The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1845.

A melancholy exemplification of the unequal degree of
sympathy manifested by_ the law in its practical administra-
tion for the rich as compared with the poor, occurs in a para
graph we have transcribed from the Somerset County Gazette.
It relates to one of the most deplorable catastrophes
into which madness or despair can precipitate a rea-
soning being. It regards the case of a wounded, impetuous
spirit, stung by the intolerable pressure of a present distress,
presumptuously withdrawing from its appointed sphere
of existence and of duty,—and "rushing"—as it is somewhat
vaguely but impressively described—" into the presence of
its CREATOR,"—unbidden, unanealed !" GOD forbid! that we
should be misunderstood—in our observations on this
melancholy event—to speak irreverently of that Divine
prohibition which has its echo in the conscientious and
abhorrent convictions of every human breast. We should
be reluctant, to the last degree, to be suspected of
regarding with levity or irreverence that stern
but wise and solemn reprobation with which human institu-
tions resent Ibis insult on the Supreme Majesty of the Uni-
verse. But it is with no such feelings—it is in the absence
of any such purpose—that we find ourselves compelled to
denounce the Coroner's verdict returned on the inquest at-
tending the circumstances which led to the death of JAmEs
LovELL, of Norton Kewstoke, Somersetshire, who com-
mitted suicide on Saturday last by hanging himself.
This is but one exemplar of a very numerous class of cases
in which we are too often shocked—not by the servile
and obsequious promptitude of inquest juries, in devising every
possible construction of circumstances proved in evidence—
every possible assumption that can be formed in the absence of
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facto ignominy—(fur these things have almost ceased to
startle: by their daily occurrence)—but, by the careless,
unhesitating, and reckless consistency with which they re-
turn verdicts of felo-de-se against these children of misery
and wretchedness whose crime against the decree of GOD
himself, is aggravated in the eyes of these duodecimal
councils by the more inexpiable guilt of poverty ! Is there
a country in the world where poverty is more persecuted in
life—more hunted down after death, even—than this, with
all its boasted institutions, its moral bearing, its
munificent charities. We seriously fear that there is not.
A Pharisaical, conventional propriety appears to be at once
more diffusively established, and more highly appreciated,
than a plain, unobtrusive, meek, and sustained Christian
deportment of benevolence to, and pity for, our
species. It was but to the excess of this pseudo-
" correctness ;" this meretricious shadow of a
morality beautiful by very reason of its simplicity;
this white-washed, decorum-hiding, not atoning for, the
" multitude of sins," that the miscreant TAWELL, in the
beginning of the present year, sacrificed the substantial
merits of his private charities and good works, and all the
worldly advantages of a competent fortune and a " respect-
able position in society." How many hundreds of thousands
yet remain among us who, without so far losing their calcu-
lating habits of self-possession as to be hurried into crimes of
so deep and revolting a dye as those of TAWELL, do
yet maintain this "respectable position" in the great world
by sacrifies of principle, of integrity, of candour, of affections;
by violations, one day to be atoned for in this world, or be-
yond it, of the most sacred ties of kindred, honour, and good
faith ; and the studied contravention of the great rule of human
conduct, "to do to others as we would be dealt by ourselves"
—every day in the year, and almost every hour in the day ?
If they be not great convicted criminal offenders,
like the heartless poisoner, they are not less heartless as moral
delinquents of another kind ;—the plausible but. worthless
Pecksniffs of society. Were not this the case, it is certain
that so pernicious an example would not affect, afwe are per-
suaded it does, the judgment of jurors in that remarkable
manner which the verdicts of coroners' inquests exhibit.
If an honourable or noble speculator on a race-course, or
a wealthy and influential dealer in the money market,
after being defeated in the projects which he has raised on
some operat!on of extraordinary magnitude in his peculiar
sphere, communes with his friends, or settles under his own
handwriting his worldly affairs, all this evidence of
mental collectedness and deliberation is at once passed
over as nugatory, or accepted as establishing the case
for a curtain inevitable verdict—that the " unfortunate
nobleman," or " lamented gentleman," committed suicide
whilst labouring under temporary insanity. The jury is
thanked and dismissed. The coroner sympathises in the
recess of a window, or a corner of the chamber, with the
nearest relative or friend of the deceased who has
given evidence, and takes his leave with all the
serenity of a man who has done his duty, and—earned
his fees. In due time there is the general pomp of
an elaborate procession to the last resting-place of the
body of the deceased ; and the sympathies and grief
of the spectators, young and old, provided they be of
" a respectable rank " in society, are wonderfully
excited by the recollections of high birth, or great opulence,
or eminent ability,—in short, of any of the accidents which
ought to have withheld the departed from the " rash act" by
which his life has been violently terminated. Reverse the
medal. Look at this lamentable suicide of a poor
labouring man, haunted by so inconvenient and offensive a
degree of sensitiveness, on the part of a person in his hum-
ble sphere of life, that " the fact of being unable to pay
his rent for the cot in wjiich he lived" is generally thought
to have been " the cause of his committing the act." Aye !
this is, indeed, a sordid and therefore an unpardonable crime.
A pauper, not content to rot in the slavish obscurity and
squalled indolence of a poor-house, but ambit ions,forsooth, to
maintain himself in an independent, though famishing exist-
ence, by honest industry ; this pauper labourer, discovering
after all his efforts that his scanty wages are all too
little, after all his gallant fight to maintain
himself out of the union workhouse, to defray the rent of his
humLle cabin, is driven, no doubt, to desperation by the
reports which are published every week of proceedings at
quarter sessions and petty assizes, where distraints for rent,
and distress warrants for levying the fractional dues on ac.
count of poor-rates for tenements whose fractional rents ex-
ceed the reach of their fractional wages, are granted by
wholesale—with overwhelming additions in the shape
of costs and fees; and executed with that unsparing rigour
which seizes the bed from beneath its dying occupant; the
wooden chair from " the man sick of the palsy ;" the straw
pallet from the unconscious infant offspring of the wretched;
and drives out from his fireless hearth, and his bare walls, and
the protection of his shattered roof, the ousted pauper, an
exile, less guilty, but scarely less desperate, than CAIN him-
self, on a wide and desolate and unpitying world. Poor
LOVELL, we have no doubt, had before his eyes the vivid pic-
ture of these last acts in the domestic tragedy of the unem-
ployed or ill-paid labourer's existence; and to escape an al-
ternative which our poor seem now to concur in regarding as
more terrible than dissolution, rashes upon his fate, and ex-
tinguishes, with hia:own hand, the sacred lamp of life that has
been confided to his keeping by its ALMIGHTY source. If
the ruined but high-born gamesters on the turf, the
once enormously rich and luxurious, but suddenly
broken, speculator can, to a very certainty, find in every
coroner's jury a sympathy for his last mental afflictions, and
a merciful straining of flit law to rescue his insensib'.e corpse
and his future memory from superadded ignominy, how
happens it that the poor peasant, whose life has been passed
in the •ever-toiling but unsuccessful attempt to secure the
necessaries of existence —not to accumulate only to abuse
supertiuities of its enjoyments—how happens it, if he, maddened
by the breaking down of all his honest exertions to sustain
himself by the sweat of his own brow, rushes on the crime of
self-destruction, rather than eat the bread of parochial alms,
as it is now too commonly and too grudgingly bestowed ; that
these inquests are sure to declare tliat he was of sound mind
when be killed himself; that they brand the last excess of
his despair with the legal infamy of a verdict of felo-de-se—
and leave his dishonoured remains to be pitched into a hole
anywhere, anyhow, at any time, without ceremony, attend-
ants, mourners, or pity I

It would appear that the inhabitants of England are
doomed ever to be the victims of the vested interest of the
clergy, for while the tithe-owning rector of the country
parish joins with the monopolist landowner in opposing the
opening of the ports for the free admission of the food of
the people, because he has a vested interest in famine;
his brother rector of the town claims an equal!), vested
interest in plague and pestilence, and as strenuously opposes
all plans for the establishment of cemeteries out of the City.
A letter from Dr. CRONIN, the physician to the Strand Dis-
pensary for the Cure of Consumption, appears in our columns
to-day, descriptive of the present state of the Savoy
Churchyard, which is situated between the back of
the houses in the Strand and the river, in the
midst of a densely populated neighbourhood. "At all times"
says Dr. CRONIN, "there is a most noxious effluvium from
this churchyard, and when (in a heavy dense state of atmos-
phere, as at the present time, and as has been for the last
five weeks) a grave is opened, the stench and emanations are
really intolerable, and truly deserving of public reprehension
and denunciation, as most fertile causes of producing and
spreading pestilential disease."

The Doctor thus describes the effects produced upon himself
by the noxious exhalations from this magazine of pestilence :
—" Several graves have been lately opened within the last
month. In one day there was in this small churchyard no
less than three open at the same time, the noxious exhala-
tions from which were so overpowering as to produce on my-
self faintness, succeeded by violent retching,"
The description is not overcharged, and so far is the Savoy
Churchyard from oeing an unfavourable specimen of the
burial-grounds in the metropolis, that we have no hesitation
in stating that we know of no burial-ground which is not
more crowded, more closed up, more pestilential. The
Savoy is, perhaps, the most favourable specimen of a
metropolitan burial-ground that the advocates of inter-
ment within the precincts of great towns could produce.
Surely Sir J. GRAHAM will no longer hesitate to bring in some
measure to do away with this crying evil. He it is who is
responsible for its continuance, as but for his interference, ac-
companied by a promise that the Government would con-
sider the subject, Mr. MAcKnixori would have perse-
vered in the measure which he introduced, two ses-
sions ago, for prohibiting interments within the pre-
cincts of large towns. The Government did consider
the subject, and Sir JA3IES GRAHAM announced that
they were not prepared with any measure, as they found it
impossible to reconcile conflicting interests. We hope, how-
ever, that the matter will now be taken up in right earnest
and that the safety and health of the community will be no
longer sacrificed to the grasping avarice of those who claim
a vested interest in " plague, pestilence, and famine."

Madrid journals of the 21st state that, though no official
business is transacted on the Bourse, purchases to a consider-
able amount had lately been made, and a considerable rise in
the funds had taken place. A rich capitalist, according to
the Espanol, had invested large sums in the Three per Cents.,
and continued to purchase all that is offered for sale. The
quotations, as given in private letters on the 21st, were :
Three per Cents., 34 cash, 34i for the Account. Five per
Cents., 23 cash. Coupons, 246 to 25 for the Account. pas..
sive Debt, 8A to 81 for cash. These prices show a rise of
nearly 2 per cent. since the last official quotations. The Edi-
tor of the Espectador had been tried for a libel on the Go-
vernment, but without a jury, and condemned to pay a fine
of 20,000 reels (2000 One of the papers repeats the rumour
that ABD-EL-KADER had agents at Gibraltar and Lisbon to
engage European officers in his service ; and adds, " that a
committee for the same purpose had_ been established at
Madrid."

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the state of Al
geria, and from the latest accounts it is anything but favour-
able. Several tribes that had made their submission to the
French had thrown off their allegiance, and thus, says the
Journal des Debats, " we have to fight our battles over again,
and renew our conquest over one half of the Algerian terri-
tory." The conclusion of the telegraphic dispatch from Per-
pignan gives rise to these remarks, and is as follows :
" General BOURJOLLY and Colonel ST. ARNAUD had effected
their junction, and were awaiting reinforcements previous to
commencing operations. Bou MAGA, with 300 cavalry, bad
attacked, on the 18th inst., a tribe under the very walls of
Mostaganem. Lieutenant-Colonel MEra.prET, with the troops
which were in that town, had repulsed him. During the
night of the 18th three tribes of the subdivision of Oran had
revolted. They are the first of that subdivision which have j

Do. & Cette (Espeleta)
Do. ( Mackenzie's)

Central of Spain .. . : ...

Demerara

Dendre Valley ......

1517tt7CRhcl.rZh .... ... ::: 9
Dieppe 8. Paris t7unct.

Dijiiti and Mullion2e ...
East Indian
Grt Northern of France

31,4

(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Do. (Le Boeuf)
Do. Pepin le lialleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal 3%
Jamaica Junction —
Do. North Midland —
Do. Extension
3,
Jersey /4
Louvain and Jemeppe 3
Lyons and Avignon —

Orleans and Bordeaux RN
Over Yssel

Ditto ( .yGanueron's). 3

Paris & L:

ons ( Laffitte)

Ditto (C010n'5)..... 2

Paris ana
Paris and Rouen .

Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's
Do. ( Compte de L'Est ) 23%

Paris and St. Quentin.
Rouen and Havre......—
Royal North of Spain.
Sambre and Mouse .... 5;
Strasburg and Basle ...
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
dent, and Hasselt...
Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's) 2
Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Verona and Ancona —
[West Flanders

INAUGURATION OF HER MAJESTY'S STATUE.—A para-
graph, headed as above, has gone the round of the press,
leading the public to suppose that yesterday, being the
anniversary of the opening of the Royal Exchange, the
statue of her Majesty, which we described fully on a former
occasion, would be erected in Merchant's area, accompanied
with some form of ceremony, we attended in consequence,
but beyond the simple fact of removing the cover which
shrouded the statue, nothing whatever requiring notice took
place. There was no ceremony, nor were any of the
City officials present. The circumstance we have stated
took place at three o'clock, before a considerable assembly of
spectators, and amidst loud cheers. The statue when thus
disclosed to view had a very striking effect, and • excited the
general admiration of all present. Up to the closing of the area
at the termination of business on 'Change, great numbers of
spectators visited the spot to have a view of the marble re-
presentative of the Queen of the Isles.

It is said to be her Majesty's intention to honour
Drury-lane The ►tre with her presence to-morrow evening, after the
inauguration of Lincoln's Inn-hall.
The Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and Lady
Rachel Evelyn Russell, are still at the Doune of Rothiemurchus, ho
the Highlands, where her Grace is entertaining a select party.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley House
yesterday, from Weimer Castle, accompanied by Lord Charles Wel-
lesley. Ills Grace is expected to attend her Majesty to the opening
of Lincoln's Inn New Hall to-morrow. Lady Charles Wellesley has
gone on a visit to the Right Hon. Henry Pierrepoint, at Chersholt
Park, near Andover.
The Duke of Buccleuch and the Hon. Mr. Under-
Secretary George W. Hope, who were sent for express frem Scot-
land, in consequence of the alarming illness of Lett' Montagu, have
arrived in town. The answer to inquiries yesterday, in Hamilton-
place, was, that his Lordship had passed a good night, but was much
the same as on the preeeding day.
STEALING LETTERS OF ALLOTMENT.—Some days
past suspicions have been entertained that an organised system
exists for purloining letters of allotment, and that the principal
parties :concerned are some of the sub-officials of the Post-office.
A few days ago, a letter was posted by the secretary or solicitor of
the Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge Railway, and addressed
to C. Rawlings, Esq., Warwick-street, Pimlico, which fell into the
hands of one of the gang alluded to. Shortly after a notice was sent to
Mr. Rawlings, informing him on what day the deed would be ready
for signature. On inquiry at the offices of the Company, he was
informed that the amount of the deposit had been paid into the
banker's hands by the person who bad improperly obtained possession
of the letter; and when he made his appearance for the purpose of
signing the deed, he would be given into the custody of the police
for fraud and forgery.

ROBBERIES AT THE ERECHTHEIUM CLUB-HOUSE.-
The proprietors of this establishment, No. 8, York-street, St.
James's-square, having within the last few weeks missed several vo-
lumes of Withers's works, an examination of the library was deter-
mined upon, when It was discovered that no fewer than thirteen va-
luable books had been stolen. Each of the volumes was bound in
red morocco and gilt. No suspicion is at present attached to any In-
dividual.

The Earl of Donoughmore was installed Master
of the Clonmel Masonic Lodge on Friday, and the Earl of Glengah
was also initiated a member.

DEATH OF LADY STRAFFORDJ—The family of
Lord Strafford have sustained another heavy bereavement by the
demise of Lady Strafford, which took place on Sunday evening last,
at the town residence Portman-square. Her Ladyship was daughter
to Sir Walter James, Bart., being Lord Strafford's second wife.
Our readers may recollect that Lady Agnes Bytig, wife of the Right
Hun. G. S. Ryng, eldest son to his Lordship, died a short time since.
DEATh OF SIR MATTHEW JOHN TIERNEY? BART.--
We regret to announce the death of Sir Matthew Tierney, one of the
oldest and most respected inhabitants of Brighton, which event took
place yesterday morning, after a short illness. The Honourable Ba-
ronet had suffered for some years from attacks of gout. and there is
very little doubt that a severe attack of gout was the immediate cause
of death. Sir Matthew Tierney was a great favourite with George
IV., and we believe held the appointment of physician to the King
during the reign of William IV. Sir Matthew was born November
24th, 1776 ; and married October Bth, 1808, Harriet Mary, daughter
of the late Henry Jones, Esq., of Blitomsbw•y-square, by whom he
had no issue. Upon being appointed physician in ordinary to his
Majesty, and physician to the household at Brighton, Mr. Tierney
was created baronet, 3d October, 1818, and obtained a second patent,
dated sth May, 1834, with remainder to his brother, Edward Tierney,
Esq., of Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, a crown solicitor for Ireland. Sir
Matthew was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic
Order of Hanover, 7th May, 1831.
WALRROOK WARD.—Yesterday the Common Coun-
cil of Walbrook ward gave a farewell dinner to the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, at the London Tavern. The company invited consisted
of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Lady Mayoress, the Lord
Mayor elect and his lady, Sir Moses and Lady Monteflore, Sir George
and Lady Carroll, Mr. Alderman Hunter and Mr. Alderman Sidney,
late Sheriffs, and their ladies; Mr. Sheriff Cluiplin and lady, Mr.
Sheriff Laurie and lady, the Under-Sheriffs and their ladies. The en-
tire suite of rooms on the first floor, including the splendid drawing..
room, was appropriated to the entertainment, and fitted up for the
occasion In the most gorgeous style. We need not say that the en-
tertainment consisted of every delicacy of the season, nor that It was
served up with that exquisite taste for which the proprietors are dis-
tinguished. During the course of the evening many speeches were
made, interspersed with music and singing, and the evening was
spent in the highest enjoyment by all present. Seldom indeed has so
costly and munificent a banquet taken place, resulting from the in-
terchange of kindly sentiments and friendly feelings.

APPROACH or WlNTER.—During the past week
the ice has been no less than an inch thick in the morning near Car-
marthen.

and
ecester I
Direct Manch. (Remington's) 23/4 3553/4... to
Ditto (Rackstrick's) 51.A....•• 554% % to"—
Pirect Northern
Eastern Counties
Do. New 4l. 16s Bl/2 p... to p
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d 1/ p to
East Lincolnshire ll% ...... 41/2 to
Great South and W.(lrish)... 15
Hull and Selby .. ... 50 lOOl/2 ..... to 102
Ditto, Half Shares
Leicester and Bedford 22s.
Leicester and Tamwort.h 425....... 1 p to
Liverpool and Leeds Direct... 25/8 3% to
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction
London and Birmingham ...100 217 ..... . to
Ditto IA, Shares
Ditto Extension
London & Blackwell... 16/. 13s. 4d lO
Do. New..
London and Brighton
Ditto, Sixth*
• London and Croydon 13/. 15s. 9d. 22% to 211,6
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 8
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference ........181 17s 2d... 221/2 to
London and York... ..... ...... 21/2 5 % ...... to 5%
L........,Wm. ”,..ts,rtittd,...,l,.Ler z% -
MallellOilel and Leeds 76 .. ... ...... to
Ditto Quarters ......
Manchester and Birmingham 40 -
Ditto New Quarters......... 2
Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 22s 4l/.2 p... to
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland .......100
Ditto New
Newcastle &Darlington i-xinc. 25
Newcastle and Berwick h 5
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 2%...... 4%% to
North British
Ditto, New 1
North Devon
North Kent & Direct Dover 91/2 3l/2...... to
North Staffordshire 425 4%3/4 p to
Northampton, Banbury, and
Cheltenham ... 2
Nottingham 'and Boston l% 3%1/2... to
Oxford, Gosport, Portsmouth,
and Southampton 42s 1 p
to
Oxford and Worcester 2l/2 9A to 1014
Perth and Inverness
Scottizh Central
Scottish Midland .. ... 11/2 4 ...... to
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 21/2-- 53/4 6... to 5%
Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 225. ...
South Midland 22s.
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 3B
Ditto, New, No. 2 ....... ...... 7
South Wales
Term and Dove Valley l% l% to
Trent Valley 2 ~ l6 ...... to
Waterford, Wexford, and
Valentia
Welch Midland 21/2
Wilts,Somerset,& Weymouth 21/2...... 5% to
Wrster, Shrews. & Crewe Un. 1%...... 2% to
York and Carlisle 23/4 3l/2 to
York and Lancaster ...... 2% 2% to
York and North Midland .. 50 ......106
Ditto. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 8 ...... 10%..... to'
butch Rhenish
East Indian
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1
Louvain and Jemeppe
Luxembourg
Madrid and Valentia . 2
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 .....
Paris and Lyons ( Laffitte) ... 2
Paris and Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ...
Paris and Rouen ..
Paris& Strasburg(Gannern's) 2
Ditto (Aymards) 21% 2%..... to
Sambre and Meuse
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 - to
..... . _.

Ditto Ditto (Levevres)
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered
British Iron Scrip .... 10

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Ocr. 29.—Wind S. by E., light breeze, and fine
clear weather.

DEAL, Ocr. 28.—Arrd. Clio, Berbice or Mediterranean.
Arrd. from the River, Russia, Havannah. Sld. Exporter,
Northwood, Valparaiso; Cumberland, Gardner, Nevis; Doro-
thea, Craig, Grenada.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 28.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Ann Carr,
Wayne, Sydney, New South Wales, sailed June 7 ; Felicity,
M'Donald, Singapore ; Llewellyn, Wetherly, Madras ; Ma-
jestic, Leslie, Saldanha Bay ; Swiftsure, Witt, Bombay,
sailed Aug. 19; Prompt, Irwin, Maranham, sailed 16th ult, ;
Monongahela, Julius,Philadelphia ; Birkenhead, St. Andrew's ;
Lady Milton, Haynes, Quebec. Put back Neptune,. Nichols,
for Charleston. Sld. Jeremiah Garnet, Davies,tShanghae;
Mary White, Tucker, Sydney, New South Wales ; George
Canning, Mustart, Maranham ; Speed, Glory, Trinidad ;
Prince Llewellyn, Gellis, Port Republic= ; Freeland,
M'Kenzie, Cuba ; Moslem, Gardner, Beyrout. Off port,
Felicity, Singapore ; Rachel Royal Bridge, and Lawsons.
GRANGEMOUTH, Ocr. 24.—Arrd. Hampton, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 28.—The Hope, of LOndon, waterlogged
and abandoned, was passed 16th inst. lat. 44, long. 19, by,
the Llewellyn, arrived here. The Ambassador was blown up
at Benin, previous to Aug. 26. '
FRASERBURO, Ocr. 25.—The Duchess of Gordon, M'Ken-
zie, from Leith to Lochinvar, has put in here with pumps
choked, and is discharging cargo in a damaged state.
SHIELDS, OCT. 27.—The Maria Louisa, Peters, from
Dantzic to Dundee, was abandoned in a sinking state 21st
inst. Crew saved by the Cupido Gunderson, arrived here.

THE ROBBERY AT HROMPTON BARRACKS.-CHAT-
HAN, OCT. 27.—John Forsyth, the man in custody on suspicion of
stealing the cash-box belonging to the mess of the Royal Engineers
stationed at Brompton Barracks, was brought up for final examina-
tion this day before the county magistrates at Rochester, when a
chain of evidence tending to connect the prisoner with the robbery
was adduced. It appeared that he had gone into the kitchen of
Captain Lloyd and inquired of the maid servant whether her master
was at home, but would not suffer her to call the man-servant to
ask the question. He must for that purpose have pa.sed the room
where the cash-box was deposited; and William 31`Water, Captain
Lloyd's servant, saw a soldier going out of the door about that time
with a cash-box in his hand, but could not identify the prisoner as
the man. The box was found in a cupboard in a room to which the
prisoner and two other men had access, still locked, and containing
67/. 17s. On settling with the messman a few days previously.
Lieutenant Myrass missed 151., and it appeared the prisoner had
changed three 5/. notes with a publican, two of which had been paid
to Mr. Bromley, the agent of Colonel Best, and the other is now in
the possession of the constable who apprehended him. lie was com-
mitted for trial at the quarter sesions at Maidstone.
FURTHER RISE IN THE PRICE• OF BREAD.-
Another advance of a half.penny on the 41b. loaf took place yester-
day in different parts of the metropolis; the " top " price, there-
fore, of "cheap" bread is now Bid., and of the best wheaten 91d.,
and in some places 10d. the 41b. loaf.

Elizabeth Riches, charged with stealing a purse and some money
from Janes Sarstield, pleaded Not Guil:y.
Sarsfield was proceeding along Whitechapel, and was accosted by
the prisoner, who requested him to walk home with her. She put
her arms about his middle and parted from him soon after. A
policeman saw them together, and, a short distance from the spot
where the woman parted, met Sarsfield, with his pockets turned
inside out. Sarsfield, who till then suspected nothing of it, found
he had lost his purse and money. Policeman went after the pri-
soner, and found the purse produced, which, as to money, and ap.
pearance, answers the prosecutor's description.
The prisoner, without counsel, subjected both witnesses to a
searching cross-examination. She is a widow, and appeared in
Court with a suckling child. She had been convicted of a former
offence, and was now. sentenced to ten years' transportation.
John Rowe, Henry Taylor, anti Jason Jonathan Rowe, were
brought up, charged with stealing eight bags o. charcoal and eight
bags of charcoal dust, value I/. 75., the property of Messrs. Nyren
and Pritchard, manufacturing chemists.
Mr. G. Barry—ls a clerk in prosecutor's office. Saw the two
Rowes, father and son, come into the yard with a cart ; Taylor
followed soon after. John Rowe came afterwards to the office for
a note of delivery for eleven bags of charcoal, and four bags of
charcoal dust, and paid 11. Hs. Sd., the value of the quantity
stated. Mr. Nyren remarked to me, as the cart passed out loaded
on the unusually large appearance of the load. It is a rule in
our yard, that no:charcoal or dust shall be brought into the yard by
any wishing to purchase charcoal. The cart was not examined
till it had gone as far as the White Horse on the London-road,
about a quarter of a mile from the yard. There might be twenty
or thirty nien in the yard at the time the cart was loading.
Murphy is the man who delivers the charcoal. The note of de.
livery is usually given after the cart is loaded, and Murphy of course
is bound to allow no more to leave the yard than the quantity
mentioned.

Mr. Nyren and his partner are manufacturing ch.:mists. No-
ticed the cart, and suspected, hour the appearance, there must be
a greater quantity than that on th- an,cii bags.
this to the clerk. The cart was then passing out at the
gate. He immediately passed out of the office and followed the
cart near to Bow-bridge. Never lost sight of it except in turning
street corners. Saw the cart after this at the White Horse, where
he had it stopped, and brought back to the yard in the keeping of
two constables. Came back to the yard for the constables. There
was no difference in the appearance of the cart, as he saw it go out,
when it came again into the yard.
Timothy Drew—ls a police constable. Took John Rowe into
custody. Smith, the parish constable, took Taylor into custody,
and also brought the cart along to the chemist's yard. Examined
the cart in the yard, and counted 19 bags of charcoal. The dust
was in the body of the cart loose; both were measured, and turned
out 19 bags of charcoal and 9i bags of dust.
Murphy (who was at first committed as in the offence,) knows
the prisoners. All the three were in the habit of coining often to
the yard together. On the 17th September they came with a cart.
The two Rowes loaded the cart. Taylor was present. Young
Rowe went for the note of delivery. I saw the note; it was for
15 bags, Ido not know how there were snore bags on the cart.
Them must have been more. I mean by them father and son.
Taylor helped me to fill the bags. When they came into the
yard tke father said he wished 10 or 12 bags of coal—the son five
or six bags of dust. The father gave ..me 2s. for more measure.
The son, when he returned from the office, gave me 4s. for the
the same purpose. I measured 12 bags of coal and six of dust. I
measured it when brought back again, and found 19 bags of coal
and 9 bags of dust.
the jury found the prisoners Guilty.—Sentence deferred till
Saturday.

PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.—The Bombay, Cap-
tain Furley (Hon. East India Company's service), an East
India trader, and one of the largest now afloat, being 1,400
tons burthen, arrived off Blackwall on Thursday last, and
now lies in the river, waiting for a spring tide to carry her
into dock, where the depth is not at present more than 22 ft.,
the Bombay now drawing 24 ft water. She is the property
of Sir John Pixie and Co., and has made a remarkably quick
passage, having come from Bombay in little more than 14
weeks, and the whole time occupied in her outward and
homeward voyagez, including that of receiving the freight,
has not been inure than ten months. She has brought a
most splendid cargo, of the estimated value of 250,0001., in-
cluding four beautiful symmetrically-formed, Arabian, entire
horses, of a fine grey colour, and which, together with
their housing, of au extraordinary unique and gorgeous de-
scription (valued at 1,0001. per horse), are forwarded as a
present to her Majesty by that celebrated Parsee merchai_t
air Janisetjee Jejeehoy. They were brought over in the
most excellent condition, chiefly through the unremitting
care of Mr. Bandon, riding-master, of the Royal Bombay
Artillery. They were debarked on Saturday, and transmit-
ted to her Majesty's stables, and in the transit thither
through the streets of the metropolis excited the most mark-
ed attention and general admiration of the public. The
cargo on board the Bombay consists of a large quantity of
cotton, and an immense and unrivalled collection of magnifi-
cent shawls and silks, in every diversity of colour and pat-
tern, the whole of which is chiefly the importation and pro-
perty of Sir Jamesetjee Jejeehoy, who was knighted, for his
aid to the British Government, and has attainted the highest
point of general estimation in the eastern world, by his truly
amiable manners, his philanthropy in founding hospitals and
other charities in his own states, and promoting the com-
merce, arts, and sciences, and in every respect the general
welfare of his caste and country.
FROM CAPE HATTIEN.—By the brig Eolus, Capt.
Hillier, fifteen days from Cape Ilaytien, we learn that the
Haytiens had taken the pilot boat Virginia, formerly
of Hampton, Virg., but at the time of her capture she was
under the Dominican flag; at the same time they burnt
another schooner, both being in the harbour of Santiago.
The schooner Commodore Warrington, of Philadelphia, was
recently bought at the Cape by the Haytien Government, to
be added to their naval force. The account of the battle
between the Haytiens and Dominicans at Matayaga is con-
firmed, but the loss on the part of the Haytiens is said to be
trivial—only two pieces of light artillery and a few prisoners,
taken from a small skirmishing party.—New York Journal of
Commerce.

ADMISSION 01' FOREIGN CORN, DUTY-FREE.—It
will be seen on reference to cur intelligence from Ireland, that our
correspondent communicates the important fact, that a Treasury
order had been received at the Dublin Custom.house, " for the
admission of foreign corn duty.free on and after the Ist proximo."
If this be the case, the Anti-Corn-law League may be considered
as having little more to do than to quit the stage, close their
bazaars, and settle their accounts.—Advertiser.

BITING OFF A WOMAN'S FlNGER.—Arthur
a private in the 65th regiment, and servant in the employ of Captain
Black, paymaster of that corps, was brought before the county ma-
gistrates at Rochester, on Monday, charged with assaulting and biting
Harriet Scartifield, the wife of a fisherman residing at Chatham.
She stated that as she was passing through Watts-place, having a
child in her arms, she saw the prisoner lying on the pavement with
his hands bound, which some men had been compelled to do in con-
sequence of his riotous conduct. He bit her foot, and then jumping
up he knocked down the constable and others who were attempting
to secure him, and then also knocked her down, and seizing her hand,
thrust it into his mouth, and bit off the top of her forefinger, which
he took out of his mouth and threw at her. Her medical attendant
had told her that he fears she must undergo amputation. Captain
Black, who was present during the investigation, described M`Gill as
one of the mildest of men, except when lie had been drinking. He
said he had, when at Dublin about four months since, thrown him-
self into the Liffey, and, being a Catholic, had been to his priest, and
promised not to drink again. He was fined 51., which his master
paid for him ; and the magistrate ordered two sovereigns to be given
to the poor woman Scud:field.

THE QUEEN V. CLINTON.—At judges' chambers
on Monday, Mr. Justice Platt, having gone over the facts of this
case, said that it appeared to him very doubtful whether under the
treaty a merchant committing forgery of a bill of exchange in the
United States with the intention of providing for it at maturity,
and corning over here nnitno revertendi, and, therefore, not a fagi.
tive from justice, could be taken and given up to the American
go'vernment. Being fugitive," meant being so at the time when
the law was to be put in force. If so, then it would appeared
that the word " committed" meant committed after the treaty.
It seemed to him, therefore, that he could only order that
this man be discharged.—The prisoner was accordingly dis-
charged.

unl oci‘
—___:.-----------___!--' eel: a ~..-1 to
SINGULAR " Fix."—One day last webe eaton.wee,,
was temporarily placed in a yard in Maidstone,
.th
~., there "„„g- b
which was closed by a large boarded gate, in w"'''' rush tht".,,.
wicket. The wicket being open the animal made a
fixed la In
it, but the aperture not being wide enough he ber.. nla. losUI
centre; on finding which he made a dnesdpritteem.g.. and
carried the gate away from
the street with this singular aenenc--et
..__
.0
51%. it
01_3/cippr
huge collar. It was ultimately ne - y t
fie*
Journal.
v RANCH GENERAL POST OF ~
INTENDED NE'- B its
hint" ae
surrounding haisndborandy sit,_ ...1
Church, havea Or- e
to the ground, on the site of which is to be erected „no tb
-Several housesbee
no on
soldthe
forthe south-side
p urpoofs
ePoitcCbaediinllgy,icanmeaerdSiatititarrood
new Branch General Post-office, the one at Charing crose,Lw too
extreme increase of business, being found to be conside`loyeti
small for the transaction of public business, and it Is to be 1-
yi-tOPLZ4REVERSE OF FORTUNE-----,:few twice IP:1
intomPEicadisucl
Th &Ugh;
ter of the late Sir Abraham Bradley King wbo was ./-I,ige, ~7
01Wvfihl
eoannnhaa
naval
a, lion officer,
visited h c
Mayor of Dublin, and 0,-,,,,a master of the Orange „,„ ge I‘,.'
iesr,c Ireat poi
aanzyilnyo ft
08Lo2 thei r,dhßal::labayeloersn,
acentertained ,"•,-o'. wido.
for assistance. Her memorial was rejected at the 101AC:ot be I
Society, on the ground that a lady so connected ehcsia-
.,Ses"
by her friends to seek assistance from strangers.
L.., ~,jpg road,
CORONER'S INQUEST.—LOVE AND 014- ~,. 1:„i 60,
terday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Three Crow'o- a, ag`iast
City-road, on view of the body of Mrs. Elizabeth 11°1. Cl ill's., 7,
widow of the late Mr. Hounson, who was the surveYeApd at -..,0
India Company's navy. It appeared that deceased rear session eta,'
Wentworth-place, City-road, and that she was in the Ilrola th'!' •4
independent income, a portion of it being a pension fee-..
r-.',01
vosimpßelelende,lool:ol,;fenclooetsl
India Company. She bad been a widow about twelt`f nOO
short time ago she formed an attachment to age dieT3lo' asetlucor
at Gravesend, who broke off his engagement with her ten her To
of a disagreement about pecuniary matters. Since tp,., sheicat•
ners, which were formerly eccentric, became still more o`‘,,,a,
exhibited a great depression of spirits. On StualaY tars 1 qeitile-ale,
fasted with the family of Mr. William Hockley, a 'led; 'craet'at° 11,Pell'
with whom she resided. About two o'clock, upon 11-s - host - the
finding her bedroom door fastened, he caused it to betoe tr°,o 0(
when deceased was discovered suspended by a piece °I. orao sitrao
bedpost. She was immediately cut down, but thetf,Aworelli°r:hleil
life. Among the papers of the deceased was a Pet,'" ;to in '...,at
a railway company, which had been addressed to her,' was ill '''
she was requested to put down the number Glshares sae . a t
of. Verdict-Tempoi ary Int auity. f 11-I„fr.
DeaFthA, TaAgedL AbeCtwCleDenENthTreeAaTndl'f.ELWyeoaftrs7ll;TAt::::°7lrildrej
na killed , 001
ii
morning last, by being thrown nom a gig. Mr• me started. ' nag
uawttelosshekurie.edit,thlgllie purpose of opening a gate, when the horse d liS I.°°io s
trot, and Mr. Death, in trying to get on the step, inii''weat of Os
and was thrown down by the wheel. The horse thetinrter of ncatli
full gallop; and the poor little fellow was, about a titt:-, 311*.rre be
ondat3o.,thbeefonreemj.sLt e. otttllaigs,e.;
off, thrown on his head, the wheel also passing ever ";red be'n it'"
couldby ogne t
M him
on coming up raised him in his arms, in which be es/4 nod oe-0/
Ole°
Coroners ,
1,051'
of " Accidental death " was returned. '
31ELANCLIOLY . OCCURRENCE.—Two LV1,54 den, iv
-Yesterday forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock,
o'ors, d',r.
the employment of Messrs. Taylor, Walker, and ~prig. vreteLeicap,
house, of the names of John Perrin and William Sla,'-„,,es c°'-..,,,aa °'
tunately suffocated in a vat, the melancholy circullistab- pe."- th,
v 4 Of
with which, as they were detailed to our inforunest ' eve pot 4"
the establishment, were as follow :-Perrin, NO? 7,3stlist rtor e°:
usually
whether
thep
collects ii et
vat,e
ir,
free whottfirfsorwomt Esq.,
inquest vas a ,
cellarrnen, was about to clean a vat, No. 15, and .'",,- „cool,' are;
mhanset
the
customhaeedg
rgraoa yu•s inn which,
dt aos n.
lower ,
wr assistilPerrin
nwhen
candle,nt
iwente hire.po i
n!nt,
iltirj:turl; .15,,,
ieleti:taluci I
j°,4o, !i
atp°:‘::..,
house for a candle, expecting that the other man w°,st .1"°:t 00..
return, but, instead of doing so, he put the ladder Jai,' tb' c &el'
cover of which had only been removed about nine o'c." t„ . hc1...,'1; d, De
ing, when it is supposed he immediatel fell into the r" 'retail/arta:l
powered by the effect of the foul When Yellin 0' °-
t's"
air nt Ace
inunediately proposed to enter the vat, and bring 0-,, had cv„, pre-
nate num. Against the advice of some of the men Wh'f,naut tlpeace
upon hearing the alarm, he went down the ladder `ril; caaseq'icats
caution of having a rope tied round his body. EepL to e!itf 109
met with a similar fate. An attempt was then tO-- c 1."- but
them with grappling irons, but without effect. A Lab
ed out'
ac,
then cut at the bottom of the vat, when they were &all aeigi°tbe
without any signs of life. air. Bailey, a surgeon of tlic reSteret ia
hood, who had been in attendance some time, tried to Inc vs 500
vital fauctious. Ills efforts, however, were un'a us
wut
' • led ' °P e'
question was abcut sixteen feet deep, and had contan p daY- 1
gallons of pale ale. The other vat had been two or three non mlcr
Both were steady men, and had been in the service a the
and S
years. Perrin was thirty years of age, and a single mater' 0011
fifty years of age, and a widower. L Vsltr at'
SERIOUS CHARGE OF METINt.----1 octi e,
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.-The royal mail steamer Can'hbri„.torth 'rtlitills
rived here last night from Halifax and Boston, witlip7,:p-ereiv to tiP
rican mails, brought seven seamen in irons, part oi ~,e0 gi`',,ry,
British barque Champlain, belonging to Cork, who ils" --nt elati'
by the United States authorities, under the treaty with t,llteci wati3O,
for examination in England, upon a charge of aggra,"l ~ On 'of
and of attempting to sink the vessel they were naviga'll' chat a•
arrival of the steamer, the prisoners were given into tile coil s_,
the •el."
Capt. Bevis, R.N., who forthwith halt 11 h over to ni o
eett em hist the Ihe
thorities, and at twelve o'clock to-day the charges aga.,,,4tr ie. oe •
investigated before Mr. Rushton, the stipendiary inab,:7,,a3on, ..,r
names of the prisoners are Thomas Sheazel, John Coen 31,Cia'i:
mann Hincker, Henry Matthews, Thomas Boy-le, ,00 lief;',4
and Henry William Matthews. The depositions t""-nteoraiiii,
the British Consul for the State of Maine and the a. „ha
of the United States were produced. 1 bey were,' 0,011,4):.
nous ; but only one witness was examined to„ thiS ',O
the steward. From what we hear, the history lsoio,olo--..
few days after the prisoners had shipped with CaPtaluXanceci ~,.p°l
arose a scarcity of seamen in St. John's, and wages - theta l'"
siderably. They could not persuade the captain to release ,idceal
„ood e Li
the terms of their articles, and therefore, it is said, on . they f
that they conspired to compel him to put them ashore after
shown Do
been a few days at sea. The first mutinous syMPt°'n wto pat too
the prisoners commanding one of their body, llinckar, e . t
ship about, and steer a course quite opposite to that direct a,,"a;c! i
008
captain. The captain, however, succeeded in causing the `;`,.",nt tt
keep the right course, and then it was suddenly discovered ',itscd:.
vessel was making water. On this the prisoners in a body T..., Ulna
work. It is said an augur was found upon one of them, to.`e" to
with this augur they kept continually boring holes, until ot,logert:
there was eight and a half feet of water in the hold. BeingZat, thC.
the prisoners just pumped sufficiently to keep the shiP 31_4 HOT
they " knocked off." This conduct was repeated for set;!'e.lel:i swote
At last a brig hove in sight. The captain immediatelY h filed to th.
of distress, which were fortunately observed, and boats se!:
....,4 thr;
relief of the Champlain. The two captains comrouicatedg.e7we _
result was, that the seven prisoners, after a long stenciledi 1° V 6
placed in irons, and conveyed to tae first port, which hapPc
...,
on the coast of Maine. _LAw,
A CASE NOT MENTIONED IN THE GAME
~ woad/
On Monday evening a covey of partridges were observear
~.e nar
their flight, apparently in a state of great exhaustion, ove.
..,1 ca t.°,
of Woolwich. Shortly afterwards several of the birds alignt::„ iligo..
ledge overhanging the window of Mr. Nives, a hairdresser i1,,,,,ri0u5,
street, one of the most crowded thoroughfares in the towtn..
_',og"ta _
attempts were made to knock them down, and a jcwith b.?
neighbour, having mounted the ledge, captured one of th%c man;
fent.' ' De
hand, which he immediately disposed ef for a shilling. v
cious wags, however, played a trick off upon the poor „,„, OW
threatening him with the terrors of a prosecution for sew"'
without a license. d tbe,
THE COAL-FIELD IN MARYL ANIL-One -. 00
articles in the October number of the Nationailliagazu.irle the
Industrial Record is on the subject of the coal-field 1-erig
upper and lower, or northern and southern districts, co'.„unt,
42 and 239 square miles respectively. Of this whole an
sail-
-215 square miles, or 138,000 acres, are underlaid with
a 3, of
able coal fifteen yards thick. This, in the common 000 of
working, would yield 50,000 tons per acre, or 32,00-'_ ow
tons per mile ; a quantity said to be greater than. tilun. hi
mous annual consumption and waste of Great Branat
,rib,
all the British mines the coal is below ground t uovore
1 varying from 30 to 1,600 feet ; the Allegany mein
,urorking
nearly all above the water level. The expense 0' '': Ole
the latter is, therefore, much less than that of working
former.