The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-08 00:00:00

MARKET. NE WS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.-(MONDAY.)
The country markets, held on Saturday, were Teri
moderately supplied with English Wheat, in which*
st,aiy business was transacted, at, ia some instances, s*
advance in the quotations of ls. per quarter. In Spring
Corn comparatively little was doing, but fine foreign
Wheat, as well as Flour, were quite as dear, with *
good consumptive inquiry.
Letters from New York to the 27th ult. state that roe
inquiry for Flour was inactive; but Wheat and Indian
Corn moved off freely. In the continental ports, eel,
tewt ransactions worthy of notice have taken place. 111)
our market, last week, the receipts of all articles of home
produce were small. From abroad, the arrivals amounted
to 12,625 quarters of Wheat, 3,385 ditto of Barley'
s
8,778 ditto of Oats. 3,980 ditto of Beans 854 ditto 01-
Peas, 560 ditto of Peas, 1,255 ditto of Linseeed 1,08!
ditto of Rapeseed, 110 ditto of sundry Seeds, 1198.
sacks, and 1,903 barrels of Flour.
The quantity of Wheat received fresh up to this
morning's market, frem Essex and Kent, coastwise, I'1".
unusually small, but of full average quality. Frol
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, &c., the arrivals oft 8
grain, coastwise, as well as by land carriage and sample'
were limited in the extreme. The stands being Yell
scantily supplied, the attendance of both London IT,
country buyers on the increase, and the late heavy gait'
having laid extensive breadths of wheat in nearly PI
whole of our large districts, the demands for all kinds
English Wheat was decidedly brisk, at an advance ill.
the quotations of Monday last, of fully 2a per quarters
and at which a clearance was speedily effected. very
few offers came to hand from the East coast to snip
Wheat, except at is to 2s per quarter more money.
With really fine foreign Wheat we were scantilia,
supplied. The leading millers purchased largely, AL
the quotations improved 2s per quarter. In Abe
middling and inferior kinds, an increased business leo
transacted at is per quarter more money.
Scarcely a sample of English Barley was bronghtid.
forward, and the supply of foreign was comparatively
small. All kinds wore a steady sale, and the turn 1"f,
favour of the sellers.
We bad a limited quantity of Malt on show. 1111,1
inquiry ruled firm, and late rates were well supported
in every instance. The supply by railway has fallen 011'
A very limited quantity of Oats on the market. Se•
lected and dry qualities improved in value quite 6d Per
quarter. All other qualities was quite as dear as 1119 t
week.

The sale of Beans was far from active; noeti
theless, the quotations ruled steady. Peas, the supplY n
which was moderate, moved off slowly at labt
currency.

Indial Corn was held with more firmness. The Flour trade was firm, and foreign qualities ay.
'anced is per sack.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex & Kent, , Malt—Chevalier • • .. • • 500 to 50
Red, New .. .. 38s to 43s Oats— Yorkshtre and JO.
Ditto, W bite, New 42s 50, Lincolnsh., Feed. 153 01
Norfolk and Lin- Potato lBs
coin, 1ied..... 378 42s Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White• ••• • • 39s 44$
Irish, Red •••• • • • • 39s 43s Corkß,lWachklie.
Scotch, Feed. •• • • 17s 00
Ditto, White.... 42s 45a
••••• • • • • • s s Beans—Tick 24$ 59$
New ............. 20s 22s Pigeons
:arley—Grinding 19s 21. Peas—Grey ~ ........ 231
Malting . ........ 23s 25s Maple 240 :si,
14490 !10,1
Chevalier .... 25s 265
970
Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers 25s 37$
r. 2293:
f01k............ 438 41's Flour—Town-made. • • 328 310
Brown 40s 42a Suffolk
3QI
Kingston and Ware 46s 505 Stockta & Norfolk 97$
SEEDS.
ell-
For the time of' year, our market to-day has been .a
supplied with Seeds, in which only a limited business I
doing at barely stationarytpriees. Cakes are offering c'n
sotn.what lower tertrlS.
Turnip,White, per bush. 105 to Hsi
Red load Green.. • • lOs l2sl
Mustard, 8r0wn.... • 8s Ils
White •• • ••• • .. Os 8s
fares, Spring .... • • • •25 Ccl 4s 6d
Canary, per quarter .. 74s 82s
Rye grass.. • • • • • 20s 24s
Clover, ItedEn.,. (cwt.) 35s 503

90
Carraway ........... 295 240
Coriander .... ........ 163 350
Hempseed, per quarter 32s 560
Linseed; Eng. solving.. 543 43s
Crushing •• • ... 40s 40
Baltic 385 40
Odessa .......... 420
Linseed Cake, pr.l,ooo .• OS
English . 81 Os 00
Foreign, per ton 5/ lOs 150
Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 55 00
Rapeseed, New,prlst 32/ Os 3°'

White • ..... 34s 48s
Foreign Red ...... 33s sqs
White.... 32s 50s
Trefoil .......• .••••• 14s
SMITHFIELD.
The importations of foreign stock into London ,ls„
dy
week was very moderate and of inferior quality.
total supply did not exceed 2,747 head. During the c°llo‘
responding period in 1849 we received 3,974, and in t
same week in 1848 3,233 head. In 1847, the receig
amounted to 3,382 bead.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEEK.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambe. Calves. Pig."'
Harlingen lO3 ... 479 ... 100 14
Dordt.. l9 .. ••• •• • • 2
Llanaburgh B9 ... 300
Amsterdam ."*'
Iljerting
Rotteroam 251 ... 675 ... 198 ... 264 ... •""
Antwerp
Nieu Diep

Total 498 ... 1,622 ... 198 ... 380 .. bi
Corresponding
week in 1849 556 ... 2,825 ... 81 ... 487 ...
Same week in

1848..... ... 412 .. 2,265 .. 81 ... 474
About 800 head I ave been landed at the outports fr°47)
Holland and France. From Ireland 51 Oxen and "
Sheep have arrived for this market by sea. Our ilia;
purtation of preserved meat, consisting of 33,033 elle
ters and 720 boxes, has taken place from Galata.
show of foreign stock here to-day was not large; 'l7, ,
the arrivals of Beasts from our own grazing distrio'n
were on the increase, compared with those reported
Monday last. Their general quality, however, wag Pft
no means first-rate. The attendance of both town 01
country buyers being good, the Beef trade ruled steadij
and, in some instances, the primest Scots, &c., produeen;
rather more money, the highest figure for Beef being
10d per Bibs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and COlci
bridgeshire, we received 1,600 Scots, Homebreds sr;cp
Short horns; from Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, 6'
Short horns; from other parts of England, 400 of variono
breeds; and from Scotland, 120 horned and polled So°lo,
There was a conbiderable increase in the numbers.%
Sheep, owing to which, the Mutton trade was less setlC4
than of late, and the quotations were with difficult;
supported. The extreme value of the best old DO:,
was 4s per Blbs. We bad a moderate inquiry for
.Lao 2 •
in the prices of which we have no change to report,t,.
Prime small Calves moved off steadily at full quotation°
Otherwise the V, at trade ruled heavy. In Pigs,
supply of which was good, very little was doing.

Per albs. to sink the offal. d;
s. d. to s. d, I. d. to th 0
Inferior Beasts— .. 2 6 2 8 Inferior Sheep .• .2 10 3 4
Second quality -••• 2 10 3 0 second qual. Sheep 3 2
Prime large Oien.. 3 4 3 6 Coarse-weolled ditto 3 6 3 0
Prime Scots •••• • • 3 8 310 Southdown Wether 310 '
Large coarse Calves 2 6 210 Ditto auto( the wool 0 0 ". 6
l'rime swali ditto .. 3 0 3 6 Large Hogs ...... 3 2 0
Auckllng Calves • .18 0 22 0 Small Porkers •• - • 3
"P" 0
Lambs ••••• • • • • - 4 0 5 0 Quartar old Pigs ..16 0
-- • -

Beasts.
3,128

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
I 111 A%. 1 Calv34ses. I Ir
FuttEIGN SUPPLY.
Be
129 asts.
I Sheep. I Calves. I rig&
560 205
NEWGATE AND LEADENEALL. ye
Scarcely any supplies of cour tr)-killed meat ins
been received up to those markets since Monday l'6,
t'.
but those offering slaughtered in the metropolis haver
creas(d to some tatnt. Prime Beef, Mutton, $13,,,
Lamb, command a steady sale at very full prices; othe'4
wife the demand is in a sluggish state. The ahoy/ "
wreigti meat IS small.
At per stone by tho Carcase. a d•
s. d. to s. d. 1 N. d. to
,' 10
ieef,lnferior.•.• •• 2 4 2 6 , Mutton, inferior .. 2 8 i 4
middling .. 2 6 2 8 1 middling.. 3 0 ,10
--prm.elarge •• 2 10 8 0 1 prime •• •• 3 6 4
3 prime small .. 3 2 3 4 ; Pork,large•• •• .. .. 210 A 0
Veel•••••••.•••••• 2 8 3 41 small ..... ... 3 6 -

Lamb, 3,10 d to 4s I Ocl.
BOROUGH AND SPITALWIELDS., t
The arrivals of foreign Potatoes at the vvater•sine •-50,
wtek were 2.021 baskets from Rotterdam, 36 ditto fro t,
Boulogne, 1,300 ditto from Havre, 150 ditto from
Warp, 200 ditto from Dordt, and 1,000 ditto from D 11,711
kirk, form a total quantity of about 400 tons. Althoob
the supplies of English are considerable on the incre4Esly:
the demand is active at from 41. to 141. per cwt. SClSreei;i
tiny Old Potatoes are offering. The last imports fr°o
abroad sold at from 201, to 25/. per ton. Our WO°

4fsn
fleeting the gpncril appearance cf the crop, both here
` On the continent, are very favourable.
Th© 110:izOILT4r' UOP DICa.7VSET.
alt ° tmtation accounts being very favourable, the,
ti;e3. Pl
alvaneed to 180,000/. NotNithstanding th
d of Baps on off,r is very moderate, the general
3p
heavy-,and prices are not supported. Mid
irtot.ist Kent i
oekets: Bito 101; Wed of Kent ditto,
d• 7" Sussex
''t 5/ 5. to 6/ 6s ; Yearlings,
1/15
to
t° 41; Old Hops, 11 to 31. per cat.
The • WOOL.
Imports of Wool into London, last week, were
a2lextensive, viz., 2,000 bales from Hobart Town;
12d ditto from Port Beaufort; 15 from Constantinople;
12d iron' liamburgh; 6.500 from Sydney, 765 from Ade-
fro" el 143 from the Cape; 124 from Aloxandria; 169
'lagarlore; 14 from Odessa; and 233 bags from
tili,4,nn• The public sales will not be brought to a close
`"° end of the present wet k. Those held since our
thereport have been well attended by buyers, mid nearly
ibol/hola of the Wool off red hag changed hands, at
ill jilt the °Piling prices. British Wool is in fair. request
n. t' Private contract market; but all other kinds are
gieeted,

TALLOW.
1, 41
th • s from St. Peter,burgh, dated the 29th ult.,
11t-e
huo a. about 8,000 ea,ks of Tallow had changed
Si ", at 109 to 110 rouble:=, with a steady market.
price our last report the demand has ruled heavy, and
op '8 hive given way ;Inite 31 per cwt. To- dly P.Y.G.
the j'e spot is selling at 36: 9d, and for delivery during
aSt al
three months 37s 61
61 per cwt. Town Ta:low,
per cwt'net ca 4-0, Rough fat 2: Pr 81bs.

1846.
Stet
NB day ••• • ' . 9,87dt
?rice
et
.r•
C. .... I
to42sosood
,Nbil'ivery last Week 609
ultto fro
A In June 1.. • • 2.914
,tl,'lla last Week . 146
ir !Ito fro, June
1 ... 1,899
Nee Of Town .•.. • • 43s Od
/40t-

1847. 1848

1 1850.

7,833 7.649 23,626 25,084
495 Od 44s Gd 385 3d to 365 8d
to 49s lid to 415 34 38s Gd to Os Od
669 ir 1,151 765 824
4,316 7,581 3,469 5,110
80 227 1,=77 1,937
4,010 6,543 3,622 4,570
sls Od 46s 6d 39s 6d i 38s Od

(Situ EN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
-Ng at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord
CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.)
atsHARRIS V. HEWITT.
OWN Was a running-down case. The plaintiff was the
th a fishing smack called the Providence, and
Sigccdant owns 'another fishing smack called the
Jett re, betweenen which the cullision which was the sub-
itof h touk place.
Sorgeant Sbee was counsel for the plaintiff,
d f ir* Watson Q C and Mr. Brown represented the
eklant ' • ''
The •
action Was brought to obtain compensation in
400/ ales for the loss of the Providence, valued at ahout
e4lhich Lunclered in consequence, as was alleged, of
tlieu6ion. with the Spitfire, aid of the negligence of
itat-velvalta of the detends,nt. Oa the 4th Nevetnb.-3r of
otlie;? the two ships in q iestion, with a number of
~ktotti ;8114;g-smacks, were in the vicinity of Winterton
t`forf 11:11 the North Sea, about fifty miles from the
?apine°asr, and the Spitfire was returning fcom deli-
tedaner cargo on board a carrier cutter called the
04 b and the Providence was about to deliver her cargo
deneaard the latter vessel, when the Spitfire and Provi
Provaicrtne into collision, and the result was that the
tit Y lest
Provide me
with a cargo of fish, was sunk and en-
both great amount of conflicting evidence was given on
ektiseVes as to which of the vessels was in fault, and
the otbethre accident, each party imputing the blame to
The ~ •
"ase Was proceeding when our report left.

glitrn)(CllEQ UER.—(THIS DAY.)
kigs in Banco after Term, before the LORD CHIEF
--It°l4 and Barons ALDERSON, ROLFE, and PLATT.)
THE GORHAM CASE.
thehe TA, DECISION.
ert—RD CH/EF BARON delivered the judgment of
kit -urt in this case. After stating the facts involved
tek ' end reviewing the various proceedings
.which had
411 Place in the Court of Arches, the JudicialCone-
feefer, a Privy Council, the Courts of Queen's Benche
tier, '?intaen Pleas, he proceeded two ay, that thneinq
nisi
she ,Woleh they had to decide was ether the r
41,4414 or should not be made absolute, and that question
Courted two points—first, whether the case before the
Rat. Was a case which touched the Crown, and if it
t
toe h,eu why, and iu that event there was
Queen in
,_ esnot that an appeal to the
ttuseuelleil Was good; and, secondly, whether
Rase lot appeal from the Court of the Archbishop
ttrtert t° the Queen. Upon the first point the Court en-
troye.:ied considerable doubt, whether the matter. in con-
% Y touched the Crown or not; ler „
were
but it was not ne-
II of ror the Court to decide that point, for theyi.
the
itelk:`, ?Pinion that by the 25th of Henry VII tit 4' m all c from the Archbisho's Court was to
je,,, , eases .
%pettimid Committee of the Privy Council. That
,t!fiseos e
hiehr had be the result of the most eminent authorities
Lordship then
totiew
(l been cited at the bar.
%Ile le- 111°80 authorities, and said they
as for.al! agreed that
441.11 s from the decisions of the Archbishop w
1,4/01,111yotitt°teelle King in Chancery, and now to the Judicial
ef the Privy Council. In the present case,
tharterece, that was rather a matter of curious speculation
than
ease()arp' Practical importance, for in either view of
aere e!,°o Proceedings before the Judicial Committee
it
fetthe-e" foUndee, and in either view there could,mbe no
Ida arleal!..Peal. Probably, if they were compelled to de-
-
.op - uestion, they would come to the same conclu:
to au the other Ceurts of Westminster, that there wa-,
bekite4l, the Upper House of Convocation. The
bat lII—, nowever beforethem was, not whether there
Rep the ever,
ot the 28th of VIII. c. 19,
atotiehilltpeoal to the Convocation in. some stagyes off.
eceacsees.
Vistiej `Lie Queen, but whether in all mannero
andl
leashes kin ache
there vvas an appeal to the Archbishop
Shrl le g in chancery. The Court thought there was,
kitt at there wt,s now an appetl to the Judicial
eities• Their jui t was founded on what they
eta
etetoiebe_e_the true constructionleii
of the statutes, and on
At" 1 eminent authorities which it had been incorrectly
fuse,, fle all's a contrary conclusion. On the whole, there-
dotibt‘co his T; .. . entertaining, as we dc', no
erthhip)
do ep: °tl ,agedquestion before us, and
as welt::: the® et concurring
and aa ss
farwd e
her courts of Westminster-hall,
hat think with every judge of all the courts, we
and
tip e„'"11 We should be justified in creating delay
Ns: i.,1.4 sanctioning further proceedings with t e Otis ;„-e• °Acing the opi i of the House of Lords, and
Rule, is that the rule be discharged with coats.
The, accordingly, discharged.
114 slap noneouncemen was received with cheers and
1 ands, which aroused the indignation of Mr.
ltia,i eelderson, who observed that either apauding or
0f• le Was equally offentive and disgracefuin courts
Of the tees and that he should give directions tot he officers
so fat rurt to take into custody any person who should
ear forget
himselfas to beagain guilty of such ab-
cond
TI, tier.
t,lle;creesu.‘rt was crowded in every part, and among
„sirait., "It we noticed Mr. Gorbarr;the Bishop of
the L "I', fled several other clergymen connected with
tdeblished Church.
chl,
______________
anNAL COURT._(THIS DAY.)
The j , OLD COURT.
ben,d titY sessions of the Central Criminal Court were
e .4.cem this morning before the Lord Mayor, t
other
sr, the Common Sergeant, and Aldermen &re-
tell, Marshall, Hunter, and Duke. Mr. Sheriff Law-
ti ve de (I", Mr. Sheriff Nichol, a tended by their respec-
the kites, were also in attendance.
f 1,,, first edition of the calendar contains the names
retiraprisoners, distributed thus-24 from London, 88
liti,,teilliddlesex, 2 from Essex, 5 from Kent, and 11 front
The
T.. Grand Jury having been sworn and empannelled,
10ei,," Learned RECORDER charged them to the lol-
ketw7 The short interval which had elapsed
for the
the late and the present sessions, would account
tee
IlUmber of crimes being less than on ordinary
Of 1.,„43.
prisonerslendr, in fact, contains the names
i
ofien,u3 ;
they were charged with severe
to th!., the great majority of them having reference
tikev,, felonious acquisition of property. At the same
okfttris cif:vsefoaletVt)ecree 28 cases more immediately relating to
, such as cutting and wounding, 6 charges
hf tk laughter, and 12 cases of misdemeanour, most
Ise."col attended with seine degree of violence. There
th: one case of rape, and seven cases of robbery from
etiteri°u' accompanied by violence. The most inter-
eaoselt ease of assault, and the one calling forth the
indignation, was that
reof a ng her Majesty, which he person charged with
shou have to advert
thireafter, when he should call theld
attention to the
e Of the most wholesome statute recently passed for
tte; ratite immediate protection of the person of her
ea4aSty from violence and insult. With regard to the
likes °I cutting and wounding, they were not all of the
V4tde°43Plexion, some of them being of a more aggra-
that tbehartteter than others. He lamented to observe
ter; ''') frequent use of the knife was becoming a
tne-r°6ol„subject for consideration. in this country. For.
req.." reprehensible, but still more manly mode of
Lot one,
, ke an insult was by having resource to the fist.,
Dtove;ileaPPilY in the present day, upon the slightest
altd Ceasro Parties were base enough to resort tohtandegkinviefne
IllettC,l'et dangerous wounds upon those who
brought him
to oho•-Lence. These general observations. er,e case. to which he had already slightly
.alluded,
pain
eZd which
he could not refer to without feeling
410:igestion, more especially as the charge was made
*biejt a Person in a better condition of life than thatas
%fel:lege ordinarily led to the commission of such
of
Itteln ' The charge against the party was that
Ils F_ roet the carriage of the Queen, he extended
IltltOrto into the carriage, and with a riding-
the ing
the eer,(l. cane which he held in his hand struck
Of herluetld of her Majesty, as well as disarranged part
it the
tuiresa, nee__, ,
wely the bonnet which her Majesty wore
Vree ietrac• It appears that no personal harm or injury
toe rise to but still the indignation which the insult
these 1,,,,,,e 10 Was not the less painful, nor was the offence
aatl he ii,l°Plete ; and if the facts were established,.
Would had cot the slightest doubt that they would, it
thsquelisatenbe the duty of the grand jury to investigate
wicked
acc.as to whether so strangeand.perversely
eyed the 'marked from any want of sanity, but to
te 3 caste for further enquiry elsewhere. The question
the the sanity or insanity of the accused :was one which
tll were not called upon to try • they had only to deal
offeteelu, simple fat attending' the committal of the
tethiet etldblC3h9o the Legislature bad provided a dis-
freevtatuareltpnayrate mode for deciding this matter. They
' in th led to assume that there must be some
Petty who,
witehoUnntderstanding or the state of mind of a
Nraiting this feeli a°Y Provocation, could be guilty of
the Sovereign Rai mast of attachment and loyalty towards
Ittel • ' Watch i •
et, Partlettlarly when u this country knew no limits,
1„/ against the Stever a°ch an insult was directed not
the pr
o._ esence of he:igenhldbut against an amiable lady
"44 attention to the terms r"a• He would now call
ibt.,
1461 remedy was apnlit,cl the statute by which a
ba'oPpily instances 13 a -- to Cities of this nature.
'''',lllll, were, ue, a ocCUrred where parties who,
vs fit tile teQpiallt reiponsible for flair

acts, hat, from a love of notoriety, or some other
cause, ye aurcd to discharge loaded fire-arms at her
M grealy to her alarm, and causing
much anxi, tv in the mind of the public, from
ignote.neo of the precise intention of such
parties; and, then fore, a new remedy was
sought for to meet such abominable cases. It was
thought that as the offence was infamous, the punish-
ment for such outrages ought to be the same; aud, ac-
cordingly. by the sth and 6iti Vic, chap. 51, sec. 2. it
was enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act,
all parties who should be convicted of having fired or
presented arms at her Majesty, or of having struck or
struck at her Majesty with any weapon or stick, not
with the intention of doing personal injury, but only to
alarm her MAjesty, and outrage public feeling, should be
liable to be transported beyond the sets fir seven years,
or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any
period not exceeding three years, and during such pe-
riod to be publnly or privately whipped as often, and in
such manner and form, as the Court should order, but
not exceeding twice. This Act, however, did not
abrogeve or interf,re with the law of high trea-
son, and any party who should be ,guilty of
such an offence, with intent to destroy the
life of her Majesty, would be still liable to be arraigned
as of old. He bad read the whole of the modern Act,
because too much pub'teity could not be given to its
wholesome provisions for pretecting her Majesty, not
only from violence, but from that alarm to which no
one of manly mind could wish or desire her Majesty to
be exposed. He had alrt ady told them that they had
nothing whatever to do with the sanity or insanity
of the accused—that was a separate question, which the
law provided should be tried by a special jury, to be em-
pannelled for the purpose, who would have the power
of c,rivi.;!iog the prisoner, or of acquitting him on the
ground of insanity, or of his having been irresponsible
for the act at the time he committed it ; and then he
would be retie to be detained in custody during the
pleasure of the Crown. He had entered into
these details, because it would naturally strike a person
that a party who not only moved in, comparatively
speaking, an elevated sphere of life, but had actually
held a commission in her Majesty's service, would
hardly be guilty of such au abominable, so dastardly an
offence, while in his right senses; and his excuse for
occupying their time a few minutes longer than he
otherwise should have dons, was his anxiety to point
out to them that they had nothing whatever to do with
that part of the question. Having made these few gene-
ral remarks upon the state of the calendar, and called
their asp cial attention to this particular case, it now
only remained for him to dismiss them to their duties,
which he was glad to tell them were not likely to be very
heavy.

The grand jury then retired, and having shortly after-
wards returned true bills in some minor cases, petty
juries were called, and the trials proceeded with.

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)
The ad,Vurned sessions for the county of Surrey
commenced this morning, at the Court-house, Newing-
ton-causeway, before Thomas Puckle, Dq., and a full
bench of magistrates. The Calender contained the names
of only 30 prisoners.
Henry Thom, 24, and John Field, 19, two labourers,
were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of
Richard Colebrook, at Chertsey, and stealing there-
m twenty-nine sovereigns and other money, his pro-
perty.
Field pleaded guilty, and without the least hesitation
the jury found his companion guilty.
The Court sentenced them to ten years' transpor-
tation.
As soon as sentence was passed, Thom turned round
upon his companion in a furious manner, and would
have killed him had not an officer been behind him. He
was forced away and taken to the cells with great
difficulty.
The prosecutor here interceded fir Field, who he
knew to be the dupe of the other, when the Court called
him back and reduced his sentence to twelve months, at
Guildford.

THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.
IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH.
Before the fatal accident which befell the universally
deplored Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Baronet had
not been in his usual health. Fur a week or two he had
looked unusually pale and languid; but on the occasion
of his speech in the debate on the foreign policy of the
Government, delivered on the morning of the fatal in-
jury he looked well and vigorous; his address was ad-
mired by the whole House, acd he exhibited no defi-
ciency of mental power or spirit. It has been rumoured
that Sir Robert fell from his horse in an epileptic seizure,
and that in his convul,ive clutchings of the rein, his
horse stumbled, and fell upon him. But there is, we
are assured, on the best authority, no truth whatever in
this story of an epileptic fit. Nothing of the kind was
observed by those persons who were near him at the
moment of the accident, nor did any of the subsequent
symptoms point in the least degree to such an occur-
rence. The fall was accidental, and the subsequent in-
sensibility was doubtless caused by the shock of the
injury. It is of importance, we should observe, that we
hare the best authority for stating that Sir Robert Peel
never in his life had a symptom which indicated any
affection of the brain. _ _ _

As soon as surgical aid was procured, it was found
that there was a comminuted fracture of tho left cla-
vicle, with considerable spoiling from the first, which,
together with the excruciating pain of the whole shoul-
der, rk ndered a minute examinatitm extremely difficult.
A swelling as large as the hand might cover, subse-
quently formed below the fractured clavicle, which pul
sated t...) the t..uch sy Deb ronouf ly with the action of the
heart. lYhe, examined carefully by the eye, it was
found that the movement of this tumour corresponded
with the contraction of the auricle, and was, in some re-
spects, sirei'ar to the pulsations ob,ervi d in the veins of
the neck in very thin person', and in certain forms of
venous regurgitation. It was evident, from these signs,
that some vein beneath the clavicle, probably the sub-
clavian, had been wounded by the broken bone at the
time of the fall ; and that the subclavicular swelling
consiAed of blood effused from the wounded vessel. It
was also evident, that the swelling was in this way,
c innected wi;h the heart, foaming what might be called,
a diffused fa'se venous aneurism. This was all that could
he ascertained t ositively. Sir Robert Peel was well
known to be of a gouty habit, and he was at all times
extremely sensitive to physical pain. His sufferings
during the whole of his brief illness were of the most
agonising kind. This might have arisen from the lace-
ration of some nerves converging beneath the collar-
bone, to form the axillary plexus—a complication which,
as is well known, sometimes occurs from severe frac-
tures in this situation. After death, one or two of the
ribs on the left side were found to be fractured, which
had not been detected during life. The injuries we have
referred to would have been sufficient to cause death in
such a subject; but there may possibly have been fur-
ther injury, or disease, resulting from the accident,
within the chest. This, however, was, as we have said,
extremely difficult to make out. From consideration to
the feelings and the express wishes of Lady Peel and
her children, no examination of the body has taken
place, so that what we have stated is probably the sum
of all that will ever be known of the cause of the death
of this illustrious statesman; but upon the authenticity
of what we have now placed before our readers may rely
most implicitly.
t•iir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Caesar
Hawkins, Dr. Seymour, Mr. St aw, and Dr. Foucart,
were in attendance upon Sir Robert until his death.
The latter gentleman is a Scotch physician, resident in
Glasgow, who happened to be passing when the accident
occurred. He was one of the first to raise Sir Robert
from the ground, and accompanied him in Mrs. Lucas's
carriage home, where he continued in constant attend-
ance, with the full concurrence and sanction of Sir
Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Caesar Haw-
kins.—Lancet.

ARRIVAL OF HIS REMAINS AT DRAYTON

MANOR.

TAMWORTH, SATURDAY EVENING.--It would be
difficult to give any idea of the gloom which pervades
this place and the surrounding neighbourhood. Every
one speaks and !eels as if be had lost, in the death of
Sir Robert Ptel, a personal friend. The intelligence of
his demise created a profound sensation in Tamworth,
but the I:elieg of sorrow at the sad event has, if
possible, been greatly deepened since the ar-
rival of his remains. It was sought to keep
concealed from the inhabitants the time when
the body would arrive at the station, in order
that there might be no manifestation of public feeling on
the occasion. With the same object in view it was ar-
ranged by the friends of the late Right Hon. Gentleman
in London, that the remains should not reach Tamworth
till the hour of midnight. The fact, however, got whis-
pered in the course of yesterday that the coffin contain-
ing his body would arrive about twelve at night; many
hundreds of the inhabitants, being determined on taking
every opportunity of showing their respect for the
emory of the deceased, proceeded as early as ten
o'clock to the station to await the arrival of the train,
where they sated they would remain till daylight if ne-
cessary, rather than not be present when it reached
Tamworth. On the hearse containing the coffin being
taken out of the "a
took carriage,
off their hate, while many were affected even to
the congregated multitude
tears. They also accompanied the procession to the town
of Tamworth, and
93
Dray ton Manor, a any
of them went all the way to
distance, of two-miles and a half. The
deceased remains of the
i!r reached his country residence
,i
about one o'clock. Frederick Peel, his SOD and
Ma carriage
r. Lawrence Peel, hia'brother, accompanied the hearse
.
At the funeral on Tgueess,claz,_ morning there will be
twelve mourning carria
engaged for the occasion.
allardinge, Sir James
Lorhdieh have already been
Graham, and Mr. Goulburn, are
Theontuthose who are
sure to be present at the funeral. Sir
rkße of
o Welling-
ton has been invited by the family of
that
hhiserfte to be
also present, but the impression here is
will not allow him to accept an invitation which
)
would otherwise have done with a melancholy pleasure.be
Though it is the wish of the family there should 1e its
few followers as possible of the funeral train, it is under-
stood here that not only will all the inhabitants of Tam-
worth be present to render their last tribute of respect
to the remains of the deceased, but that thousands of
persons will come to witness the funeral ceremony from
all parts of the country for many miles around. In the
meantime the blinds in private houses are drawn, and
the shops partially closed throughout the whole place.
The town of Tamworth has consequently a very
sombre aspect. As a stranger walks through its streets
and lanes, he can hardly divest his mind of the idea that
there are th.s remains of a departed relative or friend in
every house. As a further token of respect for the
memory of the deceased .statesman, the inhabitants will
all go into mourning, as if they had each lost a personal
friend. The churches and chapel., too, are all to be
hung in black cloth, while funeral sermons be preached
from all the pulpits of the place.
It baa just been stated that a telegraphic dispatch has
it beau received anuoulichag the arrival of Mr. (now Sir

Robert) Peel at Dover, in which case he may be ex-
pected here te-morrow. It is supposed that ho will sue-
ce-ii his late tether in ihe representation of this borough.
Last night the inhabitants met in the Town•hall, to
a.tree to an address of c ndoleuce to the family of the
deeea.ed. The place, as might be expected, was
crowded. The grief which pervaded every mind was
viAble in evt ry eount,tnance, as well as expressed in the
tone and manner of the speakers. The mayor having
called the mewing, presided over it, Among those pre-
sent were Sir Charles Clarke, Bart., General A'Court,
and the Rev. Mr. Barslon, vicar of the parish. The
latter reverend gentleman read the letter of condolence
to the family of their late representative, the adop-
tion of which was moved ,by Sir Charles Clarke. It
is unnecessary to say that it was unanimously adopted
by the meeting.
I have just learned that it has been proposed by some
of the most influential men in Birmingham that on the
day of Sir Robert Peel's funeral all the church bells
should to tollf d, all the shops shut, and business be en-
tirely suspended, as a mark of respect for the memory of
the iliustriuus deceased.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
11 Matrintonio Segretto was repeated on Saturday with
the same powerful cast as on Thursday, and the
chef dceuvre of Ciiparosa was received with that rap-
turous applause which its perfirmance by such accom-
plished artistes as Sontag, Frezzultni, Parodi, the La-
blaches (Here et fils), and Calzolari never fai!it
to elicit. The Puritan?: is to be performed to-
morrow, with Gardoni as Arturo, Madame Frez-
z Aid as Eiviro, and Lablache as Giorgio; it will
be f,llowed by a divertissement, in which the black prima
ch nna, who has driven Madrid and Paris wild by hrr
astonishing execution of Cuban melodies, will appear for
the first time in Englaed. The Queen's box was on
Saturday evening occupied by the Hon. Mrs. Cust, Miss
Cust, the Hun. Flora Macdonald, Captain Macdonald
and party. Amongst the company were the Duke of
Wellington, the Marquis _and Marchioness of Douro,
and Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, the Duke and
Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the
Duke of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Cleve-
laud and Lady Augusta Paulo r, the Duke and Duchess
of Leeds and Miss Elizabeth Lane Fox, the Prince
Troubetskoi, the Russian Minister, the Baroness
Brunnow, the Viscountess Combermere, Madlle. Olga
de Lechner and party, the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van der Weyer, the American Minister and Mrs. and
Miss Abbot Lawrence, the Swedish Minister, the Mar-
quis of Donegal, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Worces-
ter, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of
Glengall, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl
and Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl and Countess
Malmesbury, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl Compton,
the Earl Gifford, the Earl of Cardigan, the Baron Vidal,
the Earl and Countess of Eglinton, the Earl Mount-
charlrs, the Earl Bruce, the Earl of Munster, the
Viscount Dupplin, the Count de Berke, the Viscount
Ranelagb, the Viscount Clifdeo, Lord and Lady
Francis Gordon, the Viscount Enfield, the Baroness
(Dowager) de Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness
Lionel de Rothschild, the Baron Adolphe do Roths•
child, &c.
•

LITERAT URE.

THE SOLITARY, and OTHER POEMS. By

Charles Whitehead.

In dedicating h's volume of verses to the Lord
Francis L2veson Gower, Mr. Whitehead has evinced
a laudable discrimination, seeing th -it among all his
contemporaries scarcely any is more peculiarly quali-
fied by the due admixture of taste and scholarship to es-
timate the value of any such literary performance. With
many inequalities, the style ofour author is on the whole
agreeable and satisfactory ; and the tendency of his muse
to the mournful by way of preference to the gay,
might be conjectured scarcely less from the selection
of subject indicated by the title of his principal poem,
than the quotation from Lord Bacon affixed as a
motto to his title-page :—" Yet, even if you listen to
D prid's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs
as carols." 0 her tokens of this predilection may be
observed also among the themes of his miscellaneous
productions, in the " Dirge of Ophelia," for
example, or in the "Riddle of Life," or in the
lines commemorative of the " Death of Chatterton."
In the last-mentioned he has had to compete, and that
not altogether unsuccessfully, with the comparisons
provoked by the famous ode of Coleridge. The first
production in the volume, "The Solitary," is penned
in the meat gorgeous, but also the most artificial of all
stanzas, the Spenserien. Among the more prominent
expressions scattered through the poem, some are very
fine and others very fantastic. What, for instance,
but sheer absurdity can be detected in that line (p. s)
`' The moon glides o'er the heaven with printless tread t"
On the contrary, the phrase is very nobly introduced
where the writer calls Chaos (p. 8.) —" Time's yes-
terday." As a fair specimen of Mr. Whitehead's
powers of scenic painting, we may transcribe the
following (p. 12):
" Laid at the foot of some old tree, whose boughs
Leafladen, bent, their soften'd shadows wed

•
In the clear water, on whose surface ploughs
His venturous way the midge, with trailing thread:
The dusky-spotted moth, his wings half-spread,
Goes flagging drowsily across the mere,
The Druid tett() slumbers overhead;

A shrunk leaf wavers down untimely sere;
No sound that silence hears but the rapt senses hear."
While the first poem in the volume is thus exclu-
sively contemplative, " The Story of Jasper
Brooke," in a different metre, wanders off directly
afterwards, and rather delightfully into the narrative.
Besides these, the readers of Mr. Whitehead will be
variously entertained by_the " Ode to a River," (p.
153), reminding one of Coleridge's famous scheme of
a poem, called " The Brook," a singular chimera in
rhyme entitled " Ippolito," and a play, in three acts,
containing some of the best things in the volume,
called " The Cavalier." The book altogether is in-
teresting as the rhythmical effusion of Charles White-
head, the romantic biographer of Richard Savage.

CAPTAIN SWORD and CAPTAIN PEN.

A Poem. By Leigh Hunt.
Our allusion to the present republication is pro-
voked principally by our estimate of the Arbitration
Movement. A third edition of any satire so popular
as this satire upon war and warriors is, by no means,
reason for surprise;' our only amazement being
that the honours of such a reprint were not long
since accorded to one of the most humane, and not
the least infelicitous of the poetical productions of
Leigh Hunt. Upon Leigh Hunt we can never
cease to look as upon one of the most genial
and delightful writers in the whole range of
our literature. His " Story of Rimini" has long
since gained him a genuine repute among our modern
poets, as his "Feast of the Poets" had already done
among our satirists. It was natural, therefore, that
" Captain Sword and Captain Pen" should at once
have been welcomed by a multitude who regarded his
name as one fraught with the pleasantest associations—
especially seeing that, with all our hubbub about Wa-
terloo, and our illuminations about the Peninsula,
we English are not infatuated worshippers
of military glory or entirely deafened by the voice of
fame to the gentler dictates of humanity. Hence
this poetic satire was certain to acquire instant popu-
larity, celebrating as it did the peaceful triumphs of
journalism over the warlike conquests of generalship.
Toe work itself, in its details and in its completeness,
has now for several years been familiar to the popula-
tion ; consequently any critical analysis of its
peculiarities would be merely idle and supe-
rerogatory. Neither so idle or so supererogatory,
however, is the very simple remark that
these agitators of arbitration are very sad and blun-
dering plagiarists—taking to themselves a vast
amount of credit for carrying out upon a wrong
scheme altogether an idea broached many summers
back by the poetic and sagacious hand of Leigh
Hunt. To him is due the praise monopolised by
these political adventurers who, like the Knight of La
Mancha, are mistaking Quixotism for Chivalry.
Leigh Hunt, with the intuitive keenness
of a poet, recognised how it was that
war might best be done away with—not by
preposterous schemes„ for the premature disband-
ment of armies, but by exciting a horror against the
atrocities 'sf-bittle, and by tearing the mask of pomp
from the hideous front of carnage. It was from his
judicious recognition of this necessity that Mr. Hunt
penned this vigorous fiction of death and glory, where
japtain Sword gains his last victory, while
" Sneereth the trumpet and stampeth the drum"

As a wholesome corrective to a merely f4ntastic
and bootless agitation, we are gratified to welcome
the third edition of a powerful and persuasive satire.

Translated

HERMAN AND DOROTHEA.
from the German of Goethe.
A charming version of this very, exquisite poem is
here before us—the German hexatneters being dex-
terously and melodiously rendered by the translator
into English hexameters. Anything further than an
incidental comment on the faithfulness with which
this masterpiece of the genius of Goethe has been" done"
into our mother tongue, were a preposterous deprecia-
tion of the popularity acquired in this country by the
great poet of Germany. " Herman and Dorothea,"
dedicated in nine books to the nine muses—the first
book to Calliope, the second to Terpsichore, and so
on to Thalia, Euterpe, Polyhymnia
Clio, Erato,
Melpomene, and Urania, presents to the imagination
one of the loveliest pictures of domestic life, and
household aff.iction, and pastoral courtship, ever
painted by the hand of a great master. Who that
has once read it, can ever forget mine host
of the Golden Lion, or his thrifty house-
wife, or the selfish surgeon, or the good-
natured pastor? Who can ever lose a recollection of
Herman himself, or of his glorious Dorothea ? The
scene between Herman and his mother under the
pear tree (no wonder Goethe could never read it for
gpraoredeesnsisounrroofunfudginitgivetheexi
lteas‘Lertnh—e
etnh
weeping o—the description of the vineyard and the
ceouuncteorunatt olafstthoef
the long-talked-of Dorothea in person—her approach
at night, with Herman, to the house where his family
are waiting for him—their preliminary contention
and ultimate reconcilement are all sketched
with the warm and glowing colours belonging
only to the very highest order of ge-
nius. How felicitously the translator has caught
the spirit of the original may be perceived from the
manner in which he has rendered that celebrated
passage opening book the seventh :
"As the wandering traveller, shortly before the sun's
setting,
Gazes upon the full orb, too soon from his sight disap-
pearing,
Until his eye the bright image retains and constantly
sees it,
Or in the gloom of the thicket, or on the face of the
mountain,
Dancing before him and glancing and waving in
glorious colours;
So, to the fancy of Herman, the magical form of the
Maiden
Sweetly appeared, and it seeni'd the pith of the corn-
.field to follow.
•
Bat from the startling dream he awoke, and unto the
village
Slowly wended his footsteps; yet did his wandering
fancy,
Once more picture the Maiden standing in beauty be-
fore him.
Steadfastly gazed he upon be r• ,—this time it vas no
illusion,
It was herself, and she had in her hand a large and a
small crock;
Holding each by the handle, she busily went to the
fountain."
Here too is the famous description of her appearance
as given by Herman in book the fifth:-.
" Reality will you be able to single her out from all
others,
For 'tw4re a difficult task to find one like her in figure.
Yet of her neat attire I'll point out something to guide
you:--
nattily laced, a red stomacher sets off her well rounded
figure,
And a black boddice close fitting, within which rises in
small plaits,
her fair round throat
Linen of purest whiteness,
adorning.
Free and bright is her bead, and the shape a delicate

oval;
Manifold braids of her hair are twined round the bod-
kins of silver;
Ample and blue are her skirts from the stomacher
gracefully falling,
Playing around her footsteps, and shapely ancles dis-
closing."
Earnestly do we hope that the translator may be in •
duced to carry out the intentiou hinted at, at the
close of his very interesting and intelligent " Intro-
duction," namely, that of submitting to the pub-
lic a similar version cf. Voss's " Luise"---a work
which, as is well known, originally suggested the
idea of " Herman and D.rothea " to Crbethe—that
idea having been perfected in its present form under
the encouraging gaze of Schiller. To the anonymous
translator of this very delicious poem the English
public are as much indebted for their introduction
to Dorothea, as they were already to Mr. Carlyle
for their acquaintance with the. angelie Migwo4 the

.nbre Aurelia, the beautiful
sprightly Philina, the soy
Amazon, the bewitchin d Countess, and that most
loveable but capricious of the female creations of
Goethe, the actress MRI ianna.

ONE HUNDRED SONNETS. By Henry

Fra rah Lott.

The genuine affection, for poetry which is evidenced
by the mere publication of this little volume, of
itself propitiates us strongly in its favour. Some of
the fragments contained in it may perhaps be recog-
nized as having already appeared in our columns ; and
hence we cannot but have some interest in the
sonnets, although personally, in every way,
total strangers to the sonnetteer. Mr. Lott
must, one would opine, be fully qualified
to appreciate the renown of Petrarcb, seeing that he
has dedicated his powers solely to that peculiar form
of reflective and erotic poetry in the cultivation of
which the bard of Laura acquired his literary immor-
tality. Yet it must not be imagined by any means
that the author of these one hundred sonnets is an
imitator in all things. In his manner be has followed
Petrarch, but whatever his thoughts are, they
are his own, and sometimes fine thoughts they
are too, and truly poetic. Nor has he
blundered in selecting the sonnet as the
mode in which those ideas should be conveyed • for
assuredly the sonnet cannot be regarded as a style of
ccenposition inappropriate to the language, seeing
that the English tongue has been adorned by the
sonnets of Milton, and, in our own time, by those of
Wordsworth. As a token of the revival of a poetic
taste among the masses, we hail the appearance of
these sonnets by Henry Frank Lott, even though they
number up one hundred.

POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED.

By W. G. T. Barter.
We take Mr. Barter to be a sort of poetic wag—
fond of perpetrating literary
.eccentricities. Other-
wise never should we have seen this volume of metri-
cal effusions, preceded by a pert little preface, avow-
ing in its first line that "Poetry is a drug, and a
Preface a bore." Among the translated pieces we
find the first book of Homer's Iliad—so bald, so lean,
so literal, that
.such a translator would infallibly
have tingled under the birch rather than
the bays in the " good old times " of
scholastic flaggellation. Among the original
compositions we observe one entitled "Aberrations of
Genius," and should be disposed to attribute the pre-
sent book to one of those same aberrations, but that we
cannot in any one of these leaves detect the
smallest modicum of that same genius. The subject
of the first poem in the volume is a sort of scrambling
ode "To a Cricket ;" it only serves to remind us,
however, that we are anything but as merry as a
cricket by the time we arrive at the conclusion.