The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-06 00:00:00

IMPRISOSTiIENT FOR DEBT.

IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

An adjourned meeting of the Repeal Association was held
on Friday in the Conciliation Hall. At one o'clock Mr.
O'Connell, accompanied by Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P., Mr.
John O'Connell, ALP., and other gentlemen, presented them-
selves, and were enthusiastically greeted. On the motion of
Mr. S. O'Brien, Charles O'Connell, Esq., of Ennis, was called
to the chair.

Mr. RAY read the following letter from Lord Shrewsbury :
" Alton Towers, April 29th, 1844.
" Sir,—l beg you will convey to the Loyal National Repeal
Association the high estizliation in which I hold the honour
they have done me, and how warmly I cherish the far too
flattering terms in which their thanks have been conferred
upon my endeavours to advocate the cause of Ireland. My
only hope is, that the agitation of the question, even upon
paper, may tend to good, as it must help to familiarise the
English public to the grievances and afflictions of the Irish
people, and gradually induce them to a livelier and more
earnest interest in their alleviation. Would to God that their
eyes might be opened to the urgency and importance of the
question, and instead of treating it as a mere matter of jus-
tice to Ireland, be convinced how intimately their own wel-
fare is concerned in it.

" I will not attempt to express how deeply I feel the high-
minded and generous sentiments with which Mr. O'Connell
seconded the vote of thanks, as I have already acquainted
' the Liberator' with my inability to do so.—l have the honour
to remain, Sir, with great respect, your humble servant,
" SHREWSBURY, WATERFORD, AND WEXFORD.
" T. M. Ray, Esq., &c., &c.
" I have desired my bookseller to forward you a copy of
the second edition of the pamphlet, and which enters some-
what more fully into the subjects treated of in the first."
The letter of the Noble Earl was ordered to be entered on
the minutes. _ _ _

It was announced that at the meetings to be held to oppose
Lord Eliot's Registration Bill, the Repeal question would not
be at all introduced. _

Mr. O'CONNELL then rose to move that the Committees be
instructed to prepare an address to the people of Ireland,
pointing out the plan on which they should act after the
present prosecutions. For his part, he did not think there
were any bad omens arising as to the future.—(Cheers.)
They were arrived at a crisis of no small difficulty, of con-
siderable danger, but of happy results if they only deserved
them ; a period fraught with great advantages to the country,
if the people of that eountry only continued faithful ;• if they
only remained uninfluenced by fear or timidity ; if they
avoided the smallest approach to turbulence or riot, and did
not abandon the sacred cause of the liberty of their native
land.—(Cheers.) In investigating what course should be
taken at the present period—for the prosecutions would soon
come to an end—in investigating that course one of the
greatest consolations arose before him ; he embraced it
heartily ; he cherished it dearly and affectionately ; the con-
solation was this—there was a certainty that the peace
would not be broken. They were safe, therefore, on that
point ; but there never was a period in which the second part
of their motto was so necessary to be enforced and acted upon.
If they gave up the cause now—if they allowed themselves
to be swayed by idle fears, they would be defeated for at
least half a century. If they abandoned repeal at its present
stage, no one could tell when it might be revived again—if
they abandoned repeal they would join with the Attorney- '
General and Brewster.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) If they
abandoned the repeal agitation they would pronounce a worse
judgment against Ireland than the Queen's Bench could
possibly pronounce against the conspirators.—(Cheers.) The
Learned Gentleman here went into an historical inquiry
to show that Ireland was entitled to a Parliament of her
own as much as England, and then proceeded to speak
at length of the many advantages which she possessed before
the union, the loss of which she now so much felt, and
how the union was obtained by fraud and corruption. He
went on to state, in continuation, that absenteeism, the
Church Establishment, want of a proper representation and
franchise, internal legislation, and want of a fixity of tenure,
&c., were some of the grievances under which she suffered,
and said he would, in reference to them, consider matters
which he thought would tend towards their remedy.
Having at some length gone into the history of the repeal
question, the Learned Gentleman proceeded to say that he
never wholly gave up its agitation from his outset in pub-
lic life, nearly half a century put ; yet there he stood a
" convicted conspirator," for acting conscientiously always
upon this one opinion, and in that position he hurled his
contempt upon those who pledged themselves to re-
dress the grievances of this country, but who only
continued to invent means by which they could impose upon
her people additional burdens.—(Hear.) Many an injury
was done to Ireland, many an insult was offered to Ireland,
but a greater injury—a more truculent insult had never yet had
been offered than by Lord Eliot's Franchise Bill.—(Hear, hear.)
He gave an analysis of the provisions of the Bill, pointed out
its defects, and stated them to be the consequences of " foreign
legislation." There were three things that he wished to do—
he would wish first to make them distinctly understand the
past history of the repeal cause; secondly, the present posi-
tion of the repeal agitation ; and, thirdly, their future pros-
pects.—(Hear.) He went rapidly over their past history,
and came to the events of the repeal agitation since 1830.
In 1834 he was forced to bring the question before Par-
liament; and he remembered that in the division one Scotch
Member voted in- favour of the measure, but not one Eng-
lishman. There were against them 550 Members, com-
posed of English, Irish, and Scotch, while there voted alto-
gether in favour of the question 44 Members, and the
one Scotchman whom he had secured, making 45. Upon
that occasion, however, the English Parliament came
forward, and in a declaration made by the House of
Commons, and ratified by the House of Lords, they con-
jointly approved of it, and it was sanctioned by the King
It was to the effect that every effort should be used to
preserve the union inviolable, but that all the grievances
under which the country laboured should be redressed as
speedily as possible. That declaration had everything but
the form of law—everything but the sanction of legal au-
thority. It was the declaration of the Bing, Lords, and
Commons, in deliberate assembly, and had attached to
it all the usual obligations of an oath.—(Loud cheers.)
But that pledge had been violated.—(Oh, oh.) He (Mr.
O'Connell) did not like that the agitation should go down at
that time, knowing how difficult it would be, perhaps, to give
it life and effect again. He, however, trusted them ; and in-
stead of redressing the grievances of Ireland, they had in-
flicted many more since.—(Cheers.) He was in the position
now to show the baseness of the English Parliament—to
show their gross violation of a solemn pledge—and to show
the people of Ireland that their only hope was repeal.—
(Cheers.) The prosecutions, or rather the persecutions,
brought him to the second part of what he had to say as to
the present state of the repeal cause. He had gone through
the motives that should induce persons to become re-
pealers ; he had gone through the history of the past,
and he now came to the present state of the repeal
cause.—(Hear.) The first' feature in it was the quantity
of the English sympathy they had obtained. His jour-
ney to England demonstrated that a large class of good
and wise men there were anxious to have justice done to
Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Well, as to the next feature in these
prosecutions. He wanted to know what could be the result
in the first place? Possibly, judgment—possibly, and not
improbably, imprisonment and fine. Well, they were ready
to be imprisoned, and if fined they were ready to pay the
fine.—(Cheers.) They mistook them much who speculated
on the ill health of some of the oldest amongst the traversers.
—(Loud laughter.) The only apprehension that could arise
on the subject would be the fretting and tormenting them by
reason of the imprisonment. There need be no apprehension
in his case, for he told them he never was more comfortable
in his own house than he would be in prison.—(Loud cheers)
He told them that no one pang of sorrow, or one
feeling of inconvenience should ever disturb the tran-
quillity of his mind, or make his blood circulate with more
than natural rapidity through his veins.—(Hear, hear.) He
had not the least notion—he would not condescend to use
the word apprehension—of not wearing out his time of im-
prisonment. There would be, to be sure, one sorrow that
could not l removed—an affliction that could not be soothed
—if either of two things happened—if either the people broke
the peace, or abandoned the agitation.—(Loud cheering.)
Let him anticipate, and conceive himself within the prison
cell, and there he pronounced in a loud voice, " Irishmen, as
you love your country be peaceable, loyal, tranquil—lrish-
men, remember you have a country, and let not the enemies
of that country triumph over you by your criminal apathy
in neglecting the cause now that I am within the prison
walls."—( Loud and continued cheering, and cries of " Never,
never.")
Mr. STEELE having addressed the meeting,
Mr. S. O'Bnizx said that he was a repealer, because he
saw there was no reasonable prospect of obtaining justice
from an Imperial Parliament.—(Cheers.) At present they
were labouring under a national prosecution—a prosecution
against the Irish nation—for he would not call it a prosecu-
tion against Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers.—(Hear,
hear.) He did not adopt the language used at many of
those meetings by individual gentlemen—he made every
allowance for them. He did not think it was any language
for which they ought to suffer an hour's imprisonment, but
be did hold himself responsible for their acts.—(Loud cheer-
ing.) He said this, that if Mr. O'Connell and the other
traversers deserved to be sent to gaol, he deserved to be sent
there too.— (Cheers ; and a voice, " And we.") He hoped he
was authorised to promise Mr. O'Connell, in their names, that
his heart would not be afflicted by any species of violence.—
(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") And he did, with equal
anxiety,implore of them to allow him to give him the pledge
that they would not afflict his heart by the other alternative.
The meeting then separated.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—LuciIe Grahn's appear-
ance in the Revolt of the Harem is postponed until Wed-
nesday for additional rehearsals. Harrison's benefit, on
Thursday next, presents the most attractive bill of the
the whole season—for Salvi, Inchindi, Mesdames Castel-
lan, Dorus Gras, and numerous other artistes make
their appearance.
OnYmric:—Mr. E. L. Blanchard, the author of
many successful pieces peculiar to this theatre, takes a
benefit, we perceive, this evening at the above theatre.
Mr. Blanchard is a young man of great talent, and
rising rapidly in public estimation. He is the son of the
late Mr. Blanchard, the well-known comedian, who; for
many years, was a member of the Covent-garden com-
pany during the management of Mr. Harris and the
Kembles. The bill of fare consists of three pieces, writ-
ten by himself ; one of which (The Road of Life) has
had a successful run this season of upwards of 100 nights.
We heartily wish him that success to which his merits
so justly entitle him.
DOVER MAIL.--The Post-office authorities have
given the usual notice to the South-Eastern Railway
Company to carry the night mail on and after the 11th
instant—the down at 30 minutes past 8, r.M., arriving in
Dover at 30 minutes past 12 ; and the up at 1, A,AI
arriving in London at 5, A.H. This is a step in the right
way; but, we regret to say, the day mail, which, of the
two, was the more required to be put on the railway,
will be taken by road, as usual. It was originally an-
nounced that the mail train would be a first class train
only; but this intention, from an objection urged by the
Postmaster-General, has been abandoned, and the train
will be one for the accommodation of first and second
class passengers.—Railway Record.
The sentence of death upon Mary Furley has been
commuted to imprisonment in the Penitentiary at Mill-
bank, we understand, for a brief period,
WILL OF THE LATE SIR HENRY HALFORD, BART.
—The will of the late Sir Henry Halford, Bart., of Wis-
ton Hall, Leicester, has just been proved in Doctors'
Commons, by his son and sole executor, Sir Henry
Halford, Bart., to whom he has bequeathed the whole
of his property. The personal property is sworn
under 9,0001.
Major-General Lord Saltoun, the late Commander
of the Forces in China, is daily expected to arrive at his
,
mansion is Great Cumberland-place, riti the overland route
from Hong-Kong, where Major-General D'Aguii,
ar, C. 8., has
I assumed the command.

We learn that Sir Henry Hardinge will depart for
India as soon as his private affairs will admit; and most
likely he will have embarked with his family by the second
week in the ensuing month. Sir Henry's appointment will
came a vacancy for the I...x)roup of 144uccstou4

CURRENCY AND TRADE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—ln one of the leading articles of the Morning
Chronicle, on Wednesday, the Editor treated on the Fac-
tory Bill, now before the House of Commons, and among
other remarka of importance observed :

" If we can permanently raise wages by direct legisla-
tion, it is a new and most important truth in political
economy. The wellbeing of the most numerous class is
the great object of legislation, and the means of attaining
it the most preeious boon which economical science can
confer upon society. Let it be shown that legislation
can by direct interference with human labour, ensure
permanently to the labouring Classes a larger share of
the necessaries and comforts of life than they could
otherwise enjoy, and the establishment of the principle
will be a far more glorious event than the invention of
the railway or the steam-engine or any other physical
triumph of the age."
On two or three days preceding the article from which
I have quoted, another question was discussed in the
same paper—that of the Currency. Had the Editor of
the Chronicle fortunately taken the enlightened view you
have done on the latter most important topic, he would
have treated the currency and the rate of remuneration
for labour as questions clearly identical ; he would have
shown to his readers with a force to have entitled him
to some of the fame he oilers to others, that when
rightly considered it is perfectly within the power of
Government, with their influence in the Legislature, to
" ensure permanently to the labouring classes a larger
share of the necessaries and comforts of life than they
could otherwise enjoy."
It is lamentable to reflect on the obtuseness of men's
minds regarding the fatal error committed in the mo-
metary circumstances of the nation by the celebrated
Bill of 1819, which not only at that time changed the
amount of all the liabilities of debtors, public and pri-
vate, and of the value of all property engaged in trade
and agriculture, from 30 to 50 per cent., but still ope-
rates to destroy the legitimate profit of the producer in
this country, and to impair, to a very oppressive extent,
the fair and just reward, of labour. Mr. Pitt, when he
saw a necessity for lifting up taxation, looked at the
question of the currency with the light of experience
and of ancient precedent, and he adopted a conventional
medium of interchange in. Bank of England paper,
which, by the celebrated Restriction Act, he rendered a
legal tender. The change so produced enabled the Go-
vernment of this country to supply most of the means
for carrying on the long and' eventful Continental war
from 1797 to 1815, while, at the same time, it gave pros-
perity to all the producing classes of the United King-
dom ; and had the restriction been wisely continued for
the twenty-eight or thirty years after the termination of
the war, we should by this time have paid off two-thirds
of the immense National Debt, and have seen the people
happy and contented.
It is an ascertained; fact, as you have well pointed out,
that no other than an artificial currency enables the pro-
ducer to add indirect taxation to price, so as to reach
the wealthy consumer. The adoption of gold, fixed by
law at 3/. 17s. 10id., has the effect of confining the pay-
ment of this class of taxation to the producer—and hence
it is that wages of labour have been reduced to the ex-
tent of some two shillings or more per week, in respect
of the lowest class of labourers, and a proportionate
diminution of the higher class of artisans, a result mani-
festly unjust, and which ought not to be continued a day
after the discovery of a remedy is announced. This
very important mode of accounting for the distress and
misery that so extensively prevail among the producing
classes, has been most lucidly set forth by Mr. John
Taylor, whose sound statistics, and profound writings
form the basis of a society recently-organised in London,
for the concentration and diffusion of enlightened opinion
on the currency question. I refer to the " Society for
the Emancipation of Industry," in Parliament-street, and
I unhesitatingly invite an examination of the publica-
tions of that Society, in confirmation of what I have
advanced. If the views of this Society be fairly
considered and adopted, the wages of labour would un-
doubtedly rise some 20 per cent. without oppression to
the master—there would be abundant means of inter-
change of commodities at remunerating prices to the
capitalist in the home market—foreign commerce would
be carried on with facility and success, as well as with
equal justice to the foreign and British merchant ; and
we should not hear of future instances, such as that de-
scribed by Mr. Ward in the House of Commons, with
reference to the orders tendered by. Mr. Muntz to the
town of Sheffield, being rejected, and ultimately sent abroad
for execution. The English manufacturer would be able
to sell abroad for gold at a price as low, or even lower,
quality being estimated, than the Continental producer.
itfachinery would, from increased commerce at home
and abroad, take its proper place as the auxiliary, rather
than a means of superseding labour. Lord Ashley
might then fearlessly, and with safety, prosecute his
humane legislation to prevent undue labour of females
and children in our factories.

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
April 4, 1844. DELTA.

SAVINGS' BANKS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—That alteration in savings' banks had, long ago, be-
come necessary, is beyond doubt ; the Government have at
length taken the subject up. The proposed scale is not the
least too low, but admits of further reduction.

There should be one set of rules applicable to every insti-
tution, and not varied as they now are. One rule should
provide that, where a party makes deposit as trustee for
another party, he should (subject to penalty for untrue de-
claration) declare in writing that the account opened was the
bond fide money of the person or persons deposited for; that
would prevent trickery which now exists in this respect.
Managers ought to be very cautious as to the description
of parties when first they deposit, as improper individuals
(those well situated in life) avail themselves of these laudable
institutions.—Your obedient servant,
May 6. A MANAGER.

The Bill for finally Abolishing Imprisonment for
Debt, which was read a second time in the House of
Lords on the motion of Lord Cottenham, is a valu-
able fruit of civilisation. Growing intelligence has
by very slow and almost imperceptible steps infused
into the English people an apprehension of this
great maxim of legislation—that the 'recovery of
debts should be the object of laws airecting • debtor
and creditor. The idea seems obvious when stated,
and yet the world has been a long time arriving at it.
Legislators appear to have been long in doubt whether
creditors would prefer the property or the carcase of
their insolvent, and to have indulged them with a
somewhat capricious dominion—sometimes over the
one, sometimes over the other object of desire. The
stern edict of the ten tables—de debitore in partes
secando, has, in spirit, never wholly expired among
us. A mercy has been shown to house and land,
which has been denied to flesh and blood. If the Eng-
lish creditor has not taken his knife, with Shylock or the
old Roman usurer, he has wielded a scarcely less formi-
dable machinery of bolts and bars. Engines of
infliction he had in plenty, degradation and
confinement for all, and starvation besides for
the truly insolvent debtor. But the misfortune always
of
feviwl ithwoeuret tghiavtenforhiNinvh—icah arllemtheedsye
.
iwTnahsster enluamhnededtwsas yet
estate of the debtor was beyond his reach.

It is but lately that realty has been made liable for
the debts of its deceased owner. The greater part of
the property of this kingdom used to be sur-
rounded by a kind of magic circle, within which the
laws of honesty could not, penetrate ; and the Legis-
lature, instead of boldly breaking the charm, and
paying every man's debts ont of his property, at-
tempted to turn the flank of the evil,—to extort justice
by persecution,—to arm the creditor with powers of
vexation instead of powers of sale,—to satisfy his vin-
dictiveness instead of his bill delivered.

Most of our readers have probably heard of the
peine forte et dure of ancient times. The English
law, as every one knows, is exceedingly just and mer-
ciful, and especially is wholly unwilling to condemn
any man without hearing what he has to say. But
this used to beget a difficulty. What was to be done
when a prisoner persisted in saying nothing? Most
persons would say at once, " speak for him." Enter
a plea " not guilty" if you please, and proceed with
the trial. Not so the scrupulous lawyers of ancient
days. They preferred to squeeze a plea out of him.
They laid him naked on his back on the floor of a
low dark chamber. They placed on his body "as
great a weight of iron ai he could bear, and more."
They gave him on alternate days three morsels of the
worst bread and three draughts of standing water, and
so they fed him " till he answered;" or, as it was more
accurately expressed in later times, "till he died." The
treatment of our debtors was conceived in the same spirit,
though carried out with less completeness. The obvious
remedy was not boldly seized by the law, but was left to
be extorted by a process of gradual torture. The land was
not taken, but the debtor squeezed till he gave it. This, at
least, Lord Cottenham states to have been the principle of
the old law. But justice requires us to add the ingenious
arrangement by which its inefficiency was provided for.
The rich man who had property to pay his creditors
was allowed to spend it comfortably in the Fleet or
Marshalsea. On him the squeezing was neutralized.
On the pennyless alone fell the horrors of real impri-
sonment. The screw was only allowed to be effective
where nothing could possibly be effected by its appli-
cation. But now, at last, people are beginning
to find out what they want, and tow to get
it. Facilities are given them for getting their money,
and the debtor's carcase is redeemed from their fangs.
The late Bankrupt and Insolvent Acts made consi-
derable inroads on the whimsical principles of other
days, though not without some peculiar whim-
sicalities of their own. Every one is familiar . with
the pious fraud by which a ruined nobleman, for
the benefit of himself and his creditors,, ap-
pears before the Commissioners in the guise of
a bankrupt dealer in horseflesh ; and Lord Cottenham
amusingly commemorates the learned horror which was
felt on the bench some thirty years ago at the supposi-
tion that an insolvent debtor could be guilty of conniv-
e ance at an arrangement for dividing his property among
his creditors. Lord Cottenham's Bill is to put an end to
all this.

"It proposed to arrange a system under which the
debtor would be enabled, without going to prison, to
deliver up his property for the benefit of those to whom
he was indebted, and it gave to the creditor, on his part,
the power of compelling the debtor to make the conces-
sion. Having done this, the Bill proposed to abolish the
right of imprisonment for debt altogether."
Proceedings in rem are to be facilitated, in personant
abolished—and further, the useless distinctions between
bankruptcy and insolvency are to ,be swept away. .This
is what it should be—efficient, simple, and unoppressive.
The law at present is none of these. It is in some re-
spects even worse than it was ten years ago. It was
then severe, but it was available. You could catch your
knave speedily, and keep hold of him when yon had
got him. You bad him in prison before he knee
where he was, and then you could, perhaps, make
your terms. Now the paraphernalia of notice, ap-
pearance, and other legal delays, which intervene
between your claim and his imprisonment, give
him ample time to take himself and all he has far be-
yond your reach, if only he plays his cards with.tole-
rable dexterity, long before you have arrived at that de-
sirable consummation. And thus, without adopting to
its full extent Lord Cottenham's startling deduction that
nineteen out of twenty insolvents are injured men, be-
cause their creditors do not find it worth while to incur
the expense and trouble of inflicting on them the full
amount of possible punishment, we can fairly say that
the present law is at once unjust and unavailable—in-
efficient against those who wish to escape it, oppressive
upon those who stay to suffer by it; and we are heartily
glad that we are to have no more of its useless vexations.
There remains little now to observe upon, and that
little our readers ought to divine before we record
Of course the Bill did not pass without some little no-
tice of impediment. Of course, Lord Brougham came
forward to have a finger in the pie. Of course, he was
cognisant of a " document on the same subject," pre-
pared by a Noble and Learned Friend, which, of course,
" he had himself to a certain extent revised." The docu-
ment, of course, embraced a most extraordinary degree
of information on the subject, and an infinity of
the most valuable suggestions for the reform of the law
of debtor and creditor that by any possibility could ever
be brought together." Of course "15 different systems
of foreign mercantile law had been examined," of which
Lord Brougham glibly threw in some half. dozen speci-
mens. Of course, Lord Brougham proposed that fur-
ther proceedings should be stayed till his foster child
had been duly appreciated. Of course, Lord Cottenhans
consented with a grumble, and postponed the Committee
on the Bill till that day fortnight, when (we hope we may
add, in conclusion) it will, of course, be carried without
further delay.—Times.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT TO A FATHER AND MS SON-
-On Saturday evening, between five and six o'clock, the
following appalling accident took place on board the Ann
barge, of Faversham, lying off Belvedere timber-wharf, Lam-
beth. The master of the vessel, William Terry, and his son,
Bobert Terry, were assisting in unloading her of a cargo of
timber, when, just as an immense block had been raised
about nine feet from the deck, the iron claws by which it
was sustained suddenly gave way, and the timber fell upon
the unfortunate persons beneath it. They were extricated
as speedily as possible, and conveyed to Westminster Hos-
pital in a state of insensibility. The sufferers were alive last
evening, but were not expected to survive many hours.
We regret to hear that Sir James Duke, M.P,
continues seriously indisposed, and is quite unable to use his
limbs, from a severe attack of rheumatic fever.

.• - -
GENERAL COURT MARTIAL.—STRIKING A NON•
COMMISSIONED OFFICER.—On Saturday last an inquiry took
place at Portman-street barrack, of which Colonel Lascelles,
of the Grenadier Guards, was president, touching the con-
duct of Thomas Hopkins, aged 21, who, without the least
provocation, deliberately struck Sergeant and Drum-Major
Caldwell, of the Coldstream Guards, whilst on duty. - - It ap-
peared from the statement of witnesses, that Hopkins,
on Friday evening parade, assembled with others of the
ofls infantry placed
offi-
cers, in
drums and fifes, and after the usual customary inspection, ho
suddenly left the ranks, and struck Caldwell a violent blow
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whene left a
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mf acrotui arls , eheconsisting was
instantly
assembled in the adjutant's room of the barracks. The
prisoner, it appeared, had been drinking, and when called on
r t
for his defence pleaded guilty. The sentence of the court,
martial was that he be transported for seven years ; but it is
hoped that sonic mitigatory circumstances may save him
from the sentence being fully carried into effect.
DEATH OF THE HON. R. B. WILBRAHAM, M.P.
—it is with regret we have to announce the death of the
above Hon. Gentleman, who expired yesterday afternoon at
illness
was had
five minutes to one o'clock, at Lord Skelmersdale's, in Port-
land-place. We understand that the deceased
been
considered u
n
-
well for some days previous ; but his
merely an attack of influenza, and,
the least danger was apprehended consequently, not
me-
dical attendant or relatives. either by his
the eldest son of Lord The deceased was
of Lady Stanley, He was
and brother
October, 1801, and ma i d was
born the 27th of
Jessey Brooke, third rr
e the 22d of May, 1832, Miss
Bart., by whom he daughter of Sir Richard Brooke,
leaves several children. Lord Skelmers-
daleLord and Lad3r Egerton,
S
Lady Charlotte tanley, Lord Alvanley, Mr. T. and
and other families of rank are
placed in mourning • ,b by the demise of the Hon. Gentleman.
In 1835 he was returned to the House of Commons for it.ll
Lancashire, which county he has successively represented_in
Parliament in conjunction with Lord Francis Egerton. By
his death a vacancy occurs in the House of Commons for that
county district.
FATAL ACCIDENT .—Yesterday,
. . esterday, about noon, an ac-
cident of a most heart -rending description occurred to a fine
child, named John Winter, son of the Bishop of Norwich's
coachman. It appears that the unfortunate child, who was
only one year and a quarter old, had, unobserved, crept to a
trap-door in a room immediately over his Lordship's stables,
and fell through, into one of the stalls, under one of the
horse's feet. The father, hearing the horse plunge in an un-
usual manner, went to him. when he perceived his child en,
tangled in the animal's feet. He instantly rushed to his
rescue, but, before that was accomplished, he himself received
several severe kicks. The poor infant was at once conveyed
to St. George's Hospital, where it breathed its last about
three o'clock.
THE CRIMINAL LOWTHER.—We are glad to be
enabled to state, that a final order has, at length, been re-
ceived from the Secretary of State's office, to the effect that
the man Lowther, who was convicted at the last assizes of
the murder of the Marquis of Normanby's and
gamekeeper,
sentenced to be executed, is to be transported
for life.--.
Yorkshirenian.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone is to preside at
the anniversary festival of the Noblemen and Gentlemen
educated at Eton College, on S t da ur ay, the 18th inst at the
Thatched House Tavern. 9 -
CARRYING COALS TO NEWCAST
morning the Frith of Forth presented LE.—On Saturday
—upwards of thirty light e 0
..t, il I very
animated scene
the various coal ports '2,n - rs were seen beating up to
the coast, to load coal for the
n
London market. '
glisb - • consequence of the " strike" among the
___ pitmen ; and, what is not a little curious, a large
vessel is at present loading Scotch coal for Newcastle.--•
Durham Advertiser.