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ducked down again. This feat is sure to raise loud
' shouts of laughter from the other porpoises, who are
seen tumbling about, with their tawny soles flickering
above water, in all directions. In a land where cloth-
ing is very scanty, and the sensations produced by
cold water are pleasant, spectators in thousands being
close to the scene, it is no wonder, where all are ex-
pert, that 150 or 200 are excited to plunge in and
partake of the sport. After witnessing from the
balcony the scene just described, I had gone in to
dress, when old Mynheer Van Starkenburg, the
fiscal, or chief justice of the island, came in, request-
ing my company in his boat, to go up the harbour to
his country house, called Buitenzorgh, where I had
not yet been. I was just going to ask for some ex-
planation, when a sudden yell arose, such a confusion
of shouts and screams, as made me instantly start up
and grasp my sword, intending to rush down and turn
out the guard; for there evidently was some terrible
disaster in occurrence. Before I reached the ante-
chamber, forgetful of -the worthy fiscal, I met his
orderly (garde de chasse), a mulatto, adorned with
sword and belt. " Het is een Haayvisch, mynheer,"
said he, taking off his hat, and speaking Dutch, the
official language of Curacoa, the vernacular being
Papiemento, a kind of broken Spanish—" Het is een
Haayvisch" (it is a shark). " Ja," interrupted
Markus,Ethe fiscal's waiting-boy, "een Haayvisch,
oudu de vrouwen" (a shark among the women).
" The devil," quoth I; " Mr. Fiscal, what can be
done to save these poor girls?" I wondered at the
quiet gravity of my good-natured friend, on this, to
my mind, dangerous occasion. lie smiled. and sale,
" Oh ! captain, don't be uneasy; but go and see, for
it will be a scene you shall never forget !" and with
these words he came with me to the head of the bal-
cony stairs. It was certainly an exciting moment ;
not a man or woman was to be seen on shore ; all
were in the water ; all were vociferating and utter-
ing the most discordant noises imaginable. The
punts were already run on shore, in order to enable
the scullers to partake of the sport; the harbour was
everywhere studded with human heads above water,
forming a kind of shoal ; and a whole dense line of
swimmers barred the entrance from the fort to oppo-
site my house, chiefly and most numerous in the
deepest water, which they beat with their hands, and
incessantly diving and plunging, presented a tu-
multuous belt from shore to shore. Some negro
boys and girls attempting to enter, were driven
back by the others, and it was some time before
the real object of excitement could be made out.
I had asked repeatedly, " Where is he ?" " Wagt
een heetge, mynheer" (wait a little), was the re-
ply ; and I now perceived, as the fiscal pointed to
the spot, another belt of human swimmers, who had
been roused on the first cry to take the water, and
still more violently engaged. Advancing from the
upper end of the harbour, they prevented the monster
reaching the great :lagoon, where he would infallibly
have escaped, and drove him down within the narrow
space between the houses. There were troops ofvocifer-
ous swimmers divided into bands, advancing and pur-
suing, until my eye caught sight of the great dorsal
fin of the fish, which, it was now evident, was in
utter dismay, shooting rapidly from space to space, en-
deavouring to swim low beneath the surface; but
even eight or nine fathoms of depth left him no pas-
sage. Men and women, in whole masses, darted
down in the deep and scared him upward. Once he
made a dash to pass under the piles of Mr. Basden's
wharf, and got entangled. I could see him struggle
to get free, and effect it; but, furious in his rage, it
was visible that he was blown. He now made
no further efforts under wator, swimming half his
back high above the surface; once or twice he lay
motionless, his snout and eyes quite visible, and
seemingly deliberating upon a fierce resolve. But
soon he was roused by a troop coming on him ; he
started like lightning, his tail quivering; and now
and then lashing the water into foam, he dashed
at the middle of the seaward belt, which instantly re-
doubled in clamour and in diving, while all from above
harbour came down in full cry. The shark plunged
and then rose, shooting in the violence of action his
whole length above the surface, which glittered like
a flash of silver in the sloping sun. Down again he
went, darting along the line, to the deepest side,
under Fort Amsterdam ; but here the crowd and
noise, the beating of the water with sculls and bars,
was most intense. He came up again, turned
towards the upper harbour, floundered, un-
certain of his purpose, and then started
again, with rapidity to the side where we stood.
Here he nearly grounded, but he fought off; his
speed, however, was exhausted ; he ran a short
way upward, and then, in rather a lubberly way,
came on shore on our side, at a little distance off,
and hardly moved a fin before an axe was lifted, and
his tail cut off. This was the signal for a univer-
sal shout of triumph. He was by no means one of
the largest, measuring something less than II feet
in length, but was a true squalus carcharias, or raging
shark, most dreaded by seamen. With all his vora-
city and fierceness, this shark is a real coward, as I
had long before witnessed at Dominica. A
drunken man, floating on the water, was about
to be devoured by one of great size one morn-
ing, while our people were washing the decks, when
four men sprang overboard, and scared him away,
towing the drunken fellow on shore, where they gave
him a sound thrashing by way of caution for the
future. Boats or punts must be kept on shore during
the battle with a shark, because in the violent exer-
tions used, their oars and bottoms might strike the
swimmers or protect the fish.

ADVERTISEMENTS INSEI?TED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN qncl COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
GUILDHALL.

James Discery, a cashier in the employ of Messrs.
Meeking and Co., woollen-drapers, on Holborn-hill,
was charged with having embezzled certain moneys,
to the extent of 401., the property of his employers.
The evidence adduced went to show that the pri-
soner was in the habit of receiving all the money
that was taken in the warehouse during the day, and
handing it over to one of the firm at night. His duty
was a!so to see that parcels were sent home by the
porters, and for those which were not paid for at the
shop, his more especial duty was to see that the por-
ters brought back the amount of the goods, and duly
paid it to him. On the 19th inst. the porters neglected
to take two packages to the parties who had ordered
them, and the prisoner left the warehouse with them
for the purpose, as was supposed, of taking them
home, and receiving the money due for them. He
did not return, and shortly afterwards it was ascer-
tained that he had delivered the goods, and had ab-
sconded with the amount of their cost, V., which had
been paid him.
Mr. Humphery, who appeared for the prosecution,
begged that the prioner might be remanded, as he
was informed that upwards of 301. which had been
paid to him by the porters on account of their em-
ployers, had not been accounted for.
The prisoner's solicitor, Mr. Justings, not offering
any opposition, Alderman Hooper remanded the pri-
:uner until Wednesday.
Troß.ril_P-STRI'E T.
Benjamin Isaacs, a respectable-looking Jew, land-
lord of the Blue Anchor public-house, in Petticoat-
lane, and Elsey Isaacs, his brother's wife, living at a
marine-store-shop in the same neighbourhood, were
brought up for re-examination, upon a charge of re-
ceiving a piece of new carpet (36 yards), stolen from
Mr. Shepherd, a pawnbroker and salesman in the
City-road, and upon another charge of having felo-
nious possession of a quantity of leather (about 40/.
worth), now proved to be the property of Messrs.
Hockbut and Co., of St. Paul's Churchyard.
Mr. Shepherd, it appeared, had been repeatedly
missing goods from his sale. shop, and at length en-
gaged a policeman, in plain clothes, to watch his
place; but on the very first evening, just after the
policeman had stationed himself in his hiding place,
to watch the premises, the entire piece of carpet in
question was stolen from the front. In the course of
that evening another constable (Conway, of the H
division) went to the house of the prisoner (Mrs.
Isaacs) to search for a coat, said to have been stolen.
The coat was not found, but Conway, seeing the
piece of carpet and a large quantity of new leather,
inquired where they came from. 11:rs. Isaacs said
they had been bought at a sale, and left there by two
young men. This account was, of course, deemed
unsatisfactory, and the police took possession of the
property and detained Mrs. Isaacs, whose husband
absconded, and has nut since been forthcoming. Ben-
jamin Isaacs, the publican, who was there at the
time, was also detained with her, but subsequently
admitted to bail. _ _ _

The piece of carpet had already been identified as
the property of Mr. Shepherd. The leather was now
ascertained to be the property of the other prosecu-
tors, and had been stolen from a cart on the way from
St. Paul's to a railway station, for transmission to
the country. That robbery had been committei only
an hour and a half, and the piece of carpet stolen
only two hours before the officers found the property
as above-mentioned. _ _ _

The MAGISTRATE, after hearing Mr. Vann on the
part of the prisoners, now discharged Benjamin
Isaacs, and liberated the female also upon bail (two
responsible sureties in 501. each), for her appearance
a week hence.
LAMBETH-STREET.
CLOSING 01' THE COURT.—THE COURT POOR-BOX,
AND THE POOR OF THE DISTRICT.-Mr. Norton and
Mr. Henry being both present, the former magis-
trate rose and said that as the public business of that
court was about finally to terminate, he wished to
say a few words with respect to the funds which had
been so kindly forwarded to himself and his respected
colleague, Mr. Henry, for the use of the poor, and to
enable them to alleviate the sufferings of those un-
fortunate beings who were frequently brought before
them. It must be in the recollection of all who heard
him that in every instance where applications were
made for relief this season, that pains had been taken
to ascertain the truth of the representations, as well
as the characters of those making them, so that
no impositions should be practised, and he,
Mr. Norton, was happy to say that he did not
recollect a single instance in which he had to
regret the application of the funds, while on the
other hand he felt that the benefits conferred by
this mode of administering seasonable assistance were
most gratifying. It was at this court that the dis-
graceful system of giving out work by large slop
warehouses to one individual at a certain price, and
that person giving it out to others, and each deriving
a profit, so that the poor creatures who had to make
up the work could not obtain a mere subsistence by
their labour, was first expressed. It was at this
court, and in the case of the Misses Reynolds, the
daughters of a distinguished officer, persons brought
up as gentlewomen, that the disgraceful system of re-
quiring persons to make a shirt for three halfpence,
had been exposed as it so justly deserved. In attend-
ing to this case, he was happy to say that with the
kind assistance of the public press, no less a sum than
4001. had been subscribed for the Misses Reynolds,
and these ladies were raised from a state of pioverty,
which the wretched pittance allowed them for their
exertions must necessarily entail, to one of, he hoped,
to say, lasting comfort. Having said thus much
as to individual cases, he observed it was
the wish of himself and his colleague, Mr.
Henry, to tender to those benevolent individuals
who had supplied them with the means of doing so
much good an account of their stewardship ; and they
could not do this better than by courting an inspec-
tion of the " poor-box book" which was kept by the
chief clerk, and which could be always seen at the
New Court, Lambeth, by any of the subscribers.
By this book it would be seen that from Christmas,
1843, to the present period, a sum of 2461. 13s. 3d.
had been distributed, and that every entry (which
gave a sufficient account of the manner in which the
money was given as to call the attention of the ma-
gistrates to every case) bore the signature of the ma-
gistrate by whom it was ordered to be given. A
balance, he was happy to say, remained in favour of
the poor-box, and it being the opinion of Mr. Henry
and himself that they should distribute a portion of
this balance amongst the numerous poor of the district,
they had directe'd that a sum of 501. should be expended
in the purchase of bread, blankets, and coals, and that
these should be distributed by ballot to the deserving
poor, under the superintendence of their own officers.
In conclusion, Mr. Norton said that the management
and distribution of the articles issued had imposed a
new, onerous, and arduous—though he should add
pleasing—duty. The summoning officers had much
additional trouble in making the necessary inquiries
about applicants, and for this additional duty Mr.
Henry and himself had arranged to pay two of the
three summoning-officers a gratuity out of their own
pockets, so that no portion of the past levies should be
touched. Both the magistrates subsequently ex-
pressed their admiration to Mr. Young and Mr.
Pierce, superintendents of the K and H divisions of
police, of the manner in which all the officers under
them had invariably discharged their duty, and at the
final closing of the court most of the respected parish
officers, &c., were present.

THE CASE OF POISONING AT
ASHFORD.
THE INQUEST.

The inquest upon the the bodies of William and Sarah
Oliver, who were found dead, under very extra-
ordinary circumstances, in a cottage at Ashford, on
Tuesday morning last, was held on Saturday at the
King's Head, Ashford, before Mr. Wakley, the
coroner, and a jury composed of the principal inhabi-
tants of the village, when the evidence clearly made
out that the unhappy man first murdered his wife and
then destroyed himself. The following witnesses
were examined :

William Lathem, the constable of Ashford, was the
first witness. He merely deposed that, in consequence
of an alarm that was given, he went to the cottage of
the deceased on Tuesday morning last, and found the
woman lying dead on the bed, and the man reclining
with his head on her body. The two children were
in a corner of the room crying, and the boy pointed
to the bed, and said, " Look there !—The man was
foaming at the mouth very much, and the woman also
appeared to have been voiding foam, but she was at
that time quite dead. The deceased man was not
sensible, and the only sign of life he exhibited was
breathing very hard. Hs died between twelve and
one o'clock.
In answer to questions from the Coroner, the wit-
ness said that the boy was nine years old, and the girl
five. He also stated that what the boy said was,
"Look here : my mother is dead, and my father can-
- not open his mouth I"