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Mr. BALLANTINZ said he did not at all complain of the
course that had been pursued. On the contrary, he though
the company had done no more than their duty.
The defendant was then discharged.
George Pearson Barrett, 40, and Enoch Pear son Barrett, 37,
were indicted for stealing a truss of gools, the property of
the 'London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company,
and Robert Abbott, 29, who surrendered to take• his trial, was
indicted for feloniously receiving a portion of the property,
knowing it to. have been stolen.

Mr. Olarkson and blr.--Huddlestone—conducted the prose.
cution. The prisoners were severally defended by Mr;
O'Brien, Mr. Parnell, and Mr. Woollett.

The circumstances of the case were reporteil at the last
session, when the two Barrette were convicted of an offence
of a similar character. The evidence went to show that
Enoch Barrett was in the service of the London and Brighton
Railway Company, and he was stationed as switchman at
the Brickla-iers'Arms junction, and there' was very little
doubt that be and his brother George had been concerned in
a very extensive system of plundering goods trains. Abbott,
it appeared, was brother-in-law to the other prisoners, and
resided at Newport Pagnell. and upon the officer searching
his house, he found a watch and other articles the produce ut
a robbery that had been committed upon the railway in 1849,
and the whole of which he subsequently admitted he had
received from the prisoner George Barrett.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty of feloniously re-
ceiving the property. but recommended Abbott to the merci-
cou4deration of the Court.
Judgment was deferred.

THE MURDER OF THE POLICEMAN

IN VAUXHALL-WALK.

Yesterday evening the inquiry into the circumstances con-
nected with this horrible murder, which was adjourned for
the purpose of affording time for a post-mortem examination
of the deceased, was resumed before Mr. Payne, at Guy's
Hospital.
The room where the jury met for this purpose was exceed-
ingly small and inconvenient, and the foreman expressed his
surprise to the coroner that in such an extensive establish-
ment, and one in which numerous inquests were held, a more
,commodious place could not have been afforded them for one
evening.
The CORONER, after consulting for some time with the in-
spector who has the case in hand, said that he did not think
he would find it necessary to detain the jury upon this occa-
sion. From what he had heard from the inspector, he be-
lieved he would best consult the ends of justice by adjourning
the inquiry for a few days longer. ' Before he did so he should
wish to hear the evidence of the house surgeon, Mr.W. Rhys,
who had made the post-mortem examination.
Mr. W. Rhys said he had made the post-mortem examina-
tion as directed, but nothing he had noticed had altered his
original opinion—namely, that death resulted from extensive
injuries to the head. That was the only conclusion he could
arrive at after a most careful investigation of the injuries
which the deceased had sustained.

[Though it did not come out in the evidence yesterday,
we may state that the post-mortem examination which was
made immediately after the termination of the inquiry on
Tuesday last, showed that all the organs of the body were in
a perfectly healthy condition. Upon the scalp were several
large lacerated wounds, corresponding to which were simple,
compound, and comminuted fractures of the skull, extending
across the whole of the frontal and spheroid bones. The
temporal muscles were completely crushed; the dura mater
and brain lacerated, and a large quantity of extravasated
blood was found upon both hemispheres of the brain. In
fact, hardly a single internal portion of the head had
escaped destruction.]
The evidence of some of the witnesses was then read over
to them, at the conclusion of which,
The CORONER expressed a desire to see the stones which
were picked up en the spot where the man was murdered.
Police-constable Head accordingly produced them, and
called the attention of the coroner to certain discolourations
upon one, which looked like dried blood; whereupon
Mr. W. Rhys was recalled, and stated. in reply to a ques-
tion from the coroner, that he did not believe the stains were
ca 3sed by human blood, cr blood at all. He thought it was
entirely owing to the " glaze" having been knocked off, and
some slight mineral discolouration taken place, but he would
examine it more closely if it was thought necessary.
The CORONER having expressed a wish to that effect, Mr.
Rhys took away one of the stones, and shortly returned,
stating that though the spots which had been indicated
were not mineral stains, and wiped away, leaving a slight
reddish mark upon white blotting paper, still the result was
not sufficiently decisive to enable him to declare it blood.
The COZONER then said, he understood that the Commis-
sioners of Police had taken up the matter with that spirit
which they generally showed. and were bound to show,
upon this occasion, when one of their men had been killed.
He thought it would not be desirable to carry the case be-
fore the present sessions, as there was not sufficient evidence
collected to enable them to prosecute. As the magistrate
would no doubt remand the prisoners again, he thought it
would be better if they met some time next week, as by
that period much important evidence would be forthcoming.
The inquiry was then adjourned to Monday next, at two
o'clock.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Those who have advocated and supported that most excel-
lent measure of the Admiralty, suggested by Admiral Dun-
das, for the improvement of the condition of the seamen of
the navy, and increasing thereby the efficiency of the service
in giving the men more pay, more provisions, and less grog,
will be truly gratified to hear of the admirable effect it haN
produced on thelargest body of men collected under the
comm ,nd of a flag officer. During the quarter ended on the
let of April last, scarcely any corporal punishment took
place amongst a force of 6,000.
Rear-Admiral H. M. Dixon, the commander-in-chief at
Queenstown, has shifted his flag from the Ajax, 60, screw-
ship, Captain Quin, to the Advice steam tender; and the
Ajax. with the Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Captain Macdougall,
left Queenstown on Saturday for Spithead, to be paid wages,
and remain till further orders.

Lieutenant Ashley La Touche (1840) has been appointed
agent fur mails in a contract steam-vessel.
Caradoc steam packet, Lieut. Commander Derriman, ar-
rived at Devonport on. Friday evening, to be paid advance
and receive final orders for Mediterranean.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Alert, 8, was taken into No 5 bock at Devonport on Sa-
turday, to be broken up.
Seagull, 6, and Spider, 6, will both be paid off at Devonport
to-day.
Hamoaze lighter, Wood, master, sailed from Devon-
port on Saturday, with stores for Cork; from thence
she will proceed to Liverpool to examine and repair some
moorings.
Magicienne, steam-sloop, at Devonport, is to have another
trial under sail. Mr. Brown, second-master attendant,
and party, who navigated the Greenock to Woolwich,
and who returned in the Cardoc, are to perform that duty
forthwith.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes a decree, appointing Gene-
ral Psusmut Governor-General ad interim of Al-
geria, in the place of General D'iIAUTPOUL, whose
mission has terminated. This is a cool Way of
Thethe
gfaettetionfg
Gridenoefraal miniwAhuorphoasuLcea:veidu tonobte ui
nsoefrueal.se
ardour- of the supporters of M. Louts NAPOLEON
,BONAPARTE.
The partisans of the Elysee are evidently alarmed
at the blunt manner in which Dr. VBRON in the
Constitutionnel occasionally blurts out the truth. The
Moniteur du Soir has the following paragraph on the
article from the Constitutionnel which we published
yesterday, and which has aroused the ire of the Legi-
timatists and Orleanists.
" Every one knows that M. Veron direct 4 his jour-
nal according to his own fancy, and at preient in no
way expresses the ides of the Government. Why,
therefore, does the Opposition persist in rendering the
T hem
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from ake rs w
an at
itn Liege,ocofns
employment
elu whoen
Ministers and the President of th• Republic responsible
for the eccentricities of the Constitutionnel."
consequence
ov,fe raoerrceder
orders
y about
frolno
suf-
feredbe actively engaged,
foreign powers, ORP house alone has received an
order to make 50,000 muskets for the Russian Go-
vernnient.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 10.—Her Majesty's ship Caledonia,
120, Captain T. W. Carter, received orders at Malta on
the 25th of April to sail on the 130th for this port, to be
paid off.
Tne store-ship Tyne, Master-Commander Peter Welling-
ton, from Deptford, arrived this morning, and will sail in
about a week with stores for the Brazils. _ _

[PRICE SD.

The last of the Paris races took place in the Champ
de Mars yesterday. Just before the hour fixed for
►,he commencement of business, there was a heavy
fall of rain, which deterred a vast number of persons
from attending; but, as the weather became fine af-
terwards, a considerable crowd gradually assembled,
and before the races were over nearly the whole of the
course was lined with spectators. Within the ropes
there was a tolerable show of carriages, though it was
not equal to whit is witnessed on more favourable
occasions. The stands were about two-thirds full,
but there were very few ladies in them. The mem-
bers of the Jockey Club and other sporting charac-
ters, as usual, mustered in full force.
M. Du FALLoux appeared in the Assembly on
Saturday. _ _

The Bourse was gloomy, and a decided tendency to
a fall in prices was manifested.

The Ave per Cents. opened at 90f. 60c., rose to
90f. 75c., but fell subsequently to 90f. 30e., at
which price they closed. The Three per Cents.
closed at 56f.
dUSLNESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 934 Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon),, 17—East Indian, 16—Luxembourg, 3%—
Maria Antonia, 7,-i—Northern of France, 1434—Rouen and
Havre, 10—Sambre and Meuse, 33/4—Tours and Nantes, 6%.

The New Liverpool, freight-ship, sailed yesterday with
troops for Halifax.
The steam-vessel Avon sailed this morning with supernu-
meraries for the Prince Regent at Portsmouth ; the Caradoc
came is to-day, from tVoolwich, for coal and advance of
wages, and will sail on Monday for the Mediterranean on
mail service; and the Magicienne will next week cruise in
the Channel to try her rate of sailing.
The dockyard battalion commence drill for the season on
Saturday neat, the 17th instant.

SEABORNE MAILS.
DT signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-off OS
by the night—and hi by the morning—ohapatch.]

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'• 4 .- •r the first time in this country at the St:Jatnes's'isask
'.l li _I :` ' _ , e-• a " a srafetits-strectss-was -complete:- lt is in five acts, and '
'' y- combines the interest of the melodrama with the high breed-
fie, polish, vivacity, and sparkling wit: of high comedy.
The story of the piece is one of those simple themes, a mere
situation in fact, in which M. Scribe loves to take from the
life of the salons, and which, under his skilful management
of half a dozen dramata persona, seems to expand, as if by
its own force, into a perfect comedy. Emmeric d'Albret,
a young and successful composer, has many good gifts
and a brilliant prospect before him—the worthiest of.
uncles, the prettiest of cousins—a love for the latter,
which 'she very decidedly returns—every possibility of
a match which seems sure to make his happiness. But
he wears a chain of which he is heartily tired, 3-et which he
cannot break. When became first to Paris he was without
friends, interest, or experience—without anything, in fact,:
but genius and ambition. He found a guardian-angel in
Madame de St. Gerais. In pure pity this lady, by giving, •
the young musician that great necessity to success, oppor-'
tunity, opened to him the doors of fortune and of tame.
lie repaid the service with adoration, and found Lis'
angel mortal. Hence a crowd of miseries e hick at once
astonish and perplex his friend Hector Ballandard,
Crone defirentiere instanec, to whom the life of :he sates*
had seemed froda afar the brightest of prospects._ The in-
terest of the piece, evolved with all the skill of Scribe, turns
on the struggles of Emmeric with a tie which -Armour
and interest alike make him anxious to break, on the efforts,
of Madame de St. Geran to prolong her power, and en the
indefatigable zeal and wonderful perplexities of Hector Hal-
landard, who acts as the never failing scapegoat of his friend,
gaining thereby the character of the gayest of deceivers, in-
ste,:d of that of the purest of aroues. The most remarkable
agent, however, in the deliverance of Emmeric, is no less a
personage than Monsieur de St. Ge -sn, the mildest and
most musical of fetal duellists, the most generous and
loyal of deceived husbands. He hears the story of the
obstacle through Ballanalard, without, for a moment,
suspecting that the lady in the case is his own wife.
whining the love of
Having a real kindr.ess ter the young musician, being,.
maretemhoybesetwtheeeny'rtihne.
moreover, godfather to the pretty Aline, and posses-
sing ancient claims on the gratitude of the worthy'
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husband, never hitting on the truth--the . weak I'llFillating:
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Regnier's Hector Ballam'ard is the most entire of indivi-
witty drama too much praise cannot be gives. Monsieur
dualities.- His listening is as good as his speaking—his IT-
plexity is the most comical—his zeal the heartiest—is
kindliness the most reap in the world. Monsieur Latent ,
was admirably natural and gentlemanlike as Mons. de St.
Geran ; while bladlle. St. Marc was so full of grace, do arch,.
and bewitching, as Aline, that we felt really indignant at
seeing a lover who deserved so little, find, at the end of all
his scrapes, such happiness in store for him. Madile. id*
dith played with much judgment in the not very pleasant
pa:t of Louise, or Madame de St. Gdran. The preliminary'
piece was the amusing trifle, Le Roman dune Heure, in
which the graceful and striking figure of Mdlle. Faivre ap-
peared to great advantage as the Young Widow.

STRAND THEATRE.

A two act farce from the pen of Mr. Robert Brough wu
produced last night at this theatre, under the title of
Kensington Gardens. It sets hailed with peals of laughter
throughout, and proved a decided hit. A fast young man
(Mr. A. Davies), in amusing himself by rather impertinently
addressing every petticoat he encounters in the gardens, is
at last invited by a Member of Parliament's wife to drive
home to dinner, as she can by no other means get rid of his
importunities. Here to his horror he finds a large party
assembled, to whose faces he is mercilessly quizzed by the
lady of the mansion (Mra. Seymour), and introduced to each
guest as " the gentleman with whom she has not the
honour of being acquainted." Among otbers, how-
ever, he finds her niece, his old flame (Miss
E. Romer), ,with whom he is, of course, at length
made happy, but not until after some highly ludicrous
passages of arms with the other personages, of whom the
principal are a duelling old Colonel,( Mr. Tilbury), a snobby
gent. (Mr. Rogers), and a pert waiting-maid (Min
Marshall). Had the principal character been in the bands
of a good light comedian the cast might have been pro-
nounced perfect; as it was the piece went off admirably.
Mr. Rogers, in his small part, was delicious. He is a
thorough artist in his line; indeed he and Mr. Tilbury- un-
derstand the mystery of " dressing" a character as wellas
any actors en the boards. The entire piece is replete with
fun, and on the fall of the curtain the honour of a recall wag
accorded to all the dramatis pc? sone, and the author
crossed the foot-lights amidst vehement plaudits. The
was excellently attended, and the good humour of the audi-
ence unbounded.
(From the Daily News.)
Kensington Gardens—a topic of the day just now—
were list evening made the subject of a sparkling little
comedy, in two acts, by Mr. Robert Brough. The fun is
based upon the lady-hunting propensities 'et a gentleman,
who afterwards meets in a drawing-room the young ladies
he has annoyed in the gardens. Mrs. Seymour, as a digni-
fied married lady, and Miss Marshall, as a pert waiting-
woman, acted well. The piece was quite successful, and was
performed to a full house. Mr. Robert Brough, at its conclu-
sion, was t ailed upon to bow his acknowledgment., befbre the
curtain.

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