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London, England, 1844-02-10 00:00:00

itifig BUN. L O.W D OX, gAT 1U A 'VI ORNI P. 10, 1844.

610/4 sixteen nights at Edinburgh, 640/. ; ;for Mx at Glasgow,
264/. ; for two at Newcastle, 601. ; and for five at Liverpool, 2001,
From April thel9th to November the 14th, 1843—in April, 140/. ;
in May, 2801.; in June, 2801. ; in July, 280/. ; in August, 2001.;
in September, 2801.; in October, 2801.; and in November, 2401. ;
making a total of 4,362!.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE then summed up the case.
and went with great minuteness through the whole of
the evidence.

The jury retired, at half-past six o'clock, and were
absent about three-quarters of an hour, when they re-
turned into Court and gave their verdict, finding the
prisoner guilty upon the fourth count, in which the in-
tent was laid to be to do the prosecutor grievous bodily
harm ; the jury at the same time begged leave to re-
commend the prisoner most strongly to the mercy of the
Nun. The verdict appeared to create some surprise in
the Court.

CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and Mr. Justice citessystt.) ►
John Davis, alias -John Bligh, 22, and usury Robinson, 40
were indicted for a burglary' in the dwelling-house of Edwin
Leaf, in the city 'of London, and stealing a quantity of
ribbon, and some bandanna handkerchiefs, value 50/., his pro-
perty, and George Hirt, 47, was charged with feloniously
receiving a portion of the property, knowing it to have been
stolen.
Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins
defended Hirt. The other prisoners had no counsel.
Several witnesses were called in support of the charge
against the prisoners, but it will be unnecessary to give their
evidence in detail. The premises of the prosecutor, in Cheap-
side, were entered on the night of the 10th October last, by
the means of a skylight, the glass of which was removed,
and the property mentioned in the indictment stolen there-
from. It was proved that very shortly after the robbery,
the prisoner Hirt was found dealing with a portion of the
stolen property, which he sold for 25/. to a person named
Mosenden, in the Minories. The other prisoners were taken
into custody in a room in their joint occupation, and upon a
search being made, a number of duplicates referring to other
portions of the stolen property were found on their premises,
as were also a quantity of skeleton keys, and other house-
breaking implements.
Mr. Justice Cresswell having summed up, the jury almost
immediately returned a verdict of Guilty against all the
prisoners.
Mr. Wilkins-moved an arrest of judgment, on the ground
that the indictment merely charged the first-mentioned pri-
soners with having burglaricntsly entered the premises of the
prosecutor, and stolen a quantity of ribbon, and did not
charge them with entering the premises with intent to steal.
The Court overruled the objection, and the prisoners were
called up for judgment. Davis and Robinson, who were
proved to have been before convicted of felony, were sen-
tenced to be transported for life, and Hirt was sentenced to
be transported for ten years.
Peter Patric was indicted for feloniously cutting and
wounding Josiah Lawton, with intent to maim and
disable him, or to do him grievous bodily harm.
There were other counts in the indictment, which in
some respects varied the form of the charge.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Wad-
dington, and Mr. Johnson appeared for the Crown ;
Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Wilde defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner is
the captain of a merchant-vessel, called the Lydia, and
in the month of December that vessel was in the
Western Ocean, on her voyage home from Bahia to
England. The prosecutor, who is an American, was a
seaman on board the vessel, and it would appear, that
prior to the transaction in question taking place, there
had been some disagreement between the prosecutor and
the mate of the vessel. Upon December 19, the prosecu-
tor'had to go aloft to make some alterations in the rigging,
and he found it drawn so tight that he could not do
what he wanted, and he came down upon deck and
asked the mate:for a•marline spike to break or cut the
rigging with. The mate asked him whether he thought
that he carried marline-spikes in his pocket, and the
prisoner interfered, and insisted that the rigging should
not be cut, and ordered him aloft to perform his duty
properly,,. The prosecutor, upon this, again went up the
rigging ; and, after a short time had elapsed, the pri-
soner ordered him upon deck, and said he had a g' od
mind to give him a flogging for his misconduct. The
prosecutor had, before this, abused the mate, and
called him a lubber. The captain then ordered the pro-
secutor to be taken aft, and some of the crew obeyed
the command ; but the moment the prosecutor was
released, he rushed at the mate and threw him down
across a water-cask, and while they were in this position
the mate called out for help, and said that the prosecutor
was " gouging" him. The prisoner, who had a sheathed
sword in his hand, rushed at the prosecutor, and made
several cuts at him, inflicting injuries upon his arm,
shoulder, and hands, the little finger of one of which
was cut oft: The prosecutor called out that he was
bleeding to death, upon which the prisoner desisted,
and gave directions that every attention should be paid
to hint.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.?
MANSION-,HOUSE.
On Thursday the Lord Mayor received the following
note from the British Consul at Boulogue-sur-Mer:—
" British Consulate, Boulogne-sur-bier, Feb. 7,1844.
My Lord,--I have the honour to convey to your
Lordship two infant children, named James Stephen
and Robert William, illegimate by Lydia Sanders, of
Croydon, lately deceased in this place, and as they are
totally destitute, I have no other alternative but to
forward them to your Lordship, which I now do by
the stewardess of the Emerald steam-packet, who has
kindly
_taken charge of them. Inclosed are the cer-
tificates of their baptism.---I have the honour to be, my
Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
" W. HAMILTON,
" British Consul at Boulogne-sur-Mer."
Yesterday Mr. Jopp, the relieving-officer of the City
of London Union, caused the children, one of whom ap-
peared to be about five, and the other between two and
three years old, to be brought into the presence of the
Lord Mayor, and stated, that having observed that a
warrant had been issued for the apprehension of one
Lydia Sanders, upon suspicion of being concerned in
one of the will forgeries with other parties, it occurred
to him that it would be proper to communicate the fact
of the remarkable coincidence to his Lordship, in order
that some inquiry might be made about the mother, for
the sake of the pending investigation; as well as with
the view of relieving the City parish in which the chil-
dren were landed from the burden of maintaining them.
By the new poor-law it was regulated that, from and
after the year 1834, illegitimate ildren should follow
the settlement of the mother, and as it was probable th;it
the difficulty of ascertainizg the settlement of the ruo•
ther in this case would be very great, the children would
be fastened upon the parish in which they were landed,
which was that of *t. Magnus, London-bridge—an in-
tolerable hardship upon that parish, into which almost
all the steamers disgorged the poor and helpless of all
nations.
The Lon") MAYOR clesirgd to know whether anything
could be collected from the children themselves as to
their father and mother ?—Mr. Jopp replied that the
children could not speak a word of English, and were
very bashful-; and all he could understand from their
answers to the questions put to them was, that their
mother was dead, and their father was in Paris.
Mr. Goodman (the Chief Clerk to the Lord Mayor),
said it appeared from the certificate of baptism that one
of the children was baptised in 1839, and the other in
1842.

'The LORD MAYOR expressed a wish that the British
Consul had transmitted to him a certificate of the death
of the mother. His Lordship did not suppose there was
anything. except the name to warrant a suspicion that
the mother of the children was the person charged with
having been concerned in the alleged will forgeries, and
that the fact of the admitted illegitimacy of the chil-
dren confirmed the belief that the deceased was not the.
in(livithutl about whoth so much had been said, as the
former was a married woman.
Mr. Jopp said that the younger child was evidently
in a bad state of health, and had a sore head. They
were both without more clothes than they were co-
vered with.
The LORD MAYOR desired that the children should be
taken care of in the house, and that the parish officers
should forthwith write to the French Consul for a certi-

cate .of the death of the mother, and every other infor-
mation that could be obtained, relative to her, with the
view of ascertaining the precise place of her settlement.
We believe his Lordship also directed that the elder boy
should be taken to the Giltspur-street Compter, into the
presence of Mrs. Dorey.
A CASE or GREAT DISTRESS.—Mr. Harding, Mr.
Obbard, and several other gentlemen of the Court of
Common Council, waited upon the Lord Mayor to re-
present the case of four poor helpless children, whose
father, Mr. Mark Anthony Harris, lately a respectable
merchant iu this city, but utterly ruined by the awful
fires of Hamburgh, poisoned himself in a state of insanity
occasioned by extreme distress. The mother of these
poor yoimg creatures—the eldest of whom, they said,
was not I'2 years of age—died about six years ago, and
the ,unfortunate father, after having struggled against
that heavy affliction, which was dreadfully aggravated
by-the ealanlity which reduced him to such a condition
as not to be able to procure them a morsel of bread,
sank under the weight. On the table of his bed-room
the following, in his hand-writing, as proved upon the
Coroner's inquest, was found :

In cross-examination, it appeared that the prisoner
seemed very much surprised that he had cut the pro-
secutor, and that the moment he ascertained that he had
done so, he did all he could to stop the bleeding, and
afterwards furnished the prosecutor with every necep
nary he required from his own cabin. The prosecutor
also admitted that he had spoken very uncivilly to the
mate, and although he denied that he attempted to
" gouge" him, be admitted that during the scuffle with
the mate, and while the latter was thrown down across
the water-cask, his fingers accidentally got very near
the mate's mouth, and it was at the same time explain;.d
that the operation of " gouging" was performed by
forcing the thumbs into the mouth, and then scooping
out th eyes with the fingers. The prosecutor also said
that there was some talk among the crew of his having
said that he was sorry he did not cut the mate's-
- but he denied having once made use of such an
expression. It was likewise proved, that upon one occa-
sion, when the prosecutor was at the helm, and all the
crew were on the look-out for a shoal, lie veered the
ship two or three points, and thus endangered the safety
of the ship.
• Some others of the crew were examined in corrobora-
tion of the evidence of the prosecutor, but their test iniony
did not in any material respect alter the complexion of
the case as detailed in the above narrative ; and all the
Witnesses admitted, in cross-examination, that the pri-
soner's conduct to them had been uniformly kind
throughout the voyage, and no dispute had taken place
with any of the crew except the prosecutor, and no man
had been punished on hoard the vessel. It was admitted
the prisoner, when he first attacked the prosecutor, struck
him with the sheathed sword, and it appeared very pus-
sib!e that the scabbard had come off accidentally during
the fray.
Medical evidence was adduced to show that the in-
' juries inflicted upon the prosecutor. were of a somewhat
serious character ; but it appeared that he was now
nearly recovered. _ _

"Christmas-day, 1848.
" There is no hope ; no more. Oh God, forgive me !
lam in despair ! What will become of my dear chil-
dren ? God will protect them--I cannot. But the un-
fortunate father can only bless them.—M. A. II."
The LORD Mayon raid the circumstances of the case
caused a most fearful sensation in the City, in which
the character of the deceased gentleman was well known
to be respectable, and he should feel much gratification
in rendering the poor orphans any service in his power.
Mr. Harding declared that they had not a relative in
this country, and they were without even a change of
linen. There were three girls and one boy, and he was
sure that if the benevolence which so abounded in the
metropolis were attracted to the deplorable condition of
the destitute daughters and son of the unfortunate Mr.
Harris, by. Iris Lordship's charitable interposition,, the
appeal would not be ineffectual.

"rhe LORD MAYOR—I shall most willingly receive
subscriptions for the benefit of the orphans, and any
other service in whatever form which the judiciously
directed benevolence of those who are constantly in
may render ; and I have ro
public press to give its
powerful aid even at this time of pressing and important
ttifouuesbtt ofof ttlie:rviv,iiinligngiobijeeessts,
of
the
business,
The applicant thanked his Lordship in the name of
the poor orphans, and, stated that subscriptions would
be received, not only at the Mansion-house, but at Ran-
som's Bank, No. 1, Pall-mall East ; and by Mr. Har-
ding, at 164, Fleet-street.
. . C LERKEN WELL.
Joseph Kinq, the driver of a cabriolet, badge 8,148,
was charged with the following outrageous conduct by
Mr. Samuel Warren, a barrister, residing at 35, Woburn-
Place, Russell-square, and 12, 'King's Bench-walk,
Temple.
Mr. Warren deposed that, on Monday evening last,
he engaged the- defendant in Chancery-lane to convey.
him to his house in Woburn-place ; when. they arrived
there witness handed him a shilling as his fare. The
defendant murmured, and used abusive language, say-
ing,-ou . " "remonstratediie
nleatclyou in my cab I will spill
i with him, but he because
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more insolent, exclaiming that a shilling was not enough
for driving such a distance, and through the snow. Wit-
ness asked him to show his badge; but he refused doing
so, and when the footman seized the horse by the head,
the defendant said • he would cut him with his whip ;
after much difficulty witness succeeded in taking down
the number of the badge, and then the defendant inso-
lently demanded his card, which witness refused to give,
telling him that was his house, and that he knew where
to find him. Witness was going up the steps to his door,
when the defendant ran before him, and placing himself
in the door-Way, refused to allow him to enter. Witness
asked if he meant to prevent him going into his own
house,! upon which he demanded 4d. mare, and pushed
him, complainant, from the door. After a struggle wit-
ness succeeded in getting into the hall, and, as his wife
was nervous, bolted the door in order to prevent further
annoyance. The prisoner, however, rushed against it
shoulder foremost, and burst it in. Witness was stand-
ing near the door at the time, had he been an inch nearer
he believed he would have been killed by the door com-
ing in collision with his head. The defendant renewed
his insolence, and a policeman was sent for, who removed

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Wilkins then made a most able address to the
jury on behalf of the prisoner ; and he observed that he
was in a condition to prove that he was a man of courage
and humanity, • and quite incapable of committing an
attack upon any person under his command, unless
under circumstances:of great provocation, and that he
would not do it then unless it became absolutely neces-
sary for the safety of the vessel, and the lives of the
passengers under his-, charge. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to 'say, that the prosecutor had miscon-
ducted himself most grossly, and upon his attacking the
mate and the latter calling out that the prosecutor was
" gouging" him, he rushed to the assistance of his offic,r
intending to strike the prosecutor with the sheathed
sword, hut the scabbard coming off', he, not knowing the
fact, had accidentally inflicted the injuries upon
Mr. Wilkins went on to say, that for forty years the
prisoner had served in the Royal Navy and in the titer-
I chant service, and had conducted himself uniformly with
the utmost bravery and honour ; and it was not Rely,
j therefore, that he should have misconducted himself in
the way 'described. '
i Evidence was' then adduced on behalf of the defendant,
to the effect that at Bahia, the prosecutor wished to
leave the vessel, but on the captain refusing to allow
him to do so, he said the captain should have no good
i out of him, and he would have his revenge before he got
home. The mate of the vessel also proved the fact, that
a few days befive the 19th of December, while all the
crew were on the look out for a shoal, the prosecutor
said, that he had knocked the ship about two or three
points in order that the captain might find
, fault with him, when he said he would have a -- row.
At this time the vessel was near a shoal, and the pro-
ceeding of the prosecutor was attended with great dan-
ger. The mate likewise proved that, on the night the
transaction took place, the captain ordered the prosecutor
to go forward, anctgave him a slight push ; upon which
he called out, " All . hands witness that I ani struck,"
and immediately knocked the captain down. He (the
mate) interfered, and the prisoner laid hold of him,
and swore_he would do for him. The captain then or-
dered two others of the crew to take Lawton aft. After
this Lawton again said that he would do for him, and
made a second blow at him, and then they had a scuffle,
anti Lawton got him on the water-cask, and put two of
his fingers into his mouth, and tried to " gouge " him.
He called out that the prosecutor was trying to do so,
and the captain .then came to his'assistance, when Law-
ton immediately turned upon him and knocked him
against the rails. The captain then struck the prosecu-
tor once or twice on the head with something he had in
his hand, and he at the same time said, " You scoun-
drel, do you-mean- to murder us ?" Shortly afterwards
the prosecutor appeared to be bleeding, and the captain
was very much surprised at it. The mate also proved
that, during his scale with the prosecutor, he was cut
upon the foot in two places. The mate in his evidence
denied that he saw a sword in the captain's hand, anti
also said that he had not even seen a sword on board
the vessel.

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him with much difficulty.
The prisoner acknowledged the offence, and, crying
bitterly, entreated of the Magistrate not to send him to
prison. His wife had been in Ilanwell Lunatic Asylum
for the last two years, and there was nobody to take
care of his three little children if he were imprisoned.
Boyson, the warrant officer, said he believed the
man's statement was correct ; when he served the sum-

mons he saw three little children in the prisoner's apart-
ment in Eagle-street, lied Liop-square, without any
body to take care of them. The place seemed very
wretched.

Mr. Wilkes; overseer of St. Andrew's, Holborn, was
sent for, and he recollected having obtained admission
for Sarah King, two years ago, at !Unwell. •
Mr. Warren said that he did not wish to press the
charge against the prisoner under such circumstances.
The prisoner's master and other respectable persons
came forward, and gave him a good character, and Mr.
COMBE, in consequence, mitigated the penalty, 51., which
he had in the first instance imposed, to 10s. and the costs.

Philip Ramsey Allen, the steward of the vessel, proved
that 'as the captain was going up the stairs from his ca-
bin to the deck with his sword in his hand, a part of the
leather sheath fell to the gtound, and he picked it up,
and now produced it..-He also proved that he followed
the captain upon the deck, and saw him give the prose-
cutor four or live " licks" with the sheathed sword. He
had often tried to draw the blade from the sheath, but
could not do so on account of it being fixed in so tightly.
He 'heard the prosecutor say that he was bleeding, and
the captain said he would not believe him. When, how-
ever, he found that he really was wounded, he gave
witness directions to get some linen to dress the wound.,
and to tear up his shirts, •or anything else for that pur-
pose. The witness likewise stated that the prisoner
was a very kiri'd captain, and always behaving well to
his crew.

In' answer to a question from the Court. He:(wit-
ness) said that he never saw the sword again after the
evening in question. •
Mr. Banner, a medical gentleman of Liverpool, who
saw the prosecutor ip the Northern Hospital at that
place, expressed' hi opinion that none of the injuries he
had received were likely to be dangerous to life. He
also said that, in his opinion, such a portion of a sword
as might have been-covered by the portion of the broken
sheath produced, would have caused the injuries that
the prosecutor appeared to have received. The wound
that. appeared in'front of the scalp he did not think was,
inflicted by any cutting instrument, but was more likely
to have been occasioned by such an instrument as a
handcuff, a pair of which, it appeared, the prisoner had
on his hands at the time he attacked the prosecutor.
A number of highly respectable witnesses, merchants
and shipowners in Liverpool and London, were then
called, and they gave the prisoner a high character for
hunianity and benevolence of disposition.
Captain Henderson, the Commander of the Gorgon
steam frigate at the siege of Acre, proved that the pri-
soner was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1815, and
always bore the character of a gallant and humane man.
Captain, Chappell, another officer in her Majesty's
Navy, gave sinallar ,testimony. .

the cause of Mr. Lambert, and concluded with im-
pressive appeals for them to be ready at their post of
duty. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lambert's arrival was
announced, and received with very great applause.
Mr. LAMBERT then rose, and said he was sorry he
could not address them at any length, as he had
another engagement to attend to ; however, by their
kind permission while there, he would do himself the
honour of saying a few words. on a subject which
they were pretty well aware of, he alluded to the %-a-
ea-my which had occurred in their municipal corpora-
tion.—(Cheers.) Now he was quite satisfied that if
they properly exerted themselves, and their friends
proved true, then the result of the election would be
what they desired, and what their adversaries antici-
pated.—(hear, hear.) At the same time, were they
not thus to exert themselves, then they might depend
that success would attend the wily efforts of their op-
ponents. By the very numerous and respectable as-
semblage then present, it was quite evident that they
were now in such a positiorias to be enabled to pro-
perly test what their real strength was, and which
it would be very • satisfactory for them to ar-
rive at.—(llear, hear, and cheers.) That is, they
Would by this test know who their real' friends were,
and who in heart were their opponents ; and they
would further know whether in the ward of St.
Thomas they were in a majority or minority. He
would therefore exhort them to diligence and perse-
verance and he would also exhort them to encourage
a conciliatory spirit and unanimity one with another,
and they may rely that truth and justice must be the
stars for them to sail by. And they may
also rely that if they suffered themselves to be
diverted from those paths, just in proportion would
their cause suffer by it.—(Cheers.) All petty ani-
mosity should be entirely done away with, and it was
to their interest, equally as much as it was their
duty, to make as many friends as they possibly could.
And they must bear in mind that a faithful discharge
of their political duty was as much a part of the
Christian code, as that of loving their enemies. And
if they were not prepared to love their political
enemies, then they were not fit to carry on their
cause ; and this was the test by which they must
alone hope to carry the day.—(Hear, hear.) And
if they could not love their political enemies, then he
would tell them that they could not expect to suc-
ceed ; but if so, then there was something in their
enemies' hearts which would at length yield to kind
reasoning; and this they must do by continuing to
bring before them truth, which must prevail! Truth
was of a very slow progress, and so was Christianity,
which had now been in the world 1,800 years : and
the triumph of their cause may also be very slow,
but at the same time it was certain.—(Cheers.) He
had now much stronger hopes of success in the forth-
coming contest than he had on the last occasion ; and
he would only tell them this, that if they did not
carry their point this time it would not be the fault
of their enemies but of themselves.—(Mr. Lambert
here directed the attention of the meeting to an
anonymous letter, which he said he received subse-
quently to the late municipal election contest for St.
Martin's Ward, when Mr. Kelsey, the Tory candi-
date, defeated him by only sixteen votes, and when a
majority of at least forty votes was expected.) Mr.
Lambert also said he had abundant proof in his pos-
session that this criticism on the late election was in
the hand-writing of a gentleman of independent for-
tune and of undoubted respectability, who had always
hitherto acted with the Conservative party, and who
vote l against him on that last occasion. The follow-
ing is a copy of this anonymous epistle :
" Salisbury, Jan. 10, 1844.

IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
...s.ND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

Dividend
per

LONDON, FRWAY, FEB. 9.

igames of Com-
panies.

Annum.

Canals:._
Ashton and Oldham
Ashby-do-la-Zouch..av
Basingstoke
Breckneck & Abergay
Birmingham, I-16th sh
Do. and Liverp. Jinx
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry ..... ......
Crom ford
Dudley . .....
Derby.— ..... ........
Danube and 'Mayne
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash ...........«:.»
Forth end Clyde
Grand Junction
(hand Union
Grand Surrey
Grand Western . . ...

• ...
Glamcrgansh., ay.. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley.
Grantham .
Huddersfle.l.. ay.
Kennet .r.ad Avon a
kv
Lancaster
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester
Leicester & Northansp,,
Loughborough ..... ...av
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowlii•ay
Mersey and Irwell
Maceestleld
Neath
Oxford

Peak F.,rest av
'Regent's (ot Lontion)..
Rocndate av
Shropshire.

Somerset Coal
Loci Fund &Oa
Stafford and Worcester
Shrewsbury

" GLORIOUS TRIUMPH.

" Such was the heading of a handbill announcing the
close of the poll at the election of a town-councillor for
the Ward of St. Martin, the result of which was much
as it was expected it would be, except that the majority
for Mr. E. E. P. Kelsey was about sixteen less than
even his own party thought it would be—indeed, some
of that party imagined that Mr. Lambert would not poll
twenty votes. However, no one expected that Mr.
Lambert would succeed on that occassion ; but it was a
good beginning, and promises a better result in future.
" It is to be hoped the electors will not hereafter be
dictated to by half a dozen ultra-Tories, who have the
last few years carried everything their own way in Sa-
lisbury, disbursed the borough funds just as they
pleased, and distributed the city charities, and most of
the subordinate offices, amongst their own party.
" The election busy-bodies were going about last
week, saying, You must not vote for a Catholic,'
(Rowan Catholic, no doubt, they meant); you must
support the Church,' and such twaddle ; as if the Pro-
testant Church would be at all endangered by a Roman
Catholic becoming a town-councillor. Some few of,the
electors were led away by such an argument, but many
were too sensible to be misled : they know that Roman
Catholics, Dissenters, Quakers, &c., are all by law
eligible fur seats in the town-council as well as in Par-
liament ; and it is but just that all sects and easses
should b represented in offices of town and state.
" In Salisbury, I am happy to say, there is a great
deal of talent and ability amongst the Liberal party;
and it is a pity they have not come forward during the
last four years for the different offices. They should
recollect the maxim of Nothing venture, nothing
have.' They should consider what has been gained by
their party in the kingdom during the last fifteen or
twenty years."
Now the Conservative party denied the existence of
such correspondence, and said that if such did exist
the author was not a Conservative gentleman (as he
had stated in his printed' address). But the evidence
which he (Mr. L) could submit, to substantiate his
assertion, would convince the most sceptical party,
and he was perfectly willing to refer it to the most
ultra-Tory. He could offer evidence to show that
the stamp on the paper of .this anonymous letter cor-
responded with another sheet of paper on which the
author wrote him a letter in his own name previously;
that precisely the same abreviations were employed
in these two letters, and on close comparison had
found that the author wrote on both occasions
with the same " black lines," though the first letter
he had received from, him was nine moDths ago.
Still he owed this gentleman no and his
letter was a proof that they had conducted them-
selves in a proper manner.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
And if there.was one among them that had not acted
properly, he was altogether unworthy of the cause
which he espoused, and .should be disregarded as such.
—(Cheers.) And the same remark he may apply to
the anonymous writer, or any other of his party. All
he could say was, that had any of his (Mr. Lambert's)
party written and published such a letter, he ought
to be viewed by them in a very suspicious manner.
As he had told them on a former occasion, so he would
now repeat, that ho was prepared to fight their battles
again and again, till, by dint of perseverance, they
got a majority.—(Cheers.) Some person had made a
reniark by saying, " Get a majority in your munici-:
pal affairs, and then you may leave your other
matters to the boys I " There ,was great
truth in this, for he had heard that certain
underlings, good men at heart, had been
heard to confess that, in their hearts they
were on their side--(Cheers) —but were compelled to
vote against their consciences, in order to secure their
own living. Now he would enumerate about six of
those men, who, if they. thus had a majority, would.
be on their side—(Hear, hear)—and these six men
would reduce the majority of 47 to that of 35.
(Cheers.) Then he would observe, that it was not
only these men, but there were sextons, bell-ringers,
and others, to whom the same remarks were applica-
ble, so that it was for them to carry out their system,.
and finally they would obtain a majority for Members
to serve in Parliament. ,He wished to impress on
them, that they wanted nothing but honest men on
their side; they wanted, as it had been before said,
at the election, no sneaking, shirking, or snivelling
fellows among them, for such characters he detested.
—(Hear, hear.) And if they had none
of that character among them, then they
would soon be enabled to discover who were their
real friends. They, would have no battledore and
shuttlecock men, who could be tossed first to one side
and then to the other, backwards and forwards con-
tinually—(Laughter) —for if they were not honest
and-firm to their cause, let them go on the opposite
side, and God speed them. So if there was any man
in the opposite ranks that was not firm to their
cause, let him • come to their side, and they would
receive him. And if they established themselves on
a good basis, on the .principles of truth and justice,
they must at length prevail.—(Cheers.) With regard
to the forthcoming contest, he would repeat that he.
had strong hopes of success—(Reiterated cheering)
—if they properly exerted themselves, and which they
appeared most determined to do. He would now
thank them for their very kind attention, and re-
gretted that he could not remain longer with them.
In conclusion, he most sincerely trusted that success
might attend their honest endeavours.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Lambert then retired, amidst great cheering,
after which his health was responded to with deafen-
ing
_applause.
Mr. EDWARD VANDiNTIOFF next addressed the
meeting at some length, in the course of which he
alluded to the qualifications of Mr. Lambert as being
very eminent for the office to which he aspired, whe-
ther they viewed him as a 'man of property, of great
attainments, moral rectitude, goodness of heart, and
charitable in all his views; constructions, and actions,

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The speaker then eloquently pointed out the *great
good that could and had been effected by the instru .
mentality of non-electors, and sat down amid great

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applause.
Several other gentlemen followed at great length,
till a late hour had arrived, when the meeting broke
up in a peaceable and orderly manner.

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LETTERS TO THE lONIAN ISLANDS.--The following
notice was issued on Thursday at the General Post-office, St.
Martin's-le-Grand :—" On and from the Ist of March next,
the postage on letters addressed to the lonian Islands, marked
to be forwarded via Southampton,' may be paid in advance
or not at the option of the sender. It must be distinctly
understood, that this regulation applies only to letters con-
veyed by packet, via Southampton. The postage on all other
letters, via France, addressed to the lonian Islands, mast be
paid in advance as at present. The postage on letters, via
Southampton? I#, 7d.; via Marseilles, la. 13(1."

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On this day, in the year 1555 Dr. Rowland Tay-
lor, vicar of Hadleigh, Suffolk, one of the first towns in
London: Printed and Publisho:', 1y1111:111)0 YOUN.6-'ol'fir
England that entertained the Reformation, suffered death
there for misting the establiShment.of Papal T 04114111 lila 112, Strand, at The Sun (Micro No. 112, Strand, 10
church, C9tutty of Middlesex, Sat clay, February 10, 144,