The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EYENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1844.

If we are not prepared to go this full length in
carrying out our free trade principles, wo ought never
to complain of the monopolist landlord who interdicts
the supply of foreign corn to keep up his own rents.

Neither hearing nor seeing anything of them for
three or four days, the landlord became alarmed for
their safety, and on going up to their apartment
found the woman and child lying upon the bed in a
famishing condition, with nothing to cover them but
the few rags they had on. Seeing that all the bed-
clothing and other articles had been removed, he
questioned the prisoner about them, and she admitted
that she and the male prisoner had pledged them to
procure food; on which he took her down stairs and
supplied her with victuals, and then gave her into
custody, in the hope that something might be done to
alleviate her wretchedness. The prosecutor, sympa-
thising in her misery, declined to press the charge,
and the woman and child were removed to St. Luke's
Workhouse. A great deal of benevolence was sub-
sequently excited in her behalf, from her un-
doubtedly destitute condition, and several subscrip-
tions of 101. each were transmitted to this Court
for her relief; but in the meantime the wo-
man was subjected to a close examination by the
parish officers as to her place of settlement, and in
the course of it it was elicited that she had been
abandoned by her real husband, a man named Wm.
Ferrell, and that she had since been compelled to live
under the protection of the prisoner Smelt. The
woman's husband was thereupon apprehended on a
warrant, and brought to the Court to answer for
deserting his wife, and leaving her chargeable to the
parish. It then turned out, on investigating the case,
that the wife was a woman of most profligate habits,
who had pledged and sold every article belonging to
her husband that she could lay her hands upon, and
finally deserted her home to cohabit with a private
soldier, and that, after enduring the vicissitudes of a
depraved life, she had at last taken up with the male
prisoner Smelt. Conclusive evidence having been
produced by the husband to substantiate his allega-
tions, the magistrate held that he had satisfactorily
exonerated himself from all liability to support his
wife, and ordered that the subscriptions which had
been so benevolently contributed for her benefit should
be appropriated to the funds of the poor-box for more
deserving objects.
It was a remarkable coincidence in the case, that
while the real husband (Ferrell) was under examina-
tion on the above charge of desertion, the prisoner
Smelt was brought up in the custody of an officer,
who had succeeded in apprehending him on the pre-
sent charge of felony; and, the other case having
been disposed of, the Magistrate directed the woman
to be placed with him at the bar and included in the
charge against him.
In proof of the case, two blankets and other arti-
cles, identified by the prosecutor as his property,
were produced by two pawnbrokers, who distinctly
swore to the male prisoner Smelt as being the person
who had pledged them.
When asked if he wished to make any defence to
the charge, the male prisoner, in a loud tone and with
pompous action, said that he was a Socialist, and that
in all his transactions he had been actuated by prin-
ciples the perfect rectitxde of which would, be felt
satisfied, yet be made fully manifest to the whole
world.

Mr. BROUGHTON asked him, if that were the case,
how he could establish the propriety of openly living
in adultery with another man's wife ?
The prisoner replied that he had Divine authority
for the doctrine he advocated ; that at the day of re-
surrection there would be neither marrying nor giv-
ing in marriage, and that the ties of mutual and sin-
cere attachment would then be held as sacred as any
bonds sanctioned by mere human institutions. He
was proceeding at considerable length in the same
strain, when he was suddenly cut short by
Mr. BROUGHTON, who asked him whether he in-
tended to attempt a justification for having robbed a
poor labouring man of his property ?
The prisoner answered, that when he "borrowed"
the articles, it was only for a temporary purpose, and
that he was urged to do so by distressing circum-
stances, but that, of course, it was his firm intention
to replace them again at the first convenient opportu-
nity. He then went on to say, that he had suffered
the most grievous persecution, and that it was truly
lamentable that "he a man of talent and ability,
should be dragged to that bar, and stand there, an
open spectacle of scorn to the world, with not a soul
to pity him ;" and wound up with a sentence of mag-
niloquent fustian, the substance of which was, " that
virtue and talent were all utterly lost, and that vice,
and vice alone, ruled rampant and triumphant through
the length and breadth of the land." (Some doubt
might be entertained of the prisoner's sanity ; but
his intellects, in reality, did not appear to be at all
affected, except by the pernicious principles he hasl
imbibed.)
The woman offered nothing in defence, and
Mr. BROUGHTON told the male prisoner that he had
heard quite enough of his mischievous and destructive
tenets, the practice of which would be utterly sub-
versive of every principle of religion and morality,
and calculated to strike at the very root and foun-
dations of society. The charge had been established
to his entire satisfaction, and he should at once com-
mit both the prisoners to Newgate, to take their trial
at the sessions.

The male prisoner said, "he should, at all events,
hare justice done him at the Old Bailey," and was
removed.

THAMES POLICE.

Two well-dressed children, named 'Edward Red-
dington, aged eight years, and Ann Reddington, aged
eleven years, were yesterday brought before Mr.
Broderip on a charge of stealing a pair of boots from
the front of a boot and shoe warehouse in Bedford-
place, Commercial-road, where an immense pile of
those articles, projecting over the foot-pavement, is
always exposed for sale.
Mr. BRODIMIT looked at the children, and asked
Mr. Barton, the prosecutor, if he intended to proceed
with the case? Mr. Barton replied in the affirmative.
He had brought the case before his Worship in con-
sequence of the numerous depredations committed
upon him.
Frederick Peachey, the prosecutor's shopman,
stated that at ten o'clock that morning he received
information from a person who was not present,
which induced him to follow the children, who were
about thirty yards from the shop, and upon stopping
them he found a pair of nailed boots under the girl s
cloak. They were hanging up within reach of the
children among a pile of boots a minute or two pre-
viously.
John Blake, a policeman, No. 333 K, said he took
the children into custody, and they said they came
over London-bridge from the Borough for a walk.
The children, who hardly appeared to comprehend
the nature of the proceedings, were asked if they had
anything to say in their defence ; and they were told
that what they did say would be written down, and
perhaps used against them in another place !—,They
simply answered, " No, Sir."
Mr. BRODBEIP again asked Mr. Barton if he in-
tended to prosecute the prisoners, who were children
of very tender years.
Mr. Barton replied that he would rather the magis-
trate would not send the case to the session.

Mr. Ilitoremair —I want to know whether you in-
tend to prosecute the children or not ? Mr. Barton--
I would rather leave it in your hands.
Mr. BRODIIIIP—You can't leave it in my hands.
You said, at the commencement of the proceedings,
that you wished to prosecute in consequence of the
number of these robberies.

Mr. Barton—l should wish you to dispose of the
case summarily, and either reprimand them or send
them for a short time to prison.
Mr. BRODBRIP—I hare no power to dispose of the
case summarily. Do you intend to prosecute these
children or not! Mr. Barton—l do intend to pro-
secute.

Mr. BRODUlP—Prisoners at the bar, it is my
duty to commit you for trial for this felony.
The children'were then taken from the dock crying.

UNION-HALL.

James Wilson, a well-dressed young man, belong-
ing to the " swell mob," was charged with com-
mitting an outrageous assault on a policeman of the
L division.

178 L, whose face exhibited marks of violence,
stated that on Thursday night during the dense fog
that prevailed over the metropolis, being near the
Surrey theatre, he saw the prisoner with two other
men whom he knew to belong to the " swell mob"
very busily engaged in hustling some women. The
prisoner had a link in his hand walking before the
women, while his companions were at the rear
lousily employed in trying their pockets ; on seeing
which witness went up, and having cautioned the
women, and desired the prisoner and his associates
to go away and not be loitering about there, was in
the act of seizing one of them, when a struggle took
place. At this moment the prisoner rushed to the
rescue of his companion, and thrusting the blazing
link into the policeman's face, burnt one aide of
his
cheek and his ear in a terrible manner. The prisoner
and the rest of his associates escaped through the
fog, but the policeman, knowing his haunts, soon
afterwards took him into custody.
The prisoner, through his solicitor (Mr. Roberts),
denied that he had a link on the occasion, and said
that it was not likely a man of his reputed bad cha-
racter would carry a lighted torch through the
streets, which, instead of screening him from the
would expose him to ob-
servation,
commit an offence.
rguseyeasndoleethadcee.toP°ce'hliisdetection, if he was about
to
The prisoner was committed for a month.

We rejoice to hear that one of the first subjects to
be brought before the House in the approaching session,
will be the present state of the navy,
especially as re-
gards the six's, number, and capabilities of our men-of-
war steamers. This will be done by a distinguished
officer and Member of the House, who is well qualified
to undertake the task, and who fir some time has been
collecting a mass of information upon this important
subject, which cannot fail to interest, if not to astound,
—Hampshire Independent,
the c0m1..,. _ TTntal.
General Sir It. Burke arrived at k arranee r o.4vr
13,1g:rave-street, on Saturday, from Ireland,

MURDER IN FRANCE.

The Court of Assizes of the Loir-et-Cher was oc-
cupied on the 15th, 16th, and 17th inst. with the trial
of a man named Rougier, aged 29, a shoemaker, at
Vendome, and a woman named Hogu, aged 38, wife
of a person who kept a public-house in the same
place, for the murder of the wife of the former pri-
soner and the husband of the latter. The act of ac-
cusation declared that a criminal intercourse had com-
menced between the prisoners about a year back.
Rougier's wife was a pretty woman, and of a cheer-
ful pleasant disposition, and he had been exceedingly
attacked to her before he had got acquainted with the
female prisoner. This woman was of a decided cha-
racter, and exercised a remarkable fascination
over the men who became intimate with
her. She had spent a dissipated youth, and
had been spoken of in the town more than
once for the criminal irregularity of her conduct.
Rougier's wife, it appeared, was completely ignor-
ant of the intercourse between the prisoners, and the
husband of the female prisoner had never, as far as
was known, reproached his wife with her conduct.
On April 7, Hogu suddenly died, in the midst of
dreadful convulsions and vomitings, and on May 21
similar symptoms attended the death of Rougier's
wife. This second death excited suspicion, and on
an application to the
the authorities, the body being sub-
jected to chemical. analysis, a large quantity of
arsenic was found in the stomach and intestines. In
consequence of t
thin cliscovery, Hogu's body was taken
up, and a similar inquiry into the matter, that
Rougier, after having invited some persons to come
to Hogu's house to eat brioches, had gone to a baker's
and procured some dough, of which he made a oak.
himself, marking it with a cross, to distinguish
it from some others, which he purchased ready made.
He gave the marked cake to Hogu, and distributed
the rest to the guests. It was after this repast that
Hogu was seised with the illness which put an end to
his life. On the trial, after the medical men had
proved that a great quantity of arsenic had been found
in both the bodies, 'toupees counsel stated that his
client wished to make a statement to the Court, and
that he had to request the temporary removal of the
female prisoner. This being effected, Rougier, amidst
marks of the greatest interest, declared that his con-
science tormented him so cruelly, that he had come to
the determination to avow the whole truth. " I com-
mitted the crime alleged against me," pursued he, " in
conjunction with the woman Hogu. She has been
my destruction, but I was unable to resist
her energetic language. She at first made me
give her husband verdigris mixed in a dish of
potatoes, but when it only made him sick, she
persuaded me to purchase arsenic. We divided it,
and it was agreed between us that I should put my
share into a brioche, and she her's into some soup. It
was in that way that Hogu was poisoned. My ac-
eomplice also insisted on my poisoning my poor wife.
I refused at first, but she threatened to turn king's
evidence, and inform against me, if I did not conform
to her directions. I still refused, and she then con-
trived to drop the poison one day into a cup of coffee
which my wife was on the point of taking. My
conscience is now easier; do with me what you
please !" This avowal produced a great agitation in
the Court, and the sitting was suspended for some
time. When the woman 'Toga was brought back,
Rougier's confession was communicated to her,
but she denied with great vehemence the truth
of the whole allegation. "He has spoken no-
thing but a tissue of lies," cried she. " Rougier
never communicated his designs to me. I never
had any arsenic in my possession, and most
certainly I should never have thought of using it to
get rid of my husband, who was so kind to me.
Had I known Rougier's plans, I would have done
all I could to prevent them. Rougier was con-
stantly following me about, and persecuting me with
his attentions. I never wanted him, and frequently
prayed him to return to his work, as M. Joubert can
testify." This Joubert was Rougier's most intimate
friend, and his examination was expected with great
impatience, from the fact of Rougier's having been in
the habit of keeping nothing concealed from him.
His testimony told against both the prisoners. He
stated that, previously to Rougier's becoming acquaint-
ed with the woman Hogu, he had been a laborious
steady workman, but he afterwards was l ike a madman.
Rougier had confessed to him his improper intercourse
with the other prisoner, and on witness remonstrating
with him on his conduct, he replied, " Ah ! here's
something that will put an end to all !" showing a
paper marked " arsenic." Witness had been present
at the party given to eat the brioches, and had seen
Rougier give Hogu one marked with a cross, those
distributed to the rest being plain. The witness
concluded by declaring, that nothing would induce
him to believe that Rougier had ever poisoned his
wife, to whom he had always behaved most kindly,
and to whom he was much attached before his
acquaintance with the woman Hogu. The purchase
of the arsenic by Rougier was clearly proved, he
having procured an authorisation to obtain some, on
the ground that the rats were destroying his leather.
A number of witnesses testified as to significant and
suspicious words which fell from both prisoners rela-
tive to the deaths of the two persons who had been
poisoned. On the third day, when the jury retired to
consider their verdict, tie excitement of the crowd out-
side the court was so great, that fears were enter-
tained of the doors being burst in, and 200 soldiers
were obliged to be sent for to keep them back from
the building. After an hour's delay, the jury re-
turned into court with a verdict of "Guilty against
both prisoners—against the woman Hogu, for the
murder of her husband and of Rougier's wife, and
against Rougier, for the murder of Hogu only. The
Court passed sentence of death on both, and ordered
the execution to take place at Vendome. Rougier
appeared thunderstruck at the sentence, hut the
woman did not evince the slightest emotion.

ARREST OF BURGESS, THE
ESCAPED FORGER.

FURTHER PARTICULARS,
Burgess, who was apprehended soon after Elder
strangled himself in the gaol of Boston, in a most
miserable condition, in a small island fifteen miles
from Boston, is now on his return in the custody of
John Forrester, the officer, to this country. Several
private letters have been, we are given to understand,
received in town relative to the whole of the trans-
actions of the two fugitives and those who pursued
them.

It appears from the statements made at the Man-
sion-house and about 'Change, that when Burgess
escaped from the hotel at Nahant, a small peninsula
joined to the mainland by a neck of land about four
miles in length, he rowed in the dark for a consider-
able time, and at length, after having been tossed
about, he landed and made the best of his way to a
small cottage, in which a poor Jonathan and his wife
and three children resided. From thence he sent to
the waiter of the hotel at Nahant his keys, with direc-
tions to take possession of the money contained in his
bags, and convey it to him. John Forrester, who
managed the whole business, with the ready assist--
ance of the officers granted by the authorities, with
consummate skill, took care to cut off the means of
retreat or escape by land, and met the bearer of the
money on his way to a place of appointment. The
bag, which contained 126/. in gold, and in dollars
and notes 4681., was directly sent back to the hotel,
while the pursuit was continued. In the most
wretched condition, with no more than a half-crown
or a couple of shillings in his pocket, and
half naked, the unhappy Burgess, after great ex-
ertion, reached another cottage, at the distance of
about eight miles across the water, and there re-
mained under shelter for nearly a night and day.
He then sent the owner of the cottage with a note to
a Mr. Grant, who had had some transactions with
him in the pecuniary way, requesting money. Mr.
Grant, who had been duly informed of the forgery
and robbery of the Bank of England, immediately
gave the information where it could be made most
available, and the person who knew the place of con-
cealment of the fugitive was prevailed upon, but not
without a great deal of persuasion, and a reward of
300 dollars, to give him up to the police.
It was evident, from the whole of the proceedings
of Burgess and EldeV, after their arrival in America,
that they looked with the utmost confidence to per-
manent security from arrest. Burgess had been
lodging about a fortnight at the hotel at Nahant, and
had purchased a piece of ground of Mr. Drew, the
landlord, on which he was about to build a house,
and it was odd enough that before the foundation was '
laid he purchased carpeting, bed-linen, glasses, and
other articles of furniture.
The most complete measures had, we have been told,
been adopted by the Bank to render this first expe-
riment upon the convention between England and
America successful. A gentleman of considerable
experience belonging to the establishment was sent
over to manage one portion of the business, while
John Forrester contrived and carried into exe-
cution the other. Upon their arrival at Boston, they
learned, almost in an instant, from a sharel:roker,
that the great bulk of the money which the fugitives
had brought with them had been deposited in a mer-
chant's bank, of which he happened to be a director,
but that as it was only a safety deposit, in all proba-
bility it was withdrawn. Upon further investigation
it appeared that the fugitives had, about the Ist of
October, called at the bank, and taken all the gold
out, and placed it to the account of Messrs. Reynolds
and Grant. The money was soon after found to be
invested in the joint games of Burgess and Eder,
with Mr. Grant as trustee, and the address of Elder
proved to be No. 51, Federal-street, Boston, and that
of Burgess to be about fifteen miles distant from that
city. About 34,000 dolletra, another amount, as we
were given to understand, invested in the Stocks, in
the names of Burgess and Elder, by Messrs. Reynold
and Grant; and about 3,000 more were in the hands
of the Marshal of the district of Massachusetts, and
the whole of this money will be brought, vier by Joh^
Forrester in the next steamer, it, is is expected, till,

legal proceedings considered necessary under the
novel circumstances of the case ,be completed in time.
The regular transfers have been regularly made, every
facility having been rendered by the gentlemen who
had been employed by the fugitive, to give effect to the
new law under which the messengers from the Bank
of England were sent to act. In fact, all the parties
in whom any power was vested in America, expressed
the strongest desire to aid the exertions of our officers,
being determined to show that they were very far
from wishing to see their country the refugium peccato-
sum of England, or any other nation.

One of the communications speaks thus of John
Forrester :—" The utmost credit is due to Forrester
for his untiring perseverance, his devotedness, and
his efficiency. Sleepless in his efforts, and straight-
forward in his demeanour, he secured friends where-
ever he went who were ready and anxious to stand
by him, and also at once enlisted their good. will in
his behalf. No one could hare discharged the re-
sponsible duties committed to him with more inte-
grity, zeal, or success."
It was supposed that the death of Elder, who
strangled himself in the gaol of Boston, would have
been the cause of some delay and other inconvenience,
but so willing were the authorities to give every op-
portunitty to the Bank of England messengers to ob-
tain restitution of the stolen property, that there ap-
peared to be no chance of the slightest procrasti-
nation.

The purchase made in the names of the fugitives
was, we believe, all good stock, and no doubt is en-
tertained that it will realise the prices given for it.
An inquest was held upon the body of Elder before
Mr. Pratt, at Boston, and it was stated before the
jury that the deceased was found dead in the gaol
by strangling himself with his silk handkerchief, the
same handkerchief being fastened to the grate of the
room of the prison.

MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE
CASE OF BELANEY.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE MEDICAL GAZETTE.
Sir,—Will you do me the favour of inserting this
letter in as early a number of your journal as may be
convenient; it is an answer to one I have just seen,
and which appeared in the Herald of the 17th inst.,
purporting to be a review of the medical evidence
given by myself and Dr. Thomson at the late trial of
Belaney, and accusing us of having allowed ourselves
to be directed by general evidence, of having assumed
wrong premises, and drawn conclusious from them
which were not warranted : three charges sufficiently
grave and serious to call for a reply, especially as they
are put forth by a medical professor under the form
of a scientific dissertation. I can, and do, sympathise
with the Rev. Mr. Belaney, and hope that no word or
act of mine will give a tone to the general impressions
which are everywhere formed respecting the unfortu-
nate death of his brother's wife ; and I assure him that
I was actuated by the same feelings when I entered
the Court to give evidence at the trial, being con-
vinced that general reports neither did, nor could,
come within the scope of my inquiries, which had
reference merely to the medical facts; and for the
purpose of arriving at these, and removing every
tittle of doubt or objection which ingenuity might
raise against them, I had instituted experiments under
every variety of form and circumstance, the results of
which, and not of any readings or hearsay, I detailed
honestly and as clearly as I could to the jury, never
allowing myself for one moment to be swayed by a
double-meaning question, or by any party feeling ;
and it must also be remembered that I was not unac-
customed to such investigations, but that the circum-
stances of my position had for many years demanded
an almost daily examination into them.
Among the wrong conclusions with which Dr.
Glover charges us, are the following :—lle says, I had
no right to assume that the cry of Mrs. Belaney was
a shriek, or that it was the effect of the poison. Now
I do not know that I have anywhere made such an
assumption. It is merely asked of me, whether
animals, under the influence of prussic acid, do not
cry out ? To which I answer—yes, that it is a con-
stant effect: and then it is inquired of me whether,
after this cry, there would be a possibility of walking
to bed and telling the cause of the disaster ? To
which I reply, " Certainly not ! for after the shriek all
sensibility and volition cease." And Dr. Thomson
confirms my statement. This was no answer given
hastily and inconsiderately, but sought for amidst
multitudes of experiments and observations ; nor is it
in any way invalidated by the case quoted from
Christison, or, indeed, by any case within my know-
ledge that has ever been upon record. There can be
no doubt, as this and other cases show, of a capability
of speaking after the exhibition of the poison; but
this is not the argument ; it is, whether there can be
conversation after the shriek—which I maintain is
impossible. With respect to the other question,
whether Mrs. Belaney's cry was a mere call to her
husband, or a scream resulting from the poison, I have
never offered an opinion, although Mr. Garrett stated
in his evidence that Belaney told him it was a scream.
Again, according to the husband's statement, Mrs.
Belaney called the drink hot; and I am asked, if
prussic acid has a hot taste ? and reply, " No; that its
taste is bitter." I have tasted it again and again, and
on two occasions in quantities sufficiently large to
produce faintness; yet Dr. Glover maintains, by an
unnecessary, an inapplicable, and a most unlearned
dissertation upon the chlorides, bromides, and iodides
of cyanogen, that it must be hot,—though I cannot
see how this affects the master of fact arrived at by
myself and another, who is nearly the only individual
who has lived to record that its taste is inexpressibly
bitter.

In next part of the review Dr. Glover pronounces
our answers to be an outrageous piece of cruelty. It
was known that Belaney, although he called himself
a medical man, used no efforts to recover his wife, and
we are asked whether the remedies for prussic acid
are generally known in the profession ? To which
we reply, that they should be, inasmuch as they are
everywhere taught ; and I think that we were
warranted in making such a reply, when it is re-
membered that for sixteen years or upwards they have
been publicly and emphatically taught in our schools,
and are constaLtly being brought before the profession
in one form or another; that we have professed works
and journals, and charts, to teach them to us; and if
Dr. Glover's " old and young acquaintances, who are
in active practice," do not happen to know them, it
can surely never palliate, or in any way remove the
culpability of the charge of gross neglect and ig-
norance; nor can it be admitted as an argument of
the universality of such ignorance : if it did, Heaven
knows, there is necessity enough for reform in our
profession ; but most singularly, when Dr. Glover
finds it convenient to make Belaney a judicious looker-
on, he argues for the propriety of his conduct, and
says, that when he stood by ready with his lancet, he
was acting in accordance with the views of Orfila,
Christison, Magendie, and others. And why, may I
ask, did he not further act in accordance with common
affection and common honesty, and try to save her ?
To crown the whole of this part of Dr. Glover's
review, he tells us that we do not
.1(now the remedies
ourselves; notwithstanding the whole tenor of our
evidence, that she might have been saved.
Lastly, as regards our opinion, that a smell would
exist for some time in the room where prussic acid
had been spilt, Dr. Glover expresses his dissent in tote,
although it has been stated that my conclusions were
drawn from experiments made under circumstances as
nearly as possible like those of the case in question ;
and in conclusion, without staying to comment on the
pseudo-scientific character of the review, meant evi-
dently to catch the popular ear. I will merely ex-
press a wish that it had been written with a more
"conscientious spirit."
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
HENRY LETHEBY, M. 8.,
Lecturer on Chemistry at the London Hospital.
12, Tredegar-square, Oct. 31, 1844.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
CAUTION TO MARINERS.
Extract of a letter from Lloyd's agent at Workington.
" Liverpool, Nov. 22, 1844.
"Captain Trunion, of the brig Middleton, of Mary-
port, requests me to report that, on the 7th of March
last, when on his passage from Buenos Ayres to Valpa-
raiso, in lat. 40 deg. 22 sec. S., lon. 55 deg. 13 sec. W.,
out five days (the latitude and longitude given as per
chronometer), he discovered rocks, on whioh broken water
was run for a quarter of a mile north and south—they
were about that distance from them when seen. Captain
Trunion, on his discovering them, was then taking an
observation of the sun. He supposes they must be the
Ariel Rocks, although there is a considerable difference
in their latitudes and longitudes; that had his attention
not been particularly drawn to that quarter whilst taking
his altitudes, they might have been passed unseen ; and
he can vouch for the accuracy of latitude and longitude of
ship when these rocks were discovered."

COOL bill'UDENClL—Rather mere than seven years
ago, a light-fingered Irishman, nainad Sweeney, was
convicted of stealing a box of tinned plates from a ship
in one of the Liverpool docks. On his conviction he was
sentenced to seven years' transportation, which punish-
ment was duly inflicted. A few days ago he again made
his appearance in this town, and one of the first places
he -visited was the office of the firm to whom the tinned
plates had belonged. Neither of the principals were
within, but he at once proceeded in the coolest manner
to introduce himself as Mr. Sweeney, the gentleman who
had suffered for appropriating the tinned plates. He
said that his visit to Australia had not been either dis-
agreeable or unprofitable ; that he had soon obtained a
good-conduct ticket, and a good place as a gardener, in
which he had saved money. Haring non fulfilled all
his obligations to the laW, he had returned home, and
determined to• claim his rights, among which was the
box of tinned plates fur which he had been sent to
Botany Bay I This he considered clearly his own, and
begged that it might be given up to him. We need
scarcely say that Mr. Sweeney's story and his realm.*
threw the whole office into a roar, Th. •
• •- - ~.vraS not 'feel-
iiungattheeamhas,elves qatopetee_t.,
• aecido on so curious a claim
,-,Lice of their employers, begged that the gen-
tleman would call again, which he promised to do, though
be hie not yet (414.11 ed his prougm—Liverpool Chronicle.

SUCCESS OF THE ALLOTMENT
SYSTEM AT WIMESWOULD, LEICESTER.
A very interesting meeting took place at this vil-
lage on Tuesday evening last. The allotment sys-
tem appears to have been carried out there on a
rather extensive scale. There is a considerable
quantity of what is called feofee land, and two or
three years ago it was determined by the feofees,
in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. Alford, the incum-
bent, who, we understand, was the principal mover
in the scheme, to let it out in allotments of from a
rood to half an acre. In addition to this, several
gentlemen of the neighbourhood encouraged the
system, and an allotment society was formed—the re-
sult of whose exertions is, that a great quantity of
land, which before was almost a barren waste, is now
fruitful and productive. It having been determined
upon to celebrate the success of the Society by a
supper, the meeting was held at the Infants' School-
room, which was tastefully decorated for the occa-
sion with laurel and evergreens. 'We noticed in the
assembly the Rev. Mr. Alford, President of the So-
ciety (m the chair), Lord John Manners, M.P.,
Jones, Esq., Gurney, Esq., S. B. Wild, Esq.,
Messrs. W. Ella, Brown, T. R. Potter, Henson, Bos-
worth, G. Kilby, and several other landowners and
occupiers. The rest of the company, mustering up-
wards of 130, consisted of the allotmenters and their
friends.
The Rev. CIIAIRXAN gave the usual loyal toasts,
which were responded to with great enthusiasm.
Mr. T. R. POTTER rose to propose the health of the
Noble guest, Lord John Manners, and took the op-
portunity of entering into a statement of the " rise
and progress" of the allotment system in Wimeswould.
There was at first considerable opposition to the plan ;
but he himself felt confident that it would be
productive of immense advantage both to the
rich and poor. He believed it would be fraught
with benefits both to the giver and receiver, and he
thought he could say that that had been the case there.
He believed there was no poor man there who
would not say that his situation had been much im-
proved by it ; and the farmers and ratepayers generally
must indeed be short sighted if they could not see that
the allotment system had in some degree diminished
their burdens.—(Hear, hear.) But he would mention
an allotment on his own ground. He let a field in
portions of from one acre to half a rood ; it was an
unmanageable piece of land, situate about two miles
from the village, and with a shocking bad road to it.
It was, indeed, in so wild a state, that he could not
restrain his tenants from using the plough ; but having
an adjoining field he put the spade into that, and dug up
from thirteen to twenty inches deep, burying the twitch
and rubbish ; and the consequence was, that he got
the land completely subsoiled, and the surface, instead
of being a heavy dead mass, was now a light spongy
soil.—(Cheers.) That land, which he might say had
never borne a germ of useful vegetation from the
time of the flood, was now fruitful and productive.
The speaker here mentioned, in terms of high com-
mendation, the names of several of the allotmenters,
whose example, both as to industry and the quality
of their work, he said, might afford a valuable lesson
to many of the farmers themselves. He mentioned
those men by name because they had not, as yet, tried
the system of bringing them out by emulation. They
had had no prizes—no perambulations of the allotment
ground. He hoped, however, for better things another
year. He hoped they should institute a prize for
digging, which would be as interesting as prizes for
ploughing matches, offered by the Agricultural So-
cieties. All those things, he had little doubt, would
come in time, kind feelings would he induced, and
all classes learn how much they depended on each
other. There was another thing he wished to men
tion ; their parish was half manufacturing and half
agriculture. He thought there had been a consider-
able increase of right feeling, and a decrease of mis-
chief and disorder—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and
from year to year he hoped that would go on. There
were other results of their Allotment Society—that
meeting was a result : their noble guest was an-
other result—(Continued cheering)—himself a la-
bourer in a very wide field, one of the noblest that
could offer itself to a scion of the house of Rutland—
the renovation of the great mass of his fellow-crea-
tures.—(Loud cheers.) He would give them, them,
the health of their noble guest, Lord John Man-
ners, with many thanks to him for his condescension
—no, he would not call it his " condescension," his
" good sense " in coming amongst them, to
see how they lived, how they breathed, how they
worked ; and if that nobleman wished to form a good
senator he could not do better than acquainting him-
self, and identifying himself, with the wants, the
wishes, and the rights of his fellow-men.
The toast was received with very great enthusiasm,
and continued rounds of applause, which having some-
what subsided,
Lord J. MANNERS rose and said—Mr. Alford, Mr.
Potter, and Gentlemen,—When I yesterday received
your kind invitation to be present at this gratifying
assemblage, I was most anxious, if possible, to accept
it, because I have lately, in various parts of the
country, attended meetings, which, in different ways,
all had for their object the amelioration of the con-
dition of the people, and I was anxious to
witness a similar scene in my own native county.
—(Loud cheers.) Your kindness has enabled
me to do so, and I beg to assure the gentle-
man who, much too flatteringly proposed my health,
and you who have so kindly received it—l beg you
all to believe that in coming amongst yox to-day,
nothing could be so far from my thoughts as that
which my friend would at first call a condescension—
such an idea never entered my head.—(" Bravo" and
cheers.) There may be some gentlemen to whom an
allotment supper of this kind may seem only an unin-
teresting affair—l am not one of those ;tome it pos-
sesses an interest, and has claims upon our attention,
such as I may safely say no other meetings can pos-
sess ; for, gentlemen, that which we have heard this
evening, that which we have seen, and that which we
are to hear, gives us—while it naturally places before
our fancy the dreams which we may suppose were real-
ised in the merry days of old England—gives us hope
for the future that our country will continue to pros-
per and progress ; and that the true old English spirit
is still alive amongst us—(Cheers)—uniting the dif-
ferent classes of society in one common bond of cor-
dial good feeling ; and instead of self-interest predo-
minating, leaving us all to act ttpon, as well as to
profess, our belief, that we are the common children
of one common Father.—(Great applause.) To you,
the allotment tenants, who have had now two years'
experience of the benefit this system confers upon
you, it is unnecessary to say anything in praise of it.
You are all well aware of the advantages you derive
from it ; how, when perchance hired labour may fail
you have that savings' bank in the earth upon which
you may fall, and into which you may deposit with a
certainty of finding your contributions returned to
you with ample and compound interest. You know
what it is to be able to improve your children, and to
give them an agricultural education—not only free
of expense, but with a certainty of return. You
know what it is to be able to keep out of the union
workhouses, and to feel that owing to this sys-
tem, if you be only commonly industrious and
honest, you need entertain but small dread that you
will have to enter them. But it does seem extraor-
dinary to me that, while you are all agreed as to the
benefits you derive from this system, there are par-
ties in England—though, thank goodness, not in
Leicestershire—there are men, feeling the greatest
interest in the welfare of the people, who deliberately
set their faces against this system. They tell us it
militates against the true principles of political eco-
nomy—that it makes us dependent upon labour, and
then refer us to the results of the Irish cottier system.
Gentlemen, in the first place we are told that the
allotment system militates against the true principles
of political economy. All that I can say to that is,
that it would matter very little if it did. The only
question we ought to ask ourselves is—does it work
well or ill ?—(Hear, hear)—and if experience proves
it to work well, then all the dogmas of political
economy may be. whistled down the wind for what
we care.—(Tremendous cheering.) Oh, but they
say it prevents the labourer, who would other-
wise work for the farmer, work only for himself.
Now, this system has been tried for many years in
various parts of England, and I would ask, has it
been found to work ill in any place ? I believe there
will be but one answer to that question—it has not
been proved that it has, and experience is totally the
other way. But suppose, to show the complete ab-
surdity of the thing, that it be true. Now, we find
this argument of the bad working of the Irish cottier
system brought forward when we propose any system
for improving the condition of the people, and re-
moving the weight from their shoulders. They say it
is all of no use ; it is a surplus population, and until
we get rid of them all the measures you can intro-
duce will be unavailing. Suppose this to be well
founded; I say it is a most inconsequential and ab-
surd argument ; because, if the labour market be
overstocked, that ought to be an argument in favour
of, rather than against, the system. Well, then, it is
said, Oh ! it makes the labourer dependent. Now, in
another place I sometimes have to attend—the
House of Commons—it has been my fortune to hear
a considerable quantity of fustain talk all about inde-
pendence and freedom ; but I venture to say such
nonsense was never talked on these two fruitful to-
pics as it must be to say this system makes the la•
bourer a dependent being. The man who lives in
some low cottage in a large village or small agricul-
tural town, who receives eight, ten, or eleven shillings
per week, but has not the crop of cabbage or pota-
toes he can call his own, nor a garden to himself-4,e
P
is in a state of independence ; although, ifs labour
fail, he has no resource but the Workhouse ; whereas
the man who 1":
..
th, 4' 4tliese savings' banks, according to
.
tneorists, is a dependent and degraded being.—
(Hear, hear.) Dependent, gentlemen, he is truly,
but it is on the mercy and goodness of Providence,
and not on the mercy and caprice of his employers.—
(Cheers.) Well, then, when all these philosophical
objection. ere refuted, se refuted tin Inuit MI by snY

man of common sense, the objectors adopt another
course. They leave England, its diminished labour
market, its diminished labourers, and take us across
the channel. Oh (say they) but have the goodness to
look at Ireland ; see the miseries which the cottier
system has produced there, and which your allotment
system must produce in England. Now, it is rather
curious, we seldom have these Irish arguments intro-
duced upon any other subject. We are generally told
that there is a great difference in the character of the
people—that what is good for one would be bad for
another, but in this particular point we are told if a
certain system has failed and produces a bad result
in Ireland, it will fail and produce a similar bad result
in England. Now, I would say, though I think the
argument of a difference between the two people is
pushed beyond its due limits, that there are good
reasons for concluding that even if the system may
have failed in Ireland, it may flourish in England.
Are those gentlemen aware of the rack-rents,
and of the terrible competition for land ? If
they are, I would say they are dishonest;
if they are not, I would say they are ignorant
reasoners. But it has been my fortune, gentle-
men, during the past week only, to receive intelli-
gence from Ireland, which would show that the
sweeping accusations levelled against the occupiers of
small farms is not just. I have heard lately of 30,000
acres of land whieh have been colonised by Lord
G. Hill, and upon which a blade of grass six years
ago was not to be seen. It now maintains no less than
3,000 people in comfort—(Hear)—small farmers, if
you will—occupying from five to twenty acres, and
there is no doubt that in a few years the population
will be increased. Similar results may be produced
by similar means. I say, then, let English gentle'
men do their duty, and the peasants be actuated by
that high and commendable spirit which has hitherto
actuated them, and we shall have no reason to
fear that this system will produce anything but
good to the English people. It is no wonder, then,
that you have assembled' here to-day to cele-
brate the successful introduction of the system into
your parish. It is no wonder that, as we came down
here, we heard the church bells ringing merrily. It
was no wonder that, when I entered here, I saw tin'
thing but smiling faces and happy countenances
around me; nor is it any wonder that I can easily ap-
preciate the motives which brought you here. In con-
cluding the observations I hare ventured to obtrude
upon you, I shall ask you to drink—l was going?
say with three times three, but I forgot the restric-
tion—" The allotment tenants and success to spad!
husbandry."—(lmmense cheering, which continued
some minutes.)
GEORGR Hsants an allotmenter, rose and said'
Your Lordship and gentlemen all—l rise to return
you sincere thanks in the name of every allotment
tenant for drinking their good health upon the per'
sent occasion, and I sincerely wish you all may enjoy
a good state of health, be favoured with a long ine'
and prosper.—(Cheers.)
Mr. W. ELLA had the greatest pleasure in drawing
the attention of the meeting to the toast he was about
to propose to them ; one which, he was sure, every
one there would do justice to. It was that of a noble',
man who stood at the very top of the tree in thso
neighbourhood. He did not go half way up, but to
the very top, in everything he took in hand. He wsi
a capital landlord, and a stanch friend to the poor'
He begged to give them The health of the Lord'
Lieutenant of the county, the Duke of Rutland''''
(Continued cheering)-- and, if he might be alloweot
he should like to do it with three times three.--
(Great applause followed this sentence, which ws,s,
increased by Mr. Wild rising and saying, e I thin*
we must break through our chairman's regulations on
this occasion, because we shall not do justice to Our
feelings unless we do."—(Hear, hear.) Three time
three vociferous cheers were then given.)
Lord JOHN MANNERS returned thanks, and 15'
sured the meeting that the breaking through the rille9
in this instance in responding to tke toast, was by Or
more gratifying to him than if it had been the 00
with regard to his own. His father was sincerely
anxious to fulfil the responsible duties of the situatioll
in which Providence had placed him as he ought kt°,
do. No man had more at heart the welfare of t";
labourer, and the success of the allotment system.
a proof of this, he would state that at the present tin"
he had not less than 1,000 or 1,100 allotment tenants'
—(Loud cheers.) He should take care to convey tc
him the intelligence of the manner in which his health
)
had been received; and he was sure he spoke the fee•
ings of his heart when he said that there was no pisfo
where he would rather have his health drank in the
manner it had been than in a Leicestershire vilisc;
and such, he was sure, would be the case until t
latest period of his existence.—(Continued cheering.)
Lord JOHN MANNERS immediately rose again t°
propose a toast, which, in a few words, be said, on.
veyed more meaning than all the philosophical theories,
and political dogmas put together—" A. fair dell
wages for a fair day's work."—(Loud cheers, g"'
cries of "That's all we want.")
Several other toasts followed, and many filCire
interesting facts were brought before the meeting,
which soon afterwards separated, every one apparel
on the very best terms with himself and his Deig,
hours, and looking forward with pleasurable
pation to a re-union next year.
ths
We should add that the very best order and
most respectful behaviour was observed by the
bourers throughout the evening.

QUALIFYING FOR THE CouNTY.—The friends
Of
the League are exerting themselves with great sacueis
inducing the free-traders to qualify for the counties.,,, et
pecially for South Lancashire, North Cheshire, lveg
Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lancashire. A Ene7o,
was held at Mr. Caton's Commercial Hotel, on Thum for
evening, attended by a deputation from Manchester, ,rir
this purpose at which resolutions were passed in far'nel
of this object, when many agreed to get freeholdot!4,
persuade their friends to do the same.--Preston Guaralf
THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.—During the 01'05.
hours of last night the firmament was extensively do,
scured with lazy-pacing," thin, flocculent ul°ubis
through which the moon was but faintly visible. ,r
ifie
must have prevented those who wished to make scieu
observations from using their instruments, at the C°o°
mencement of the eclipse, with all the effect that wa9,01
sirable. Shortly after ten o'clock the clouds de:o
away, and from that time the moon was unobscureu.
by the earth's shadow which passed across its surfs b•
The appearance of the moon when about three part' ofi
scured was beautiful. The progress of the eclipse agriot
closely with the calculations. It commenced
ted
thirty-eight minutes past nine o'cleck, and termoo,bii
about twenty-eight-and-a-half minutes past ono
morning.—Liverpool Albion of Monday.
(..g Sll
SIR EDWARD CODRINGTON ON DRUNEINN.—
A ,
FLOGGING IN THE NAVY.—The following iraP°l. of
testimony as to drunkenness being the chief c'u'ed,
flogging in the navy, is borne by the Gallant A4nl to
Sir Edward Codrington, in his tribute of prelo
Father Mathew, accompanying a contribution t 0 2,1,
fund now raising for his relief :—" Chertsey, Noctoit
1844.—Dear have read of your being in th.F,ctber
at a meeting to promote a subscription for siooo
Mathew, and as I very highly honour him for hio.zes for
exertions, and no less highly value those exertlooo,ll
the benefit they will produce amongst seamen, Ytibicil
oblige me by contributing five pounds for me, for "joie
I inclose you a cheque. But for the vice of drun,
nose, we should scarcely ever be called upon to t?.wisti
lash in the navy, a duty which is always performed Toy,
disgust.—Very faithfully yours, EDWARD CoDsll4°
To J. S. Buckingham, Esq."

1 BIRTHS. Solitb‘
On the 21st inst., the wife of George Walter, BK.'
street, Greenwich, of a son.
Oa the 21st inst., the lady of Charles Main Worth
r,
Upper Montague-street, Montague-square, of a ding,,bdoltoA'
P
On the 22d inst., the lady of Dr. Golding Bird, M
square, of a daughter. ido'
On the 22d inst., at Rectory Villas, Weit Hackney'
William Maxwell, of a son.
Enticing' On the 22d inst., at Cambridge-square, Mrs. T.
it jun., of a daughter. lIPP
On the 22d inst., the wife of G. M. Gray, Rag-, of
Bedford-place, insßussel-quare, of a daughter
• ifs of Job
On the 24th inst., Torrington-square, the W
Hubback, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, of a son. ttl°
On the 14th inst., at Abercromby-place, Edinburiftibi sad
Lady of Sir William Listoa Foal* Bart., of Wooer
Millburn Tower, ot a daughter.
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lady °f On the 10th inst., at Stoke Hall, Ipswich, the i...., °
Phillips, Esq., of a daughter.
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MARRIED. gout
On the 21st inst , at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr.
High-street, Clapham, to Sarah, third daughter '
Baigent, Esq., Kennington. ifik°
On the 23d inst., at St. Georg,
Somersetshire, ues's, BloomsburY,t_p(l,, pfato'f
Mathews, jun., Esq., of Castle Cary,
Anne, only daughter of the late John Buckisigligim
Broad-street, St. Giles's-in-the-Fields.

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Peacock, On. n the 2E3edq.i,nosft.N, Emma,
ettipgh einmfa.notedoaeugli ter of Rn-
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1 Samuel Samuel, Esq., aged 82. pgrcklol,, ~r•
On the 22d inst., at Southampton,(lo ,las v 6-
On the 22d inst., at Ruthin, Arthur Ellis Robeit,,orys;
viving son of the late Rev. Ellis Roberts, Vicar 01 id, Felto ,
On the 23d inst., Sarah Ann, the wife of Jon"
Esg , of Upper Clapton, Middlesex. ors, 51111/'
tin the 23d inst., at Melton.street, Dorset-1g 4
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the wife of Samuel Hatnersley, Esq. Wick
On the 23d inst., John Watson, Esq., o^f
Brighton, aged 72. 13 ,hoier,,„,,
On the 24th inst., in Leather-lane, Mr. Job sir Atl6ll°''
On the 25th inst., at Kensington Gravel-Plt24 ;
Wall Callcott, R.A., aged 65. QG r
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