The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 161 1851.

balance of payments over receipts of 4451. 15s. 10d. A
call of ss. per share was made, payable on Bth July.
The Allt-y-Crib committee have determined to dis-
pense with certificates, and that shares shall henceforth
be transferred in the usual way at the office.
By the East Wheal George report, the mine appears
to be progressing satisfactorily; the May ores sampled
22 tons 3 cwts. of good quality.
Daring the week shares have, in the Mining Ex-
change, changed hands in Wheal Reeth, 87/.los. to 901.;
Treviskey, 200/.; Bedford, 71. 55.; Alfred Consols, 16/.;
Tincroft, 41. 10c ; Botallack, 2051.; Mary Ann, 59/.;
Trelawny, 521.; Bodmia Consols, 41.; Butterdon, 71.55.;
Craddock Moor, 91.; East Tamar, 11.; Garreg, 1/. 55.;
Helvellin, 251.; South Tamar, 21.; West Alfred, 191.;
West Ding Dong, 3/. 10s.; Wheal Arthur, 31. At
Exeter two shares in Devon Consols have been sold at
308/. each, and in London 14 at 300/.
In Foreign Shres transactions have taken place in St.
John del Rey at 191 i; Mexican and South American,
4, i; United Mexican, 2i i i; Cobre, 39; National Bra-
zilian, 2i.

THE ARMY AND NAVY,
(From the United Service .6azetle.)
RECRITITING FOR THE ARMY BY PENSlONERS.—Con-
siderablo difference of opinion having been expressed
before the Military Commission, as to the advantage or
disadvantage of employing pensioners in the recruiting
for the army, it has been resolved upon testing it by
experience, and the plan is at once to commence with
the North British (Glasgow) district. No alteration
is, however, for the present to be made with the staff,
before whom all recruits are there to be brought for
approval.
ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIMENTS AT THE CAPE OF
Goon HOPE.--The Service companies of the infantry
regiments now serving at the Cape of Good Hope, as
well as the 2d Queen's Royal Regiment about to pro-
ceed there, are to be completed to 610 rank and file
each. The 12th Lancers, under orders for embarkation
for that colony, is also to be augmented to seventy men
per troop.
CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS TO THE CAPE.-.IIOF Ma-
jesty's screw-ship Megaera having broken down, the
Admiralty have ordered the officers and men to be
turned over to the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Cyclops,
which ship is to be prepared with every possible dis-
patch to proceed to Queenstown, and embark troops for
the Cape. The Admiralty have also ordered the paddle-
wheel steam-frigate Birkenhead, at Portsmouth, to be
got ready immediately to convey troops to the Cape.
She will be ready on Monday.
STAFF.—Major George Talbot, of the 43d Light In-
fantry (who for some years past has filled the post of
Military (Secretary to Lieutenant-General Rowan, C. 8.,
Price the general commmanding the forces in British North
America), has been selected by Lieutenant-General Sir
Richard Armstrong, C. 8., the newly-appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief at Madras, to be his Excellency's Mili-
tary Secretary at that Presidency. Sir Richard, accom-
panied by his staff, will sail, via the Cape, from Ports-
- mouth the end of this month.
THE LATE ADJUTANT FLETCHER, 73D REGIMENT.-
- The news in this day's paper contains the death of En-
- sign and Adjutant Fletcher, of the 73d, killed in action
with the Kafirs on the 16th April. Although a melan-
. choly truth, still it is gratifying to us to know that this
IN officer's early death is severely felt by a large body of his
friends at home, as well (as our private letters from
the Cape say) all who had the pleasure of knowing
• him there; and it must be highly gratifying to those
friends to read the eulogium on his merits pronounced in
'34 General Orders by his Commanding Officer, Lieutenant
Colonel Eyre. Mr. Fletcher was a native of Birr, in
- Ireland, and, we have heard, was educated for the
- Church, but not liking the path laid out for him by his
friends, ho left Ireland, and enlisted in the Scots Fusilier
ce Guards in 1836, and, from his assiduity and his previous
- education, was in 1841 appointed Sergeant and Pay Ser-
geant. When the Board of Officers was formed for the
; examination of claims for the War Medal, Mr. Fletcher
14 was selected as clerk to the board, where his un
A tiring exertions in behalf of the claimants gave so much
satisfaction to his superiors that his commanding officer
recommended him to the Duke of Wellington for a
commission, and Mr. Fletcher was gaaetted to the
73d Regiment in November, 1848, and shortly after
joined his regiment at the Cape. Mr. Fletcher was
highly respected by his brother non-commissioned
14 officers in the Fusilier Guards, and was looked upon as
one of tho best drills in the British army. In 1847 he
N published a small volume upon arithmetic, which lie
dedicated, by permission, to his colonel, Prince Albert;
his Royal Highness was so pleased with this really
clever work that he presented Mr. Fletcher with a Silver
' medal as a mark of his approbation. In the death of
)3i Mr. Fletcher the British army has lost a good soldier
) and a kind-hearted comrade; but there is one left whose
loss is far more severe and irreparable—his poor wife,
who by this sudden affliction is deprived of her protector,
2% and with four children is left to deplore her loss. Need
swe say that we sincerely trust the authorities will do all
0d they can for her ?
TRANSFER OF TROOP HORSES.-Detachments from
the following regiments in charge of troop horses trans-
ferred from the 12th Lancers, embarked at Dublin on
the 10th inst., for Liverpool, en route to join the Head-
quarters of their respective regiments, viz., 2d and 31
Dragoon Guards, lit and 2d Dragoons, 4th Light
Dragoons, Bth and 11th Hussars, 13th Light Dragoons,
and 16th and 17th Lancers.

PLACES.

America (by Brit. pkt.) N 1
America (by -U.S. pkt.) N
America (by U.S. pkt.) M
Africa (West coast) • • N
Alexandria* .... •• • • N
Belgium .. , • • • N
Brazil .. . M
Buenos Ayres , • • • M
California(via Chaves) M
Cape of Good Hope N
Constantinople* •• • • NI
Central America • •
Channel Isles • • • • NI
Chill .. • • 311
France .. •• M
Greece* • • .• • • Ni
Hamburgh • • • . N
Holland .. ..
Honduras • • •• . N
Ireland • • M & Ni'
India (via Southamp.) At!
India (via Marseilles)
Mediterranean (via
Southampton)
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. Ni
Mexico • • • • •. Mi
Madeira • • ..

Malta• .. .. li I

not used for salmon or trout will not be subject to any
licence duty. Proprietors and lessees of lands adjoining
the sea coast will be empowered, with certain limitations,
to erect fixed nets whore no several fishery exists ; but
no stake cr other fixed nets will be permitted at or
within the mouth of any river, or within two statute
miles of it. The close time for salmon in the sea
and tideways is fixed at from the Ist of August to the
Ist of February, and the close time for salmon in rivers
and lakes above tideway from the Ist of Sept. to the Ist
of March; but from the Ist of August to the Ist of Sept.
salmon must be taken only with rod and line. The close
season for trout will be Ist Sept. to Ist March. It will, how-
ever, be given to the district conservators, if they can pro-
cure the permission of the Commissioners to alter the
close season according to the requirements and peculiar
circumstances of fisheries in particular localities and
districts. A penalty, not exceeding 24, will be incurred
by persons taking or using boats, or entering lands fot
the purpose or under the pretence of fishing or angling
without a written permission from the proprietor or oc-
cupier. The Bill contains 163 clauses, besides seveal
schedules.

never forget it. He stood, however, with rigid
erectness, gazing with mingled anger and fear at the
judge, whom be felt to be uttering his death warrant,
and sfter a while bent his eyes on the jury, from whom
they wandered scarce a moment during that momentous
?miming up, ono which with every word was letting fall
round him, as he must have felt, the curtain of death.
' The law of honour,' said the judge, towards the close
ofhis charge, 'is an imposture—a wicked imposture—
ween set against tho law of the land, and the
ltw of God Almighty, claiming the right to take
away human life. I tell you, who sit there
b discharge a sworn duty, that a fatal duel is
s malicious homicide, and that is wilful murder.' The
jury retired to consider their verdict, and the judge at
the same time quitted the court till his presence should
be required again. Captain Helsham, however, conti-
nued standing at the bar almost motionless as a statue.
After a prolonged absence of an hour and forty minutes,
the jury returned into court. The prisoner eyed them
as one by ono they re-entered their box, with a solici-
tude dismal to behold, and the irrepressible quivering
of his upper lip indicated mortal agitation. The ver-
dict, however, was ' Not Guilty,' on which the prisoner
heaved a heavy sigh, passed his hand slowly over his
damp forehead, bowed slightly and rather sternly to the
jury, and was then removed from the bar and released
from custody, When the verdict was a few minutes af-
terwards communicated to Baron Bayley, who had re-
mained in attendance in an adjoining room, he remarked
gravely, ' I did my duty—it is well for Capt. Helsham
that the verdict is as it is; had it been the other way, I
should certainly have left him for execution.' In that
ease the duellist would have died on the gallows on the
ensuing Monday morning."
The declaration then complained that by the publication
of this libel his good name and reputation had been
brought into public scandal and disgrace, and that he had
been shunned and avoided by divers persons, and other-
wise injured to his damage of 5,0001. The defendants
pleaded to this declaration that on the Ist of April, 1829,
the plaintiff was engaged in a duel at Boulogne with one
Joseph Crowther, whom he there mortally wounded
with a pistol, and that the plaintiff " feloniously, wil-
fully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder
the said Joseph Crowther." In another plea the de-
fendants pleaded that the plaintiff was tried at the Old
Bailey, on the 9th of October, 1830, before Sir John
Bayley, Sir John Bernard Bosanquet and others, and
that the plaintiffs ease looked black enough to those
who knew the law and the character of the judge, and
that there existed up to the period of the said trial re-
mours of foul play having been practised by the plaintiff
in the said duel, and concluded with a justification of
the publication of the libel. The plaintiff replied that he
bad been tried for the said offence and acquitted, and
that, therefore, the defendants ought not to be permitted
to aver that he had feloniously killed and murdered the
said Joseph Crowther. To t ris replication the de-
fendants demurred on the ground that they were not es-
topped by the verdict of acquittal, they not being parties
or priviles to the prosecution or indictment.
Mr. Peacock, Q.C., Mr. Cowling, and Mr. Warren ap-
peared for the defendants in support of the demurrer;
and Mr. Keene and Mr. Quain fur the plaintiff in sup-
port of the replication.
The Learned COUNSEL for the defendants contended
that the replication of acquittal was no estoppel to the
plea charging him with being guilty of the offence; for
although a man might be acquitted on a charge of forg-
ing a note, it did not follow that ho could therefore re-
cover on the note. The matters stated in the replica-
tion were res inter alias acts, and could form no ground
of estoppel to the defendants. The verdict of acquittal
was conclusive evidence of innocence so far as punish-
ment for the crime was concerned, but nol otherwise.
The plea was then said to be bad, because it did not
answer the whole declaration, as it left unanswered the
accusation that the prisoner had spent nearly the whole
night before the duel in practising pistol firing. But
this was merely matter of evidence, tending to show
that the plaintiff was guilty of murder. The Court could
not try whether the duel was fair or not.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—The issue is not murder
or no murder, but libel or no libel.
Mr. PE4COCK—Was murder a worse crime because
the murderer sat up all the previous night practising the
weapons he was about to use? This avernment in the
declaration was, he submitted, merely evidence of the
intent to murder.
Mr. Justice MAULE—Malice is an essential ingredient
of murder, and there might exist more malice than was
necessary; but, if that were averred, in order to support
a justification, it must be proved. It would not be suffi-
cient only to justify so much as would constitute murder.
The CHIEF JUSTICE-4f was the laudable object of
the writer of the alleged libel to discourage duelling, and
it would surely be a dreadful thing in the Court to hold
that it was no aggravation of the crime that the offender
sat up the whole night practising his weapons.
Mr. Justice TALFOURD—Had it been stated that ho
had secretly drawn the charge from his adversary's
pistol, it would not have been more a murder, bet it
would have been matter of affirmation.
Mr. PEACOCK—If a man has been killed at a prize-
fight, we do not inquire on the trial of his antagonist
whether ho was trained before the fight or not.
Mr. Justice MAULE—But we do whether or not he
held a piece of lead in his hand to make his blows the
heavier. Suppose the libel said in terms the plaintiff
was a duellist, and not only so, but that he had fought
several duels in a malicious, unfair,, and ungentlemanly
manner, would not that be an aggravation of the charge,
and would it justify the libel to prove that ho had fought
a duel?
Mr. PEACOCK—The Court would not inquire whether
a duel had been fairly fought or not, nor whether mur-
der had or had not boon committed in a gentlemanlike
manner.
Mr. Justice MAULE—There was great difference, as
every one knew, in these cases, and persons were some-
times convicted of murder, and yet, with the concurrence
of everybody, the extreme penalty of the law was not
visited upon them. Nobody said the French law was
unfit for a civilized people because it allowed of verdicts
of murder " with extenuating circumstances."
Mr. PEACOCK—Suppose the libel to allege that the
plaintiff had committed an ungentlemanlike murder,
LAW INTELLIGENCE. could the judge leave it to the jury to determine that
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, June 13. fact?
(Sittings in Banco.—Trinity Term.) The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—But if the libel alleged
HELSIII2I V. BLACKWOOD AND ANOTXER, that the plaintiff had watched behind a hedge, as he had
In this case the plaintiff is a captain of militia, and got his adversary to go there under a false pretence, and
the defendants are the publishers of Blackwood's Maya- rushing out had stabbed him in the back, on a trial for
zinc. The action was brought for a libel published in the libel all these facts might be left to the jury.
the last December's number of that publication. The Mr. PEACOCK—By discussing the question whether a
declaration—after stating in the usual form that the de, duel was conducted in a fair and proper manner or not,
fondants, intending to injure the plaintiff, and to bring the Court would hold out to the world that a duel
him into public scandal and disgrace, on the Ist of De-
might be legally conducted in a fair and proper manner.
comber, 1850, falsely and maliciously published of and On behalf of the plaintiff the Learned Counsel con-
concerning him, in a magazine called Blackwood's Edin-
tended that the plea was bad, and, if so, it was unneces-
nary to argue in support of the replication.
burgh Magazine, a false, scandalous, malicious, and de-
fa The LORD CRIER JUSTICE, in delivering judgment, said
tnistory libel—then set out, from an article headed
Modern State Trials," the following paragraph:—
the course the case had taken had rendered it unneces-
" We ourselves were present at a remarkable trial for
nary for the Court to express any opinion as to the suffi-
ciency of the replication, although the Court had a very
duelling, about 18 or 20 years ago, at the Old Bailey,
on
before the late excellent and very learned Barou Bayley, ,
strong opinion
that subject. The plea professed to
on which occasion he also laid down the rule of law re-
justify the whole of the libel, and did not give a full
spocting duelling with uncompromising firmness and answer to it. Tho substance of the libel was, that the straitghforwardness. This was the case of Captain Held-
plaintiff committed a murder under circumstances of
ham, who had shot Lieutenant Crowther in a duel at
great aggravation; and the justification was, that ho
committed simple murder. The libel mentioned circum-
Boulogne. There were rumours of foul play having stances to show that there was not only malice conducing
been practised, and a clergyman, the brother of deceased, toanh,
the death of the deceased, but that murder was in the
made strenuous and persevering efforts to bring Captain The latter continued for some time plaintiff's contemplation when he engaged in the duel.
Helsham to trial.
It would be doing a serious injury to public morals to
after the duel in France, though anxious to return to
hold that it made no difference in public estimation
England, and after (as we have heard) taking the
opinion of a well-known counsel at the criminal bar,
tried in this whether a duel had been fought unfairly or not. It was
who advised him that ho could not true that it would not do for the Court to countenance
bo
an schistinction on a trial for murder b
country for a duel fought in a foreign country, not but
atrial for libel, in making such a charge,y was aduellin dif-
g;
under the British Crown—he came to Eng-
ferent matter, and would be estimated different)
land, where ho was instantly arrested under the sta-y by the tate of 9th George IV., chap. 31st, sec. 7, which had public. On a trial for libel aggravating circumstances,
been passed two or three years previously—viz., in 1828 if such exist, must form part of the inquiry. As the
—and must have altogether escaped the notice of the plea professed to justify tho whole libel, and did not do
so, he thought the plaintiff entitled to judgment.
counsel in question. That Act authorised the trial, in Mr. Justice MAULE was of the same opinion. If a
England, of any British subject charged with having defendant justified a libel, he must justify everything in
committed any murder, or manslaughter abroad, whe- his plea, or it would not be a good plea. If a crime was
ther within or without the British dominions, as if such
crimes had been charged, it must be justified; if the crime were charged
ham was admitte committedd
in England. Captain Hels-
bail to meet the char with aggravating circumstances, the aggravating circum-
to ge, and
bar of stances must be justified; for, although in the present
having duly surrendered, took his place at the case the charge of practisi with istols te niht the Old Old Bailey at nine o'clock on a Saturday morning. fore would
not make the murderp legallhy a different
He was a middle-aged man, of gentlemanly appearance, his features indicating great determination of character, murder, yet it would make the libel a worse libel. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL was of the same opinion. The
but they wore an expression of manifest anxiety and
plea did not justify the whole libel. It was urged in ar-
apprehension as ho entered the dock, and, looking down,
gument
beheld immediately beneath him the brother of the man
fact" that the circumstance described as " a damning
was merely evidence to prove the principal offence
he had shot, and through whose ceasless activity he was imputed—namely, the crime of .murder—and therefore
then placed on trial for his life as a murderer. And he that the pica substantially justified the libel. But ho
was to be tried by an uncompromising judge, stern and
thought that was not so, but that it must be treated as a
exact in administering the law, and animated by a pure separate and distinct matter, as tending to disparage
and religious spirit, but withal thoroughly humane. the plaintiff's character beyond the principal offence
Throughout the whole of that agitating day the prisoner
charged.
stood firm as a rock, sometimes his arms folded, at others
Mr. Justice TALIOURD was of the same opinion. No
his hand resting on the bar; while his eyes were fixed
one could doubt that in the mind of the writer of the intently on the judge, the witnesses, or the counsel,
every now and then glancing with gloomy inquisitive-
article, at least, the matter of aggravation made a con-
noes at the 'cry and the judge. His lips were from first
siderable difference, because he spoke of this circum-
to last firmly compressed. It was understood that the stance as " a damning piece of evidence," and added,
counsel for the prosecution were in possession of a
that although no evidence was given of it, " the case
damning piece of evidence—via., that the prisoner had
looked black enough" without it. He thought, there-
spent nearly the whole of the night immediately pre- fore, that this allegation ought to have been justified,
ceding the duel in practising pistol firing. However the and was of opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to the
Judgment of the Court.
fact might be, it nevertheless was not elicited at the trial,
Air. PEACOCK then prayed leave to amend the plea.
and probably the prisoner who bad been prepared for
Mr. KEANE said he would not oppose the application
if the defendants would tender issue on any fact. The
such evidence being produced, began, on finding that it
plaintiff was anxious to join issue on that which was the
was not so, to take a more favourable view of his chances,
sting of the libel—the charge that the plaintiff had prac-
As the case stood, however, it looked black enough to
tised pistol shooting the whole night before the duel;
those who knew the law and the character of the judge
who sat to administer it. That venerable person
in
an
although he protested, after the lapse of twenty years
his summing up to the jury about seven
fromo'clock the since his acquittal, being again put on his trial, as it
were, for murder. The plaintiff had several grown up
evening, and the scene can never be effaced
i. ourht
memory. The court was extremely crowded; thedi'geos children who had drawn his attention to the article; and
burnt brightly, exhibiting anxious tacos in every
one—thatir-
as this libel touched the honour and interests of his
lion, but what a striking figure was thecentral family his only object was to disprove an unfounded im-
of the. prisonerl Immediately over his head was a
Potation.
mirror, so placed as to reflect his face and figure vividly, Mr. PEACOCK said the defendants had, from the first,
tendered an ample apology.
especially to the jury. A few moments atter the Judge
of
had commenced the charge we observed the Ordinary
Newgate glide into court—the late Rev. Dr. Cotton—in Mr. KEANE said the apology offered was not what theplaintiff could accept, fall canonicals, and with flowing white hair, having a
Mr. PEACOCK—We offered that you should dictate the
picturesquely venerable and ominous appearance, and
take his seat near to, but a little behind, the judge. It apology yourselves.
M
was then usual for the Ordinary to be present at the r. KEANE denied this, but stated that the plaintiff
close of capital eases, in order to add a solemn amen to would bo willing to accept any apology which any of
the prayer with which the sentence of death concluded, their Lordships might dictate.
That God would have mercy. on the soul of the con- The CHIEF JUSTICE—Wo cannot do that. Mr. KEANE—Or which any gentleman of the bar,
demned.' ' Gentlemen of the jury,' commenced Mr.
named . by your Lordships, might dictate.
Baron Bayley amid profound silence, 'we have heard na
~,,_. Justice U_
RESSWELL thought no apology could be
.1.1-
several times during the course of this trial of the law of
"satisfactoryto the plaintiff as that which might come
honour, but I will now toll you what is the law of the
land, which is all that you and I have to do with. It is voluntarily from the defendants, and which was not the
this—that if two persons go out with deadly weapons, result of dictation.
Mr. Justice MAULE—No doubt the publication gavethem,
intending to me them against each other, and do use ,
theplaintiff very great pain, and no doubt the writer
them, and death ensues, that is murder—wilful murder.
He paused for a moment, as if to give the jury time was not aware that at this period of time the subject of
his narrative was in existence, and was very sorry to
to appreciate the dread significance of his opening,
have inflicted that pain. It certainly would be hard t
As soon as he had uttered the last two words Captain . . .
put the plaintiff again on his trial on a matter o
so deeply
Lielshain's cheek was instantly blanched. W© wore ,„ . hie feelings
eyeing him intently at the moment, and shall "
a ecting his
and character after the 1 apse of so

SHIP NEWS.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.

M :6.
" Sir,—Vessels from Rio Janeiro are no longer paoed
in quarantine. " WILLIAM H. LANE,
"Agent to Loyd's.
" Capt. G. A. Halsted, RN., Secretary, Lloyd's."
__________

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 14.—Lady Sale, from Noy York,
has arrived at Quebec. Syren and Crispen, hence, have
arrived at Riga. Grace, hence, has arrived at Eastport.
Sisters, hence, has arrived at Montreal. Ott,r, from
UHamburgh,
Mhas arrived off Wick. Francis, hence, has
arrived at arseilles. Derby, hence, has srrived a Portland. Bell Rock, hence, has arrived et Boston.t General Parkhill, hence, has arrived at Charleston.
Greenock, hence, has arrived at Mobile. Challenger,
from Alexandria, arrived at Queenstown, pat in with a
temporary rudder. Lady Elgin, Ileum, end Elleralie,
hence, have arrived at Quebec. Isabella, kence, has ar-
rived at Donegal, with loss of bulwarks, gslley, &c., and
longboat stove. Eliza, from Porto Rico; Waterhen and
Carrara, from Alexandria; Lavinia and lairbinger, from
Naples; Victoria, from Leghorn; have arrived at Queens-
town. Scotland, from Havannah; Nicola and Luiga,
from Odessa; and the Utility, from Barletta, have ar-
rived at Falmouth.
GRAVESEND, JUNE 15.—Wind S. W., moderate; after-
noon, cloudy, with rain.
Arrived—Effort, from Cadiz; Falcon, froin Rouen;
Load, from Caen; Ismeys, from Odessa; Margaret Pot-
ter, from Rotterdam; Rapid, from St. Petersburgh;
Calpe, from Alexandria; Lapwing, from Riga; In-
dustry, from Gottenburgh ; Dania, from Rouen;
Blaekwall, from Sydney ; Union, from Alex-
andria ; Catherine, from Caen ; George, from
Wismar; Amphitrite, from Leghorn; Le Coq, from
Cherbourg; Adelphi, from Denmark; Juno, from Bue-
nos Ayres; Hamlet, from Callao; Eleanor Ann, from
Stralsund; Nina, from St. Petersburg; Breeze, from
Dantzic; Gem, from Stettin; Wilhelmina, from Wyborg;
Fortuna, from Porto Rico; Larcaster, from Ghent;
Daisy, from Leghorn; Calypso, from Terra Nova; Lon-
don, from Sierra Leone; Triton, from Ostend; Ocean
and Giraffe, from Rotterdam; City of Rotterdam, from
Dunkirk; Menai, from Calais; Adonis, from Rotter-
dam; Lion, from Harlingen.
Sailed—Batavia arid Earl of Auckland, for Rotter-
dam; William Jollitfe, for Havre; Albion, for Boulogne;
Fame, for Harlingen; Antwerpen, for Antwerp; Lord
John Russell, for Harlingen; City of London for Dun-
kirk; Commodore, fur Jamaica; Tar, for Demerara;
IG)eiPtr7f'orfothre JmearsueryitiuDs;iacnea,itifroera,Stio Pr
Hamburg;etersburg; Lord
Petre, for the Mauritius; C*sarea, for Hamburg; Ran-
for Bremen.

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Florida Reef.
Ameer, from the Mauritius fur London, April 12, in lat.
35 S., long. 19 W.
Wilhelinine, from Mauritius from Liverpool, April 13,
in Lt. 33 S., long. 16 E.

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many years, and it would be far better to settle it by an
apology.
The LORD CHIRP JUSTICE--We will let the matter
stand over till Monday, and in the meantime, no duubt,
the parties could agree upon a satisfactory apology.
The case was therefore adjourned; the Court pro-
nouncing no opinion whether it would allow leave to
amend or not.

OLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Donohue and Smith, young men who have been long
known to the police as thieves, were brought before
the Lord Mayor by Trew, the officer, who said—I was
passing through Bishopsgate-street a few nights ago,
and observed the prisoners, whom I have long known as
bad characters, walking along. The moment they saw
me they separated, but, as I suspected they were about
some housebreaking job, I took them into custody.
About Donohue I found nothing. When I wont to
search Smith he held up both hands, in ono of which
thero was a silk handkerchief, and he cried out, "I
have nothing at all about me." I then seized the hand
in which the handkerchief was, and found in it, covered
with the handkerchief, a new skeleton key, which I
have no doubt was intended fur some warehouse. The
prisoners denied all knowledge of each other, and re-
fused to let me know where they resided.
Donohue—I admit that I refused to let him know
where I reside, because the fact is I keep a private still,
and get my living by it, for I find that it is both safer
and more respectable to do a little in that line than in
the other way. I never saw this good man (Smith)
before in my life. I am altogether of the right sort
now, I do assure your Lordship."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MArox (to Smith)—l think you have been
convicted of smuggling some time ago? Smith—I was,
your Lordship. I kept a private still, and got six months
for it. They caught me with the plant.
The Loa. MAYOR—And that skeleton key is the key
of the still-room? Smith—Just so, my Lord.
Mr. Hobler, who appeared for Donohue, submitted
that there was no evidence calculated to show that his
client had been in Bishopsgate for the purpose of com-
mitting a burglary, whatever unfavourable impression
might have been made by the suspicions entertained of
his former character.
The LORD MAYOR—I acknowledge that the evidence
is not strong enough to justify his committal, or, indeed,
his detention; but he has assured me that he supports
himself by illegal means, and I cannot think of dis-
charging him till I know more about him.
Donohue—l do business with several respectable pub-
licans and others,:my Lord.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I supose the have
no objection to come forward and give you acharacter?
I shall be glad to see them.—(Laughter.)
The two prisoners said they would willingly give their
addresses to the officer, as a search would not tend to
convict them of housebreaking, whatever secrets it might
disclose as to their trade as spirit merchants.
The LORD MAYOR then told Mr. Ifobler that if the
officer found nothing confirmatory of his suspicions of
the prisoners' engagement in Bishopsgate-street they
would be discharged.
It was stated that numbers of fellows who have found
burglary an unprofitable and dangerous business are
now trying their hands in making spirits for night
houses end coffee-shops, and that the trade is flourishing
wonderfully.
A dwarf who resides in the Borough, and goes about
the streets attended by a big countryman and a little boy
soliciting charity, was brought up by one of the Bank
porters un a charge of having bogged.
The little man, who is about two feet and a half in
height, and so deformed as to present a tenfold claim to
charity, was, it appeared, surrounded by admirers, and
' was the cause of much obstruction in the populous neigh-
bourhood of the Bank. Several persona gave him pence
and halfpence, and a gentleman who was passing handed
him 6d. The big countryman was ready to gather to-
gether the profits thus flowing in, and the boy in some
instances came in for a share. In ono instance the
countryman and the boy had a dispute about some mo-
ney which a tender-hearted pasureger had supplied, and
the boy having refused to give it up a row commenced,
and the pickpockets of course began to join the multi-
tude; so that it became necessary to interfere with the
trade of the firm, and to apply to the arbitration of the
Lord Mayor.
The LORD MAYOR—Did any ono see the little man
beg? The porter, who is a tall, very strongly-built
man, said he saw the dwarf hold out his hand, and ask
for alms.
The Dwarf—De you dare to say you saw me a beg-
ging? Answer me that?—(Laughter.)- Porter—I do.
The Dwarf—Better mind what you say about me, or
I'll make you repent, my gentleman.—(Great laughter.)
The Policeman—l saw him begging along, and getting
money fast. He lives in the Mint, and he gets a mint of
money.
The Dwarf—Don't you believe the police. They are
paid for telling whoppers.
The Policeman—Very dangerous obstructions are oc-
casioned by objects of the kind, your Lordship, and we
have to endure all sorts of insults from the vagabonds
who collect about them to pick pockets.
The Dwarf—Oh, you! who are you?—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—YOU must not come over the
bridge to trouble us in the city. You must go to Bride-
well for fourteen days. What money had he about him?
The Officer—Three-and-sixpencN and some pence,
and the boy had a couple of shillings.
The LORD MAYOR—A very nice trade indeed; that
money will go towards their support in prison.
The defendants were then committed to Bridewell for
fourteen days.

BOW-STREET.
Thomas Erskine Souper, the secretary of the Thames
Plate Glass Company, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Henry, charged with embezzlement.
From the statement of Mr. Freshfield, the solicitor,
who attended to prefer the charge, it appeared that the
prisoner had appropriated several auras of money which
had been paid to him as the representative of the com-
pany by persons in Manchester and elsewhere, with
whom business had been transacted. Finding himself
unable to refund the money, he disclosed the circum-
stance to Mr. W. Balcome, the collector of the company,
and earnestly begged him to keep the matter private
until an opportunity had been given him, within a rea-
sonable time, to make up the amount of his defalcations.
This indulgence was granted to the prisoner, who sub-
sequently paid in 50/. and 20/. in respect of two of the
accounts which he had collected. Ile was unable,
however, to provide the amount of a third account,
41/. 4s. 3d., before the defalcation became known to
his employers, by whose direction he was then given
into custody.
Mr. Freshfield stated that he only intended to call
the collector on the present occasion, as a remand would
be desirable, owing to the prisoner's ill health.
The collector then deposed as to the admissions made
by the prisoner, and his subsequent repayment of a por-
tion of the defalcations, giving the particulars of
the
accounts from the company's books.
Mr. HENRY animadverted upon the imprudent con-
duct of this witness in suffering the company to remain
so long in ignorance of the prisoner's defalcations, 05.
pecially as it did not appear that he had any means of
knowing to what extent the prisoner hud committed
them.

The prisoner said he had been driven to his present
misfortune by some unsuccessful railway speculations,
and had hoped, in a short time, to restore the whole of
the money, which ho had employed to extricate himself
from other liabilities.
Mr. HENRY remanded him for a week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Pennington, who attended on Friday to complain
of the conduct of the police in stopping his four-horse
drag in Pall-mall, as the Queen was goinw to the Opera,
came to the Court to apologise to Mr. 'Hardwick for
having, as stated in the papers, presumed to differ from
the opinion of the magistrate. He declared that he had
no intention whatever of offering the slightest disrespect
to the Court, nor did he mean to convey any expression
contrary to the opinion expressed by the magistrate.

SHOCKING CASE OF MURDER—COM-
MITTAL OF THE MURDERER.
W?LVERHAMPTON, SATURDAY.—Yesterday (Friday)
saor.ning a young man, named James Jones, was brought
up in custody, and placed before Joseph Walker, Esq.,
the mayor, and William Warner, Esq., charged with
the wilful murder of Catherine Morris, with whom he
had cohabited, by cutting her throat. The accused is
about 32 years of age, a labourer or navigator. The
following is a summary of the evidence taken:—
John Lawson, a boatman, living at the back of the
Brown Bear, Litchfield-street, said that the prisoner in
the dock, and also the deceased, lodged in the same
house, as well as three other females. Matthew White-
house was the landlord. lie had known the prisoner
about 10 or 11 days. A few days since he heard the de-
ceased tell the prisoner that'she did not want to have any-
thing more to do with him, but added that she would never
see him want a meal of victuals. They were then at
variance with each other, and he said, if she did not
mind her P's and Q's he would snake a public show
before he went out of the town. On Monday night

last witness was in the kitchen of the Brown Bear,
when the deceased was sitting at the side of
him. The prisoner then came in and asked for hie
things. The deceased took off a handkerchief she was
wearing, and, placing it on the table, said, " Here's
your handkerchief; now go into the house, and Sally
will give you the remainder of the things belonging to-
you." The prisoner replied,
T"
hNeed,ecleasshedant'th you
come and go along with me."
then got and went with him. Witness followedand •
• in half a
minute's time saw the right arm of prisoner round de-
ceased's neck, and he pretended to kass her, when lie
drew his left arm over her neck vevvryitsnharp. Deceased
gave one scream, and partly fell.
laid hold of the prisoner, and said, "
IS•shyesoau'lvveendtounpe and
job have you?" He replied, " Yes, ave." Witness
added, Why, she's dead!" when he replied, " I hope
so, and don't me how soon I
dragged him to the police-office, am
and also
on gdoe iandg "b
ack f u Witness
n d
a large clasp knife stained with blood which he bad seen
the prisoner eating his dinner with on the previous
Sunday. Tanhae pwraissonnoetriwnatshequite sober when he entered
the house,
least excited.
Other witnesses gave corroborative testimony in sup-
support of this statement.
Ths prisoner, who, when called upon, said he had
nothing to say, 'was fully committed on the capital charge
of wilfully murdering the deceased.

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