The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-25 00:00:00

EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1847.

superintendent of police, accompanied by Inspectory May-
bury and Police-constable Monaghan, went to search his
holm. In a table drawer the receipt or certificate for the
money letter was found, not filled up, which showed that
he had not delivered the letter ; and it was next discovered
that the registered letter had never reached lie destination.
He had given 69 letters, which were at his hones nuclei.
vend, to his son, to return to the Poet-office, and the youth,
on presenting himself at the Post-office, was taken into cus-
tody with these knave in his possession. Clifford effected
his serape for a short time from the porter, but wee retaken.
He and his son stand remanded, in order that communica-
tion may be made of the offence to the Pceuasster-General
and to the solicitor to the Poet-office, who will have to pro-
' aecute. It I. expected that other robberies were effected
by him.
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FATAL PRIZE Flaar. Lindrick-common has
added another and a fatal cue to the great number of those
brutal pugilistic encounters which have rendered it SO 1
notorious throughout this and the neighbouring county of I
Nottingham, The common is situate near Aneton, through I
which place the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, now in I
course of formation, passe/. The public.houses in the
neighbourhood of the line are generally thronged during '
Sunday with the " navvies," and it was the meeting of 601110 I
of these, at a beer-house kept by Joseph Johnson, which led
to the fatal occurrence in question. It appears that, between '
11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday morning, a quarryman, Wm, 1
Watson, along with two or three others, want to Johnson's I
house, where they, along with some navvies, remained I
drinking during the whole of the day. About four o'clock i
in the afternoon a navvy named Thomas Kay joined the i
party, and remained drinking with them in the kitchen.
There were then ten or twelve men of the party. Watson and
Kay had each a dog ; and, after the latter had been in the
house about an hour and 'a half, a quarrel arose between
him and Watson as to which of their dogs was best able '
to worry the other, and Watson proposed that they should
fight them. The dogs were " set ' at each other, and ap- I
peered nothing loth to indulge their masters' brutal taste.
After some angry words, however, Kay refused to let his
dog fight. Watson was determined not to be baulked of
his object, and threw his dog upon Kay're but, by the
intervention of the latter, they were prevented fighting
together. Kay became enraged, and threatened, if Wet-
son's dog bit hie, he would punch him on the head. Both
parties wee iaatwiated, and after a tumult of some few
minutes, they stripped to fight in the kitchen. William
Johnson, of Brancliffe, farina, the son of the landlord of
the house, interfered :to prevent them, and it was proposed
that they should fight in the field. Kay went out, and
wart followed by Watson into one of Johnson's fields. The
I whole of their companions and the landlord's eon followed
them, and remained watching them fight in the dark for
WIC an hour. During the whole of the time, Kay appeared
to receive the greatest degree of punishment, his body sad
hied being dreadfully bruised, and a large gash cut over
the left eye, from which the blood flowed rapidly. The
night was too dark for those looking on to see whether each
party had what is usually termed " fair play ;" but it would
appear that towards the latter part of the fight Kay was
most shockingly and iohumanly treated, injuries of a most
dreadful character, and such as would at once disable him,
being inflicted by kicks or violence of some kind upon
the lower part of his body. These appear to have been
inflicted by Watson at the conclusion of the last " round,"
when they both fell to the ground together. Watson was
uppermost, and after struggling for a short time it was
oberved that Kay loosened his hold, and became apparently
senseless. Watson then got up, and walked into the
house. Thom who had stood by and witnessed the affray
did not appear to think Kay's helpless stete worthy of any
attention from them, but, having had their brutal taste gra-
tified, contented themselves with leaving him, bleeding and
insensible, on the ground, and followed Watson into the
house. Here the fight became the subject of conversation,
ant one of Kay's companions, mere humane than the rest,
named Was, hichlellan, who, it appeared, sickened at the
fight, left the field before it was over, on learning that Kay
'had bees left alone in the field, induced Samuel Swift,
formerly of Norton Woodsetta, but now a labourer on the
line, towith him to Kay's assistance. They found him
insensible, and breathing very heavily. He was raised
upon his feet, and finding he could not stand, they carried
him into the house. He was at this time bleeding much
from a severe wound over the left eye. He was laid upon
the sink, and hie face washed by some of his companions.
They then placed him in a chair by the aide of the fire,
and allowed him to sit there for about an hour, without
showing any symptoms of consciousness, and no steps were
taken by either the landlord or any other person to-
wards procuring surgical assistance. But finding he
showed ne symptoms of recovery, he was removed to bed
about half-past eight o'clock, and there allowed to remain
in a state of insensibility the whole of the night. The
landlord's son was one of those who assisted to cam him
to bed, and though he then tried to get the men to speak,
but could not, yet neither he nor his father—except ones,
and then a few minutes after they had put him to bed—gave
themselves the trouble to see in what state he was. Two of
his companions, named John Hewitt and William leil'ldellan,
slept in the same room with him, and when they awoke
during the night, they heard the man breathing, as before,
' very heavily. When they spoke to him, however, he made
no answer. These men got up next morning, about eight
o'clock, aid Hewitt shook Kay, but failed in waking him.
About ten minutes after this, on some other parties going to
the man's bed, they found him dead.—An inquest on view
of the body was held on Tunday, when the above facts were
' deposed in evidence, and a verdict of manslaughter was re.
turned against Witson.—Lindrick common is situated on
the borders of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and
' from the ease with which parties offending whist
the laws can evade the vigilance of the authori-
ties in Yorkshire, by going into Nottinghamshire, or
eke versa, the place is one chosen for prize-fights by
parties coming from great distances. In the first four
months of this year, noises than twenty of these brutal and
demoralising occurrences took place, and they appeared so
much on the increase, that scarcely a week came without one,
and the evil at length reached such a height that a meeting
of the magistrates and clergy of the district was held at
Worksop in August last, on the subject, at which the Duke
of Newt &elle presided. This meeting pledged itself to use
its best exertions to cheek the evil, and a committee was ap-
pointed to carry out ita objects. The magistrates of Sheffield
and other places aided their efforts by withholding the k-
etoses of the publichouses in the neighbourhood where the
frtquenters of these fights usually called, until they gave a
solemn undertaking to furnish the neighbouring magistrates
with any information they could learn of any intended fight,
or of any fights which were actually taking place. These,
and other effective measures, have tended to prevent any
fight since taking place on the common, until this affray on
Sunday last.
• TIOMIr, IaCISTO V

THE MURDER NEAR 'ORTON had occupied the
attention of a coroner's jury during three days of the past
week. The Erprers has already reperted the cireum-
stances ender which the body of Mr. C. Copeman wail dis-
covered on Sunday morning last. A jury was summoned,
and an inquest commenced on Sunday. After alone exami-
nation of witnesses the inquiry was adjourned till Monday,
when further evidence was takes, and the inquiry was again
adjourned till Wednesday last. The facts elicited are as fol-
lows. On Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, as John
Whelpton, a labouring man, was proceeding to Kirton,
along the bridle-road leading from Grayinghern, his atten-
tion was attracted by a slog sitting upon something in
the ditch by the road-side, which after gazing atten.
lively he discovered to be a human body with the
face downwards, and the dog sitting upon the back; and
had it not been for the growling of the dog as
Wheipton approached, in all probability he would not have
seen the body. Two other men came up almost directly ,•
but none of them dare approach, as the dog snarled and
barked over the remains of his murdered master, and it was
feared he would bite. Whilst the Kirton constable was
being fetched Whelpton commenced. looking for footmarks,
and traced the deceased's footmark from Kirton to a par-
ticular spot in the middle of the road, and another footstep
close to the cast side of the hedge coming from Kirton, to a
certain point of the road where the deceased crossed oat of
the road to the west side. The other footmarks followed his
from one side of the road to the other, and about 100 yule
further on there appeared marks as if a dog harl,been set as
and bad struggled with a man ; and still farther in-
ward, close to the west side ditch, there appealed
have been a very desperate struggle between the mar-
dered man and the murderer, end both appeared W
have been in the hedge and ditch together. A &In
tones from the body we discovered the deemed% peek*,
and two hall-mynas, one shilling, and two mixpeema. There
was no blood on the road or the ditch side. By the time
that the Kirton constable arrived with a cart a crowd bad
collected, and the dog had been frightened away. The body
was then turned face upwards, andilsehetares of Mr. Cope.
man were recognised. On the left .Ile el the hell was
large incised wound extending from the h see to the Quest
eight inches long, and laying open the Apgar vela a se.
cond wound on the cheek three lashes keg, •Ibbil heal-
diately under the eye an inch acid a half Isom sad a fourth
from above the eye to the mouth. A Tema en the right
side of the face extended from the upper pal, and the nom
and lips were cut, end the meal hem hey S& ; a 'mond
wound from the inner cornet el the 11104 eye to the lower
jaw, six inches in length • a third him the entre of the eye
to the ether jaw ; and three more ea' the right side *the
face, varying from one to four Leh* hag; also a deep
gash from above the temple to the Offeat, sever-
ing the right ear. There were no braises on the
body, and no blood on the breast, is that the
wounds nut base been inflicted when the dumbed was
down. The teesehes wen cut open and the cut out,
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tireip erlihout nsgeny. When in his examination he wag
asked if Mr. Hotchkiss, the railway clerk, had not changed
him a sovereign, he replied, "No,only half a sovereign ;" hut
Hotchkiss positively swore that it was a sovereign for which
he gave change, and out of which he was paid the 30. which
he had lent the prisoner on the previous night. A search
warrant was obtained, and police-superintendent Cheney
searched the house of Mrs. Travis, to see if the clothes of the
prisoner could be found. It had been ascertained that he
wore on the night of the murder a pair of what were denomi-
nated embossed drab trousers, but no trousers of the descrip-
tion could be discovered : a pair of boots also were miming,
and the striped shirt which he wore on the night of the inure
der could not be found. Upon examining his person, a
bruise was discovered on his right collar-bone, and a scratch
on his throat; both hands were considerably scratched. and
he was slightly cut on the right hand. The wounds had all
the appearance of having been inflicted very recently. These
scratches be endeavoured to account for by the statement that
they were done in removing • aheepnet on the Saturday;
but the evidence of a boy in the employ of Mrs. Travis
showed that as the prisoner had not to go near the hedge,
his hands could not have been damaged in the way he said
they had been. On the Friday night the servant-girl of Mrs.
Travis cleaned the prisoner's Sunday boots and put them into
a desk drawer as usual, and there they remained till Sunday
morning, when the prisoner was seen to take them out and they
were then clean. A pair of boots were also produced which he
had worn on the Saturday morning. He was possessed of three
pairs, but the third pair could not be found. Near the body of
the murdered man several pieces of a striped shirt were found,
and amongst the rest the right wristband ; and two or three
other pieces were found at • distance from the body ; some
were saturated with blood. The wristband proved that the
shirt wee the make of an experienced sempatress. The
prisoner had put a white shirt on on the Ilth (Kirton fair.
day); on the following Monday he put on a common shirt,
which he wore till Saturday night, but on that night bin
mother eye him another clean striped shirt to put on before
he went into the town, on which occasion he changed his
dress. On the Sunday morning, when the servant girl took
the dirty linen out of the prisoner's room, she found only
on. dirty shirt ; end on that day the prisoner had put on
main and wan wearing the shirt he had worn on the lltb.
The girl stated that be arrived home at one o'clock on the
Sunday morning. and the mother said it was only twelve,
but he was seen in Kirton at half-peat twelve. The mother
said she let him in,aad that he was tipsy, but the did not
know whether he went up the front or the back
Main to bed. The girl said he was not in the
habit of going up the front stairs. The mother stated
that, as she wee going down stairs to let him in, the candle
wont out, and she returned up stairs te bed after letting him
ion, but first went into the servant's room for a 'urger match
is obtain another light. When the girl came down is the
morning there was not • pair of dirty boots in the kitchen,
though the prisoner had been in the habit of leaving his
dirty boots there. In the course of the Sunday, abuckhorn-
hafted and two-bladed pen-knife was fouud near the spot
where the murder was perpetrued : in the blood under the
head of the deceased was discovered part of the end of a pen-
knife, and this fitted to the broken blade of the knife, corre-
sponding exactly : the other blade was broken out entirely.
This knife was covered with blood, and it was established
that on the 10th of Nov. the prisoner had purchased this
knife at the shop of a Kirton tredesman. When the
prisoner wag searched, he had two sovereigns in his pocket,
and on the Sunday moraing a third sovereign was found
within 100 yards of the Red Lion ion: this no person ap-
to claim, though it was known that a sovereign had
Crriet
found- With the sovereign the prisoner had changed this
made up four, the number the des used had had in his pos-
session oa the previous night. The prisoner on the Sunday
morning was observed walking backwards and forwards
where the sovereign was picked up. On Wednesday after-
noon, at two o'clock, the inquest was resumed. Sevier' of
the county magistrates who have watched with intense in-
terest the whole proceedings were present. Mr. Cheney,
who had main searched the house of the primoner's mother,
produced a pair of trousers answering to the description of
those worn by the prisoner on the night of the murder ,
these had been toned in a drawer in the prisoner's brother's
room, and they were not there when the house was pre-
viously searched : they appeared to have been sponged in
several places. No other part of the clothing worn on the
night was found.—Mr. Lee, of the house of correction, in
whose custody the prisoner had been placed, produced a pair
of garters taken from the prisoner : one was stained, as if
with blood which had gone through the trousers in kneeling
and there were two other aaperent blood-stains upon it.
Further evidence was taken, and the inquest was again
adjourned, to afford time for maturing the evidence. There
is no doubt that Joseph Travis will be committed for trial
for the murder. The poor bull-terrier dog, which itself bad
been wounded, sat for nine hours on the dead body of its
master. The remains of the deceased were interred at Bly-
borough at noon on Wednesday ; and his brother, Mr. J.
Copeman, has offered 1001. reward for the discovery and
conviction of the murderer. A large number of spectators
attended the funeral in the churchyard, and all agreed in
pronouncing the deceased a kind master, and a man univer-
sally regretted. The coffin was drawn to the yard se-
mediae to village custom, in the farm waggon, and was
then carried into the church by six of his servants. The sus-
pected murderer is the son of a respectable widow, occupy-
ing a pretty good farm, and he himself is a cabinet-maker.
WORCESTERSHIRE.
DEATH FROM STARVATION AT DROWNS ICH.—A
melancholy case of death from starvation happened, on
Tuesday, in the parish of Hanbury, near this borough. The
deceased, Eliza Carter, who bad attained her 70th year,
walked from Worcester to Banbury Church, a distance of
nine miles, to receive &share of the St. Thorium's Day Gifts,
which are bestowed annually in Banbury Church, and it
appears that, so numerous were the claimants, that she was
unsucoessfuL She set out early in the afternoon to walk
home again, and fell dead on the road from sheer exhaus
tint and want. On Thursday evening an inquest was held
on the body, at the Vernon Arms Inn, Hanbury, when Ann
Tovey, wife of Robert Tovey, labourer, of Hanbury,
depeeed that she attended at Hanbury Church, on Tuesday,
to receive a portion of the St. Thomas's Day Gifts. She
there saw deemed, who laid that witness looked starved.
Witness replied, " Audio do you." Whereupon the deceased
said, " If you have had no more than I have you would look
bad ;" and she added, that she had got a long way to go
and nothing to take her home. The deceased left the church
between one and two o'clock. The deceased when at the
church looked distressed, not only from want of food, but of
clothing also. She appeared starved, and was blue round
the mouth.—Hannah Hughes, wife of a Hanbary labourer,
deposed that she attended at Hanbury Church on Tuesda
to receive the gifts. There were about a hundred !sepia
assembled. She did not recollect seeing the demand mew
the number; but as witness was returning home, &boat two
o'clock in the afternoon, she found her lying in the road,
quite dead. She was lying on the gram by the ride of the
road. Witness gave information, and the body was con-
veyed to the inn. Mr. M. Pierpnint, surgeon, Worcester,
deposed that he had examined the body of the deceased ex-
ternally, but bad not opened it. There were no marks of
violence upon the body, and, judging from the circumstances
detailed by the other witnesses, he was of opinion that the
poor woman had died from exhaustion. He could not de-
pose positively to the cause of death without opening the
body. but the age and appearance of the deceased strength- I
ear d this opinion.—'l he jury returned a verdict, " That the
deceased had died from exhaustion and want."—A very
similar Cale to the above happened last Christmas et Hallow,
in this county. Ann Sefton, aged 66, while on her way to
participate in the gifts of the season, fell in the road from
exhaustion, and was found frozen to death.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
ANTI-DAME LAW MEETING.—The Bucks Adrer-
tine of yesterday, reports a meeting held at the British
Schooli Room, W addsedon, to show the moral and pecuniary
evils of the game laws, end to petition parliament for their
abrogation. Waddeedon and its neighbourhood have been,
for many years, pestered with game preserves, and no Tillage
in the county could have been , chosen more adapted for a
demonstration on the subject. The large school room was
crowded to excess. There could not have been fewer than
500 or 600 people present. The chair was taken by J.
Houghton, Esq., one of the most extensive agriculturists
of the county. He was surrounded on the platform by a
large number of the farmers of the neighbourhood, and in
opening the proceedings said, he, for one, regarded
the game laws as having a tendency to increase
crime, and it was therefore his duty to do all he
could to get them repealed. His own experience testi-
fied that the game laws were the greatest possible
detriment to good farming. He thought it a great gnevanc•
that farmers should have their crops destroyed by game.
Certainly, every man should have a right over his own pea
perty ; but was it right that the game of sine gentleman
should eat the crops mired by another ? He had no objection
to stringent laws of trespaaa to protect property. lie did
not believe the preservation of game could be of any meek'.
It necessarily raised up a race of poachers, who demoralised
the community ; and farmers whose crops were destroyed'
could not interfere against the practice. We should have
such a law in existence, that the man who preserved game
should be compelled to keep it himself. Under the prong
law, farmers were given to understand that they sob
bound to keep the game to a certain extent; bat rap-
pate there was a clause in their leases to this ideal,
then the question arose to what extent were they to keep
the game ? It was impossible to tell. There might be
little objection to a clause authorising the farmer to
keep so many sheep or so many cows. But how many head
of game were they to keep' The first year it might be 20
the next 100 ; the next 500 ; the next 1,000 ; and in the end
all their crops might be eaten up. The produce of one field
which he had occasion to sell on a farm was 'IL 10s. an
acre ; that of another, being near to a game primates, of the
same grain and seed and soil, was only worth lie. en sere.
So much for a farmer's liability to feed game. It was not
merely in eating the crops that the game did mischief, but
also by constantly moving among them. But, above all, the
game laws wore most injurious to the morals of the people.—
Mr. W. Rose, farmer, moved the following resolution: " That
this meeting It of opinion that the game laws are injurious to
public moral, canes great ion to the fanner in the destruction
of his crops, and are the mans of increasing the parochial as-
sessments, and tlunthey ought to be repealed." A burnt child,
it was said, derided the ire; sobs was afraid of the game
laws, for he had sollered greatly by them. He had too
much ream ea trap that the morals of the people in that
neighbourhood had bean pained to • great extent by their
esainas. Area was saw no tax upon feed, • state of
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besides other animals of the same clam; and farmers could
not move about without being watched and thapected by the
keepers. The annoyance was very great and very grievous
to the fanners. Poachers were very numerous, and no
wonder. Then when poschen are taken and sent to gaol,
who have to keep them ? Why not make the game pre-
servers keep them ? The fact was, the tenant-farmer was
too glad to see the game destroyed by poachers, for the mis-
chief done to the crop was incalculable.—The resolution
was carried unanimuuely.—Mr. Crook, of Stone, farmer,
made a few remarks, signifying his approval of the speeches
already delivered. He moved—" Tb .t this meeting think that
a rerpectful petition to parliament, signet by the inhabitant'
of Waddesdon and its neighbourhood, praying for the re-
peal of the game laws, should be presented.' —Carried.—
Mr. J. Gibbs moved the adoption of a petition, which set
forth the moral and pecuniary evils of the game laws, the
increase of public burdens and lose of human life through
their operation, and prayed the house to revise or abolish
them. He began by showing the absurdity of the argument
that bad laws should exist because of their antiquity, and he
gave a short outline of the history of the game laws to show
their hardships aad barbarous descent from the old forest
law,. He then traced the operation of crime which began
with poaching, showing the dreadful extremes to which it
had led, and the extravagant loss of life through peachier
encounter,. He would go the length of amercing that he
knew gantekeepen who set a watch upon the ,ignorant,
in order first to decoy and then to lead them to
punishment. Every agricultural community should
come forward as too man to get such obnoxious
laws obliterated from the statute-book. Some of
the poor men before him lad got gardens in which
they delighted. When a hare made its appearance in their
garden, what was more natural than that they should kick
its bruins out; but if they did so, they would be put into
prison. Then the expense of prosecution, and imprison-
ment, and trial, came out of the county-rate. Families were
broken up, young people were transformed into criminals,
poorhouse. were filled ; and the rate-payers had to pay all
the damage, instead of those gentlemen who brought it all
about by their game presence. In conclusion, he took
occasion to complain of the partial operation of the poor-
rates. Gentlemen in London, with locums of 2,0001.,
living in lodgings, had nothing to pay for the main-
tenance of the poor ; while farmers, with the same
income, would have .601. or SOL to deduct for
this reckoning. The poor should become a national
burthen, and should be supported oat of the na-
tional taxes; and he hoped that a movement would take
place, in order to effeet a great and permanent reform in the
system. (Chun.)—Mr. J. Harahan seconded the adoption
of the petition. In reply to all that had been urged that
night, the great and wealthy of the land might cry out,
"We have a right to preserve game." Decidedly, landed
proprietors have a right to do what they chqose. They had
a right to adorn themselves in petticoats, or hunt the stag
upon donkey,, or shave off their whiskers on one side; but
was it their duty thus to make themselves ridiculous ? And
with respect to their acres, landlords had a right to let
them go to waste and ruin, and send telthe uttermost parts
f the earth kr bears and kangaroos, and elephants,
to inhabit their wastes ; nay, the gentry had a perfect right
to construct great tunnels under their acres, to fill
these tunnels with gunpowder, and blow both their
estates and themselves up ,to the moon. Property,
however, hod its duties as well as its rights. Who
would dare to say they were in duty bound to act as
madmen ? Now, with respect to hares, pheasant', and par-
tridges, the landed proprietors opposed their duty in stock-
ing estates with them. The specious objection to game law
repeal was this, that the tenant rented his farm subject to
game. Te be sure he did. The tenant also took his farm
subject to thieves. The tenant couldn't go to the land-
lord and say, " Sir, my poultry is all stolen, give me com-
pensation." The landlord would reply, "Go and punish
the thief." Now, the tenant leis puss approach towards
his bean-field. Why, a hare was a thief—a downright,
a notorious thief, to all intents and purposes; but, mark
, well, the tenant has neither compeateation oar yen-
' cesium at his disposal. Why shou'A he be precluded
from seining puss, and bringing her under the justice
of the carving knife ? Again, the tenant rented his farm
subject to incendiary fires : could he chi= cempenaation for
the ravages of the flames ? No ; but thin was that a reason
why he was to told his arms and go to ale. p while the fire
blazed? Was it altogether wise and prudent for him to
make the observation, " I rented the farm subject to the in-
cendiary, and therefore the incendiary must walk at large" ?
The whole question lay within a email compass. A sharp
Kentuckian weat out with a blunt Indian for a day's shoot-
ing. All they got was a turkey and a crow. How to diside
the booty was a difficult problem. Said the Kentuckian to
the Indian, " I shall have the turkey and you the crow, or
you may have the crow and I the turkey." Said the
Indian, " Well, that looks very plausible; but some-
how or ether you always get the turkey and I al-
ways get the crow." Now, the landed gentry of this
country were Kentuckians, and the farmers and peasantry
Indians. The gentry say to the latter: "You may have the
sparrows and the robins, and we shall have the here' and
the pheasant' ; or we shall have the bares and the pheasants,
and you may have the sparrows and the robins." Nay, the
gentry said more ; they said: "and you shall feed our hares
and pheasants into the bargain." lie concluded by exhort-
ing the labourers present not to degrade themselves by poach-
ing, but to aspire to virtue and true nobility, such as the
aristocratic landocracy never displayed.—The petiti n was
agreed to unanimously, numerously signed, and ordered to
be transmitted to the Hon. C.C. Cavendish for presentation.
DEVONSHIRE.
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT occurred at Roborough
an Sunday last, the particulars of which are detailed in the
evidence, at an inquest held on Wednesday. Capt. Hambly,
his wife, and a female servant (whose evidence we quote)
went to Buckland Church in a phaeton drawn by one horse,
which the deceased drove. "After church, I (c.ntinues the
housemaid), the deceased, and Mrs. Hambly, returned in
the cerriege, and the horse went very quietly until we
got inside the lodge. When we came to the lodge gate
leading into Elfordtown, which is the name of the place
where we reside, I got out and opened the gate for the
carriage to pose, and did not go in again. As soon as the car-
riage was past the gate the hone started from a trot into a
gallop, and went at that Tate do con the kill. When I saw
the horse run so fast I thought there would be danger, and
ran back to the lodge to endeavour to procure misietanoe, but
there was no one there. I saw the carriage until it came to
the turn or angle of the road, and then lost sight of it. I ran
oa after the carriage, and when I passed the turn
of the road I saw the carriage capsized, the horse gone out
of it, and my mistress supporting. my master's head, whose
body was lying on the ground. I just looked at the deceased,
but did not remain, as my mistress told me to run to the house
for help. The deceased appeared to me to be dead when I left
him. I ran to the house, and Mrs. Joaquim with her daughters
and others went to Mrs. Hambly's assistance. I procured
some water and followed them, and when I got to where my
master was lying I gave the jug to Mrs. Joaquim and re-
turned to the house, feeling very faint from the alarm and
hurry of the cireusustances. The deceased was perfectly well
arid comfortable on his way from church. The phaeton was
double bodied. Mr. and Mrs. H. sat in front. I eat behind."
Mrs. Hambly, in describing the overturning of the phaeton,
stated that the bone went at a very fast pace down the
avenue; he was in a gallop the whole way. She wasnever ins
carriage with therms horse before, neither was Capt.Hanthly.
The horse attempted in going down the hill to Buckland to
run away, and did run away until we get to a public house,
when we stopped him The horse dashed round the corner
at the turning of the avenue leading to the how., and I
think struck a net that was standing in the road. Imme-
diately on the carriage and horse coming in contact with
the cart we were both thrown out. I was thrown in front
of my husband, and when I got up he was lying on his
right side on the ground perfectly insensible. He never
• opened his eyes, spoke, or moved again.—The verdict was
, " Accidental death."

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Lints° Is STYLE.—A considerable surprise, and
not a very agreeable one, has just been given to some trades-
men at Clifton, Bristol, and Bath, by a very dashing gentle-
man of fashionable air, who has left numerous souvenirs of
hie short sojourn in the neighbourhood. It appears that
with no further chattels than a plausible air, and a very im-
posing page, he succeeded in taking a fine furnished house in
the most popular part of Clifton. Having taken possession,
he went to Bath and got a carriage on credit (we should
rather say the credit of his residence) ; on the credit of his
carriage he gat homes from an extensive dealer in Clifton ;
and on the credit of the carriage and horses be got credit
everywhere else, butchers, bakers, grocers, wine merchants,
and last, though not least, the tailors, who furnished both
him and his page with suits innumerable. And thus all
went merrily, until one morning last week, when the " illus-
trious stranger " was reported missing, and with his amage,
clothes, &c. &c., having forgot to leave his eddrer, a
ba-
lance at the bank, or " the goods," to console his friends, in-
cluding the coach-maker. Nothing is known of him, but
that he arrived in Clifton by one of the Irish packets, doubt-
less, (says the Bristol Times, which reports his proceedings),
afraid to stay in his " castle " for fear of assassination.

LITERATURE.
Murray's Home and Colonial Library. Manners and
Customs of India. By the Rev. CHARLES ACLAND. 1837.
This is a most amusing and instructive volume,
offering a minute picture of Indian life in the country
stations, or the Mortara as they are called, written by
a clergyman ; it is indeed a kind of supplement to
Bishop Heber's celebrated work, especially in its
humane views and quiet domestic descriptions ; for
we cannot say that any part of it is theological, or has
much reference to clerical functions. This, perhaps,
was precluded by the contents of the volume being
addressed to young persons, children of the writer,
who were to be more amused by anecdotes of animals
and descriptions of every-day life, than by more seri-
ous or didactic epistles.
In truth, one is startled to find how very limited a
clergyman's duties are in those regions—how exclu-
sively a chaplain he is—his carte being confined to the
English officials of the district and their families.
With such a cure of souls, all pseud and wealthy ones,
we do not wonder that Mr. Aslend found in lam pro-
fession not even wherewithal to occupy his mind. He
fell ill with the same disease which afterwards proved
fatal to him, and then he applied to a physician. The
answer given him was,
itvorrompriv•
assess lot dint loar ltas
la soondoooll iliktbSt:tramilmaessillft WEN is "Ziarni %Mi-
lkman Sloloopoilbtol.lll.o. lel sow ssoi utmost • tone toe
II as. I.lmo
=A folos oo Wangs in tn.
I Moo =Ate of grand to luta a tliaboo
Maim
Is this employing mind? Is it poesi'te that •
clergyman in India ordered to employ ids mind, can -

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only take mental exercise in this fashion? Books,
be stis, it is not possible to procure. Is the common
English institution of a Lbirary Club, then, so utterly
unknown amongst the rich denizens of India? Of wkat
use sending bishops to ouch a country? Would not
the thousartils a year spent upon lawn aliens be
better expended on a lending library, were it to be
used merely as a prescription to keep the minds of
the clergy employed, and as an antidote to liver
complaint ?
And yet the spot, where this truly pious clergy-
man could neither find food nor exercise for his mind,
was in the vicinity of Juggernaut, that great head-
quarters of Indian heathenism—the seat of that mon-
strous idol, in their pilgrimages to which the unfortu-
nate inhabitants of India are yearly decimated. We
are by no means partisans for interfering with the
creed of conquered races—for extinguishing belief by
violence. But even toleration may be carried to an
extreme length. We interfere with suttees, and hu-
manely save the widow from burning. But Jugger-
naut is but another mode by which the selfish heir
gets rid of the burden of supporting the widows of those
from whom he inherits. -The old women whom the
Hindoo is forbidden to burn, he sends to Juggernaut,
pretty sure they will never return alive. We must own
we think it monstrous that so many thousand pounds
sterling annually should be paid by a British govern-
ment to support the priests of a filthy and abominable
idoL
1 haw very little deribt that great wkkedarea prevail* within the
temple. In two cam, lately, it is known that minder has been com-
mitr ol there; yet we, who have held the country to long, are not
al'ored to enter the bulldog. It le said that If we attempted It we
should be driven from this district; this I do not believe. Some years
ego the priests declared that the god would not leave ha country-
ho me until all the Forish were driven from the province. The
ricer commanding at Cuttack directly sent ward that, If the idol
wee, not brought back on the usual day, be would come and blow
both it and the temp'', to Memo. Juggernath immedlutely tame to
his acme, sad was hack in Ms temple one day before hie regular
time. During the period the pilgrims remain at Pooree, they are
not allowed to eat anything but what has been offered to the
idol, and that thee have to bay at a very high price from the
prierte. Thu food la often very had, and from that, combined with
other cares, the Miters maks sad ravages among thew poo •
people. At the festiral that le jug pat, it Is calculated that there
were about 130,000 pilgrim Theeholora the year merry mild ; but
not lees then lir died at Pooree, or between that place and Cutter.
Their bodies are recently thrown out to be deemed by the doge,
vultures, and raker. On Sunday morning. in manor some from
church, we found that three bodies bad been thrown out In hoot of
our k 11.114; two of them were roil ly dimprearing in the Jaws of
there animals; the other es truing about la the surf. However, I
sent to the magistrate, and he had them removed and burnt. Avm
proportion of the pilgrims are widows. In India a widow is not per-
milted to mat ry ague, but must be supported by her late huitand's
relations; and It is rid that many of these poor women are sent
down to Prom in the bore of getting rid of them, and no doubt this
portage frequently succeeds. and to support this system our go-
vernment par G.OWI. a year; equal to the aikido, of ten chaplains
of our church. This year an event occurred which the Hindus COI:-
alder to be very ominous of mil. AR they were bri-ging the gal out,
one of the chief prierts was reited with cholera, and was sick all over
the idol. The necemery purification', occupied so long a time, that
the precaution was not able to start that day.
One great charm and merit of these volumes is I
their full, truth-telling character. There are many
revelations in these letters, so familiarly written, that,
had the writer lived, lie would certainly have refrained
from publishing, but which, from the melancholy fir-
cumstance of his premature death, now see the light.
Few Indian officials, however they might imitate and
approve the following conduct, would like to offer the
picture to the English world at home es creditable.
And now I moat mention wane eiremetances which to me rendered
our expedition to bicilehor very emote...ant ; they relate to the man-
ner lo which our party nested the rajah. On the morning of our'
arrival, after our descent from the kills, he came with • party of
koreemen to all upon on. We were Just sitting down to breakfast
when I observed the cavalcade approaching. I mentioned it, and pro-
posed that, receding to Indian politenes, we Mould go into the ver-
andah of our tent to receive them. But the principal man of our
party rid, "Oh ! bother the fellow, we can't re him now ;" and ha
vent a resent out to tell him so. In the afternoon the rajah ant his
man, corresponding to our chief gamekeeper in England, to ask when
we should like the coolies to beat the jungle, and to ry that he would I
Join us In the hunt. We named the time and started accordingly,
found the ranee in readlneas, and my the rajah and his brother
co..iing upon elephant. Our party began to move on, when I asked,
" Will you not wait for the r*h ti" I thoold think not," was the
reply ; "we don't want the beastly piercers with De." And yet there
civilised men mete ear enough to make use of there beastly Mara'
miles and elephant. I stayed behind and had some talk with them.
The next day the two *elm called at the teat; they entered as gen-
tlemen, and mode the Indian Mutation. Wish the exception of
myself Ido not think one of our party even rose nom his chair. In
the course of convereation we snoke of the badoesis of the water we
got. The raj eh immediately offerer' to and a man eix miles into the
hills to fetch Immo teem a mountain strearo. In little more than an
hour afterwards, one of our party, freling thirsty, sent a erre-arta
auk the rajah whether he had not got that enter yet. In Inclis, in
speaking to servant, you use the word " toom," which signifies
"Fur" In apeahing to a gentleman you say " ab," which means
ii:=netteL One ci.ited:hwo of
was to east
en:dlasitoinlibeof saytnif
leenereellei es. The diet et ear perry spoke to him no the
nip* der =nosh It had all been settled by the
eennisiner, sett pan kin a regabzliewls up. And now remem-
ber Ibet all thla me le a ientlerma—an an It te true, but still a
pedeen with art Seat 5,0001. a year, trout whom
we were receiving ens aYrew, area on whose land we were bent-
Can it be erseftesi at an the natives do net like us so well as
ht otherwise be eiseent
r. Acland's testimony. and experience are also
valuable in another very important point, which is
the subject of agitation at present. We allude to the
salt ditties. Mr. Acland's place of residence was very
near the scene of the India salt-makers' duties, and
his account of the way in which the latter, as well as
the public of India, are treated by the fiscal authori-
ties of Calcutta, requires indeed to be made public
throughout the empire. This at least we can do in
giving the following extract :
Carr k, July 4, 1644.-4 hen veniknel the reamer in which
Eateries are apt to allente Se antler el lie veils ; I will
vow stye pa an inelames el the vey .te Seek the sense nee seek
le email* Sa ft nest be riesembirei Set sok le ato w-
one raspy, that n se pees le enswel to genus se esl It en.
010 hp the appinemese el gerserne. The net le Saar sheet
eW was= et eie ehilleam st d#n eel
Misr Senses ist visit Sew ems annoy: mini
▪ amoses the ries It emy ma Inn sells the
need st relessetoilla bibs an* leis stem
or one e =sok lee sash tallelkel, Is linen at Se
po line in~si busnet pd, tsar nessiallee
as bodies* penis e etennale b. Seriesnew,
shams saw • pais et Ihele 4.belleednel. IS the n.
narks anneta=l4=Ths neap =pest
favor,
e.LlTAterlihmassibelorntserigwolelothealgairissibethem
cure the peen et Seeps ate, Mil Paw see re.
eels per imene. belheveleeseris pee
they wen panderiamarda sat IrmdessltyeweieweieSrkr
say Sit seer pw unease` set Sea they NM Who mit sant
se their now, Sap bent Set am saw het erne* hen gyms.
=set reathe pesihel pa le is eat a halt mew ast ins&
Of sense see nesteely
be, red Marty einehbed Ibe
se Sees nth Se melees net se irides will err
ti eitinanh. I hemmed to be praise el the Ise; Uncured at
Yea. Or eigiglirenebsod at whisk as see tithe principal ea
wens VI us use disdied a tern The nese seam for tree I
peat peat %ism is weed hen been he* hes= an men
sine peeninnt age bra* of sielren; bet this es said eat
peeSl7lllol. Hafflivvro, Os nesbeeles el Pees sett a Sees
remeneene aviearmeeli; eel Se enesenee yes thee Os
as sbeelled the SI sant OM
_per resew Sr wefts at the
mberissearele teatheurlght al the pe
par ed pair nlitnevedestess,
sands le he ere= thee keine Se dne lir the eneorpgient"" " 4
ar.
And. mew =der se met ins robitlai dr seise et they did
IS par, sed nese= Yui= lie per eniehn pert st
Sir sell pars Ist isfreedlNitthe Veen sere st the
nerd. Al Inn Shell me =EWA Sew In linv Tin elm.
pen Set Is nisi the see herd. nag sees Ss =lt
weeks hen len =Sp Ablerbet Skew lly womb. nape. I
The mans sonetteselsee Vedas of these Ski they an se S-
inn, as to kill, to make charms to keep off rederealef.

Rift ens.
THE STAG AT BAT.--The large Edwin Inflamer
in the last Royal Academy exhibition, called the " Stag at
Bay," hes just been engraved in the mixed mezzotint°
manner, by Mr. Thomas Lendseer, the elder brother of the
painter. The picture wu painted for the Marquis of Brendal.
bane, and is full of effect, and that tine poetry of rune and
circumstance whieb Mr. Landseer never fails in conveying
to the commonest subject. The head of the conquered
animal is in Mr. Landseer's best manner, replete with pride,
suffering, and disdain. Had the picture been squarer in
shape the legs of the doge might have been introduced, and
the general arrangement very much improved. The en-
graving is excellent—in every respect the best work of the
artist, who has never been included among our most dis-
tinguished engravers.
PORTRAIT Or HON. SIDNEY HERBERT.—Mr. G. R.
Ward has completed a three-quarter engraving of Mr. Sidney
Herbert, after the portrait by F. Grant, A.R.A.—a manly
predoction, and one of the best works of its clue and charae-
ter in the lut Royal Academy exhibition. In the general
air of the head Mr. Grant has had Sir Joshua's admirable
portrait of Mr. Herbert's ancestor in his eye, and Mr. Ward
has worked with • recollection of the engraving from the
picture we allude to, which is one of the very best of the old
memotinto school.
THE Russ or SARAWAK Will been sitting for his
portrait to Mr. F. Grant, A.R.A.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL
01202.D.—Congreptions will be holden, for the purpose
of grusting gram sod sastarriai demi% 00 the 21110_Yrin2 &Is in
the manias turn, r16.:—,1016. 14; Feb. 3, 10, 24; Kar 2, 16;
Malik 12.

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NAVAL.
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bit *Oft liimile OM isesunis cif the prows& amini kr
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Pftgeoldi Ormithr, Sm. ometimfer bet ea aspone of
MR one beemero ear dm ilrems tele
isliniamea Deesamlnr, Md. will weal welad. as the 10M
tea peermink Is roglotrz of thelek Dout of Admiralty,
wan* le preferlien. O. and T. Illetrall, agents. 2.,
arandebanire, earand. Lade&
Ponnnesnrs. bin. 94.—Gorpon, et.-fr., arrived this
morning at *pithead. torn WaterbLaM ems beto heehaw to have
defeats made goad eme wrisoMytor emearimeem Cygnet, 6, mired
this monerg.
_helm lowed +4a /*hod ter rho Gomm. Ibis is to
nabs ANN. an hmod *uii. MY" me_ boned Moms at non-
heed. ARS, EL. arrived mimeo Men Peen Woo me mot of
easeeme, to Mae Mr &heel- mob ewe id promo' to Ireland.
Hortreeet, Donn store-ship, has retread to Seethed from rarer of
moher.
Demmer, DEC. 23.—Aniedes, 60, tou taken Into dock
tab mom, to be noshed and etted as an advance *la.—Coda-
trim ender to Ms .Asia, 14, was paid two months wages in ad-
mom rya maralng.—Lively, lighter, arrived yesterday from Ports-
mouth. with Mores ; and Netley, tender, this morning, with super-
numeraries.
eiensiurnen, Din. 23.—ne ca
rt s this day been
towel away trom hen 1110 111411. tor rortymnith ; the
know =dealer asthma" the to remain In Ports-
emu& . maw the aaaeWmgmt of that yard.—Cyclops,
MAI. Is ts rare bare on Um let dent swath, for Portsmouth Or-
diery.—Matter was untied's& ymbreer.—Haninnah, fr., "du be
dais* bee tomorrow, prrptratory to being commimioned.
Woos.wica, D sc. 24.—The Sphynx and Driver, et...v.,
airo edema to be fitted with the followbe somment, viz., one
.1 IN or ewt., hot ;am 104ita Rao, au arm.
it ir
galli When me pivot addle. sad 1111112i11.116; and arm 22-pounder
=a wn* wt. Isedfaindpeinnir eamlago, Stromboli, rt....,
Lel W. d. 1111110/0. INN clown the river yesterday ••
he so Gromktebh an so ezmelmenial Mal of her engines, and re-
turned le Woalwkh Mb ofterimom we will leave in a day OF two,
hot doolimelon hem the moat off.ehind. Wm. Stone, shipwright,
has Wen appented to the Meade" of ember issuer, vim W. Morris,
prenuitsL
Anientrurv, Dec. 24.—Psononons : W. Clark and T. L.
00eob, to be Captains ; H. D. now" J. B. Memo, and H. Cald-
well, to be Commanders ; J. IL Tobelt, to he ILatoant.—Arronr-
rervva
: Surgeon A. C. tirsoisroy, to Iseess. Naval Cadets :W.
W. Harvey, and T. B. Hollimeres, to /Wei*