The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-27 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterday was 'appointed specially for hearing ap-
peals, of which thirty stand upon the list.
Out of the thirty cases which stood upon the list, no
fewer than twenty-eight were appeals between several
parishes, one against the other, with regard to the set-
tlement of casual paupers, the support of illegitimate
children, most of which were quashed in consequence
V technical informalities. The sums expended upon
these appeals, including attorneys' costs, lawyers' fees,
and the attendance of agents and witnesses, must have
been enormous ; and if even they had not been
quashed, one or other of the parishes must have taken
the burden of the pauper, and thus the rate-payers'
pockets suffer for the litigation.
Henry Smith, of the White Hart, Catherine-street,
Strand, appealed against a conviction by David Jardine,
Esq., of Bow-street Police-court, which concerned the
convenience of a large body of men, whose business-
hours were those when others were at rest—namely,
the newspaper compositors.
The first witness called was Mr. Inspector Mullins
of the F division. He stated that on the night of the
27th of May, he entered the appellant's house, and on
entering a parlour where there.was no light he found
four or five men and two women ; one woman and two
of the men were lying asleep on the bench. The par-
ties inside the bar, and in attendance, professed igno-
rance of any person being in the room at the time,
and said they always closed it at twelve o'clock. Mr.
Smith had gone over to the Morning Post newspaper
office, to receive his weekly payments for the refresh-
ments supplied to the printers of that establishment, at
the time. Several prostitutes were in front of the bar
when he (the inspector) first entered the house. The
waiter at once brought in a light when it was called
for. He believed it was a house where a great many
printers connected with the Mornin7 Chronicle, the
Morning Post, and most of the weekly papers, were in
the habit of going to have refreshment after their
respective papers were " made up."
Mr. BODKIN, for the appellant, said he thought the
Bench should, taking even the wording of the convic-
tion, quash it. It said the house was disorderly, and,
in support of that, stated that some men and women
were asleep, but it stated nothing about intoxication or
riot.

The CHAIRMAN said that this decision would press
hard upon a landlord. Surely they could not designate
a sleeping person as disorderly.—(A laugh.)
Several witnesses were called, who proved that the
room in question was always closed shortly after the
theatres, and not opened agaiti until seven o'clock in
the morning. On the morning in question Mr. Smith
had gone over to the Morning Post office to get his
weekly accounts from the printers, and at that time
several persons were outside the bar, so that individuals
might have entered this room unperceived by those in-
side the bar. It was proved also that the coffee-room
was frequented by a number of printers from the Post
and other morning paper, who were never done work
before four or rive o'clock in the morning.
The CHAIRMAN said it was the unpleasant lot of a
most useful and valuable set of men to be compelled to
stop up all night in their honest and respectable voca-
tion. It would be most unfair to prevent them from
having some place where they could get refreshment,
both during and after their working hours. Such being
his opinion, and also that the premises upon which the
conviction had been made were ill-founded, he should,
with the concurrence of his brother magistrates, order
the conviction to be quashed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday John Davis and John White were re-ex-
amined, the former charged with receiving, and the latter
with stealing an ingot of brass, the property of 11r.
Payne, of No. 68, Shoe-lane, brass-worker.
Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, conducted the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Humphreys attended on behalf of White,
and Mr. Wolfe on the part of Davis:
Mr. Ballantine stated that the prosecutor employed a
number of hands, and it was evident he was being robbed
to a considerable extent; as, in addition to the prisoners,
two charges were pending at Union-hall, of having un-
lawful possession of his property. He, therefore, in
self-defence, felt bound to seek that the law should be
carried to extremity. White was in the habit of coining
into Mr. Payne's foundry several times a day, and he
had the means of either stealing the property himself, or
carrying it out for some of IVir. Payne s workmen.
White came as the servant of a respectable firm in the
neighbourhood, in whose employ he had been many
years.
The evidence already taken was read over, to the effect
that on Monday last Wardle and Barnes, two City po-
licemen were watching in plain clothes, and they saw
White leave a small parcel at the bar of the Black Dog,
in Shoe-lane, about five in the evening. About eight
o'clock Davis went to the bar and asked if his foreman
had left anything for him. The barmaid gave him the
parcel. He was stopped outside the house, and the
parcel was found to contain an ingot of brass, worth 3s.
The barmaid identified the prisoners as having left and
received the parcel. White was in the habit of leaving
parcels for Davis.
Mr. Ballantine now called Mr. Payne to identify
the ingot. He said it was cast In a mould peculiar to
his concern, and he never sold brass in the shape of
ingots.
Mr. Wolfe urged that no part of Davis's conduct be-
trayed a guilty knowledge, and he could show under
what representations he received the property.
Mr. Alderman HOOPER thought the proof of a guilty
knowledge had not been made out against Davis, and he
should, therefore, discharge him. He should commit
White for stealing, but he would be remanded till the
next day that the depositions may be prepared.
A donation to the poor-box of 2L was received from
George Woodfall and Son.

BOW-STREET.
Seven young girls were brought up from St. Giles's
workhouse, charged with creating a disturbance. They
were all about 14 years of age.
The Governor of the workhouse said he had had
two very comfortable rooms fitted up, and good fires
kept, for these girls. Last night they broke the locks
off the door, pulled open the skylight, and got on to the
I roof of the workhouse ; and after having blackened their
faces with the soot, they commenced dancing, and
making a great noise.
The prisoner Knight said the Governor had locked
them in two rooms, so small, that they were obliged to
sit on each other's knees, and so they were determined
to get out. They were half starved in the workhouse,
for they got but a pint of water and a pound of bread
a-day. (The prisoners looked very plump and fat.) :She
said she liked the prison, where she had often been,
better than the workhouse, for it was much more airy
there, and they had fine open yards to walk about- in.
They got good food there and plenty of dinner. Vor
her part, she liked the country house much better than
the town house ; and when she left the country houSe
for town, she always felt her health decline. —(Laughter.)
Mr. JARDINE said it was evident that such a girl
would corrupt all the rest.
Knight—l am as quiet as a lamb ;so are we all.
Mr. JARDINE sentenced five of the prisoners to three
weeks' imprisonment, and the other two, Donovan and
Hickey, who were young, to be sent back to the work-
house.

The prisoners, when they left the bar, set up a loud
hurra, and Knight expressed her regret that the sen-
tence was not three months.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mr. Hardwick on entering the Court yesterday, had
the usual packet of letters from poor persons asking for
pecuniary assistance, placed in his hands.
Mr. HARDWICK told Clements, the chief usher, that
the magistrates had been compelled to come to the de-
termination to receive no letters unless the statements
in them were properly authenticated. The number of
letters received during the present week alone, amounted
to upwards of 100. It was quite impossible that these
letters could all be attended to and the cases receive
proper investigation. Besides, if some stop were not
put to this letter-writing system, the Magistrates,
instead of doing good by giving small sums away to
the poor, would be creating a great evil, for they
would unavoidably be the means of bringing into active
operation the host of begging-letter writers, the idle
and the profligate, who abounded in some quarters
within the jurisdiction of this Court. Applicants, there-
fore, must distinctly understand that their written state-
ments must be accompanied by vouchers from respect-
able housekeepers and tradesmen to whom they were
known, and that if this condition be not complied with
their application will not be noticed. It must further be
understood that reromm.nflat;onq will not be received
from the landlords of the applicants, or from small shop-
keepers to whom they may be indebted.
MARYLEBONE. •

Teiteiday a wretchedly attired; but apparently strong-

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and healthy young man, who gave his name Francis
Evans, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Long, upon
the following charge, preferred against him by Mr.
Bingham, one of the Worship-street police magistrates—
It appeared, from the evidence, that on the same day
the prisoner was lying upon the pavement in the New-
road, and that he had chalked upon a stone close to him
the words ." lam starving." Mr. Bingham, who hap-
pened to be passing, and thinking that he had seen the
same man upon a former occasion, under similar cir-
cumstances, directed the attention of a constable to
wards him, upon the sight of whom, he (the prisoner)
got up, and as he was in the act of walking off, he was
taken into custody. The object which Mr. Bingham
had in view, while pursuing this course, was, that an
inquiry might be gone into with the view of ascertaining
whether the prisoner was one really deserving of relief,
or an impostor who ought to be punished.
The prisoner said he was a Coach-painter by trade ;
he was a single man, and had been out of work some time.
Jones, the usher, here stated that the prisoner had
been brought to this Court more than once before, and
convicted, and that upon each occasion he told the same
story which he had done now.—He was committed to
the House of Correction for a month.

• LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday John Wood, sen., John Wocd, jun., and
John Fclix vere placed at the ar before Mr. Norton, for
further examination, on a charge of stealing a vast quan-
tity of printed paper from the Export Excise-office, in
Tower-street, Tower-hill. • _

Mr. Mayow, solicitor to the Board of Excise, attended
to prosecute.
From the evidence it appeared that the two elder pri-
soners had been occasionally employed by the house-
keeper at the Excise-office, in Tower-street, to light the
fires and clean out the place, and availed themselves of
the opportunities afforded them of carrying away an im-
mense quantity of the printed forms used in the different
departments, and sold it as waste piper to a great num-
ber of shopkeepers.
The Court was much crowded with the persons who
had purchased the paper from the prisoners, and after
their evidence had been received, Mr.Mayow applied for
another remand, which was granted.
George Homes, a broker and appraiser, carrying on
business at No. 25, Brick-lane, Spitaltields, who has
been before at this Court to account fer irregularities in
the discharge of his duty as broker, appeared on a sum-
mons charging him with making an overcharge in a case
in which he was engaged, under very aggravated cir-
cumstances.
The brief facts of the case were these:—On Wednes-
day; the 3d inst., Homes made a seizure of the goods of
a poor old woman fur an arrear of rent of IL 55., and
removed the goods on the same evening to his own pre-
mises. On the following Friday the poor woman came
before Mr. Norton, and having related the miserable
state to which she was reduced, principally by her hus-
band going to sea without signing the note, which would
entitle her to a monthly allowance from the owner of
his ship, that humane magistrate directed Saunders, one
of the summoning officers, to see the parties, and make
the best terms he could with them ; and, deeming it a
fit case for relief from the poor box, said a reasonable
sum would be given to settle the matter, and get the
poor woman back her things. Saunders called upon the
landlord, and on informing him of what the magistrate
proposed, he, though a poor man, at once offered to
take 20s. for his debt. The officer next went to the
house of the broker, but was unable to see him until the
Monday following. The poor woman herself, however,
saw him, and told him what the magistrate had offered,
and also the landlord, and he then said he could not re-
store the goods without his expenses. On the Monday
he was again told that the magistrate would settle the
matter; but notwithstanding this, he got the goods con-
demned, and ran up the expenses from ss. 6d. to 125.,
and would not part with them until the 1/. 12s. was paid.
The landlord of the poor woman, in the course of the
11 proceedings, complained that though the defendant had
been paid the money on Tuesday week, he had not been
enabled yet to obtain his twenty shillings, and was there-
fore advised to take out a summons for him in the Court
of Requests,swhich he did.
Mr. NORTON called on the defendant at once to pay
the poor man his pound, and also tke sixpence he had
paid for the summons. He (the defendant) could not
suppose for a moment that the money paid from the
poor-box was intended to be pocketed by him.
The defendant, with evident reluctance, paid the IL 6d.,
and having pleaded guilty to an overcharge of 2s. in his
expenses,
Mr. NORTON, after some severe and pointed remarks
upon what he termed disgraceful and disreputable con-
duct, convicted him in a penalty of three times the
amount of the overcharge and the expenses. Mr. Nor-
ton also directed that the inventory and appraisement
put in by the defendant should be impounded, as they
were so irregularly drawn up as to subject him by an-
other mode of proceeding to very heavy penalties.
WORSHIP- S 7 REE T.
Yesterday a filthy old creature named Margaret Gra-
ham, was placed before Mr. Broughton on numerous
charges of plundering little children of their clothing.
The circumstances which led to the prisoner's de-
tection were these :—As Mrs. Eliza Sillery, the wife
of a publican, residing in Mare-street, Hackney,
was walking at dusk in the evening on the 16th
instant, down the Middleton-road, which is very
lonely, and leads from Dalston into the Kingsland-road,
she heard the cries of a child a short distance off,
and after listening some time, saw the prisoner kneel-
ing under a dark wall about twenty yards out of the
road, in front of a little boy between three and four
years of age. As the child kept crying and sobbing, she
thought it suspicious, and stopped, when she heard the
prisoner say, " Stop here, my dear, and I'll come back
again in a minute." She then walked away from the
child; towards the witness, but seeing she was observed,
she became confused, turned back again, took hold of
the little boy's hand, and led him down to the bottom of
the wall, the child asking her to take him to his mother.
The witness was now convinced the prisoner was steal-
ing the child, and went up to her, when she found the
little creature without any external covering, shivering
from head to foot, and crying, as the witness said,
" ready to break its heart." She told the prisoner the
child was not her's, but she said it was, and while she
was :speaking the witness saw something hanging out
under the prisoner's shawl, which she pulled on one
side, when the prisoner dropped the child's cloth cloak,
and fur tippet. The witness picked them up, and in-
stantly seized the prisoner by the arm ; she struggled
violently to get away but she held her firmly, and called
. for the police, which attracted the notice of an elderly
gentleman, and brought him to her assistance, and be-
tween them, in spite of the resistance of the prisoner,
succeeded in dragging her down the road till they
met, a policeman, into whose custody they gave her.
.The child could neither tell its name nor where it lived,
but fortunately its aunt, Matilda Wright, came up at
the moment and identified it as James Cowley, the son
of respectable parents, residing in Brunswick Cottage,
Hackney-road, from
.whose door it had been decoyed
about an hour and a half before. The prisoner had
given the little fellow two apples to induce him to go
with her, and they were still in his hand when Mrs.
Sillery found him.
The prisoner was remanded till yesterday for identi-
fication, as a great many other children in the neigh-
bourhood had been robbed by an old woman exactly
answering the prisoner's appearance, but though several
children were produced, and there could be no doubt
the prisoner was the guilty party, they were all too
young to depend upon their testimony, and the charges
were obliged to be reluctantly abandoned. The pri-
soner was fully committed to Newgate on the case above
stated.

CHARITY.—H. 8., 51., and R.N.F., 10s., for the widow
Hoscroft ; and half a 51. note from R. E., who will send
the other half on this being acknowledged.

UNION-HALL.

George Kent, a marine-store dealer in Bermondsey,
was brought up, charged as the receiver of the brass-
work of a fire engine belonging to St. Olave's parish,
under the following circumstances :
It appeared that since the destruction of Saint Olave's
church by fire, the engine-house having shared the same
fate, the engine and its appurtenances were kept locked
up in an arch under the Greenwich railway. This
place, it seemed, was broken open on Tuesday night, and
the engine itself being of too unwieldy a description to
carry off without detection, the thieves proceeded to
wrench off all the brass-work, together with the copper
tubes on the'new hose, thus rendering the machine totally
useless, in the event of its being required. The follow-
ing day the prisoner sold the brass-work of the engine
to a brass-founder in Shoe-lane, named Payne, the latter
of whoin, on subsequently being informed of the circum-
stances of the robbery, gave information of the fact of
his purchase from the prisoner, which led to the appre-
hension of the latter. A portion of the brass-work had
"St. Olave's Palish" marked on it.

Tbe prisoner, in accounting: for the possession of the
article, said that he purchased it all of a man whose
name, he did not know but whose person he should again
recognise if he. saw
him-
The MAGis.Taxii; said that the prisoner gave a most
ithstaisfactoryjaccOunt of the manner in which- he be-
came .possessed of the article, and remanded him.
' Three men, named Traniley, Bent, and Bishop, were
charged with furiously driving a cart against the pony-
phaeton of Edward Crawley, Esq , of Battersea, throw-
ing that gentleman out, and smashing the vehicle to
pieces.
From Mr. Crawley's statement it appeared that on
the preceding afternoon, between five and six o'clock,
as he was driving his pony phaeton along Kennington-
lane, the three defendants, who were in a cart, came
along in the opposite direction on the wrong side, in such
a furious manner as to come in collision with the phaeton,
which it upset, shattering it to pieces, and he (Mr. C.)
was thrown out, and it was miraculous he was not
killed ;as it was his arm sustained some injury. The
phaeton was not only broken in the way described, but
the pony was also very much hurt.
The defendants:expressed their regret at what had
taken place, and the man who was driving having under-
taken to pay for the damage sustained (upwards of 201.)
the magistrate, at the intercession of the complainant,
consented not to inflict the penalty, at the same time
reprobating in strong terms their conduct in driving in
such a reckless manner.

GREENWICH.
Yesterday Captain Henry Pratt, who stands charged
w!th obtaining moneys from different persons, under
pretence of procuring them advantageous engagements,
was brought up for final examination before Mr. Jeremy,
and the following additional evidence taken :
Mr. Daniel Davies, owner of the brig Constanoe, lying
in the Commercial Docks, whom the prisoner had re-
presented to Captain Parker, of Commercial-road, East,
as a person who would appoint him to the command of
the Dryope, another vessel belonging to the same owner-
ship, deposed that he had nothing whatever to do with
that -hip. About ten days before the prisoner came on
board, and represented himself as having been in the
2m ploy of Mr. John Davis, of Prince Edward's Island,
and was going to that island in the spring. Had never
made any appointments with the prisoner to meet at

Lloyd's. Had no property or interesi in the Dryope.
Pratt told witness he was going master of the Dryope.
Tfiomas Andrew Carr deposed that he is owner of the
Dryope ; the ship is in dock under a ship-keeper, no
master being appointed to her since her voyage from
North America. Prisoner came to Lloyd's, and was in-
troduced by the waiter, as a person wishing to see hint.
He said he understood the ship was for sale, and two
friends of his had gone on board to examine her, with as
view to purchase, and that, if not sold to them, he was
willing to offer terms. He said he had been in Cunard's
employ, the great North American shipowner, and
would give bills on that firm in payment. Witness de-
clined, having heard of the prisoner's proceedings. He
ordered the ship-keeper not to let him on board again,
many people having, he understood, being duped by the
specious representations of the prisoner.
Mr. JEREMY said he believed an extensive system o
fraud had been carried on by the prisoner ; he should
therefore, certainly send him for trial on the two chat-gots
of Capt. Parker, and Mr. Hay, the shipwright.
The parties were bound over to prosecute at the Sur-
rey Sessions.
THAMES POLICE.

Yesterday Mr. Swainson, from the office of Mr. Jones,
Solicitor to the Admiralty, applied to Mr. Ballantine,
for process against Captain Thomas Dunnoti, the master
of the brig Sarah Charlotte, now lying in tho London
Dock, for having abandoned three British seamen,
named Edward Wilkinson, Hiram Gibbs, and James
Cline, at Bahia.
Mr. Swainson said his application was founded on the
40th section of the Merchant Seamen's Act, and the
circumstances were these :—The men shipped on board the
Sarah Charlotte under articles at Guayaquil, a city and!
seaport of Quito, in Colombia, on a voyage to Vigo, in
Spain ; but owing to a scarcity of provisions and water,
the vessel was compelled to put into Bahia, in distress.
Here the three men who were subsequently abandoned
were taken ill, and went ashore for medical advice.
Captain Dunnett wished to send them to the hospital,
and applied to the British Consul for his consent to
their going there ; but the doctor to whom they applied.
said the illness under which they laboured was very
trifling, and with a little medicine and case they would
soon recover. In consequence of this statement the
Consul would not give his sanction to the seamen being
sent to the hospital, and directed them to return to the
brig. The captain, however, declined to receive them,.
and said he would not have any sick men on board his.
ship, and compelled them to fetch their clothes out of
the vessel, and in defiance of the remonstrances
of the British Consul, sailed without them. Two of the
men now present were sent home in the barque Mary,
of Liverpool, and had very recently arrived in Lon& n
from that town, in a very destitute state. The other
man joined an American ship at Bahia, on a voyage to
New York. Her Majesty's Government considered this
was a fit case for prosecution, more particularly as se,
dangerous practice was growing up of abandoning sea-
men in foreign ports in violation of the express provi-
sions of Sir James Graham's Act, which declared that
no master should discharge any individual person of his
Crew without the previous sanction of the ambassador.
consul, or vice-consul. Mr. Swainson then put in a cer-•
tificate from the British Consul to the following effect,:—
" These are to certify that Hiram Gibbs, Edward
Wilkinson, and James Cline, seamen, were flat at this
port of Bahia by Thomas Dunnett, jun., master .of the
British brig Sarah Charlotte, of Harwich, on her voyage
from Guayaquil to Vigo, without my sanction or know-
ledge. "EDWARD PORTER, ConsuL
" British Consulate, Bahia, Oct. 30, 1843."
Wilkinson, one of the seamen named in the Comas
certificate, was then sworn, and confirmed the statement
of Mr. Swainson.

In answer to questions from the Magistrate he said he,
went out in the Creole, Captain Stephenson, to South
America, and was attacked with the fever of the country,
and compelled to leave the ship. He shipped on board
the Sarah Charlotte in June last, and remained with her
four months. He was sure the Doctor at Bahia said
that he and his shipmates would do well with a little
medicine and care, and that there was no occasion for
them to go to the hospital.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the case was a proper one for
inquiry, and he would grant a summons against Captain
Dunnett, and ascertain the facts.
Hiram Gibbs, another seaman, then got into the witr
ness box, and was beginning to, make his statement,.
when the Magistrate said both cases were similar, and
there was no occasion for two summonses.
Mr. Swainson then gave directions to Ellis, the second
usher of the Court, to board and lodge the seamen for
the present, and the Admiralty would be accountable for

the expenses.
The determination of her Majesty's Government t°
prosecute masters of ships who abandon sailors in
foreign ports, is likely to bring incalculable benefit to
merchant seamen, many of whom, in the words of the
Act of Parliament, " have been reduced to distress, and
thereby tempted to become pirates, or otherwise Vie'
conduct themselves." The master of a ship, who left 0,
seaman on the African coast, was prosecuted by the
Admiralty at the last Liverpool Assizes, and, upon cow
viction, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment-

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Ellen, Rodger, from Singapore at Liverpool,
sailed Oct. 4, St. Helena, Dec. 13 ' • Bahamian' Pearson,
from China at Liverpool, sailed Sept. 2 ; Currency,
Brodrick, from Bengal at Liverpool, sailed Spt. 11, bs.
Helena, Dec. 2. •
Arrivals at St. Helena—Foxhound, Simmons, Dec. 12,
from whaling ; Georgiana, Richardson, 2d, from the
Cape to London ; Arabella, Jordan, from Sumatra to
Genoa ; Union, Allen, from Mauritius, and sailed 2d to
London ; Isabel, Quesada, Dec. 8, from Valparaiso, and
sailed 13th to Malaga ; Adriana Dodds, 9th, from Maw
ritius, and sailed 10th to Cork ' • Siam, Willmot, 9th,
from China, and sailed 12th to London ; Java ICoelier,
Dorrnyek, 10th, from Batavia, and sailed 12th to Ant:
sterdam ; Mary Ann, Medhurst, from Algoa Bay, and
sailed lath to London ; Mary Ann Locke, 11th, front
the Cape, and sailed 13th to London ; Galatea, Owen,
11th, from the Cape, and sailed 13th to London ; Jame'
Moran, Walker, 12th, from Bombay, and sailed 12th to
Liverpool ; Frances Whitney, 13th, from Sumatra t?
Genoa ; Ellen, Rogers, 13th, from Singapore, and sailed
to Liverpool.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—True
Briton, Consitt, from Portsmouth, and sailed Nov. 4 tie',
Madras; Mary Ann, Jaques, from Portsmouth, and
sailed Nov. 7 to Madras; Fanchon, Pyk, to Batavia;
William, Taylor, Nov. 2 from Calcutta and Mauritius,
and sailed 3d to Demerara; Union, Allen, 4th from
Mauritius, and sailed 9th to London; Colchester,
Withers, 9th from Liverpool; Corcyra, Hazlewood,f_r°l2l
Portsmouth and Madeira; Science, Rees, 10th from
Liverpool ; Persia, Stevens, from London; Port Fleet-
wood, Vidler, from London.
Departures from Table Bay—Maid of Mona, Nov.
to Algoa Bay; City of London, to Mauritius ; Olivia,
Roome, 9th to Calcutta; Curraghmore, Ball, to Alrli
Bay and Mauritius.
Arrivals in Algoa Bay—Oscar and Jim Crow, from
London.
Arrivals in Simon's Bay—Planet, Nov. 6 from Table
Bay; her Majesty's ship Bittern, Bth from St. Helena-
Departure from Simon's Bay—Her Majesty's Air
Conway, Nov. 6, on a cruise.

EFFECT OF ROCKETS ON THE ABYSSINIANS.----
soon as it became dark, rockets, which had been brought
by the Embassy, were to be discharged from the tent`'
by the King's express desire. With fire-arms the Abyr
sinians were previously acquainted ; and the brass gal,
loper (cannon) which had echoed so recently, althellgm
viewed with wonderful respect, was still the only eve!"
on a colo§sal scale, to which they were familial"
But these were the first rockets of which his Igsiesi:
v
had viewed the flight ; and the impression they Pr°-
duced upon his mind, as he•gazed from his watch toverl
was scarcely less than that worked upOn,his assembled
subjects. Night had thrown her sable mantle around'
and the novel principle of ascent, with the grandeur 0!„
the brilliant rush into the skies, afforded matter
amazement to all spectators. *hen the preject4l
started, with a loud roar from its bed, men, woreell
and children, fell flat upon their faces. Horses sln,
mules broke loose from their tethers, and the war,r'f:
who had any heart remaining shouted aloud. The
Galla tribes, who witnessed the meteor-like explosio
from the vicinity, ascribed the phenomena to the'llseaf
potent medicines ; and declared, that, since the CM...,
could at pleasure produce comets in the sky and
from heaven, there was nought for them left, save abl ds
submission to the King's commands.—Hurris's Bigshicin
of "Ethiopia. Go'
SYMPTOMS OF PRECAUTION 'AND VI6OUR.---
vernment is lueparing to reinforce the military establitholsnt
_A
of Ireland. Two companies of the Royal Foot Artillery,
.tag;
a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery, are on.theirAlittO• to
country. Several regiments aro under orders of readineto
start at a moment's notice, if necessary. Arrangemeni,sn
been made with the railroad directors for this purpose.""u
tin Evening Mail. •
STROUD.—Last week, in excavating for the rail-
way, a large tusk of an elephant was discovered,
the surface of the earth, imbedded in dry gravel. This nannor-
diluvian relic measured 71i feet in length, and was of Pr;'cieg
tionate thickness. A single fossil tooth of an elephant
up some months since on the same gravel bed.— Wilts fl au
There is a healthy little place called " The 113udieg
vale," near Eastwood, which contains forty houses, inclant6
Kin stone Lodge and Bromley House, with 240 inhabitance
averaging six a house. In this number of inhabitants, tAt.
arc sixteen persons whose ages amouat to 1,200 Years*---
tingham Review.
22 feet belo:

BIRTHS. of
On the Ud inst., at Upper Tulae-hill, Brixton, the lady
G.Esq., of a son.
On the Ist of October, at Mauritius, the lady of Henry 131"
low, Es.,
20th inst., of a daughter. ,axles
On the at the Trafalgar, Greenwich, Mrs. .
Hart, of a son. butcher'
On the 21st inst., the wife of Mr. James Watson,
of Montpelier Valeßlackheath, of a daughter.
On the 24th inst., Barnstaple,
at Devon,
Stphsns, Esq., of a son. f
On the 24th inst., at St. Leonard's-Gn-Sea, the lady °-
Rev. T. Kearsey Thomas, of a son.
the lady of Thowee
the

MARRIED. Robinseth
On the 25th inst., at Doncaster, the Rev. Julian „_rre,
M.A., to Harriet, third daughter of the Rev. John Sh
D.D., Vicar of Doncaster and Canon of York.

DIED.
On the 17th inst., at Moorabu, Australia, Mr. B. flallen'
the brother of Mr. Samuel Hallen, of Stamford-street.
On the 17th inst., at Great Portland-street, Eleanor Jamie,
A
danghter of the late N. J. N. Buckle, Esq. of Gloucester.
ra
brecht, Esq., a
25th ged 47. Wil
On the inst., at Abbots Langley, Herts,
ltam
Bagot,
On the 25th inst., at Finsbury-circus, Charles Wiltia

of
London: Printed and Published by AIURDO YOVICuI is
Ne. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strives
the County of,hliddlesei Saturday, jagues7 27, 1844*