The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN COLONIAL lIV7ELLIGENCE ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL PUNJAUB Assassinations continue to take place in tl, , s countri Besides Shere Singh and the whole of his famil known that the ruler of the Mooltau, De and Herah and Zoolab Singh have also 1 it is now n Sawun Mull, een murdered. Dhuleep Singh, a child o? six years old, has been placed upon the throne It is not known whether Lord Ellenborough will inter fere, though reports of the immediate assemblage, on the Sikh frontier, of an army consisting of from 30,000 to 36,000 men, tend to induce a pretty general belief that he will eventually Exercise k cony of it would appear, is still to be assembled on the knows, though The Afghans is to be nobody positively ed for Gwalior. t is sur scend on Pestle- will-. In S to be very pre From CHINA t news of importance. The ld seemed likely to do so. opium tra The Bengal troops, ab at Ferozepore. 000 in number, are to stop The crop of indieo about 160.000 I Ne en ascertained to be 'rom A ff.; us to believe s been received, which lead Mohammed is not destined to re- Canbul. He has very long the n become exceedingly I )f his subjects are in open mes are forming ld an attemp has already en ma ssassination, which, however, luckily y Apprehensions w attac m . to exist at Sirkarpore of an on our the people of ss Shere Mahomed Shah Mahomed, who r doubtl will be found at tt has arrived at soners at seems doubtful vvl acification. `Old I as tollo ` Your swered to a by stating, " Cowl got inl As they of 25 ; and Dhuleep of a horse-keeper by one of s wives low seven ye is old, as he uncles of Heera Singh were said it was even reported that Ghoola refore, no principle of union now existing in ''f men of the country are ambitious, who had contributed so much to re of old Runjeet, have gon and are proceeding to Calcut, and Avitabile. General Mk& the only for gner of reput ow orga was the a ision of Lord TiceWings to be odor While t Should t Monßan was captured at Sehwan, in June last, Bombay, and proceeds to join his fel Saccnnr Gwalior is s ther we s rree The affairs of the Punjab continue to engross public This herterogeneous kingdom, which was con quered by Rungeet Sing by means of European officers whom he employed in _ dissolution. Fo.- ihall take attentior s now on the ver age of the pr s but s 1839, a his legitimac s pUOII be th;son of Runji Singh, in order to c rs, and astiC adhere )n of Lahor ed by Dhyn newspape ' Ever tier knows the cause of the death of 8 continued d debility and treachery Nehal S gh, from the ho wished to remove the most scendants from the road of their on of Shere Singh iereto by the Prime I soon after the Ajeet Singh was afterwards Singh rohness rtn•lno in f Dhvi ping cert contri dad g of Runje, tion ; and, f by Ajeet Sin Minister Dhy overcome by the s, Heera Singh, and w also slain, Ilihough r s been reported to have been -s to be known n appe It is useless to attempt to describe the wretched state of Lahore. It resembles Rome, when, rich with the spoils of all the world and drunk with every sensual plea- body of soldiers ‘wt Akalees, a set of ing all c anctity, will also contribut, e to ens The soldiefi are n and they assur break c Once t had two Dhyn had throne. Ajeet Sit who looked upon I to assassinate a chain armour, and, under the English gun, api ing the gu❑ with the muzzl the . unfortunate R loaded with ball. Be then cut off --- S;e7egin:h to tl Thro I on th father showed r wife of Naa N( then r , the pr;IT question, minister, his son, Heera S which they' soon caught by a soldie; down the wall to Heera S Report h murdered in a d The'lates as prime m who is des Runjeet's urinal k to be dissatisfies Sinop the Punjab ; the and anxious for t four French officeis the consolidate the emp the British territor„ They are Generals Court has been dead some tin„ towards that country. In a political view, the advan tages of possessing the Punjab are incalculable; it is there where nature appears to have established the bulwarks of India against all invasions from the north and westward. It is fertile, it is healthful for Europeans, it is intersected with noble rivers, and a large portion of its inhabitants pant for the moment when the British troops will take the rule from out of the hands of their oppressors. The Mahomedans in Lahore are anxious that they should be governed by Europeans. It is through that country t hat all invasions are appre h en d e d , and the instant that it is known to the disaffected amongst the inhabitants of India that England is mistress of the Punjab, they will succumb. In the meantime the Governor-General has ordered the Lahore kingdom of an erent poi s, yet so as to be co collecting on the front centrated Tr. is not I 3mediately in case an emergency should arise Ptten that t _ d number of Sikh ander Britishprotection, and when the conflagration states of revolution has burst out at Lahore, it behoves the su preme government of India to be on the alert, in order to prevent its ravages from extending themselves into terri tories for the tranquility and happiness of which that go vernment is responsible. The possession of the Punjab (which, as it is well known means the district of the five Rivers) belongs to India, and when it and its dependent provinces along the Indus, as well as C as h mere i n the Mountains, have become Bri tish, then may India he called consolidated and united into magnificent whole, from the Soleiman Mountains west ward of the Indus to the frontiers of l3irmah on the east ward, and from the Himalayas to Cape Cormorin. Sawnu Mull, the influential thief of Mooltan, was mur dered at the beginning of the outbreak. His death will, it is supposed, lead to disturbances in his states, particu larly as some of th e ex -A meers o f t h e S c i n d e are said to be intriguing there. In Scinde tranquility now prevails, but sickness has in creased amongst the troops. Sukkur is particularly un healthy, so that the Bengal soldiers have required the aid of medical men from Bombay. Sir Charles Napier was at Kurrachee in the beginning of September, whither his lady and family had gone to join him. The 28th (her Majesty's) was also there in a very sickly state. The Bombay government was sending troops to Sc;nde, in ex pectation of the Bengal armies being required in the north. The news from Cabul is confused and contradictory. Dost Alahommed, it appears, finds it more difficult than ever to govern the unruly Affghans. His notorious son Akhbar has, it is said, expressed his dissatisfaction, as he says his father is " too fond of the English." There is a chance of a collision with the Sikhs on account of the Province of the Peshawur, which the Affghans are desi rous of governing once more. Candahar is represented as the scene of intrigues carried on by Persians. The con duct of the Schah of Persia is considered to be suspicious, and report spoke of the probability of some hostile move ment on the part of the British government, such as the re-occupation of Karrak. The Clio brig has taken the political agents to their posts at Bushire and Bagdad. THE LAHORE TRAGEDY The following is the official report by the -• • - - - lent or tne series of murders to which it owes its eleva ,on. It appeared in the Delhi Gazelle of October 24. COPY OF PURWANNAH ADDRESSED BY 'MAHARAJAH DHULEEP SINGH TO VAKEEL RAMDEEAL. " On the Lena Sir nounce t of the year 1900; Sirdars _ 1, Sirdarwallah, went to an er of their troops to Maharajah Shere arden of Schah Bela- f Asouj gh and A eing ti Bhood Singh, Gunga Singh, of the Toshuhkhaneh, &c. Afterwards Sirdar Lenar Singh. Sirdarwallah, went acci dentally to the garden of Somsam-ood-dowlah Tej Singh Bahadur Suftur Jung, situated near the garden of Schah Belevel, and there killed the son of my elder brother, Purtab Singh, who was celebrating the day there and be stowing charity, and beheaded him. They then proceeded towards Lahore, and on the road met the Oojul-dee-dar Neermul-M udde - Mookurrub i-Bargah Khasool-Khas- Wuzeer-i-Azeem-Dustoor. Mauzam-Naib-i-Sultanut- Oosma-Kheir-Khwah-Dowlur-i-Koobra MookhteearKul Rajah Kalan Bahadur Rajah Dhyan, Singh-Jee (the clear the pure in sight, the high-praised, the nearest to the throne, the great Sirdar, the great Wuzeer, the deputy of the kingdom, the chief well-wisher, the wealthy, master of all, the great Rajah, Dhyan Singh) who was coming alone in his buggy. The Sirdar said to him that there was a row amongst the Sikhs in the garden, that Mahara jah Shere Singh had been killed, that it would be danger ous to go alone to the garden, and that it would be better to go back and make arrangements about the succession. The Rajah, ignorant of the wicked act of the Sirdar, com plied. and accompanied the Sirdar to the fort. They pro ceeded as far as the Kurenee gate, when the faithless Ajeet "•ingh took out his pistol and fired it towards Rajah Dhyan Singh. The Rajah called out ' Oh, Sirdar, what a foul deed !' and laid his hand on his sword. By this time some followers of Ajeet Sing also fired pistols at Dhyan Singh, who fell from his horse ; his body was taken to the place where guns were made, and here one of his attend. ants, named Ahmed Khan, was also killed. The Sirdars then proceeded to make arrangements regarding the suc cession ; on proceeding into the city they approached the house of Khasool-Khas Rajah Soochet Singh, who was reviewing such of his troops as were at hand, and accom panied by the following chiefs, viz., Cojul-dee-dar-Neer mul-Mudde-Assud-ood-dowlah Rajah tleerah Singh Ba had ur, Oojul-dee-dar-Neerm ul-M uddee- Rae Kesseree Singh, Deena Singh, and Prithee Singh, and others. These persons were discussing the subject of Maharajah Shere Singh's death, and having heard of the murder of Dhyan Singh, rose from their seats and proceeded to the Boodhoo Baradurree, and there communicated the facts to the troops of Khalsa. The troops were loud in their murmurs, and protested they would not sec down to a meal until they had served the faithless Sirdars in the -'e manner as they h- I d- to th - • Jae. cone ne . aajarah and his son. The city was accordingly besieged towards the even ing, and having opened a heavy fire, they destroyed the walls of the city. The city was taken, and the heads of the faithless men carried to the Sirdars. Now, thanks to Piividence, (Sri Abal Pooruckjee) the Sirdars have suc ceeded in establishing peace and quiet in the town. Pro clamations have been issued to all Sirdars and officers of every description, confirming them in their government and situations." T' purwannah then goes on to impress on the Vakeel the necessity of representing to the Sahib (the Political Agent we presume) that the state remained in exactly the same position in regard to the British Government as be - e death of his Highness Mahajarah Sher Singh. Singh, of Lahore, who Tat, The Sirdars were a 'cops, t the first day of the being kept as a holyday at tb gone to the garden to amuse enjoy the fresh air. As my 0 w•as sitting in ti gh present rifle, to tt garden, tin ted themsel he Maharai at him the pis faithless men insta dare were killed at otiU 111CLI rother was wounded he face by barged so close to him the y struck off his head. Several She - le Same time, amongst them Sirdar ess of the revolution. the most exorbitant pay, .._ eir officers. ave obtained of the out —Dhynn Singh, and factotum, Soochet Singh. .om the thraldom Shere ;arded as an usurper of the Lt relative to Runjeet, and is as incontestible, resolved put on a dress of 'esenting nd, while offer butt towards , which was Id some of his sin, but he aded others, who fled, d, and had it carried e King's son, Pertaub Singh, was ❑d, he exclaimed horn I was in such g to tell you That's Lo one of his followers, the death of the prime rocured the co-operation and the citadel, of got possession, and Ajeet Singh was as he sought to escape in a basket -- slew him, and took his head —ith a lakh of rupees. h Lena Sind a friend of A tions to j He therefore .etence of e Sine CHINA The news from China is to the 28th of August. The state of business, with the exception of the coasting trade, does not appear satisfactory at Hong Kong, so that many of the merchants declined going there. Sickness existed there to a considerable extent. Opium was not to be protected by the British, and yet the smuggling continued to prosper. The Bogue forts were rebuilt in nearly the same state as before. The Chinese government had claimed 4,000,000 dollars from the Hong merchants as a contribution on account of the Ca Emp or had issued several proclamations, exhibiting a Nish to protect " the foreign barbarians," and to punish those officers who had maltreated the sailors that were shipwrecked in the Nerbudda and Anne in the beginning of 1842. Mecsrs. Morrison and JohnatSn, and Major W. Currie, have been appointed members of the Council of the colony, with the title of " Honourable." Two matters continued to excite great interest in Born f which was the detection and conviction of a bay ; one amount of about £70,000 per annum. Immediately pre vious to the departure of the October mail, ten of the confederates had been convicted and sentenced to be transported—eight for 10, and two for 14 years. This conviction, the first of the kind ever witnessed in Bom bay, was followed by the escheating all the properties of those felon convicts. The seizure and the sale of that calculated to spread a salutary terror amongst ? onion of the native inhabitants of that island, and to teach them a lesson of morality which a few of them had not practised during the thirty years that the gang has been at work. property is EASTERN PRODUCE. good many arrivals of cotton are daily ce, but prices still continue high, and a good CorroN.—A taking deal is at the present prices will be maintained for more than a few weeks Per Surat Candy of 7 cwt Rs. Rs. 92 to 95 Surat, Broach, and Jumbooseer Oomrawuttv ;ogo, Dholera, and Bhownuggur h Mangarole and Porebunber B3 „ 84 —ln good demand, and lots are taken as they come in at fair re OPIUM (MAI fore the PA).—There is none at market; the price may be quoted nominally at 1,400 rupees per chest SENNA continues in good demand for country con- Nothing doing for England ; high rates of this ar EUROPE GOODS COTTON PIECE C DDS.-Our market is largely stacked and although the demand has been g we have no improvement to notice in prices, in conse quence of sufficient firmness not being shJwn by impor ters. Bleached goods are imnrovinz slowly in vnltip_ iiu‘cu guuus are in ram aemand, but some parcels of Bandana handkerchiefs have been forced upon the mar ket at very low prices. Turkey-red goods have recovered from the long state of depression. BRITISH Ymor.—The stocks on hand are very heavy, and there is no improvement in prices. Coloured yarns are much wanted. BRITISH WOOLLENS. — Furtber imports, and sales very lifficult to make. We have heard of a few sales. at very ow rates METALS.—There is little'alteration in prices of metals. Large sales in British bar iron have been effected at 224 rs. per candy. AMERICA The Montezuma, New York packet-ship, Captain Lowber, arrived from this port on Wednesday last, hav ing left New York on the 20th November. The papers she brik brought by the Britannia steam gs are five days later than those The cotton market was rather inactive, as nothing cer tain could be ascertained with regard to the eoming crop. The prices of nearly all the current state stocks had im proved in the New York market, and a disposition had been manifested by English holders to take advantage of the circumstance and sell out. Both branches of the Canadian legislature have adopted resolutions in favour of the transference of the seat of go vernment in that province from Kingston to Montreal; but the citizens of Kingston have raised a fund for sending delegates to London to remonstrate with the Imperial go vernment against any change in that respect From New Orleans we learn tht sioners were at Matamoras, await at the Texan commis ing the arrival of the Mexico, in order to settle commissianers on the part o_ _ _ the boundary line between Texas WEST INDIES The West India papers received by the Thames steamer give satisfactory accounts of the progress of the several leading islands. The most important feature, however, in the present arrival is the speech of the Earl of Elgin at the opening of the Legislature at Jamaica, which appears to be the production of a person who has taken some pains to make inquiry into the condition of the locality. Although it does not give an overcharged account of the capabilities of the soil, or of the immense advantages which future cultivation will secure to those enjoying pro perty in the West Indies, it nevertheless presents a cheer ing prospects of what is likely to be effected by better management on the part of the planters and conciliated feeling on the pareof the labouring population. The go vernor alludes apparently with great satisfaction to the decrease of native fanaticism, as also to the attention of late paid by the agricultural societies to the introduc tion of implements of husbandry, with the view to decrease the heavy proportion of manual labour. The failure of the scheme of emigration as suggested by the L eg i s l a t ure i s the only disheartening topic in the speech ; but it appears, notwithstanding, that encouragement will yet be given to promote the import of labour from the coast of Africa as a means of supplying any deficiency that may arise from other quarters. Lord Elgin says, with reference to the general question of emigration--" Although I should be unwilling to recom mend the indiscriminate importation of emigrants from colder climates, it is fair to state, for the benefit of sober and industrious persons who may desire to secure a better return for their labour than the crowded markets of Eu rope offer, that agricultural and mechanical skill are highly valued and liberally remunerated." The proceedings of the legislature occupy almost the whole of the space of the papers. A new insolvent law had been passed assimilated to that at present in force here under the superintendence of the Bankruptcy Com missioners ' • and official assig nees were to b e appo i nte d , one to each of the six districts into which the island had been divided, to exercise the usual functions r collecting r ' '" • - tne estas. Bish Sencer had arrived in h er Majesty's ship He te rmes, from op Ha p lifax. The weather continued tolerably favourable, although, as is usually the case, there were complaints from some of the districts of the insufficiency of rain. Trade with the South American States had fallen off. The news from Demerara, Trinidad, and Barbadoes, is not very interesting. At the latter island the weather fe the crops is described as having been " glorious" one day, sunny and fine the next. Mr. Thomas, th 'vrk of the branch of the Colonial Bank, had been corn- —rain mitred for trial on a et of robbery to the amount of supply of labour from the coast of superior had only ad failed At Trinidad of government to send out 12 inspectors of police and 12 privates general corps to be selected from the natives there The inspectoas age to be allowed £4OO per annum. It is said that more than a thousand slaves escaped from the island of Guadaloupe to the British Islands in the confusion which followed the great earthquake. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 17.—Dr. Wolff is still here waiting for certain important firmans and recommenda tions from the Sultan and the Porte, to enable him to proceed on his journey to Bokhara with a fair chance of success. He has picked up here information from mer chants and travellers from that distant country, which he considers as strongly corroborative of his presentiment that he will find alive one or both of the gentlemen whose fate is the object of such universal interest. Private letters from Egypt mention that the Pasha was seriously contemplating the execution of some great work which should serve to perpetuate his memory to future ages. Three projects, it is stated, were under his consi deration—first, a ship canal between the Red Sea and the Nile; second, a canal to join the Red Sea with the Nile ; third, a railway across the Desert between Cairo and Suez. Which of the three he might determine on was not known. The mercantile letters from Mexico state, that Santa Anna was at his seat near Vera Cruz at the end of Octo ber, and was expected to arrive at that place in a few days to inspect the fortifications of San Juan de Ulloa in person. The new tariff had been published, and was to come into force on the 26th of January. The duties on cotton had been raised considerably, and it was probably to escape this increase that, according to some of the ad vices, large amounts of goods had been entered. This last piece of intelligence has been received with satisfac tion by the bondholders here, as they found upon it hopes of a larger remittance on account of dividends. THE INDIGO CROP.—The indigo season is perhaps the finest on record. A planter always anticipates a larger crop than he obtains ; but in this year of the comet the the planters, with few exceptions, have already obtained more than they anticipated, and they have nothing to quarrel with but the reduction of price, which the exu berant bounty of the season is likely to inflict. Tirhoot promises 40,000 maunds. Other districts though not equally blessed, will yield an unusual harvest. 'We see the crop stated by brokers at 139,000 maunds; but all brokers, those of Calcutta excepted, have an interest in moderating the public expectation. If the accounts we hear from every quarter without exception be authentic, the crop is likely to exceed, rather than to fall short of 150,000 maunds. These accounts refer not to plant on the ground, still exposed to the vicissitude of the seasons, but to that which has been already cut and manufactured. We have not, of course, the same means of ascertaining with accuracy the extent of the crop as those who are professionally engaged in watching its progress, and com paring the account of each individual factory with its former outturn ; but we will venture to say that, not even in the most productive of past years, have the reports of the planters been so generally cheerful as in the present year. For once, the croakers are in a contemptible min ority ; and long will the year of the comet continue to be remembered at the indigo factories.—Bombay Times. COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—The following statement appears in the Bombay Times, under the date Lahore, Oct. 7. It would seem, we regret, to extinguish the fervent hope still existing that these un fortunate officers were yet surviving:—" The day before yesterday a Jew presented himself at my house who had just come from Bokhara, and recounted to me the follow ing interesting story, which I transmit you with a view to its being made public. The man's name is M. Beren stein, born in Pol .nd, but since established at Jerusalem, and having an elder brother a Rabbi in London. This Michael informed me, that he had met and conversed with me nine years ago at Mankarief in Russia—that is, at Nishnei-Novogorod—during the fair ; and, in order to prove the truth of his assertions, mentioned that I had made a had speculation in furs, which was true enough. Since then he had visited Persia, and had proceeded to Bokhara in company with the Bokhara Ambassador, and there was an eye-witness of the miserable execution of four Europeanns—viz., Colonel Stoddart, Captain Co nolly, a young German officer, and a baptised Jew, who had come to instruct and discipline the troops, and who, with an attendant Jew, was beheaded. There is, there fore, no longer room to doubt that the Indian journals have been correctly informed respecting the death of these officers. There is at present at Bokhara an Italian named Giovanni, who manufactures clay figures for his main tenance, end is also a clock-maker. He was captured at Kohan during the war with the Bokharians, when the Ameer of Bokhara defeated the Khan of Kohan. He is now the only European at Bokhara, one Jew traveller having quitted it eight months ago. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD EELAND. THE INTEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.—Numberofdrunk ards committed to Cork Bridewell during the month of November, 1843, 245. Number of drunkards committed to Bridewell by the police during the corresponding month in last year, 130. Increase, 115. REDUCTION OF RENTS.—The Marquis of Hertford, now on the Continent, has given directions that there shall be a reduction of from 20 to 30 per cent. on the rents of his extensive estates in the counties of Antrim and Down, from the Ist of November, 1843. THE FINNOE MASSACRE.—It is rumoured in Tipper ary, and confidently beleived, that one of the maid ser vants of Mr. Waller has turned Queen's evidence, and declared that she opened the door to the murderers, whose names she has disclosed. There seems some grounds for giving credit to the rumour.—Dublin Statesman REPEAI MAYORS.-At Cork, on Friday week, Alder; man. Wrn. Fagan was elected mayor for the ensuing year, by a majority of forty to eleven be is a repealer; and the conservatives mean to memoralize the lord lieutenant sgainst his appointment.—At Waterford, Mr. Thomas Meagher, a repealer, is re-elected mayor for the ensuing Captain George de la Poer Beresford, late M.P. for Athlone, was brought up on his petition in the Insolvent Debtors Court, Dublin, on Wednesday week. There are 158 creditors in the schedule, for £41,000, including Mr. Columbine, solicitor, London, for £7,C00. The case was postponed, with a view to arrangement, to the 12th of February. DUBLIN CONSTITUENCY.—The official report of the City of Dublin conservative Registration Society for the last year, just published, states that the gross majority of the conservatives over whigs and repealers united in 1300, being an increase of 600 upon the majority of 700 by which Mr. Gregory beat Lord Morpeth in 1842. If the like at tention had been paid to the municipal registry, the tories might have kept the corporation in their hands. A BRUTAL ATTACK.—A very benevolent lady, Mrs. Vaughan Lloyd, while passing in her carriage near 'Shin roue, on Tuesday last, was pelted at by a party of men who were digging in a field athe way side. The splash board was smashed, and the coachman, finding that the attack was becoming both serious and sanguinary, gave the horses the whip, and succeeded in leaving the ruffians in the distance. The Dublin Evening Mail publishes a number of let ters, which show that much alarm prevails among the Protestants at rumours of a n i n t en d e d i nsu rrection. Some of the writers boast that they would resist attacks on their houses. The alarm appears to be genuine, whatever the cause for it may be. At Sligo, Castlebar, and Ballintra, military precautions were redoubled last week ; it is supposed on account of similar rumours. THE REPEAL AGITATION. —Mr. O'Connell was not present at the repeal meeting on Monday. The head pacificator took the chair—urged the people to peace, and hinted an apprehension of the probability of the liberator being incarcerated. A number of subscriptions were an nounced from America, and one from Liverpool. Mr.J. O'Connell spoke strongly against ribandism, and was fol lowed in the same strain by Mr. Barrett, Mr. J. O'Con nell also eulogised the arbitration system. The week's rent was stated to be £994 lls. sd. DEATH OF ONE OF THE " TRAVERSERS."—The Rev. Peter James Tyrrel, P.P., of Lusk, county Dublin, and one of the nine individuals charged with "conspiracy and other misdemeanours," died of erysipelas at an early hour on Monday morning. The deceased bad formerly officiated as curate in James's parish, in Dublin. It is pretty ge nerally asserted that the anxiety induced by the impending state prosecutions contributed not a little towards the fatal termination of his illness. The deceased was up wards of fifty-three years of age. INNOCENT AMUSEMENT.—The following (hays the Cork Constitution) is written in large red letters, on the Rev. Mr. Herbert's coach-house, door at Rathrnore Cross : 1804—commencement of our woes. 1844—destruction of our foes. Let all remember '9B !!! In addition to this harmless hint, there is written in the same locality, in similar large red letters, on a wall ad joining Alderman Lyons's residence, Summerhill— REPEAL OR BLOOD." THREATENING NOTlCES. — Threatening notices have been sent to two noble lords in this county, with, as we are informed, a coffin and cross-bones to render impossible any mistake as to the meaning. The motive of this out rage is known only to the villain or villains by whom it was perpetrated. "No tenant on the estate (writes a correspondent) has ever been ejected ; leases have fallen in, but no change of family has taken place. There are the sons and their sons, grandsons and great grandsons, still living on the same farms, but if the priests and O'Connell issue the mandate, even Lords and mus: stand on their guard ; mercy they must not expect, for they will not find it."—Cork Constitution. DIABOLICAL ACTS.—On Wednesday a bull and a cow died, the property of Mr. Hamilton, of Rounwood, near Mountrath, and at the moment no suspicion was enter. tained of any malicious act ; but upon examination being made, it was found that both were maliciously destroyed by a -1-- • . . eing inserted behind, which went into the long gut, and injurecidt and the kidneys. Up to this period Mr. Hamilton has lost upwards of thirty head of cattle, and, it is now ascertained, by the same means. Mr. Hamiiton has been the cause of the most extensive employment in his neighbourhood, and has been the means of feeding hundreds in summers past, who otherwise would be in a state of starvation.—Leinster Express. MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.-0 of the most uc countable occur r en ces we have heard Lie of for a length of time took place on the road to New Ross, in the course of the week. It appears that on the night of Sunday last, a stone wall, three feet high, was built across the public road at St. Mullins, within about two hundred yards of thi. rye-11;ns. borvafa. :ez- discovering it, 1 vviva, cALLaw.iiiury times these are; for it must have taken a large number of men to erect this wall in such a short time, and so silently that even the police, although within a short distance, knew nothing of the fact until.the hour of patrole.—Carlow Sentinel. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. LAW INTELLIGENCE OXFORD, Dec. 7. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—FRIDAY. In a congregation held this day, the following degrees were conferred : _ LYON V M'GILL. Masters of Arts.—Charles Sumner, Balliol, Grand This suit arose from the circumstance of the abduction Compounder. Richard George Walls, Brasenose. Edwin of a lady of the name of Crellin, who was carried from Lumsdaine Sandys Lumsdaine, Oriel, Rev. Charles Liverpool a year or two ago to Scotland by a man named Dunlop, Pembroke. Rev. Arthur Baynham, Pembroke. M'Gill and others, and a marriage effected, or at least Rev. Alban Thomas Atwood, Worcester. Samuel John attempted to be effected, between her and M'Gill. The Jerram, Worcester. Rev. Edmund Henry Haskins, particulars of the case were given at great length at the Queen's. James Welch, Queen's. time it was before the magistrates of Liverpool, and after- B ,chelor's of Arts. —Frederick Darling, New Inn wards on the trial of the parties for the offence at the Hall. Robert Grandell, Michell Scholar of Queen's. summer assizes in 1842. M'Gill was then found guilty, Henry Tickell, Queen's. Mark Warburton, Queen's. and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, which Francis Henry Dunwell, Queen's. Seth William Ste- he is now undergoing in Lancaster Castle. Part of the venson, St. Mary Hall. John Buckmaster, St. Mary property of Miss Crellin consisted of money due on mort- Hall. Frederick Tuffnell, Scholar of Wadham. Fran- gage. The mortgagors, since the circumstances which cis Henry Laing, Wadham. Edward West, Fellow of were the subject of the criminal proceedings took place, St. John's. William Paul Wood St. John's. George and since those proceedings, have attempted to sell the Theophilus Corke, Demy of Magdalen. Charles Offiey, mortgaged property in order to pay off Miss Crellin's University, Brenckley Kingsford, Exeter. Arthur debt, and convert the surplus into money, and they ap- Stanley Ormond. Exeter. Hugh Norris Lloyd, Scholar neared to have entered ir to a contract for that purpose, of Jesus. John Lloyd, Worcester. William Meade, but the purchaser refused to take the estate, unless Balliol. John Shadwell, Balliol. M'Gill, as the reputed husband of the lady, joined in the conveyance. After finding this difficulty, the mortgagors CAMBRIDGE, DEC., 1. refused any longer to p a y th e i n t erest o f th e money to the CAWS COLLEGE.—On Monday last, the 27th ult. lady, without the receipt or acknowledgment of M'Gill. William John Johnson, M.A., was elected a Senior Fel- Miss Crellin was then advised to offer the property for low on the ancient foundation. sale under her powers as mortgagee, and it was to restrain CRAVEN SCHOLARSHIF.—The Vice-Chancellor has her from proceeding with the sale that the present motion given notice, that there will be on Monday the 22nd of was made. January, 1844, at ten o'clock, an examination of candi- Mr. Romilly applied for the injunction, and Mr. Bacon dates for a scholarship on this foundation, lately holden opposed the motion. by Mr. Philip Freeman, of St. Peter's College. The His Honour refused the motion, with costs, on the candidates are required to signify their intention of offer- ground that the plaintiffs knew of the intended sale some ing themselves by writing a Latin letter to each of the time previously, and delayed their application until the electors ' which is to be delivered personally, on F r id a y last mo men t. the 15th , or Saturday the 30th of December. The elec tors are, the Vice-Chancellor, the Five Regius Professors, LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANKRUPTCY COURT. and the Public Orator. In order to facilitate this deliv ery, one or more of the electors will attend in the Law Schools on th e a b ove d a y s , f rom t we l ve o ' c l oc k t ill two RE JAMES BROWN CARSON. o'clock ; and no candidates will be admitted who do not On Wednesday and Thursday this bankrupt was brought signify their intention in the above manner. up before the court for further examination. At a Congregation on Wednesday last the folllowing Mr. Yardley (the barrister) appeared for Messrs. Miller, degrees were conferred : Mackie, and Co., and oth er cre dit ors . Honorary Masters of Arts.-- on. Thomas Edwardes, Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS suggested that it would (son of Lord Keniington,) e Augustus Frederick be expedient, in future, to assimilate the length of their Cavendish Bentinck, and R race Dundas, Trinity sittings to those of the old commissioners. College. The bankrupt was examined at some length on the sub- Masters of Arts.—Frederick Charles Cook, St. John's ; jest of his balance-sheet. It appeared that some of the Richard Blanshard, Queen's; Gerard Neville, Catharine statements in the first balance-sheet did not agree with Hall. those in the second, .which the bankrupt attributed to Bachelor in the Civil Law.—Charles Henry Simpkin, omissions by his book-keepers. Trinity Hall. In answer to Mr. Bardswell and the Commissioner, the Bachelor of Arts.—Edmund Saml. Crooke, Pembroke. bankrupt said the balance-sheet was made out from the books in the first instance, and, in the second, by Mr. Badham, from the book s an d p a p ers now i n t h e possession PREACHERSHIP TO LINCOLN'S INN.—There are no fewer than eighteen candid a t es i n th e fi e ld f or thi s appo i n t- of the official assignee. ment. His HONOUR remarked that it was very careless swear- THE DEANERY OF L LANDAFF . —W e understan d ing to a balance-sheet on the p ar t o f th e b an k rupt. H e ought to have been more careful as to its accuracy. that the Rev. William Knight Bruce, chancellor of the The further hearing was then adjourned. accuracy . above diocese, has been appointed to the vacant deanery. On Monday, (yesterday) the bankrupt was again The Rev. Sir Thomas Forster Bart., the most aged ba- brought up. He was subjected to a long examination, ronet of the United Kingdom, died last week, at his seat, in the course of which he admitted that he had drawn ac- Colderry, having completed his 92d year. commodation bills on Lis clerk, and vice versa, and ad- NEW CHURCH IN HEATON Nortars.—We understand dressed those documents to the clerk at Bristol, although that arrangements are being taken forthwith for the ( rec.. he was resident in Liverpool, in order to render them tion of a new Church i n H ea t on N orr i s , t owar d s w hi c h more ne goc i a bl e ___ Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. of Tatton Park, has given a site of land, and, £lOOO. The case was again adjourned to next Monday We understand that the late Rev. E. Lake, who has for many years officiated at the Countess of Huntingdon's chapels, Bridport and Loweamoor, has left his valuable library to the Church of England Missionary Society.— Worcester Journal. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, appointing the Right Rev. Father in God Edward Bishop of Salisbury to exercise all the functions and powers, as well with regard to the tem poralities as the spiritualities, of the Right Rev. Father in God George Henry Bishop of Bath and Wells. RE JOHN DONNELLY This bankrupt, who, upon alleged deficiencies in his balance-sheet, in not accounting for several large sums, had his examination adjourned sine die, again presented himself befo're the court, with another balance-sheet of a most voluminous character, extending over a period of many years, during which he had been most extensively engaged in business. The balance-sheet was now declared to be satisfactory The bankrupt was sworn, and passed. RE MURRAY AND BROWN The Rev. Robert Montgomery, late minister of St. Jude, Glasgow, and now incumbent of Percy Chapel, London, has just been offered to succeed the celebrated Dr. Hawkes, of New York, at St. Thomas's Church, in that city. The income is 4000 dollars, or about £B3O per annum. We believe the rev. gentleman has very respect fully declined to accept this appointment. THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEAL—The following extract from the first report of the " Midland Mining Commis sion," affords a most striking instance of the failure of the voluntary system of supplying Christian teaching:— " A gentleman, of about £50,000 per annum in this parish (Wolverhampton) when asked to contribute to Ettingshall Church, excused himself by saying that the mines would be worked out in about seventy years, and then the people would move, and the chyrch would be of no use !" These bankrupts, the extensive engineers, presented themselves to the court to pass the final examination, by adjournment from the 45th November. No opposition having been instituted, they were per mitted to pass. EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS On Thursday last a very unseemly fracas took place. The following particulers of which we take from the Journal. A few days ago Mr. Skirrow related, from his place on the bench, that he never saw an attorney enter the court with an insolvent without being reminded of the story of the fox and the goose. The Talleyrand of the mammalia family had once entered into a compact with the least discreet of the ornithological tribe, the fox guaranteeing to prefer chickens to goslings, on condition that the ELECTION OF A CANON OF MANCHESTER.—At a Chapter holden on Wednesday, the 6th instant, by the Dean and Canons of Manchester, the Rev. Robert Cox Clifton, M.A., the Clerk in Orders, late Fellow of Wor cester College, Oxford, was elected a Canon, in the room of the Rev. John Gatliff, M.A. The office of Clerk in Orders remains to be filled up, as also the rectorship of St. Mary's. Both appointments are in the gift of the Dean and Canons. goose undertook to supply him with food. One day, however, the goose failed in her commissariat department, upon which reynard dined sumptuously on the contractor herself. At the commencement of this story, Mr. Green, an at torney of the court, accompanied by a client, entered, and, believing that the fable was intended for him, he quietly observed. " I understand the allusion, sir." " I did not allude to you, sir," said Mr. Commissioner Skirrow, "it would be beneath my dignity, sir, to allude to you." OXFORD, DEC. 6.—The opinions of three eminent counsel who have been consulted upon the legality of the degrees conferred upon Mr. Everett, the American minister, were submitted to the vice-chancellor this morning. It is almost superfluous to say, that all con curred in pronouncing the whole proceeding null and void. It is probable that matters will be allowed to rest here, the opinion of counsel being considered a sufficient vindication of the protest that was made against the vice chancellor's act. " 1 understand you, sir," observed the solicitor. " Silence, sir,' exclaimed the functionary, "or I'll : Mr. Gaskill, are you ready?" your honour," said Mr. Gaskill. "There is no hurry," observed Mr. Green: " I'll wait till the commitment is made out." The matter dropped here, but it is necessary to state these preliminaries, in order to a right understanding of commit you "R what fol OXFORD, DEC. 10.—DEATH OF THE MASTER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE.—The Rev. George William Hall, D.D., master of Pembroke College, and a prebendary of Gloucester Cathedral, died at his lodgings at the college this morning at four o'clock. The deceased had been head of his college thirty-four years, having been elected in the year 1809. It is stated that the Rev. R. W. Jelf, D.D., canon of Christchurch, and Bampton lecturer for 1844, has been appointed to the headship of King's College, London, vacant by the elevation of the Rev. J. Lonsdale to the bishopric of Lichfield. DURHAM, DEC. B.—At a convocation holden on Wed nesday last, the Rev. George St. Quintin, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, was presented and admitted ad eundem. Francis Town Attree was admitted to the de gree of B.A. The Warden and the Professor of Mathe matics were nominated by the Warden and approved by convocation to be Examiners in Theology in the present year. The following graces were passed :—To grant £2OOO from the University estate to the Castle Trust. To advance a sum not exceeding £6OO for the purchase of the lease of twenty-one years of the Grammar School, and of the premises attached thereto. To apply the gift of £4OO from the executors of the late Robert Thorp, Esq. towards making up the above sum. On Wednesday Mr. Green tendered the petition and schedule of the insolvent, Sarah Jones, to th e reg i s t rar of the court, who ref ised to receive them, acting, as he said, ender the direction of the Commissioner, (Skirrow,) un less there was a general balance annexed. As the prac tice in the other court and the London courts is not to require this balance-sheet, it was considered that the pe tition and schedule were in the form directed by the rules, and sanctioned by general practice. It appears, however, that, in consequence of Mr. Skirrow's refusal to receive the schedules of the insolvents without the general balance sheet, the business of this department has been suspended, and no less than seven petitions been delayed, and the suitors left in painful suspense, not being able to get their protection from arrest. On Thursday Mr. Green attended again, and required the registrar to make out a certificate of allotment, pur suant to the first of the rules and orders. The registrar consulted for some time with the corn missioner, and the latter inquired whether the balance sheet was annexed? Mr. Green said the case was not properly before his honour until the allotment was made, on which, after another consultation with his registrar, (M. Thomson,) he directed him to make out the certificate, but not to sign it. - Mr. Green said the registrar was bound to sign it, and he required him to do so. The commissioner asked if the registrar was bound to sign on any nonsensical document being brought to him ? Mr. Green said he put it to the good sense and practi cal knowledge of the registrar, whether his papers were nonsensical? He said there was a petition and a sche dule, gazettes, and newspapers, and an affidavit of the ser vice of the notice, and the signature of the petitioner and schedule, which were in the required form. During this time the registrar was preparing the certifi cate, and completed it with his signature. Mr. Green then said, " Now, I am regularly before your honour," and he tendered the interim order for the commissioner's signature. The commissioner appeared annoyed at the registrar having completed the allotment paper, and, said his Ho nour, " Give me the paper ; I'll tear it to pieces." " Surely not, Sir," said Mr. Green ; " it is a legal do cument of the court." " Silence, Sir, or I'll commit"- " Good God!" ejacul;ted Mr. Green, "surely we do not live in the reign of James the Second, when judges made lax." " Mr. Gaskill, do your duty," cried his Honour move him." Mr. Gaskill, the messenger, and his officers obeyed. Mr. Green remonstrated : the officers pulled away : the Court looked astonished : and, as Mr. Green's enuncia tion, when excited, is not very distinct, the noise and the commotion were rather ludicrous for a court of justice in the presence of a judge. On Wednesday executions were served upon Mr. Bird and his relations, for the payment of the costs incurred in the trial, as to the right of property in the Brougham-hall estates, recently heard at Appleby. - The Court of Queen's Bench has decided unanimously, in the cause of " The Queen v. the inhabitants of Bir mingham," that the magistrates have no right to separate children under seven years of age from the mother, even with her, donsent. THE UNITED SERVICE GAZETTE.—On Tuesday:this newspaper, which has occasioned so much litigation in the Court of Chancery, was sold by auction at the Gray's•inn Coffee-house, with the approbation of Mr. William Brougham, one of the masters of the Court. Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode, the Queen's printer, was the highest bidder, having offered £1,500 for the pro perty. TOLL QUESTION.—A case of importance to toll gate keepers and others, was decided by the magistrates. at their petty sessions, at Nantwich, on Tuesday last. The keeper of the turnpike gate at Henhull having been sum moned for demanding and receiving toll from Mr. Wm. Walley Downes, whilst on his way to his usual place of worship; and it appearing that Mr. Downes resides, in Nantwich, but attends w o r s hip a t th e par i s h church of Acton, in which parish the turnpike gate is situate, the magistrates construing the word " parochial" in sec. 32 of Geo. 4, c. 126. as denoting the situation of Mr. D.'s place of worship, with reference to his residence, held that he was liable to pay the toll and dismissed the sum mons. LONDON CRIMINAL COURTS.—In the Bail Court, on Tuesday, before a special jury, Patrick Leith Strachan, a gentleman in a very respectable station of life, was found assaulted, with an inrlai.o...F .• guilty of having young gentleman n fsdirim rtnr....-..1 1 , -- • Dawson Dec. 12, 1843. JOURNEYMAN TAILORS IN LONDON• Every now and then exposures are being made in tr Police C our t s o f th e metropo li s w hi c h pa i n f u ll y verify t th e quaint remark that one half of the world is i g norant °, how the oth er h a lf li ves. Th e a ffli ct i ng d eta il s c onnect ea with the sempstresses have just been followed by revela tions scarcely less disgusting regarding sempsters, or, 0 they are commonly called, journeymen tailors. MI Peter the City a o f f te L r o d n i d sp o o n si G ng ui o ld f h s a o of the exquisites who patronize the fashionable Load houses will be startled by the following : Ata journeyman tailor named Richard Morgan, who had written a long letter to him on the grievances of his trade, was in the room. Morgan presented himself. The letter complained of the low prices aid by the clothiers of lh e Jewish faith ; but there was p another evil equally ~„ i ni h e a ch fe a w rge d s a r per nicious, into which nearly all the city tailors ha in d qu fai e l eci b ala- y , and which the writer thought the Alderm:.n exposure, assist in destroying. This was the en:IP - J o ment of cha m b er masters or as the trade termed the a g " Sweaters," f rom their habit of working by night ell well as by day, auct on saints' day and Sundays, as - other days. A m a s t er w h o cou ld k eep twenty Jour; as 19 hey men going now usually em pl o y e d b u t f o ur. Each .1 these took out as much as five or six men could do, usually w or k e d f or t wo mas t ers at t h e. same time. get through this ma s s o f wor k th e man se t u p ""° willing to machine. He hired two experienced hands work at reduced wages (perhaps from loss of character); To these he added a couple of improvers, who work 3 half-price for the sake of imovement, two or three sempstresses, and his wife ands hildren. These are ge nerally huddled together in one dirty room, eat, drink, and sleep together. This forms a sweatil. machine, to which the master tailor sends a gentleina!: coat at night to be manufactured by nine o'clock the next morning, instead of giving it to a journeyman to _ completed solely by himself, which would require two days' work. Gentlemen would sicken with disgt.ls! they could see and smell the dens of filth in great part of their clothing is now made up. The s'r e co ., usually made heavy charges for sitting room, cools , 0 , dles, and meals, and these journeymen's jou rneYrile, ay after a most laborious week's work, seldom carried rs more than a few shillings. Much work which mast t e e d ogle° and foremen could give out in the morning was till the evening, because they knew it could be coal' with pleted by night-work, at a sweating machine, any additional charge. On a subsequent day Mr. Morgan ❑attended to subst.ll: tiate his charges by the evidence of parties employed ut the manner described, and subjoined is a report of wh a a sweating occurred : Henry Leader said he had worked a few daY "sbsicial'ilitce t e . r for a sweater employed by Mr. o Coleman-streng ie He was employed to make the third-part of a breasted beaver coat. The sweater was to have 126 ' t h e was to be made during the n i g ht. Th e swea ter kep t lightest third-part for himself. C omp l a i n ant, wit h t e r help of a short pipe, kept him se lf awa k e , but the otli two, who had been working i n th e d a y, dropped an e sleep. The garment was got in, however, hi good n. but the master cut the price down to 10s., and come t ant received 3s. 4d. for his share. A good fire was A eP 3 , up, and they burnt seven p enn y wor th o f candles, an deduction of Is. was made for coals and candles. Thomas Eames said he was em pl o y e d by a sswe a " - / : who worked for Mr. —, of Hanover-square. men worked in one room, two of whom slep s.t in it at mg, Mr. pays 17s. for a coat. The sweater deducts :4 for his time in going backwards and forwards to hi s shop' and marking the job off into thirds • keeps the lightest:. himself. The two men who sleep there each paY 2s. D a per week for Iralging, sd. for breakf a st, Bd. for dinne r / 3 4. . sd. for tea. Had worked f or o th er swea t er s at the ire. end. They employ the me n w h om no mas ter tailor caeklu, suffer to enter his house—m en w i t h ou t s hoes and, st° e , ings, who wore their s hi r t s th ree wee k s w i t h o ut changi: o r V whomwh o wtehree vermin continuallyfilthy o diseases,ree p og. a dn l e o t the hands of these men he had seen put a share of :1 fora minister p it a li r s k te e r r, of th th e e se C o r r o: t - a n r , y p r otee e a Society, produced a specimen of trousering m anufae tur „ s at Huddersfield, by grinding together old woollen ra:d; an to d t p h e o ers T o a f il t o h rs e , rea lm • t on collected from all parts of Europe. !t had been too up into cheap clothing in America, and returned '° or bad for any use. It was called in Yorkshire shodir,e, devil's dust. The specimen produced waa a sort of o c her green twilled trousering , and had slits two or three 11 '.„in long opened in all directions where there was a e%- t t e h o e s w iv - e e a ly r. ctral use H d e b s y ai t d he a c b b e e t a t p er ta so il r o t r, of wh th o i s s e article s v :": w as to have the worst materials made up in the besi. a scandalous rate of wages. r; le at „ceiv ed ' John Holland deposed to the prices he hal. - , hoo t , viz., for taglionis and pilots, best make, 3s. ' ' and holes, ing jacket, full of pock e t s , an d w i t h n i neteen button- - . • requiring three days' work, 3s, 3d. The evidence was then directed to show tha t „; : pok 6 who professed to keep men on the premises for work, sent it out into the most filthy neighbourlwt° beiog Morgan said he s aw thi s week a lady's hnb,', in made up for Moses, by a man name d P a ddy T; e c i s 'coal l-1 , very filthy place. It was a b espo k e garmen t, ai l o da , take a whole week to make, and Paddy, a be „nlY workman, was to have 15s. f or it. Th e re wer e lv the dozen tailors in the city who b ona file employed 00sdigha men on their premises. Th ere were 100 swe a ts te r r ee elle g had 400 good hands un d er th em Th e livery u tto of one of the present she r iff' s f oo t men we re given they a sweater at ss. H e cou ld no t d o t h em , b u t wo e f e llon , over to another sweater at 4s. 6d., and the pol:". who actually made the received 4s. '•-e. Such ire the myste m ries of the craft as practi' to ,so London, and, it is to he feared •in many other large intro of the kingdom, where metropolitan manners are a th at duced. It was obse rve d, during the diseu ss ri'stio t ; m nothing could put d own th e s weat i ng s y s tem, i " b il v the' . g the work to men wor ki ng i n rooms rented • employers, 70. A cruel ipl venr suspicion H has POISONINGj ds t taken tend, i ri A i ._ l a l 5 . neighbourhood of Bath. The house of tw0.„,1 firm persons broken open in the night of' S r a e t s u id rd in a g v a s t e' v " e r is a gti7 Z, ElLhae r m o e b n be a d re of vtSharanst.rt.tEhrte in.sp"ring ' 0 Frost, death lenleenfoaenftifti following attack ki e inine r gug O spn f fion upon i c i e l jr ti: s ' i it tc h: outrag , o e t f . h C r 18 F 39 7:T h , nia THEa solicitor and Gwaeaschtl about two Teties , , - ci i n ..-e transported i g2o m ent hfoaru2poe upon years t her for ed forgery, andhisA daughters, rhbAteeeLrnlsahs.,h desiringi red a s a t h fr e e e servant tlohwatedmhrism. Frostout. will• Fro s b t e h a a l s a lmn s w e s sent a letter to Mrs' the b° r e AND • ATTEMPTING SISTERS.—On culprito naFvor iavows sa T ys Do socialist last,.l POISON bt s h o e e n f 0 or fault i a l s respectable nafpph ries h education de n farmer, inenet inho l n a fe pt j f ' o et ad i a . srlontgoloneowensr. hire e l otd y lgu'aat r Y‘ e bßB.l s gt i lr' i iir' r ail i fil2eh o l 'Er: se Bh°. 11:°'' a ge t pot chargewick, stated,b rou r g e l n i t d ue rendered atd still the Police more court,•- horrible that he considers it no crime to commit m urder , ' e &Is Prestwich, robbed her given ir i c i e arlf tody on that charge ; but the facts were " t disel ° ' brought home to him, and the following horribleisoner'S sure was made by members of his family. The P r sta nces• father died in April 1840 under suspicious circuina_ti et Very early one morning in that month the decet:e7. oso l i .cw s e3 nlott principles,t a a o n p h p d e i savvrmse:tinhid; bas r s "I is° t o u s e i et u isitt up, and went to work in the garden. The al hini,' got up at the same hour, which was u nusua i % c hoo se tu About seven o'clock the father went into t'l° thef be breakfast, no one else of the family but the ie 13! 0 up. The prisoner looked through the wirill °w • ten rl3l - was getting his breakfast and the latter li t l ich eon' w 1 ni orni l3 ., s flutes after was seized wish violent vomiting. ' tinued almost incessantly until the follo wing a orrlin i q less that the son had caused his death."' extarned_o, when he died. Though the symptoms were recollected that he had had a q uarrel wit i h t no suspicion was entertained that he 1 :: ) . is a fterwa rdS ~.; a bTrelling wit, had beaten him, in consequence of "' s " na the father 0 0 his sister Margaret. About six weeks after made sots death, the prisoner's sister Sarah coffee put it in the oven to keep but fn illi t. sister Ann. Sarah got up early doctor and found to contain next morntrigout ' the cp r the prisoner was up before her, and on Ok i "' a peee ll9 fee she found it incurdledstate, and having , o to 0 a taste. She showed it to Margaret, and it • n atar a g The family f. t ber the c' e t, became uneas death were reverted to. Shortly after Ward iYia_,,,jie when about to thicken soine broth with meal, ii.l,' . i e cilf to taste a little of the meal, and found it tasted ii" w it" d wen t ty coffee. She took it to another brother, an . to r° a him to soveral medical men, who pronounced it .. _ OO 4 tain acetate of lead. On another occa.ion theYelfwbtes!! white powder in a teaspoon placed in a basin ou . t o i lier b r t some of the girls were to take milk. The P.,r 1 ,,. aria 4 Y, and the circurnwsatarrtliniceaosvvi:or.fri:llfiltrbe(ri, been first up that morning. Margaret tasted l'i,. o otht, precisely resembled the coffee and meal. OiL,'„esi.. occasion, he got up before them, and Margaretinr:Zt au,. picious, watched his movements, as she then il ° L ' b e off 6 7 l observed. He went into a room where there w e lid an in a pot prepared for breakfast, and lifted ibbe valid 00'5 closed it again. On his leaving, she found on i otitY ea' father, whin, white powder similar to the other, and a not the niea, mixed with the coffee. This as well as some 0 ceta te c''.• was taken to Dr. Barrow, and found to contain Z ~ 0 food lead. During these attempts the prisoner in the house. He had been heard to say, ofri-7f,,,,,i1y to, : i - : s i s ter Margaret that he would " serve her out. ,ic ri , bind; afterwards entered into a sort of contract with ni„ hind if ing themselves by their signatures not to proseecin:rdiagbri he would never come near them again• He l ' c ear an Don, a 1 a leftthem half ag 0 for aboutmr. J. a B y e.ar,an Smithd returnedthe rn agi sat=t, yeihdere_csaoseci 01_—A I the elder, brother of the prisoner who pi --- t --1- . ___,...l;rf mm, to the effect that tu. . Alty „" o ; c ed g with it arose from the dela—it having been n" a f t er to lie over for two years and a half; and the family :To t binding themselves by a document, now appearing figngr, him. He should remand him, in order to consult Pri'et. - - said the prisl A it against had star dile had consic „a 5 b ig The prisoner was the” te' no crime to commit murder, for it education that led him to it. '''" manded. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The new bridge erected over the Skerne, on the New.. castle and Darlington Junction Railway, near Darlington, has, during the last kw weeks, given way. It is of five arches of brick and stone, and the injury is supposed to have been caused by pressure at one end. AMALGAMATION OF THE MANCHESTER AND HULL RAILWAYS.—The terms for uniting the management of the Hull and Selby Railway with that of the Manchester and Leeds line have been agreed upon by the directors, subject to the approbation of the respective bodies of pro piretors ; the management to be be vested in the Man chester directory. EFFECTS OF RAILWAYS.—On Saturday last an appli cation was made at the Rochester Borough Court, by Mr. G. Calder, of that city, the proprietor of the Crown Inn and postmaster, for a reduction of the amount at which he was rated to the poor from £173 to £lOB annual value. It was proved that the effect of the opening of the South Eastern Railway had been to reduce Mr. Calder's stock of post horses from 32 to 12, and that the profits have fallen 75 per cent. - SMOKING IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—On the North Midland line of railway a large carriage, capable of hold ing many persons, has been appropriated to and fitted up for the accommodation of those gentlemen who are emulous of competing with the engine in the quantity of smoke that can be thrown off in a given period. This carriage is termed the " divan," and first class fare is de manded, and most willingly conceded to by the votaries of the weed.—A similar accommodation is provided on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. GRATITUDE OF THE POOR TO MR. OASTLER.-Mr. Auty has forwarded us the two following incidents which strongly exemplify the feeling of the yoor to Mr. Oastler : —" A poor man came to me last Saturday evening to ask if I took in subscribers for Oastler's Liberation Fund? I answered ' yes, I do,' he then said put me down two shillings,' I asked what name? lie answered Bryan Cowgill and family.' So you see, Mr. Editor, this man bad made it a family matter. May many go and do like wise. An old man came into my shop the other day and opened a piece of blue paper with ls. 9d. wrapped up in it, all in copper, he said, this is from a few children who are taught in cottage-house on a Sunday, by a poor man from the top of Ayteliffe-hill,'—a place where there are only a few scattered houses and where one would think that the name of Oastler was rarely known." HER MAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS : FORTUNATE ESCAPE OF THE WHOLE PACK ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.— A field of between 100 and 200 were present at the meeting on Monday week, which took place near the Sun Inn, in the town of Maidenhead. The splendid- Scotch deer, Highlander, which has heretofore afforded such excellent sport, upon being uncarted on Maidenhead thicket, went away across the thicket to the Coach and Horses, making for the Great Western Railway, where it ran along the up-line towards Reading, for upwards of a mile and a half. The hounds followed in hot pursuit, having got upon the railway before the huntsmen and whippers-in had got up to call them off. When between a deep cutting, an up-train, proceeding at the rate of thirty miles an hour, appeared in sight. At this moment the destruction of the whole pack (the hounds still pro ceeding downwards on the up-line) appeared inevitable. The stag made for the bank of the cutting as soon as it t fortunately, thin less than however, when the train had ad 100 yards of them, and when eve in another second or two the whole 1vould7;; AI thus fortunately'escaped nsu Al S co tt, at Harrow IL S or a similar offence At the Central Criminal C our t or y of ac abortion, thereby causing her death, %su b imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years Dwnne, a person of good yars imprisonment and L. IWO . the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, ministering sul- ew of procuring sentenced to be Is tr , i)o st (I ' lt, n es ' i s , 3 t th„ 4 tr %itch z Ive - r, se ve , tio n : hear!