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have committed exorbitant and infamous depre-
dations. The Government has ordered its Ministers
at the Courts of London and Paris to protest against
such scandalous acts of violence.
" Neither the explicit acknowledgment which the
governments of France and Great Britain have made
Of the perfect rights of the Republic to its inland
rivers, nor the reprobation which they have expressed
of the attack against the Parana by the Anglo-
French forcrs, has preserved the immunity of the
Argentine territory. The British and French vessels
of war, to the grievous offence of the prerogatives of
sovereignty of the confederation, domineer over the
inland rivers, and aggravate still more the scandalous
acts of unheard-of intervention with which the
Ministers of France and England in Monte Video are
chargeable.
"In the midst of such aggressions the Government
has not ceased to testify the most persevering mode-
ration. Sustained by the justice of its cause,
seconded by the heroic enthusiasm of the nation, and
its firm resolution of maintaining its honour and in-
dependence, it tranquilly awaits the issue of so
strange a situation.
" Thcmas Samuel Hood, Esq., arrived in this city
encharged with a confidential mission by the Govern-
ments of England and France, to present to the legal
governments of the Confederation and the Oriental
state propositions for peace agreed upon by those
cabinets. I have rendered you an account, honour-
able representatives, of that honourable mission, and
of the correspondence which took place with Mr.
Hood. You are informed of the obstacles which the
Ministers of France and England have recklessly
thrown in the way of a favourable termination of the
pacification.
" The. Government, for whom it was impossible to
agree to demands irreconcileable with the honour and

in-dependence of-the republics of La Plata, was placed
under the indispensable necessity of referring the pro
posals for peace to those of England and France. You
have given your sovereign approval to the conduct of
the Government.
"With a very painful feeling did the Government
communicate to those of France and Great Britain
that their mutual wishes for the pacification of the
republics of La Plata bad been frustrated. It mani-
fested to them the circumstances which had caused
this, and the sincere disposition of the Government
of the republic to prosecute the negotiation on the
proposals presented by Mr. Hood, and accepted in the
manner in which they had cordially been by the Go-
vernment of the Confederation. And, constantly
animated with a spirit of conciliation and of honour-
able peace, it stated to them that if new events occur-
ring subsequently should make it necessary to adopt
some other proposal, it might become the subject of
fresh discussion between the negotiating plenipoten-
tiaries.

" The Government relies with grateful confidence
on the rectitude of the Governments of Great Britain
and France. It hopes that, inspired by a wish for an
honourable peace, suitable to the interests of all par-
ties, they will continue the negotiation set on foot by
Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood, and will remove the diffi-
culties which were thrown in the way of the happy
result of his mission by the ministers of France and
England in Monte Video.
" The withdrawal from that city of the British
regiments which her Britannic Majesty's Minister
there diverted from their original destination, the
removal of Rear-Admiral Inglefield from the com-
mand of the British naval station in the River Plate,
the appointment and arrival of Commodore Sir
Thomas Herbert, of such honourable antecedents in
the republics of La Plata, are events which concur to
justify the sanguine hopes of the Government.
" It feels satisfaction in announcing to you that in
Europe and America the most lively reprobation hits
been manifested and expressed against the Anglo-
French intervention. So just a demonstration has
augmented the moral strength of the legal Govern-
mentsof La Plata.

" The Consul-General of her Majesty the Queen
of Spain, in Monte Video, solicited the Government
to exempt from service all her Catholic Majesty's
subjects, who might involuntarily have entered the
ranks of the army of the Confederation, and to
allow all Spaniards freely to leave the republic who
might be desirous of so doing.
" The Governments, animated with the most
lively sympathies towards the Spanish nation, not-
withstanding the impediments offered by the want
of an official character near the Argentine Confede-
ration, in the Spanish Consul-General at Monte
Video, did all that was possible in order to tes-
tify the feelings of benerelent friendship which it
cherishes towards her Catholic Majesty. Giving the
correspondence a confidential character it pre-
sented in that same form to her Majesty's Con-
sul General frank and sincere explanations of the
true political position of Spaniards in the Confedera-
tion. It informed him of the kind of civic service ren-
dered by the latter, on the same footing as the natives
of the country, in the militia corps, and of the just
motives of the restraint experienced by some, on
) certain occasions, in obtaining their passports.
" Her Majesty's Consul. General insisted on his
groundless demand, and despatched the Commander
of the Spanish naval forces to follow up the same on
friendly terms. The Government maintained the
justice of its rights. It evinced towards the Com-
mander the courtesy and consideration due to the
dignity of her Catholic Majesty's Government. lam
sorry to announce to you that that of the Confedera-
tion did not receive a suitable return. The undue
protection afforded by the boats belonging to her
Majesty's vessel of war lying in the port of Buenos
Ayres to several Spanish emigrants who had run
away from their employers, to whom they were in-
debted for the amount of their passage, was well nigh
producing unpleasant results.
"In view of such unjustifiable proceedings, the
Government, with all moderation, avoided disagreable
complications, by adopting suitable measures to pre-
vent the recurrence of such an abuse.

"In the answer given to her Majesty's Consul;
General enlarging on the previous explanations, it
ceased not to manifest its kind feeling towards the
Spanish nation and its Government.
" The Government of the Confederation has been
recently informed, by official advices from Europe
that the Ex-President of the Republic of Ecuador,
General Flores, an Emigrant in Spain residing in
Madrid, has concerted and prepared a warlike inva-
sion against that republic, with the aid of the Spanish
Government, for the purpose of re-establishing
Spanish dominion under a monarchy which is to be
formed out of the Republics of Ecuador, New Gra-
nada, Peru, and Bolivia, and is to fall to the lot of a
son of her Majesty Queen Christina and the Duke
de Rianzares, her second husband, which son, scarcely
in his infancy, would offer a many years' regency in
favour of General Flores.

" One of his aides-de-camp was enlisting two thou-
sand Irishmen, who were to join the expedition, for
which purpose he had hired three steamers to convey
them to San' ander, where they are to join the Spanish
troops. It was not ascertained whether the large
ivantity of funds which was disposed of in London
was supplied by her Majesty Queen Christina or by
his Majesty of the King of the French.
" General Flores was aided in this treacherous en-
terprise by the odious Spaniard Mora, so well known
in the American republics from the co-operation he
afforded in his plans of usurpation to the traitor Santa
Cruz. The latter had arrived at Madrid, from Bor-
deaux, to join the debased General Flores.
" The Minister Plenipotentiary of the republic of
Peru and the Charge d'Affaires from New Granada
at the Court of London, had officially remonstrated
with her Britannic Majesty's Minister of Foreign
Affairs in regard to that strange conspiracy against
the liberty and independence of the states they re-
present, especially with respect to the enlistment in
Ireland, requesting the Government of her Majesty
to prevent it, as was its duty, according to the laws
of Great Britain, and as a friendly and neutral
power.
" The Chargé d'Affaires of the Chilian Republic at
the Court of Paris, well informed of this nefarious
project, had repaired to London. and was taking steps
with the Government of her Majesty to the same
effect. In view of the character which that execrable
attempt presents, so outrageous to the dignity and
independence of America, and so much at variance
with the interests of her Catholic Majesty and of the
Spanish nation,
the Government has adopted and will
decidedly maintain the position prescribed to it by
the paramount interests of the Confederation, and
those of the common
cause of the other American
states, in order to resist and repel so unheard of and
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PRIVATE
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CORRESPONDENCE.)
BUENOS ?NDENCE.)
BUENOS AYRES, JAN.I3. A
thanks for your kind letter of 4th Nov
(I whichc can came
to hand on the 7th inst., per packet, and
hope that your next will contain the pleasing
news
that both, the British and French Governments have
resolved on removing their present Ministers from
the River Plate : for unless they decide on this, I am
afraid it will be very difficult to settle the existing
differences, as this Government will not accede to
their preterpions, and they will throw every obstacle
possible in the way of asettlement. The question would
easily be settled with neVr Ministers, but with Messrs.

Ouseley and Deffaudis I am 'afraid it is impossible;
even suppose by strict orders from their Governments
they agree upon the terms, they will throw obstacles
in the execution of the treaty. The old proverb of
" where there is a will there is a way," applies well
to the Ministers, and as long as they have any inter-
ference in the question, it will be very difficult to
settle.

The taking of Paysandu on the 26th ult., by
Frutos Rivera, assisted by the French, has caused a
great sensation here, on account of the horrors com-
mitted. The French brig of war, Pandour, fired
150 shells into the town, and Rivera, not contented
with this destruction of property, set fire to the town
—the number killed on both sides is estimated at
about 700. So much towards pacifying the Banda
Oriental ; for if they go on killing people at this rate,
the ministers will certainly obtain their object, for
there will not remain any inhabitants to fight. We
shall, as well as many of our neighbours, be losers,
as many who owed us money were killed in the
assault.

The report that a steamer was waiting the arrival
of Mr. Flood, to bring out the 'decision of the British
and French Governments, has given spirits to the
people, and all are anxiously waiting for this desired
event—the general wish is for peace.

EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH-

WEST.
(From the South Australian Gazette, of Sept. 19.)
We announced last week the unfortunate termina-
tion of the expedition to the north-west of Lake
Torrens, under the direction of Mr. J. A. Horrocks.
Yesterday afternoon an express arrived from Mr.
Robinson's station, with the intelligence that Mr.
Horrocks and his party had arrived there. Mr.
Horrock's wounds were not considered desperate,
although it was feared that amputation of the injured
hand would. be necessary. Medical aid, we believe,
was promptly dispatched, and the following letter
from Mr. Horrocks himself to the gentlemen who
contributed to the expense of the outfit of the expedi-
tion gives all the particulars, and will be read with
much interest :

"DeliOt Creek, Sept. 8, 1846.
"It is with the greatest regret I have to inform the
committee and my fellow-colonists who subscribed to
the expedition, of its untimely and unfortunate termi-
nation.
"Having made an excursion, accompanied by Mr.
Gill, to the table land on the west of Lake Torrens,
to ascertain if it were practicable to form a depot •in
that neighbourhood; and, not succeeding in finding
either water or grass, I returned to Depot Creek, de-
termined to make an excursion with the camel, as it
was impracticable to take horses sufficiently far, from
what I saw of the desolate barren country.
" Having ascertained, the morning previous to our
departure, from the summit of the range behind
Depot Creek, the bearings of a high land seen by
Messrs. Eyre and Darke, to be 32 deg. north of west
by compass, and the distance I considered about 80
miles, I determined to make straight for that land.
With this view I started on the 28th of August, ac-
companied by Mr. Gill and Bernard Kilroy, with
provisions sufficient for three weeks, and ten gallons
of water, the camel being loaded with about 350
pounds.
" Our first day's journey brought us to one of the
creeks running from Lake Torrens into the Gulf,
distance about ten miles. The last four miles were
over red sandhills, partially covered with oaten grass.
"The second day's journey we camped on the west
side of the table land, distance 15 miles, the first
eight miles over a continuation of sandhills, the last
seven miles over a country covered with stones and
salsolaceous plants.
" The next day we entered a light scrub and very
heavy sandhills, 15 miles.
"The day following, scrub and very heavy sand-
hills, and plains all covered with salsolaceous plants.
The day after, having made six miles, we reached
a large salt water lake, about ten miles long and five
miles broad. The land we were making for we dis-
tinctly saw. I supposed about 25 miles distant. In
rounding this lake—which I named Lake Gill—Ber-
nard Kilrop, who was walking ahead of the party,
stopped, saying he saw a beautiful bird, which he
recommended me to shoot to add to the collection.
My gun being loaded with slugs in one barrel and
ball in the other, I stopped the camel to get at the
shot-belt, which I could not get without his lying
down. Whilst Mr. Gill was unfastening it, I was
screwing the ramrod into the wad over the slugs,
standing close alongside of the camel. At this mo-
ment the camel gave a lurch to one side, and caup ht
his pack on the cock of my gun, which discharged the
barrel I was unloading, the contents of which first
took off the middle finger of my right hand between
the second and third joints, and entered my left cheek
by my lower jaw, knocking out a row of teeth from
my upper jaw.
"In this dilemma I was fortunate in having two
most excellent companions. We were now sixty-five
miles from the depot or any water that we knew of,
and all the water remaining was about five gallons.
With very great reluctance I consented to Bernard
Kilroy's entreaty for him to return back and fetch
Mr. Theakston and two horses, as I knew part of the
country was inhabited by a fierce lot of natives, as
they had attacked Mr. Gill and myself on every pre-
vious excursion. He said he was not afraid, therefore
he left, and reached the depot the next evening by
about nine o'clock. Having missed the tracks during
the night, he could not have walked less than 100
miles from the morning of the accident to the time he
reached the depot, having most bravely accomplished
his task.

"Mr. Gill stopped to nurse me, his attention and
kindness were not to be surpassed, considering the
distance we were away, and the uncertainty of Kil-
roy's reaching the depot. Mr. Gill has shown him-
self to be a brave and steady companion by remaining
with me. Mr. Gill has taken several sketches of this
country which will show to those interested how very
improbable it is that any stations can be made to the
west of Lake Torrens. All the drainage is into fresh
water ponds and salt water lakes. The ponds are ap-
parently dry in a very few days after rain, the water
while it is in them being of a dark red ocherous
colour, the size of them varying from half an acre to
five acres, and when full not more than six inches in
depth. _

The hill we were making for is table-topped with
precipitous sides about seven miles in length ; to the
N.N,E. are three more smaller hills, continuing on
from them is a low land, gradually diminishing in
height till it joins the land running from Lake Tor-
rens. I did not find a spot where there was any pro-
bability of finding a spring; grass there is none
except a little wild oaten grass, which grows in the
sand here and there, and that not sufficient to feed a
horse.

" It is with extreme sorrow I am obliged to ter-
minate this expedition, as the two men that were with
me, the camel and myself, were in excellent working
condition ; and had it not been for this accident, it
was my intention to have followed down this low
land, running to the N.N.E., and returned by Lake
Torrens, a distance of between 300 and 400 miles ;
and would then have been able to have given a more
accurate account ; although I am convinced we should
not have found one acre of ground to make a station,
judging from the land I had gone over, and what I
could discern with my naked eye, there being a
sterile sameness throughout. Had it been earlier in
the season, and my wounds healed up, I should have
started again. _

" On Sunday last I returned to the depot, horses,
myself, and party, all comp!etely knocked up.—l
remain, yours truly, J. A. HORROCKS.
_ _

" Mr. C. Platts, -Hon. Sec. Northern Expedition."
We are much concerned to announce the return of
Dr. Knott, from Mr. Robinson's station, to which
Mr. Horrocks had been conveyed, with the intelli-
gence of the very dangerous state in which that gen-
tleman is. Mr. Horrocks had been much weakened
by. his removal from place to place, and the fatal ter-
mination of his career was hourlylooked for.

A NOVELTY AT COURT.—Though the drawing-
room is now a week old, yet there was one circumstance
so singular and so remarkable--so significant of the
times—that it will well bear to be the subject of gossip
between us now. It is no less a fact than the Turkish
Minister actually bringing his wife to court, not
shrouded and veiled up to the eyes, to screen her from
the profane gaze of "dogs of Christians" and hurried
secretly into the presence of a female Sovereign, but
hanging on the arm of her Ottoman lord, and threading
her way through the diplomatic crowd in a court dress,
not distinguished from any other lady, though the
Minister, of course, appeared in his national costume.
Just fancy the old Tories of Constantinople hearing of
this dreadful innovation—there's an end of the con
stitution of Turkey at once; and a pretty account the
Princess will give, when she gets back among the
secluded inhabitants of the harem, of the privileges she
has enjoyed. But while this is all very pleasant, as far
as the Turkish ladies are concerned, we all know that
Ottoman gentlemen are allowed four wives by law, and
all who can afford it generally avail themselves of their
privilege. What is to be done, then, with wives No. 2,
3, and 4, should they claim to come to court; or what
would her Majesty do if a Turkish ambassador should
bring his four ambassadresses all at once? Some such
difficulty seems to have presented itself to the minds of
the court and the diplomatic authorities, for the Princess
Callimaki was not presented with the forms and cere-
monies usual on the introduction of the wife of a foreign
minister.—Cheltenham Looker-on.

" The ill-paid man has usually become an inferior
workman." Of this the following homely illustration,
mentioned at a late farmers' club, is an instance:—
" Whilst inspecting a farm in one of these pauperised
districts, an able agriculturalist could not help noticing
the slow, drawling motions of one of the labourers there,
and My man, you do not sweat at that work.'—
Why, no, master,' was the reply. 'seven shillings a week
isn't sweating wages.' "—Hampshire 'Telegraph.
LONGEVITY AT FAILSWORTH.—There are at present
living at Wrigley Head, Failswortb, three brothers and
a sister, whose united ages amount to 311 years.

ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET

COMPANY.

The general annual meeting of this company was
held yesterday, at the London Tavern, at one o'clock, for
the purpose of receiving the report of the directors,
and for electing two directors in the place of Mr. T.
Baring, and Captain Mangles; and also for the
election of an auditor in the place of Mr. A. B. Robarts,
all of whom retired by rotation, but were eligible for
re-election, for which they offered themselves. The chair
was taken by Mr. Colville.
The advertisement convening the meeting having
been read,
The CHAIRMAN said he had to regret the news which
had arrived, by way of Mexico, of the loss of the Tweed,
the reports respecting which were mainly correct. He
would then call up:mi the Secretary to read the report,
which is as follows :
" The working account, as contrasted with that of the
preceding year, shows an increase in the disbursement-
amounting to 10,8901. 3s. 2d., occurring chiefly under
the heads of wages," provisions,' and stations.' Th,
general rise in the rate of seamen's wages, an addition
to the pay of the officers, which the Court have consi-
dered for the interests of the company, and the extra
charge arising from having to send out the Eagle for
intercolonial service, to replace the City of Glasgow,
will explain the increase under the head of wages.'
The increase under the head of provisions' is to
be attributed to the additional number of pas-
sengers, and, in part, likewise, to the change
of intercolonial steamers alluded to above. The
charge for stations ' has been increased by the es
tablishment of an agency and other arrangements at
Panama, and by the expense incurred in increasing tht
coaling accommodation and general efficiency of th,
depot at St. Thomas. The only charge upon the Insur-
ance Fund during 1846, is a stun of 2751. 2s. Bd., arising
out of sundry small liabilities; and it will therefore be
seen that the investment under this head up to the end
of the year amounted to 49,281/. 55., which has since
been augmented by the annual appropriation t f
25,0001. for the year 1847, making a total
of 74.281/. 55., now invested in 34 per Cent. t;overnment
Stock. Having explained the principal causes which
have occasioned increased disbursements,, amounting to
10,8904 3s. 2d , it is most satisfactory to notice that the
receipts from freight and passage money show an aug-
mentation to nearly double that amount, exhibiting an
improvement upon the year 1846 of 20,6971. 16s. 10d.
It is moreover matter of congratulation to notice that
this steady advance (with the single exception of outward
freight) has occurred under every bead of receipts from
cargo and passengers, outward, intercolonial, and home-
ward. The small falling off of 5181. 4s. 7d. in outwaid
freight may be ascribed to the shipments of quicksilver
for Mexico having been interrupted during the first part
of the year, in consequence of the. commencement o
hostilities between that country and the United States
of North America. The surplus upon the working
account shows an increase upon the year 1846 amounting
to 9,807/. 13s. Rd., and so far as the transactions of the
year 1847 can be known at present, the receipts of the
company are still steadily advancing. The arrange.
meats for conveying passengers and treasure across the
Isthmus of Panama are now completed; and an agree-
ment has been signed by the Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company and the Pacific Steam Navigation Company,
fixing the rate of freight, and all other particulars, so
that there shall be every encouragement for par-
ties to avail themselves of this line of com-
munication between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
Unceasing exertions are made, not only to keep the
company's ships in good repair, but to give them addi-
tional strengthening where necessary, and to improve
their passenger accommodation by all the means that
experience can suggest. Six ships were re-coppered, '
and two ships received new boilers in 1846. Three ships
have been re-coppered already during the present year,
and one ship is now receiving new boilers. Two other
sets of new boilers are in progress, one of which, if not
both, it is hoped to get put on board before December
-next. These measures, and bringing the Conway (a new
ship) into operation, will, it is trusted, maintain the
service in that full efficiency which is as essential to the
interests of the company, as it is desirable to insure the
punctual discharge of its contract with her Majesty's
Government.

" Since the above report was prepared a confirmation
-
of the loss of the Tweed has been received this morn-
ing. The loss of life, in addition to that of the ship,
is deeply
to be lamented, but it is satisfactory
to find that the energy and firmness of the
passengers, as well as that of the officers and crew,
were most praiseworthy, and tended much, under
Providence, to the ultimate safety of the survivors who
reached the reef from the wreck. It would be prema
ture to offer any comment on this unfortunate accident,
but the circumstances shall be strictly inquired into."
The CHAIRMAN said that, before putting the report,
it was satisfactory to state that arrangements had been
made to prevent any deficiency in carrying on the ser-
vice in the West Indies. The vessel at present employed
there had.proved insufficient for the purposes for which
she was intended, and the Conway would consequently
shortly leave Southampton for that duty. He had also
great satisfaction in drawing attention to the first f. uits
of the arrangement for forming a communication across
the Isthmus of Panama, there having beer, an arrival this
morning, both of passengers and produce, from the
western side of the isthmus. This was the only point
that required any particular remark, and he would there-
fore put the adoption of the report to the meeting.
On the report being put,
Mr. RIDGWAY said that he particularly desired that
there should be some explanation of the working of the
company in the months of August, 1845 sad 1846.
Mr. PoYNDER Suggested that this matter had been
settled at the last general meeting, and it was therefore
incompetent to entertain the matter at all.
Mr. RIDGWAY contended that it was a subject that
the meeting could entertain, but as he had expected a
large increase in the amount of his dividend, he could
not but complain of the increase in the rate of the sala-
ries at Southampton, which, he stated, amounted to at
least one-twentieth of the amount of the whole of the
receipts. He was also inclined to question the lumping
of the several items in the accounts; indeed, he was
dissatisfied altogeener with the state of the accounts, and
thought that they might be much more clearly rendered.
He saw also that there was to be a new ship purchased,
and he wished to know what was the name of that ship,
as there were several naval men present who knew the
merits and demerits of every vessel on the coast, by
whom the judiciousness of purchase might be estimated.
(
Proprietor retrained from further
rate he wished to know whether the
cw cra being suggested that this might be injurious to the
y)i
out freight or a letter bag. He
saw naklyo
. h was
was an outlay of somewhere about
company, the m tAhae remark.)—At
to
anythere Hon.tak re a
55,0004 with the Bank of England, or elsewhere.
The CHAIRMAN, in replying to the observations of
the company Ridgway, said that the question of the working of
n the months of August, 1845 and 1846,
had been entirely settled at the meeting in October.
With respect to the rise in salaries all he had to observe
was that there could be no worse economy than that of
fixing the salaries so low as to obtain the services
oray of inefficient persons, and he thought further, that
if the directors were entitled to the confidence of the
proprietary that CO question should be raised on such a
matter as this. With respect to the Conway, as it was
desirable that she should reach her destination as quickly
as possible she would carry out neither freight nor a
mail. With regard to the 55,0001. now out upon loan.
he had to remark that it was d% posited with the North-
Western Railway Company, Irons whom ample security
is held,
and
The
a theyieldingince the establishment
of the
dividends to the
had been the Medina, the Solway, the
Isis, and the T eed, besides the Actaeon, a small steamer
company.c company
ii, , cash
losses is
or already
vesselss
employed amongst the islands.
By the vneral account it appeared that during the
year, up to December 21st, the expenses were 285,4781.
Is, 71, while the receipts were 407,1161. 18s. 2d., show-
ing a profit of 121,6381•95. 7d.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed a dividend of IL 15s. per
share, which was unanimously agreed to, as also that it
should be payable on Tuesday, the 13th instant.
The retiring directors and auditor were re-elected,
and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the
meeting was dissolved, its members evidently being well
pleased with the proceedings of the day.

DANGEROUS SPORT.—On Thursday, two lads,
named Haliwell and Harvey, who are in the employment
of Messrs. Tebbutt, Hawes, and Coy, Back King-street,"
were placed at the bar of the Borough Court, on a
charge of firing a cross-bow the day before, by which
th,.• lives of certain persons were endangered. Thu cross-
bow, which was produced in court, is a powerful instru-
ment, and fitte to do execution not le-s deci,ive than a
musket or pistol. It appeared that the lads had got
hold of this bow, which Mr. Tebbutt said he kept in his
private office, and were almost daily in the habit of
amusing themselves with it. On this occasion they used
pieces of lead about the weight of a common pistol
bullet, and fired the bow in the direction of Cross-street.
According to their own confession, each fired a shot.
One piece went through the top pane of the window of
the Scottish Widows' Fund Insurance Office (Mr. Booth-
man's), and then through the glass partition which di-
vides the shop from an inner "office, and striking against
the opposite wall rebounded into the middle of the room.
Mr. Boothman's clerk was in the room at the the time,
but fortunately a little to the one side of the window, and
e,ealed unhurt. The distance of the shot was about 100
yards. The other lead was fired in the same direction,
only a little higher, into the office of Mr. Petty, soli-
citor, in the flat above. Mr. Petty has his desk right in
the middle of the window, and had been sitting there
just before the shot was fired, but had left his seat for a
few moments. Inspector M'Mullen was sent to make in-
quiries, but the culprits at first denied all knowledge of
She matter, and only confessed when he discovered the'
bow in a room
she was sure her brother had no evil intent ; but Mr.
Maude said that that was no excuse whatever for lads
case, for nobody could
like them taking up a dangerous instrument, and firing
up stairs. A sister of one of them said
recklessly in the centre of a crowded town. They had'
had a narrrow escape from being brought tip on a charge
of murder, One getiO, being seated in the direction of
Anan ,
this shot just a moment before it was fired. Thought-
lessness would not be any excuse whatever in such a
pretend ignorance of the conse-
quences likely to ensue from firing into the heart of a
crowded thoroughfare. He hoped this would be a
warning to them and others to be more careful in future.
He fined them in 10s. Gd , the value of the broken glass,
and 10s. each besides, ne expressed a hope that such a
dangerous article would be kept out of the reach of boys
like them. Mr. Tebbutt said ho had already discharged
them, and would take care to do as Mr. Maude had sug-
gested. Ile had no idea that they were able to get at
the bow, which
having been paid thw
prisoners were discharged.—Man-
he kept in his own room. The fine
chester Examiner. -
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of the West India colonies.
Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial
Office for the Governer of West .Australia. .

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 7.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE.)
David Johns, 47, a sweep, was charged with bur
41ariously breaking open the dwelling-house of James
Trotman on the night of the 20th of February last, and
stealing therein a silver watch and other articles, the
property of James and William Trotman ; also with
having, at Hailes, on the 21st, maliciously cut • and
stabbed John Banning, with intent to murder him.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the first charge, and
not guilty to the second charge. •
John Banning examinedl saw the prisoner about
half past five in the morning. I was dressed in police-
man's clothes. When the prisoner saw me he turned
out of the path. When I was about to speak I received
a blow from some weapon on the-side of my head. I
had a stick in my band, and immediately retaliated, by
giving the prisoner several blows. He then succeeded
in getting my walking-stick. I wrested the stick from
the prisoner, and we wrestled together, and fell over one
if the bundles. We were both down. After we had
been on the ground some time we hoth got up, and I
said, will you give yourself up? 11,- said no. I then
saw him put his hand by his side. I collared him, we
were both standing up at this time. He made
a great many stabs. I struck him with my staff I
thought he was stabbing me with a knife. He stabbed
me twice on the chin. He afterwards took hold of ml
staff. Prisoner then cut my nand. We then fell, aed
I made two blows at the prisoner. I threw him in the
ground on the right side, and I tried to get the knite. I
afterwards struck the prisoner's hand with my staff, and
got possession of the knile.—(The knife was here F..
+iced and presented a very formidable appearance.)--,
We were both of us quite exhausted. I said to the pri
s,iner, " How are you?" He said, " Give rue some
water." I said some one will be here directly. After-
wards two persons came up, and the prisoner was re•
moved.—(The stick with which the prisoner struck the
prosecutor was here produced. The stick was about
two feet and a half in length. To the handle were sus-
pended eight or ten large bullets, by some thick twisttd
cord.)
Other evidence was produced, .leaving no doubt as to
the guilt of the prisoner, and
The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a
verdict of Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, on sentencing the prisoner, said—l
have some doubt whether you arc not a person who
should have been hanged. I have no hesitation in be-
lieving that you would have murdered the prosecutor.
Sentence—Transportation for life.
The -Cotner, in addressing Banning, said,—" Your
conduct has been commended by the grand jury, and
must be by everybody who has heard it. You have
shown yourself a very gallant officer ; and I hope the
reward I give you will not be all you will receive, and
that you will get on in your profession. Under all the
circumstances, the sum I feel warranted in awarding you
is 201."

Louisa Ferris, 29, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Patrick White, at St. Philip and Jacob, in the city and
county of Bristol, on the Ist of November last.
Mr. Skinner and Mr. Huddleston prosecuted, and Mr.
Keating defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased
(White) was a policeman, and cohabited with the pri-
soner, who is a married woman, but was separated from
her husband. They resided at a house in Lyon-street,
Bristol, in which also lived a young woman named Eliza-
beth Jones, of whom it would seem the prisoner was
jealous, and under the influence of that passion she com-
mitted the awful crime which placed her at the dock to-
day. It seemed that on Sunday, Nov. 1, in the afternoon,
a Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Ferris's brother, with a friend
named Sainsbury-, called at the house, and went into
the back parlour, where they had some beer and rum,
which they sent out for. White was there in his troll,
sers, shirt, and slippers, smoking a pipe. Jones wen
up stairs and lay down on the bed. Soon after White
went out, and followed her up stairs, as it would seem.
Mrs. Ferris also left the room, and in a few minutes re-
turned in a very excited state. White then came in, and
recommenced smoking his pipe. He had no neckerchief
on. The prisoner went into the kitchen and then came
towards deceased, she put her arm round his neck, and
the witness thought she was whi-pering to him. Imme•
diately afterwards they heard a groaning, and on look-
ing in the direction they saw White bleeding profusely
from the neck, and the prisoner holding her hand down
by her side. She went up stairs and met Jones. She
caught hold of her and blo,,ded. her dress with her
hand, saying, "I have a great mind to serve you the
same." She then said to her brother Edwards, "Jew,
drive me to the station." He put her in his fly, which
was at the door, and did so. The' unfortunate deceased
crawled into the street on his hands and knees, and said
the prisoner had cut his throat. The people sent for a
doctor. White said, "Itis no use, lam dying, pray for
we." In a few minutes he was a corpse, acd on goii,g
into the room they found a pool of blu,d, with a broken
pipe in it, and a razor on the table. " These were the
facts of the case.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter,
and

The Judge sentenced her to be tran,ported for life.
On hearing the sentence her fe. ling of maternal
anxiety seemed to overcome all other considerations, as
with clasped hands she convulsively exclaimed, "Oh, my.
Lord, mercy, for the sake of my poor children—don't
banish me from them."

NORTH 11 AL e-.S CI RC'UlT.—Chester, April 7.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice I.VicnTmAx.)
John Duckett, 33, was indicted for stabbing his wife,
Ann Duckett, with intent to murder her, on the 2d of
January, at Middlewich.
Mr. Trafford and Mr. Egerton were counsel for the
prosecution, and Mr. Temple for till defence.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner is a
boatman, and he and his wife had lived for some
time on very unhappy terms. On the 2d of Janu-
ary last, there was a dance at the Rose and Crown,
in Middlewich, which was attended by both the
prisoner and his wife, they not having previously
seen each other for nearly a fortnight. The prisoner
seeing his wife in the morn, went up to a person
in the room and requested him two or three times to
lend him a• knife, which was refused. The prisoner,
however, went out of the room to. the shop of a Mr.
Wise, where he purchased a large pocket-knife, and then
returned. Some one called for a dance, and the prose-
cutrix got up amongst others for the purpose of dancing.
Whilst standing up speaking to the fiddler, the prisoner
went up to his wife, put his arm round her neck, and in-
flicted three stabs in her throat. He was immediately
apprehended in the room with the bloody knife in his
hand. Mr. Johnson, surgeon, of Middlewieb, was called
in to see the prosecutrix the same evening, and he then
found that one-of the stabs had penetrated the windpipe
and gullet. From this wound the air from the lungs
and a portion of the contents of the stomach were escap-
ing when seen by Mr. Johnson.
Mr. TE➢IPLE addressed the jury with the view of re-
ducing the offence, on the ground of the jealousy with
which it was supposed the prisoner regarded his wife's
conduct. _

vv
The jury found the prisoner guilty of the capital
offence, and judgment of death was ordered to be re-
corded against him, the Learned Jud:•e intimating that
the least punishment he could expect was transportation
for life.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COQRT.
THE MURDER IN SHOREDITCH.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mary Jarvis, the mother of the last witness, stated
that the prisontr came to her door and opened it.
He xclairned " Where is she—where is she?" She
added, " You know very well where she is." He then
ran down stairs, and immediately after she heard the
report of a gun, and she at first thought he had 'hot her
daughter. When he came first she did not see the gen
in his possession. After the report he ran up stairs into
her room, took hold of her arm, and exclaimed "I have
done it—l have done it." He repeated this to her hus-
band, who was present. Her daughter ran in and ex-
claimed, " Oh, Tom, what have you done !" He made
no reply, and fell on her neck and kissed her. A con-
stable came and took him him into custody.
Cross-examined—When he first came he did not
appear flushed or excited. Her daughter slept with
her.

Joseph Brooks, a boy, the prisoner's brother, said he
lived in the same room as his brother. While he was in
bed his brother came into the room. He heard some
one run up the stairs before he came. He did not see
what he did, as it wa, dark. There was a gun in the
room. His brother romuned in the room two or three
minutes. There was a powder flask in his brother's
box when he went to bed. Soon after he heard the re-
port of a gun, about a minute or two after.
Police-constable, 201 H—Was on duty near Hare•-
court on the night in question. His attention was
called to the spot by shouts. He found the deceased on
the ground dead, and a ramrod near him. 'He went up
stairs and found the prisoner on the first floor with a gun
in his posiession. He was abOut giving it up to some
person. The prisoner's father was there. The father
made some remark about what' he had done, to which
the prisoner replied, "I have had my revenge ; he has
injured my mother and sisters, and I have been re-
venged. If I had not done it he would haVe killed me."
Told the prisoner that Gibart was dead, and took him
into custody. Ile made no resistance. Found some
bullets upon him.
Inspector Harris deposed that the prisoner stated, at
the station, "If I had not done it, perhaps they would
have murdered me. Two of them threatened to drag me
out ten minutes before."

Mr. R. Hanoch, surgeon, High-street, Shoreditch,
said he was called to see the deceased. He found-him
lying in the passage. He was quite dead. The wound
he had received caused instantaneous death.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr CLARKSON then proceeded to address the jury. on
behalf of the prisoner. He said, although they might
not exactly understand the difference, in the eye of the
law, between manslaughter and murder, yet it was
clearly d-fined amongst those who followed the profes-
sion of the law; and to him it clearly appeared that the
prisoner was not guilty of murder, but of the lesser
crime of manslaughter ; for when they reviewed the
whole of the facts which had transpired in the course
of the inquiry, they could not fail to be of opinion that
the prisoner had been irritated by the deceased and
others, and that, considering that he and others in-
tended to do him some grievous bodily harm, he felt that
he was but defending his life in what he had
done. They could not fail to be struck that this
was the actuating motive in the prisoner's mind at the
time he committed the rash act. It was most remarkable
that they had not heard until to-day of the expression
which the prisoner used with respect to his sister.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE desired Mrs. Jary s to be
called. She stated that the prisoner's sister had coha-
bited with the deceased fur about twelve months before
the occurrence. She did not know that any ill-feeling
subsisted between the prisoner and the deceased with
respect to this intimacy.