The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-05 00:00:00

MARCH 5, 1847.

RECOVERY OF THE SPHYNX

STEAM-SLOOP.
The Sphynx has been got off from her unfortunate and
unnatural position on the bleak and desolate shores at the
back of the Isle of Wight. To that indomitable spirit of
perseverance which has characterised Englishmen under
all circumstances and in all ages, we owe the preserva-
tion of the Sphynx on the Navy List, and by this time,
we have reason to believe, the presence of that unfor-
tunate steam -sloop in Portsmouth Harbour. A commu-
nication front Portsmouth, by the electric telegraph, an-
nounced the gratifying fact to the authorities in town
yesterday.
We had little doubt, from the completeness of the
arrangements on Tuesday, the fine confident spirit which
animated all partes on board—the dockyard men as well as
the bluejackets-that they would succeed in their enter-
prise. Igo disappointment seems to have :hunted them,
and repeated failure appears to have only braced them
up more firmly in their determination to accom
'dish, as they bad so often deserved, success. Too
much praise cannot be given to the dockyard men em-
ployed in this arduous task. Th2y emulated the blue
jackets in every resput. Cheerfully and steadily they put
" their shoulders to the wheel," and with sturdy vigour they
toiled on, inch by inch, securing their advantages as they
achieved them. The blue jackets, with no less effect, im-
petuously strained every nerve in the right direction.
Science and great practical experience guided their physical
efforts, and the appliances of human strength and mechanical
art—muscle and mechanism combined—have effected a great
national triumph, and have shown to the world that the
Royal service has yet men who " are worth their breeding."
The preparations on Tuesday last, on board the Sphynx,
and at the locality, were such as to inspire the greatest con-
fidence in the trial to take place that evening. The morning
tide did not rise so high as anticipated ; the rollers which
had set in the night before had produced a heavy swell, and
although the wind was not high and was blowing off the
shore, they could not secure the camel under her:port paddle-
wheel framing ; consequently, they moved the ship very
little, but, nevertheless, quite up to the ledge of soft rocks
which formed a barrier to her further progress towards the
sea, as it also served as a protection to the ship against its
ravages.
' •As the tide dropped on Titepdty morning every means
were taken to husband tbe advantages which had :been.
gained. The wind continued to blow off the land from
N.W. ; the three steamers were under steam about
three-quaeters of a mile from the Sphynx, about a couple
of hundred yards distant from each other, ready to
take the lumps and lighters in tow in the event of
a change of wind. Two of the lumps were moored, but one
having snapped a couple of hawsers of immense strength,
and having, from the very bad holding ground, brought
home a 45 cwt. anchor, she was busily engaged repairing
her moorings. The channel to the ship, and through which
she was to come out, was marked off by buoys, by Mr.
Bellamy, the assistant master attendant, at very little in-
tervals of distance from each other, and the ship herself was
perfectly upright, with her bows pointing directly seaward.
Around her bows and stern were floating a large number of
casks; one camel was lashed under her starboard paddle-box
massive framing, the other camel, the "refractory one," was
tethered off on the port side, ready at low water to be har-
nessed under the other paddle-box framing-
On board the Sphynx the decks were strewed with a pro
fusion of casks, anchor:, cables, hawsers, lines, handspikes,
and other useful apparatus, Captain Austin, under whose di-
rection the operations were carried on, suitably equipped for
the occasion, as weather-beaten as the rough hardy counte-
nances of those under his orders, appeared equal to the task
he had undertaken. Cheerful and light-hearted himself, he
inspired confidence and infused energy among the men as lie
passed along the decks. On the main deck the dockyard
men were enjoying their pipes over a galley fire, and numbers
were recruiting their strength by repose. In a noble spirit
of emulation the starboard side was appropriated for seamen
to work at, and the port side the dockyard men, and whilst
the latter had painted on the inside of the starboard paddle-
box the refresher, "England expects every man to do his
duty," the blue jackets had paid them the compliment on
the port paddle-box in white paint, " Go it mateys." It was
impossible to witness these apparently trivial promptings
without a feeling of pride and a confident anticipation of
that success which has been, we are happy to say, so auspi-
ciously and so speedily realised—the arrangements appeared
to be so perfect and the determination so unanimous.
On the port-side on the weather deck a heavy cable was
run out to the distance of 180 fathoms, to which was attached
a 45 cwt. anchor, backed by a 10 cwt. anchor, and on the
starboard side another cable was carried out about 140
fathoms to a 45 cwt. anchor, backed by another smaller
anchor; hawsers on each box were carried out to the lumps,
and 8 and 10-inch hawsers were also to be taken on board
the steamers. The camels being ready filled, and every one
at his post, " a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether,"
at the nick of time, has redeemed our naval character, has
maintained our national credit, and has proved to the world
that, if we may accidentally lose, we can coolly, and deli-
berately, and triumphantly, recover—" Britannia rules the
waves."

THE NAVIGATION LAWS.
The Select Committee upon this subject met again yester-
day, in Room No. 2. There were present, Mr. Milner Gibson
(chairman), Sir Robert Peel, Sir George Clerk, Alderman
Thompson, lion. M. Liddell, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Mitchell, Mr.
13right. Mr. M'Carthy, Mr. Lyall, Admiral Dundas, Mr.
Thomas Baring, and _ _ _

Lefevre, of the Board of Trade, was recalled, ,nd, in
answer to a question from the chair, he stated that he was
not aware that he had anything to add to the evidence for-
merly given; but, with the permission of the Committee, he
would prepare a paper containing a IA icf history of the Na-
vigation laws, with all the changes and modifications that
had taken place in them, from their origin iu the days of
Charles 11. down to the present time.
Mr. Lefevre then, at the request of the Chairman, pro-
ceeded with his explanation of the different elanes in the
navigation Act, in which he bad been interrupted on Satur-
day. With respect to the 21st clause, which provided that
a certain proportion of the crew should be taken to consti-
tute a vessel a British ship, and that it Jested with her
Majesty, by order in Council, to declare what that propor-
lion should be, the witness stated, in answer to Mr.
vlitehell, that in point of fact the whole intention of the
navigation laws might be frustrated without the interven-
tion of an Act of Parliament by an order in Council, altering
the proportions of the crew. But, at the same time, he said,
in answer to Sir George Clerk, that he had never known
such a case to occur, even in time of war. And, in reply
to Mr. Liddell, he said the clause was intended to remedy
a serious inconvenience which a British ship might be
placed under if that portion of her crew who were British
should be pressed, and thus the vessel deprived of her British
seamen, would be deprived of the privileges -of a British
vessel.

With regard to the 23d clause, Mr. Lefevre explained that
it gave the Crown power to confer upon any port in the
colonies the same privileges as were enjoyed by ports in this
country, of receiving foreign ships. This power was con-
tinually exercised by the Crown, and the number of such
free ports in the colonies was increasing.
Mr. M'Gregor, Joint-Secretary to the Board of Trade, was
then examined. He stated that the management and regula-
tions of foreign commerce were almost altogether under his
department in the office, and if the Committee would give
him leave he would prepare a paper which would state
ser,icttim those forei n countries with which this country had
treader "to Or, commercial • relations. In the
meantime, he might state, that the navigatioili*is of the.
United States were almost entirely an imitation of the na-
vigation-laws of Great Britain. After the independence of
the United States had been established, Mr. Jay had been
sent from the United States to this country to propose that
those commercial and maritime relations which subsisted
between the two countries before the separation should still
be in all respects continued. Mr. Jay at that time proposed
very much the same advantages which we enjoyed at present
in America. The principal demand on the part of the Go-
vernment of the United States was, that we should place
their trade with the West Indian colonies and the North
American colonies which still remained to us on a reciprocal
footing with regard to navigation and trade. Mr. Pitt fully
adopted this view of the case, and prepared a Bill which he
brought into Parliament in order to give effect to it; but as
Mr. I'itt's Administration soon afterwards went out of office,
the Bill was defeated, and England not only rejected all
treaty and commercial relations with the United States, but
she determined to exclude American produce, even when
brought in British ships from the British West Indian pos-
sessions. The consequence of this was, that the United
States adopted the British navigation law in all its integrity,
and that they continued it in all its integrity, except in so
far as England had relaxed her navigation laws.
By Mr. LIDDELL—Mr. Pitt brought in his Bill in 1783.
He did not gather, from the correspondence or speeches on
the subject, that the Americans adopted our navigation
laws for the purpose of encouraging their own trade. It was
certainly for the purposes of trade, and to leave them inde-
per.dentin their intercourse with other countries.

By Alderman TIIO3IPSON—Since the time of Mr. Jay the
navigation laws had not been matter of treaty ; but there
had been much negotiation on the subject of commercial
intercourse. It was true that the navigation laws had
been indirectly the subject-matter of this corre,,pondence,
but only with regard to those parts which referred to the in-
tercouree of American ships with our colonies and with
British India.

By Mr. BARING—If Mr. Jay's negotiation had been suc-
cessful, there would have been no navigation laws at all, as
regarded the trade between England and America ;
but be could not say what might have been done with re-
gard to their own coasting trade. Even if the negotiation
had been agreed to with regard to England, it wculd by no
means have precluded the United States'. from forming navi-
gation laws with other countries—because, in fact, previous
to this period, America had herself entered into a commer-
cial treaty with llolland.
By Sir ROBERT PEEL—At that period the trade of the
United States with England and her colonies very greatly
exceeded that with all the other ports of the world.
By Mr. MITCHELL —The States had also entered into pre-
vious treaties with France and Holland ; but the treaty
with France was one of amity, not of navigation ; and the
treaty with Holland was entered into before their inde-
pendence was achieved—in fact, we come to know of it from
the capture of the vessel which was conveying the treaty to
Holland.

By Alderman TitomPsox—The principle on which the
treaty with Holland was based was one of perfect reciprocity.
the same as now existed between this country and the United
States. The same law existed in the United States as in
this country, prohibiting a foreigner from owning a native
ship : but it was easy for a foreigner to become naturalized.
There was not, however, any difficulty in a foreigner holding
a British ship. The commercial relations between the two
countries was now on a footing of thorough recipret,ity, ex-
cept that there were restrictions on American vessels enter-
ing some of our colonies. The principal colonial ports were
free ports, into which American ships might enter; but
these were not all in that condition. Ile would afterwards
give a list of those ports into which the Americans could not
enter, and which they considered as grievances. In America
there were certainly higher duties upon goods when brought
in British ships than when brought in American ships; these
were called counteracting duties. He could not say what the
view of the Americans was in this matter.

By Mr. Rtcaano—This country agreed to relax their re-
strictions upon the American trade in consequence of the
remonstrances of the British merchaants regarding the de-
cline of their trade. That decline was considerable. In
1784, before the American restrictions were imposed, the

British exports amounted to 3,679,468/. In 1785, at the
latter end of which year the restrictions were imposed, the
exports declined to 2,368,0231.; while in 1786, when they
were in full force, the exports fell to 1,603,0001. The re-
strictions were accordingly relaxed in 1787, 1788, and 1789.
After these relaxations the exports increased again very con-
siderably—he would afterwards put in a paper showing the
sums in detail.
By the CHAIRMAN—An English ship could take French
produce out to the United States, as there was nothing in
the law to prevent them ; but the Government might and did
impose countervailing duties which prevented them. Eng-
land prevented American ships from bringing French pro-
duce here except for purposes of re- exportation. An
American ship might bring American flour or cotton from
Havre, but that was because the cargo was American pro-
duce, though brought from a French port. An American
ship, on her retnrn voyage, might up her cargo either
front England or France, at her option; but an English ship
could only take out the cargo of this country. According
to the regulations of the American law, a ship was deter-
mined to belong to that country under whose laws she was
owned and navigated.
By Alderman Tuosu'ssx—tip to last year, English ships
could not take foreign produce to America, even for purposes
of re-exportation, because America had not till lately any
warehousing system.' Last sessionof Congress a warehousing
Bill was passed, but he was not sufficiently acquainted with
its details to be able to say whether it allowed of English
ships importing !pods into America for the purpose of re-
exportation. He was aware that American ships had that
advantage in England. It was a great advantage to them;
because the geographical position of the ports of London and
Liverpool for the distribution of the produce of the earth was
unrivalled; but he did not think that English ships would
train the same advantage from bonding their goods in the
United States, except so far as Canada was concerned. He
did not think that the bonding system in America would be
of much advantage to our trade with China.
In answer to questions from Mr. MITCHELL,
Mr. M'Gregor gave an opinion as to the wants of the na-
vigation laws, which Alderman Thompson and others con-
tended was premature, as they were then engaged in inquiring
simply into their operation. It was therefore proposed that
the questions and answers relating to this point should he
• withdrawn, and the room was cleared for the division.
Having decided the point, as we understood, in favour of
withdrawing the questions, the Committee adjourned till
twelve o'clock on Tuesday next.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Mama 4.—The steam-ship for the Grant Sultan was
launched from White's yard, at half-past twelve o'clock this
day. The preparations that were thought to be made for
the Royal Family proved to be for the Turkish Ambassador
and his suite. The ship went off in fine style, and in half-
an hour afterwards was in the Medina dock. She is likely
to prove a very ;powerful and fast vessel. She is called the
Vassitei Tidjaret.
Length extreme .. 210 feet.
Length of deck ... .. 200 ~
Keel for tonnage
Breadth extreme over paddle-boxes .... 52 „
Breadth moulded
Depth in hold 2O „
Burthen in tons .................. 936
She was named by the Princess Calimace, the lady of the
Turkish Ambassador, who, with E. Zohrab, Esq., the Turkish
Consul-General, and his lady, were present. The Emperor
of Russia's yacht was built in the opposite yard last year.
The lambing season in the Isle of Wight has proved good
as to the numbers dropped, but many of the ewes purchased
at Weyhill fair were too fat, and became diseased, and hun-
dreds of their lambs died from it when they were about eight
or nine days old. One farmer has lost considerably above a
hundred by this disease.
HALF-PAST Six, r.m.—The Poole steamer, just come up,
passed her Majesty's steamer Sphvnx, in tow of two steamers,
to the westward, coming by the Needles passage, inside the
Wight., but they are not in sight from Cowes yet.

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THE TICKET FOR Sour • —M• Soyer deserves to be
called the Gastronomic
Regenerator of
suggestion which
Ireland. His
re-
ceipt for cheap soup is the best practical
has yet been made for the relief
Isrof that unlucky island. It
has, however, been ebjected against M. Soyer's soup, that it
contains an insufficient quantity of meat. We have a plan
tpropose, by which this defect may be remedied. Na',
we will show how animal matter may be. plentifully intro-
duced into the soup with positive gain instead of expense to
the country. Let game be applied to this purpose. We
shall be told that it will require all the game in the king-
dom. Exactly so. Two great savings will be thus effected ;
one in crops to the agriculturist, the other in prosecutions
:Ind prison expenses to counties. For if the Irish eat up the
-4ame, the game will not eat up the farmer ; poaching will be '
inpossible, and the game laws become a dead letter. We,
herefore, for once, recommend a series of battues for the
benefit of the starving Irish. Let us not be toll that this is
in unseasonable proposal. Famishing pe.,ple can eat stranger
food than game out of season. March hare will make very
,ensible soup. Our scheme we know will sp,,il sport but it
rather better to sacrifice that than human life. Instead,
herefore, of making game of Soyer's soup, we say, let Soyer's
soup be made of game. And the extirpation of game by the
instrumentality of Soyer will add appropriate lustre to a
name associated 'with Reforgh—Punch.

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ftECONDARTE&-(Tir DAV
(Wore Mr. Secondary P
DEADMAN V DEATH.
THE TABLES TUENED.—This Was action to over tie
aim of 200!. and interest on a mortgage. There was no de-
&ice to the action, and a verdict was gtvcn for the plaintiff.
SHARPE V. JONES.
The plaintiff in this action is a house agent, in St. John';-
, street and the defendant is a milkman in Westminster.

It appeared that the plaintiff had been engaged tou7spose
of the goodwill and lease of the premises, and acclrdingly
advertised it, besides putting up a bill in his window, which
was seen by a pariy who became a purchaser; bat as the
plaintiff had hPen paid for putting up the bill. it was con-
tended he egad not charge commission, as all his ,10,-equent
acts been on behalf of the purchaser, in ord,r 0 a a: 4.e
the price, the 'purchaser having applied to him for tl at pur-
pose, and when he went to take the inventory, now chart
for, he said he was doing it for the purchaser.
The ju,y gave a verdict for the defendant.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Cramnissioner FANE.)
IN RE WELLS.
In this rase the bankrupt, whu was de,,cribkd as a mer-
chant in the Poultry, came up to pass his lai.texamination.
Mr. PUCIIANAN supported the appication.
His TloNourt said there had not been a trade assignee ap-
pointed, and therefore he should, or, a general principle, ad-
journ the examination; tier where there were no as.zetts, or
the case was so beset with difficulties that no creditor could
be found to take the assigneeship, it might be considered the
affairs were such as could rot he satisfactorily wound up by
the solicitor to the fiat, and he therefore adopted a general
rule to adjourn such cases for twelve months.
Mr. BuctiArrax was proceeding to expinin, when
Hi 3 Holvoun said if he was acting on the particular cirr-
cumstances of the case, then Mr. Buchanan's obiervations
might avail the bankrupt, but as the judgment was on a ge-
neral rule he could not alter it. The last examination would
be adjourned sine die, with leave to come up when he could
find a person to become assignee and investigate the ac-
count; but if he had entered into ,the merits probably it
would have been the same, as bankrupt had been gambling
in railway shares.
Adjourned accordingly.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
UTTERING FORGED ORDERS.—Jane Stoor, aged 38, a
married woman, was indicted with having uttered several
forged seamen' orders, with intent to defraud Mary Edwards
and others.

The case was fully proved, and several previoui convic-
tions having been put in, the prisoner was sentenced to 20
years' transportation.
Several petty larceny cases of no interest took up the rest
of the morning.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Alderman HUGHES.)
The following prisoners were brought up for sentence:—
William Monroe, aged 21, convicted last session of stealing
paper from three different establishments, was sentenced to
one year's iniprisonment and hard labour.

Wiliam George Sweet, aged 17, convicted of an indecent
assault upon a child under 10 years, was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment and hard labour.
Henry Kendall, a goods porter on the Great Western Rail-
way, was indicted for stealing two bottles of wino from a
hamper to be sent by the railway.
It appeared that two hampers, containing 18 bottles of
port wine each, waxed on the corks and stamped, were sent
to the Paddington station, on the 4th February, well packed,
and in good condition. A few hours after, it was observed
that the end of one of the hampers had been raised,
and two bottles taken out. The bottles were found
behind an empty case in the good's store. Sergeant
Childers of the company's force was put to watch, and he saw,
while secreted in the store, the prisoner come and cautiously
look round, and then take up one of the bottles, and put it
under his jacket. When the constable seized him the pri-
soner, in surprise, exclaimed, "0 Lord God, this is the first
time."

The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him
to mercy, in consideration of his previous good character.
The COURT assured the prisoner that only in consequence
of the jury's recommendation, the sentence would not be
transportation, as it certainly would be in the very next case
of a similar character. He was sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)
James Williams and Frederick Jenkinson, who had been re-
manded from Monday, on a charge of uttering a forged
cheque on the hank of Messrs. Ransom, at the shop of Mr.
Prew, tailor, of High Holborn, was again brought before Mr.
Jardine this morning. On the case being called on,
Mr. Wolf, who defended the prisoners, said that before the
case was entered into, he wished to call the magistrate's at.
tention to an occurrence which had taken place since the last
examinatiou. The prisoners had been removed to the
Tethill-fields Prison, where Williams had written a letter to
him, giving him instructions for the defence. This letter was
stopped by Mr. Tracey, the Governor of the prison, who not
only prevented it from being forwarded to Mr. Wolf,
but went to the prisoners to caution them against
employing him (Mr. Wolf), who, ho said, was "one
of those scamps who frequent the police courts, without being
attorneys, and without any authority from attorneys.
Williams being a very old client of his, indignantly rejected
Mr. Tracey's advice, saying that he knew well what the cha-
racter of Mr. Wolf was, and he was determined to retain
him. Now, he considered it his duty to mention this, as if
such proceedings were to be allowed, there was no protection
for persons who were in custody on such charges.
Mr. JARDINE said that he could not do anything in the
matter, as, in the first place, he could not act on the unsup-
ported statement of the prisoners, and, indeed, he had
not the power of punishing Mr. Tracey if he had been
guilty of such misconduct; but there was no question that if
he had done so it was highly improper. However, he would
take care that inquiries should be made in the matter, and if
necessarS4e would make a representation in the proper
quarte?. case was then proceeded with.
The following additional evidence was given :
Charles Jackson, a clerk at Messrs. Ransoms, Pall Mall,
said that on Saturday last the cheque produced was pro.
sented by Mr. Rrew's clerk, now in court. The cheque was
signed " C. Kiunaird," but as it was immediately seen that it
was not Mr. Kinnaird's signature it was not cashed. The
clerk took it away.
Mr. Kinnaird,jeweller, of Gerard-street, Soho, said that the
cheque produced had been taken out of his blank cheque-
book, by what means he could not tell. The signature was
not his. Several other cheques had been torn from his book,
but he had never noticed it until he heard of this case.

This completed the case, on which the prisoners were com-
mitted for trial; but there was a second charge for passing
another forged cheque, also in Mr. Kinnaird's name, which
occupied the Court for a considerable time. In this case,
however, the evidence was not complete, and the prisoners
were thei efore remanded till this day-week. On the first
charge they still stand committed.
Mr. Kinnaird requested us to contradict the statement which
appeared on Saturday, that there were no effects at Ransom's
in his name. It was misapprehension of the clerk who took
the cheque to Messrs. Ransom's bank. The true ground of
the refusal to cash the cheque was, that the signature was
seen at once to be false.

WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

111 r. Lawrence Gregg, described as a gentleman of property,
residing at No. 17, Ask-terrace, Hoxton, New Town, was
charged with being found by the police, in the public street,
drunk, and incapable of taking care of himself, and with
violent conduct, &c., at the station-house.
Police-constable 405 N deposed, that he was on duty at
about three o'clock, when he discovered the defendant in the
street, so drunk that he was reeling from one side of the
pavement to the other. He had got a purse in his hand, and
on witness speaking to him, the latter said, " I think I have
lost some silver, and a 51. note. Witness, on examining the
contents of the purse discovered the defendant's money to be
correct. Perceiving, however, a female of loose character to
be apparently watching him, and that he had, in addition to
the cash, a gold guard chain round his neck, he thought
it prudent to convey him to the station-house, with a view
to his being afterwards conducted home. He, however, on
arriving at the station-house, assailed the inspector, police-
sergeants, and other constables, with the most opprobrious
epithets; lie refused to, give his name or address, and his
conduct was altogether so violent, that they were at length
compelled to place him in a cell, which, however, took three
persons to perform.
Mr. ARNOLD said the defendant's conduct was very bad.
He did not see. why the defendant should be treated diffe-
rently to a person in humble circumstances. He should,
therefore, commit him to the House of Correction for three
days.

Mr. Mould, the clerk to the magistrates at this court, CLERKEN WELL.-(THIS DAY.)
ap-
peared to prefer against Edward Rimmins, the driver of the
cab 2,230, a charge of not having the number of his cab
marked in a conspicuous position upon the inside of the cab.
Mr. Mould said he engaged the cab last night, when the
defendant demanded nearly double the amount of his legal
fare. Observing no number inside the vehicle, and as he
(Mr. Mould) was perfectly aware that extortion on the part
of the drivers generally, accompanied the absence of the
number, he thought it his duty to bring the case before the
magistrate.
Mr. Faucher, the extensive cab proprietor of Mount
Pleasant, said the defendaut was in his employment,
and from his own dearly bought experience he trusted he
might make an observation to the magistrates. If magis-
trates when cases of overcharge were proved against cabmen,
were to exercise their discretionary power, and instead of
fining them send them to prison, without the alternative of
a fine, it would be much better for the cab proprietors them-
selves as well as for the public generally. When a fine WAS
imposed the fraternity clubbed to pay it; so that in point of
fact the actual offender escaped without the slightest punish.
ment, often not even the payment of a single penny out of
his own pocket.
Mr. Mould said he did not wish to press the charge with
any severity against the defendant, and
Mr. COWIE ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 10s,
and in default to be committed to the House of Correction,
with hard labour, for seven days.