The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

CIIANGES.

The Duke and :Duchess ofßuckingham and Lady
Anna Maria Grewrille, at Wotton House, near Ayles-
bury, from Stowe ; General the lion. Sir W. and Lady
Lumley, at Lumley Castle, near Chester-le-street, from
a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Enniskillen, at Flo-
rence Court, Fermanagh, from a visit to Sir A. and
Lady Brooke, at Colebrooke ; Lord and Lady William
Russell, from Frankfort-on-the-Maine, on a tour in
Germany ; Sir Robert Sale, G.C.8., and Lady Sale, on
a visit to Dr. Kennedy, in Merrion-square, Dublin, from
Derry ; the Earl and Countess of Balcarras, at their
seat Lancashire, from a continental tour ; the Hon.
Colonel Wingfield,. at his seat, Ballina, from Cork
Abbey ; Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, M.P., at Bath,
from his seat, Barton Court, Berks ; Lord Clonbrock
at Clonbrock Ahascrm, from Cowes, Isle of Wight ; the
Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, from the Ma-
rine Parade, Cowes, on a tour.

COMPENSATION TO SHERIFFS'

OFFICERS.

In consequence of the operation of the new In-
solvent Act, it is determined by that large, influential,
and singularly useful body of men, the sheriffs'
officers, to apply to Government for compensation.
We give a few of the most heart-rending cases :
Lazarus —is a ruined man. There was a time
when he could snake twenty pounds by bail-bonds
before breakfast. Now, he can't make twenty pence.
Had a flourishing sponging-house always full. Now,
there isn't a swill in it. Did a good deal in small
aceep4ances under twenty pounds to clerks, and such
people—who'd trust 'em now ? Calculated that his
loss by the Bill was five thousand pounds, every
honest penny.
Moses —is tilso a ruined man. Has his sponging-
house empty, and dreadful expenses going on. Time
was when he could get a guinea a-day out of every
prisoner; now, the money goes to creditors. Believes
that all the world will be insolvent, with nobody to
arrest 'em, if the Act isn't repealed. Has lost by it—
for he is a conschmtious man, and has calculated every
penny-6,0001. 17s. 6id.
Aaron -- is entirely ruined, with nothing but
his wine and coal business to provide for his family.
Can't get off his wine, because he can't discount small
bills. Can't sell his coals, because nobody will give
ready money for 'em—and can't give credit because
of Lord Brougham's Bill. Thinks the world is going
to end, or Parliament had never passed such a wicked
law. Had a beautiful sponging-house. In fact, was
born in a sponging-house, as was his father mil mother
before him ; all that's gDne. Used to make five cap-
tionshasn't nabbed a single soul there three
there's to be any security for property,
months. Government
dir a
can't give him less than 8,0001., besides
places in the Treasury for his five little boys.—Punch.

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THE REGISTRATIONS._
ToWER HAMLETS.
the Learned Counsel appointed
by the
C.
JudgesM°Yli' Esq.,
to revise the list of voters for the borough
of the Tower Hamlets, opened his Court yesterday for
that purpose at eleven o'clock, at the Court House,
Wellclose-square. The sitting lasted till nearly five
o'clock, and the lists of a considerable number of parishes
were gone through.
Mr. Boxer, solicitor, appeared for the Liberals, and
Mr. Brutton, solicitor, appeared for the Conservatives.
There were no objections in any of the lists of parishes
gone through this day, but there were some claims.
The parishes the lists of which were gone through
were as follow :
Bromley, St. Leonard, in which parish two claims
were made and allowed.
Christchurch, Spitalfields, in which four claims were
made, of which three were allowed.
Holy Trinity, Minories, in which there were no claims.
Mile-end, New-town, in which there were no claims.
Norton Folgr!te, in which there were no claims.
The Old Artillery-ground, in which two claims were
made, and disallowed.
liatelitre Hamlet, In which there were two claims,
which were disallowed.

St. Anne, Limehouse, in which there were three
claims, out of which only one was allowed.
gate, in which there were no
St. George, in which, out of five claims, one only was
allowed.
Botolph Without, Ald
in which there were no claims.
claims. Ss t
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St. Mary, Stratfor Bow, in which there were no
claims.
St. Mary, Whitechapel, in which there were three
claims, of which two were allowed, and one disallowed.
St. Foahunl;SohfaWdwapeplli,nli which there were two claims,
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number of claims depended. The ease of Mr. William
Benson, of King-street, Old Ford-lane, was by agree-
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Mr. Boxer contended that the omission of these duly
qualified persons was a wilful one, and rendered the
overseers liable to a fine. The overseers last year had
omitted this very same class of voters, and the then Re-
vising Barrister bad decided that the claims of these
voters must be [allowed. Under these circumstances
there could be no excuse for the overseers.
Considerable discussion took place, and ultimately
The Learned Barrister decided that he should reserve
his judgment as to the fines to a future day, and until he
had consulted with Mr. Arnold (the Revising Barrister
Mr. Benson's claim
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allow it accordingly.
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Mr. Moylan will sit again to-morrow (this day).

MARYLEL ONE.
. The revision of the lists of voters for the opulent and
extensive borough of .Marylebone has been appointed to
take place on Monday next, the 23d inst. The Con-
servatives have made no less than 1,174 objections,
whilst the Reform Association
have made 586. The
claims of both parties are altogether insignificant, but
there are several hundred individual claims on the part

of persons who are lodgers, and by the Chartists, who
have formed themselves into a " Suffrage" Association.
The number of voters in the register for the borough last
year was 14,749. On the lists at the present time the
number is 15,784, making an increase of 935 ; but that
number, it is expected, will be much diminished by the
revision.

LOSS of the BRITISH SCHOONER

ORANGE.

The New York Tribune relates the following particu-
lars of the awful sufferings experienced at sea by the
crew of an English vessel :

The ship Vicksburg, Captain Berry, which arrived at
New York from New Orleans, fell in, on the 6th of
August, in lat. 26 27, lon. 87 46, with an open boat, con-
taining seven persons, and took them on board. They
proved to be the captain and crew of the British
schooner Orange, which was lost on the voyage from
Jamaica for Matanzas. Their names were as follow:
Alexander Macdonald, master; Wm. Young, mate; Ed-
ward Cook, Richard Evans, John Brown, Wm. Roscoe,
sPamen; and Robert Wilkinson, cook. They had been
thirteen days in the boat, which was only fourteen feet
long. When fallen in with they were in a very ex-
hausted state, and three of them had to be lifted on
board. The youngest of them, Wm. Roscoe, was totally
insensible, and although every exertion was made to re-
store him, he survived but about three hours, and at sun-
set his body was committed to the deep. During the
first night the mate was delirious, but has since, as well
as the rest, nearly regained his health. Their thirst was
excessive, and great care was taken in giving them water
at first, and it was not until the third day that it was sa-
tisfied, at which time each person had taken about three
gallons of water.
_ _ _

Captain Macdonald stated that on the 24th of July, at
about two A.M., when in lat. 22 45, long. 85 4, his
schooner was capsized in a sudden squall from the east-
ward. The lanyards of the weather rigg* were im-
mediately cut away, but the ballast having shifted, and
the sails and masts being in the water, it was impossible
to right the vessel. Fortunately, when she capsized, the
jolly boat being in the bottom of the long boat, turned
over, and all hands succeeded in getting into it, and got
clear of the vessel, which almost at the same moment
disappeared. They were then left to the mercy of the
waves, without provisions or water, or even an oar.
Part of one of the masts was made use of to steer with,
and the boat was kept before the wind till daylight.
During the day the linings and foot boards were taken
off, and converted into a mast, on which was spread the
captain's shirt for a sail, and the boat was steered in a
southerly direction, in the hope of falling in with land.
In the afternoon a barque was seen to the westward,
steering towards them, and when about two miles off
hove to for a short time, then hauled southerly for about
half an hour, but before sunset she again steered
westward.

On the 25th, there being no appearance of land, th•
boat's course was altered to westward, with the hope of
falling iu with some vessel. They continued this course
till the 2Stb, the wind being all the time eastwardly. On
this day, for the first time, it rained for about two hours.
By using two.pairs of shoes—all they had among them—
and by wringing their clothes, they succeeded in getting
about half a pint of water each.
From this time till the 31st they saw no vessel, and
were without water. On the 31st and the day following
it rained three or four hours, and they obtained sufficient
water to quench their thirst for the time. From the Ist
to the 6th ofAugust they obtained no water, but on one of
those days they picked up a piece of bamboo, which wag
found to contain four small fishes about two inches
long, which they divided among them•; this was all the
food they had while in the boat. On the morning of the
6th, three ships passed them, but it was supposed the
boat was not seen by them. They were, however, soon
afterwards gratified with the sight of the ship which
afforded them relief, on board of which they received
every care and attention.

ASSAULT BY A POLICE CON-
STABLE ON HIS SERGEANT.

At an early hour on Sunday morning a circum-
stance took place at Winehmore-hill, Middlesex,
which has created considerable sensation in that dis-
trict. About four o'clock, Sergeant Hannan, of the
N division of police, in going his rounds, missed
police-constable Harvey, of the same division, off his
beat, and after looking about for him for some short
time, he observed him milking a cow belonging to
Mr. Risley, a dairyman in the neighbourhood. Han-
nan crept stealthily along the field in such a position
that Harvey had not the slightest knowledge of his
approach until he was alongside, when he charged
him with his improper conduct. Harvey made some
trivial excuse, but the sergeant told him he must do
his duty and take him to the station-house, and then
laid of the left handcuff of the prisoner's coat with his
right, and they walked together some short distance
through the field, when Harvey, unperceived by his
captor, drew his truncheon from his pocket with his
right hand, and in an instant gave the sergeant a
desperate blow on the head, which felled him to the
ground. He than made an effort to escape, but was
unable to do so, and repeated the blows on the ser-
geant's head, actually shivering his staff to pieces.
The sergeant, notwithstanding, still held him, upon
which the ruffian drew from his pocket a gouging
chisel, and jobbed it into the head, face, and the arms
of the sergeant, inflicting no fewer than thirteen or
fourteen frightful wounds on his person. Hannan,
with a death-like grasp, still held him fast,
and his cries of " murder" brought to his assistance
two men from the farmhouse of Mr. Risley, and also
a farrier in the neighbourhood, just in time to prevent
the sacrifice of his life, and Harvey was secured.
The sergeant, who was reduced, from exhaustion and
the loss of blood to insensibility, was removed to the
farmhouse, and Messrs. Creswell and Ward, medical
gentlemen at Southgate, were sent for, and promptly
attended. A special messenger was also dispatched
to the private residence of Mr. Johnson, the superin
tendent of the N division, who lost not a moment in
repairing to the spot, where he found every attention
paid to the sufferer by the medical gentlemen. The
sergeant remained in a dreadful state of suffering the
whole of the d iy and night, but yesterday morning he
appeared much better, and went on favourably
throughout the day, so that there was strong hope of
his ultimate recovery. After the prisoner was cap-
tured a pocket handkerchief full of apples, and with
which was also tied up the lantern used by Harvey
on his duty, was found in the field, not a great dis-
tance from where he had been milking the cow, so
that there could be no doubt the apples were the
produce of some of the numerous gardens in the
neighbourhood. His house was subsequently searched,
when a great variety of the choicest fruit, onions of
the finest quality, and also miscellaneous property, all
the produce of plunder, were found Some idea may
be formed of the sensation which the circumstance
has created in the neighbourhood from the fact that
the officiating clergyman at the Edmonton chapel of
ease, IVinchinore-hill, alluded to it, and asked the
prayers of the congregation for the recovery of the
injured man. Yesterday, Harvey was taken before a
bench of magistrates at Edmonton, and after a very
brief examination, the injured man not being able to
attend, was remanded to a future day.

UNEQUALLED RAILWAY TRAINS—On Tllllnday
morning last a special railway train (in four divisions)
went from this district to Hull. Altogether it was de-
cidedly the most monstrous of all monster trains ever re-
corded. The number of engines employed was ten, the
carriages 250, and the passengers conveyed amounted to
the enormous number of 7,800 ! About 6,000 wero from
Leeds alone, and the rest of the passengers were taken
up at the Castleford station. So extraordinary was the
crowd of passengers at the Leeds Railway station, that
two hours (from six o'clock in the morning until eight
o'clock) were occupied before the last division of the
train could be dispatched. Averaging the number of
passengers at 2s. each—which was the third-class fare to
Hull and back, and consequently the lowest computation
—the railway company would realise from this pleasure
trip the sum of 7SOI. During the press of passengers
towards the carriages, at the Leeds station, a woman,
with a child in her arms, only a year and a half old, lost
her ticket, and, anxious to regain it, stooped to pick it
from the ground. She and the child were thrown down,
and a short period elapsed before they could be rescued
from the press, of the crowd. The mother became
much alarmed, and the child was slightly injured, but
not killed, as is generally rumoured in the town. In a
short period both the mother and child perfectly re-
covered ; the infant was conveyed forward to Hull by
its father in the special train, and the mother, who had
lost her ticket, was kindly permitted by Mr. Thackray,
the head station master, to go free by the ten o'clock
train, to join her husband and child at Hull.—Leeds
Mercury.
FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—A fire broke out yester-
day at noon upon the spacious premises belonging to
Mr. Salmons, hearthrug, mop, and woollen-tilting ma-
nufacturer, Bermondsey. It commenced, from some un-
explained cause, in the cellars, the receptacles for finished
and partly-finished goods. One of the workmen in
passing through the yard was the first person who made
the alarming discovery, and with the aid of other par-
ties endeavoured, by means of buckets of water, to sub-
due the conflagration ; in that, however, they wero foiled,
owing to the very inflammable nature of the stock, and
in less than a quarter of an hour after the first outbreak,
the entire stores, with their contents, presented ono
broad sheet of flame. The necessary intelligence having
been dispatched to the engine-stations, the parish en-
gine, with five or six more of the London Establish-
ment, and that of the West of England, were on the
spot. Some time unfortunately. was lost in waiting for
water, meanwhile the fire continued to spread through
the flooring to the counting-house ; thence it fired the
front residence. Many of the inhabitants were appre-
hensive that the flames would reach their own houses,
and they commenced removing, for safety, their furni-
ture iut the open street. At length wat?r began to flow
from the fire-mains in the vicinity, and a great stream
was poured by the engines into those portions of the
premises where the fire raged the fiercest. Much time
was, however, spent before any impression was made
upon it, but the firemen continued to work incessantly,
rnd at 'so igth got the mastery of the flames. The damage
done is considerable.

Lord and LadyCarbery hare been placed in
mourning by the demise of his Lordship's brother,
Percy Evans Freke, Esq., who died at his Lordship's
seat, Castle Freke, near Cork, on Monday se'nnight, in
his 70th year. The deceased gentleman has left sons by
his marriage with the daughter of C. Harvey, D.D.,
the eldest of whom is heir presumptive to the barony of
Carbery.

ORLEANS AND BORDEAUX

RAILWAY.

- -
This railway continues to occupy a lively attention on
the Stock Exchange. Several English papers have
copied our article of last week. Each of the two Com-
panies of which we spoke have their partisans. The
subscriptions for each are numerous. The Anthoward
Company have closed their list to-day. This proves that
the demand for shares in this Company has been so con-
siderable in France that the Company has but little ne-
cessity to have recourse to English capital for the de-
posit required by the French Government. It wilt no
doubt soon make known to its numerous subscribers
what proportions of the allotment they can afford them.
It appears that this railway ranks high in public esti-
mation, since the shares in the Makenzie's Company are
negotiated on the Stock Exchange (though contrary to
law), at a premium of one pound a share, a cent. per
cent. profit, as one Found a share has only been paid by
them.

It is a curious circumstance, for this railway, with the
uncertainty up to the day of adjudication which Com-
pany will obtain the preference, to see its shares sold at
a premium of one pound, while the shares of the Antho-
ward Company remain unissued. These mysteries of
the Stock Exchange are to us impenetrable. To pay a
pound for what one can have for nothing appears a
curious fact, and, above all, in opposition to the opinion
of the 7'in/es, and other English journals, who state that
the Anthoward Company has a better chance than its
rivals.

It appears that this line presents great probabilities
of success, as the capitalists sustain it with ardour.
We learn at this instant that another new Company
is about to be constituted for the same line. Amongst
the Directors, it is stated, are the following parties :
Lieutenant-General de Rumigny, ➢t. Rivenaz, M. Benoist
M. Foucher, M. d'Ailly, M. Drouellard, and Mr. Brunel,
engineer.—Courier de Europe.

The Bremen Gazette has an article from the Po-
lish frontiers, 3rd Sept., which states that the Emperor
Nicholas has approved of the plan of the Minister of
War for very vigorous offensive operations in the Cauca-
sus ; and that he is resolved, if not to make the cam-
paign in person, at least to be in the vicinity of the
theatre of war. Count Nesselrode is shortly expected
to return to St. Petersburgh. It is affirmed that he has
communicated to the English Cabinet the decided inter.-
dons of the Emperor respecting the war in the Caucasus,
and has obtained the assurance that the assistance sent
to the rebels by English agents from Constantinople
shall cease.—Hamburgh Papers, 15th Sept.
Extract of a letter of Captain J. L. Roberts, of the
brig Ursula, at Bluefields, Mosquito Shore, South Amo-
rica:—" This port is now in possession of the English,
and a British flag is flying here. A tonnage duty of St)
cents. per ton on all vessels trading hero, or any port of
the Mosquito Shore, is to go in force on the 3lst of
August of the present year. An English man-of-war
has been here and landed a governor and some arms. It
appears they are going to take possession of the coast as
far down as Boco del Toro. The report hero is, that
the man-of-war has gone down to blockade Salt Creek."
AYLESBURY RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the half-
yearly meeting of the directors and shareholders in this
railway was held at the White Hart Hotel, Aylesbury,
William Rickford, Esq., in the chair. The report, which
was read by the secretary, stated that surveys were now
in progress fur the formation of a line to Worcester
from Banbury to join the London and Birmingham Rail-
way. It had been proposed, in order to save a distance
of about two miles, to cross the Aylesbury line and to
join the Birmingham Railway at another place. This,
if carried out, would not only entail an enormous ex-
pense, looking to the nature of the country to be tra-
versed, but would render the Aylesbury Railway almost
a dead letter. It was necessary, therefore, that some
steps should be taken by this company in the matter.
After the report had been read and adopted, Mr. Pigott
suggested that the Aylesbury lino should be offered
to the new company, or to the London and Birmingham
Company, for sale at the original cost, which was
60,000 L, or, in case they should decline that offer, that
the acquiescence of the Aylesbury Railway Company in
the newly-projected line to 'Worcester should be con-
tingent upon the promoters of that line agreeing to make
the Aylesbury line, the line of junction with the London
and Birmingham. After some discussion, a resolution
empowering the directors to enter into negotiations
with the Birmingham Railway Company was agreed to,
and it was arranged that a special general meeting
should be called as soon as the negotiations had ceased,
in order that the result might as early as possible be
kid before the proprietors. A dividend of eight shilling.
per share, or four per cent. on the paid-up capital, was
than declared and made payable on the 29th inst. In
seconding the resolution for a dividend, a proprietor
said he supposed this would be the last dividend that
would ever be declared in this company. Thanks were
then voted to the chairmain, and the meeting separated.
THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS ALONG THE NORFOLK
COAST.—The royal squadron was off our coast between
seven and twelve A.BI ,on Monday. At Lowestoft, the
revenue cutter Victoria, and the Trinity steamer, fired
salutes. At Yarmouth (where the Stromboli steamer had
called during the forenoon, and taken on board a pilot for
Dundee), the mayor and corporation were on the look-out
all the afternoon and evening from Bird's Hotel, expecting
that the squadron would bear down St. Nicholas's Gat.
This was, however, very unlikely after dark. It was about
nine o'clock in the evening when tho royal squadron (which
shaped a very outwardly course for the Lemon Lights)
was off the jetty. Rockets were sent up by way of
salute, which were answered by the Royal squadron ;
and when off Mundsley, about ten minutes before twelve
o'clock, a salute was fired by the coast-guard, under
Captain 11. Windham, of twenty-one rockets, which
was answered by the Royal yacht. During the time the
squadron was off our coast, all sorts of fireworks were
sent up, at Lowestoft, and other places, as tokens of
respect and loyalty, and continued till long after the
lights of the squadron were lost sight of.—Norfolk
Chronicle.

HER MAJESTY AT CAMPERDOWN.—After leaving
the suburbs of Dundee, her Majesty's route for about
nine miles lay chiefly through the property of the Earl
of Camperdown. His Lordship had placed his house
at the Queen's disposal, but the offer was declined in
the most gracious terms, as the royal party had ar-
ranged to proceed direct from the yacht to Blair. An
express was sent on by the Prince on landing
to Lord Camperaowr, that her Majesty had com-
manded her carriage to draw up in front of the lodge
lekling, to Camperdown, three miles from Dundee, when
she was pleased most graciously to express to Lord
and Lady Camperdowa her acknowledgment of the loyal
offer of the house. Lord and Lady Camperdown, with
their family and visitors., as well as the tenantry and
servants, were in attendance at an early hour in front of
the gate, to pay their respects to her Majesty and Prince
Albert. ller Majesty permitted Lord Duncan's eldest
son (a tine boy of three years old) to present to the
Princess Royal a basket of fruit, with which her Royal
Highness seemed not a little pleased. Her Majesty and
the Prince were most enthusiastically cheered.—Dundce
Courier.

LAUGHABLE INCIDENT.—An incident occurred on
the Royal journey towards Cupar Angus, which occa-
sioned considerable merriment to the Royal pair. A
dragoon had dismounted for the purpose of performing
some service to one of the officers and had let go the
bridle of his horse, which started off at a racing pace
through the fields. The dragoon could lend no
assistance in the catching of his steed, and both
man and horse were required to make up the com-
plement of the military escort. In this emergency,
Colonel Kinloch, of Kilry, the Aide-de-camp of Lord
Airlic (Lord-Lieutenant of Forfarshire), set off in pur-
suit. of the lost animal, and, after sundry hair-breadth
escapes, the Colonel was successful in his chase, and re-
stered the lost animal to its rider. The whole " run"
was seen from the Royal carriage, and both her Majesty
and Prince Albert evidently enjoyed the scene. The
Colonel is a beautiful rider, and his horsemanship was
displayed to great advantage in this little incident.—
Dundee Aduertiser.

ESCAPE or PRlSONERS.—lnformation has been for-
warded to Bow-street, and thence to the various metro-
politan and city police-offices and stations, that three of
the prisoners confined for various offences in SL Alban's
gaol had managed to effect their escape therefrom bc-
tween the hours of one and two o'clock in the afternoon
of Thursday last, and, notwithstanding the efforts made
by Mr. Dreyton, the Governor, aided by the police, to
trace out their retreat, they have as yet been fruitless.
Mr. Dreyton has offered a reward of 15 guineas for their
apprehension.
DREADFUL CASE of BURNING.—On Friday morn-
ing last a young man, about 18 years of age, named
Parradine, a farm-labourer, was found in a ditch, op-
posite the Plicenix public-house, in Staple Clay don,
Buckinghamshire, nearly lifeless and burnt almost to
a cinder. It is supposed the poor fellew got drunk
on the preceding night, and rolled into the ditch
with a lighted pipe in his hand, or had some lucifer
matches upon his person, which ignited, thus destroy-
ing all the clothes on his body, and burning his
frame to a complete cinder, the lower part of his person
being entirely destroyed, and the interior of his frame
being visible as if he had been flayed alive ; indeed, the
poor creature presents a most horrible spectacle, his
body being thus mutilated, while ho is in possession of
his reason. Several individuals have been summoned
before the borough magistrates this morning (Monday),
on suspicion of having some knowledge of this frightful
calamity. The poor fellow has a father and mother
with a large family somewhat dependent on his exertions
for a maintenance.

TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday the most
painful excitement prevailed in .fouthlton-street,
Grosvenor-square, in consequence of the following tragi-
cal occurrence at the house of Mr. Dianicorn, baker, No.
34, in the above-named street:—Afemale, named Mary
Levy, aged 18 years, has far the last six months been in the
service of Mr. 3.lanicorn. Lately a suspicion had been en-
tertained that she was pregnant, which she firmly denied.
Yesterday morning she was up at seven o'clock, and half
an hour afterwards, having prepared her master's break-
fast in the parlour, she left the room. About eight o'clock
Mr. Manicorn wanting her, he rang the bell, which, she
n
to, he called her by name, but she made
no ot
n po
He then ran up stairs, and on reaching the
aresslienr.dinng
secondflight was horror struck at beholding her lying
on h her stomach on the stairs, which were in a pool of
blood, her head resting on the top one, and by her side
an infant covered with blood. He descended into the
street and alarmed the neighbours, several of whom re-
turned into the house with him, followed by Mr. Clark,
surgeon, Marylebone-lane, who p?onounced her to be
dead. The infant, a fine full-grown female child, was
also dead, but had evidently been born alive and then
strangled, the strings of its mother's apron being tied
tightly round its neck.
THE NEW COMET.—By observations at the Cam-
bridge Observatory, on the night of September 15, the
place of the comet discovered at Hamburgh on Septem-
ber 6 was as follows :—At September 15, 13h. 26,6 min.,
fltvenwiola mean solar time ; right ascension, Oh. 44min.
;3,9sec. ; declination south, 12deg. 53min. 32see.

111 R. O'CONNELL'S LIBERATION.

Last night a party of respectable tradesmen .and others
dined at the Angel and Crown, Sevesi-dials„ Ito comme-
morate the liberation of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.
After an excellent dinner, the chair was taken by Dr.
Brady, who proposed the health of the Queen and the
Iloyal Family.—(Drunk with loud expressions 01? loyalty.)
" God save the Queen" was sung verse and chAis.
The CHAIRMAN then said lie wished he could find
words to give expression to his feelings—that expression
which every one who valued civil liberty was desirons to
express. That feeling he did hope would ultimately
unite Englishmen and Irishmen in one family.—(Ap-
plause.) He was about to propose the health cf a man
who had made himself beloved and respected by his
country. He was speaking of a man who would eman-
cipate his country from the many embarrassments under
which it had laboured for years. Mr. O'Connell seemed
to be, under the dispensation of Divine Providence, the
man to raise his country from degradation. Ireland, during
mkiny years, had been in a state of abject wretchedne:ol,
and it was ordained that Daniel O'Connell should come
on earth to raise it to the rank it ought to hold among
nations. Nothing could give him more pleasure than the
sight of so many highly respectable Englishmen who
had assembled with Irishmen to celebrate the triumph of
civil liberty. Mr. O'Connell had commenced by oppo-
sition to the union. That measure had passed, yet
O'Connell continued his opposition, on the impression
upon his mind that it was injurious to the interests of
his country. He had lately been made the object of a
prosecution, because he was opposed to an Act of Par-
liament. The Home Secretary had recently given notice
' of his intention to repeal various Acts of Parliament re-
gulating the medical profession, yet the Government im-
prisoned Mr. O'Connell for opposing one. He did hope
that the meeting would duly appreciate the merits of
the man who had stood forward as the unflinching ad-
vocate ?f constitutional rights, and pay that respect to
him which was due to every friend and supporter of public
rights. Dr. Brady concluded by proposing the health
of Daniel O'Connell. The toast was enthusiastically
honoured.

Several toasts followed, among them " Justice to Ire-
and," " Our English Friends," &c.
The proceedings were most gratifying.

A DOUBLE ASSASSINLTION.—A double assassina-
tion was committed on Wednesday night between eleven
and twelve o'clock, at Romainville. A sergeant of the
50th of the line, returning home drunk to the
camp, knocked at the door of M. Wincker, the
baker, and on its being opened, asked for wine.
The baker, seeing the state the man was in answered
very courteously, "My friend, you see I sell bread,
and not wine," end was returning into the house
again, with ono of his men named Magnan, when the
drunken soldier drew his bayonet from its scabbard and
wounded them both. M. Wincker died very shortly
afterwards, and Magnan, though not mortally wounded,
had a narrow escape, as the weapon entered his side, and
would have pierced his heart had not the direction been
turned by striking against one of the ribs. The cries of
the victims put some of the neighbours, who wore still
up, in pursuit of the murderer, who was taken, nod has
been delivered up by his Colonel to the ordinary court
of justice.
WAR STEAMERS.—During the early part of the
week a naval officer, from the Admiralty, was down here,
inspecting the different steamers belonging to the port,
in reference to their capacity as war steamers, in the'
event of hostilities requiring a resort to such means of
defence. He found sixty-one steamers fully competent
to carry 148 large guns, several smaller ones, and a, com-
petent number of men ; and expressed his admiration of
their strength and capacity. The river stearneboets,
tug-boats, &c., he pronounced capable of being converted
into gun-boats of a most formidable description. It is
gratifying to know of our warlike capacity, but wet hope
to remain long strangers to practical knowledge 4sf the
fact.—Liverpool Journal.
FIELD SPORTS OF THE NORTIL—We hope Prim •
Albert will step a little further north, among our hills
and mountains, to try his rifle at the hardy deer which
inhabit our glens and corries. Scenes famous in story
are numerous as the antlered herds of Inverness, Ross,
and Sutherland shires, and should the Prince fancy
some target practice, our northern meeting will show
him some correct shooting, together with sundry
athletic games, unknown at Windsor. On li'xiday
last, Lord Levet, accompanied by Lord Emlyas and
Sir Piers Mostyn, enjoyCd a brilliant day's deer stalk-
ing in his Lordship's preserves at Glenstraahfarar
Forest. With right and left shots Lord Lovat brought
down a couple of deer, and with three other ri43e dis-
charges, a noble stag fell to each. Sir P. Mostyn also
secured a very large well-headed stag. The party at
Achnanault have had great success in deer stalking.
During the last week Mr. Chearnley killed two, of which
one was the largest stag seen in Ross-shire for many
years, a veteran, well known to the sportsmen of that
county. Another of the party succeeded, on Thursday
last, in striking and securing two very good
stags, with right and left shots. Their sport
has, in other respects, been very remarkable.
On Wednesday evening, Mr. Chearnley killed
in the river, with the rod, within one hour,
four trout, whose joint weight exceeded twenty-five
pounds. On the Gleumoriston Hills, Edward Burn, Esq.,
of Aberdeen, and friend, got each a shot at the deer,
both of which they killed—Mr. Bnrns's shot being the
only one he had at deer this season. At Achnaclairoch,
Sir St. George Gore, Bart., had five successive days of
superior grouse shooting in the last week in August,
having bagged 376 brace and four couple of hares, which
gives au average of 76 brace a-day of birds very strong
and wild. On the moors of Dunmaglass, Mr. Stephens
and Mr. M'Naughton, in ten days' shooting, had 400
brace of grouse. At Muirton, A. Mackenzie, Esq., and
friend, killed in one day lately, five roe-deer and several
pairs of black game.—lnverness Courier.
THE DANUHT. SEPT. B.—The lowering of the im-
port duties on sugar and coffee has already had a re-
markable result The serious apprehension that the
revenue would thereby be injured is now proved to bo
entirely groundless, as the import duties already double
the amount which they produced in 1842 and 1843.
With this favourable state of things we have also to be
thankful for the diminution of smuggling and the increase
of consumption. Moreover,
it will lead to thq further
reduction of the duties, and it is already asserted that al-
most all colonial productions, tobacco, excepted, will be
put on the same footing throughout almost all the Ger-
man states as the Zollwerein may place them. -s
MURDER OF AN INFANT.—About a month after
last Whitsuntide an unfortunate servant girl, of the name
of Sheming, came. from Lowestoft to reside with her
parents at Martlesham-heath, mar Woodbridge, Suffolk,
bringing with her an illegitimate male child, .of whom
she had been delivered about a month befOre. Six weeks
after her return home she had occasion, at six o'clock in
the afternoon of a Tuesday, to go to the Post-office in
Woodbridge, and left the child in charge of her mother
until her return, e hich was about nine o'clock the same
evening, e lien she found the child very ill. The poor
Child was retching, straining, and foaming at the mcut'n,
and continued lingering until two o'clock on Wednesday
morning, when it died. It was buried in Waldring field
chapel-ground the following Sunday. Ilurnours shortly
afterwards spread through the neighbourhood that Mary
Shinning, the grandmother, had a short time before! the
death of the child bought arsenic, for the purpose, as she
had stated, to poison rats. Suspicious then arose that
the poor babe had been poisoned, and an application was
made to Mr. J. Wood, jun., of Woodbridge, coroner for
the liberty of St. Etheldred, to hold an inquest upon the
child. He accordingly granted his warrant for the dia•
interment of the body, and gave an order for a post
mortem examination, upon which it was found that the
poor infant's stomach contained a quantity of arsenic.
An inquest was held at the Lion Inn, at Martlesham, on
the 6th inst., and further adjourned until Saturday last,
when sufficient evidence was adduced to satisfy the jury,
who, eighteen in number, unanimously returned a ver-
dict of " Wilful murder" against Mary Shenung. The
Coroner immediately committed her to Ipswich gaol, to
take her trial at the next assizes.

DR. VoLrr.—We are informed that, after much
correspondence, and obtaining from our own Govern-
ment all the interference and aid it feels authorised to
undertake for the release of Dr. Wolff, Captain Grover a
few days since started for SL I. ersburgh, personally to
interest the Emperor Nicholas in the same humane and
holy cause. We doubt not of his success with that great
Monarch, to whom we feel certain, from all lately seen or
heard of him, it will afford no small degree of gratifica-
tion to employ his utmost influence in Bokhara to libe-
rate the missionary from his perilous situation. Of
Captain Grover's own exertions and sacrifices we cannot
speak too highly ; they do honour to human nature : and
it; from the mystery still hanging over the fate of our
countrymen, they should be beyond the reach of help,
there may be other Europeans in life who will reap the
benefit of this proceeding. We put the f
cause .% a
have only the assertion of the barbarous king of the fact;
no public execution has been witnessed ; and imme-
diately after he forced Dr. Wolff to write the letter an-
nouncing their deaths only last year, he immediately
altered his course of conduct towards him, and threw
amteeanasdoofupbrt,ovthinoguaohr
disprovinghimintoptrhies otnr,u
truth.
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a fearful and remote one.—Literary Gazette.
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ATTEMPT TO POISON PRINCE SIIMIZADA TIMOOR.
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it failed—failed so far that, in the manner the poison
was administered, it did not prove fatal. It appears
that the Prince is in the habit of taking some compound
medicine, mixed in liquid in bottles ; on taking one of
these doses he felt a pain in the chest—of this he took
no particular notice, but on repeating the dose the next
day he felt the same kind of pain, only more severe.
He again, next day in the afternoon, took a third dose,
and immediately after, on stepping into his buggy, he
felt sick and giddy, when symptoms appeared in a vio-
lent form, causing him to vomit incessantly, with great
weakness in the limbs. He is now, however, from the
providential rejection of the poison, recovering fast.
One of his servants, a Persian and Shirazee, in order to
test the medicine, drank a portion of the contents of the
bottle, when the poison acted liolently upon him ; but.
on administering milk and other medicines in time, he
vomited blood, and is also doing well. The Prinoe's
suspicions rest on two parties—viz., either on a party of
four men who came from Dost Mahomed to pay their
respects, or some supposed villains who may have been
sent by his half-brother, Futtehjimg, who, in fear of
losing the ancestral jewels in his possession, which
right belongs to Timoor, the heir and representative of
Shah Soojah, may have put up some one to do the act ;
but this is all a supposition.—Agra Ukbar, June 29.
DINGLE.—LIBERATION OP O'CONNELL.—For want
of space we can only give the following extracts from
o..tr Dingle correspondent this evellitg :—This town was
brilliantly illuminated on Friday melt, and in particular
e house of the Hon. Richard De Moleyns.—One di the
fishermen, not having time to collect material for a bon-
fire, actually burned his boat.—Kerry Examiner.

-1q

tilltlT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Burke said he did not know how to
&raw an indictment against a whole people. Sir
Robert Peel, or his Irish purveyors of judge-made
isw, thought they did know how to do this. Ac-
cordingly, they stuffed out a monster indictment,
b way of being commensurate with its object.
ey seem to have thought that, if it were but
big enough, it could not fail to overlay the
-whole bulk of Irish discontent. They made a
mistake ; a single bullet, well aimed, may prostrate
the king of beasts ; but the most capacious net
that can be thrown round him may be gnawed in
pieces by well-filed teeth. Plain coercion might have
obtained over O'Connell the only sort of victory that
can well be obtained over a man who is the organ of
multitudinous aspirations and antipathies. But lawyer-
craft, when it knots its meshes with such exceeding
complexity and subtlety, lays Woolf open, at every part
of its texture of technicalities, to the operation of pre-
cisely the same faculty in undoing the whole of its
work. The party exasperated by the Lords' recent
reversal of judgment make a mighty point of assert-
ing that reversal to have turned on mere technical
pointer Why, what did the judgment turn upon ?
If it was lawful to lavish technical constructions, for
the purpose of accumulating a series of acts not singly
criminal into crime, surely the same skill may equally,
be employed in unravelling the process. Nothing, in-
deed, can render legal refinements endurable, but their
impartial application. If the whole penetrating in-
genuity of the legal profession were devoted to rearing
the fabric of constructive crimes at the bidding of a
Government, and if no independent minds of legal
training were exerted in the opposite direction, the
Cusack Smith race would be even more useless tools
of power than in this case they have proved. Men
might not be able to unravel the web of legal sophistry,
but they would burst through it. It is only the con-
fidence that the rules of fence are available for both
sides, that makes them respected on either. There is
something absolutely ludicrous in the clamour ofover-
refinement against the law Lords, considering all the
refinements relied en to eke out the case on trial. It
is a maxim with architects to make the principal parts
of thekstructure stronger than strong enough. It is
a practice also of Parliamentary logicians to rely.on a-
dmen bad arguments, rather than trust to a single
good one. The conductors of the case against O'Con-
nell seem to have proceeded upon some such analogy.
They wanted to swell the slippery frog of repeal meet-
ings to the stalled ox of conspiracy. They caught the
subjeot of their experiment, and inflated it at their
leisure. We see the result; instead of keeping their
ox impounded, they have burst even their frog. The
party in power received Ireland with nothing more
than her chronic complaints. They were greeted, in
the autumn of 1841, with the same Repeal cry, with
which they -had been greeted in the autumn of
1830. There was nothing new in the case ; and
they had full time to study its symptoms. Indeed
their first demonstrations appeared aimed at
eclipsing the Whigs in laissez faire magnanimity.
Sir Robert Peel has since made a merit of
baying began by reducing the amount of force
which the late Government had stationed in Ireland.
Like Lord Ellenborough in India, though not with
the open-mouthed absurdity of that delegate of his,
he meant to demonstrate his peculiar mission for paci-
fying all that his predecessors had studiously been
charged with disturbing. And like Lord Ellenbo-
rough's, his peace-making mission has ended its courses
considerably different. The country has had to pay for
setting Sir Robert Peel up in a new character. He
was resolved to have matter to twit the Whigs with,
is the administration of Ireland as of other things. If
they had kept so many troops in Ireland, he was re-
solved to keep so many less; and ended as might have
been expected, in bristling at all points with horse,
foot, 4d artillery. If they had once on a time passed
Coercon Acts, he was resolved to " ask no ex-
traordinary power, though at a period of admitted
danger, appealing to the law alone for a remedy to
the evils with which we had to contend." Appeals
to the law ngainst individuals can only be success-
Ail in a country where those individuals are in a
minority in their sentiments and their conduct. To
convict some half-dozen men of conspiracy, for dis-
plays dangerous by their immense publicity, was a
sort of practical Irish bull, however the lawyers
might cook up the case. If the repeated and avowedly
eptematic array of numbers was dangerous, then Sir
'IR. Peel was a fellow conspirator with O'Connell in
bringing that danger to a head. Sir Robert had his
aterV character to support, as a Liberal Minister ;
O'Connell his old one, as a Catholic and popular
agitator. It was necessary to each to " play
oa t the platy." Then why was only one brought
to answer fCir it? Sir Robert Peel had the public
for ce at command at first, as he had at last. Why did
ho not stop the first meeting ? Or the next ?—Or the
next ? Or, if it was only the last one or two that
threatened the public peace (and it appears to us ne7
cess4try to Sir Robert Peel's exculpation to assume that
this was so), why then the elaborate accumulation of
charges deduced from the whole series ? All was
equally public throughout. Ether the procedure de-
served" the reversal it has received—as swelled out*
with overcharges—or else Sir Robert Peel conspired
with Mr. O'Connell, and abetted the progress of a
pp blic danger, for his own purposes—as Mr. O'Con-
nell for his.
STANDARD.—But for the dearth of other topics
of interest, we should feel some reluctance to prolong
a discussion like that which the result of the monstre
proces has forced upon us ; but the impudent asser-
tion of the arch-conspirator and his friends, that the
decision of the three law Lords in his favour was
" not founded on technicalities " (we quote the lan-
guage of Mr. O'Connell's late speech), for that his
*4 success had been achieved upon the merits," leaves
ns no alt&native. The Morning Chronicle repeats
this audacious falsehood, but with some slight
modification ; averring that the verdict which
the jury originally proposed to return " con-
tained no find* upon any valid imputation in
respect to the multitudinous meetings, although it
was fa reference to those meetings that the whole
prosecution was originally instituted, and the whole
punishment ultimately inflicted." There is some-
thing novel, at least, in an argument on the hypo-
thesis al a verdict which the jury might have
fofind, a verdict which no British court of
judicature could have received, which overlooks
tbn verdict which really was returned, and
on which all the subsequent proceedings have
been founded. But our Contemporary has,
no doubt, remembered the adage, that " neces-
sity has no law !" We might join issue
with him even on this hypothetical argument, if it
were worth while to occupy our space 'with a repub-
lic aims of a part of the proceedings which is in
everybody's hands; but we deny the statement of
our Contemporary most emphatically. The original
finding of thejury, although technically invalid, con-
vi,:ted the traversers of the substantial charges which
were brought agaialt them ; enough and more than
sufficient to hate vJdrranted an even severer sentence
than that which was inflicted upon them. But
td tarn from the Chronicle's hypothetical ver-
dict to that which was really recorded. It insists
that the sth, Bth, 9th, 10th, and 11 th counts of the
indictment, which embody every part of the charge,
amount to the imputation of nothing that ought
to be considered criminal ; quotes the opinions
of the Irish
.*dges, that the " exhibition of great
physicil force, for the purpose of overawing the
Government, at the monster meetings," was the
gravest of the charges the jury had to try; and
E7eds to assume that the entire penalty inflicted on
o'Connell was imposed upon him on the suppo-
sition of an offence " of which there was no legal or
'id allegation in the record." We are reminded
it the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, and 7th counts are gone ;
and we are assured that the remaining five impute no
charge of which there was a " legal or valid allega-
tion.' Now the simplest answer to this most impu-
dent assertion will be found in an extract
from the speech of Sir Thomas Wilde, the
leading counsel of Mr. O'Connell, setting forth his
notion of the meaning of these very innocent counts.
It will be seen that Sir Thomas Wilde's ideas of the
meaning and importanoe of the counts on which the
veadict was found, differs essentially from that of our
Contemporary ; and that they contained many grave
44171,38 beside those which the Chronicle affirms
were not legally alleged Having
all°wn, on the authority of Mr.' O'Connell's
leading "labia, what the counts on which his client
was found gttilty do contain, and the degree of cri-
minality with which they' distinctly charge Mr.
O'Connell, we shall
not attempt to follow the
Chronicle through
elaborate exposition of
resume
ethetyo.dadyo naotie:sont!tin ; neither. shall we
able article we have task which the admir-
able extracted from a
morning Contemporary, has
altogether fore-
stalled us. Suffice it for us to have shown
that the five counts pronounced to be good include all
thy, criminal charges in the indictment ; and that a
Judgment upon any one of them would have been
valid. To the complaint that we have treated
the judgment of the three Whig law Lords with
less respect than we ought to have done,
we rept', that that judgment is common property,.
and that a question on which nearly the whole of the
judges of the United Kingdom, including two law
Lords, are at issue with the Whig triumvirate, forms
an exception which would warrant the disregard of
all rules of ordinary etiquette. Mr. O'Connell and
the Morning Chronicle assail, in the most indecent
manner, eleven of those learned and exemplary
Judges, whoSe qualificrtions for their office the
people of England have hitherto regarded, and
still regard, with the utmost veneration and respect;
and it is something too much to attempt to debar
the public press from criticising the decision of the
three Whig law Lords by whom the opinions of that
very large majority have been superciliously set aside.
But, even wLn a leading member of this close court
of appeal differs not only from eleven out of thirteen

of the judges of the inferior courts, but from four out
of five of, the law Lords themselves, we ought, ac-
cording to the Chronicle's notions of propriety, to
refrain from the expressions of our belief that he is
not the sole depository of the learning, talent, and
honesty of the English judicial bench ; in short,
whilst our Contemporary does not scruple to
insult the overwhelming majority of the judges
who have been consulted in this case, we are
bound to refrain from any opinion at variance
with those of the intrepid three who have thus
boldly asserted the supremacy of their judgment. A
decision from three political judges, two of whom
at least had little beyond the vigour of their sup-
port of a Whig administration to recommend them
to the important offices they have respectively
filled (one of them conferred after the Government
of which the recipient was a partisan had been
condemned beyond reprieve, with the corrupt view
of giving him a retiring salary), is forsooth to be
treated with the utmost tenderness and forbearance ;
whilst the " vile judges," as O'Connell has had the
audacity to designate those eminent men who decided
against him, and who adminster nineteen-twentieths
of the laws of England at the present moment, are
exposed to the most groundless and virulent abuse.
If such be etiquette, it is a sort of etiquette " more
honoured in the breach than the observance."