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bulk, and of far greater value, which were quite as
much within the prisoner's reach as the microscope.
Mr. Chambers said he appeared on behalf of the
lady, Mrs. Tyrwhit, who was charged with stealing
a small article, the selling price of which was half-a-
crown. In such a fearful, terrific charge as the pre-
sent, against a lady in her station, it was indispens-
able that the evidence should be as clear as possible.
The case attempted to be made out against the lady
was one of the greatest improbability, and this had
made him anxious to put certain questions to the
witnesses, in order to elicit circumstances which a
jury would always wish to be clear upon,
before they came to their verdict, on a
charge of this sort. It was always desirable
to see whether a party, charged with a trum-
pery offence, even if in an inferior station, had
an opportunity of committing an offence of a more
serious nature in point of value ; and it was with this
view that he had put questions and obtained informa-
tion to show that the lady had an equal opportunity
of taking articles of infinitely greater value, and of
smaller compass, than the trifling article she was
accused of having stolen. In ordinary cases this fact
formed a strong argument against the presumption
that an accused person really intended to steal an
article like the microscope produced, which was
neither useful, ornamental, nor capable of being dis-
posed of. He could well understand how a person in
a superior rank of life, forgetting what was due to
herself and neighbour, attracted by ornaments of
value, might be tempted to pilfer the property of
another. Indeed it was beyond doubt that ladies hal
taken articles of value from the premises of Messrs.
Howell and James, but it was inconceivable to sup-
pose that a lady would stoop to steal an article so
petty as to be procured for half-a-crown. In dealing
with the charge, there was another matter to which
he begged to direct the attention of the court, as it
was certain a jury would look very closely into it. It
was the situation of things at the bazaar at the time
SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. of the alleged robbery—the time of day—the number
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. of customers at the bazaar, and the great improbability
GLOBE.—By means of the income-tax—which that any party intending to steal would place herself at
has produced nearly fifty per cent. more than he a counter, with many eyes turned towards her and in-
computed, added to a number of favourable contin- specting her actions all the while. There was also
gencies—Sir Robert Peel finds himself in possession another part of the evidence which he must publicly
of a large surplus revenue. Under such circum- remark upon. He was quite willing to admit the
stances, the country has a right to ask and expect immense importance of this bazaar, but then he in-
two things : —First—that the odious impost upon sisted on it that public justice ought to be done there.
trade and. professions be removed at the expire- If persons were charged with offences so serious as
tion of the three years for which the tax was felony, he contended it was the duty of those who
originaly imposed ; and that, if continued beyond were on the watch to give accused persons a fair
that time, in any form, it be confined to tangible, opportunity of explanation, or, if the case was clear,
ascertained property. Secondly—a total abolition, or to give the offender at once into the custody of the
material reduction, of duties which press most severely police. It could not be tolerated that a suspected
on the trade and industry of the country. Of such person should be led through the bazaar to an office
duties, there is one which is peculiarly impolitic and to be searched, and that when, by this means, a crowd
oppressive. Perhaps there is no tax a reduction or re- was collected round the part, something should be
moral of which would he more advantageous to the picked up from the ground, by the help of which
community than the duty upon Policies of Insurance. something only a charge was attempted to be sus-
At the same time it might be effected without ulti- tained. According to the evidence not only the lady
mately occasioning any material loss of revenue. snspected was searched at the office, but her niece
The great comparative extent to which the business was obliged to undergo the same disgraceful cere-
of insurance is carried in Great Britain affords one of mony. He was, however, glad that in this case this
the least equivocal tests of our superior progress in practice had been resorted to, for the result was
civilization, and of the greatest diffusion amongst us to show that the ladies did not go to the bazaar
of habits of providence and foresight. It appears, to take what did not belong to them, nothing
from the official returns, that the gross duty received except what was their own property having been
on policies of insurance against fire in the United found on them. There was one other point which he
Kingdom, in 1843, amounted, in round numbers, was anxious to have cleared up, and he fortunately pos-
to one million sterling, independent of farming- sessed the means. In ordinary cases of shoplifters a
stock, which is exempt from duty. As the duty strong proof of guilt was evidence showing that par-
is three shillings per cent., the property insured, ties went into shops to purchase a small article, and
subject to duty, was valued at the immense sum of adopted this pretext to steal a larger one. But he
' eady 667,000,0001. But, vast as this sum cer- should show, in the case of Mrs. Tyrwhit, that she
tainly is, it is still true that most buildings, with went to the bazaar for an expensive purchase. The
their contents, are not insured at near their full lady had a fancy for paroquets. She had recently
value. Evan in towns, many are not insured at all ; lost one of a pair, and she had gone to the bazaar to
,
and in the country the insurance of farm-buildings is replace her loss. It was when going down stairs,
comparatively rare. It is difficult to imagine that after having entered into a dealing for one of these ex-
this d sinclination to insure can be owing to any cause HER AfAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS.—The Royal pack Pensive birds, and after having stopped for a minute
other than the exorbitance of the tax. It is especially this year consists of 53 couple, 36 couple of which are old to make a trifling purchase at one of the stands that
the duty of governments to encourage habits of and 17 young hounds—viz., 1 couple, 8 years old ; 1 she was, to her horror and amazement, charged with
forethought, and to contribute, by every means in couple, b years ; 2 couple, 5 years ; 7 couple, 4 years ; stealing an article of no real use or value. Ile men-
their pea er to the protection of property, and to 9 couple, 3 years ; 16 couple, 2 years ; and 17 couple, tioned- this circumstance to show that it was utterly
1 year old. Her Majesty's stag hounds in 1842, num- hopless a charge of this nature could be sustained be-
casualtiesthe mitigation of the disastrous effects of those
bered 5. 0 ; and in 1843, 52 couple. About 100 gentle-
to which it is exposed. But it
men, including Lord Rosalyn, the master of the Royal fore a jury. If, on inquiry, it should turn out there
would appear as if Parliament, when it imposed , was a real foundation for the charge, then the persons
Lodge,
were at the meet on 'Friday morning, at New
this tax, had thought that the less security there at the bazaar did only their duty. But he was there
Lodge, Winkfield, where an untried deer was uncarted
was fir property and the more disastrous fires, between eleven and twelve o'clock, going away to Wink- on the part of the lady to deny the charge, and to ex-
and other calamitous visitations upon it, were ren field Park, on nearly to the village, where it doubled to press her indignation and astonishment at being
dered, the better ! The practice of insurance has the right on the left of Hawthorn-hill. Thence it mrele charged with a felony at the bazaar, when she had
grown up amongst us, not in consequence of encour- for Warfield Church, and was taken at Putt-bridge, merely gone there with her husband and niece to make
agements by the Government, but in the teeth of near the residence of Lady Malcolm, after a run, over a a purchase.
the most formidable obstructions. The duties im country of nine miles generally heavy, of nearly an hour. Mr. Ashton, a bird-dealer in Oxford-street, was
posed on it do not really seem to have been imposed No fixture has yet been made for the by-day on Wednes- called. He said he had a room at the Soho Bazaar,
for the sake of revenue, but that the business might day next. The meet on Monday will be at the Stag and where he sold birds. He knew the lady at the bar
~Ho
u, rids, Binfield ; and on Friday, at Littleton, near very well. The lady had been to him on the day
be suppressed. The premium charged by the dif-
ot ane
ferent offices on risks of ordinary hazard is, at s' when the alleged theft took place, to get a companion
this moment, Is. 6d. per cent.; while the duty is no . for her grey parrot. The parrot would cost Si. or 9/.
less than 35., or 200 per cent. on the premium ; so POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Chambers said the lady's niece was in attend-
that an individual insuring 1,0001. upon a house, a (SATURDAY.) ante, but on consideration he would spare her feelings
shop, &c., pays the insurer 15s. to indemnify him este and not call her.
against his risk; and 30s. of duty to Government, with MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. HARDWICK said, under all the circumstances,
b. on each policy, whatever may be the amount in- Mr. Driver, wholesale stationer, of No. 28, King- the evidence was of a nature that he could not do
sured, fier liberty to enter into such a transaction ! street, Cheapside, and another respectable and exten- otherwise than have it submitted to the consideration
We hesitate not to say, that the existence of such a sive tradesman, applied to Sir Peter Laurie, in con- of a jury, however extraordinary and incredible it
duty is disgraceful to the country. To enlarge sequence of the active exertions of a gang of depre. might appear for a lady of station to-purloin an ar-
on its triscl'iievoas influence is utterly unnecessary datora, one of whom was named John Simonds, who title of such trifling value, yet with the direct testi-
lts operation in lessening and preventing insur- represented himself as a dealer in East and West mony of the matron, who saw her take it, of the per-
ances is universally felt and acknowledged. We India produce, and whose office was at 13, Great St. son who saw her drop it, and of the proprietor of the
are supported by the authority of every one best able Thomas Apostle. stall, who saw it safe just before the purchase, and
t.) form a sound conclusion on such a point, when we Mr. Driver, it was stated, had been victimised to missed it immediately afterwards, he did not see how
express our conviction that the reduction of the duty the amount of 181. Mr. Simonds, who is a person it was possible to decide otherwise than that the case
from 3s. to Is. per cent. would occasion such an of respectable appearance, called in the absence of Mr. must go to trial.
extension of the business, that the loss of revenue that Driver, and gave an order to his son for two reams of Mr. Chambers applied for the prisoner to be ad-
would take place in the first instance would, in a paper, and for the engraying of two plates, with 1,000 mitted to bail.
very short time, cease to be considerable, or be alto- copies of each. The order was executed upon the Mr. HARDWICK agreed to take two good bail in
gether replaced. But though this anticipation understanding that ready money was to be paid ; 250/. each, and the prisoner's recognizance in 500/.
were not fully realised, would not the sacrifice of but, unfortunately, Mr. Driver's servant was pre- Bail was immediately put in.
100,0001. of annual revenue be compensated a hundred- veiled upon to leave the goods without receiving the James Smith, a clerk in the employ of Mrs. Parkes,
fold by the security afforded to two hundred cash; and, as might be expected, all applications were in Golden-square, who recently had a picture raffle,
millions of capital ? We incline to think that Mr. fruitless. There was the appearance of real business was charged with having assaulted Robert Fisher, of
Goulburn himself would pause before he determined in the purchasing counting-house, for there were No. 23, Clarges-street.
to resist a proposition for the reduction of this im- several real hams about the place. The complainant said he purchased some tickets in
politic duty. The extreme hazard to which property Sir PETER LAURIE—Are you sure they were real the recent picture lottery, one of which came up a
at sea is exposed, renders its insurance of peculiar hams ? For these fellows have so much ingenuity small prize. He went on Friday, with a friend, to
consequence to individuals and to the public. Yet that they cen stock their premises with all sorts of Golden-square, to exchange his tickets for prints.
the insurers of ships and cargoes, as well as of imaginar3 goods.—(Laughter.)—The witness said The defendant showed him the pictures which were
houses and the property they contain, are subjected there was, he believed, no doubt as to the reality of to be selected from, but these pictures appeared to be
to very oppressive duties. All policies of marine in- the hog's flesh. There were, however, several so inferior that he told the defendant he thought the
surance must be on stamped paper. Policies packages on the shelves very neatly arranged, which public had been imposed upon, that the pictures were
on vessels engaged in the foreign or colonial corresponded with Sir Peter Laurie's description of not what they were represented to be, and that, in
trade, may be its conveniently effected in Ilamburgli, some of the London swindlers.
Amster short, the public harl been humbugged. The de-
dam, or New York, as in London ; and as Mr. Boyd, a very intelligent station clerk, stated fendant instantly struck him from behind a blow,
policies executed in these cities are either wholly that upon hearing the representation of the gentle- which blackened his eye. Complainant was staggered
exempted from duties, or are subject to such man relative to Simonds, he went to the counting- by the unexpectedness of the assault, but having re-
as are nominal only, the duty imposed on them house in St. Thomas Apostle, and saw there a num- covered he returned the blow, and a scuffle ensued,
in this country causes a large portion of that in- ber of packages, which upon examining proved to be which was put an end to by the interference of those
surance business to be transacted on the Con- filled with chaff and sawdust. The owner of that wha were in the room.
tinent, and in the United States. That such is property, however, had absconded, and the female A solicitor who attended for the defendant wished
the case is known to every merchant. The insurance who had let the counting-house to him was in great the complainant to say in whose service he was. The
of ves-els in the colonial arid foreign trade is gra- alarm. There were several persons, no doubt, in the complainant objected to answer the question, and Mr.
dually, but certainly, leaving this country. The firm, which had been traced to Thames-street, where Hardwick, held the question to be irrelevant.
duty is, in fast, driving a valuable branch of industry they had taken in all they could. The complainant was then cross-examined. Ac-
from amongst us. Even though it had no such effect, Sir PETER LAURIE declared that he would feel the cording to the terms of the raffle he was entitled to
it is clear that a tax on the security of property at sea greatest satisfaction in coming in contact with every prints of the value of a guinea for his ticket. Nothing
is not one that ought to exist in any country, and, individual of the firm. He, however, would have was offered to him to select from except what ap-
least of all, in a commercial country like England. the satisfaction of meeting Mr. Simonds out of the peered to him to be prints of little or no value. Was
'We do, therefore, hope that Sir R. Peel will avail City by means of the press, the exposure of such net offered a two-guinea print for his ticket, but was
himself of the favourable condition of the public cases rendering infinitely more service to the public told he could have it if he paid the difference. Did
finances to repeal these duties. The country, so deeply than the diluted trials at the Old Bailey. not call the defendant either a liar or a thief.
interested in their removal, should, by deputations Mr. Boyd stated that every exertion should be John Richardson, cheesemonger, 41, Old Bonds
from the various ports of the kingdom, press the sub made to secure the per Son of the accused. street, went with last witness to Golden-square.
ject on his consideration. The Right lion. Baronet - MARLBOROUGH-STREET. While looking about the room he heard a noise, and
will thus be prepared for having the subject brought Mrs. Jane Tyrwhit, the wife of a gentleman of for- on turning round, to his great surprise, saw his
before Parliament early in the approaching session ; tune, residing at No. 1, Charles-street, Berkeley- friend and the defendant fighting. He ran to part
when we hope the removal of the tax on policies of square, was put to the bar before Mr. Hardwick, them, and told the defendant neither he nor his friend
fire and marine insurance will form one of the items charged with having stolen a microscope, value 2s 6d., had come there to fight; they had come there for their
of the new budget. from a stand in the Soho Bazaar, kept by Miss Mary property. Parted the combatants, and would not let
STANDARD.—A case of some importance was Ann Lewis. any further violence take place. Did not hear any
argued in the Irish Rolls Court on Thursday last, Mr. Chambers attended for the accused, who was offensive words from the complainant to the defen-
which involved the question of whether or not a be- allowed a seat within the bar. dant. The only words he heard the complainant use
quest in Ireland of money directed to be expended Miss Lewis said the prisoner came to her stand be- were, " Show us the pictures ; there are no pictures
"in masses for the soul's sake" be valid. The Bill tween four and five o'clock on Friday afternoon, and here worth anything.' Nothing could have been
alleges that such a bequest is for " superstitious pur- made a purchase of a thermometer, which she paid more uncalled for or unprovoked than the assault on
poses, and therefore against the policy of the law." for. Immediately after the prisoner had left the stall, the complainant.
I'he facts of the case are these :—ln 1837 the Rev. in consequence of a question put to her by the inspec- Edward Pearson said the defendant struck the corn-
Mr. Kearns, a Roman Catholic priest, of Rath- tress of the bazaar, she looked over her stock, and plainant a severe blow on the face, but did not hear
farnham, made a will, granting certain legacies ; di- missed a small microscope. The microscope was some any words from tha. complainant to provoke the blow.
reefing a life annuity to be paid to his sister out of time afterwards shown to her, and she knew it to be Heard the complainant say something about having
his property; and further devising that any residue her property, and it was safe on her stand just before been humbugged.
accruing after the death of the annuitant should be the prisoner made a purchase there. She did not see The defendant's solicitor said the black eye which
" expended for masses for his soul's sake." The the prisoner take the microscope. the complainant exhibited had been done with a stick
Will named two executors, the Rev. Mr. Dugienan Sarah Harker said she was inspectress of the bazaar. carried by the witness Richardson.
and Mr. Hodgens. Within five years of its date She was in No. 300 room, where Miss Lewis's stand Mr. Richardson said this was quite untrue, as he
Mr. Kearns died without having revoked his was, at the time the prisoner was buying something had neither stick nor umbrella with him.
will, and the surviving executor (Mr. Hodgens) at the stand. While the last witness was putting the The solicitor then said he would admit that blows
having taken out letters of administration, paid purchase in paper, she distinctly saw the prisoner take had been exchanged, but he would prove they had
the several legacies, and continued to pay the microscope from the counter. As soon as the been provoked by the complainant calling those con-
the annuity up to 18-10, when the annuitant prisoner had left the stand she went to call one of the netted with the raffle cheats and thieves.
died, arid Ee proceeded to dispose of the " remaining men belonging to the bazaar, and having met with A nephew of Mrs. Parkes said the defendant
residue of the property" in accordance with the desire one of the door-keepers, she went up to the prisoner, offered the complainant a two-guinea print because
of the testator. Two parties, alleging to be next of who had joined a young lady who was at another Ihe was dissatisfied. The complainant, however, was
kin, have since disputed, not the general validity of I stand with a gentleman, and requested them to walk ' very abusive, and called the defendant a thief.
the instrument, the insufficiency of administration, or ' into the office. A police-constable was sent for, after Lavinia Smith, the defendant's daughter, said she
the manner in which the effects of the deceased were which the prisoner was given into custody. heard her father offer the complainant a two-guinea
administered up to the period of the demise of the Cross-examined—Was sorry to say that she had ;print, because he appeared to be dissatisfied. The
annuitant; but the validity of that portion cf the , made many similar charges against ladies; but could i complainant, however, would not accept the offer, but
will which directs the " residue to be expended : not tell the number. I said they were all a set of swindlers, and had cheated
in masses " for the soul of the deceased ; alleging by I George Norris, door-keeper, said he followed behind , the public. The complainant afterwards called her
their bill that the " bequest of the said residue the prisoner as she was on her way to the office with ! father a thief, and then her father struck him.
for masses for the sake of the soul of the said ' the matron. He saw something drop from the side The complainant declared, on his solemn oath,
testator, was void and of no effect, as being a gift of the prisoner, which he immediately picked up. It i there was no truth in the statement that the defendant
for superstitious purposes, and, therefore, contrary ; was a small microscope, which he now produced. I had offered him a two-guinea print for his ticket.
to the policy of the law." Accordingly they seek to I Police-constable Merchant, C 49, said he receives !On the contrary, the defendant was downright saucy
recover the amount of this residue from the executor. ' charge of the prisoner, and took her to the station- 'to him, and, in quite an off-hand way, said the public
The arguments of counsel on both sides have been house. I were never satisfied. He (complainant) replied, they heard, but the case still stands over for
judgment. I Mrs. Harker was re-called, and The Freeman' j
been cross-examined-- had got the public money, anc.l that was all they
permit a
Roman
anorral contends that, to refuse , The prisoner and the lady with her were searched at i wanted. lie thought the public had hum-
totrine of his Church—the priest to practice the doe- the bazaar. Their clothes were taken off, but no- ; bugged, and he thought so still.
and wholesome thought to doctrine that it is " a holy thing was found upon them to implicate them in any ; Mr. HARDWICK said it was clear some litl le provo-
preparing for death himself,pray for the dead," when ' charge. Witness searched the prisoner, but not the ; cation had occurred on the part of the con plainant.,
repeal of the Emancipation Act, wouldwhic be a virtual other lady. It was part of the orders from Captain) The complainant felt himself aggrieved and had used
inorted per- Trotter's office, that persons suspected of theft should l strong language, which had provoked a retort.
sons of that persuasion with the right
superstitious as they pleased; and that thbeeing as be searched. Mr. Bryant, the clerk, gave witness ' The defendant declared that a valuable Russell
nition of' such an obitaele would be to probiZte6cfc . orders to search suspected parties. Had seen the print was offered to the complainant. 'Dais was
rectly the free exercise of the Roman Catholic reli-- wards identified by Miss Lewis.
door-keeper find the miscroscope, which was after- ' peremptorily denied by the complainant.
gion in Ireland, and render a new agitation for 1I Mr. lIARDWICK said he could not see 'why tise de-
emancipation indispensable. The case was abl Miss Lewis, when questioned, said there were 1 fendant should take upon himself to be the champion
y many articles of jewellery
on her stand, of smaller .of the establishment. If the complainut had really

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avgasd oh both aidea, appeared
to be whether the law which has existed in
England since Ist of Edward IV., and which
was intended to restrain such bequests can he
considered as applying with equal force to
a country in which so large a majority of
its people are Roman Catholics. The question is
certainly a delicate one, but precedents for disre-
garding such bequests in this country are numerous
and unequivocal; and if the law of the land be ap-
pealed to to establish the validity of Mr. Kearn s
will, why should not the supremacy of the Pope (a
formal doctrine of the Roman Catholic religion)
and the injunctions of Dr. Dens, be similarly vin-
dicated ?

THE FUNDS-(C

BRITISH
13:11e1 Stock ex div : 201%!
3 per Cent. Red
3 per Cent. Cons.
)!,, per Cent. li,--1
New 3U per Cent. 102,,,i
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities to expire
/an 1560.....«........ 12 1-16
Oct. 1859... ........ ...
Jan.

Indian Stock
FOREIG

Austrian, 5 per Cent .....
Belgian, 5 per Cent ......
Bras,Jim: Bonds
Buenos A yres, 13 per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...—
Ghlllan, ,; per Cent —
......
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent —
fireek Is 5, 5 per Cent
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Neapolitan Bonds,s per Ct —
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent —
Ye,,u ',tan Bonds, 6 per Ct —
Portugueie Bonds, 5 per Ct.
SII

:40SING PRICES).
FUNDS.
!Ditto Bonds £l,ooo — r^ .
,Ditto under £I,(V 66 pin.
!South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuitics
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%cl
Ditto 5004 ..... 64 pm.
Ditto 5ma11........
Bank Stock for Acct —
Consols for Act ...... 100 ua
India Stock for Acct —

FUNDS.
Russian, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Metallic...-. .....
Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 23.X,
Ditto, 1841
Ditto ....... « —
Ditto,
Date, 184 i
Ditto, 3 per Cent 354
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct —
Fiench, 5 per —t -c.
French, 3 per Cent —l. .
exchange ....... —c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto,;s per Cent
RES.

NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS.—A Privy Council will
be held in the Court of Exchequer to-morrow afternoon,
when the nomination of gentlemen to serve the office of
Sheriff in the different counties of England will talc('
place. _ _

MILFORD.—The Berthally, Jones, from Portmadoc
to Newcastle, has arrived at this port, having narrowly
escaped being shipwrecked. It appears that on the
morning of the 29th ult., she bore up for Ramsey Sound,
in consequence of the wind blowing hard right a-head,
where she remained till the next day; when, in endra-
vouring to get under weigh, she missed stays and struck
on a sunken rock, where she stuck for five hours. The
weather being moderate she came off, with comparatively
trifling damage to keel and planks. It having been
deemed advisale to get the sloop George, Shearer, from
Newport to Dublin, laden with coals, under weigh, being
too near the ground and striking heavily, during the gale
of the Ist instant, it was accordingly done—but missing
stays, she came ashore under the Old Battery, where she
bilged and filled with water. The cargo has since been
got out, and the vessel brouget into Ilubberstone Pill to
be repaired.—Cumbrian. _

Caledon'an (5 pa;d)
Cambr:dge and Lincoln, 1) paid 214
Eastern Counties (25 paid) .... ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Ely and Bedford, 1 paid l%
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 raid ... tii
Great North of England, 100 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
London and Croydon
London and York, 23% paid 3
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham
South eastern and Dover (33 2a 41 paid) .....
York and North Midland (50 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid)
Ditto Scarboro' B ranch, 10 paid
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 78%
Rstilogne and Amiens, a mid ...., 454
Orleans and Vierzon,2p,id 9%
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid .......„ 3%
Rouen and Havre, 10 paid 22%

APPREIIENSION OF A MURDERER.—This morning
about nine o'clock, Mr. John M•Laren, sheriff's offieer,
apprehended in Washington-street, Anderston, John
M‘Lauchlane, lately a plasterer's labourer, the man who,
in the month of September last, assaulted a person
named Dunn or Dunion, with a reaping-hook, during a
quarrel, in a harvest-field on the farm of Alton, in the
parish of Campsie, whereby the weapon in question en-
tered the body of Dunn below the arm, and the point of
which touching his heart, he died almost instantaneously.
The prisoner, who has not been seen or heard of since
the fatal affray, although every search has been made for
him, was quite cool and collected when apprehended by
Mr. IPLaren, and intimated that it was his intention at
any rate to give himself up to justice. He was conveyed
by the officer on his way to Stirling Gaol, by the eleven
o'clock train on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.—
Glasgow Saturday Post.
ENGLISH AND IRISH WOMEN.—The Irish ladies
have always been celebrated for their beauty. They are
taller than those of England. I thought, when in
Brighton a short time ago, that a greater amount of
beauty, considering the number present, could not be
anywhere met with, provided the ladies were brought
accidentally together, than what I witnessed, evening
after evening, on the pier and parade of that place. I
will not say that among the same number of Irish ladies,
brought by chance together, you would see a greater
proportion of fine faces. The claims of the ladies in
the one country and the other are, in this respect, so
nicely balanced, that it would be difficult to say which of
the two countries carries off the palm. But this, I am
sure, will be admitted by every unprejudiced Englishman
who has walked, on a fine afternoon in August, on the
promenade at Kingston Harbour, that he never, in any
part of England, saw, in an assemblage of women of the
same extent, an equal number of fine figures. There is,
too, in the carriage and manner of the better order of the
Irish ladies generally, a marked superiority to the Eng-
lish women. There is comparatively little in Ireland of
that cold reserve and distant demeanour which strike
foreigners as so unfavourable a characteristic of our
English women. The Irish ladies have much of the ease.
gracefulness, and vivacity of the French, without any of
their exceptionable qualities. There is not in the world
a more modest race of women than the Irish ; a remark
which equally applies to all ranks and classes among
them.—lmpressions of Ireland and the Irish.

used the expressions attributed to him, nil the de-
fendant had to do was to say he was only the servant,
hnd not accountable for anything presumed to be
wrong or objectionable. He could not see what
right the defendant had to step forward and asiault
the corit,liinant in ~uich a violent manner.

The defendant said he certainly struck the com-
pLinant ; the complainant made some infamous re-
marks with reference to Mrs. _Parkes.

IRELAND.

ILLNESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE PENNEFATIIER.
DUBLIN, NOV. 9.—T:le Chief Justice has not appeared
in the Court of Queen's Bench since the second day of
term. Ills Lordship is suff,ring under severe cold and
an indumnyltion in the eyes. • Rumours are still afloat of
judicial changes, foituded upon the supposition of the
retirement of Chief Justice Pennefather..
ORANGE OUTRAGE IN TYRONE.
We have seen a letter from Dungannon, giving an ac-
count of some outrages by iricendiarie.s. The victims
are Roman Catholics, who had taken land from which
Orangemen had been evicted. Some persons are in cus-
tody, charged on suspicion. Notices had been posted,
that " No Papist would be a llowed to take the lands."
Those outrages have occurred in the parish of Killyman,
rendered notorious by the former proceeding of the
" Killyman Wreckers."
STATE OF TIPPERARY.
_ _

Mr. HARDWICK said the complainant had not
seen his way clearly in his venture ; the parties had
put their own value on the prints, and this had dis-
appointed the complainant's expectations. The com-
plainant had used some strong language previous to
the blow, and this circumstance would go in mitiga-
tion of the punishment.
The Magistrate then inflicted the fine of forty
shillings and costs.

Mr. Sergeant Howley, in addressing the quarter ses-
sions grand jury at Thurles, on Wednerday, thus alluded
to the recent murders in this county • I. feel I ought
not to pass over, without remark, the crimes—the many
heavy and dreadful crimes—which have been lately per-
petrated within this riding of the county. If they do not
carry with themselves a strong persuasion to the well-
disposed portion of the community, of the necessity,
upon their part to awaken from their criminal in-
ditfireacc—l will not say sympathy with the murderers
—and vigorously to co-operate in the detection of the
guilty delinquents, I cannot think that any means I
might employ could be more effective for that purpose.
How many are there who would themselves shrink
from the crime of murder, think it no harm to
conceal facts which might help to the de-
tection of offenders if promptly stated to the
official authorities ? Such persons may weakly imagine
that it. tends to their own security not to mix themselves
up with such matters—they are as foolish as criminal in
thinking so. No man knows, if daring villians gain
confidence from impugnity, how soon the blows may
reach himself ; for every transaction of life, no matter
how trivial, may lead to such crimes, and has been in
this county a sufficient motive to the murderer to strike
his victim and carry out his sanguinary proscription.
Instances are well known of men who have refused to
impart information they were capable of giving, failing
in their turn victims to that system of crime which, if
they had nut actually promoted, they did not at least
aid in checking and putting down. It may, gentlemen,
be very desirable, with a view to prevent the continuance
of such violent crimes, to endeavour to trace the motives
which may be supposed to have produced them—to
ascertain what causes may have produced them—to see
how far those causes (if proper to be removed) should be
set aside, or be so qualified as not to stimulate to violence
and blood the passions of the people. I will not say that
those who enter upon such discussions may not be
actuated by the best intentions, and with a perfect
desire, by the modes to which they resort, to dry
up or to exhaust the springs of crime ; but I can-
not help thinking that it is not quite wise, while
the act of murder is still recent, to raise up collateral
discussions on the general causes of crime, or the par-
ticular motive that may be supposed to have produced
the offence in question. Explanations at such a moment
are too likely to be interpreted .as a justification of the
dreadful act, and not only to give additional boldness and
confidence to the ill-disposed, but tend in some measure
to keep back others from aiding in the detection of the
criminal, by throwing round him the false colours of re-
tributive justice. Whilst the pursuit is hot, the only
cry should be against the murderer—and it appears to
me that clinical lectures on the exercise of rights over
the mangled remains of the unhappy victim, are, to say
the least of them, ill-timed, and may be very mis-
chievous."
FEDERALISM: LETTER FROM MR. CRAWFORD
—LOCAL LEGISLATION FOR IRELAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING POST.
Sir,--It seems to me that the time is now arrived
when it becomes the imperative duty of those who are
of opinion that local legislation is necessary for Ireland,
openly to state their opinions and their views, and the
means by which that object can be obtained consistently
with the safety of imperial connexion : the principal of
local legislation, combined with imperial supremacy, is
that by which I conceive both these objects can be
effected. This question has never been raised before the
public mind ; but it is misunderstood by many, and
misrepresented by others, while its friends leave it in
the hands of its opponents to be tortured and twisted at
their will and pleasure, without seeming to have
the moral courage to avow their faith, or to
defend its truth. I am of opinion that those who hold
that Ireland requires the application of this principle
are doing deep injustice to their country by shrinking
at this period from its advocacy. I conceive they
ought to assume an independent position, supporting
their views with honest plainness, unfettered by any
attempt to acquire doubtful support ; but opening the
question to the adherence of all sincere friends of their
country, of every party and denomination, who can see
in it a mode of ameliorating her condition or securing
her rights. Desirous, then, to throw off from myself the
stigma of now deserting a cause which I have long ad-
vocated, I respectfully submit to the friends of Ireland
the following observations:—
I shall, as a preliminary step, refer to the practical
evils which have arisen, and which it may be appre-
hended will hereafter occur, from the existing state of
the connexion between Great Britain and Ireland. I
shall class them under the following heads :-
1. Violation and insecurity of civil rights.
2. Imperfect and ignorant legislation regarding our
local institutions and financial capabilities.
3. The danger and the probability of an assimlation
of taxation.
4. Expenses and difficulties in seeking and obtaining
Acts for improvement.
5. Insufficiency of aid from the State for public works
in Ireland.
6. Evils of centralisation, and probable increase of
them.

7. Inadequacy of the Irish representation in the Im-
perial Parliament to express the wants and feelings of
the people of Ireland.
8. Inadequacy of the Imperial Parliament to do the
work required, under the present system of Parliamen-
tary business.
9. Difference of eircumstance4 between Eng'and and
Ireland, rendering assimilation impracticable and inex-
pedient.
10. Proof of the foregoing, from the present condition
of Ireland.
11. Present danger to the connexion of the two
countries.

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First—There is no security for civil rights. The
union was based on the theory of identification, but that
identification was not provided for by the Act of Union
—that identification does not exist—that identification
cannot exist between countries whose circumstances are
in every respect so dissimilar as those of England and
Ireland. From this cause separate legislation became
necessary;
must
and ho
expect to were
b ewe
treated,treatedand as
? Ju
st
every
country
say,
deserves to be treated, who place the power of separate
w
legislation in the hand- of the representatives of another
country. By the means of an English majority in the
Imperial Parliament the two great measures for the ad-
vancement of popular liberty—the Parliamentary Re-
form Act and the Corporation Reform Act—were cur-
tailed in all their important provisions when framed
for Ireland, and the rights of the people of Ireland
have been incessantly violated by a succession of ar-
bitrary and unconstitutional laws, passed on various oc-
casions since the union by the same power. In proof
of this I may call to recollection the numerous Insur-
rection Acts, and Acts for the partial infliction of mar-
tial law, the Whig Coercioa Act, and the other Coer-
cion Acts which afterwards succeeded it, the Arms
Acts, and more especially the last Arms Act, which I
may designate by way of distinction, the branding
Act. Disturbances have frequently occurred in Eng-
land, but never was she treated by her own representa-
tives as her representatives treated Ireland. I ask, do
not such acts and proceedings as these prove that Ireland
has no available representation against the danger of
separate legislation by the Imperial Parliament, and con-
sequently no security for her rights if England has the
will to invade them ? In such cases the representation
of Ireland in only adequate to give to England a colour-
able pretext to say—" these are the laws of an Imperial
Parliament." Thus Ireland holds her liberties at the
will of England, " and to depend on the will of another
country is the definition:of slavery—" (Grattan).

in your happy state of inactions-slitliin every
thought about your country's rights or interests ; but,
mark, when the tax-gatherer knocks at your door, let u'
hear no murmur of complaint. You will have no right
to complain. If you shall suffer evil, you will only suffer
the just recompense of your own deserts.
Fourth—The enormous expenses and other difficulties
in procuring Acts for local iruprosements in the Itwerial
Parliament, are such as a poor country like Ireland can-
not compass—therefore, improvement, and its necessary
accompaniment, employment, is virtually stopped by this
cause alone.
Fifth— The improvements of a poor country, where
capital does not abound, would require some support
from the revenues of the State. The riches of England
enable the Imperial Parliament to refuse this aid to
England, and, consequently, it is refused to Ireland,
although the circumstances are so totally different.
Sixth—l would put it to Irishmen of all sects, can
they deny the evils which have arisen to Ireland from
the centralization system, as far as it has been carried
out, and the increase of evil which will be produced by
its completion ? Do they not see the public boards and
public offices transferred one by one to the metropolis of
England, drawing away to that one great vortex the
whole expenditure of the country? That great evil of
Ireland, the absenteeism of its landed proprietors, has
been immeasurably increased; not only pleasure, but the
emoluments and duties of office, draw them away from
their country. The public expenditure in every depart-
ment of the state thus becomes a source of exhaustion to
Ireland. But this is not all; the centralizers will exert
every poser to put down the demand of Ireland for
local institutions by increased consolidation. They know
that so long as any one separate institution remains to
distinguish Dublin from any provincial town in England,
the demand for a local legislature cannot be resisted by
argument. Your Lord Lieutenancy will be abolished—
the business of your executive will be done by some
English-Irish secretary in London—your separate courts
of law will be abolished—lreland will cease to have a
metropolis. Dubin, without the stimu!ent of official
expenditure—without commerce or manufacture—with-
out the means of support or employment for its popula-
tion—will sink into that state of wretchedness and de-
cline which has been the fate of many splendid cities,
whose ruins are now the only indications of their former
prosperity.
Seventh—Conservatives talk of the evils of agitation ;
they say that agitation is the bane of Ireland. I ask
them what produces agitation ? Discontent. What
produces discontent ? The feeling of suffering by the
people, and the impression that there is no effective organ
to declare their wants or wishes. Can any cne say that
the representation of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament
is an effective organ for that purpose ? I may here refer
to the words of Grattan, so forcibly applicable to this
part of the subject :—" What ! when you banish Parlia-
ment, do you banish the people ? Do you extinguish
. the sentiment—do you extinguish the soul ? Do you
put out the spirit of liberty when you destroy that organ,
constitutional and capaciou-4, through which that spirit
may be safely and discreetly conveyed ? What is the
excellence of our Constitution ? It provides an organ
. . . . through which the humour of society may
pass away without preying on the vitals. Parliament is
that body where the whole intellect of the country may
be collected, and where the spirit of patriotism, of li-
berty, and of ambition, may all act under the; control
of that intellect, and under the check of publicity and
observation." I maintain this is what Ireland requires.
Can any impartial person say, that the interests of Ire-
land have been properly attended to by the Imperial
Parliament ?—and can it be denied that agitation has
produced an attention to those interests which could not
have been otherwise obtained ? I desire, then, a legiti-
mate organ of expression for the declaration of the
people's voice—l desire a local Legislature in the two
Houses of which full effect will be given to the voice of
the people, modified by the moral weight of a resident
aristocracy.
Eighth—l would ask, can it be asserted that the Im-
perial Parliament is capable of properly transacting all
the immense mass of public and private buSiness which
is now imposed upon it, unless some new arrangement
of that business be effected ? The establishment of local
legislation for Ireland would be one of the most effective
means of diminishing the laborious duties of the Impe-
rial Parliament.
Ninth—Assimilation of laws, which is essential to
consolidation and real union, can only take place where
there is assimilation of circumstances. Are the circum-
stances of England and Ireland similar ? England, the
highest country in the world in commerce and manufac-
tures—lreland among the lowest ; the former a com-
mercial country—the latter an agricultural. Can the
identical same laws be suitable to two countries where
the difference of their condition is so great ? Can the
same system and amount of taxation be borne, which
must be the unavoidable result of a junction of expendi-
ture ? 'Will the same laws and institutions answer for a
country in the incipient move towards prosperity, which
apply to the matured condition of England's wealth ? It
might as well be said the same quality and quantity of
food would be fit for the infant and the adult : the food
which would be fit for the man would kill the child.
Such will be the fate of Ireland if she be not treated
with the indulgent care which her feeble advances to-
wards prosperity require, by giving her every encourage-
ment which is not inconsistent with the interests of the
empire at large, and with that perfect freedom of com-
mercial intercourses between every part and portion of
the United Kingdom which is essential to the peace and
prosperity of the whole.
Tenth—The truth of the foregoing positions will be
proved by a reference to the present condition of this
country. Ido not propose to enter into the hackneyed
line of argument with regard to the advance in trade and
manufacture, or in national rights, which have occurred
at different periods, both under the existence of the Irish
Parliament and the Imperial Parliament ; no candid
man can deny that good and evil measures have emanated
from both Parliaments, but good ones only la hen the
external power of the public mind has coerced assent. I
care not about statistics of commerce and manufactures
as indexes of national prosperity, unless it be proved
that the condition of the mass of the population corres-
pond with these indications. Now, what is the condi-
tion of Ireland after 43 years' existence of the union ?
We have the statement of the poor inquiry commis-
sioar.rs, that in a population or about 8,000,000 of souls,
there is an amount of pauperised population to the ex-
tent of not less than 2,300,000. This statement may be
somewhat exaggerated in figures, but it is undoubtedly a
true description of the general condition of Ireland : our
people are unemployed whilst our extended natural re•
sources are undeveloped—our waste lands unimproved,
and our richest lands in a state of not so much as half-
production. We are without manufactures or capital of
our own, and nothing but a scanty pittance of the super-
abundance of English capital has yet crossed the channel
which separates us, whilst it is applied with such
profuse extravagance within the limits of her own ter-
ritory. We have agrarian combination among the
small occupiers of the soil for the purpose of procuring
that justice by their own laws which the laws and insti-
tutions of the state do not afford them the means of
obtaining. We have a general spirit of discontent
against British rule, which rule is only at this moment

maintained by the power of military Occupation. We
have no identification of laws, feelings, rights, or inte•
rests--all the great features of condition and social rela-
tions which can form characters of distinction between
any two countries exist with relation to England and
Ireland. The sea which intervenes between us, and
which must ever check the freedom and speed of com-
munication attainable on land, still proclaims, as in the
days of Grattan, that we are not, and cannot be identified
as one country, and every reference to past and present
circumstances proves that Ireland must depend mainly
upon her own exertions and her own resources for the
advancement of her prosperity.
Eleventh—l would, in the last place, put this ques-
tion to the friends of British and Irish connexion. Is

that connexion now in a state of security, or in a con-
dition which can be beneficial to either country ? Is it
not a parchment connexion, liable to be torn asunder,
whenever it shall be the object of any foreign State,
hostile to Britain, to open the rent ? Does it not, hi its
present state, render Ireland the weakness, instead of
the strength of Britain ? Is it not wasting her own re-
sources to hold Ireland in this way, instead of adding
those derivable from Ireland to her Treasury ? Is it not
necessary that some means should be taken to strengthen
the ties of friendly union, which alone can become strong
when the connexion they bind together is founded on
the basis of equal interests, and mutual benefits and con-
fidence ?

Secondly—The laws passed by the Imperial Parlia-
ment for the regulation of our local institutions are gene-
rally full of blunders, and betray the grossest ignorance
of our requirements. I need not enter here into a parti-
cular enumeration—l give one as a specimen of all : I
shall name the Poor-law Act, and I know well that the
strongest friends of the principle of a poor-law will unite
in the assertion of the unsuitableness of its provisions to
the wants of Ireland. In cases where this law works
well, it arises not from the law itself, but from the
guardians exercising a judicious administrative authority,
which_ bends its austere provisions to the circumstances
of the poor.

The foregoing short review of the circumstances and
condition of Ireland, will, I trust, bo considered sufficient
to warrant me in the conclusion (and in calling on others
to join me in that conclusion) that some change should
be adopted to remedy the evils complained of. What
that change should be I shall endeavour to point out in
a succeeding section of these observations.

Thii:d—The effects of the union, and of imperial le-
gislation, are manifested no less injuriously with regard
to the financial relations of the two countries. The pro-
portion of debt and contribution to the expenditure im-
posed by the Act of Union to be paid by Ireland were
so excessively beyond her powers, that in a few years
she became bankrupt. England then consolidated the
exchequers. An act of bankruptcy cannot again occur
on the part of Ireland, separately from England ; but,
nevertheless, the drain is still going on beyond the
means of Ireland to bear. The revenue is drawn, not
from the luxuries of wealth, but from the means by
which an impoverished people support existence—not
to be spent in Ireland, to circulate and stimulate indus-
try—but to augment the riches of England ; and thus
this drain, drawn, I may say, from the blood of Ireland,
produces the most injurious effects on the progress of
improvement, and increases the poverty of her people.
In consequence of the poverty created by these causes,
Ireland is at present exempted from certain descriptions
of taxation imposed upon England and Scotland, more
particularly the assessed taxes and the income-tax ; but
is it to be believed, that if we continue on a system of
joint expenditure, that exemption will be allowed to ex-
exist ? Will the English and Scotch Members agree
that the establishments of Ireland should be paid out of
the imperial funds, and that she should not be sub-
jected to a like system of taxation with themselves ? Is
it just or fair to expect it ? There is nothing but their
mercy and the mercy of the Minister to prevent it.
What could your puny Irish representation in the Im-
perial Parliament do to stem the evil ? You now plead
at the bar of England in forma pauperi—your plea
is at present admitted; but the moment Ireland

`WILLIAM SHARMAN CRAWFORD.
Crawfordsburn, Nov. 7, 1844.
CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY.
Yesterday the numbers admitted were—Liberals, 14 ;
Tories, 13. The Tories are still unable to recover their
lost ground.
THE NEW WHIG JUDGE.—The grimaces, the contor-
tiotis, of the orange polytrashery press, on the subject of
the late Whig appointment, are most comical to witness.
They tell titi they should riot be surprised if Mr. Pigot
were the next judge—nor should we. We promise our
readers some amusement on this matter in the course of
the ensiling week.—Dub/En Evening Post,
DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL IN KERRY.—A letter
from the Liberator arrived in town last night, stating
that until after the provincial banquet in Limerick he
could not possibly accept the invitation.—Kerry Exami-
ner of Friday.

THE MURDER AT BARNANE.—Yesterday (Friday)
morning three men, named Martin Maher, the (elder,
Martin Maher, the younger, and William Maher, were
fully committed to the gaol, at Nenagh, by John Gore
Jones, Rig., MM., and Major Priestly, to take their
trials at the next assize,,, for the wilful murder of Ti-

ix.othy Cleary, near Barnane.— Tipperary Vindicator.
Lord De Mauley, Mr. Wellesley, and Mr. Drummond,
are at present enjoying the hospitality of the Earl of
Besborough at Besborough House. Mr. Norman Mac-
donald has left town for Besborough House on a visit to
the Earl of Besborough.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES'S BlRTH-
DAY.—Saturday being the third anniversary of the
birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the
morning was ushered in by the ringing of a merry peal
at the different churches throughout the metropolis.
The royal standard was hoisted at the Tower, Somerset
House, St. Martin's, St. Giles's, St. Margaret's, the
Italian opera, and the usual public edifices. The chil-
dren bel.,nging to the Welch Schools in Gray's Inn-lane
had a holiday on the occasion of the natal day of their
Prince, and were regaled with a substantial dinner of
roast beef and plum-pudding. At Windsor the day was
kept by the different tradespeople who furnish the Castle.
During the absence of her Majesty and Prince Albert
this week the state apartments at the Castle will be open
to the public.

shows symptoms of rising prosperity, her progress
will be crushed by these new inflictions of taxation from
which you can only be saved by a new arrangement of
the financial relations of the two countries. I ask, are
the landed aristocracy, and the impoverished trading
interests, prepared to endure the of the
assimilation of taxation ? If you are prepared to submit
to this infliction, then continue your slumbers—indulge