The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-08 00:00:00

TitE St N, LONDON, SATITRI)A Y EVENING, FEBRUARY 81 1845.

jury should give the plaintiff a verdict for 405., which would enable
the attorney to get his costs. That alone could be the object of
this sedan; for it could not be imagined that Mr. Forth, who, in
the former trial, blazoned forth to the world his misfortunes
rind his claims, and after the jury had been locked up all night,
and discharged in the morning by consent, should again desire to
parade his distresses, if it were not to put costs in his pockets.
Although the evidence given on both these trials did not in any
way meet the statements against Mr. Forth, yet the defendant did
not wish to prevent his deriving any benefit which might accrue to
him from the statements made by the witnesses in favour of his
conduct eve.and.thiity years ago. But the jury would observe
that no desire to injure the plaintiff has been charged against the
Times. On the comrary, it was admitted that the Times,
in the first instance, regarded his case as in some degree
of oppression, and that the sympathy of the public
was enlisted in vonsequeace of what appeared there.
but it wig the duty of a public jooroalist, wen hat. inducts the
public to confer its bounty upon a parson who seemed to deserve
compassion and relief, to make known any matters which might
afterwards appear to prove the individual unworthy; so that the
public might be guarded against a further misapplication of its
bounty; and that is what the Times has done. With the excep-
tion of a single passage, to which he would call their attention—
with that exception, there was not a single line of which his
Learned Friend had made a shadow of complaint. He must be
here permitted to say, that his Learn,d Friend and those who sup.
ported him had adopted a very dexterous course. They had se.
lected that part which was now admitted to be a mistake, leaving
out all that which the. could attempt to justify. How
stood the matter? Mr. Ford was a person to whom, from the
time he was ordained by the Bishop of Winchester, in
1806, no license has been granted. Ile did for a time
it was true do duty, but they were acquainted sufficiently with ec-
clesiastical matters to know that when a person undertook a curacy
he must have a license, and the object of that was manifest. When
the application was made for a license testimonials to his character
would be required.
The plaintiff—The ministers were all dead.
Mr. HUMFREY—They were not dead then; and he would ask
the jury, if the proper way would not have been for a clergyman,
however bowed down by misfortune, if his character were clear
from suspicion, if he came into a court of justice to vindicate his
character, to bring some friends to speak to his good name. He
was not seeking to throw imputations upon Mr. Forth, and the
Times in the same spirit, said " When in the spirit of liberality we
pointed out the plaintiff' as a fit object for the charity of the public,
in the same spirit we, when the magistrate stated that he was an
unworthy character, felt bound to warn the public against him."—
(The Learned Counsel then read the extracts from the Times on
which the action was founded.) The inquiries made by direction
of the magistrate into the character of the reverend gentleman

were most unsatisfactory. He would read what Mr. Clive said
front the bench when Mr. Forth had failed to attend, although
solicited. He publicly stated that he had received many small sums,
and he would receive no more sums for his use, and in conse.
quence of the inquiries he had caused to be made he (Mr. Clive)
declined for tilt future to have any communication with Mr. Forth
or his family. 1 hat was not, however, complained of; nor did
Mr. Forth bring forward any one person who knew him to speak
to character. If, instead of saying he had been suspended, the
reporter had said that he had never applied for a license, would the
observation have been a bit less objectionable ? Not one whit.
But the reporter did make a mistake. The Rev. Gentleman was
not suspended. His Learned Friend, Sergeant Talfourd, said why
did the paper which inserted the error not insert also an apology ?
Why, the article was inserted on the 26th, and the writ was issued
on the 28th, just two days after. But would it not have
been better if Mr. Forth had written to the Times and explained
the mistake, which would no doubt have been inserted. But that
would not have suited the attorney, for he in that case could not
hays brought this action.
Sergeant TA LeoußD—There followed an article on the same sub-
ject in a future number oi the Times.

Mr. HumFact* was not aware of it, but of this he was certain
that it contained nothing which could militate against the Times,
or it would have been put into Court by his Learned Friend. His

...-
Learned Friend said that the circumstances alleged to have caused
the dismissal of Mr. Forth from the Philantropic Institution had
no foundation in truth. That was very easily said, but why had
not the Governor or some other of the officers of the institution
been calltd forward ? It was essential that the doings of the courts
of justice should be given to the world, and they ought not to visit
a slip with a severe punishment, and he implored them not to gra.
tify bad passions, but, by giving the smallest damages known in
that country, further the ends of justice and defeat the objects of
artful men.

The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE summed up. The statement which
appeared in the Times newspaper was admitted by the Learned
Counsel not to be true, and therefore it was undoubtedly a libel,
~nd the jury would therefore have to find damages for the plaintiff.
What the amount of those damages should be would be left to
their own good s, nse, and he had no doubt they would give the
subject their best consid ration. With the remarks made on the

eti.,racter of the magistrate Mr Clive, he did not agree. If he
was in error at all, it was an error on the side of huma-
nity and kindness, for instei.d of going into the circum-
stances of the assault committed by Mr. Forth upon
his landlracl, the magistrate hearing that he and his
f•rnily ware in a state of great distress, remanded the mat-
ter in the expectation that a subscription would be made to
relieve his necessities. He did nit, therefore, think that Mr.
Clive's conduct ought to have been so severely remarked upon in
this matter. The learned Chief Justice then briefly recapitulated
the leading events of Mr. For:h's life, with the view of assisting
the jury in their award of damages. He did not think that
any malice had actuated the writer of the article or the
proprietors of the paper which gave it insertion. The matter was,
however, in their hands, to return what they conceived to be fitting
damages for the injury sustained by the publication of what was
certainly a libel.

The jury, after very e hor tip consulting, returned a verdict—
Damages, Is.

Sergeant TALFULIRD applied for a certificate to carry cost°, bul
:he application was refused by the Court.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)
OLD CoURT.

(Before Baron PARKE and Justice WILLIAMS.)
THE RUISLIP MURDER.—Charles Lamb was placed at the bar
at ten o'clock this morning, charged with the murder of a young
man named John Brill, in a wood at Ruislip, in the month of
February, 1837, He is a heavy sort of man, about 35 years of
age, and has the appearance of a labourer.

The indictment having been read, ho pleaded Not Guilty in a
faint voice.

Mr Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins for
:ha prisoner.

Charles Churchill was, in the year 1637, a farmer at Ruislip, and
had the deceased long in his service. He was sent on Thursday
the 16th February to a wood to prevent the underwood from being
stolen. The boy never returned, and at the end of three days his
body was found. Hie front teeth were knocked out.
James Lavender proved finding the body.

John Bray met the prisoner Lamb on the day of the
murder in a field, one mile from the wood ; and he accompanied
him to the Six Bells public,-house, where the body of dc-
ceased lay. He was coming from the direction of the wood.
Robert Norton, a surgeon, examined the body, The mark of
a severe blow was behind the left ear, and on removing the scalp
there was observed a severe contusion. There was effusion of
blood upon the brain, and his opinion was, that the injuries were
inflicted by a flat instrument, struck twice with great violence.
George Sibley deposed to a certain confession made by the pri-
soner to the witness of the murder of the boy, and he described
the place where the murder was committed (the whole of which
has been given at length in the former notices of this case).
Mr. WILKINs then addressed the jury for the prisoner, in a
lengthened speech, and contended that no credit could attach to the
evidence of the man Sibley.

Mr. Baron PARKE summed up. He said the duty of the jury
was a most serious one. The evidence in the case was of the most
circumstantial character, for the question of the prisoners guilt
almost entirely depended upon the credence they gave to the
witness Sibley, and the confession alleged to have been made by the
prisoner about four month ago ; independent of that, there was
no evidence sufficient to cast anything beyond suspicion upon the
prisoner. If they believed the evidence of that confession, it would
be their duty to find the prisoner guilty of the crime of murder;
but if
,they did not attach credence to it, then they would acquit
the prisoner. The Learned Judge then commented upon the evi-
dence, and concluded by leaving the case to the consideration of
thej ury.

The jury then retired, and returned in half an hour with a ver.
diet of Acquittal.

NEW COr7RT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
At the sitting of the Court this morning, the following prisoners
pleaded Guilty of the offences charged against them, and received
the sentences affixed to their namt s ;—Georgc Smith, 9 months;
Frederick Shepherd, 3 months ; John Williams, 1 year ; George
Brown, 4 months; Charles Chapman, 3 months ; Robert Parker,
3 months; Ellen Conway (who had been twice convicted). 7 years
transportation ; John Thomas, 3 months; Thomas Simpson, 2
months; Richard Townsend, 6 months.
IVill iron ClPrd, a respectably.dressed young man, was con-
victed of stealing a box, containing 9a,
It appeared that he had been tried in that C iurt, under another
rare, -ix rears ago, v-hich he ..-.onritted, and that he had beer:
lately summarily convicted.

The ComISION SERGEANT told him that he had been too lenient on
the last occason, and ought to have transported him. The sentence
of the Court was that he be transported for ten years.
On turning to leave the dock, he laid hold of the inkstand placed
there for the use of the prisoners, no doubt with the intention of
hurling it at the police, who Lad sworn to his having been pre-
viously convicted, but as it was fixed he could not carry his inten.
tion into execution, and he left the dock exclaiming against them.
It is expected that the sittings in this Court will terminate
to-day.

LLOYD'S "s I t-; PING. —.( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB S.—Wind at noon, Nor' herly, fresh breeze, and tine.
RANISGATE, FEB. 7.—Acrd. Broadwood, London, for Middleborough,
with damage, having been in contact. The steam-tug Sampson, be-
longing to this port, is ashore on the bank in Sandwich River. The
Risk, Kidd, of and from Sunderland, struck on the Galbard Sand this
morning, got off, and sank a mile from the Galloper; crew saved ; she
was bound to Portsmouth.

Dzar., FEB. 7.—Wind N.IV. by W. ; r. M. E.N.E.—Arrd. Tunan-
drift, Skinner, Calcutta ; Earl of Leicester, Bullard, Rio Grande ;
Hortensia, Storey, Cape of Good Hope, loss of bulwarks, &c. Sld.
Bussorah Merchant, Sydney, New South Wales ; Seringapatain,
Ceylon ; Sophia, Rio Janeiro.
CowEs, FEB. 6.—Sld. Sumatra, Sumatra.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 6.—Sid. Llangothland, Valparaiso.
LANCASTER, FEB. 6.—Arrd. Aurora, St. John's, New Brunswick.
DOVER, FEB. 7.—Arrd. Mary Hounsell, Ichaboe, for Dundee; crew
mutinous. Off, Wm. Forster, Killick, Nassau ; Hastelling, Potjel,
Charleston for Rouen.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. Wm. Shand, London
for China ; Courier, London, for the Cape of Good Hope ; stern stove,
&c., having been in contact off Ileachy Head last night with a ship
unknown; Medway steamer, Southampton. Sld. Caroline for Mau-
ritius and Ceylon. . .

CLYDE, FEB. G.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Christina, Pitcairn, Demerara ;
Franklin, New Orleans ; Mary Ann and Rolla, Antigua, &c.
DUBLIN, FEB. s.—Arrd. racket, (;111, Trinidad. Sid. Princess,
Savannah.

KINGSTOWN, FEB. 6.—Acrd. Culzian Castle, Ichahoe.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 7.—Wind N. to S.E.—Sld. Duke of Wellington,
Calcutta; Bolivar, Bombay; Urgent, Rio; Elizabeth and Venus,
Bahia ; Derby and Perie, Africa ; Melvina, Trinidad ; Brandon, Ja-
maica ; Enterprise and Wannau, La Guayra ; Araininta and Mary-
land, New Orleans ; Nicholas, Biddle, Mobile; Cumberland, Apala-
chiola ; Leonard Dobbin, Thomas Bennett, John Barry, and Sheffield,
Charleston ; Medemseh, Philadelphia ; Liverpool, New York. Some
sails, three compasses, three muskets, three pistols, and a few blocks
have been landed here from the Thomas Laurie, from Ichaboe, aban-
doned at sea, by the Candidate, arrived here.

" THE SUN " NEWSPAPER. —We were again
favoured last night with an early copy of the third edition of The
Sun, containing the whole of the proceedings in Parliament last
night, together with the last report of the Board of Trade on the
recently proposed railway schemes. This report will be found in
another column.—Railway Timcs.

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH —Northern Whig Office,
Thursday Morning, Twenty minutes past Five.—We have just re-
ceived, through the Messrs. Johnston, Dublin, The Sun of Tuesday,
containing the Queen's Speech, which we annex. We received it,
in Lisburn, at ten minutes past five, and brought it thence to Bel-
fast, by a special train, in a little under ten minutes.
EPRESF,NT ATION ('F SoUTIIW A RK.--llre believe
we are correct in stating that, on Tuesday last, Sir William Moles-
worth, Bart., received a requisition from Southwark, to succeed
Mr. Benjamin Wood as representative of that borough, and that
the talented Baronet has accepted the flattering offer. —West
Briton.

MILITARY MOVEMENTS.— On Thursday morning
the 74th four company depot, under the command cf Major Fordice,
left Chatham Barracks for Sittingbournc, on route to Canterbury.
We understand their place is to be supplied by the four company
depot of the 40th Regiment, now in Ireland, and who are daily ex-
peeled to arrive here to do grarleOg fluty,

310NEY AND CoMMERCIAL S
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday remained quite
firm, and a good business was done. Sales, 6,500 bales, of
which 2,000 were on speculation.—Shares were not quite so
brisk. Bristol and Gloucester, 5514 2 ; Caledonian, 714 614 ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 401/, Ditto and Holy-
head, 74 ; Churnet 874.; Eastern Counties,
17 ; Glasgow and Greenock, 13% 3/4 ; Great Western,
Fifths, 401,4 ; Lancaster and Carlisle 291/2 14 Lon-
don and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 431,4; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 2914 % ' • Ditto and Brighton, 5614 ; Ditto and York,
7% 6%; Direct Northern, 21,4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 44 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 61 ; Midland Counties, 12914 ;
Newcastle and Berwick. 17 1614 ; North British, 13% ;
North Wales, 1114 ; Preston and Wyre, 213 a ; Scottish Cen-
tral, 41.. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 1041/4 ; Srewsbury and
Birmingham, 6!/4; South-Eastern, No 1, 26 ; Ditto, No. 2,
21 : Trent Valley, 13N ; Ulster, 4314 54 ; Paris and Rouen,
42% ; Ditto and Strasburg, 3 ; Northern of France, 5% ;
Central Ditto, 11.
The Bank of England averages give an increase of
104,175/. in the amount of notes issued, of 89,248/. in the rest,
and of 78,758/ in the amount of bullion. The calculations
are for the week ending the Ist inst. The greater scarcity of
money does not arise, therefore, from any action of the Bank.
The West India mail is still due, though it was yesterday
reported on 'Change that it had arrived.
The resolutions on railway Bills, agreed to last night by
Parliament, are considered saisfactOry, and will be in favour
of legitimate undertakings. The Caledonian line, by the
accounts from Scotland, appears to receive unanimous sup-
port. Irish lines are also in good repute, and another im-
portant, though short, one is on the Lapis—viz., from Armagh
to Coleraine and Portrush.
The Funds are quiet, but, as regards Consols, were not
quite so good as yesterday, upon a sale being made at 991/2,
though now they are up again to 99%. Bank Stock has re-
ceded to 21314 and 213. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 1033/ ; and the Three per Cents., 100 to 14.
Exchequer-bills have been 56a. to 58s. prem.
There is scarcely anything passing in the Foreign market.
Spanish Five per Cents. are 27%; and the Three per Cents.,
407, being flat; Mexican are firm at 361,E to %; Chilian at
101 ; Brazil New Bonds have been 87 to 88. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. were 62% to 631%.
Shares in general are lower to-day, even South 'Wales and
the Shrewsbury and Birmingham having receded. It is
probable, however, that the reaction is only temporary.
South-Eastern are steady. Trent Valley hare improved ;
Birmingham and Gloucester are firm ; and also Brighton and
North British. Caledonian are fluctuating. Eastern Counties
are steadier. There are one or two other exceptions also to
apparent downward tendency.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2131/47213
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities......... 100181/ loom
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 99%134
New 314 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12%
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%el. 11/2d.
1,000/.
500/.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 87 88 8714
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 44
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lOl
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Deferred Stock l64'
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 11931)
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 27 4
Ditto 3 per Cent...
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates gii)o/2%
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER. SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 132 1311/2 to 13012
Ditto. Half Shares 3
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge arid Lincoln
Chaster and Holyhead. 5

Churnet Valley 2
28514 ......... .... ttotto: —78814 4
..
Cornwall ... 3
I'irect Northern •21,4
Eastern Counties
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3•,% — ...... to
,/
Ditto, ditto, No. 9 `l; 0%...... to
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50........ 65 ...... to
Great South and W. (Irish)
Ditto Additional
Great North of England 100 l7O 171... to
Great Western
Ditto 1/2 Shares 5O lO2 ...... to
Ditto Fifths
5 . ... to
1
~.1 ... to
nth:2%rd, Farnham, Portms. 214
Lancaster and Carlisle...
London and Birmingham ...100
Ditto eew Thirds
... . to
Ditto Quarter Shares ...... 2.
London and Blackwall l6•;'.
London and Brisiiton...
Ditto Loan ::\ otes lO -
London and South Western.. 41%...... 79_12 to
London and York... ..... 214.- 63/43,414 to 6
Manches,,r and Leeds 73 .....141
Ditto Half Shares
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Midland 100 1261,2 to 1281,4
Ditto New
Newcastle and Berwick
3 ...... to
NNoerwtrhyßariiitdisEhnniskillen ...... 212
714 l4l/, to
Northern and Eastern
Norwich and Brandon 8 ..• . 141/2 to
Ditto New Shares 1 ...... 4 .. ... to
Richmond and West End June 1 ...... 31,4 to
Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1 ...... 4144 N to
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2i2„.. 7
South Devon lO ...... 161/, ... to
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto New, No. 1 8 ...... 25
Staines and Richmond........ 1
...... 1414 to
South Wales
Stevenson's Portsmouth
...... to _
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny , 1 ... 3% 4 2,i to 31/t
York and North Midland
Ditto Selby
...... to
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Great Northern of France
to —;"'•• 1
Orleans and Vierzon
•• 2 4 ...... 5%%... to
.T
to
Orleans and Bordeaux ... 2 ...... 7
Paris and Lyons
...... 312 to
Paris and Orleans 2O 44 4 to
Paris and Rouen ... - ......
..... 20 ......4314 42% to 43
Tours and Nantes .. 1
...... 2
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 7.—The market
continues active, and prices are well maintained. Birming-
ham and Gloucester, New Shares, 5 41/2 ; Lancaster and
Preston, 53 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 611/2 ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 103 , :5712id7laln;dB, 401. Shares, South-
Eastern,anci 50; Ditto, New, 26; Ditto, Scrip, 9 premium; York
,s.Manchester,9 lli
i ;
CanhdeslSlierleb3Jusnocl.tiSonh,arg; 7; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring-
ton, 6%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3 9-16 11-16;
1,4 ; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, and Dumfries,
cBlOlo. 1
ri18t,50.n4,943dN. V4ti go; aicni
~h7uasrn.nd; e
tH uv Liverpool,dadlleer3s,lie9l
d 7;
Gl
and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 4% 5 ; lluddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 4%;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 512 ~, ' • London and York,
714 6% ; Manchester and Buxton' 3 9-16 %; Scottish
Central, 41,4 s 3 • Sheffield and Lincalnshire Junction,
if. 13s. 9d. to 1/ 12s. 6d. ; Southport and Euiton, 33A t
Trent Valley, 131/2 ; Boulogne and Amiens (English), 5% Xt
Great Northern of France (English), 6.

DUNCHURClL—lNcimpreuism.—On the evening
of Wednesday, the 22d ult., a most atrocious attempt
was made to burn the corn and other ricks of Mr. W.
Blick, of the Dun Cow Inn, and of Mr. J. Bil-
lingham, of Tuft, in the same parish. In Mr.
Buck's rick-yard were standing four large stacks of
wheat and other grain, in one straight line, also
ricks of hay, &c. About a quarter before nine o'clock
at night, it was discovered that one of the middle ricks
of wheat was on fire ; an alarm was immediately
given, and it being so early in the night, a
large num-
ber of the inhabitants speedily assembled. and by their
united and vigorous exertions, the flames, which had
done but little damage, were in a short time subdued,
and the danger of further raischief removed. But
whilst all were uniting their energies to stop the progress
of the fire, an alarm reached them that a wheat-stack of
Mr. Billingham, of Toft, was on fire. Very providentially,
but liitlo loss was sustained in either case. On the Friday
following, it was discovered that an attempt had been
wide to burn a wheat-rick of Mr. W. Lawrence, of
Thurlaston, in the same parish. A small hole was burnt
in the rick, but (as it is supposed) before the flame was
sufficiently strong to extend without fuel, the lucifer
matches, which had been thrust into the rick, fell out, as
several were found upon the ground underneath the
burnt hole in the rick. Rewards are offered in each case
for the discovery of the author of these diabolical acts.—
Warwick Advertiser.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT DONNYBROOK.-- On
Monday morning the house of Captain Orson, late of
the East India Company, residing atllonnybrook, was
discovered to be on fire, and notwithstanding every
effort to extinguish them, the flames enveloped the en-
tiro house, which was soon reduced to ashes. At four
o'clock in the day some workmen discovered the muti-
lated remains of four human bodies, supposed to be
those of Captain Orson, his wife and two children.
Captain Orson was reported to have been in great
pecuniary embarrassment, and he is rumourod to
have said, a few days ago, that he had rather
set fire to his house, and die in the ruins than
permit his furniture to be seized for debt. Another
singular circumstance is, that he gave his servant leave
to go out on Sunday evening, but charged her not to re•
turn till Monday morning, when she should receive her
wages; and it is also worthy of remark, that the bolts
of all the door-locks appear to have been shot. A walk-
ing-stick, with a silver top, and two silk umbrellas, which
have been fully identified as Captain Orson's property,
were found by the constable in front of the outer gate.
Captain Orson was a tall, powerful man, nearly six feet
in stature, and is said to have been remarkable for his
excitable temper. He was seldom seen out, owing, it is
said, to his pecuniary embarrassments. The deceased
was an Englishman.—Pilot.
PILOTS.—In consequence of a correspondence
between the Earl of Morley, Chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce of this port, and the authorities at the
Trinity House, two of the Elder Brethren, Captain
Wheeler and Captain Bar, visited Plymouth last week,
for the purpose of examining the pilots. They were as-
sisted by the local Sub-Commissioners, Mr. W. Walker,
Queen's Harbourmaster, Mr. W. Cuming, Lloyd's Sur-
veyor, and Mr. George Jones, Collector of her Majesty's
Customs. The Elder Brethren expressed themselves
satisfied with the general appearance and qualification of
the pilots, two or three of whom are to be superannuated,
through age and deficiency of vision. The pilots have
sent in an application for an increase of pilotage from the
Channel to the harbour of Plymouth Sound, and for a
modification of the rates when bringing 'vessels in the
second time.--,P4munth Journal.