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PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

No. 108, (continued.)—lV. Education, Science,
and Art, Estimates, &c., Miscellaneous Services, for
the Year ending 31st March, 1845.—This estimate
shows an increase of 4.5,3761., as compared with that
of 1842, for the like services, and of 35,7931., compared
with last year. The services for the current year are
charged, respectively, as follows :—(1.) Public Edu-
cation, Great Britain, 40,0001. (2.) Ditto, Ireland,
72,0001. (3.) Schools of Design, 4,4101. (4.) Pro-
fessors of Oxford and Cambridge, 2,0061. (5.) Uni-
versity of London, 5,1881. (6.) Universities, &c.,
Scotland, 7,3801. (7.) Roman Catholic College, Ire-
land, 8,9281. (8 and 9.) Royal Irish Academy, and
Royal Hibernian Academy (each 3001.), 6001. (10.)
Royal Dublin Society, 6,850/. (11.) Belfast Acade-
mical Society, 2,1001. (12 and 13.) British Museum :
viz., Establishment, &c., 37,9871.; Ditto, Buildings,
46,030/. ; Ditto, Purchases, 3,2451. (14.) National
Gallery : Picture Purchases, and Expenses of the
Gallery, &c., 1,5001. (15.) Museum of Economic
Geology, 2,3001. (16.) Scientific Works and Experi-
ments, 7,2351. (17.) Monuments to Sir Sydney
Smith Lord De Saumarez, and Lord Exmouth,
1,5001. (18.) Agricultural Museum, of Edinburgh,
3,0001. (19.) Botanic Garden, Dublin, 2,0001.—1 n all,
256,260/. _ _

No. 108, (continued.)-Estimates, &c., Miscella-
neous Services for year ending March 31, 1845.-
(VI.) Superannuation and Retired Allowances and Gra-
tuities for Charitable and other purposes. This class
comprehends 18 Estimates :- (1.) Superannuation and
Retired Allowances; vote required, 86,9371. en
Toulonese and Corsican Emigrants; ditto, 6,2001.
(3) Vaccine Establishment; ditto, 1,8501. (4.)
Refuge for the Destitute ' • ditto, 3,000/. (5.) Polish
Refugees and Distressed Spaniards, 12,1001. (6.)
Miscellaneous Charges, formerly on the Civil List ;
ditto, 4,9321. (7.) Miscellaneous Charges, formerly
on the Hereditary Revenue of Scotland; ditto, 2,1541.
(8.) Foundling Hospital, Dublin ; ditto, 6,7671. (9.)
House of Industry, Dublin ; ditto, 13,4291. (10.)
Female Orphan House, Dublin ; ditto, 1,0001. (11.)
Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin; ditto, 2,5001.
(12.) Lying-in-Hospital, Dublin ; ditto, 1,0001.
(13.) Dr. Steevens's Hospital, Dublin; ditto, 1,5001.
(14.) Fever Hospital, Cork-street, Dublin ; ditto,
3,0001. (15.) Hospital for Incurables, Dublin ;
ditto, 5001. (16.) Board of Charitable Donations and
Bequests; ditto, 700/. (17.) Non-Conforming and
other Ministers, Ireland ; ditto, 35,6301. (18.) Con-
cordatum Fund, and other Charities and Allowances
in Ireland; ditto, 7,3401.--Total aggregate to be
voted, 190,539/., being a decrease of 4,852/. as com-
pared with the estimates of 1842, and of 1,767/. as
compared with those of 1843. The items of increase
on the comparison of last year are an excess of 6501.
on vote No. 1, and of 72/. on vote No. 6. The items
of decrease are the diminished charges for vote No.
2, by 500/. ' • vote No. 5, by 500/. ; vote No. 8, by
830/. ; vote No. 9, by 54414 and vote No. 18, by 135/.
The vote for Superannuations and Retired Allow-
ances embraces the Treasury, including Solicitor's
department, the three several departments of the
Home, Foreign, and Colonial Secretaries, Privy
Council Office, Board of Trade, Alien Office, State
Paper Office, Slave-trade Commissioners, Consuls
abroad, Convict Hulk Establishments, Insolvent
Debtors' Court, Audit, Stationery, Exchequer Bill
Offices, Exchequer Messengers, Paymaster-General,
Paymaster of Civil Services, Mint, Ditto in Scotland
(sinecure offices abolished), Deputy Keeper of Re-
galia (Scotland), Persons formerly employed on Roads
(Scotland), Public Offices in Ireland, late Linen
Board, &c., Paymaster of Civil Services, late Vice-
Treasurer and Teller of the Exchequer, Ireland
(1,5600, late Irish Annuity Office, National Debt
Office, &c.
No. 108, (continued.)-VII. Special and Tempo-
rary objects :-(1.) Tovvnland Survey of Ireland,
5,000/. (2.) Shannon Navigation, 2,997/. (3.) Am-
bassalor's Residence in Pans, 1,330/. (4.) Ambas-
sador's Residence at Constantinople, 10,0001. (5.)
Steam Navigation to India, 50,000/. (6.) Militia
and Volunteers in Canada, 16,6001.-In all, 85,927/.
Decrease, compared with 1843, 29,239/.
109. Civil Contingencies.-An account of the sum
expended, under the head of Civil Contingencies, in
the year 1843, and an estimate of the sum required
for 1844.-The total expenditure under the head for
the last year was very heavy; namely, 116,4051.
The estimated amount for the year, ending March 31,
1845, is 100,000/. Some of the items of last year's
actual expenditure we shall here particularise :-
1. Extraordinary Disbursements of Ministers at
Foreign Courts.-Under this head we are happy to
observe that there is a decrease as compared with the
year 1842 of 4,1811. The total amount is stated at
15,717/. ; in the preceding year it was 19,898/. ; but
on the charge of " Special Missions, Foreign and
Colonial," we find the enormous increase of 12,608/. ;
in 1842 this charge was 22,2571. For last year it
amounted to the enormous sum of 34,865/. Again,
whereas in 1842 the charge for Outfit and Equipage
of Ministers at Foreign Courts was nil, the expendi-
ture on this account last year was 6,680/. We must
observe, however, that the total aggregate of increase
on the expenditure of 1843, compared with 1842,
out of the general grant for these branches of civil
contingencies, was but 1,023/. ; and compared with
1841, it shows a decrease of 13,790/. These
" extraordinary disbursements" do not include the
salaries of our Ministers " at Foreign Courts," nor
of their attaches, but only such items as post-office
charges ; wages to servants ; charges incidental to
keeping up of official residences, &c. also, charge of
outfit and equipages. Our Ministers, whose expenses
are to this extent charged for in this estimate, are
those accredited to the Courts of France, Austria,
Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Frank-
fort, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Saxony, Wur-
temburg, Spain, Portugal, Buenos Ayres, New
Granada, Brazils, Mexico, Naples, Tusoany, Sardinia,
Greece,Constantinople, Hamburg, Hanover, and Texas.
Among a veriety of heavy charges, the equivalent
of which it is somewhat difficult to discover in the
items respectively set opposite to them, are the fol-
lowing :-Amount issued on account of the Right
Hon. Henry Ellis's special mission to the Emperor
of Brazil, 1,500/. ; amount expended for the Earl
Marshal's baton 104/. (!) ; the Commission ap-
pointed to settle the claims of British subjects who
served in the Portuguese Army and Navy, during
the war of liberation in Portugal, on account of
expenses of the Commission, 2,000/.
Miscellaneous Services.-Estimates, &c., for Miscel-

laneous Services for the year ending the 31st of March,
1845 —Colonial, Consular, and other Foreign Ser-
vices ; Civil Establishments and Expenses. These
services are thus enumerated:--1. Bahamas, 3,4101.
—2. Bermudas, 4,0491.-3. Prince Edward's Island,
3,070/.-4. Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 4001.-
5. Sierra Leor.e, Gambia, and Gold Coast, 13,680/.
6. St. Helena, 13,5001.-7. Western Australia,
7,219/.-8. South Australia, 3,775/.-9. Port Es-
sington, 4,2241.-10. Falkland Isles, 9,812/.-11.
New Zealand, 7,565/.-12. Heligoland, 1,023/.-
13. Governors and others, West Indies, 18,394/.-
14. Clergy, North America, 11,353/.-15. Indian
Departments, Canada, 18,895/. —l6. Emigration,
11,2821.-17. Justices in the West Indis, Mauri-
tius, &c., 49,7001.-18. Negro Education, 12,000/.-
19. Captured Negroes, support, &c., 35,000/.-20.
Commissioners for Suppression of Slave-trade,
24,0001.-21. Consuls abroad, 107,3001.-22. Mi-
nisters at Foreign Courts (extraordinary expenses),
20,0001. The aggregate of these items (379,651/.)
shows a decrease in 1844 of 44,2071., as compared
with 1842, and 46,9621., as compared with 1843.
Commissariat (No. 133, 19th March, 1844, H. C.)—
Abstract,: of the accounts of Commissariat Officers
abroad, during the period from Ist April, 1842, to
31st March, 1843. 'he abstracts are twenty-two in
number. The details of each are given with much
minuteness ; but their general contents are also di-
gested
into two accounts. The first of these (A) is
a " General Abstract of the Receipts into, and Dis-
bursements from, the several Commissariat Chests of
the following Colonial Stations," for the above period.
The second (B) purports to bean " Analysis oDis-
. bursements, or expenditure, for Commissariat Chest
Account in the Colonies."
i (A) The total receipts were--for Canada, 544 452/ •
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 159,645/. ; '"
New-
foundland, 24,955/. ; Bermuda, 83,995/. ; Bahamas,
27,414/. ; Windward and Leeward Islands, 302,2111.
Jamaica, 151,121/. ; Honduras, 16,352/. ; Gibraltar;
115,3951.,• Malta, 218,9181. ; lonian Islands, 71,5791.;'
Cape of Good Hope, 237,337/. ; Mauritius, 97,093/. ;
Sierra Leone, 40,804/. ; Gambia, 8,2161. ; Ceylon,
71,184/. ; New South Wales, 233,625/. ; Van Die-
men's Land, 276,352/. ; Western Austalia, 13,384/. ;
South Australia, 3,472/. ; St. Helena, 45,8411. ;
Mexico, 408,240.—Total, 3,151,586/. This Analysis
(A) is subdivided into the following heads—namely,
Amount of Bills drawn on the Treasury, 2,132,3221. ;
Premium, 44,828/. ; Specie received from England,
• 107,9331. ;.laprest betwom station 3, 469,723/.; scie

Repayable in England, 136,463/. ; Special Receipts,
200,8111.; Stoppages for Returns, 31,1151.; Miscella-
neous Receipts, 28,390/. Thelargestreceipts, therefore,
are returned respectively, for Gibraltar, Jamaica, Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, Malta, New South Wales,
the Cape of Good Hope, Van Diemen's Land, Windward
and Leward Islands, Mexico, and Canada. They were
severally, in the order abovenamed, these-115,3951.,
151,121/., 159,645/., 218,9181., 233,6251., 237,337/.,
276,352/., 302,2111., 408,2401., and 544,452/. (From
hence it appears that the receipts of Van Diemen's
Land were 42,747/. more than those of the mother
colony, New South Wales.) To the above total of
3,151,586/., must be added, for amount of balances in
the several Commissariat chests, on Ist April, 1842,
1,213,4891., making an aggregate receipt of 4,365,075/.
(B.) By this Analysis of Disbursements, it ap-
pears that, for Honduras, the payments were less than
the receipts by 5361.; for Ceylon, by 6/. only; for
New South Wales, by 6,669/.; for Van Diemen's
Land, by 23,814/. ; for South Australia, by 2071.
Almost all the other items show a very considerable
excess of payments over receipts; for example, the
lonian Islands, of 36,026/. ; the Cape of Good Hope,
of 31,327/. ; Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, of
23,275/. ; Mauritius, of 39,843/. ; Mexico, of 44,448/. ;
and Canada, of no less than 137,749/.
Loan Societies (No. 65, 28th February, H. C.)—
" Abstract of Accounts of Loan Societies in England
and Wales, to 31st December, 1843, by John Tidd
Pratt, Esq., the Barrister appointed to certify the
Rules of Saving Banks, pursuant to 3 and 4 Victoria,
c. 110, s. 27." Detailed accounts for fifteen counties
of England and Wales ; the cities of London, Lin-
coln, and Oxford ; and the towns of Leicester and
Southampton.

THE NORTHERN PITMEN.
(From the Newcastle Advertiser.)
We understand that the coalowners, after due deli-
beration, have come to the conclusion that they can-
not employ the men under the unreasonable regula-
tions and restrictions contained in the bond drawn by
Mr. Roberts, and approved by the delegates We
mentioned the commencement of fine weather, the
stock of coal on hand, the supply that could be pro-
cured from coal-producing districts, and the im-
poverished resources of the men themselves, and from '
these combined circumstances came to the conclusion
that the strike would not be of long duration ; but
we are sorry to learn that, in some instances, the pitmen
have resorted to illegal proceedings, and attempted
by force and intimidation to prevent others from exer-
cising the honest rights of industry. The pitmen
are not in a position to coerce the coalowners, and
the consequences must be ruinous to themselves,
as they must be ejected from their houses as soon
as a sufficient protective force gets into the dis-
trict. In several instanees the windows of non-
unionists have been broken, and personal violence
has been resorted to. At Castle Eden Colliery, the
owners attempted to send away the coals they had
lying at the bank previous to the strike, and as the re-
gular men refused to fill them into the waggons, strange
men were engaged for the purpose. They were attacked
by a large assemblage of men and women, who drove
them from their occupation, even though the rural po-
licemen of the district were employed to guard them
from molestation. In two or three instances severe
wounds were inflicted. At Garmondsway Moor Col-
liery, Brancepeth Park Colliery, Kelloe and Thornley
Colliery, similar outrages have been committed. The
Durham chronicle says:—
" We believe we may, with perfect confidence, state
that three-fourths of the pitmen would prefer to come
to terms at once with the colliery owners, rather than
incur the fearful consequences of a strike at all, much
less one of so extensive and destructive a character as
that which the arbitrary rule of their delegates, acting
under the guidance and conforming to the purposes
of their great legal director, has caused them, for the
present, to adopt. Intimations of this fact have not
been wanting ; but as the owners have no power to gua-
rantee the safety of the workmen from personal violence
from the class to which we have alluded, thousands of
well-disposed, industrious, and peaceable men, with their
wives and families, must be exposed to all the horrors of
poverty, unless the Government step in to afford that
protection which it is alone competent to extend."
Every exertion is being made to protect the property
and persons of the well-disposed. On Monday a troop
of the Bth Hussars, under the command of Captain
Desales, and a company of the 37th Regiment,
marched from this town to the city of Durham,
as a more central point,- should • their services be re-
quired. On the same morning a company of .sol-
diers left Sunderland barracks for Durham ; and
another company were under orders to start at eight
o'clock for South Hetton Colliery, but counter orders
reached the barracks on Sunday night, that they
were not to proceed until further orders. The pre-
ventive service men from Sunderland, Seaham, and
Castle Eden, went by railway, on Monday to Thornley
Colliery, where they will be stationed for the preserva-
tion of the peace. Upwards of seventy special constables
were sworn at South Hetton on Saturday. With all
these arrangements there is little danger of violence.
Since Saturday a considerable quantity of coals have
been brought down the railway to Sunderland, but it is
thought the supplies of the collieries that ship at that
port will soon be run out. It is said Lord Londonderry
has upwards of sixteen thousand chaldrons at bank, but
these will of course be shipped at Seaham.

HOURS OF LABOUR DURING LAST CENTURY.—
Most of the speakers in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill seem
to take for granted, that, previous to the invention of the
steam engine, and the consequent extension of the fac-
tory system, the hours of labour were much shorter than
they are at present ; and a great deal of, sentimentalism
has been wasted in the columns of the Morning Post, and
other journals, about the tendency of mechanical improve-
ments to increase, instead of abridging, the toil of manu-
facturing operatives. Unfortunately for Lord Ashley
and his followers, this notion, like nearly all the other
statements on which they build their theories, is not
founded on fact. At present the hours of laboir in
almost -every branch of industry are much shorter than.
they were a century ago; and this improvement is
chiefly owing, we believe, to the increased demand for
labour arising from the extension of manufactures. In
the London Tradesman, published in 1757, a table is
given of the hours of working in the various trades of
London and Westminster, from which we learn, that,
out of 220 trades, there were 32 in which the persons
employed worked 15 hours a day; 140 in which
they worked 14 hours; 19 in which they worked .13
hours; and only 29, out of the whole number, in which
the daily hours of labour were restricted to 12. We
have no means of comparing this calculation with any
general table of the working hours of the trades of Lon-
don at the present day; but we believe it will be found,
that, in most instances where 14 or 15 hours a day was
the rule previous to the extension of manufactures, 12
or 13 hours is the custom now. With all this improve-
ment, however, we feel persuaded that the hours of labour
may be made still shorter than they are at present, without
reducing the wages of the operative; but then it must
not be by legislative interference, or the remedy will be
worse than the disease. In the case of the London arti-
sans, the hours of labour have been reduced without the
aid of any Lord Ashley or Richard Oastler, but simply by
the increased demand for labour, which has taken place
during the last hundred years, and the consequent im-
provement in the condition of the workpeople. Should
we retain our manufacturing superiority, it is reasonable
to suppose that the same cause will continue to operate
in the same direction ; but, as the Ten Hours' Bill advo-
cates are opposed to the extension, and consequently to
the prosperity, of the manufacturing system, we cannot
help viewing them as the most dangerous opponents of a
salutary reduction of the hours of labour.—Manchester
Guardian.
THE PUBLIC OFFICES.—In these days of rigid
economy any diminution, however slight, occurring in the
expenditure of the various public offices and establishments
will, no doubt, be viewed with considerable satisfaction. A
Parliamentary paper, containing an abstract of the accounts
of every increase and diminution which has taken place
within the year 1843, the number of persons employed,
and the salaries, allowances, and expenses in all public
offices or departments, pursuant to the Act 4 and 5 William
IV., cap. 24, has just been printed by order of the House
of Commons. On examining this document we find that
whilst the gross total increase, which has occurred
during the past year in the salaries and emoluments of
the said public offices and establishments, amounts to the
sum of 82,837/. Is. Id., the gross total diminution which has
simultaneously taken place, amounts altogether to the sum
of 24,6861. 18s. 9d., leaving a balance of net increase in the
expenses entailed upon the public of 58,1501. 2s. 4d. The
gross total increase in the number of persons employed
amounts to 181, and the gross total decrease to 69, leaving a
balance of net increase amounting to 112. The principal in-
crease in the number of persons employed has occurred in the
Post-office department, in which 114 additional hands have
it appears been laid on. The largest increase, in a pecuniary
point of view, is to be witnessed in the departments of the
Custom-house, the Excise-office, the Post-office, the Stamp-
office, and the Registrar-General's office.
DANGEROUS FROLIC.—On Wednesday evening
last, shortly before nine o'clock, a most serious accident oc-
curred to a gentleman named Walmesley, residing at Plum-
stead. It appears that Mr. Walmesley was, accompanied by
a friend, returning from London to Plumstead in his brig, and
whilst proceeding along the road at a steady pace, the horse,
which is a most spirited animal, took fright at some young
fellows dressed up in a style which would do credit to any
madmen, and clashed off at a fearful rate across Blackheath,
precipitating Mr. Walmesley and his friend out of the gig
with frightful violence. Mr. Wahnesley's friend escaped
with a few slight bruises, but he was not so fortunate himself,
for upon being taken home and medical assistance called for,
it was discovered that he had broken his right arm in two
places, and dislocated his collar bone, besides receiving a
severe fracture of the skull on the right side, and some dread-
ful lacerations about various parts of his body ; altogether
the injuries he has received render it very doubtful whether
he can survive. The horse was stopped about half a mile
from the spot, uninjured, but the gig was literally dashed to
atoms. From what we could learn respecting the true cause
of the accident, it appears that for some time past three or
four young gentlemen had been in the habit, as they pass
through Greenwich and Woolwich every night, of dressing
themselves up in the most ludicrous style imaginable, and
throwing themselves about in all manner of attitudes, much
to the annoyance of all persons whom they meet. Doubtless
they have no intention of doing injury, but we trust this
may act as a warning to them in future.
Lord Stavordale experienced a serious accident
whilst riding through Benville-lane, in returning from the
Beaminster Board of Guardians on Thursday last. The horse
which his Lordship was riding suddenly stumbled, and threw
its rider, by which, we are sorry to say, his Lordship's arm
was broken below the elbow, and some severe bruises were
inflicted. His Lordship was then conveyed to Melbury in a
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, April 19.
(Before Sir JAMES WIGRAM.)
TAYLOR V. THE EARL OF LIAREWOOD.
In this case the bill was filed for the purpose of
proving an estate administered, and, amongst other pur-
poses, inquiring whether Daniel William Davidson had
come into actual possession of an estate to which he was
entitled under the will of Robert Davidson, made in the
year 1810. On the Bth of March, 1842, a decree was
made in the original cause. By that decree, it was re-
ferred to the Master to make inquiries as to the state of
the family, and also as to the accounts of the property ;
and it was ordered, that the Master should also inquire
and state whether Daniel Wilson Davidson, in the will
named, had come into actual possession of the estate ;
and if so, under what title and what circumstances. The
Master made his report, stating the facts.
MS HONOUR, after entering fully into all the points
of the case, declared it to be his opinion, that Daniel
Wilson Davidson was not in the actual possession of the
estate.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Aprill9.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court was occupied
i the whole morning in hear-
ing motions for new trials n cases which had been tried
at the last Lent assizes.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.

(Before the RECORDER, Aldermen HUNTER, GIBES, &c.)
William Read was indicted for that he did incite and pro-
cure one William Simpson to feloniously and maliciously cast
away and destroy- a certain vessel, called the " Colina," on
the high sea, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of
England, and also of the Central Criminal Court, with intent
to prejudice divers persons as part-owners of, or under-
writers to, the said vessel. There were several other counts,
varying the form, in one of which the captain (Simpson)
was charged as a principal in the felony. The prisoner
pleaded not guilty.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the case to the jury, and then pro-
ceeded to call witnesses ; but as the case was so recently
before the police-courts, and was then so fully reported, it
will be only necessary to give the evidence of Simpson who
had pleaded guilty.
Captain W. Simpson was then brought into Court in cus-
tody, and conducted to the witness-box. He stated that in
1840 he entered the employ of the prisoner first as a mate,
and then as commander of the Colina. He continued—After
making a voyage and returning to Ipswich, I told Mr. Read
that the vessel was leaky, and I had left her at Harwich for
repair. After that I went out in her again, and being still
leaky, she was put in the prisoner's ship-yard, and again re-
paired. When I told the prisoner about the vessel, he said
" It's a bad job you did not sink her." To that I replied "If
she had gone down we must have gone down with her."
(The witness gave his evidence in a very rambling manner,
so that he was at length placed on a bench near Judge.)
The prisoner afterwards said, I must make a voyage to
Newcastle to take a cargo of coals to Rotterdam. old
him she was not in a fit condition for it. The pri-
soner determined on her going. I sailed from the north
towards Rotterdam. When we neared the Brown Bank the
wind was S.W. by W. On Monday morning I saw several
fishing smacks about three miles from me. After I had been
some time in my berth I got up and went into the cabin. I
cut away a piece of plank and bored two holes with an auger,
and the water ran in. After I had done this I waited half an
hour below. I called the mate and told him the vessel had
sprung a leak, and that the water was running under my
bedstead. I ordered the men to the pumps, and they pumped
half an hour. I told the mate we had better leave her, and
we put out the long-boat. The crew took their clothes, and
I took mine. After we got into the boat we lay to near the
stern of the vessel about an hour and a half. A foreign vesscl
bore down upon us and took us up, and then we were put on
board a smack, to the owner of which I gave the long boat.
We were conveyed to London by the John Bull steamer.
When I got to Ipswich I told Read all about it, and he told
me not to give the particulars to Mr. Alexander.—The Court
then adjourned.
SECOND DAY, Arum 18.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant SHF,A—The letters pro-
duced are in my handwriting. I wrote two of them while
the Colina was in the Tyne (river), and one of them from
Shields. The Colina is registered at 156 tons of coals. I
think the freight of coals ibr Rotterdam would be about 901.
or 951. The provisions and stores of the vessel might be
worth 30/. 'When the vessel sank she was about sixtv-nine
miles from Rotterdam and about eighty from the-Texel.
The mate and a boy slept in the cabin with me, but they
were on the deck when I bored through the timber of the
vessel. I will not swear that the boy was not in his berth at
the time. I believe he was not. My reason for that is, be-
cause that night he was the mate's watch. Ido not think
that I told anything to anyone until March, 1843. In 1843
Mr. Page questioned me as to the fact of the Colina having
been sunk on purpose. I said to hint (Page) that there was
no truth in the story, for it was quite accidental. The vessel
was rather deep in the water, in consequence of her heavy
cargo. I bored the holes about four or five feet under water.
It was done with a trenail auger. lam unable to say what
diameter such an auger would produce, probably about an
inch and a quarter. I dq_ not know that the size of these
augers vary according to the tonnage of the vessel upon
which they are employed. I called the mate down to find
out the leak. He did not call me down, nor was lon
deck. When I was at Glasgow I believe that I threatened
to be revenged on Read for dismissing me from the Ranger.
I must have been intoxicated at the time if I said, " Read
shall never build another vessel at Ipswich if I can help
it." This (a letter handed to him) is my handwriting. [Put
in and read.]
"Newcastle, Jan. 4, 1844.
"Sir,—l received your letter this morning, dated the 28th.
You wish to know the particulars of what was stated. I
can assure you that I never said to any one that I was paid
to lose the Colina, nor that I had lost her purposely, or that
I had been uncomfortable ever since. This must have arisen
from the letter sent from Barking ; but, Sir, I can clear you
of the report, and myself likewise. I expect to leave next
Saturday, and if so, I am in hopes that I shall be at home in
a few days, and get all these false reports settled, and proved
to be false. " I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
"To E. Page, Esq., Ipswich. "W. SIMPSON."
Cross examination continued by Mr. Sergeant SHEA—I did
say that I had sunk the Colitis, purposely-to Gardener, and
afterwards wrote the letter which has just been read.
The case for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. Sergeant SHEA addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and proceeded to call evidence.
James Hudson—l am surveyor of the port of Stockton.
In June, 1840, the Colina was in a yard there for repair. I
examined her, and gave directions as to the repairs, as well
as a surveyor. When complete I certified that she was in
good repair and seaworthy for four years. She was a better
vessel than most of her kind that I have been in the habit of
seeing. Her timbers were good, and her tonnage 150. I
valued her at 71. per ton. I made a report at Lloyd's respect-
ing her. I have been connected with ship-building more
than forty years. I examined her thoroughly, and considered
her sound and seaworthy.
Henry Sadler, the mate of the Colina when on her last
voyage, deposed that he was on deck when site sprung a leak
near midnight. The ship had been pumped in the cus-
tomary way every four hours. She made about three inches
of water in four hours. At the time she sprung a leak there
was a " cross-grained" sea, which would try a vessel very
much. Finding the water gain fast I called the master. who
was in bed, and told hint that the ship as making water
fast. lam sure he did not call me. There were seven of
us on board, and we all worked at the pumps, one of which
got choked. Captain Simpson gave the necessary directions
for working and saving the vessel. The men worked bt the
pumps without intermission till one in the morning, when
her, so we it 'isted out
essel a good while. No
picked up by the Sarah
gtuh'aecii,fl,ootuningvadbstohnaeetar.er Nuvwasfe
but
h t(W)opene
eoawfre trsavinge
fishing smack, and transferred from her to the John Bull
steamer.
The five seamen and Chaplin, the apprentice, who were on
board at the time, confirmed this witness.
Many witnesses were called as to the character of the pri-
soner, who were seated on the bench, and in different parts of
the Court. Among them were—William May, Esq., the pre-
sent Mayor of Ipswich ; John May, Esq., his brothel; and
several Aldermen of that borough ; as well as merchants,
shipowners, and gentlemen of the highest respectability.
31r. CLAKSON replied.
Mr. Justice MAULS summed up. He told the jury that the
prisoner stood indicted fer being an.aseessory before the fact,
of a felony alleged to have been committed by one Mr. Simp-
son, or in the terms of the indictment, he was charged with
procuring and inciting Simpson to commit the said felony.
Having made some prefatory remarks, his Lordship read
over the prolix evidence, and remarked, as he proceeded
upon the prominent features of it, and pointed out the many
contradictions. His Lordship in conclusion, made many re-
marks favourable to the prisoner, and left it the jury to say
whether a person of such a character was guilty of such an
offence as that imputed to him ?
The jury without a minute's consultation, pronounced a
verdict of Not Guilty.
Plaudits proceeded from the audience on hearing the de-
cision.
The prisoner Simpson was then brought to the bar, and
asked whether he had any-thing to say why judgment should
not be passed upon hint according to law
The prisoner replied, 1 have spoken nothing but the truth.
The Learned JUDGE told hint that he stood convicted on
his own confession of a very heinous offence, and he had
aggravated it by an attempt to implicate and jeopardise the
lives of others. You are either guilty of the crime of perjury,
which is not so punishable as that of casting away a vessel,
or vou have in reality sunk the ship.
Prisoner—l did so, my Lord.
Mr. Justice Maule—Your case is one in which I can see no
mitigatory circumstances ; the sentence of the Court, there-
fore, is, that you be transported beyond the seas for the term
of your natural life.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
Q UE.EIy. S QUA
Maria Foster, a young woman, was charged with absenting
herself from the Chelsea workhouse, and with deserting her
female child.
Mr. Daniel Sutton, the master of the workhouse, said that
the defendant was an inmate of the workhouse up to Tuesday
last, when she absented herself, leaving a child, six years old,
chargeable to the parish. She was admitted to the workhouse
on the 7th March last, but had been an inmate three years ago,
when she was passed to her parish in the neighbourhood of
Brighten. She had not been to the workhouse since Tues-
day last; and having come there drunk, and at an unsea-
sonable hour, she was refused admission. He found her last
night, in a public-house in Chelsea, and gave her into custody
on the above charge.
Mr. Boxn inquired the amount of expense to which the
parish had been put in supporting the child since Tuesday.
Mr. Stitt on—Ei gh teenpence.
The defendant said she had been to the workhouse since
Tuesday, but not having an order, the porter refused to
admit her.
Mr. BOND committed the defendant to the House of Cor-
rection, and to be kept at hard labour for fourteen days.
Mr. Sutton said that when the term of her imprisonment.
had expired, he should send the child to the House of Cor-
rection, with an intimation that if the defendant thought
proper to return to the workhouse with her child, she would
be again admitted.
George Harris, a respectably-dressed young man, was
placed at the bar on the following charge :
Mrs. Oldham, a young married wotnan, said the defendant
was formerly in the habit of paying his addresses to her
sister; the connexion had, however, been broken off. The
defendant met her sister last evening in Bridge-street, when
he abused her, making use of highly improper language,
and followed her to her residence in John-street, forcing his
way into the house, and threatening to take her life. His
conduct was very violent. Her sister, from the defendants
misconduet, was unable to attend. Her father happened to
come in at the time, when the defendant struck him several
timeF, and threatened to choke him, and was not ejected
from the house without considerable difficulty.
Mr. Benjamin Riches, the father of the last witness, who
holds a situation in the House of Commons, corroborated her
videatel and said diet ha had erry Kw% to btlioyo tot

his daughter, as well as himself and family, were in danger
from the violence of the defendant. He had been guilty of
similar misconduct about. three months ago, when he was
brought to
was
office, but having promised not to repeat it,
the charge withdrawn.
The defendant, whose conduct during the examination
was very flippant, denied that he forced himself into the
house, but that he merely went there to speak to Miss Riches.
He did not, however, deny assaulting Mr. Riches.
Mr. BOND said the defendant's conduct was most im-
proper; he must pay the sum of 30s. for the assault, or in
default be committed to the House of Correction for three
weeks. He must also enter into sureties to keep the peace
towards Mr. Riches and his family.
UNION-HALL. _

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Elizabeth Ward, a young female in the service of Mr.
March, a gentleman in th• East India Company's Service,
was charged with stealing a silk handkerchief, a quantity of
tea, sugar, and a bottle of rum, the property of her master,
and Thomas Sirett, a baker, was charged with being found
concealed in the above gentleman's house for an unlawful
purpose.
It appeared that the policeman on duty on Peckham-rye
had his attention called to the circumstance of seeing a tall
stout young man, who afterwards f tuned out to be Sirett,
admitted into the complainant's house at very unreasonable
hours of the night, and let out again at day break.
The policeman havirg communicated the fact to the
family, a watch was accordingly kept, and between one
and two o'clock that morning both the prisoners were
found in the complainant's kitchen, regaling them-
selves wish supper, and a bottle of rum was placed be-
fore the male prisoner. Both of them were taken into cus-
tody; and when the girl's box was searched, a large quan-
tity of tea and sugar; together with a silk handkerchief, and
various other small articles, were found, all of which she had
pilfered from her master.
The policeman stated that he observed Sirett at least four
times admitted into the house, and had seen him leave again
early in the morning. He had since made inquiries relative
to Sirett, and found he was a journeyman baker, out of em-
ploy, and had the character of a loose idle fellow at Peckham.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that he regretted it was not in his
power to punish Sirett, to whose base conduct the other
prisoner had sacrificed not only her virtue but her
honesty. Had any of the articles produced been found in his
ptossession, he certainly should have sent him for trial. The
Magistrate then discharged Sirett, and remanded the other
prisoner for furthlr examination .

HORRIBLE MASSACRE IN ONE OF
THE SOUTH SEA ISLAN:JS.
The details of another attack on an English whaler and of
the slaughter of the whole crew by the natives of one of the
South Sea Islands, have just been received by the Sussex, a
whale ship belonging-to Mr. Lvall, MP. for the City of Lon .
don, under the command of Captain Hammer, wluch arrived
in the river the day before yesterday, after an absence of
four years and three months.
The particulars disc 'ose nothing calculated ti throw light
on the cause of the melancholy catastrophe. On the con-
trary, there appears to have been an absence of all motive
for the attack, except that arising from a desire to plunder ,
the ship, which, as will be seen by Captain Hamm, is state-
ment, was first burnt to the water's edge and then scuttled in
eight fathoms wa: er. The fiThowing details, kindly ,upplied
to the reporter by Captain Hammer, contain all the facts I
known in reference to the painful t,agedv
• Captain i lan-liner states that on the 30th of April last year,
having occasion to take in water, he bore clown towards the
island marked Quallan on the chart, but usually termed
Strong's Island by British seamen, being in lon. 162 E., lat.
6N. On auproaching the harbour he observed three Ameri-
can ships and one Canadian vessel lying at. anchor. These
vessels subsequently proved to be the Pacific, Captain
Rounds, frem St. John's, New Brunswick, and the Lydia. the
Lexington. and the Pearl, three American u: balers, As the
Sussex neared the isEnd the captains of each if these vessels
came off in boats to meet her, and Captain Rounds, of the
Pacific, immediately communicated to Captain Hammer the
fact that the wreck of an English whaler, called the Harriet,
belonging to the port of London, and commanded by Captain
Bunker, was lying in eight fathoms water within the har-
bour. Having each anchored at a convenient distance from
the shore, Captain Hammer returned with Captain Rounds
on board the Pacific, where portions of the Harriet's log-
book, her figure-head, anchor, &c., all of which had been re-
covered at that time, were shown to him, by which the
identity and fate of the vessel was placed beyond a doubt.
It then appeared that about six weeks previously Captain
Rounds having visited the same island had cast anchor in a
bay on the other side, and took in a native to assist his crew
in fishing. They put to sea, and in the course of a day or
two came up with a whale, which, after considerable
trouble, they captured. The native observed this, and re-
marked to the captain a few hours afterwards, " Why do
you keep looking about here for fish to procure oil? There
is a ship lying in the harbour full of it." It should here
be mentioned that the inhabitants of Strong's Island speak
the English language remarkably well, and, as the manner
of the native in question was such as to lead Captain
Rounds to believe that lie might place some reliance upon
his information, conceiving it also possible that a ship
might have been wrecked near the island, he at once deter-
mined to bear down upon it without loss of time. Arriving
there the man pointed out the spot where the ship lay, and
on soundings being taken, it was discovered that some large
object met the lead.x Captain Rounds then, with consider-
able ingenuity, rigged out one of his large oil-casks in the
form of a diving-bell, and having made the necessary pre-
parations a man was sent down, who immediately reported
the fact of the hull of a vessel burnt to the water's edge
lying beneath its surface in about eight fathoms. The Ame-
rican ships above-named, were lying in the harbour at this
time, and Captain Rounds at once commnnicr ted the cir-
cumstances which had come to his knowledge to the several
captains, when it was thought advisable to set an inquiry on
foot as to the fate of the crew, the name of the vessel, &c. A
formal application was made to the Loco sa, or principal chief
of the island, but for some days without any success.
Meanwhile Captain Rounds had recovered various articles
from the wreck, including the anchors and chains, a large
quantity of new iron hooping, which had evidently been
burnt to a white heat, the figure-head, the full-length figure
of a woman with a coronet, the lower dead eyes, and a large
quantity of rigging, &c. The whole of the oil barrels
remaining in the hold of the vessel were partially burnt, and
their contents, of course, wasted. Some few casks, however,
were subsequently found on the island, where they had, no
doubt, been placed by the natives after taking possession of
the vessel and before it was destroyed. It was well known
that when whaling ships touched at these islands the native
women frequently come on board in large number s, and, ge-
nerally- speaking, they are considered well- conducted savages.
On this occasion advantage was taken of their familiarity,
and the fact that a vessel had been attacked and the crew
murdered was elicited from several among them, and con-
firmed by a variety of circumstances. Captain Rounds then
decided on requiring an explanation of the whole affair from
the King or chief, and took an armed party on shore with
him for that purpose. The chief met the party, and ap-
peared considerably alarined at the manner in which Captain
Rounds pursued the investigation ; but, afttr several intei-
views, no satisfactory information was obtained on the sub-
ject. Captain Rounds insisted that the chief should repair
on board his ship, and even went so far as to threaten to
hang him in case some explanation was not afforded. The
chief himself appeared wining to go on board, but the natives
would not allow him, and at this point all further communi-
cation between them ceased; the natives taking to their
canoes, and seeking refuge within the creeks with which the
island abounds. Here it was found impossible to pursue
them, but from the women and a few stragglers among the
men the following particulars were obtained :
The Harriet had put into the island for wood and water,
and the intercourse between her crew and the natives was
apparently carried on in the usual friendly manner. A deep
plot, Itnvever, seems to have been laid by the natives, which
was at thc• same time wholly unsuspected by Captain Bunker.
One day, shortly after their' arrival, the captain and the sur-
geon wont ashore shooting—two boats' crews boim.r, engaged
in collecting wood, and one in taking in water. Out of a crew
of twenty-seven to thirty persons, only live remained on board
the ship, and this fact doubtless being observed by the na-
tives, who were anxiously watching an opportunity, they
simultaneously attacked the different parties, killing each
almost instantaneously. Resistance would appear to have
been hopeless, for, although the island is not more than
twenty-seven miles in circumference, it is very thickly popu-
lated, and from three hundred to four hundred natives were
frequently seen on the shore at one time by Captain Rounds.
The five persons who were on board ship at the time observed
the attack on their comrades, and, seeing a number of canoes
putting off towards the vessel, they hastily embarked in a
boat, and have not since been heard of, the probability being
that, as Strong's Island is situated at a long distance from
any other, they also must have perished in the course of the
few following days. In the course of Captain Round's inves-
tigations on the island he fortunately discovered four or five
leaves of the Harriet's log, from which it appeared that the
ship had recently been to Port Jackson for the purpose of
'undergoing some *Os, tiled the captain had made an entry
to the effect that he had had some trouble with his crew.
Finding all their enileivours fail to procure more information
the several ships aboYe alluded to bore up and stood away
from the island together—parting company some days sub.
sequentiv.
The Harriet was the property of Messrs. Boulcott, of Paul's-
wharf, London. She left England in June, 1839, and has
consequently been absent nearly five years. No tidings has
been heard of her during the last eighteen months, and her
owners had recently elected an additional insurance of
1,5001, making a total of 7,5001. Many of her crew left
at Sydney, whose places were supplied by others; it is there-
fore impossible to give the names of those lost correctly.
It is generally believed that three other vessels have been
destroyed in a similar manner at the same island, information
to that effect having been obtained by Captain Rounds.
These vessels are supposed to have belonged to some of the
Sandwich Islands—ships from that locality visiting Strong's
Island for the purpose of collecting the beach le mar, a species
of worm, in which a considerable trade is carried on with
China.
Captain Hammer states it as his opinion, that although
there may be no Englishmen resident on the island at pre-
sent, there must have been at some previous time, as the na-
tives are so well versed in the English language. He adds,
that the natives appeared extremely desirous to prevent his
becoming acquainted with any of the circumstances of the
affair, affecting a degree of indifference with regard to the
American captains. On entering the harbour it was sug-
gested to him that it might be advisable to hoist the Ameri-
can standard at the mast head, instead of the union jack.
This, however, he declined to do.
The Sussex brings home a cargo of 1,500 barrels.

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