The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-11 00:00:00

THE. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVE,,iy.I.N'O, DECEMBER 1.11 '846

South
NZANCE, DEC. 9.—Posthumous, Sydney ;New Counsel in the course of the ‘rguments, stated his opi-
es.
YARMOUaITH ROADS. DEC. 9.—Arrd. Boulton, Newl am, nien clearly to be that the demurrer was sustainable, and
to Liv
Quebec for Shields ; Ajax Cheer, St. John's, for Newcastle. ought to have been allowed.
The effect of his Lordship's judgment, therefore, is to
Fxuta, DEC. 9.—The Hope, Jones, from Patagonia, reverse the decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England,
niai_nerpool, ran on the Rusk bank, yesterday, and remains,
and to put the plaintiff's bill, in its present shape, out
41_41_ ga good deal of water ; is discharging part of her
Crew saved. of Court.
,SPOTTISWOODE V. CLARK.—THE PICTORIAL ALMANAC.
Mr. STUART (with whom was Mr. Moore) moved this
mornieg, pursuant to notice, to discharge an order made
by the Vice Chancellor of England, by which he conti-
nued an injunction he had granted ex parte, restraining
the defendant .from publishing an almanac, called Old
Moore's Pictorial Almanac, with a wrapper, which the
plaintiff alleged was a piracy of one used by himself, in
the publication of an almanac, which he called The Pic-
torial Almanac. The plaintiff, as was stated upon the
application for the injunction to the Vice-Chancellor for
England, is the printer of the Parliamentary Record,
and the proprietor of the Pictorial Times tied Pictorial
Almanac.
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Hubback supported the deci-
sion of the Vice-Chancellor.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, without hearing Mr. Stuart
in reply, gave judgment, discharging the order of the
Vice-Chancellor, thereby dissolving the injunction, upon
the undertaking of the defendant to keep au account.
The plaintiff to be at liberty, it he should be so advised,
to bring an action to establish his right.

ARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

,CORN-EXCHANGE.-(FRIDA V.)
ttahe arrivals of English Wheat for our market during the
esent week have been good, yet the show of samples of
tt. t article here was by no means extensive. On the whole
a trade was firm, at fully Monday's quotations. There was
„yood deal of inferior free Foreign Wheat sold for Irish ac-
zrunt, at rather more money. In Corn under lock next to
4tihbig was doing. The Barley trade was steady, yet the
tsters purchased with great caution. Although the sup-
ply Malt was not large the trade was somewhat inactive,
OPs revious currencies. ata, Beans, Pea
disposed of at unaltered quotationss, and Flour were

Nlish
eith •• •• ..
Fortig; : ** ** : ...

Wheat.
6,540 qrs.

ARRIVALS.
IBarley.
7,010 qrs.

Oats Flour.
4,080 qrs. I 2,480 sks.
2,710 I and
10,010 I 1,320 brls.

I 7.380
Malt. 5,370 qrs.

SMITHFIELD.
oftrille suPPly of beasts on sale here was, the time of year
8-cridered, very limited, and of inferior quality. Prime
butte' lke.? moved off steadily, at fully Monday's quotations ;
a all other kinds hung heavily on hand. There were in
Dugto
93 Beasts, 650 Sheep, and 26 Calves from abroad.
apitle,ng to the favourable change in the weather, a full
pric'ea.ge amount of business was transacted in Sheep, at full
of i_-• small Calves moved off firmly ; other kinds
,ve eal cowl}, at late rates. The Pork trade was firm, but
Le, notice no improvement in value. Milch Cows were
is at from 16/ to 18/ each, including their small Calf.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
• (Before the VICE•CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England beard
unopposed petitions, short causes, and cause petitions
to-day, none of which possessed any interest except to
the parties concerned.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIGRAM.)
SHUTTLEWORTH V. BENGOUGH.
The arguments in this cause were resumed and con-
cluded to-day.
His HONOUR considered that the plaintiff was entitled
to one-seventh of theproperty in question, but he would
leave the other points at issue open to future proceedings.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J K. BRUCE.)
ARMSTRONG V. STOCKHOLM.
The object of this bill was two-fold, viz., to rectify an
error of the Master, and to enable Mr. Ellier, a solicitor
of the Court. to receive certain moneys standing to the
credit of the plaintiff in the cause.
It appeared that the plaintiff was one of four children
of a Mrs. Martha Armstrong, and as such was entitled
to a moiety of her propert3 upon his attaining his ma-
jority. He was resident in Honduras, and it was con-
tended that he was not of age in 1843, in conformity with
which the Master made his report. In opposition to the
confirmation of that report, several certificates were ad-
duced, to show that the plaintiff was born in 1822.
His HONOUR considered the evidence sufficient, and
granted the order required.

Per Sibs. to si
s. d. Z.
d.
Bgt,3
nferi°r Beasts .... 2 6 2 8
1.1.1„'d quality ditto. 210 3 2 pi.i'ne large Oxen.. 3 4 a a
ntile Scots ..... .. 310 4 4
il, coarse Calv es 3 8 4
arnall ditto 4 4 4 •
I;,lLuag • • 0
-'ellor Sheep Calves 18
30
. 3 8 a 10
SUPPLY AT
beasts. Sheep.B 2,670
',4 had
InEINVGATE AND
a very steady trade,

rink the offal.

s. d, to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 0 4 4
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8
Southdown Wethe. 410 5 2
Ditto out of the wool
Large Hogs • • •• 3 8 4 4
Small Porkers ••.. 4 6 4 8
Quarter old Pigs • .16 0 19 0
Lambs ••.•••.• • • 0' 0 0 0
MARKET.
Calves. I Pigs.
I 190 260
LEADENELAIM.
at full prices.

At per stone, by the Carcase.
s• d. to s. d. s• d. to s. d
2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior 3 6 3 8
210 3 0 middling .•3 10 4 2
3 2 3 4 prime .. •• 4 4 4 6
3 6 3 8 Pork, large.... •. •• 3 6 4 2
• 3 6 4 8 1- small .. 4 2 4 8
Lamb. Os Od to Os Od.
The BOROUGH HOP MAREET.
Very
_lt le for bap of the present year's growth has been
aaAsince our last report, at full prices, which are
Provlna on a par with those paid for pockets, thereby
weu quality. it the roduce this ear even as to
oe
suppoPke tep
move off sloywly,is yetextremely previous rates are

beet ,
%,,,alferior. .
...,.
pie
large
tee.P.thte 8.... : :
. • - - 'u'

vY
COUNCIL-(THIS DAY.)
a 'Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
ufth-erlday for the purpos3 of proceeding with the
Dfti eearing of the arguments in the part-heard
;--"h ' " The -Queen's Proctor v. The Solicitor of the
°Lancaster" from the Chancery of York. The
tale th
1)14411 ugh it presents few facts of any interest to the
ureolves points of ecclesiastical law highly im-.
del t to the Crown and the Duchy of Lancaster. iiititelittiyti,edwhtoether the Crown or the Duchy of Lancaster
take out letters of administration to an
Itzt3:),Ette domiciled within the county palatine of La -
14ei-.3 and hence the present appeal, which is, in
against" appeal by her Majesty, as Sovereign
L a decision in favour of her Majesty as Duchess
1.(>110' rleaster. The facts of the case appear to be as
Asti:', ,--Anne Bothwell Wignall, commonly called
tf "othwell, died at Preston, in the County Palatine
itpi44neadter, in December 1840, under the age of 21, a
left and intestate. Being of illegitimate birth, she
*state and
or next of kin, but died entitled to personal
l'iNa-mwithin the county of the value of 3,5001. and
,s'otsu,-„s; Notice of the deceased's death having been
licCrucated to the Chancellor and Council of the
4,,3' of Lancaster, her Majesty's warrant of the 28th
1842, which was countersigned by the Chan-
grantol the duchy, was issued as usual for obtaining a
o the letters of administration of the intestate estate
owe,t"u solicitor for the Duchy. In the meantime,
'tittq et% under the assumption that the property of the
A4,rate had all to her Majesty in right of her Crown,
~,aietiscjarl,t Was issued on the 7th of April, 1842, coueter-
reitsh °Y three of the Lords Commissioners of' the
,",tU ittulErY' for grant of letters of administration to George
' solicitor of the Treasury. In this state Of
(.311;3 1/r'eedings were taken first in the Consistory
the lt,?1 Chester where the Chancellor of the Diocese,.
'4vo It ailces delivered an elaborate judgment in
°,sr.` the Crown, which, on an appeal to the Chan-
-1-1,404°f,1.°1k, Was reversed, and a decision pronounced in
re,": tue Duchy of Lancaster, and from that judgment
;"ntra Zilt appeal was brought. In thecourse of the argud-
Polikleral curious documents were referred to, an
""aersi th cha t rof Edward 111., of the 28th of
tut 1377 efromr whiche the rights of her Majesty
within the county Palatine of Lancaster
Lolltier.o by which the father of the Black Prince,
h-7'ncaster a county Palatine, and grunted to his
ooleo-n-Aftiuke of that county. " That he for the
terlA-ula life may have within the county of Lan-
ie' star chancery and his writs to be sealed und!r
Nice: to be deputed for the office of the chancery, his
%hes to hold as well pleas of the crown as all
dth Dlese whatsoever touching the common law
e: Ll] gnisance thereof, and all manner of execution
tith b his writs and his Ministers there, and all
ter liberties
akti and Jura regalia pertaining t.o a Count
*elle; as freely and entirely as the Earloun to to?. Chester 441% LI°W/1 to obtain within the a
g aalways the tenths,
fifteenths, same county
othyer contribeur-
tO and subsidies Wranted
the'. and our heirs .63' and hereafter to be granted
the c?mmonalty of our_
realm, and
tf tenths andother contributions granted and here-
ter t be „ted to us by the clergy of the
t144,,ti1e our imposed and to be imposed upon the
life Clergy by the apostolic see, and the pardon of
e and limbs in case that any person of the same county,
dt'eri,other person the.
&Let to lose his life or limaha,mened county,
also th
rowe
erroneously
r of correcting those things which shall have been
superioritye ought fo r any
-done there in the Courts of our same 501.1,
:Of our same Son or his Ministers shall have failed in
justice there, also in the Courts of the same our
ths
B°ll These powers and exceptions were confirmed by
)41 of the Black Prince when he ascended the
tit (dish Throne
as Richard the Second, and both these
llitners were referred to by the Queen's Advocate in
tZgunients on behalf of the royal appellant, for the
byM3 of showing that the right of the Crown, whethers
tiot-,'oet.it or otherwise, to real or personal estate, i'VE
Teeor included in the reservations made in
Tillt of the Crown.
t hilt: Queen's Advocate, the Solicitor-General, Mr. G.
er0,...4, and Mr. Townahend were Counsel for the
af tii",,and Mr. J. Parker, Mr. Ellis (Attorney. General
114144,4)°eY of Lancaster, and Dr. Jenner were in
of the judgment of the Chancery of York.
re
Run En's ADVOCATE occupied their Lordships
the 6;:ie of Tuesday with his arguments on behalf of
Th, ,_o•
Ittts he'4ol.lcrron- GENERAL, following on the same side,
,T4l4,bc'a Wednesday.
Anima on behalf 9f the Duchy of Lancaster,
qr. hears
Yesterday, and
itr, 14'8, on the same side, was partly heard.
ELLts resumed, and concluded his arguments
%lih‘tTEEN'S ADVOCATE replied.
1441 he -osfel:vere then ordered to withdraw, and after the
Ned b upwards of an hour, were called in, and in-
th,t°4l 4011
v, case ,_,ollast that their Lordships would consider
wksuel e they gave judgment. The question,
t
t 4 • but hed most important one, bad been most ably
further
tat themauee
f r°sh their Lordships require any
1:aould counsel, due information should be given

,Th ,RA.NCERy—(THIS Y.
%)1(1 iL,4401:.d. Chancellor sat to day in
-44, Lincoln's Inn. hisp DAY.)
in the
.„,,s L PINDEN U• STEVENS.—JUDGMENT.
this case,
w4ich °RbsIIIP gave judgment to-day '
noon came before his Lordship on Wednesday last,
14 t, at' appeal fro
-
Q It the decision of the Vice-Chancellor-
,, . raised' °i
4pornited :rruling a demurrer put in 1r
top •t° the plaintiff's bill. The principalues-
ques-
t•Pcialted
a P iver
by wiltihlso case
hweasm,
awnhagetehrerand r
tht eV.,4' LeStateB had a right to the office, in opposieienthtoe
‘4tat.elue,,3 ,°f the Party beneficially interested i
1114 ti tailed4.n
g facts out of which the suit arose may hoe,
111(' 'namee 1---A gentleman residing near Iteading,4 t, eii of toshnell, by a will, made in the year
118a9_ 14g, together his real and cop- hold estates in and near I ed
and It igether with estateYs in the county of Middlesex,
/illie.g,e al:Donut of personalty, to John Stepheinctsd,
11/1.1143,7041e11dy, in trust to receive the rents and papily Ze rema his widow an annuity of 1,0004, and l?
j ititt;re. to the use of his four nieces for their lives,
etee 'under to their children. The testator gave a
tikiilthlY 01.200/. to the laintiff, Thomas Finden, and after
ll --tht setae other P dispositions of property, the
471 --nubs, Proceeded :—" A.nd inasmuch as my estate,.
~.ttrb.e,..4o_ more management than I can expect or isetit,-Th'ees personally to bestow upon it; my wish and
v Peer 41t the hereinbefore named Thomas Finder), of
~,or "0111-street, Fitzroy-square, architect and Bur;
'4fiii °II whose 'ud ment and integrity I have grra
they enee b j • g
:(11_ 0 he e appointed for all purposes for which
,1; ail t. r -, t a y trustees or trustee, may have occasion
Fetes -al", receiver or manager. of all, or any of my
°g den ,h`4 Property. And in case the said Thomas.
kp,-I,ett, th-°O4l so desire not to act further in the said
f:4 tha""eh it shall be lawful for my said wife's niece
-4 th -Isurvivor, to p oint some other person to act
114:1P`49.3 of the saaidPThomas Finden.' .414. Will also contained a clause that the trustees
chid /),,11,:lee should be answerable for the management;
igtt° house °f the property of the testator conshistetdruos.f
'vel-is"ouses in Reading, and it appeared that
at
deeither
ktiltilll/41 declined to employ Finden,
4°lla 1 employed or intimated an intention to emhpplhoiyl,
bila Ara Person In this state of circumstances t
ktial tifris. right,ecl
'ill fur ft.d inadratfioorn
aonf the Court to establish. the
injunction to restrain the
tb--,!' pt%ll„rote appointing any other person to inan
pot tit-.i'ellY of the testator. To this Lill the trustees
',et - 4 demurrer f want of equity, and upon that
t, iatte,,,. _ . er or
g on for argument before the. Vice-
Iheltitehjore°r°ln
1 ef England, his Honour ordered it to be
It (ttif)n . lig of opinion !lit
."4'
bei that there was an express
‘1 ' in the Plainest terms, of the te,ta.tor, that
if 114 his d • - • -
teNthe tr esire that the plaintiff should be emplo3ed
ver ustees had occasion for an agent, manager, or, i„,tigh; and
from this judgment the present appeal was
---`446 .. RiB Lordship to-day, after going through
of ti,
'4O authorities that had been referred to by

was for Mr. Graham to get a large sum of money
into his bands to charge a commission on it.
Mr. LAWRENCE applied for a day to be appointed for
a dividend, _ _ _

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The remains of the late
Colonel Swale, of the Royal Marines, Commandant of
the Woolwich Division, who died at his residence at.
Southsea, on Saturday night last, were interred this
morning with full military honours, the Gallant Colonel
having died in command, in the ground of the garrison.
chapel, within these walls. The remains were followe'i
to the grave by nearly all the naval and military officers
in commission at this port. We believe Lieutena-at-
Colonel Peebles succeeds to the colonelcy, and Brev et-
Major Whylock to the lieutenant-colonelcy. Colonel
Peebles was second-lieutenant, and served in the boats
of the Queen Charlotte in an action with Spanish. gun-
boats off Gibraltar • and the recapture of the hired
armed cutter, the Lady Nelson, in 1799 ; was burnt out
of the Queen Charlotte off Leghorn in 1800 ; com-
manded a detachment of marines in an attack on Finale;
and was present at the capture by boarding of the Prima
galley at the Mole of Genoa, and also at the surrender
of that city ; was wounded in the boats of the Caroline
in action with a French zebec and armed packet, and
served at the blockade of Leghorn, and in the boats at
an attack upon vessels within the Mole ; was first-
lieutenant, and served ir, the Blanche when captured by
the French frigate Topa= and consorts, 1805, and was
severely wounded.
Lieutenant-Colonel Whylock was first lieutenant, and
served in the boats of the Mercury at the capture of a
convoy under the guns of the batteries of Rota; assisted
in a flotilla of Spanish gun-boats in 1808 at Rovigno, at
Pesaro, in the Gulf of Venice, and at Barletta, 1809;
commanded a detachment of Marines at Isle Verte,
1812; and participated in numerous other services of a
similar nature, particutairly at the destruction of a
convoy at Civita Vecchia, in 1813. When at the head
of the Marines he stormed a battery which protected
the shipping; was captain in command of a detach.
ment on the coast of Syria, at the storming of Sidon,
&c., 1840.
A Dutch man-of-war arrived at Spithead this after-
noon; not having saluted, she is believed to be a store-
ship.
By the advices we obtained by the Cyclops we are in-
formed Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker had changed his
flag from blue to white. We believe we are correct in
stating that Vice-Admiral Bouverie will not be ap-
pointed to relieve Sir William Parker of his charge of
the squadron in the Tagus, as has been frequently re-
ported of late.
The Daring, 12, Commander Matson, was at Vera
Cruz, all well, on the Ist ult.
The Modeste, 18, Commander Watkins, was in the
Columbia River en the 30th of July.
The Fisgard, 42, Captain Dantze ; Cormorant steam-
sloop, Commander Gordon ; the Herald, surveying
ship, Captain Kellett; and the Pandora tender
Com-
mander Wood, were in the Straits of San Juan de Fuca
,
on the 30th of July. Admiral Seymour, in the Culling-
wood, was also expected at the date of our letter.
The Grappler steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Lysaught, left to-day at neon for Plymouth, whence
she will proceed to the Island of Ascension and the west
coast of Africa.
The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Radcliffe, went
out of harbour this afternoon, and sailed immediately for
Sheerness.
The Zulus, provision depot, Master-Commander J.
Thomas, having completed her cargo of provisions, went
out of harbour this afternoon.
Lighters are being employed in slinging" the barque
Hampshire, which sank alongside the jetty yesterday.

The Learned ComuissioNEß said he would not fix a
day till there were funds in hand.
Mr. LAWRENCE said there were funds.

Mr. GRAHAM said he had only received 2701., and the
costs of obtaining the injunction amounted to 911.
It was ultimately arranged that a dividend and audit
meeting should be held, and that a bill of costs of Messrs.
Bill and Everitt, which they claimed as a lien on the
12,400/, and on securities for 6,100 L, that the bill should
be paid, and the securities handed over to Mr. Graham.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
JoBBING V. BOURCHETT.
The plaintiff is a baker at Kensington, and sought to
recover the sum of 151. Is. 3d, tor bread supplied to the
defendant and his family.
The plaintiff's attorney said that the defendant for-
merly resided in Victoria-grove, Kensington, but during
the summer be suddenly left his residence, and was not
discovered until lately, when he was met with at a rail-
way office in Fenchurch-street, he having projected a rail-
way—he at the time admitted the debt, and promised to
pay, but had not done so, and no one now appeared on his
behalf.
The jury having heard evidence to this effect, gave a
verdict for the plaintiff.
The only other cause tried was Haghe v. Webb for
brickmaking—the question was whether they had been
well made so as to entitle plaintiff to the full price. The
case was totally devoid of interest.
The jury were detained some time in consequence of
the absence of defendant's attorney and counsel, and it
was at length insisted on for the plaintiff that the case
should proceed and it was opened. The defendants'
counsel however soon afterwards appeared. The jury
said they were fined if they did not attend, and it was
too bad they should be unnecessarily detained.

INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A
SOLDIER.

Sergeant Wilson, late of the Grenadier Guards, who
had for many years been a resident in Canterbury, and
whose death is recorded in our obituary, often amused
his friends by recounting the perils of his past career.
He had been all through the Peninsular War with the
Duke of Wellington, and was in the final struggle at
Waterloo, where he was miraculously preserved from
death by his breastplate. It was on the afternoon of the
a square to receive
BlBth n a thatpart
eti s
gregiment a
rfgoer me ef d
cavalry.
As they ad-
vanced they fired a volley, which killed his right hand
man, named Swaffer (to whom he was giving a piece
of tobacco), and he, Wilson, received a ball on his
breastplate, and so great was the shock that he was
stunned, and fell down senseless. When he came to,
he found his regiment had retired, so he crept under
one of the enemy's horses, which sheltered 'him from
the fire of the French. Presently his regiment re-
turned to its former position, when he crawled into the
square. The officer in command then told him to go
to the rear, and make the best of his way to Brussels:
he then started off through the forest, but so stiff from
the blow of the ball, which doubled the breastplate
completely up, the ball remaining in it, that lie could
scarcely walk. About the middle of the night he came
up with a Prussian picquet, refreshing themselves with
some roasted ducks, when a scene so ludicrous oecurred,
that the worthy sergeant told the writer of this notice he
should have laughed heartily, but for being in such pain
from the blow. He could not understand them; nor
they him; and seeing him walk, supposing he was all
right, asked him how the battle fared, by motions, &c.;
but the sergeant had so much ammunition in his pouch
that he wanted taken out, and also the knapsack off
his back, before he deigned to supply any news. They
not understanding his motions towards his pouch,
thought he was hungry, and offered him a fine duck
just roasted, but he shook his head, and they chattered
away, no doubt thinking he was mad; at last, by a des-
perate effort, he made signs and groaned; and lifted
the top of the pouch up, which they then quickly
emptied, and filled their own pouches, having shot all
theirs away. Wilson then managed to eat as fast as
they fed him. Ho then went on to Brussels, where he
arrived the following afternoon about three o'clock,
when two kind ladies took him into their house, nursed,
and gave bim restoratives, &c., till he recovered. He
then joined his regiment at Paris, and after a few more
years' service lie was discharged with a pension, and
having married poor Swaffer's widow (who was in an
orchard at the time of the battle, close by), he came to
live at Canterbury, where his delight was to relate the
above incident, and show his visitors the breastplate and
ball, which he afterwards suspended over his mantel-
piece. It may be as well, perhaps, to relate that poor
Swaffer's son, who was then an infant, is now post.
master in a thriving town in South Australia."—Dever
Megraph.

TO THE EDITOR OF
THE SUN.
5111.,—1 beg leave to call your attention to an incor-
rect statement, with regard to the trial of Thomas
Foulkes and Henry Foulkes, of Stockwell and Walworth,
omnibus proprietors, in your papers of Monday and
Tuesday la,t, at the Surrey Sessions, liorsemonger-
lane, Newington, for an assault committed upon me on
the 23d of July last, the incorrect statement, of which I
have to complain being this—that
my brother Wil-
liam Henry Ball, who was not near the spot, is intro-
duced as the prosecutor, instead of John Ball, and also
the sentence upon the prisoners, in continuation of the
proceedings in the preceding day's trial (Monday), is
not correctly given.
The sentence of the Court is this, that each of the
prisoners be confined in Horsemonger-lane Gaol for
fourteen days, to pay a fine of 101. each, to enter into
their own sureties of 100/. each, and to find further
sureties of two 50/. each, to keep the peace towards me
for twelve months. Forty-eight hours' notice of bail to
be given to the prosecutor. Your attention, in correcting
theKeanbuoinvegitonnycoruorssv, Dec.alua valuable paper
1846,.wi1l oblige, Sir, your
obedient servant. JOHN BALL.

MADAME ANNA Blsnor.--This lady appeared for
the last time in the character of Isoline, at Drury lane
Theatre last evening, and her farewell was as triumphant
as her debtit. She leaves London immediately, in order to
fulfil her numerous provincial engagements, during the
course of which she will appear in several of her most
popular Italian characters. We are happy to hear,
however, that our provincial friends will not be per-
mitted to engross entirely the attention of the prima
donna, who returns to London in April for the season.
ESCAPE OF A TITLED OFFENDER.—We are ap-
prised by the reply given to Mr. Hallett's question at the
commissioners' meeting on Wednesday evening, that this
matter has been brought under the notice of the Police
Committee; but, independently of this very meagre in-
formation, we do not learn that any efficient or searching
inquiry has been set on foot. Now, we beg to warn the
Police Committee that this is not a matter to be played
with. The public at large take a deep interest in it,
and a mock investigation will only
.have the effect of
establishing the belief that the town authorities are unfit
to have the manageraya of a police force. For the mo-
ment we refrain from ying more; but it may be neces-
sary to apply the ferret hereafter, if the present apathy
and disregard of the general feeling of indignation is
obstinately persisted in.—Brighton Guardian.
SEIZURE OF ANOTHER ILLICIT DISTILLERY.—
Messrs. Bayford and Lewins, the Excise officers, who
recently made a seizure of the extenseivveeniilnligcit(dfriostmilleirny_
a house in Little
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procured a ladder, they succeeded in effecting an en-
trance by the first-floor window, and on proceeding to
the adjoining apartment, they found a most complete
distillery, calculated for carrying on a large trade. It
was fitted with a 40-gallon copper still, which had been
recently worked off, as, at the time of the entrance of
the officers, it was quite warm. The stock of spirits was
not so great as was expected, the principal portion of the
recent working having evidently been removed. A
quantity of fermented wash had been prepared for the
next day's operation, which was destroyed by the officers.
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the Excise warehouses in Broad street.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.-- On Thursday
afternoon an inquest was taken before Mr. Baker, at the
Green Man, High- street,2o l'opla riaotne
stoker
body of George
William Henry, aged years, ter on board the
steam tug Newcastle. On
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the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, have been ac-
cepted with the approbation of her illustrious parents,
laud.—Worcester Chronicle.
, by a fair dangbter of the Duke and Duchess of Suther-

A paic:l Y30;660 bricks lies arrived by a verse:
from Hamburgb, and another of 40,000 by the Catalina,
from Antwerp, both cargoes being destined for re-ex-
portation.—Liverpool Advertiser.

IRELAND.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.—TERRIBLE
DESTITUTION.
DUBLIN, DEC. 9.—There have not been since the
commencement of the visitation such harrowing accounts
of suffering and destitution as those received this day.
The Mayo Constitution, a Conservative journal, published
in Castlebar, announces nine deaths frz,,n absolute want,
and reports the inquests upon seven of the unfortunate
sufferers! After the examination of medical men, the
juries in all those cases returned verdicts, declaring that
insufficiency of food was the cause of death. The fol-
lowing are abridged accounts of the inquests, from tho
Irish papers:—
"In the neighbourhood of Turlough a poor man
named Francis Bradley died last week from starvation.
The poor wretch made several unsuccessful applications
to the relief committee. A poor woman named Walsh
also died last week from hunger. She was feeble and
unable to work.
" On the 29th ult. Mr. Atkinson, coroner, held an
inquest at Bellina, on the body of Hugh Daly. Verdict
—Death from starvation.
" On Thursday last he held another inquest on the
body of Michael Walsh, at Crossmolina. Verdict—
Death from famine.
" On the same day he held another inquest, in the
same town, on the body.of a man ramed Martin
M'Gevir. After the examinination of Dr. M'Nair and
several witnesses, the jury found, That the death of
deceased was caused by want of sufficient food.'
"On Saturday Mr. Atkinson held an inquest on the
body of John Barrett, at Cloonralogh, in the locality of
Killala. Several witnesses gave evidence as to the state
of destitution in which the deceased was. Dr. Neilson de-
posed, that from his examination of the body, he had no
hesitation in stating that the death of the deceased was
caused by insufficiency of food. The jury re-
urned a verdict that the deceased died from
want of food ; and they further stated that
to their own knowledge destitution prevails to a
frightful extent in this neighbourhood, and that
unless speedy relief be given many must perish for the
% ant of food.
" On Sunday the same coroner held an inquest on the
body of Anthony Malley, at Notish, near Crossmolina.
After the examination of several witnesses, and Dr.
M'Nair, the jury returned a verdict of want of food
being the cause of his death, and said that destitution
prevailed to an alarming extent i❑ the neighbourhood.
"On the same day he held another inquest on the
body of John Monnelly, at Ballymoholy. The evidence
of the witnesses, and also that of Dr. lll4Nair, showed
the destitution in which the deceased had been. It also
appeared that there are seventy habitations in the village,
and the population about 350, not one of whom are em-
ployed on the public works.
" William Rutledge, Esq., coroner, held an inquest at
Shangurta, on the sth inst., on the body of illichael
Lally, who came by his death from starvation. After
examining several witnesses, including Dr. Hamilton, of
Ballinrobe, the jury found that the said Michael Lally
came by his death from starvation."
The Mayo Constitution also contains the following
melancholy statement:—
" We regret to say that disease of the most fatal
description is very prevalent. Typhus fever, of a ma-
lignant character, rages; and also a disease—for which
we know no term, but of equally fatal consequences—
has made its appearance. It attacks the lips first, which
fester, and then the stomach, somewhat similar to
English cholera; so much so, that we have heard of a
great number of persons having fallen victims to this
latter disease."
From other districts the accounts are quite deplorable.
COUNTY TIPPERARY.—NENAGH, DEC. 9.—We con-
tinue to receive most heart-rending details of suffering
and woe. The picture is becoming gloomier every day.
The condition of the labouring population is truly
alarming in every part of the country from which we
hear. Where this dreadful state of things may end God
alone knows. It baffles all the calculations and specula
tions of man. Colonel Douglas attended a meeting o
the Thurles relief committee on Saturday. That gentle.
man, we learn, is in Nenagh this day (Wednesday).—
Tipperary Vindicator.
MEETING OF THE KILKENNY RELIEF
COMMITTEE.

A special meeting of the City Relief Committee, to
take into consideration the measures to be adopted in
consequence of the want of employment and food for the
labouring classes, was held on Sunday.
Various plans of relief were suggested—one was to
increase the extern relief to two meals a day, or the
opening of soup-houses • but it was decided that some-
thing was necessary to be done to afford employment on
the following morning, as the peace of the city was
endangered ; and upwards of three hours were spent in
considering the best course to adopt. A subscription
was commenced ; several of the gentlemen present gave
donations. It was then determined that 40 men should
be set to work the next morning on the Cork road, 10 at
the Coole, and 20 at breaking stones. The following
members present also took the number of men attached
to their names respectively into employ for a week,
pending the result of Mr. Sullivan's application to the
Baronial Committee :—Alderman Smithwick, 20 ; Al-
derman Potter, 20 ; Mr. Sullivan, 20 ; Sir Wheeler
Cuffe, 10 ; Dean Vignoles, 10 ; Mr. Hart, 10 (besides
gratuitously giving a quantity of stones for breakage) ;
Mr. Carter, on his own private account, 10 ; Mr. Daniel
Smithwick, 10.—Kilkenny Journal.
COUNTY OF KERRY.—TRALEE, DEC. B.—The usual
half weekly meeting of the relief committee was held

yesterday. Several complaints were made that persons
not entitled to work were employed on the public works
to the execlusion of others who had a prior claim to such
employment. Rev. Mr. Bowen read a list of twenty-one
persons employed upon one road, some of whom were
farmers, others had been seen a few days before selling
potatoes, and in most instances there were three em-
ployed out of a family. Mr. Lynch handed in 501.. a
subscription from Maurice O'Connell, Eeq., M.P.,
making in all 100/. subscribed by him to the funds of
the relief committee of this district. Mr. Lynch stated
also that Mr. O'Connell had contributed 100/. to the
lighting of this tiwn. The committee again expressed
their opinion, that if immediate employment were not
given, the public peace could not be preserved.—Kerry
Examiner.
DREADFUL OUTRAGES—GOVERNMENT PRO-
CLAMATIONS.
The Government have just issued two proclamations,
offering rewards for the apprehension of the persons
concerned in attacks upon officers of the Board of
Works. The first proclamation states that on the sth
instant William Lindesay, employed as check clerk on
the new road at Pollock, parish of Croom county
Limerick, was fired at, and a book offered to him, with
a demand that he should:swear never again to return to
the work. In this case a reward of 601. is offered. The
second proclamation refers to a murderous attack on
Mr. W. Hennessey, an officer of the Board of Works in
Clare, and offers a reward of 1001.
REPORTED MURDER OF AN OFFICER OF
THE BOARD OF WORKS.

The Evening Mail contains the :-
" We have just heard (on what we consider com-
petent authority) that an overseer of the Board of
Works has been most inhumanly murdered in the county
of Clare. He is said to have been cut to pieces with
reaping hooks."

No insult was offered to the prisoner as he passed
along the passage opened for him by the crowd ; but if
there were no public demonstration calculated to wound
him, there was also an absence of any kind sympathy
tending to cheer him. A deep, a stern, a solemn, a re-
ligious silence was maintained by the multitude as the
malefactor, attended by the two priests, dragged himself
to the foot of the guillotine. At that moment the exe-
cutioner, attended by his two assistants, appeared upon
the scaffold. He lowered the axe, tried its edge, and
then greased the grooves, in which it worked up and
down, with a piece of candle. The gendarmes helped
the condemned one up the steps to the platform ; his
face was colourless, and upon it could death impress no
more hideous expression, nor throw a more ashy pallor
than it already wore. His legs almost refused to per-
form their office ; his hands were clasped together in
bitter—bitter agony of mind—but his eyeballs seemed
dead and lustreless, although his brain was at that mo-
ment the seat of such appalling—such withering—such
lightning- blasting thoughts !

Oh ! who may say what agonies were experienced by
that young man during the few moments he stood upon
the platform of the guillotine, while the executioner's
assistants bound him to the fatal plank ? Who shall
decide whether that short interval of ineffable horror
were not meet expiation for even the dread crime of which
he had been guilty ? Oh too dread subject for con-
templation, if mortal have exceeded the trust reposed in
him, and flown in the face of his Maker by taking away
even under the semblance and sanction of human justice,
the lives of those who are created in that Maker's
image !_

The dread preparations were completed ; the criminal
was bound powerless to a plank, which was then lowered
to a horizontal position, and shoved onward until the
head of the miserable man fitted into a holipw in a block
of wood, perpendicularly placed beneath the hatchet.
Another block of wood, also with a semicircular hol-
lowing was drawn down above his neck, so that
his head was now fixed in a hole resembling those of the
stocks. .The priests leant forward to whisper the last
consolation of man in the malefactor's ears, and all being
ready, the executioner pulled a string which let the fatal
axe loose. Down—down the newly• greased grooves it
fell, quick as the eye can wink ; and the head was here—
and the trunk was there !
And then the crowds began to a disperse, but less
rapidly than they had assembled ; and one by one the
spectators withdrew their heads from the windows, and
the casements themselves were closed, or had their cur-
tains drawn down, and in an hour after the execution
not a trace of that supreme act of the law was left—no,
not even the blood of the criminal upon the pavement,
nor a rafter of the guillotine in the market-place.

DEATH OP ADMIRAL LORD AMELIUS BEAU-
CVRIC, G.C.B. AND G.C.H.—It is with feelings of re-
gret that we announce the decease of Admiral Lord
Amelius Beauclerk, one of the oldest officers in the
British Navy. The melancholy event took place yes-
terday, the 10th, at his seat, Winchfield House, Hants,
after a protracted illness. The Noble Lord was born in
August, 1771, being the son of Aubrey, fifth Duke of
St. Albans, and was, consequently, uncle to the present
Duke. He entered the navy at a very early age, and,
after a probationary service as midshipman, was ap-
pointed lieutenant in 1790, and was posted on the 16th
of September, 1793. In 1811 he was promoted to the
rank of rear-admiral ; in 1819 to that of vice-admiral,
and on the 22d of July, 1830, he received his commis-
sion as admiral of the red. The Noble Lord, when
captain of the Juno, beat off the French frigate Junon,
a corvette, and brig near the Hieres Islands, 1794, and
in Hotham's action, March, 1795, he also particularly
distinguished himself. In 1796, when captain of the
Dryad, he captured the French frigate Froserpine. In
the Walcheren expedition he commanded the Royal Oak.
He subsequently directed other operations, and a few
years since had the command of the fleet in the Tagus.
The deceased nobleman was honoured with the particu-
lar notice of the late King, to whom he was appointed
principal aide-decamp. He was a Knight Grand Cross
of the Order of the Bath, as well as of the Royal Hano-
verian Guelphic Order. He was a Fellow of the Royal
Society, and member of some other scientific institutions.

DEATII OF 11:0RD—SrouaT-Orilld'his venerable
Nobleman, the representative of one of the oldest Ro-
man Catholic families in the empire, died on the 4th
instant at his seat, Allerton House, Yorkshire, aged 71,
after a protracted illness. The deceased Nobleman,
William Stourton, Baron Stourton, of Stourton, county
of Wilts, was born June 6, 1776, and succeeded to the
title April 29, 1816. In 1800 he married Catharine,
daughter of Thomas Weld, Esq., of Lulworth Castle,
Dorsetshiro, by whom he had fourteen children. His
Lordship was the elder brother of the Hon. Sir Edward
Vavasour. Bart, and of the Hon. Charles Langdale, late
M.P. for Knaresborough, both leading members of the
Roman Catholic party. In politics the deceased was a
decided reformer. The Hon. Charles Stourton, who
succeeds to the title and estates, married, Attest 1,
1825, the Hon. Lucy Clifford, sixth daughter of Lord
Clifford, of Chudleigh, and has issue, by her, four
children.

THE RAJA OF SATTARA.—Last night another very
numerous meeting was held in the Denmark School-
rooms, Islington, for the purpose of urging upon the
public the claims of the deposed Raja of Sattara.
J. Barber, Esq., presided; and the meeting was ad-
dressed by Rungo Bapojee and Mr. George Thompson.
Resolutions in accordance with the statements offered
were unanimously adopted.

A GUILLOTINE SCENE in FRANCE;
Being at Dunkirk a few years ago, I heard that a
murderer was to be executed at Mount Cassel, and I re-
solved to witness the scene. I accordingly rose very
early on the fated morning, and ordered a post chaise
to take me to the town where the dreadful tragedy was
about to be enacted. After a ride of about an hour and
a half, through a fine district, the height of Mount
Cassel developed itself in bold outline in the horizon.
A number of large windmills upon the summit of the
hill met my eyes; and as I advanced more nearly
towards the place of destination, the beauty of the ad-
jacent country and the distant scenery seemed to borrow
new charms. At length just as the clock of the town
struck seven, the vehicle rolled along that part of the
road which runs round the northern base of the t lofty
aountain, and in ten minutes more I stopped at the
Hotel d'Angleterre. This establishment is situate upon
the Grand Place, or Market Place, on which an immense
crowd had already assembled; and in the midst of that
multitude, rose high in the air the beams and axe of
the dread engine of slaughter which had been erected to
wreak the vengeance of the law upon a criminal.
The morning was now delightful in the extreme; but
never more were the seasons and their changes to shed
joy upon the soul of the doomed one; never again would
it be his in this life to mark the ingress of one, or the
egress of another! Spring, which is so charming, with
its soft mornings, and buds, and blossoms, when ' earth
has shaken off the icy hand of winter ; Summer, so
pleasant with its blight evenings, and flowers, and rural
scenes, and excursions; Autumn, so delicious with its
golden days, each one of which we could cleave to for
ever; when the fields are heavy with the yellow harvest,
and the gardens hang ruddy with fruits, and the sun,
shorn of his fiery beams, is succeeded at night by the
harvest moon; and then Old Winter, offering his bright
fire-side, with pleasant friends ur pleasant books; when,
in spite of the freezing air without, the flow of soul gushes
most sparkling within; so that while its chilling breath
may blight all nature without, yet it is powerless upon
the heart and soul of man; all these seasons, with their
changes and their varied blessings, were now as no-
thing in respect to that wretched man whe was hover-
ing upon the verge of eternity ; unless, indeed, that
cold winter which stands last upon otrr list, be taken
as an effecting type of the other winter now about to
follow—that long, cold, freezing winter in which no
man can work!!
The criminal, it appeared, had been convicted of a
heinous offence—that of murder, accompanied by
robbery, and other violence of an infamous nature in
respect to a poor girl, who bad acted in the capacity
of servant to the deceased. The victim of the assas-
sination was a small farmer residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Mount Cassel, upon the estate of the
Count de Vaudamme ; and the perpetrator of the
dreadful action was the farmer's nephew—a dissolute,
wild, and incorrigible young man of only three-and-
twenty. He hart been arre,ted a few days after the
murder, and in course of time was tried at Hazebrouck,
where he was found guilty. The sentence was death.
The culprit appealed unsuccessfully to the Court of Ces-
sation, by which tribunal the formes judgment was con-
firmed ; and the day of execution had now arrived. The
prisoner had been transferred, on the previous evening,
from the prison of Hazebrouck to that of Mount Cassel,
at which latter town the execution was ordered to take
place, the crime having been perpetrated in the vicinity.
At quarter to eight o'clock the bell of the church
began to toll. By this time the entire market-place
was thronged with spectators ; and every window
commanding a view of the scene was crowded with
human heads. Five thousand pair of eyes seemed to
have made the scaffold the focus to which all their
visual rays were directed. But there was no improper
conduct amongst that living ocean, which appeared as
if it had come to dash its waves against the guillotine
—that dead and mysterious lighthouse erected there to
warn away the giddy mariner from the shoals and
sunken rocks of life I There was a busy hum—a mur-
muring sound—like the whispering of myriads of voices ;
but there were no indecent cries—no querrulous ejacu-
lations—no profane talk—no ribald jokes—no snatches
of flash songs—no loud and boisterous laughter. The
deportment of the multitudes in the market place below
was as respectable and decent as that of the better classes
who occupied the windows of the dwellings overlook-
ing it.
It was now three minutes to eight, and breathless
silence suddenly prevailed—like that sudden and awe-
inspiring lulling of the breeze upon the ocean just before
the wing of the hurricane sweeps over its
surface. That silence was broken by the chant of
sacred hymns ; and from my window at the hotel
I could now descry the funeral cavalcade slowly
approaching from the farther extremity of the Grande
Place. At first it seemed a dark line of persons, whose
sombre uniformity was broken by the white robes of two
priests ; but as the mournful procession drew gradually
nearer and nearer, I could distinguish the tall and mar-
tial forms of the gendarmes with their drawn swords—
the figures of the usher of the court which condemned
the prisoner—the jailer, the commissary of police, the
mayor, and other civic authorities—and amidst them all,
the person of that young and luckless man for whom all
this parade, ceremony, anxiety, curiosity, and assembly
of multitudes had. taken place. Oh ! say not that one
life is nothing in the great chain of creation—the doom
of one miserable being who had never done a good action
in his life, and who had hitherto dragged on a grovelling
existence unnoticed and unknown—had caused the
neigl.bouring towns and villages to pour forth their
crowds—had set the men of justice and the men of the
sword to work, and had collected altogether in one poin
on this fatal morning !

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THE MURDER AT HITCHEN.
HERTFORD, THURSDAY NIGHT.—An inquiry which
was opened on Thur6.lay last by Mr. Osbaldiston, one of
the coroners of the county, was concluded to-day at
Ilitchen, on the body of George Tomlin, aged 16, in the
employ of Lord Dacre, who died on Tuesday, the 2d
instant, from the effects of a gun-shot wound, fired by a
youth of the name of James Lawrence, under circum-
stances showing apparent deliberation.
His deposition, taken before his death, was as fol-
lows :—I work for Lord Dacre on the Hoo Farm, in the
parish of Paul Warden. On Sunday last, between two and
three o'clock, I went from Lord Dacre's farm-yard into
the timber-yard, which is close by, where I saw James
Lawrence. He had a gun under his arm, and I supposed
he was bird-keeping. He told me he had shot a hedge-
sparrow, and had broken its leg, and- that it was
somewhere in the hedge. We looked for the spar-
row, but could not find it. We then walked a few
yards, when I told him I must go and and attend to
the pigs. He said, " Then I'll shoot you," and pointed the
gun at me. I ran behind a tree, and he came peeping round
it, poking the gun, and then bolted to the other side of
the tree, and he again came after me, pointing the
muzzle of the gun at my forehead. I then ran away, but
directly I did so he shot me in the back. -I did not see
what became of Lawrence, I believe he ran away, but I
don't know exactly, I was so frightened.
It further appeared that on Lawrence being appre-
hended (who, it should be observed, before the death of
deceased, had been committed by the magistrates to
Hertford gaol on a charge of shooting with an intent to
do grievous bodily harm) he admitted that his gun had
shot the deceased, but that it had gone off accidentally
by his coat getting entangled with the trigger. He had
never any ill-will against him ; they were always on the
best of terms, and the reason he poked the gun at him
was in " fun."

The evidence of the medical gentleman having been
taken, proving the wounds to be the cause of death,'
The CORONER addressed the jury on the melancholy
circumstance of the case, and the impropriety of entrust-
ing fire-arms to youths of the description of Lawrence,
who was only 15 years of age.
The jury retired, apd in a few minutes returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter against Lawrence."

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A WIFE
BY HER HUSBAND.
At a late hour on Wednesday evening Air. W. Payne
held an inquest at the Three Tuns, Redcross-steet, Bar-
bican, on the bod 3 of Eleanor Elizabeth Wright, aged
'34 years, who died on the 3d of November last, and was
buried in New Bunhill-ground, Golden-lane, and whose
body was exhumed by order of the coroner, in consequence
of information that deceased had been brutally ill-treated
and poisoned by her husband.
Aun Collett.of No. 10, Elliott's-court, Old Bailey, de-
posed that she was sister to the deceased, who, with her
husband, a map mounter, resided at No. 11, in the same
court. They had been married above seventeen years.
The deceased had been ailing for the last nine months,
from consumption. About twelve months since the hus-
band formed an improper intimacy with a married wo-
man named Tisdall, since which he had been in the
habit of cruelly beating deceased. On one occasion,
about two months since, he seized a stone pitcher and
beat' her about the head, until she fainted from loss of
blood. On Sunday, Nov. 1, witness waa sent for, in
consequence of the husband ill-using the deceased. She
had been confined to her bed for three months previous.
Witness found the husband using bad language towards
her.' Deceased was crying; he took up a chair and threat-
ened to throw it at her bead. Deceased whispered to
witness to remove the knives and forks from the table,
lest he should stab her; he had done so on a former
occasion, and there was the scar on one of her arms;
there was also a scar on her nose. He continued to
abuse her, and rushing to the bed, he seized her pocket
from under the pillow, and shook out the money it con-
tained upon the floor. Deceased told witness that her
husband had that day struck her upon the head and
chest. In witness's opinion she was then dying. She
told witness, that in case she died, to see that her body
was opened. On Monday she got worse, and Dr.
Lynch, of Farringdon-street, was sent for, who imme-
diately on seeing her pronounced her case to be hope-
less. The husband was addicted to drink.
Several other witnesses gave evidence as to the habits
of the husband in beating the deceased, and that the
daughter had told them her father had poisoned her
mother.
Ann Wright, the daughter, a girl of fifteen, was ex-
amined. She positively swore that he;
in the habit of ill-using- h
" She wished she n
truth in what the Nv