The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-14 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Accounts from Hesse-Cassel of the 9th state that
great agitation existed, but there had been no rising
against the Government. The New Gazette of
Hew, a violent opposition journal, continues to ap-
pear in spite of the prohibition of the Ministry, and
as its numbers could no longer he distributed by post,
employed men to carry them out. The chief tribunal
of Cassel had ordered the state procurator to take
means of preventing the unconstitutional acts of the
Government. The Communal Council of Cassel has
publiAled a protest against the violation of the con-
stitution.

The Grand Duke of Hesse DArmstadt has issued
a decree, extending for enolher y(ar the decree of
S..r. 1849, against the abuses of the liberty of po-
pular meetings.

Letters from Cassel of the 10th inst., in the Kolner
Zeitung, state that the Chief Court of the Rectorate
of Hessen has pronounced against the decree of the
7th instant, and against the late military measures
which the Cabinet has thought proper to take. It is
now to ba seen whether the miltary will be made
to act in opposition to a judicial verdict, but it is ge-
nerally believed that the Chief Court will be sus-
pended in all its functions. The Cabinet his en-
deavoured to impeach and procure the attachment of
the Members of the Permanent Committee (of the
Diet), but the Staats Procurator (Crown Advocate)
has refused to take up the impeachment.
AI. II i4senpflug, who, owing to some want in the
customary formalities, is not yet in custody, has
summoned the four Commissioners of Police of
the city of Cassel to place themselues at his disposi-
tion, but it is thought that the police will decline
accepting the propoial. Toe papers, which were
suppressed by the military commander, have since
appeared, though without licenses.

DENMA RK AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter fr m Hamburgh of the 10th, in the In-
dependance Beige, says :—" Some fighting took place
these last two days in Sehleawig, on the right and
left wings of the two armies; whilst on the Bth, the
centre of the Holstein army made a forward move-
ment beyond Breeckendorf to Jagel : its right wing,
attacked by superior forces, was obliged to retreat,
but having received reinforcements of several bat-
talions, assumed the offensive by repulsing the Danes
as far as the walls of Eckernfurde. At the same
time its left wing was attacked by six Danish bat-
talions near Suderstapel. The Holstein troops, forced
to retreat, received successively reinforcements by
the arrival of several battalions, and at last drove
back the Danes as far as their entrenchments
of Schwabstedt. These two affairs led to
no result, and the two armies returned in the
evening to their respective positions. The first corps
of the Holstein Chasseurs appears to have suffered
much ; nine carts transported the wounded to Heiden.
The Chamber of Representatives of the duchies, con-
voked at Kiel for the 9th, was opened by a speech
from Cuunt Reventlow, member of the Lieutenancy-
General. The Count announced to the representa-
tives that all attempts at peace with Denmark had
successively failed, that power wanting to destroy by
force of arms the independence and national rights of
the two duchies. By the arrival of volunteers from all
parts of Germany, the army was at present stronger
than before the battle of Idstedt. The Lieutenancy-
General took no part in the deliberations at Fr.,nk-
fort, and was not in offieial relations a ith any foreign
power : the duchies being free from all foreign
engagement, were decided to vindicate to the last
extremity by arms alone the justice of their cruse,
and to maintain their national rites. By periodical
gifts in objects of value and money from tl e German
populations, the public treasury had been providtd
with means of continuing the war ; but in the impos-
sibility of foreseing the end, the Lieutenancy-General
reckoned on the patriotism of the Chamber to accord
it all the subsidies necessary for the consolidation of
the national independence. Although Schleswig is
at present incorporated in fact with the kingdom of
Denmark, all the deputies elected in that province
have come to sit in the Chamber at Kiel. The for-
mer President, M. Burguin, has been re-elected al-
most unanimously. It is the same person whose

ardent democratical opinions and violent diatribes,
from his President's seat, against all the crowned deg,-
pots of Europe, I pointed out to your notice in 1849:'

ITALY.

The provincial council of Ivrea in Piedmont has
almost unanimously voted au address to the King,
praying for the confiscation of Church property, and
the abolition of convents.

We learn by a letter from Florence that the death
of Sir George Hamilton, the British Minister to the
Court of Tuscany, took place at the Villa Normanby,
the residence of Sir George Hamilton, during the
night of the 3d inst. The immediate cause of death
was the rupture of a blood-vessel in the chest, and the
violence of the attack rendered the prompt assistance
of his physician, Dr. Harding, and Professor Z snetti,
who was called in, totally unavailing. Sir G. Hamilton
had long suffered from a pulmonary complaint, but no
immediate apprehensions were entertained of so sud-
den a termination of his life, as during the last year
his health had materially improved, and within a few
hours of his death he transacted his official duties as
usuil. He expired in the presence of his brother,
Mr. Charles Hamilton, Lady Caroline Hamilton, his
niece the Comtesse de Roubion, and her humband,
Count de Roubion, and the Hon. Mr. Campbell
Scarlett, her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at
Florence. Sir George Hamilton's death is much
lamented at Florence, not only by his own family,
his servants, and those who were dependent upon
him, but by all classes of society who knew him.
The Costituzionale of Florence of the 6th quotes
letters from Naples stating that seven generals of the
army of the Two Sicilies have been dismissed from
the service, and that many employes of the customs
have also lost their places.

The Giornale di Roma of the 4th announces offi-
cially that his Holiness has named a commission for
the purpose of establishing the rules to be followed by
the manufacturers of Rome desirous of sending arti•
Iles of their own to the London exhibition. The com-
mission is also to ex Amine the articles intended for
the exhibition, and to decide whether they are worth
sending to London. The commission is composed of
nine members—Prince Caetani is their president.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT GAL
THE AERONAUT.

(LATEST PARTICULARS.)
The Courrier de la Gironde of 'Wednesday gives
the following details of the death of Lieutenant Gale :
—" Mr. Gale, who ascended from Vincennes, at a
quarter past six, descended at a quarter past seven in
the commune of Cestas, on a narrow spot of ground
situated between the property of M. Palauque and that
of M. Balguerie. Seven or eight peasants, who were
at work in the neighbourhood, ran and laid hold of
the balloon, the grapnel of which had caught hold of
a fir tree. In a few moments the balloon was lying
quietly on the ground, and the horse was disengaged.
The legs of the poor animal were completely be-
numbed, and it immediately lay down. It scam
afterwards, however, recovered itself, and rising
up, began to eat the grass as if nothing had hap-
pened. At this moment the wind was blowing
rather fresh, and the balloon, which the efforts of
the peasants could scarcely restrain, having been
freed from the weight of the horse, acquired a con-
siderable ascensional force. Mr. Gale, who was very
quick in his movements and very impatient, wave di-
rections to the peasants which were but badly under-
stood by them as be spoke in English. The aeronaut
had quitted the car, and was engaged in fastening
some ropes of the balloon which had served to attach
the horse, when, from some order misunderstood by
the peasants, they let go the rope which held the
balloon. The balloon thus freed, ascended in a
perpendicular line, and the branch of the tree
to which the grapnel had fastened broke. At
this moment Mr. Gale, who was standing up, was
thrown down into the bottom of the car by the shock.
This fall, added to the escape of gas, caused by the
prodigious ascensional force, must have stunned and
suffocated the unfortunate man, for he was not seen
to rise afterward?, and he was no more visible to the
people assembled. The balloon, in this second ascen •
stow, went about two miles, but what took place
during this period no one can tell. A peasant of Cestas
pretends that, as the balloon was passing over a fir
grove, be distinguished the aeronaut lying down
in the car, his head hanging over the side with
the tongue protruding from the mouth, as if he
hal been suffocated. If such be the case, a slight
shock would be sufficient to have thrown him out of
the car, and this account appears the more probable,
as a hole was made in the bottom of the car through
which Mr. Gale ascended when leaving the horse.
We must, fur the sake of the truth, mention that, at
the moment of his first ascent, Mr. Gale was not per-
fectly sober ; he had taken more than his usual quan-
tity of spirituous liquor, and his state of excitement
was such that Mr. Clifford was alarmed, and proposed
to ascend in his stead. This proposition was, how-
ever, rejected, and Mr. Clifford expre,sed his appre-
hension to several persons present. At eight o'clock
the sae -in-law of M. Lestange found in a field the
plume of white frathers with which the head of the
horse had been ornamented, and which Mr. Gale had
taken off it and stuck in his own cap. Oa receiving
this information, some persons, Mr. Clifford amongst the
number, went to the place where it was expected Mr.
Gale would have come down in the commune of Cestrte,
and after a lung search the balloon was found in a field be
yond the Croix d'llinx still half full of teas. It was not
torn, and everything was in its place, but no trace of the
aeronaut could be fin=d (luring the evening. After
some investigations, and as die night was far ad
vanced, Mr. Clifford proposed to empty the balleon
and to carry it back to Bordeaux, thinking that Mr.
Gale, not seeing any one near at the time of his de-
scent, left the balloon to go in search of assistance in
some of the houses near, and where be would stop for
the night. Inquiries were, however, made at some cf
the houses, but no one had seen him. On the follow-
ing day, Monday, the searches for him were resumed,
hut without :avail. Yesterday the Procureur of the
Republic received a letter from M. Pelanque stating
that the body of the unfortunate man had been found
on his estate at Cestas. It appeared that at break of
day an inhabitant of the Commune in taking his cows
to their pasture saw one of the animals proceed to a
clump of ferns. and begin smelling at something lying
there. He went to the spot, when he was horrified
at seeing the body of a man, the face completely eaten
away by dogs and wild animals, and the limbs in a
broken and mutila'ed condition. The place where
the body was found was upwards of a mile from
where the balloon had been discovered. Information
was immediately given to the proper authorities,
and they proceed to the spot and drew up a procev
verbal of the affair, and the body was carefully re.
moved. At eight o'clock in the evening it was
taken to Vincennes preparatory to its being in-
terred."—The Memorial Bordelais of the same
day gives a somewhat different account of the
cause of the death of Mr. Gale. It says :—" At
nightfall Mr. Gale effected his descent between
Pessac and Martignas. Ile hastened to release the
horse from the ropes which attached it to the car,
and by his expressive gestures (for he could not
speak French) ho explained to the peasants who had
assembled that they were to keep fast hold of
the ropes which held the balloon. When he
supposed that his wishes were understood, Mr.
Gale again got into the car, in order to open the
valves and empty the balloon as promptly as possible.
Finding some part of the cordage impeded his move-
ment, he drew a long knife from his- pocket to cut
it, when the peasants, not knowing the use he was
going to make of the weapon, and alarmed at his
excited manner, all at once let go their hold. The
balloon, relieved from the weight of the horse and a
portion of the ballast, then rose again with prodigious
rapidity, carrying with it the unfortunate aeronaut
suspended by his bands, which clutched one of the
ropes. The position was frightful. Oaly the energy
of despair could have prolonged it for a few instants.
Mr. Gale no doubt must have soon lost his hold and
fallen from a great height."

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
Mtraxsay EDUCITION.—The Rev. Robert Gleig,
Chaplain-General to the Forces, has returned to his
official duties at the Horse Guards, having completed
his tour of inspection of the garrison and regimental
schools and libraries in Sotland and Ireland.
STAFF.—General Sir Willoughby Gordon, Bart.,
G C.B. and G C.H., Quartermaster-General to the
Forces, is on leave of absence at his seat in the Isle of
Wight.

ance with the terms of the contract, and perfect jus-
tice done to the soldier.

DESERTIONS IN CANADA.—We regret to learn that
desertion to a great extent has taken place amongst
the troops stationed in Canada, and that some of the
regiments are in consequence considerably reduced
below the establishment of their effective strength.
Recruiting is being actively carried on to fill up the
deficiency in the numbers.
WINCHESTER BARRACKS.—Workmen have been
for some time employed scraping the stone-work of
these barracks. The Ordnance are not often caught
in expending money in decoration, but in this case
upwards of 7001. is to be uselessly laid out on
questionable decoration, for it is doubtful whether
their appearance will be improved. Had half this
sum been applied to the alteration of the antiquated
windows, by the substitution of sashes for the pre-
sent swings, which admit little air to the small room,
but prove most convenient resting places for thick
crusts of dust, permanent benefit would have been
conferred on the soldier, by tnibling him to enjoy
light and air, from both of which he is now nearly
debarred.

ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Surgeon
Davis has obtained one month's leave of absence.
Assistant Surgeon Donnell, M.D., expects to be re-
moved to Hong. Kong.
The LATE ENSIGN CRooKE.—'We understand that
the case of the late Ensign Crooke, of the 38th Re-
giment, has at last been fully brought under the at-
tention of the highest military authorities, so that it
will now undergo a full and satisfactory investigation.
THE LATE AFFAIR AT VVOOLWICEI ACADEMY.—A
board of officers has been assembled at Carthalton, of
which we believe Major-General Fanshawe, C. 8.,
Royal Engineers, was Prersident, and Colonel Jones,
Royal Artillery, and Brevet Major Walpole, Royal
Engineers, members, to investigate and report upon
the case of three Gentlemen Cadets who were recently
sent home to their respective families from the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich. The friends of the
young gentlemen were invited to be present. We
understand that a mass of evidence was received, but
the result of the inquiry will not transpire until the
proceedings have been submitted to the consideration
of the Master General.

Prices are firm for Jamaica, but there are few buyers ;
the value of fine and superior, 33 to 38 over, is 3s 61 to
4s 6,1, good 30 to 35 over, 2s 9d to 3s 4d; low and mid,
2s 5d to 2s 9J. For Brandy the demand is good, and
rates rule firm.
TALLOW.—This afternoon the public sales of Tallow
went at advanced rates; 600 pkgs South American at
33s 3d to 37s 31; 1,000 pkgs Sydney 351 to 33s 91, in-
terior 33s t) 348.

OILS —There has been a further advance for Rape
Seed Oil, the demand having been good with a limited
supply; sales of pale made at 37s 6.1 to 38s 6d, and
brown at 36s to 375. For Linseed Oil the market is not
so firm, there being a more plentiful supply, but at 32s
9d to 33s per cwt. many parcels have been taken by
home dealers, and shippers were buyers to a fair extent.
There has not been much doing for delivery with
sellers at 31s 9.1 to 325. Palm is in better request,
prices are also firmer, and rule at 28s 6d to 29s
for fine. For Cocca Nut a lsrge decease:l exists,
and higher rates are likely to prevail. At auction
128 casks Cochin realised 30s to 31s 6d for good and
fine. For Olive the market is firm. Gallipoli and
Spanish et 421 to 42/ 10s; Barbary, Levant, and Portu-
gal 40/ to 40/10s per tun. There is no further advance
for Seal, yet a good demand prevails, pale at 371
to 38;., Strsw, yellow and brown, 331 to 361.
Cod has been sold to a fair extent at 34/ 15s to
351. Southern is wanted, and the parcels sold
privately were at 33/ to 351 for common to tine. There
is yet a limited supply of Sperm, and a fair demand
exists; tine British realised 831 lOs to 841 10s per tuu.
This afternoon, at public sale, 684 casks Palm Oil went
at 295; 4SB pkgs Cocoa Nut 29s to 325; 2l casks Syd-
evy 29s t0,29s 3d; 66 csks Ground Nut Oil 36/ 13s to
37155; 90 tuns Southern 331 lOs to 34/ 15s.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, Westminster, Sept. i 3.
WILSON v. COLSON.

Mr. BAZALGETTE stated that-the plaintiffs in this
case were the proprietors of the well-known omni-
buses called the " Favorite,' which start from Highgate
and Hornsey, some going to 'Westminster, and others
to the City and the South-Eastern Railway. It ap-
peared, from the opening statement of the Learned
Counsel, that the plaintiffs had been established at
Islington for twenty years, and first used and em-
ployed omnibuses between Highgate and the Bank of
England, which were painted green, in the same
manner as their omnibuses were then painted,
and that they then took and adopted the name or
word "Favorite" as a distinguishing mark of their
omnibuses, by which all of them have ever since been
known. That the defendant, also an omnibus pro-
prietor, and who, in the year 1847, sold his interest
in his omnibuses, called the Emperor and Hope, had
commenced running an omnibus with the name
"Favorite" painted on a green ground, and so much
like the plaintifls' that the public were deceived by
its appearance, and thereby the plaintiffs sustained
great injury. He moved fur an injunction to restrain
the defendant from running the omnibus complained
of. Tne injunction was asked for in the same terms
as had been granted by his Lordship in another omni-
bus case of a precisely similar description, of the name
of "Knott v. Morgan."
Mr. BEALES, on the part of the defendant, con-
tended that there were many points of difference
between the omnibuses of the plaintiffs and defen-
dant. The name " Favorite " was certainly
the same, but the green ground was of a darker
colour, and instead of " Brighton Railway" there
was painted on his omnibus " The South-Eastern
litailway," and the defendant had a red flag with
white letters, whereas the plaintiffs had a:white flag
with black letters. He also contended that the Court
had never granted an injunction in any case against
the use of a name simply, unless the name of the
party, or of his firm, was connected with it.
The MASTER of the ROLLS, without hearing the
reply, said it appeared to him that the defendant in
setting up the omnibus painted and decorated in the
mode described, did intend the public to believe that
it was the omnibus of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs had
run their omnibuses for twenty years, and it was im-
possible but to believe that people must suppose the
defendant's omnibus belonging to the plaintiffs. The
present was no new device, but it was similar
to what was often seen over shop windows—the same
name is painted, but then a little letter is put in a
scroll over it, which being read explains it ; but that
was generally overlooked. The defendant was en-
titled to run his omnibus, if he did it without fraud on
the plaintiffs ; therefore the order he should make
would be to restrain the defendant from running an
omnibus having painted upon it the word "Favorite"
in such colours, or in such manner, as to be a colour-
able imitation of the words or devices painted on the
omnibuses of the plaintiff.

WILSON V. ARABS.

The facts of this case were similar to the last.

Mr. Roinuiton, who appeared for the defendant,
stated that there was no intention on the part of the
defendant to continue running the omnibus.
The MASTER of the ROLLS said, that being so
he would not grant an injunction, but allow the mo-
tion to
.stand over, giving the plaintiffs liberty to
apply in case the defendant again attempcd to run
his omnibus.

COURT OF BANICitt. IPI CY, Sept. 13.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANS.)
N THE BANKRUPTCY OF WILLIAM FOSTER NEWTON.
The bankrupt, who carried on the business of mil-
iner and dresstnaker in aiver-street, Piccadilly,
came up on the qaestion of certifi...ate, supported by
Mr. Latisrencee, and opposed by Mr. Parry, on behalf
of the assignees. The debts and liabilities are 8,687/. ;
the assets, Mr. Parry stated, will not realise a lartrer
dividend than between 3s. and 4s. in the pound. Tile
trade and personal expenditure, extending over the
period of trading, three and a half years, were 6,5951. ;
whilst the losses were 5,009/. ; the profits were 5,4511.
The nature and amount of the assets, as set forth in
the balance-sheet, were--good debts, 1,8871.; pro-
perty, 5051. The charges preferred against the bank-
rupt were reckless trading, false and fraudulent re-
presentations to creditors, mutilating his book, and
undue preference to Messrs. Harding and Smith, of
Pall-mall, who had been his principal creditors.
Mr. PARRY asked the Court to withhold the cer-
tificate altogether.
As regarded the first charge, the Court expressed
no opinion upon it. The proofs brought in support
of it were the figures of the balance-sheet, and it was
further alleged that the bankrupt had not taken
stock from June, 1848, to the perio'd of the issue
of the petition in May, 1850. The second charge
was founded upon these circumstances :—ln 1848 the
bankrupt owed Messrs. Harding and Smith nearly i
4,0001. They sent n accountants, whom it was al-
leged the bankrupt deceived by suppressing a debt to
his father of 1,3001.—a liability to Thomas, the per-
son from whom he had bought the goodwill of the
business, of 2,500/. ; and that he had set forth as
assets 600/. worth of furniture,, which he was about
to settle on his wife. Coe result of the statement
was, that the bankrupt appeared to have a surplus of
3,0001., whereas, had those deductions been made, a
balance of 1,4001. would have been shown against
him. Mr. Lawrance gave this explanation of the
matter :—He said that the statement in question was
drawn up solely from Messrs. Harding and Smith,
who were aware of the debt and liability in question ;
that with respect to the father's claim the bankrupt
knew it would not be pressed ; and in respect to
Thomas's, although it was true it had not been men-
tioned, yet neither had the bankrupt set forth as an
asset the goodwill of the business, which he possessed,
and out of which the liability accrued. The 6001.
worth of furniture was only to be settled on
his wife, on condition of an equivalent in money
being thrown into his business. The Commis-
sioner considered those explanations satisfactory,
although Mr. Atkinson, of the firm of Atkinson,
Foster, and Co., who are now creditors to the amount
of 6801., swore that the bankrupt obtained 3001. worth
of goods from them upon the belief that the statement
of his affairs, in which he appeard with a surplus of
3,0001., was a bona fide one, and this witness posi-
tively declared they would not have entrusted Hin
with their goods if they had known that Newton
owed his father 1,3001., and was under a liability of
2,5001. to Thomas. Another creditor, Mr. White, of
the firm of Finley and White, Regent-street, deposed
to a similar effect. The bankrupt alleged that at:the
time he obtained the goods of Messrs. Atkinson and
others he believed he was solvent, and that he would
be able to pay all his creditors in full, but his busi-
ness had been ihjured by circulars, which the account-
ants called in, and Messrs. Harding and Smith had
sent to his debtors.
The COMMISSIONER was of opinion that the bank-
rupt had not committed nor in ended to commit any
fraud. He doubted the statement of Mr. Atkinson
that his house would have refused further credit had
they known the exact position of his affairs. Having
repeated his belief that the bankrupt was incapable
itti ng any
the
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Commissioner
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certificate.m

MEDICAL STAFF.—Staff A.sistant-Surgeon Swet-
tenham, who was under orders for Jamaica, having
been examined before a medical board, has been with-
drawn from the embarkation list for the present.
Doctor Swettenham served for many years in Ceylon,
both in the Ceylon Rifle Corps and subsequently on
the staff.

KILKENNY DISTRICT.—The riding-school at Clon-
mel is ordered to be converted into barrack-rooms
for the better accommodation of the soldiers. A
chapel and school-room is also ordered to be con-
structed for the use of the troops at that station.
DUBLIN GARRIS'ON.—The 40th Regiment marched
from their barracks in Great Ship-street to the
PLce lix Park, on %Yednesdsy last, and practised
pitching tents.
25F11, OR KING'S OWN BORDERERS.—We under-
stand that Lieutenant, Colonel Young is about to re-
tire from the service by the sale of his commission,
in consequence of ill health.
BAD BREAD FOR THE TROOPS.—Repeated COM..
plaints having been made of the bad quality of the
bread issued to the troops in Portsmouth Garrison,
Major-General Lord Frederick Fitz Clarance has di-
rected that the captain of the day and a medical
officer, as well as the subaltern and quarter-master,
attend every morning the issue of the bread to the
men, in order that it may be supplied in strict accord-

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
•
John Crosby, alias Captain Crosby, R.N., was
brought before Alderman Carden for final exami-
nation.

The jastice-room was, long before the prisoner was
put to 11-a bar, crowded with people, some of whom
bad seen him act in a very eccentric manner.
Mr. nobler attended for him.
111 r. Henry Stapleton, a clerk in the Admiralty-
office, said—l have a register (if the captains in the
Royal Navy. The name of John Crosby is not
amongst them. I cannot say that the name has not
been on the list for the last three year 3, but no such
person is on the list at present. It is published an-
nually by Murray, and settled from our office. I
know that Admiral Beaufort is hydrographer to the
Admiralty. I have no knowledge that the admiral
is about to vacate his place. If he had any intention
of the kind it would have come to my knowledge.
Commissions issue from our office.
Alderman CARDEN —What rank does the distinc.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1850.

tion of three rows of gold lace upon the cuff of the
coat designate ? Witness—That of post-captain.
Alderman CARDEN—I fad you the name of Captain
Tozer upon the list ? Witness (examining the list.)
—Aaron Tozer is entered in the list as a captain
since the 14th of January, 1833.
A gentleman, who stated his name to be Wiggan,
here stepped into the witness-box and said he wished
to state what he knew of the pri,ioner.
Alderman CAP:DEN—Is what you have to a tte cal-
culated to benefit the prisoner ? Mr. Wiggan—l
think it is, and I am very desirous to make the re-
presentation.
Alderman CARDEN—You are quite at liberty to
make it.
Mr. Wiggan—l reside at Stafford-row, Bucking-
ham-gate, and I became acquainted with the prisoner
last winter, and was in conversation with him daily
for a considerable time. I could not come to any
conclusion about him but that he wets at intervals and
upon certain subjects quite crazy. lie told me and
the landlady of the house the most fantastical lies
that could have occurred to the imagination of a man
on the subject of his connexion with the Admiralty,
and without having any intelligible motive for ut-
tering such follies, for he paid his way in
the most exact and honourable manner, and
did not contract debts in the neighbour-
hood nor manifest any disposition to incur any. His
landlady for some time placed reliance upon his
promises to render her extraordinary services by his
influence at the Admiralty, and had nearly run the
hazard of great inconvenience in consequence of her
credulity. He volunteered vast advantages to me,
too, from the same source, so that it became quite
impossible fur me to think of him but as a person out
of his senses. I subsequently called on his landlady,
and she told me that he had in the interim called
upon her spontaneously, and stated that he was going
upon a mission to Spain, and was then superinten-
dent of stores at Deptford Dockyard, and had it in
his power to do great things for her there. The
whole of this representation was as groundless as the
other. There was not a syllable of truth in it. He
abounded with the most ridiculous fables, and we
could not detect anything like a motive. There was
a decided contrast between his conduct on subjects of
this kind and other matters. He was certainly liable
to periodical attacks of delusion, and he manifested
delusion in a very strong degree in describing a con-
flict in which he had been engaged in the Brazils.
Alderman CARDEN—He showed that he had a mo-
tive in telling falsehoods to Mr. Taylor, for he con-
trived, by representations just such as have been
described, to induce that gentleman to hand him over
from time to time money to the amount of 601., and
to give him for months the hospitalities of his house.
Mr. Wiggan—Having seen the accounts in the
newspapers, I came here to state what I knew of him,
in the expectation that I might be of some service in
showing that I had reasons for believing that he
really laboured under delusion when he told these
fantastical lies, which no man with his intellect about
him could have thought of uttering. As I said before,
the monstrous falsehoods he told were completely
motiveless.
Alderman CARDEN—He has turned them into ac-
count elsewhere, it is quite evident.
Mr. Wiggan—lt appeared from the reports that he
was considered to be a man of education. I assure
you that there is no foundation for that statement.
He is not an educated man. It will be found, upon
examination of his head, that outside there are several
depres,ions ; and I need not tell you what strange
effects may be produced upon the brain by external
injuries. We are not yet sufficiently acquainted
with the subject as to be able to pronounce as to how
far a man's moral responsibility may be affected by
external accident. My impression is that he labours
under periodical delusion.
Alderman CARDEN—You have acted with great
kindness in coming forward to snake this statement,
and the repetition of it elsewhere may be of use to
the prisoner, whom I consider it to be my duty to
commit for trial to the Central Criminal Court.
It being necessary that a slight addition should be
made to the evidence i❑ order to render it complete,
Alderman CARDEN directed that the prisoner should
be brought up again to-morrow (this day), fur the
purpose of being committed in due form.

ARAI
Qrs.
Wheat ••. ••• ••• 5,235
Barley ... ... ... 335
Oats ••• ••• ••• ••• 440
Beans.. ••• ••• •• 704
• —

i yesterday forenoon, whilst he was sitting quietly with
his family, a knock came at his street-door, which
being answered by the servant, a man unceremoni-
ously entered the hall, and producing a constabk's
staff said he was an officer of the county court. The
noise induced applicant to proceed to ascertain the
cause, when the party said in a very rude and autho-
ritative tone, "I am an officer, and I came here to
search your house." Applicant asked him to show
him his authority, as if he had a magistrate's warrant
he might search every room and corner in the house,
but as long as he was master of his own esta-
blishment no one should dare to obtrude upon the
privacy and domestic peace of his house and
family with impunity unless by some authorized
legal reason. The fellow still persisted in his over-
bearing and insolent conduct in the presence of the
ladies of his family, who were exceedingly annoyed
and alarmed, while he held his staff and a piece of
paper in his hands, the latter being, he said, a writ, 1
but which he woul•.l not allow applicant to read or
have a sight of, but he rushed up stairs into the
drawing room, and threatened to bundle applicant
down stairs it' he interfered with him, Ile (Air.Tin-
dell) was not of sufficient muscular dimensions or
strength to deal with such a person, and he avoided
any personal conflict or resentment, and determined
on applying to this court fur advice and assistance, as
he never knew of such ou'rageous and extraordinary
conduct in a gentleman's house before, and it ought
not to go unpunished. He added, fathers had fami-
lies, and sometimes imprudencs occurred with some
of them. The process, no doubt, was against his son,
who was not in the house, and the person, who was
accompanied by a follower, he submitted ought to
have shown him his authority before searching his
house and annoying his family.
Mr. TYRWHITT said he had no authority to inter-
fere in such a matter.

Mr. Tindall—What ! bad he any right to search
my house without my sanction and without showing
his authority ? I promised to afford him every faci-
lity to search the house if he would only show me
his authority, which he refused to do.
Mr. TYRWIIITT—He certainly ought to have shown
you his authority, but when once he got entrance
into the house he was justified, as an officer armed
with legal process, to make a search after his man and
capture him.

Mr. Tindall would only say that it was a most im-
pudent and extraordinary proceeding.
Mr. "IYRWHITT—There w ere sufficient grounds for
him (Mr. Tindall) to complain to the Judge of the
County Court, who had power over the officers of the
court, and could suspend and discharge them if im-
proper conduct could be proved against them. The
person had no right to threaten Mr. Tindall. He in-
quired whether he went in any fear of the persons
complained of ? Mr. Tindall—l felt great fear at the
time, but not now ; certainly not. Mr. Tindall then
apologised for having occupied so much of the worthy
Magistrate's time, bowed, and left with the intention
to complain to the Judge of the County Court.
LAMBETH.

George Foscott, n wretched-looking man, whose
right eve was considerably inflamed, was charged be-
fore Mr. Norton with refusing to work at stone-
breaking at Newington Workhouse, for which offence
he was liable to be sent to the treadmill.
_ _

Macdonald, the taskmaster at Newington Work-
house, deposed that in consequence of the prisoner,
who was an inmate of the workhouse, objecting to
work at stonebreaking, at his own request he had been
taken before the board of guardians on the day before
for the purpose of getting its sanction to be put to
some other work ; but the board peremptorily refused
to allow him to do any other work than that of stone-
breaking. In consequence of this peremptory order
the prisoner was taken to the stoneyard on that
morning and set to work with others, but he refused
to do anything for reasons which no doubt he would
explain to his Worship, and he (Macdonald) taus
compelled to take him to this court.

The unfortunate prisoner, in reply to the charge,
said that, he had rented a house in, and paid rates to,
the parish of Newington for several years, but owing
to misfortunes of one sort or other, but principally
from want of work in his business as shoemaker, his
goods were all seized and sold off. His wife and four
children were then obliged to go to the workhouse,
and he himself was compelled in a week after to follow
them. From a child he had had delicate eyes, and hav-
ing at one period lust the sight of one of them and very
nearly that of the other, he had been a patient for
nearly four years of Mr. Alexander, the oculist, and
finding that the work to which he was put to—that
of stonebreaking—was again impairing his sight, he
begged to be put to work at his own trade, that of a
shoemaker ; but this was refused him. His eyes con-
tinuing to get worse he requested to be taken before
the board on Thursday, and again besought its mem-
bers to put him to some other employment, but they
again refused; and fearing that if he went on he
should lose the sight of one, if not both his eyes, he
had determined, let the cons;
.uences be what ey
might, to refuse the work. In conclusion, the poor
fellow said that his life was to him a perfect misery,
for, in addition to his Affliction, he was placed in the
refractory ward, amongst a set of thieves and louse
characters of all sorts.

Macdonald here handed to the magistrate a certifi-
cate from the parish surgeon, stating that the prisoner
was quite capable of working at stonebreaking with-
out any injury to his eyes, provided he wore the usual
protectors. IL, (Macdonald) also said that on going
to the surgeon about Fo,cott he r=-presented that he
worked as well as he could, and that he thought stone-
breaking was not befitting his eyes, upon which the
doctor told him he supposed he must know his busi-
ness better than himself.

Mr. NORTON—WeII, upon my word, I should sup-
pose he did, in so far as this case is concerned ; and so
do I Al3O ; fur it is my opinion this man, judging from
the inflamed state of his eyes, particularly, is not in a
fit state to break stones.

The prisoner said that the protectors, as they were
called, did him more harm than service, for, while
they did not protect him from the sharp and perni-
cious dust issuing from the granite, they so impeded
his sight that he was not able while they were on to
strike the stone with any precision.
Mr. NORTON, under the circumstances, sent for
Mr. Taylor, the chairman of the board of guardians,
and that gentleman, on hearing the circumstances,
said that the wife and four children of the prisoner
had been received into the workhouse on the repre-
sentation that they had been deserted by the prisoner.
He also justified the conduct of the beard in sending
the prisoner to break stones, by the surgeon's certifi-
cate; and pointed out the great difficulties which the
guardians had to contend with i❑ dealing with such
cases. Mr. Taylor, however, ultimately kindly con-
sented to provide the prisoner with present means to
take his f.unily out of the house, and promised his as-
sistance until he could get sufficient employment to
enable him to support his family.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
WAKEFIELD, SEPT. 13.—Tho reported arrivals are
again small, but there is a good show of samples from
vessels near at hand. There is a fair demand for old
and now wheat at the full currency of this day week.
Oats and shelling are sold on easier term,. No change
in the value of beans and burley; of the latter there are
a few new samples, the quality coarse. _

Old New.
WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel:— s. s. s. s.
Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red ... 42 to 46 44 to 46
Ditto, white 45 —5O 48 —5O
Norfolk and Hunts., red ... ... 41 I 43 —45
Ditto, white ... 44 —46 46 —43
Lincolnshire and Cambridge, red ... 40 —43 40 -- 44
Ditto, white ... 43 —45 42 45
Yorkshire, red ... ... 40 —42 40 —43
Ditto, white ... ... 43 45 42 _ 45
Dantaic and Konigsburg, white .. 41 _45 ——
Lower Baltic and Hamburgh, red... 38 42
Mediterranean, red ... 31 33
BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels :
Norfolk and Suffolk...
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire
Scotch ••• ••• ••• •••
Grinding per 30 stone ... ... 20 —22
Foreign ... ... 22
BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631 b :
Small, fine ... 29 —32
Ticks
Foreign ... 26 —29 —'OATS, per stone :
Mealing . Od to 04 91 to 100
Feeding ... 94 to 101 94 to 10d
Foreign ... ..• 04 to Oil 94 to 104
SHELLING, per load of 2611 b —— 21 —25
MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels 35 37
PEAS, per Imperial Quarter
Blue and white boilers
Grey and Feed

.. ... 28 - 30 - -- -
,• ••• 26 - 28 - - .....
VAL 3.

Qrs.
Rapeseed ... ... ... --
Shelling ... ... ...
Linseed .. ... ..
Malt ... ... • • ... --
Flour ... ... ... ...

Tares... ...
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. I3.—At this morning's market the
sales of wheat and flour proceeded slowly, but in all
cases fully Tuesday's prices were obtained. Fine meal-
ing oats are scarce and wanted; those offering to-day
were of inferior quality, and not saleable. Grinding
barley bas become scarce, and was Id per bu.hel dearer.
Beans and peas were each also 6d per quarter higher.
Indian corn was the turn dearer to-day, and 28s per
4801bs is the established price fur the best American
yellow, but the demand wa3 not so good as during the
week ; the sales since this day se'nnight have been, of
American yellow about 4,1,00 quarters, at 27s 9d, and
3,000 quarters, at 28i per 4,301b5, on speculation. Several
small purchases of American white have been made for
shipment, chiefly to the north of Ireland, at 28s
per 4801bs.
NEWBURY, SEPT. 12.—The supply of wheat to-day is
only moderate, and the larger portion consists of the
new crop, the condition of most of it being extremely
good ; the trade has been more animated than fur some
time past, and although we do not quote any actual ad-
vance, still the tone and tendency ate upwarde. The
yield is still complained of. Of barley there were a few
samples of new at market, of very indifferent quality,
and held for 23s to 25s per quarter. In beans, oats, and
peas, we have but little doing, and prices are looking up,
which cheeks buguesa.