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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1847.

the --0 •rt, but still a considerable quantity was taken.
A ve: lar.:er force will be indispensamle to main-
tarn the eou2rrunications; end par:icularly now that this
new systvin require such cunsidereble imports every
fertnight, Government must keep the roads open at
whatever cost. The country is becoming very much
disturbed, several additional regiments must be sent to
preserve the peace."
RoBBERy vF A MAIL CAR.—CAHIRCIVZEN, MAY 17.
—lt is to me a most painful task to have to acquaint you
that the in-eoming
Ina car to this town was robbed this
morning, about one o'clock, at Bowler's-hill, about a
mile to the west or Kell-, by two armed men, and six
bags of letters taken; and though the police and others
are out in search of the rubbers, I greatly fear they will
nut be traced. Unfortunately there were no passengers
on the car, and the driver not bring armed no resistance
could be made.—Cork Examiner.
STATE of THE CouNTRY.—The accounts from the
provinces this morning are fearful beyond all former pre-
cedents. Fever is rapidly on the increase, and, it is to
be feared, will continue to increase with the advance of
summer.
In the Kilkenny Union more paupers have died within
the last three months than during the preceding fire
years.
la the parish of Castlemain there have been 420 deaths,
of these upwards of 300 acre caused by famine. In this
locality there was a lendlord clearance in the month of
April, by which 128 individuals were rendered house
less and homeless.
In Kilinain, county Cork, the mortality presents an
increase of 300 per cent. over that of last year ; and
here, too, the disease is to be seen at work every day.
In Kilcreest, county Galway, there has been an in-
crease of 1,400 per cent.
In Ardfort there have been 910 deaths, of which 416
were caused by famine.
Instances such as the foregoing could be accumulated
without number or end. One mere will suffice for the
present. In Crookhaven, Cork, the Southern Reportr;
says, the people in the neighbourhood have perished—
are perishing still from sheer want of any kind of nu-
triment. There are deaths from pure starvation. A
woman, whose father and family died of hunger, has
prolonged her own miserable existence on dog's flesh.
She has drunk dog's blood ! ! Merchil Providence !
why should these horrible expedients be al.owed by
Christian men ?

THE DISTILLERIES.
The reduction of the duty on ram, consumed in Ire-
land, has put a stop to distillation at a much earlier pe
rigid this year than us....tal. The North Distillers
«ill discontiue distillation for the season atter thi,
week, and will be quickly followed by that of John-
street. All the Cork dis illeriea will then have ceased
working at an unusually early period of the year. The,
discontinuation of those distilleries will throw a con
siderable number of poor men, all labourers, out of em-
ployment. It will be bad tco for the dairy farmers re
siding near Cork, who were enabled to supply thei.
eattle with grains and wash during the dearth of fodder
this spring. It appears that the heavy stocks of whisk)
in the hands of the retailers, purchased some month:
since, when that article was expected to reach half ti
guinea per gallon, and not yet disposed of, have tender,
to check the demand at the distilleries; and rum bei.:e
.row sold at little more than the price of whisky. ha,
also contributed to cause a stagnation in the trade,which
it is not likely to recover for some cansiderabl time
tny apprehend that it ‘s ill be long before retailers get
rid of their stocks, the dram drinkers being more likely
to give a preierence to rum than their native whisky.
Of course the Itieh price of barley must have consider-
able influence with the distillers in causing them to
cease working their concerns.
IF lSl[ LANDLORDISM.
The Kilkenny Jownul of this day states, on the
luthority of a correspondent, that the bailiffs of tht
R; ht Hon. W. F. T.ghe were out on Tuesday, for the
' porpse of distraining tor rent. They commenced, it it.
,aid, at the side of Brandon Hill, determined to sweet
the entire Hoer property before them; hut, happily, some
of the tenants hold land from the excellent Lord Mount-
garre-, and having had some presentiment of " Bob'
visit," they drove the cattle for security, into the pro-
perty of thi. nobleman.
The same correspondent speaks in high terms of
praise of the conduct of Lords Mountgarret and Cliftlen;
he latter, who is a nephew of Lord Nlorpeth, has given
employment to a great number of men for the last three
years—distributed food and clothes before—treated his
tenants with the greatest indulgence. in this season of
famine and of death, and no man under him need fear

for his cow.
The Goth Examiner of yesterday says, the Patent
Saw Mills at King street, the largest establishment of
the kind we b, lieve' in the land, have been at full work,
with from 16 to 20 pair of saws going at the same timi
from morning to night. for the last six or eight months,
:aating planks for coffins ! The other orders to the
cam' establishment were planks and scantlings for the
furniture of berthing in emigrant vessels, and for the
erection of fever sheds in all parts of the country.
THE NEW LORD-LIEUTENANT.
It is said that. the new Lord-Lieutenant will arrive in
Dublin on Wedne day, when a Privy Council will be
held, and his Excellency sworn into office.
There is no truth in the rumour that Mr. Labouchere
is to leave Ireland. The Right Hon. Gentleman con-
tinues here as Chief Secretary.
TRINITY TERM.
This day being the first of Trinity Term, the Lord
Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and the Judges of
several Courts, opened term with the usual ceremonials.
At two o'clock the Lord Chancellor entered the Court
Chancery, and having taken his Seat on the Bench. ,
the following gentl:men having been previously sworn
by Judge Perrin, in the Court of Queen's Bench, were
called to the Bar :—Francis Evans, Esq , only son of
Francis Evans, of Mallow, in the county of Cork, Esq.;
John Hickson. Esq., second son ofJohn James Hickson,
of Trah e. in the county of Kerry, Esq.; John Hatch
gynge, E.q.. third son ofJohn Synge, hoe ot Glanmore,
in the county of Wicklow, Esq., deceased ; Samuel
M'Gouran, Esq., only son of R. M`Gouran, late of
Cumber, in the county of Down, deceased, who took
the Catholic oath,
MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTHER
IN THE CITY GAOL.
About it fortnight since a woman, named Margaret
Lynch, was committed to gaol for stealing watches be-
longing to a man named Crowley, of Fishamble lane,
in company with a soldier of the 47th Regiment, both
nartiet being of known bad character. On Sunday
Lynch was delivered of a child, which she smothered
next night in the cell, and threa-ened to " brain"
two female prisoners who were with her if they
di-closed what she had done. Some intimation, how,
,'ver, reached the ears of the prison authorities; and an
inquest having been held yesterday, a verdict
of " wilful tniirde-" was returned against the unnatural
parent.—.Southt ne Reporter.
C iRN EXCHANGE.
Our arrivals t'us weex have been moderate, and
as a demand from the interior continues to increase
our stock of bread stuffs is much reduced,
and prices exhibit a strong upward tendency
l'hia day's market was will attended, and
holders commenced by demanding higher prices than
were actually realised. We note, however, an advance
in wheat of 25., oats Is., and barley ls. 6d. since last
Friday; while for Indian corn 6s. to Bs. more mon.?y
was paid. Corn meal is fully 3s. dearer, peas 25., and
b-ans about 15. The sale of flour is improved, sucks
and barrels being 2s. and 3s. respectively higher. Oat-
meal without change. Coarse flour meets inquiry.
Starch extremely scarce, and high rates demanded.

INSTRUCTIONS AND RECEIPTS
FOR THE USE OF INDIAN CORN.
The following are extracts from a pamphlet published
for the Government at Dublin, and show the various
modes of cooking Indian corn in America :
METHOD OF GRINDING INDIAN CORN.—The grain of
Indian corn is sometimes very hard, and is called flint
corn, but all the mill stouas used for grinding other
grains may be used for Indian corn. This grain being
larger than wheat, it is necessary that the stones should
be kept wider apart and not driven too rapidly, for when
the motion of the stones is too rapid the meal becomes
heated and injured, and the cause of injury to the meal is
its being eround too fine—" it kills or deadens the meal."
VARIOUS MANNERS OF USING INDIAN
CORN AS HUMAN FOOD.
SUPPAWN OR PORRIDGE—That is to say, boiling milk,
broth, or water, thickened with Indian corn meal, in the
same way that people in the south of England thicken
them with wheat flour, and the people in the north
thicken with oatmeal. Put into water, this is a break-
fast, supper, or dinner for little children ; put into mils
or broth it is the same for grown peopl. It is excel-
lent in all disorders arising from bad digestion. In milk
or broth it is a good strong meal sufficient for a man to
work upon.
It takes about 3ilb. of Indian corn flour to make por-
ridge for 10 persons, less than half a pound of corn flour
tor a meal for one man, and a warm comfortable meal
that fills and streng hens the stomach. Three pounds
and a half of wheaten flour would make 41. b. of bread,
but it would be dry bread, and bread alone, arid not
affording half the sustenance or comfort of tie porridge.
MUSH.—Put some water or milk into a pot, and bring
it to boil; then let the corn meal out of one hand,genti)
into the milk or water, and keep stirring with the other,
until you have got it into a pretty stiff state ; after
which let it stand ten minutes or a quarter of an hour,
or less, or even one minute, and then take it out, and
put it into a dish or bowl. This sort of half pudding or
tali' porridge, you eat either hot or cold, with a little
,alt or without it. It is eaten without any liquid matter,
tut the general way is to have a basin ot milk, and
'eking a lump of the mush you put it into the milk, and
eat the two together. It is a great convenience for the
workmen in the field that mush can be eaten cold. It is,
,n fact, moist bread, and habit soon makes it pleasanter
than bread.
HOMINY is made of the broken grain, broken by the
.feel mills. It is soaked over night in warm water,
,hanged in the morning to clean cold water, and boiled
;ently an hour and a hall. Warm it over when cold ;
,at it with milk, or molasses, or salt, or bacon, or alone.
Wheaten bread, with one third Indian corn meal, is
lecidedly improved by it, and is preferred at all the
tables of the first American faailies. It acquires by this
,edition a sweetness in flavour, and a freshness that we
al vain look for in bread made entirely of wheat.
INDIAN CORN AND VI HEAT FLOUR BREAD.—Tkke
.ne quart of corn meal and a little salt, and one quart of
-Jailing water. Wet the meal, let it stand until it be
blood-warm, then add two quarts of wheat flour and half
t pint of yeast, and let it Ilse. This quantity will make
wo loaves Bake it one hour and a halt.
BROWN BREAD.— fake one quart and a pint of Indian
neal, otie quart and a pint of rye flour, and a little salt,.
llix well together; then take a half pint of yeast, a
part and half a pint of blood-warm water, and let it
rise; bake it in an iron stand in the oven all night.
RYE AND INDIAN BREAD.—There are many different
proportions in the mixing of this bread. S,.me put one-
oird Indian with two ot rye; others like one-third rye
and two of Indian, others preter it half and half.
If you use the largest proportion of rye meal, make
your dough stiff, so that it will mould into loaves; when
it is two-thirds Indian, it should be softer and baked iu
seep earthen or tin pans, after the following rules:—
Take four quarts of sifted Indian meal: put it into a
;lazed earthen pan, sprinkle over it a tablespoonful of
fine salt; pour over it about two quarts of boiling water,
.tir and work it till every part of the meal is thoroughly
vet. Lydian meal absorbs a great quantity of water.
When it is about rnilkwarm work in two quarts of rye
neal, half a pint of lively yeast, mixed with a pint of
warm water; add more warm water if needed. Work
,he mixture well , ith your hands. It should be stiff,
nit not firm as flour dough. Have ready a large, d. ep,
well buttered pan; put in the dough, and smooth the top
by putting your hand in warm water and then patting
lown the loaf. Set this to rise in a warm place in the
winter; in the summer it should not be put by the fire.
When it begins to creak on the top, which will usually
be in about an hour or an hour and a half, put it into a
well-heated oven, and bake it three or four hours. It is
letter to let it stand in the oven ail night, unless the
weather is warm. Indian meal requires to be well
cooked. The loaf will weigh between seven and eight lbs.
There is another mode which many persons think pre-
ferable. Scald a quart of rye and another of Indian
,neal with a small quantity of boiling water. Boil a
easpoonful of salt in a pint and a halt of milk, mix the
rye and Indian meal together, and pour the milk over
Asem ; add half a pint of fresh yeast, but not before the
meal is cooling. The mixture must be well kneaded and
placed in a deep pan by the fire to rise. When it has
risen sufficiently, take it out of the pan, make it into
any shape you like, and put it into an oven well heated.
if the fire is too brisk the crust will brown and the inside
remain heavy. It shout- bake from two to three hours.
To MAKE EXCELLENT BREAD WITHOUT YEAST.—
Scald about two handfuls of Indian meal, into which put
a little salt, and as much cold water as will make it
rather warmer than new milk ; then stir in wheat flour
till it is as thick as a family pudding, and set it down by
the fire to rise. In about half an hour it generally
grows thin ; you may sprinkle a little fresh flour on the
top, and mind to turn the pot round, that it may not
oake to the side of it. In three or four hours, if you
mind the above directions, it will rise and ferment as if
you had set it with hop yeast ; when it does, make it up
in soft dough, flour a pan, put in your bread, and set it
-efore the fire, covered up, turn it round to make it
equally warm, and in about an hour it will be light
enough to bake. It suits best to bake it in a Dutch oven,
as it should be put into the oven us soon as it is light.
Be careful to observe that Indian corn in all its pre-
paration requires thorough cooking. If not sufficiently
boiled or baked it loses its flavour and becomes indi-
gestible.
The following recipes are extracted from Dr. Bart-
lett's admirable pamphlet :
GRIDDLE CAKES —Use milk altogether and no water.
Two eggs, yellow and white, to be allowed for a pint of
corn meal, the milk to be a little warmed, and the whole
to be well beaten up with a spoon. There must be milk
enough used to make the whole so liquid that it will
pour out of the saucepan on the griddle, and a spoonful
of wheat flour and lard (pure butter is better) the size of
a walnut.
The griddle is a flat round iron concern, standing on
three legs, and of any size ; it must be made not very
hot, as it would then burn the cakes, and it must be well
cleaned and greased while warm, that it may be perfectly
smooth, so that the cakes may be easily turned, that
they may be done brown (not burnt) on both sides; to
promote their turnini, easily itsthei object of adding the
wheaten flour. The'daugh, or rather the batter, must
be well beat up, and prepared directly before being
cooked, though it Might' set an hour, but it would not
bear to be mixed over night. The cakes are usually
poured on until they spread on the girdle to the size of
the bottom of a breakfast plate.
INDIAN MEAL BREAKFAST CAKE. Pour boiling
water into a quart of era .meal ; stir it until it is wet ;
then add two well heaten
,eggs, and milk enough to
make it thick batter ; Measure a small tea-spoonful of
dry saleratus, and dissolie it into some warm water,
and put it into the b4tter. with a small quantity of salt ;
butter square tin pins ; fill them two-thirds full, and
bake in a quick oven when done cut it in squares, and
serve hot. • ~,, i
INDIAN Mtrtfins.--J•our boiling water into a quart of
corn meal ; stir it well, let it be a thick batter ; when it
is cooled a little, add Wit .a.table-spoonful of yeast, two
eggs well beaten, and „a; pa-spoonful of salt ; set in a
warm place to rise for two hours ; then butter square
tin pans, two-thirds fill Olen], and Lake in a quick oven;
when done serve hot Oreat.in squares, or bake as wheat
muffins.
BAKED INDIAN PUDDING.—One quart of milk boiled,
stir in seven spoonfuls of meal while it is boiling hot,
mix it quite thin ; when it is moderately warm add mo-
lasses, a little ginger and salt, four eggs, and a lump of
butter the size of an egg,' 7
BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.—One tea-cup of molasses,
one piece of suet the size of two eggs, chopped fine, three
spoonfuls of meal ; scald the meal with boiling water or
milk ; mix it quite thin ; when it is nearly cold add four
eggs well beaten. It recinires three hours boiling in a
strong cloth.
INDIAN GRUEL.--TD one quart of boiling water stir
in two table-spoonfuls of Indian meal, mixed with a
little cold water, boil ,fifteen or twenty minutes, add a
little salt. -t•
In conclusion, it will be found on trial that everything
which can be made with wheaten flour may be made
with Indian corn meal, and_that the latter is mere whole-
some and more nutritious. e
The following are recipes and instructions which are
at the present time extensively used, and with great
advantage and economy. in the town and neighbourhood
of Carlisle, and were furnished by Mr. Jonathan D. Carr,
of that town:— . ~
PLAIN BOILED HOMINY, OR INDIAN CORN SHELLED.—
Tie one pound of crushed hominy in a cloth, allowing
plenty of room to swell, and boil three hours. This
pudding may be eaten with sugar and melted butter, or
treacle sauce. One pound of hominy will make a pud-
ding sufficient, as a meal, for five or six persons, at a
cost of not more than 2rl, when Indian corn is selling
from 56,. to 60s. per quarter.
HOMINY MILK.—Soak half a pound of crushed hominy
in water twelve hours, and then boil it in milk over a
slow fire two hours. It must be about the consistence of
rice milk when brought to table.
RICE lIO3IINY PUDDING.—MIX the hominy, which
has been previously boiled, either in milk or water, with
eggs, a little sugar and nuttneg, a little suet, and with
or without currants and raisins, as preferred. Tie up in
a basin, and boil two hours. It is excellent, either
boiled or baked.
To prepare hominy as a vegetable, boil whol • hominy
in plenty of water four hours, and strain it through a
culander for the table. This is a beautiful looking dish,
and forms an excellent substitute for potatoes.
Equal parts of Indian and English flour make excellent
household bread and cakes.

THE LATE ARCHDUKE CHARLES OF AUSTRIA.—
The states of Bohemia have decided on erecting a
monument at Prague in hon,ur of the late Archduke
Charles. Some members proposed that the other pro-
vinces of the Austrian monarchy should be invited to
join Bohemia in constructing a monument to the hero on
the &Mot' battle, Aspern ; bat this, after a long de-
bate, was overruled.
A CoNTRAST.--The top price tor white wheat at
Gloucester market this week was 13s. 6d. per bushel,
with a tendency to rise. The top price in this week last
year was 7s. 3d. per bushel, with a tendency to fall

THE MIRFIELD MURDERS.
[ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.]
It was stated in our last that on the morning of
Fri lay week a second prisoner was apprehended on
suspicion of being concerned with the former pri-
soner, Michael M'Kabe, in the dreadful murders com-
mitted on an entire family at Mirfield, in open day.
The capture was made in consequence of information
received by Mr. John Howarth, the constable of
Mirfield.,
As the prisoner resided with his father, who keeps
a lodging-house at Daw Green, near Dewsbury,
access was gained under the pretence of looking for
two females, when Patrick Reid was found in bed
with his wife, two men (brothers, as is supposed)
being in bed also in the same room. He was told that
he was wanted on a charge of felony; when the only
observation he made was - a question :—" Had they
taken any other persons on a charge of felony ?"
Since then the officers of Mirfield and Dewsbury
have been unremitting in their exertions to collect
such evidence as would either bring the horrifying
crime home to the persons in custody, or to otters,
the guilty parties. The result of those exertions so
far has been to greatly strengthen the original suspi-
cions against both of the men in custody.
Before we detail such of the discoveries and addi-
tional evidence as it will be prudent in this state of
the inquiry to publish, it will be well to state how
it came about that suspicion was originally directed
towards Michael M'Kabe, the man first apprehended.
A. ter having visited the house of the Wraiths (and
being concerned, as it is supposed, with the
dreadful deeds there committed), he called with
his basket of pots at the King's Head Inn, and
at one or two other places in the neighbour-
hood ; receiving at one house a bundle of rags
which he had left in charge that same
morning. With these rags he went to the house of
Mr. Charles Flint, a pot dealer, at Robert Town,
from whom he wished to borrow a small sum of
money on the rags he had with him, for the purpose,
as he said, of "purchasing some pints and glasses for
thewh lorderaen dl
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had
the
df
to cSahroruyl dethre
them
f Atlhuattt odna
yI Inn, Mirfield,according
rdiog to
promise ;" but as Mr. Flint was not at home his wife
refused to advance any, so he said "he must wait till
Charley came in, for as he promised to carry these
pints and glasses he should like to keep his word."
Accordingly he waited nearly an hour in Flint's house
before Mr. Flint's return ; and during all that time
he never breathed a word about what he had "seen"
or " heard" at Mirfield. As soon as Mr. Flint returned
he immediately asked in the house, " Good God !
have you heard what there has been to do at Mirfield ?
three persons murdered." On which M'Kabe in-
stantly rose to his feet and made a statement to the
effect that " he had been there, and hal heard and
seen" cert'iin things, which induced the suspicions in
Flint's mind that he was a party concerned. He had
the presence of mind, however, to disguise his suspi-
cion from M'Kabe, but let him have the sum of
money he asked for, that he might procure "the pints
and glasses" for the Mirfield landlord. As soon as
M'Kabe had departed on this errand, Mr. Flint dis-
patched a messenger off on horseback to Mr. John
Howard, the Mirfield constable, to apprise him of the
suspicions he entertained, and the cause of then ; and
Mr. Howard, acting on the information he had thus
received, immediately set off in pursuit, and appre-
hended M'Kabe at the Shoulder of Mutton, whither
he had repaired with the "pints and glasses." Be
then made to Howarth the statement as to what he
had seen and heard at the house of the Wraiths, which
Howarth deposed to at the inquest.
M'Kabe had been at his residence, at High Town,
in the interim between leaving Mr. Flint's, at Ro-
bert Town, and being again in 'airfield. When he
reached home he had with him a quantity of flour,
which he left. He also informed his wife of the
" news" of the murders, accompanying his informr-
tion with a question as to " what would she think if
he had done it ?"
It can be conclusively proved that both the pri-
soners were in the neighbourhood of the house where
the Wraiths lived about the time that the murders
were committed. They were seen approaching the
dwelling within sight of each other. Indeed, they
both admit having been at the house—M'Kabe in
the statement before made pub!ic, and Reid in ac-
counting for himself and his doings on that day.
Since the apprehension of the second prisoner, the
constabulary have become possessed of a fact which
seems to bear very materially on the case. . On the
afternoon of the day on which the murders were com-
mitted, and before the horrifying news had reached so
-car, a woman found in a privy, situate in a small wood
at Ravenswharf, an old shirt all covered with blood.
The breast of this shirt was all bespattered, the sleeves
the same, while the wristbands were as though they
had been steeped. The body of the shirt also bore
marks as though bloody hands had been wiped on it.
This garment the woman showed to her neighbours,
and, unfortunately for the ends of justice, one of them
(in ignorance of what had happened so near), and
believing the marks to have been produced from a far
different cause, burnt the garment, and thus rendered
inquiry fruitless as to whether it could have belonged
to either of the prisoners charged, or to any other
person. Ravenswharf is on the high road from Mir-
field to Daw Green, where the prisoner Reid resided,
and he was seen in the, neighbourhood of the place that
very afternoon.
The constables have also caused the water in the
draw-well belonging to the dwelling of the murdered
parties to be pumped out, and the well searehed. In
it was found the kitchen-door key, which, it will be
remembered, was missing, the miscreants who enacte.i
the bloody tragedy having closed the house on their
victims, by putting too the curtains and shutters, and
bolting and locking the doors. In this well was also
found an instrument which it is more than likely had
been used in the perpetration of the dreadful deeds. It
is a tool known to the trade of tinners and braziers by
the name of " copper-bit," used in the soldering of
tin and copper. It is a formidable instrument if used
in beating on a skull ; and it is more than probable,
from the stains, as if of blood, on the instrument in
question, that it has been so used. It seems better
calculated to have produced the punctured wounds
found on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Wraith (and
which it will be remembered had been inflicted after
„death) than the poker left in the room with the old
sgetath?lpant lids certain that_the instrument cannot
have 'teed in the well for alfflengtWeriedWlCid; Tor
the iron portion of it is not corroded. It is not un-
likely that this instrument will be of important con-
sequence in fixing the crime on the proper parties.
As may be supposed, the dwellings of the two
prisoners have been minutely searched. In that
belonging to M'Kabe has been found a trifling article,
which, may, however, turn out to be no trifle in the
end. When the body of the deceased, Caroline El-
lis, was being stripped, prior to being laid out, it
was observed that one of her garters was gone ; that
she had but one remaining. The missing one was
not laid about, nor found anywhere in the house.
In a box in M'Kabe's dwelling was found a pair of
stockings similar to the pair he wore when appre-
hended ; and with these stockings was found a piece
of a garter similar to the one that remained on the
the 'leg of the murdered young woman.
The sensation which this most awful affair has pro-
duced throughout the entire district is truly deep.
It pervades all classes. A feeling of alarm is exten-
sively ascertained—and no wonder, for here is an en-
tire family knocked on the head in the open day !
Among the mass the feeling experienced is one of
deep indignation ; and which has manifested itself in
a most unwise manner. Because the two parties ap-
prehended are Irishmen, so strong a feeling has been
excited against the race that in some parts of the
neighbourhood breaches of the peace are apprehended
in the shape of endeavours to drive out the Irish.—
Manchester Guardian. 1

ROBBERIES AT EPSOM.—lnformation has been given
that on Ne ednesday a gentleman was robbed on the
Epsom Race-course of a gold skeleton lever watch, with
gold dial and seconds hand (No. 52,038), and a small
gold chain and key, with a cornelian stone top. On the
same day Mr. John Gibbons, of the Angel Coffee-house,
City-road, was hustled on the Epsom Downs by four
men, who robbed him of 501. in gold, a silver double-
bottomed hunting watch (maker's name " Straw, Tor-
rington"), a void ring set with blood stone, and a pair of
ottfipaboloatars
s. One of the men who knocked him down was
tug
dressed in a blue jacket and dirty white trousers and cap.
At the London-bridge- railway terminus, on the sem.
day, Mr. Blythe, of Leather-lane, IL lborn, was robbed
turned (maker's
eweisthnlaeuiveer
,c
~ escapement,lliamgBoointi
dial engine ,
No. 1,807.")
FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO A POSTI-
LION IN OXFORD-STREET.—On Saturday afternoon, be-
tween one and two o'eleck, an accident of a most fright-
ful character, and, indeed, which has been attended with
fatal consequences, occurred to a postilion named John
Mitchell, aged thirty-one, lately living in Margaret-
street, Cavendish-s O
uare,xford-street with a couple of
who, it seems, was at that
period proceeding along
horses, when the one on which he was seated shied at
something in the road, and, in endeavouring to keep
the other one near him he was dislodged and pitched on
to his head, the animal trampling
on him, whilst the
loose horse darted off at a flying pace, and ran over a
lad named King, who sustained a broken arm. The
unfortunate man, Mitchell, was picked up in a perfectly
insensible state, and taken at once to the Charing-cross
Hospital, where Mr. Steghall. the resident medical
officer, ascertained that he had received a broken leg and
a fearful wound on the forehead, besides a fracture of
the skull, and other extensive injuries, so that, in fact,
his case was hopeless from his Admission, and death
terminated his sufferings at two o'clock yesterday (Sun-
day) afternoon. The lad, King, was conveyed into a
neighbouring surgeon's, and from thence to his home.
The occurrence was seen by a rson named Thompson,
who will give evidence at the inquest.
Mr. David Salomons has reeigneil his appointment
as returning officer for the borough Of 11arylebone, con-
sequent on his having become a eendidsite for its repre-
sentation, in the room of Sir Charles Napier, at the en-
suing election. Mr. Salomon's successor, as returning
officer, has not yet been named.

LAW IN TELLI GEN CE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, May 24.
The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court at Westminster
to-day.
THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ELY V. BLISS.
The further arguments in this part-heard case occu-
pied his Lordship the whole morning.

ROLLS' COUia; May 24.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE DRAPERS' COMPANY.
This was the petition of the defendants, praying that
a decree made in this cause might be set aside, on the
ground that the Master's report, upon which the decree
was made, was based upon erroneous information, 133
which the defendants were charged 1661. 10s. more than
they were liable for. The decree in question directed
that the defendants should pay into court the rents
of the Kendrick Charity, of which they were
the trustees, derived from the house property in
Fleet-street and Fetter-lane, and the grounds upon
which the Master formed his report were two affidavits
of an officer of defendant'b, who now by affidavit denied
the accuracy of his statements.
Mr. KINDERSLEY and another Learned Gentleman
appeared for the petitioners, and Mr. Horace Twiss re-
presented the Attorney-General.
The petition was dismissed with costs.

VICE•CHANCELLOKS' COURT, May 24.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
BIRCH V. JOY.—JUDGIIENT.
At the sitting of the Court this morning his HONOUR
delivered judgment in this case, which was distinguished
by the multiplicity of its cross-pleadings. In order to
reduce the whole to some degree of order, the Learned
Judge disposed of the more extraneous matter which
had been allowed to encumber the original cause, and then
stated that it appeared to him that by the original bill of
February, 1812, a Mr. Colquhoun had agreed to sell an en
cumbered estate for a sum to be taken as 95,5001., the
purchase money to be paid in periodical instalments of
16,0001., 4,0001., 25,0001., and two of 16,5001., extending
over a period of six years, a mortgage bcirg
granted for the balance. A subsequent agree-
ment was entered into in October, 1813, and
it was on this agreement that the present question
turned. His Honour, after referring to the neglect
which was exhibited by the principals and their solicitor
in the framing of the agreement, proceeded to say that
he did not see how it was legally possible for the Court
to do other than to affirm this agreement, although he
would personally have been glad if he could have come
to any other conclusion. He should therefore affirm the
Master's report, at the same time, he did not consider
this a case in which he would be warranted in ruling
that the defendant should pay the costs of the action.
(Before Vice• Chancellor Sir Kuroter BRUCE.)
IN RE SHEFFIELD AND DONCASTER RAILWAY COMPANY.
His HONOUR made an order .his morning upon peti-
tion presented by five of the directors of the company
for the repayment out of Court of 22,0001. This sum
was paid in under the Act 9 and 10 Viet., but the Bill
having been withdrawn from the House of Commons, the
order upon certificate from the Speaker was made as
to
matter of course.

COURT OF QUEEIVN BENCH, May 22.

~.
POLICY 07 INSURANCE ON A SHIP.-BOYD V. THE ROYAL

EXCHANGE INSURANCE COMPANY.
This partly heard ease was reutned this afternoon
and the remainder of the depositions taken in the colon,

and at the trial having b en read,

Sir FREDERICK THESIGER (who with the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL appeared for the defendants) proceeded to
show cause against a rule which had betn obtained
by his Learned Friend Mr. Sergeant Shee, which
called upon the defendants to show cause
why the verdict which they had obtained should not be
set aside an i a new trial had, on the ground of the re-
jection of evidence, misdirection by the Learned Judge,
and that the verdict was contrary to the evidence ad-
duced at the trial. He said the action was brought upon

a time policy upon a ship called the Seahorse, from the
28th February, 1843, to the 27th of August in the same
year. It was a value policy upon the ship for 11.2501.,
and upon the machinery, which was valued at the same
amount, making a total of 22,50001. The pleas were—in
the first place, the payment of 1,2501. into Court,
and 251. per cent. upon the value of the ship, pleading, at
the same time, that as to the residue the plaintiffs ha I
broken their covenant ; 5,6251. was paid by the under-
writers, and the whole amount paid upon the policy was
8,4371 ' • but the plaintiff contended that there had been
a total loss of the ship, and that he was entitled to re
ceive the whole amount for which the ship was in-
sured. The vessel was a trailer between Van
Diemen's Land and New South Wales. On the 6th
of June, 1843, being within the period mentioned in the
policy. She was proceeding on a voyage from Launces-
ton, in Van Diemen's Land, to Sidney, in New South
Wales. She bad proceeded down the river Tumor as
far as George-town, where she came to anchor.
She soon after weighed anchor, but had not pro-
ceeded far down the river when an ebb tide
took her, cast her upon shore, and threw her
upon her starboard " bilge," by which she was consider-
ably strained ; but when the tide flowed, and, as there
had been fine weather during the whole time she was
aground, she was got off without any assistance—with-
out even removing her deck load. After some
trifling repairs to her machinery, and atter some
oakum had been put into the seams which had
started, she sailed on the 9:11 of June from
Georgetown to Sidney, where she arrived after a
voyage of three days, or three days and a half,
the ordinary passage being completed in three days; but
she took in coals on her way, and, consequently, some
delay took place. On her arrival at Sidney on the 13th
of June, there was a protest made, and on the 15th of
June a survey was made, which was not, however, at-
tended by the captain, by the mate, carpenter, or
engineer of the vessel, and upon that survey
the owners determined upon abandoning the vessel
the next day—namely, the 16th of June, and a letter to
that effect was transmitted- by him to the under-
writers, and claiming the full amount of the policy.
The protest was extended to the 28th of June, so that
this was due twelve days before the expiration of
that period. After the survey, the vessel remained
in the possession of Mr. Boyd for two years,
during which time he entertained a number of his friends
in board; but no means were taken to ascertain the real
nature of the injuries she had received. Under these
eircumstances the plaintiff came before a jury, claiming
the value of the policy as for a total loss; but the jury,
after bearing the case of the plaintiff (uo witnesses
were examined on the part of the defendant),
and the case lasted the greater part of two days, finind
a verdict for the defendants, on the ground that there
was not a total loss, and that the plaintiff could net
recover the whole amount of the policy. His learned
Friend contended that the evidence rejected consisted
in the 10th and 11th interrogatories, and that their
admission was most important ; but it appeared that he
dopted the 11th for the 10th by mistake, which was to
this effect—Was it practicable to heave down the bottom
of the vessel at Sydney, in order to ascertain whether
she was in a fit state to proceed on her voyage ? He
eldmitte4 that, this 13te.„rsoKatory.,,yvas rejected, I;nt, it, vas
rejected because it was not asked from a perg:in who could
treat it in a scientific manner, and because it was an im-
portant question, on which it was the province of the
jury to decide, and that their minds ought not to have
been biased by having it answered. The Learned Gen-
tleman here quoted a number of cases to show that this
view had been taken by the Courts with reference to
questions of this kind. Then with respect to the alleged
misdirection of the Learned Judge (Lord Denman) who
tried the case. Here his Learn-d Friend had fallen into
an extraordinary error as to the proposition which he
(Sir Frederick Thesiger) was alleged to have maintained,
and which his Lordship was supposed to have adopted.
That where a person abandoned a vessel hastily, after
injury to it, and without examination, and brought his
ic:ion, and showed upon the trial that the vessel was in
such a state, or that the eircum.tanc, s of the Mace were
such that she could not be repaired, except at an ex•
pense which would have exceeded her value, that the
assured was not entitled to recover in consequence of
having abandoned her hastily. The short hand writer's
notes would show that he did not make the proposition
in this way, and that his Lordship did not adopt it.
What he said was this—that those cases of constructive
total loss upon the value of policies were cases which
required to be strictly and narrowly watched—chat
where the parties had the opportunity of ascer-
taining the real nature of the injury the vessel had
sustained, that it was their bounden duty to adopt those
means to ascertain the nature of those injuries ; and that
they had no right to speculate in the matter, and to come
before the jury with a speculative case. These were the
words he used, and the whole burden of his argument
was, that it was the duty of the plaintiff to use every
means in his power to inform the jury of the real nature
of the injuries ; and that in this case, that nothing had
been done by him, and that the case he presented to the
jury rested merely upon speculation-; and that the ves-
sel, at the moment the trial was proceeding, might have
been perfectly sea-worthy. This was a fair and proper
way to put the case, because it was the duty of the plain-
tiff to show this to the satisfaction of the jury, and he con-
ceived that their Lordships would be of the same opinion.
Then with respect to the other point—that the verdict
was contrary to the evidence. Let their Lordships bear
in mind that the whole of the evidence on which the jury
decided was adduced by the plaintiff, and sthat the jury
was a special one, and there was no hurry, no cursory
view taken of the case by which the jury might possibly
have been misled. Their Lordships knew how difficult
it was for underwriters to obtain a verdict, and they
must also see how strong a case must have been pre-
sented to the jury to have induced them to decide in the
way they did. His Lordship did not express himself
dissatisfied with the verdict, and now the plaintiff came
forward and sought them to revise their verdict.
Lord DENNAN—We will hear the arguments of the
ether side on the point, and if we are not satisfied we
will call upon you to resume.
Sir F. THESIGER said his arguments were, therefore,
at an end.
Mr. WILDE followed on the same side, and reiterated
the main arguments of Sir Frederick Thesiger. He
dwelt perticularly upon the sudden abandonment of the
ship.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE then proceeded to address the
Court in support of the rule. He said the rule to which
he referred, and the rejection of which he considered
most important for the plaintiff, was to the following
effect :—What do you think would have been the best
thing to have done with a view to the interest of the
assurers and the assured, considering the state of the
vessel and her machinery at the time in question ? It
was true there was not a total loss of the ship in the
common interpratationof the word, because she was visible
to the eye; but the great important questions were,_
was or was not the vessel, a total wreck, utterly value-
less from the want of proper means for her repair at
Sydney; or if th-re were, would or would not the ex-
ppmie have been greater thins her value? Was there
usufficient dock room there? Was there at jeauufactory
in which a cylinder such as the one broken cotl.l be
made? Was there a " patent slip?" and could or could
not a " hogged" ship proceed safely to some neighbour-

ing port where all her repairs could have been done?
Could she safely have undergone a voyage to Bombay?
It was therefore quite impossible for the jury to form a
correct opinion upon all these questions unless this ques-
tion were asked and replied to. Every one of the cir-
cumstances to which the attention of the jury was neces-
sarily directed partook of a scientific nature; and it was
quite impossible that they could form a correct opinion
without the evidence of competent persons in the
matter on which they were called upon to decide.
It was not sufficient to say that a number of questions had
been asked of other witnesses, and that the jury had an
ample opportunity of arriving at a clear and decided
opinion, from the evidence adduced, and it was the duty
of the defendants to show that the question was one
which was improper. This they had clearly failed to
do, because it was just possible that they might have
learned from the question that the ship might have
been economically and satisfactorily repaired at a
neighbouring port. Then with respect to the misdirec-
tion of the Learned Judge—abandonment of a vessel
consisted in writing a letter to the assurers, and they had
done nothing more in this case ; they had acted fairly
and honourably, and had afforded the agents of the As-
surance Company an opportunity of surveying the ship,
and of ascertaining whether the survey of the owners
was correct. Formerly, persons could not abandon a
ship soon enough, and the Learned Sergeant
cited cases to show that ships had been
abandoned immediately after the survey. The
survey was made by the Port Master. Lloyd's agent,
the agent of the Australian Bank, and others, and
abandonment having been decided upon, she was ac-
cordingly abandoned next day; therefore it could not be
,aid that tho plaintiff acted precipitately or impru-
dently, and that he had not done all that it was his
duty to do under the circumstances; and an opinion cif
that kind from one in the high position of the N, ble
Lord could not fail to prejudice the jury against the
plaintiff. The Noble Lord left it to the jury to say
whether the plaintiff had or had not acted pru-
dently, and the jury in the face of the most
of the evidence of competent parties, that the plaintiff
had acted fairly and prudently, decided against him.
The Learned Counsel then addressed himself to the
third point, namely, that the verdict was against the
evidence and referred to an abstract of the evidence of
the different witnesses, who agreed in stating that th?re
was no dry dock at the place, that the patent slip there
was too small for her, that a new cylinder could not be
cast for her in the colony, and that it would have cost
16,000/. to have ascertained her injuries and to have
conveyed her to the nearest place where she could be
repaired. It appeared, further, that the accident had
corrugated her copper, and completely altered her buil 1.
Then the defendants had sent out a commission to the
colony, and had had an ample opportunity of investigat-
ing the condition of the ship ; evidence had been taken
by them.
Mr. WILDE said they had seen no evidence.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE said it was unlikely that they
would have paid 6,5001. into court, unless they believed
that the ship had sustained some serious injuries. He
submitted, on these grounds, that the rule should be
made absolute.
At the conclusion of the Learned Sergeant's case, the
Court rose, en the understanding that the further argu-
ments should be resumed and completed to-morrow.
May 24.
(Sittings in Banco.)
HILTON V. LORD GRENVILLE.

In this case,Clich was in action in the name of the
Crown, to recover compensation in damages for curtain
injuries sustained to some house property belonging to
the plaintiff by the works carried on in a mine in StaiThrd-
shire, belonging to the defendants, the Attorney-General
had obtained a rule to remove the venire from Stafford-
shire into Middlesex, and for a trial at bar here on the
21st of June.
Mr. Godson, Q.C., Mr. Stammers, and Mr.. Brown
were now heard at considerable length in support of an
application to rescind the rule on the ground that
justice would not be done unless a jury were had from
the spot, and that the Crown did not, possess the prero-
gative, though he admitted it had till power of doing so
before a case was tried.
The COURT considered that the rule in this ease might
to be rescinded, as the prerogative or the Crown d:d not
extend to this case.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL handed in affidavits to
show that a fair tr.al could not take place in Stafford-
;shire, and intimated that on a future day he should move
for a new trial on this groun(4.

BAIL COURT, May 24.
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice CoLEniDoE.)
Judgment was given this morning in several cases of
no public importance.
LAYDON V. PLATT.

Mr. PEARSON moved for a rule calling upon William
Wilks to show cause why an attachment should not
issue against him for not attendii:g to a subpcena. The
affidavit stated that the sub! cena was served upon the
defendant, and it being within the bills of mortality
shilling was handed to him for expenses, to which no
objection was made. He stated at the time of receiving
it that he should not attend to it. When the cause came
on for trial Wilks was in Court, but stated that if called
upon his subpoena he should not attend, as he was afraid
of certain disclosures which he should be cianpelled to
make if put into the box.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Take a rule nisi.
The other cases heard hero to-day were utterly de-
void of interest.
- -

ray 24.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,
(Sittings in 13anco.)
HAMPiON V. HARRISON.
Mr. M. SMITH moved in this Case that the rule should
be made absolute for obliging the payment of c,,sts,
which had been adjudged in a suit insutuied by Mr.
Harrison against a person for whom Mr. Hauipson was
the executor. A suit tor ejectment had been brought by
Mr. Harrison at the last Spring Assizes, in which the
verdict was for the defendaat in that action. The
Court, however, took time to consider the judgment,
and it was finally decided on the Ist of February that
judgment should be tottered tr) for the defendant, to
whom costs were adjudged by the Court. On the 26th
of March Mr. Justice Erie gave an order for execution
nun° pro tune. In the meantime, however, between the
trial and the ultimate decision of the Court, the d fen-
dant in the first action had died, and the lessor of the
plaintiff, who indeed had become the actual plaintiff, re-
tused to pay. It was now sought to make the rule ab-
solute, in order to compel him.
Mr. BUTLER. Q.C., appeared for the defendant. In the
present case Mr. Harrison contended that us the de-
fendant in the previous action had died, that the power
of recovery was lost, for the only mode for ensuring it
was by attachment, and it was therefore clearly evident
that such a process could not issue.
Mr. M. SMITH conceived that if attachment could have
been issued against one person, the power for obtaining
its effect was equally applicable to the other. There were
some cases in which it was beyond the power of the
Court to interfere, and in that now beiOre them there
was, he allowed, no direct remedy, but they eould grant
a writ ofseiere ficias, on which a suit could be instituted
the recovery of the costs by the executor, and fur
this he prayed,
The COURT, after deliberation, took time to consider
the points which had been raised.

COURT OF EXt-lIEQUE,Y, May 24.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The cases heard to-day were taken from the peremp-
tory, paper, but no case presenting any feature of public
interest was brought before the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-S7'REET.
William Johnson and John Hulbert, two well-dressed
men, were brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with
stealing a roll of silk, measuring 354 yards, the pro-
perty of Mr. Henry Absolum, tailor, No. 3, Hay-
market.
Edward Weaver, shopman to the prosecutor, stated
that about eight o'clock that morning the prisoners came
into his employer's shop and reqnt.sted to be shown a
waistcoat which was banging in the window. The pri-
soner Johnson asked him if it would fit him, and it he
would allow him to try it on. Witness allowecl him to
do so, but the prisoner trembled in such a manner that
he could not button it, and asked witness to do so fur
him. Whilst he was buttoning the waistcoat he ob-
served the prisoner Hulbert standing against the counter,
on which w ere several rolls of silk, apparently examin-
ing the texture. The prisoner Janson then made some
remarks about the price of the waistcoat, and said it was
too dear. Witness then noticed the prisoner Hulbert
leave the shop in a hurried manner, with his coat
drawn close round him. The other prisoner imme-
diately followed him. Directly they were gone witness
went to the counter and missed a roil of silk, containing
354 yards. He went in pursuit, and came up with them
in Suffolk street, and taxed them with the robbery,
which they indignantly denied. Witness, however,
being positive that they were the thieves, called a con-
stable and gave theta in charge.
charge
Police constable 149.0, proved receiving of the
but did riotriot find any pro-
prisoners and searcebuitnogr,sthuepmon;
perty of the prose them. lhey had plenty
of time to put away the property prior to their being
given into custody.
In answer to Mr. Bingham, the prisoner .Johnson said
or where he was employed. Hulbert said he
he was a cabinet-caaker, but declined saying where be
resided,was a " Gentleman," and both denied in the strongest
terms the charge ot the robbery.
The prisoners were rem,nded till Wednesday.
Cathef Lyons, g•rl about 14 years of age, was
charged before Mr. Bingham with rubbing a lady's
g, about
pocket
ipQpfea purse, containing 6ared from :die evidence of Mr. Nicholay, fur
i.
rier, 82, Oxford-street, that on Saturday evenin
live o'clock, as he was standing at his door, he saw the
prisoner running towards him, pursued by a lady, who
was calling out " Stop thief." lie stopped the prisoner
and held her till the lady came up, who informed h:m
that the prisoner had picked her pocket of a purse con-
taining six shillings. He took the Fig ner into his
house,. when she admitted the robbery, and handed to
him the purse containing the money ; on searching her
pockets he found another purse and a quantity of silver.
The prisoner cried, and so worked upon the lady's
feelings as to induce her not to appear, but, for justice
esaaksiel,yl,leas thoughtno doubtth e
tparei sootnheerr
poughturse nutan to
money
elye t
foounsdo
upon her were the proceeds of some other robbery. He,
therefore, appeared this morning to press the charge.
The prisoner admitted stealing the purse, and said the
ey wdetrheeherown.
constable to make further
othi‘eirr
.pßuriNseG annA.dmindoi
rnet
inquiries about her, and remanded her till to• morrow.
WORSHIP STREET.

William Rich, otherwise Brown; with a number of
otiwr aliases, vas brought before Mr. Broughton,
ehargßo with breaki;ig Into the premises of .34,:!51-s.
Goothogs, cab proprietors and .^.Nneelwrights, Great
Manchester-street, Waterloo-town, Bethnal green.
James Gunnel, an officer belonging to the Eastern
Counties Railway, stated that he was on duty at' About