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a lively demand, especially for the better de-
scriptions. The stock is diminishing; prices are firm,
and rule as follows :—Cognac, best brands of the vin-
tage of 1838, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s ld ; 1839, hhds ss,
puns 45 10d ; 1840, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; 1841, hhds
4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d ; 1843,
hhds 4s Gd, puns 4s 4d, common 2s 8d to 2s 11d,
middling to good middling 3s to 4s, and Bordeaux
2s 6d to 2s 9d per gallon ; indeed, upon these terms
some holders will not sell. The stock of Geneva here
being small, buyers are compelled topay Is 10d to Is
100 for sWpping sort, and 2s 4d to 3s 6d for fine fit for
duty, but for arrival there are sellers of the former at is
9d to is 9id per gallon, and large parcels are shortly ex-
pected. British Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, cash.
INDIGO—To-day 931 chts have passed the sale, nearly
the whole of that quantity consisted of Madras and
Kurpahs, and sold with spirit at the advance on the
prices of the beginning of the sale, which we noticed in
our former report ; proprietors bought in 64 chests ; 35i
chests remain for sale to-morrow.
CocHINEAL.—This afternoon there was a brief de-
mand for Cochineal, and 230 bags at public sale were
disposed of at an advance on former rates of 2d per lb.
Honduras silvers sold at 4s 7d to 5s Id for low to fine,
and a few black Mexican at 4s 10d to 5s 4d per lb.
Rim—This afternoon, Bengal Rice, at public sale,
good middling at 11a to lls 6d; sea damaged, first class
105 Gd to I Is; second class lOs to 103 6d; third class
9s 6d to 108; fourth class Ss per cwt, being the former
value. Madras is still wanted, and 1,182 bags were sold
at and after the public sale, piukey rather broken and
dusty at 8s 6d, ordinary white Bengal kind Os 6d, and
damaged 6s to 8s per cwt.
TALLow.—At public sale 379 casks of New South
Wales were disposed of at 35s to 40s 3d, 339 pkgs South
American 36s Gd to 38s ; 190 pkgs of North American
39s to 39s 3d, 102 pkgs of Cape 39s fid to 4056 d, 291 casks
of St. Petersburgh 37s to 38s 9d, and 252 casks of Odessa
37s to 89s 6d. On Friday 550 pkgs of South, 100 pkgs
North Americas), 441 casks of Sydney, 83 of Cape, and
50 casks of St. Petersburgh Tallow will be offered at
auction. There has been a good demand for Russian
on the spot for Candle and Soap-making purposes in
consequence of holders being willing sellers, and accept-
ing 39s 3d to 40s for P Y Candle of first, and 38s Gd to
39s per cwt for second quality. For forward delivery
39s 6d to 40s per cwt for the last three months of the
year. Town Tallow is 41s per cwt, nett cash.
OlLS.—There has been a better demand for Seal Oil,
and prices have become steady ; pale has been selling at
321 103 to 331, straw 301 103 to 324 brown and yellow
281 to 30/, but of all other descriptions of common
Fish Oils a further decline in the value
has occurred. Southern is little wanted, and a public sale
of 30 tuns went quietly at 27/ lOs to
3515 s per tun for low to good quality ; Cod 29/ per tun ;
of Sperm, at auction, 60 tuns British went at 82/ to 83/ss,
and Headmatter at 841 15s to 8515 s per tun ; Linseed
on the spot at 23s 6d to 24s ; fur delivery exten-
sive contracts hare been entered into at 24s to
24s 6d up to May, and at 24s 9d to 25s for the distant
months. The market is firm for Rape, and a good
demand has exisied at 368 to 363 Gd for pale,
and 35s to 35s 6d per cwt for brown. Cocoa
Nut privately at 27s to 28s 6d for Ceylon. Palm,
322 casks at public sale were nearly all taken in
at 25s for good, and inferior at 22s to 24s per cwt. In
the value of Olive there is little variation to notice.
Gallipoli at 42/ to 42/ 10s, Spanish 411 to 411 10s, and
Barbary 39l to 401 per tun. Lard and Ground Nut Oil
are fetching former rates, and the supply is small.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the market presented a dull ap-
pearance fur Rough, and 4,458 bags of Calcutta at public
sale were nearly all taken in and withdrawn at rather
lower rates: that is to say mid grey rather damp 6,i per
cent at 265, 101 to 11 per cent common grey 255; a few
lota were sold 6d per cwt cheaper ; low white 128 per
cent went at 255, mid grey 44 per cent 26s 6d, and unre-
fracted sugar drainage damaged 24s per cwt.

j esty's Government at the time of its commencemen
been accurately acquainted with the means by which
it was established; inasmuch as it is now notorious
throughout the civilised world that, instead of being
a measure sought by Pomare and her people for the
protection of their country, it was forced upon the
Queen in the approaching hour of maternal anguish,
and under the alternative of invasion and war; and
that, under the compulsory influence of these circum-
stances, she subscribed a document to which she had
been no party, and which could not but prove fatal
to the peace and the best interests of her country.
That, with the knowledge of these facts, which
are now indisputable and universally understood, your
Majesty's memorialists indulge the sanguine hope,
and prefer their most importunate entreaty, that your
Majesty will exercise a generous magnimity, alike
worthy of yourself and of your powerful and en-
lightened country, by restoring to the Queen and the
people of Otaheite their perfect liberty and indepen-
dence, securing only to the subjects of France those
rights, civil, religious, and commercial, which are
enjoyed in the island by foreigners of other nations
both of Europe and America.
That, in the hope that your Majesty's Government
will be generously inclined to remove from Queen
Pomare and her subjects every just cause of opposi-
tion and complaint, your memorialists entertain the
strongest conviction that the honour and interests of
France will he thereby better secured than by the
perpetuation of a power obtained by means so justly
repugnant to the islanders, and which cannot fail, so
long as it exists, to be the fruitful occasion of discord
and contention.
That, in earnestly soliciting this boon from your
Majesty's Government on behalf of the Otaheiteans,
your memorialists feel it due to the institution which
they have the honour to su-3erintend, to assure your
Majesty that the London Missionary Society is en-
tirely unconnected with any political objects or inte-
rests; that it receives neither pecuniary nor other
support from the Government of Britain; that its
income is derived from the voluntary contributions of
its members ; that its agents are wholly dependent on
its funds, and subject, exclusively to the control of its
Directors; that they are sent forth, in private and
unarmed vessels, at the expense of the Society ; and
that the members of the institution, no less than its
Directors, would feel an insuperable objection to the
use of civil authority and compulsion of every kind
for the establishment of their missionaries among the
heathen nations, entertaining the conviction that such
means are most calculated to defeat the moral and re-
ligious objects of their benevolent enterprise. Your
Majesty's memorialists feel it due also to themselves and
to their constituents, in preferring their importunate
petition for the freedom of Otaheite, to disclaim all
desire of securing any secular or political advantages
for their missionaries labouring in the island ; in cor-
roboration of which it is only necessary to state,
that during a residence of nearly fifty years the agents
of the London Missionary Society have never pos-
sessed any portion of the land, but such as may have
been granted during the pleasure of the Queen and
the native chiefs ; that they are strictly prohibited
from accepting any appointment from the native Go-
vernment ; that, although in the early part of their
labours barter with the natives was indispensable for
the sustenance of the missionaries, the necessity
having now ceased, they are forbidden from engaging
in trade or any mercantile pursuit ; and that any vio-
lation of these restrictions would be followed by the
immediate withdrawment of the Society's confidence
and support.
That, in expressing solicitude for the withdraw-
ment of the French protectorate from Otaheite, your
Majesty's memorialists deem it all but superfluous to
repudiate the desire of seeing that island transferred
to the dominion of Britain, or of becoming in any
degree subject to its control ; that they are well as-
sured that Otaheite, from its geographichal position
and limited resources, must be regarded as politically
insignificant alike by the Governments both of Eng-
land and France; and that your Majesty's memo-
rialists would feel the deepest regret that the islanders
should be deprived of the right of independence, and
the blessings of perfect freedom, by any foreign
Power; being sincerely anxious that, in the history of
Otaheite, it may be made evident that, by a course of
intellectual and moral training, a race of savages may
be elevated to the power of salutary self-government,
and be inspired also with respect for the rights and
interests of other nations.
That your Majesty's memorialists, in common with
their countrymen, have felt the deepest regret that
the occupation of Otaheite has already threatened to
interrupt the cordial understanding existing between
the Governments of France and Great Britain, and
they sincerely rejoice that the pacific relations of the
two countries have, notwithstanding, been happily.
preserved : they are gratified also, that their mis-
sionaries in the island, amidst the peculiar difficulties
of their position, employed their best influence, though
in vain, to prevent the effusion of human blood ; and
they fervently pray, that under your Majesty's pro-
longed
and peaceful reign, the people of your great
and enlightened kingdom may continue to reciprocate
with the subjects of Great Britain the practical expres-
-1 sions of sincere goodwill and fraternal amity ; and
that under the gracious destinies of Divine Providence
the two nations may be found in future years blend-
ing their powerful energies to extend the blessings of
social order, solid happiness, and true religion, to the
degraded and the suffering children of men of every
country and in every clime.
By order and on behalf of the Board of Directors
of the London Missionary Society,
FREDERICK SMITH, Chairman.
ARTHUR TIDM.AN,}
Secretaries.
J. J. FREEMAN,
London, Dec. 13, 1844.

Bedford, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Com -
misssioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to
be executed by married women, under the Act passed
for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for th.,
substitution of more simple modes of assurance in and
or the county of Bedford.
WHITEHALL, JAIL 18.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Wyatt
Estcourt, of Newport, in the Isle of W ight, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 22.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Harvey,
of Dover, in the county of Kent, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.
Allen Hurrell, wine-merchant, Park-place, St. John's-
wood, to surrender Feb. 5 and March 13, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Chilcote, George-street, Mansion-
house.
Charles Moore, carver, St. John-street, Clerkenwell,
Feb. 5 and March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Champion, Ely-place, Holborn.
William Smith and Robert Smith, warehousemen,
Bow-lane, City, Feb. 4 and March 11, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Parkes, Smith, and Co., Bedford-row.
Charles Burrage, carcass butcher, Newgate market,
Feb. 4, at half-past twelve, and March 11, at twelve, at
the Court of -Bankruptcy. Pennoll, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Philipe, Gray's Inn-square.
William Fairclough, licensed victualler, Liverpool,
Feb. 12, and March 4, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ;
Wilkin, Furnival's Inn, London ; Wardle, Liverpool.
Charles Maxwell Wilkinson, wine-merchant, Ulver-
ston, Feb. 10 and March 4, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ;
Jones, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; Yarker, Ulver-
ston.
John Kelsall, fishmonger, Hanley, Staffordshire, Feb.
3, and March 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Jack-
son, Gray's Inn, London ; Harrison, Birmingham.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
H. Williams, grocer, Farringdon, Berkshire—first div.
of is. 3d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office
of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
S. Sly, engraver, Cornwall-road, Lambeth—final div.
of 3iel. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of
Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
J. Smith and H. Titford, printers, King-street, Snow-
hill—first div. of 41d. in the pound, on any Wednesday,
at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-
street.
IL Titford, printer, King-street, Snow-hill--first div.
of 2s. 4d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office
of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
B. Bright, licensed victualler, Wigmore-street—first
div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, 13asinghall-street.
R. Mitchell, merchant, Lime-street, City—second div.
of 9d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr.
Green, Aldermanbury.
R. Hetherington, tanner, Ellen-grove, Cumberland--
first and final div. of 4s. 2d. and eight-fifteenths of a
penny in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of
Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Parker, coach builder, Manchester—first and final
div. of 10s. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
J. Metcalf, grocer, Liverpool—first div. of Is. 6d. in
the pound, on Thursday, Jan. 30, and any subsequent
Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.
J. and J. Gale, rope makers, Love-lane, Shadwell—
a div of 6d. in the pound, on account, to new proofs, on
any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-
court, Basinghall-street.
E. Conden, builder, Mitton-street, Dorset-square
second div. of SA-d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at
the office of Mi. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-
street.
J. Heron, shipowner, South Blyth, Northumberland
—first div. of 9d. in the pound, on Saturday, Feb. 1, or
any succeeding Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. Bearup, builder, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—second
and final div. of 4d. and three-tenths of a penny in the
pound (in addition to 3s. 6d. in the pound previously
declared), on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
E. Heron, shipowner, South Blyth, Northumberland
—first div. of 9d. in the pound, on Saturday, Feb. 1, or
any succeeding Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
R. Beesley, wine cooper, Wells-street, Oxford-street—
ffrst div. of Is. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 3, and
the following Monday, at the office of Mr. Alsager,
Birchin-lane, City.
T. H. Whitmarsh, tavern keeper, George-street,
Hanover square—first div. of 9s. in the pound, on
Monday, Feb. 3, and the following Monday, at the office
of Mr. Alsager, Birchin-lane, City.
J. Avery, colonial broker, Mincing-lane, City—first
div. of 4id. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the
following Monday, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchins
lane, City.
A. Goodeve, warehouseman' Aldermanbury—first
div. of Is. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 3, and fol.
owing Monday, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchin.
ane, City.

KILLING NO MURDER.
(From the Church and State Gazette.)
By the publication of the pamphlet so named, the
hardy usurper of the Government of England is
known to have been frightened to death. The lite-
rary ammunition of the French Jesuits has worked
an infinitely worse fate upon M. Villemain, the
late Minister of Instruction. It has robbed him of
his reason. His sallow, grimly-smiling foes may re-
joice that they have for ever crippled one of the stout-
est, and, withal, one of the fairest opponents that their
superstition had ever encountered, or had to contend
with in France generally ; and since the pending
struggle between the University and the Government
in particular.
Our readers are aware that this struggle is for the
management of the education of the people. The
clergy wish it to be entirely surrendered to the
Jesuits ; the University claims a certain share for
itself; but it is willing to allow a freedom of choice,
and to leave to parents the liberty of educating their
children as may seem most fit to them. The Jesuits
will have everything or nothing—and they charge
the University with teaching infidelity. The latter
stand firm by their more moderate pretensions, deny
the charge of infidelity, and fling in their accusers'
teeth the accusation of falsifying religion, exalting
superstition, and teaching a lie. Both sides have some
foundation for their respective charges, and therefore
we contemplate either party but with indifferent in-
terest ; and we should probably have left them to con-
tinue, unnoticed, their internecine war, but for the
record we have to make of the fall, on the side of the
University, of the most honest man in the two con-
tending factions. We regret to hear that there are no

hopes of his recovery.
M. Villemain, though what is called a good Ro
manist, was nevertheless, as we have said, a bitter foe
of that ultra-party in his Church which is striving to
revive a new superstition, and to give life and power
to a long syncopized tyranny. This party, in spite
of the decree of banishment fulminated against them
in 1830, not only have settlements in France, but
have been quietly allowed by their ecclesiastical su-
periors to assume the direction of the theological in-
struction throughout the kingdom. In endeavouring
to add to this the uncontrolled direction of general
education, they have well nigh made shipwreck of
their projects ; but they may be said to have sold their
disgraces dearly by the destruction of such an enemy,
as they found ever active and daring before them, in
the person of If. Villemain.
This gentleman had reason to think that his life
was in danger ; and, though his suspicions were ridi-
culed, and his fears laughed at, yet the excitement
caused by the proofs which he held of the good foun-
dation for his fears, added to that arising from intense
application to the duties of his office, and to domestic
trials of an unusually grievous nature, became too
much for his strength, he sank into " turbulent and
dangerous lunacy," and became a fearful spectacle
to men,
" Who saw his noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh."
The cry of his enemies at this spectacle is something
like in words, as it is in sincerity, to the speech of the
royal assassin to the ghost of the victim whose death
he had compassed rather than executed. " Thou
can'st not say that we did it I" is their sullen shout of
defiance, when the eye of an accusing man falls upon
them. either do the public, nor do we, charge
them with the crime, directly. But that they have
been the remote cause of so terrible a result is as
clear as it is incontestable. And not so remote
either. We need not go so far back as the age
of Clement and Ravaillac to show that the
Jesuits teach, encourage, and reward public and
private assassination. We need not refer to the
accusing " Provinciales" of Pascal ; nor to the
theory of the duty of manslaughter inculcated by
Mariana ; nor to any, even modern revelations, of
the past deeds of a society so " damned to everlasting
fame." The sensitive mind of M. Villemain would
probably have been but slightly affected by these
things, but that he was aware that the class books of
the Jesuits, published for the instruction of the
young of our own day, inculcate principles subver-
sive of all good, and show how murder may be not
only expedient, but moral.
For our own parts we desire to have nothing fur-
ther to do with the question, than to show that that
order of men, for whose lawful and public appearance
in the field of Irish agitation Mr. O'Connell is so
anxious, and even " his Grace, my Reverend Lord"
Dr. Murray is scarcely less so, are at this hour teach•
ing that the commission of crime may be a virtue, and
that things condemned of God may be legalised in the
immoral code of man.
To do this, we need only state that we have seen
passages quoted from a work which will amply estab-
lish all that we have advanced. This work is entitled
" Institutiones Philosophicie ad usum Collegiorum et
Seminariarum ; Auctore J. B. Bourier, Episcopo
Cenomanensi. Sexta Editio. Parisiis, 1841."
We only request our readers to observe the
date of this book, the episcopal authority
under which it is given to the world, and
the establishments for which it has been expressly.
composed. Then let them remember that Louis Phi-
lippe is looked upon by the Jesuits as an usurper, and
Henri of Bordeaux as their lawful Prince ; and, with
this memory upon them, let them read the following
passage without indignation, if they can :
"Faithful subjects are bound to obey their legiti-
mate prince " (the Due de Bordeaux ?) " as far as
he demands their obedience and thinks it useful; for
they are not, by the mere fact of usurpation, loosed
from their oath of allegiance. At the voice of the
lawful prince" (aforesaid) "they ought to take arms
against the usurper " (Louis Philippe ?), " battle
with him, conquer, and expel him, if they can. And
more, they ought to put him to death privately (or)
as a public malefactor, if the lawful prince expressly
orders it:'
Such is a single passage ; and, as if it were not
sufficiently explicit in making murder easy to the
meanest capacities, an author, under the soubriquet of
" Un Solitaire," writes a commentary upon assassina-
tion ; recommending the theory as one palatable to all
men, though some may hypocritically deny it; and
advertises his " Killing no Murder," on the church
doors of the French metropolis!
We have seen passages of even greater atrocity than
the above, cited in foreign as well as in English publi-
cations. But we forbear to reproduce them here, in
the hope of having leisure to consult the original
Works, WA to be enabled to show from them that the

NEW BRITISH IRON COMPANY
The general meeting of the Proprietors of the
New British Iron Company was held y'esterday at
the offices, New Broad-street, Mr. W. Routh in
the chair.
Mr. W. SMITH, the Secretary, having read the
notice of the present, and the minutes of the last
meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said they were called together in
conformity with their deed of settlement, which re-
quired their accounts to be made up on the 30th of
September, and that their general meeting should be
held between the Ist of January and the 20th of
February. It would be scarcely necessary for him
to add anything to the report that would be laid
before them ; the state of trade during the past year
had been rather of a chequered character, but on the
whole tending towards improvement ; the result had
been, that instead of subjecting the Proprietors to a
loss, as under the old Company, there had been some-
thing like a profit. He also had to congratulate the
Proprietors on the improved prosperity of business
for the ensuing year. He then read the
report, which stated the balance in favour
of the Company to be 8,050/. 19s. 2d. ; from
this, there is to be deducted the interest of deben-
tures and other expenses, leaving 3,9611. ss. 6d., out
of which the Provisional Committee recommended a
dividend on the paid-up capital of the Company,
equal to the interest paid on debentures, 4 per cent. ;
and a sum of 9611. ss. 6d. to be carried forward to the
next year. The Committee had great pleasure in
congratulating the Proprietors on the decided im-
provement that had lately taken place in the trade; as
the demand was legitimate and not speculative, the
improvement was likely to be permanent. The pre-
sent weekly " make " of the Company was stated to
be nearly 1,000 tons of iron, and was likely to be
considerably exceeded. As the functions of the Pro-
visional Committee now expired, it became necessary
to appoint twelve Directors. The parties forming
the Provisional Committee would, with a few excep-
tions, be proposed to them as Directors.
The report was then received and approved, and a
resolution, declaring a dividend of 3s. per share, was
carried unanimously, after a short discussion.
The following gentlemen were then proposed, and
declared duly elected to fill the office of Directors of
the Company :—Mr. G. P. Barclay, Mr. Brownrigg,
M.P., Mr. D. B. Chapman, Mr. M. Harrison, Mr. J.
Hoare, Mr. C. Kerr, Mr. J. Horsley Palmer, Mr.
J. J. H. Ravenshaw, Mr. Samson Ricardo, Mr. W.
Routh, Mr. J. Abel Smith, and Mr. Alex. Wilson.
The following gentlemen were elected as auditors:
—Mr. Ricardo, Mr. J. Bruce, Mr. S. Smith.
The CRAIRMAN returned thanks on behalf of him-
self and his brother Directors, and the proceedings
terminated.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 25, 1845.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Hart
Dyke, Esq., to be her Majesty's Procurator in all causes
and matters Maritime, Foreign, Civil, and Ecclesiastical
in the room of Iltid Nicholl, Esq., deceased.
CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Shep-
herd, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the
law, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of
Bankruptcy, in the place of Sir Charles Frederick Wil-
liams, deceased.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Sir J. J. Hamilton, Bart, to ho Deputy Lieutenant,
Jan. 22.
TN THE EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS.
Hilary Term.—ln the Eighth Year of the Reign of
Queen Victoria.
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1845.
This Court will, on Monday the 10th day of February
next, and on the following days, namely, Tuesday the
11th, Wednesday the 12th, Thursday the 13th, Friday the
14th, Saturday the 15th, Monday the 17th, Tuesday the
18th, Wednesday the 19th, Thursday the 20th, Friday,
the 21st, and on Saturday, the 22d days of the said
month, hold sittings, and will proceed in disposing of
the business then pending in the New Trial and Special
Papers. By the Court.
Read in Court—Samuel Dare, Master.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 7.
The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal,
Taiga. Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's
Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Edward
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
POST - OFFICE ROBBERT.—Yesterday, William
Onley, a letter-carrier, employed on the Islington
district, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Jardine,
charged with stealing a letter, containing a 51. Bank
of England note, and 30s. in gold, the property of the

Postniaster-General.
Mr. Peacock, jun., conducted the prosecution.
Mr. John Brooks Johnstone, a clerk in the Royal
Exchange Insurance Office, Lombard-street, stated,
at Christmas, 1835, there was a policy of insurance
effected for furniture, to the amount of 1001., in the
name of the prisoner, the address being 15, Regent's-
terrace, near Regent's Canal, White Conduit-fields,
Islington, in the county of Middlesex, the annual
charge upon which is 6s. On the 30th of December
some person paid the insurance with the Si. Bank of
England note produced, and he gave him the change.
Mathew Peak, a constable, employed at the Post-
effice, said he was present in the solicitor's office when
the prisoner was brought in, and, being asked where
he lived, he said he had resided in the same house
during the last eleven years, at a rent of 211. an-
nually ; that he paid the taxes, and had insured his
furniture at the Royal Exchange Insurance Office for
1001., the charge for which was six shillings annually.
On being asked who had made the last payment, he
replied he had done so ; then, as if recollecting him-
self, he said, " Oh, there is some mistake about that
payment, for I received a notice after Christmas,
stating that the insurance would be due, but in a few
days after I missed it." He then said he had spoken
to Mr. Wood, the change-taker at the' Islington post-
office, about it, adding, he did not know what he
should do without it, and that Mr. Wood advised him
to take the number from the policy and to go to the
insurance-office, which would answer the same pur-
pose, which he did, and to his great surprise he found
the money had been paid by some person. In a few
days after he received a receipt for six shillings in a
letter, through the Post-office, which he showed to Mr.
Wood andother persons at Islington. He was then told
that a Si. note was used in the payment at the insur-
ance-office, which was sent in a letter on the 27th De-
cember by post from Dewsbury, addres,ed to N 0.14,
Upper Bransby-street, Liverpool .road, Islington, and
he replied that he did not know who had paid the
policy for him. He then said, " Can I see the gen-
tleman ?" and being questioned what gentleman, and
for what he wanted him, he said, " The gentleman
who lost the money, and I would pay him the money
if I should pledge my bed." Witness then went to
prisoner's house, and on making a search found the
file produced on the top of a hat-case in the front
parlour, on which was the receipt fcr six shillings.
Mr. Peacock said he was not prepared with evidence
to tarry the ease any further for the present, and the
prisoner was accordingly remanded.
PISTOL PRACTICE AT A PICTURE.—A young man,
described as a surgeon, named Edward Stanley, was
charged with wilfully destroying a picture by firing a
loaded pistol at it in the Artichoke public-house in
'White Hart-street, Drury-lane, the property of public-house,
W. Clark, the landlord.
It appeared from the statement of the complainant's
son, that about eight o'clock on Monday evening the
defendant came into the parlour and called for gin
and water, with which he was served by the waiter,
but he had not been long in the room before the re-
port of a pistol was heard, which caused great alarm,
and on witness entering the room he observed the
defendant reloading the pistol with a bullet, and upon
remonstrating with him, he said he would do as he
thought proper, which alarmed the winless to such a
degree that he ran out of the place, and directly after
he heard the second report. Witness then rushed
into the room, and on calling the defendant to account
for such conduct, he said it was no harm, but on look-
ing round the room he saw that the picture against
the wall had been penetrated by the ball. The defendant
said it was all right, at the same time refusing either
to pay for the damage or give up the pistol. The picture
was worth about a sovereign ; it had been in the house
for upwards of forty years, and the only reason given
by the defendant for such conduct was that he had
been to Smith's shooting-gallery in Holborn, where
he was insulted. The first discharge was without a
bullet, but the second was near doing serious injury.
The defendant had frequented the house for a consi-
derable time, and he never knew him guilty of any
disorder before the present occasion.
In answer to the charge, the defendant said he had
dined with a friend, and took more than he could well
bear, and, as he was extremely sorry for the occur-
rence, he would willingly pay for any damage he
might have done.
Mr. JARDINE said he could scarcely treat the of-
fence as wilful damage, and, as a loaded pistol had
been discharged, the defendant's friends should have
come forward with a view to have bail taken for his
future good conduct.
In the course of the day the defendant's landlady
attended, and in consequence of the good account she
gave of the defendant, and his expressing his regret
for what had happened, he was mulcted in the sum of
205., which he instantly paid, and was discharged.

APPALLING MURDER AT
BETHNAL-GREEN.
Yesterday an intense degree of excitement prevailed
in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, in consequence
of a rumour that a yeung woman atoned Emma
Whiter, twenty-one years of age, had been shot dead
with a pistol, by a young man named James Tapping,
who had for some time past been paying her his ad-
dresses ; and from an early hour in the morning the
vicinity of Worship-street Police- court, at which the
case was expected to undergo investigation, was
densely thronged with persons of both sexes, anxious
to catch a glimpse of the suspected murderer.
Shortly before one o'clock the accused was brought
to that Court in a cab, in the custody of Sergeants
Shaw and Backhouse, of the K disisioti, and wie;
placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham to answer the
charge. The prisoner, who is a remarkably fine-
made young man, about twenty-three years of ;age,upon entering the dock, which he did with a firm
step, looked around him with a placid expression of
countenance, and did not appear at all affected by the
critical position in which he was placed.
The following witnesses were then called and ex-
amined in support of the charge :
Thomas Auvache, a weaver, living in Manchester-
street, Waterloo-town, Bethnal-green, stated that eta
quarter before one o'clock that morning he was pass-
ing down a turning leading from Sebright-street to
South Conduit street, Bethnal-green, in company
with a friend of his named Harvey, when he observed
a smouldering fire, resembling lighted tinder, at the
foot of a brick wall belonging to one of the houses.
He instantly proceeded to the spot, when he dis-
covered a young woman lying on her left side with
her head resting against the wall. On looking closely
at her, he observed that her face and person were
deluged with blood, which was flowing copiously from
a wound in her neck, and she had every appearance of
being lifeless. Witness raised her from the ground
and supported her in his arms, while Mr. Harvey ran
to the top of the street, at which two young men were
standing, to entreat their assistance for the dying
woman. Witness then placed his hands beneath the
arms of the young woman to further raise her, when
he distinctly felt her heart beat, or rather heave, as
though she were in convulsions ; the heaving ceased,
and she dropped her bead in a state of insensibility
upon the witness's shoulder, and although he thought
he saw her once open her eyes, she did not utter a
word, and on the return of Mr. Harvey, they together
carried her beneath a gaslamp, the part of the street
where she was found being very dark, that they,
might have greater facility for rendering her assist-
ance. A policeman having new arrived and looked at
the injured woman, he instantly pronounced her to
be dead, and she was as quickly as possible conveyed
to the Duke of Gloucester public-house adjoining,
where a shutter was procured, on which she was re-
moved to the London Hospital. In answer to a
question froM the magistrate, the witness added, that
the smouldering fire he observed when his attention
was first attracted to the deceased was one of the poor
creature's bonnet-strings burning like a slow-match.
Sergeant Backhouse, 37 K, examined the spot
where the young woman had been found by the first
witness, and discovered a large pool of blood extend-
ing three yards in length down the pavement, in the
midst of which he found a woman's patten, about
eight or nine inches further on anether patten, and
about twelve inches beyond that a large-sized and
well-finished pocket-pistol, with percussion lock, the
hammer of which was down, and which had evidently
been but very recently discharged, as it smelt very
strongly of powder. About half-past two in the
morning witness first saw the prisoner in the police-
station. He had then on over the dress he now wore
a white apron, upon the right side of which Sergeant
Shaw and the witness observed several spots of blood.
On being called upon to furnish an explanation of
these appearances, the prisoner replied, " Oh, I didn't
know there were any spots of blood upon it, and if
there are, I can't account for them." [The witness
here produced the pistol, the t pattens, and the
prisoner's apron. The former was such as the witness
had described it—somewhat large for the pocket, and
next in size to a duelling-pistol. The latter was an
ordinary workman's apron, and the spots of blood
spoken of were plainly visible upon it.]
Sergeant Shaw stated, that he had that morning
been at the London Hospital, where he had seen the
dead body of the young womon. On exa eitiing the
upper portion of her person, he observed in the throat
a small hole, which was perfectly black in appear-
ance, and manifestly caused by the perforation of a
bullet, which must have been discharged into the
deceased's neck from the side, as it had completely
cut through the jugular vein. There was no cor-
responding orifice on the other side of the deceased's
throat, and from that circumstance the witness Ceti-
sidered it evident that the ball must be still lodged
either ih the yowl woaiVa's threat ur hid,