The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

ON 11IE FOOD RIOTS.

Tha following address, proposed by Mr. John O'Con-
nell, M.P., at the instance of the Repeal Association, has
been printed, with a view to circulation in all parts of
the country :

ADDRESS OF THE LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION
OF IRELAND TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.

" Fellow Countrymen,—Not until the calamity of
famine was aggravated by bloodshed have we ventured
to address you.
" We know your sufferings—our hearts bleed with
yours ; we dreaded to speak, lest reasoning and advice
should sound to you as mockery of your misery !
" But now, that blood has been spilt— now that our
hearts are dying within us at the thought that this may
be but the beginning of the horrors we are doomed to
witness, we can no longer—we dare no longer—refrain
om crying out to you, in God's name, to be patient—
be patient yet awhile, and relief you shall assuredly
have. _ _ _ _ _

" The Government are doing all that in them lies to
supply for this most sudden and utter destruction of
your food. Your landlords are exerting themselves to
procure you employment. Every one is thinking of
your miseries in the sincerest anxiety to relieve them.
" For God's sake—for your country's sake—for your
own sakes, restrain yourselves. Break not the law—
commit not violence--•plunge not into crime—bring not
the worst wretchedness upon your helpless families, by
bringing death upon yourselvea
" If, in the madness of your sufferings, you shall be
tempted to spurn at our supplications, yet remember that
what we seek to urge upon you is but what your religion
teaches and Commands—PATIENCE, PEACE, AVOIDANCE
OY CRIME, CONFIDENCE IN ALMIGHTY GOD, AND RESIG-
NATION TO HIS HOLY WILL.

`" The darkest hour is that before the day ;' and we
are at this moment in that dark hour which is to precede
the near and glorious sunrise of freedom and happiness
and prosperity upon this long afflicted land !
"It is impossible we can ever return to the state of
things in which we have been. It is impossible that our
people can ever again be screwed down to the lowest point
in the scale of existence. They MUST be given their
proper place in the social scale. They must be allowed
to enjoy the profits of their labour. They must have
their hard-earned rents spent in the country. They must
have the wasting drains from the country effectually
stopped, and its money capital kept at home to vivify, as
a fresh and abounding stream, the exhausted and dried-
up industrial enterprise of the land.
"For England's own sake this must be done, else must
she be prepared to take, in permanency upon herself, the
support of our population—to see her coffers drained of
the last shilling, and total bankruptcy brought upon the
empire.

"; PEACE ORDER —PATIENCE CONFIDENCE IN
HEAVEN, and all will yet be well. Meantime be of this
assured, beloved countrymen, that while we thus venture
to exhort you—we with equal earnestness will cry out
again and again to the Government, to continue, and, if
possible, increase the efforts to give you FOOD.
" Patience tLen, in the name of your country, and in
the most adorable name of God !"
(Signed)

" JOHN O'CONNELL,
" Chairman of the Committee.
" Corn Exchange, Oct. 2, 1846."

TROOPS FOR THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS.
The Duke of Cambridge steamer, which left this city
on Thursday evening, with fuur companies of the 47th
Regiment for Dungarvan, has just returned. The
steamer, not being able to make Dungarvan, put into
Youghal, and landed the troops there. All was trail.
quil in Youghal and the neighbouring districts when
the steamer left yesterday, and the accounts from Dun-
garvan were peaceable. The four companies of the 47th
marched at once for Dungarvan.

PROPOSED MEETING OF LANDLORDS IN

DUBLIN.

The letter of Mr. R. Osborne, M.P., which we noticed
on Ihursday, urged the adoption of Mr. O'Connell's
suggestion, for an immediate assemblage of the landed
proprietors of Ireland in Dublin, to consult upon mea-
sures suited to the present emergency.
It will be
.perceived by the following documents that
a somewhat similar project has been taken up by land-
lords connected with ♦arious counties:—
" TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LUCAN.
"DUBLIN, SEPT. 26, 1846.—We, the undersigned,
request that you will allow your name to be affixed to
the following requisition, and to din ct your answer to
Charles William Hamilton, Esq., 41, Upper Sackville-
street, Dublin:—

" Michael Dillon Bellew, Bt. David Roche, Bart.

Wm. Blayney Wade Wm. Monsen
Robert Archbold, M.P. Charles Doyne
Thomas Seymour Win. Jones Armstrong
Robert Bowen Chas. Win. Hamilton
Thomas R. Hardy Wm. Owen
Richard A. O'Donnell, Bt. H. B. Cuddington.
' REQUISITION.

" We, the undersigned, request a meeting of the
landowners of Ireland, to be held in Dublin, on the

(lay of next, to press upon her Majesty's Go-
vernment the importance of at once summoning Par-
liament, in order that the provisions of the Act entitled
the 9th and 10th Vic., chap. 107. may be altered. so
as to allow the vast sums of money about to be raised
by the presentments under it to be applied to the de-
velopment of the resources of the land, rather than
in public works of an unproductive nature.
Signature and address to be attached hereto, and re-
turned."

" REPLY.

" Castlebar, Oct. 1, 1846.
" Sir,—l am of opinion that Parliament must be
called together at the earliest possible day-, which I
have expressed to her Majesty's Government, or I am
convinced the country is lost.
" I will join in auy address to the Queen to that
effect, but I cannot sign the requisition IbrwardEd to
me, as I totally disapprove of stating that Parliament
should be convened solely to consider an Act of Parlia-
ment, however mischievous, as the one mentioned most
undoubtedly is.
" Parliament should, and must be, at once assembled,
to consider the frightful state of Ireland, to provide
for the present emergencies, and and to legislate against
a continuance, or a recurrence, of so severe a calamity
as that with which we are afflicted.

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In Youghal the greatest order and decorum exist,
and the town is placarded with handbills calling on the
people to maintain peace and order, and promising that
adequate employment will be provided for them; also
informing them that large imports of Indian corn are
daily Expected from America, which, on arrival, will
have a depressing influence on the markets. Between
Youghal and Killeagh several new roads have already
been struck out, and hundreds of labourers are active ly
employed thereon, so that affairs wear a more cheering
aspect than at the commencement of last week. Indian
meal still maintains a very high Twice, being Is. 101
per stone in Dungarvan.--Cork Reporter.
The Ballyshannon Herald contains the following par-
ticulars of the disturbance in Sligo:—
"We have this morning received a communication
from our Sligo correspondent, which gives a frightful
account of the state of that town; he states that on
Monday last a vast crowd of the peasantry assembled in
town, and walked through the streets in a menacing
manner. As a large quantity of cakes was conveying
to a shop of Mr. Martin's, they were rushed on and
speedily devoured. They then went from one baker's
shop to another, and carried off the contents of each. As
Mr. Moses Monds' bread cart was passing with bread to
his retailers, it was attacked and speedily emptied.
Several provision stores were also plundered. On Tues-
day they again paraded the streets with a long pole, and
a loaf suspended from it—they took some bread, &c.--
and separated early. On Wednesday they again assem-
bled, but the mayor had arrangements made to prevent
outrage, and they peacefully dispersed. The landed
proprietors are using every effort to give employment to
the working classes; and many of those who assembled
as if wanting work have constant employment if they
choose to work, but they prefer plunder to industry.
How such things will end no one can tell."
Respecting the county of Cavan, the Ang!o- Celt, a
Conservative paper, contains the following:—
" There is too large a number, we regret to think, of
outcasts from society, who, under the cognomen of Molly
Maguires,' assume a power over a misguided portion of
the peasantry, which enables them, through the sym -
'lathy of some and the fear of others, to perpetrate their
crimes with impunity. These itinerant ruffi -ins make
the existing distress en excuse for their acts of violence ;
and although we can pcsitively state that their illegal
conduct is not by any means the result of the lamentable
!sufferings of the poor, but, on the contrary, of their own
depravity, we fear that unless vigorous measures be at
once resorted to, their depredations will become so nu-
merous and daring as to assume an insurrectionary cha-
racter. The police shoe ld at present be particularly
vigilant at fairs, markets, &.e..,as the fact that the otll‘nc,s
we complain or are generally perpetrated immediately
subsequeet to such gatherings leads us to think that they
are oftenest concocted there. The best possible proco
(if, indeed, proof were wanting) that the resident
peasantry of this c:ainty do not participate in these
offence; is to be found in the accounts of robberies,
wherein it is clearly evident that it is the poorer class
themselves who are the sufferers."
STATE OF TIPPERARY.
The Tipperary Vindicator of this day contains the
following

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that the I...ceti gentry, ley and clerical of every denomina-
tion, were i❑ emulation to serve the people, and bad
memorialisrd the Government for a baronial sessions,
although from the great pressure of similar applica-
tions at the Castle, his Excellency, as it was stated
in reply, was obliged to postpone complying with the
prayer of it for a fear days. Mr. Little continued to
say that he was the Government magistrate, and
would make an official retire-entatien of their extreme
destitutio-i as well as their very creditable and orderly
demeanour, with which he was highly gratified. The
gentlemen around him al.() han written to the Lord-Lieu
tenant for two hundred pounds for each parish in their
district, which if granted would enable them to give em
ployment in the interim. A guardian informed him of
the intention en the next beard day to adopt a resolution
to give those in extreme distress foed at the workhouse
until the Government should interpose. He repeated he
was delighted to witness their patient forbearance and
good conduct, which had avoided consequences that
...mild aggravate their present miseries.
" Mr. Welply then presented himself, on whom was
rivetted each expectant eye, and after having pronounced
a high eulogium upon Mr. Little, the stipendiary magis-
trate, apprised the crowd of the various plans about to
be adopted for immediate relief; he concluded by inviting
those who suffered from hunger to his place, to which a
great number repaired, accompanied by Mr. Welply,
who was enthusiastically cheered at the conclusion of
his address.

" Just as the crowd was separating, the Rev. Mr. Lee,
who had been absent from town and returned, addressed
the congregated people, in an eloquent and feelingly
impressive manner, which confirmed the impressiol s
made by the two preceding speakers, calling upon them
to return to their respective homes quietly, and pro-
mising ere the lapse of many daya they would be restored
to comparative comfort. The reverend gentleman's in-
junction was immediately obeyed, and the town resumed
its wonted quietude.
" A party of 37 mounted soldiers, which had been dis-
patched from Ballincollig the preceding day, paraded the
streets; but so little apprehension of violence was ex-
cited, that the force was under orders to return the suc-
ceeding morning, to be replaced, if circumstances should
render it necessary, by a body of infantry."
DIINCARVAN, SEPT. 30.—Since Monday an organised
band of peasantry have visited the houses of many gen-
tlemen and farmers in the country, telling them that all
they required was employment, but that they would not
work under ls. 6d. per day; and on Monday night they
pulled down the houses of four farmers residing in the
neighbourhood of Cappa, who were obnoxious to them.
The rumour rife in town yesterday was that the
peasantry had gone to all the farmers' and gentlemen's
houses in search of arms, and were determined to return
to the town to take summary vengeance on the military.
However, the magistrates have taken every precaution
to preserve the peace, and another troop of Dragoonr• has
been sent for to Clonmel, whose arrival is hourly ex-
p cted. They hare also taken the precaution, that when
any large number of peasantry are seen together they
be immediately dispersed, and they will not allow a con.
c,urse of people to enter the town under any pretext.
At present everything wears a tranquil aspect, and busi-
ness has been resumed, but it is hard to tell how long it
will continue so. What makes the attack made on Lord
Stuart, at Clashmore, the more unaccountable is, that his
Lordship has lately added sixty labourers to the number
of those who have been heretofore engaged in his em-
ploy ment.
Since writing the above I have been informed that a
troop of Hussars arrived at two o'clock this morning
from Caltir, so that there is now a large disposable
force at the command of the authorities, including Cap-
tain Sibthorp's company of the it‘t Dragoons, which
were engaged in the conflict.—Two o'clock: Up to this
hour all remains tranquil, with the exception of a slight
affair got up by a number of women who assembled on the
quay, where a quantity of wheat was shipping on board
a vessel called the Anne, of Liverpool, from the stores
of Mr. J. Donnell. Having thrown the plank by which
the men entered the vessel with the corn into the sea,
they refused to permit the shipment to be proceeded
with.

" My hu►nble opinion is, that an address, very short,
and in the above general terms, should immediately pro-
ceed to her Majesty from the members of the Legislature,
and the lieutenants, deputy-lieutenants, and magistracy,
or proprietary of Irrland, as shall be preferred. This, I
consider, is an address in which every Irishman will
readily join, and one that cannot fail to secure the at-
tention and compliance of Lord John Russell and his
Cabinet.
" I shall not have it in my power to attend the pro-
posed meeting in Dublin, nor can I see how such a meet-
ing can serve any useful purpose.—l am, Sir, your most
obedient servant, " LUCAN.
" Charles William Hamilton, Esq.,

MYSTERIOUS AND AWFUL MURDER.—It is our sail
duty to record one of the mist mysterious, and at the
same time one of the most atrocious murders, of which
this county has been the theatre for a long period, and
which was perpetrated in the broad noon of Wednesday,
on the person of a singularly inoffensive man, mar Kil-
garvan, the residence of that excellent country gentle-
man, Solomon Canibie, Eq. The deceased, William
Latchford, and a man of the name of Hogan, were going
home from Kilgarvan about a quarter past twelve o'clock
at noon. Latchford had been for some years gatekeeper
at Bt lle Vue, the residence of Edward Biggs, Esq., and
he was employed also as tutor by acme of the neigh-
bouring gentry, and, in fact, was returning from giving
lessons at Kilgarvan at the usual hour, on the day he
met his dismal death at the hands of the ruthless as-
sassin. He had gone on fur some time, when Hogan
went a short way before him, and soon afterwards a man
jumped out of a lane which was near, and asked him
(Latchford) what hour of the day it was. Latchford at
once told him, and no sooner had he done so than the
villain, who asked the hour, raised with both hands a
quarter-staff or spade handle, struck it violently across
the back part of Latchford's neck, and instantly
knocked him down. When down the atrocious mis-
creant hit the prostrate poor man two other dreadful
blows across the left temple, which deprived him
of all consciousness, and at ten o'clock the
same night of life. The murderer walked off in the
most deliberate manner; no clue has been discovered as
to the cause of the snurder. Latchford was not only in
no way connected with land, but he was looked upon as
one of the most obliging and quiet individuals in thc
entire neighbourhood, and was greatly regarded by the
country people generally, as well as by the gentry. That
he could have been mistaken for an obnoxious person at
the time is scarcely probable—we do not deem it pos-
sible. It was broad noon, the sun shining strongly;
the ruffian who accosted him went quite close to his
person, and, if he had ever seen him before, could not
be mistaken as to his identity. Hence the ms stery that
pervades this most frightful crime, which has created a
deep sensation of disgust and horror far and wide.
After the inquest upwards of two hundred of the neigh-
bouring people proceeded to the house where the body
lay, and by their sobs and tears and loud lamentations
showed how deeply they deplored the cruel fate of poor
Latchford. It is sincerely to be hoped, for the sake of
humanity, that no time shall be lost in looking out fur
Jul in diseovkring tlik perpetrator of this desperate
deed of blood, which, we trust, shall soon meet with
its merite:l puni-hment. A verdict of Wilful murder
against some person unknown' was returned by the
tlty."
ATTACK ON MISS GLEESON, OF NEWTON.—An armed
party, consisting of seven or eight men, proceeded on
Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, to the residence
of Miss Gleeson, of Newton, within four miles of
Nenagh, in the direction of Portroe ; after very con-
siderable exertions they obtained an entrance into the
house, by breaking in all the windows, and then thrust-
ing in and exhibiting their firearms, which so alarmed
the inmates that a male servant of the house, and the
brother-in-law of Miss Gleeson, a man of the name of
Mara, abandoned the position they occupied
in endeavouring to keep the door closed, when the Terry
Alts immediately secured an entrance, on which they
beat Mara severely—broke every article of furniture
and dell in the house, and observed that, if " Miss Glee-
son did not deal fairly by her brother, they would kill
all when next they came." They then decamped. It
appear that Miss Gleeson and her brother, Mr. Michael
Glveson, have not been on good terms for some time in

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They then demanded his watch, which he also bauded
them, when the fellows decamped. There is but one
opinion entertained here, that if the Government do r.ct
hasten on the exfeution of public works that have been
presented for at the last sessions, and employ the people,
the laws will be set at open defiance, and property will
lose its value.

ATTACKS AT CAPPAIIIIE.—An armed party attacked
the house of a man named Dwyer, at Capparue, on
Wednesday night, and after posting sentinels on the
doors of two houses in the immediate vicinity, effected an
eLtrince ; when they searched for Dwyer, who, it seems,
has become obnoxious on account of land he has been
warned about, but nut finding him, they fired a blunder-
buss at two rren who were in the house, one of whom
they wounded in a shockkg manner, the other partially
escaping. After leaving a message for Dwyer, which it
were difficult not to understand, they went off.
IMPORTANT LETTER FROM LORD JOHN

41, Upper &Jekyllle-street."
We have learned that the circular has been altered, so
as to meet the objection of Lord Lucan, and
,of others,
who were of the same opinion as that Noble Lord.
There are thirty-four additional proclamations in the
Dublin Gazette of last night. The number of extra-
ordinary presentment sessions convened by the Lord-
Lieutenant now amount to two hundred and rhirty•:ix.
The provincial journals are again crowded with re-
ports of presenim, at session:, at which geauts have
bun liberally made.
STATE OF TILE COUNTRY.
The Cork Examiner of yesterday contains the fol-
lowing :
" MAcaoon.—Our Macroom correspondent relates
that, on Wednesday afternoon, large bodies of men,
women, and children, presenting an awful appearance of
destitution, mustered together in that town. The work
house was the first place to which they went, exhibiting
nothing bordering on tumult, notwithstanding their pri-
vations. ' Work or food,' was the cry. A. respectable
inhabitant, Mr. Welply, used all his influence to quell
any disposition to riot which appeared, with which view,
to show his sympathies for their distress, he
marched himself in their centre. Our correspondent
recognized several in the crowd whom he knew to
have been a long period without a morsel of food,
yet the multitude did not betray the least symptom of
disorder, though their frames seemed to sink from faint-
ness. Even to the flowers of the garden attached to the
workhouse no damage was done, nor to any kind of pro-
perty. The physician, who happened to be present remon-
strated with them, and pointed out the prospects of:re-
lief, after which they returned as peaceably as they en..

HE, grN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, ocT6nER 8, 18418.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
TII CAPE OF GO:)1.) HOPE.

poirrsmouTH, t icT. 3. By tl,e arriv2l of the Maria
A atue tri.th,por;, Lieutt,nant Thys, agent ; Mr. William
rnut,r, afiehoryd at:ipithead yesterday
ofterno,,u «o h vo ariv:ees fr.rn Simon's Bay 14 days
r then those laa rec,iKed (to the 21st of July) from
that port.
Her Oates arc, from Colombo, 10th of February;
Trincomalee, 12th of March; Mauritius, 22d of June;
Cape of Good Hope, August 4; St. Helena, August
20; and Ascension, August 29.

She reports affairs at the Cape to be rapidly pro-
gressing towards the restoration of tranquillity. The
arrival of tho 45th Regiment, from the River
Plate, in the Resistance troop-ship, Captain Patey, on
the lit of August, would reinforce Sir Peregrine Mait-
land most materially, and serve to relieve some of the
Burgher forces, more ez,pt cially as the 73d were &so
expected at the Cape in a week in the Apollo, from
Monte Video. The 45th were detained at Cape Town
by the Acting-Governor until clothing could be pro-
cured for them, their long absence from England and
rough work in the River Plate having made them pre-
sent a very sorry appearance. As soon as they could be
equipped they were to be sent to the frontier.
Sir Peregrine Maitland, the Governor, was on the
frontier well supported; the Kafirs had retreated before
him, but he expected to come up with them in about
forty-eight hours. .

The inhabitants of the towns and commercial districts
had recovered from their alarm, and business was pro.
grossing toward,: a healthy re-establishment. Provisions
w 4 ro also somewhat more reasonable than they were by
the last advices.

Commander Inglefield, late flag lieutenant to his
father, Rear-Admiral Inglefield, Commander-in-Chief in
the River Plate, and promoted for his gallantry in the
action of Obligado, proceeded to the Cape in the Resist-
ance, as did Commander Boyle, appointed to command
the Thunderbolt steam- sloop, vice Broke, promoted.
The intelligence from the Cape, by the Maria Soarnes,
does not confirm the report of the death of Commander
Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart., of the Helena sloop.
That officer's death was merely " reported " when the
Maria Soames left. The crew and officers of the Helena
had, however, been very ill, and but few able to do duty.
The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly, was reported to be in a
similar unfortunate state.

Rear- Admiral Dacres had summoned all his squadro❑
to join him at the Mauritius, intending to make a dis
play at Madagascar. The following are the forces thus
summoned;—The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly; the Cleo-
patra, 26, Captain Wyvil ; the Helena, 16, Commander
Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart.; the Snake, 16, Com-
mander Brown ; the Childers, 12, Commander Pitman
(which stilled on the 4th of August, en route for Sydney);
and the Thunderbolt steam-sloop, under the temporary
command of Flag-Lieutenant Belgrave, of the President,
50, Captain Stanley.
Commander Gambier, in the Sappho, 16, was left at
Simon's Bay, as senior officer.
The French had assembled a force of 1,500 troops on
an island about 180 miles north of Madagascar, prepara-
tory, it was expected, to some aggressive operations
against that island.

—There was no man-of-war at St. Helena at the above
date.

From Ascension, however, the news is good; dysen-
tery, which had so long prevailed in the island, was
rapidly declinirg; indeed, the island might be said to be
generally healthy.
The squadron on the coast of Africa was thus distri-
buted on the 29th of August:—
The Actmon, 26, Captain hfansel, senior officer, who
had arrived a few days prior from Sierra Leone and the
Gailinas; the Tortoise store and guard-ship, Com-
mander Morrell, and the Cygnet, 6, Commander Mon-
tresor (who had superseded Commander Layton), were
at Ascension; the Cygnet in such an unserviceable state
that it was expected a survey would send her to Eng-
land.

The Bittern, 16, Commander Hope, had gone to the
sonthern division of the station.
The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, was off Ka-
bends.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, ather 3.

MOSS V. SMITH.

The Wasp, 16, Commander Ussher, was hourly ex-
pected at Ascension on her way to England, to be
paid off.

- The Kingfisher, 12, Commander Horton, was at
Loango.

This was a summons under the Small i)ebts' Act to
enforce a judgment obtained in one of the sut;erior
Courts for 2/. l7s.
,6d. and costs. The p!aintilf was
leader or conductor of the band at the Kensington
Theatre, and the defendant was the manager at the
time the debt was contracted.

On the case being called on the defendant did not
appear, and the plaintiff, on being sworn, stated that, on
s;:rving the defendant with the summons, he said he did
not owe the money, and would not attend. An order of
commitment was therefore made out, but in less than an
hour the defendant appeared, and said that Mr. Moss
told him that any time between eleven and three o'clock
would do.

Mr. LEWSS, for the plaintiff, contended that the case
could not be gone into as the order had been made.
The Learned COMMIS4IONER, however, considered it
only lair if there had been any real mistake.
The defendant denied owing the debt to the plaintiff,
and said that he had paid almost all the parties in-
terested, and they were members of the band of the 2.1
Dragoon Guard.,, who had been engaged for the orchestra
of the theatre in the season of 1841; there was, how
ever, some hing due to two or three, whom he could not
find, ss. 3d. or 7s. 6d. each. After he was served with
the writ at the Opera stage door, he went to the plain-
tiff's attorney to explain that he did not owe the debt to
plaintiff, but to the band, to whom he was liable as
manager, and that he had tried to find those of the
orcht stra who belonged to the regimental band, but
they had gone from Kensington to Windsor; and the
attorney required 2/. to be paid down for costs, which being
unable to pay at the moment he was obliged to let the
case take its course. _ _ _

The Espoir, 10, Commander Hand, was off Benguela,
at which place she relieved the Cygnet.
The Favourite, 18, Commander Murray, had gone to
the River Pougas.
The Ferret, 8, Commander Sprigg, was at Sea-bar.
The Lily, 16, Commander Newton, was at the Pougas.
The Rapid, 10, Commander Galwey, was at Benguela.
The Alert, 6, Commander Ellis, was at the Galimas.
The Nimrod, 20, Commander llacres, had just pre-
viously left Cape Mount on a cruise.
The Star, 16, Commander Ilockin, was at Sestos.

The plaintiff; on being sworn, stated that he was en-
gaged to find the band at 51. ss. a-week, and at the end
of the week he got only oue-half, and was told he
should have the other on the Monday, but the house
was shut up.
The defendant said he promised to pay, when the
house opened. He did not pay the defendant for him-
self, but with the consent of the band, to divide between
them. Defendant was to have ss. a-night, and the others
engaged by him 3s. 6d. It was quite out of character
that any one else should be liable to a theatrical band
but the manager.
blr. LEWIS said it was through the lacheg of the de-
fendant that the case bad gone by default, and not been
tried.

The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Young; the
Flying Fish, 12, Commander Dyke; and the Ranger,
6, Commander Anderson, were cruising in the Bights of
Benin.

The Styx steam-sloop was healthy, and was on a
cruise under her new commander, Chads.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander West, was on a
cruise. She had lost two of her officers, the master and
gunner ; the former, Mr. Fox, from ccup de soleil, and
the latter, Mr. Davidson, fr2m imprudently remaining
in his wet clothe after being overboard.
The Rolla, 10, Commander Simpson, was at the Cape
de Verde Islands.

The plaintiff said whatever had been paid by defendant
had been paid since the action, and he (plaintiff) had no-
thing to do Ivith it.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said he could not try the
question. lie was bound to make an order.
The defendant said he had no means of paying at
present.

Mr. LEWIS said defendant was a musical teacher, and
was also engaged at the Opera at 21. a-week, and his wife
1/. 10s. The plaintiff would be content with a prospective
order, the payment to begin when the Opera seaton
commenced.

The Learned COMMISSIONER said he had not the power
to grant a prospective order. He would, however, ad-
journ the case till that time.
It was ultimately arranged that the summons should
stand open till March next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
TVORSHIP-STREE 7'.
Owen Murrell, a respectable looking man, was finally
examined upon a charge of embezzling 251. belonging to
the Skein Silk Dyers' Society, Spitaltields, he being the
secretary.

Mr. 'turner appeared for the society, and Mr. Heri-
tage for the prisoner.
The facts proved were, that in June last the commit-
tee of trustees decided on investing 25/. i❑ the Three per
Cents., and the prisoner was by vote intrusted to effect
the investment, for which purpose Mr. Arisen, the trea-
surer, paid 25/. into his hands. He afterwards intimated
that he had done as required, and was to go to the bank
at a future time for the Stock receipt ; but, suspicion
arising, he was questioned, and, instead of attending the
next meeting of the society, he sent a letter, in which
he stated that he went to the bank bona fide to invest
the money in June, but found the bank books closed for
that particular stock until the 19th of July, and being at
the time in pressing difficUlties himself, he was tempted
to make use of the money, in the hope of being able to
replace it before the required time.
Mr. Heritage attempted to set up a case of•partnership
on the part of the prisoner, but the magistrate overruled
the objection, and committed the prisoner for trial. He,
however, consented to admit him to bail.
MARYLEBONE.

The Pantaloon, 10, Commander Douglas ; the Pro-
metheus steam sloop, Commander Hay ; the Sealark, 10,
Commander Gooch ; the Wanderer, 16, Commander
Somerville ; and the Water Witch, 8, Commander
Birch, are cruising about in search of slavers.
The Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, had not ar-
rived on the station from England.

A MILITARY THlEF.—Henry Riley, a drummer be-
longing to the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Guards, was
placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a horse
and light cart, value 301., the property of Samuel At-
kinson, 12, Manchester-street, Gray's Inn-road, and
also, with stealing two military great coats.
It appeared from the evidence that, about 8 o'clock on
the evening of the 2nd instant, the prosecutor brought
a set of skittles and bowls for the detachment of
Grenadier Guards at present occupying the above-
named barracks, when the sergeant-major and Mr.
Atkinson went to the canteen, the sergeant-major to
get change, and Mr. Atkinson to receive the money.
The prisoner taking advantage of Mr. Atkinson's ab-
sence, jumped into the cart, put on Mr. Atkinson's
great coat, which was in the cart, and drove out of the
barracks at a great rate, without being noticed. At a
little after ten o'clock he was taken into custody by
police-sergeant 17, H. division, in Rosemary-lane, while
offering to sell a regimental great-coat, when, on the
sergeant searching him, he found he had three military
great coats, which he had stolen before he left the
barracks. The sergeant sent for an escort from the
Mint guard, where the prisoner was confined, and the
sergeant of police afterwards found he had been offer-
ing the horse and cart for sale. He was immediately
taken from the Mint-guard, and conveyed to the Dcii-
mark-street station-house, and a report was sent on the
following morning. (Saturday) to his comtnandieg
officer, Sir John Burgoyne, who ordered the whole case
to be brought before the civil authorities. The de-
fendant is a most notorious character,

The following officers caa.e home in the Maria
&ames Major Wortham, Royal Engineers, and
family ; Commander Inglefield, ; Commander
Laytou, P.N. ; Dr. Sloggett, late of the Penelope, in
charge of the invalids from the coast of Africa aqua.
dr‘'n ; Dr. and Mrs. Eagar and family ; Dr. and Mrs.
Byline ; Mr. Kemp, second master of the Acticon, in-
valided. She also brought 37 invalids of the 99th Light
Infantry from Ceylon, and 23 invalids from the squadron
on the coast of Africa. Four deaths occurred on the
passage home from natural causes. This is the trans-
port which encountered a severe hurricane in her pas-
sage from Colombo to the Mauritius, with part of the
90th Regiment on board, when a melancholy loss of life
among, the troops to' k place. She would have foundered
On that occasion but for the most praiseworthy exertions
of the soldiers, who completely wore out the pumps by
their exertions to keep the ship afloat.
Lieutenant V. 0. Inglefield, of the Vernon (acting),
had been appointed Third Lieutenant of the Comus, in
the Parana, vice l3rickdale, kil!ed in action.
A court-martiid is ordered to assemble to-morrow
morning, at nine o'clock, on board the Victory, to try
First Lieutenant Charles G. Crawley, of the Avenger
steam-frigate,
uponaim-fri whichforteis, according to the 29th Article of
an offence, the penalty for the convic-
tiWar, nothing short of death.
The Windermere, from Van Diemen's Land, artived
from the River yesterday, and to•day embarked Captain
Sir William Denison, Royal Engineers, the newly-ap-
pointed Governor of the above settlement, family, and
suite.

In tho absence of some important evidence, the pri-
soner was remanded until Thursday.

The Comet steam-vossel, Lieutenant-Commander
Johnston, arrived at NA ezdport, Ireland, on the 30th tilt.,
from Galway. She landed from her boats ten boxes of
sp..cie, each containing 5.00/. sterlin, to assist in the
relief of the prevailing distress.
The invalids brought by the Maria Statues were put
on hoard the Victory to day.
The Rochester navy lighter sailed yesterday for Devon-
port with stores.
The Lively navy lighter sailed yesterday with stores
for Woolwich.

The Drake navy lighter arrived to-day from Sheer-
ness and Chatham with stores.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 4.—The Black Eagle steam-vessel,
Master Commander S. B. Cook, after landing her Royal
Highness the Princess William of Prussia at Rotterdam,
proceeded to Ostend to convey the Princess of Saxe
Weimar to England, and her Serene Highness arrived at
Woolwich Dockyard at half past one o'clock P.N. to-day.
The state of the tide being favourable, the Elack Eagle
steamer was enabled to come alongside the wharf wall,
and her Serene Highness was received and conducted on
shore by Captain Henderson, C. 8., of her Majesty's
steam frigate Sidon, and Commander Smith, of the Wil-
liam and Mary yacht. One of the Queen Dowager's
royal carriages was in waiting in the dockyard, with
several members of her Majesty the Queen Dowager's
suite, in other carriages, to attend her Serene highness
to Marlborough House.
The Scourge bomb steam-vessel, Commander Catlin,
is to be taken into the basin at Woolwich, to hare some
defects made good, which will occupy the workmen four
or .five days. She will then proceed to Chatham, and
embark the deck of the 46th Regiment at that Fort.
and convey them to Guernsey, w here they are to be
stationed. The Scourge will embark the depot of the
27th Regiment at Guernsey, and convey them to Ports-
mouth.
The Acheron steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Dunlop, will leave Woolwich to-morrow for Portsmouth,
o'
where she will be paid in advance.
The Blenheim, 72 gun., fitting as a block ship, will
have her machinery, enstmaul by Messrs. Seaward and
Capel, put on board to-morrow in the East India Dock,
where she is at present. She will be taken out of the
dockon the following day (Tuesday), and towed to
Wigram and Co's establishment, to lie fitted with her
screw propeller, and have the other netessary alterations
completed.

SOUTIIWAIiK.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.—On Saturday the Pee. William
Langley, and Mr. John Lockhart, of Walha,m-green, were
charged before Mr. Seeker with committing violent as-
saults on David Davis, a porter in the employ of Messrs.
Betts, distillers, of Smithfield-bars, in one of the third-
class carriages of the Greenwich Railway.
The complainant, who exhibited marks of severe
punishment about the head and face, stated that he got
into a third-class carriage at Greenwich, to come to
London, on the preceding night. The defendants Here
in the same carriage, and perceiving one of them (Lock-
hart) smoking, he said that probably he was not aware
of the rules against smoking cigars. The defendant
called him an impudent scoundrel, and he in return said
that if there was any impudence attached to it, he was
as impudent as a Frenchman. The moment he said the
words, Mr. Lockhart rushed at him, seized his collar,
and struck him in the face, and he fell down. On ri.,ing
to defend himself from further violence, he was atmcked
by Mr. Langley, who struck him over the head with a
stick, and cut him severely. He added that he called
out "Police," and the train just got to the Deptford-
station when the assaults were committed on him.
Thomas Rockliffe, a witness, living at Whitechapel,
corroborated the complainant's evidence, and said he did
not hear him use the language attributed to him by Mr.
Lockhart.

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THE COBBLER'S LAST STALL.--A cobbler, with
his wife and family have lately installed themselves
within the hulk
of an old steamer which plied, not long
since, between Liverpool and New Brighton Feu). The
hulk is situated on the sands between Tranmere and Rock
Ferry. It t3.ems this novel specimenof a cobbler's stall is
a regular " t 11
-(A" adopted for the especial purpose of
avoiding the PsYnieut of parish-rates and other taxes
s-
which the cobbler, as the year waxed on, had found to
wax most disagreeably burdensome, and to bear him
down altogether; so at lat,t he quitted the land, with its
swamping parishes, and has resolved to see if he cannot
now make a more successful attempt at keeping " afloat"
on the water.—Liverpool Times.
PROGRESS OF
FREE TRADE IN FRANCE.—The
Journal des Debats, in alluding to the late meeting of
the Association des Libres Echanges, says—" The asso-
ciation, we are assured, is making progress. Several
most important may
persons of note having joined its ranks, and among the
be named M. Nicholas Kcechlin,
one of the greatest manufacturers, who throughout his
long career has been at the head of all the many im-
provements introduced into the manufactures of Alsiee;
and who, at the time of the commercial inquiry in 1834,
distinguished himself by the courage with which he
maintained that the industry of France could only gain
by the gradual establishment of the freedom of trade."

Inspector Maddock, of the railway police, stated he
heard the cries of the complainant for aisiltance on the
a! rival of the train at Deptford, and saw the complainant
lying on the II ior of the carriage, with the blood flowing
from his head. He complained that he had been as-
saulted by both the defendants, whu were t.
keninto cus-
tody on the arrival of the train at the terminus.
Baker, a policeman, stated that on taking the de-
fendants to the station. house, one of them (Langley)
expressed a desire to arrange the affair
.with the com-
plainant, saying he would not mind giving a sovereign
for that purpose.
The MAGISTRATE said the parties had better consult
together for a short time.
The parties then retired, but the offer made by the
defendant being unsatisfactory, the magistrate ordered
the case to proceed, when a Mrs. Arkwright, a lady who
was with them, denied that either of the defendants
committed the assaults in the first instance. Her evi-
dence, however, was considered immaterial, as it appeared
she was frightened, and in a swoon the greater porti,n
of the time.

Mr. SECKER said he should feel it his duty to send the
case before a jury.
The defendants were accordingly committed, and sure-
ties were entered into fur their appearance at the next
sessions.