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SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.—On the
night of Sunday last, the 17th instant, Mr. H. Ensor, of
this town, had seventy-nine sheep grazing in a field
adjoining the Yeovil-road. On the following' morning
his shepherd, James Bunter, counted the flock and found
that a fat wether sheep had been carried off in the night.
Under the hedge, in an adjoining field, were found the
entrails of the animal; and an examination of the road
disclosed the foot marks of a horse, showing that the
thieves had not carried their •booty home on their own
backs. Mr. Ensor obtained the assistance of a police-
constable (Haggett), who
traced the horse's foot
marks along the lane leading to Marshton, where the
thieves had made a bend as if for Sherborne, and here
the traces were somewhat confused ; but they were
again taken up in the road leading to Trent, and con-
tinued into that village, within a few yards of the house
of John Martin, who kept a horse, and hawked salt
about for sale. Suspicion falling upon this individual,
a search-warrant was procured, and his house
entered. Two young
fellows, brothers, named George
and Charles Eades, were found sitting by the fire,
over which was suspended an iron pot. Haggett imme-
diately raised the lid, and found in it three pieces of
mutton; and, on looking round the room he discovered,
between the joists of the bedroom floor and the wall,
seven or eight pounds of melted mutton fat. The two
Eades' and Martin (who were upstairs) were at once
taken into custody, and brought into Sherborne for ex-
amination before the 11ev. L. Parsons. In addition to
the circumstances we have stated, it was proved before
the magistrates by Wm. H. Troop, constable of Here-
thorne Hundred, that prints had been made by Martin's
horse. The horse had a contracted foot, and the nails
of the shoe projected, making the print so remarkable
that Toop, who is a blacksmith by trade, said he had no
doubt whatever that the marks were those of Martin's
horse. The prisoners protested they know nothing of
the charge, and were fully committed to Dorchester
gaol for trial at the next sessions. This is, we believe,
almost the only case on record wherein the footmarks of
a horse led to the apprehension of suspected thieves.—
Somerset County Herald
Tun BLACKBIRD AND . THE GREY RAT.—Two
blackbirds have for some time past taken up their quar-
ters near the avenue leading to Brechin Castle, and
have paid daily visits to the gatekeeper at the hour
when he was feeding the poytry. The utmost good
feeling was manifested by the utoultry to their sable
visitors, allowing them freely td partake of the good
things daily spread out on the well stored poultry board
of his Lordship. One day lately, when employed in
feeding his feathery tribe, the gatekeeper observed a
rat of the grey species cautiously approaching the black-
birds, and when within a few feet of one of them, the
rat made a sudden spring, and fixed on the back of it.
Off flew blackie with the grey enemy on his back ; but
the weight of the denizen of the gutter Was too strong
for the songster of the wood, and, after flying upwards
of fifty yards, the gatekeeper immediately sprung to the
rescue of his favourite ; but the rat, no doubt antici-
pating what would be its fate wore it to remain within
reach, relaxed its hold, and darted off, apparently nene
the worse of its aerial flight. The poor bird was then
received into the hands of Mr. Hunter, much mutilated ;
but hopes are entertained of its recovery.—Montrose
Standard.

AN Exrsiesivs STARB.-00 Wednesday week a
gentleman, while passing the bridge at Bathpool, Taun-
ton, stopped to look at the train passing, and let a bag,
containing 92 sovereigns, drop
.out of his great coat
pocket. A boy, George Serle, picked up the bag, and
on restoring it to the owner, was rewarded with two
sovereigns. Seven shillings and sixpence were also di-
vided between the three bystanders, for the information
given in finding out the person who crossed the bridge
after the loss occurred.—Bath Berald.

-
A -REALLY INDEPENDENT LABOURER.—At a re-
cent meeting of the guardians of
.the Cleobury Mortimer
Union, Henry Tudor, a resident in the parish of Wheat-
hill, voluntarily came and paid V. ls. 6d., the amount of
relief advanced to him while üb-.ble to work from the
dislocation of his arm. The guardians present immedi-
ately subscribed the amount, and returned it to Tudor,
and expressed their admiration of his sterling honesty.

mat her a
_ remaininpit Bucharest. -T at the conduct
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of the Russians itOvithout excuse ap ears to us--at
13,01 t M we are atifresent advised—very manifest, When
the invasion was undertaken in the month of September
principalities were in a state of profound tran-
quillity, and it appatre Tory difficult on any recog-
nised principle of public law EL7 jltstifiy the occupation of
a neutral, or even a protected yet independent power,
under such circumstances. If we mistake not, England
recognised the neutrality of Moldavia and Wallachia,
not merely in 1824, but in 1828 and 1829, at both of
which periods Viscount Palmerston formed a portion of
the Government—first, under Lord Liverpool and Mr.
Canning, and secondly, under the Duke of Wellington.
Independently, altogether, however, of considerations of
principle, right, and international law—the concentra-
tion of Russian troops on a strategetical point. of se
much importance as Bucharest—a point from , which
they may be directed against either Hungary, Italy,
Germany, Constantinople, or France, is a question of
the very gravest European importance—a question
which concerns England more intimately than at the
first blush clearly appears. We believe that our con-
sul general, Mr. Colquhoun, in the principalities, has
done all that a British agent could or ought to de in this
Wallachian question ; and we also believe that Sir
Stratford Canning has held a proper and fitting lan-
guage, and given the best advice at Constantinople. But
it seems to us that it is not at Constantinople such re-
monstrances should be loudly heard, but at Danko,
Zelo, at Peterhoff, or at St. Petersburgh. Any habi-
tual reader of this paper must be well aware that we
have almost invariably treated Viscount Palmerston
with the greatest leniency. We not only believe him to
be by far the ablest man in the Ministry, but one of the
very few gentlemen in the Whig-Radical Cabinet. But
But his culpable complacency—his dilatoriness—his
negligence—his blandness and poco-curante policy, its
anything in which Russian interests or Russian views
are mixed up, is his chief opprobrium—his cardinal and
most conspicuous defect. Indeed, it would latterly seem
as though, out of mere wanton bravado, the temeraire
vieillard (we would not for the world use the words old
man, so spitefully employed in the Chronicle of Satur-
day) is disposed to give some colouring of truth to the
lofty flights of fancy of the member for Stafford.
DAILY NEWS.—For the Times to continue urban,

and decorous two days in succession is no doubt difficult.
It greeted Mr. Cobden's budget, on Saturday, with half-
insinuated distrust and polite persiflage, but 4 1 it was
wondrous civil. Yesterday, however, the Times made
itself staple amends for this brief exercise of self-con•
trol, and relapsed into its natural vocabulary. It ac-
cused Mr. Cobden, " if not of ignorance or haste, of it
scandalous piece of dishonesty. All this, because of
the assertion that the dominant class of the Legislature
have exempted themselves from the probate and legacy
duty, and that the extension of the probate and legacy
duty to real estate, entailed and unentailed, will yield, at
a moderate' estimate, 1,500,000/. per annum. This state-
ment the Times characterises as false and dishonest--
first, on the ground that all real property does not enjoy
the exemption; secondly, on the ground that real property
is under peculiar burdens and legal disadvantages. The
first of these reasons is a mere play upon words—a
taking shelter behind the technical jargon of the courts
of law. The Times does not deny that real estate, en-
tailed and -unentailed, was withdrawn from the opera-
tion of the legacy and probate duties against the will of
Pitt, who introduced those duties, the corresponding
Bill on real property having been flung out by the coun-
try gentlemen. It does not deny that real estate, if
taxed at the came rate as the property subjected to
these duties, would yield a revenue of 1,500,000/. per
annum ; or that the great bulk of the property thus
emancipated from taxation is owned by the titled and
untitled aristocracy who have hitherto made the House
of Commons, and- by its instrumentality made our
laws. This is the important fact, and this the
I imes cannot call in question. The Times asserts that
all leasehold property is liable to probate or legacy duty
(a mistake so far as leasoholds are concerned), and that
" the greater part of this metropolis, and a considerable
portion of the house property and other buildings
throughout the whole kingdom is held for terms of
years." Very true; the millowner holds his factory on
a building lease ; the lawyer, doctor, shopkeeper, and
all of the industrial classes who have houses of their own,
generally hold them upon a building lease ; and they
are subjected to the.probate and legacy duties, whilst
the ground landlord is exempted from it. This is pre-
cisely what Mr. Cobden ;complains of: the Times has
proved his case. The assertion that the landlords ought to
continue exempted from legacy and probate duties because
they are subjected to peculiar burdens is equally unten-
able. " The conveyance of landed property is burthened
by heavier charges than the transfer of personality."
True; but the charges are paid, not to the State, but to
the lawyers, and they are paid in consequence of the
laws made by the owners of that kind of property. It
is no answer to a complaint on the part of the Indus-
' trial classes that the landlords have exempted them-
selves from a heavy contribution towards the support of
government, that they are foolish enough to uphold a
system by which they are taxed for the private emolu-
ment of legal practitioners. The landlords (our lawr
makers) might relieve themselves of this tax
for the benefit of trade, and Government be not a
penny the poorer. That they choose to indulge in
the luxury of an expensive lay stem of conveyancing is no
reason for exempting them from contributing their fair
share towards the expenses of the State. They might
as reasonably claim such an exemption on the ground
that th, it turtle, pine-apples, and champagne are more
expensive than the labourer's bread and beer. They
are the law-makers, and the industrial class gains no-
thing by the foolish laws they have made to injure
themselves. The privilege of making the laws is an
axe with which they have cut and hewed at all around
them. If from their awkwardness they have hit their
own shins on one occasion, is the already over-taxed
public to be mulcted to pay for a plaister ?
Again,
.saith the 7 imes, " real property pays more
than EIX millions a year to the relief of the
poor ; personal property nil." This is simply
untrue. Poor-rates are charged, not on the owners but
on the occupiers, of real property. The warehouseman,
the shopkeeper, the manufacturer, the house tenant, the
mortgagee, the railway shareholder, all pay poor rates.
The landlord is assessed directly; his tenants are as-
sessed indirectly : but in point of fact the industrial
class are subjected to the poor-rates as well as the land-
owning law-making class. There is not a merchant or
manufacturer in Yorkshire or Lancashire, there is not a
householder in London, who cannot by the production
of the collector's receipt for poor-rates disprove the
assertion of the Times, that the class which has
exempted itself from taxes to the amount of
1,500,0001. per annum pays the whole of the poor-rates.
The Times cites the case of landlords taxed as high as
one fifth of their income for the relief of the poor. All
we can say of such cases is, that they must be Irish
landlords or much akin to them. Landlords have poor-
rates very much under their control; and, instead of
paying one•fifth of their income to them, as the Times
exemplifies, they very often pay nothing at all, and fling
the residue of their workmen and the support of their
paupers upon districts where the non-landlord class
abounds. The next plea set up by the Times is the fun-
niest of all. The landowner pays tithes! He has re-
ceived, or he has purchased his estate, with the full
knowledge and condition that a certain portion of its
produce belongs not to him, but to the church. The
Times calls this a tax upon the landholder. It might as
well designate rent as a tax upon the farmer. The next
thing the Times will propose is no doubt the repeal of
this tax, the abolition of this tithe. It might as well
turn communist, and abrogate rent! The land-tax is
another exclusive burden, according to the Times.
What, however, was the land-tax Originally, but a sub-
stitute for a feudal service, or for a rent actually charged
by law on landed property, and commuted to this tax,
which has dwindled to a diminutive fraction of the pro-
fits of land, augmented as these have been to enormous
dimensions, not by the culture or industry of the land-
lord, but by the rise and increase of mercantile
industry around him? The Times, in making up the
landlords' account, does not spare an item. The county
rates are another exclusive burden. Pray, what are
the rates for the paving and lighting of towrui?
Cannot the country gentlemen trot or drive over the
town pavement without a charge, whilst the towns-
man, if he sends his cart, and tarns his horse over the
road and bridge paid out of the county rate, is compelled
instantly to pay
.his quota in the shape of a turnpike
toll? As to lunatic asylums, police, and all the sundries
of the Trmes, does not the town tenant pay them out of
his personal property? But we see the reason why the
Tines has selected this one, and the most unassailable
portion of Mr. Cobden's budget for attack. It is, that
by exciting and exacerbating controversy on this point
it may blow and widen the old quarrel between the
reformers and the landed interest; the inklings of which
for the cause of retrenchmont are, above all things,
most dreaded' by the oligare hy In this, however, the
Times shall be disappointedlWe claim nothing but a
fair apportionment of taxation, local as well as general.
We wish to destroy that old juggle of taxing by com-
pensation, and of loading different classes with different
burdens, and exciting mutual jealousies, in order that,
owing to their divisions, the oligarchy . may have
more facility for overburdening and despoiling both.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] —The Agent appointed by
John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton-hall, near Huddersfield, for
the sale of his celebrated rvorsdell's Vegetable Restorative
Pills, beg to caution the public against spurious imita-
tions. Every box of John Kayo's Pills is enclosed in a
wrapper with directions, on which is printed the arms of
the above gentleman, and also a fac-simile of his signa-
ture; and without these none can be genuine. The
thousands of cures effected by this remarkable medicine
are truly wonderful: especially in cases of indigestion,
billions affections, nervousness, headaches, cutaneous
diseases, derangement of the respiratory organs, bowel
complaints, and dropsy. This has induced Mr. Kave to
instruct his London Agent to give the utmost publicity
to this health restoring and invigorating medicine. A
list of testimonials, containing three hundred cases of
cure, has just been issued. Sold, price Is. lid.. ts. 9,1.,
and 4s. 6d. per box, by all respectable ➢ledicine Venders.
SINGULAR PRESERVATION OF A CAT.-A short
time since whilst the Blessing, of Goole, was taking in
coal, a cat got into the hold of the vessel and secreted
herself under two large pieces of coal, which formed a
sort of covering or protection for her—somewhat in the
shape of the letter A. _cargo was thrown in and corn •
pleted, and poor puss us buried alive. The vessel ar-
rived in Lynn, and on t e 13th day from the time of her
being immured, puss was found by the porters unloading
the ship and still alive, i to having been protected by the
position of the large p 'ces of coal as before stated.
The poor animal was tal from her place in a very ex-
hausted state, and rec, red the attention necessary to
her restoration.—Lynn advertiser.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of Ceylon, liong-Rong
the Mauritius, su Mae.