The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

MURDER OF A WOMAN.

COLLINGBCRN, S4TURDAY AFTERNOON.—A great
sensation has been created in this part of the county of
Wilts, by a tregical oecurrencesnot unmingled with mys-
tery, which bas taken place in the neighbourhood of this
village. On Wednesday afternoon a woman, about 31
yearn of age, well known in the country, was found lying
on Shaw-hill-common, quite insensible and covered with
bruises. Her face was black from the violence to which she
had been subjected., and on examination it was found
that she had been stabbed with some sharp weapon in
the neck. The unfortunate female, who was a single
woman, was found by a gentleman who had been
passing the place, and with the assistance of some
4,r the peasantry not far distant, she was conveyed to
this village, where she remained till yesterday, when
she died, without ever having opened her eyes or spoken
a word since she was found on the common. No con-
jecture was in the first instance formed as to how or by
whom the unfOrtnnate woman had come by the mal-
treatment to which she had been subjected, until it was
recollected by a neighbouring farmer that a young
man with a fustian coat and trousers had been speak-
ing' to her an hour or two before she was found,
but the farmer, knowing nothing of the young man,
could give no information which could afford
a clue to him. In three or four hours after the
woman was found, a young man, seemingly about
twenty years of age, called without a coat at the rectory
of the Rev. Mr. Haddo, of Everleigh, some few miles
distant from Shewhill-common. Ile represented him-
self as being in want, and asked relief. The Rev.
Gentleman refused to give him anything, observing that
he was a young athletic man, and ought to earn a liveli-
hood by working instead of begging. No sooner had
Mr. Iladdo made this remark than the ruffian, putting
his hands into his pockets, pulled out several stones,
and with one of them hit the Rev. Gentleman on the
arm. The Rev. Gentleman, with great presence of mind,
slammed the door in his face, just as he was in the act of
throwing another large stone at him, and which had
it struck him might have been attended with serious
consequences. Eventually the assailant of Mr. Haddo
was taken into custody by some persons who wit-
nessed the assault, and on being brought before
the magistrate, so far from denying the fe-
rocious attack, he expressed his regret that he
had not succeeded in murdering the rev, gentleman, ad-
ding, that he had already murdered one person that day,
of which they would afterwards hear, lie was committed
to prison for the assault, on the rev. gentleman, and soon
afterwards the idea occurred to the magistrate that he
might be the person who had committed the attack on the
dying woman. The coat which was found near the body
of the woman was ascertained to belong to the prisoner.
It was made of the same material as the trousers. It
it right to add, that, without saying whether it was his
or not, he at once put it on, and has since worn it. The
prisoner give his name as James Smith, and represents
himself as a moulder by trade, but his statement is not
credited. He is a perfect stranger in the neighbourhood,
no one ever having seen him before.
Nothing has transpired which would lead to a
conjecture as to the motives by which he was influenced
in murdering the unfortunate female. Some have sup-
posed that one of the objects he had in view was to rob
her, but this is very improbable, as, in the first instance,
her appearance would not have led him to suppose that
she had any considerable sum of money about her
person ; and, in the second place, had that been the
prompting motive, a young man of his athletic propor-
tions and determined appearance could easily have taken
the money of a helpless female, in so secluded a place,
without resorting to an attempt on her life. Five shil-
lings and some odd pence were found in his pocket, a cir-
cumstance which renders his application to the Rev. Mr.
Iladdo for relief more remarkable. He was this day sent,
securely chained, to Devizes, with the intention of his
being tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge at the present
assizes for assaulting Mr. Haddo, .but on consultation
with the proper authorities it was deemed better to defer
the trial until it shall be seen whether the coroner's jury,
who are to sit on Monday on the body of the unfortu-
nate woman, return a verdict of wilful murder against
him; in which case he will be tried on the capital charge.
Ile maintains a sullen silence, and refuses to answer
any questions put to him; but in' reply to an incidental
observation from one of the policesconstables, that he
would iu all probability suffer, for his crime, he re-
marked that he did not care, for that he was quite tired
of life.

DIE ORLEANS FAMILY.—Some arrivals have re-
cently taken place from France of private property and
effects of the ex-royal family of France. A quantity of
saddlery arrived by a steamer from Boulogne a few days
since for the ex-King of the French, and there have also
been other arrivals for the ex-Queen and younger
branches of the family, which on arrival have been dis-
patched to Claremont in due course.
THE ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The follow-
ing has been definitively settled as the augmentation
which the corps of Royal Sappers and Miners is to re-
ceive. Four companies will be added to the existing
strength of the corps, making 23 companies in all. The
strength of each company is 100 rank and file, and is
thus made up:—One colour-sergeant, four sergeants, five
corporals, five second corporals, two buglers, and 83
privates. The whole strength of the corps will, there-.
fore, be 2,300 rank and file, with only one commissioned
ufficer—a quartermaster—the regiment being officered
by the corps of Royal Engineers, which consists exclu-
sively of officers. There is no present intention of'
augmenting the Royal Engineers. The nineteen com-
panies of the Royal Sappers and Miners now formed are
distributed as follows: Four at Woolwich, two at
Chatham, one at Liverpool, one at Wakefield, two at
Dublin, one at Southampton, ono at Halifax, North
America, one at Bermuda, one at Corfu, one at the
andl
aMauritius, two at Gibraltar, and two at the Cape of
rood
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MONIES IN THE EXCHEQUER It
Parliamentary . shown by a
paper yesterdayprinted, that there was
no money •in the Exchequer
to complete the ads do on the 22d ult., but that
grantby Parliament fur the ser-
vice of the years 1846 and 1847, the sum of 1,010,9801.
53, 6CI, wws to be raised.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Guildford, August 14.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and

a Special Jury.)
CORY V. THE NORFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY.

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover
from the defendants the sum of 1,0901., as money ad•
vanced and received by them to the plaintiff's use, upon
an account stated.

Sergeant Shee, Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. Peacock, and
Mr. Ogle, were for the plaintiff ; Sergeant Channell and
Mr. Bovill were for the defendants.

Sergeant SUER stated the case for the plaintiff. It
appeared that about the time of the railway mania, in
1845 and 1846, the defendants had entertained a project
for making a railway, in conjunction with their general
scheme, from Yarmouth to Lowestoft, Hales worth, and
other places, and another company called the Waveney
Valley Railway Company, were proposing a line which
ran exactly parallel with the one projected by the
defendants. Both schemes went to Parliament in
1846, and both were rejected; and it then appeared
that the supporters of the two companies deemed it
prudent to coalesce, and the Waveney Valley Corn-
pany agreed to abandon their line to the Norfolk
Railway Company upon certain conditions, which were
embodied in their agreement, on the 26th of October,
1846. The terms of this agreement appeared to be, that
the Norfolk Railway Company were to issue twenty
thousand new shares of 201. each, and the scripholders
in the Waveney Valley scheme were to be allowed to
take as many of these shares as they pleased, upon the
understanding that 30s. were to be paid upon each share,
but credit was to be given them for 403., and they were
in addition to be guaranteed five per cent, interest either
out of the capital or the profits of the speculation. The
Bill accordingly went to Parliament, a clause being in-
troduced into it, authorising the payment of the guaran-
teed interest of five per cent. out of the capital, but this
clause was struck out in Committee. The plaintiff, it
appeared, had 545 shares in the Waveney Valley scheme,
and he exchanged them for the new shares issued by the
defendants in accordance with their agreement, paying
the 30s. deposit upon each share, and the present action
was brought to recover back 40s. upon each of those
shares, amounting to the sum named i❑ the declaration.
The case for the plaintiff being that he had no intention
to run any risk in connexion with the new scheme, but
that, acting upon the faith of the agreement entered into
by the defendants, and in consideration of which the
Waveney Valley scheme had been- abandoned, he had
invested his money in order to secure the guaranteed in-
terest of five per cent., but as he could not obtain it, he
now sought to recover back his money.
At the close of the case for the plaintiff, Sergeant
CIIANNELL submitted that this action, as for money had
and received to the plaintiff's use, could not be sustained.
The defendants, he urged, had done all in their power
to carry out the agreement, but the Legislature had
thought it to strike out the clause which they had in-
troduced for that purpose, and the plaintiff having
signed the Parliamentary contract, he became a bond fide
proprietor in the undertaking, and took all the risks at-
tending it, and, therefore, there was no ground for the
present action.

Sergeant SZIEB and Mr. CHAMBERS, on the other
side, argued that the plaintiff had nothing whatever to
do with the decision of the Legislature; that he had ad-
vanced the money upon a specific agreement which had
not been carried out, and, therefore, he was entitled to
recover back the money he had paid upon the faith of
that agreement.
The CHIEF BARON said he was of opinion that the
case rested upon the terms of the subscription contract
entered into by the plaintiff, and that they had nothing
to do with any previous transactions. The terms of the
contract were, that parties were about to apply to Par-
liament for an Act to enable them to make a certain
branch line of railway, and that it was intended to in-
troduce a clause, empowering the payment of five per
cent. interest, but the parties were not to have the five
per cent. under all circumstances, but they were to have
from the net profits, if any were realised, payment of
that amount in preference to other shareholders. The
plaintiff had subscribed to this contract, and he was
therefore of opinion that this action for money had and
received was not maintainable.
The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—AppIehy, August 11.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND VIOLENT ASSAULT.—John
Clarke, alias Carradice, aged 21, was indicted for as-
saulting and putting in bodily fear of her lite Mrs. Char-
lotte Maria Noble Batemaa, on the 15th of March last,
and also stealing from her person a purse containing
about 6s. or Bs.

Mr. Ramshay and Mr. George Atkinson were for the
prosecution, and Mr. Overend defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutrix is a person of great
respectability, the widow of a surgeon i❑ the navy, and
lives at Common Head, about half a mile from Stavely.
On the 15th March she was spending the day with a lady
who lived at Stavely, and one of whose female servants
had that day been married: to commemorate which event
Mrs. Bateman's friend had allowed the married pair to
hold a ball in her house in the evening. About forty
persons, amongst whom was the prisoner (who was a
bobbin turner in the village) were present. Mrs. Bateman
did not go into the dancing-room, but had occasion when
she left to go home, about twelve o'clock at night, to
pass the door, and could be observed by the party; the
door being opened when she went down stairs, she
saw the prisoner leaving the house ; and it was proved
by another witness that he had quitted the dancing-room
about that time ; and a short distance from the house the
prisoner came out of a field-gate into the road, without
but or coat, seia.,el her by the arm, and threw her on the
ground with great violence, at the same time saying,
" Now, your money or your life." Mrs. Bateman con-
tinued—l told him I would give him my money if he
would allow me to get up. He did allow me, but not
being able to find my purse, he again threw me on the
ground. I screamed, and lie said," If you make a noise
I shall draw my pistol and shoot you ;" at the same
time putting his hand over my mouth to prevent me
making a noise. Ho allowed me to get up,
and I then found my purse, which I gave to
him, and made a❑ attempt to return to Stavely. He
seized me again, and said " That is what von are after, is
it ? I'll take care you don't go there." He afterwards
threw me down many times on the road, and abused
me worse than before I had given him the money. I
promised to give him more money if he would not be
rude. Ho replied that would not do for him, and then
dragged me into the field and attempted to violate my
person. He threw me down on the ground very often.
I struggled with him, and at length made my escape, and
ran home very much exhausted. The next day infer•
mation was given to the police ; and, from Mrs. Bate.
man's description, throe persons were apprehended, one
of whom was the prisoner, and she challenged him from
amongst them. The identity of the prisoner was the
ground of defence, but:Mrs.Bateman's testimony was well
seconded by other circumstances. Early in the evening
the prisoner was without money, sand had borrowed
sixpence of a friend, and when he returned to the
dancing-room, about one o'clock, he paid back the six-
pence, and spent some other money; he had also four
shillings and threepence in his possession when taken
iato custody the next day, which sum corresponded with
the money stolen. The purse also was found concealed
in prisoner's workshop, and his shirt-sleeves were
covered with road mud.—Verdict, Guilty.
Sentenced to be transported for life.
FORGERY fly A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. li'm. Richardsen
Robinson (aged 39), was indicted for forging a bill of
exchange or order for the payment of money, with in-
tent to defraud the Rev. Francis Whalley, incumbent of
Old Hutton.

The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Rarnshay, with whom was Mr. Bell, appeared
for the prosecutor, and Mr. Matthews defended the
prisoner.
The prisoner is a son of the late Rev. Dr. Robinson,
of Clifton, and fur 601113 time previous to committing
the offence had been without a living; and it seemed
that he was a man of intemperate habits. On the 17th
of May last Mr. Whalley met with the prisoner at a
beer. house in Old Hutton, where he had gone to transact
some business. He was an entire stranger to him, but
he introduced himself as the late Dr. Robinson's son, and
the incumbent of Mallerstang. Ultimately, the weather
being net, at. Ulu awe, Me. Whalley hospitably inyi..a
him to his house to stay over night, which invitation he
accepted. The next day he left for Kirkby-Lonsdale,
saying he had important business there. On the morning
of the 19th inst. he breakfasted at the Royal Hotel, and
afterwards sent the landlord's son for a stamp for 351.,
payable on demand, and a 2s. 6d. bill stamp was pro-
cured. In the course of a short time he went to the
Lancaster Banking Company's branch bank, accompanied
by a clerk of Mr. Francis Pearson, solicitor, and pre-
sented a document, of which the following is a copy:—
" May 19, 1848.—Messrs. Glyn and Co. pay to the Rev,
William Richardson Robinson on demand the sum of
thirty-five pounds. F. Whalley, incumbent of Old
Hutton, near Kendal. 351. (Stamp 2s. 6d-)” Simul-
taneously with the presenting of this document he pro-
duced a letter which purported to be written by Mr
Whalley to Mr. Pearson, requesting that gentleman or
a clerk to accompany Mr. Robinson to the bank, " that
there might be no disappointment." Mr. Pearson was
from home. The clerk in the bank being unacquainted
with either of the parties, and Mr. Whalley having
no account there, refused to cash the order, and
suspecting that all was not right, shortly afterwards
gave information to the police. An officer went to the
hotel, and asked the prisoner to give up the order he had
produced at the bank. He hesitated, but the officer per-
sisting, he took it out of his pocket and attempted to
throw it into the fire. Tho policeman got possession of
it, as welt as the note addressed to Mr. Pearson, and the
prisoner then said " he had done the deed, he had com-
mitted a forgery, and would give himself up," and when
before the magistrates made a similar admission of his
guilt.

✓
Thedefenco was, that the prosecutor and prisoner had
been drinking together, and that the former, when in
toxicated, had authorised the prisoner to write the letter
and order; but Mr. Whalley denied the truth of the in-
sinuation.

His LORDSHIP thought the defence set up aggravated
the case.
Verdict—Guilty. Sentenced to bo transported for
fourteen years.

From Palermo the accounts are to the 30th of
July. The French squadron still remained, and the
preparations on the part of the Sicilians to resist the
threatened armament from Naples were of the most
determined kind. The city swarms with volunteers,
and it is said that a force of not less than 100,000
men, all armed with muskets, could be brought into
immediate action. Prom Messina dates are as late as
the 2d inst., and a rumour was then prevalent that the
Neapolitans having been prevented, by the intervention
of France and England, from effecting the invation as
at first proposed by sea, wore marchind down by land,
with the intention of crossing the &pits, and had al-
ready reached Iliontqoone.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
WORSHIP- STREE7.
Rebell! Franks, a respectably dressed person, described
as a commission agent, was brought before Mr. Tyr-
whitt, the sitting magistrate, charged with having in
his possession a stolen Bank of England note for 501. of
which he was unable to give a satisfactory account.
Mr. John Terry, clerk to Mr. Melton, a solicitor in
Bedford-row, stated that he received directions on the
9th instant, to proceed in the company of a sheriff's
officer, to the Chelmsford races, to effect the arrest of a
gentleman, whom they expected to find on the course.
On reaching the ground they met the person of whom
they were in quest in one of the booths, and having
received a 501. note in satisfaction of their
claim, witness carefully deposited it in his trowsers
pocket, and was leaving the place, when he was suddenly
surrounded and hustled by a throng of persons of both
sexes, and feeling a pressure at the pocket in which he
had placed the note, :he immediately searched
for it and found that it had been abstracted. At the
same moment ho observed a smartly-dressed woman
hastily leave his side and mingle with his assailants,
who made an opening for the purpose; but before he
had time to overtake her they again closed upon him,
and effectually hemmed him in until she had disappeared,
when the whole of them dispersed. He instantly re-
turned to town and stopped payment of the note at the
Bank, from which he shortly after received information
that it had been presented that morning by some person
connected with Messrs. Davis's banking-house, in Shore-
ditch, whence he traced it to Mr. Harris, a potato sales-
man, adjoining there, who informed him that he had
given change for it to the prisoner on the morning after
the robbery. He was then directed to a public -house in
Norton•folgate, where he found the prisoner, who told
him that the note was intrusted to him to get changed
by a man whom he accidently met at the public-house,
but with whose name and address he was unacquainted,
and who was accompanied by a fashionably-dressed
woman, both of whom remained until he returned with
the cash, and he had seen neither of them since.
Mr. Harris deposed that shortly after nine, on the
morning alluded to, the prisoner requested him to
change the note, stating that it belonged to a person of
respectability, and, having known him for fourteen or
fifteen years as a commission agent, although he was
unacquainted with his place of business, he changed it,
at his desire, for 451. in notes and the rest in gold.
A solicitor, who attended for the prisoner, intimated
that he should be able to bring forward conclusive proof
that his client had not the slightest cognizance of the
manner in which the note came into the possession of
the man who employed him to change it, although he
must admit that he had acted with extreme indiscretion
in allowing himself to be made the instrument of a per-
son to whom he was a comparative stranger.
Mr. TYRWUITT considered the circumstance of the
prisoner being in possession of the note so soon after the
robbery a matter of much suspicion, and he should,
therefore, remand him upon the charge, lout would con•
sent to accept substantial bail for his future appearance.
The required sureties were put in in the course of the
day, and the prisoner liberated.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
The Rev. Hugh Wil!oughiy was summoned before Mr.
Bingham by his brother, Sir Henry Willoughby, M.P.,
for having used insulting and menacing gestures to him
at the opera.
Sir Henry Willoughby, on being sworn, said—On the
29th of July he was at the opera, sitting in his stall, No.
66. During the representation he noticed the defendant,
the Rev. Hugh Willoughby, in a stall belonging to Mr.
Martin. The defendant pointed at him with his stick in
an offensive manner, and was otherwise conducting him-
self in a❑ insulting manner towards him. From what
had occurred on a previous occasion he believed that the
defendant intended to commit a breach of the peace to-
wards him, and he accordingly left his stall, and went to
another part of the house. On the 31st of July he made
a deposition of these facts at the police-court. On the
10th of August, while about to attend his duties as a
member of the House of Commons—
The defendant's solicitor here objected to this evidence
The summons only referred to what had taken place on
the 29th of July.
Mr. BINGHAM having stated that the defendant was
called upon to answer a charge of having been guilty of
sech conduct towards the complainant as was supposed
to be likely to lead to a breach of the peace.
The solicitor proceeded to cress-examine the com-
plainant, and elicited that the defendant, who was
brother to the complainant, had made no attempt to
strike with his cane.
The solicitor addressed the Court, and contended that
no assault had been proved, neither had any gesture of
a sufficiently menacing character been used. It was un-
fortunate to see two brothers placed in such a situation,
and as the matter in evidence was very slight, he hoped
the magistrate would dismiss the charge. He was in-
structed that a system of annoyance had been kept up on
the part of Sir Henry against his brother, and that, in
fact, it was the defendant who was the injured party.
Mr. BINGHAM said, no doubt the solicitor had been in-
structed to -make the assertion be had just made, but he
had been instructed erroneously. Besides the evidence
just gi*on in Court, he held in his hand an additional
piece of evidence, which afforded a conclusive proof of
the accuracy of the present charge. The defendant had
written a letter, which he had given to the clerk, who
had handed it to the Court. The defendant had since
applied to have that letter returned ; but that was a re-
quest which he was not disposed to comply with. He
should require the defendant to find two sureties of 40/.
each, and to be himself bound in 801. to keep the peace
towards the complainant.
The solicitor asked Mr. Bingham if, under the pe-
culiar circumstances of the case, it not being the first
time the parties had made their appearance in a police-
court, he would not also hold the complainant to bail.
Mr. BlNGHAM—Certainly not.
Bail was soon afterwards procured, end the defendant
left the Court.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
CHELTENHAM.
Tho case for the petitioners was resumed this
morning with evidence of agency. Mr. C. J. Ches-
shyre, solicitor, of Cheltenham, proved that he canvassed
Con acted as the agent of that gentle-
in.lad. andeWhillsliams. The committee-rooms
were a
reports and communica-
tions house in the Colonnade, but
ftoaanr.:lr. totHea Berkeley,
lmEn
thero was no regular committee or chairman. Mr.
iris .tioanrZy y ' Mr. Glyde, and Mr. Pilkington,
acted as chairmen. He and his
chWloewirllletisavmedri' occasionally
and distributed to the voters a number of
cards, on which were printed the names of the Star, the
St. Alban's, the Crown and Cushion, and the Garrick's
Head, hotels, but no such word as '° breakfast" was written
on them. Several breakfasts, however, were given at the
Star on the polling day, and a bill had been sent into
him from the Crown and Cushion, but he had declined
to have anything to do with it.
Mr. William Hasell, sen., another solicitor, proved
that he acted as a district agent for Mr. Berkeley, and
distributed cards for breakfast at the King's Arms and
Exmouth Arms Hotels, but he could not tell who paid
for the breakfasts. He told an elector that there would
be refreshments on the polling day for those
who voted for Mr. Berkeley, but on his men-
tioning the circumstance to Mr. Williams that
gentlemen directed him to retract what he had pro-
mised, and the electors voted against Mr. Berkeley.
James Smith, shoemaker, of Cheltenham, proved that
at the election of 1847 he was engaged as a messenger
for Mr. Berkeley's party, on condition that he voted for
that gentleman. He did vote for Mr. Berkeley and he
received 1/. a week for his services.
The Committee then adjourned.

HORSHAM.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE opened the case for the pe-
titioners as one of bribery and treating ; after which the
polling books and the return were put in. It was then
proved that a Mr. I'adwick acted as the agent of the sit
ting Member, Mr. Fitzgerald. Two country farmers
were then called to prove that before the election of
1847 Mr. Fitlgerald invited them and other voters
to go with him to the Richmond Arms to have
a treat. They. however, refused to go, and
subsequently they voted for Mr. Jervis. Both witnesses
WV& e V eIY cross..eXiAliainoci, with the view of showing
that they were bribed to vote for Mr. Jervis, but the
first stoutly protested that
.he was not, while the
other stated that ho was induced to vote for Mr.
Jervis by a vision ho had the night before the
election. It was insinuated that this vision
was the result of a carousal at one of Jervis's open
houses, but the witness could not tell what it was the
result of ; all that he knew was, that he had a vision,
which he reduced to writing, and which induced him to
vote for Mr. Jervis. Another witness proved that Mr.
Fitzgerald met him before the election of 1847
and said he intended to have bought him, but he had
been put up too high. The witness, on cross-examina-
tion, explained that it was a mill he had which Mr.
Fitzgerald intended to buy, and not himself. Other
witnesses gave similar evidence, and the Committee ad-
journed.

THE LAW OF HIGH TREASON.--The principal
species of high treason, as defined by the Statute of
Edward 111., consists in compassing or imagining the
death of the Sovereign, or in levying war against
him. In charges for the former species of high trea-
son, some overt act must be proved; that is, some
action manifesting the "compassing or imagining; but
the latter species of treason is, at ono and the same time,
a substantive treason and an overt act. In trials for
treason, the statute provides that all persons who shall
be accused, and indicted under it, shall have a true copy
of the indictment (including the caption) delivered to
him upon request, five days at least before he shall be
tried for the same; and on the finding of the bills, the
Court is bound to assign two counsel to the prisoner.
There must be two witnesses to each distinct species of
treason, and some overt act must be proved to have been
done, in the country where the indictment is laid.
Advices from Naples mention that up to the Aith
inst. nothing further had been done regarding the
expedition to Sicily, but that the prospect of an
adjustment was still as distant as ever, In addition
to the British feet, three French ships of war were
in the bay. Business was greatly interfered with by
the general uncertainty of affairs, and the funds con-
tinued without alteration at 85k. The explanations
furnished by the Neapolitan Government of the cap-
ture of Sicilian insurgents off Corfu by the use of the
British flag had not been considered satisfactory, the
evidence in the possession of the English admiral being
directly at variance with the statements of the Neapolitan
commander.
PILCLIARD FISHERY AT. PORTLOE.—The driving
boats at Portloe have bad good catches during the last
week, and have taken 16,000 fine fish, which have been
sold off at the rate of Is. Gd. per 120. On Monday
morning the boats brought in four and five thousand to
boat.—Cornwall Gazette.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, August 14.
Their Lordships assembled to-day shortly after Five
o'clock.