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lIOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) •
he House sat today to hear appeals. The Peers present were
the Lord Chancellor, Lori Brougham, and the Bishop of Ely. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING. JULY 5, 1845.
THE MAYOR OF NEWCASTLE-UPON.TYNE V. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. ---....5ipm...-...
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal from the deci-
sion of the Master of the Rolls occupied their Lordships the whole No. 1.-An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1844, and sth of July, 1845, showing the Increase
morning. or Decrease on each head thereof.
ROLLS' COURI'.-(THIS DAY.) QUARTERS ENDED YEAR 1 QUARTERS ENDED YEAR 1 I Year ended July 5, Quarter ended July 5,
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His Lordship the Master of the Rolls was occupied the wh01e....„--....e.......---, ~....__,...__-_,
Oct. 10, . Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, July 5, Oct.O 10, Jan. 5, April 5, -July 5, July 5, ' I
morning with the part-heard cause of " Lord Nelson v. Lord 1843 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 1845 1845 1845 1845 . Increase. 1 Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
Bridport.-
X£££££££ £ £ 1 £ £ £ £
Nothing of any interest occurred in any of the Vice-Chancery Customs ...... ........ 5,529,508 4,766,968 4,604,447 4,869,23.5 19,770,158 6,002,855 4,902,135 4,402,506 4,499,548 19,807,044 Customs .••••• • • • • • 36,886 .... .• • • 369,687
Courts. Excise •••••••• • • • • • • • • 3,966,550 i 3,030,771 1,852,689 3,115,592 11,965,602 3,960,890 3,230,940 1,917,485 2,965,684 12,074,999 Excise •••••• • • • • • • ••• 109,397 •• • • •• • • 149,906
Stamps. ••••••• • • • • • • • 1,650,366 1,523,653 1,639,011 1,705,033 6,518,053 1,665,688 1,601,658 1,742,461 1,837,076 6,846,883 Stamps .•••• • • • • 328,820 • •
• •
• •
• 13Z043
QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) Taxes •••••••• • • • • • • • • 191,100 1,868,657 I 144,685 1,989,874 4,197,516 201,439 1,880,490 145,945 2,000,567 4,228,441 Taxes ••.•••• • • • • • • 30,925 10,693 -
Property Tax ••••• • • • • • 2,037,904 454,115 1,992,859 752,485 5,247,663 1,958,711 487,541 1,905,711 909,991 5,261,954 Property Tax ••• • • • 14,291 ....
(Sitting at Nisi Prius, in Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a Post-office •••• •..• • • ... 160,000 143,000 174,000 155,000 632,000 200,000 146,000 178,000 153,000 679,000 Post-office. ...... .. 47,000 • ... -
••• . -
Special Jury.) Crown Lands ••••• . • • • . 20,000 30,000 65,000 30,000 145,000 10,000 50,000 35,000 30,000 125,000 Crown Lands ••• • • • •• • • 20,000 •. • • -
JONES V. DAVIS. "Miscellaneous ••••• • • • • 17,744 11,917 41,292 422,187 493,140 220,961 9,190 415,016 13,652 658,819 1 Miscellaneous •• •• • • 165,679 •• • • •• - 408,535
This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the value of a
Total Ordinary Revenue 13,586,172 11,829,581 10,513,983 13,039,406 48,969,142 14,220,54 1 12,307,954 10,742,124 12,411,518 49,682,140 1 Total •••• • • • • 732,998 20,000 300,242 928,130
quantity of hops sold and delivered to defendant. The Court was
occuptc•il the greater portion of the day in hearing this case, Which m_
erest moneys, &c... 31,305 50,136 54,2-14 49,018 187,703 28,117 146,759 206,007 29,262 410,145 Imprest Moneye, &c. 222,442
was of interest only to the parties themselves. Repayments of Ad vance,s 230,932 332,060 226,284 274,557 1,063,833 123,692 250,980 418,545 182,354 975,571 Itepainnts of Advircs. .... •• • •
88,262 • ... 19,756
The jury found for the plaintiff, damages 971. 1 Bs. 7d. .... 92,203
Tot a 1 ...... . . 955,440
DllD:OccBeror,anee2i.,:6::2ete . 1
Increase.
ce,o,:,,ite . 11,034000,0,28192
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tioct.wav V. Howse% Total Income ... 13,851,409 19,211,777 10,794,511 13,362,931 I 50,220,678 k 14,372,353 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 51,067,856
In this case, which was tried and closed on Saturday and which
Amount applied to Con- - - - -
was an action for the recovery of 171. odd for the living of a horse, , 108,262 i I
solidated Fund ..
the jury after having been a long time in deliberation, found for
847,178/ 1
Ditto, as Advances ... - 140,000 291,501 240,000 177,276 8 18,777 1 184,225 262,001 380 000 101,501 927,727
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the plaintiff 15/. 65., and a certificate was given , for immediate 1
Ditto, as Ways & Means
execution, and that it was a proper case to have been tried before a of the Year 3,187,773 4,060,383 2,918,539 4,191,627 11,358,322 i 2,923,503 2,612,934 3,713,599 4,266,071 13,516,107 on the 739,847
judge instead of the sheriff. -
Total 13,851,409 12,411,777 10,794,511 13,362,-971 50,220,678 1 14,372,333 12,705,693 11,366,679 12,623,134 1 51,067,856 i l

COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, in Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice
Ease and a Special Jury.)
HEARN V. TURNER.

Counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Cockburn and Mr. James; for the
defendant, Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bytes.
The cause of action in this case was for the recovery of two bills
of exchange, one for 5001., and another for 6001. The case was
entered upon at twelve o'clock on Saturday, and was adjourned at
the rising of the Court to this day, when it was resumed at half_
past nine o'clock, and is likely to occupy the entire day, there being
3,:vcral witnesses still to be examined.

CRIMINAL CO URT.-(T HIS DAY.)

The July Sessions commenced this morning, before the Lord
Mayor, and Aldermen Challis and Hunter.
The Common Juries having been empanelled,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to the grand
jury. He said, the calendar before him contained a small number
of cases compared with those usually contained in the calendar,
from session to session; which was to be attributed to the short in-
terval between the last and present session. Nevertheless,
it contained several cases of importance, calculated
to demand at their hands grave and full consideration ;
but they were, at the same time, generally speaking, cases relating
more to matters of fact than of law. There were five charges
against persons with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and six
charges against persons for uttering forged Instruments, knowing
them to be forged. There was one charge against a person for
rape, and a charge of manslaughter against a party who was the
father of the deceased person. With regard to the latter
charge, it was their duty to inquire whether the evidence
went to establish that death was caused by the act of the
party accused. If they should arrive at that conclusion,
they would next inquire under what circumstances that death
was so occasioned. Without going at All into the circumstances
detailed in the depositions, he thought it right to inform them that
the point with which they would have more immediately to deal
was, whether death was in consequence of the party charged, be.
cause the circumstances detailed in the depositions amount to that
which constituted the crime of manslaughter. The evidence which
would be adduced in this case would be that of members of the same
family, the accused and the deceased being father and son. With
regard to the charge of rape, he would merely state that
it appeared to him that if the facts contained in the
depositions were established, they should find a true
bill against the party charged. The charges of uttering forged
instruments involved mere matters of fact, not of law. But if,
contrary to his expectations, any difficulty should arise, the Court
would afford them the best assistance in its power. The same
observations applied to the cases of cutting and wounding, but
there was one case which was a little out of the ordinary course.
The charge to which he referred was one against three
persons, two as principals in the act, and the other as
an accessory before the fact. The offence imputed to
those actively engiged in the commission of the crime
was for injuring the person of the prosecutrix, by exposing her
to an explosion of gas caused by contact with a lighted candle, they
having first removed that which confined the gas, and consequently
rendered it dangerous by the approach of a candle. The person
charged with being an accessory to the commission of the act was
not in the house at the time, but was seen for an hour and a half
before it on the evening preceding the act, but he did not
enter the house; but the charge was made against him
from expressions which he had uttered at various times,
and from other circumstances. He had resided for a
long time in the house of the prosecutrix, a publican,
and the day before the offence was committed, an application was
made to a magistrate in consequence of the conduct of this person.
It would be for them to say whether there was sufficient evidence
to warrant them in putting him on his trial—whether the offence
was committed at his Instigation. The Learned Gentleman then
detailed the law on the subject, and held that if it were proved
that ho bad instigated the other parties to the commission of the
offence, he was equally guilty, though absent at its commission.
By the Ist of Victoria, whoever unlawfully or wilfully
caused to be delivered, or to be received by any
person, any corrosive fluid, or destructive matter, with intent to
burn, maim, or disfigure any person, or to do some grievous bodily
harm, should be guilty of felony, and, being convicted, shall be
liable to be transported beyond the seas for his or her natural life, or
for any term not less than fifteen years, or to be imprisoned
for a period not iscceeding three years. It was a most painful cir-
cumstance that, session after session, persons charged with the crime
of cutting and wounding, with intent to do some grievous bodily
harm, and the use, in sudden frays and quarrels, by the lower
classes, of instruments dangerous to life, were constantly brought
before them. Out of 60 cases of larcency, 27 were against ser-
vants. The total number of cases in the calendar was 102, which
would probably be augmented by 20, or more, before the close of
their labours. He should, therefore, remit them to their duties.

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1844, and the sth July, 1845.

Quarters ended July 5, , Quarters ended July 5.
r- ..............----, . ,
INCOME. 1841 1845 • CHARGE. 1844 1845
,
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X. X.
Customs •• • •
Excise • . 3,130,491 2,950,683 Terminable Annuities •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 660,023 643,844
Stamps
•• • •
Taxes
Property Tax ..... .
Post-office .... .... ....... ..... .
Crown Lands..." .. •••••••• • • • • • • • • 30,000 30,000 For Advances . ..
Miscellaneous • 238,187 13,652
10,219,337 8,538,966
Total Charge • ..• • • • . • . • • .• .• ....... • • • .• • • ..
Produce of Sycee Silver received from
114,000 The Surplus . . . • • • ••• • . 3,158,546 4,349,167
Imprest and other Moneys •.••• • • • • . 49,018 29,262 , —
Repayments of Advances .
' The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to moot the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended
13,377,883 12,638,133 I April 5, 1813, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1845,
after deducting 600,0004., paid off out of the Sinking Fund _
• • •••••• 2,337,529
1 The Amount issued in the Quarter ended July 5, 1845, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of
To Cash brought to this Account to be the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services •
applied to pay off Deficiency Bills • • 250,000 The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1845 ....
13,377,883 12,888,133 The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund,
Quarter ended July 5, 1845 - . •• . •• ••• ••• • •••• •.• ••

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.
( FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.)
TIMES.—The return of the quarter's revenue does not present
the same prosperous appearance as many that have preceded it.
Thus, although there is an increase in the Customs for the year
ending on the sth inst. of 36,8861., there is a decrease on the
comparison with the quarter terminating at the same period of
1844, of more than ten times that amount, or 369,6871. In the
Excise, in like manner, the falling off in the quarter more than
counterbalances the increase for the year—a retrograde movement
for which it is net easy to find an explanation from causes
which lie under public observation, and will, therefore, be re.
garded with some degree of disquietude by the country
generally. The working of the mad speculations which have
prevailed for the last twelve or eighteen months, is shown
in the great increase under the head of Stamps, which
have added to the income 328,8201. on the year, and
132,0431. on the quarter; and if the common opinion is
a just one, that these speculations have injured commerce by pro-
ducing an unnatural rise in some prices, and in diverting the at-
tendon of mercantile men from the sober course of trade, it would
follow that to this is, in part, to be ascribed the decline in the
Customs—an evil by no means to be compensated for by a gain
arising out of what may be teimed illegitimate sources. The same
results appear, though not to the same extent, in the general re.
turn, the increase on the year being 847,1481., while the falling off
on the quarter is 739,8471. The Pest-office has increased 47,0001.
on the year, while the quarter's return is identical with that of
1844, exhibiting neither increase nor decrease. In the account
for the Contolidated Fund there appears the satifactory item of an
application of 1,585,6091. to the Sinking Fund, against 523,8571.
in the corresponding quarter of 1844; and the probable amount of
Exchequer bills required to meet the charge on that fund for the
quarter just ended is only 2,254,4331. The re-action in the Cus-
toms and Excise, however, more than outweighs all the favourable
features of the present return. _

HERALD.—The Revenue returns for the year ending on
Saturday, present another testimony to that course of rapidly ad-
vancing prosperity, which has distinguished the last three or four
years from any equal period in the history of this or of any other
country. The net increase of revenue upon the last year, as
compared with the eminently productive year ending twelve
months ago, amounts to no less than eight hundred and forty-
seven thousand pounds. And this, notwithstanding all the large
reductions in the sugar duties, the cotton duties, the glass duties,
the auction duties, and other sources of revenue. These reduc.
tions have nearly all fallen within the last quarter, which, there-
fore, exhibits a decrease, but not much more than half the de-
crease that it would exhibit had the reductions been all loss. At
present we are not in possession of the means of showing the
several articles upon which respectively increase and decrease have
arisen; but we are able to congratulate our fellow-subjects, upon
indisputable evidence, of a course of general prosperity without
example.
CHRONICLE.—The revenue accounts for the quarter, which
appear in another part of our journal, are extremely satisfactory.
They present one of the most convincing proofs which has yet been
adduced of the prodigious advantages of cheap food and low duties
in augmenting the revenue of the State. At the beginning of this
session Sir Robert Peel lowered the duty on sugar, abolished the
duties on cotton and staves, and on a great variety of small arti-
cles, which he calculated would reduce the Customs revenue on the
year by the sum of 2,418,0001., or on the quarter 603,0001. The
accounts show that the diminution is only 369,3871. ; the
Customs revenue for the quarter, therefore, is in reality
nearly 246,0001. better than in the corresponding quarter
of last year. Similar remarks apply to the Excise. The reduction
In this branch of the revenue for the quarter, as shown by the
tables, is 149,9081. ; but Sir Robert Peel calculated in February
that the Excise revenue would lose on the year, by the abolition of
the duties on auctions and glass, 892,0001., or on the quarter
223,0901., whereas the loss is only 149,9081. The duties which
remain, therefore, of the Customs and Excise branches of the
revenue have yielded considerably more than in the corresponding
quarter of last year, in conjunction with comparative cheapness
and the abolition of duties. The other branches of the standing
revenue show a corresponding increase on the quarter. The Stamps
have increased 132,000/. ; the Assessed Taxes 10,0001.; and the
Property-tax 157,0001. In these results there is great encourage.
"rent to allow the utmost possible extension of trade, by the re-
moval of all duties which are not indispensable for the public
service, and all restrictions but those which are necessary to levy
the duties.

For the Chesterfield Stakes, on Thursday, Free Lance,
Fraudulent, if he runs, and Sempstress, will manage the stake
among them.
The acceptances for the Goodwood Stakes, fifty-eight in
number, have already appeared in print. They promise a
very interesting race, and, most decidedly, a great betting
one ; the following seven, being very nicely " in," will, no
doubt, furnish the winner, viz.:—Beat Bower, Roderick,
Venus, Lightning, Joe Lovell, Libel, and Queen blab.
For the Liverpool Cup, Milton, Rowena, and Portobello,
look well.

The entries for the Ebor Handicap amount to 114, of
which I expect 57 will accept ; of these, in my opinion, Pagan,
Milton, Roderick, Rowena, Alamodc,'Vol-au-vent, Poor Sol-
dier, Dr. Husband, Coheiress, Portobello, and the Castaway
filly, will be found the best.
The St. Leger betting is strange, very strange, but it will
be stranger still before the 17th of September; at present, I
see nothing that is likely to beat Pantasa and the Baron over
such a course as that at Doncaster.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

CRICKET-KENT AND SUSSEX.

The game was resumed on Saturday morning, and the
betting was " a horse to a hen" upon Kent, but re-
markable enough, the remaining four wickets of Kent
got only 14 runs, and Sussex was put in upon 208.
The first wicket of Sussex (Deans) fell for 4 runs, the
second wicket for 14 runs, the third for 43, the fourth
for 56 ; and when five wickets were down, Sussex had
succeeded in wiping off upwards of 100 runs. Box and
E. Napper, Esq., playing admirably, and excited the ap-
plause of the spectators. Tho match terminated at half-
past six, Sussex winning by three wickets

_
SI NT-2d Inn. BUSSEII-2d Inn.
Adams, c Bushby, b Pick- E. Napper, not out B3
nell
Martin, c Napper, b Wis- Pilch
den ... 25 C. G. Taylor, b Hillyer 2O
Pilch, b Picknell 54130x, c and b Hillyer
Martingale, c Dean, b Wis- IW. Napper, b Hillyer
den ... ... 0 Dean, b Hillyer
Felix, leg before wicket,
_...i King, c Carter, b Martin-

b Widen
_27', gale

W. My nn b Dean
Hillyer, b Picknell
Whittaker, b Dean
Dorrington, b Picknell
Hollingsworth, not out

Carter.; b Picknell ...

IPieknell, net out 2O
0, Hammond, run out 1
8
2:
2

Byes, &c.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.) . .

Sarah Whiter, aged 17, and Harriet, her sister, aged 16, very
meanly clad, but remarkably good.looking girls, were charged with
the following daring act of shoplifting : _ _

Between four and five o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, the
prisoners were observed to pass and re-pass several times the shop
of Mr. Peter Robinson, of No. 107, Oxford-street, linen draper,
and, at length, they entered just within the shop.door, and not per-
ceiving any person in the shop, they snatched out of the window a
muslin dress, of the price of 65., with which they both set off'
running. They had, however, been observed by Mr. Robinson's
shopboy, who, giving the alarm, they were pursued and overtaken
in Castle-street, Oxford-market, having thrown from them as they
ran the dress in question.
Mr. MALTBY asked the witness which of the prisoners took the
dress out of the window ?—The witness said he thought it was the
younger one, and that she handed it to the other.
The prisoner Sarah (eagerly)—No, it was not my sister took the
dress; I did it.
The prisoner Henrietta—How can you say so ; you know I took
it. Why do you wish to screen me ? (bursting Into tears, and
bolding her hands before her face.)
Mr. MALTBY ordered the ease to stand over for the present.

ADVERTISER.—We publish in another column an abstract
of the public revenue for the year and quarter ending on Saturday
last. It will be seen that on the quarter, as compared with the
corresponding quarter of last year, these is a deficiency in the
Customs of 369,6871., and in the Excise, of 149,9081. Under the
head Miscellaneous there is a deficiency on the quarter, as compared
with the corresponding quarter last year, of 408,5351. The defal.
cations in the two first departments can be satisfactorily explained.
The decrease in the customs is mainly to be ascribed to the cir-
cumstance of a large sum having been refunded on sugars
in bond, when the new Sugar Duties Bill came into opera-
tion. In conjunction with this cause of diminution,
there is another, namely, the entire abolition of duties
on many articles of minor importance. The defalca.
tion under the head of Excise, is to be attributed to the total repeal
of the glass and auction duties. The only subject for surprise is
that the falling off in this department has been so inconsiderable.
For the deficiencies in the Miscellaneous department, we are not
able to account, though we feel assured, from the flourishing state
of trade and commerce, and the healthy state of our financial affairs
generally, the defalcation under that head is susceptible of a satis.
factory explanation. It is fully expected that the consumption of
sugar this year consequent on the reduction of the sugar duties,
will exceed the estimate of the Premier, when making his finan-
cial statement, by at least 20,000 tons. What more triumphant
proof could be desired of the effect which a reduction of duty has
on the consumption of a necessary of life, than is afforded in this
fact ? If an approach to free trade is productive of such results,
what must be the advantages of entire freedom of trade ?

FOOT-RACE ON WATERLOO-BRIDGR.—This morn-
ing the race between Harry Webb and M'Leash (alias The
Unknown), came off on Waterloo•bridge. The men were
matched to run 200 yards for 101. a side. Both men were con-
sidered " clippers." The former defeated Smith last week,
and in consequence became the favourite in betting at 6 to 5.
The distance was measured, and the men appeared at the start-
ing mark, and, after several false starts, they got away. Webb
obtained half a yard in the start, and they rattled off at loco-
motive speed. Webb maintained a slight lead for 100 yards,
when The Unknown came up, and they ran abreast of each
other till within about ten yards of the goal. Bo'h men
exerted every possible effort for success, and, arriving at the
winning mark, The Unknown extended his arm, and was the
first to touch the hankorcblef, his body being about a
foot in the rear of Webb, who almost simultaneously
breasted the handkerchief. The umpires then differed as to
who was the winner, and Temperance, the celebrated pedes-
trian, being referee, was appealed to, awl decided that in ac-
cordance with the strict rules of pedestrian feats, Webb, having
first brought himself to the mark, was the winner. The race
was a closely contested end, and the friends of The Un-
known being very sangu;ne on his success, ventured large
sums of money upon him, which the oprosite Tarty pocketed
with great alacrity. The spectators assembled on the bridg.
at the time of the race must have amounted to 700 or 800.
Webb is matched against John Smith (the London champion),
to run 120 yards for 201 , Webb to receive five yards start, to
come off on Thursday next, upon Waterloo-bridge. The match
creates much interest.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LIVERPOOL CUP.

The official list in London up to half-past eleven o'clock
on Saturday night, showed the following declarations
of forfeit :

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—The Cambridge Chronicle
says our experience of election matters here, there never
was an expected content which excited so little interest. There is
no heartiness on one side or the other, and the electors, generally,
manifest a very unusual indifference about the gentleman who is to
have the honour of representing them." Mr. Shafto Adair had

offered himself as a candidate on the Liberal interest. Mr. Kelly
had not come forward, and it was therefore inferred that he would
be provided for elsewhere. _

us WEATaEa.—Juaging from the appearances
of the sky, and the continuous flashes of lig%tning which pre-
vailed for a great part of last night in the south-east, there
must have been a severe thunder-storm somewhere in Kent
and Surrey. The lightning, also occasionally extended

towards the north-eat, followed by distant thunder. A
heavy fall of rain took place about four in the morning, but
the weather still continues sultry, though there i 3 a fine
breze fr9in the west. The accounts in the provincial papers
describe the weather as very tins, and the appearance of the
crops most cheering.
THE lIOI.IIOLiN BATUS-SWIMMING MATca

A Sturm Cup.--On to-morrow (Tuesday) evening a very beauti-
ful chased silver cup, value ten guinea., will be presented by the
proprietors of those splendid baths to the swiftest swimmer of 600
yards ; that is, he who shall prove himself the swiftest
swimmer up and down the baths three times each way.
To be contended far by gentlemen only who are members of
the Swimming Club. Six names are entered, and the contest will
commence at eight o'clock, when a great number of highly respect.
able persons have intimated their intention of being present. The
cup will become the bona jidc property of the winner, and will be
presented to him in due form at the Club dinner, when the swim-
ming season closes.
The Dutch steam-ship Batavia, which was due at
the St. Katharine's wharf on Wednesday morning, but which did
not, owing to the extreme tempestuous weather experienced on
the passage, in consequence of the high winds and heavy squalls
which prevailed at sea as well as on shore, arrive until nearly
twelve o'clock at night, and had thirty-six oxen, and thirty-five
cows on board, besides nearly eight hundred packages of cherries,
thirteen baskets of yeast, thirteen of vegetables, and a quantity of
mel:ons, and every other description of Dutch produce and manu-
facture. The cattle, halt of which were in the hold, and half on
deck, were landed after examination by the veterinary surgeon, and
delivered by the revenue officers immediately, with the ex-
ception of one, which had, owing to the rough weather
and heat of the hold, died during the voyage, and was,
therefore, unfit for human consumption. Application
was subsequently made to the authorities for the dead
ox to be landed, and delivered for the purpose of being
seat to the knackers. The fruit was delivered imme-
diately on the arrival of the revenue officers on the following
morning ;!and the Antwerpen shortly after arriving frcm Antwerp,
with a number of passengers, &c., extra officers were placed on the
station, to examine and deliver the baggage and effects of the two
vessels, in order to examine matters, in consequence of which con.
siderate arrangement, the passengers and their baggage, as well as
the fruit, were dispatohed in a very short space of time. Accounts
are brought of very boisterous weather indeed in the Channel, and
. .

all along the English and foreign coasts, during the last few days.
The death of the beat on board was attributed to the unusually

1721
CRICKET MATCHES FOR THE WEEK.

209

TUESDAY.-At Dulwich—The Dulwich (Victoria) v. the
Peckham Eve Club. At Leicester—Leicestershire v. South-
well. At lirmingham—Birmingham v. Stourbridge. At
Bridgenorth—Bridgenorth v. Wolverhampton.
THURSDAY.-At Liverpool—Liverpool, with N. Felix,
Esq., awlllyer, v. Manchester, with Gurling, Womach,
and Dean. At Petworth—The Petworth Club and ground
v. the South Hants Club and ground, with three players of
England. At Copenhagen ground—The Islington (Albion)
v. the Montpelier Club.
There are also a variety of minor matches to be played
during the week.
Leicestershire v. Nottinghamshire—The match between
these two cricketing counties has been played during the
past week on Barker's ground, at Leicester. Leicester won,
in one innings, by 41 runs.

long time, in consequence of the rough weather, it was confined
itlt,ti others in the hold, the intense heat and effluvia of which
eausitclltq
,be suffocated. The rest were all sound and in good
ccaditikLauldriditellylivered accordingly.
AMAN SteoPii-t.T .1 VIGEON MATCH.—On Thurs-
day Jarnairllewiy, a young man, 22 years of age, who, was in
ihe outer bound's ar the pigeon ground at the Red-house, Battersea,
was severely wounerel by being shut by a person who was shooting
at the strayed bird.% •
-. • .

him. The author, M referring to this singular cha-
racter, says—

" In the year 1649 Cromwell visited Ireland in per-
son ; and so impetuous, sanguinary, and successful were
his military enterprises there, that the traditionary cha-
racter which he bears among the native Irish, even at
the present day, partakes less of the splendid fame of
the able chieftain, than of the ghastly renown of a de-
stroying spirit ; and he is remembered, not as an armed
missionary of a civilised cause, but as a being possessing
a preternatural love and power of destruction. He cer-
tainly spread much misery and desolation throughout
the kingdom, from which the frightful traces of the late
rebellion had not been yet effaced ; and after performing
many acts of exemplary vengeance, he left the Irish
people more repressed than subdued, and more tranquil
than contented. Ile afterwards summoned a Parliament
at Westminster ; upon which occasion, to show his great
contempt for the independence of Ireland, be summoned
thirty Members from that kingdom as the legislative
vassals, who were to perform on the part of their coun-
try, the last ceremonies of its humiliation. The college
was exempted from any communion in this melancholy
service, as Cromwell did not call upon it to return any
representatives."

st lb' st lb
St. Lawrence, aged ... 9 0 Elixir, 5 yrs
Attila, 6 yrs
Zanoni, 5 yrs
Discord, aged
Ratan, 4 yrs 8 5 Cockamaroo, 4 yrs 6 0
The Cure, 4 yrs ...... ... 8 5 Lady Wildair, 3 yrs 6 0
John O'Gaunt, aged ... 8 3 Crosby, 4 yrs
Napier, 5 yrs
lied Deer, 4 yrs ... ...... 712 Coal-black Rose, 3 yrs 512
Valerian, 4 yrs 7 8 Best Bower, 4 yrs 5 8
Sorella, 4 yrs
Baldersdale, 5 yrs
Morpeth, 4 yrs ..
Semiseria, 5 yrs
Capt. Flathooker, 5 yrs 7 5 Pacha, 3 yrs
Barricade, 4 yrs
Vol au Vent, 4 yrs
Naworth, aged ... ...... 7 3 Plenitude, 3 yrs
Young Lochinvar, 5 yrs 7 2 Mystery, 3 yrs 4 8
All-round-my-Hat, 4yrs 7 0 Devil's Dust, 3 yrs 4 7
bl fby Alfred, 4 yrs ... 7 0 Velox, 3 yrs.
Croton Oil, 4 yrs 6 12 Rose of Cashmere,3 yrs pd
Portrait, aged ..
Advice, 4 yrs . .... 6 4 Modesty colt, 4 yrs pd
51.iriw, aged
Erwin. c Knuck, 4 yrs 6 2,Scalteen, 6 yrs (dead)
Saddlebow, 4 yrs.

On dit, that the following were scratched at Liverpool,
but we cannot vouch for its being correct :
st lb
The Era, 5 yrs 8 9 Telemachus, 4 yrs ..
Ariitotle, 6 yrs
Intrepid, 4 yrs 7 11 Obscurity, 4 yrs
What, 5 yrs
Godfrey, 4 yrs 7 2

The picture of its condition at the Revolution is,
we fear, too true. It was, in fact, the Revolution of
1688 which did so much good in England, that ren-
dered the feuds between Protestants and Catholics in
Ireland almost irreconcileable, as the present state of
the country attests. We quote the following extract
as a proof:—
" The university being again restored to that tranquil-
lity so congenial with its legitimate objects, continued to
pursue its proper duties, and grow calmly upon the pub.
lic favour until the period of the Revolution. It was
then once more unhappily forced into collision with the
political world. That event, which in England renovated
a kingdom without the sacrifice of a citizen, and changed
a dynasty by acclamation, was not as immediately auspi-
cious to the fortunes of Ireland. It plunged that nation
into the calamities of civil war, maintained by parties
equally fierce, and perhaps mutually vindictive ; it re-
tarded the regular course of improvement by the r, vival
of ancient feuds, or the creation of such as have outlived
the causes that produced them ; and it gave to the fierce
and vulgar love of party, an alarming ascendant over
the exercise of reason and the peaceful spirit of religion,
which has ever since tended to keep the Irish people
divided and unhappy, and amongst these lamentable
consequences, the total ruin of this peaceful seat of
learning had well nigh been completed, as we shall pre
sently make manifest."
We could quote many other interesting particulars
relative to Trinity College, but they would hardly do
justice to the views taken by the author, and we,
therefore, refer the reader to the work itself. It may
be interesting to our readers to know that the Rev.
Charles Wolfe, author of the immortal ode on the
death of Sir John Moore, was educated at this uni-
versity—that he was an intimate friend of the author,
and of his lamented brother, the late John Sydney
Taylor. •

MAGAZINES.-CONTINUED.
HOOD'S MAGAZINE.

Mr. Rowcroft, the editor, continues his " Tales of the
Colonies," and in the " Bushranger of Van Diemen's
Lani" gives us a ludicrous account of a fight between a
settler and a kangaroo, in which the settler got the
worst of it. The best paper in the Number is " Lady
Barbara's White Rose ; a tale of the Court of King
James the First." The tale is well told, and the interest
is kept up to the last: We are sorry to see this Maga-
zine dabbling in politics—" Corn-laws and Free-trade"
is a rechauffee of the thousand-times-refuted arguments
of the monopolists—arguments which even the advocates
of the corn-laws in the House of Commons have them-
selves given up as untenable. Can it be that Mr. Row-
croft has engaged the Duke of Newcastle to write for
Hood's Magazine?

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGA•

ZINE.

This Number opens with an account of" Nelson's second
visit to Naples," and both for the fair fame of Nelson
himself, and for the honour of our common country, we
would that all record of the second visit (during which,
to please an imbecile King and an abandoned woman, the
hero of the Nile consented to the murder of Caraccioli)
could be for ever blotted out of the page of history. We
gladly turn to the next article, " Narrative of a sea trip
to China in the autumn of 1844, by Heathcote Gooch, of
the ship Duke of Bedford," a lively, well written narra-
tive, from which we extract the following account of an
adventure on the homeward voyage with the pirates of
Sumatra

" We came through the Straits of Banca, Sunda, &c., but
not without interruption from the pirates, who infest those
parts, one of whom made an abortive attempt to board us in
the night, by a trick that is now considered rather stale,
though many crews have been murdered through such.
Large portions of earth, covered with long wild grass, and
sometimes with the addition of stumps of trees, are often seen
in the above straits, floating down with the currents. These
the pirates imitate, by constructing a raft, or something of
that description, capable of holding a number of cut-throats,
armed to the teeth, and over whom a covering, well calcu-
lated to deceive strangers, is placed, resembling the floating
masses before named. So prepared, the pirates float down
upon vessels in the night, and having succeeded in boarding
them, proceed to murder the slumbering crew and plunder
the cargo. While off the west coast of Sumatra, about nine
o'clock one evening, one of those dens of infamy was quietly
dropping down on our starboard-bow, when our look-out,
suspecting its true character, ran and reported it to the
officer of the watch. We had 'two six-pounders ready for
them, besides abundance of small arms, and just as he was
quietly dropping unto our bow, and within nice reach, we
fired a gun to let him know we were not dozing. He still
took no notice, but kept dropping on, thinking he should still
deceive us with the fancy he was only a floating mass of
earth. We now, however, took effectual means to put him
on the right scent, by letting fly the contents of one of our
six-pounders clean through him. We could plainly hear,
by the howling inside, that our present was certainly not a
welcome one. He instantly sheered off, by means of some
contrivance we could not make out, and we saw no more
of him."

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
CARLISLE PACES-FRIDAY.

et lb

The Queen's Plate of 100 gs. Thrice round and a distance.
Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, 5 yrs, 9st 91b... ..... walked over.
The Whip Stakes were won by Mr. Martin's Jemmy
Jumps ; the Hurdle Stakes by Mr. Hunt's Pakemon ; and the
Corinthian Stakes bv Mr. Benson's Eleanor.
LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1845.
Acceptances fur the Tradesmen's Plate.
Corranna, 6 yrs, Bst 61b ; Winesour, 5 yrs. Bst 61b ; Lo-
thario, 5 yrs, Bst 511); Truebov, 5 yrs, Bst 21b ; Mickey Free,
4 yrs, 7st 121 b; William le Oros, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b; The Best
of Three, 4 yrs, ist 10Ib ; Lightning, 4 yrs, ist 51b ; Godfrey,
4 vrs, ist 21b ; Rowena, 4 yrs, ist 21b ; Ironmaster, 3 yrs, 7st ;
Milton, 4 yrs, Est 121 b ; Johnny, aged, 6st 101 b ; Everton,
5 yrs, Est bib ; Brunel, 4 yrs, fist 81b ; The Dog Billy, 4 vrs,
7st 61b ; Warp, 4 yrs, 6st ; Little Hampton, 4 yrs, sst .41b ;
Cock Robin, 4 yrs, 4st 71b ; April Noddy, 4 yrs, sst 71b ;
Ambition, 4 yrs, sst 71b ; The Duke of Kent, 3 yrs, sst ;
Extravaganza, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b ; Nereus, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b ; fby
Albemarle's dam by Emilius, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b.

Captain Hippisley's account of the siege of Oporto in
1832 and 1833 is continued, as is Marshal Marmont's
work on Military In,titutions. Lieutenaat•Colonel
Wilkie's paper on the Defensive Force of Great Britain
contains ;owe valuable hints fir forming the yeomanry
cavalry into a really efficient corps. IVe would com-
mend Capt. O'Connor's paper, entitled " Twelvemonths
Service inWestern Africa," to the attentive consideration
of our legislators. It would appear from this, that the
colony of Sierra Leone is of alt jobs the grossest. Not
only is it the white man's grave—not only are large
sums of money uselessly squandered annually in main-
taining a staff of officials who have nothing to do, but
instead of being a sanctuary fur emancipated negroes,
they are actually kidnapped for the free town itself, and
s,,hl into slavery.
" On one occasion, a soldier of the Royal African Corps,
while on sentry at the east battery, was persuaded to drink
some palm wine, which had been previously drugged; and,
on awaking from his stupor, ho found himself, arms, accou-
trements, and all, a prisoner at the mercy of some Mandinge
slave-dealers. He made such a row, threatened so much,
and fear of the consequences which might follow, operating
at the same time in the robbers' mind, he was put on shore at
a point near a British factory, and from which place he made
his way back again to Sierra Leone."

It ix of little use destroying barracoons at Gullinas,
while we maintain at our proper cost a magazine like
Freetown, to which Mending° slave dealers can resort
whenever they want to replenish their stock. Unless
Captain O'Connor's account be an actual fabrication, no
time should be lost in abandoning the colony altogether
—at all events, we hope the Legislature will, during the
course of the ensuing session, institute a searching in-
quiry into its state and prospects. There are also seve-
ral valuable papers on strictly professional subjects in
the present number of this magazine.

TfIE RAILWAY REGISTER FOR JULY
The eighth Number of this useful record of engineering
and Public enterprise fur railways, canals, harbours,
steam navigation, &c., improves upon its predecessors,
and contains a great deal of information respecting se.
veral important public works both in this country and
abroad. Well-executed maps are published with several
of the articles, for the purpose of rendering the details
of projected railways more intelligible, among which we
may mention " Railways in India," "Belgian Railways,"
.3' Great Eastern and Western Railway," and the " Lei-
cester and Bedford Railway." We extract the follow-

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E VENING, JULY 7, 1845

ing remarks on the " Battle of the Gauges," and are
glad to find that the writer pays a just compliment to
Mr. F. Shaw for the excellent speech he made in the
House of Commons on the subject :

" The Battle of the Gauges,' as the contest between the
London and Birmingham, and the Great Western interests,
is called, terminated on Friday, the 20th of June, in the way
every man of reason and common sense must have antici-
pated, namely, in favour of the latter. Not to put the case
offensively to either party, it must be remarked that the
question whether the Great Western, in conjunction with the
Grand Junction, should be allowed to open up a line of traffic
to the north, independent altogether of the London and Bir-
mingham old trunk line, was a question which directly
affected the pecuniary interests of the two parties, whilst it
still more essentially involved the paramount interests of the
public. This new line introduces a principle of wholesome
competition, which, if it had been rejected, would have been
hopelessly and for ever lost to the public ; for it cannot be
doubted that whichever of these great interests had first
possessed themselves of the vast tract of country through
which this, as we may term it, interloping line passes, would
have retained it for ever. In a word, if the Birmingham
and Midland interests had once obtained possession of the
Oxford and Birmingham district, they would eventually have
obtained a direct hold upon the southern and western parts
of the country, which would have, to a great extent, para-
lysed the energies of the Great Western Railway; and thus,
whilst the existing traffic of the latter would have been con-
siderably affected, the power of the Birmingham Company
would have amounted almost to a monopoly.
"It was upon considerations such as these, more than
upon the abstract question of the superiority of a broad or
narrow gauge, that the decision of the Committee was come
to. Indeed, this abstract question of breadth of gauge is
one which the beat engineers are as yet as far from being
agreed upon, as in the very infancy of railway enterprise.
The practical and scientific evidence which was adduced upon
the subject before the Committee, we have given a careful
analysis of in another part of our present number. In this
paper we speak simply of the general merits of the question,
as they appear to have affected the decision of the Colli-
mate."

HUNGERFORD SUSPENSION
BRIDGE.
(From the Railway .Register.)
The Hungerford Bridge is now the ninth structure
connecting the two parts of the metropolis on either
hank of the Thames—the Vauxhall-bridge being the
extreme western, and the Thames Tunnel the extreme
eastern of this noble range of public works, unparalleled
for their magnificence throughout the world. The fol-
lowing account is extracted from a paper read by Mr.
Cowper before the Royal Institution:—
" This bridge is for foot passengers only: it consists of
four broad chains, viz., two chains, one above the other,
on each side of the platform; each chain consists of ten
and eleven links alternately, and near the piers of eleven
and twelve. This increased strength is to meet the in-
creased strain which takes place near the piers. The
chain of the Menai bridge is only five links wide, and
the chain of the Hammersmith only six links wide ; but
the great breadth of the Hungerford chain (viz, eleven
links, or about two feet) gives them great power to re-
sist the effects of the wind, and thus prevent vibration.
Two brick towers, or campaniles, in the Italian style, are
built in the river, over which the chains are carried,
forming thus a central and two side spans.
The two piers are in height ... ... 80 feet.
The central span between the piers (being
110 feet wider than the Menai Bridge). 6761 feet.
The length between the abutments ..: 1,352- feet.
Deflection of the chain ... ..• ... 50 feet.
Length of each link (7in. wide, lin. thick) 24 feet.
Weight of each link ... 51 cwt.
(The connecting pins are 4i inches diameter.)
The whole number of links ... 2,600

Their weight ... ... 715 tons.
The number of links in the centre span... 352
Their weight ... 352 tons.
Width of the platform ... ... 14 feet.
Height above high water at the centre of

centre span .. ... ... ...
near the piers ... ..• •••
(Giving a rise of four feet in the centre.
This gives additional height for the
river traffic, and produces a graceful
curve, and prevents any appearance of
swagging.)
The section of the chains at the centre of

centre span is ...
near the piers

IRELAND.

THE FATAL AFFRAY AT BALLINHASSIG.
THE INQUEST.

The Cork Examiner of Friday contains the following additional
particulars respecting this lamentable occurrence, and also the pro.
ccedings of the first day of the inquest :
" On Thursday, pursuant to arrangement, the inquest on the
bodies of the unfortunate peasantry, seven in number, who fell be-
neath the fire of an armed body of constabulary on the previous
Monday evening, took place. In consequence of the number of
summonses issued by the coroner, Mr. F. Baldwin, the number of
jurors was exceedingly large and respectable, consisting entirely of
the gentry of the county for many miles round. The attendance
of magistrates was also large.
" The Inquest was held in a loft in the mill.house of Mr.
Keller, Ballinhassig, close to the spot where the massacre took
place. The building was surrounded by crowds of peasantry during
the entire day.

" After some preliminary arrangements, the coroner, jurors,
and medical gentlemen withdrew to view the several bodies ; and,
though it was then only 11 o'clock, they did not return before 6
o'clock in the evening.

32 feet.
28 feet.

... 296 sq. in.
... 312 sq. in.

" A square inch Of iron breaks with 27 or 29 tons,
but 17i tons is taken as the impairing weight, i. e. the
weight at which it begins to stretch; we have therefore,
for the weight the bridge will actually bear-
-296 multiplied by 174 tons, equal to 5,180 tons, while
296 multipled by 5 tons, equal to 1,480 tons,
is the greatest load that can be put upon it. This is
taking a crowd standing close together to be 100 lbs. per
square foot. The entire weight of the chain, the plat-
form, and a full load upon it, would make a load of about
1,000 tons on each pier, being about 8i tons on each
square foot of brickwork, or not quite 14 cwt. on each
square inch.
" The chains are attached to large wrought-iron
vertical plates at the summits of the piers; these plates
are firmly bolted together, and also to a strong hori-
zontal plate--the whole forming what is called a saddle.
The saddle is not fixed to the pier, but rests on fifty
friction rollers, these resting on a thick iron plate, which
is supported by a solid mass of iron and timber girders.
The pier itself, being pierced with arches, may be con-
sidered to consist of four columns of brickwork : the
girders, therefore, are so arranged, that no weight is
thrown on the arches, the whole weight resting on the
columns. The saddle is capable of moving eighteen
inches each way, equal to three feet entire motion ; so
that if either span were crowded, the chains would ad-
just themselves, and the strain be still perpendicular
upon the piers, and have no tendency to pull the pier
over. The method of putting up the chains was thus:—
Two sets of wire ropes, each consisting of three ropes,
were hung from abutment to abutment over the piers,
in the exact situation the chains were to occupy,—these
scaffold ropes, as they may be called, being distant from
each other equal to the length of the connecting pin. A
few feet above the scaffold ropes, two other ropes were
hung in like manner; on these traversed two light
boxes, very much resembling a carpenter's bench turned
topsy•turvy. These cradles, as they are called, were
connected together, and contained two windlasses, like
those over a common well; these cradles held the work-
men. A barge containing the links was moored under
the cradles: four men in the cradles hauled up a link;
and when they had raised it above the scaffold ropes, the
connecting pin was put through, and the pin being al-
lowed to rest en the scaffold ropes, of course supported
the link. The cradles were then moved forward, and
two links joined to the single link, then one joined to
the two; the chain consisting thus, in the first instance,
of alternately two and one links. When thiirtwo-and-
one-link was completed, the scaffold ropes were not re-
quired, the two-and-one-link chain forming, as it were,
a scaffold for the rest of the links; and thus was this
bridge erected without any scaffolding but these few
ropes, and without the slightest impediment to the navi-
gation, and without a single accident. The cost was—
Mr. Chadwick's contract for brickwork, stone-
work, and coffer dam £63,000
Sandys, Carne, and Vivian for ironwork 17.000

" It had been previously arranged that the jury were to see the
nearest body first, and so on, until the whole seven had been
examined, in order that an opportunity might be thus afforded to
the relatives and friends of the deceased to inter them as soon as
possible. The first hovel before which the cavalcade halted was
that of the brother of Julia Callaghan, whose maiden
name was Holland. This was about two miles from the
scene of slaughter, at a place called Ballingromoota. As we ap-
proached this miserable habitation the sounds of wild lamentation
were heard issuing from the low door, the only aperture, except
the chimney, by which air and light were admitted within the
dreary walls. A group of men surrounded the door, and in the
midst of them we perceived the young husband of the dead woman;
and I ►hall not soon forget the desolate crushed-down look of the
poor fellow, who did not utter a word, but slow and then gave vent
to his grief in a half-sigh, half.groan, that would move the hardest
heart.

£BO,OOO
The money was raised by-
-3,200 Shares of 251.
By Loan

£106,000
" The engineer in chief was Mr. Brunel. Tho resi-
dent engineer, Mr. P. Pritchard Baly."

" The jury then proceeded, over a rugged road, to Adamstown,
where, in a filthy hovel, not twelve feet square, sunk in a lag, and
surrounded by fetid stagnant pools of slime, lay the body of John
Desmond. To say that the remains of this unhappy victim pre-
sented the most awfully hideous and revolting appearance that could
be seen by mortal eye, is only to give a faint notion of the reality.
It is horrible to think that this hovel was filled during the previous
night and during that day by crowds of country people, who must
have inhaled, for several hours, an atmosphere litera'ly poisonous
—worse than that of the worst charnel-house. We shall not dare to
venture on a description; suffice it to say, that it was like a lifting
up of the awful veil hiding the mysteries of the grave.
" After viewing the other bodies, the coroner and jury returned
to Ballinhassig at six o'clock, after a long, melancholy, and pain.
ful journey of same sixteen or eighteen miles, and of seven hours'
duration.

THE WEATHER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

" BALLINIIASAO, HkLP.PAST ONE O'CLOCK.—The Court sat this
day at ten o'clock. The magistrates present were—Colonel Burke,
Captain Atkins, Lyttleton Leicester, Daniel Connor, J. Moloney,
Carew O'Grady, J. Biggs, W. Meade, Captain Roberts, M. Roberts,
and R. Knaresborough.

" The (coroner having called over the names of the jurors, and
they having answered, two of the medical gentlemen, Dr. M'Evers
and Dr. Wall, were examined; the testimony of the former was,
however, of little importance, he not being present at the conflict.
Dr. Wall's examination had not closed at post hour."
The Ccn•k Constitution gives a very different account of the
affray from that furnished by the other papers which we have seen.
It is to the following effect :

" The party at the fair consisted of three constables, two acting
constables, and thirteen sub-constables, who had been marched in
from different stations, and who were under the command of Mr.
J. Kelly, first-class sub-inspector of Kinsale, who has been but two
months in the district. He was previously stationed in Wexford,
and has been in the force for ten years. The business of the fair
proceeded as usual up to four o'clock, when symptoms of hostile
significance began to be exhibited amongst the country people.
There continued, however, a temporary quietness, and Mr. Kelly
was enabled to induce the tentowners to level their tents before
half-past seven o'clock. The magistrates who attended the fair.
Mr. William R. Meade, Ballymartle, Mr. John Molony, Ballinaboy,
and Mr. John T. Biggs, Garryhankcrdmore, then retired to
Mr. Molony's residence, at about a quarter of a mile distant,
to dinner. They were, however, but a short time gone, when
the leader of one faction, a man named Sullivan, who is better
known by the cognomen of Ranter,' threw up his hat in the green,
and, whirling his stick, gave the faction whoop, when his friends
and adherents immediately gathered about him tumultuously.
The police, however, interfered, and the men of the
opposite party, the Neills,' retired from the green.
Ranter and his party then left the green and tusk a different road
from the Neills. In a few minutes the latter returned to the
green to the number of about 200, and a large body of people
mounted the ditches around the cross in expectation of a fray. In
a moment after Ranter appeared on horseback and rode furiously
down the hill, followed by above 300 men. When he got to the
middle of the cross he pulled up, and, addressing his own party in
Irish, broke a new hat which he wore upon his horse's head. This
was the signal for attack; a yell followed from those on the cross,
which was answered by another from their opponents on the
green. Hearing this yell of defiance, Ranter leaped from his
horse, and rushed at the entrance to the green, which was a nar-
row gap. There he was met by the leader of the Neills, a man
named Walsh. He grappled him, and when dragging him into
the green constables Pigott and Hannan dashed through the mob,
and laid hold of Ranter, who had his coat off at the time. .He
struggled for his release, and called upon his faction to rescue him,
but the other policemen having come up at the moment, he was
lodged in the dispensary. The crowd then surrounded the house,
yelling in a hideous manner, and demanding the release of Sullivan,
which was of course refused by Mr. Kelly, who told them that it
was his duty to convey him before a magistrate. He implored the
people to be quiet. There was then a cry of buoileidh, which
means Strike them.' The attack commenced, and stones were
thrown. The police then got the order to fix bayonets. They did
so, but stones fell upon them so fast that they were forced to re-
treat into the house. When inside, Ranter told them that if they
did not release him every one of them would be killed. To this
Mr. Kelly replied, that he must do his duty, and that was to keep
his prisoner. The windows were now dashed in, and the order was
given to prime and load. This was quickly obeyed, but while the
police were in the act of doing 'o an attempt was made to force the
door, with a cry of Drag them out.' The police attempted to
keep the door closed, but it was forced, and one fellow—a very
able man—caught the top of it and tried to drag it into the road, so
as to expose the inmates to the fury of the mob ; but one of the
constables drove his bayonet into the desperado's breast, and he fell
back. Three others of the crowd then seized the door and dragged
it into the road. The doorway was now defended by constable. Pi-
gott and Hannan and acting constable Dawson, while the number of
stones thrown increased every moment. A cry was raised amongst
the mob, and they were exhorted to tear down the house and
kill the police. A body of the people then rushed to the back of
the house, and with tent sticks began to strip off the roof. The
police now perceiving that their lives were in imminent danger,
called upon Mr. Kelly to permit them to defend themselves ; but
he answered by saying No firing,' and came to the door to implore
the people to desist, but before he had uttered many words he re-
ceived a blow of a large stone on the right side of his face, which
drove him back. The roof was now opened, and large stones were
thrown into the house, and the police again called upon Mr. Kelly
to give them the order to fire, and he then said, Fire, but fire
steadily.' Instantly a fellow rushed at the door and threw a large
stick at constable Pigott, which struck him on the head; but the
stick had no sooner left his hand than he was shot from the
window on the right; and, reeling for a short distance, he fell.
The mob now became more violent, and dashed forward, yelling
hideously, and as they closed in at either side the ringleaders
were shot. The police saw that retreat was their only safety, the
stones fell so quickly upon theta through the aperture in the
roof, and even Ranter's courage left him, for he ran to the
windows and implored of his friends' not to murder them, and,
while doing so, received several wounds from the stones.
The police then determined on retreating, and acting-constable
Dawson led; but no sooner had he left the threshold than he re.
ceived the blow of a stone on the mouth, which split his upper and
lower lips, and knocked out two of his front teeth. He fell, and
his carbine was wrested from him by a fellow, who struck Dawson
with it on the head while he lay ; but this man paid dearly for his
barbarity, for a shot from the window at the same moment
stretched him alongside his victim. Dawson again got up, and
being separated from his comrades by the crowd which surrounded
him, and which had prevented them from leaving the house, stag-
gered along the road in the direction of Mr. Keller's house. He
Was overtaken, and beaten into the ditch. Dr. Stewart J. Tresi.
Tian at that moment came up and cried out,' Run, run, here come
the Dragoons,' which caused the fellows to fly from their victim.
Dawson then got up, and staggered to the house of a Mrs.
Oakes, but her son drove him off; and he reeled to the house
of a man named Barrett, but the door was shut against him.
He stood there for a moment, but, seeing his assailants return-
ing, he got to the other side of the road and went into the
house of a man named Lacy. Lacy closed the door and pushed
Dawson into a pigsty at the other end of the house and concealed
the aperture. The mob, coming to the door, demanded to have it
opened ; but, there being a moment's delay, they drove it in, and
searched for Dawson. During the search, Dawson contrived to
force himself through a small hole from the pigsty into Mr.
Keller's meadow, and crawled through the high grass up to the
house, where he was secreted by Mr. Keller's man Ina loft. The
mob, finding that Dawson had escaped, wreaked Omr vengeance
upon Lacy, by breaking his windows and door, and beating a woman
with stones until they left her apparently lifeless. But to return to
the scene at the dispensary. At the moment Dawson was sepa.
rated from his party, constables Pigott and Hannan followed to try
to protect him, but were obliged to retrace their steps, and imme-
diately after the entire body were compelled to leave the house, it
was so dilapidated, and stones were poured into it with such mur.
derous determination. The police then left the house, and, forming
in a body, charged up the hill, in the hope of gaining the police.
station, which was about a mile off. In the confusion attending
this movement, the prisoner Sullivan escaped. In the course of
their retreat they were met at all points by dense masses of people,
yelling and throwing stones, but were fortunate enough to gain the
top of the hill alive, though very much bruised. Having got into the
station-house, they made predatations to defend themselves against
any renewed attack, and were shortly after joined by the magis-
trates. Mr. Meade, fearing an assault upon the station-house,
sent off a special messenger to Cork for a reinforcement. Within
two hours from the time the messenger was dispatched, forty
police had anti ved from the city, in jingles, under the care of
Sub-Inspectors Walker and Green, and head-constables Condon
and Moylan, accompanied by Dr. Harris, physician to the con.
stabulary. The affray having subsided, D:. Tresilian paid every
attention to the wounded, in which he was occupied during the
night, assisted by Dr. Harris and Dr. M'Evers. The firing of the
police was remarkably accurate, there being thirty-four shots dis-
charged, every one of which must have taken effect. Thirty.
two shots were fired while they defended themselves in the house,
and two during the retreat. Each policeman had twenty rounds
of ball.cartridge, yet no man fired more than four shots—in
fact, the time during which the quick firing continued would not
permit of his doing more. It is up to the present moment im.
possible to know accurately the number killed or wounded, as
they have been removed to their abodes for miles round the
country.

San, —You will oblige a lover of meteorological re-
search by publishing a few remarks on the weather
during the present summer.
The principle upon which my conclusions are founded
is simply one of comparison, connected with certain an-
gular distances formed by the planets and our earth,
during seasons of peculiar tendency, and upon the in-
ference that like causes will produce similar results, the
following deductions were drawn for the month of June,
and published in the Cheltenham papers in May last:—
June, to the 10th of the month, will be generally cold
for the season, from thence to the 21st the heat would
increase considerably, from the 21st to the end of the
month considerably colder, and the results are so far cor-
responding with this judgment.
July, from the 2d to the 10th, as the Sun will be in
aspect to Mars, the heat will again increase, though not
so powerfully as experienced during the interim from
the 10th to the 21st of June, from the 10th and during
the month seasonable July weather will prevail.
August, to the 7th day, will be rather cool for the
season, but from the 7th to the 21st will bo the
greaten degree of summer heat, when the heat will be of
that peculiar burning power so trying to the constitu-
tion of mankind ; the cause to which I would attribute
this intense heat will be the retrograde posture of the
planet Mars, forming an angle of 180 degrees with the
Sun, when in his nearest position to the earth. Comets
are said to increase the heat on their approach to our
system, and to produce cold on their recession, but
having experienced similar heat to the present season,
when comets have not appeared (but not so without the
concurring testimony of the planetary orbs), renders
conclusions from the former doubtful.

September, also, promises fine harvest weather; the
months of August ai.d September, as stated in May last
in the Cheltenham papers, would be splendid for the
harvest, tending to dry and fine weather. On this com-
parative system it is correct to state the drought of four
months' continuance was predicted in April, 1844, to
last till the August following, and in June, 1844, the
frost for winter 1845 was predicted to be such an one
certainly not experienced since the year 1814—the re-
sult proved these judgments to be correct.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
G. T. F. SMITH.

ORANGE PROCESSIONS.
DUBLIN, JULY s.—The Earl of Roden has published the fol
lowing address :

THE SALT-HILL MURDEH.-CONFESSION OF JOHN
TAWELL.—At a very full meeting of the Bucks county magis-
trates (upwards of 30 being present), held in the magistrates' cham-
ber, at Aylesbury, on Thursday last, for the transaction of county
business, Dr. Lee, one of the justices, inquired of the Chairman,
Sir T. D. Aubrey, Bart., if the confession signed by John Tawell,
a few hours before his execution, and placed in the hands of the
Rev, Mr. Cox, had been given up by the chaplain of the county
prison to the magistrates, especially after the general feeling which
prevailed on the subject at the late quarter sessions held for the
county ? The Chairman having replied that that document was
still retained by Mr. Cox; it was then resolved, or the motion of
Dr. Lee, that a letter be addressed to the Rev. Mr. Cox, request.
ing that he would deliver up the written confession of John Tawell
to the magistrates at the next quarter sessions for the county of
Bucks.

-611.1. D MURDER —On Friday evening the body of
an infant, with a brick tied to its ncek, was found in the canal'
opposite Pickford's-wharfs, Regent 's- can al, Camden-town.
The Royal mail stcam-ship Britannia, Captain
Hewitt, sailed from the Mersey on Friday afternoon with upwards
of ninety passengers ; and on Saturday the Great Western, Cap-
tain Mathews,-departtd fir New York, also carrying a largtnumber
of passengers,- -

July 3, 1845.
4. Brother Protestants,—The let of July is past. The monster
meeting which the Repealers threatened to hold on that memorable
anniversary on the banks of the Boyne has not' taken place. Hap-
pily, for the peace of Ulster, we have been saved from that insult.
I hear that the Repeaters are now endeavouring to induce our
brethren to celebrate the 12th by processions with banners and
Hags. It cannot be for our advantage that such advice from them
should be followed, much as yott value the events commemorated
on that day, much as they should be honoured and regarded by
every loyal subject in the land, I would not gratify these wishes,
expressed by the Repeaters of Down, Armagh, and Tyrone. I
should rather that you quietly met in your respective neighbour-
hoods, determined to maintain true Protestant principles among
yourselves and your children—rejecting alike the insidious snares
of a false Protestanism within the Church, and
.the errors of Ro.
manism, from which we have been happily delivered, under God,
through the means of that Prince of glorious and immortal memory,
King lA'il iam the Third.
" I could not let this opportunity pass without tendering you
my opinion as to your proceedings on the approaching Nth. You
already. know I can have but one object in doing so, which is
your welfare, and consequently the prosperity and happiness of all
denominations of our fellow.subjects in Ulster. I have the honour
to be, brother Protestants, your faithful friend.

" RODEN."

DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE-SAS URDAY.

A favourable change has taken place in the Share-market. The
following is from the official list :

Government Funds—Three per Cent. Consols, 99 99A—Three.
and.a Quarter per Cent. Stock, 101h—Bank Stock, 210.
Miscellaneous—City of Dublin Steam-packet Shares, 102.
Itailways—Armagli, Coleraine, and Portrush, 2—Belfast and
BallyMerta, 6l—Belfast and County Down, 33/4—Bandon and

MARRIED. oer
On the 28th of May last, at Havannah, Joseph lit to
Crawford, Esq., her Majesty's Consul-General in Cobta;,, of
Joanna Frederica, daughter of the late Advocate Jacoh9°
Altona. 4-04'

On the 30th ult., at Aldershot, Hants, Laurance 131iter
Esq., of Colchester, to Martha Harriet, youngest daugnois,
of the Rev. Thomas Brock, Rector of 6t. Pierre du
Guernsey.

DIED.
On the 19th of March last, at Ongole, Madras, Li€l2't cligot
Joseph Isaac Jackman. fro dk °'
At Belize, Honduras, early in May last, Mr. H. fl;
her Majesty's ship 111-aeintb, aged 21.
On the 27th ult., John Bryon, formerly of Park-lar%got
On the 29th tilt., at Torquay, Ferguson 'Foul), Y°g"
son of Thomas Rowe, Esq., R.N. 1
On the 2d inst., at 'Kensington House, near LiVerpoo
Todd Naylor, Esq.
On the 3d inst., at Dallblair House, Ayr, Charles 1:100t3,.
Rugby School), eldest son of the Lord Justice Cl'

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