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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENT NG, JANUARY 16, 1844.

POST.—It is impossible not to feel some degree of
indignation at the slovenliness with which even the
most important proceedings appear to be conducted in
Dublin. It is now acknowledged that a Mr. Magrath,
who acted as registrar to the Recorder of Dublin in the
process of classifying the names admitted before the
Recorder as qualified to be upon the grand panel, ac-
cidentally dropped one of the sheets upon which the
names were written, and thus the panel was given to
the Sheriff without including those names. The mis-
sing sheet was found among some papers where it had
dropped, in the office of the Clerk of the Peace. Such
stupid, cumbrous slovenliness in transacting important
business is wholly inexcusable, and the persons who
have been guilty of this absurd carelessness
ought to be punished. But it is a matter with
which the Crown prosecutors had no more to
do than the persons prosecuted, and every one
must see how urgent was the application of
the traversers' counsel to have the trial post-
poned on account of such an error. The Crown
officers had done their duty with respect to the panel
presented by the Sheriff. A list of twenty-four persons.
duly qualified to try the issue, had been regularly and
formally prepared. The Crown was not accountable,
nor were the accused, for the stupidity of omitting a
whole sheet of names from the panel. Nor was there
even a popular ground of complaint, for it seems that
as to religion and politics the omitted persons were
numerically divided in the same proportion as the forty-
eight from which the twenty-four persons (out of whom
the jury must be formed) were selected by the parties
on either side. While, therefore, we fully concur in the
feeling of displeasure at the repeated blunders, of one
kind or another, which have appeared in the course of
these Crown prosecuti ens, we must say that as to this
last the Crown offic .ra were perfectly blameless, and the
sttempt to postpone the trial on account of it was merely
vexetious.
CHRONlCLE.—Yesterday the Irish law officers were
to swear in their packed jury for the trial of Mr.
O'Connell and the other traversers. In a country which
'embers its Catholic inhabitants by thousands and its
Protestants by hundreds, where the administration of
justice depends, more than in any country in the world,
not only on its being impartial, but on its appearing so,
we can conceive nothing so dangerous, nothing so incon-
sistent with the spirit not only of the Jury Act, but of
the Jury Act in emancipated Ireland, as this most fatal
and rash resolve of her Majesty's Ministers to try a
political enemy by a jury of their own opinions. It is a
virtual admission of their unpopularity. It recognises
the isolated position in which they stand in reference
to the great majority of the Irish nation. It is a
blunder in tactics, and not only a blunder but a crime.
We cannot see how Lord Eliot can stoop to such
an abandonment of his reputed impartiality ; we
cannot understand how Sir Robert Peel can permit
his law officers to j )iii issue with his Catholic Relief
Bill. It would have been far better for his reputation,
and the eventual character of his Government, to have
lost a hundred trials than to have negatived in practice
his own Emancipation Bill. To exclude the Catholics
It is to repeal the union—it is to revive the oldest and
the worst of all the tyrannies that ever disgraced the
Governments of Great Britain—it is to pull back the car
of national advancement, and, for the sake of an Adminis-
tration, to jeopardise an empire. To exclude the Ca-
tholics ! Well, then, Fox and Pitt, Edmund Burke and
Canning, our Russells, and our Greys, have pleaded the
great cause of public liberty, after all, in vain. The
abominable and odious system which their genius and
their eloquence overthrew is again the order of the day.
Better, a thousand times better, have lost a hundred
trials. Welcome national reverses—welcome almost
national disgrace, rather than to have the apple of old
discord thrown again into the arena, and that, .too, by
the hand of a Government which audaciously assumes to
itself the character of impartiality, and has been
trumpeted, in the silver tones of self-esteem, as
uninfluenced by any considerations of a party cha-
racter incompatible with the well-being of the
country. The case, however, has come to this—that the
idol of the Irish nation, whether innocent or guilty, is to
be tried by the twelve men on the jury list most opposed
to the public conduct of that gentleman. If a foreigner
violates the law, he can place a moiety of foreigners on
the inquest by which he is tried. The humane princi-
ples of English law, and the manly justice of English
jurisprudence, have ever been a shield to the oppressed ;
but to try speculative opinions by the speculations of an
adverse party—to drag a political chief to a tribunal
where he sees no faces but those of political opp )nents—
to invert the very axioms of fairness, and, from the im-
proved and softened usages of the times in which we
live, to run back with the breathless cowardice of bigotry
into the worst practices of the worst times, is a degrada-
tion and a fall which must be atoned for by the loud and
retributive voice of public censure, and the reprobation
of every honourable and honest man. The course of
Government was clear. Having resolved upon their
fatal course, they ought to have given the accused
an impartial trial. They should have regulated the
challenge of the jurors by the ordinary principles of
public prosecution, whenever any personal objections or
peculiarly pronounced opinions have existed. Parties
who were open to such objections, or had pronounced
such opinions,l might have been fairly challenged. But
what is true on one side, is true also on the other. If a
Repealer is not to try a Repealer, why should anti-
Repealers only be unchallenged ? Why should Catho-
lics who are not Repealer.; be struck off ? Amongst the
Catholics struck off by the Crown there are at least four
who are not Repealers. Sorely in Dublin, as in an elec-
tion committee, there might be found a residuum of
twelve meR who aro not irreclaimably infected with
the rabies and leprosy of party. Before such a
tribunal the trial might have been a fair one :—due
weight would have been given to legal reasoning ;
the expositions of the Bench would have been listened
to ; matters would have been conducted with the
usual zeal and usual hope of parties deeply interested
in the issue; the country would have looked on, if not
with favour—for neutrality in such a social state as that
of Ireland finds little favour—still with a respectful and
decorous interest. If the verdict had gone for the Crown,
the great bulk of the nation—ay, even the Irish nation
—might have acqttiesced ; if for the traversers, the defect
would have been laid to the law itself, and a foundation
would have existed for an application to Parliament on
the part of those who hold the proceedings of last
autumn inconsistent with the safety of the country. The
Minister might have been defeated, but his impartiality
would not have been impugned. He might have gained
nothing in such an exposure to the public of the inhe-
rent vices of the Tory system, and the melancholy con-
sequences of Tory government ; but he would have been
spared this last ignominy, this last humiliation, of not
venturing to meet a tribunal any one member of which
was a political opponent. Such would have been the
course of a prudent Government. Such, we believed,
from the cautious character of the Premier, and the
amiable tendencies of Lord Eliot, would have been the
course of the Peel Administration ; but they have
mounted the fatal car of Irish bigotry, which-has de-
solated so many an epoch in the history, of the
,sister
island, and which recently—we had hoped for ever—
had yielded to a nobler policy and a more Christian
civilization.

NAVAL BENEVOLENT INSTITU-

TION.

A quarterly meeting of the subscribers and friends
of this Institution was held at the Thatched House
Tavern, St. James's-street, yesterday, at twelve
o'clock, Captain Fead, R.N., in the chair. The Re-
port was read by the Secretary, from which it ap-
peared that, from the year 1826 to 1837, the funds
of the Society had very much decreased, but
since the latter year, up to 1842, they had
progressively increased. Notwithstanding the great
pecuniary depression which had been felt by similar
institutions, the amount at present in the hands of the
Treasurer was 767/., out of which the sum of 5001.
had to be voted towards the relief of distressed persons
connected with the navy. Since the last meeting of the
Society the death of Sir Graham Moore, who was one of
the Vice-Presidents, had taken place. The
Directors had also the painful duty to perform of
announcing the death of Admiral Sir Thomas Wil-
liams' of the Royal Naval Female School at Rich-
mond. This institution sprang out of the Naval Be-
nevolent Institution. The Report referred to a state-
ment which had appeared in the newspapers, to the effect
that the funds of the Society were improperly applied.
A letter bad appeared in one of the newspapers, con-
taining statements which were altogether false and
unfounded. On the motion of Mr. Rowland and
Lieutenant Bedford the thanks of the meeting were
unanimously given to Captain Dickson, the Secretary
of the Institution. Notice of a motion was givenby Capt-
tain Marshall, R.N., to the effect that the Society shall
endeavour to get the law altered which obliges the
widows of naval men to administer for all sums of
prize-money or freight due to their deceased husbands,
if the amount should he more than 321. Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Willoughby Lake was then appointed
Vice-President of the Society, in the room of Sir
Graham Moore. Thanks were voted to Earl Manvers
for his liberal donation to the Society; after which
the meeting separated.

SINGrLAR CONTEST.—A few.days since a woman,
named Sharpies, the wife of a boatman, left her hus-
band at Selby, and eloped in a keel with another
boatman, named James. Two days afterwards Shar-
pies came up with the runaways in the Humber,
nearly opposite Barton, and boarded the pirate. A
fight ensued on the deck, but the wife finding her
husband down, and in a fair way of being pum-
melled, took part against her husband's vessel. The
parties met again at Hull on Tuesday evening, in a
public-house at the Southend, and it wait agreed that
they should fight for the woman. A battle took place
accordingly, on Dock-green, the same evening, when the
husband was the victor, and bore •away with him the
worthless prize.—Hull Packet.

ST. Ivss.—FolmusATE Discovnty.—During last
week, a labourer employed on the farm of Mr. Wratten,
farmer, of Needingwort , near St. Ives, discovered what
he considered to be a piece of paper projecting from one
of his master's stacks, when, on a nearer inspection, it
was ascertained to be a sort of a large fusee attached to
a ball of what is considered to contain combustible mat-
ter, which was placed about a foot in the stack. The
fpraopme r s oo
mr feu sfoe had
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and gone out.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
Accounts of Nov. 28, from Madras, state that the
movements of the troops at Hyderabad were still a mys-
tery. Detachments had gone to Balapore, there to meet
part of the Nizam's army, and the whole would be under
the command of Colonel Bagnold, who it was supposed
would be w anted at Hyderabad. The overland mail of
Oct. 6 had arrived 'Mina Lomion. ITtlettoo.ps were still
in movement in the l'unjltub.—Even{nfiklen -

SOCIETY FOR THE PROTEC-
TION OF THE DISTRESSED NEEDLE.:
WOMEN IN LONDON.
Yesterday a preliminary meeting of the benevo-
lent friends of the poor needlewomen of London
took place at the Mansion-House, for the purpose of
adopting measures preparatory to a public meeting
to be called in a few days, to assemble in the
Egyptian Hall, for the benefit of the hard-working
poor creatures with whom the metropolis abounds.
Among those present were the Lady Mayoress,
Miss Magnay, Miss Jane Manay, Lady Key, Miss
Key, Miss Farebrother, Mrs. luckett, &c.
The Loup MAYOR took the chair, and expressed
a firm hope and belief that the object of the meet-
ing would be most liberally carried out. He was
surrounded by ladies who were anxious to be mem-
bers of a Committee to assist in so admirable an
undertaking. His Lordship then read from a paper
a statement of the intentions of the Society. The ob-
ject was to find work for as many of the unemployed
as possible to insure to them a fair remuneration for
their labour. The work was to consist of children's
clothes and females' under garments, manufactured
expressly for distribution to the deserving poor. To
be supported by subscriptions, and every subscriber
to receive goods to the amount of their subscriptions
for their own distribution. E tch aeticle to be
marked with the name of the establishment. The
amount of each person's earnings nut to exceed 9s.
per week. That no middle-women or job-masters
be employed, so that the actual 'labour may not ex-
ceed twelve hours per diem, thus serving two parties
at the same time, viz., the needle •women so employed,
and the destitute poor, who from the hands of the hu-
mane receive these comforts, so desirable at this in-
clement season.
The ladies warmly engaged in the business of the
day, and became members of the Committee. A
large sum of money was subscribed upon the spot,
and the Lord Mayor. and Alderman Farebrother
announced their intention to receive subscriptions in
aid of the great objects of the Society. His Lord-
ship stated that a public meeting would in a few days
be announced, and he confidently relied upon the
attendance of all the great patrons of the charities of
the City of London. We were given to understand
that some of the most eloquent men in the metropolis
will speak at the forthcoming meeting upon the subject.
The following is one of the letters received by Mr.
Rooper, the Honorary Secretary, in answer to his
invitation to the writer to attend the preliminary
meeting at the Mansion-house :
" Mrs. presents her compliments to Mr.
Rooper, and is unable to attend the meeting at the
Mansion-house, to which she has the honour to be
invited.
" Mrs. --. is most happy to see the case of the
distressed needlewomen attracting public n ,tice, a•t
she cherishes the hope that they will not only obtain
the temporary relief which their pitiable situation
requires, but that the recent disclosures Will have a
tendency to insure to them better remuneration for
their labours than in time put they have received.
Not wishing to be classed with those who say to the
poor, Be ye warmed and be ye clothed,' but who
withhold the supplies necessary to such relief, Mrs.
incloses two sovereigns as her mite, which she
would have been happy to have enlarged, were %he
not pressed by almost daily applications from the im-
poverished and distressed.
" She most sincerely wishes the proposed Society
much success in their humane and laudable efforts to
wipe away tears from the eyes of the indigent and
sorrowful.—Jan. 15, 1844."

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
A conversazione took place last evening at the Hall of
the National Association, and was respectably attended
and conducted.
Dr. BOWRING, M.P., took the chair, and in opening
the proceedings assured the meeting that he felt it a
most grateful and acceptable compliment to have been •
asked to preside on the occasion, because it was a proof
that he was regarded as one who had an intense desire
for something wiser, happier, and better than the pre-
sent system. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to
some specimens of. the fabrics of the Egyptian loom
3,600 years ago, as well as of manufactures produced at
subsequent periods down to the present day, as illustrat-
ing the improvements which had taken place in mecha
nical and scientific arts, and he expressed his astonish-
ment and regret that our political institutions had not
made a corresponding advance. It was wonderful that in
a country like this the millions should be excluded from
all share in the making of the laws ; but gatherings like
the present, to look at the past, the present, and the
future, gave a security that great politicel changes could
not be far off, although he knee, nut w'ietaer those
changes were more likely to be brought about by the wie-
dom of the friends of the people, or by the folly of their
enemies. Referring to what was passim in heland, he
expressed his conviction that the exclusion of four-fifths
of the people of that country from any participation in
the humblest judicial functions was a state of things
which the honest mind of England would not tolerate.
lie, for one, was prepared to say that if the union of the
two countries were one which excluded Catholics from
the tribunals of justice, the sooner such a union was
disselved the better.—(Cheer.) Irishmen ought to be
treaten by us as friends and brother and the English
people ought never to be content until the Irish had all
that an Englishman had a right to claim. He proposed
the sentiment of—" The National Association, and the
speedy realisation of its objects ; equal rights, just laws,
free institutions for man and woman, and the general
diffusion of knowledge and morality, so that those
blessings
may advance
Thism.,,ora sentiment was 1 mentel, and physical
elevation
cor-
dially assented to by the meeting.
The following sentiments were introduced with
y the a d
energetic speeches, and responded to with acclamation
by the meeting
Freedom of opinion, the best mode of improving our
political and social institutions. May our Irish brethren,
now prosecuted for the free expression of their opinions
regarding the best means of removing their social
grievances, find the justice of this great principle stronger
than right-restraining law.
" Mr. Sharman Crawford and his honest coadjutors in
the House of Commons. May the forthcoming session
find them united, and sternly resolved on enforcing the
just claim of the people, upon every proposal that m Ay be
made for taking money from their pockets without their
consent."
" May all classes perceive the necessity for cultivat-
ing the principle of peace, as one of the most effective
means of political and social reformation ; as its ten-
dency is to deprive our oppressors of the instruments of
their power, to prevent the brutalizing ravages of war,
and, consequently, to promote the civilization, the har-
mony, and brotherhood of nations..
Several pieces of' vocal music were performed during
the evening..
The meeting, whick was conducted with great de-
corum throughout, broke up at eleven o'clock.

TRIAL OF MRS. GILMOUR.
This woman was tried on Friday and Saturday
last, in the High Court of Justiciary. Edinburgh, for
the murder of her husband, by administering arsenic
to him, which produced death. The circumstances of
the case are no doubt in the recollection of the reader,
full details of the charge against the prisoner, having
been recently published.
The Jury, after an absence of about an hour, re-
turned with the following verdict—The Jury, after a
careful and mature consideration of the evidence
brought before them in this case, are unanimously of
opinion, that John GilMour died from the effects of
arsenic ; but find it Not Proved against the prisoner
at the bar, as libelled.
This announcement was followed by very decided
expressions of approval by those in Court, which %% ere
rebuked by the Lord Justice Clerk.
The prisoner was then dismissed from the bar.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 15.
(Sittings in Banco. )
AMMAN V. COOPER.
Sir T. WELDS moved for a ruld to show cause why the
verdict found in this case for the p'aintifr, for 8,4001, at'
the last sittings at Guildhall, should not be set aside,
or a new trial had, or a nonsuit 'entered, on the ground
that a question was left to the jury which ought not to
have been left. Tho action was for the recovery of a
paper purporting to be a scrip receipt for 10,0001. paid
on account of shares in the Royal Mail and Steam Packet
Company. Messrs. Acraman and Morgan had borrowed
20,0001. from Messrs. Cooper, Thompson, and Co., on
the security of certain scrip receipts iit the above-named
Company.—Rule granted.

DUNN v. TURNER.
Mr. CURRY! applied for a rule to show cause why the
verdict found for the plaintiff in this case, which was
tried before the Under-Sheriff of Staffordshire in No-
vember last, should not be set aside and entered for the
defendant, or a new trial had. The action was for goods
sold and delivered. The plaintiff sold to the defendant a
number of cows, and a portion of the purchase-money
was paid. Subsequently the cows were found to be un-
sound. The defence set up was to this effect. The action
was brought for the balance of the amount.
Rule granted.
SALOMANS V. ISAACS.
A verdict for 205 L in favour of the plain tiff was given
at the trial. The case arose out of an action for the re-
covery of an I 0 U, which the defendant alleged to have
been paid.
Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS now moved for a rule' to show
cause why the verdict should not be sot aside or a new
trial had.—Application refused.

A great deal of dissatisfaction has been created
this week among the pensioners and women who have
been receiving pensions and half-pay st the dock-yard,
in consequence of the clerks at the Navy Pay-office
paying them in many instances with gold which is
barely of the standard weight, and does not turn the
scale. It seems to be an established axiom among
tradespeople that gold issued in the reigns of George
3.d and 4th is not now a legal tender, and 6d. discount
is
demanded
on every 20s. It is certainly trio that the
clerks at the Navy Pay-office have refused to exchange
above d:scount being demanded. This looks very like a
the gold so issued, when returned in consequence of the
fraud on the public, the money for paying these people
being drawn from the branch Bunk of Englat,d, which
bank receives the light gold on payment tot an established
ailowtince•-•-liantpshire inclepodotts

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKEN WELL.
Yesterday Jlmes JP Grath, the noted prizefighter,
John i'fcscdonald, and George Hopkins, were placed at
the bar before Mr. Greenwood, the former prisoner
charged by George Fisk, a respectable-looking young
man, residing at 2, Foster-buildings, St. Luke's, with
having committed a most violent assault upon him, and
the two latter were charged with inciting the mob and
M`Grath tol assault and resist the police in the exe-
cution of their duty, &c.
George Fisk stated that on Saturday afternoon last,
between three and four o'clock, he saw the prisoner
M‘Grath on Saffron-hill, beating a woman in a cruel
manner over her knuckles with a stick, and he kicked her
repeatedly. Witness remonstrated with him, on which
he struck witness with the stick over his nose and
knocked him several times on the spine of the back in
a violent manner, and had it not been for the arrival
and assistance of the police and some private individuals
he must have been killed.
Mr. GREENWOOD inquired whether the woman was in
attendance ?--He was answered in the negative.
Robert Foulger, 71, G, stated that between three and
four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, he received informs.
Lion that there was an outrage on Saffron-hill. On his
arrival he saw Nl‘Grath beat and kick last witness bt: -
veral times Witness took M‘Grath into custody, when
he tripped witness up three or four times, and beat and
kicked him so vie's:lay about the legs and head tliet he
was disabled and erm!fl not perform his duty. lie Fdso
tors his teat to pieee,. Macdonald struck witness and
attempted to rescue M‘Grath.
IVilliata Hi edins, a City officer, No. 271, was called
to the spot, when he saw M`Grath violently ill-using 71
G. Witness intertered, and M'Donalcl swore that he
would mark witness. The prisoner Hopkins used threa-
tening language, and incited the mob, which was great,
to attack the officers.
George Kelder, City officer 212, corroborated this evi-
dence. He was also violently assaulted, and received
a severe cut on his head from a stone which was flung
at him.

M`Grath, in his defence, said he knew nothing of
what took place. He had been treated with brandy, ,
which made him quite drunk.
M`Donald made a similar defence.
Hopkins denied the charge against him.
Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced Wiirath to one month's
imprisonment in the House of Correction for the assault
on the policeman, and for the assault on Fisk he con-
victed him in the penalty of 5/, or to be imprisoned two
calendar months, leaving him liable to be prosecuted by
other parties whom he assaulted. lie convicted
M`Donald in the penalty of 31., or one month's imprison..
ment ; and Hopkins in the penalty of 205., or ten days'
imprisonment. Hopkins paid his fine and was liberated,
but the other prisoners were taken to prison.
Joseph Kipax, a Yorkshireman, meanly clad, and evi-
dently destitute, was charged by the parish authorities
of St. Andrew, Holborn, with refusing to work.
Mr. Wilkes said he took care to have his supper, lodg-
ing, and breakfast, before he refused. They employed
casual paup!rs to work for their lodging, supper, and
breakfast, from eight o'clock to twelve in the forenoon.
The prisoner said he was a farmer's labourer, he was
destitute, and he wished to be passed to his native place.
Mr. GREEN WOOD committed him to the House of Cor-
rectian for. seven days, and suggested that he might
apply to the Visiting Magistrates to be passed.
John Blakeman was charged by Mr. J. Skinner, land-
lord of the Red Lion public-house, Warner-street, Cold-
bath-square, with stealing three brass candlesticks.
The prisoner, it appeared, entered the house of the
prosecutor on Saturday evening, about six o'clock, aad
asked for a light, when he slipped into the kitchen un-
observed, and tied the property up in an apron. He
was leaving the place when the potman stopped him.
lie dropped the bundle, and had a desperate struggle
with the potman, who was severely maltreated, but the
prisoner and the property were secured, and taken to the
station-house.
The prisoner denied the charge, but he was fully com-
mitted for trial.
Mr. GREENWOOD ordered James Phillips, the potman,
to be furnished with a certificate for extra expenses,
and complimented him for his courage and good conduct.
Patrick illWermot was charged with a violent assault
upon Charles Marlon, of Rotherfield-street, Islington.
The prosecutor (whose head was dreadfully injured
and bound up) stated that on Saturday night last, be•
tween ten and eleven o'clock, he was attracted by a noise
in a court, in Lower-road, Islington, and on going to wit-
ness the " row," the prisoner struck him a violent blow
on the jaw," and exclaimed, " Give him a crack," on
which a man struck him on the head with a quart-put,
and another man felled him to the ground by the blow
of a ,poker on the forehead, which cut him dreadfully,
and rendered him insensible, and he was carried to a
surgeon's.
A witness corroborated this evidence.
Tile prisoner denied the charge, and set up an alibi.
Mr. GREENWOOD remanded him for the apprehension
of the other man, but he afterwards admitted him to bail
fur his appearance on a future day.
THAY ES POLICE,.
Yesterday Captain -ilexandex Montgo.nery, the waster
of the barque Saperi .r, lying in the West Dock.
appeared b.-fore Mr. I.,ruacrip to aneaer the complaitit
of James Macloaatd, a seaman, who claimed a balance
of 121. for wage, due to him on a voyage from London
to Sierra Leone, Demerara, and back, under articles at
21. ss. per month.
Mr. Wells, a solicitor on the part of the seaman, said
the gross amount of wages was 141. 10s., and he was
willing to give credit fur a month's advance in London
and some other payments, but a claim was made for 51.,
which had been paid on a monthly note purporting to ue
signed by the master, and indorsed by the wan. The
document was a forgery, -and the man was ready :o
swear he never gave authority to any one to issue the
note, and knew nothing at all about it.
BRODERIP said if the owners had paid the money
in their own wrong, they must bear the loss of it.
Captain Montgomery said that Si. had been paid by
the brokers of the ship on the forged document, in
monthly instalments of 11. each, and the person who re-
ceived the money was a female, who was at the brokers'
office two or three days ago. He pronounced the sig-
nature on the note, " Alexander Mangozury," to be a
forgery.
Mr. Wells said that his client could neither read nor
write, and he made his mark on the articles. The cap-
tain's name was Alexander Montgomery ; on the note it
was " Mangotnry." The advance note given to the sea-
man was a genuine document, and was directed to
" Stowell and Brown, 157, Fenchurch- street." On the
tonged instrument, the money was made payable at
" Smith, Brown, and Co.'s, 170, Fenehurch-street." He
was astonished that the brokers paid a farthing.
Mr. BROO,RIP put it very strongly Lo the man whe-
ther the forged flute had been issued with his privity or
consent.
Macdonald solemnly declared that he know nothing at
all about it.
Mr.. BRODERIP said it was a very hard case upon the
owners, but there was not the least reason for sup-
posing the man knew anything about the forged monthly
note. He then ordered the wages to be paid, with costs.
Captain George Barclay, the master of the ship Sea
' Nymph, was summoned before Mr. Broderip, at the suit
of Benjamin Wheelwright, the mate, for 51. 10s., a ba-
lance of wages.
The complainant had been a voyage under articles of
3/. 10s. per month, and joined the vessel in the Clyde on
the 17th of January last. From Glasgow the ship pro-
ceeded to Monte Video, and thence to Buenos Ayres,
where, in consequence of some words with the Captain,
the mate went ashore and consulted the British Consul,
who referred him to the captain of the port, and by him
he was transferred to the commander of the Daphne,
man-of-war, on the station, who could do nothing fur
him. The Consul was once more appealed to, who ad-
vised him to return to the ship and bring an action
when he reached England. When the crew were paid
off the sum claimed was deducted by the master for ab-
sence on shore for thirteen days at Buenos Ayres, two
days absence in the Clyde without leave, and the value of
some hides, alleged to have been lost by the complainant's
negligence. Those facts were elicited from the com-
plainant, or to use the Magistrate's own words, " Dug
out of the man," with considerable difficulty.
Captain Barclay said there was a loss of some hides,
and he charged the mate with it, and also fifteen days'
double pay for absence from the ship. When the com-
plainant received his wages, amounting in all to 411. 64.,
he agreed to the deductions, and signed a receipt in felt
ut all demands.
Wheelwright dissented from this ; when he received
his wages he told the captain he was not satisfied.
Mr. BRODERIP said the audacity of some people was
remarkable. The matter hail only deltic ed what be
was entitled to do under the Act of Parli hnent, and the
value of the hides lost. If the captain had not paid hirre
it a uuld have been a question whether he was entitled to
any wages at all. He dismissed the case.
Bruce Janson, a weatherbeaten Scottish seaman, be-
longing to the Orb, lying in the Hermitage tier,
Wapping, complained to Mr. Brodetip that he had been
forced ashore by the master before the voyage bad ter-
minated, and wanted to get back to Galway, in Ireland,
where ho shipped.
Mr. BRODERIP—Where did you ship, and for what
voyage ? Janson—Eh, your Honour, I ken it was at
Galway, on a voyage frae Lunnun and back to Galway
or Limerick. Ye ken I'm a Scotsman, but my wi e and
bairns are a' in Galway. Weel, Sir, on the voyage up
there was a piece of beef too fat, and we didna like it,
and so there was a dispute, and when I came here the
captain ordered me ashore.
Mr. BRODERIP—What, do you complain of ship beef
being too fat ? We have had many complaints of its
being too lean, but I never heard of its being too fat. It
would be a hard case for the man to be left here, and he
directed Fox, a Thames-police Inspector, to make in-
quiries, and see the captain on the subject.
The master consented to take the man back to

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. R ESITSCITATION. A
young lady belonging to a Jewish family in this city died ap-
parently on Tuesday of a nervous disease, and yesterday her
friends started with her remains for interment. According to
a Jewish custom, the body is taken to the grave-yard in a
square box, in the same covering in which the deceased person
has expired, and there, in a house appropriated for that pur-
pose, the female friends of the family uorobe the body, wash
it with cold water, and anoint it for the last resting-place.
While performing this ancient custom upon the body of this
supposed inanimate corpse, a healthful warmth evaporated from
it, and evident signs of life became manifest; the fact was an-
nounced by the ladies, physicians were sent for, and the sor-
rowful certainty of death, which overshadowed the counte-
nance of friends, gave place to a gleam of hope. On the
arrival of the physicians the certainty of her being alive was
established, and means taken to fan the spark into health, in
which we earnestly hope they will succeed. Every person
who reads this circumstance will exclaim, " How providential
that she was a Jewess I How awful would have been the re-
verse ! This fact s'-ould caution the public against hasty
beria!s The body never lweomes offensive, nor 1. death nor-
tam until that unerring sign of,a purple tinge on the belly is
fully apparent—so says an eminent professor..-St. Louis fig.
1 porter; Dec. 7.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON A
RUSSIAN PRINCESS.
Yesterday, at ten o'clock, a commission of lunacy was
held before the Chief Commissioner, Francis Barlow,
Esq., and a jury of nineteen gentlemen of the county, at
the Canonbury Tavern, Islington, to inquire into the
state of mind of the Princess Elizabeth Catherine Louisa
Maria Frances Bariatinski, now residing at Ivy Cottage,
Highbury-grove, in the parish of St. Mary, Islington.
Among the relatives of the Princess present were the
Earls of Sherborne, Carnarvon, and Ducie.
Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Walpole appeared in support
of the commission, on behalf of Lady Margaret Dutton,
at whose instance it was issued. Mr. Carpenter Rowe
appeared as the representative of the Prince Bariatinski,
half brother to the subject of the inquiry.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER, on opening the proceed-
ings, observed thet he would explain to the jury in a few
words why *hey were called together. They were as-
sembled, in obedience to the commission, to inquire into
the state of mind of the Princess mentioned in it ; to
ascertain if she was Dot sufficient for the government of
herself and chattels, and if not, from what time, and
how ? They would hear evidence on this point, which
was the only one they had to inquire into ; and he wss
lola that the lady had had notice of these proceedings.
and had expressed no desire to appear before them either
soliciter or counsel. It might be necessary to state
that the lady, the subject of the inquiry, was the
daughter of a Russian Prince by the dattehter of.
an English ..Zolsleniaii, the Earl of Sherborne. She was
the only daughter by that marriage, for unfortunately
her mother died in childbirth, or soon after. Her father
married again, and soon afterwards she was sent to
England to be educated, under the care of the relatives.
of her noble mother. Since her seclusion and supposed
lunacy, some of her Russian relatives had come to Eng-
land, applied to the Lord Chancellor, and given notice
that they should appear by Counsel before the jury. He
begged to remind the jury that the questions of property
and of the treatment of the Princess was not for them to
inquire into, as they would hereafter become the subject
matter for inquiry in another Court.
Mr. Cockburn opened the case, and told the gentlemen
of the jury that he had the honour to appear in support
of the Honourable Anne Margaret Dutton, at whose in-
stance the commission had been issued. He and they
had a painful duty to perform, viz., to inquire into the
state of mind of a lady of high birth, and the daughter'
of a Russian Prince and the Hon. Frances Margaret
Dutton, isho was the daughter of the late and sister of
the present Earl of fZlierb,rne. The marriage of her
noble parents took place in England, in the year 1806.
Shortly after they left this country for the Continent,
and the Princess, the subject of this inquiry, was born
in 1807, at Altona, where unfortunately her mother
died in childbirth. In consequence of a promise made
by the Prince to his consort on her death-bed, the
Princess was brought to England, to be educated by her
English relatives, to be placed under the care of Lord
Sherborne, and to be brought up under his own eye,
with the members of his own family. Her grandfather
died in 1820, and she remained with her grandmother
until 1823. From that time she came under the care of
her aunt, the Hon. Anne M. Dutton. After and during
this time she was in the habit of visiting her uncle, the
present Lord Sherborne, and as she advanced in years
she became a more frequent inmate of the Sherborne
family. In 1823, for the purposes of her education, she
remained the whole year in his Lordship's house—fellow-
pupil of his Lordship's daughter, the present Lady
Ducie. She alternately lived with her uncle, the Earl
of Sherborne, and with her aunt, the Hon. Miss Dutton,
at Reading, until 1825, when she was brought to town
and presented at Court by the present Lady Carteret.
There was nothing remarkable in her mind or manner
at this period. In 1827-8 she became more intimate
with the Earl of Sherborne's family, and in the former
year she visited with them Holkharo, the seat of the Earl
of Leicester ; and in the spring of 1828 she was again
at Lord Sherborne's, and in the course of that year she
was taken to a drawing-room held by George IV., in
commemoration of his birthday. lip to this nine things
went on without giving any cause of alarm to the
It was true that the Princess had never manileSted any
great acuteness or strength of intellect, but showed in
matters concerning her education a degree of indtnence
and want of capacity ; yet still her conduct was such in
society that it din nut attract any marked attention.
Thus matters stood in 1829, and though the Princess
showed some little eccentricities, her conduct did not ex-
cite any alarm or wish on the pareof her friends to place
her in seclusion, and give her protection against herself.
In the autumn of 1829, whilst visiting Lord and Lady
Ducie, she manifested some extraordinary conduct, which
led to remarks that h r haviour was different from that
which would be expee:• d from a lady of her age, rank,
and coetlition, and the re was something in her manner
for a short period ahich showed that her mind was nut
as it should be. Subsequent events showed that this
was the incipient stage of that malady which had since
appeared in a confirmed state, and placed beyond a sha-
dow of doubt the fact that her mind was in a condition
of hopeless insanity ; and when the jury saw her he was
sure they would speedily come to the conclusion that not
a glimmering of reason was left. In autumn, 1830. the
manifestations of her unsound mind were so evident that
it became absolutely necesssry to remove her from so-
ciety, lest, by her conduct, she should compromise herself
or others. About this time she was taken to church and
to the theatre, were she behaved so indecorously that it
was found necessary to place her in exclusion. In the
streets she was in the habit of indulging in extraordinary
practices—such as raising her clothes, but not exposing
her person more than tying her garters, without any re-
gard to public decency. It was, therefore, necessary to
take some decided step, and the Sherborne family ap-
plied to the Rev. Mr. Smyrnoff, Chaplain to the Russian
Einbassy, who hag married her father and mother, and
he advised that a medical man should be consulted.
Accordingly Sir George Tothill was called in, and
visited the Princess, and he declared her then insane,
and that it was nee. ssary to place her in restraint.
She was not then placed in an asylum, but a house
was taken for her in the neighbourhood of Fulham,
whither she was sent under the care of Miss Clifton,
her former governess. She remained there some time,
when she was placed under the care of Mrs. Newman,
who had also been her governess in early life, and
who resided in the neighbourhood in which they were
then assembled. In 1833 she was placed under the care
of Miss Chalmers, in Highbury-grove, and had remained
with her ever since. She was placed under that lady's
earn by Lord Sherborne and Lady Suffolk, and her
malady had ever since increased—becoming worse and
worse—until at last she exhibited no remains of intel-
lect. The commission, however, would not have been
;ssued, but for circumstances which he would briefly
mention. Her father, by his second marriage, had a
family, the present head of which was his son, Prince
Bariatinski, who last year came to England, and learning
that his sister had been in seclusion since 1834, he
thought he had a right to question the propriety of the
proceedings by which she had been removed from so-
pay. The result of the Prince's inquiry was the issuing
o the commission to ascertain the state of his sister's
mind, which he would prove by witnesses testifying as to
her conduct at several periods, from 1825 up to the pre-
sent time. In October, 1830, the Princess made a will,
bequeathing her property, amounting to nearly 40,0001,
. to the Hon. Miss Dutton, but that lady, with a high and
honourable feeling, had declined to take advantage of it,
because she knew that the Princess was not in a state to
render her competent to execute a deed of the kind. He
did not know what course hie Learned Friend meant to
adopt, but he (Mr. Cockburn) was anxious to fix the
period of her insanity in 1830, in order that there should
be no question as to the propriety of the Sherborne
family placing her in seclusion
Mr. Rowe said he felt bound to state, on the part of
the Noble Prince whom he represented, that he had in-
terfered only with a view of securing the proper care
and treatment of his untnrtunate sister. The Prince was
not actuated by pecuniary motives, and he came to this
country because he had reason to believe that his sister
was placed in a position which was not conformable to
her feelings, and that something might be done to alle-
viate her present condition—that another mole of treat-
ment mieht be adopted, which woad be b.n, ficia! to the
health of • he unfortunate ittly.
The CHIEF CuMMISSIONER told the jury dry had
nothing ju.lieially to de with the manner in which the
lade had been treated, because that question might and
would uiine bethre another tribunal hereafter.
Mr. Cuekhurn defended the conduct of Lord Sher-
borne in a.few foreitne remark:, and then proposed that
the jury should, in the first instance, examine the un-
l'ortunate lady. Atter some discussion, it was arranged
to proceed to the residence of the Princes., in llighbury-
grove. On arriving there, the Commissioner and jury
were shown into 0, apartments occupied by th,, offi :fled
lady. Upon entering, the Princess was dix.v. red
°touched against a large wire guard which surrounded
the tire. She appeared alarmed at the presence of
strangers, and on the Commissioner stating the object
of their visit, she uttered only a few incoherent expres-
sions, having no relation to the inquiries addressed to
her. In a few moments sho suddenly left the fireplace
and ran across to the window, where the Commissioner
followed her, and iu the kindest manner endeavoured to
enter into conversation with her. In answer to queries
relating to her property,. her relatives, her former asso-
ciates, &c., she made no Intelligible reply, still murmur-
ing.indistinct words having no meaning. A sovereign
having been handed to her, she betrayed the most com-
plete ignorance as to its value, and the jury expressing
themselves satisfied, thought it unnecessary to ask her
any other questions.
On the return of the jury the evidence was proceeded
with.
Miss Maria Chalmers examined by Mr. Cockburn--I
was a governess in Lady Suffolk's family for 19 years
before 1833. I knew the Princess Bariatinski from the
age of 12 years, and saw her from time to time in 1830.
I saw her at Lady Dutton's in the autumn of that year,
when I first observed a peculiarity of manner about her.
It consisted of laughing sillily and vacantly, without any
motive. She seldom conversed much, and showed indo-
lence of intellect. There was a striking difference in
her manner from that which I had before observed. She
came to London in 1830, from Bibury, Lord Sherborne's
seat. It was in the month of November, and she in-
sisted on wearing only a low muslin dress. I could not
persuade her to wear either a cloak or a shawl, and her
conduct through the journey was such as to attract the
attention of the public when our carriage stopped to
change horses. At this period when the Princess took
pedestrian exercise she danced rather than walked, and
conducted herself very unbecomingly. On one occasion
when out with me she rushed into a cutler's shop and
tied up her garter before several men. Tho Ladies
Howard were with her at that time. At church she
would attract the notice of the congregation by laughing
and putting out her tongue. The Rev. Mr. Smyrnoff in
consequence prohibited her being taken to church. She
refused to wash herself, and used to burn her clothes and
othei' articles-of t, alue. She took no care of her snhney,
and would give a 5/ note where- only 2L was due. She
has thrown money into my lap and said it burned her.
I took her to the Opera two or three times in 1830, but
oho aituifasied lag intgrelt ut tho.Perimancep and would

sie -
not sit still. I also took her about the same timitra
smaller theatre, whece her •conduct was very. disagree-
able. She turned her face from the stage, and made faces
at a gentleman in an o...ljoining box. This was the last
occasion of her going into public. Lady Sherborne
consulted at this tiLne Sir George Tothill, and in con-
sequence a private resdence was found for the Princess.
The Learned Counsel here read a letter addressed to
Lady Sherborne by Sir • George Tuthill, in which be
stated that, from what he lend observed of the character
of the Princess's mind, he thought she laboured under
confirmed imbecility, and was unfit to manage her own
affairs.
Examination continued--:When t.he Princess was taken
to Ivy Lodge, Highbury, she was fir. st placed under the
care of Miss Clifton, one of her fox-tner governesses.
Miss Clifton died, and was succeeded I.'v a lady
named
Bailey, also since dead. In 1833 I too," charge of the
establishment in Highbury-grove, and ,`rave resided
there up to the present time. During the w.
hole of this
time the Princess has been wholly incapable. of taking
care of herself.
Several letters were here handed by the Learned
Counsel to the witness, who proved them to be' in tut)
banilwri:ing of the Princess. The letters in question
erre written. litlore the witness took charge of the PAP'''.
cc;s. The following were read to the jury:—
"December 28 (without any other date).
" Dear Mr. Newman—Since I have had the plea
of seeing you I have thought of a pleasant scheme. I
think I should like to go to Wnlmer. I dare say Mrs.
Brooks would let me go with you any day, and I should
like to have a child very much."
The signature was not read.
The following is the substance of a letter addressed to
Mrs. M`Farlane

mrs. alsFerlane—l should like to come and see you.
when tie could renew our emptismal vows. Perhaps you
would like it, my deur Mrs. M`Farlane, and I should
Ike it too."
Another letter:—
" My does- Aunt—How much I should like you to get
me married, ned pie use to tell Mrs. Newman to pal all
the-stres. If you let me have the money she will do
so.—Believe me, my dear aunt, your affectionate neice,
" ELIZABETH BARIATINSKL"
Cross-examined by Mr. Carpenter Rowe—l recolleei:
the Princess residing with the Hon. Miss Dutton in
1826. I saw nothing particular in her manner at that
time. Ido not recollect her having a brain fever there-
From 1826 to 1830, she was chiefly residing with Miss
Dutton at her cottage, near Lord Sherborne's seat,
Charlton Park, Malmesbury. The Princess has never
expressed herself disinclined to my society, nor dissatis-
faction at being with me. In 1833 I thought her irre-
claimable, and I have acted on that opinion since, ac-
cording to the treatment advised by medical gentlemen.
Dr. Sutherland recommended that coercion should be
used, and the strait-waistcoat had been applied. I think
this was in 1838' or 1839. Miss Masters had been re"
fused permission to see the Princess before I had charV
of her. The Prince Bariatinski had been allowed access'.
to her both before and after he obtained a Lord •Chao".
cellor's order ; in fact, it had never been denied to Mins
The first time he came to see her he brought Maclaine
Davidoff with him. I think it was in 1837 that the
Russian relations of the Princess first applied to see her-
Re-examined by Mr. Cockburn—,The Princess lived
with Miss Dutton subsequent to the death of her grand'
mother, Lady Sherborne.
Dr. Conquest examined by Mr. Walpole—l attended
the Princess Bariatinski in the year 1831, and have don°
so for many years past. When I last saw her she was hi,
a state of demention. In 1831 she was in that state,ano
she gradually grew worse until 1836. Every reseed/
has been tried to restore the Princess's reason, but *ll
were unavailable. I have seen her treatment, and con-
sider it to have been unirornsly kind and proper.
Cross-examined by Mr. Carpenter Rowe—Wheal:l
saw the Princess she was residing with Miss Newnetere_
in Highbury-grove. I think I was called in by LBO
Stiff ilk or Lady Sherborne. Ido not exclusively
.pry'
lice In this department
of my profession. The Princes*
was decidedly insane in 1831, and from what I saw must
have been so for some time past. Occasionally she could
carry on a continued conversation. -I do not recollect
hearing her repeat poetry. In 1831, I did not think her
recovery hopeless. She did exhibit the appearance of*
parson born an i.liot. From 1831 to 1833 I saw her fifty,
or sixty times. I have seen hut. frequently since, Slit'
before the year 1834 I considered her case petfedi)?
hopeless. The long endurance of the malady alone
makes me consider it a hopeless case. In 1831 the Priv
cess was in that state of mind- that I do not think she
would have derived uny benefit from cheerful society
At that time she could recognise her noble friends when
'hey visited her : but her state of mind on some occa-
sions was such that I could not recommend such visit-
sae her last on the 6th of November. I was not aware
that the visas of her friends had been altogether distorts
tinned then, nor did. I know that Miss Masters, a sister
or Lady Carteret, had been denied admission to see her
by Miss Chalmers, at whose house she now is. I never
gave instructions that the Prince Bariatinski or his sister,
Madame Davidoff,- should see her.
Re examined by Mr. Cockburn—l discontinued lei
visits because 'I thought her case hopeless from gratin!!
decay
.of the mental faculaes. I met Sir George -Tothu'
..lice in consultation upon the Princess's case. In Jul
opinion, nothing has been left undone in the way of We'
dical or other treatment that could ameliorate her coin:
dition. The disease gradually got worse, an d the male
sal treatment made no impression on it.
By the Commtssiossett—l agree with Sir George
Tuthill, that in December, 1230, the Princess was bribe'
cile and incapable of taking care of herself. My °pink°
is, that the Princess has bsen of unsound mind sine.
August, 1830. The conduct of the Princess was so vi3O•
lent that it was found necessary to obtain a nurse to taae
care of her. She remained ten weeks, after which the
conduct of the Princess became less violent, and it was p 0
longer necessary to use the strait waistcoat.
By a Juror—The Princess understood music, and
sometimes played from notes and sometimes from WO'
Martinee de la Lalle (a female of Russian extraction/
said she attended on the Princess as lady's maid, havief,
been engaged by Miss Chalmers, by order of Lord Se'
folk, about the 18th of I)2cember, 1830. Her mantle„
at that time was most unladylike, in fact, she was a Ter,'
odd woman
Mr. Cockburn—Explain that in French.
Witness—Elle avait l'air un peu imbecile.
Examination resumed—l saw the Princess on one oe"
casion throw a gold brooch into the fire. I have gat
seen her burn a handkerchief and destroy a value'
book of prints by tearing out the leaves and burning
them. The conversation of the Princess was noneen;
sical. Her language was very low, and her nutoner
were indecent. About the ordinary calls' of nature the
Princess was not very particular. She used to sit bef,ere
the fireplace with her feet on the mantle-piece. 070
would spit at persons in the street, and tie her garter of
the streets before anybody. While under the care,
Mrs. Newman, the Princess once took up that Wit.
child by the head and legs and then threw it on
flew. I left the Princess's service in January, la" •
She was then worse than when I first saw her.
Mr. Cockburn was about to call other evidence. shed The jury expressed themselves satisfied, and 60,,,'
that they had made up their minds. tict
Mr. Cockburn said Lord Sherborne was present, 1
would be happy to answer any questions relative to ,
0
treatment the Princess had received. to
The Foreman thought it would be unneeessari.de
examine his Lordship. The question they had to deer
was the date of the commencement of the lady's lunacy;)
Mr. Cockburn—Since that is the case I will eau ,
further evidence. .
Mr. Rowe, on the part of his noble client, disclaimed ha
any intention of imputing improper treatment of
Yrinetss to her noble English relatives. their
The jury then retired for a few minutes, and. erg
return, found that the Princess Bariatinski was
unsound mind, and had been so since the 31st of Isse
1980.
bUi
bis
Dr. Munro was present during
,the inquiry, •
evidence was not taken.

•
Tun Wrz ATI] liß.—The weather up to Settatil
ir;01.
t suss inois I, and loggy, wich occasional heavy, rs'ter
0.1 Saturday thvr& Kati a marked change for the unin
in the appearance of the atmosphere. The wind "rl4-11.
the N.N.E. ; the barometer stood at 30 10, and throttle.
out the dd.) the air was bright, cold, and seasonajoi
rt.l.•terday was a sharp, biting, winter's day. The of
it Ind due cast, and, as the barometer went up to a blot
height, that in the Exchange news-room standieg;oj
nib. t at 30 50, it is prolaable that we shall have a 134",.
of clear, fro.ty weather.—Liverpool Albion of Mond*, tt,
We regret to announce the death of Joseph Struof
Esq., of Derby, who had attained the goodly tag,e,os
nearly 80. lie whs, we believe, the head of the oulw
manufacturing firm of that name.