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809, when he assisted in the Walcheren expedition at
the siege of Flushing. The capture and evacuation of
Flushing, as appears from Sir Richard Strachan's de,-
patches to the Admiralty, were, in no small measure,
effected by the valour and bravery of Commodore
Owen. Three consecutive despatches all bear testi-
mony to his zeal and gallantry ; the last in an especial
manner, it runs thus s—" It is my duty to draw their
Lordships' attention to the excellent conduct of Com-
modore Owen in the discharge of the various and
arduous duties he had to perform ; and I beg, in the
most earnest manner, to -ecommend to their Lordship:
notice, the zeal, bravery, and perseverance of the cap-
tains, officers, and seamen, composing the flotilla under
the Commodore's orders."

Commodore Owen next hoisted his broad pennant on
board the Inconstant frigate, in the Gulf of Mexico,
where that dreadful scourge, the yellow fever, carried
off many of his officers and crew, about the month of
April, 1811. Subsequently he has commanded the
Cornwall, of 74 guns, employed in the North Sea ; and
at the close of 1813, distinguished himself by his ex-
emplary ccnduct at the head of the Royal Marines,
which were landed from the British fleet to co-operate
with the Dutch Royalists in the Island of South Beve-
land, which was soon freed from the presence of their
quondam allies.
For Lis services Commodore Owen received the
command of a royal yacht. He was nominated a
K.C.8., Jan. 2, 1815 ; obtained a Colonelcy of Royal
Marines, July 19, 1821 ; and in Nov 1822, hoisted a
broad pennant on board the Gloucester, of 74 guns, in
which ship he proceeded to the 'Nest Indies, and
was for some time Commander in-Chief on that
station. During this period, the House of Assembly at
Jamaica passed a vote of thanks to him for hi.; prompt
attention to their commercial and naval interests while
he was commanding among them. On his return to
this country he was invested with the insignia of a
Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military
Order of the Bath, in consideration of his avny emi-
nent services.

Sir Edward Owen was connected with the Tory
AOministration prior to 1830, and was, we believe,
Surveyor of the Ordnance. He entered the Hon eof
Commons in the Parliament which was called in 1826,
and continued to hold his seat till the period of Re-
form. We can bestow no approbation on his senatorial
conduct. He rather di.tinguished himself as the advo-
cate of Tory jobs, and spoke mor:: than once in favour
of that disgraceful outrage to all humanity—that most
horrid of all men-stealing, the brutal practice of im-
pressment. In the eyes of his profession. however,
that is unfortunately a venial offence. Commodore
Na7ier lately told us that the bulk of the naval officers
are To•ic and that Sir Edward Owcn's beieg a
Tory partizan—to which circumstance, we presume,
he owes his appointment—will be no disparagement
amongst his brother Tories. Accordingly the Vice.
Admirl's appointment has given great satin/action in
naval circles. Her Majesty's ship Queen is now fitting
out with all expedition to carry his flag to the Mc'li-
terranean.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY,

TIMES.—Our private letters from Amsterdam state,
that many interesting fact a have transrired from the con-
troversy between the Goverhanent and the second
Chamber of the States Ge-heral on the subject of the
Budget. The basis assr:.ned by the Government for cal-
culatmg the neat PrrAnce of the Dutch East India pos-
sessions, has bee-., it seems, the colonial harvest in 1840.
On thisassu'mption, the neat produce during the years
i
1842'3 is estimated at 66,979,648 florins, out of which
theye •would be an annual payment of the following sums:
.'or colonial expenses in the mother country 2,075,800
florins, for the remittance of silver specie, 2,300,000 flo-
arias, for the remittance of copper fit for coining
11,611,111 florins, for the remittance of goods and pro-
-visions 2,500,000 florins, and for probable payments in
India 5,700,000 florins, making altogether 14,386,911
florins or 28,773,822 florins for the two years.
Besides these charges, there will be for interest
and reimbursement to the Society of Commerce, in 1842
for 1841, the sum of 5,000,000 florins ; in 1843 for
2842, the sum of 2,500,000 florins ; and for dividends on
the East India debt (New 5 per Cents.), during both
yeari,, 19,600,000 florins, making, in addition to the
other charges for the two years, 55,873,822 florins, which
deducted from the amount estimated as the neat pro-
duce, leaves the sum of 11,105,826 florins, or about
5,500,000 florins per annum, as the remainder of the East
India produce. 'The Dutch Government have promised
to lay before the Chamber at an early period a new
tariff, which is to give an increase to the revenue of
500,000 florins per annum. The law of last December
on the sugar duty has answered so well, that it has pro-
duced an increase of 105,662 florins. A property-tax is
regarded by the Government almost as an impossibility.
POST.—i'r'e are sorry to have to notice that some
further difficulties hare been experienced in the tallow
trade. Besides the two houses alluded to the day be-
fore yesterday, as having been obliged to ask for time,
and who have since stopped payment, we hear to-day
ofthe failure of two other houses. In consequence of
these mishaps the trade is all at cmce reduced to a state
of total. stagnation, and the article has, for the moment,
ceased even to be- quoted. The erniaarrassrnents of the
firms referred to uvo not onclevstood to havo been brought
on by any recent speculation, as has been stated, but to
have resulted entiely from the heavy operations of last
year, and from the impossibility of taking up the accept-
ances given at a long date for losses then incurred.
The tea market assumed a different complexion
this morning as SOOll as the particulars of the late
everts in China became known. It was now dis-
covered that Canton had not been " evacuated," as
the heading of the telegraphic despatch received
yesterday seemed to signify, but that Captain Elliot had
retired his forces from Canton and the river under cer-
tain condkions, and upon the payment of a sum equal
to about 1,200,0001. sterling, as also that the British
were at liong Kong planning further operations to the
northward; the Canton affair being considered an iso-
lated case. The dealers yesterday thought that wh had
really possession of the provincial capital, and that we
were for the future to trade on an amicable footing;
whereas they now learn that Canton had purchased its
emancipation for a sum of money, namely, 6,000,001)
dollars; and; as no stipulation had been made for the
continuance of our commercial relations, no measure
taken in fact beyond the throat of a blockade, in the
event of any interference to our prejudice, the opinion
of an average season's supply, which the last mail pro-
mised, is materially weakened. An advance of 2d. to
3d. per lb. has accordingly been paid upon the closing
prices of yesterday, and 4d. per lb. upon the lowestpoint.

RUMOURS ANENT THE KIRK.
There were yesterday a great variety of rumours
afloat in town, with respect to the measure of Church
pacification, whieh Sir Wifliam. Rae alluded to in his
speech at the late election for flufe. It was said that
a Bill for accomplishing; this object was actually in the
printer's hands—that it had been approved by the
leading Nou-Intrusionists—that Sir G. Sinclair had
gone to London in the end of last weak with full powers
on the part of the Church"—(.as the Edinburgh clique
calls itself)—that a call by the majority of pa-
rishioners was to be the requisite plaster foe all sores—
that leets were to be introduced in the working of
patronage, which, sinful though it be, and antl.scrip-
turel, is yet to be swallowed along with the temporal-
ities annexed to it—and, in short, that the Gordian-
knot is to be neatly and quietly untied by some magi-
cal hand, hitherto untried in the fashious job of setting
the Kirk to rights. All this, we have good reason to
thick, is sheer romance. It was impossible for Sir W.
Rae, who was at Rothesay on Tuesday last, to go
thence to Lender, where he has since been, and from
whence he has again departed, and to concoct even
the rudest draft of an Act of Parliament in the
course of two rapid jourreys within the week ;
and, therefore, the printing and all the rest of it may be
fa'rly thrown overboard as a weak invention of' the
enemy. Sir William Rae is too discreet a man to
compromise himself or his chief on an intricate subject
of this kind ; and Sir Robert Peel stands on too high
ground to commit himself (after the Renfrew affair)
into the hands of such negc tiators as Mr. Alexander
Dunlop, Mr. Candlish, and Mr. John Hamilton. It
is not very likely that the Governmeat would commit
itself
rashly in this matter, when reserve and de-
lay, for the purpose of mature deliberation, is the
line of pokey which has been adopted with regard
to every other branch of national affairs. It is
bruited that the Ainhassadors of the high party
who have returned from London, give out that they
have not obtained anything by their voyage, except
that they have learned that the other party have not
got the ear of the Government. Just so—Sir Robert
Peel is not likely
to make such ambassadors the depo_
sitories of his State secrets, and, n the meantime, we
shall continue to treat all the sinister reports spread
abroad on this subject, for obvious purpngee, as the
emanations of pious fraud.—.E'dinbui,,,4 Observer.

0 ITER y.,A few days
A FORTUNATE DIsC
age a poor labouring men, named Warren, residing at
No. 3, Rose-street, Seven-dials, purchased, at a second
hand boot and shoe shop, belonging to a man named
William Mason, in Monmouth-street, Seven-dials, same
he
bluchers for himself and children, for three pairr felt one of wh eh
he paid eight shillings, Yesterday morning
of his boots pinch him at the side, and ripping up the
lining, for the purpose of removing some hard substance
that he imagined he felt within, he was most agreeably
surprised to find, between the side lining and the upper
leather, ten iive-eound Bank of England notes. It is
supposed that the boots in question formerly belonged to
a miser rained Andrevvs, for many years a resident in
the Vals, and who lately died, leaving property to the
amount of several thousand pounds, the whole of which
has fallen into the possession of his brother, a mechanic
living in the same leeality.
NEW INVENTED PIANO.—M. hoard, an Ob•
scure workman at Faris, who proceied, some six years
ago, the appointment of a Commission by the Academy
of Sciences, to_ examine the model of a new piano, has
just presented to that Institution his inaention in a com-
plete state. By very ingenious mechanism a current of
air strikes the wires as the hammers do, and continues
the vibration, diminishing or increasing it at the com-
mand of the pedal. Some
of the French nu,sicians who
have heard the instrument are in raptures eith it, great
powers,
awl assert that it gives the player of this master
insatrumenta
ver perfect control upon the volume of sound. It
y y
usble, as it is certainly a very inge-
m be
n'.otu contrivance, but we doubt its wonderful powers

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SECONDARIES' COURT. Oct. 8.
Clll3l. CON.-311TFORD V. MOLYNECTX.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, to recover
damages from the defendant, for having had criminal
conversation with the plaintiff's wife.
Sir W. Follett appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Chamber fur the defence.
Sir Wm. FOLLETT stated the case to the Jury. He
said they knew perfectly well that a person who had
sustained an injury such as that of the plaintiff—an in-
jury so seriuus—thevnly course he could pursue was to
bring an action for pecuniary damages, without which
he could not obtain a divorce, nor be. guarded against a
spurious offspring succeeding to his estates and property.
In the present case there were no matters for them
to decide, except the mere amount of pecuniary
( damages, as the case had gone in favour of
the plaintiff by default, inasmuch as the defendant had
placed no plea on the record, nor did he deny the fact of
adultery. He would shortly state the case for the plain-
tiff, who was a gentleman of ample fortune, residing in
Hampshire, and the cousin of Lord Redesdale. Lady
Georgiana Mitford, his wife, was the daughter of
Lord and Lady Ashburnham. The parties were
married in the year 1828, and at that time their
conduct led their friends to believe that the
union would be a most happy one. For seve-
ral years they lived in happiness, and several chil-
dren were the fruit of that union, some of whom had
died, but there were three sons still remaining. In
1838 it was deemed necessary by the family of Mr.
Mitford that he and Lady Georgiana should reside
on the Continent. lie need not mention the cir-
cumstances which required this step. Mr. Mitford and
Lady Georgians removed to the Continent, and lived fur
a considerable time at Frankfort, Whilst residing
there the defendant, the lion. Mr. Molyneux, the son of
the late Earl of Sefton, and brother of the present Lord,
filled the office of Secretary to the Legation at Frankfort.
Lady Georgiana had been acquainted with Mr. Moly-
neux in England, and that 'tacquaintance had
been renewed in Frankfort. Mr. Molyneux visited
the house of the plaintiff; and was frequently at their
parties. On these occasions he showed great atten-
tion to Lady Georgiana, and the greatest friendship
existed between the parties. The happiness of the
plaintiff and his lady continued undisturbed till the
autumn of the year 1840. In the autumn of that year
Mr. Mitford discovered a difference in the manners of his
wife, and was at a loss to account for the change. Mr.
Mitford had occasion to visit Dresden shortly afterwards,
and on his return he found that his domestic hap
piness Ives entirely destroyed, discovering that the
object of his previous care, solicitude, and affection,
had left the roof of her natural protector, and
was living in adultery with the defendant. Lady
Georgiana was up to the present moment living with the
defendant as man and wife. He (Sir W. Follett) was
afraid he had not evidence to show the circumstances of
Mr. Molyneux. He only knew him to be the son of a
noble and wealthy Peer, but whether-he was possessed
of estates or other property, he was not aware. He
moved in a high station of life, and had filled the
office of Secretary to the Legation at Frankfort,
the emoluments of which were very considerable,
but he had been obliged to resign the office owing to
the unfortunate occurrence he was then detail-
ing to them. Had the plaintiff been deprived by
death of his wife he would still have had the
melancholy satisfaction, but gratifying thought, that the
remembrance would be associated with virtue. But now

his position was pure, unmixed misery. He would then
proceed to call witnesses in support of the case, and leave
it in the hands of the Jury to assess the amount of
damages.
Mrs. Farrall, the first witness called, deposed that
she was the mother of the plaintiff, and was present at
the marriage of her sen to the Lady Georgiana Ash-
burnham, which took place in the year 1828, with the
consent of both families. Her son was 24 years of

age at the time of the marriage. Lady Georgiana
was about a year younger. After the marriage
Lady Georgians lived en the most affectionate terms with
her husband. She (the witness) never saw anything
but the most perfect harmony existing between them
from the time of their marriage up to their removal to
Frankfort, in the year 1838. Several sons, the fruit of
their marriage, were living.
Lydia Royce being sworn, deposed that she
had been in the capacity of lady's maid to Lady
Georgiana Mitford. She accompanied the family
when they went to Frankfort in 1838. On all occasions
Lady Gcorgiana was most attentive and affectionate to
her husband. During their residence in Frankfort Mr.
Molyneux was in the habit of visiting them. In the
Autumn of 1838 Mr. Mitford had occasion to go to
Dresden, and on the evening of his departure Lady
Georgiana told the witness that her brother had arrived
that day at Frankfort, and that she was going to see him,
telling her to pack up a small portmanteau, which she
did,- and Lady Georgiana left the house with Mr. Moly-
neux in a carriage and four, and never returned.
Cross-examined—On one occasion previous to this oc-
currence, Mr. Mitford was absent for some time in Eng-
land ; on another occasion he was absent for a fortnight
at Brussels. Mr. 3lolyneux resided at Wiesbaden,
which is about twenty-four miles from Frankfort.
Lord Redesdale and Col. Thomas Ashburnham seve-
rally deposed to the affectionate bearing shown by Lady
Georgiana towards her husband, after their marriage.
This being the case for the plaintiff,
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the Jury for the defendant.
He contended that the most blameable person in the
transaction was the plaintiff,who was indiscreet enough
to leave his wife, a beautiful woman, on the Continent
alone for weeks together amidst all the temp-
tation that must necessarily surround her in the
world of fashion on the Continent. He called upon the
Jury not to give heavy damages as to persons in a sta-
tion of life whose every comfort was destroyed in the
loss of his wife, and the estrangement of her affections.
The plaintiff was a man of wealth, and allied by blood
to a noble family. He had the means of purchasing
pleasure, and of possessing all the enjoyments of life. Lady
Georgiana was placed amidst temptations, and amongst
a people where the foibles of the softer sex were looked
upon as trifles. She was-neglected by her husband, and
what more probable course, under such circumstances,
and in such a land, than the one she had unhap-
.

pily taken ? There was a mode of proceeding with
these delicate flowers--if he might use the expres-
sion—a mode in which to bring them back to
health when they were placed in an atmosphere
which would make them droop and probably die. In
foreign society nothing was so dangerous as a wealthy
man leaving his wife alone amidst the world of fashion
for so long a period as three weeks. Pity it was that
Mr. Mitford had not had some kind friend who knew
something of the world to advise him to remove Lady
Georgians from this scene of temptation. He might
have removed her when he found her manners alter. It
was unfair to Lady Georgiana—it was unfair to Mr. Mo-
lyneux, not to have done so; because, leaving her open to
temptation at the time when he knew Mr. Molyneux was
within reach, and knowing that Mr. Molyneux had paid at-
tention to Lady Georgians, it almost amounted to an
invitation to Mr. Molyneux to come there to console her
for the absence of her husband. He did so, and in a
hasty moment, perhaps, without consideration, Lady
Georgians had taken that step which led to the present
proceedings. It appeared so from the circumstances,
because it was quite clear that the visit of Mr. Moly-
neux was not preconcerted ; and everything was
done in haste, Lady Georgians taking but one small
portmanteau with her. It was a case of sudden tempts-
tion—it was a sudden impulse of the moment—
there was no intention shown of an elopement having
been contemplated, but in an unguarded moment
she had taken that step she never could retrace.
There was no undermining the affections of the
wife on the part of the defendant—it was a sud-
den impulse of the moment, which every one must
blame and condemn. They had had evidence adduced
to show the kindness and affection that existed between
the plaintiff and his wife in England, but they had had
no eviderce as to their domestic felicity abroad. If the
history of this family on the Continent were to be gone
into it would be found to correspond with the history of
one-half the families from this country on the Continent.
On the Continent they knew not what a domestic fire-
side was. They did not understand it, and when people
went abroad they must dO as the rest. The manners of
this country drop, and they found themselves different
persons—all was gaiety and temptation. Mr. Mitford and
Lady Georgiana were like all foreign visitors ; they had
no domestic comforts, their chief pleasures were visiting,
routs, and balls in uninterrupted succession. With re-
spect to damages, let them consider the state of the
parties ; the plaintiff was a man to whom money could
be no object, the defendant was the youngest son of
a large family ; and they knew that the youngest son
of the richest nobleman was not a rich man. In con-
sequence of this unhappy transaction the defendant had
been compelled to reign his situation as Minister
at Frankfort, and he had nothing to subsist upon except
the small pittance usually dolled out to the younger son
of a nobleman. He left it in the hands of the Jury, but
they were to consider that while the plaintiff was asking
damages at their hands, he was a wealthy man.
Mr. Secondary Porrza summed up the evidence, but
in so low a tone that he was quite inaudible at the place
Juryth a retired
verdict fo
o..,enpied by the reporters.
forr
plaintiff—Damagesand
,00
07. re-
turnedl:he IN
We cannot refrain from adverting to the conduct of
the officers connected with this Court
with respect to the
accommodation for reporters. Every obstacle that could
be thrown in the way of the
performance of their
duties was resorted to, insomuch that from the I earnd
Under-Sheriff speaking in a low
tone of voice we were
quite unabl to catch a word.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Oct. 8.
:N RE WM. NEW.
The insolvent had been a coach proprietor on the
Brighton line of road, and attributed his insolvency to
the establishment of the Brighton Railway. In March,
1340, he had passed through the Court, and since that
time, up to his pre:tilt insolvency, had done very little bu-
siness. The Learned Commissioner ordered him to be
discharged.