The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT 0$ THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Mexiean Government, as appears from an article
in the Moniteur, has taken measures for establishing a
species of Concordat with the Pope, by which, amidst
the most reverend expressions towards his Holiness, as
recognized Head of the Romish Church, the Americans
make. no secret of their intention to define and limit in,
temporal matters, that authority to which, in points of a
spiritual 'nature, they profess their ostensible obedience.
While the Republic submits to the Ecclesiastical Crum-
eils her opinions, so far as doctrine is concerned, She-takes
especial care to reserve a perfect freedom from control on
questions of discipline, patronage, church revenues; orga-
nization of dioceses, election of bishops, with respect to
which latter subject it is promised merely, t' qu'il en seta
donne: avis asa saintett4" it is further provided, that all
ecclesiastical affairs shall be determined within the Repub-
lic, conformably to the canons and the laws. That no
strangers shall, by virtue of any commission, exercise
,the
least act of ecclesiastical juriesdiction. These, with the
offer of an annual free gift of 100,000 pesos to the Holy
See, and a declaration that, where the monks and nuns
were formerly amenable to the authorities out of the
realM, they shall now have recourse to their proper Me-
tropolitan, form the chief provisions recommended by
two ebmmissions,,,,which have presented a report to' the
Senate. The above scheme of connexion with the Church
of Rouse, if adopted, will, not leave much room for en-
croachments by the Papacy on the national clergy of the
Republic.
The arguments by which Mr. Shuttleworth' at the Man-
chester Meeting, met the advocates of the Corn Laws,
cannot easily be answered— •
" The beat argument (be observed) I have heard in defence of
the existing Corn Laws is, that the amount of taxation to which
the grower in this country is subject is so much greater than that
to which the growers abroad are liable, that he 'cannot bring his
produce to market against foreign competition. I am not disposed
to extenuate the evile of taxation—l know they are great; but
great as they undoubtedly are, they are not fairly chargeable with
the monstrous evil of justifying these laws. They press as heavily
on wrought manufactures am on agricultural produce, and, there-
fore, (Ilford no facility for introducing foreign corn ; as, in order
to import it, eninething must have been exported to pay for it;
the importer of foreign corn will receive those articles in payment,
for which he will give no more ivlieu sold subject to heavy taxa-
tion, than if no taxes whatever existed. Suppose, for example,
that the taxation of this country raised corn 20 per cent. in price,
there would he an inducement to that extent to bring foreign corn
hither ; but if every other thing else were also raised W per cent.
the foreign growers would he in precisely the same situation as if
ino such advantage had taken place in his Limn. 'lbis reasoning
shows that as taxation equally raises the price of corn and all
other things, it does not expose the home grower to any unfair
risk of foreign competition. The argument, if good for any thing,
must be limits l exclusively to those taxes which fall directly on
, the land."

Mr. Shuttleworth adverts to the recrimination of the land-
holders against the other classes of society; but here, it
appears to us, he is less successful.
" Another argument used in defence of these laws (he says) is
founded on the protection granted to WSW of our mannfacturers in
defence of their monopoly of the haute market. It is alleged, that in
consequence of the corn growers being compelled to pay more
than they otherwise would if a free importation of foreign menu-
factures were permitted, they ought to have the monopoly of the
home market. There may, for aught I know, still be some indi-
viduals disposed to set a value on legislative patronage; but sure I
am, that I give expression to the almost unanimous opinion of the
tradinginterests, when I say that it is to be deplored that the
patronage was even, bestowed upon us."
Nowi we confess, we have never seen any greaterlibe-
ratty on the part of the Manufacturers than on the part of
the Agriculturists, when it has been proposed to invade
their monopoly. Mr. Shuttleworth must not flatter him-
self that the manufacturers throughout the country are yet
generally converts to his liberal views. How many of
the Mercantile and Manufacturing interests in tin! House
of Commons have been abusing Ministers for listening to
political economists, and adopting their views respecting
free trade ? Touch any one class, silk manufacturers,
linen manufacturer's, or ship owners, and a loud outcry is
instantly raised. • They would all be very glad, no doubt,
to have cheap bread; but each would, at the same time,
wish to exclude fair competition in the !wide in which he
himself deals. The land owners possess the power to
enforce their monopoly; the other classes are without
power; but this is the only difference between them.—
Morning Chronicle.
Notwithstanding the pains which Lord Eldon, and, with
his assistance, that Parliament 'has taken to reform the
Bankrupt Laws, they are still, in practice, the source of
great and notorious abuse ; so much so, indeed, that there
are fesi men of business who haVe the 'misfortune to be
creditors of an insolvent estate, who would not rather
submit to almost any loss, in the shape of composition,
than that a commission of bankrupt should issue.. A case
which is stated to have come before the Lord Chancellor
only a few dayti ago, affords a tolerable specimen of the
way in which country commissions are sometimes sued
out and Worked. In that case the clerk to the solicitor is
stated to have been one of the Commissioners—a circum-
stance at which his Lordship •is represented to have eit-
pressed no small share of astonishment. But though
there may have been some degree of novelty in such a
circumstattee, we do not see that, hi effect, it differs very
materially from what we understand to be a very common
praetice, viz. that the partner of the stiliciter shall be one
of the Commissioners Indeed a bankruptcy, in a mode-
rate-sized country town, generally furnishes work for ail
the ettornies—either,es solicitors itt suing out the commis-
sion, as Commissioners, or as bolleitol'S to the assignees,
In the choice of these latter, the struggle, generally, is
not. as to who are most likely to administer the estate in
the best manner for the erediters, but which attorney's
friends shall get him the job ; and, in some instances, where
the election is likely to be a closely run one, the compro-
mise takes' place, and the estate, is blessed, or rather sad-
died, with the assistance and the costs of two sets of
solicitors. , Though these kind of unseemly struggles,
andssktill more unseemly results do not take. place
in the case of town commissions, front the mere
respectable character of the Commissioners, yet
,the way
in which the business is too often transacted at Guildhall
leads to full as had results, and stands quite as much in
need of a thorough reform. Considering the intricate and
momentous nature of the questions which come before
there tribunals, it scein, somewhat absurd, that they should
be composed, as they, sometimes are, of young bridess
banisters, whose loi6wledge and experience must be often
less than that of• the country clerk in the case we have
alluded 41. .Wancten wonder how sated men as Mr. Mon-
taglis Mr% Pollock and. other eminent barristere, who are
employed as Coensel in these ,asses, can keep their coun-
tenance when they are addressing, mis arbiters of their opi-
nious, Paso" for whose indgmeot they ism feel little or no
respect. Resides, to seethes, Gentlemen appointing sit-
tings on ten or a dozen Commissions on the same day, and
many of them at the same hour, necessarily bespeaks a
confusion and an impossibility of attention, whirl, must
dis sat men of business, Red, in a great degree, defeat the
g
real
for which they assemble. Knowing the ex.
tent. PolflutPh7seevilwe were in hopesr t_l7:l-ritiiiits
seii:ott.letras
reeturimended by ; the Chancery
pies(:
ent
ititituu d
have been the total abolition of ti •
missioners, and the establishment of a Bankrupt bou'atini;
rt, full of tedioust
their stead.
I"tyead of
a balky
Iterl fewer still under-
stand, de-
tails,wined fete have reac, 11,11 1
would rhavP been
stand, a few plain practical suggestmnsw.i.ch
is
likely
to
of much more service than any thing t
arise
from this ponderous performance.
themselves tout, perhaps,
'The truth is, that
laWyers will never reform -
intending it, the result of all limit; iiiiiviiirigieisssteoetii:
ttiombiee, in
to
hthae!l°Zylti,:riarnultiirtYileittball:l(;Sri. tust bea Ythe work of irtbei! of
one
bu-
siness and of common sense; the latter quality
net:leg-won;
it, rofessmnal
weiat evert if they possess p
apply to the errors of their own systene—Morning Heraid.
in- classes
eroiduet of the work g
The circumstances'aud
in different parts Of the country haveexhibited of late some
otriking:contrabti. In Lancaah,ire and
the manufacturing

districts of the West of Scotland, great number of those,
who are usually occupied in the various departments of the
Cotton Trade, have found it impossible to procure em-
ployment, and have borne great privatiOns with exemplary
patience; 'they have shown-their willingness to labour In
alit way, and on almost any terihs, ht order to earn some
small pittance for their families ; and the benevolence of
their• more fortunate countrymen has not been slow to es-
sist" sufferers so deserving of compassion. Yet, with such
a scene as this going on before their eyes, the colliers in

the :neighbourhood of Birmingham, though liberal wages
were ready for their acceptance, combined against their
masters, and even broke out into open disturbances, in or-
der to compel their employers to pay then at it higher
rate. " The attizans of Dublin have scarcely ceased
parading the streets, in formal procession, with a view
to accomplish a similar object; and some descriptions Of
thent still act in concert, and refuse to work except on the
terms which they theinselves dictate. Are these men
blind to what.'has happened in Lancashire? - May not the
distress which has assailed the cotton trade overtake them
at some future time ? And what will it then avail them
to have babbled after Joseph' Hunie, concerning the .pre-.
tended right of every man to .refuse ,to work unless he.
gets s remuneration which he is pleased to think suffici-
ent:? Will that right provide them with the means of sub-
sistence, when, in the vicissitudes of trade, employment
becomes scanty? Far be it from us to say to the suffering
population of Manchester and Glasgow, " It is not long
since you chose to continue idle for months,because your mas-
ters would not 'submit to your dictation ; they sustained
great loss at the time in, consequence of your combination ;
and you wasted, in supporting that combination, funds
which might have afforded you now a most valuable re-
source; you combined not to work then, because you had
a right not to work, unless you were satisfied with the
wages; if such rights are to be acted upon, in what situa-
tioe will strict right leave you now ?" We would not
action such notions towards them; because humanity is .a
safer rule of conduct than those tissues of verbal jargon,
alike devoid of feeling and of deep thought, which some
soi4lisant political philosophers palm upon the world. for
profound reasonings. But we would suggest, both to the
working classes and to those who assume this branch of
legislation as their peculiar department, that, when they
look at the supposed right to combine, they see only half
the question—that in all branches of trade there must be
Vicissitudes—and that the supposed moral right to com-
bine, in seasons of good trade, is not easily reconcileable,
in ;sound reasoning, with the undoubted moral right of
those who, when trade is depressed, cannot procure em-
ployment, to he saved from starvation either by the poors'
rates, or the benevolence of their fellow-subjects. The
reasonings of Joseph Hume, on this subject, proceed upon

the ti u si t ion —that neither men nor the- laws are to
have any bowels of compassion for an unemployed poor.
Fortunately for us all, that is a supposition which will
never. hold true in England; and theories built upon it,
however liberal in aspect, ought never to be acted upon
here.—New Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Charlton, of the Vicar-General's-office,

DoCtors'-Commons, appeared before Mr. Alderman Amur on
Saturday, upon aaummons, charged with assaulting Peter Barney,
a strange-looking prim little personage, about 50 years of age,
apparently' a foreigner.

- The complainant stated, that he was A private teacher of writing;
and other accomplishnienta, and in consequence of a message fron►
a Mr. Fowler, he waited upon the defendant at his chambers, and
the first. thing he accosted him with was," How dare you kiss
Mit; Fussier, br ? " He answered him by simply admitting that
l►e had done so. " And are you not ashamed of yourself ?" said
Mr. 'Charlton. Witness replied, where there was no sin, there
need he no shame upon which the defendant got into a passion,
and talked of docking hint i►► a horse-pond. " Now," said Mr.
Peter Barney, uppralink to the Alderman, " if I had the lady's
option,. surely I. win
.not hound to oak Mr. Charlton whether 1
n►igltt kiss her or not. I had a free invitati►m front .Mr. Fowler
to call upon the family .whenever I chose, and I shall
Mr. Alderman AN stAy.—Conte,. sir,. do nut tell me a long
rigmarole story. What induced you to call upon Mr. Charlton
at all ?

Peter explained that he did so by the desire of Mr. Fonder, jun.
Mr. Alderman ANSLKL—And did he give you that black eye?
Barney declared
:that he did, and had assaulted him without
sufficient provocation.
Mr. Charlton, in reply, stated that be bad recommended the
complainant to the family of a Mr. Fowler, at Newington, as a
writing-master. :A few days ago he was informed that the com-
plainant had been detected by Mrs. Fowler kissing . his pupil, a
girl not tinirteen years of age; and that perceiving front what
she saw of his manner that his . intention was not to stop
with the insult he had offered, she immediately turned hies out
.of th&bonee. Upon questioning the girl afterwards, she said
the complainant had . been endeavouring to persuade her she
was old enough to have a husband, and btu! asked her if she hall
any objection to leave her friends, and go to live in Russia. lie
had, subsequently lurked about the premises to take advantage of
Mrs. • Fowler's absence, and gain admittance from the servants to
the girl, who was so terrified at him, that when she heard he
was at the door, she ran down stairs and locked herself into a
cellar. In this state of things, Mrs. Fowler had requested him
to prevent, if possible, Barney from continuing to annoy the fa-
mily ; and with this view, Mr. Fowler, jun. sent the complain-
ant to him upon. this occasion. When.he taxed Peter with taking
.the liberty to kiss Miss Fowler, with the greatest effrontery in the
world
he replied, " It is very. true ; and I'll do it again as often es I
please,
.Sir." Mr. Charlton told him if he did, he would wring his
rune from his face ; and Peter becoming very abusive, he ordered hint
to leave the room. ibis Peter refined to do, and being threatened
with expulsion, he put himself in a boxing attitude, whereupon
Mr. Charlton struck the blows • tvhich were now the subject of
complaint, and Peter having beard perhaps that " immoderate
valour swells into a fault," retreated without returning upon Mr.
Charlton the favours he hail bestowed.
" You had betternot have come here, Barney," said the Al-
derman,-" if it' is true that you hive conducted yourself in this
disgraceful manner to a child."
Peter seemed a stranger toshame, and appeared to think there
wits nothing disreputable to him in Mr. Chariton's statement ; at.
all events, he did not contradict it ; lint he impressed upon the
Magistrate that Mr. Charlton struck the first blow,
Mr. Alderman Asstev said no purr wonld.blame the irritation
Mr. Charlton felt at the manner in which Barney had discredited
recommendation,his and repaid his kindness to hint; but although
. .

. .
he could, have wished he had shown a little more forbearance, he
could not think of holding Mr. Charlton to hail under the dream-
Itances. Complaint dismissed.
BOW-STREET.—Robert Hogg was charged by George
'Forred with an assault, under the following circumstances t.......
It appeared that the complainant having too much reason to
suspect the fidelity of his wife, had recourse to an expedient to
which jealous husbands are 'in the habit of resorting, and
feigning a • sudden cull to the country, where, he said, his pro.;
Settee was required for a few- days, he left his lodgings in
Plough-court, Carey-street, on the morning of Friday, resolv-
ing to return at night, with a view to ascertain how far his sus-
picions were well-founded. ' At half-past 1 i on the night in
question he returned home accordingly, and opening the street-
door with ft latch key, he proceeded up-stairs on tip-toe to his
wife. bed-chamber, the 'door of which he fotmd locked. lie
knocked, but received no answer ; but feeling convinced, from
certain suppressed whispers, that his wife and her paramour were
closeted ,together, he knocked with renewed violence, and de-
manded to be admitted. Ile then called , for a light, whent
tlt room. suddenly,
the door
The
rtevaa complainantt tti
loeked,, and the defendant darted
(rein
en 4
progress, received a violent blow tin ti'llea body,
to
,iwhicha:T est
coupledhis
with the force with which he rushed by hint in his endeavour
to avoid detection, brought hint (complainant) to the ground,
I,:ni::::efeltil,:;nofstait.
11,el,te defendant, however, was arrested
In hit flight by a watchman • and the complainant charged him
, whiwstatiosi,hlte,..l
;1131,his which 110 W complaied. T lia poor man,d
, fendimcni►. •,fis i- •0114 N , seemed to feel (Jeeply ; while the e'''
leqty, manner the utmost indifference, and even

The comptainant and defendant are both bakers by trade, and
until the present occurrent% they were on terms
of the strictest
friendship.
Hogg, in his defame, said, that he met the complaittaut's wife,
by theism in Holborn, and that ahe invited hint home to litiPP!'
lie disehtioted any ,eritititial intention, and denied that any thing
inipilTer had Named between them. When naked, however, how-
ever, to reconcile that statement with his endeavour to avoid de-
tection, he smiled and said nothing,.
311.. fiNsii 13 13,, after eointrienting in severe terms on the coo-
duet of the defendant, who, under the mask of friendship, had, to

all appearance, acted a very different part, said that he shotild be
held to bail for the assault, and taking into consideration the cir.
oumatances connected with the case, he should further he required
to give notice to the - complainant of the persons Whom he meant
to bring for Ward in his behalf.
MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—On Satitrday, M Norton, a
Northaniptonshire man, who formerly kept a butcher's shop
in Fitzroy-market, with his wife and four children, the eldest
eight or nine years of age, and the youngest at the breast,
asked Mr. ItAWLINSON's advite. Ile said, that on Thera-
day, being in the utmost distress, he applied to the attrteer of
St. Pancras (his own pariah), and they were taken into the
workhouse, but that on Friday, by order of the Board, 10s. were-
given to him, and they, were sent away. Ile walked the streets
until the children could proceed in) farther, endeavouring to pro-
cure a lodging, which every body refused to give hltril because of
his family ; and they must have remained out all night, if it had
not been for a lady, who took them to her house.
A little kind-looking old lady, very neatly dressed, whose
name is Charlotte Sharp, and *he lives at No. 20, Field-street,
Battle-bridge, came forward, and said, that hearing a noise at the
top of the street, between twelve and one in the morning, she got
did 14 bed, dressed herself, and went to ass what was the matter.
On her road, she found the poor man and woman sitting .together,
tipoti the ground; the oldest child was sitting at a distance by
himself, two of the little girls were asleep upon a piece of board,
and the other was in her mother's
_arms. " I could not, your
Worship," said she, " return to my bed, and leave the poor crea-
tures in such distress ; so I took them home, and I hope your Wor-
ship will be so good as to do something for them." - •
Mr. RAWLINSON asked her if she knew anything of the fa-
mily ?—She said she never saw them before.
Mr. Rawbtsisort---You have really done a very kind act, and
I am sure the recollection of it will afford you satisfaction at a
future day. I will immediately send an officer with them to the
workhouse, and, if the parish will not provide for them, bring
them back to me. .

Major Spooner was charged by Morris Hart, of No. 7, Holy-
well-street, in the Strand, with an assault.
Hart said, that on Thursday,, when he took some damask-
table-cloths and napkins to the Major's house, in Bentinek-
street, which the Major had bought of his father, a dispute
arose about the quality,, and the Major refused to pay for them.,
He threw the napkins, &c. about the floor, locked the Par-
lour door, knocked him down, called him an impostor, and.kept
beating hint, although be cried murder and mercy, until at
last he kicked him out of the house, and lie was very much-in-
jured by a kick, upon a dangerous part, which he received at the
street-door.

John Lomath, a stranger passing by, witneatd the last kick.
The Major acknowledged that, he did kick the complainant out
of the house, ai a reward.(he said) for hiS insolence.
He was ordered to give hail, himself in 40/. and two sureties in
20/, each, to answer the charge at the sessions.
Paddington Tom, alias Thomas Varley, was charged with
assaulting and beating Charles Elliott.
" What are you ?" said Mr. Rawrat.isom to Elliott, when he
got up to prefer his charge.
A shooter, Sir," replied Elliott.
" A shooter !" said Mr. RawuNsots ; " what do you mean
by a shooter ?
" Sir, the same thing as a cud to other coaches," replied El-
liott; but' We Paddington cads are shooters."

The etymology of the term put Mr.,l4wt,txsoN to the puzzle.
Elliott could throw no light upon the subject, farther than that it
was a new name for cad, to which, by way of pre-eminence, the
guards of Paddington coaches are alone entitled. In a bit of a
lark, Joe Mellish, another shooter, stole Charles Elliott's dinner
out of the dicky, and gave it to Paddington Tom, a and he said,
says he, Tom, here's Charley's dinner." Thinking it no joke to
lose his dinner, Charley takes up his fist, and knocks Paddington
Tom down, and thus originated the assault.
Mr. Rawutssox ordered Tom to find bail.
The parties soon returned, to say they had settled the matter,
by Tom giving Bs. to Charley.
Mr. ilawintsoti said lie would consent to no such arrange-
ment. The Paddington shooters are a perpetual nuisance to the
public, and unless Tom' gave an additional 5.. to some charity,
the case must go to the sessions. This did not meet with Pad-
dington Tom's approbation, and he was locket( up—a'new way to
procure a Sunday's dinner.

iIATTCIN,GARDEN.—ShortIy after the Magistrate hail taken
his seat, a tall gaunt-looking personage appeared, and placing him-
self exactly in front of My. Root:UV, made an obeisance, which, from
his lengtb of body, brought his head in close contact with the table.
On being *abed hi. limmies., he stated that he
,was a member of
the honourable Society of Bather., anti with a sort a lunge
thrust a printed bill into the hands of the Magistrate, which stated
that the members of that society had determined, as far as in
their power lay; to prevent the abominable crime of Sabbath-
breaking; for which purpose they had come to a resolution of
dosing their shops on every Sunday morning,, at ten o'clock pre-
cisely ; and for the furtherance of which object the said society
were to meet every Tuesdarfor the next three months.
Mr. ROG n'ts.—But what application do yoU now wish to make
to me ?
Applicant.---Why, your Worship, I live in Somers'-Town, and
there isn't a more active supporter of the 'Society's plan than my,
self. Now, Sir, I have got some neighbours who are a little bit
mischieVausish, and they all come just upon ten o'clock, on pur-
pose to hinder the from shutting up shop, and I thought that if your
Worship would send me two or three ,of polish:officers to clear the
shop, it might prevent me having any further trouble. The So-
ciety, your Worship, sanctions this here application.
The Magistrate said he could not recognise the Society at all.
The bill waa signed S. 14 P. Secretari ; what did that mean ?
AppliCant.—Oh, they are the initials of a eery respectable
man's name, who is secretary, your 'worship—Samuel Price

Bickers?
Mr. Rougas.—Atid who is Mr. Samuel Price Bickers ?
. Applicant.:...( With another profound obeisance. )—myself, your
worihip.
Mr. Roc res—lt is impossible for me to recognise any, society
who deal only in initials ; and it is eqUally impossible to attend to
your application.. Persons wilt come to he shaved when they
please, I suppose, and it is not il►
.my power to prevent„ them.
You must settle it with your customers.

- The applicant then withdrew, evidently mortified at the ill suc.
cess of his embassy.

THAMES POLICE.—On Saturday Samuel Libby was put
to the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Tate, on
board the ship Kent, a South-seaman, in September last, on the
high seas, near the Sandwich Islands. The prisoner, who is a
very good-looking young man, and has been in irons since that
period, was brought up on Tuesday evening, in custody of Gray,
the officer, from Blackwell, where the Kent is now lying.
Mr% IlaOuntir, then went partially into the case, and the pri-

seller was remanded till Saturday, when all the evidence was fully
gone into.
Richard Christopher stated, that he is a seaman on board the
Kent South-sea whaler. On the l9th of September last, he
lima on board the vessel. She was on the coast of New Zealand.
He was in the forecastle,
as was the deceased, Thomas Tate ; be
was sitting on a chest, cutting tobacco ; it was a week day, be-
tween the hours of twelve and two o'clock ; the prisoner came
from the deck into the forecastle, and sat down opposite to the de-
ceased; he was eating his dinner; some words passed between
them. The witness saw the prisoner strike the deemed with his
right hand ; he had a kitife, with which he was eating his dinner,
in his left ; saw the deceased endeavour to get up, but be fell
down immediateliy ; afterwards saw a quantity of blood gush from
his right side ; t deceased elmott immediately after died, he did
not speak ; when the prisoner struck, the deceased licheard the
latter cry out, "Oh ! for GOO, sake, go hir a doctor."
Mr.
eeeeing, you, against my advice, insistedon entering on your de-
Ba°""iii 'Warmed the prisoner, and said, "On Tuesday
fencer I apprised you of the consequence of so doing, without the
advice of it professional man, and wattled you that every thing you
should say would be committed to writing, and might operate
against you elsewhere, but still you would persist, and what you
have said I have taken down, eo I pray you to be attentive while
I ,read it."
Mr. Reorient e then reed the following statement of the prison-
er until a seaman on board the Kent, in September last ; I
Was in a haat Over the forecastle, arrangiug some harpoons and
bhat irons; it was exactly twelve o'clock, the captain sung out
fordinnee ; 1. went dnw,n-to get dinner, the other men were at
mess. I went to get something to draw my grill, with;. I got a
ladle, which was made of a cocoa-nut shell to get some vinegar to
put into the pea-soiqe ,liernerd, a seaman, asked me, " Have
you 11001111 g else to bail your soup leith ?"i said no. took
Wand bailed the soup- Christopher said, " That's a noble chap."
I said, lam tio more a chap than you are—l have a name in the
vessel as well as you have, mil me by .my name he said, 1 sup-
pone you want to bully. Tate said, It was a decent trick—he
never
.saw such done before, * I 'Aid it was often practised ;, he
said no ;so I hove the cocoa-nut *hell at bin,
varegar end all.---
Cannot recollect the answer he Made; ,if it was to save my life.l
cannot. recollect, it. I told hint, if he would not give ever aggra-
vatinre, I should strike him ; he aaid, !''Don't he afraid, I dill
:not 1141' 97.4,1°P10r,". . said the), were sending missiona-
&flea to naitteanaie the eaveges of New Zealand, and it would be
much better to keep, them at home, and send them. td naturalizi
that part of the country I came from. This, aggravated me.
struck hint; be had a kitite,iii his hand ; I said, " Tate, do you

hittiotto stab me '?" I had a intilie in my left hand ; he shoved
hiilnift against my chest; and under the apprehension of losing
my life, 1 made use of the knife I had, and I had no other way of
escaping except 14 falling over the chest, which was iMpossible.
Richard Christopher was again called, and he made a further
deposition. He said that he did not see Tate, the deceased, strike
the prisoner; he was not minding much, hitt *as eating his din-
ner. It thight be possible that the deceased struck, or attempted to
strike, the prisoner with a knife. The deceased did not rise up
after being stabbed. There was tin scale. He certainly sand
prisoner get op from wheni he was sitting, and strike the deceas-
ed first.
Mr. Boonton, pegged to know from the witness how long it
was from the time he first saw the prisoner strike the deceased
until•he saw the blood gush out ftc*s his aide.

The witness said, about five minutes,
Mr. BILODERIP observed, that five minutes was a long time, and
he reqfiested the witness to state how he was occupied from the
period he saw the tititoner strike the deceased the first Wow, until
he saw the blood flowing froth the deceased's wound ? •
The witness replied that' lie was eating his dinner, and had just
got some broth, and had time between the first blow and the fatal
stab to take four spoons-full of it, and break part of a biscuit into
it; lie was eating his dinner in the ordinary way ; the broth was
not over hot; he had not finished his dinner. He was quite dis-
gusted ; he could eat no tabre when he saw the blood of the de-
ceased rush into the pea-soup.
Two knives were here produced, the one with which deceased
was cutting the tobacco, and the other with which he was stabbed.
He identified them both.

Frederick Robinson, the surgeon of the ship, proved that the
wound received by Tate caused his death. He was stabbed in
the right side; between the second and third ribs, penetrating the
diaphragm through the right lobe of the liver, and wounding the
vena cava.

The prisoner was remanded. Ile seems to be about 25 years
of age, and throughout the whole investigation he conducted him-
self with the greatest firmness. •

WELCH ASSIZES.

BRECON.

There were three prisoners, one of whom was found
guilty of murder.
Rees Lewis was charged with the murder of John Price,
on the Darren in the parish of Llanafank,vr, .on the-
-234 of April. The indictment contained five counts, and
the prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Sockett stated the
facts of the ease,'and called the following witneises
Peter Price, son of the deceased, knew the prisoner,
who kept a small farm, and was besides a shepherd ; wit-
ness's father was also a shepherd; a quarrel took place
between his father and the prisoner, a month or two be-
fore the murder; it was on the Vanfed, where they both
kept sheep; he heard high words between them; the
prisoner had a stick in his hand,, which he raised to the
deceased's head, saying; " If I live I will make you re-
pent," and then went away. On Sunday, the 23d April
last, witness went with his father to the Darren-hill, about
four in the morning, where they saw the prisoner and his
son, the former having a stick hi his hand; the deceased
returned home to breakfast, leaving witness on the Dar-
ren; had not seen prisoner on that hill for half a year I
before ; between seven and eight witness also went to
breakfait, arid afterwards to the meeting-house, and
returned to dinner, but his father did not come; after
dinner, between one and two, witness returned to the
Darren, and saw the prisoner walking from the hill, as,if
on his road home ; he had a stick in his hand ; • when wit,-
ness arrived on the Darren, he found his father lying with
his face downwards, and without his hat; lie called to him,
but reeeived.n6 answer; • he turned him with his face up-
wards, and found he had been killed; his head was swollen,
and the face much scratched and bloody; thought he had
had a blow under the left ear, as blood. was running from

it; his neckerchief was tied so tightly that he could no
put his lingers in between it and the neck ; there were se-
veral marks on the neck, as if from the pressure of fingers ;
witness immediately informed his sister and the neigh-
bours, and went for the constable; the body was brought
home ; witness, with the constable and others, went to the
priaoner's house, which they searched, hut he could not be
found. On his cross-examination, he said he never saw
the prisoner on the Darren before, and wondered what he
wanted there ; the deceased and prisoner were not on good
terms. In answer to a question from the Bench, he said
there was blood on the ground, and his father's stick was
found under the body.
Amy Price, daughter of the deceased, went with cattle
to the Darren about eleven o'clock, in company with a boy
named Edward Wilding; they met David Arthur, arid
after,proceeding a little way up the hill,- they saw the pri-
soner crossing from Bryntlydd to the Darren; he sat
down awhile, and then went away at a quiCk pace towards
the spot where the murder was committed ; when she lost
sight of him he was within 60 or 70 yards of the place
where her father's body was found ; he, had a stick. •
David Lewis, prisoner's son, was next put into the wit-
ness's box : [upon seeing him, the prisoner became visibly
agitated, and shook his head at him, as did also the pri-
soner's wife, but she was, cautioned that if she did so
again. she must leave the Court,' the witness was thirteen
years of age, and though he bad never been at school, ap-
peared to understand the nature of an bath : 'he was ac-
cordingly sworn, and stated that his father was at home
on the morning of the day on which JOhn Price's body
was found ; went with his father towards the hill, but did
not go further than the Vanfed; his father desired him to
stay there while he looked after some strayed sheep ;
witness lay down and slept two hours or more, till his
fat per's return; his father awoke him and asked him if
he saw any blood upon, him ?" he looked and
.observed
a little upon his face near the eye.—[Here a feeling
of horror appeared to pervade the Court, which was
very much crowded.]--Witness asked what had hap-
pelted to hits, but he made no answer except desiring
him to wipe the blood off, Which he refused to -do ; his
father rubbed it off with some grass, and they returned
home to dinner, but his father eat' none before witness
went out; his father desired him to go back to the bill
and look for the sheep, but he was afraid; he, however,
took the mare and.went- to the hill;
.he met Jones the
constable, who asked him if he had seen John Price on
the hill? he replied he had not since he saw him after
breakfast; witness then returned hoMe, but his father
was not in the house. He underwent a cross-examination,
but no material variation appeared in his testimony:
David Morris, a convict in the gaol, detailed a con-
versation that took place between himself and the pri-
soner, in which the latter observed, My prosecu-
tors can't say I killed the man, for nobody saw me,
and if I shall have my feet free I'll half murder
one or two again, if I am obliged to come back
to gaol afterwards ; I'm not afraid of the • law but
in one point—because I ran away; a person who
was listening at the inquest told me to give my-
self up, as it Would not be worse upon
Sessions, no one
me at the
f he meantT tiolecoctalsfeeex:r htielerep.p
fence in the hands of his Counsel, who called several wit-
itness
rleiesde!
then asked the prisoner
kitilliethperirnsouniehr"leftW,
having seen me
" I will if I sun left to be
cution having been gone through,
nesses to prove that the prisoner was
him not a quarrelsome
between twelve
man, and one of them swore he saw
and one on the day of the murder. his
. (prisoner's) own
sides being
field. The evidence on both concluded, the
Chief Justice simmiertup with the greatest clearness and
Precision ; and the Jury, after deliberating about a quarter
of an hour, returned a verdict of Guilty.
.The ud,,ppy culprit was then sentenced to death, and
ordered for execution on Monday' the 14th instant. He
appeared perfectly firm and collected during the whole of
te trial, except when his son appeared against him.
After his condemnation, he made a full acknowledgment of
his guilty and, declared that alp the witnesses spoke truth
except Morris, with whom he held no conversation of the
nature of that detailed in his evidence.- -
on Monday last, the prisoner underwent the sentence
of the law on anew drop in front of the county gaol at
Breeon.7-7-Areloshury chronicle.
The Great Session for which k
ronet , too place last
.week, proved, as Hanel, a nunden one—neither prism-it
nor cause to try. This was also the case fr
of Flint. or the. county