The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-03 00:00:00

EV EN ING EDITION. LAW IN rICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, AUG. 1. IN RE TAYLOR—SERGEANT TALFOURD'S ACT. Mr. K. BRUCE applied on behalf of Mrs. Louie Henrietta Taylor, the wife of J. Taylor, Esq., of Woodland Lodge, a gentleman of large fortune, that she might, under the provisions of the Custody of Li fauts Act (better known as Sergeant Tallow-Xs Act), base access to her three children, who are above the age of seven years, and that she might have the custod! of the two :younger children, who are under that age. The Learned Counsel stated that the facts of the case were of the most painful nature, and involving, as they did, the private acts of a family of high consideration) be weell endeavour, as much as he possibly could, to divest them of all the bitterness and heartburning that necessarily attended disputes between husband and wife. Mrs. Taylor has been for many years married to her husband, with whom she had lived happily until 1837, vehen in the month of October of that year, being soda after her confinement with her youngest child, Miss Holer, the governess of her children, informed her that Mr. Taylor had been intriguing with Morris,. the nurse. Stung to the q uick b y this representation, she examined the other servants, among whom were the nursery-maids, and was informed that Morris had, during her confinement, taken her master's breakfast into his bed-room to him, and that she was treated by him with great familiarity. It unhappily occurred that the family were not cn terms with the prrents of Mrs. Taylor, aa&in her anguish of mind she applied for ad vice to Mr. Harris, her husband's cousin, and who had been on the terms of a brother With that gentleman from childhood ; that the advice given was wrong, how ever honestly and well-intended as he believed it to be, was shown by the sequel ; for in consequence of it the unhappy lady left her husband's roof, and sought shelter in the house of Ur. and Mrs. Schneider, at Southgate, where she has remained ever since. He did not lustily the act : it was a fault, but it was not a crime, and bistenly had she atoned for it. In 1838 Mrs. Taylor commenced a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court fbr aettientien of conjugal rights, and solemnly and sincerely wade her retraction of the charge against her 'husband, wlaireh she now declares to have been false and unfonnded. lir. Taylor put in a plea of justifica tion. which was disallowed by Sir Herbert Jenner, and the Court below affirmed the judgment, on its re-argu ment before the Consistory Court ; from this decision he hae again appealed to the Lords of the Privy Coun cil. Pending this suit, Mrs. Taylor has sought by this application to get. that control over her children which a virtuous mother has a right to claim, and which it was the manifest intention of this Act to give to one who had, like the applicant, been separated from her husband without ifte whisper of scandal upon her moral character ; the law gave a discretionary power to the Court to grant or to refuse the application, only com pelling it to refuse when adultery was charged against her who sought its benefits. The affidavits in support of the application were read at length, the Counsel for Mr. Taylor refusing to dispense with them ; and those of Mr. A. Harris, Mr. Schneider, sen., End Mr. Schneider, jun., charged Mr. Taylor with cruelty to his wife, and with religion, and the constant use of blas phemous and low expressions ; upon these Mr. Bruce commented at great length. Sir William Follett, Mr. Jacob, and Mr. Roundell Palmer addressed the Court for Mr. Taylor and against the motion ; they contended that the Court should ad judicate as if there had been no suit in the Ecclesiasti cal CoUrt ; the case was very widely different from that stated to the Court, and although Mrs. Taylor was free from all imputation upon her character for virtue and purity of morals, yet had she nevertheless rendered miserable a fond and indulgent husband, an excuse for which can hardly be found in the mother of five children, who had, without a word of explanation to him, and under the advice of one who was bound by every tie of honour and gratitude to have di rected her to her duty, and not to have advised her disobedience, left the protection of her husband_ Mr. Taylor was a passionate man, but possessed of all the kindlier affections of the human heart ; his genero sity might he judged of by his munificence to Mr. Har ris, who had been the object of his bounty since their mutual visit to Italy, shortly before the defendant's mar riage. In that country Harris had been engaged in many intrigues and amours, and had been guilty of con duct that none but one who es'eetned him so sincerely as the defendant did could have looked over. The letters connected with these disreputable proceedings had been put into Mrs. Taylor's possession by him, and although that lady did not read them, yet his want of propriety must be seriously questioned in so unjustifiable an act. Mr. K. BRUCE replied at great length, and urged that the conduct of Harris was epthing more than in judicious ; he most pathetically appealed to the Court and the Counsel for the husband to interpose and heal the wounded feelings of a font mother, weighed down by the burden of lier too severely punished fault. He concluded by calling upon his Honour to refer the case to the 141twer, to draw up a scheme for Mrs. Taylor to have access to the three elder, and the custody of the t-ro youiter children. The VICE-CtiascELLOlt in giving judgment said, this was the most painful case that ever came before: him. Mr. 'Fayler had left England before this appli entien was made. Mrs. Taylor had had bad adviers of the worat description. The atrocity of Mr. conduct was most unaccountable the hoiOnd act of a I vising the wilh of that friend to leave leer lseaband, without seeking an explanation of a! here stTicion—the prevention of the mediation of the Rev. Mr. Grey, and the beastly exclamation that he would rather see her walking the streets than that she should return to her home—evidently implied that he wished the consummation of the dreadful alternative he suggests. Harris never met Mr. Taylor as man to man, and it was the greatest misfortune attending this unhappy lady that this man had ever been consulted. He had now become a bankrupt for debts of more than i 18,0001., without a penny to pay his creditors. Tek. ! ing these eirctmwtances into his consideration, and ing that Mrs. Taylor was the origin of her own suffer ings, he must for the present refuse the application. ASSIZE INTELLICiENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—T.RwEs, Ace. 1. riza.vasiou V. LAILDNER. This etUiP, which has created so inch interest for tevc.ral months past among the literary and fashionable c 7 . ircles,' on for trial befora Mr. Baron GURNEY and a special jury, composed of the resident gentry of the County of Sasser, at the Town Hall, Lewes, on Sa turday. The most intense inte rest was taken in the proceed ings, add lonia before Gins o'clock, the hour at which the trial was appointed to take place, the doors of the County Hail were besieged with an anxious crowd, and , as seoa as the public were admitted, every corner of the Nisi Prim; Court was incouvenhntly filled. A number of ladies, and among them the dististinguishcd persons who were cal!ed as withasses for the plaintiff, sat upon the berch, in addition to several of the leading Magis trates. Mr. Tha.siger, Q.C., with Mr. Platt, Q.C•, and Mr. Petcrsdorf, appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Sergeant Chaaneil and Mr. Clarkson, for the defendant. Mr. PETERSDORI stated that the action was brought by the plaintiff, Richard Heaviside, against the defendant, Dionysies Larduer, to recover compensation in damages for the loss and injury the plaintiff had sustained by the seduction of his wife by the defendant. Mr. THESIGER rose to discharge the very painful duty of detailing to them the circumstances under which the plaintiff was compelled to seek, in a public Court of Justice, that poor and miserable compensation which the laws of this country afford in the shape of pe cuniary damages. He could not enter into this case itlf4ut being nearly overcome with strong feelings for the bitterness which his unfortunate client had already bad`, and would have to endure throughout the remain der of his life. The defendant was a person who had arrived at that advanced period of lite when the pas sions ordinarily become subservient to the judgment, and when the experience of the world pleaded anything but in mitigation of the aggravated conduct of whch he had been guilty. The defendant possessed a scientific knowledge, and was endowed with superior lite rary iittainments ; and it would appear by the history of this painful cause that he had ersspleycel hils combined talent to effect the seduction F Pthis weak and .confiding woman ; h e h a d ren d ere d Oa an outcast fronpthe society she was calculated to Edstm, and lie 'had ieiluced her to quit a kind and gene rous basbapd, atd a home which threw around her everything than conspired to her happiness. The plain tiff was compelled, through the misconduct of the de fendant, to publish his dishonour to the world in a Court of Justice, and he was obliged to submit to the degra dation of asking for pecuniary damages for an injury which he had sustained, and which no amount in money could repair. The plaintiff came from an honourable family ; he was the son of a gentleman of considerable fortune, who resided at Peterborough, and who sent him in early life to Eton College. In due time he was removed from thence to the University at Cambridge, and in the year 1814 his father purchased for him a cornetcy in the Ist Dragoon Guards. The unhappy lady into whose conduct they were about to inquire was the daughter of Colonel Spicer, formerly of the 12th Lancers, and since residing at the Chateau de Capacure, in the parish of Outreau, Boulogne. in the year 1823, Mr. Heaviside, the plaintiff, whose mother was a sister of Colonel Spicer's, went to Boulogne, and for the first time saw Miss Mary Spicer, his first cousin, and the only child of Colonel Spicer. He was attracted by her person and manners, an intimacy sprang up between them, which was mutually cherished, and it ripened into affection ; and at length it was determined, with the consent of the friends of both parties, that they should be mar ried. Ths marriage took place on the 17th of July, 1124, at St. Michael's church, Bath. It was a mar riage of pure affection, for Captain Heaviside had am . pie means to make him care but little about the fortune of his wife. Indeed, there could not be a stronier proof that the strongest attachment existed on his part towards his wife than his conduct upon his marriage. He made a settlement of 20,0001. upon Mrs. Heavi side, which was secured in the usual way : the divi dends to be paal to him during his life, then i te, the ct tieren, after his death, and in case of thre l of De e ingage, then she or in the event of the:- ---' was to be eensiect absolutely to the whole of the r „,... ee many interest. She wis likewise entitled to the reversion of 13,0001. upon the death of her father. Shortly after their marriage they went to the continent, and upon their return they resided for some time at Saunder's Lodge, Oakingham, Bucking hamshire, and about ten years ago came to reside in Brunswick -square, Brighton, where they had since kept up as establishment, and moved in the first circles of society. They appeared to be devoted to each other, and their union gave rise to that usually strong cement of the affections, children. In short, there seemed no thing for them to require beyond that which they pos sessed. As he (Mr. Thesiger) had stated, Mr. and Mrs. Heaviside had three children, two girls and a boy ; the eldest girl was fourteen years of age, the second thirteen, and the boy six years old. The plaintiff was a fond father and a loving husband ; he displayed no violence of temper, he exhibited no hasty or ungentle manly conduct which could estrange the affections of his wife, but he lived in the bosom of his family, and his home appeared to be the whole world to him ; and during the nine years he had resided at Brighton he had i upon one occasion only allowed his wife to go into society without him. It would be also proved' that Mrs. Heaviside never betrayed the slightest levity of con duct, but always appeared strongly attached to her children. If in this life they could expect to find hap piness, the Jury would imagine that it would be found in such a home as this ; but in an evil hour the de fendant made his appearance among them. He came to Brighton about some literary pursuit, and his repu tation as a man of science was a passport into society. He obtained an introduction to the plaintiff, and, un happily for him, was received as a visitor at his house. There was nothing in his conduct, his age, or his appear ance to induce the suspicion that he was a dangerous visitor—nothing that would lead the most sceptical to believe that when be entered the doors of peace and dwelling of happiness that he was the viper that would destroy everything that was valuable within, and turn the plaintiff's home into an abode of wretchedness and of desolation. Captain Heaviside was in the habit of attending to his Magisterial duties at the Town Hall, and he was also one of the Directors of the Brighton Railway. During his absence from home the defendant had the opportunity of visiting Mrs. Heaviside ; but so much caution was observed, that the attendants and those constantly about the misguided lady were unable to discover that any familiarity existed between them, and the witnes ses would therefore be unable to point out the begin ning of the fatal influence which the defendant possessed over her, and which he exercised in the consummation of his criminal object. Human nature and their own experience would, however, assist them in coming to a conclusion. It was hardly to be believed that the de fendant could be carried away with any headstrong • feeling, or any impulse of passion, and therefore so ab surd a defence could not be set up. They knew there were many approaches to the female heart. A woman who possessed no inordinate share of talent might be misled and decoyed from the path of virtue by a per son of superior acquirements, who, for sinister purposes, paid deference to her in order that, when her vanity overcame her reason, he might, serpent-like, draw his meshes around his victim, and make her irretrievably lost. These were the dark and insidious arts that were practised by the defendant, and the Jury would be able to trace every web that was designedly thrown around the plaintiff's wife until she was inextricably surrounded. Mr. Heaviside left Brighton on the 11 th of March, and came to London ; and on the 13th of the same month, Mrs. Heaviside quitted home at an early hour in the morning, stating that she was going on a visit to Mrs. Greville. She did not re turn at the usual hour to luncheon, nor had she given any directions about the dinner, which excited some alarm among her domestics ; and, in the afternoon, the sus picions of one of the servants were aroused by observ ing that everything was removed from the toilet of her bed-room. The servant communicated her suspicions to the butler, who went to Mr. Greville's, and aseer tained that Mrs. Heaviside had not been there. The butler, upon this, immediately proceeded towards Lon don, to make his master acquainted with the circum stance, but be crossed the plaintiff on the road, the latter being on his return to Brighton. When the plaintiff heard of the debasement of his wife, he became insensible, and only awoke from his stupor to endure. greater agony and suffering. He was stunned with the intelligence, and for some time be continued dangerously ill. Tree guilty parties, in the meantime, had proceeded to the Adelaide Hotel, at London-bridge, where they remained during that night, occupying but one sleeping apartment,and the next morn ing they proceeded by steam to Ostend, and from thence to Dunkirk, where all trace was lost of them. It was subsequently discovered that they were living at the Rue Tronchet, at Paris, as man and wife. And here he (Mr. Thesiger) might observe, that it would not have been difficult to have produced evidence of their criminality ; but, for the purpose of saving ex pense, a course had been adopted to which he distinctly asserted Captain leaviside was no party, as he knew nothing of their place of retreat—that the defendant and Mrs. Heavieide should be produced to the servant at the hotel where they first slept for the purpose of being identified ; and the most extraordinary part of the stipulation on the part of the defendant was, that under pretence of saving expense, Captain Heaviside's own butler was to be the principal witness, for the pus pose, no doubt, of attaining an object which he (Mr. Thesi ger) could well understand, but which lie was sure would be thwarted by the Jury. In the month of April, when the plaintiff first received intelligence of his wife, he pro ceeded with Colonel Spicer to Boulogne, and upon enter ing the Rue Tronchet, he found her and the defendant at breakfast together. Stung with indignation and horror, the plaintiff, in the first impulse et his disgust, ieflicted a well-merited chastisement upon the defendant. He (Mr. Thesiger) could not from his heart blame the plaintiff for the course he had taken, for they all knew that there were times when, despite of everything, their own natural feelings would vindicate their own na tural rights, and when they could not wait for the slow process of the law. lie (Mr. Thesiger) did not there lure believe that this circumstance would have any effect upon their judgment, or that they would entertain it for one moment in the reduction to any material extent of the damages they would award to the plaintiff. If the defendant had brought an action fur assault against this de ply-injured husband, he (Mr. Thesiger) would ask them what amount of damages the defendant would have recovered ? and, after having answered this ques tion, they might then deduct exactly so much front the damages which Captain Heaviside this day sought to re cover. At Paris a most extraordinary discovery was made. In the desk of Mrs. Heaviside the drafts of the two let ters sent by her to her father and the plaintiff were die covered, end they actually bore several corrections in the defendant's own handwriting. He (Mr. Thesiger) could well understand how this miserable and unhappy woman could shrink from addressing her ill-used and injured husband, and how, after attempt after attempt had been vainly made by her, she abandoned the task in despair. He could well understand, he repeated, this feeling on her part, and he could also understand what led the defendant to dictate and alter the letters for his wretched victim : he had no feeling of shame or remorse —no feeling of delicacy—and in those letters, which would be produced to the Jury, they would be able to trace in every line the dictation of the defendant. 'They were not the outpourings of a person with a troubled mind, but they were evidently the calm, deliberate, and calculating reasonings of a mechanical philosopher. He begged to call their attention to a letter signed by Mrs. Heaviside, and bearing date the 15th of March. It was addressed to her husband, and was as follows : " Sunday, March 15, 1840. " I sit down to the painful duty of fulfilling the pro mise made in my note of Friday. " I will do it as briefly as the circumstances to be told, and the feelings to be expressed will permit. You have observed the continued indisposition from which 1 have suffered for many weeks past, and which I have allowed you to suppose proceeded from bodily illness. 'My sufferings, however, were of a different nature, and arose from a different cause. They originated in the mind and in the heart. Among the persons introduced to our acquaintance within the last few months was one, who, unfortunately for me, produced such an im pressien upon my heart, as I felt could never be ef faced. In the first period of our acquaintance I flat tered myself that the sentiments he inspired were those of friendship merely, and I indulged in his society with unguarded, and, as the event proved, most impru dent freedom. As this, however, was no more than was done by other ladies, by whom his acquaintance and conversation were eagerly sought, and as I never be fore h a d reason to distrust myself, I proceeded uvappre hensive of consequences. He departed from Brighton, and the effects of his absence convinced me for the first time of the real state of my heart, and I soon felt that my peace of mind was irretrievably lost. He had never presumed to tell me that I was to him an object of affection. His manner and language were on the contrary most deferential and respectful. I had seen, however, indications of his feelings towards me, more convincing and unequivocal than any which mere words would convey. In short, without any express communication on the subject, our feelings became mu tually known ; we felt that every dictate of duty sug gested immediate separation and absence. Separation and absence were accordingly tried and continued until I was driven well a i v i e g rt h ewd t o o ;u m hlaa a d d be unavailing,onyeosu b s. ee l ti sh m all not attempt, becauseto you whatthe a l tt s e i with me than your daily avocations usually to ee p o e dn r se m tsac it nr t it e bl d Ye. feelin gs cou ld no t h ave b een you to be, the state of my concealed from you, and it was only by hearterendirwr efforts that I assumed an apparent cheerfulness' during the brief and distant intervals you passed with me; you know me too well to doubt my truth when I assure you that on more t h an one occasion I was on the point of attemp tin g to rescue all parties from the evil which menaced them b y removing myself THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 180. -- - to another world by opium. I efeeeels:a G est elnno km- ws howT - ,,, ..6g1vd - to subdue this criminal. at ,eseeeeet, and to recover sufficient tranquillity of mind to enable me to perform my duties as your wife. I wrote to him declaring my resolution to conquer my affection for him ; his good feeling and real regard for me prompted him to acquiesce in this course, and he expressed his entire approbation of it. I tried it—l failed—the struggle almost cost me my life. I now became fully convinced that I was for ever in capable of discharging towards you the duties and offices of a wife, save by the adoption of a course of systematic dissimulation and unremitting hypocrisy, from which all my better feelings revolted with loathing and disgust. I felt that the attempt would render my life one con tinued lie. No course then remained for me by which I could be rescued from the horrors of my position ex cept either self-destruction, or to withdraw myself ' openly from you, and resign myself to him who engrossed all my affections ; to have adopted the only intermediate measure by indulging in his society, and secretly com mitting infidelity to you, while I continued to profess the feelings and perform the offices of a wife, was one of which I was altogether incapable. I therefore, after viewing my situation and examining my heart, deter mined to abandon a position which I could not con scientiously maintain, and I did accordingly on Friday last, deliberately and advisedly, and not in a moment of excitement, or under any sudden impulse of feeling, leave my house and placed myself in the hands of him to whom my affections had been surrendered. " Need I assure you, that up to the hour I quitted your door I was never guilty of any act injurious to your honour or incompatible with the vows I had made you. What I have done, I have done openly, and have not added the meanness of falsehood and deception to the sin of infidelity. While by this formal confession I place in your hands the power of releasing yourself from the tie which binds me to you, and of preserving the rights of our children frem the possible consequences of my act, I am prompted as much by feelings as by duty to declare, most unequivocally, that what I have done has not been caused by any absence of kindness and affection on your part ; that on the contrary, from the day of our marriage to the day of my departure from you, you have been most kind, most tender, and most affectionate, and I am deeply sensible that you have deserved a very different return from any that it has been in my power to make. " As I believe and trust that my own conduct as well as that of the person to whom I am now united has been, up to the hour of my separation from you, such as to afford no grounds for objection and suspi cion, you cannot, I presume, have any means of know ing who that person is ; it is necessary, therefore, that I should inform you that it is Dr. Lardner. Neither he nor myself desire to offer any extenuation, much less defence of our conduct. We feel it, however, to be only justice to ourselves to say, that we are prepared to suffer all the evils attendant upon a total change in pecuniary circumstances as the inevitable consequence of the step we have taken ; I have come to him desti tute of any means of support, and bringing nothing with me but the few articles of dress I had upon my person. He has surrendered a large income which he has for many years enjoyed, arising from his profes sional labour ; banished, as he must be, to a foreign country, damaged in character by the very measure which gives me to him, removed from all those connec tions on which the profitable occupation of his time has hitherto depended, he is at this moment uncertain where, or how he may obtain even that very small income which will suffice to supply our most moderate wants and wishes. Not foreseeing an exigency like the present, he has not realised any considerable amount of property—nothing, in fact, which can materially aid us in our present position. We were both fully aware of these formidable difficulties and sacrifices ; but he felt that any sacrifice, however great, would be most willingly made by him to soften the evils attendant upon the po sition which I must assume. Now, in conclusion, allow me to express a hope, that after the first anguish attend ing this misfortune has been assuaged, you will see that your peace and comfort will be more promoted by losing me altogether, for retaining me without retaining my af fection, would be irksome to you, and you would have the pain of seeing me daily consumed by a hopeless at tachment to another, which would eat into my heart until I should be reduced to the mere shadow of myself, and which must after a brief period have brought me to the grave. It is not likely that you will feel any dispo sition to communicate further with me ; but, as we still have some common interests, I feel that it is my duty to supply you with the means of such communication should it be necessary.—Anyihing which is addressed to Mrs. Williams, No. 17, Old Burlington street, be forwarded to me.—Believe me still your most sincere and grateful friend, " MARY HEAVISIDE." " It is my wish, if you have no objection, that this letter or a copy of it should be sent to my father." The Learned Counsel proceeded : On the 4th of April the plaintiff's wife wrote another letter to her father, which also contained ample evidence of the cool and calculating baseness of the defendant. It was to this effect " Paris, April 4,1840. Hotel Tronchet, " Rue Tronchet, 21. "My dearest Father—The considerate kindness which pervades your letter of yesterday, and the more than parental tenderness which breathes in every lint of it, have deeply effeczed me. if Ido not coincide ail your views, or adopt your suggestions, it is not from the absence of that sympathy of feelings whisk has al ways existed between us, but, because yoe do not in the present case comprehend the state of my mind and heart as perfectly as you have always done in the ordinary . occurrences of my life. That neither yourself nor any other relations really understand my feelings, is abun dantly proved by some parts of your most kind and affectionate letter : you say that yourself and every one who knows me consider that what I have done has been the effect of a ' momentary fit of in sanity,' and look to be convinced of this by my sudden repentance, by my desertion of the person with whom I have united myself, and my immediate return into the bosom of your family. Were I to allow you, my dearest and most beloved parent, to remain under a misconception so gross, I should do injustice at once to you and myself. Can you suppose me, your daughter —arrived at my present time of life, having moved for so many years in the world with eyes to observe, under standing to think, and heart to feel--can you suppose me to quit my home and family, to expose my husband ,aid childr,n to the pain which I knew to be the in evitable consequeece of the step I took, to afflict you and my mother, and to resign the many advantages attendant on my own position fur the mere gratification of momentary ,fixling ? Reflect how base such a feel ,in must be, if it existed at all! How unworthy of me, and how incompatible with everything that you know of my character and previous conduct. If I could have been guilty of taking such a step as I have taken, prompted by afeciing so gross and momentary asthat which ycu describe, I should indeed be most deservedly an oh ject of execration and contempt. Were I now to adopt that suggestion which your lore for me rather than your better judgment had induced you to make, I should be sign ing my own condemnation, as well with the present generation as with posterity. I am sensible that my acts are before the world, and that they will be re corded after lam laid in the dust. Whatever differ ence of opinion individuals may entertain respecting his merits, Dr. Lardner has held so conspicuous a position in public life, and is so well known in every part of de world, that one connected with him, as I am, must ex pect to be subject to more than ordinary scrutiny. How would my conduct bear such an examination, if I should leave it to be inferred that, in resigning myself to him, instead of being swayed by a profound end unalterable attachment, arising from feelings inspired by better and nobler qualities. L have been influenced by nothing but those licentious motives which so often influence worne.e and that 1 should prove this by deserting him with that levity and want of consideration which always attends such feelings. I feel it necessary here to repeat what I stated distinctly and emphatically to my hus band in the letter which I desired should be shown to you. I struggled for many weeks to subdue the attachment with which I had been inspired. Absence was tried ; but struggles and absence were vain. Be fore I had decided upon the step I have taken, I be came convinced that the state of my mind was such that further resistance to my feelings would have cost me my life. I felt that nothing short of this conviction would even extenuate in my own eyes the act I have T committed, and in this feeling Dr. Lardner fully agreed ; and it is but justice to him to assure you, that before I quitted Brighton he expressed to me in writing his strong opinion to that effect. If you are disposed to give me credit for the truth and sincerity of what I now express (which, however, has been still more fully stated in my letter to my husband), you will, I am sure, perceive that, by adopting your suggestion, instead of improving the moral position which I hold, I should deprive myself of every just claim to indulgence and extenuation which I can ever hope to advance. You say that a special clause will be introduced into the Act of Divorce to prevent my marriage : you must, in cern mon with every well-informed person, be aware that such a prohibition is not customary ; and, if it were in troduced in this case, it must be done on some special grounds, or through the exercise of some special influ ence. No special grounds exist for such a prohibition : and if any sinister influence should be exerted to de prive me of the means of rectifying my position, and re ceiving at the altar the vows of him for whose sake I have made so terrible a sacrifice, 1 have no refuge, ex cept in the consolation arising from the reflection, that the state in which he and I will be compelled to live is one which we should use every means in our power to avoid. We feel that we are already as strongly bound to each other by every tie for which we entertain respect as any marriage could make us, and we look forward to that ceremony hereafter. It was not for the sake of ourselves, but with a view to the opinion of the world, and to the interests of those to whom we may give birth. It is therefore with those feelings that I trust and hope you will yourself, after more serious and deli berateo n t hthis considerationpainful subject, than e t, use s you o your n have i influence a e bl e t o t to prevent bestow any such unusual and mischievo us restriction as that o which you refer. As to my marriage settlement, to ..lieh you advert, I am quite content to leave it and ill other interests of a like kind at your absolute liseretion. When we took this step our eyes were ally open to the disastrous consequences which must attend it, so far as property and income were concerned. I surrendered, as you know, a position of affluence, and sacrificed the enjoyment of a considerable fortune. He s well known to have been for many years in the pos session of a professional income, amounting to several -housands a year. Being unencumbered with family, tnd feeling assured that whenever he was disposed to marry he might always expect an accession of fortune, he did not provide by saving for a contingency like the i present. The consequence has been, that in uniting himself with me, and consequently withdrawing himself from the place where alone he could exercise his profes sional labour, he has surrendered nearly his whole in come ; that which he can now expect scarcely amounting to what will be sufficient to obtain for us, even on the suost moderate scale, the requisites of life. Short as the period is which has elapsed since the step we have taken has become known, he has been already made to feel its consequences ; you will see, I am sure, how cruel and unnecessary any proceedings will be which can tend to aggravate the difficulties of my po sition. On this subject I shall add nothing, trusting as I do entirely to your considerate affections, only im oloring you to believe (what sooner or later you will be convinced of), that our fates are irretrievably identified, and that my well-being can never be separated from his. In the agitation of mind under which you have evidently written, you have omitted all notice of a sub ject which to me is one of the deepest solicitude—l mean the children. On this subject, I must of course, be supposed to entertain strong feelings, and to have wishes the object of which can only be their welfare. I have no right, however, to express any wishes, and must therefore entreat you, whenever you are again disposed to write to me, which I trust will be very soon, that you will inform me how the chil dren are, and more particularly in what manner, it is intended to rear and educate dear Ellen. I cannot feel myself justified in concluding this letter without en deavouring to express to you how gratefully sensible I am of the tone and tenor of the letter you have ad dressed to me, and how much I am awaro that no one parent could be found, in the thousands of thousands who, at the moment of smarting under the consequences which I have brought on you, could ever bring them selves, by any exertion of self-control, to adopt that tone of indulgence which is with you only the sponta neous result of you own affectionate nature. Well as I understand your character, and long as I have experi enced your untiring affection, I confess that it was not without feelings of unmingled astonishment at your pa tience and forbearance, that I read your letter this morning. May God Almighty bless you, my dearest parent, and believe me always Your affectionate and grateful child, " MARY HEAVISIDE." He (Mr. Thesiger) would call their attention to the extraordinary circumstances which characterised all the letters. They would observe that none of the letters threw any obstacle in the way of the plaintiff to pre vent him obtaining a divorce, and be (Mr. Thesiger) was entitled to say, from this fact alone, that the mo tives that influenced the defendant in pursuing the im moral course he had done, was the desire to obtain at any cost, and under any circumstances, however repre hensiisle, base and filthy lucre. The plaintiff's wife, as lie had stated, was entitled, at the death of her father, to 13,000/.; but the defendant could not grasp the money unless the plaintiff obtained a divorce, owl thereby enable the defendant to marry her. This to his Thesiger's) mind, was evidence most clearly sho x ing that the most corrupt, sordid, and mercenary mo tives, influenced the defendant. But if any further proof were wanting, let them direct their attention to a letter on'the same;subject, written by the defendant him self to Mr. Divett, the Member for Exeter. The let- ter was to this effect : " Great Green -street, Westminster, March 14,1840, "My dear Sir—Before this letter will reach your hands, you will have learned the circumstance which has produced it ; it is, therefore, unnecessary for me to inflict on you and on myself the pain of its recital. Your old and attached friend Mrs. H. suppicates you, by all the sentiments of regard you have entertained towards her, to exert your influence to urge her husband to pursue with all possible expedition the steps neces sary for the dissolution of their marriage. This course he ought to take for the sake of the rights and interests of theirchildren, which her present situation endangers ; hut what she implores you, as her for ever valued friend, to consider is, that such a proceeding on his part is the only chance she has of recovering, as far as it can be recovered, her right position, by having it in her power to unite herself in niarrieg - e with him for the love of whom she has made so terrible a sacrifice. It is, I hope, needless for me to say that I impute no part of her conduct to impurity of mind, or to any quality which renders a union with her less desirable to me than it would be were she now an unmarried woman, with a reputAtion the most unsullied. Whenever she shall be capable of contracting marriage I shall be most proud and happy to make her my wife, and until then she shall be cherished by me with as much tenderness, and treated with as scrupulous respect, as if the word which unites us had all the sanction and force of marriage. You will not suppose that I would of myself take the liberty of addressing this letter to you. It is done altogether by the desire of Mrs. H., who wishes me to say to you, that if you should have any commu nication to make to her, it will reach her by being addressed under cover to me. She has written a full disclosure of her feelings and conduct to her husband, which she hopes his long friendship and intimacy with you will induce him to show you. (Signed) .‘ D. LARDNER," After reading this letter, he (Mr. Thesiget) would ask if he was not justified in arriving at the conclusion he had done, that the defendant's glittering &eject was the 20,000/. and the 13,0001. to which the plaintiff's wife would become entitled ? It was unnecessary for him to make a single remark upo n the conduct of the unhappy lady. If the grave had closed upon her, heavy indeed would that calamity have been ; but the plaintiff would have borne it with resignation. Tears would have fol lowed so heavy a loss, but he would have had the con solation of entertaining tlis l t , t pe that the object of his care and of his affectioe 1 ! i , so d into a better world, and he would with - (el ; " have bowed to that rod by which they were,, t . 1 times stricken by God , and siould have ;Anti ti (fond hope that at some distant period they Lave m et in a happier place. But 7 1 "' • !l.is case, their joys were adulterer—when! r I ergs we re wounded in the the withering acts of the n nipped in the )l ;; , most poignant s if those feelings of bitterness and of anguish • - a whew every thought bad a scorpion's;sia , r s eelitg was madness—where the pity of t'es e i TY was turned into scorn, and the dishonour of tlee adult( rer still remained and rankled in the breast, and no time could obliterate it—where, as in this case, all this—aye, more than this, the plaintiff had sustained from the defendant, was it not a mockery to the feelings of insulted honour to be obliged to resort to the contemptible and paltry course of asking for pecuniary cempen cation ? Nevertheless, in proportion to the amount of damages the Jury awarded, it was ge aerally es timated the relation in which the plate tiff and his wife stood, the loss he had sustained the character which he had borne, and the station odd in society. The Jury might be told that the de «- dant was not in affluent circumstances, but he (Mr " nesiger) could not understand upon what principle eeen a line of defence was usually adopted. If a tre lesser spoilt his goods would he not be entitled to r .cover without reference to his pecuniary circumstances? and was it to be said that if he sustained a deeper injury—if such an irrepa rably injury was inflicted upon him as had been upon the plaintiff, the damages should be awarded upon a different principle ? If any proposi tion had been made to the plaintiff to barter away Mrs. Heaviside—to consent to the annihilation of his domestic comfort and everlasting peace, was it to be supposed that he would have accepted the paltry con sideration which he now sought at the hands of the jury ? If it was proposed that his wife should bring down disgrace and dishonour upon his children for the paltry 10,0001., at which his damages were laid, what did they suppose would have been his answer ? Could there be the slightest doubt but that he would have re jected such an offer with scorn and indignation ? Again, let him advert to the fact of the plaintiff having been deprived of 13,0U01., the reversion to which she was entitled, and in the position of obtaining which the defendant had placed himself. It was, he (Mr. Thasiger) confessed, with shame that he referred to such degrading circumstances, but the many anomalies with which the case abounded required it. The plain tiff's home—that word, which struck upon the heart with a thousand tender associations, where he had been living and having everything he de sired had been rudely broken into by the 1 adulterer, and nosy Captain Heaviside appeared . before them wret c h e d ad d h ear t-broken, w ith every joy shat tered and annihilated. The plaintiff's children, at a time when they most required It, were deprived of the protection of a mother, and that tender care, which a mother could alone afford. If ever there was a case in which exemplary damages ought to be given it was the present, and he implored the jury to give the plaintiff every farthing that he asked in his declaration. The following witnesses were then called ; Anne Smith, a tt en d an t to Mrs. Hea viside, confirmed several of the fa c t s as o pened by the Learned Counsel for the pl a i nt iff . Th e l ette r produced was in the hand writing o f M rs . H eav i s id e , and was left upon the table in the drawing -room on the day of the elopement. When Captain Heaviside returned and heard the Intel ligence of his wife's departure, he became insensible, and remained so for above two hours. On recovering his senses, he went to bed, and during the night, was seized with a fit of ague—he suffered dreadfully—wit ness read to him part of the letter, but he could not peruse it, or bear to hear it read through. The letter was then read as follows : " The pain which I shall inflict by this cannot exceed that which I feel; we a r e parted for ever. This step is my own, taken spontaneously, and not by th a insti gation of any other person. You have witnessed what I have suffered for the last six weeks, but you have not known the cause, still less can you imagine the death struggles I have made before surrendering myself to the course I now take ; this alternative has been an eternal separation, or insanity, terminating i❑ suicide. Can you condemn me for obeying the instinct of all living things, and cling to life on the only condition on which life can be saved? Do not, I implore you, attempt to follow me or discover my retreat. If such pursuit could avail, I bad never left my home. Be assured it would be vain and painful. In three days you will receive a statement of all I have suffered, a confession of what I have done, and a disclosure of the feelings and the mo tives by which I have been impelled. Farewell !" Mary Sandford, chambermaid, and Mr. Francis, pro prietor of the Adelaide Hotel, London-bridge, and Richard Peglar, butler to the plaintiff, confirmed other points. in the Learned Counsel's narrative ; after which the following witnesses were examined from the Bench, and deposed to the plaintiff and his wife having lived on the most kind and affectionate terms during their resi- dance at Brighton : Mr. Spicer, the uncle of Mrs. Heaviside ; Mr. Divett, M.P. ; the Dowager Countess of Carhampton, the Hon. Mrs. Greville, Mr. and Mrs. Wigney, and Lady Campbell. The respective deeds of settlements and the letters were then formally put in, and Mr. Thessiger said this was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL then rose to address the Jury on behalf of the defendant, and he observed, that if his Learned Friend bad felt pain at introducing this case to their notice, how much greater was the difficultyin which he (Sergeant Channell) was placed in rising to address the Jury on behalf of the defendant. He implored them to divest their minds of all prejudice in the matter, for the very nature of the case itself was sure to create a prejudice, and when the facts connected with it had been stated with so much eloquence by his Learned Friend, he was fearful of the effect it must have upon the Jury, and he therefore again entreated them to con sider the matter dispassionately, and to deal justly and mercifully between the parties. An advocate who was called upon to defend a case of this sort was surrounded with difficulties. There was so much that could not be denied in a case of this description, and so much more that could not be justified, that an advocate hardly knew what line of defence was the best to be adopted. From the very nature of the case the sympathy of the Jury was sure to be enlisted on behalf of the plaintiff, and the Counsel who appeared for the defendant under such circumstances had a most nervous task thrown upon him. It was impossible for him to deny, on the part of the defendant, that the plaintiff's wife had eloped with him. He admitted that to the fullest extent. He would also, therefore, admit that the plain tiff was entitled to a verdict, and the only question he should touch upon in his address to the jury would be the amount of damages. That the plaintiff was en titled to compensation in damages for the injury that had been done him he did not deny, but he did confi dently state that the circumstances of the case were not such as to require the enormous amount of damages that had been demanded by his Le: rned Friend. With regard to Mr. Heaviside, he was not instructed to say one single word in his disparagement, or in reference to his conduct to his wife ; that was no part of his de fence, and he was ready to admit that he had treated his wife with kindness, and that there could be no com plaint against him on that score. He begged the jury, however, to recollect that this was not a case where long friendship had been abused—the elopement had evidently sprung from some sudden impulse, and it did not call for the severe punishment upon the defendant that was required at the hands of the jury. They had it in evi deuce that Mr. Lardner had not been introduced to the family of the plaintiff until December, and the unfortu nate occurrence took place in March ; therefore, he considered it could not be said that there had been a long and systematic plan of seduction pursued by the defendant, and this was the most serious portion of the charge that was made against him. With regard to the lady, she could not be said to be young and inexpe rienced—she had arrived at a mature age ; and it could hardly be said of her that she was a likely person to be come the victim of seduction. She had been sixteen years married to Mr. Heaviside, and during that period she had constantly mixed in society, and must have ac quired that knowledge of the usages of the world as to render her a very unlikely victim of seduction. When he considered the lady's age, the circumstances under which she was placed, and the fact that after an inter course of only three months, she had thought fit to elope from the house of her husband with the defend ant, he could not help thinking that there was some thing more in the case than met the eye of the Jury, and that there must have been some reason in her own breast for inducing her to quit the protection of her husband, and throw herself into the arms of a comparative stranger, and that all idea of any delibe rate plan of seduction was entirely negatived by the cir cumstances of the case. Although he admitted that Dr. Lardner had eloped with Mrs. Heaviside, be was prepared to contend that there was no proof that this result arose from any deliberate plan of seduction on his part. He must also submit to the Jury that they could not believe, from the circumstances, thdt that complete and perfect state of happiness existed between Mr. and Mrs Heaviside that had been spoken to by the wit nesses. If that state of happiness had really existed down to the moment of Mr. Lardner visiting the family, could they believe that a lady of this age could so sud denly have forgotten that affection and the duty she owed to her husband, and to her family, by giving her self up to a stranger ? He did not think the Jury would consider that this was very pro'sable. It was in evidence that Mr. Lardner had only been to Mr. Heavi side's house ten or twelve times, and in that short period of time this melancholy affair was brought to effect, and he submitted to the Jury, that they ought to repudiate altogether the imputation that the defendant had made use of any arts or that any deliberate plan was executed by him to seduce the affections of the plaintiff's wife. With regard to the evidence that had been adduced for the purpose of showing the happy state of life of Mr. and Mrs. Heaviside, he must with great deference to those witnesses, say that their evidence did not satisfactorily establish that. position, because in his opinion they had not sufficient opportunity of judging of the real state of the case ; it was true they bad met the plaintiff and his wife at parties and other places, but these occa sions, he submitted, were very unsatisfactory to show the feelings of the parties when in the privacy of their own homes. The jury would else recollect that some of those parties had not seen the plaintiff and his wife for two or three years. Upon such evidence he therefore considered the jury ought not to say that it had been proved that the plaintiff and his wife lived in a state of happiness. Another point that had been urged against the defendant was the fact of the letters that had been written by the plaintiff's wife, and which letters it was alleged had been concocted and dictated by the defendant. He did not think that this ought to weigh with the, Jury, for although under the peculiar circumstances of the case the defendant might perhaps have known of the letters being written, yet he con tended that they must be considered as exposing the genuine feelings of the heart of the unhappy lady. In those letters did not she say that the unhappy occur rence would not have arisen, if her husband had devoted more time to her than he had, and had paid her more attention. Was this not corroborative of the opinion that the plaintiff and his lady did not live in that per fect state of happiness that had been described by the witnesses ? He did not mean by this to cast any impu tion upon the respectable persons who had been exa mined, but he considered that they spoke without that accurate knowledge which should have guided them upon the subject. There was not, therefore, the slightest ground for imputing to the defendant that he made use of any arts and practices to seduce the wife of the plaintiff. The Jury were called upon to do justice to the parties, but he hoped that they would not allow their minds to be excited, and that they would not give an amount of damages that would tend to the utter ruin and destruction of the defendant, who, it had been proved, had no other re source than the talents he possessed to provide a sub sistence. The Learned Counsel proceeded at some length to argue these points, and concluded by express ing a hope that the Jury would take into consideration all the circumstances of the case, and that they would give such damages as would vindicate the honour and character of the plaintiff, without entailing utter ruin upon the defendant. Mr. Baron GURNEY, in the course of summing up, observed that one point that was argued in favour of the defendant was, that he was chastised by the plaintiff ; and if he had put the defendant's life in danger, it cer tainly would go in mitigation of damages ; but under the peculiar circumstances of this case, the conduct of the plaintiff in this respect, he (the Learned Judge) should leave entirely for their consideration. The Learned Judge concluded by saying that the Jury were not to estimate the damages according to the pecuniary resources of the defendant, but in reference to the injury the plaintiff had sustained. He had lost an affec tionate wife, and his children were deprived of the in structions and example of a mother ; and the plaintiff could not look his children in the face for the future without pain and anguish. The Jury retired for upwards of an hour, and, upon their return, The Foreman asked his Lordship if Mrs. Heaviside would be able to leave any of the reversionary interest of 2.0,000/., to which she would be entitled upon Cap tain Heaviside's death, to any future children she might have ? Mr. Baron GURNEY said that, in the case of the present children dying, she would have the sole control of the money. The Jury also put some further questions respect ing the disposition of her property in case of her marrying Dr. Lardner, and his taking the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act, with which the Learned Judge told them they had nothing to do. They were about retiring a second time, when Mr. Baron GURNEY observed—" There is one fact I forgot to mention to you, and that is, that this con- duct might have been pursued by the defendant some time before it was discovered." The Jury then left the Court, and, shortly before four o'clock, they returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS. The defendant and Mrs. Heaviside, it was stated, are still residing as man and wife at the Rue Tronchet. Tire following letter forms part of a correspondence which took place between Dr. Lardner and Mr. Kars lake, of Regent-street, in reference to this extraordinary affair :-- " 4, Regent-street, April 6, 1840. My dear Sir—l duly received your letter of the 30th ult., and will now, in the first place, reply to your questions. With respect to the 20,000/., I consider that, notwithstanding the step taken, and her conse quently marrying you, she will be entitled to her life interest in this sum in the event of her surviving Cap tain H. As you have stated the question as to the 13,000/., I consider that if Mrs. H. survived her father. mother, and Captain 11.. she would be entitled to this sum ; but that if her father and mother were to die in the lifetime of Captain H. and Mrs. H. without being divorced, then that Captain H. would be entitled. I think it most probable, however, that this sum of 13.000/. was settled on the marriage of Captain H. and Mrs. H. ; and if so, the chances arc that Captain H. has the first life estate, then Mrs. H. a life estate, and on the death of the survivor, that the property will go to the children. In all eases of divorce, on the application of the husband, Parliament requires the husband to make some provision for the wife, but what that pro vision may be depends altogether on the circumstances of each case, and the fortune of the husband, and there is no settled rule, and therefore it is generally a matter of treaty between the agents on both sides, and if they cannot agree, Mr. Gordon settles it. In order to look for precedents, the better to enable me to write you on this point, I this morning sent down Mr. Gore to Parrett and Walmsly ; Walmsly asked Gore if the matter had any reference to your case, and if so he expected to be employed on the other side. I had told Mr. Gore that if any question was asked to say I was concerned for you in this matter ; and Mr. Gore then asked who was concerned for Captain H.: Mr. almsly said Mr. Beavan, of Sackville-street. Fortu nately I know Mr. Beavan very well, and after some consideration, I thought it a very good opportunity to see him, and to impart to him as much as in prudence I thought right with reference to your first instructions to me, and accordingly I . called upon him and men tioned the object of my call, and how I happened to know he was concerned for Captain H. I then told him I had heard from you, was instructed to appear for you, and should not attempt to defend any action, or to throw any obstacles in the way ; in short, that after what had taken place, I could have no hesitation in advising you, and that I was assured your own feeling would be, to do nothing which might be deemed an ag gravation of the calamity. Mr. Beavan appeared pleased at my calling on him, and said, that if he was instructed to issue a writ, he should call on me ; but I did not find that he had as yet received any such in structions, but that he was preparing to proceed in the Ecclesiastical Court. The two proceedings may be concurrent. In the Lords and Commons a sentence of divorce in the Ecclesiastical Court, and the judgment at law for damages, must be prove 3, and the actual payment of the damages is sometimes required to be proved. 1 collected that the other side are aware that you are now in Paris. We shall not be able to procure you an advance on the Shepherd's-bush property with out possessing the original deeds to produce the lender, and to be handed over to him on the loan being ad vanced.—l remain, dear sir, your's, faithfully, " HY. KARSLAKE." " Dr. Lardner, No. 27, Rue Tronchet, Paris." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Independent.) PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST I.—The Vanguard, 84, Captain Sir D. Dunn, went out of harbour on Friday morning to Spithead, where she was mustered and inspected by Ad miral Sir E. Codrington, who appeared to be much pleased with her equipment. The Athol, troop-ship, embarks the remainder of the 58th Regiment for Glasgow, at which place she will re ceive on board the remainder of the 78th Highlanders, and convey them to Liverpool, and returns to Portsmouth. The CasubriJge, 78, Capt. Bernard, with Mr. Abercrom bie and suite, sailed on Sunday last for Turin. The Pique, Capt. Boxer, sailed on Sunday last for Ply mouth and Gibraltar, with marines and marine artillery for the latter fortress. The Cygnet, 6 gun brig, Lieut. Edward Wilson, is fitting at Woolwich for the Cape of Good Hope and Wei t Coast of Africa station, and will touch at this port on her way there. The Opossum, late packet brig, is fitting at Chatham for the Quarantine Service at Gibraltar. The Medea steamer is refitting at Woolwich, and is ex pected to be put in commission about the middle of next month. _ _ _ Tho Fair Rosamond, Lieut. Oliver, has been surveyed at the Cape of Good Hope, and having been found to be de fective, is ordered to proceed to England to be paid off, and may be shortly expected. There is no truth in the re port of her having foundered off the Cape of Good Hope. MOVEMENTS OF tIER MAJESTY'S Snirs.—Her Majesty's ship Orestes arrived at Callao on the 19th of February from Valparaiso, and sailed again on the 24th. The Electra arrived at Callao on the 14th of March from Intermedios. The Magicienne sailed from Gibraltar on the 15th inst. for Malaga. The Acheron arrived at Gibraltar on the 15th inst. from Malta and returned the same day. The Revenge sailed from the Tagus for Malta on the 20th inst. The Pearl, from Madeira, arrived at the Cape de Verds on the 22d ult., and sailed on the 23d for South America. The Basilisk arrived at Africa on the 23d of March from Val paraiso, and sailed on the 26th for Cobija. The Sirius steam packet, commanded by Lieutenant Waters, R.N., arrived at London on the 25th July, hav ing left Cronstadt on the 27th instant. When bound up to Cronstadt, passed a division of the Russian fleet, con sisting of eight sail of the line and six frigates ; and, on the 17th. left lying in Cronstadt roads, ready for sea, an other division, consisting of nine sail of the line, and seve ral frigates and corvettes. They had been reviewed by the Emperor in person, on the day previous. On the 19th, off the south-east end of the Gothland, passed another Russian firet of eight sail of the line, four frigates, three corvettes, and a brig. The Malabar East Indiaman arrived this morning from London, to embark passengers and stock for her outward voyage to Calcutta. The intended expedition to the Niger, under Captain Trotter, will comprise, in addition to that officer, a Com mander, five Lieutenants, and several Mates and Mid. shipmen. At Spithead—Atholl, Vanguard. In Harbour—Brittania, Victory, Royal George, Excel lent, Stromboli, Apollo, Pantaloon, Cracker, Echo, Fanny, and Pestonjee Bomanjec.. PLYMOUTH —On Friday the Fly, 18, Corn. G. G. Loch, arrived from Portsmouth, to be paid off. The Fearless steamer, put in here for a supply of coals on Friday, and having taken them on board, sailed for Sheerness ; she has got some shipwrights for Chatham Dock-yard, which were obtained at Cork and Dublin. The Adventure transport, arrived on Sunday, from Portsmouth, with stores for the Dock-yard. The Pique, 36, Captain E. Boxer, arrived from Ports mouth on :Monday, and after a stoppage of three or four hours, sailed again for the Mediterranean. Lieut.-Col. Walker, Capt. Childs, Lieutenants Walsh and Land, with 44 non-commissioned officers and privates from this divisor, of Marines, were embarked on board her. It is quite a secret on what service Capt. Boxer is ordered, as he had seated orders. The Meteor steamer, Lieutenant Pritchard, arrived from Falmouth on Monday, and having taken on board stores for the packets, sailed on her return the next day. The Sapphire, troop-ship arrived from Liverpool on Tuesday, where she landed a part of the 78th Regiment, which she embarked at Glasgow. The Linnet, 6, Lieutenant William Forrester, having been refitted, sailed for Falmouth on Thursday. The Diligence transport, sailed the sam• day for Dept ford, with stores. In Hamoase—lmpregnable, San Josef, Rodney, Fly, and Carron steamer. _ In the Sound—Sapphire. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants.—John Russell, to Stromboli ; Wallace Houston, to Impregnable, vice Edmonstone, to Weazle, vice Simpson, promoted. Clerks in Charge.—William L. Inch, to Rolla, vice May, invalided; G. B. Fuller, to Espoir ; J. D. Barnes, to Waterwitch. Assistant- Surgeons (additional)—J. J. L. Donner, D. G. A. Nicoll, and F. A. Gray, to Britannia. Additional Clerk—John Briekwood, to Victory. Volunteers, First Cl..ss.—William Bowden to Strom boli ; George Parker, to Britannia. Second Master.—John Hughes, to Apollo. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) _ _ _ PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST I.l—The Fair — Ro'sam - ond, ketch, left St. Helena on the Bth of January, for England. The Rolla, 10, left the Cape de Verds on the sth of May, for the Gambia; the Persian, 16, and Pearl, 20, arrived at the same island on the 21st, and left on the fol. lowing day for Ascension and Sierra Leone. The Inconstant, 36, Capt. Pring, was to leave Dublin for Cork, on Monday last. The Magicienne, 24, Captain Michell, sailed from Gibraltar on the 15th of July, for Malaga. The American frigate Brandywine arrived at Gibraltar on the 11th July, from Lisbon, The Peacuck, American sloop of war, returned from Sydney, March 7, from a cruise, having been damaged by running against an island of ice. The - Vanguard, 80, Captain Sir David Dunn, K. C. H., was towed out of harbour this afternoon by the Stromboli and Echo steam vessels. She is about 80 seamen short of her complement of 455 ; but, now she is at Spithead, she may soon complete. The Cracker, cutter, arrived on Tuesday from Jersey, and the Atlaoll, troop ship, from Glasgow. The Emerald sailed on Wednesday, with men, to Sheerness. The Netley, tender, arrived last night from Plymouth, on her way to Chatham. The Mercury has proceeded to Devonport with super. numeraries. The Horatio, transport, sailed on Sunday for Bermuda. The Pestonjee Bomanjee transport has been delayed in sailing for China, in consequence of clearing to destroy rats. The Vesuvius - steam, vessel is hourly expected with the depot of the 35th Regiment. She embarks the 89th depot at Gosport for Cork, and receives there the 65th depot t , ). 193 ii,outh. The Fearless steamer arrived on Monday from Milford, EVENING EDITION. l2, :nd sailed for `Woolwich. The 'Etna arrived on Mon frost Woolwich, and sailed on the following day for Sa')astian. The keel of a sister steamer to the Strom boli has be 1,11 lai l down in this Dockyard ; she will be called the Dri ver ; and to show the immutability of the Surveyor's sys tern, she is only to have a little greater length, and two feet more beam, Tnc Pembroke, 72, and Warspite, razed, will be taken out of DJek on the 14th instant. Report says both ships are to be got ready fur sea. NAVAL. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Mat--B. F. H. Helpman, late of the Beagle, is ap pointed to command the Colonial schooner, Champion , employed bets. - een Swan River and King George's Sound, and from thence to Bombay. Midshipman—Cavendish Hare, from Princess Charlotte to Vanguard. Ist Engineer—Geo. M'Farlane to Stromboli. 2d Engineers—John Shaw and John Russell (b), to the Stromboli ; Archibald Bain, to the Victory, for scr , vice of the Wildfire. COAST GUARD.—Mate—John Grandy, from Camber' to Hayling Island. IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN GUN CARRIAGES. Friday Prince Labanoff de Rostoff, Major-General of the Russian Army, and M. Bankhausen, the Russian Col?. sul- General, with many scientific gentlemen, paid a visit to the grounds of the Ben Jonson Tavern, in Stepney, to inspect an important improvement which has recently barn made by Mr. J. Brown, of Limehouse, to entirely obviate the inconveniences attending the recoil of guns on board The new carriage consists of two frames, the uppermost of which, however, is elevated at one end to an angle of about fifteen deuces, whea the gun is about to be discharged, and the leading fe' ture of the invention is that the gun on its di:charge has to recoil up hill. There are other advantages re' suiting from this plan, inasmuch that no tackling is re quired to work the gun, and consequently no strain 0 11 the side of the vessel, and it was evident that two me° could work a 60-pounder in battle with as much ease el the 16 or 20 men now required for that service, while' the rapidity of firing would be increased in a four-fold:. ratio. Tho gun was rapidly discharged in the field be-, hind the tavern, and with the greatest ease. The piece was a four-pounder weighing 3i cwt., and a gun-deck being represented for it to work on, a boy was found equal to perform all the operations of loading, running the piece out, and firing. The visitors expressed there -9 selves highly satisfied with the experiment, and proceeded to the ball-room of the tavern, where a veil large and splendidly finished gun-carriage on the new principle, and intended for a 36-pounder, was exhibited. It was understood that the carriage had been purchase d for the Russian Government, who it appears in this, as t°. every other important invention, are the first to take 0, vantage of English ingenuity. The Prince and Co nsel were much pleased with the invention, and the m anne r in which it had been got up, and paid a high cote' pliment to Messrs. Brown and Barreti - , the patentee& There is no doubt of its being a very important improvement in the science of gunnery, and will save a vast deal of manual labour. Mr. Brown,, the invent or of the new gun-carriage, has been long known to O f scientific world by many important inventions , which the patent capstan, the chain controller, and rue chain stopper are the hest known. The gran-carriag e, from its extreme simplicity of action, may 'be said to eclipse all his other productions. The Lords of tl, Admiralty intend shortly to make the experiments vat " , Mr. Brown's gun-carriage on hoard ship on a very , large scale. The result will no doubt prove great utility, and its adoption in our navy must tollol/ as a matter of course. After Prince Labanoff o f Rostoff and M. Bankhausen had left the grounds ° the tavern they were shown over the new a nd ve r t extensive works of the new Commercial ,Gas go u t pany, which commence the operation h i g" . ing the large districts of Stepney and the Towg..,r lets in a few weeks. Messrs. Swallow and Morris, Ite of the Directors, and Mr. Mercer, the engineer o f t „ m i Gas Company, conducted them over the works , pointed out the peculiar mode of manufacturing Pa The visitors soon afterwards left Stepney, much gratifie with the attention paid them. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST t4ES, Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. F ea'e' Per Quarter. 5. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s: A Abingdon....... (6 79 Z,O 38 26 36 46 50 4 ,1 And0ver......... 52 75 30 53 29 33 Banbury 30 40 25 32 4 v Basingstoke... 68 79 29 35 28 33 47 5 40 ^;, , neester 64 76 33 33 29 35 40 42 1: Coventry.— 73 45 25 38 46 4. $0 Oaventry„,...... 68 72 34 44 24 31 39 44 Derby 63 74 35 36 34 36 49 51 •••• Howden-- 72 24 40 42 4$ Hungerford... 54 (0 :32 40 25 33 36 40 "• Malton 68 76 35 38 22 33 Maidenhead.,. 58 63 35 48 25 34 37 46 -•;; 43 :Nottingham 51 '77 32 33 '.31 34 47 51 4 v Wantage 6,8 80 30 40 22 28 36 46 32 46 30 35 Worcester 70 311 29 43 0" .0 York 40 83 32 40 22 30 ~1 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d, s, , g; a.l Birmingham 80 96 39 59 40 49 56 681 NEWCASTLE CORN - EXCH A NOE. Red. white. Wheat, Northumberland 4Bs. —s. —s. 70 .1 -- Norfolk and Suffolk 7lB. 76i....... .--- Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 655....... Foreign 69 !. 735....... 7 2 5. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 3lis 395....... Foreign 304. 341. ...... Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sutti lk • Grinding and Feeding 3os. 325...... Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk •• A• • Beans, Small 4o‘ 4RI s. d. s. d. s. d, s, ( 1 ,1 i 4 0 4 9 5 6 6 8 1 .N'EXCHANGE. Red. white., Wheat, Northumberland 4Bs. -s. -s. 70 • --- Norfolk and Suffolk 715. 76,....... 743. - 80'. -..- Berwick and Scotch tils. 655....... -s• 68% ,Au Foreign f9!. 735........ 7 2 5. '" Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk - . i Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflblk -3 0:.. - 34 : . ...........: ":1 ,.....5 ::: : I, ' - Grinding and Feedin g ..... s. 325. ... .s .., mss. Malt, Norfolk and 5uff01k....., 64s 635....... "--. ......S. Beans, Small 4os. 48' "''':' _4l' - Tick 4Bs. 484 ...... - 7.' ~....S. ?ease, White 42 s 445. ... """'' ....a. ...S. -- Gray --s . -5....... ..... s , Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe '29s. 305....... --a• ... . 4 , -....-_- Feed ...... ..,„ , --Foreign ,), Flour (per sack) sBs. 555....... ••-•• WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. ~ e 7 24 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk -5, i 6s. to 7 03 . L a . Il& --- Lin. and Cam. -------- Yorkshire •••3. 51's. to 5 95 ". '',:°; VIP %Chao „ -s. :Os. to 725. .. 0 ,, 7 0s. ....-. Foreign, Red -s. - a. to 645. f in :, 7* White S. -5. to ;th• r!n e ygo. Barley, Norfolk and Sullblk ----- Lincolnshire fine _„., - Yorkshire \Vold . • 9s. to --s• - e :s.7- . - Foreign Beans, New - fin e o -- Old 46s. to 4 8, . c Oats. Potato -.s. to 30s. P„ f4* --.- Poland -s -s. to :30 14 fi n e Oh - Vriezland and Small .. ........... ~ -5: --s. to •23 5 . P'MeOf' -- bi:aling . - Shelling Malt ....... ......... ..5. 445. fine 4 65 . P_ e .i . j,sts" Rapeseed ~.. ..... . -4. Os. 26/.os. WI. Os. F.' SCOTCH MARKETS. --- - "<;;I' Oa" -' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans- .... ....1 4 cr ----. -----.— —__ ------- -------- --------- 5 , 1 4 6 Aberdeen 7O to 80 21) to 33 27 to 35 —to ,—; 43 Berwick 4O Si) '. 2 27 '1 24 33 00 Coldstream 46 50 ' 24- 26 17 18 .),," .„.. •7 / Cupar (Fife) 48 65 26 31 18 22 2...2 2 ‘ ) 40 / Dunbar 4B 68 26 49 23 27 40 4:2 Elgin 3 , 1 ".. . , Inverness , 62 72 35 :..8 56 29 32 „' , Kelso .:, 37 54 23 30 23 27 34 S.„ 43 Kirisaldy / Perth The GO ^4 30 40 23 35 41 q• un til' ,•'• size of the measure varies throughout the CO HADDING PON CORN MARKET. 00 Ot oil Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 4ttO Od First Bos Od 42s 0.1 41s 031 50$ Od 474 ~j Second o7s Od 4ls Od 33 3 83 48s Od _Ale "Third 5Ss Od 37s Od 35s Si 42s Od Average 91. '7s. Cl, 10 labs. DA LKEITH CORN MARKET. Oe' n oil i. Wheat Barley. Oats. Pease. 0• 1 First SO< Gu 42s 0,1 41, 4d 53 , Od D,s N'i Second 6Bs Od :Ai, Od 18;s 8d 524 Odd 50 " Third -1s Od 30s 01 52s Bcl 50 GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET.—JuIy 29. ... d, the Wheat, 'ter 2401 b. s. d. s. cl. Oats, per 2041 b. :,,, 6to WI gritish, old 37 010 39 0 Irich . , ................... ~...; 0 ---- new Canada, free Irish Barley, per 320th Scottish ... . ... , ........ N , j o o English 29 0 30 0 Pease, Scottish ,•••• 0 0 56 1 Scottish 24 0 29 0 Oatmeal, per 140.11 Irish ..R.l . 110. , PLATE.—T. COX SAVORY, Silvers 47, Cornhill (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), 1 The best wrought Fiddle-Pattern Spoons and r ° ,: e o, ll : 7s. 2d. per ounce. The following are the weights... s e si' mended, but the articles may be had lighter er heavi l h + 11 4e. same price per ounce : C lll i• Fiddle pattern xI. 0 oz. .d. £s. d. l i 1 6 A 12 Table Spoons 3O at 7 2 ... 10 1 5 • ••• 7 I w o 12 Dessert ditto 12 Table Forks 20 at 7 2 ... 10 lb 'I A " 71P i 12 Dessert ditto 2O at 7 2 ... 7 3 ... 4 5 . i 2 Gravy Spoons ... ...... lO at 7 2 ... 311' "• s IP. 1 Soup Ladle 4 Sauce ditto 4 Salt Spoons (gilt strong) 1 0 0 ." I 1 1 0 1 Fish Slice 2lO 0 ''' 4 ',1 0 12 Tea Spoons lO at 7 1 ... 3 16 1 ••• 0 lii 1 Pair Sugar Tongs (st rong ) 0 15 0 •••. o isarf The Classic is a ne w pattern, ,winch admired for O bo e 1 f ele fi g d a d n le ce. i T te h pa The Fiddle e it P h a a t s te u r a n en is ar w p i r th nv t e h d, the handle andin t i i . l e e w l ej t a more than qu thirty years. N.B.—Pattern Spoons can be sent into the cipi. of inTIIS. O' On the 30th ult., Mrs. it G. Edmonds, Wandsworth -r ' a son. iiS OO9 .44 On the 31st ult., at Dulwich, the lady of R . is of a son. , th l On the Ist., in Halkia-street-west, Belgrave-squ are of H. Barnett, Esq., of a daughter. bio ARRIE. On the 29th ult., at A br idge, Essex D , W. T. Reeve, 1 ,, 54 i11 . Elizabeth Caroline, only daughter of the late R. Wh„,eage,;(ll, On the Ist inst., at St. Lawrence Jewry, Mr. 1., Mr. of Wood-street, Cheapside, to Susanna, daughter of lei. rl . i l l Cleaver, of Lawrence-lane. 0 On the Ist inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, W. u: . „hter Esq., of Hans-place, to Charlotte Leathes , only da" W. Baker, Esq., of South Lambeth, Surrey. D IRD. f Ce On the 14th ult., at Leghorn, Maria, the wife ° Jobe George Chichester. jste On the 22d ult., at Hampstead, Ann, relict of the ef tb 4 Wollaston, sen., Esq., aged 65. 'clev i sO On the 27th ult., at Kimbolton, Mrs. Kerr, iv', h •re; 4 g. late Rev. Nelson Kerr, rector of 'l'ilbrook, Redfer",,, s r i of " daughter of the Rev. P. G. Crofts, John's, Lewes, Sussex. eely r On the 28th ult., James May, Esq of Bethnal-gr , 0 , • f solicitor, aged 89. Cn 9tsfi tl" On the 29th ult., at Derwent Island, Cumberlaxid,A 6 rg otolt the daughter of James Henry, Esq., aged 5 year s a} ‘` . Die" - On the 29th ult., at Trevallyn Captain Henry to Mosten, R.N., of Segrwdt, Denbighshire, aged 4° ' gaff' On the 30th ult., in Pelham-cresceut, BrosePto n ' , mile of John Drake, Esq., aged 271 formerly New 00 '—'111wi11ig52151.11:1529/51120Cliet London Printed and Published by MITRDO stro No. 112. Strand, at The S,m Office, No. 1 1 -4 i a Ao. the county of Middlesex.—Monday, August 3t c: .;1;00; ,1 C. Sir E Q. Th L Lard Lord E. IV E Sir E A. .g Sir NI Visco .1. H . J. Ca, 4. entran o it any veriber tra nce. kuj thi t o send tar,_ rind, more o or for I tern mu I. P r d BMW, Virtr.itj th e r building 4 arof 611_30ek 'bout S. lidated : t or b to ti fast, mast 1) art. Tier but if at Offen Unto t ingui of h a "31int, Le ! are par for