The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian 5
, 5 per en Portuguese spr Cent —
Begian, per C t
103 !Ditto, New, Ditte0.•........ 00000
Brazilian Bonds .............. Si% Prussian, 5 per Cent —
Buenos Apes, 6 per Cent... IRussian_, 5 per Cent
Cbllian, per Cent Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 ..... Ditto, 9 per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...... Ditto, Deferred 12%
Danish, 3 per Cent ;French, 5 per Cent.... —t —c.
Greek. 1825.5 per Cent...... Exchange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent ....... 35% French, 3 per Cent. —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 61%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — /Ditto, 5 per Cent ........100%

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SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) BO
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 82%
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid 514
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 7%
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) .....
Ditto, Preferenco or Privilege, £lB 17s 2d paid 21 %
Landau and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) 1951
Manchester and Leeds go paid) ..... ...............
Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid)
Midland Counties (100 paid) ........... ....... .....
North British, 251 paid 2%
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (125 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Thames and Medway, £l9 5s 8d paid lO%
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) —
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) ... ..... .. .. . .
York and Scarborough Branch (254 paid) ......
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ......
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid .. ........ ........ .........
Rouen and Havre, 10 paid

RUMOURED OCCUPATION OF
TANGIERS BY THE FRENCH.

The Patrie, Paris journal, of Saturday evening,
has the following article :
" Rumours of the highest importance were circu-
lated to-day at the Bourse. It was said that the
Prince de Joinville had landed, and had taken posses-
sion of Tangiers, where the tri-coloured flag was
waving at this present moment.
" It was added, that the English Consul had imme-
diately protested against this measure.
" The complication of these events, the strange si-
lence on the part of Government—all this has caused
a real panic, which has produced a considerable fall
in the prices of public securities, as will be seen in
our report below, that the Three per Cents. fell 75
centimes and the Fives If. 10c.

" There were other reports mentioned, besides
these. It would appear that the King received the
important news we have just mentioned, last evening,
at the moment he was going to dinner, and the
Ministers were instantly sent for to meet in council,
over which his Majesty presided. After the council,
extraordinary couriers were dispatched in all di-
rections. _ _

" Finally, persons who pretend to be well informed
assert that Tangiers, immediately after the bombard-
ment, had been pillaged, plundered, and laid waste by
the Moors themselves. Some exaggeration there may
be in these rumours; but public anxiety is extreme,
and for the Government to remain silent longer would
be an unpardonable fault."

SPIRIT •of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The bombardment of Tangiers—even
though the active intelligence should lack confirma-
tion—would be sufficiently threatening to the dura-
tion of peace, with which the essential interests of
England and France arc identified. There is, how-
ever, hope that war yet will be averted. The forbear-
ance of Lord Aberdeen is proverbial. The lamb-like
patience that has hitherto shown itself invulnerable,
still promises to be proof against this additional in-
stance of French aggression. The Herald—which,
in all the qualities that separates our Foreign Minister
from the sympathies that have been roused
throughout the nation against the reiterated inso-
lence and injuries of France, bears a striking resem-
blance to its patron and prompter—bestows a reproof
upon us for our remarks on this now all-absorbing
event. Tangiers is not, it seems, of sufficient im-
portance to warrant a moment's regard from anation so
great and glorions as England ! France may, accord-
ing to the Herald, be permitted to play what pranks
she pleases on the entire line of the African coast ;
bombard what towns she pleases, and occupy what ter-
ritory she pleases, without calling forth any expression
from England, beyond, perhaps, an expostulation uttered
with " bated breath," against what cannot be altogether
approved. If a remark, prompted by surprise and
indignation at the indifference or pusillanimity which
characterises the Ministers of this country, be
uttered, the complaint is met by the ready excla-
mation, " England is great; and Sir Robert
Peel is Minister ! " What necessity can exist for
uneasiness ; even though one event after another,
each indicative of the aggressive policy of France,
tread each other's heel ? " Who's afraid ?" The
Herald assigns a. long string of reasons—some of
them very strange ones; which are adduced for the pur-
pose of making out a justification for ministerial for-
bearance :—" England has nothing to fear, in the vul-
gar sense of the word, from a war. At this moment
the surplus revenue of the country, beyond its expen-
diture, represents a capital of nearly one hundred
millions sterling, which might be doubled or trebled
if necessary, and true economy would dictate to engage
in war ' cum toto corpore regni,' should the cruel
necessity of war be forced upon us. And not
only are the pecuniary resources, but all the
other elements of military power at hand. We have
an ample, if not a redundant, population. We, too,
have a bold and high-spirited youth, whom we do not
always find it easy to provide for in peaceful occupa-
tions. We have an enormous amount of capital (the
Three per Cents. have been hovering about par) the
possessors of which would not be sorry for a more active
demand for it. We have manufacturers who do not
forget the prodigious fortunes acquired between
1793 and 1815 ; and agriculturists not unacquainted
with the prices of that period—even our labourers
sometimes think of war wages." What is this but a
repetition of the old story of the countryman, Nyho
sought improvement of a good state of health, and be-
took himself to a quack ? To the questions, " Do
you eat well ?—Drink well ? —Sleep well ? "—the
answers were " Yes." " Oh !" said the quack, " I
will give you something which shall speedily cure you
of all that The nation's " surplus revenue," derived
from the income-tax, will give place to formi-
dable deficiency. " A redundant population"
will be readily got rid of by the wholesale
destruction of life that is occasioned by war.
" The bold and high• spirited youth, for whom it
is not easy to find employment in peaceful occupa-
tions," will be provided for by commissions in the sud-
denly-raised fleets and armies that will be required in
the war, on a grand scale, which England is suffi-
ciently wealthy and powerful to undertake. " The
Three per Cents., which have been hovering about
par," will rapidly sink to 60 ; and the fundholders
" will not be sorry for a more active demand for their
capital," in the loans which the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer will be compelled to raise to provide the sinews
of war. " Our manufacturers," continues this profound
lecturer on the commercial advantages of war, " do
not forget the prodigious fortunes acquired between
1793 and 1815." The manufacturers who profited
by the war were chiefly those who fabricated the
munitions of war, which were purchased by the
Government with the money raised by means of
enormous taxes imposed upon every imaginable article
consumed by the people. There are " agricultu-
rists who still remember the prices of that period.
Even our labourers," adds this approved Govern-
ment guide, " sometimes think of war-wages !"
Yes; and these different classes, whom the Herald
represents as desirous of war, have also a salutary
recollection of the widely-spread ruin caused by a
return to peace, and to peace-prices. The immense
increase to the ational Debt, and the perpetuity of
the immense load of annual taxation imposed on the
country to pay the interest of that sum • with
the other numerous calamities which were entailed
upon the nation by the
" just and necessary war,,, in
which England was en
gaged from 1793 to 1815 ; are,
we trust, sufficiently
Inressed upon the memories, and
seen and felt in the daily privations of the community,
to cause a renewal of war to be deprecated as a fearful
visitation, and an aversion of its threatened curse to be
anxiously hoped for, as a deliverance from the worst
of national evils.
As to the insignificance orfaTasaonagiefrosr,
on which the Herald expatiates, as a
please,
slowing, the French to occupy it,
whole territory of Morocco, if they and
the
without the remonstrance or interference of
England—we are
happy to find that at present
there is no response to the disgraceful hint. It
would be a shorter and a less troublesome
course to surrender Gibraltar to the French, without
further question, than to allow England's power to be
frittered away by, the occupancy of Tangiers by a
French army. Could not the dispute be arrange by
a French "Protectorate" being established on the old
rock, in order to keep the English in order, and as a
retaliation for some fancied affront to thegreat nation,
ne!: allowing them to do as they please upon it ?
STA,NDARD.—Whoever has had the misfortune
to be insioately acquainted with an hypochondriac
(and it is a pLigue that few escape thr4igh life) must
be aware that there is nothing more unac-
septable to the sufferer from imaginary ma-
ladies than the plain, and what ought to be

the consolatory truth, that there is nothing
really the matter. Flatter his delusion, assure him
that he is in a dying state, and if friend you will
be welcome, if physician well fed, and if relation
duly considered in the ready will : but dare to tell
the truth, promise length of days, recommend beef
stakes, port, and an excursion on the moors,
and you are sure to lose friend, patient, or in-
heritance, according to the relation in which you
stand. Nor is it only in respect to bodily aili-
ments that this unreasonable hypoctondria pre-
vails, though doubtless the high and palmy state of
medical quackery in our day demonstrates its preva-
lence in that department. There are hypochondriacs
upon all subjects —every one remembers the doleful
gentleman in Goldsmith's pleasant comedy, who
always visited with his bitterest resentment, those
who told him that his fears and his resentments were
groundless. We are tempted to quote a passage for
the benefit of our Contemporary alarmists. "My dear
Honeywood—Look at this, it will freeze you with
terror—and yet my wife can read it—can read it,
and laughs." The friend appealed to gives no en-
couragement to fear, and our disappointed hypochon-
driac proceeds, " How, sir, do you maintain that
I should lie down under such an injury, and
show neither by my tears nor complaints that
I have something of the spirit of a man in
me ?" Whoever will compare this last touch-
ing appeal with some recent articles of the
Morning Chronicle, Times, &c., and, comparing,
will observe the community not only of principle,
but almost of phrase, between the apostrophe
of Goldsmith's huinourist and the remonstrances of
our public instructors, will, we think, agree with us
that all nervous fancies are not limited to corporal
ailments, and that there is much quackery which has
no concern with pills, draughts, or lotions. The public,
in fact, always has been, and always will be a
complex giant hypochondriac. And the press, we
must say it to our shame, lives in a great
measure by exciting the absurd fears of this
patient. Take the history of Great Britain for
the last fifty years—that history is, certainly,
one in which prosperity predominates. But be-
lieve the predictions of the press, and the coun-
try must have perished at least twenty years ago,
and had the suggestions of the press been adopted
twenty years ago or more, the country would,
in fact, have sunk to a third-rate power. It is
a remarkable fact, too, and one which must go
far to excuse the quacks of our order to worldly
judges, that the most persevering alarmists and
fault finders, and the most uniformly bad advisers,
have always been and are, in a commercial view,
pretty generally the most prosperous. if the ground
were not already occupied, it would be an ex-
cellent speculation to set up a journal with some
such motto as this—" How are we ruined ?" and
to conduct the organ of woe upon a principle
of indiscriminate abuse, sneering and snarling at
every measure that did not emanate from the im-
portant " we," and at every public man that
should refuse to bow to " us." It would be quite un-
necessary to give that pledge for political integrity
that a decent consistency affords, as experience
shr.,ws ; and as for talent, the smallest amount
possible would be sufficient, as we see by the in-
spiration that always invests the editors of a popu-
lar journal in succession with eloquence, wisdom,
and learning, for a long succession of years, though
the parties may be and have been uniformly a
succession of absolute dunces—except during the
illuminated periods of their employment. The
secret is all in this, abuse plentifully and indis-
criminately, find fault without end. ;Everybody
can shine in this, from Billingsgate to Westminster,
Covent-garden and the Corn Exchange, Dublin.
L All can be eloquent and seemingly wise for the day,
if they will only throw aside the restraints of truth
and decency, and minister to the humour of
the day, which, if the venerable Hooker
says rightly, is commonly a sour, angry,
and desponding humour. A journal such as we
speak of must command commercial success, if the
ground were not uluckily already occupied. Our
E. reflections have been thrown into this channel by an
article which we have elsewhere copied from a
morning paper, not precisely of the stamp that we
have been describing, but which seems to prove by
its recent success that quackery is not the only road,
though certainly it is the easiest, to public favour.
, The article in question demonstrates, we think
very satisfactorily, that the alarm set up
by a majority of our Contemporaries, is wholly
groundless—that France is neither desirous of con-
quering Morocco, able to conquer that country, nor
' able to retain it if conquered. Further the article to
which we refer offers a series of remarks which must
convince all who are not intellectually blind that as
England never was either absolutely or relatively
one-half or one-third as powerful as she is at this
moment, no war can be declared against England
; by any country the rulers of -which are not down-
• right madmen.

CUSTOM-HOUSE DETENTION.
TO THE EDITOR. Or TIIE TIMES.

Sir,—l was glad to see some sensible remarks on
the detention of passengers by the London Custom-
house authorities, and venture to offer a brief account
of what has just occurred to myself, which I
think will point out the defective part of those perhaps
necessary, but certainly always troublesome and an-
noying, regulations.
On arriving at the London-bridge wharf the pas-
sengers' luggage was conveyed to the baggage-
room, while they awaited in an adjoining one
the pleasure of the officials. Although the
steamer comes up to the wharf, and the baggage-
room is upon the wharf itself, more than an hour
elapsed before the officers an noun ced them selves ready to
examine the luggage, which, to passengers just landed
after a voyage, and perhaps long absence from Eng-
land, is no slight trial to their patience. Their names
are given from the Captain's list, and therefore, in
the order in which they paid their fares, and, fortu-
nately, mine stood among the first. Even when the
examination commenced, it was very slow and weari-
some work ; a party with a large quantity of luggage
would not be less than twenty minutes, or perhaps
double that time; so that even I, who luckily had not
more than seven or eight names before me, had to
wait nearly another hour before my turn came; and
from the numbers which were below me, I am con-
fident that some must have been detained more than
double that time.

On entering the baggage-room I found a landing-
waiter at a desk writing into a book the numbers
which had been affixed indiscriminately to each article
of luggage. There was only one man to search out
my things from the confused heap, which he could
only do with my assistance; for the affixed numbers
did not follow each other in any sequence, and were,
therefore, no guide whatever. He then called out
my name with the numbers aforesaid, and the landing-
waiter entered them. The same man had to open
and examine the trunks; I was not permitted even
to unlock them, still less to open them myself. He
was much hurried, and the examination was ne-
cessarily very imperfect, although a good deal
of fussy and rather annoying roughness was dis-
played in pulling the clothes out of their plice and
crushing them down again without the slightest re-
gard to their smoothness, &c. This done, the trunk
was stamped by another landing-waiter, and when
all had gone through this process, they were taken to
another table to be again stamped and delivered.
There was a great deal of pretension made at " open-
ing everything," even down to a little parcel of a
dozen apricots. The whole process seemed as badly
arranged as possible. Nothing could be more use-
less than affixing random numbers to each article of
luggage, and then entering them into a book—a pro-
cess which alone took as much time as the whole
examination would have done in a Belgian, and still
more a Prussian, Custom-house. There being only one
man to search out the luggage of each person, open and
examine, it is perfectly absurd when we consider that
he has to perform the same duty for 80 or 100 pas-
sengers. There was no incivility shown beyond an
unavoidable degree of rough haste in going through
the examination, although the half surly silence of the
chief landing-waiter—a stout mieldle-aged man, who
did not vouchsafe a word beyond a monosyllable
or two to his sub—struck me as very different to
the cheerful civility particularly of the Prussian
officers. With them the business is much more
simple and short, and the baggage of a couple of
hundred railway passengers is dispatched in the
same time that is required for a dozen by the mud-
dling and feeble arrangements of the London Cus-
tom-house. A circle of tables is formed round the
room, within which at least a dozen officers stand with
the baggage ; the passengers range themselves on the
outside with some more officers for still further expe-
dition ; the whole is done much more agreeably, and
with fifty times the dispatch ; each article receives its
mark of having been examined, which is inspected by
two more officers at the doors ; and lam sure that I
speak within bounds when I say, that from the mo-
ment of my arriving at the station to my leaving it I
was not detained twenty minutes. E. R.
August 14, 1844.

THE FOREIGN MAILS.--The following notice was
issued on Saturday at the General Post-office, St.
Martin's-le-Grand :---" The next mails for British North
America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made
up on Monday evening, the 19th inst. (to-day), to
be forwarded by the Hibernia steamer, kla Liverpool,
Halifax, and Boston. The next mails for Malta, Egypt,
India, Hong-Kong, and China, will be made up on the
morning of the 3d of September, to be forwarded via
Southampton ; and by the overland closed mail to India,
sce., via Marseilles, on the evening of the 7th of Sep-
tember."
On Saturday a notice was issued at Guildhall, by
order of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City of
London and the Liberties thereof, that on and after
Monday the thoroughfare of Ludgt.te-hill would be
closed, in consequence of an order from that body for
the same to be repaired.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—DevizeB, Aug:... 16.

Henry Hatter, William Box, and Adam Clements,
were indicted for assaulting James Wilson, putting
him in fear, and stealing from his person four sove-
reigns and other moneys, his property.
Mr. Ball appeared for the prosecution.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who is a commer-
cial traveller from Thames-street, was driving his gig
between nine and ten o'clock on the night of the 2d
of May, on the road between Calne and Devizes.
When he arrived at a place called Bromham-cross,
he saw three men in the road ; one of them was in the
centre. Upon coming up to him that man seized the
horse's bridle. Mr. Wilson told him to get out of
the way, and at the same time lashed his horse. The
man then held the horse more firmly. Mr. Wilson
then lashed the man, when he received a severe blow
on the shoulder, which was struck by a man behind
with a bludgeon. Mr. Wilson then took out his life-
preserver, and was getting out of the gig, when he
was struck a blow on the head, which stunned him,
so that he could not tell what occurred afterwards.
When he came to himself he found he was standing
against his gig, bleeding profusely from his head.
His purse had been taken ; it contained four sove-
reigns, a crooked half-sovereign and a new one, and
a crooked sixpence with two letters on it. He got
into his gig and drove towards Devizes. He over-
took a cart with two men in it, and one of the men
accompanied him to Devizes. The prisoners were
the men who stopped him. A surgeon was then sent
for, and he stated that Mr. Wilson had received severe
wounds on his head and shoulder; the wounds were
very dangerous. The next morning Hatter told a
relation what they had done the previous night. The
prisoners were taken into custody, and on Box and
Clements were found the marked moneys. They were
seen together on the 2d of May and on the following
day, and the prosecutor swore moat positively to them,
and described their dress.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.—Judg-
ment of death recorded.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 16.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice

TINDAL.)
NEWTOR V. uoLroan AND OTHERS.
This was an action of trespass, brought by Mr.
Augustus Newton, barrister-at-law, against the late
High-Sheriff of this county, and four other defendants,
officers and assistants of the sheriff, for breaking and
entering the house of the plaintiff, injuring the locks
of the doors, and beating the sons of the plaintiff. The
defendant paid 21. into court, and pleaded that the
plaintiff had not sustained any further damage.
The plaintiff appeared in person to conduct his own
case ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Greaves repre-
sented the defendants.
The action arose out of a proceeding which has
already formed the groundwork of two trials, one of
which (a civil action) took place at the last Middlesex
sittings in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster,
and the other (an indictment for perjury) at the last
Worcester assizes. It will be necessary, therefore, in
order to make a report of the present case intelligible,
to go a little farther back than the sth of July, 1843,
when the trespass now in question was committed.
The plaintiff having become indebted to a wine
merchant in the amount of 121., was served with a
copy of a writ, and consented to a judge's order to
enter up judgment, which was accordingly entered
up, and a writ of ca. sa. was issued thereon. An
officer of the sheriff of the city of Gloucester
arrested the plaintiff by virtue of that writ while
he was attending the Midsummer Quarter Ses-
sions, last year at Gloucester,in his professional
capacity, and the plaintiff laimed the protec-
tion of the Court. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, who pre-
sided, declined to make any positive order on' the
subject, but suggested an arrangement, by the terms
of which the plaintiff was to be at liberty to pursue
his professional avocations during the continuance of
the sessions, the plaintiff on his part undertaking not
to take any advantage of the first arrest. A few days
after the quarter sessions had concluded, the writ of
ca. sa. was placed in the hands of George Wilson, a
special bailiff nominated for the purpose, and he pro-
ceeded, accompanied by Holtham, Turner, and Vines,
the other defendants on the record, to the residence of
the plaintiff at St. Paul's Cottage, Cheltenham. The
bailiffs arrived there about a quarter to 12 o'clock in
the day, and finding the garden-gate could not be
opened from the outside, Wilson scaled the paling.
The plaintiff's younger son, William Philip Newton,
came up at the moment, and attempted to get over
the paling at a different place, but the defendant ,
Turner pulled him down by the leg into the road. ,
Being, however, young and active, the youth suc-
ceeded in getting over the paling before Wilson could
accomplish the same feat, and immediately ran to his
mother, Mrs. Newton, to acquaint her with what was
taking place. He then ran back, and tried to set a
large Newfoundland dog at Wilson, who being fore-
warned, was fore-armed, and presenting a pistol,
threatening to blow out the dog's brains if it was not
taken away. The lad, frightened out of his wits, ran
away as fast as he could, and one of the servants shut
up the dog in a stable. The defendant Wilson then
got down into the garden, and opened the gate
for Holtham, Turner, and Vines, who went with him
to the front door, and endeavoured to obtain admit-
tance, which was refused. The bailiffs then retired
for a short time under the shade of some trees, and
finally effected an entrance by the back door, which,
wording to the plaintiff's case was burst open by the
defendant Wilson. The bailiffs then entered, arrested
the plaintiff, and took him off in a fly to Gloucester
gaol. The plaintiff's eldest son, Francis Robert
Newton, was pushed about a little by the defendants
in getting through the passage, and the plaintiff
brought two actions for what occurred, one of which,
in which the cause of action alleged was false im-
prisonment, was tried in the Common Pleas, and the
plaintiff was fortunate enough to obtain 501. damages.
rhe other action was that which was tried to-day, in
which the gravamen of the plaintiff's complaint was,
that his door had been broken, and his two sons had
been assaulted, by which he lost the benefit of their
service.

....._ , _.
Mr. Sergeant TILPOURD addressed the jury for the
defendants, contending that the 40s. which had been
paid into court was an ample compensation fer the
injury which the plaintiff had sustained.
The jury, being of the same opinion, found a ver-
dict for the defendants.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant AT-

CHEELET.)
Richard Harris, aged 30, pleaded guilty to three
several charges of burglary, and was sentenced to
transportation for life.
Considerable progress has been made with the
calendar, owing, however, chiefly to the ignoring of
bills by the grand jury, and the number of prisoners
who pleaded guilty. Among the bills ignored are
both the charges of child murder.

Saturday, August 17.
The business in the Nisi Prius Court to-day has
been of a most uninteresting character. Upwards of
seven hours were consumed by the trial of a case in
which the question was,"whether certain goods which
had been seized by the assignees of a bankrupt were
really the bankrupt's property or that of his brother,
who had purchased them, as the plaintiff's case stood,
under a bill of sale. The next action was one, which
was in effect undefended, upon some bills of exchange ;
and the third was an action of ejectment, where, the
plaintiff having made out a prima facie case, a com-
plete legal answer to the action was made out by proof
of a feofment and fine. This closed the day's pro-
ceedings at six o'clock.
CROWN C OURT.—(Be fore Mr. Sergeant ATM/MEV.)
Francis Augustus Cox, a person ;very respectably
connected, was iudicted for stealing, at Bristol, on the
15th of May last, a certain order for the payment of
291. I ls., the property of the Postmaster-General.
Mr. Whateley, Mr. Godson, and Mr. Bros, ap-
peared for the prosecution.
Upon being arraigned, the prisoner pleaded guilty
to the charge.
Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLDT sentenced him to nine
calendar months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-7Liverpoo4 Aug. 16.

. _
The Learned Judges of Assize arrived here last
evening from Lancaster, and opened the Commission
of Assize for the southern division of this county.
This morning their Lordships attended Divine ser-
vice, and about noon proceeded to business. The
Lord Chief Baron presides in the Crown Court, and
Mr. Justice Creswell on the Civil Side.
The cause list contains an entry of 37 causes for
the first list, which includes the hundred of Salford,
and 95 for the second list, for the West Derby hun-
dred. It is rumoured that the Solicitor-General, Sir
F. Thesiger, comes down on a special retainer in two
cases—"Farrer v. Deflinne" and " Milne v. the Cor-
poration of Manchester," in which latter also Mr. F.
Kelly comes down for the plaintiff.
The calendar contains the names of 86 prisoners.

There is one case of murder, 5 of attempts to mur-
der, 7 of manslaughter, 4 of rape, 10 of burglary, 5
of cutting and wounding, and 2 of throwing vitriol.

CROWN SIDE.

Richard Woodhouse, a youth of about 17 years of
age, was indicted for throwing a corrosive fluid over
Jane Liffey, with intent to injure her.
. Mr. Green conducted the prosecution, and Mr. J.
Pollock the defence.
It appeared from the evidence, that on the 16th of
May last some children, among whom was the child
who was injured, and who was little more than two
years old, were playing in Penny-street, Manchester,
near her mother's house. The prisoner, who had
been sent by his master to a shop for some aqua-
fortis, was returning in that direction, when he met
the poor little child, and without any provocation
poured some of the liquid on the back of her neck,
in consequence of which she was severely injured.
She was taken to the infirmary, where she remained
six or seven weeks before she was sufficiently re-
coverd to be discharged.
Mre. J. roLlocs, in addressing the jury for the