The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-06 00:00:00

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r(,...:nne,i by a majority of five, the numbers being—
lier, 154 ; .lieown, 149 ; Thompson, 5. Surely there is
a good chance for a Liberal.
I remain Sir, yours respectfully,
Jan. 6, 1845. A LIBERAL.

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UNITED STATES.'
ONE DAY LATER FROM AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING.—The fast-sailing
ship New York, Captain Cropper, arrived at this
port this afternoon, from the port after which she is
named, with papers of the 16th ultimo, one day later
than those received by the Caledonia. She has also
brought seven passengers. The papers contain a few
interesting items of news, from which we extract the
following :

(From the New Ycrk Herald, Dec. 16.)
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON.-011F accounts from Wash-
ington begin to be extremely interesting. It is only ne-
cessary to read the correspondence from that capital,
which appears daily in our columns, with regard to the
Mexican diplomacy—the Texas question—and the policy
of Mr. Calhoun, to perceive the greatly growing inte-
rest which these subjects are acquiring. The course of
events at Washington is, indeed, now of the utmost im-
portance to the whole country, and especially to the com-
mercial interests.

According to the last accounts, the special messenger
from Mexico had arrived at the capital with dispatches,
but nothing has as yet been revealed in addition to what
we had already received by way of Vera Cruz, Galves-
ton, and New Orleans. Our latest correspondence, how-
ever, intimates that a most important communication
will soon be made to Congress by the President, con-
taining all the recent unofficial correspondence on the
subject, and pointing out to that body the probable
course of action which ought to be adopted in the pre-
sent emergency of our relations with Mexico. Accord-
ing to the best information we can find, it is believed
that the President, in his message, will recommend the
strongest measures for carrying out the annexation of
Texas, and for the recovery of the instalment due by
the Mexican Government. We should not be at all sur-
prised to see a war message sent into Congress, recom-
mending that body to renew the negotiations with
Mexico, not on the Texas question at all, but on the
subject of the last instalment of the indemnity, in a way
much more energetic than what that country expects.
It will be recollected how the French Government nego-
tiated with Mexico a few years ago, by sending a fleet
with a minister—the one to enforce the correspondence
of the other by more persuasive means than written argu-
ment. We should not be surprised if Mr. Tyler were to re-
commend something of the same kind in regard to Mexico
that is to say, the renewal of the negotiation for the pay-
ment of the indemnity, accompanied by a fleet to the
port of Vera Cruz, with instructions, if every dollar
and cent were not paid at once, according to the stipala-
tions of the treaty, to enforce payment as the French
formerly did. At all events, a few days will reveal to
us what may be the probable action of the Executive in
the present extraordinary position of affairs between this
country and Mexico.
It will be seen, therefore, that the Texas question ab-
sorbs all other questions. And bound up with this
question is the fate of Mr. Calhoun himself—he being
the principal negotiator in the recent Texas diplomacy.
A powerful combination is preparing in both Houses of
Congress for the purpose of defeating Mr. Calhoun, and
to prevent the possibility of his retaining a cabinet posi-
tion in Mr. Polk's administration. On the other hand,
a prodigious effort will be made bi the present Adminis-
tration and its friends, to annex Texas to this country
at once, without any further reference to Mexico, and
to compel the Mexican Government to pay the last in-
stalment of the indemnity still due. It will be seen
from this critical position of affairs, that the question of
peace or war hangs on a single thread, and that every-
thing coming from Mexico, New Orleans, and Washing-
ton, as also from England, as soon as the returns are
received from that quarter, will be extremely interesting
to our readers. We have a stirring winter before us.
(From the New York Sun, Dec. 16.)
PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO.—INTE-
RESTING AND IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.--The rumours
of further revolts against the present Government, to
which we alluded on Saturday, are fully confirmed. By
the Southern mail of Saturday afternoon, we received
letters and papers from Vera Cruz, of date 21st ult.,
being one day later. We give our correspondent's
letter, viz.:—

" Dear Sir,—Since mine"
ofyesterdayVera
morning Nov.
wl 8e44.
have
received the most astounding intelligence, more than
confirming the reports from the interior then detailed.
Couriers were arriving here yesterday evening and' last
night, announcing revolt after revolt. Seven depart-
ments or states have declared against Santa Anna, and
he is reported to have taken flight for this city, on his
way to the Island of Cuba, where he will probably seek
a temporary asylum. I am not without hope that we
may be able now to restore the constitution of 1824,
overthrowing the present union of Church and State
(which is sucking our life blood), and obtain a Govern-
ment more like that under which you of the north re-
pose in happiness and peace. God grant that we may be
successful. The States now against Santa Anna are—
Guanaxuata, Xaliseo (or Guadalaxara), San Louis
Potosi, Zacetecas, Durango, Queretaro, and Mechoacan,
being the seven principal states of Central Mexico.
" The states of Mexico ani Vera Cruz, garrisoned as
they are by Santa Anna's favourite troops (whom he
has paid well and taken good care of, each soldier being
provided with a mistress), have declared against the re-
volution. We have yet to hear from the south, north,
and north-west. With valiant and patriotic Yucatan,
Tobasco, and Chiapas in the south ; Chihuahua, Sonora,
and Sinaloa, New Mexico, Santa F 6, and California in
the north and north-west, the revolution will be com-
plete. Ido not think there is a doubtful state among
them.

YEA

R AND QUARTER END

o,arter. nhdfid :r-th of Jarinlry
increase on each head thereof.

DEPARTURE OF THE CAMBRIA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

The British and North American Mail steam-ship
Cambria, Capt. Judkins, left the Mersey this after-
noon with the mails and passengers for tanada and
the United States. Her mails were the largest ever
taken from this port ; she had 60 passengers, and
steamed away in beautiful style, firing her guns as
she passed down the river. She is a new and magni-
ficent boat, built in Scotland, and is thus described in
Willmer and Smith's European Times, a paper pub-
lished at Liverpool, for dispatch by steam-ships which
leave Liverpool and Southampton
" We transmit the European Times to-day by the new
and splendid steam-ship Cambria, which makes her
maiden trip across the Atlantic, under the pilotage of
that able commander and excellent-hearted seaman,
Captain Judkins, whose triumphs in the Hibernia are
familiar to our readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
With every succeeding ship built by the spirited and
enterprising Company to which the Cambria belongs,
new triumphs have been achieved—triumphs of mecha-
nism, of skill, of taste, and of improved accommoda-
tions for the comfort and convenience of the voyageur.
The career of this Company has been brilliant, but the
outlay has been great, and the wear and tear make sad
inroads even upon a princely capital. Unassisted by the
Government, the splendid fleet of steamers (of which the
Cambria is one) could not pay, and even with the pecu-
niary allowance for conveying the mails, the return upon
the invested capital is, we understand, limited. This
we can readily believe, from the past and present expe-
rience of the enormous expenditure peculiar to ocean
steaming. The French Government talked some time
ago of running steamers between Havre and New York,
but, appalled by the expense, seem to have given up the
project. Mr. Tyler suggests, in his Message, the es-
tablishment of a fleet of steamers between Europe and
the United States. The more the merrier, say we. But
if the President for the time being is anxious to have a
surplus income over expenditure, he will pause before
he makes the experiment, for assuredly it will prove a
blister upon the finances of the country. The commu-
nication is at present so rapid and direct, that improve-
ment seems hardly attainable, and the embryo steamers
must be able to compete in speed and in build with the
hitherto unsurpassed excellence of the steam-ships at
present navigating the Atlantic. Again, the prejudice
which prevails in this country respecting American
steamers, owing to the frightful accidents and explosions,
of which every arrival brings an account, must be over-
come. We do not mean to say that the United States
cannot produce ocean steamers equal to those of any
other nation—far be it from us to libel in this way the
ingenuity of a clever and scientific people—we are merely
stating a fact. Continued success and time would pro-
bably wear out the prejudice to which we refer ; but in
the interim, the waste of dollars, in establishing a cha-
racter, would not be trifling: compared 0 it the Presi-
dent's salary and the whole travelling expenses of Con-
gress—would be a mere flea-bite. If the project is once
determined upon by the American Government, we have
no doubt it will be spiritedly carried out, albeit, it does
appear unseemly for a nation to appear as the competi-
tors of private enterprise, especially when the transit
between Boston and Liverpool is not unfrequently per-
formed in a dozen days. But no commercial country
can find fault with the communication being too frequent
or too rapid. The only fear we have is, that an ill-con-
cocted or ill-digested scheme may—as it unquestionably
will—result in failure and disappointment.
" From this digression on Atlantic Ocean navigation we
return to the Cambria, which has been built, like her
predecessors in the Clyde, by the same able- hands and
clear heads that have already turned out so many chefs
d'oeuvre. If there is skill in augury, she will outstrip all
that has gone before her. We had intended to have
entered into a minute description of the vessel's appear-
ance—the beauty and symmetry of her form—the vast
power of her complicated and elegant-looking machinery,
engines, boilers, and fittings—the magnificence of her
saloons, with all the appointments for the comfort and
happiness of the passengers—the accommodations on
deck, studiously arranged, to combine safety with ele-
gance - but after some consideration we have deemed
the labour superfluous. We entered upon such a de-
scription in the case of the Hibernia ; and making some
allowance for the superior tonnage and capability of the
new ship, the same remarks apply to both. The Cam-
bria's performances will be her best test—her own
advertisement. She is commanded by one who is every
inch a gentleman and a sailor; her passengers, we haveno
doubt, will be right merrie fellows,' and in her maiden
efforts to annihilate time and space, on the broad and
swelling bosom of the Atlantic, our best wishes—fears
we have none—go with the good ship Cambria, her
gallant crew, passengers, commander, and all ! Vivant
the Cambria !"

GAS MONOPOLY AT SHEPTON
MALLET.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

" While on his way to Xalisco, to put down Paredes,
intending to march through the city of Mexico, Santa
Anna received the accounts from the interior, and with
it the report that the army of the revolution numbered
thirty thousand men. This intelligence, with signs of
discontent greeting him in every direction, probably
caused his retreat.

"The Committee of Investigation in Congress, to which
was referred the charge against him of embezzling five
millions of dollars from the public Treasury, have not
yet reported. In anticipation of that report, he had re-
solved upon testing the strength of his opponent, dis-
charging Gen.Arista from the command of the northern
division of the army, threatening Paredes with a court-
martial, and courting their opposition with the hope of
gaining new laurels in a war of extermination against
all who opposed him. Returning to Mexico as a con-
queror, he expected to be able to bring Congress into
his views. Should the fates be against him, he will re-
tire to Spain, or perhaps to England, where he has in-
vested five or six millions of dollars upon which he can
live comfortably for the rest of his days. sa
" M. Y. Beach, Esq."
NEWS FROM CANADA.—We have Montreal papers of
the 10th of December. There is very little news of con-
sequence. After a long debate in the Provisional Par-
liament an address to the Governor-General was agreed
upon, by a vote of 42 to 36, showing a decided Govern-
ment majority. Mr. Farrier was elected Mayor of Mon-
treal, on the 9th of December, by a vote of 10 to 6.
TROUBLE IN ST. LUClA.—Advices to the 31st October
state that insubordination among the labourers continued.
One man was shot. This, it was thought, would have
the effect of making all submissive.

Sin,—lf you have space in your valuable journal for
exposing this monstrous monopoly, you will much oblige
your readers here by inserting the following.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A DAILY READER.

Considerable dissatisfaction has prevailed in this town
amongst the consumers of gas for the last two years, in
consequence of the exorbitant charge that has been
made for gas, viz., 12s. 6d. per thousand feet, besides 6s.
per annum for the use of meter.
Three memorials, respectably signed by the inhabi-
tants, have been sent to the Directors, soliciting them to
reduce the price to 10s. ; but all to no purpose. The
last of these was to the effect, that unless the price was
reduced to 10s. at the commencement of the present
year, they should discontinue burning it. This the Direc-
tors, who call themselves men of business, took no notice
of, although it was signed by upwards of forty of the
most respectable tradesmen in the town ; they had not
even the eourteg to acknowledge it. The consequence
was, that last Thursday a busy scene took place in the
town, through the removal of the Company s meters to
the station, where the greatest part were delivered safely
before the evening, much to the astonishment of these
self-styled men of business, some of whom talked great
things, and made many threats. The greater part of
the shops are now illuminated in the good old sytle of
lamps, candles, &c., and will continue so, unless these
monopolist men of business choose to reduce the price of
their gas. The price of coals here for making gas, is
not more than 7s. or Bs. per ton.

THII LATE INQUEST AT KIRKBY LONSDALE.—DE-
CISION OF TEE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS.—The fol-
lowing is the decision of the Poor-law Commissioners
with regard to the conduct of the medical and relieving
officers of the Settle Union, in the case of the child,
Eleanor Mackenzie, the subject of the recent inquest at
Kirkby Lonsdale. The Commissioners have carefully
considered the evidence, and they are of opinion that
Mr. Sellers, the medical officer, and Mr. Thompson, the
relieving officer, were both guilty of neglect in this case,
more especially the former, Looking to the circum-
stances of the case, the Commissioners feel it their duty
to dismiss Mr. Sellers from his office of medical officer.
With respect to Mr. Thompson, the relieving officer, the
Commissioners have already stated their opinion that he
was guilty of neglect in this case: It may be remarked,
however, that although the relief he gave in this case
was illegal in form (being money instead of articles of
absolute necessity), and was probably insufficient in
amount, still he visited the case and did relieve it. The
Commissioners, therefore, under all the circumstances,
will permit him to retain his office ; but they feel it
their duty to reprimand him most severely, and to cau-
tion him that the Commissioners will certainly dismiss
him from his office in the event of a recurrence of any
similar neglect of duty on his part ; and the Commis-
sioners request that the Board of Guardians will com-
municate to him this reprimand and caution.—Signed,
by order of the Board, George Coode, assistant secretary.
W. Foster, Esq , clerk to the guardians, Settle Union.—
Lancaster Guardian. _

ABUSE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AT
ROCHDALE.—At the commencement of the Petty Ses-
sions on Wednesday last, a young woman named Harriet
Grindrod, from Mount Pleasant, addressed the magis-
trates, saying that on the Friday previous they bad
ordered her to pay 3s. 6d. for damaging a woman's cap ;
but, on her going in the room at the toe of the stairs, the
clerks in the employ of the magistrates clerks demanded,
and made her pay, 6s. 6d.—Mr. Superintendent Fowler
said the county police had nothing to do with the . case ;
it belonged to the parish constables.—Mr. Chadwick
said he recollected the case very well.—The young
woman, addressing the bench, said the clerks refused to
return her any of the money.—Mr. Jackson, one of the
magistrates' clerks, replied that, if she would stay until
the business was over, he would_ see that the 3s. she had
been charged as expenses was returned.—Mr. Fowler
said the county police would not have charged a farthing
for merely fetching the young woman out of one room
into another. We understand that the parish official had
charged 2s. for attending to the case, and the clerks Is.
for hearinge' it.—Manchester Guardian.
STOURBRIDGE.—A meeting of the coal masters of
the district was held at the Talbot Hotel on Friday last,
when an advance in the price of coal was agreed upon.
Ten Towns' Messenger

An interesting fact—the existence of cellular cavi-
ties in the lungs—which has been denied by many ana-
tomists, has just been demonstrated by M. Rouchoux,
of the Academy of Medicine. M. Rouchoux estimates
the number of these microscopic cavities at 600 millions,
divided in 17,790 groups.

E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY. EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1_845.

ING JANUARY 5, 1845.

1844, and sth of January, 1845, showing the Increase

YEAR YEAR QUARTERS ENDED QUARTERS ENDED Year ended Jan. 5. Quarter ended Jan. 5.
, ended , ....--. ended
,
.., , --------,
April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Jan. 5, 'April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. s,Jan. ,
\ 5
1813 1843 1843 1844 1814 1841 I 1844 I 1814 1845 1845 Increase. I Decrease, Increase. Decrease.
Customs :- -- ------.
Consolidated Duties ... 3,193,586 3,301,473 4,276,151 3,671,421 - 3,529,551 3,802,521 4,518,573 3,868,077 - - -- '- _
Sugar Duty to Consoli
dated Fund 262,546 1,252,738 - - - 420,796 1,066,714 - - - - - -
Ditto to Supplies - 1,253,357 1,092,544 - 654,100 -1,484,2 W 1,014,058 - - - - -
------ --- ----
Total Customs... 4,219,537 4,557,206 5,529,509 4,766,968 19,071,219 4,604,447 4,869,2'35 6,001,855 4,902,135 20,378,672 Customs ..... .. 1305,453 135,167 -
Excise 1,767,373 3,030,113 3,966,550 3,030,771 11,794,807 1,852,689 3,115,592 3,960,890 3,230,940 12,160,711 Excise '365,304 200,169 -
Stamps 1,593,126 1,659,010 1,650,366 1,523,653 6,426,155 1,639,011 1,705,063 1,665,688 1,601,658 6,611,393 Stamps -
Taxes 142,699 1,984,831 194,100 1,968,657 4,,90,486 144,68.5 1,989,874 001,439 1,880,z90 4,216,489 Taxes. 26,002 11,633 -
Property Tax 1,885,232 861,709 2,047,904 454,415 5;49,24'0 1,992,859 752,485 1,958,711 467,541 5,191,590 Property Tax 57,664 33,126 -
Post Office 144,000 145,000 160,000 143,000 592,000 174,000 155,000 200,000 146,000 675,000 Post Office .• 83,000 3,000 -
Crown Lands...... -
Miscellaneous 511,556 1,063,524 17,714 11,917 1,6 )4,741 41,292 422,187 220,961 9,190 693,630 Miscellaneous 941,111 2,727
- -
Total Ordinary Revenue 10,329,522 13,333,893 13,596,172 11,829,581 49,078,168 10,513,983 13,039,406 114,920,541 12,307,954 50,081,887 Total ... ;2,002,494 998,775 481,100 2,727
Imprest Moneys, &c 16,907 67,180 34,305 50,136 1C8,528 54,244 49,018 28,117 146,759 278,138 Imp. Moneys 169,610 96,6 Z -
Repayments ofAdvances 124,048 138,207 230,932 332,060 825,217 226,281 274,557 123,692 250,960 875,513 Rep. of Adv... 50,266 ••• •• 81,680
----- Total
Income ... 10,469,477 13,539,290 13,851,409 12,211,7771 50,071,943 10,794,5 i I 19,362,981 14,372,353 12,705,693 51,235,539 Total ... 2,162,370 998,775 577,723 81,807
Amount applied to Con- 9,760,269 6,442,506 10,143,630 7,859,893 34,1.86,304 '7,625,972 8,994,078 11,264,625 9,890,758 37,755,453 Deduct
solidated Fund 995,775 c Deduct De- 53,807 r
crease L Decrease.
I)itto, as Advances
Ditto, as Ways & Means
of the Year .... 567,830 6,905,273 3,187,773 4,060,383 14,721,259 2,918,539 4,191,627 2,9,503 2,612,934 12,646,603 1,163,59, r Increase on 7 A 93,9, Increase on
- L the Year. j '
~
Total. 10,W9,477 113,539,280 13,851,409 I 12,211,777 ; 50,071,913 I 10,794,511 1 13,362,911 14,372,353 1 12,705,693 51,235,539 '' the Quarter

• - .
No. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1844, and the sth January, 1845.
' Quarters ended Jan. 5.
Quarters ended Jan. 5.
INCOME. 1844 1845 CHARGE. 184845
------
3,6'74,424 3,888,077 Permanent Debt
241,090 5,681,612
535
Customs.—Consolidated Duties
Terminable Annuities B,
6i6,806 655,
Sugar Duty applicable to
the Consolidated Fund Interest on
Fund Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund 4,807 1,659
—.-- Sinking
Total Customs
3,674,424 3,888,077 The Civil List
Excise
3,049,813 3,247,030 Other charges on the Consolidated Fund
Stamps
1,523,153 1,1,01,658 To pay off Exchequer Bills issued per Act 6 and 7 Vic., c. 87, for Opium Compensation, &c.
TaxesB7l,B4B
1 818,857 I,t 80,400 For Advances ...
Prope ty Tax
--.
Post Office
Crown Lands 30,600 50,000 The Surplus. 1,231,517 2,645,267
Miscellaneous 11,917 9,190
Imprest and other Moneys 50,136 146,759
11,138,305 11,7u7,725
Repayments of Advances
and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5 1845, after deducting £400,000,
11,138,E05 11,707,725 paid off out of Sinking Fund.. .......... .... —
2,1'28,262
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1815, In part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consoli
dated Fund for Supply Services
2,612,934 —To Cash brought to this Account to The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1845
_., 2,645,267 32,333
be applied to pay off Deficiency Bills
~..----
The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended
11,133,305 11,707,725 I Jan. 5, 1815
2,95,929
......
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THE LATE DARING ROBBERIES
AT THE DOCKS.
CAPTURE OF TWO OF THE GANG.
The numerous robberies that have been lately com-
mitted in the London and St. Katherine's Docks, have
created much consternation in those large establish-
ments, and all attempt to discover the robbers have
hitherto proved fruitless. During the last two months
brandy and tobacco have been missed from both docks,
and large quantities of both have been discovered in con-
cealed places in the docks, and also in barges and craft,
before the thieves have been enabled to remove their
booty. A discovery was made on Friday night, and
early on• Saturday morning, which is likely to afford a
clue to extensive depredations committed in the docks,
where property to the amount of several millions sterling
is deposited belonging to our merchants.
A great number of persons attended the Thames
Police-court on Saturday, to hear the examination of
two men, named James Hurly and Matthew Clark, both
reputed thieves, and who have been long suspected,
charged with being concealed in stealing 150 lbs. of leaf
tobacco, the property of the London Dock Company,
from their premises.
Joshua Judge, a Thames-police inspector, stated that
about three o'clock that morning, he was in company
with other officers, in Johnson-street, St. George's-in-
the-East, facing the wall of the London Dock tobacco
warehouses, when he saw two men, with caps on, loiter-
ing about, and frequently looking upwards at the wall.
Ile watched them, and saw them go into a house, 3,
Johnson-street. Soon afterwards two men, with caps
on, came out of the house, but he could not say they
were the same persons who went in. He pursued them,
but they made their escape among the labyrinths of
courts in the neighbourhood. He waited about the
dock wall till nearly eight o'clock, and kept a strict
watch on the house till that time, when he entered it in
company with another officer named Henry Isaac Judge,
and upon entering a room in the upper part of the house,
he saw Hurly lying upon the hearth opposite the
fire place, and upon searching the apartment, found seven
bags, containing 1501bs. of leaf tobacco. He aroused the
prisoner, and asked him where he got the tobacco from,
and he said he knew nothing at all about it, but if he
was released he would take witness to the parties who
brought the tobacco into the house. He refused to part
with the prisoner, who made a desperate resistance, and
was not secured until after a severe struggle. He lashed
the prisoner's hands, and upon searching him found
a piece of string, some lucifer matches, and a wax
taper. The string found in the prisoner's pocket cor-
responded exactly with some cord found in the tobacco
warehouse of the dock, which had been plundered during
the sight. Before he saw the men loitering about
street, the inhabitants of one of the houses opposite
heard something heavy fall from the dock wall. He
knew Hurly to be a thief, and he had been once convicted.
James Swinland, a dock constable, stated that on
Friday evening, between four and five o'clock, he was.
leaving the western dock, and coming into the eastern,
dock, when he saw the prisoner Clark and two other;
inside the tobacco-floor, going towards the eastern dock..
He stopped Clark, and asked him where lie was going
to. He replied that he was on his way to the Alkmaar,
a Dutch ship, and that he knew a person on boars A.
Witness told him that the ship was not in the eastern
dock ; and in consequence, of the late robberies, and sus-
pecting he was after no good, he took him to ie watc h-
house, and upon searching him, found two candles, a
box of lucifer matches, and curiously-constructed key.
He asked him to what place the key belonged, and he
said he could not tell, nor did he know why he carried
it. While he was looking at the key the prisoner said
it was a rum 'un, and witness said the key was certainly
a curious one, and he thought it would open many bo: ies
or doors, which he found to be the case.
Mr. John Clements, the principal of the London D ock
Company's police, said that Clark was the captain of the
gang which had lately been robbing, and he asked hi m if
the key belonged to any place he occupied. The pris( naer
said it did not, and he demanded of him where he ob-
tained the key. The prisoner said he could not tell, nor
could he say why he carried it, but he had several n sore
at home. Mr. Clements then proceeded to state that
several robberies had been lately committed in the vast
docks under his charge, and that the warehouses of z the
north and south ranges of the doek were enclosed , 3n all
sides with gates, and the key taken from the pri ;soner
was found to unlock four of these gates. The ke y was
not a perfect skeleton, and it had evidently been made
for the purpose of carrying on depredations in the , dock.
The tobacco warehouses were bounded by a higl s wall,
abutting on 'Worcester-street, Broad-street, ' ['each-
street, and Bird-street, St. George's, East. The el trance
to Johnson-street was opposite the dock wall, will ch was
fifty feet high, except at the corner of Tench-str, set and
Broad-street, where there was an angle of the we dl only
sixteen feet high. This portion of the tobacco ware-
houses had been selected by the robbers, who plundered
the premises, for the removal of the tobacco. II e went
on the roof of the tobacco warehouses that ni orning,
and ascertained that the thief or thieves had r smoved
one of the lantern lights of the roof and had gc t down
into the warehouse, where many thousand barrel; s of to-
bacco were deposited. On the roof under the lan tern he
found several lucifer matches similar to those takt In from
Clark on Friday evening. He asked Clark wt • ,ere he
bought the lucifer matches, and he said they we re pur-
chased by him at a chandler's shop, at the coal tier of
Johnson-street, and that he gave a penny for tir, en, the
last he had. There was no money upon him. I )utsido
the wall, at the angle before described, he fou ad the
ropes and gear by which the thieves had descend, el from
the roof of the warehouse in Tench-street. The t Nieves,
for he had no doubt there was more than on, must
have secreted themselves in the dock on Friday • night,
and got upon the roof by the yards of one of the t obacco
ships, or by ascending one of the cranes. The g, tar was
fastened to the cone of the lantern after the toba( co was
stolen. He had not had time to have the casks which
had been plundered brought out of the warehou so and
re-weighed, but, as far he could at present as ertain,
there was a deficiency of 1501 b.; and the leaf f tobacco
found in Hurly's apartment was precisely similar, and he
had no doubt it was the property of the Dock Co; npany.
Mr. Ballantine—But Clark was apprehended before
the robbery was committed.
Mr. Clements—Yes, Sir ; but I have no doubt he is a
confederate of Hurly and of the two men who wet .e seen
in the dock on Friday evening, and outside of it, by
Judge on Saturday morning.
Mr. Ballantine—Several robberies and attere pts at
robberies have been committed in the St. Bathe tine's-
dock. Does the key fit any, of the gates there ? Mr.
Clements—lt opens several of them.
Mr. Dallantine called the attention of Mr. Taylo m, the
superintendent of the St. Katherine's-dock police, t ;o this
fact, and said it would be his province to make iraq uiries.
Mr. Taylor said ho was watching the case, tar id that
the robberies in his dock had lately ceased.
After further evidence, implicating the prisc iners in
other dock robberies of brandies, wines, and toba sco, Mr.
Ballantine remanded them till Thursday next.
The Court was much crowded during the invea t igation.

THE GAME.LAWS.—It appears from the c alendar
laid before the magistrate at the quarter session ; for the
county, that there are no fewer than 46 pens ons now
confined in the county gaol for poaching. Th e total
lumber of males confined is but 175, so that - ire find
more than one-fourth of the whole number now in pri-
son are committed for offences against the most di: ;grace-
ful of our penal laws. The magistrates have it i4l con-
templation to enlarge the present gaols, or buil l new
ones at an enormous expense to the county. NV( )uld it
not be better to petition the Legislature to aboli sh the
game-laws? Remove from the county bridewt dl the
prisoners committed under these horrible laws, am l suffi-
cient room would be then found for all that will be in
future committed for other offences. It is far better,
and would be a more satisfactory mode of procuring
prison room—at least to the rate-payers, particularly
the agricultural portion of them.—Hampshire Inde-
pendent.
EXCESS OF GAME.—In addition to the names of
Dr. Lee, Sir 11. Verney, and the Duke of Bedford, we
have now to add that of Sir Thomas Cotton Sheppard to
the list of those common-sense landlords who have taken
the only proper step towards putting an end to the game
nuisance. One day lately upwards of 600 hares were
shot in some fields, on Sir T. Sheppard's estate, at
Thornborough, in this county; and the worthy gentle-
man has given his tenants unlimited permission to defend
their property in any manner they may think proper
from the ravages of the game. There will be no more
preserves in the neighbourhood of Thornborough.—
Aylesbury News.