The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1850.

STEATI COMMUNICATION WITH Portuguese traffic without much prejudice either in
BRAZIL, MEXICO, THE WEST INDIES, AND time or distance to the English mails. A branch
THE PACIFIC, packet will, however, no doubt be started between
SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 4.—We are enabled to an- Lisbon and Madeira to meet the English steamer
nounce that her Majesty's Government have just there.
concluded the long-pending negotiations for a re- The present fleet of the Royal Mail Steam-packet
organization and improvement of steam communica- Company consists of 13_ ships, 10 of which are of 1,800
tion with the West Indies and the Pacific, and for the tons burden and 450-horse power. Five others of
establishment of steam communication with the Bra- great tonnage, and some smaller ones, are to be pro-
zils and Rio Plata. vided, making perhaps 20 or 22 ships in all, with
The arrangement and details of this important and which to perform both services. It is intended to
gigantic scheme hare, for many months, occupied the dispatch four ships from the present West India fleet
eavest attention of the Lords of the Admiralty, the for carrying the Brazil mails ; these vessels are to
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and some other heads have their spar decks taken off, and undergo other
of departments. The fullest consideration has been improvements, by which they will be rendered able
given to the various plans submitted to the Govern- to attain an average speed of 10 knots, and thus the
ment, and extensive inquiries have been instituted, duration of voyages will be nearly as possible is
not .only into the relative merits of the different follows :—To Pernambuco, 18 to 19 days ; Bahia,
schemes and routes proposed for adoption, but also 20 to 21 days ; Rio de Janeiro, 24 to 25 days.
into the comparative claims, whether political or
We understand that the directors of the West India
commercial, of the numerous colonies and states that Company intend to make great efforts to commence
have to be embraced by a plan that must provide re- the Brazil mails in August or September next, and
gular and rapid communication to and from Buenos the company's steam-schooner Esk will shortly be
Ayres and Brazil on the one hand, and the West dispatched, with one of the managing directors on
India mail route on the other, including all the Bri• board, charged with the mission of making the neces-
tish and foreign colonies, from Guiana to Jamaica, sary preliminary arrangements at the various ports
from Venezuela and Spanish America to the Gulf of on the Brazilian coast.
Mexico, and from Chili to California on the Pacific However important a Brazilian line of steam-ships
side, in all numbering upwards of sixty ports of call, may be to the mercantile interest of this country, its
all of which it is necessary to accommodate with a utility may, at some future date, be largely increased,
direct and accelerated method of communication to and it may lead the way to the extension of steam
and from Europe. communication with the Cape of Good Hope and the
The result of all these deliberations and inquiries West Coast of Africa. With the latter a monthly
has been the adoption of a plain principle as a basis mail is kept up at a large expense by means of packet-
for the plan of operations, to the practical effect that brigs from Plymouth ; these may be discontinued,
the most important places must be provided with the and the mails sent from Porto Praya (Cape Verde),
most direct communication, and that the smaller, or distant only 710 miles from Sierra Leone, by a branch
relatively less important states or islands, must be vessel. Porto Praya is also nearly half-way to the
served by means of supplementary or branch lines of Cape, and thence a branch steamer can at any time
steamers, running in conjunction with a main line of be put on to bring our South African possessions
trunk communication. within 35 days of England.
Amongst other plans submitted to the Government, The date at which the new arrangements for the
and very strongly urged by interested parties, was West India and Pacific mails will be fully brought
one for diverting the whole of the mail service and into operation will, of course, materially depend
traffic to New York. The advocates of this pro. upon the time of completion of the new steamers.
posal, which has been pressed most forcibly upon the Of these there are to be five for the main line,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, but very properly of 2,000 to 2,300 tons burden and 800 horse-
ignored, argued that, because mails from Chagres, power. They are to maintain a speed of 12 or 14
Jamaica, and Havannah have been for the past year knots an hour. They will be contracted for imme•
received and transmitted via the United States much diately (the specifications being already prepared),
more quickly than by the existing West India and are to be constructed by the most eminent
steamers, in consequence of the superior speed of the builders and engineers on the Thams, Clyde, and
British and North American mails ; that there- Mersey. They will be pressed forward so as to be
fore such a route must of necessity be the best ready for sea in about a year. Meantime it is not
for the permanent track of the whole of the unlikely that the change of route will be sanctioned
mails ffom the West Indies and South America. for the present vessels, and, if so, a considerable im-
It is true that from those three points mails can prorement would speedily be produced.
occasionally be received considerably in advance of The contract of the West India Mail Company is
the present West India steam-ships, hut this simply renewed for 10 years from the expiration of the
arises from two prominent causes (now about to be existing contract, and the contract for the Brazil
obviated), one of which is the devious route pursued mails, which is included in that of the new
by the steamers engaged in conveying the West India West India sceme, is also for a period of 10 years
roes, and the vexatious stoppages at numerous ports; certain.
the other, the insufficient speed of the vessels them- In reference to the rate at which the service is to
selves that perform the Atlantic voyages. A propo- be performed, we may add that the amount hitherto
sition was made to the Government for carrying a received by the company from the Treasury has been
fortnightly mail to and from Chagres and New York, 240,0001. per annum, and we believe that the present
for 100,0001. per annum, but the Government dis- arrangements, including the Brazil mails, will be at
covered that if such a line were acceded to it would an annual cost to the public service not exceeding that
only accomplish a small portion of the great scheme, amount. Thus the country will obtain the long-pro-
es it would leave totally unprovided all the smaller mised boon of steam communication with Brazil and
West India islands, British Guiana, Venezuela, South America at no additional outlay besides effect-
Mexico, Central America, and other places, which ing an immediate retrenchment of nearly 30,0001. a
would, from their geographical position, if placed in year in discontinuing the cost of her
_Majesty's brigs
conjunction with the New York line, be seriously now engaged in the Brazil service from Falmouth.
prejudiced both in time and distance ; that it would, This cannot but be considered an important and eco-.
moreover, involve the necessity of entering into ono- nomical arrangement for the Government, while the
they large contract with another company, and that contractors, on the other hand, rely upon the great
the cost of the combined plan would infinitely exceed increase of passenger traffic, and in merchandise
that of a direct and independent line such as is to be and specie, that must necessarily accrue to them to
placed in operation, while at the same time a vast compensate for the lessened mileage rate at which
number of places would not be so well served as at they have accepted the new contract.
present. British interests, as regards steam navigation in the
Independently of these considerations of mere ex- western hemisphere, have been seriously jeopardised
pense, others of a more serious nature intervened to by the delay which has taken place on the part of
prevent the consummation of such a plan, which it the Government of this country in neglecting earlier
was foreseen by the Government would have the im
- to grapple courageously with the sudden and for-
mediate effect of diverting to and concentrating at midable competition which has been organized by the
New York the whole of the commercial traffic be. Americans. It therefore is essential that no further
tween Europe and South America, the ultimate ten- delay should be experienced, and we trust that with-
dency of which would be highly disadvantageous to out loss of time the Royal Mail Company will set
the commerce of this country. Instead, therefore, their shoulders to the wheel, launch their new ships,
of making New York the half-way house for Euro- and regain that largely increasing traffic which, from
pean intercourse with the New World, a great steam- a variety of circumstances they have hitherto lost.
bridge is now to be thrown across the ocean from There will be no fear of being beaten by our Trans-
Southampton to Panama, and this must become the atlantic rivals, if energy anything equalling that dis-
common highway from Europe to South America played by them is evinced
on this side the water, and
and the West Indies ; thus preserving intact the the European intercourse with the Far West will be
natural and legitimate track of British commercial fully and permanently secured to steamers sailing
and political supremacy. under the British flag.—Times.
If ships of equal or superior speed to those nov-
plying between Liverpool and New York, such
for example as the Canada and Europa, be used in
running from Southampton to Chagres, and if a
perfectly straight course be adopted with
judicious intercolonial routes for the branch
steamers, it will be a geographical fact that
mails *ill be transmitted with far greater ce•
lerity than by way of the United States; and with
regard to passenger., it is clear that all travellers
would prefer the direct course to one so circuitous as
New York, involving, amongst other disadvantages,
the necessity for additional transhipments and deten-
tion, and the prejudical effect (particularly in the
winter months) attendant upon the sudden changes
from the heats of the torrid zone to the intense cold
generally experienced in New York, Boston, and
Halifax. With merchandise and specie also from the
Pacific the detention at New York would prove in-
convenient to shippers, in addition to the traversing
of an excess in distance of from 600 to 700 miles over
the straight course to England from the Isthmus of
Panama.
Regarding the West India mails, it is unnecessary
for us to give in detail the full particulars of the ar-
rangements that have been entered into. On Decem-
ber 10, last year, we gave a full exposition of the
routes proposed to the Government by the Royal
Malil Steam-packet Company, contrasting the saving
in time that might be effected over the complicated
routes of the old contract. Suffice it to say, that
these routes have been accepted by the Lords
of the Admiralty, and that they are to be tra-
versed both out and home under the new plan. The
main line steamer, after leaving Southampton, will
proceed direct to St. Thomas's, performing the voyage
in twelve days, At that island three branch steamers
will be in waiting to receive mails, one to convey them
to Havannah and the Gaff of Mexico, a second to
Porto Rico, Hayti, Jamaica, San Jago de Cuba, Hon-
duras, Nicaragua, &c. ; the third to the Windward
and Leeward Islands, terminating at Demerara. After
thus transferring the mails for those places, the At-
lantic steamers will :start direct for Chagres, on the
Isthmus of Panama, there to disembark the Pacific
mails for transmissicn to the west coast of America.
Homeward, the method adopted will be precisely
the sam,,, and the Cbagres steamer will find at St.
Thomas's the branch steamers from the three pre-
viously mentioned points, the departure of which will
be so arranged that they shall always (excepting in
case of accident) be waiting in the harbour of St.
Thomas's for the arrival of the large ship having on
board the Pacific mails.
Generally speaking, an accelerated communication
of from 12 to 16 days will be guaranted to all the
ports by this arrangement. Taking 'Valparaiso as the
extreme point,
distance being
will thence be effected of about
20 days, the
being performed in 40 to 43
days against 60 to 63,
only is
last present.To Chagres the
voyage will occu34, as at presentp
-y
Jmetteemxaicica will be reached
days against
in
16309;
lo7r
days;; the Gulf of
Guiana
22 or 20 days
nah in 15 or 16 days - 19 to 21 day, and
avanthe intermediate islands iunlanapoiertion.
To correspond with thPesreteheariratngements on the
steam
of the Pacific side, we believe it is
Ad-
miralty to agree with the Pacificn
Company for a fortnightly mail to ande frNomaviVtipean-
raise And Panama, in place of the present
steamer. This alteration will be hailed w inlthengat
thly
satisfaction by the merchants in that quarter of the
world, and will doubtless have the effect of preventing
the Americans from running their projected line of
steamers from Panama to Valparaiso.
Ia the article of the 10th December, before alluded
to, our readers will remember we stated that it was
in contemplation to substitute a tr-weekly communi-
cation for the fortnightly mail now established.
While strongly reprobating the retrograde policy of
thus curtailing the number of communications with
the West Indies, we explained that, so far as Central
America and the Pacific ports were concerned, the
mails to those parts of the world would necessarily be
increased in frequency, because to them a mail is only
now made up once a month. We are, however, happy
to learn that the three-weekly plan
abandoned, and has not been
to be kept up with the that a fortnightly communication is
whole
of the West Indies and
the Pacific. To
Mexico and Havannah a monthly
mail will be dispatched
Bermuda will be e the same as at present.
call,
and omitted as a place of call,
and this objectionable i and dangerous route, which has
uniformly caused the
greatestirregularity discontent and produced
most of the
Mobile, likewise, of
will no
the mails, will be abolished,
steam-vessels. longer be touched by these
With reference to Brazil, a
monthly
independent line of packets, is to
mail, with an
route, both outwards and homewsbredestablished. The
same as mentioned on the 24th of homewards,
to be the
Starting from Southampton, the steamersecember last.
ceed to Funchal (Madeira), Santa Cruz
will pro-
Porto Prays (Cape Verdes), Pernamuzb (Tenenrieffee?'
and Rio Janeiro. From Rio Janeiro therene°'
branch packet to Montevideo and Bus will be a
The Admiralty have not, we believe, sanctioned the
proposed touching at Lisbon, and thus
the traffic between
Portugal and the Brazilian em-
pire will be lost to the contractors. For many
reasons this decision is to be regretted,
because the
conmunicatiorio right have secured the h 1 vv 9e of the

DEPARTURE OF THE ARCTIC
EXPEDITION.
Captain Austin's Arctic expedition received their
final orders and instructions by special messenger
from the Admiralty on Friday night. The advance
was paid on Friday. At ten o'clock the numerous
visitors to the officers and men took their leave.
From an early hour on Saturday morning the
people began to collect along the banks of the river at
Greenhithe, to witness the departure of these brave
and hardy men upon their perilous but noble enter-
prise. As time fled away, the numbers of anxious
spectators rapidly increased, until one large assem-
blage was compacted together, which rendered the
scene both interesting and impressive. About six
o'clock the signal was given for their departure;
when, amidst the farewell greetings and enthusiastic
cheers of the multitude on shore, which were heartily
responded to by the gallant fellows on board the
Arctic fleet, the vessels quitted their anchorage-
ground, and sailed for their cheerless and distant des-
tination. A finer, nobler, happier, and more devoted
spirit never animated the breasts of a gallant band,
than was displayed by the 180 officers and men com-
prising Captain Austin's squadron.
SAILING ORDERS OF CAPTAIN AUSTIN.
BY THE COMMISSIONERS FOR EXECUTING THB OFFICE
OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, &C.
1. Having appointed you to the command of' the
expedition, which it is the intention of her Majesty's
Government to dispatch on a further search for her
Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror, under the com-
mand of Sir John Franklin, you are hereby required
and directed to take the vessels Resolute, Assistance,
Intrepid, and Pioneer, under your command, and so
soon as they are in all respects ready to put to sea,
and to make the best of your way to Davis' Straits,
for the express purpose of prosecuting a most vigorous
search for the missing ships.
2. We have directed you to be furnished with a
copy of our orders which were given to Sir John
Franklin, and which will afford you full information
how he was directed to proceed. We have likewise
ordered you to have a copy of our instructions to
Captain Sir James Ross, and to these we have to di-
rect your especial attention.
3. The various papers which have been laid before
the Houses of Parliatnent.have also been sent for your
information ; by reference to them you will be made
aware that we have taken the opinions of the most
able and experienced persons connected with Polar
navigation, relative to the missing expedition : you
will observe that many valuable conjectures have been
made ; and it Pas been suggested that Sir John
Franklin may have effected his passage to Melville
Island, and been detained there with his ships. It has
again been suggested as possible, that his ships may
have been damaged by the ice in the neighbouring sea,
and that with his crews he may have abandoned them,
anti made his escape to that island. To these, as well
as the other possibilities, you will not fail to give every
proper weight.
4. It therefore appears to us to be a main object of
the expedition for you to use every exertion to reach
Melville Island, detaching a portion of your ships
to search the shores of Wellington Channel and the
coast about Cape Walker, to which point Sir John
Franklin was ordered to proceed. We trust that a
diligent examination of these several places will afford
you some certain trace or record of the missing expe-
dition, which will enable you to form an opinion of
the
best course to adopt for their rescue. As your
definite or specific instruction,
course of action must clearly depend on such infor-
mation, we consider it unnecessary to give you. any
bind
you down to
navigation of the Polar certain line of proceeding.
and inexpedient to
We confide in your knowledge and experience of the
on your energetic character atna
and
dp
zeal,aci
wjust
leavere li aynocue
for attaining the great objectwafy seem to you best
entirely unfettered to do wh
trusted to your charge, feelinethe expedition en.
that you, as
your utmost
well as all those under youg assuredil
we have placed in
exertions to afford relief to our unfortitsnenate country-
men, and to justify the reliance
you.
5. The officers whom we have consulted
be have_ ex-
pressed an opinion, that no vessel shouldallowed
to prosecute the search alone, and it is for this reason
that to your own and to Captain Ommaney's ship an
auxiliary screw-vessel has been attached; we there-
fore direct your attention to this important con-
sideration.

6. Your ships have been fully equipped and provi-
sioned for a period of three years, to meet any emer-
gency which may arise from falling in with Sir John
Franklin's party. In addition to these supplies there
are stores and provisions, &c., left by Sir James Ross
at Port Leopold, and a further store was sent out in
the North Star, in the summer of last year. These
will be available for you in case of necessity, but you
are not to consider them as a part of your own stock,
but as a reserve for the aid of any of Sir John
Franklin's party who may reach that spot, or as a
depot on
Yo,nr to
,iobo y
which any party may fall back upon, should
they unfortunately be separated from their ships.
7• In the prosecution of your search you will use
utmostany
efforts during this summer, taking care
not
opportunity which may be open to you
of getting w
the westward, and of securlng your

ships in some safe harbour before the winter sets in,
from whence you will dispatch such overland parties
as the means placed at your disposal will permit. On
the return of the open season of 1851 you will again
renew your search ; but it is our intention and direc-
tions that you shall return to England in the autumn
of that year, unless some trace should be found of the
missing expedition which may lead you to believe that
a delay may contribute to their rescue, and which
may justify a deviation from our orders.
8. You are aware that this is not the only expedi-
tion fitting out or being dispatched with the same ob-
ject; one such, under the command of Mr. Penny, of
Aberdeen, has already sailed for Davis' Straits, provi-
sioned as your own for a period of three years. We
furnish you with a copy of the instructions under
which he is acting, and we desire that you will ren-
der him any aid and assistance in your power, as
well as to any other expedition, either from this coun-
try, the United States of America, or from any ether
nation, so far as you may be able to do so without
risk of crippling the resources of the vessels under
your command.

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
Saturday

FRANCE.
Galignani's Messenger has the following just ob-
servations on the system of "enormous lying" in which
the reactionary journals habitually indulge :
" The iYationale ridicules an announcement in the Pa-
trie of yesterday evening, that it had received positive
information of a plan of rebellion got up by the Demo-
cratic Socialists, even to the details of the barricades to
be erected in different quarters. We find this statement
repeated with variations by three of the journals of the
moderate press. We are inclined to believe that state-
ments of this kind are invented fur the purpose of rous-
ing the moderate party to exertion by inspiring terror.
If they were true, there would be no great merit in
making them public; if false, they are in the highest
degree improper. What, for instance, could be more in-
judicious than to announce, as one of the journals did,
that immediately after the numbers on the last election
for Paris were known, all the foreigners in Paris rushed
to the railroads to quit the capital. The statement was
utterly false; had it even been true, the journals of the
party of order ought not to have been so ready to sound
alarm and inspire discouragement."
The Committee on Parliamentary Initiative, at its
last sitting, came to several resolutions on the pro-
positions which had been submitted to it. It has
decided in favour of taking into consideration the
proposition of Colonel de l'Espinasse and M.
Flandin, for modifying the electoral law. It
was of opinion that the wording of the propo-
sition was rather confused, but considered that
the question of residences, of keeping secret the
vote of the army, and on levying a fine on electors
who did not vote, were very important ones. The
Faeiil
nl yg,
n Aelae
rs
llyi n
identical a n d B owu
irtbho ut
the
above. wseitireonssetofaskll'
aside, as b
above. M. de Melun (du Nord) has withdrawn his
proposition fur electing supplementary members of
the Assembly. Two propositions of M. Pascal Du-
prat, one relative to the nomination of the Council-
General of the Seine,
and the other, to the sale of
journals in the public streets, were rejected.
As a proof of the spirit by which the French
Government is actuated, we extract the following
from the semi-official Patrie :
" We are surrounded by cannibals, and what ought
we to do with cannibals? Why this; extinguish them
if they remain in the lair, or cut them to pieces if they
come out.

_
9. You will take the utmost care in leaving me-
morials of your track in the usual manner, and in
every prominent place, and enjoin the same precau-
tion upon all the ships or land parties detached from
you or them.

10. You will keep your second in command well
informed of the instructions under which you are act-
ing, consulting with him on all points, and stating your
own views as to the best means of carrying them out,
so that no information may be wanting on his part, if
accident to yourself should cause him to succeed to the
command.

11. As soon as you reach the Whale Fish Islands,
to which rendezvous the Emma Eugenia transport
has already been dispatched, and that you have dis-
tributed the supplies taken on board that vessel, :for
the use of the expedition, you will send her to Eng-
land, and you will also give orders to the master of
the North Star, should you fall in with that vessel, to
return home.

12. The several vessels thus placed under your
command have been fitted out under your own im-
mediate superintendence, and with every attention to
the wants and requirements of the great enterprise
you have volunteered to undertake. The officers in
command of a vessel composing it, and who are
animated with the same ardour as yourself, have
been selected by you with our full concurrence, as to
their fitness for this particular service; all that could
be effected by the generous sympathies of your Queen
and your country has been done, and it only remains
fir us to conclude our instructions, with an earnest
prayer that success may attend your exertions, and
that a good Providence may guide your councils, and
be your constant defender.

For ourselves
For cannibals read aristocrats, and the phrase
might have been written by Marat or Robespierre.
terrorist and a
and can draw nn distinction between a reactionary
• we hold all terrorists .in detestation,
revolutionary one.
The Steele denounces these expressions of the
Patric and the Constitutionnel as the signal of civil
war.
" Yes (observes this moderate paper, speaking with
reference to the Constilutionne4 and its famous solution
of present difficulties) these men have the approbation of
the Prefet of Police while they are setting men's brains
in a state of fermentation, and stirring up political pas-
sions in their hearts. They expose laboriously their theo-
ries—they, as it were, make long shots; the people hear
them and receive the fire—it is the signal for civil war.
They wish it, then? Ah, if you possessed only sufficient
intelligence and power to be able to fix the term of it.
Do not say that we are exaggerating. These artioles are
published for the sake of upsetting people's minds.
Their effect on the public funds, on business, and ou the
Legislative Assembly itself is exactly that which yoi
desire to produce. Every one knows that you would
not act as you are doing if you had not the connivance
of Government; and it is this toleration, if not sympathy,
which gives such authority to your political eccentri-
cities. '

Given under our hands this 2d of May, 1850.
F. T. BARING,
M. F. F. BERKELEY.
To Horatio T. Austin, Esq., C. 8., Captain of her
Majesty's ship Resolute, in charge of an expedition to
the Arctic Seas.

By command of their Lordships,
J. PARSER

EXHIBITION OF 1851.
We understand that 183 local committees for pro-
moting the Exhibition have now been formed, and as it
may be convenient to parties who propose to exhibit to
know to which local committee they should address
their requests for space in the building, a list of the com-
mittees and their secretaries, as last reported to her
Majesty's Commissioners, is appended:—Aberdeen, W.
L. Reid; Aberystwith, J. M. Davies; Alton, James
Clements; Arbroath, John Macdonald; Ashton-under-
Lyne, Henry Gartside; Barnard Castle, J. C. Monk-
house; Barnsley, Eward Newman; Bath, James
Tunstall, M.D., William Akerman; Batley (Yorkshire),
Samuel Jubb; Belfast, James M'Adam, jun.; Beverley,
Thomas Crust; Bilston, Charles Perry; Bingley (York-
shire), Philip Passavant, juu.• Birmingham, W. P.
Marshall; Blackburn, W. J. Dufltur Clark; Bodrnin, R.
Bray; Bolton (Lancashire), Gilbert J. French; Boston,
James A. Bontoft; Bradford (Yorkshire), Samuel L.
Tee, George Taylor ; Brampton, John Graham,
M.D. ; Brentford, George Clarke ; Bridgenorth,
William Jones; Bridgewater, T. Smith; Bridport,
Thomas Colfox; Bristol, John Wilkson; Bromsgrove,
Benjamin Maund; Buckingham, G. Nelson; Burnley,
John Heelis; Burton-on-Trent, John Richardson; Bury
St. Edmunds, Joseph Hanby Holmes; Bury, Lanca-
shire, W. H. Norris; Camborne, T. S. Bickford, J. H.
Bridge; Cambridge University, C. C. Babington, M.A.;
Cambridge Town, H. Gotobed, H. Hemington Harris;
Canterbury, John Aria; Cardiff, Hugh Bird; Carlisle,
John Nanson; Cheltenham, W. H. Gwinnett; Chelms-
ford, George Meggy, Frederick Chancellor; Chelsea,
Rev. Edward Budge; Chester, J. Finchett Maddock;
Chichester, J. Masoa ; Chorley, Richard Jackson;
Congleton, John Latham; Cork, George Crawford
Feath; Coventry, Francis A. Skidmore; Darlington,
Stephen Humble, George Mason; Dartmouth, Colonel
Woolridge; Deal Thomas Reeks ; Derby, Henry J.
Stevens, Frederick S. Every; Devizes, George Waylen;
Devonport, Thomas Woollcombe, Allred Norman; Don-
caster, T. B. Mason; Dorchester, J. Stone; Dover,
T. B. Bass, J. Stilwell; Dublin, W. B. Porter, Wil-
liam Fry; Dudley, John Blackwell; Dundee, George
Milne, W. C. Monro ; Dunfermline, James Kilgour ;
Durham, J. H. Forster; Edinburgh, James W. 5.
Cod; Elgin, Patrick Duff; Exeter, Charles Brutton;
Falmouth and Penryn, W. W. Rundell; Fleetwood, J.
Stewart; Frome, George Walters, jun.; Glasgow, Wil-
liam Johnson, Andrew Liddell, John Strang, LL.D.;
Glossop, John Ball; Gloucester, H. K. Fryer; Gran-
tham, Thomas Elkin; Gravesend, George Sharland;
Great Grimsby, N. H. Daubeney; Greenock, Ninian
Hill, M.D., Peter Macnaughten • Guildford, S. Haydon;
Halifax, Frank Crosley, Richard Carter, William Brown;
Hartlepool, Thomas Belk; Hastings, James Rock, jun.;
Hayle, W. West; Helston, Frederick Hill; Hereford,
Richard Johnson; Hertford, P. Longmore • Honiton,
Samuel Devenisle; Huddersfield, Frederick Greenwood,
Joseph Shaw, J. C. Laycock; Hull, Bethel Jacobs,
Horace Frost; Ipswich, Stephen A. Notcutt; Isle of
Wight, James Eldridge; Kecdal, Gerard Gandy; Ken-
sington, John Morris; Kidderminster, Thomas Hellen;
Kilmarnock, James Wilson; Alexander Brown; Kirk-
caldy, W. Sang; Lancaster, W. Dunn; Launceston, C.
Gurney; Leamington, John B. Hanbury; Leeds, Thomas
Wilson, James Kitson, Martin Cawood; Leicester,
S. Stone, S. H. Wheeler; Lewes, Mark Antony
Lower; Lichfield, Thomas George Lomax; Limerick,
John Boyse ; Lincoln, R. Major; Liskeard, James Jago;
Liverpool, John Grantham; Llanelly, John Thomas;
London, Rev. S. R. Cattley, D. W. Wire; Louth, (Lin-
coln), Christopher Ingoldaby; Macclesfield, Samuel
Higginbotham; Maidstone, John Mercer; Manchester,
Hugh Fleming; Merthyr Tydvil, John C. Wolrige;
Middleaborough, Edward Gilkes, William Fallowes ;
Montreal (Canada), John Leeming, Henry Lyman;
Montrose, G. C. Myers; Newcastle-under-Lyne, Thomas
Walton Mayer; Newcastle-on-Tyne, Joseph Watson,
Thomas Burnett; Newport (Monmouth), Thomas Latch;
North Allerton, William Thrush Jefferson; Northamp-
ton, George Rands. jun.; _Norwich, R. laman, Henry
Willett; Nottingham, William Enfield. George Rawson,
Rev. W. J. Butler; Oldham, Henry Radcliff; Oxford,
Rev. R. Walker, M.A., Richard James Spiers, Joseph
Plowman; Paisley, Messrs. Martin and Hodge; Penzance,
Richard Pearce; Perth, Archibald Reid, William,Greig;
Plymouth, Oswald C. Arthur; Poole, Martin Kemp
Welch ; Portsmouth, Henry Deacon, John Howard ;
Preston, Samuel Cartwright ; Putney
and Roeharapton,
11. H. Fulton ; Ramsgate, George Burgess ; •Redruth,
John L. Peters ; Reigate, Peter Martin ; Richmond
(Surrey), William Chapman ; Richmond (Yorkshire),
Leonard Cooke ; Ripon, R. W. Nicholson ; Rochester,
R. Prael ; Rotherham, John Barraz ; Runcorn, John
Simpson ; Rye, E. N. Dawes ; Scarborough, J. J. P.
Moody ' • Sheerness, J. S. Keddell ; Sheffield, Samuel
Plimsoll ; Shrewsbury, Henry Pidgeon ; Southampton
Charles E. Deacon ; 'Southport, Richard Lewis ; South
Shields, Robinson Elliot, Alexander Stevenson; Stafford,
James Turncock ; Stamford, William French ;
St. Austell, J. 11. Drew • St. Columb, G. B,
Collins ; St. Helens, Frederick Fincham ; Stir-
ling, A. Boyd, Patrick G. Morrison ; Stoke-
upon-Trent, Thomas Battam ; Stourbridge, G. W.
Gibson ; Strood, W. A. Freston ; Stockport, John
Vaughan; Stockton, John Crosby, Joseph Laing ; Sun-
derland, John Candlish, William Snowball; Swansea,
George Grant Francis; Tamwortb, Jonathan Thomp-
son; Taunton, Eales White; Tewkesbury, Joshua
Thomas ; Tower Hamlets, John Humphreys; Truro,
George Nicolls Simmons; Uttoxeter, Thomas Beadon;
Wakefield, James Witham; Walsall, John W. New-
man; Warrington, John Fitchett Marsh; Warwick,
James Tibbits; Waterford, Hugh N. Nevens; Welling-
ton (Salop), J. Benson; Westminster, George Henry
Drew; Wexford, Rev. E. Dillon, M.R. LA.; Whitby,
W. H. Cramp, Henry Belcher; Whitehaven, Richard
Armistead ; Wigan, Thomas Acton ; Winchester,
Charles Bailey; Windsor, Charles Stuart Voules; Wol-
verhamptou, Thomas Walker ; Worcester, Edward
Webb; Great Yarmouth, Charles John Palmer; Yeovil,
John Batten, jun. ; York, Joseph Munby, Henry
Richardson.

THE ALLEGED MURDEE AT CLAPHAM.—No clue,
edThtoe tshtaetpemerephe
trators of this supposed murder
been apprehended on suspicion of
that several parties had
up to the present moment,u
rhdaesr andbee been
o bobbetra3i'n.
. entrusted Fisher to assist
the Commissioners of Police
The only gentleman who
Mr. John Parrott in the analysis.
Mr.
conjunction
with . Parrott is a
being the guilty parties is. not true; neither is it a fact that
is making an analysis in
Mr. Shaw, who has
by that gent e-
porter has seen Mr. Parrott, and is informed
and the cause
• ed unsuccessful,
man that the analysis has ploy
inquest, on Mon-
day,of death will remain in obscurity. At the
made chloroform Ma study. The rle:-
pew-opener
master out of the gate to go to church, and the
will prove his presence there. Mr. Maddle's loss, beyond his.
a Mrs. Stevens will prove seeing the deceased let her
late wife's gold watch, and two or three rings, is very trifling ,
and he has had no plate since a robbery took place at a former
residence at Notting-hill, when a large amount was swept off
the sideboard in the middle of the day. A lad named Saun-
ders will also prove at the inquest, that between twelve and
one on Sunday he saw a man dressed in shabby black, who
corresponds with the description of a man who was loitering
at the rear of the house all the morning, come out the front
gate with a large bundle ; and woma coming from ands-
worth met the same man on he brow of the hill, abouWt half
a mile on the Wandsworth side of Mr. Maddle's house. He
was running, and seemed much excited. Mr. Coleman, the
inspector of the district, and Messrs. Field and Smith, detec-
tive officers of police, have been day and night endeavouring
to elucidate this mysterious affair.— Sunday Paper.
EARLY LAMB'—.A lamb of the half-breed was
Wrelast week slaughtered by Mr. Robert Cartmell, butcher, of
st,t near Keswick, which weighed no less than 61b. per
"r,er although only seven weeks old. It was also bred
,
and fed by the same individual, and it is well known that
Mr. Cartcuell's stock of sheep are second to none in the
mountain district. Carlisle Journal. .

New barracks and a new hospital are ordered to be
constructed at Tipperary.
The enrolled pensioners of the Western London Dis-
trict are ordered to assemble on the grounds of Chelsea
Hospital, for drill and exercise, commencing on the 9th
of May.
Captain Seton, 74th Highlanders, Assistant Deputy-
Quartermaster-General in Dublin, has returned from
leave of absence in England.
PENSIONS FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICES.—We are
happy to announce that a con,iderable number of Goo,'
Service Pensions have been disposed of by his Grace the
Commander-in-Chief since the Ist instant. Major-
General R. R. Macpherson's pension of 150/. per
annum has been augmtnted to 2001. ; and Major-
General J. Allan's pension of 1001. per annum has
been doubled. Pensions of 1001. per annum have
been granted to Major-Generals Archibald Money, Sir F.
Cockburn, J. C. Bourchier, Felix Calvert, Hon. H.
E. Butler, N. Thorn, W. L. Darling, F. Ashworth, J.
Whitham, and T. W. Robbins. As at one time or
another we have had occasion to enumerate the war ser-
vices of these of&ers, it is unnecessary to say more on
the present occasion, than that they have fairly and
honourably earned the pensions now bestowed upon
them. May we, however, add that we are rather sur-
prised to find that officers of eve❑ longer full pay service
than some of these generals are still without pensions.
Major. General Wemysi, C. 8., lately commanding the
Athlone District, is, we regret to hear, suffering from a
severe attack of paralysis.
We understand that a fracas has recently taken place
amongst some of the Officers of the 50th, Queen's own
Regiment, now stationed at Portsmouth, which will
probably lead to the retirement of at least one of the
Subalterns.

that he had seen the girl loitering about the arches
for a week past
The examination of the chill by Mr. HENRY dis-
closed a state of ignorance and e4rly depravity per-
fectly revolting. She sail that her father was a
bricklayer's labourer, and sloe and her sister went into
the streets to beg. She had been in the habit of
going with the prisoner in the sarn. w4y. They two
four times laY: week. He gave her halfpen';.. Shr
had been to a school once, but hid never learn: to
read or write.

The prisoner, in reply to the charge, slid that he
got his living by colleeting old rags, 9,71,1 th- g'rl
him to get into the cart to look at striae which she had
to sell. He declared that she undressed him, and he
suspected that she was going to rob him.
Mr. HENRY-, after remarking that the depraved
nature and conflicting statements of the girl made it
useless to send such a case for trial, committed the
prisoner for two months, in default of paying a fine
of 51.

CLERKFNWWELL.
Julia and Lavinia Gottheimer, German ladies,
mother and daughter, were charged with stealing a
bottle of perfume from the shop of Mr. John Hodges,
of No. 6, Southampton-row.
Mr. Sidney watched the case for the prisoners.
Mark Johnson, shopman to the prosecutor, said
that the prisoners entered his employer's shop, and,
while examining sundry goods, he fancied that Miss
Lavinia Gottheimer had concealed in her pocket a
bottle of perfume. He accused her of having stolen
something, which charge was indignantly denied by
both of them, and they insisted on being searched in
the presence of an officer. This was done by a woman
in the presence of police-constable 63 E, who,
however, did not find any article in their possession
belonging to Mr. Hodges.
The latter gentleman, at this stage of the unpleasant
investigation, addressed the worthy magistrate, re-
questing to withdraw the charge, as he was satisfied
there had been a sad mistake on the part of his ser-
vant, for he had known the defendants and their con-
nexions for four or five years, and was convinced they
meant no wrong. He added, that during the last
week or ten days considerable property had been pur-
loined from his premises, and he had given instruc-
tions to his servants to be on the look out; and the
movement of the younger prisoner, in probably taking
out her handkerchief from her pocket, oe replacing it,
might have been a ground of suspicion ; he would
honestly and candidly admit their entire innocence.
Mr. TYRWHLTT said that such an ample avowal did
him much credit.

PORTSMOUTH GARRISON. —A grand review will take
place on Southsea-common on the 18th of June, the an-
niversary of the ba•tle of Waterloo, of all the troops
composing the garrison, when it is expected the regi-
ments from Chichester and Winchester will be present.
On this occasion the busts of Lord Nelson and his Grace
the Duke of Wellington will be erected near the King's
Rooms, the former on the sea side, and the latter on the
land side. The Lieutenant-Governor, Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence, will be entertained in the evening at a
sumptuous banquet to be given by the inhabitants of
Portsmouth, at the King's Own. The Mayor, Benjamin
Bramble, Esq , will take the chair.
Colonel Bush, K.H., Inspecting Field Officer of the
Leeds Recruiting District, has proceeded on leave of
absence.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Staff Surgeon Fox, M D.,
second class, has been placed in medical charge of the
emigrants embarked in the ship Emily, for Australia,
en route to New Zealand, where he is to be stationed.
Staff Assistant Surgeon King has arrived at Gibraltar.
RECRUITING SERVICE.—Major-General Brown, C. 8.,
and K.l-1., the Adjutant General to the Forces, has been
examined by the Select Committee on Army and Ord-
nance Expenditure, relative to the present system of re-
cruiting for the Army.
The Cavalry Barracks and the Washing House in the
new Barracks at Limerick are ordered to be altered, as
the soldiers are in the habit of breaking out of barracks
by climbing the walls.
STEADI-VESSELS.--:The Admiralty have issued orders
to all dockyards, to the effect that in future all steamers
arriving in port to be paid off are to have their machinery
and boilers carefully examined, and a report of their
s:ate and condition is to be made to their Lordships.

THE ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL.
The thirteenth anniversary of tbis institution was
celebrated on Saturday last, by a dinner at the Lon-
don Tavern, at which about one hundred gentlemen
assembled. The festival was presided over by the
First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir F. T. Baring, Bart.,
M.P. Among the company were Admiral Bowles,
Admiral Sir J. Ommanney, Rear-Admiral Sir G-.
Seymour, Rear-Admiral Sir T. Herbert, Vice-Ad-
miral Sir T. Cochrane, Vice-Admiral Sir C. M
il-
colm, R?ar-Admiral Sir G. Sartorius, Sir J. H.
Pelly, Bart., Montague Gore, Esq. the Master
of the Temple, Archdeacon Robinson, Captain
Sir S. Herbert, Captain Milne, Captain Sir S.
Browne, Captain Sir John Ross, Dr. Outram,
Captain Meynell, Captain Gladstone, Captain
Drew Captain Egerton, Captain Burton, Captain
Coffin, J. Barrow, Esq., and several other distin-
guished gentlemen belonging to the naval service.
The dinner, which was served in the usual admira-
ble style of the establishment, was provided for a
much larger number than finally sat down to it, the
severity of the weather having apparently kept away
several guests, who, however little they might care
for a capfull of wind or a bucketfull of rain afloat,
seemed to think much more seriously of dirty weather
ashore.

The elder prisoner complained of being dragged
with her daughter to the station-house, and there
stripped and searched, after having undergone that
painful and degrading ordeal at the prosecutor's.
Prosecutor—Had I been at home it would not
have happened, and this remark I will now, without
any qualification, make—l am convinced of their
innocence.

Mr. Sidney said he feared from the instructions
he had received the matter would not end in that
court.

The vocalists were Miss Thornton, Miss Hender-
son, and Messrs. Young, Jolly, and Lawler. Mr.
T. Jolley presided at the piano-forte.
The toastmaster was Mr. Higgs.
The customary loyal toasts having been given,
The CulaamAN gave " Prosperity to the Royal
Naval School ;" for which
Admiral BOWLES returned thanks, and gave the
health of " The Chairman ;" after which
The SECRETARY (Mr. Eames) announced the list
of subscriptions and donations, amongst which were
the following :—Sir F. T. Baring, 50/. ; Captain J.
N. Gladstone (church fund, second do❑ation), 25/. ;
T. Baring, Esq., 20/. ; Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart.
(twelfth donation), 20/ ; Mr. Wolverley Attwood
(third donation), 101. 103.; Mr. John Davis, jun.,
101. 10s.; Mr. H. Holland, 101. 103.; Mr. John
Hardy, 101. 103.
The CHAIRMAN, in the course of the evening, took
an opportunity of announcing that the expedition to
the Arctic regions in search of Sir J. Franklin, under
the command of Captain Austin, had sailed that
morning, and he gave the "health of Captain Austin,
with success to the expedition," a toast which was
drunk with the utmost enthusiasm.

Mr. TYRWHITT hoped it would, for he must say
that the prosecutor had behaved most handsomely,
and made, in words, at least, every reparation in his
power.

Captain Sir JOHN Ross spoke to the toast. With
much feeling he prayed that success might attend the
expedition, alluded with deep gratitude to the succour
which had been brought to himself upon a former oc-
casion by Sir J. Franklin, when he was frozen up in
the Arctic regions, and expressed his determination to
wo out with another expedition in search of Sir J.
Franklin as soon as possible.
The company afterwards separated at an early hour.

The ladies, who were deeply affected, were then
discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE,
A man who refused to give his name at the station-
house, was charged before the Lord Mayor as a
begging imposter.
Mr.
the prisoner came to him on the previous day, and
R. Clay, printer, of Bread. street-hill, said that
~
solicited a contribution for Mr. Samuel Burton, late
of Leadenhall-street, stationer. Knowing that Mr.
Burton had been dead two years, and having his son
at the present time in his employ, he questioned the
prisoner closely as to the person he was anxious to
serve, not supposing he was attempting so palpable a
fraud. The prisoner, however, satisfied him that he
meant the deceased Mr. Burton, and said he had seen
him within the last fornight, and that the unfortu-
nate gentleman was blind. He asked the prisoner his
name, and he replied, " Thomas Myers ;" and he said,
in answer to other questions, that he was in the coal
trade, and lived in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel.
He had undertaken, he said, from motives of charity
and friendship, to raise subscriptions for Mr. Burton's
relief, and handed witness a petition purporting to be
from Mr. Burton, and to be signed by several gentle-
men, with different amounts affixed to their names,
on which he gave the prisoner into custody as a reso- I
lute and persevering imposter.
Mr. E. Burton having provedl that his father, the
Mr. Burton alluded to by the prisoner, died in the
year 1848,
The LORD MAYOR said he should deal with the
prisoner as severely as the law would allow, and com-
mitted him to Bridewell for three months, with hard
labour.

SOUTHWARK.
An elderly, respectable-looking woman, named
Lucy Fox, the wife of a tradesman carrying on busi-
ness in the Borough, was brought before Mr. Combe
for final examination, charged with stealing five
pieces of silk, the property of Messrs. Olney and
Sons, linendrapers, 139, High-street, Southwark.
Frederick Harris said he was shopinan to the pro-
secutors, and on Saturday last, a little after twelve
o'clock atnoon, the prisoner came into the shop and asked
him to show her some silk handkerchiefs. Witness
placed a box containing some silk handkerchiefs before
her, which she examined, and after some time she said
she did not like any of them, as she wanted them for
an elderly gentleman, who was very particular. She
then requested to look at some black neckerchiefs,
when witness took away the box of coloured ones and
placed the others before her. She selected a black
neckerchief and some other articles, when she handed
him a sovereign to pay for them. The prisoner was
then about to go to another part of the shop, when
another shopmau called his attention to her. He
accordingly looked at her, and saw a part of one
of the pieces of coloured handkerchiefs hanging
I below her shawl. Mr. Olney then came towards
her, and asked her whether she had not some-
thing about her that did not b..,10ng to her,
when she replied in the negative. Mr. Olney said he
believed she had, when she put her hand under her
shawl, and brought out three pieces of silk now pro-
duced, and threw them on the counter. Mr. Olney
afterwards took two other pieces from her shawl, and
called in a policeman and gave her into custody.
John Henry Witham, another shopman, stated
that he was at the desk when the prisoner was at the
counter. He saw her take the pieces of silk and put
them under her shawl, when he went to last witness,
and informed him of the circumstances, and the pro-
perty was taken from her.
Mr. Olney proved taking the property from her,
which he identified as his.
Mr. Binns, on behalf of the prisoner, contended
that she had no intention of stealing the silk. She
was the wife of a respectable tradesman, and had
sufficient money to pay for it.
Mr. COMBE committed her for trial, but consented
to take bail for her appearance at the sessions.

UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENCE.
MERTON COLLEGE.
OXPORD MAY 4.—An election of three Postmasters
will take place on Friday, May 31. Candidates are de-
sired to call on the Warden, on Monday, May 27, with
testimonials of good conduct and certificates of baptism.
In the election to one Postmastership a preference will
be given to attainments in mathematics. No candidates
will be admitted under 17 or above 19 years of age.
evening
(Saturday), and the races will be continued this
season, on Monday, the 6th; Wednesday, the Bth; Thurs-
day, the 9th; Saturda), the I I th; Monday, the 13th;
Wednesday, the 15th; Friday, the 170.
MAGDALEN COLLEGE.
The President and Fellows of Magdalen College have
vo'ed the sum (f 100 guineas to the Bishop of Fxeter
toards
w defraying the expenses in his process with Mr.
Gorham. The Bishop is a member of Magdalen College.
This is said to be the only offer of pecuniary assistance
which the Bishop has accepted from the numerous
friends who have proffered their aid on this occasion.
WADIIAM COLLEGE.
Edward Spencer Beesly, Commoner of Walham, has
ben elected to the vacant Bible Clerkship ut this
College.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
At a session of council on Saturday last the follow-
ing prizes in the classes of the Faculty -of Medicine
were announced (session 1849-50) :
CLASS OF MEDICINE.
Gold Medal—Thomas G. Fi‘zgerald. Ist Silver—
Charles William Hammond. 2d Silver—Samuel Morris.
Certificate—Robert Bowman.
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
Gold Medal—Thomas G. Fitzgerald. Certificate—
Richard Neale.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.
Gold Medal—Joseph S. Gamgee. lit SilvPr—J. W.
de Tunzelman and Joseph Lister (equal). Certificates
—Thomas Hillier, S. W. Sibley, George Buchanan
R. J. Miles.

CHEMISTRY.
General Course.—Gold Medal—J. W. de Tunzleman
Ist Silver—R. Grundy. 2,1 Silver—Henry Simpson,
Certificates—G. A. Humble, S. 11. Blaekmore, J. Foot-
man, Amos Ingham, Arthur Dupuy, W. B. Raniz-
botOm.

Essay Prize—Silver Medal—W. J. Russel!.
Birkbeck Labratory Students—Gold Medal—W,
Kenrick. Silver—H. E. Roscoe. Cert ficates—S,
Cathcart, Jos. Fox, A. Haslam, M. Haynes, J. Alston.
•

ANATOM r.
Senior Class.—Gold Medal—J. W. de Tunzelman.
Ist Silver—J. Lister. 2d Silver—T. Hillier. Cern&
cates—J. C. Agnis, J. D. Weaver, E. J. Miles, David
D. Davies, J. J. Ritchie.
Junior Class.—Silver Modal—J. Z. Lawrence. Cer-
tificates—F. W. Sayer, J. R. Beasley, James Ekin, John
Edwards, Thomas Veal, E. Andrew, J. M. E. Loag, W.
Mushet, A. Dupuy, G. Buchanan, W. H. Flower.

MIDWIFERY.
Gold Medal—H. Grimshaw. Ist Silver—F. Martin.
2d Silver—D. D. Davies. Certificate—John P. Nash.
SURGERY.
Gold Medal—Henry Thompson—lsk Silver—C, W.
Hammond. 2,1 Silver—T. G. Fitzgerald. Certificates
J. P. Langham, J. C. Agnis, S. W. Sibley, J. B. Striven,
M. E. B. Nicholson, IV. G. Bacot, S. Morris.
FELLOWS CLINICAL MEDALS.
Gold—Summer, 1848—Henry Briggs. Winter 1848-
49—J. R. Reynolds. Prize of 40/.—General Proficiency
—Henry Briggs.

SUMNER. TER3I, 1848-49.
PATHOLOGICAL -4,NAT031
1.
Gold Medal—Thunias G. Fitz,zf,rald.
3IEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
Prize—Henry Lawrence.

BOT kNY.—(Senior.)
Gold Medal—J. Z. Lawrence Silver—J. W. de
Tunzelnun.

James DeAry, who was convicted at the circuit of
the High Court of Justiciary, and left for execution at Jed-
burgh, has been reprieved, and is, in commutation of the ca-
pit,l sentence, to undergo the punishment of transportation
for lite. It appears that in this case the crime for which the
prison r was condemned was accompanied by great violence,
but the sentence has been altered on account of the absence
of special malice. Some navigators and others (of whom tne
prisoner was one) were in the ha!,,it of fighting and rioting
whenever they met. It was on one of these unhappy occa-
sinus that a fracas ensued, which the authtrities and mhabi-
tants of Jedburgh interfered to prevent, when the decease
wha was one of those engaged in the repression of the dis-
turbance, met his death in the row from the hands of
the prisoner, whose capital sentence, however, has been
commuted to the highest secondary punishment, in the ab-
sence of Apy proved deliberate malice oz
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