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verdict for the defendants the jury had not paid atten-
tion to the charge of Lord Denman, with reference to
the dedication of the whole road in question to the pub-
lic, and, therefore, on the second and third issues he
would direct a new trial.
The Ccurt then rose:

COURT OF QUEEN'S BEIVCH,Dec. 15.
THE QUEEN V. RICHARD DUNN.
An impression seems to have gone abroad that this
remarkable case would be tried here to.day. The
notion was erroneous. The case is a special jury
one, and cannot be tried during these sit:in&s
without a special application to the Court to
appoint a day before the expiration of the or-
dinary sittings. No application of this natura
was made during the morning, which was occupied
with a running-down case of not tke slightest interest,
except to the parties immediately concerned. The
Queen v. Dunn stands 92 in the printed list. In all pro-
bability it will be taken in its ordinary course.
NEGLIGENCE OF AN ATTORNEY-SMITH V. SHAW.
Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Borrill were for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Parry for the defendant.
This was an action of a novel but an important
character. The plaintiff is a surgeon, and the
defendant an attorney, on Fish-street-hill ; and the
action was brought to recover compensation in da-
mages for the want of proper care and skill on the
part of the defendant in conducting an action which
the plaintiff had brought against a person named Briggs.
By his carelessness and want of skill, it was alleged, a
judgment had been obtained against him, and an exe-
cution put into his house on account of it, of which the
plaintiff had received no previous intimation from the
defendant, and which had cost 21/. The defendant bad
placed various pleas on the record, setting forth
that he did not promise, that he had well and faithfully
discharged his duties, and also that he was unable to

inform The plaintiff that a judgment had been obtained
against him, as he had changed his residence.
Mr. WATSON, QC.. stated the case to the jury. He
said the plaintiff, Mr. Smith, was a surgeon, who had
carried on business at Walworth, but who now resided
at Stockwell, and that the action was brought to
recover compensation in damages from the defendant,
who had acted as his attorney. 'rhe defendant had car-
ried on business in Fish-street-hill for several years, and
had a country residence at Walworth. Whenever a pro-
fessional pers m was employed, no matter what the nature
of the profession might be, he was bound to use proper
skill anddiligence in the discharge of the duties for which
he was engaged; but if he was not possessed of the skill
necessary for the proper carrying on of his professional
business, and should be guilty of negligence, he was re-
sponsible to his client for any damage which might
result to his interest in consequence of • his ;valet of skill
and want of diligence. Fur ought he (Mr. Watson)
knew, the defendant might be a very skilful practitioner,
and might exercise skill in the service of other clients,
but in the case of the plaintiff he certainly had net. The
plaintiff had attended and supplied medicines to a minor
named Briggs, and a debt of 161. 7s. had been contracted
with him in consequence, and an action was brought
against the young man for the amount; but as it appeared
that he was wholly without the means of self support,
and that the medicine was supplied with the cognisance
of his father, Mr. Shaw was instructed to bring an ac-
tion against him for the amount. The action was brought
in this court, but, as it was under 201., it was arranged
that it should be tried before the Sheriff. Notice of trial
was given, but it was found, owing to the absence of the
plaintiff's assistant, who was abroad, that the
evidence would not be sufficient to prove the plaintiff's
case; it was not then proceeded with; therefore the
notice of trial was countermanded. Mr. Briggs, not
liking to be in hot water all his life, applit d for judg-
ment as in case of a nonsuit, in order to put an end to.
.the action. The plaintiff finding that he could then
prove his claim, proceeded a second time to put the
matter in a train fur trial, and it was arr inged that it
.11oitld be tried before the Sheriff in six weeks, and a fresh
,nolle:e of trial was prepared, but served a day too late
eliyethe defendant. lie then took another st-p, which
almost any competent practitioner must heve known would
only be incurring 41elteional expenses. He went before
Mr. Justice Wightrnap, at eharnhet s, in order to get the
rule set aside, wWals:the Learned Judge refused to (le
but told him that: drag oraer was a peremptory one, and
that he could net eite et fere with a rule of the superior
court • but he advised him to apply to the Queen's
Bench, in banco, to enlarge the order. lie might have
done this on the 2d November, and no doubt the Court
would have acceded to such an application, but he del not
take any such step, and on the sth NJvember judgment was
signed by the defendant "as in case of a nonsuit," so
that the action was at once brought to an end. The de-
fendant had notice of the taxation of the costs, which
were taxed at about 181., and no doubt attended to it,
but he gave no notice to the plaintiff, andehe first inti-
mation he received of the fact was the-visit of a sheriff's
offiesr, and the putting of an execution-into his house;
The levy came to 211., and as he heppened to have the
amount in the house, he paid it out. Ihe plaintiff, there-
fore, sought compensation for the expense of the levy,
and the costs of the debt, which were: about 101., as well
as compensation for the injury which' he had sustained
on account of the negligent conduct of the defendant.
Mr. Driver, an attorney, the plaintiff's brother-in-
law, was 'examined at considerable length, from which
it appeared that he had taken an active part in the legal
proceedings in the case of Brings ; but he stated that he
merely acted as the plaintiff's friend, and under the
directions of the defendant, his sole object being to
forward the matter. .
It was shown that the defendant did not live far from
the plaintiff, and that a notice was placed on his former
residence showing where ho had gone.
Mr. PARRY, in his address to the jury, contended that
the defendant, by the course he had adopted, had placed
the plaintiff in a position to renew his claim against
Briggs, as the witness referreil to was still absent; and
that it could be renewed . now with a reasonable proba-
bitty of success; that Mr. Driver was the agent of the
plaintiff •in the matter in question, and had
transacted, and consequently knew all about the
proceedings, and that, if any mistakes had occurred,
they were clearly attributab!c to him, and to no one
else. Great difficulty had been experienced in commu-
nicating with Mr. Driver ; and as he was an attorney,
and bad acted as Mr. Smith in the case, some latitude
was allowed him by the defendant, and because he had
acted erroneously was the defendant to be blame d ?
Mr. Walker, the defendant's clerk, gave evidence con-
firmatory of the defence set up. •
Mr. WATSON having replied,
Lord DENMAN summed' up. He considered that the
defendant was not free from blame, and that he might to
have known that the application to Mr. Justice Wight-
man, at chambers, would be of no avail, at the strict
rules of the Court could not be departed from. He left
it to the jury to say whether the plaintiff was or was
no: entitled to damages, and, if so, the amount.
The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 30/.
The Ceurt will sit in bane') at Westminster, according
to notice, at twelve o'clock precisely, on Thursday, the
17th instant.

_COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 15.
EAGER. U. GRIM WOOD.
•
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a market
gardener at Blz,,lcheath, to recover compensation in
damages for the seduction of his daughter by the
defendant.
Mr. Prenticiappeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Hum-
phrey for the defendant.
Mr. PRENTICE stated the following as the facts of the
case:—The defendant carried on business as a pctato
salesman at Greenwich and paid his addresses to the
daughter of the plaintiff, Mary Ann Eager. His ad-
dresses were accepted • ho was treated at the house of
the plaintiff as the Future husband of his daughter,
and numerous visits were paid between the partim
Upon one of these occasions the defendant effected
the rain of the plaintiff's daughter; from that
time the visits of the defendant became less
frequent than formerly, and in the course of
a few months the plaintiff's daughter was delivered of a
child in her father's house; the child died, and the young
woman was indicted for the murder of her infant, and
tried at the Old Bailey and acquitted. Repeated appli-
cations had been made to the defendant for some assist.
ance, but he had refused to render any, even upon the
trial at the Old Bailey, and had it not been for the kindness
of some of her friends, the young woman would not have
had the assistance of counsel at the trial. -The Learned
Counsel concluded an impassioned appeal.to the jury,
by calling the following witnesses:—
Mr. Claxton, who said that the sister-in-law of the
plaintiff hal often seen the defendant at the house of the
plaintiff, and upon these occasions he always treated her
niece with kindness.

Cross•examined by Mr. HumrnaEv—Her niece was
confined on the 26th of June, 1845, she was tried on
the 18th of August upin the indictment for the murder.
Mary Ann Eager, examined by Mr. PRENTICE—I
became first acquainted with the defendant about Ja-
nuary, 1844, by 'walking upon the hill. I never went
to the shop of the defendant for my father. The de-
fendant made a promise of marriage to me soon after
I became acquainted with him. Deendant often came
to my father's house. I frequently went to his house.
Up.ni these occasions hil aunt was present. He paid
his addresses to me for nearly a twelvemonth. It was
in the AULUITaII of 1844 that the defendant had connexion
with me. It was in the.summer-house of my father's
garden, a day or two after Christmas-day, and upon that
occasion he renewed his former promises of marriage
to me. It took place between eight and nine o'clock
in the evening. , Defendant came to see me after it took
place, but not ,as frequently as before. He ceased to
visit me about three months after the time of our con-
nexion. He has not given me any money to pay my
expenses. I was ill fur some time after my confinement.
I was in Nen-gate for abut a month.
Cross examined by Mr. HumeitnEv—l am twenty
years of age next birth-day. I never kept company
with anybody else. I knew a young man of 'the name
of James. Ido not know his other name. I kneW him
for three months. We walked out . together twice.. I
was then sixteen years of age. °I know him by his
bringing meal to my lather'shouse. I had connexion
three or four times with the defendant after the first
time in the summer-house.
By a juror—I never told the.deferiant that I was in
Vie family- way.
biro. Winter std that she had attended at the house
of Eager, had done washing, and had also lodged the
children dt r:ng the time of the illness of his daughter.
Mr. Hatch, surgeon, was called, who said that he
attended Mary Ana E ig‘r after her confinement. He
saw the child ; it was dead when he saw it. In his
opinion it was a fully-grown child.
By the LORD CUEEF BAnos—l am not aware of any
indication by which I car. judge whether the child was a
six oe seven months' one.

By Air. PRENTICE—It certainly was not a six months
child.

Cross-examined by Mr. lIUMPHREY—It was a full-
grnwn
Tue LORD CRIEL•' Banox—Then there is an end to the
case.

rnENTICE—i apprehen], my Lord, that it is not.

The action is not only against the defoadant as father of
the 'child, but for having seduced the daughter of the
plaintiff.
The LORD CHIEF BARON—I think an action cannot
lie except it can be proved that the plaintiff has suf-
fered damage by the loss of the services of the seduced
party.
Mr. ritimenarf then addressed the jury on the part
of the defendant, and contended that there was no evi-
dence against the defendant. The medical adviser had
stated positiiely that the child was not a six months'
one. The witness herself stated that the connexion took
place about Christmas-day. She was confined upon the
26th of June. The defendant could not, therefore, be
the father of the child.
The Loan CIIIEF BARON—There is no evidence at all
to go to the jury; the question which the jury would
have to decide was, whether the defendant was the father
of the child.

The jury immediately returned a verdict for the de,
fondant.

RICHARDSON V. CARMICHAEL.

In this case Mr. Wordsworth appeared for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. l'hipson for the defendant.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of 231.
16s. 63., bring the amount due for maps, books, and
stationery, supplied for the use of the Boulogne-sur-Mer
and St. Omer Railway.
The plaintiff was a bookseller and stationer, carrying
on business in Cornhill ; the defendant, Sir James Car-
michael, Bart., was one of the promoters, and also a
director of the company.
Witnesses were called to prove the attendance of the
defendant at the various meetings of the company, and
the delivery of the goods in question. It appeared, upon
cross•examiriatioa of some of the witnesses, that some of
the goods were supplied prior to the time of the de-
fendant's connexion with the company, and his being
register( d as such.
The LORD Curer BARON said that there was no
doubt but that the defendant knew of the delivery of
the goods in question, they being used at the meetings
of the company. Those, however, which were delivered
previous to the registration of the defendant as a direc-
tor or promoter, be could not be held liable for.
Thejury therefore returned a verdict for plaintiff—
Damages 151.
Leave svas given to the defendant to move to enter a
nonsuit, if the Court should be of opinion that there
was no evidence to go to the jury to fix the • liability of
the defendant.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.

henry Eteen pleaded guilty to a burglary in the house
ofJohn Sari, and was sentenced to ten years' transpor•
tation.

John Slayer pleaded guilty to forging an order for
the payment of at., with intent to defraud James Corss,
and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
Timctliy Hceley, who had been out on bail, surrendered
to take his trial for a violent assault on his wife, on the
22d of October.

Ann lleeley stated that since 1833 she had kept the
Red Lion, in Fleet-lane, and that in March last she
married the defendant, being then a widow, and possessed
of 1,3001. or 1,400/, but had ever since been treated with
great brutality, and was in fear of her life. On the day
in question her husband had been out with a person
named Kendall, then in his employment, and on his re-
turn dashed her to the ground with great force, turned
her out of the bar, and installed the woman who came
back with him in her place.
The witness was subjected to a long cross-cc/Amine=
tion by Mr. CLARKScN.
Thomas Fuller, a brother of the prosecutrix, stated,
that ashe was getting into bed on the night of the 21st
of October, he heard his sister's voice crying out for
assistance. On going down stairs'' he found her lying
helpless in the passage,"where she had been throw n by
a blow on the face.' Having taken her up, and while
about carrying her up stairs, she was again struck, sad
knocked out of his arms with so much violence as to
reider her insensible.

Arr. CLARKSON, for the defendant, contended that the
eanie of the- mischief was Mrs. lleele3's intemperate
hatits.

The fullowinz evidence was offered for the defence

Joseph Guodby, waiter of the Red Lion, proved that.
the separation had taken place, and that OR the day in
question the prosecutrix had returned to get her clothes,
being at the time in a state of intoxication, and while in
the hous3 :he was guilty of such outrageous conduct,
that he was obliged to send for his master, who, at the
time, was living away from the place.
Several other witnesses stated that the prosecutrix
was intoxicated at the time of the commission of the
alleged assault, and the prisoner had merely endeavoured
to get her to bed quietly.
The jury returned
,a Yerdict of GUilty.
The prisoner was then sentenced to two months' im-
prisonment in Giltspur-street Coippter, and to enter into
his own reco,iliz thee for. 500 L, audio find two sureties
for 50/ each, to keep the peace for three years. ' '

to 251., and in default of payment the defendant must be
committed for three months to icngston Gaol.
George Paul Fitt was brought before Mr. Seeker,
charged with obtaining three several sums of money,
amounting to 2/. 145., under false pretences, from Dist-
bi th Ann Cay.
The complainant stated that her husband was a dealer
in timber, and that, about three months azo, he was con-
victed at the sessions of receiving stolen goods, and
sentenced to two years imprieenment in Brixton House
of Correction ; that on the occasion of his trial a Mr.
Ralph Games was employed as his solicitor •, and that,
subsequently to his conviction, she sent for the prisoner,
who she was led to believe was was an attorney usually
employed in defending prisoners at the police courts and
sessions. She exhibited the papers relating to her
'husband's case to the prisoner, and, after perusing them,
he remarked that Mr. Games had managed her hus-
band's business in a scandalous manner, and added,
that if she gave him (the prisoner) two sovereigns, he
would obtain his release from gaol with as little delay
as possible. She handed him a sovereign, he promising
to draw up a petition to the Home Secretary on the
subject. He then went away, but returned the same
day, and told her that he bad had an interview with
three barristers, to whom he represented the facts con-
cerning her husband's case, and that they advised that
a writ should be preferred against Mr. Games for the
manner in which he had acted in her husband's de-
fence, adding, that the expenses attending the process
would be 10s. 6d. She accordingly paid him that sum,
for which he gars his receipt (produced), and on sub-
sequent occasions the prisoner called upon her again and
induced her to advance him other sums of money, for
the purpose, as he asserted, of filing a declaration and
adopting other proceedings against Mr. Games ; and, in
order to obtain money from her, he informed her that
if she did not proceed in the business after the writ had
been served upon Mr. Games, judgment would go by
default, and the latter person would bo in a position
to seize upon her goods. At a subsequent interview the
prisoner said that it was necessary for complainant to
appear at the Rolls' Court, in order to make her affidavit
in tha action, and that then she would be in a situation
to make a seizure on Mr.-Games's goods, unless he con-
sented to Ray back the money he had obtained in such
an unscrupulous manner while conducting her husband's
defence at the sessions. She accordingly accompanied
the prisoner and another man to some court in Chancery-
lane, and on that occasion he demanded of her 55., and
a further sum of 2s. for the stranger, wham he raid he
had brought to witness the transaction. lle also asserted
that Mr. Games, upon being appr;sed of the proceedings
that were taken against him, had made an offer of
restitution, if the complainant consented to forego
further proceedings. He (the prisoner) called on
her again, and exacted a further sum of 11. 55.,
to complete the petition Fpraying for her husband's
release, but this sum she refused, and tinder the
supposition that she had been defrauded of the previous
sums of money she advanced to the prisoner, she set
about an inquiry, and ascertained that he had neither
sent in a petition, nor had be adopted any proceedings
whatever against Mr. Games. The complainant added,
that sinee her husband's incarceration in gaol she was
much reduced in circumstances, and, in order to raise
the money for the prisoners she was compelled to pledge
various articles ; a fact of which he was aware at the
time.
Mr. Hill, a solicitor, gave evidence of his having
searched the lists for November and December at the
Writ-office, Queen's Bench, and that there was no pro-
cess filed by the
_prisoner against Mr. Games, as had
been asserted by. the former in his statement to the
complainant.
The complainant's daughter handed in a paper, which
she received from the prisoner, and which purported to
be a writ of inquiry for damages, addressed to Mr.
Games.

Mr. Roberts, who conducted the case against the pri-
soner, said that there were other cases of a similar
description against him, and that it would be necessary
to remand him, in order to have the attendance of
persons interest-A.7.
•
The prisoner said that that was whatife wanted, with
a view to have the prof: ssional assistance of a barrister;
and that it would be found Ile had faithfully performed
the business he bad undertaken.
The prisoner WAS then remanded until Wednesday.
CLERKENWELL.

George IVillmt,i',;llolad been remanded several
times on the attempt to murder Susannah Haines, at a
cottage in Paradise-terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington,
was again brought up yesterday morning for final exa-
mination. Mrs. Raines being now fortunately out of
danger, although in such a state of debility as to be
scarcely able to 'ewe her room.
The evidence ot the injured woman's husband, and of
the police and others, was again taken at length, and
several new points elicited; the most important were,
that for the purpose of fixing the identity of the prisoner
as being on the promises, the constable produced a hat
which had been found near Mrs. Haines's cottage, and
that the prisoner had frequently exclaimed, when asked
what his motives could be for making such a murderous
attack upon a woman with whom he had been always
on the most friendly terms—" She knows the reason
herself, I. did it for to have revenge and satisfaction;"
and also that he said to the husband, " I intended doing
this the night before, and would have done so most
assuredly had you not come home so soon." The evi-
dence of the surgeon who attended her was taken at
considerable length, and it appeared from it that Alre.
Haines had received no less than five incised wounds,
as well as several wounds on the head, and further that
for a considerable time after the injuries had been in
flicted he entertained serious apprehensions of her death.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said
he should reserve it for the present, and complained
that he was unable to procure professional assistance;
and that if sent for trial at the present sessions at the
Old Bailey, he would labour under the same disadvan
tage. He maintained the utmost apparent indifference
during the whole of the investigation, and showed con-
siderable tact in cross-examining the witnesses.
After the depositions had been completed, the pri-
soner was again brought up, and fully committed to take
his trial at the next Central Criminal Court Sessions, on
the charge of feloniously assaulting Susannah Haines
with an intent to murder her.

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS

MURDER IN FRANCE.

We ment-oned a few days back the murder of two
young girls at Albi, umkr very mysterious circum-
stances. The perpetrator of this crime has since been
discovered by a curious chain of circumstantial evidence.
It appears tli t in the chamber of one of the girls was
found a shirt stained with blood. It was by nasens of
this slight indication that the Isw-officers of the Crown
have succeeded in eeming to a knowledge of the murderer.
The Procureur du Roi and the Juge d'lnstruction,
seeing this article, conceived it very likely that the mur-
derer had slept with one of the girls, and getting up in
the eight had cut her throat whilst asleep The depth
of the wound in the neck of one of them seemed to war-
rant this supposition. Be then, they supposed, entered
the room of the sister, and, after a struggle, succeeded
in cutting her, throat also. The murderer then, finding
his shirt stained with blood, came to the determination
to take it off, and in his agitation probably left it behind
him. The shirt, the Procureur du Roi remarked, was new,
never having been washed. It was not, therefore, unlikely
that it had been lately purchased, and in all probability in
the town. lie immediately summoned to his office all the
persons at Albi that sold ready-made shirts, and, sub-
mitting the article in question to them individually, in-
quired
if they could remember that they had sold it
lately, and to whom. One woman, well known in the
place for her probity and respectability, declared that
she had some recollection of having sold, a week before,
a shirt of about the texture of that produced. to a man
who appeared to have been a soldier. What made her
recollect the circumstance was, that a young workwoman,
having been employed in making the shirt, had inserted
one of the wristbands with the wrong side out, and, in
addition, had forgotten to place a second buttonhole in
front. The soldier had perceived this last-named fault,
and had got a second one made, which, being worked
by another person, was better done than the other one.
If the shirt submitted to her, the woman said, was that
of which she spoke, the tokens. just alluded to would be
easily perceptible. On examination, the marks alluded
to were all found to be exact, and there could be no
doubt that she had sold tha shirt to the murderer of the
two girls. The woman added that she recollected also
that the man bad said that he had been a drummer, and
had spoken of lodging at the astberge of a man named
Gesse. The latter being brought forward, deposed that
a man had for some short time lodged in his house,
but he did not know his name. He also declared
that the man in question had returned home ex-
ceedingly late on the night of the 27th of November,
which was the date of the murder. The question next
to be solved was, who was this man ? A workman
came forward, and stated that he had known him
for some time ; that his name was Carcasses ; that he
had been a drummer in the army, and he generally re-
sided at Puylaurens, in the department of the Tarn. A
corroborative proof of the identity of the man spoken of
with the murderer was afforded by the deposition of a
trumpeter of the 21st Light Infantry, who declared that
he had contrived to get out of barracks at half-past one,
on the night of the 27th, and had gone to the lodging of
the two girls. When he knocked, cue of them told him
that he could not enter, as the drummer, whom he bad
seen a few days before with them, was inside, and they
could not admit any one that night. The trumpeter
then withdrew. The chain of evidence appearing com-
plete, measures were then taken to arrest Carcasses,
and he was taken prisoner at Puylaurens. One of his
boots was found to be stained with blood. He had in
his possession a sum of 345 f., for which he could not
satisfactorily account, and had also in his room some
handkerchiefs bearing the initials of the girls: He was
interrogated at great length by the Procureur du Roi,
and, being unable to account fir- the manner in which he
spent the night of November 27, refused to answer any
other questions. He was then delivered over to the cus-
tody of the gendarmes, who locked him carefully up.
'They, however, were so imprudent as to leave him by
himself, in place of keeping him ccnetently in view.
Thd consequence was that, when they entered his room
in the morning, they found he harl banged himself with
a handkerchie.—Galignanes Atesseager.

Joseph Hume, E-q., M.P.; .has been named as a
candidate for Norwich, in conjunction with Mr. J. 11.
G urney.
An Irishman going to be hanged, bagged that the
rope might be tied under his arm instead of round his
neck ; for, said Pat, " I am so remarkably ticklish in
the throat, that if tied there, I will certainly kill myself
with laughing."
SAND WWII ISLANDS.—HONOLULU, JUNE 20.—A
fleet of 210 whale ships has been in at Lahaina this
spring, noel about 70 at other ports. They have all
gone to seek cargoes on the north-west of Japan. Two,
the Albion and Midas, have already returned ; the one
leaking 2,003 strokes per hour, and the other with the
loss of her tesima,ts. The Meteor, Captain Leiter,
arrived the same day in a state of mutiny, the crew
having confined the captain and officers below, under plea
of ill-treatment. The mutineers were taken out of the
ship, at the instance of the Consul, and confined in the
fort. The United States ship Shark has just been re-
paired here, at an expense of about 14,000 dollars, and
sails shortly for the Oregon. Her Britannic Majesty's
steamer Cormorant, 1,000 tons, 3 guns, arrived here a
few weeks since, and after a stay of a few days departed,
for no one knows where. It is generally. believed, how-
ever, that she left for Puget's Sound, expecting to meet
Admiral Seymour there, in the Collingwood. Reports
of fortifications and military stores have reached us
hero, us connected with the Admiral's visit to the
north. The utmost mystery is now made by
English officers of the movements of their vessels
this way. The steamer being the first that had ever
visited these islands, created a great sensation among the
native population. Just previous to the high duties
upon wines and spirits, enough of both were imported
under the present scale to have produced 50,000 dollars
duties. Since then, 10,000 dollars on spirits alone have
been received in bond at the Custom-house. The influx
of goods here from all quarters continuss to increase,
but not the means of paying for them. Retail prices,,
on many descriptions of goods, are becoming less.ihan:
in America. Hawaian registers are in great request Poi;
vessels iteCalifornia, to prevent accidents in case of 'kart
between. Mexico and the United States, or in the event;
of England's making a sudden swoop upon our marine.'
One Mexican, one American, and one English have al-
ready been put under this flag, by changing
.owners, at
this port. The Mexicans . treat it with much respect.
Commander Stockton,. United States. 'ship- Congress,
arrived on the 9th instant,- thirty-one days fiorn Callao.
He immediately landed his prssengei.s; the new Com-
missioner and Consul, with their-families, *lib were re-
ceived with much pleasure by 'parties. Commander
Stockton placed himself at once above the contemptible
local squabbles of the place, treated the Government
with the utmost courtesy, and speedily arranged matters
on an amicable, footing for. the new officials.—Boston
(United States) Atlas.
Jean Lussac, living as- out-servant with Mme.
Laroze, at St. Andre -du-Bois; near Toulouse, under-
standing that his mistress- had :received 600 f. for some
wine which she had sold, persuaded a man, named
Jean Sudreau, to become his accomplice in rubbing
the house of that sum. On an appointed night they
met, and Lussac undertook to enter the house
'whilst the other , kept watch outride. A few
moments after Lussac went in Sudreau heard piercing
cries, and then all was silent. Lussac soon came •
out, bringing with him the money, which Sudreau
and he divided equally. The next morning Lussac
went to the neighbours, and declared' that having, as
usual, gone to his work, he found the door of his mis
tress's house open, and, on his going in, discovered that
she and the servant-girl were lying in theirl beds bathed
in blood, the skulls of both being fractured. The gen-
darmerie being informed of what had taken place, a
minute examination of the premises ensued, and the
prints of a shoe being plainly 'perm ivied on the floor, and
something in Lussac's manner being remarked as sus-
picious, his shoo was applied to the. mark on the floor,
and found to fit exactly: Lussac was arrested, and as

Sudrean was known to intimate with him, hews also

•
tdcen up. Being pressed hard with questions, he at last
confessed his participation in the crime, declaring Lussac
t) have been the principal. It was afterwards discovered
that it was with the coulter of a plough that the two un-
fortunate women were struck. They still survived, and

the servant was expected to recover.—Paris paper.
PEDESTRIANISM. SEWARD AND WESTHALL'S
RACE.—The race for .50 sovs. a side, between Charks

,Vesthall (of London) and George Seward, en :Ted on
Monday in a disappointment. The hour fixed for the
start was two o'clock, at which time Westhall had not,
shown a head at the appointed spot (Frank Key's,
Gannick-corner, near Barnet.) At a few minutes after,
Seward paced over the ground without a competitor,
ep orr
and claimed. The articles were scanned, but re was
no provision for a forfeit as to time, and they
.merely
stated that the 1001. deposited was only to b.e given up
when fairly won or lost by a race. At At half past two
his cause of de-
Westhall arrived, pleading icy roads
and was, it was stated, in
tention. Seward had retired,
bed. He also went over the ;ground
ewithoutcialtusna rfeaotnr
pleadingscotop-
ponent; and eventually, after sundry
shAoullid bets the referee decided that the meenk
stakes on Tuesday (this day)
sequently, off, unless otherwise declared.
AlAcPuEttsON. This gen.DEATII OF THE ABBE
tleman died at Rome lately, aged eighty-eight. He was
for tnany years rector of the Scotch College on the
Quirinal!-hill. The most remarkable passage in his
varied career was when he was selected by the British
Government, in 1797, as their agent in one of the
boid_st moves on the European chess-board ever
imagined, and yet scarcely known to the historian of the
perm, •' d In that year the British Cabinet received a
suggestion as to the practicability of rescuing from the
gripe of France and placing under the protection of Eng-
land the person of Pope Pius VI., then a prisoner in the
maritime town of Savona, on the Genoese coast. An'
English frigate was ordered to cruise off the land, and
the Abbe was sent from London atith ample funds to
accomplish the object. It would have been successful in
every arrangement had not a communication been made
by parties in the pay of the Directory from the neigh-
bourhood of Downing-street, disclosing the plan to our
friend in Paris. Macpherson was arrested and plundered
on the frontier, and Pius diol in the interior of France,
whither he was instantly removed. Up to his death the
Abby ha•l a liberal pensiqn from the papal treasury.--
Edinburgh Express.
CaAcoW.—The Jews of Cracow, says a letter
from that place, of the Ist instant, were not, befare the
incorporation, burdened with taxes so heavily as the
Jews of Galicia, but now they have imposed upon them
a tax upon light, for they are made to pay a considerable
duty upon every candle lighted on Fridays, in celebra-
tion of their Sabbath; they are also to pay three times
the amount of the tax upon meat paid by Christians.
The rabbi of Cracow has had an audience of the Aus-
trian Commissioner, and petitioned that the Israelites
might be released from these charges; but the Commis-
sioner replied, that it would be difficult to grant his
application, as Cracow now forms part of Galicia, and
partial exceptions and privileges cannot be accorded.

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