The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-22 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE.—The hop picking is now very gene-
rally closing—indeed, over the far greater breadth of
the plantation, has closed. Many of the hands were
paid off on Saturday and yesterday, and were taking
themselves off in various directions. The prOduce in
this district rather exceeds what it was generally laid
at, and the quality is first-rate. The College ground,
we are informed, averages over five bags an acre,
which is rather more than it did last year; but the
average would have been higher if the hops had been
suffered to grow out more. The quality sustains the
long-established reputation of the ground. - Mr.
Gurney's young piece is said to average nearly seven
bags an acre. Ice mention these two grounds, in
co.isequence of their havinc, been so generally in-
spected by visitors, and the numerous conjectural
estimates that have been made of their produce. In
the neighbourhood of Canterbury we learn the weight
will be rather more than last year. The Tenterden
district, comprising about 4,000 acres, comes very
short. Cranbrool: about the same as last year.
Staplehurst and the Weald generally very short. The
duty, it will he seen, is up to 155,000/. ; but we very
much doubt whether the result will warrant that
estimate.—Maidstone Journal.

At Canterbury market on Saturday several samples
of hops were shown, and a good deal of business was
transacted. The prices varied from 61. to 8/. 155.;
several tons, being part of the growth of Mr. Neame,
of Sellinge, realising the latter sum. Some few
grounds in the neighbourhood have had their crops
gradually turn to a brown colour, and are, of course,
in an equal ratio depreciated in value, whilst some,
and we may say only a comparatively small portion,
have not only retained the brightness of the pure hop,
but have produced a considerably larger growth than
was anticipated. The operation of the picker is ra-
pidly drawing to a close, and we perceive in a few
grounds that pole-stacking has commenced. The duty
stands at about 150,0001.—Kenfisk Gazette.

WORCESTER, SEPT. 21.---The supply of hops on
Saturday was r►ot so great as was generally expected,
not exceeding 2,000 pockets, for which the demand
was rather brisk, and upon the best sorts an advance
of .Is. to 2s. per cwt. was realised, some choice par-
cels having reached 90s. to 925. per cwt. The num-
ber of pockets weighed was 1,461 ; old, 6; and during
the week, new, 303 ; old, 32. Our fair on Monday
was the best known for some years, buyers being as
numerous, and the demand as quick, as in the year
1831. The supply was not so abundant as was ex-
pected, the whole amounting to 3,500 pockets, the
greater part of which were readily disposed of, those
weighed at the public scales being 2,618 pockets ; but
in addition to those pitched on the stones, there must
have been at least a thousand more sold by sample,
which will be delivered in the week. Prices were
full 3s. per cwt. higher than on Saturday, the average
currency being from 78s. to 955. per cwt. In old
hops there was scarcely anything doing, and only 34
pockets were weighed. The duty is freely backed to
pay 20,000t.—Worcester Journal of the 22d.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE 'EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—We fancied we had sickened the
Post of asking. us questions; and we almost begin
to believe it does so with a real desire of gaining
instruction. Thig is a
-
receive from
ws),,id cherish us
every
encouragement. We
leet;s it' to anseek what interrogative instinct which
motivewhat it needs so greatly. We
have Anotherbesides for giving the
Post th; instructioniNvhich it seeks. The Post
is one of ow best _Po
lovoaeters ;
B-- was to Fox. as a certain Lord
e have answered the
Post, we are sure the " the we
Fool" can ask
no more questions. ."Tfhoelei!,:ce of nonsense can
no farther go." The
are the Post's
interrogatories of this inornin
"We are rather surprised that our
a blunder, in
generally astute
co
coitemporary should have male
o s
con taring the effects of the s.idinB duty with
what. would have occurred under his '
favourite eight
shilliw:r same. He complains that the
has 'allon too low ! and says that the fixed
pricet of corn
have presented this. It is odd enough to 1.4'7119
coniplainhlg of cheap corn, but will he favour us withitn
his prop' how the Russell prescription would prevent
this. He says that wheat has suddenly fallen from
611. to 535., and that the BQ. duty would have kept up
11-v....price. .This is iv,orth looking to. Let us see how
his, theory rests. Under the present scale the duty it
I ls. when the prices are at 61s. Does a duty of I Is.
telia to reduce prices more sudienly (unnecessarily
lie says) than one of Bs. ? When prices are at 535.
1., I.e duty is 18s. Does this run down the article more
rapWly than the Globey's everlasting octavo? It
won.` d. puzzle even the sharp wits of our lively friend
to
, ho ,w how the present duties, at the figures between
61s ' 53work
. aia. s., more for a fall than his own plan.
Wi'l he, with all his shstpness, disprove the self-
apt, erent fa..`-t, that the slicing scale. altogether - to
„„„,aeract , cluctuation—duties falling with ' •
• rising
pricts, and vi, le versa?"
we did „,t complain that. the price of corn
had fallen too low. We said that a sudden,
ter:al, and (had .the fixed duty been adopted) ina
um ecessary fall i n the price of wheat. had taken
plac,e, just at the .er:tical moment for the far-
'Dees profits, whieli! .fall would have been pre•
vet ted, to such suadell
i been eaten, during,- theand serious extent, had
the 4
oreign corn in bon
seas_n when -it was mo.qt wanted, instead of

being pent up, like waters impeded in their
natural course, to be forced out all at once, and
drown the plains with a sudden inundation. The
effect of the sliding scale is to keep corn in
bond when folks want to eat it; and to let it out
when it is quite certain that folks won't want to
eat it, and when speculators dare not hold on
any longer for that very reason. We were
flooded with foreign corn not till a large supply
of our own was coming to market ; and all the
time it was really most wanted, we could not
have out a grain of it. All the foreign corn we
could have got to eat, up to this harvest, would
have scantly supplied us, coming in by degrees;
—instead of which, it was hoarded for a still
further anticipated fall of our arbitrary scale of
duties, and not released till it was quite certain
averages would fall and duties rise—i. e., till it
was quite certain it was less, or not at all,
wanted. This is a pretty illustration of what the
Post calls " the self-apparent fact, that the
sliding scale goes altogether to counteract
fluctuation."

STANDARD.—Supposing, contrary to what
we believe to be the truth, that Great Britain
were overreached in the matter of the boundary,
we should be much better pleased that it should
be so than that this empire had overreached the
Republic. It is not pretended that any sacrifice
of interest or security has been made; and such
being the case, we give our transatlantic kinsmen
joy of what they have obtained. The very fact
that it is argued (and. we believe justly argued)
that Great Britain was in a condition, supposing
a bargain of some kind made, to demand higher
terms than have contented her, is proof that she
has made no unworthy concession. The hypo-
thesis that we have introduced is, however, one
that deserves attention, because the refusal to
settle the question was a resource always open to
the States. They might, if they disliked our
conditions, have left the question in the state in
which it has rested for 59 years.; and though we
might have, as undoubtedly we have, the power
to force an arrangement and to dictate its terms,
we would not have the right to do so after wait-
ing 59 years, and opening successive negotia-
tions, upon the assumption that the territory is
of doubtful proprietorship. We could not have
the right to originate a war upon the subject.
To close this place of retreat (an abrupt post-
ponement of the settlement) against the
United States was, after all, Lord Asburton's
greatest difficulty; but this place of retreat
was to be closed only by liberal and
even inviting terms, which the Government
coulnd not reject, but in comproming itself with
the democracy. Again, it is a mistake to sup-
pose that there was any dispute upon the subject
of the slave-trpde. This, like the question of the
boundar:, was an open question. between two
indepeneent [parties, neither complaining of
wrong by the other—for the casual, private, and
well-deserved sufferings of Arnerieans were pro-
perly held back ; and Great Britain had not even
such shadows of wrong to complain of. Great
Britain has no right to interfere with the Ameri-
can slave-trade further thao as the United States
may give the right by treaty. Great Britain has
no more original right to prevent the carriage of
slaves from America to the United States, than
she has to liberate the slaves already domiciled
in those states. It is necessary to keep this
steadily in view, because all the misapprensions
that have arisen upon the subject rest upon the
hypothesis, that we hare a right to suppress the
foreign slave-trade. We have no such right—
and the attempt to arrogate it would only defeat
out object; because it would identify the ac-
cursed traffic with the independence of nations-
We have not any such right, any more
than in any other matter, we have
a commission to keep the police of the world.
We may do much by the influence of example,
by expostulation with other independent nations,
and by obtaining from them treaties which shall
enable us to prevent the trade, as far as their sub-
jects and our own citizens are concerned ; but
this is all we have a right to expect, and in this
way we have done a great deal. The United
States profess a wish to prevent that traffic in
human flesh which costs a thousand daily mtir-
ders ; to the degree in which they co-operate
with us, to the extent to which they afford us
facilities, they prove the sincerity of their pro-
fession; but if their co-operation is lukewarm—
if, instead of affording facilities to the extinction
of the abominable trade, they throw difficulties
in the way of such as would extinguish it ; the re-
sponsibility is not to us, who have no legal autho-
rity over them, but to their character before
men and to their Almighty Creator. Engage-
ments to assist in putting down the slave trade
are not engagements made to Great Britain, or
to any particular country, but to human nature.
To refuse suchl engagements, to withhold
the means of enforcing them when professedly
made, is no wrong to Great Britain in particular,
but to the whole fatnily of mankind. It matters,
therefore, nothing to the honour of this country
whether the provisions conceded to the United
States for the suppression of the slave•trade are
made bona fide, and are adequate to their object ;
but it matters everything to the character of the
United States. Great Britain has done her part
when she has earnestly recommended that proper
course, which she has, however, no right to com-
mand ; and even though she gain nothing by her
recommendation, she in no respect compromises
her honour by resting patient with that nothing.

THE FABLE ABOUT THE DUKE

OF BRUNSWICK.

Baron Andlau, Equerry to his Serene Highness the
Duke of Brunswick, has this morning received the.
following letter from the Mayor of Preston :
"Preston, Sept. 21, 1842.
"Dear Sir,—My attention has been drawn to a
statement in the Times newspaper (which appears to
have been copied from the Lancaster Guardian), that
an illustrious visitor at the Guild has been taken in
custody and carried to the police-station by mistake,
and that a most handsome apology had been made by
me for the unintentional affront.

"I regret exceedingly that any one should have
taken so scandalous a liberty with his Highness's
name. Probably he will treat the matter with silent
contempt. I hasten, however, to place in your hands
my contradiction of the statement, which is entirely
without foundation ; no person having been so appre-
hended or charged.—l have the honour to be &c.,
" S. HORROCKS, Mayor."

The marriage of Miss Cochrane with the Due de
Luxembourg, announced in the London journals, is
postponed until letters can be received from Sir Thos.
Cochrane, now commanding her Mitannie Majesty's
naval forces in China.

RONCHI, THE CALABRIAN.
BAYONNE, SEPT. 15.—0 f all the individuals whose
presence has, during this last season, rendered this
locality interesting, one (the well-known Ronchi)
has just left who reminds us in a most striking man-
mer of the secret history of the Spanish Court for the
last twelve or fourteen years. The history of this
person is most remarkable. His career is said to have
been one of romance. It is related in the following
manner:—

Ronchi is a Calabrian by birth, and was originally
a dentist, but has exercised a variety of professions
and callings, according as his necessities compelled or
his tastes directed him. At an early period of his life
he left his native country, and proceeded to Tangiers,
where he entered into the service of the Dey in the
capacity of a surgeon. Though not regularly brought
up to the profession, and almost without education, he
yet contrived to establish a reputation for himself in
that country. By some means or other he attracted
the favourable notice of the favourite Sultana, and,
strange to say, he succeeded on one occasion in
penetrating into the secret recesses of the harem. It
is probable that this success rendered him more bold
and less cautious. But in the East it is unsafe; to
trifle with such delicate matters, and Ronchi was one
day found in the inner apartments of the palace, and
alone with the favourite. With the quickuess of ap-
prehension, and the fertility of resource, which, on
important emergencies, raise women far above the
ruder sex, the moment she perceived they were
discovered, she began to utter the mast terrific
screams, and, hiding her face in her hands, pre
tended to suffer the most agonising pangs of tooth.
ache. Ronchi at once understood her, and Was
not slow to act:upon the hint. He pulled out hi
instruments, without which he never stirred abroad,
and pretended to be so entirely occupied in pulling
out her tooth, as not to perceive the approach of
her legitimate lord. Notwithstanding the tor-
ture
of such an operation, particularly when there
had been no previous disease, the beautiful creature
insisted that the tooth 1
ingenuity t •
at the
triumphed, andthe as baffled or s iould be extracted. Female
, Dey w
de-
ceived ; and the credulous barbarian, though scan-
dalisedprofessional assistanc
illegitimate
of oriental etiquette, passed
over this
the sufferperre,seannedethofe
mreae,inideaf affordedunusual ibn3ro d,
the e opfr
ar.
cat
il dt
ieorni
en
rg.
yin consideration for the pain of
was not equal to that ofn
But the
displayed by the Christian
bv astonish the fair infidel. In his trepi-
dation, caused
• in ent at the courage, and wit
of his patient, and the perilous position in which he at
that moment stood, he forgot, or was unable, to exer-
cise his usual dexterity. his impatient haste to
bring the affair to a conclusion,he broke the tooth
whilst making a desperate and n ard effort to extract
it. On beholding the mouth of hiN‘s.Sultana thus disfi-
gured, the Dey could not control his fury. lie ordered
the affrighted dentist to be seized, and con dem him
to suffer death by impalement the next morninnge.d line
was, it is said, even conducted to the stake, and pre-

parations were made for the execution, when a pardon
was granted by the Dey, who had yielded to the soli-
citations of his favourite, of whom he was passionately
fond. As may be supposed, this accident completely
put an end to any further adventures amongst the
mysterious recesses of the harem. He soon after
married the widow of the Spanish Consul at Tangiers,
and in a short; time. left the country and came
to Madrid. Such is one of the many stories,
more or less romantic, which is related of the
adventurous Calabrian. In the capital of Spain
he commenced the business of a diamond merchant
and broker, which he practised with immense success.
After the marriage of Ferdinand with Maria Chris-
tina, he contrived to procure access to the Court,
and by his insinuating manners succeeded in a short
time in getting into the good graces of the young
Queen. lie soon obtained great influence over her,
and was even employed in secret affairs of conse-
quence. A collision taking place between the Nea-
politan and Portuguese interests at Court, Ronchi was
charged by the Queen with watching all the movements
of the Infanta Francisca and the Princess of Beira,
the present wife of Don Carlos. It was he who
was employed to purchase, as well as to be
bearer of, the nuptial present to the bride, on
the occasion of the marriage of the Infant
Don Sebastian with the Princess of Naples. He ac-
companied her Royal Highness to Madrid, and his
influence at Court increased rapidly after this event.
During the Regency of Queen Christina he filled
an important office in the Finance Department, and
was also named by her Director of the General Lot-
tery, two of the most lucrative employments in the
kingdom, in the exercise of which he amassed a colos-
sal fortune. Ronchi and the well-known Teresita,
modiste to the Queen Regent, were the two persons
who had the greatest influence over her, and, strange
to say, these two favourites shared the honour, as well
as the benefits, of the Royal confidence, without any
serious dispute between them.
The (laughter of Ronchi is married to the Marquis
di Grimaldi, who condescended to unite his aristo-
cratic blood with that of the wealthy and powerful
favourite. But Ronchi's day is past, he who would now
expect to find in him the quickness of apprehension,
the acute intellect, and the mind fertile in resources,
of other days, would be disappointed. lie is rapidly
falling into dotage, and seems affected with more than
the garrulity of age.

JUSTICE AND MERCY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stß,—The philosophy of newspapers, natu-
rally and because it could not do otherwise, even
if it would, exhibits the most wonderful display
of antt.gonistic struggles of mind ever yet mani-
fested to the world. The wisdom, the wit, the
folly, the shrewdness, the cunning, the plausible-
ness, the truthfulness and the errors, the facts
and fictions of the Senate, the Bar, the Cabinet,
the Diplomacy, the Camp,-the Church, &c., are
laid open and commented upon with all the fresh-
ness and vigour of extemporaneous -skill and
effort. Trade and agriculture in all their bear-
ings; the sciences and the arts; the new inven-
tions and discoveries of the ingenions, the per-
severing, and the profound; the very accidents,
the ordinary events and the most extraordinary
of human life, or of whatever concerns it, are all
here displayed in the philosophy of newspapers.
It stoops to the lowest, it rises to' highest
concernments of man. Never befbre did the
world contemplate such a spectacle ! All the
wisdom as well as folly of the past are made to
pass in review before us, and to be subservient to
the well-being of the future. Your Correspon-
dent, " H. P.," has been a reader of The Sint
too long not to know, that if in irs leading
articles it erred at any time, it so erred in the
highest company, and under no inferior sanction.
Ot Dugald Stewart's powers and character as a
philosopher it is almost pragmatical at the pre-
sent day to pass an opinion; but it may be right
and necessary to remark of many of our ablest
men and protbundest reasoners, that in pursuing
their usual paths of close, severe, and intricate
reasoning, they have too often preferred for
their guide expediency to justice; and that
statesmen and other public characters hare as
often been but too prone to follow them in what
is evil, and perversely to turn aside from them
when they pursue the right way. All that
" H. P." meant to imply was—that, to do justly
at the present moment is the most simple plan,
and certain way to future good. He has been,
for upwards of fifty years an earnest observer of
men as well as. reader of books, and he is
thoroughly convinced that most of the mistakes
which men make, and most of the evils which
they inflict upon one another, arise from their
practical neglect of the rule of " doing unto
others as they would that others should do unto
them." This sacred rule is justice and mercy
united, and reduced to practice. Mercy, without
an eye to justice, would be in danger or becom-
ing foolishness; and justice without mercy would
he equally in danger of becoming cruelty. In
human concerns justice should ever lean to
mercy, and mercy to justice. In the super-
structure of human laws justice should ever be
the architect, and in their application mercy
should be the directing agent. Try the Corn-
laws by this observation. Did justice construct
them ? Does mercy apply them? Then is it
just practically to rob millions in order to attempt
to enrich thousands. Then is it merciful to pau-
perize, to starve, and to agonize the former, for
the sake of multiplying the enjoyments and su-
perfluities of the latter. Try any of our other
laws bearing upon the daily necessities of man,
by the same observation. Is it just to compel
the poor family of the working man, which
would fain use that most salutary and nutritious
article sugar, to pay eight-pence for one pound of
it which they might otherwise get for three half-
pence? Is it just to put a tax of two shillings
and a penny upon a pound of tea, which a poor
woman might otherwise get for seven-pence ; or
a tax of three shillings upon a pound of tobacco,
which a poor man might otherwise get for ten-
pence ? Bread is the staff of life to the working
man, and he is made to pay sixpencefor it, which
he ought to have for three• pence halfpenny !
Where are justice and mercy to be found in such
doings? Their absence is likely to bring ruin, as
it has already brought untold calamity, upon the
country. Though a landlord myself, whose
scanty living depends entirely on land, I must
acknowledge that we landlords are mainly re-
sponsible for many of the present calamities of
the trading population, and that the Government
of the country has 'most fearfully erred and
strayed from the paths of justice and mercy in
sacrificing- the interests of the mercantile and
trading to those of the agricultural portions of
the community. H. P.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.

1842.

Acceptances for the Cesarewitch Stakes—Mus, 9 yrs,
Bst 81b—The Shadow, 6 yrs, Bst 71b—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs,
Bst 71b—Roscius, 6 yrs, Bst 41b—Ralph, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—
iIeslington, 4 yrs, 851—Thistle Whipper, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b
—Clinker, 6 yrs, 7st 1 Ilb—Tamburini, 6 yrs, 7st 101—
Una, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Arnagiil, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Portrait,
L7osrtd
511ibel-
b4ur)nrse''s 7csotlt,74lb—yrsß, b7osdt a nslt
B 5
eylirsss,i
m 7 sat 61b—Lord
,
aged,
Quo Minus, 4 yrs, ist 41b—Florence, 4 yrs, ist 21b—
Buffalo, 4 yrs, ist—Scalteen, 3 yrs, 6st 1 11b—Vibratidn,
3 yrs, Est 91b—Blue, Bonnet, 3 yrs (including 101bs
extra), Est 91b—Courtesan colt, 4 yrs, 6st 41b—Ma Mie,
3 yrs, Gst 31b—Dilbar, 3 yrs, Gst 31b—Lucy Banks, 3
yrs, Est 31b—Pharold, 3 yrs, sst 131b—The Gleaner,
3 yre, sst lolb—Bizarre filly, 3 yrs, sst 81b--Arcanus,
3 yrs, sst 41b—Anspach, 3 yrs, sst.
HOUGHTON MEETING. 1842.
Acceptances for the Cambridgeshire Stakes—Charles
the Twelfth, 6 yrs, lOst 21b—Vulcan, 5 yrs, 9st 31b—
Flambeau, 6 yrs, Bst 131b—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—
The Shadow, 6 yrs, Bst 101b—Bob Peel, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b
—Retriever, 6 yrs, Bst 101b—Ralph, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Mus,
aged, Bst 71b—Roscius, 6 yrs,
Bst 51b— Garry Owen,
5 yrs,. Bst 51b—Monceda, 6 yrs, Bst 21b—Eringo, 4 yrs,
Bst 21b—Camelino, 6 yrs, Bst 21b—Wee Willie, aged,
7st 121b—Revel, 4 yrs. ist 121b—Galen, 5 yrs, ist 121 b
Una, 4 yrs, 751 101b—Belissima, aged, 7st 1011;---Prince
Caradoc, '4 yrs, 7st 91b—Clinker, 6 yrs, ist 91b—Knight
of the Whistle, 4 yrs, ist `..)lb—Rhodanthe, 5 yrs, 7st 71b
—Ermengardis, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Canadian, 3 yrs, 7st 71b
Forester, 4 yrs, ist 71b —Cabrera. 3 yrs, 7st 71b—Bil-
lingham, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Quo Minus, 4) rs, ist 51b—The
Genius, 5 yrs, ist 516--Fireaway, 3 yrs, 7st 3113—Help-
mate, 6 yrs, ist 31b—Policy, 3 yrs, 7st alb—Lady Adele,
3 yrs, 71b llb—Florence, 4 yrs, ist Ilb—Melior, 3 yrs,
Gst 121b—Master Thomas, 3 yrs, Gst 121b—Petulance
colt, 3 yrs, 6st 121b--I-am-not-aware, aged, Est 121 b
Cecil, 4 yrs, 6st 121b—Vibration, 3 yrs, Gst 111 b
Courtesan colt, 4 yrs, Gst 101b—Nuncio, 3 yrs, Gst 91b—
Lucy Null: 3, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Image, 4 )rs, Gst 71b—
Hawk (Irish), 3 yrs, Est 716—Recompense, 3 yrs, Gst
71b—Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs, Est 71b—The Gle:.ner
colt), 3 yrs, Est 41b--Solomon, 3 yrs, Gst 21b—The Con-
quernr, 3 yrs, Gst 21b—Busk mare, 5 yrs, Est—Topsail,
3 yrs, 6st—Endymion, 3 yrs, sst 71b.—The rest de-
clared last night.

WALE OF MUD WESTMINSTER'S STUD, BY
MESSRS. TATTERSALL, AT EATON HALL

FARM, ON TUESDAY.
--
Morning Star, 32gs.—Launcelot, 500 gs.— Festival
(covered by Pantaloon), 30gs—lionoria, 91gs—Brocadc,
130gs.—Puff, 27g5.--Dstpline,29gs.—Sultun mare, 2; g=%
—Morea, 200g5.-Ile v al, 115gs.—Poly x en, 65,rn5....-
t- of-Hand, 6 yrs, 200 gs.— Van Amburgh, 4yrs,
90g —Satirist, 4 yrs, 255g5--Auckland, 3 yrs, Gogs._
an Cdahar, 3 yrs, 155gs.—William de Fortibus, 3 yrs,
155g5.--Shelfield, 3 yrs,l2ogs.7-Bona Fide, 3 yrs, 100 gs.
—lrony, 3 yrs,
33gs.—c (yearling) by Pantaloon, out of
Festival, 31gs.—ch c (yearling) brother to Satirist,
140;x.—ch f (yearling) own sister to Cardinal Puff,
f (yearling) by Pantaloon, out of Honoria,
45gr,.-7 colt foul by Pantaloon, out of Festival, 35gs,—colt
foal own brother to Cardinal PO, Bgs. colt foal by Pan-
taloon out of Pasquinade, 32gs.—filly foal by Pantaloon,
out of Shiraz,2sgs.—filly foal by Touchstone, out of Bro-
cade, 56gs,

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(YESTERDAY.)
OLD COURT.

William Perry was indicted for cutting and maim-
ing Elizabeth Diggle, with intent to do her some
crrievous bodily harm.
0
Mr. Charnock conducted the proiecution ; Mr.
Crouch defended the prisoner.
The prosecutrix, it appeared, was what is com-
monly called an unfortunate girl. She deposed that
she had been living with the prisoner as his wife, and
a few months ago she was admitted into the Magda-
len Asylum, which she left a short time before this
occurrence took place. The prisoner had promised to
marry her before she came out of the Magdalen. On
the 6th September she saw the prisoner at a concert
in Gray-street, Blackfriars'-road, and asked him for
some money. A short time before this he gave her
half a crown and his watch, and at the same time
said he could do no more for her. They subse-
quently had a quarrel, and a policeman separated
them and shortly after she left the place,, and was
standing at the corner of Queen-street, and the
prisoner came up to her, and using a most op-
probrious epithet, drew a knife from his pocket
opened it, and, saying he would do for her, made a
thrust with the knife at her side. She put up her
arm to avoid the blow, and received a cut upon it,
and the prisoner then kicked her on the side, and she
fell to the ground and continued insensible until the
next morning, when she found herself in St. Saviour's
workhouse.

The prosecutrix, on her being cross-examined said,
that the mother of the prisoner was the instigator of
her going into the Magdalen. She also said that upon
one occasion she tried to destroy herself by taking
laudanum, and that the conduct of the prisoner was
the occasion of her doing so. The prisoner gave her
the watch as a keepsake, and she pledged it the next
day. She denied that she had ever told the prisoner's
mother that she had wounded herself ; they said she
had done so, but it was not true.

In re-examination, the proseeutrix said that the
prisoner first tbok her from her home.
Mr. Henry May, a surgeon, deposed that on the
night in question he was called on to examine the
prosecutrix. He found her insensible, and there was
a wound on her left arm, about an inch and three
quarters lobg, and nearly half an inch deep. The
prosecutrix, at the same time, appeared to he suffering
from pain in the left side, and while she was insensible
her hand rolled over involuntarily towards that part of
her person. Witness dressed the wound, and directed
that the prosecutrix should be kept quiet. There was
a mark on her side which must have been occasioned
by some external violence.
Cross-examined—Such a wound as was upon the
prosecutrix's arm might have been inflicted by herself,
but it appeared more like an injury caused by a thrust
than by a cut.
Edward Parret proved that on the night in question
he heard a scream, and on going to the spot from
whence it appeared to come, he found the prosecutrix
lying upon the ground insensible. He saw nothing of
the prisoner.
Mr. CROUCH, who defended the prisoner, said he
was instructed that the prosecutrix inflicted the
wound upon herself, and that her object was to get
the prisoner transported, to separate him from a wo-
man of whom she was jealous. The following wit-
nesses were examined :

George Bucklow deposed, that on the evening of
the 6th of September he was in the New-cut, Lam-
beth, and he saw the prisoner, and accompanied him
to the concert, and remained there about an hour.
The prosecutrix went up to the prisoner and spoke to
him, but he did not hear what she said. She then
knocked a pipe out of his hand, and witness beckoned
to the prisoner to go out, and the prosecutrix, who
was very violent, followed him out, and when they
got into the street she seized him by his coat, and it
was with great difficulty two policemen could separate
them ; the prisoner wished the prosecutrix to be
taken into custody—the policemen refused, and said,
if they did not go away, they . would lock them both
up. The prosecutrix went away, and witness accom-
panied the prisoner to another public-house, and re-
mained there until a quarter to twelve o'clock, and
witness then accompanied the prisoner home to his
lodging. He never lost sight of him from the time
they left the first public-house until he went home to
his lodging. •
Elizabeth Perry, the prisoner's mother, was then
examined, and she proved that the prosecutrix told her,
that the prisoner was innocent, and that she had
wounded herself, and charged him with the offence in
order that she might get him transported, out of jea-
lousy, and she also said, that she wished she had put
the knife as far into her breast, as she did into her
arm. The prosecutrix likewise told her, that if he
got over it, neither he nor herself should live over the
week.
William Cunningham also deposed that the prose-
cutrix told him she had wounded herself, and had
charged.. the offence upon the prisoner out of jealousy.
Mr. Justice CRESS.'WELL summed up, and the Jury,
after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of—Not
Guilty.

(Before the RECORDER.)
William Smithers, alias James King, pleaded guilty to
the charge of feloniously returning from transportation.
It appeared that the prisoner was convicted of rob-
bery about eight years ago, and ordered to be trans-
ported for life.
The RECORDER sentenced the prisoner to be con-
fined for six in )nths in the Penitentiary, and then to
be transported for life.

sioi
v_INTELLIGENCE.HUSE.
POLICEMAN
O
(YESTERDAY.)
A young Frenchman, named Easter Pasques, who
has offices in Crosby Hall-buildings, Bishopsgate-
street, was brought before Alderman Wilson, charged
with having conspired with his partner to defraud Mr.
John Gallowin, of St. Swithin's-lane, merchant, of
goods of considerable value.
Mr. CLARKSON, the barrister, who attended for the
prosecutor, stated that his client dealt in French
goods, and the prisoner professed to carry on business
in the City under the firm of, Easter Pasques and Co.,
and the question for the Alderman to decide was, whe-
ther the very artful offence which had been commit-
ted was to be treated as a felony or a misdemeanour.
It was generally the plan of persons accustomed to
carry on fraudulent transactions to act honourably in
their first dealings. The prisoner had adopted that
mode, and with the succe::s which it seldom failed to
produce upon tradesmen who were not very incredulous.
The prosecutor stated that the first transaction lie
had with the prisoner was on the 2d of September,
when he intrusted him with boot-legs to the amount
of 321., for which a commission of 24- per cent. was
to be paid him. The prisoner handed over the amount
with the exception of 19 shillings. Subsequently the
prisoner called at the counting-house, and after some
conversation, in which witness stated that he had
occasion for money, mentioned to him that he (pri-
soner) and his father had abundance of money, and
would accommodate him if he would leave in their
possession goods for security. The suggestion was
acted upon. Witness deposited with the prisoner 740
pair of boot-leg, the value of which was 2121. 155.,
and the prisonerspromised to let him have next day
the sum of 1711. On the Bth instant the prisoner
took away the property in a cart, and on the 9th
witness called at Crosby Hall Chambers for the
money, and saw the prisoner and his partner, the
latter of whom was equally concerned in the
affair. The prisoner's partner said that they
had received from abroad bills to the amount
of ten thousand pounds, and that their clerk was
gone to get them discounted, in order to meet their
engagement with uitness, whom they requested to
wait. Witness waited accordingly for an hour, after
the lapse of which, no clerk having appeared, the
Partner said he would go out after the money himself,
and left the office. Whet two hours had passed away,
the prisoner, who had begged witness to wait, ex-
pressed his regret at the disappointment, but positively
promised that the cash should be forthcoming the fol-
lowing day. Witness sccordingl: called at the time
appointed, but Was informed by the prisoner that the
difficulty of getting___
the bills. negotiated was insuper-
able. It was then agreed that the prisoner should
sell the goods upon a commission of two and a half
per cent., the terms on which the former transaction
had been completed, and the dealing was to be a ready
money one, without discount, by the express direction
of the witness.

Here the prisoner interr
upted the prosecutor, and
declared that the commission was not to be so low as
2A- per cent.
Witness repeated the terms, which he said were
exactly correct. On the 14th instant the prisoner
called upon him, and said he had disposed of the goods
at the price fixed upon them ; and next day he sent
home the empty boxes, but the money was not forth-
coming, neither would the prisoner tell the name of
the person to whom he said he had Soh! the articles,
but called to request an invoice of the property, for
ness, suspecting
the satisfaction of the party who had made the pur-
chase, and said the whole Avouid be discharged imme-
diately afterwards. Still no cash appeared ; and wit
that the intentions of the firm of
,
Easter Pasques, and Co. were not strictly honour-
able, threatened to put the prisoner into the custody
of a policeman
if 1w p
wrote down on a paper the name of
dis-
close the name
of the individual to whom he had sold
As
the goods. ersevered in refusing to
witness showed that he meant what he
said, "the prisoner
‘.‘ lslimsieur Louis, 07, Gerard-street, Soho," as the
purchaser, and was then allowed" to go at librty.
Alderman IVit.soN—What ! Before you made in-
quiry of Mr. Louis whether the statement was false ?
1 think his conduct was quite calculated to justify
you in suspecting that the information was false.
Mr. Clarkson 'said that the whole business was con-
ducted with an air of candour. The property disap-
peared from Crosby Hall .Chanibers by driblets ; and
although the prisoner had agreed to sell it for a com-
mission of 2i per cent., it would be seen that he pro-

mised that amount to another person for the accom-
modation given in the first transaction, which amounted
to 321.

Mr. William John Louis son and partner of Mr.
Louis, of 27, Gerard-street, Soho, merchant, stated
that the firm were dealers in foreign goods. On the
2d of September the firm recommended the prisoner
to Messrs. Buliran and Page as a seller, and they
purchased of him to the amount of 321., and paid him.
Witness's father was to have had 2i per cent. from
the prisoner, who stated that he was himself to re-
ceive 5 per cent. commission ; but no other transac-
tion ever took place between the prisoner and the
firm, and witness's father never received a farthing
from the prisoner.
Alderman WlLsoN—Then you know nothing at all
about these 744 boot-legs which the prisoner said he
sold to your father ? Witness—Nothing whatever.
My father is now in the country on business, but I
am a witness to all that took place on the subject.
Alderman WILSON—WeII, prisoner, how can you
reconcile these things ?—The prisoner said the fact
was the goods were not sold yet, but as he appre-
hended, the prosecutor would take them away from
him, and thus deprive him of his commission upon the
sale, on account of the delay, he pretended they were
actually disposed of.
Alderman WILSON—A great many deceptive false-
hoods were told by you in this business, and if your
intentions were honest, they had not the appearance
of honesty.

The prisoner asked a great number of questions of
the prosecutor, but the answer to all of them confirmed
the belief in the scandalous nature of the transaction.
Mr. Clarkson said his client would be satisfied if
his goods were given up to him.
The prisoner—l am ready to give them up.
Mr. Alderman WlLsoN—Where are they ? The
prisoner—They are in Bridge-street, Lambeth.
Alderman WILSON—At your disposal ? The pri-
soner—Certainly.
Mr. Clarkson—He knew very well that if he had
given them up he would not have been brought here
in custody, and we do not think his word is at all to be
relied on.

Alderman WthsoN—l think not indeed; and you
had better send after his partner, and send a search
warrant to the house in which he says the goods are
deposited.
The warrants were then taken out, and the prisoner
was remanded.