The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-19 00:00:00

Tito Four Years Old Triennial Stakes.

Won in a canter.
The Three Years Old Triennial Stakes.
Lamartine ~. ... •••
Glenhawk
The Two Years Old Triennial Stakes.
Queen Anne ... ...
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Chief Baron Nicholson

A dead heat.

TATTERSALL S--THIS EVENING

No betting.

SLY O'CLOCK.

IMPERIAL PA RUA MENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
VETERINARY SURGEONS.
Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from veteri-
nary surgeons, praying tp be exempted from serving on
juriei. The Noble Lord then movod the second reading
of the Bill which he had introduced to exempt them,
Which was agreed to.

PERSAUD.
The Earl of EJOTTEELLENBOROUGH postponed hig mo-
tion on the subject of Jottee Persaud to Thursday.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Lord STANLEY gave notice that he should, on
Thursday, draw the attention of their Lordships to the
Papers which had been laid on the table, by command
of her Majesty, relating to the Cape of Good Hope
Colony.

PETITIONS.
Tho Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented several peti-
tions from Roscommon, and other counties in Ireland,
against Papal aggression.
Lord ABINGER presented petitions to a similar
purport.
The Duke of ARGYLL presented several petitions
from places in Scotland to a similar purport.
Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition against the
CApitular Estates Bill, which he proposed should be re-
ferred to the Select Committee on that Bill.
REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition
against (as we understood) this Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to draw their attention
to an admirable pamphlet which had recently been pub-
lished, written by Mr. Hszlitt, on this subject, which be
had read with great pleasure, and he might add instruc-
tion, which gave an epitome of the Bill, and an admir-
able account of all the arguments which had been pro-
duced for and against the measure.
Lord CAMPBELL, in moving that the report of the
Select Committee be received, agreed that in the work
alluded to the objections to the measure bad been admi-
rably and manfully met. The Noble and Learned Lord
then proceeded to explain various technical modifications
to which he was prepared tq assent.
Lord LYNDHURST signified his approval of the
amendments which had been introduced into the Bill.
After a short discussion the Bill was recommitted, in
order to be reported on Monday.
COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
attorneys of Buogay in favour of the County Courts
Emtension Bill.

SALMON FISHERIES.
The Duke of RICH NI.OND presented several petitions
from the tenants of proprietors of fisheries on the North
and South E,lc against the Salmon Fisheries Bill.
ARREST OF ABSCONDING DEBTORS BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and
their Lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAK.ER took the Chair at Ten Minutes pas
T welve.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Cam Navigation Bill was read a third time and
passed.

PETITION.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from Lin-
coln in favour of the Lodging-house Bill.
TRANSPORT OF IRISH PAUPERS TO
ENGLAND.
Colonel CHATTERION asked the Secretary of
State for the Home Department if he had received any
communication from the Poor Law Commissioners re-
specting the inquiry he promised he would direct them
to make as regards the treatment of certain paupers
conveyed by steam-packet from London to Cork; and,
if so, whether he had any obj.ction to lay it on the
table of the House?
Sir G. GREY said that an inquiry had been made on
the subject, hut the report presented was so defective
that he had sent hack for further information on the
subject.
SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL.'
On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
Sir JAMES DUKE complained that since the Bill
had been sent down from the Select Committee a sche-
dule had been attached to it increasing the tolls at least
100 per cent., which he considered a most oppressive
charge. He should suggest that the schedule should be
referred back to the Stlect Committee.
Sir G. GREY thought the time to discuss the
sche'dule was when the House was in Committee. He
should, however, object to have the schedule referred
back to the Select Committee.
Sir JAMES DUKE then moved that the House re-
solve itself into Committee this day six months.
If any one read the evidence they would
see that it was not strong enough to justifiy
the shutting up of a single shop. The decision
of the Committee was carried only by a single casting
vote, and in fact, considering that one of the Committee
was a member of the Government, who it was
well known was there for one purpose only, it was
easily accounted for. He acknowledged that if
they could not prevent cattle passing through the
street in the day time they would deserve to have it shut
up, but the City had offered to remove this. He hoped
the House would reconsider its decision, for ho was con-
vinced that the Bill when carried out would lead to

numerous evils, other 'markets would spring up awl a
race of middle-men be created, and the public materially
injured by the change. He believed this was the brat
• instate° in which the Government had felt it elf called
Upon to advance public money to erect a market. Great
anxiety had been felt as to the site of the new market,
and as to who the future Commissioners were to be, but
the Government had been obstinately silent on these im-
Portaet points. He thought the best course to be taken
would be to withdraw the Bill, at least for the present,
and to allow the Corporation to amend the evils which
were complained of.
Mr. lIIJNIE thought that the Government were not
justified in
Were com imposing the additional rates which
plain,
dof without allowing them to be con-
sidered by the Committee. Until that had been done
the Bill ought not to be proceeded with. He also com-
plained of the mysterious reserve of the Government
with regard to the site of the market.
Sir G. GREY still continued to think that the Com-
mittee of the whole Rouse was the proper tribunal to
discuss
the schedule._ As regarded the site he must re-
peat his former
li _deeltartaltiou
that the Government had
not made the s ghtes pproximation towards choosing
tn Dew Market. sv•
the sight for -,' , , Ith regard to the 0,,e01 to rernu,d,
seat motion, ho ue,6 the House that the
pre-
subject of the Bill hal been fully discussed on a former
occasion.
Mr. A. STAFFORD complained of the introduction of
ae
rvke
er every
hour. This
the new schedule of tolls at the
aenledveaefithec .
affected nut only
was the main question of tte,Bill,
either hand,th:3aultia the Government and the City oni
grazier who brought up a sin.g e_,_sheenepd.to
arra the whole general in nu' public E
/10U,ht it would be more
Mr. CORNE WALL LE WIS t . a
the separate
0 discussion convenient to take the di
clauses when in Committee, ar.d not to re-open the
general question on the motion for
the Speaker leaving
the Commissioners
the chair. It was not intended to pay
who were to be appointed, neither would any grant of
, ~,,
market.
public money be asked for the erection of the
now and
n
lie would, however, he could withdraw the sclsedu
iet
but
bring them forward again on the report;
assure the Rouse that in the aggregate they really
tained 110 increase on the rates.
3fr. W. WILLIAMS entered a
protest against the
Bill on behalf of the Surrey side
of the water. The
House had no right to force the inhabitants of that dis-
trict to a market four miles beyond the north side o
London.

Mr. ELIE WEN had been given to understand that this
Bill would not now be before the House but for the
casting vote of the chairman of the Select Committee,
and under these circumstances, as the vaat majority of
the metropolis was opposed
to the Bill, he should sup-
port the amendment.
Mr. W. PATTEN hoped the House would consider,
now the Select Committee was nominated, before it al-
lowed itself to bo influenced by the argument of the ion.
Member who had just sat down. L should be remem-
bered that at least a half of the Committee were op-
posed to the Bill before it went before them; but the
Chairman was a purely disinterested person, who took
no hitereat in the Bill either one way or the other, and
ou the whola he thought the Committee bad arrived at
9. most impartial conclusion.

M. 11,IbE should support the amendment, because
the removal of the market would be a groat inconveni-
ence to the public.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY trusted the Mouse would
allow him to ,ay a few words on this motion, us the
preheat was the only time that the Government Bill had
been discussed in the douse. The House ought to ob-
serve a sense of justice in its judicial proceedings, and
before they passed the Bill of pains and penalties they
should wait to hear what arguments could
be adduced against it. Pass the Bill, and it, would be
tantamount to telling the country that Government were
of opinion that the citiz,ns were unfit to me nag their I
own affairs; but he insistsA that this Bill was an inter-
ference with the rights of the corporation which the con-
atitntiondid not sanction. The principle of centraliza-
tion, which the Government wag Cllde3YOUring to carry

out in its domiltic legislation, was highly objectionable;
and as the Bill was intender] to push that principle a
step further, he implored the House to rej,ct it at once.
in removing the market from :he centre of the metropolis,
as t: is Bill proposed, they would increase the nuisance
at present complained of threefold, while i would
add to the expanses of the iiitropelis, and as the Bill
was an act of the grossest injustice, under no circum-
stances ought it to he passed.
Mr. BURROUGHES went into the Committee on
thi. Bill perfectly disinterested in the matter, and the
conclusion he came to was theresult of a long and watch-
ful investigation.
Mr. MASTERMAN, as one of the Members for the
city of London, felt it to be his bounden duty to oppose
the Bill. It unjustly interfered with the rights of his
constituents, and to pass it would be doing a great
wrong.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For going into Committee ... ••• 64
' Against it ••• ••• ••• ••• 26
Afajority —3B
The House then went into Committee on the Bill.
On clause 1 being proposed,
Sir J. DUKE called upon the Government to say now
and name in the Bill who were to be the Commissioners
to carry out the Bill.
Sir G. GREY said the Government had not fixed upon
any Commissioners yet, and he hoped it would never ho
necessary for them to do so, for he was nr,t without some
expectation that the City would eventually undertake
the management of the Bill.
Alderman SIDNEY assured the Right Hon. Baronet
that the City would never undertake anything of the
sort. They would not consent to manage a market so
far off, in which they had no interest.
After a few remarks from Mr. A. STAFFORD and Mr.
FORSTER,

Mr. C ARDWELL said the necessity fora Commission
could not arise for three years, and to name them now
would be absurd, because they might die in the interval.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS repeated that the Bill would
only extend the principle of centralizAtion, which ap-
peared to be in so much favour with the Government.
After some observation from Mr. Bucx and Mr. P.
MILES,

Mr. V. SMITH could see no objection to naming the
Commissioners now, inasmuch as in the event of the
city of London not undertaking the administration of
the Bill within six months, the Government would be
bound to appoiotmeent.
Sir H. VERNEY said gentlemen could not be named
as Commissioners without being first consulted on the
subject, but he fully anticipated that the City would
ultimately see the expediency of taking upon themselves
the management of the market.
Sir JAMES DUKE said there was another reason
why the Commissioners should be named now, and that
was the Commissioners would have power t.) select the
site for the new market. Now their selection might be
highly objectionable, and he hoped they would be named
now, so that the public might have an opportunity of ap-
proving or disapproving of th,m.
Sir G. GREY was understood to intimate that the
selection of the site would be subject to the approval
Government.
The House then divided on the question that the firal
clause stand part of the Bill, when there appeared—
For the clause
Against it

Majority
The clause was accordingly agreed to.
On clause 2,
Mr. A. STAFFORD wished to know, before they
proceeded further, where the site of the new market was
to be. He thought both the questions, as well as who
were to be the Commissioners, ought to be settled at
once. At all events, the power of the Commissioners to
select the site, should be confined to particular districts.
Mr. MACKINNON thought it would be highly in-
judicious to disclose where the site was to be, because it
would give rise to all sorts of speculations in the locality,
and increase the price of the land that might be re-
quired for the market. He hoped, therefore, the time of
the Committee would be no longer taken up ou this
subject.
Mr. C. LEWIS could only repeat the answer which
had already been given to the same question, namely,
that the Government had come to no conclusion on the
subject of the site, nor had they yet turned their atten-
tion to it.
After a few words from Mr. Bucx and Sir J. DUKE,
Mr. W. WILLIAMS insisted that the Committee had
no right to pass the Bill in utter darkness of who were
to be the Commissioners or where the new market was
to be.
Alderman SIDNEY said it would be useless to pass
the Bill, as it never could become law; but under any
circumstances it was only right that so important a sub-
ject as the removal of a great and an ancient market
should be discussed in a fuller House, and he should
therefore move that the Chairman do report progress,
and ask leave to sit again.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said no advantage could be
obtained from such a proceeding; for at the present
period of the session it was not probable that the Bill
would attract a fuller Committee.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS also appealed to the Hon. Mem-
ber not to persevere in his amendment.
Alderman SIDNEY contended once more that the
rights of two millions of people were far too important
to be entrusted even to the discretion of a Secretary of
State; but nevertheless he would not put the Committee
to the trouble of dividing on his motion.
The amendment was accordingly withdrawn, and the
clause agreed to.
On claim,' 3,
Sir JAMES DUKE moved the insertion of words to
render it incumbent ihat the site of the new market
should be subject to the approval of Parliament.
Sir G. GREY had no objection to the amendment,
but it was wholly unnecessary, as in all probability the
matter would have to come before Parliament again if
the duty of selecting the site fell upon the Commis-
sioners.
The clause was then agreed to, as,were also clauses 4,
5,6, 7,8, and 9.
On clause 10,
Sir J. DUKE proposed the omission of words, to leave
it optional with the public to open as many markets as
they liked.
Mr. C. LEWIS opposed the amendment, as it would
entirely d. feat the object of the Bill.
Alderman SIDNEY and Mr. W. WILLIAMS supported
the amendment.
Mr. CARDWELL resisted the amendment. The
words proposed to be left out had been adopted from the
Smithfield charter, and as they might have the effect of
continuing the market under the control of the Cor-
poration, ho was at a lose to understand how they could
be omitted.
After a short discussion the Committee divided, when
there app. ared—
For the amendment
Against it

-37

... 21
... 48

Majority against the amendment —27
Alderman SIDNEY then moved the omission of
words so as to allow Smithfield-market to be continued.
Toe Committee again divided, when the numbars
Were--

FA. the amendment 20
Against it ...
... 47
Majority againct it ... ... —27
Mr. A. STAFFORD next proposed that the limits
within which markets should be established should be
reduced from a radius of seven miles from St. Paul's to
three or five miles.
Mr. CARL) WELL said the limit was fixed by the
Smithfield Charter, and he could not see what objection
there was to it.
Sir JAMES DUKE supported the amendment that
the limit be three miles instead of seven.
After a short discussion the Committee divided, when
there appeared—
For the amendment lB
Against it

Maj.)rity for the clause —2B
The clause was then agreed to.
The remaining clauses were added to the Bill, and
the Chuirm,u was directed to report it to the House.
The House having resumed, the CHAIRMAN did so
accirdingly.
The House then, at Four o'clock, adjourned until Six.

'he Hnnse resumed at Six o'clock.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Arbroath
in favour of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Lord DUDLEY presented a petition from the Tower
Hamlets against the duty on carriages.
Mr. KERSHAW presented a petition from a place in
Lancashire against the Regium Donum.
ACCIDENTS OF RAILWAYS.
Lord NAAS asked the President of the Board of
Trade the following question. That as several of the
late accidents to travellers and workmen have been
manifestly caused by ncglect and carelessness, whether
it i. the intention of the Government to proposa any
measure during the present session for the more effi-
ate t protection of persons travelling by stesm•vessels
or railroads, or of those employed in working steam ma-
chinery,
Mr. LABOLICEIERE said the law with regard to
steam vessrl, .
Was in a very bad state, and ho had intro-
duced a Bill on the subject, which had already betn
trheead a see.,nd tinao, and he trusted it would receive
n .1,1 c b i
n e r sanctiony
andof the
railroads,goosegivea
hhtheeisdisdession. In regard to steam
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MURDER IN THE COUNTY OF LOUTH.
The Louth Advertiser of Tuesday contains the fol-
lowing account of another dreadful ageariun murder
in that county :
The excitement produced by the murder of Mr.
Coulter has hardly subsided when it becomes our duty
to record another barbarous murder perpetrated in
the same county, and within a few miles of the scene
of the former tragedy. The victim in the present
instance was a young man, about 19 years of age,
who bore the highest character. He was honest,
industrious, and religious. His name was Ber-
nard M'lntegart, son of a respectable man who resides at
a place called Annas, within about four miles of Dundalk.
The murder, like that of Mr. Coulter, was perpetrated in
the broad daylight, and in a populous locality. Young
M'lntegart lett his father's house about seven o'clock on
Sunday morning, in company with his sister, to at-
tend mass at Knockbridge Chapel, and, having passed
through some fills, they came upon the Dundalk and
Enniskillen Railway. It was here, between a small cut-
ting, that the murderers came upon him. They beat him
in the presence of his sister with short heavy sticks
until he became insensible. His sister, in the most
earnest manner, besought them to have mercy on him,
but they heeded not her cries, and when she flung her-
self on his body, to protect him from the violence of the
murderers, oae of them struck the poor girl, and in-
flicted a severe would on her forehead. We may here
mention that he died on Monday morning. There can
bo no doubt that the murder should be ascribed to an
agrarian cause. The father of the deceased had re-
cently come into the possession of some land which had
been the subject of litigation. It appeared that the land
in question was held by three tenants named Put
Berle, John M'Ardle, and Henry Callaghan, who were
unable to pay the rent. Law proeeedings were insti•
tilted against them, and they gave up possession, hav-
ing received compensation for doing so. The land
was then taken by Mr. Edward M'Ardle, a respect-
able shopkeeper, residing iu Park-street, Dundalk,
who held it only one year. On his relinquishing it, pos-
session was given to the father of the deceased, in March
last, by Mr. John Woolsey, agent to Mrs. Foster, of
Fair-hill, the owner of the property. But no sooner had
the new tenant commenced to cultivate the lands than an
attempt was made to obstruct him by several persons.
They were brought before the magistrates, and some of
them were bound to keep the peace, and so the matter
stood until Sunday last, when the poor young fellow
already named was most treacherously and cruelly way-
laid."

An inquest was held on the body of the wretched
young man on Monday, and a verdict returned to the
effect "that the deceased came by his death in conse-
quence of a wound inflicted on his head by a blunt
Instrument by some person or persons unknown."

ROYAL POLYTECHAIC INSTITUTION.
On Monday last we attended the first of a course of
lectures ;delivered here by J. 11. Pepper, Esq., " On
the Minerals and Crystals of the Great Exhibition."
After an explanation of the intention of the course,
which the lecturer allowed conid be (so far as informa-
tion was concerned) but a grain of sand on the seashore, in
consequence of the numerical strength of the collection,
he commenced with the valuable gems, the diamond,
the ruby, the pearl, and stated that, considering
these represented the most beautiful creations of
the mineral kingdom, it could be no more a matter of
surprise when people sought after them than in visiting
collections of rare animals or flowers. A magnificent
set of diamonds, &c., valued at 3,0001., kindly lent by
Messrs. Widdowson and Neale, Strand, also rough
diamends, with the tools for polishing this gem, by
Messrs. Hunt and Roskill, Boad•street; copies of
all the great diamonds by Professor Tennant, and
many valuable gems by Mr. Johnson of Soho,—
these were all shown to great advantage by the
oxy hydrogen light, and demonstrated in' the most
decided manner how little the gems at the Great
Exhibition could be appreciated by the shaded day-
light; and we are glad to hear that the Koh-i-
-noor is now illuminated by gas flame. The
lecturer then proceeded to tell his audience that the
most brilliant diamond, even the costly Koh-i-noor, was
nothing but charcoal; the most perfect ruby was alu-
mina, the chief characteristic of clay, and the most lovely
pearl little more than chalk and white of egg, or albu-
men. The diamond, plumbago, anthracite, represented
the natural varieties of carbon, but the first only was
prizad on account of its peculiar structure, its hard-
ness, its rarity. The project of mskiug diamonds was
also discussed in a very interesting manner. Mr. Pepper
did nut beiieve that that any process where excessive heat
was concerned could produce the diamond from char-
coal, a solvent must be sound, and then the artificial
diamond might be looked fur. The crystalline term,
the mode of finding, grinding, polishing, and the valu-
ing were all matters of interest, and would
be discussed ; 'slid the lecturer concluded his
illustrations by two most satisfactory though
simple experiments. Into two bottles of oxygen were
placed common charcoal, and the diamond (a piece of
birt or refuse diamond), both being previously heated
red hot, carbonic acid gas was the product, in both cases
shown by the lime water becoming milky, and the audi-
ence separated, evidently satisfied with the commence..
ment of a course of instruction which will enable them
to explain to others the real nature of the crystals at the
Palace of Industry.

DELUSIVE IGNORANCE OF WORKMEN.
As there is nothing more delusive than igno-
rance, nothing more dangerous to the future con •
dition of art than self-confidence when associated
with it; we are glad to think that the existence of
this Exhibition affords means of removing what has
long interfered with that progress—the want of arti.t-
workmen. Fur example, we may remark, that the
practice of studying flowers from nature, which is con-
stantly observed iu France, when they are introduced in
decorative work, is almost unknown in this country.
Yet, what real artist would think of dispensing with the
model, whether he possessed great knowledge of nature
or not. The fortes of nature should of course be ob-
served whenever natural flowers are introduced, and close
observance of the work or nature may be said to be hardly
less necessary, even when conventional treatment is re-
sorted to, since everything in fl ,riated work must at least
be consi.tent. We learn from one of the chief members of
the Committee of the North London Drawing School for
Artisans, that there is very great difficulty in getting
English workmen to adopt this rational plan. We own
we were hardly surprised to hear this. There has long
been too much self sufficiency in these matters, at least
amongst the artisans of the metropolis. Many think it a
great indignity to be desired to work from " a.copy," con-
ceiving that, having passed a regular apprenticeship, and
had several years practice, they must be perfect in the
cut of a laurel leaf, or flower. Whea once persuaded to
work from nature, these men surpass their former work,
and, much to their own surprise. Individuals who are
employing working carvers, have been greatly struck with
the feeling for Are shown by French carvers, several of
whom have lately come over to this country--and
the absence of that feeling amongst the class in
England. Some of these French workmen were
once asked, if they would like to see some good
pic.ures ; they thanked the inquirer warmly
for the offer, saying that they had not been able to see
any good ones yet; that they had been into the Pan-
theou, in Oxford-street, and " qu' it n'y avait que des
croutes a pretty accurate character of the class
of pictures upon the walls of the Pantheon, but one
which we fear few English workmen would have
been able to give. For, whilst such men were
anxious to take every opportunity of cultivating a
love of art, there was considerable difficulty in
attracting any attention to the interesting exhioition
at the North London School, from the class for whose
special benefit it was intended, and this even in the case
of workmen in the employ of the chief promoters of the
undertaking, and from whom, on that account, some de-
gree of interest might have been expected. We believe
that in the manufacturing districts the germ of a much
higher condition of art in this particular exists, and this
is, we learn, shown by the demand for prints of a high
class amongst artisans.—Architectural Quarterly Review,
June, 1851.

ORD ROSSE'S DISCOVERIES OF STARRY

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time beating and ot.er , in a
most cruel manner, which induced some humane persons
heard,
to give him in charge of a constable, who. to ,k him before the
Frome magistrates; and the case being
~
tenced to one montti
The fellow was then taken back for a short period to the
s
's imprisonment in Snepton gaol.
Guard House, while the constables procured a vanfor h
removal to the prison (a distance of 13 miles), but on
the return of the officers they found that their prisoner,
either from spite or some other motive, had torn everyarticle
of his clothing into small pieces, and was in
a complete state of nudity. This placed the constables for
a few seco-ds in what is called "a fix," but wi:h all due
regard to common decency they promptly met the emer-
gency by procuring a large sack, shoved Bob into it feet
foremost, tied it comfortably round his neck, seated him in
the van, and in that state delivered him to the custody of
wnohtamßtot
Mr.
.West, the worthy governor of Shenton gaol. As we are
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County Gazette.

FIRMAMENTS.

It is rumoured that a poor pressman of the name
of Richard Aldridge, is to likely come into possession of about
be being heir to Hecidington Hill estate, China-laaa
near Oxford.

As Professor Nichol very truly remarks, '° investiga.
tion regarding such aggregations is virtually a branch of
atomic and molecular inquiry,"—with stars in place of
atoms—mighty spheres in place of " dust"—" the firma.
ment above" instead of " the firmament beneath." In
fact, the astronomer, in sweeping, with his telescopic
eye, the " blue depths ot ether," is, as it were, some Li-
liputian inhabitant of an atom itself, or rather of one
little corner of an atom, prying into the stoma' struc-
ture of some Brobdignagian world of " star-dust," or-
ganized into spiral and other elementary forms—of life,
it may be, something like our own. The infinite height
appears, in short, like a mirror of the infinite depth,
and we know not precisely where we stand between the
two immensities of depth and height! The shapes
evolved by the wonderful telescope of Lord Rosso are,
many of them, absolutely fantastical: wonder and awet
are mingled with almost ludici ous feelings in contem-
plating the strange apparitions—strange monstrosities
we had almost called them—that are depicted on the
black ground of the illustrations. One aggregation
looms forth out of the darkness like the skeleton face of
some tremendous mammoth, or other monstrous denizen
of ancient time, with two small fiery eyes, however,
gazing out of its great hollow orbits. Another consists
of a central nucleus, with arms of stars radiating forth in
all directions like a star-fish, or rather like the scatter-
ing fire sparks of some pyrotechnic wheel revolving. A
third resembles a great wisp of straw, or twist or coil
of ropes—a fourth a corkscrew or other spiral seen on
end—a fifth a crab—a sixth a dumbbell—many of them
scrolls or rolls of some thin texture seen edgeways, and
au on. It is even a suggestion of the author's that
all revealing
--erst the chi, some of the spirals and armed wheels may be revolving
1 Ygeutlpihnedt.helv'hausts hoscseathneotefleaspcaocpeeitnrawct:dicht the `e‘ybianrdeinign;"
this wondr.,usi
influences of tho Pleiades, " loosened the bands of Orion"
its
s o n,
separate
instrumentb l lo uss.t
unrolledhazy,ar s
andwonders,
thus,tii
ti
h eionan
vcbeernise andta
hsl for
revealed in the depthseasieosaest4nnitsahsitnicgresults arc as scroll." yet ever, these
passedm a ra,
nt since,
,ulthen present
no-
thing to the face that
y
of this limbo of creation, are not
shapes which it has
shapes merely of th
time—that thousands of
light which shows them left
scope, in short, in
reflecting 7.rseveeled—that the tele.
likes to the eye of a mind 4n
theye rsstabrtr7ilr
turneeda"nish"lg shapes, is
inwards Oil the long
stored records of an universal and eternal
than to a mere eye Of SOP SW memory ot the
past,
looking
outward on the
.
things of passing time.—Builder.

HOME CINCEIT.--The Judges have
following days for holding the ensuing Summer the
Hertford, July 16; Chelmsford, July 21; Zeir circuit
~ :
28 ; Lewes, August 4; and Croydon, August 7".3t°110, July

THE sum LONDON, TIIVRSDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1851.

THREATENED REIOLUTION IN MEXICO.
Telegraphic reports tax: intimatz d that E! vicletic,s of
a project for revolutioniing Mexico are now on foot.
That somethine uliusual iEgoinv on in Mexico we do not
doubt. Our Bair, correspoident announces the purchase
by Mexican officers of a Urge number or muAlets in
ono of the towns of Fran, and ,ae know of several
movements by Mexican iitizens in this city which
confirm our suspicions tha an enterprise of one kind
or another is ou foot. Witlin the Tait three months an
unusually large number 0 Mexican gentlemen have
visited the north, and have been engaged in making
contracts of various descriptons. Some of these have
been represented as conneted merely with peaceful
measures, but it is impossible to say to what uses such
merely commercial enterpises bventually may be
directed. Every breeze fron Mexico brings rumour of
various kinds, which may exit in something more than
smoke.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
couzer OF commoy PLEAS, June iS
Psius Sitcfrp fir ,Nl!(i,i beioru Mr. JusLico

WILLIAMS-
)
The sittings after Trivuty form comoveced this
morning. There, are 63 entries, of which 27 are rema-
nets, 32 new causes, and 4 are withdrawn; 20 are special
jury causes.

HEALD V. CARY.
This was an action of trover brought by Captain Heald
against the defendant, who is agent of the London and
Dunkirk Shipping Company, to recover the value of a
case of pictures which had been sent from Paris to Eng-
land via Dunkirk, and which, having been cleared the
Custom-house by the defendant, without (as was alleged)
the plaintiff's authority, and afterwards removed to is
warehouse in Seething-lane, was burnt there in a fire
which destroyed the warehouse and adjoining premises.
Mr. Sergeant Byles end Mr. Rochfort Clarke were
counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Watson, Q.C., Mr.
Bramwell, and Mr. Mainsty, for the defendant.
George Frederick Nisbett was examined by Mr.Roch-
fort Clarke, and said—l am the plaintiff's valet. In
August last the plaintiff resided at an hotel in the Place
Vendome, Paris. He gave me instructions to pack up
and send seven cases of pictures, bronzes, and other ar-
ticles by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to Dunkirk, to be
ahiop'd from thence to England. The goods were pro-
perly packed and forwarded, addressed, " Nisbett, Cus-
tom-house, London." On my arrival in England I ap-
plied to the defendant, as agent of the Dunkirk Shipping
Company's office, for the cases. He told me he had re-
ceived six cases, but the seventh had been broken up on
the railway, and they were doing their best to get the
case or damages for it from the railway company. He
referred me to Mr. Nelsham, a Custom-house agent,
and I went to him and gave him instructions to clear
the six cases, and send them to Usher's Hotel, Suffolk-
street. I also told him if he obtained the seventh case
to clear it. There were eleven pictures in the seventh
case. Their value was 2371. Ido not recollect all the
pictures, but I should if you would mention it.
Mr. Rochforr Clarke—Well, was one of them " Le
P6she Mignon ?"—Yes.
Mr. Watson—What is that; give us the English of it?
Mr. Clarke—l do not know that it is not English.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES—At any rate it is a language
known all the world over.
Mr Watson—Well, what is it?
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—You may see it in all the
printsellers' windows.
Mr. Watson—l never look in them, my Lord.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES —Well, it is called " the little
sin," and represents a young lady kissing herself in a
looking-glass.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Clarke—Were there also two pictures called
" Les Amez .ns?" Witness—Yes; also the portraits of
a horse and dug, a Dutch painting; a portrait of Mr.
Heald; and a portrait of the Countess of Landsteldt
(Lola Monies). There were also four pastels.
Mr. WATsow—What are they? Witness—Crayon
drawings. Two were of female figures with birds;
another a lady with a fan; and a large one representing
Cupid holding a glass, and a lady looking in it.—
(Laughter.) Mr. Heald bought the pictures in London
before he went to live in Paris.
Cross-examined by Mr. WATSON—I still live with
Mr. Heald. I saw the pictures in London, and after-
wards in Paris. I saw some of the paintings at Mr.
Watson's.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES —What! in the Temple?---
(Laughter.) Witness—No. In Piccadilly. " Les
Amazons" were at the barracks. They were not two
stout ladies on horseback.—(Laughter.) The figures
were rather slight. The countess's portrait was a half-
length in oil. When the cases were sent off, I declared
the value of this case to be 900 f., and I insured it for that
sum against injury.
Mr. Nelshani, a Custom-house broker, deposed that
the last witness having applied to him, he cleared the six
cases in August last. In September he went to the de-
fendant's on other business, and was told the seventh
case had arrived, and that the defendant had cleared it
arid paid the duty. He told defendant's son he should
not have done that, but that if he would send the case
to him he would pay the duty and charges. It was not
sent. A few days after the fire defendant called on him
and told him of the loss, and asked him if Barber was
illdtieled in removing the cases from the warehouse where
he had placed them to the one in Seething lane without
his knowledge, and if he (Barber) would not be respon-
sible for doing so. If the defendant had not cleared the
case on its arrival it would have been taken to the
Queen's warehouse, and would have remained there for
three months and fourteen days, unless claimed before
that period.
A clerk from Mr. Barber's office proved that the case
was deposited at their warehouse, near the docks, by the
defendant, and that as they were pressed for room there
it was removed with other goods to another warehouse
in Seething-lane, as was their usual course of business.
The warehouse in Seething-lane was accidentally burnt
down, end the goods warehoused in it were destroyed.
Mr. Zimmerman, of Bond-street, proved that he sold
the picture " Le Peeho Mignon" to the plaintiff in 1849.
should b
for 631., and the timr.
pictures,oaealdis a young inn
"Lea
ou Awn ins," by d
Dreux, for 161. They were very fine paintings, and well
wortrhostsh.eexmamonineyed.
Cross
think about 21. "Le Nebo Mignon" was an original;
I bought it of the artist, and gave him 50 guineas for it
about a fortnight before I sold it.
Mr. Roche (from Mitchell's in Bond•street) proved
that he sold two of the pastels to Mr. Heald, in January,
1849, for 401. The frames c rat two guineas each besides.
llr. Watson, carver and gilder, Piccadilly, proved
Ya
e
that the pictures were at his shop for some time before
they were sent to Paris. "Le PaS;he Mignon" was a
magnificent drawing, such as was seldom seen. He
considered the price given for it was very low. " Les
Aruasons" were also very fine paintings. A gentleman
offered him 151. each for copies of them whilst they
were in his shop, but he told him he could not lot him
have copies without Mr. Heald's permission. Another
picture wits a portrait of a favourite horse and dog of
Mr. Heald's, by Spalding. The dog was feeding the horse
with carrots, as it was accustomed to do. Being por-
traits, the painting would not be worth so much to
another person, but the artist had a groat reputation,
and 151. was a fair value to put upon it. Mr. Heald's
portrait was a water colour by Coke Smyth. He was
drawn at full lengthin regimentals. Seven guineas was
the price paid for it. The Countess of Landsteldt's por-
trait was in oil. It was by Middleton, an artist of cele-
brity. The picture cost 301., and the frame seven
guineas. Tee Dutch Oil painting was an old one, and
very fine; it would notdisgrace any collection in the king-
dom. Its value, without knowing the artist'a name, was
251. or 30/ The two pastels were worth 251. a piece.
rho third 151. For the largo one 30 guineas was not a
farthing too much. It was by Brocharte, one of the
finest as Lists in Europe, and was as beautiful a crayon as
the witness ever saw.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES —Which was tha ? " Cupid'sHoliday " did you call it, or ‘‘ Cupid disportingna hi-
self ? " Witness—No ; I said it was Cupid holding a
looking.glass to a lady. The first time I saw it was
Lindsfeldt.
the day before Mr. Heald married the Countess o

It cannot be concealed tiat the acquisition of the
mining region of Mexico is lata, a favourite theme with
many persons in the southern and western states—that
many Mexicans are in favotr of coming within the
jurisdiction of the United Sates, end that oar popu-
dwineols)iircsehwtornhity:
yet
xtend their golden pur-
eslaiu:iiitolsyn
t i in
tp California) 1
oh have been so super&
yield large metallic
treasurum. On the whole, viewing the state of Mexico
and all the interests which areconcentrating together to
bring it under the regimen of pason, enterprise, and in-
erthe oti, es
andr regions
in-
dustry, we are quite prepared :o anticipate a revolution
of some kind. It may be a bOody-.
one, or it may be a
moral and commercial and politcal one, in which the peo-
ple will form a tremendous majority for annexation
to the United States ; or t may be a revolution
rolling both ways at once—blc)dy one way, and blood-
less the other. The tree is it the seed at present; by
and by it may be seen without a microscope; meanwhile.
we must keep a sharp look-outon the march of events,
and see how the Mexicans will bear their third year of
drought and famine. Should ;he crops this year fail,
nothing can stay the great revlution which is now in
embryo.—New York Paper.

COURT OF lIVLANIEL VENCIE, June 18.
(1314")" H. F. STEPHENs()N, Eel.. C. H. HERMES, Esq.
and A. M
_...oNTGoblaty, Esq.)
euneEeccaTu_piEEßNAOLFTyCOMl,Pooooter.De FOR
CONVICTIONADULTERATING 7 A
Mr. Thomas Hill, of John-strset, Wilmington-sqaare,
0M
was charged before the Court in four informations with
manufacturing and vending a sertaiu compound in imi-
tation of and to be used as a substitute for malt and hops.
Dr. Bateman conducted the :ase on the part of the
Crown.
The court was crowded to eetess during the whole of
the proceedings, and the greatest interest prevailed.
Mr Commissioner STEPIIRttioN said that, by the
statemeet before him, it appeared that the defendant had
been guilty of repeated (deuces of a very serious descrip-
tion, by supplying persons wits an article for the pur-
pose of adulterating their beer. He considered that this
was a case that ought to be male public, and that these
nefarious transactions ought lot to be smothered up or
passed over without the Court knowing something of
the circumstances.
Dr. BATEMAN then briefly stated the case for the
prosecution, and called
Mr. David Scott, who stated that he is a supervisor
of inland Revenue, and on the 13Lh of February he went
to the premises of the defendant in John•street, Wil-
mington-square. On that day he made a seizure on the
premises of Mr. Folkard, a licensed victualler, who
keeps the Blue Posts Tavern, West India Ducks. He
there seized a keg, containing Iwo gallons of an article
used fur the purpose of adulterating beer. He made
another seizure on the premises of William Freer, the
Cricketers, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea. It was a si-
milar description of stuff He made another
seizure at the house of William Schram, Commercial-
road. He had subsequently made seizures of a similar
description in the houses of usher licensed victuallers.
The articles seized had been examined by the chemists
to the board, and they were proved to be such articles
as are used by licensed victuallers as substitutes for malt
and hops. From the bills or parcels that find been pro-
duced by these parties, it appeared that the whole of
these articles had been supplied by Hill and Co. Witness
went to Mr. Hill, and told him who he was. He in-
quired of him whether he knew tne firm of Hill and
Co., of Wilmington-square, and he replied that he did.
He (witness) inquired whether he knew Mr. Fri er, of
the Cricketers, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, and i.e ad-
mitted that he did. He had since seen the defendant in
John- street. He had aecertained that he was the tenant.
He bad seen Mr. Eames, his original landlord, who
stated that he held the premises ot him; but that agree-
ment had been cancelled, and ho now held them direct
from a Mr. Gaston.
William Freer said he kept the sign of the Cricketers
in Cneyne-walk, Chelsea. The defendant Hill, called
upon him, and after remarking that his beer did not
look so well as his neighbour., introduced an article
that would, he said, have the effect of putting a better
head upon it. He called it "ex spruce, and by using
halt-a-gallon of it a butt of beer would admit ot fifteen
gallons ot water being added to it. lie offered to send
a man to show him how to use it. He had some on the
30th of November, a portion of which was seized by the
officers. As he did nut .ike it, he left off using it. The
defendant said he should use more of it, as he had not
used sufficient. He (witness) had been prosecuted, con-
victed, and paid a penalty of 204
lit'. Commissioner s —TEPRENS—Horf did you become
acquainted with the detendaut? Mr. Freer said his tra-
veller called upon him, and recommen led the article as
au improvement to the beer. He never had any of it but
from the defendant. He was a perfect stranger to bun.
He had been convicted and paid the penalty.
Mr. Folkard arid several other eceused victuallers
gave similar evieence.
Mr. Cum unesiouer STEPRENsON said the circumstances
of the Coise were new clearly before the Court, and they
were quite ready to hear any explanation that the de-
Medalst had to offer.
The defendant then said that about two years ago he
was induced, through an advertisement, to become the
tenant of premises for carrying on a business that be-
came a failure, and caused the loss of nearly halt the
property he possessed, but being unable to get rid of the
tenancy of the premises he was induced to enter upon the
manufacture of syrups, and while so engaged a person
came and stated that he was capable of making syrup
cordials for publicans; and had in his possession a recipe
for making an article which had the quality of improving
and finiug porter, and preventing the acidity arising
from brewers' tiulugs. Now, that person who introduced
the article to him is the same whose case was men-
tioned in the papers of Monday, who there acknowledged
that he was an 'wormer, and in the pay of tee Excise,
and had been committed to prison fur three months, for
the desertion of his child. He could assure them that
the article was sold under the impression that its sale
was legal, as it was found openly iu the publican's cellar
and nu caution was ever given to put it out of the way,
and ho believed that the publicans as well as himself
were not aware that they received an illegal article into
their possession, but had suffered under au old Act,
which although not repealed, they believed to be obso-
lete, especially us another Act has since passed, permit-
ting the brewing of beer from sugar. With regard
to the composition of the spruce itself, so
far as his knowledge of it went, there wa.
nothing but what was wholesome in it, the great bulk of
it being composed of sugar, and as to any profit being
derived from it, he Could satisfy the Court that none of
it had ever found its way into his pocket, and that not
301. worth of it was sold altogether. What he had suf-
fered since the commencement of these proceedings he
would not attempt to describe; his hopes fur his family
were blasted, and his name sullied by hints in the news-
papers and elsewhere, industriously circulated, that he
had entrapped the unwary publican in order to share hi.
fine, but nu proof could be brought for such foul impu-
tations. At the first hint ut the illegality of the sale
it was discontinued, and would never again be resumed.
He implored them to have mercy upon him, for the sake
ut his wife and children; that the fine might be such as
he could pay, and that he might not be committed to a
felon's gaol.

Dr. &TEXAN said the man Palmer, spoken of by the
defendant, had left his service since August, 1850, and
that all the iliformattuns in which the detundAnt was

involved were for transactions committed subsequently
o that time.

Mr. WATSON—Oh, oh, that was Cupid disporting him-
self.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Clarke—l am in the employ of a laceman in Lon-
don. In 1848 my employer sold the large pastel of Cupid
and the Glass to Mr. Heald. Wo asked 35 guineas for
it, but sold it for 30 guineas.
This being the plaintiff's case,
Mr. WATSON submitted that there was no evidence of
a wrongful conversion by the defendant.

Mr. Commissioner STEPHENSON said the penalty
that would be given against the defendant would be
a heavy one. Hu had sought the publicans, and they
had not sought him. They had made use of the infor-
mation they received in making detections of the fl-
grant system that had been practised by him, and should
give judgmsnt against him on two counts in the penalty
of one thousand pounds. The defendant might petition
for a mitigation,
but the amount would be very con-
siderable.

Mr. 'justice WILLIAMS said he would reserve the
point, but the case must go to the jury.
Mr. WATSON then addressed the jury, contending that
all the defendant had done had been with a view to the
benefit of Mr. Heald and the safety of the case, and
that ho was by no means responsible for the unfortu-
nate result of his interference, which, moreover, he would
prove to have been authorised by the plaintiff.
Witnesses were then called, who proved that the case
in question having sustained some injury on the French
railway, it was, pursuaut to the custom in France, exa-
mined on the behalf of the railway by an expert, who
discovered that all the damage done was, that three
glasses of pictures in the case had been broken in the
carriage. It was then repacked and delivered to the
Dunkirk Shipping Company's agent at Dunkirk, who
sent it to the defendant with a bill of lading as follows:
" Case containing pictures, to be delivered at port of
London to Mr. Cary, to hold at the disposal of Nisbett,
Custom House, London, or order, on payment of freight,
21. 12s. 6d. Goods to be transhipped in twenty-tour
hours, or else they will be warehoused at cost and risk
of sander."

Mr. Sergeant BYLES replied, and contended that the
defendant's evidence did not show any authority what-
ever to the defendant by the plaintiff, and that but for
the defendant's unauthorized interference the ease would
have been safely deposited in the Queen's warehouse
until the plaintiff sent for it.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up, and left it to the
jury to say—first, whether the plaintiff authorized the
defendant to receive the case; secondly, whether his
object in receiving it was to do the best he could for the
consignee; and thirdly, whether he acted as a prudent
man would have done by it.
The jury answered all these questions in the negative,
and returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 1504 da-
mages.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 18.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
The number of causes set down for trial at those sit-
tings is 44, of which 4 are special jury causes. There
are also 38 remanats.

ROARE V. BALDWIN.
This was an action of libel, brought by Miss Hoare,
whose name as a suitor in the courts at Westminster is
not unfamiliar to them public, against the defendant, as pro-
prietor of the Morning Herald. On the cause being called
on, and the jury being sworn, Miss Hoare applied to the
Lord Chief Baron for an order directing the keeper of
newspap.rs in the British Museum to produce the paper
which contained the supposed libel, and which had been
returned to the Stamp-office. The Learned Judge, hav-
ing consulted with the other judges in the adjoining
court, was of opinion that he had no power to make such
an order. The plaintiff then, by consent of the defendant's
counsel, withdrew the record.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,
GLD COURT.

(Before Mr. GURNEY, Q.C.)
Yesterday Juhn Cotton pleaded guilty to a charge of
at
felonlariously
fore t escaping from
tion of a Dartmoor prison, and being
tion to large behe e
which he had x
bpekm sentenced. iraperiod of transporta-
It appeared from iiluiries made by the Learned Com.,
miisioi.er that the
ported f r hiprobber riont r had been originally trans-
ground for believing
ance hed that there was good
gieving hwa y
tha,. sin had been at large he
had committed two other highway robberies of tin
gravated character.

Ho wai sentPutied to he transportrAl for V.een years.
(113,,.t0r0 fir. Jovice COLEIIIDGE .1.r0.1 Me. Baron PLATT.)
Thomas lleed, 35, wino m,rciiant, was indintA for fe-
u:, ring a f-rged acceptance., to a bill (.f ex
change for 154, with intent to defraud SA:21101 iluitue
Day.:
_

Sir. Cooper prosecuted, and Ur. Parry defended the
prisoner.

It will be remembered that at the last session the
prisoner was acquitted upon two indictments charging
him with uttering two other forged bills, with intent to de-
fraud the same prosecutor. It appeared that the
prisoner had formerly carried on the business of
a wine merchant, in partnership with his brother
at Bath, but the partnership was dissolved
in 1846, and since that perid the prisoner had no inte-
rest whatever in the business. The prosecutor, who is
a wine-merchant in Pudding-lane, had been in the habit
of doing business with the firm at Bath, and on tree 28th
March the prisoner purchased some champagne, which
he represented was for the firm of Reed and Co., at
Bath, and he accepted a bill for the amount as for that
firm, and it appeared that the wino was afterwards ap-
peopriated to his own purposes.
Mr. PARRY, on behalf of the prisoner, adopted the
same line of defence as on the former occasion, urging
that there was no positive testimony to negative the
probability that the prisoner might, from his former
connexion with the firm at Bath, have considered that
he was jutified in the proceeding he had taken.
Mr. Justice COLNRIDGE summod up, and
The jury, after delib-rating for more than an hour,
returned a verdict of Guilty of uttering the forged in-
strument, but recommended the prisoner to mercy on
account of his former respectable position and good
character.

Mr. COOPER, on behalf of the prosecution, also joined
in the recommendation to mercy.
The Le.arned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to be
kept to hard labour for two years.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the COMMoN bERGEA.NT.)
George Dwane Mayne, 24, clerk, was indicted for un-
lawfully attempting to obtain from the Monarch Fire
and Life Assurance Company the sum of 1001., with in-
tent to cheat and defraud.
The prisoner, who had been arraigned yesterday and
pleaded Guilty, was brought up for judgment.
The COMMON SERGEANT, in pa-sing sentence, told
the prisoner that the offence he had pleaded guilty to
was one of a very serious character, it being a most gross
abuse of the confidence reposed in him. Happily his
plans had been frustrated, but not by any act on bis part,
for he had done all in his power to succeed in the com-
mission of the offence, and therefore his conduct was as
bad as if he had obtained the money. The character
the prisoner bore was but an aggravation, for it was in
consequence of that character that the trust he had en-
joyed had been placed in him, and it would be most
likely that no suspicion would be entertained that he in-
tended any wrong.
The prisoner was then sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment.

John Illosety, a respectable-looking man, a master
carpenter, surrendered to take his trial for attempting to
commit a capital offence on Mary Ann Bailey, a girl 14
years of age.
Mr. Thomson prosecuted, and Mr. Parnell defended.
The prosecutrix, who appeared to be a very forward
girl, had been in the service of prisoner, who lived at
Charlton, Kent. The alleged offence took place on the
23d of May, during the absence of prisoner's wife.
Although she had plenty of opportunities, prosecutrix
never spoke of it to any one for a fortnight.
Tho jury found the prisoner Guilty of a❑ assault. He
was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
The other cases disposed of in these courts during the
day were of a very trivial character.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mary Johnson, an elegantly attired young woman, of
considerable personal attractions, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Hammill, charged with having obtained the
sum of 311. by means of forged promissory notes, from
Mr. Frank Senior, a chemist and druggist, carrying on
business in the Queen's-road Delstnn.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been a
frequent customer at his shop for some time past, and
resided with a family of great respectability at Pember-
ton-cottages, in his immediate neighbourhood. Oa the
28th ult, the prisoner called upon him, and, producing a
promissory note for 6/., purporting to be drawn in her
favour by Messrs. Blackwood, the publishers, and made
payable at the banking-house of Messrs. Child and Co.,
requested him to accommodate her with cash for the
amount. The prisoner at the same time intimated that
she had received it direct from Messrs. Blackwood, as a
remuneration for some literary productions which she
had furnished for their magazine. Witness thereupon
cashed it for her, and about two days after she again
called with a similar promissory note for 20/, which he
was likewise induced to discount upon the faith of the
same representations. On the 3d instant the prisoner
brought him a third promissory note for 401., which she
also wished him to cash, but, suspecting from the fru-
quency of her visits, that there might be something
doubtful about the security of the transaction, he objected
to cash the note, but consented to advance her 51. upon
it, which the prisoner accepted, and immediately after
she had left he dispatched a messenger to make
inquiries at the banking-house, where it was ascertained
that Messrs. Blackwood kept no account at that
establishment. On communicating the result to the
prisoner, she expressed herself in strong terms of
nation against Messrs. Black wood for their remissness in
not lodging the amount of the notes where they were
made peyable, aid begged him to wait a few days until
the second one came due, when she would call and dis-
charge them both. He consented to do so, but in the
interval made fresh inquiries, which satisfied him that
they were forgeries, and he therefore sent for the prisoner,
and upon communicating to her what he had ascer-
tained, she again assured him they were genuine, and
invited him to proceed with her at once to the residence
of Sir George Armitage, in Cambridge-scplare, Hyde-
park, whom she designated as her cousin, and that the
matter would be speedily and satisfactorily arranged.
He accordingly accompanied her there in a cab, from
which the prisoner alighted at the house, and, after re-
maiving a considerable time inside, again joined him,
and, without entering into the particulars of her visit,
directed the cabman to drive to the residence of Lord
Villiers, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square. Having
been informed by the porter, on their arrival there, that
his Lordship was not at home, the prisoner desired to be
conveyed to the house of Mr. Mackenzie, a solicitor in
River-terrace, Islington, with whom she also had an in-
terview, leaving witness in the cab, and on coming out
told him that she bad been advised by her solicitor to
proceed at one* to Leamington to procure the money,
and requested further indulgence; but witness refused to
part with her, and ultimately gave her into custody.
Mr. Joseph Hunt Langford, the manager of the
London branch of Messrs. Blackwood's establishment,
deposed that the prisoner was an entire stranger to him,
:Jed that the signatures to the promissory notes pro-
duced wore not written by either of the Messrs. Black-
wood, or any other person connected with their firm.
Police-constable M`Walter, of the N division, stated
that the prisoner was given into his custody at the time
in question, and that upon searching her at the station-
house he found in her possession a variety of letters and
other documen
lsts, amongst which was another promis-
wood.
sory not
U _,e also bearing the signature of Messrs. Black-
oaring telling her that she was charged with
uttering forged instruments, the prisoner did not attempt
to explain her conduct, but merely asked him if he
thought Mr. Senior would press the charge if she paid
him the money.
Tho prisoner, who listened to the evidence with an
air of coolness and perfect self-possession, declined put-
ting any questions to the witnesses, and made no obser-
vations in anawer to the charge.
Mr. 11.e.etmete. intimated his intention to send the
case before a jury, and ordered the prisoner to be re-
manded until that day week for the formal completion o'
the depositions.

LAMBETH.
Henry Fraser Dimsdale, the son of Baron Dimsdale,
was brought up on a warrant charging him with as-
saulting Mr. Jarman and others, by pelting them with
eggs and other missiles on their return from Epsom, on
the Oaks day.
Saunders, the officer, stated that he held a warrant for
some days for the apprehension of Messrs. Henry and
Thomas Dimsdale and Captain Williams, but up to that
morning, he had not succeeded in finding either of the
parties. Information had reached him on that morning
that Mr, Henry Dimsdale was about to appear at the
Court of Qaeen's Bench, Westminster, as a witness in
a case set down fur trial. He attended there, and alter
some delay, surer eded in finding Mr. Dimsdale in a
coffee-room of a tavern in the vicinity of Palace-yard.
On seeing him, he asked the gentleman if his name was
not Mr. Henry Dimsdale, and he at once replied that it
Was; and ho then told him that he held a warrant for
his apprehension on a charge of assaulting Mr. Jarman
and others by throwing eggs at them on the Oaks day.
Mr. Dirasslale did not 'cake any reply, and he took him
in a cab to the court.
A solicitor who attended for Mr. Dimsdale, but whose
name did not transpire, questioned Saunders on the sub-
ject, and seemed most anxious to know wbo it was who
had given him the private information which led to the
apprehention of his client, but the officer did not satisfy
him, remarking that he was not .bound to declare the
names of parties giving him information in matters re-
lating to his duty.
The gentleman begged hoe ssure the magistrate that
his client, Mr. Dimsdale, a not kept out of the way
from any wish to evade the law in this case, but had let'
England on business of a private nature before any com-
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Mr ELLIOTT suggested that the best course, under the
circumstances, would be for Mr. Diniqlale to put in bail,
himself iu 401. and two sureties in 20/. each, to attend
on a subsequent day, when the complainants would have
proper notice, and be present to give evidence in the case.
Mr. Dimsdsle entered into his own recognizances for
40/, and Mr. Henr, Frederick Holt, of Ch,riug-cross,
solicitor, and Mr. Appleyurd, of Lincoln's Inn-square,
solicitor, in 20/. each. The former was liberated.

FRENCH NEWS FROM ENGLAND. —One of the
"own correspondents" of a Paris daily paper sent to London,
to describe the Exhibition, gravely relates as a specimen of
English manners that a great sporting nobleman recently
gave a magnificent banquet to his friends, and when it was
over told them that they had eaten the winner of the Derby,
which he had had specially killed as a Dark of respect both
to the horse and them:

TIJE LONDON GAZETTE, June 17.
DIVIDENDS.
At fte Codrt, Basiugtiall-ntre.l.
J. eniAo!ai and V/. ettisiloin), Dorking, Surrey,
wholesale perfurcen, July 4, at ilnif-pmA one—R. Lang-
Oilkley-quare, St. P4LCTLIT, builder, July 8, at
Eleven.

In the Country.
W. Simpson and E. Chadwick, Manchester, starch
manufarturers, July 9, at twelve, at the Court, Man-
chester—J. Snowball, Gateshead, Durham, builder, July
10, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—C.
Pritchard, Hereford, wino merchant, July 8, at twelve,
at the Court, Birmingham—T. Tl:bberner, Birmingham,
corn factor, July 10, at twelve, at the Court, Birming-
ham—W. E. Ethel!, Birmingham, saddler, July 8, at
twelve, at the Court, Birmingham.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
R. W. Street, Oxford-street, Soho, victualler, July 10,
at half-past elewn—J. Reed, Bermondsey-street, South-
wark, hop mer .han,, July 9, at one— W. Cox, Blom-
field-terrace, Harrow-read, stock and share broker, July
9, at one—W. Jackson, Orchard-street, Portman- square,
painter, paper-hanger, and dreorator, July 8, at half
past twelve—W. M. Maxfield, -
Leeds, silk mercer, July
8, at two.

In the Cuurtry.
W, Farrow, Kingston-upon-Hull, coal merchant, July
9, at hall-past twelve, at the Court,
Kingston-npon•Hull
--J. Hughes, Hacconby, Lincolnshite, beast jobber and
sbeep salesman, July 11, at ten, at the Court, Not-
tingham.