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of his rent, and this unit WaS instituted lay Warner on
the ground of its being excessive. The Lord Chief
JusLice told the jury he was ,f opinion ti.at, as a ms-
senger from the Court ot Bankrupcy euter,d, the
defendant could set 'kit up against \''.,-arnor, and that
Warner had not sufficient property in the ,nods after
the messenger cntered sup:.nrr, nu action. 'Mr. Hum-
frey now contended that the Learned Judge was wrong-
in his direction, as there had previoubly been a bona
tide transfer of the property to Warner by Bishop.
The COURT promised to consult Lord Truro with re-
gard to the evidence in the case.

BOW-STREE'f.—('ruas DAY.)
This morning a young woman, named Elizabeth
Burke, the wile of a lithographic printer, was charged
before Mr. Jardine with attempting to commit self-de-
struction by swallowing a quantity of laudanum.
Police Sergeant Chadwicke, of the F Division, said
about six o'clock last night ne was called by the land-
lord of the house No. 5, Vere-street, Clare-market, who
stated that eta of his lodgers bed attempted to commit
suicide. Ha went up to the second-floor front room,
occupied by they prisoner and her husband. He found
the prisoner lying upon the bed. She had sant a boy to
three different chemista for laudanum, and she had pur-
chased three-pennyworth of that poison, the whole of
which she had swallowed. She said the cause of her
attempting her life was in consequence of her husband,
who was a Roman Catholic, forcing her to go to the
priest. She did not approve cf it, as she was a Protes-
tant, and it bad preyed upon her mind. She also said
her husband had threatened to desert her and her two
children if she did not secede to the Roman Catholic
faith. Witness removed her to the King's College
Hospital, where the stomach pump was applied.
The prisoner, who cried bitterly during the examina-
tion of the sergeant, said she had nothing to say in
answer to the charge.
The husband of the prisoner was then called into the
court. He said his wife had been very low-spirited
during the last few days. He accounted for the altera-
tion in her conduct, because he wanted her to go to his
chapel. She was of a different religion to himself, and
he thought his religion was the best.
Mr. JARDINE said it would have been much better if
he had allowed her to follow her own inclination. At
preseet she was not in a fat state to be trusted alone, and
he should take care of her and send her to a place where
she would be properly attended to.
The prisoner was then remanded for a week, and the
worthy magistrate allowed her to have the care of her
child while she was in prison.

MAR,LBRO'-STREET—( THIS DAY.)
Harriet Vellum, a girl, 15 years of age, was placed be-
fore Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing fourteen silk
handkerchiefs, the property cf Mrs, Mary Kay, draper,
51, Tottenham Court-read. She was also charged with
having two far victorines and a roll of ribbon in her pos-
session, supposed to have been stolen from another
draper's chop.
The prosecutrix stated that yesterday afternoon the
prieciner came into her shop and purchaal two pairs of
stockings and six yards of calico, which she paid for and
Isfe: the shop. Directly she was gone witness found a
paced, conzeining seven silk handkerchief's, lying upon
the chair on which the prisoner had been sitting. A box
close by, containing several pieces of handkerchiefs, was
also found open, and on witness looking over its
contents she missed two pieces of silk haudkes-
chiefs, besides the one she found on the chair. She
then sent fir a constable, and gave him a description of
the prisoner, whom she suspected had stolen them.
While she was speaking to the constable. the prisoner
came in again, and said she had left two vietoiiries be-
hind her en the counter, at the seine time taking them
uff the counter. Witness then taxed her with stealleg
the handkerchiefs, when she said " Pray forgive
nice, I
was told to do it by a woman outside the door." She
was then given into custedy.
Police-constable 100 C said he took the prisoner into
custody, and en the way to the policeestetion she tole
him a woman, who sells lucifers in the streets, and
whom she met the same morning at Islington, had psr-
suaded her to rob the prosecutrix. On arriving at the
station she was searched, and a parcel containing two
fur victorines, a roll of ribbon, and a pair of gloves
were found upon her, The handkerchief; had not been
found.
The prisoner now, in defence, said she met a woman
who sells lucifers in the street, and she requested her to
go into the, shop and buy the calico and etoehings. She
did so, and when she came out of the shop the woman
was gone. She (prisoner) denied stealing either the
handkerchiefs or the victorines and ribbon. The lucifer
woman bought them both and gave her one for herself,
and the ribbon she gave her to sell.
Mr. HeaDwies. said it was a most improbable story.
and asked if any of the girl's friends were in attendance?
The prisoner's mcther, a decent respectable-looking
woman, with an infant in her arms, here stepped for-
ward and, in tears, said the prisoner was the eldest of 12
children, but unfortunately she was a lazy indolent girl,
and would not learn to do anything that was taught her.
Yesterday morning she gave her 2s. Gd. to purchase
some calico end two pairs of stockings, at a shop close
by her house, at Hackney. She (prisoner) never re-
turned, and they were up all night in search of her; and
to their great grief and surprise a constable came to her
house this morning, and told them she was in the sta-
tion-house on the charge of felony. The poor woman
added that her husband was employed in en iron foundry,
where he had been for more than eight years, and he
was always talking to the child upon the evils cf lying
and dishonesty.
Mr. HARDWICK said it was a shocking case in one so
young to turn to thieving. He should now remand her
till Wednesday next,

VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE
ALBERT TO THE REGISTRY AND HOME
OF THE SERVANTS' PROVIDENT AND BE-
NEVOLENT SOCIETY.
This day, his Royal Highness, who, with her Majesty,
is joint patron of this society, visited its establish-
ments, Nos. 49 and 49A, Great Marlborough-street.
They comprise an office for the transaction of the Go-
vernment Annuity business, a registry for male and
female servants, and a home for female servants out of
place.
As his Royal Highness had signified a viish that his
visit should be quite private, no company were invited to
meet him. In the absence of the Bishop of London, the
President of the Society, who was officially engaged
elsewhere, the Prince was received by the dirt ctors.
He
rainutely inspected the whole of the premises, including
those models of neatness and comfort the dormitories fir
the female servants. His Royal Highness also examined
the account-book and registers, and mado many perti-
nent and acute remarks respecting the accounts of the
annuity business, and the descriptive registers in the
male and female registry departmi nts.
The whole of the establishment, secretary, matron,
registrar, and investigator if characters, were in tlieir
plae s, and all appeared to be ready for the commence-
ment of business on Monday next.
The Prince remained fur a considerable time, and ex-
pressed his gratification with what he had seen, and
with the increve and FUCCPF3 of the society. We must
not omit to mention that his Royal Highness has now
added a donation of 50/. to his recent donation of 1001.

A GRAND ROMAN CATHOLIC DINNER, AND THE
PREMIER DUKE.—It is said that several of the leading-lay
Roman Catholics contemplate having a grand dinner at the
Freemasons' Hall, in honour of the restoration of their
hierarchy ; his Grace the Duke of Norfolk in the chair.
NEW YORK, OCT. 23.—There is a rumour afloat
here that the Pope has sent a well-informed and eminent
dignitary of his Church to proceed to California, to ascer-
tain the validity of the title of the Jesuit missions to a large
portion of the territory. This investigation, if made, will
cause a stir in California.
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. --THE LORD
MAYOR'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.—At the close of the Com-
mon Council meeting yesterday, Mr. Wilkinson having been
appointed chief clerk of the City Small Debts' Court, in the
room of Mr. Jupp, resigned, the Lord Mayor said,—" Gen -
tlemen, this is the last time I shall have the honour of ad-
dressing you from the chair. I beg, therefore, to thank you
for all your kindness, and the considerate spanner in which
you have assisted me during the time of my mayoralty. I
have often felt my inability to discharge the duties imposed
upon me in this court, but you have so well supported me
upon all occasions, that my duty has many times ceased to
be onerous ; so that I now feel most anxious thus publicly
to tender to you my most grateful thanks for your kindness,
and to bid you all a most affectionate farewell."—(Cheers.)
ARCHIMEDES, RUSSIAN STEAMER.—IIAMBURGII,
Nov. 2. A letter from Copenhagen contains the following
details of the wreck of the Russian war steamer Archimedes,
Captain Glasserup : " This steamer, whose engines are on
the screw principle, and which was proceeding from the Bay
of Kjoege, Zealand, to Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, was
thrown by a violent tempest on the rocks of Hoiderodde,
situated at the entrance of the port of Reenne, in the Isle of
Bornholm. The Archimedes went to pieces, and it was by
the extreme activity of the pilots and fishermen of lleenne
that the crew and troops on board, in all 420 men, were
able to pass into boats. One of these unfortunately upset,
and seven soldiers were drowned. The Archimedes was
built last year in England, and was one of the finest steamers
of the Russian navy. It was on its first voyage. It is hoped
to save the rigging and the guns."—British and Hamburgh
Standard.
COURT OF LIEUTENANCY.—Yesterday, at a Court
of Lieutenancy for the city of London, held at the Guildhall,
the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor iu the chair, it was resolved,
on the motion of Sir John Petty, and seconded by Mr. James
Anderson, that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor be requested
to convene a Court of Lieutenancy by public notice, to con-
sider of presenting an address to her Majesty expressive of
the opinion of this Court on the late unwarrantable assump-
tion of authority by the Bishop of Rome to exercise spiritual
jurisdiction within this realm, in derogation of her Majesty's
prerogative and the Protestant Government of this counldermat.
Resolved unanimously, on the motion Mr. Aryn
Hunter, seconded by Mr. Masterman, M.P. :—" That the
best thanks f this Court are pre-eminently due to the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor for his able conduct in the chair this
day. Ordered also, that above resolutions be advertised in
the usual morning papers." Adjourned.
THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—111 consequence of
complaints from the West Indies, that the West snail
packets leave the varieu, islanals before the time appointed,
orders have been issued by Government, that on no ac-
count must the packets be allowed to leave the
ed port
offis
ial of
call before the periods mentioned hi the publishc
mail route scheme. Hitherto when the packets have arrived
at any of the stations before their time, they have left
after the interval has elapsed which has been allowed for
coaling or exchanging mails, without reference to the hour
or the day at which they
ought to !cave. In future this
will no longer be psi mitten. The only islaral which has
been excepted from these nor iustructions is the island of
St. Thomas, which is the principal foreign stealers from
which all the mails conveyed by the West India steamers are
distributed.

FINANCIAL. CONDITION OF AUS-
TtelA, AND HER lIIILITARY AM) poLin-
CAL POWER.
F2..e&rick the Great, the policy of whose genius
still animates and directs the conduct of Prussia,
lays great stress in his memoirs of his own times on
the fact " that France and all the states of Germany
were in 1763 exhausted in their funds, except those of
theKiug of Prussia, who alone had always one year's
revenue in advance in his coffers." In the annals of
finance we find no example of a nation having so
struggled through such calamitous humiliations and
exactions as Prussia endured from the victories and
dictation of Napoleon, and which has throughout not
only maintained her credit untarnished, but has ac-
tually reduced her whole national debt to a sum not
equal to the amount levied by the English Customs in
one year on tea, sugar,:coffee, tobacco, wine, and spirits,
which in 1849 yielded, at reduced duties, 19,232,4611.,
the national debt of Prussia being 120,000,000
thalers, or 18,000,0001. sterling; but since then, it is
true, a loan of 20 000,000 thalers has been added to
provide for eventualities arising out of the state of
Germany.
How has stood, and how does Austria stand ? In his
commercial statistics now completed, Mr. Macgregor
states—" This empire occupies 11,631 German square
miles, or 258,000 English square miles of the surface
of Europe : that is, 45,000 more than France,
138,000 more than the United Kingdom, and 141,000
more than all the States of Prussia. The surface of
the Austrian empire has pre-ttrninently the ad-
vantage of varied and extensive productive regions,
yielding, or capable of gronting, corn, rice,
wine, oil, honey, wool, silk, hemp, flax, tobacco, mad-
der, all useful vegetables, and delicious fruits—iron,
coal, salt, and other minerals and products in abun-
dance—cattle, swine, horses, and sheep; with the
Danube and other great rivers, extending inland na-
vigation to almost every part of t:he empire ; with
many seaports on the 'Adriatic; with her states also
joining each other, and with a population generally
industrious and orderly. All these advantages and
blessings, therefore, render the Austrian empire ca-
pable of being one of the most rich and powerful states
in the world. But the empire is without unity of
tradition, races, history, or langu:tge—and the spirit
of the supreme government—the itifhxibility of
bureaucratic routine—the mechenical heaviness of
the military organization—the non-amalgamation of
classes—and the almost total exclusion of learned and
scientific men from the society of the aristocracy,Lall
constituted elements of change or disintegration.
" The fallacious principle of prohibiting foreign
commodities in order to force home manufactures into
existence, and to promote and maintain their pros-
perity with the patriotic and even paternal view of in•
creasing the general wealth and power of the state—
the establishment of Government and individual mo-
nopolies, all which in practice su'ojugated the whole
nation to impoverishing, indirect taxation, without
enriching the treasury, and for the benefit, at most,
only of the few instead of the many, have formed that
smothering system which had long paralysed, and
still continues to oppress the commerce, fiscal in-
depence, and effective power of Atastria.
" With the good intentions of a liberel and ardent
mind, but not of a sufficiently matured or sound
judgment, Joseph 11. enfeebled his country by the
false commercial and financial lea-ilation which he
directed his Minister, Prince kis anitz, to enthace.
He subjected Austria, in consequence, to all the mis-
fortunes that an empty and bankrupt treasury are
sure to bring upon nations as well as upon indi-
viduals. .