The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-11 00:00:00

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS •F SATURDAY.

TIMES.—The plan for reducing the interest of the Three.
and afllalf per Cents., announced last night by the Chancellor
-of the Exchequer, was received with an unanimous approval
which really appears aimed incomprehensible. The public and
the public's creditor—stock-holder and tax.payer—appear equally
-well pleased with the terms of their bargain. Such, at least, we
may presume to be the case, when in the House of Commons—a
lady in which all may safely be supposed contributors to the na-
tional revenue, and most receivers of some amount of dividends—
mot a single voice was raised in depreciation, however modified, of
Mr. Goulburn's measure. We do not, indeed, quite apprehend
the force of Mr. Baring's sentiment, that this reduction "would
be to other States a useful lesson that good faith to the public cre-
ditor is not only an honourable but even an economical policy."
This reduction of interest may be perfectly honest, but
it seems difficult to claim for it the high merit of
honourable generosity which Mr. Baring finds there, and
still more impracticable to establish between its eco-
nomy and its good faith that particular relation of cause
and effect which he seems to discover. The only faint whisper of dis-
content arose from Mr. Blewitt, who surmised that " the dissen-
tients might be found more numerous than the Chancellor of the
Exchequer seemed to expect." Perhaps our City Intelligence of
yesterday may serve to relieve his apprehensions. After the Go-
-vernment's intention to reduce had been publicly announced, and
the particular terms which were to be proposed not uncertainly
conjectured in the City, the Three.and.a-Half per Cents. conti-
nued, and we may now fairly expect they will continue, to com-
mas:el the price of about 102%. It will be indeed remarkable if
many stockholders are found of minds so peculiarly constituted as
to demand from Mr. Goulburn 1001. for what they might sell in
the market fur 1021. 10s. Meantime, the public has to congra.
tulate itself on an immediate saving of 625,0001., and an ultimate
we of a million and a quarter per annum. "It is an ill wind
that blows nobody good ;" and so this gain may be taken in pa 4
compensation of the stagnation and lack of commercial enterprise
which hail made the coming reduction practicable.
ADVERTISk.R.—It will be seen from our Parliamentary re-
port, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer last night explained the
mode in which he intends to effect the the reduction of.the rate of
interest on the Three-and a-Half per Cents., which he announced
on Wednesday. The reduction is to three and a quarter, with a
guarantee that no further reduction will be made for ten years 'to
come. After the lapse of that period a further reduction of an-
other quarter will take place, with a guarantee that no further re-
duction will be made until the year 1874. This is, perhaps, the
I,est mode in which the operation could have been performed.
Though the saving to the public will be about 1,250,0001. per an-
num, the reduction is so slight and so gradual, that the annuitants
will got sensibly feel it. There is a general impression, which, we
trust, the event will confirm, that the saving effected by the con-
version of the Three.and-a.Halfs will not only enable, but dispose
Sir Robert Peel td dispense with the income-tax, when the three
years have expired.
HERALD.—The inveteracy of the Opposition to Ministers and
theirmeasures, in which some of our Contemporaries indulge, leads
them into laughable blunders. Thus the Chronicle yesterday ob.
jected to the proposed reduction of the Three.and.a.Half per
Cents. ; " not that the Ministers take advantage of the [Money']
Market, but that-they have made the market in order to take ad.
vantage of it." This great discovery—this ascription of a miracu.
lons power over the Money Market to Mr. Goulburn, will rather
astonish Lombard-street and the discount brokers. But how does
the reader think that the Chancellor of the Exchequer " has
made the market ?" By " secret and mysterious operations," we
are told in one sentence; and by " restrictive laws," it is further
explained in the next. How " restrictive laws " can be " secret
and mysterious operations " we are not instructed ; but we let
the neutralising inconsistency pass, to inqnire what " restrictive
Isms" Sir Robert Peel has procured the enactment of ? Every
satmomical law he has proposed to Parliament has been for the
relaxation of restrictions ; and so far from the effect of his legis-
lation being, as is alleged, to " cripple manufactures," it has had
the very opposite result. The Annual Trade and Navigation
accounts were presented the other day to Parliament, and
they exhibit a very remarkable increase during the
last year, in the exportation of our " crippled "
manufactures. The declared value of British produce
and manufactures exported in 1842 was 40,785,3501. ; in 1843 it
rose to 44,720,5631. ; and the greater part of this increase is in
" crippled" cotton and woollen goods. In 1843 we exported
16,248,7591. worth of cottons against 13,907,8841. in 1842, and in
ISO again we exported 6,794,432/. worth of woollens against
5,485,4)451. in the year 1842. In all the leading articles of import
tt here was also an increase of consumption last year; in coffee,
enar, tea, tobacco, wine, and tallow, the augmentation was consi-
derable, and the tonnage of our shipping employed in foreign trade
likewise increased. If, then, Ministers have been "mysteriously
and secretly" preparing for a reduction of the Three-and-a-Half
per Cents., it has beef, by extending and not by " crippling" our
manufactures. Mr. Goulburn simply takes advantage of that
which, as a wise financier, he is bound to take advantage of—the
permanent low rate of interest caused by circumstances over which
he has no more control than the Chronicle. Had he undertaken
the reduction last year, be might have been accused of seizing on
a temporary depreciation in the value of money; he has waited
until a time when further postponement would be a neglect of pub-
lic interests, and that which really gravels our Contemporary is
the certainty that he will be successful, and the knowledge that
11:s success will still further increase the surplus revenue Sir Robert
Peel promised, and has given to the country. But the public will
find in our Parliamentary reports Mr. Goulburn's own full and con-
clusive explanation, the terms of the reduction, and a comprehen-
sive view of the whole subject.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIA-
MENT.

Whitehaven and Maryport Railway Bill,—" for making a
Railway from the town and port of Whitehaven to the town
and port of Maryport, in the county of Cumberland," pre-
aented, and read a first time.

Northern and Eastern Railway (Newport Deviations)
Bill,—" to enable the Northern and Eastern Railway Com-
pany to make certain Deviations in the Line of their Rail-
way, between Bishops Stortford and Newport, and to alter
and amend the Acts relating to the said Railway," presented,
nd read a first time

Brighton and Chichester Railway,—Petition for Bill re-
ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. John Abel
smith and Captain Pechell.

Colchester and Harwich Railway (No. 2),—Petition for
Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Sir Henry
Smyth and Major Beresford.
Harrogate and Knaresborough Railway,—Petition for Bill
reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Lawson
and Mr. Ferrand.

Newbury, Basingstoke, London and Southampton Railway
13111,—read a second time, and committed, and referred to the
Committee, of Selection.

Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
Bill,—read a second time, and committed, and referred to the
Committee. of Selection.

Eastern " Counties Railway (Brandon and Peterborough
Extension) Bill,—" to enable the Eastern Counties Railway
Corn my to make a Railway from the Northern and Eastern
Railway at Newport, by. Cambridge to Ely, and from thence
eastward to Brandon, and westward to Peterborough," pre-
ssented,_ and read a first time.-

Newbtiry and Great Western Railway Bill,—read a second
time,, and committed, and referred to the Committee of
Selection.

Slamapnan Junction Railway Bill,—read a second time,
And committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection.

North British Railway Bill,-read a second time, and com-
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection.

Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway,—Petition for Bill
rock;rted, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Darby and
Lord Alfred Hervey.

.FLRE AT EALING.—On Friday evening, about a
quarter to five o'clock, an express arrived at the King-street
(figade station, announcing the outbreak of a large fire in the
village of Ealing, Middlesex. Immediately an engine, with
a party of firemen, under the charge of Mr. Fogo, the fore-
manovas started to the scene ; and the news having been
forwarded. to the other stations in the metropolis, in a short
time the County. Fire-office engine, and another from the
Waterloo-road station, were likewise dispatched. Upon
their arrival the fire proved to have originated in the resi-
dence known as Sutherland House, belonging to Mrs. E. V.
Nunn, near Ealing House-; but, fortunately, the danger had
been overcome, though the damage the building sustained
was considerable. It commenced in an apartment adjoining
:the drawing•room, on the first floor. The cause of the fire is
unknown.

METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS.—On Friday the Bill
"for. betterregulating the buildings of the metropolitan dis-
tricts; and to provide for. the drainage thereof," was issued.
It extends, with the several schedules annexed, to eighty-
-.four pages, and appears to have been framed with a good
oleal'of labour and care. There are .one.hundred and nine
(elauees,..and twelve schedules: ,The object, of the ,measure
iie.to regulate the construction of buildings in the metropolis,
and to_provide fer.the drainage of the districts. The mea-
sure, so far as relates to the officers to be appointed, shall
come into operation on the Ist of September next ; and as to
buildings, streets,, and other matters, on the Ist of January,
1345, on: which day all. the Acts mentioned in the schedule
except. 80 far as in the schedule stated, are to be repealed.
'The Ital is divided into several portions embracing the fol-
lowing expresSions :7-General provisions,' buildMgs, new and
builders, buildings geuerally, adjoining properties, party
wells, party fences, intermixed buildings, ruinous buildings,
expensive of works, boilding use thereof, district surveyors,
official referees, registration of metropolitan buildings 1
azus.7ct e the oh-
referees, official-legal proceedings,arkkinikell ~0 cut
fixed
rUlea'ate to.be.relaxed•Wlaere they needlessly affect
ed
jcato
rry the
ect rules
and. surveyors are einpo
into,practical operation.
The :General Steam Navigation: Company's
mail-
I .Neptune, Captain, IL, W. Gibbs, arrived at Blackwell
on' Saturday, at half past nine o'clock, with the Hamburgh
This:is the first vessel that has arrived from Ham-
burgh since the ice set in.
totr, io,yr. &L. ACCIDENT FROM " A LARK."—On Friday
au yrr(uc 14 was held. at the Duke of Wellington, Tenter-
grot, e •*.altields, before Mr. Baker, respecting the, death
cf jellies Ti. wales. Cousens, a fine lad, aged- eight years,. who
was killed In -seer the following circumstances :—From the
evidence It.app, aa.,•edi that last Friday afternoon the deceased
left'. his parents' rt.gidence, No., 7, Flower-and-Dean-street,
to go' to school., nut u. 'r his way. he proceeded to call one of
his schoolfellowe, rtuanec,' James Riches, twelve years of age,
who lived in•the'parlour
the same house. He knocked
at the dOori and,
after iv.,,iting some time, and receiving
no • ansiVer, he looked' tb.ivugh the key-hole of the
door, ides to see if any bodyvt;ts in the room, when at the
Balm moment " Riches; froth the • .inside, passed a long iron
Iskewer through the hole, pevetraiii.`g with great force the
deceesed's right eye. He was imrneu:'ately conveyed to the
London 'Hospital, -but left at •hie awn request for his own
home. On the succeeding day he bewriLs delirious, owing
-to the acute pain; and in which state he e2tpl,"ed on the same i
afternoon. • Mrc Smith, surgeon, deposed O,At he attended
-the deceased ehortly.befOrehis death, and found the -eye to
_ belie been entirely. destroyed. The injury had occasioned
effusion on the brain,
.arid which -had caused u'eath. . The
- '
4.. rather of- the boy RiChes obierved that his child a.'4l the de
ceased were tin the most affectionate terms, and he Ivas sure
tharthe inehinchOly event was the result of pure aleeident.
After some dikussion, it verdict of " Accidental deafte. vas
recorded,' theleotoner cautioning. the boy Riches as to hs
future conduct: •
The Dublin Papers state' that Mr. Jackson, who
was examined witness for the Crowns dutingAhe State
trials, has ceasedl to be the.. Dublin Correspondent: of.tbe.
;Morning /Jerald .• •
PUBLIC PETI:TIONS.—The total number of petitions
Ift. rented to the House of Commons against a repeal of the
exisCing corn-laws now amounts *altogether to 113, signed *,
by 13; 249 i;lerscins:; for a reduction of the tobacco duties, 47
petitimm, siguodb3 • 5,975 persons; and for an Alteration of
the Poor-Jaw A] ogre ltuent Act, 33 petitions, signed by 1,101
persona.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, March 9.
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall, and
heard appeals to-day.

BONSOR V. COX.-JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this
case, which was heard before the Court a short time
since. The parties in the case had carried on the busi-
ness of bankers at Oxford, and the question in the case
was whether John Cox, who had been surety for a cer-
tain sum lent by the firm, was discharged by the events
that had taken place from that responsibility. The Court
below had decided that he was, and from that decision
the present appeal was brought. His Lordship thought
the judgment Wow correct, and ordered it to be af-
firmed with costs.

THE CORPORATION OF GLOUCESTER U. WOOD.
The greater part of-the day was occupied with the
arguments in this case, which related to the sufficiency
of the guarantee given by the Corporation to transfer
certain funds to the executors of the late James Wood,
the late eccentric banker of Gloucester.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, March 9.
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole of the day with causes of no general interest.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

Morris Humphreys, an old and infirm man, was op-
posed by Mr. T. B. Hughes for the only creditor, Richard
Williams, his son-in-law, a groom, residing in William-
street, Lisson-grove. He was supported by Mr. Wood-
ruffe.

The insolvent appeared nearly childish. He was at-
tended with much solicitude by his daughter, the wife of
the opposing creditor.
Mr. %IroomturFE informed the Learned Commissioner
that the person who had opposed him had put him into
prison; all he owed was 101., and he claimed a set-off on
the other side. •

Arr. MTGE(Es asked a question with the view of show•
ing that the residence had not been mentioned in the
schedule.—The question was repeated to the old man,
who replied that be could not tell, as he had lost his
faculties. _ _ _

The next question was the amount that he had paid
his attorney in this Court, when the answer was made by
the daughter, that she had paid 61.
Mr. WOODRUFFE—And paid by the wife of the op-
posing creditor!
Mr. EluouEs said he wished she was called to give
evidence.

Mr. Commissioner HARRIS decided that she could
neither be examined for or against her husband.
Mr. WOODRUFFE obtained permission to explain the
case. The insolvent's daughter had married a young
gentleman, who was killed three days after wards, and
his family had made her a provision for life. Unfortu-
nately she had married the opposing creditor, from whom
she separated nine weeks after the marriage ; her hus-
band sold her out of a little shop she had taken, and
had sued to imprisonment the old man for board and
lodging ; she had promised to allow her father 50/. a
year out of the allowance which was made to her volun-
tarily by the family of her former husband.
Mr. Commissioner Hanuis—Well, Mr. Hughes, I
hope you are satisfied ? Mr. HUGHES—Perfectly, Sir.
Mr. Commissioner llnams—l hope your client is
here ? Mr. HUGHES—He is, Sir.
The COURT ordered an addition to be made, so that
no claim could be made on the allowance by the
daughter. The poor old man was immediately dis-
charged.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
MIDLAND ClRCUlT—Northampton, March 6
(Before Chief Justice TINDAL.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Nathalie Miard, aged twenty-seven, was charged with having, in
April last, at Barnack, in this county, feloniously delivered to the
Rev. Herbert Charles Marsh certain letters, demanding 10,000
francs, being of the value of 4001. in English money.
We gave yesterday a sligl.t sketch and the result of this case,
and now subjoin the evidence. _

Mr. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Whitehurst, and Mr. Macauley were for the
prosecution ; Mr. Humfrey and Mr. W. H. Adams for the defence.

The prisoner was an interesting looking woman, of a ladylike
appearance, and a good deal of vivacity about her. It was stated
she knew thirdly a word of English. The Rev. Mr. Marsh, the
prosecutor, is a gentlemanly-looking man, about thirty-six years of
age, and son to the late Bishop of Peterborough. He is an un-
married man, and a few years ago became acquainted with the pri.
Boner at a house of ill repute in London. This led to her annoying
him, and hence the present prosecution.
. _

The prisoner being told that she might have a jury composed of
half foreigners and half English, exclaimed, .k ne suit pas coupable.
" She should have justice from those gentlemen."
The prisoner was indicted under the statute of 7 and 8 Get,. IV.,
c. 29, s. 8, which makes it an offence to send letters with threats
or menaces, without any reasonable or probable cause, with intent
to extort money, &c.
The Rev. Herbert Charles Marsh stated himself to be the rector
of Barnack, in a village near Stamford, and had been rector about
twelve years. Officiates generally with a curate. Has known the
prisoner since about the July or August of 1839. Became ac-
quainted with her first in London at Madame Lodon's, a house of
ill fame. She was one of the girls in the house. Conversed with
her. She told me she was very much disgusted with the life she
was leading, and that if I would give her ten or twelve pounds
to pay her debts and go back to Paris, I should do her a very great
kindness. I gave her the money. I went home. Believes she
went to Paris. I went to Paris in August, and saw her there.
Stayed at the Hotel Mirabeau. She visited me there, perhaps half a
dozen times during my stay of twenty-four days. Had connection
with her there. Previous to my leaving, she told me she was
pregnant in consequence. Did not meet her at Stamford. I said,
if she would go to London I would see her. I sent her 101. to
go up. Found her at the Hotel de Commerce in Leicester-street,
Leicester-square. She demanded 1201., and I gave her 1001.
down. Told her it was inconvenient to give her the remaining
201. for a few months. Agreed to allow her 32/. a-year
during the lifetime of the child. Was in town three days,
and left her at the Hotel de Commerce. She wrote me an
abusive letter from Paris, and I sent her the 20!. In 1840 she
ordered me to come up to London, which I did, and insisted on
having more money, because her accouchement had been expen-
sive. Gave her 1201. She told me the child was living, and she
was not satisfied with the 32/., and must have 501. a year. She
wanted a collateral security, and I gave her a promissory note for
500/., payable six months after demand, not to be used, and which
I afterwards bought up. This was in October, 1840. Between
then and Christmas I had several applications, and sent money
each time, about 501. Received a letter in February, 1841, from
London, asking for 1201. Told her it was impossible. Shs then
asked for 101. to go to Paris, and I sent it her. She afterwards
wrote, saying the child was dead, and she had no further cause for
observing any delicacy towards me, and I must come up to London,
or she would find means to make me. In come mence of this I
went up. "She told me point blank that she had got the note of
hand, and I must buy it back of her. I told her I was afraid I
could not give her the full value of it, but I gave her 2501. down,
and promised her also a bond for 3001. payable at my mother's death.
She told me there was no hurry about that; she was
going to return to Paris, but should be back again in London
in a few months, and would trust to my honour. I went
back home. In June, 1841, she wrote for the bond, and I sent it
by a friend. She wrote again. I sent an answer that it was very
inconvenient, and I could not. I had a reply, stating, if I did not,
she would find means to make me. I then went up, and she told
me she was sorry to have hurried me up, but she had lent all the
money I had given her to a friend, who had embarked it in some
►peculation and failed. This was in July. She asked for 2201
I gave her 1601., telling her I could not get more. Saw her more
than once, fur I had some difficulty in getting the money. Had
connection with her at that time, but never since. Shortly after-
wards she wrote to say she was in the family way, and in about a
month afterwards wrote for the 60/., which would, with the last
1601., make the 2201., and it would, she said, pray all her debts.
Between this and the Christmas following I sent about 501. in all.
She wrote again in November, saying she had fallen down stairs, and
had a miscarriage, and was in great distress. At the end of De-
cember she wrote for 1201. more, saying that should be the last
time she would trouble me, for everything would then be set at an
end between us. I sent her the 1201. Saw her about April, 1842.
I received another letter from her, from London, telling me I must
come up to London directly, as she had An account to settle with
me. Went up to town directly, and saw her at Dubourg's Hotel, in
the Haymarket. She then showed me the bond, and told me she
had shown it to her lawyer, who said it was saleable in the market,
and hinted to me I had better buy it up. On this, I gave her the
full value, 300/., and tore it to pieces. I asked her for my letters.
She gave me up several, and declared they were merely scraps and
bits of paper that she had of mine. Returned home. Received a
letter from her in September, 1842, which was read. I had de-
stroyed all before this, as I received them. Took no notice of this
letter at all. In ten days afterwards, received another letter. It
was without date. Received one also on the 29th of October.
They are in the hand-writing of the prisoner. In the month of
April, 1843, I was at Barnack. Received this letter. The letters
from her were all in French. The interpreter here read a literal
translation of this letter, the first in the indictment :
" The bearer of this note is ignorant of all ; it is for your interest
not to inform him. lam in Stamford, and as you have neither
answered my prayers nor my threats. I have considered it as better
to come here, for you world not answer me, without doubt, at Lon.
don. I have eight letters to restore to you, which are very com-
promising, for there are some of them old ones. I see the bottom
of your heart. Well, in spite of that, if I had not really need
of money to continue that which I have commenced, which is above
my means, I would not ask you anything to day, but it is for me a
question of life or death. I must have 10,000 f. See that which
you have to do. When I have told you I loved you, it was true
and sincere. Well, in spite of the hatred which I experience,
it causes me pain to demand them of you. I return entirely the
promises you have made me about your uncle, and wish not for
the future to hear speak more of you ; for, with all the sacrifices
that you have made for me, the heart within being for nothing,
that cannot make me forget that you have made me suffer. There
is my address :—' Hotel of the Port, Stamford,'

"N. MIARD.
" P.S.—Recall these words. With me peace is better than war.
"Thursday, April 16, 1843."
I had made her a conditional promise that if she would not write
to me or torment me in any way, I had an uncle, and I would re-
member her at his death, or in fact at any time when I got any-
thing. This protease was made in April, 1842, when I bought
back the bond. Had exhausted all the means I had, and wished
to get rid of further torment for a little while. When I read the
letter which has just been rem', I desired that no more such should
be taken in. Two days after, on coming home, I found the second
letter on my table. I was staying
at Lord Lindsey's, in the neigh.
bourhood of Uppington, and merely went to Barnack to see what
was going on, and came back again.
'lke second letter in the indictment was read as translated, as
follows:
" The person who carries this note to you was ignorant of all
yesterday; and as I have not had an answer, the person knows all
to-day. You may, therefore, answer him verbally, without fear
of compromising yourself further. As I am not false, I ought
not to let you be ignorant of that which I have the intention of
doing, in case you should not satisfy my demand. This is the
plan which -I
have Conceived, and I swear to you I will put it in
execution. • Firstly, I will go into your church on Easter-day.
Reckoning from that evening, I will go into your village from cot-
tage to cottage, to inform them all of that which has passed. Af-
terwards I will go to the magistrate at Stamford, from clergyman to
clergyman at Peterborough, to all the Chapters, to the Bishop. I
will take afterwards the names of all the Bishops of England, and
I will write to them all. From there I will go to London, and
cause you to be inserted In all the newspapers. Afterwards I will
80'to Slid the Archbishop of Canterbury, who, being equally in-
structed, I will go again to London, to the magistrate; and I shall
know bow to find Clarissa, that she may do so as well as me. I
may not be much the richer for it, but at least I shall be re-
venged for all that you have made me suffer. "N. MIARD."
In May I was absent, because I was in residence at Peterborough.
I received this letter, dated the 13th of April, The interpreter
translated it as follows:

My intention was to publish memoirs in numbers, to support
me in this town. I shall send you, therefore, every day a number.
I This will recall to you one of our adventures. - I came to London
in 1899, in the middle of the month of August, in order to be en-
,gaged at the French theatre, which then had for its director M.
•Cloup,. but the theatre being then closed, I found myself in a state
of want. Then Monsieur Herbert Marsh, accustomed to run after
new ladies that arrive in London, was presented to me by a lady,
which caused propositions, and which ray position foreed me to

accept. I had at that" time very littleexperienCe. After having
passed about eight days in London, I started again for France,
never believing I should see him again. for I had learned from him
things that I cannot help stating. He was in town from the month
of May. I had almost emptied his pockets. He became vastly in
love with a young woman named St. Clair, a very elegant woman,
and of remarkable beauty. He then made to us signs of intelli-
gence at the Opera; but, seeing that she did not answer to it, he
found himself forced, in order to possess her, to come to the point
of making offers. St. Clair then decided on accepting 3001. for an
interview, only that Mons. Herbert Marsh, who has sufficiently the
habit of not being content or remaining so with the first interview,
comes back the next morning, saying he loved and adored her, and
did not intend to possess her for nothing. On saying that, he
slipped very cleverly into her bosom a 51. note. The young
woman resented it by saying to a young woman, This is what
he gives me for showing him down stairs.' So ended his love or
courtship."
Examination continued—Never gave the prisoner anything to
procure abortion—there is no pretence for so saying.
• " '

Cress.examined by Mr. HUMFIIEY—Is thirty-six next birthday.
My living is worth 9001. a year averaging. The value on paper is
1,020/., but I never had that for it. Is a canon of Peterborough,
which is worth 3501. a year. Madame Lodon's house is in Bury.
street, St. James's. Had been at that house before. Clarissa is a
person I knew eight years ago. Saw her for the last time in 1839,
in the presence of Mr. Bailey, a solicitor. Did not make signs, as
alleged, at the Opera. Did offer her 5/. The servant did not
have it. I got it back again. Did not give her 3001.—that is false.
Never had any connexion with her. Perhaps this was in 1838.
Had been at Madame Lodon's in 1838, but not with either of
those; of course, therefore, it must have been with others, but it
was not Clarissa, St. Clair, or the prisoner. Went first to Madame
Lodon's about ten years ago ; only occasionally—did not make it a
habit. Felt I was in the prisoner's power. She had a note of
mine for 5001., and might have sent it into the market. Was
obliged to write to her often in terms of affection, and to keep up
the pretence, because I was in her power. Cannot say whether I
was sincere in the terms I used, when it was represented she was
with child by me the second time. Knew Mr. Otter had been
consulted by the prismer, and declined acting for her when I em-
ployed him for the prosecution. Mr. Hopkinson, my solicitor, in-
troduced that gentleman to me with the highest character. The
prisoner took lodgings at the house of a man named Dorsley. They
have been sold up since then by Mr. Otter. Papers were shown
me belonging to the prisoner, as having been found in Dorsley's
house. One was an altered certificate, and an extract from Mary.
I know the prisoner has been to my mother, to the bishop of the
diocese, and to the dean. Has received, but not direct, a commu-
nication from the bishop. The prisoner first discovered who I was
in Easter, 1840.
On re-examination Mr. Marsh said Clarissa was a woman he met
with at a house of ill.fame. She was an attachee of a French
theatre. Never had connection at any time with St. Clair. Offered
her 51. It was refused, and I got it back again. I employed Mr.
Leichfield in Lyndon, and Mr. Hopkinson in the country. Had
been threate-ied with proceedings by Mr. Columbine, in 1842.
_

Jacques Mutzig—Lived at the house where the prisoner did.
Was the concierge, or house-porter, there. Had conversation with
her, in 1841, about an English► clergyman she said she was ac-
quainted with, who sent her money. Said she had written to him
to send her money. She said she would, after she had told him she
was pregnant, write to say she had fallen down stairs. and she
should receive money. Had never heard she was in the family
way, or had fallen down stairs, or had had a miscarriage.
Cross-examined—Was first applied to to come over as a witness
on Saturday last. Attended five sets of rooms in Paris.
Augustus Gougenheim—ls an interpreter of languages living in
London. Prisoner visited him on two occasions. On the first she
asked him to go into the country a long distance, to an English
clergymen. She said she could get an income settled on her; that
he was rich and kind, and she would follow him everywhere, and
state to the world the connection that had existed between them.
Being a countrywoman, I advised her to be cautious, and declined
to act. Mentioned circumstances that gave me to understand she
had been a gay lady eight or ten years.
William John Joseph Kemp—ls an intepreter, and went at pri-
toner's request to Stamford, and saw Mr. Marsh on the Easter eve
of 1840. Prisoner told him of tne connection she had had with
Mr. Marsh at Lodon's and in Paris. She admitted she had led a
dissolute life from a very young age. She said he was the father
of a child she had. Witness told her, from what she had said to
him, the child must be "un enfant de trois-sir pkres." She then
replied, " Never mind, he is a rich man and a clergyman, and
must pay." She said further, " I have served a Spaniard in the
same way, when attached to the embassy at Paris." Saw her in
1841, and said, " Madame, you have got rid of your burden,"
and asked what it was. She said a boy, but it was dead, and he
was not to say anything about it. She said she should bring an
action against Mr. Marsh for having destroyed her health, by
giving her a noxious drug to procure abortion. Cautioned her
how she made such an accusation, as he had seen her almost daily,
and she appeared to be in good health. She said, " Never mind;
I shall bring the charge, or he must give me more money."
Mr. George Marsh, the brother of the prosecutor, proved pri-
soner's coming to his mother's on Easter-day. Witness saw her.
She said his brother had treated her very ill, and that she wanted
10,000 francs to open a maison de jeu. She afterwards said
30,000 francs.

There were other witnesses called, but their testimony did not
carry the case further.

➢lr. HUMFRIEY made a powerful appeal to the feelings of the jury
in favour of the prisoner, and in particular alluded to the situation
in which she stood before a tribunal, of whose forms of proceeding
she could know nothing, being, as she was, a mute spectator, and
without understanding what was said, so imperfect was her know-
ledge of the English language. We shall nut pretend to report a
speech which took an hour and a half in the delivery, but the prin-
cipal points were, that the jury could not say there was not reason-
able and probable cause, and that the present was not such a case
as was contemplated by the statute.
The Junoe, in his summing up, presented the matters that were
to be decided by the jury, plainly before them. That she had used
ttreats and menaces was clear and admitted, and that the offence
as charged came within the Act there could be no doubt—then,
was there reasonable or probable cause, or did she bona fide think
there was--that was the question.
The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict of " Not
Guilty," which was received with applause by a crowded Court.
This demonstration of feeling was instantly checked.

There was a second indictment, but the counsel for the prosecu-
tion said It was substantially the same question, and, therefore, no
evidence would be offered. The prisoner was, therefore, acquitted
on the second indictment.

There was a third charge, that of conspiring to extort money,
which was not pressed, upon her entering into her own recogni-
sances to come up when called upon to take her trial, and in the
meantime to keep the peace.

CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
TILE QUEEN v. Hour.—Judgment having been prayed
upon the defendant this session, he was ordered to appear
in Court this morning, for the purpose of receiving it. The
defendant is at present a prisoner in the Queen's
Prison, under a sentence recently passed upon him In the
Court of Queen's Bench, for a libel upon the Duke of Bruns-
wick. He was now brought up, in custody, from that
Prison, and placed at the traverser's bar of this Court.
Holt had been found guilty on Monday last, at these ses-
sions, on an indictment preferred against him for a libel
upon Lord William Paget.. The libellous matter complained
of had reference to the recent Paget and Cardigan
affair, and asserted that the prosecutor in that case had made
" a plant " upon Lord Cardigan for the purpose of extorting
money from him—in other words that he was guilty of the
two-fold crimes of conniving at his own and. his wife's dis-
honour, and of trying
.by these unmanly means to obtain a
sum of money from the Noble Earl by way. of .compromise.
After an ineffectual effort on the part of the defendant to
have judgment deferred Until next session, the Learned Re-
corder said, Thomas Holt, you have been tried and convicted
by a careful and intelligent jury, of publishing a .libel on the
character of Lord William Paget. On the trial I took con-
siderable pains to draw the attention of the jury.to the nature
of each separate count of ihe indictment, and after hearing
that explanation they found you guilty of the whole charge.
I need not remark upon the
.serious and injurious character
of that libel, the publication of which may have excited a
prjudice_beyond its mere defamation on the character of the
plaintiff. You are nowundergoing an imprisonment in exe-
cution of a sentence passed upon you by a superior tribunal—
a fact of which the Court will not lose sight in passing sen-
tence upon you—and, therefore, the period of your imprison-
ment for your present offence will he lessened. Taking all
the circumstances into consideration, and the fact that you
are now undergoing a year's imprisonment, of which term but
a very small portion has expired, the sentence of the Court
upon you is, that at the' expiration of the period for which
you are already sentenced to be confined in the Queen's Pri-
son, you be further impriiOned in her Majesty gaol of New-
gate for the period of four calendar months.
The defendant was then removed in custody, and the Court
adjourned until Monday, the Bth of April.

POLICE ...NTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Captain William Simpson, the commander of the brig
Coline, the 'owner, of which; Mr. Reed, of Ipswich, was
on Friday charged with having been a party to the wilful
destruction of that vessel, 'was brought before 'the Lord
Mayor in the eustody of Daniel Forrester. the officer,
' and accused of having combined with W. Reel to sink
the vessel, _and' thus defraud the Marine Alliance In-
surance Company of the sum of 1,250 L, to which.amount
she was insured. •.
Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, . appeared for the prose-
cution, and Mr:Humphreys, the solicitor, attended upon
the part of the prisoner. •- • - • •
Mr. Clarkson briefly stated-that the vessel had' been,
by a contrivance between the owner and the 'captain.
sunk off the coast &Holland; on her honaeward-bound
voyage, in the year 1841, by the captain . WhOnanaged
to take what was calleda "butt" out of her--that.meant
one of the timbers of the. vessel. He would . show dis-
tinctly, upon fully entering into the case on a future day,
that she had been wilfully. lost. His object upon the
present occasion was. to produce so much evidence as
would justify the Lord Mayor in remanding the pri-
soner until the day on which• it was appointed that the
owner should be brought -up.• -The Learned-Counsel then
called the-Witness who had given evidence 'On the pre-
ceding dify_ois to the conversation which:biatakeri place
between the -owner and the captain in'his.pre§crAce, and
the fact that Mr.. Reed had; Subsequently to hearing that
Captain Simpson had declared that the .vessel. was wil-
fully sunk with the . owner's..knowledge, removed the
commander -of another of. his vessels,. and appointed
Simpson•to that person's situation. • •
George Gardiner then was sworn, and deposed as fol-
lows:—Up to the time that Mr. Reed was taken into.
custody I was in his and his partner's-(Mr: Page) ser-
vice. TllOy were-the owners of the brig Carina. In
1841 the brig was inSured for'l,2soZ, for twelve inonths.
She was lost., After her•l6Ss I saw the
.captain with ,
Mr. Reed, the owner. In the month of. June last the•
captain told me the particulars of the loss of the.Colina, '
having frequently hinted at it before, -and he said that
the owner-would &tte day or other get • into -trouble
about it. He said to- me that he had left the ship on
his way home somewhere-upon the coast, to come home
and tell the owner-that the vessel was-leaking and
unfit for Use. When he told that to Mr. Reed, The' obser-
vation Mr. Reed made was, "that he cotiktdo' 'nothing
with her then, that he :(Capt. Simpson) must go another
voyage with her—a voyage to the north for coals." The
captain objected to the leaky condition in whichthe ship
was, and-Mr. Reed then said to him "if she. is in that bad
state then go with her, and you must drop her." - The
captain. told me he said to Mr. Reed that the • boat was
not fit for saving the men, and that it was in •a- very bad
condition, and Mr. Reed said, " you must -get- another
that will suit you, and charge it to the ship." - He said
he went the voyage hnd took in coals, and when on the
coast of Holland thelyessel was wilfully lost. 'llO pointed
out to me the spot Ole. highway where he agreed
,
with Mr. Reed to, drop .or sink the vessel. •
'Cross-examined by .Mr. HumphreYs:—.l. have been
these seven years in the service of Mr. Reed, and I am
now in the service of the , firm.
Mr. Clarkson submitted that he had -proved . quite
enough to authorise him -in applying for a remand of the
prisoner until the owner should be brought up.
Mr. Humphreys did not oppose the application;
The prisoner was then remanded.
Willmm Henry Albert was brought up for re-examina-