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London, England, 1845-01-27 00:00:00

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been made and certified thereon, as prescribed by sec-
tion 80 of the Act 3 and 4 Wm. IV., chap. 52. This
order has been communicated to the Customs ocer's
at the vorious departments and at rt,P. the outports of
the kingdom, fOr thsir intaMation and future go-
vernment,

of the mail stean; *O (t ha'‘e made such head-
Way atait4A a similar gale ; and it must be conceded
that his opinion is one which is entitled to very great
respect.

During the voy-ge to 'Woolwich the engine made
54,521 revolutions, and the screw 163,563. The
subsequent revolutions to Blackwall were not ascer-
tained when our report left.
On hoard the Great Britain steam-ship,
English Channel, Jan. 25, 1845.
We, the undersigned passengers on board of the
Great Britain steam-ship, on her experimental voyage
from Bristol to London, having witnessed her per-
formance during a stiff gale and a heavy sea, and
amidst generally unfavourable weather, feel called
upon to express our conviction of her great length
being no detriment to her seaworthiness and her
excellent sailing qualities, and of the great advantage
of the application of Mr. Smith's screw; as also our
sense of the skill, attention, and urbanity of her com-
mander, Lieut. llosken,
R.N., and the good condiwt
of her officers and crew.

,1,1 rtf7).l. Marl/ f•ea,7

A t•umber of gentlemen, the friends and pupils of
Dr. Ryan, of the Polytechnic Institution, dined
together on Friday, for the purpose of presenting the
learned doctor with a testimonial of 100 guineas
va!tie, which bore the following inscription ;--" Pre-
sented to Dr. Ryan, by his friends and pupils, as a
testimonial of his scientific attainments." The chair-
man was J. Frost, Esq.; the vice-chairman Henry
Ault, Esq., of Gloucester House, Essex.

On Tuesday uvening Louis Philippe received Ad-
miral Dupetit Thouars and Marshal Valee.
t-aterdaa afternoon, says Galignani, three ekant
LIeYo lm women, followed by two servants in the royal
,r.r, were observed in the Palais Royal, the Rue de
"'eoelieu the Passage des Panoramas, and on the
--"llevords. The ladies were the Duchesses de Nie-,
ours and d'Aumale and the Princess de Joinvil e
ho
were visiting the different curiosity and mercery
anops,
I
l'he Arab chiefs went on Tuesday to take forma
leave of Marshal Soult, who, wishing to give them.
4441 e memorial of his good-will towards them, pre-
of kilted four of them with highly enriched sabres, tw
13f them with equally handsome pairs of pistols, one
'with a double-barrelled gun, and the other with a
valuable watch.
Lord Brougham has arrived at the Hotel Meuric.e.
t'alsA Government contract for 9,000 tons of English
, to be delivered at Toulon in French bottoms,
"as just been taken by M. Richardson, of Marseilles,
4t1,841.' Be. per ton, that being the lowest tender.d
..'"e highest tender was that of Messrs. Hantier and
°a of Havre. It was nearly twelve francs higher
'than that of M. Richardson.
Th
t -e nevi's from Rio Grande, brought by the Ex-
ll' rigesits Packet, dated the 22d of November, is in the
, est deee favourable, and it was thought. moree
izitkei to hay, ell beneficial influence on the Exchange
land '° (Janeiro than the news of a treaty with Ednfn-
s --• , The rebels had been completely route
peeveral attacks
, and have sent an emissary to the Em-
tr to implore clemency and offer submission.
,LtotZ an arrival from Martinique of the 27th ult.,
the
Gov of the Colonial Council to the speech of h
vlit
v,.,rrioolartieoini opening the session, has been received.
- it sees no
tel€sts of the"PreBSe-S its de anxiety as to the in-
thance
0,... colony, and declares that
French
(~a_elif,
sexcept in a directin appeal to the
paragraphthe of
the answe'rzr
tbheerd I'l!le . conscfolulldowgs
:__
" We adjure
kit Chalobers, thatottairskaof our liberties and can-
loPional franchises to come in aid of our weakness
h protect our institutions. ring into th
questions
all th. _ e consideration of the colonial
We conjure them to
and
themselves
demands, against those mischievous doctrines
not to
styli nothing but ruin and destruction, and
our
Petty,ro that spoliation which is meditated against
t colonial
interestand the annihilation of the g
tokis„, of
_France, only to gratify thelra ambition, of
2A: leut`tt4
id the exactions of English policy."
icy.
°01( al irool Heres states that a violent
,tempest.,
i r aCe on :nellOred • theyigt of the 14th. Of fifty vessels
1 "vo hied • the harbour all suffered severely, and
The
i.,.e their cables and went ashore.
taa bee l•barrier de and
of the 21st states that there
it n°° communication between Italy and that
Y for „
avldsoehe
1, veral (43.5
until the 20th, an enormousar
the ll'inia laving fallen on the Mont-Cenis road,
ell•ett 4 ret, (pi_
-'-ue mail had at length been able to
':'ere eoP4s'al?e, and immense numbers of workmen
rho.
gage': in restoring the communication to th
The followi
clio4 toon 44. ag British merchant-vessels were at
ip.',°e 13th of December :—The Grecian Queen,
s;ones lion, Ann Mundell, Richard Cobden, M.ary
14)(41(1' R aeon,
Maid of ALMA,' St. George, Rich-
tio'biladl erpuhpit,erb, Arctic, Ariosto, Cuba,,.
4'
k '' It°eoe, Margaret, Lydia Ann,Plymouth,
Rich-
Quin as°rl, Courierren.
Chusan,
j Lolev, is , , er, Margaret Forbes,
'43 a 4uel, Guildford, Mary Chilton, Oriole,
a.Y, Pavilion.
t• The ea f.'V Antra Pstaxaxcia.
ion of Luna the Attorney-General v. the Corpora-
iteotlih:
:o;_nor4iiietiniuunrr,ceart.iie on for hearing in the Rolls
The appli?ation was to restrain
:"4 of ~,, 4 iron" granting licenses for the forma-
'lttiple of the on the River Thames, the fee
11,,,cotil° Corpott.haet;b,,ed,of.the river being in the Crown, and
tilorat• •41 oeing the conservators only. The
ion a .... , .
r, a of the
_aenuirred, claiming the ownership of the
s
n,' Which !Nl', and alleging that the question
Thew
Aster
0,, ',tight to be tried at common law.
taen ' the its took time to consider his judg-
lo the v
Collins
,9econdaries Court a sheep salesman, named
;aka,,4erriet,,efeovered 4/. 2s. 6d. from a butcher named
'by 0r some lambs. The lambs had been pur-
-1 the fa jobber named Ellis, in Guerrier's name,
‘-' is, w;,e, eoce was that they had been purchased by
archZ4)ePetted howevere authority of his principal. It ap-
of the,, that at the time of the purchase
iltva lambs had been paid for, and had been
41, ille
zay,bY defendant's drover.
al,• aikr, of iatoiation of William Law, a bankrupt
At Ponhiaeading, Was adjourned ny Mr. Commis-
zo,t quillh.,4,,que sine die, trooer, residi4,,,l).a middle-aged woman, named Ann
taughtn 1,,,f "g In Greystokeplace, Fetter-lane, was
L °re Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr. Alder-
ani• ',grove
ob, 4, ups.
~, charged with carrying, without a
aaildtted ft!'" oft wo gallons of spirit. She was
epcui• jt•••: 54 months in default of paying a fine
qe great
4,PPeared that the poor creature was in
ilee. 'stress at the time she committed the
"ii?nlriday Jo ~
_
wihi, 'll Roti,"9 Cox, a marine-store dealer, re-
cid avlim ‘4!rinthe, was charged at Greet.iwic
am,
newo•
Ile al possession an immense quantity of
iikt Ivks a
ate, nails, rope, &c. Mr. Grove said
the that
11_s of wholesale plunder, and it was neces-
Arfore,re,4 time should be afforded. He should,
g,sittt the Trod the case till Thursday next.
iiiit.Y, chargedes-office an old sea Captain namedh
b,' la>o
'l4r his "4Ple of nymphs of the pave with
aod efi, and
Pocket of his purse —they were re-
lott hve ti;tethe Captain went to a tavern opposite
the stole, I,..P,°t'boy his boots to clean, when the
'ots .41 its contents, were found in one of
t, Th
totre prisoners were at once discharged.
a' buice ~flo•----- raa.assizsaitsr
..sa.a.
, Thvorni ' evonshire left te4Lwn on Friday for
40 Alar •
prO List 'Nis and "viarch'on s of Ely and the
nail, tig ar....._ , - . i e. S
iii, 4.,,0r0t, 11, prolonging their stay at the Duke
nsit?ahri
,x,ellg 8 splendid seat, Blenheim House.
fur litteY Baron Brunnow left town on Wed
In',.t i the Ai. u'leigh House, Lincolnshire, on a
ii,, 'Us h_ Rrquis of Exeter, having been invited to
Ni,,4 riveluYal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
4itl,,c::Y wt the mansion on Thursday. His Ex
V. o' dillQ Pay a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at
'ken e, before
.. .
htard at e, h.... 1 retUrnling• to town.
'clot,. tlcl ore
and Captain Clifford, of the
boons, have 'everal other officers of the Household
laLtra N arrived at Earl Delawares seat, Buck-
t,' cal,: Wiik,
,',,'ltc4(lay -,,m,811,„,1'Y D'Eresb is expected in town on
~,•''teiati -eices-t' A'hursda.y next, rom Griinthorpe
Ntiewapaeit,erbire, to make preparations, in .his
ta',,; t ori os Lord Hi
4,14 1% '4,g Parliam gh Chamberlain, for the
:,kfe.., t eaville , ?nt on Tuesday week.
•thor b has laft Charles-street, Berkeley-
,l4,t,Ho „ap hon. l‘tl°l.lariGore youse, near Windsor.
„ oa Av., reville entertained a select party at
Ira' 'mesd37, at his residence in Hamilton-
a, -ieo,,
I've tt "Ot
li r all d 11,
I,,toottladlat,ds
t, , countess Palmerston intend to
''a 't Will ni.s week for Brighton. The ..N ob e
ktltt„ Ut am .„,,e io town by the 3d of February.
islands.vlscountess Jocelyn continue on a visit
INiptos44t and v•
illiviNhb 4 Vtrtle is countess Villiers have arrived at
0711, Yde jio/) 00 a visit to Lord and Lady Wil-
,'tertaio2' frolu. participating in the series of
4?. on'-11.-ady tents
given at Stoneleigh Abbey by
t,
ounceV;,t. lio'',_e'gfri, in celebration of the coming
inqin
akil \\ • H. Leigh.
aab,,,k.th, e has returned t Brighton•from at-
udays :110erai of the o
,
40tio1i %ter . „ oe Hon. Mrs. 11, ardlaw, his
~ atid Ladyot Bath,
4, ,qll,
fAshley have arrived in town from
441 Vi'c ° BhaftesburY at St. Giles's, Dor-
kw °ant and (A 1, Viscountess Palmerston, at
ants,
nhaohhlic .11440,....
rsi,, Ice In •voisee to odbxquwacres.
it:ii bstitntiot ° Place at the Winchester Me-
11,e tithe kr si on Wednesday, and a lecture was
tto lettot° illn,t arP, on " the philosophy of the
Ante rate Which a supper was cooked upon
144''4 att, table b
~,,_:, ittki 41dance 4' means of gas. There was a
kio
~, tievE,ol
_:,lncluding Bickharn Escott, Esq.,
wk,'M (4` seventy
stater persons of distinction.
Up-
cittlltlPl,:(),paree.:ifis;tuckowtillto the repast, Which con-
wls, ham, griskins, fried
r,e tare e,00.1, Cochin &c.,
all admirabb-
vii
r:e. ins
apparatus, under the diaecti4
)elaer'`4l( av .
,44,tia, 'or , '",'ng 4 Tneet
Nell, t , ‘• Clernent Dams WU held of the pa-
,blltnrlle iLlborti
evits, respecting the suit
Niti tat ,ea b r es, and to consider and
4,1%4
to tsioo it 8 oil dbe taken thereon. After
41 taey.,,, the list Was generally agreed, that all op-
•i \labor., 0, trustees
4i she id be
withd managers of the
')ti1i445)11,4•t°4, the B°4 drawn.
. ,Itl_ 14 (.110.. princely residence of the Duke of
Oralig darin 'eestershire yll
1 'l(4 4of 1,,g the ensui ( i be the scene of great
it btss of
1.,( areester ng Week, consequent on the
q (qi,,, kleauro , eldest 5,
Pt._ Nil ° rt, attaini- ,11. of t,he.Duke and
i;etie,"‘v,al, i "R niB Majority on the
ht:qapo Nell i n,se'rwer)ience h •
top .ki,i4 tt,
or 3 ,ouild
to
fpre;V•rgvearryisenenferroarnnythaet
N 4hy
port faro'
l'eritittin
tops'lvo "'lll Ges ir,g °reign vessels, after ais.„
ao Yage the United"‘va'As, to depart • ballast
or,i ON , wi,„ iv_ ,
in
01 kll Of e `ll°llt 00 . "igaorn, on their fata-
-1 t,
,ve,„ , INo, y victuallin bll
44, „Thtih be i,is have . F 1 the Coil_
given directions, tha.'a no
llielt ti,?tecoiin,,Focit,tn P!'"ceed in ballast from
a eeritiiine without a victuarlng hill,
c of
such v°44°l 511.11.11 have.

THEATRES.
DRURYILANE.
There will he a grand supper :here this evening
after the performance, to celebrate the 50th repre-
sentation of the Daughter of St. Mark, which con-
tinues to attract crowded audiences. The celebrated
ballet of Les Danaides is in rehearsal, and Madlle.
Maria has arrived from Paris to assist in it.

We further beg to express our high sense of the
spirited conduct of the Company by whom so great
a monument of commercial enterprise was designed
and carried out, and to congratulate them and the
engineers and artisans employed in her construction
upon the success which has attended their labours, as
evidenced by the result of a voyage so well calculated
to test her powers as the present has been :
Stephen Lushington, Captain, R.N.
A. Fairbrother,
William Henry Gore Langton
Joseph Reynolds, R.Y.S.
John Reynolds
Isaac White
J. 11. Brown, Commander Merchant Service.

COVENT-GARDEN.
Mr. Laurent has announced a further series of
twenty-four nights, which commences upon Tuesday
week, when Shakspere's first part of Henry the Fourth
will be revived. Henry Betty's engagement is ex-
ended to five nights more, and he personates, for the
first time in London, the chivalrous Hotspur, which
will he followed by his appearance in Othello and
!Valiant Tell. The celebrated American comic actor,
Mr. Hackett, is engaged, and opens in Falstaff.
The new play of Honesty, to be produced to-night
at Covent-garden, is written by Mr. Spicer, and will
be introduced to the audience with all the aids of
scenic and costume correctness in each department.
The concluding scene of the play, " Smithfield in the
Olden Time," has occupied the attention of the artists
in the scene-room some time, and embraces the entire
stage, and will present the. exact appearance of that
portion of London at the period of the play (Eliza-
beth's), with the preparations for execution by the
stake, and the " wage" of battle. Douglas Trafford,
Francis Gage. and Julia, will be supported by Mr.
Vandenhoff, Mr. J. Vining, and Miss Vandenhoff.
The piece has been got up under the direction of Mr.
E. Stirling.

Edward James Maude, C.E.
John Sunloy
William Carpenter Evans
William Roughsedge
Charles West
Henry James Mills
Tom D. Taylor
George F. Powell
J. Walter
Edmund Jabez Maybury
James Lovell
John Gower Powell
Christopher Hill
Alfred Honey will
George Pyecroft,
William Herneman
J. Hammond, C.E.
William Cook
C. Pritchard Baily, C.E.

VOYAGE of the GREAT BRITAIN
STEAM-SHIP from BRISTOL to BLACKWALL.
The Great Britain steam-ship arrived in the River
Thames yesterday afternoon, and anchored off Black-
wall at four o'clock, after a boisterous but most
triumphant voyage. This unequalled specimen of
naval architecture, which is probably the finest ship
in the world, left her anchorage in King-road,
Bristol, at seven, P.M., on Thursday evening. She
cannot, however, be said to have commenced her
voyage till nine o'clock, as upon her anchor righting,
it brought up with it some fragments of the gear of a
schooner which had been run down in the Channel at
the commencement of the winter. It took a consider-
able time to get clear of this impediment, and conse-
quently the ship did not commence steaming at any
rate till nine o'clock, when the Holmes light was in
sight. She then went off with fourteen rotations of
her engine per minute. Subsequently the bearings
got somewhat heated (a mishap common to all new
engines), in consequence of which her progress was
further delayed. At the time of her weighing anchor
the wind was from S.S.W., blowing somewhat fresh,
and with squalls of rain. After twelve o'clock the
wind veered to W.S.W., and it afterwards in-
creased, until, at about three A.M. of Friday,
it blew a stiff gale. There was at the same time a
very heavy cross sea of a very " nasty " kind running.
The gale kept on increasing, and the ship which,
from her having no cargo on board, was very light in
the water, rolled tremendously, but at the same time
very easily. She seemed as if determined to keep
the waves under, and made no water over her quar-
ters but the spray of the sea. Among the persons
on board of her were Mr. Brunel, Capt. Crispin,:R.N.,
commander of her Majesty's yacht (who attended by
order to inspect the vessel); Mr. Lloyd, chief en-
gineer of Woolwich Dockyards (deputed by the Ad-
miralty) ; Mr. Smith, inventor of the screw ; Mr.
Maude, civil engineer; Mr. Baly, civil engineer; Mr.
Hammond, civil engineer; Captain Claxton, R.N:,
Captain Bracon, and other gentlemen conversant with
nautical matters, all of whom expressed themselves in
terms of admiration of the performances of the ship.
The weather was in every way calculated to test
her powers severely during the entire of her pas-
sage from the Holmes to the Landsend. At seven
A.M. she was struck by a sea with some force on her
bows ; and at ten A.M., when a few miles above Pad-
stow, a second sea struck her on the star-
board bow with tremendous violence. A com-
mander of a vessel present, who had re-
peatedly made voyages to India, China, America,
&c., assured me that he had seldom or never seen a
sea strike a ship so heavily and another nautical gen-
tleman expressed his belief such a sea would have
completely swept the decks of an ordinary Channel
vessel. For a moment or two the blow seemed to
bring the Great Britain to a stand, and to paralyse
her engines; but she almost immediately heaved out
of the sea, and went on stemming the waves as before.
On examining her afterwards it was found that the
violence of the sea had cracked her iron plates above
deck in two places, dashed in her bull's-eye windows,
frames and all, buckled the diagonal iron bars under
her forecastle deck, started the frame-work of the
doors, &c., and other trifling damage. The spring
ebb tide was at this time strong against her, and
increased the difficulties with which she had to con-
tend. She proceeled onwards, however,
" Walking the waters
Like a thing of life,"
and seemed to defy adverse powers ; for under cir-
cumstances, during the continuance of which an
ordinary vessel would scarcely hold her own, she
kept her course, making at no period of her voyage
less than 4 knots an hour. At 845 P.M. she passed
the Ling Ships, and having rounded the Landsend, got
into the English Channel, where she had a fairer sea,
and ran before the wind. From this point to the
Downs, where she anchored at about half-past one
A.M. on Sunday (a distance of 350 odd statute miles),
she ran under, occasionally, adverse circumstances of
ebb tides, &c., in 28 hours 55 minutes, being after
the rate of upwards of twelve miles an hour, She
weighed anchor in the Downs on Sunday at '7 55 A.M.
The wind had changed during the night to W.N.W.,
and was blowing a stiff breeze from that point, so
that, after entering the Queen% Channel, she had all
the way to Black wall to bear up against an exceed-
ingly strong head-wind. bhe seemed to be an object
of considerable interest to the crews of the numerous
vessels passed by her in her progress, and was re-
peatedly cheered. At twelve P.M. she overtook the
Water Witch steamer, of Hull (a very fast boat), and
passed her. She gained on this vessel five miles in an
hour and a half; and subsequently got up to Blackwell
an hour and eight minutes before the Water Witch
arrived there. The Great Britain was commanded by
Captain Hosken, R.N., and was piloted through the
Bristol Channel by Mr. Paynes, and up the English and
Queen's Channel. She steered with the utmost ease,
and the only trifling mishap which occurred in steer-
ing her in and out through a numerous fleet of vessels
off Gravesend, was the carrying away a part of the
bowsprit of a collier, which had drifted slightly. On
the arrival of the Great Britain at Woolwich she
slowed her engine. This was at half-past three. She
anchored at Blackvrall at four o'clock, and was hailed
by thousands of epeetators, who had assembled on the
banks of the river to welcome' her approach. The
passengers (at least all of those who, from not being
appointed to survey her officially, and being uncon-
nected with the Company could join in signing such
a document) gave the testimonial which is subjoinoi
to her gallant commander.
The engines of the Great Britain during the heavy
gale were found to work uniformly, which is not the
case with those of paddle-fitted vessels, in consequence
of the paddle-wheels being frequently plunged even to
their axes, at which time the engines were as it were
paralysed, and the next moment, in consequence of
the water leaving the wheels, and the resistance being
lessened, the engines fly off at a speed much beyond
their usual rate of working, which not only requires
the greatest attention of the engineers, but frequently,
in spite of every precaution, amuses considerable de-
rangement of the machinery. The uniformity with
which the engines of vessels with screw propellers
work, is of more ilnportance than may perhaps at first
strike thL,,e not practically acquainted with the sub-
for when the engine of a paddle-wheel vessel is
reduced in its speed, the power, as a matter of
course, is less in proportion, and the deficiency
generally occurs in gales of wind, when its maximum
is most required, it being well known that a power,
however great, applied at intervals, is less efficacious
than when steadily and constantly applied; and this
in some measure accounts for the Great Britain
making so good a passage under such disadvantageous
circumstances. It having been stated that the screw,
from its peculiar position so far aft, would, by the
pitching of the ship be subject
in ed to a similar disad-
vantage to the paddle-wheels,being lifted out of
the water, we particularly noticed, during the
gale, how far this statement was borne out in prac-
tice, and we found at no time, even when the fore-
foot of the ship was distinctly seen, that the pro-
peller was out of the water except about three or
four feet -of its upper part, which was only so mo-
mentarily. This is fully confirmed by the engine
never varying more than from a half to a whole stroke
per minute.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Semiseria (ta)l4o to 1 agst The Era (tkn
20 to 1 agst Cataract (tkn) 40 to 1 agst Obscurity (tkn'
30 to 1 agst Ratan (taken) .50 to 1 agst The Era (tkn)
The above were the only bets laid to-day.
DERBY.
16 to 1 agst Cobweb colt (t)I30 to 1 agst Newamonger(t)
27 to 1 agst Annandale
The rest as on Tuesday.
COURSING.
LANARK AND RENFREWSIIIRE MEETING, JAN. 21
AND 22.—The Pollockshaw's Stakes of 201, for 20 pup-
pies, were won by Dr. Brown's The Dunlop Cadger ;
Mr. A. Pollock's Shadow ran up.—The Cup of 28 sous.
for 14 dogs were won by Mr. A. Pollock's Cora ; Lord
Eglinton's Charlie Bates ran up.—The Pollock Stakes of
12 sovs. (6 dogs) were woa by Dr. Brown's The Re-
jected ; Mr. A. Graham's Sir Edward ran up. —The
Patterton Stakes (4 dogs) were won by Mr. A. Graham's
Blue Banner ; Lord Eglinton's Duke of Wellington ran w,
up.—The Darnley Stakes (12 subs.) for dogs that never erk
won, were won by Mr. Langtry's Baronet ; Lord Eglin-
ton's Meg Merrilies ran up.
HORNBY CASTLE AligvrtNii.—The First Puppy Cup
(6 dogs) was won by Mr. Moore's Maria Monk ; Lord Jau,
Bective's Byron ran up.—The Second Puppy Cup.(6
does) was won by Mr. J. Thompson's Turner ; Mr, E.
G.llornby's Young Hyson ran up.—The Open Stakes
were won by Mr. Walmsley'a Lune.
lIORNBY AND BOUGH MEETING, JAN. 22 AND 23.
The Catterick Cup of 5 guineas (14 dogs) was won by
Mr. Alderson's Ranger ; Mr. Hutchinson's Comet ran
llornby Cup of 3 guineas was won by Mr.
Maxwell's Abbotsford ; Mr. Bake's Bolivar ran up.—
The Brough Cup, by 16 subs, of 25 sots. each, was won
by Mr. Blackburn's Sri:tailbones ; his Rasper ran up.

THE EARL OF MORNINGTON.--We regret to hear
there is no improvement whatever in the health of this
venerable nobleman. Up to an advanced hour, the
answer given to the numerous inquiries was, that the
Noble Earl remained much the same.
Lord Francis .Egerton has, we regret to say, been
suffering from an attack of gout, at Hatchford Hall. His
Lordship is, however, again convalescent. Mr, F.
Egerton has joined the Excellent, at Portstnou h.
The Marquis of Worcester, only son of the Duke
and Duchess of neaufort, will attain his majority next
Saturday, when a distinguished circle, including the
corps diplomatique, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Normanby, Earl and Countess of Wilton, and the family
connexions of the Noble Duke, arc eßpected to assemble
at Badminton, where their Graces and the Marquis are
now staying.
Pitt to ALBERT'S HARRIERS.—His Royal High-
ness hunted with his harrier* on Saturday moreing.
The meet was at Dorney-cotnmon: The Prince was
attended by Major-General Wemysal Mr, Alison, and
Captain Meynell. His Royal highness enjoyed two
capital runs before he returned to the Castle. One hare
was found close to the common, which was killed after
a ihtt run of thirty-five minutes in the same field from
which she started. The second hare was killed, after
a run of twenty minutes, on Lord Orkney's property,
near Maidenhead. The Held consisted of about forty
of the neighboeting yeomen and farmers. •
We have more than ordinary pleasure in being
enabled to state, on the best authority, that very faVour-
able accounts have been received of Sir 'Millen tolletes
health, and that there is eVerY htipo of his immediate re-
turn to this country, and of his health being sufficiently
re-established to undertake the discharee of his duties in
Parliament at the commencement of the session:
WILL OF ILTID NICROLL, ESti, , QuEnr4/ PitifttfOtt.
—The will of Iltid Nichol!, Estp, her Majesty's Pro-
curator,has just been probed in Doctors'-commons, by
Hen*? Iltid Nicholl, Esq., Doctor of Laws, the son,
and one of the executors. The deceased gives to his
wife his carriage, horses, plate, etc., and the sum of
1,200/. a year. To each of his Unmarried daughters and
sons the sum of 10,0001. each, To each of his hurried
1001, each (accounting for the amalltiess of the latter sum
by alluding to their portions advanced by him on their
marri*9, 11e also gives to his wife his house in Port-
land-place ; to his son John his house in Godlimana
street, where his business has been carried on. The
residue of his property, after payment of legacies, &c.,
together with his estates in Glamorgan, he bequeaths to
hie eldest son. The personal property has been sworn
under 160,0001.—Britannia.
The Plymouth Auxiliary of the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has resolved that
two prises of three guineas and two guineas should be
annually offered to the pupils of the several schools in
Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, and within Ave
miles of either of those towns, for the best and second-
best essays on the following subjects :—The claims of
the brute creation to humane treatment at the hands of
man t and the duty of discontinuing all such proceedings
as inflict needless sufferings on any portion of God's
creation, merely for the sake of amusement, or for the
gratification of an idle curiosity.
THIS CORN TRADE.—GLASGOW, JAN. 22.—During
the past week the supply of wheat and barley has been
more than equal to the demand. Of oats, ostmeal, and
beans and peas, arrivals have been light. Wheat—The
bulk of imports ore .6nglish of the last crop, the quality
of which being superior to former years, requires less
Mil:tures of old than our own, which is soft in condition.
English meets a fair sale at 245. 6d. to 255. 6d. for
white, and 235. 6d. to 245. Gd. per 240/. for red. Free
foreign red inquired after at 235. Gd. to 255. 6d. Scotch
new, a heavy sale, and cheaper. Barley—Consumers
continue to purchase cautiously, and only selected par-
cels. The trade is very dull, and prices again lower.
Oats—Few offering from aboard ship, but ex granary
the show of SaMpleS is fair. Fine heavy mealing lots
maintain attention at full rates. Oatmeal—The stock
now in store being withheld for a further advance, the
quantity offering for sale is not considerable, the price,
consequently, well supported. Beans and Peas—The
consumption is increasing, and fine heavy parcels are a
ready sale at last week's rates. Inferior cheaper at
various prices. In the provision and butter market the
extreme rates hitherto paid are not so easily realised,
the trade being rather languid. At this day's market
the attendance was moderate. Purchasers showed little
inclination to do business, holding off for abatement.
The market closed heavy, with the turn in favour of
buyers for all sorts.
RECOVERY OF LADY' CHALMERS'S JEWELLERY.—
Considerable excitement has prevailed among the ser-
vants employed on the Brighton Railway, in consequence
of the suspected robbery of a valuable box of jewellery
belonging to Lady Chalmers, stated to be worth nearly
a thousand pounds. It appeared that, a few days ago,
her Ladyship and family travelled from Brighton by the
mail train, with considerable luggage, among which the
box of jewellery was supposed to have been placed. On
arriving at the Londcn-bridge terminus, the property of
her Ladyship was conveyed to her residence, and, after
the vehicle had been unpacked, the jewel-box was missed.
The servant employed to take charge of the luggage was
positive that it had been brought from Brighton, and it
was immediately suspected that it had been stolen at the
terminus, or on the way to her Ladyship's house. In-
formation was instantly forwarded to the railway station,
and inquiries were made at every station along the line,
and at Brighton, without being able to discover any clue
to the lost box. After two day's fruitless search the box
was discovered at the railway station at Brighton, and
vvas:on Friday placed in the safe custody of her Ladyship.
SHEEP-STEALING DT MICHAEL GIRDS.-013 Satur-
day last, a notorious character, named Michael Gibbs,
was committed by Captain Browne to take his trial at
the next. sessions for stealing a sheep from a field at
Woolayington, the property of Mr. James Hurman, of
Last Bower farm, near this town. It appears that Mr.
Abraham Winter, of Puriton, who has a field adjoining
the prosecutor's, traced the sheep to the prisoner's
house, a distance of nearly a mile and a half. The foot-
marks of Gibbs were also traced. A quantity of mutton
was found, covered with straw, in a back-house, under
the s
zetMme roof the prisoner resided.—Somerset County
Ga,

Captain Hosken, R.N., by whom she is com-
manded, and who has gained much nautical renown
as the commander of the Great Western on her va-
rious transatlantic voyages, repeatedly expressed his
conviction that neither the Great Westerrf, nor any

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THE SUN, ONPO N, A NI lt, N GIF #2l tT Alt It g 75 I 4-5:

toEFEAT OF THE PUSEYITES AT
EXETER.
THE SURPLICE QUESTION.
It appears that Mr. Cottrtenay has at length aban-
doned the use of the stitplice: The following is an
extract froth Mr: Courtenav's lettetannouncing the
tact,,,-Which appears in the IVesierfri
"Therefore, with the conscientious donvidtion that
the use of the surplice in preaching, though desired, is
not directed by the Church—with the permission and
advice of my Bishop, and at the earnest request of the
civil authorities of Exeter, conveyed to me both through
the Bishop and personally, I feel it my duty to discon-
tinue the use of the surplice in the pulpit, with the
anxious hope that this coiv.',ession Will retert ;peace and
good order ailidng as. Allow me to add that I shall ever
gratefully remember your kindness in the painful posi-
tion in which I have been placed.—l remain, your faith-
ful friend and servant,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Harlequin, 16, Com-
mander Hastings, which recently arrivedfrom China
with a portion of the ransom, was paid off in this harbour
onit tscilitete,
ari,
is
proceeding eery rapidly in her
rig, and getting ready for sea With all dispatch, Captain
Mitihael ,Ses•mour has eupersecied Captain Sir Charles
Sullivan in the e ortimand.
The Lily, 16, Comtnander Newton, is ordered to eitpe;
dite for sea. She is ordered to get out to Spithead, if
possible, to-morrow. She proceeds to the Brazils.
The Amason, 26, Captain Stopford, is still at Spit-
head. The shipwrights have finished her repairs, and
she will receive her advabee *ages in a clay or two, and
proceed, We belieire, to the firaiils, eltlietigh it is reported
she will go to Cork, and take the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C.8., &c., vice the Volage, 26, Capt.
Dixon, recently bearing it.
The Snipe cutter, Lieue-Commander Raymond, ar-
rived from Devonport on Tuesday, with supernumeraries
for the Vindictive, &c.
The Rochester navy lighter, Tozer master, arrived on
Wednesday, with stores from Chatham,
The Goodwill lighter, Master-Commander_ Pledge,
arrived on Wednesday, with stores frail Sheerness for
this dockyard.
The Echo steam-tug went out of harbour yesterday
for the first time since her repair of the damage done
during her trip to Plymouth.
Rear-Admirel William Bowles, C. 14., and the Right
Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Lords of the Admiralty, accompa-
nied by Captain 11. R. Brandreth, F.R.S., Director
of Engineering and Architectural Works, are expected
to arrive this evening on a visit to this dockyard, we be-
lieve connected with the works of the new steam basin.
The freight ship La Belle Alliance, with about 200
convicts on board, mostly from the New Prison, Penton-
rifle, arrived from the river last evening en route to Gib-
raltar, where, we are informed, they will be employed
on the fortifications.
The Amason, 26, Capt. Stopford, was paid two months'
wages in advance at Spithead yesterday, which she will
leave in a day or two, reported for Cork.
The St. Vincent, 120, Capt. Rowley, refitting in the
basin, is progressing rapidly towards readiness for ser-
vice again, and will be ready in about a fortnight.
The Neptune, 120, in the basin, is fitting for the pen-
dant with apparent expedition. It is reported she will
take the flag of Sir Charles Rowley, when ready to re-
ceive it, and supersede the St. Vincent.
The Emerald tender, Master-Commander Beach, sailed
on Wednesday evening for Chatham, with the Marines
from the Harlequin, belonging to that division, and
hands for the vessels fitting out tbere.
The Vengeance, 84, has been masted, and has also
shipped her bowsprit, and is now alongside the jetty
completing her final advancement.
The Pelican, 16, Commander Justice, recently from
China, with a portion of the ransom, will be paid off
to-morrow. She will not be employed again in her Ma-
jesty's service, having worn herself out in it.
The Fearless steam-vessel, Commander Sherringham,
was hauled into the basin yesterday to repair some de-
fects.
The Apollo, 8, Commander M'Lean, arrived this morn-
ing from the Mediterranean, with naval and military
invalids from that station.
In -Harbour—The Victory, Vindictive, Excellent,
Nautilus, Lily, and the Dwarf ; Comet and Echo steam-
vessels, and Sparrow ketch.
In the Basin—The St. Vincent, the Royal Yacht, the
Neptune, and the Fearless surveying vessel.
In Dock—The Britannia, the Prince Regent, the Ma-
gician, and the Bee experimental steam-vessel.
At Spithead--The Amazon and the Apollo troop-ship.
At the Motherbank—The Belle Alliance, waiting a
fair wind.
DEVONPORT._The Daring, 12, Commander Matson,
is alongside the jetty shipping ballast to bring her below
her load water line, in order to discover the source of
her leakage, which is attributed to bad caulking. Should
the leak not be discovered by bringing her down in the
water, she will be dry docked, and, we are informed,
filled with water, when the leak will, it is believed,
quickly manifest itself. When ready for sea again, she
will try her rate of sailing with the Flying Fish (Sur-
veyor's brig), 12, Commander Harris, and the Espitigle,
12 (by the Committee of Naval Architecture, a member
of which Committee and one of the Espi6gle's construc-
tors, Mr. Chatfield, has permission to go out in her and
witness the trial), Commander Thompson, now lying in
the Sound ready for the cruise.
The Tyrian, 4, was unlocked on Monday to make
room for the Daring.
The Locust, steam-sloop, Lieutenant-Commander
Eden, having landed her supernumeraries, sailed on
Monday for her station—the Mediterranean.
The Snipe cutter, Lieutenant-Commander Raymond,
sailed on Monday with supernumeraries for Portsmouth.
The Volage, 26, Captain Sir W. Dickson,' arrived on
Tuesday from Cork too ,be paid oft.. She -is in harbour
preparing. • •
-. • '
The Actteon, 26, Captain Mansel, will be ready for
sea about the second week in February. She has nearly
made up her complement (200) of hands. Her destina-
tion is, we believe, the Mediterranean station.
The Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, is expected to
be ready for sea in the early part of next week. She has
entered all her hands (130), and is otherwise expedited
for her destination—the Brazils.
'The Persian, 16, Commander Coryton, is rather short
handed, but is otherwise rapidly completing for service,
and is expected to be ready for sea in three weeks. She
will proceed to the Mediterranean station.
An accident happened on Monday to a boy belonging
to this vessel, who, haying stepped on one of the main
deck hatchways of the Vigo hulk (alongside of which
the Persian is fitting), the hatch, not being properly
secured, slipped from under his feet, and he fell into the
hold, a depth of 11 feet, by which he sustained such
severe injuries that death ensued shortly after. The poor
fellow's name is George Stephenson.
The Ranger, 6, Commander Anderson, fitting for sea
at this port, will be ready to leave in a fortnight, for
Ascension, for service on the coast of Africa. She has
completed her crew, and is rapidly proceeding with her
fittings.
The Crane, 6, Commander Lewis, having refitted, will
leave for Falmouth this day, to take out the next Bra-
zilian mail.
The Superb, SO, Captain Corry, is proceeding with her
equipment very rapidly, and entering some prime hands.
Dockyard Promotions—William Radford, leader of
the joiners, to be inspector ; A. Stiver, joiner, to be
leading man, vice Radford ; Thomas Tuckett, John
Thorn, and William Dyer, acting leaders of joiners, con-
firmed as leading men ; John Way, William Burt, and
Thomas Chubb, to be acting leading men, vice Tuckett,
Thorn, and Dyer, promoted,
In Harbour—The Caledonia, San Josef, Albion,
Superb, Volage, Actaeon, Firebrand, Racer, Racehorse,
Persian, Acorn, Daring, Ranger, Crane, Sylph, Lively,
llsinosze, Camel and Devon lighters, and Confiance
steamer.
In the Sound—The Espiigle and Flying Fish.
CHATUAM, JAN. 24.= =The Isis, 44 guns, Captain Sir
John Marshall, Knight, 1(.C.H., was paid off on Thurs-
day at this port. The crew consisted of 3do men, Nearly
all the seamen, as soon as they came on shore, left by
vans for Gravesend to proceed onwards to Portsmouth.
The Cockatrice brigantine, Lieutenant J. Oxenham,
was paid off here this day.
The Duck, Trice master, arrived on the 22d, with
stores, from Portsmouth.

"FRANCIS COURTENAY,
‘‘ M. C. Trevillian, Esq."
The following is the account given by the Western
Pimes of the circumstances which induced Mr. Cour-
tenay to come to this determination:—
"The cause of : Cr, Gout-lenity's abancitinthent of the
surplice is its :—A requisition, signed by more
than One hundred and fifty influential and respectable in habitants, was addressed to the Mayor, calling upon his
worship to appeal to Bishop Plillpotts to stop the dis-
graceful Sabbath tnobbings, by commanding Mr.Courtentty
to abandon the surplice. The Bishop replied by enclos-
ing a letter to Mr. Courtenay, which the Mayor was to
deliver or not, as he thought proper. We have not seen
his letter to the Mayor, but it is reported that he only
authorised the Mayor to deliver the letter to Mr.
Courtenay in case he felt unequal to the keeping of the
peace of the city,"
The following is the Bishop's letter to Mr.
Courtenay

" Bishopstowe, Jan. 22, 1845.
" Dear Sir,----Not having received from you, or from
others, till this day, any authentic account of the unhappy
seeners which on two successive Sundays have been
enacted in St. Sidwell's, I have felt it my duty to forbear
from writing to you on the subject. In the very imperfect
state of information in which I was placed, I was afraid of
incurring the responsibility of advising you to yield to
the violence of the populace, lest such a concession
should be deemed injurious to the cause of peace and
order by those whose official duty it is to guard those
main objects of all good government.
" Letters which I have this day received from the
Mayor of Exeter, seem to intimate that it is the wish of
himself, and of the magistrates who are acting with him,
that I should take this step.
" Still, as I do not feel myself competent to decide
what course is fittest, I enclose this letter open to the
Mayor, who will either deliver it to you, or not, as he in
his discretion shall deem proper.
" If you receive this letter, you will understand from
it that I advise you to give way, at the request of the
civil authorities of Exeter—and not to persist in wearing
the surplice in the pulpit—unless conscientiously, and on
full inquiry, you have satisfied yourself, that your en-
gagements to the Church require you to wear the sur-
plice when you preach.
" I do not myself think that the matter is so free from
doubt, that you may not act on your Bishop's advice, as
now given to you.
" Still, Ido not pretend to any right to order you to
wear the gown ; I only advise it—and advise, with this
limitation, that you can, without wounding your own
conscience, comply.
" I am, dear Sir, your faithful friend and Bishop,
" The Rev. F. Courtenay." "H. EXETER."

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—he following at e the Total Receips of ways for the past week— T
thet is to say, up to the date tot which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

The Rolla, 10 guns, Commander Simpson, was put out
of dock on the 22d inst. This vessel is completed, ex-
cept with the fitting of a ventilating machine, which will
be finished in a few days.
The Eagle, 50 guns, Captain G. B. Martin, com-
menced bending sails on Thursday, and was put out of
dock this day (Friday) ; she requires about 100 hands
to complete her strength. She dropped down to Gil-
lingham-reach, where she receives on board her guns,
powder, shot, &c.
The Fantome, 16 guns, Commander Sir F. Nicholson,
is out of the hands of the dockyard, and will be ready
for sea in a few days.
The Comus, 20 guns, Commander J. Thompson, is
progressing very fast in her rigging, and will be ready to
proceed to sea in about a week.
The Retribution steam-frigate was this day (Friday)
taken into the dock vacated by the Eagle, and immedi-
ately a number of hands were put on her for bringing
her forward for service.

THE LATE MURDER AT SALT-HILL.—SLOUGIT,
FRIDAY EVENING.—The furniture and other property
of the " late ill-fated woman, Sarah Hart," were sold
this afternoon by public auction. The whole of the fur-
niture, &c., for which a broker had offered only 91., rea-
lised between 221. and 23/. ! The prisoner has retained
as his counsel at the forthcoming assizes for the county
of Bucks, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Montague Chambers,
and Mr. J. J. Williams. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr.
Prendergast have been retained on the part of the
Crown. Although the prisoner's spirits appear to be
good now, they were much depressed when he heard of
the discovery which had been made of the purchase by
him of prussic acid, at the shop of Mr. Hughes, in
Bishopsgate-street, on the very day of the death of the
late Sarah Hart. He soon afterwards, however, reco-
vered his wonted composure, which he has since main-
tained. Mrs. Tawell, and her daughter by her former
husband, have frequently visited the prisoner since his
incarceration. The subscription which has been opened
in this neighbourhood for the benefit of the two children
left by the murdered woman daily increases in amount.
Mr. Bothana, of the Windmill Hotel, Salt-hill, continues
to receive subscriptions on behalf of the orphans.
BATTERS EA-BRIDG E ♦ND THE POOR-RATE.—At
Wandsworth Police-office, on Friday, ninety proprietors
of Battersea-bridge were summoned to appear before
the magistrates for non payment of poor-rates. Only
two of them appeared personally, but the attorneys for
the contending parties had long discussions, in which
many technical objections were urged against payment
of the rate by the defendants. The magistrates, how-
, ever, deeided against them, but the distress warrant is
suspended for a few days, to allow the proprietors of the
bridge to pay the money.
WORk HOUSE TEA PARTT.—On Thursday Mr.
and Mrs. Porter, whose government of the workhouse is
entitled to all praise, gave their annual treat to the pau-
per children. Of these, between 300 and 400, with their
friends, partook of an excellent repast, spending the
remainder of the evening in equally relished amusements.
—Cheltenham Chronicle.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT WHILST CORKING A BOTTLE.
—On Friday a young man, named Robert Bealby, aged
twenty-one years, in the employ of Messrs. Drew, Hay-
wood, and Barron, wholesale druggists, of Bush-lane,
Cannon-street, was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, with
his legs cut in a shocking manner by the glass of a small
bottle, which broke as he was corking it. The hemorr-
hage was very great.
VICTORIA PARR.—Park pailings, to upwards of a
mile in length, have been laid down as the boundary of
the park, in Wick-lane and Grove-street, Hackney and
Old Ford. Workmen are busily engaged in the forma-
tion of new roads and making preparations for planting

.4. 4
ridiculed, It was asserted that it is a very common
occurrence ter the water to rise in the mine, either
when the slack to work the engine has failed, or the
ENlneer has been employed on other work. This had
happened thrice after the prisoner had been convicted;
and so far from any attempt having been made
to punish the engineer as a criminal, the work-
men, who had lost a day by the works being stopped,
tallied of fining the engineer in ss, worth qf ale!
More than this—the engineer had declared that he
would submit to no such fine. He had no slack, he
said, and it was no fault of his that the water rose in
the mine.
Mr. Mason, an inlieeper at Lount, has stated that
on the very morning Chambers left the place, and
before it was known he had quitted the prosecutor's
service he (Mr. Mason) heard the machine-man at
the colliery (Joseph Walker, a cousin of the prose-
cutor) talking of the water having risen. Mr. Ma:on
heard him say " that it was not Samuel's fault (mean-
ing the prisoner). There was no slack to work
the engine with." It is in fact declared
throughout the village, that the real crime
of the prisoner was, that he chose to leave
Mr. Walker's service. But it may be - said
that the prisoner put the lives of his fellow men in
jeopardy. Hear what one of these very men says.
He has signed a declaration—that he and his fellow-
workman went down freely, and of their own accord,
although he (the declarant) knew that the water was
rising; that he never saw any danger, nor does he
believe that there was any; and that he would freely
go down into the pit under the same circumstances
as happened that morning. The constable of Lount,
too, unsolicited, sent a written statement of what he
witnessed that morning. He declares that the men
continued working in the pit long after they had
been let down by the prisoner, and that when the
water rose so high as to stop the works, he saw the
men come up out of the pit. This was about six
o'clock in the morning. These men (who it must be
remembered) were alleged to have been in imminent
danger of their lives, directly they came up, began to
talk about having a sup to drink, and were all merry
and cheerful together.
A petition in favour of the prisoner has been signed
by 134 of the men and women of Lount and its vici-
nity—who are people employed in the mines, includ-
ing the men, and the wives of the men, whose lives
are said to have been put in jeopardy ! Amongst
other statements, they bear the highest testimony to
the prisoner's character ; they say that they remember
the circumstance of the water rising in the mine, and
Chambers leaving the prosecutor's service ; but these
people declare that when they heard subsequently of
Chambers being in custody they were at (Moss to con-
ceive what crime he could be charged with. Yet this
is the man whose conduct Mr. Macaulay described as
being so bad that the coal-masters generally had sus-
tained the prosecution against him ! These petitioners
all declare that the stoppage of the mine, owing to the
engine not being worked, is a matter of common oc-
currence. They say, further, that they have beard
the sentence with surprise and grief, and they iieg
leave humbly to represent that, owing to the
said Samuel Chambers having been undefended at
the trial, his case was entirely misunderstood, and a
degree of guilt has been supposed to attach to him,
which is, as they submit, totally undeserved. They
conclude by referring to the opinion of the Solicitor-
General as to the illegal conviction of the prisoner,
and they pray that mercy may be extended to him,
as they believe him to be wholly innocent of the crime
imputed to him.

A STRAIiG7B tint} PAINFUL STORY.
(From the Leicester ChrOnirle.)
It were better to acquit twelve guilty nien than
hang one who is innocent. Such is the general
seeling that pervades society, And the principle that
is herein involved applies, though with less force, to
the punishment of crimes less serious In character
than murder. It is applicable, indeed, to every in-
stance of the kind that may arise. Even in a
case of orchard robbing, it would be unjust
to chastise the wrong urchin. Nor Is It simply
as an act of injustice towards an innocent
person that the infliction of an undeserved pe-
nalty is to he deplored—its prejudicial influence in
weakening popular respect for the laws is equally, If
not more injurious. In the case we are about to in•
troduce to the notice of our readers, we are afraid
that this painful and mischievous mistake has been
committed. We are indebted for the facts to a trust-
worthy correspondent. They are as follow :
Samuel Chambers, a servant of Mr. Benjamin
Walker, of Worthington, was convicted at the last
Leicestershire Midsummer Quarter Sessions of having
"maliciously caused water to be conveyed into a mine,
with intent thereby to delay the working thereof."
The prosecution was commenced under the 7th and
Bth Geo. IV., cap. 30, sec. 0. The evidence of the
prisoner's master, two colliers, and the prosecutor's
brother, was brought forward for the prosecution.
The prisoner made a brief statement in defence,
but had not the assistance of counsel ; he was found
guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation
—the severest punishment the law could inflict. The
prisoner's conduct was considered to have been so
bad, the counsel for the prosecution stated that the
coal-masters in the neighbourhood had jointly sus-
tained the charge of the proceedings against him,
being determined to press the matter severely, as a
warning to all persons disposed to act similarly at any
future time. The consequences were likely to have
been dangerous in the extreme, it was said, several
lives having been risked by the prisoner's malice.
The court also commented upon the serious nature of
the offence.
"While, however, the prisoner remained in the gaol,
the constable of Awsworth, in Nottinghamshire,came
over to Leicester on purpose to see him; and having,
during his stay here, obtained an interview with the
Rev. John Brown, the vicar of St. Mary's, gave such
particulars of the prisoner's former life as made it a
matter of wonder that such a man should suddenly
have become so vicious as he was represented to he.
It was determined that some inquiries should be made
into the case, not only by e:.amination of parties
residing in Leicester, but also at Lount—
the place where the crime was alleged to
have been committed. It was ascertained that Cham-
bers is a native of Awsworth, in Nottinghamshire,
and was in the employ of Mr. 'Wakefield, coal-owner,
of that neighbourhood for fourteen years. He passed
thence into the employ of Messrs. Barber and Walker,
of Watnall; and these two were the only services he
had had prior to his engagement with the prosecutor.
The highest testimonials as to his character, while
with these gentlemen, have already been given. When
Chambers was in the employment of Messrs. Barber
and Walker, the prosecutor, wanting an engineer at
his colliery at Lount, his kinsman, Mr. Mark
Richards, who resides at Awsworth, and knows the
prisoner well, applied to the prisoner to leave his
situation and enter into the service of the prosecutor.
He was engaged at a salary of a guinea per week,
house-rent and coal included, and removed from
Awsworfh to Lount with his family.
Some time after he had been at Lount, his wages
were lowered to 18s. per week; and this, coupled
with other circumstances, determined him to leave
the place. He accordingly gave Mr. Walker three
months' notice of his intention to quit his service.
This is now admitted by Mr. Walker; but the re-
port of the trial states that the prisoner received, in-
stead of gave, the three months' notice to quit. This
alleged dismissal from his master's service is put for-
ward as the motive for the prisoner's malice. The
prisoner's wife has made a declaration, under the
statute, that the first notice to quit was given by the
prisoner himself; and Mr. Walker, on being asked
whether this was so, has admitted it to be true.
The prisoner having given notice to leave in three
months, was served with notice to quit in one month.
This he was perfectly ready to do, and would have
done, could he have had Lis wages settled. Some de-
lay, however, took place in this, and he was'compelled
to remain at Lount for a time ; but his furniture and
effects were packed up in open-day, and his wife and
family removed back again to Awsworth, to the very
house from which Mr. Mark Richards had engaged
them.

It may be asked whether this petitiou has been
forwarded to the Home-office ? The reply is, No.
Four petitions have already been presented. The
opinion of the Solicitor-General as to the illegality of
the conviction has also been sent, and has been re-

,urned—unheeded.

We leave the public to form their own conclusions
relative to the treatment of the unfortunate and in-

jured man who is the subject of the above simple
story. It is enough for us to add, that although the
poor fellow has been declared, by competent judges,
both legally and morally innocent of the crime
laid to his charge, he was sent to Van Diemen's
Land in August last. He left behind him an aged

mother, a forlorn wife, and five little children. For

seven years he is banished from his country as an
outcast—to herd with the vilest of the vile—and those

who were dependent upon him for a subsistence may,
for aught we know to the contrary, be left wholly
destitute. This is a crushing calamity for any one to
endure, but most of all for innocent people.

THE YARMOUTH MURDER.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The case of the late Yarmouth murder does not
cease to perplex those who are connected with the
administration of justice in this place. The precautions
that have been taken, the great exertions which have
been made, and the many reports which have been in
circulation, if they do not prove unavailing and false,
are far from having led to those satisfactory results
that are so desirable in a case of this sort. Royal,
Hall, and Mapes have been committed as principals,
but as the facts and circumstances of their alibis be.
come investigated, doubts arise at every step, as to their
having any part in the affair, and even Yarham's guilt
has not been so much confirmed as reports proclaim.
It is not true that in a note to his wife he com-
municated anything of importance. These are
fabrications, as is also the report that Mapes
had confessed. There is even a doubt as to whe-
ther the stains said to be on the panel of the
boards, where Yarham's coat hung, be those
of blood at all. Indeed it has been examined
by several intelligent persons, and chemists
of reputation, who pronounce it not to be blood ; the
private proceedings, therefore, of the magistrates
have produced only idle conjectures, false reports, and
injurious consequences. The prisoners will probably
remain in Yarmouth gaol till the Assizes, and then
they will be brought to Norwich for trial.
There is, however, reason to suppose that two per-
sons at least have been connected with the affair. The,
watchman on duty about that part of the Denes
where the money was found, speaks to seeing twer
persons distinctly, shortly before one o'clock, on a
small hillock of sand, beneath which the bag was em-
bedded. He says he saw them together by the light
of the sky in the back ground, and that he went round!
to the spot he expected they would come to, in order
to turn his light upon them, but he saw no more of
them. The footmarks at this place were said by Mrs.
Deck to correspond with the shoes of Mapes, but it is
altogether impossible to speak with accuracy to the
impressions of the small nails in the sand, and that
after fourteen hours. The footsteps exactly corres-
pond with the shoes of Yarham, but there is DO,
person at present found who saw him out that night.
—Norfolk News.

The prisoner remained at Lount until the 22d of
May (which was long after the notice given by the
master had expired), and then, having had his wages
paid to within eleven shillings, he determined to re-
main no longer. Relinquishing the eleven shillings
(which remain unpaid to this day) he returned to
Awsworth—was immediately re-engaged at the works
he had quitted to enter the prosecutor's service—and
there remained for twelve days, without molestation,
without any attempt at concealment, and without any
idea that he could be charged with any crime. The
prosecutor, however, being angry at the prisoner hav-
ing left him so abruptly, consulted an attorney as to
whether he could not be punished for so doing; and
as it happened that by the prisoner's departure the
engine necessary to pump out the water was ne-
glected, and the water in the mine had risen from
natural causes so as to stop the works, it was thought
by the magistrates at Ashby-de-la-Zouch that this
was an offence within the Statute 7 and 8 Geo. IV.,
c. 30., sec. 6. ; so the prisoner, instead of being
punished for leaving his work, was committed for
maliciously causing water to be conveyed into a mine !
But it may be asked how it happened that a man
like this was suffered to be undefended, or at least
tried without witnesses having been called to speak to
his character ? Surely that would have saved lim
from the severest punishment the law could inflict ?
Hew negligent on the part of his friends, to permit
it to be stated at the trial that he had " absconded
after committing the crime !"—that he had secretly
sent away his wife and family ! when it would seem
that, so far from absconding, his family had removed
in open day—gone back to the very house they had
come from originally—were living under the very eye
of the gentleman by whom the prisoner was engaged
for the prosecutor, and that the prisoner, instead of
being dismissed from the prosecutor's service, was so
determined to quit it, that he actually gave up eleven
shillings to the prosecutor, sooner than stay any
longer with him !
So esteemed was the prisoner by the whole village
where, with the exception of two years spent at Lount,
he had lived all his life, that a subscription was im-
mediately commenced to defend him. So agitated
was the whole community, also, that Mr. Mark
Richards himself started off to see the prosecutor, and
ascertain from him what crime Chambers could be
charged with. The report he brought back was such
as to make many of the prisoner's friends believe that
he was quite safe, and that no harm would happen to
him if he were not defended, As, however, some of
the persons in Awsworth were not quite satisfied with
this, the prisoner's wife went over to the prosecutor,
on the Sunday preceding the trial, with a letter from
the Rev. Mr. Lund (the vicar of Awsworth and
the chaplain of the Nottingham prison) to know what
was intended to be done. At this interview, on the
Monday preceding the trial, the prisoner's wife states
that the prosecutor told her it would be throwing
money away to employ counsel ; that if it were left to
him (the prosecutor) no harm would happen ; that she
had nothing to do but to send the prisoner a clean
shirt and a testimonial as to his character. The poor
woman returned to Awsworth ; and, by the advice of
the clergyman, relied on the assurance of the prose-
cutor. Fur this reason no one was anvloyed to de-
fend the prisoner. The next intimation was, ihlit her
husband had been sentenced to transportation !
Unlucky was it, indeed, for the prisoner, that he
was not defended. The clerk to the justices who
committed him for trial, and the counsel for the pro-
secution, now admit that the conviction of the pri-
soner was, in point of law, utterly illegal ; and the
Solicitor-General, whose opinion has been taken on
the point, asserts that the prisoner could not be legally
convicted in any way—that the statute under which
he was indicted, viz., for " maliciously conveying
water into a mine," does not apply to a case like his,
which, at the utmost, was neglecting to pump the water
out of the mine.
It was hoped that this opinion, coupled with a pe-
tition from his native village, might save the unhappy
man from transportation : the original case and opinion,
with a petition from the inhabitants of Awsworth,
couched in the strongest terms, were accordingly sent
to the Home-office. It was signed by eighteen per-
sons. ,
who had known him for ten years and upwards
twenty-four who had known him for twenty years
and upwards; and thirteen who had known 'inn all
his life. A separate testimonial from the clergyman
(in whose Sunday-school prisoner had
been a teacher)
was also forwarded ; and it was hoped to this, and
the Solicitor-General's opinion, some attention would
be paid. In this, however, the petitioners were dis-
appointed.
An impression was then found to exist that, if the
prisoner were legally innocent, he had been guilty of
a great moral crime. It was, therefore, determined
by some parties to proceed to Lount, and make in-
quiries on the spot.
Itwas supposed, up to that time,
that considerable mischief had really been done to,
Mr. Walker's mine ; and that the lives of the work-
men had really been put in jeopardy. It was be-
lieved too, that owing to the indignation which might
naturally be felt there against the prisoner, some
little difficulty might be experienced in obtaining
anything favourable to him. But so far from this
having. been the case, the person inquiring at Lount
met with a universal expression of sympathy in favour
of the prisoner; and when the amount of damage
which the prosecutor had sustained was inquired after,
the very idea of any damage having been sustained,
beyond the temporary stoppage of the works, was

RESPITE of the TWO CONDEMNED

CRIMINALS AT IPSWICH.
(FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)

IPSWICH, FRIDAY NIGHT, 10 O'CLOCK.

I have just had an interview with the governor, who
received me most courteously, and he states that at half-
past two o'clock this morning he was waited upon by a
special messenger from the Home-office, with a respite
for the culprit Shipley and the younger Walter Howell.
Information of the circumstance was immediately con-
veyed to the Visiting Justices of the gaol, and by their
direction Mr. Johnson and the chaplain communicated
the fact, at eleven o'clock this morning, to the prisoners,
who wept bitterly, and immediately fell on their knees
and offered up thanksgiving to God for their deliverance.
Upon the prison authorities informing William Howell
he was left for execution, he heard the sad tidings with
much composure, and on learning that his brother was
respited, he fervently thanked his God that. his brother's
life had been spared, and then joined the chaplain in
spiritual devotions. At the time of dispatching this the
three prisoners are engaged in prayer with the chaplain.
William Howell will be executed at twelve o'cl ,ck to-
morrow.