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Opernowick, as they will of course have left the
Whale Fish Islands before we can possibly get there.
I sent a duplicate of the first sheet with some ad-
ditions by the Danish packet, which I am now glad I
did, as a heavy gale, after leaving Holsteinburg on the
30Th, prevented her reaching the cod fishermen, and
we were so unfortunate as to arrive at Whale Fish
Island two days after the Transport had left, when
my hope of being able to send this and all other
letters by her were at an end ; but I still expect to
fall in with the North Star. The squadron under
Captain Austin are only 14 days and the two Ameri-
can schooners only four days before us, and we have
no doubt of getting up with them at Operaowick.
We got the coals that have been left for us by the
whaler, completed our water, and sailed in 20 hours.
From the appearance of wind and weather I was
tempted to risk the Weigatt Straits, by which I
could gain some leagues on the other vessels, and I
happily succeeded, but I would not on any account
run such a risk again, the navigation being both
dangerous and intricate, and I am sure Captain Aus-
tin's vessels could not have accomplished it.
July B—We have since had light winds, and are
within 400 miles of Lancaster Sound, where I shall
lay down my pen till an opportunity offers. All well.
July 23—1 forgot to mention that neither Captain
Austin nor the Americans obtained an interpreter, and
I am, therefore, the less sorry that I lost so much
time at Holsteinburg, but I believe that Capt. Penny
got on to Opernowick. We have since fallen in with
' the remaining whalers, which I know, from the heavy
state of the ice, would fail in getting round to the west
land until the fishing season was over.

FRANCE.

t.'eaF.es which have been entered into with Spain and
Bc 'azil being carried into immediate effect."
DUNLOP, Esq , seconded the resolution. Passed
unan, imously.

The following is the article, for the publication of
which, in the Corsaire, prosecution of MM. Cour-
tois and Laurent has been ordered :

" A salary of 500,000 francs was abundantly suf-
ficient fur the expenses of the First Consul, who com-
bined the greatest glory with the simplicity of the
manners of Washington. In our day millions are
not enough for a President. He has already been ,
obliged to extend his hand, which had narrowly
escaped being rejected, and soon the emptied box will
be presented again. We must do to certain persons
the justice to say that they drink healths and smoke
with the first comer—private soldier or General, it is
all the same to them. Napoleon felt disgust at swillers
and gluttons as well as at smokers. He was never seen
handing a cigar to a soldier, and during his reviews
there was no champagne nor grilled fowls. He was
not the flatterer of the soldiers, and he regaled them
only with glory. To his troops, when attenuated by
hunger, and who cried bread, bread,' the young
General of the army of Italy replied 'Bread ! before
eight days you shall have it and to spare.' This un-
comfortable consolation was sufficient. That bread,
so long waited for, came. But, in the mean time, the
enemy appeared. As at Malplaquet the bread was
cast away, the soldiers rushed into fire, they beat the
Austrians, and then returned gaily to eat a morsel of
barley bread moistened with spring water. Since
that time, when people were fed with glory, how
cookery has progressed! On the 18th Brumaire,
General Bonaparte, in answer to those who demanded
guarantees, cried, Grenadiers ! have I ever deceived
you when I promised you victory ?' In our day,
in similar circumstances, the reply would he,
Grenadiers, have I ever deceived you when I pro-
mised you good cheer ?' In the time of the Em-
peror, to obtain a decoration, it was necessary to have
deserved it—such little importance was set on the re-
cognition of services to come. In the baggage of
Napoleon there were no barrels of crosses by way of
provision, and no shovels to distribute them. Yet,
let us not be deceived, the era of the Caesars, predicted
by a guest of the Elysee, has commenced. It has
been already remarked that soup makes the soldier.
In our day, and with perfectly liberal views, cham-
pagne, trailed fowls, and Havannah cigars form the
materiel of reviews. But, is the gratitude of a full
stomach more lively or more lasting than that of
the heart ? I❑ their decline the Roman soldiers
touched the stomachs of their,officers, and flung away
the helmet and the cuirasse which had become too
heavy for their effeminacy. In our days disregard
for discipline, and forgetfulness of glory, would be
still worse, and, what is the saddest of all, the disorder
comes from a high quarter. A society of the 10th of
December would seem to the Emperor a strange
means of government. Disorder under the appellation
of beneficence! I repeat to you that, in our days, if
the sword of Austerlitz do not end in an old curiosity
shop, it will be turned into a spit, and that of the
Elysee into a larding-pin. The buckler of Francis I.
will become a turbot dish, and his cuirasse a frying-
pan. The glorious sword of Aumale and of Ivrey,
which already fell into the hands of a cheffonier of
July, will become a bacon knife, and the column of
July be made into pots."
A letter from Lorient of the 25th inst. gives the
following description of a lately-invented bullet of a
most destructive nature :

A SSETS.

JO.TIN MACGREGOR, Esq , M.P., was then intro-
ducect, and was very warmly received. He said there
had been entrusted to him a resolution, which he was
now to .move for their approval. hating slavery as
he did, earnestly desiring the suppression of the slave
traffic, and believing that the present juncture was
one peculiarly favourable for attaining that object, he
could not but feel proud that this great city had
moved in tile matter, and promulgated a plan of ac-
tion, such as would, if well carried uut, go far to ren-
der certain ele success of what was so desirable. The
feeling of the people of this country had long been
strongly inimiical to slavery—since the period of the
last war—he i neant that which terminated in 1815.
So strong was the feeling then, that one of the first
instructions of Lord Liverpool to the British repre-
sentative of the Congress of Vienna was to secure the
consent of all the powers to issue a declaration against
the slave trade. Accordingly, in a little time a so-
lemn declaration was issued and agreed to by Austria,
England, Ruasia, Prussia, Sweden, and France, as
well as Spain and Portugal, in which it was deter-
mined that the slave traffic should cease for ever; and
ever since that period England had been carrying on
negotiations to completely attain that object.
As far as the United States were concerned, they
had most implicitly observed their stipulations as
regards the trade. So had France in respect to hers,
and conjointly with Britain she had maintained the
squadron for the blockade of the African coast, in
order thereby to extinguish it. Now, with regard to
the treaty with Spain, he must say that if they had a
right to look for the bservance of faith with them by
any country, that country was Spain. She was under
the greatest obligations to England. But for the
liberal sums they had expended, and the aid they had
given her in the Peninsular war, her monarchy
would not now have been in existence. But not to
speak of that, or the assistance they had given her in
securing her independence against Don Carlos, he
might refer to the vast sums she was indebted for to
British commerce and industry. He did not speak of
the 409,000/. mentioned, which was given to indem-
nify parties who might lose by the suppression of the
tradedbut to the one hundred and seventy-two mil-
lions of British capital which she owed, and which, he
thought, must be held to give them an extraordinary
claim upon her. If they were to join earnestly and
sinctrely in the attempt to put down the traffic, he
certainly was of opinion that it could be much
more efficiently done by stationing a poition of
the squadron off the coast of Cuba, to pre-
vent the approach of the shivers, than by
keeping the whole on the coast of Africa,
with the view of thwarting their getting off. Be
believed that the present Government, or at all events
the Noble Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs, was
anxious to adopt such a course. It unfortunately
happened, however, that if Lord Palmerston was to
make any move in this direction, there was a party
ready to cry out that he was desirous to involve us
in war. Now, be knew that there was no man more
anxious to preserve peace between the United King-
dom, and other countries than Lord Palmerston. Ile
had hid the honour to be employed under him for
several years upon foreign missions, and he was per-
suaded-that no man could hare been more anxious to
do all in his power to avoid war than he was after the
revoluticin of 1830. But somehow it did happen that
there w 9 always a factiob ready on every occasion to
eland tli§ public, by declaring that he was going to in.
voliethe country in war. He (Mr. Macgregor) believed
he neverlvould•do so--4Cheers)—while he was sure,
at the same time, that I.e would take care to claim
the rights of British subjects in every country. He
now came to the question of Brazil, and he must con-
fess that here was a greater difficulty presented than
in the other instance. They might certainly send
the half of the African squadron to blockade the
coast of Brazil, and they thereby would do much to
prevent the importation of slaves, but such a course
would be objected to by traders, and by the mere
utilitarians. He hailed their present meeting with
badgreat to
delight
propose
contained
a ihope.ned a reference The
resolution u
theirtion Nwvheiscthl
In-
dian islands, and the prejudicial effects on them
re
st
of competition. Adhering as strongly as he had ever
done to the principles of free trade, he must say, as
regards West India distress, that to slavery, in great
part, it must be ascribed. That was the main draw-
back to the prosperity of their West India colonies.
Suppose slavery abolished, and he had no doubt be-
sides, that from the increased value of labour in Cuba

July 17, lat. 73.36 north : off Cape. Shakleston—On
the morning we suddenly fell in with five of the
whalers, who, seeing it improbable that they could get
round the north end of the ice, were running to the
south to try the passage to the west land in lat. 71.
They reported that in the gale of the 12th the Ame-
rican vessels were beset off the Devil's Thumb, where
they still remained, about 30 miles north of ug, where
we could see them, but that Clptains Penny and
Austin's squadron were in lat. 74.40, and bare up in
the storm, and will probably reach Melville Bay,
where we would find them; that all of us would no
doubt get round the middle ice, but it would pro-
bably be late. We found little field-ice, which was
very favourable for the steamers, but a great many
icebergs. I gave a short note to Captain Leuchar, of
the True Love, but I suppose you will receive this
first. The south-west storm of the 12th was very se-
vere, and damaged the bulwarks of the Mary, but that
was of no consequence, as we had to take them away
and have now converted her into a row•galley as well
as a sailing-vessel. She will row 10 oars, and I think
will do the work better than any that has navigated
the Arctic Seas.

On the 19th of July we spoke five more whalers,
all standing to the southward ; and in the evening
communicated with the Prince Albert, which followed
us closely, occasionally assisting each other tbrough
the intricate passages among the ice, with which we
were now constantly surrounded..
On the 23d of July we communicated with seven
more of the whalers, which were running south,
having given up as hopeless the idea of making
the north passage in time to reach the fishing ground
on the west land this season.

Oa the 25th of July we discovered her Majesty's
ships, commanded by Captain Austin, and also the
,two vessels commanded by Captain Penny. We were
now in lat. 75 deg. 11 min. 10 sec. north, and long.
59 deg. 38 min. west of Brown's Islands; and having
gained the land ice, were in hopes of overtaking her
Majesty's ships, which were then beset
W4l: P t i& We continued bar Aabbittr. in
,icuttitigy forging,. anfl,trankin b daily gal aidgl on
them ; but Captain Penny gained also, and at last got
out of sight.
It was not until Saturday evening, the 11th of
August, that we overtook them, and on Sunday Cap-
tain Austin came on board the Felix, as also Captain
Ommanney and Lieutenant Cator.
Our communication (as became officers of the
Royal Navy) was unreserved. I gave Captain Austin
a written statement of my intentions and views con-
sequent on the late and unfavourable season ; our co-
operation was determined on, and I was in return
furnished with a copy of his orders to those under his
command ; and, after discussion, in order that the
whole field of ice should be simultaneously explored,
as the best mode of discovering the position of the
missing ships, it was agreed that the Resolute and
Pioneer, beginning at Pond's Bay, should examine
the whole south coast of Lancaster Sound, Barrow's
Strait, and, if possible, Cape Walker ; that the As-
sistance and Intrepid, beginning at Cape Warren-
der, should examine the north coast of Lancaster
Sound and Barrow's Strait, as far as Wellington
channel, which they were directed to enter, and, if
possible, communicate with Captain Penny, whose
orders directed his attention to Jones' Sound ; that
the Felix and Mary, beginning at Cape Hotham,
were to examine that and the different headlands to
Melville Island, and, if possible, to Bank's Land. My
plans of communicating with each other were ap-
proved of, and Captain Forsyth, in the Prince
Albert, was to proceed to Brentford Bay and endea-
vour to cross the Isthmus and survey the west side of
Boothia Felix.

" M. Lagrange, an apothecary, residing in this town,
'las been for the last fifteen years labouring at the
preparation of a bullet of the most destructive kind.
Although it appears that he had completed his labours
for some time,, he did not communicate his discovery
ttiq gftverLyneia,t, until within the last few days.
e ; bra ent,._(Pkto. thg effect,, proclused_ by t hot e
millets has 'been made under the inspection- of
Admirals La Susse and La Guerre, Lieutenant-
General Laplace of the Artillery, and of a
commission appointed by Government. The success
of the experiment is said to have exceeded all expec-
tation. Each bullet on striking the object against
which it was directed, exploded with a detonation as
loud as that of the gun from which it was fired, and
proluced a most destructive effect. It bursts in-
stantly on striking any object which opposes resist-
ance, whether it be earth, wood, or stone. At the
conclusion of the trial the members of the commission,
addressing the inventor, said, Sir, your name ought
to be inscribed amongst the members of the Peace
Congress, for after your invention it will be impos-
sible to think of making war.' M. Lagrange asserts
that with a gun-boat, armed with four pieces of can-
non, he could sink a ship of 120 guns in twenty mi-
nutes. He is in treaty with the Government for the
sale of his secret."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The German papers have telegraphic dispatches
from Hamburgh and Copenhagen of the 26th inst.
The Commander of the Danish troops has received
instructions to prohibit the navigation on the Eyder,
in case such a measure should be recommended by
military necessities.
The King of Denmark and the Prince Ferdinand
have left Copenhagen for Flensburg, where they in-
tend to remain for a term of eight days.

and Porto Rico, a great encouragement to the free
colonial labour would take place'; it would be more
in demand, and commercial activity and success
would advance in a proportionate ratio. This remark
he thought was completely applicable as respecti alike
Jamaica, Guiana, and Trinidad. It was an observa-
tion with regard to the commercial opinions he held
as respected the policy which had been carried out
by the late Sir Robert Peel, and adhered to by the
Ministry which had succeeded that great statesman—
that virtuous and good man. Of that system of fiscal
policy, alike as it respects the West India colonies
and the country at large, of that policy he approved,
and begged to state, that while on moral and com-
mercial grounds he desired the abolition of slavery,
and regarded it as an obstacle to West Indian pros-
perity, he could never consent, because of the distress
that might prevail there, to return to the principle of
monopoly. Mr. Macgregor concluded, amid applause,
by moving the following resolution :—" That this
meeting is of opinion that the depression and distress
of our West India colonies have been greatly aggra-
vated by the non-observance of the slave-trade treaties
on the part of Spain and Brazil, and that some of the
best results anticipated from colonial emancipation
have been frustrated by the continuance of the slave
traffic."

We now proceeded in company, and the weather
being calm and peculiarly favourable for the steamers,
the Felix was occasionally towed by the Pioneer and
Resolute, while the Prince Albert was also towed by
the Intrepid and Assistance. In the meantime Cap-
tain Penny, who h.td in vain attempted to cross the
middle ice, was overtaken, and on the 13th of Au•
gust the whole nine vessels were congregated in
Melville Bsy, off Cape York, where I shall conclude
this dispatch.

CITY OF LONDON GENERAL
PENSION SOCIETY.

The annual general meeting of subscribers of this
society was held yesterday at the London Tavern ;
Luke James Hansard, Esq., treasurer, in the chair.
The Secretary (Mr. George Mence) read the re-
port, which detailed the results of the management
during the past year. Two elections have taken
place, at which eight new pensioners have been added
to the list. There are fifty-eight aged persons re-
ceiving relief from this charity—thirty-three men.
and twenty-five women. Seven pensioners died
during the past year, and one, a poor man, aged 69,
having unhappily become insane, has been removed by
his parish to the county asylum at Hanwell, his pen-
sion ceasing on his-becoming a pauper.
The men are receiving 275. and the women 18s.
per month. The directors, in their report, lament
that the permanent income of the charity is much
below the amount required to meet the payments of
the pensioners. It appears that during the past year
8201. 7s. has been distributed to the pensioners, being
the largest amount devoted to the special purposes of
the charity for a period of seventeen years. The di-
rectors feelingly express their determination not to
reduce (as was done in former years) the payments
to the pensioners. But by renewed exertions and by
earnest appeals to the liberality of the public, they
hope, whilst economising the expenditure, to aug-
ment the funds to a sufficient amount.

The resolution was seconded by the Rev. G.
BLTTR, and carried.
Mr. HASTIE, M.P., in moving the third resolution,
said that he also felt satisfaction in meeting them this
evening, on account of a subject in, some respects per-
sonal to himself. It might be in the recollection of
many whom he had now the honour of addressing,
that during the last session of Parliament a motion
of
fas
abolishingtab l e in t
ht hoe
maintenance
H ouseo f C
ofom 8 r
the squadron of Africa. It was intimated to her Majesty's
Ministers that many of the usual supporters of the
. Oua
dthe nroon purposet
be
Government were not likely to vote with them on that
occasion. The First Lord of the Treasury called a
meeting of the friends of the Government, and inti-
mated to them that if the House of Coalmons resolved
that this squadron should be abolished they could not
carry that resolution into effect. That resolution
was lost, consequently it was net necessary that her
Majesty's Ministers should resign. As he, how-
ever, had voted in the minority, be felt that
there Was some reason for him explaining his con-
duct. He fully believed that, independent altogether
of that squadron, there were other means within the
power of her Majesty's Government for abolishing
the slave trade, and one of the most efficient means
in his mind was the existence of those slave-trade
treaties which they entered into with Brazil and
Spain. Ile also considered that the ships employed
on the coast of Africa were totally unfitted and ill-
equipped for the purpose. On the other hand, it was
maintained that the trade would break out with in-
creased vigour if the squadron were withdrawn, that
the coast would swarm with pirates, and altogether
destroy the legitimate trade, and that all attempts
would be defeated for the civilization and Christian-
ization of Africa. Since that period the evidence re-
ferred to by Dr. King and Mr. Blyth had appeared,
from which he found that the slave trade was alto-
gether abolished, north of the equator, to a distance
of 2,500 miles, with the exception of the Bight of
Benin, a space of less than 300 miles. In considera-
tion of that evidence, he would be disposed to sanction
the expenditure necessary for the support of this
squadron, lie was bound to say that, according to
the best of his belief, all the Ministers were working
out the abolition of the slave trade by the measures of
the Noble Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs—that
Noble Lord whose genius had already piloted him
through all the wiles of foreign diplomacy—and
whose heart was in the right place, as regarded
the abolition of the slave trade. One great
want in our treaties which had forcibly struck
him was having no power to punish the cap-
tain, supercargo, &c., of the slave-trader. After
having been taken, they were immediately released,
and found their way back to Rio ani Cuba; and it
had been given in evidence, that some of these indivi-
duals had been captured by our cruizers as often as
six times in a very short space of time. A consider-
able anti-slavery feeling now prevailed both at Rio
and Havanna)), and he could not doubt that the sympa-
thies of the great maritime states of Europe, and of
the United States of America, were strong in the
same direction. The Hon. Gentleman sat down by
moving the following resolution :
" That this meeting regard the present as a fitting
time for bringing prominently before the British
public the continued existence of the slave trade; as
well as for enlisting the sympathies and energies of
the Governments of Great Britain, of the United
States of America, of France, of Denmark, and of
other countries which have already condemned the in-
famous traffic, in a vigorous combined effort for the
effectual suppression of a system so abhorrent to every
sentiment of religion and humanity."
Mr. R. BAIRD seconded the resolution. It was
carried.

During the past year the directors, with the assist-
ance of Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, one of the vice-
presidents, and the society's principal trustee, have
succeeded in placing the whole of the society's per-
manent stock, which through death and other casual-
ties had lapsed into various separate investments and
appeared in, separate accounts in the books of the
Bank of England, into one fund, under the care of
four trustees. The permanent fund of the society
now amounts to 6,7001, Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cent. Annuities. The late William Drake Broad-
bent, Esq., of Ltwrence-lane, Cheapside, merchant,
deceased, has granted to the charity a sum of 501.
Three per Cent. Consols, separately invested under
the terms of a deed of settlement • making a special
permanent fund of 531. 103. 61. In addition to this
there is a sum of 4021.65. stock, Three and-a-Quarter
per Cent. Annuities, standing in the names of the di-
rectors, available for the current expenses of the
charity. The total amount of stock possessed by the
charity is 7,1551. 16s. 6d.
The death of the Queen Dowager, who was a mu-
nificent annual contributor to the funds of this cha-
rity, and that of the Duke of Cambridge, who on
two occasions presided at the anniversary festivals,
are noticed in the report. The total working ex-
penses, including printing, stationery, advertisements,
rent, salarie4, and miscellaneous, have been 2471. 2s.
71.,•lreing 52/. less than last year„ leaving a balance
in the Bank of England of 257?. 124-21. Since the
charity was established in 1812, 878 pnsioners have
been on the funds, and the sum of 56,214/. 13s. has
been distributed in monthly pensions. .
The report and accounts having been approved and
adopted, the election of officers. for the ensuing year
was proceeded with, and thanks having been voted to
the directors and the chairman of the day, the meeting
separated.

LIGHT AND DARKNESS ; OR, MYSTERIES OF LIFE.
By MPs. CATHERINE CROWE, Author of " Tne Night Side of
Nature," "Lilly Dawson," &c. The above work is published
this day by Mr. Coulburn, and may now be had at all the
Libraries. Also now ready :2. Singleton Fontenoy, a Naval
Story, by James Hannay, Esq. 3. The Luttrells; or, the
Two Marriages, by Folkstone Williams, Esq. 4. Claude, by
Miss Molesworth. 5. Petticoat Governmeflt, by Mrs. Trol-
lope. 6. Our County, by John Mills, Esq. 7. Adelaide
Lindsay, edited by the author of " Emilia Wyndham." 8.
A Second Edition of Reginald Hastings, by Eliot Warburton,
Esq. 9. The Travellers ; or Morningi at Matlock, by R.
Shelton Mackenzie, D.C. L. 10. La Vendee, an llistotical
Romance, by A. Trollops, Esq. 11. Story of a Man of
Fashion ; or, Sin and Sorrow.

THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICULOUS.—We have
seen many absurdities, on tombstones, but the following re-
markable combination of the sublime with the ridiculous
beats all that we have yet stumbled upon :
Weep not for hiM ; in his spring time he flew
To that land where the wings of the soul are unfurld;
And now like a star, beyond ovening's cold dew,
Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world."

•
resolution was next adopted,
On the motion of the Rev. Dr. SMYTIJ, the follow-
ingceedings terminated
meeting That this adopt petitions to the Lezisla-
with which the pro-
ture, that his Lordship, the chairman, he authorised
to sign them in its behalf, and that a committee assist
his Lordship in this business, and adopt any measure
that inay be necessary to attain the object of the meet-
ing."—G?usgozo

The meaning seems to ; but no :-;e've—rea,ift again,
and the gleam of light is gone.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA_Y EVENING, OCTOBER l, 1850.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situatio❑ of the Bank
of Fr:tnee on Sept. 26:

f. 340.556.042 72
113,426.061 0
468,279 23

Cash and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due
..• ••• •••
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 15,627, 732 f. were received from
the branch banks ... 47,331,129 31
Bills in the branch banks •-• 76.124,580 0
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 5.660.800 0
Ditto by the branch banks . ▪ 1,075,979 0
Ditto on French public securities 15,613 736 10
Ditto by branch banks.., •
2.375,581 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Rentes of the reserve fund .., 10,000,000 0
itentes, disposable funds 42,394,488 13
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ... ••• 12,952,725 74
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0
Real property of the branch banks 3,494,712 0
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0
Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 0
Bills protested at Paris 920 9,-17 0
Expenses of administration of the Bank 175 806 91
Ditto of the branches •
230,918 0
Miscellaneous ... 1,145,073 51

L 778,376,879 76

ttetnpted to commit suicide, by throwing herself into
the New River.

Sergeant Judd, 44 N., said that when the prisoner
was brought to the station-house she stated that a
fellow named Richard Grady, who lodged in the same
house, No. 1, Fox-place, Kingsland, had violated her ;
and he (Judd) had taken him into custody.
The fellow was now placed at the bar, and Mrs.
Slitter was sworn. The particulars us Aated by her
are ef a nature not to be detaileri ; suffice it to say,
that the prisoner was se.ling aft-r a situation in the
police force, and on Saturday night last he proposed
his services to protect the pro,ecwrix .on a vi,it to
her sister, and on passing ovar a d-ak field the pri-
soner threw her down and accomplished hi, object,
when she plunged into the river, hut she WAS saved.
The prisoner denied the charge, sa‘ing that ihe
prosecutrix entered several public-houses on the road,
was drunk, and led him across the field. which sh

. .
sail was the shortest way to her sister's hous-.
The prosecutrix did not deny having drank rum a,
smrcral public-houses with the prisoner.
Mr. COMBS had no doubt that Mri. Slitter was
drum k at the time, and he diseharg-d the prisons.
SOUTHWARK.

John Williams, who described himself as a wool
broker, was brought before Mr. A'l3eckett charged
with committing a violent assault on Mr. John North-
age, under the following circumstances :
The complainant, an aged man, who exhibited in-
juries of a severe nature about the face, stated that he
had recently come to London on business connected
with the preservation of life from shipwreck, and
having dined with some of the patrons of his invention
he admitted having exceeded the bounds of modera-
tion on the occasion. When he left the tavern where
they dined, and got into the fresh air, the wine he
had drank operated still more powerfully upon him,
and the result was he was taken to the station-house
at the rear of this court. He, however, had not been
long locked up when the defendant, a tall athletic
man, made an attack upon him without the slightest
provocation, knocked him down, and afterwards
jumped upon his breast, and injured him so severely
that he had been spitting blood ever since. He called
out for help, under the supposition that his assailant
wanted to murder him, and he really believed that it
was his intention to put an end to his existence if as-
sistance had not been rendered.

It was here explained that—the defendant had been
taken into custody in High-street for attacking ano-
ther man, whom he knocked down twice, and, as in
the former case, he had received no provocation to
justify such outrageous conduct.
The defendant asserted that he was first assaulted in
the cell by the complainant, and admitted having re-
taliated upon him on that account. This assertion,
however, was contradicted by a man who was locked
up in the same cell.

The Magistrate inflicted two penalties of 3/. each on
the defendant, and in default of payment committed
him for three months.

Mr. James Watkins, the landlord of the Old Red
Lion public-house, Pearl-row, Blackfriars - road,
appeared to answer a charge under the Police Act, for
unlawfully harbouring convicted thieves and bad
characters in his house, after being duly cautioned by
the police.

Sergeant Barry, of the A diviiion, said he went
into the defendant's house a few night-. ago, and seeing
a number of persons of bad eharieter he told the
landlord, and pointed out those parties who had been
convicted, requesing him to remove them. On his
return to the same house about two h-)urs afterwards
several of the parties were still standing at the bar,
when witness pointed them out again to the landlord,
who said that they were having refrpshineot, and he
could not turn them out.

Mr. Hobler, on behalf of the def,d,int, conten,!eri
that he was greatly persecuted by the police. E-1,-
kept a house in a neighbourhood where such charne •
ters resided, and he could not help their using it. Ile
locked up the tap-room and parlour, so that they
should not have a place to sit down in, and the only
place where they could have their refre4iment was at
the bar. On the evening in qu,..stion the parties were
having refreshments when the officers called in, and
Mr. NVarkins told them to make haste out or his
house. They all left a few minutes afterwards, and
some time after some of them returned, and had more
refreshment. He therefore contended that the sum-
mons must be dismissed.

The MAGISTRATE (Mr. Bingham) said he was of
that opinion, and therefore he should dismiss the
summons.

THAMES.

David Davidson, a seaman, was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with smuggling.
A Custom-house officer, named Mears, stated that
he overhauled the chests and hammocks of Davidson
and a shipmate, as they were about to pass out of the
West India Dock, on Saturday afternoon, and
found among their things three pounds and three-
quarters of cigars and tobacco. The share that fell
to Davidson was a pound and a half only ; and the
officer said that all the cigars taken from him were of
foreign manufacture, and that the sailors offered him
some money to release them, and look over the affair,
which he refused to do.

Davidson said a portion of the cigars were made in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and came on board a ship he
had just left at that place ; the rest he brought from
Dantzic. They were for his own smoking, and the
remains of his sea stock. He sent for gin, and the
witness and another officer drank some of it with him
and his shipmate.

Mears admitted he partook of some gin with the
sailors.

Mr. YARDLEY said it was very improper for him
to do so, and asked him if he was sure the tobacco
was of foreign manufacture ? Mears said he believed
so, and that his superior officer told him it was
foreign.

M. YARDLEY—That is not evidence. I can't hear
what your superior officer said to you. He should
have come here himself. I can't have his opinion
second hand.

Davidson said he had just finished one voyage in
the Christian Charlotte, and was going to join another
ship called the Mary Ann, outward bound for the
Baltic, and that he intended to take the remains of his
sea stock of cigars and tobacco on board the Mary
Ann, which was to have sailed on Sunday morning.
He and his shipmate had no intention to sell or give
away the tobacco.

Mears was recalled, and said the sailors did mention
to him that they were going direct to a brig which he
understoad was bound to the north.

Mr. YARDLEY—YOU should have stated that be-
fore, and not kept. hick anything.
Mr. Philip poids, the master of the Christian
Charlotte, confirmed the st..tenient of Davidson in
every particular, and said the Mary Ann was detained
for the two seamen.

Davidson said that the Customhouse officer on
board the Christian Charlotte had passed the tobacco
and cigars, and said he might take them on board the
Mary Ann.

Mr. YARDLEY—You may go ; you are discharged.
Bring the other seaman forwaql.
John Read was put to the bar, and
Mears said he found 2k lb. tobacco and cigars in
the sailor's chest.

Mr. YARDLEY believed that neither of the seamen
intended any fraud on the revenue, and he gave cre-
dence to their statement that they intended to convey
the tobacco to the ship which they had engaged to go
in on a voyage to the Baltic. Perhaps they had un-
knowingly violated the Customs regulations, but under
the circumstances he should not fine either of them.
Mears (loudly)—They had no right to bring the
tobacco out of the docks at all, and are liable to
penalties.

Mr. YARDLEY—I have decided this case, and don't
intend that you shall review my decision, or any
one else.

Mears asked what he was to do with the tobacco.
Mr. YARDLEY said the officer must use his own dis-
cretion. lie thought that every revenue officer who
seized contraband tobacco knew what to do with it.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 30—It is said that negotiations are
in progress between the new Solicitor-General
one of the representatives of a midland county,
touching the acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds by
the latter. Mr. Hughes has considerable personal,
political, and family influence in the county in
question, and if a vacancy should arise, or be
conveniently created, his election would be by no
means improbable.

THE TENANT LEAGUE.
" The Thanes are flying" from the councils of the
Tenant League. The difficulties and dangers to
which we have more than once alluded have seriously,
alarmed the more prudent, and perhaps less enthu-
siastic members of the council, and, accordingly, we
find that several of the original promoters of the asso-
ciation have announced their intention of withdraw
ing'. Among those may be mentioned J. M. Cant-
well, Esq., solicitor, and the Messrs. Grey, of the
Freeman's Journal.

TIM SEA SERPENT AGAIN.
A Caherciveen correspondenP of the Tralee. Chronicle
says—" Tnis monster, after his cruise along the coasts
of Cork and Limerick, has re-appeared off our shores.
On Monday last, Morgan Rahilly, who holds part of
Deenish, or the smAll Hog Island, from the Honour-
able Member for Tralee, while at work, perceived
something fildating in the sound between the two Hog
islands (Scariff and Deenisb), which he at first took
to be a balk of timber ; taking his boat, and provided
with a hawser and an axe, he pulled towards it. On
approaching, he saw the monster elevate its head, and
perceived that one of its eyes a: 1s bleeding' and
damaged doubtless by the sots fired et the
monster when rubhirig ag:inst the liaocle
rocks,
.as Mentioned in the Co, k piTe. s. 114hillv
Made for the shore, and lauded safely, the .-s
pent following him but slowly. Apparently the
strange visitor found the sharp rocks of Deenish
rather uncomfortable, for he tacked close to the reef,