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London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols .
New 31% per Cent
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 121/
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,000/ 76
Ditto under 1,0004
South Sea Stock

Ditto New Annuities ... 991/2
Consols

Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 61 pm.
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837.........
Ditto, Account
Ditto Small .
_ ,

34%
35

Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto, Account B5
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account 6O
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto 1844 . 2312
Ditto, Deferred l7
Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... 40
Ditto Account
Belgian Scrip, 21,6 per Cent 1
Dutch, 21/2 per Cent . .
Ditto, 5 per Cent 99%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid
Ditto New Shares, 17% paid 26
Caledonian, 5 paid
Cambridge and Lincoln, 11/2 paid
Churnet Valley, 2 paid 4
61/
rirect Northern, 21,4 paid
Direct Norwich, 1 paid 2S
1 4
Dublin and Mullingar, 21/2 paid
18
I.spm.
Eastern Counties, 25 paid...
Eastern Union, 10 paid ll
Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid 111
Great North of England, 100 paid
Ditto New, 2 paid
Great Western, 75 paid... 1741,4
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid lOl
Hanvich, 1 paid 2l/2
Lancaster and Carlisle, 15 paid . 24
London and Birmingham (Stock)..... 233
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2 paid 2814
London and Brighton, 50 paid s2q
London and Greenwich, 12% paid
London :111 : South Western, 41i paid —
,Ditto New. 21/2 paid
London and Croydon/, 13/. 15s. 9d. raid ..... .... 1614
London and York. 2% paid . 5
Manchester and Birmingham, 40 paid „, 56
Midland, 100 paid
Ditto New Shares, 3 paid Bl4
mid;said, Birmingham, and Derby, 100 paid 93
Newcastle aid Darlington:Junction, 24 paid 62
New,astie and Berwick, 1% paid ... .. 10
North British, 7% paid
Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid 143/4
Rugby, 1 paid 3
Shrews., verh., Dudley, and Birm., 2it pd. 33/4
South Devon, 10 paid ...
South Eastern and Dover, 3314 paid 48%
Ditto, New Shares 4 paid 221/
Ditto New, 2 paid
Staines and Richmond, 1 paid 1 A
.Sotith Wales, 2% paid
Trent Talley, 2 paid lO%
1 ork and North Midland, 50 paid
D,l, to, Selby Scrip, 2( paid
Diu() ExtensionßEN,CH 114_ pRAILWAYS. aid... ............... ...
F
Paris and Ti.:0115, 2 Paid
Paris and Oilea..'s, 20 paid

have only to express a hope that a part of it may be sup-
pressed.'
Oh that our enemies would write us such letters !

nem is a nobleman of mature years—of qualities (it is
presumable) such as to fit him for precisely the post in
her Majesty's Government which requires the most in-
tuitive tact and habit of keeping in view—when he
writes or speaks—all probable consequences—and who
yet shows evident irritation at so simple a fact as that
an amateur Carlist crusader, whom he favours with long
letters (when short snubbing ones would have served
every purpose), should set his heart upon printing
them, and " shame the fools" who undervalued the
momentousness of his mission as Minister Plenipoten-
tiary from Don Carlos to the Court of Great Britain !
Well, Lord Aberdeen gets angry. But surely he
might have kept more wit in his anger than to hazard
the "hope" that "no part" of his correspondence
would be " suppressed" by a gentleman in publishing
it ! Why, if such an unsupposable case should happen,
he had his remedy in his own hands. Or are we to
understand, as the climax to all this mature states-
man's unsuspiciousness, that he keeps no copies of
letters addressed on such subjects to such parties?
The following is the Parthian shot of Lord Rene-
lagh. We cannot recover from our astonishment that
even our expansive Foreign Secretary should not
have been "far north" enough to forbear dilating
with the pen on a point so obviously open to such an
answer :
" My Lord—ln acknowledging the receipt of your
letter of yesterday, I must beg your Lordship to excuse
me from following the example which you have set me,
by infusing into this correspondence any portion of per-
sonal feeling.
" I shall merely observe, that, until I had read your
Lordship's letter now before me, it never had en-
tered into my mind that any gentleman would entertain
for a moment the notion of garbling a eorrespondence
which he felt it to be his duty to give to the public."

ENORMOUS FALL OF EARTH IN

A MINE.
Yesterday an inquest was held at the Coseley Ta-
vern, at Coseley, on the body of Benjamin Smith,
a miner, whose death, with that of two other men,
was caused by an enormous fall of earth in a mine in
which they were working. The accompanying state-
ment, given before the coroner by one of the sur-
vivors, will be perused with deep interest :
Joseph Parkes said—l live at Cosely, in this parish,
and am a miner. On Friday last I was at work with
the deceased Benjamin Smith (who was about thirty-
two years old, and a miner, living at Cosely), in a
coal-pit at the Fox Yards, in the parish of Tipton, in
this county, and while we were at work there,
about half-past nine o'clock that morning, a quan-
tity of clod and earth fell in, to the amount of
more than a thousand tons, and almost every man
in the pit was stopped up. Some few of the men
were a distance off, and got clear away; but the de-
ceased, myself, and four others, were stopped up in
one of the hollows. Great exertions were made to
get us out ; there was plenty of help, and nearly all
the miners from the adjoining collieries came to their
assistance. Several tons of stuff were soon removed,
and in about an hour one of the six men was got out
very badly hurt, but he is still alive. Another was
got out soon after without much injury. As fast as
the miners got the stuff away more fell in, but in the
course of the day all the remaining men, except my-
self, were got out, but I was not got out t►ll about ten
o'clock that night. I was not at all hurt, but was very
weak through the damp and confinement, and being
without food. I had not had anything to eat from the
previous night, so that I was more than
twenty-four hours without tasting it. I was quite
sensible all the time, and conversed with all the men.

I talked with Smith as long as he lived, which was
about an hour and a half, as near as I can guess, after
the stuff fell in. Two other men were killed. One of
them lived about an hour, and the other about an hour
and a half. I could hear the miners working to get
us out. I believe everything was done that could be
done. I was afraid to stir, although I saw my suf-
fering companions close to me nearly buried in the
earth. It was light a part of the time from a candle,
but after it went out we were in darkness all the

BANK. OF AUSTRALASIA.
(THIS DAY.)
Au extraordinary general meeting of the Bank of
Australasia was held this day at the office of the
Company, No. 2, Moorgate-street, for the purpose of
electing a Director in the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of W. Brown, Esq-.
For this office there have been four candidoster,ates—
Mr. Atherstone, Mr. De Castro, G. H. F Esq.,
and Captain J. Grover.
The CHAIRMAN announced that Mr. Atherstone
restedr. tweea had withdrawn, and the election
rbe Mr. Foster and Captain Grover.
Before peoceeding to the show of hands,
Captain GOO, ER briefly addressed the meeting,
remarking on the aptitude displayed by military
men for public business; he stated, however, that he
had but slight hopes rd success, anticipating a more
favourable result on another occasion.
On the show of hands,
'The CHAIRMAN declared the election to have gone
in favour of Mr. Foster, by a large majority.
Mr. FOSTER briefly returned thanks, trusting that
he should discharge the duties of the office with satis-
faction to the Proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN then said that the business of the
extraordinary general meeting had concluded,
and they were now convened according to
a resolution passed at their last meeting.
The Directors were not prepared to submit to them
any report, or regular account, but, as it appeared at
the last meeting to he the wish of the Proprietors to
meet the Directors more frequently, than once a year,
they had cheerfully acceded to their wishes, and the
present meeting was fixed accordingly. He congra-
tulated them that, it was accidentally prevented from
taking place last December, as they should not
then have been so well able to give an
explanation of transactions that had taken place in
the colony, calculated to remove the apprehensions
that had been occasioned by recent advices from
that quarW. They were aware that this Bank had
large pfeuniary claiin• on the Bank of Australia.
Since the last meetinga resolution had been come to
at a meeting of the Proprietors of the Bank of Aus-
tralia, held at Sydney, that they would resist the
payment of that claim to this bank. Measures
had, therefore, been taken by the officers of this bank
in the colony, which had also been followed up here
with respect to that debt; but as the statement of
those measures would involve legal points, he would
beg them to hear Mr. Farrer on the subject.
Mr. 0. FARRER then went into an explanation of
the circumstances of the matter in dispute between
the two banks, begging the Proprietors to confine
their attention solely to the legality of their claim,
and not enter into any discussion on the propriety or
expediency of the original transaction. He
said that the resolution passed at the meet-
ing of the Bank of Australia to resist
the claim of this Company upon it, was supported
only by nineteen gentlemen, though the whole num-
ber of „Proprietors of that Bank was two hundred.
lie then read the questions on the case of this Com-
pany which had been laid before Sir Thomas Wilde,
Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, and Mr. Hugh Hill, and the
answers to them, which were every way satisfactory
to the Directors, as to the complete liability of the
Bank of Australia for the amount of the sum advanced
to it by this establishment.
A short disussion followed, in which Mr. Sergeant
Ga zalee, both as a proprietor and one of the legal
gentlemen who had been consulted, expressed his
perfect confidence in the recovery of the sum in
question.
The CHAIRMAN then made a short general state-
ment of the present condition of the- business of the
bank, which he said had partaken of the improved
state of the affairs of the colony:
A vote of thanks to the Directors was proposed and
carried for their able conduct with respect to the dis-
pute between the two companies, and the meeting se-
parated. The proceedings appeared to give general
satisfaction.

time. Some of the men had their arms wedged
down, and asked me to remove the clods from their
mouths to allow them to breathe, and I did so several

world as free from the imputation of any dishonourable
or improper action as any man possibly can be. The
Benchers, however, with respect to this particular trans-
action, appear to have entertained a different opinion ;
but my character is as unblemished as any character can
by possibility be. With regard to these bills I may be
allowed to state that I knew nothing about their exist-
ence until now.

times, although it endangered my own life, as the
stuff continued falling. The butty was one of
those stopped up, and he died. While he was con-
fined his arms were crushed against his body, and
his head was kept bent down. He could scarcely
breathe; and when I removed the clod from his mouth
he breathed so hard that the candle went out, and we
gave ourselves up for lost. I have been a miner from
my childhood, and have worked at the pit in question
about six weeks, and speaking from my expe-
rience I think the occurrence was accidental, and
could not be prevented. I did nut think there
was any danger, or I would not have worked at the
pit. There is plenty of timber, and every precaution
is taken to ensure the safety of the men. After
'the deceased was got out, his body was, I believe,
taken to his house. It is now lying there. The two
others who were killed were removed to Dudley. I
think the accident took place through there being a
hollow above the one where we worked, and the stuff
between the two dropping down. Ido not think any
one is to blame with reference to it.
Other corroborative evidence was given, and the
jth.y returned a verdict of " Accidental death."—
TVolverhampton Chronicle of yesterday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jax. 22.
(Before Sir J. WIGRAM.)
V.MPERINGHAM V. SHORT.
•
This case had been before the Court on Saturday and
Monday last, and his Honour, on the conclusion of the
tatter day, stated that before giving his decision he
would read the notes of the common-law judge before
whom certain issues directed in the cause had been tried.
In February last the case came before the Court on ex-
ceptions to the Master's report, when the validity of a
sale of property, as between father and son, was im-
peached. On that occasion the two issues above-
mentioned were directed, to try whether a con-
Aideration had been paid, and, if it had, whether
the conveyances were executed, on the part of the son,
to the purpose and intent to delay, binder, and defraud
the plaintiff; also whether certain moneys were receiv-
able under a sequestration. The issues having been
tried, a motion was made for a new trial, and this mo-
tion was now to be decided.
Ills lioxoun, having informed himself of the opinions
of the Learned Judge who tried the issues on the various
questions then decided, thought that there were no
grounds to warrant a new trial ; he therefore refused
the motion, with costs.

Mr. PETERSDORFF having replied,
Mr. Baron ROLFE told the jury the question was one
upon which they alone could decide. They would have
to say to which of the two witnesses they were inclined
to give the greater credence.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—
Damages, 24/. 3s.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A respectably-attired female, who gave her name
as Mary Keele, and stated her age to be thirty-nine
years, but whose appearance denoted that she had seen
some twenty summers more, was placed at the bar
before the Lord Mayor, charged with bigamy. The
facts of the case are somewhat novel and curious, the
charge being preferred by the mother of the husband
by the second marriage, a young man who only at-
tained his majority in the month of August last.
Mrs. Sarah Keele, the prosecutrix, stated that she
was the wife of George Keele, who was not in any
business, and that she resided at St. Stephen's, near
Canterbury. The prisoner at the bar had contracted
marriage with her (the witness's) son some time about
last Michaelmas. Witness had known the prisoner
for about a fortnight before the marriage took place.
The prisoner's husband by the first marriage was a
man of the name of John Weller, who went to Ans•
tralia about three years ago, and there, as the pri-
soner had stated, died. Weller has a sister living at
Canterbury, who had informed the witness that her
brother (the husband) was still living, and in perfect
health, in Australia, and that a letter had recently
been received, which could be proved to be in his
handwriting. On learning this, the witness came up
to town and gave the prisoner into custody as she
was getting out of a Hackney omnibus in Bishops-
gate-street.
The LORD MAYOR—Is there anybody, here to
prove the former marriage ? Witness—lt can be
proved by the first husband's sister, who resides at
Canterbury.
William Gurney Keele, who appeared to give his
testimony with great reluctance, stated that he lived
in Back-lane, Hackney, and was in the service of
Messrs. Marnett and Manley, nurserymen. He was
married to the prisoner some time in the month of
October last (he could not remember the day), at St.
George's, Hanover-square, which was the church in
which the first marriage was solemnised. He had
become acquainted with the prisoner from going to
her house on the business of his employers at Canter-
bury. Witness believed her to be a widow—indeed,
he heard about three fir four months ago that her first
husband was dead. He heard this from the prisoner
whe told him that some person had called upon her
and told her that her husband was dead, and that in-
formation had been corroborated to her by a gentle-
man, who had stated that he had seen " the last of
her husband" in Australia. This the prisoner told
witness before the marriage, or he would not have
proposed to her a marriage. He had engaged to
marry her about a fortnight before the marriage ac-
tually took place.
John Dixon, 619 City Police, proved that he took the
prisoner into custody yesterday morning on a charge
of bigamy, preferred by the prosecutrix, Mrs. Sarah
Keele. He had not had time to obtain a certificate of
the first marriage from the register of St. George's,
Hanover-square.
The prisoner, when called upon for her answer to
the charge, and when questioned by the Lord Mayor,
manifested the most perfect self-possession, and
evinced, both in manner and deportment, that she had
moved in a superior station in life to that into which
she had descended by her marriage with the son of
the prosecutrix. She stated that when she mar-
ried the young man Keele she fully believed that her
first husband, Weller, had died, and her belief had
been founded upon the information of a female, four
years ago, and also of a seafaring man, who had
called upon her about the same time, and stating he
did so at the dying request of her husband, of whom
he bad seen the last in Australia. She did not know
the name of either of these parties, nor could she pro-
duce them ; the last told her he was going back im-
mediately on a voyage to Australia, and she had never
seen him since. . .

The LORD MAYOR—Have you any objection to
state when it was you were married to your first hus-
band ? The prisoner—Not the least, my Lord, as
far as I recollect it. I think it was in the month of
June, twelve or thirteen years ago. I forget the pre-
cise day. My maiden name was Mary Frances
Witham.
The Loan MAYOR'direeted the constable to search
the register of St. George's, Hanover-square, for
the certificate of the first marriage.
The LORD MAYOR intimated that the prisoner
must be remanded, in order to procure the attendance
of the witness from Canterbury, and inquired from
the prisoner if she had any friends in London who
would be answerable for her appearance.
The prisoner replied that she had been out of
London for many years, and she had been so unex-
pectedly taken into custody that she had not had an
opportunity of communicating with any person. She
had, however, friends to whom she could send.
The husband (Keele) hereupon came forward, and
expressed his readiness to be answerable for his wife's
appearance on any future day the Lord Mayor might
appoint.
The LORD MAYOR, addressing the young man,
said—Well, as you are the aggrieved party, I will
take your recognisance in 501. that the prisoner shall
appear here this day week to answer any charge that
may be then preferred against her.
The parties then withdrew.
Sinops Kent, charged with sending a threatening
letter to Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co., was
brought up for re-examination. No further evidence
was adduced, but the depositions taken on a former
day having been read over to the witnesses, they were
bound in recognisances to prosecute, and the pri-
soner was committed for trial at the next session of
the Central Criminal Court.
LAMBETH.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 22.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Baron ROLES and a
Common Jury.)
RIZADING V. HOWORTH.
This was an action on two bills of exchange for the
respective amounts of 16/. 10s. and 5/. ss.
The defendant pleaded that she did not accept.
Mr. Petersdorff appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Piggott for the defendant.
It appeared that the defendant is a very old lady, up-
wards of 80 years of age, and that some two years since
a person of the name of Symonds, the son of the de-
fendant by her first husband, took the bills in question to
the plaintiff to be discounted. This the plaintiff, after
having made inquiries as to the fact of the acceptances
being in the handwriting of the defendant, consented to
do, and eventually handed over the money for them.
The bills, however, on arriving at maturity, were not
duly honoured, and remained unsatisfied down to the
present moment. Hence the action.
A gentleman of the name of Sayer, who was the
managing clerk at a solicitor's in Bedford-row, was
called as a witness to prove the handwriting of the ac-
ceptances to be that of the defendant. He had seen her
sign her name to legal instruments. He entertained not
the least doubt of these acceptances being in her hand-
writing.
Mr. Pwoorr, on behalf of the defendant, stated that
,he was now upwards of eighty years of age, and was
not free from exhibiting the infirmness of a person who
had arrived at that advanced period of existence. That
lady most positively denied that she had ever accepted
these bills.:lt was not a little singular that if the plaintiff
had really entertained an opinion, after their dishonour,
that they had been accepted by her, he should not have
taken any steps upon them for upwards of two years.
But such had been the fact ; and on the part of the lady
he was there that day, not simply to repeat her declara-
tion, but also to prove by evidence—evidence of a far
mere satisfactory and conclusive character than that
which had been offered on the other aide—that the ac-
ceptance to these two bills was not in her handwriting.
Mr. R. Cooke was then exarnined.—He stated that
he was a conveyancer, and had known the defendant
for several years. She was eighty years of age, and
wrote
a faet he was well acquainted
with,
ed her half-year's dividends,
a b e veryeau s
e feeble l e
rheacnediy,
for which she not only gave him her receipts, but
frequently wrote to him on the subject ot them.
These acceptances, he should say, were not written
by the defendant. The writing was very much too
firm and bold for au old lady like her. She wrote her
but then her writing
name, as on the bills, at full length;
was distinguished by great tremulousness. Were he to
receive instructions with such a boldness cf signature,
fhar
e
should not act upon them, because the writing Iwo
too firm and bold for a woman at her advanced age, and
most certainly for the defendant.
=Cross-examined—He did not know were the defendant
kited at present. She usually called or wrote for her
dividends, and therefore, as be had no other transactions
with her, he had no occasion to know where she resided.
Mr. PETEUDORFF—May I ask whether you did not
belong to another branch of the profesviiDn than that
which you have now stated? Witness—Yes; I was, and
am, I consider, a member of the bar.
Do you mean to say that you believe yourself to be a
member of the bar now?—Yes, certainly,
Why, have you—l lament at being compelled to put
such a question—have you not been disbarred ?—Yes,
have been disbarred, but only by the benchers, and an
appeal has been lodged against the decision of those
gentlemen.
What was it for ?—lt was in reference to 8, bill which
I had discounted, and the Benchers were of opinion that
too much interest had been taken upon it ; but I feel
that I have not done so, and that I stand before the

James Jennings, Patrick Ford, and Henry Robin-
son, were charged before Mr. Henry, by police-con-
stable P 112, with a robbery under the following cir-
cumstances :
The constable stated that on Tuesday night he was
on duty at Mill-row, Brixton, when he heard the
creaking of a basket, and on putting his lamp over
into the garden he saw the three prisoners, and on
going up to them, he asked them what they were
doing, to which the prisoners replied that they were
going to sleep in an open shed ; they had been to
Croydon, and had no money, and were quite tired.
He took the prisoners to the station-house, and went
back to search the garden, when he discovered a
basket full of lead ready to be carried away. On
examining the premises of No. 8, he found there was
a bed-room which projected from the building, and
on examining the roof he ascertained that upwards of
two cwt. of lead had been cut from the roof, rolled
up, and ready to be carried off.
The gardener of Mrs. Whittaker stated that yes-
terday the lead of the roof was all right, and the
garden-gate was bolted ; and the prisoners in "
have climbed over the fence.
Remanded for a week.
SOUTH NARK.

Cato Fernando, a seaman belonging to the ship
Taglioni, lying in the West India Docks, was charged
before Mr. Cottingham with stealing three cotton
shirts, the property of Joseph Frowski, a Jew crimp,
residing in East Smithfield.
Complainant stated that the prisoner was in the
habit of lodging at his house on his return from sea.
About eleven months ago, previous to the last voyage,
he sold the prisoner some clothing, and lent him 7s. 6d.
After he was gone he missed several shirts, but had
no suspicion of the prisoner. Yesterday he heard that
the vessel had arrived in the docks, and that the pri-
soner, instead of coming to his lodgings, had taken up
his quarters with a prostitute in Martin-street,
Borough. He, however, proceeded on board the
vessel yesterday afternoon, to seek payment for the
debt due to him, amounting to 1/. 12s. 6d. Although
the prisoner had been paid, he refused to settle with
him. At a latter part of the evening he came for his
chest, when it was searched, and the shirts were found
therein. He identified them as his property.
The prisoner (a coloured Portuguese) gave quite a
different version of the story. He said that the
shirts had been placed in his chest without his know-
ledge ; in fact, he did not discover that they were there
until he arrived at sea, when he thought the com-
plainant, who packed up his chest, had placed them
there in return for a quantity of cigars which he gave
him. As for the money, he certainly should have
paid him, but he was drunk last night. The com-
plainant had been in the habit of robbing him for
many years, which made him quit his lodgings ; and
he believed the charge was made through spite.
Frowski said he did not think he should have given
him in charge if he had paid him and returned to his
house as usual. He denied robbing him ; he treated
the prisoner as he would one of his children.
The prisoner paid the crimp the 1/. 12s. 6d. and was
discharged.
WORSHIP-STREET.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. '
F 2031 THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
fai-LOBE.—Excessive expansiveness (though no
one would have supposed so) is the complexional
foible of Lord ,berdeen. "Le garcon epicier" says
the French comic novelist, " est emineinment seducteur,
quoique cela ne paraisse pus." Lord Aberdeen is not
less eminently communicative, though he seems not
quitk. equally, seductive, if we may judge by the
final issues of his expansive communications. His
Grace of Newcastle, a good many years ago, said
he was not accustomed to " dilate with his pen." It
would be lust as well if our present Foreign Secre-
tary would .try to get out of the habit of "dilating
with tongue or pen, at least on occasions when every
word exposes a weaker and more extended front to a n
enemy. The word too much appears invariably the
point he has most happiness in hitting. This some-
limes happens to people who are by no means led into
it by excessive warmth of sympathies. On the contrary,
carn;r4 about as much for one party addressing them as
anotlievs. they do not feel the distinctions of demea-
nour revired by their tempers or positions. We
have thus Lord Aberdeen expanding to Mr. '
Everett on the desirableness of abolishing slavery
in America; and now we have him expanding to
Lord Ranelagh on the questions which have most
divided European opinion in late years. But the
-word too much occurs most, emphatically at the
close of this curious correspondence. Lord Aberdeen
gets out of temper at Lord ltanelagh's intention of
publishing it;
.though what on earth an amateur
diplomatist ever does want but to possess the world
with the importance of his opinions and of his over-
t,cres—or why on earth Lord Aberdeen took pains to
6 4 di.tate with the pen" at such a rate, if he did not
mean'to furnish materials fur publicity—are questions
his Los lship might have asked himself at the outset.
Lord Ab 'trdeen, however, gets out of temper, and this
is the way be shows it :
'" I shouhf naturally feel much disposed to object to
thy publication of letters which, by me at least, had
been written with any such view or expectation;
neibl It°a r s
my request might be liable to misconstruction,
arid as I conjecture that the suppression of the. eorre-
spa .ndence would be more painful to your Lordship than
ma,l leave you
ito publication would be disagreeable to
ao as you think proper. Should your Lordship finally
d Wide on giving this correspondence to the public,

A LIBELLOUS PL AC ARD.-Mr. Phillip Meedon
Hewitt, a respectable elderly-looking person, residing
in Gloucester-street, St. John-street-road,
appeared
on summons before Mr. Broughton, on the complaint
of Mr. John Stewart Kipling, a solicitor, charged
with having, on the 14th instant, caused to ne written
and published a false and scandalous libel concerning
the said John Stewart Kipling, with intent to excite
him to a breach of the peace.
Mr. Smith, a solicitor, attended for the defence.
'DA compl4inot stated, that in May a stock•job-

THE SUN, LONDON, TITURSDA'Y EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1845.

bing transaction took place between Mr. ileseltine
and the present defendant, and the latter came to con-
sult complainant, stating that he had deposited Spa-
nish bonds to the nominal value of 9,0001. in the
hands of Heseltine, and could not recover them. Com-
plainant commenced an action of trover for him against
Heseltine, and another action against Messrs. Master-
man and Co., the bankers, for 841., which had been at-
tached in their hands, in the Lord Mayor's Court. The
result of the latter action was the recovery of the 841.,
minus Messrs. Masterman's expenses (about 91.), and
complainant banded over the proceeds to Mr. Hewitt,
the present defendant, his own costs (about 81.) being
paid. The action against Heseltine is still pending.
It is a special jury cause, and the costs out of pocket
in bringing that to trial will amount to about 301. for
counsel's fees, fees in court, &c. The plea set up was
that the bonds did not belong to Hewitt, and that he
did not sell them. The present complaint against his
late client, the present defendant, was for publishing
an infamous libel in a paper which had been stuck on
the wall of the workhouse, and was now produced,
and which he said was in the handwriting of the de-
fendant.
The writing on the produced paper was as fol-

_
lows : - .
" NOTlCE.—Unless Mr. Kipling, solicitor, 8, City-
road, makes his appearance and give up Mr. Hewitt's
property (9,0001.), he will' be advertised as a rogue
and vagabond, and there will be a reward offered
(1001.) for his apprehension.
" JOHN HEWITT."

Mr. James Whitehouse, a grocer in the City-road,
stated that between three and four o'clock in the after-
noon of the day above-mentioned, he saw a person
who appeared to him to be in the act of putting up
a paper against the wall of the workhouse, and he had
little doubt that the defendant was the person, but he
should not like to swear to it. The prisoner went
away directly, and the witness went and read the
paper that had been posted up, and then knocked at
the workhouse lodge and pointed it out to the porter,
who also read it and tore it down.

Richard Morgan, clerk to Mr. Kipling, the com-
plainant, said he had seen the defendant write, and he
believed the paper now produced to be in the de-
fendant's handwriting.

The complainant being recalled, said that about
three weeks ago the defendant came to him in an ex-
cited state, and told him that if he was an honest man
he would, without delay, conduct the cause to trial.
Pi,replied, with some anger, that the defendant was
already in his debt, and that it would take a consi-
derable sum out of his pocket to carry the cause to
trial. The defendant then said he would never pay
him his demand, and would give him an ill name, or
words to that effect. All the money he had had of
the defendant was 15/., which paid the costs of pro-
ceedings against Messrs. Masterman, and left about
51. in hand.
The solicitor for the defendant said he could say
nothing as to the produced document, but he was in-
structed by his client that the paper had not emanated
from him, but from his brother.
Mr. BROUGHTON said the evidence left no doubt on
his mind that the defendant was the author, who had
stuck up and published the libel, and that a breach of
the peace was highly probable. The paper contained
what was no doubt a most gross and wicked charge
against the complainant, accusing him of defrauding
defendant of 9,0001., and threatening to offer 1001.
reward for his apprehension. He should therefore
hold the defendant to bail to answer any indictment at
the sessions.

Prisoner—l only_wan_t_to test his evidence as to the
time ; because I don't recollect a syllable about it.
Mr. 13oauEu (to Sergeant Smith, who attended to
charge the prisoner)—l suppose you have no reason
to believe that the man would have done anything if'
he had not been under the influence of liquor?
Sergeant Smith—No.
Mr. BORRER (to the prisoner)—The sentinel has
done nothing more than his duty. He has a cat-o-
nine tails hanging over his head. What have you to
say for yourself ? Prisoner—Why, I'd been having
a little, and a little's too much for me. That's a fact.
But I can't think how it was. I must have tumbled
over some friend.—(Laughter.)
Mr. BORRER-I think you have been here before ?
Prisoner—Yes, I have, that's a fact. I was taken up
drunk, and I was fined ss. Drunk, and drunk I was
—there's no denying it.
Mr. BEORER (to the sentinel)—l suppose he didn't
mean to do you any harm ?—No, Sir; he was only
drunk. _ __ _

Prisoner—Do anpr harm to a soldier I Lord bless
you, Sir; I wouldn t do any harm to a soldier for the
world.—(Laughter.) I love the army, and can
shoulder a musket with any of them. Look here,
comrade (and prisoner, who is a little spare man, with
anything but a soldierly demeanour, went through
the imaginary process of shouldering arms, presenting
arms, and firing, with a rapidity that would have
startled a drill-sergeant). Look at that, comrade,
and say whether I'd harm a soldier. Nature intended
me for a soldier myself, only father bound me to a
shoemaker.

Prisoner was running on in this way, when loud
sobs were heard in the Court, and, looking round, we
saw a neat little body, who, with her hands up to her
face, made her way towards the dock, ejaculating in
her progress, " Oh, Field—oh, Field ?" This inter-
ruption put a stop to prisoner's military exercise, and,
turning to the female, " Oh, be quiet,' he said, " It's
all right now—it's all settled. I'm coming, my dear."
Mr. Boaaaa—You must pay ss. for being drunk.
Prisoner put his hand in his pocket, and then turned
to the little sobbing lady below—" You've got ss. my
dear ?"—Yes, I've brought 55."
" That's right. Pay the ss. Be quiet. It's over
now."

The bail required was two sureties in 1501. each,
and the defendant's own recognisances for 2001.

But the little woman continued to sob until Mr.
Field had been let out of the dock, and then, as she
took his arm, she gave a little stamp with her foot,
and, with an indescribable look at the culprit, who
still kept up a little a the military air, she exclaimed,
" Oh, Field, how can you make such a fool of
yourself ?"
" Hush, hush, my dear," responded Mr. Field to
this ejaculation, and, with a somewhat crest-fallen
look, made the best of. his way out of Court.—
Brighton Herald,

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MAN-

CHESTER.

TIIAMES POLICE.

ShIyGGLING CIGARS.—SEIZURE OF A SHlP.—Yes-
terday Emmelino de Arrandiago, master of the Spanish
ship Doren Victoriana, and Antonio Martinez, a sea-
man' and one of the crew of the Spanish ship Pepits,
both lying in the St. Katherine Docks, were brought
before Mr. Broderip, charged with smuggling cigars,
by which they had incurred penalties of 1001. each.
Mr. Potbury, of the Customs Solicitors'-office,
attended on the part of the Crown.
The case against Martinez was first heard. He
was charged with carrying 28Ibs. of foreign manu-
factured cigars, which had been unshipped before the
Customs duties had been first paid. _ .

George Little, a revenue officer, stated that he was
stationed on board the Joven Victoriana on Monday
night, and hearing a noise on deck he left the cabin,
and went up and saw the defendant on board his own
vessel, the Pepita alongside. He saw the seaman on
board the Joven Victoriana, whose faces he could not
distinguish, hand to the defendant several boxes,
which appeared to be cigar boxes. They were brought
out of the forecastle of one vessel and received by the
defendant, who took them into the forecastle of his
own. He was unable to obtain any assistance at the
time, but, on the following morning, he made a
communication to his superior officer, who seized the
cigars.
Robert Macdonald said he was also a Custom-house
officer, and in consequence of what he heard from
the last witness, he rummaged the Pepita, and under-
neath a quantity of canvass and sailcloth he found
three boxes, containing cigars, and in a chest belong-
ing to the prisoner he found two more boxes of cigars
and about two pounds of loose tobacco. The pri-
sor r gave him the key of the box, and admitted it
to be his. On searching the fore peak; immediately
below the forecastle, he discovered five hundred cigars
secreted among the coals, making in all 2ilbs. The
defendant admittted the whole of these to be his.

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Thomas Cornell, appraiser of condemned goods in
the port of London, said the cigars were real Havan-
nabs, liable to a duty of 9s. sd. per pound. The value
of them was 2/. 17s. 6d., and the duty 13/. 18s. 9d.,
making in all 16/. 16s. 3d.
The evidence having been interpreted to the de-
fendant, he stated through the same medium that he
was innocent, and that, when the officer came on
board, he acquainted him with the fact of cigars
being concealed, and showed him'every place where
they were found.
Mr. BRODERIP said he had no alternative but to
sentence the prisoner to pay a fine of 100/. to the
Queen, and to be imprisoned until it was paid.
The Spaniard, with a sorrowful air, said he was in
his captain's debt, and not worth a farthing. He was
then committed to Clerkenwell prison.
Captain Irrandiago was next called upon to
answer an information, which charged him with being
on board a certain vessel liable to forfeiture, not
driven .into this port by stress of weather, or other
immediate causes, and having on board divers contra-
barid goods, viz., 141bs. 8 oz. of cigars, the same being
imported in packages less than 3001bs. weight each.
Robert Macdonald stated that the Joven Victo-
riana was alongside the Pepita, and that overhauling
the captain's state room he discovered seven boxes of
Havannah cigars, secreted under a quantity of bis-
cuits in a locker. They weighed 141bs. Boz. On
asking •the captain what quantity of cigars he had
reported, he said he had taken them all out of the
locker, and given a true account of all he supposed he
had on board. Witness pointed to the seven boxes
anti the captain said they belonged to him. The
officer said the Joven Victorians had been seized by
the Crown, and was now under detention.
Mr. Phillips, a professional gentleinan,:who at-
tended with the brokers of the ship and others, who
expressed great anxiety for the captain, asked if it was
usual to rummage a ship before she discharged her
cargo ? , The officer—Certainly it is ; we rummage
'ships the moment they arrive.
Mr. Potbury—Vessels are rummaged at Gravesend,
coming up the River.
The,officer, in answer to other questions by Mr.
Phillips, said the seven boxes of cigars had been put
in the locker, and the 3001bs. of biscuits loosely thrown
over them to conceal them.

Last evening a fire was discovered in the warehouse
of Messrs. Smith and Ingle, paper manufacturers,
Piccadilly, which spread with a rapidity very similar
to that of the conflagration which destroyed the ware-
house at the corner of New Brown-street, about two
years ago, and soon ravaged through every floor of
the warehouse, and left merely the shell standing.
The alarm was given about twenty-five minutes
past nine o'clock, the police constables in the neigh-
bourhood of the warehouse springing their rattles ;
but, from what we could gather, no one seems to
have perceived the fire till it was bursting forth
from the windows. Mr. Superintendent Sawley,
of the borough police, states that he was past the
place at a quarter past nine o'clock, at which
time there was no appearance or smell of fire.
Intimation was given at the police-yard about
half-past nine o'clock; and, in ten minutes at.-
terwards, the Niagara engine was on the spot,
The warehouse of Messrs. Smith and Ingle is a long
building, four stories in height, with the end (four
windows in breadth) fronting Piccadilly, and one side
(ten windows in length), forming one side of the
Mosley Arms Yard, which is a narrow yard, open
through, from Piccadilly to Back Piccadilly;
the other side of this yard being formed by
the Mosley Arms Hotel. We believe the upper
part of Messrs. Smith and Ingle's warehouse was
occupied by Messrs. Taylor, Humphreys, Hurst,
and Co., flannel and drugget manufacturers.
Adjoining the warehouse, in front, to the west, is the
White Bear Inn; and the aspect of the conflagration,
when we reached the spot at twenty minutes to ten
o'clock, was truly alarming. The whole of the ware-
house of Messrs. Smith and Ingle appeared to be in
flames, which rushed from the side windows, spread
across the yard, and soon communicated to the
wood work of the Mosley Arms Hotel, the cornice
and window frames of which house were re-
peatedly on fire. Fortunately, the latter were
immediately forced outwards by men stationed
in the different chambers ; and the interior was thus
preserved, though not without the greatest exertions
of the firemen. The heat was so intense that it was
impossible for any one to enter the yard, and the
chief efforts of the firemen were directed from within
the Mosley Arms and from its roof. Meanwhile
the White Bear Inn was in the most imminent danger,
and many bystanders declared that nothing could
save it. Under this impression, the furniture, bed-
ding, &c., were hurled out of the chamber windows,
and much mischief was done by the hasty and
thoughtless way in which the property was thrown
about in removal. Much of it was conveyed
across the street, to the Talbot Inn, for safety.
Behind the White Bear is a crooked yard, which
also leads through into Back Piccadilly ; and several
branchmen were stationed in this yard, and played
their jets on the walls and roofs of some low cottages
and other tenements and outbuildings, so as to pro-
tect the White Bear premises from the impead-
ing peril. In one tenement in this yard was
a poor woman confined to her bed by sick-
ness; she was. hurriedly removed in her night.
dress, and conveyed away, seated on a pile of
bedding, &c., in a large porter's cart, filled with
goods removed from the premises. Some pigs and
other animals were also removed from the outhouses.
Both the Mosley Arms and the White Bear were re-
peatedly on fire, both on the roof, the cornices, and
the window frames ; and as often the firemen suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the flames ; not, however, be-
fore they had penetrated into the bar of the White
Bear, and quite destroyed one side of that room.
Some idea may be formed of the rapidity with which
the flames raged, when we state that in about ten
minutes after the alarm of fire was given, a portion
of the roof of Messrs. Smith and Ingle's warehouse
nearest Piccadilly fell in.
But little damage is done by fire to the adjacent
inns ; but in both the injury will be considerable, by
the removal of furniture, and the floods of water
poured from the engines. We have not heard even a
speculation as to the cause of the fire.
There was a large body of the police promptly on
the spot, under the command of their principal
officers ; they rendered great service by keeping the
streets from being impeded by the curious spectators,
who speedily collected in a large concourse ; for the
illumination of the atmosphere, from the blazing pre-
mises, must have been visible for miles around. We
did not hear of any personal injury sustained by any
one during the, fire.--Manchester Guardian of Wed-
nesday.

MORTALITY in the METROP OLIS

The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
18th of January, 1845." The Table is issued from theOiliC4l
of the Registrar-General :

The defendant made a long statement in reply to
the charge, the substance of which was, that he took
the,cigars on board at llavannah, and that he intended
to insert an account of them in the ship's manifest,
but owing to the neglect of his boy, they were not
removed from the locker, where he had deposited
them pro terapore.
Mr. Potbury said, the presumption was, that the
cigars, the subject of the last information, had been
smuggled out of the Joven Victoriana into the Pepita.
I%lr. BRODERIP said this information was different
from the last, and the mere fact of the defendant being
on board a vessel in which tobacco in packages less
than 3001bs. weight was found rendered him liable to
the penalty. The proof of a guilty knowledge was
not at all necessary, nor was any proof required that
the tobacco belonged to the captain. He sentenced
the defendant to pay a fine of 100/. to the Queen.
The captain was led away in custody of Roche,
the gaoler, and in about two hours afterwards the
inalty was paid, and he was liberated.

Weekly
Total. Average •t
Five Years
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 2'29 184
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat BB 106
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 143 159
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration 325 292
Diseases of the heart and Blood-vessels 37 24
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion ..
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 8 6
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. lO 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 5 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Old Age, or Natural Decay
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified lOO7 954
Deaths from all Causes 1010 963
DEATHS FROM THE PRIN'CIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER

CAUSES OF DEATH.