The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-17 00:00:00

l IS Bil n i 105 E j i Willey vc• sc• pia. Nog 0 0 1030 eat* )13 t b° ing. ig ' ,Is la" Aft': new':tbos" EVENING EDITION. On our return to the Gallery, Captain PECHELL was moving the following clause :—" Provided always, and bo. it enacted, that no thing in this Act contained shall extend to any town, parish, or place now under any Act of Parliament for watching such town, parish, or place, which, by the last Parliamentary enumeration of the population, contained more than 30,000 inhabitants." Mr. F. MAULE objected to the clause, as being identical with the one on the rejection of which the House had already decided. The SPEAKER considered there was a sufficient difference between the clauses, for the House to pro ceed with it. After a few words from Captain PECHELL, the ' House divided, when there appeared.— . For the clause 2O Against it 37 Majority againa the clause —l7 On our re-admission to the Gallery, we found Mr. HAWKES proposing the clause of which he bad given notice, with a view to protect places having - Local Acts from being called upon to pay local rates, in addition to their own constabulary. Mr. F. MAULE did not object to the clause. The clause was then agreed to. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL moved the following amendments :—Clause 16, line 1, after the svord " Constables," to insert, " and where no chief constable shall have been appointed, the Clerk of the Justices." To add these words at the end of the clause —" And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Justices in Petty Sessions assembled, in all cases where no chief constable for the whole county _shall have been appointed, no nominate and appoint one or mere chief constables for the purposes of this Act." He wished the Bill had been referred to a Select Com mittee. Ho believed that ere long the whole measure Would have to be brought before the House for revision. Ile feared that the consequence would be to bring the conduct of all the police of the country into the bands of the Government. He did not think the measure would be liked by the country; it was said the measure was permis sive, but it was permissive in this way. If the counties did not choose to adopt this Bill, they must remain under the present system. Now this was a great hardship, and it was with a view of remedying it that he proposed the clauses of which he had given notice. Did they mean to establish the police for other purposes than for the repression of crime, because if they did not, the machinery was too cumbersome and expensive merely for the suppression of burglaries, horse stealing, and such crimes. If it. were intended for the repression of breaches of the peace, as the Government by this Bill took upon themselves the responsibility, of course they Would herceforth exonerate the hundreds from the lia bility they were at present under, to make good any dama ge that might occur in their districts. Mr. FOX MAULE thought the principle of the Hill had been sufficiently discussed on the second reading. With reference to the amendment, it bad been moved, in a clause which could not come into operation, except in places where the Act was adopted, and therefore it was u nnecessary. The latter amendment of the Right Hon. Gentleman would leave the local constables still to be appointed by the local magistrates, and open to those local attachments and prejudices which at present rendered them so inefficient. He must therefore object to the amendment of the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. ALSTON said that he had seen a letter from the Rev. Jonath Townly, who, on the introduction of Vie police into Essex, was opposed to it, but who now highly approved of it. This showed that where the Bill was in operation it worked so exceedingly well as to turn its opposers into approvers. After a few words from Mr. E. RICE and Mr. lloncEs, the amendment was negatived without a divi sion. Captain PECHELL proposed that clause 20 should be restored to the form in which it was first introduced. Mr. FOX MAULE objected to an alteration of this kind without any notice. The amendment was withdrawn, and the Bill was passed. EAST INDIA MUTINY BILL. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE moved the third reading of this Mr. KEMBLE complained of the rapidity with Which the Bill was pressed. Sir J. C. ROB HOUSE said that the Bill merely enforced with regard to the East India army those pro visions which now existed with regard to the Army in this country. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. CUSTOMS ACTS BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE moved that the Housa go into Committee, pro forma, on this Bill for the pur- Pose of enabling him to introduce into it cert a i n alter ations. Mr. GOULBURN objected to the motion. He thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman should have stated the modifications which he intended to, introduce into the Customs Duties for the information of the country. Sir E. KNATCHBULL objected to the introduc tion of the Bill at that late period of the Session. He believed that it would seriously affect the agricultural interests. Mr. LABOUC HERE said that there was only one alteration in the Bill which could affect the agricultural interest, and that was the alteration in the duty on 'bustard seed and mustard flour. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET inquired whe ther it was the intention of the Right Hon. Gentleman to (like off any portion of the duty upon foreign tin ? Mr. LABOUCHERE was understood to answer in th e negative. The House then went into Committee. After a short discussion in Committee the House I. ,,.‘'sumed, sill leave was given to bring in a Bill. ME TROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS BILL. The Hou se th en wen t i n to C omm itt ee on th e Metro. Poliran Police Courts Bill. The first five clauses were agreed to. UPOn the 6th clause being proposed, thColonel WOOD objected to that portion of the use whi c h a ll owe d pai d M ag i strates to i nterfere w i th e jurisdiction of the unpaid local Magistracy, and moved as an amendment that it be omitted. vMr. P. MAULE opposed the motion. , KNATCHBUL L and Lord G RAN VIL LE opposed the clause. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the clause For the amendment Majority against the amendment —22 On our re-entering the gallery, we found Colonel WOOD moving the omission of the clause altogether. After a few words from Mr. GRIMSDITCH, the amendment was withdrawn, and the clause, with elaus.cs 7,8, an d 9 , agreed to, Oa claus e 10 being proposed, Mr. HAWES said he much regretted to see the police made the common informers of the metropolis. Ile thought it would be much:better, if such persons w ere necessary, that special officers should be appointed for the purpose. Sir ROBERT PEEL said it was quite a new r el. APle to prevent her Majesty ' s subjects gc- Y from l a yi ng i n f ormat i ons, an d i nstanced cruelty to animals as cases in hich such a ower mi be beneficially exercised. He w also thought p it necessary for the efficiency of the police that they should stand Well in public estimation. tL M. WAKLEY t h oug h t i t was not r i g h t to expose ue Police to the odium which would necessarily attach t o t hem as the public informers. He would suggest that parochial constables and beadles" should be inserted in the clause. Mr. PDX MAULE admitted there was a good deal 'n what had been said about the odium which would attach to the police as public informers, but at the same tim e it was necessary to get rid of the common in• formers, who were in the habit of levyi ng a t ax upon a t e i ert a i n . portion of tne community not to inform against ern, a practice which it was desirable to put an end to. Alter a few words from Mr. HAWES, Mr. GOULBURN said he thought in every Point of view the proposed system was objectionable. ~ b M,r. FOX MAULE sa id th ere was another clause - "mil gave the Magistrate a discretionary power as to receiving informations. t Sir ROBERT PEEL thought that clause would end rather th an ot h erw i se to the advantage of corn- Inon informe rs , s i nce, i f the Magistrate refused the in formation, they had still the power to carry the case to Quarter Sessions. Moreover, the common informer could still levy contributions on the public as before, by thr!atening t o cause the police to lay the information, !,vhile he wo u ld b e himself relieved of the odium attend ing it. He thought the cl ause a l toge th er d e f ec ti ve i n He had as great a dislike of common in farmers as other gentlemen, hilt at the same time it must not be forgotten that great good was sometimes effected by persons acting with improper motives. After a few words from Mr. NN AKLEY, The clause was ordered to stand part of the Bill. On clause 11 being put, Mr. F. MAULE proposed to strike out the words - common informer" and to substitute " any person." The amendment was agreed to and the clause as amended__ w as ordered to stand part of the Bill. 1,7 The r ema i n i ng clauses were agreed to and the Report as ordered to be brought up on Monday. RATING STOCK-IN-TRADE B ILL. m ..ead Committee on t hi s Bill was postponed till ". The Toll on Lime Bill was read a second time. M. F. MAULE moved the third reading of the Ju venile Offenders Bill. berg wer Upon that motion th - 2 Hou s e divide ,, when the n um . For the third reading Against it 16 ,„ Majority f or th e t hi r d reading —55 he Bill was then read a third time and passed. The Grand J ury Cess (Ireland) Bill was read a sec time, and or d ere d to b e committed ; as were the Court Ireland) (Ireland) Bill, the Insolvent' Debtors d )and the Court of Exchequer (lielsod) .e c r▪ . M th e Cow e lI U as k e d anY ng to the t" tba . of c 611" Is P re ' cool; ion , , pOs [,l). n i l ol beio, The Caledonian Canal Bill went through Committee. The Report on the Parliamentary Boroughs Bill was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report on the Friendly Societies' Bill ; also the Report on the As sessed Taxes Composition Bill, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, Mr. W. MILES', withdrew the Seduction Bill, being afraid that at the present late period of the Ses sion it would not meet with that consideration which it deserved. Mr. WAKLEY wished that other Hon. Gentlemen would follow the example of the Hon. Member, and strike out of the paper Bills they did not intend to pro secute this Session.—( Hear.) On the motion of Major CHETWYND, a return relating to the Free Grammar School, called Dean In cent's, in the town of Berhampstead, in the county of Hertford, ordered by this house on the 7th May last, was ordered to be printed forthwith. BANK OF IRELAND. The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER then rose to bring forward his motion on the subject of the Bank of Ireland. He would detain the House but a short time. The question stood thus :—The Bank of Ireland Chart er was g r a nted for a certain time, which terminated in the year 1837. The condition of the the charter was, that after the year 1837 it should con tinue, terminating at a year's notice. Therefore the Bank of Ireland continued unless Government gave notice to terminate the charter. There were two sums of money lent by the Bank of Ireland to the Go vernment, which complicated the question—they were lent under different conditions, and carried different inte rest. The first was a sum of one million, bearing interest at 5 percent. That sum was payable at the termination of the charter, and there was no power on the part of the Government to repay that sum before the termina tion of the charter. The other sum amounted to 1,615,0001., and carried interest at 4 per cent, It was originally repayable in the year 1838, but it had been subsequently postponed from year to year. As the sum of one million was repayable on the Ist of January next it was necessary for him to come to Parliament either for the purpose of postponing that repayment or for the purpose of taking the means of repaying it. That was the position in which the question now stood. The sum which he had last mentioned, and which was repayable in 1841, was en tirely disconnected with the charter. The first question was. whether it was advisable, under existing circum stances, to adopt any measure with regard to the charter itself. His Noble Friend (Lord Monteagle), when Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposed that until the time when Parliament would have the pOwer of giving notice to terminate the Charter some arrangement should be made with the Bank of Ireland that the charter should con- tinue on certain terms.. Since that measure v:as proposed the House had appointed a Committee to consider the whole question with regard to the circulation of the country. He had waited to see if that Committee would make a Report this Session, which might assist him. But at this period of the Session it was quite clear that no Report or recommendation would be made to the House from that Committee ; and, therefore, he had felt it necessary to apply for leave to bring in a Bill. It appeared to him it would not be advisable to promise any permanent arrangement with regard to the Bank of Ireland charter, because if he did so he should ha've to go into a discussion of all those points that were under the consideration of the Committee up stairs. He thought it would be better to leave it open to the House to adopt any suggestion which might be made in the Report of the Committee, with respect to the circulation of the country. As the matter now stood, the Bank of Ireland Charter conti nued, unless terminated by notice given by the Govern ment, and in that position it might be fairly left till Par liament had information. He, therefore, thought it unnecessary to introduce any new enactment with refe rence to the charter itself. The same reasons which induced him to adopt that course, would lead him to refrain from giving notice for terminating the char ter, without bringing the case before Parliament. Then with respect to the two sums of money. He would first deal with the four per cent. sum which was repayable on the Ist of January next. That sum was not at all connected with the charter. Although he con sidered it expedient and necessary under the present circumstances to retain a power to deal with the Bank of Ireland if Parliament should - so think fit, yet, on the other hand, he thought it would not be just to.con- tinue an inconvenience that was unnecessary, and it appeared to him, the postponement of the repayment of that sum from year to year, was an unnecessary inconve nience. He therefore proposed to consolidate the sum which bore 4 per cent, interest with the sum that bore 5 per cent. interest, subject to the regulation he would explain. The sum which bore 5 per cent. interest was, as he had stated, repayable on the termination of the charter. The question whether they charged too high a rate of interest or not was quite a distinct question from whether the charter should terminate or not. If Parliament considered that under the circumstances of the case, it was advisable an opportunity should be af forded of receiving the Report and considering the subject, he did not think he would be turned round upon and told he should not pay the money or deal with the interest of the money without putting an end to the Charter. Having consolidated the two sume, he proposed to take a power of repaying the money ad vanced by the Bank, upon giving six months' notice, unless previous to that time the interest should be re duced. His own impression was, that between this time and the Ist of January he would have an oppor tunity of communicating with the parties, and that it would not be necessary to give them the notice. Those were the proposals he intended to make to the House, and the Bill would be very short. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the repayment of certain sums of money advanced - by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland for the public service. —(The Right Hon. Gentleman was imperfectly heard, having spoken in a very low and indistinct tone, and with his back turned towards the gallery.) Mr. HUME thought the Chancellor of the Exche quer had acted very judiciously in the plan he had pro posed. He would, however, suggest that it would be better for him to take the power of paying both sums on the Ist of January, instead of giving six months' notice before the repayment. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON would not oppose the motion for leave to bring in the Bill, and thought the Right Hon. Gentleman was entirely excused in not bringing in the Bill earlier, on account of the Com mittee not having terminated its labours. . Mr. HUME explained, but was not heard in the gallery. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER made some observations which were also inaudible. If he determined the charter, he could not pay the sums until the year had passed. After a few words from Mr. FINCH, leave was given to bring in a Bill. MR. F. O'CONNOR. Mr. AG LION BY moved for a copy of any exami nations, reports, or other papers received from any In spector of Prisons or other person, with regard to the treatment of Mr. Feargus O'Connor in York Castle ; also, of any correspondence that has passed between Mr. Feargus O'Connor and any Inspector of Prisons, or any visiting Justice on the same subject ; and also, for any medical certificates, affidavits, or correspondence sent to the Home-office by Dr. Thompson, and by Messrs. Jeagoc and Cooper, surgeons, with the dates thereof. To his great 'surprise when motion papers relating to this case were pro duced, the most important were omitted. Ile found that Mr. Feargus O'Connor's statements were considered as erroneous, while those of the visiting Justices were adopted as correct, and it was not to be tolerated that in .a free country a gentleman was to be treated as a common felon, and after an inspector was sent down to examine into the truth of his statements, to be deemed unworthy of credit, while the papers relating to the examination were kept at the Home Office. The Report was returned to the Home Office. M. FOX MAULE said No. Mr. AGLION BY continued—He was surprised to hear the Hon. Gentleman say so. H.: thought he should be able to show great misconduct in the Home Office. If Mr. Crawford made no report, that was an answer to his motion ; but if he bad, he thought that he would not be doing its duty if he did not require its production. There was one other point he wished to advert to, namely, Mr. O'Connor's health. He had re ceived a letter frcm Mr. O'Connor on this subject, which stated that while in York prison 'ne had been suf fcring from severe illness. The truth of these allega tions were capable of being ascertained, and he hoped the House would resolve to ascertain them by consent ing to his motion. Mr. WAKLEY could not conceive on what grounds the motion could be opposed. Of what use was Mr. Crawford's examination if it was to be buried in the Home Office ? He thought the House and the country was treated in a very improper manner by the withholding that report. Besides he felt a personal interest in the matter. Political power might pass to other hands, and he and others around him be regarded as political offenders.—(Laughter.) At that late hour he would not enter further into the case at present than to read a letter be had received from Mr. O'Connor since his incarceration in that horrible place, York Castle. The Hon. Gentleman then read a long letter from Mr. O'Connor, dated May 11, stating that he had learnt that a skirmish had taken place in the House of Commons, relative to his treatment. Of course he knew not how, Ministers had found it convenient to have the state ments of Magistrates, Judges, and Marshals of the Queen's Bench ; and, therefore, as he had learned that Mr. Wakley had taken an active part in the debate, he begged leave to trouble him with a few facts which neither Magistrates, Judges, nor Marshals of the Queen's Bench could contradict. When, on the 11th of February, he was committed to the Queen's Bench, preparative to his removal to York Castle, he was suffering under severe, very severe, and dangerous illness. His physician and .... surgeon had visited him, when the former, in the pre sence of the latter, dictated an affidavit that to subject him to prison displine in the then state of his health, would inevitably , shorten his life. It further set forth the natu re o f hi s comp l a i nt , Is hich had originated . the rupture of a blood-vessel in the chest. This affidavit, with a memorial, was transmitted to Lord Normanby on Wednesday, and on Thursday the Judges stated that they had heard from York that day, and that he could be accommodatedthere, and that on the follow ' ing morning he was summoned to appear before the Deputy Marshal, who informed him that, he must be sent to York C as tl e on th e S a t ur d a y morning. Hearing that Saturday was the day on which Members of Par liament transacted Government business at the Home Office, he got another certificate, signed by an eminent medical gentleman, which stated that his removal to York would be attended with great risk and danger. He was answered that Mr. F. Maule required an authenticated certicate as to the risk of his removal, which Dr. Thompson sent, and the answer was that no alteration would be made, in consequence of that very document, which he had himself required. The letter went on to state, that another unsuccessful application was made, that he was removed to York Castle, where he ar rived in a very exhausted state, and should have starved, but that the surgeon of the prison had or dered him some tea.—(Hear.) He (Mr. O'Connor) had no he s it a ti on i n saving t h e S ecretary of State was impeachable for his conduct towards him. The letter concluded by affirming that had such acts been perpe trated while the Tories were in power, the air would have been filled with the sounds of Whig execration, and that it was intended to disgrace him, and as a personal insult. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by cordially seconding the motion. Mr. FOX MAULE could not comply with the motion. Mr. O'Connor had been found guilty of an inflammatory and incendiary libel, and the Judges hav ing fixed the sentence, the Secretary of State had no power to alter it. If Mr. O'Connor had not been in a fit state to be removed to York Castle, the Marshal would have been reprehensible for his removal ; but so far from Mr. O'Conno r b e i ng any th e worse f or hi s journey, he actually, on the Tuesday, visited York Minster. He (Mr. Fox Maule) could state that of his own knowledge, and let Mr. O'Connor deny it if he could. Since his confinement in York Castle he had been allowed to do almost any thing except carry ing on that paper for a seditious libel in which he had been imprisoned. With regard to the demand for any correspondence which might have taken place between Mr. F. O'Connor and the Inspector of Prisons, he had only to observe that no such correspondence had, in his opinion taken place. The appearance of Mr. O'Con nor does not now betray any marks of sickness. He amuses himself in prison, and racket-playing forms part of that amusement. He did rot wish to deal harshly in the case, but if exaggerated statements continued to be made, he would feel it his duty to have the entire subject made public.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it would then appear that the Home Secretary had done every thing that could be justly expected fromhim to mitigate the severity of Mr. O'Connor's punishment ; and he thought it would appear at the same time that many exaggerated statements had been put forward by Mr. O'Connor or his friends. Mr. HUAIE thought that the papers should not be refused. Mr. F. MAULE again defended the course pur sued by the Government. Sir C. DOUGLAS thought that the explanations which the Hon. Gentleman had given on the subject were satisfactory. General JOHNSTONE hoped that the indulgence shown to Mr. O'Connor would be extended to other prisoners.. . _ Mr. FOX MAULE wished to assure the Gallant Member that a distinction had already been made be tween political and other offenders. After a few words from Mr. AGLIONBY and Col. PERCIVAL, strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House proceeded to divide, but there having been only 31 Members present, the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock till to-morrow (this day). PARLIAMENTAN 'I DIVISION. (From the Poles and Prececdings of the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, JULY 15. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH BILL. IN COMMITTEE. Seventh Paragraph (9 Geo. IV., c. 31; s. 15, 16, 17), Rape, &c. &c. &c.:—Question put, " That the paragraph stand part of the Preamble :"—The Committee divided. MAJORITY- Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Bailey, Joseph—Worcester • Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton Baines, Edward--Leeds Bannerman, A.—Aberdeen Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Barry, G. S.—Cork Co. Bernal, Ralph—Rochester • Bewes, T —Plymouth Boldero, Henry G.— Chippenham Brotherton, J.—Salford Bruges, H. H. L.—Bath ktuller, Charles—Liskeard Courtenay, "P.—Bridgewater Ewart, William—Wigan ridden, John—Oldham. Hawes, B. -Lambeth Hindley, Charles—i.sliton Hobhouse, T. Benj.—Rochester odgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Hume, Jose z ili—Kilkenny Hutchins, E. J.—renryn Ingham, Hobert—South Shields Jackson,Mr. Serj.—Bandon Bridge Jervis, S.—Bridport 'MINORITY. Acland, T. D.—West Somerset Baldwin, Charles Barry—Totness Baring, F. T.— Portsmouth Berkeley, Hon. C.—Cheltenh, m Blake, Wm. J.—Newport, Isle of Wight Botfield, Beriah—Ludlow -AYES, 50. • Laseelles, Hon. W. S.—Wakt field Lennox, Lord J. G.—West Sussex Lushington, Charles—Ashburton Mackenzie, Thomas—Ress-shire Morris, D.—Carmarthen Muntz, G. F.—Birmingham Pechell, Captain—Brighton Rice, Edward Boyd—Dover Bundle, John—Tavistock Style, Sir Charles—Scarborough Talfourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading Tancred, H. W.—Banbury Teignmouth, Lord —Marylebone Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton Turner, Edmund—Truro Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Wall, C. Baring—Guildford Warburton, H.—Bridport Williams ' William—Coventry Wilmot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire Vsinnington, H. .I.—Worcesterh. Wood, Benjamin—Southwark TELLERS. Kelly, Fitzroy—lpswich Lushington, Rt. Hon. S—Tower Hamlets —NOES, 25. Inglis, Sir R. H.—Ox. University 'Langdale Hon. C.—Knaresbo , rough Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire Nagle, Sir IL—Westmealh Pakington, J. B.—Droitwich Pigot, David ltichard—Clonmell Russell, Lord John—Stroud Shell, Richard Lalor—Tipperary Stock, Dr.—Cashel Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland Wood, T. J.—Middlesex Bridgenian, Hewitt—Ennis 13rownr:gg, J. S.—Boston Darby, (icorgu—East Sussex Eliot, Hon. J. E.—Roxburghshire Fitzsimon, Nicholas—King's Co. Greenaway, Charles—Leominster Hector, Cornthwaitc John—Pc _ tersfield TELLERS. Maule, Hon. Fox—Elgin Burghs Grey, Sir Charles Edward—Tyne mouth Hodges, T. L.—West Kent TORY FALSEHOODS. The Tory liars have very fertile imaginations. On Thursday last the Times published the following circum stantial charge against Sir Hussey Vivian t "We have seen a letter from - an individual well ac quainted with the condition and employments of the Royal Artillery stationed in the immediate neighbourhood of Dublin,which contains what follows, viz. The Artillery at Island-bridge are not a little indignant at being ordered by Sir Hussey Vivian, or on his authority, to erect the ordnance tents, and keep guard over them for a political breakfast to Mr. O'Connell and his crew 1 They must obey, of course, but they cannot so easily be induced to consider themselves otherwise than as degraded by such an office.' " The Times has good reason to calculate upon the gulli bility of its readers, or it wo.;ld neVer have ventured upon so reckless a falsehood as this, Mr. O'Connell being at the very time attending his duties in the House of Commons. But no matter how monstrous and improbable the lie, the writ, rs in the Times well know that in order tO have it swallowed by the " eftlightehod people of England," they have only to Cram into it the name of Mr. O'Connell or some ca umny upon the people of Ireland. Sir Hussey Vivian lost not a moment In giving its true character to this lie, and demanding the name of its author. The following is the letter of the Gallant Officer; " To THE t latTolt oh Tilt Wails. " Stu—There is not a syllable of truth in the statement contained in one of the leading articles in your paper of this morning, in which it is said that, under my orders, or by my authority, Ordnance tents have been erected, and men of the Artillery placed to keep guard over thbni, for the purpose of a political breakfast, &c.—l have the ho nour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " o:dnance-office, July 9. " HUSSEY VIVIAN. " P. S.—As you express such confidence in your authority, perhaps you will now think it right to let me know froth whom you have derived your informatlont" What, does the rtader think, Wag the pretext for this last and most brazen falsehooi? A week or two since the artillery were employed in erecting tents fer a public breakfast, which took place upon the grounds attached to the Chief Secretary's Lodge, in the park, the prbfits of which were devoted to tht bentvoleht object of prtiViding clothing for the half-naked emigrants about to be sent to New South Wales by the Mendicity Society. This chari. table fete was got up under the patronage of the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and the officers of the garrison, including, of course, if there be arty truth even in the explanation of the 'Antes, the " distinguished military officet' who Wrote the lie about the political breakfast to " O'Connell and his crew." It is such an ocCnrrenco as this that the Times and its Correspondent have tortured into an attack upon Sir Hussey Vivian and the Government. But the Times will readily be forgiven by its party—for the lie has been told for the service of that faction who affect to be the exclusive patrons of re ligion, and, at the worst, they will regard it as no more than a pious fraud. —Dublin Evening Post. The falsehood of the Times, we see, is circus lated in many of the Tory papers:; the contradiction will escape the notice of the Editors. Of the same description is the falsehood coined a short time ago by the Post, " that some members of the Cabinet had wished to associate the Duke of SUSSEX with Prince ALBERT in the Regency ) but after a warm discussion in the Cabinet had been defeated." This was a pure and unadulte rated falsehood, but in the following extract from the Brighton Gazette it is assumed to have been perfectly true, even after it had been contradicted The Whigs have thought better of their it:de cent scheme 9f joining the Duke of SUSSEX—a violent partizan of their own—in the Regency with Prince ALBERT." The falsehood thus put forth will cause all the credulous dupes, who rely on the Brighton Gazette for information, to believe that the Whigs really had intended, contrary to their own precedent of 1831, in the case of her present MAJESTY, to make the Duke of SUSSEX Joint- Regent. The scheme, which never had any existence but in the fertile brain of the Tories, is pronounced indecent ; and thus the Ministers are stigmatized for an offence which is committed wholly by their accusers. If Sir R. PEEL, by the observation we refer-red to yesterday, meant that inventors of fake. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1840. hoods, such as these Tory scribes, deserve a more severe punishment than men who commit outrages, we agree with him. His supporters in the press are daily and wilfully guilty of that offence which some Irish electors:may practise once a year, per haps, and for which these Tory scribes assert the said electiors ought to be deprived of all political ptivileges. They have pronounced sentence, in this conclusion, on themselves, and we have some confidence that they will be constrained to early the sentence into execution. TRIAL OF MADAME LAFFARGE TRIBUNAL CORRECTIONNEL OF BRIYES, JULY 9. ROBBERY OF THE DIAMONDS. M. Laviale de Masmorel, President. At three o'clock in the morning, a crowd of persons had already congregated at the doors of the prison in which Madame Laffarge had been incarcerated for the last seven months. Although the sitting was only announced for eleven o'clock, the elite of Brives were at the private door by eight, as for a fete day, and were eager to occupy the places which had been reserved for them in the hemi cycle in front of the bench of magistrates. At nine o'clock all the places that could be disposed of were occupied, and three rows of ladies, nearly all in the bloom of youth, handsome, and dressed in a style of true Parisian elegance, extended circularly round the alcove which had been assigned as a tribune for the witnesses subpmnaed to give evidence. The seats placed behind the tribunal were occupied by the Magistrates, the authorities of the town, the Prefect, and the general, who were at Brives attending the council of revision for the young conscripts. Among the crowd was recognised the celebrated compiler of de crees, M. Sirey, who has been a resident at Brives for some length of time. At ten o'clock Viscountess de Leotaud, who has con stituted herself the plaintiff by an act which was notified yesterday to the defendant, arrived, accompanied by her husband. This lady, who is far advanced in preg nancy, appeared to be suffering, and was much affected w h en s he passed through the crowd. Her features are regular, and display much meekness ; her eyes are jet black, with flowing eyelashes, which tend to increase the paleness of her countenance. Viscount de Leotauti is a young man about 25 or 30 years of age, possessing a figure distinguee. At this moment shouts from the outside announced the arrival of the prisoner, and at ten minutes :past eleven Madame Laffarge was brought into Court. The prisoner took her station on an elevated bench, having her counsel, M. Bach, on the right, and M. Lachaud on the left. Madame Laffarge was dressed entirely in black. A crape bonnet of a low shape which she wore would have admitted of a full view being obtained of her features, if a long gauze veil had not pa r tl y i mpe d e d pu b l i c cu riosity from satisfying its impetuosity. Every motion, every anxious look, with which her frame might be agi tated was sedulously watched by the indiscreet eye of the spectator, and rudeness was even resorted to by the ladies, in order to obtain a glance at the prisoner. Madame Laffarge is pale, her hair is jet black, and her complexion somewhat wan. Her dejected counte nance, her long eye!ashes, her eyebrows elegantly dis played on a smooth forehead, the regu l ar i ty of her fea tures, the precise unison of a mouth s o m ew h a t l arge , but allowing some pretty white teeth to shine forth, the lips slightly curved at the extreme points, added to her skin, which is naturally white, seemed to constitute in its several parts a perfect assemblage, a remarkable whole. Madame Laffarge is neither beautiful nor pretty. When she took her station on the bench ele vated above that of her counsel, she assumed a dejected look and remained motionless. _ The tribunal remained a short time in the council chamber before coming into Court, when an aged lady was seen to wend her was across through the crowd without casting a glance at the ben c h o f t h e accuse d . That lady was the mother.in-law of the accused, the mother of the unfortunate Laffarge. She had a seat reserved for her near that of the advocates. The tribunal opened its sitting, and was presided over by M. Laviale de Masmorel. M. Dumont de St. Priest took his seat on the Judges' bench, and M. Rivet, the King's Procurcur, seated himself at his side. The President called upon the substitute of the Pro cureur du Roi, to open the case. M. Bach, Counsel for Mme. Laffarge, here rose, and moved the Court for a postponement of the hearing till the trial of his client before the Court of Assizes, for the imputed murder of her husband. After a very long but impressive exordium the Learned Counsel proceeded to the point, stating that, at the commence ment of the previous investigations on the accusation laid against his client of the crime of poisoning, traces of a minor offence were discovered, and a new process was commenced against Madame Laffarge, and from that moment the inquiries as to the greater crime were relaxed, and she found the period at which she was to be cleared of the first horrible impu tation cast upon her postponed to an indefinite period. At last, only a few days before she was to appear before a jury to answer an accusation affecting her life, sho was dragged before the Correctional Tribunal to defend her self against a charge which, if found well grounded, would be visited with a sentence of imprisonment for five years at the most. '•-Is not this mode of proceeding," exclaimed M. Bach, " contrary to the law, to equity, to justice, to humanity, to common sense ?" When several crimes or offences amenable to the same jurisdiction were in question, they were, he affirmed, in cluded in one and the same charge or indictment ; and if the prisoner was found guilty upon several of the counts, there were not as many punishments awarded, but only that one which was applied by the law to the greatest crime or offence, it being thus expressly laid down by Art. 365 of the Code of Criminal Instruc tion. --- M. Lachaud, the other advocate for Mme. Laffarge, followed M. Bach in a very impressive speech addressed principally to the feelings of the Court, but, at the same ti m e, supporting the argum en t s o f M . B ac h . M. Coralli, the advocate of M. and Mme. Leotaud, ep Iprisoner' se onof this pr ocess w as indispensable counsel. He urged that an d e m t , ttheirhdeeis children, an d f amily relat i ons, wh o h a d immediaterer t i e h been suffering the utmost grief - and pain from the inipu tations which had been cast upon them, but to which they had nut replied, in order net to aggravate the lamentable situation in which Madame Laffarge, who ' had been their intimate and friend, was placed. He begged that the cause might be allowed to go on ; his clients called for the disclosure of the truth, and re monstrated against any further delay. M. Dumont de St. Priest, Substitute of the Procu reur du Roi, rose and observed that be considered the law-officers of the Crown would have been wanting in their duty if they had not ca ll e d f o r immediate proseen tion In this pre se nt a ff a i r o f th e imputed robbery. This ptoseetitioti had not been unfairly hastened on ; the other more grave accusation had not been unduly postponed ; it only happened that the preliminary pro ceedings in the fernier case had. been terminated sooner than in the latter. He thought, therefore, that there was no reason for any postponement of it. M. Mach replied that if the genie civile had suffered from delay, the agony of his client, duping SeVen i a n i m g s e d or for her ; months of solitude and the tortures of a prison, Were also to be considered. She, too, was anxious for the exemplified in the the. jmuesst ti Justice, n : i t e dee m nen e dl mental a was . aenste d strikeb whatodial bodily Ihetseeueffa entertainednec sufferings soon, oe d a y , the rnAiiigoya.s:ist yi.etce the King's rrocuteur, entered, hour of Justice; end with her delay was accompanied p c a li n e i n e t d . with odium, for it was assiithed that Mid Wet enreilling to see the hour of justice arrive. How great, then, for animated case o u at f t hs ee it a odrfdmi justice. goruhe Ox ford, rights be jtistiee acecimpatiied With the form s fid cuatAyt ifotinteshr. ite,:nfuhrnoinst rhgh opportunity idi nte whichiftoi:lf Aiettriidhmta.etafeiecoljai:ilidlitt,mheitraetewatbsihs hardly o , M rd t . i e le ß r a j t c o u h d e g n ‘ e ‘ a t b h le le means of ' . bo M yf M. alludinge Bach fenc e concluded ntEo n thegiae drae:avpseercyt 1 s n v t r the Twi hN J eGn u d o g trh e se JULY retired, c o u r 1t 1 . and himefaoen r ud d e, mercifults a oe nl prepare called efpoa rxeefxo the h u dme p pa o ldpne defence riei the ensd: tribunalefvhen, eo rfti hiseie, , ye said re plied, ' God forbid that we should withhold from a pri sonervarlesapt the Court, ex g Himself. Our first nithdPeinosC i bl urt was adjourned. announced that they would give their decision on o h n er S j b a u e t s u in t r ' - paneroietnjeeecdt of a r r with Madame Laffarget o n p h ei e o r n a w h o had been in attendance SECOND sci The Court presented the same appearance as on the was entirely filled with ladies, orad dy In the same manner its oh preceding sit packed that her presence attracting the like raonodimtsofwocarlsothsaeelgy quarter usherar were te r 0 f t p h at e sh y te d business. 'the judges. took their seats on the the Courts dressed bench, waiting a i n n d t h the c h am accused,bterriaol,f t : the preceding day's degree of curiosity: , 4 4 The President preeeedeo to uellvet the decision of the Judges on the application for a postponement of the hearing till after the trial for poisoning before the Court of Assizes, cleciarieg that, as the robbery of the diamonds of Madame Leotaud, imputed t o M a d ame ...i Laffarge, took place lo n g p reviou Y to the poisoning of Monsieur Laffarge, and was subject to a jurisdiction perfectly distinct from that to which the crime of mur der was amenable, it was the duty of the Correctional Tribunal to proceed to a hearing and decision of the ac cusation for the offence of robbery, without waiting for the trial of the greater indictment befor'e the Court of 1 Assizes. M. Bach announced that Mete. Laffarge intended to appeal against this decision, and M. Perdieu, her avoue, tendered the appeal to the registrar in the Court. The Procurcur du Roi objected against this as in- formal, the rule being that the appeal should be lodged at the office of the registrar. 1 After some discussion the Court granted time for this purpq,se, auktovezlifig he. hearing_for a quarter of an hour, the Judges retiring, as did Mme. Laffrage and her Counsel. When thp business was resumed, M. Pcrdieu moved the Court that the trial should be postponed until after the hearing of the appeal. This gave rise to a long argument, in which the advocates for Mme. Laffarge and the prosecutors and Procureur du Roi took part. The Court, after retiring for three quarters of an hour to deliberate, refused this application, and ordered the trial to proceed. M. Bach then declared the intention of Mme. Laf farge to suffer judgment to go by default, and demanded permission for her and her advocates to retire. The President granted this request, and the prisoner and her Counsel withdrew. The indictment was then read. M. Coralli rose to open the case of the prosecutors. He commenced by declaring that. as Mmc. Laffarge was absent, he should confine himself to a plain and simple statement of facts. The intimacy of Mdlle. Marie Capelle, Madame Laffarge, with the family of Dr. Ni colai, commenced in January, 1836, she having been introduced by Madame de Montreton, the elder sister of Mdlle. Marie de Nicolai, Madame de Leotaud, who had resided with her since 1823, having then been left an orphan. The two young ladies became attached, and frequently walked out together, some times attended by Mdlle. Delvaux, the gouvernante of Mdlle. de Nicolai. They after a time observed a young man who constantly seemed to follow their steps, par ticularly when they went to church. These assidui ties became subjects of conversation between the young ladies, and Mille. Capelle contrived to learn his name and address to be Felix Clave, the son of the master of a school in the Faubourg du Roule. 1 hey conceived the idea of writing him an anonymous letter, which was composed between them, and copied by Mdlle. Capelle, intimating, among other pleasantries, that walking in the Tuileries and Champs Elysees was good for the health. Some days had passed when, on enter ing the Champs Elysees from the Tuileries, M. Clave presented himself to them, believing, no doubt, that an assignation had been intended for him. They met him again once more. This induced Mdlle. de Nicolai to reflect that the young man imagined there was some serious intentions on the part of herself or her young friend, and she resolved to en deavour to repair her imprudence, and made Mdlle. Capelle write him another letter, entreating him to cease his attentions, and by no means attempt to dis cover who the writer of the letter was. M. Cleve, how ever, persisted, and wrote two more letters to Mdlle. de Nicolai, who became greatly disturbed with alarm and regret. While she' expressed this in her corres pondence from the Chateau de Busagny, to which she had removed with Mdlle do Capelle, the latter was keeping up a constant intercourse by letter with M. Cleve, who, it seems, complained of the manner in which he had been treated. Mdlle. de Nicolai, who had acquainted her gover nante with the cause of her uneasiness, repeate'lly re quested Mdlle. Capelle to return all the letters, but received nothing in reply, except a volume of poems written by M. Clave, in which there was a letter from him, stating that he would never part with those p - hich he had received. At last Mdlle. Delvaux went personally to Mdile. Capelle, and succeeded in ob taining all the letters addressed to them jointly, and upon which Mdlle. de Nico'ai wrote to acknowledge their receipt, and at the same time recommending dis cretion. The intercourse between the young ladies became relaxed. In October, 1837, M. Cleve went into Africa, and remained there till December, 1839. The two friends did not meet again till September, 1839, when Mdlle. de Nicolai observed, in the bills of the opera of Guillaume Tell, the name of Clave among the chorus singers, and pointed it out to Mdlle. Capelle. From the inquiries made through the police, it has been ascertained that this was another person, and, in fact, the M. Cleve with whom they had been in correspondence was at that time still in Africa. One day, when Mdlle. Capelle was on a visit to Busagny, a question was discussed between Madame Leotaud and Mdlle. Capelle on the difference of false diamonds made of paste, and the real stones. To show the dif ference the party went up to the chamber of Mine. de Leotaud, and made a comparison by examining her sets of jewels. As Mme. Leotaud opened the place in which her jewels were deposited, Mdlle. Capelle went to bring a clasp, set with paste diamonds, in order to make the comparison, and when she returned, it was discovered that thejewels had disappeared. At first no great uneasiness was felt, as Mme. Leotaud imagined that either her husband or her mother had taken them away, to cure her of her habitual carelessness in leaving the closet open. This idea was, however, soon and painfully dissipated ; the parties suspected of having given the lesson solemnly affirming that they had not touched the jewel-case. M. de Leotaud immediately laid an information before the police, but all their re searches were fruitless, and certain servants suspected were fully exculpated. The suspicions against Madame Laffarge had, said M. Coralli, a singular origin. She had learned that a servant had been suspected, and informed him that she knew of his innocence, and, in the event of his being dismissed, would provide him with a situation. How was she acquainted with his innocence ? An old femme de chambre, who was in her service, had related that Madame Laffarge had said in jest that she had stolen the diamonds and swallowed them. At the Chateau de Corsi Madame de Monbreton, the sister of Madame de Leotaud, being a believer in animal magnetism, had proposed to magnetise Madame Laffarge. Madame de Monbreton b a d mere l y ma d e a few passes, when 1 Madame Laffarge pretended to fall into a somnambulic sleep, and, in answer to some questions about the diamonds, replied that they had been taken out of the drawer of Madame de Leotaud and sold to a Jew, who was no longer in France. They had, she said, been dis mounted, and the mounting was thrown into a water closet. The person who had taken them, she added, was a man, but no one of Madame de Leotaud's family. I\l. Coralli read the letter of Madame de Mon breton to her mother, giving an account of this magnetic scene, and said that the pretended reve lation of Madame Laffarge was evidently intended to cast suspicion upon one of the visitors. At the period when the marriage of Madame Laffarge was taking place other circumstances of a suspicious nature occurred. It was observed that she had:a considerable quantity of jewellery, which she pretended had been given to her by Madame de Monbreton and Madame de Leotaud, which was untrue. The investigation, however, was not followed up. Madame Laffarge quitted Paris for Glandier. The diamonds did not make their appearance for a long time, but one day they were produced under singular circumstances. M. Laffarge said,if he had a diamond, he would cut a square of glass which required reducing. Madame Laffarge immediately said she had diamonds, and, having fetched them, laid them and some pearls before her mother-in law and her husband. On their expressing astonish ment at their beauty and value, which they supposed to be from 20 to 25,000 francs, and asking Madame Laf fame how she came to have them, she replied that they had been hers from the age of eight years, but that they had been entrusted by her father to an old servant, who was not to give them to her till she came to years of discretion. At the death of M. Laffarge, said M. Coralli, the suspicion of theft against Madame Laffarge gained ground, and search having been made at Glan dier, the diamonds were discovered and identified by the pefsnn who had sold them, and also by Madame Leotaud. At her first being interrogated, Madame Laffarge pretended that these diamonds had been sent her by an Linde from Toulouse, whose name and domicile she could not, however, indicate. Afterwards she retracted this statement, and gave a totally different history of the affair. She said that, after Mdlle. de Nicolai had been married to the Viscount de Leotaud in February, 1838, she (Mine. Laffarge) went to Paris in the May following, and told Mine. de Leotaud that she had re ceived a letter from Clave, dated Algiers. Mme. Leo taud told her that this was impossible, since she had seen Clave appear.only a few days before on the stage of the Opera as one of the c'.:nrists in Guillaume Tell; and she begged Madame Laffarge nct to reply to her letter. This she promised, adding that e could not believe Cleve to be at the Opera till she should a ctually see him there herself. In the December fcllowing she went, she said, to visit Madame de Leotaud, who told her she was in despair; she wanted money to purchase silence from Clave, and that she could not bear to live in such a state of uncertainty. In May, 1839, Madame Laffarge added, she had gone to visit Madame de Leo taud at Busagny, and that lady, she asserted, said to her that she must absolutely have some money ; that the anxiety she felt lest Clave's imprudence might be tray her to her husband had been so great that she had been obliged to wean her child. Madtime Laffarge further asserted that Madame Leotaud said she knew of only one way to get money, arid that was to sell her diamonds —adding, that she was tempted to get them, as it were, stolen from her, and have them sold. It was on the occasion of the marriage of Mdlle. do Beauvoir, sister of the sister-in-law of Madame de Leotaud, who * Was to be married at her resideuce, near Busagny, and as there Wag to be much company assembled on that occasion, Madame de Leotaud determined to make it appear that her diamonds were stolen then.. In order that the servants of the house might not be suspected , Madame Laffirge said it was agreed between her and Madame de Leotaud that on the Sunday the case of the diamonds should, on some pretence or other, be brought' down, and left on the table of the salon on the rez-de-cliaussee. Most of the servants were gone out. The diamonds, said Mme. Laffarge, were brought down, and left on the table, the doors to the garden remaining open, from 12 o'clock to 3 ; Mme. de Leotaud then replaced the case in the drawer of a tab le in her bedroom, and left the key in the lock all the time the marriage fete lasted, in order to give a better chance for the story o the robbery to be believed. T hree or four days after, ac f cording to Mme.Luffarge, Mine. de Leotaud remitted the diamonds to her, and in order that the supposed tact of their having been stolen might come out only indirectly, it was agreed that there s hould be a comparison made of real diamonds with some paste ones which were the fastenings to Mine. Laffarge's prayer-book in the pre sence of some of the family, and it was then that M. Leotaud perceived that his wife's diamonds were missing. He caused such strict inquiries to be made that Mins. Laffarge said she was frightened, and begged Mine. de Leotaud to take back the diamonds. She,however, begged Mine. Laffarge to keep them still, and in order to conceal them the better determined cn taking them out of their settings. They shut themselves up in their room, and did so with a penknife aad scissors, afterwards put ting the diamonds in a satin sachet. Next day, when the gendarmes from Pontoise came to make search in the chateau, Mme. Laffarge, as she asserted, was so much alarmed that sbe begged Mine. Leotaud to re main with her in the room all the time, for she should never be able to avoid confessing if they asked her about them. The same day, one of the servants being suspected, and, being -in tears about it, Mme. Laffarge said she told him not to be distressed, to apply to her if he were dismissed, and she would do all she could for him. A few days after she again begged Mme. de Leotaud to take back the diamonds, but she desired her to keep them some time longer, and she took them to Paris. Mine. Laffarge added that she was married to M. Laffarge about this time, and, with m ine . d e Leotaud's consent, took the diamonds with her to Glandier ; it being agreed that she should sell the diamonds, when so instructed, Mme. de Leotaud hav ing settled to speak to Lecointe, the jeweller, about their value, and Mme. Laffarge having agreed that she would meanwhile tell her husband that these diamonds had been given to her in trust. Mine. Laf farge bad further stated that Mme. de Leotaud, who owed her 1801. had given her two pearls instead ; and that she had given them to Fossin, the jeweller, to have set. She had further asserted that she had never con fessed till then the trath about these diamonds, because of her vow of secrecy to Mme. Leotaud. Such, said M. Coralli, was Mme. Laffarge's second and last statement ; the inconsistencies and improba bilities of which he would not stop to pctint out. Before, however, she had made this arrangement, she had taken steps with regard to an arrangement with the family of Mme. de Leotaud, and M. Bach, her advo cate, had been to Paris to see that lady. He had applied for a private interview, but this he had not ob tained, and he only saw her in the presence of her hus band and other relations. It was then that M. Bach re mitted to Madame de Leotaud a letter, written to her by Madame Laffarge, the object of which, he would contend, was to intimidate her by an attack on her character. In this letter Madame Laffarge re peated nearly the same statement as she afterwards made to the examining Magistrate, detailed above, and appealed to Madame de Leotaud, as though it were true, to come forward and rescue her friend from the horrible position into which her devotedness to Madame de Leotaud's wishes had plunged her. This letter terminated as follows : " But why continue? Why not address myself ex clusively to your heart and your conscience ? Would you have to reproach yourself with my death ? Oh ! I could not survive such a belief. I know how to die ; but in dying, before the priest who shall absolve me from my sins, before my friends, before Christ, I will say that I die your victim, that I am inno cent, and that I will bequeath the task of repara tion for my grave and my memory to icy friends. When I am dead, Marie, I shall be pitied and avenged, and your weakness will be a crime and a dishonour. Instead of this, look at your son, of whom you are proud—at your Raoul, whom you love so dearly. Dread that God will avenge me in his person. Come and love me again, and save me. There is only one thing to be done now. You must declare, in a let , ter, signed by you, and dated in June, that you confided the diamonds to me, with an authority to sell them, if I should think proper to do so. This will stop the af fair. You will explain your conduct in your own way to your husband. All your letters will be sent back to you, and the most profound secrecy will guarantee your honour and tranquillity. Adieu ; believe me, Marie, that to save you I have been for two months a martyr ; you have forgotten me. I could give you my life ; but my reputation, the love of my friends, the honour of my sisters—never !" This letter could only be intended to frighten Mme. de Leotaud. It, however, produced no such effect, and proceedings bad taken their course. This was the case for the prosecution. M. Coralli demanded that the trial should be adjourned for that day. The President said the sitting would be resumed on Monday, the 13th. CONVICTION OF AN OUTRAGE MANUFACTURER. At length the law has overtaken one of the manufac turers of crime in Ireland—a tribe of ingenious vagabonds quite peculiar to this country. As we attach some im portance to the circumstance, we shall hero introduce the report of the case : MIDLETON SESSIONS. —FRIDAY. James Hallaran was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury, in having sworn in his informations before Mr. Knaresborough, Stipendiary Magistrate for the East Riding of Cork, that his house at Ballyhandra, was at tacked by a body of armed men on the night of the 17th of September, or the morning of the 18th ; that one John Finn presented a pistol at him, and that James Farrell and David Connery had robbed him of several pounds iu money, and otherwise ill-treated him. Upon these in formations the parties had been committed to stand their trial at the last assizes, but the prosecutor not appearing, they were t flowed to stand out on bail. James Farrell, David Connery, and John Finn, deposed that they were placed as keepers on the lands on the night in question, for rent due to Mr. Beamisb, and that they never entered Hallaran's house at all, or-saw him during that period, nor did they see any one else do it. On cross-examination by Mr. Bullen, Farrell, and Con nery, admitted that they had been charged with man slaughter, and Finn admitted that hi s b rot h er h ad been arrested for manslaughter also, through the instrumentality of the prisoner Hallaran. Catherine Downing and Mary Leary also swore that they were in Hallaran's house that night, doing harvest work for him, and that no attack was made upon it, nor no occurrence of the kind took place. They admitted, on cross-examination, that they were strollers about the country, and that the prisoner owed them money for wages, for work they had done for him. Mr. Bullen addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner, and contended that the evidence was of such a nature that it could not convict him. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Baldwin) said that the prisoner was found guilty of a most heinous crime—nothing less than of having falsely charged other persons with a capital offence, that not only perilled their lives, but also dep r i ve d them f their liberties. As there was not a single re deeming or palliating feature in the prisoner's case, be would inflict the highest penalty which the law awarded, and transport him for seven years. The conviction of this worthy disciple of Paddy M.Kew created the greatest satisfaction throughout the whole country. In September last a full report of the outrage, for in venting which this fellow has been convicted and sentenced to transportation, appeared in the Dublin Evening Post. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME Ci RC UIT—IJERTFORD, TIIU RSDA r. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. ,.. Baron GURNEY.. . TILE RICKMANSWORTH CASE.—Henry Thompson (19), a well-dressed young man, was indicted for feloniously cutting and maiming Elizabeth Humphrey, with intent to kill and murder, or to do her some grievous bodily harm. Mr. CHAMBERS defended the prisoner. Elizabeth Humphrey, a pretty looking young woman, was sworn. She was very much affected and cried bitterly. She deposed that she was eighteen years of age, and re sided at Rickmansworth. She was employed at St. Alhan's silk mills, and had kn ,wn the prisoner for some time. He is a shoemaker; they kept company for some time, and on the evening of the sth of March they were together. She was first in his company a little after six o'clock, and they walked about till nine, At this time they were crossing a field, and she suddenly felt something which turned out to be blood trickling down from her throat. There was no one but the prisoner in company with her. Finding the blood running down she put up her apron to staunch it. She did not remember saying anything to the prisoner, or he to her. After this she walked home ; the prisoner did net accompany her home. Witness did not know how much blood she lost, but when she got borne she became faint, and a doctor was sent for. A female named Charlotte Fenell; assisted her home. On that night the prisoner seemed different to what he generally was ; she had bad no varrel with him whatever. They had been talking to gether end were good friends all the evening before this took place. Witness afterwards found that her throat had been cut. Cross-examined—There was no struggle before this took place ;it occurred in the field. The prisoner lived nearly a mile from her house. Did not recollect hearing the prisoner say that he was going to Rickmansworth. The prisoner said that he expected a writ to be served upon him, and appeared to her to be in trouble, and she told him not to vex himself on that account. The prisoner did not seem so merry on that day as usual ; she had said that she did not think tthe prisoner on that night was in his right mind, and it appeared to her that he was not. She had seen him in the early part of that day, and she proposed that they should have a walk in the evening. She did not recollect w hether he made any objection to it. She had wa lk e d with him in the fields before this evening. After she felt the blood trickling down she said something to the prisoner, but did not recollect what it was. By the COURT—Did not know tvhat induced her to think that the prisoner was not in his right mind. By Mr. CHAMBERS--She did not put her arm round the prisoner's neck on this night, and kiss him before they parted. Four other witnesses were examined, who corroborated the testimony of the prosecutrix. It appeared also from the evidence of two of them that the prisoner had made an 1 at tempt on his own life. Mr. Charles Jones deposed that he was a surgeon, and on the evening in question he was called on to attend the prisoner, whom he found at the Fox and Hounds public house; he had an ineised wound in the throat three quarters of an inch in depth, and three or four inches in length. Ile had a razor on his person ; it was a very se rious wound, and his life was endangered by it. Ho was ill for ,several days before he was able to be brought before the Magistrates. Cross-examined.—He was insensible when I first saw him ; I dressed the wound, and ordered him to be taken home immediately, and I went there and staid with him a t able to talk few h d o id ur n s n , t a r n a d aa d v u e r r in h g i a m a o e s n t s e a f a. th a l t i t: mweashenwass convulsed, the next morning. The prisoner was very much convulsed EVENING EDI-TION. : • whenever I approached him, ancLfrom what I saw tsla not think he was in his sound sease.s..:" Mr. William Smith, another shfrEry . dpp9sed*-il't he was sent for to attend upon the proseentrAt lat\ll4. vher's house. On the right side of her throat there was a Woth,d two inches in length and a quarter of au inch in depth ; it appeared to have been made by a sharp irestrament, but was not a dangerous wound. He saw the prisoner next day ; he was greatly excited, and his answers were fre quently incoherent and irrational ; witness :asked him how his throat was, and he said "quite well." Cress-examined . —The prosecutrix was sufficiently ri. covered in a fgv days to go before the Magistrates and give evidence. This was the case for the prosectition. Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up the evidence, and left the case in the bands of the jury, The jury acquitted the prisoner on the ground that he was insane at the time the offence was committed. The prisoner was ordered to be detained in custody until her Majesty's pleasure should be known respecting Lim. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Crouch, of No. 37, Southampton-buildings, ap plied to the Lord Mayor,' under rather extraordinary cir cumstances. lie represented, he said, a foreign gentle man, named Fischer, who resided at Chatham, and who having been desirous of remitting 401. to his mother in Switzerland, applied to Mr. E. J. Gough, the Manager of the Chatham Bank, for a letter of credit to that amount, and was, upon payment of the money, furnished with a printed paper, whizh Mr. Gough filled up, and WIN as follows : Chatham Bank. Chatham, April 10th, 1840. To the Managing Director of the Britivh and Australagan. Bank. 65, Moorgate.street, London. Sir,—You will be pleased to credit Mrs. Fischer in the sum of Forty Pounds, and honour her draft to that amount. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, E. J. GOUGH, Manager. Entered, E. J. G. £4O. These words were followed by the following order, which it appeared Mrs. Fischer signed in Switaerland : Neuchatel in Swisse. le 11 April, 1840. The British and Australasian Bank. 55, Moorgatc..street, London. Pay to Messrs. Waddingham, or bearer, Forty Potusda. £4O. His (applicant's) client, upon receiving the paper trans mitted it to his mother, in Switzerland, who obtained part of the amount from a commercial house there, upon the presumption that it was unexceptionable.. She was, however, obliged to refund all she got, very much to her inconvenience, for the document, upon being presented at the British and Australasian Bank, .55, Moorga,te.street, was repudiated, and the agency of Mr. GoughNs far as regarded cash, was repudiated by the Managers of that establishment. Thus the poor Swiss gentleman, whose means were scanty, looked in vain for his 401, which he had been induced to put into the hands of the Manager of the Chatham Bank, upon the persuasion that he was the agent of the British and Australasian Bank. The LORD MAYOR, after having consulted with Mr. Hobler, sent a messenger with his compliments to the ma nager of the British and Australasian Bonk, and a request to speak with him. Mr. Frederick Boucher, of the Bank alluded to, very readily attended, and was followed by a partner in the house of Messrs. Kearsey, Hughes, and Thomas, solicitors to the establishment. The LORD MAYOR having repeated the substance of the statement of Mr. Crouch, Mr. Boucher said that Mr. Gough had kept a proper account with the British and Australasian Bank, but had no right whatever to draw upon the establishment. He (Mr. Gough) had been their agent, as far as regarded the sale of shares in the concern, but had never been recog nised as agent for any other purpose, and Mr. Fischer was bound to look to the individual into whose hands he placod his money, and whom the British and Australasian Bank was at that moment suing for a balance due by him to the establishment. Mr. Crouch said that his poor client had paid his money to Mr. Gough upon the strength of a printed paper, de tailing the various kinds of business transacted by the British and Australasian Bank, and including the Chatham Bank in the very long list of agents. He here exhibited the paper which Mr. Boucher said at once was the adver tisement of the Bank. It was headed and introduced thus : THE BRITISH AND AUSTRALASIAN BANK. (Incorporated with the Australasian Loan Company.) Capital—One Million sterling. In two series of shares of Twenty Pounds each, a por ion of which will be reserved for allotment in the colonies. First Instalment, Five Pounds per Share. DIRECTORS—F. Boucher, Esq., Managing Director; W. H. Burnaud, Esq. ; G. Cox, Esq ; D. Fryett, jun., Esq. ; J. B. Gordon, Esq. ; G. S. Ogilvie, Esq. ; W. H. Scarrett, Esq. ; W. Scott, Esq. ; G. Whitcornbe, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS—Th e London and Westminster 14ank ; and Messrs. Ladbroke Kingscote, and Co. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Kearsey, Hughes, and Thomas. The LORD MAYOR asked whether Mr. Fischer's trans action was the only one complained of? The Solicitor to the British and Ausfralasian B2nk said there were several ethers to the best of his belief, but his clients were by no means responsible. The LORD MAYOR thought that if parties recognised and the th theywerechaam Bank boundnk was recogniseto they ver the acats agency men. tioned in the list, which included twenty-two in different parts of the country. Mr. Crouch pointed out in the advertisement a note, stating that agents would shortly be appointed for other towns and places in the United Kingdom, and applications from banks and bankers would be preferentiall-y considered. The Solicitor to the Braise and Australasian Bank ob. served that any one who would take the trouble to read what preceded the list, would see that the agency merely referred to the sale of the shares of the Bank. It would, he declared, be quite absurd to suppose that the British and Australasian Bank would be at all responsible for the pecuniary transactions of those named, however re spectable. __ The LORD MAYOR-Then you mean that this list of agents has no reference whatever to the money matters of the Bank? Mr. Boucher—Not the least. We never received the money to which the transaction described refers, and Mr. Fisher must go against Mr. Gough or the Chatham Bank for the recovery of his money. Mr. Nobler intimated to the Lord Mayor that Mr. Fis cher was evidently led by the publication which contained the list of agents, to trust his money to the handy of Mr. Gough, who, in the order which ho had givm to that gen tleman, had taken care to make his agency as apparent and as important as possible. Mr. Crouch stated that Mr. Gough persevered in de. claring that he was the agent of the British and Australa sian Bank. The Solicitor to the British and Australasian Bank— And we deny his agency in the most positive manner, and are proceeding against him at this moment, The LORD MAYOR—.Wc.II; this poor foreigner, who was so anxious to make his mother comfortable, is the sufferer. I wish that some service could be rendered to him. lhncher—We are desirous to render the injured man any service in our power, but we have nothing what ever to do with this transaction. The Solicitor to the British and Australasian Bank No bank is conducted upon more honourable principles than that which is represented by Mr. Boucher, and every thing that can be done shall be done to obtain reparation for Mr. Fischer. The LORD MAYOR—I feel confidant that you will do all you can. The parties then withdrew. TILE CHARTISTS IN SCOTLANI?.—Last week,a public meeting was held in Barrhead, on behalf of the Impri soned Chartists, and for the formation of a Society for supporting their wives and families; Mr. Alexander Cowan in the Chair. Resolutions to carry this object into effect, and to demand the Charter were passed. It was further agreed that a petition, founded upon the resolutions, be forwarded to the House qf Commons. — Scots Times. FORGERY oN THE BANK OF ENGLAND.--. On Wednesday, a man of the name of Bradnock and Sarah Pritchett,, were committed to take their trial at Warwick for forging Bank of England notes to a great amount. They were surprised by the police working at a press, and easting off five pound and ten-pound notes. It is unde rs t oo d th a t a cons id er co T io h u e r. not l e t s ar now l a , r a e per is in of circulation. rcul a wretched ion. is conjectured w onje e e ll tu e r x e e d cu t te ha d t , ti b ie ut e t i h il e able number of the forged notes manuf ac t ure d by th ese po li es sontrs have accomplices or agents to promote their circulation, both in London and the provinces. An order from Manchester for several thousand pounds of the forged notes was found in the possession of one of the prisoners. The police are actively engaged in endeavouring to apprehend the parties, who are suspected of having had extensive dealings with the prisoner?. " The peculiar vibrating quality of the metal of which Mr. E. Solomon's ' Voice Condiptors' are composed, combining with their structure, render them highly calculated to improve the hearing at any age, but particularly when gene ral torpor prevails, producing g-reat debility of the nervous awl muscular power of the ear. '1 hese instruments, by preserving a natural extension of the ear, admit, and concentrate the most trifling sound ; and by thus encouraging its action on the seat of hearing, tend progressively to remove the aural defect. It is most gratifying to observe that their form Is so adapted to the ear, that they are imperceptible, and can be worn with Fen feet ease. I also have much pleasure in expressing rn7 decided approval of the superior efficacy and construction of ' his Patent Spectacles,' for all cases of impaired vision. Mr. Solomon? scientific attainments are perfectly obvious, and render him justly deserving of the professional eminence he enjoys—J. KNIGHT CAREY, 31. D., Thomas-street, L merick•--1 o E. Solomons, Optician, &c., No. 1, Old Jewry City, and No. 36, Old Bond-s . rect." QUEEN VICTORIA. —The p üblic will learA with pleasure that a new w ork is on the eve of publication, eta. bodying the many interesting an d important events and incl. dents which have already marked the career_ of her Majesty. It is to be entitled " Queen Victoria —front her Birth to her Bridal," and will, we under stand, comprise numerous original anecdotes and traits of the youth of Victoria never before pub. lished, and which have been imparted to the author by certain noble personages, who had opportunities of seeing much of the young Prineess--a ver y graceful account of the Coronation and the Royal Bridal, from the pen of a distinguished female writer, who was present on both those occasions—several delightful letters of Miss Porter, &c. At a time when public sympathy and interest are attracted in so remarkable a degree towards the person of her Majesty, and her Royal Consort, such a work, produced under such circumstances, cannot fail to be cordially received by the whole British nation. - Vigne s " Personal Narrative of a Visit to Gbuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan, and of a Residence at the Court of Dost Mohamed, with Notices of Runjit Singh, Khiva, and the Russian Expedition," just published by Whit.. taker and Co., is strongly recommended to those *ho wish to obtain at one view an account of Khiva, from the latest autho rities, a prospect of the chances of Russian success or discom fiture, and of the events which led to the late expedition into Afghanistan, and on which all the future politics of those cows* tries must be based. on ers , old be nove a erved Could ;talo a other use 01 Pe l t Wa n' cd iv Tea • [ other► 8116" /0 ow 006 m otis a ; had "0- li d or S E T, t I ‘ l $, ti ger. p oi re. 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