The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-03 00:00:00

THE FRENCH IN OTAHEITE.

By the arrival of the Reine Blanche at Brest, ac•
counts have been received from Otaheite of the 14th
of July. The last number of the Ocianie has the
following :
" At the moment of going to press her Britannic Ma-
jesty's sloop of war Carysfort, Capt. Lord Paulet, appeared
off the ridge which closes in the roadstead of Papeete, and
without entering, saluted the flag of our tommander,
which was returned by the Urania. At the same time
the Governor received a visit from Lord Paulet. The
Carysfort brings private letters from France, which
come via Panama, with dates up the 26th of February,
but no dispatch for the Governor, nor a single journal.
The Governer has only received a letter from an officer
who commands one of King Louis Philippe's ships in
the Soath Seas, announcing that a French journal, which
had reached Valparaiso, gave intelligence that the whaler
Elizabeth, which left Otaheite within the first fortnight
of November in last year, carrying dispatches, inform-
ing the Government of the motives which forced Admi-
ral Dupetit Tnouars to convert the Protectorate of
Otaheite into an absolute possession of the island, had
made her passage to Havre in 95 days. The same jour-
nal of the 29th of February, says, that after the recep-
tion of the dispatches we have mentioned, his Ma-
jesty declared that he could not accept the full
possession, but he must adhere to the protectorate.
We repeat, that the Governor has not received any
official dispatches, hut nevertheless, on reading the letter
sent to him from Valparaiso, he hastened to send the chief
of his staff on board the Basilisk, with a letter to Queen
Pomare, acquainting her with the state of affairs, and in-
viting her to come o■ shore. This letter was interpreted to
Queen Pomare in the presence of the bearer and of the
Captains of the Carysfort and Basilisk. Pomare replied
that she had determined not to land, but would go to
Borabora, and there wait the conclusion of the affair."

The OciaNie of July the 7th contains the foll7W-
ing summary of the recent expeditions against the
natives :

" The expeditionary column, headed by the Governor,
left Papeete in the morning of the 29th, marching upon
the insurgents of Papenoo. It returned in the afternoon
of the 30th, in the steamer Phaeton, after having
beaten and dispersed the rebels. In this affair the loss
of the natives was much more considerable than ours.
In the night of the. 29th another action took place
against the natives of Ponnavia, reinforced by Indians
from the Island of Eimeo, who had come over in pi-
rogues. This passed near Faaa, a point opposite to that
to which the Governor led the columns under his imme-
diate command. It was directed by Captain Bonard of the
Uranie frigate. At this point also the rebels weredisperse
While this was passing round Papeete,Commandantd'Aer:
bignysecured the defence of this place,which the natives had
boastingly threatened to storm and set fire to. The block-
house and Government-house being well guarded, the
Commandant sent out reconnaissances, formed of the
troops of Papeete, or of the sailors of the Uranie, who
were encamped towards overy point he deemed neces-
sary to be explored. The Governor and the expe-
ditionary column of Papenoa being returned, the troops
were kept on the alert for several successive days. On
Monday, July 1, the Commandant, at the head of up-
wards of 400 men, marched towards Faaa, where a
large body of the natives was said to be assembled. But
on his approach they all fled from their positions,
although from behind them they might have done much
injury to our troops. These species of intrenchments
were destroyed, and M. d'Aubigny returned without
having had any engagement. One native was captured
by an officer, but was afterwards shot in attempting to
make his escape. During these last days, slight skir-
mishes have taken place between the sailors and the na-
tives in the environs of the camp formed of the Uranie's
men. The frigate's long-boat was armed, and kept con-
stantly plying along the shore, firing shot upon every
group of insurgents found within range, and repeatedly
killed some of them. On oar side we have not had a
single man killed 'since the affair of Faaa on the night
of the Oth. We have had to lament the death of a
young volunteer in this engagement, together with four
sailors, and also of nine wounded, among whom is Cap-
tain Bonard, but happily he is not in any danger. A
panic, which we attribute to no other cause than igno-
rance of the strength of an armed force, seized the
natives and strangers residing at Papeete, on the depar-
ture of the Governor. The natives retired to the small
island of Mouton Outa, in the middle of the roadstead,
and the strangers went on board the ships. with all their
merchandise and other property."
The following is the report to the Governor of
Chef-de-bataillon De Bres, Military Commander of
the expeditionary troops, dated Papeete, July 2 :
" The column, formed of a company of artillery, with
a mountain-howitzer, a company sent on shore from the
Uraidei and four companies of the marines, making an
effective force of 40.1 theft, left Papeete at four in the
morning of the 29th for Hapape (Pointe de Venus). At
nine we reached the foot of the mountain, which we were
obliged to cross before we could enter the valley of Ha-
paps, coming from the village of Papana, where we were
joined by some Indian auxiliaries, At this place, the
men seett forward from the advanced guard fired a few
shots upon the vidette of the enemy, who immediately
took to flight. The mountain was climbed with no
other difficulty than that presented by its extreme
steepness. The Phaeton, which followed the Move-
ment', of the column, having doubled the small promon-
tory formed by the mountain, which ends abruptly at the
sea, fired some rounds of grace-shot, to ascertain the
depth of the valley. On my side, in conformity with
your orders, I fired some shots from the howitzer,
with the same object, as the troops arrived at the summit.

I afterwards sent Mr. de La;oissiere, Lieutenant de
Vaisseau, in reconnaisance with the first section of the
Marines, in the wooded plain which was extended before
us. These dispositions made, I marched on the column
advancing along the shore of the bay towards the village
of Hapape. The section sent in reconnaissance entered
the wood immediately at the foot of the mountain, and
fired some shots in the enemy's videttes, who returned
them, and beat a retreat. M. de Lavoissiere conducted
this reconnaissance with great discernment. At half-
past ten o'clock we were at Hapape, where, according to
orders I had received from you, I halted in front of a
large building (case), about 100 paces from the shore.
Here all our troops found space enough for resting with-
out being obliged to separate. Perfectly tranquil on the
side of the coast, which is entirely •pen, I made my ar-
rangements to prevent any surprise from the opposite
direction. To this effect, I posted a line of sentinels
along the edge of the wood, after ascertaining that it
was clear to the full distance of gunshot. Everything
convinced us that the enemy was waiting for us at
Papenoo. Consequently I resolved, after a halt of three
hours, during which the troops took refreshment, to
march forwards to this bay. About two o'clock we re-
sumed our march, passing in front of the church and the
great building of the English missionaries to turn Pointe
de Venus. At the moment when the rear-guard, formed
of the 28th company, came up to the church, the enemy
came suddenly forth, and attacked it in rear and in flank.
The 28.. h bravely sustained the shock, which was fatal
to one of the missionaries, who was struck by a ball from
the insurgents, and instantly laid dead on the balcony in
which he was standing. In compliance with your
orders, I immediately closed up the columns to meet
and repel the enemy. In an instant the last platoons
were in line and opened their fire, which was so
well kept up that the insurgents at once retired
again to the shelter of the woods. They were pur-
sued by our troops to the entrance into the wood, and
there the firing was kept up on both sides with great
vivacity. According to your instructions, as soon as the
position of the Tirailleurs was established, I formed the re-
serve en masse, behind the church and missionary build-
ing, and went to reconnoitre the position of the enemy.
I soon perceived that there were points at which the fire
of the insurgents was better kept up than at the others,
and thought that the howitzer might be used against
these points with powerful effect. I communicated this
idea to you, M. le Gouverneur, and Captain Samsois
received orders to plant his howitzer against the points
indicated. The officer fully justified the confidence
I had in his experience, and accomplished the task
with courage and sagacity. His fire, directed against
the different points, threw the enemy into complete
confusion. One point, however, remained, at which he
seemed to concentrate the whole of his efforts. Pro-
tected by the nature of the ground, and skreened by the
foliage of the guava trees, they showed a resolution to
brave our fire. The combat had lasted nearly three
hours, and it had become necessary to put an end to it
by a bold measure. I ordered the company of the 28th
to advance and take this position. I ordered a charge
to be beat, and the company, led on by its brave cap-
tain, rushed on with their bbyonets. I shall say no-
thing of the vigour of this charge, for you were on the
spot. The enemy was obliged to fly. Our Tirailleurs,
following the movement of the 28th, advanced, and
drove the insurgents to the mountains, pursuing them
with a continued fire. During the whole of the battle
the enemy drew off his killed and wounded as they fell,
but the last charge was made with such vigour and rapi-
dity, that those who were struck could not be carried
away, and we therefore found nine bodies left on the
ground ; but, from the traces of blood, we were satisfied
that the loss was very considerable."
The report concludes with a statement that the
expedition had four killed and seventeen wounded,
and with mention of those who had particularly dis-

tinguished themselves.
The Oceania sayys--
•' Mr. Makinn, the English missionary who was killed
at Hapape, was at the moment when the ball struck him
in the forehead in the balcony of his house, occupied with
looking at the movements outside. The column was de-
filing before him, and the insurgents, who had just taken
position in the huts which our troops had evacuated in or-
der to go forward, were at a very short distance from the
column, and so masked as not to be seen. There was no
expectation of being attacked at the moment. The
sharpshooters had come in, and the column was ad-
vancing tranquilly, when at the instant it was passing
the house where Mr, Makinn was standing, a sharp tire
of musketry, proceeding from the huts occupied by the
natives, was directed against the rear-guard. The balls
passed over our soldiers' heads, and one struck Mr.
Makinn right in the forehead and killed him on the
instant. The Governor had saluted hint the moment
before in passing."
A letter from Papeete, dated the Bth of July, writ-
ten by a Frenchman, and addressed to the Debats,
contains the following :
" The insurgents have become remarkably bold; to say
the truth, the entire population of the island, with the
exception of two or three districts, have risen against
us, encouraged by foreign instigation, and furnished
with arms and ammunition of every kind. You will say,
perhaps, why do you suffer this ? I answer that,
although 0 iaheite is only 25 leagues in circumference, we
have not small vessels enough to keep outside a watch
which would render almost impracticable the facilities
of communication with the neighbouring islands ;
and how can we, in the interior, keep up a good police
in a country of which we occupy so small a portion ?
Be this as it may, the mischief has been done, and

has propagated itself insensibly, without, I imagine, its
importance being well understood ; for, even if peace
were made, would there be any security for the colony,
when the whole population could rise in arms at the first
signal ? Different expeditions have taken place re-
cently ; the first had for object to dislodge the enemy
from a mountain in which they were said to have in-
trenched themselves. But the natives, who are not yet
excellent soldiers, came down to attack us on the plain,
covered, it is true, by thick bushes, fur such is their in-
variable practice, After an engagement of three hours,
they gave way, and we saw no more of them. In the
meantime, and in an opposite direction, a nocturnal
coup de main was attempted against the insurgents by
the commandant of the Uranie ; but, instead of sur-
prising them, he was himself surprised, and this little
success had so emboldened the insurgents, that, on the
following day, they showed themselves close to Papeete.
A column of troops was sent against them. They re-
tired, but immediately after our troops had left they
recommenced their demonstrations, and even me-
naced us with an attack on a fixed day ; but
it did not take place. We are, however, continually
on the gut vive, and are actively at work on the for-
tifications. We desire nothing better than an attack, to
spare us the necessity of going after the natives in their
mountains and ravines ; but the poor colonist, are not
of that way of thinking, for their wooden houses, covered
with thatch, would run great risk of being burnt down.
Fire, in fact, has played a great part in this war ; the
natives have too frequently recourse to it. The captain
of the Uranie had contracted for 'some supplies with a
colonist who had a property at some distance from Pa-
peete, but who had not hands enough to cultivate it.
Our sailors performed the labour, and received two-
thirds of the produce. The property has just been
ravaged and the house burnt down. Our missionaries have
also been victims. Their residence, which was a perfect
palace for this country, has experienced the same fate, and
everything indicates that the mischief will not stop hero.
We must not, however, despair. The presence in our
roads of the English steamer Salamander will, without
doubt, change the nature of events, the captain observing
an opposite line of conduct to that of his predecessors.
Far from seconding the insurgents, he has written to
them to state the true position of England as regards
France, and has threatened to join with us if they should
attack Papeete. The step is, probably, only the prelude
of an entirely new policy on the part of the represents•
tives of England at Otaheite."

The letter concludes with a strong eulogium upon
the climate and vegetation of Otaheite ; but the writer
observes that the French are unable to enjoy them
from the want of peace, and the deficiency of labourers
to cultivate the soil.

The Ocianie gives the following account of the
burning of the missionary residence :
" At the moment when the steamer was entering the
harbour a very thick smoke arose behind the cocoa-nut
trees beyond the camp of the Uranie. It was the house
of the French missionaries, which the natives had set fire
to. The next morning the chapel also was burnt to the
ground. The missionaries have lost everything. The
holy vessels and all the objects used in Divine worship
were pillaged by the natives, or destroyed by the flames.
It is fortunate that the missionaries had left their house
in time."

CABINET COUNCIL.—We understand that the first
Cabinet Council previous to the meeting of Parliament
is appointed for the 9th inst. Sir Robert Peel is expected
to come to town, from Drayton Manor, by the 7th of
the month.:
PRINCE ALBERT'S Ox.—Not unmindful of the
little romance which has hung itself—in place of the
cattle-show ticket—round the neck of this extraordinary
animal, and rendered him, to a certain degree, a public
character, we feel justified in giving a biographical sketch
of him. Our hero—we mean our ox—was born of re-
spectable parents in a paddock in the Home Park, at
Windsor, and at a very early age began to exhibit a
talent for eating which marked him out as a fit sub-
ject to be stuffed for some future cattle-show. On one of
the visits of Prince Albert to the farm, the brute was en-
gaged in discussing a bunch of turnips with such ex-
traordinary gusto, that his Royal Highness was attracted
by the circumstance, and made inquiries of the principal
bailiff, who was told to keep his eye on the subject of our
present biography. Our hero's heiferbood passed in one
continued round of munching, and it was remarked by
those who had charge of him, that tares or turnips,
grass or grain, beans or beet-root, came all alike to his
rapacious appetite. In the course of a few months his
hide began to expand, and he evinced all the usual
characteristics of a prize ox—such as losing the power
of walking at a greater rate than half a mile an
hour, while shortness of breath, and other con-
comitants of fatness, became extremely evident. The
success with which these qualities were cultivated is well
known, and we find our ox ultimately installed at the
Baker- street Bazaar, where he behaved himself with the
dignity becoming a prize, and thus set an example to
the surrounding cattle. It was in this honourable situa-
tion that our hero attracted the attention of Mr. Ban-
nister, the butcher, of Threadneedle-street, who, having
mentally divided him into sirloins, estimated his ribs,
made a rough calculation of his aitch-bones, and cast off
his steaks, consented, with much spirit, to give 60 guineas
for him. Our hero's fate now appeared to be sealed,
and nothing was apparently capable of saving him
from being gibbeted at Mr. Bannister's, with a placard
announcing his having gained a priz.,, stuck with a
wooden skewer into his back, as an invitation to cus-
tomers. Fortunately for the sagacious creature, Prince
Albert paid a visit to the cattle-show, when our hero,
panting with fatness, chanced to put out his tongue just
as his Royal Highness passed, and the tongue coming
into contact with the Prince's hand, the incident was at-
tributed to a burst of affection, though it really was no-
thing more than a lapsus lingua, or slipping out of the
tongue, from sheer want of breathing-room. The cir-
cumstance was noticed by the Queen, and the result is
known. The ox, that was standing on the very brink of
untimely shambles, has been restored to his paddock at
Windsor.—Punch.
SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT STILL IN WORCESTER:—
Superintendent Phillips and Sergeant Chipp, of the City
Police, having reason to suspect that an illicit still had
been some time in operation in Worcester, quietly set to
work, and the result was that they made an appointment
with Mr. Green, Supervisor of Excise, and another Ex-
cise officer named Rouse, to meet them in the Corn-
market, at ten o'clock last Saturday night. At the
time in question, all parties were at the place of rendez-
vous, from whence they went to a house adjoining the
Black Swan, in Quay-street, some of the party going to
the front and some to the back door. While endeavouring
to gain an entrance at the front, a man came out at the
back door, and was instantly seized by Phillips, who,
seeing him hiding a key, exclaimed ," This is the man,
and he has got the key in his pocket I" The key was
instantly taken from him, and he was given into custody
to the officer on the beat, while the others entered the
house, which seas uninhabited, and merely contained
two or three chairs and a table. On reaching the top
room, they found a thirty-gallon still in work, with
several barrels, and about 120 gallons of wash. The
prisoner proved to be a man named Frederick liar-
bridge, and the way in which his apparatus was fitted
up showed that he was no novice at his business. On
being ordered to the station-house, he asked for his hat,
which Phillips said he would look fur, and some time
afterwards, when they had thoroughly inspected the pre-
mises, and the Excise officers had taken possession of the
apparatus, and throw away the wash, he found a hat
containing a handkerchief in the still-room, which he
took into his possession. The next day (Sunday), when
in the station-house, the prisoner asked for the hand-
kerchief, to tie round his head, which Phillips refused to
give up, alleging', as the reason for his refusal, that he
meant to bring it in evidence against him, to which the
other replied, "There is no necessity, as I shall admit
it." He was taken before the magistrates on Monday,
and, in default of paying 301., was sentenced to three
months' heed labour. We understand that Harbridge is
a native of Staffordshire, and rents a house in Birming-
ham, where his wife resides. He is a unman and bra-
zier by trade, and possesses not a little knowledge of
practical chemistry. Of late he has been living at the
Black Swan.— Worcestershire Chronicle.

MISCONDUCT IN CUURCIL-A boy named Henry
Brown, apprentice to Mr. Baalam, carpenter, of Col-
chestar, was on Thursday charged with wilfully disturb-
ing the congregation of St. Peter's Church by his mis-
conduct on Thursday evening last. Richard Norms;4.
the organ-blower, stated that the defendant was in a pew
near him, and immediately upon Mr. Carr giving out
his text, "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way,"
he said, in rather a loud voice, " I wish you might."
lie then came behind the organ, and commenced blow-
ing, the bellows violently, with other acts of misconduct,
tending to disturb and annoy the congregation.. The
defendant promised not to offend again, and after a se-
vere reprimand from the Bench, and paying the ex-
penses (Ss. Gil.) he was discharged.

AN AMERICAN DESCRIPTION OF A TEETOTALLER...—.I
once travelled through all the state of Maine with one
of them ere chaps. He was as thin as a whippin post.
His skin looked like a blown bladder after some of the
air has leaked out, kinder wrinkled and rumpled like,
and his eye as dim as a lamp that's livin on a short al-
lowance of ile. He put me in mind of a pair of kitchen
tongs, all legs, shaft, and head, and no belly ; real gan-
der-gutted looking erittur, as hollow as a bomboo walk-
ing-cane, and twice as yaller. He looked actually as if
he had been picked off a rack at sea, and drageed through
a gimlet-hole. He was a lawyer. Thinks 1, the Lord a
massy on your clients, you hungry, half-starred looking
crittur you, you'll eat'ern up alive. You are just the
chap to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, tank, shank,
and flank, all at a gulp.
Lord Viscount Cembermere presided at a grand
provincial meeting of Freemasons, held at the Royal
Hotel, Chester, on Friday last. Sir Watkin
Williams
`Wynn, Bart., and the Hen. Thomas Grenville Cholmon-
deley, son of Lord Delatnere, were among those initiated
on the occasion.
METROrOLITAN MORTALITY.—We regret to ob-
serve that the deaths within the " bills," last week, were
I,249—the average for the past year having been 946. A
few weeks ago the number was fluctuating between 900
and 960. The increase of mortality from infectious dis-
eases continues to be observed, as compared with the
averages of past years, but it has not advanced ; and,
indeed, appears less than it has been recently. The deaths
from diseases of the lungs were last week 415, upwards
of 100 more than the five years' average, or than the
number some month or so back.

TRANSFER OF THE GREENWICH RAILWAY TO THE
DOVER RAILWAY COMPANY.—Wednesday morning the
Directors of the Dover Railway Company took posses-
sion 01 the whole of the Greenwich Railway, and pro-
perty appertaining to it. Extensive alterations will be
made at the London bridge terminus; the present station
will be razed to the ground, and a handsome building
erected, in the same style of architecture with the Brigh-
ton, Dover, and Croydon station. The whole of the line
will undergo a thorough repair, as some parts are in a
very dilapidated state. The servants employed at the
station 'mil
.on. the line will be retained for a short
4.4041,

MINING IN 1844.
(From the Mining Journal.
The transactions in milling shares during the last
' twelve months have so far exceeded the average busi-
ness of many years, that a general review of the
mines at the present time may be interesting to the
mining speculator. The increase of business in this
description of property may, perhaps, in_ a great
measure, be accounted for by the abundance of un-
employed capital in the money market, and the little
interest paid by Government securities ; but we
flitter ourselves it has been also owing to the in-
creased confidence of the public in mining property,
when conducted on fair and legitimate principles-
The dividends paid in the last twelve months on
twelve of the principal mines have been as follows :-
East Wheal Rose Lead Mine, 46,4001., or 3621. 10s.
per share-original outlay 50/. per share; Botalleck„
10,0001., or 1001. per share ; Fowey Consols, about
10,000/ ; Par Consols, about 10,000/. ; South Cara-
don, 9,6001., or 751. per share, upon an original outlay
of Si.; West Caradon, 5,0001..; South Wheal Basset,
7,3601.; Tresavean, 4,560/. ; Trethellan, 4,200/.;
Brewer, 3,600/. ; Tamar Consols, 4,500/. ' • Tincroft,
3,0001.-making a total of dividends paid in twelve
mines, of 121.220/. ; an averse..? of 18 par cent. on
the market value of the mines, and of more than 106
per cent. the original outlay. Besides the above, dividends have pheen paid-on Wheal Providence, 1,2801.;
Ilolmbusli, 1,0001. (the regular dividends on this mine
amount to 6,0001. a year; they have been less this
year, owing to the erection of a large steam-engine•
which will soon be completed, and dividends resumed;
there are large bodies of ore in reserve in this mine,
and it is to be hoped more of it will he raised in
future, than is sufficient to pay the agents' salaries);
Cern Brea, 3,000/. ; East Wheal C;roftv, 1,600/. ;
East Peul„sl2/. ; and in other mines of minor im-
portance. The dividends in Tresavean were tempo-
rarily suspended in September last, the mine having
up to that period paid, without intermission, 445,0001'.
profit to the shareholders. Trethellan dividends were
also suspended at the same time, after having, without
any original outlay by the adventurers, paid 38,400/.
profit since 1837. The dividends in both mines, we
understand, will be resumed in January next.
Of mines, some of good promise, and others corning
into a profitable state of working, after having large
sums of money expended upon them-there are, of
the latter, West Wheal Jewel, leaving a small profit -,
there has been 50,0001. laid out in opening levels,
driving cross-cuts, &c., to facilitate future operations
in this mine, and as there is said to be a large reserve
of ore standing, we hope, after eight years' patience,
the shareholders will soon reap the benefit of it. Stray
Park and Camborne Vean, leaving a profit, outlay
43,0001.; two months since a course of ore, worth
701. per fathom, was discovered at the 100 fathom
level at Camborne Vean, the one being in whole
ground, from surface downwards. Treleigh Consols,
outlay 30,000/., now leaving a profit of 4001.
a month. Wheal Seaton, outlay 2,4001., leaving a
profit, but not yet paid a dividend. Callington
(formerly Redmoor), outlay 15,0001., now returning
sixty tons of lead per month, and paying cost; a
copper lode has been discovered in this mine, from
which great things are expected. North S%
Rose, outlay 1,60 W., three of the East Rose lodes
have been cut in this mine, but not yet deep enough ;
from one lode, however, twelve fathoms only from the
surface, thirty-two tons of lead have been raised.
Penhallow Moor, outlay about 4,000/. ; this is a very
large sett, and will require a large outlay to bring it
into a profitable state of working ; twenty tons
of lead have been raised. New Quay, out-
lay, about 4,0001., now
.paying cost. Bedford
United, outlay 9,0001., leaving a profit of 5001. a
month, and will pay a dividend of 54. per share in
February next. Trelawney Silver-Lead Mine, near
Liskeard, outlay about 1,500/, nearly paying cost,
with a prospect of soon paying a dividend. Caradon
Consols, near West Caradon, outlay about 4,0001.
Tokenbury, outlay, 12,0001.; and Trenen Consols
(formerly 'Wheal Neptune), the ores of this mine are
very rich. Of young mines of great promise, so far
as they are developed, are the Caradon Mines, Go-
namena, Wheal St. Cleer, Cradick Moor, the Caradon
United Mines, St. Austle Consols, &c., in the eastern
district; and Wheal Acland, Wheal Catherine,
Pencorse, Wheal Hope, and Rose Consols lead mines.
The greatest advances in prices of shares have been
in East Rose, 1,0001. to 1,500/. ; North Rose, 201. to
70/.; Tamar Consols, 6/. to 91. (when at 6/. there
were only 6,000 shares, now there are upwards of
9,000) ; West Caradon, 250/. to 800/. ; Bedford
United, Si.to 10/. ; Trelawney, 20/. to 1201. ; Caradon
Mines, 1/. to 80/. ; Gonamena, 1/. to 1201. ; Callington,
12/. to 25/. ; Cradick Moor, 1/. to 70/. ; East Wheal
Crofty, 300/. to 5001.-a dividend of 251. per share Is
shortly expected here.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
MEDICAL ADVICE.

There cannot by a grosser delusion than this. It
is only because Doctors, in order to make a trade of
medicine, use poisons and anti-medicinal preparations
as medicines for the cure of diseases, that "advice," as
it is called, becomes necessary ; hut if you do away
with poisons or anti-medicinal preparations, and only
take that which is proper and good, and which acts in
accordance with the laws of Nature, then all advice
becomes unnecessary. This is the reason that all true
Hygeists are their own Doctors, and laugh at what
Doctors term "advice." 'Whenever they feel pain of
any kind they have recourse to the 'Vegetable Univer-
sal Medicine, which they can regulate without fear,
so as to produce proper evacuations; hence the fact of
staunch Hygeists in some cases taking twenty, thirty,
and even forty pills at a dose, thereby proving the
Universality of the Medicine, as in the case of Lady
Sophia Grey, for disease of the spine, Sir Richard
Sutton's son, for consumption, living monuments to
attest the fact, and thousands of others. But with the
poisons of the Doctors, such as prussic acid, opium,
arsenic, deadly nightshade, &c., &c., if you take even
half a grain too much, death is the consequence ; and
therefore, to those persons who are, from a state of
ignorance, obliged by Doctors' t. eatment to make
use of such poisons, " advice," of course, becomes
necessary. It is by giving advice that Doctors make
a trade of medicine ; and hence their violent and
unjust opposition to Mr. Morison's system, because
it does away with all mystery, and enables every man
to become his own Doctor. This should never be for-
gotten by the public.
Issued by Morison and Moat, of the British Col-
lege of Health, New-road, London, for and on behalf
of the body of Hygeists, who contend, that, since all
diseases arise from one cause, namely, an impurity of
the blood, they can be cured by the Vegetable Uni-
versal Medicine, which being composed of innocuous
ingredients, may be taken by any person without the
aid of a Doctor.

DAY MAIL TO WORCESTER.—We are glad to find
that the question of a day mail to Worcester has been
re-opened with the Post-office authorities, and that John
Dent, Esq., President of the Chamber of Commerce,
having, at the suggestion of General Lygon, made a re-
newed application to the Postmaster-General on the
subject, has received a letter from Colonel Maberly, ae-
ktinwledghig the receipt of such application, and pro-
mising that it shall have " immediate attention." As
the Railway Act of last session gives increased facilities
for the conveyance of mails, we think there is at length
some chance of Worcester having a day mail.— Worces-
tershire Chronicle.
We understand that a marr:ave is on the lapis
between the Lade Louisa Fitztimurice, only daughter of
the Marquis of Laiisdowne, and the Hon, James Howard,
brother to Lord Aralover.
Whitfield,
E) tlficaindt,
E
The Rev. the Earl of Guildford, during last week,
A-ate:o to be distributed to the necessitous poor of Wal-
ci 7tshb(r
i)ren,e. ..z.,:stihoodth,enissi%,l r,err
ci n
°iparishesdrea most V
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stipple of good meat and w Noble
Earl .clothing. The
Earl has above Tao hundred ,abildren from the above
1f
parishes eduean dat LorcLhir's own expense.
The children of the Free Grammar School, at Dalton,
amounting to 175, were treated last va..l:k to a dinner of
excellent beef and puma pudding, by Mr.\and Mrs. Bald-
win, who, with their servants end a few others, cut up
the viands, and waited upon the youthful bvt grateful
recipients of their bounty.—(-unifferland Parquet.
PASSENGERS FROM INDIA.—The following is a list
of the passengers landed at Suez, from the Bentincic
From Calcutta—Mrs. Money, two children, and ser-
vant ; Mrs. Sheriff and child, Mr. and Mrs. D. Smith
and two children, Lieut. and Mrs. J. Machonochie and
child, Capt. Mitchell, Dr. Raft, Capt. I). Lauder, Mr. D.
Low, Mr. Johnston, Lieut. Martin, Mr. Campbell, Mrs.
Gubbins, child, and servant. From Madras--Sirs.
Major White, Mr. Row, Mrs. Sayers and two children,
Mrs. Whitemore, two children, and two servants ; Mr.
Ashton, Major Messner, Mrs. Ford, M. de Compere,
Mr. Mottet, Mr. W. Dent, Chevalier J. D. Kruseman.
From Ceylon—Mrs. Leighton, two children, sad two
servants ; the Hon. Mr. Drummond. Almost the whole
of the above passengers intend to proceed to England by
the Oriental.
LICHFIELD FARMERS' MARKET.—It is in contem-
plation by the town council, to erect a handsome and
spacious room in St. Mary's-square, adjoining the
Market-hall, for the use of farmers and others while
transacting business on market-days ; the trustees of
the Conduit lands have given the munificent sum of
5001. towards the completion. It will be a most de-
sirable and useful ornament to that part of the city.
The marriage between the fair and youthful
daughter of Mr. and Lady Julia Lockwood and Lord
Napier will not take place before April. Lady Julia and
her daughter are at present at Constantinople.
BREAKWATER IN fORBAY.—Lord Courtenay visited
the Brigham breakwater in Torbay on Monday last,
and, after having inspected the same with marked atten-
tion, was pleased to express his approbation of the work
itself, and of its great utility, as affording shelter to
vessels of all classes needing a harbour of refuge in run-
ning up and down the Channel. There will be, when the
work is completed, enclosed about six hundred and fifty
acres of water, with a bottom of the firmest and best
kind, so that ships coming within it, need have ne ap-
prehension about danger from any wind, however bois-
terous.—Western Luminary.
THE CABINET.—Wednesday circulars were trans-
mitted to the several members of the Cabinet, calling for
their prtvezo3 j tow= 'Duly it the er.m.,--,g

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
!BOX THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We had an arrival from India and
China yesterday. There is more than usual absence
of news of a striking nature in the letters and
.papers
thus conveyed. The pacific character of the intelli-
gence cannot fail to gratify the people of this
country. The breaking out of a war between the
British Government in India and any of the native
Powers, or the interruption of tranquillity by revolts
of any of the tributaries of those Princes, and
" the consequent employment of force to subdue
them, are events to be deprecated whenever they
arise. Their existence is prejudicial to commerce,
and impedes the progress of the natives in those habits
which are not less beneficial to themselves, than they
are to the consolidation and solidity of the British em-
pire in the East. The changed character of the tidings
brought by these arrivals since Sir Henry Hardinge
displaced Lord Ellenborough in the Government, is not
more rplarkable than gratifying. Durng the adminis-
tration of the latter, restlessness pervaded the European
portion of the inhabitants of India. They felt their pro-
perty and their prospects insecure under a Government
the head of which was possessed by a penchant for mili-
tary display. They felt that their interests ware
jeopardised by the constantly recurring warlike de-
monstrations which the Governor-General projected ;
the military expeditions he set on foot, and per-
sonally headed ; and the dread he managed con-
stantly to excite. Fears prevailed lest new wars
would be undertaken, and new territory seized
upon and annexed. Tim; the interests of com-
merce, which are founded in peace, were in-
jured ; and the integrity of the empire itself—
based as it is on the confidence of the natives in the
advantages they derive from the British Government
—was perilled by the provocations to distrust the
pledged faith of that Government. Seeing—as they
had seen—its violation of treaties with the Ameers of
Sinde, and the threatened interference with the Pun-
jaub, as the preliminary of dealing with that territory
in the same way as had been taken with the Sindian
territory, a jealousy and distrust of British faith would
be excited. Distrust would engender intrigues among
neighbouring native Powers. These would ripen
into hostile confederacies against our rule. The
employment of an immense force, to break up and
disperse the confederates, which must be kept up to
prevent a recurrence of similar embarrassing circum-
stances, would impose an immense demand upon the re-
venue, and endanger the stability ofour Eastern Empire.
That such results would certainly be produced by
Lord Ellenborough's policy was evident to the Hon.
Court of Directors, who repeatedly remonstrated with
him, and with her Majesty's Ministers who selected
him for the post. Finding remonstrances, repeatedly
urged, utterly unavailing—each successive arrival
bringing some new proof of the Governor-General's
determination to pursue his expensive and dangerous
policy—they at length interposed their power of recal.
The mischiefs Lord Ellenborough had wrought were
arrested, and began to subside from the hour that
Sir Henry Hardinge set foot in India. Where
dissatisfaction, perturbation, and alarm pervaded the
population, tranquillity has resumed its sway. The
commercial interests are no longer the prey of
apprehensions that some new freak of the Governor-
General will unsettle the basis of trade, and entail
loss, if not ruin, upon the enterprises in which they
are embarked. Sir Henry Hardinge seems, in every
respect, to offer a perfect contrast to his predecessor.
There is no obtrusion of himself—no bombastic procla-
mations of his policy. His experience in war, and
the prominent part he, in former years, occupied in
military operations, has established his fame, and
would impart confidence to any undertakings of that
kind which any events might demand. But that
very experience has produced in him a conviction
that a warlike policy is, of all others, the most de-
trimental to British interests. He is, therefore, the
cultivator of peace. The following remarks of the
Times are in accordance with facts, and express our
views of the effect of Sir H. Hardinge's policy, so far
as that policy has been developed :
" We are glad to heir that Sir H. Hardinge seems
inclined to follow a judicious, a cautious, and a dis
criminating liwe of conduct. He seems, if his policy be
as we anticipate, to have a fair chance of carrying his
intentions into full effs!er, as there is neither war, nor a
prospect of war in any quarter ; and even the civil war
in the Punjaub app-ars for the present suspended. The
prospects of commerce, too, are brightening. and, on the
whole, the contents of our Indian dispatche::, the first
received this year, are as satisfactory as we could wel
desire."

There hare been inany powerful and justly-merited
exhibitions of the follies and feults of Lord Ellen-
borough's administration of the Indian Government :
the most effectual condemnation it has yet received is
found in the opposite character and influence of his
successor; in the same high office.
STANDAR D.—A long and not very well written
article, upon the existing relatione between the Papacy
and the several nations of Europe, appeared last
week in a morning paper. This article, though
published in a journal which can scarcely he
said to support the policy of the Government.
has, by a certain air of diplomatic mystery, im •
posed upon some simple persons as a half-official
manifesto, and been eagerly seized upon by others
not so simple, to serve their oan purposes of agita•
tion. The truth, we have reason to believe is, that
the British Governmen is no more responsible for
the article in question than the Government of
Washington or Pekin ; and we know that the
writer can tell nothing new of the relations be-
tween the British and Roman Governments, because
there is nothing new to tell. For many years—
for twenty years at the least—every successive Bri-
tish Government has been under the necessity of
maintaining a correspondence with the Pope as a
temporal prince, for commercial purposes, and for the
convenience of travellers. Previously to the separa-
tion of the kingdom of Hanover from the
British Crown, this correspondence was pretty
generally carried on through the Hanoverian
Minister at Rome, though occasionally the ser-
vices of an Austrian or Prussian Minister were
employed. When, however, the Crown of Hanover
devolved upon King Ernest the late Administration
employed a stipendiary, but unofficial, agent of its
own to manage the rather unimportont correspondence
we have described; and upon the death of that gen-
tleman last summer, Mr. Petre was named as his
successor. This is the whole truth upen which have
been raised so many fanciful stories of arrange-
ments, concordats, &c. Before men allowed them-
selves to belieee that Sir Robert Peel's Government
was engaged in a violation of the law, and acting a
part 30 inconsistent with its character, as to attempt
by an indirect course what might be as easily and
much more honourably effected directly, if it could
be effected in any manner, they would have done
well to consider whether the object pursued was
attainable, or worth the trouble of pursuing it.
That object we presume to he, some official control
over the Roman Catholic clergy in her Majesty's
dominions—spiritual control being, of course, what
no Protestant Government has a right to claim.
Now, in order to give such official control as is here
supposed, the Pope must first himself have it—but he
has it not, at least in Ireland. The Roman Catholic
archbishops, bishops, and pries s, in Ireland, care just
as much for the authority of the Pope as they
care for the authority of Queen Victoria. The
allegiance of the Irish Roman Catholic Church to
the Roman see is merely nominal. They use the
name of the Pope when it serves their own purpose ;
sm.! employ the shadow of his Holiness's authority
in matters indifferent to them ; but let the Pope only
show tha least disposition to control them, and they
will pay as little respect to his mandate's as to a
Queee's speech. This was proved in the case of
the veto controversy., more recently in the case of
Bishop O'Finan's deerivation, and in the cruel
persecution of .Dr. ho, when he ex-
hibited the Pope's order to restore him to his parish,
sealed with seal of the Vatican, and counter-
signed by Cardinal Franzoni, the Pope's Secretary
of State.—(we have seen the order such as we de
scribe it)—had the document all but flung in his face.
It 13 perfectly untrue, therefore, to say that the
Polac, has more power in Ireland than in
Austria, Prussia, or France. The Pope has
no power whatever in Ireland.
The independent power of the Roman Catholic
Church in Ireland is an anomaly, but like the
other anomaly of the Pope's concordat with Pro-
testant Prussia, on which the changes have been
sci otten rung, it is an anomaly inseparable from
the free constitution of the United Kingdom. It
is the simplest' thing in the world for a despotic
Sovereign, who can by a word or nodcom-
mand the civil obedience of all a
his
subjectsin
t
all temporal things, to arrange with an
ecce.a
at home or abroad, the limits of spiritual and csivi2ii
submission, and this is just what is done by a
con-
cordat. But how can the Government of a free
country, in which every man claims and enjoys
the right to think as pleases him, to believe as
pleases him, and to act as he thinks fit, make
any such arrangement ? France is just now
in the agony of the attempt to reconcile estab-
lished Roman Catholicism with civil liberty ;
and the symptoms of the experiment hitherto
developed, are the very reverse of encouraging.
The United States sought to get rid of all difficulties
of the kind by altogether rejecting religion from
their political constitutions ; but late events at
Baltimore and Philadelphia, and late alarms at New
York, seem to prove the inefficiency of this expe-
dient. To us it is as clear as any proposition
can be, that no free Government can ever
come to any satisfactory and useful arrangement
with Rome, and, whatever our opinion of the ge-
neral policy of the Papal see, we do not found this
conviction upon any offensive hypothesis, but upon
the consideration, that as under a free form of go.
vernment, the clergy must be as free as the laity, a
Roman Catholic priest under such a government, in-
vested as he is with inure car less of personal power, will,
if perversely disposo.d, resist the Pope, by virtue of

his civil privileges, and evade obedience to the civil
Government in right of his quasi Roman citizen-
ship. Take the case of Ireland. Is it from the
Pope that the Roman Catholic priest who leads his
10,000 to a monster meeting, derives his power ?
does he even use the Pope's name to muster
them ? Nothing of the kind ; his power is
the power of elaborate craft over gross ignorance—
the demagogue's power over all whom he can terrify,
and all whom he can teach to believe in his skill
and in his sympathy with their wishes, over all in
whom he can inspire the passion of vindictive
hatred, and the hope of indulging that and other
gross or vile passions. No, it is not the Pope
that is to blame for the state of Ireland ; the
blame is due to our ancestors, who inflicted upon
an ignorant and barbarous country the fatal gift
of premature freedom, which al ways turns to real
slavery—such slavery as that in which the mass of
the Irish peasantry are now held by the oligarchy
of priests.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—This has been a day of some excitement in
the Share Market, on account of the notice issued by
the Board of Trade on the subject of the proposed rail-
way extensions. As far as feelings in the City can be
ascertained, they are generally in favour of the Board's
decision, and the manner in which they have communi-
cated it, simply stating the results at which they have
arrived, without entering into the particular merits of
the question as regards any particular undertaking.
The Commissioners appear to have acted on a distinct
principle, as their present announcement shows—viz.,
that of taking the country divided between the two great
lines of the Great Western and South-Western Rail-
ways. The decision in favour of the extensions pro-
posed by the Great Western in preference to those
proposed by the South-Western seems to be generally
considered favourable to the public at large, and to
maintain the best line of road. The consequence of the
announcement has been that the shares of the Great
Western Company have advanced, while, on the other
hand, those of the South-Western Company (espe-
cially those recently issued) have been depreciated.
It has had, moreover, the beneficial effect of check-
ing reckless speculation in .many undertakings uncon •
nected with these, since the parties interested are more
cautious in their operations now they see the prudent
and clear manner in which the counsels of the Board
are directed. From the sample of the business just
given it is now expected that the remaining sections of
the country through which railways are proposed to pass
will be disposed of in a similar manner, and there is
reason to hope that in the selection hereafter to be made
results equally judicious will be obtained.
Another feature in the act of the Board of Trade
that receives general commendation is its publicity.
A few days ago we pointed out the danger which would
ensue if the Board communicated its decisions to a few
individuals, who might be able to take advantage of their
exclusive information, instead of addressing the public
generally. By publishing their determinations in the
Gazette in the first instance, the information is obtained
at the same time by all to whom it is of interest.
The fluctuation of prices in the Share Market shows
a rise in the value of Great Western and Bristol and
Exeter, both of which have considerably improved, the
Board of Trade accepting the principal extensions of the
Great Western Company, and the rejection of the Yeovil
and Exeter line saving the Bristol and Exeter Company
from competition. The shares of the Great Western
Company from 74 to 76 premium have risen to 78 to 80
premium, and the shares of the Bristol and Exeter have
improved from 69 to 70, yesterday's price, to 73 to 75
to-day. Original South-Western shares have been pretty
well supported, though in the early part of the day they
were flat. The new 401. shares, however, from 8i have
gone back to 3to 6, their last price. Much business is
transacting in the French lines of railway. A purchase
of 1,000 shares in the Great North of France line was
made to-day at 2i- premium.

SURREY S ESSIONS.
Before Mr. PUCKLE, Chairman, and a Bench of

Magistrates.)
Lucy George, a young girl, fourteen years of age,
was found guilty of stealing two shawls, a gold ring,
a half- sovereign, and other articles, the property of her
aunt, Ann Murray. It appeared that the prisoner lived
with her aunt, and took an opportunity of plundering
the house and then absconding.
The aunt begged the Court to deal lightly with the
prisoner, whom she stated to have been led away by bad
acquaintances. She was a well-educated girl, and had
hitherto behaved well.

The COURT sentenced the prisoner to fourteen days'
solitary confinement at Brixton, with a view of placing
her in the Surrey asylum for the reformation of juvenile
prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Sarah Phillips and John Lewis were brought be-
fore the Lord .Mayor, charged with having attempted
to rob a gentleman on London-bridge.
The woman, it appeared, from a City policeman's
statement, lect the male prisoner to follow the gen-
tleman, who evidently wished to be released from her
importunities. After having met with a decided re-
pulse, she returned to the gentleman and tried to get
at his pocket, and the policeman went up and asked
him whether he had lost anything. He replied,
upon searching his pocket, that he had not been
robbed, but he said that he might have been robbed
of a pocket-book containing 501. The policeman
having known the woman to be a thief, and having seen
her for three hours about the neighbourhood in inti-
mate conversation with the male prisoner and another
man, took her and the former into custody.
Sarah Phillips declared that she had come to town
very lately from Bristol, in the expectation of being
engaged by the celebrated Mr. Moses, in the tailoring
tine, but she was unfortunately disappointed, and she
then determined to get into work as well as she could.
The LORD MAYOR—How did you happen to look
for business in the tailoring line on London-
bridge ?—Sarah Phillips replied that she had acci-
dentally met a gentleman, who entered into conver-
sation with her, and appointed to meet her on Lon-
don-bridge, and when she WAS speaking to him the
policeman interfered and improperly accused her of
an intention to commit a robbery—a thing which
never entered into her contemplation.
John Lewis said he was passing at the time the
policeman took the woman into custody, and he just
stopped to see what was the matter, when he was
charged as an accomplice in a robbery.
The policeman stated that Lewis attempted to
escape when he perceived that the woman was ap-
prehended.
The LORD MAYOR said he clearly saw how the
thing was planned between the two prisoners and
their friend, who had escaped, but the evidence was
not strong enough against John Lewis to justify the
committal of that prisoner. His Lordship, however,
thought it necessary to mention that he expected to
see Lewis again at the bar. As for Sarah Phillips,
his Lordship was sure there was quite enough to
authorise her committal to Bridewell.
Committed accordingly.
A man names Thomas Evans was charged under
the following circumstances :
A respectable stationer stated that the prisoner,
who had been employed by the persons engaged to
print for him, called and gave up a duplicate for the
amount of money received for a quantity of paper
delivered to the firm in whose service the prisoner
was to be printed. The paper had been delivered
but a short time before it was sent to the pawn-
broker's shop and pledged for twelve shillings, anti
the prisoner had left the ticket for the purpose of
riving the owner an opportunity of redeeming it
1;.:;:mn its discreditable situation.
The prisoner stated that the printers by whom he
was employed were in the habit of sending him out
with paper just received from the stationers to pawn-
,)roker's shops for the supply of their immediate
necessities. On the present occasion he had re•
ceived the prosecutor's paper to put in pledge in con-
-,equence of his employers' inability to pay him his
wages, and he thought it was most proper fur him to
deliver the duplicate to the owners of the property.
The LORD MAYOR—Have your employers always
taken the paper so pledged out of pawn ? Prisoner
—Always. They furnished me with money to take
it out.

The LORD MAYOR—Have you frequently done
business in this way ? The prisoner—I have been
three or four different times a day to the same pawn-
broker, Mr. Grant, of London-wall, with paper for
my employers, and I took this paper in yesterday.
The assistant to the pawnbroker said that he knew
perfectly well the person of the prisoner as an
habitual customer, and that on one day the prisoner
might have pawned, at three several times, reams of
paper at the shop.
The complainant—Does
i not your Lordship con-
sider that the pawnbroker s very culpable for taking
such an article as paper from such a man as the pri-
soner, who, he must have known, could not be the
proprietor ?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly ; I do think him
most culpable.
Ilis LORDSHIP then directed an officer to desire the
presence of one of the firm to whom the prisoner
alluded as having employed him.
One of the partners in the printing firm attended,
and stated, in answer to questions from the Lord
Mayor, it was true that upon some occasions they
had,
to answer an i:nmediate emergency, sent reams
of paper which they had receivedfrom persons who
employed them to the pawnbrokers, but in a few
p
hours they invariably redeemed the 'roperty. With
respect to the present paper the prisoner had uttered
a falsehood, for he had been sent for the paper in the
morning, and he had never returned from the com-
plainant's.
The LORD MAYOR—You owe him
wages, do you
not ? Witness—About five shillings.
The prisoner declared that the sum due to him was
considerably more.
The LORD MAYOR--I shall bind over the prisoner
in his own recognisances to appear here if the pro-
perty be not released ; and I shall expect his employers
to appear also. Probably many persons who pawn

goods which are not their own do not know the se-
rious
extent to which they are liable. Now I can
tell such persons that, by the Bth section of the 39th
and 40th George 111., cap. 99, it is enacted that, if
any person pawn any goods or chattels the property
of another, without being employed to do so by the ,
owner, it shall be in tl-.e power of any justice of the
peace to inflict upon the person convicted of so pawn-
ing a penalty not exceeding 51. and the full value of
the good, and. in case of the non-payment of such
penalty, to commit the offender to hard labour for
three calendar months, and if, within three days be-
fore the expiration of that period, the forfeiture be not
paid, the justice may order the convicted person, to be
publicly whipped.
This piece of information made a sensible impres-
sion upon several persons in court.
His Loßnsuir said, in conclusion, that he hoped
the Act from which he had quoted would not be for-
gotten by those who 'night, for a temporary accom-
modation, be tempted to violate it, and therefore be
subject to all the consequences.
BOW-STREET.

STEALING IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—A young man
named John Oxford, was brought before Mr. Twyford,
charged with stealing a silver watch and a quantity of
wearing apparel from the house of Mr. Joseph Jewel,
17, Alfred-street, Tottenham-court-road, under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor's
wife, that at about half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday
evening her brother paid her a visit, and on showing him
over the house she attempted to open the door of the
back parlour, but finding some obstruction from the in-
side, she used more exertion and forced it in, when she
found the prisoner staring her full in the face. She im-
mediately called him to account how he dared to enter
her house, and her brother coming to her assistance, the
prisoner was brought into the front parlour, until a con-
stable could be sent for, when he tell upon his knees and
prayed that he might be forgiven and liberated. On
searching the back parloar it was discovered that the
prisoner had lighted a taper oil the mantelpiece, and bad
filled a large black bag he had brought with him with
every portable article in the room, consisting of shirts,
dresses, bed furniture, trousers, and a flageolet, which
had been taken from a chest of drawers, together with a
mantle and dress that hung behind the door. The silver
watch was subsequently found concealed in the bed, and,
on the arrival of the constable, he found eight skeleton
keys and a quantity of lucifer matches upon the pri-
soner's person.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said the servant
girl having gone for beer, left the street door open,
which enabled hint to enter the premises, and to act in
the manner described. He was fully committed to New •
gate for trial.
CHARGE OF STABBlNG.—Laurence Wright, a shoe-
maker, was charged with stabbing Joseph John Corn-
wall, his landlord, in the temple, with a case knife.
The complainant stated that the prisoner was his
lodger, in Ship-yard, for about two months, and occa-
sionally worked for him. On Tuesday morning his wire
went into the room for the purpose of cleaning it, which
the defendant objected to in such terms as to compel her
to leave the place. In the course of the day, understand-
ing that some articles of furniture had been removed, he
went to the room, thinking the defendant was out, to
ascertain if such was the case, and finding him there, he
told him, as he had conducted himself in such a manner
towards his wife, he should in future cease to occupy
the room, and must seek an apartment elsewhere; when
he instantly seized a knife, similar to that produced,
from the table, and rushing at him, drove it into his
temple, within the eighth of an inch of his left eye, from
the effects of which he instantly fell down stairs, and
was conveyed in an exhausted state to King's College
HospitaL
Mr. Cannon, house surgeon of the hospital, proved
that shortly before nine o'clock the complainant was
brought in, baring a punctured wound about an inch
deep, inflicted with some sharp instrument, near the
orbit of the left eye, and as it was of a dangerous cha-
racter he considered it necessary he should still remain
in the house under medical care.
The constable who was called in said he found the
defendant in the room, and he instantly admitted having
committed the offence, at the same time pointing to the
knife produced, which lay on the table, as being the in-
strument he had made use of, adding that he would re-
peat the same if the complainant made a similar attack
upon him, which he repeated at the station-house.
The defendant accounted for his conduct, by saying
that the complainant struck him on the previous night
because he refused to allow his wife to dash a quantity
of water on the floor of his room, as he was in a delicate
state of health, in consequence of having some of his
ribs broken when he was in the army, from which he was
discharged and then entered the police force, which he
was also obliged to leave from ill health. When the com-
plainant, who was well skilled in the art of " self de-
fence," entered the room he put himself in a fighting
attitude, threatening to throw him out of the house, al-
though he owed no rent, and upon his putting his threats
into execution he seized a weapon (not the knife pro-
duced) which he used in his trade, and defended himself
in the best manner he could.
Mr. TWYFORD said the charge was of too serious a
nature for him to deal with in a summary manner, and
in order to enable the surgeon to give a decisive opinion
on a future day, he should order the defendant to be re
mended for that purpose.

• MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Joseph Salomons, of No. 7, Windmill-street, Fite-
roy-square, charged Robert Franklyn with having as-
saulted him, created a disturbance at his house, atiol-
threatened to do him at a future time some bodily harm.
Mr. Salomons said the defendant, who was one of bi►
late clients, came on Tuesday afternoon to his house,
and though he had received a message left for him with
the clerk, he insisted on obtaining admission into the
office, and staying there until he got some money. In
effecting his entrance, the defendant struck him on the
chest, and when he did get into the office, began using
threats and gross abuse, calling him (complainant) a
scoundrel, a swindler, and a rascal, and swearing that
he would tear out his - guts. Complainant begged
the defendant to go away peaceably, but the defendant
declared he would stay and smoke his pipe there, and
unless dragged out he would not leave the place until
he got some money, for money he had come for, and
money he would have. It was necessary to send for the
assistance of the police. The complainant said he was
sorry to have occasion to appear against a person fur
whom he had transacted business, but as the defendant
had used threats of vengeance at some future time, he
had found it necessary to press the charge.
The defendant said the complainant had conducted a
suit for him, and had received all the money recovered,
not a farthing of which would he refund, either to him or
to the witnesses for their expenses.
An old man got into the box and said he believed the
defendant's story was true, for he had been obliged to
get a judge's writ against Mr. Salomons.
Mr. Salomons said he had his bill of costs and legal
charges to show how the money had been disposed or.
At all events, if the defendant thought he was wronged,
there was a very easy remedy which he might adopt.
Mr. MALTBY fined the prisoner W., or one month's im-
prisonment.

Edward Morgan and John Attwood were charged with
having committed a violent assault on Thomas Redford,
one of the constables at the Princess's Theatre.
The constable said the prisoners wanted to pay but
threepence for admission into the gallery, and because
refused they caused a disturbance. He was called to re-
move them, when he was violently assaulted by Morgan,
who struck him, bit a piece out of his finger, and threw
him down. Attwood assisted Morgan in trying to get
away, and was also very violent.
The prisoners said they offered copper at first, but
afterwards they paid a shilling, and received two checks,
one of which was still in Attwood's possession.
The money-taker said he could not say whether the
defendants paid or not.
Mr. MALTBY fined Morgan 41., or sixweeks' imprison-
ment, and Attwood 305., or 21 days.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Me. Fraser, a middle-aged man of respectable ap-
jearance, was charged before Mr. Broughton with hay.
trig obtained, by false pretences, a large quantity of
spirits, from various licensed victuallers in the neigh.
bourhood ot Spitalfields.
It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Elizabeth Con-
nor, ot the Elder Tree, in Norton Folgate, that the pri-
soner called at her house on the 23d ult., and ordered a
gallon of the best gin to be sent forthwith to the residence
of Mr. Matthews, in Spital-square—it was wanted for
immediate use. She accordingly dispatched the liquor
by her servant, who, on reaching the house, found the
prisoner on the door-steps. After severely chiding him
for his delay, the prisoner told him to leave the spirits
and hasten back for two bottles of the best sherry. The
man did so, but the prisoner not being there when he
returned with the wine, he knocked at the door, which
was answered by the servant, who told him no spirits
had been left there, and that the parties in the house
were entire strangers to the transaction.
The second charge was preferred by Mr. George
Smith, landlord of the Salmon and Ball, Lamb-street,
whom the prisoner visited on the 26th ult., and ordered
a gallon of gin and half a gallon of rum to be sent to
the house of Mr. Poole, a manufacturer, in Spital square.
The goods were accordingly sent, and received by the
prisoner under precisely similar circumstances to those
in the last case ; and a subsequent application for the
money exposed the imposition that had been practised
Mr. Gill, a puUlican, in Gun-street, Spitalfields, stated
that between seven and eight o'clock on the preceding
evening the prisoner called at his house and gave direc-
tions for the same quantity of spirits as in the second
case to be instantly sent to the residence of one of his
customers, named Good, in Church-street, Bethnal-
green. having, however, been previously informed that
numerous robberies had been practised on publicans in
the neighbourhood by means of-fictitious orders, witness
determined to accompany his messenger, and, on reach-
ing Mr. Good's house, left the spirits with the servant,
who was not aware of any such order, but received the
spirits, her master being absent. Witness then returned
home, but, soon after his arrival, the prisoner (who had
evidently missed them on the road) called again and de-
manded to know why the order bad not been executed.
The character of the transaction being now quite mani-
fest, a policeman was sent fur and the prisoner was given
into custody.
Police-constable,ll 46, produced a hamper containing
half a dozen of wine and two stone bottles, which he
found at the prisoner's lodging; and two of the prosecu-
tors identified the bottles as having held the spirits ob-
tained from them by the prisoner.
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The prisoner, who appeared overpowered with shame
and grief, and buried his face in his hands in the front
of the dock, on being called upon for his defence, de•

clined saying anything.. Two of his daughters were
present in a state of pitiable affliction ; and it being evi-
dent that they had been suffering from extreme want
and privation, the magistrate ordered them some tempo-
rary relief from the poor-box, which they gratefully
accepted.
Sergeant Coleman requested that the prisoner might
be remanded, as he was satistied he should be able to
establish many more charges of a similar description
against him.

-Mr. Broughton at once acceded to the application, and
the prisoner was accordingly remanded.

CLERICEIV WELL.
A STURDY BEG9AR.—An Irishwoman, well known
as a beggar, was charged with the following gross mis-
conduct:—

She met a gentleman named Kelleck at the corner
of Red Lion-street yesterday evening, told him she
was a widow with a large family, and that she was
starving. Ile refused to give her anything, upon which
she said, " I'll stick to you like brick; I'll not leave you
till you give me something." The gentleman again re-
peated his determination; upon which she launched out
into a volley of abuse, coiled him a - Sassenach, and
dogged him all the way through Lamb's Uonduit•s.reet,
and, fearing that her abuse would be understood by the
police, gave full vent to her fury in the Irish languaze.
At the corner of Guilford-street Mr. K. gave her into
custody. Although she said she was starving, there was
plenty of money and food found on her person.
Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced her to twenty-one days'
imprisonment.
Mr. Kelleck said he never had given anything to street
beggars, but handed over 10s. for the poor-box.
Mr. GREENWOOD thanked him, and said he thought
his, resolution a very prudent one.

BUEGLARY.—Jamis Horne was charged with burglari-
ously entering the house of Mr. John Cox, No. 9, Gib-
son-square, and stealing therefrom a ltrge quantity of
plate, consisting of silverforks, spoons, goblets, ewers, &c.
The evidence went to show that on Friday night last
the plate was deposited in the locker in the parlour. The
prosecutor and Mrs. Cox returned home between eleven
and twelve o'clock, examined the windows, and found
the shutters secured. On the following (Saturday)
morning the servant, on,entering the parlour, found
that the window had been broken open, and that the
plate was missing. Early on the same morning, police-
constable Miles, 110 N, met the prisoner, carrying a
bundle, in Maiden lane, which he (the prisoner), upon
being interrogated, said was a piece of beef that he was
carrying home. The constable, however, insisting on
knowing the contents of the bag, he threw it down and
attempted to run away, but was arrested. The bag,
which was nearly full, contained the stolen property.
Mrs. Cox and Mary Skelton (her servant) having
identified the plate, the prisoner, who reserved his de-
fence, was fully committed for trial to the Old Bailey.
SUPPOSES INFANTICISE.—Frances Holmes was charged
with concealing the birth of her child.
The prisoner was in the service of Mr. Jay, a solicitor,
residing in Harper-street, Red Lion-square, and her
pregnancy was noticed by some of her fellow serva•.ts.
On the 16th ultimo the body of a full-grown child, much
lacerated, was found in a water closet in Mr. Jay's
house. Mr. Jay at once gave information of the fact to
the police. The prisoner admitted that she had given
birth to the child and placed it there, but alleged that it
was born dead. She has been since the 14th in St.
Giles's workhouse, and during a great portion of the
time was dangerously ill.
Mr. COMBE decided on committing the prisoner
for trial.

SOUTHWARK.
Thomas Walsh, a man advanced in years, was charged
with stealing a pair of candlesticks from the house of
publican.
It appeared- the prisoner had just come out of gaol,
after having suffered six months' imprisonment, and that
he went into the complainant's house an.i took a pair of
brass candlesticks, with which he was in the *et of leav-
ing, when he was taken into custody.
The prisoner's defence was, that he came out of gaol
pennyless ; that having .lost his character no person
would employ him ; the pangs of hunger impelled him
to take the, articles with a view of procuring some food.
being sent to
-He had no-wish to conceal the facts, and would prefer
gaol to remaining at large without the
means of subsistence.—He was committed.
• LAMBETH.
George Jefferson, a highly respectable looking elderly
man, was brotight before Mr. Henry, the sitting magis-
trate, charged with being drunk and disorderly.
Mr. HENRY, the magistrate, asked the defendant what
he had to say to the charge ?—Why, said the veteran, it
is all owing to the lumbago, and seeing the old year out
and the new one in.
The MAGISTRATE—Yes; but that is no excuse.
The prisoner pleaded hard for forgiveness, for he would
shortly have the honour of making a declaration before
his worship for half-pay. He had served his king and
country faithfully for these last forty years. He had
honourable scars, besides a severe wound in his head.
He had fought bravely his- country's battles, and had
even rescued his commanding officer from great peril,
"when bullets around him flew ;" but the "lumbago,"
and the parting glass with the old year had overcome
his reason.

Upon the understanding that the prisoner would turn
over a new leaf with the new year, the magistrate said,
in consideration of his services, he was disposed to let
him off,

The prisoner promised amendment, and thanking the
magistrate for his kindness, was discharged.
GROSS CRUELTY 07 A FATHER TOWARDS HIS CHILD.
—Robert Pratt was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry,
on a charge of grossly ill-treating his son, Richard Pratt,
a child of five years and a half old.
The first witness called was Eliza Kingate, who de-
posed that she resided next door to the prisoner, in
Hooper-street, Westminster-road, and that the first time
she had observed the child was about eight weeks ago,
when he was crying bitterly at his father's door. The
house was occupied by the prisoner, his wife, and
brother, and •the child was frequently left alone, and
shut up from morning until a late hour of the night,
which was the time its parents were in the habit of re-
turning home, and frequently complained to her of
being cold and hungry. About four weeks ago she
(witness) took the poor little fellow into her house, and
gave him some food, and while at her house the pri-
soner came hOme, and called oat for him. So great was
the horror of the child at hearing the voice of his father,
that the poor fellow rolled down the whole of the stairs.
•On that occasion she heard the prisoner ill-use the
child, and make use of horrible expressions, and say he
would do for him, while the child cried out for mercy,
and said he would not go out again ; so that from this
she inferred that the cause of his ill-usage was that of
his Child's coming to her house. On Tuesday morning,
about half-past two o'clock, she was awoke by the
violent screams of the child, and distinctly heard him cry
out to his father for mercy, while the tatter was evi
dently severely ill-using him. She knocked at the
wainscot, and also threw up her window, and upon her
doing so the prisoner ceased. So frequent and severe
were the injuries inflicted upon the poor child, that the
witness went on the same morning to the police station-
house to request the interference of the police, and was
told that this must be done by the parish officers. Be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock she saw the child with its
head through a broken pane of glass in the bed-room
window, and he then complained of being fastened in
and very cold and hungry. Some of the neighbours had
resolved upon taking him out of the room. A young
man, named Cronin, succeeded in doing so, but he WAS
found to be in so shocking a state that they put him into
the room again until the police or parish officers arrived.
In a few moments after the prisoner came home and
went up stairs, leaving the street-door ajar after him.
Witness went to the door to listen to what took place,
and distinctly heard the prisoner say, " Up with you, up
with you," and immediately after the violent screams of
the child. She knocked at the door, and upon the pri-
soner making his appearance she asked him what he was
doing to the child? He replied that it was no business
of hers, and began te abuse her, and soon after left the
house.

In reply to the Magistrate's question, the witness said
she had never heard the child's mother ill. use him. On
the contrary, heard her once beg of the prisoner to desist
from ill-using the child. Witness, however, thought she
could have very little of the feelings of a mother about
her to allow her unfortunate offspring to be treated in so
cruel a manner.

Four other witnesses corroborated the evidence of the
last witness in every particular. One of them, a trades-
man who lives opposite the prisoner, added that one day
he heard a violent screaming issue from Pratt's house, and
on hurrying across, and looking through the window, he
saw the child hanging from the top bannister by a rope,
with a noose round his neck, and his feet about six
inches from the ground. He instantly forced open the
window sufficiently to put in a lad who was in his em-
ployment, and who cut the child down. The witness
added, that he did not impute to the prisoner or the
others in the house the dreadful crime of attempting to
hang the little fellow, but his impression was that he had
been tied to the top bannister, and by endeavouring to
relieve himself had got into the position in which he had
before described, and had he not been observed so soon,
his death in a few moments must have been the conse-
quence._

Mr. HENRY observed that the witness had put a very
charitable.construction upon the act.
The prisoner in reply to the charge, declared that the
greater part of what the witnesses had stated was false,
and wished to have the child examined.
Mr. HENRY observed that the witnesses had given
their evidence in such a way as must convince every
person of their truthfulness. They could have no motive
rot; coming forward as they did, except one, namely, that
of humanity ; and their conduct reflected so much credit
upon them, that he would omits them fire shillings each,
for their loss of time in attending.
The prisoner again reiluested that the child should be
examined, upoh which Mi. Henry remarked that he had
examined the poor child, who was really in a shocking
state, and what he said fully confirmed the evidence of
the witnesses.

•
Mr. HICNRY, addressing Dann, one of the beadles of
Lambeth, said the case was one which should be prose-
cuted by the perish, and he should therefore request
that the vestry-clerk should. be informed of the pa. ti-
culars, with a view of
prosecuting the prisoner at the
session. To afford the necessary time for this, he should
remand the prisoner until Monday next.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded.

THAMES POLICE.
WORKING AN ILLICIT STILL.—Two young men,
brothers, named
Edward and William Smith, were
charged with working an illicit still, in Frederick-
place,
Bedford-street, Stepney.
Colley Atkinson Davis, an officer of Excise, stated
that from information which he received, he watched the
house, No. 11, Frederick-place, about nine o'clock last
night, and saw the two prisoners go into it. He waited
awhile, and having stationed a constable and another
Excise officer, named Pearse, to watch in the front, he
succeeded in effecting an entrance at the back door. On
searching the place, h© found a copperistill in_ the