The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-20 00:00:00

RAILWAYS AND COACHES.—AII the coaches be-

tween Norwich and London have ceased to run,the last being
the mail through Bury St. Edmund's, which was discontinued
on the 6th inst. The others have been discontinued for some
time. The sole means of land conveyance between tills city;
and London is now by the Norfolk and Eastern Counties
Railway, which, we understand, will be far more effectively
managed than hitherto, and consequently mor°-iraclthese
satisfaction of the public. Bdt though six or seven
direct to London have been discontinued, and about 7_oo
"tow
constantly running tthhiertyprcom. coaches
th and London, these stations
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horses thrown off that road, tuhaeretoaweree
stations between Yarn 2
don Mildenhall Road, y,
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being Yarmouth, Norwich,
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and horse-keepers employed. In fact, horses are dearer than
ever they were, and more in demand ; and the consumption of
oats is not likely to be diminished, but rather increased. The
apprehensions of agriculturists on this point, therefore, *e are
happy to say, are not, according to present appearinees,
likely to be realised.—lpswich Express. •
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A SOLITARY:4-On
Monday evening, shortly after six o'clock, a fire was dis-
covered in one of the bedrooms of Belle Vue Villa, Bathivick-
hill, the residence of the Honourable Mrs. SouthwelL An
alarm being given, Captain Carroll tied the police brigade
were almost immediately on the spot. Inspector ~Smith
having procured a ladder, ascended and reached the window
of the room, where he perceived the curtains of the bed, to be
on fire. Having broken the window, Smith and another
policeman entered, and found the Hon. Mrs. Southwell on
the floor insensible, both of her arms being a little bttined.
The flames of the curtains were speedily extinguished, and
Mr. Kilvert, surgeon, attended the lady, and dressed the
parts which had been scorched. But for the aid of the police
there is little doubt the house would have fallen a prey to
the fire, and its owner, who is very eccentric, and resides
alone, would have perished in it. The peculiarity of the
habits of this old lady, has for a time attracted the notice of
the police and others who have had occasion to call at the
house. It appears that for upwards of ten years no domestic
of any kind has been permitted to reside with her, so that
the cause ..f the accident cannot be stated. The method by
which she has been supplied with the necessaries of life has
been from a plan of her own contrivance—taking them istlea:
her drawing-room window by means of a string and aeba.kt
her orders having been previously given through th ki
offices of some parties in her confidence.
period,,,the residence has undergone no cl_eenysisnpgeLtZeTand
person of the old woman presented a most URA
any ablutions !
had apparently been as great a stranger to
Bath Jountal.
--The agricultural re-
AGRICULTURE IN FRANCS.'-'
ports from various parts of_
d early barley all 'bear a pro-
Hitherto the wheat, rjet an • has been well finished, and
the sowing
re been favourable to ve-
getation.
FranceE.
satisfactory.thi;onlys-thge
pro-
Hither
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subsequentt g.: , . ppe ar a iic mild
TRIBUTE.—The parishes of Caber-
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the
subscriberslast
Examiner, of this
' column
Kean mahony, and John Primrose, Dr. Barry, and the Rev.
J. Walsh, P.P., for five pounds each.— Cork Examiner.
THE SEASON.—The mildness of the present season
ciNe and Fllernors
is, we should think, unprecedented. Atthis ' time, the 14th
of January, the Swede turnips in warm situations hays
commenced muting ; turidp-greens, many inches long, hav-
ing been picked during the past week in this neighbourhood.
—Hampshire Advertiser. 12s.
ye. t.
Adtoietssothrs.:

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. '
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGIL)
The January quarter sessibils for the county of
Middlesex were, for the first time, held on Monday at
the Guildhall, Westminster, under the provisions of the
recent Act Of Parliament. There were but ten cases for
trial, nine of which were felonies, and one an assault.
The ASSI3TANT-JUDGE, in his charge to the grand
jury, said,that they were for the first time called upon
to discharge the duty of jarors in that place, but they
must understand that it was not for the city of West-
minster, but for the county of Middlesex, that their
services were required. By the recent Act of Parlia-
ment for the better administration of criminal justice in
that county, all the jurisdiction of the Westminster
magistrates was gone ; but a clause was inserted which
provided that adjourned sessions might be held at West-
minster. They (the jury) were, therefore, exempt from
serving at the Middlesex sessions or anywhere. But in
Westminster it was entirely a privilege ; but what had
they gained by it ? The effect was this : 72 inhabitants
of the city of Westminster would be summoned annually
to attend that Court, to relieve eight or nine of their
neighbours who might have to come there to prose-
cute,
and the expense of each session would be 801., or
101. for the trial of each prisoner, when the expense
should not be more than 11. ss. each. That was the
whole secret, and, for his own part, he hoped that such
a state of things would not continue, as that they should
be taken from their homes, their business, and families
for the sake of a few individuals who might be obliged
to attend the Court. At one time it was supposed that
the whole business would be brought there, and that
they should have to try the whole of the Middlesex cases
at the Guildhall, Westminster. However, that absurdity
was put an end to. He was in great opes that they
would have sessions there upon a proper footing, or
have none at all ; let an equal portion of business be
done at each court, or have them all at one place. Under
the present law, the Westminster magistrates had no
jurisdiction, they could not even sign a warrant. The
prisons were overflowed in Middlesex, while that fine
prison, the Westminster Bridewell, was not half full
since the Westminster Sessions have been suspended.
Frederick Green, 17, pleaded guilty to an indictment,
charging him with stealing six pounds weight of mutton
and three pounds weight of oheese, the property of Eliza
Helen Morgan.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in passing sentence, said this
boy had neither father nor mother, nor any one to look
after him or give him instruction. His father had
.been dead two years, and since then he had been going
about the streets. What was he to do with him ? The
state of the law was this—it put a certain definition
upon cases of felony ; a child under eight years of age
could not be guilty of felony, because he is not at an
age to know right from wrong ; but at the age of four-
teen they were to be tried and punished as felons ; and
there was no provision at all for children between the
ages of seven and fourteen. There was one instance of
a boy eleven years old having been hanged for murder ;
but in that case it was shown that he knew he had done
wrong as he had hid himself in a wood. The state of
things that existed then did not exist now, the state of
property was not the same, society and knowledge were
not as in the present day—yet the very same definition was
put upon those cases, as in those barbarous ages. The
effect was, that if a bey were convicted of an offence, he
must either be convicted of a felony, and punished ac-
cordingly-, or receive no punishment whatever under 14.
No means were provided by the law for the reformation
of juvenile offenders. The county of Middlesex had set
an example to all the counties in England, by the esta-
blishment of schools for children iu the prisons. He
considered such a subject should not be optional upon
the magistracy, but imperative, and that the State itself
should interfere, and see that proper places were pro-
vided fir the juvenile offenders ,of the country, fur it
was perfect nonsense to imagine that children ought to
be punished as' grown persons. He. did want to see
something done for these poor children. Within the
last eighteen months he had seen no fewer than three
hundred of these little creatures, between the ages
of seven and f urteen, who had been placed at the criminal
bar without any. provision whereby they could be saved
fr: an destruction ; in fact, the law had provided no place
to which they could be sent. A short time since, a
child of eight years old, who had bar twice con
vieted previously, was breught before him for the third
time; he was of course obliged to send him to prison,
but he said to the Bend.) at the time that they were
sending him to gaol to harden him. In the present case
be should send the prisoner to Westminster Bridewell,
where there was a good school, and .where he would
have the benefit of mural and feligious instruction
during his confleement. The sentence, therefore, was,,
that he be imprisoned fur the term of six months, and
kept to hard leleour.
-
,lanaesFllutt, IG, was found Guilty of stealing seven
linon shirts, and othvr articles, the property of John

Tayix*.
• The ASSISTANT-Junco said that this boy had been
only fourteen days out of prison, where he had been
serving his term of imprisonment, to which he had been
sentenced at the Central Criminal -Court, for uttering
base coin.

The prisoner was sentenced to seven ye: is' transpor

tation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE..
METROPOLIS MILK —A man, named John Taylor,
was brought before the Lord Nlay,r yesterday, upon
the charge of having adulterated the milk in which his
employers dealt. -
Mr. Pelham, who appeared far the complainants,
Messrs. Socket and Raherts, extensive dairymen and
dealers.in milk, stated that the subject was one in which
the whole community. was interested. The complain.
ants employed a great number of men, whom they sent
round with milk received from Ilford end parts of Cum-
berland to a vast number of custorneraabout town. They
found that, some of the servants were in the habit of
adulterating the, milk, which was deposited for the mei e
complete security against fraud, or plunder by servants,
in the sealed cans. Anxious that their character as
dairymen should not suffsr, and having heard serious
complaints of the quality. of the articles in which they
dealt, they set persons to watch the movements of the
servants of the concern, and the defendant was observed
to go to a house in Swan•lane, Tower-hill, and to return
with a large additional quantity of what was called milk,
.but which deserved the name of chalk and water, or some
more mischievous or disguatinf, compound. When the
defendant found that he was detected, he capsized the
cans into the streets, but a small quantity of the contents
was sawed in the bottom, and the Lord Mayor would see
that any other designation would be more applicable to
the commodity, and that it was no longer matter of mfr-
.:prise that the trade was falling off.. It was found, also,
"that the defendant had received 18s. Bd. from a Mrs.
Baker for milk, for which the copplainants had no ac-
.count whatever. Judging from what had been already
ascertained, it was esident the complainants were victims
to a serious extent, for ,of forty quarts per diem, the
quantity disposed of upon the average by the defendant,
he must have made at any rate eighty, thus doubling the
-trade, but reducing the' respectable customers, and de-
.grading the character of the employers. • The complain-
ants were indifferent as to the course of proceeding his
Lordship might suggest in this case, whether it would
be prudent to charge the
,defendint under the Malicious
Damage Act, or the 4th of Geo. IV., for enlarging the
powers of justices of the peace on hearing complaints
ibetween masters and servants.
The Loan MAYOR asked the complainants whether
the defendant had a weekly salary?
The reply was, that when the defendant was first en-
gawed he received a weekly salary, but that afterwards,
in order to encourage zeal and activity, the complain-
ants increased his remuneration according. to the quan-
tity scald by him.
The LORD MAYOR said that such arrangements put an
end to the idea of prosecuting under the latter Act
alluded to.
Mr. Pelham admitted that it was a fatal objection;
but thought that, as the pUre.araele was given to the de-
feadant, aad an adulteration, which had the effect of de,
nroying that article, had taken .place, She. case might
ecnie under the Act for punishing wilful and malicious
daimage. The adulteration was as compete as could .
have been effected on any other property; and- the con-
sequence was the ierious injury to st.' very excellent
trade. • 1

been or may be entered into by certain banking 'aid
other copartnerships," and on the back of the Act were
the following pieces of information:—
" Page 114, Railway list of subscribers, published,
1845, by order of Parliament.
" John Rogers, Clerk, Penrose, 4,5001."

"Mr. Rogers—BY these two Acts of Parliament, and
the memorial to the Secretary of State, you may per-
ceive the practice of the manager of your company,
of admitting clergymen into partnership, is not only
unlawful but highly dangerous, leading to the miserable
situation of the Union Bank of London, where 700 gen-
tlemen are in daily risk of being declared outlaws and
rebels. Save himself who can.
" I advise you to sell out immediately, and to be quit
of such unlawful concerns.—Respectfully.
" JOSEPH ADY,

" A housekeeper 40 years, and known to the Right
Hon. Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor; and by all
the worthy Aldermen of London, and every banker in
the kingdom."
LAMBETH.

CHARGE OF FORGING BILL AND RECEIPT STAMPS.
—John Hancock, a tall, thin, and well-dressed young
man, who was described as an actor by profession,
was charged with forging a number of bill and receipt
stamps, and thereby defrauding the revenue.
Henry 011ard, a marine-store dealer, in:Lambeth-walk,
and who had been charged on Saturday last at this
Court, with three other persons named Watkins, but who
was admitted to bail to appear on Friday next, stated
(but not upon oath) that on Saturday, after the examina-
tion, and while passing to the cells, Mrs. Watkins asked
him what her husband thought of the charge? He re-
plied that her husband was anxious to know where she
got the stamps, upon which she exclaimed, "It's all
right, I got them from John Hancock." He, 01lard,
feeling himself perfectly innocent of any participation in
the charge with which he was mixed up, he had made
up his mind to use every exertion to find out the parties
really guilty; and, believing the prisoner to be one of
those, he had caused him to be taken into custody.
Mr. HENRY desired him to state the nature of his sus-
picion, and
011ard said, that on the evening before he was sent
for to go to the house of Watkins, in Oval-place, Ken-
nington, where a quantityi of the forged stamps had
been found, and while there the prisoner came in, and
on hearing his name, and believing him to be the per-
son alluded to by Mrs. Watkins on Saturday night, he
gave him into custody.
William Swan, a shopman to Mr. Watkins, and who,
with Mrs. Watkins, lived at the shop in Oval-place,
Kennington, deposed that the prisoner was in the habit
of coming to the shop of his mistress very frequently—
as often as three and four times a week. and was in the
habit of going up stairs with his mistress. He also
heard his young mistress, when they spoke angrily to
gether, ask her mother where she got the stamps ; and
she replied, why from John Hancock. Witness was
also in the habit of making up parcels of groceries for
the prisoner, and when he did so and entered them in
the book, his mistress always told him to write paid to
the bottom, though he had never seen any money pass.
Police-constable 137 L deposed that about a quarter
past nine o'clock on Sunday night the prisoner was
given into his custody by Mr. 011ard on a charge of
forging stamps. The prisoner denied the charge, and
said he had been in the habit of calling frequently at
Mrs. Watkins's with orders for the theatre, and that he
knew nothing whatever about forged stamps. The pri-
soner further said he was an actor by profession, and
had been engaged at Drury-lane and the Adelphi.
After locking- him up he (the constable) searched his
lodging, and, with a number of papers which appeared to
be parts of different plays, he found the two stamps he
then produced.
Mr. HENRY carefully examined the stamps, upon one
Of which a receipt for a large amount was written, and
the other blank. The stamp on the latter was very much
worn and pressed, which might materially lead to the
inference that it had been used for some purpose, and the
other part seemed perfectly clean.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said he had al-
ways obtained his living as an actor at the different
theatres, and was at present employed at the Adelphi.as
a " figurant." fie had, he said, known the Watkins's
for many years, and ft ad been in the habit of calling on
them with orders for the theatre. Having read in a Sun-
day piper of their having been charged at this Court on
the day before, he had merely called to make some in-
quiries about it.
In reply to a question from Mr. Henry as to what ac-
count he wished to give of his possession of the two
stamps produced,
The prisoner said he had picked them up four or five,
or it might be six months ago.
Mr. 011ard here said that there was one circumstance
which he had omitted to mention, and that was, that at
the house of Mrs. Watkins he saw ayoung woman who he
believed to be the sister of the prisoner, though he did
not seem to recognise her, and while the policeman was
searching his lodging, this sister made her appearance
in his room.

Mr. HENRY thought this was quite enough to detain
the prisimer until Friday next, the day upon which the
others will be brought up, and remanded him accordingly.

THAMES.

, ;
ditEAT BERXAMPSTEAD, HER_ TS
In accordance with the public announcement a meet- I
ing was held in this town on Friday last, in the Odd
Fellows Lodge-room, Chaffcut• ers Inn, much to the
chagrin of the protectionists of this neighbourhood, who,
but a few days before, elated with the success of Mr.
Halsey, the monopolist candidate, said the League or
its agents never dared to venture into the town. The
chair was taken by Mr. Cranston, of Hemel Hemp-
stead, at seven o'clock. The room was well filled at the
commencement, and before the meeting was over several
were unable to gain admittance. The Chairman opened
the business of the evening, by referring to the question
at issue at the present time, and, in conclusion, intro-
duced Mr. Falvey to the meeting.
Mr. FALVEY then rose and addressed the meeting
at a considerable length, commencing with the history
of the corn-law of 1773, which he termed the most
liberal corn-law, allowing corn to come in at a regis-
tration-duty of 6s. per quarter, when the price reached
48s. per quarter. He then showed to the meeting, that
protection to the farmer was not that sort of protection
which he was in the habit of thinking it was, inasmuch
as the farmer was a consumer as well as a producer
—the arable farmer consuming the produce of the dairy
farmer—he pays more for the same butter by 20s. per
cwt., cheese, 10s. per cwt., and the consumer of hops
paying 4/. 10s. more for the same ale, at the expense of
the other, for the maintenance of the corn-laws, taking
out of one pocket to put into another—in short, robbing
Paul to pay Peter. He then showed that there were
three conditions necessary to make the farmer prosper-
ous, namely, regularity of price, security of tenure, and
capital to employ on the land. No man doubted but
that a change was coming, but, unless it was a
complete settlement of the question, the League
was solemnly pledged not to rest while a
ray of the corn-laws remained.—(lmmense cheers.)
Their opponents had now changed their ground, and
they cried out for protection to native industry. He
would ask were not cotton, cloth, woollen goods,
silks, watches, and porcelain as much the produce of
native industry as wheat and beef ? Mr. Cobden had
ten acres of ground at Chorley, where he paid in wages
30,0001. a year for labour employed there, and taking
an average of every man, woman, and child, he paid 139.
per week ; some as high as 305., and some skilled hands
40s. or 50s. When the produce of their labour was ac-
complished, had he not a right to send and sell the same
in the world's wide market. After alluding to the va-
rious agricultural dinners that have been held, of late,
he said the working men have been studying 'economy
while the Dukes have been idle, and as an instance he
referred to the Goatacre meeting, where he pointed out
the knowledge of the working men in the agricultural
districts. After alluding to the assertions of Sir
Minto Farquhar, at Hertford, where he said
land in Poland was let at ss. an acre, and
the wages are 3s. 1111—(how nice a calcula-
tion !)—(cheers)---he showed that a man might
get many acres for a week's work, and in England a
labourer was compelled to give 8/. an acre for his potato
ground. He said labour alone is what mlkes land valu-
able, and if it is not, why plenty of land might be got,
even 140 acres in the Oregon, for settling there. He
then made a comparison between the Duke of Richmond,
as Prime Minister, and Punch, and of the two he pre-
ferred the latter. He concluded by saying, if Sir Robert
Peel would bring forward a total and immediate repeal,
let him be backed in it; but they must depend on them-
selves, and their just rights cannot long be withheld from
them.

Mr. BOUTEM then rose, and drew a severe contrast
between the meeting of that evening and the one held
on. the early part of the week at Royston, when the
protectionists
.passed itesoluti(an after dinner that they
would not use the hoese which was kept by two orphan.
girls, if they let the League have-the use of the room
which they had engaged, thus depriving them of the
benefit of letting the room when they might do:so to
their advantage, and urged strongly on the meeting the
necessity of attending to the registration.
The CHAIRMAN then rose: and asked if any one had
any questions to ask, or any thing to advaace for or
against what the lecturer had said, and invited diseu4sion,!
but to no purpose.
Mr. J. SEWELT, moved,.and Mr.- A. EVANS seconded,
the follbwing resolution :
" That this Meeting highly approves of the efforti of
the Anti-Cern law League. to increase the constituency
of thls county, and pledges itselt to assist, with all• their
power,'in carrying into 'effect so important an ohje9t."
A vote of thanks was given to the Chairrpan, and
three cheers for the League, and the meeting quietly
separated.

REVIEW OF THE WOOL TRADE.
(From Messrs. Jacomb's Annnal Circular.)
In the first ten months of 1845, more wool was sold at
.good prices than in any previous similar puke!. The :trade
was sound; moat of the manufacturers well employed to
order with light stocks of all kinds ; consequently the sales
opened in February at a very considerable advance on the
prices of the 'previous autumn and whiter, which state of
things continued down to the eud of October; since which
time a gloom, heavier than -usual at thiS season; has hung
over the trade, occasioned by the temporary scarcity of
money, political and other causes. There are, however, signs
of improvement ; and as money is becoming more plentiful,
we confidently hope that early in the year we shall see a re-
turn of healthy and good business. Manufacturers continue
tolerably well employed. The state of trade at Bradford,
however, still continues unsatisfactory.
The stock of colonial wool in importers' hands is so light
(say 8,000 bales), and so small an accession can take place
before the arrival of the new clip in April and May next
that we cannot think any serious reaction in prices cati:oc,mr
at,the approaching sales, which will most probably be in
February.
The import of colonial wool is now in weight 'decidedly in
advance of that from Germany, nod will continue to increase.
The wools from New Holland, Van Dieman's Land, and the
Cape, have arrived, in 184 r,, in better condition, and of more
healthy growth than in former years. Their consumption is
gradually spreading throughout the west of England, and in
Scotland; and they will doubtless, ere long, be used there to
ai great a comparative extent as they have been in York-
shire for many years. To continue them in the estimation
of the manufacturers, however, will require the constant care
and attention of the growers, as they will assuredly have to
meet a strong competition from the .Russian wools for cloth-
ing, and from the United Statesfor combing purposes. The
increase of Cape wool this year is full 55 per cent. over last
year; the quality continues to improvc, but much still re-
mains to be done in the proper assortment of the fleeces before
pocking. Even by an unpractised eye' • a selection of the
coarse from the fine is easily made. The latter remark
applies also to those from the United States.
The trade in German wool has been rather unsatisfactory
throughout the year. In most cases the high prices paid at
the fairs have not been realised here. The stock, compared
to the demand, is considerable, more particularly of wools
from 2s. Gd. upwards. Lower qualities have been much
dearer in comparison ; and it must be borne in mind that the
scarcity of low-priced German wools (from the increasing
consumption of their own mannfactures) has been a principal
cause of firmness to the prices of colonial wool. Russian
merino has beeri imported to a considerable extent, and,
would have been to a much larger but for the demand direct
from France, Belgium, and the United States. At present •
little is doing; but prices are steady. Of Spanish, the import
has been a mere bagatelle, having rapidly declined from the
position it once held of first on the list, being superseded for
.most purposes by colonial. East In?ia continues in fair de-
mand at good prices, with small stocks.—Alpaci is in little
request, and to effect sales at present, low rates must be sub-
mitted to. Of IoW wools generally there are considerable
stocks, with little business doing. The English wool market
is steady, and price&firm.

A MUTINOUS SEAMAN'S CLAIM FOR WAGES.—Mr.
ChwLs l'll‘ Curley, the master of the ship Success, from
Calcutta, appeared before Mr. Broderip.to answer the
claim of Thomas Brown, a seaman, who sued for a
balance of 111., fur his services on a voyage from London
to Calcutta and St. Helena.

Mr. Wells, sllicitor for the seaman, stated that the
ship's articles were signed on the 6th of August, 1844,
and wages were claimed at the rate of U. 15s. per month
for services up to the 23J of June, 1945, when the agree-
ment Was terminated by the conviction of the seaman fur
an assault upon the captain at the island of St. Helena.
The question which he now intended to raise was this,
whether the man was not entitled to his wages up to the
period of his commitment. He contended that, as the
master had taken his remedy, and the seaman had suf-

fired the penalty of the law, it would be unjust to de-
prive him of his wages for the services he actually per-
termed. It had been held by Dr. Lushington, the Judge
of the Admiralty Court, in the case of the Blake, that a
single instance of 'misconduct would not deprive a sea-
man of his wages.
Mr. M'Curley said he was part owner of the ship, and
he was directed by the managing owner not to pay the
seaman any wages. There was, in fact, only 275. due, if
the magistrate should order payment of wages. He felt
bound to resist the demand, because the seaman! bad
been guilty of a gross act of mutiny, and had caused the
ship to be detained at St. Helena for two days. He con-
sulted the authorities there, who advised him to convey
the seaman to Demerara, where there was a Vice-Ad-
miralty Court to take cognisance of the serious offence
he had committed. The seaman was again brought on
board, and while the ship was at anchor struck him a
violent blow in the face and knocked him down, and
then vauntingly said, " Now I've done something you
can put me in prison for here." The complainant was
again on shore taken before the magistrate, who fined
him 51. for the assault, and, as he was unable to pay the
fine, committed him to prison for two months.
Mr. Wells said, if it was a mere question of a few
shillings, it would not be worth while to go into it. If
the magistrate would permit him he would retire with
the captain, look over the log-book, and come to some
arrangement satisfactory to both parties.
Mr. BRODERIP said that the point raised was a most
important one, and he should have given it his serious
consideration if the case had been proceeded with ; but
if the captaie had stated that which was correct, he did
not see hoW the man could come into Court and demand
any wages at all.
The solicitor and master of the Success were absent
for a few minutes, and upon their return Mr. Wells said
he had ascertained from the log the accuracy of the
master's statement. The complainant had certainly
been guilty of very bad conduct, and had deceived him
as to the. real merits of the case, which ho should no
pursue any further. -
The summons was then dismissed.

EXTENSIVE. FORGERIES IN
HULL.

The serious case ef forgery which lately transpired in
Hull has undergone a rigid investigation, which has termi-
nated in, the committal for trial of two brothers, Benjamin
and Edwin Adamson, the former landlord of the Durham
Ox, in that town, and the latter a junior clerk in the service
of Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson, and Co., steam-packet pro-
prietors; and also of Hugh Doran, another Junior clerk in
the same employ. Edward Adamson is charged with forg-
ing the body of twenty cheques, upon Messrs Pease and
Liddell's bank, from the 11th of May, 1844, to December
19th, 1845, for sums ranging from 30/. to 360/., and of the
united value of 2,379/. 155,--and of course average upwards
of 110/. each. The whole of the cheques have been cashed,
and charged to Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson. and Co., who are
sufferers to that amount. Renjamin Adamson is charged
with forging the indorsements upon the first forged cheque
(for 301.) and two others. Doran is charged with forging
the indorsement upon a cheque dated Nov. 12, 1845, for 125/.
The police are in search of Thomas Adamson, landlord of
the Marfleet New Inn, brother of the above, suspected of
being largely concerned in these transactions, and who took
flight'on the apprehension of his younger brother. The pri-
soner Edwin Adamson acknowledges his guilt, and implicates
his brother Thomas and Doran as his only accomplices.
Benjamin Adamson has been admitted to bail in 800/. ; the
bail proposed for Doran. (viz., his- father, who is a publican
in Blackfriargate, and another publican in the same street)
have been rejected. The magistrates positively refuse bail
for Edwin. The proceedings before the magistrates disclose
to what a fearful extent allotments of shares in projected
railways have been made to
,junior clerks, and make it certain
that they have had transactions in the purchase of scrip_ also
to an exorbitant amount for their station. The youth Doran
appears to have set his father np in the public-house busi-
ness, and appears to have been dealing very extensively in
scrip, although his salary was only 12s. a-week.— Yorkshire
Gazette.

IRELAND.
THE LAW APPOINTMENTS.
Duaraar, JAN.. 16.—Mr. Richard Wilsoir Greene has r
ceived the appointment of Attorney-General in succession to
Mr. Smith, the new Master of the Rolls. This announce-
ment is made apon " authority," and thus far it has been all
fair sailing before the wind; no party disputing the claims
The LORD'MAYOR (having consulted With Mr. Good- of 'the gentrenien who' have been selected for promotion by
man) said he regretted much that he, could not interfere her 'Majesty's Government: ' - '
to punish so very palpable an act of
•delinquency. No. ' Mr. Smith, the ex-Attorney-General; left town suddenly
doubt whatever existed as to the gross adulteratiOn of last night for London; and his abrupt departure gave rise to
the milk. That the, defendant had adulterated it for his a variety of rumours.; ' amongs others, that the Right Hon.
Gentleman has been requested by the Premier to assume for
own profit, and that the adulteration was calculated to
the present his old office, and thus relieve the Minister from
prejudice the trade, was likewise obvious but, unf rt '
newly, the defendant, who had, with the arrange9meitil; his fresh" difficulty, viz., the absence of a law officer to
conduct the 'lrish business in' the House of Commons. The
„made with him after he had ceased to receive pay as a Tfivening ,Mail, however, thus dispesea of' this rumour:—
~ eekly servant, become . a sort of. partner, . and thus ---.,, The Rfght Hon. Gentleman's visit to London is solely
eso, aped the punishment he so well merited. . with a view ao arrange matters connected with several Bills
T...he defendant, who did not utter a word, was then to be subniitted to. Parliament at an early day; and the mo-
dischla rged, but not without receiving a sharp reproof went these matters are settled he will return to this country
from V 1,3 Lord Mayor.. , , , , , .
and take his seat' as Master of the Rolls. The patent for
An apr'licatiou was made to the- Lord ,Mayor for his holding that office is an English patent, and passes under the
Great Seal of' England. Pieviously loMr. Smith's departure,
valuable montane° on behalf of the .widow and family of
* gentleman who Im4 held for. many years the important he returned the briefs lie .held in the Courts here, as well as
for in an appeal case in ths House of Lords, Which stands MILITIA BALLOT.—On ThurSday evening a large
public office •of Chief Clerk. at Qacenssquare Police-
unesaay„ arguinent, and in which 'he waS pne.of the leading .L.
meeting was held at Mr. J. J. H ' Dolphin
court, bat whose death; after s fewliours' illness, had Homer's, s, Tavern,
Hackney, to form a Militia Substitute Society. - Mr. C.
left his widow and eight children; the eldest of whom
, Hackney,
OF PARLIABIE,NT. 1 Green presided, and addressed the meeting on the necessity
Was under fourteen years of age, in a state las it of
poverty. The :Evening .31m h • that -
, t up to this period the usual of providing, by mutual assistance, against the unenviable
' ''The LORD MAYOR replied; that he was well acquain:ed . summonsMinisterial' has not beei issued to the supporters of h 'our of acquiring fame in the militia service. He was a
with the deeeased,-'• VP t
gentlemen, who was cer ain 3, ,s mos Ministers in the II ottse of Commons. The leader a the House °Lsubject, but his love for her •
Majesty would not tempt
loyal ...
estimablo public servant, and it would giire Jahn ' the of Lords, heyaever, has shown more activity, as witness
the leave home for military glories. He felt great
highest follovving " ciacular" addressed to Memb ' fthe him to
gratification -to • • trill titans for tho metre con a ers o House of enrolling himielf a member of the society; under
widow and he 1 •
the
i:'.l
mman er-in-Chieft— • of Mr. Homer, whose character guaranteed his
r large faintly, Ills Lordship suggested,
the auspica.‘
also that• *h. a Strathfielda aye, Dec.-31. a Mr. Homer was a lover of peace,. and
-, e friends of the family
should endeavour t
-e "My Lord,a-As it appears that Parliament respectability
obtain admission for. 'ment is to assemble :hat the exertions of the press, aided,by the
seine of the children into' one- or for the dispatch of business on Thursday, earnestly hoped a•
other of the. valuable y, the 22d of e Peace Society, would, be successful in
January, institutions • ' •
with which the ine- I tainture to suggest 'to you the expediencylaudable effortsof t:.'
tropolis aboura2ed, ald tl of your Lord-. f• threatened war. No reflective :poll-
with the aid of tam .
_. 'ought it not improbable, that, ' strip's attendance. • averting the g horrors o
\ t eyes to the' f e 1 c t tat •our
public pres 3 such , an object might be ' "It cannet he doubted that business of a titian, however, could s, e his , .
accomplished. •• importance as ica was it may to be disturbed
' ; well as the state df the country, have rendered neces ' friendly relation with Arne."
'The following commun.ication 1 ''
sary the • • 4 contemplated the airmation
pelt:Le relative to
.Mr. Ad y, asseinbliag of P'arlitliment at so early a period, and that it is in which case, the Governmet....-
f huslrind,, brothers, who never fails to snart at ;air
of militia troops. To rers.oir .t ' Was form edi elsdlise
a Lauria, to ,apaose desirable that the House of Lords should be tally attended. activity and perseveraucts sto was'
rodelatea f • ,
or his.peoses " I have the hondur to be, my Lord,
.your Lordship's most and lovers in fatherland, their •• Ilifsires Yn a basis that. would
cution sad conviction rut the Caentral • , " WELLINGTON." was sure that its rules were foucta . c
Criminal c faithful humble servant,
ourt, en read from
eaused'Soine amusement : :,
STATE OF THE COUNTRY. ensure general approbation. •the ..rtuals were then
ointment he appoi t ofd
the chair, and agreed to; and ::iter /
a .Penro-
se, near }Liston. 'The authoritieSareaMstirring themselves. The 67th Re • 1-- a ;;;N•ge number of in-
t.'" Ada' !raving
MY Lord AfaYor,--A .
aiduallers of Hackney
his usual civculars. I was induced, by the circumstance order this afternoon to hold thems'elves in instant readiness habitants, comprising many license
and its vicinity, were enrollee:. A vote of thank: was given
/hat any father' had - lase sueis in diiYarent st-oeks in the NtiehemaSch for Mohill and the disturbed parts of Leitrim, to the chairman, and the meetiog separated.
Bank of England, to ran ;1. 111:11 a pi)it-t,t116 Ord, fort
r t 4
the zatNtire military force is at present Wholly inadequate for
y duties in' ao--. Iti • ' .1 - MYSTERIOUS —Susrictous CASE.—
OCCIIIIRTBC.3- , .
I- , ~
The accompanying letter is the en.f lace.
_hall,, a I ia. .of the peasantry. • 'lll ..aa. upon it ba the awless movements
On Wednestiay evening, or aariy on Thursday morning, a
ceived, it is true that I tun a substeaber isa, a. railway to-inorroi: in •-•''
o.ning le mat division con-melees its march
intu•der is supposed to have peen ciammitted, in a bash be-
Twci Coy -.
yap Whiah My pao,perty is much connected, .1a):1 I am
one ,
_,..,e 7 err-anent proclamations were • •? i• . i longing to Mr. Charlesworth at lasagnos. On same of the
Issue- this even'n s .
also on the pro-visional tannmittee ; but Ido not' ►vant to °tr ring a reward of C,O/ for the di. covert/ of 1 -9'- •• ' 1.5.1 • d r•in r they dis-
tu, parties sere ants going into the barn on lnas ay 1 min a• ..
•tit nrid ° attacked the hott e
sof I ' g -round, saturated with blood.
be infurMed by Mr. Ady of the. proynions of the I • the county of Limeriak • ohn tanniors, a bunmovlan i covered a fen *Vs cap upon the
2d Vie. o. 106, with which lam already: well acqtWn'ted ; wounding Connors, ancl9se°Nli the 1,6„1/1 instant, firing at and The cap was trimmed with 1,1,,,k -. ribbon,• and appeared to
and I, therefore, as I have told hail, consider him Qs refers to the eecentattack ere
'' on the police b
bestirs his son; the second
Y a band be one that had belonged to a res
not hear that there w.ere any indielt
'useable person. We do
ioas of ft Struggle having
a 12 men,
having • obtained my soitereiesn by• false pretences. a who tired at ithd wound Ni tWO 1.0. ice-••onstabl,a--100/. reward ; taken place in the barn, but there. rW•tfe Considerable plan-
" Vol- the sake fho • '' ff f h. • impositions, ( .the third also offers NU for the -
take _ . o a ae woo su t's rom• ,s e apprehension of near to the
d., twrty of 11 'men for an attack on the houses of Gan armed • tities of sec'
on different parts of the door, and
the,liNerty of sending ship. 1 1 ng this' letter to your Lord-
Izio.hard Scott,•of Toureen, in the county of Limerick,eorge and cal" an ,opera razor was found likel alBe deeply stained with
have the .honour to be, •my Lord Mayor, your . f lire and 11.0(4 A long track of blood was traced for a considerable
must obedient rolyberyo-arms.
, ,
,lataiace On the odd which lead a a
nt servant • '.,ro the barn. Diligent.
search has been nude by the sr
th 'nhabitants of
In the letter w "J. ROGERS." A retiring pension of 2,500/. a year reverts to the the district, svith - ' Paaec and --f),) a, .
eistaneeess. Wbat readers the affair most
An Act to mal- as enelased a litho'graphed 'copy of h '
ay the deat of the Right Hon. Arthur Moore, ex- mysterious is, the filet thakn . f • ' e)nalt. or otheiTetiM,l la the
' (4°0t,1 cert ;Crown' neighbourhood is m' • -.°
a.n coati which have . 'Vim
judge, . men Meas.—Limerick Paper. isma..-,-Aiwkifieeo L7lO °nick
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