The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENT in the POPULAR DR. LANDERER, OF ATHENS, ON REPRESENTATION. THE PREPARATION OF OTTO OF ROSES. The first public meeting of a society, entitled the (From the Pharmaceutical Times.) •"` National Alliance for Promoting the real Representa- The rose-trees in the neighbourhood of Mecca, and rtion of the People in Parliament," was held on Wed- near the sea of Galilee, are of greater value than the Asesday evening at the London Tavern; William Howitt, olive and lemon-trees in Italy and Greece. A rose florins (from 41. to SL), Esq., i n th e c h a i r . Th e at t en d ance was ver y l arge , an d s h ru b costs from fity to sixty and who the platfor m was crowded with several well known ad- i s g i ven as a dowry to the daug h ters o f A rmen i ans , locates of universal suffrage. are chiefly occupied with their growth and cultivation. The CHAIRMAN naid that, proud as he was to be Rose-trees, which attain a height of eight or ten feet, - called upon to preside over the meeting, yet he must are cultivated with special care, the gardens being regu request their indulgence, as he had not, from pressure gularly freed every month from all weeds, and frequently of other engagements, been able to devote his time to manured and irrigated. Heavy rains during the winter the subject—an agitation for which they had commenced indicate a plentiful harvest of roses. It is considered that evening, and which he had little doubt they w ou ld as o f great serv ice in aecelerating the time of blooming -prosecute successfully. He was s ur p r i se d t h at an if ashes and camels' dung are spread on the rose shrubs. association like the present had not been established The small rose gardens are divided into quadrangular before. However they had increased in wealth, they had partitions, and so well hedged round with cactus not increased in their political power or position. On plants, and other prickly shrubs, that it is impossible for the contrary, they had been retrograding, and that had animals to get through them. Great attention is paid to taken place of late years, when they should have been these hedges, which attain a height of from twelve to progressing. The change had taken place since the fourteen feet; at the same time they do not cause much Revolution of 1688. They had since that period expense. In the larger rose gardens there is situated in sieglected their constitutional rights, and had allowed their centre a small tower or observatory, so arranged the aristocracy to usurp some of their most valuable that the garden and neighbouring plantations may be - privileges. It was by that most culpable neglect that all watched therefrom. During the time of blooming well the wars in which they had been engaged had been armed watchmen are placed in these towers to prevent permitted, and it was those wars which had imposed on pilfering the roses, which would otherwise frequently the country those debts which every man felt, at his occur. As soon as the roses begin to . bloom, and some trade, or by his fireside at home. The whole export time before the rose dealers pass through the count in country, duties of the country amounted to 50,000,0001., and the order to purchase the roses before they are re annual taxes amounted to much more; the balance be- moved from the shrubs, these transactions are tween which f e ll upon t h e wor king man. The conse- generally arrange d i n the bazaars by the me sequence was, that their profits were ground down to diation of Jews, who act as brokers. At the time the greatest minimum. For such abuses they required of blooming, children and women repair to the reform. This reform should be most comprehensive. gardens before sunrise, with bags and baskets, in order They wanted reform in the House of Parliament, for to gather the roses, and to carry them to places where what went by the name of Parliamentary reform re- they are either preserved for exportation, or where they minded him of what Lord Denman had said of another are distilled. If the roses are intended to be kept fresh question—" That it was a mockery, a delusion, and a for any length of time, they are most carefully freed snare." Of about 30,000,000 in this country, only from the calyx and green leaves, and then placed in 600,000 had a voice in the representation of Members of large clay vessels and covered with salt. If they are Parliament. They wanted to extend the suffrage.— i nten d e d , as i s commonly done, for preparing the otto of (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Every man in the country, roses, they are carried to the distill. ries, where however poor, had a clear and indefeasible right to have f requent l y f rom three to six stills are kept, the appa a vote for a political representative. They also wanted rat us f or cooling the distilled liquor bein g very ' - re f or m in all the offices of Gover nment; t h ey wanted ine r verfect. The ceaned roses are put into the still, reform in the Excise offices and in the Customs; they and water poured over them, together with a consi wanted reform in their criminal code as well as their derable quantity of salt. After having been left for civil code; they wanted reform in the law of primp- two or three days to macerate, the operation of dia geniture and in the law of entail; they wanted further tilling is commenced, and continued until the distilled reform in the direction of free trade, for what they had liquor begins to assume a yellow colour. The rose already obtained was insufficient to carry out the prin- water is taken away from time to time, and decanted ciple of free trade, or to enable them to compete with for cooling into clay vessels placed in water. To these other countries. The way in which they were to effect different portions different names are given, and they this, was by operati ng b enef i cially upon the system of differ exceedingly in value ; for instance, a bottle con- Parliamentary representation. If they could have taining abo u t t we l ve quar t s o f th e li quor o b ta i ne d at t h e achieved that b e f ore, t h ey would have prevented several beginning of distillation, sells for 150 to 200 piastres other evils that had afflicted the people in this and the (1/. us. ed. to 21. is. sd.), while a similar quantity ob sister country ; but he believed that the time was tained toward, the end, may be purchased in tho baLadrs now come when they could effect all they wished in of Alexandria, Cairo, Constantinople, and Smyrna, for this way. 20 piastres (4s. 2d.) The SECRETARY here stated that he had received The rose-water obtained at the commencement letters of apology from Dr. Bowring, Messrs. Sharman of the process is used for preparing the oil Crawford, Miles, W. J. Cox, T. Bankes, and Thomas of roses, which is separated therefrom as follows Sturg,e, who were prevented by illness, or some other Large porous clay vessels are filled with this water, and cause, from attending, but all expressing sympathy in tied over with linen; after which they are placed in the objects of the meeting. The last named gentleman trenches dug in the earth, where they are left from six inclosed a cheque for 201. to ten days, according as the nights are more or less Mr. G. CLARKE proposed the following resolution : cool. They are covered over with straw moistened with " That the safety of a nation depends on the virtue and water, in order, by its evaporation, to keep them as cool wisdom of its people, and upon a free Government, as possible. The water then becomes gradually covered honestly and economically administered by representa- with an oily film, which condenses to a crystalline mass. tive institutions. Tnat the House of Commons is not a This is taken off with a skimmer, and the water repeatedly fair representation of the people of Great Britain, be- undergoes the same cooling process, until no further cause not above one in six of the adult male population traces of oil appear. After being thus deprived of all can vote in the election of its Members ; and because the the oil therein contained, the water is then brought to small and declining boroughs, whose elections are made market for sale, or employed in preparing an inferior at the dictation of aristocratic patrons, are put upon a sort of otto, which is afterwards exported to Europe as level, in point of influence and political pow er , w i t h t h e fine Turkey Otto. This kind of Otto is met with in large and wealthy cities, boroughs, and counties. That the bazaars of Constantino le Smyrna, &c., and is ob the industrious classes are excluded f rom t h e right to tained by strongly agitating the rose-water, which is elect Members, and are deprived of the privilege to sit still very fragrant, with an oil received Prom Africa, in Parliament by absurd property qualifications. That distilled from the wood of some odoriferous tree. After since the passing of the Reform Bill, the vexatious ope- the oil has separated, it is again agitated with another ration of the tax paying clauses has debarred many thou- portion of rose-water, lest it should net have assumed sands of men from the exercise of their undoubted the proper odour of roses, and is then left to stand, or rights ; and the re f usa l of the Whig Government to re- is buried in the ground, until it has perfectly separated peal those clauses, is evidence of strong hostility to the therefrom. principles of popular progress. That the increasing, in telligence of the people is an additional reason why their claim to the possession of their political rights should be at once admitted. That the disorganised state of poli tical parties, and the reasons above specified, lead this meeting to resolve that the present is a favourable time for creating a national movement in favour of the full enfranchisement of all classes of the people." Dr. EPPS seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. H. VINCENT proposed the next resolution, which was to the effect that the meeting cordially approved of the formation of the national alliance for promoting the real representation of the people in Parliament, because it sought to extend the suiYrage to every man of full age and sane mind, to protect his vote by ballot, to provide equal electoral districts, to abolish property qualification for Members, to remunerate Members fur services per formed, and to procure annual elections. That the alli ance pledged itself to adopt no other than peaceful and legal modes to rouse the people, and to urge their claims upon the Legislature. This speaker recommended that a sum of 1,0001 should be appealed for to the country for the committee of the association, and denounced the Whig Government in very strong terms. Mr. Botelteass second, d the resolution, which was car ried unanimously amid considerable applause. Mr. C. GILPIN moved the next resolution, to the effect that the success of the association depended upon the zeal, prudence, and exertions of its supporters, and their continuous subscriptions. Mr. T. COOPER, who was received with great enthu siasm, seconded the resolution, which was carried unani mously. Thinks were then voted to, and acknowledged by, the Chairman. The meeting then separated. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times : " Sir,—The Irish landlords are playing a bold game. Finding the enactment of some poor-law inevitable, they are endeavouring, and with too much success hitherto, to introduce provisions which shall wholly defeat its ob ject, and make it, as nearly as possible, a dead letter. " Not content with having obtained a complete con trol over the administration of relief, by actually trebling the former proportion of the ex-officio to the elected guardians, they proceeded, on Monday night, to attempt to insert in the Bill two other clauses from the same manufactory. " One of these they persuaded the Minister to adept ; the other they very nearly carried against him, the ma jority in support of the Government being only three! " The first of these landlord -framed clauses declares that no relief shall, under any circumstances, however pressing, be afforded to any person who holds more than a quarter of an acre of land. More than this—if the guardians are not thoroughly satisfied that an applicant for relief who once held land has bond fide and com pletely parted with all his interest in it, they are pro hibited from relieving him. "It is obvious how ready an excuse this will afford for the denial of all relief to a large class of poor, whom the landlords themselve s are driving into destitution. The immediate effect et the clause, which is to come into operation in November next, will be to deprive of their holdings and cast loose upon the wide and hard dealing world every one of the 300,000 or 400,000 small farmers who are now receiving relief from the public works. Under penalty of certain starvation, they will be required to renounce all interest in their holdings— even in the cabin they themselves built—the land they themselves reclaimed! •• - thellee forward ? Will the landlords who thus propose to use the poor-law as an instrument for clearing their estates find employment tor them as day labourers ? Oh, no I They have no idea of doing so. Their intention and expectation are, that these 300,000 or 400,000 evicted cottier tenants will join the stream of emigration east wards—that is, into Britain—will find their way across the channel with their wives and families, adding some 2,000,000 of destitute paupers to our struggling home population ! " This, in fact, cannot but be the result of the denial, in November next, of all relief to those who may hold an acre of land. They will not try the workhouse of Ire land until they have tried every town and parish in Bri tain first. " The other clause, which was so nearly carried on Monday against the Government by Lord George Ben tinck—headieg a whip of both sections of the Opposi tion, united for the time on the common ground of landlord privileges —was salt more characteristic of its authors. " It modestly proposed to enact nothing less than this —that the entire burden of the poor rate, which, by the existing law, is now divided between, the landlord and the ooccupier, should for the future be borne by the lat ter alone. They, a party of landlord legislators, enact ing a law which imposes a tax of unknown amount, but which they, at .least, profess to believe will be of over whelming magnitude, —they have the face to propose, and divide the Trees. sgeieet thr Government in favour or, a clause to shift their own lawful share of this tax upon the shoulders of their already over -taxed and racks rented tenants. " And these are the farmers' friends truly! These are the gentlemen who have ever on their lips the de claration that the interests of the landlord and the tenant are identical! .‘ Fortunately, the clause was lost for the time. But it will, no doubt, be agai n proposed, an d not i mprobably with success, i n the Ps' eer 44 Then will come the time for t whether the Irish landlords are to ber v 0. the question tryi ng to shirk por—for all responsibily fur the support of the'l trying this question, not in either House of :th but . in the great inquest of the nation —on th:rliataot' of a general election ! Then will the t b " --n g% tenantry of Ir land have in their own hands the decision of this q e tion, so vital to them I Then will the constituenefens"ot England and of Scotland be called on to determine wi ther the owners of the broad and fertile surface of Ire estimate a rental o f 17, 000,000/. at the leasf, enti on the estimate of their own champion, Lord G eoe —are to escape from all contribution towards the relief of the poor upon their own estates ; or to pass such a poor law only as shall give them the power of clearing those estates of a (supposed) redundant population, and driving their wretched and starving millions over the channel, to be fed from our poor -rates by bread taken out of the mouths of our own struggling and indus trious people. It is, I suspect, on that field, that the battle with the Irish landlords is yet to be fought ! I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " J USTU S." The Right ion. Edward Stratt and Mrs. Strutt (OW/a yesterdayfor their residence, megaton, near derby. EMIGRATION: A memorial of considerable length, embodying a plan for emigration from Ireland, was presented on Wednes day to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell. The memorial was accompanied by the following letter:— " 14, Park -street, Grosvenor-square, Lonion, March 31, 1847. "My Lord,—We have the honour to present to your Lordship the enclosed memorial, with the list of names which we have been authorised to append to it. " The main proposition which it embodies, and to which those who have signed it consider themselves pledged, are-Ist. The necessity of systematic coloniza tion, on a very large scale, from Ireland to Canada, and of the assistance of the State to promote it. 2d. The necessity of making religious provision for the emi grants. 3d. The advantage of eniisting private enter prise, in the form of agency, to carry out the plan; and-4th. A willingness to accept an income and property-tax, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the emigration. "We hope to procure numerous adhesions to the principle of the memorial, which we will do ourselves the honour of transmitting to your Lordship after the Easter holidays, but we have thought it more respectful to your Lordship to send it to you at once, without waiting for its circulation in Ireland. " We have th e h onour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's very obedient servants, W. 11. GREGORY, M.P. " M. J. O'CONNELL, M.P. " J. It. GODLEY. " The Right Hon. Lord John Russell." Names authorised to be attached to the accompanying memorial:— The Archbishop of Dublin The Marquis of Ormonde The Marquis of Ely The Earl of Devon The Earl of Desart Lord Farnham Lord Jocelyn Sir A. J. Foster, Bart. Colonel Wyndham, M.P. Evelyn J. Shirley, Esq., M.P. Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, M.P. Alex. M'Carthy, Esq., M.P Sir Chas. Coote, Bart., M.P. R. 11. Osborne, Esq., M.P. Hon. James Maxwell, M.P. Major Layard, M.P. J. 11. Hamilton, Esq., M.P. Hon. S. Spring Rice, M.P. M. J. O'Connell, Esq., M.P. Wm. IL Gregory, Esq., M.P. John Robert Godley, Esq. --ARA AVIS.—DEATH OF A REAL JIM CROW.— There has resided in a house in Eyemouth for the last three years, a very singular crow, or common rook, which might truly be called the mocking-bird of the poultry-yard, for so exact was he in his imitation of the cries of the various domestic birds with which he asso ciated, that no one could distinguish them from the ori ginals. Many a visitor at his owner's house was startled and amazed at hearing proceed from below his chair the quack, quack, quack of the duck—cackle, cackle of the hen—the calling together of the chickens—the cooing of the pigeon —and the caw, caw of the crow—when all the time nothing could be seen except the latter-named gentleman in black, sitting with great composure, and evidently much satisfied with his own extraordinary vocal powers. But alas ! poor fellow, his last act of mimicry cost him his life. While imitating the crowing of a cock, a large game bird of that species, either taking it for a challenge or an insult, or perhaps both, flew upon him, and, strange to tell, tore out his tongue, the offending member of the rook. We need not tell how much his death has been lamented by those who knew him and admired his wonderful powers.—Berwick Advertiser. MATO ASSIZES.—IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL CASE. —ln the case of the brig Glasg w, plundered off th , coast of Erris of 1,000/. worth of Hour, in which the pro __,____i ..Er ~i..... t........,,-.. preeter s soug h t ..- ,- -,- a ottneuitv arose under the words of the statute, as to whether the vessel was in distress at the time of the outrage, the captain having declined to swear that she was in danger, and the A ct o f P arliament only applied to vessels in distress. Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C„ for the owners, applied to Baron Lefroy to respite the presentment for the opinion of the Judges in Dublin. Mr. Armstrong, Q.C., for the cesspayers, assented to this course; but it having in the progress of the trial of the plunderers of the vessel appeared that she was not in distress, Baron Lefroy told the grand jury not to pass the presentment. The vessel was insured, and the underwriters will be losers to the to extent of 1,0001. by this decision.—Dublin Evening Post. MELANCHOLY CASE.—.:I young Woman, named Elizabeth Isherwood, aged only seventeen, who had lived for the last seven montil.s in the employment of Miss Langsford, milliner any; dressmaker, Exeter, was missed from her home about, 11 o'clock on Tuesday morn ing week, and at one was d ‘itscovered quite dead in the deep part of the river Exe, just above the Weir Head. She had been seen by a tailor named Anning to walk in that direc tion on the path by t' . .1 5 river side, some time previously ; and she was discJve' . .ed by a lady, who happened to be passing tl:Lat way with hQr child, and who gave the alarm. Tlae body being taken out, it was found that life was gone beyond the hope of recovery. At the inques% ' which was held on Wednesday evening, before .r, Warren, Esq., the city coroner. Miss Langs. ford :dated that she knew of no connexion the de ceased could have formed, nor of any circumstance taiat could lead to the apprehension of her having destroyed herself. _She had no acquaintances in Exeter d es a respectabletime.. etarnily, whom the witness named. had been perfectlyhcohrrnedctb During the ienenheirncohnedrunca't ;palnoydm,,esnhte, wasshe inde®d an elegant girl, who was fit for any SOCi y : almost an acquisition to the establish nt " T . ' ' 'C ' ' ' dts was the first time she had ever left the n'honuse - without the knowledge of her employer ; and her a' , sence for some hours in the day had e 3 cited the al of Miss Langs ford, who was not until six o'cl a o . c k m f apprised of her death. The i .., 'arY returned a verdict o found drowned.— West Briton - THE 4.1 ILEGED MURDER IN ST. LURE'S. --011 Tuesdr • 3 ,, ' .5 an inquest was held by adjournment, before F r ' Baker, at the Cumberland Head, City-road, St. - eke, on the body of a female named Elizabeth Richard s'', ageri 28 years who was found in a cesspool in Bird yard, Whiteer -•' . oss•street on Friday last. There were considerable discovered, a irks of vi o l ence on the body when it was fcul play hadrk bete circumstances led to a belief that merly cohabited wnitthisaed towards the deceased, who for it was stated, she had mexan named Emery, from whcm, constable named Brannon,p:trieneed much ill-usage. A discovered the man Emery, state discovered t o the jury that he had in SL Martin's, Westminster. ie inmate of the workhouse since the 4th instant, and had never had ef been there ever any purpose whatever. The jury thent e the 11 011 , 0 f or onsulted for a short time, and returned a n , open verdict of " Fuu_ad dead. The Belgian Chamber of Deputies, at its sittin on Saturday, adopted, by a majority of 59 to 20, theglaw proposed by the Government for punishing libels by the press upon the King or any of the members of the Royal uctily , PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE PREPARATION AND ECONOMY OF INDIAN CORN, OR HOMMONY AS FOOD. (From the Cork Examiner.) Having made a series of trials in cJoking and using this food, I think the result may be useful to the public. Finding that a young man, a labourer, and his wife, who lived on my ground, consumed 21b. of Indian meal, hastily cooked (which cost 4d.) at a meal, I had one pint of the whole corn (weighing 11b.) steeped in cold water for 12 hours, until it was quite soft (but not water soaked), it swelled to nearly four pints—this was given them, and they were unable to use it all fur breakfast. The account appears thus :- 41b. Indian meal for two meals per day, at 24d.—Od. 21b. of Indian corn (two pints) ... at 2d. —4d. ' sd. daily, or 2s. 11d. per week—deduct 7d. for additional fuel, leaves 2s. 4d. savin' , per week.. Wishing to try the effect of additional steeping ; for a man in my employment who has a family of seven, and could not provide sufficient food at present prices, as they required ilbs. of Indian meal at breakfast and the same at clutter, or 141bs. per day which now cost 2.5. 6d., I steeped six pints of the whole corn for 24 hours, it weigh ed 61bs., and cost one shilling ; after boiling for 5i hours in 24 pints of water, it swelled to 24 pints, and weighed 181bs. of which the family could the but 16 pints in the day at two meals. The account appears thus :- 141bs. of Indian meal, ... ... ... ... 2s. Grl. 41bs. or pints of undressed corn, ... ... Os. Bd. ]s. 10d. Deduct allowance for additionel fuel .., 4d. per day, or lOs. 6d. weekly saving. Is. 6d. ON PREPARING INDIAN MEAL. A source of much loss to the poor arises from their hasty and wasteful mode of boiling Indian meal, under the erroneous idea that by using it hard it proves more sustaining. The contrary is the fact ; to convince the labourer and his wife of the advantage of proper cook ing, I had one pound of meal steeped for twenty-four hours in cold water, then boiled in five pints of water for 1 : 1 ,- hours: when cold and stiffit was t urned like jelly out of the bow!, and weighed seven pounds, and proved sufficient for them at a meal, instead of their usual allow ance of 21bs. From the difficulty the poor encounter in purchasing small quantities of the whole corn, it would be a kindness for employers to buy a few sacks of it and supply their out-door servants; also, where fuel is scarce, to all the waste heat, after dinner is dressed, of their kitchen ranges or fires, to be employed in boiling a ves sel or two of the corn, it is attended with but little ad ditional expense, and it is a considerable help to the poor people who pay the first cost of the corn with gratitude. JOIIN ABEL. lii,crricw, Limerick, 3d mo. 3, 1547. a s FASHIONS FOR APRIL. (From the "London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") The new taffetas and silks intended for redingotes are very elegant, foulards, pekins, and silks of every variety, striped, checked, jase6.s moires, or in Arabic designs, with bareges toiles de Chine tarlatanes, nankins de soie, and organdy, with coloured patterns on a black ground, are all fashionable. Black continues as much in favour as ever, but at this season the material is of course of slighter texture. In the make of dresses there will be but little change ; many redingotes will be worn, and many dresses with tight bodies and sleeves ; also peignoirs, with demi-wide sleeve, showing the under one of white muslin, richly embroidered. Black lace still forms the richest trimming, either for redingotes or pelerines, also for flounces in three or four rows, or narrow lace put on spirally, or en echelle gimps, fringes, and soutache will be used on the spring dresses, particularly a new kind, with pc.arl edge. Some dresses of poult de soie are made with revers, em broidered in shaded colours. Fancy straw bonnets, in termixed with lace, are very fashionable ; and crape, mixed with straw, form pretty capotes ; SOM3 crape bonnets are covered with lace, which sometime, forms a demi-voilette ; on the edge roses or jardeniares wreaths are placed under these laces, and give much elegance to the bonnet. Bonnets made of batiste de Chine of its natural colour, lined with pink, blue, or lilac of ape or gauze, form a pretty novelty ; the material is very tine and light. Flowers will be very much worn to ornament the interior as well as the exterior of bonnets this spring. Foliage of light colour, as the acacia, or dark, as the chestnut, will be used on straw bonnets ; exotics, with large petals, will ornament crape bonnets ; whil:t the more simple flowers of our gardens will be required for pailles de riz. The Noemie bonnets are of crape, covered with tulle I la niege and filet ; and the flowers that ornament them are of the most delicate de scription, or marabou's. The pompadour is of paillo de riz, with wreath of pompadour ribbon. For the public dejeur,e7s a new sty le will be introduced, the petit bord bernais, made of white straw, ornamented with field flowers, or a wreath of roses or single feather. Very small manteaux have been worn of green or violet velvet, trimmed with two rows of broad black lace, one at the edge, and the other above it, and a third row at the throat ; this style will be adopted in taffetas of every co:our. Mantelines are a mixture of the visite and mantelet, made of gros de Naples, trimmed with lace or fringe to match, with open heading, and sur mounted by a reseaux of application. YATTON•—DISCOVERY OF COAL.—This parish has recently been the scene of great rejoicing, on account of the discovery, a week or two ago, of a vein of coal, be twetm three and four feet thick, on the estate of J. 11. Smyth Pigott, Esq., at Claverham, in this parish. The 9 :rung belief that coal existed somewhere in the neigh bourhood induced Mr. Pigott., about a year ago, to com mence boring for it. After penetrating the led earth of the surface, the workmen came first to a stratum of the new red sandstone, and then to one of pennant— this latter proved to be exceedingly thick, but on getting through it, at the depth of about a hundred fathoms, the vein of coal above-mentioned was reached. The spot where the coal has been found is about a quarter of a mile from the line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, to which the estate of Mr. Pigott extends, so that by laying down trams he will be enabled to load the trucks at the mouth of the pit ready for conveyance by railway to any place on the line. Iron ore also exists in the rpighbourhood, but, for want of coals, this has hitherto been sent into Wales for the purpose of manufacture, but it is now hoped that furnaces will be erected on the spot, and the cost saved of transit to the coal districts of Wales.—Bath Chronicle. HORRIBLE AFFAIR.—A letter of the 2d, from Napoli, in Greece, records a horrible event:—A day or two before two brothers, Demetrius and Theodosius Tryphoupoulos, had been condemned to death for bri gandage, and were brought to the great place of the town to be executed. Both allowed themselves to be conducted to the foot of the scaff.)ld; but at the moment the executioner was about to tie Demetrius to the fatal plank he, being a man of extraordinary strength, broke his bonds, and, throwing down the executioner and his assistants, attempted to escape. They endeavoured to secure him, but he made a desperate resistance, and cruelly ill-treated them. At last, after a long and violent struggle, the executioner drew a knife from his pocket, and stabbed him to the heart, killing him instan taneously. He, nevertheless, caused his corpse to be de capitated. The other brother, Theodosius, was per fectly resignei, and trembled convulsively. He gave himself quietly up to the executioners, and in a tew in stants ceased to exist. MRS. RESTON, THE HEROINE OF MATAGORDA.— We were very much struck and delighted, on Friday afternoon, with a visit from this venerable old lady, Mrs. Reston, the heroine of Matagorda, now in her seventy eierious deeds at th a t place shed a lustre over her name, and the prowess of of her arm in succouring the British soldiers in the midst of the most dreadful carnage, will form a thrilling page in the history of England. She came with a pound note for the Sunday soup kitchen, saying, that when she read that the soldiers of the 74th Regiment were cooking for the poor, and that tho recruiting soldiers of Glasgow had contributed their alloweeee for the same humane end, her heart leaped with joy, re , --1 she declared she could not rest till she came to pour in he. donation with theirs for the poor and destitute. We were vts e averse to accept of the money, but she insisted upon it with th e most martial vigour, and said she had plenty now to end her old days in peace and comfort, and she wont away perfectly delighted at the invitation we gave her to come and inspect the rations herself in these old battlements, at the Glasgow Town's Hospital, within whose precincts she sojourned till she was discovered and rescued some few years ago. This is a plain statement told in an UR varnished way ; yet it is a statement which might point a moral and adorn a tale ; and it has made an impres. sion upon us not likely to besoon forgotten.—Reformer's Gazette. L An action at law, in which M. Alexandre Dumas was plaintiff, and M. Devallsde, the landlord of a hnuso in the Rue de la Chausa4o rl'Antto, was defendant, came to trial on Friday before the Civil Tribunal. The case, as stated by the counsel of M. Dumas, was that in April 184.5, he took, as yearly tenant at 1500 f. rent, an entre sol in the defendant's house, and also a room on the fifth story, to which he could retreat to follow his literary labours in. purer air, free from the noise of the street, and the i nterrupt i ons o f v i s i tors. S oon afterwards, how ever, M. Dumas was tempted to Saint Germain, and ap oiled to M. Dev a ll a d e t o acce pt as t enan t in hi s pl ace Nime. Leprivier, who was willing to occupy the apart ment. The landlord consented, exacting, however, half a year's rent in advance. To this M. Dumas acceded, and paid the 750 f. Mme. Leprivier paid her rent regularly, and at the end of the year M. Dumas demand the return of his deposit. The landlord, however, insisted upon still holding it, as a security for such dilapidations as might be found when Mme. Leprivier, who still continued tenant, should leave the apartment. M. Dumas replied, that he had laid out much money in decorations. M. Devallade however urged that these decorations, though perhaps indifferent to Mme. Leprivier, might not be the taste of a new tenant, as they consisted i , i painting the ceiling of Ithe bed-chamber black, and lining it with a violet coloured paper, which was nearly if not quite as dark. IBesides this, M. Dumas had ornamented the dining room with shield s emblazoned with his own arms and richly gilt. 'rile landlord further insisted that M. Dumas had retained possession of the room on the fifth story beyond the proper time for giving it up. This was denied on the part of the tenant, who stated that he had given it up, but with the knowledge and the permission of the concierge of the house had left in it only a few books, which he had engaged to remove the moment it was let. The Court decided that the landlord had no claim for the i:ent of the upper room, and as to the A man haa. reparations, rc iferred the question to a surveyor to settle the amount. of throwng at, nes at the windows of the Imperial Palace. He wadifound 'been arrested at Vienna on a charge • • -- to be home, and hag been. sent to a lunatic Pylara., ' - LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCERY COURT, April 1. (Bef ire the VICE•CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) 3IOSLEY V. ALSTON.—THE OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. SMITH v. THE SOUTH - WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Ntr. WALFORD moved for an ex parte injunction against the above-mentioned railway company, under the following circumstances :—ln 1845 the company obtained an Act of Parliament empowering them to ex tend their line of railway from Nine Elms to Hunger ford-bridge ; and in carrying their scheme into execu tion they required the land upon which stands the plaintiff's brewery. Mr. Smith offered some resistance to this demand ; a negotiation followed, and was ter minated by the cession to the company of a portion of the property. In 1846 the company, desirous of further extending their line, and of carrying it to London bridge, procured another Act, which invested them with the usual powers for effecting their object, but the plaintiff's land was not included in the Act, or affected by its provisions. Last July, Mr. Smith was served with a notice by the company, informing him that they required his brewery, and that they intended taking it pursuant to the powers conferred upon them by the Act of 1845. Another and similar notice was also served upon him in November last, and finally he received an intimation last Saturday, that a jury would on that day week be empannelled to assess the value of his property, which the company proposed taking. Mr. Smith thereupon filed his bill, stating among other things that the land, if required at all, is not re quired for the purposes of the Act of 1845, but for those of 1846, under which, as before stated, the company had no authority whatever to interfere with the land, and praying an injunction to restrain their threatened pro ceedings of next Saturday. The plaintiff also stated that he had been informed that what the company really wanted his land for was to form upon it a terminal station for the several great railways whose metropolitan termini are on the southern bank of the Thames. His HONOUR refused the injunction, on the ground that if the company had no authority to take the plaintiff's property, their summoning a jury to assess its value was an idle act, which could not injure him; and if they had such authority he could not interfere. He gave the plaintiff leave, however, to renew his application on Sa turday next, giving tha company notice of his intention. SHERIFFS' COURT, April 1. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BErRCIIEI.L.) STEPHENS V. DUNN. This was art acticu broaght to recover the sum of 141. 7f. 7d., for the balance of rent for a house. The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted, but (lid not appear. Mr. THOMAS appeared for the plaintiff, and said that he should call the plaintiff's solicitor, to prove that the defendant had occupied the premises in question for two years, and the present claim was for a balance. Mr. Blackinore, the plaintiff's solicitor, was called. and proved the occupation of the premises by the defendant, who had admitted it, and hia only excuse was that he had left fixtures enough on the premises to pay the rent. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. SIMPSON V. CHEESEWRIGHT.—THE CLOCK AND WATCH TRADE. This was an action to recover the sum of 81.4 x. 6d. for a clock and for repairs of a watch. The defendant had paid 5/. 15s. into court as the value of the work. Abram Smith, a watchmaker, was called. He had seen the dial, which was an eight-day clock. In his opinion six guineas was a very fair charge, and if the name had been put on it, it would have fetched 21. more. The watch had been repaired; there had been a new verge, balance wheel, balance wheel pinion, pivots, and main-spring, &c. He thought the charge 11. 18s. 6d. fair and reasonable. The watch was an old one, but it was a better one than many new ones. He thought the market value of the watch was about 21. Rust, a watchmaker, gave similar evidence. Another clock was put in for comparison. Mr. Thomas at first objected, but ultimately said it might be shown to the jury. ➢lr. GARRY, the defendant's attorney, said that he should call see‘ral competent witnesses to show that the work charged had not been done, and that the clock was not worth more than one-half the sum claimed. Louis Keyser, a clock-maker, was call-A —lle said he kept three or tour shops. lie would make clocks at 31. each if he had an order for a hundred, but 3/. 103. would pay for a single one. The profit would then be 15s. The verge. charged ss. 6d. for, cost 2d.; perhaps if plaintiff went to a tool shop he gave Is. for it. The work altogether was not worth more than 16s. or 17s. Good American clocks could be hid for 303. They came over at s*. 6d. each, and sold at 13s. Mr. THOMAS asked the witness whether he was not of the Jewish persuasion? Witness—Yes; I have that honour. Mr. THOMAS—But you were not sworn on the Old Testament. Witness—Well, I did not notice it. Mr. THomAs—Nor did you take off your hat. Witne.s—lt is more gentlemanly and respectful to the iudge to be uncovered. lir. THOMAS—I have nothing further to ask you after that. Edward Thompson, clock-maker, of King-street, Bloomsbury, valued the clock at 4/., and the repairs at 17s. Laire, clock-maker, of 131 th-street, Citproad, con sidered 3/. los. was a fair price for .the clock, and 15s. for the repairs would be sufficient. Mr. THOMAS then addressed the jury, and contended that Keyser was not entitled to credit, after the negligent way he had gone through the form of taking the oath. j The UNDER•SHERIFF summed up, and said that the jury would take the witness's manner into consideration, and also weigh his evidence, which went to very great lengths as to value; and all the witnesses appeared to be of opinion that the work charged for as having been done to the watch had been done. The question, therefore, for the jury whether the plaintiti was entitled to a larger amount than 31. Iss. The jury almost immediately gave a verdict for the defendant. - ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, March 31. CIVIL SlDE.—(Beforo Lord Chief Justice MINISIAN.: BLIODEN v. BooTll. This was an action upon a bill of exchange for 501., drawn by a person named Edmund Garbet, and pur porting to be accepted by the ( I..,t.adant, s „, as afterwards endorsed through a person named Phillips to the present plaintiff. A number of pleas were put upon the record by the defendant, but the material question involved was, whether or not the acceptance was a forgery ? Mr. M. Chambers, with Mr. Willes, conducted the case for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Shee, with Mr. Petersdorff, appeared for the defendant. Upon the part of the plaintiff the bill in question was produced, and the witnesses, who had had transactions with the defendant and were acquainted with his hand writing, expressed their belief that the acceptance was his ; and one of them also stated, that upon his apply ing to the defendant spon the subject of the bill, he said that it was Garnet's business, and that he had written to him to tell him to settle it and not defend the action. Mr. Sergeant SHEI, on the part of the defendant, said that the case he wasinstructed to lay before the jury was, that the accepttnce of the bill upon which the pre sent action was brotght was not the writing of the de fendant, but that it was, in point of tact, a forgery, and he, therefore, was lot liable upon it. A son of the dfendant was then examined, and he expressed a postive opinion that the acceptance to the bill wad not tae handwriting of his father. TII LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. BETHELL (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday) cited several other cases in support of his views on this point. He would close this series of authorities by citing a case that had come before his Honour—he meant the case of " Wear v. the Grand Junction Railway Company," which car ried him to the fullest extent as to the jurisdiction of the Court, and landed this bill in the most perfect security. That bill was filed by the plaintiffs not only against other directors, but the whole corporation of the com pany, which was incorporated by a local Act of Parlia ment, to restrain them from affixing the corporate seal of the company to an application to Parliament for the conversion of a portion of the railway into a canal. In the present case they were then to denounce wanton violation on the part of the directors. In the case to which he was referring the governing body of the com pany were made defendants in the suit. On that occa sion his Honour granted the injunction, and the directors subsequently compromised with the company. It had been contended by his Learned Friend (Mr. Stuart) that, if they restrained these directors from acting, they would put a violent end to the constitution of the company. As one argument used by his Learned Friend on the other side was at direct variance with the bill, so the other argument was at variance with the Act of Parliament. The Act permitted that the number of the directors might be reduced to six. Here then were eighteen directors, of whom twelve were malignants, and the remaining six alone were those of the body who wanted to carry into effect the views of the company. The ground for the interference of this Court was twofold. In the first place, the directors wanted to effect that which was subversive of the Act of Parliament, and they had determined, in order to achieve that, to com mit a further violation of that Act, having refused to go out of office. If this latter we re t o be allowed, it would tend to make the directors a governing body. The case of the Attorney-General v. Wilson, upon which his friends on the other side relied so much, by no means supported their case. All the cases on the subject went to establish the principle, that any indivi dual member of the company, whether of the body of directors or of the shareholders, had a right to come to that court and complain of the conduct of the directors, when the latter attempted to apply the funds of the company to any object other than that for which it was established. So much for that part of his Learned Friend's arguments. He came to the construction that was put upon the word "year." He certainly admired the ingenuity to which this word had given birth. The word year, it was said, was used in two senses. In one it was a year of our Lord, in the other twenty months. In the 13th section of the Act,, if his Honour adopted the construction of his Learned Friends, he would be giving the world ansther year of four, eight, twelve, or sixteen months, commencing at the expiration of a certain term, which, however well understood in an Act of Parliament, was certainly unknown to any chro nologists. He conceived that these arguments could not be seriously met by arguments, because they proceeded on that which was an utter annihilation of all argument whatever, namely, that they should not take words in their common and plain signification. At the conclusion of the Learned Gentleman's address he Court rose. The case was adjourned till the 13th inst. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIGRAM.) The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, he should insist upon the witness giving the name of the person who wrote the acceptance. He, however, still hesitated, and at length said that he had not represented, although another person was present, that this other person wrote the acceptance. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Are we to take it that you yourself wrote the acceptance? The witness gave no answer. He was then questioned with regard to other transac tions, and he admitted that the defendant had applied to him, in consequence of reports that were abroad, to know whether he had put his name to any bills, and upon his telling him that he had, he was very angry with him. The witness had, it appeared, been engaged pro fessionally by the defendant. At the close of the examination, his LORDSHIP directed the witness to remain in Court. Several other witnesses we; then examined, all of whom stated positively that the acceptance was not the handwriting of the defendant. Mr. CHAMBERS, in his reply upon the evidence for the defence, said he felt compelled to admit that he should not be entitled to a verdict upon the proof of the accept. ance being actually written by the defendant; but he called upon the jury, recollecting the extraordinary evi dence given by the witness Garbet, to come to the con clusion—although he had chosen that day to admit that he was guilty of forgery—that, i n p o i nt o f f act, he had the authority of the defendant for putting his name to the bill; and if the jury should be of that opinion, the plaintiff would still be entitled to a verdict. Lord DENMAN, in summing up, said that this cause was certainly one of a very extraordinary nature. It appeared to be admitted that the acceptance was not written by the defendant; and the only way, therefore, in which he would be made liable was for the jury to be satisfied that Garbet had put the name upon the bill with his authority. The jury - returned a verdict for the defendant. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then ordered the witness Garbet to stand committed, and he was accordingly Placed in the custody of Mr. Keene, the governor of the county gaul. April 1. CROWN SIDE. Francis Elope, William Hill, and James Franklin, who were convicted on Wednesday for felony, were brought up for judgment, and the prisoner Hope was sentenced to be transported for seven, and the others for ten years. William Durant, who was also convicted on Wednes day of stealing some property from the palace of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Addington, was likewise brought up, and he was sentenced to ten years' transportation. - These prisoners, together with several others, who were under sentence, were then taken back to Kingston gaol, and placed in one of the yards of th e p r i son, an d shortly afterwards it was discovered that Durant had contrived by some means to scale the prison wall, and make his escape. He was observed to drop from the wall at the back of the prison, but before an alarm could be raised he was out of sight. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.— Warwick, March 31. John Milward, aged 20, was placed at the bar, chargd with killing and slaying Mary Brown at the Borough of Birmingham. The facts of this case were few, and are soon told. The prisoner on the night in question was at a house of rather questionable reputation; in his company was a young woman with whom he was on intimate terms. On this occasion he was quarrelling with, and threatening her. The deceased, a perfect stranger to the prisoner, came in and interfered in her behalf. Milward swore a dreadful oath at her, and suiting the action to the words, he took a pair of tongs from the fire-place, and gave the deceased a dreadful blow over the head. The prisoner was taken into custody, and had up before the magis trates. The deceased's depositions having been taken, the witnesses were bound over to appear against him for the assault. On Mary Brown returning home, she was taken ill, and died. A true bill fur murder was found against him by the grand jury, and he aas now put upon his trial for that crime. The jury found him Guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to .two years' imprisonment and hard labour. John lial dwell, aged 37, pleaded Guilty to a charge of embe zz!ement, preferred against him by his master, Stephen Lewis. There were as many as nine indictments against this individual, but having pleaded Guilty as to one, the others were not proceeded with. The Nisi Prius business finished about one o'clock. Mr. Baron Parke then assisted his brother judge in dis posing of some of the criminal business. Mr. White hurst and Mr. Humfrey also lent their aid, by which means the business of this assize and circuit was brought to a close about one o'clock this day (Thursday). IV 0 R THE RN CI RC Ul T.—Liverpool, March 31. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) Michael Seabriglit Fitzgerald, aged 28, and John Richardson, aged 22, were indicted for obtaining by false pretences, 4671., with intent to defraud the employers of the former, Messrs. Barbour Brothers, merchants and commission agents, at Manchester. It appeared in evidence that the prosecutors had be come indebted for goods to Langworthy Brothers, manu facturers, at Salford, and that it was the custom of the former, when payments became due to them, to send the creditor what is called a "payment note," contain. ing a request that if the amount be found correct, it shou:d be returned, on doing which the amount would be paid. Fitzgerald, from his employment, knowing this custom, and the deb.: to Langworthy, made out (it was supposed, for the note was not forthcoming,) a note for the amount, and got Richardson to present it, as from Messrs. Langworthy to the prosecutors, who, on his doing: so, gave him a cheque for the amount, he giving a receipt in the name of " John Smith." The prisoners divided the money which they got for the cheque, that is, four 1001. notes, and 671. in gold, and, as is usual in such eases, commenced a course of the most reckless extravagance, buying clothes and jewellery, treating companions, and going from place to place—Liverpool, Bristol, London, &c., till all the money was spent. The case was clearly proved against them, and the jury found them both Guilty, but recommended Richard son to mercy, in which the prosecutor joined. It was stated also, to obtain a lenient sentence, that his friends would provide him the means of retrieving his character in a distant land. He was simply, they said, and had been made the tool of by• Fitzgerald. • His LORDSHIP said it did not look as if he were a mere tool—a tool would not probably have got half the spoil. He added, it was a very bad case, but he thought the prosecutors were not free from blame—the system of payment notes was a bad one, and gave facility for the fraud. He then sentenced Fitzgerald to be imprisoned with hard labour two years, and Richardson one year, adding, that if his friends wished to send him abroad, they might apply to the Government, and he would not throw any obstacle in their way. Maria O'Neil, aged 20, was indicted for cutting and stabbing Mary Ann M'Cumskey, at Liverpool, on the sth ofJanuary last, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. The prosecutrix and the prisoner were both of the class termed unfortunkta ',vase in Wittiamsnn-square. On the night mentioned they had been at the theatre, and drinking a good fleet, and an altercation had arisen between tuein during the evening.. After midnight the prisoner went to her bed-room, and had with her a pointed c arving -knife, for the purpose (as she alleged in her defence) of cutting open her boot. The prosecutrix went up to the same room, in order, as she said, to get her night-dress, when the quarrel re commenced, and the prisoner attempted to strike her with the knife. She seized it, but the prisoner kept hold of the handle, drew the blade through and cut her hand, and then three times stabbed her in the body. For tunately, the wounds she inflicted were not serious, but sufficient to satisfy the law of the case, and they would probably have proved fatal but for the protection of her dress. The jury found her Guilty, but recommended ber to MCI His LORDSHIP towl.ca her who Pho ITAb, what she had been, and how long she had been pursuing the ♦icious life she now led ?—ln answer, she said she was from Westmeath, in Ireland, but that she had lived in London from her childhood, till she fell into her present way of life, nine moths ago, when she came to Liverpool. She had up to that time been a lady's maid. His LORDSHIP asked the prisoner with whom she had lived, but she declined stating that in public. He told her that his object was to rescue her, if he could, from her present degraded life, and she consented to give the information in private. His Lordship then passed sentence on her of two years' imprisonment, tell ing her that he would examine into her case, and pro cure her, if possible, a way to recover the position from which she had fallen. Michael Bird, an elderly man, a carter, was indicted for the manslaughter of Mary Ann Meldun, at Liverpool, on the 7th of January last. The prisoner on the day in question had the care of a horse and carriage called " a float," which is a heavy vehicle running within six inches of the ground, pro jecting very much behind, and in length alto ether about twenty-one feet. This unwieldy thing he was in the act Mr. Edmund Garbet was the next witness called, and his evidence was of the most extraordinary character. He deposed that he had formerly carried on the pro fession of a solicitor, at Wellington in Salop, and latterly was engaged in the same profession in King William street, in London. lie said that he was the drawer of the bill which formed thQ subject of the action, but the acceptance was nut written by the defendant nor by his authority. Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—He handed the bill to Mr. Phillips in his drawing-room, and at this time the acceptance had been written across the blank stamp, but not by the defendant. Mr. CHAMBERS asked the witness whether he was aware what he was attempting to prove ; and whether they were to understand that he admitted he had nego tiated an instrument which he knew to be a forgery ?--- The witness replied, that the acceptance to the bill was not in the handwriting of Mr. Booth. Mr. CHAMBERS asked, who did write it then ?—The witness said, he should decline to answer the question. In answer to other questiens, the witness said, that when the acceptance was written, another person was present besides himself, but be declined to state who that person was. Mr. CHAMBERS applied to the Court to insist upon the witness answering the question. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE asked the witness whether it was to: be understood that either he or the other per son wrote the acceptance to the bill ?—The witness re plied, that it was so. On further cross examination, the witness said that he was allowed the use of part of an office in King William street, where he at present practised as a solicitor, and the bill was drawn up either there or in Old Bond -street. Heals° said that he saw the acceptance written, but he did not think it was copied from a genuine signature of the defendant. of turning in a street in this town only seventeen feet wide in the carriage way, and four feet footpath. Just at that moment the deceased, a child five years old, and her little brother, two years old, had come out of their owa house to go to school, and as the tail projected over the path in turning, it knocked down both the children, and crushed her against a step, rupturing, as the surgeon stated, a vessel in the abdomen, of which she died feur hours after the injury. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, on which his Lordship, taking into consideration the good el.racter of the prisoner, the recommendation of the jury wid prosecutor, and that the prisoner had already been in' custody twelve weeks, thought it would justify him in passing a light sentence, and therefore sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned a fortnight. Warbrick, aged 34, was indicted for the man slaughter of John Ryder, at Liverpool, on the ith February last. John - Ryder, aged 14, on Sunday, the 7th February, and three other boys of the same age, were in a boat in the basin of the Clarence Dock, when the prisoner, being on duty as a policeman, ordered them to come out. They took no notice, and he took up a piece of brick, about the size of an egg, and threw it at them. It struck the deceased (who had a cap on) on the crown of the head, and inflicted a wound, which bled, but he did not fall down. He complained that he was dizzy, and he was taken to the dispensary to have it dressed. On the 19th he became an in-patient, and soon after his admission mortification set in, and he died on the 14th March. The wound was no doubt the cause of death. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in the first instance, considered it a question for the jury whether or not death had re sulted from the negligence of the prisoner or from the negligence of the deceased, but on the case of Rex v. Holland, 2 ➢body and Robinson, being called to his at tention, he finally directed the jury, that as the throw ing of the stone was an unlawful act, the question of negligence did not arise, and they must find the prisoner guilty, if they were satisfied that the prisoner threw the stone and caused the wound, and that death resulted from the wound. The jury accordingly found him Guilty. The prisoner declared that in the throwing the stone he had mo intention to strike any of the boys, but only to splash them, to make them come out of the boat. He received a good character, and the jury recom mended him to Enemy. His LORDSHIP fined him a shilling, and ordered him to be discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mendel Peisor, a German, who keeps a coffee and eating house, at No. 5, Hutchinson -street, Houndsditch, appeared before the Lord Mayor to answer the com plaint of Inspector Fosberry, of the city police, who charged him with having allowed gambling in his house. The Inspector stated that on Tuesday, the 23d March, at half-past 11 o'clock at night, he went, in consequence of information, to the house of the defendant, which was within a few yards of that of Myres, who was con victed a few days ago of having allowed persons to play at hazard on his premises. He gained admittance at the side-door, and found two persons playing cards at a table, upon which were lying some halfpence. There were four men in the room, and an attempt was made to conceal the cards, and the halfpence were taken up by one of the party. The defendant said that the gentlemen were only playing for two cups of coffee and that he never per mitted gambling for mo ne y i n his house. The LORD MAYOR stated that the defendant had con victed himself by acknowledging that in his house, in which refreshments were supplied to the public, he had allowed cards to be played. A city policeman said, that during the last four months he had known the defendant, and that frequently in the course of that time he had known that disturbances both within and without the doors took place in conse quence of the gambling which was carried on in the house. The persons who played, were generally shoe narkers, tailors, and poor foreigners. The gambling was carried on all night. The LORD MAYOR commended the vigilance of the In spector, and said that the numerous complaints which had been made at the Mansion House, by the parents of young fellows who were encouraged to gamble in such houses, determined him to punish every delinquent pro prietor who should be charged before him with having violated so necessary a law. The defendant was then convicted in the penalty of forty shillings. GUILDHALL. Alfred Wilbeam, otherwise John Brown, was brought before Mr. Alderman Wood, charged with uttering a forged bill of exchange for 5001., whereby he and others defrauded Messrs. Fuller and Co., the bankers, of that amount. Mr. Taylor, a solicitor, attended on behalf of the pro secutors. It may be remembered, that about the end of last year a forged bill, purporting to be accepted by Mr. Ohrly, retired merchant, residing at Hackney, was paid by Messrs. Fuller, but they were not aware they had been defrauded till the 6th of February, when a policeman brought in a man named Nicholas Kerp, a foreigner, and said he had been given in charge by a person then present, a Polish refugee named Alexander, for com mitting a forgery upon them. Alexander gave such a minute description of the bill, that the clerks readily traced it. Karp was therefore given in charge, and on the way to the station•house Alexander disappeared, his name and address being unknown. The charge against Kerp was, however, complete without his aid, Mr. Ohrly proving that the acceptance was forged, Messrs. Fuller proving that they paid the bill, giving four 1001. notes and two 501. notes to the person who presented it, but whose appearance they had no recollection of. It was shown that Karp changed the 100/. notes on the same day at the Bank of England, where the clerks were so cautious that they sent to Fuller's before they cashed the note, and were told it was all correct. Subsequently Alexander was apprehended for stealing a marked half crown at a house to which he was admitted in the cha racter of a teacher of languages. He was recognised as the mysteri , ais accuser of Kerp, and was detained on a second charge of being concerned in the forgery; the suspicions of the police resting on the minuteness with which he was able to describe the forged bill, and on his disappearing as if in dread of some counter-statement from Karp, who can speak very little English. In the examination of Kerp, it also appeared that he had, on the day the forged bill was presented (and in order, it was supposed, that he might present it), caused a very shabbily-dressed man named Brown to be rigged out in an entire new suit, This Brown the police were unable to trace till Wednesday afternoon, when he , was appre hended by two City policemen, named Edwards and Speck, and he was now placed at the bar. Messrs. Fuller proved the payment of the bill, and Mr. Ohrly proved the acceptance to be forged, as in the evi dence against Kerp. The officer Edwards repeated the evidence he had given before. He was standing near the Auction -mart, when Alexander, who was standing with Wilbeam alias Brown and Kerp, beckoned him across the way with his umbrella. Kerp instantly ran off, but Alexander called out to stop him, and he was soon overtaken. Alexander then gave charge of Brown and Kerp for forgery. On the way to the station Alexander and Brown talked in a foreign lan guage , an d Al exan d er w i t hd rew t h e c h arge ras to him. The officer, nevertheless, requested him to come on to the station, but he slipped away at the top of Coleman-street. Alexander's charge against Kerp was so vague that the inspector could make nothing of it, and he therefore sent the officer with Kerp and Alex ander to the bankers, to see if they could make out any specific case. Here Alexander entered into further par ticulars. Kerp was given in charge, and Alexander contrived to slip off. The officer said he apprehended 13rown on Wednesday afternoon at the Victoria Coffee house, in Little Queen-street, Holborn. He reminded the prisoner of what had occurred on the 6th of February, when he was given in charge by Alexander, and escaped Holborn r i v s e o n on the way to the station, and he told the prisoner he must now come with him. In walking along theprisoner uttered thestated, forg voluntarily, ed biw ht which Alexander that l e he :a n w d a e s r the had p given n who to him. He received four 1001. notes and two 501. notes at the banker's, and gave them to Alexander. He was to have 251. for his trouble. Ho asked the p r i soner i f he knew anything about Sir James Beckingham's book. The prisoner said he did; he got it from Messrs. Smith Payne, and Co.'s. , The prisoner said the officer was mistaken as to what he said about 251. He did not think he told him that. Mr. Alderman Wool) said it was not proposed by Mr. Taylor to proceed any further with the examination then than to lay a ground for his detention. That had been sufficiently done, and he would therefore remand him Tho prisoner was remanded till Monday. CLERKEN W ELL. zee a.rr, ; c e g rg r e ci a vv a . n e q we E re d rin a a r gy L eltal l i i rn brush maker, of Blue Anchor• alley, St. Luke's, with having been concerned in stealing a quantity of horse-hair, &c. The female prisoner was in the habit of calling at the shop of the prosecutor to make purchases of hair, &c., and being suspected of various robberies, a watch was set upon her. On Friday evening last she paid a visit to purchase some trifling article, when she was seen to take a bundle of horse-hair. She was followed until she joined the male prisoner, who asked her " What she had got?" She replied, " Another bundle." Sergeant Brennan took them into custody, when the man resisted and made his escape. The woman was taken to the station-house, and the man was subsequently appre hended. The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and they were fully committed for trial. William Wilson, John -street, Wilmington-square, was charged with having cruelly ill-treated a cat. It appeared that the defendant felt aggrieved at the cat having attempted to destroy his Canary birds, who' ho beat her most shockingly with a clothes-pole, and it shortly afterwards died of the injuries inflicted. Mrs. Wilson, the owner, gave information to the So ciety for the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals, and the present proceedings were instituted. Mr. GREENWOOD decided that a cat came within the meaning of the Act of Parliament as a " domesticated animal," and he convicted the defendant in the penalty of 75., or fivo days' imprisonment. LAMBETH. David Aheron, an Irishman, upwards of sixty years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, for final examination, on a charge of bigamy. Mr. Roberts attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Games for the defence. The first witness called was Timothy Aheron, the brother of the prisoner, who deposed that in the year 1823 he was present at the marriage of his broth er w i th a young female named Ann Fitzpatrick, at Kensington Church. The prisoner, after that marriage, lived with his wife, next door to him, for about two or three years, when they separated, and after this the prisoner went to live with Catherine Joyce, then present. The primer and Joyce lived together for son time before he (w it ; ness) became aware o f the i r marrte, and when he was told of it by Joyce, he said, " aTetty job you hay , made of it w i t h a marr i ed man. " Joyce then replied' " Married or s i ng l e, the job is now one ." A t t his 0 31 ! the prisoner's first wife was alive and he recolleet ed her dying som e y ears afterwards, wen he attended he r funeral. In reply to the questions of Mr. Gales, the witnesssall that the woman Joyce was perfectly . cell aware that the prisoner was a married man when sht married hit", several members of Lis family, as wi ll as hi m s e lf, bo told her. Ai.- Catherine Joyce, alias Regan deposed that in t he year It3aki,, yrisorier visited henry a single man, itf d 4 made a propos,v.,r and they were mar rit& marriage to her, whi c h she accepte' tin's-in the Fields, on the' 9 tli ot October in the ssii i ci , the parish church of S E , MO; year. Soon after he commet l scarcely allowed her the common neeessa,,,s of life, so' on one occasion he was committed from Bow -street ' for° to ill-use her, A 9 l month, for ill-treating her. He had also deserted ba home two or three times before he finally left her. B e ' fore going away he had nearly starved her. Cross-examined by Mr. Gemes—liad not been ti/ 1 by the last witness or any of hi s f am il y, t h at the p,il; stoner was a married man, bef ore s h e h a d gone to Martin's Church with him. She was aware that he b$ lived with a female, as h e ( t h e prisoner ) h ad told he', so himself. He had also told her that the female 0 1 married, and that h er h us b an d, w h o was a sold i er , h 8 come and took her away f rom him. Her name at t' d time of her marriage with the prisoner, was Regan, 11 , 1 ,, she was a wido w but the prisoner, i n p u tti ng u p t' banns, had given her maiden name. Other evidence having been adduced, The prisoner was then fully committed to take htt trial on the charge of marrying Catherine Joyce al', Regan, his former wife Ann, being living at filo, tim e ' and the evidence of th e thi r d w if e, M rs. C ra ddi c k, also taken, and she was bound over as a witness in 116 case. A GOOD YANKEE STORY. The New Orleans Picayune relates the following:- - ", " There was fun as w e ll as fi g h t i ng t h ere i n t h e neif_4l/ bourhood of the Rio Grande last summer; and a YaloT in that section, albeit a tolerably shrewd specimen oft genus, got a fire in the rear' which ra k e d down 6 035 9 , j i demolished the best calc u l a ti ons ever ma d e f or a 5 fortune, and, at the same ti me , ra i se d a laugh wb!c„, filled the adjoining chapparal for a mile in every direet°, " Water was scarce, during th e h ea t o f t h e surawe': . at Brazos Island, and the liquor not so pl en tif u l, a t time r ' as the necessities of the soj o u rners requ i re d. It was 5 0 one of these thirsty seasons that our Yankee, by etfl f hook or c ro o k, got hold of a b arre l o f to l era bly 01 : cider, and with this small stock-in-t ra d e h e at onc e 's e t up' business. To make and scrape together a parcel boards and odd bits of canvas, enough to build a Ott, shanty, was the work of b u t a s h ort h our . T o s et barrel upon a couple of skids in the back part of t "i tent, to tap it, and to commence retailing the cider, at dime a glass, ocmipied but a short time more. Customers flocked in by do zens: th e c id er wen t o— fr A rapid rate; and the Yankee was ma ki ng hi s . e terl fortin' at a stride that would have e l a t e d J o h n JO ° Astor in his early days. Some of his patrons e° ll3 ; plainecl that a dime a glass for cider, which was _ 44 11 " , worth more than two dollars a bar re l a t th e outs ide, an outrageous price; but the times were hard, the r° tailer's conscience easy, he had all the cider in the 0' ket, and could not afford to sell any cheaper. t be " This state of things we n t on f or an ent i re day, • Yankee's quarters being beset by throngs of patroe s i On the following morning, and before th e c id er w as i h ° , half sold, they began to thin off grad ua lly, an d by tu, middle of the afternoon it was only now and then straggling stranger that visited the shade and cider c ) ,/ the retailer. 'What was the matter? What h a d cans this sudden falling off of cus t om ? Th e rea d e r lc soon see. " Towards night a new face appeared in the shag' and called for a glass of cider. It was drawn, to'" l j lowed, and the customer took out his purse and inquir; l , the price? One dime,' said the Yanke e . One what' retorted the customer. One dime,' coolly replied tm h e " Yankee. ''Why I can get just as good cid er h er e at/ + t + l cents a glass,' snarled the customer. N-o y-o-u c-11 41. ,1 drawled the Yankee ; there aint a pint of cider, i ce; what I've got in that 'ere barril, this side of Orlea l r, I'm darn if there is." I know better,' ejaculated 01 ; customer tartly, I bought a glass of cider, not two b° tl ; ago, and only paid fire cents for it.' I'd like to 10° 4 where you effected that sm a ll t ransac ti on ,' queried the Yankee. Right round here,' was the answer. I gi les o it was right round here.' Right round where, I'd 11v to know?' continued the cider vender. Why, close h e here, somewhere; just back of your plac e ,' retur ned t „ u o customer. 'l'll beat you to drinks you didn't,' spoke "ft the Yankee, and we'll go right round and see." DOA said the customer; and off they started. " Sure enough, right round here' they found anotbeat cider establishment in full blast. A second Yankee 111! rigged a small shade in the rear of the first Yanke e ' shanty, had tapped the other end of the l a tt e r's barr g e of cider through a board, and was retailing it at fi t cents a glass to a perfect rush of customers. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS LIVERPOOL, APRIL 1. in Oa STOCK Excuaroaz.-There has scarcely b een anyt hi ng d o ing Share Market to-day ; the stocks offered consisted of London , ‘ `;', - e st Manchester and Leeds, Caledonian, Fleetwood, Preston, and ' n ' c itS Riding, and Buckingham, and the market closed flat, very leiv ,t h v o a, having changed hands. The sales are -Atnbergate, NottingL,cir Boston, and Eastern Junction, IA dis. ex int.-Birkenhead, L „ - acr shire, and Cheshire, par - Birmingham and Oxford, 8% p.- 9 401 inghamshire, p.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 9!f, p. -LO" end North-Western, 176-Ditto, 401. i-liares (L. and M.), 27 r r ig• Ditto, Quarters, New, 10% p.-London, Manchester, and B 111 9„, ham, Quarters (A), 6LA p.-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5 1 4 r',4 Manchester arid Southampton, % dis.-Manchester, Sheffield , Lincoln, Quarters, 1% dis.-Midland Stock, 116 -Ditto, l'"re",'' ver• 9d. p.-Ditto (Birmingham arid Derby), 91-Newcastle an. 3 0 4 wick, New, 3% p.-North Union (A), 150-P reston an d WYre , ' - Shrewsbury and Hereford, 18s. 9d. dis.-Shrew s bury 8 11 u die. mlngliam (B), par-Shropshire Union Railway and C a nal, 1 ~, t o. -South-Eastern and Dover, 36% ex div.-Ditto, No. 4, ThlrdS' 9d. p.-Wharfdale, dis. MANCHESTER, APRIL 1. I SToca EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottinglin l Th i 6 C. Boston, %-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, -Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North-Western, Preferentials. East Lancashire (late B. and I'.), New Scrip, 1 3-16 -Edinb.. A or and Glasgow, Quarters, 1714-Fleetwood, Preston, and West P", „$.• Junction, 3-16 c.-Great Northern, 4-Huddersfield and )Inc h" " ter Railway and Canal, Thirds, % c.-Leeds and Think, Ditto, Prefereittials, Ixe c.-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 471 4), Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincoln slll ' s j. 113-16-Manchester and Southampt o n, 13s. 9d.-NorthStnii°4 shire, 3-Shropshire Union, 114 -South Yorkshire, Doncaster , Goole, 1-16 p.-Wharfdale (late North-Eastern), %. LEEDS, Aran. I. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, tension, 10s. dis.-East Lancashire, New, 295. p.-Ditt o , New (tT • 245. 6d. p.-Great Northern 4s. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, New, 1. '•:„t, dis.-Ditto, Preference, 275. p.-London, Brighton, and South Cor. Fifteenths, 3s. 6d. p.-Manchester and Leeds, 321. Sh a res Oat„e!.. s tri tension), 2/. 12s. p.-Ditto, West Riding Union, 31 s . 6d. p.- 1- wa l ,, British, Extension (scrip), 13s. p.-Northern Co un ti es Union, IN rn -North-Weste, 2s. 6d. dis.-Sheffield, Roth e rh a m, and Goole, ' Gd. dis.-Wharfdale Junction, 3s. Gd. dis. York 109; GLASGOW, Melton 31. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Aberdeen, 2714—Caledon/Al; and Dumbartonshire, 42s.—Direct Northern (scrip), 50e.—Dunde e and Northern Junction, 435. 6d.—Dundee and Perth, New, 193 i , d East Indian, Bs.—East Lothian Central, 60s. 6d.—Edinburgh Glasgow, 7I% —Edinburgh Leith, and Granton, Quarters, 155.611 —Edinburgh and Northern, 16 1 ,-- Ditto, New, 82s. 6d.—Edinbu, and Perth (New Co.), 59s.—Glasgow General Terminus, 13- 0 , 1 ' " guw, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 37%—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 81. G't gew, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51. 17s.—Great North of Scotian 55s.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 405.—Manchester and Southen' . ton, 295. 9,l.—North British, Thirds, 718.—Scottish Grand Junction' 225.—Stirling and Dunfermline, 82& 6(1. To THE LADIES.—The high and universal cele' brity which Rowland's Kalydor continues to maintain, as to_l e xtirpator of all impurities of th,e , s pleasing)}'to r e and ev n i n e s e & active yet mild and soothing ski This n, ipreparation,s, du ri during t eemp c e e inr le ieo h nd r t a joY t f ed for safety in application, as h sp a r ls in a g m , ic na , o r s e t . gti unfailingo. r n a s t iag, and . is ffi e c l u c a y il jn removing all impurities and discolor imparting a healthy freshness and transparency ° I the skin and complexion. Its universally great demand es' cites the cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers, who give th e title of " Kalydor" to compounds of their own manufactur e, of the most deleterious character, containing mineral astril: gents utterly ruinous to th e complexion, and, by their re pel' lent action, endanger health. It is therefore imperative c' . . ° purchasers to se e th at t h e words " Rowland's Kalydor " are 0' the wrapper. All others are fraudulent counterfeits. [ A DVERTISEMENT.]—The Registered Paletot O f , Llama cloth, the most fashionable coat for both the prese nt and approaching seasons, still retains the same mo derate . price, whi c h, w ith it s use f u l ness an d gen tl eman l y a pPeel e ante, has secured such general popularity. It has been ma% by special command for their Royal Highnesses Princ Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Sal' e i Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and the severa l royal visitors to the British Court. In London it can on l y be purchased of the patentees, H. J. and D. Nicoll, Cour t tailors, 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill. Agents 1 ' U' . Liverpool, Dawbarn and Son, Bold-street • for Dublin, GeS Macdona, Molesworth-street ; for Birmingham, Wareing *n u : . Son, New-street; for Edinburgh, Christie and Son, Georg' street.: and the urine;"-i LIS. [ADvEwrisENENT.]—A DISEASED WoN" DE,Fut. CUBE ev HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—John Weir, aged 19, of Kinnegs, parish of Longhall, near Armagh, was se i z e a pain in his knee, which lasted for three months, and Ilia commenced to swell; six months afterwards, it broke out into $ dreadful wound, and discharged for , tyvelvemonths, although ever , ' remedy was used that me di ca l men - could devise, both at th e County infirmary and local dispensary, yet no appearanceA of beano. presented itself, until his father purchased seine of Holloway's Ill' s and Ointment, which soon effected a sound cure. No wo Inds, sores , or ulcers, however long standing, can resist the proper use of thee° this medicines. Sold by all druggists, and at Pro lessor IlollowAY , establishment. 244, Strand. Lomlnu- BIRTHS. On the 28th ult., at Dorking, Surrey, the wife of Richard Clapton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 29th ult., at Lee, the wife of Dr. Robertson, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at Liverpool, the lady of Captain Greig► Staff Officer, of a son. On the 30th ult., at Lorn-road, North Brixton, Mrs. G• Stephens, of a son. O❑ the 30th ult., at Queen's-road, Dalston, the wife 0 1 J. D. Jones, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at North Brixton, Mrs. A. 11. Cooper , of a son. On the 31st ult., in Stanhope-place, Hyde-park, the wire of David 13urton, jun., Esq., of a (laughter. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at St. Mary's, Cheltenham, Hungerffrti Boddam, son of the late R. H. Boddam, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, to Grace Savage, youngest daughter of the late Jolla Hands) , Martin, Esq. DIED. On 'Wednesday, the 31st ult., aged 51, after a short but severe illness, much respected by all who knew her, Sarah• the wife of Mr. George Prickett, of Highgate, surveyor. , On th e 31 s t u l t., i n G rosvenor - s t reet , t h e L or d S a ye and Sele, aged 49. On the 24th ult., the Rev. William Atkinson, M.A., Vicar of Canewdon, aged 81. On the 29th ult., at Hoo Hall, Rivenhall, Essex, Margaret Louisa, the wife of Edmund East, Esq., aged 59. On the 29th ult., at Bath, Jane Arabella, daughter of the late Rev. Gilbert Jackson, D.D. On the 30th ult., at the Grange-road, Bermondsey, Charles Edmonds, Esq., aged 60. On the 31st ult., John Sayer Poulter, Esq. On the 31st ult., John Plowman, Esq., late of York-rovr Kennington, aged 62. _ - London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of Ne• 112 : Strand, Printer, at The ,Fun Office, N 0.113, Strand, hi the r t eda,G4 at tlie Savoy, to County Of M;44l;coss, tricky, April h !Oh "`,'