The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-13 00:00:00

PRESEN T TO HER MAJEST Y
AND PRINCE ALBERT.-BEAUTIFUL SPE-
CIMEN OF BIRMING lIAM MANUFACTURE.

We were this morning politely invitel by Mn Thomas

Lane, of Great Hampton-street, Birmingham, to call at
Radley's Hotel, fur the purpose of examining some speci-
mens of his new manufacture of pearl enamelled on glass,
which he is about to present, by permission, to her Majesty
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
The present to her Majesty consists of a pair of elegant
screens, on which .are beautifully painted, on a ground of
pure white, the rose, the shamrock, and the "thistle.
A pearl dove is descending with the olive-branch,
over which is the imperial crown. Beneath the emblems
of the United Kingdom appear St. George and the Dragon,
surrounded by illuminated foliage. The present to Prince
Albert consists of a magnificent chess-board of glass, ena-
melled with pearl. The squares of this chess-board -are
formed of quatrefoils] blazoned in the centre, and on
the, principal lines with the lien and unicorn heads,
in pearl and gold alternately, the remaining squares
having the lion and unicorn rampant alternately in pearl
and gold. In the spaces formed by the quatrefoils appear
the rose, the shamrock, and the thistle, enamelled in mother-
of-pearl upon an azure ground. On the extreme boundaries
of the square appears the Queen, enamelled in pearl, on a
scarlet ground ; and the border consists of a series of dol-
phins, in mother•of-pearl, enamelled on a sea-green ground.
The table is set in a most elaborately decorhted frame of
papier mache ; and here the immense superiority of the new
invention is at once apparent. The papier mache
frame is perhaps one of the most superbly decorated speci-
mens of the species of manufacture ever exhibited, but it
looks positively dull in comparison with the brilliant effect
produced by the patent enamelled pearl on glass. We con-
sider this invention of Mr. Lane's as one of the most import-
ant improvements in decorative art that has ever been pre-
sented to the public. It is superior in many respects to en-
caustic painting and fresco, inasmuch as it is more. brilliant
and more durable, for the colours are absolutely unfading,
and the glass basis is so strengthened by the process of
inlaying with pearl, which acts as a cement to the glass, that
should the glass by some accident get cracked the inlaying
holds it together. We understand that a beautiful moon-
light scene by Muller has bean copied in the pearl and glass
enamel, the effect of which is most brilliant. Windows of
painted glass might be copied in the pearl and glass enamel
with the most magnificent effect; and as a decoration for
interiors we think that it only requires to be known to be
most extensively employed.

gPIRIt of the

FRO3I THE ISIORNI*I74 OF THIS DAY.
riSceht decision, or, rather, indecision of the

Cabinet, is as inexplicable as it is unfortunate. No one pre-
tends to say that things can remain as they are. Sooner or

later a suspension of the duties on imported grain must take
place. For this every man; who has attended to the state of

.reland and Scotland is prepared ; and so evident is this, that

most people are astonished at the procrastination which
Ministers have interposed between popular expectation and
an inevitable necessity. The reasons advanced to defend
their inactivity neither explain nor justify it. It remains in-
explicable and inexcusable. Surely within the last fortnight
no means of inquiry into the state of the harvest have been
witheld from them. They know by this time that there is a
deficiency of good corn in England, dearth of potatoes in
Ireland, a scarcity impending over Scotland. No further in-
quiry can add to their present information. No further delay
can change the aspect of affairs, or diminish the final necessity
for exertion. And yet they stand with their hands folded,
inert and expectant, bidding men take heart, because as yet
there is no famine in the land! The consequences of such a
policy are as dangerous as its selection is unaccountably
foolhardy. Whatever is likely to be the extent of the priva-
tion which a scarcity of food may impose upon indivi-
duals during the ensuing year, whatever its duration may be,
whether for one month or two months, or more, it is the

duty of a Minister to seek every method for abbreviating its
length and mitigating its rigours. The Minister who, fore
knowing the approach of such a calamity, forbears to pro-
vide against it, or masks his indecision under the guise of
deliberation, is virtually adding to the intensity of the evil
which is about to burst upon the country. If there were a
probability of our being always able to purchase food from
abroad at the same rate as we have lately procured it, a delay
of a few weeks would be of little consequence; it would not

signify whether we laid in our stock in November or in
January, provided the quantity imported kept pace with our
own deficiency at home. But there exists no such probabi-
lity in the present case. Already some of the continental
Governments are taking precautions which evince a dread of
the same scarcity that threatens ourselves; and it was only
the other day that we quoted the sentiments of no inconsi-
derable portion among our French neighbours—sentiments
which, if followed up in practice, would effectually preclude
any relief being extended to us by the only country in
Europe now capable of affording it with ease. If such be
the case now, what will it be in a few weeks, not to say
months, hence? What may be our facilities for buying
after the next Cabinet Council? The paternal Governments

of the Northern States are no less anxious than the constitu-

tional Ministries of France and Belgium to secure to their

subjects a cheap supply of food. No.; is it unlikely that all
the European Governments, absolute and constitutional, will
unite to prevent what they will call the ill-timed and unna-
tural rapacity of British gold and British hunger from raising
their markets and starving their people. It is all very well
to say that where there is a demand there will also be a
supply; that if money is offered in exchange for corn, corn
will be given for money; that the same laws govern the
market of food and every other market; and that it is only
fair that he who bids the most should buy the most. But
foreign Governments are on great emergencies very well
disposed to contravene the ordinary laws of commercial in-
tercourse, and by no means indisposed to check the influence
of British gold. The foreign dealer may be anxious to sup-
ply our demands ; but if his negotiations are thwarted
by his Government, he will find it no easy matter to
profit by our offers, and he will also find the arm of the Ex-
ecutive supported by the popular voice. It is easy, at all
times and in all countries, to raise a clamour against the
dealers in the staple article of food. It is only within a few
years that our statute-kook has been purged of certain pro-
visions conceived in a spirit of the most narrow-minded, but
once the most widely-extended, jealousy against this class of
men; but this feeling still exists, and is capable of being
fanned into a flame amongst an ignorant populace, and in
seasons of unusual dearth. How great a facility would be
given to such attempts when directed against the relief of
English wants, or the operations of English ',money, will
easily suggest itself to all who are aware of the envy with
which the greatness of this country is regarded abroad, and
of the cordial wishes often expressed for its humiliation. Nor
could a more desirable opportunity ever present itself to the
malignity of professed foes or jealous friends than that of
England seeking for her people in the granaries of Europe the
food which she had for so many years obstinately rejected,
and being herself in turn sent away empty. But to such a
strait we may be driven by the tardiness of a Minister who
is too wary not to know. that something must be done, but

too timid to set about doing it at once.
CHRONICLE.—We have not entered into the personal
controversies which have been raging for some weeks between
the Times and what it calls the Stag Journals. But we must
say of both it and its competitors, that we have perused what
has been written without: observing the slightest suggestion
of any practical amendment in the•law, or in the Parlia.
mentary method of dealing with the railway question. From
the Government it is vain to look for anything appropriate
or seasonable. The Peel system here, as elsewhere, is to be
" too late." The Board of Trade was a failure, not so much

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a 3 it is believed, Lord Palmerston's incendiary
articles. All honour, and, from mankind universally,
all gratitude, are due to M. Guizot, his colleagues, and
their great and good master. We would not rob their glo-
rious wreath of a single flower to decorate the brows of our
native benefactors. The French King, M. Guizot, and his
colleagues, have had tremendous difficulties against which to
contend, and they have nobly conquered ; but it cannot de-
tract from their merit to say that our own Ministers have
had their difficulties too in supporting the French guardians
of peace; and that, as regards this object, Sir Robert Peel
and Lord Aberdeen have not been reposing upon roses;
We should fill our paper were we to attempt recapitulating:
all the influences employed at this side of the water to mile
der the continuance of peace with France impossible. Out
readers cannot have forgotten Lord Palmerston's inflammatory
speeches in Parliament, or the daily invectives poured
upon Lord Aberdeen, for not counteracting France, in Ota-t
heite, in Morocco, in Spain, in Italy, in the Levant,—still less
can they forget the vile libels upon the courage of Frenchmen
and the modesty of Frenchwomen conveyed in the odious
Tangiers and Otaheite letters in the Times. Had our Govern*
ment yielded in even the slightest degree to any one of the
suggestions of Lord Palmerston or the Morning Chronicle,
or had it adopted, however distantly, the tone of the Times,'
a war had been inevitable. By seconding the French King
and the French Ministry, Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aber-
deen have obtained four years' peace, and destroyed the anti-
English feeling in France; and if this were their only minis-
terial achievement, it is an achievement sufficient to reflect
honour upon a long public life.
POST.—A Ministerial Contemporary " believes" he " may
state with certainty that Sir Robert Peel has bestowed the
deanery of Westminster upon Dr. Buckland, the well-known
Professor of Geology." Nothing more likely. It is just such
an appointment as we should have anticipated at the hands
of Sir Robert Peel. His conduct in such matters revives in
our mind the recollection of' a vaudeville, that ran its race
on the stage of the Theatre de Varietes at Paris, a few years
back, in which one character was, by the author, called on
to exclaim, "he will die," another, " he will not die," but
the third, preserving the peace between them, whilst sati-
rising the then existing Administration, asserted "he will do
neither one nor the other, but keep the juste milieu." We
fancy Sir Robert Peel finds the Church as much a difficulty
as he does even Ireland itself. There is the High Church
party, and there is the Low Church party, and unwilling to
compromise himself with either, Sir R. Peel resorts—as is proper
to an expediency Minister—to an expedient. He pursues
the juste milieu, and bestows his patronage upon one, inno •
cent, as far as the world knows, of adhesion to any distinct
Church principles at all. In his gift is the Deanery of
Westminster. It has to be filled up; and, terrified at the
prospect of offending anybody, he leaves alone theologians,
and smiles approval upon a " well-known professor of geo-
logy." It is recorded in Elizabethan history, that a graceful
dancer once danced himself up to the Woolsack. Sir Chris-
topher Hatton, in short, reached the Seals, per saltum. We
take it that, in our times, so long as the Cabinet holds to-
gether, the best speculation will be the speculation geolo •
meal. One successful in this line will find in a canon's stall
his Primary; in a deanery—say Westminster—his Secon-
dary ; whilst his Tertiary can be no other than a bishop's
mitre, peerage, palace, and patronage. Piron in such a race
would clearly have no chance— -
" Pauvre Piron, gut ne fut rien
Pas, meme:Aeadomicien."
The dignity of an F.R.S. will be as available for the Episco-
pal bench as it seems to be for the direction of a railway.
Some three hundred years ago greedy courtiers were hirefl
by a profligate King, and their wages paid out of the plunder
of the Church. But staid Ministers are wiser than wicked
kings; they manage things better by far. They want to
reward good men of science, and they reward them in a de
cent fashion, although still at the expense of the Church,
There is a difference, and Arm a distinction, but sufficient of
an analogy, to suggest grave reflections ; for example, such a
one as this—What has the Church to do with geology, or
any other science, that she should pay for it? Assume the
principle to be a good one, and then let it be fairly worked
out. Here we are suffering from the apprehension of a
famine, and all through a disease that has taken hold of
our potatoes. Now, why should not Sir Robert Peel
at once advertise in the public prints that he is willing
to confer the mitre that shall next become vacant upoiA
the cunning man who shall detect the cause, the preventative',
and the. remedy of this awful evil? The Fine Arts Com:t
missioners advertise for genius—why, at the same rate;
should not usefulness be advertised for by the Minister? An
Emperor once offered a reward for the discovery of a new
pleasure. Let Sir Robert say at once that a Deanery awaits
the acceptance of the inventor of a new manure. Often haiS
it been asserted, that he who makes two:blades of grass grow
where only one grew before is a true benefactor to his spe-
cies. Caesar, we have been told, did to Italy more good,
when he introduced to her soil the chestnut-tree from Sardis,
than ever he did by his victories; and shall Canterbury or
York be denied to the wisdom that may enable us to treble
our harvests, and make our barren hill-tops blossom like the
rose ? Some years ago the Whigs proposed to educate the Irish
people' and, to do so at the least possible cost, they were anxi-
ous to take for the purpose the property of the Irish Church:
Now, it was a merry notion this—aye, and a clever notion-f
taking money out of Paul's pocket to buy a primer for Peter:
The Whigs called it " appropriation,' but Sir Robert—
harsh Sir Robert—called it " robbery," and protested be
would not do the same thing. Nor has he—consistent Sik
Robert. He has only paid for geological investigations out
of the revenues of Westminster Abbey. If " Dr. Buckland„
the well-known professor of geology," is to be the new Dean
of Westminster, he being unknown to theological student,
except as the author of a work to which theologians have
raised certain objections, and with more or :less reason, we
are puzzled somewhat in respect to another appointment that
has been made in our sister island—made, we add, by the
same sagacious Minister. Dr. Kirwan has been appointed
head of the new Galway College, " in consideration," so rune
the official letter to him, "of your connexion with the
county of Galway as a minister of the Roman Catholic reli-
Cion in one of its most important parishes." The Roman
atholicism of Dr. Kirwan elevates him to the presidency of
an institution professedly scientific—for religion is divorced
from its consideration. Dr. Buckland owes his eminence, if
to anything except the Premier's personal regard, simply to
his distinction as a man of science.

FURTHER EXTENSIVE SEIZURE
OF ILLICIT SPIRITS OF NITRE.
No circumstance has for ,some time past created greater
interest in the trading and mercantile circles than the recent
seizures by a most indefatigable officer of the Customs of att
immense stock of contraband spirits of nitre, the pro-
duce of the illicit distillery in the Globe-road, Stepney, some
particulars of which appeared in the Morning Herald of Mon-
day last.
Since that time the same officer has been actively engaged
in pursuing his search, with a view still further to carry out
the important information he received at the time of his
capture of the distillery, and, if possible, to recover the
whole of the immense stock of spirits that had been removed.
As was alluded to in a former notice of these organised and
illegal transactions, the goods were deposited at a carrier's
wharf in the City-road, and from thence delivered to their
destination. From orders given at this place, it was ascer-
tained that a large stock of the same description of spirits
had lately been sent by the canal boats to Birmingham, the
order for their dispatah being given by Bailey himself.
The officers lost no time in communicating this fact
to the officers of Excise in Birmingham, with the
most ample information as to 'the peculiar marks by
which the illegal article might be immediately identi-
fied. The Birmingham officers, acting on the information
they had received, proceeded to the premises of Phillip
Harris, a chemist, and it appeared so accurate was the in-
struction of their informant that they found no difficulty
whatever in at once discovering, the object of their search,
and pronounced the stock of spirits as being part and parcel
of the goods manufactured at the illicit distillery in the
Globe-road, and, its above stated, sent down by the carriers
to Birmingham. The quantity seized on this occasion
amounts to between 1,500 and 1,600 lbs., the duty upon
which, if legally charged, would be 2s. 2d. per lb. It was
understood that the purchase had been n‘ade at a much lower
sum than it could possibly. have been nianufactured for had
the transactions keen legal and regttlat
The Birmingham officers of Excise took hosseesion of the
spirits, and transmitted information to the chief officers of the
Board of Exclee in London, of the seizure. It will be for her
Majest,oB Conitillasidtiers to determine whether it shall be
brought to London ' • but it is generally believed that it will
be condemned, and disposed of in Birmingham.
Several of the respectable chemists in town and country
have lately refused to purchase the article, as from the price
it was offered at, they were perfectly satisfied that it could
not have been legally manufactured at any such sum, or ob-
tained by fair and honourable Means.
In consequence of the refusal of several owners of wharfs on
the banks of the river to give information to the officers as
to the reception of the illegal articles, and almost a resistance
to allow a search of their premises, proceedings have already
been taken against them for penalties to the amount of the
bonds given by them.
To show the extent of the traffic that has heed carried on,
it will only be necessary to state that the illicit trade has
been carried on for a period of ten months, and theaverage
produce of spirits from tile distillery amounted to 400 gallons
per week, and each gallon was liable to a duty of 7s. 10d.
No less than 300 tons of coals, it has been ascertained, were
consumed in their trade in the space of three months. It
appears that considerable expense has been incurred by the
officer, and no pains spared in tracing this article during a
period of fbur months, which great public service, there is
little doubt, will be amply rewarded.—Herald.

To THE .EDITOIU OF THE SUN.
Strt,--=A. report, entitled " Seizure of 2,000/. worth of illicit
spirits of iiitre," having appeared in your widely-circulated
journal of the 11th inst., has been brought under our notice
by our clients, Messrs. C. Foot and Co., who have for the
last twenty years carried on business as acetous acid and
chemical Manufacturers at Battersea, and as such report (if
allowed to go abroad uncontradieted and unexplained) is
calculated seriously to prejudice them in their business, we
haVe to request that you will, without delay, insert this
letter:
The report; after stating the seizure upon the premises of
MeSSie. Fftot and Co. of 19 carboys of spirits of nitre (in
which we, beg to observe that the officer, Davis, on his
making the seizure; was afforded every facility even to the
• use of carts and horses, for the removal of the goods in
question), proceeds as follows !....,
a In additittn to the seizure made by Mr. Davis on the
PreiniSes df F(iotti and co./ the Board of Excise have given
further directions to seize the whale stock of spirits on their
iire`miseS; as, frem documents in the officer's possession, thbSe
pititiesj it apteared; have been the principal dealers, although
ciey only professed to caffY 911 %he businessof vinegar mer-
tnti:" ~ .. ,
MesSi4i t; Fdot and Co i ,ag the successors of the fate fib
Bollmann, have for above ttft,ltt:). Mrs carried on business
as acetons acid and general chemical maiiiitutturem which
NtiB well kW:l*h to the o cers of Excise, they having been,
s.' 'Sall disilittaEititrgt si ect to their survey, and, therefore,
it if untrue that Messrs.°et and Cot only profess to carry
en the buiinese or viegit perch/mu,
With,reteienEe to Lie e.atglidtit " that, the hoard of Ex-
eise had giver' directittStli seize the whtfle steth of spirits on
the Preliiliei tlf MesiirS. FOot arid, Cd.;" We beg to state that
Flo bther seizure has been made thin the eirbois above-men-
tioned, and that Messrs. C. Foot and Co. have ile-fer dealt in
tiny spirits Abject to any excise laws.
In bostchoiltin i Abe be pi state that the carboys ITtle re-
ceived from MessfA. BityleY anted. in the regular and open
ikil,' Of btisiness, the facts relating to vrhieh *ere, ittiniediately
etei the.seighre; itnti vilWvit slinaises laid before flid CORI-
Hilssißneis 81 E* tz2e;;;.-Wii teffiaiii; sit, ye'ur ohedient servants,
fitTLL and UIWFiIiWOOD.
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THE SUN, LONDON TII,URSD_AY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1845.

MURDER Al i) MUTINY ON THE

HIGH SEAS.
Franklin Tucker, Julian Cordoviallo (an Italian), William
Burton, David Johnson, William Beresford, William Dunn,
Thomas Gair, John Allison, Thomas Lee, Andrew Nelson,
Barry Yelverton (said to be grandson to the celebrated Lord
Avonmore), Stephen Cone, Richard French, Peter Curtis,
James Blaedon (a German), and Robert Thompson, 16 of the
crew of the Tory, belonging to Mr. Duncan Gibb, of Liver-
pool, were brought to the Thames Police-office, and placed,
oome in the dock and others in front of it, charged with
murder and piracy on board the above-named ship, on the
high seas, within the jurisdictien of the Admiralty of
England.
The case, from the various rumours which tot afloat, ex-
cited a feeling of intense curiosity. The Court was crowded
at an early hour, and the terrible details etlflttained in the
various statements were listened to with detmterest.
Mr. Clarkson with Mr. Hawley, clerk to' Messrs. Crowder
and Maynard, conducted the prosecution.
From the length of the inquiry, which 'lasted from one
until half-past five o'clock, we are necessarily compelled to
condense the details, but shall endeavour to preserve the
substance.
The prisoner Gair, the right side of whose face appeared
to be dreadfully injured, and who had his head bound up, was
accommodated with a chair; and several others of the pri-
soners, who looked miserable, were more or less wounded in
various parts of their bodies.
Mr. Clarkson said that, besides the heavy charge of con-
spiring to seize the ship and kill the captain, he feared it
would be his painful duty to charge some of the prisoners
with the murder of a man named Mars ; but he would for the
present confine himself to the charge of piracy.
George Johnstone, the master of the Tory, who gave his
evidence in a very confused manner, which Mr. Clarksson
attributed to the state of excitement in which he had been
kept by the matineers during the voyage, stated that during
the months of October and September the Tory, a free-
trader, of 608 tons burden, was on her way from Hong-
Kong to England; There was no difficulty until the vessel
was off Ascension Island, when the crew entered into a con-
spiracy, in which they were joined by William Rambert and
William Mars, the first and second mates. The plot was dis-
covered, and Rambert, apprehending the consequences,
jumped overboard on the 24th of September, which circum-
stance was recorded by one of the apprentices in the log.
Subsequently the lad Yelverton told witness that the men
intended to take his life, and that they had sharpened their
knives for that purpose. He was also told by tho prisoner
French that the men intended to take his life, and that the
first mate and Mars had dragged the men out of their berths
in the forecastle to come and kill him. Before the mate
jumped overboard French and the carpenter found all the
men aft, armed with bolts and bars, in a mutinous state, and
rushing towards the cabin. All the men were there except
Lee, Reason (who is since dead), and Cone. These three
were in irons. They rushed forward :with bolts and bars,
and witness, with two men, namely, Johnson and Thompson,
who were armed with guns and bayonets, were in the com-
panion. He asked the men what they came to kill him for,
and challenged them to say he ever treated them with un-
kindness. When the first mate jumped overboard he sung
out three times, and witness put the helm down to save him,
but the crew said it was of no use. The vessel and cargo
were worth 80,0001. The men afterwards went to their duty
for 25 days, until they made the island of Fayal, when they
again exhibited a mutinous disposition. He went ashore,
where he saw the British consul; and on his return French
told him that Mars, who is since dead, and who had been acting
as chief officer, and had a private conference with the crew,
and that they refused to obey him (French), who was boat-
swain at the time. Witness lectured the men, and sent for Mars
to his cabin, who as soon as he entered seized him by the
throat, and tore a piece out of his hand, the mark of which
still remained. Witness seized a cutlass which was at hand,
and struck him with the hilt of it, subsequently ordering him
into irons. French then, in the presence of Mars, accused
that person of fomenting a mutiny, which Mars admitted.
After that, as well as could be collected from the very con-
fused statement of the captain, the crew appeared to have
been quiet until reaching the Channel, when they again broke
out into mutiny. At ten minutes past twelve o'clock, whilst
French had the watch, a boy named Slack gave witness the
' alarm. He ran on deck, and called to the carpenter for his
' cutlass, when he saw French and Dunn, the; cook, securing
Cone and Gain

Mr. Broderip—Have you reason to think that they intended
to take your life, and possess themselves of the ship? Wit-
ness—Yes, they all admitted that they intended to take it
to America. Mars was killed by the menen board, and
the witness was not present at his death." He had no
doubt he was strangled. It was said he wits strangled by
Cordoviallo, Burton, and Yelverton, after he *as put in irons.
Witness heard some of the men say they Murdered him.
Gair was wounded in the face when they were off Plymouth,
after a pilot had been taken on board. The diew then made
another attempt to possess themselves of the ship, and rushed
down to the cabin. French sung out " Mutiny ;" the light
was put out, and witness received a wound, he believed from
a bayonet, in the calf of the leg, and another, as if from a
knife, above the jugular. One of the boys, orFrench, fired a
pistol, which was only charged with powder, in the melee, and
that inflicted the injury on Gair.
Mr. Broderip—From all you say of French he seems to have
assisted you. Why then is he charged? Witness—l don't
understand. I thought so. He told the people in the cutter
when we came to Deal that he fired the pistol. Besides, he
pilfered some articles on board and told the people it was the
captain did it.
Mr. Broderip—Why, you say he was the first to call out
mutiny ? Witness—l think he and the cook were at the
foundation of it all. The men from the revenue cutter were
placed in guard over the crew, and other hands were procured
to navigate the vessel.
Mr. Clarkson said his object was merely to give an outline
of the case; as he was not as yet in a position to arrange the
evidence properly.
Mr. Broderip asked,
i whether the captain, after the state-
ment he had made, intended to charge all the men with
piracy ?—The Captain, in a confused manner, said he would
exempt Cordoviallo, who' he believed, had been forced to
join, under threats of death. Neither was there much evi-
dence as to Burton.
Cordoviallo was then removed from the dock as regarded
the charge of mutiny, but, as the captain's statement impli-
cated him in the death of Mars, Inspector Evans was directed
to look to him.
Mr. Clarkson again apologised for the confusion of the
captain, who confounded deaths and dates, saying that he
was still labouring from the effects of the high excitement
under which he had necessarily been labouring.
Alexander Sinclair, the carpenter, swore that, in his belief,
a mutiny had been attempted, and that it was the intention
of tke crew to possess themselves of the ship. There was an
attempt to take the vessel off Ascension Island, but he was
not aware of the one off Plymouth. The captain complained
of having been wounded. Witness could not charge all the
prisoners with mutiny. He could only speak of Peter Curtis,
who had a marlin-spike in his hand when off Ascension
Island. This witness was equally confused with the captain
in his manner of giving evidence.
Mr. Clarkson begged for a remand, and pleaded the short-
ness of time for the imperfect manner in which the case had
been brought before the Court.
Mr. Broderip admitted that there was no time to look
over the evidence, but sufficient had transpired to warrant
a remand. It was pretty clear the vessel had been in a state
of mutiny, and human life had been sacrificed. The cap-
tain had endured so much anxiety that he appeared, so to
speak, not as yet to have brought himself and his senses
together, and it was very hard to follow the thread of his
story ; but before remanding the men they should first be
heard.
The prisoners Burton, Dunn, Lee, Gair, Yelverton, and
Cone, made very long statements of a most appalling nature,
describing scenes of bloodshed and cruelty almost unpa-
ralleled.
Tucker merely denied the charge, and appealed to that
Power which knows the secrets of all hearts to vouch his in-
nocence.
Dunn said that the statements in the log were almost all
false, and every row that took place commenced with the
captain, who was in a constant state of intoxication, as two
female passengers could prove.
Lee said they had been on short allowance of water, until
they fell in with the French ship. After that the captain or-
dered all the larboard watch aft, after having been drinking
with the mate all day. They came from their berths without
waiting to put on their clothes, and found the captain with a
sword, and the two mates, Rambert and Mars, with bayonets.
The captain said, "You rascals, you have sharpened your
knives to take my life," and he began to cut with the sword
at him (Lee), Cone, and a man named Reason, who was after-
wards killed. He ordered the carpenters to put the three of
them in irons, and whilst they were fettered, he came every
two or three hours and cut away at them. This was on the
23d of September. On the 25th, whilst yet in irons, the cap-
tain got the shackles of the best bower anchors, and put them
round their neck. He then sent him (Lee) and Reason, still
in irons, to the main-top, and Cone to the mizen, where they
were lashed down. About 4 o'clock on the morning of the
26th the captain was cutting away at the chief mate, who
tan aft and jumped over the larboard quarter. They shook
the ship a little out in the wind, and then kept her in her
course.
Gair's statement was a most extraordinary one., He said
the captain sent for him when he was in irons in the lower
forecastle, and ordered him on his knees, saying he would
have his life. The captain then cut at him about the head
and body, Inflicting various wounds with tie cutlass, and then
ordered French to load the pistol and fire on him, threatening
if it was not done as quickly as possible he would take
French's life. To save his own life French firedin his (Gair's)
face several times as..!
th the pistol. After cutting at him some
time he was allowed to up,
pump the ship. He (Gair) on the carpenter calling out to
;7-as then called down again and
subjected to the same treatment, bft.er which he was again put
in irons almost in a state of insensibilij•
Rages thrilled the
Yelverton, whose statement in various pas.-
whole Court with horror by the terrible det.:" t
5, went a
length through the whole matter. We will give _the sub-
stance of what he said, and tI4 fearfully revolting cirs:un;
stances which he stated, in the first person :—" I deny that
ever told the captain that the men sharpened their knives.
I'll tell the truth, but I can't speak as to dates. I told
him Reason said to Cane, that when the ship reached
Ascension Island he would put out a blue shirt on the fore-
yard, so as that some of her Majesty's men would come on
board and see how they were treated. The captain abused
the mate (Rambert) on his return from the French vessel for
injuring the boat. The mate said, By G— if I had not a
wife and family, I'd jump overboard.' After that the captain
and the mate were drinking in the cabin all the afternoon,
and the captain said several times to the mate, By I'll
hill roe The captain about eight o'clock at night asked me
if I was afraid of the mate, and I said no ; some of the other
apprentices said they did fear for their lives, but I told the
captain to give the mate another trial, The captain then
oz_ upon the deck. The captain then asked the crew
pardoned him, and giving him a loaded pistol, told him to
follhim
i—tr knew of an intention to take his life, which they de-
nied, Reason (who has since died), Cone, and Lee were then
in irons. The captain threatened if they did not tell what they
knew he would take their lives. I think Curtis and Burton
said that Mars hauled them out of their berths to secure the
captain. On that the captain had Mars put in irons, and
went down every half hour, and cut an inch off of him.—
(Frightful sensation.)
Mr. Brederip (with great emotion)—Do you mean what
you say ? Do you mind what you say ? You are on your
oath.
Yelvertcn—Yes, he said that was what he would do to him.
Mr. -2.rnaeriP—
But you say he did it. That he cut an
-'t be exact as to an inch, but he said that
Yelverton—l eau
he would cut him so.
inch off his: every half hour.
you did 11;4 ages m ?
t off about the size of
Yelverton--Yea, I saw one
pied-..bead, and all the hair
my hand. It was cut off of the man .
was on it. eat ararent sincerity
—But
h le Court shudder.
and simplicity, made the wtho
en took Mars to the inner cabin,
Yelverton—The captain
taking with him a strand and a
which was his bedroom,u- what was done there, but we heard
heaver. I don't know
choking. He brought him back
if he was _ •
Mars sing out iss
aor ence of Julian and the other boys, and set
This reply, which was made with gr
a sin
inith" 'escabin door, whilst he himself sat on the
- aftitist the c
suast there kept pitching the cutlass at him,
• - head, and sometimes in his
- the captain said to
writ-

and myself, " Now, boys, we'll convict all these fellows as
Prisoners, and if yeti mind your eyes you'll get all clear of
this. These fellows, when tiie3 f.'re made prisoners, will
not be allowed to speak for themselves any more than to say
guilty,' or not guilty.' Be you my witnesses and we'll get
clear of this." We said we would, and he was contriving
how to get them all implicated. Ile then told the cook to
send the crew aft, and when they came lie said, " What do
you want here? Mutiny ! mutiny ! Fire away Mr. French,"
and then they snapped off the pistols. There was no charge
against me in the log before the officers came on board at
Deal out of the cutter. When they questioned me I told
the truth, and that is the reason I am here.
This statement, which excited the liveliest and at the
same time the most painful interest, rivetted the attention
of the whole Court so deeply that but for some shuddering
exclamations, one might almost hear a feather fall.
Cone said the captain accused him of intending to take
his life, and gave him a blow of a cutlass on the head, of
which he still bore the marks. He was then put in irons, and
the captain took several spells of the cutlass at him. This was
on the night of the 24th of September. He (Cone) was all
day, all night, and all the next day in irons on the main
hatches. He was then hoisted up to the mizentop, and two
others to the maintop, when the shackles were put round
their necks. In the night the chief officer Rambert came
up to the mizentop all over blood, and showed where his head
had been cut open in several places. He went down again,
and in an hour after the captain came to the mizentop and
commenced beating and stabbing at him (Cone) with his
cutlass. The marks of the wounds were still visible on his
head, body, and hands. The captain told him to make his
peace with his Maker as quickly as he could, for he'd take
his life before twelve hours elapsed. After that he beat him
again with the cutlass, and then went down. The pain and
loss of blood rendered him (Cone) for some time insensible,
for he did not know how long. When he recovered, about
four o'clock in the morning, he saw the captain with the
sabre pursuing the chief mate, who jumped over the larboard
quarter into the sea. The ship lulled to a little, but no sail
lyas taken off her. lie (Cone) was subsequently unfettered;
ffis wounds were dressed, and, for about 31 days there was
quietness on board,
The other prisoners reserved their defence.
Sinclair, the carpenter, was then recalled, and closely
questioned by Mr. Broderip, but his manner was as confused
and hesitating as possible. He said he had seen the captain
drunk, but could not undertake to say whether he was given
to the practice. His manner was frequently excited, but
witness could not say whether it was from drink or the con-
duct of the crew. Witness did not feel himself competent
to say whether or not he thought the captain was in his
right mind.
Mr. Broderip—You have heard the defence set up by these
men ; what do you say to it ?—I can't tell.
Mr. Broderip—When did the man Reason die ?—Soon
after we left the Eastern Islands.

Mr. Broderip—When did you last see him alive ?—I saw
him go down to the cabin, and in an hour afterwards I un-
derstood he was dead.

The fate of this man, who is supposed to have died by
poison, seems veiled in mystery, which the evidence of yes-
terday did not in any degree tend to clear up, nor was any
statement made, except those by the prisoners, which could
at all afford anything like a clear outline of the transaction.
It was clear a terrible tragedy had been enacted ; but the
Court was almost as well informed at the close as at the
opening of the proceedings.
The carpenter, in his further examination, said he never
noticed the captain to be excited until after the vessel had
passed Ascension Island. He admitted, but with some re-
luctance, that he saw the captain strike the man with the
cutlass. He saw him strike Reason with it in several parts
of the body, but could not say whether he inflicted more
than one wound. There was a great deal of blood about
Reason's neck.

Mr. Broderip, addressing Mr. Clarkson, said he thought
the Learned Gentleman would agree in thinking with him
that the present was a most extraordinary case. . After the
long investigation which it had undergone it was still in-
volved in the deepest mystery, and a question was raised,
whether the conduct of the captain was the consequence of
excitement caused by the mutiny, or whether by habitual in-
toxication he had himself brought the crew into the state in
which they had been ? It had been sworn (which would
make prima facie in favour of the first assumption) that the
excitement of the captain did not exhibit itself until after
the vessel had passed Ascension Island ; but it was also
evident that there was something in the defence which de-
served consideration. The case certainly called for a re-
mand ; but Inspector Evans should take care that the
captain was forthcoming.
Mr. Clarkson could not deny that the circumstances elicited
during the inquiry well warranted his Worship's remarks.
Mr. Broderip directed that the wounded man Gair should
be particularly recommended to the attention of the surgeon.
He also directed that the men who had complained of being
wounded should be examined, and that it should likewise be
seen whether the captain bad marks of the wounds which he
had stated himself to have received in the calf of the leg and
over the jugular.
The prisoners were about to be remanded, when a woman,
who sat behind the solicitor's table watching the proceedings
with intense interest, and half sobbing as some of the bloodiest
scenes were recounted, rose and stated that she had been a
passenger on board the Tory, and was ready to confirm the
statement of Yelverton. _ _ _

Mr. 13roderip, however, declined to hear her evidence at
that stage of the proceedings.
Mr. Clarkson said he was preparod for this from certain
notions of parties whom he saw in the Court. He would not
suppress any evidence, and he would say, on the part of the
owners, that their only object was to elicit the truth, and to
court the fullest investigation.
The prisoners were then remanded until Wednesday next.

FRACAS IN THE MUSICAL WORLD.
BRlGllTON.—Thelharmony of Jullien's Concert on Friday
night was diversified by a little fracas which took place in
the anti room at the close of the first act. It seems that a
party, consisting of two ladies and three gentlemen, pro-
fessors and amateurs en musique, took possession of seats
which bad been reserved for Lady Jane Peel and the Misses
Craven, and in the teeth of all remonstrances refused to va-
cate them on the ladies presenting themselves. At the close
of the first act, one of the intruders—for so the parties must
be considered, if the account we have heard be correct—who
happens to be a professional himself, encountered Mr.
McCarroll (the master of the entertainment) in the ante-
room, and some irritating and not very complimentary lan-
guage was bandied. The professor of music in question
thereupon struck Mr. McCarroll in the face, piano ; and Mr.
McCarroll, who was by this small application of the pitch-
fork instantly brought up to concert-pitch, returned the
compliment, but so forte that his antagonist's eye, as we are
told, more resembles the black than the white keys of the
fashionable musical instrument. At this stage of the affair,
we hear that the professor's male companions rushed to his
aid with their sticks. Fortunately for their reputation,
however, Monsieur Michau was standing by, and Monsieur
has lived long enough amongst us to have imbibed those ad-
mirable and manly feelings of an Englishman, which long
residence abroad may. have deadened in some originally-
English breasts, Seeing what was threatened, Monsieur
Michau valiantly stepped into the melee, and removing the
spectacles from his nose, he declared that as three to one was
unmanly odds, he must at least join the unit, to make the
fight more even, if it were persevered in. The gallant con-
duct of the Frenchman, and the sly reproach it conveyed,
put an end to the fracas, which has since, however, been the
theme of remark in many circles. In those of a mixed musi-
cal and pugilistic character, it is unequivocally declared that
the first assailant in the case must be scored down as a fiat,
for not striking forte, if he struck at all.—Brighton Guaan.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI-_
THEATRE.

The enterprising manager of this popular theatre has
brought out a novelty likely to suit the taste of its patrons,
and to maintain the reputation of the place. Bulwer's novel,
"The Last of the Barons," is the ater' pitched upon by the
dramatist, who has found a good basis therein for the pur-
poses both of man and horse. We are unable to describe the
incidents which are put into action, for there being "four
epochs and twenty-five tableaux," their name is Legion. We
must be content to say that there is a profusion of startling
effects—that there are savage combats and interminable
processions—that the scenery is painted in the brightest
colours—that the dresses are gorgeous and the music enliven-
ing—that the actors are industrious, and the quadrupeds
tractable. There is an abundance of glittering spectacle for
those who yearn to have the eye tickled with tinsel; the
dialogue is tilled with refreshing sentiments of chivalry and
heroism ; and the speakers commit divers echoing wonders
with the throat. We commend the new burletta, therefore,
virginibus puerisque, for by them will it be received with the
warmest hand of welcome.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWPORT PAGNELL.