The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-16 00:00:00

AUGUST l6, !MI

4 rdf Oommittee for conducting the Vesti- ~..•
-fat in honotrz o. the Feet POrni: .
If I could have made it consisteili eh=
gagements, I should have been proud in joining any
public testimonial in honour of a poet who, besides
the exquisite beauty of many of his works, has a fur-
ther claim r_tn all loveys of true, poetry, as having im-
parted new life and freshness into the dead efdtk de
English verse, and as having contributed so much to
awaken us from the monotony into which we had
fallen. If Scotland owes much, England owes scarcely
less, to Burns. I trust that the reception of the
poet's sons, in their native land, will be as gratifying
to them as their father's memory deserves.—l have
the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servant,

H. H. MI LAIAN.

From Alfred Tennyson, Author of " Miscellaneous

Poems."

6, Belle Vue-place,Cheltenham, July 27.
Gentlemen,—l deeply regret that the nature of my
engagements is such as to prevent my being present
at the festival given in honour of your great national
poet. No one, even among Scotchmen, loves and
venerates Robert Burns more than myself, and I am
fully sensible of the compliment implied in your in-
vitation, but it is quite impossible for me to accept it.
Though your letter is dated July 2d, I have only this
day received it on my return home from a short tour.
—I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your very obe-
dient servant, A. TENNYSON.

From Thos. Moore, author of the " Irish Melodies."
Slaperton, July 28, 1844.
Gentlemen,—Ever since you did me the honour of
inviting me to take a part in the highly interesting
festival which you are about to celebrate on the
banks of the Doon, I have been flattering myself with
the hope that it would be in my power to obey your
most welcome summons. But circumstances that
have lately arisen, rendering my presence at home
necessary at that very time, will, I grieve to say,
render it impossible for me to accept your invitation.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your very
obliged servant, THOMAS MOORE.

In addition to the above, letters were received from
Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-law Rhymer; Charles
Knight, the eminent publisher and author; J. G.
Lockhart, editor of the Quarterly Review; Mr. Ma-
caulay, M.P., author of " Lays of Ancient Rome ;"
Captain Marryatt, the popular novelist; Mr. Dilke,
editor of the Atheneum • Richard Monkton Milnes,
M.P., author of " Miscellaneous Poems ;" Dr. Croly,
author of the "Angel of the 'World ;" Henry Hallam,
author of the " History of Europe during the Middle
Ages;" Mr. Rintoul, editor of the Spectator; Henry
Taylor, author of " Philip Van Artevelde ;" P. F.
Tytler, Esq., author of " The History of Scotland;
but as these cfmtain nothing beyond a simple apology
for unavoidable absence, we do not deem it important
to give them at length.

THE ADARE CONSPIRACY-
MARY REGAN AGAIN.
Mary Regan, whose husband was convicted at the last
assizes for burning the Earl of Dunraven's stables, and
sentenced to transportation for life, was brought before
the Bench, charged with threatening a similar crime by
her own mother, the principal Crown witness (as Mr.
Yokes expressed it) in the case to which we have just
referred.

Mr. Yokes stated to the magistrates that the prisoner
had been arrested a few days ago upon the charge of
her mother, who stated that she threatened as she would
not be let with her husband to New South Wales, she
would commit another burning, or perptrate some crime
that would send her out of the country. It was not a
charge upon which the Bench could commit her, but he
had written to the Government to obtain money to send
her to America, where she said she was willing to go;
and in the meantime she might be remanded for fur-
ther examination to keep her out of harm's way till an
answer was received.

The mother and step-father of prisoner then gave evi-
dence to the effect stated by Mr. Yokes, and also said
that they feared she was following bad practices, as she
was in the habit of staying out at night.
In reply to a question from the Bench, the prisoner,
who is an extremely young woman, and rather a well-
looking person, said she was willing to go to America ;
but wept at the apprehension of being sent back to prison.
The Bench, upon her promise to be of good behaviour,
permitted her to be at large, till an answer should be
received from the Government.—Linierick Reporter.

ANOTHER OTAHEITE IN THE
THAMES.
(From Punch.)
At the very time Otaheite was being a bone of con-
tention abroad, the Thames was almost set on fire by
the flame of discord at home. The affair at the So-
ciety Islands has found a parallel in a series of pro-
ceedings at the Eel-pie Islands, where a sort of Queen
Pomare has long held peaceful in the person
of a respectable landlady.
It appears that a party of Frenchmen landed a
little while ago on the Eel-pie, and endeavoured to
make themselves masters of the island. The Twicken-
ham policeman, who acts as a sort of charge d'affaires,
merely watched the proceedings without taking any
part in them, but he reported what was going on
from time to time to the seat of government at the
station-house. The civic consul, who acts as British
resident to look after the swans belonging to the cor-
poration, kept a jealous eye on all that was being
done, but observed for some time the strictest neu-
trality.
A little while after lamplight the Frenchmen be-
came exceedingly noisy, and a shot was fired from a
pea-shooter, which shivered to atoms the glass of a
clock, and stopped the minute hand, so that the inha-
bitants were prevented from ascertaining the hour.
A scene of riot then ensued, the French were in a
state of fierce intoxication, and the landlady, the
Pomare of the Eel-pies, screamed for help, upon
which the Frenchmen offered their asssistance, and at
once proclaimed a French Protectorate.
Poor Pomare fled for succour to the only British
vessel, which happened to be a coal-barge; for it will
hardly be believed that such has been the apathy of
the Government, there was not even a steamer on the
station.

The French, then finding themselves masters of the
island, began to insult the helpless natives, and the
civic consul having advised resistance, was at once
seized and shut up in a small boat-house, where he
was kept a prisoner until Captain Snooks, of the
Vivid, having arrived, demanded his release in the
name of the Civic Government.

Mrs. Pomare remains on board the coal-barge,
where she bears her misfortunes with becoming dig-
nity.

The following scene in the Twickenham Vestry
will throw some further light on the affair, which it
is hoped may yet be arranged satisfactorily :
Mr. Swaddles, seeing the Churchwarden in his
place, would ask if there was any truth in the
dispatches that had been laid upon the table from the
Eel-pie Islands ?—(Hear.)
The Churchwarden said that advices had certainly
been received which had caused some embarrassment;
but in the present state of affairs he was unprepared
to say anything.
Mr. Swaddles would only ask whether it was true
that the only force we had at the Eel-pie was a coal-
barge ?—(Hear.)
The Churchwarden replied it was true that a coal-
barge was at one time our only force, but a punt had
since been sent out, and a wherry of observation had
been commissioned for the Eel-pie service.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Swaddles was of opinion that there should
have been a steamer on the spot. It was wilful neg-
ligence to leave the Eel-pie exposed to the chances of
surprise. The island might be sacked in a few hours ;
and if that were done, what was to prevent Twicken-
ham falling into the jaws of the foreigner?—(Hear.)
The Churchwarden thought that if it became a
question of jaw, there could be no fear while the
Vestry could boast of the Honourable Member's
countenance.—(A. laugh.)
The subject here dropped, and the Vestry acijourned

SURVEY OF THE MERSEY CHANNELS.—The sur-
vey of the entrances to the channels of the Mersey, by
the Dock Committee, to ascertain their exact state, pre-
viously to the commencement of the operations for the
intended docks in Wallasey Pool, commenced, we believe,
on Monday last. They are being made by Lieutenant
Lord, R.N., marine surveyor to the Dock Committee,
under the direction of Mr. Jessie Hartley, and are to be
of a most minute character. The ultimate object is to
ascertain the effect of the new works upon the Victoria
Bar. Annual surveys of a similar character will be made
for the next seven years, the results of which will be
duly reported.—Liverpool Paper.
COUNT NESSELRODE.—BRIGHTON, AUG. 14.—The
weather was so unfavourable yesterday that the Count
was confined nearly the whole of the day to his apart-
ments. In the afternoon he received a visit from his
son, who arrived by the half-past twelve o'clock train
from London, and having dined at the hotel with his
father, took his departure by the last train on his return
to the metropolis. The Count, notwithstanding the
continuance of stormy weather, visited the German Spa
again this morning, accompanied by Dr. Franz. lie
drank of the waters, but he does not intend, we believe,
to follow up a course of them. He commenced taking
salt water baths this afternoon. To-morrow afternoon
he will go to town for the put pose, we believe, of bring-
ing his daughter, who has just arrived in London, to
Brighton on the following morning, her physician in St.-
Petersburgh having recommended her to try sea-bathing.
Baron Brunnow will, we understand, accompany the
Count on his return to Brighton.
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.—B is entirely with-
out foundation that the Noble Duke contemplates dis-
posing of his Lismore estates. From that property being
entailed, his Grace has not the power of sale ; which is
the best refutation we need give of the several mis-state-
ments that have gained circulation.
STATUE or WILLIAM IV.—Wednesday workmen
were actively engaged in excavating the ground at the
top of King William-street, City, prior to the building of
the foundation for the statue of his late Majesty King
William IV. that is to adorn this part of the new London-
bridge approaches. The pedestal is composed of Dutat
granite, and the statue is to lace the bridge. 1

with a view to the preservation of life, the rate of
speed of steam vessels navigating between Deptford
and London-bridge should be at a reduced rate, and
that the attention of proprietors of steam-vessels fre-
quenting the river Thames should be called to this
subject, as well as to the number of passengers which
are received on board those boats, until the sanction.
of Parliament shall have been obtained to such reme
dial measures as shall hereafter be deemed expedient.'
It was also submitted to the Committee that if regu-
lations, for steam navigation on the Thames were to
be manufactured from time to time at the.auggestiou
of the rulers of the wherrymen, it would tend tcs
paralyse the exertions now constantly in progress fur
the improvement of steam navigation, as parties
would no longer be found who would apply their-
capital to be subject to such harassing control. A
copy of a notice, issued some years since under the
authority of the Lord -Mayor, for the regulation of
the speed of steam-vessels, with instructions to
the harbour-masters to see them carried into
effect, was produced, and it was suggested.
that this should be brought into operation
until further lawful authority should be obtained.
Mr. Cruden concluded by disclaiming altogether
any design to obstruct the formation of
code of
rules and orders for the regulation of steam naviga-
tion on the Thames."

THE NA:VIGATION. of the THAMES.
Yesterday the Committee again aesetehled at
QuiWhen for the purpose of hearing the objections to
the Stiggesf.ed ieembetions for the government of
steam-vessels on the The Lord Mayor took
the chair. There were present Mesife. Aldermen
Lucas, .John Johnson, Kelly, Farncomb, and Mire
gfofe, several members of the Navigation Committee,
Pteßrn -vessel owners, and the Master and Warders of
the Watermen and Lightermen's Company (for which
Company, Mr. Cooper, the honorary secretary, at-
tended).
Mr. SHABBOLT, the solicitor to one of the steam-
vessel companies, objected to several of the bye-laws,
and said that he should call witnesses to prove that, if
carried into effect, they would greatly prejudice public
and private interests. He then argued against the
stringent regulations to check the speed of the steam-
ers, to limit the number of passengers, and in other
respects to interfere essentially with a traffic of such
immense importance.
Alderman LUCAS said he wished to make a few
observations with reference to an attack which, ac-
cording to the report in the Times of what had taken
place on Saturday last before the Committee, Mr.
Cruden made upon the Company of Watermen and
Lightermen, whom that gentleman designated as
wholly unfit to carry out the regulations. He consi-
dered that he was reprehensible for not having at-
tended on the day Mr. Cruden took the opportunity
to make so sweeping an accusation, but the state of
his health had interfered with his intention. He felt
much anxiety to sot the Court of Aldermen right in
the eyes of the public, if Mr. Cruden's remarks upon
the IVatermen and Lightermen's Company had made
any impression to the disadvantage of the Court, re-
flecting as they did upon the capabilities of the body
to decide upon the subject of licenses. He was it
member of the Watermen and Lightermen's Com-
pany, to which some of the first shipowners in
the country belonged, and if the Committee
would look into its rules, they would find
that, in drawing up these code of laws, they had exer-
cised a judicious and discreet power in taking care of
the public. Everything, in fact, had been done to
give security to life and property. It was, in fact,
the only Company in which the freedom was attain-
' able by servitude alone, for those who managed ft
knew how dangerous it was to confer an authority of
such a nature upon one who had no knowledge of
the duties and labours of the calling. Other com-
panies admitted to their freedom by patrimony and
redemption, as well as by service; but the Watermen
and Lightermen's Company were strictly restricted to
the regulation which made the knowledge of the
river, and a service of seven years, indispensable to
the candidate for the freedom. Now it happened
oddly enough that Mr. Cruden, the gentleman who
had objected that the Watermen's Company were
wholly ignorant, had himself endeavoured to obtain
his freedom in that very Company, and been disap-
pointed.—(A laugh.) The fact was, that Mr.
Cruden, although tie had been bound apprentice to
a waterman, did not become qualified by service, and
upon his application to be made free, he was opposed
before the Master and Warden of the Company, and
rejected. Whether that refusal operated upon Mr.
Cruden's feelings towards the Wateriren s Com-
pany, he did not know, but certainly the terms in
which Mr. Cruden spoke of them, appeared very
much to resemble the language in which it was usual
to designate a grudge.—(Laughter.) There is
another rather curious circumstance connected with
the accusation. It happened that there was not a
man on board any of the boats, either of the Star or
Diamond Steam Packet Company, with the exception
of the engineer and the stoker, who was not a freeman
I of the Watermen and Lightermen's Company ; and he
would ask those around him, whether men of
such experience and knowledge as those he had de-
scribed, were not qualified to judge of the competency
of applicants for licenses, and fit to to act under the
authority of the Court of Aldermen ? In his opinion,
the practical knowledge and experience of the mem-
bers of the Company placed them in a position which
far surpassed the eligibility of any other body to the
performance of the peculiar duties. After some
further observations in defence of the Watermen and
Lightermen's Company, Alderman Lucas spoke in
favour of the suggested regulations, and declared that
in comparison with the views and opinions of all
practical men the objections were mere moonshine ;
that the masters of the steam-vessels were freemen of
the Company, and two of the beadles of the Company
had been masters of steam-vessels, and that nearly all
the river pilots were freemen of the Company.
Mr. SHADBOLT then called Captain Mophet, who
stated, amongst other matters, that the plan of having
coloured lights on board the steam-vessels was liable
to objection, inasmuch as the usual light was much
more conspicuous, and that one light at the funnel
and another at the bows were better calculated to
prevent collision than the suggested alteration. He
was of opinion that such a restriction of the speed as
the regulation involved would be attended with evil,
and that danger was likely to result from it.
Mr. Jolley GRAVES, master of Waterman No. 11,
stated that he did not consider the plan of limiting
the number of passengers was advisable. He had
had 800 persons on board his vessel, and he was of
opinion that the closer the passengers were together
the safer they were. There was no necessity for re-
strictions at all as to speed below Cuckold's Point.
He had never had the misfortune to run over a man,
and he never passed a passenger yet, except in case of
necessity, and did everything in his power for the
accommodation of the public.
Captain MORRIS, of the Trident, belonging to the
General Steam-boat Company, stated that sand-
barges and sometimes coal-barges in the river were
so much loaded that the water actual), washed the
decks. In fact, all barges were overloaded. The
regulation as to the speed of the steam-vessels ought
to be at the discretion of the captains, who could best
judge when it was necessary to check the rapidity of
the motion. He disapproved of the system proposed.
James Bell, a pilot, and several other witnesses,
were called by Mr. Shadbolt, to testify to the probable
inefficacy of the regulations.
Lieutenant Rots, of the Royal Navy, stated that
he kept the boys' school at Greenwich, and he brought
to town 750 boys in two of the Greenwich steamers,
and returned to Greenwich with them in one, he be-
lieved, Waterman No. 11. He was sure there was
not the least danger.
Lieutenant STONE, one of the harbour-masters,
was called by the Lord Mayor and asked his opi-
nion of the regulations. He spoke most strongly in
favour of them, and said that about a month ago one
of the Greenwich steamers bore down upon him dan-
gerously while he was in his boat engaged in adjust-
ing the colliers, and when he remonstrated with the
crew, one of them cried out " D-- you, I wanted
to make a vacancy for a harbour master."—(A laugh.)
The captain of one of the boats of the Waterman's
Steam-packet Company declared, that if any one of
the persons employed by them made use of such
words, his suspension should take place, and, in all
probability, be followed up by his dismissal.
NORWICH AND BRANDON RAILWAY. A special
The LORD MAYOR presented a petition from 900
general meeting of the proprietors of this railway seta
ticket porters praying that the Committee would
held yesterday at the offices of the company,
Gu-
carry into effect regulations for the control of the
steam-vessels. effect an amalgamation of the interests of this company
Mr. at which the directors were empowered to
Mr. Newbon (for the Waterman's Steam-packet with the Norwich and Yarmouth Company.
means or the cone
Company) submitted that it was too hard upon the rectors were also empowered to taken
unanimously
captains, who had such serious responsibilities, that
tsotrßauctsitonlloafraiinbgra.ncThhlieneretsooltuhtlornosw
weorfehiss, and also
the fines should fall upon them,
Mr. Cooper declared that if the penalties were not
INFORMA.-
inflicted upon the captains, there would be no protec- adopted,LICENSED
separated.
inflicted
tion at all to the public. Ta
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thes . —GHenrywfJeremy,
ch and Ewresqe.,lwitheehprpeesildieie-ngeeurts,in a
Magistrate
The LORD MAYOR informed those who were in-
oce information ae-ai a licensed victuaer, which
terested, that the Committee would immediately take police
dismissed, remarkednst that it was wrong toll make out
into consideration the objection which had been made, the information with "knowingly permitting," &c., with-
and adopt a course which he had no doubt would be
out it could be clearly proved that the landlord knowingly'
favourably received by the public. suffered such to take place, which in most cases was nos
Mr. Cruden was not present during the day. The done. For instance, a lawless mob might rusde
best to • t them from his • lord do his eject premises,
following observations, which he has expressed a great into a house, create a disturbance, and the land-
anxiety to see published, were made by him in the
and yet the police might pass at the time and see thew.
course of his address to the Committee, at the meeting
any It must be satisfactorily proved that they have receivcct
liquor or beer iu the house whilst in a state of inebriety.
on Saturdaye—" The rulers cannot claim
1117;1
or been there to get so, that the licensed victualfer
authority to •
regulate steam- packets under their
Act (7 and 8 Geo. IV., cap. 75), for the subjectk was
piofinhteshseoruvleddtmtheeemt
tihnetlaiat!
state. would be
He liablem u ewishedt be
designedly excluded from it, as I happen to nowoi
from being in communication with the law officers.
when
they which
of the Police Commissioners in all future cases,
the Corporation of the City of London wh tn. 7 which would save time and trouble to both parties ira
cases of this description. The remarks from the worthy.
which
any magistrate have •
omission being to avoid an oppositibn.
framed the Act. Their assigned motive for this
given great satisfaction to the licensrall
victuallers of these towns.
deplorable loss of Ts have excited at the time. After the
attempt to give the rulers such jurisdiction would
IE HARVEST.—The wheat harvest is very for-
the Rothsay steamer on the west coast of England, ward in most parts of this county, and that which has
in
a Committee of the House of Commons,the year been already housed is in excellent condition. Than
1831, investigated the circumstances, with a view to yield is good, and the weight of grain averages front
same year, 631bs. to 651bs. per bushel. Many of the samples exii-
precautionary •
regulations, and, in the .
Alderman Matthew Wood introduced a Bill to regu- bited in our market on Saturday weighed 621bs. pee.
late steam-vessels on the Thames, in which he failed,
bushel, and fetched 19s. or 20s. per bag. The harlee
as well
as in several subsequent sessions, when he crop in the immediate neighbourhood is very inferior ifi
repeated the attempt. In 1835 a meeting of directors r
quality. The rain which has fallen in abundance duty.
of several steam-packet companies was held at the the last fortnight, though a great hindrance to getting et
the wheat, has done wonders for the turnips, which were
London Tavern, for the purpose of urging the expe- looking very bad previously. From the accounts r..!
dieney of making provision for regulating those have received from various pat is of the country, it vv°1.1.,.1
vessels. On the 17th of December in that year a de- appear that the harvest is in general ing on veruyntie%
putation from the meeting obtained an interview with
Lord John Russell, then at the head of the Home
Department, when they suggested that the subject it can scarcely be said to have commenced. The The
the whops
should vourably, though in Scotland and the northern_ co
untie
to be above the average.. 11
is expected
should be taken up by Government, the individual write, there is a.
exertions of Alderman Wood havingfailed it and we are sorry that, at the t.itme.
• and the progress will stop
prospect of its continuance, as I.
of last night and this morning the rainwe has fallen heavily.
was remarked that the proceedings of the
Aldermen the harvest men.-Worcestershire
Last Sabbath ts
were to be considered as an indication - THE BURNS DEMONSTRATI .
isted no legal authority for the City to interfere by Dissenting clergyman in town, who, in • the brief period
municipal regulations. Lord John Russell undertook he has laboured here, has earned for himself no inconsi..Worcestershire Chronicle.
to communicate with the Vice-President of the Board derable notoriety from his peculiar theological okinions,
of Trade, and signified that Government would in- took occasion to warn his hearers against attending the'
the bard was found greatly wanting. by the,stane
troduce a measure for the re Illation of steam-vessels. Burns festival. In his strictures on the character of the
In the year 1836, at the g
of the Vice- suggestion I poet,
President of the Board of Trade, a Select Committee dard of this. rev, gentleman—he was admitted tohave had
great genius, but the preacher insisted the devil Was ta
of the House of Commons was appointed to inves-
greater genius, yet no one thought of getting up 'a de-
monstration in favour of his infernal majesty. We ein•
tigate the state of the port of London. The Lord
not help congratulating the rev, gentleman on the. nice
Mayor and Aldermen Matthew Wood and Thompson
sense of discrimination he possesses!_ 112 i. were members of the Committee, and the following
is the concluding paragraph of the report, dated the „L [The Witness• newspaper has been gaining for
12th of August, 1836 :---‘ It further appears to your itself an unenviable distinction by venting its spleen ita
Committee that, as a precaution, any measure, and : the same kind of miserable twaddle.]—Scotsman.

I THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.
(From the Dublin Evening Packet.)
Mr. Farren, Mrs. Glover, and Mrs. Seymour, made
their second appearance on Thursday night, in the
comedy of the Clandestine Marriage, when their joint
efforts were crowned with the most complete success.
Perhaps in the whole wide range of modern comedy there
is not a more highly finished or perfect piece of acting
than the Lord Ogleby of William Farren. From the
first inimitable scene of the making up of the old beau to
the falling of the curtain, all is perfect. In fact he iden-
tifies himself so entirely with the character that the spec-.
tater at times fancies he beholds a scene from actual life,
not its mimic representation.
Several of our readers, smitten with the charms and
delighted with the acting of Mrs. Seymour, have written
lo us, asking can it be possible that such beauty, possess-
ing so great an amount of talent, has hitherto been to
" fortune and to fame unknown ?" Do those inquisi,
tive gentlemen remember an exceedingly pretty girl, al-
nitre, a child, in sooth, with long si ken fair hair and
deve-like eyes, who excited the astonishment of our
fellow-citizens some eight or ten years since, by the grace
end feeling of her performance in The Bridal?
The piece was brought out for Macready,
and (we believe) Montague Stanley, and had a runt
of several nights. The young lady was then called Miss
Allison, and was a protegee of Miss. Barry, for maey
years most deservedly a prime favourite on Hawkins-1-
street boards. Since the death of that lamented lady we
have lost sight of Mrs. Seymour, nee Miss Allison. until
now, in the full bloom of that beauty promised in her
early years, and in the maturity of those talents visible
in her youthful efforts, she has taken all hearts by storm
and achieved greatness here by twonight's performances-
Thus, as Richard Swiveller would say, "may genius and'
loveliness ever meet their reward."

Talking of rewards, Mr. Joy, the most efficient and
gentlemanlike box-keeper that ever asked for public
patronage, has announced his benefit for Tuesday next,
when the performances will be of the most attractive
character. Mr. Joy's uniform courtesy in the discharge
of his arduous duties has won the approval of every
visitor of our theatre ; and we are sure the public will
feel rejoiced to have an opportunity, on the occasion of
his benefit, of repaying in some degree his friendly
politeness. Should past attentions, however, prove like
" eaten bread," and a " lively sense of future favours,"
take precedence of gratitude, we may just hint that the
ensuing season will open with the Italian company, com-
prising Grisi, Mario, the Lablaches, and Favanti ; and
that Fanny Elssler, with a first rate haat company, will
suceted them. Verb sap.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT HMI-I

EIGHTON.

A most cruel and horrid murder was perpetrated
at the above place, in the county of Durham, on Sa-
turday last. It appears that a potatoe field, belong-
ing to Mrs. Mitcalfe, of High Eighton, had suffered
severely from depredators of late, and Mr. Fleck,
manager of the farm, had placed a watch to pre-
vent a recurrence of those losses. On Saturday
night last he had sent a young man, named Yarrow,
to watch; and he, in company with two other men,
had proceeded to the brakehouse of one of the pits:
of Ravensworth colliery. Yarrow, as far as we
can learn, had stayed in the brakehouse till the
brakesman, Thomas Robson, and J. Jefferson, had
gone to see that all was right. While they were pro-
ceeding along the top of the field, Jefferson observes
somebody in the hedge, but went on without speak-
ing; the brakesman also observed one, and called out
" Hallo," upon which the villain instantly fireda pistol
at him, and he staggered a few yards and fell dead.
His comrade was so paralysed by the dreadful deed,
as to he completely deprived of his faculties, and he
also fell, and remained in a state of stupor for a con •
siderable time. At length Mr. Fleck came to the
spot, and found them as described. Robson was quite
dead, his heart having been partly blown out of its
place, and his breast dreadfully shattered.
On Monday an inquest was held before J. M.
Favell, Esq., County Coroner, and a most re-
spectable jury, at a farm-house on the Team Col-
liery, where the deceased had held the situation of
a brakesman. The testimony of the youth Jefferson,
Mr. Fleck, and Mr. Davis, a surgeon, were taken,
but the result of the examination only left this cold-
blooded murder involved in still deeper mystery.
Mrs. Mitcalfe's potato-field in High Eighton looks
upon the public road, from which easy access is
gained and according to the statement of Jefferson,
he and the deceased Robson were passing through
the field on Saturday night, on their watch, when a
man who was sitting under the hedge, wearing a hat.
and round jacket, discharged a weapon at them, and
struck his companion. Robson staggered a
few yards, and then fell dead on the ground.
Mr. Fleck afterwards came up and found Jef-
ferson in a state of great alarm. Seeing some✓
thing lying on the ground, he asked Jefferson
what it was. Jefferson replied, it might be a white
cat. Fleck then went up, and saw Robson, as he
fancied, asleep, but he soon found out that he was
dead, and then Jefferson told him that the deceased
had been shot. The body was removed, and a me-
dical man called in, but of course the deceased was
beyond all aid. Mr. Davis, the surgeon, and another
medical gentleman, took a post mortem examination
of the deceased. The apex of the heart was shattered,
and no fewer than 187 shots were found in his body,
the greater part of them being in the back part of the
chest, and many of them were flattened by coming
into contact with the ribs. The Coroner said that no

time had yet been allowed to the police to make in-
quiry into the circumstances, and therefore he would
adjourn the inquest till Friday morning, at ten
o'clock, in order that more information might be pro-
cured. The inquest was then adjourned. Many
rumours are afloat, which it would be premature at
present to mention.—Tyne Mercury.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

than one instance, The people of England, indeed,
rejoice at the success of its members in the conversion
MOM THB EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. of the heathen, as they rejoice in the success of
GLOBE.—The Times of this morning contributes American missionaries in the same glorious work,
a rather large instalment towards balancing its ac- and the people would anxiously support them in
count on the Otaheitian question. For some days the protecting their converts from the errors of Roman-
entries in its columns were principally on the other ism—but we are too well acquainted with the habits
side; and a large amount of sound argument, inter- of some of the missionaries to hold ourselves respon-
spersed with wholesome invective, were introduced to sible for all their proceedings, or to wish that they be
show the unprovoked and indefensible character of the allowed to claim from the Government more than
outrages perpetrated by the French authorities at Ota- the protection to which they are entitled as
heite ; and also to impress upon our Government the British subjects. Nor have they any right to
obligations by which it is bound to demand and claim more : as Dissenters they renounce the au-
enforce indemity and reparation for the indignity thority of the State to govern their movements,
offered to the British flag in the person of Mr. and it is too much for them to expect that the
Pritchard, the Consul of this country, and for the state shall support a line of conduct which it is not
abuse of the powers assumed by the French officers permitted to influence. It certainly was an nn-
under the " Protectorate" they had set up. No fortunate choice which selected a Dissenter as the
longer than yesterday an article of this cha- British Consul at Otaheite; for that gentleman, how
ratter, of no ordinary excellence, enforcing these just and honourable soever his disposition, could
views, appeared in the columns of the Times. not help considering himself more as the represen-
" A change has this morning come o'er the spirit" tative of the Missionary Society than of the Sove-
of our Contemnorary. As if scared by the sounds reign of the United Kingdom. So far, there-
itself had made: apparently fearful of having assisted fore, as, regards the effect upon the mind of
to rouse tbs spirit of the nation ; or, possibly, of hay- this country, we apprehend no evil from fee-
ing " roared" too loudly in the ears of Lord Aber- demonstration yesterday, which, indeed, shows how
deem, and disturbed the dreamy repose which con- very slight has been the political connexion be-
stitutes his delight; the Times suddenly becomes tween this country and Otaheite, and so slight,
mild as a sucking dove ! Recently so-big with rage chiefly because of the care of the Dissenters to keep
against French aggression and outrage, for which re- the Queen and her people in their own hands, to the
paration must he demanded, and atonement made, our exclusion of the British in common with every other
Contemporary—in the spirit of Shakspere's popinjay, Government. It is in France—where the absence of
now " talks like a waiting gentlewoman ;" of " the rank and total want of political importance of the
pity, so it was—" speakers at Exeter-hall must be less known, and
" That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd where the interior politics of our Dissenting sects
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, can hardly be appreciated that the mischief (if
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd any) of the display to which we refer will ope-
So c nvardly." rate. It becomes, therefore, our duty to set forth
The occasion of this marked change—at once both the truth as plainly as we can, and we surely say no
sudden and complete—is not very obvious. The more than truth in asserting that the meeting at
meeting at Exeter llall yesterday, convened for the Exeter-hall does not speak the sense of the
purpoie of enabling the Directors and members of the people of this country, but the sense of a
London Missionary Society to make a public demon- class which hardly ever concurs in sentiment with
stration of their views and sympathies upon the state the great majority of the nation, and certainly
of things at Otaheite, is made the peg upon which the will not bring the people to concur with it
Times hangs its new opinions on this question. We by coming forward in its Dissenting character
neither adopt the whole of the views put forth by the to dictate to the Government upon a m -
speakers at the meeting referred to, nor undertake to mentous'and most delicate question of foreign policy.
defend the language in which some of them gave We have not disguised our opinion that the French
utterance to their opinions. There are, however, officers at Otaheite have been in the wrone• from first
strong provocations to regret and indignation in to last. The first error was, however, the
parent of
--
the ministers and gentlemen on whom the Times all that followed, by a very •
aural transition, and
pours out the vials of concentrated contempt the gradual advance
and wrath for their interference. The argument original paltry fle 4...t0m the imposition of the
upon grounds which no pub-
of our Contemporary will induce an opinion lit law can ;•
4„cfv
that the Society which met yesterday on this matter the se:-
afer° of the sovereignty—is, after 11, perhaps
had obtruded itself into a dispute with which it had "
-46Thest excuse for what appears at a hasty view so
no peculiar concern—that, in fact, their interfere- 1 shocking. -etas sh
rxing. It seems to us, however, that the proper
is impertinent, and their agitation mischievoe_s. b
H
the Times forgot, or did it never know course to be pursued by England in such circu-
, stet y the stances is, while she takes care to protect her Sub-
patient; persevering, and devoted I"::semrs of the agents jects, and to assert the honour of her flag, to refer
of this Society—not composed _xclusivelvofDissenters, all besides to the native justice and generosity of the
but of clergymen and lw:snbers of the Establishment, French people. A few incendiaries and Jesuits
uniting with Disse:.sers- in this noble enterprise— may deny justice to poor Queen Fomare, but it is
Otaheite and t....5e other islands in the Georgian impossible to suppose that an intelligent, a high-
groupe were tdvilised and Christianised ? hied the minded, and gallant people, like the French,
South Se".. Islanders continued in their state of bar- will permanently, and after all motive for
barisni, they would not have attracted the regards of national jealousy shall have ceased, pursue a
the -french, nor would the subordinate authorities of course of unjust aggression, such as every man must
that nation have forced their " protection" upon them. consider that, which has hitherto been pursued towards
They were reclaimed from barbarism by the agents the Queen of Otaheite. We have spoken with many
of the Society which met yesterday to express Frenchmen upon the subject, but we have not met
its sympathy with the islanders whom they had with one who does not acknowledge that the justice of
raised from the debasement of senseless idolatry, and the case is wholly against his country, and acknow-
the vices and cruelties which follow in its train. ledge also that the judgment of posterity will be as
Those shores, once unsafe for any vess's' to touch at, unfavourable to France in this affair, as all admit the
-were rendered approachable and hospitable through public opinion of Europe to be at present.
the heroic courage and indorfitable energies of the
missionaries who were 'sent forth to, and supported
by the cont :, •
I:Louttons of, the Society which is upbraided
by rr the 4 tines, in one of the fitful changes for which
it remarkable, with exceeding their vocation by
:expressing their views on such a subject. If
the Times did " not know what particular call"
the meeting of yesterday had to " involve itself in
such matters," it is now informed ; and will doubt-
less admit the ignorance which induced the reflections
upon the meeting and its proceedings, and apologize
for the discourtesy and injustice of which it has un-
wittingly been guilty. The marked discrepancy of our
Csmtemporary's present opinions on the main question,
With those it has recently put forth, may be less easily
reconciled. But as we are not the " protectors" of our
versatile fellow-journalist, we refrain from dwelling
upon what we cannot explain, and are not called upon to
defend. The Times thinks Otaheite too insignificant, in a
commercial sense, to deserve the attention of the British

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
JUI)GESy CHAMBERS, Aug. 14.
(Before Mr. Justice MAULE.)

nation. Would you provoke a war between the two
Governments about " a row in Otaheite ?" This ques-
tion is, however one of those which cuts two ways.
If Otaheite be of little value to England, it is of far
less importance to France. Yet France has deemed
it worth putting forth its best acts of circumvention
to secure it! France has juggled Lord Aberdeen into
_ _

.conceding the " Protectorate of Otaheite to itself.
And now, when outrage and havoc have grown out
of the " Protectorate ; ' and indignity and outrage to

the British Consul have followed the deposition-and
banishment of the Queen, the question is gravely
asked, whether this had not better be hushed

up ? Who would think of disturbing the pacific
relations existing between two great nations, because
" a row has taken place at Otaheite ?" Otaheite
is not altogether so contemptible, even in a commer-
cial point of view, as some persons suppose. The
following return of the average yearly number of
vessels of commerce, belonging to different nations,
which touch at Otaheite, is from a quarter on which

.
implicit reliance as to its accuracy may be placed : it
will also show that France has less interest of a com-

mercial kind in Otaheite that any other civilized

State :

Yearly.
English Merchant Vessels
American ditto
French 2O
Queen Pomare and her people have a strong claim
on the British Government itself. This must be ad-
mitted, if the promises of protection they hare re-
ceived from successive Administrations be regarded
as of any worth.

STANDARD.—If we were not well aware that
the first, nay, the only consideration with particular
classes of persons is to keep themselves constantly be-
fore the public, we should be at a loss to guess the
purpose of the gentlemen who collected to make
speeches at Exeter-hall yesterday. These gentlemen,
one and all, deprecated the suspicion of a wish to
involve the country in war ; but we defy the
most sagacious to suggest any purpose consist-
ent with the preservation of peace their meeting
and their speeches can serve ; taking them
upon their own representation, they adopted a pro-
ceeding which can do no good, but which it is
obvious to every one may be productive of evil.
Let us not be misunderstood ; we are very far
indeed from undervaluing the beneficial effect of
missionary labours, but we protest against the
interference of missionaries and missionary so-
cieties in the direction of the Government
of the country. The useful missionary is in-
spired by one and one only feeling, zeal for
the propogation of true religion ; but zeal.
is passion, and government, like law, ought to be
" mind without passion. If, in the administration of
the complicated affairs of a great empire feelings, even
the most noble and exalted, are allowed to take the
command of calm reason, there must be an end of con-
sistency and systematic government. Without even
departing from the subject immediately before us, we
can see a striking example of the danger of this inver-
sion of the proper order of influences, in the prevail-
ing temper of a considerable portion of the French
people, acting so powerfully upon the Government of
the country as to threaten it with an overthrow, if it do
not persevere in a course which every unprejudiced
human being must see to be both imprudent and
unjust. We do not wish to say it offensively,
but we certainly anticipate the judgment of
posterity when we assert, that each successive step
taken by the French officers in Otaheite has been
wrong. We have it, indeed, upon the acknowledge-
ment of the best and wisest men in France, that the
principal step thus taken is indefensible, and such as
ought to be retracted. Nevertheless, by a misappli-
cation of one of the most honourable feelings of
our nature, patriotism, our neighbours insist
upon maintaining as just and right the
unauthorised
wrong-doing of the officers of
France with all its injurious consequences. This
may be unjust and unwise,
a and so it is, but it is,
n honourable
nevertheless, the effect of passion. The
French people are, as they ought to be, jealous of the
rank and honour of their country, and their jealousy
is naturally directed against the
most
eminent in
power and in reputation of the rival nations
can afford to submit to a wrong from Naples or France
Bel-
gium, because submission in either case could be
ascribed only to the magnanimity of the
more powerful state ; but it is hard for human
passion to yield, even to right, in a dispute with an
equal, because such submission may be misconstrued.
This state of things, of which we have the evidence
before our eyes, demonstrates the danger of pera,it.
ting passion to interpose in the higher concerns
of Government. Yet, if not to excite a passionate
feeling of resentment against the French people,
though not, perhaps, against the French
.Govern-
ment, what can be the effect of a meeting and
speeches like those of yesterday at Exeter-hall ?It
is true that the effect in this country will be incon-
-1/4i 1 lidtiralle, because the speakers and their general
prae-
tiees are pretty well known here. The speakers all
with the, exception of Mr. Baptist Noel (if it is right to
except him), Dissenters from the Established Church,
and as mach separated by political opinions (in this
Mr. 8.:35kiel i 3 no exception) as in religious profes-
. ston.froix the vast majority of the people. The Mis-
smnoriSociety is a society wholly unconnected with
the—Gov:ll"l... Government, the Church,te_ and all the other insti-
. gozni; of
crwatz which it is pretty generally
Os-495 bays experienced in more

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 13.—The Thunder, 6, Com-
mander Barnett, arrived yesterday from Bermuda, which
she left on the 20th of June. She has been employed
for the last three years, and a longer previous period, in
surveying the Bahama Islands and the Gulf of Florida,
She will now be paid off.
The Queen, 110, Captain Martin, was removed from
alongside the dockyard jetty to moorings off Cold liar
bour, Gosport, usually occupied by the flag-ship, this
morning. She is completing hands and stores for flag
service at the Nore.

The Collingwood, 80.—This ship has not yet receive
sailing orders, although it was in very positive terms
stated by a generally well informed weekly print that
she would sail on Sunday morning last. We believe
there will be some alterations in her appointments, as
we are informed Captain Eden will not go out in her in
consequence of impaired health, and that Commander
Broadhead, who commissioned her, will be posted. Thus
two of the most important offices will have to be filled,
which will necessarily cause some delay in her sailing.
The gallant Admiral, Sir G. Seymour, is on leave. Much
speculation is afloat as to who will be appointed to the
flag captaincy.
The Mercury, tender, Second Master J. Scarlett, re-
turned on Sunday evening from Sheerness and Wool-
wich, with newly entered men for the Collingwood and
Queen.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander W. Tring •
ham, was recalled from the coast of Sussex, where she
had been cruising for some months past, on Saturday
week. She came into harbour last night. Her crew
will be employed forthwith in fitting up the royal yacht
(to which she is tender). Indeed, she is now nearly
stripped, and will be laid up until winter.
The Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, having been partially rigged, and
got all her spars and stores on board, was removed this
morning from the basin to moorings in the harbour,
where the crew from the Nautilus joined her. She is
now very rapidly fitting for sea, and will try her engines
and new boilers to-morrow, it is expected.
The Vindictive, 50, was dismasted on Monday, prepa-
ratory to being docked for overhaul and repair.
- The Dwarf steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander W.
Chamberlain, is in dock, having her boilers repaired.
She will be in future the tender to the royal yacht, being
peculiarly adapted for that particular service.
The Canton transport is hourly looked for at Spit-
head with the remaining detachments of the 55th Regi-
ment from China. _ _

The Firebrand steam-sloop bas been tried out at
Spithead, and her engines and machinery found to
work splendidly. She is now ready for the pendant in
the harbour.

The Lily, 16, is undergoing repair and refit in the
basin, in order to form one of the experimental brig
squadron.
The Hornet, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Miller, left
Nassau for Jamaica on the 14th ult., where she expected
to receive orders to sail homeward and be paid off, hay •
ing been nearly five years in commission.
The Nautilus transport, Lieutenant Sanders, agent,
called at Teneriffe on the 11th of July, en route to Rio,
with stores for the squadron.
The works of the new steam basin, in this dockyard,
are progressing very rapidly. Several slips in the earth
have lately taken place, one on Sunday week, which it
was feared would retard the work. Should the present
showery weather continue, further slips are feared.
The Prince Regent, 120, in process of razeeing to a
90-gun ship, is progressing rapidly in her alterations.
It is reported in the dockyard that when she is completed
the Camperdown, 104, will take her place, to undergo
the same beneficial operation.

GONE TO THE DOGS.
(From Punch.)
The papers have informed us of the death and burial
of Yeos, a greyhound to which her Majesty and Prince
Albert were both " greatly attached." The death of the
beast appears to have been so sudden, that the Queen
suspected foul play, and Air. Brown, of Windsor, who
is, it seems, the royal dog doctor, was immediately sent
for, that a post mortem examination might take place
immediately. Several of the servants gave evidence at
the inquest. The following- extracts will show how
carefully the investigation was conducted.
Sarah Scrub, the scullery-maid, was now brought in,
and cautioned by Mr. Brown that her testimony would
be taken down, and might be used elsewhere against
her. Her examination then proceeded—Knew the dog
Yeos. Saw her last alive poking her nose into a dish of
sweetbreads on the pantry dresser. The dog was allowed
to go everywhere by her Majesty's command, and was
not to be thwarted in anything. The dog was a very
great favourite with the Queen and Prince Albert.
Witness was in the habit of feeding Yeos : gave her a
pate de, foie gras the day before her death. She seemed
in good spirits, and ate it with appetite.
By Prince Albert—Did you make him too risho by
too much of de nastie salt buttare?
The witness replied distinctly that fresh butter had
been used.
Prince Albert—Can you sware dat?
Witness—l can.—(Great sensation.)
Dr. Prwtorius, who had been watching the case on the
part of Prince Albert, thought it would be useless to
carry the criminal part of the matter further. He (Dr.
Prwtorius) would candidly admit he had no stronger
evidence to offer.
Mr. Brown—Then I suppose, Doctor, you withdraw
from the inquiry ?
Dr. Prxtorius—Certainly, unless you think there is
enough for a remand. In the case of the Marquise de
Brinvilliers, which a good deal resembles the present, a
remand was allowed. Or to come to later times, if we
are guided by the rule in the prosecution of Madame
Laffarge—
Mr. Brown (interrupting)—No, Doctor, I think we
must not do that.
The surgeon then, assuming the office of Coroner,
proceeded to sum up as follows :—This affair was appa-
rently involved in a good deal of doubt, until this in-
quisition was held. The deceased (weeping) might have
been poisoned, or might not, and here the difficulty
ossibn l no
vedoubtr
y h
thecomes in to determine whether he was or wasn't. On a
post mortem examination, there was a good deal of
vascular
inflammationaboutgbl),affaro f thethe coatsswee
sweetbread,
thee adh w
nose,whie anda I
have s
p
these appearances. keppered, had something to do with
"1) luicuLse had, of course, stopped ;
but, as far as I ilOulajPidge from circumstances,' I should
say it had been pretty regular. The ears were perfectly
healthy, and the tail appeared to have beets recently
wagged, showing that there could have been nothing
very wrong in that quarter. The conclusion at which
I arrive is, that Yeos came to his death from old acre, or,
rather, by the lapse of time ; and a deodand is therefore
imposed on the kitchen clock, which was rather fast on
the day of the dog's death, and might have accelerated
his demise.
This verdict having been regularly entered, the in-
quest was broken up, and the scullery-maid set at liberty

tilt SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MO NINE, AAJOATPir

comrades, had had leave on the night in question to go
to the play. They were seen about the hour described
by the prosecutor passing the market place, in company
with a person in plaid eldthea. About five o'clock the
next Morning they were at a public-house, and paid for
what they had in silver. The same day they paid a
score which had been standing against them for a long
time at the Wile house, and both about that time head
more money than usual at their disposal. Some days
after Hampson was seen in possession of a small silver
watch, and the next day one of his comrades saw him
with a watch, which he recognised as having belonged
to the prisoner Stanley, and which Hampson said he had
purchased from Stanley fur two sovereigns. On the 27th
of June Stanley showed the colour• sergeant of the regi-
ment a watch which he said had been sent him by his
father, and which the sergeant observed had the number
8,785. The next day the sergeant asked to see it again,
but Stanley said he had sold it, and gave several different
accounts of the parties to whom he had disposed of it.
His room was searched, and, sewed up in one of his
epaulettes, which was hanging against the wall, was
found a watch, which proved to be the watch stolen from
the prosecutor.
On the close of the case his LORDSHIP said he thought
there was no case against Wood ; and Mr. JAMES ad-
dressed the jury for the other pris ,ners.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury found both
the -prisoners Not Guilty, stating that they were not
satisfied from the statement of the prosecutor that he
had not lost the watch without any robbery at all.

IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE NEW INSABVENT
DEBTORS' APT.—••IN RE WILLIAM SMITIt tHE ELbER.

printed, offering a reward for his apprehension, but it
appears he went to Germany, and only returned to
England a short time back. Lately he took lodgings
in the house of Mr. Evans, in Stafford-place, Pimlico,
stating that he had just arrived from Guernsey, and
expected his luggage by the Southampton Railway.
in a few days he absconded, and it was discovered that
he had stripped the lodging of everything portable.
At the beginning of last week he applied for work to
Mr. Turpin, a watchmaker, in Banner-street, from
whom he received a valuable movement to repair, but
he pawned it immediately afterwards, and it was as-
certained that he had served other tradesmen in the
same manner. At length Sergeant Brannan, 20 G,
who had been on the look out for him since 1841, got
hold of him, and brought proof of the several charges
against him.
Mr. BROUGHTON said he thought he knew the pri-
soner, and had committed him before.
Sergeant Brannan said the Magistrate had com-
mitted him twice before. Four years ago he was
summarily convicted for making away with a watch
movement belonging to a tradesman in Cornhill. Oa
the other occasion he was committed to Newgate for
trial for stealing a gold watch belonging to Caspv,
the watchmaker, who was one of the parties impli-
cated in the famous gold dust robbery some years
back ; but he was acquitted of that, as it turned out
that the prosecutor had attempted to compromise the
matter with him.

This was an application by summons on th# at-
torney for the detaining creditor, to show cause why
the prisoner should not be discharged out of the cus-
tody of the Marshal of the Queen's Prison, under the
58th section of the Act to amend the law of insol-
vency and execution, on the ground that the debt
for which he was detained did not exceed .the sum
of 201.

On the part of the prisoner, it was proved, by a
copy of causes, that the debt was under the amount
prescribed.
Mr. Justice MAULS asked if there was any affi-
davit of the fact ? He should in all cases require an
affidavit.

It was stated that the summons was opposed, and
therefore no affidavit was needed.

Mr. Justice ]MULE said he had already made
orders ex parte on affidavit that the debts were
under 201., leaving the parties to apply to the Court
out of which the judgment was obtained, if there
WWI any fraud.
Several objections were urged on the part of the
detaining creditor. The prisoner was in custody on
a judgment obtained in the Palace Court, to which
Court he should have applied, as the creditor could
then show that he came within the exceptions of the
59th section, and was not a party entitled to his dis-
charge.
His LORDSHIP decided that he could entertain the
application.
It was then urged that circumstances could be
shown to prevent the prisoner being discharged ; the
Act contemplated that at " any time" it could be
shown that a party was not entitled as a matter of
course to his liberation.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 13.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.)

WHISTANCE V. GRIFFITHS.

For the plaintiff were Mr. Valentine Lee and Mr.
Cooke ; for the defendant, Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and Sir
Thomas Phillips.

The prisoner was then committed on three charges,
and the sergeant stated that he had several others
against him.

Some time in August, 1832, a person of the name of
Joseph Bennett, an auctioneer, and landlord of the
Packet Inn, Chester, died, leaving his furniture and the
bulk of his property to his widow, who, shortly after
his decease, took up her abode at Bristol, where she
lived for fifteen months ; and afterwards removed to
Cheltenham, where she also lived fur fifteen months, sup-
porting herself by the proceeds of a boarding-house
which she then furnished. Amongst her lodgers was a
man of the name of Jeremiah Smith, who soon after his
residence under the plaintiff's roof, received from her
30/. for the purpose of purchasing a piano, and
some additional furniture of which she stood in
need. For many years a young girl had been domes-
ticated in the house of the plaintiff and her husband,
whom she was in the habit of calling her parents,
though, in fact, they were only her aunt and uncle.
This young woman, during the plaintiff's residence at
Cheltenham, became acquainted with a Welsh harper of
the name of Griffiths, who had an engagement in that
city, and whom during his sojourn there she married.
As the plaintiff at this time proposed leaving Chelten-
ham for Bristol, in order to stay with some friends
there, she offered her niece, Mrs. Griffiths (according to
her own account) the use of the household furniture to
enable her to fit up a cottage which her husband was
about to take at Tredegar. The Griffiths gladly availed
themselves of the proposal, and the furniture was ac-
cordingly removed to Tredegar, where it was for some
months regularly used by the defendant and his wife.
During Mrs. Bennett's stay at Bristol, she formed an
intimacy which matured into a matrimonial alliance,
with a person of the name of WThistance, and as she now
proposed to resume housekeeping, she wrote to Mrs.
Griffiths requesting the return of the furniture, with the
loan of which she had accommodated her. To this commu-
nication the defendant sent a very short and not very
courteous reply, to the effect that possession was nine
points of the law, adding that be would be before
he gave them up. It was for this conversion that the
present action was brought.
On the close of the plaintiff's case Mr. WHATELEY
submitted that the misjoinder in the declaration of the
plaintiff's present husband should bea ground of nonsuit.
After some discussion the objection was overruled, a
Learned S.-rgeant, who was present, remarking—
" The only answer which I think is needed,
Is that the ground of nonsuit is not pleaded.
The issue joined, I understand to be,
Upon the ante-nuptial property ;
And, therefore, I would almost lay my life
The plaintiff has been right to join his wife.' "
Mr. WIIATELEY proceeded to open to the jury the de-
fendant's case, which the Learned Counsel supported by
the testimony of three witnesses who stated that the
plaintiff had in their presence made a gift of the pro-
perty in question to the defendant.
After a careful summing up by Mr. Sergeant ATCHER-
LET, the jury remained in deliberation some time,.finally
returning a verdict in favour of the defendant.
The JUDGE—I can only say, Gentlemen, that had I
been in the jury-box I should have found a similar verdict.

BOW-STREET.

On the part of the prisoner it was contended that
such circumstances could only be shown on the trial
of the cause, and that, at all events, the words " that
if at any time it shall appear to the Judge who shall
try the cause," could not have reference to his Lord-
ship, as the action was brought in the Palace Court.
It was contra insisted that the words of the 59th
section had reference to subsequent application ; the
provision mentioned, besides the improper contract-
ing of a debt, other points, such as a fraudulent
transfer of property, which could not be proved on a
trial; and further, the concluding part of the clause
showed that such applications could be heard " whe-
ther or not execution against the goods" had been
issued.
Mr. Justice MxuLE held that he could make an
order of discharge, which he made accordingly.
It is understood that application will be made to
the Court out of which the judgment was obtained
to bring the party under the 59th section, in order
that he may be retaken. The point is an impor-
tant one.
Several applications were made ex parte on affida-
vits, and entertained by his Lordship, leaving the
parties open to their remedy if the discharges had
been fraudulently procured. By the decision in the
above case it will be seen that an application can be
made to a Judge at Chambers on an execution of
" any Court," the words of the 59th section being " to
a Judge of one of her Majesty's superior Courts of
Law at Westminster, or to the Court in which such
judgment shall have been obtained."

Boultle, a hair-dresser, was brought UP,
charged with having, in June last, while in the service
of Mrs. Taylor, of Craven-street, stolen a quantity of
articles, her property.
Mr. Henry Henshall, the superintendent of police at
Bury, in Lancashire, stated that the prisoner applied to
him for relief on Saturday last. He said that he had a
statement to make as he was very uneasy in his mind.
He said that in June last he was in the service of Mrs.
Anne Taylor, of Craven-street, Strand, as hair-dresser,
that one Sunday, in the month of June, he remained out
all night drinking, and on the following morning, before
any person got up, he went to his mistress' house, and
stole a quantity of razors, fourteen or fifteen in number,
a quantity of heir-brushes, combs, &c., two boxes, and
sundry other articles. Several of the razors belonged
to Mr. Chiffney the jockey, who had left them to be set.
He went to Liverpool from London, and on his road sold
the razors for drink at various public-houses, that he was
in great distress, and had come to the determination of
giving himself up to justice. After the prisoner had
made this statement, the witness said he should detain
him on a charge of felony.
Mr. HALL committed the prisoner for trial.
CLERKEN WEL L.

An elderly man, decently attired, and of demure IDok,
was charged with stealing a newspaper and other articles
from the Lady Owen's Arms, in Doswell-street.
The prisoner went into the tap-room on the previous
evening, called for a glass of ale, and, whilst drinking it,
pocketed the evening paper, snuffers and stand, and
everything else that was capable of concealment on his
person. The potman follnwed and arrested him, and the
prisoner offered him a'-sum of money to allow him to
escape; but a police-constable came up and secured him.
He was committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Williams, who refused to give his address, was
charged with having the care and management of a
certain common gambling house, at No. 2, Bennett-
street, St. George, Hanover-square, and (so entered on
the police charge sheet), Thomas Watson, of Northamp-
ton, currier, Wikiani Brown, of No. 2, Bennett-street,
St. James's, wine-merchant, John Thompson, of Charles-
street, Euston-square (no occupation), and Charles
Crayen, of No. 1, Great London-road, tobacconist, with
being found in the same without lawful excnse.
In pursuance of the wry laudable intention of the
Commissioners of Police to put down all gambling
houses, an entrance to one of those dens, No. 34,
Coventry-street, Haymarket, was effected yesterday
afternoon, between five and six o'clock. The parties
had, no doubt, received information, by some means, of
the intended visit, and consequently no person or
gambling implements were found within.
Superintendant Hughes, of the 1) division, produced
the order he had received, signed by one of the Police
Commissioners, to enter the house, No. 2, Bennett-street.
He went there, accompanied by Sdperintendent Beres-
ford, of the C division. Mr. Beresford rung the bell, and
it was answered by Williams. Beresford then asked if
there would be any play that night. Williams said "No."
The police then entered the house. In the:parlour a gas •
light was burning. A door on the stair-case, leading
to the first floor and the upper part of the house, was
found to be locked. Beresford asked him how he
was to open it, and Williams produced the key. The
other defendants were found in different apartments of
the house. There were not any gambling tables or im-
plements on the premises.
Superintendent Beresford said that there was a tele-
graphic communication by means of bell wire with the
outer-door, and they only played hazard now, and it
was easy on the slightest alarm to "plant away" the box
and dice used in the game. The house had been en-
tered before and the defendants were the known fre-
quenters of such places and the associates of common
gamblers.
Mr. HenDwicK said there could be no moral doubt as
to the character of the house in question, but there was
not the legal proof necessary for a conviction ; the de-
fendants must, therefore, be discharged.