The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUBBEL9, OCT. 10.—We learn that M. Guinotte and
M. Von Albrouk, who left Belgium at the end of June,
to go to Mexico, there to direct the construction of a rail-
way from Vera Cruz to St. Juan, have safely arrived
there, and have been received in the most kindly manner
by the Mexican authorities.
The Nouvellest des Flanders says:—" Some journals
have stated that the Rev. Father Walle was going shortly
to Guatemala, and that the principal object of his mission
was to found a college at St. Thomas. A person very
well informed gives us the following account :—' It is not
at 'St. Thomas, but in Guatemala, the chief city of the
Republic, that a college is to be founded. The city of
Guatemala has 40,000 inhabitants, and no college
has yet been established there. It is at the re-
quest of the Government of Guatemala and the
reiterated applications of the worthy Archbishop
of that city that Father Walla returned to Belgium, and
afterwards went to Rome, to confer with his superiors
on the establishment of the college, in the Republic of
Guatemala. The establishment of a college is only the
secondary object of Father Walla ; the principal is the
establishment of a new mission, to be called the mission
of Guatemala, of which Father Walle will be the chief.
Among the members of the Society already selected to
form part of this mission, there are two Italians, one
German, and three Spaniards ; all the others are 13el-
gians. The necessary preparations will not allow the
missionaries to sail in less than two or three months.''
BRITSSEL6. OCT. 11.—The King is expected to return
from Ardenne to-morrow.
We expressed, two days ago, a wish that the postal
convention, concluded between England and Belgium,
might be carried into effect as soon as possible. We
now learn from England that the treaty was definitely
signed on the 9th. M. Delpierre, belonging to the Bel-
gian Legation at London, is to set out for Brussels to-
morrow (the 11th), as the bearer of the treaty.
BELGIAN FUND3.—Bausasme, Oc-r. li.
Aetna Debt, 2}4 per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per 101%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. 042
Three per
-- Thirty-seven ns, ditto
1036
1544 ...... 101%
Loan of City, 1E43, Four per Cent.
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent SO
,Issue of 1541.... ........ ....... ..... -
--Brussels Papers. Oct. 17.
AWITRIAN FUNDS.—.Vialina, OCT S.
Five par Cents. Metalliques 11054
Four par ......
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, OCT. 12. —The RCM N. Pococke, Fellow of
Queen's College, has been nominated to be a Public
Examiner in Disciplinis Mathernaticis et Physicis.
There will be an election at Queen's College, on Thurs-
day, November 14, of an Exhibitioner on the Michel
foundation at that college. Candidates must be natives
of the province of Canterbury, between fifteen and
twenty years of age. The usual certificate and testi-
monials must be delivered to the Provost by the respec-
. i ye candidates on or before the 9th of November. The
xamination will commence on Monday, tho 12th, at
t en A.M. _ _

On the 31st inst. there will be an election at Lincoln
College to a fellowship, open to natives of Lincoln.
Candidates are required to represent satisfactory proof
of the place of their birth, and testimonials of good con-
duct, to the rector, before twelve o'clock on Saturday,
t he 26th.

A convocation was holden to. day, at twelve o'clock, to
• lect a yeoman law beadle, in the room of Mr. W. Lyde,
who died on Thursday last, when Mr. J. Shepperd was
chosen to succeed him.

GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL.—A general Court-
martial assembled on Friday, at Chatham Barracks, of
which Sir Michael Creagh, K.H., Lieutenant-Colonel of
the 11 th, was President, and Mr. George Piper, late
Lieutenant-Colonel, Deputy-Judge Advocate, for the
trial of Charles Harris, a private soldier of the 58th
Regiment. There were three charges against the pri-
soner. 1. For having at Chatham, on or about the even-
ing of the 24th of May, or morning of the 25th of May,
1844, effected his escape from the main-guard, when a
prisoner there, awaiting the sentence of a General Court-
martial. 2. For having, on or about the evening of the
24th of Nfay, or morning of the 25th of May, 1844, de-
serted from the detachment of the 58th Regiment, sta-
tioned at Chatham, and not returned until brought back
under a military escort at Chatham, on or about the 6th
of August, 1844. 3. For having, at or about the time
specified in the first charge, lost through neglect, or de-
signedly made away with, the following articles of his
regimental clothing and necessaries, via, one shirt, one
pair of cloth trousers, one pair of boots, oce pair of socks,
and one forage cap. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. It
appeared the prisoner, on the evening in question, was
locked up in the main guard-room, in the presence of
the officer and sergeant of the guard, and on examining
the prisoner's room the next morning the prisoner
was not to be found. To have effected his escape, the
prisoner must have passed through the guard, in which
there was upwards of twenty men, besides the guard
outside on duty. The lock on the door examined had
not been disturbed, and therefore it was evident that
some of the men on duty at the guard must have been
accessory to the prisoner's escape. The circumstance
created considerable sensation in the barracks at the
time, and Sir T. Willshire, Bart., commandant of the
garrison, had all the men that composed the guard that
night before him and other commanding officers, but
nothing whatever could be learned by what means the
prisoner escaped, and after a few days' patient investi-
gation, Sir T. Willshire ordered every man of the guard
to Tilbury Fort, there to await their embarkation for
India, as he could no more trust ono of them in the bar-
racks at Chatham. Th• officer that was on duty that
night belonged to the 68th, and he had previously left
for Dover with a detachment. The sentence of the
Court will not be known until confirmed by the Horse
Guards.

DEATH OF AN OPIUM EATER.-011 Friday, Mr.
William Baker, jun., deputy-coroner, held an inquest at
the George and Vulture, high-street, St. George-in-the-
East, on view of the body of Mr. Benjamin James Scott
Parkhurst, aged 34, the son of a gentleman of indepen-
dent property, residing in Essex. Mr. Rodie Parkhurst,
Sack vile-street, Piccadilly, clerk in a Government office,
said that he was the brother of the deceased, who followed
no professional occupation and lived upon his property.
He has travelled in China, and nearly in all parts of the
world. Witness saw him a fortnight ago, when he appeared
in good health, and in his usual spirits. Witness is not
aware of any circumstance to produce unhappiness, except
some slight difference that he had with his family. He
never heard his brother threaten that he would commit
self-destruction. He had a habit of eating opium, which
he contracted while in China. lie was about to leave
the country for Algoa Bay in a ship which was now in
the London Docks. Robert Mutton, eating-housekeeper,
No. 156, Ratcliff-highway, stated that last Monday week
the deceased took apartment/ at his house, intending- to
remain till a vessel (the Jim Crow) in which he was about
to embark for Algoa Bay, was ready to sail. He drank no
beer nor spirits, and observed that he had been accustomed
to drink only water all his life. lie was acquainted with a
young woman named Eliza Brazier, an inmate of \Yap-
ping workhouse. On Monday afternoon, about half-past
ti se o'clock, the deceased returned home very unwell. He
observed that he was accustomed to eat and smoke opium
to allay a nervousness he was subject to, and that he had
just swallowed some which had affected him differently
from any he had taken before. Between two and three
o'clock in the morning, witness and one of his lodgers as-
sisted the deceased to bed, when as he was getting worse,
Mr. Garratt, a surgeon was sent to, whose assistant in-
stantly attended and applied the stomach-pump. Deceased
died about three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. The amount
of 91. 7s. 6d. was in his trousers pocket. By the Coroner.
I am of opinion that the deceased did not take the opium
to destroy life. The deceased stated that Eliza Brazier was
living with him in Devonshire, and that he wanted her to
marry him. She refused, upon which he paid her expenses
to London. She was soon after compelled to enter Wap-
ping workhouse. Mr. M. B. Garratt, surgeon, New-road,
St. George's-in-the-East, said he saw the deceased about
three o'clock on Tuesday morning, when he was suffer-
ing from the effects of opium, for which he was treated.
He made a post mortem examination of the body, and
found some portions of these grains of crude opium in
the coutents of the stomach. At the base of the brain
also was about half an ounce of serous fluid. He attri-
buted death to the opium, which had produced the ap-
pearance at the base of the brain. William Stanley,
porter, at Wapping workhouse, said that the deceased
called at the workhouse on Friday and Sunday, to in-
quire after Eliza Brazier. On Sunday he gave witness
five shillings for her, and he requested witness to tell
her to reform her ways, and that he (deceased) hoped
that she would not follow such an abandoned life as she
had been leading. Verdict—" That the deceased died
from the effects of opium taken by him," but in what
state of mind he was at the time, there was not sufficient
evidence to the jury.
MR. O'CONNEI.L.—We have been informed that
Mr. O'Connell is expected to land at this port about the
middle of next month, on his promised visit to England,
and that it is in contemplation to entertain him on that ,1
occasion at a public dinner, to be given at Clifton.—
Bristol Allercury.

ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Tuesday eve-
ning an alarm was given that a fire was raging at Titton,
one mile and a half from Stourport ; upon arriving at
the scene of devastation it was discovered that a large
barn, with four bays, and a stable belonging to Mr.
Williams, of Titton, were completely enveloped in flames,
containing the whole of the year's produce of wheat,
barley, and oats, and likewise a waggon and other agri-
cultural implements. The engine from Stourport ar-
rived in aboat an hour and a half after it WAS on fire, but
too late to save the building of grain. Ilow it originated
is not known, as many persons had passed a few minutes
before, and all was apparently sate. It is said that the
stock was insured, but not to the full amount.— Worcester
IteraM

Lord Ashley is making a tour through Lancashire
to inquire into the operation of the Factory Act. Last
Monday he visited several of the establishments in Bul-
ton.--Leeaq Merely y.
There were as many as twenty-two funerals on Sun-
day afternoon at St. John's-wood Chapel, ItegeLes-
park, a larger number than was ever known there, with
the exception of when the cholera prevailed, when there
were sometimes as many as twenty-eight or thirty. The
scene presented was deeply solemn and affecting.
Accounts from tho Leipsic tai: state, that it had
opened with considerable activity in the cloth depart-
ment. Large order had been received from Switzerland,
Italy, America, Sweden, and Norway, as well as for
eastern countries. The prices obtained for woollen
fabrics, are stated to be equal to those aeksd. Ordinary
nd middling cloths were two and a half dollars per
piece advance on the rates of Easter last. There were
complaints of a good deal of bad cloth being manufac-
tured, especially buckskins.—Leeds Mercury,

PUBLIC DINNER to the OFFICERS
of the FRENCH SQUADRON.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 13.—Last evening the grand en-
tertainment, prepared by the inhabitants of Portsmouth
and its vicinity, to the officers of the French squadron,
took place in the new extensive assembly-rooms known
as the Queen's-rooms, Portsea, when about 250 persons
of influence and respectability assembled to do honour
to the occasion. During the day the bells of the several
churches rung out merry peals at intervals, and the
arrival of two French men-of-war, the Inflexible line-of-
battle ship and the Belle Poule frigate at Spithead early
in the afternoon, eliciting the usual interchange of sa-
lutes, gave to the port an unusual excitement and
vivacity. In the front of the building devoted to the
banquet a spacious and beautiful marquee was erected,
from which a number of flaws and banners, containing
appropriate devices, floated during the day. The interior
was elegantly festooned, and the floor carpeted ; chairs
and sofas being placed round the sides for the accommo-
dation of the guests. The dining-room was tastefully
fitted up and festooned with flowers, evergreens, and
banners, in a similar style to that adopted in the
ball-room on the previous eyeing. Two extensive
side galleries, running the entire length of the spa-
cious apartment, were appropriated to the exclthive
accommodation of the ladies, who began to arrive at
five o'clock, and in a few minutes every available place
was completely filled. At the extreme end of the room,
behind the chairman, was a full-length portrait of her Ma-
jesty, painted for the Corporation, and removed from
the Exchange for the occasion. On the left was the tri-
colour of France, and on the right the banner of England.
The fronts of the galleries were ornamented with the
blended colours of the two nations, as also the pillars by
which they were supported. The "efrne band of the 76th
Regiment occupied the vestibule, and the string band
was placed in a temporary orchestra erected for the pur-
pose, opposite the chairman. At the dais or principal
table sat the most distinguished of the French and Eng-
lish guests, care being taken to place English gentlemen
who spoke the French language alternately with the
foreign officers. Another cross table, not quite so ele-
vated as the principal one, gave entertainment to officers
perhaps no less distinguished than those above, whilst
the remaining portion of the company were placed at the
longitudinal tables. The candelabra on the dais was all
massive geld, and silver candelabra lighted and orna-
mented the other tables. The dinner was supplied by
the übiquitous Gunter, whose name is redolent of all
that is recherche in gastronomy, and quite sustained the
celebrity he has so justly acquired.
At six o'clock the Mayor, Edward Casher, Esq., who
acted as chairman, accompanied by Sir Hercules Paken-
ham and the principal guests, entered the room, the band
of the 76th playing the Hanoverian March.
Admiral La Susse, having received an invitation from
her Majesty to dine at Windsor Castle, was necessarily
absent, as was also the English Admiral, Sir Charles
Rowley, whose protracted illness has prevented him
from taking any part in the festivities during the week.
The Gallant Admiral was not present at the ball, as
erroneously stated.
On the right of the chairman we observed Sir Her-
cules Pakenham, Captain Hernoux, Colonel Brandreth,
Baron de la Ronciere, Colonel Trevor, Captain Gobin,
&c. ; and on the left, Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, Cap-
tain Graeb, Lord Yarborough, Captain Bouet, Colonel
Carden, Mr. Weresquill, M. Vandenberg, Mr. Rawlin-
son (the Recorder), &c. The Rev. Mr. Livesay, do-
mestic chaplain to the Earl of Errol, said grace. The
scene during dinner was truly animating. After dinner
?Von nobia was sung by Messrs. Leech and the choristers
of Winchester Cathedral. The Chairman proposed " The
health of the Queen," which was received with the
warmest demonstrations of loyalty.
" God save the Queen."
The CHAIRMAN proposed, after a suitable preface,
" The health of his Majesty Louis Philippe the First,
King of the French."—(Drank with great applause.)
Glee—" Vive le Roi."
The next toast was " her Majesty the Queen Dow-
ager, the Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the
rest of the Royal Family." (This toast was drank with
every demonstration of affection, as was also the next
toast.)
" God save the Queen."
" Her Majesty Amelia, Queen of the French, and the
rest of the Royal Family of France."
Band, " La Parisienne."
M. VANDERBERG (the French Consul) rose to return
thanks on behalf of her Majesty the Queen of the French.
In doing so, he said he could assure the company that
her 'Majesty had felt deeply gratified at the cordial and
enthusiastic reception given to her Royal Consort on his
landing on the shores of Great Britain, and he was
quite certain that, when the proceedings f that evening
were communicated to her Majesty, she would be much
pleased with the compliment paid to her by so respecta-
ble a body as that which he then had the honour to ad-
dress ; in fact, that day would be looked upon in France
as one of the greatest in the history of the two coun-
tries.—(Cheers.) In the name of her Majesty and of
the Royal Family of France, he begged to return them
his thanks.
Admiral Sir HYDE Fanners briefly proposed the next
toast, " The Baron Mackau and the French Navy, par-
ticularly those officers who did them the honour of
dining with them that day."—(Great cheering.)
Commodore HERNOUX, Of the Belle Poule (Aide-de-
Camp to Prince Joinville, and a member of the Chamber
of Deputies), briefly returned thanks, and proposed,
" Lord Haddington and the British Navy."—(This toast
was drank with peculiar enthusiasm by the French
officers.)
Admiral Sir HYDE PARKER said it devolved on him to
return thanks for the honour done to the British Navy
by his friend, Capt. Hernoux, and the company, in drink-
ing to its success, and to the health of the Earl of Had-
dington. He only trusted that the English navy and the
French would long remain friends as they were at that
moment.—(Tremendous cheering.)
Major-General Sir ---TrvRCULES PAKENHAM next rose,
and gave " Marshal Soult and the French Army."—
(Cheers.) He was not presumptuous enough to attempt
any eulogy of the French army—the proud records of
their achievements were embleasoned in the brightest
pages of history, from the ancient to the most modern
times, and the reception given in this country to the
Duke of Dalmatia, when he carried the congratulations
of his Sovereign to her august Majesty the Queen of
England, on her coronation, convinced him that they
would join heartily and sincerely in drinking to the
Gallant Marshal and the chivalrous followers of his arms.
" Marshal Soult and the French Army."—(Drank
with three times three, and one cheer more.)
Captain GRAEB briefly returned thanks, and after pay-
ing a high compliment to British valour, concluded by
proposing "The Duke of Wellington and the British
Army."—(Prolonged cheering.)
Sir HERCULES PAXENHAM said he rose, on behalf his
Grace the Commander-in-Chief, and on behalf of the
British army, to return thanks for the honour they had
conferred on the service by the toast which they had
just drunk with so much cordiality and enthusiasm, and
although on these occasions it was generally esteemed a
matter of form, yet they were then assembled under
particular circumstances.—(Hear.) His Majesty Louis
Philippe, the chosen King of the French, was now on a
visit to their most Gracious Queen, and, for the first
time for a long period, there prevailed between the two
armies of both countries the most amicable understand-
ing, which, for the sake of the world in general, and the
promotion of the arts and sciences, he hoped would long
continue.—(Cheers.) Let it not be supposed that, if
this happy peace remain unbroken, their arms were
therefore to remain unemployed, for the cause of civili-
sation must necessarily demand their interference against
the barbarians of the world.—(Hear, hear.) History
bore testimony to the fact that the most rapid and moat
lasting improvements had been made by the armies of
civilised nations—witness the first introduction of the
elements of social improvement into this country, by
the legions of Julius Caesar.—(Hear, hear.) At that
time, instead of the scene which the galleries above him
now presented to his view, their maidens and matrons
were painted in blue, and rubbed over with yellow ochre.
—(Shouts of laughter.) Egypt, too, which had for a
long period been run over and trampled on by her relent-
less taskmasters, had at length her dormant energies
awakened by the great Napoleon.—(Hear, hear.)
Everybody must acknowledge the extraordinary
genius of that mighty warrior.—(Cheers.) And
what had their own troops accomplished in
India ? There they saw the country overrun by
a set of savage hordes—laid waste and devastated, and
made wretched and miserable by their barbarous prac-
tices, until reduced to a state of civilization by the force
of British arms ; and at the present moment the arms
of France were effecting the same desirable results in
the north of Africs.—(Hear, hear.) Improvements of
this kind, however, were beset with extreme difficulties,
but he had no doubt the Noble Prince who conducted the
French armies would lead them to ultimate success.
Come what might, he had no doubt that the armies of
England and France would preserve the honour and in-
dependence of their respective Sovereigns, and the in-
terest and welfare of the nations entrusted to their
charge.—(Cheers.)
JAMES HOSKINS, Esq. (ex-Mayor) rose to propose the
next toast. He said he was compelled to give a toast
which he had no doubt would be received with the
warmest approval by all who heard him ; but before he
proceeded to the subject he would avail himself of the
opportunity of congratulating the company on the aus-
picious occasion which had called them together. It
was impossible to regard that assembly without feeling
emotions of the most gratifying kind, for whether they
considered the individuals of whom it was composed, the
occasion on which it was convened, or the circumstances
by which it was attended, all conspired to make it a
spectacle of surpassing interest.—(Cheers.) It was an
occasion for the exhibition of personal courtesy and
national cordiality, for they were net together to do
honour to those brave and distinguished officers of the
French nation who honoured them with their presence
that evening, and through them to the great and im-
portant and intelligent nation of which they were citi-
zens.—(Loud cheers.) In the name, then, of the inha-
bitants of Portsmouth—in the name of the collective
population of the empire—in the name of his fellow-
countrymen, and he would add, his fair countrywomen
too—he tendered them a cordial, a sincere, and a hearty
welcome to the shores of Great Britain.—(G rent cheer-
ing.) It was most gratifying to the inhabitants of
Portsmouth to see around their civic board that day so
many of their own noble and distinguished officers of
both services joining in their festival to their highly
honoured Continental neighbours. It was delightful on
that occasion to look around the room, and see the
national banners of France and England blended toge-
ther—to behold the respective uniforms of naval and
military officers blended in harmonious unionwith the sober
costume of the citizens—emblems of the feeling which
should always exist between the officers and citizens of
both countries.—(Cheers.) It au impossible for them
to recollect the kind and cordial and magnificent re-
ekeipnt. osi..cat. given
rteoneth last }carheirhel4v., withoutd (Aileen
en Victoria t:)n)rei
e deter
mining that his Majesty Louis Philippe, on reaching the
ahores of Great Britain, should be received with demon-

strations of respect no less ardent, and a welcome re-
ception no less enthusiastic.—(Cheers.) And if British
voices sending forth their acclamations to the skies
spoke the sentiments of British hearts when his
Majesty placed his foot upon their soil, then he and his
officers must have been convinced of the sincerity of
their cordial reception. The inhabitants of Ports-
mouth must ever feel it as a high honour that they
were allowed to present an address to the King of the
French from the corporate body, and it was impossible
I that they could ever forget the dignity and cordiality
and kindness with which his Most Gracious Majesty
was pleased to receive them.—(Cheers.) The reply
which the august Monarch gave to their address, the
earnestnees, the kindness, and the energy with which he
spoke, convinced all who heard him that he was sincere
in what he said. The sentiments of that reply were
worthy of a King:--they were the offsprings of a sound
understanding—the emanations of a highly cultivated
mind, and the enthusiastic outpourings of a warm and a
generous heart.—(Cheers.) It was impossible that they
should ever forget the day on which that address and
reply were delivered, for his Majesty told them that his
visit was not a mere matter of state or of royal cere-
mony—that it was not confined merely to our beloved
Monarch, whom he held in the most distinguished
esteem, but that it had a more exalted object still—to
unite in cordiality and friendship the two great nations
over which these Monarchs reigned.—(Cheers.) Her
Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of England fully
participated in the peaceful maxims thus so strongly in-
culcated by the King of the French, and he was quite
sure that they would meet from the inhabitants of
France, as in this country, a willing and a generous re-
sponse.—(Loud cheering.) It was a source of great
happiness, and a matter for sincere congratulation, that
the respective Governments of France and England were
of a pacific tendency, and were under the guidance of
such men as Monsieur Guizot and Sir Robert Peel ; and
when he mentioned the names of these distinguished in-
dividuals, he was sure the company would agree with
him that they were men orhigh eminence and undoubted
honour, -rho were determined and prepared to carry out
the patriotic wishes of their respective Sovereigns, and
to secure to the inhabitants of both nations a solid, an
honest, and an honourable peace.—(Loud coeers.) He
had therefore great pleasure in proposing " Monsieur
Guizot and Sir Robert Peel, the respective Prime Minis-
ters of France and England.—(Drank with applause.)
Glee.
DANIEL HOWAIII), Esq., after a suitable preface, pro-
posed " Vice-Admiral Baron de la Susae, Commander-
in-Chief, and the officers of the French squadron."
Baron de la RONCIERE, A.D.C. to the Admiral, re-
turned thanks, and proposed " Admiral Sir Charles
Rowley, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth."
Song—" The Sea."
Captain ROWLEY said he thanked the company for the
kind and flattering manner in which his father's health
had been drank,, but, even had they refrained from testi-
fying their kindness in this manner, he had been desired
by his father to assure the Corporation and the assembled
company how deeply he regretted that the state of his
health prevented him from testifying, in person, to the
officers of the French nary, how sincerely he partici-
pated in the joy and satisfaction expressed by the citizens
at their sojourn in England. Before he sat down he
begged to express his gratification at the honour paid
him (Captain Rowley) personall by the visit of his
Majesty King Louis Philippe, he having been the officer
selected to steer his Majesty to the shores of Great
Britain.—(Hear, hear.) _ _

Mr. VANDERBERG proposed " The Count de St.
Aulaire, Ambassador of France to the Court of Great
Britain."—(Cheers.)
Captain BOUET returned thanks in the French lan-
guage, and gave the health of" Sir Hercules Pakenham,"
whom he described as an officer of great skill and
courage, who had treated the officers of the French
squadron with distinguished hospitality. This toast was
received with marked distinction.

Sir HERCULES PAKENHAM, in returning thanks, said
he could assure the company that, in the discharge of
his duties, he had only endeavoured to follow those in-
structions given him by her Majesty, and which con-
sulted alike the interests of the citizens and of the faith-
ful army devoted to her person and crown. The Gal-
lant General concluded by proposing, " The health of
the President, Edward, Cashes, Esq., Mayor of Ports-
mouth," to whom he paid an eloquent compliment on the
order and regularity maintained in the borough.
The CHAIRMAN said when he reflected on the scene
before him, it appeared to him as if he were labouring
under some illusion which he could hardly understand.
When he accompanied the deputation to address his
Majesty the King of the French he expected to be re-
ceived with great formality, and to find his Majesty
surrounded with great state, but instead of that his Ma-
jesty came running to the door to meet them, and :he
could hardly tell at first which was the King.—(A laugh.)
He did not appear like a foreign King at all, but like an
English gentleman returning to a long-remembered home
to revisit his friends.—(Cheers.) Mr. Hoskins, in his
speech, had called the French and English neighbours.
They were so, and, looking at the map and their rela-
tive position upon it, it was impossible that they could
ever be anything else. Their happiness, then, depended
entirely on themselves, and if they only acted towards
each other as they did with neighbours living in the
same street with them, or in their own families, there
could be no doubt that the most amicable relations would
continue to exist, producing daily reciprocal advantages.
—(Hear, hear.) But if, instead of acting in this man-
ner, they took every opportunity of insulting and an-
noying each other, the disastrous consequences would be
sufficiently apparent.—(Hear, hear.) Let them follow
the admirable example set them by their beloved Queen,
when she went to visit the King of the French at Eu,
and let their French neighbours be guided in their feel-
ings by the example of their King, who came amongst
his English friends like a father.—(Cheers.) After such
kindness, and the exhibition of such feelings on the part
of the French Monarch, the people of Portsmouth could
have no hearts if they did not do all in their power to
amuse and entertain their guests, and cement the friend-
ship between them.—(Cheers.)
Song—" The fine Old English Gentleman."
Dr. CHARLES Sccrr proposed " The health of the
Ladies."

Captain Count DE V.u.stoNT, of the Elan, rose and
said in French, that he had a most agreeable duty to
perform in proposing this next toast. Nothing could
equal the attention and hospitality with which the French
squadron had been received by the mayor and the in-
habitants of Portsmouth upon the present occasion, and
during their visit, and he hoped that the friendly feeling
now existing between the two countries would continue
for ever undisturbed.—(Cheers.) He concluded by pro-
posing, "The Vice-president, Stewards, and other Offi-
cers and Members of the Acting Committee."
Dr. E. G. Scorr returned thanks, _ _

Captain DIEUDONNE (of the Caiman), who also ad-
dressed the company in French, said he was exceedingly
happy to have the honour of proposing the next toast, as
it gave him an opportunity of expressing his acknow-
ledgments for the kindness and hospitality shown to
himself and his compatriots since their sojourn in Eng-
land, and in his own and their name he tendered them
his thanks. Ile had great pleasure in proposing "The
Mayor and the Inhabitants of the borough of Ports-
mouth, and its vicinity."
The MAYOR briefly returned thanks.
The RECORDER of Portsmouth ruse to propose the
next toast. He said he was called on at the eleventh
hour to address them without any notice or preparation
whatever, and perhaps if he consulted his own interest
he should have declined to respond to the invitation.
The toast which he had to propose embodied the entire
object of the meeting, and a part of it embodied, as he
believed, one of the chief objects of one of the first men
in Europe in visiting this country—he meant his Ma-
jesty Louis Philippe, the King of the French—which
was the continuance of concord and amity between the
two greatest nations of Europe.—(Hear, hear.) It was
this ,consideration which induced him to address the
company at that advanced stage of the proceedings, and
while he did so he might be allowed to say that, although
he had not had the honour, like the Gallant Captain
(Rowley), of conveying the King of the French to the
shores of Great Britain, he bad the honour of doing that
which was unparalleled in the history of this country—
namely, of addressing, in friendly language, a King of
France, coming within these territories.—(Cheers.)
Never was he more pleased in his life than at the re-
ception which the Corporation met with from his Ma-
jesty on that occasion. They were received as thinking
men, citizens of a friendly country, by a man who him-
self owed his throne to the citizens of the most en-
lightened nation of the earth.—(Loud cheers.)
And here he might be allowed to refer to
an important omission in the report of his Majesty's
reply, which appeared in the public journals. The
press of this country was generally exceedingly correct
in their details of all public occurrences, but he confessed
that in reference to this memorable event he had seen no
report which adequately conveyed the sentiments ex-
pressed.by his Majesty. The animation and the action
of the man must be necessarily lost except to those who
were witnesses of it—but there was one sentence he
delivered which had not been reported, and which was
deserving of being treasured and recorded in the hearts
of every French and British citizen. His heart was
touched when the King said, in speaking in the warmth
of his seal of the necessity of peace between two power-
ful nations like France and England, " I look upon the
cordial union of these tiro nations as the keystone of the
arch which supports the peace of the world."—(Loud
and continued cheering.) Was there ever a truer or a
finer sentence spoken by man? The language was beau-
tiful, the metaphor was perfect, and he believed, with the
King of the French, that the union of these two nations,
the first in civilisation as in attachment to liberty, was
necessary for the advancement of science and the welfare
of the entire habitable globe. It was true that in all
nations where an ardent love of liberty existed there
must constantly be numerous warm spirits, and he must
acknowledge that on both sides of the water there were
some who allowed their feelings to carry them too far.
At one time they heard, perhaps, that something had hap-
pened at Otaheite or Gibraltar, and war was immediatell
declared to be inevitable ; even " Perfide Albion
semetimes came out ; and on the other hand were
heard, perhaps, expressions equally objectionable ; but
these exuberant feelings must be checked, and with I
whom did it lie to do
,so ? In hands such as those of
the King of the French ; and it was right to check them.
lie did not argue that bccause he heard violent language
used they must necessarily therefore have a war with
France ; for was it to be said because some slight diffe-
rence occurred between two officers that two such re-
flecting nations as England and France should set upon
each other, thus retarding the progress of civilisation,
and destroying the peace and tranquillity of the world ?
(Cheers.) It was impossible, for, he repeated, with
the Kink of the French, that the cordial union of these
two nations was the keystone of the arch that supported
the peace of the world ; and he was sure they would re-
flect seriously before thy hurried them into all the ml-
seriee and calamities of a protracted and sanguinily
war. The words of the toast were—" May the present
friendly relations between France and England long
continue." Ile would beg lesTe to alter one word, and

say, may they continue for ever.—(Loud and long-pro-
tracted cheering followed the enunciation of this senti-
ment, the entire company standing, and the ladies in the
galleries waving their handkerchiefs, participating in the
enthusiasm evinced by the assemblage below.)
This having concluded the list of toasts, the Mayor
and principal guests retired, and in a few minates the
banquet hall was completely deserted.
The French officers are to-day entertained by Colonel
Trevor and the officers of the 59th Regiment.

DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF
THE,FRENCH.
(From the Times.)
In the very, clever and ingenious tale of " Hajji Baba
in England," there are few things which excite the sur-
prise and disgust of that illustrious traveller more than
the off hand manner in which the arrangements for the
reception of the Persian Ambassador at our Court are
conducted. He is oven considerably shocked that no
procession should have been formed to greet the en-
trance of so great a man and his suite into the metro-
polis, out of suitable respect for one who was delegated
to represent so supreme and august a potentate as the
Shah ; and at first he will not believe but that all the
passers-by in carriages and horreback, whose attention
the new corners so forcibly attract, can be any other than
a cavalcade appointed to escort them. We apprehend,
however, that had that acute and lively Oriental de-
ferred his peregrinations till these days, he would
have been completely aghast, and absolutely at his
wit's end, to observe how socially and familiarly the
very royal and princly personages of our time run about
knocking at the doors of one palace or another, rushing
onwards by railroad or steamer, without so much as a
dozen dragoons of their own to look after their lives or
property ! No accurately measured etiquette—no
nicely balanced scale of dignities—no beautifully ad-
justed equilibrium of localities and approaches—no
lengthened train of glittering warriors to frighten the
gazers into awe—no tribe of keen gray-headed politi-
cians to make you think how such cunning folks might
circumvent or overreach you. Poor Hajji would have
dropped the sylids of ignorance over the eyes of asto-
nishment, and placed the finger of suspense on the lips
of silence. We confess that to us this is one of the most
agreeable topics which we have lately had to deal with.
It seems like a brightening of the political horizon in
the midst of those thick clouds of turbulence and dis-
affection which have long been gathering around almost
every Government in Europe. We rejoice with no
small degree of satisfaction in the reflection that Prussia
has sent her King, Russia her Emperor, Saxony her
King, and France—yes, even France, agitated as she is
with a fierce and desolating faction, who would move
heaven and earth for a war of extermination with us—
France has piloted her King to the shores of Albion, to
visit Queen Victoria in the unostentatious character of a
friend. To those who, without shunning the alternative,
when called for, of a just and necessary war, still love
and cherish the blessings of peace, occasions like the
present must afford the deepest pleasure ; and we
may surely be allowed to hope and to presage that
from this source of unceremonious cordiality between
crowned heads, the nations over whom they preside
will imbibe for each other sentiments (in some de-
gree at least) of a similar nature. Wo do not
pretend indeed to assert, that we shall ever be able
to conciliate the furious and unreasonable party to whom
we have alluded, or the populace whom they irritate
against us; but we cannot forbear looking for some good
from the occurrence of such events as that of which we
are now writing ; and although we dare not transgress
the limits of judgment and experience in framing views
which may prove to be too sanguine, still we will be
bold to set at defiance the intrigues and misrepresenta-
tions which would render the visit of Louis Philippe to
our Sovereign nugatory for any valuable and peaceful
end. In private a man incurs a large share of odium in
the circle in which he moves, when he abuses the hos-
pitalities of an intimate by any flagrant outrage upon
the duties, the proprieties, or even the conventional
civilities of life. He, in fact, shuts himself out of his
circle, by making it necessary to prevent his repeating
the offence. The same rule, in its degree, will extend
to the case before us ; and we are surely authorised to
expect a system of amicable relations with every Court
whose ruler comes hither on a trip of pleasure apart
from every political motive, and enjoys and responds
to the various manifestations of friendly solicitude
which, not the Queen alone, but the public bodies of
the ports and towns through which he passes hasten to
exhibit to the royal foreigner. The impression of such
scenes cannot disappear in the path of every-day events:
they will, they must, leave a delicious and refreshing
memorial which no subsequent position of affairs can
ever thoroughly obliterate. Between the individuals on
the throne a threefold cord of amity is thus cemented,
and deep and bitter regret will overspread that hour (if
it ever arrive) when variance or ingratitude shall pre-
vail to sever the connexion. In leaving these shores,
which he has twice visited, as an exile and as a King,
Louis Philippe Will carry with him recollections of a
tender and grateful character. It is impossible he should
forget that, when his country once denied him a home,
he found it here—a home where he might cultivate
those peaceful talents by which he has more than once
saved Europe from the horrors of war. And now that
be has come as a King, his presence has been doubly
welcome. It has been a tribute of those fruits of which
the seed was sown in our own land; and most sincerely
do we trust, that while England waves him a kind and
cordial adieu as he leaves her shores, those of his own
subjects who have been hardy enough to ridicule or de-
nounce his humane and peaceful policy, will yet learn
generosity enough to acknowledge the wisdom by which
they have so long profited.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The King of the French re-embarks this day for his
own shores. His reception at Windsor was, of course,
cordial and magnificent, and, had circumstances per-
mitted his Majesty to accept more of the national laos-
pitality,he would have seen equal eagerness in the middle
and commercial, as well as in the higher and courtly
daises, to cultivate the best understanding with the re-
presentative of a country eo closely connected with
England by political and geographical position, and,
if the French would so permit it, by interest. What-
ever effect such royal visits may have in them-
selves on the personages who come together, they
are at least calculated to make a very great impres-
sion on the people of both countries and of Europe.
When populations, neither very profoundly versed
in politics, nor stimulated by the passions which
politics excite, see the Sovereigns of two such countries
meet year after year in amity, their ministers, and
nobles, and leading statesmen intermingling also with
oordiality, it is impossible for them not to suppose
that there exists a certain mutual understanding, with
principles of fairness and feelings of amity on
both sides. With respect to the English and their
Clueen, there can be no doubt of our amicable feel-
ings towards France, and of our wish to be friendly
and pacific, and more than pacific, if the French
would let us. The same may be said of the French
King. What Louis Philippe most wanted was
the support and friendship, not merely political but
personal, of one of those old and acknowledged
Crowns who stand at the head of the princely and
aristocratic interests of Europe. The French Court,
since 1830, made eftbrts to propitiate the courts of the
east of Europe. The princes were sent to Austria to
seek alliances and marriage. We know how they were
repulsed. In August, 1830, King Louis Philippe (as
indeed his own journal, the Prase, of last Tuesday, re-
minds him) addressed a letter to the Emperor Nicholas,
which said, " France loves to see in Russia its most na-
tural and most powerful ally." The expression meant,
that the King of the French, just elected, was quite
ready to continue the policy of the elder Bourbons, and,
if received into the ranks of the Holly Alliance, to be
as true to its principles as Charles the Tenth, setting
recopmigindee,teia
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rejected by the Czar with contumely and the Court of
the Tuileries was obliged to fall back on the alliance of
England,renu
in order to a due appreciation of the present state of
affairs. There can be no Tory, no Radical, no politician,
recur to talolgetnot Prince
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or to
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or print, so desirous to be on the most amicable rela-
tions with France as we. But we cannot admit ourselves
satisfied with such a state of relations as that which we
have described. It is most unfair to England, letting
down by degrees her national pride, and sacrificing her
interests one after another—in Spain one day, in Africa
another, and in the Pacific the next ; and after all, for
a temporary truce with a set of madmen, who are not
conciliated in the least by our abjuration of spirit or of
rights. Louis Philippe is, however, a most able and
pacific Prince. One cannot but admire how he has
bestridden the fiery war-horse of his nation, reining
it and managing it, so as to spend its fury in curvets,
without allowing it to make a charge, except upon a
:ew savages in out of the way corners of the world.
.its Majesty would, no doubt, prolong his reign of peace,
and, were he immortal, we might calm all apprehensions
if war. But even he must one day disappear from the
scene, and then what have we to look to ? The mainte-
oance of peace, we are told, is greatly due to his per-
sonal abilities, to his unrivalled wisdom. This may be
round of admiration, bat it is also a source of fear.
For the pacific system may disappear with the store of
royal wisdom and sagacity. When we look to the French
Chamber, which must acquire almost uncontrolled power
an the demise of the present Monarch, we see parties
and statesmen indeed, but not one party or statesman
who could pretend to rule without royal support. Neither
Count Mole, nor M. Thiers, nor M. Barrut, nor M.
Dufour°, nor, still less, M. Guizot, could command
a majority, if the royal hand, so skilled in forming and
managing majorities, were withdrawn.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The reception of the King of the French by the people
of England, of all ranks and of all parties, has amply
vindicated the national character from the imputations
heaped upon it by the viler portion of the French press.
rhe homage due to the honoured guest of our gracious
Queen has been paid not merely with cheerfulness, but
with an alacrity, and even enthusiasm, which must have
proved to him how readily his twofold claim on the re-
spect and courtesy of the British people has been recog-
nised. From the first moment of his arrival no oppor-
tunity has bees neglected by them of testifying the esti-
mation in which he is held in this country ;
and the frank and noble spirit in which he has
responded to such courtesies has confirmed the
general impression in regard to him. In his answers
to the complimentary addresses which have been
presented to him, but one feeling predominates, that of
su anxious desire on his part to improve the amicable
relations between France and England—to employ his
Majesty's own energetic language—" to maintain and
strengthen the friendship subsisting between the two
countrie', and which most warmly subsists between the
two Sovereigns—to promote sincere union between Eng-
land and France," and " to preserve the blessing of
tit ace, so essential to the prosperity of both nations." ,
Su ^h ntimt nts eannc t fail of being appreciated by I
eery enlightened mind throughout the country, and to
ncrease the admiration, not unmixed with personal es-
teem,
with which the efforts of his Majesty to

cultivate an extents cordials have been regarded.
Nothing could have tended more effectually to
cement the good understanding which has at length
been created between the two nations than such a decla-
ration ; and but for his Majesty's intimation of his wish
that his visit might he considered as a private one, such
demonstrations would have been almost universal. That
such a course was wise on hie part is proved by the
jealousy with which his Majesty's presence in England
is regarded by the Opposition press of France, whose
conductors cannot conceal their mortification at the
prospect to which his reception in this country, and the
sentiments, to which it has given occasion, must, of
necessity, have conducted them. The Republican looks
for war, as affording the sole chance of ascendancy that
remains to his party. The Legitimatist, equally mis-
guided by a vicious and virulent press, regards the culti-
vation of amicable relations with England as equally fatal
to his hopes. The visit of Queen Victoria to Eu was
hardly more acceptable to them than that of their own
Monarch to Windsor. Their efforts, therefore, are
neither unnatural nor unexpected ; and if they have
proved ineffectual it has been became the great mass of
the people of France are no more influenced by their
malice than the reflecting portion of the British public
are by the gibes and misrepresentations of which our own
Foreign Minister is the object, for his imputed sacri-
fices of the honour of England to the interests aid
demands of France Unsuccessful in their frantic
endeavours to exaggerate any centre temps that
seemed likely to disturb a peace of some thirty years'
duration, they attempt to account for the re-
ception of the King in a manner calculated to
wound the amour propre of their countrymen. They
attribute our earnestly-expressed desire to cultivate an
amicable understanding, to a haughty sense of our own
superiority ; and add that we should not have received
Marshal boult as favourably as we acid had he not been
unsu xessful in his operations against us. Now every
Englishman knows full well that it was the gallantry
which he displayed on all occasions in which he came
into collision with the British forces that inspired the
cordiality of esteem with which he was received when
he visited us a few years ago. The heroism displayed
by_ the French troops in the Peninsular war and at
Waterloo, to which the warmest testimony has been
borne by nearly all our military writers, has inspired a
similar feeling in regard to the French army generally.
We have found the French worthy foes, but may ask
with the poet,—
" What better than a noble foe,

Unless a noble friend ? "
We assume no superiority over them, still less should
we base the hospitalities due to the illustrious strangers
who are now among us, on so arrogant a feeling, even
had we been conscious of its existence. Were the people
of England, however, liable to such a charge, it must
surely be considered inconsistent with the anxiety they
have displayed to remain at peace with the nation of
whose inferiority they are declared to be so satisfied.
The imputation is almost too absurd for grave refutation.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 14.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONDLANQUE.)
IN TEE CASE 0? JAMES TAYLOR.

In this case Mr. Buchanan made an application on
behalf of certain creditors, to rescind the insolvent's
final order, on the ground that a bill of sale for certain
properties was only a colourable, and not a bona fide
sale. _ _

Evidence was then gone into, but the Hon. Commis-
sioner decided that such evidence was insufficient to
more the Court to rescind the protection to the insolvent,
and deferred final judgment until more important evi-
dence should be adduced.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man, named Jerry Regan, was charged
with having assaulted a labourer, named Charles
M'Carthy.
City policeman No. 512 stated, that at about nine
o'clock on Sunday night, he was called upon to quell
a disturbance in Harrow-alley, Aldgate, and upon
going to the place ho saw M'Carthy lying on the
pavement, and the prisoner whacking him on the ribs
with a poker. He observed that the man who was
prostrate was at the time bleeding profusely from the
head, but he did not see the poker used upon that
part. As-the witness had three other persons in cus-
tody, he could not apprehend the prisoner, who, upon
seeing him, ran into a house and concealed himself.
Charles M'Carthy stated that as he was passing
through Harrow-alley, he was suddenly knocked
down with a pewter pot by the father of the prisoner,
who then attacked him with a poker, and beat him
with it on the left side. He staggered from the effects
of the blow, but managed to hobble to the station-
house.
Alderman T. WOOD asked the defendant what he
had to say in answer to the charge ? The defendant—
Please your Worship, I'll never do it again.
Andrew Regan, the father of the defendant, was
also charged with having committed an assault about
the same time, in the same place.
David Bryant stated that as he was talking to a
woman in Harrow-alley, Andrew Regan rushed upon
him, bit him in the ear most severely, and struck him
with a pewter pot, which cut open his head.
M'Carthy, who gave evidence against Regan the
son, stated that Regan the father struck him a despe-
rate blow with a pint pot, and cut his head open.
Andrew Regan—Why, it's clear they're telling
lies, your Worship, for one of them says I used a pint
pot, and the other Says I used a quart pot. Now I
never saw either pint or pot the whole of that day,
and how could I strike them?

The defendants were severally fined in the sum of
forty shillings each, having escaped committal to take
their trial at the quarter sessions upon the under-
standing that they would recompense the injured man.
BOW-STREET.

A young Woman named Mary Dawson, was placed
before Mr. Hill, charged with refusing to " move on" in
Great Russell-street when told by the officer.
Policeman F 113, stated that there was a fire in Great
Russell-street last night, and the prisoner was standing
opposite to it. He told her to move on, as the place
must be cleared. She refused to do so and abused him,
and he took her into custody.
Mr. HALL—Did she do nothing else ? Officer—No,
your worship.
Mr. HALL--What! you bring a person here for merely
standing iu the street ! I never heard of such a thing.
She is discharged.
The young woman was then discharged, and the
officer walked away quite chapfallen. It is to be hoped
that the Magistrate will make some remarks upon the
case on the police-sheet, which will be seen by the Com-
missioners.
CLERKEN WELL.
Two men, named Magrath and Gannon, were
charged with' cutting and wounding police-constable
George Higgins, 168 N, whereby his life is endan-
gered. Also with violently assaulting police-con-
stable Gooderam, of the same division.
Inspector Thatcher, of the N division, stated that
Higgins, from the nature of the injuries, was utterly
unable to attend; his collar-bone .was broken in two
places, and there were several wounds on his head,
one of which was dreadfully severe. He was at pre-
sent lying at the University Hospital. The inspector
handed in a surgeon's certificate, specifying the con-
dition of Higgins.
Police-constable Gooderam, who seemed to be la-
bouring under considerable pain, deposed that, between
one and two o'clock on Sunday morning, he was on
duty in the Lower-road, Islington, when he saw a
mob of labourers assembled in High-street, who were
very riotous ; soon after he saw police-constable
Higgins go over and attempt to persuade them to go
away. Witness, seeing that Higgins's endeavours
were ineffectual, went over to them too. When
Magrath saw witness, he said, "If you come
down the court I will open your head for
you." The parties left in few minutes after,
and went down a court hard by. Higgins
soon after heard the noise of persons fighting in the
court, and went down. Witness hearing the sounds,
followed, but had scarcely entered it when he saw
Higgins knocked down by a blow from a brick, which
struck him on the chest. Witness attempted to reach
him, but received himself another blow from a brick
on the chest which felled him, and almost disabled
him, causing great pain. When he had recovered a
little from the effects of the blow, he saw Higgins
lying on the ground, and the prisoners and others
about him. They had bricks in their hands, with
which they were " pounding" the constable on the
head and neck and breast ; and when a reinforcement
of police arrived Magrath ran into a hoir-e in the
court and hid himself in the bed, where a man and
his wife were lying, and was arrested there. Wit-
ness was quite unfit for duty in consequence of the
injuries he had received.

-Mr. GREENWOOD asked the prisoners what they 1,
had to say to the charge, which he told them was a
very serious one. •
The prisoners,
.who treated the matter with the
greatest indifference, were remanded for a week.
John Connor and Ellen Foley were charged with riotous
conduct and assaulting three police•cunslables.
On Sunday morning, at two o'clock, the prisoner:,
who are only seventeen years of age, were shouting on
Saffron-hill and disturbing, the whole n'ighb-'urho.4.
Police-constable 40 G attempted to prevail on Thum 0)
go away, but they retired to sime distance where tl:ere
was a heap of mud, and discharged a vol.ey of mud and
missiles at the police, and with such effect, that the e.,n-
stables were as filthy as kennel rats. Thi-y punu d the
prisoners and secured the girl, who made a most vi. h nt
resistance, and the male prisoner was soon after cap-
tured, but not without a desperate struggle.
Waddington, the gaoler, said that Connor, although so
young, had been twelve times convicted in that court,
and once convicted of a felony. The girl had been like-
wise convicted.
The mothers of the prisoners endeavoured to prove
that the prisoners were a youthful and romantic pair of
sweethearts.
The MAGISTRATE, however, took a different view of
the matter, and sent them to prison, Connor for ten days,
and Foley for seven days, without the power of releasing
themselves by the payment of fine.
UNION-HALL.

Thomas Crouch, an elderly man, was charged with
having in his possession a bagatelle-bo(xd and ivor S balls,
suspected to have been stolen.
It appeared that of laW a number of publicans on the
south side of the water have . been robbed of bag:ttelle-
boards, Information having been ii,iven of the ofv,:tun-

stance, the prisoner was stopped on Saturday in the it'b t
of offering in pledge a bagatelle-board, which it was
evident had been very little used. When questioned on
the subject, the prisoner refused to give his address, or
any particulars by which it could be found where he
came from.

The MAGISTRATE said, if publicity were given to the
case, probably the owner of the bagatelle-board would
come forward, particularly as it was stated that a great
number of publicans were rcbbed of articles of a similar
description.

Tht; prisoner was remanded until to-morrow (this day).

SIDCUP PETTY SESSIONS.

Yesterday Mr. George Warrener, the proprietor of
the Pier Hotel, Erith, attended before Messrs. Chap-
man and Borens, the presiding magistrates, to answer
an information laid against him by the metropolitan
police, by which he was charged with opening his
house before one o'clock on Sunday, the 29th Sep-
tember, and for which offence he had incurred a
penalty of 5-/.

The- defendant, on being called upon to plead to the
information, said he must admit that the house was
open, and that persons were taking refreshment, but
he was anxious to explain the circumstances under
which the alleged offence took place.
The BENCH said it would be better to hear the
evidence of the police before any explanation was
given, and he would then be at liberty to make any
statement he might think material.
A police-constable of the R division was then
sworn, and he proved that on Sunday morning, the
29th of September, about eleven o'clock, he went into
the defendant's house, and saw several persons taking
refreshment in the bar.

Mr. Warrener, in answer to the complaint, said that
the house in
.question was near the steam-boat pier at
Erith, and it was established principally for the ac-
commodation of the steam-boat passengers. A great
number of persons came down by the boats, arid par-
ticularly on Sundays, and it frequently happened
that the boats were not very punctual, and parries had
to wait sometimes two or three hours for a boat, arid
his house was the only place at which they could he
accommodated. On the day in question some persons
had missed the first boat to London, and having to
wait two hours befbre there would be another, they
came to his house to have breakfast, and they were
the parties seen by the policeman.
The constable, in answer to questions from the
Bench, said that some of the persons he saw in the
house were inhabitants of Erith.

Mr. Warrener said that when travellers from the
steam-boats were admitted, it happened sometimes
that other persons forced their way in.
The MAGISTRATES said that the defendant had no
right to open his house before one o'clock, but under
the circumstances they should only inflict a mitigated
penalty of 10s. and costs.