The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-08 00:00:00

I.IOP INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Kcntish Gazette.)
The diet} 1125 retrogaded in the opinion of the specu-
lators, and business is doing at 210.0001.
(From the Canterhury lonrnal.)
As the hopping may now be said to have erminated,
better conjectures can be formed as to ti.e probable
amount of duty. It is geuerally admitted LI at the hops
this year are lighter than last, but then th quantity is
greater and the quality good. The duty in this part
is backed from 210,000/. to 220,000/., though in some
parts of West Kent an opinion prevails that it will not
exceed 200,0001. The last accounts from Maidstone
state that in many instances the quality is inferior, and
the weight deficient.
MEREWORTH, WATERINGBURY, AND TESTON.—The
quantity and quality have realised the expectations of
most of the growers, but the general opinion is against
the present supposed amount of duty.
STAPLEHURST.—I trust my brother hop-planters will
he no longer gulled by factors and merchants. Look at
the average growth for rineteen years, to 1844 inclusive,
viz., G 4 cwt. per acre, 49,000 acres, 157,0001, duty ; and
say if, with the general light weight of hops this year,
it is even probable the duty will realise from 30 to 40
per cent. more than the above average of nineteen
years. Let past experience and severe losses serve as
an inducement to act and judge for themselves hence-
forth ; let them form a company and establish a market
and a depot in Maidstone.
SEAL AND IGHTHAH.—The general complaint is, that
the hops have come considerably short of what was ex-
pected, owing to their weighing so badly according to
bushels, and the duty is thought to be too high at the
present estimate.
EAST MALLING.—The planters consider the hops to
weigh well to the number of bushels, and the quality ex-
ceedingly good.
ROLVENDEN.—We have still the same complaint of
lightness as we had at the commencement. This we
understand to be the case generally,and is easily accounted
for. The great quantities of insects which assailed the
young bine kept it back to such a degree that the
planters were almost in despair ; but as soon as they
disappeared, the growth of the hop was so extremely
rapid, that the time of gathering, instead of being very
late, was much sooner than last year. Hence there was
a great paucity of seed, and, as a natural consequence, a
want of pollen, which detracts much from their weight.
When we consider that this is almost universal, we can
but think that the duty will not reach 200,0001, and
that the farmers must be doing very wrong to press
their hops upon an already overstocked market. Let
them wait but a short time, and they will get a remune-
rating price. In number of bushels our parish will
exceed last year's growth, but in weight it will come
off considerably less, it often requiring 75 to 85 bushels
to the cwt.

TICEIIIIRST.—The crop does not exceed expectation.
There is a disposition on the part of many growers to
hold their hops a time from market, in order that better
prices may be ob• ained, the present growth being good,
and but few good old ones being on hand.

IT UTION.

THE BLACK ISLET, EASTER neas, AIONLOCIIIE, SEPT.
22.--On the lst instant, the heritors, commissioners of
supply, and justices of the peace of the seven northern
counties, memorialised Government to make provision
for supporting the poor in the Highlands, under the
prospect of a failure in the potato crop. The answer to
the memorial has been fourteen days in the hands of the
Committee of Management, and up to the present mo-
ment is not published. Through the kindness of a per-
sonal friend we have obtained a copy of a letter, and
hasten to lay it before our readers

" Whitehall, Sept. 5, 1846.
" I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letters of the 29th of August and of the Ist of
September: the former enclosing a copy of resolutions
adopted at a meeting held i❑ the parish of Glenelg ;
and the latter enclosing the copy of a memorial of a
committee appointed by a meeting of the commissioners
of supply, heritors, and justices of the peace of the
county of Inverness, with reference to the failure of the
potato crop in that county. These documents, toge-
ther with the memorial from the Island of Skye, trans-
mitted in your letter of the 20th of August, have re-
ceived the careful and attentive consideration of her
Majesty's Government.
" They have learned with deep regret that the dis-
ease which has so generally afftcted the potato crop
during the present year throughout the United King:
dom, as well as on many parts of the Continent, has
spread so extensively in the western districts of Scot-
land; and it is a cause of very great concern that so
large a portion of the population in that part of Scotland
are represented to be mainly dependent for their sub-
sistence upon potatoes.
" Her Majesty's Government are at the same time
gratified with the assurance contained in these docu-
ments, of the readiness of the landed proprietors to take
measui es for lessening the distress which is apprehended,
as they are the parties mainly responsible for the afford-
ing relief under any pressing emergency, and as for their
local knowledge and influence they are best able to
furnish it without waste or indiscretion.

" Her Majesty's Government are in communication
with the Board of Supervision for the relief of the poor
in Scotland upon this subject; and they find that inqui-
ries have been instituted by that board, in order to
obtain accurate information as to the extent of the evil,
and with a view to the adoption of such measures as the
result of these inquiries may prove to be necessary with
regard to that portion of the population which is entitled
to parochial relief.
"I am further to inform you, that an experien,2ed
commissariat officer will proceed immediately to Scot-
land, with instructions personally to inspect districts
within which the greatest distress is to be apprehended,
and to make a full report to the Government as to the
supply of food which will probably be available for the
people i❑ these districts.
"This report will receive the earliest attention on
the part of the Government ; but I feel it my
duty to state, that while her Majesty's Government
will be desirous to promote and facilitate the efforts of
landed proprietors to lessen the distress which is ap-
prehended, they cannot encourage the expectation
that by any direct system of pecuniary advances they
can relieve the proprietors from the obligation which
rests upon them, to take upon themselves the charge
of providing for the wants of the people. Her Majesty's
Government have reason to believe that, notwithstand-
ing the failure of the potatoes, the crop of oats in the
west of Scotland is this year generally abundant, and
the quality excellent ; and they trust that other articles
of food will be found to exist in larger quantities than
in ordinary years.
" With reference to the desire which has been ex-
pressed for providing means of employment, I may,
perhaps, be permitted to call your attention to the Act
passed towards the close of the last sessin (a copy of
which I enclose), which authorises the advance of public
money for the purposes of draining.
" I have the honour to be, &c.,
"Henry Baillie, Esq., M.P." " G. GREY.

MILITARY FLOGGING.

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By the Cape of Good 1-lopo papors we learn that thr
greatest excitement prevails among the inhabitants
the cAcny, on account of some cases in which civilians,
pressed into the service during the Kafir war have been
subjected to the degrading punishment of flogging.
The.most notorious case occurred at Fort Peddie, and
it is thus described at length :

"A few days preceding' the attack on Fort Petldie, as
we are informed, whilst the neighbourhood was infested
by Kafirs, a young man named John Crawford Smith, a
respectable inhabitant of Graham's Town, and the pro
prietor of a waggon then in the employ of Government,
was asked by Mr. Cumming, the commissariat officer, if
he had an axe, as he would be required to proceed to
cut wood for the supply of the troops. The spot where
the wood is cut is in the Fish River Bush, about five
miles from the post, close to deep wooded kloofs, and a
very dangerous place. It app3ars that Mr. Smith at
the commencement of the war, hired his waggon and
oxen to Government at los. Gd. rer diem, for which
he was bound to supply a leader and driver, but not
being able to obtain a driver, lie was under the ne-
cessity of driving his own waggon ; wood-cutting,
therefore, was no part of his compact with Govern-
ment, nor had Government any claim whatever to
his services, except as a waggon driver. On a for-
mer occasion (May 7) he, with others, was ordered out
with his waggon to fetch wood for the post, and an
escort of 30 men accompanied them ; the Caffres at-
tacked them, drove back the escort, and burnt one of
the waggons. On the present occasion. Mr. Smith very
properly remonstrated against this arbitrary order of
Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay, and declim. d to expose his
life on such duty unless protected. Mr. SAth's waggon
happened to be nearest to the entrance of the enclosure,
and on that account Mr. Cumming went to him, and did
not speak to any of the other waggon drivers at the
time, but went straight to Colonel Lindsay to report
what he had said, upon which Colonel Lindsay imme-
diately ordered the soldiers to get under arms, the cats
to be brought out, and all the persons in charge of the
waggon to be summoned before him. The following
scene then took place :—The waggon. drivers being as-
sembled, Mr. Smith was directed to stand out, and Col.
Lindsay inquired if there were any others who objected
to go ; upon which Messrs. Webb and Norton, and one
coloured person, also stepped out, and declined going
unless all the waggon-drivers went, and an escort was
given. Colonel Lindsey then threatened to flog them
all, and without any court-martial or inquiry ordered
Smith to receive twenty-five lashes. After the punish-
ment of Smith, the waggon-drivers all went out without
their waggons to cut wood, with an escort of about
40 or 50 men, dragoons and infantry, and the fol-
lowing day were sent with their waggons to fetch the
wood they had cut the day previous. None of the
soldiers cut any wood on that occasion. The contractor
had previously always got the Fingoes to cut all the
wood required for the po,t, but the Fingoes at this
time refused to go, on account of the danger. The spot
where they cut wood is a very dangerous place, deep
kloofs, thickly wooded. The contractor then offered
Is. 6d. a day to the waggon drivers to go and cut wood
for his contract, which they refused, the risk of life
being too great. Our informant never heard of any
soldiers being employed to cut wood at any time for
their own use. There were 300 or 400 men on the post
at the time. On the evening of the day when Smith
was flogged, Colonel Lindsay ordered up all the
waggon drivers on parade, and told them that he had
heard a rumour that they had intended to leave the
post ; he said that if any there dared to leave, he would
send an express to Graham's-town, have them' ap-
prehended, and shot on the public market-place."
The mother of Smith addressed a memorial to the
Governor, praying for an inquiry into the cause of her
son's punishment, and the concise answer of Colonel
Cloete seems to have awakened scarcely less indignation
than the act itself:—

" REPLY TO MEMORIAL OF WIDOW MARY SMITH.
" Graham's Town, June 12, 1846.
"It appears on reference to Lieutenant-Colonel Lind-
say, 91st Regiment, the officer in command, that the
punishment of 25 lashes was inflicted on John Crawford
Smith for direct and positive disobedience of orders.
"A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Deputy Quarter-Master General."
Another case, of which the following is the descrip-
tion, occurred at Fort Brown:—
" I have recently seen published the accounts of two
civilians having been flogged without any form of trial,
and I now call your attention to a third case, which I
think is equal in atrocity and importance to either of
the fortner:—l refer to a good, but poor old Hottentot
man named Cm3ar (or Cester), and who was lately
discharged from the Cape Mounted Rifles with as good
a character as ever man bore—not having a black line
against his name in the books during 28 years' service,
half of which period he was a non-commissioned officer.
fie was ultimately discharged as a sergeant with a pen-
sion of 71d. per diem, and is now in the employ of the
contractor's agent, baking and butchering the whole
day for the supply of the troops, and which is very hard
work. Some days ago this man was ordered by the
Provisional Field-Cornet, Delport, to stand sentry over
the Dutchman's cattle, and whose " leger " is close
under the walls of the fort. To this request the old
man urged his daily employment, and that he had two
sons and three horses doing duty. He also stated that
he had no great coat to protect him in the night against
the weather, adding that as a soldier he would not ob-
ject to do military duty, but he conceived he had no
right to be forced to stand guard over private property.
On this the Provisional Field-Cornet, with the sanction
of Lieutenant Bouchier, whom you extolled lately for
his kindness, ordered the poor old man to be tied to a
waggon, and inflicted 25 lashes on him."

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN

INDIA.

On Tuesday a Parliamentary document was issued,
of twenty-eight pages, containing several papers relative
to corporal punishment in India. Mr. llume moved for
a copy "of any orders issued by the Governor-General
or Commander-in-Chief in India respecting corporal
punishment of Europeans and natives in British India
since the 19th of March, 1827." By a circular, dated
the 16th of June, 1827, the Commander-in- Chief gave
some explanation respecting a former circular letter, and
the general orders restricting the punishment of flog-
ging in the native army. Regimental or detachment
courts-martial were reminded that where they sentenced
a native soldier to be flogged, his dismissal would also
except for very serious offences against
follow, and that they ought not to award the punish-
ment of flogging
discipline, or actions of a disgraceful and infamous
nature, unbecoming thelecharacter of a soldier. Another
circular was issued in November, 1832. When it hap-
pened that a soldier had been found guilty of an offence
which rendered it improper that he should remain any
longer in the service, although the geeeral conduct of the
man had been such that an example was unnecessary, or
he might have relations in theregiment of excellen t charac-
ter upon whom some part of the disgrace would fall if he
were flogged, the commander-in-chief authorised com-
manding officers of regiments in all cases where a native
soldier had been sentenced to corporal punishment to
discharge him from the service, if they considered it to
be expedient. although the punishment was remitted
altogether. In every case of a discharge ordered in
consequence of a court-martial, the circumstances of
the soldier having been found guilty and sentenced to
corporal punishment was to be distinctly specified in
his aischarge certificate, and in the monthly casualty
sat
list transmitted to head quarters. The following is
sveerrvye
dwt gratifyingh great
satisfaction Commander-in- Chief has oh-?n how seldom it is necessary to:—"
resort to such punishment in order to maintain discipline
amongst a body of men who are free from the vice of ine-
briety ; who are, in general, remarkable for their orderly,
quiet, and obedient behaviour, and for whom dismissal
from the service, where any individual betrays an
opposite character, constitutes of itself a severe, and in
most cases, a sufficient punishment." In February, 1835,
the following General. Order Was issued :—" The Go-
vernor General of India,. council, is pleased to direct
that the practice of punishing soldiers of the native army
by the cat o'-nine-tails, or rattan, be discontinued at all
the presidencies, and that it shall henceforth be compe-
tent to any regimental detachment or brigade court-
martial to sentence a soldier of the native army to dis-
missal from the service for any offence for which such
soldier might now be punished by flogging, provided
such sentence of dismissal shall not be carried into effect
unless confirmed by the General, or other officer com-
manding the division." The document contains an Act
passed by the Governor, and the Articles of War for the
government of the native officers and soldiers in the mili-
tary service of the East India Company.

i . PROGRESS OF STEAM NAVIGATION AND MA •
CHINERY IN FRANCE.—According to a statistical return
it appears that steam navigation and the employment of
steam-engines have made a very rapid progress through-
out France, particularly in the mini. g and manufacturing
districts, where steam power is now being generally
adopted within the last ten years. In 1835 there were
only 75 steam vessels, but from the official report there
are at present 238 steamers of various sizes and horse-
power, not only in the royal navy,
but belonging to
private parties. From an average calculation that has
been made of the work now done by steam-engines,
compared with manual and horse labour, it is as follows,
showing the gradual increase viz. :
For 1840 equal to 1,005,942 workmen and 143,706 horses
1841 ... 1,085,595 ••• 145,085 ...
1842 ... 1,128,449
••• 191,207 ~.
1843 ..• 1,241,142
... 177,306 ...
1844 ... 1,321,229
••• 188,847 ...
1845 ..• 1,385,176
••• 193,540 ...
DASTARDLY CoNDucr.--Some months ago we
noticed the circumstance of a servant girl, named Ann
Wilson, having had a quantity of vitriol thrown upon her
person whilst passing
under one of the railway arches in
Gorbals. We have been informed that, on the evening
of Monday last, the same girl was subjected to a similar
annoyance in the neighbourhood of Waterloo-place,
whereby the cap upon her head was burned, and ber
person severely scorched. The scoundrel who committed
this disgraceful act effected his escape. It is an extra-
ordinary fact that this is the third time that the girl
Wilson has suffered injury from assaults of a similar
description. There is every reason to believe that the
same party has been guilty in each case.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer gives the follow-
ing as the numbers of the passengers and the amounts
of the receipts of the Paris railroads during the last
month :--

(Right 59 3
BanksPalssensg7ers. Receipts.
Saint Germain, ........... 140,484 142,910 E
159.272
Versailles
Versailles (Left Bank) ' ' 78,609
Orleans and C0rbei1...,,,.— 75,093
934,400
Rouen ........................ 111,181 897,110
Secaux ..................... 79254 31,189
Duthe month of September, 1845, the receipts of the
Saint Germain road were 142.202 f. ; of the Versailles
(Right Bank) 177,020 f. ; of the. Versailles (Left Bank)
82,015 f. ; of the Orleans and Corbeil 769,958 f. ; and of
the Rouen road 839,7614

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENTING, OCTOI3ER, 1846.
lIIZILAND DES-

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.

A CHALLENGE TO FIGIIT.—Mr. ii.Clarering Saraye,
a person of considerable property, residing in Weiling-
ton-road, St. John's Wood, attended before Mr. Rawlin-
son, by virtue of a warrant which had been placed in the
hands of Whirp, the officer, chargin,, him with having
challenged Theodore Henry Shute, the principal witness
on the inquest relating to the death of the unfortunate
Baron de Bode, to fight, a duel.
Dr. Shute stated, that his surgery is opposite to the
dwelling of the defendant, from whose premises loud
screams of " Murder" proceeded on the 10th ult., be-
tween seven and eight o'clock in the evening. Smiler
cries had beeri heard from the same house before, and a
large mob of persons had assembled, and they insisted
upon the door leading to the stable-yard being opened
shortly afterwards.

Mr: IllwriNsoN—The defendant is brought here on
the charge of challenging you; come to that if you please.
Dr. Shute—Well, Sir, as I was sitting in my surgery,
there was a great noise at the door, and hearing the de-
fendant's voice, I ran out somewhat excited. He (14-
fendant) ran away to his own premises opposite, and
there abused me, calling me a blackguard and a gallipot
scraper, at the same time challenging me to fight at
Calais, either with pistols or swords.
Mr. RAWLINSON—You have told me what the de-
fendant said to you, now let me know what you said to
him? Dr. Shute—After he had called me names I cer-
tainly told him that if I could get at him I would thrash
him.

Defendant—You spat in my face, did you not ?
Dr. Shute--I admit that I tried to do so, but whether
I really did spit in your face or not I eaunct
Joseph Hooper, assistant to Dr. Shute, corroborated
the greater portion of the preceding evidence, stating,
that in addition to the challenge, which, he understood,
was to be a fight either with swords or pistols, he heard
defendant abuse Dr. Shute, whom he accused of having
caused pill-boxes and other rubbish to be thrown down
in front of his (defendant's) door. It was proposed that
the duel should take place at Calais, on the sands.
Mr. RAWLINSON—What did you hear complainant
say ? Witness—l heard him say, "I wish I could get
hold of you."
Another witness deposed to having heard defendant
make use of the offensive expressions imputed to him.
Defendant, in answer to the charge, said that the noise
was occasioned by a family dispute, and that a young
female with whom he was living, thought fit to call out
" Murder." He neither struck her, nor in any way ill-
used her, and as soon as the noise had in some degree
subsided, he went over to Dr. Shute, who had impro-
perly interfered, and complained of his having caused
pill-boxes and other rubbish to be placed at his (de-
fendant's) door. He (Dr. Shute) then rushed at him in
a most furious manner, and not only aimed a blow at
him, but spat in his face. Being incensed at this, he
certainly did call the doctor a " gallipot scraper."
fie made no challenge at all to fight a duel, but told him
that for spitting in his face he might institute pro-
ceedings against him, not in a Police-court, but in an-
other way.
Witnesses were examined in behalf of the defendant,
and the magistrate, taking all the circumstances into
consideration, dismissed the case, remarking that both
parties seemed to have conducted themselves with much
indiscretion.

CHARGE OF UTTERING A COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGN.
—A young man, named Henry Frexcin, was charged
with having uttered a counterfeit sovereign to Mr. Hin-
ton, a cheesemonger, in the Edgware-road.
It appeared that on the previous night the prisoner
went to the shop and called for half a pound of cheese,
which was served to him. He put down a piece re-
sembling a sovereign, and when prosecutor put it be-
tween his teeth it broke into three pieces. He then
called a constable and gave the prisoner into custody.
He was searched, and in his possession were found a
sixpence and four duplicates.
The piece alluded to was beautifully executed. A
number of other tradesmen in the same vicinity have of
late been offered, and have taken bad coin.
The prisoner, who said that he received the " sove-
reign " from his uncle, a plumber in Lisson-grove, was
remanded for the attendance of the Mint solicitor.
STABBING.—Robert Price was charged with having
stabbed in the hand James Clements. The parties are
both cab drivers.
On Monday evening complainant was at the Euston
station of the London and Birmingham Railway, when
defendant, imagining that complainant had " bilked "
him of a job, struck him with a knife, and wounded him
in the hand.—Fined 20s. and costs.
WESTMINSTER.

ASSAULT ON THE POLICE BY A WOMAN.—Anne
Churchman and Catherine Harris were charged with the
following disgraceful conduct at Cleaver's coffee-house,
Westminster• bridge.
Mrs. Mansfield, the wife of the proprietor, stated that
defendants came to the bar on the previous afternoon and
called for liquor, when observing that they were intoxi-
cated she refused to serve them. They became very
abusive, and Churchman seized a bottle of port wine
which was standing upon the counter, and dashed it to
the ground. She swore she would tear witness's eyes
out, and threw a handful of halfpence, which broke 12s.
worth of glass behind the bar.
The police proved that Churchman was so violent that
she required four me❑ to take her to the station, two of
whom she assaulted.

Mrs. Mansfield observed that it was due to Harris to
say that she paid for the bottle of wine, and endeavoured
to persuade the other to be quiet and leave the place.
Mr. Bingham, taking this into consideration, fined
Harris 55., but as regarded Churchman he observed, that
for the protection of respectable p,rsons, he should
commit her for 21 days, and, in addition, order her to
pay 125., the amount of damages, or seven clays.
DISTRESSING CASE.—A poor girl, about 15 years of
age, whose father was killed by an accident a fi w weeks
ago, applied to the magistrate for assistance. She said
that her mother and four children, younger than her-
self, were in a starving condition, and having been
turned out of their lodgings, had slept during the last
night on some stairs. Her mother had applied to the
relieving officers of St. Margaret's, who refused to afford

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her any assistance, and told her to go to St. Luke's
Chelsea, where they sent her back, without any relief,
to St. Margaret's. Between the two the family were
left to starve.

Mr. BINGHAM said it was the duty of the authorities
of St. Margaret's to relieve the family as casual paupors.
They could, if they thought fit, pass them to their set-
tlement. The worthy magistt ate directed an officer to
accompany her to the workhouse and request the autho-
rities to attend to the case.
THAMES.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY AN ACTRESS.--MTS. Anna
Yates, an actress belonging to the corps dramatique of
the Pavilion Theatre, in the \Vhitechapel-road,•was
brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with having at-
tempted to commit suicide.

James Liddard, a waterman, said he belonged to Iron-
gate Stairs, adjoining the Tower, and was sitting on a
bench in the plying-place, on Monday night, a few
minutes before eight o'clock, when he saw the prisoner
coming down Tower-hill at full speed, towards the
stairs, and supposing that she wanted a boat, he plied
her in the usual manner, by calling out " A boat, ma'am,
a boat." She made no answer, but rushed past him to-
wards the river, and was about to jump in head fore-
most, when he sprang towards her and seized her by
the gown. She appeared in a very excited and agitated
state, and he led her to the bench, an:l after directing
her to be seated, asked her if she was ill. She fainted
away, and he bathed her temples with vinegar, and
when she recovered a little, made ;her drink some of it,
which appeared to revive her. A young gentleman
directly afterwards made his appearance, who appeared
to know the prisoner well, and he asked her to go away
with him. She repulsed him, and begged him to leave
her, on which he called for a cab, but as the prisoner
did not feel inclined to have his company, he refused to
let the young gentleman take her away in the cab, and
sent for a policeman.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Was the prisoner intoxicated ?
The waterman—l rather think she was drunk, but I
may be mistaken; perhaps it was her agitation.
Wigley, a police-constable, saw the prisoner on the
steps of the plying-place, and asked her why she at-
tempted to commit such a rash act as suicide, and she
she had quarrelled with a man who insulted her.
The prisoner, who is about forty years of age, and
ladylike in appearance, on being called upon for her de-
fence, said she had been very grossly insulted by a per-
son to whom she was indebted, and she rushed away
from him with the intention of getting into a boat and
crossing the river. She did not intend to commit any
act of desperation.
The waterman was satisfied the prisoner intended to
drown herself and nothing else, and there was twelve
feet of water just below the place where she was- about
to throw herself in.

Inspector Scott, of the II division, stated, that when
the prisoner was brought to the station house, she was
in a very excited state, and he would not allow her to
depart until she had prpcured very respectable bail. He
asked her why she made the attempt on her life, to wllioh
she replied that unforeseen calamities and insults had
induced her to act so rashly.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Did she deny the fact of going to
the waterside with the intention of drowning herself ?
Inspector Scott—No, sir, she did not.
_ _ _

Mr. Baker, a tradesman, residing in the vicinity of the
Pavilion, said he knew Mrs. Yates well. She was a
woman of considerable talent and good character. He
had never heard of anything to her prejudice before,
but he was afraid some misfortunes and insults had ex-
cited her.

Mr. BALLANTINE said that self murder was a great
offence, and the attempt to commit it is a misdemeanour,
and she was liable to severe punishment.
The prisoner said she had unfortunately been out of
an engagement for seventeen weeks, and was compelled
to borrow a small trifle of a person, who grossly insulted
her, and she could not endure the insult. She did not
owe more than 51. in the world.

111 r. BALLANTINE- -It was too much to make an at-
tempt to throw yourself away for 5/. Have you an en-
gagement now? The prisoner—I have, Sir, and lam
afraid this will interfere with my professional pursuits.
Mr. BALLANTINE—You should have thought of that
before.

Mr. Baker said the prisoner was indebted to him for
bread, but he was so well assured of her integrity, that
he would become surety for her future good behaviour.
Mr. BALLANTINE said that Mr. Baker was a good-
hearted fellow, and an honest man, and he would take
his bail conjointly with the prisoner's own recognisance
for her future good conduct.
The required sureties having been entered into, she
was discharged.

ANOTHER RISE IN THE rRIC BREAD.—Yes-
terday the 41b. loaf of wheaten bread was advanced to
Sid. by the cheap bakers, and 10fd. by the full-priced
throughout the metropolis.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India colonies.