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London, England, 1844-09-23 00:00:00

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LAW AND POLZC3.
The case of Sparks v. Austin was tried in the Secon-
daries Court. The plaintiff is an attorney's clerk, and
the defendant was formerly the landlord of the St.
George's Tavern, Lambeth-road. The action was brought
to recover the aim of 41. 18s., due by the defendant to
the plaintiff. The defendant first pleaded never indebted,
and, secondly, a set off. The jury found a verdict for
the defendant.
The sittings at the Central Criminal Court for the
present session concluded on Friday. The Court ad-
journed to the 21st October.
William Berry, a lad, was committed from Guildhall,
by Mr. Alderman Hughes, charged with stealing a bundle
of apparel, value 31., which he was entrusted to carry
from the factory of Mr. Lyons, 156, High Holborn,
to the residence of Mrs. Lyons's father, in Great Alie-
street.

At Queen-square, John Watts, a man in the employ
of Mr. James Evans, 0120, Lower Sloane-street, baker,
was charged with having plundered his master to a very
considerable extent. The prisoner was in the habit of
carrying out bread, and took the opportunity of robbing
his master by taking out more loaves than he was charged
for. He was remanded.
At Gravesend Mr. James Gould, fruiterer, Windmill-
street, was charged with having, on Sunday, the 15th
instant, exercised his ordinary calling in his shop,
thereby incurring under the statute of the 29th Charles
IL, a penalty of 51. The defendant stated that he had
only done what every fruiterer in London was permitted
to do without molestation, viz., partly opened his shop
window and sold fruit on the Sunday after one o'clock.
He was fined 6s. 6d. Mr. Oakes in giving judgment
made the following excuse for the conduct of the magis-
trates in undertaking a crusade against Sunday trading.
He said that there was such a clamour raised by certain
parties against the practice of Sunday trading in the
town, that the magistrates were, in a measure, enforced
to take cognizance of it in every shape in which it was
brought before them.
A respectably attired young man, named Alfred Ed-
wards, described as a pickle-manufacturer, in Haber-
dasher-place, Hoxton, was remanded from Worship-
street, charged with having administered a quantity of
poison to a young woman named Jane Gregory, and
thereby caused her death.
At Woolwich, John Stroud, a man of colour, and
native of St. Helena, was charged with being found asleeF
in a stable belonging to the Red Lion, Shooter's-hill,
also on suspicion of having committed felony. The pri-
soner, who was stated to be the dread of the neighbour-
hood, was remanded.
Mary Harding, and her daughter, Louisa Harding,
were remanded from Hammersmith on a charge of
having pawned some silver spoons, stolen from the house
of Mr. E. H. Kent, the Prince of Wales, Church-street,
Kensington.
At the Thames Police-court a respectable woman
named Landell, residing in Chatham-place, Walworth,
and whose husband is foreman to Horton and Hart,
the hop-factors, in Southwark, applied to Mr. Ballantine
for a warrant against Captain Spratley, the master of
the Cyrus, for leaving her eon behind at Celebes, or
Macassar, an island in the Indian Ocean, four years ago.
The Magistrate directed Inspector Maddox to make im-
mediate inquiry into the circumstances of the case.
COVIILT—PAXZIONAEMIL,
The Earl of Shrewsbury and family arrived in Bir-
mingham on Saturday last, at Dee's Royal Hotel, and in
the course of the day visited the Roman Catholic Bishop.
In the evening, it being the eve of the Nativity of the
Blessed Virgin, they attended Divine service at the
Ladye Chapel in the new cathedral dedicated to St. Chad,
The Earl of Charleville has ordered all his farming-
stock, &c., at Charleville Forest, to be sold off. The
Earl and Countess left his Lordship's ancient baronial
seat early in the preceding week, on a tour.
The Earl of Harrowby and Viscount and Lady Frances
Bandon and family arrived at Harrowgate on Thursday,
last, from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire. The Noble Earl
has, for some years past, annually visited that watering
place, and has invariably derived great benefit from
taking the waters.
Earl Fitzwilliam will commence his annual series of
public dinners this week, at Wentworth House, near
Rotherham, where a family party has assembled. Lady
Albreda Fitzwilliam, the Noble Earl's youngest daughter,
it is expected, will make her debut next season.
We are happy to state that the Duchess of Manchester,
who has been seriously indisposed at Tandagree Castle.
is in a state of convalescence.

Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth Beaumont and family have
arrived at their seat, By well Hal), Northumberland.
Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard have arrived at Holkar
Hall, near Milnethorpe, on a visit to the Earl of Bur-
lington.

On Tuesday afternoon the King of the French, ac.
companied by General Aymard, the Marquis de Strada,
and two orderly officers visited St. Cloud, but returned
to Neuilly to dinner. In the evening their Majesties
received the Minister of Hesse, the Count de Sainte-
Aulaire, the Minister of Public Instruction, the Prefect
of the Seine, General Fabvier, and Count Simeon.
The British Ambassador, Lord Cowley, had a private
audience of Louis Philippe on Wednesday, at which he
delivered to his Majesty letters from her Britannic Ma-
jesty, in answer to the notification of the birth of his
Royal Highness the Duke d'Alencon. His Excellency
also delivered to the King and Queen letters by which
her Britannic Majesty announces the birth of a Prince,
her son. Similar letters were presented to his Majesty
by the representatives of Tuscany and Nassau.
Ternaux Compan has been elected member of the
Chamber of Deputies for Savenay. He had 145 Totes ;
M. de Genoude, one of the rival candidates, had 115 ;
M. Dubois-Ayme, 10; and M. Ernest de la Rochette, 1.
We learn from Tunis, 30th ult., that the fete of Saint
Louis was celebrated by the French on the 25th with
great ceremony, in the chapel erected by the present
King in honour of his great ancestor, on the hill of
Byrsa.
The law of July 24, 1943, fixing the amount of the
budget of expenditure for 1844, having ordered that be-
fore the Ist of January, 1845, the central organisation
of each Ministry should be settled by Royal ordonnance,
the Moniteur of Thursday publishes an ordonnance
dated the 13th instant, relative to one of the depart.
ments, viz., the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is di-
vided into eight branches. The cabinet of the Minister
and his secretaries, the political direction, the commer-
cial direction, the bureau of the affairs of America and
India, the direction of the archives and the cbancellerie,
the bureau of protocols, the bureaux des contention. (de-
mands, reclamations, &c.), and the direction of the funds
and of the accounts. The attributes of each division
are laid down, and the persons to be employed are
classed as follows :—directors, sub-directors, chefs de
bureau, redacteurs, principal clerks, and copying clerks.
The maximum salary of directors is fixed at 20,000 f. a
year, and the minimum 15,000 f. ; the maximum of sub-
directors 12,000 f., and the minimum B,ooof. ; the maxi-
mum of the chefs de bureau 10,0001., minimum 6,000 f, ;
maximum of the redacteurs 6,0001., minimum, 4,0001. ;
maximum of principrl clerks 5,000 E, minimum 3,0001. •
maximum of copying clerks 4,000, minimum 1,500 f:
Independent of the regular employes, there are to be su-
pernumeries or attaches, without salary, but they must be
licentiates in law.
The Asmodee steam-frigate has received orders to be
in readiness to proceed to Tunis, and the Rubis steamer
to be prepared to leave for Constantinople.
The Minister of Public Works has given notice that
on the sth of next month he will open and decide upon
the tenders for the laying down the rails, and forming
the lines from Orleans to Bordeaux and Orleans to
Vierzon.
A letter from Cadis of the 11th, in the Debats, states
that the Warspite has been ordered to quit Gibraltar
and the coast of Morocco, and to proceed to the Levant.
The Augsburg Gazette has the following from Alex-
andria, dated the 30th ult. :—" The Viceroy has declared
to the French Consul that he is about to undertake an
expedition against the Abyssinians, who have invaded
the Semmara, where they have burned several villages,
killed many of the inhabitants, and made slaves of others.
He added, however, that his views were not those of
conquest. He made this communication to the French
Consul, because France pretends to exercise a protec-
torate over Abyssinia."
The Universal Gazette of Leipsio gives an extract of
a letter, received from two Saxon merchants, who set out
some months back for China. It says—" The Chinese
prefer Saxon cloths even to English ones. The English
manufacturers have sent out such a quantity of cloth
that it is cheaper than in England. In a year China
will be a commercial market of little importance for Bri-
tish commerce, for already the goods sent exceed con-
sumption. The exportation of Chinese goods is not ex-
tensive, except in tea. The Chinese, in general, export
only refuse silks, keeping to themselves those of first
quality."
The Hanover Gazette of the 14th publishes the treaty
of commerce and navigation entered into with England in
July last. It is preceded by a notification that, on the
exchange of the ratifications, it was agreed that the exist-
ing Customs tariff of Brunshan shall remain in force, but
that the articles of British manufacture interdicted in the
article of the treaty, will only pay from the Ist October,
when brought up the Elbe in British vessels, the duties
fixed by article 6 ; and from that date British vessels
and their cargoes will pay no other duty than that fixed
by this tariff:
A letter from Hamburgb, of the 13th, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—"The Council of Burghers has been en•
gaged to-day in discussing the treaty of navigation be-
tween the free towns of Hambergh, Lubeck, and Blemen,
and the kingdom of Sardinia, concluded at Paris on the
18th July last, M. Rumpf being the representative of the
free towns, and the Marquis de Brignole Sales of Sar-
dinia. The treaty is founded on the principle of the most
complete reciprocity. with the sole exception of the coast-
ing trade, which each of the contracting parties reserves
to itself exclusively. The treaty is comprised in ten
articles. No change is to be made in any of them,
unless they are extended to the ships of all other nations.
so that if any one of the contracting parties grants any
advantage to any other nation whatever, the same ad-
vantage may be claimed by the other contracting parties.
The treaty is to remain in force for ten years from the
day of its ratification, and, further, for twelve months
after either of the parties has given official notice to the
other of its intention not to continue the treaty. This
treaty has been ratified, but the treaties for the naviga-
tion of the Elbe have been rejected a third time by a
majority of three dioceses against two. There were 328
voters, of whom 134 voted for the ratification, and 194
against it. The grand deputation, which is finally to
decide upon the fate of the treaties for the navigation of
the Elbe, was immediately appointed."