The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE,

OXFORD CIRCUIT—GLOUCESTRA, Ar.ilL 8.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice CoLerrinoe.)
TRIAL FOR MURDER.—Charles Budge, eged 18, was
indicted for the wilful murder of Martha Shedden, at Hor-
field, near Bristol, on the 25th of January last, by inflict-
ing divers wounds upon her head with a hammer, or some
sharp instrument.
The prisoner, who has a very youthful appearance,
pleaded Not Guilty in a very firm voice.
Mr. GREAVES opened the case for the prosecution. The
unfortunate deceased was 67 years cf age, and resided with
her husband and her mother, who is 97 years old, and is
dear, blind, and bedridden. The prisoner had been em-
ployed by Mr. and Mrs. Shedder, and on the morning cf
the murder was met by that gentleman, who was proceed-
ing to Bristol, going in the direction cf Horfield. They
had a little conversation, aid then went their respective
ways. On the return of Mr. Shedden and cne of his sons
from Bristol, about seven 'in the evening, they
knocked at the doo-, but no one answered them,
and they, after waiting a few minute!, entered
by the back door, which was open, and found the house
in darknesss, and stumbled over something which, on pro-
curing a light, was found to be the body of the murdered
woman lying in a pool of blood, with eleven wounds on
her head, one of which was an incis,d wound an inch aid
a hal in length. It was the opinion of the medical man
that they had been inflicted with a hammer. Tee pockets
of the deceased were taken away, containing a purse and
ss. Some drawers up sti,i-s were also broken open, and
some silver spoons, knives and forks, and other articles,
were stolen. The prisoner was seen at the helve during
the day, and was well acquainted with the premises. He
was taken into custody the same night, and committed on
the Coroner's warrant on the 27th, two days after the
murder, the Jury having returned a verdict of wiful mur-
der against him.
A number of witnesses were called to prove these state-
ments.

The particulars of the murder have already appeared in
The Sun, and it is needless, therefore, to give tiro evi-
dence at length. The following are the depositions of the
constable who arrested the prisoner, and the chemist who
examined his dress, which was stained with spots like
blood :
Henry Lewis—l apprehended the prisoner at a house in
Alfred-court, Bristol, about half-past ten o'clock, on the
night of the 25th of January. He was in bed, ani his
mother, Mr. Butt, Mr. Beide in, and Mr. Smith went up
stairs with me. His mother said, " Charles, here is a po-
liceman after you, what have you done ?" I told her to
ge up stairs, and she went. I said, " I wanted him."
Ho asked what fat? I told him it did not matter then.
He got up, put on his clothes, and said he was innocent,
and would go anywhere. His mother asked what was the
matter ? I said, an old lady had been murdered at Hor-
field, and her son was suspected. She said, " Good God !
Charles, if you are guilty I hope you will suffer, and if you
arc innocent I hope you wont." He said, if he was guilty he
wished he might break his neck down stairs. His mother asked
the lady's name several times, and the prisoner said, " Why,
Mrs. Shedden, to be sure ; do you think I should murder my
mistress ?" I am positive Mrs. Shedden's name was not
mentioned by me, nor by any one else previous to the pri-
soner. I searched him, and found a purse and two dupli-
cates. I handcuffed him, and his mother fainted away. I
took him to Horfield. He trembled and shook. He said
he bad been having some beer at Mrs. Knight's, and, get-
ting out of the warm bed he was cold. He said he had
been doing something to a gun at Mrs. Knight's, and had
been to Horfield, helping Mrs. Shedden to beat some
carpets, but he left at ten minutes past twelve. There
were some marks of blood or, the trousers, and a spot of
blood on his boots. Have had the clothes in my posses-
sion ever since. (The clothes were produced.)
Cross-examined—lt was nearly eleven o'clock. The
prisoner's brother was in bed. There were some policemen
outside the door, one of whom came in when the prisoner's
mother fainted away. Do not remember seeing a man
named Kinnaird. There were two cf the Bristol Police
there. I do not recollect any other conversation than
what I have related, except that Mrs. Shedden had told
him to come again on the morrow. Am positive no one
told the prisoner it was Mrs. Shedden.
William Herapath, chemist, and Magistrate of Bristol,
was called by Mr. Greaves and sworn.—l saw the
trousers at the inquest. I have made experiments on two
spots I found on the' trousers. I produce them. One of
them I found to be blood, and the other blacking. I
cut them out. There aro experiments by which I can
ascertain that the spot is blood. There was a sitot of
blood on the hoots. I examined the jacket on which
was a spot of blood inside the sleeve. The lining appears to
have beer, torn out. There is blood on the left sleeve of the
shirt. The sort of mark on the sleeve is just such a one
as would have been made by a bloody atm being put into
it, and the lining torn out, the blood having penetrated
through. I examined the body; the wounds on the head
appeared to have been inflicted with a cutting instrument,
and t® have been given with great force. Some of the
wounds were two or three inches deep.
Cross-examined by Mr. eleexeenee—Cannot say after
a certain time what age blood is, how long it has been lost,
especially when it is dry and coagulated. I saw the pri.
soner's things on the 27th, but merely inspected them.
Can't say erhen the marks of blood were made.
On the case for the prosecution being closed, Mr.
MACLEAN, on the part of the prisoner, asked the Jury if
they wished to hear him. After a few minutes' consulta-
tion the Jury desired him to proceed. The Learned
Counsel commenced his address.
The JUDGE told the Jury that it was not whether they
should let a guilty matt escape—.the question was whether
they had the right man—whether the evidence brought the
crime agsinst him.
The Foreman—lf we have a doubt, my Lord, I believe
we must give the prisoner the benefit of it.
The Jonee—•Certainly; you are bound in law to do so.
After consulting some time the Jury wished to retire,
when his Lordship told them that if they convicted the
prisoner there was no alternative, but he must be executed ;
and the question was whether they were prepared, upon
the evidence adduced, to send him to the gallows. The
Learned Judge then proceeded tr comment on the parts
of the evidence touching the prisoner, and said if the evi-
dence of Sowerby was to be taken arid believed the case
for the prosecution was at an end, and her evidence acquit,
the prisoner; but Mr. Shedden appears to throw some
doubt on her testimony. The son, again, contra-
dicts the father with respect to the footsteps. It
was not for him to dictate to them which was right,
but there was a contradiction, and therefore a doubt. The
Learned Judge concluded as follows :.—Ara you satisfied
that you can convict ? It is not as a question of favour to
the prisoner, because you must deal out justice, but if you
were sitting in my place would you be satisfied upon this
evidence to send the prisoner out of the world ?
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Not guilty.
Mr. MACLEAN said that if the case had gone on be
could satisfactorily have preyed an alibi.
The trial terminated at half-past four.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT—Nor:weII, Arm,: 7.
( Before Mr. Justice BOSANQUET.
William Greenacre was indicted for feloniously robbing
William Besscy cn thA Queen's highway, and taking from
him property to the amount of 140/.
It appeared, in evidence, that the prosecutor, who was
a merchant, at Pepp!, in Norfolk, had been to Yarmouth
market, and 1 fc it, with 1401. in his pocket, to travel home
in his gig. Upon arriving at Collier's-hill, about three
miles from Yarmouth, he received a violent blow on his
head from behind, and before he could recover from its
effects, he found that a man was pulling him over th.e back
of the Another man, whom he swore was the I.r'-
soncr theenacre ran to the horse's head, stoppel him,
jumped into the gig, and plundered him of all the money
which be had, with the exc:Ttion of 6d.
The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for fif-
teen year!.

CHESTER ASSIZES, APRIL 6.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTNIAN.)

POISONINOCASE AT STOCKPORT —Oll his Lordship
taking his scat this morning at nine o'clock, the Attorney..
General applied to the Court to traverse the trial of the
four Sandys (charged with the wilful murder, by poison,
of the three children) until the next Assizes, on the ground
that the tentier years of one of the principal witnesses for
the prosecuton, Robert Sandys, br. Vier of the deceased,
had Irevented him being examined before the Grand Jury.
lle was only six years old, had been examined on the
Ccrancr's inquest, and was a material evidence.
His Lordstip looked over the depositions, and found
this.. the boy's testimony was most essential for the ends of
justice, and directA that the application be made in the
form of as affidavit.
Mr. Coppock, the Town Clerk of Stockport, accord-
ingly prepared a strong affidavit, showing the importance
of
young Sandys' examination, and, although the prisonct's
Counfel opposed the application, it was agreed to, end the
trial now stands over till the next Assize?. Upwards of
forty witnesses are concerned in this diabolical case.

NOR TIIERN CIRCLLIT.—Ln-Rarool, Arßai,
(Before Mr. Justice Mauna.)
MURDER AT ASHTON.
Joseph Holland was indicted fcr the wilful murder of
Thomas Garland, on the Oppenshaw-road, Letwcen Ashton
i-nd Manchester, on the 31st of October last, by striking
him with a piece of iron called a pricker.
together
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r Ashton.
ith two
persons
This was another of those shocking outrages arisirg out
of
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appearedcombination t
iat t amonghed deceased, thee ase sawyers
,
of the name of Keogh and a person named Harney, had, in
defiance of the orders of the society at Ashton, come from
Manchester to take work from the master-sawyers, who
were under the ban of the "strike." The deceased was
working with a Mr. Goldsborough, and on the day in
question two delegates from Manchester called on him
and other " knobs'icks," as they were denominated, and
endeavoured to induce them to give up work, and return
to Manci ester. These delegates, who were witnesses et
the trial, did not, by their own account, belong to the
union, but had been induced by the payment of a small
sum of money to come from Manchester, and undertake
this task on the behalf of the " turnouts" at Ashton. Their
expostulation with the deceased and others was unavailing,
it appearing that the poor fellows had been out of work at
Manchester, and had been obliged by necessity to seek
for work where they could. It appeared that. though
they lodged in Ashton during the weak, they every Sa-
turday returned to their residences in Manchester. On
the day in question the delegates, in bringing the result
of their miss
especiicailynto the Ashton sawyers, heard threats of
the most serious kind made use of by the prisoner and
others,
a person of the name of Grimes, and
one of the name of Roherte, neither of whom is in custody,
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and Harney,
evening the deceased, with the
Harney,' set out for Manchester.
They had proceeded but a mile and a quarter when
they were set upon by 14 or 15 men, armed with bludgeons
and weapons of various kinds, with which they vre.re most
mercilessly beaten. The assailants then ran off in the
direction of Ashton. Harney had made his escape after
getting a few blows in the beginning of the affray, and on
returning found James Keogh seriously injured, two of his
ribs being broken, and Garland with the bones of his ,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

nose crushed, several severe wounds on the bead, and one ,
of his fingers broken, hanging from his hand. He said he
was killed. He was unable to walk, and was carried to
the infirmary. The surgeon dressed his wounds, and
wished to amputate the finger. This, however, he stre-
nuously resisted, and after having such remedies applied as
the state of the wound would permit, he went home. He
returned several times to the Hospital, and had the finger
dressed. There was, in the surgeon's opinion, no hope of
saving the finger, and he was warned that the wound might
prove a dangerous one unless amputation were resorted to.
Fie still continued obstinate. On the 15th of Novem-
ber be was admitted an in-patient at the hospital. The
wounded finger was then gangrenous, and symptoms of
lockjaw had male their appearance. The shattered por-
tion of the finger was ampreated, and every means were
used to save his lif;?, but he died a few days after his ad-
mission. The prisoner Holland, together with Grimes
and Roberts, were sworn to positively, as having been of
the pa•ty who were engaged in the attack. Holland was
seen to strike the der eared several times with some Leavy
weapon, and af,er the scuffle there were found on the spot
two instruments, celled prickers, made of iron, of about
the thickness of one's filger, about two feet and a half berg,
and pointed Lt both ends. '1 h 3 prisoner had absconded.
On the 26th of January he was met by one of the wit-
nesses, near Denton, about five o'clock in the morning.
He asked how he was to get through Denton without
the police seeing him, as he wa' afraid of being taken up
for the Oppenshaw-readjob. He was finally apprehended
in Dublin.

➢lr. WILKINS nddresEed the Jury for the prisoner.
His LORDSHIP having summed up, and pointed out tae
law as to illegal and vi•ilent attacks of this kind, resulting,
hcm ever unintentionally, in the death of the party at-
tacked, the Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, with-
out leaving the box, pronounced a verdict of Guilty.
His Lordship then proceeded to pass sentence of death
upon the prisoner. There was nothing in the case to
enable him to hold out the slightest hope of mercy, and
be entreated the prisoner to prepare for the awful fate
which awaited him.

The prisoner heard his sentence unmoved, and retired
with apparent unconcern from the dock.
John Williams, who was esterday acquitted of the
charge of murder, Samna Hardwicke, Henry Hardwicke,
and a number of others, were placed at the bar charged
with a conspiracy and assault at Ashton, arising also out
of the " Union" at that town.

The prisoners expressed a wish severally to withdraw
their plea of not guilty, and plead guilty.
Dr. BROWN, Mr. MURPHY; and Mr. WILKINS for the
several prisoners, said they were instructed on the pa-t of
those who had now pleaded guilty, to state that they Lit
the deeFe3t contrition for the offence into which they had
been betrayed, and that they were determined for the fu-
ture to avoid all connection with the Union, or any com-
bination of the kind.

Mr. Serjeant ATCIIERLEY, Attorney-General for the
count) Palatine, said he hoped th• Court would not think
ho was abandoning his duty as prosecuting for the Crown,
if he expressed his willingness that all, except Williams,
should be discharged, on giving proper security to appear
and receive judgment if called on. On Williams he prayed
6e judgment of the Court.
It was then directed that the prisoners should be dis-
charged on entering into their own recognizances of 100/.
with two sureties of 25/. each, to appear and receive judg-
ment i f called on, and in the meantime to keep the peace.
Williams was then placed at the bar, when the Judge
sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for eighteen cslendar months, and at the expiration of that
time, to enter into recognisances in 200/ , with two sure-
ties in 50/. or four in 25/. to keep the peace for two years.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—TAuNrox, APRIL 6.
Richard Roynon was indicted for maliciously cutting
and wounding Elizabeth Veal with intent to murder her.

Elizabeth Veal—l live at Sutton Wick, and am 19 years
of age. On Monday, the 12th of October, about fire
o'clock, I was in the turnpike-road leading from West
Harptree to Chewstoke. The prisoner met me. I asked
him if he had seen a cow, and he said, " No." He asked
whose it was. I said, " Robert Veal's." He said,
" Whereof?" I said, "Of Sutton Wick." I went on my
way. When I had gone about 50 or 60 yards the prisoner
came running up to me. I turned round. He did not
speak, but pushed me down, and kept me two or three mi.
nutes. I struggled and got away. I screamed " Murder"
three or four times. He took no liberty with me. I
got up and ran across the road towards Pickford-lane.
I got as far as the corner of the lane when he came
up and pushed me down again. He knelt or, my chest. I
said, " Don't kill me." He then pushed something into
my mouth, so that I could not cry out He remained
kneeling on me three our four minutes ; be then jumped
up, picked up his umbrella, and ran up the lane. I got
up an I found I was bleeding about my neck. I tl-..en
found my throat had been cut. I went towards the Bluc
Bowl, and met Mr. Collins, the surgeon, and he and the
landlord helped me into the inn. I then became inEensi-
ble. He had a high-crowned hat and a blue coat. I had
not known the prisoner before. I have no doubt of his
being the man.
Cross-examined—l had been walking two miles and a
half before this happened. The prisoner was an entire
stranger to me. I did not find the cut in my throat till I
got up.

- Re'bort Collins—! am a surgeon. I met Elizabeth
Veal that evening. She called my attention to her
throat. I turned round and saw a quantity of blood, and
the girl staggering. I got off my horse in time to save
her from falling. When we got to the inn she was in a
fainting state. I examined her throat, and found a wound
three inches long, and half an inch deep, on the right side
of the throat: the carotid artery was exposed. She had
on two handkerchiefs, which saved her life. Her life was
in danger. Upon hearing the prisoner speak in another
part of the house, she said " That's the voice of the man."
When she saw him she said " That's the man who cut my
throat." The prisoner made no reply. I then took him
close to her, and she again said that was the man. Tbi3
was on tise Wednesday. She saw him again on the Fi
day. She then swore before the Magistrate that he was
the man. The prisoner upon this almost fainted away.
Richard Weston—ln consequence of information I ap-
prehended the prisoner on Tuesday. Upon examining
the clothes I found some spots of blood on the front of the
blue coat and on the leggings. On his thin there was a
spot of blood ; there was blood on the inside of the breeches
pocket. There was a small spot of blood on the umbrella.
His band had been cut.

Mr. Collins recallecl—Tho prisoner's thumb was cut so
as to produce blood. I asked him when it was done, and
he said some weeks ago. I took off the rag, and found it
had been done not longer ago than three days. I told him
I thought it had been done in drawing the knife across
her throat, and he made me no answer.

Mary Ann Pople—On returnieg from milking on the
Monday afternoon I saw the prisoner in the road. I after-
wards saw him at the Blue Bowl, and said I had met him,
and he said, " Yes, and that he had wished me good night."
I had met him about half a mile from the Blue Boa I.
Mr. Justice ERSKINE then summed up the case, and
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with intent to
murder.

The Learned JUDGE then told the prisoner that as, by
the providence of God, Veal's life had been spared, he did
not foci that he should desert his duty to the public, under
the feeling which at present agitited the public mind, if
I e forbore to pass upon him that sentence which would
doom him to an early and ignominious death. But though
he recorded the judgment, and his life would bo spared, it
could only he ❑pon condition of his being transported for
life, and he would have to pass the remainder of his days
in a state of degrading slavery and hard toil in a foreign
land.

Judgment cf death was then recorded against the pri,
soncr.

TATTERSALL'S—. YESTRRDAY.
TIIE DERBY.—Coronation was very steady at Monday's
quotation, nor did the odds vary with regard to Van Am-
burgh, but they were betted a considerable amount with-
out exhausting the layers. The Rosalie colt was again in
favour with many parties, 18, 15, and finally 14 to 1 having
been taken. The Knight of the Whistla was also in re-
quest and three or four fifties were got on at 20 to 1 ; two
points less were also taken, and at the close no one would
lay more than 17 to 1. Prince Caradoc, Palearnon, and
Galaor were in quite as much force as on Monday, nor
were the.Wahabttcs at all backed, the 28 to I having been
taken three or four times, and, in one instance, something
less. The reeling towards Eringo was not very favourable,
and in a trifling bet aghinst Camelecn an advance cf fif-
teen points was conceded.

In.the 2,000 Guineas Stikes we have only to point out
an improvement in Wahab, about whom as little as 4 to 1
was taken. The betting finished a little before seven
o'clock, as under :—.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
4 to 1 agit Mr. Wrdord's Wahab
5 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph
5 to 1 sgst Mr. Thornhill's Bring°
DERBY.
3 to 1 agst Scott's lot
35 to 1 agst Forth's lot—teken
7 to I asst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation—taken and
afterwards offered
10 to 1 agst Lcrd Westminster's Van Amburgh—
taken and afterwards offered
14 to 1 egat Lord Bruce's Rosalie c—taken
17 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle
20 to 1 ngst Mr. Greville's Palmmon
20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc
22 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—taken
22 to l agst Mr. Thcrnhill's Erirgo
25 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittsrt's Galaor—taken
26 to 1 aget Mr. Wreford's Wahab
30 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's—taken
30 to 1 Pgat Duke of Rutland's Sir Ham—taken
45 to 1 egat Lord Lichfield's Brother to Phosphorus
—taken

50 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Duke of Wellington—t
50 to I agar Colonel Pcel's Cameloon—taken
1000 to 15 egst Colonel Craufurd's Ermengardis—taken
1000 to 10 apt Lord Westminster's Morning Star—t
1000 to 7 agst Lord George Bentinck'sMustapha—taken
1000 to 50 agsttake Mnongolian and Brother to Phosphorus
3000 to 90 agst Young Quo Minus and Metternich—t
500 Even between Prince Caradcc and Ralph—taken
mon—taken
600 to 500 and 500 to 400 on Rosalie c. agst Palm-
-1100 to 1000 on Gaialr agst Wahab—taken.

The proprietors of Fu !lain-bridge are at
length about to follow up the improvements in the navi_
gat;on of the river, commenced by the City with the commencedremoval of the old London-bridge. The demands of the
public for the removal of these dangerous obstructions to
the free navigation of the noble river Thames will be met
in the spirit that has alrca'ly accomplished the rebuilding
of London-bridge. A plan bar, we understand, been
prepared, under the direction of the bridge proprietors,
g• • a two additional arches, each of forty feet span. This
plAn has already been submitted to and approved by the
City Committee, who intend to make further improve-
moot by dredging away the shoals near the bridge. The
work is to be immediately commenced, and one arch will
be completed during the present summer.

THE SUN, LONDON, PRIDAN, APRIL 9. 1841.

IN ',IA,

evil depends—not only for himself and family,
but for Egypt. He freely declares his fixed
resolve to concede ,nothing beyond the pay-
ment of five or six hundred thousand dollars
in the shape of yearly tribute, and to
exercise all the accustomed powers of Go-
vernment himself, without permitting any
interference on the part of commissioners of the
Porte. To make a commencement, as ifindefiance
of the late hatti-scheriff, he, on the 19th instant,
created Colonel Galise, the French engineer who
has been fortifying Alexandria, a Bey upon full
pay (7501. per annum.) This officer is still pro-
ceeding with works on the sea-shore adjoining
the lazaretto in the Eastern harbour, to strengthen
the defences of the city. Three regiments are
ordered hither from Cairo, and meantime not a
sailor is allowed to pass the gates. All who at-
tempt to go out are obliged to show their hands,
and the mark of the anchor with which the poor
mariners are branded or tattooed suffices to keep
them prisoners " for the defence of the city."
The Pasha is also strengthening Cairo. The nu-
merical force of the standing army has received
a further increase par ordonnance from 60,000 up
70,000, who, we are told, are only to be picked
men, and henceforth to be paid up every week.
The/ Pacha's officers boast that he has already
55,000 effective men. On the other hand, we are
assured that Ahmed. Menikli Pacha, who has been
sent as Governor to Beni Youssouf in Upper
Egypt, has received orders to send down as many
men as he can lay his hands on, and that al-
ready droves of conscripts, fettered with pieces of
wood (in slave fashion) are escorted to Cairo. It
is believed that the independent Chief on the
Upper- Nile, Melik Nimr, has defeated Ahmed,
the Pacha's Governor of Kartoum, and that a
general rising may be expected there against his
authority.
Another sign of Mehemet Ali's high opinion
of his own strength, and his intention to set the
hatti-scherif of the 22d of January at defiance,
may be found in the fact that 40 vessels, laden
with 250,000 ardebs of corn, the tribute in kind
which Egypt yearly pays to the holy cities of
Mecca and Medina, and which had already left
Suez for their destination, have been recalled,
and the holy cities are left to the care of Provi-
dence. A vast number of residents, as well as
pilgrims, in Arabia, depended on this supply,
which had grown into a trade, and from which
the Pacha frequently reaped a profit of 30 fold,
as the whole monopoly of supply was in his
hands. Now it appears of more importance to
him to make his power felt by causing a famine
in the Holy Cities.
Dr. Grassi has returned from Tanta, where the
plague had ceased. He has left 800 men at arms
in the desert engaged in burning, purifying, and
compelling the villagers to wash themselves,
clothes, and cattle. Disease is now confined to
the Delta. This year it has been accompanied
in various places by the small-pox, which has
been nearly as fatal. In Alexandria since my
last the plague cases have varied from eleven to
thirteen daily, chiefly among the soldiers and
sailors, who are allowed to sleep with their
families in the filthiest huts in the world, per-
haps. Eighty-eight are still in hospital in the
city, but the majority die before they are brought
there. In the country parts there are no hospi-
tals, and anybody attacked is looked on as dead.
Hardly one has recovered during the present
visitation. Dr. Grassi saw twenty-eight persons
carried dead out of the house of an old Bey at
Jahu Jallech, and himself, the Governor of the
village, was carried off the last of his household.
The mortality is now ceasing, of course !
The. Oriental steamer arrived here before sun-
rise on the morning of the 17th, with the Indian
mails and passengers, after an excellent passage,
of which the following are the points :—Lft
Falmouth at two o'clock p.m. on the 2d of
March; arrived at Gibraltar at half-past three
o'clock a.m. on the 7th ; sailed thence at two
o'clock p.m. the same day, with the Company's
steamer Lotus in tow, and arrived with it at
Malta at seven o'clock a.m. on the 12th, about
fourteen hours later than if the Oriental had
been unencumbered; left the Lotus there to un-
dergo some trifling repairs at noon on' the 13th;
and arrived at Alexandria at three o'clock a.m.
on the 17th inst., all well. The passengers
started off with the mails all together for Suez.
The latter, however, now proceed by land to
Cairo, after leaving the land at Atfe, whilst the
passengers, unencumbered with luggage as they
are, proceed up the Nile to that city.
Great dissatisfaction prevails also in the Pacha's
own ranks amongst the Syrians still detained in
Egypt, contrary to the Napier Convention and
the Pacha's repeated promises to send them all
home without delay. This, and the non-fulfil-
ment of the promised freedom of commerce, I
understand, were the chief points upon which
the coolness between the Pacha and the Com-
modore arose.
On the 22d inst. M. Cochelet made his formal
visit to the Pacha pour prendre cove, and Baron
Tanbenheim, Stahlmeister of the King of Wur-
temberg, was presented, on his arrival from
Syria, with two beautiful horses, which he had
purchased for his master, and with which he de-
parts in the Oriental for Malta and Europe. The
next day M. Cochelet had a long confidential
audience with the Pacha, at which only Boghos
Bey and Artem Bey (the Prime Minister and
the Chief Interpreter) assisted, and the following
day a third.
The four alabaster columns destined for the
new church building by the Pope have arrived
from Tourah at Rosetta, where they will be em-
barked for Italy.
The Indian steamer Victoria arrived at Suez
on the 22d inst., having been delayed on hvr
trip from Bombay two days in the Red Sea by a
strong N.W. monsoon, and obliged to put into
Kosseir, where ten passengers landed and entered
Egypt by that route; 33 more have come on
hither with the mails.

GENERAL HARRISON.—Mr G. Combe, in
his account of a recent visit to America, thus describes
General Harrison, whom he saw last year at his residence
at North Bend, about a quarter of a mile froli the Ohio :
—Ho is now 67, rather above the middle stature, sleadcr,

and stoops considerably. His temperament is nervous and

bilious; his head is long, of full average height, but not
remarkably broad. The anterior lobe is above an average,
both in length, from front to back, and height ; and both
the observing and reflecting organs are well developed.
Tl.e head is obviously flat in the region of acquisitiveness.
The moral region seemed t 3 present an average develope-
ment. His eye is vivacious, and his countenance is highly
expressive of thought: indeed, his whole appearance is
much more that of a literary or scientific man than that of
a military commander. His habitation presented unequi-
vocal indications of humble fortune; indeed, it may be
said, without the least feeling of disrespect, of poverty : yet
his manner and appearance were those of a man of the
world, who was familiar with the best society, and who,
in the retirement of his farm at North Bend, retained the
polish and appearance of a gentleman.
The Rev. William Cockburn, D.D., who was

last week deposed, by his Archbishop, from the Deanery
of York, for simony, was formerly of St. John's Col-
lege, and was twelfth wrangler in 1795. He proceeded
to the degrees of M. A. in 1798, and D. D. in 1823. He
was the first elected Christian Advocate, to which office
he was appointed in 1803. Dr. Cockburn i 3 the third
son of the late Sir James Cockburn, Bart, of Langton,
Berwickshire, brother of the present Barone', and of
Vice-Admiral Sir G. Cockburn, M. P. He married in
1805, Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Sir Rotert

Peel, and sister to thc present Baronet. This lady died
in 1828. Dr. Cockburn succeeded Dean Markham in
1822. The value of this dignified preferment is about

1,2501. per annum.
ANCrENT TENURES IN BUCKS.—The Manor of
Water Eaton was held by the service of keeping a falcon,
for flight, for the King's use; and for the charges of keep-
ing it, the Lord wan entitled, on the day that he carried it
to Court, to a horse with its equipage, the King's table,
with the tressels and table-cloth, all the vessels with which
the King was served on that day, and a cask of wine, as
soon as the King had tasted it. The manor of Water Hall
was held by the service of finding a man on a horse without
a saddle, a bow without a string, and an arrow without a
head. The descendants of Lor Grey, of Wilton, con
tinued to poseess these manors, and that of Church Bletch-
ley, above 400 years, until the attainder of Thomas Lord
Grey, in 1603. King James granted them, in 1606, to
George Villiers, afterwards Duke of Buckingham. In
Oliver Cromwell's time they were sold, as confiscated
lands, to Sir Philip Skippon. George Villiers, theyounge-
Duke of Buckingham, recovered them at the Restoration,
and, in 1674, sold then to Dr. Thomas Willis, a very
eminent physician, grandfather of Mr. Browne Willis, the
an'iquary. The other manor (West Bletchley) was pur-
chased by Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, by Catherine,
Duchess Dowager of Buckingham, whose son, the second
Duke, having sold it to Ur. Willi', all the manors became
again united.

Father Pardies wrote against the experiments,
and what ho was pleased to call the hypotheses of Newton,
—the very words of uninformed anti-phrenologists. Such
great astronomers and mathematicians as Casini and Ma-
raldi were calculating the paths of comets on the most
imaginary and unfounded hypotheses, long after Halley
had constructed tables on the principles of Newton, in
which the motions of all comets that ever had appeared, or
could appear, might b 3 easily deduced ; and Voltaire re-
marks that, though Newton lived nearly forty years after
the publication of his '• Principia," he had not twenty fol-
lowers out of England at the time of his death. Some
great philosophers died in perfect ignorance of them. The
introduction of Greek was originally opposed with violence
at Oxford, though now it is taught there as ono of the most
important ti:inga that a well educated man can know. The
music of Gall's countryman, Handel, though it has enraptured
the English for a century, is now only beginning to be ap-
preciated in Germany.—Elliotson's Human Physiology.
The owner of an ambulating menagerie lately
calculated that if a'l the ferocious animals which are now
confined in Europe were let loose in an immense forest, it
would contain 225 lions, 289 tigers, 302 leopards, 270
panthers, 67 elephants, 10 rhinoceroses, 2,700 wolves, 78
rattle-snakes, 216 boa constrictors, 1,040 hy tunas, and 96
wocotliles.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1841.

CHINA.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW
Uorning 18 minutes after 4 I Evening 32 minutes after 4

The Publication of the Evening Edition. of THE SVN com-
menced at 40 minutes after Three.

IMPORTANT NEWS.
The detention of the Indian mails by the
French Post-office authorities, has prevented the
arrival in London of more than a summary of the
news from China. This is the second or the
third time this trick has been played upon the
London Press by the French Post-office authori-
ties, and as its repetition would inflict great in-
jury upon the people of this country, we trust
that Lord PALMERSTON will see in it an affair
worthy of the interference of the'Government.
The additional intelligence from the Celestial

Empire is not materially different from the news
published in The Sun of yesterday. The "some
hostilities" mentioned in the telegraphic de-
spatches had reference to the capture on the 7th
of January of the Chumpee and Tycocktow forts
by the British, who destroyed them on the two
following days. It was this demonstration of
impatient valour which induced the Chinese
Plenipotentiary to sign the Convention of which
the articles will be found in another column. So
far as we yet know of the matter, they form a
" most lame and impotent conclusion " of a great
national undertaking. The cession of the Island
of Hong Kong to the British, who had already
purchased the thousand times finer Island of
Chusan with their blood, is no great subject for
congratulation. But even this cession is clogged
with one of the most absurd restrictions
ever imposed upon a British Plenipotentiary in
the possession of his senses. It appears that
though belonging to Great Britain, Captain
ELLIOT has agreed that all merchandise exported
or imported there shall be liable to the same
duties as goods imported or exported from
Whampoa, which duties shall be paid into the
Imperial Exchequer ! This sounds so like a
hoax, that we can hardly believe it. What !
Chinese officers allowed to impose and collect
duties in British ports ? Even so say these de-
spatches. That pink of diplomacy, Captain EL-
LIOT, sees nothing disrespectful to the British
name in even making Queen VICTORIA tax-
collector for the Emperor of CHINA. The
second article is, if possible, still more ex-
travagant. By it Great Britain accepts six
millions of dollars, or one million two hun-
dred thousand pounds British currency, pay-
able in six annual instalments, for losses in
money only to the amount of nearly four mil-
lions sterling I And be it remembered that
money is the least item in the national account
against China. The blood of the gallant Lord
NAPIER—the gross insults offered to our SovE-

REIGN in the person of Captain ELLIOT himself-
the restrictions placed on the liberties of Britis

subjects at Canton—the violent and illegal
seizure of the opium :—these were the principal
items in our account against China, and yet
these appear 10 have been in a great measure
overlooked. The importance of the third article
entirely depends upon the Chinese interpretation
of it. nyit we have secured to us direct official

intercourse with the Chinese Government on a
footing of equality. If the meaning of this ar-
ticle be that we may send an Ambassador to
reside at the Court of Pekin, we at once pro-
nounce it of the utmost importance. So inter-
preted, it would almost reconcile us to the terms
of the Convention, as they are understood in
England. But, falling short of that, the article
is of little value indeed. The last article, which
opens the trade with Canton in ten days after the
Chinese New Year, is as advantageous to the
Chinese themselves as to us; consequently there

is little in it for which we should be exclusively
grateful.
Such is our view of the importance of the ac-
counts as yet received from China. British va-
lour was finely displayed in the capture of the
forts, and had it been seconded by British saga-
city in the person of the Superintendent, the
results would have been very different from
what they are now represented to be. From
first to last we have witnessed nothing but
a consecutive series of blunders on the part of
the ill-starred Superintendent. This moment
all valour, the next all timidity; one day all
promptitude and decision, the next all hesitation,
doubt, and uncertainty—such has been the in-
glorious career of Captain CIIARLES ELLIOT'S
policy in China. But it may be that better
news await us. If so, we shall have pleasure in
placing it before the country in the light most
advantageous to the character of Captain ELLIOT.

Since the above was written the India mails

have arrived in London, and we have received
our usual files of Bombay and Calcutta Papers.
The Governor of Bombay, Sir JAMES CARNAC,
is about to return to England for the benefit of

his health, which has been for some time rapidly
declining. Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER
returns to England by the Oriental steamer, to
impress upon Lord PALMERSTON the justice of
making the two concessions in the firman -de-
manded by MEHEMET ALI. The following offi-
cial account of the negotiations between Super-

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