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London, England, 1844-11-27 00:00:00

on the the one hand we deplore the powerful opposi-
tion which is made to the Government, in its attempts
to adapt its policy to the spirit of the age, and
to the circumstances of the Irish people, we cannot
wonder that the Government has met with resistance
from such quarters. The conduct of Sir Robert
Peel, in conjunction with the leading members of the
Government, when endeavouring to oust the Whig
Ministers, is the main cause of this resistance. They
encouraged expectations in those who now resist
their educational policy, which are now shown to
have been fallacious. Disappointment has engendered
distrust; and this has, in its natural results, led to
that embodied hostility which—though it may not be
successful in effecting the overthrow of the national
system of education, nor in defeating the other mea-
sures against which it is directed—will be a source of
embarrassment to the Government, and cannot fail to
estrange its adherents, and thus divide and weaken its
purty in Ireland.
STANDARD.—The late deplorable accident on
the llidland Counties Railway naturally calls atten-
tion to the possible dangers of the new means of
transit, and to the proper guards against such dan-
gers. In the first instance, however, we must be
careful not to exaggerate the hazards of railway
travelling, which, as experience has shown, are
less than in any other mode of travelling. Even in
the infancy of their use the casualities upon rail-
roads have averaged much less, in proportion
to the number of travellers, than coach travelling
used to average, even in the high state of per-
fection to which it was carried in this country. Still,
though railroad travelling is, we believe, the
safest manner of locomotion yet discovered, the late
accident and other accidents, rare as they have
been, prove that it is not yet absolutely safe; but to
absolute safety the public are entitled if the thing
be attainable. And seeing how near to perfection
the system has been already carried, we do not
despair of the object being attained to. Still, if we
would spare the lives of our fellow-creatures during
the stage of improvement, the public must exercise
some forbearance, must make allowance for the acci-
dents and inconveniences inseparable from the adoption
of every new art, must occasionally submit patiently,
and with good humour to cautionary delays necessary
for the safety of men's lives. Already, railroad tra-
velling, by daylight, and in clear nights, seems to be
perfectly safe from collisions; the generally almost
rectilinear course of the trains gives to the eye suffi-
cient warning of the approach of a train by day,
o, in a clear night, to allow time for a halt.
The enemy to be dealt with is fog, which renders
the eye comparatively useless ; and the ques-
tion to be solved is, the most certain, and
easiest, and (a consideration not to be over-
looked) the cheapest means of communicating
through the fog. The electrical telegraph first
presents itself, and this means of communication
will, we doubt not, be adopted sooner or later
upon every railway, on the score of economy
as well as from considerations of safety. Such
a communication from station to station, would
enable railway managers to save much expense in
their preparations, as well as to give immediate notice
of the departure of every train, so as to render colli-
sions impossible. The electrical telegraph has not
yet, however, as we believe, been carried to that
state of complete perfection to justify an implicit
reliance upon it, and its establishment demands an ex-
pediture of time and money that forbid the hope that it
can ba very early adopted. The second means of
communication that occurs is addressed to the ear—
the bell, gong, or bugle. At sea the bell and gong
are found useful means of warning, and on shore
they, as well as the bugle, communicate sound to a
very great distance—to a distance much greater than
would serve as ample warning to a railway train to
avoid a collision. In thick weather one of these noisy
sentinels might be easily attached to the engine of
every train, and if the trouble of giving it wise
were a consideration, it might be self-sounded by
a communication with the machinery of the en-
gine.
i Our opinion is, however, that a communica-
tion independent of, and separated from, the train
would be desirable, whether the train were or were
not provided with a warning instrument. A series
of bells, gongs, or bugles, beside the railway line,
and at a distance of about half a mile apart, to be
manned in thick weather either by the railway
police or by labourers specially employed for the
accasion, would render impossible such frightful acci-
dents as that at Beeston, while the expense would
be very trifling. Tha outlay in the first instance
would be probably not more than 401. or 501. the
mile, and besides that it would save many lives, it
would well repay railway proprietors, by render-
ing this mode of travelling perfectly safe, and ob-
viating alllthe expense caused by accidents. The
damage to engines and carriages at Beeston is very
properly lost sight of, in our estimate of a misfor-
tune that has proved fatal to our fellow-creatures;
but the pecuniary loss must be considerable,
probably several thousand pounds, all of which
would have been saved had there been a proper
means of communication established, It may be
said that fogs occur but seldom, and that the collision
at Beeston was the effect of neglect or stupidity ; but
logs, neglect, and stupidity, are accidents that wise
men will anticipate as of inevitable occurrence,
and that good men will provide against, if they
threaten to endanger life. Fogs are clearly beyond
our reach ; and before we unnecessarily leave
the lives of our fellow-creatures dependant upon the
vigilance and correct judgment of of others we ought
to bd quite sure that we are never negligent or stupid
ourselves. Frederick the Great used to say, that" the
general who did not make a large allowance for the
neglects and bluders of his subordinates, did not
know half his business." In what we have
said, we would not indeed imply that there
was either neglect or stupidity in the sad affair
at Beeston—an opinion upon the point were prema-
ture. Misapprehension there certainly was ; and, as
certainly, neglect or stupidity, while means of com-
munication are wanting, might lead to all the horrid
consequences to which something clearly led.

that the Parliamentaryresolutions are wholly consistent
witlithe treaty of Waitangi, and perfectly honest and
good; and I further say, that the very terms and spirit
of that treaty itself furnish us with a full justification
of the Parliamentary Committee's report. By the
second article of that treaty her Majesty " guarantees
to the chiefs and tribes of New Zealand, and to the re-
spective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclu-
sive, and undisturbed possession of their lands, estates,
forests, fisheries, and other properties, which they may
collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their
wish to retain the same in their possession. But the pri-
vilege of pre-emption is yielded to her Majesty over
such land as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to
alienate."

Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee.
J. Swan, cartwright, High Ttuwhitt, Northumberland,
Dec. 9, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court. Wakley, official assignee.
W. White, publican, Durham, Dec. 9, at half-past
twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Baker, official assignee.
J. Fowler, shoemaker, Cheltenham, Dec. 13, at one,
at the Bristol District Court. Acranian, official assignee.
J. Lowe, twinemaker, Stepney, Dec. 9, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee.
J. F. Larter, grocer, Great Yarmouth, Dec. 9,• at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official
assignee.
W. J. Hayden, tobacconist, Whitechapel•road, Dec. 9,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
official assignee.
H. Kell, flour-dealer, Edford, Suffolk, Dec. 9, at half-
past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee.
D. Good, Lawshall, Suffolk, Dec. 9, at half-past one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee.
F. C. Wilbeam, grocer. Farm-place, Fulham, Dec. 9,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official
assignee.
J. Hooper. King's-cross, St. Pancras, Dec. 9, at half-
past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee.
J. B. Curwood, Clifford's Inn, Fleet-street, Dec, 9, at
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official
assignee.
R. Macilwain, carpenter, Neate- street, Kent-road,
Dec. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee.
W. Nichols, lace-dealer, Queen-street, St. James's,
Dec. 11, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee.
J. Robinson, blacksmith, Misterton, Leicestershire,
Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee.

This is the celebrated treaty of Waitangi. And pray
how, attentively considered, does this in any way conflict
with the report of the Parliamentary Committee ? Mr.
Coates says that the recommendations of the Committee
nullify the above clause of this treaty. I say they do
not nullify it, but leave it wholly undisturbed.
The argument arises upon the word possess. The
treaty guarantees to the natives all the lands, &c., which
they possess. So far so good. But then the Parlia-
mentary Committee does the same.—( Vide the Report,
passim.) The report throughout admits and enforces
possession and occupation to be the means of acquiring
the title to land in New Zealand, and therefore advocate s
the very terms of the treaty by impliedly confirming the
natives in whatever land they may possess.
Any person who reads the report, and who is in the
least degree conversant with the subject, will at once
see this, and that the claim for the settlers extends only
to such land as may bo unoccupied or unpossessed by the
natives. The report regards such unpossessed land as
part of nature's waste, and open to the first occupier.
This doctrir.e has been held by the best writers of all
ages, e.g., Grotius, Blackstone, Locke, Puffendorf, and
Paley.
The native New Zealander does not occupy or possess
a thousandth part of the country for his own support
or use (see: Parliamentary papers), and yet Mr. Coates
and his missionary friends would keep the remaining
999 parts to themselves, and proscribe other Europeans
from acquiring it. But then "they have purchased it I"
An equitable purchase, truly, it has been! even admitting
some purchase for the sake of argument. A blanket for
one thousand acres, a gun or a cloak for 5,000 acres,
and so on ! Why, is it not clear to any one, that the
natives in their own minds know they are selling what
they have no right to, or they would not accept such
moonshine equivalents as these ? It is like Sheridan
getting a shot at a flock of geese for sixpence, and when
he had killed three, and was chuckling at his bargain,
being advised by the bumpkin who had received the six-
pence to make himself scarce, as the real owner was
coming into the field. The sly fellow was glad to accept
the smallest sum, because what he gave in exchange did
not belong to him.
The treaty of Waitangi most properly confirms the
natives in the lands they possess, but leaves open the
remaining lands to las ful settlement, and the Parlia-
mentary reports hold the same doctrine, and I defy any
impartial reader, be he lay or clerical, to come to any
otlthr conclusion than this. Mr. Coates first conceals

SHARES.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Nutter, miller, Cambridge, Dec. 19, at half-past
eleven—G. Field, merchant, Bond-court, Walbrook, Dec.
18, at twelve—C. Deane, coach builder, Southampton,
Dec. 18, at half-past two—W. F. Mills, merchant, Hart-
street, Mark-lane, Dec. 17, at half-past one.
In the Country.
J. Dyson, scythe manufacturer, Sheffield, Dec. 19, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Dixon, linen-
draper, Sheffield, Dec. 19; at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court—J. Prior and 11. Brady, brush manufac-
turers, hull, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court—J. Naylor, jun., boat builder, Hull. Dec. 18, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court—W. Hall and R.
Rainbow, corn merchants, Stratford-upon-Avon, Dec. 19,
at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—
W. Waddell, merchant, Liverpool, Dec. 20, at twelve, at
the Liverpool District Court—J. Murray and W. Brown,
millwrights, Liverpool, Dec. 20, at twelve, at the Liver-
pool District Court—A. Leighton, merchant, Liverpool,
Dec. 20, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—S.
Boult and T. Addison, stock brokers, Liverpool, Dec.
19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—R.
Warren, druggist, Liverpool, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court—T. Lediard, money scrivener,
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Dec. 27, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court—T. and R. Bulmer, rope manu-
facturers, South Shields, Dec. 19, at twelve, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
H. C. York, lodging-house keeper, Cheltenham-place,
Westminster-road, Dec. 19 W. Armfield, draper,
Northampton, Dec. 19—E. Edwards, draper, City-road,
Dec. 17—E. T. Craufurd, wino merchants, Piccadilly,
Dec. 17—J. Pim, linendraper, Clapham-common, Dee.
17—W. Yuill, tailor, Cornhill, Dec. 19—T. and J.
Bailey, toy dealers, Northampton, Dec. 19—W. R. Read,
builder, Winchester-street, King's-cross, Dec. 19—E. G.
Flight, publisher, Adam-street, Adelphi, Dec. 17—G.
Rossiter, jeweller, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, Dec. 19
—F. 11. West, licensed victualler, High-street, Shore
ditch, Dec. 19 N. Wanostrocht, boarding-house
keeper, Blackheath-hill, Dec. 23—J. Johnson, merchant,
Liverpool, Dec. 18—J. Goudie, merchant, Liverpool,
Dec. 10—J. Metcalf, silk manufacturer, Macclesfield,
Cheshire, Dec. 19—F. C. Hopkins, commission agent,
Tottenham-court-road, Dec. 17—N. Roskell, merchant,
Liverpool, Dec. 17—T. Kemp and R. Davies, builders,
Birmingham, Dec. 17—H. Rodd, commission agent,
Great Newport-street, Long-acre, Dec. 17—A, Tregear
and T. C. Lewis, pianoforte sellers, Cheapside, Dec. 17
—T. L. Gordon, cabinet maker, Exeter, Dec. 17—W. A.
Brooks, quarryman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. 17.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
AI. Warren and H. Dardinall, milliners, Hereford—
J. Hull and J. Sykes, ship builders, Sunderland—J. and
P. Perrin, slaters, Liverpool—W. G. Lavino, J. G.
Lavino, and J. Hervey, sizers, Salford (so far as regards
J. Hervey)—F. W. and E. Pritchard, drapers, Hodnet,
Shropshire—T. Moring and W. Moyes, carmen, Camo •
mile-street—J. and F. Binns, millwrights, Halifax—J.
Cheetham and Co., cotton spinners, Oldham, Lancashire
—J. Sharp and Co., wine merchants, Carlisle—W. L.
Gill and L. Foss, linendrapers, Crewkerne, Somerset-
shire—J. Haines and J. Thomas, wholesale milliners,
Wingrove-place, St. John-street-road—T. Hanson and
G. Purdy, builders, Leeds—T. and C. 'food, wine mer
chants, Dewsbury, Yorkshire—W. Sissison, R. Gould
and C. Ilebblewhite, curriers, Ilull—J. Clark and S. R.
Toms, refined sugar manufacturers, Sise-lane—T. B.
Pearson and J. Anderson, ship brokers, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—G. Simpson and H. Chilton, ship brokers.
Liverpool.

the true spirit of the report, and then argues in the
most dogmatical manner on such false foundations.
This is as palpable a piece of Jesuitry as I ever met with.
Of course, looking both at the treaty and the report,
the true meaning of possession is always to be carefully
regarded. It must be settled with a due respect to cir-
cumstances and the habits of the people. It would be
as absurd to construe, e. gr., mere walking over the
land once in a lifetime into an act of possession, as to
require a legal possession by deed, signed, sealed, and
delivered. The animus is the true criterion, whether
the individual intended to take possession, and followed
up the intention by a corresponding act ; but in such a
possession as this, the New Zealander would be disturbed
neither by the treaty nor the Parliamentary report.
I therefore do trust that Lord Stanley will not, now
the way has been opened, refuse to enter upon it from
any false feeling towards the aborigines. Their rights,
like those of Europeans, rest upon one foundation, both
by nature and treaty, viz., possession or occupation. Let
these rights be openly recognised, and so let an end be
put to that sad state of doubt and dread which at present
exists. Let rights, whether of the red or white man, be
settled and enforced. A young colony cannot stand
still—it must go 'on or fall back; and the uncertainty
which yet prevails in New Zealand is enough to stifle it
in its infancy. But as Carlyle says, it is a sad time for
Governments when the governed pray to be let alone.
Lord Stanley may continue to neglect New Zealand, but
rely upon it the effect will be most prejudicial to himself
and his charactar with posterity. Let Lord Stanley do
a little in the business of his official connexion with
New Zealand in the right direction, instead of allowing
himself to be put forward as the tool of the missionaries,
and mixed up with all their transactions. Let him carry
out the principle of the Parliamentary report and of the
treaty of Waitangi, for the principle of both is identical
—" That possession or occupation alone give an original
title to land, and that claims to compensation not founded
on this principle are to be disregarded, as unsound in
theory and unjust in practice."—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant, CIVILIS.
Nov. 23, 1844.

[We have ventured to abridge the communication of
cur correspondent " Civilis," for a reason which he will
infer, from the large space it still occupies in our
columns; but we have retained all its important features.
—En. Sun.]

We understand that at the Privy Council to be
held by her Majesty at Windsor Castle to-morrow, a
proclamation will be agreed upon for the proroguing
Parliament from Thursday, the 12th of December, to
Tuesday, the 4th of February, then to meet for the dis-
patch of business.—Evening paper.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
ROBERT HOUSTON, cattle dealer, Glasgow, Dec.
3 and 31, at twelve, at the chambers of G. and A. Young,
Glasgow.
R. C. LAMB and CO., commission agents, Edin-
burgh, Dec. 3 and 24, at two, at the chambers of M. Lo-
thian, Edinburgh.
lIIJGII M'DERMID and CO., calico printers, Mil-
ton, Dumbartonshire, Dec. 2 and 23, at two, at the Ele-
phant Inn, Dumbarton.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
BANKRUPTS.
JOHN HALL, cowkeeper, Wallsend, Dec. 5, at
welve, and Jan. 7, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
)istrict Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne ; Wilson, Sunderland ; Bell, Brodrick, and
Bell, Bow-churchyard, London.
ELEANOR ROBINSON and WILLIAM ROBIN-
SON, bakers, Swinford, Leicestershire, Dec. 6, at
twelve, and Jan. 10, at half-past twelve, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Mash, Lutterworth ; Smith, Bedford-row, Lon-
don ; Motteram, Birmingham.
JOHN BROWN, painter, Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Dec. 11 and 31, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Har-
rison and Smith, Birmingham ; Jackson, Field-court
Gray's Inn, London. ,
ROBERT WATT, merchant, Lime-street, City,
Dec. 19, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee,
Coleman-street ; Sbarpe, Verulam-buildings.
CHARLES HENRY HAMBLETON, licensed vic-
tualler, Northampton-street, Bethnal-green, Dec. 11,
and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry;
Melton and Trollope, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn.
JOHN QUINCEY HARRIS, hat-manufacturer,
Winchester-phice, Southwark, Dec. 6, at eleven, and
Jan. 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Parker,
Lincoln's Inn-fields.
GEORGE STEPHEN, scrivener, Skinner's-place,
Sise-lane, City, Dec. 5, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Cox, Sise -lane.
NOTICE OF PETITION.
J. Musson, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
INSOLVENT PETITIONS.
W. Rowley, baker, Bermondsey New-road, Dec. 12,
at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed-
wards, official assignee.
J. W. Vaughan, draper's-assistant, Conduit-street,
Bond-street, Dec. 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee.
W. Palmer, butcher, Bermondsey-street, Dec. 12,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee.
B. Ansell, clerk, Times-wharf, Grosvenor-basin, Pim
lico, Dec. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy
Edwards, official assignee.
I. Barker, potato-salesman, Red Lion-court, Spital-
fields, Dec. 12, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee.
J. R. Alexander, licensed victualler, Chatham,
Dec. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee.
G. Boden, hair-dresser, Derby, Dec. 21, at half-past
ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee.
F. Tate, hatter, Brudenell-street, Hoxton, Dec. 7, at
half past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett,
official assignee.
C. G. King, Ladbroke-place, Notting-hill, Dec. 7, al
half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett,
official assignee.
J. Smithers, fishmonger, Mill Pond-street, Ber-
mondsey, Dec. 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Green, official assignee.
G. Gosling, tea-dealer, Bungay, Dec. 5, at half-past one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
T. Tribe, lieutenant, R.N., Beresford-terrace, Wal-
worth, Dec. 7, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
A. Routledge, tobacconist, Common-hard, Portsea,
Dec. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John-
son, official assignee.
L. A. L. Baron Calfapietra, Kenton-street, Bruns-
wick-square, Dec. 12, at half-past two, at the Court of
13inkruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
T. Baker, tailor, Dee. 4, at oae, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
H. Hulbert, fellmonger, Minto- street, Bermondsey,
Dec. 12, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee.
J. Cucksey, greengrocer, Greenwich, Dec. 7, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official
assignee.
J. Paterson, broker, Greenwich, Dec. 11, at half-pass
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, officia,
assignee.

THE LATE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS AND
CO.'S, IN THE CITY.—Up to yesterday evening no infor-
mation had been received by the City police authorities
on the subject of this extraordinary robbery. It' is con-
sidered by those about the banking-house, that the rob-
bery was committed about the middle of tho day on
Sunday, and the reasonable inference from that con-
jecture is, that the thieves started by railroads to the
several ports from which steamers were speedily to
sail to various parts of the Continent. Messengers were
sent off by Mr. Hobler to France, Germany, Belgium,
and other places, and the several telegraphs were set to
work. It is unnecessary to state that the greatest exer-
tions are being made by Mr. Hobler, whose experience
and activity lead the members of the plundered esta-
blishment to hope that detection may soon follow.—
We are informed that her Majesty has offered a free
pardon to any accomplice concerned in the above affair.
GUERNSEY.—WhiIe Jersey is in a state of excite-
ment on account of the proceedings in the Wilson case,
the sister island of Guernsey has a little affair of her
own to furnish a topic of conversation in parlours and
club-rooms. Four British gentlemen have fallen into
what is familiarly termed a row. The circumstances
are briefly these :—Mr. M'Donald, who has been a re-
sident not many months in the island, became a candi-
date for admission into the " Civil and United Service
Club" of Guernsey. Upon bing balloted for, according
to the rules of the club, he was blackballed. He was na-
turally vexed and indignant at the result, and endea-
voured to discover the cause of it. His suspicions at
last rested upon Mr. Armstrong, a member of the club,
who, he believed, had made statements prejudicial to his
character. Mr. M'Donald, on entering a billiard-room,
was heard to say—" He (alluding, it is supposed, to Mr.
Armstrong) is not here—we must go and find him and
drag him out of the house and give him a licking."
This being mentioned to Major Rybot, Mr. Armstrong's
friend, the Major went to the constable's office and got
Mr. M'Donald bound over to keep the peace towards
Mr. Armstrong. Mr. M'Donald, fired at this interfe-
rence, wrote an offensive letter to the Major, and re-
ceived a similar one in return. Meeting Major Rybot
and Mr. Armstrong in the street, M'Donald asked Major
Rybot what he meant by his letter. The reply was,
that the letter explained itself. Mr. M'Donald then
flourished his stick over Major Rybot, and told him to
consider that it had been laid across his shoulders. The
Major returned the compliment, desiring that Mr.
M'Donald would entertain a similar agreeable idea.
After a variety of further courteous expressions, the
verbal civility came to more substantial marks of good
will, and not only Mr. M'Donald, but Mr. Dundas, a
gentleman in his company, fell upon Major Rybot in a
very un- English style—two to one ; the Major, however,
fought so gallantly that ho had the best of the battle
until his cane broke. He was then rescued by the inter-
ference of others. We are acquainted with none of the
parties in any way implicated in this affair, with the ex-
ception of Major Rybot, whom we know to be a highly
honourable man and a true gentleman in his manners,
and we think that his conduct in this unhappy matter re-
dounds greatly to his credit. The business was brought
before the Police-court of Guernsey on Tuesday last,
when Mr. M.`Donald and bin Dundas were sentenced to
a fortnight's imprisonment, and to be called upon at the
end of that time to give bail in 501. each, with two sure-
ties of 25/. each, to keep the peace towards all her Ma-
jesty's subjects in Guernsey for one year.—Jersey Times.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT WALWORTH.—On Tuesday
morning, shortly before two, a melancholy accident oc-
curred at the Montpelier Tavern, Walworth, whereby
ene gentleman has been killed and another seriously in.
jAred, besides several persons, male and female, wounded.
The name of the gentleman who was unfortunately
killed is Slade, aged 27, who resided with his father in
the Albany-road; the other is named King, from the
same neighbourhood. Last night a masquerade took
place in the large room at the rear of the above tavern,
the staircase, leading to which is in the garden, and very
slightly erected. The deceased, Mr. Slade, and several
others, were on the landing at the top of the staircase,
when there was a rush to gain admission into the room.
The doorkeeper, who was at the top of the stairs, drove
the parties back, when the pressure caused the railings
and a portion of the upper landing to give way. Th.
ceased fell head-foremost on a sharp stone, and literally
smashed his head to pieces. Mr. King fell on his side,
and received several injuries, which are likely to prove
fatal. The police having procured two stretchers,
brought the unfortunate gentlemen to Guy's Hospital.
Mr. Slade expired on the way. The other wounded
persons were assisted to their residences by the police.
The doorkeeper, Mr. Passmore, a commission avnt,
Star-court, Fenchurch-street, was taken into custody.
Passmore was brought before Mr. Traill, at Union-hail,
yesterday, and remanded till an inquest should be held
on the body.

Ir. C. Smith, clerk, Woolwich, Dec. 10, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
J. Woodbridge, carpenter. High Wycombe, Dec. 11,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee.
H. Draper, watch-escapement maker, Brunswick-
place, Barnsbury-road, Islington, Dec. 11, at half-past
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee.
G. K. Drury, carpenter, Farmborough, Somerseeshire,
Dec. 17, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee.
T. Hands, butcher, Pontypool, Monmouthshire,
Dec. 16, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee.
C. Wood, attorney-at-law, Manchester, Dec. 10, at
twelve, at. the Manchester District Court. Fraser,
official assignee.
W. Hardy, hatter, Rochdale, Dec. 10, at twelve, at the

On the 14th inst. there was picked up on Broad
Haven Sands, in St. Bride's Bay, a new boat, having
" Simeon, of Langharne, John Sael," painted thereon,
and had one oar and a piece of chain and rope in her,
Cambrian.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER -27, 1844.

with him. At a quarter-past eight o'clock the de-
fendant came into the shop, and, in a very peremptory
manner, demanded his money.
Mr. COMM inquired if he owed Mr. Stevens any-
thing ? Complainant said he had lost 15/. in betting
with him on races, 131. on Foig-a-ballagh, in the St.
Leger, and 21. on other stakes. lie went on to say
that he told the defendant he had not got the money,
who thereupon called him a swindler, and applied
other language to him too vile and disgusting to be
mentioned in the presence of witness's wife and
friends. Witness still persisted in saying he had not
the money. The defendant exclaimed, " I will
knock your other eye out." Witness told him he
must leave the house, whereupon, raising a large
stick, he aimed a violent blow at his head. Witness
put up his arm to ward it off, and received the blow
on it. The blow caused a swelling as large as a half-
pint pot on the elbow, and he had not since then had
the use of the limb. The defendant swore he would
" serve him out," and "do for him." Witness's
friends interfered, and the defendant went away using
bad language.
The defendant denied the assault, and said it was
rheumatic gout affected the complainant's arm. His
money had been due since the St. Leger race. The
complainant had nearly choked him.
Mr. Goodwin, one of Mr. Banting's guests on the
occasion, confirmed the complainant's testimony in
every respect. lie also added that in consequence of
the defendant's violence a mob of 150 people had ga-
thered round the house, and that he threatened "to
do" for the complainant, if not now at some other
time.

Mr. COMBE (to the complainant) —Why don't you
pay Mr. Stevens the 15/. ? Complainant—l was un-
able to do so, Sir—other parties had not paid me.
Mr. COMBE—Nonsense, how is he to know whether
they have or not ? You had better pay him the 151.
You are a long time in his debt.
The complainant repeated his inability to do so.
Mr. COMBE—If you are an honest man you will
pay- hina.

- The complainant's wire here stepped forward, and,
in a tone of indignation, said the defendant was con-
tinually coming to her husband's house, requesting of
him to bet on various horses, which he said would
certainly win. He had in consequences made two
bets with the defendant, which he lost. The defen-
dant was himself indebted in various sums for bets
made in their neighbourhood.
Mr. COMM (to the complainant)—The defendant
asks for a bill. Why don't you give him your bill
for the 151., which you acknowledge you owe ? The
complainant said that after having received such
treatment, he should be less inclined to do so than
ever.

Mr. CoMBE—If you pay him the 151., I'll fine him
for the assault.

The complainant said he had been brutally treated,
and declined the offer.

The defendant, who admitted that he was " a
betting man," was merely bound over in his own
recognisance to answer any charge at the sessions.

THAMES POLICE.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—An active-looking young
man, named Charles William Glover, a labourer, re-
siding in Whitehouse-lane, Stepney, was charged with
feloniously wounding Ann Neal, a young married
woman, in an advanced state of pregnancy.
It appeared, from the evidence of several witnesses,
that on the evening of Monday week, the prisoner,
whose conduct was more like that of a raving maniac
than of a rational being, ran a-muck along the Mile-
end-road, in a state of infuriated drunkenness, with a
mason's trowel in his hand, striking every person who
came in his way. He first hit a man named Green,
who was selling umbrellas near the kerb-stone below
the London Hospital, with such force, that but for
the intervention of the coat collar the blow would
have nearly decapitated him. He next struck at,
but fortunately missed, a young man named Hopkins,
and then rushed on striking furiously both right and
left, Green and Hopkins being in pursuit. On arriv-
ing opposite the London Hospital, the prisoner
struck Mrs. Neal so forcibly on the left side
of the head that the trowel cut through her bonnet
and laid open her cheek to the teeth, two of
which were displaced, and hung loosely by light
filaments from the gum. She fell senseless on the
pavement, bleeding profusely from the wound, and
was ultimately conveyed to the London Hospital.
Green and Hopkins continued their pursuit of the
prisoner, who still ran on, striking at all in his course
until he was overtaken by the latter near Osborne-
street, on which he turned and attempted to use the
trowel, but Hopkins closed in on him, and they both
fell in the struggle and rolled over and over in the
mud. He was then given into the custody of two
constables, whom he kicked and cuffed violently on
the way to the station-house. Mrs. Neal, who had
been in the hospital until Saturday last, attended
yesterday with her head bandaged up. She seemed
still pale and languid from what she suffered. Her
testimony was in accordance with the statement given
above. The prisoner said he was drunk at the time,
and had no recollection of what occurred.
Mr. BRODERI' told him that was no excuse for
running a-muck at the public, and, in his mad vio•
lence, striking at every person he met. In the case of
Mrs. Neal, he must take his trial for feloniously
wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,
and the other parties injured could have redress by
indicting him at the Sessions.
The prisoner was fully committed.

RUN, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDB.—lmporters of iTs'
maica Rum refusing to submit to lower rates cheeks
business, and only small parcels have been disposed of st
the former currency. The market is firm for Leevearall
the supply is rather small, and a fair demand exists at
2s 4d to 2s 5d per gallon proof strength. In Demerara
there has been little business transacted, and the rner
chants are asking 3s 3d to Os 7d for 32 to 395 per cent•
overproof, and Calcutta at 2s 2d to 2s old per gallon
proof with certificate.
To-day there was a brisker demand for Leeward
Island and Calcutta Rum, in consequence of the GO"
vernment contract for 100,000 gallons of Rum adver'
tised to be taken on Thursday, and prices are firmer
sales of the former made at 2s 4id to 2s 5d proof,
and the latter at 2s 3d per gallon with certificate. In
Jamaica there is at present not much business doing'
For Cognac Brandy of the vintage of 1842 there is 6
large demand at. 4s 5d to 4s 7d per gallon.
FRUIT.—This afternoon at public sale 50 barrels 01
red Smyrna Raisins went at 465; 535 drums of Sultana
635; 12,919 drums of Turkey Figt 46s to 575; 14 CaSkS
103 brls 209 boxes of Greek Figs 34s to 38s; 56 butts
of New Pores Currants, part damaged, 4:,a to *9"
48 crtls ditto 46s to 50s, 22 brls ditto 50s to 51s; 50 hf-ebt/
of new Prunes 38s ; 450 half cartons of new Imperils,
French Plums 6/ to 71 10s, 1,368 quarter ditto 6/ to 6i
1(1s ; 216 ditto 6/ Bs, and 100 quarter chsts 75s to 76.fi
RlCE.—Bengal is much wanted, but the market is se
sparingly simplied, and prices rule firm, sales by private
t
tceaty mid white have been made lls, good law "„
1 ls 6d, and good 11s 9d to 12s per cwt ; none has age"-
been offered at auction, and a further decrease has taken
place in the stock. Of Java some parcels have been sold
privately at full prices, but at auction the sound of 1.69 s
bags was taken in at lOs to lOs 6d for mid broken ~'bite'
being above the 'Value, the damaged, however, sold as
5s to Os per cwt. Madras has met with ready purchasers
by private treaty, at 8s 6d to 9s per cwt for yellow
in iced, the market has been nearly cleared. The millers
are still issuing a large quantity of Rice, notwithstanding
the low rates that prevail for Wheat. The market is
firm for cleaned Rice—Patna at 13s Gd to 18s, and Cs'
rolina at 23s to 27s per cwt.
WooL.—There has been a better demand for nearli
all kinds of Wool, purchases to a fair extent have beell
made, and at steady rates ; the accounts from the lor
nufacturing parts of the country are of a more
favourable nature for the article. The advices come to
hand from Sydney state that prices had advance':
for Wool. The arrivals of Wool from the tint'
January to the 31st of October have been es follows:--e'
L. indon 36,179 bales of Foreign, and 72,364 bales of CAi
1 nial. Into Liverpool 33,600 bales of Foreign,
9,736 bales of Colonial, and into Dull and Goole _
01
bales of Foreign, making the total 130,698 bales
Foreign, and 82,100 bales of Colonial. The arrivalslal
week were 3,274 bales, 1,445 bales of which consisted
Colonial.

INDIGO.—The export demand for Bengal has bee:,
limited, and for home consumption there are very re;
purchasers ; prices as compared with those of the 110
quarterly sale show a decline of 2d to 4d per lb. t.„f
()ode and Kurpah little business has been done. "'—
Spanish the demand is trifling.
TALLow.—Previous rates are fully sustained for 1111:i
sian Tallow; on the spot the trade have purchs3,o
largely at 40s 6d to 40s 9d per cwt for New P Y CO°
of first quality, and merchants are not inclined to PO:
sales. Town Tallow has been in excellent request at
41s to 41s 6d, nett cash. New South \Vales Talton' st
auction sold at 38s to 41s 3d for mid to fine quoit'.
South American at public sale at 35s 3d to 395 6d
common to fine quality.
Om t,s.—The common descriptions of Fish Oils
cb P. 8,1,,
been taken sparingly, and previous rates are with wr
culty supported. For Pale Seal 341 to 351 Inif,
been accepted, 30/ to 331 for coloured Seal, 321 109 to
-
331 for Cod Oil, and at 28/ to 321 for Souther"
Sperm 881 to 901 for fine British. Of American SPeori,
macetti 85 boxes at auction fetched Is 2d per lb in b°
American Lard Oil is fetching 40/ to 411 per to":„
Prices are still going down for Olive Oil, 42/ to 431
ing been accepted for Gallipoli, 401 to 41/ for Span',4o
and 39/ to 39/ lOs per tun for Barbary ; at thesf,
rates, however, buyers are more inclined to o' Lc
Linseed Oil at 23s 3d to 23s 6d. This afterriooni's
public sale 11 tanks 107 pipes 166 hhds or. Cer°o
Cocoa Nut Oil were bought in at 271105, and inferior
26/ per tun.

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 25 95
llamburgh M.B. 13 13A
Altona l3
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 'months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l2l
retersburgh 3Us 37

(4E.—(YESTERDAY
Gibraltar....,
Leghorn 3O 80
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice ___ 47
Naples ••
********** 39i
Palenao, per oz llB
Lisbon 55
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PO :,
Foreign Gold, bars ES 17 .4
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 ~,-
New Doubloons__ 0 0
New Dollars 0 4
Silver in Bars 0 4 1'

Berlin — . 7
Vienna, effee. ff. 3M. 9-53
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36*
Cadiz
Liilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville

[ADYBRTISBMENT.]
AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE Or AN ABSCS.,-
THE KNEE, BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND FILI4eL'c
Henry Croft, residing at 18, Castle-street, Southwark'
was an in-patient at St. Thomas's Hospital, for an gior
scessed knee, and came out as incurable on the let
June last year, after being there three months. In '1;3ly
last he left Guy's Hospital, where he had been Int.
weeks, and pronounced incurable—indeed, they reic°,4ol
mended his leg to be taken off—yet, however wonder of
it may appear, he has just been cured by the u9llOl-
Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—Sold at Professor
of
loway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advicLre of
be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vee"—
medicine throughout the civilised world.
DEAFNESS, &c.—;Messrs. S. and B. Sololll
Opticians and Aurists, 39, Albemarle street, directlf,
posite the York Hotel, state that, after thirty Pell-vie.
tensive practice, they have invented an Invisible nod,
Conductor, Sound Magnifier. of a metal to collect sou
peculiar to themselves. It is the size of a saga` TO
seven-shilling piece, and, when fixed in the cavity °row
ears, it is not the least perceptible, nor more nllOlllOO.
able than,having a small piece of fine wool in its I},eif
It enables individuals at an advanced age, and 01 00
and fifty years' standing of extreme deafness, se wall e
those who are only slightly dull of hearing, instauVof
join in general conversation, and to catch the soullueidi•
distant, low speaker, at church, theatre, &c. All "-ceo
vidual, in company, can place it in the ear, and refl3,4r9
it unobserved. It pours the conversation into therovese
to such an extent, that in most severe cases &LW,
cannot be observed. The Newly Invented Spee,iore
immediately they are placed before imperfect
__liv';‘,eo
either by day or candlelight, that mist and du; Or,
which appears before the eyes is at once removed/ ee,
object becoming clear and distinct, so that the a:oo,s io• t/
and defective eye-sight becomes bright Ana brio ire
d
and is brought to its youthful, natural., and orif
state. Achromatic Telescopes, Oper ~,e
a-ges,
scopes, &c., &c., of the same kind lelnses,ais to $
111.1 J▪ 30
any over yet invented.—Cautie,n : Messrs. S. ilnote
Solomons, Opticians and Atirieis, are not in any we,„,ter
fleeted with a person of OA same name in their 1""
diate neighbourhood, men' in any part of the country be
prevent mistakes, he cautious, and observe—only ie
its
had at 39, Alroemarle-street, Piccadilly oppiZite
York Hotel, ,
" OLD MICHAEL BOWEN, OF NBATIe---,---dot
man, well known at Neath, both by high andlow, tl'ot
the above designation, died in the course of the Pier
week. lie was latterly employed in pumping "terwo
publicans, going errands, and doing other jobs. 14:3„,/io
a remarkably early riser to his very last illness, hel'o'clt
the habit of calling up servants at three or four &boil
in the morning, if requested to do so. Thongh vier
from his birth, he could travel to every nook and c°l"
of Neath ; while his recollection and
power of disc„l","
;03
pitting sounds were so good, that he has been knT' taco
recognise the voices of pers, ns whom he had p°'
with for fifteen or twenty yearz.—Cambeien..yv et
We understand that Sir John Rae Reid, lowloue
the last Court of Common Council took up his Tree' to
was n volunteer, and is not one of the ge.sitletaeri
whom the letter of the City Solicitor was rent.

[ouse, the lady 01

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