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The eneral Harrison would deve- cy which his administration intended to urposely to avoid giving any infor- ght into his inter character ed movements .1 tenor of the address is, how- The opening remarks apply mected with the constitution of Conduct of candidates for offices of re and after obtaining them—the unli people—and such like. He deprecates Ens the eligibility of the same individual to a se ' the presidency, and avows, in the most deter- lution not to serve a second term xecntiN ) particular importance, the tement on the union of F the great difficulty that exists in the safe-keeping and disbursement 1 I know the importance which has Teat abilities and patriotism to the f the t rom the banking in ch is complained of, but .asury with the executive de ch extensive alarm. To this ttions, and that created by the through the instrumentality propose to apply all the remedies command. It was certainly a great er )f the constitution not to have made the I of the treasury department entirely inde cecutive. He should at least have been re m the demand of the popular branch of the we determined never to remove a secretary ithout communicating all the circumstances !moval to both Houses of Congress. The !xecutive in controlling the freedom of the , through the medium of the public officers, [ally checked by renewing the prohibition pub- Jefferson, forbidding their interference in elec than giving their own votes, and their own in xl by an assurance of perfect immunity in red privilege of freemen, under the dictates Never, with my consent, compensated for his services he pliant instrument of men-. ass " is then declared to be " one s which has been derived by their :ountry The character of the ailed in rather more explicit terms than He alludes ler pdrtion of the address ing it exclusively metallic, however well 3 me to be fraught with more fatal con other scheme, having no relation to the e citizen, that has ever been devised. If produce the effect of arresting, at )n of condition by which thousands of our low-citizens, by their industry and enter `he possession of wealth, that is the one. -Ire better calculated than another to 'ngs so much deprecated by all true "i are daily adding to their .inking deeper into penury, it is an ..urrency. Or if there is a process by ter of the country for generosity and noble nay be destroyed by the great increase and ion of usury, it is an exclusive metallic cur- 'hich the sic y which he fears some of the ith in their financial concerns, he pro- them to the extent of constitutional ully to make heir engagements and main ating of matters connect- management of ph is all vie can find of any definite r, that I should give some in -2s of my proposed course of bar on igement of our foreign relations re, that it is my intention to use ever) !.r to preserve the friendly intercourse • so happily subsists with every fOreign nation lthough, of course, not well informed as to the lg negotiations with any of them, I see in rs of the sovereigns, as well as in the of our own and of the governments with which charact ms are most intimate, a pleasinc , guarantee that ly so important to the interests of their subjects, our citizens, will not be interrupted by the ad. of any claim or pretension upon their part to honour would not permit us to yield. Long the F my country's rights in the field, I trust that my aamisston on t of their forme .e in my earnest desire to preserve veers any indication that their rights )r the honour of the nation tarnished, e part of their chief magistrate un- eludes ,h some strained attempts and the President promises to dis cs of his exalted station according to nd with entire confidence in the sup- F THE ITALIAN ORGAN BOY AT DUBLIN. ) the circumstances connected with the n, a few brief particulars of which ap ' a few publications since, has been and terminated on Monday, after The extraordinary mystery created a painful interest among all I length of the investigation height '•uning degree of excitement. At jury consulted for about half turned the following verdict :--" W e inico Garlibardo was murder e d on t h e `o Churchtown, in the parish of Rath by several wound s an d hi p:b l he i a n, d at said place, on the. even ' February, 1841, causing i.mme -uspiaion attaches to Richard near Dublin, Ireland, for '• Mary Cooney, other- ence, present, aiding and abet s suspected to have been ao suspicion whatever diens charged with said death. A t on foot for the relief of the Italians -.- been much injured by the immtations )on tfteir characters ; they having been originally ered the perpetrators of the bloody deed. Em; erini Vatliatint. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuzsDay returns from the poor-law union of Clonmel. Mr. Pedder, an attorney, residing in Clonmel, was also examined, after which it was reared that Mr. H a ll, f rom th e o ffi ce o f t h e poor-law cornminioners, should be ordered to attend at the Friday next, and Mr. Hawley (one of the assistant aw commissioners) on Monday. HOUSE OF COMMON TUESDAY _ . Lord J. RUSSELL, in a reply to a question from Sir R. Peel, said he should proceed with the early clauses of the poor-law amendment bill that evening, in order to give an opportunity for discussing the various amendments, of which notice had been given. He should then propose to resume the committee on Friday and Monday next, after which he intended going on with it de die in diem. On the motion for committee, on the poor-law amendment bill. Mr. H. HINDE said he hoped there was no intention to hurry the bill through the house before Easter. Lord J. RUSSELL said there was no such intention. He thought, however, that in committee, long intervals between each sitting were detrimental. Sir E. S s iJGDEN hoped that some clause would be intro duced to enable married couples to live together in work houses. The separation of man and wife created a strong feeling against the poor-law. Colonel WOOD said that in the,Staines union aged couples were not separated, but were allowed a room to themselves, with a fire in it, where they might live comfortably. Mr. WAKLEY quoted a correspondence respecting the Uxbridge union, where the board of guardians had refused to sick paupers the diet ordered for them by the medical attendant. In gaols the medical officers had always absolute power in this respect. Mr. DARBY said that under the old poor-law the order of the medical attendant must be confirmed. If the articles ordered were withheld there was an appeal to a magistrate, and so there was still. Lord HOWICK said that no board of guardians would refuse to attend to the orders of a medical attendant without strong and just grounds. It might happen that a man pro fessing a medical education might also possess an anxiety to acquire a low and despicable popularity, and might be capa ble of abusing a trust reposed in him. If the board of guar dians suspected a medical officer of an attempt to set aside the regular system of relief, they would be quite right to set aside his orders. He could scarcely credit it to be a fact, so discreditable to the gentlemen of England, as that a board of guardians would refuse articles really necessary when or dered by a medical man. Some discussion followed, in the course of which General JOHNSON declared, that it was with great pain he had heard what bad fallen from Lord J. Russell on Friday night. Mr. GROTE contended for the propriety of a check, on the part of the guardians, over the medical attendant ; because, otherwise, the whole control of the union would rest with the latter functionary. Mr. EASTHOPE contended that there was ample security against any improper interference on the part of the medical attendant, who might be discharged by the guardians ; but it was not right that he should be limited in what he thought proper to order. Mr. W. Arrwoon said, the lives of the paupers could not be considered safe if the medical attendant was not to be en trusted with any discretion as to their diet. After some further discussion, in the course of which some warm observations passed between Mr. Ward and Mr. W. Attwood, the house resolved itself into committee, and the first clause, fixing the period for which the poor law commis sion shouldexist, was moved by Lord J. RUSSELL. Mr. EASTHOPE thought five years too long a period for the prolongation of the commission, and moved as an amend ment, that it should extend only until 1843. Mr. GROTE was of opinion that the period should not be shorter than five years. He denied that the powers of the commissioners were arbitrary, although they certainly were large, because the important duties they had to perform re quired that they should be so. Mr. WAKLEY said the hon. member for London ran no risk of being classed amongst the mischievous demagogues of the metropolis. The hon. member, however, had not ad vanced a single reason why it was necessary to renew the com mission for five years. In reference to what had fallen from Lord Howick, the hon. member for Finsbury replied with considerable spirit and effect, and contended that the noble lord's contemptuous remarks were directed less against him self than his constituents. There were already 13,000 pa rishes incorporated into unions, and the hon. member con tended that as only 700 parishes remained, it could not be necessary to continue the commission for five years. Mr. HAWES said he had known the workhouses under the old law, and he had a good deal of experience of union work houses, and he solemnly declared that under the old system many of the workhouses were as bad as gaols, in which treat ment was experienced by the paupers which might justly be called torture ; and yet hon. members now sought to destroy the only system which had ever grappled with the enormous evils of the old law. He denied that the present system could be fairly designated harsh or oppressive in its opera tion, and said he was willing to share all the unpopularity which might be incurred by the hon. member for the city of London, for defending this bill, having neither wish nor de sire to sit in that house upon such popularity as might he ac quired by opposing this bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said the question really at issue was, the extinction of the commission, or its perpetuity, and con tended that the law could be better administered without a central board, by leaving its provisions to be carried out by the boards of guardians throughout the country. The hon. member then quoted instances of great cruelty which had been perpetrated in union workhouses, and asserted that un der the old law no such cases bad occurred. Mr. DARBY supported the amendment. Mr. HAMILTON contended that the poor law bill had failed in one of its main objects, that of raising wages. On the contrary, it might easily be shown that its effect had been to reduce them. He admitted that nothing could be worse than the old system ; but it did not follow from that that they should " go the whole hog" with this measure, and have " the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill." He thought it might be necessary to continue the con-mission, but he should vote for its continuance for the shorter period. Sir G. STRICKLAND would also vote for the shorter period, and was of opinion that, unless some material changes were made, the present system could not continue to be the per manent law of the land. Mr. VILLIERS supported the clause. Mr. 'W. Arrwoon supported the shorter period, in order to give a more frequent power of revision to the House of Commons. It was said that this was done indirectly, be cause in the estimates the question might be brought annually under consideration ; but if so, there could surely be no ob jection to do that directly which was not deemed injudicious when done indirectly. Mr. MUNTZ thought it might be as well, in accordance with the principle of voting the continuance of this commis sion for five years, to similarly vote the mutiny bill and the estimates for five years. _ On a division, the amendment was negatived by a majority of 174 to 135. Mr. H. lIINDE proposed that, after the words " year 1846," the words "no longer" should be introduced. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the introduction of the words was useless, for the powers of the commissioners would necessarily cease in 1846, and it would require a new act of parliament to renew them. Mr H. HINDE declined to press his amendment, but re minded the house that the bank restriction act had been fre quently annually renewed " for ode year and no longer." Colonel SIBTHORP said be should take the sense of the house upon the reduction of the salaries of the commissioners from £2OOO a-year to £lOOO, and their travelling expenses from three guineas to one guinea a-day, which he thought quite enough to keep them in " good working condition." He should also move to reduce the salaries of the assistant commissioners from £7OO a-year to £3OO a-year. On the motion that the clause should stand part of the bill, Mr. J. FIELDEN moved that it be expunged. The committee again divided, and the amendment was ne gatived by a majority of 163 to 49. _ The clause was then agreed to, the chairman reported pro gress, and obtained leave to sit again. HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY The Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill were both read a third time and passed. The amendments in the Tithes Composition Bill were agreed to, and the bill was passed. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the second reading of the East India Rum Bill. Lord ASHBURTOY doubted if it would be possible to dis tinguish between rum made from dates and from rice and that made from cane. After some observations from Lord MONTEAGLE, in sup port of the bill, Lord ELLENBOROUGH expressed his gratification at the introduction of this bill, and was satisfied it ought not to be any longer delayed. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. Their lordships then adjourned till Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUESDAY. Committees were appointed to try the merits of the peti tions against the returns from the electors of Walsall and St. Albans. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that on the 6th of April he would move the adjournment of the house until the 20th of April. Lord MAHON, in pursuance of notice to that effect, rose to move a resolution declaring it to be the opinion of the house, that the large increase in the number of convicts per manently confined in the hulks in Gre a t B r it a i n , although , noble lord contended, at great length, that the government, by this course of proceeding, was guilty of violating the spirit of the law, even though its letter might not have been in fringed. It had been found that the puniihment of confine ment in the hulks had not been productive of the same salu tary effect as resulted from a sentence to transportation when enforced. It was found that owing to the construction of the hulks, it was impossible to introduce those improvements in prison discipline which had been reantly adopted in most other prisons. The strongest objection -to imprisonment in the hulks, however, was, that the convicts, on their dis charge, found difficulties all but insuperable to obtaining honest employment. The system of transportation, he thought, had been rather hastily condemned. There had, doubtless, been many abuses connected with it, but many of them might have been removed.:Even with all its abuses the punishment of transportation had been followed by very con siderable benefits, the reformed offenders punished in this way being far more numerous than those reformed from a similar class of offenders remaining in England. Great dissatisfaction prqvailed in New South Wales in consequence of the cessation of the supply of convict labour. He was of opinion that a new colony might be established on the north-west coast of New Holland, where the evils which had attended the assignment system in New South Wales might be avoided. Lord J. RUSSELL said he was borne out in the course he had pursued by the result of the inquiries instituted by the transportation committee. It was not enough for the noble lord to point out the evils of confinement in the hulks—evils inseparable from such confinement ; he was bound to suggest some new plan before he called upon the house to say that the present system is inconvenient. There was not, after all, so great a difference of opinion on this subject between the noble lord and himself as the noble lord appeared to imagine. The difference was one of degree, for the noble lord admitted the evils of the system of assignment which formed the prin ciple of the colony of New South Wales. He (Lord John Russell) could not agree, however, with the Archbishop of Dublin, that transportation should be altogether abolished. Many convicts were still sent to Australia, but under less capricious regulations than those which formerly existed. He was of opinion that it would be well to retain the prac tice of employing convicts in the dockyards when sentenced for a short term of years, but this was a punishment which should be regulated by an act of parliament, and not by the Secretary of State. The noble lord concluded by moving as an amendment " the previous question." Mr. PARINGTON said, that under the present system a judge passing sentence on a criminal could not tell what the effect of his sentence would be to the prisoner. Let the sentence be understood, and let it be carried out to its tenor. T m r o a s a t s portatio n might, under proper regulations, be made a valuable secondary punishment, and ought, therefore, to be retained. Mr. HUME acknowledged all that had been done by the jn n uo o rt b i s l n e por w l u o d r pe d rnec ( pe J a . or prepared ut thesos e sc l t l oa ) utera i nralytih his sd a v m oi en e w n l y d s m rree e gs n rp t eetc o tt le f . an t gt h h e at c rhime secondarywi punishments, in order that capital punishments, which were a disgrace to a civilised country, s h ou l d be abolis hed. sir, Loy eartderoned the yrsAtici of commuting atattucti of transportation, In many instances wrung by a sense of justice from the judges, by a subsequent order of the Secre tary of State. The punishment of imprisonment, notwith standing all the improvements in prison di sc i n l • as in- 'effectual as respected the reformation of the criminal. From his own experience, he believed it to be hopeless to expect such reformation, for nothing was more common than to have prisoners arrested for crimes they committed on the very day they left the walls of the gaol. He was, therefore, an advocate for the punishment of transportation, for if that should fail as a ---- econdary punishment, he confessed he knew not what could be substituted for it. Mr. Fox MAuLE said, that, in consequence of the effect produced on the public mind by the report made by the transportation committee, it became necessary to abandon the former system of transportation. Having no other sub stitute than the hulks, they were of nece ss ity o bli ge d t o h ave recourse to them until some better mode of secondary pu nishment should he adopted. The right hon. gentleman was of opinion that the discretion placed in the hands of the Secretary of State, of regulating the amount of punishment, was an improper one ; but as Lord J. Russell had a system of secondary punishments under consideration, he hoped the noble lord (Mahon) would be satisfied with the publicity which would be gained by the debate, and' not press his mo tion to a division. Mr. ESTCOURT was averse to the hulks as a system of punishment. Lord HOWICK hoped the house would not adopt the reso lution of the noble lord (Mahon), as its only effect would be to drive them back to the former plan of transportation, which would be a serious evil. Lord Mahon said he had heard nothing to induce him to withdraw his motion. Upon a division, the resolution of the noble lord was car ried by a majority of 49 to 28. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD then moved the following resolution : " That the assessment of all property, real and *sons!, within the United Kingdom would be a fit and proper substi tute for such of the taxes of excise and custom as press most heavily on the middle and industrious classes ; and that such alteration in the mode of raising the public revenue would be calculated, in a high degree, to enhance the value of all pro perty, particularly by 'leading to the fuller developement of the copious sources of wealth in this kingdom and its vast dependencies." Mr. MUNTZ seconded the motion, and said it was one of the opportunities given to the house of proving its sympathy with the pOorer classes of society. Mr. E. TURNER complained of the thin state of the house, and more particularly of the ministerial benches, when a question of such importance to the working classes came be fore it. Mr. W. WILLIAMS said that the taxation a the country was thrown upon the poor and the middle classes of the po pulation, which was an unfair shifting of the burden from the shoulders of the aristocracy. Mr. J. FIELDEN supported the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no doubt the thinness of the house was to be attributed to the fact, that the English people were essentially a business people, and as there was no important business of a practical nature on the paper, it was not very surprising that the house was not very full. The right hon. gentleman contended that it NOuld be absurd to agree to an abstract propoiition like the one before them, and if the hon member thought his principle good, he should come down to the house prepared with a tax on property to place before the house for its con sideration. He hoped that under these circumstances the hon. member would not think it necessary to press his mo tion to a division, but he must meet it with " the previous question.." _ _ _ - Mr. HUME contended that the taxation of the country pressed most unequally, and he would say unfairly on the industry as compared with the aristocracy of the kingdom. Property, he said, monopolised the. power of legislation to itself, and in its legislation it took care to exempt property from taxation. Mr. GOULBURN could not vote for a resolution which bore so manifestly on the very face of it a positive absurdity, for it asserted that to tax all property, real and personal, would enhance the value of all property. The right hon. gentleman contended that it was far more beneficial to the public to take taxes from capital in• its used state instead of taxing the capital itself as property, and thus preventing it from being diffused with such utility in giving employment to all the middle and working classes of society. Mr. WARLEY complained that dUring the discussion of a question of such importance there should have been only 38 members in the house at one time, 37 at another, and 36 at another period of the evening, and that throughout the dis cussion the leaders on both side 4 of the house were absent. He supported the motion. ColOitel SIBTHORP said if anything could make him believe that there would be a general election in a short time, which he feared be could not bring himself to hope for, it would be the motion brought forward by the hon. member for Bir mingham, a motion which he should certainly oppose. Mr. M. PHILIPS suggested to the hon. member for Bir mingham to withdraw his motion, and bring it forward in a house more full, and, of course, more capable of discussing so important a measure with advantage. If, however, he persevered he should vote with him. .... General JOHNSON ad v i se d . the hon. member for Birming ham to divide the house by all means on the question. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD replied, and on a division the previous question was carried by a majority of 40 to 27. HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY The House of Lords did not sit to-night. • HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that he intended to propose some alterations in the Poor Law Amendment Bill, and also enumerated the amendments proposed by other,honourable members, which it was his intention, either partially or wholly, to adopt. Mr. E. TENNENT moved the further consideration of the report on the Designs Copyright Bill. Mr. LABOUCLIERE suggested to the hon. member to have his bill reprinted with the amendments, and to postpone its recommittal until the house would have time to consider the numerous amendments which it was proposed to introduce. Mr. ,E. TENNENT was unwilling to accede to the sugges tion ; and a discussion followed on the propriety of postpone ment, in the course of which it appeared that the copyright of designs in glass and some other articles formed no part of the original resolution of the committee of the whole house, upon which resolution the bill was, according to the forms of the house, necessarily founded. Those articles were superadded to the bill . without having recourse to a new resolution of the whole house. A suggestion offered by Mr. Hume was, after some conversation between Sir R. Peel, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Tennent. eventually adopted— namely, that the present bill should be withdrawn altogether —that the house should resolve into committee of the whole house to-morrow to agree to a resolution including glass, &c., and that the new bill should be allowed to proceed un opposed to the stage at which the bill withdrawn had arrived. The bill was accordingly withdrawn, and Mr. TENNENT gave the requisite notice for to-morrow (Thursday). MURDER OF GARLAND, THE ASHTON SAWYBR CAPTURE AND COMMITTAL OF THE PRINCIPAL, Seldom have the perpetrators of murder been so studiously, perseveringly, and successfully pursued, as in the case of the two unfortunate men, Cooper and Garland, who successively fell victims to a murderous combination at Ashton-under- Line. Not above two months elapsed between the two mur ders. Cooper was shot in December last, and Garland was waylaid on the highway on the 31st of October, beaten wip bludgeons, and, after suffering for fourteen days, died of his wounds. It will be remembered that the whole proceedings connected with these murders have been traced beyond the shadow of doubt to the sawyers' union. The officers calcu late that they have not travelled less than 3000 miles in the pursuit of the prisoners. They travelled the mining districts among the Welsh mountains, in one of which they obtained positive Sinforma tion that one of the ringleaders was at work—this proved true, but such was the sympathy,' protection, and vigilance shown to the culprit by the miners, and such the communi cation kept up (indirectly) rith him from the Lancashire sawyers, that he eluded the pursuit. The officers report, that the Cambrian iron mines, nine miles from Bridge End, Glamorganshire, are filled with depredators and deserters, and that only a week before they arrived, two murderers were taken by a London officer. In this district there is a popula tion of 8,000, and only one solitary constable, who considers his office, from his inability to perform it, merely a nominal one, contenting himself merely with serving summonses, for, to use his own observation, to interfere with the miners, would be as much as his life was worth. Throughout vari ous districts of England, attended with more or less success (frequently puzzled by intentional misdirections), the pursuit has been silently continued ; but it was not until Thursday, the 11th instant, that they succeeded in arresting Joseph Hol land, who stands charged with having struck the fatal blow, upon Garland, and which it is now proved, was executed with a heavy iron weapon used by sawyers in their business. The officer Green had been three days in Dublin, when in the street he met Holland, and secured him. The latter denied all knowledge of the offence with which he was charged, and gave a fictitious name. He was subsequently brought to Manchester, and on Saturday last underwent an examina tion before the Ashton magistrates, when he was recognised by several witnesses, and admitted his proper name. It was proved that on the day Garland was murdered, Holland attended a meeting of sawyers at the King's Head, at which meeting the murderous attack was arranged. He was recog nised by another witness as one active in the attack upon Garland, and this witness swears he saw the prisoner pull the iron instrument from under his coat and inflict the blow. Another who witnessed the parties running away produced the piece of iron, called by sawyers " a pricker," which he found upon the spot at the time. Upon this evidence the prisoner has been committed to Kirkdale, to take his trial on the charge of wilful murder. Robert Holland, the father of Joseph, was at the same time held to bail on the charge of conspiracy connected with the same transaction; and Thomas Hassell, on a like charge, was committed to Kirk dale for trial at the ensuing Liveipool assizes, his bail having delivered him up. _ Thus three parties now await their trial on the capital charge of committing the before-named murders. Several will be tried as accessories, and many for conspiracy. STEAM TO THE EAST INDIES, From Times.) An arrangement o f the greatest public importance is on the point of being concluded between the East India Com pany and the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. It is well known to all persons con. netted with India how great and constant an effort has been made to extend the advantages of steam communication to Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, and other places besides Bombay, and how much blame has been thrown upon the East India Company for not assisting cordially in such extension. Tfiey are now, it seems, about to relieve themselves from that im putation, if not by taking the whole matter under their own superintendence, at least by lending very powerful assistance to other parties with whom there is every prospect that what is required will be done effectually. They have therefore proposed to the company abovementioned to grant to them a premium of £20,000 per annum for five years, which will commence as soon as the first of their vessels of 1,600 tons, and 500 horse power shall be put on the line between Cal cutta and Suez, and with the further stipulation that within one year from the date of the first voyage, an addition shall be made for the service of that line of twp vessels of equal power. This grant is independent of ark' contract for the conveyance of the mail on the route mentioned that may sub sequently be entered into, only that it is to merge into any such contract as may be concluded in the course of the five years in which the premium or gratuity is to operate. The East India Company will thus be placed in a situation to judge of the competency of the parties to fulfil the higher duty which would be confided to them, in the event of their having the conveyance of the mails on so important a route before they thereby subject the public to any risk. The therefore, both a judi c i ous and a liberal one the IndiaEast ._. Company,_ who still maintain ai i n t upon t with Parliament, by conducting their own responsibility. So much has be en d one al readyir by to hn etheoriginal proceeding part osi engagement the Oriental Company, that little doubt need now j be entertained Thus wi will thef t h e , , succ essand comprehensiveo f t h , e s e e x h t e e m n s e i , o b n u o t f b t y h m e e p a r n o s ject. ridifferinged out. from those at first contemplated, be at len g th car- THE AMERICAN STEAMERS: — The Morning Post of yes terday announces that the Belgian government has purchased the two splendid steamships, the President and the B r iti s h Queen, for the purpose of converting them into war frigates. ifiROPSHIRE ASSIZE CROWN COURT—TUESDAY, Vi —.ARCH 23. (Before Mr. Baron Gurney.) • TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF JOSIAH MISTER. This day having been fixed for the trial of Josiah Mister, accused of an attempt to murder Mr. William Miller Mack reth, the greatest anxiety was felt touching the inquiry and its result. The court was very full. Mr. F. Valentine Lee appeared to defend Mister. At nine o'clock precisely the prisoner was brought up, and placed at the bar.• He is described in the calendar as 25 years old, but does not look more than 21. He is under the middle size, and slightly made. He was dressed in a dark green coat, with velvet collar, dark figured satin waistcoat. grey trowsers, with black stripe, black satin stock, with small embroidered sprig. His shirt collar and wristbands were slightly exposed. He wore his hair (which is dark brown) divided near the middle, and smoothly brushed down at each side. His eyes, which are rather large, are very dark and bright. His complexion is dark. He has scanty black whiskers. On the whole, his appearance was decidedly "in teresting," (we believe that is the conventional epithet) and he did not look a person likely to commit the atrocious crime with which he stood charged. We observed that his mouth was very firm. He appeared remarkably self-possessed, and occasionally took notes of the evidence. He leaded " Not guilty" to the indictment in a very emp h at i c manner, and in a loud voice. After the Clerk of Assize had stated the counts of the in dictment, Mr. Sergeant Ludlow proceeded to address the jury for the prosecution. He said that in the statement he should make, he would confine himself, as much as possible, to a mere narrative of facts. The offence with which the prisoner stood charged was committed at the Angel Inn, in the town of Ludlow. on the 20th of last August. On that morning, at the hour of four, Mr. Mackreth awoke out of his sleep, and found himself severely wounded. A grievous offence had been committed by some one. There could be no doubt that it had been committed with a felonious intent —with the intent to murder or do great bodily injury. This was an important question, for with this crime the prisoner was charged. He had to state for the satisfaction of the jury, and under correction by the learned judge, that the character of the crime would be in no degree altered if another person, and not Mr. Mackreth, was the intended victim. So it would be no answer to this charge that the blow had fallen upon another person. It would be necessary that in this state ment he should mention circumstances which would carry back the prisoner to a period antecedent to this affair, and show how the parties got together. Mister was at Shrews bury on the 12th of August, having previously ascertained that a gentleman named Ludlow would, on that day, be at the Unicorn Inn, in that town. He repaired to that inn, and ascertained in what bed.room Mr. Ludlow, who always put up at that house, was accustomed to sleep. But an acci dent prevented Mr. Ludlow's having his usual bed-room, and he slept in a double-bedded room on that night. A gentleman named Jobson (who, like Mr. Ludlow, dealt in cattle,) was also at the Unicorn, it being Shrewsbury fair day. The prisoner appeared to quarter himself pretty much upon Mr. Ludlow, and must have heard him agree with Mr. Job son to attend the next Ludlow fair. He should be able to trace Mister from his leaving Shrewsbury, on the 13th of August—his sleeping at Church Stretton the following night to his arrival at Ludlow on the 19th. On that afternoon, from the hour of four until that of seven, he was in the com pany of some persons who were fishing in the river Teme, and having quitted them, he went to Ludford Bridge, which was adjacent, and made repeated and particular inquiries when the Red Rover coach would arrive from Birmingham. It would appear that he entered the town with that coach, so as to be at the Angel Inn when it arrived. It would be shown that on Mr. Ludlow's getting out of the coach, which he did on the side nearest the Angel Inn, the prisoner, who was standing on the other side, went round, joined him, and followed him in. The result was that the people thought the prisoner came with and belonged to Mr. Ludlow. They thought he was of Mr. Ludlow's party. When they went in Mr. Ludlow recognised him and said—" So you are here. Did I not see you at Shrewsbury fair ?" They went into the Commercial Room. One of the persons who occupied this room was Mr. Mackreth, who travelled for the respectable house of Christopher, George, and Co. of Bristol, and had arrived there about four or five o'clock that even ing, but was then out, and did not return until 10 o'clock. Mr. Ludlow retired into another room with some friends, and was absent for some time. The prisoner went to bed, being lighted up by the chambermaid to the bed-room which is designated No. 20. It was a curious fact in connexion with this, that the prisoner had in some manner acquired the knowledge that No. 17 was the room usually occupied by Mr. Ludlow. But, on that night. it was occupied by Mr. Mackreth. The chambermaid having lighted the prisoner to No. 20, shut the door of that apartment: By reference to the model which was ou the table, they would perceive that No. 20 was a room in a corner, and that No. 17 was in a passage,—there being another passage down stairs which was near it. The chambermaid shut the door and left it shut. In half an hour after she conducted Mr. Mackreth to No. 17. When she had left him, he locked his door. It would be in evidence that when the chambermaid so conducted Mr. Mackreth to No. 17 she found prisoner's door not quite closed, and a light still burning in his room. It was an old house, and it might be alleged—and be would not wish to deprive the prisoner of whatever benefit the suggestion might afford—that the shutting of one door in the same passage might open the other. This would have exactly as much weight as it deserved.—lt was clear that whoever committed the assault, was in Mr. Mackreth's room at the time that gentleman - went to bed, and actually must have been con cealed under the bed at the time. This was obvious, because no force had been used to break open the door which Mr. Mackreth had locked, and no entry had been made at the window. The person must have kept himself hidden under the bed, and, indeed, when an examination was made, there was seen the mark of some person's figure under the bed, — the mark being made in the dust. On the next morning, at 4 o'clock, Mr. Mackreth found himself suddenly awakened. He found that his throat had fallen in, from an immense gash, and that he had also received some extensive gashes on his mouth and cheeks. There was a great effusion of blood. He immediately started up, and, on attempting to jump out at the right side, found himself pulled back by some person on the left. He shirt was torn in the struggle. The medical, attendant who would be examined would testify that the cuts had been-drawn from sight toa left. There was a chest of drawers-between the bed and the door. Mr. Mackreth never lost his presence of mind. It was in favour of the prisoner that Mr. Mackreth had not been able to recognise him. He does not even profess to have seen the figure of a man. On finding himself wounded, Mr. Mackreth rushed to the window, but was unable to throw it up. He then pushed his band through a pane of glass and called out Fire !" He broke a second pane and again gave the alarm. He succeeded in finding the door, but it was unlocked and open. he then went out into the passage, proceeded down the stairs, and, when he had reached the bottom, went back again. The stairs were deluged with blood. The first im pression of the landlord, who first saw him, was that he had laid violent hands upon himself. When Mr. Mackreth had got back into his bedroom, the enquiry was made " Who is he ?" Unable to speak, but perfectly aware of what was passing, he took his keys, opened his drawing box, took out some of the cards of the house for which he travelled, and handed them to the persons around him. Very soon after he gave the alarm some persons came in. Among them were Mr. Peach and Mr. Cross. The former went into Mr. Mackreth's room, but, by one of those accidents which some times lead to important results, Mr. Cross occupied himself in tracing the stains of blood from Mr. Mackreth's door. The staircase down which he had gone was quite wet with blood. and it occurred to Mr. Cross to examine the floor of the passage. He found drops of fresh blood along the door from Mr. Mackreth's room to the prisoner's door—and even on the sill of that door. Not a continuous stream of blood, but a train of small drops of blood. This occurred immediately after the alarm was given. The prisoner had not then been in Mr. Mackreth's room, after the outrage, and the question would be, how came the track o f bl oo d t o hi s door? Mr. Crawford, a surgeon from Shrewsbury, slept in one of the rooms of the inn, and immediately gave his assistance to the prosecutor. While he was thus engaged, the prisoner was seen four or five times. He was in his shirt, undressed, and at one time stood with his back to the wall of the passage— at another time he was anxiously waiting at Mr. Mackreth's door,—and he entered the room once and asked for his stockings. - He had gone to his bedroom in his boots, and he came into Mr. Mackreth's room to ask for his stockings: A very important part of the evidence was the condition of the prisoner's bed-room. When he went to bed, there was half of a candle in his candlestick, and a large jug of water was left in his washing-basin. There was also a napkin. The next morning the candle was burnt down in the socket, As the chambermaid had seen a light in his room, the candle must have been left to burn out. The napkin was missing, and has never been found to this hour. The water-jug was empty. When the alarm was given the prisoner was found in bed. The contents of the water-jug were found in the chamber utensil, and it wou ld b e shewn that the li qu id i n that vessel was impregnated with other materials. The pri soner's bed occupied all the breadth of No. 17. It was a tent bedstead, with curtains. Part of the curtains over-hung the window, and the window overlooked a yard belonging to Mr. Whatmore. On the curtain were found the marks of blood, not casual marks, but impressed by the act of touch. The prisoner's shirt also had marks of blood ; there was one large spot of blood upon the sleeve, but a great part of the blood bad been extracted, apparently by suction. The water in the chamber utensil was found to be strongly impregnated with alum, which had the effect of getting out stains of blood ; and it was worthy of notice that some alum was found in the prisoner's possession. A silk handkerchief was also found on him ; it was damp, as if wetted and then squeezed. The prisoner complained that his stockings had been lost, and the landlord gave him a pair to wear. He had his breakfast in the commercial room. It was in his favour that he had not made any attempt to go away, nor ,had he con -cealed his name. But, indeed; he had been recognised be fore, so that concealment would not have; been of any use. The wound which the prosecutor had received had been made by a sharp cutting instrument capable of inflicting a long and severe cut. Iu the passage leading from the prisoner's room to the room of Mr. Mackreth there was a window of moderate height, to which the prisoner had access. Situated as this window is anything thrown from it could not be cast very much to the right. About six in the morning a razor was found in the yard; it was partially wet with blood, and was found exactly opposite the prisoner's window ; it was a black handled razor—there were probably many thousands such-- but'it was not set. He would be able to shew that the pri soner had had two black-handled razors in his lodgings at Birmingham' previous to this affair, only one of these razors was found. No razor was found in his possession at Ludlow. no portmanteau, and on l y one Indeed, he had no b aggage , penny in his pocket. His circumstances, evidently, were not in a condition to allow him to go to such an inn as the Angel, at Ludlow. He left Shrewsbury without paying his bill at the Unicorn. He passed the intermediate time in sleeping in hay-lofts and begging for food. Another circum stance required their attention. Underneath the prosecutor's bed were found some lucifer matches and sand paper. The use of these was to strike instantaneous light. Mr. Mackreth had no lucifer matches, nor were any found upon the pri soner. But, a day or two before he went to Ludlow, some boys were taking wasps' nest, and the prisoner produced a lucifer match from his waistcoat pocket, and enquired if that would not be of use to them in what they were doing. He had hlso to state that in the month of October two pair of stockings had been found on the premises at the Angel Inn ; it would be shown that the prisoner wore cotton stockings when at Shrewsbury, and when he arrived at the Angel. Mr. Serjeant Ludlow said, in conclusion, that it would not suffice for the jury to believe that the circumstantial evidence which they would hear was quite consistent with the prisoner's guilt. It must appear to them not only consistent with his guilt, but reasonably consistent with his innocence. If they had any reasonable doubt of this they must give him the benefit of the doubt. But if they thought that the facts which would appear in evidence cannot exist with his innocence, they were bound to convict him. A number of witnesses were then examined who very clearly corroborated the various facts as detailed by the learned counsel, but nothing new or of importance was elicited during their examination. Mr. Lee then rose to address the jury on behalf of the prisoner, commenting upon every portion of the evidence which bore at all in his client's favour. His address occu pied an hour and a half. His lordship then proceeded to sum up the evidence, which he did in an extraordinary clear manner, recapitulating what may be called the history of the case, as detailed in evidence. He then commented upon different points of it, and remarked that Mr. Ludlow was-evidently the object of prisoner's pur suit,—that blood had been continuously traced from Mr. Mackreth's room to within an inch or two of the door of No. 20,—and that there was a smear of blood on the curtain in that room, on a line with the window. Mr. Cooke had ad mitted that, as the prisoner stood near the wounded man, IMMO blood ttight hare of upon his shirt, The difficulty of the case was wh e th er blood bad been upon his shirt and washed out. Alum would do it, and alum had been found in the prisoner's possession. There was the strongest pre- sumption that the deed had been committed with the bk;ody razor found in Whatmore's yard. This razor might have been thrown out of .ether window, for it was found 28 feet from the prisoner's window and 35 feet from the passage window. His lordship did not attach much importance to the finding of the stockings ; but thought it extraordinary how the pri soner could have lost his. The question was who but the prisoner could have committed the deed? Every person in the house, except Mr. Cooke, who was unable to appear, had been examined. It was almost impossible it could have been done by any person but one an inmate of the house at the time. The person must have been concealed under Mr. Mackreth's bed, and got out by unbolting the door. His lordship observed that the prisoner's tracking Mr. Ludlow gave ground for strong suspicion. The able counsel who pleaded for the prisoner had not been able to trace any inno cent motive by which the prisoner could be actuated. He concluded by saying that be agreed with Lord Hale, that the first and most sacred duty of Justice was to perfect innocence, but its next obligation was to detect and punish guilt. The question for their consideration was—had the prisoner com mitted the outrage upon Mr. Mackreth ? They had a solemn and sacred duty to perform, and he now would leave them to discharge it. At a quarter-past seven o'clock the jury retired to delibe rate on their verdict. The foreman requested that the shirt, curtain, and razor, should be given them to examine. The learned judge directed them to be handed up, saying that they were not of much importance, and that the linen would not exhibit the same appearance now as it did in August. After an absence of thirty-five minutes, the jury returned. While their names were being called over, the prisoner, who had nreserved a remarkably fine demeanour up to this period, cast his eyes very anxiously around the court, and at them. When the foreman pronounced "guilty," he suddenly swerved back as if from a blow. He then shaded his face fOr a minute 'with his hand, and, for the first time during the day, appeared unnerved. He partially recovered his firmness, and when the Clerk of the Assize demanded what he had to say why judgment should not be given, that he should die ac cording to law, he replied, in a subdued tone, " 1 am not guilty of it." Proclamation was then made ; when the judge put on the black cap, and, in a very feeling manner, passed the sentence of DEATH. The prisoner was then removed, after a very exciting in vestigation, which lasted nearly twelve hours. HUNTINGDON ASSIZES—MAncn 18 James Niglett, a man who had reached the patriarchal age of 94, was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying Eliza Harlot, by administering to her in a rash and careless man ner, a poisonous drug. Mr. Gunning con - ducted the prosecution, and Mr. Byles the defence. The prisoner, it appeared, is what is vulgarly called a " cow-leech," or cattle-doctor, at St. Ives, and the deceased was a young woman who, having failed to obtain any relief for some distemper from the prescriptions of the regular fa culty, applied to the aged cow-doctor of the neighbourhood, to take her case in hand, auguring well of his skill in treating the human subject, from his reputation for curing the ail ments of oxen, sheep, and hogs. She at first appeared to get better under his treatment, and it was the opinion of one of the sagacious folk of St. Ives, that she would have " got quite well if she had not died," an observation which may be sometimes applied to the patients of other practitioners than • " cow-leeches." One day he gave her a mixture which was supposed to contain arsenic, after which she suffered, as people do who take more than a medicinal dose of that drug, with vomiting and purging during two days, at the end of which she died. At first there was no suspicion that she died of any other cause than the distemper for which she had taken the prescription of the " cow-leech," and the body was interred. Soon afterwards rumours were spread abroad that she died of poison ; whereupon the coroner had the body exhumed, and an inquest having been held, a ver dict was returned implicating the ancient cow-leech in the charge of homicide, by want of skill and gross negligence. He had used somc expression after her death which seemed to admit that he bad given her arsenic, or some poison, as me dicine, such, for instance, as saying to a sister of the deceased, who told him that " his stuff had killed her," he " had only given her half a grain, though he had given his own son a whole grain, and it had cured him." The usual tests of arsenic were applied by medical witnesses to the contents of the stomach. After having in vain sought for corrosive sub limate, which they at first suspected to be the cause of death, a very minute quantity of metallic arsenic was reproduced and exhibited in court, and three medical witnesses gave it as their opinion that, from the appearances presented on a post mortem examination, the arsenic was the cause of death. Mr. Byles addressed the jury in an ingenious speech for the prisoner, dwelling much upon the circumstance of arsenic being used medicinally in many distempers of the human frame, and that any medical might have acted as the prisoner had done, and in neither could the death be considered other than one of mischance. Chief Justice Tindal told the jury that if any person, whe ther a regularly educated medical man or not, administered a dangerous drug medicinally, under circumstances which betrayed rashness and gross negligence and want of skill, be would be liable to the penalties of manslaughter. But whe ther arsenic, or any other deletezious drug had been admi nistered in this case it was for them to say, whose duty it was to determine on the evidence. The jury after a short deliberation found the prisoner guilty of having administered a deleterious drug with gross negligence, which subsequently they turned into the general verdict of Guilty, and the Court, taking the advanced age of the prisoner into consideration, sentenced him to be impri soned for one fortnight. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE (From the Times of yesterday.) Yesterday afternoon the following painful intelligence reached the underwriters at Lloyd's, relative to the loss of the Mary Stuart, of Cardiff, and the death of Lieutenant R.N.,end five of the coast guard, which happened on the morning of Tuesday last, near Penzance, in Cornwall. At about half-past 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning theinhabitants of Portleven, a small village situate on the sea coast, ten miles from Penzance, observed a vessel lying off Prad Sand Bay in distress. They immediately hastened to the spot to render assistance, but the sea being rough, and the wind blowing a gale from the south-east, it was impossible to launch a boat in safety. The vessel proved to be the Mary Stuart, a schooner, .laden with iron ore from Cardiff, in Gla .morganshire, and bound to Constantinople. It appeared to those on shore that her rudder had unshipped, and the crew were unable to perceive the precise spot where they brought up, and at daybreak the gale had commenced, an d t o alter the position would occasion her immediate destruction. Towards nine o'clock the gale increased in severity; and by ten it blew a hurricane. The crew expected the vessel would every moment part from her anchors, and in the hopes of saving their lives, cut away her masts, which in falling overboard nearly capsised the ship ; however she righted, and the anchors kept fast until about 12 o'clock, when a heavy sea broke her cables, and she went ashore. By that period several hundred people had assembled on the beach, and there was also a strong detachment of the coast guard service, under the direction of Lieutenant Smith, of the royal navy. The spot where the ill-fated vessel grounded was within half a mile of the shore, and Lieutenant Smith determined to make an attempt to reach the vessel, and accordingly one of the boats belonging to the service was got in readiness, but owing to the heavy swell it was found impossible to carry this intention into effect. In the course of an hour the sea becoming somewhat abated, Lieutenant Smith and five of the men jumped in and pushed off, amidst the loud huzzas of the assembled multitude, but scarcely had the cheers died away before a tremendous wave broke over the boat, and swamped it. For a few seconds the gallant fellows were ob served buffetting the waves; their struggles were, however, of short duration, and they one by one disappeared. What renders this unfortunate occurrence still more melancholy is, that the whole of the persons who had been drawn to the spot beheld them perish without being able to afford the slightest assistance to the brave fellows, and among them were the wives an d c hild ren o f f our of them. ' About seven o'clock in the forenoon her Majesty's revenue cutter the Sylva arrived from Penzance, and succeeded in rescuing the crew, who were in an exhausted condition. The vessel, it is feared, will become a total wreck. She was a new ship, and this was her first voyage. We regret to state, that none of the bodies, at the time our information came away, had been found. A general gloom pervades the place, the unfortunate men leaving 26 children to lament their loss. THE WRECK OF THE THAMES STEAMER [This narrative has been communicated by a gentleman who gathered it from the lips of one who witnessed the last dreadful scene of despair on board this ill-fated vessel.] The Thames steamer was an old vessel; the captain, or commander, had been several voyages in her, and, therefore, knew the coast. In passing St. George's Channel, early in January, 1811, she shipped a heavy sea, that is, was struck with great force with a wave, which, breaking over the deck, . extinguished the fire engines, and thereby impeded her pro gress. About 4 o'clock a.m., the revolving light to the west of the Scilly Isles was seen, and is said to have been taken for the fixed light at the Land's End. At this time the weather was stormy, without rain or snow. A conside rable quantity of water had entered the ship, and was making its way into the ladies' cabin. To gain the nearest land was the best chance of safety, and the captain made towards the Scilly light. Suddenly the vessel struck against a rock, but not violently, and as three boats were seen approaching to afford assistance no immediate danger was apprehended. As soon as the first boat came alongside of the steamer, the captain ordered that the females should first descend ; but owing to the agitation of the sea this was not effected without difficulty, and a woman, who was unwilling to part with her infant, lost the opportunity, and perished with the rest on board. Fearing that a general rush would be made at the boat, or alarmed at the appearance of an approaching squall, the men, eight in number, who manned the boat, sud denly raised a cry that they would wait no longer, and im mediately bore of, and with some risk landed safely on shore with Miss Morris and two female stewards. " That young lady is my daughter," exclaimed Mr. Morris, as the boat broke away. " Then, sir," replied the captain, " you shall go in the next boat." The situation of those on board became at this moment most perilous ; an awful dark cloud was rising from the sea, with every indication of an approaching storm. The two boats that were seen coming to their assistance suddenly turned, and with difficulty gained the shore, whilst women were seen descending in haste the hills, and screaming for the safety of their husbands who manned the boats. About 20 Irish recruits now seized the steamer's boat, which was soon sunk, and all perished. A raft was then made, on which some committed themselves to the waves, but this separated, and all on it met with a similar fate. In the meanwhile the mast gave way, and inflicted serious injury on some who had collected round it for protection. The storm continued, and at seven o'clock all was silent— " Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows, but at intervals there rose on high Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry, Of some, strong swimmer in his agony." Fourteen bodies were taken up and buried ; as no more have been washed on shore it is supposed they were taken by the current up the channel. To an indifferent spectator, if any there could be at that awful time, it must have presented a singular but distressing scene to observe the diffe rent ways in which the fear of death operates on a collection of indi viduals of various pursuits and avocations of life, united in one common danger. If report be true, several by their prayers showed themselves members of the Catholic church —whilst some prayed the first time perhaps for some years. In the cabin was a large Bible, this was opened reverently by some, and passages were read from it, which seemed but lit tle applicable to the occasion ; whilst others leaning against the side of the ship concealed their countenances in their hats, and were supposed to be employed in prayer. There was an individual, tall in prson, and past the meridian of life, who seemed to invite others to pray—his attempts were loud and persevering—he seemed welt skilled in extemporaneous prayer, elicited by the impulse of fear and danger, to use so inappropriate a term, " be wrestled manfullywith the LORD." If his prayers were sincere, in charity we may hope they were not made in vain. It is calculated that about 61 persons perished on board ; among these were seven cabin passengers. —Western Times. THE BOY JONES (Prom a Sunday Paper.) I trust you will allow me, through the medium of your columns, to lay before the public my complaint regarding the unjust and illegal treatment which my boy has experienced from the Home-office. My boy, who is not yet 17 years of age, has possessed an insane idea for some time of intruding himself into Buckingham Palace, in order to learn the say ings and doings of the Court. The first visit he made to the palace the authorities had him tried by the ordinary court, and he was acquitted by a jury of Englishmen; but the second time he was caught in the palace they were afraid that the case should appear before a public court, as their own, conduct was highly culpable, and they adopted the, novel and un- English mode of trying hi m by a secr et court, where he was not allowed either access to his friends, or the assistance of counsel. The consequence was, he was sentenced without any trial (for hearing only one side of the question cannot be called a trial) to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. When my boy was sent to prison, in December last, he was stout and strong, but when he came out of prison, on the 2d of this month, he was as thin as a skeleton, and evidently sinking under the effects of overwork and un der diet ; yet he has - again been sent to the same place with out trial, and without my being allowed to communicate with him, for the same offence, namely, entering the Queen's palace, which appears to be so very carelessly protected that a child, with no otherobjectin view than a child's stupid curi osity, can enter when be pleases. It would be much more to the purpose, and more like justice, if the officers of the house hold were discharged out of the house along with the boy, than that he should be punished in prison, and they retained in the palace. A few days before my son cadre out of prison, Mr. Hall, the magistrate of Bow-street, sent for me, and proposed he should be sent to sea. To this I had no objection ; and, an order being given, his mother and myself saw him in prison ; but he refused to consent, saying it was time enough to talk of that after he got out of prisorf. On his liberation, my wife and I were again sent for ; but Mr. Hall's proposal appear ing to my wife unnecessarily harsh, he upbraided us for changing our minds, and told us we might go away. From the time of his liberation until Monday, the Bth instant, Edward was anxiously looking for something to do, but found that his having been in prison was a complete prevention. On that day he said to me, " Father, I find here every one says, ' That's the boy that was in the palace,' and nobody will employ me : I will go to Mr. Hall, and beg of him to get me sent to sea, or somewhere,. that I may have a chance of get ting on." He accordingly waited on Mr. Hall, when I was sent for, and after having been talked to in a very rough man ner, I was told I might go. This preying upon the boy's mind has, I believe, been the cause of his committing the offence again. The conduct of the authorities since he com mitted the offence the last time is what 1 have most, how ever, to complain of Edward left my house on Monday evening last; a few minutes after eight o'elock, saving that he was going to the temperance meeting opposite, and the next I heard of him was from an officer of police, who told me he was in custody, that he was to be taken to Bow-street at ten o'clock, and that I might go there if I chose. I accordingly went there with my wife, and we were ushered into a room, when four gentlemen came and said, " Where is that boy ? " On their going away, we were told !` to go through that door," and found ourselves in a waiting room, where, after remaining an hour an a half, and refused leave to see our son, we were told we might go away, as he had been sent to the Home-office some time since ; but that we had not been told of it lest we should make a noise in the street. We went to the Home-office, and were denied entrance to where he was, even to inquire if he wanted any assistance for his defence. After waiting two hours we came away : and the next news I beard of my boy was from pub lic report, which stated that he had been convicted. Com ment upon these facts is unnecssary ; and I think it will re dound more to the credit of the executive to make arrange ments for providing for him otherwise than by killing him by inches with under-diet and over-work. HENRY JONES 16, Bell-yard, York-street, Westminster PARIS POLICE THE Two LOVERS ; OR, THE L ANGER OF BEGGING.— In a small village on the banks of the Loire, almost door to door, resided two old women, both of them widows and mo thers. The only difference between the two neighbours was, that one had a little house, a small field, and a small pension ; whereas the other possessed nothing but what she earned by manual labour, and that, alas ! was not much. The two women were both reduced to widowhood by the scourge of war—their husbands having been killed at Algiers. It is, however, necessary to add, that one was an officer, while the other was but a private. The officer's widow had an only daughter, 17 years of age ; the private's widow an only son, entering upon manhood. To say they loved would be telling the reader nothing new; but the passion had grown with their strength. Mary, when she began to walk, was often supported by the protecting hand of John, who was her defender on all occasions. At the village dance John was always favoured with the first and last waltz, and thus by degrees their love broke out into a flame, and John hastened to Mary's mother to solicit the hand of her daughter ; and great indeed was his surprise when the prudent mother objected to his suit, adding that she could not think of his marrying Mary until he had ac quired 1,200 francs (£50.) John of course made known these dreadful tidings to Mary, and intimated his intention to proceed to Paris to earn the 1,200 francs necessary to secure his earthly felicity. Mary employed every offort to divert John from his purpose, but in vain. When in Paris, John called on several persons, and at last, by dint of recommendation, succeeded in getting a place as valet de cliambre with 500 francs wages. But John was more expert with the spade than with the brush, and could not re tain any situation. At last, reduced to the most wretched plight, the luckless lover conceived the idea of asking cha rity, and was in consquence arrested and brought up before the correctional police, on the charge of being a vagrant, on Friday last' after having been confined 25 days. Poor John, with a face bathed in tears, related his pitiful tale, and his gratuitous counsel presented a few observations on his behalf ; but the most forcible of all was a letter from Mary, in reply to one from John, in which he informed her of his imprisonment and all his .mishaps. The letter was as follows "My dear John,—l cried a great deal on receiving your letter. I told you that misfortune might attend your leaving our village ; but you told me over and over that it was for our mutual happiness. How comes it that you have been thrown into prison, my own dear honest John? I have good news to send you. Mother consents to my being your wife. I send you 36f. (X 1 10s.) which I have saved out of my earn ings. I intended to have bought myself a new gown for the wedding of Simon and Josephine, at which I am to be brides maid. I thought that this gown would also serve for my marriage. But Josephine will take me without a new gown, and we will marry, no matter in what dress. So make haste here, for mother is going to have our bans published. " YOUR LITTLE WIFE MARY." You see, continued the counsel, that the poor girl is expect ing her bridegroom —you will not disappoint her loving heart. Poor John awaits but your verdict to fly to his fond mistress. This appeal had the desired effect. The court acquitted the prisoner. We have heard an anecdote of the Chinese expedition which will, we are sure, be interesting to our readers. The son of a nobleman now resident in this town, a boy of about 14, who is serving as a midshipman in China, having incau tiously strolled with an equally youthful comrade too far into the country, was taken prisoner, and given in charge of two soldiers, who led him off to the interior. "Watching au op portunity, he drew a pistol from his pocket, with which he shot one of the soldiers dead ; and while the other was kneeling over the body, the middies ran off, and luckily suc ceeded in regaining their ship.—Brighton Gazette. 13 ALLANTRAE. — MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Fri day, on the return of one of the fishing-boats from sea, with a cargo of herrings, it was resolved by the crew, in conse quence of the dull state of the market at Ballantrae, to try Stranraer. The day was as fine as could be wished, but very foggy, and the tiny bark was moving leisurely along the pre cipitous coast which bounds the lands of Glendrisaig, when unexpectedly it struck a rock, and almost immediately filled. The crew, Robert and John 111`Williana (brothers), Robert M'Credie, and James Eaglesham, clung to the boat • Robert INl`Williain endeavoured to swim for the shore, whi c h he had reached to within twenty yards, when he sunk to rise no more ; the three others were picked up by a boat, which was fortunately near, in a very exhausted state. It is eleven years since a like accident happened, and is the third in the memory of the oldest person in the place ; consequently this loss has cast a gloom over the village.—Scottish Standard. TIIE FEMALE SWINDLER.-Between two and three weeks ' ago, a female calling herself Mrs. Allen, decamped from Glasgow, accompanied by her husband, after having taken in various parties to the amount of one thousand pounds, which she had managed to accomplish by representing herself as the daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale, and heir to the prin cipal part of his large estates. Immediate pursuit was made by some of the parties whom she had swindled, but we re gret to state that although the delinquent was traced to Liverpool, she fairly eluded the search of her pursuers, and so far as we are informed, is still at liberty to pursue her ne farious practices. From the following details, however, taken from the Sheffield Iris., it appears that Glasgow has not been the first field upon which Mrs. Allen has tried her operations with success. " Many of our readers," says this newspaper, " will no doubt recollect, about eighteen months ago, a female.styling herself Mrs. Allen, from Oldfield-lane, commenced business as bone-setter, -&c. on Sheffield Moor. It appears that she represented herself as the daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale, and that she would become possessed of property in coal mines, &c. to the amount of £lOO,OOO per annum, (to prove which she exhibited various legal docu ments, attested -by different persons) 1-- but in consequence of having married'a painter named Allen, with whom she had eloped from Whitehaven Castle, the seat of her father, her inheritance was for a time withheld from her. Improbable as the story appeared, we are sorry to say that it gained credit with sundry linen-drapers, grocers, mercers, and others, and enabled her to obtain in money and goods, pro perty to the amount of at least £2OO, with which she de camped. Why the affair was not entrusted into the hands of our active constables, we are at a loss to conjecture ; for had such been the case, it is more than probable she would have been prevented from plundering the good folks of Glasgow in a similar manner, but to a much greater extent. She had promised her victims in Sheffield—and no doubt those in Glasgow too —numerous situations as stewards, butlers, &c." —Glasgow Constitutional. TIIE GUIANA EXPEDITION.—Letters were received yes terday announcing the safe arrival at Demerara of the Guiana expedition, and containing some interesting particulars of its future route and d es ti n y. The Cleopatra, in which the ex pedition sailed, reac h e d there i n 28 days, with a fair passage from the Liza r d. O n their arriv a l, the party, consisting of five persons, were severally introduced to Colonel Light, th e governor, who expressed his desire to forward their contem plated operations to the utmost in his power, and provided them with a house in the best part of George Town, to which they had removed the whole of their instruments, having had two tents erected in the garden. Mr. Schomburgek w as en deavouring to procure the Parade-ground, a fine, open, and commanding tract, on which to erect a tempora r y observa tory, forming a position from which, as the centre of the co lony, all the observations:he may hereafter make will be con nected. The mayor and town council were against this appropriation, although the governor and the attorney -general had given their assent ; but it was thought that their objection might be overcome. Mr. Richard SchombuFgck, w h o was attended by Mr. Hancock, both in the se rvice of the Prus sian government as naturalists to the expedition, had made a short tour in the country,when the . former was se i zed with the epidemy of the country, and tor some time hi s lif e was despaired of. The expedition was to st art i n six or eight interior, weeks for the proceeding up the coast as far as the Parimer, where it would place a boundary mark to distin guish the Spanish from the British territories; from hence it would make a detour towards the Cuyunumy, and sailing down this river till it arrives at its junction with the Esse quebo, return to George Town ; thus leavinc , the more dis puted, or south-western boundary, until th ey h ave summe d up observations and recruited themselves. In concurrence with the views of the exp e di t i on the governor had just de spatched to Pirara (on the Portuguese boundary line) the inspector-general of police for the colony, together with two officers of regiments, to show the claim which Great Britain had to so distant a spot, and to see that no more encroach ments should be made, nor atrocities committed, upon the natives, our subjects. It is feared that when they arrive at this spot the expedition may meet a skirmish with the Bra zilians, for which purpose they and their attendants are well armed, and are to be placed under military law. Two officers of the expedition are very sanguine as to their ultimate success.—Morning Herald. THEATRE•ROYAL, LIVERPOOL icr the Management of Mr. CLARKE Sole Lessee, MR. WALLACK, Of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, is en gaged for a Fortnight, and will make his fifth appearance here since his return from America, this Evening. Mr. WALLACK having been greeted with the most rapturous applause on Monday night, in the characters of Julian St. Pierre and Dick Dashall, the drama of THE WIFE and the farce of MY AUNT will in consequence be repeated This Evening. THIS present FRIDAY, March 26, 1841, w ill b e per formed Mr. Knowles 's popular Play of THE WIFE : A TALE OF MANTUA. / Julian St. Pierre Mr. Wank. Leonardo Gonzaga.... Mr. H. HA. Ferrardo Gonzaga. M r Grfay. Lorenzo.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Bartok', .. Mr. Baker. Mariana.. Mrs. W. H. Bland. Floribel. .... Miss Chaplin After which, a petit Drama, called MY AUNT. Dick Dashall .. Mr. Wallack, (As originally performed by him in London.) .... Mr. Baker. l Mrs. Corbett.. Madame Simon To conclude with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Rattle, TO-MORROW (Saturday), the Comedy of TOWN AND COUNTRY. Reuben Glenroy, Mr. Wallack ; Co sey, Mr. Baker; Mrs. Glenroy, bliss Cleaver; Mrs. Trot, Mrs. Clarke; Rosalie, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—After which, the Bur letta of MIDAS.—To conclude with the Burlesque Tragedy of BOMBASTES FURIOSO. , LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH7kREET. The PETITION to HER MAJES' yk for a SECOND LICENSED THEATRE in Liver 00l has now received nearly ELEVEN THOUSANA SrIGNATURES. LAST WEEK OF T.VE SEASON • BUT ONE. THIS present FRIDAY, the 26th, and TO-MORROW, the 27th instant, the Evening's Entertainments to com mence with an entirely new and Historical Drama of intense interest, entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON; OR, THE FATE OF LADY JANE GREY! Adapted expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. Higgie, from the istly-celebrated and highly-popular work of that name, written by W. Harrison Ainsworth, author of " Jack Shep pard," " Rupkwood," " Old St. Paul's," &c. After which a new Interlude, written expressly for this Theatre, and founded on a popular Story in " Blackwood," entitled TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR. A HIGHLAND FLING, by Miss DE BLAQUIERE• The Entertainments will conclude with a Melo-Dramatic Spectacle, founded on events incidental to the Penin sular War, and abounding in the most - interesting situations, entitled ADVANCE GUARD; OR, THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE! On FRIDAY NEXT (April 2d), a VARIETY of EN TERTAINMENTS, for the BENEFIT of Mr. RAY MOND, and LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. Jr B. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and. PRINCIPAL • REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard,'" respectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties,:rnterested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIA REPORTS of the Tria:s in the Nisi Prius Court at the eidisuiug; Assizes, on terms peculiarly moderate. _ References Permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re spectability.__ _ _ Letters:addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive immediate attention. at bombas TO CORRESPONDENTS We quote with pleasure the following very sensible notice to correspondents, which has appeared twice in a talented local contemporary. We quite agree with him that the system of taking advertisements at a lower rate than the fixed scale is very reprehensible, and productive of much unpleasantness :—" It may answer the purpose of some of our contemporaries to insert advertisements at any price, or every price, and whether they have instructions or not ; but our settled rule, unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians, is to publish only such business announce ments as are ordered and paid for according to our regular scale of charges. We had rather, when general or local news of importance may be scarce, occupy our space with quotations from popular periodicals, and matter interesting to particular classes of readers, than with advertisements which do not yield a fair remuneration. The extent of our circulation, the character of our subscribers, and the la bour and capital necessarily employed in catering for their information, fully entitle us to the advertising encourage ment of all parties, at our usual and very reasonable prices, and we have no wish to impose upon any persons by as suming an appearance of patronage which we do not pos sess. Let those who will make up a page of advertise ments for show—we shall not consent to follow their un profitable example." (7,1)r Ilia rrpool --cttanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1841 By the New York packet-ship Patrick Henry, which arrived here on Wednesday, we have papers to the Bth instant. The Patrick Henry performed the passage in fifteen days and ten hours. In another column will be found as much of the inaugural address of General Harrison as our: readers will feel any interest in Pe; All tangible allusion to the va r i ous even" °I interest in that country is purposely avoided in that document, and the papers before us are also barren of the information which was expected to 'arrive. The authorities appear to treat the relations between this country and the States in a more rational manner; and Mr. Buchanan, on the Ist instant, carried in the senate a resolution to the effect, that " the committee on foreign relations be relieved from the consideration of the resolution referred to them, which requested the President to communicate any correspondence that had taken place with the British Government on the North-Eastern Boundary. The President arrived at New York on the 3d inst., after having experienced the most boisterous weather. As she was to leave on the 10th, we do not anticipate she will convey to us any intelligence of a decisive character. ' rusing, Mr. M`Leod was to be removed to the state of New York, as it was presumed he could not have a fair trial near the place where he has been hitherto confined, on account of the excited state of feeling amongst the populace. The advices from England had caused a decline in the prices of cotton, which was previously looking up wards. Considerable sales had been made for export. The prices had been for Uplands 91 to 11, New Or leans 9 to 111, Mobile 91 to 111. The importation of dry goods had been very large, and the stock in the market was very extensive. The stock of coals from this part had, with the exception of about thirty tons, been entirely sold out of the first hands. The last sales were made at 7-50 to 8 dols. The money market was inactive, and the advices from England had tended to increase the depression. The banks, however, dis counted short paper freely. There had been a falling off in the rates of Foreign Exchange. Bills on Eng land were at 107 to 108, and on France at 5 f. 30. There was no demand for specie for shipment, and the amount drawn from the banks had- been trifling. Stocks were generally declining, and United States Bank Shares had gone down to 161. With respect to those outward demonstrations of physical strength which the O'Connellite party are so fond of making, and with reference to which we sub mitted some remarks in our last, there is an observa tion commonly made, that if there be treason in the wind, it is better that it should exhibit itself than lie concealed, or work in the dark, and, at length, take us unawares and unprepared ; and on this ground some fancy that the indulgent, conciliatory system pursued by the Whigs, has an advantage. And this might be allowed, if we had no choice but between such a sys tem and one whose fruits could only be concealment and surprise. But we are not so circumscribed in aur selection of remedies; we are not limited to a choice of evils. In the first place, we deny that the Whig system is a remedy at a ll . A skilful physician may wish that a disease should develope itself, and treat his patient with a view to produce that effect ; but his final object is cure —not merely to change its local habitation, but to remove the disease altogether. But the Whigs seem to contemplate no such purpose in their policy. They bring out disorder, indeed, in a most superior manner; but, having brought it out, they leave it plenty of co urage to t h e re b ellious; there, They give but their system has no tendency to root out treason. Their treatment has no analogy to that of the physi cian ; for it would confirm, not dislodge the malady of the state. The utmost merit they can pretend to, is that of procuring a little temporary peace by sneaking compliances, and paying all the black mail which Po pery would levy upon them almost in advance. In England we see merely the results of this most contemptible and time-serving policy; we do not and feel, as the Protestants of Ireland do, all thei mediate misery and injurious consequences that flow from it. In Ireland Popery is the favoured religion, and the Protestant faith, barely tolerated in some dis tricts, is not unusually persecuted, nay persecuted even unto death, in others. The peace procured by the Whigs, or what they call such, is in fact obtained by the sacrifice of Protestantism ; and what, we ask, is to be the end thereof? England cannot desire to partake in advantages (if any there be) procured by injustice and wrong, and is bound, at all hazards, to put an end to a system which produces such results. The administra tion of the Whigs in Ireland is founded on favount-