The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENT NISI MARCH
_2B, 1844.

tet;gtnal due—they upon the League, and
speedy terms with the League.—(hear, hear.)
terms that were to be made being, that they
141 u serve the, League, and in the end serve them-
pot es; by the total abolition of that infamous mono-
bk--(Cheers.) He contended it IA as a warfare
oZst civilisation this wanton abuse by the land-
el of their legislatorial powers ; for when and
tin
the world's history had civilisation advanced
Connection with the harmonious and harmonising
zsences of commercial intercourse. To whom did
qua owe its first alphabet but to those adven-
-1 merchants, the Phoenicians ? There was
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feant abroad about the instability of commerce.
kY,the- empire of the Phoenicians lasted 700 years.
t4l4ts the
it but their commercial intercourse that
over elegant and polished Athenian his superiority
ttrptibtille rude Spartan ? In the Middle Ages the
Lies of Italy, while they kept alive some
the;„n. of political freedom, did it in connection with
th:L. commercial greatness. Their princely mer-
iis were the sources of wealth and civilisation to
"'"Pa took
ages. In that great start which
took at the period of the Reformation, they
kft,,ll,l_l_aliy found the burgesses, the tradesmen, and
ilihua4tal making good their position in society, and
for at advance raising the feudal lords themselves ;
po2that were they then, and what would they be
it", but for the benignant influence of commerce ?
'„.4 for that those very persons who denied to the
ir,:illrer the food which his labour had earned,
11" they surrounded themselves with all the
Aries they could accumulate from every fo-
,cfp region—these men would have been, instead
ittelyillg in richly carpeted rooms, dwelling in rush-
floors, in cold and stony residences, more like
4e6ns than anything else, with unglazed windows,
let in the sleet and snow, as well as the air of
lerikv,,erl• They would still, if sanctioning the char-
ki!' some mercantile guild, affix to it their marks
'ad of writing their names; and would have been
401 informed of those distant countries, over the
of which they exercised so large an in-
tiree as those feudal barons, who, when they set
Autry
the crusade to Palestine, expected in that
to encounter giants riding on unicorns, to
P4hl, black magicians, who for breakfast sucked
eggs and who expected to find griffins and
Y Isirras as plenty as barn-door fowls.—(Laughter.)
li, it was commerce had made men of them.
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and beggarly was the boon that was asked of
44;4 in return, to allow the very humblest of the
14411_,Yers the reward of his labour which Providence
allotted him. Laws for the restriction of com-
%Zee were an absurdity under any circumstances,
a wickedness as well as an absurdity—much
ge were they both in such a country as this.
W, this land was made for commerce—it was
itkird out for commerce by the hand of Heaven
• Creative power had stamped that as its des-
Their long lines of coast—their beautiful
16„.,ra—their safe harbours—all indicated that every
qi that blew ought to waft from their shores some
• hn.lght of wealth or knowledge or charity to every
451°11 of the world. It was marked out for com-
j!e by its coal-beds and mineral treasures, by ma-
IS which nature itself had put into their hands
enable them to minister to the subsistence of their
tsurniillions, and feeding and clothing millions and
tile ions more. The industry, the unwearied toil,
kiekeumulated capital, and the persevering skill and
it had
of this land—the means lfy which
already attained all they could show
LeL were the conquests they had to make,
Lee was their mission from Heaven for the universal
7nt of mankind. Then who or what was this
Ce(l class, that they should stand up and say that
ulaball not be dons, because it would deteriorate
b2_l' property and lower their rents ? Why, sup-
it should do so, was there anything in that class,
thegeh had for ages such immense advantages over all
threst of society, supposing they were to suffer a
CPPrary privation, that they should allow it to
• kir in the way of accomplishing all that humanity
4 a right to claim, and which charity
ejostice alike awarded their sacred sanction to?
it7a:l they permanently divert this island from its
p,a_per work—could they succeed in permanently
bTolding laws which must cripple the manufac
ti7s and commerce, by which they had been en-
-11;;Ieci, which had made them a great and strong
t,;.;41--could they go on in suppressing these?
,preluci they keep down the ebullition of misery and sup-
,th.ta-all indications of discontent—could they, through
tcoming years, to the fullest extent carry out, which
ig.were far from being able to do, the purpose for
47t1 the monopolist laws were enacted, what dis-
N;Fks, results would take place from end to end of this
4,1417? With a growing population, and a declining
(147,,!----with ports barred against the foreigner by
A,7—disease and famine would continually stalk
theltcl--frightful demoralisation would ensue—
do iron arm of power must be put forth to keep
tsel the millions ; they must "Make a solitude and
elk it peace ;" such peace as would be the peace of a
hiZbyard, where every man was nerveless, every
14,14' was cold, and all were mouldering fast into olle
stic,ft corruption. The land would be portioned
into little squirearchies, and each rural tyrant
Ql„,_,
stalk, in all the solitary majesty of self-as-
Vfonitio..., over his own petty domain. The peasant
d think it a great prize when he got a good
stiielPotatoe. Intellect, the arts, • all that civilised
sofened life, would leave the country, which, de-
fitZed and abandoned, would become so fearful a spec-
te ;that we should say, "Godof heaven! let this island
to,ewbelmed again beneath the ocean from which it
tibit• Let it find a worthier grave there, rather than
the long annals of its glory should end in any-
T,,eg So infamous and so disgusting!"—(Loud cheers.)
I,%vere not then advocating any mere manufac-
. cl 4;;",, question; they were not pleading for any mere
Pim "Y to the poor ; they were asserting one common
gl'eat right of humanity, and one interest, which
la.' not merely a uniary interest of the passing
1,14 t but the interes of human nature in all countries
vilisfor all ages—a cause which was the cause of ci-
tliktitson itself. That for which they strove was,
'Re world's progress should not be turned back
er the effect of this mischief and wrong. It was
teZ,„llse that would call forth the warmest
therga of their hearts and the intensest devotion of
ywr, Souls ; a cause that would be before them from
'" %-day, and from night to night, and from year to
koti till the result they contemplated was obtained;
I.l4that it 'was regarded, in all its importance, by
an.,Whose station gave them ampler means of
.of 70,ng on that result. For should the Sovereign
kkrese realms have her moments of perplexity and
1110,,,llsness distracted by conflicting -councils, and
stci she look wistfully at the battles of warring
Shen ; should she, in such a moment, desire to
hI
°r° What it Was which would make her reign
toy as to wipe away the tears of the distressed,
• e4athe the naked, to feed the hungry, and
the "those who were trampled down ; should
,•,014 desire
_to know what it was that
terej render her reign illustrious, not only by
torie-'l4' misery. aid recovering her people from
,41,ing,but by giving a higher splendour, one before
tigiell the glories of conquest and of legislation, insti-
Iti:aa and of revolutions in former times should all
Vtlletpale in comparison;—should she desire to.know
Was that magic wich should reader her reign
I) • 'II' ill the world's history, and the best and
114iltest in the annals of Great Britain ; when she
%( adthis, oh that some good angel would whisper
this" ear that the talismanic words that would do all
toit, Were " Commercial Freedom !"—(Loud cheers,
shZwed the conclusion of the Hon. Gentleman's
rcveh )
t._
41, a CHAIRMAN then announced that these meet-
due 'would be re-commenced after Easter, and that
110tice of the day of meeting would be given.
-"assembly then dispersed.

det"4' O'CONNELL AND THE GOVERNMENT...F.
t'oe are beginning to ask themselves what effect will t
nt Of the Ministers on the Factory question have on the.
Polka? Mr. O'Connell? It was supposed to be a vary hazardous
Ititekwhen Sir Robert Peel's Government was surrounded
11)4 por.ule ~, I.lalo of undivided. power, and appeared to have the
the great majority in England and Scotland, to
tilt 4;" k,onnell up for judgment. It has lately been dis-
, Proved that the "convicted conspirator" is regarded
Pates re
'mense number of Englishmen as Ireland's beet
Party,‘; ,and while the Ministry was strong, and, apßa_
ait4 almost omnipotent, they made
now the
with
ludfiag4inst the Government. But
1.411 etilY become a mere rope of sand. It cannot hold its own
417trs together: it is damaged beyond
.healmg. Half thei
401" of England have decided g st it. From t
flee r mural saints, led on by Lord Ashley, it it is obliged to
terr:r refuge to the manufacturers who are opposed to it. In
R-Vng the law into execution against Mr. O'Connell, who
rted by all Ireland and a great portio9
dammed
En land, it
vein a'Y look for feeble assistance. Will this amaggend G.‘o,e-
Ine
tee,, not. then, denuded of popular support, venture. t
' trim te a verdict which no person defends as just, after a
tbererwilich no man describes as fair ? It is concluded,
1,411► that. the Ministerial defeat on the Factory Bill
,„ a shield for Mr. O'Connell.
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tor4reParation, eminently balsamic, restorative, and i
11441111 g, is equally celebrated for safety in application, as for
etncacy in removing all impurities and discoloura-
lo th 'and imparting a healthy freshness and transparency
leltlehSkin and Complexion. Its universally great demand
the titlehe cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers, who give
niantir. ,nf .“ Genuine" Kalvdor to compounds of their. or
ver„e`nre, of the most deleterious character, containing
"Y "tringents utterly ruinous to the Complexion, and,
fote, eir repellant action endangering health. It is, there-
' laad%,lll,,Pcrative on purchasers to see that the words " Row-
t Aalntyedrfoeri'ts' are on the wrapper.—All others are fraudu-
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ot no relief she has,
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world.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The motion brought forward last night, so
ably and dispassionately, by Mr. Hutt, has tested the,
sincerity of the Cabinet declaration, that the colonies
are henceforth to be treated as English counties. Let
us hear not another word of the policy of founding new
colonies to trade with. Let us hear not another word
of devoting public means to supporting settlements,
which, some day or other, are to prove the
best customers fur our manufactures. The best cus-
tomers for our manufactures are those who will give us
most for them. The Minister of Trade, and the
Minister of Colonies, each told the House last night that
there is a landlord in the path, who will not hear of our
colonies giving corn for cottons. Ever so distant a
prospect of that calamity would create a land panic.
l'et, confessedly and notoriously, the difficulty in
trade with new countries is to get returns. Confessedly
and notoriously, returns in grain would, very generally,
be the most welcome. Confessedly and notoriously,
what we spin cottons chiefly for is food. What new
countries would give food chiefly for (after supplying
themselves) would be cottons, and other manufactures.
It is this description of exchange that creates the
whole reciprocity of interest between old and new
countries. It is this which is the most difficult to
establish between them ; because it is most difficult
to get enough from new countries for our exports.
Hence the whole system of hollow credit, of in-
flated speculation, of paper or hind bubbles in the
money market. The efforts of those interested in
new countries is to direct thither a flow of wealth
from the old one.- ' The effort of wise government ought
to be to encourage their means of returning the wealth
they drain. All else is ephemeral delusion—capital
goes abroad, indeed, but it comes not back again. A
most unhappy, corrupt, crafty character is engendered,
where life should be most simple; and (as Mr. Murray:,
we think, tells us of Port Philip) " colonial '
is the oniy epithet which is thought necessary
to characterise any.stroke of over-reaching in business.
And then- we amuse ourselves by satirising the " colo-
nial" character after we have formed it ;—after we have
fostered, by our credulous advances, and contracted
policy, the,very vices which inevitably spring from teach-
ing men to borrow, without teaching them how to pay
again—nay, throwing absolute obstacles in the way of
the sole payment they can make ! Such was long
our American policy—though the United States, to all
valuable intents and purposes, continued the most im-
portant colony we had, and might so have continued,
had we encouraged her agricultural interest to look to
England for a free market. What did we do instead ?
Encouraged the growth of paper, instead of that of
corn. Inflated that immense wind-bag, which American
cultivators now view as their worst nuisance. Engen-
dered enmity (for your insolvent debtor is your enemy)
instead of securing friendship (for your steady cus-
tomer, who looks to you for your custom, is your friend).
And now we see factories building in the 'United States,
instead of wheat growing for us—rivals establishing,
instead of customers established, as they ought long
since to have been—and we shall probably again (when
burnt fingers are a little forgotten) see Lnglish capital
drained to feed American competition. The capital
goes, the people stay—as many as cannot go
after it. Those who can, take off their little
capitals after the large one ; and last comes " Syste-
matic Colonisation," with its flying machine for the
masses. We know that capital has light wings to fly
wherever speculation sends it ; we have learned of late
that a new volatile principle is discovered, by which the
millions of men can fly on the wings of the millions of
money ; and if the machine could only rise off the
ground again, after its late heavy falls, there is no doubt
it might navigate air to any extent, and transplant na.
tions like thistle-down. We have encountered the ire of an
atne damnee of the Colonies-Flying-Machine school by
anticipating from Lord Stanley precisely the decision
Lord Stanley last • night uttered. It is now manifest
that the talk of identifying our colonies with our counties
was an empty boast—that, as regards the vital article of
subsistence—the article of all others which forms a
subject of the most natural trade between old countries
and new ones—we will not admit the notion of any
regular trade with our colonies—first, because that trade
would be of no consequence to us now, and secondly,
because the landed interest believe it would be of too
much consequence hereafter. Now we consider, as the
mover considered, both these grounds of rejection as
grounds for assent. If the colonial corn trade is of no
present consequence, the landlords have no pretext for
present panic. If it is of future importance—then it is
of future benefit to the colonies and the empire.
STANDARD.—Our readers will, we are assured, ap-
preciate the considerations which dispose us to treat ra-
ther of the general subject, than of the details of Monday
night's debate in the House of Commons. The Ministry
is the best that the present generation of Englishmen
has seen ; but upon the question discussed on Monday,
it is altogether wrong in our opinion, in the opinion of
its best friends, and, as we are convinced, in the
opinion of the great majority of the nation ; but when
we see our friends seriously in error, it is no doubt
our duty, in the first place, to give our humble exer-
tions to withdraw them from their mistaken
course ; but no less are we bound to abstain
from exposing and magnifying those less import•
ant lapses into which a great original error is sure to
lead. Meanwhile we must not overlook the gratitude
due to men like Lord Ashley and Sir Robert Inglis, who
embrace the right course, and prove their ability to defend
it with vigour and with spirit ; they, however, would
scarcely accept as the fitting testimony of gratitude a se-
vere and uncandid treatment of temporary antagonists,
whom, for their general conduct, they respect us much as
we do. The question debated so much and so earnestly
during the last ten days would seem, at first sight,
to be thoroughly understood ; but, may we be pardoned
for saying it, neither the Parliament nor the public is,
in our judgment, as yet in a condition to decide upon it
with any approach to certainty, so far as the commercial
considerations are concerned. The moral question
—the question of humanity—is indeed quite clear,
and from its plainness, and the peremptory
duty which it points out, we suppose it has happened
that Lord Ashley and others have thought it unneces-
sary to refer to the consideration on the side of com-
merce ; but as all the objections come from this side it
ought not to be wholly neglected, as it has been.
If the whole commercial view had been fairly taken,
the whole subject would have been ex-
amined in its integrity, and not, as it has been,
partially, and in the detail of capriciously selected in-
stances. In dealing with such a matter we cannot
generalise our information enough, but the vice of our
present system of political knowledge lies in this, that
while we are all for practical generalisation, we rarely
generalise in the collection of proofs. One or two ex-
amples are thus made the foundations of a system:
this is remarkably the case in the matter before us.
What is the question in issue, considered as merely
a commercial question ? The distribution of the hours
of labour in manufactories, with reference to the pro-
portion between the hours of labour and of rest.
Now, surely, the first step in the investigation of
this question would properly be the amount of the
hours of labour necessary during some period,
which might be called a fair manufacturing cycle.
We suppose five years will -not be thought either
way very far from such a cycle. Of this information,
however, both the House and the country are, up to the
present moment, altogether destitute, though it might be
easily obtained. The number of mills employed in
manufactures is, if we are not mistaken, returned by
the factory inspectors, l well as the number of
labourers employed in these mills—but to the num-
ber of hours, or days, or weeks, or even months,
during which each mill has been at work, we have no
clue whatever, and here is the ground upon which we say
that the House of Commons is not in a condition to de-
cide the commercial question. Lord Ashley, and they
who support his Lordship, say that into that ques
tion they will not enter. They stand upon the
moral ground and the ground of humanity, as para-
mount, and they are right. They are, however, an-
swered by a plea of commercial necessity ; but surely
it lies upon those who advance that plea to esta-
blish its validity, by showing that all the time they
claim for labour is necessary to support the manu-
facturing system of the country. Unless they do
this their resistance is an insult to common sense,
no less than to the moral and humane feelings
of the people. Let, then, some opponent of Lord
Ashley move for returns of the mills and mill labourers
.of the manufacturing districts during five years, and for
the number of hours in each year in which each mill
has been at work, a return easily obtained from the
factory-inspectors, and one which must be decisive
of the whole commercial question ; for if it should
turn out that the mills have, on the whole, wrought less
than twelve hours a day for the 1,555 working days of
five years, it is plan that, commercially, the twelve
hours a day are not necessary; and if it should turn eut,
as we believe it would, that the mills have not on the
average worked six hours a day for the five years
of the cycle, it must be quite manifest that
ten hours daily labour must be sufficient. Our
conviction, the result of careful inquiry, is, that
the mills on an average of the whole do not
work six hours ; and we are more confident in that
conviction, because, though we have more than once
asserted it, and shown its bearing upon the question
now in issue, uo one has yet ventured to contradict it.
This assertion we shall repeat until some opponent of
Lord Ashley calls for the returns to which we have
referred, and those returns prove that we are in error.

report.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From tho Manchester Guardian.)

MANCHESTER.-Our spinners and manufacturers are
now reaping the bitter fruits of tha unfounded and mis-
chievous speculations in the raw material, at Liverpool
and in the United States, of which the public have
heard so much during the last two or three months.
By those speculations, the price of the raw
material was forced up ; and prices in this
market gradually followed, to an extent, indeed,
which caused the more prudent buyers to limit
or entirely suspend their purchases, thereby causing an
accumulation of stocks in the hands of the spinners
and manufacturers. In this critical state of the market,
intelligence arrived of the complete breaking down of the
speculation in the United States ; and the consequence,
as may be readily imagined, has been a great stagnation
of business on our Exchange, followed by a very serious
reduction of prices. Yesterday was one of the gloomiest
and most depressed markets that have been experienced
for some months past. Goods of all descriptions, except
good 49-inch skirtings (for which there has been a fair
demand) have declined in price since last week ; and
some descriptions of yarn are selling at a mere shade
above the lowest rates of last year. We learn, hoever,
that these reductions of price have caused some increase
in the demand ; and, as soon as the cotton market be-
comes steady, it seems not improbablo that a fair busi-
ness will be done.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 25,
—We have had a busy market to-day, somewhat similar
to that of last Xonday. There hat been a numerous

attendance of buyers, and goods have sold freely. at last
week's prices. In the wool market there is no change to

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 27.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION BILL.

Mr. MUNTZ moved the second reading of this Bill.
Mr. DUG DALE said that he sliJuld oppose the
second reading of the Bill. He believed that it was not
agreeable to the wishes of the majority of the people of
Birmingham. He should therefore move that it be read
a second time that day six months.
The amendment having been put,
Mr. MUNTZ said he did not see any reason why the
usual form of referring the Bill to a private Committee
up stairs should not be observed. The Bill would save
the ratepayers of the town 3,5001., and therefore it was
a matter of much importance to them.
After a few words from Mr. NEWDEGATE and Mr.
SCHOLEFIELD in opposition to the Bill, the House
divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 67
Against it 77
Majority against the second reading —lO
The Bill was consequently lost.
On the motion of Mr. AINSWORTH, the Bolton and
Preston Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from• all the
manufacturers of the city of Carlisle, praying for the
repeal of the cotton tax.
Mr. STANLEY presented a petition in favour of pro-
tection to British agriculture.
Mr. GALLY KNIGHT presented a petition against
any alteration in the corn-laws. _ _ _ _ -

Sir. HUME presented a petition from Montrose
against the New Prisons (Scotland) Bill; also a petition
praying that the House would adopt some means to pre-
vent the present abuses and hardships which pressed
upon the manufacturers of tobacco ; also another petition
from Wells, against the Commons Inclosure Bill.
Mr. HOPE presented a petition from a place in Kent,
against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.

day next, he would bring on the miscellaneous estimats?
The CI-TANC7LLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
would take the Commissariat Estimates and the Miscel-
laneous Estimates on Friday next.
In answer to a question from Mr. BEItNAL,
Sir ROBERT PEEL said he would take the British
Museum Estimates on Friday night.
THE INCLOSURE ACT.
Lord WORSLEY said that he regretted he had gives;
many of his friends the trouble of coining down to make
a House as he found himself quite incompetent, through
indisposition, to the task of conducting this Bill in a Com-
mittee. He should, therefore, move the postponement
of the Order of the Day to the 24th of April.—Agreed to.
The Night Poaching Prevention Bill was read a third
time, and passed.
COUNTY COURTS.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave notice that he should,
on Friday next, move for leave to bring in a Bill to re-
gulate county courts in England and Wales.
The House then adjourned.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT, Kingston, March 27.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
THE MURDER OF LORD GRANTLEY'S GAMEKEEPER.
—James Eldey, 38, was indicted for the wilful murder
of James Edwards. _ .

There were four counts in the indictment. The first
charged the prisoner with shooting the deceased ; the
second with shooting him, and also beating him to death;
the third with beating him only ; and thct fourth charged
the murder to have been committed by casting the de-
ceased into the water, and thereby suffocating and
drowning him.
Mr. Clarkson, with Mr. Locke, conducted the prose-
cution ; and Mr. Charnock appeared for the prisoner.
The case seemed to create a good deal of interest, and
the Court was crowded during the trial, which lasted
some hours.

Mr. CLARKS3N stated the case for the prosecution,
which he said was instituted by Lord Grantley, in
whose service the deceased was employed as gamekeeper.
He observed that although his Lordship had felt it his
duty to prosecute the present indictment against the pri-
soner for the murder of an old and faithful servant, yet,
of course, he had no desire but that the case should be
fully and' fairly investigated, and if in the result the
jury should be satisfied that the more serious charge had
not been made out against the prisoner, such a result
coming from a conscientious conviction in the minds of
the jury, upon the evidence, would be quite satisfactory
to his Lordship and to all concerned in the prosecution.
The Learned Counsel then proCeeded to state the facts
of the case as they afterwards appeared in evidence, and
also the law upon the subject, concluding by calling the
following witnesses :
Joseph Head, examined by Mr. LOCKE—I am bailiff
to Lord Grantley, and live at Bromley. I knew the de-
ceased, James Edward.% He acted as gamekeeper to
Lord Grantley. I recollect the 6th of January, and on
that day I went along the %Vey and Avon Canal, to-
wards Wonersh. I know the lock which separates the
canal from the Lynarsh-field. (A plan of the neigh-
bourhood was here produced and proved to be correct).
Examination continued—l was on horseback by the
side of the canal about nine o'clock in the morning,
when I saw something on the water, which, at first, I
thought was a piece of sack or tarpauling. I dismounted,
and threw in stones for my dog to go into the water, but
he would not do so. I made some inquiries, and ob-
tained assistance and returned to the spot. At this time
the body was out of the water, and I recognised it to be
that of the deceased, who was in his usual dress. The
body appeared very much beaten. The head was
wounded in several places. I examined the ground near
the canal, particularly on the Lynarsh side; and on that
3ide it rises up to the edge of the canal, for a distance of
two feet. I obsez ved a large pool of blood, and from
that spot it is five or six yards to the edge of the canal.
There is some furze about two yards from the canal,
which is used as a preserve for game. I examined these
furze bushes, and saw some small portions of human
flesh on parts of them, and the pool of blood lay on the
ground below the furze. I also saw the marks of heels
and toes of shoes near the bank of the canal, and a few
years nearer to the lock of the canal, I saw other marks
of the same size and description, and I there found the
hat and stick of the deceased, which I now produce.—
(The hat bore an indentation on one side evidently oc-
casioned by a very violent blow. The stick was a very
slight one.)
Cross-examined—lt is dead water in the canal except
when the lock is let off. At the place where the body
was found there are about three or four feet of water.
The furze may be about two or three yards from the
bank of the canal. At the open part of the furze a per-
son might very easily get into the canal. There is a good
deal of traffic at times on the canal.

Re-examined--The land on the opposite side of the
lock is not preserved. The land, all along, retires to-
wards the Lynarsh-field, and if the body had rolled at
all, it must have rolled up a hill. I have seen the de-
ceased wear the hat I produce, and also know the stick
to have been his.

Mr. Duncombe, a surveyor, who had been previously
called to prove the correctness of the plan, was again
placed in the box, and he described the details and the
position of the different localities, with a view to show
that it was impossible for the deceased to have rolled into
the river, as represented by the prisoner in his state-
ment.

William Stanton, examined by Mr. CLA imsoN'—isfy
father has a wharf on the canal, near Lord Grantley's
preserve. On the morning the body was found, in con-
sequence of something Mr. Head said to me, I went to
the canal and saw an object floating in the water. I as-
sisted to bring it to the bank, and it turned out to b 3 the
body of the deceased. I knew him directly, and I re-
marked that one of his ears was very much lacerated,
and on the opposite side the skull seemed to be beaten
in. The wounds appeared to have bled a good deal, and
they were bleeding at the time the body was taken out
of the water. _

Humphreys Durrant confirmed the testimony of the
last witness, relative to the finding of the body. He
also said lie observed that the ear was jammed all to
pieces.—(This corresponded with the marks on the hat.)
The ear was cut in every direction.
Charles Jenkins, inspector of police, produced a
broken gun-stock, which was found near the canal, also
the broken lock of a gun.
Henry Day, examined by Mr. Locxx—On Saturday,
the 6th of January, I was close to the canal in the Ly_
narsh-field, and I picked up the broken gun-stock. It
was in the furze. There was blood upon it, and also a
small quantity of human hair. The brass upon the butt
of the gun-stock was bent up, and upon that I saw
the hair.

Henry Green deposed that on the same day the water
was drawn off the canal, and he found in the bed of the
canal the remaining portion of the broken gun-stock.
Edmund Walker, examined by Mr. Loewe—l am
gamekeeper to Mr. John Sparkes. I knew the deceased
well, and was with him at the Jolly Farmer public-house
at Bromley, on the evening of the sth January. There
was a raffle going on, and a good many people were in
the house. The deceased came in about half-past seven
o'clock in the evening, and we drank together. He was
quite sober when he went away, which was about eight
o'clock in the evening. When Edwards went away he
had such a stick in his hand as the one that has been

produced, and I have no doubt it is the same.
Cross-examined—l cannot undertake to swear posi-
tively that it is the same stick. We had only two pints
of beer together, but I don't know what the deceased
had drank before. I stayed an hour, expecting the de-
ceased would return as he had promised, hut as he did

not come I went away.
Alexander Lambert examined by Mr. CLARKSON—
I was at the Jolly Farmer public-house on Friday, the
sth of January, and I remember the prisoner coming
into the house in question about seven o'clock. His legs
appeared to be wet, and he asked me to let him dry his
clothes by the fire. I did so, and went into the bar,
where I saw the deceased, and drank some beer with
him. He was quite sober. He left the room for a short
time, and asked me to hold his stick while he was
gone. I did so, and I have no doubt the stick that has
been produced is the same.-.-(The portions of the
broken gun were here handed to the witness, and he
identified them as having originally formed a gun
which he had seen in tho possession of the prisoner.
By Mr. CuAnNocx—l was not examined before the
Coroner. The prisoner is a married man, with a family
of six or seven children. It is a very old stock indeed,,
and appears to be worm. eaten. Ido not swear positively
to the stick, but to the best of my belief it is the same.
Re-examined--The prisoner had been working for a
person named Tickner.
George Lucas, potoboy at the Jolly Farmer, proved
that he saw the prisoner leave the house about eight
o'clock.

Charlotte Brown examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I live
at Bromley, and about eight o'clock in the evening of the
sth January I heard the report of a gun come directly
from the Lynarsh field, and shortly afterwards I heard a
second report in the same direction. Ten minutes might
have elapsed between the two reports.
John Turrell proved that lie also heard the report of
a gun, and likewise heard some person cry out very
much. The cries were repeated several times, and at
last he went out, and then heard some one call out " Oh
dear!" The sound came in a direction from the lock.
He heard no other sound after the person called out
" Oh dear!"

Thomas Champion, examined by Mr. aintesoN—On
the night of the sth January I heard the report of a gun,
and about five minutes afterwards there was a cry of
" Come on." Immediately afterwards I heard a second
report.
Joseph Head re-called—The deceased had persons
under him called watchers, whose duty it was at night
to watch these preserves.
By Mr. CHARNOCIE—The deceased was taller and
stouter than the prisoner, but I cannot say whether he
was a stronger man.
John Burl, examined by Mr. LocKg—l know the pri-
soner, and have frequently had conversations with him,
About a twelvemonth ago he told me that he would
never be taken by any one man.
Cross-examined—l don't know what we wore talking
about which led to the observation, nor whether it was a
year and half or two years ago.

Charles Jenkins re-called—l am the inspector of po-
lice stationed at Shere, near Guildford. On Satmlay,
the 6th January, in courequerAce pf what I had heard I
went tq Bromley, 4nd front thence to a place called Run
Common, where I found the prisoner working for a per-
son named Ticknor, and took him into custody. I con-
veyed him to the Jolly Farmer at Bromley, and loft him
in charge of a parish constable while I searched the pri-
soner's house. I found in his house a short smock frock
ith spots of blood upon it, and which appeared to have
been partly washed and hung to the fire to dry. The
blood was upon the breast and upon both sleeves. I
took the frock back to the prisoner, and he told me, in
answer to a question I
t to him, that it was his own
frock, I the told the prisoner I should take him on

suspicion of the murder of the keeper, and he replied
" Thank God, I am innocent." Shortly after this I
searched the prisoner. and found a powder-horn and a
clasp knife in his pockets. I next emimined the pri-
soner's person, but could not discover any bruises or
other marks of violence. I made a furtler search at the

house of the prisoner the next day, and found a large
quantity of chisels, planes, and tools of every description.
William Biddlecotnb, examined by Mr. LOCKE—I am
chief constable of Godalmine., and accompanied the last
witness, when he searched' the prisoner's house. I
examined the prisoner's arms, chest, logs, and head,
and found no mark of violence on any part of his per-
son. I subsequently searched the prisoner's cottage, and
in the grate in the bed-room I found a shirt covered
over with old rags. The shirt was torn in the breast,
and there were marks of blood on that part, and also on
the left wristband. The right wristband appeared as
though it had been in dirty water and afterwards dried.
I searched the prisoner's wood-house, and found the coat
which I now produce. It was wet, and in the pocket
there were some pheasant's feathers. I also found two
guns, and part of another gun. In the prisoner's house
I also found the greater part of a leg of mutton, a piece
of pork in salt, and also some butter.
Cross-examined—The right cuff of the jacket appears
to be very much torn. It is also torn under the arm.
Charles Hollington, examined byMr. CLARKSON—I am
inspector of the police at Guildford, The prisoner was
given into my custody about 10 o'clock at night, on
Saturday the 6th, and the next day, in consequence of a
communication I received, I went to the police station to
see the prisoner. He told me he wanted to ask a favour.
I said if it related to the charge against him, I must
caution him that what he said must be taken down, and
would be used against him at a future time. He told
me that it did not relate to the charge, but that he de-
sired to see Mr. Pitman, the clergyman of Stratford
parish, and I promised to endeavour to do what he
wished. On the Monday morning I again saw the pri-
soner, and lie told me he wished to say something. I
said he had better wait till the inspector who took him
in charge came. He said that he could not wait, adding
that he wished to relieve his mind. At this time he ap-
peared very feeble and dejected, and scarcely able to
support himself. I then took down in writing the
following statement from the prisoner's mouth:—
" On Friday evening I went home and took supper, but
on entering the door I saw my son eating some victuals.
I said 'to him, Where are you going to Bill?' He said,
lam going to the raffle.' I said, What is the use of
your going to the raffle?' He replied, James Shurlock
is going to give me a pint of beer, father; will you come
down and take a part of it?' I told him that I would
as soon as I had eat my supper. I went down as soon
.as I had eat my supper, and took paxt of a pint of beer,
and called for another; and after that me and my son
went home together, and my son had something to eat
and went to bed. When he was gone I said to my wife,
Oh, how hard it is for us to be in such distress ; we
have neither butter, nor cheese, nor sugar,' and whether
she had any tea I am not certain, for when we were at
supper we had but a piece of bread each of us, with a
little tea without sugar or milk, and as I had spent the
twopence for the beer, we were quite destitute. It hurt
my feelings; so I said to my wife, will go and get a
bird or two if I possibly can, for I cannot bear to see us
in such distress.' And I took the gun and went and
shot a brace of birds, and I thought if I could get sale
for them it would get a little tea and sugar. I came
away from the preserves directly, hoping that I should
return safe, 'but when I got to the river side I
saw the keeper coming towards me. I stood on one side
behind a furze bush ; but he saw me and said, ' you,
I've got you now.' He appeared to me to be a little the
worse for drink. He put up his stick and tried to strike
me, saying your eyes, I'll kill you.' I replied,
Don't do that, good man ;' and as he was going to
strike me, I jumped in and threw him down. He got up
again and used the same expressions. I threw him
down again, and he held me and repeated the third time,
' I will kill you.' I then said to him, 'We will fight,
life. for life.' He replied, will,' and directly he got
up, he struck at me with his stick and I warded off the
blow with my gun. I then struck him with the butt end
of the gun ; and as near as I can tell, it was near the
side of the temple. He rose again, and I saw the blood
running down his face. He seemed fully bent to come
at me again ; and I struck him again with the butt end
'of the gun, and he fell down. Whether I struck him
once or twice afterwards I am not certain ; but the last
time I struck him on the ground, he rolled into the river.
I then went away and left him, and saw him no more.
I then went home, and my wife said to me, Have you
got any thing ?' I showed her what I had got, and she
said, Whatever shall we do with them.' I said, I
don't know,' I could not say anything more to her then,
but went to bed. She hung my wet clothes to dry by
the fire, and got up the next morning and brought them
to me. (Signed) " JAMES ELSLEY."
Examination continued—ln consequence of what the
prisoner said, I went, on the Monday evening, to his -
cottage, at Bromley, and saw a bee-hive that was in his
garden, and I there found two hen pheasants. The
prisoner had told me where to find them. They ap-
peared to have been shot.
Cross-examined—l asked the prisoner to sign the
statement, and he did so very readily.
Mr. C. J. Woods examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I am
one of the Coroners for this county, and I remember
upon the occasion of the inquest being held on the body
of the deceased, that the witness Hollington tendered
his statement, and when it was read over he said he
wished to abide by it in every respect.
Thomas Punter examined by Mr. LOCKE—I remem-
ber last winter hearing the prisoner say he would do for
Edwards some day or other if he had a chance.
Cross-examined—Did not know what he meant by it,
or who else was present when it was said. Could not
say when he first mentioned the conversation having
taken place.
James Douglas examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I am a
labourer, but I am not in any regular service. I was
placed to watch the prisoner in the station-house at
Guildford; and on the Sunday morning the prisoner
made a statement to me. I did not mention that state-
ment to any one until last Tuesday night, when I dis-
closed it to inspector Hollington. The prisoner said to
me, lam so full I cannot bear it any longer. He then
knelt down on his knees, and said he hoped the Lord
would forgive him, and protect his wife and family. The
prisoner then said, that he saw a man coming over the
lock, but did not know who it was at the time, and that
he ran back into the furze bushes, and as he was doing
so, he looked back and saw it was the keeper, and if he
had kept on running he would have just got into the
cover out of his way ; but as it was he got into the
furze thinking he would pass him. Edwards, however,
he said saw him and said " you, rye got you, I will
kill you;" and he replied,." don't do that good man." Ed-
wards again said that he would, and as soon as
he said so, he (prisoner) paid into him, took him
round the waist, and threw him on his back.
Edwards got up, and they struggled, and both
fell to the ground, and were struggling together for a
minute or two, when Edwards again said. " you,
I'll kill you." He then said to him, "If that's what
you mean, Jem, we will fight life for life." Edwards
then asked kim to let him get up, and, as soon as he
had done so, he came at him with a stick, and he hit
him down with the butt-end of the gun, and he laid on
the ground for several minutes. I (the witness) told
him that he might then have ran away, but he said that
he could not go away from the spot, and he felt deter-
mined to finish him. The prisoner went on to say that,
after a little time, the deceased came at him again, and
they continued to fight nearer and nearer to the canal,
and the deceased fell down near the canal, and he (pri-
soner) put up his foot and poked him in, and went away
and left him.
Cross-examined—Believes this was all that took pace.
Did not put it down in writing, and should not have
mentioned it when he did, if he had not been asked the
question. Ile sometimes acted as assistant to the police,
sometimes as a gaoler, and did any job in a fair way.
He was formerly a publican, and then took to being an
assistant to the police. He was not whitewashed.
By the CoURT—I did not at first think there was any
material difference between the prisoner's statement to
me, and the one he made to the inspector.
Mr. John Ray examined by Mr. LocKE—I am a sur-
geon, and reside at Bromley. By the direction of the
coroner, I made a post mortem examination of the de-
.

ceased. I observed many lacerated wounds upon the
head and face, and no less than twelve on the right side.
There were also the same number on the left side. There
was a wound upon the nose which exposed the bone.
The principal wound was over the right ear, and this
was three inches long, and three broad. The temporal
bone and the jaw bone were both fractured, and pro-
bably at one time by the blow of some heavy instrument.
At first I thought there were traces of a gnn-shot wound,
but I did not discover any shot. The skull was
fractured, and laid bare in several places. The deceased
died of aneurism of the brain, which would have caused
instant insensibility, and almost immediate death. The

jugular vein was severed, as was also the carotid artery.
Witness was shown some blood upon the ground, which
he had no doubt flowed from the jugular vein. It would
be totally impossible for a person who had lost such a
quantity of blood as must have been lost in this case, to
have risen from the ground.

By Mr. CHARNOCK-All these injuries were such as
might be produced by two men fighting with a gun and
a stick.

By Mr. CLARKSON—There could have been no fighting
after the deceased received the blow on the side of his
head, which fractured the skull and severed the jugular
vein. The skull was completely smashed, and there
must have been a number of blows struck upon both
sides of the head.

Mr. John Chandler, surgeon, of Guildford, confirmed
the testimony given by Mr. Ray.
By the COURT—Did not think that suffocation had
anything_ to do with causing the death of the deceased.
This was the case for the prosecution.

Mr. CHARNom then addressed the jury for the pri-
soner, and he commenced by observing that he felt
deeply the responsibility that was thrown upon him in
having to defend the prisoner upon such a dreadful
charge as the one now made against him ; but he
trusted he should be able to satisfy the jury that the
offence did not amount to murder. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to comment upon the circum-
stances of the case, and said that it was a melancholy
thing that, in order to enahlo persons in the position of
Lord Grantley, to enjoy their pleasures, and preserve
their game, the lives of the poorer classes were to be
sacrificed, and he expressed his opinion that it would be
much better if there were no game, and that auoh lordly
pleasures should be altogether abolished, than that such
dreadful cases as the present, and similar ones all over
the country, during the present assizes, should have
taken place. He then went on to contend that the state-
ment of the prisoner was the real truth of the transac-
tion, and that the violence had been done upon the un-
fortunate deceased under the impression entertained by
the prisoner that his own life was in danger, and, under
such circumstance, tha offence would only amount to
mftnilquglitor.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON summed up, and went minutely
through every portion of the evidences cowmonting, in

his usual clear and adiniral3le—mannet,-401 the more
important points, as he proceeded, concluding by leaving
the case in the hands of the jury.
The jury retired, and, after being absent about twenty
minutes, returned into Court, and delivered their verdict,
finding the prisoner guilty of Manslaughter.
The prisoner was immediately called up for judgment,
and the Learned Judge, after observing that the prisoner
had reason to be extremely grateful for the lenient view
the jury had taken of the case against him, sentenced
him to be transported for life.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN
and a Common Jury.)
SKINNER V. SALE.-TRESPASS.

This was an action for an alleged trespass and seizure
of the goods of the plaintiff. The. defendant pleaded
Not Guilty as to the trespass, and that the entry into the
.house was by the leave and license of the plaintiff.
Mr. PLATT, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated that
the plaintiff was now a pauper, but that he had been a
tenant of the defendant. The plaintiff occupied a cot-
tage at Pain's-hill, of which the defendant was the land-
lord. The Learned Counsel'remarked that the law gave
to landlords very great privileges, and it was most im-
portant that these privileges should not, as in this in-
stance, be strained too far. Yet here the defendant had
taken the opportunity of distraining for rent, on the 4th
of January last, in the absence of the plaintiff.
Mr. PLATT called the plaintiff's wife's sister, and other
witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared, that on the
day in question the defendant came to the cottage, took
an inventory of the goods, and, although it was a wet,
snowy day, turned the woman and her two children out
of docks. A distraint was made upon the goods, and a
quantity of tools belonging to the plaintiff were also
taken away.

Mr. THESIGER, for the defendant, suggested that the
remark about the privileges of landlords was only
meant to influence the minds of the jury. The defen-
dant, he said, was justified in distraining for the rent
due to him, and with respect to turning the plaintiff's
wife out of doors, she had stated to a witness that she
intended to give up possession the next morning after
breakfast. The Learned Counsel called witnesses in
support of his statement, but did not prove that any rent
was due on the part of the plaintiff.
Mr. Prarr, in reply, contended that no answer had
been given to the case. All the goods of these poor
people had been seized, and the defendant had even
made a merit of allowing the poor woman to take her
clothes. The Learned Counsel, after again adverting
to the inclemency of the season when the plaintiff's wife
and ber young children were turned out of doors, re-
marked also upon the fact that the distress had been
put in at the time when the plaintiff was absent, and not
only had lie been expelled from his home, but his in-
dustry had been paralysed, in consequence of his tools
having been taken from him. Thus he was ruined, and
was compelled to sue in forma pauperis. In this coun-
try, happily, however, a poor man could recover damages
for any injustice practised towards him, even by the
highest dignitary in the land.
Lord DENMAN, in summing up the case, said there
was no doubt the house had been entered and the plain-
tiff's family turned out of doors. This might have been
justified if rent had been due, but he, did not find any
evidence that such was the case.

Mr. THESIGER said the plaintiff in his declaration
charged that he was a tenant of the defendant.
Lord DENMAN said they could not assume that rent
was due because there was a possession. As to the al-
leged leave and license to enter the premises, Cle wife
had no right to give uppossession without her husband's
authority. There was no justification for the trespass.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 151.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--Liverpool, March 26.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
Thomas Cashmore, aged 20, was indicted for cutting and
wounding Robert ifiddleton, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Hutton conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
not defended by Counsel.
It appeared that there had been some previous grudge be-
tween the parties, and meeting accidentally on the day in
questionrthe prosecutor addressed the prisoner tauntingly by
the title of Mister Cashmore. The.prisoner being offended at
this, addressed to the prosecutor a query, the exact applica-
tion of which did not appear, namely, "Who killed Isaac
Cutts ?" The prosecutor, who is a much more powerful man
than the prisoner, was much irritated at this, and, seizing the
prosecutor by the collar, shook him violently. The prisoner,
in return, threw a stone, and then ran into the shop in which
he was employed in his trade of joiner. The prosecutor fol-
lowed and kicked him repeatedly. A struggle ensued between
them, which lasted for some little time, and on its ceasing
the prosecutor found that he was wounded on the left side,
and was bleeding copiously. The prisoner had then a chisel
in his hand, but at what time of the contest he had procured
'Fit, or whether he had the chisel in his hand when it com-
menced, did not appear. On the person of the prosecutor
being examined, it appeared he had received two wounds,
evidently inflicted with the chisel, which had been struck
from below upwards. One was just above the hip bone, and
the other higher up. They were of a serious nature, and his
life was for some time in peril.
The prisoner in his defence declared the prosecutor had
beaten and kicked him very severely, and that he had struck
in self-defence, without reflecting that he had the chisel in
his hand.

Verdict—Guilty of a common assault. To be imprisoned
for six calendar months.

Catherine O'Brien, aged thirty, was indicted for cutting and
wounding her husband, John O'Brien.
Mr. Whigham conducted the prosecution.

It appeared that on the evening in question the prosecutor
was sitting in his house half asleep, leaning his head on his
hand. His wife, the prisoner, came in, and he waking up,
thought she seemed under the influence of drink, and accused
her of being intoxicated. She was at that time cutting some
bread with a knife. She retorted his accusation with some
irritating words, and the prosecutor finally struck her. A
scuffle ensued, when the prosecutor received a wound in the
face; extending from the cheek-bone to the corner of the
mouth. He now, however, seemed very unwilling to press
the charge, and stated it to be his belief that the wound was ac-
cidentally inflicted.—Verdict not guilty.
The final entry of causes is forty-seven for the Salford list,
and ninety-four for the West Derby list. It, has been ar-
ranged that all in the second lists after No. 60, except unde-
fended causes and special juries, shall be tried befcre Mr.
Justice Coltman, after the criminal business shall have been
disposed of.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, March 26.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PanKE.)
James Wynyard, aged 22, a fellow of extremely forbidding
appearance, was charged with maliciously cutting and stab-
bing James Berry, with intent to do hum grievous bodily
harm.

Mr. Greaves prosecuted ; the prisoner was defended by Mr.
Skinner.

On the 2d of last September the prisoner and some others
were drinking at the Golden Ball, at Monmouth, and after-
wards sat down to cards ; a dispute arose amongst them, and
the prisoner made use of some opprobrious epithets towards
the uncle of the prosecutor, which he resented, and a challenge
to fight having been given to the prisoner, he struck Retry
in the side, who fell with Wynyard upon him, and, while
down, the prosecutor received so many severe kicks from the
prisoner, that his chest remained black and blue for a month
after. The landlord then interfered, and separated them ; but
the prisoner, watching his opportunity, struck at Berry, over
the head of his mother, who was sitting at the fire, and with
a clasp-knife stabbed him nearly to the heart. Fortunately
he recovered, the wound not proving very serious, although at
first presenting a dangerous appearance
Mr. Skinner called a witness, who gave a somewhat different
version of the occurrence ; but the Jury did not seem to place
much reliance on his story.
Wynyard was convicted, and sentenced to transportation
for fifteen years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

David _Hearn who has been knownas a coffee-stand
keeper on London-bridge, was brought before Sir'Peter
Laurie, charged with having committed a robbery upon
a sailor.

Ford, the prosecutor, stated that he belonged to the
ship Brilliant, now lying in the London Docks, and
that, as he was passing over London-bridge, at a very
early hour in the morning, he saw the prisoner, and in-
vited him to have something to drink, a compliment
which was at once accepted ; that they walked to a
public house in Darkhouse-lane, and there enjoyed some
liquor, and that the prosecutor laid his head upon the
table at about half-past three o'clock, and fell asleep ;
that, while he was reposing, the landlady saw the pri-
soner's hand slip into the prosecutor's pocket, and that
she seized him in a vigorous manner, and with the as-
sistance of a person whom she called, she opened
the clenched fist, and took two half-crowns and some
small silver out of it, after which she deposited the thief
in the custody of a policeman. In the prisoner's posses-
sion were also found two books, which were the prose-
cutor's property.
A boy named Plummer stated that he saw the prisoner
draw a watch from the prosecutor's pocket, but as there
was a guard chain to it, the fellow failed
.in disengaging
it. The witness said he had himself something more to
make complaint of against the prisoner. A few nights
ago he had gone to the theatre, and having been de.
tamed till a late hour, he asked the prisoner, who was on
London Bridge, to accommodate him by letting him know
where he could get a bed. The prisoner offered to take
him home to his own house ; and thither they went, and
the prosecutor, after having treated his host, retired to
bed. At six in the morning, however, the prosecutor
was surprised at the entrance of the prisoner, who
threatened to hand him over to the custody of a police-
man who was waiting below, if he did not consent to fork
out two shillings.
Sir PETER LAURIE said he was astonished that the
police should allow a man who must, as was apparent
from the statements just made, be known to be a bad
character to have the privilege of standing on London
Bridge.
The prisoner was then remanded.
Two common girls of the town, named Elizabeth
Boswell and Mary. Reid, were brought up, charged with
having been concerned with another girl in robbing a
young female, aged about fourteen years, named Susan
Ii In the course of the examination Sir Peter Laurie
found that there was ground for supposing that a plan
had been made to entice the little girl into a house of
ill-fame in the notorious vicinity of Wentworth-street,
and that, if it had not been for the interposition of a
decent and humane woman named Ann Kean, the poor
child would, in all probability, have been ruined.
Susan Furr had, it appeared, from a long statement
made in an unmethodical manner, been living with a
young lady at a house in Clerkenwell, and was employed
in making artificial flowers. The lady had oceasion to
leave town, and the little girl, having obtained an ad-
mission for two to the City of London Theatre, was ob-
served in conversation with the prisoners, to whom she
offered the orders. It afterwards appeared that she
wont home, made up all her clothes in two bundles, and
put them into the possession of a girl who was known to
be the companion of the prisoners, but who decamped
with the property. The prisoners, who had taken a
room in Wentworth-street for the accommodation of
Susan Furr and themselves, were, after the disappear-
ance of the thief, taken into custody, and they stated
that the little girl had applied to them to help her to a
lodging, and ageed to pay the expenses arising from the
accommodation which they provided in the sbove-men-
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whom the victims were betrayed. h ..'"v ,' ha-^effniEe
which he was disposed to punish more severely than
the diabolical one of being in any way instrumental in
the ruin of female innocence, and he wished to impress
upon the-police the obligation they were under to give
all the protection they could afford to poor young females
who were exposed to the industrious villainy of the
women he alluded to.

The escape of Susan Furr was, in Sir Peter Laurie's
view, attributable to Ann Kean, who gave the alarm to
the police, and acted in sueh a manner as entitled her to
very highcommendation. The little girl, whose father is
dead, and whose mother's intellect has been affected by
the calamities of her family, became an object of much
interest, and Sir Peter Laurie stated to her aunt, who
was in attendance at the police-room, that he should
use his influence to gain admission for her into one of
the great institutions of the metropolis.
The two prisoners, as there was no evidence against
them calculated to show that they had done any mis-
chief to the child, were discharged, upon their promise
to appear, if required to be present, upon the apprehen-
sion of the female who stole the bundles.

WORSHIP-STREET.
THE FIRM OF WIGRAM AND Co.— William Spurrell,
alias Wigram, Mary Elizabeth Spurrell, his daughter,
and James Martin, a well-dressed man, described as a
law writer, were finally brought up, charged on sus-
picion of having fraudulently obtained possession of a
large quantity of haberdashery goods, of the estimated
value of 2502.

The Court was crowded during the investigation by
tradsrnen and other persons, who manifested the most
lively interest in the proceedings.
It will be recollected that the greater part of the pro-
perty in question was found at the house of the prisoner
Spurrell; the police also discovered nearly a ream of printed
circulars, offering aid in the shape of accommodation
bills to persons in embarrassed circumstances, together
with numerous letters from country tradesmen, accepting
of the proffered assistance, and referring to inclosed re-
mittances, as being the commission charged by " Messrs.
Wigram" for their invaluable services. An invoice for
goods consigned to the imaginary firm, from Mr. Lea-
royd, a draper, at Pontefract, was also found on the pri-
soner Martin, at whose house a further quantity of
haberdashery goods was afterwards discovered. At the
former examination the elder Spurrell avowed himself
to be the head and sole representative of the firm in
question, and said that, being a natural son, he haa
assumed the name of Wigram, which was that of his
mother.

Sergeant Lambert now stated, that the letter carrier
of the district had been desired to attend to give some
explanation as to the extraordinary circumstance of his
having been in the daily habit of delivering to the elder
Spurrell, at his house in Goring-street, letters which
bore the superscription of " Messrs. Wigram, Brothers,
and Co., Barclay-place, Hackney." He had so written
to Mr. Learoyd, the draper at Pontefract, who was now
in attendance to give evidence.
Mr. David Graham Learoyd was then called, who
stated that he first became acquainted with the firm of
"Wigram and Co." in the month of November last,
when he received one of their circulars by post ; and
being in temporary want of money, he wrote to them
requesting to be accommodated with two bills of 1001.
each, and enclosed the amount of their commission. The
bills which purported to be accepted by "William
Brading, commission agent, Commereial-road, London,"
were transmitted to him in due course, and had since
been negotiated. From subsequent inquiries which be
had made he had reason to believe that no such person
as William Brading, the ostensible acceptor, was in ex-
istence. The several articles of haberdashery now pro-
duced were his property, and were consigned by him to
Messrs. Wigram for the purpose of being sold by
commission on the 9th inst. An invoice was sent
with the goods, which amounted to 173/ I Is. •
and he had received a bill at three months accepted
by Messrs. Wigram for 1721. 65., which he had paid
over to his bankers. He was induced to make the con-
signment in consequence of a statement in Messrs.
Wigram's circular, to the effect " that if he had any
goods on hand, and found the sale dull or difficult, they
would use their endeavours to turn them into money to
the best advantage;" and he distinctly treated with
them in the character of commission agents, and not as
purchasers of the property.
Mr. Hentage, who attended on behalf of the prisoners,
submitted that no case whatever had been made out to
justify their further detention. To constitute a breach
of trust on the part of an agent, it was essential that ex-
press written instructions should be sent with regard to
t he disposal of any property with which he might be
entrusted, but so tar from that course having been pur-
sued in the present instance, the prosecutor had made
out the invoice in the name of Messrs. Wigram, and had
received their bill in liquidation of the amount. The
transaction, therefore, amounted to an absolute sale of
the goods, and the prisoners were entitled to an imme-
diate discharge.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that after giving the matter the
most mature consideration, he was of opinion that the
case had not been sufficiently made out to support an
indictment, and although the whole conduct of the
parties was marked with every appearance of fraud ; he
was bound to act strictly on the law of the case and the
evidence bearing upon it, and he must, therefore, order
them to be discharged.
Sergeant Lambert then applied for instructions respect-
ing the disposal of the property, and after a short con-
ference with the prisoners, Mr. 'Tentage stated that they
offered no objection to its being restored to the pro-
secutor.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that the prisoners were actin
very discreetly in adopting that course, for if the bill
which the prosecutor had so incautiously received was
not paid when it became due, there could be no doubt
that they would be liable to an indictment for conspiracy.
The prisoners, to their manifest surprise and satisfac-
tion, were then discharged.
CLEBKENWELL.
A young man, named John Smith, rather genteelly
attired, was charged with attempting to commit nume-
rous frauds on housekeepers.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner has
been for some time in the.habit of visiting houses which
have lodging bills in the windows, on pretence of taking
apartments. The rooms shown to him invariably
suited his taste, and so anxious was he to conclude the
bargain that he always insisted :on leaving a deposit.
For this purpose he drew forth a sovereign or half a
sovereign (he never had any small change), expressed a
wish to leave five shillings as a guarantee for his return,
and having obtained the change, walked away, leaving
the landlady quite pleased with the punctuality of her
new lodger. Failing to come, however, on the day ap-
pointed, the lodger was suspected, and the deposit, on
examination, turned out to be a counterfeit. On the pre-
vious evening he went into the coffee-shop of Mr. Hitchin,
15, Colonnade, Russell-square, and asked for a pork
pie, which was supplied him. In payment he threw
down half-a-crown, a genuine one ; the change was laid
on the counter, but whilst the landlord was engaged in
other matters, the prisoner put one of the two:shillings in
his pocket, and left a bad one in its place. He then re-
membered that he had a penny, which he wished to pay
for the-pie and get back his half-crown. The landlord,
however, discovered the fraud, and upon charging the
prisoner with it, he instantly swallowed the base shil-
ling, and then in a daring manner set the landlord and
police at defiance.—The prisoner was remanded.
DARING ROBBERY.--Two women of the town, named
Reeves and Holland, were charged with robbing Mr.
Briggs, an artist, residing in Moorgate-street, of a gold
watch.

The prosecutor was returning from a dinner party
last night along Holborn, between 12 and 1 o'clock, when
he was accosted by the prisoners. They asked him to
treat them, which he refused. When he entered Gray's-
inn-lane, one of them pushed him into Fox-court, the
other threw her arms round his breast ; he shouted po-
lice, and a constable, 35 G, came up. They were
secured, and Mr. Briggs then found that his watch had
been removed, and that his gold chain had been cut or
broken. Every search was made for the watch, but it
could not be found, and it is believed that the prisoners
threw it away when they saw the officers coming up.
Mr. Briggs was perfectly sober.
The prisoners, who did not deny the charge, were re-
manded.
Sixty postage stamps have been received by Mr.
Combe, the sitting Magistrate at this Court, for the re-
lief of Mary Anne Hartwell, whose case appeared in
The Sun about a week ago. The benevolent donor re-
quested that the receipt of the stamps might be ac-
knowledged in The Sun, as from H. C. E. S.
Our Reporter has been requested to state, that when
the period of her imprisonment had transpired, Baylis,
the messenger of this Court, by direction of the Magis-
trate, conveyed her to an asylum, in accordance with
the wish she expressed on her trial. She, however, re-
fused to enter the asylum; and there is too much reason
to believe that she has again resumed the same profli-
gate course of life which, on her examination, she
seemed so determined to abandon.
The stamps lie at the Police-court, and will be re-
turned to the donor, if he wish, or applied to the gene-
ral purposes of the poor-box.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
PENICHE LIGHTHOUSE.
Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, March 26, 1844.
Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the
information of the Committee of Lloyd's, the inclosed'
translation of a notice issued by the Directors of the
Lisbon Custom-house, relative to an alteration in the
Peniche Lighthouse, which has been received from her
Majesty's Consul at Lisbon.
(Signed) 3. 3kGREG-011.
To W. Dobson, Esq.
(Translation )
NOTICE TO NAVIGATORS.
Through the Great Custom-house of Lisbon it is
made known, that in order to prevent the inconvenience
arising from the almost complete similarity of rotation
in the mechanism of the Berlengas and Cape Carvociro,
or Peniehe Lighthouses, the motion of the latter has
been altered so as to repeat. the brightest light every
thirty seconds, which produces an almost continual
light, and renders the twa lighthouses totally distinct
from each other.
Lisbon Custom-house, March 8, 1844.

The admirers of Fornasari will regret to hear that
he is now suffering so severely from water on the chest as to
prevent his singing; and it is in contemplation to send for
famburini, who will shortly be in Paris.
Mr. Ilighaw, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Rx.chequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Dpwnin 6-sir eet.