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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1844.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

Trial Paper, and in giving judgment in eases previously
argued. By the Court.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

STANDARD.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer last
night introduced the Budget, in a speech of considerable
length and of unexampled clearness. It is wonderful
how plain a tale one can tell when his case happens to
be a good one, and the news he has to tell is likely to
prove pleasant. The financial statement was, however,
deprived of much of its interest by anticipation. The
revenue accounts had forestalled its most agreeable dis-
closures—the known character of the Government for
prudence and for a contempt of " clap trap" reputation,
gave warning that there would be nothing striking
in the financial plans for the future. The im-
portant facts developed in Mr. Goulburn's speech
are these—The revenue for the year just closed exceeded
the Right Honourable Gentleman's estimate made
twelve months ago by 2,700,0001. The expenditure of
the same year fell short of the expected expenditure by
about 1,300,0004 There facts, one and two—the
great excess of revenue, and the great reduction of
expense are no doubt gratifying ; but the most
extraordinary fact of all, is the appearance of a
Chancellor of the Exchequer wh) in so great a
degree underrates his prospects, and underrates
! his retrenchments. Such a Minister is the most
surprising contrast to his predecessors in office, as
for many years their practice has been to pro-
mise a great deal more revenue, and a great deal
more retrenchment than they ever realised. Between
excess of revenue and defect of expenditure the surplus
i of revenue above expenditure last year amounts to
4,100,0004 Now, of this sum, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, like an honest and prudent man, takes at
once 2,700,000/., to make good a deficiency of last
year to that extent, and the balance of 1,400,0001.
he places safely in the Exchequer, to enable
the Government to take a confident tone in its ap-
proaching negotiations with the Bank of England :
so much for the present year. For the year before us
Mr. Goulburn estimates the revenue at 51,790,000/.,
about a million less than the revenue of the year just
concluded, which 'was 52,835,124/. The expenditure
for the year before us he rates at 48,643,1701., leaving a
surplus of 3,146,830/., viz.:—
Revenue
Expenditure

WHITEHALL, Aram 25.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Bunny, of New-
bury, in the county of Berks, Gent., to be a Master Extra-
ordinary in the Hign Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

WILLIAM GIBSON CLIFT, coach broker, Chapel-yard,
Cross-lane, High Holborn.
BANKRUPTS.

JAMES MACLEAN, carpenter, Somerset-street, White-
chapel, to surrender May 11, at two, and June 11, at half-past
eleven. at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Burnell, Fenchurch-street.
SAMUEL WILCOCKSON, linen draper, Chesterfield,
Lancashire, May 14, and June 5, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Hard-
wick and Davidson, Weavers' Hall, London ; Sale and Wor-
thington, Manchester.
CHARLES JOHNSON, lime dealer, Rochdale, May 11,
at eleven, and June 4, at one, at the Manchester District
Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester; Woods and
Jackson, Rochdale ; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-
buildings, Holborn, London.
CHARLES NICHOLS, bookseller, Wakefield, May 11
and June 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne,
official assignee, Leeds; Willis and Co., Tokenhouse-yard,
London ; Taylor and Westmorland, Wakefield.
GEORGE FREDERICK WRItaHT, innkeeper, Iron-
bridge, Shropshire, May 18 and June 8, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Bir-
mingham; Clarke and Gosling, Austin-friars, London; Marcy,
Wellington ; Slaney, Birmingham.
JOHN PERRY, maltster, Birmingham, May 11, and June
5, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Suckling, Birmingham.
GEORGE EDWARD PHILLIPS, saddler, Plymouth,
May 13, and June 6, at the Exeter District Court. Herna-
man, official assignee, Exeter; Elworthy, Plymouth; Stogd9n,
Exeter ; Surr, Lombard-street, London.
JOHN PEMBERTON, soap boiler, Leeds, May 11, and
June I, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds; Williamson and Hill, Gray's Inn, London;
Bond, Leeds.
GEORGE MORREY, publican, Stratford-upon-Avon,
May 9, and June 8, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Robinson,
Ironmonger-lane, London ; Stringer, Stratford-upon-Avon.
JOSEPH GOULD, cheese factor, Sheen, Staffordshire,
May 10, at half-past twelve, and June 7, at one, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Smith, Birmingham.
NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
T. S. Robinson, publican, Great Neston, Cheshire.
E. M. Shaw, Manchester.
W. H. Bagnall, watch maker, Bishopsgate-street Without.
F. N. Bracher, schoolmaster, New Sarum, Wiltshire.
M. Fothergill. attorney-at-law, Pontefract, Yorkshire..
W. Dennis, joiner, Nottingham.
J. Standen, block pitcher to a calico printer, Salford.
J. Pagden, London-road, Southwark.
A. Benjamin, dairyman, Gravel-lane, Houndsditeh.
G. Carreer, edge tool grinder, Sheffield.
M. Pi ebble, tallow chandler, Strood, Kent.

Surplus
In the estimated expenditure are included—
China arrears

Three-and-Half per Cent. dissentients 200,000
Liquidation of an old guarantee loan to the
South Sea Commpany
..£239,000

£839,000
All this, however, it is to be remembered, is included in
the expenditure of 48,643,270/.
On the other side, there are to be some reductions of
taxation as follows :
Glass
Vinegar 12,000
Currants 90,900
Coffee 50,000
Marine insurances
Wool lOO,OOO

Or, in round numbers, somewhere about 400,0001.

These reductions are, however, obviously contem-
plated in the estimate of produce of revenue, which is
not merely 400,0001. less than the produce of the pre-
sent year but 1,100,000/. less. The anticipated surplus
therefore, as between probable revenue and expen-
diture, will be a clear sum of 3,146,8301. There is,
however, a large part of this sum to be accounted
for by causes not indicative of anything connected
with the regular sources of revenue. 769,9001. will
appear on the credit side of next year's account.
on account of the postponement of the dividends upon
the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., leaving the actual sur-
plus from sources of permanent supply 2,376,9301. Mr.
Goulburn intimated that the question of the sugar
duties would be taken into consideration upon another
occasion ; and that he would, probably, propose a reduc-
tion to 10s. of the differential duty upon all foreign
sugars, the produce of free and not of slave labour. We
have no room to remark upon the debate that followed
this gratifying exposition ; nor is much notice neces-
sary ; the Whigs and Radicals certainly cut no very
brilliant figure in the discussion.
GLOBE.—The contrast is remarkable between the
out-spoken style of the Duke of Wellington and the non-
committal style of Sir Robert Peel on the final breach
between Government and the East India Directors. We
say the final 'breach ; for it now appears the differences
are of some twelve months standing. Before we come
to his Grace of Wellington's views, and the instan-
taneous chatter confirmatory of the learned
" monkey who has seen the world," and scram-
bled and climbed over many more prominent
points in the world's business than he has had any
trustworthy faculties, or has now any human memory
for—before we come to what was said in the Lords
last night, we must just take a moment's notice of what
is said by the two " Kings of Brentford" who divide
the Ministerial press between them. It is perhaps un-
fair to treat the Standard and Herald as twain ; for
they seem to have only one set of ideas as one set of
types between them. But if not two, they are twice
too saucy to be allowed with impunity their present
license. The style in which they presume to treat this
grave subject will draw punishment—to themselves from
their readers—to their patrons—whose position can only
be covered by such audacities. The case of the Ministry
will be prejudiced by the precipitate effrontery of their
organs. " The public," says the Evening Herald, "is still
wholly in the dark as to the grounds upon which the
Directors of the East India Company have thought it
prudent to risk—we probably might say, to forfeit, by
an extreme exercise of it--their power of recalling the
Governor-General." "We repeat it," says the Morning
Standard, "the act of the Directors is doomed ; and
if the Legislature: does its duty, the power of the
Directors to put the interests of the empire in
danger by the repetition of such acts doomed with it."
These sort of services to Ministers by their press are
rather too like those of the ass in the fable, who struck
his hoof in his master's face to knock off a fly from his
nose. For the juxta-position of these two sentences
(emanating evidently from the same servile spirit) too
clearly points at the infirmity of the case of Ministers
as it now stands. The public is still wholly in the
dark as to the ultimate grounds which have out-
weighed all the reasons which rendered twenty-four gen-
tlemen, twenty of whom we are told by the Standard
are Conservatives, unwilling to fly in the face of Minis-
ters. But if the public are in the dark, as to what ulti-
mately decided the Directors, they are by no means un-
prepared to believe, by the whole aspect of their pre-
vious conduct (as well as that of the nobleman whom
they have now peremptorily recalled), that it must have
been something strong and positive, and conclusive in
all their minds. It is not the fault of the Directors if
we are to remain in ignorance of their guiding motives.
It is not they who shrink from publicity, or entrench
themselves in politic reserves. Before they can be con-
demned, John Bull will assuredly insist they shall
first be tried—and they court the trial. In this posture
of affairs one would have thought it required assurance
transcending that of accustomed sycophancy to an-
nounce any Parliamentary or public judgment. No
such judgment can be passed without all the evidence;
and the party which makes itself the accusing
party through the organ of his Grace the Duke of
Wellington is the party which possesses and with-
holds the evidence. We are told by Sir Robert Peel
that " the Government most certainly were riot taken by
surprise; they had an opportunity of stating their views
to the Court of Directors, and most certainly the Court
of Directors did give full and fair intimation to her
Majesty's Government previous to taking the measure."
We are told by the Duke of Wellington --
Lords, though I believe that this is the first time
in the history of the Government of India that
this extreme measure has been resorted to by the Court
of Directors, or carried into execution, or will be carried
into execution, it has more than once been called into con-
templation; but the intention has been always recalled on
the remonstrance or advice of the Minister of the day.
And it is the fact, that it was in contemplation by these
very gentlemen, with reference to the same Governor-Ge-
neral, in the course of the last twelve months. But they
were at that time prevailed upon to pass a resolution, and
to abandon the intended recal.". With this prima facie
evidence of calmness and circumspection on the -part of
the 'Directors, and with no other evidence as to their
motives except the shrewd presumptions affbrded by the
apparent absence of similar qualities on the part of the
late Governor-General, it is rather too much even for
the Duke of Wellington to expect Parliament or the
public to take his word for the discretion of Ministers,
or the indiscretion of the Directors.

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TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
Will-OFFICE, APRIL 30, 1844.
Basvirr —Commissions to bear date April 30.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—Major T. Ryan,
50th Foot ; Major E. W. Bray, 39th Foot ; Major G. L.
Christie, 3d Foot ; Major J. Stopford, 40th Foot ; Major M.
Barr, 29th Foot ; Major P. J. Petit, 50th Foot ; Major H.
Elavelock, 13th Foot; Major C. Van Straubenaee, 39th Foot.
To be Majors in the Army—Captain P. M`Kie, 3d Foot ;
Captain F. Coddington, 40th Foot ; Captain J. B. Oliver,
40th Foot ; Captain A. W. F. Somerset, Ist or Grenadier
Guards ; Captain M. G. Nixon, 39th Foot ; Captain W. L.
Tudor, 50th Foot.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army, in the East Indies.
Major H. C. Barnard, 51st Bengal Native Infantry ; Major
J. G. Drummond, 6th Bengal Native Infantry ; Ncajor H.
Dick, 51st Bengal Native Infantry ; Major 0. Phillipps, 56th
Bengal Native Infantry; Major H. Earle, 39th Bengal Native
Infantry; Major W. Mactier, 4th Bengal Native Cavalry; Major
W. Garden, 36th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major E. J. Smith,
Bengal 'Engineers ' • Major J. Nash, 43d Bengal Light In-
fantry ; Major W. Geddes, Bengal Artillery ; Major T. San-
ders, Bengal Artillery ; Major H. J. White, 50th Bengal Na-
tive Infantry ; Major C. E. T. Oldfield, Cit., sth Bengal
Light Cavalry ; Major J. Alexander, Bengal Artillery ; Major
J. T. Lane, Bengal Artillery.
To be Majors in the Army, in the East Indies--Captain P.
Grant, 59th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain B. Browne,
Bengal Artille?y ; Captain H. M. Graves, 16th Bengal Grena-
diers ; Captain C. Grant, Bengal Artillery ; Captain B. Y.
Reilly, Bengal Engineers ; Captain F. Brind, Bengal Artil-
lery ; Captain 11. Clayton, 4th Bengal Light Cavalry;
Captain R. J. H. Birch, 17th Bengal Native In-
fantry ; Captain H. J. Guyon, 31st Bengal Native
infantry ; Captain J. Saunders, 50th Bengal Native Infantry;
Captain J. H. M'Donald, Bengal Artillery; Captain G. Camp-
bell, Bengal Artillery; Captain R. Cantley, 10th Bengal Light
Cavalry ; Captain R. Smith, 28th Bengal Native Infantry;
Captain Peter Innes, 14th Bengal Native Infantry ;
Captain Philip Harris 70th Bengal Native Infantry ;
Captain C. Elms, 7th Bengal Light Cavalry ; Captain N. A.
Parker, 58th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain F. R. Evans,
26th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain J. G. W. Curtis, 37th
Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain T. Young, 2d Bengal
Grenadiers; Captain G. Dalston, 58th Bengal Native Infantry.
Commissiox by the Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire.
Denbighshire Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—H. Jones, Esq.,
to be Captain, Nice J. Peers, resigned ; R. Lloyd, Gent., to
be Cornet; W. Rowland, Gent, to be Cornet, April 18.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
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COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 30. pelting them with stones, but they afterwards retracted that
CATIIERWOOD V. CASLON. statement, and said that they were so 'plushy" at the time
In this case, which was set down in the special papei for that they did not know what they were about.
argument this, day, Mr. OGLE applied to the Court to have Mr. BINGHAM said that the case was one of for too serious
it postponed until next term, on account of the inability of a nature to be summarily disposed of, and he should, there-
the Attorney-General, who is engaged in it, from ill health, to fore, submit it to the decision of a jury.
attend Court. The question involved is one of crim. con. The prisoners were committed for trial.
It was ultimately arranged that it should come on first for
argument on Saturday next.
The Court then proceeded to hear cases in the new trial paper.
WHITMORE V. GREEN.
The arguments in this case, which was an application for
a new trial in an action of trover, had been tried before
Lord Abinger, engaged the Court the entire day. The
points raised were chiefly of a technical nature, and pre-
sented no feature of interest.

SHERIFFS' CO Ull7', April3o.
MUTT T. PAIN.

Mr. Nash appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Cole conducted
the defence.

HORRIBLE MURDER ON BATTER-

This was an action to recover 11/. is. 10d. for rent and
necessaries, supplied under the following circumstances :
The defendant's brother, who at one time carried on a
lucrative business, became embarrassed, and sank into the
most deplorable distress, and, being in a decline, he was un-
able to support himself. Being intimate with the plaintiff, who
then kept a beer shop, he took a lodging in his house, at the
rate of ss. a week; but, having no means of subsistence, the
plaintiff supplied him And his wife with food and money for
some time, but having a family, and the brother being, of
course, a heavy burden, he applied to the defendant, who was
in an extensive way of business as salesman in Newgate market,
but now residing on his property at Reigate, to contribute
towards his brother's support. The defendant promised, on
various occasions, to call and see his brother, but having
failed to do so, he was again applied to by the plaintiff, who
stated that he should be compelled to send the invalid to the
workhouse as he could no longer aid hint in his distresses.
The defendant desired that his brother might be taken proper
care of, and he would pay the expense which would be thus
incurred, at the same time handing 10s. to the person sent to hhn,
whom he desired to give it to the plaintiff. On the 6th of
February the defendant's brother died, and the defendant
paid the funeral expenses. It was therefore contended, on
the part of the plaintiff, who is now a clerk in the London
Gas Company, that he was entitled to a verdict.
Mr. CoLE, on the part of the defendant, contended that he
was not liable under the circumstances of the case.

The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up the evidence, and the
jury returned a verdict for,the plaintiff—Damages, 6/.

SEA-BRIDGE.

On Monday, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock,
the hitherto quiet village of Battersea Was thrown bite the
utmost excitement, in consequence of the discovery of a most
diabolical murder which had been committed upon a poor
widow of the name of Sarah M'Farley, who for a long time
resided at No. 13, Bridge-road, Battersea, within a short dis- •
tance of the bridge.
The circumstances which gave rise to the discovery were
as follows :—About twenty minutes before eleven o'clock,
Hall, the toll-collector of Battersea-bridge, was on duty at
the Surrey end of the bridge, when his attention was suddenly
attracted by perceiving the deceased walking very fast,
and crying out, "Oh dear me, look here how have
been ill-used." Hall, on looking at the unfortunate crea-
ture, perceived blood running down the front of her dress,
but even then he thought the only injury she had re-
ceived was a blow. He immediately laid hold of her,
when he noticed that she held a handkerchief to her neck.
Mrs. Hall, who happened to be in the toll-house, came
out and laid hold of deceased, but owing to the great quan-
tity of blood lost she fell senseless on the floor. It was then
ascertained that deceased had received a frightful wound in
the neck, and from its position and nature, it is obvious
that it was not committed by herself. Mrs. Hall having
ran inte the adjoining public house and raised an alarm,
several persons promptly attended and carried deceased into
the public-house. • Dr. Connor, the eminent medical gentle-
man of Battersea, was with all speed at the house, but by
the time he arrived the deceased had ceased to breathe. The
body was then removed to her late residence, and where it at
present remains until after the inquest shall have been held.
The murderer is not at present known, but strong suspi-
cion attaches to a Frenchman, named Dalmas. A female,
who resides at Chelsea, saw the deceased in his company a
short time before the occurrence. They were then upon
Battersea-bridge, and thd deceased appeared to want to go
over the bridge towards her home, but Dalmas wanted her
(at least it so appeared) to go the other way. Dalmas, about
five weeks before Christmas last, buried his wife ; since that
period the deceased has had charge of his four daughters, all
of whom she got comfortable situations for.
About half-past eight o'clock deceased and Dalmas' young-
est daughter were observed to cross the bridge to Chelsea,
and it is reported for the purpose of taking the girl to her
situation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

On Monday, Elizabeth Cole, who has long been
known at the Justice room as a woman of most idle,
drunken, and disorderly habits, was brought before the
Lord Mayor charged with having smashed a pane of
glass. It was known that she takes a fancy to a niche
in Bridewell occasionally for a month or two, after she
has been tumbled about the streets in her passage from
one public-house to another; and when she was put to
the bar, the complainant stated that she dashed her hand
through the glass as if she had been accustomed to such
pastime, and when asked why she put a tradesman to
expense and annoyance, " Because I want to go home
to Bridewell, to be sure. If I knock at a door they
pay no attention to me, and therefore I just tap at a
wind:)w, and that brings 'em out immediately, so that if
I don't chose to walk, which I seldom do, they are
obliged to take me home to Bridewell in a cab.".

It is reported in the neighbourhood that Dalmas has lately
led a very dishonest life. The deceased, on the contrary, was
a hard-working honest woman, and to support herself, she
used to let out apartments, and take in washing and ironing.

The murder remains at present enveloped in mystery. The
police have been in various directions to find Dalmas, but at
present without success, and great neglect is laid to their
charge by the inhabitants in letting him effect his escape.
It is pretty clear that he took the Middlesex road, and if a
sufficient number of constables had, immediately after the
discovery, been sent in that direction, they could not have
failed in apprehending him.

DREADFUL MURDER IN CORN-
WALL.

The LORD 'MAYOR—We certainly ought to have some
way of making what you consider a pleasure a punish-
malt. lam obliged to acquiesce in your desire to be
committed to Bridewell,

The defendant—That's where I want to go. lam
tired of cutting about the streets with nothing to do.
It's all the same thing every day. lam devilish fagged
at it, I assure you.
The LORD MAYOR—You shall go to Bridewell fox' a
month.

The defendant—Say a little more. As much as ever
you can. Hang it, stow me up for the throe months.
You can do that, I know.

The Loan IMAYOR—I shall not gratify you.
The defendant—Then I'm blest if I don't just tap at
the window again when I come out.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall not send you for three
months, nor even for one month. I can, by shortening
the duration of your imprisonment, cause some diminu-
tion to be made in y'our diet. You shall go to Bride-
well for fourteen days upon short commons and hard
labour.—(Laughter )
The defendant—There's no use in that, for I have
no great appetite.
The LORD MAYOR—We shall try it, however.
The defendant left the bar in a fury, and was com-
mitted accordingly for fourteen days.
A gentleman came to the Justice-room to make a
complaint against a publisher of an illustrated journal in
the French language, containinc, woodcut representa-
tions calculated to excite ridicule against the Christian
religion. He considered it necessary, he said, to keep
the name of the publisher private, lest the offensive work
might gain a large circulation amongst those who de-
rived amusement from such exhibitions ; but he did not
think himself justified, having seen it publicly exhibited
for sale, in not informing the highest authority in the
City of so serious an offence against morality, and against
the law. He had entered the shop for the purpose of
expostulating with the publisher, who, the moment the
matter was complained of, offered one of the numbers
for sale. The woodcut to which he particularly alluded
professed to represent the Conversion of St. Paul, and
was, in an extreme degree, in his opinion, calculated to
give offence to the followers of the Christian religion.
It was suggested to the applicant by Alderman Wm-
sox, that if he intimated to the Society established for
the purpose of putting a stop to publications of such a
description that such a trade was carried on by the per.-
son complained of, immediate steps would no doubt be
adopted to prevent its continuance. •
John White was charged with stealing a chest of tea,
the property of Mr. Williams, of Beer-lane, Thames-
street.

It appeared that the prosecutor had sent twenty-four
chests of tea to the Custom-house quay, on Saturday
last, in order to their being conveyed to Holland per the
Batavier. The carter who had them in charge stopped
on his way for the space of three or four minutes at a
house in the neighbourhood of Thames-street, and upon
returning to his cart he missed one of the chests. In
the meantime a young man named Slator, who did busi-
ness in Mr. Williams' establishment, observed a man
carrying a chest of tea, and suspecting that he had not
come honestly by it, he pursued him, and upon turning
the corner of Beer-lane he observed him handing it to
the prisoner, whom he immediately seized and gave in
custody to a policeman. The chest of tea found upon
the prisoner was that which was stolen from Mr. Wil-
liams' cart.

On Wednesday an inquest was held before Joseph
Hawley, Esq., coroner, and Mr. Gilbert Hamley, de-
puty-coroner, in the parish of Davidstow, on view of the
body of Charlotte Dymond, aged nineteen years.
It appeared from the evidence that deceased, ac-
companied by Matthew Weeks, left her mistress's
(Mrs. Peters) house on the 14th instant, about fpur in
the afternoon ; they were seen on the moors going
towards Boughton Weeks returned to Mr. Peters's
house at nine o'clock, and when questioned as to
where Charlotte was, he said he did not know. On
the following morning his mistress told him to get up
and come and help her, for she was sure he had put
away :he maid, and he ought to have known better in
this busy time. lie was repeatedly asked what had
become of Charlotte, both by his mistress and some
ether persons ; but he sad he knew nothing about her.
On the Tuesday following, his mistress said, " I
insist on your telling me what ha 3 become of the
girl." He then said, "If I must tell you, she went to
Brown Willy to Caius Spear's house last Sunday, and
was going to Blissland the following day,- as Mr. Leuxon
had got an easier place for her." On Friday, Weeks
said to John Stevens, another servant of Mrs Peters,
" Can you lend me a needle and thread to sew on a
button to the collar of my shirt ?" Stevens said,
" How came your shirt torn ?ri It is almost a new
one." He said it was bad sewing. On Satur,
day, Weeks met a man named Bethson, who asked
him what he had done with the girl. Weeks said, "I
don't know where she is gone, but if she is found
murdered, they will take up her mother for it,
for she said she would kill her if she came home
again." On the Sunday it was suspected that he had
murdered the girl, and Mrs. Peters sent Stevens
and her son to search the moors. They went to the
moors, and traced her patters marks for some time,
but shortly lost them. On their return to Mrs.
Peters, they found Weeks had put on his best clothes,
and run away. As he was leaving, Mrs. Peters said
" Mathew, how have you got your trousers in that
mess ? You have brushed them so much that the
cloth is almost through." He said it was very dirty
last Sunday. She begged him to come back to dinner,
and ,he said. he would, but he has not been heard
of since. On the following day, several people
went to search for the deceased, and, on going down a
small bank, they discovered a woman's foot-marks op-
posite those of a man's, but quite close, as if they had
had a struggle. About half a gun-shot from this bank
they discovered the body of the poor girl lying on her
back, with her throat cut. The wound was eight inches
in length, and • about 23- inches in depth. Mr. Good,
the surgeon, who made the post mortem exami
nation, said it was impossible she •ould have done
it hersdlf, as it was done with such force, that
it had •;partially separated the bones of the neck.
When she left home, she had on a bonnet and red
shawl, but neither of them have as yet been found, nor
have her shoes or pattens. When Weeks went away,
Mrs. Peters went into his room, and found his shirt
under the bed, with the collar and all the plaits in front
torn off. Mrs. Peters examined the shirt the day before
the Sunday he put it on ; it then wanted no repair, but
was a particularly strong one, and almost new. There
were also several spots of blood on the sleeve.
The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a
verdict of Wilful Murder against Matthew Weeks, who
was apprehended on Wednesday afternoon, on the Hoe,
at Plymouth, and immediately removed to Camelford.—
Falmouth Packet. '

The prisoner, who was stated to be an old offender,
was committed to Bridewell as a vagabond for three
months.

UNION-HALL.

The police of the L division gave information that a man
was found lying dead in a caw-pit on the premises of Mr.
Thomas Lett, the timber merchant, of the Cornwall-road,
Lambeth. _

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From the policeman's statement, it appeared that between
four and five o'clock that morning, according to custom, ha
went into Mr. Lett's timber-yard, and on looking into a deep
saw-pit he observed a man, dressed in sailor's clothes, lying
with his head downwards, and his feet resting against the
sides of the pit. On a close inspection he (the po-
liceman) found the man was finite dead, and appeared
to have been so for some hours. It was impossible to
say how the deceased got into the yard, which is
surrounded by high palings, except on the side situated next
to the River, and there being some barges lying alongside
the wharf, it is probable the unfortunate man got from some
of them into the yard, and by accident tell headforemost into
the pit, where he was found as above described. The body
of the deceased was subsewently conveyed to the vault of
St. John's Church, in the Waterloo-road, where it remains
to await a Coroner's inquest.
CLERKENWELL.

A little boy, about fifteen years of age, named Butcher,
the son of very respectable parents, residing in 11Iyddleton-
street, Clerkenwell, was charged with haying been " riotous"
on the previous evening, with using, obscene language, and
with throwing stones at the police.
• Police-constable Clarke, 213 G, was the complainant. He
deposed tliM at a quarter past eight o'clock on the previous
evening the prisoner and some other boys were " playing
about" in Green-terrace, near Sadler's Wells Theatre.
The Clerk—What did they do? Complainant—They
created a great annoyance before I could get them away.
They were throwing stones.
Cosine—At anybody ? Policeman—No ; but we have
had frequent complaint of stones having been thrown there
and windows broken.

The little boy, who seemed an innocent, quiet, well-behaved
youth, denied most vehemently that he did so, and cried
bitterly.
Constable—He threw a stone at me, which passed quite
close to my head.
Mr. COMBE—Does anybody know the boy ?
Inspector Penny, of the G division, a most intelligent
officer, said he knew the boy's parents for several years. In
fact he lived next door to them. Mr. Butcher was a la-
pidary.
The Constable—He said " a d—d old Peeler."

The Centurion, a line-of-battle ship of 80 guns, is
to be launched at the Royal Dockyard, Pembroke, on Friday,
the 3d of May. She is a splendid ship of nearly 2,589-66-94
tons, and will be the 86th vessel added to the navy by that
arsenal since its establishment in the year 1813.
OPENING OF THE PROMENADE. IN TRAFALGAR-
sQuARE.—The spacious terrace in Trafalgar square, imme-
diately facing the National Gallery, will be thrown open to
the public on Thursday next. It was originally intended to
have admitted promenaders yesterday, but the works are not
expected to be fully completed before dusk this evening.
The walk is the length of the front of the National Gallery.
It is approached at each end by a handsome flight of steps the
width of the walk, which is paved with checkered slabs the
whole length of the terrace.
THE MASTERS AND SERVAISIITS' BlLL.—Monday
a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of
Finsbury was held, at eight o'clock, at the Red Lion, Rose -
mond-street, Clerkenwell, for the purpose of expressing their
disapprobation of the Masters and Servants' Bill now pend-
ing in Parliament. The Bill was condemned as the most
oppressive that had ever been introduced into the Legisla-
ture against the working men ; and resolutions were passed
pledging the meeting to offer it every legal opposition in
their power.
THE LATE MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT THE
ROYAL HOTEL, CLIFTON.—The gentleman of the name
of Heathcote, who was stopping at the above hotel, and
who, on Tuesday night, in a state of great alarm, con-
sequent on a fire breaking out in his bedroom, jumped
from the window into the street; and was greatly hurt,
continued to linger at the infirmary, to which place he
had been immediately conveyed, until Sunday morning,
when he expired. From the first very faint hopes were
entertained of his recovery, and indeed so dreadful were
the injuries which he had sustained, that it was scarcely
to be desired that he should live, for had he done so, he
must have been a maimed and disfigured man for the re-
mainder of his days. The inquest on the body was held
at the infirmary on Monday afternoon, when the jury,
after the examination of several witnesses, returned a
verdict of " Accidental death."

The two superb mansions at Albert Gate, on th
site of the old Cannon Brewery, are now nearly completed.
The building portion of the work is nearly finished, and
preparations will shortly be commenced on a scale of sump-
tuous magnificence to make them ready for the reception of
their noble tenants, the Marquis of Abercorn and the Earl of
Leicester. There is now a cominuou.s communication over
the Grosvenor Pimlico estate, through Belgrave, Eaton,
Chester, Eccleston, Warwick, and St. George's squares,
direct to Vauxhall-bridge.
CONDITION OF THE POOR.—Mr. Corney, the De-
puty of Broad-street Ward, will bring forward the fol-
lowing motion on the next day of meeting of the Court
of Common Council :—" That it be referred to the Par-
liamentary Committee to consider the propriety of peti-
tioning Parliament for an Act to better the moral and
physical condition of the vagrant population of this me-
tropolis, end report their opinion forthwith to this
Court." The discussion which was commenced at the
last Court will, it is believed, be one of much interest.
The result of the engagement of Mr. Webster and
Madame Celeste at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, has been a
professional triumph, attracting the most numerous and fa.
sliionable audiences since the Italians. Among other novel-
ties, they introduced, in a piece called The Trumpeter's
Daughter, the celebrated " Polka," which was nightly en-
cored, and literally created quite a furor from the Vice-regal
throne downwards. On their way to London, they intro-
duced the " Polka," last Thursday evening, at Liverpool,
giving it at once a decided popularity, and filling the house
to an overflow in every part, so much so that to please the
many hundreds disappointed, they have promised to dance it
again on Thursday and Friday next.
CARLOTTA GRISL—(From a Correspondent.)—
The obstinacy of M. Pilet, the Director of the Academie
Royal, had nearly prevented this charming danseuse from
appearing on the night of her benefit. By her Parisian en-
gagement she is bound, under a considerable penalty, to pre-
sent herself in person, on Friday, in Paris, and it is by the
enterprising spirit and decision of Mr. Lumley that this has
been rendered possible. The instant the curtain of her
Majesty's Theatre drops on the graceful poses of this gifted
dancer, she will hasten to the Dover Railway, where a spe-
cial train will convey her to Folkestone, there a steamer of
the first class (with steam up) will bear her to Boulogne,
whence a carriage and four horses, preceded by a courier, will
land her, we trust, in safety in Paris.
THE " PROTECTED" PEASANTRY.—One of the first
acts of the President of the Northumberland Agricultute
Protection Society, was the reduction of the wages of
his labourers 2s. per week. The serfs " struck, ' but
were obliged to succumb. Certain 4-compulsory" friends
to the corn-laws, in the vicinity of Alnwiek slily in-
sinuate that the " bold peasantry" have suffered this re-
duction owing. to Peel's late declaration, namely, that he
had made no promise to abandon the income-tax at the
expiration of three years."—Correspondent of Gateshead
Observer.

The child—l never swore in all my life—it was the other
boy Miller.
Mr, CosinE (to the constable)—Have you any witness ?
Constable—No.

Mr. COMBE-110W long has this man been in the force ?
Constable—Eighteen months.
Mr. COMITE (to the bov)—You have made yourself liable to
be sent to the House of 'Correction for a month.
The poor mother at this announcement, probably mistaking
its meaning, fainted away, and was carried out of Court.
Mr. COMBE directed that the boy should be locked-up
until four o'clock in the afternoon, when he would dis-
charge him.
The poor little fellow was led to the cells crying bitterly.