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ONDON, TUESDAY MORNING,_ JANUARY 7, t 845.

PRESTON COUNTY COURT.
(From the Preston Guardian.)
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
MARY HOOTON V. HENRY RIMMER.
Mr. CATTERALL, who appearead for the plaintiff,
opened the case. The action was brought by Mary
Hooton, of Churchtown, for a breach of promise of
marriage by the defendant, Henry Rimmer, of the
same place. Damages were laid at 1001.—the de-
fendant being understood to be in good circumstances.
The defendant, he said, was the author of the ruin of
the plaintiff in every respect. He called the follow-
ing evidence :
Ann Twist—l live at Churchtown, and am aunt
of the plaintiff. I know defendant; his father is a
farmer. Cannot say what quantity of land he has.
Defendant has been in the habit of seeing my niece
about ten years. She is about 28 years of age, and
he is the same. About two years ago my niece came
to live at my house. When living at my house, defendant
came two or three times a week to see her. He talked
to her about marriage and she talked about purchasing
a rocking chair, when he said he would send to
Preston and get a pair of them against their marriage.
He said to her he was not thinking of being married
before spring, as he could have a cottage from his
father then. About half a year after she was at my
house she gave birth to a child. This was in last
August but one, in 1843. The child is now above a
year old. I remember she charged him with being
with Ellen Baker. He denied, and said he never
intended having any one but Mary. My daughter,
who is now dead, was present. I heard him saying
he would like a mahogany chest like Mary's. He
said, on another occasion, he hated young men de-
luding young women, and he would never do so.
He said he had visited her for seven weeks at South-
port, and found she never had any other sweetheart.
Plaintiff went to a little cottage of her father's to be
confined. Heard him often speaking about his
wedding. He said he bought a marriage ring, and
he thought it was gold, but it turned out not to be so.
—(Laughter.) He had a horse and cow, and the cow
was to be Mary's cow.—(Laughter.) He was in the
habit of buying presents. He once bought her half a
sack of potatoes, and said when these were done he
would buy her more. I have also seen him going after
her at other places.
Cross-examined—My name is Ann Twist, and I
have been about ten years a widow. I had seven
children by my husband, and one since. I have
brought an action against James Gregson for a breach
of promise of marriage. It is not yet tried. It is to be
tried at Liverpool. It was not to the defendant I had
the child. The plaintiff has three sisters. The eldest
is named Betty, and is about thirty years of age, and
has had a bastard child. The second sister is named
Ellen, and has had two bastard children by different
fathers. The third sister is named Hannah, and has
not yet been in the family way. I have frequently
been at plaintiff's father's house in my widowhood. I
was in the habit of going about once a week. I did not
go on a particular day ; sometimes I went in the morn•
ing, and sometimes in the afternoon, and sometimes at
night. When at night I did not remain so late as
twelve ; it might be abcut ten. 1 cannot exactly
say how many persons I have seen there. Never
saw a dozen young men there, nor eight, nor ten, nor
six ; but four, I think. Will not swear I saw more
than four there. I had no connection with the young
men. I cannot say whether I always met the same
four, or a variety of fours, at this place. Only occa-
sionally met young men there. Can't tell what the
young men were doing. Never took any notice of
whit the young gentlemen were doing. Never caw
them upon the young ladies' knees, or near them ;
nor was there a "squab" there upon which they
sat. Never saw them " tickling" the young
ladies—(Laughter)—nor with their arms round,
their necks. Never got a kiss from any of them, nor
did any of the young ladies. I will tell you another
day where the unfortunate circumstance that occurred
to me took place.--(Laughter.) It has given me
much sorrow. My niece went to live with me in
February, 1843, or beginning of January. The child
was born about six or seven months after. Since
plaintiff left my house I have never seen her and de-
fendant together. I know a person named Margaret
Cadwell, and about three months ago met her in the
house of Ann Cadwell. I did not say in this house
that Rimmer never promised marriage to plaintiff. I
sometimes met Gregson at Ann Cadwell's house. Did
not know the plaintiff was in the family way when
she came to my house. The child has never been
fathered.
Re-examined—l had the bastard child about eight
years ago, and since then Gregson has promised to
marry me.
Mary Hooton, mother of plaintiff—l live at Church-
town. Have known defendant for ten years. nisi
father was a neighbour of mine. He has been in the
habit of coming to my husband's mother's house. My
daughter had slept with her grandmother a long time
before she went to her Aunt Twist's. Have seen many
a time Rimmer and my daughter together. In
January, 1842, heard Rimmer say to my daughter,
" It is time we were married," and he also said the
" askings" should be put up on Sunday. She took ill
with the ague afterwards. The Sunday after Rimmer
gave her a present of 2s. 6d., and a little pork for
her to eat when ill. She went to live at one of our
cottages after leaving aunt Twist's, and was confined
there in August. Rimmer came to see her after, and
held the child and said, "It is a fine child." He
frequently came after the child was born.
Cross-examined Have had thirteen children.
Nine are living, five of whom are girls. The youngest
is named Ruth, and is twelve years of age. Mrs.
Twist has come occasionally to my house. Young
men came to my honse ; and if they had not, my
daughters would never have been injured. Some-
times Henry has come in, and others. Have had
young men in my house to the number of six or
eight at once, at a Christmas or at other times. John
Blundell has been there, but many years since,
Thomas Ritnmer, too, who was a neighbour, and
others. I and my husband have retired to bed when
they were there, but this was many years since. It
was about the time Rimmer kept company with
Mary. My daughters lived at my house when their
children were born.
Elizabeth Hooton, of Churchtown—l remember
being at the weaving shop end about three years ago,
when Rimmer said he would be " asked" the Sunday
after.
Cross-examined—lt was outside the shop where
this was said, on the 18th Jan., 1842. Plaintiff
caught cold that night in consequence of staying out
with defendant. I am not come to tell you whether
1 have an action also for breach of promise. I will
tell you another time. My father and mother were
in the habit of going to bed and leaving us up with
the young men. I won't tell you who kept company
with me. I shan't tell you tow many stayed up
with me.—(Laughter.) I did not come here to tell
you these things. People have come here with lies
in their mouths. I will tell you nothing but the
truth. It is true I have had a child. It does not
matter whether my sisters have had or not.
James Halsell, of North Meols, labourer—l know
Rimmer, and have seen him walking with plaintiff.
He said on one occasion he had 2001. in ready money,
and did not think it worth his while to talk to poor
people. I was just behind him when he said this to
me. On another occasion he told me he had a grey
mare of his own. He has been in the habit of grow-
ing potatoes for sale, the land of which was given him
by his father.
Cross-examined—The land on which he grew the
potatoes was more than twenty times as large as the
table in Court. I was at liirkdale a few hours one
day about stealing a duck, and I have once in my
time been in prison for poaching. This was about
twenty years ago. I never was in prison for any-
thing else.
Mr. Noutx then addressed the jury, and contended
that the character of the family was of such a flagrant
description as to free the defendant from the charge.
There was no direct evidence that a promise of'
marriage had been made ; but in the event of' the
jury deciding that there was, it would be for them to
say how much damages would be required as com-
pensation; and certainly one farthing, he thought,
would be a sufficient compensation for all the in-
jury such characters could sustain by a breach of
promise.
The ASSESSOR, in addressing the jury, said the
first question to be disposed of was, whether there
had been any promise of marriage. It appeared to
him, from the evidence, that there was something
like an understanding that the parties were to be
married. In deciding upon the question of damages,
they must take into consideration the character of
who appeared to be most immoral. It
the family,
dambeth
their duty, also, to consider whether the
defendant was actually worth 2001., as stated in the
evidence' or whether it was not likely he had only
made a boast of having that sum.
The ,
ho
other
hour's consultation, were
called
jury,
in after
into
Coteurrtabtoout a
tryntwo cases. After
doing so, the Court adjourned, leaving the jury to
decide upon the case. The jury remained in consul-
tation until ten o'clock, than result of their prolonged
deliberations being a verdict for plaintiff—damages,
30s.

DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
We have received a statement of the " case and
r:l,2rits " of the Direct Northern Railway, which
takes out very fully the grounds upon which the
pnject was first brought forward, as announced to
the public by the i3iorning Post, in its City corre-
spondenc.?, as long ago as the beginning of April
last. The Direct Northern is so clearly the line be-
t•veen London and York (presuming a new line to be
necessary, which is generally felt to be the case) for
the public adoption, that we need do but little more,
in the present stage of its progress, than to draw at-
tention to the statement alluded to, which has been
printed for distribution. According to this docu-
ment, the Railway Commissioners report that the
traffic on the Midland lines is already too great,
which, of course, implies that another line is called
for. The Direct Northern line eases the Midland
trains of all the traffic going north of York, effecting
an economy in the expense of travelling ; and being
under but one direction, the time consumed on the
road will be abridged by it even without an accelera-
tion of the speed. For these reasons alone all the
Scotch interest and influence will be obtained for it
_ _

in Parliament, and, from the circumstance of it not
being liable to competition hereafter, it cannot but
prove a good sound investment for capitalists. Such
is the prevalent feeling, and hence the advance of the
shires to-day to a premium of nearly per share.
The main trunk at York is carried onward by a
bridge over the York and North Midland Railway,
and joins the Great North of England line at a point
about a mile-and-a-half beyond the city of York, for
the purpose of avoiding the detention that now occurs
to onward passengers, whether proceeding north or
south. It is of importance to the supporters of the
project that the Directors have been acting to the
utmost practicable extent upon the policy laid down
as desirable, in the execution of railway enter-
prises, by the Parliamentary Commission appointed
to report upon the subject of this branch of the na-
tional economy three or four years since. The
London and York Com?any, in the plan of the line
they have brought forward, would appear not to have
been moving in a like spirit in accordance also with
the suggestions of the Commission. The statement of
the Direct Northern Company has the following pas-
sage bearing upon the point :
" This mode of crossing the York and North Mid-
land line has been adopted in conformity with the
following recommendation contained in the fourth
report of the Railway Commissioners in 1841 (p. 43).
—` We consider it improper that the traffic of any
new line should open upon the York and North Mid-
land Railway, with which so many lines are already
in connexion as to render delay unavoidable, and col-
lision not improbable. In consequence of thenume-
row trains of luggage and passengers using this line,
nearly two hours are sometimes occupied in passing
over a little more than thirty miles from York.' Not-
withstanding the opinion thus decidedly expressed,
the proposed competing line of the London and
York' comes upon the York and North Midland Rail-
way in the very manner objected to by the Railway
Commissioners as likely to lead to danger, and cer-
tain to cause delay."
The framers of the document state that a striking
illustration of the progress which the direct principle
is malting, and of the importance of saving a few
miles on the main line of a railway, is most oppor-
tunely afforded by the fact that the London and Bir-
mingham and Grand Junction Railways have con-
sented, after several years of opposition, to join in
the formation of a new line from Stafford to Rugby,
f*.rty-eight miles seventy-seven chains in length, at
i,stimated cost of about a million, for the sole pur-
? of effecting a saving of nine miles thirty-nine
4.1) ins between London and Stafford (a distance of
141 miles 15 chains), and this, too, although the
etFect of the alteration is to carry all the through
traffic past, and not through, the important town of
.I:rminghant, which is thus placed, as it were, on a
ranch with reference to the main line of cornmuni-
•• ion ; and that it is also remarkable that the line in
:wit direction, originally contemplated and submitted
to Parliament, was laid down so as to save the dis-
t:nee now to be curtailed at so great a cost, but that
local interests prevailed at the time over the direct
principle, and carried the line round by Birmingham.
..s'occessive alterations have, it is added, at great cost,
,iao been made, or are about to be made, in several
.vier principal lines, viz., in the original Birmingham
and Liverpool, the Birmingham and Manchester, the
Manchester and Leeds, the South-Eastern, and others,
ail of which alterations Mist he considered as adop-
tions of, or approximations to, the direct principle.
The Committee, it is further observed, are confi-
dent that neither the Legislature nor the Board of
Trade will now sanction a line from London to York
on merely local grounds, but will regard the question
as one of general national importance, for that it is
evident that all persons to the south of the London
terminus or on the north of the York terminus, rho
desire to travel or tr insmit goods in either direction,
have a clelr inter.st in the formation of the shortest
throng I line, and that, for example, while it may be
for the convenient of persons residing at Peter-
borough, when thy wish to travel or send goods to
London, that the main trunk should be brought
round by that town, it is equally clear that it is not
for their convenience that it should bend round by
Grantham, Newark, and Doncaster, when they wish
to. travel or send goods to York, any more than it is
12r the convenience of persons residing at Grantham,
Newark, or Doncaster to be carried round by Peter-
borough or any of the other towns, when they wish
to travel or send goods to London. In short, that
nothing but the direct principle (facilities for lateral
branches being always provided) resolves the question
of general aggregate convenience
It has been objected that the Direct Northern line
does not accommodate the same amount of local po-
pulation as the proposed London and York line. But
this objection is combated, and a reference to the
plans of the two Companies is challenged in support
of the assertion that such want of accommodation is
not to be established, various other matters being ad-
duced, in substantiation of the statement of the writers,
to that effect.

The general views of the Company are reduced to
the following propositions, and into the merits of
which inquiry is invited :
" I. That an independent line between London
and York is required by the public, and will com-
mand a sufficient traffic to yield an ample return.
" 2. That the interests of a largo proportion of the
population of England, and of the whole of Scotland,
require that the most direct line should be adopted.
" 3. That the Direct Northern not only satisfies
~Zrlse conditions, by being the shortest line between
London and York, but it is preferable by the charac-
ter of it gradients, and its economical construction.
4. That the line being the shortest and cheapest
possible, passengers and goods may be carried by it
at a lower rate of charge than by any other.
" 5. That the primary object of shortening the
tance is attained by the Direct Northern, with due
- and to intermediate and local interests, and without
. • Ilesslv interfering with the traffic of existing lines.
6. That as a question of investment of capital, it
is essential that the most direct line should be taken
to prevent future competition, or expensive alterations
for the protection or improvement of the original line,
! that, consequently, none but direct lines can con-
ite a permanent property."—Morning Post.

_r HE QUEEN AND THE ARTS.—In other ways be-
,i,les sitting for her portrait, the Queen affords employ-
ment for artists; and though the commissions do not ex-
tend much beyond drawings for the royal album or for pre-
,sents, still even this moderate encouragement is beneficial
'wen if the distinction of royal patronage be accounted
a. s part of the remuneration. Nor is this con-
fined to artists of celebrity ; whenever talent worthy
f recognition is brought under the notice of the
Queen or the Prince, it is sure to be appreciated;
smd it is not the price paid, but the countenance
shown, that is the most valuable part of royal patronage.
Instead of lavishing thousands upon one or two favoured
artists, tLe Queen distributes the sum she devotes to this
source of en`gyment among many, including some to
whom such honot:r is most valuable.—Spectator.
THR LATE INQUES AT KIRKBY LONSDALE.—DE-
T'
CISION OF THE POOR-LAN-Tf COMMISSIONERS.—The fol-
lowing is the decision of the 11;00r-law Commissioners
with regard to the conduct of the medical and relieving
officers of the Settle Union, in the rase of the child,
Eleanor Mackenzie, the subject of the rent
quest at
Kirkby Lonsdale.
The Commissioners have carefully
considered the evidence, and they P are of o iniorf that
Mr. Sellers, the medical officer, and Mr. Thompson, tl.•e
relieving officer, were both guilty of neglect in this case,
more especially the former, Looking to the c.ircuie-
stances of the case, the Comm. •
to dismiss Mr. Sellers from hislsosifiners feel it their duty
the j.,e of medical officer.
'With respect to Mr. Thompsostna,te
Commissioners have alreadyofficer, the
their opinion that he
was guilty of neglect in this case. It may be remarked,
however, that although the relief he
of articles
this case
was illegal in form (being money instead articles of
absolute necessity), and was probably insuf6eie
amount, still he visited the case and did relieve it. Ittr in
Commissioners, therefore, under all the circumstances,
will permit him to retain his office ; but they feel it
their duty to reprimand him most severely, and to cau-
tion him that the Commissioners will certainly dismiss
him from his office in the event of a recurrence of any
similar neglect of duty on his part ; and the Commis-
sioners request that the Board of Guardians will com-
municate to him this reprimand anti caution.—Signed,
by order of the Board, George Coode, assistant secretary.
W. Foster, Esq , clerk to the guardians, Settle Union.—
ocacterGwirdian. _

-
The following robbery upon Messrs. de Roths-
child is related by the Journal de r Oise :—" The house
of Rothschild, of London, has been in the habit of
sending considerable sums in specie to the house in
Paris. Lately the conducteur of one of these convoys,
on arriving at La Chapelle. missed seven cases of
Spanish piastres, each weighing above 130 kilogrammes,
making a total loss of 140,000 f. The eonducteu- thinks
that the robbery was committed at Voisinlieu, while
he was taking some refreshment. The Administration of
the Messageries, having bid an information before the
Procureur du Roi at Beauvais, it has been ascertained
that when the diligence was weighed on tha weigh.
bridge at Abbeville, the cases could not then have been
on the coach, and therefore the robbery must have been
committed between Boulogne 4.nd 4bbor:iile. Five
ry
search and inquiry is being made."

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT HACKNEY.—Sunday morn-
mg, about t, ur, a very alarming fire happened in the
0,, Mr. Fraser, oheesemonger, Oxford-place,
Backney-road. Not a moment Has lost in spreading
trw alarm, and by great exertion the family were soon
rovis..tl. The engines were soon on the spot, but not-
the firemen and those present used their
_,ertions, by five o'clock the entire Louse, stock,
rarnituro belonging to Mr. Fraser were entirely
consthaea, iuul the roof of the house ...ijoining, in the
occup'ation of Mr. James, was partly destroyed. The
fire originated from a clothes-horse
full or 4inen having been left before the kitchen fire on
-the previous night.

ItalOi

MURDER AT LEEDS.

An investigation before Mr. Blackburn, coroner .for
the borough of Leeds, relative to the deatn of Elizabeth
Illingworth, the wife of William Illingworth, clock-
maker, Wortley, Leeds, was brought to a close, so far
as concerned the coroner's inquest, on Friday evening
last, by the jury, who had been sworn to inquire into
the circumstances of the case, returning a verdict of
" Wilful murder against Ann Simpson," a woman with
whom the husband of the deceased had long carried on
an illicit intercourse, The facts of the case will be best
gathered from the following abstract of the evidence:—
Mr. M. Hall, surgeon, and Mr. West, analytical che-
mist, were examined ; and from the evidence of the
former, who had made a postmortem examination of the
body of the deceased, there appeared to be no doubt that
she had died from some irritant poison. Mr. West said
he had found arsenic in the contents both of the stomach
and of the intestines of the deceased, and he had no
doubt that she had died from the effects of arsenic.
Isabella Harrison, the wife of James Harrison, dyer,
deposed that she lived near to Wm. Illingworth's house,
and knew both him and his wife very well. She had also
known Ann Simpson for fourteen years, who was a married
woman, but witness did not know where her husband was.
Ann Simpson had lived at Illingworth for two years,
but now had a house a short distance from Illingworth's.
She slept in that house at night, but lived at Ming-
worth's in the daytime. She had a child by Illlingworth
about a year and eight months since. It was born in 11-
lingworth's house, and the deceased, Illingworth's wife,
waited upon her (Ann Simpson) during her confinement.
Up to that time, and three months after, Ann Simpson
lived at Illingworth's house. The deceased had been
ill for some time, but at noon on Wednesday, the 11th
of December, the day preceding her death, when witness
saw her in her own house, she appeared better than she
had appeared for many a month, was in good spirits, and
complained of no pai❑ anywhere. Witness went again
to Illingworth's, about half-past three o'clock in the
afternoon, and the deceased was then in bed. Ann
Simpson had gone to hers. Witness went upstairs to
see the deceased, and she complained of being starved
and pain in her head, but refused to have a surgeon.
Witness never saw deceased again till after her death,
when she saw her laid on a board at Illingworth's house,
about eight o'clock on Thursday morning, the 12th of
December. Witness went again the same afternoon to
Illiugworth's house, where she saw Ann Simpson, who
told her that on the previous evening the deceased,
after being in bed a short time, complained that site was
ill, and she asked her (Ann Simpson) to get her some-
thing to eat, fur she was nearly " pined " to
death. She got her a quarter of a pound of sausages,
about half of which deceased ate ; and also gave
her some gruel with gin it, which she drank at the same
time that she ate the sausages. About two hours after
she had had the gruel and sausages the deceased began
to be purged and to vomit. She then began to complain
of pain in her bowels, and they bathed her with warm
water and flannel. Complaining of being cold, her hus-
band and she lay down beside her, and she moaned and
then settled a bit. Her husband then got up, and went
to the fire, and they found she was dead. Witness was
present when she died, which was about two o'clock on
Thursday morning. Witness had known the deceased
have pains in her bowels before, and had been called up
at night to bathe her. Ann Simpson was as much mis- '
tress of the house as the deceased. Illingworth treated
them both alike in point of kindness, but witness did not
think they all three slept together. About a fortnight
before her death, deceased and her husband were quar-
relling, and she said she would cut her throat and then
she would be out of the way. She had heard her be-
fore threaten to destroy herself, and she believes that
the woman Ann Simpson was the cause of her unhappi-
ness.

Mr. Hall, surgeon, in his second examination, said
that he did not find any sausage in the stomach or bowels
of the deceased.
William Guy, cloth-dresser, 'Wortley-lane, stated that
his house was back to back with Illingworth's. In the
dead of the night, when all was still, he could hear what
was said in Illingworth's house. About one o'clock in
the morning, when the deceased died, while he was in
bed, he heard the deceased cry out, " Oh, my belly, I
can't bide ; lam killed with pain." He heard her cry
out twice. Then she was still for about a quarter of an
hour. He then heard her cry out again, but in a lower
tone, and as if she were weaker. On her crying out, he
heard Illingworth, the husband, swearing at her. De-
ceased said, " Bill, I have such a pain in my inside, I
cannot bide." Illingworth replied, " What the hell is
thou making this d—d noise about ?" and that " he
could not help her." or something of that sort. In
about half an hour afterwards witness got up, and went
down stairs, when Ann Simpson, who made a noise as
she were crying, came to his door, and said that Eliza-
beth was dead.
Ruth Barber, who lives in Ramsden's Fold, Wortley,
said that she was at the house of deceased about a fort-
night before her death. Her husband was in about that
time, and Ann Simpson came in soon after. The de-
ceased told the latter about a dog having run away with
the remainder of the meat they had had for dinner, and
said that her husband had beaten it. On this Ann
Simpson said he ought to have fought his wife instead
of the dog. Deceased said, " Dost thou want a row ?”
Ann replied that she cared nothing about it. Decease] "
then said to her, Thou shalt go out of my house, I
will have thee no longer." On her refusing to do
so a struggle took place betwixt them, during which
Illingworth, the husband, came down and asked what it
was about. Deceased said, " Make her go out." Ann
Said she would not go. Deceased then said, " I will ra•
ther kill her or be killed to-day." Upon which the hus-
band turned to his wife and said, " D—n thee, I'lt kill
thee, and thou'lt never know what thou ails, in two mi-
nutes." She said, " Wilt thou kill thy own wife for a
w— ?" He did not reply, but whispered to Aim, and
she wont out. _ _

✓
George Duckworth, barman at the Suspension-
bridge, stated that Ann Simpson went through the bar
towards Leeds on Wednesday, the day before Elizabeth
Illingworth died.
Mary Catherall, a married woman, residing in Mans-
field, Holbeck, said, she had known Ann Simpson ever
since she was eight or nine years of age. Witness was
in Leeds on Wednesday, the 11th of December, the day
before Mrs. Illingworth died, She saw Ann Simpson
between three and four o'clock that afternoon in Brig-
gate, just coming out of the shop of Mr. Hall, druggist,
in that street. She stopped witness near the shop door,
and had some conversation with her. Ann Simpson
went to the house of the witness last Thursday evening,
about six o'clock, and told witness that she had had the
policeman at her. Witness replied that so had she. Ann
said, that he did not tell her that he had been at wit-
ness's house, but that a woman had told her, and that wit-
ness would take an oath that she saw her on Wednesday
afternoon in Briggate. Witness said that she did see her
on that day. Ann Simpson replied, "Nay, it was:on Tues-
day ; she had been about some watch glasses ;and that
it was near the yard below." Witness replied that
she knew nothing of the yard below, and that on Tues-
day she was not out; and that she was sure she came
out of the druggist's shop door on the Wednesday after-
noon. She said, " Then thy words does me to-morrow
at four o'clock; York's my doom, and my bairns to the
workhouse." No ono was present at the time. She
said, "If they took her, they took her innocent, as
several had goise before." She also said that she should
not sleep all night. Witness's husband then came in,
and Ann Simpson went away,
Ottiwell Kell, one of the Leeds pollee force, deposed
to the fact that Ann Simpson had told him that Ale was
not at Leeds at ail on Wednesday, the 11 th of
December ; but that she was there on Tuesday, the
10th, and bought a lot of watch glasses of a man named
Ripley.
Ripley's son Wag called, and from his evidence it was
very clear that Ann Simpson was not at his father's on
either the 10th or the 11th of December.
Blanchard Ringoose, assistant to Mr. Hall, druggist,
Leeds, deposed that a woman like Ann Simpson asked
for some arsenic at his master's shop on the 11th or 12th
of December, but he could not say on which day, and he
did not let her have any, because he did not know her,
and because she was alone. That woman, ha observed,
on her leaving the shop, entered into conversation with
another woman at the door-stead. He could not be
positive that Ann Simpson was the woman who went
into the shop and asked for arsenic, but ha believed she
was.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROI4 THE EVENING FIFERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—Tne public balance-sheet, which will
be found in another column, will be regarded with
general satisfaction by all to whom the prosperity
of his country is a source of satisfaction. It
not merely shows an excess of income over ex-
penditure : that might be the result of increased
taxation, producing, for a time, an immense
revenue wrung from the already diminished means
of the community. The finance accounts now
before us indicate a steady increase of revenue
from those sources of taxation which rise, or fall,
according as the trade and commerce of the country
is in a state of profitable activity or depression.
The " budget" of the approaching session will be
looked for with no ordinary anxiety by the bulk of the
nation. The " surplus" upon the April quarter—
which will include the saving effected by the reduction
of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. to Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents., estimated at 1,300,0001.--• will raise
the gross revenue at the disposal of the Government
to upwards of 3,000,0001. In what way will Sir
Robert Peel apportion the relief which this " surplus"
will enable him to afford ? The removal of the in-
come and property-tax at the expiration of the three
years for which it was originally imposed, is an
almost necessary consequence of the large surplus
remaining after the nat;onal expenditure has been
met. The contingency on which Sir Robert Peel
placed bis possible application to Parliament for an
extension of the period to five years, has not arisen.
The country is, happily, in a state which does not
require its subjects to be harassed and oppressed
by an impost at once inquisitorial in the nude
of its assessment; unequal in the distribution of its
burdens ; and oppressive, by the amount which it
wrings from the humbler classes of those engaged in
trade and professions. Had the resources of the
country been as flourishing as they now are, there
would have been no pretext for the income-tax, to
which Sir Robert Peel flew, as by an instinctive im-
pulse, because it was a means of revenue of all others
the most odious in the eyes of the nation. Nor
can it be forgotten that the estimate which Sir Robert
Peel gave of the probable amount of the proposed in-
come-tax fell far short of the sum it has actually
realised. His estimate of its
.yearly produce was
3,770,000/. ; its actual produce in the past year, when
it may be fairly taken to have settled down into some-
thing like its legitimate results, is 5,190,000/. ; being
an excess over the Premier's estimate of 1,420,0001.
This excess over the estimated sum it would produce,
constitutes a ground on which the nation may rest its
claim for a discontinuance of the tax. The nation
will have paid a larger sum than it was originally
proposed should be raised by means of the tax within
a given period. It has, therefore, a right—irrespec-
tive of other considerations, which tend tc show that
the imposition was wholly unnecessary—to be re-
lieved from the load.
STANDARD.—We this day insert what we are
happy to consider the close of the correspondence
between the Provost of Oriel and the Bishop of
Exeter. We must, however, add, that our satisfac-
tion at the termination of the correspondence, does
not arise from any disapprobation of the tune of
either of the writers ; on the other hand, the
correspondence on both sides is a model of the
style in which gentlemen and Christians ought to
treat each other when they state their differences;
a model which we could wish to see generally
imitated ; we rejoice that the correspondence
has terminated, solely because we must always
regard with pain any dispute between men
whom we are bound to venerate and to love.
Akin to this feeling is the satisfaction with
which we publish the first letter of the
admirable series with which we have been
honoured by our correspodent " A Provincial."
Without being Puseyites, as a Shrewsbury journal
(patronised, if not written, we believe, by Mr. Ben-
jamin Disraeli the Younger) asserts we are, we feel
that it is high time to pause in a popular agitation,
when we find men proposing to carry the system of
the Church for repair to a Parliament in part con-
stituted of Socinians and other Infidels, Protestant Dis-
senters, and Roman Catholics. This, we submit, is a
warning that we may be going wrong, not in opposing
the Tractarian heresy, but in the manner of opposing
it. We wish the Church to be re-established by the
Church, not by a mixed Parliament. Let the true
friends of the Church look to the course taken by the
authorities at Oxford, and they will see that the greatest
of the Universities is nobly doing its duty in
the right way—prostrating a system of falsehood
founded on a vile fraud, by cutting away the root
of the fraud. We trust that the Bishops, who have
it completely In their power to put an end to
Tractarian preaching, and may by their just influence,
supported as they will be by the people, put an
end to Tractarian practices—we trust that the
Bishops, whose complete power to extinguish the
heresy it were gross hypocrisy to affect to doubt,
will but imitate the authorities at Oxford, and we
,hall not be under the ignominious necessity of
supplicating Mr. Joseph Hume and Mr. Tom Dun-
combe, Mr. Benjamin Hawes and Mr. Benjamin
Disraeli, Mr. Dan. O'Connell and Mr. Patrick
Somers, to reform the orders of our Church. Mean-
while, let us give the Bishops time, anti a calm op-
portunity to obviate the necessity of appealing to the
lay Church reformers named, and others like them.
The Oxford statute is now the great object—let all
energies be bent to carry that. If this statute fail,
we see no resource but the terrible appeal to Par-
liament.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

The third session of the present Mayoralty commenced
this morning before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,
the Recorder, the Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Aldermen Sir
Chapman Marshall and John Johnson, &c.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The RECORIMR addressed them, and said that he was
glad to find the calendar was lighter than usual, and that
it contained a comparatively sraall number of charges.
There were two cases of false coining, three of forgery,
one of feloniously wounding an ass, two of cutting and
charge, he thought the grand
wounding, and two of concealing the birth of children.
juryNVi d do w
tothwroeaglard theeli
latterl
to leave it in a course for further in.
quiry. There was a charge against two foreigners for
it in the commission of the act. There was
wounding with a razor ; there was but one razor, and he
thought it would be proved satisfactorily that but one
amlsaodeauoshearogfe
against a
postmaster for
embezzling a let-
ter which had been entrusted to him, He thought it
unnecessary to draw their attention to any of the other
charges, and would therefore dismiss them to their duties.
There were altogether 91 prisoners.

nedanthinat-
itionl had only just been returned, it being
In the case of "'eta, WgliirlEscioCßolDnEtialitetoemdpulapoin
RECORDER
observed that justices
in-
quisition held by Mr. Wakley, the eovngor, pl take hi,
Lite A.nt of Parliament to
by them, at thb sitting of
ntyed themselves to a fine for
then
thehrieanl
tifeonrireolnearly
manslaughter,
fo.r ciiitchke.
andnti.hee
tegu l
Court,ree
nco tr the onnge radt sone
depositions
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tri
heit i
ec:), bound os
subjected
unt
badjk e
taken
Ho then directed Mr. Clark, the
Clerk of Arraigns, to write to the coroner to know why
the depositions had not been returned at a more early
period,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
BOW-STREET.

A foreigner, whose name was not ascertained in con-
sequence of his pertinaciously refusing to understand the
questions which were put to him, and who bad the ap-
pearance of a servant of the higher class, was uharged
before Mr. Hall with obtaining money under false pre-
tences teora ,several hotel-keepers.
George Hill, hotel.kaaper at Spring-gardens, stated
that, on Saturday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, the prisoner went to his (witness's) house to take
lodgings, as he said, for a foreign gentleman, his master,
whom, he said, he about to bring to that hotel in a
cab. Having taken the rooots, ho asked witness if he
would lend him half-a-crown, fur the parpose of paying
the fare of the cab, as his master had no English coin.
Witness gave him the money, but having Name
suspicions of his character, be desired the waiter to
watch him. The waiter followed him to several other
hotels, where, it appears, he made similar applications
with the same success. But one of the hotel-keepers,
to whom it was suspected he intended to apply, having
been warned in time by the waiter who arts watching the
prisoner, gave him in charge.
Several cases of a similar nature were gone into ti but
Mr, Hall, Considering the evidence too scanty for con-
viction, cautioned end discharged the prisoner, and the
prosecutors left the Court with manifest discontent.
SOUTHIVABA:
Elizabeth Griffith; servant at the Suffolk Arms,
Tooloy-street, was charged with robbing her employer.
It appeared that money had been frequently missed
from a shelf in the bar, and, for the purpose of detecting
the thief, some penny pieces were marked and placed
there. On Saturday lest the prisoner being noticed to
leave the spot was subsequently searched, and several of
them were found in her possession.—She was remanded.
LAMBETH.
with stealing
r geAI
a asan,ali
basketas
oFfewwl
eva,,raing yaiun
of 61., on the 9th of November.
Susan Lowe, a laundress, stated that on the evening
in question she employed the prisoner to go with her to
carry a basket of clothes to St. Martin's-lane. The in•i-
soner walked exceedingly fast, and Mrs. Lowe desired
him to go slower ; but when opposite the Marsh-gate he
young
apparel,w an
of the value
was charged
contrived to give witness the slip, there being a great
crowd, and she never Saw the prisoner Or the clothes
again.
James Brooks, an active constable of the L division,
appreapprehended the prisoner in Chelsea workhouse.
hended
Lowe said she was very poor, and had to support
her aged mother. She bad been compelled to make good
the loss. .
The •
prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery.
The prisoner was then remanded, to give the constable
time to find where the clothes had been pledged.

A t the close of the evidence, Ann Simpson, after the
usual caution, was asked if she bad any statement to
make; but, acting under the advice of Mr. Hi ham, so-
lictor, who watched the case for her, and of William
Illingworth, the husband of the deceased, she declined
saying anything.
The CORONER, in summing up the case for the con-
sideration (ff the jury, said there could be no doubt that
the deceased had died from the effects of arsenic; but
the natural question was, whether it had been adminis-
tered by herself or by the woman Ann Simpson, or the
latter in conjunction with some other person. The evi-
dence was altogether of a circumstantial character. It
was calculated to create strong suspicion against Ann
Simpson; but he doubted whether it was so conclusive
as to warrant them in finding a verdict of wilful murder
against her; and he did not like to encourage juries to
find verdicts which were not likely to be sustained before
the tribunal where the case must be finally investigated
and decided. He then recapitulated the evidence with
a good deal of minuteness, and particularly pointed out
those parts of it which appeared to bear upon the conduct
of Ann Simpson. He referred to the fact of the drug-
gist's assistant having deposed that, as the woman who
asked for the arsenic left the shop, she entered into
conversation with another woman, which seemed to coin-
cide so exactly with the evidence of Mary Catherall, as
to leave little doubt that the woman who applied for the
arsenic was Ann Simpson. That portion of the evidence
also suggested another important consideration. The
druggist's assistant had stated that ho told the woman
that he never sold arsenic unless the applicant was ac-
companied by a witness, or was personally known. Now,
Ann Simpson had known Mary Catherall for a long
time, and supposing Ann Simpson to have been the ap-
plicant, a suspicious circumstance was, that after what
she had been told in the shop, she did not ask Mrs.
Catherall to go in with her to enable her to procure the
arsenic, if as she said, she wanted it to kill vermin.
After pointing out some of the portions of the evidence,
the Coroner concluded by requesting the jury to give the
ease tbeir most careful and impartial consideration.
The jury, after consulting together for about half an
hour, returned a verdict of Wilful murder against Ann
Simpson," who, on the coroner's warraiA, was committed
to York Castle, for trial at the next assizes.

F I -
THE LATE IRE N GHiLDFOgD-STREET.—The re-
mains of what were supposed to belong to another suf-
ferer, which were found on Tuesday, consisting of a
burnt foot, and several half-consumed bones, turn out
to be these of a lad, and upon a close examination there
appears to be little or no doubt that Cue.? p.,?, those of
the boy Robinson, who was so dreadfully burnt, anti
whoGt charred trunk had been alone discovered up to the
period of the jury
and Coroner terminating the inquest.
It is, therefore, deemed unnecessary to re-open the pain-
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corr,e Salisbury, a powerfully-built man,
was charged
CLERKE/V tVELL-
with.etio folloi•iiiig i4iii ..
6e conqupt ;-:;--
On the previous nigh he was oi:ating a disturbance
in Spencer-street, Clerkenwell. Police-constable 29 G
repeatedly directed him to go away. The prisoner corn-

menced an indiscriminate attack on several persons who
were quietly standing by—two he struck on the face,
and seizing the finger of a third in his mouth, crushed
it between his teeth. The officer then took him into cus-
tody. 153 G swore he was knocked down twelve times
by the prisoner ; 170 G that he was knocked down
three times.

The prisoner was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonmen

pecting he was after no good, he took him to the watch-
house, and upon searching him, found two candles, a
box of lucifer matches, and a curiously-constructed key.
He asked him to what place the key belonged, and he
said he could not tell, nor did he know why he carried
it. While he was looking at the key the prisoner said
it was a rum 'un, and witness said the key was certainly
a curious one, and he thought it would open many boxes
or doors, which he .found to be the case.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT SALT
HILL, NEAR WINDSOR.
(ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.)
SUNDAY EVENING.—Upon the prisoner being taken to
the house, at Eton, of Perkins, the Superintendent of
the Eton Police, at the conclusion of the proceedings be-
fore the Coroner's jury yesterday afternoon, where he ar-
rived about four o'clock, in a fly, he appeared consider-
ably mere depressed in spirits than upon the former
occasion. His sighs and moans, his quivering lip, and
restless (ye, clearly indicated that he was suffering the
most intense mental anguish, although there was not
only an apparent but very manifest effort on his part to
appear to treat the matter with stoical indifference.
While he was waiting in a private room yesterday, at
the Three Tuns, Salt-hill, during the progress of the
inquiry before the Coroner, he appeared extremely
fidgetty and anxious to avoid the glee of those who
were present. He maintains an almost total silence, and
has never once alluded to the mysterious and painful
circumstances connected with the death of his former
servant, Sarah Hart. During the whole of the past
night he was very restless, scarcely obtaining any sleep
till the morning. His appetite has also considerably
fallen off since he was first taken into custody.
Some years ago the prisoner was tried and found
guilty of forgery, and sentenced to be transported for
21 years. The forgery was committed upon a relative
of Mr. Smith, one of the partners in the Uxbridge Bank,
to the amount (as I am informed by a member of the
Society of Frieads, who came from Uxbridge yesterday
to attend the inquiry before the Coroner) of 1,0001. His
good conduct while in the colony obtained for him a
ticket of leave after having served seven years of his
time. He then set up in business at Sydney as a che-
mist and druggist, and embarked generally in the ship-
ping trade, in which he was so exceedingly successful,
that in the course of a few years he had saved upwards
of 20,000/.—some persons have reported 60,0001.; but I
believe the amount I have mentioned is the most correct.
As soon as the crime of forgery had been clearly es-
tablished against him, he was discarded by the Society
of Friends, and no longer acknowledged to be a member
of thal body. Upon his return to England from Botany
Bay, between six and seven years ago, he applied to the
' society to be again admitted amongst them, but was pe-
remptorily refused, his former crime of forgery being an
insuperable barrier, notwithstanding the great effort he
made to be again received into membership. He then
went to live at Croydon, where he resided but a very
short time, but where he is well-known. Thence he
went to Berkhamstead, where about four years ago he
married (but much against the wishes of her family and
connexions) a highly respectable widow, a Quakeress,
named Cutforth. This lady kept a ladies' school at the
t time of her marriage, but her extensive establishment
was given up immediately after her union with Mr.
Tawell, who lived with his wife and family in a spacious
house, nearly opposite the church at Berkhamstead, in
very good style. He had two sons and a daughter by
his first wife. Both the sons have died within the last
five years. The daughter, an interesting girl, about 17
years of age, resided with her father and step-mother, at
Berkhamstead. A child is the fruit of his last marriage,
which is now about 18 months old.
The distressing intelligence of the apprehension of her
husband, upon strong suspicion of his being concerned
in the death of a woman at Salt-hill, was only commu-
nicated to Mrs. 'remelt through the medium of the Lon-
don papers of Friday last, which contained a report of
the proceedings before the coroner and jury of the pre-
' ceding day. Mrs. Tawell, in , state of mind it were
impossible adequately to describe, her feelings wrought
up to the highest pitch of mental excitement at receiving
the afflicting news, immediately left her home and pro-
ceeded to London by the Birmingham Railway, and from
Paddington, by the four o'clock train, to Slough, by the
Great Western. The interview which took place be-
tween the afflicted wife and her unfortunate husband.
which was of the most harrowing and heartreeding
description, I will not attempt to describe. Mrs. Tawell,
after remaining at Eton for upwards of four hours, took
leave of her husband, and returned to London by the last
train from Slough.
It has been stated that the eldest child of the unfor-
tunate deceased Sarah Hart, a boy about five years of
age, bears a close resemblance to the prisoner. From
circumstances which have transpired since the first exa-
mination of the prisoner before the coroner's jury, there
is very little doubt that he is the father of both the
children of his former servant. He was always known,
at the different lodgings occupied by the deceased, as
Mr. Talbot.
A special messenger was sent off from Eton with a
letter from the prisoner to his wife at Berkhamstead on
Friday morning ; the messenger, however, did not ar•
rive at that town until after the departure of Mrs.Tawell
to visit her husband. The letter was opened by the
daughter of the prisoner, who was not aware of the
painful situation of her parent. She immediately re-
cognised the handwriting, but even then she would
scarcely believe her father was in custody upon suspi-
cion of some offence lie had committed at Salt-hill, "be-
cause," she said, " her papa never knew any person,
either there or at Slough, and therefore there must be a
mistake." Upon Mrs. Tawell's return, the dreadful
tidings were communicated to her,
Mr. Tawell is well known in the City, and is now, I
am informed, engaged to some extent in the shipping
trade and exportation of goods Ile is a subscriber to
the Hall of Cornmetce, the Jerusalem Coffee-house, and
other public mercantile establishments, and also to the
Zoological Society.
There is not the lea-t doubt that all the representa-
tions made by the deceased to her female acquaintances
(with whom she became intimate at the different lodg-
ings she occupied during the past four years) as to her
being the wife of Mr. Tawell's son, who was, as she said,
abroad, and also as to Mr. Talbot (as she always called
him, and not Mr. Tawell) bringing her her husband's
quarterly allowance, are entirely without foundation. I
have stated that both the prisoner's sons, by his first
wife, are dead. She also stated to another of her ac-
quaintances that she was the wife of a servant of Mr.
Tawell,
,jun., who was abroad with his master, and that
a part of his wages was paid to her quarterly by his
master's father ; but this statement ie equally devoid of
truth. The public, however, will be enabled to form
their own opinions as to the nature of the connexion
which existed between the unfortuuate woman and her
" friend,".the party in euitody,
Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. J. J. Williams, barristers-
at-law, and also Mr. Bevan, solicitor, of the Oki Jewry,
have been specially retained to be present at the ad-
journed inquiry on Wednesday neNt, to wen* the pp.
eeediefis on behalf of tire prisoner. jn tile meantime
the contents of the bottle and glass foiled on the table
of the deceased at the time of her mysterious death, and
also of the phial found the next morning in the garden
of Mr. Bothaw, adjoining the Slough road, by which
the prisoner passed in his route to the SloK,,h stetiop on
the night of the supposed enurder, will be car.ettuily ana-
lyzed, and the necessary evidence produced ()auto the
Coroner and jury.
It has been stated that the prisoner is confined in
Windsor gaol. This is not the fact. Windsor is not in
the same eonnty akt that ip which the death oecurred.
He was visited by his wife en her arrival on Vriday
afternoon, at the residence of Mr. Perkins, the superin-
tendent of' the Eton police, in that town, where he will
remain until he is taken again before the Coroner at
the adjourned inquiry to be held on Wednesday.

THE LATE DAIUNG ROBBERIES

AT THE DOCKS.
CAPTURE OF TWO OF THE GANG.

Mr. John Clements, the principal of the London Dock
Company's police, said that Clark was the captain of the
gang which had lately been robbing, and he asked him if
the key belonged to any place he occupied. The prisoner
said it did not, and he demanded of him where he ob-
tained the key. The prisoner said he could not tell, nor
could he say why he carried it, but he had several more
at home. Mr. Clements then proceeded to state that
several robberies had been lately committed in the vast
docks under his charge, and that the warehouses on the
north and south ranges of the dock were enclosed on all
sides with gates, and the key taken from the prisoner
was found to unlock four of these gates. The key was
not a perfect skeleton, and it had evidently been made
for the purpose of carrying on depredations in the dock.
The tobacco warehouses were bounded by a high wall,
abutting on Worcester-street, Broad-street, Tench-
street, and Bird-street, St. George's, East. The entrance
to Johnson-street was opposite the dock wall, which was
fifty feet high, except at the corner of Tench-street and
Broad-street, where there was an angle of the wall only
sixteen feet high. This portion of the tobacco ware-
houses had been selected by the robbers, who plundered
the premises, for the removal of the tobacco. He went
on the roof of the tobacco warehouses that morning,
and ascertained that the thief or thieves had removed
one of the lantern lights of the roof and had got down
into the warehouse, where many thousand barrels of to-
bacco were deposited. On the roof under the lantern he
found several lucifer matches similar to those taken from
Clark on Friday evening. He asked Clark where he
bought the lucifer matches, and he said they were pur-
chased by him at a chandler's shop, at the corner of
Johnson-street, and that he gave a penny for them, the
last he had. There was no money upon him. Outside
the wall, at the angle before described, he found the
ropes and gear by which the thieves had descended from
the roof of the warehouse in Tench-street. The thieves,
for he had no doubt there was more than one, must
have secreted themselves in the dock on Friday night,
and got upon the roof by the yards of one of the tobacco
ships, or by ascending one of the cranes. The gear was
fastened to the cone of the lantern after the tobacco was
stolen. He had not had time to have the casks which
had been plundered brought out of the warehouse and
re-weighed, but, as far he could at present ascertain,
there was a deficiency of 1501 b.; and the leaf tobacco
found in Hurly's apartment was precisely similar, and he
had no doubt it was the property of the Dock Company.
Mr. Ballantine—But Clark was apprehended before
the robbery was committed.
Mr. Clements—Yes, Sir ; but I have no doubt he is a
confederate of Hurly and of the two men who were seen
in the dock on Friday evening, and outside of it, by
Judge on Saturday morning.
Mr. Ballantine —Several robberies and attempts at
robberies have been committed in the St. Katherine's-
dock. Does the key fit any of the gates there ? Mr.
Clements—lt opens several of them. _
_ _

Mr. Ballantine called the attention of Mr. Taylor, the
superintendent of the St. Katherine's-dock police, to this
fact, and said it would be his province to make inquiries.
Mr. Taylor said he was watching the case, and that
the robberies in his dock had lately ceased.
After further evidence, implicating the prisoners in
other dock robberies of brandies, winas, and tobacco, Mr.
Ballantine remanded them till Thursday next.
The Court was much crowded during the investigation

SUPPOSED MURDER of MR. MAY,

The numerous robberies that have been lately com-
mitted in the London and St. Katherine's Docks, have
created rauah constevnation in those large establish-
ments, and all attempt to discover the robbers have
hitherto proved fruitless. During the last two months
brandy and tobacco have been missed from both docks,
and large quantities of both have been discovered in pow,
coaled places in tha docks, anti also in bargee and craft,
before the thieves have been enabled to remove their
booty. A discovery was made on Friday night. and
early on Saturday morning, which is likely to afford a
clue to extensive deprttlatiow! committed in the docksl
where properly to the aihouat of several millions sterling
is deposited belonging to our merchants.

AT BET HN A L-GREEN.

An account was published on Friday of the myste-
rious diappearance of Mr. William May, a silk-manufac-
turer's agent and traveller, resident in King-street, near
Bonner's Hall, Bethnal-green, who has been missing up-
wards of three weeks, under circumstances very distress-
ing to his family and friends. The last time he was
seen was on the 9th of December, and on the following
morning his hat and handkerchief were found near the
Canal-bridge, at Twig Folly, Bethnal-green. The body,
it was supposed, might have been thrown into the canal,
and a statement of the facts which afforded ground for
that suspicion having been laid before the magistrates
at Worship-street, a communication was made to the
Directors of the Regent's Canal Company, who, with
the utmost readiness, agreed to afford every assistance
in ascertaining the fact, by drawing off the water from
that part of the; canal. On Sunday morning, accord-
inerly, at an appointed time, the canal between the locks
at Twig Folly and Mile-end, an extent of probably half
a mile, were completely drained, in the presence of the
police and an immense number of spectators, and the
whole bed of the canal through that space was carefully
examined, but without any discovery. The process oc-
cupied Be4rly three hours, and the investigation was so
far satisfactory as to have demonstrated that neither the
missing gentleman, nor any other person, had been
drowned there.

MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERDAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
As will be observed from our returns a very large
number of vessels, which were long detained by the con-
trary winds, has arrived in the river during the past
week laden with grain from our own coasts, as well as
from Ireland and Scotland, but more particularly from
the two former quarters. Still, however, we have not
been so overwhelmed with supplies as might be expected,
arising from the fact that no inconsidi rable portion of
them had been previously disposed of by land-
carriage samples, previous to the vessels being imported.
Fresh up, only a moderate quantity of Wheat of home
produce came to hand, coastwise or by land sample. yet
that on offer was quite adequate to meet the wants of
the millers. For selected qualities, which were com-
paratively scarce, we had a steady, though not to say
active, demand, arid last Monday's quotations were sup-
ported in every transaction. As to the middling and
inferior kinds, there was a slow sale, yet holders were
tolerably firm, and late rates were again realised. We
bad only a moderate show of free foreign Wheat, never,
theless, the inquiry for it was in a sluggish state, though
at prices quite equal to those paid oh this day se'nnight.
Bonded Grain of all descriptions was heavy, and almost
nominal in value, speculation in Wheats appearing
wholly at a standstill. We had a very large supply of
Barley in the market, which caused deNle4 to operate
with great caution. Maltin4 qualities commanded a
fair inquiry, and the prices were readily supported.
Grinding Mid distilling sorts were dull, at rates barely.
equal to those quoted in our last report, Notwithstand-
ing the large arrival of Malts, spleeted season-made
descriptions moved qff steOily3 at last week's quotations.
411 "OW lard vt'q€: 4111; and their value was hardly
maintained, The supply of Oats being exceedingly
large, that Article was in slow request, although many
parties are snort of stock, and, where sales were pressed,
the rates were in favour of the buyers, B9tll 4e4ns and
Peas were in moderate requests and their prices re-
mained unalterN. Tnp 44,1ur trade was in a sluggish
yet the quotations were supported. Linseed, as
well as cakes, were in large request, at fully the late
advance in the currencies. All other kinds a seeds were
iu sluggish demand.
CURRENCY PER Itqp,RIAL AMASURE.
....
A/Harr—Essex Meritlassw—Chevalier..... 613 to 65.
Ffil . ' 40. to Sljs OATS—Yorkshire and
TSitto, white 44. to 56s Lincolnth., feed 22. to 23.
World* and Lin- Potatoe 24. to V.sg
coin, red 353 to 46. Youghall and Cork,
Dittowhite.... ...... 42s to 50a • black „„,„„.,„,. VI. to 22.
Irish, red......„„,,„„ —5 to —. Co;k white
Ditto, white
RTII—OId ........ 30s to 3.4. ....... 35s to 375
New ..... .... 3.53 to 36. Pigeon.

-
_. ending2fls to 31s PEAS— Grey ............... 35s to 37s
Malting
Chevalier 3Bs to 40st White ............., 2t61 to aiis
MALT—Suffolk and Nor I Boilers
folk 584 to 625, FLotirt,..TolaCritade ... 40s to 45s
Brown 56s tct fall g0tt01..... ........... 33s to 35s
Kingston an 4 Ware fits to 641 Stockton &Norfolk 33s t. 35r
tatailax GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
WhlLAT—..tiantile
Hanshurgh Ns to .....3 Pets ue.t..t.. :•13.1 to 32.
BARLEY 27. to 21. noua—Americao „,.„ 2is to —s
OATS—New
Feed lss to lls,

A great number —of persons atteuded the Thames
Police-court on Saturday. to hear the examination of
two Moot named janols iftirtt 4nd itlattilm Clar4, both
reputed thieves, and who have been long suspected,
charged with being concealed in stealing 150 lhs, of leaf
tobacco, the property of the London Dock Company,
from their pretniEea,
Joshua Judge, a Thames-police inspector, stated that
about three o'clock that morning, he was in company
with other (Akers, in Johnson-street, St, George's-in-
the-East, facing the wall of the Landon Dock tobacco
warehtinsea, when he saw two men, with caps on, loiter-
ing about, and frequently looking upwards' at the wall.
Ile watched them, and saw them go into a house, 3,
Johnson-street. Soon afterwards two men with raps
on, came out of the house, but he could not say they
ware the sanse persons who went In. He pursued them,
but they made their escape among the labyrinths of
courts to the neighbourhood. He waited about the
dock wall till nearly eight o'clock, and kept a strict
watch on the house till that time, when he entered it iu
company with another officer named Henry Isaac Judg...,
and upon entering a room in the upper part of the house,
he saw Hurly lying upon the hearth opposite the
fire place, and upon searching the apartment, ;band seven
bugs, cOOtailling tOtbs. C
tobacco, He amused the
prironifir, and asked him where he got the tobacco from,
and he said he knew nothing at all about it, but if he
was released he would take witness to the parties who
brought the tobacco into the house. lie refused to part
with the prisoner, Who made a desperate resistance, and
was not secured until after a severe struggle. He lashed
the prisoner's hands, and upon searching him found
a piece of string, some lucifer matches. and a wax
taper. The string found in the prisoner's pocket cot,
rer,ponded etfactly with stir,,: norii found in the tobacco
warehouse of the dock, which had been plundered during
the Right. Before he saw the men loitering about the
street, the inhabitants of one of the houses opposite
heard something heavy fall free} the clank ‘Y4II.
knew Hurly to he a Wet', ttptt iw.haq heeu mine convitAcl,'
Bwinlantl, ipek constable, stated that on
Friday evening, between lour and live o'clock, he was
leaving the western dock, and coming into the eastern
dock, when he saw the prisoner Clark and two others
inside the tobacco-floor, goinir tow,lrd4 the eastern dock.
He toppp.4 and aske4 r:here. 11;., wan
to.Ve'replied that ass on his way to the AilirAtiav,
it Dutch ship, and that he Ipqw iiet:s444 (,„
Witness told him that the ship sx,-,s not in Lb,.
dock j and in consequence of the late robberies e"l",'n
140

The export season having been
.pretty generally
brought to a close in Holland, in consequence of the
various ports being blocked up wjth ice, it is now
placed beyond a doubt that the imports of live
stock from the Continent, for some time hence,
will be on a very limited scale. On looking over
those for the past year—which will be found
below—we find they have considerably exceeded those
of 1842 and 1843, both as rospeetv numbers and quality;
and it appear:; to us quite evident, from the exertions
now making by the foreign graziers to improve the con-
()ition of their Beasts and Sheep, that the importations
for 1845 will be much larger than we have ever Ware
noticed. In the week just concluded 1t S,haels, and 18
Oxen and Cows have been received far this ro4rXeS, and
which were disposed of on Vriday last. With this ex-
ception, no arrivals have taken place into any of the
ports of the Pnited Kingdom, The official returns of
the importations of Beasts and Sheep give the followin
results

FROM JANUARY 1, TO DEcEunEa al, 1844.
11eusta, Sheep.
London, , „ 2,531
Hull
Liverpool Bl
Southampton ..... ... 193

quite equal to the demand, which ruled somewhat la
active, at previous quotations. There were upwards of
200 Pigs on sale from Ireland. Prime small English
were in fair request, but other qualities hung heavily 00
hand, at late rates.

Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
s. d, to s. d. s. d. to 1. le
Interior Beasts ..... ....' 2 6 210 Second qualityditto.., 3 0 3
Second quality ditto... 3 0 3 4 Coarse.woollod ditto.. 3 3 ?Na
Prime large 0xen...... 3 6 3 13 Southdown Wether a 4 U 4
Prime Scots, &c. 3lO 4 2 Ditto out of the wool
'2
Large coarse Calves... 3 4 4 0 Large Hogs 3 0 3
Prime small ditto 4 4 4 Small P0rker5.......... 9B 4 0
Suckling Calves, each IS 0 SO 0 Quarter old Plp,eachl6 0 22 II
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
sts. Sh t
Bea I eep. I Calves. I piss..
2,954 24,580 92
NEWO.ALTII AND ZINIUMBDTIZAILL.
Only a moderate arrival of slaughtered Meat has taken
place for our markets during the past week, while the
supply of that killed in the metropolis has been by no
means extensive; still, however, the general demand has
been in a sluggish state. Prime Beef and Mutton beve„.
sold at fully previous rates; but the value of other kinds
of Meat has not been supported, and large quantities
have remained unsold at the close of each market day.
At per stone, by the Carcase. i.
s. d. to s. d . e. d. to c a
Beef, inferior.., 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior ...... 2 6 1 i
middling......, 2 8 210 middling 3 2 3„ •6
-- prime large ...... 210 3 0 prime - 6 f 4
prime small ...... 3 2 3 6 Pork, large..„ 2 6 a Veal —.....—.............. 3 2 4 4 —email. s o 4a '
ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs.
Scotland 2O 200 150
Yorkshire
Norfolk
Suffolk 5 40 60
Cambridgeshire
Essex 2O 30 40 100
Surrey...—. ........ ................
Devonshire
Wiltshire
Other parts ........ .........

Total l3l 1,133 we --T92f
Previottolveek%arrival

Diftbrence since our last 4t 640 541 4sl
BOROUGH AND SPIT.A.LFXEMBB. .
Several vessels having made their passage laden with
Potatoes, the supplies on offer are now rapidly on the In;
crease, yet as many of the large dealers are short of
stock, the demand is somewhat active, at prices varying
from 75s to 95s per ton. The total supply for the we
has amounted to about 2.600 tons-100 tons being frogs
abroad, 30 tons from Ireland, 400 from Jersey, O.
from Guernsey, 300 from Scotland, the remainder
coastwise.

BOROUGH HOP MARXIST.
There is a large business doing in bags, at very high
i
prices, while, for choice bags, the demand is active, and
the quotations are steadily supported.

WOOL MATULLT.
The imports of Wool during the past week have been
only to a moderate extent, viz., 28 bales from the Cape,
241 ditto from Hobart Town, 31 ditto from Malta, 1112
ditto from Ibrail, 9 ditto from Madras, and 30 ditto from
Sydney. Both Foreign and Colonial qualities are 1°
sluggish request, but no alteration can be noticed in the,
quotations. English Wools are held firmly, at f 1";
prices. The total imports of Wool last year consistu
of 84,717 bales of Colonial, and 142,324 bales of Foreign'

TALLOW.
There is in reality no material change in this market,
although a slight variation in the quotations. There
no speculative business doing; the prices are wholly go.
verned by the demand for consumption, which, for the
last few weeks has exceeded that 4) f the corresponding
period last year. All the St. Petersburgh Tallow has
arrived, and is included in the stock of this day. Tovfl
Tallow is 40s 6d to 42s nett cash ; rough fat 254K`
per Sibs. _ _

COAL MILIMIIT.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :_Adair,''
Main, 21s ; Buddle's West Hartley, 20s 6d ; Carr!
Hartley, lOs Gd ; East Tanfield, 16s 6d ; Hastingi
Hartley, 20s 6d ; Holywell Main, 21s ; Hedley's Hart
ley, 17s ; Newcastle, 17s 6d ; New Tanfield, 19s 6d'
Old Pontop, 18s 9d ; Ord's Redheugh, 193 ; PoutaP
Windsor, 19s ; Pott's Primrose, 18s ; Taylor's West
Hartley, 20s ; Townley, 19s 6d ; West Hartley, 2056 a
Wylam, 21s ; W. E., Bell and Brown, 22s ; W. r).,„''
Clark and Co., 20s Gd ; W. E., Clennell, 20s 9d ; W.
Gosforth, 22s ; W. E., Heaton, 21s 6d ; W. E., Hilc_ll4
21s Gd ; W. E., Hedley, 21s 9d ; W. E., Hotspur, 21s6u;
W. K, Killingworth, 21s ; W. E., Newmarob, 21s'
W. K, Northumberland, 21s 6d ; W. E., Urpetb, 203 6a;
Eden Main, 225; NV. E., Belmont, 22s 6d ; W.E., Castle
Eden. 23s 6d ; W. E., Haswell, 245; W. E., Hetton, 24§1
W. E., Heughall, 22s 6d ; NV. E., Hylton, 22s ; W. V"*
Lambton, 245; W.E., Morrison, 22s ; W. E., Rihmorku'i
23s 3d ; W. E., Shotton, 24s ; W. E., Stewart's, 24!1
W. E., Sunderland, 21s ; W. E., Whitwell, 22s 601
W. E., Heselden, 21s Gd ; W. E., South Hartlepool, 201
W. E., Gordon, 23s 6d ; W. E., South Durham, 22t1
W. E., Tees, 23s 6,1 ; \V. E., Tees Hetton, 20s ; W. r`4
Tennant's, 2186 d ; W. E., West Tees, 21s 6d ; Hared'
20s 6d ; Town Hill Elgin, 19s 6d ; West Hartley Nether
ton, 20s Gd ; Holywell, 20s 6d.—Ships arrived, 168.

THE GAME•LA.WS.—It appears from the ealenditt
laid before the magistrate at the quarter sessions for the
county, that there are no fewer than 46 persons tOlusi
confined in the county gaol for poaohing. The t°
number of males confined is but 1Z5,, so that we °Si.,
snore than one-fourth of the whole number now in P4'"
son are committed for offences against the most disgenew
ful of our penal laws. The magistrates have it in ea;
templation to enlarge the present gaols, or build 11, 0
net
ones at an enormous expense to the county. Woula„
not be better to petition the Legislature to abolish t",
game-laws? Remove from the county bridewell tft,
prisoners committed under these horrible laws, and 0
cient room would be then found for all that will be 1.,
future committed for other offences, It is far batten
and would be a more satisfactory mode of procuring
prison room—at least to the rate-payers, particultir'
the agricultural portion of them.--Hampshire
pendent.
EXCESS OP GAME.—In addition to the narnegLi
Dr. Lee, Sir IL Verney, and Duke of Bedford,,rfro
have now to add that of SLi• Thomas Cotton She and
the list of those coe',o3o/1-sense landlords who have tag°,
the only I".”3per step towards putting an end to the giife
nuie-anee. One day lately upwards of 600 hares 0.-4 d
shot in Annie fields, on Sir T. Sheppard's estatel:„
Thomborough, in this county; and the worthy gen' a
lean has given his tenants unlimited permission to defellr
their property in any manner they may think propel
from the ravages of the game. There will be no
preserve; in the neighbourhood of Thornborougb*
Aylesbury News.
HANDSOME AND NOVEL CHRISTMAS GIFT.--11;
John Allen, the contractor for keeping the line of lbej
Lancaster and Preston Railway in repair, has present ,
every lean in his employ (sixty-five in number), with
fat goose.—Lancaster Guardian.
SUSPECTED MURDER Or A FEMALE.—Yegterali
morning, about nine, the body of a respectably-dreg%
female, about 23 years of age, was discovered lyingpir
the mud near the steps of the lower Surrey side of VCrtto.
100-bridge. On inquiry, it was ascertained that the ".„
ceased left her lodgings, in Buckle's-buildings, Wrlltel,
lou.rosid, last night, in the best of health and spirits, te_A,
ing her landlady that she was going to meet a frieTt
The body having been examined, on looking
the left hip, a dreadful wound was found inflioted, their
is every reason to believe, by a sharp knife, and of a 00
siderable depth. Notice of the circumstance has bes
forwarded to William Carter, Esq., the Surrey coro?,0
and also the necessary instructions given' to the Pole.
for an investigation into the suspicious :affair. The 4.
ceased, named Emma Ashburnham ;was of very preP'of
sessing appearance, and always bore the character
being of a very quiet and lively disposition.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—AN EXTRAORDINARY - r
110
OF A BAD LEG AT HORNCASTLE, lalf IioLLO,I4O
PILLS AND OINTMENT I—A few days sinee Mr. 'l° 4f
Simpson, a highly respectable bookseller in that Wu ea
states that a gentleman of his acquaintance had
suffering for years, from one of the "worst description!;„
bad legs, frequently enduring the most excruciating Pry
He had been under the care of several medical men vile
out obtaining the least benefit. This gentleman, l'„°ee
ever, has just been cured by these invaluable menin';ol
after every other treatment failed. The Ointalo,
will cure chilblains and chapped hands in a few ho
,01
Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244. 545,11
(where advice may be had gratis), and by alms,d
respectable vendors of medicine throughout the ci'"'
world.

BIRTHS.
of
On the 26th ult., at Milton, the Lady F. Miltong
daughter,
illeti
On the 4th inst., at Eaton-square, Lady Rosa Gres'
a daughter. 0
On the 31st -ult., at Notting-hill, Mrs. Joseph Ludbillb
a daughter.
00
On the 2d inst., in Upper Seymour-street, Portman-14
the wife of Charles Unwin, Esq., of a son.
Lel al'
Ou the 3d inst., in Mount-street, Park-lane, the 1-1
W. Gaussen, Esq., of a son.
O°
On the 3d inst., at Liverpool, the lady of Thorns,
Esq., of a son.
5.14
On the 3d inst., at Co) -

, )mpton -terrace, the wife of J. •
Esq., of a daughter.
Ote On the 4th inst., at Lowndes• square, Mrs. Willi/In
ford, ofa son.

MARRIED. Et
On the Ist inst., at Trinity Church, St. Marylob)otoor
ward Charles Hampton, Esq., to Elizabeth Sw3llo -
daughter of John Butler, Esq., of Dublin. Jel°
On the 2d inst., at St. Mark's Church, Kennington,' io*
William Ireland, of Camberwell New-road, to RebeccaL ref'
second daughter of the late E. Tomkins, of Norwood,
On the 2d inst., at Heavitree, Devon, Charles 1).
Esq., second son of Sir John Osborn, Bart., of Chic' of•
Priory, Bedfordshire, to Louisa, eldest daughter of the
Arthur Atherley, Vicar of Heavitree.
On the 2d ins t., at St. John's, in Bedwardine, nearfter
cester, William Yate, to Catherine Mary, eldest daugh
G. Farley, Esq., of Renwick House, noar Worcester_i• h
On the 2d inst., William James Hixon, Esq., of tia.„`oe!
pieF
Surrey, to Jernima, daughter of the late Robert Br°"
Esq., of the Bank of England

Totals
There were only four Beasts and eight Sheep on sale
from abroad, but as they were somewhat out of condi-
%ion, they attracted very little attention. Although
1 tikere was only a moderate number of Bealts offering in
to-day's market--the principal portion of which was of
very middling quality—the demand fur that description
ipe stock, notwithstanding we had a fair attendance of
DIED, A ipesod
buyers, was witeetuely inactive. The few prime On the 29th of October last, at Ichaboe, JallltS s.'--- ~.
SleQta attiring were mostly disposed of at prioes •commander of the ship Wilhelmina. of tP
bout equal to those obtained on Monday last ; On the 26th ult., Donald Douglas Dl'Leeel, only 6,°lsii. L but the value of most other breeds was lower by late Captain M'Leod, Ca., late of Grenwich 11081)1000" Ikl per Bibs, and even at that amount of depression, a On the 27th ult., Ottiwell Weal, Esq., of Mich y,
clearance was nqt effected, There were very few seri-
. Yorkshire,
aiia
l F 4
lapgeeyd, 2Cy70,h?1. • itiv.
0
On the 26U alt., at s-an or df d Lodge, Cheltenham'oll
0119. Peso of disease apparent among the beasts ; yet
they Came to hand somewhat out of condition.
The Tuipey, former,
Ad 45'
Sheep were in, generally speaking, good order, and thouY On i',-,, 29tItillt., Mrs.u;loicrsfall, of fikley Hall, age.--4.
g.ej;tt.d.seuelenr oaf,. the late Sir
weight was equal to that of most fc,ziner seasons. e, t
On the 30th ult., at Walworth, William Corbett" -'''." - Der
From Lincolnshire, Lei estseAleo, and Northampton.
, .c
weOlin,
Etshqe. 30th ult., at Blackbridge, Augustu3 LB"' ester
ilk°, On the Ist inst., at Coburt.' '1
IC ning°ll'
nbr
shire, there were eeceived fresh up to-day abso,uutiik)B
, ;Nor
Nili*,borna i while the receipts from Norfolk,
Tilesez and Cambridgeshire were composed Pe 400 Scots eldest surviving son 9f M.i.••Bla'cl-Psia4cDPAbctarch•lne" ,klfrea
and Hornebreds ; for the Western aid alidland Counties, On the 2d ins,' -- • ~3 h Grases Ina)
500 Herefords, eeons, IriAh beasts, 4c. 1 from other Bartholow.jew, Esq., •, architect, . .
at WeneIFCIES
A.ouse, ~
eiict
parts qf Regland, 60,0, of vripoue Weds ; and from Sect_ 0
ti the - • • .
and, 210 horned and polii4 oc9l---7-,tho voi?laind-
,r of DA
OW supply bOcig AicPs (1"-41r1 -"'" the neigh-- On
of thne tlhatee2pd.iDnsetb.,eautTFureekncethta.y, near Bristol, Elisabeth, r
_,
the 2d inst., in South Audley-street, Lady 130
beuririciOq -0 chli nletToNeee - - time list of Sir Edward Baynes, aged 76. or
... or the time of year
Phil qPVY a "" -was rather limited. Prime —
Id London : Printed and Published 1)i BilThUraeoe, l'It• V
10135 14
0
4....i:vr.... - - ~
.., Were in fair request, and last week's quotations No. 112, Strand, Printar, at The 8" '''''' GOVW
were steadily supported. All other kinds were a dull Strand, in the Preatact of the Savoy, bi Ow
13.1ei though not cheaper. The supply of Calves was kuddleesx, Tao*. Jusit7 7, Mb*

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TRUsTERS UNDR3 THE ACT 7 AND 8 TIC.
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... square
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PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
T-1- ORAS KELLY, Esq., Alderman i
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t 0 he light, well venthalted end perfectly secured, and the whole
41,tbralc a handsome anti commodious at proacb to the Bank of
6`41 4, Royal Exchauge, and generally to the most central parts
t t the City.
It is ,
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er stun, not exceeding 101. per share
previous to ' as may be re.
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ill soon as the number o: outstanding shares, by the death of
A • "bra nee., shall fall to • Rhin 500, the whole property of the
ssociation to be invests 3 in and divided amongst the holders of
lheiti.
Plana and dr .iwlngs 'nay be seen, and a detailed prospectus
wined, on application t , the Architect, Mr. William Barnes,
aa. Church-court, Old Jewry; the Solicitors, Messrs. Bischoff and
te, 19, Coleman street; and at the Offices of the Association,
7. Bucklersbury.
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TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF LANDED
PROPERTY.
WANTED, by an experienced LAND AGENT,
who possesses first-rate recommendations, who has for
:44nY years had the management of large landed estates, and who
" !taster of all the details of his profession, a SITUATION of
the lame description.
Letters addressed to "Land Agent," care of John Dingwall,
16(, solicitor, Tokenhouse-yard, will meet with proper attention.

P(CHEAP SELP.SNUFFING CANDLES.
RICE'S PATENT CANDLES, which burn
thro without snuffing, like the finest wax, are now retailed
ughout the country, at or under One Shilling per lb. But
care must be taken to prevent any imitation being passed off as
the Patent Candles; this attempt being made, and with too fre.
germ success, by some dealers, on account of the greater profit
Pah the imitations.
The Trade may obtain them wholesale from Edward Price and
ms's Belmont, Vauxhall, and Palmer and Co., Sutton-street,
0114kanwell.

DAVIES'S CANDLES, sd. and 50. per lb.
Wax Candles, Is. 2d.—Fine Wax, is. Scl.
Rale's Superb Composite, requiring no snuffing, lOid.
'en4ine Wax, 2s. 3d.— Transparent Wax, 2s. 2d.—tlenul *vrrn, 2s. 2d.—Extra fine Moulded Candles, with the improvedne
Waved Wicks, 7d.—Yellow Soap, 468., 528., and 58s. per 1121b5.-
914 •?fottled, 60s. and 645.—Windsor, Is. 4d. per packet.—Palm, Is. 4d.—
Brown Windsor, Is. M.—Rose, U.—Superior Almond, 2s. 6d.-
4118orfate Sealing-wax, 48.6 d. per lb.—Refined Sperm Oil, 7s. Gd. per
"11°,1—Solar Oil, 3s. 6,1.
jor Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St
41artIns-lane (opposite New Slaughter'sCoffee-house),Charing-cross
AGRICULI URE, COMMERCE, NAVIGATION, THE
CHURCH.
A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, 14,
_, • Cornhill. London, opposite the Bank, have finished a few
Viendld Pieces of PLATE, suitable for rresentation to Gentlemen
connected with either of the above pursuits or professions, to which
they invite the attention of Committees who are in search of valuable
festlntonials for s, .c h occasions.

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As this is the season of pleasure and Joy,
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Than follow the accents of kindness sincere,
And pledge to the public a happy new year !
Oh ! happy, thrice happy, and bless'd may itbe;.
May trade still extend and our commerce be free ,
.41V the sunshine of peace in its glory appear,
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Mal
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TIMES, Dec. 4, 1844.

As far as utility is concerned no volume can exceed the claims
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bulk, it contains nothing that is superfluous, and is an exception to
the general rule, that a great book is a great evil. This is the
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its immediate predecessor, more particularly in that portion called
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We have just received a copy of the above work, the nature
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thll
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FOREIGN ARMIES.
In the appendix to a report on the army estimates
just issued, the following interesting facts appear :-
Bavaria has an infantry force of about 43,000 men,
consisting of 16 regiments of 2 battalions each, and 4
battalions of sharp shooters. The cavalry consists of
6 regiments of light cavalry (containing 6 squadrons
each), and 2 regiments cuirassiers-in all 8,750 men.
The artillery and engineers are about 4,500, making
the total peace establishment .57,000. But this is ex-
clusive of the reserve, and of the landwehr or militia.
The army is raised by a subscription from the popu-
lation (except nobles and clergy), the time for service
is six years, and the whole cost is about 700,000/.
Bavaria has 1,562 officers effective, in the military ;
527 in the civil department of its army. Its court and
sinecure offices are 127, and its pensioned officers 588.
Belgium maintains over 100,000 regular troops, at
a cost of over a million-and-a-half.
Denmark has, on its peace establishment, 17,169
infantry, 3,916 cavalry, 3,400 artillerymen, 295 en-
gineers, and 937 horses; and in its war complement,
49,301 infantry, 10,627 cavalry, 8,153 artillerymen,
144 field guns, and 847 engineers. Its total peace
force is 25,000 ; its war 69,189 men. The army
costs about 300,0001. a year. Every citizen serves
for two years, and then for a month in the year dur-
ing the four following years. He is then rated on
the militia, and only liable to emergency service.
EGYPT'S standing force is 100,000 men ; 64,000 of
them are infantry, in 20 regiments of 4 battalions of
800 men each ;-12,000 are horse, organised into 15
regiments of 8 squadrons 100 men each ; 400 are ar-
tillery, and 20,000 are seamen. This is exclusive of
irregulars.
The Popedom has a standing army of 14,680 ;
9,300 of whom are infantry, and 800 cavalry. Toe
army is governed by a cardinal, president, and a
board of three general officers. There is a reserve
and national guard of 9,000 men.
Portu,2al has a standing force of 21,500 infantry,
costing about 750,000/.
Hanover has an army of 20,501 men. The in-
fantry musters 15,580, in 16 regiments ; cavalry,
3,340 men and 2,445 horses, in three regiments ;
artillery, 1,638 men and 175 horses in five compa-
nies, viz. :-2 companies of horse artillery, 2 battalions
foot, 1 company of pioneers; engineers 198, military
staff 45. The army costs 1,500,000 rix-dollars.
Hesse Cassel supplies a contingent of 5,679 men,
and a reserve of 2,000 to the Confederation. Its
establishment is little more. The army is raised by
conscription, to which all grown males under 50 are
liable. The army costs about 110,0001. a year.
llesse Darmstadt has a peace establishmen t of
6,462 men, raised by-a conscription of persons from
20 to 25 years of age, members of the mediati,ed
houses alone excepted.
Holland has a fixed army of 43,000 men, raised
by voluntary enlistment for a limited time. The
limitation creates a trained body by which the army
can be increased to 70,000 men. Promotion is is
future in all ranks, from Second Lieutenants up, to
be two-thirds by seniority, and one-third by selec-
tion. The militia is composed of all males between
19 and 23 years of age. The army costs about
1,100,0001. a year.
Naples has a standing army of 29,000 infantry of
the line, 4,500 cavalry, 2,800 gendarmes, in all
44,300 men. Its war establishment is 64,247 men.
The army is raised by a conscription of persons from
18 to 25 years of age. The time of service in the
artillery, gendarmes, and volunteers, is 8 years ; in
other anus, 5 years actual and sin reserve. There
is no militia. The war department is said to cost
1,300,000/.

Saxony has 13,000 men, and a reserve of 3,000
raised by conscription. Males of 20 years (with ex-
ceptions) are liable to 6 years active, and 3 years re-
serve service.
Spain.—The changes of late in Spain have greatly
increased the regular army (which was only 60,000),
and disarmed most of the militia; but there is no easily
accessible account of their present state.
Sweden has 8,346 men voluntarily enlisted, viz. :-
2,200 infantry, 5,446 artillery, and 1,000 horse guards.
She has 24,500 infantry, and 7,000 cavalry—in all,
41,500 men, under what is called the Indelta system.
SWITZERLAND has a federal militia supplied by the
Cantons in proportion to their population. This.
force rates at 64,000, viz.-51,800 infantry, 5,800 ar-
tillery, 5,700 cavalry, and 700 engineers. A federal
camp is formed every two years. The expenses of
this militia are borne by a contribution of from 5 to
12 Swiss francs per man, paid by the Canton that
sends him. The following statement of the 22 Can-
tons is interesting in many ways :—Area in square
miles, 152,330; population at the end of 1837 :
citizens of Cantons, 2,152,580; citizens of other Can-
tons, 120,662 ; foreigners, 54,767 ; total population
2,188,009; population to square miles, 1,437 ; Ca-
tholics, 847,088 ; Protestants, 1,285,935.
Ireland has a population (according to the
census of 1841
3,808,207
Sweden
2,900,100
Denmark
1,931,014
Portugal
Bavaria
Belgium and Holland
Hanover
1,537,500

CONVICTION FOR MURDER IN
AMERICA.
(From the New York Commercial Advertiser.)
The trial of William Miller, which has been in
progress before the Circuit Court at Troy for some
days past, on a charge of murdering George 'West
more than two years ago, in the town of Sandlake,
Rensselaer county, was terminated on Tuesday. The
evidence, though wholly circumstantial, seems to have
been conclusive; and the jury, after being out a few
hours, brought in a verdict of Guilty. On Wednes-
day morning, Judge Parker pronounced sentence of
death upon the prisoner, assuring him there was no
hope of a pardon. The 28th day of January is the
day fixed for Miller's execution.
(From the Troy Budget.)
Tuesday, Dec. 3, Eleven., P.M.
THE VERDICT.—At half-past ten o'clock the Court
were notified that the jury had come in, and at eleven
o'clock the Judges were all in their seats, when the
prisoner entered, accompanied by the sheriff and his
deputies, with the firm step and apparent confidence
that have characterised him during the whole trial.
The Court ordered the clerk to call the jury, and
he put the question—Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdict ? The foreman (Mr. Bow-
man) answered, We have. How do you find ? The
foreman, who stood near the prisoner, extended him
his hand, and, after a sympathising remark, with tears
trickling down his cheeks, he turned to the clerk and
said—Guilty.
The prisoner received the verdict with his face a
little flushed, but otherwise manifesting the same
stoical indifference that he exhibited from the first.
The Court received the verdict of the jury. and
then adjourned until eight o'clock this mornin
Wednesday, Dec. 4, Eight, g.
A.M.
TIIE SENTENCE.--The Court-room at this hour was
already filled. The prisoner was brought into Court
a few minutes afterwards, and betrayed more feeling
than at any time before during the trial.
Judge Parker requested the prisoner to stand up,
and then addressed him as follows :
"William Miller, you have been tried and found
guilty of the murder of George Weft. The verdict
has not been less in accordance with the evidence
produced than the clear opinion of the public. Have
you anything to say why sentence should not be pro•
nounced against you in accordance with the law ?
(The prisoner gave evidence of a desire to speak, but.
after a little hesitation, barely remarked No, your
honour, I have nothing to say at present.') It then
becomes my duty to announce to you the solemn
judgment of the Court, by which your mortal
existence is to be brought to a speedy termination. In
one particular your case is one of an extraordinary
character. The atrociousness of your guilt is greatly
increased by the circumstance that the man you
murdered was your country man and bosom friend,
reposing confidence in your integrity and esteem.
You therefore added to the horrid crime of murder,
that of black ingratitude and the foulest treachery.
Besides, you were a stranger in this country, and
sought the enjoyment of its privileges. And here
again, by a betrayal of
the trust that was reposed
in you by your admission into a country to which
you were an alien, and the violation of its laws, you
have also exhibited the basest ingratitude. The fate
that awaits you is an awful one. You can have no
hope of pardon—can expect no interposition of execu-
tive clemency. Do not for a moment flatter yourself'
with any such hope or expectation. I say this with
kindness, and with no disposition to add to the de-
gree of your suffering, but to lead you to prepare for
the inevitable event. You committed the act when,
no mortal eye was upon you. But you were seen,
watched, and marked by the all-seeing eye of the.
Almighty, and the day, too, will come when you will
have to stand before the Judge of all the world with
the evidence of your guilt full and overwhelm..
ing. That you may have all the time that can be
given to prepare for that more dreadful trial, we will
give you the most extreme length of time that the
law allows. Every moment should be devoted to
preparation for the momentous event."

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS MAIL.—We announced
some time back that these mails would be removed from
Weymouth to Southampton. We now hear that the
oontract between the South-Western Steam-packet
Company and Government is near completion, and that
in a few weeks this desirable alteration will be effected.
—Hampshire Independent.
FORTIFICATION OF PLYMOUTH HARBOUR.--4t is the
ntention of the Board of Ordnance to fortify the har-
bour et this port. Two strong batteries, with 56-
pounders, capable of firing red hot shot, will be erected
at Staddon Heights, one at the Obelisk, and one or two
others at other points at Mount Edgeeumbe. Heavy
guns will also bo placed in the Citadel, at Clarence
Point, Stonehouse Hill, and Mount The nece.;>..
sary estimates hare been made, and the fortifications %All
cost upwards of 18,0004—Derenport Independent,

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