The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

will lay the groundwork of material injury,
morally and positively, to France and Great
Britain. A more able statesman than Lord
PALMERSTON would have seen the importance
of a cordial aliance with France, although he
might have considered it necessary to exact
guarantees for her own good conduct.

The New York Advertiser of the 22d of
March has come to hand this morning. In a
political point of view it is devoid of in-
terest, but it contains a circular issued by
the Treasury of the United States to the
collectors, naval officers, and surveyors, giv.
ing them instructions as to the mode in which
they are to levy the new duties, which cannot
fail to be of interest to many of our mer-
cantile add manufacturing readers. This docu-
ment is dated the 7th of March. After stating
how the difference between the old and the
new duties on goods which have partly paid
duties shall be settled, it notices some
frauds which have been practised on the
revenue, by invoicing and entering the ar-
ticles known by the names of " Summer
Cloth" and " Brechellas," under the name of
" Worsted Stuff Goods," whet, according to
the materials of which they are both composed,
they are not entitled to that classification, but
are liable to the Woollens' duty, and are in
future so to be charged. Flaying touched upon
some matters of no interest in this country, it
concludes by giving the following minute
instructions with respect to different articles of
import from this country :
"1. That in estimating the value of wool manufactured.
at the place of exportation—to the actual cost, if the same
shall have been actually purchased, or the actual value, if
the same shall have been procured otherwise than by pur-
chase, at the time and place, when and where purchased,
or otherwise procured, or to the appraised value, if ap-
praised, are to be added all charges, except insurance, and
the weight is to be regulated with reference to the pound
weight as known and e•tablished in the United States.
If it shall be proved to your satisfaction that there is any
difference between the pound weight in the United States
and that of the foreign country of exportation, such dif-
ference is to be taken into view in the computation of the
va'ue of the wool. If the value of unmanufactured wool,
estimated in the manner thus prescribed, shall exceed
eight cents per pound, it will he liable to duty, and vice
versa, if it does not exceed that sum per pound. An
actual weighing at the time of arrival, is considered neces-
sary in all cases, in order to ascertain whether the wool
will or will not he liable to duty."
. .

2. and 3. These heads relate to the importa-
tion of coral, which we have omitted as no:
being of much concern to our merchants. Tne
instructions then proceed.

" 4. That wind $w blinds made of split rattans, are
liable to an ad valorem duty of 15 (25) per cent., as ma.
nuficturers of wood.

" 5. That all articles composed entirely of silk and
linen, are entitled to an entry as manufactures of silk, or
of which silk shall be a component part.
" 6. T:iat all iron chains, which from the form and
thickness of the links, are suit-ihle, arid are generally
used for cables, whether of large or ,mall vesels, are to he
subjected to the specific riuty of 3 cents per pound.
" 7. That Goats and Camels' hair Catnlets, are entitled
to an entry at 15 per cent., being considered as coming
under the general clasatficati in of ' Cashmere or Thibei,'
in contradistinction to the classification of Metitio
Shawls made of wool, and all other manufactures, of wool
or of which wool shall be a component par'.'
" S. That shawls, the body comp ised of silk and
worsted, with the figures on the border formed with carded
wool, ire considered to be entitled to be placed under the
classification of shawls and other manufactures of silk
and worsted' at an ad valorem duty of 10 pr cent.
" 9. That shawls of worsted or combed wool and cot-
tons are liable to the woollen,' duty.
" 10. That the articles call, d brown rolls, or heedens,
dowlac, platillas. creas, and Bretagnes, ate entitled to an
entry at an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent.
" 11. That the following articles are liable to an ad
valorem duty of 25 per cent., viz :—Black linens, Rus-
sia sheetings, linen diapers and damasks, dama,k table-
cloths and napkins, linen sheeting, linen drillings ftr p in,
taloons, linen lawns called long lawns, linen threads, Irish
linen shirtings and estoniileis.
" 12. That sail needles, sack and yarn needles, darning
needles, bent packing needles, shoemakers', glovers', and
giddier,' netting and tambouring needle,, and all similar
needles, are embraced by the general exemption of
needles,' biitkin, not included."

The first part of paragraph thirteen relates to
wine and spirits, but the conclusion will be in-
teresting to those of our merchants who have
exported goods under the old Tariff. It runs
thus:—

" It is understood that large imprtations were made of
the art cles known by the name of Plains, Kerseys, and
Kendal Cottons, and deposited in the custom-house star, a
for the benefit of the reduction of the duties which was to
have taken effect alter the 3d day of the pre•ent month, as
authorized by the Act of the 14th July, 1t332, already re-
ferred to ; and that orders for a large quantity of said
goods have been given upon the faith that after the 3,1
inst. they would be admitted to entry at an ad valorem
duty of 5 per cent., but that under the Act entitled, ' An
Act to modify the Act of July, 1832, and all other Acts
imposing duties on imports,' which, so far as relates to
these particular kind of goods, having Liken effect on the
2d of the month, and raised the duty thereon to 50 per
cent., the importers will be compelled to advance duties
(say the difference between the higher and the lower
rates) for which, upon every principle of justice and good
faith, they conceive, Congress will pass a law to have re-
funded to them, and that such advance can be prevented
only in case the Treasury Department can extend the time
for the payment of the duties on the goods in question."
" It is regretted that such will be the operation of the
two acts mentioned. but it is not competent for the Trea-
sury, in any case, to extend the time of payment beyond
that, at which, according to law duties on goods become
due and payable.
" With a view, however, to facilitate any application
which may be made to the next Congress for relief, it
would he advisable to keep a particular account of these
too Is, the names of the importers, the dates of payment
of the duties, and the difference between higher and lower
amount of duties.

" It will naturally suggest itself to you, that you are
not to include in such account any goods which you are
not perfectly satisfied are of that de,cription and fabrics as
to have entitled them to an entry at 5 per mat. in case the
act, in relation to them, of 1833, had not repealed that of
1832.

Such plains, kerseys, and Kendal cottons, as were
imported prior to the 2d instant, will be liable to the
p tyment Of the rates of duties in force at the time of im-
portation ; but if such rates be greater than the rates fixed
by the act of 2d inst., and the plains, kerseys, and Kendal
cottons be deposited in the Custom-house stases are pre-
scribed by law, they will be entitled to tle benefit of the
18th section of the act of 14th July, 1832.
" Respectfully,
"J. ANDERSON, Comptroller."

The letters from Lisbon, which were received
yesterday at the Portuguese Embassy, are ex-
ceedingly favourable to the Constitutional cause.
Public opinion was declaring itself strongly for
the young QUEEN, and several hundreds of the
inhabitants were waiting for a❑ opportunity to
leave Lisbon for Oporto. The exactions of
the Usurper had become frightful ; and in pro-
portion as the merchants and tradesmen feel
them, and speculation becomes paralyzed, those
of the lower orders, who had formerly depended
on their industry for subsistence, become ob-
jects of charity to the priesthood, but without
at the same time becoming partisans for Doi'
MIGUEL. It appears from our own letters,
alit at least one-third of the lower classes of
Lisbon are ready to rise in support of the con-

stitution, the moment they perceive that such
a step would be attended with a chance of
success ; and already there are daily conflict,
between the Constitutionalists of this class and
the police, who, numerous as they are, find it
impossible to keep them in order. An affair,
which was near proving serious, occurred a
short time ago, in a coffee-house on the Caes
do Sodr. The news of the defeat of the
Miguelites at Oporto, on the 21th ult., had

just arrived, and two persons in the coffee-
house were openly expressing their exultation,
when a police officer, who was resent, started
up and arrested them. All the company took
part with the two Constitutionalists, and set up
a shout of " Long live the Queen !" The
cfficer was compelled to fly, but soon returned
with a detachment of police, who dispersed the
company, but could not prevent the cries of
" Long live the Queen !"

By advices from Guatemala, dated Decem-
ber, 1832, we perceive that that republic has
again opened its ports to the trade of Spain and
its dependencies, for sonic time closed against
tE►em by a decree of the President in August
last year.

A letter from Colonel PAGE informs us that
the expense of the experiments lately made on
the Paddington Canal, stated by us to have been
mainly borne by Mr. TELFORD, was defrayed
by the subscriptions of several Canal Companies.

Important despatches have been received from
Holland by M. DEDEL, but no communica.
tion respecting them has been yet made to
Lord PALMERSTON Or M. de TALLEYRAND.
M. DEDEL is very ill with the influenza, and
this may account for the delay.

We regret exceedingly to find• that the state-
ment of the French papers, respecting the mis-
understanding between the Duke of RICHMOND
and the French Post-Master General, relative
to the proposal for a daily estafette, is well
founded. The French Post Office authorities
assert, that they have done all in their power
to promote the arrangement, but that they
cannot bring the Duke of RICHMOND to any
decision. Their last proposal, they say, re-
mains unanswered. We give this as the as-
sertion of the French Post Office authorities,
without vouching for its correctness.

We understand, from an authentic source, that
although an intimation has been given to the
Marquis of PALMELLA, that his return to
Oporto would be agreeable to Don PEDRO, no
official application has been made for his return.
On the contrary, the feeling of dissatisfaction in
the army at the offer which the Marquis is said
to have made to Lord PALMERSTON, for the
retirement of Don PEDRO on the condition of
the expulsion of the Usurper, is so great, that
until an explanation of that circumstance is
entered upon, it would not be prudent in the
EMPEROR to reinstate the Marquis in the Mi-
nistry. It is due to the Marquis of PALMELLA
to state that he did not exceed his authority in
making this offer ; but according to the accounts
winch we have received, he was instructed to
make it only as a last resource, whereas he is
reported to have done so before the wish for
such a step was ever expressed by our Go-
vernment.

In another part of The Sun will be found
ample details of the recent discussions in the
Paris Chamber of Deputies, on the subject of
the Tribune newspaper, which ended on Tues-
day in a majority of fifty in favour of the proposal,
that the responsible editors should be brought
to the bar. The French Opposition Journals
are very viulent at the result of this discussion,
and denounce the whole business as the acme
of absurdity. As respects the East, peace, it
seems, has at length been effected between the
contending parties, and IBRAHIM has consented
to retire. The terms of the treaty have not yet
transpired.

It has been thought by a portion of the public,
and a few Members of the House of Commons
who interest themselves in such matters, that the
Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses have
not conducted the funds intrusted to their
management with that economy which the
public have a right to expect from its
officers and functionaries of every descrip-
tion. The friends of the Commissioners
have always stoutly defended them ; and as
far as we are enabled to judge, from a re-
port made to the Commissioners in January,
1832, with perfect justice. This report, which
has been printed by order of the House
of Commons, contains a history of the consti-
tution of the Board, an account of its operations,
with the management and expenditure of its
funds. The Board constitutes a body politic
and is authorized to levy certain dues upon
vessels which have the benefit of the light-houses.

The total amount of these dues is 34,281/.
The permanent annual expenditure is about
17,0001.; but an additional sum of about
13,0001. was expended in 1830-31 on
new erections, making a total expenditure,
to set against the above income, of
31,0731. The balance has been paid to the
bankers of the Board, who have advanced it

large sums. The number of light-houses it keeps
up are 22, of ligl t-house keepers 44, and each
light-house is maintained at an average
expense of 6001. per annum. The only serious
fault we have to find with the expenditure of the
Board, is in the introduction of superannuation
allowances. The sum is at present small ; but
once establish the principle, and there is no saying
where it will stop. The wages of the keepers
are ample, and although we do not wish them
curtailed, we certainly think those in the receipt
of them ought to be left to take care of their
ow❑ old age.

II a prosecution for counterfeiting money at
the last Kingston. Assizes, u gardener, who had disco-
veie I one of the implements used for the purpose, was
xaminrd by Mr. CLARKSON, " So, Sir," said the
Learned Gentleca in, " you went to siiw the seeds of this
prosecution?" " No, Mr. CLARKSON," said Lord
Limattun.st (who presided on the Bench), with his well-
known smile, "the witness only found the mould." It is
neAless to say the Court was convulsed with laughter.

OLD BAILEY.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
Thomas Comollz and henry Cook (the latter of whom
was concerned—A.4 was supposed the principal party--in
the late ro bery in Mr. Wheeler's premises, in B irtlett's-
imitainge, for which two men are now under sentence of
de oh, hut in consequence of the principal witness in that
ease having gone to the East Indies, he was acquitted of
the robbery) were placed at the bar upon an indictment
charting them with breaking and entering the dwelline-
house of Thom is Green, in Blenheim-street S..ho, and
stealing three sovereign., &c., the property of Jarnes Baker.
The prosecutor's wife stated that en the evening of the
...?,3rl tilt., she left home about 7 o'clock, and on returning
half an hour afterwards, she saw the two prisoners walk-
irve out of her room. She seized Conolly, and kept her
;;01,1 of him, although lie dragged her along moil bath the
prisoners got to the street-door, when Conolly disengaged
himself, and they ran off. Conolly was however pursued
and taken back into the shop, when he was seen to drop
i purse belonging to the prosecutor containing the three
sovereigns.
It further appeared that the other prisoner, Cook, was
apprehended a short time afterwards.
The jury found them Guilty.
Tee policeman stated that Cook had already been twice
convcited of felony'.'
MURDER OF THE BOY PAVIOUR.
Frederick Marshall, George Evans, and William
Taylor, were placed at the bar charged upon an indict
meat, and upon the Coroner's inquisition with the wilful
murder of Robert Paviour.
Mr. Apnoea-los applied on behalf of the prosecution,
that the trial of the prisoners be postponed till next ses-
sions. He made the application on the instruction of the
Solicitor ( who had been requested by the Coroner to conduct
the prosecution), who had last night obtained the name
of a hay who could give very material evidence, but who
had not yet been found.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE directed an affidavit to he
prepared, detailing the grounds of the application, and
ordered another case to lie called on in the interim.
A short case having ben disposed of,
The three prisoners were again pieced at the bar, when
the application was not renewed, the counsel for the pro-
secution determining to proceed at once with the case.
Mr. WALESBY and Mr. CHURCHILL appeared for the
prisoners.
Mr. Anor.rnus, with whom was Mr. CLARKSON, de-
tailed the case at considerable length, and then called the
following witnesses:—
Ann Paviour, the mother of the deceased, a respectable-
looking female, in deep mourning, examined—l am the
wife of Robert Paviour, and lived at No. 26, John-street,
Tottenham-court-road. I had two children, Mary Anne
and Robert. I lived there about three years. Robert
was about 13 years old. Last Shrove Tuesday,
the 19th of February, about six o'clock in the
evening, I went out, leaving Robert at borne alive
and well. He had had mutton and pancake for din-
ner that day. I expected my husband home to supper,
and I desired Robert to boil some potatoes. When I le!t
him, at six o'clock, I knew of no necessity for his going.
out. I desired him to take off his boors. I parted with
him on good terms. He was very regular in his conduct.
He hid had no apple pudding that day. He was not in
the habit of going out of a night since he had left a situa-
tion, which was a month previously, nor was he in the
habit of associating with other boys. He had a rabbit in
the back yard, with which he arnu'ed himself. I went
out to visit a sick friend, and returned shortly after eight
o'clock. I did not then see the boy at home. He had a
pair of slippers, which were then missing, an el his boots
were there. partly cleared. I have known him go out at
night in slippers. My daughter and husband had got
home before me that night, and an inquiry had been
made for my son. My husband, my daughter, and I
went and searched everywhere about the neighbour-
hood, but in vain. The following day I got some bills
posted. On Tuesday, the 26th of February, a young
man named Sparrow came to me, and brought Marshall
and a stranger with him. I had seen Sparrow next door
where Taylor lived. Marshall said to nae he h id seen a
bill at Reece's colour shop, in Chapel-street. He said he
had seen the child the Thursday previously, at Sr. Katha-
rine's docks; he, described everything the child had on
when he left home, except the slippers, and said he bad
nn a very old pair of boots. Mrs. Richardson was then
with me. Mrs. R. told him I was the mother, and that the
hild was like me. M ashen said " Yes, he is exactly like
her. My eyes are dark, and so were the boy's; they were
described as dark in the bill " Marshall said he saw the
boy at St. Katharine's docks, loitering about and
eating a crust. He sail he himself was going off by
a ship the next day, and that the sooner we began the
search the better. This was about mid-day. I proi.eeded
with Mr. Rowe to the Dicks. immediately. We talk a
cab to go, and at the opposite corner of John-street,
I saw Sparrow and Marshall standing together. Mr.
Rowe and I made inquiries about the Docks, but could
learn nothing of the boy. When I returned home I ob-
served Sparrow going into Taylor's, and I asked a ques-
t:on of Sparrow with reference to Marshall, and desired
Sparrow to do something ; in consequence of that, Marshall
came to me in a quarter of an hour. Mr. Rowe, who
wan still with me, said he had been watching at the
Docks, and had met with no success. We had inquired
at the Docks about ships going out, and when Mr.
Rowe told Marshall we had no success, and that there
were no ships going out of the Ducks, Marshall said,
‘• The child is there now ; he is exactly like you, eyes and
all." He took a piece of paper out of his pocket, and
said he would give us the name of the ship going out ; he
wrote down the name " H•reford." A person named
John Evans came in, and Mar-hall and he went out to-
gether. The next day, or the day atter, I was looking
nut of my window, and saw Evans opposite. I had said
nothing to him. but I had noticed him the slay we went
to the Docks walking about the street. When I looked
out of the window, Evans shook his fist at me, and said
something which I cool I not hear.
The witness was cross-examined, but nothing material
Was ,licited.
Mary Ann Paviour, daughter of the lost witness,
examined—l went home on the 19th February, at tea
minutes past eight riche k, but nobody was in the lodg-
ings. The fire had burnt hollow, and the candle had
burnt to a long wick. It appeared as if nobody had paid
attention to the fire or candle for some time. I saw the
body of my brother before the Inquest. I know of search
being made after him.
Grace Richardson examined—l and my husband oc- '
cupy the first floor of No. 26, John-street. I knew the
der-ased. On the evening he was missing, the pre-
ceding witness called me to her apartment shortly after
eight o'clock. Mrs. Paviour was not at home then.
We could not find the deceased in the house The fire
had burnt hollow, and there was a saucepan with
potatoes in it on the fire. The fire and candle appeared to
have been neglected for about an hour. On the following
Tuesday I was in Mrs. Paviour's room when Marshall
was there. I opened the door and let Marshall in, and be
said there was a boy of the description of the deceased
lurking about St. Katharine's Docks. I called Mrs.
Paviour down, and I said the boy was very like her, and
he said " Y.s, from what he observed of Mrs. Paviour,
he was." He said he had a child of his own, and be did
not know what he should do with her, and appeared to be
sorry that the boy was missing. .
Cross-examined by the prisoner Taylor—l knew no-
thing of you hut as a hard working man.
Charles Waller examined—l knew the deceased, and
the night lie was missed I saw him in Chapel-street, Tot-
tenham-court-road. He said he was going to Mr.
Rippon's shop afterwards. He had his woollen trousers
and slippers on. I saw him go out of the shop. This
was between six and seven o'clock.
Christopher Rippon examined—l live at No. 8, Cha-
pel-street, the corner of John-street. About six o'clock
in the evening of Shrove Tuesday the deceased came to my
shop. iXe had slippers on. He made a small purchase;
was id the shop about five minutes, and then left. I did
not observe which way he went.
Cross-examined by Taylor—l have seen you at my
shop, and I have noticed some goods at your door. I
know nothing of you more than a customer. You ap-
peared always to be a working man.
' Phebe Palmer sworn—l live at 86, John-street, oppo-
site Mrs. Paviour's residence. I knew the deceased. On
the evening of Shrove Tuesday I heard a child cry out,
opposite my door, " No, no, don't you." I did not know
whose voice it was. Taylor's house was next door to Mrs.
Paviour's, and nearly opposite to me.
Cross-examined by Taylor—l never knew anything of
you but as a bard working, man.
By Mr. ADOLPHUS—The voice appeared as if coming
from Mr. Richardson's door in the street. It was between
a quarter before an! half-past seven o'clock.
' Joseph Smith--I live at No. 86, John-street. On the
26th of February, about mid-day, I saw Marshall corning
from the direction of Mrs. Paviour's, and go into Taylor's
house. I went into Taylor's house, and asked Mar-
shall if he had any good news of the boy? Taylor
was present. He said, he thought he had, for when he
saw the bill and the mother, it struck him forcibly that it
was the child. I said, not having any jacket, coat, or
shoes, I thought lie was nu more, and that I thought he
had been burked. Marshall asked why I thought so, and
said I might rest assured that the boy was as well anri as
hearty as I was. " How do you know that," said I.

" 1 do," replied he. I then sand, " I hope we shall s.,
the child to-morrow," and he mule no answer to that. 1•
half an hour afterwards. I went over again, after Marshal
had left, and I said to Taylor, " Da you know any thin
f.he good man who brought the account ?" and he said.
it ye., he has come of creditabie and good friends." I said,
" Then, I hope we shall see the child tomorrow," but lo
made no answer. My house is opposite Taylor's. A'ter the
ehild was missing, I had observed something unusual =thaw
Taylor's premiss. I had net observed any thing unusua
hef ,re the child was missing. From the time Mirshall

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brought the account up to the time of the prisoners being
apprehended, I saw the three prisoners, and a man named
Harrow, repeatedly going backward and forward, an i the)
.nneared narrowly watching me to see if I observed them.
This occurred continuallv—eve'y dly. On the Thursda,
h,-fore the inquest, I saw Evans looking up to Mrs. Paviour
who was at her window, and, holding his fist at her, he
Qaid something, but I could not hear what it was. NI)
wife saw and heard what passed.
Cross-examined—There wis great excitement in the
neighbourhood after the child was missed. When Evans
held up his fist he was intoxieited.
Cross-examined by Taylor—l have known you for two
or three years, and never saw any thing in your conduct
hut that of an industrious hard-working man. Sparrow
;s in your employ. I know that you have children. I
Won't know that those children are dead since Your con-
finement, and that your goods have b-en seized for rent.
Sarah Smith, wife of the last witness, remembered the
Thursday, March 7, when she saw five or six men parad-
ing up and down John-street all day. The prisoner-
Evans and Marshall were amongst them. Evans said to
Mrs. Paviour, You —old you shall be plagued
a little longer." Marshall was with him at that time.
They afterwards went into Taylor's house.
Cross-examined by Mr. CHURCHILL—Evans was Yet.)
drunk on that day.
Margaret J.:mem resided at No. 5, John-street. On the
7th of March, was going him at ten minutes after six
o'clock, when she saw Taylor and Evans conversing to-
tzether. Heard Taylor say to Evanw, it Hold your tongue,
the boy is all right, he is safe enough now."
By the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—They appeared to be
both sober.

William Wiggins accompanied a person along with
Marshall to the St. Katharine's Docks. On the way, he
was asked by Marshall whether the reward-money Ives
safe ; he said it was; and that if he would cat's,
the boy to be brought back, or would bring him back,
he would pay the money without further Tiestions. A
man named Sparrow was with Marshall, and he, ol,serving
old Mr. Paviour following them, touched Marshall, who
turned round, and, in answer to something said to him
by Sparrow, said "It was no go." Marshall again en-
tered into conversation with witness, and said the boy
was not taken away for any other purpose than to become
the heir of some property, or for the use of some of those
swells. There was ain in in the city who was in
the habit of giving money for boys, and then
he said that a Captain, who had hung himsell,
in Horsemonger-lane was one of that sort; he called them
" Roofs." On the Tuesday when witness went to Taylor's
house to speak to Marshall about the boy, at the request
or Mrs. Paviour ; he said he had seen the boy at the Deck.
in the " C " Department ; and there was no doubt but
he could get the boy; he would go with witness, but as
there were many ni4cs and corners he must go into, there-
fore he would out take Mrs. Paviour ; and also he said,
that she had given a wrong description of the boy, as
she said he was dark-eyed, when in fa,:t he was light. When
they arrived in the Docks, M irshall appeared to know no-
thing about them, and seemed quite lost as to the entrance,
From that circumstance, and his conduct altogether when
speaking of the boy, witness caused him to be give❑ into
custody on their return.
Cross-examined by Mr. WiLESBY.-On the Tuesday
evening Marshall said he was a steward of a ship which
was going to the Eist Indies, and the boy was going in
the same ship.
John Helen accompanied the last witness and Marshall

to the Docks. Before they started to go down, he went
into Taylor's house, and, when lighting his pipe, Marshal;
said, " Never mind, I shall make V. out of the boy yet !"
Taylor said, " Hush, you are talking too fast." Atter a
little, M irshall said to Taylor, " Would it not be better to
rake the 51., or shall we take him to Plymouth,
and then write to his mother that he was safe?" Taylor
said, " Oh, perhaps, the boy has gone to h-- or Halifax,
by this time." They then started for the docks. This
witness corroborated the statement of Wiggins. When
they arrived at the docks, they asked for the ship
Hereford, of which Marshall said he was steward, but
there was no such vessel there. She was laying et
B'ackwall, and hal only about a fortnight arrived troll.
China. In the usual course, she won't go out again fur
three or four months.

Cross-examin.-d by the prisoner Taylor—Taylor did say
to Marshall, " D•in't talk too fist ; say nothing but the
truth, for you are hurting the pArents' feelings."
George Bundy was walking from Hampstead towards
Oxford-street, with his wife. When near the bridge, over
the Regent's Canal, near the York and Altmoy, public_
house, he saw one man near the house and two men on
the bridge, about fifteen yards distance between the
one man and the two on the bridge. The two men were

leaning over the parapet with a p trcel—a large parcel be-
fore them—both appeared to have it before them, and be
thought at the time they were endeavouring to con-
cb•al it from their sight. It was not a basket, hut ap-
peared like c invest. One of the men said to the other.
There is some one coming." When they got about 12 or
15 paces from the bridge, he heard a splash in the water,
which must have been occasioned by a large substance.
A stone would not have made much noise. Could not
speak to any of the prisoners further than that. Taylor
and Evans were touch about the height of the two men he
saw on the bridge.
(The case was proceedin %Own nor Reporter left.)

NEW to Li feT.
ROBBING READY-FURNISHED LODGINGS.

Mary Alps was indicted fur robbing, on the 4th of
March, her ready furnished lodgings of a bed, bolster,
sheet., pillow., &c. It appeared from the statement of the
prosecutor, a person named Davies, that the prisoner hart
had apartments in his house for upwards of five months
h•fore the robbery, that she had always conducted herself
properly, paid her rent regularly, and the prosecutor hart
no reason to doubt her honesty, tll the occasion of the
illness of her daughter, when the robbery was discovered.
The case was clearly proved against the prisoner.
The prisoner, in her defence, said that she had taken
the property from necessity, being nearly starved, not
havi g had any food for nearly a week.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly re•
commended her to mercy on account of her distress, and
good character.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN sentenced her to seven days' con-
finement in Newgate.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

New York paper. to the 23d March ; Montreal, to the
15th March ; and Quebec, to the 13th March, have been
received at the North and South American Coffee-house.

(From the New York paper of March 22.)

CHOLERA AT HAVANNAH.—Private letters from Ha-
vannah to the 2d inst , from most respectable sources, fully
establish the truth of the existence of the cholera at that
place. One of the letters states that the public were un-
certain as to the extent of the disease. The accounts
'tried from twenty-five to a hundred and forty in the
first seven days.
From Mexico advices have been received, from the City
to the 9th, and from Vera Cruz to the 16th February.
General Santa Anna was et his farm near Vera Cruz, and
his election to the Presidency was deemed nearly certain.
A conducta had arrived at Mexico with one million, two
hundred thousand dollars, and another with two millions.
War was soon expected.
Th.! Montreal and Quebec papers do not contain any
news of consequence.

Mr. O'Connell has published a verbose letter
to his " fellow-countrymen," of which the se-
knowlerlged object is to teach them how they
may best evade the law lately passed for protect-
ing life and property in Ireland. No country
can he at peace where the laws do not command
the obedience of the people; it remains for Mr.
l'Connell's ingenuity to found the dernonstra-
ton of his own love of peace on the diligence
4. his efrorts to persuade the people of Ireland—
rst, of the igiquity of the existing laws—second,
if the facility with which they may be set asttle
end frustrated. There is not a particle of novelty
'n this enormous letter, except its dblis6 of Sir
John Uobhouse. It is quite eonsisterlf flint
man who goes on doggedly asseverating (thdiiglt
never once attempting to prove) that there can
he no good effected for Ireland but through
a repeal of the Union, should strive to place
in the most unpopular light every Minister,
let his merits be what they may, who hap-
pens to form, in the executive Government, the
connecting link between that country and Great
Britain. Let an Angel from heaven be S.tere-
!Je
and,thea
sb vei rhea::
nooft
hll4.
YCt
hofeonri4n,eal. O'Connell ltaon se e would;
in of evidence
o
st
;1,-Iroophhheotiiies,e ,atnhde La
i anticipates
allege
Gentleman mtahneatakes Sir
tot int J.
Baronet will do nothing for her benea . Smile
,
of the allegations in this letter are curious. rha
Learned Gentleman lays it down as a datum, by.
,vay of turning the tables on England, that the
" English hate us, and, without avoatini: it, fear
us." Whom does he mean by us ? I" the Irish
nation—it is a stupid calumny. If the Irish
agitators, repealers of the Union, and soforth—
it is true enough that they are despised ac well
as hated in this country ; but let them not flatter
themselves that they are feared. He abuses. nay
execrates, the Whitefeet, yet he pronounces th
the very law, nine-tenths of whose clauses are
framed for the suppression of the Whitefeet, has
rendered the repeal of the Union inevitable in
the mind of every honest man. Among the
means recommended by Mr. O'Connell for effect-
ing what he calls the " liberation of Ireland"
is a "proper use of the elective franchise ;" or,
in other words, such an organintion of the
voters all through Ireland as shall enable the
Learned Gentleman to nominate every one of he,'
representatives. The duration of the preseni
Parliament is predicted to be extremely short,
and the present Ministry is to be less long-lived
than the existing session. But what would the
repeal of the Union profit by any probable
change ? So, of the dissolution of the Parlia•
ment, is Mr. O'Connell quite sure what sort of
Parliament would succeed it ? His Volunteers,
he confesses, will be unable to meet without
subjecting themselves to the provisions of the
Coercive Bill ; but still they tnay continue to be
volunteers, to associate, to co-operate, to agitate,
to write, and do everything but meet. Potential
tirno
euenrtse r s—pape
as
such they
eywi l l Volunteers—honorarybever
very
innocent.
no
eNe 'not:
So fir as this prospectus goes, we do not augur
Touch mischief to the administration of Sir John
flobbouse, unless, indeed, some arrant blunders
of the Government be thrown into the O'Connell
scale.— Times.

The cruel hardship and flagrant injustice in-
volved in the case of our Hindoo fellow-subject
Ram Rutton Nluckerjah, described in our paper
of Saturday, must naturally turn the minds of
our countrymen to the means of preventing or
remedying such enormous evils in any new ar-
rangement about to be formed between the na-
ion and the East India Company. Here we
have an instance in which justice is denied to aii
Indian subject of our Leadenhall sovereigns,
from their local Indian Administration, or courts
of judicature. The injured party appeal to the
Government of Bengal against a robbery, or a
breach of faith, perpetrated by their clumsy or
rapacious regulations. Meeting with no redress
it, home, he traverses more than half the globe
a id arrives in England, expecting that in this
land of law and liberty he may obtain a more
equitable consideration of his hardships, and a
surer protection against oppression. And how
is he met ? Why, he is told by the Court or
Directors " that they cannot receive representa-
tions from individuals on matters relating to the
Indian Governments, except through the chan-
nel of those Governments themselves." Thus
our Hindoo complainant might have remained
on the banks of the Ganges, with as much ad-
vantage to his suit, as have visited those of the
Thames: for he finds the temple of justice
,hut against him in London, unless it be opened
by the same hands which shut it in Calcutta.
Nor is this a solitary case of hardship, though
he most recent one. The appeals from India
before the Privy Council, where immense in-
terests are in litigation, and where no decision
can be obtained, cry more loudly than this for
in immediate change of the present system.
The attention of Parliament on the approaching
introduction of the Bill for regulating the future
~overninent of our Indian empire, will naturally
be most arrested by that portion of the great
inass of evidence collected by its committees
relative to the administration of justice, and the
necessity of fundamental changes in our judicial
procedure. Nothina1:, can be more interesting, at
the same time nothing can be more melancholy,
than the accounts given in the evidence of the
1 judicial committee of the mode in which law and
justice are distributed to the millions of our
Mellow subjects on the Indian Peninsula. In the
report on this subject, ordered to be printed
in August last, we find the examinations
if twelve witnesses, all well acquainted with
India, and, with one or two exceptions, all ready
to condemn the present system, and to suggest
improvements. The testimony of these gentle-
men is supported by nearly every publication
which we have recently seen on the subject, par-
ticularly by an able pamphlet just published by
,Co
mirloltel
nidian Caulfield,Administration,
entitled "
C:viObservations
Military,"
by every report which arrives from India, and by
he result of every official investigation under-
taken even by the Company's own servants.
Every part of the systemilse cfaouilntypa.
Company's,
havehich
two sets of supreme courts at the three presi-
,iLeimneinieiss—tert
jhuesKticiengto different King's and tl
s of subjects,
.with different forms, on different laws, and
whose decisions are often at variance. " It ap-
peals to me," says Mr. Richard Clarke, who
,Itinsell had been registrar in one of these su-
preme courts, " that the existence of two con-
current jurisdictions, both called supreme, within
( ,e same limits, is an anomaly which is pro.
ductive of very considerable inconvenience.
Being Being asked " how far these courts could r _ ,
considered concurrent ?" this witness at itiN
caseseeci
" They are so far concurrent,. that
..
ihiaavvee
been
nccuorrmede
to
on
tnployed in these
old in the provincialand
I, opposite decisions
same evidence.' The j,:dgea
tribunals of the Co.upauv,
byv v
tribunals
on the same rights
district courts, to ad,
supported by the

minister native law to our immense empire of
Hindoo and Mahoreetan subjects; are English-
men who have been subjected to no forms of
legal education,—who are often ignorant of the
rules or usages which they are required to ap-
ply,—who understand imperfectly the language
in which they are expressed,—who are obliged
to rely on native law-officers for the grounds of
the decisions which receive their sanction,—who
are, besides, too few in number to perform the
duties imposed upon them,—who therefore add
the certain evils of ruinous delays to the con-
tingent injustice of wrong judgments,—and
who are, in fact, applied to only because the
people can find no other tribunals. Most of
the witnesses examined before the Committee
concur in several, or in all, of these allegations.
Are the judges," the Committee asked Mr.
Clarke, " sufficiently acquainted with the prin-
ciples of Hindoo law to exercise a check and
control over the opinions of the Hindoo law-
yers?" " Generally speaking," he replied,
"at Madras I should say they are not."
" They are, generally speaking, considered
as bound by the opinions of these of
ficers." The same witness afterwards states,
that there is " a general confidence in the in-
tegrity of the Company's judges, but not in their
skill." The commissioners sent to inquire into
the causes of the revolt in Rohilcund in 1816,
as mentioned in Sir John Malcolm's political
history," quoted by Colonel Caulfield, reported
that " our courts of judicature in those pro-
vinces were viewed as grievances by the higher
classes, and not considered as blessings by the
lower. To the latter these courts are hardly ac-
cessiWe from their expense, and nearly useless
t.rom their delays." Mr. Holt Mackenzie, who
has shown himself so well acquainted with India,
states, in his evidence before the Committee,
" that everybody acktiowledges that at present
the administration of justice is extremely bad,
and quite inadequate to the just expectations of
the people. The European courts are overloaded
With arrears, the delay in them is excessive
and, to say nothing of other evils, the large
smear of appealed cases holds out a tempta-
tion to litigious appellants that seriously clogs
the whole course of justice." This witness
suggested a plan for a total change in the
courts, and for an extensive employment of
the natives in filling judicial situations, which
will amply reward those who have leisure
to read his evidence. The law and usages to
be applied in the courts are as great an obstruc-
tion to the due course of justice as the igno-
rance of the judges, the chicanery of the native
law officers, or the tedious forms of procedure
in the tribunals. Mr. Butterworth Bayley,
Member of Council in the Bengal Presidency,
-who has thrown out many valuable suggestions
on a change in the Indian judicial system, thus
characterizes the present state of the law which
the Indian tribunals have to administer :—" Sir
William Jones and others recognised the de-
mand for an Indian code of laws, hut unhappily
thought of no better expedient than that of
employing some of the natives themselves, as
if one of the most difficult tasks to which the
human mind can be applied could be expected
to be tolerably performed by the unenlightened
and perverted intellects of a few Indian pundits.
With no sanction of reason, could any thing
better be expected than that which was, in
reality, produced,—a disorderly compilation of
loose, vague, stupid, or unintelligible quotations
and maxims, selected arbitrarily from books of law,
books of devotion, and books of poetry, attended
with a commentary which only adds to the mass
of absurdity and darkness—a farago by which
nothing is defined, nothing established, and
from which, in the distribution of justice, no
assistance beyond the materials of a gross infe-
rence can for any purpose be derived." We
might quote similar opinions from the evidence
of Mr. Mill, author of " The History of Bri-
tish India," and other witnesses well acquainted
with the working of the existing system.- It is
perhaps one of the greatest subjects of reproach
to our Indian administration that we should
have exercised our dominion over such exten-
sive regions as are contained in our Indian
empire, and should have held in our hands the
happiness of so many millions of people without
ever having attempted in the course of 60 or 70
years to methodize the laws, or to improve their
judicial procedure. All the witnesses who were
examined before the committee on the judicial
system of our Indian government, pointed out
defects and suggested improvements, of more or
less importance, or to a greater or less extent in
our present practice, but the witness whose opi-
nions seemed to command most attention, from
the high appointments which he had filled, from
the practical ameliorations which he bad himself
introduced, and from the enlightened and liberal
spirit which characterizes his plans, was Sir
Alexander Johnston, late Chief Justice and Pre-
sident of his Majesty's Council in Ceylon, who
had established with success trial by jury in that
island, and by whose influence and recommenda-
tiors the same advantage has been extended to
the Indian Peninsula. " The principal objects
(says he, in page 138 of the Judicial Evidence)
of the measures recommended, in as far as they
relate to the administration of justice, is to frame
a special code of laws for British India,—to abo-
lish the distinction which now prevails between
King's and Company's courts,—to introduce
one uniform system for the administration of
justice throughout British India,—and to esta-
blish a supreme court at each ut the three presi-
dencies iu India, and a high court of appeal in
England for the purpose, under the vigilant
superintendence of both Houses of Parliament,
of constantly securing the efficiency of every
part of the s)stein."
.As we began these re-
marks by alluding to the great hardships
which the natives of India are called on to
endure by the discouragements thrown in the
way of appeals to the King in Council in
England, and by the delays which intervene
between the lodgment of the appeal and the
decision of the
_Council, it is a duty and a
pleasure to mention more particularly the plan pro •
posed by this witness to render this part of the
machinery of. justice more efficient, more safe,
and more expeditious. We extract so much of
the. paper submitted by him to the Parliamentary
committee as relates to appeals from India, in
another column, begging leave only to remark
by the way, that when Indian colonization ex-
tends—when a more uniform system of justice,
applying equally to Europeans and natives, is
introduced,—when education among the natives
becomes more diffused,—when political discus-
sion acquires more extent or yivacity,—when
the natives, more likely to come into collision
with settlers,
begin to place a greater value on
rights which are more liable to be disputed or
invaded,—it will be of more importance to have
in England a species of supreme court, well re-
gulated, to control the proceedings of all our
Indian judicatures. By making retired Indian
judges, who enjoy, pensions, assessors to the
Privy Council, the decision on appeals will be