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London, England, 1844-03-25 00:00:00

T//ETieNs, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 184

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—We have no means of affirming or dellying
the following statement, which we copy from the Dublin
Evening Mail of Wednesday :—" The Premier himself
has addressed a letter to the Irish Executive upon the
subject of national education, in which he distinctly de-
clares that no future patronage is to be bestowed on
clergymen of the Established Church in Ireland, who
not only are not inimical to the system of
national education, but who will not undertake
to place all the schools in the parishes or
dioceses in which they may be promoted,
under the immediate management of Dr. Murray's
Board." The journal from which we quote describes
the statement as " resting upon such authority that
its truth admits neither of question nor of doubt." Whe-
ther it be founded on fact, or whether it be a mere fabri-
cation, is of comparatively little consequence for the
purposes of our argument. The statement has ob-
tained credence, and produced one of those outbursts
of Ultra-Protestant fury against Sir Robert Peel's
Government, which show how little that powerful party
in Ireland are disposed to trust his policy, and how
cordially they detest his Administration. If the
statement have its foundation in fact, this de-
cisive and well-directed movement in the right di-
rection may well provoke the bigots of the Pro-
testant Church to employ their vituperative powers
in stirring up strife within the ranks of the Govern-
ment supporters. Their efforts would, however, be neu-
tralised, and the confidence of the nation would be
strengthened in the Administration, by the assurance
which such a step would give of the settled purpose of
Ministers to support their own plans, and not longer allow
the only system of education which can benefit the people
of Ireland to be thwarted and counteracted by those on
whom the Government patronage is bestowed. The
reproach which has been cast upon the Government
that fosters the opposition which it is doomed
to encounter, and thus renders itself ridiculous on
the one hand, while it provokes the Catholie
population of Ireland to resentment on the other,
would be rolled away. Ministers would, at least,
seem honest in their professed wish to extend the
means of educating the people by their Educational
Board. The system of education taught in the schools
founded and supported by the funds entrusted by Parlia-
ment to that Board, is professedly approved by the
Government. The schools are designated, " Govern-
ment schopls." Yet, with an inconsistency which has
rendered the honesty of the Government suspected, and
has contributed to the dislike with which its rule is re-
garded by the Irish people, the most inveterate oppo-
nents of the Government schools have been selected
to fill bishoprics, deaneries, and other dignified posts in
the Church, as they have become vacant!! The Govern-
ment has thus stultified its own plans, and contributed to
multipy its difficulties, and to deepen its own dis-
grace ! It will, therefore, be politic in the Govern-
ment, and advantageous to the people of Ireland, if
the statement of the Dublin Mail be well founded.
But if the statement be an invention, it has, at all.
events, been received as a truth by the Ultra-Protes-
tant party in Ireland. The -leaders of that party have
evidently taken alarm. If the opposition of the High
Church clergy to the education of the people—except by
the exclusive system which they persist in opposing to
the system of the Government—should be checked, as
checked it would be by the declared intention of the Pre-
mier, "to appoint English clergymen to benefices or
bishoprics, as either may become vacant, should the
clergy of Ireland continue contumacious"—if such an
intimation has been communicated, clerical conversions
to the Government scheme of Irish education will be
thick "as leaves in Vallambrosa." Very little more
would be heard of resistance to the only system which
is worthy of being called " national." The schools
which the clergy have set up against those of the Go-
vernment would be given up ; and the clamour which
has been raised against the Government plan of edu-
cating the people would be heard no more.

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STANDARD.—Lord Ashley's motion, to reduce to
ten working hours the period during, which women and
children should be employed in factories, was rejected in
the House of Commons last night by a majority of 7-
188 to 181. Sir James Graham's proposition, to ex •
tend the number of working hours to twelve, was in
turn rejected by a majority of 3-186 to 183. In
this anomalous position the question stands at
present. But this is not the only anomaly in the
matter. The House determined on Monday that women
and children should be forbidden to work in factories
during the night, and that the word " night" should be
interpreted to mean the time included between six P.M.
and six A.M. ; by this determination, still unrescinded, it
is impossible that women and children can be present in
the factory more than twelve hours; and, allowing the
pauses absolutely necessary for rest and food, that they
can work more than ten hours. Lord Ashley's purpose
is, therefore, virtually unaffected by last night's
decision, and must remain so until last Monday's
vote shall be directly and distinctly rescinded. Sir J.
Graham declared last night that he would on Monday
explain the course that he will pursue in this perplexed
condition of the question. Let us respectfully intimate
to him that there is but one course open which will
not involve the Government in inextricable dif-
ficulties, and a prolonged contest, _ and that is,
gracefully to yield to the expressed will of
the House of Commons on Monday night ; a will, the
expression of which was not, as we have intimated, re-
tracted last night. If, however, the House of Commons
had unequivocally retracted its steps, it would surely still
be a grave question, whether a statesman ought to join
in the retrogradation, supported by a majority of only
7, or 7 times 7. There is a great difference be-
tween withholding a promise and withdrawing a pro-
mise already made—the first may be regarded as
a wrong, but it cannot be considered an insult ; the
other is an insult as well as a wrong. Now, without the
testimony of Sir Robert Inglis, every one must
feel that the vote of Monday would be re-
garded as a promise of restriction of the hours of
labour by the factory labourers ; but the statements in
the Honourable Member for Oxford's admirable
speech prove by facts what every one's own feeling
must hare anticipated—the factory labourers believe that
they have the House of Commons pledged to their
relief. And is it just, is it wise, to disappoint them,
relying upon the sic volumus of a majority of seven?
It was truly said by Sir James Graham that there
are experiments from which it is impossible to
retire ; but we think that the experiment of
a limitation of the hours of labour is not
one of these experiments. We are convinced
that should the labourers in factories find the
effect of a ten hours' law to be to reduce wages
and diminish employment, they would as earnestly pray
for the repeal of such a law, as they now pray for its
enactment. The promise of an experiment, from which
men expect great benefit, is, however, an engagement
from which, indeed, it is in no case courteous, just, or
safe to retire ; and such a promise the House of
Commons has given. But we will say no more
upon this view of the matter, becouse we adhere
to the hope that even yet the vote of Monday will be
faithfully followed out, even in the present session ; that
it will be law before another year we have no doubt
whatever. There was nothing new offered in the course
of last night's debate, but some old fallacies were re-
peated with so much confidence, that it may be pro-
per to refer to them. It was observed that the
effect of limiting the hours of labour would be
to transfer much capital to the Continent for the esta-
blishment of rival manufactories, Our first answer
to this is a very short one. Consols closed yesterday
at 981. There is, therefore, abundance of capital in
the country- to invest in foreign manufactories, if
these manufactories offer a profit of more than
3 per cent. upon the outlay and wages. But
they do not, and cannot. In every country some
manufactories must exist, because of the coarser pro-
ducts of labour the carriage is more than the cost of raw
material and manufacture, and this easily enough accounts
for the success of some foreign speculators, up to a certain
point—but beyond that point they cannot go, though
all the millowners of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and
Cheshire were to migrate, say to Austria, in a body,
and by a favour of a miracle, like that which trans
ferred the Cottage of Loretto, to carry their mills
with them. The home market is the indispensable
nurse of manufactures upon , a great scale a
nurse as necessary in those maladies of depression,
to which every commercial pursuit is subject, as in
infancy. It is the home (including the colonial)
market, which has called into existence the manu-
factures of Great Britain, and which by consuming
five-sixths of their produce, supports them—this market
the migrating millowners cannot take with them. It
will remain with us as long as we protect our agricul-
ture, our colonies, and our capital; it will demand
more of our manufactures than all the world beside,
and we need not say that they who manufacture the
most, and the most steadily, will in the end always
produce the best and the cheapest commodity. The
country which has the greatest amount of capital and
the best markets, will always maintain the ascendancy
in manufactures ; and the only effect of the contest of
such a country with others will be merely a competition
which shall make its labourers most miserable.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Devonport Indtpendent.)
LATEST FROM CHINA.

We have received letters by the Overland Mail, from our
correspondent at Hong-Kong (China), dated Dec. 30, 1843,
from which we extract the following:—
"The Rattlesnake sailed on December 10, with 200 in-
valids from the fleet, amongst whom are Lieut. Daily, from
the Pelican ; Lieut. Priest, R.M., Minden ; and Mr. Rogers,
Assistant-Surgeon, Minden.
"Her Majesty's brig Childers, 16, Commander Wellesley,
will leave China in January, for England, with 1,000,000
of dollars.

" Mr. Miles Hammett, Master, of the Wolverine, is dead ;
and Mr. Jones is appointed in his place.
" I have just learnt that trade to the north is exceedingly
brisk, and that Wosang, in the Yang-tse-kiang, is full of
money—dollars and sycee—waiting for English goods, which
are not to be had in sufficient quantities to meet the demand.
" We had a fine view of the eclipse on the 22d of Decem-
ber ; it commenced about one o'clock, and the moon passed
right over the sun, like passing one plate over another; it
was seen better here than in any other place. I will give you
the Chinese opinions of the eclipse : they say that the large
dragon swallows the sun, and then disgorges it again—a
pretty strange conceit. Several of the Chinamen told me
this, but the better educated men do not believe it; still it is
very difficult to make them understand it. They are, in-
deed, a strange people.
6‘ Lord Saltoun, the commander of the forces, went in the
Cornwallis for a trip to Manilla, but returned directly, as his
successor is daily expected here in the Castor.
" There are at present 47 patients in the Minden's hospital ;
of these 32 are soldiers, who are going on shore to the mili-
tary
5 hboeslpointagng
hospital and
thel oartieeett.hejr own men, so that they have
but

'ler Majesty's steam-frigate Styx, Corn. Vidal, was paid
wages on Tuesday last, and sailed the same day for the
Azores, to proceed with her survey.
Her Majesty's store and guard-ship Tortoise, 12, Comman-
der Finlaison, arrived on Monday from Portsmouth, on her

way to Ascension, where she is to be stationed. She has
! some passeng6is and a quantity of stores on board. Her
crew was paid wages on Thursday.
Her Majesty's sloop Lame, 18, Com. J. W. D. Brisbane,
having refitted, was towed out of harbour by the Confiance.
Her Majesty's ship Forte, 44, having been mry-rigged, was
towed out of harbour on Thursday, and sailed the same day
for Deptford, to be broken up.
The Adventure, naval transport, arrived on Sunday, with
tores from Portsmouth.
Ships in Harbour—Caledonia, 120, Captain A Milne (with
the flag of Admiral Sir David Milne) ; San Josef, Captain
F. W. _Burgoyne ; America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gor-
don ; Confiance, steamer ; AdVenture, transport ; Falmouth,
lighter.
In the Sound—Larne, 18, Coin. J. W. D Brisbane ; Tor-
toise, Coin. Finlaison.
DOCK-YARD.--Mr. T. Granville, leading man of ship-
wrights, to be inspector ; Mr. William Stephens, to be lead-
ing man of smiths, vice Truscott, promoted.
The naval payments for the quarter ending the 31st March,
will lie made at the Pay-office, in this yard, on Monday, the
Ist of April.
Her Majesty's sloop Ringdove, 18, Commander Sir 'William
Daniell, is ordered from the West Indies, to assist in the
blockade of the Coast of Africa.
Her Majesty's brig Star, 10, Commander J. R. Dunlop,
was spoken on the sth ult., in lat. 1 S., lon. 3 E., on her pas-
sage from Ascension to the Gambia—all well. Mr. C. Bur-
ney, of this vessel, passed his examination for Master's As-
sistant, on board the Madagascar, on the 9th of January.
Slavers are very plentiful on the Coast, nearly every ship
having taken one or more.
Her Majesty's ship Madagascar, 44, Captain John Foote,
was at Ascension on the 10th January. Her orders for Eng-
land were daily expected.
Her Majesty's brig Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. Lapidge, is or-
dered home from the Coast of Africa, to be paid off.

A sergeant of the detective police said that Stowell
was continually in the company of thieves, and that he
now wanted to act as solicitor for the accused persons.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he should take care that
that should not be the case.
The only additional evidence adduced was that of a
Mrs. Bear and a li We boy, her brother, who identified the
boy Williams as having been concerned in the robbery
of Mrs. Kingsinill, who had her pocket picked of a purse
containing twelve sovereigns. The witnesses said they
were walking behind Mrs. Kingsmill at the time she was
robbed, and saw the two men' and the boy Williams
commit the offence, and that they escaped at the time by
running down one of the turnings. They were certain
as to the identity of the boy, but not so as to the other
two prisoners,' whom they were unable to swear to with
any degree of confidence.
Sergeant Langley said that Mrs. Cutts, the lady who
was robed of the 7201. in the Islington omnibus, was so
ill that she was unable to attend, and that Mr. Cutts,
being persuaded that her illness was produced from the
agitation consequent on the magnitude of the robbery,
had, therefore, expressed a wish that she should not be
compelled to appear again.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that Mrs. Cutt's attendance
was absolutely necessary ; that the fact of the three
prisoners launching out into extravagance immediately
atter the robbery of the above lady was a strong cir-
cumstance of suspicion against them, in addition to Wil-
liams being identified as riding in the same omnibus
with her, and also two men resembling the other pri-
soners, although she could not speak with the same de-
gree of certainty as to their identification.
The prisoners' counsel contended that the evidence
was not sufficiently strong to bring the charges home
against either of them, but the Magistrate differed in
opinion on that subject, and said that he should commit
Williams for -trial, but, with a view to have the at-
tendance of Mrs. Cutts, should remand the other pri-
soners until Friday.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Mr. Broughton, the sitting Magistrate, was occupied
until an advanced hour with the examination of eight
persons, male and female, charged with having suspicious
possession of a large quantity of silk and other goods,
which it now appeared had been obtained from a manu-
facturing house in the country in the names of the fic-
titious firm of J. Wigram, Brothers, and Co., of Bar-
clay-place, Hackney.
The prisoners were a young man named James Mar-
tin, of 5, Dotteridge-place, Hoxton, a clerk; Alfred,
Elizabeth, and Mary Spurrell, brother and sisters, of
31, Goring-street, Hoxton; George Williams, an elderly
man, and Edward and Jane Williams, his son and
daughter, resident at Melina-place, Hackney. They were
taken under the following circumstances:—
On Friday evening Elizabeth Spurrell went to the shop
of Messrs. Alton and Walker, pawnbrokers, to pledge
some new articles, consisting of several quantities of
silk, &c., and on being questioned, gave her name Pack,
and her addres in Goring-street, and said that she had
been sent to pledge the goods by her father, a half-pay
officer. As she had several times before pledged similar
property, Mr. Alton went home with her, and found that
she had given a fictitious name, and being induced to be-
lieve, from what he observed, that the goods had been
improperly obtained, he gave her in charge to the police.
Sergeant Lambert, 2 N. afterwards went to the house in
Goring-street, with Policeman Balls, to make in-
quiries, and saw in different parts of the house various
quantities of new goods lying about in a very
suspicious way, and found two deal covers of pack-
ing-cases, from which the addresses had been erased.
The front parlour was locked, and Martin, who was then
present, said it was occupied by the elder Spurrell, who
had the key with him, but old Mrs. Spurrell, who was
in bed up stairs, being questioned, said the parlour was
occupied by Martin, and the officers having obtained the
key, entered it, and there found other quantities of pro-
perty, and a small box, containing several tradesmens'
directories, and various documents, including a whole
quire of printed circulars of Wigram and Co., for distri-
bution amongst manufa,cturers•-and tradespeople in the
country. In Martin's possession were found no less
than forty-seven pawnbrokers' duplicates, and an invoice
for goods, of which those above described appeared to
have been part. The elder Williams entered while the
officers were there, and it appeared that he had been to
the pawnbroker's, and offering himself as bail for Eliza-
beth Spurrell ; and at his residence, at Hackney, some
silk and other goods were found in possession of his son
and daughter, and three pawn-tickets for such property.
Sergeant Lambert now produced one of the circulars
of " Wigram and C 0.," which was handed to the Magis-
trate and read. The circular, which was addressed to
" Merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, and private
gentlemen of respectability," was of great leneh, awl
set forth in very imposing terms the ine,timable
tapes which those to whom it was addressed would de-
rive from a transmission of their money or goods to
"Wigram, Brothers, and C 0.," Barclay-place, Hackney,
in exchange for "good and respectable bona-fide London
and country hills of exchange," which they were in the
habit of procuring for the accommodation of merchants,
manufacturers, and others in temporary want of assist-
ance; or if the parties addressed should happen to have
goods on hand, and find sales dull or difficult, Messrs.
W. and Co. promise to use their best endeavours to turn
them into cash. They stipulated, however, that any ap-
plication to them for accommodation bills, &c., should
be accompanied with a remittance of cash at the rate
of 5 per cent., for the amount received by their agency.
Balls, the police-constable, produced, amongst the ar-
ticles found in the possession of Martin, an immensely
long invoice of goods recently forwarded to " Wigram,
Brothers, and C 0.," from D. G. Learoyd, of Pontefract,
amounting to 17:3L lls. A heap of goods was also pro-
duced, consisting of silk handkerchiefs, shawls, muslins,
lace, and which, with those offered in pawn, corres-
ponded with the invoice.
Sergeant Lambert said he had made inquiries at
Hackney, and ascertained that the elder Spurrell at one
time kept a beer-shop in Barclay-place, Haeltney, pre-
viously to his removal to Heaton, and that numerous
packages and letters came there;,addressed to Wi-
gram, Brothers, and C 0,,: •btst 410;:iandlord and neigh-
bours declared that there Win, in reality, no person of
that name, and that,flSpurrell himself was the only
" Wigram and Co." The sergeant said he had also seen
the postman of the district; Who then held four letters
to the same address, but refused to give them up because
he had orders from Spurrell to deliver them into no hands
but his own. Spurrell, however, had not been home,
and could not be met with since the detention of his
daughter and the present discovery.
Mr. BROUGHTON, having heard this evidence, ordered
all the prisoners to be removed from the bar except Eli-
zabeth Spurrell, whom he then asked what account she
wished to give of the possession of these goods.—The
prisoner said that her father, who is a half-pay officer,
sent her to pledge them, and that they were goods which
had been consigned to him from the country to be dis-
posed of.
Martin, who was next called upon, said that he was
merely a visitor at Spurrell's in Goring-street, and knew
no more of the goods than that they had been received
from the country by Spurrell.
Williams, the elder, stated himself to be a pensioner,
and said that he merely went as a friend and neighbouf
to get bail for Miss Spurrell, when he was detained. He
knew nothing of the property, and the articles found at
his place had, it appeared, been presented to his son and
daughter by the Spurrells.
Mr. BROUGHTON, after a long inquiry, discharged all
the prisoners except Elizabeth Spurrell, who was found
offering part of the goods in pawn, and Martin, in whose
possession the invoice and the duplicates of the other
property had been found. He remanded those two
persons for a week, to give the officers time to com-
municate with the trdesmen at Pontefract, and to trace
other matters connected with the fictitious firm of
" Wigram, Brothers, and Co."
THAMES POLICE.
Denis Driscoll, a rough, rollicking-looking fellow,
who evidently preierred summary process to the slow
and technical formalities of the law, was charged with
having, without " rhyme or raison," assaulted a fellow-
exile of Erin, named Florence Sullivan.
Florence stated his own case thus :—" As I was goin,
your Wurtchip, down along Shadwell, Mr. Driscoll comes
up to me an says, How d'ye do, Flurry ?' says he.
Very well, I thank ye, Deny,' says I. 'How is your
people ?' says I. They're very well for that matther;'
says Denis. But,' says he, why don't you pay me
mother the one and a penny yer owes her ?' says he.
Pay me mother, you —, he says, gettin hotter in
the matther, or rn break your neck,' says he. Wid
that he tuck hould o' me be the collar, an kicked me an
bate me till he kilt me almost intirely.
Mr. BALLANTINE (smiling)—No, not entirely, Mr.
Sullivan. Florence—Faix, then he did that thing. He
did it then, your reverence.
Denis, in his defence, denied the assault. " 'Tisn't the
way at all Lbate him, your Lordship, as Mr. Sullivan
tells how I done it. Oh, Flurry, agrah ! 'tis you have a
conscience like a rib stockin', sure 'twould stretch to
anything. 'Twas a pity to aware him, your Wurtchip,
for I think the memory is failin the poor boy, since he
turned a tee-totum (tee-totaller.) Yerrah, Flurry
avourneen your'e on your oath, ma bouchel ! so, look
me in the face, an tell me, isn't this the way it
was ? Didn't I meet you, an after giving; you
the time of the day (exchanging the usual greet •
ills), didn't I say, peaceably and quietly, I'm
thinkin, Flurry, 'tis forgettin the thrifle that's dhue
to the ould ooman, you are.' Iss, yer Wurtchip,
them is the very words as passed; an', somehow or
other, jist as I was a going on me foot hot his, an' I
think he sthaggered, or he fell on something, and that's
the whole totle of it. Kill him, mah Oh, Flurry, ain't
you makin' a show o' yourself this blessed day, takin' up
the time o' the coort an' his rivirence, an' keeping me from
me work, to say nothin' of what you swore before all the
Christians. Farra gu dho, Flurry, ain't you a disgrace
to the Sullivans."—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. BALLANTINE—Then you mean to say that it was
only an accident? Denis—That's it, your Wurtchip
only I could not exactly swear it.—(Laughter.)
Mr. BALLANTINE ordered Denis to pay is. damages,
and 25., the costs of the summons, which, being done,
the parties adjourned to a neighbouring public-house to
discuss the merits of the case, the manner of hearing,
some half-and-half, and the justice of the decision.
HAMMERSMITH.
Mr. William Bolton, the landlord of the Ship public-
house, in the Suspension Bridge-road, Hammersmith,
was summoned before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting magis-
trate, at the instance of the police, for having had his
house open before the hour of one o'clock on Sunday
last, the 17th instant.
Mr. Bolton having pleaded not guilty,
Police-constable Gibson, T 121, deposed that on the
forenoon of Sunday last he went, accompanied by an-
ether constable, to visit the defendant's house. On
knocking at the door it was opened to them by the de-
fendent, when they saw four persons standing at the
bar. The defendant said they were travellers. -On go-
ing into the bar, he found a pint pot about a third full
of
beer on the counter.
By Mr. CLIVE—The men were entire strangers to
witness. The defendant told us they were travellers.

The door was opened by the defendant immediately that
they knocked.
By the defendant—Came from the direction of the
bridge to the house, but did not see him standing in the
road before they came up. Defendant told them that
one of the four persons had been taken ill, and had had
some brandy-and-water.
Police-constable Jones, T 31, deposed that he accom-
panied the last witness to the defendant's house, and
corroborated his statement as to four persons being at
the bar.

By the defendant—The shortest of the four appeared
very ill, and he said something about having had brandy-
and water, or he should have died. The whole of the
young men offered to give their addresses in support of
their statement. Every facility was afforded by the
defendant to the police searching the house, and on their
entering he opened the bar-door, and said, "'here are
four persons there," but witness had already seen them
through the glass window.
Mr. Bolton declared that the real facts of the case
were these:—Oa Sunday, soon after eleven o'clock, two
young gentlemen brought a third to his house, saying he
had been taken very ill, and begged for God's sake that
he might be admitted for the purpose of having some
hot brandy-and-water. On the police coming to the
house he explained to them the circtrestances, as did
also the party in question, who were all connected with
public offices, and were therefore unable to attend at
that Court that day. He had, however, the waterman
in attendance who had brought them up the river, who
would prove the truth of his statement. He then called
Charles Campbell, waterman, of No. 1, Church-street,
Waterloo-road, who deposed that on Sunday morning
last he took a party of three gentlemen up the river
from Westminster-bridge-stairs. It was a very cold day,
and the wind blew very hard. One of the gentlemen
who sat in the head of the boat, when near Hammer-
smith-bridge, was taken very bad, and they were all
afraid he would have died. He was taken ashore at the
bridge by the other gentlemen to the defendant's house,
and witness afterwards went to see how he was, when
the landlord asked him in, and he had a pint of porter
and a biscuit. The pot he had it in was that which the
policeman had spoken of.
Mr. CLIVE said that was not a case for a conviction.
The summons must be dismissed.

On Saturday information was circulated, by authority
of Government, and inserted in the Police Gazette,
offering a reward• to the amount of 3001. for the dis-
covery of a person, at present unknown, who, on the
morning of the 13th instant, attempted to murder
Charles. Grimmer, a farmer, at Pakefield, in Suffolk,
by discharging a loaded gun at him. Rewards of 50/.,
on the part of her Majesty's Government, and 201. by
Mr. Grimmer himself, in addition to 2801. by the Ma-
gistrates and others, are offered for the discovery, and it
is stated that her Majesty's pardon will be granted to
any accomplice (excepting only the person who actually
fired the gun), who will give such information as may
be the means of bringing to justice the perpetrator of
the outrage.
THE HOUSEBREAKING AND ATTEMPTED MURDER IN
ESSEX.—The following description is given of the two
men, said to be Irish labourers, who, on the night of the
15th inst., broke into and plundered the house of Mr.
Peter Asplin, jun., at West Tilbury, Essex, and attempted
to murder his farm servant. One of them is about five
feet eight inches high, of dark complexion, with very
dark, small whiskers, good-looking, and thick set, with
good teeth, which he shows very much when talking,
and has a scar under the cheek bone. The other is five
feet six inches, about 25 years old, fair complexion, light
hair, small whiskers, long face, with high cheek bones,
and a wrinkle down each cheek, his wrists and ankles
nearly as large as his arms, two of his fingers joined
together above the first joint, and is ruptured. The
lower part of their dress is supposed to have been very
muddy when they made off, as they walked in the mud
after leaving the boat in which they crossed the river
from Gray's to Northfloet ; and they were traced as far
Shooter's-hill the next day.
At the Potice Committe of Aldermen for the remov
ing Irish and Scotch paupers, on Friday, the presidin
magistrates, Mr. Alderman Copeland and Mr. Alder-
man Johnson, expressed a wish that it might be made
known through the Press that the Houses of Shelter for
poor people would be closed for the season in a few
days. The metropolis, the City especially, had of late
been inundated with destitute objects from all parts of
the country, who had been attracted by hearing of these
places of refuge, though they could not expect to find
employment in their ordinary occupations—as miners,
agricultural labourers, &c. These poor persons had
been a great tax on the City poor-boxes, where they
had less funds than at the Metropolitan police-courts.
It was very desirable that the poor objects should have
timely warning of the closing of the receiving-houses
alluded to, that they might not continue to pour into
London, when there were no such places of resort, and
where there was no possibility of their getting em-
ployment.

THE LATE ROBBERY FROM THE
OXFORD COACH.
OXFORD, SATURDAY EVENING.—It being understood
that Richard Elliott. the person in custody on suspicion
of being concerned, with two others, in robbing the De-
fiance Oxford coach, on the Monday before, of a box
containing 1,500 sovereigns, was to have been publicly
examined before the county magistrates to-day, consider-
able interest was manifested by many of the inhabitants
of this city to be present to see the prisoner, and hear
the proceedings against him. In this, however, they
were disappointed„for, from some reason or other of the
clerical magistrates and others, who have the conducting
of the case, the most mysterious secresy is preserved.
About three o'clock Dr. Harrington, who is the
Principal of one of the Colleges, and also a county ma-
gistrate, attended in the committee -room of the
county gaol, adjoining the city, for the purpose, as it
was_ stated, of further examining Elliott, and our
reporter made application to be present. He was
introduced to the presence of Dr. Harrington by
Captain Robins, the governor of the prison, and, upon
his stating that he had come from town to attend the
examination and report the proceedings for the Sunday
Times, the Rev. Doctor replied that an application had
just been wade to him by, the solicitor engaged for
the prosecution, requesting that the examination of that
day should be strictly private, and it being his impres-
sion also that a disclosure and publication of the evi-
dence in the case, as far as it had gone, would tend to
defeat the ends of justice, he could not comply with the
wish of the reporter to be present. •
The reporter ventured to suggest that all examinations
of the sort taking place in the metropolis were pub-
lished, and thh magistrates before whom they took place
invariably acknowledged that their publication, instead
of defeating, materially assisted the ends of justice.
The Rev. Doctor replied that, as far as the present
case was concerned, he was of a different opinion, and for
these reasons he must insist upon the investigation
being strictly private. He begged at the same time to
say that when the case was quite ripe for publication he
should have no objection whatever to the presence of
reporters for the public press.
The reporter then withdrew.
An application was then made on the part of Mr. Ro-
binson, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, to be al-
lowed a private interview with his client, but this was
refused. He next requested to see him in the presence
of Ballard the officer, but this also was refused, as well as
permission to be present at the examination. He (Mr.
Robinson) then requested to be informed upon what
ground his client was kept in custody, and was told by
the Reverend Magistrate that such a course was unusual,
and that therefore he could not comply with the request.
At a later period of the day Dr. Marsham, another
clerical magistrate, and Captain Shepheard, attended,
when theprisoner was brought before them. There were
also present Ballard. who had formerly belonged to
Bow street, and who, it appears, is especially employed
in the case, Sergeant Thompson of the D division of the
metropolitan police, and Lucas, a marshalman, who ap-
prehended the prisoner on the night of the robbery. The
prisoner was very respectably dressed, is a genteel-look-
ing young man about thirty years of age, and it was said
has kept a tobacconist's shop, in Bell-street, Edgware-
road, for some years past.
Sergeant Thompson recognised him as a member of
the " swell mob," and stated that he had been in cus-
tody before, and committed to the House of Correction
as a member of that fraternity of thieves. Beyond this
nothing has been discovered to implicate him with the
robbery.

Mr. -Harrington told him the decision of the Bench
was to remand him to a future day, and asked him if he
had anything to say against being retained until Friday
next ?—The prisoner said he should prefer Wednesday
to Friday, but, upon his being informed that Mr. Robin-
son, his solicitor, wished for the longest day, he said he
had no objection to Friday, and was then removed to
his cell.
Dr. Harrington subsequently intimated to Mr. Robin-
son that the next examination should also be private,
and that if after this, the Bench should see reason to
commit the prisoner for trial, their clerk would commu-
nicate with him (Mr. Robinson), so that on a future day
he would have-an opportunity of attending and cross-
examining the-different witnesses in the case.
The wife of the prisoner, an exceedingly good-looking
and fashionably-dressed young woman, was in attend-
ance at the gaol for several hours, and an application
was made on her behalf to the Bench to be allowed even
to shake hands with her husband, but this was denied.
The refusal seemed to distress her much, and she cried
very bitterly.,
There are two circumstances in the case worthy of
remark—one is that the prisoner was left in the care of
Lucas from .the time of his apprehension until that
(Saturday) morning, when he was ordered into the gaol,
and the other that Mr. Walshe, the magistrate's clerk, is
employed for the prosecution. The practice of permitting
magistrates' clerks to act as attorneys in prosecutions they
themselves or their assistants have taken the evidence in,
is one which has been discountenanced and discouraged
in many countries, and should not in any case be per-
mitted. The situation of magistrates' clerk and prose-
cuting attorney in one and the same case is, in a great
measure, incompatible, and should not be continued.
That the robbery in this case was what is called a
" put-up" there can be no doubt, as since it has been
committed a carpet-bag and box, which was intended as
a "dummy," has been discovered by the police. The
box was placed in a bag in the same way as the one
containing the sovereigns, and was as near as possible of
the same size and the bag of the same description as
-- that stolen.—Sunday Times.

ANCIENT RELIC.7—Mr. T. Walsh, Patrick-street,
Limerick, has got a curious and rare specimen of the gold
pin or bodkin, which the Irish chieftains of old wore in the
front of their dress. It was found in the crevice of a rock at
Carrigaholt CaStle, on Tuesday, where a few natives were
burning sea-weed. It is fully seven inches long, with a head
on the apex, and is of the purest gold, weighing over two
ounces.—cork Examiner. _ _ _

Sir Edward Knatchhitll left town on Saturday for his
residence in Kent.

THE MURDER AT BRIGHT() 1;4
After the sentence had been passed upon the the
man, Lawrence, at Lewes, he was taken back woor
gaol, and the next morning he was conveyed to 4 is
sham, where the sentence is to be carried intode to
the custody of two turnkeys, who had strict ordeb,;od,
watch him, in order that he might not lay Yieltit if so
upon himself, which he has repeatedly threatened eight
opportunity is afforded him. It is now nearly riatlY
years since an execution has taken place in this co
10
and it is rather remarkable that the last ramswa,hcle
brought to the scaffold was convicted throuhrk '1%60
ertions of Solomon, the unhappy victim in lue4o wss,
instance. This man's name was Shepherd, an'sjetso,
a noted burglar, upon the occasion on which he__„urses
having committed no less than four blub;, td
on as many successive nights. lie
_l,,octuu Aids
Brighton after the commission of the last, britiVw,ertif
him a large portmanteau, filled with valuable Frurand P
the produce of the robberies he had committed; "--,orted
took his place by a coach, which at that pee
at six o'clock in the morning for London. 111..„.067,
whom he sent with his portmanteau to the cowtafes
excited the suspicion of the police, and he was reite
and taken to the station-house at Brighton, /L"- tbss*
was questioned by Sulomon, and on his saY„deraitt
he had brought the portmanteau from s cor
who was going by the coach, Solomon tem
stable to accompany him to the office and see if his ,>r
was true. This was done, and on Shepherd _7O dr
up and claiming the property he was allowe'l.difel
part. Very soon afterwards information was closi
of the robbery, and Solomon proceeded to Sb
and after some search succeeded in apprehendiges stsi
herd, who was ultimately convicted at the ass?, toots,
executed. As has been already stated, the 110)ro
deceased was very much respected in the to •ch is
Brighton, and a subscription has been opened, the
expected to realise a very considerable amount, ;or
benefit of his wife, who ever since the melancheliilii
rence has been in an almost frantic state, and his 15,
and a benefit has been announced at Batty's Sitc,;rstill
the same object. We understand that the rattrue;:ill the
continues to declare that he had no intention W
deceased when he inflicted the blow upon hitnies ott
expected that 'the sentence will be carried into
Monday, the Bth of April.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH -- st-AI the
BRUSSELS,„ MARCH 21.—Baron Kielniansegit 11P
Hanoverian Minister at the Hague and at Brusle Segel
been' to Waterloo, to visit the field of battle. of,
the necessary orders for the repair of the rstrnbefes
erected in memory of the Hanoverian soldiers W '
in that battle. Wei
The Chamber of Representatives, at the cci ni.ated v.:,
ment of yesterday's sitting, unanimously an'r forts:
amendment of the Senate to the project of Iswthe er
conversion of Five per Cents. The interest of rote
Stock will, therefore be payable at Paris, witlfthel)o,o.o°
that the expense of the operation shall not exce7,„Aorl
francs per annum. The Senate adopted by a Too
of 26 to 1, the project of law relative to the logo
t0t84,686,000 francs. •
BRUSSELS, MARCH 22.—The Minister of theetro
announced in the Chamber of Representatives Afoits',
Company had offered to undertake, on vet/ 70fs"
geous terms, the works for repair* the kkeee isS4
Polder of Lills ; the project of law on this 30u*,
therefore, put on the order of the day. can
The heavy rains which have again sot in haveneells'ii
a fresh rising of the Senne, but we do not,....lPrir.nieb,
that it will do much injury. A letter from int ever-1
the 14th, says that the farmers do not reineinu:,olo
have seen the country in such a condition as s'isoti
The ground is so wet that nothing can be d°,ne!ttistow,
public roads are absolutely impassable. 14e""iittorSei•
ing the vigilance recommended by the King s scire.elif
general robberies continue to be frequent,.
night passes without some fresh instances of 01100 Ffi
the environs. Unhappily, the state of things oficeP
6110- ,hit
seem likely to cease so soon, for the p , „o on
cannot remove the cause of the evil, which is 100:3
than the extreme misery of the people. Thswees, 1'
rains aggravate the distress of the poorer c th w
retarding the growth of the fruits of the eel'ter pig
should serve for their subsistence, the Isis /
visions being wholly exhausted.
„,,„ EOrtit
POSEN, MARCH 9.—(FROM A CORRE..-14,,Pkyore
hasten to inform you, that the rigorous in"-kej, 0,,
specting the Polish emigrants is, if not tits ill•
ort
essentially modified, inasmuch as their
tom'depart,;ll;oolllL
finitely adjourned. This decision of our tOro f f j
has caused general joy here, and is a P sagsf,;s
the emigrants have by no means„ .it
..0,1"'
in any sort of intrigues. Neither '„,.." tio ss
that any of them have already let` sofe"01
wince; they are all still here, and bless the • otioe.ial
who has not hesitated to withdraw such a rerefolVd
soon as it was found to be unncessary, and tu` elert•'-.0
in harmony with his universally acknowledled,,„,•2oP;
of mind. The Communists who have latter Y_'':ai or
Poland, and been here in the citadel, are alre.:-
'oer
veyed, partly to Magdeburg, and partly to S notettillia
The recal of Prince Paskewitsch and the Or. • •
r
of Prince Czonitschiff as his successor causes ,k 0
sensation here, because it gives reason to al3 Aire, e 0
further rigorous measures in Poland, the rca,eo 11'.
Field-Marshal beint, attributed to his to b" Ito
ir,
bearance. •
~i '
THE HAGUE, MARCH 20.—The Java par- ...-,,,0
25th of November last, have the following newsialtTer
" Batavia, Nov. 17, 1843.—The chief town ?lair"
was visited, on the night of the Ist instant (a_i:hsli•
~4
midnight), and on the afternoon of the stlll Atm' to ~,0{
two, by dreadful fires, by which it was redunco
with the exception of the old town. All the r•-„,.,0
of the European and native officers to check tln_cifotri
of the flames were rendered unavailing byrnreol7l
south-east winds, and the drought which brai 014.40
for some hours past. 2,075 houses, of whicn'hieli it
stone, are destroyed in the nine vrampongs :a t.p, it
consumed ; 6,000 persons are hereby re" 'rho rig(
greatest distress, and four lives were lost.
___.' eV
houses, clothes, furniture, merchandise, silnlol7l,o
iron, and notes, cattle, &c., is estimated at,266,oviice, 'et
The General Chamber of Accounts gives,,„l/°4 sOttisitil
on the 15th and 16th of this month, bonds ''''lo4o ei
various descriptions (a list of which is given),,, 011:0-011f
in all to the nominal value of 482,836,000 of m it
publicly burnt. • 010
n., frelvets ~,
THE HAGUE, MARCH 21.—We learn fro-- so -, r
that his Majesty's steamier the Bromo put t*? thenew
18th of this month, bound to Batavia an a d"
' 01
Japan.
ulg'si
The Stoats Courant contains the prom sod**
financial law lately passed by the Chanahe' ...- ^AO
tioned by the King. . 0." 1,,
do, °W"
Several honourable citizens of Rottera. to
daily from ten to one o'clock, in order 1011;v Old to
fellow-citizens all the information which ,n-ii,,,,r,100:
quire to make them comprehend the financ's -oe if
convince them of the advantage of preferring_ i% 0
tary loan to the free gift to the payment of_tiw
*ill be levied if the loan should not be filled UP-
_JO
io --,,,, illIISP70), 0,4 f,
LETTERS OF MART, QUEEN OF OCC"'"' lAA
of her Personal History, edited by Agnes Strick„rodkiji.
edition of the above interesting work has just Tat 7so
plete in two volumes, uniform with Miss Strie_l(..„'7, of „ice;
of the Queens of England." " The Life andlir•in Sidli::
Queen of Scots (says the Edinburgh Courant) 1 p0P0,100;
liar degree of attention, not only as an imPortandical, 'ft
history; but as a story deeply romantic and trariz-viet. or
is calculated to engage the sympathy of everY,,, yettelliol
present publication contains the whole of Mary-
tirFp
have yet come to light, besides many that are Y. bil 0,
and being all arranged in chronological order, Ili 01110
notices, explanatory of the matters to which theforif seP;i4
present a connected series of documents more cl sof jeori
thsil a
tive of the important events of this period,
_,„.shee'
.„I
which has yet been published. The work fr,;,,ileot;iP-
valuable addition to our stock of historical I`,.n; jiiSt''
gives a new aspect and deeper interest to the sr
character of the unfortunate Scottish Queen. orle , 0.401
FREDERICK THE GREATS ANTlrBlo3„rviolv Al
GOlEN.—Zimmerman, in his narratives of his lni."„ then/ ti)
Frederick the Great, of Prussia, says, 11 TO-1--i'llirl
had taken a great quantity of soup luaus 'Thinfs"'tieto
strongest gravy drawn from the most healing -f 0 Y- 1 a
this portion lie mixed a large table-spoonfus laMl;p 'IA
mace and pounded ginger. He then eat„ wed .„e%
of beef stewed in brandy. This he foot' ce",',• r
a copious allowance of an Italian dit ctsriek&
half of maize-flower and half of Parraen• ie,'" ye
this is added the juice of garlic, and the w';',, gager
butter till it acquires a crust as thick as 00,-„otintiA,;•
favourite dish is called polenta. At length ciftelf iiilopi
merman) the King, praising the excellent aPPei ifith ai
dandelion had given him, concluded the sellithit o;J
plate of eel pie, so hot and so highly season'," th! ?ice'
to have been baked in hell ; while at tabi1,...,64,
asleep, and was seized with convulsions."-
eig
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BIRTHS.' Chelte 14
On the 23d inst., at Sandford-place, ths
Countess Baptiste Metaxa, of a son and heir._es,oo9o,
On the 7th inst., at Naples, in the Palazzor_iibelP.
of Francis Hastings Medhurst, Esq., of a so„„nr. ygo of
On the 17th inst., at Lorn-road, Mrs. Z.
'''' sit'
of a son. floect 4 i
On the 21st inst., the wife of Luke TraPP f i son',l., i"
Lidham Lodge, Addison-road, Kensington,,S ,th ze'''' .
_,
On the 21st inst., the lady of Edward 031.. :,,,liiel
daughter. ,flesafo" het
On the 21st inst., Mrs. Greaves Walker, '3l - OW
ings, Strand, of a daughter. O •
%T ~ ill
On the 21st inst., at Brighton, tho lady o f the ''
ls,
Hanbury Tracy, of a son. land. 0,
On the 21st inst., in Devonshire-street, -.- - of =/
lady of the Rev. J. H. Butterworth, of a 11(.10* morel
On the 22d inst., Mrs. A. Gillespie, America---*----- r

p.:•
MARRIED. ...,.;son lorcirt
On the 23d of December, 1843, in the
Kandy, Ceylon, Mr. Charles Urquhart Stusliorth Aar
of the late Dr. Robert Stuart, of Grant-town, OAP" ,
to Clarissa Sophia, third daughter of Mr. Jaill'" to, re ;
Grove-hill-terrace, Camberwell, Surrey. ....osir
On the 20th inst., at St. Philip's Church, 8;7.-"ci of
Benjamin Smith, of Birmingham, to Ann' "'I- - otsorif
Mr. Cyrus Slater, of London. stsploLost
On the 21st inst., at Boston, Lincolnshire, ~,n4aP---
Curtis, Esq, of Stoke-Newington, London, to
Charles Wright, Esq., of -Boston.

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On the 20th inst., in Cofffgfi_terrace, Liuraworelr'ill;loo44"
wife of Benjamin Cowie, Esq., of Tilgate s
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Sussex. , Susses' MOS ,A I
On the 12th inst., at Ringmer, Sus'"—' ... 1)
Ivory, surgeon, aged 45. Ogg'
cabief ff'
On the 19th inst., at Quemerford, near A
of the late Slater Heale, aged 86. t t, IltilliVfrel
On the 19th inst., in Upper Brook-s-r•e_forit 101
NancY, relict of the late T. E. Tidwell, Esq., if..,.rivlOe ./
On the 19th inst., Harley Greville, eldest 3P' . of 7,
General and Lady Charlotte Bacon. ._r„,,t 110 ...; La
•I d the int.— ,sr
On the 20th inst., Peter Wine an / ol
Brophy, Esq., of Dublin. „r • A. if iCi°l! O,O
On the 22d inst., at Greenwich, Anna I.ol ,00
late Right Hon. George Tierney. titer
On the 22d inst., Charlotte, eldest chug
hter
Wildom, of Wood-street, Cheapside. _.....

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