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he replied, " About the fire." In another casual con-
venation he said, "You want to transport me about
Bland's fire ; but I don't care a - about it." There
nas also some evidence to show that Bantick had once
been guilty of an assault on another labourer, and that
the prosecutor had ordered a prosecution to be com-
menced against him. There wai also a detailed account
by Arnold to one of the N 1 itnesEes that he and Bantick
went out with turf ashes in a coffee-pot, and set fire to
the stack ; first of all attempting to fire the thatch of the
house of Mrs. Banyard.
Mr. GURDON addressed the jury for the prisoners.

The Learned JUDGE, in summing up the case to the
jury, stated that the admissions made by Arnold must
be stint out from their minds as it respected Bantick, and
that they must consider whether both or either of the
prisoners were guilty.
The jury found Arnold Guilty, and Acquitted Bantick.
Mr. Justice PATTESON sulT:equently sentenced Arnold
and the other prisoners found guilty of arson. In doing
so, he stated there was no palliation for the crime of
arson. The hungry man might have a show of excuse
in committing a crime that would furnish him the means
of satisfying the cravings of nature ; but to commit this
crime there must be a malicious evil-disposed mind, for
it mould not bring bread to:a hungry man, but in its
consequences must necessarily throw numbers out of
employment, and prevent their gaining an honest
thus directly injuring the labourer, besides spread-
ing terror and dismay around. There must have been
some motive actuating the prisoners, but in no case was
there more than a show of malice proved. In conclusion,
the Learned Judge said, that he should punish the pri-
soners with a hope that their punishment would deter
others, and should sentence each of them to twenty
years' transportation.
James Young, 22, and John Moore, 21, were indicted
for having assaulted Alfred Morgan, one of the police
force of the borough of Cambridge.
Mr. Naylor prosecuted, and Mr. Leaping defended.
The jury found both the prisoners Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said his duty was to protect
policemen, and he should therefore sentence the pri-
soners to nine months' hard labour.

This case terminated the assize for the county of Cam-
bridge, and the ',Earned Jukes will proceed to-morrow
morning to Bury St. Edmund's, and open the Commission
for the county of Suffolk.
Bury St. Edmund's, March 27.

The Commission fur the county of Suffolk was opened
this afternoon, and the Learned Judges afterwards
attended Divine service at St. Mary's Church. The
Courts will be opened for the dispatch of business at an
early hour to-morrow.
Tie calendar contains the names of 36 prisoners, the
offences of %%horn may be thus classed :—Manslaughter,
1 ; arson, 13 ; sending threatening letter, 1 ; maliciously
wounding, 4 ; rape, 1 ; burglary, 6 ; night poaching, 2;
highway robbery, 4. The remaining cases appear at
present to be of the ordinary character of charges. The
cause list is expected to be lighter than usual.

ROME ClRCUl7l—Kingston, Afarcl 27.
CROWN COURT.—(Before 31r. Baron ALDERSON.)

Two met], named Richard Wood and Thomas Jone-s,
were arraigned this morning upon an indictment charg-
ing them with a burglary in thedwelling-house of James
Carpenter, and stealing some silver spoons, and other
articles, his property.
The case was clearly made out against both prisoners,
who- are notoriously bad character', but while the evi-
dence was going on one of the prisoners was seen to be
fumbling with his hand in his pocket, which being ob-
served by Maynard, the gaoler, he laid hold of his hand,
and Upon examining his pocket he found a large stone
in it, which was of course immediately taken away from
him. The other prisoner was then searched, and two
stones were also found in his pocket. There is very
little doubt, from what subsequently took place, the pri-
soners meditated some serious mischief with these mis-
siles, if they had not been discovered in their possession.
The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty,
Mr. Baron ALDERSON sentenced Wood, who appeared
to be the worst of the two, to be transported for life, and
the other for fifteen yearn.
The moment the sentence was pronounced the pri-
soners began to abuse his Lordship in the most gross
language, and when one of the turnkey s attempted to lay
hold of Wood he resisted violently, and a desperate
struggle took place in the dock. Several police-consta-
bles speedily, however, rendered their assistance, the
prisoners all the time struggling violently, and making
use of dreadful imprecations. They were at length over-
powered and conveyed to the interior of the gaol.
The business of the Crown side finished between three
and four o'clock, and Mr. Baron Alderson then proceeded
to try some common jury causes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO W-STREET.

Mr. Fail bo, n, the landlord of the Printers' Arms, in
New Church-court, Strand (lately kept by Mr. Heady),
appeared in answer to a summons, charging him with
opening his house for the sale of liquors on the morning
of Good Friday last, between three and four o'clock.
Inspector Mullins stated, that hearing some persons
talking in the defendant's house, at a quarter past four
on the morning of Good Friday last, he knocked at the
door and requested admission. He was shown up stairs,
and there saw about a dozen men (stated to be printers)
drinking and smoking together.
Mr. I)uncombe, the defendant's solicitor, said the ma-
gistrate would at once see there was no occasion to pro-
ceed with the charge, as he could clearly prove that for
years the house now kept by his client had been fre-
quented at the hour mentioned by a respectable body of
men connected with the morning papers in the neigh-
bourhood, who, after leaving their work, generally as-
sembled there to partake of refreshments—having been
necessarily occupied the whole night, without cessation,
in their work as compositors. No one else was ever
suffered to visit the house at that time, as the evidence
of the waiter, in Mr. Fairburn's service, would satisfac-
torily attest.

James Wilkie, a compositor on the Morning Chronicle,
deposed that some of the compositors on that journal
and the Post were in the habit of supping regularly at
the Printers' Arms, which was at that time exclusively
open to them. To guard against the admission of others,
the " privileged" applicants called out " Boz," upon
which the door was immediately opened by the waiter.
The waiter corroborated these statements, and proved
that the house was duly cleared at 12 o'clock on Thurs-
day night, and kept clear till the arrival of the compositors.
Inspector Mullins—But the license in express terms
prohibits the opening of the helve on Good Friday.
Mr. JARDlNE—Probably so ; but in a case like this
there was a very manifest distinction to be observed, and
he was of opinion that the defendant could hardly be
said to have *4 opened" his house, in the meaning of the
law, when it was merely used by a party of re-
spectable people, who did not assemble to ket drunk
and disorderly, but merely to take refreshments,
which their occupation prevented their getting at
an earlier hour. The fact of the house being closed
at an early hour, and every caution taken to shut out
any persons but those in question, who were compelled
to work on Good Friday, as well as other days, con-
vineed him that there was no intention on the part of
the defendant to break through his license, although, by
a literal interpretation of the terms of that license, he
might, indeed, be considered culpable. Under the cir-
cumstances he should not interfere, but, at the same
time, would recommend the defendant not to give any
ground for the charge on a future occasion.
The summons was, therefore, discharged.
CLERKEN WELL.

SPA-FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND.-27/OMS Smith, the
grave digger at Spa-fields Burial ground, and Stephen
Bishop, the watchman there, were brought before Mr.
G mbe on a bench warrant issued by the Chairman of
the Clerlcenwell Sessions, the grand jury having found
true bills against them on an indictment charging them
with certain serious offences connected with the above
burial- place.
Inspector Penny produced the warrant on which the
prison: rs wtre apprehended. • The warrant is directed
against Robert Vine.ll, Esq., William Langford, Esq ,
Francis Green, labourer, William C. Bird, labourer,
.Thomas Smith, add Stephen Bishop.
Mr. Lewis now appeared fur the prisoners, and pre-
sented two tradesmen, named Monday and Ashfiel,l,
whose bail to the amount of 201. each were accepted f(ir
the prisoners' appearance at the next sessions.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From Friday Night's Gazette.)
Au Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
cap. 32, for the Week eliding on:Saturday, the 22d day of
March, 1845.

ISSUE DF:PARTDIENT. •
X. X.
29413,555 Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and bul-
lion 13,177,831
Silver bullion

Notes issued .

.£29,213,555 £29,213,555
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 27th day of March, 1845.

BANKING DE
X.
Proprietors' capitall4,bs3,ooo

:PARTMENT.

Rest
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings-
banks, Commis••
sionersofNational
Debt, and divi-

Government seen- -
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 12,535,169
Notes
Gold and silver
coin 786,869

dend accounts) 6,890,121
Other dep05it5......10,452,425
Seven day andother
bills

£36,469,622

M. MA'
Dated the 27th day of Mara]

£36,469,622
RSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
11, 1845.

It is not generally known that the Bank of Eng-
land have recently entered into an arrangement by
which all the persons on the establishment are allowed
leave of absence once every year, the holyday varying
in length according to the length of service. To carry
out this plan, the whole nornbei of persons is divided
into four portions, and each of these fur portions
takes the vacation in one of the four periods of the
year that follow the payment of the dividends and
precede the shutting, these being the periods in
which the least business is done. So complete is
the system, that the parties who take their holyday
in the spring quarter one year, take it in the summer.
quarter in the year following, and so on through all
the four, that one may not have an unfair advantage
over the other. The shortest holyday, we understand,
is about nine days, and the longest about three weeks.—
Times.

At the meeting of the Proprietors of the South Sea
Company, the report ofthe Directors appeared to give
general satisfaction, and was agreed to nens. con.

. .
heard such a thing mentioned, as that " Some
d- old woman had said what was doing
at the parsonage," or any such expression. Mrs.
Williams never said in the presence of witness that she
(witness) told her (Mrs. 'Williams) that Mr. ➢fonckton
slept with Sarah lltiggins six nights out of seven. She
dare not say so in her presence. He never put his hand
indecently on v, itness's person, or said anything indecent
to her. The witness gave the same positive nega-
tive answ crs to all the questions relative to
smoking, eating, &c , &c., with the other servants, as
sworn to by the witnesses for the prosecution. Never
saw any one with Mr. Monckton while preparing a
sermon in his study. He has taken tea in the kitchen.
Sarah Huggins wrote to witness to ask Mr. Monck-
ton if he would condescend to visit her (Sarah) at
Gravesend. Witness burned that letter some time after.
The tune of the letter was that Sarah feared she had
very much offended her master by her .misconduct.
Told this to Mr. Monckton. He did not go down until
after witness had received a second letter from Sarah.
Sarah wrote to witness after her confinement, announc-
ing the death of the two children, and requesting Mr.
Monckton to visit h:r.

The cross examination of this witness had not been
entered upon when. our reporter left, and the case is
likely to occupy the Court till a late hour, the counsel
on both sides having agreed to sit until eleven o'clock
rather than not close the case today.

STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION AT

A S TO N-UNDER-LY NE.
Thursday morning, about six o'clock, just as the en-
gineer of Messrs. Mason and Sons' mill was preparing
to start the engine, one of the boilers exploded with
such fearful violence as to shake the whole building
to its very centre. Fortunately, however, the boiler
house is situate some distance from the mill. It

appears that one end of the boiler was completely
blown away, carrying with it the walls of the build-
ing for upwards of two hundred yards. The boiler
was driven from its seat, and the engineer and fireman
both blown into the canal, which adjoins the mill,
neither of whom sustained any material injury, if we
except a few bruises and a ducking in the canal.
The roof and other parts of the building w ere
carried across the canal and the river Tame to a dis-
tance of seventy or eighty yards, and, coming in contact
with a machine shop, smashed nearly the whole of the
windows, and materially damaged the walls of the
building. Several of the mechanics sustained bruises in
endeavouring to make their escape, believing that their
lives were in danger. The mill hands, as might be ex-
pected, flew in all directions, and in the confusion many
of them were seriously injured. The scene of this acci-
dent presents a very singular appearance, on account ef the
scores of window-frames and wood-work which have been
shattered to pieces by the shock. The most extraordinary
circumstance in connexion with the explosion is the escape
of the engineer and fireman, both of whom were blown
a distance of several yards, and absolutely dashed against
the bottom of the canal. The mill is the property of
Messrs. Swires and Lees, but at present in the occupa-
tion of Thomas Mason and Sons. The damage to pro-
perty is very considerable, and upwards of four hundred
hands have been thrown out of employment in con-
sequence. It is stated that, had the other end of the
boiler given way, it must have carried with it a portion
of the mill, and that not fewer than from 100 to 150
persons must have perished.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAI.

GLOBE.—John Tawell, the wretched murderer of
the confiding woman whom he had seduced, and who
was the mother of two children by him—has suffered
the appropriate and well-merited punishment which the
law assigns to the crime of deliberate murder. Pre-
viously to Taw( 11's. leaving the cell to which he had
been confined since his conviction, he delivered to the
Rev. Mr. Cox, the chaplain of the priron, a scaled
paper, which contained an admission, full and explicit,
of his guilt. He poisoned his victim by
,the means
charged in the indictment; and had previously sought
h-r life by administering to her a different poisonous pre-
paration, as suggested on his trial, in September last. The
turpitude of this atrocious criminal's offence was greatly
heightened by the base hypocrisy of his obtrusive preten-
sions to piety, by which he sought to procure a reputation
for sanctity of morals, while he was secretly indulging
his sicious inclinations, and revolving the means of
murdering the poor creature he had previously betrayed.
So successful were Tawell's personations of good-
ness' that—in the face of proofs of guilt that were,
perhaps, as strong and conclusive as were ever ad-
duced against any criminal on bis trial—there were not
wanting persons who could not think that such a man
could be the perpetrator of such a crime. These—
doubtless amiable, but certainly weak minded, persons, are
now relieved from all doubts. However difficult it may
be to solve the psychological paradox which the cha-
racter of Tawell's mind and contradictions of conduct
displayed, the fact of his guilt, in the fulness of its de-
pravity, is now placed beyond question. To every one
capable of reason, this was placed beyond controversy by
the evidence of the different witnesses against him on his
trial. The line of argument adopted by his counsel—
if that can be dignified by the appellation of argu-
ment which was a mere string together of im-
probable and contradictory hypotheses—removed lla
expectation of his acquittal, for it had snot shaken
the direct and conclusive testimony against him. This
mode of meeting the case, by such an advocate as Mr.
Kelly, showed to what an extremity this justly-eminent
lawyer felt himself reduced, when he could oppose
nothing but extravagant, far-fetched, and almost puerile
'oppositions to such a case. The prisoner had admitted
that the woman he was accused of having murdered,
died in consequence of something she had poured into
the porter of which she drank. Yet, notwithstanding
this admission, Mr. Kelly actually argued that she
did not die of poison, but by suffocation from the
water which was attempted to be forced into her mouth
by her neighbour, who entered the room when she lay
in ea trends, if not actually dead. The Learned Gentle-
man also suggested, and argued the probability of the
hypothesis which rendered nugatory his former reason •
ing, and with a gravity which would imply his own
belief of what every one else saw was not merely
delusive but absurd—that the woman died from the
effects of prussic acid, generated in the stomach by the
process of digestion, from the pips of an apple found
partially digested among the contents of the stomach,
which were subjected to medical examination and che-
mical analysis--no apple-pipe, however, being found
therein ! The acute mind of the Learned Judge (Parke)
who presided od the trial, in a few words swept allay
this miserable refuge. We have dwelt strongly on this
branch of the evidence adducedon the trial, because there
is too much reason to believe that the monstrous verdict
returned in a case of an individual who was tried at the
Central Criminal Court a short time before Tawell made
the first attempt on Sarah Hart's life in September last,
suggested both the mode of the perpetration, and the
hope of escape, if detected, from the difficulty of esta
blishing commission to the satisfaction of a jury. The
conviction of Tawell will, we trust, tend to correct mis-
taken notions whieh are frequently entertained by some
persona, both in and out of the jury-box. Any extravagant
suggestion, however opposed to reason and science, with
such persons is sufficient to destroy the effect of the most
direct testimony. If ingenuity succeed in raising a
momentary doubt, it is pounced upon, as sufficient to
destroy the strongest proofs enfsrced by reason, derived
from the evidence of unquestionable witnesses, supported
by the testimony of science, and therefore claiming
from reasonable men the calmest investigation, and the
obedience of reason to the conclusions to which they
lead.

Her Majesty arrived by railway at Gosport from
Farnborough at two minutes past one this afternoon,
and embarked from the Clarence-yard on board the royal
yacht for Cowes, accompanied by Prince Albert, at the
Princess Royal. Her Majesty was received by Sir IL
Pakenham, Colonel Henderson, and the other Directors
of the railway. Her Majesty appeared in t xcellent
health. The journey was performed in one hour and
a half.

case in question. The member of a respectable house in
the City brings to our office information of the utmost im-
portance, and which he has had the best opportunity of
learning correctly. Through the medium of their mother,
with whom he resides, he is in daily domestic communica-
tion with two gentlemen who havejust arrived from India,
and aho are both ,suffering a very serious and very re-
markable complaint, which,' in common with the rest of
their fellow-passengers, they ascribe to some water
shipped from a floating tank at St. Helene. Their pe-
culiar symptoms first s >wed them-elves after touching
at diet island—they seemed to indicate metallic poison,
and could be ascribed to no other cause. Either mis-
informed, or accounting for the impurity of the tank
water by a hasty hypothesis of his own, lie adds that
the tank was coppered—a circumstance which, of course,
while it made the whole statement less literally true,
made it also more credible. Ha adds other minute ex-
planatory details. With the facts, the sufferers, the.
symptoms, the authority, all so prompt, so' recent, so
unexceptionable, there really was no alternative but to
accept the statement, if important enough. But
its importance was incalculebe. There is nothing
of a material nature over which a State exer-
cises to jealous a control as water. It is most
delicately susceptible of deleterious admixtures or infec-
tions, and then becomes death instead of life. At all
our ports at home we take every possible care to provide
pure water for our shipping. So, publishing, as a
journal does, every wreck, every new-discovered shoal,
every impediment as well as every as,istance to naviga-
tion, we could not but insert a letter which merely re-
lated an unforeseen result without throwing real blame
on any party. We will answer for it that no person, not
otherwise informed as to the facts of the case, read that
announcement without a startling sensation of its vast
importance, and without also a ti cling of gratitude to
the means which had given it publicity. Immediately
on the appearance of the letter, we receive a peremptory
request to do what no journalist could do either wisely
or honourably—what would put an end to all freedom of
communication, to publicity and truth itself—to give up
the name of the writer, without it being at first even
pretended that he had said anything for which he should
be particularly answerable. We ob:erve our own ne-
cessary rules, and decline. Meanwhile our authority
finds himself in error as to the ownership of the tank,
and writes to correct his statement, but certainly bring-
ing the cause, not the blame, more expre sly home to
the true owner. On the same day we are visited with a
lawyer's letter, informing us now for the first time that
the tank was not copper, and demanding the name of
our correspondent, with a view to legal proceedings.
Our reply is twofold, and comprehends all the sati. fac-
tion that justice could possibly require. We offer to
give the name of our correspondent, on a guarantee that
we shall be thereby absolved from the responsibility of
his statement ; and, at the same time, we publish an
analysis of the water, which proves its entire freed ma
from copper in any form. Most of our readers would
probably conclude, on the appearance of this document,
that the original statement or surmise offered by
" Nauticus" had entirely fallen to the ground, and that
there was no party which could feel itself any further
aggrieved Far from it. In common apprehensions,
the question had ended ; in the hands of agents and
lawyers, the ease had only begun. The grievance is
duly fostered and brought to a trial. What now does
the trial add to our own immediate contradiction of our
correspondent's error, contained in the result of the
analysis ? Nothing. All the other facts of the case
are proved, and more added. By the testimony of all,
even by the reluctant testimony of the Captain, it
appears that, soon after taking in two hundred pounds'
worth of water, wine, and other provisions, at St.
Helena, the passengers, till then in improved health, were
attacked, as the Chief Justice expresses it, "certainly
in a very remarkable manner." They all conceived
their symptoms to be metallic ; they did not refer it
to Sinde, to a stray Arab, to a few oranges, to sleeping
on the deck, but to something peculiar, with them, in the
ship—something in their diet—in fact, they appear to
have had no doubt whatever that it was in the water.
True, the water was filtered, but what process of filter-
ing will avail against chemical solution? They thought of
lead and of iron, and very naturally included copper in their
suspicions. But why is it so unpardonable to think of
copper ? Is there a moral gradation in metals ? The
Lord Chief Justice adds his powerful authority to the
opinion, that something' remained to be accounted for
beyond the reach of oranges :—" I confess, if I were to
hazard a conjecture upon this point, I should say that
probably the free, and perhaps the careless, use of mer-
cury, with the addition, probably, of drink and some de-
gree of imprudence, may have induced the disease
with which they were attacked." We only inserted
and immediately disproved a statement that a
copper tank was at the bottom of this mysterious
visitation ; the Lord Chief Justice ascribes it
to the carelessness of the doctor and the intem-
perance of the passengers. For: our part, we cannot-
see why the tank-owners' interest should be more in-
violable than the Doctor's, especially as it appears that
the latter is in a scrape already, and will feel all the more
weight of a fresh charge. For the mere difference be-
tween mercury and copper—mercury still persisted in,
and propounded from the seat of justice—copper stated
in a moment of misapprehension, and at once disowned
—we are condemned to pay NU to redress the injured
reputation of this Unlucky tank ; and everybody knows
the additional tail of expense that verdict carries.
Meanwhile there is not an atom of evidence to show
that our correspondent, and the whole body of passen-
gers, may not have been, after all, nearer the truth than
the mercurial Chief Justice. Mr. Solomons' wine is not
vindicated from lead, or his provisions from other possi-
ble ills. Perhaps time will show that his tank ought to
have been charred, as water-barrels usually are in the
navy. Throughout the east, and all warm climates,
there is a well-founded prejudice against tanks, which
are never used but from necessity. A few years may
vindicate us, and show the sacred value of impartial, un-
flinching publicity ; but meanwhile we are martyrs.—
Times.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
T. Boulter, innkeeper, Cromer, Norfolk.
BANKRUPTS.

Laing Johnston, wine merchant, Hammersmith, to
surrender April 5, at twelve, and May 9, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Lonsdale, Temple-chambers, Fleet-
street...

Daniel Morton, fishmonger, East Cheap, City, April
4, at two, and May 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Bell, Austin-friars.
Elijah May. draper, Aldgate High-street, City, April 5,
at half-past two, and May 7, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury;
Mardon and Pritchard, Christ Church-chambers, New-
gate-

John Phillips, tailor, Pinner's-court, Old Broad-street,
City, April 9, at two, and May 9, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman -street-
buildings ; Cox, Pinner's-hall.

George Gardner, tavern keeper, Gravesend, April 11,
at two, and May 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Loin-
bard-street ; Tilson, Squunce, and Tilson, Coleman-
street.

Jonas Woodhead and Daniel Woodhead, woollen cloth
manufacturers, Huddersfield, April 14 and May 2, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official
assignee, Leeds ; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Lon
don ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester ; Richardsons,
Leeds.