The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTH WALES CI RC UlT.—Chester, April 7.
The business of this circuit was brought to a close
about one o'clock this afternoon. The following are
some of the last cases tried :

CROWN COURT—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE).

CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER.

Bridget. Stanton, 25, was charged with the wilful
murder of Thomas Stanton, and pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Trafford and Mr. Brandt prosecuted. The
former stated the case, to the effect that the prisoner,
who is the wife of a match-seller, came to lodge at
North Rode, near Macclesfield, in October last. In
the middle of November last her husband joined
her, and they continued lodging there till Sunday the
17th of December, the day of the alleged murder,
having with them the deceased child, Thomas
Stanton, which she suckled. On the morning
of that day, the husband being in bed, he
and the prisoner quarrelled because she had not
washed his shirt :cn the Saturday night. They
subsequently quarrelled at dinner time, when the
husband hit her a tap on the side of her head, she
having the child in her arms. She fetched the con-
stable, and told him her husband had beaten the child
and knocked two teeth out, and had hit it a blow on
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several persons, and the child appeared to be quite
well. The lest place she called at no child was seen, but
she had something under her cloak that appeared like
a bundle. She arrived at the police station, Maccles-
field, about four o'clock, and produced the child which
was dead, and she stated that her husband had killed
it by abusing it, and knocking its head and its teeth
out. The husband was apprehended on her state-
ment, and a surgeon made a post mortem examination
and he found some severe bruises on the side of the
head, a mark on the cheek, and a bruise on the thigh.
The surgeon was of opinion that the blows on the side
of the head were the cause of death. The examination
on the inquest resulted in the discharge of the hus-
band and the committal of the prisoner.
Several witnesses were called to prove the occur-
rences at North Rode, and on the way to Maccles-
field. One of the witnesses said, that when at the
lodging-house the child had two teeth. knocked out,
and looked sickly and delicate, and she said that her
husband had done it, and that she would send her
husband- where he was before, for her child would
die. Cox, the constable, in his evidence, stated that
when the prisoner fetched him she said her husband
had abused her and the child, and that the latter
would die before night. 'Williamson, a constable of
Macclesfield, proved that the prisoner brought her
dead child to the police-office, and she said her hus-
band had inflicted the injuries on the child in bed that
morning, and that the child had died when she had
got. a small distance on the way from North Rode.
Mr. Newbold, surgeon, stated that he examined the
child, and found bruises on the forehead, left temple,
left cheek, and left thigh ; it had but about eight
teeth, and the two lower middle teeth were missing,
having been violently extracted. A quantity of ex-
travasated blood was found on the brain and on the
base of the skull. The bruises on the skull were the
cause of death. Five or six hours might have elapsed
between the blows and death.
The Learned JUDGE went minutely through the
evidence, and said, that if the cause of death admitted
of reasonable doubt, then, in a serious case like this,
their verdict must be on the side of mercy. In this
case the cause of death was involved in great mystery,
and there was no direct. testimony implicating the
' prisoner, or even whether, supposing she inflicted the
injuries, that they had been inflicted wilfully; but
there was some evidence that those injuries had been
inflicted before she left North Rode. It was an ex-
tremely improbable motive to assign that the prisoner
did this act in order to charge it on her husband, and
get him sent to gaol.
Verdict—Not Guilty.
A verdict of Not Guiltyl was also taken on the co-
roner's inquisition.
CIVIL SlDE—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
LIBEL—COPPOCK V. LOMAX.
Mr. Evans, Q.C., Mr. Welsby and Mr. Townshend,
appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins
(who was brought by special retainer from the
Northern Circuit), Mr. Egerton and Mr. M'lntyre,
appeared for the defendant.
Mr. TOWNSLIEND opened the pleadings. The
plaintiff was Henry Coppock, and the defendant
James Lomax, and the action was to obtain compen-
pensation in damages for a false and malicious libel
published in the. Stockport Advertiser, on the Ist of
December last, concerning the plaintiff, in his profes-
sion as an attorney, by imputing to him selfish, dis-
honest, and corrupt practices, and that when town-
clerk of Stockport he gave corrupt and dishonest
advice to the corporation in certain transactions
between the corporation of Stockport and Lord
Vernon, with the dishonest motive of benefiting
himself at the expense of the borough, and in order
to obtain the situation of clerk of the county court.
The defendant pleaded not guilty, whereupon issue
was joined.

Air. Sergeant WmuNS—Does: your Lordship
think that is a libel ?•

The JUDGE —lt sounds rather like it, but we have
that to try.
Mr. EVANS opened the case. He had to appear for
Mr. Coppock, the plaintiff in this action, who was the
town clerk of Stockport, the clerk of the county
court, and also the clerk of the board of guardians,
who came into that court for the purpose of recover-
ing a compensation in damages for a most serious
libel on his character. The libel was published in the
Stockport Advertiser—a paper of very extensive
circulation, of which the defendant was editor, and in
which he wrote with considerable ability. He (the
Learned Counsel) had always been a humble sup-
porter of the liberty of the press, always concurring
in the sentiment, " The liberty of the press ; it is like
the air we breathe, without it we die,' believing that
unnumbered advantages had resulted to this country
from that liberty, and believing that the advantages
hereafter to be derived were as great as those already
resulting from it ; nevertheless, he was most anxious
that this glorious institution should not be grossly
converted into an engine fbr the corruption of private
character, and he thought that those who used it for
such purposes were justly exposed to its consequences.
He charged the defendant with having inflicted a
grievous wrong upon his client in the publication
of a certain false and malicious libel respecting him
as a public officer—an accusation which, could it be
substantiatel, would not only disqualify him from dis-
charging the offices which he held, but would also
disqualify him from acting as the professional adviser
of any man. Now, the defendant had done this not
on his own account, but as the agent of a party, and
he should prove from his own statements that he
styled himself the representative of a party politi-
cally opposed to Mr. Coppock. No doubt he was
amply indemnified from any consequences of an ad-
verse verdict, for it was evident no expense had been
spared in bringing to his aid in that court the services
of the distinguished advocate to whom he was so I
unequally opposed that day. But of that he did not
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proceeded. It was of great length. He asked, could
there he a more gross imputation upon a professional
man than was contained in the former part of that
article ? It was to that he more particularly called
their attention. The charge did not affect Mr.
Coppock" in his public capacity alone, but was a
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nature of the libel, and concluded by calling upon the
jury to dispossess their minds of anything they might
have heard or read in the newspapers, and he called
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for such damages as would mark their sense of the
wrong inflicted on Me.,Coppock by his libeller, in his
feelings- and in his reputation.
Mr. William Rawson, clerk to the plaintiff's at-
torneys, produced a copy of an affidavit sworn by the
defendant, proving that he was the registered pro-
prietor of the Stockport Advertiser.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILXINS.—The
attorneys to whom witness is clerk, have never acted
as London agents to Mr. Coppock ; certainly not
during the last seven years.
Mr. W. Calvert, clerk to Mr. Coppock, produced
a copy of the paper containing the libel, which he
purchased at the shop of the defendant on the Ist of
December.

Mr. Forlonger, managing clerk to Mr. Coppoek_._
On the 4th of December last called on the defendant,
saw him, and produced the copy of the newspaper
containing the libel, and pointed it out to him. Asked
him if it was an editorial paragraph. He said, " Not
all of it." Witness then said, "Ifit is not, Mr. Cop-
pock wishes you to give him the name of the author
of it." He replied, " Luckily fur me I represent a
certain party, and they wish me to represent them."
Witness said he merely wished to know whether it
was an editorial paragraph or not. He said, " I can-
not say." 'Witness said, " You can say if you like."
He:replied, " Yes, but I must take time to con: der-
-I'll tell you after the court is over." Went after the
court was over, and he then said he declined to answer
the question.

Mr. EVANS—Do you wish the libel read ?
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS—I shall read the produc-
tion you call a libel by and bye.
Mr. E. White called—l live in Great Marlborough-

street, and am attorney to Lord Vernon. Have read
the libel. Had a correspondence with Lord Vernon
in 1843, about the sale by Lord Vernon of certain
lands to the corporation, and the purchase of other
lands.

(➢lr. Sergeant Wilkins admitted the article referred
to by Mr. Coppock.)

Cross-examined—The negotiations began in
August, 1843, and ended at Christmas, 1844. That
did not refer to the manorial rights, but to Stringer's
fields, which it was considered desirable the corpora-
tion should have for public walks. The other sub-
ject was the site of the court-house and some adjacent
buildings, which were to be granted for 999 years on
chief rent. Prior to that there was a dispute respect-
ing the right of Lord Vernon to build in the market
place. He understood his lordship's steward sent
several persons to build, but they were resisted by the
corporation. Soon after the negotiations commenced
respecting the purchase by Lord Vernon of a piece of
land and the old workhouse. His lordship gave 1,000/.
for it. Does not know that the building alone cost
the rate-payers 4,000/.

.
Re examined-As far as lam able to judge the price
was a fair one.

By the JUDGE—The main line of railway comes
close to the land, and it is now turned into a coal
depot. _ . _

Mr. Thomas Ashworth, local agent to Lord Vernon
in Cheshire—Had had the negotiation respecting the
sale by the corporation and the parish to Lord Vernon.
The article in question refers to the transaction.

Cross-examined—Am a valuer of buildings.. The
workhouse must have cost a considerable sum. There
is more than an acre of land adjoining. It is now
valuable to Lord Vernon. Stringer's fields remain as
they were. In the first instance, the agreement was
that the corporation should pay 21,000/. for their pur•
chase from Lord Vernon ; but the contract had not
been completed. An Act of Parliament has been
passed to complete the contract, and the purchase-
money is to be 22,5001. Two of the buildings are
very old.

Re-examined—ln my opinion Lord Vernon gave a
fair price for the land and workhouse. Stringer's-
fields were to be given, if the corporation turned them
into public gardens, and kept them up. I valued the
tolls at 24,5001.

This closed the case for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS then proceeded to address
the jury on behalf of the defendant. He confessed
that never since he had been called on to address a
jury, had he been so perplexed for lack of topic and for
lack of argument as in the present case. He certainly
had taken the liberty of asking his Lordship, after
hearing the opening of the pleadings by his LParned
Friend, whether the statement which he read was a
libel, and certainly if they took that view of the case,
that it was a libel, then they must come to the conclu-
sion that every public manwho had ever existed in this
country, and whose conduct had been commented on,
had been libelled. After some other eloquent obser-
vations, the Learned Gentleman went through the
whole of the alleged libel and commented upon it,
contending that it was merely a comment upon Mr.
Coppock in his public character, and not calculated
either to injure him in private, or to bring him into
contempt. He contended that the smallest damages
would satisfy.

The Learned JUDGE then proceeded to sum up to
the jury. After explaining the law of libel, he said
the question to be considered was, whether the article
in question imputed corruption to the plaintiff, or was
calculated to injure him in his character; if so, their
verdict must be for the plaintiff, with such damages
as they might think him fairly entitled to; but if
they should be of opinion that it was, in truth, merely
a discussion of matter which had been going on in
the borough, and did not attribute corrupt motives,
or was not injurious to the character of the plaintiff;
then their verdict must be for the defendant.
The jury retired, and, after ten minutes' consulta-
tion, found a verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
William Mansell and Edward Hardy, the one 18
the other 22 years of age, were brought before Al-
derman Hooper under thefollowing circumstances :
James Ellicomb, police-officer of Exeter, said, on
Tuesday last I was at the coffee-house near the turn-
pike-gate, at the railroad station in Exeter, looking
after a young man who was charged with having set
fire to a house. I saw the prisoners in the coffee
room, and as one of them answered the description I
had received of the person who had fired the house,
and they had a chest which appeared to be well
stocked in their possession, I asked if the chest was
their property, and Hardy said it was, and that they
were brothers. I expressed a wish to see what was
in the chest, and at their desire had it taken up stairs.
The chest was then placed upon a box, and Mansell
immediately put a pistol in his mouth, and bidding
his friend good bye, snapped it. The pistol, how-
' ever, missed fire, for although it was loaded
it had no percussion cap upon it. I at
once jumped up and secured Mansell, and
he then dropped another pistol, which I se-
cured, and which was also loaded with powder
and hall. I then procured assistance, and I found in
a canvas bag which he had in his pocket 140 sove-
reigns and other money. The chest was filled with
all manner of things, and as I suspected they had
stolen the property, I conveyed them to the station-
hotke. I have since learned that the money was
stolen from Mr. Pulling, a stockbroker, at 2, Capel-
court, Bartholomew-lane. At the police office the
prisoner Mansell stated that the money was taken by
the younger prisoner, Hardy, from a Mr. Pulling, and
that they were going away with it.
Mr. Joseph Pulling stated that Hardy had been a
clerk in his employment, and had left without notice
a fortnight ago. He had given him a cheque to get
cashed, which he was to fill up for 10/. ; instead of
this, however, it was filled up for 1051., and the
money was paid at his banker's. The witness ex-
pressed his unwillingness to prosecute the prisoners.
Alderman HOOPER said he could not permit such
a case to pass without investigation.
The prisoners were then committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
Thomas Peach, a porter, in the service of Mr.
Thomas Rawlinson, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, whole
sale tea-dealer, was placed at the bar before Sir Peter
Laurie, on a charge of carrying on a series of rob-
beries, under the following circumstances :
Mr. Rawlinson stated that the prisoner had been in
his service for upwards of 24 years, and the greatest
confidence was placed in his integrity, but in conse-
quence of finding that he was being robbed to an
alarming extent, his suspicions were aroused, and he
directed an officer to watch the prisoner when he left
the warehouse. Accordingly, about a quarter to two
o'clock on Good Friday, the officer stopped the pri-
soner in Skinner-street, and brought him back to the
' warehouse, when it was found that he had concealed
in his trousers and coat pockets 211 b. of loaf-sugar.
The prisoner's house, in the Crescent, Church-street,
Kennington, was searched, and it was there found
out that he had issued cards in the neighbourhood
with his name on them as a " tea and coffee dealer,"
and a large amount of witness's goods, to the extent
of from 8/. to 101. worth, were discovered.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked Mr. Rawlinson if he was
at all aware that Peach was carrying on business on
his own account ?—Mr. Rawlinson said he was not.
The prisoner had been constantly plundering him to
supply his own customers.
Bohle Harms, 288, deposed to taking the prisoner
back to the warehouse, and finding the sugar in his
possession, as also a small key. He then went to the
prisoner's house, and found in two cupboards a quan-
tity of grocery, consisting of 43 parcels of tea, weigh-
ing 231bs. ; 18 parcels of loaf sugar, weighing 241b5.;
14 parcels of rawisugar, weighing 171b5.; 7 packages
of coffee, half a pound of blue, 6 parcels of currants,
9 packages, containg candy, pepper, cinnamon, cloves,
allspice, ground ginger, sago, soda, and isinglass, a
new brass tap, 2 balls of twine, 7 bundles of paper, and
27 canvass coffee hags. That morning, while on his
way to the court, the prisoner admitted the goods to
be the property of his master, which he had been a
long time collecting, and that he must have been mad
to have so committed himself.
Mr. Rawlinson said, from the general appearance
of the goods, he believed them to be his property.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked the prosecutor what
wages he gave the prisoner ? Mr. Rawlinson said he
had 17s. per week.
Sir PETER LAURIE said it was lamentable to see a
man who had held a situation so long, and in whom
such great confidence had been placed, in the pri
Boner's position. However, the system of robberies
by servants had latterly become so prevalent, that it
was necessary a check should be given to it, and ex-
amples made; and, therefore, he should commit him
for trial.
The depositions being made out, he was conveyed
to Newgate.

FOREIGN BITTERS.-011 a recent importation of a
parcel of bitters, being the extract of wormwood, the
same being for an eminent metropolitan firm, was en-
tered for the duty, as goods manufactured at the ad
valorem duty of 10 per cent.; bet the revenue officers
considering the article to be liable to the wine duty, ap-
plication was made to the authorities for the delivery of
the bitters at the duty proffered by the parties, and it
appearing, on examination by the proper officers of the
department, that the quantity of spirit contained in the
article wes but a very trifling per tentage on the whole
of the liquid, directions were given by the authorities
for the delivery of the bitters at the ad valorem duty of
10 per cent. as requested.
THE RAILWAY AT DONCASTER.—Two locomotive
engines arc to be brought to Doncaster next Week to
ballast the lino between Doncaster, Rossington, and
Bawtry. The tunnel-bridge for the Balbrread will be
completed in about a fortnight, and it will then be de-
cided by the company whether they will throw a bridge ;
over the line at Littlemoor-lane, or divert the road. The
traffic on the line north of Doncaster is increasing very
satisfactorily, Many horses have this week been brought
a/
from Manchester for our fair.—Nottingham Journ .

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVAL OF REAR• ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES NA-
PIER AT SPITHEAD.—The St. Vince nt, 120, Captain
Nacres, with the Mag. of Rear• Admiral Sir Charles Na-
pier, k C. 13., anchored at Spithe,ad at nine o'clock on
Saturday morning, having left Plymouth on Thursday
evening. The gallant Admiral 1 ende-d soon af(er she
had anchored, and paid his respects to Admiral Sir B.
Capel. We understand telegraphic orders arrived for
her to go into harbour the same day, but the tide did
not suit; co her coming into harbour was postponed
until Monday; but she took out her powder and live
shells on Saturday, and the Myrtle steamer went out to
bring some of the Roar-Admiral's trap on shore. It
was said his fllg would be struck on Saturday at sunset,
but it was flying yesterday afternoon. The St. Vincent is
to be in readiness for paying off on Saturday next; and,
to expedite her return of store 3, she scrubbed hammocks
yesterday morning, and they are up drying through the
day. The St. Vincent, like the Plumper and Heyman],
experienced some hard northerly breezes, but she lost
no spar excepting the jib boom : she has strained a
good deal, and her wear and tear of cordage and canvas
have been considerable. She unfortunately lost a man
overboard—John Goodman—who fell from the foretop-
sail-yard, anal striking his head against a spar in his
fall, was never seen again, though every exertion was
made to save him.

THE COAST OF AFRICA.
The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, with
the broad pendant of Sir Charles Hotharn,K.C.B., First
Class Commodore, arrived from the west coast of Africa
on Sunday morning. She sailed from Ascension De-
cember 18th; Prince's Is!arid, January 2d; Sierra Lome,
February, 22d; Cape Verde, March 17th; and Teneriffe,
March 28th.

The Centaur, bearing the broad pendant of Commo-
dore Fanshawe, C. 8., arrived at Porto Praya on the
Ist of March, on which day Sir Charles llothsin re-
linquished the command of the station to that officer.
The ships then were employed as follows, viz.:—
Sierra Leone division—The Sealark, Kingfisher, We-
ter witch, Spy, and Pluto.

Bights of l3enin and Biafra—The Cyclops, Firefly,
Pantaloon, and Tenzer.
Southern Division—The Philomel, Alert, Cygnet,
Contest, Britoinart, Star, Grappler (ordered home),
Blazer, Bonetta, Dart, and Dolphin.
At Ascension—The Tortoise.

On the evening of the 2d Of February, Commodore
Sir Charles Hotham, with a squadron compo,ed of her
Majesty's ships Penelope, Favourite, Sealark, Water-
witch, Dart, Bonetta, and Pluto, anchored off that
notorious slave depot, the Gallinas ; and at day-
light the following morning, with .the commanders
of the above-named ships and a force of 300
men, lauded and destroyed the whole of the barra-
coons and slave factories at Domb icorro, Solyman, and
other places in the neighbourhood. The expedition re-
turned on the 3.1, without the lois of a man ;
although exposed to a night's lorlgiog on shore in one
of the sickliest parts of the %Vest Coast of Africa, they
escaped without a case of fever. The value of the pro-
perty destroyed is not estimated, but the fear of a repe-
tition of such a punishment, and the subsequent mea-
sure adopted of blockading the territory, will, it is ex-
pected, drive the slave dealers from this their favourite
haunt.

The squadron was quite free from sickness. Much
benefit appears to have arisen from the Commodore's ar-
rangements of sending the officers and men navigating
slave-vessels direct to the Adelaide tender, instead of
landing them, as heretofore, at Sierra Leone.
Commodore Bonet Willaumez, with the Penelope, the
Espadon, the Caiman, and the Serpent, was at Sierra
Leone on the 10th of February. Every friendly inter-
course was kept up on the part of the authorities at Sierra
Leone and the British naval officers with the effic.,rs of
the French ships, who appeared much pleased with their
visit to and reception at the pert. Commodore Beuet
sailed on the 20th of February with his squadron for the
Bights, on a tour of inspection. The Serpent is a small
steam-vessel of thirty-horse power and light draught of
water, intended for the exploration of the Gaboon and
Assinee. On the 20th of February last a very II tl ot-
choly accident occurred at Sierra Leone. It appears
that a party of men belonging to the detachment of the
West India Regiment stationed there were employed in
shaking out the composition from a number of rockets
which had been condemned as unserviceable. One of
the men, to facilitate the operation, struck two rockets
together ; they exploded, and ignited a heap of the com-
position which was lying on the ground, and the whole
party were blown up and frightfully burnt ; they were
taken at once to the Military Hospital—some died
almost immediately, and out of the fifteen who were en-
gaged in the laboratory, only one survived.
Sir Charles Hotham has been continuously employed
on active service for six years and five months, and has
commanded the African squadron upwards of two years
and a half. Ile was relieved at his own request in con-
sequence of ill-health. On saluting the Commander-in-
Chief, Sir Charles immediately struck his broad pen-
dant, in accordance with the old rule on that subject,
but which has fallen into disuse for many years, the last
who followed it being Lord John Hay, on his return
from the north coast of Spain, in the North Star.
ARRIVAL OF COMMODORE SIR C. HOTHAM AT
SPITHEAD. ANOTELER ACCOUNT. The Penelope
steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, with the broad pen-
dant of first-class, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham,
arrived and anchored at Spithead on Sunday morning, at
nine, o'clock. She came in through the Needles, and
when off the Kicker Point, saluted the flag of Admiral
Sir R. Capel. After receiving the return salute from the
Victory, Commodore Hot ham being in the presence ef a
captain of higher seniority (viz., Captain Purcell, oF the
Superb), hauled down his broad pendant. The Commo-
dore, with Captain Jones and Flag-Lieutenant Purvis,
landed at noon, and the two former paid their respects to
the Port Admiral. The Penelope brings no news from
the coast, having sailed from Sierra Leone about three
days after the Wanderer and Ranger. She put into the
Cape Verdes, and remained 17 days at St. Jago, await-
ing the arrival of Commodore Fanshawe in the Centaur,
and cobbling up and repairing her boilers. Ahem
the 23d of February the Centaur arrived, and Comm°.
dare Fanshewe having taken the command, soil-d
on the Ist of March for Sierra Leone. The Penelope
left St. Jago, the 4th, and put into Teneriffe, where she
remained three days putting her boilers in order. She
left the 28th of March, and has had a tolerable passage
home, under steam and canvas, occasionally using two
boilers, and repairing the other two, and so on alter-
nately; her boilers and funnel are all to pieces, and have
thousands of patches on them. During the two years
and three months which the Penelope has passed on the
coast, she has been comparatively healthy, particularly
for the last twelve months. The ships on the coast have
generally been also very healthy. See has taken eight
slave vessels, two only having slaves on board; in her
last exploit, when she went up, the river Gallinas for
twelve miles, and destroyed a dozen barracoons, she also
captured a few slaves, but the greater part cscaped into
the woods. She found a large store of slave shtickles,
and a large magazine of powder, which were all destroy* d.
Mr. Ferguson, the secretary of the Governor of Sierra
Leone, has come home passenger in the Penelope, and
al,o a Captain Bennett, late in command of a vessel
wrecked at 'ft neriffe.
The Penelope will be paid off at Portsmouth, erd will
probably be itisw eted,' and go into harbour to-morrow,
when the Commodore will probably.leave the ship.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Faviurite, 14, Com-
mand( r Murray, sailed from the coast for England to
be paid off on the 21st of February, on which day she
left Sierra Leone. She would have arrived ere this, but
had some service to perform in the northern rivers. She
may be looked for on a change of wind.
During 1847.8 the captures of vessels and slave car-
goes exceeded these of any former years on the African
station, even including the remotest waters—the coast of
Cuba, Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, &c.
The Leander, 50 gun frigate, built by Blake, was
undocked yesterday. This is the ship to which Captain
C. Eden has been appointed, but has not hoisted the pen-
dant as yet. She has had her copper stripped, and is to
have new copper to replace it.
The Collingwood, 80, and Defence, convict-ship, were
removed from the basin at noon yesterday, and warped
to moorings in the harbour.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A.
Beauclerk, disembarked the volunteers of the 16th and
54th Regiments by means of her own boats yester-
day. The paddlebox boats did the principal part of this
essential duty in an expert manner„which proved how
useful those essential adjuncts to steamers are in
such work.
Wind south; light breezes and fine weather.

-
Through the liberality of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Company, the persons employed upon
the public press were favoured with the opportunity of
passing over nearly every part of the Lincolnshire por-
tions of their lines on Monday last, when the part from
Barnetby station to Gainsborough was opened. The fa-
, cilities afforded furnished the opportunity of traversing
the line from Lincoln to New Holland, to witness the
stupendous pier and the works in course of progress there;
and thence after a brief interval a return train ran back
to the Barnetby station, and on to Gainsborough. After
ample time for seeing the sights of Gainsborough and ob-
taining refreshment, a return train gave the opportunity
of sweeping across Lindsey to Grimsby, and those Ishii
availed themselves of the chance had nearly half an hour
to inspect the preparations for the docks. Burnetby was
c oln reachedat eight,ag ain shortlythe w h o
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period short of thirteen hours. After leaving Lincoln,
much picturesque scenery i t not presented to the eye
till arriving in the neighbourhood of Caistor. Much of
the land on both sides of the line
appears of* very poor
quality, and seems very unprofitably cultivated, par-
ticularly the North Lincolnshire property of the Lord-
Lieutenant of the county. Many of the churches are
mean looking. Generally the stations are very com-
modious. Thornton College is pa.t.ed at a short die
tattoo: it was founded by the third Earl of Albemarle,
and was richly endowed: the ruins are still interesting.
It was here that the ecclesiastics carried into effect a
sentence which consigned an offender to the tomb
while yet alive. Tradition says the delinquent upon
whom the awful punishmentfonrte
fourteenth
Greethain, the Abbot, was
inflictedwho
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bet
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Barnetby and Gainsborough, particularly during the
summer months, will afford many beautiful and pleasin4
points of view. The Kirton tunnel, which is about three -
quarters of a mile long, fills almost with a feeling of dread
the person who for the first time in his life sees a great
road sweeping through the bowels of the earth. The
end next Kirton is castellated. All along the line, the
inhabitants of the villages and towns crowded the stations
and points from which the pa sing trains could be seen,
Gainsborough kept hnli :ay, and seemed to have sent
its whole population to the hill upon which the station
is placed, and which is not far distant from the spot
where Cromwell first signalised himself in the civil wars.
—.Stamford Mercury.

THE COUNTRY 3/ARKETS.
LIVE aPool., APR IL 7.—The market on Thursday, being
held out of the usual course, was slenderly attended by buyers,
and the general business was on a limited scale. Tuesday's
prices were obtained for wheat and flour. Oats and oatmeal
were both dull, and easier to purchase. Barley, beans, and
peas were without alteration in value. There was very little
doing in Indian corn, and prices stand unchanged the best
yellow corn is worth sOs 6d per -IBolb, down to 28s for white.
Very full prices are paid to-day, with a good demand for In-
dian corn.

s. d. s. d.
Wheat, per 7011) Barley, Feeding • • 3 3 to 3 6
English, white • • 7 0 to 7 4 Rye, per 4501 b .. 0 0— 0 0
Do. d .. 66—6 9; I ;eans, Enghsh, pr
Irish, new .. • • 5 10 6 0, imperial quartr 34 0— 36 it
Do., old .. .. 6 0— 6 3, Irish and Scoteh,
Dantsio.. .. 7 0 - 7 4 per 4801 b.. • • 30 0— 31 0
Do., good mixed 6 'OO 7 0 Foreign, duty pd. 23 6 24 6
Lowerßaltic,whit.: 6 10 7 0 European, per im-
-1)o. reel,. 6 6—6 10 perial quarter.. 32 0— 33 0
American . • • 5 9 7 0 Pcas, English, per
Canadian .. 5 9 6 8 imperial quartr 30 0— 33 0
Spanish, red and Foreign .. 20 0 33 0
white.. .. • • G 6 7 0 Malt, English, per
Tuscan and Bar- imperial quartr 53 0 61 0
letta, red .. • • 6 2 6 4 Do., Irish •• 55 0— 56 0
Marianopoli ••58 5 10 Do., brown ••540 57 0
Odessa, Polish .• 5 9 -- Flour, English, pr
Do., hard.. • • 5 o—s 1C 2801 b •• 34 0— 35 0
Egyptian .. 4 0— 4 ( extra fine— 35 0 36 0
Oats, per 4511) : United States, per
English and Scotch 2 B—2 11 barrel .. 23 0— 25 0
Welsh • .. 2 5 2 t Canadian • • .. 23 0— 24 6
Irish, new .. •• 2 6 2 7 )atmeal, English,
Do., old • • 2 6 2 t & Scotch,pr24oll) 24 0 26 0
Barley, English, pr Irish, new .. 22 6—23 tl
imperial quarter 30 0 —32 ( Do., old .. •22 0-- 23 6
Irish, Scotch, and Indian corn, per
arx, per 601 b.. 3 3 3 C 48011) 28 0— 31 0
MANCHESTER, APRIL 7.—No material change has occurred
in the state of the trade during the week, a limited demand
having been experienced for flour at barely previous rates.
Oatmeal has, however, moved off rather more freely without
alteration in prices. Of English malt and Irish oats the ar-
rival at Liverpool and Runcorn are to a tolerably fair amount;
but the arrivals of other articles of British produce are exceed-
ingly scanty. From abroad the imports of wheat, beans,
Indian corn, and flour are large. Our market this morning
was of a very quiet character, and but little business was
transacted in either wheat or flour, for which it was necessary
to submit to rather lower prices than those current on this day
se'nnigbt. Oats and oatmeal were in very moderate request,
but cannot be noted cheaper.
WINCHESTER CORN MARKET, APRIL 7.—Corn—The wea-
ther being all that could be wished for agricultural operations,
and the spring sowing nearly finished, many attended the
market this day. The samples of home-grown wheats :were
less by at least half than the average quantity of this period of
the year, after a harvest of plenty. On the stands were
shown many samples of flu:e Canadian, Hamburgh, Russian, and
other foreign• grown wheats, the weights of from 61Ibs to 631bs
pr imperial bushel. A considerable quantity of the finest
quality found buyers at the prices of last week, yet to tempt
buyers of any other sorts a reduction of 5s per load had to be
acceded to. Barley of fine quality fit for malting found ready
buyers at rather more money ; best chevalier for late sowing
also in good demand ; grinding and distilling of slow sale, at
last quoted prices. Oats—a very large show of samples. Eng-
lish-grown Polands, potato, and best black declined Is per
qr ; Scotch, Irish,'and west of England feed declined is 6d per
ditto less; while foreign were scarcely saleable at those falls
in price. Peas were offered lower by 2s per quarter ; best
boilers making but 32s per quarter. The corn markets in
other towns in this county during the week were exceedingly
flat ; sales slow at reduced prices, with but very poor shows of
home—groan corn.
READING, APRIL 7.—Wheat, per quarter, 34s to 55s ; bar-
ley, 25s to 355; oats, 16s to 22s ; beans, 30s to 40s; peas,
30s to 40s. Fat hogs, 9s to Os Od ; porkers, 9s 6d to Os per
score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; ducks,
per couple, Os Od to Os Od; geese, each, Os Od to Os; butter,
per Ib, Is ld to Is 2d; eggs, 18 to 20 for Is.
ABERDEEN, APRIL 6.—Grain—Oats 14s to 14s 6d, 401 b per
bushel ; barley, 23s to 245, 52Ibs per bushel ; bear, 23s to 245,
52 lbs per bushel ; wheat, 50s to 53s ; oatmeal, 11 s6d to 123 6d
per boll ; flour, 38s to Os per sack. Provisions—Beef,
44 to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 4d
to 7d ; pork, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; lamb, per qr., 6s to 7s 6d;
tallow, pe- stone, 4s to 4s Gel ; potatoes, per peck, lOd to is;
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, each, Os
to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per Ib, 8d to 10d ;
eggs, per doz, 6d to 8d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, per
pair, 3s 6,1 to 4s ; chickens, ditto, 2s 9,1 to 3s Od ; ducks, ditto,
2s 6d to 3s Od ; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 2s 6d ; turkeys, each, 3s
to 4s Od ; geese, ditto, t)s to Os; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cat, 50s to Os ; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, sid
to Od ; 41b loaf, 84 ; 211 s boat, 4d ; pork, per stone of 14 lbs
Os Od to 3s 6d ; pork fine, small, Os Od to 5s 6d ; pork large,
3s 64 to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to 100 s.
Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to Os Od; bearmeal, is 3d to Os Od
peasemeal, Is 10d to 2s; F ids, 6d to 7d ' - barley flour, is 44 to
Is 5d ; barley dust, 7d to 8d ; flour, is lOd to 2s; barley, per lbs
lid to 2od.

s. d. s. d

DALKEITH, APRIL 5 —The relative weight per four bushels
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 101 b, 18st 51b, and 17st
81b. Oats, 13st 2,b, 12st 61b, and Ilst 71b. Barley, 16st 10Ib,
16st 31b, and 14st 12:b. Peas and beans, 19st lib, 18st 31b,
and list 61bs.
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
226 Wheat .......,£2 10 0 £2 3 0 £2 0 0
663 Oats
245 Barley
103 Pease and Beans 1 10 6 1 8 0 1 6 0
Average of wheat 44s 104 d.
BELFAST, Aran. s.—This week the supplies of grain at
market have been lather better than for some time past, and
the quality and condition is generally good. Wheat sells at
former prices, and is in fair demand. Foreign rather more in-
quired for, and the usual qualities of Baltic sell at 101 to 101
10s, and fair Odessa, 91 to 915 s per ton. Flour is in better
demand, at a trifling reduction in value. American barrels are
a free sale at 24s 6d to 25s each. Barley sells pretty freely at
former rates. Oats are about Id to 2d lower than last week,
but sell well at the decline. Oatmeal sells at an advance of 2d
to 3d per cwt. Indian corn is in good demand at 7. to 71 7s 6d
per ton for yellow, and 53 less for white.
CORK, Aram 6.—The general aspect of trade is still dull,
for although the arrivals of foreign grain to this port have
dwindled away, yet to some of the English ports they are still
large, and tend naturally to cause a continuance of that de-
pression which has teen so long felt. The supplies of hone
grown grain to the English markets, as well as to our own,
have fallen off very materially, indeed to such an extent as to
warrant the belief that farmers must be well nigh drained, and
the stocks in their hands reduced to a very narrow compass.
The receipts of grain at our own market are wretchedly small,
those of wheat having again this week fallen short of 100 bar-
rels! Tile prices of every description of produce remain much
the same. In prepared (Irish) wheat we have had nothing
passing, but in foreign a few transactions have taken place at
late prices, 25s per barrel being the current value of Marian-
ople. In barley we have nothing doing. Of oats the same
may be said, no quotable alteration in price having taken place
since our last. The trade in flour is excessively dull, bakers
still confining themselves to the supply only of their more press-
ing necessities. Indian corn in the early part of the week
was in demand at prices which exhibited an upward tendency,
but an attempt to establish an advance has had the effect
of checking business. Indian meal remains without change.
Flour—Firsts 14s ()d to 14s 6d; extra 15; Od;
seconds, 133 Od to 13s 6d; households lOs to 12s ; thirds 8s to 1 is
per cwt. Oatmeal lls to lls 64; Indian .real 7s 94 to 8s ; wneat
meal, lOs 6d tolls per cwt. Indian earn 7/ 53 Od to 7/10s ton.
Bran 41 to 4/ 5s per ton. Hay Farmers 753 to 40s; average 365;
dealersl2s to 48s ; average Oos Od per ton. Straw—Farmers
22s Od to 31s Od ; average 273; dealers COs Od to 00s Od;
average 00s 04 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 61d;
household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
10d per lb. Coals—Newport 16s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 16s ;
Best Neath Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44s
per cwt. Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gal-
lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to 64c1; veal
LIA to 7d ; pork 4d to sid ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d per
lb. Hops 61 10s per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2i 6d to 3/ 5s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 7/ to 81; Valonia 141 to 00/ ; French
71; English 71 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone.
Hemp 35/ per ton. Fish Scotch herrings IBs to 193; red
ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 103 to 12/ per
ton. Timber—New Memel 4/ lOs ; old scarce; red pine 31
15s ; yellow pine 31 per ton ; deals, first quality, 201; second
quality 171 per 120. Hides Market las to 16s ; salted lls to
16, per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 213 d ; market 2d to 2-id per lb.
Potatoes, white 10d to 12€1 ; Minions 18d to 20d; Guano—
Peruvian, 10/10s; Ichaboe 9/ per ton; Tar—Archangel, 183
per barrel. Eggs, 4s to 4s 2d per hundred.

SilAl?r, MARK&
ASGOW, APRIL 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's transactions:—
Clydesdale Junction, 60% -- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
kirk
Halves 39 (No. 1), 61. 168.-1/ilia (No. 2), 67,it - Glasgow and Garn•
, %—North British, Preference, 248.—SciAtish Central, 24.

EADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills, the Uni-
versal and most Popular Remedy for all Diseases Inci-
dental to Females.—The invigorating and purifying
qualities of this medicine are so peculiar that females of
all ages, suffering from any of the diseases to which they
are more particularly subject, may with confidence have
recourse to it for relief, a few doses of which will
shortly alleviate their sufferings, and ultimately restore
them to perfect health and strength. The remedy is
sate and infallible, whether taken at the critical period of
passing from childhood, or turning the meridian of life,
and its beneficial effects are acknowledged by number-
less mothers of families. Sold by all druggists, and at
Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The Lincoln Guardians, unwisely listening to the
suggestion of one of the Government School Inspectors,
have classified the children of both sexes for scholastic
purposes. No good of any kind is gained by the plan,
but much evil may be its result, in the formation of as-
sociations which may ripen into a closer intimacy when
the )oung leave the house to make their way in the
world. Many of the keen-judging anticipate immoral
consequences; and there can be little doubt of the im-
propriety of herding females with big lewd-tongued lads,
whose improper observations cannot be restrained, as
they cannot be detected. Stainford Mercury.
THE STATE PRISONS AT THE TOWER. —The cele-
brated Beauchamp Tower, which has for a long period
b. en used as a mess-house for the officers of tke garrison,
will shortly be thrown open to the public. The Beau-
champ soot nE- hs
soeuxs prison-house
soi
rf h.e
Wallace, unfortunateth the
Lchsadly"JTeranoew Grey, the
tier) of Scotland, and at one period contained two Sove-
reigns as prisoners, viz., James of :Scotland and the King
of France.—
United Servicethe theE
Gazette.

On the 4th inst., at Windlestove, Durham, Lady Eden, of
a son.
On the 31st ult., at Eastbury, Herts, the wife of Captain
R. H. Crofton, Royal Artillery, of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., at the Triangle, Hackney, Mrs. John
Bullock, ( f a daughter.
On the 4th inst., in Park-qreet, the lady of Captain Lyon,
of Dangstein, of a daughter
On the -ith inst, at Guildford-street, the wife of J. G.
Maitland, Esq., of a daughter.
On the tth iLst, at Bernard-street, Russell-square, the
lady of W. Macnaughten, lisq , of a son.

On the 4th inst , at All SaAits' Church, Godshill,
second son of Mr. Ellk, of R::chniond, Surrey, to Kate,
eldest
ydaughter
Wighcf ror. Frank Mew, of Rookl,y cottage,
okl- Isle of

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On tne :.;oth ult., Captain Edward Bowen, late ot the 26th
R,Timent kombay Native Infu,try, aged 35.
On the 3d ins ~ at Kinlet-hall, Shropthire, aged 63, liar.
rict, the wife of William L. Childe, Esq.
On the 4th inst., at h.rightor, Margaret Schaw, wife of
J. S. Broadw od, of Lynn, near Horsham, aged 71.
On the 4th inst , at Hart-street Bloomsbury, Ann Kent
Jones. ot Litt'e Chishill, Essex, aged 76.
On the sth inst., at Bromley, Kent. aged 85, Frances Eat-
court, relict of the Rev. William Hal,, D.[)., formerly of
1:c:on, Middlesex.

•
London Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of
bliddlosegr, Alo)ltlfty, April 9,1549.