The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-08 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

MAN SION-HO USE.

A young man, named Richard Mahony, one of the
cutters to Mr. Benjamin Prew, an extensive tailor in
Aldgate, was charged with having robbed his master
of coats, trowsers, waistcoats, &c. &c.
Mr. Prew said, that having had reason to suspect
that the prisoner was robbing him, he searched
him, and in his coat, which he had left above
stairs, found in a secret pocket, which opened in the
back in the inside, all the cloth and trimming neces-
sary for completing a coat. The secret pocket was
so constructed round the coat that a large peice of
cloth could be concealed in it without at all showing
bulk or interfering with the shape ; and the prisoner
having at all times cloth at his command, to the va-
lue of upwards of 1,000/.; might have committed
most destructive plunder. Witness believing that he
should find more of his property in the prisoner's
lodgings, caused them to be searched,and,accordingly,
a ready-made coat, and other articles of dress, were
found in them. A cutter, into whose place the pri-
soner had been chosen, was tried and convicted at the
Central Criminal Court for a similar offence, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment for twelve, months with hard
labour.

Mr. Prew here exhibited the coat-pocket to the
Lord Mayor, who declared that it was most ingeni-
ously contrived for the concealment of property.
The LORD MAYOR—Pray what do you give this
man per week ? Mr. Prew—l give him 30s. a week
and his keep.
The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to say
anything to this terrible accusation ? Prisoner—l
cannot deny the gailt of my conduct, but it was only
within a day or two that I had commenced the plunder.
The LORD MAYOR—Although you have such ex-
cellent wages, where other tradesmen are starving with
large families, ye':. you plunder in the most outrageous
manner, and you deliberately make a pocket into
which you can stow away an immense quantity of
stolen goods.
The prisoner declared that his coat was merely
ripped in the back by accident.
The LORD MAYOR—And I suppose the cloth and
trimmings of the coat fell accidentally into it.—(A.
laugh.) You must make a better excuse to the jury
before whom I shall send you.
The prisoner was then committed for trial, and the
LORD MAYOR desired the prosecutor to exhibit the
coat in which the plunder had been secreted to the
Court, and no doubt the delinquent would be more
severely punished'than his predecessor had been.
A poor destitute creature named Emma Briggs was
charged with having annoyed a Mr. Samuel Knotley.
The circumstances excited no small degree of in-
terest.

Mr. Knotley said that the defendant abused him,
and prevented him from attending to his business.
The LORD MAYOR said it was probable the woman
had some motive for such conduct, and asked whether
there had been any intimacy between her and the
complainant in her more prosperous days ?
Mr. Knotley said that, some years ago he knew her
very well ; but she was now an infamous woman, and
a complete outcast.
The LORD MAYOR—Perhaps you have made her
the poor creature she appears to be, Mr. Knotley ?
The defendant—My Lord, he is married to my
sister ; and all I wanted of him was that he would,
for God's sake, let me have a few shillings to take me
down to Canterbury workhouse, where, on accpunt of
my father's respectability, and my own claim upon the
parish, the authorities will willingly receive me.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, Mr. Knotley, you
might, I think, have accommodated so near a relation
going on such an errand with a trifle.
Mr. Knotley—lt is doubtful whether she is my
wife's sister.

The defendant—Doubtful! Oh, good God, how
can you speak such words ? You well know my re-
lationship to your wife.
The LORD MAYOR—I suppose her mother knew
whether they were sisters or not ? Mr. Knotley—
My wife's mother was so exceedingly ill upon the
birth of my wife's sister, that the new-born child was
at once handed over to a wet nurse, who, it is sus-
pected, changed her for this person, and this woman
is so depraved that we believe there is every reason for
persevering in that opinion.
The defendant declared that there was not the least
foundation for such a cruel statement. Her mother
had left her the sum of 2801., all she died worth in the
world, and Mr. Knotley, who never denied the near-
ness of the relationship when she had the money, had
induced her to lend it to him in order to enable him
to set up a Mexican chocolate manufactory. In that
speculation he failed, and then he tried to bring her
in as a partner, and her father destroyed himself in
consequence the very bankruptcy by which she lost
all her property. That was all the depravity of which
she had been guilty.
Mr. Knotley—She was my partner, my Lord, and
of course was obliged to incur the same responsibility
which I incurred myself. As for her father he was as
infamous as herself.

The LORD MAYOR—Why do you call the pri-
soner infamous—she seems to owe a great portion of
her calamities to you ? Mr. Knotley—She was se-
duced by a Scotch clergyman, and she is a most in-
famous person, Irepeat, and she has ruined my family.
The LORD MAYOR—You got hold of her money,
did you not ? Mr. Knotley—She embarked in the
business with me, and of course the money she
brought into it was lost. But all this has nothing
to do with my complaint against her.
The LORD MAYOR—It is most unmanly in you to
speak in such a manner of the unhappy woman. It
is evident that while she had the means of benefiting
you she was neither accused by you of being infa-
mous, or of being a changed child, but now that she
is pennyless, you malign her. You had better send
her to Canterbury, where she will, it seems, be re-
cognised.
The defendant—My Lord, there are many there
who knew my father's respectability, and I have no
doubt of obtaining an asylum there.
Mr. Knotley—l shall not give her anything to
take her to Canterbury.
The LORD MAYOR—Then I shall. Defendant,
you must not go to this gentleman any more. I shall
take care of you, and send you off comfortably to the
place you are desirous of going to.
An immense crowd of persons attended to witness
the final examination of Thacker, the tailor, of Cle-
ment's-lane, and Feltham, and Sutton, his journeymen,
and Mrs. Sutton, the wife of Sutton, who were
charged on Monday with having taken away goods
upon which a seizure had been made upon a wr-rant
of distress for rent.

It will be recollected that a broker had put in his

man with a warrant of distress, and that evidence
was brought forward to show that Billing, the person
put in possession, had been induced by two of the pri-
soners to leave the premises and the goods, and to go
and enjoy a " slap up" song at a public-house called
the Grapes, in Compton-street, and that in the interim
another of the prisoners went to the house in Cle-
ment's-lane, and removed the cloth and other property
to a house in Clerkenwell.

Mrs. Neill, of No. 25, Margaret-street, Wilming-
ton-square, stated that she lodged in the front par-
-I..ur on the ground floor, and that when she was in
bed on Saturday night a knock came to the door, and
upon looking out at the windows she saw Mrs. Sutton,
who said she had some things belonging to Mr.
Thacker ; that she let her and Feltham, who was in
her company, into the house ; and that the latter de-
posited the pieces of cloth and other property in her
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been used. It was plain, too, that if an offence had
been committed by the removal of the goods, Mr.
Thacker had nothing to answer for in that respect, for
nobody had seen him in the transaction at all. Be-
sides if he had authorised Feltham to take away the
property, it amounted to nothing but the impossibility
that a man could rob himself.
The LORD MAYOR said it was quite undeniable,
from the evidence of Mrs. Neill, that P.lrs. Sutton and
Feltham were concerned in robbing the house of which
the poor foolish fellow Billing had been put in posses-
sion ; that Sutton had enticed Billing away, and that
Thacker was privy to the whole proceeding. If the
business had not been detec:ed and properly followed
up by Inspector Walton, Mr. Thacker would, no
doubt, not only have appropriated the goods, but would
have come down upon the broker for the 801., which
i.e said the goods were worth, although they were not
worth half the money.
Mr. Justins then proceeded to show that Billing
was wholly negligent of his duty, and he also disputed
the validity of the warrant.
It appeared, from the statement made by a woman
of the town, that she and Billing, and Sutton and
Feltham, had, on the Thursday night before the re-
moval of the goods, sat up drinking beer, and playing
" All Fours," on Mr. Thacker's premises ; and in
the course of the examination Mr. Justins very se-
verely shook the testimony of the broker's man, whose
weakness it was very easy to see, but of whose in-
tegrity no question seemed to be entertained by any-
body.
The LORD MAYOR—I hold Thacker to bail in the
sum of 501., Sutton and: Mrs. Sutton in the sum
of 1001. each, and Feltham in the sum of 2001., to
answer any charge which may be brought against
them upon the subject.
The defendants were then removed.

John Garner, described as a porter, aged nineteen
years, but well known to the police as a thief, was
yesterday brought before Mr. Twyford, charged with
indecently assaulting Mr. Benjamin Colls, a draper,
residing at No. 2, Gray's Inn-lane, robbing him of
threepence in the public-street, and attempting to
extort money from him under the following circum-
stances :
The prosecutor stated that shortly after three o'clock
in the afternoon of Tuesday last he was passing along
the Strand, and happened to stop at the window of a
print shop for a minute or two, between Southampton-
street and Exeter-street, when the prisoner came up
and stood by him. He then felt the prisoner press
against him, which he thought, as there were other
persons looking at the prints, was purely accidental,
and he took no notice of the circumstance. In a short

time the prisoner placed his hand, in an indecent man-
ner, upon witness's person, which caused him to leave
the spot, and as he was proceeding up Southampton-
street prisoner followed him, and asked for a half-pint of
beer or a few halfpence to procure it, to which witness
at first made no reply ; but on the dem and being repeated
frequently witness crossed the street to avoid him.
The prisoner still followed, frequently urging witness
to give him beer, and seeing he, was not likely to de-
sist without using determined language, witness said,
"I shall give you nothing, you, may go about your
business.' The prisoner then said, "I'll not leave
you, unless you give me a glass of ale ;" and thinking
the fellow would go away after receiving a trifle,
witness gave him a_penny-piece and two halfpence to
get rid of him. The moment the prisoner got the
money, he held it in his open hand, and said,
" There, now, I shall give this to the first policeman
I meet with, unless you give me some more." Wit-
ness said.he had no more. "Then," said the prisoner,
"what have you more? Unless you give me more,
I shall hand you over to the policeman." Witness
then said, " I have only a few halfpence more," which
he handed to him, thinking the prisoner would go
away. Witness did so through fear, recollecting
the conduct of the prisoner at the shop window ;
upon which the prisoner again said, " If you give me
ac rown, I shall go away ; but if not, I shall hand
you over to the police." 'Witness declared he had 'no
more, and requested the prisoner would leave him ;
but the prisoner, in a menacing manner, replied,
"You have something you can make money of; you
have got a watch." Witness said, yes he had, and
then the prisoner insisted he should pledge it for a
crown, to give him, which upon his refusing to com-
ply with, said, " I shall not wait a minute longer, but
call out police directly, and give you in charge, unless
you give me a crown." Witness by this time ecame
very much terrified, and said, " Then where is a
pawnbroker's shop." " Oh," replied the prisoner, " I
shall take you to one," at the same time leading him
through several courts into Long-acre, and on the way
he said, "I must have more than a crown." " Then,
how much do want ?" said witness ; to which the
prisoner replied, " Well, you must give me 21." On
arriving at a pawnbroker's shop, the prisoner said he
would wait outside while witness went in to pledge his
watch, and on relating the circumstance to Mr. Priest,
the pawnbroker, he procured the assistance of a friend,
with whom-he went out, and took the prisoner into
custody. On being brought into the sbop, and told
he was about to be charged with attempting to extort
money from the prosecutor, he declared he had never
seen the gentleman before. Previous to entering the
pawnbroker's, the prisoner told witness that from his
appearance his character was worth more than 21.,
and a constable being sent for the prisoner was con-
veyed to the station-house.
Mr. Priest said that about four o'clock in the after-
' noon the prosecutor entered his shop, and said he
wished to have a private conversation with him. He
was very much excited, and, after detailing the cir-
cumstances just spoken of, he gave a description of the
prisoner, who was waiting outside. Witness instantly
went out, and, having asked the prisoner if he was
Waiting for any person, he replied he was not. The
prosecutor was then called out, and, pointing to the
prisoner, he said, " That's the man." The prisoner
was then brought in, and being told the nature of the
charge, said he never saw the prosecutor before.:
The constable who received the charge, on search-
ing the prisoner, found the sum of 3d. and two dupli-
cates upon him.
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In answer to the charge, the prisoner declared he
never saw the prosecutor before, and he was totally
innocent.
Mr. TWYFORD ordered him to be fully committed

to Newgate for trial.
TH-STREET.
LAMBSApplications were made by two persons to Mr.
Henry for his advice and assistance under the follow-
ing and somewhat novel circumstances :
The applicants stated that on Monday night last
they went with three friends to the Pavilion Theatre
in the Whitechapel-road, and paid for seats in the
boxes, for the purpose of witnessing the performances,
but as the curtain was about to be raised a broker en-
tered the house with an execution for arrears of rent,
as they (the applicants) understood, and seized upon
all the properties, so that the performances could not
be proceeded with, and they (the applicants) as well
as the whole of the audence were obliged to leave the
theatre without having their money restored to them.
itheThheeyr he
werei anxious to ascertain from his Worship
vcould assist them in getting back their
admission money, or inform them how they could
best recover it.
Afr. HENRY told them he had no jurisdiction what-
ever in the case, and could not therefore assist the
applicants.
In a short time after an application was made on
behalf of an omnibus proprietor, who had eight horses
in the theatre at the time the execution was levied,
and the animals were taken possession of by the
broker with the other property, though the proprie-
tom had merely hired them by the night to be used in
the performance of the piece of Mazeppa.
Mr. HENRY, as in the former application, told the
parties he had no power to interfere in the matter, as
the broker was justified in law in seizing such property.

MONEY MARKET and Gil Nk,WS

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
SUN.—The Stock market closed rather heavily this
afternoon, but principally as regards the Consolidated
Three per Cents. for the opening, the bargains being
made at 93i to 94. Exchequer Bills did not rally
from 465. to 48s. premium ; East India Bonds were
455. premium; Bank Stock touched 1721 to 173 ; Re-
duced Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 to 101, and
Long Annuities at 12i to 12 9-16.
The Foreign Market exhibited some increase of ac-
tiviti. Active Spanish Bonds were 18 to 181, and
the three per Cents. 23 to 231. The Mexican Secu-
rities did not rule so steady, being depressed to 301
and 30i for the Five per Cents., and to 8i for the De-
ferred. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were marked
38 ; Chilian improved to 90; Colombian to 211 ; and
Brazilian rose to 69i and 70. The Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. fluctuated from 521 to 53, and the
Five per Cents. were firm at 101 f.
The market for Railway Shares, in which a mode-
rate business is doing, was very firm again to-day,
notwithstanding the heaviness of our own stocks. All
the lines dealt in early in the day maintained their
price, while transfers were effected also in the follow-
ing :—Eastern Counties, New, were 28 ; Birmingham,
101 ; ditto Quarters, 25 ; Manchester and Leeds,
New, 1; and South Western, 19i premium. Edin-
burgh and- Glasgow were 2, and Blackwall 11 dis.
There was a small public sale of teas this afternoon,
which went off heavily, the lots that found buyers
being taken at lower rates. Common Congou is Is. sd.
per lb.

REFORM DEMONSTRATION TO JOAN URE, ESQ., or
CEoY.—The citizens of Glasgow, and the Liberal
majority of the Town Council, favourable to the prin-
ciples of reform, free trade, and equitable representa-
tion, having resolved to give the venerable Mr. Ure
of Cry a public dinner, on the occasion of his re-
tiring from the City Council, at the age of 83 years,
the occasion -was celebrated in the Town -hall on
Thursday
night at five o'clock, with more than wonted
asirit and hilarit Nearly 200 of our most respect-
bled citizens, including the Liberal Bailies and a
great proportion of the Reform majority of the Coun-
cil, sat down
to dinner, and the speeches and general
proceedings were such as reflected the highest credit
on the leading Reformers and the principles they
profess. Bailie Hastie occupied the chair, and was
supported right and left by Messrs. Wallace, of Kelly,
M•r-) Councillors Small, Lumsden, Cross, and the
.Rev. Mr. Harvey, of Calton, along with Mr. Ure, the
guest of the evening. The croupiers were Bailie
Anderson and Councillor John Hamilton, supported
by Councillors Brodie, Whitehead, Orr, Stewart, Tur-
ner, Bell, and others of our reform councilors.—Glas-
gow Argus.
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Woomvicu, Dec. 6. _The Sultana, Arab ship-of-
war, whose NalGador, or Captain, recently rendered
himself so conspicuous at the Guildhall, London, by
appearing there with the view of gutting married to an
Englishwoman, sailed on Saturday from Woolwich,
and was towed down the river by a hired steamer.
The Ambassador of the Imam of Muscat interfered,
and by his influence prevented the captain from mar-
rying, and he has now left the country without being
permitted to take any female with him. It was for-
tunate the vessel sailed before frost or snow set in, as
had such been the case the crew would have been
under the necessity of wintering here, owing to their
total incapacity to work during the severe weather to
which our northern climate is subject.
GUNPOWDER TEA.—On the occasion of the 30th
depot firing a
feu de joie in commemoration of the
success of our arms in China, a gentleman accosted
another in the street to inquire the object of the firing.
" Dont you know," he replied, " that our old friend,
Sir Hugh Gough, has compelled the Chinese to give
-us their Congou and Bohea teas in exchange for our
gunpowder ? and the 30th depot is just discharging
their samples."--Galway Vindicator.

GOVERNMENT AND THE SCOT

TISH POOR-LAW.

(From the Glasgow Courier.)

The following correspondence is of importance, as
it possesses more than a local interest :

" COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. WALLACE TO SIR

R. PEEL, DART., DATED KELLY, NOV 17, 1842.
" Mr. 'Wallace presents his compliments to Sir
Robert Peel, and begs to request his early and par-
ticular attention to a memorial sent herewith from
the unemployed in the Own of Greenock to Sir R.
Peel ; also a letter from Provost Baine, the Chief
Magistrate of Greenock, to Mr. 'Wallace, on the
matters set forth in the memorial; and by the same
post by which these will be sent, Mr. Wallace sends
a copy of the Greenock Advertiser, in which Sir
Robert Peel will find an account of the pr6ceedings
which took place at a public meeting of this county
on the 10th of this month ' • in which Sir Robert Peel
will see the resolutions which were come to respect-
ing an assessment for the relief of the unemployed,
and also for an application to the Executive Govern-
ment for a grant of public money, and an issue of
clothing for them and their families.
" Mr. 'Wallace would farther request Sir Robert
Peel's special attention to the application of the un-
employed in Greenock for work instead of money, by
causing to be built and furnished, in the excellent
dockyard and foundries which abound in that town,
steam-ships with steam-engines for the navy or for
any other Government purpose. Mr. Wallace takes
leave to say that, were this suggestion to be gone into,
it would be the immediate happy means of getting all
the trades, and many of the unemployed labourers, in
the town of Greenock to work ; and, therefore, he most
earnestly implores Sir Robert Peel to submit this
proposal to her Majesty's Ministers, as one means, if
not the only means, of giving employment, which
eventually would not be attended with any perma-
nent outlay or loss to the country.
" Mr. 'Wallace takes this opportunity of thanking
Sir IL Peel for the reply he made so promptly to a
late communication, and begs earnestly an answer to
this and the enclosed memorial, at his earliest con-
venience."

The following letter from Sir Robert Peel, in reply
to a Memorial from the Unemployed of Greenock,
soliciting aid from Government, .has been received
by Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, N.P. :

3 COPY OF A LETTER FROM SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART

TO MR. WALLACE, DATED DRAYTON MANOR, FAZE

LEY, Nov. 22.

" I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 17th of November, transmitting to me
a letter from Provost Baine, the Chief Magistrate of
Greenock, and a Memorial addressed to me by the
unemployed in the town of Greenock.
" As this memorial has been forwarded by you, I
request that you will have the goodness to inforniithe
memorialists that it has been duly received by me.
" That the state of the law in Scotland in respect to

the relief of the destitute has attracted the serious at-
tention of her Majesty's Government, and that mea-
sures are now in progress for instituting a full and
comprehensive inquiry into that important subject, with
a view to the amendment of the existing law.
" That I deeply regret to hear of the distress and
privations under which the memorialists and their
families are suffering ; but that I have not authority,
and do not consider that it would be consistent with
my duty, to adsiance money from the public funds for
the relief of that distress.

" That I feel a strong confidence that there is
an alternative, in reference to the state of distress,
other than that which the memorialists contemplate ;
namely, that the sympathy and kind feelings of those
who are possessed of property will, by voluntary con-
tributions, supply any defect which there may be in
the existing law in respect to the assessment of pro-
perty, and will provide relief in cases wherein it may
be absolutely necessary to afford it.
" This confidence, which I should feel on general
grounds, from my respect for the character of the peo-
ple of Scotland, is strengthened by the resolutions of a
public meeting to which you call my attention, in re-
ference to a voluntary assessment of property for the
relief of the destitute.
" That I will transmit to the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty that part of the memorial which
prays for the transfer to the port of Greenock of a
portion of the work which may be required for the
public service, in the building and equipping of steam-
vessels, or any other description of shipping.
"This is a question which must be in a great mea-
sure decided by, considerations of public economy, and
of the comparative cost to the public of executing the
works referred to at Greenock, or other places.
" I have the honour to be, &c.,

" ROBERT PEEL."

Major Uniacke, of the Royal Marines, who was
killed at Ching-Kiang-foo, whilst gallantly leading
the Marines of the Cornwallis against the walls of
the city, formerly resided at Stonehouse. Major
Uniacke was a gallant and distinguished officer. He
was in the general action with the combined fleets of
France and Spain, July 23d, 1805. The Spanish
ship of the line, El Firme, having struck, he boarded
and took possession of her with forty Marines, having
charge of several hundred prisoners. He was pre-
sent at the siege of Cadiz, and the expedition to Ma-
laga, and was in the Sea Horse when she captured a
French frigate. He was at the capture of Alex-
andria, and in all the affairs on the Potomac, as well
as at Baltimore and New Orleans, where he was se-
verely wounded in the knee-joint ; at the capture of
the flotilla with Captain Lockyer, in the barge of the
Sea Horse, when every individual on board was killed
or wounded. He was rewarded by a sword from the
Patriotic Fund. He had been repeatedly engaged in
the Chinese expedition, and led his men to the walls
with undaunted courage. He has left an amiable and
accomplished widow, and a young and talented
daughter, to lament their loss.— Devonport Telegraph.
GHUZNEE PRIZE IDOLS.—Some of the papers men-
tion the bringing away the celebrated gates of Ghuznee
by General Nott, as if it were the General's own idea
carried into effect; but we are informed that it was one
of Lord Ellenborough's instructions to him to bring
them back to India, whence, as many of our readers
know, they were taken upwards of eight hundred years
since, by Mahmood the First, on his return from his
twelfth and last invasion of the Hindoo land. All our
home " Overland " readers may not be aware that
they were taken from the famous Brahmin temple of
Sumnat, in Guzerat, of which Mahmood having broken
up a huge Idol, notwithstanding that its priests offered
him several crores of rupees (or millions sterling) to
forego his iconoclastic design, discovered in its belly
such store of diamonds, pearls, rubies, and other pre-
cious stones, that the sum offered as ransom was a
mere nothing in the comparison—a regular Belly-God
that! What the particular purpose of the Governor-
General is, in having the gates brought back, we do
not yet well know, but it is probably to send them to
England as curiosities and mementos, for he cannot
design to bestow them on any Hindoo temple of the
present day (he would raise a loud religious outcry if
he did), but it may be intended as a political mark of our
late triumph in Central Asia, and one which will exalt
the British name in Hindoo estimation, for depriving
the Mussulmans of such a trophy of their conquest
over the followers of Brahma. Mahmood's mace also,
with which he struck off the Idol's nose, is being
brought away from its place in the mosque at Ghuznee
at which the gates were fixed. Englishman, Oct. 13.
QUALIFICATIONS OF A MISSIONARY TO THE SOUTH
SEA ISLANDERS.—The object of missionary exertion
in Polynesia is unquestionably important, and no
means, separated from religion, seem adequate to the
accomplishment of it. Simple instruction in letters
and the arts will not suffice. The mind must be
roused and alarmed by revelations which respect the
eternal state of man; the savage must be made to
feel that the eye of heaven is upon him; and that
there is a powerful hand ever stretched out to punish
or to protect. To effect these ends, the learned and
refined are not the best qualified, for there is a delicacy
of feeling induced by literary habits, which shrinks
from the familiar description and bold remonstrances
indispensable to the success of the missionary. An
illiterate artisan, if animated with zeal, and not igno-
rant of the first truths of his religion, is, for breaking
up the ground of pagan superstition, an instrument
better suited than the brightest ornament of a univer-
sity, or the most eloquent expounder of doctrine in
the city pulpit. Such men as went forth in the Duff
act as pioneers; they prepare the way for the advance
of a more regular force ; they cut out a path in the
wild thicket or morass by which their successors may
proceed to complete the work begun with so much
labour; they sow the seed, with an unskilful hand
perhaps, and on ground little cultivated, but whence,
at no distant day, a crop will spring to enrich and
beautify the whole land. The missionary in due time
is followed by the churchman, who systematizes the
elements which the other has created. Like a wise
master-builder, the latter polishes the materials, al-
ready in some degree prepared to his hand, and erects
with them an orderly edifice, complete in all its parts,
and having for its foundation the lively stones of an
apostolical priesthood, qualified to offer the oblation of
a spiritual sacrifice. We must look to the next ge-
neration for the full effects of the exertions made in
the present. The warmest advocates of South Sea
missions are most ready to acknowledge that the work
is still imperfect ; that much evil is yet to be cor-
rected, and all that is good still needs improvement.
But it must not thence be denied, that a great benefit
has been conferred, in which the Christian and phi-
lanthropist may rejoice. The leaven of the gospel,
indeed, has not hitherto leavened the whole population,
so that many are still found who profess not to believe
in it, and amongst those who do, numbers are
Christians only in name, and by their conduct fre-
quently dishonour their calling. Who that is at all
acquainted with the progress of our holy faith in past
' ages, could expect it to be otherwise ? The directors
of missions are not such enthusiasts as to look for
miracles.—Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. xxxill.
Polynesia.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
An inquiry took place before Mr. W. Carter, the
Coroner for East Surrey, in the last four days, at a
place called the Badger's-hole, in the parish of
Addington, on the body of a young woman named
Charlotte Steer, the wife of a labouring man, named
Robert Steer, at whose cottage the inquest was held,
her death, it was alleged, having taken place from vio-
lence. The inquest was held at the instance ofthe Magis-
trates of the district, who thought it right, from the
rumours that were abroad upon the subject, that a
public inquiry should take place. Inspector Collier
of the P division, was present to watch the proceed-
ings, which it will be seen from the evidence exhibited
the most disgusting depravity. Clara Steer deposed
that she was the deceased's daughter, and that the
cottage was occupied by her father and her grand-
mother. Her mother her been ill for several weeks,
and on the day she died she had got up for a short
time and then went to bed again. Her grandmother
was drunk, and was swearing and making a noise,
and the deceased told her to be quiet, and then
laid down as if to go to sleep. In the morning her
mother appeared very ill, and her grandmother took
some food in a cup and put it into her. mother's
mouth with a teaspoon, but she was unable to
swallow, and it came out of her mouth again. Upon
this the grandmother said it was only her sulky
temper, and she lifted her up and shook her, and then
forced some of the food down her throat with the
spoon. After this the deceased moaned a good deal,
and the next morning whin she got up she found
that her mother was dead. A neighbour of the de-
ceased gave similar testimony, and said that she saw
the grandmother forcing some food down the de-
ceased's throat while she appeared in a dying state,
remarking at the same time that if she did not give
her something the people would say she had starved
her. Robert Steer, the husband of the deceased, said
that on the day in question he went out to work, and
did not return home until near twelve o'clock at
night, and he immediately went to his wife, and found
her in bed, very ill, and the grandmother was lying
by her side, very drunk. He asked the deceased
how she was, and she shook her head, but
made no answer. The next morning he discovered
that his wife had died in the night. The surgeon
who examined the deceased said that he had opened
her throat, but he did not discover any appearance of
violence or injury having been inflicted upon it, and
upon opening the head he found the brain to be in
such a diseased state as to account satisfactorily for
her death. He did not discover any marks of vio-
lence upon her person, and had no reason to believe
that she came by her death from any other than na-
tural causes. The Jury accordingly, after a strict
inquiry, returned a verdict to that effect.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne held an inquest in
the Queen's Prison upon view of the body of Edward
Esmy Hall, aged 46, one of the inmates. From the
evidence it appeared that the deceased had been ad-
mitted to the prison in March, 1841, and had not
since made any effort to pass the Insolvent Court.
He had been coachman to a gentleman, whose daughter
he married, and since his imprisonment had been sup-
ported wholly by her from an annuity of above 3001.,
which was allowed her. Deceased drank a great deal,
and, having been suffering from some chronic disease,
he was attacked on Thursday last with delirium tre-
mens, which merged into fever, and he died on
Monday. The Jury, after briefly consulting, returned
a verdict of " Natural death.'
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Baker held an inquest at
The Town of Ramsgate, High-street, Wapping, on
the body of Joseph Butler, aged 34, a tide-waiter at
the London Docks. The deceased, on Wednesday
night, about nine o'clock,. while leaving a vessel at
the quay in the above docks, slipped and fell over-
board. Assistance was immediately upon the spot,
and every means used to find him, but, owing to the
darkness, it was more than half an hour before he
was brought to the surface, when life was extinct.
Verdict—Accidental death.
An inquest was taken the same evening, before the

same Coroner, at the Shakspeare's Head, ghakspeare's-
walk, Shadwell, on the body of John Levy, aged 19.
It was proved in evidence that the deceased, who was
cook of the City of Limerick, Dublin steam-vessel,
went ashore a month ago to see a friend, with whom
he got rather intoxicated. On his return, and while
endeavouring to climb up the side of the Royal Ade-
laide steamer, which lay close to the wharf, he missed
his hold and fell into the river; the tide, which was
running very strong at the time, bore him away, and
the body was not discovered till Sunday last. Ver-
dict—" Accidentally drowned."
SUICIDE.—An adjourned inquest upon the body of
William Blythe was resumed before Mr. Higgs, at
the Blue Posts, Bennet-street, St. James's. The de-
ceased had been porter in the employment of Messrs.
More and Illingworth, surgeons, Arlington-street,
and had been found dead in his bed-room, adjoining
the laboratory, upon Sunday morning last. A phial,
which had contained corrosive sublimate, having been

discovered in the same place, it was thought necessary
to have a post mortem examination made, when the
surgeon's report fully certified that deceased had taken
poison, a considerable quantity, of it, in an undecom-
posed state, having been found iu his stomach. Ver-
dict—" Died by taking poison, he being at the time in
a state of temporary insanity."

TUE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR
NEWCASTLE.—Miss Robinson has fully identified one
of the parties, who has been apprehended. The pri-
soner Bell, ho is a tall man, held the candle while
the blow was inflicted on Miss Robinson by his com-
panion, whose face was partly concealed behind the
bed-curtain. Miss Robinson has no doubt whatever
of Bell being one of the men. She knows him by
his eyes, and by his' mouth, and by his whiskers,
which were not, it seems, so much blackened as the
rest of his face. Miss Robinson was much agitated
on being introduced to the prisoners, who were re-
manded (as we have already stated), and there seems
no doubt but they will be fully committed for trial.
In regard to the pocket-handkerchiefs found on Miss
Robinson's stairhead, there seems every probability of
the police being able to show that they were in the
possession of the prisoners on the Saturday night
preceding the burglary. Miss Robinson states that
the lesser man, supposed to be Riddle, but to whose
identity Miss Robinson cannot speak positively, from
her not having had so complete a view of his race, had
a knife or dagger in one hand, and the iron pinch,
with which the blow was inflicted, in the other; so
that it is quite clear that the parties were prepared to
commit murder, if necessary, to secure their object,
and that Miss Robinson's life was saved entirely
through the fortunate circumstance of the servant-
girl having been aroused. The greatest credit is due
to Mr. Rudd, the Superintendent of the Gateshead
police, for thejudicious manner in which he has con •
ducted the case, which at one time appeared almost
hopeless.
WANT OF ROADS IN CHlNA.—Compared with the
grand system of water-communication, land-carriage
is little regarded ; and Mr. Barrow believes, that in the
whole extent of the empire there is hardly a road that
can he considered better than a footpath. Tae value
of the ground, the scarcity of cattle for waggons, the
almost exclusive use of chairs and litters for the
convenience of travellers, and of coolies or porters for
the transfer of goods, render any greater breadth
unnecessary. They contrive, indeed, to employ in these
narrow tracks a very peculiar species of conveyance.
To loaded wheelbarrows they attach a sail, which,
when the wind is favourable, materially aids their pro-
gress ; and whole fleets of these vehicles may be seen
moving along. Milton even alludes to the plains—
Of Sericana, where Chineses driva
With sails and wind their cany wagons light.
After all, where a road does become actually neces-
sary to connect any of their points of inter-
course, the inhabitants spare neither cost nor la-
bour in making it complete. For example, the avenue
leading from the capital to its port is at once magnifi-
cent and commodious. The surface is perfectly level ;
and the middle part, for the breadth of twenty feet, is
paved with flags of granite. Again, the road over
the mountains of Tche-kiang, though it be narrow, is
covered with fine gravel from the neighbouring hills,
and kept quite smooth. In the lofty barrier of Quang-
tung, as has already been observed, a great part of
the summit of the Mei-ling mountain has been exca-
vated in order to facilitate the passage.—Liverpool
Courier.

IMPORTANT LEGACY.—We copy the following in-
telligence from the Birmingham Journtil:—The Rev.
Dr. -Wiseman, on his return from Rome, was made
the bearer of a handsome crucifix, blessed by the
Pope, and sent as a mark of special regard to John
Hardman, Esq., sen., of Handsworth. This present
was accompanied with a document, of which the fol-
lowing is given as a translation—we have not seen the
original:—" The undersigned, Secretary of the Holy
Council for the propagation of the Christian name,
having, in an audience granted Aug. 28, 1842, laid be-
fore his Holiness Pope Gregory XVI., the numerous
and splendid benefactions with which J. Hardman,
Esq., has enriched the Catholic Church in the central
district of England, the Holy Father has graciously
imparted to him and his relations and connexions, to
the third and fourth degree inclusively, a plenary in-
dulgence at the hour of death, to be gained by de-
voutly invoking the most holy name of Jesus men-
tally, if he cannot orally. To Mr. Hardman also is
imparted a plenary indulgence, as often as he shall
piously and devoutly receive the sacrament ofpenance
and the holy eucharist. his Holiness has also directed
that this formal document of these privileges be-
stowed on Mr. Hardman should be transmitted to
England as a public testimonial of the peculiar good-
will and gratitude of the holy see towards an indivi-
dual of distinguished merit.—J. A. EDESSON. Given
at Rome from the office of the Sacred Congregation
of the Propaganda."
DESTRUCTION OF Fisn.—The slaughter of salmon
fish in the Teviot and its tributaries, has been. and is,
still carried on to a disgraceful extent, hundreds of
fish being taken daily, and that without the smallest
hindrance being offered.—Kelso