic crime never exceeded, if even equalled, in atrocity by any book in the English language, except the Newgite Calendar.—(Laughter.) The Irish public were informed that, unless the Legisla ture ceased to entertain that Bill, the Union between the two countries was to be repealed. The gentleman to whom he referred had many times professed his ob ject of repealing the union, and since he had publicly avowed that object, the Nob'e Viscount opposite had been accused in that House, and had not denied the charge, of offering to that gentleman a very high legal o ffi ce. The get-Alf:man himself fel quent,y bcasted that such a situation was offered to him by the Noble Viscount, and as that boast was not contradicted, lie must suppose that it was well founded The gentleman took upon himself to call to account every Member of the House of Commons who did not choose to follow in his wake in that blind support of the Government, without which, as everybody knew, Go vernment could not exist five minutes. He felt called upon to ask the Noble Viscount whether he would avow the confederation which existed between him and the Honourable Gentleman, and whether, in con formity with the oath which he, in common with that House, had t a k en , every ether Peer of he had told his Sovereign what would lie the effects of the refusal upon the empire at large, and what would he th e eff ects of the present a gitation upon Ireland its e lf He wish e d t o ask Ce Noble Viscount n hetner the law ! officers of the Crown had been i estructed to attend , ttepie meetings, either themselves or; by their agents, for the purpose of instituting prosecutions with respect T. SET N,, LONDON, THURSDAY. APRIL 30, IP4O. to them? Those mecticgs had been advertised to take place, in the Irish Papers ; and, therefore, it was im possible for her Majesty's Government to say they were not aware of them. Viscount MELBOURNE was quite aware of the system of agitation which the Noble Marquis had said had lately commenced in Ireland. That agitation was I certainly not new ; it was an old system of agitation newly revived, and it was not quite so intense as it had been on former occasions.—( Hear.) With respect to the question, whether he disapproved of it or not, he had only to say that he bad always disapproved of proceedings of a simiLr nat'ire. With respect to the confederation to which the Noble Marquis had referred, as there existed no such confederation, there could be no intention of continuing that which did not exist. With respect to the advice that had been given to her Majesty on the subject, that was a question on'which he could not give a specific or precise answer.—(Hear.) The Marquis of WESTMEATH said that it was only necessary to refer to the newspapers to see that such confederation did exist. Lord HOLLAND rose to order—lt was a most disorderly proceeding, to refer to newspapers when questions were put in that House. The Marquis of WESTMEATH said if he was a member of her Majesty's Government, he should be exceedingly sorry to get rid of questions such as he had put in such a manner. BUENOS AYRES. Viscount STRANGFORD wished to know from the Noble Viscount, whether he had received uay commu nication from France ancounciFig their intention of di'. patching a considerable military force to Bueynos Ayres. Viscount MELBOURNE replied that no such in timation had been received. CORN LAWS. Earl FITZWILLIA NI said he had a petition to present from the inhabitants of Sheffield, signed by 10,864 persons, each of whom not following but per haps giving the example to the petitioners whose petition was presented by a Noble Earl that evening ( Malmesbury) stated his employment and residence. That petition, and others which he should present, related to a subjtct of the greatest possible importance, and which could not be better described than as a law to limit the population of the United Kingdom, for suob was necessa rily the effect °fa law which limited the population to toe means cf sustenance which could be produced within these realms.—( Hear, hear.) The petitioners corn plained that there was an interference with that free in tercourse with foreign nations which it had been the in tention of the Almighty should be kept up by giving to various countries various productions, and by enabling them to exchange those productions one with the other. They complained that many obstacles were put in the way of intercourse with foreign - nations by means of those laws ; they stated that the effect of those obstacles was most injurious to themselves and those who de pended upon them—that they produced great commer cial inconveniences, and that, under particular circum stances, they created great distrust among tho great mass of the population of this coun try. In the view which the petitioners took of those laws he entirely concurred, and he would take the liberty of laying upon their Lordship s ' t a bl e th e fi rs t petition, which was from the inhabitants of Shef field, and at the head of which were the signa tures of the Master Cutler, and several of the Ma gistrates of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Noble Earl also presented a petition from Brad ford, signed by between 7,000 and 8,000, and about GO petitions from places in Scotland and England, about one half of wuich were (torn agricultural pari3tws and districts—in all, signed by upwards of 4,C00 per sons, all to the same effect. The Marquis of NORMANBY laid on tLe tab'e of the House certain returns of the number of Irish Peerages created since tLe Union ; also the number of ihosa become extinct in the same period. The Noble Marquis then laid upon the table copies of the instructions issued by the Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland to the Poor-law Guardians, for the regula tion of their proceedings, and also to the Poor law valuators. Beforo the return was printed he begged to state to the Noble Duke ( Wel lington) that he had made inquiries with respect to the effect of the sth section of the Act of last year as it referred to the 85th section of the previous Act. He had taken the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown, and their opinion was, that the 83th section remained unaffected by the Act of last year. Under these circumstances he would not be called upon to redeem the pledge he had given to intro duce a declaratory Act. The correspondence between Mr. Nichols and the resident Poor-law Commissioners was also presented, and be wished to know whether the Noble Dnke wished to have all these ' ,returns and cor respondence printed ? The Duke of WELLINGTON did not think it necessary. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented a petition from Gloucestershire praying far the repeal of the Corn laws. !The Duke of RUTLAND presented petitions from Leicestershire against any further grant to the College of May nooth, and in favour of the Exemption Union Workhouse Bill. EARTHQUAKES IN SCOTLAND. At a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Edin burgh, amongst other interesting papers read was one by David 'Milne, Esq., on earthquakes felt. in Scotland during the autumn and winter of 1839. For the sub joined summary of this document we are indebted to the Scottish Standard. Mr. Milne stated that the shocks were first perceived on the 2d of October, and had continued, with hardly a week's intermittence, down to the present date. The total number of shocks from that date down to the 13th of April, 1840, was 145. From the 3d of October to the 2d of November no day passed without shocks, and on several days there were as many as 12 or 14. The shocks appeared to bare diminished in number and seve rity as the winter advanced, though on the 7th April there was a shock only exceeded in severity by the great one of the 23d October. The author then pro ceeded to describe the effects produced by this last mentioned shcck, felt at Comrie about 10h. 14m. p.m. It was perceived in all the central and southern parts of Scotland, and extended to the north, as far as Ding wall on the east coast, and Appin on the west. This shock, as well as all the others, emanated from one central point, situated about two miles N. W. of Comrie. After describing the effects of the most vio lent shocks, both physical and moral, some of which were curious and interesting, Mr. Milne proceeded to describe the undulation of the earth's surface, which produced them. He showed that the natural levels of the ground had been altered, in some cases to the amount of more than two degrees. and in the opinion of some intelligent eye-witnesses, four degrees. There appeared to have been probably two undulations, and certainly one consisting of an interior swell and a posterior hollow, which caused houses, si tuated on soft or hollow ground, to rock like boats on the swell of a sea. The velocity of the undulation must have been immense, as it occurred throughout the whole country to which it reached at one and the same instant. Houses situated on rock were not so sensibly affected, and the shock was in all cases felt more in the upper than in the lower flats. The shocks were transmitted to greater distances in a direction of E.N.E. from Comrie than in any other direction. Of all these phe nomena explanations were offered. The author next noticed the probable cause of the shocks, which he attri buted to fractures or ruptures in the earth's crust at a great depth. He considered that the phenomena could be better explained on this assumption than by sup posing, as many philosophers did, that the earth's crust was floating on molten lava. The vibrations caused by these subterranean ruptures would rise vertically, as well as obliquely upwards, and cre ate at some places the sensation of the shock coming directly from below, and at others, of its moving forwards along the surface. The cause of these rup tures, and their frequent occurrence near Coterie, was next adverted to ; and some geological explanations were given, tending, as we understood, clearly to show that the earth's crust is there intersected by great lines of fracture, that these lines were nearly parallel E.N.E., and that there had been frequent outbursts of igneous rocks in them. It appeared that for a month be fore the commencement of the earthquakes, and for some time after they were perceived, there had been in Perthshire an almost unprecedented quan tity of rain, notwithstanding which it was observed of the Erne, the Airdle, and other streams near Stratherne, that they were not flooded as might have been expected. The fact of these earthquakes being in some way connected with the rain was rendered probable by the fact that, in former years, they had been almost always preceded by rainy weather, and it was known that if water percolated to the depth of one mile and a half into the earth's crust, it would. in consequence of the subterranean heat, generate steam, which might cause ruptures. The water might in Perth shire percolate into subterranean depths by the numer ous fissures abounding in it. It was further shown that for a month before the commencement of the earth. quakes, the atmospherical pressure was less than it had been for several years; whereby any volcanic forces beneath would be enabled to press or push upwards the earth's crust with unusual effect, and thus facilitate the percolation of water in its fissures. A number of other phenomena was mentioned, such as a peculiar smell or odour, and a black powder which fell extensively in the district and floated on Loch Erna last October ; but, in consequence of the lateness of the hour, they were not fully described. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUI- CIDE IN PARIS. Oa Wednesday evening last, on the Place des Vic toires, in the very heart of Paris, in its most popUlous neighbourhood, within a stone's throw of the Bank, of the Palais Royal, and the Bourse, at eight o'clock, the numerous passers-by were alarmed by the discharge of fire-arms. When they fled to the spot from whence this detonation had proceeded, they found a middle-aged female weltering in her blood, and her assassin near her, who had Attempted- to destroy himself, or had at leas:: pretended to do so. The police, of course, immediately secured the latter, while the former was carried to the nearest druggist's shop, to receive the first assistance which could be offered to her, from whence she was re moved to her home. The following appears to be the history of the case :—The culprit, a man named Helvin Devonshire, had some three months ago married his victim, and with the assistance of her fortune had bought the stock of a jeweller on the other side of the Pont Neuf ; but as she was some years older than him, and had a young child by a previous marriage, their honeymoon soon turned to bitterness, and the conse quence was, constant wrangling, and often acts of das tardly violence on 'his part ; these determined her to apply to the Tribunals for a separation of property from her husband. Such a separation, as it would take from his establishment a large portion of his capital, was offensive to him, and he therefore sought every means to divert her from it ; finding her mind made up he watched her every step, and ascertained that she had an appoiutment with her legal adviser, on Wed nesday evening, in the Rue de Clery. He posted himself in the neighbourhood as early as five, and having at last watched her in remained concealed under a gate way till eight, when she came out; he immediately crossed the street and followed her, when, as she was entering the Place des Victoires, he fired upon her with a duelling pistol, the contents of which lodged in her loins, and she fell at his feet. He was immediately secured, arid taken to the Corps de Garde ; on his first examination before the Juge d'lnstruction, he declared that his only regret was that his victim had not been I, t once killed, and that his attempt on his own life had also failed. The poor woman had been at once carried to an hospital, but so precarious was her state con sidered, that the surgeons were unwilling even to at tempt for the present the extraction of the ball, which must he lodged in some very vital plrt. THE LATE DA RING FOOTPAD ROBBERY AT GODALMING. Since the committal of the two footpads, Summer fieldtnci ;sirhb a c( n om d iur :to,di companion, n Edwards ,haveul t' i oxine grt.n e Guildford to and struggle apprehend with t i used e e escaped peovleier ey d u ofe r the officers, but he has hitherto avoided detection, and it is supposed the he has left this part of the country altogether. In cr nsequence of the punlicity that was elven to the former proceedings, various communications have been received from different parts of the country, detailing similar outrages by persons answering the de scription of the prisoners, and aiming others the can: stable from Chepstow attended before the Magistrates, and stated that a lady had been robbed in the neigh bourhood of Cheltenham a short time before by two men dressed in smock frocks, who presented pistols at her bead, and thus• compelled her to give up her money. Upon his being shown the smock frocks found in the possession of the man who escaped, he at once identified them as belonging to Edwards and Summer field, who, it appears, belong to the neighbourhood of Cheltenham, and whose persons he is well acquainted with. The prisoners ha;:ing been conveyed to Horse monger-lane Gaol, it was considered advisable that this constable should proceed there to see whether they really were the same parties, and upon his being intro duced to the yard where they were by Mr. Keene, the Governor of that prison, he immediately recognized them as his old acquaintances. There is not the least doubt, from th e i n f ormat i on t h a t has been received, that these men, with the one who bad escaped, have, for a considerah!e time, been in the habit of going about to a ll t h e f a i rs and markets in different parts of the country, and waylaying the farmers and others on th e i r return home after having disposed of . their sto c k ; an d f rom th e daring manner which they acted, and their mode of disguise by the immediate re moval of their smoc k frocks, exposing a totally different dress underneath, they have for a long time succeeded in evading justice, and the booty they have obtained must have b een ver y co nsiderable. When the pri soners were apprehended they had between thirty and forty pounds in gold and notes on their persons. It is said to be the intention of the authorities to offer a reward for the apprehension of the man who has escaped. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, APRIL 28.—AI though there was a fair demand for fine woollens and light fancy goods, generally speaking the market was not so brisk as might have been expected, if it was only on account of the extremely beautiful weather. Nor do prices much improve, but they are very firm. Orders are snore numerous, and stocks of saleable goods very light, so that better prices are demanded, and must shortly be realised. There is more animation in the wool market, at prices much the same as of late, The warehouses are tolerably busy, and better prices are obtained; but we fear the .nanufacturer is yet far from obtaining a satisfactory remuneration. On Friday night Mr. Friend, grocer, of Preston, was awakened from his sleep by load shrieks in the adjoining room. He immedi ate l y leaped out of bed, and rushed into the apartment, found the bed upon which the servant had been sleeping enveloped in flames. The alarm roused the neighbours, and by their assistance the fire was extinguished, bui; not until it had entirely consumed the furniture of the room. The poor girl, in her fright, rushed down stairs and ran into the warehouse, where she fell through a trap into the cellar beneath, sod was so much injured by the fall as to render it neePsaary that she should be rem'jved to the County Hospital. Brighton Guardian. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSOAIHOUSE. Mr. Hodgson, a solicitor, residing at Wapping, ap plied to the Lord Mayor in behalf of four masters of vessels, viz., John Stewart, of the ship Eliza ; Alex ander Smith, of the smack Ann Eliza ; Alexander Blair, of the smack Hope ; and Peter M'Allen, of the sloop Margaret Cunningham, under the following cir cumstances The vessels are all laden with potatoes, consigned to various potatoe salesmen on the Sarrey side of the river, who, it was expected, would dispose of them at once. The salesmen, however, although they had accepted the cargoes, had refused or neglected to unload them, and had detained them considerably beyond the usual time allowed for discharge. Some of the cargoes had even been detained 25 days. The consequence of the delay was that th e cargoes , b e i ng o f a per i s h a bl e na t uro , had heated, and decomposition had commenced its work. A candle would not burn beiow—a steam was issuing from the hatches and boxes, and, in fact, it was most unwholesome for the masters and their men to remain on board. The masters of the vessels had all protested to the consignees in vain. The latter pail no attention to their complaints and remonstrances, and appeared to be actuated by sordid motives. The Lott]) MaYoa.—You have you:- action for damages. The Solicitor said he was perfectly aware of that, although a notion prevailed amongst the salesmen that they were not liable for damages. The error of that opinion would be very shortly exposed ; but, in the meantime, the inconvenience was very seriously felt, and his Lordship's interference as Conserv,.tor of the river Thames, would have a very beneficial effect. His Lordship must know that stratagems were frequently resorted to, in order to raise and depress artificially the price of the funds. That vice had reached the potatoe market. The LORD MAYOR.—You mean, that to keep up the price of the commodity the consignees refus:.. to sell beyond certain quantities. Mr. Johnson said that such was precisely the case. They did not care about the destruction of the cargo. The applicants were in a sad dilemma. The shippers were generally farmers of uncertain property, and their best, and in many cases, their only security for the freight was their lien on the cargoes ; but it, as hap pened to be the case in the present instances, the cargoes were suffered to rot, and become valueless, their claims would be defeated. The nuisance was increasing hourly, and his Lordship's assistance was most urgently required. He (the Solicitor) had in his hand the de clarations of the several masters to the effect he had stated. The LORD MAYOR said that the evil complained of was certainly a very serious one, and particular inquiries should be made into the nature and extent of the mis- chief. He could think nothing more culpable than the course described, and he advised the applicants to apply to the consignees once more, and if the vessels were cleared out, to dispose of whatever might be still vend able, and their attorney would know what to do as to the rest. If the application proved again unavailing, his Lordship would be glad to receive further informa Con from them, and he was of op;nion that they could obtain good remuneration for the detention of their vessels for so long a period. Two butchers, named Rice and Shade, were charged by Mr. Widdicomb, a surgeon. As the complainant was driving in his cab along, Cheapside, at about four o'clock on Monday evening, the defendants, who were in a cart behind him, endea voured to get before him on their wrong side, and, by driving with one wheel on the pavement, succeeded, and at the same time damaged the wheel of the cab. He said that the conduct of the fellows was disgraceful, and Shade immediately struck the cab horse, which was a very spirited animal, with the butt end of b s whip, between the ears, and then drove off at full speed- The horse that was struck was evidently stunned by the blow, otherwise dreadful mischiet might have been the consequence. As the defendants were both drunk, it was no matter of difficulty to secure them, after a shoat pursuit. The complainant followed them to Leaden hall-street, and there placed them under the care of a policeman. The two butchers acknowledged that they were drunk, and prayed hard tor pardon, which was granted to them atter they paid the expense of repairing the cab, and dropped a sovereign into the poor box. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, Thomas Ditchfield, a young man of respectable appearance, late a clerk in the General Post-office, was brought before Mr. Twyford, by Inspec tor Pearce, of the A division, charged with feloniously abstracting the sum of 1971. 103. from a letter which came into his possession by virtue of his employment. Mr. Peacock, the Post-office Solicitor, assisted by his brother, conducted the case on behalf of the prosecu tion ; and Mr. Robinson, of Hatton-garden, attended for the prisoner. Mr. Richard Marchant Hackett, a merchant., resid ing at N 0.137, Minories, deposed, that on Tuesday, the 14th inst., he addressed a letter to Messrs. Geo. and Alfred Wood, brewers, at Lewes, in Sussex, an d en closed in it a 401. Bank of England note, a 5/. note, the half of a note for 1001., the half of a note for 50/., and two sovereigns and a halt sovereign. He then sealed the letter, and posted it at the branch-office in Lombard-street. The other halves of the two notes for 100/. and 50/. he had previously forwarded to Lewes, but their safe arrival had not been acknowledged. On Fri day, the 17th inst., he received a communication from Messrs. Wood, informing him that the remittance for warded on the 14th inst. had not reached them ; upon which witness went to the General Post-office, and stated the fact. The 40/. note produced was the same he had so enclosed. • Mr. Henry Hutchins proved that on the evening of Tuesday, the 14th inst., he was on duty at the branch office, Lombard-street. A letter posted there for Lewes in the afternoon of the day in question would, in the ordinary course of business, be sent to the General Post office„ and be dispatched from thence to its destination on the same nicht. Mr. Henry Weston stated that on Thursday, the 16th inst., the Bank of England note for 401. now pro duced was received at the Borough Bank, in payment of a promissory note for 551., of Mr. Eaden, 448, Strand. Mr. John Smith, a watchmaker and jeweller, carry ing on business under the firm of Hawley and Co., 75, Strand, prol,ed that he paid the note in question into the Borough Bank, and took up the promissory note of Mr. Eaden, payable to witness. Mr. George Sheppard deposed that he managed the business of the last witness. On the morning of Wednesday, the 15th instant, the prisoner came into the shop and asked to look at some gold watches, Wit ness showed him two or three, and he selected one, the price of which was 25 guineas. He then purchased a gold guard chain for 7 guineas, and also a brequet gold chain with a seal key attached to it for 21. 10s. He then desired to look at a diamond ring in the window, marked 9 guineas, but being too large for his finger witness told hint he could have it altered in an hour. The prisoner said, " Very well, I can call again ; but I will pay you for the articles now." The amount of the watch, chains, and rings was 451. 1 Is., in payment of which the prisoner offered the half of a 501. Bank of England note, but witness told him it would be useless unless he had the other half. The prisoner then said, " Uh, 1 beg your pardon, I left it at home ; but I have a 401. note and a 51. note, which will do as well." He thea handed witness two notes of the amount mentioned, together with half a sovereign, and witness consented to take off the odd shilling. When the prisoner tendered the half of the 501. note, witness observed that he hail also in his possession the halt of another note, ►Which struck him at the time to be the halt of a 1001. note. The prisoner then went away. taking the watch and chains with him, and in some thing less than an hour he returned for the ring, which being altered, he put it on his finger, and went away. Witness placed both the bank notes in the cash-box, where they remained until the foilowing morning, when the 401. note was taken out by Mr. Smith for the pur pose of paying the bill already mentioned. The watch, chains, and diamond ring, were here pro duced by Inspector Pearce, and the witness identified them as the same article S he had sold to the prisoner. Mr. Peacock—Did you not ask the prisoner for his name and address when he tendered you the notes ? Witness—No ; I did not. Mr. William Blott, a clerk in the General Post. office, proved, that the prisoner had been a clerk in the Inland-office. He was on duty as clerk of the Brighton division, where the Lewes bag was made up, on the - evening of the 14th inst. A letter arriving at the General Post-offiee eddresse.l to Lewes, would have passed through his hands, and ought to have been for warded by him in the Lewes bag. • Mr. Samuel James Wood proved that he was a pawnbroker, and lived at the corner of Ashby-street, St. John-street Road. The prisoner came to his shop on the 23d inst., and wished to exchange a mow ning for a diamond ring which was placed in the window, but he did not do so. In the course of conversation he told witness that he had bought a gold watch at Mr. Hawley's in the Strand, for twenty-five or twenty-seven guineas, and said there was one marked 17 guineas in his (witness's) window, which he liked much better. Witness showen him the watch, and he agreed to call ag tin in a few days, and bring the watch lie had bought with him, adding that he had also bought a gold chain and a diamond ring, for which he paid nine guineas, a: Mr. Hawley's. He came again on Monday morning last, and witness, dur ing the intere,al, had received a printed describing the articles produced. The prisoner said, on entering the shop, that he had brought the watch he had been speaking about ; and witness, on seeing it, felt satisfied that the prisoner the p erson ment i one d i n the bill ;kevePs and,- inz the prisoner in conversation, he sent for a police man, but his young man being unable to fi n d one, witness left the prisoner in the shop, end proceeded himself to the station-horse, where he procured two constables, and placed them in his private shop, to wait until he called them in. He then returned to the prisoner, and asked him if be had not bought a gold chain at ;Mr. Hawley's when he purchased the watch ? He replied, " Yes, this is it," pointing to one round his neck ; " and I also bought a diamond ring there, which I left at home." Witness then said, " I hope you will not be offended if I ask you for your name and address." He replied, " Certainly not ;" and then gave the name of " Mr. Francis, No. IS, Wellington street, Goswell street." Witness then told him that he doubted he was telling him the truth, upon which he answered, " Well, you hail better go and see." Wit ness replied, " No, but I think you had better go with one of these gentlemen," pointing to the two policemen who were standing behind him, but whom be had not seen before. He seemed very much surpr'sed, and at first refused to go with the policemen, but they ulti mately conveyed him to th e s t at i on -h ouse. John Hall, a constable of the G division, No. 220, proved that be took the prisoner into custody in the shop of the last witness, and took charge of the watch produced. He searched the prisoner at the station, and took from his p..rson a gold guard chain, a mourn ing ring from his finger, a 101. coun'ry bank note, a Bank of England note for 51., two sovereigns, and ten shillings. Inspector Pearce then deposed that he went to the cell in which the prison-rwas confined at the station in Itosamond-street on Monday last. He told him who he was, and asked fern his ratite and address. He replied, '"Thomas Francis, No. 5, Pitman's-build ings." Witness then asked him where he bought the watch ? He said at Mr. H iwley's, in the Strand. Upon asking him if he belonged to the Post-office, he answered " No." Witness then procured a cab to take him to the Post-office. kie complained of being ill on the way, and procured some medicine at a doctor's shop, As the cab drew up at the Post-office, witness was in the ac. of paying the driver, when the prisoner, taking advantage of the circum,tance, suddenly opened the door 9f the vehicle, darted into the street, knocked down two or these persons iu his flight, and attempted to escape, but witness being close at his heels, succeeded in laying hold of him again, and having taken him in to the Post-alike, he subsequently conveyed him to this Court. Witness afterwards proceeded, in company of Hull and another constable, to the prisoner's lodgings, in Pitman's-buildings, St. Luke's, and, in a bed-room there, the landlady of the house pointed to a box, which she said belonged to the prisoner. Witness, upon opening the box with a key taken from the pri soner, found in it the small deal box produced, in which he found the diamond ring bought at Mr. Hawley's, also two 101. notes, two Si. notes, thirty-nine sovereigns, and various other property. The prisoner had nothing to say, and was fully com mitted for trial upon this charge. He was again charged with stealin g t , from another Post-office letter three 101. B an k o f England notes, four sovereigns, and one shilling. Mr. William Samuel Burton, an ironmonger, in Well-street, Oxford -street, deposed that on the 2d of March last he enclosed the notes and cash in question in a letter which he addressed to Mr. T. C. Salt, of Birmingham. He sealed the letter, and placed it in the postman's bag, and in about a week after he disco vered that neither the letter nor its contents reached its destination. Witness identified the two 101. notes found in the prisoner's box, as two of the notes he had so forwarded. Mrs. Elizabeth Rose, a jeweller, living in Farringdon street, deposed that on Tuesday, the 3d of March last the prisoner came to her shop and purchased a ring for 11. 163., which he paid for with the 101. note produced, upon which " John Smith, 80, Aldersgate-street.' was written. Witness put her own initials on the note, and the prisoner the name and address already mentioned as his. Mr. Peacock—You are not in the habit, I sup pose, of taking Bank notes from strangers without knowing their names and address, and marking the notes yourself? Witness—l always do sa. Mr. Peacock—You act very properly, and I only wish that other persons in your trade would do so. The 101. note produced wan identified as the third note of similar umouat forwarded by Mr. Burton, as above described. The prisoner was committed for trial upon this charge also, and, upon the application of Mr. Peacock, lie was remanded for a week, when other charges will be brought against him, FRIVOLOUS SUITS' BILL. On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Frivolous Suits' Bill was read a third time and pissed. The Noble Lord also r.ve notice of withdrawing the Rated Inhabitants Evidence Bill. The House then adjourned. BAVARIANS IN GREECE. The great object of Bararia is to lull the suspicions of the other Governments of Europe, by making it appear that the Bavarians have left Greece. This, though partly true, as regards the private soldiers, who, if they did no good, were at all events harmless enough in the country, is very far from the fact in re spect to those individuals who have the Govern ment of this country in their hands. I will only quote the names of some few of the Bavarians who remain in Greece, to show the power they still ex croise. General Smaltz, the Minister of War, and the only confidential adviser of his Majesty, who has a seat in the Cabinet ; Colonel Rosner, Commander-in-Chief of the Gens-d'Arrnerie, er military police, having a correspondence with every town and village in the kingdom ; Colonel Hesse, his Majesty's Aide-de-Camp and Commandant of the capital ; Colonel Hitz, Commander-in-Chief of the ar tillery stationed in the important fortress of Nauplia, with seven red-hot Bavarian captains to assist him ; Colonel Feder, in command of a Greek battalion in Maine, and virtually Viceroy of Msina and southern provinces of the Morea ; Colonel Goesinann, Presi dent of the Clothing Department, and Distributor- Gsneral of loaves and fishes to his countrymen ; Groper, Judge-Advocate-General, and who, of course, de cides any question between Bavar ans and Greeks to the best of his judgment. Major Neumayer, D.rector of the Military Arsenal, rather a snug berth ; Colonel Ower, in command of the battalion always stationed at Athens ; Gebbart, Conscil!ier Ministeriel, or in other words, the Minister of the Interior ; Baron Sten gel, his Majesty's Private Secretary, Jack-of-all-trades, Signer of the Certificate, and Private Correspondent to the King of Bavaria ; Feder, brother of toe Viceroy of Maine, and Judge of the Areopagus, or Supreme Court. Then comes the woods and forests, commissariat, the en gineering, and medical departments, all entirely in the hands of the Bavarians ; and, lastly, a class of individuals without names, and who call themselves professors, archi tects, geometricians, accountants, apothecaries, vete rinaries, and heaven knows what. So long as this swarm of locusts, without rank in Bavaria or talent in Greece, is allowed to remain here, it is useless expect ing to see amelioration in public affairs. They firm the cancer gnawing at the heart of everything that would otherwise be healthy, and that wLich is vile and dirty fattens and nourishes them. The King of Bavaria is the High-Priest they obey, and King Otho the golden calf they worship.—Correspondent of the Chronicle. SHOALS OF SALMON.—The river Wye was carcely ever known to be so shallow at this period of the year it has been for some weeks, and the old salmon find it diffi cult to return to the sea after spawning. On Monday and yesterday hundreds of this fish, some of them very large, were seen above the bridge in this city, waiting to go down, as they are averse to passing under the arches in the daytime. 'there is now rather a " fresh " in the river, and .he passage of the fish will be therefore facilitated. We are glad to find that the practice of illegal fleeting is exciting general attention in the country. At Wofcester County Sessions, a representation was made to the magistrates on tha subject, and doubtless the laws against this offence will be strictly enforced. —Hereford Journal. AN A PPARITION.—Some time ago, :It indus trious fam.ly went to Derby, from Wirkswor h, to procure em ployment, which they obtained. The occupant of th e h os they selected for their residence had just departed this life. The room in which he died was contiguous to the one w he re the family eat thi it meals, and which opened into it. One night, the mother of the family while sitting at tea remarked, that she should not feel right unless the room in which the dead man had lain was cleaned and white-washed ; scarcely had she spoken, when the latch of the door of the room alluded to was shaken as if by some supernatural agency. Before the horror-struck family could muster courage enough to enable them to examine into the cause of so unusual an occurrence, again the latch commenced shaking with still greater violence, the door slowly opening; this was too much for the nerves of the party, and, greatly alarmed, rushed forth the mistress of the house, carryirg her child, uttering loud cries, and protest ing she would never again enter the haunted dwelling. Her b-other, a stout athletic man, seized the poker, and with all his might closed the door, holding it fist shut to prevent the egress of any one from within. The neighbours flocked round, when one of them explained that their departed neighbour had a cat, which could open the latch of the door, which no doubt had been the cause of their alarm. A search took place, when poor puss was found, half famished and concealed, and had no doubt Leen driven by hunger to exerciseher ingenuity for the purpose of introducing herself to the new occupants of her departed master's dwelling.—Derbyshire Chronicle. SOUTHAMPTON RAIL-ROAD.—This morning at eight o'clock, an experimental trial of the solidity of the line of railroad, was made frogs Basingstoke to Winchester, by a line of trains of carriages heavily laden with stone and iron, which fully proved the excellence of the carriage line. l O iea n iinl- l gr f o o na n od c w, iay morning, the el e v e nth o f May, the line of road , b t co , completed h e d a m fr p om o n the terminus, n e a d t N f( i ) r r i e Public a s , t l r r a v u e x i ling, the distance bciog eighty-four mites. The mill train Wt I arrive at Southampton from London, in three hours and a half, and the public carriages in about four hours. POISONING IN FRANCE. (From the Gazette de: Tribunaux.) The Commune of Expiremont, in the canton of ' Montendre, and arrondissement of Jouzac (Charente Inferieure), has been lately alarmed by a case of poison ing, an old man, aged 65, having perpetrated the crime on his son, his son's wife, and a young girl, their servant. From the magistrate's investigation it appeared that Jean Roux, the father, inhabited with his wile, in the hamlet of La Croix Fourche, a room adjoining that or his son and daughter-in-law. About four years ago this old man had, it seems, conceived the most violent hatred against his son, the cause of which is attributed to pecuniary motives. The father had often threatened to kill him, 'saying, " Old as I eta, you die by my hand—you shall go before me." These were not mere empty threats in the mouth of a vindictive old man, forgetful of the most imperative and sacred duties of nature. Knowing the habits of his children, he was able from his dwelling to watch and overlook their movements all the day long. Thus he had for a long time meditated and prepared his frightful crime, by purchasing arsenic. The 15th instant was the day chosen for the execution of his murderous pro ject, when, taking advantage of the absence of his son, his daughter-inolaw, and their young servant (aged about fifteen), who had been imprudent enough to leave the key in her master's house-door, he entered the room of his children, and threw the arsenic into a basin filled with soup, which had been got ready for them. Jean Roux, the son, his wife, and the servant re turned, and sat down to table. They had scarcely eaten the soup, when they showed violent symptoms of poison. - The wretched old man drowned himself, on an attempt being made to arrest him. The physicians called in to the victims of poison could not for a moment doubt the reality of the crime, as they even found the arsenic at the bottom of the soup. The guilt of the old man was certain ; he had no ac complices, for his wife, far from participating in his hatred, felt it as a cause of grief. Both the women ure out of danger, but that is not the case with young Roux, whose life is in great peril. It' he is saved, it will be because the large quantity of poison taken pro duced an immediate vomiting up of the noxious matter, which did not remain long enough in the stomach to cause death at once. It was at first believed that the author of the crime !lad taken a dose of poison before drowning himself, but these suspicions have not been confirnv!d by the post mortem examination. PROPERTY IN PANTALOONS. Is the cut of a pair of pantaloons, according to a method more or less economical, an invention worthy of a patent ? This strange question being submitted to the Court of Cessation. hAs lately been answered in the negative, under the following circumstances :—Heintz, tailor in Paris, had in 1837 obtained a patent for an eco nomical cut of military pantaloons. The statements proving the utility of the discovery showed that it would lead to a saving of more than a fifth of the material, the amount of which, according to the inventor's calcula tions, would be above 10,001).000 francs per annum for the Minister of War. Heintz, therefore, set a high value on the communication of his secret, and asked 800,000 francs of the Minister, who refused the offer. He soon extended 'his discovery to civil pantaloons, and obtained a new patent in 1838. This created a great stir in the workshops where the most indispen sable part of man's attire is manufactured. Rival pre tensions were brought forward, and a proceeding for infringement was instituted. The Juge Paix drew a distinction between the military and civil pantaloons, and decided that while Heintz had an exclusive right in the firmer, there was no infringement with respect to the latter, inasmuch as before he had obtained his patent, he had given his secret to the public. On an appeal, the Civil Tribunal of the Seine confirmed the sentence of the Judo de Paix by its decree, but the motive of the decree was different. from that of the first Judge, as it was considered that the calculations on the best use of a piece of cloth are not a subject for legal proceeding, or fit. for a patent. This view was, perhaps, a little too general and exclusive, but, Lowever, the motives of judgments and decrees deci'le nothing, and it is only against the decision itself that it is useful to appeal. Nevertheless the judgment of the Tribunal of the Seine was referred to the Court of Cassation for a vio lation of the law of the 7th January, 1791, according to which every method of perfecting any manufacture whatever, no matter how humble, is an invention worthy of a patent, securing the property to the in ventor. The appeal was, however, rejected by the Court of Cassation.—Gazette des Tribunaux. It appears from the Eighteenth Report of the In- Epector-General on the state of prisons in Ireland that the total number of insane persons confined in that country is 3,426 of these 495 are idiots, 239 epileptic, 983 curable, and 1,661) incurable. THAMES NAVIGATION.—The Thames be• tween Lo n d on -b r id ge and Chelsea is now provided with pro jecting floating piers extending in many places, as at Hunger ford Market, far into the river, and although undoubtedly a great obstruction to the navigation, are very convenient to passengers who proceed short distances in the numerous small steam-beats, which have entirely superseded the trim-built wherry of the industrious waterman. The river Thames has now beco Le the must important public highway in this king dom, and perhaps in Europe. The number of passengers always afloat is enormous, and it sometime' happens there are 10,000 persons going up and down the river at ono time in slearn-vessels, including th ose p rocee di ng t o an d f ro m the Con tinent. Steam on the Thames has almost superseded all other modes of conveyance. The watermen, 14,000 of whom served in the navy during the late war, are deprived of their occupa tion, and are the only body who ave not benefited by steam. Capital t o the amouni of five millions sterling, is employed in steam navigation, and 150 steam-vessels of all descriptions are constantly engaged on the river. INF,NING EDITION. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTERTUESDA Y EVENING. The attendance this morning was quite in keeping with the near approach of an event upon which so many thou• sands are well known to be pending. Our quotation vas laid, in one or two instances, against the leading favourites. The grand revolution was in the rapid rise of Belloaa, and the almost total downfal of St. .Bennett and Abraham Newland, neither of whom was in the slightest favour, so decidedly was the spirit to " get on" the two mares. The business finished at 100 to 8, taken ; St. Bcrnett's and Abraham's prices being 20 to 1 and upwards. George was backed fur a little money at 33 to 1, and then at 20 0 to 7. The prices of the present hour cannot be expected to be those of the morning, as every post must introduce us to the opinion formed of the horses arrived, and also their condition, &c. THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS' STAKES. 2 to 1 off-red on the field. THE CHESTER CUP. 6 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. J. Henders,,n's Lanercost—taken 17 to 2 agst Mr. I{,binson's Melbourne 10 to 1 a.,;st Col. Dey of Algiers—take 11 in hundre d. 23 to 2 agst 11r. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney 23 to 2 agst Dawson's lot--offered 12 to 1 agst Lord Eglitdon's Be lions 101 to 6 aast Mr. Copeland's King Cole—taken 500 to 25 agst Lord Egbitten's Opera—offered 200 to II agst Mr. R. Price's Captain Pops—taken 22 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph 22 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Aimwell 25 to 1 agst The Feather—taken, and then offered 200 to 7 agst Mr. Knot's George—taken freely 700 to 7 agst Mr. Thompson's St.anaty—taken 100 to 8 agst Bellona and Opera—taken 5 to 2 the field agst any two. THE DERBY. —We believe 7 to 1 was offered against Launcelot, but did n o t h ear i t ; 6 to 1 wo uld have been laid by many parties; 10 to 1 was offered again st Assassin; Bto 1 against Theo. - . (off). Black Bess sysa backed repeatedly at 200 to 6, and Gambia at 300 to 1 0 ; 20 to 1 was "bid" against either Lucetta or Angelica' and five points more against Pathfinder. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN . For the Week ended April 24, 1840, ma d e up from' the Return' s : l . A the Inspectors the different Cities and rewns'in England - Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 6Bs 7d. Oats 13.aley 39s. lld, I Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERA32G7S:ESIdOd:FI THE BreeaaSnes o; * ********** ****************** 3VIP PRECEDING. Wheat 69s. Od. I Oats Barley 4os. Ocl. Rye Vs: 7d.5 Pease ***** " 11:: 3131 • DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. 0. Wheat......... Sd. Oats I I Barley ls. 10d. Rye THE MARKETS COAL ---- s, d 6 „ d. gg Adair's ,„ 6 Carr's Hartley 23 ti Walls End Hatton ...,,....••• ' 14 ,,. g Holyw 11 Main l9 I , Wes End Lambton ...... .. '. 3 , 6 Leases Main l5 0 Walls End Pemberton . . .... IT, 3 South Hartley l9 I Walls End Russell's Hatton Iri 6 Tanfied Moor Butes l9 0 Walls End Stewart's ... ..... g 9, 3 West Hartley 2 ,1 t Walls End Whitwell ... ..... 2 3 3 Wylam , l9 3 W a ll s E n d K e ll oe .. ~. ...... 91 6 Wal , s Ei,d Bell and Brown 19 D Pennant's Hart1ep00 1......... ..... ... .., 99 ~ 6 Walls End Clennell l7 S W a ll s E n d Vi c t or i a T ees .... 7,3 6 - 16 Walls End Hilda 2O 0 Blythe. .......... ..............• 0 0 Walls End Killingworth , l9 1 Hartley Walls End Riddell's .. ... .... 2 : 5 Walls End Belmont Walls EndßraddylPsHetton 22 3 ARKET. Ships arrived since' last market-day. 48. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. ' Barley. 1 Oats. Beans. I peaSe• Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to if. s. to s. a. to &1s to 43 1 ' Bsiston Arainttee B ighton 67 75 30 45 27 30 40 S 43 40 Cainbridge — 68 35 26 ::.8 4 g Chichester 65 'l2 38 44 28 29 43 44 41 : 44 Dunmow 7O 76 35 42 20 32 36 42 42 7.; Grantham _., Grimsby 5B 70 35 39 22 20 42 44 -- ' 4 O Hailsham 6B 72 26 32 22 29 46 -- ... Hitchin (54 70 34 46 24 32 25 30 -' 4 4 Ipswich 62 '7O 3tl 32 24 29 38 40 38 Lewes 6l 73 43 22 29 34 40 —. 4 11 Lynn 62 70 32 31 24 28 40 44 40. Maidstone f . ,9 76 36 39 26 32 40 50 -°- 44 Norwich Pet wor th Romford 5B 74 34 42 92 32 36 44 36 4 0 Sandwich 56 77 34 43 27 34 33 45 39 ' 4O Thetford 65 72 39 ' 42" 24 :., •30 40 42 '3 6 „... Wisbech Witham 64 75 32 40 28 33 :36 40 ** 4 4 Yarmouth 62 7u 33 35 26 32 3S 40 40 • Li4ERPOOI. CORN MARKET.—ApriI 11 01 WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. --- R . ed 1 Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 6 9 I - --.--- Red 5 2 - Foreign .... 3 6 4 ' 2 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b .O 11 lrish Foreign 0 0 " a •..••••• ~ 4 1 .. BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter...-.. 36 " a 6 Scotch and Irish, pee titilbs. - 1 9 ,• 5 a 6 Foreign 8 3 II 2 OATS, English, Welsh, ' 3 6 . 3 I 1 Irish ••• 3 10 „• 0 -- Foreign BARLEY, English, Multi', 30 0 11 6 Scotch and Iris( ---- Feeding 3 6 ' BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter as 0 so 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, niglisn, per Imperial quarter 44 0 46 0 Foreign Clone, English, per 280Ib. 54 0 57 --- Irish .. OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 3 44 4 4 1 5 0 INMAN CORM, pCIr 4801 b. ...., 42 0 40 0 RYE, per lasper-al quarter 3 0 0 ----- ... bs c MALT marter HULL. CORN MARKICF. . Wheat, White (per Quarter) ads. 700. t2t. Ited • s"*. tws. 645. Foreign NS. FOG. ttia„ Barley, Mal , ing '2.t. 34.5. SU Grinding Oats, Briti.h Foreign (in bond) —4. —.s. Beans •.. • Pease, Grey... • ... Blue and White — 5 . ...... ..-4. Linseed ... .. • ... . Flour (per sack)... Rapeseed (per ;0 quartcrs) 221. VA 7"'"," d t , 6 7 6 7 6 'I CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.i Per lb. Wheat Barley 4 4 5 U Mutton Oats 4 6 5 0 Veal ........... ...... Beans Cease 6 0 6it Lamb Hay 31.10, to 4/. 104. ltd. per ton CAN'PERBUTtI MARKET. Wheat, white.---- 70s. to 755. Old --s. to red----.... ribs. to 7 _ > s. 6Ss. to Barley, Malting -- 3.95. to 445. Grnding.. —r. Oats :. ) 6s. to 305.....,. 01d,.,,.,,._.,, —s. to .:6; to 1C5....... Old.. , is, to Pease 38s. to —s. Grey...,...... 40s. to 4;:s. CHELMSFORD M...RK ET. Wheat, White 7: to 78 Oats Red Barley 'B 41 White Chewalier Grinding 27 tO 4.1 41 4$ s 30.35 TILE FATE OF MEN OF GENIUS.,...PiaI IIII I S turned a mill ; Terence was a s l ave . Boethius died in 8 1° • Paulo Borghese had fifteen t ra d es , an d starv i ng w i t h them s ,l ' 'lasso was often distres se d f or fi ve s hilli ngs. Servin, 0061 . the most learned and accomplished men of his age, died dru° in a brothel. Bontevogli o was re f use d admittance in the lerY hospital he founded ; and Ed mun d All en, contemporar y wit h ; Shakspeare, died in his own al ms -h ouse. C orneil l e was l'oo to a proverb. Raci ne l e ft hi s f am il y to b e supporte d by h' ;', friend,. Crichton lost Isis life in a midnight brawl. B utler was never master of fifty pounds. Otway is said to have d ie , with hunger. Camoens died in an h osp it a l . V aug han lef his body to the surgeo ns t o p ay hi s d e b ts. C ervantes died N r want. Churchil died a beggar. Lloyd died in the Flee t. 13ickerstaff ran away for debt. Goldsmith, when he died' owed two thusand pounds more th an h e possesse d. Hug h f Kelly was i n s i m il ar c i rcumstances. P ur d en Jones, au thor , ° f the " Earl of E ssex ," an d B oyce, t h e poet, d i ed in great dis" tress ; the forme r i n an h os pit a l, t h e l atter i n a garret. Sterne left his family in penury , and Mrs. Manley, author of " The New Atlentes," sub s isted on c h ar ity, as did t h e w id o w of ~ Smollett ; and Foote di e d pennyless.—Cooke's Memoirs cl Foote. PATENT LEVER WA TCH-E :: " . With silver double-bottom cases With silver hunting ca ses - This celebrated construction (thz. most accurate on whicha watch can be mad e ) i s now offez.:- . 1, with the l a test improe rnents i, e. the detached escapensznt, jewelled in four holes' capped, hand to mark the seconds, ',mad enamel dial, and milm twining power to continue going winding up, at the above price. A printed warranty is given, witk fixed terms, on which th e Watches will al wa y s receive any att en ti on nee d e d. T. COX SAVORY, A Watchmaker, Silver a n d G o ld sm i t h, 47 , C ornh il l ( Sera ors from Gracechurch-stre e t) L on d on . N.B.—Second-h a nd W a t c h es parcha.sed in exchangit. SILVER PLATE of LONDON MANUFG. TUBE.—A. 13. SAVORY an d SONS , Werkini (-1• smiths, 14, C orn hill, L on d on , oppos i te t h e B an k o f ng ital. The best wrought SILVER SPOONS an d FORKS, fl" Ale Pattern, 7s. 2d. p er ounce; t h e Ki ng ' s P attern, 7s. 4d. I'e,. ounce. The f o ll ow i ng are t h e we i g h ts recommende d , but t h e artcles may be had lighter er heavier at the same price }or oc s. 11. .1',"„ ce d t i, 12 Fidole Pattern Silver Table Spoons 'sit at 7 2... l l e • 1 .2 ditto Dessert ditto 24 7 2... 7 ' 1, dno 'table Forks 3O 7 2... 10 15 2 ditto D essert di tto 20 7 2... 7 , ,i; 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 1 ditto Soup Ladle. 4 ditto Salt Spoons; -•. t strong) 1 8 ditto Fish Slice - 12 ditto Tea Spoons ............... 10 7 8 B l- pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong)... 12 King's Patter 1 Silver Table Spoons 4o at 7 4... 14 13 , 4 12 ditto Dessert ditto 26 7 4... 14 ' 12 ditto Tab c Forks 4O 7 4... 12 ditto Dessert ditto 26 1 4.. 9 I; 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 1 ditto Soup Ladle 12 7 4... 4 4 ditto S au c e ditto... 1 12 7 10... 1 4 i 4 ditto Salt Spoons (stron g g il t ) 1 ditto Fi s h Sli ce 2 5 . ...... 0 12 ditto T ea S poons 1 pair ditto S ugar T0ni........ 1 N.B. A P r ic e C urren t, Stami... as a Newspaper, contaill o f ing drawings, and every informatra - .1 relative to the purcll by silver or Sheffield plate, may be had on application, or sent into the country, postage free, in answer to a paid lettos B a TH3. On the 26th inst., in St ra tf or d-pl ace , th e l a d y o f Sir 'Mil li° Knighton, of a daughter, still-born. On the 28th inst., at Ashley Park, Surrey, Lady Fle tcher ' of a daughter. AiARRIED. On the 28th inst., at Wargrave Church, the Rev. Thoinag Hayes, of Heckfield, Hants, to L,uisa Hop e , e ld es t daughte r °f bile Rev. J. Hitchings, vicar of Wargrave, Borks. D/R/). On the 28th inst., George Purling, of Hertford-street, 3111. fair, and of Reigate Lodge, Surrey, Esq., aged 75. On the 27th inst., at Southampt on, C apta i n Si r Tb"n s. Carew, Royal Navy. On the 27th inst., at Wear House, near Exeter, St ga l Catherine, relict of the late Admi ra l Si r J o h n Th o mas D u ck ' worth, Bart., G. C.B. On the 23d inst., in Princes-place, Duke-street, St. Jim" Major William Campbell, late Major in the 36th Regiment. On the 28th inst., in Welbeck-street, the Rev. Jam" f 8,5. nave, for 60 years Chaplain t o th e Ru ss i an Embassy. af'e— On the 22d inst., a t B at h , Jane Maria, widow o f the l a te m John Enys, of E n y s , E sq., and daughter of the late Villebois, of Felth am - p l ace, Middlesex, l Esq., a g ed 66' William of Loudon : Printed and Published kr 111JRDO e Nu. 112, Str,:t:il, at Thu Sw, t hdice, 10. 11‘ 0 , county of .Middlesex..—Thursday, April 30, 1840. .s • 0 7,e,: 'l4 s A • 1 ' I I • 4. t ~,.... r , .~