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evidence was false. Shari e said it was exaggerated. IRELAND.
Mr. HENRY C2MMittt d them both for trial on this . DUBLIN, JUNE S.—FAILURE IN DUBLIN.—One of the
charge, but said he wool I admit them to bail in two oldest and most extensive mercantile houses in Dublin,
sureties, each of Ha, and their own recognizance: of that of Thomas Murray and Sons, Pill-lane, has stopped
2001. payment. The liabilities amount to upwards of 150,0004
Williams, it may be well to observe, is a baker, and A citr attachment was this day obtained against the firma
Sharpe a copperplate-priater, but unemployed. for 20,000/.,. at the suit of the Royal Bank.
They were defended by Mr. Davis, a solicitor.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual—and, we believe,
The case excited great interest, and the court was we may add the last—meeting of the Repeal Associa-
much crowded. tion, was held' this day at Conciliation Hall ; Dr.
Joseph Fussell was then placed in the dock chargsel M'Keown in the chair. The proceedings were of inte-
with attending an unlawful meeting. rest, seeing that it was announced by the leader, Mr.
Mr. Frederick Town Fowler, a reporter, attended a John O'Connell, that the' committee had come to the
meeting held about seven o'clock on the 29th of May determination of dissolving the Association. It was
last, at Clerkenwell green. Should think there were evident, he said, that the body did not possess the con-
about 3,000 persons present. Williams addressed the fidence of the people; evident from the fact of the rent
meeting first. The prisoner was there, and he for last week amounting to the small sum of 12/. It was
made a speech. Witness took some notes of also evident that the Confederation did not possess the
his speech. He said " I will tell Lord John Rus- confidence of the people, and therefore it was proposed
sell that I have no sympathy with his damnable to dissolve both, and on their ruins erect such an Asso-
Government. John Mitchel had asked whether the ciation as would meet the approval of all sections of
Queen had not forgotten her duty to her country? I Repeaters in Ireland.
now ask the same question. If the Queen refuses to re- The rent for the week amounted to 13/. Os. Id.
cognize the people, then the people must cease to recog- THE VICEROY AND THE MILITARY. The
nine the Queen." The witness then proceeded to read Limerick Chronicle complains that the Lord-Lieu-
from other extracts—,. That the Government was too tenant omitted the usual dinner to the command •
contemptible to be recognized, and they therefore must ing officers o
the
fregimenfritsaiiin
of
fubtbliins oenvethneing Queen's
observes:—
birth-
overthrow it. There was one safe way to get rid day, on which
of those rulers who disobeyed the people—he " The military certainly are not great favourites at the
meant assassination. He had fivo sons, and he would Viceregal Court ; and if what we hear be true of the
disown either of them who would refuse to assassinate treatment which the officers receive who are on duty in
any one who who was instrumental in banishing him the park, they have just cause for complaint. Their
from his country, for such an offence as that of John comforts are altogether unattended to, the quarters
Mitchel." Alter that Williams desired them to follow which they occupy are filthy in the extreme, and as for
him in marching order, and they then moved off in pro- courtesy or attention on the part of the Viceroy, that
cession. is a circumstance altogether overlooked."
Finding that Mr. Williams was implicated in this MILITARY AFFRAY.—On Saturday evening the neigh-
matter also, Mr. Henry ordered him to bo placed at the bourhood of Usher's-quay was somewhat disturbed by a
bar with the prisoner Fussell. conflict which took place between some soldiers of the
'I he witness thin proceeded to say that the procession 31st and 55th Regiments. From all that could be
moved off and went through several streets to Old-street, learned it seemed that they were drinking in a public-
where Williams again addressed them. The witness house on the quay, and one of the 31st having said
went on to describe the course of the procession over a that Mitchel should come back, or something to that
great part of the town during that evening, of which a effect, a 55th man expressed his contempt for
long account was at the time published in our columns. what had been said, and the result was a row, in which
Cross-exatained—Was sent for on Monday last by the 55th were getting the worst of it when the picquet
Mr. Maule, the solicitor to the Treasury, with whom he came round, and the combatants then decamped. There
had some conversatiou on this subject. At his sugges- were forty or fifty soldiers engaged in the scuffle, but
Lion, Mr. Potter, the gentleman who furnished the report the weapons employed were of ano more serious charac-
to the Morning Chronicle, was also sent for by Mr. ter than their cross-belts and fists. Last evening, at
Maule. They had been together during the whole of from eight to ten o'clock, or thereabouts, there was a
the day in question, but did not compare their notes. renewal of the scene in Barrack-street and in its neigh.
Witness attended for the Times, in which paper his report bourhood, in which some of the 49th and another regi-
ment were said to have been mixed up. The soldiers
appeared the next day.
Policeman G 192 arrested Fussell at his house in the fought in different places, and made their escape when-
Corporation-road this morning, on a warrant, charging ever the picquet appeared„ to recommence hostilities at
him with attending an unlawful meeting. some ether corner of the street. The cause of the di-
Mr. HENRY in committing the prisoners for trial ob- vision all through related to "Repeal" or "Mitchel,"
served that he must require extra bail from Williams the 31st being Tipperary boys, while the 55th are an
on this case, as he was now charged with attending an English regiment. The combatants were followed b 7
illegal meeting, and using seditious language, on a third crowds, and in some instances it was said that the civi-
occasion. He must give bail in two sureties of 1001. each, liens stimulated them, but in one case they certainly ad-
and his own recognizance of 2004 on this case also. The vised the soldiers to go home. Nothing of a more
offence was a very serious one, that of heading a pro- serious character than what is above described occurred,
cession at night. As for Fussell he must find bail iii two and the disturbances might be more properly called
surmetri.espoafvilsr
01n. each and
aarntdohfimrs oiwilinanirecognizance of 3001. scuffles than anything else. ,
Mr. HENRY—I have taken into account was an immense sum for a Mitchel's furniture took place at his late
poor man! observed v
bothed t htahtelpo
r0i1...
residence,
e sAi
duecnTeseo, NOr MR. MITC.HEL. S FURNITURE.—The auc-
tion of Mr.
Ontario-terrace, this day. There was a large
goner's station in lice and the importance of the charge. concourse of persons, principally ladies, present;.s there
.
If you consider the bail excessive,_ you can apply to a was great competition, and most• .of the articles brought
Judge to take less. I cannot do so. prices much beyond their intrinsic value. Amongst the
Mr. Maule, the Solicitor for the Treasury, who prose- articles sold was Mr. Mitchel's pike, made according to
to be brought before the Court, but was soother United
the wanes
other charge the pattern recommended in thelrishman. .
not at present in attendance. As
brought forward the prisoner wouldw abeashrtohueyghestoensbiewfeerree
Napier The Astmspphiitohneafdri.gate, after a long stay on this station,
his Worship. This case had not been heard up
to
dthbee left Kingstown harbour this morning, to join Sir Charles
time we went to press. Nothing could be more gratifying than the accounts of
the crops from all parts of the country.

BRAZILS.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 25.—Review of the Mar-
kets from the 14th to the 22d April.—Never within our
experience has business been so restricted as during the
period we are passing in review, nor can any material
improvement be looked for, until more decisive informa-
tion be received as to the consequences of the French
Revolution. The possibility of war in Europe, and the
uncertainty as to the value of Brazil produce in foreign
markets, have paralysed business. Confidence has like-
wise sustained a severe shock by the announcement of a
considerable failure, which it is only necessary here to
state that the bona fide debts are estimated at from
110,0001. to 140,0001. sterling.

TER WEST INDIA COMMAND.—Admiral of the Blue,
Sir Francis William Austin, K.C.8., arrived at Ports-
mouth in the Vindictive, 50 gun frigate, yesterday morn-
ing, having been relieved of the chief command on the
West Indian and North American station, by Vice-
Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, in the Wellesley, 72
guns. The Vindictive brought a mail from Bermuda to
the 16th ult. She will now be put out of commission.
ANNUAL INSPECTION OF THE ROYAL MARINES.--
The Deputy-Adjutant-General John Owen, &H., com-
menced his inspection of the Portsmouth division yes-
terday morning.
The apprentices of Sheerness Dockyard have pre-
sented their late schoolmaster, Mr. John Drew, with •
handsome and costly silver snuff-box, as a testimonial' of
their appreciation of the talents and conduct of that gen-
tleman as their instructor.
The entrance to the basin at Sheerness was so far
completed on Saturday as to admit of the caisson being
used. The Wellington, 72 guns, Captain Price, was
taken in and masted, the last masts the old sheen will
be employed to fit, the new sheers being ready.
WOOLWICH, JUNE 6.—lt is gratifying to be able to
state that Captain Chads, of the Styx steam-vessel,
is much better to-day, having rallied yesterday evening.
Two of his ribs are broken, but it is hoped he has not
sustained other material internal injury, which was at
first apprehended. Commodore Chads arrived at
Woolwich yesterday afternoon from Portsmouth, and
on the same evening the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty promoted Commander Chads to be captain.
The Caradoc steam-vessel for the mail-packet service
left Woolwic this afternoon, for Greenbithe, to have
her compasses adjusted, and will then proceed to her
station at, Holyhead.
The En-ol.Aer steam-frigate is ordered to be jury•
rigged and taken round to Portsmouth, where she will
be commissioned and made ready for sea.
The Termagant steam-frigate is to be taken to Sheer-
ness to be fitted for see.

IMPORTS.

The arrivals with merchandi.•e are limited to one ves-
sel with coals ;Zone, fish oil ; one, bides ; two, :junked
beef, &c.; and one with tallow.
The market is very bare, and of some articles we are
without any stock of goods, and the movement of the
market has been limited to the following:—
Coals—Arrived 106 tons small, upon order.
Coffee bagging—Sold 400 pieces, at 245 rs. per yard.
Deals-250 dozen, received coastwise, sold at 24 dolls.
per dozen.
Flour—Shipped coastwise 470 barrels; stock in first
hands, 9,000; ditto in second hands, 18,300.
Lead—Sold 1,200 bars, at 14 dolls. per qtl.
Linseed Oil—Sold 11,0001b5., at 240 reis per lb.
Salt—Sold 5.200 alqueries, at 600 reis.
Shot—Sold 208 kegs Spanish, at 18 dolls. per qtl.
EXPORTS.

Coffee—Prices have declined considerably; but even
at the reduction scarcely any inquiry prevails, the sales
not having exceeded 10,000 bags, and the unsold stack
being estimated at not less than 140,000 bags. Ex-
ported-4,266 bags to Abo; 2,435, Antwerp; 73,
Azores; 3,325, Baltimore; 2,000, Copenhagen; 9,434,
Falmouth; 3,768 Havre; in all from the 14th to 22.1
25,321 bags. Shipped since the Ist inst., 70,795.
Sugai—lnsignificant arrivals, and sales limited to
various small lots for consumption. Exported-1 case
to Atrica and 68 cases to tbe3Azores.
Hides—Arrived 987 from Rio Grande; 3,697 from
the River Plate. Nothing done, and quotations entirely
nomimal.

The Scharkies E,,zyptian 50-gun :frigate passed Wool-
wich yesterday afternoon, on her way to the East India
I.),:cics at BlackNall, where she is to be fitted with en-
gines by Messrs. Miller and Ravenhill, for a screw pro-
peller.
CHATHAM, JUNE 6.—The Nerhudds, 12-gun brig,
Commander C. Peirse, was towed into this Harbour
yesterday by the Fearless steam vessel, to be paid
off. The Fearless also brought seamen, gunners, and
men for the service of the Hanger, now fitting for sea.
This morning the Princess Royal steam-boat landed
at the Sun pier at Chatham a detachment of the 72d
Duko of Albany's Own Highlanders, consisting of one
captain, one subaltern, and fifty men, which sho brought
from Sheerness. This detachment is to proceed to Har-
wich, to relieve a detachment of the Provisional Bat-
talion, which is for this garrison.
PEMIIROKE, MONDAY, JUNE 4.—At high water OA
Friday evening last another noble-looking vessel, pierced
for SO guns, was added to her Majesty's naval forces
by the launch of the Colossus, from the Government
Dockyard. Her dimensions, it appeared, were—ex-
treme length over all, 227 feet ; length between perpen-
diculars, 190 feet ; length of keel for tonnage, 153 feet
5 inches ; breadth, extreme,
_57 feet ; breadth of ton-

Jerked Beef—Stock estimated at fully 80,000 arrobqs.
Freights—Our list shows but few disposable vessels
in pot t; the extreme rates paid have been 70e. to SOc.
to a port direct, and 75c. to 85(.. to the channel for
orders.

MONEY MARKET.
Discounts rule at 7i per cent.
Exchange—Business unimportant at 25i to i upon
London until 17th, when bills were passed at 25; the
market has since evinced more firmness, without any
transactions having been reported. Trifles have been
taken upon Hamburgh at G7O to 680. Stock—Both de-
scriptions fell 3 per cent. from 13th to 15th, but a better
Meting has since prevailed. Specie—The transactions
hove been extensive in doubloons at 30 dolly. 500 c. to
31 dolls.; in Old Ports at 17 dolls. 500 c. and in silver
at 101. The market has since received a supply of
doubloons from Rio Grande, and all descriptions have
declined. Shares—Stearn packets have been sold at 260
dolls. and 270 dolls.

Arrivals—Anna Margaretha, with wills from New-
castle; hermitage and Juramenta, in ballast; Aurora
and Uni, with hides from River Plate ; Tsar, from
Boston.—Rio Mercantile Journal, April 25.

num 56 feet 4 inches; depth in hold, 23 feet 4 inches ;
burthe• .n tonnage, 2,589 64-94th5. It ie expected she
will bt, taken into dock, and be immediately fitted out for
actual service.

_ -
We have reason to believe that Count de Mirasol,
who was sent on a special mission by the Spanish Go-
vernment to this country, with the object of furthering
the maintenance of amicable and friendly relations be-
tween the two nations, is on the point of returning to
Madrid.

The Rev. Robert Montgomery, M.A., minister of
Percy Chapel, made a most powerful and eloquent ap-
peal on behalf of the Lsngbourn Ward Charity Schools,
at
,the church of St. I)ionis Backchurch, Fenchurch-
street, on Sunday morning last, to a most respectable
and crowded congregation. His text was from the 2d
Epistle to Timothy, 3d chap., 15th verse. A liberal
amount was collected.

ALLEGED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRISTOL.

On Itionday the bodies of Maria, Edward, and John
Hill, mother and children, were exhumed for the fur-
pose of being submitted to an examination, rendered
necessary under the following circumstances:—ln Octo-
ber last the wife of Mr. Thomas Wellington Hill, a
retired builder of Bristo!, died somewhat suddenly, and
her death was followed in a short time afterwards by
the decease of two of her children. No suspicion was
attached to any party at the time of the death of Mrs.
Hill, and not until application was made by the hus-
band for the amount of a policy effected upon the life
of the wife in the National Loan Fund Assurance
Society. As the policy was to a large amount, 3,0001.,
and was only effected four months previous to the death
of the insured, the parties in the insurance-office
disputed payment, and caused inquiries to be made
respecting the death of the wife, and it was dis-
covered that her illness had been attended by vomit-
ing. Mr. Hill having threatened the insurance society
with an action, they caused the body of the wife and
also the bodies of the children to be disinterred, and the
intestines given to Mr. Herapath, the celebrated chemist,
for analyzestion. During the time the bodies wire being
disinterred the suspected party committed suicide by
means cif essential oil of almonds which he had pro-
cured—a portion himself and another portion by means
of a sister—from two druggists' shops. Mr. Ilill wrote
a note previous to taking the poison. in which he said,
in disconnected sentences, that "his head suffered
severely from mental distraction. His mind was bowed
down by the attempt of a powerful party to crush him.
He was not guilty of the atrocious charge," &c. An in-
quest was held upon the body on Monday evening, when
a verdict of " Temporary Insanity " was returned. The
inquiry respecting the death of Mrs. Hill and her chil-
dren will be resumed on Friday.
RAGGED SCHOOLS.—Last evening a public meet-
ing was held in the Crown-court School-room in behalf
of the ragged schools recently established in Brewer's-
court, Great Wild-street, Drury-lane. Lord Kinnaird
having taken the chair, the secretary read the report.
The building in which the school was held was the gift
of a benevolent gentleman desirous to improve the con-
dition of the poor children of the neikhbourhootl.
Owing to the want of sufileent funds the committee could
make provision for none but boys, 150 of whom had
been admitted. The state of the poor in Great Wild-
street might.be judged of from the following statistics:—
In 155 houses were found 700 families, containing 1,500
souls : of these 309 could not, read, 350 were without
the Scriptures, 1,150 attended no place of worship, oily'
12 were communicants, 640 children were capable of
going to school, and only 150 went occasionally.
NEW REFORM MOVEMENT. KINGSTON• ON -
THAMES, JUNE 3.—A deputation from Mr. Joseph
Flume and other Members in favour of the New Reform
Movement waited on several of the leading Whigs of
this borough, on Tuesday and Friday last, to arrange
measures to call a public meeting to further their views,
and reports are current that such will be called the week
after next, several well-known reformers having pledged
themselves to the deputation to that effect.
Lady Giles Puller left town yesterday, for her resi-
dence, Yoaugsbury Herts.