The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

INCOME.

£ s. d.

Rent and arrears received during the year
ending Michaelmas, 1843, deducting
5,4901. outstanding arrears 23,031 16 11
Fines on renewals of leases
Sales, grants in fee, grants of rents and
enfranchisement of copyholds, under
Acts of Parliament
Dividends on stock, being the produce of
sales of lands under the Land-tax Re-
demption Act, and of grants in fee,
sales of rents, and enfranchisement of
copyholds, under Acts of Parliament 927 9 2
Casual revenue, and all receipts not in-
cluded as above .
Balance (including balance to Michael-
mas, 1842, on the account of the Re-
ceiver-General)

£33,037 18 01

PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF
MOROCCO.

The following will be read with interest at the pre-
sent juncture : _ _ _

The empire of Morocco, vernacularly designed
Mogh'rib-al-azza, the farthest west, is a remnant of
the great African monarchies formed by the Saracens
in Mauritania ; and it was the dynasty of the Edr:-
sites, whose capital was Fez. It was dubbed empire
from ;being formed by the union of several small
kingdoms, or rather large proviness, perpetually at
variance among themselves, till at length they were
subdued and united under one sovereign by the Sche-
rift's. At first it was recognised to consist of the
kingdoms of Fez, Morocco, Suez, Tafilet, Tarudant,
Mesquinez, Sugulmessa, and Tremezen ; but they
have all latterly merged into those of Morocco and
Fez. Anarchy and intense discords have reduced
their boundaries ; but the empire is still possessed of
a surface at least equal to that of Spain ; and the pre-
, sent ruler is of a family which has, dispite of nume-
ous revolutions, maintained itself in the musnud for
about three hundred years.
The empire of Morocco is on the extreme west of
North Africa, bounded on that side by the Atlantic
Ocean ; on the east by the river Mubria, which parts
it from Algiers ; on the north by the Mediterranean
Sea; and on the south by the river Sus, beyond
which is the Sahara, or Great Desert. This extensive
space is finally diversified with hills and valleys, a
great part of which has never yet been visited by
Europeans, and there are various rivers flowing from
the great Atlas range of mountains, which traverses
the empire in its greatest length, at some distance
from its southern and eastern boundary, and attains
the height of nearly 12,000 feet. These rivers dis-
embogue into the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic
Ocean, the large ones forming bar harbours, which,
though now so neglected as to admit of small vessels
only entering them, might readily be converted to
good stations for steamers. A ramification of the
, great mountain range turns to the north, and is there
' known as the Lesser Atlas, of which Mount Abyla,
or Ape's Hill, opposite Gibraltar, may be deemed the
northern scarp. The country generally rises from
the sea shore, which in many places is rocky and in-
accessible, and extends in wide plains ascending like
terraces one above the other, the eastern being always
some hundred feet higher than that immediately west
of it, until at the range of the Lesser Atlas they pro-
bably attain an elevation of 4,000 feet.
Morocco is necssarily warm, but not so much so
as might be expected from its geographical situation ;
the interior is cooled by the mountain winds, and the
margin experiences the alternations of land and sea
breezes, while the climate is at once mild and salu-
brious. The seasons are divided into the dry and the
wet, the latter generally being from November till
March. The soil, where cultivated, is in the highest
degree fertile ; but there are everywhere large tracts
entirely uncultivated. Corn, dhurra, fruits, rice,
maize, and pulse, are extensively reared in most of the
plain districts ; and there are raised and collected,
oil, cotton, tobacco, indigo, sesamum, gum, honey,
wax, salt, saltpetre, hemp, saffron, and madder-roots ;
they have also inanufactories of linen, scull caps,
morocco leather, barracans, shawls, carpets, soap, and
hides. The declivities of the mountains are sprinkled
with forests, in which the cedar, cork, ilex, carubba,
walnut, accacia, and olive trees are prominent ; and
though iron, copper, lead, and antimony, as well as
gold and silver, have been produced to a certain
extent, the mineral wealth of these mountains may be
said to be as yet unknown. It is truly a luxuriant
yet indigent country, favoured by nature, but ne-
glected by man.
With soil and climate so excellent, if cultivated
with tolerable skill and industry, Morocco would
yield in quantities the products of most other parts of
the globe : but this cannot be hoped for in a country
groaning under the galling yoke of oppression. Still
their agriculture, it seems, is equal to the wants of
the people, these wants being most blindly curbed
down to mere animal desires. The great dogma of
the politico-economical school, that " cheap corn is a
blessing," meets its full refutation in this country ;
where the cheaper the corn the more are the people
proportionably poor and wretched. Domestic
animals are numerous, amongst the foremost of which
must be named their horses, since they have ever been
famed for rearing those animals, which, though
inferior in size, have for ages excelled in elegance
of symmetry, fleetness, hardihood, and peculiar
docility. The sheep, which are considered as indige-
nous, produce a wool of eminent staple and softness ;
and the oxen, cows, asses, mules, camels, and goats,
are esteemed in their several kinds. Poultry,
pigeons, partridges, and indeed game of all kinds,
are everywhere plentiful ; and the coasts have many
varieties of fish. The woody and uncultivated tracts
abound with deer, antelopes, and wild boars; and the
southern district with bears, panthers, hyaenas, lions,
wolves, monkeys, snakes, cranes, and ostriches. As
might be expected in such a climate, they are abun-
dantly provided with musquitoes, and all " the light
militia of the lower sky." But the most dreadeu of
all animated evils is a visit from the locusts, which
takes place ever and anon to the waste of whole pro-
vinces. The creatures are considered to come from
the Great Desert, where their myriads are mar-
shalled, and start on their northern incursions in a
dense body, devastating as they go, for after devour-
ing all other vegetation, they even attack the trees, and
strip them of their leaves and bark. In retaliation,
they are brought to the markets pickled, and eaten by
the Moors.

There are many difficulties, and some almost insu-
perable, in the way of the inquirer into Moroquin
statistics. From all we could gather a few years
ago, the population of the whole empire might amount
to about 7,ooo,ooo—plus or minus—it having under •
gone a serious diminution in the course of the pre-
ceding century. Of the number above stated, about
half consists of Moors and Arabs ; one-quarter con-
sists of the Berbers or aboriginal inhabitants ; with
nearly half a million of Jews ; an.l the remainder
will be found negroes, with a very few Christians,
and still fewer renegadoes, which last are deemed
" pariahs" by all, only intermarrying among each
other.

The Moors are the principal inhabitants of the
towns, where they fill the higher offices of Govern-
ment, and form the military class ; hereditary dis-
tinctions, however, are unknown among them ; by
birth they are all equal ' • and they admit no diffe-
rence of rank, except such as is derived from official
employments, on the resignation of which the occu-
pant mixes again with the common citizens. They
are the only nation of Morocco with which the Euro-
peans have had an immediate intercourse. Their lan-
guage is the Moghreb, a dialect of the Arabic, inter-
mixed with many Amazirk (the original tongue) and
Spanish words. They are tall, handsome, and of
every shade of complexion.
The Arabs are the next important branch of the
Moroquin population, although evidently not an
indigenous portion. Their language is a tolerably
pure Arabic, and they are supposed to be the de-
scendants of those who fled from Yemen, when the
Mahometan tenets were first promulgated. They are
widely dispersed over the plain, where they still
adhere to their no-made wanderings and pastoral
avocations, and are at once active and intelligent.
They live in dusky encampments called douars, each
consisting of numerous tents, and having large flocks
and herds, from which, with a slight attention to
agriculture, they entirely subsist themselves with
food, home-made raiment, and surplus for markets ;
but they are expected to pay the garahm, or pro-
perty tribute, and are obliged to provide passing
troops with corn, butter, honey, and meat.
The Berbers, Berebbers, or Brebes, are known as
the Amazirghif, who, if not the aborignals, are the
most ancient inhabitants of North Africa. They are
divided into two great families—the Ereefins, or
dwellers on the Ereefe mountain range, and the
Schelluhs, who occupy the branches of the Greater
Atlas—the first being herdsmen and hunters, the
latter working principally in agriculture and handi-
craft—while both classes are temperate, agile, war-
like, and hardy. Armed with a long gun, sword, and
dagger, in the use of which they are very expert, the
Ereefin is an object of alarm to the enemy. The
Berbers only intermarry with each other, and are
somewhat irregular Mahometans, as they eat wild-
boar's flesh, and drink wine of their own making.
The Jews are a mystery, both here and throughout
Barbary, Barbary, being very numerous, and intermixed
f
among
the people whom we have spoken o 1
tion is best among the Ereefins, but amoheirng the
Schelluhs and Moors they are exposed to
s d to the most
all their ignominious treatment. Yet, under
oppres-
sion, the Jews contrive to have substantial advan-
tages over the Moors;
b
of trade, especiallye that tterclnderstanding the na-
tureairried on by the incom-
petent medium of exchange of. commodities, they are
the active agents and brokers m all large bargains.
The negroes are the last in number of the people of
Morocco, yet constitute an important branch of its
population. They are usually imported as slaves,
though, on good behaviour, frequently obtain their
liberty; and the kind liberality with which they are
generally treated ensures the propriety of their con-
duct. rom among them is formed the body-guard of
the Emperor—a force once very formidable, but, at
present, not above 5,000 or 6,000 strong.
The Government is absolutely more arbitrary than
the Turkish ; and that their Emperor, or rather Sul-
tan, is the most despotic of all despots, uniting in his
own hands the various ramifications of power, without
the shackles of council, divan, or laws. His authority
extends not only over the lives and property of his
subjects, but their consciences too, of which, as the
representative of Mahomet, he is the spiritual guide.
He is the farmer, judge, interpreter, and, when he
pleases, sole executor of his own decrees; and the
duties, coins, weight, and measures, are consequently
as variable as his own opinions. The capricious ty-
ranny of the monarch is as inconceivable as the abject
Passiveness of the subject, who, with arms in his
hands and means at command, thinks of nothing but
unconditional submission. Thus a bad Government,

and a worse religion, have corrupted sentiments
and enslaved the understandings, as well as the
persons and consciences, of the people. But the
Moors have no notion of sovereignty without despo-
tism; and to the inherent quality of this tyranny in
repressing improvement, the low state of Moroquin
knowledge may be ascribed. Education, therefore,
is in a dreadful lethargy, for, as Monsieur St. Ohm
remarked :—" The Moors of Morocco are not much
addicted to reading." Yet it is scarcely five cen-
turies ago since the intellectual light of those regions
beamed in Spain !
With such motley and contradictory elements, it
is difficult to predict the consequence of an invasion
of Morocco on a complete scale, or what would be
the nature and amount of its army on a crisis. In
this manner he might raise from 150,000 to 200,000
men of sorts with barely any distinction of uniform,
and variously armed, but all capable of enduring
hunger, thirst, and fatigue, with the utmost
patience. Indeed, men imbued with the principle
that though it is necessary to do their duty, yet it is
not necessary to live, are not readily put down ;
and opium and predestination, as Prince Eugene
observed, will make any man brave. Averse to the
sea, though dreaded as rovers, they never were good
sailors, but on land seem ever ready for action : and
with them a stranger and an enemy are synonymous
terms. Their general plan of attack is that of riding
up till within a couple of hundred yards of the enemy,
when they level muskets, fire, wheel round their
horses, and gallop away at full speed ; after which,
when beyond shot-range, they re-load and return to
the charge with loud yells. If the enemy gives way,
or exhibits signs of fear, they venture to push for-
wards ; but if attacked, man to man, with the sabre,
we may safely consider their resistance as likely to be
very short, since they are obliged to hold both bridle
and gun in one hand if they use the sword with the
other. The latter they avoid to the last moment,
preferring to rely on the swiftness of the attack and
retreat, and on a dexterous use of the musket. We
are here speaking of the Moors; but the Berber tac-
tics are, after the first fire, to rush in pell-meal
among the enemy, with bayonets fixed to their long
guns, which they manage with impetuosity and
bravery, placing their dependence rather on steel than
powder.

- But should a powerful enemy iucceed in occupy-
ing the plains of the country, with their towns and
cities, it is still very far from completing the con-
quest of Morocco ; and even to maintain such occu-
pation, it would require that the conquerors should be
absolute in the maritime supremacy of the Mediterra-
nean. Under this military cantonment, the fastnesses
and elevated table-lands of the extensive Atlas range
must remain independent sine die; for thy teem with
an unsubdued race, in command of difficult passes
untraversed as yet but by themselves, and where
even the footsteps of the stranger would be
instantly traced by their keenness and sagacity,
Full of fire, strength, and courage, they are suspi-
cious, cruel, and implacable ; and not - at all
remarkable for sparing those who Lill into their
clutches. They already view in Abcl-el-Kader—who,
is descended from one of the most ancient of the
Arabian families—the gallant defender of their
faith, and the heroic chief of the Holy war, in which
light the present contest with the French is univer-
sally regarded. A. cry against them has broken forth
throughout North Africa, and given birth to a feeling
which will interfere with colonisation. Fanatically
attached to the rights of their soil, their religion, ant:
their race, the Atnazirghis—=whose very name signi-
fies noble and free—live in a state of almost indepen.
dente, under the administration of their Omzs':rgh,
Amzgar, and Amueran, elders and lords who
are here-
ditary, and ever ready to lead, The::
r scheiks are
also active and intelligent in -tY-ar)..',.se affairs, as, in-
deed, they are expected to, I*
in a chief," saith one The want of courage
a -
proverbs, " is the standard
of revolt."
They at once very inclined and well
calculated for
inostilities, as the rulers of Morocco have
frequen+:4y found ; for the mutual jealousies of the
nr;untain chiefs seem to be the only causes which
preserve to those rulers the shadow of authority over
the tribes.

The population of the Morocco empire is variously
represented. Jackson professes to have had access to
the Imperial Registers, and gives the following as the
result :—City of Morocco, 270,000 ; city of Fez,
280,000 ; city of Mequinez, 110,000 ; other cities,
135,000; provinces, 13,991,000. Total, 14,886,000.
There is evident great exaggeration in this statement.
More recent travellers have set down the population
of the city of Morocco as 30,000, and the other towns
in proportion. Another writer is of opinion that the
entire population is not beyond 5,000,000. Perhaps
6,000,000 is nearer the truth. The plain between the
Atlas mountains and the sea is between four and five
hundred miles in length ; and the highest peak of the
chain is 13,050 feet. In 1547, an Arabian chief, of
the race of the Schireffes, ascended the throne, and
his posterity still rules.

THE GOIIaON STEIM--FRIGATE.

Extract of a letter from her Majesty's steam-ship
Gorgon, dated Monte Video, May 16 :
" The Gorgon is what we call in nautical phrase
high and dry' on the beach, but as sound as ever. In
a very heavy gale of wind on Friday, 10th May, two
of our chain cables broke, and we let go the third
cable, and tried to steam out to sea; hut failing in
that, and being without anchors of sufficient size re-
maining to hold the ship, we were driven up on the
sandy beach in this bay, about two miles from Monte
Video, and there we stick fast. The ship is 204 feet
long, and draws 17 feet of water; she is eight feet
deep in the sand, and is raised up eight feet above
her usual line of floatation. We are busy in taking
everything out of her, engines, boilers, &c., which
will occupy two months at least, and then we shall
heave her off. The French, American, and Brazi-
lian ships of war have offered their assistance, and
tie beach we are upon is in possession of the party
who are at war with the Monte Videans, and they
have offered us several thousands of their soldiers if
necessary ; so I think there is no doubt about our get-
ting off again. We think to be afloat in a month, and
it will then take us two months to get all her stores in
again, so should we return to England with the
utmost dispatch, we could not arrive there for six
months from this time ; in this case we should sail
home, but if we wait to put our engines together
again, we could not possibly get to England for some
months longer. The ship is uninjured. The con-
tending parties in this wretched country vie with each
other in showing us every attention ; an officer of the
outside party lives on board to attend to our wants,
and provide us with everything the country affords,
and we are more comfortable than we have ever been
before. This day week we were expecting to go to
the coast of Africa, but fortunately that cannot now
happen. We are very well off as to our living and
comforts in general ; we have a good supply of beef,
mutton, poultry, and vegetables on reasonable terms,
also milk and butter; and we always bake our own
bread. The weather is getting cold also, but clear
and dry; we have just put on our winter clothing ;
the air of this country you know is remarkable for
its freshness and purity, and we are all so delighted
with the health and plenty which we enjoy, that we
do not wish to get afloat again for a month or two at
least. Many of our men had not been on terra firma
since they left England, and they pretend to fear they
will be sea-sick when we get afloat again. The war of
extermination still rages with brutal ferocity ; the
beach and country are strewed with the uninterred
bones of its wretched victims. These cold-blooded
and barbarous scenes have sickened me of, at least,
this kind of prolonged and revengeful war, which we
may call the Indian system of war. In Europe,
where fleets and armies are so expensive, the contend-
ing parties seek each other, a battle is fought and
peace restored; but here a large portion of the popu-
lation live by war; they avoid general combats, they
plot schemes of revenge with Indian patience and
cunning, and exult over their fallen foes in a manner
shockingly revolting to the feelings of those who have
been accustomed to civilised life. The Indian females
fight on horseback alongside their husbands, and
throw the lance with great accuracy. Even hospitals
are not respected; lately an hospital was surrounded,
and the doctor and all the patients put to death.
After the ship is off the beach we shall have to drag
her over the ground in seven or eight feet water for
nearly a mile before she will float, which will occupy
several days. The tides are influenced with the winds,
and they rise when it blows from the S.W. (which it
did when we went on shore), and the people all say
here, that it bad not been so high for twenty-eight
years as it was during the hurricane when we got
aground. Several houses near the beach were washed
down.
G' A

JIG ..CCIDENT.—On Wednesday last a very serious
accident occurred to Sir John Broughton, Bart., at
Kingston. The Baronet was riding in his gig on the
Upper Ham-road, and had arrived opposite Fleet Lodge,
when his horse took fright and shyed. Sir John war
pitched out of the gig into the road, and fell with such
force as to break his collar-bone, and otherwise iajure
him. He was assisted by some persons passing at the
time, and afterwards taken to his own residence by Mr.
Harding, the farrier, at Kingston. Dr. Sudlow Roots was
soon in attendance upon him, and be is fast recovering.
Huai TmEs.—Monday afternoon, shortlyZafter
two o'clock, the neighbourhoods on the banks Of the
Thames were inundated by the encroachment of the tide.
which was of unusual height. Some of the steam •boat&
had some difficulty in passing under the different bridges,
owing to the funnels coming in close contact with the upper
part of the arches. Parts of Wapping and Tooley.
street, near the banks of the river, were quite impassible
for some time ; the river also rushed into the cellars and
kitchens, doing considerable damage.
TILE BUTTER TRADE.—Great excitement prevails
amongst the merchants and persons connected with the
butter trade in this city, in consequence of intimation
having been received from the other side of the channel,
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 27.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FAME.)
IN THE MATTER OF ROBERT BANISTER.
In this case, which has been so prominently before the
public, it may be remembered that the bankrupt had
carried on an extensive business as a draper in Portsea,
and who had absconded, after disposing of the greater
part of, his stock below cost price.
This day a Mr. Coleman was examined touchingly the
receipt of certain moneys which he was alleged to have
received from the bankrupt.
The COURT seemed to consider that the publication of
the evidence would tend to injure the interests of the
body of the creditors.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice WICHTMAN.)
William Windley, 20, a labourer, was charged with a
rape on the person of Hannah Hale, a widow, at Leyton-
stone, and John Harknett, a labourer ; Jeremiah Wake-
ling, a baker ; William Scarborough, Henry William
Watts Irving, Edward Lingard, and James Windley,
were indicted with being present and aiding and assist-
ing in the commission of the crime.
The facts of the case and its atrocity will be in the
recollection of our readers.
The prosecutrix swore, most positively, that all the
prisoners committed the crime.
Mr. Ballantine conducted the prosecution. Mr. Pren-
dergast defended Wakeling and Hartnett ; and Mr.
Charnock Scarborough, Ashford, Lingard, and Watts.
Windley was undefended.
The facts of the case are totally unfit for publication.
Windley, in his defence, denied the committal of the
offence, and stated the prosecutrix was rolling drunk on
the day when it was alleged the offence was committed.
Mr. PRENDERGAST, at the suggestion of the Court,
declined addressing the jury on behalf of John Harknett
and Jeremiah Wakeling, and the Jury, under the dircc •
tions of Mr. Baron Gurney, acquitted them both.
Mr. CHARNOCK then addressed the Jury for all the pri-
soners, except Windley. The Learned Counsel also
called several witnesses who deposed to the prosecutrix
being very drunk on the day in question, and one wit-
ness spoke to seeing her and Windley together in rather
an equivocal position.
Mr. BALLANTYNE addressed the jury in reply.
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up.
The jury found them all guilty, and the COURT sen-
tenced them all to transportation for life.
Thomas White was indicted for a similar offence
upon Elizabeth Farrer, a child nine years old.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an aggra-
vated assault.
The same prisoner was also indicted for a similar
offence upon Nancy Burrows, a girl of the same age.
The jury returned the same verdict as in the for-
mer case.
There were two other indictments for similar of-
fences against the prisoner, but they were not pro-
ceeded with.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN sentenced the prisoner to
be kept.ta hard labour for eighteen months upon each
conviction.
William Simmons, 17, was indicted for feloniously
lulling a mare, the property of Henry Holmes.
Mr. Brierly, at the request of the Court, examined
the witnesses for the prosecution, and Mr. Payne de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor is a cowkeeper and
milkman, and the prisoner was in his service, and
employed to look after the mare in question. On
the 9th of July, in consequence of some information
he received, the prosecutor examined the mare, and
found she had sustained a most dreadful injury, from
the sects of which the animal died two or three days
afterwartls. A little girl was examined as a witness,
who spoke tc seeing the prisoner injure the animal
with a pitchfork; the, evidence as to the fact, and
also as to the prisorier'g-ic.tention, was not very clearly
mad?. out.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
This case concluded the business of the session, and
the Court then adjourned to Monday, Septerniaer 16.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
The following cases were disposed of late on Mon-
day evening :
Henry Burton, described as a toll-collector, was
indicted for the, manslaughter of Henry Spence, at
the parish of Whitechapel.
Mr. O'Brien conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantine appeared for the prisoner.
The circumstances of the case will be fresh in the
recollection of 'our readers, as they have been given
very fully within the last few days. The prisoner
had been very much annoyed and insulted by the de-
ceased and a number of other boys, and, unhappily, in
a moment of excitement, he struck the deceased a
blow on the head, which occasioned his death.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, coupled
with a strong recommendation to mercy, and judg-
ment was respited until the next session.
William Adam Postlethwaite pleaded Guilty to a
charge of assault upon Eliza Augusta Townsend, with
intent to commit felony.
Judgment in this case was also respited, but the
defendant was allowed to go at large upon finding
sureties for his appearance at the next sessions.
Henry Stephenson was indicted for maliciously
Throwing a stone upon the South Western Railway,
and thereby endangering the safety of the passengers
pa3sing upon the railway.
The defendant pleaded Guilty.
Mr. BODKIN, who conducted the prosecution on
behalf of the London and South Western Railway
Company, said that it was instituted for the purpose
of showing the public that such offences could not be
committed with impunity. In the hope that the
present proceeding would have the effect of prevent-
ing such offences from being committed in future, the
Company were not desirous of pressing for any
punishment, and if the Court felt that such an
arrangement could be entered into, they would be
satisfied if the defendant entered into his own recog-
nisance to appear and receive the judgment of the
Court when required to do so.
The COMMON SERGEANT remarked that the offence
was a most serious one, inasmuch as the lives of
thousands of the subjects of the Crown were put in
jeopardy by it, and it must be distinctly understood
that the utmost penalty of the law would be enforced
against all persons found so offending in future.
The defendant, having entered into the required
reoognisances, was discharged from custody.

• IV E IV COURT;
(Before the RECoriDER.)
MANSLAUGirrk.R. James Briggen, milkman, was
placed at the bar, charged with unlawfully causing the
death of Anne Jones, by criminal negligence in driving
a horse and cart.
Mr. Horry conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson
defended the prisoner.
It appeared froni the evidence that the deceased was
coming, on the 9th of July, from Stepney, in the direc-
tion of Whitechapel: She was walking on the road, it
being more smooth that the foot-path. The prisoner
was coming 'in the same direction, driving a cart at the
rate of ten or twelve miles an hour, and the left wheel
of the cart struck the deceased on the shoulder, which
threw her down, and killed her almost immediately.
It was proved that the prisoner was drunk when the
accident took place. It appeared that the deceased was,
a respectable young woman and recently married.
Several respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a good
character for sobriety, honesty, industry, and inoffensive-
ness.
The RecoaDeri\said that this was a very serious case,
and the Court would have felt called upon to sentence
the prisoner to transportation were it not that his neigh-
bours flocked round Mtn in the hour of need, and gave
him the very best character. But it was a duty which
he owed to the public safety to visit the prisoner with
an imprisonment which svomid be an example to others.
The sentence upon the prisoner was, that he be im-
prisoned in the House of Correction and kept to hard
labour for nine calendar months.
AssauLT.—Daniel Iti'Diarmid, captain of the Pro..
tomelia, was charged with a3saulting Samuel John
11‘Dowall, on Friday, the 5.h of July, on the high seas.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, a
must intelligent but friendless boy, that he was ordered
to clean a part of the ship. He went ,:or a broom to do
so, and the captain seeing him with it, struck him with
his hand, pulled the broom from him, and gave him a
blow.with the handle of the broom. It would appear
thatahe captain acted in this manner, because there was
anold broom which he might have taken. Ile w.as obliged
to lie by that night and part of the next day, when he
paine to him and asked to see the boy's thigh. After
having stripped himself, the captain beat him with a rope
about an inch and a half thick. After this he refused
to do any more work till they came to London, the
assault having been committed below Dungeness. It
also appeared from the statement of the boy that
Sunday. the 7th, be violently pressed his neck, and said
if he did not work
they arrived in erhe
committed
break his neck. When
captain was brought before
a magistrate, and was London
to take his trial at this
• Court. There was a witness in the case but when called
he was not forthcoming., - ,
Mr. DOANE said that the captain acted as he did
was feigning tinder
r
the impression that the boy
illness,
that he might not work, and the boy admitted thatilh:
captain was very kind before the assault occurred. r
to make him some compensation.
captain was willing
The RECORDER thought that would be the best way
to settle the matter. The boy had acted in a manly,
straightforward manner, in not submitting to be treated
unjustly ; but the Court was willing to believe that the
captain had acted under a false impression. He would
direct the jury to find a verdict of guilty, acd the Court
would then settle the amount of compensation.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty,
Mr. DOANE, on his behalf, offered 10i compensation,
which was accepted as fair and liberal.

• The Admirilly have issued orders to build, by
- contract, two second-rate iron steam-frigates—one to
work with paddle-wheels, and the other to have a screw
; propeller. They are each to .be 203 feet in length, 37
fees in breadth, about 1,300 tons burthen, and 500 horse
.vower. On the 27th Icily we stated that "Messrs. IV.
• Fairbara and Co., of Millwall, were in daily expectation
• a. an order from the Admiralty to build an iron steam-
frigate,itli a new patent principle of their own invention."
They ha2fe now received the order, and will commence
forthwitL.---47nited Service Gazette. .
Monday a match of cricket was played between
the Islington and Finehley Clubs, at G tt's- ground
Copenhagen-house, which terminated in favour of Isling-
ton, they winning by one innings and 89 runs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MA NSIO N-HO USE.
Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, having, by the di-
rection of Sir John Pirie, written on Saturday to the
owner of the ship John Campbell, in consequence of
a statement made in the justice-room, charging the
supercargo of that vessel with desperate offences
alleged to have been committed on the coast of Africa,
received the following answer, which he handed to
the Lord Mayor :

" Liverpool, Aug. 26, 1844.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 24th inst., I beg
to state, for the information of Sir John Pirie, that my
ship, the John Campbell, has not yet arrived from
Africa, and I scarcely know when to expect her. I do
not know whether any others of the crew are in this
country, and I have no reason to suppose Captain Burnley
would commit such an act as that with which it appears
he is charged by the man Laidlow. A mutiny took place
on board the John Campbell soon after her arrival at
Calabar, which was quelled by the interference of the
King. I perceive that Laidlow, the complainant, was
one of the mutineers, and having observed in the Lon-
don papers a long account of his examination before Sir
John Pirie, I have deemed it but justice to Captain
Burnley (and to prevent the public forming an erro-
neous opinion of the case from exaggerated statements),
to publish the deposition and statement of the mutiny,
which I received from Captain Burnley on the Bth of
June last, and to which paper I refer for further parti-
culars.

" I beg to remark that Captain Burnley was put on
board the John Campbell by the charterers of that
vessel as supercargo only, but assumed the command by
my authority on the death of Captain Nelson.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
;" WILLIAM SITAR?.
" To S. R. G oodman, Esq., Mansion-house, London."
Sir John Pixie, who, it will be recollected, said,
upon reading the written statement of the seaman,
which was signed by that applicant and another of
the crew, that it was possible the persons who com-
plained were mutineers, mentioned, upon reading the
letter of the owner, that he considered it due to Capt.
Burnley to give the same publicity to the statement
aril opinion of the owner which the extraordinary
accusation had received.
The LORD MAYOR acquiesced in Sir John Pixie's
view of the matter, and said that the circumstances
should be entered into when the necessary informa-
tion reached hand. _ _

V
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Laidlow,_ the seaman, upon being told that his
Lordship would, on a future day, take cognisance of
the case, stated that he should be punctually in
attendance. _ _ _

Captain Wheeler, of one of the Woolwich steam-
boats, was summoned for having, by the swell occa-
sioned by the rapid motion of the vessel, overset a
waterman's boat and tumbled him into the water.

Hiram Howard, a waterman, stated that, as he was
rowing on Thursday morning, in the river, the
steam-boat of which the defendant 'was captain was
proceeding at a most rapid rate, and the consequence
was that the wherry was stove in and upset, and the
owner's life was endangered.
The captain stated that, as he was obliged to look
forward; he could not-see the complainant, or he would
have eased his vessel in time to prevent the accident,
which, however, was insignificant, as the waterman
was shot over into very shallow water. He denied that
the vessel was going at a furious pace.
The complainant said the surf raised by the Wool-
wich 'vessels, was often in consequence of the extreme
rapidity with which they went along, often, seven or
eight feet high, and that the depth of the water into
which he was pitched was 'about three feet. •
The LORD MAYOR—We are passing regulations
which will put an end to all those dangers and dis-
putes, and as no great damage has been done in this
case, and we shall rigidly act upon our new by-laws
the moment they are passed, I shall allow the defen-
dant to settle the matter with the waterman who has
sustained the injury.
A young man named David Williamson, one of
those fellows who are constantly on the look-out for
countrymen, was charged by Mr. William Harman,
merchant, of Leeds, with having endeavoured to do
him out of 401.

The complainant, a person of very comfortable ap-
pearance, about fifty years of age, went, it appears,
into an eating-house, and sat down to a chop, and the
defendant walked into the same box, and likewise fell
to work with a knife and fork. A conversation
commenced, in which the complainant, although a
Yorkshireman, very readily joined without at all
suspecting his new accivaintance. The defendant
said that his father was a man of fortune, and that
he came to town to buy a horse to run in a match
with another in the old gentleman's phaeton, and that
the complainant could assist him in making the pur-
chase. The complainant consented, and it was quite
evident, that if he had happened to have 401. about
him, the defendant and some fellows who were co-
operating with him would have become possessed
of it by one of those manoeuvres which prove s
frequently successful at fairs and markets. Mr.
Harman, however, not being supplied with ready
cash to answer any more than his immediate occa-
casions, luckily called at the counting-house of a
gentleman of the name of Pond, his broker, for the
purpose of getting the amount, taking the defendant
with him. Mr. Pond, upon looking at the defendant,
at once suspected that he was a flat-catcher, and
asked Mr. Harman who he was ? " Oh, he is a
friend of mine," replied . the Yorkshireman. " How
did you get acquainted with him ?" asked Mr. Pond.
" Oh, I met him at dinner," said Mr. Harman. The
consequence was, that the defendant completely lost
his chance of plundering Mr. Harman.
It may appear rather surprising that a Yorkshire-
man was so near being victimised; but it came out in
the course of the investigation by the Lord Mayor,
that Mr. Harman was not only tempted by the oppor-
tunity afforded him to serve a gentleman of fortune,
but was to have handled two sovereigns as commission
upon the purchase of the horse, which was stated by
the stable-keeper in whose - care the animal had been
left for a-little while, to be worth no more than 131.
A solicitor, who attended for the defendant, sub-
mitted to the Lord Mayor that there was no case for
him to answer.

The LORD MAYOR said he regretted that he was
obliged to discharge the prisoner. Of the intention
of that person to plunder Mr. Harman there could
not be the slightest doubt, hut Mr. Pond fortunately
was applied to in the nick of time. His Lordship
expressed some surprise that a man with so many
years upon his back could, merely upon a mutton-
chop acquantance, have hazarded its money and his
reputation.
The defendant retired from the bar smiling.
GUILDHALL. _

A working-looking man was placed at the bar charged
with having stolen a quantity of potatoes, the property
of a market gardener named Hyde, residing at Croydon,
but who keeps a stall in Farringdon market.
The complainant said that he left his stall for a couple
of hours on Tuesday last, and on his return found that a
sieve containing the potatoes in question had been
walked .off. He afterwards discovered them in Field-
lane, in the shop of a Mr. Fenton, who had bought them
from the prisoner.
Mr. Fenton, eating-house-keeper, proved having
bought them from the prisoner.
Mr. Alderman BROWN—This looks bad against you.
What can you say for yourself ? Prisoner—l bought
them from another man, quite promiscuous in Farring-
don-street, and am as innocent as a blessed baby.
Mr. Alderman BROWN did not give implicit credit to
the prisoner's statement, and sent him therefore to
NeWgate.