The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING.
The Hibernia, Captain Judkins, which has
performed some extraordinarily quick passages
across the Atlantic, arrived here yesterday at one
o'clock, having, with fifty-six passengers, left
Boston on the afternoon of the Ist, and Halifax
at noon on the 3d instant, thus making the run
from the latter place in ten, and from the former
in twelve days, including the stoppage to take in
the mails, which, considering the season of the
year, is one of the most successful trips on re-
cord. Her dates are...nine days later than those
brought by the Liverpool.
Congress dragged its slow length along. No-
thing of interest has occurred in either House,
if we except - a furious onslaught which the
southern members, headed by Mr. Wise
had made upon Mr. John Quincey Adams,
for contending that Congress was bound
to receive the petitions of the people against
slavery, in accordance with the spirit of the
American declaration of independence. Pre-
vious exhibitions of the same kind were marked
by great bitterness of feeling against the aboli-
tionists; but the outbreak alluded to seems to
have excelled all that have gone before it in that
respect. Mr. Wise, in particular, distinguished
himself by his ridiculous violence.
The annexation of Texas is discussed in the pa-
pers, but the project, which is lay no means po-
pular in the north, seems to excite but little
enthusiasm, or even warmth of feeling in the
south, although more particularly interested in
the measure. But, however this favourite pro-
ject of the retiring President may have fallen still-
born upon the people, it is clear that the feelings
of the same authority with regard to the
Oregon territory, have excited more atten-
tion, and are more zealously responded to.
To take immediate possession of the dis-
puted territory, is the favourite topic of the
day. The British Government ought to lose no
time in settling this bone of contention, because
it is clear that, whatever the American Execu-
tive may wish to do—however honourably it may
be inclined to act, the impetuosity of thelpeople
will be in advance of diplomacy ; and by taking
peremptory possession, embroil the two Govern-
ments. The present excitement appears to have
been produced by what are termed the " British
agents" taking forcible possession of the land,
and selling portions of it to American settlers.
Repudiation becomes popular. One of the
New York papers says, "It is greatly to be re-
gretted that the doctrine of repudiation, in
several parts of the Western States, is openly
sustained and defended." As the tide of
emigration is continually flowing towards the
west, and as population, which is the basis of the
constitution of the Union, is more rapidly in-
creasing there than in the north or south, it is
poor consolation to reflect that the most dis-
honest portion of the coinmuniiy will soon be
paramount in Congress.
I Staten Island had been the scene of a horrid
murder. A woman named Houseman and her
infant, in the absence of her husband, who is a
seafaring man, had been murdered, and then
covered with a rag, which had been set fire to,
in order to consume the bodies. The atrocity
took place on Christmas eve or morning. A re-
ward of a thousand dollars had been offered for
the discovery of the murderers.
There appears to be nothing new or exciting
from Canada. The Welland Canal had been the
scene of another riot, produced by a police-
officer going to make an arrest. The officer was
met with an armed resistance, the troops were
called out, and the ringleaders were arrested.
Many of the labourers, it is added, had refused
the present prices, and destitution had made
them desperate.
The Stock and Money-markets of New York,
which at the date of the previous advices were
very buoyant, had sustained a check. The
prices of many descriptions of stock had fallen
considerably, and something like a panic had fol-
lowed, from which the Stock-market had not
recovered when the packet sailed.
• The Cotton-market was active, although the
most conflicting opinions still prevail respecting
the yield of the new crop.
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CANADA.
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNITED
LEGISLATURE.

Our advices from Canada this morning furnish
the speech of Sir Charles Metcalfe on the disso-
lution of the Parliament. The following are
the main points of this document. A Council
had not been formed when the advices left :
" Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative
Council, and Gentlemen of the, Legislative
Assembly :

"In consequence of the interruption which
our joint labours', have undergone, entirely
against my inclination, and from causes over
which I have had no control, I now meet you
for the purpose of relieving you from further
attendance in Parliament. I am sensible
of your unremitting application to your
arduous duties during the session which
has been so unexpectedly shortened ; and
I trust that the measures which you have passed,
and to which I have given the Royal assent in
her Majesty's name, will prove beneficial to the

country. Some Bills I have been under the ne-
cessity of reserving for the consideration of her
Majesty's Government, either from the imprac-
ticability of their being carried into execution,
owing to their depending on other measures
which have not passed into law, or from their
affecting the prerogative of the Crown, or being
of a character that, under the Royal instructions,
render that proceeding imperative."
His Excellency next thanks the Assembly for

the supplies granted ; and then, addressing both
branches of the Legislature, expresses a hope
that brotherly love will be secured, and that
" peace and happiness will render our country a
desirable place of refuge for the surplus popula-
tion of the parent country, whose settling here is
frought with benefit to themselves and the
colony."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Chancellor did not sit till 11 o'clock to-day.

MASSIE V. DRAKE.

The Court was occupied the whole morning with the
arguments in this case, which were commenced on Sa-
turday. The question on the case relates to the taxa-
tion.rof a Solicitor's bill, and possesses no point of interest
except to the parties concerned.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole morning with the part.heard case of Beresford v.
Armagh, which came before the Court upon exceptions
to the Master's Report.
(Before Sir J. WIGRAM.)
OSBORNE V. FOREMAN.

His HONOUR pronounced judgment in this case. The
bill was filed by some residuary legatees against the
trustees of real and personal estate, who were also the
executors. The case now came before the Court on a
point of form. It was determined by the Court upon
the construction of one of the last orders.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
MANDAMUS.—THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATIOX OF MAN.
CHESTER.—THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF BIR-
MINGHAM.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that it would be in
the recollection of the Court, that in each of theso cases
a rule for a mandamus had been directed to be made ab-
solute against the new corporations, ordering them to
award compensation to certain officers. That rule had
been directed to be drawn up in the alternative directed
either to the corporation or to the town council. Some
difficulty had arisen at the office in amending the rule,
so as to enable Counsel to direct it to whichever party
they might think fit.
Lord DENMAN—We always presume that the parties
brought before the Court are the right parties.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—There can be no doubt as
to the identity of the parties in the present case. The
town council and the corporation are essentially the same
parties, both are before the Court, and my application is,
to amend the rule so as to have it drawn up in accord-
ance with the directions of the Court.
Lord DENMAN—I should not imagine that there could
be any objection to thee—Application granted.
THE QUEEN V. SCOTON.
The defendant in this case bad been convicted at the
last Stafford assizes of perjury. A motion in arrest of
judgment had been made last term by Mr. Sergeant
Talfourd, and the Court had fixed this morning to give
judgment on Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's motion.
The ATTORNEY• GENERAL applied to the Court to
name some other day. The Court no doubt had intended
that the defendant should be present, in order that, if the
rule should be discharged he might be brought up for
judgment. The defendant was not present. Another
ground of his application was, that the case having been
tried before Mr. Justice Williams, it would be advisable
that that Learned Judge should be present when the
judgment of the Court should be delivered.
Lord DENMAN—We certainly intended that the de-
fendant should be present : let the case stand over until
this day week, and I will speak to ray brother Williams,
who will on that day come into this Court.
EXCHEQUEIt-(TIIIS DAY).
(Sittings in Banco.)
COFFIN V. BRAITHWAITE.
Mr. RICHARDS moved for a rule to show cause why the
verdict found for the plaintiff in this case, which was
tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe on Friday last, should not
be set aside and entered for the defendant, or why
judgment should not be arrested. It appeared that the
plaintiff, with a party of friends, intending to visit
Sheerness, embarked on board the Prince Albert steam-
boat. When off Gravesend, the captain caused the
plaintiff and his friends to disembark, believing them to
be members of the " swell mob," by which they were
put to considerable inconvenience, and were refused a
passage by any of the other steam-boats, from the pre-
judice which had been created against them. They
were obliged to take a carriage to town, and were con-
sequently put to considerable expense. The defendant
had paid 2/. 12s. into Court, the amount of the ex-
penses to which the plaintiff and his friends had been
put. Mr. Richards contended that the captain of the
steam-boat was not responsible for the annoyances to
which the party had been subjected from being !placed
under the surveillance of the police, and from the hoot-
ings of a mob of 200 persons.—Rule granted.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
HOLMES V. HODGE.
This was an action brought by a brewer to recover V.,
as the price: of two barrels of ale, alleged to have been
supplied to the defendant, who is a publican. The de-
fence was that the ale had been returned to the plaintiff
on account of its inferior quality, and the jury found for
the defendant.
Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL now obtained a rule nisi for a
new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against
evidence.
In three other cases, destitute of interest, the rule nisi
for a new trial was also granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

A respectable-looking man, who gave his name as
John Wylie, whose appearance indicated that he was
not in a perfect state of sanity, was brought up, charged
with stealing a cloth cloak from the house of Mr. C.
Evans, of Vere-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
The prisoner, it appeared, took lodgings in the prose-
cutor's house about a week ago, and, after he had been
there about three days, he suddenly left, taking with him
the cloak in question, which was worth 30s. Yesterday
he returned to the house, and asked if he and his wife
could have a bed. He was then given into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, denied that he had taken
the cloak. If he had done so it was not very likely that
he would have gone back to the same house to ask for
a bed.

Mr. HALL said he thought the prisoner had been
charged with a similar offence, before him, on a former
occasion, and, if he recollected rightly, he made the
same defence.

The prisoner—Yes, Sir, I was sent to Clerkenwell,
and there tried, and sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment. The reason of that was, that the certificate of
my insanity did not arrive in time.
The prisoner was remanded that search might be made
for the cloak.

MAR YLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
A very considerable degree of excitement was created
in the neighbourhood of Albany-street, New-road, yes-
terday evening, in consequence of the attempt by a man,
named William liansford, to murder his own son, Ar-
thur, a boy of eleven or twelve years of age, by beating
him about the head with a shovel. Fortunately, how-
ever, the alarm was given, and the interference of the
police prevented a fatal consummation. The boy was
taken to the University Hospital, where he lies in a
most critical state.

Alfred Hansford, the younger son, said that he lived
with his father, mother, and two elder brothers, at No. 3,
Munster-street, Albany-street. Arthur was the eldest,
and Edwin was the next to him. He then gave a long
account of quarrels and fights which had taken place
between his father and brother, and of the assault com-
plained of.
John King, 321 S, said that he heard cries of " Mur-
der" when on duty in Munster-street, and on running to
the prisoner's house, met him on the stairs, but not
knowing that he was the guilty person, permitted him to
pass. When he got into the room he saw the injured
boy in the centre of the floor, and his features quite un-
distinguishable from the blood. Ha supported him till
assistance came, and the only words he could articulate
were, " father," " asleep." Heard the prisoner after-
wards say that he " was aggravated the whole of the
day, and it was enough to drive a man mad." After-
wards, at the station-house, he said, " I am sorry for
what I have done."
Police-constable Harrod, 179 S, produced a shovel,
which was completely bent with the violence with which
it had been used upon the boy, and was deeply marked
with blood and hairs.
Police-constable Vickers, 183 S, took the prisoner into
custody. He said, "I am the man. I meant to pay him
out, for he had aggravated me all day."
Ho was remanded for a week.

Count Baptiste Metaxa has arrived from Greece, at
Mivart's Hotel.

PEDESTRIANISAI UNPARALLELED.—B. Riding, alias
the Morniisg Star, who has undertaken to walk 1,500
miles in 1,500 successive hours, last night, at 12 o'clock,
completed the unparalleled number of 1,120 miles, a feat
hitherto unheard of, and there is not the least doubt
(sickness and accidents accepted) that he will accomplish
his arduous undertaking, for which he has, as yet, been
but very indifferently rewarded. He is walking from
the Grey Hound Inn, York-road, to the Crow Trees and
back: It is the Pedestrian's intention to walk one mile
at the commencement of every hour for the last 100
miles.—Leeds Mercury.
Sir Robert Peel has had an electioneering " re-
fresher," in the shape of a dinner given by Captain
Townshend to his own supporters in Tamworth. The
speeches were hotly anti-Ministerial. Captain Towns-
hend promised to stand by the borough in future con-
tests. " Often had it been said to him How useless
for you to measure your strength with Peel I' but hr
knew that when Peel was nothing, his family had for
ages been established in that borough."—(Tremendous
cheering.)—Hull Advertiser.

SUMMARY OF rF,Ws

A N D

littblir C--)ptittolix.

" Who rvas may rca'!."

.7001ZIOCGAT.
The French Minister of Finance, M. Lacave La'
plague, brought forward the annual budget; on Friday.
It is of a very favourable character.
On Thursday evening their Majesties received the
Sardinian Ambassador, the Ministers of Sw.a den sod
Tuscany. Prince Soutzo, the Duke de Trevise, the Mar-
quis de Walmatie, Generals Jacqueminot and Aupiek,
Count de Zea. Bermudez, Count de Colombi, Count and
Countess Werner de Merode, and other persons of reok"
Lady Alexandrina Vane, who has been seriously in-
disposed, is fast recovering.
Lord Alvanley has arrived at Paris on his virlY tc
Italy, and alighted at the Hotel Sinet.
M. Desfontaine, one of the supplementary judges O
the tribunal of Lille, appeared on Friday before tl2e
Court of Cassation to the charge against him of having",
visited the Duke de Bordeaux in London. The proceed.
ings were carried on wiih closed doors ; but the Gazette
de France of yesterday evening states that the judgment
of the Court, after a deliberation of four hours, was ebn-
sure and reprimand.
The /limn/ear publishes a circular of the questots ofd
the Chamber of Deputies, informing the Peers that
seats would be reserved to them in the hall of the House
during the debate on the Address, and that the Members
of the British Parliament at present in Paris would be‘
admitted into the Peers' gallery.
The Madrid Gazette of the Bth contains a Royal or-
dinance, countersigned by the Minister of Finance, to..
restore Queen Christina to the e njoyment of hernsion.
" Queen Christina," says the Constitutionnel,pe " cer-
tainly did intend to go to Madrid, but the preparations
for her departure are countermanded, and she seems to
have decided upon remaining at Paris, continuing to re-
side in the Rue de Courcelles."
A letter from Alexandria st ntes that Ibrahim Pitch&
has confided the education of his sans to a learned u-
has
mathematician, M. Othan,la re, who studied seve'
ral years in Paris. This is, we b,t, Have, the first time
that an European tutor has been chol en by a Mahometall
Prince for the education of his childe, en.
The Duke de Nemours was to leave Paris for Brussels
in the course of the week, accumpanit d by the Prince'
and Princess de Joinville.
It is stated, in a letter from the Hag u_._e of the Bth,
that the Count of Nassau, ex-Xing of . Holland, gave
away daily to private families win) could nof submit to
solicit public charity, not less than 1,000 florins, or nearly
thirty thousand pounds sterling per annum.
His Royal Highness Duke Maximilian of ,Bavaria
arrived in Paris, and has alighted at the .Hotel c 145
Princes, Rue Richelieu.

PUBIaq OPINION.
The Times remarks, is an article suggested byr a letter,
of Mr. T. Attwood on thy; currency :—" Whatevi ?r raig e;
have been our position :n 1818, we have now pledgeZ
ourselves to pay our debts in an appreciated si aindar.ut
On the strength of that pledge of ours, the greater Po
of the national debt has probably changed hands halt
dozen times. Infants, widows, old or helpless persons
charitable trustees, and sober men of business, have We.
vested their money in the funds at an augmented vela.;
and are living in confidence on the income which the
,a
debtor has guarankied to them. The thing is done, s,uo,
it is too late to wi
finite bargain ekpressed in a certain nonvenclatore-;
Ihdraw. We are now boi'ind by a
pounds, shillings, and pence. To cancel our
impossible. To evade it by arbitrarily chat ging did
nomenclature is, a piece of tyrannous rascality. It wo
be quite another thing, if such, a change were 130 be 41;:jr
rated by nattural causes. Of thiscredit, we and our credit
st
like every °Veer debtor and every other creditor,
take our chance. If; by
circumstances over which
tiler we nee. they have the control, the value of ra°"eb
rises, so rnuch the better for them,—if it falls, so Wu"
the better for us."
We clliote the following from the Post :—" T he leti.jf
ing journal of the Anti-Corn-law League party ,552,15'00,
the G(ivernment proceed in Ireland against Mr. u Thot
nell, land will not—as they dare not—pursue a. 5'1331„0.
course against Mr. Cobden, they will make the m055t71,0
questionable admission, that they are unable to enter"tbe
lists against the repealer of the corn-laws, and that ~c 1
ktelings, wishes, and opinions of the most intelligent
influential classes in this country are in his fa-07
:With respect to this we wish to say, that we thinlc
who hold right principles of government must be a' 151
fled that the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law Lea
are as much opposed to the right and wholesome act
of government in this country, as the proceedings of 0
O'Connell in Ireland are at variance with the due setlitot
of government in that kingdom. Any systematic p9P".,3%
agitation against the law, and for the purpose of bringl ,0
the law into general odium by violent declamation agaiti.
it, ought to be put down."
The Herald says :—" We have heard lately of Oil
runnings to and fro of the Whig underlings—the Cli?reio
Bullers and Edward Stanleys ; whose endeavours ee.,ij
to be devoted, at the present moment, to form a naff',ie
' compact alliance' between the members of the 10
Cabinet and the Anti-Corn-law League. True,
broad and unqualified declaration of the head of 'IA
Cabinet, Lord Melbourne, stands rather awkwarclelitbe
their:way As to the notion of a total repeal 01 toe
present laws, I declare before God that it seems too!
the maddest scheme that ever entered the brain of 11 r
ty
man So protoatod tho leader and mouthpiece e'ido.
Whig Administration—no one of his colleague% rop,
testing against this unqualified language. To talc ef
then, in less than three years, this same 'maddest" e.no
imaginable notions, would be, if possible, an
even in Whig inconsistency and tergiversation. it)
Lord John Russell is said to be in communication?*
Earl Spencer on this very topic, and the tone 0'
Fox Maule's speech exhibits the same tendency.'
The Chronicle, speaking of the Anti-Corn-law LOsis,
societies, says—" The formation of these associaticalso,
in fact, calculated to aid the progress of corn-law rerip
The more discussion the better for us. The more,e
advocates of protection disseminate their calculalv-tlo
and arguments, and invectives, the more apparel Ado
they make the hollowness and selfishness of their C9'hYi:
Let them work away, and agitate with all their Wig:eft
theirs is a false creed, to which they never can con of
any man by argument—a shabby cause, in favoutg.
which they can kindle no flame of popular fe
These associations will just put the fallacies of the Poi
tective system in a more precise shape, and, conseque ~,1/01
in one which will prevent their deceiving any one. of
will make many think and examine the foundation so
their creed, who now, without inquiry, swell the sbais,
for protection ; and the most striking result of the dot
cussion will, probably, be that, as always happens in the
cases, the best and sincerest of the farmers will, In of
course of the discussion, be converted to the side
justice and good sense."
COURT—P.ASHIONABI.E. °sll'
His Royal Highness Prince Albert (says the oft
who has shot every day, since the arrival of the V9te
at Claremont, over the preserves of his Majestliid
King of the Belgians, has not experienced the exee,rili3
sport which the Prince had been led to anticipate. 'Ol
is the more extraordinary, as the strictest order!, (10;
been issued to preserve, with the greatest care, everjosi
scription of game upon the Royal manor. His
Highness, on Saturday, attended by Lord Rivers,
Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir Edward Bowater, and ~
E. Anson, rode to Oxshott farm, to shoot over the rope
serves in that vicinity. Only twenty-six head of g,§
were bagged, viz., eleven hares, thirteen pheasSe''
snipe, and a woodcock. ;be
Lady Peel and family come to town next week ferebitil
season from Drayton Manor. Mr. William Peel,,,,l'rtr
son of the Right lion. the Premier, has gone to ty
mouth to pursue his professional studies on hesrPo,l '
Excellent. It is thought that he will obtain Witco's.--
sion in April. tali
The Duchess of Buccleuch is expected at Dttseef
House early in the ensuing week from Dalkeith x7Oll
near Edinburgh. The Duchess comes to town exPrklye
to attend on her Majesty as Mistress of the Robes
opening of Parliament,
:II Of,
Viscountess Canning and Lady Sarah Savx.-e„faiie
arrived in Grosvenor-square, from visiting the MP.; i 0
and Marchioness of Waterford, at Curraghtner°
Ireland. ;120
Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence closed his visit toji•
Earl of Yarborough, at Brocklesby, on Monday! I'
now making a tour of visits in the midland countle°,:te
The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford are ;7, is‘
ing with the Duke and Duchess of MarlborOUP
Blenheim, near Woodstock. Their intended tour t°
Continent is abandoned.
maTinheinEtoawrinadnudriCngoutuhteeswsinetferM. ornLaidyngtmonairnyteßnal :100
Misses Bagot, who are staying with the Hon. ,
and Mrs. Howard, at their seat in Staffordsh'
shortly expected in town. Vllll5
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine -;
have arrived at Burghley, on a visit to the MariPsot of
Marchioness of Exeter, from Belton House, the se
the Earl and Countess of Brownlow.
Colonel Peel has takea the Duke of Beaufort
mansion in Park-place, St. James's, for a tern 3, s,tioce'
shortly remove from the Stable-yard, St. Jaraes'sl-
MISCELLANEOUS. 111°
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On Saturday a General Court of the Governors po
Hospital for Seamen of all Nations was held illeool;
William-street, Strand. It appeared, from the SO
that the Society during the past year had fallen °, 70P
donations to the extent of .5001, and was in deb'orist,
although its expenditure had been 2001. less thanea is t
the previous year. The number of seamen admit'be
the hospital during the past quarter has been--from fe't
Majesty's ships, 55 ; British and foreign merehnolleo,
sels, 721 ;on beard, 176—total, 952. The total 1/46,00
received since the first establishment in 1821 want
Lord Morpeth intends to appear at the gro
Riding Free-trade Dinner, fixed for the 31st. .00 PA,
One hundred and fifty-four gentlemen have gibe o'l
requisite notices of their intention to apply toatieelie
nutted attorneys to practice in the Court 01 west)
Bench during the present term, and there are
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eight notices of application for re-admission 0400 pb 40
Mr. Lumley, the manager of her Majesty's -`l,
London, is now in Paris, on his return from Its'',..'o'ool
he has been making engagements for the OP' of
season, which commences in February. tiengeSt
From the yearly statement of the (Wel nal. 0t
Charing-cross Hospital, it appears that 7,337 get' ti
sick persons were admitted on the books for rents, 0:i,
a cost of 2,531 L Of these 1,120 were in-pate iesTi
6,217 were out-patients. This hospital was til.f.sdsfijoil
tuted in the year 1818, since which time it has bstep tie
risen in the estimation of the public, and has a
since
no fewer than 93,258 sick and needy individuals
commencement up to the present time.
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