The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-19 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1849

under 38s. There is not much doing in Turkey Figs;
prices, however, continue firm. Muscatels are very little
inquired for.
INDIGO.—The quantity of East India Indigo declared
for public sale amounts to 10.900 chests. A fair business
has been concluded this week in second-hand goods at
prices equal to an advance on last quarterly sale's rates
of 2d per lb. Of Spanish small parcels have been dis-
posed of at stiffer rates.
TALLOW.—This afternoon the largo public sales of
Tallow went at a further reduction. Of South American
the quantity offered at auction amounted to 1,114 pack-
ages, but the chief part sold.
OlLS.—This afternoon the market again exhibited a
dull appearance for Cocoa•-nut Oil, and 360 pkgs at auc-
tion were taken in at 36s to 37s 9d. Of Palm 87 casks
sold at 28s to 29s 6d for low and middling.

THE BOSTON AQUEDUCT.
On the 25th of October last, the extensive works
for the conveyance of water from lake Cochituate
(or Koo-chee-awa, an aboriginal term for " clear,
beautiful water,") to Boston, a distance of nearly
twenty miles by the usual route, were so nearly
completed that the water was formally let on
with great ceremonial, through an ornamental
fountain at Boston common, when it imme-
diately sprung to a height of nearly 80 feet, amidst
the gratulations of an immense multitude, assembled
from all parts of the state of Massachusetts, and even
of new England throughout. The day was one of
jubilee, opening with the sound of bells and cannon,
followed by military reviews, and civilian pro-
cessions through triumphal arches, and closing
with the spectacle of fireworks and illuminated
fountains.. The undertaking was begun only two
years and two months before, and was deemed one
of peculiar difficulty. The culvert is a brick oval
in hydrauliccement, 6 feet 4 inches in height, and
nearly 15 miles in length, extending only from the
late gatehouse, which is of granite, to Brookline,
where it ends in a reservoir of granite, whence the
water is carried through cast-iron pipes to the
town reservoirs. The other works in masonry are
chiefdy in granite, plain, but substantial. From the
reservoirs at Boston, the water will be forced by its
own pressure through the highest building in the city.
One of them will contain two weeks':supply, while the
aqueduct is capable of discharging more than
ten millions of gallons a day. The small
pipes, which are to be run into each house at
the public expense, are of lead ; and as the water is
said to be of remarkable purity, it is to be hoped that
the prudence of thus ming a metal zo npt to be autcd
on by the water in the direct ratio of its purity has
been well tested. About three millions of dollars
have been expended on these works, and abou t
half a million more will be requisite. The town
lands, it is said, will redeem the whole expense
in a few years, independent of the rate charged
to individuals, which is to be a very low one, till
altogether withdrawn, as it is intended ultimately to
be, if not deemed requisite as a source of increased
income to the city. The chief engineer of the
main division of the works, namely, between the
lake and Brookline, was Mr. E. S. Chesbrough,
of Newton; resident engineer, Mr. M`Kean.—The
Builder.

THE HON. AND REV. BAPTIST NOEL.---It having
been announced that the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel
would, on Tuesday evening, deliver an address on the
" Church and the World," in Exeter Hall, the announce-
ment created a great sensation in the religious world.
The hall was crowded. The platform tvas chiefly
occupied by ministers of various denominations. At
half-past eight the Hon. and Rev. Gentleman ap-
peared on the platform, accompanied by the com-
mittee of the Yuung Men's Association. The Hon. F.
Cowper, M.P., was unanimously called on to preside.
The Hon. Chairman, after having very briefly addressed
the meeting, introduced to the assembly the lion. and
Rev. Gentleman (Baptist Noel), who, in commencing his
address, remarked that it was far from his wish to stand
in the position he then occupied. He was sorry in one
sense be had been unable to absent himself upon
that occasion, but having promised to address the
Young Men's Association, he was unwillingly
obliged to do so. He then proceeded to say that
he had not come there to bring before them that
evening any new truths, but only to illustrate and en-
force those which they a
evidently expected, by a large proportion of the meeting,
Id often heard before. He was
to make some specific relerencea to the circumstances
under which he had recently seceded from the Church,
but he scrupulously abstained from all allusion to the
subject. Neither did he make a single reference to him-
self individually. Although his subject, " The Church
and the World," might naturally have led him to say
something on the question of Church establishments, he
avoided all allusion to it, and faithfully fulfilled the pro-
mise he gave in the outset of his address, that he would
confine himself to the inculcation and illustration of
principles which were purely of a practical nature.
THE PNEUMATIC PILE•DRIVING PROCESS. A
hollow iron cylinder, 24 feet in length and 4} in
diameter, was lately sunk, for mining purposes, into dry
sand on the sea shore, at W heal Ramorth Mine, Per-
ronzabuloe, Cornwall, by Dr. Potts's pneumatic pile-
driving process. The sinking, on the occasion first
recorded, went on at the rate of twenty-four inches in
50 minutes; but the process was suspended to allow
scientific men to witness its further progress on the day
appointed, when the descent was continued " at the rate
of 3 inches a minute, accomplishing a descent of 2 feet
2 inches in 8 minutes, when it was feared that it would
disappear altogether, and the work was abruptly
suspended."—The Builder.
AMERICAN OFFICERS FOR THE GERMAN NAVY.—
It is rumoured that Commodore Parker and Com-
manders Dupont. Buchanan, and Barron, of the navy.
have received furloughs from the department, for the
purpose of proceeding to Europe to organize the new
navy recently created by the Federal German Govern-
ment. Commodore Parker is to have the rank of Ad-
miral, and his colleagues, it is stated, that of Vice-
Admiral, with tho corresponding pay and emoluments.
The selection of American officers to accomplish this de-
licate and important duty is a high compliment to our
gallant little navy; and we are sure the confidence thus
manifested will not be disappointed or abused. We also
learn that Captain Latimer has been ordered to the com-
mand of the frigate Savannah, now fitting out at the
Brooklyn yard. and supposed to be destined for the
Pacific, as flagship. Several other officers are men-

tioned as beilig ordered to report for her by the Ist
of December, but as our information is not definite
yet, we omit a list. of their name's. The Savannah
goes to Norfolk first to be docked, and thence wilt
csrry out 200 supernumeraries to the vessels in the
Pacific, whose crews, it is understood, have been
greatly diminished by desertions, in consequence of
the enormous bounty offered them to engage in the
search for gold in California.—New York Herald.
CURIOUS DISCOVERY IN ROME.—The following
interesting announcement forms part of a letter dated
English College, Rome, Sept. 28, 1848.—" In a vineyard
belonging to the chapter of St. John Lateran, some curi-
ous sepulchral remains have been discovered; but the
series will not be altogether excavated before November.
One piece represents a doorway to a temple in the
forum, and even this remnant, in consequence of the
name and site being inscribed on the cornice, threatens to
disturb some portions of our Roman topography. As yet
no one is allowed to sketch the fragments."—Builder.
GREAT FLOAT OF ICE IN THE CLYDE.—Four of

he Clyde steamers could not leave Glasgow on
Tuesday for the lower ports, being hemmed in at
the Bromielaw by the ice. On that day the Clyde
presented an extraordinary appearance, as the whole
surface of the river, from the furthest tide-way
down to Renfrew, was covered with a dense mass
of broken ice, crushed and tossed together in the
most confused manner, through which the steamers had
great difficulty in forcing their way. In some cases it
was only after repeated efforts that the tugs could move
onwards through the dense ice which lay jammed in a
confused mass on all sides. The ferry boats could not
ply, as there was no clear water, the small runlets opened
in the wakes of the steamers being immediately closed
up.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
BRAZIERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—Last even-
ing the half-yearly general meeting was held in the
theatre of the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-
buildings, Chancery lane, to receive the report, and for
the election of a pensioner. In the unavoidable absence
of W. Daly, Esq., the President of the Institution, Mr.
J. Pyrke was voted to the chair. The report was read
by Mr. Hanley, the secretary, from which it appeared
that the institution has sixteen annuitants, of whom ten
are males receiving 12/, and six females 8/. per annum.
The total subscriptions for the last half-year amount to
1171. 11s. donations, the profits of a benefit at Sadler's
Wells Theatre making a total receipt of 2441. ls. 6d.;
funded capital, 8001. The report was adopted. The
meeting having balloted for another pensioner, from a
list of four candidates, passed a vote of thanks to the
chairman, and separated.
FELONY EY A SURGEON.—At the Borough Court
on Saturday, James Howarth, a respectably-dressed
young
man, who is a surgeon and chymist, in Oldham.
road, was placed in the dock, charged with stealing
money from the house of Edward Kershaw, a railway
porter, residing in Oldham-road, with whom he had
lodged. It appears that Kershaw was in the habit of
placing his wages in a drawer, and the prisoner had
frequently seen him opening the drawer and putting
in money. On the 27th of last month Howarth told his
landlord that he was going to the infirmary, and did not
know exactly when he should return. He accordingly
lett the house, but had never returned. Kershaw, on
the next evening, went to the drawer where he kept his
money, but to his surprise he found that his savings,
whichst r ct ed amounted
.
police, and the thief, after squandering the money in a
brothel in Liverpool, surrendered himself, and acknow-
ledged im to
mnediniaetesioy sovereigns, bad all been ab-
gave information to the
'edged the robbary. Re was committed for trial at the
sessions.—Murk./Lester Courier.
FREEDOM of SPISECU IN AutuicA.—The South
Carolinian thus records the " tarring and feathering" of
a Scot, who dared to dispute the justice of American
slavery :—" About six months ago a man by the name
of Edmunds, who called himself a Scotchman, came into
the lower part of the parish as a teacher, and succeeded
in getting up a small school. After some time, however,
it was discovered that the instruction of the rising ge.
neration was not his principal object, and that he avowed
himself publicly an abolitionist, denounced slavery, said
that it was contrary to the spirit of Christianity, &e.
Our high-minded and spirited citizens waited for nothing
more; and a few evenings afterwards a party of six or
seven entered his school-room, and, without ceremony,
dissolved the relations existing between the master and
pupil—led him out to a convenient thicket—and substi-
tuted for his thin appaol a coat consisting of the inside

of a pine and the outside of a goose. I will not stop
here to describe the unseemly and ludicrous figure which
he presented, as he wended his course up bill and down
dale, until he reached his place of refuge." The next
morning, it seems, the injured man applied for redress
to a neighbouring justice. While he was relating his
wrongs, "a few gentlemen, deputed by the citizens of the
neighbourhood," rushed in, and told him that if he did
not leave in five hours they would give him 39 lashes;
and if he did not leave in five hours afterwards they
would give him 39 more; and if he did not then leave
they would put him to death by hanging!
FRESH PORK FROM AMERICA.—The Niagara,
from Boston, brought this time, as part of her cargo,
one hundred carcases of fresh pork from America.
They were preserved in ice, and were in fresh and ex-
cellent condition. On Thursday they were sold by
auction, and brought from 325. 6d. to 355. 6d. per 1201bs.
This is the first importation of the kind from the States,
and should the experiment succeed on a larger scale, it
cannot but produce a material effect upon the general
provision:market. —Liverpool Paper.

LAW I.N TLLLI CiEri CE.
SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 18.

THE ROYAj4 ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.--BIOG-

GIONI V. DELAFIELD.

This was an action by Manfred° Moggioni against
Mr. Edward Tnomas Delufidd, the less, e of the Royal
Italian Opera, Covent-garden, to recover 1951. ls. for
wages and litt rary services remered in the translation
and adaptation of operas for the establishment. Judg-
ment had been suffered to go by default, and a writ of
inquiry was executed to assess the Jamages.
Mr. E. James appeared as Counsel for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Kennedy on the part of the defendant.
From the opening speech on the part of the plaintiff, it
appeared that he (an Italian) had been engaged by Mr.
Beale in the year 1846, when in conjunction with Signor
Persiani and Signor Gulletta he commenced the Italian
Opera at Covent-garden, to act as foreign correspondent
and interpreter, at 80/. a year; to translate Italian operas
into the English language at 8/. each; and to adapt French
and German operas into Italian operas. The latter
work was a very difficult one, and 50/. was claimed for
each opera. In August, 1847, Mr. Delafield entered
into an agreement by which he became the sole lessee,
and the present claim was imade in respect of services
rendered to that gentleman, he having continued the
plaintiff in the same employment as Mr. Beale ; the
plaintiff had claimed of the defendant 2641., and gave
him credit for 68/. 195., leaving a balance, which was
now sought to be recovered, of 1951. is. In the parti-
culars of demand the plaintiff claimed 251. for trans-
lating and for writing the libretto of the opera La Favo-
rita ; for translating and writing the libretto of Les
lingenots, 501.; for translating and writing the libretto
01 fzdelto, 0(4.; for superintending and translating six
operas into English, 481.; fur translating Linda di Chez-
mouni, 8/.; and for one year's salary as foreign corre-
spondent, 80/.; making the sum claimed. Credit had
been given for the amount received, leaving 1951. ls.
due to the plaintiff. lie (Mr. James) understood that
the speculation had been an unprofitable one, but that
was no reason the plaintiff should not be paid for the
services he had rendered.

Mr. T. F. Beale, musical seller, Regent-street, stated
that he was manager of the Italian Opera, Covent-gar-
den, in 1846, and in August, 1847, Mr. Delafield exe-
cuted an agreement to take the theatre, commencing the
season of 1848. He had engaged the plaintiff at 801. a-
year as correspondent, and agreed to give him 81. for
rendering an opera into the English language, which
was a very moderate sum. The plaintiff was also en-
gaged in translating the operas mentioned from the
French and German, into Italian. He considered 50/.
each was a very reasonable sum for such a difficult
task. The plaintiff had translated into English
Les Huguenots, Gugliehno Tell, Tancredi, Linda di
Cliamouni, I Capuletti e,Montecchi, La Favorita, and
Cenerentola ; he had adapted for the Italian stage La
Favol ita and Les Huguenots, and also Fidelio, which lat-
ter opera was not produced. The translated operas were
printed and sold.
Mr. M. C. Shee, who said he was " clerk of the hall,"
or stage entrance at the theatre, proved the attend-
ance of the plaiutiff.

Signor Belletta, a music composer, and Signor Carti
gave evidence to show that the plaintiff conducted the
t oreign correspondence.
Mr. George Lindley, the composer, stated that $l. for
translating, and 50/. for adapting an opera, were very
moderate charges.
Mr. Chappell, the music seller in New Bond-street,
said he had often paid 1001. for an adaptation. In
his evidence Mr. Beale mentioned that he had recently
paid 1351. for an adaptation of the French opera
Hayclee.
Mr. KENNEDY addressed the jury en the part of the
defendant, whom he described as a gentleman of fortune,
and member of a well known firm. Judgment had been
suffered to go by default through some mistake; but he
felt confident that the jury would not give the exorbi-
tant sum now demanded. The jury would perceive that
it was an attempt to make Mr. Delafield, who certainly
had not found the undertaking a profitable one, pay the
debt of Mr. Beale. There was no evidence that the de-
fendant had engaged the plaintiff at the sums mentioned,
and he was sure the jury IN ould be very moderate as to
the amount they assessed.
In the course of the address of the Learned Counsel
(Mr. Kennedy), the Court was convulsed with laughter
by a remark made by the Under-Sheriff. The Learned
Counsel was describing the :sale of the opera books by
the little boys in the street, which excited the risible
faculties of the audience, on which the Under-Sheriff,
who was reading one of the operas, suddenly said, " I
was just reading this passage—' Oh heavens, what do I
hear?' "—a remark which produced roars of laughter in
the court. Counsel having concluded,
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF placed the case before
the jury with his accustomed clearness, and they as-
sessed the damages at the full amount claimed-1951. Is.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 18.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.)
RE TAYLOR.—BETTING.
The hearing of this case was resumed by adjourn-
ment. The court was again crowded with parties in-
terested in sweeps and betting.
His HONOUR said the point in this case, when raised,
had apparently come on both the learned gentlemen by
surprise; and he wished to know if either of them had
anything to add to what was then urged?
Mr. LAWRANCE referred to the case of " Wareing v.
Smith," a recent one in the Bristol Court, where Mr.
Sergeant Stephens had decided that Smith's certificate
which had been opposed on the ground of gaming, should
be granted. Afterwards he was taken in execution at
the suit of Wareing; he applied for his discharge, on
the ground that he had obtained his certificate. The
matter went before the Court of Qaeen's Bench, where
it was contended that the certificate was void from
gaming; but Mr. Justice Erie held that the certificate
could not be disturbed, the creditor having another
remedy. Upon all the cases cited, he contended that the
offence was only complete by the payment of the sum lost.
Such was clearly the intention of the Legislature, or no
specific sum would have been named.
The COMMISSIONER—Then your view is that if a man
loses a bet and honourably pays it, be loses his certifi-
cate; but if he does not pay, he gets his certificate?
Mr. LAWRANCE—Undoubteoly. The law only has
regard to the pecuniary injury to the bankrupt's estate;
were it otherwise, the words of the Act would have been
directed against making a wager.
The COMMISSIONER—You must observe that the as-
signees might recover the money back, if any wager had
bet n paid.
Mr. LAWRANCE, at great length, recapitulated the ar-
guments he had urged at the previous sitting.
Mr. STURGEON contended that the construction of the
word "lose" ought to follow the usual acceptation as es-
tablished by the code of honour and the rules of the
Jockey Club. The bankrupt law was not merely a dis-
tributive or pecuniary law; it was also a penal law, as
was abundantly evident from numerous clauses.
His HONOUR said the case was one of great importance
to the bankrupt as well as the public, for it is highly re-
quisite that commercial people should be guarded against
the effects of practices and pursuits which are quite at
variance with the business of a trader, and are extremely
perilous to those who engage in them. The question
arose upon the interpretation which was to be put to the
words of the last Act on the subject-5 and 6 Victoria,
c. 122, section 38. That section provides that no bank-
rupt shall be entitled to his certificate, and if any such
certificate be obtained, it shall be void, if such bankrupt
shall have lost by any sort of gaming or wagering in one
day 201., or within one year next preceding his bank-
ruptcy 200/. It is always useful in such •inquiries as the
present, where the meaning of the particular words of an
Act of Parliament is sought, to see what former Acts of
Parliament on the same subject have stated. The words I
have just quoted are ,a literal transcript from the 6th
George IV., chap. 16, sec. 130, which has the follow-
ing:—" And be it enacted, that no bankrupt shall be
entitled to his certificate, and that any certificate, if
obtained, shall be void, if such bankrupt shall have lost
by any sort of gaming or wagering in one day 201." &c.
Now, these words were meant to carry out the provisions
contained in the old Act sth George 11., chap. 30, sec.
12, which says, "or who hath or shall have lost in any
one day the sum or value of 51., or, in the whole, the
sum or value of 100 L within the space of twelve months
next preceding his, her, or their becoming bankrupt
in playing at or with cards, dice-tables, tennis, bowls,
billiards, shovelboard, or in or by cock fighting, horse
races, dog matches, or foot races, or other pastimes,
game, or games whatsoever, or in or by bearing
a share or part in the stakes, wagers, or adventures,
or in or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do
or shall play, act, ride, or run as aforesaid," &c. But
the statute of 5 George IV., instead of leaving the sum
at SL, raised it to 201., and, instead of repeating the
words which I have read, uses these, " by any sort of
gaming or wagering." I now come to the definition of
the word " lost." Mr. Lawrance contended that the
statute must mean an actual pecuniary loss or legal liabi-
lity to lose it, that the wager could be recovered against
him in a suit. Now, it is impossible the Legislature
could have contemplated that, for at the time when the
e
George
the sth and 6th Victoria,lVpassed,as well as
i at is quite plainttheperiioto that
fthe
passing
all wagers above 10/. were illegal. By the 9th of Anne,
c. 14, all persons who lost more than 10/. upon any game
or wager might, if they bad paid such wager, sue fbr
and recover such money from the party who had re-
ceived it; thus clearly showing that such wagers or bets
were illegal, and that it was the desire of the Legisla-
ture to put a stop to wagering above the amcunt named.
By the Bth and 9th Victoria, c. 109, sec. 18, the law in
this respect has been put upon a more equitable footing,
because that Act provides that contracts or agreements,
whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming or
wagering, shall be null and void, and that no suit shall
be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity
for recovering any sum of money alleged to be won
upon any wager, &c. Therefore, it is plain, that when
the Acts recited, viz., 5 and 6 Victoria and 6 George
IV., were passed, the bets were void; and there was a

still further provision that the sum wagered, if paid,
might be legally recovered from the -party to whom it
was paid. It is plain that when the Legislature em-
ployed the word " lost," or "losing," they could not have
meant any legal liability to pay 201., for no such
existed,—no action could be maintained for any
sum above. 101. He (the Commissioner) felt persuaded
that this was what the Legislature meant,—that a per.
son who embarked in trade must not gamble, nor put
himself into a position by which, according to the code
of honour, he would be liable for any such debt. Some
amount must be fixed et and feyond which penal con-
sequences must follow; therefore they fixed the sum
named in the Act. The Legislature was desirous to
prevent traders from gambling, and there is no right-
minded person who must not acquiesce in the wisdom
and expediency of that desire. I think it of the greatest
importance that persons who embark in trade shall not
engage in pursuits of this description, nor put themselves
into such a position as would make it incumbent upon
them, according to every law of honour (a feeling, be it
remembered, which acted with as much torte upon men
as the law of the land), to pay a large sum of money which
might probably be abstracted from that which belonged
to their creditors. I have examined as many cases upon
this subject as I can find. .I would in the first place
refer to "Ex parte Newman, in the matter of
Jones," 2 Glynn's Cases in Bankruptcy. In that case,
the bankrupt did not deny that he lied on a certain day
before the bankruptcy lost 401., but, et ited that at ter
having made the above wager he had made a bet (0 451.
with another person on the opposite side, the e,,s,,queneo
of which was that upon the result oi the main he was a
winner of 5/. The Vice-Chancellor decided that that
was gambling within the meaning of the Act. After
quoting some other cases, his Honour said it would be
strange indeed if the Legislature had enacted that the
trader who made and honourably paid a wager of 201.
should not obtain his certificate, but that the trader who
had skulked out of the payment of his debt should escape
with impunity, because he had added a shabby to an
illegal act. Let us suppose the case of a mer-
chant losing a large sum of money a'; a horserace ;
would he not, if possible, pay the money at once,
sooner than be pointed out as a defaulter? He would
raise money in all directions in order to fulfil his ho-
nourable engagements. The Legislature, foreseeing
this, has wisely framed those enactments. I feel bound,
therefore, to refuse the certificate. I regret that my de-
cision cannot be reviewed. I could wish it to have been
otherwise, and believe and hope that, during the next
session, the law in this respect will be altered. I have,
however, made up my mind upon this case, and although
my judgment is final, do not feel justified in giving any
other. 1 can never think that the Legislature meant to
deal less favourably with the man who wagered and paid
his debts than with the person who wagered and refused
to pay them. I come to the conclusion that this man
was not entitled to participate in the advantages afforded
by the bankrupt law to traders under other circum-
stances, and that he ought not to receive his certificate.
Certificate refused.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOIV-HO USE.
A poor-looking diminutive object, named Cushay, who
appeared to be about fifteen, but was stated to be nine-
teen years of age, was brought before Alderman Law-
rence, charged with having fired a pistol at a girl named
Emma Tyler, with intent to kill her, or du her some
bodily harm. The prisoner, who seemed to be in a very
feeble condition, was placed in a chair at the bar.
Inspector Fosberry, of the City Police, stated, that
soon after ten o'clock on Wednesday night he was in-
formed that a woman had been shot by a young fellow
in Angel-alley, Hounsditch. Upon going to the place
the inspector found that there was ground for the report,
and that the girl had been carried to the hospital, and
the delinquent had fled. Next morning, however, the
inspector saw the prisoner's lather, who informed him
that the boy had returned home, after having wandered
about Smithfield all night, in great distress, and imme-
diate steps were taken for his apprehension. It was in the
meantime ascertained that the nurse at the hospital had
found in Emma Tyler's hair, upon putting her to bed, a
large slug or bullet, which had penetrated the flesh, and
indented the bone, and from which danger, though not
immediate, might arise. The prisoner stated, upon being
taken into custody, that the girl whom he had shot
had asked him to buy two pistols, one to shoot her, and
the other to shoot himself with, and that there had been
nothing in the pistol he discharged but brown paper;
that he had refused the girl's request to get the two
pistols, and when he ran away after shooting her he
threw the pistol amongst the ruins near Angel-alley.
It was reported about the neighbourhood that jealousy
was the cause of the desperate conduct °fail prisoner.
A girl, named Eliza Graves, evidently of very low
habits, who was said to have witnessed the whole of the
transaction, made a sort of statement, one word of which
it was quite impossible to ccedit, except the mere fact
that she ha-1 seen the pistol fired and the girl wounded.
The prisoner was remanded.
MARY LEBONE.
Yesterday Henry Gullen, a mendicant of the most
audacious character, who was attired in a military jacket,
was placed at the bar, charged by Jones, of the 1) divi-
sion, with begging in Cavendish-square.
The case was clearly proved against him. and he was
committed for a month.
i-ie then flew into a violent rage, and while he was
being conveyed to the cell by Mitchell, the gaoler, he
bit the officer upon the left thumb, which bled profusely
in consequence, the teeth having penetrated to some
extent.
He was again brought in for this second offence, when
Mr. T. Watkins, a cabinet-maker, who witnessed the oc-
currence, described it as being ruffianly and brutal in
the extreme.
Mr. LONG then fined the prisoner 51., and in default of
payment to undergo two months in the House of Correc-
tion in addition to the month in the case first alluded to.
The fellow immediately held up his hand in a threaten-
ing attitude, and swore that if he could got at the magi-
strate he would serve him in the same way he had served
Mitchell. He kicked and plunged about on his way a
second time to the cell; and at five o'clock he was con-
veyed in the van to his destination.
THAMES.
James Howell, a well-known sturdy vagrant, who has
been known on the town for some time as a " distressed
sailor," was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with
vagrancy.
Mr. Alfred Dodd, jeweller, of Cornhill, was passing
along the Mile-end-road on Wednesday evening, and
saw the prisoner seated on the side of a door, crying
loudly, and appearing to be in the greatest possible dis-
tress and misery. He was asked the cause of his woe,
and ho said he was a distressed mariner, and had
just come up from Portsmouth and been robbed of 15/.;
that he had no means of obtaining food or lodging, and
that he had been greatly ill-used by the villains who
robbed him. The story had the desired effect; Mr.
Dodd gave him all the halfpence he bad in his pocket.
A gentleman gave him sixpence, and he received contri-
butions from others. Mr. Dodd having reflected upon
the matter, suspected the prisoner was an impostor, aid
watched him. He saw him join another street beggar
and communicate with him, and afterwards seat himself
on another doorway and repeat the same fable with as
much success as before. Mr. Dodd afterwards followed
him some distance, until he met with a police-constable
named Hussey, and gave him into custody. Nothing
whatever was found on the prisoner on his arrival at the
station-house, and he had artfully contrived to dispossess
himself of all the alms ho secured by the imposture. He
was recognized by the police as a well known mendicant,
and a very impudent oue, who had never been to sea in
his life.
Mr. YARDLEY said that Mr. Dodd was deserving of
great praise for the manner in which he had acted in
this case, and that it was such persons as the prisoner
who did great mischief to the really deserving poor, and
were a nuisance in the streets. He committed the pri-
soner as an idle and disorderly vagabond, obtaining
alms under false pretences, and sentenced him to one
month's imprisonment and hard labour.
William Thompson, another mendicant, was charged
with vagrancy.
A police-constable, named Barnes, said the prisoner
had performed the part of " the shipwrecked sailor on his
beam ends" for some time past, and that lie saw him
following three mariners in Ratcliffe-highway, and ap-
pealing to their sympathies on behalf of a poor brother
shipmate who had not a shot in the locker. He warned
him to desist, but he would not, and importuned every
person he met with for some time, and witness took him
into custody.
The prisoner said he was a sailor, and in distress.
Mr. YARDLEY—Where is your register ticket?
The prisoner said he had not got one.
The policeman said the prisoner was a common street
beggar, and had never seen salt water in his life.
Mr. YARDLEY sentenced the prisoner to one month's
imprisonment and hard labour.

THE FIRE IN NEW-SQUARE, LINCOLN'S-INN—On
Wednesday the several gentlemen who held chambers at
2, New-square, Lincoln's Inn fields, met together, and a
committee was formed for the purpose of seeing that
proper care was taken in searching the ruins for the re-
covery of the remaining documents known to be still in
the rubbish. It was also agreed that no person what-
ever was to be allowed to go upon the ruins to search
for missing property until the remaining walls arc
pulled down. So anxious were many gentle-
men the preceding day to search the ruins for their
property, that notwithstanding every gust of wind
made the walls reel to and fro, not the least attention
was paid to the warning, and in order to protect the
lives of the unfortunate sufferers by the fire, this order
was deemed indispensably necessary. Yesterday morning,
at an early hour, the work of levelling the walls will be
commenced. Mr.i Martin, a gentleman whose chambers
have been totally consumed, has fortunately succeeded in
getting out of the ruins a vast number of documentary
papers of many thousand pounds value, and in order to
allay the excitement which has been caused amongst
several members of the nobility respecting the fate of
their title deeds, we are in a position to state that most
of them have been recovered, either uninjured, or so
triflingly scorched as not to be illegible. The police are
still obliged to be kept on duty within the square to pre-
vent the crowd of spectators from getting into danger.
• FOREIGN ARRIVALS.—In the absence of the usual
arrivals of cattle, provisions, &c., from Rotterdam and
other of the continental ports, some supplies have taken
place from Harlingen, Nardwyk, and Nieu I)iep. The
arrivals from Rotterdam as well as Hamburgh are at
present entirely suspended, owing to the severity of the
frost on the Continent, and merchants have in the emer-
gency availed themselves of the port of Ostend for the
transmission of continental merchandise to this country.
A steam-ship has just arrived in the river from that
port, heavily laden with merchandize of every descrip-
tion, a considerable portion of which has been brought
from the inland parts of Germany for shipment to this
country.

We understand that Mr. Pryse, the son of the late
lamented Member for the Cardigan boroughs, bas con-
sented to Mae fOrTfard, with every prOpM pi. woe,