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secretary to the churchwardens; the defection, or
rather desertion, of the flock which used to assemble

all its frightful penalties—its utter recklessness of
the suffering and privation they inflict—and its dis-
gusting appreciation of brute natures over human na-
ture. Every week seems really to surpass its prede-
cessor in the contributions which it brings with it
towards an appalling history of the oppressions per-
petrated under the authority of these game-lords'
enactments, and the stupidity with which game-lords'
magistrates, at county sessions, whenever there is a
discretion to be exercised between decreeing a nominal
or a severe fine, a brief or a longer term of imprison-
ment under them, doggedly enforce the heavier sen-
tence. In this way the Game-•laws, and those who are
charged with their administration, fill the gaols with
exasperated prisoners, increase the county rates with
the expenses of the innumerable prosecutions they
encourage by their wholesale commitments, and
allow themselves to be made the blind instruments of
fomenting that vindictive hatred for the owners of pro-
perty in general, of that which comprises game pre-
serves in particular, that is the deplorable but not un•
natural result of such treatment as offenders receive
at their magisterial hands, if they have trespassed
against the Game-laws.

French advisers. The French Cabinet acts, through
the medium of its ambassador, in favour of the Count
DE TRAPANI, and against Don CARLOS'S son. The
amendment for the exclusion of that pretender and
his family has been suggested for that purpose. The
Neapolitan Envoy, Prince DE CARINI, scarcely quits
the French Embassy or M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA'S
residence, and he is doing his utmost to procure the
adoption of the amendment."

in the parish church ; their subsequent meetings for
prayer and worship in Dissenters' chapels and other
places—from their just and natural resolution not to
be present at ceremonials, their objections to
which had been so haughtily overruled by
the Bishop, and challenged by the contuma-
cious perseverance of the incumbents. It will
be seen, from a perusal of the proceedings that have
ately taken place in the parish of Tottenham, and
which we record in another part of our paper, that
the Bishop of LONDON is again encouraging his clergy
in their resolution to annoy their fellow-parishioners,
by the revival of another of the obselete and offen-
sive forms enjoined by the letter of the ,Rubric;
namely, the offertory, or Sunday collection of alms
in the church, from pew to pew, parishioner to pa-
rishioner. The treasurer of a handsome building fund
which had been collected for the purpose of erecting
one of the three churches of the Establishment in
Tottenham, and several other of the most wealthy and
influential inhabitants of the parish, members of the
Establishment, addressed a very temperate but im-
pressive note to the minister of Trinity Church,
against "certain material alterations in the course
and order of the service as heretofore conducted,
which the subscribing parties, instructed by the fearful
results that had followed similar changes in other and
neighbouring parishes, were of opinion " would be
calculated materially to prevent that success in the
preaching of the Gospel, as well as that good under-
standing between the minister and his people, so much
to he desired ;"—they, therefore, "earnestly hoped that
in consideration of such opinion the order of the
service might be allowed to remain unaltered."
Now really if the diocesan of the Reverend
Mr. TWINING had been a Pope, and of as boundless
notions of pontifical infallibility and supremacy as an
ADRIAN, or a Jumus, or an ALEXANDER, instead of a
sleek every-day Prelate, such as we are wont to
imagine a CHARLES JAMES, Bishop of London, to be
such a note as this could have given no offence, and
would not have been misunderstood. But, in the first
place, the incumbent, borrowing a little of the de
haul en has tone (not, we willingly believe, the pre-
sumption) of his diocesan, is pleased to call this paper
a " petition !" A " petition" from the gentry and
landed proprietors of Tottenham to the minister of
the parish church ! The Rev. Gentleman replied
in effect, that he would not recede from the
objectionable forms which he had introduced,
after very grave deliberation, and not with-
out previous self-communing " and prayer." This
reply was addressed to Mr. MUSKET, the gen-
tleman whose name had appeared first among those
subscribed to the representation forwarded to the
Rev. Mr. TWINING. Mr. Iturawr's rejoinder to the
minister deserves our especial notice and thanks. It
is as manly, rational, and dispassionate, and even pious
an exposition of the whole merits of these Tractarian
innovations on the custorzary celebration of Divine
service in our Church, under colour of enforcing the
street letter of the rubrical directions which are now so
convulsing the peace of her flock, as could have been
expected from the most orthodox controversialist in
holy orders. It is truly something much better.
Going far beyond the object of any meely polemical
struggle—it is a sound lay sermon on the infinite
superiority of the great essentials of Christian doc-
trine to all purely ecclesiastical forms or rites, and
the paramount and absorbing duty of teaching and
upholding peace and unity, and reciprocal good-will
between all the members of a flock, in preference to
that of vindicating or enforcing particular ceremonials,
however high the human authority which may have
prescribed them. Mr. MUSKET'S fellow-parishioners
would do well to reprint and circulate his letter as
in antidote " in all cases of incipient Puseyism."
Well : our Right Rev. Father was next appealed to
by a deputatian of the parishioners, and by the per-
tinacious minister; and his Lordship held, after
throwing out a cunning, but vague and empty rebuke
A Puseyism in the abstract, that the minister was
justified in the (Tractarian) innovations complained
of. Finally, a compromise was proposed, at the
absurdity of which even the disciplined self-pos-
session of the imperious Bishop must have chuckled.
A previous proposition was agreed to—namely, that
the offensive forms should be suspended for a year.
The Bishop.having consented, this arrangement, after
a stormy meeting between the two Rev. Gentlemen,
(apostles of " the Rubric, the whole Rubric, and
nothing but the Rubric," at Tottenham), and the sub-
scribing remonstrants, was formally announced to tho
car=at,. Now this is a pleasant dilemma—but a pitiful
.xhibition, and a disastrous one too—for the Church
ind its Tottenham fold. The remonstrants are
wrong, or the incumbent is wrong; he cannot be in
the right if they are; they cannot be in the right if
he is. For a twelvemonth, therefore, if the forms
,night to be observed, the incumbent has consented to,
Ind the Bishop has sanctioned, their suspension. If
they ought not, then the complaining parishioners
have voluntarily made themselves parties to the estab-
lishment of what they conscientiously believe to be
wrongful, a year hence. Is this the sort of logic
which the Bishop of LONDON commits himself to ? Is
this the simple truthfulness which the Churchmen
profess themselves bound to vindicate ? Does CHARLES
JAMES claim a dispensing power to release for a season
his clergy from the binding force of what they de-
:lare to be obligations on their conscience, as if he
lated from the Vatican, instead of the " Palace.
Fulham," and signed " GREGORY XVI."g instead 01
' C. J. London ?"

The same journal contains a long article on the
exertions of Russia to keep up her internal trade with
China, from which we make the following extract
" Since the English forced the gate of the celestial
empire, Russia has displayed a singular activity to fortify
and increase its relations with China. There is besides
at Kiachta, an entrepot at Zuruchaitu. Three great
roads are actually employed in communicating between
both countries. Two of these roads pass from Siberia
by the plateau of Mongolia towards the Chinese fron-
tier; another strikes from Kiachta, and takes a south-
east direction towards Pekin; and the other goes round
by Nertschinck, Zuruchaitu, Tsitchar, and crossing the
Black River before arriving at Pekin. A new commu-
nication which has been lately established between
Siberia and China, begins at Irtsich and moves by Baikal.
This road answers directly the relations which Russia
seeks to establish with China.

We have, of late, had too frequent and too recent
occasion to advert to enormities perpetrated under
their sanction, of a far graver kind, to offer
any comment on a case which appeared in
our paper of yesterday, as extracted from
the Somerset County Gazette. Nevertheless, it is

" To give an ides of the development of Russian com-
merce in these eastern countries, we need only say that
in 1829, the merchandise brought to the fair of Nijni
Novogorod amounted only to 100,000,000 of francs, ani
in 1842 they exceeded 160,000,000 of francs. Russian
cotton manufactures figure for 30,000,000 f., and the other
goods consist of cloth made for the north of China; of
velvet, silks, iron, steel, and copper works, glass, porce-
lain, soap, &c.
" The increase of the fair of Nijni Novogorod is a re-
markable indication that Russia seeks to create a c im-
merce which she can maintain in defiance of European
competition. It is in Asia she seeks fur markets where
she may command, until English competition meet her
on that ground. That day, however, has not yet arrived,
and Great Britain cannot now complain of the move-
ments of Russia in those countries where there is no
true industry, and where her productions are but little
known. The transit across Russia has become impossi-
ble, so much so that Prussia, that sent its cloths to China,
has been obliged to give up the trade. In the far east
are markets which Russia alone commands—where she
finrls neither competition from England, France, nor
Belgium, and where everything is prepared for her own
particular interest."

too characteristic and consistent not to be noted as
an admirable illustration of the notions which Somer-
setshire MIDASES: gravely entertain of proportion, in
estimating the amount of crime and awarding punish-
ment. At the Keynsham Petty Sessions a young
ruffian was tried for hurling a stone at a female,
which had so severely injured her that she was still
under medical treatment, and not permitted to attend-
For this brutal and dangerous assault, the fellow was
fined ten whole shillings. For fear, we suppose, that
this penalty should be construed into too eager a vin-
dication of the law, or too great a homage to the gal-
lantry of our sex, the same amount, for costs, (! !) was
actually decreed against the prosecutrix ! It would
seem to follow, as a logical conclusion of magisterial
law at Keynsham, that a lady who is the victim of
any savage vagabond's violence, is more guilty than
the perpetrator of the outrage; for, whereas he is
only fined ten shillings for the luxury of seriously
injuring her by hurling a stone at her, she is ad-
judged, having been thus grievously hurt, and as the
recipient, not the doer, of the wrong, to pay an equal
penalty in fact, though nominally for costs ; the sum
of ten shillings being meant for the equation (we
suppose) of her suffering, and his crime.

At the same sessions,-on the same day, another
young man, for shooting " at" a covey of partridges
(we should not have demurred to the sentence had it
been for missing them, because, it would seem, he dil
not touch a feather of all the birds), was fined 101.
Here, again, it follows that the enormity of even the
endeavour—for it was not perfected—to assault a
partridge is reckoned, at a money price of twenty
times as much as, or 2,000 per cent. more than, an
actual completed cruel assault on a young woman !
How long, in the name of common sense, of common
spirit, and common justice, do the British public mean
to allow successive Parliaments to separate without
repealing these worse than Norman Forest Laws !

On the 12th the Spanish Chamber of Deputies re-
newed the discussion on the Reform Bill, when
MARTINEZ DE LA RO3A who had been interrupted
on the previous day, replied to Senor TEJADA'S de-
fence of an absolute monarchy. After defending him-
self awl his colleagues against the imputation of
wishing to make the throne independent of the
people, he said Constitutional government was the
only form to which the country would submit, main-
tained that Spain was ripe for a representative system,
and that it had hitherto failed solely from the ignor-
ance and weakness of the Executive. He added "that a
vast abyss separated the Liberals who defended the
constitutional throne and the partisans of the system
supported by M. TEJADA ; that behind absolutism
lurked revolution, and behind revolution absolutism ;
and that the banner of the present Government exhi-
bited but the words " ISABELLA 11. and the consti-
tution of the State." There is in Spain but one legi-
timate representative of absolute government—he
who disputed the throne with our QUEEN. M. TE.-
JADA, unwillingly no doubt, has placed himself on a
slippery declivity, on which is to be found despotism,
and at the bottom Don CARLos."

Senor TRJADA replied, and several other Members

wereanxious to make speeches, but the Chamber thought
they had heard quite enough, and declared the debate
on the general question closed. The Bill, to use an
English phrase, has thus been read a second time.

Intelligence to the 13th has been received, announcing
that the preamble f the Bill, as prepared by the Go-
vernment and sanctioned by the Committee, had been
adopted by the Chamber.
Accounts from Cadiz state that the disturbance
which had taken place there had been caused by the
journeymen tailors, who had struck for an advance
of wages, and were marching in procession through
the city when the authorities interfered. This simple
affair was magnified into a great conspiracy, the re-
sult of which has been the following savage order by
the Commandant of the place :
Art. 1. Every military man who, having been ex-
cited to treason, shall denounce the person who endea-
voured to seduce him, shall at once receive the sum of
640 reels as the price of his fidelity.
"Art. 2. The officer who, in a similar case, will act
in the same manner, shall have well merited of their
country, and will obtain an honourable mention in their
favour to the Government, which will be taken into con-
sideration for their advancement.

This is ridiculous, painful, curious enough. But
he history of the squabble displays the BLOMFIELD
diosyncracy (one little compatible with even the
•onventional, much less the personal dignity of the
welacy), in a still more remarkable manner. In
)rder to overawe or intimidate the contumacious
,arishioners, he told the deputation, among other
hings, "that he would not preach in any
hurch in his diocese where the ceremonial
regarding the offertory was not adopted."
In vain this Bishop is told that with a

" Art 3. The Council of War, the only tribunal corn;
petent to take cognizance of sedition, conspiracy, and
revolt, will judge and condemn the criminals, whatever
may be their rank or condition ; and the punishment of
death, indicated in the most positive manner by article
26, part 8, title X., of the ordinances of the army, shall,
be applied without remission and promptly, not only
with regard to the individuals who shall have tried to
gain over partisans to the revolt, but also to those who,
having had it in their power to denounce them, have
failed to do so."

;ompulsory poor-law, which was not in existence
when the offertory form was devised, or was pre-
scribed in the Rubric, an offertory enforced, as it
were, publicly in churches on Sunday, is incom-
Jatible ;—that it is an absurdity to compel the
:)ayment of poor-rates by law and " exact" vo-
untary contributions (the contradiction is his
Lordship's, not ours) by the argumentum ad verecun-
liam administered, at pew-doors, in the shape of beg-
ring-boxes. The Right Reverend Lord will have
-he offeffory observed. If not, hear it and
nourn, churches of all his diocese, old or new, with
'me sittings or without them, CHARLES JAMES will

On the 12th, the Three per Cents. were done at 271-
for cash, and 274 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at
201 at 60 days ; and the Floating Debt at 651 at 60
days.

The Journal des. Debuts of Monday contains the
following announcement respecting the loan :—" The
companies that are to present themselves at the ' ad-
judication' of the 9th December appear to be finally
formed. The firms of Paris have gathered, some
round M. M. ROTHSCHILD, with all the receivers-
general, and the others round MM. HOTTINGUER and
DURAND. These two companies are thus composed
of Frenchmen. We know not what trust there is in
the report that a third company has been formed,
which is mostly composed of Englishmen. But the
two we have just mentioned suffice to give the Go-
vernment every desirable guarantee as to a serious
competition taking place."

IA preach in you. He will not confirm in you. He
'ill not administer baptism in you. You shall never
hear his mellifluous voice, nor gaze with reve -
•ential awe on his patriarchal demeanour ! That
he Bishop wai a rash, headstrong, mischievous,
and meddling servant of the Church whose interests he
is driving to destruction (in our view), instead of up-
holding, we have long been clearly of opinion. That
he was really susceptible of personal vanity in so in-
tense and dandyfied a degree we did not surmise.
What possible detriment can he suppose it will prove
to any of his churches never to hear him preach, who
has done so much to disturb the doctrine of peace.

Some of the papers have articles on the marriage
rf the Queen of SPAIN with Count TRAPANI. The
Memorial Bordelais positively asserts that the mar-
riage between the QUEEN and the Count will take
place next month at Valencia, and that the recog-
nition of ISABELLA by the Courts of Vienna and
Rome will immediately follow.
" It is affirmed, also," says that journal, "that the
QUEEN'S sister is to marry the. Duke DE MONTPEN-
SIER. In the event of the Count DE TRAPANI assum-
ing immediately the title of King, in pursuance of the
conventions entered into between the Spanish Court
and that of Naples, it is affirmed that he will take the
name of LEWIS the Second, and not that of
FRANCISCO DE PAULA."
On the subject of the QUEEN'S marriage the Ma-
drid correspondent of the Coustitidienne/ makes the
following communication :—" The question of the
QUEEN'S marriage excites universal attention, and the
Count DE TRAPANI is much talked of. All the
vtliirts of the opposition will bear upon the article
relative to the marriage. A sort of coalition has been
formed between the Moderados of the Pacheco-
Concha party, which has been joined by a rather large
number of reforming members, and by the Absolutists
of various shades, who acknowledge VILUMA, BRAVO,
Muamto, and TEXADA, as their leaders. All concur
in demanding the revival of the article of the Con-
stitution which gives the Cortes the power of deciding
the question of the marriage of the QUEEN, and of her
immediate successor. Some, who are partisans of the
Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, hope to secure in
the Cortes more votes in his favour than the Count
DE TRAPANI would obtain ; the others have similar
hopes for the son of Don CARLOS, so great is the
strength the reaction has acquired, thanks to the
blunders of M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA and of his

Abuses, which are offensive to the feelings and
pinions, and even hostile to the rights and liberties of
?he great bulk of a community, may, occasionally,
maintain themselves for lengthened periods of time,
igaiiibt all calculation of the probability of their ex-

rinction, founded on their intolerable and vexatious
character. Long prescription may give to them a
~pecies of sacredness in the eyes of some; others may
be deterred by a sickly dread of innovation, under
•Iny circumstances, from attempting their remedy or
their removal. A still larger class will apathetically
endure the very evils which they denounce, rather
than put themselves forward in the business of i
achieving their own object, on the principle that
that which is everybody's business is not theirs." But
after making every allowance for the influence of these
unworthy considerations, in general cases, we cannot
repress our astonishment that the Game-laws, on their
present footing, should have been so long tolerated
and administered in a free country like our own.
Where institutions have been so long established,
which distinctly ascertain and solemnly guarantee the
inviolability of personal rights and property, in almost
every other case, it is a social anomaly of the most
et
ixotizoorfd itnhaery kindmost Betl hfisaht
,ainwsohloelnet,coadned otfycralansns
oluegs i sla-
na-
ture, should not merely be tolerated on our Statute-
book, but notoriously and daily administered, with ,

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 184 i.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD V. LORD LOWTHER.
The arguments in this case, which came before the
Court upon exceptions to the Master's report, occu-
pied the Court the whole day.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole day with causes of no general interest.
(Before Sir J. WIGRAM.)
COOKE V. FRYER—JUDGMENT.
This case, in which his Honour gave judgment
this morning, came before the Court on further direc-
tions. The question at issue is the sufficiency of a
settlement proposed to be made by the defendant on his
wife, who was the daughter of Sir Gregory P. Turner.
At the time of his daughter's marriage this gentleman
was in a state of mental derangement. The treaty
for the marriage between Mr. Fryer and Miss Turner
was pending during the month of July 1838, when
a petition was presented to the Lord Chancellor, pray-
ing for his sanction to the marriage, according to the
Act 4th of George IV., c. 76, sec. 17. The petition
stated the nature of the marriage settlement proposed
to be made on the lady, and it was referred to the
Master fur consideration. He made his report ap-
proving of the marriage settlement, and the marriage
took place by banns, at Southampton, in the
month of August, 1838. Subsequently to the mar-
riage, Mr. Fryer wished to make an alteration in the
settlement, by substituting another description of
property as the trust, to that stated in the proposal of
the petition to the Chancellor; the alteration, how-
ever, making no difference in the actual value of it.
The suit was instituted by one of the trustees on be-
half of Mrs. Fryer, to ascertain the suffi •
ciency of the trust property proposed to be
substituted. On the part of the defendant, it
had been submitted that under the circumstances re-
ported to the Court, there had been substantially a
performance of the articles required. On the part
of Mrs. Fryer it was prayed that the Court would
direct the settlement to be made according to the ori-
ginal articles.

His HONOUR said; if the Southampton articles of set-
tlement, differing as they did from the proposals
carried into the Master's office for approval, had been
lees beneficial to the parties interested than
those first proposals, considerable difficulty might
perhaps have arisen in the admitting of the South-
ampton articles to be properly substituted for the
original proposals. But a perfectly satisfactory ex-
planation had been given of the case, leading to the
conclusion that the parties had acted with perfect
bona fides, and that the property comprised in the
articles, so far as it differed from that men-
tioned in the first proposals, had in truth repre-
sented the property which was the subject of
the settlement before the Master. He was there-
fore satisfied that, as there was no difference of
benefit in either settlement, he was doing the best
for all parties, by accepting the Southampton articles,
especially as Mr. Fryer had imported into those
articles the personal estate, if any, to which the lady
might be entitled, upon a question of comparative
benefit to the parties. The circumstances of this case
were so special, that he thought he might
safely adopt the Southampton articles for the
original proposal without a reference to the Master,
and in so doing he apprehended it was not likely the
case would ever be drawn into a precedent. With
respect to costs, it was impossible for him to say that
the trustee was not justified in seeking the opinion of
the Court in the case, and he was therefote of opinion
that Mr. Cooke must have his costs, and that it be
referred to the Master to approve of the settlement in
conformity with the Southampton articles, Mr. Fryer
consenting that the personal property, if any, to
which the lady might be entitled hereafter should be
included in that settlement.

NEESOM V. CLARKSON.
MS HONOUR also gave his decision-in this case,
which was a re-hearing—a decree having been made
in the cause in 1843. It was contended that a mis-
apprehension of the decision of the court had arisen
in drawing up the decree, and that the defendents
ought not to be allowed to stand creditors upon the
estate in question for substantial improvements
effected before the year 1821. His Honour was of
opinion that the petitioners were entitled to have the
decree altered, and counsel agreed to arrange the
minutes of the new decree to be made in the case.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the Crown paper to-day, and was
engaged the whole morning in listening to arguments
in a case relating to the disputed settlement of a
pauper.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.
(Sittings in Banco.)

EXPARTE -,

Mr. HuNrpnnEr moved in this case for a certiorari
to remove an indictment from the Central Criminal
Court into the Court of Queen's Bench. It appeared
from the affidavit that the present indictment arose
out of a case which went down to trial at Kingston.
It was then referred to arbitration, and was now
going on before the arbitrators. The defendant in
the action, however, indicted the plaintiff in the
action, the attorney for the plaintiff, and all his wit-
nesses, for a conspiracy to bring an action against
him. The attorney, in his affidavit, swore he had
nothing whatever to do with the cause, except as
an attorney. He stated that he wished to have the
case tried by a special jury, and to have the Solicitor-
General as his counsel, who was also the counsel in
the cause, and also that important questions of law
were likely to arise.—The application was granted.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
Mr. Alexander, of the Oxford Circuit, having been
appointed one of her Majesty's counsel learned in
the law, was called upon by the Lord Chief Baron to
take his seat within the bar.
The Court then proceeded to take the special paper.

SMITH V. MONTEITH.

This was an action against the defendant on a pro-
mise to pay a sum of money on the discharge of a per-
son out of custody. The arrest was lawful and there
was no allegation of fraud in any part of the plea.
The substance of the plea was that there was not, at
the time of the commencement of the action, any
claim or demand or cause of action against Dunlop,
the original defendant, in respect whereof the defen-
dants could or were entitled to recover in the said
action. The plea also stated that the plaintiff did not
by discharging Dunlop from custody give up every
available remedy.
The COURT were of opinion that the plea was not
a sufficient answer, and that the plaintiff in the action
was entitled to the judgment of the Court.

Sergeant was proceeding to cite cases in favor of this
view, when—
Mr. Justice MAurir obqerveci---I suppi-.Fc the List
case is the one on which the police magistrate laid
down that a coffee-house keeper had a right to detain
his guest until the bill was paid ?
Mr. Sergeant SHEA said—No; the case his Lord-
ship referred to was that of Dando, the oyster eater,
which stood on its own authority.—(A laugh.) That
was regarded as a case of " animus errandi et non
revertendi."—(A laugh.) The Learned Sergeant
having continued his argument to a great length,
Mr. Sergeant CuANNELL replied.
Their Lordships took time to consider judgment.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Sir C. F. WILLIAMS.)
IN RE J. A. GILES, LL.D.
The insolvent, a gentleman well known in the
literary worli„ and formerly heal master or the
London School, appeared this day before Sir C.
Williams, on his final examination.
He was opposed by Mr. Crew, for a builder named
Mann, a creditor to the amount of 1,500/., and by a
gentleman for another creditor. The examination
lasted for above three hours, when
Sir C. WiLLIAms gave judgment. He thought the
insolvent fully entitled to the benefit of the Act, for
it did not appear to him (Sir C. Williams) that, at
the period of contracting the debts, he was not in
a condition to pay them. He was then in
receipt of 1,0001. a year, as head master of the
London School. His name was distinguished as a
scholar, and therefore his literary exertions might be
calculated upon as an additional security. He was
afterwards from ill health obliged, it was true, to
resign that situation, and his literary efforts did not
meet the success he had contemplated. Still that was
an error in judgment, and not of the heart. There
was no appearance of fraud, however much he might
be imprudent; and, therefore, again he said that the
insolvent was entitled to the benefit of the Act.

•
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The Court sat to-day for the purpose of disposing
of the remaining case of felony, which stood over
from yesterday.
Thomas Canninghant, aged 17 years, and .Tohn
Byrne, aged 14, were placed at the bar upon an in-
dictment charging them with stealing a pocket hand-
kerchief, value 55., the property of Christopher Brown.
It appeared by the evidence, which was very length-
ened, that the elder lad, who had all the appearance of
a hardened thief, stole the article named in the indict-
ment from the prosecutor's pocket, and handed it to
the younger prisoner, whom he induced to go with
it to a well-known " fence," or receiver of .tolen
goods, where it was sold, and the elder lad kept the
produce.

The police and officers of the prison stated to the
Bench that Cunningham was a notorious thief, and
had been several times befUre convicted.

The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said he trusted what he
was now about to say would become well known. It
was idle to expect anything like a diminution of crime
while that worst and most dangerous of all classes,
the receivers of stolen goods, escaped with compara-
tive impunity. The transportation of some few: of
them for fourteen years would do more good than the
punishment of dozens of juvenile offenders, and most
certainly, in all cases which came before him, he
should inflict this punishment upon receivers when it
was possible. He should, in the present instance,
sentence Cunningham to ten years transportation ;
and, as Byrne was evidently his dupe, he should only
sentence him to one month's imprisonment.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
John Smith, No. 5, Charles-street, Drury-lane,
was charged with stealing a bedstead from the door
of Mr. W. J. Hall, broker, No. 29, Great St. An-
drew-street, Seven-dials.

The prisoner did not deny the offence. He had
tried to get work and could not—he was almost
starved to death and covered with rags, and he took
the bedsteads with a double intent. The intent was
to sell it and get food, if he got away with it clear,
and if he was taken in the act he knew he should get
a shelter in prison, and food, which he could not get
outside.

Mr. JARDINE said it was lamentable to see a man
in such destitution and distress, but still his duty as
a magistrate forced him to decide on committing him
for trial.

The prisoner left the bar apparently quite delighted
at being committed.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Wright, a shabbily-dressed young man,
was charged with feloniously assaulting Mrs. Mary
Taylor, a respectable married woman, putting her in
fear, and robbing her of an umbrella and shawl.
The prosecutrix stated that she was residing with
her husband and family, at No. 8, Queen-street, Soho-
square. Last night, between ten and eleven o'clock,
as she was passing along Sutton-street, Oxford-
street, she was accosted by the prisoner, who stated
that he was a gentleman's groOm out of place, and in
great distress. Out of charity she gave him the price
of a pint of beer. He then joined another man, Ink ho
was waiting for him at a short distance. She (pro-
secutrix) walked on, but had not proceeded a dozen
yards, when the prisoner came up behind her and
attempted to snatch her umbrella out of her hand.
She, however, firmly grasped it, although he struggled
violently with her to wrest it from her. He then
struck her a tremendous blow with his clenched fist,
and knocked her down and took the umbrella from
her. As she was attempting to get up, the prisoner
forcibly tore her shawl off her shoulders, and set off
running with it, on which she screamed " Murder"
and " Stop thief!"
Police-constable No. 94 of the F division stated
that he saw the prisoner running, and, hearing the
cries of the prosecutrix, he stopped and secured him.
At a few yards from him, in the direction in which he
had been running, he (witness) found the shawl
which the prosecutrix had been robbed of.
Mr. HARDWICK asked if the prisoner was known
to the police ? The constable said he had frequently
seen him in the company of known and convicted
thieves.
The prisoner asserted that prosecutrix had accosted
him in the street ; and, while standing talking to her,
he felt her hand in his pocket, and, "of course,
knocked her down."

The worthy MAGISTRATE, of course, paid not the
slightest attention to the defence, but committed the
prisoner to Newgate, for trial.

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Woodcock, a well-dressed young man, was
charged before Mr. Cottenham with robbing several
houses under the following circumstances :
A few nights since he engaged a bed at a public-
house in the vicinity of this Court, and when the
family retired to rest, be got up and groped his way
into the room of a gentleman sleeping on the same
floor. The gentleman being so fast asleep did not
hear the noise, and the prisoner succeeded in taking
a whole suit of clothes with which he
got away, leaving an old pair of boots behind him.
On another occasion he took lodgings for the night in
the house of a poor widow, and as in the former case
he got up in the middle of the night, went down
stairs and robbed the parlours of a great variety of
articles, amongst which were gowns, and other
things, and then let himself out of the house. Two
other charges of a similar description being adduced
against the prisoner, he was committed.

THE KING OF THE FRENCTL.--Ou Friday the King,
.‘‘...ded by General Gourgaud, Colonel de Chabannes,
he Count de Strada, and two orderly officers, went at
,hree o'clock to Versailles, and remained there till six,
when his Majesty returned to St. Cloud. On Saturday
his Majesty took a long airing in the park of St. Cloud,
and in the evening the company of the Thatre Franeais
performed before the Royal Family the Ecole des Vitil-
lards and kizate de s'entendre. " The King," says the
Constitutionnel, "is expected in a few days to go to the
Chateau de Bizy, and to return by Dreux. On the 25th
there is to be another representation at St. Cloud, the
performers in which will be the pupils of the Conserva-
toire de Musique. Afterwards the court will go to
Fontainebleau, where the young Duchess d'Aumale will
be received by her new family."
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last night an in-
quest was taken before Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital,
on view of the bay of W. Thomas llollidge, aged
twelve years, in the employment of Mr. PhiHipps,
farmer, Norwood, who was run over by a steam engine,
the property of the London and Dover Railway Com-
pany. It appeared from the evidence, that about half-
past six o'clock, a man named Woofer, a gardener, was
walking along the side of the Croydon Railway, between
the Jolly Sailor and Annerley stations, when a steam
engine, which was going slowly to London, passed him.
Shortly after he found the deceased lying on the ground,
between the up-rails. He was taken to his father's
house, which was in the neighbourhood, when a surgeon
was called in. Deceased was bleeding from his head
and mouth. He was prescribed for by the medical gen,
tleman, and then placed in a railway carriage, and taken
by an engine to the terminus at London- bridze, from
whence he was removed to Guy's Hospital. Deceased,
it was stated, was going to Penge, to his work, and that
he was in the habit of walking hetween the rails, The
driver of a steam-enging (which had a white light in
front) and which was going at a rate of from ten to
twelve miles an hour, said he did not see deceased, nor
was he aware of the accident until about eleven o'clock.
Deceased had a very extensive fracture of tha scull and
other injuries. He the same evening. Verdict—
‘f, That the deceased died from a fracture of the skull,
but how that was occasioned there was no evidence."
OPENING OF THE GRESHAM CLUB
neat building recently erected at the corner of St.
Swithires-lade and King William-street, City, kuQwn
ar
the Gresham Club House, was opened lust ntelst 1"or .L
accommodation pith? iiiembigrs. Thy " ."e
fitted up in a mostOpt° 0,0 of rooms are
-
lighted, y Ae, the whole being well