The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1853.

ers, carpenters, carvers and gilders, coachmakers
and fitters, coopers, engineers, boilermakers,
moulders, leather-workers, labourers, painters,
glaziers and colourmen, plasterers, plumbers,
pewterers, tin-plate workers and type founders,
printers, rope makers and twine spinners,
sawyers, stone masons, shipwrights and ship-
joiners, shoemakers, silk and velvet workers,
smiths, tailors, tobacconists and cigarmakers,
farriers, glass and earthenwareworkers, gold and
silver workers and watchmakers, hatters, cutlers
and instrumentmakers. Altogether, no less
than 100,000 men spoke thus through their re-
presentatives. No wonderthe Chairman, on opening
the proceedings, spoke of the meeting as one of no
ordinary character, adding that there were actually
then present a larger number of working men than
could be found in many of the German Princi-
palities. The precise object of the Meeting was, of
course, as had been intimated in the Advertisement
calling the trades' delegates together, to enable
the labouring classes of the capital to declare
themselves in favour of opening the Crystal
Palace on Sundays. In doing this, however, they
were not only demanding a particular boon, but
asserting a wide and comprehensive principle. In
reference to the Sabbath Desecration Cry thereby
protested against, it was remarked yesterday by one
of the speakers representing the silk-weavers of
Spitalfields, that "it was a curious circumstance
to think that it was no desecration to walk by the
side of the Serpentine in Hyde-park, while it ap-
peared that a walk by a fountain in the garden of the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham was desecration." An-
other of the delegates very truly remarked that it was
not charity they wanted in the matter, but only
justice. All that the working classes require, in
fact, is to be allowed to worship their Maker as
they please. They simply cry out, as against an
odious and intolerable injustice, against the attempt
to make punishable by law such acts as their strolling
among flower-beds, or sauntering over the green-
sward, or reposing under the shadow of the su
mer branches, or basking in the sunshine on tl
brink of a fountain. They have permission to wa}
whenever they like in the fields at Battersea-z--
they want equal freedom to go if they will on
Sundays as far as the fields at Sydenham.
Everybody knows that labour no less than hun-
ger imparts a relish to the homeliest nourish-
ment optimum obsonium labor—it is even an
adage that "labour is the best sauce." If

is to the homely food of Nature that the toiling
people desire liberty to go where they list upon
Sundays, with that keen appetite for moral and
intellectual nourishment. They want merely, as
HENRY MAYHEW • said last night, to claim their
right, as rational beings, to use their only day of
rest out of every seven in such a way as shall make
them better, wiser, and healthier. An honest
wish enough—and one, GOD knows, in no manner
opposed to the beneficent principles of Chris-
tianity.

The Foreign duties of the English Press have
recently been much discussed, and it is desirable
that they should be well understood, and gene-
rally recognised. On the whole, native good
sense had guided the majority of journals rightly
enough, and it is not our purpose to summon any
whom we may consider delinquents to our bar ;
we merely wish to express our own general views
in common with others. So very much in this, as
well in all departments of literature, must be left to
the sound judgment and cultivated taste of the
individual, and the circumstances themselves
which call for discussion or comment are so
various, that unless the writer has a higher inter-
nal law than rules or precedents, he must both
commit himself, and, if of importance enough,
bring discredit on his profession. To warn a
journal, for instance, of the slightest Pretensions
to character, that it ought not without satisfac-
tory evidence to admit statements injurious to the
reputation of a Foreign Government or nation,
would be to' insult it ; it would mean in plain
words, "Be careful how you circulate lies." A
caution, we hope, needed by few English journals,
though, occasionally, a desirable eagerness to give
the earliest information may lead to the very
verge of this moral precipice. A day or two
commonly suffices to justify the position, or
to step back becomingly. Beyond the simple
line of truthfulness, however, almost everything
must be decided by a great number of considera-
tions, many of them conflicting, and many of them
of a rather delicate kind.
Remarking in English journals on the conduct
of Foreigners and their Rulers must be guided, in
great part, by the same views which should regu-
late the remarks of neighbours on other families
and their iheads. What it is our right and duty
to notice and censure in our own household, we
should shrink from making the subject of street
or parish talk and condemnation in the case of our
neighbour. We should expect to be informed it
was no business of ours, much less that of the
neighbourhood's ;, and we should not look for the
continuance of friendly recognition. If we, then,
indulge the same freedom on many points with
our national neighbours as we do with our people
and Government, we must expect a resentful sena*
of intermeddling. But, on the other hand, if our
neighbour flagrantly and openly violates the ac-
knowledged duties of domestic life, or if he becomes
in the eyes of all the oppressor of those he is
bound to protect, he has no right to com-
plain if the insulted social feelings of his neigh-
bours find some appropriate vent. In the case,
however, of nations as of individuals, who is to
be judge of what demands such extra-judicial
chastisement ? We can only reply each one for
himself. The check of general civilised opinion
is as much needed by nations (and has been seen
even lately to have a very salutary effect), as the
check of social opinion is needed by individuals.
Both checks are sadly too much unheeded, yet
both society and the world would go on much
worse without them. The desirable, but difficult,
perhaps impossible, problem is to get rid of all
their attendant evils. While, however, we all in
our own opinion are so much wiser than foreigners,
and while they are as sensitive as we in their
place should be to the least appearance of assump-
tion, things never will run quite smooth.
On the one hand, the English Press is confes-
sedly the only Free Press in Europe. Here only
can any of the great social and political questions
which affect so deeply the welfare of millions be
freely discussed at all. Here only can the
wrongs of the down-trodden be recorded
before the world, and the martyr's groans
and cries be heard from beneath the altar. Eng-
land is not only the land of refuge for the pro-
scribed patriot,—it is the refuge for his principles
also. From the English !Press alone can they be
proclaimed, their wisdom or their folly discussed,
and an impartial verdict given. Nor can our
press evade its duty in this respect. Its writers
must share the sympathies of their people, and
the English people, lovers above all of liberty for
themselves, will sympathise with real patriots and
martyrs all the world over. They scarcely know
how to tolerate the necessary diplomatic pro-
prieties of our statesmen towards foreign despots
and bigots, and they would be utterly disgusted
with a press which followed merely the conven-
tional courtesies of their Government. Our

respectable writers are fully aware of their digni-
fied position. They repel, on the ono hand, the
selfish and ambitious revolutionist, and do justice
to enlightened victims of relentless oppression,
and circumstances fresh in every one's- recollection
show how lawless despots disrelish the English
press. No doubt one journal may condemn as
an enthusiast, or worse, the man whom another
lauds as a model of wise patriotism ; but
this, of course, is merely a question of diversity
of judgment—a, diversity inevitable where jour-
nalism is really independent.
But if, on the one hand, the Free Press of Eng-
land is bound to plead the cause which is perse-
cuted or silenced elsewhere, and to denounce
marked injustice or wickedness everywhere, how
many modifying and limiting considerations are
there ? Our imperfect knowledge of foreign modes
of thought and feeling, and of the adaptedness of
what we prise at home to the wants of other na-
tions ; the amount of injury we may do by ill-
considered censures ; the way in which they may
be distorted and perverted by the few who can
react our language to the many who can not, and

hence the possibility of their being used to re-
awaken slumbering national animosities. We fear
that a recent flagrant instance of this wickedness,
for such it is, is but too well established in the
professed quotations of a continental journal of
high position, from one of high position here.)
Against wilful misrepresentation, of course, no
journalist can guard; still the tendency to it
abroad is a motive to greater caution to
it at home. We may even needlessly, by irri-
tating foreign powers over whom we have
no kind of control, actually lessen our
opportunities of serving those for whom we would
intercede. We may prolong captivities, and mul-
tiply stripes. Despots may seek indemnification
in the sufferings of their victims for the mortifica-
tion of our exposure of their deeds. It is a plain
fact, too, that even oppressed nations are liable to
construe an insult to their rulers as one offered to
themselves, unless, indeed, like Hungary or Italy,
they are living in a state of smothered insurrec-
tion. The hereditary or the chosen ruler of a
people is naturally regarded by them as the im-
personation of the state, and though they may
be ready enough to revile him themselves, they
will be affronted to hear a foreigner do it, just as
an injured wife will not allow another woman to
reproach her husband.
With the noblest of duties, then, devolving
upon it, yet surrounded by so many dangers in
discharging it, the English press has both a high
and delicate service to perform. It has to sustain
nd improve international sentiments, without
awounding national pride. It may not truckle
and fawn, yet it may not assume and
bluster. Truthful and, when needful, se-
vere it must be vituperative, never. It
is bound to utter the judgments of our com-
mon -humanity in the only court open to pro-
nounce them, but also not to endanger its in-
terests while aiming to promote them. Flagrant
crimes of conquerors, such as• Poland, Hv ngary,
Mexico, and Rome, can witness to—flagrant le-
galised iniquity, like imprisonment or the guillo-
tine for ,Bible-reading, and American Negro-
Slavery—it would be traitorous to pass over in
silence, but almost as traitorous to be blind to
the beam in our own eye. In a word, it is for
the English Press to manifest the difference be-
tween what its noblest advocate termed unli-
censed printing and licentious printing.

The time is rapidly approaching when a full and
satisfactory answer must be returned to the ques-
tion, What will be done with the Property and
Income Tax ? On that answer will greatly de-
pend the duration of the ABERDEEN Administra-
tion. If it be in accordance with the popular
will—if it be stated that the impost shall be en-
tirely remodelled, the flagrant injustice of the pre-
sent system done away with, and the matter
placed upon an equitable foundation, the country
will sustain the Ministry in the attempt, -and the
people will testify their gratitude to those who
have conceded a boon in every respect so accept-
able, who have swept away a crying grievance,
under which the nation had been arnieted for a
dozen years. If, however, on the other hand,
they ,endeavour to perpetuate the nuisance, not
all the official experience and administrative talent
which they unquestionablypossess, were they double
or even quadruple, could long avert the fate
which, sooner or later, inevitably awaits those who
offer a perverse and obstinate resistance to the
reasonable demands of the community.
It is universally admitted that the impost must
be renewed, in some form, previous to the termi-
nation of the financial year. Unless something
be done previously to the sth of April next, the
Income and Property Tax will expire of itself ;
and not only will there be an end to the hopes of
fiscal relief that have been so strongly excited re-
specting the Tea Duties—taxes on knowledge, and
other oppressive burdens,—but a serious deficiency,
very prejudicial to the national credit, must be
occasioned. A deficiency, the consequences of
which have been graphically depicted by Joni
MACGREGOR, the energetic, consistent, and talented
Member for Glasgow. Such evils arenot to belightly
encountered. We believe that there are not a dozen
men of ordinal y education, in or out of Parlia-
ment who would dare to advocate a course so ha-
zardous. It is also certain that no efficient sub-
stitute could he provided that would bring in--
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be
edy
admitted,
hn lost
to half
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Exchequer.poundseven
moietysterling oft
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by members of all sides and parties in the }louse
—the 53 "impracticables" alone excepted—that
there could not only be no addition to the indi • • -
rect imposts, already more than
sufficiently oner-
ous—but that there should be a further exten-
sion of the policy that had been proved beyond
the possibility of doubt or contradiction , to be
" wise, just, and beneficial."
A proposition for the increase of the House
Tax could scarcely be brought forward
by the pre-
sent Govornment, while the vote by which they
obtained possession of office, and were enabled to
grasp the reins of power, is yet fresh in the -
li recollection. Nor, indeed, if they could even
" screw their courage to the sticking place," so
far as to bring forward such a proposition, and
that they could induce a majority of the House
to yield a reluctant assent, would it prove an
a dequate substitute, or realise more than one-
eighth of the loss they would sustain by the ces-
sation of the Property and Income Tax. Some-
thing might be done by the equalisation of the
Land Tax a matter which Mr. DISRAELI
should not have neglected during his tenure of
office—but even that would scarcely be sufficient
to supply the deficiency. Nor even, if practicable,
would it be desirable to remove the weight from
all descriptions of property, real as well as per-
sonal, to place it exclusively on that " savouring
of the reality," to exonerate the fundholder and
mortgagee at the expense of the landed proprietor
and householder. It may, therefore, be considered
as certain that " the impost must be renewed in
some form previous to the termination of the
financial year, on the sth April next."
Two questions of "principle" will have to be
decided in the first instance before details are
gone into—first, the distinction between pre-
carious" and temporary, and certain and perma-
nent incomes ; secondly, as to whether there is to
be any extension of the area of taxation, so as to
bring a greater number of persons within the
operation of the charge. These are important
subjects, which should be regarded in a sound com-
mon-sense point of view—in a very different light,
indeed, from that in which Mr. GLADSTONE here-
tofore beheld them. No refinement of casuistry,
no elaborate
or plausible arguments can induce the
labour—l
industrious classes to believe that menta
for fiscal purposes of equal
or physical—is
value with accumulated or realised property—or
that the professional, or literary man, or artist,
should be charged as highly on his fluctuating
as the owner of Three
and precarious earningsf
Cent. Consols, or o well-circumstanced real
per
Estate should be on his dividends or ground-rents.
S
To Mr. DISRAELI I
• due the honour of having
first recognised a distinction between the different
kinds of income. It is true that he did not go by
any means far enough ,
• but his was not merely a
step in the right direc t. on a following out of a
sound principle : he entered on the correct path,
inserted the point of the wedge—so that further
progress would have
been inevitable. The obsti-
nacy of Sir CHARLES WOOD
prevented the Whig
Ministry from obtaini▪
ng
the credit of the move-
ment, and indeed produced the weakness which
led to the dissolution of the RUSSELL Cabinet, and
Ile for them again to hold
rendered it impossible
party. They had many
office as an independent
firm hold on the
establishing a
opportunities of
misap-
ll were neglected or
ular favour ; but a
pop
which they had
to deplore the fatal
lied and they had too
the Coalition
P fall. Let
d
en
in the,
errorinto
"stake, which,
Ministry avoid a similar ml
present instance, would be more speedily avenged.
t that they should go as far
It will not be sufficient
the exac
as their predecessors, and stop short at
pad proceeded.
point to which Mr. DISRAELI
They must advance very considerab:iy, and offer a
much higher bidding than was accepted as a
will re-
quire. be
com-
mencement. A nicer discrimination
be temporary,
must be
d If an income
ascertained whether it is precarious or certain. If a
estate for life, or for any limit-
party be possessed of an

ed term, it must be seen whether it is to expire, or
if there be a reversion to any member or mem-
bers of his family whom he would otherwise have
to provide for. It must, in fact, be discovered
whether a limited estate represents an estate of
inheritance or otherwise. These are matters re
pairing mature and attentive consideration. There
are unquestionably some difficulties to be encoun-
tered, but they may be overcome ; and the people will
require that those in whom it reposes confidence
shall approach the matter in no craven spirit,
but that they shall evince a vigour and energy
befitting the administration of the affairs of a
mighty nation---of a SOVEREIGN on whose dominions
" the sun never sets."

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocs.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 American
were taken for export and on speculation. The
market closed firmly—American and Surat were
id. and Maceio fd. per lb. higher. The sales com-
prised 6,500 American, 500 Pernam and Maranham
at 6d. to 6d. ; 100 Bahia, at 6id. ; 300 Egyptian,, at 6d. to 11(1.7; and 600 Surat, at 38d. to 41d. per
lb. Railway Shares were very heavy at lower
prices.

monthly
The six-weeks' average price of wheat is 465. per
quarter.
wigis
miscellaneous froni
companies
the
vvhiir have circular
beenr of
Messrs. Lamond and Co.:-.._
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T Among The following lloe t
h
introduced to the public, but with little success, are the
following. We give a bare enumeration of title, capital,
and share, being fully prepared to find that they sunk
immediately into oblivion. Himalaya Tea Cultivation
Company, capital 100,0001., in 10,000 shares of 101.
each, deposit 1/. per share, 5,000 shares to be allotted
in India. St. Eloi de Carieres Sud and Mont Ste. Aide-
gonde Coal Company, capital 184,0001., in 46,000 shares
of 41. each, the whole of which, with the exception of
10,000 shares offered in London, will be distributed
among the original proprietors and in Paris. Upper
Canada Mining Company, with limited liability, capital
80,000/. sterling, in shares of U. each, deposit 5s per
share. Brazilian Diamond and Gold Company, capital
65,0001., in 65,000 shares of 1/. each, 10,000 shares re-
served for Brazil. British Sugar Refining Company,
for working Bessemere's patents, capital 200,0001. in
40,000 shares of 51. each, 21. to be paid on allotment,
and no further call •to be enforced without the concur-
rence of a general meeting. The Union Gold Mining
Company for California Exploration, capital 100,0001.,
in 100,000 shares. The Anglo-Australian and Gold
Miners' Mutual Life, in 15,000 shares of 101. each. The
Grosvenor Lead Mining Company, in 10,000 shares of
11. each. The Trevalga Slate Company, 10,000 shares
of 11. each ; and the Dysonant Slab and Slate Quarry
Company, capital 12,0001., in 12,000 shares of 1/. each.
Upon English Mines Messrs. R. Tredinnick ance.
Co. report as follows :-
" A very large and increasing amount of business has
been effected in the share market during the past week,
and generally with an upward tendency. Dividend stock
is mostly in demand, yet considerable inquiry existed for
progressive mines, upon which capital is subscribed or
expended, and which the present high prices of metals
will probably shortly place in the dividend list. Calling
mines are very justly shunned by capitalists, and we
would strongly advocate the principle of subscribing at
starting ample funds to mature and develope the works.
instead of prolonged liabilities in the shape of refreshers
every two or three months, of call upon call, as we re-
gret to state is too often the case-more especially in
mines weekly held and generally issued at a considerable
premium upon the very smallest possible subscription.
Why should not mining be carried out upon the extensive
and comprehensive principle of legitimate and enlight-
ened commercial enterprise which its importance, mag-
nitude, and profitable yield demands. In thousands of
instances, hundreds of thousands-and even millions-
hAve been subscribed upon less favourable promise of re-
venue than that possessed by a Buller or a Devon Great
Consols of the present day-or an East Wheal Rose,
Friendship, Tresaveau, or Dolcoath of the past."
The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under
1353. 1852.
Great Western 16,764 15,741
North Western 44,605 39,828
South Western 9,644 8,617
Brighton
Midland 22,667 20,608
South Eastern
Caledonian
Grer.,t Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 17,119 15,111
York and North Midland
NewcaLi;'e and Berwick 13,876 14,074
The dividends upon the different railways are
now mentioned in Stock Exchange circles with

something like an approximation to accuracy, and,
without guaranteeing the statements made, we
may reproduce some of them as being of interest.
The London and North-Western is expected to pay
only at the rate of 5 per cent., but will have a
large reserve, and, by trenching upon the
balance in hand, could, it is said, have
paid at the rate of 5i per cent., as some of the
parties connected with the company desired
to do. The Caledonian will yield 12s. per share
for the 6 months, and the South-Eastern about
11s. 6d. to 12s. The Great Northern is likely to
afford 24 per cent., and have a " rest." The South-
Western, it has been asserted, will give at the rate
of about 4 per cent. per annum, and, if so, there
will be no reason to complain; nor need holders of
railway property generally despond, for it was sel-
dom in a healthier condition, and must in time
afford a larger return.

• The London and County Bank have just declared
a dividend for the half-year, at the rate of 6 per
cent. per annum, and given a bonus besides of 2
per cent., free of income-tax. A guarantee fund
for the clerks is also to be established.

The letters by the West India Mail. are of the
usual complexion in respect to agricultural and
mercantile affairs ; but from Mexico there are ac-
counts of considerable interest for the bondholders.
In consequence of the outbreak at Tampico, the
Government had placed all the Customs duties of
Vera Cruz at the service of the military authorities.
Mr. Falconnett, however, had obtained a with-
drawal of this objectionable offer, though not before
some portion of the money had been applied. Mr.
Doyle was determined to prevent any future pro-
ceeding of the kind, as far as lay in his power.
By the Amphitrion, 28,009 dollars have been sent
from Mazatlan ; but the 70,000 dollars from Mr.
Exandon were still in the city of Mexico, awaiting
a conductor to Vera Cruz. There was a better
prospect of obtaining something from Messrs.
Manning and Mackintosh. The amount of
bills in the hands of agents in Mexico is
146,828 dollars, and the total here and in Mexico
available fora dividend is 302,649 dollars.

The Bank of England has not this morning
further advanced the rate of discount.

The English Stock Market has been firmer,
without any positive change in prices. Consols
have been 99f B for money and since 99 to For
Account they have been 99,1 to 4. Exchequer
Bills are 55 to 58 premium. Bank Stock is worth
228 k.

Foreign Securities .have been flat. Mexican have
gone back to 22i Spanish Deferred are only
22i to Equador firm. Portuguese about the
same.

In Railway Shares the business clone this morn-
ing has been very limited, and there is a further
decline in price in some instances. The aspect,
however, yesterday afternoon, was scarcely worse
than it is at present. The somewhat meagre divi-
dends give encouragement to the Bears. French
Shares have been exceedingly dull, and Upper In-
dias have advanced

Gold Mining Shares are dull, but without any
particular alteration in prices, except the United
Mexican, which have fallen about 10s.

The Australian Agricultural Shares have further
declined 31. to 51.

BRITISH FUNDS A.T ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY.
(Fromm the Official List.) _

Buqine:A cone.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitios ICI 99,1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities `
Long Amenities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 7-16 8
India Bonds, £lOOO 65 7
Ditto, under £1630 65 7
Consols for Account 10th February 994 k
Exchequer Bills lid. March. June.
£lOOO.
£5OO 5B 5 _
Small 5B 5 _
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lO2
Ditto New, 1852, 4a per Cent 97
Ditto New Bonds, 229 & 39, 5 per Cent lO3l
Equador Bonds 5O 4
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 22t I i
Portuguese 4 per Cent. 374 x d
:I)anish Bonds, 3 per Cent
464
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 22g i i
Spanish Pa:_sive (Converted) 1
All9Han Bonds 5 per Cent.. ........ .... . 87
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 654
LDitto 4 per Ceut. Certificates... .„, .

HALP-PAST TWO.
Consols
99
Ditto February Account

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RATES OF EXCHANGE.--The advices from the Conti-
nent show no alteration in the various rates of exchange.
The Paris letters as yet make no comments on the state-
ment that Count d'Argout is about to retie from the
Governorship of the Bank of France, and to be suc-
ceeded by M. Bineau. From Lisbon it is mentioned
that the recent decision of the London Stock Exchange,
with reference to Portuguese securities, and the forced
reduction of interest, has severely damaged the position
of the Government. The Berlin accounts state the de-
finitive conclusion of the contemplated arrangement with
English engineers (Sir Charles Fox and others) for the
construction of waterworks in that city.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(THIS DAY).
e.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Cresswell.)
W. M. Hawkins Adams, the Post-office clerk, who
was yesterday found guilty of embezzlement, and George
.Dawson Moffat, who pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge
of forgery, were this morning brought up, and severally
sentenced to 15 years' transportation.

John Parrot, aged 45, described as a porter, was
placed in the dock, charged with the wilful murder of
his wife, Sarah Parrot.

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarke prosecuted, and Mr.
Sleigh defended.

Mr. Bodkin having stated the case, proceeded to cal
the following witnesses.

James Heath, examined by Mr. Clarke—l livedin the
same house with the prisoner and his wife. On the 7th
December last, being in bed between five and six o'clock,
I heard the prisoner and the deceased going down stairs.
The deceased called her husband " a wretch," and other
bad names. About eight and nine the same evening, I
heard some one groaning at the street-door. My wife
went out and there she found the prisoner and deceased.
I heard them conversing together ; the prisoner said to
the deceased, " What's the matter with you ?" My
wife answered for her, " You ought to kn0,.7 best." The
prisoner then said, " Get up, and go up stairs with you,
I'll do something to you for this to-morrow." I never
saw tho deceased again alive.
Anne Merrot, examined by Mr. Bodkin—l lived in
the same house with the prisoner and the deceased. They
were often quarrelling, and I often heard the deceasd
crying " Murder." On the morning, the deceased was
found dead, between 7 and 8 o'clock, I heard the prisoner
screaming out and crying " murder," and the deceased
abusing her and calling her foul names. I was in bed,
but I got up and called out, " What are you doing to
that poor creature ?" I do not know if he made any
answer, but shortly after he went downstairs and out at
the front door. The screaming then ceased, and be-
tween eight and nine o'clock he returned. The scream-
ing then began again, and I heard a noise as of scuffling,
and then as if the deceased had fallen down.
Elizabeth Beer, the landlady of the house in which
the prisoner and his wife:lived, examined by Mr. Clarke,
corroborated the evidence of the lasb witness, with re-
gard to the screams and cries of "murder" which
had been heard from the prisoner's room on the
day of the deceased's death.—l was one of the
first who found the deceased after her death. She
was lying on an old straw mattress at the corner
of the room. I felt her, she was quite
I said to the prisoner, "My God, Mr. Parrot, she is stiff and cold—you must have done this before you went
out this morning." He said, " God bless you, she spoke
to me only two minutes ago. I asked her to get up and
have some tea, and she told me she didn't know where
she was." I said, " I didn't believe it, for I was sure
she had been dead for hours."
James Chapman, police constable, examined by Mr.
Clerk—l took the prisoner into custody, when I told
him of what he was accused ; he said he knew nothing
of it ; he tried to deny that his name was Parrot.
Mr. Leech, surgeon, examined by Mr. Bodkin—On
the Bth of December I was called in to deceased. I
found her lying on a straw mattress, partly on her back,
with her left leg drawn up, and her head bent down over
her left shoulder. Her mouth was partly open. She
was quite dead.
Dr. Godfrey examined by Mr. Bodkin—On the Bth
of December, I was called in to the deceased. I found
her quite dead, lying on a mattress. Her head was
bent to the left side, the chest was also bent on
the left side. I think she must have been dead
about five hours. The body was rigid and cold, ex-
cept about the region of the heart. I asked the
prisoner, at the time, if the deceased had had
any blows. He said she had not. I did not find
any marks of external violence, made post molten"
examination afterwards. The body was in a state of
extreme maceration. En examining the head I found in
between the collar and tissue and the bone a patch of
coagulated blood, and in the part of the scalp corres-
ponding to it we found that the hair had been torn out.
There was a congestion and an appearance of compres-
sion in the lung and a compression of chest which, taken
with the appearance of the head, led me to conjecture
that her head had been pulled down on her chest, and that
her mouth being brought in contact with her chest or the 1
rug that covered her, her breath was stopped, and her
death thus caused. From the weak state of her body,
she might have died a natural death from idiopathic
asphyxia. There were none of the usual appear-
ances of suffocation, such as lividity of the lips, and
the suffusion of the eye ; but it is possible that in
such a weak state of the body, suffocation might have
taken place without these appearances being produced.
I do not think that the appearances which I remarked'
in the body could have been produced without external
violence, and from those appearances I do not think that
the deceased died a natural death.

Mr. Sleigh then addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner; and his Lordship having summed up, the
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the
prisoner.

Mr. Justice Cresswell then sentenced the prisoner to
transportation for life.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS 14Y.)

(Before Mr. Commissioner Burchell.)
HARPER Y. WRIGGLESWORTH.-PUBLIC APOLOGY.

This was an action brought to recover damages for
false imprisonment.

Defendant suffered judgment to go by default.

Mr. Parry (instructed by Mr. Clarke, Bedford-row)
said that he was happy the jury would be saved all
trouble in the case, as it had been arranged between the
parties that a verdict should be entered for 551. The
plaintiff was a highly respectable gentleman at Isling-
ton, and had been connected with the Islington Market,
and also held considerable propel ty in the county of
Hereford. The case arose through the defendant who
was also a gentleman, occupying an excellent position in
life, having in an unguarded moment, and labouring
under considerable excitement, given the plaintiff into
custody on a charge which he was subsequently con-
vinced was unfounded, and which was dismissed by the
magistrate. It was due to him to say that the
defendant had offered to refer the case, but the
plaintiff, for the vindication of his character, felt
that as the charge had been publicly made, and had
obtained great publicity, he felt bound to have an
equally public retraction and apology, which he was
happy to say his learned friend was instructed to make.

Mr. Huddlestone said that the defendant had adopted
the only course open to him, and he had throughout ex-
pressed his regret that he had, in a moment of excitement
and misapprehension, made a charge which was very
properly dismissed by the magistrate, and was anxious
to make that retraction and apology which one gentle-
man under such circumstances ought to make to another,
and say that he had no reason, on reflection, to reiterate
or say that there was any ground for the charge.
Mr. Parry said that the plaintiff was only desirous of
a retraction, which had been very handsomely made,
and there could not be the slightest imputation on the
character of either of the gentlemen (the plaintiff and
defendant).
A verdict was then entered for 551.

MARLBOROUGiTSTREET-(THIS DAY.)

A CLAIMANT TO THE TITLE OF DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.
.Richard Pomeroy, a joarneyman carpenter, was
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with defacing the
premises of the Duke of Devonshire, by sticking pieces
of paper thereon.
Police-constable 126 C stated that about five o'clock
yesterday afternoon he was on duty in Piccadilly,
when
his attention was called to the prisoner, who was sur-
rounded by a crowd of people in front of Devonshire-
house.
,Witness, on going to see what was the matter,
found the defendant busily employed in posting on the
gates pieces of paper, on which was written the follow-
ing :—" Richard, Prince of Wales, Duke of Devonshire,
Cornwall, and Brunswick. Born August, 1820." Wit-
ness pulled down the papers ; and as the priSoner re-
fused to go away, he took him to the station.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said he had
been informed that he had a claim to the property and
title of the Duke of Devonshire, and with a view of en-
forcing his claim he affixed the papers produced to the
gates, and in so doing he considered that he bad done
no harm, as the premises were undoubtedly his own.
Mr. Bingham inquired if defendant was perfectly right
in his mind ?

An elderly woman, believed to be defendant's mother,
here stepped forward, and said he was decidedly right in
his mind, and she firmly believed him to be entitled to
the titles of Prince of Wales and Dukedom of Devon-
shire.