The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

ADMIRAL OMMICINEY.

Why did . net Admiral Ommanney issue orders
that a steamer should be dispatched to the scene of the
Anaazea'a diameter the instant the intelligence reached
Plymouth ?
Here is the Admiral's explanation :—" Mr. Vincent
acknowledges to have landed at one o'clock, a.m., from
She Marsden, and probably left by the exprose train at
ten. During the nine hours neither himself, nor did
any other person, agent or otherwise, come near me to
furnish me with any information ; therefore I was in
total ignorance of what had occtirred, except from what
I had heard from the general rumour." So during a
portion of the nine hours young Vincent and the other
persons who had been saved by the Marsden remained
en Plymouth, Admiral Ommanney was aware from
imhlic,rumour of what had occurred. Why did he not
act? Because no one had made an application to him
for assistance. Admiral Ommanney is in some respects
like the Spanish King who suffered himself to be suffo-
cated in.his chair of state rather than that any but the
proper •offiepr should meddle with the fire. The
Royal pa lent, however, devoted himself, Lot others
at the shrine of etiquette—Admiral Ominsuney con-
tented liLcself with a vicarious sacrifice. During theme
nine hours, even if the euse-ptibilities of the great chief..-
.Cain' of the naval hierarchy at Plymouth had been in
some degree irritated, surely, w'nere human life was in
question, something might have been done. We won't
talk about Ma'aomet and the mountain, but surely, if
Ilr. Vincent did not come to Admiral Ommanney, Ad-
miral Ommanney might have sent for Mr. Vincent. He
might have rebuked or maatheaded the young gentleman,
and have done precisely what his own humour dictated
and his dignity required, if he had extracted from him
the particulars of the disaster and dispatched a steamer
to the scene of action. Was it a time to play the Sir
Anthony Absolute when the bouts of the ill•starred
Amazon were, or might be, floating about helplessly
on the great waves of the Atlantic ? The trans-
action, forsooth, must be reported to the Admiral
in due form before he could act. To such keep-
ing are the western waters of this island intrusted!
Were a French fleet to heave in sight, would
Admiral Ommanney consent to take formal notice of
the fact before the officer in command had reported him-
self at the Admiralty-house as " safely landed from
Cherbourg with guns and military stores?" We cannot
admit the Admiral's plea as any palliation of his neglect.
The Amason was lost; he knew it by general rumour;
he did not send aid because no formal application had
been made to him by the survivors.
N'? what was Admiral Ommanney about all this
time? Why, he was grumbling and gossiping with
Captain Kennedy, of the Coast Guard, ~ who brought
some vague account." No attempt was made by the
peevish old seaman to arrive at the truth of the facts.
He waited and waited he and his friend Captain Ken-
nedy—"_
until
some
d person should have come who
would have afforded
ussiatance had it informat;on, end have solicited
the certain beenbenefit required."" Think only of
_ that would have resulted
from the application I Admiral Ommanney would,.
under such
gencies, when the niceties
and upon such contin-
satisfied, and the applicanets hadof etiquette bad been
awful presence,
and
dve been trotted into his
formally
three times, dilated his
cheeks as often,
"Young man," he would havye commenced proceedings.
from this point we
copy the Admiral's letter—«
somemeas
tquestions naturally
occur to me as a sailor. Tell tot the place where
th
the accident took place, the state of
and the
weather at the time, how the wind blew after
rthe people
were put into 'the boat and after the explosion
vessel." And what then? What then? siiadoef the
Exmouth and Collingwood—What then?
" The an.
of
e an-
ewers to these questions may be the groundwork for
taking into consideration the necessity of sending out a
the
three Why not call a court-martial to sit upon the
vessel."
question that day week? Why not advertise
reso-
lution ~ of taking the point into consideration" in
papers before proceeding to RAI.
npon
ecKtsecutive county
it? Eld Sir John Ommanney and. his friend cap_
make up their minds to sleep upon
lain Kennedy
it -tor fear of action too precipitate?
;while the poor creatures who had made good their ea.
°ape from the Amazon were tossing about in the wild
-waves in open boats without helm or rudder, drink or
food! But, then, Mr. Vincent hadn't called and left a
o*d on Sir John Ommanney—not even a " r 1-'.(..; "
'When he mas about to leave for town
What right had Sir John Ommanney. upon any
Wile report, to assume that the vessel lied blown up be-
fore any boats—save the one icked up by the Marsden
—had got away from the ship?
grounds of decision? Vague W hat were his own
report and the gossip of
his friend Captain Kennedy. Sir John Ommanney mast
be told that the cause of the general indignation against
Kim does not turn upon any trumpery question of con-
frontation between himself and Mr. Septimus, Octaviui,
or Decimus Fox. The charge against him is that when
intelligence—vague intelligence, if you will—of so
terrible a disaster reached him, he did not cause proper
inquiries to be instituted upon the point, and that
he did not act upon the answers he pu-
g
obtained to those inquiries in such a way as might
offer a prospect of saving human life. No one is so
unreasonable as to expect that Sir John Ommanney, at
his 'time of . life, should be seen scouring about the
Btr"ts of Rlymouth in search of a young midshipman,
bathe might have set other legs than his own in motion.
=r°6° Pay hairs we do not expect bodily activity, but
Prudence and foresight. The result has proved that
lilther Coats than the one in which young Vincent was
ai esnaPed—indeed he himself, on his first arrival,
reported thatanother had been seen to get away. But
the report of
to be tristettthSeila d—as the event has shown—was not
to him—left it to John Ommanney—the
i.,
s to send out a
steamer to see if autliri French neigh-our
sur-
vivors, Our Own tardygt could be done to help .
the
What would hav© exoedition has proved
fruitless.
Coen the case had it he-n dispatched
when Sir John Ommanney and his friend Captain lien-
,
Times; Tic to talk tne matter over together?—

_
MAYNoont..—On Friday evening a meeting was
held la the Town-hall, Derby,
on the subject of the endow-
in,litt of Maynooth College ; zar. F.
Gisborne in the chair
The hall was crowded by workmen. The Rev. J. Scott
moved a resolution conder_enatory of the Flaynooth Endow-
ment Act, which was met__bya an mendrnent proposed by the expelled yi'esleyau
Rev. J. Griffith,,an
preacher, denouncing
all State interfence in religious matters. The Rev. J.
Gawthorne and the Rev. J. Corbin supported the original
otiOD' but the amendment wee Carriedd ,
3, a
D considerable
majority,

THE VAGRANT ACT,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlB,—The public will feel indebted to you for
drawing attention to the cases of oppression that are
now enacting frequently, under the authority of the
above Act.

I trust you will favour me with space in your
valuable columns for a few remarks to draw attention
to the character and working of the said Act of Par-
liament. After the war very many loose characters
were thrown out of employment, and vagrancy be-
came a national evil. To remedy this state of things,
the Parliament of 1815 passed the first " Vagrant
Act," under the auspices of that bitter foe to liberty,
Lord Castlereagh, whose very name ought to make
every man of character hesitate before he acquiesces in
any measure having its origin in such a source. That
Parliament covered itself with disgrace by passing
such a law ; for it has all the character of an Algerine
act, and might well be thought to have originated
among the bureaux of Austrian police, instead of
from an assembly of English gentlemen, professing
to hold every man as innocent until he he found
guilty ; for its whole drift is to punish upon bare
suspicion, and that not of feeling, but of a new-
fangled crime, called "Vagrancy." The Act of June
21, 1824, repealed that Act, but re-enacted all its ty-
rannical and odious provisions; and, bearing on the
face of it cruelty and oppression, stands still the law
of England, that fancied lartd of freedom, where it
is said that every offender is entitled to be tried by
a jury of his peers, which saying is beyond dispute,
while this Act exists, a falsehood, " a delusion, and a
snare."

Under the above Act, not only magistrates, but
the lowest fellow in the police, may enter any
Englishman's "castle," as he fancies his house to be,
and without a summons, and without a warrant, and
on his own bare authority, may haul him to a court of
justice, where he may be at once committed to hard
labour as a " rogue and vagabond," for three calendar
months ! In vain may he ask to be tried by a jury;
in vain may he hope to be allowed to see his
friends, or his lawyer. " No, " he will
be told, "the prison regulations do not per-
mit this indulgence but once in three months."
And if he be not well versed and learned in the law,
and aware of the fact that he cannot appeal against
" such act or determination" of the justice, if he allow
seven days to elapse (and the prison regulations ac-
tually prohibit him from seeing a lawyer), then must
be undergo the full sentence of three months' con-
finement and hard labour, either at that vile instru-
ment of torture the treadmill, or by solitaryimpri
sonment in a cold and dreary cell, compelled to pick
out a given quantity of oakum every day, and for-
bidden to raise his voice even in a hymn to his Crea-
tor, under penalty of three days' incarceration in an
underground dungeon or dark hole called a refrac-
tory cell. Mr. Proctor was actually threatened with
this punishment for merely humming a few bars
of " Religion never was designed to make our plea-
sure less."

But who, Sir, are the wicked and bad men that
are liable to these things ? The third section says,
" Every petty chapman or pedler wandering abroad,
and trading, without being duly licensed," may be
committed to the House of Correction for one month,
and every person who shall " beg or gather alms."
True, the blessed Jesus said, " Give to every one
that asketh of thee." But this Castlereagh law, this
worse than Turkish Act of Parliament, says, " nay,
but give to everyone that asketh of thee one month's
hard labour at the treadmill." But the 4th clause
goes further—it declares that every person "lodging
in the open air," though he be destitute of the means
to procure a lodging, " shall be deemed a rogue and
vagabond," and he may be kept to hard labour for
three calendar months. This is consistent enough, for
if we punish for asking alms, we should of course
punish for being destitute. Yet if we do this, let us
not be guilty of the mockery of calling ourselves after
Him who rebuked his disciples for forbidding the
destitute to ask of Him.

The Act creates a number of other offences ; and
then authorises o any person" to apprehend " any
person," and charge him or her with being an idle
and disorderly person, or a rogue and vagabond, or
an incorrigible rogue, and to take the persons so ap-
prehended and their " goods" before a justice ; and
their " bundles, parcels, packages," &e., may be in-
spected, and their money taken, and their goods sold,
to defray their expenses at the House of Correction,
&c. So that an entirely destitute person can be
punished in person only, but a man having property
is to be punished in his purse also. And this plan of
seizing property is largely acted on, for even a man's
private library has been stripped, and his books,
globes, nautical almanacs, mathematical instrument.,
&c., seized, and never seen by him again. Yet, in
the days of " Wilkes and liberty," it was made the
law of the land that books and papers should not be
liable to be seized except for high treason. Alas! it
is easy, by such an Act as this vile Vagrant Act, to
annul and repeal all the liberties of Englishmen ; and
so say the magistrates, " goods " means books and
papers; and a fig for Wilkes, and a fig for liberty,
and hurrah for the Vagraut Act, and the summary
jurisdiction of the Solona who sit upon the bench of
justices ! And Heaven knows, Sir, they have reason
to rejoice, for they have power, where any person
" resists" a peace officer, or shall be twice convicted
to commit him until the quarter sessions, and then he
may be kept for one whole year at hard labour and in
solitary confinement, and may also be " whipped," at
the discretion of the said justices ! And all this with-
out any trial by jury ! Sweet liberty is this !
" But, oh !" will say the stickler for magisterial
power, "the Act is only applied to vagrants, bad
characters, &c., and, therefore, cannot do much harm."
And some folk really think so, and conclude that as
vagrants are usually poor and do not vote for Members
of Parliament, we may safely treat Liberty as a nonen-
tity when she appears in their persons. Ido not agree
with this doctrine ; but the objection is not true, for
magistrates make a custom of sending spies into
peoples' houses to induce them to break this law, and
then pounce upon them, drag them from their homes,
and sanction the police in despoiling them of their
property, and then thrust them into a solitary cell,
there to be kept to hard labour and undergo all the
refinements of modern prison discipline, alias cruelty,
such as wearing a mask and being subject to perpe-
tual silence. And this conduct has been recently
brought by memorial before Sir George Grey, which
notable Whig lover of liberty sanctions it, and de-
clares that he will not interfere. And the Recorder
of Bath lays it down as law, that the magistrates are
in duty bouud to send into an English gentleman's
house "to see what he is about It seems high
time, therefore, that the public take up the case, and
call on the Legislature to pare the claws of these
magisterial dons by amending the Vagrant Act.
And I trust that those of your readers who think so
will send short petitions to the House of Commons,
for that House pays no attention to long ones. Any
person may write such a petition en a sheet of fools-
cap and send it to any Member to present. But this,
to be effectual, should be done by the time Parliament
meets.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,

R. J. MORRISON.

ORIGIN_4L ANECDOTE OF THE HORSE.
(From Kidd's London Journal.)
The horse has puzzled us more, individually, than
any other animal; and though we cannot fairly assort
that we believe him to be gifted with "reason," we
yet readily allow that Providence has placed him in the
highest scale of animal excellence. If we were to relate
one-twentieth part of what we have seen to admire in
connexion with the instinct of the horse, we should ex-
ceed all bounds. Well do we remember, when a mere
boy, forming a strong attachment to a handsome grey
mare, rejoicing in the name of " Peggy." Her propor-
tion:
her bats
tioa were large, her height considerable, and her pre-
senceor bridle, all
noble. We were always to be found, whenever
scene of these
" were •
sed, in
mthaedlystagbalellowpiinth;
without Peggy soarddseleateodr
charming gat
back,over the fields in front of the house. The
The friendship adventures was at Stockwell, Surrey.
existing between ourselves and this
scarcely ever parbre, was nicely balanced. We were
went her ears, UP SW--
on all fours" for tedu 't., " Peggy' would come and kneel
skelter—saime qui
Then would our extevautsi t°
mount; and when mounted, down
ent her tail, and away we flew, helter
achievements affectionate tenderness, ttoed
as carefd?°
the terror of all beholders.
playfellow bend down, with
sit her welcome load on
terra firma, just
Our age, when these IY: as she did to take it up.
early affection was formed, came off, and this
If any thing could induce us
to
exceed seven years!
were capable of " reasoning," surely
oreblelieve that animals
gy's” own dear self. She was theyrit would be " Peg-
fection. I was her best, her dearesr f Paragon of af-
" the goddess (a fat goddess, I must owntivend
1 ; and she
try." There are persons yet living who WiiifrEay id°la-
and remember vividly having seen the Editor ofe.ad this,
London Journal" thus mounted.—even then laying‘l(id"
foundation of a love for the animal creation, laying the
w Luca has
never diminished, but daily increased_
_

FREISTR RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
al French Railways :
are the last returns of the gross re.
The following
11 to Jan. 17 : Passengers,
total, 151,452 f.
ceiltptosuoEfN.t_lieFprorim'nci
jp:n.
Jan. 17 : Passengers,
5611,7240Trit.;LL0r0dr50,1294e
I, 7a3n2.f: ;1 i i 0
19,492 E; goods, 43,537 f. ;
to Jan. 12: Passengers,
BonDEsux.—From Jan.
total,6 101,2021.
38,944 E; goods, 62,2981.;
14 : Passengers,
NANTEs.—Froro Jan. 8 to .tan.
„,
total 62,849 f.
24,6261.; Roods, 26,8771.;_t0ta1, 51,500"
Jan 7: Passengers,
MARSEILLES.—From Jaz. 1 to —,---,..
30,746 E; goods, 21,426 E; total, 52,242 r
passengers,
10, :
LYONS.—From Jan. 4 to Jan.
145,500 f.; goods, 79,894 E; total, 225,393 f.

THE CHATEAU or RAst.—This now noted build-
log was erected in its present state by Odon IV.
in 1216,
on the place of a castle dating probably from the time of the
Romans. The principal tower of this bastille is called "La
Tour du Connetable de St. Pol." For the last thousand
years this castle has served as a state prison, and some of its
memorale inhabitan wee Charles the Simple, King of
France, ibn 923 Louis XL r,
Ring of France, in 1470; Mira-
beau, 1782, &c. Its external.apPearance is quite in keeping
with hiecwevaperivd which It Tria erected,—The Builder.

THE STRIKE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

you do me the favour of inserting the
enclosed letter ? I cannot expect you to be respon•
sible for my opinions, for many will neither under-
stand nor approve them—Yours, &c.,
DALETH.

TO THE MASTERS WHO HAVE STRUCK.
Gentlemen—lt is not unusual when two persons or
parties are differing, for a disinterested observer to
think them both wrong, and that neither has feund
out "the more excellent way."
Whether in the strike that is now threatening so
much inconvenience and suffering, the workmen be
right or wrong, it is not the object of this letter to exa-
mine or assert ' • but I write to pronounce that you, the
educated and the prosperous, who ought to set an ex
ample in " all good things " to the uneducated and
the needy, are pursuing a course unworthy of your
high position, and that cannot be justified by any
principles or rules that should influence and guide an
enlightened Christian community; and such I suppose
you consider yourselves to be. But moral right and
religious duty, and manly bearing are so little
understood in a world where conventional usages,
and commercial maxims, and interested objects get
interwoven with them, that men, like yourselves, take
up with notions, and follow out a course of conduct
(as you are now doing) that are as contrary to truth
and to every injunction of Jesus, whom they profess
to follow, as murder or theft is contrary to Moses
and the Decalogue. Gentlemen, you may be sur-
prised at what I am about positively, but calmly,
to contend for ; but hear me. If the 12,000 men
whom you have turned upon the world to starve, be-
cause they will not comply with your commercial
notions, were to seize your mills and deprive you of
your property, you would condemn them as , doing
what was wrong, and very justly refer to the
Divine law by Moses, " thou shall not steal." But
do you not know, and is it not worthy of your deep
consideration, that you are equally guilty in the course
you are pursuing towards them ? Is )loses every.
thing with you, and Jesus nothing Are you to
compel your workmen to obey Moses, and they have
no call on you to obey Jesus ? Are they to be re-
stricted by Divine laws, and you only by commer-
cial maxims ? I repeat, and fear no contradiction,
that the men would be guilty of no more sin in burn-
ing your mills than you are in depriving them of
the bread they could earn ; and in the midst of the
conflagration it would be as much a Christian-like
shout of triumph, " Go to, now, ye rich men, weep
and howl, for your miseries are come upon you," as
it is Christian-like in you to shut them from your
doors, and with scornful lip sit down and drink
the cup of luxury. I say, are the commands
of Jesus and the Apostles to be nothing
to you ? Is the injunction, " See that ye render to
no man evil for evil, but overcome evil with good,"
to be no direction for you ? Are you to do " what
you like with your own," and resist the Divine corn-
mend of "Look not every man on his own things, but
every man to the good of others ?" Will you declare
that this world's goods are absolutely your own,
though you are cautioned to act as stewards only, and
reminded that " you brought nothing into this world
and can take nothing out ?" Are you to receive the
smiles and approval of men, though Heaven has de-
clared that " he who seeth his brother have need, and
shutteth up his compassion, in him dwelleth not the
love of God ?" In short, will you remain callous to
those awful words, " Inasmuch as ye did it not to one
of the least ofithese my brethren, ye did it not to me;
depart from me F'
But perhaps, gentlemen, you reject religion alto-
gether as your guide, and neither expect your men
nor intend that yourselves should be directed or re-
stricted by its injunctions. On what grounds or
principles, then, do you justify your conduct that
would not equally justify them in laying hold of your
possessions. Does your having the power to turn
them from their earnings, and your power to live
without their labour, justify you ? If so, if they
have the power to seize on your property, and thus
possess the power of doing without you, are they not
m s you rest
ryour c,o
annddu ctth
aotn
tt hi
se
groundsegually jthuasttifiyeodur?:
unjust to deprive you of your own, is not their
ability to labour their own, is not the opportunity
which the demands of the world give for their labour
their own, and are you not equally unjust and become
robbers in depriving them of their opportunities and
powers? And add to which, your own consideration,
that you can live without them, but that they must
starve without you, and do you not stand before the
whole world as by far the greatest sinners, adding in-
justice and obstinacy to the guilt of inhumanity!
Have you never considered that they have possessions
ns well as you, and that you rob them of the
power and opportunity they possess of supplying the
demands of the world and of earning their bread ?
I have not touched, gentlemen, on the abstruse
subject of rights, privileges, and corresponding
duties, which might be a more literary mode of ex-
posing your errors; but I have chosen thus to lay bare
your direct duties and position irrespective of the
rights and wrongs of others. Nevertheless, if we
were to examine your conduct as to rights it would
he easy to show that you can trace no right to do as
you are doing to any higher source than power, and
which is a kind of right you would be sorry to see
y0ur,12,000 men using in right earnest. Gentlemen,
let it no longer be said with the force of divine truth,
"Do not rich men oppress you ?" Let your mode-
ration be known unto all, and trample the silly pride
that now leads you to obstinacy in the very dust.
Yours obediently,
DALETH. Cheltenham, Jan. 24, 1852.

A STRANGE SERMON BY A ROMANIST
PRIEST.
(From a Correspondent of the Clare Journal)
I made a visit to the far-famed west last week, and
having heard that Mr. Meehan, P.P. of Carigaholt, was
to harangue the people at the chapel of Cross, on Sun-
day last, I accordingly waited, and obtained a place
amongst the crowd. I send you the following brief
outline of his sermon, which may serve as a specimen of
the manner in which the poor people of the west are
instructed by this agitating priest, and how landlords
are held up to execration, and the plainest truths per-
verted and facts misrepresented, to work upon the minds
of the deluded but well-disposed people. Father
Meehan is making a last and dying struggle to stop the
Ppirit of inquiry. It is evidently preying upon his
system; so that body and mind seem " ill at ease."
Tne western breez, is becoming too sharp, and is under-
mining a constitution which was once hardy and
vigorous. Mr. Daushy appears well calculated to bat-
tle the storm.

Mr. Meehan then took his text from the 2d chapter of
St. John. He said the Saviour and his virgin Mother
were at a wedding, and that, notwithstanding what Pro-
testants might say, they were at every Roman Catholic
wedding, where the parties were previously prepared by
confession and communion. He then said the lords and
agents of the soil were busily engaged all the week
amongst them; but that any person who sent his child
to Mr. Keane's school, or any other like it, ought to be
kicked out of the parish. He observed that he would
not curse them until he got an account of the children's
names, and then he would let them see what he could
and would do. He then called on Mr. Keane's spies to
listen to what he was saying, and asserted that Mr.
Keane's object was to make Protestants of their children,
as he did of the schoolmaster (" Croobeen"). Ho told
them Lord Palmerston was a souper, and was kicked
out of office; that Louis Napoleon had immortalised his
name by working a complete revolution in France
in two hours and a half, and had sent an army to assist
the Pope, who had no army of his own to guard
him ; and further, that Louis Napoleon appeared to
be an instrument in the hand of God, and might
yet free Ireland ; and that the time was fast ap-
proaching when England might want the Irish people
to fill the army and navy. He next exhorted them to
resist landlords and agents for twelve months, and not
let an inch of their right go with them; that, for his
own part, he was afraid of no man. They all recollected
how he attacked the preachers on the road when they
came to abuse their holy religion. He (Mr. Meehan)
warned them not to sell their souls, or their children's
souls, to the devil. He knew a woman in Kilrush who
sold her children to a sweep for seven years for a
geinea, and afterwards got sorry, and died in a short
time of a broken heart. This woman was a Catholic.
He, therefore, warned the mothers who sold their chil-
dren to Mr.:Keane, for work or bog, to take timely warn-
ing. " Croobeen " and others like him, had some chance,
as they knew the road back—but the children were lost
for ever, and went the direct road to damnation, from
what they learned at the soupers' school. He next ex-
horted them to say the Litany of the Virgin Mary as
long as the schools continued, and that he would never
cease his efforts until they were put down. He con-
cluded by urging them all to pray to the Virgin Mary,
and never cease calling on her to put down the soupers.
Such was the sermon I heard, the text being the marr
riage of Cans.

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of Jesus College,
Oxford,
ihiriimnesieplof very hard pressed, he
shioenmoafdtebea
by two
lion of the worthy doctor's domestics, followed
and bolted through the glass to the no small consterna-
tion
three hounds close upon his heels, and finally ught
also through the window, and in a few
shelter tinder the sofa; this proved of no avail, the_
hounds waiving the etiquette of an introduction, dashed
s poor
sofa. The run occupied Reynard was completely run down and killed under the
trbreellb,rjusunh.,tEso
'who huntsman and ono of the whips were near at hand,
and saved considerable confusion by whipping off the
pied upwards of an hour and a ball.
other hounds, which were equally eager to gain admit-
tance to the drawing-room. The worthy master of the '
second
making
a memento of the novel circumstance.
ajpresentMc;
cithe hleaurnreedsoldvoltourP, upon
Bounds,

PRICES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER CON
PANIES' STOCK.
LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23.

JOINT-STOCIL BANXS.

same of Ci maPallY•

Australasia • . • • • • • • ••
Brash North A anorican
Commercial of London
Colonial.. ... . ..... • •
Gloncestershir a ••• • • •
lonian .. • • • • ••
Landon and 0 innty • •
Londn and We stminstr
London Joint- Stock . • •
Provincial of I reland • -
Ditto, New. • • • • • • • -
National of Leland ••
Nat. Provncir Al of Eng.
Ditto, New . •• • • • • •
Oriental Bani z Corpora.
South Anstra lia • • • • • •
Union of _Am tralla • • • •

Union of Landon. •• ••
Union of Madrid .• • • •

Dividend
Per

Annum.

51. per cent.
Si. per cent.
61. per cent.'
21. per cent.
151 per cent.
6/. pr cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
Si. per cent.
81. per cent.
41. per cent.
6/. per cent.
61. per cent.
71. per cent.
6/. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
71. per cent.

Amount
of
Share.

X N. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

2500
50 0 0
100 0 0
AO 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0

A •. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0

25 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
22 10 0
35 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
2 10 0
10 0 0
40 0 0

50 0 0
40 0 0

Price,

24%
22y,

22U
29%

ivralnitAlTCX COMPANIES.
me of Company.. per of Dividend Amount
Na
"'ununl• Share. Paid. Price
A g. d•
Albion •••••• • • • • '• •'81• 10a. 500 0 0. 50 0 0. 86
Alliance 8.-it. and Far. 71. 148.6d.b5. 100 0 0 11 0 0 21
Ditto lei trine. •• •• •• 61• P.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 43t
Atlas ..• -•• •• ..... •• 138.6 d. 50 0 0 510 0 17%
Argus Litt •• •• • • •• 41• Per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0
British Ce mmercial - 78. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 7
Clericl,Me (Lk Gen•Lifii spr ct.icbs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 273 i
County ••-••• • " - • ' 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
148. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15
Eagle ••• • • • ...... '• •• . h. 50 0 0 50 0 6%
Eqity and Law •• •• • • 416 n
- rer Cent. 100 0 0 50 0 4%
European I.in) ••.. • 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 12
General •-•••• • • • • • • -- 5 0 0 .. 5%
61. per cent. Stock. 132
Guardian •••••• • • " ' • 51' Per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 55%
Imperial Fire •• ••• • • • 101. per ccnt. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
Imperial Lif 0•••• • • • • 128. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18
Indemnity 31 urine •• •• 11.8$, & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 50
Law Fire ..•••• • •• •• h.& 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 3%
Law Life •••••• • • • • • • ..... 100 0 0 10 0 0 46%
Legal and Go Ural Life -
50 0 0 2 0 0 5%
London Fire •••• • • • • 105. & be. 25 0 0 12 10 0 213
London Ship ..... •• •• 103. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 21%
Marine ••-- • • " '..!,•:. 158• Per share 100 0 0 15 ,0 0 15%
Med. Invlid AP Gen . a.iie 4%i, Per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
Monarch •••-•• • • • • •• -- 5 0 0 1 0 0 19s
National LOILII Fund 5.-1. Per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2.
%
Palladium Li fe .• . -
Phoenix ••••• .• • ... • • .i. .Sh. as
Professional : Life ..
P cnt. 6 5 0 010 0 175.6 d
-•er e bs. - - 161
Provident Lii b•••• • • • • 11, ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
Rock Life •••-•• • • • • • • bs. 10 0 010 0 6%
Royal Exchiinge ••• • •• 61. p.a. & bs. Stock. all 227
San Fire ••••••• • • • • •• 61. 10s. - , P 209
Ditto Lifo .• • • • • •
united Kingdom
Universal ILlfe•• •• • • -
Victoria Li fe ......... 41. p. ct. &be. 20 0 0 4 ~
0 4
51. per cnt. - 412 6 5%
-- -
ratinGZlN
Dividend Amount
Name of Complty.
per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--,..
------
X. s. d. A. a. d.
-
Hangerf0rc1.......... - - 15
Southwrk • • ...... 100 0 0 - -
Ditto NN Vof7%p• e: 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Waterloo ...........
100 0 0 - 3
-
Ditto Ohl Ann. ofBl. 2/. 89. Od.
-
60 0 0 24%
Ditto Na' ditto 0f,,71. 2/. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 22
Vauxhall • ... ....4.y. _
21. 70 10 II - 18
WATER-177412•11L8 ________
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
1 Annum. Share.
East Lond: i s. 4. A s. d.
m •.
•1
•• , 81. Sr bs. 100 0 0 - 145
Grand Jimition ..... 4l. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 67
- 81
.............Si. per cut. 100 0 0 - 97
New River Company.. -
tgiti;t.i; .....
.. i 41. per cat. 100 0 0
j 21. 10s. - 60
Vauxhall'. •
•••••• •• •• 51, per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
West Midd lescx .. . 61. Os. pr cnt. - - 106
DOCILIIS*
Dividend ' Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--_
x g. d. X a. d.
Commercial ......
•• •• 41. pr cent. Stock. - 8R34
East and West India... 61 pr cent.
East Country Stock.
100 0 0 - 144
- -
London .......
"•• • • 5/. pr cent. Stock. - 121
•• •• • •• . 205.. per 510.
Ditto 80nd5........ 11. per cent. - - -
St• Katharine .••..... 3% per cent. Stock. -. 81
Ditto R0ad5........ 4% i. pr cent. - - -
Southampton ........ - 50 0 0i 50 0 0 -
in s
of sii ',Dividend
C.6.11/A1:•0
• 1.. ,
Names of .2 Dividend) , per
Companies. le I per .c - A ~,,,,,,,. Price.
Annum.
_----- -- ---_
price' Companies.
.........
.......-. ..........I
X 1 Z \
Ashtn& Oldh 9871. Macclesfield. 160( 21.108. 50
Barnsley -. • 1601 - p. ct. 140
_ Neath ••• • • • 1001 161. -
UrknkStAbrg 1501 5/. 85 Oxford ••• • • • 100 t 131. 185
Birmingham 40, 41..
200 93% Peak Forest. 78131. 18s. 'lO
Coventry.... 100 251
Regent's •• • • 33 , 1/. as. 17%
,
Derby •• • - 100
Ellsrnre&Chs 50 2% p. et. 3514
61. 63 Rochdale ..• •85 21. 42
Semrse t Coal 1501 - -
Grs.ndJunetn 100 3/. pr. et. 4856
IDo., 6 pr• Ct. 10 61, pr. et. 11 % Do.LkEdSt 11l - -
Stfird &Wore 140 , 281. 405
Grand Surrey 100 11. Os. 32%
Shrewsbury.. 125
iirand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 1
Stourbridge.. ,A 5 I 201. 290
Kennt& A•rn 39 4s 04. 5% Severn andl - 1
21. Os. 24
Lancaster . 100 .-
- Wye Rail. f 26
Leeds& Livrp 109' 201. 405 Warwick& 1
Leicester ...• 100 5/. 66 Rirming. J 1001 41. 40
Lei cstr &Nth 83' 41. 443,E Warwick&l
100 31. 28
Loughborogh 142 701. 510 Napton..
mcnmouthsh 100 - - Worcstr &2 ,_
11.1ntgemrysh 100, - - Birming. j' ° 31. 33
Icatnmwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brits - Ils• 6d. 7%

C-4....01.5-LIGH'.I' AND CORE COMPANIES.
Oivldend 1 Amount
Name Of Company. per 1 of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-------
, X. is. el. X. s. d.
British -••••- " • • • • 1.• 40 0 0 18 0 0 11%
Ditto Provincial.. • • 11. 88. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18
Brighton ••• • • • ..• •• ' .51. 20 0 0 - -
City of London - • •"• 61. " 100 0 0 150 0 0 130
Continental Consolidat. 50s• 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
F.quitable -••••• • • • • - 508, 50 0 0 50 0 0 2714
Imperial •••• • • ••• •• • 31. . 50 0
61• 0 50 0 0 69
Independent .•• ••• • • • 40 0 0 40 0 0 46%
_.
London• ••••••• • • •• " 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Part Preference Si. 25 0 0 710 0 '-
4
Phcenix .••..•• • • •• • • 50 0 0 49 0 0 26% 5/1,
.
Batten' .. •• ••••• • "• IL 100 0 0 90 00 I -
United General .•• • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0 16%
3
Westuinstor Chartered 50 0 0 - 42
Ditto, New • • •-11.
23. 50 0 0 10 00 , -
-• • •
NISI' or sclos"risu compANiz,
0 PRICZJII
Dividend Amount
Name of COME.anY• r of Paid. Price.
Annum, Share.
£s.d.Z s. d ...
..... 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 182
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Coropany 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 199
Caledonian Bank •-• • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 31.115.
City of Glasgow lsank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
per cent.' 20 0 0 10 0 0 12/ las
Clydesdale Bank -•• • • • 6%
Commercial Bane •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 ' 100 0 0 175
Eastern Bank • • °
...... 6i. ,er cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9 !4-
EdinbioGlasgow
~
Bank 61. percent,l 50 0 50 0 2,;4
Emohangeßnk of Scot. • 41. per cent.
percent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15 ,100 0 0 42 0 0 g
ational
~ , ...• • qs,i
N Bank
••
Scotland Bank 5/.per cent. 120 0 0 910 0 2%
Royalßank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 132
Union Bank of ScOtland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 44_
fa
Western Bank .• •-• • • • 74. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67
Alliance Fire and Life si% /. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21%
British GUaralathe .• • • 41. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 23s Od
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 33
City of Glasgow Life • • 61 per cent 25 0 0 2 0 0 3/. 155
Colonial Life .• •-• • • • 51. per cont. 50 0 0 10 0 2%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 1 22
Eng.& Scot, Law Life 51. percent. 50 0 0 217 6 I :N
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 3/. 155
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0
1 0 0 255.6 d
North British Insur. - Si. ner cent, 200 0 0 20 0 0 30
IcottishUnionlnirnce. OV. pr Cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 291.0 d
Standard Lifo •••• • • ' • 51' per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 1236
United Dep.Assurance 81. per cent
10 0 0 1 0 0 20e sod
2VI4C S C ELZANEOUS.
DivideTce, ' Amount
Name of CompallY• per
of Paid, Price.
'-''"r"la• Share.
________....--- -----.......,
....---- -...-
dX.O. i• ~,
Assam Tea .... • • • • • • -
20 00. 20 0 0 vYs
luetion Mart •••• • • • • 21• ss• 50 0 0 - 26%
Australian Agricalturl 1/,
Australian Trust •• • • 67. Per cent 100 0 0 30 0 0 15
35 0 0 20X
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. IL 105.
10 0 0 10 0 0 22
Ditto, Half Shares.. -- 210 0 -
British American Land -.-
38 10 0 -
Canada ..... , ....... 81. percent. 100 0 0,32 10 0 -
Do. 5 per cent Fiends - - - 100
Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 61. Percent. - -
City Navigation Bonds 31 per cent. -93. X
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5p.c.&b5,2/ 100 0 0 ;100 0 0 95
Equitable Rovers teary 51 pr. cent, 100 0 0 100 0 0 :-
Ditto New ...... • • •- 50 0 0 710 0 -
Gen.SteatnNavigation 10 p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 28
Hudson's Bay .. .... • • 206
-..-
Hungerford ...... • • ..
100 0 0 47
_
London Institution ... 21. 53. Stock.
78 15 0 6%
New Zealand Company - -
Ditto, New . ...... . - 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
ussell Institution.... '-' 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
26 5 0
Peninelr&Orient.Strn, 8/ - -
Reversionary Int, Soc. 4 •13. o.s bs. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Rcyal Mail Steam..., 60 0 0 78
Routh Australian ...., 1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100%
,4,t. P. share. 100 0 0
25 0 0 23
Van Dieman's LaLd.. 1 '..Per share. 25 0 0
. 10 0 29 0 0 1 1

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A CUNNING SAILOR,.--.-.`Vine was once made in
Golconda upon the hills. During the reign of the great Ak-
bar, whose tomb near Agra has lately been repaired, though
wine was forbidden, et it was evidently used in this the
1.
noblest city of
his emyire. It is related that Akbar, stand-
ing in need of good gunners,got them from on beard Eng-
lish vessels trading
to
his dominions. One of these, who,
1 from the dry character of the man, was evidently a tar, be-
am ordered to fire at a carpet
his
peror might see :
x e de t rity purposely shot wide of it.
li e was reproved, andtold that'he was an impostor. Upon
which the fellow answered, with great pretended humility,
I that his sight was bad from having been debarred the use of
wine, but if Akbar ordered him a cup, he would hit a smaller
mark. A cup, a full quart, was brought him, which he
ln
I drunk off, and then tir'4g hit the mark, to the applause of
all present. Akbar ord it be recorded, "that wino
ordered to
was as necessary to Euroeans as water to fish; and to de-
prive them of it was to
rob them of the greatest comfort of
their lives." "He then gave
permission to foreigners to cul-
tivate vineyards in his dominions.—Redding on Wines.
GRATIFYING C FOTGNE.—A poor old
CHANGE oretts, who f 0 R
cooper of (-Merton,
-N r veveril years !ices de-
scrvedly earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, has, we
are informed, by a late decision of the Court of Chancery,
been declared to property entitled to the extent of 30,000/,
Derby Mercury,

LAW INTELLIGENCE,
EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Jan. 24.

(Before the CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas, Mr.
Baron ALDERSON, Mr. Justice COLEBIDGE, Mr. Jus-
tice WIGHTHAN, Mr. Justice CRESCWELL, and Mr.
Justice TALFO ORD.)
REG. V. POWELL.

In this case the prisoner was tried before Mr. Justice
Talfourd, at the last assizes at Brecon, upon an indict-
ment charging him with burglariouslv breaking and
entering the dwelling-house of David4Willianiti, with
intent to steal "goods and chattels" therein. And it
appeared from the evidence adduced at the trial, that in
the year 1843 the prisoner borrowed of the prosecutor
the sum of 6001., and executed to him as security a
mortgage in fee of certain freehold land. And after-
wards in the year 1848 he borrowed a further sum of
2001., and executed a further mortgage upon the same
land; subsequently the prosecutor, the mortgagee,
brought an action of debt against the prisoner for the
recovery of sums which he had lent, which action was
impending, and approaching trial, when the burglary
was committed. The evidence proved that the prisoner
committed the burglary in order to steal the mortgage
securities, and the jury found that the offence was com-
mitted with intent to steal the mortgage deeds. In
a bundle with the first deed which had been kept in a
drawer ransacked on the night of the burglary
was a cancelled bond of a former mortgage belonging to
Williams, the mortgagee, and which was also afterwards
kept with both mortgage deeds; but these were in fact at
the office of the mortgagees' attorney when the burglary
was committed. At the trial it was objected, on behalf
of the prisoner, that the intent was nut properly alleged
in the indictment, as, though the mortgage deeds
might be the subject of atatutable larceny as " valuable
securities," they were not " goods and chattels;" but
the Learned Judge overruled the objection, thinking that
the mortgage deeds being substantially securities for
debts, and containing covenants to pay principal and
interest, were distinguishable from deeds which, as sa-
vouring of realty, were not the subject of larceny at
common law, and that the parchments on which the
covenants were inscribed were chattels, even if the words
" goods and chattels" might not be rejected as sur-
plusage. The prisoner was then sentenced to be trans-
ported for ten years; but was ordered to be detained in
this country until the opinion of the Court of Error in
criminal cases should have been taken upon the point.
Mr. SLAVE, Q.C. (with whom was Mr. T. Allen) con-
tended, on behalf of the prisoner, that the indictment
charged him with burglary, with intent to steal " goods
and chattels," and the jury having found that the intent
was to steal certain " mortgage deeds," there was,
therefore, a fatal variance between the allegation and
the finding, inasmuch as "mortgage deeds," savouring
of realty, could not come within the definition of
" goods and chattels;" end in support of this argument
the Learned Counsel cited a caae from the third insti-
tutes, to the effect that where charters which savoured
of realty were deposited in a box, that bax could not be
the subject of larceny by reason of its containing the
charters.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Then if a lion were confined
in a cage, I suppose the cage would be considered ferce
naturce.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas—
It has been decided in Gloucestershire that larceny can-
not be committed of a canary's cage, because it savours
of the canary.;
Mr. SLADE—The offence alleged in the indictment
was a felony, whereas the prisoner had only been guilty
of a statuable misdemeanour by the 233 section of the
7th and Bth Geo. IV., c. 29, which makes it a misdemea-
nour only to steal deeds and writings relating to real
estate .

No counsel appearing on behalf of the Crown, the Court
said they would take time to consider the case.

REG. V. WILLIAM lON.

This was a case tried at the Central Criminal Court,
and reserved by the Recorder of London.
The prisoner was indicted for feloniously uttering,
disposing of, and putting off a forged receipt for poor-
rates. It appeared that a man of the name of James
Gifford was desirous of borrowing some money from
James Dwyer, a money lender, but it being necessary
that he should have a security for that purpose, he re-
ferred Dwyer to the prisoner. Dwyer thereupon called
on the prisoner concerning the loan and security, when
the latter produced three receipts for poor-rates, one of
which was forged, which he placed in Dwyer's hand for
the purpose of inspection. The jury by their verdict
found the prisoner guilty, and that ho placed the forged
recept in the hands of Dwyer for the purpose of vouch-
ing for his respectability, and of being accepted as se-
curity, and thus of obtaining the advance of money upon
loan to James Gillord, It was objected at the trial on
behalf of the prisoner, that the placing of the forged re-
ceipt in the hands of Rwyer for inspection only, and not
for the purpose of obtaining or avoiding the payment of
any money, was not a sufficient " uttering" upon which
the prisoner could be found guilty.
Mr. METCALFE, for the prisoner, contended that the
only question in the case arose upon the uttering,"
for the words " disposing of and putting off " explained
themselves, and did not apply to the present circum-
stances. He admitted that the word "uttering" included
an intention to defraud, but it was clear that the pri-
soner had no such intention, for he did not produce
the receipt to absolve himself from any payment, and
therefore there was no uttering on the part of the pri-
soner. In support of this argument he cited Shukard's
ease, reported in Russell and Ryan's Reports, page
200, which decided that showing a wan an instrument,
the uttering of which would be criminal, though with
an intent of raising a false idea in him of the party's
substance, was not an " uttering or publishing."
Mr. PARRY, fJr the prosecution, contended that
" uttering" meant the bodily representing a false docu-
ment to be a true one, with intent to deceive and de-
fraud, and that in the present case, in order to obtain a
sum of money for another, and to show that ho (the pri-
soner) was a respectable man, and had a house fur which
he paid the rates, and was, therefore, a good security, he
represented as genuine a document which was false, and
was, therefore, guilty of uttering with intent to deceive
and defraud.
Mr. METCALFE replied, and the Court said that they
would take time to consider their judgment,
KEG, V. ROGLTEE.

The prisoner was tried for perjurybafore the Recorder
of the city of London, upon an indictment which alleged
that the defendant had been tenant to one George
Healey, the prosecutor, of a certain dwelling-house
wed premises under a certain rent, and that in the
month of June, 1851, the said George Healey had
distrained upon the defendant fur a certain arrear of
that rent. The perjury assigned was, that the defendant
had in substance falsely sworn, amongst other things,
at a tall at Nisi Prins (upon which the question was
material), that there was only one quarter's rent of the
premises duo at the time of the said distress. Upon the
trial the prosecutor positively swore to the fact of there
being five quarters of the rent due to him at the time of
the distress in June, 1851; and in contradiction the de-
fendant produced his books, by which he refreshed his
memory, and proved the last payment of rent to have
been for rent due at Christmas, 1849. For the purpose
of corroborating his statement, and showing by the oaths
of two witnesses the falsity of the matters sworn to by
the defendant, John Hoaley, the son of the prosecutor,
was examined, and deposed to a conversation with the
defendant, in August, 1850, when the defendant admitted
that three or four quarters of the rent in question was
then due. A receipt from the prosecutor to the defen-
dant was produced at the trial, purporting to be a re-
ceipt for the rent to Christmas, 1849. No evidence of
payment of rent was given by or on behalf of the de-
fendant subsequently to August, 1850. At the trial it
was urged on behalf of the defendant that the fact of
more than one quarter's rent being due at the time of the
distress was not sufficiently made to appear by the oaths
of two witnesses, for the case to bo left to the jury;
that John Healey's statement as to the admission of the
defendant wont no further than to establish the fact that
in August, 1850, rent was due, but did not confirm the
prosecutor in his statement of the five quarters' rent
being unpaid at the time of the distress, or in explana-
tion of the error in the receipt. The Learned Records!.
overruled the objection, hnt reserved the point for the
consideration of the Court of Appeal.
Mr. O'BRiEN, on behalf of the prisoner, contended
that the evidence of John Healey, the prosecutor's son,
respecting the conversation with the defendant in June,
1850, was not corroborative of the evidence of the pro-
secutor respecting the state of accounts between him
and the defendant, and that when a person was charged
with the offence of perjury it was not enough to dis-
prove what he had sworn by the oath of one other wit-
ness, but that unless there were two oaths, or some docu-
mentary evidence, or some admission, or some circum-
stances to supply the place of a second witness, it was
not sufficient. (Reg. v. Parker, Carrington and Marsh-
man Reports, 646). It was also essential in perjury
that the evidence in corroboration should have relation
to the fact upon which perjury was assigned, which was
wanting in the present case.
sufficient
bfyorevtihdeepnrcoesethcuattioonne, u4gthedivtahsa.
moret it was
atos
what extent the amount of corroborative evidence
and was
be relied on than the other, and that it did
vniodtensf
went,
as as that was a question to bo left to the j
not for the Judge to decide.
any general rule upon
of opinion
case they were
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Said that the Court did not
think it necessary to lay down
the subject, but in the present
that the conviction was wrong, as there was not sigh-
corroborative support the charge of
evidence to
cleat
perjury.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
tt ORSIIIP- SI KELT.
Frederick Powell, a tali, athletic nit.chanic, was charged
with the manslai,ghter of an elderly man, named Thomas
Man field, a publican, residing somewhere in the neigh-
bourhood of Milton-street, Cripplegate.
This prisoner was originally brought up on Saturday
week, when he was simply charged with being drunk
and riotous, and then it appeared, from the e 'd
... ,Itt once of
the only witness present at the occurrence, that thea few d c -
ceawed had gone out tor the purpiise of purcLasing
nuts for a squirrel, whi:th he packed u in a. handker-
chief, and way I,: tailing home through hW
Finsbury, when he heard a shouting noise blel6lZthreimet,
yoanedxains:
and, on turning round to ascertain theh
jeering
prisoner staggering about in a state or illUtei--/xoficirtiisoanw, f Cile-
I o vs. e d by a
psuerltaitnegdhaitmihis annoyance that he ttlrnedbescuadmdeenstl round
and made a dash afttr hit little
perm,
enabled them to get beyond his reacel- an uters'
d whozo ,:.c',i*ity
from his vexation and drunkenness, the Prisoner,
make any discrimination, immediate! bei'lg unable to
turned unfortunate deceased, who was wi'd Y upon the
watching the proceedings, s 4
and ' 1 •
I to be standing still
Gea,t him such a violent
blow upon the head that he ea
1,1; i,;,,,,.ijiy upon tile edge
of
thgege,red a short distance,
being raised up by the bystanders,7.erfc'7l°4°, arl, I,Pc'
it was discovered that
he could not stand, and was suffering excruciating agony
in one of his legs. The deceased was immediately placed
in a cab and conveyed to §t. Dartholomew'a 110Pitalt

where his thigh was pronounced to be fractured, and
the. prisoner was remanded to await the result of the in-
juries the man had sustained.
A constable of the G division who was now in attend-
ance stated, that the object of the prisoner's viol,nce,
after lingering in acute pain far a considerable time, had
at length expired in the hospital, and that upon a coro-
ner's jury being called to inquire into the case they had
returned a verdict against the prisoner of " Man-
slaughter." The constable, in answer to a question
from the magistrate, added that the surgeon who had
been in attendance upon the deceased had been com-
pelled to leave town. and that several days must elapse
before he would be able to appear and give evidence.
When called upon for his answer to the charge the
prisoner said that he was an entire stranger in Loudon,
having only just come up from the country, and that he
had drunk so much upon the night in question that he
had not the slightest recollection of an, thing that had
taken place ; he felt satisfied, however, that he must
have been uncontrolably exasperated to strike the de-
ceased in the manner alleged, for which he was ex-
tremely sorry, and it was evident ho bad been most
shamefully treated himself, as he had several injuries
and contusions on different parts of his person,
The MAGISTRATE intimated that the formal proof of
the cause of the death of the deceased was indispensable,
and the prisoner was therefore remanded until that day
week to enable the surgeon to attend and give it.