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London, England, 1828-08-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS:

The Duke of Clarence, it appears, has re-
signed, or been stripped of, his briefly• worn ho-
nours as Lard High Admiral of England. At.
present, it would be mere impertinence to re-
peat the various conjectures and absurdities
which hal-g been thrown into circulation by way
of accounting for an occurrence by no means
unexpected. The truth will come out ere long.
What now most nearly concerns the State, is
the mode in which the navy ought to be furnish-
ed with an official chieftain. A steadily-work-

lug
gore Fpirrosfittarie
rdheoldthofe Athdemoiffiraclety
dasi Prince of the Blood. Had the author or
lairossl-aepr_A
approvers, of the Duke cf Clarence's promotion
continued in power to this
thanin
thet they would have felt themselves able to
maintain his Royal Highness in a post which
cannot, we apprehend, be suitably administered
without a share of tact and discretion, not pos-
sessed by the average of men or Princes, Mr.
Canning, however, we doubt not, might liavc
shown himself an adviser, at once friendly aria
more sagacious, than the late Lord High Ad-
miral was blessed with, in any Minister who fol-
lowed Mr. Canning. We shall only add our
hope, that the navy may be placed in some better
hands than have been suffered to direct it since
Lord St. Vincent's resignation. Above all
• things, let us implore the Government not to
torture that fine branch of the public service by
setting over it a Cabinet Minister,---Tinier.
The Duke of Clarence has resigned his office
as Lord High Admiral. The resignation took
place at Windsor, on Tuesday, the 12th. It
can hardly be necessary for us to inform our
readers, that the principle on which the English
Government is conducted is corruption. The
resources of the nation must kc administered for
the benefit of those whose political influence
makes them the masters of the State. The idea
of a Lord High Admiral distributing promotion
conscientiously, with reference to merit and ser-
vices, was a pretty enough idea for Utopia. But
his Royal Highness belongs to a nation which—
whether it be a matter for praise or dispraise we
presume not to say—is as unlike Utopia as any
one thing can be unlike another. Accordingly.
the chief fault found with his Royal Highness
is his number of promotions of old and merito-
rious officers, who had no Parliamentary inte-
rest to recommend. them. Merit and services
had a title in the eves of his Royal Highness
but the title is not an English one. That man
must have looked around him to very little pur-
pose who has not discovered that the crime in
England which never can be forgiven is honesty.
The great problem is to find in every depart-
ment of Church and State a succedaneum for
truth. Other objections have been started to
the proceedings of his Royal Highness ; but
the principal one was, his not keeping in mind
that the Government can only he kept in motion.
by corruption, and that the Navy has always
been its sheet-anchor. We suppose the Navy
will again be under Lord Melville, who is in no
danger of mistaking the true principle& of the
British Constitution. For instance, the sp-
. pointment of the three sons of Sir
Johnston Hope to be Captains of ships, all
since the peace, who of course can have seen
little service, will never be mistaken for unpar-
liamentary and uNconstitUtional. This is the
secret for keeping place.-319rning Chronicle.
The Journal des Debats has a laboured and
specious article on the subject of the policy
which has for some time been pursued by our
Government. The object of it is to show that.
England ought to have taken a more prominent
part in the affairs of Europe, to preserve her imn
fluence ; and a number of supposed mortifica-
tions and insults which we have experienced in
Portugal are detailed with a provoking air of
exactness, as affording a proof of the impolitic
course we have pursued. The conclusion which
the writer arrives at is, that the present stifle
et
inaction of this country cannot last much longer.
—" Self-denial, it is, said, is a private virtue,
which is not .of a very desirable nature even in
individuals ; but the political disinterestcdnes!:
of a nation, which has ships and men, when
great questions are on the point of being decided
by sea and land, would be a very uncertain
element of the combinations that are prepa-
ring; and the Cabinets of Europe will do evell
not to found their calculations on this anomaly."
—lf it become necessary that this nation should
draw the sword, there can be no doubt, not-
withstanding the embarrassed state of out
finances, that abundant resources would be at.
the disposal of Government for the time. Of all
the great nations of Europe, too, England is per-
haps the only one which C4ll make war without,
risking its independence. But it is because v..c
can always, in case of exigency, command im-
mense resources, and because our security cau
never be endangered from without, that we arc
more particularly called upon to recur to hostili-
ties only when such a grave step is rendered
necessary for the protection of our citizens, or
the vindication of the national honour. No.
Government in the present day, when the re-
sources of nations are so generally known and
appreciated, can possibly suppose that the reluc-
tance of England to draw the sword can arise
from a consciousness of her inability to make
war. There hardly ever appears a political pub-
lication on the Continent, in which the power
and the resources of England, and inquiries as
to whether they are attributable to our insular
situation or to our institutions, do not form a
prominent subject of discussion. It cannot ad-
mit of dispute, that if we chose, we could send
ships and troops to Portugal, and do, at all
events, material injury to Don Miguel, if we
could not drive him from the Throne. But
because the Portuguese are lazy and priestrid-
den, and Don Aguas title to the throne is
questionable, are we called on, from a regard
I either to our independence or honour to interfere
in sheaf fairs. of Portugal ? Certainly not. It becomes
great newt' like England, not to set the ex-
ample of a violation of international law
The
respect which foreign nations may entertain for
es would not, certainly, be increased by any in-
i"diCiMlS attempt
to interfere with Portugal.
The degree of respect is measured by our power
and not by our display of it, which, by wasting
our resources, would in so far diminish the
L,lleatis by which we can make ourselves respected.
r hese articles in the French Journals are levelled
at the Aristocracy of this country, who, by
holding in Parliament for many years a swagger-
ing braggadocia sort of language, as if we were
jure dim° the lecturers of all governments, and
vvere specially called on to decide on the justice
or the fitness of every act of external or internal
policy of every nation in Europe, and as if no
step could be taken in any country without our
good leave, have made us enetnies every
where.
This was a usurpation which could not he long
endured, and the which it occasioned is
at the bottom of many of
speculations of thtt
foreign Journalists.
who notice with it oilL; oh

%malicious satisfaction what only become; impor-
tant in their eyes front the absurd vain glory
which we have alluded to, namely, the contrast
'between our pretensions to universal influence,
and the share of influence which we really pos-
sess. We shall be more thought of if we abate
a little of our lofty pretensions ; and if the Duke.
ref Wellington have but a moderate portion of
sense, he will not run a-muck against all
,self-willed rulers and debased notions, merely
to show that we have a fretful feverishness
on the score of national dignity, and tit
we arc ashamed of being accused of sc
denial. With respect to the East, we wilt
own that we do not believe it is in the power of
this country to prevent the destruction of Turkey.
We can only make ourselves felt in Russia
ehrough the medium of Austria, and they who
knew by what a precarious tenure Austria holds
ltelay and Galicia, and moreover that the most
warlike part of the Continent is leagued with
Nslussia, eve mean the North of Germany (for
Prussia tray he said to determine all the country
to the Rhine), will be slow to believe that Aus-
tria will think of such a Quixotic scheme as at-
ria-icing Russia, at the hazard of her own. safety,
oo please us. Austria will share in the spoil.
IVe can no more prevent this result, titan Russia
could have prevented our conquest of the Mah-
ratta States, or our victories in the Burmese
Empire. We might have succeeded in fright-
ening an irresolute Emperor of Russia, but we
,cannot prevent a resolute Emperor from effec-
tuating the design, haying once entered on it. It
is no reproach to us that %cc cannot regulate
every movement in every part of the road.
While we arc of opinion that our Government
ought to be exceedingly cautious -of embark-
Mg the nation in war cm light grounds, and
that nu policy is more reprehensible than that
of wasting our resources merely to show that
we ears make ourselves be felt, we think, at
the Ante time, the Ministers would do well to
put an end, as aeon as possible, to whatever
may by possibility lead foreign Governments to
mistake the cause of our forbearance. Ireland is
thought not to be an addition to the strength of
England, but a deduction from it. The Irish
do not entertain the idea of separating them-
-elves from us, but they are determined to
emancipate themselves, and that too in a more
extensive sense than many may suppose ; and if
tee do not form one people soon, the very force
of circumstances will lead to meosures of force,
of which it is not so easy to foresee the termiva-
tion. It is bad, it is petiful policy to leave Ire.
Lend in a situation which may form a temptation
ro foreign Governments to misconduct them-
selves in reliance on it. Say they are .wrong—
ell)/ that Ireland would remain insensible to the
truth of the maxim, that all that she has yet
obtained has been extorted front our fears, and
-would out avail herself of circumstances, still
is good to remove the temptation.—/bid.
Our readers would sec from the Mor4ing
Herald of yesterday, in an article wilier the
head ." Frankfort," that the Rothschilds, and
some bankers from Vienna and Amsterdam,
were to azsemble there shortly. The article
rays, it is to be a " Congress of Financiers,"
and that some new "financial plan," on a.
" grand scale," is to be proposed by Austria,l
for the purpose of reducing her debt. The
leug and the short of this article is that further
loans, to the amount of as many millions as pos
little, will he endeavoured to be effected, in order
that the dividendsola!' be paid on Austrian, RUS--
lian, Neapolitan, and a variety of other ricketty
Bonds. It is much if this Congress of Finao-
ciers does not, in the long run, prove to be a
Congress of public pocket easers. Nosy, sup-
pose this Congress should prevail on the mo.
ueyed dupes to lend 100,000,000/., the coon.
mission, bonus, &c. to this Congress would not
;amount to less than 5 per cent. here would be
a profit of 5,000,000/. to be divided among the
Cougmess. The end of the Continental " finan-
cid systems" will be a blow up—such as we have
experienced by the New Woild that Mr.
into Can-
?ging said " be had called existence." And
then, when the gulled find that they receive no
dividends, and that what they have in possession
are bits of paper merely, the gulled will probable
say', what we have insinuated, that the Congress
ref- Financiers had better have been eallet by the
Editor of the Frankfort paper a Congress of
emptiers of the public pocket. Now the bits of
paper to he manufactured for Austria, Russia,
&c., will all eventually conic to England for
liquidation ; and it Nvill have the same effect on
our market as if the bits of paper were to he
originated in England itself; so that we would
recommend the Stock Exchange brotherhood
not to be too " bulli.sh."—Morntng. Herald.

it gave us great pleasure in reading the trial
in the case of Maitland v. the Norwich. Mer-
euty, to find on the verdict for one farthing be-
ing reformed for the damages Maitland, an at.
.toruey, had received in respect of his character,
that the Judge had certified. But we %%ondcr
that the Jury should have given him any da-
mages, if they thought that his character was
damaged only one farthing, for if the Judge ;lad
riot certified, the /yortuich Mercury would have
had expenses to pay of from 200/. to 3001.
We wish Juries would stop these farthing libel
casts, by giving verdicts for defendants, espe-
cially in ewes where attorneys bring their own
actions. It is the only way to bring to their
right vAderstanding such men as Messm Mait-
land., Harnett, and others.—Thid.
The Lord High Admiral has resigned-1 and
the Cabinet of his Grace of Wellington is, in
other re,peets kept together by such Slender ties,
that a total dissolution of it is confidently ex-
pected. The reasons which induced the Duke
of Clarence to resign arc variously stated, but
we believe they may all be summed' up in two
words—diai4ust at the haughty demeanour and
napc,rions conduct of the Pr-2Tnicr, and the de-
waded situation to which his foreign policy Las
edue-A this once flourishing and influential
Country. With regard to the harmer, it is confi-
dently averred that his. Grace of Wellington
having become jealous of the popularity which
the Duke of Clarence was • •
acquiring in all guar-
ters and xith all .classes, through his attention
to the duties of his office, bad 'signified to the
latter, some time ago,that his official visits to, and
surveys of the different ports,
must be discon-
tinued (assigning their expellee as the cause),
—that high words arose on the subject between
these Royal and Noble Personage,--and that
no satisfactory understanding having been come
to between them, the Duke of Clarence seized
the opportunity of the recognition of the block- ,
ade of Madeira, to declare to his Grace that he I
could not hold office under a Government wilich
appeared to have no fixed principle or policy—
which puroued do consistent line of coiuluct—
and by its measures relative to Oporto and Ma.
deira, had done its best to establish the principle
that the rule of 'succession to thrones was not
legitimate right but established power.
know not whether these arc, or are not, the real

grounds of the resignation of the Lord High
Admiral. They have been etate'd to us on no
indifferent authority as-the -cause; but it is not
improbable that other grounds may have existed,
and we give them, therefore, as mere reports, and
not as facts on which reliance should be placed.
To us it has always been a matter of astonishment
that the Lord High Admiral, who owed his ap-
pointment to tb e late Mr. Canning, could have pos-
sibly continued to act lo long under a Ministry
which pursued a line of policy so wholly op-
posed to that by which the latter reieed his coun-
try into such importance among the states of
Europe ; and it is in consequence rather matter
of satisfaction than of regret to us, that he has
separated himself from it. Others, 1% e have
reason to believe, will soon follow the same ex-
ample. Mr. Peel has been mentioned as ex-
tremely dissatisfied with the politics of the Ca-
binet of which he is a member, and as having
threatened more than once to resign. The sup-
port which he gave to the Duke's government
during the last Session of Parliament was cer-
tainly not such as to render it very desirable in
future ; but after all—Mr. Huskisson and Mr.
Charlee Grant having been thrust out by mis-
take—we know not how his Grace of W:elling-
ton, with all the talents, both civil and military,
which he possesses, could get on without him.
Even the blank-paper gentry would form but
poor substitutes.—Morning Adverk:scr.
It is understood in the best informed circles,
that if his Royal Highness the Lord High Ad-
miral has not actually resigned, his resignation
is a matter of certainty, and is hourly expected.
What has led to this occurrence, we are averse
from diseuesing: but this we may say, that cir-
cumstances which took place more than a month
ago, and which brought his Royal Highness
into collision with the head of the Government,
rendered almost unavoidable the present swam-
Lion. His Mejesty, we sincerely regret to say, 1
has been placed, by the differences which have
arisen, arulthe imperious and ostentetious con-
duct of his Royal brother, in et situation of
extreme delicacy. But, now that the matter has
ended, as it was most desirable it should tenni-
, nate, we abstain from any further remarks. It
is gratifying to know that the Duke of Welling-
ton has the unqualified confidence of his Ma-
jesty, and that he never stood higher in that con-
fidence than he does at present. Rumours also
are in circulation of the contemplated resignation
of Mr. Peel. That they arc premature we are
aware ; but still, it must be admitted, it would
be as well if the causes Nellich gave rise to such
rumours did not eseist. It will ever be matter
of regret, as welt by all neutral parties, as by
the early ends most zealous supporters of the
Right titneorsable Secretary, that he has so
tenaeaous'l and inseparably bound himself up
with the fate of the Currency Bill. It has been
said by his friends that he has made the sine qui!
non of his remaining in office the carrying of
this measure. He has certainly identified his
principles and his character with its success. He
has dune more to enforce it than any other Mi-
nister. In short, he has so involved himself
with it, that it is publicly designated as his mea-
sure exclueively. All this is matter of un-
iniogled regret. - That the country—we mean
the esountry out of the immediate precincts of
London—is complaining loudly of the effects of
this unfortunate measure, is known to all. That
the agricultural and commercial interests of the
country look forward to April next with utter
dismay, is equally well ascertained ; and that the
Duke of Wellington is daily besieged. with re-
monstrances of the most urgent kind, is best
known to himself. From every corner of the
country—from noblemen of great influence—
from conimoriers of great weight—from men
whose Ca-tunes are at stake, and in whose hands
is the bread of thousand:3, come memorials, pray-
, ing for relief and protection. On all sides the
Duke of Wellington is assailed. Facts are
poured into his ear which he never dreamt of;
and-symptoms of increasing embarrassment, of
pending ruin, of anticipated gloom and diffi-
culty, are pointed out, and appealed to in a tone
which cannot be misunderstood. There is no
nation in the world which possesses in itself so
many sources of re-action, or so much internal
power, which, if once exerted, can so effectually
sway the policy of the Government. All these
are verging to a focus—all arc bearing on the
same object—all 'are concentrating to offer re-
sistance to the favourite project of Mr. Peel.
The questien is not now a party one. The
bankers are dissatisfied to a man ; they are still
smarting under the aspersions heaped upon them
by Lord Goderich. Through them the chan-
nels of commercial intercourse are impeded;
and, consequently, men formerly of oppo-
site opinions, of many shades of difference on
various leading measures, are united in not only
dreading the panic which they anticipate, but hi
condemning the policy which has led to it, and
which they are assured will not be departed from.
All ask with an impatience which evinces more
sorrow than anger, will the Duke of Wellington,
in the teeth of these remonstrances, enforce a
measure to which he is not pledged, and to
which he is not bound ? It would give us un-
feigned pleasure to be able to allay their fears in
this respect ; but all we can say at present is,
that our confidence in the Noble Duke remains
unshaken, and that he will not allow the country
to suffer either to gratify the feelings or the pre-
judices of any of his colleagues. Sure we arc he
has the interest of his country at heart. He is
one of her proudest and most incorruptible pa-
, triots, and he will shield her, when the day of
trial comes, by his wisdom and his unbending
integrity. In him, therefore, we would most ur-
gently, most imploringly, call upon the country
trumpetho fleet lir
to repose confidence. He is too prudent to
ifleeting is
his
sseraiments to the world ; he knows
popularity ; he .only waits his op-
portunity
prove that he is wedded to no ex-
periniental measures, but, on the contrary, pre-
pared to
b ehaus
hour assertdomestic
sprungm esotttilicire
welfare.arstelneli.oitul ascendancy abroad and pro-
motel
z o Oreusti resignation
ttilown of
set trou-
bles
Peel- We should be sorry to see him in retire-
ment ; but if the prosperity of Great Britain
ehould demand it, to retirement he must go.—
Nen' .71;nes.

QfGreec of 11
June
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jerxtis:l,ition
detailed account of the unfortunate Tile Universal Gazette
Contains a
against Anatolia() and the death of Captain HA,
It appears that this brave Philhellene was killed by grape_"—
shot—a cannon-ball full of small shot, as the G,,,ctie ;.
(Kctnenion pltlres spheridion). Little doubt is enmters-
tained that the expedition would have succeeded, if
as-
ano-
o.
ther commander had instantly taken the place r Ti.
TtNGR. He did not at first consider kiiNvolinti fatal ; but
three days afterwards, while the surgeons were discussing
the character of his illocss,he expired.—ilumburylleporter.
•
An old woman residing in the village of Dal-
beattie, discovered a few days ago, en making her bed, a
pretty large adder lurking cinder the pillow. bow the
reptile got there is not kricewn ; but it seemed so much
pleased with its warm lair, that it filled and reared when
the occupant of the house seized it with the tongs, carried
it to the doer, and cith great indignation, dashed it on the
pavement, never to delile a cottage more.--Dutnfries
Courier.

SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WELLS, .AUG. 12

Clark.; Bcxt was indicted for an a..sitult on Mary
Harri,,, with intent forcibly to abuse her. There
was' another count charging him with a common
assault.

Mary Harris, the prosecutrix, a good-looking
young girl, lives at Deniton. On the evening of
the 13th of July she wa4 returning home from ll-
minster, when sh^ met the prisoner with three other
persons. The others went away, and prisoner asked
witness if he should go home with her. She said
" No, she did not want his company."—(The wit-
ness here described the nature of the violence offered
to her by the prisoner, and stated that he repeated
his assault several times.)—Witness struck him with
the umbrella, and cried " Murder !" but he still per-
sisted in attacking her ; and she then told him she
would follow him and have him taken into custody.
He was apprehended on the some night about eleven
o'e lock.

By the JUDGE—Lived with her parents at the
time. She informed her parents of the assault. The
prisoner cursed her when she said she would have
him apprehended.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of the com-
mon assault.

Mr. Justice PARK told him that his conduct was
most infamous, and sentenced him to be imprisoned
for six calendar months, regretting at the same time
that the law did not allow of his putting him to
hard labour, inasmuch as he was only convicted of
the common assault.

Thomas Parr, a coarse-looking rustic, "as indict-
ed fors similar offence against Hannah Lever, a far-
mer's servant-maid.

The prosecutrix lives at Dowlish, in this county.
On the 4th of August, while returning home, she
met the prisoner, who said " Where are you going?"
She said " What adds is that to you ?" and he re-
plied "I'll go home with you." She told him he
should 'mot, and then endeavoured to get away from
him bat he pursued her, and made a violent attack
ttputi her.--(The prosecutrix here described the
particulars of the attack.) She at length succeeded
in escaping from him, and he continued to pursue
her to her master's house.

The prisoner, in his defence, denied having used
any violence towards the prosecuttix, and said he
had offered her marriage. He also said that she had
had an illegitimate child before, and was ready to
consent to his wishes.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARK then sentenced him to bi
months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House
of Correction.

The prosccutrix is an exceedingly plain-looking
creature, with weak sere eyes, and a Chinese cha-
racter of countenance.

Janics Whitc was put to the bar, charged on the
Coroner's inquisition with having killed and slain
Charles Soarry, on the 22d July last, at Bridge-
water, by furiously riding over hiin.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of man-
slaughter, through furious driving.
Mr. Justice PARK said he should pass only a
light sentence upon him, as it appeared that he had
no intention to injure the eieceased, and was a
mild, inoffensive young Man. The Court, therefore
ordered that he should be imprisoned in the House
of Correction, and kept to hard labour, for one ca-
lendar month.

GLOUCESTER, AL G. 13.

Mr. Justice GAsEutt: and Mr. Baron VALGitAN
opened the commission for this county here this
afternoon.

The calendar conteil,l3 the names of 38 prisoners,
and some of their offences are, it is said, of an atro-
cious nature : 59 causes are entered for trixl.

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MONMOUTH, Auo. 12.

John. Farmer and Edward Thompson, alias Ed-
ward Hewitt, were this morning put to the bar, pur-
suant to the directions of the learned Judge. The
prisoners had been removed to this place from Staf-
ford gaol by habeas corpus, to take their trial on an
indictment for stealing three homes, some bridle,
saddles, and other articles, from Cicely Watkins, of
Lianhileth, in this county ; on being arraigned yes-
terday, they pleaded guilty, but his Lordship hu-
manely ordered that they should be allowed till this
day to consider of their plea, which he cautioned
them would not be the means of procuring any miti-
gation of punishment. The le.trned Judge having
again warned them of the awful situation in
which they were placed, and tne prisoners having
persisted in their plea, sentence of death was pro-
nounced against them.

WARWICK, WEDNESDAY, Arc. IS.

Isaac Parkes was indicted for forging the Gold-
smiths'-hall plate stamp, upon several pair of spec
tacles, made of base metal, and selling them as plate.
In consideration of the prisoner's pleading
" guilty" to the minor offence, of only forging the
Birmingham plate stamp, there was no evidence
offered against him, on the part of the Stamp-office,
on the capital charge.
Jo/in Hunts, a respectable looking young man,
22 years of age, was indicted for stealing from the
Post-office, at Birmingham, a certain letter, contain-
ing a 30/. Bank-note, a 31. Bank-note, and divers
promissory notes and bills of exchange, the property
of George Sheppard and others, his partners.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the minor cha►;ge
of embezzling the property of Messrs. Sheppard and
Co., and no evidence MIS offered against him on the
capital charge.
He was sentenced to be transported for seven
yea rs.
Sarah Gibbs was indicted for wilful and corrupt
perjury.
The defendant, who was not the most captivating
in her appearance, becoming the mother of an illegi-
timate child, the parish officers where she resided
threatened to remove her to her own parish, and she
threatened to swear her child to the first man who
should attempt to do so. Both parties were as good
as their word. Mr. Gude, a parish officer, obtained
an order for her removal, and she went before a
magistrate and swore the child to Mr. Gude.
Mr. Gude most solemnly swore that he had nei-
ther hand, act; or part, in the getting of this child ;
while the defendant as strenuously persisted in fixing
the paternity on him, and expressed her astonish-
men;. at the very ungrateful return he made her for
' the many favours she had conferred upon him, in
the course of his frequent visits to her house, where
she lived alone am! independent.
She was found Guilty, and sentenced to 12 months'
imprisombent.
Isaac Green, aged 35, a married man, and the
father of five children, was indicted for a most ag-
gravated assault, with intent to commit a capital fe-
lony upon Sarah Elizabeth Clarke, at Birmingham,
on the 29th ofJuly last.
Mr. READER, on the part of the prosecution,
briefly opened the case to the Jury, and then called
the following witnesses:—
Sarah Elizabeth Clarke, an extremely delicate
girl, in appearance about 16 or 17 years of age, was
assisted into the witness-box, where, however, it
was evident, from her state of nervous agitation and
debility, she could not continue many moments.
She was therefore placed in the crier's seat, and,
with the most unaffected modesty, and obviously
painful feelings, related the following circumstances :
—She is now 13 years of age; her father keeps the
Wheat Sheaf public-house at Birmingham. On
Sunday the 27th of July her father and mother
went. from home on a visit to some friends for a few
days, leaving her in charge of the house, and re-
questing the prisoner, who had been known to them
for several years, to assist in attending to the busi-
ness. On Monday evening, the 28th, there was. a
meeting at the house of the members of two clubs
or• benefit societies, and at about seven o'clock, when
the witness was in the bar, the prisoner came to her
and asked her for Bs. to pay to a sick member. She
at first hesitated to pay the money until her father
returned, but, upon the prisoner saying that he •

' would see that all was right, she went up stairs to
her father's bed-room to procure it. For that pur-
pose she took a drawer, containing the club money,
from under a chest of drawers, and laid it on the
dressing-table, while she went to fasten the window,
as it was growing late. She was in the act of pulling
down the blind when the prisoner came into the
room. He immediately shut the door, which closed
with a spring-lock. The witness went On to de-
scribe a very gross and violent attack committed on
her by the prisoner. She made every possible effort
to scream for assistance, but could not make her self
heard, in consequence of the manner in which he
stopped her mouth. At last she fainted. When she
recovered her senses, she found herself lying on
the floor, with her person exposed. She got
up and went down stairs, and met the prisoner on the.
last step. He accosted her, saying, " Sarah, give
me a kiss. You must not tell." She passed on,
and the house being full of company, she 'vent out at
the back door and through the yard into Mrs.
Stringer's house, which is next door. Here she
was only able to utter, " Oh, Mrs. !Stringer, a
mare—Mr. Green," when she again fainted. Mrs.
Stringer sent out for Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Clarke's
servant, and as soon as the witness came to her-
self, she stated how she had been ill used by the
prisoner. She felt very ill next day, and had been
extremely unwell ever since. (Indeed this was but
too apparent.)
On her cross-examination by Mr. Gout...Bens,
she said, that to go from the bed-room to the room
where the members of the club were assembled,
you had to descend two steps, and then go along a
passage. She could not say how many yards long
the passage was. The tap-room was full of people.
She made all the efforts in her power to call out,
but the prisoner prevented her. She was in the act
of pulling down the blind before she saw the pri-
soner coming. She was out next day, because she
was obliged to go and pay the excise before twelve
o'clock ; but she was extremely ill. The prisoner
was to have paid it, but he did not come near the
house. (The witness was carried out of Court in
strong convulsions.)
Mrs. Stringer and Mrs. Rogers corroborated the
proseeutrix's statement..

Mr. Evans is a surgeon at Birmingham, and was
called in on the 30th of July to visit Miss Clarke.
Upon examining her person, he discovered marks of
violence. He has continued to attend her ever
since. Her health has been materially injured, and
she has been subject to hysterical fits ever since.
Mr. GOULBURN addressed the Jury on behalf of
the prisoner, admitting. that he had been guilty of
gross misconduct, and must be convicted on the
count for the common assault; but contending that
it was impossible he could have intended to commit
the aggravated offence imputed to him.
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, said, it
would be an outrage upon common sense to suppose
that in making this assault upon the prosecutrix in
the manes e described, the prisoner did not intend to
commit the higher offence.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to be
imprisoned fo two years, and kept to hard labour;
telling him at the same time, that he ought to con-
sider him elf most fortunate in having escaped with
his life.

IRISH ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

CLONMELL ASSIZES, AUG. 1 i.

John Desmond was indicted for stealing a pig, the
property of Thomas Byrne.
Thomas Byrne, examined by the Court—Your
Honour's Lordship, the pig was my own property,
and John Desmond was in my own place, and he
stole it, for I heard it from the neighbours. That
was the 18th day of the month of May, and a Sun-
day too, your Honour's Lordship.
COURT—We don't want to hear stories in this
place ; when had you the pig ?—The same morning,
your Honour's Lordship, he stole it, and there -is
John Desmond that was in the house that day, your
Honour's Lordship.
COURT—Did you see him in the public-house ?
No, but the neighbours did ; and there is John
Davis that had it in his pussesshun. I lost the pig on
the Sunday, the 18th day of the month of May,
above all the days in the year.
COURT—When did you see it next ?—John Il2s-
rm,rvi, your Honour's Lordship ?
COURT—No, but the pig, man ?—I saw /air on
the 19th day of the month of May, plaec your Ho-
nour's- Lordship.
COURT—Where did you get the pig with a sug-
goane about his leg ?—lt's a bit of straw suggoane
in the pig's leg, plate your Honour's Lordship, and
I got hur in John .Desmond'aptagessiztin, your Ho-
nour's Lordship; and he stole it, and nobody else,
and she had a spot on liar neck, and 1 never
saw John Desmond afore, p!asc your Honour's
Lordship.
Cross-examined by Mr, Bennet—How old was
the pig ?—ls it my own pig ?
liow did you know the pig, Tom ?—Arral didn't
I know it to be my own ?
Did the pig know you ?—No.
Did he run up to you when he saw you ?—Not
he, the crater.
Was it by the suggoane you knew it ?—Would
I know the pig that I reared I sure it had the sug-
goaue (straw) about the leg; and I'd know my
own pig; for, plase your Honour, the cratur was
born'd in my own house.
Had the pig a long tail ?—He had no tail at all,
the cratur, for I tuck the bit of the tail off my own
I pig.
Wasn't it a fresh cut ?—lt was a fresh cut the
day I bought him; sure I cut the bit fresh; be-
gannics, it was fresh cut, sure enough, your Honour's
Lordship.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Justice Moong summed up, and the Jury
found the prisoner " Guilty."

Our early risers were amused on Monday
morning in witnessing a man comfortably tied in a sack,
jumping round the Race Course (a mile and twenty rods)
which he engagul to do for a trifling wager in thirty-five
minutes. Although much rain had fallen during the night
which made the ground very slippery, he complead the
undertaking within two minutes of the given time, to the
great astonishment of the spectators.

INSTRUMENTAL IVILSH.3.—At, a Court for
the relief of Insolvent Debtors, held at Carlisle, before Mr.
Chief Commissioner REYNOLDS, on Wednesday week,
GEORGE FREDERICK PARRIN, teacher of music, kc.,
came up to take the benefit of the Act. The Chief Com-
missioner, having looked over his schedule, inquit:ed, who
is this Mrs. WA LEER, to whom those articles yon mention
belong ?—lrts Arent--She is my sister. Commissioner—
How came her articles in your po9see.sion ?—lnsolvent---
She gives concerti, and sends down the instruments she
wishes to perform on. Commissioner—What ! (reading
from the schedule) does she perform upon bedsteads,
and hangings, three chairs, and a trarming-pan?—
(Laughter.)—lnsolvent—No, Sir.—Discharged, with the
benefit of the Act.—Holl Pachet.

On Sunday ,se'nnight JOHN. PoLLocK,
weaver, Charleston, left his own house about eight o'clock.
On the previous part of the day he had taken a walk with
his wife, and when they had gone as far as the little plant-
ing at Gleniffer, he wished her to return, saying that he
would now get to his rest here, and at the same time told
her not to grieve for him. With much ado she succeeded
in persuading him to return home. When in the house, he
exhibited every sign of a person whose mind was far
estranged. At times he would be grasping at something
which be stedfastly looked at before kim; other times
going up and down the house, wringing his hands in de-
spair, crying " Oh ! there is no hope for me!" His wife
watched him; but from her situation being obliged to rest
herself in bed, he took that opportunity of slipping out of
the house, and went to the very spot above-mentioned,,and
there put a period to his existence. Not returning that
night, his wife male it known next morning, when search
was made for him. He was found by some persons about
mid-day, suspended from the branch of a tree. He had
taken his neckcloth, and fastening it about his neck, went
up into the tree and tied it, and then threw himself off.
He has left two young children and a wife fur gone in
pregnancy, to mourn his loss. He had been afflicted with
fits of deep melancholy, and had several times attempted to
take away his life.— Greenock Advertiser.

In Antrim there are ...1914

Armagh 120
Cavan 1335
Donegal 9.18
Down 1431
LEIN!
In Carlow there arc 212!
Dublin
Kildare

'Fermanagh 2089
Londonderry lO2l
13fonaghan 1247
HI) tone 2031

......... 70
Meath
Queen's County ..• 394

Kilkenny IS4. Wer,trneath l9O
King's County
Longford 3l2lWicklow
MUNSI'SR.
In Clare there arc 201 Limerick .
Cork 427 Waterford
Kerry
CONNA UGHT.
In Mayo there are 5Ol !Galway

. S 3

Sligo s2BRoecoMmen
Leitrim 364

There are, then, nasigned to—

Ulster
13,440
Leinster
Munster 1,507
Connaught 1,393

On the very face of this arrangement there is
stamped irregularity, or worse. If there be good in
the " battalions," why not distribute it generally ?
If, as the Orange Journals maintain, these corps are
strictly a Protestant institution, and intended for
Protestant purposes, why have them in greatest
strength where their conservative powers would ap-
pear to be least needed ? If Protestantism has a
chance of evaporating in Fermanagh, without the
presence of ?,089 battalionites, what is to become of
it in Donegal, where there are only r;18, among a
population nearly twice that of Fermanagh ?—what
is to become of it in Louth, where there are only
70, or in Roscommon, where there are none at all ?
It does not happen that the prevalence of peace
in the different counties of the North, is at all propor-
tioned to the extent to which they are batlalionized.
On the contrary, Fermanagh and Tyrone are the
most disturbed of all the counties, anti Donegal and '
Derry amongst those most remarkable for tranquil-
lity, there being in these two latter counties not the
one-half of the " battalionitcs" that are allotted tc.
the former.

We have already had occasion to remark that the
names of the commanders of the yeomanry cor pa
are the most remarkable in the modern history of
Ireland. We have the Ureggs and the Doncgc
in Antrim ; the Verners and the Blackers, in Xr-
magh ; the Sneyds and the Farnhams, and the Pra tts,
in Cavan ;' the Brooks, the Iry Ines and the Archdi
in Fermanagh ; the Beresfords and the Hills,. in
Derry ; the Lortons, in Longford ; the Oriels, the
Rodens, and the Forteseues, in Louth ; the Le, dies
and the Blaneys, in Monaghan; and so on, with
very few exceptions, throughout the entire kingd
—Dublin Morning Register.