The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 9.

SIMMONS 1/. SIMMONS.
Thil was an action on a bill of exchange for the sum of
1,6001. The defendant did not appear at the trial, and a
verdict was given against him in default. An affidavit was
put in by the defendant, on a subsequent day,•Stating that he
had been prevented by unexpected circumstances from appear-
ing ; and in that affidavit a rule was granted calling on the
plaintiff to show cause why a new trial should not be had on
condition that the defendant should pay the expenses of the
first suit. _ _

This rule was now made absolute, on condition that half of
the sum claimed should be paid by defendant into Court.

BAIL COURT, May 2.
The Court was engaged this day in hearing motions in-
volving points of practice, and not possessing any public interest.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COUR':

These Sessions, the seventh of the present Mayoralty, corn-
minted yesterday before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder.
Alderman Sir C. Marshall, Sir James Duke, and the
Sheriffs, &c.
The Grand Jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER. proceeded to deliver his charge to them :
although the calendar contained a numerous list of prisoners,
charged in some instances with offences of a most serious nature,
still on the perusal of the depositions, he did not anticipate that
their deliberations on the great majority of the cases would be
impeded with difticultiesin point of law. He, however, at the
same time, deemed it right to call the attention of the Grand,
Jury to the case of the party charged with the crime of mur-
der, and that of two other parties charged as accessories to the •
same crime after the fact. It would be befitting also to call
the attention of the Grand Jury to another case—that of
shooting with intent to murder, which took place at Wool-
wich, where the son-in-law of the party who received the
injury presented himself at the door of his father-in-law, and
upon being refused admittance, he left the place, returning
shortly afterwards, and then discharging a pistol through the
door, which took effect on the face of his father-in-law, the
bullet lodging in his cheek. That case would be brought
before the Grand Jury on a charge of shooting with intent to
murder. It would appear from the evidence, that at the mo-
ment when the pistol was discharged the prisoner was in a state
of partial intoxication, but he was bound to tell the Grand
Jury that the circumstance of partial intoxication afforded no
answer whatever to the charge of shooting with intent to murder ;
and, in addition to that, if the depositions were correctly taken,
it would appear that, when sober, the pistols were purchased
by the prisoner at a pawnbroker's at Woolwich ; that they
were afterwards seen in his possession, and that at that time he
had made declarations of his intention to do mischief with
them. Knowing that the prisoner had those dangerous
weapons about him, and tearing from his declaration that he
would commit some violence upon him, was the cause of the
father-in-law refusing him admission, whereupon he com-
mitted the crime with which he was charged. He (the
Recorder) was unwilling to go further into the facts, be-
cause the Grand Jury would have to consider them when
the evidence was presented to them ; he might, however,
say this, that after reading the depositions, he thought
they would come to the conclusion that the case should be put
in a further train of inquiry. The other and more. im-
portant case to which he would call their attention was the case
of a charge of murder against an individual, who was alleged to
have committed. -mar& rat Roehampt on. It was a case resting
upon what way termed circumstantial evidence. Now, it was
not to be expected that crimes of great magnitude,
and entailing the most awful consequence on those
who perpettatee them, would be ordinarily committed otherwise
than in secret,. and it was in such cases where no eye was wit-
ness to the transaction, that they were compelled to resort to
the aid of circa, nstantial evidence, and to collect from a variety
of circumstances leading to the same conclusion, where it ap-
peared the fact itself had been committed; it was from such
circumstances. they were to conclude whether they pointed out
the party accused as the perpetrator of the crime which had
been committed. He would in preference to any observations
of his own, refer the Grand Jury to some observations
in a work of Mr. Starkie's on the subject. That Learned
Gentleman said—" It is essential to the well being at
least, if not to the very existence of civil society, that it should
be understood that the secrecy with which crimes are com-
mitted, will not ensure impunity to the offender. At the same
emphatically remarked that in no case, and
upon no
it
principle,can the policy of preventing crime and pro-
tecting society, \tenant any interference which is not founded
o the n
and certain conviction of the truth of the fact,
independently
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of the nature of the evidence, and of all ex-
trinsic considerations whatever. Circumstance is al-
:owed to prevail to the conviction of an offender, not because
it is necessary and politic that it should be resorted to, but be-
cause it is in its own nature capable of producing the highest
degree of mural certaint in its application." Now, to apply
those observations to the case which would probably be laid be-
fore the Grand Jury, they would have to consider whether the
prisoner who was charged with this offence, was last
seen in the company o
to have fallen by his hands; they would have also
to consider where the remains of the party were found.
Whether it was a place under the immediate control and key
of the person charged with the offence ; whether the place in
which the remains were found excluded the supposition of any
other person having committed the offence, or having access to
the place. They would also have to consider whether, in addition
' to the fact of the remains being found in a stable and harness-
room, whether, upon the proof offered, they must necessarily be
inferred to be the remains of a human being, and, if they came
to that conclusion, the next question would lie, what, had beccu,
of the articles of apparel in which the individual was last
clothed, and what al,e) had become of the property belonging
to the deceased. If they found, after the party. was missing,
the identity was attempted to be destroyed by dissection of the
body, and by committing part of it to the flames—if they found
the remains in a room, under the lock and key of the party
charged-- if they found the party charged. exclusively
resorting to the spot where the remainns
which
found—
if they found every articlei the a
tely upon the incise
in-
dividual was last seen alive
dt'
victual being missed and the remains.foun ) in the possession
of
various quarters by him ,
of the prisoner, and dispersed in the property, supposed
they found a general breaking hp of all
to belong to the deceased, by the prisoner, they would have to
of. apparel.
say whether he, and he rslone, was not the party concerned in the
extinction of life. ,He had felt it to be his duty to
make these observatiot s, not for the purpose of prejudicing
the case, but in order tea draw the attention of the. Grand Jury
to those points which it appeared to him were important that
they should consider, in order to form the conclusion to which
they must come, whether or not, upon the evidence, the party
was guilty of the crime with which he was charged. It would
be in evidence that the remains exhibited a healthy appear-
ance ; that they belonged, to a female in a somewhat advanced
'ate of pregnancy. There would be evieleace brought be-
fore them to prove the identity of the female, her absence,
and also to show that if she were now in existence,

she must be entirely without clothes. They would also have
to consider the conduct of the prisoner when the remains were '
first discovered, and to draw their own conclusions from that
conduct. From the whole evidence which had been laid before
him, the Grand Jury would have these facts, that the pa ty
was missing, that part of her remains were foand, and that the
prisoner had been in possession of every article belonging to
the female, immediately after the murder. He would forbear
going more into the facts, they were most voluminous ;
and deserved the consideration of the Grand Jury
in an eminent degree; it did, however, appear to him subject
to the better judgment of the Grand Jury, that there was
ample evidence in the depositions to justify them—indeed to
render it their imperative duty to put the present most solemn
case in a state of further inquiry. There were two other par-
ties charged as accessories after the fact. Now, with regard to
the evidence against the accessories, assuming the proof of the
principal felony established, it was as against them to be
proved that knowing that the murder had been committed they
harboured,comforted, aided, and assisted the party committing the
crime. Against the two persons charged as accessories, there was
not a great deal of evidence ; but there was some that one of the
parties stood in the relation of wife to the party charged with the
murder ; if such a as the case, there were difficulties with respect
to her, because it hail been expressly laid down in works of the
greatest authority, and especially by Lord Hale in his Pleas of the
Crown, that if the husband committed a felony, and the wife knew
it, and received and harboured him, she could not be considered in
the light of an accessory for such receiving ; but the contrary
was the case where the felony was committed by the
wife. But evidence might be shown, in the present
case, that the party charged was not the wife ; and then
she would be subject to no such exemption. But to the other •
party charged these observations did not apply ; and if it ap-
peared that he willingly sheltered the man, and received goods
from him belonging to the deceased, there would be no difficulty
on the part of the Grand Jury in putting his case in a
course of further enquiry. On the whole, he thought that in
both cases it would be better to put them under public trial, by
sending them before the Pettit Jury. The Learned Judge,
I after adverting to some of the other cases, concluded by re-
mitting the Grand Jury to the stiacharge of their duties.
'the Court then proceeded to swear in the Pettit Jury.
The Common Jury having been sworn,
Mary Flem.nzing, aged 30, who stood remanded from the
last session, was indicted for feloniously stealing one shawl, the
property of Thomas Robinson, of Charlton-street, Somers Town,
This was a common case of larceny. The shawl was hanging
at the prosecutor's door, and was snatched from the plaie where
it was hanging, by some one outside, and shortly afterwards
was found in the possession of the prisoner.
From the evidence, it appeared that the shawl was found in
the possession of the prisoner within five minutes after it was
missed from the shop of the prosecutor.
The prisoner said in her defence that a person whom she
did not know had given her the shawl to hold.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character, and
the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, as they thought by
that means the conscience of the prisoner would te touched,
and therefore her present situation would act as a warning to her.
The RECORDER said they had nothing to do with the con-
science of the prisoner in returning their verdict.
The Foreman of the Jury said they had come to the deter-
mination of acquitting the prisoner, as some of the Jurymen
entertained a doubt, and therefore gave the benefit of it to the
prisoner.
The prisoner was consequently discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Owing to Mr. Hall's continued indisposition, Mr. Jardine
sat for that gentleman again yesterday.
EarraieSlVE ROBBERY.— Charles and Henry Wilson, two
respectably attired young men, were charged with the follow-
ing impudent robberies.
Rd. Stephen Waylett stated that he was a watchmaker and
jeweller, residing at No. 226, Oxford-street. On Monday,
May 2. about two o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoners shove
to his shop in a very superior horse and chaise. The prisoner
Henry. went into his shop, and said a lady wanted to purchase
some jewellery. He told witness to take some watches and rings
to his residence, No 74, Connaught-terrace. Charles re-
mained in the chaise all the time the order was given. Wit-
ness immediately picked up some rings and watches, and went
off to Connaght-terrace. On arriving these he rang the bell,
and said to a female who opened the dour, that he had come
with some jewellery for Mr. Matthews. The girl said it
was all right, and asked him to walk in. Witness was shown
into the parlour, and there he saw the two prisoners Henry
asked about the rit.gs, and witness showed him some.
Henry then said to the other prisoner, " Is she dressed
vet ?" and Charles said " No, not yet." Charles
then took some of the rings out of the room and returned, say-
ing that one of them fitted her exactly. Henry then asked
about the watches, and witness produced four gold, five silver,
and two metal ones, value 451; Henry remarked that witness
had brought a nice assortment, and he rang tie bell and or-
dered the servant to bring up a waiter ; the waiter was brought
up, and Charles put all the watches on it and went out of the
room. Henry then began talking about his horse, the wea-
ther, and common-place conversation, and pressed witness to
take a glass of wine ; witness refused at first, but prisoner said
he must take something, the lady was so long choosing ; wit-
then acquiesced, and said he would take a glass of port, and the
prisoner left the room, and not returning, witness became very
uneasy, arid in about ten minutes he rang the bell and the land.
lady came up ; witness asked her if she had selected a watch of his
yet, and she replied " Oh, do you know Mr. Matthews?"
Witness then thought that a trick had teen played him ; and
he went to the door and called out " police;'' the police soon
came, but they did not appear to attach any suspicion to the
persons in the house ; witness described the person of the
prisoners, issued bills, &c., for their apprehension, and he re-
ceived intimation this morning that the prisoners had been
taken. Witness also identified a watch which had been found
upon one of the prisoners as one of those which he had lost.
Thompson, the constable, requested the Magistrate to adjourn
the examination as there were a great number of cases against
the prisoners; there were upwards of 20 cases in London, and
a great number of country cases from Brighton, Ramsgate,
Gravesend, &c.
Another case was gone into of a similar character, in which
the prosecutor was a draper, residing in Sr. Martin's-lane, who
had sent about 12/. worth of drapery goods to No. 7, Lei-
cester-place, and had been served in precisely the same way.
The Court was crowded with persons who were anxious to
prefer charges against the prisoners, but as Thompson was
very anxious for an adjournment,
Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoners till to-morrow week.
MARLBORO GH-STREET
OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES.—Sarah Berry
a respectable looking middle-aged female, was charged with
obtaining goods under false pretences.
William Evans, shopman to Messrs. Swan and Edgar, of
No. 110, Piccadilly, silk mercers, lacemen, &c., stated,
that on Monday last the prisoner came to his employer's
shop, and represented that she had been sent by a cus-
tomer of the firm, Mrs. Thomas, of No. 9, Dover-
street, Piccadilly, dress-maker and milliner, for some blond
lace-fringe and other articles, to the amount of 1/. 35., with
which she was served, and went away. On the bill being sent
in to Mrs. Thomas, she stated that she had not sent for the
goods in question, or authorised the prisoner to obtain them in
her name.
The prisoner had nothing to say in her defence, and was com-
mitted to take her trial at the Central Criminal Court.
William Lorimer, about fifty years of age, of very gen-
tlemanly appearance, was charged with attempting to
commit suicide under the following circumstances :
Mr. Joins Wetherall, of No. 2, Dean-street, Oxford -
treet, coffee-house keeper, stated that about six weeks
ago the prisoner came to lodge at his house, and la .d
continued to reside there up to the present time. He
nad, it appears, come to London from Dunkirk, where
his family and his children were now staying, his wife
having been out of her mind, and a patient in a lunatic
asylum in this country. The purpose of his journey
here was to ascertain whether he had a claim
to certain estates in Suffolk, left by the late
Francis Gosling, Esq., of Norwich. He had possessed
considerable property in some coal mines in Monmouth-
shire, and within 'the last eighteen mouths load lost
12,0001. by the breaking of one of the Welch banks.
His supposed claim to the Suffolk estates had, it seems,
been submitted to legal consideration, and was found to
be untenable. On Sunday evening, about six o'clock,
he returned home much the worse for liquor, and
ordered some tea to be prepared for him,
but before it could be got ready, he fell
asleep, and tumbling off his seat, struck himself
a violent blow on the head. Witness then as-
sisted him up into his bedroom, and was endeavouring to
induce him to go to bed, when he took a penknife out of
his waistcoat pocket, and attempted to cut his throat.
Witness, however, was just in time to prevent his doing
so, and seizing his arm, wrested the knife from him, in
doing which the blade was broken. He then asked to
go to the window, as he said, he felt faint, and the fresh
air would revive him. Witness consented, and kept by the
side of him to prevent his throwing himself out, but on
reaching the window-seat he snatched up a razor, which
witness had not observed lying there, and opening it at-
tempted to draw it across his throat, but witness rushed
upon him, and after a desperate struggle, in sshich both
his and the prisoner's hands were severely cut, he suc-
ceeded in getting possession of the razor, and considering
that the prisoner ought to be placed under restraint, he
called the police and gave him into custody.
The prisoner said he was extremely sorry for what
had occurred.
Mr. MALTBY inquired if lie had any friends in Lon-
don ?—The prisoner said not one. His relatives and
friends all resided in Monmouthshire and at Norwich.
At the latter place was Sir William Forster, of the firm
of Foster and Unthank, attorneys, with whom he had
been in communication respecting the Suffolk estates.
Mr. MALTBY said that the presence of mind and cou-
rage of Mr. Wetherall deserved the greatest commen-
dation.
It was ultimately arranged that Mr. Wetherall should
see Mr. Lorimer provided with a lodging for the night,
and in the morning see him embarked for Dunkirk, to
which the unfortunate man expressed his willingness.
UNION HALL.
Edward Tones was charged with being engaged in illegal
distillation, and attempting to set the place on tire.
John Court, an excise-officer, stated that receiving informa-
tion that a private still was at work at a house in Wellington-
street, Blackfriars, he went there at four o'clock with three
other officers. Having entered the house by force, they saw
the defendant, who was in his shirt sleeves in the passage, and
he ran into the still-room, in which there was a quantity of
molasses wash in a state of fermentation, and also several gal-
lons of strong spirits in the still, under which there was a fire.
The defendant immediately ran into the still-room, and taking
a pan of strong spirits, he threw the contents of it into the fire,
and in a moment the place was in a blaze.
He was fined 301., and in default of payment he was corn-
mitted for three months.
I,ine MIM11•211a

The Journal du Havre of Wednesday states that
within the preceding two days not less than 202 trading vessels
including coasters, entered that port.
_ _

The Commerce Beige announces that the British
Queen steam-packet took her first departure from Antwerp
for New York at ten in the morning of Wednesday last, under
a salute of artillery. She had a great many passengers on
board, and the crowd assembled to witness her getting under
weigh was very great.

The installation of the Duke of Northumberland,
as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, is fixed for Men-
day the 4th July. The Duke of Wellington has accepted an
invitation to be present.

PARLIAMENTARY GRANT FOR SCIENTIFIC LEC-
TURES IN CORK.—The Government, says Lord Eliot, has
finally determined to increase from 20/. to 3001. the grant for
the purpose of enabling the Royal Dublin Society, upon appli-
cation, to send qualifi: d persons to give lectures whenever the
travelling expenses of the lecturer, and a reasonable proportion
of the Remuneration, shall be locally subscribed by the parties
making the application. This addition to the amount of the
grant will, it is hoped, enable the Council of the Royal Dublin
Society to further the wishes expressed by the inhabitants of
Cork to receive the benefit of lectures during the whole of the
year, instead of only a portion of it, as at present.

BROKEN PLEDGES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlTL,—The requisition, of which I inclose a copy, is in course
of signature at Bridport, and a requisition, having in view the
same object, is being signed by the non-electors of that bo-
rough. Your insertion of the requ sition in your valuable
pal er may have some effect on those miserable renegades, who
forfeit their pledges to promote their private ends.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Bridport, May 7, 1842. AN ELECTOR.
" TO THOMAS ALEXANDER MITCHELL, ESQ., M.P.
" Sir,—We, the undersigned electors of Bridport, who sup-
ported you at the late election for this Borough, have noticed
with the greatest surprise and disappointment your late votes in
favour or the Corn Bill and the Income-tax, votes which are
directly opposed to your declarations on the hustings, as well
as to the views and wishes of your constituents. Nothing
cou'd be more energetic and decided than your repeated de-
nunciations of the sliding scale, both in your public speeches
and in private conversations ; yet in the tare of these denun-
ciations you have taken the first opportunity in your power to
vote for its continuance.

" Under the baneful operation of this system our trade has
been gradually dwindling away, and is now in such a state of
depression that our industrious population are on the verge of
starvation for want of employment. The sources of income
being thus dried up, you have thought proper to assist the Tory
Minister in saddling the country with a tax upon income—a
tax most inquisitorial and vexatious in its character, and unfair
in its operation ; a measurelevery way abhorrent to the feel-
ings of Englishmen, and to which, as the honest and faithful
representative of our opinions you were bound to have offered
the most determined opposition.
" Seeing, then, that you have thus deserted the cause to which
you professed yourself attached, and allied yourself to the party
to which we have always been opposed—to the band of' mo-
nopolists who fatten at the expense of the rest of the com-
munity ; '''—giving your support to their most obnoxious
measures, in direct opposition to the declarations upon the
strength of which we sent you to Parliament, we consider that
we shall not be discharging our duty to our ourselves, or to
our country, without calling upon you to resign a situation
which you occupy so little to the satisfaction of those who
placed you in it, and restore to us the trust you have so impro-
perly abused. " We are, Sir,
" Your's very respectfully. "
See your printed address.

Dujardin, the gendarme stationed at Cambrai, who
on the 27th December last shot through the heart and killed
the widow 'fhezin, to whom he had been engaged to be mar-
ried, and afterwards attempted to commit suicide, of which
events we gave an account at the time, was on Friday last
brought to trial before the Court of Assizes for the department
of the Nord. The facts of the marriage having been fully agreed
upon, the contract signed, and the publication of the banns
having been made with the assent of the family of the widow,
who had agreed that Dujai din should have the guardianship
of her two children by her former husband, and also of his
having killed his intended in the manner already mentioned,
and then attempted to destroy himself, were fully proved,
and indeed admitted by Dujardin himself. But in his defence
he stated that as the day of marriage approached, the role, ions
of Madame Thezin interfered to prevent it, and endeavoured
to fill her mind with prejudice against him. On Christmas
day she was so depressed, he said, by the opposition to her
wishes, that she declared her resolut.on to destroy herself. He,
as he asserted, resisted this determination 01 the 27th, when
after having dined and sent her children back to chool,
she renewed her melancholy proposals, and at length de-
clared that her resolution was fixed, adding that if he really
loved her he would die with her. Upon this he went to
his barracks and got two pistols, one belonging to the service,
and the other a pocket pistol. With these they went up to
her chamber, where after writing the letter of adieu to his
lieutenant, recommending to his care the orphans of the
widow, and his own horse, they embraced each other for
the last time, and each taking a pistol levelled it at the
breast of the other and fired. His own ball told, and Ma-
dame Thezin dropped down dead. Her fire, however,
missed, and thereupon he attempted to destroy himself, but
did not succeed. Dujar, in's account was in many points
contradicted. Al. Ducange, the notary, who had drawn up
the marriage contract, deposed that on December 24, Madame
Thezin desired him to annul the contract, for she was deter-
mined not to marry again, as her heart was pot engaged.
Dujardin also admitted that on the 22d he received a letter
from hf.r, desiring him not to come to her house again, as
she could not love him, and every thing was at an end be-
tween them ; but this he attributed to the influence of her
brother, who was against the marriage. This the brother,
who appeared as a witness, positively denied. The trial lasted
till half. past eleven at night, when the Jury returned a verdict
of guilty ofmurder, but without premeditation, and with ex-
tenuating circumstances ; upo❑ which the Court sentenced the
prisoner to hard labour at the hulks for twenty yei-,rs. Du-
jardin has appealed to the Court of Cessation.
A PRIMITIVE PARISH.—The account of the parish
of Johnstone, Dumfriesshire. in the New Statistical Account
of Scotland, is thus concluded.—" Finally, in this very popu-
lous rural parish, we have neither public-house, nor meeting-
house, nor resident surgeon, nor village, nor post-office, nor
prison, nor lawyer, nor beggar."
A PRINCELY PuEsENT.—Mr. Griffiths has manu-
factured, and sent as a present to the Prince of Wales, a brace
of guns, which, though complete in all parts, weigh o,dy one
ounce and a half, and a fourpenny piece. The individual, al-
though only a young man, manufactured all the parts, we are
told, with his own hands.— Staffordshire Examiner.
TILE NEW CORN-LAW.—For the present not a
bushel of foreign wheat can be imported into this country, or
at least brought into the market. For the week ending April
29th, the average price of homegrown wheat was 60s. 7d.
per qr. At the latest accounts from Dantzic the medium price
of wheat was 50s. ; add to this 3s. freight and 13s. duty, and
the cost of every quarter brought to the port of London would
exceed that of home-grown produce by ss. bd. Again at
Stettin, by accounts reaching to the 23d ult., 488. fs as the
price of rally good samples; average freight to any port in
Britain, 3s. 6d. ; duty, of course, as above ; in all 645. 6d., or
3s. 9d. beyond the present price of home wheat. Even in
regard to barley and oats, about which growers have enter-
tained deeper apprehensions, their fears are equally groundless.
The average price of home barley for the week ending April
29th was 275. 3d. At Hamburgh the same week the best
quality could not have been shipped under Ids., and freight
3s. 6d., and duty 10s., and the product is 4s. 3d. above the
rate of the home market in the end of last month.—Berwick
Advertiser.

" THE RAIL," v. "THE ROAD."—A narrative by
a Portsmouth coachman, now in good health I have lived
to see the Portsmouth mail coach put on, and I have lived to
see it taken off. Except one coach, I have lived to see all the
London roaches put on, and it seems as if I should live to see
them all taken off; though, at one time, there were ten up
and ten down every day, and one three times a week.
These coaches, if only half filled, must have taken 176
passengers every twenty-four hours, to and from Ports-
mouth. The one coach, when I was a boy; was two days
and one night on the road; it went to Guildford en the first
day, where the passengers slept for the night, and went into
London next day. The turnpikes were not then finished.
The mail was brought by a man or boy on horseback ; I
brought it from Petersfield. and got into Portsmouth at two
in the afternoon. After that a diligence was put, on, that
carried three passengers, and sometimes went empty. Then
Mr. Palmer put the mail coach on, that carried four ; prior
to which the way of travelling was on horse, with a guide—
the guide went to bring the horse back. As for gong on
foot 'twas not safe, there were so many foot-pads about ; and
there was not a public-house between Halfway-house and
iMousehill but what had five or six saddle horses ready for pas-
sengers to ride on the way to and from London and Portsmouth.
After the roads were made good, it was thought a great feat
for a man riding with an express to go up to London and ba, k
in a long summer day ; now it is to be done in nine hours.
Oh ! these railroeds I Besides having ruined the road, what
will the farmers do with their hay, oats, and straw ?—T. S."
--
Hampshire Telegraph.
A short time ago, as the Neapolitan brig St. Michael
was on her way from Palermo to Algiers, when at about 20
leagues from the coast, she picked up a man, who was fund
floating at large and alone in an open boat. He said that he
belonged to the steamer Styx ; that having been left sick in an
hospital, he had become wearied of his confinement, made his
escape, got into the boat, and was driven out to sea, where he
had been four days supporting himself by economising a small
quantity of provisions he brought with him. As the man's
clothes were saturated with wet, the Captain lent him a suit of
his own, and brought him into Toulon. Being about to sail
again, the Capt +in wished to have his own clothes, and on look-
ing up those of the pretended sailor, in order to restore them,
he found that they composed the prison-dress of a military con-
vict. An investigation was made, and the sailor of the Styx
was identified as a delinquent soldier, and placed in the hands
of his officers.
The Antwep Company's steam-ship, Princess Vic-
teria, Captain Minter, arrived here yesterday morning, after a
passage of twenty-two hours, against a violent contrary wind.
The voyage out to Antwerp occupied only nineteen hours.
Lady Lawson and family, the Hon. Mr. Bligh, Mr. Tierney,
&c., were amongst the passengers.
The National says—" General Bour;olly, who was
as our readers will remember, in consequence of complaints
made by him against the manner in which certain contractors,
protected by the Government, fulfilled their engagements, put
on the retired list, and placed under arrest for a month in the
citadel of Lille, and who afterwards continued to refuse making
any concession, has at last, it is said, been again put on full
pay, and seat to the camp at Luneville."
One of the finest specimens in the kingdom of the
Glyeene Synensis, or Wisteria Consequana, a plant imported
from China, is new in full blossom, in the nursery grounds of
Messrs. Newman, Chichester, and has within the last week
been visited by most of the florists of that neighbourhood. The
tree extends along a wall 60 feet in length, and 10 feet high,
the whole of which space is literally covered with masses of
towers of the most exquisite beauty and fragrance.
On Monday last, a farmer of the village of Bize-
nistos, near Pau, was returning home from the fair of Mon-
trojeau, with the money be had received from the sale of a
yoke of oxen, when he was induced to enter a public-house
on the road, and there became intoxicated to such a degree
that he was unable to move, and his companions carried him
into a barn, in order, as they said, that he might sleep off the
fumes of the liquor. On Tuesday morning he was found dead,
hanging to one of the beams. At first it was believed he had
committed suicide, but the fact of all his money having been
taken from him, and ether circumstances, gave conviction that
he had been both robbed and murdered.
The little town of Vitteaux, in the department of
the Cote d'Or, was last week visited by a violent storm, ac-
companied by an extraordinary fall of rain. The town was
soon flooded, and great damage was done by the water bursting
into the houses through the doors and windows Four persons
were drowned.
A few days ago, says. the Sentinelle de Jura, the
electric fluid entered at Alesney, near Arbois, the house of a
miller, named Jour-d'hui, through a window, breaking the
large stone below. The miller's wife was struck on the neck,
and a gold chain which went three times round it was broken
in six pieces. Her dress was burnt, as well as two handker-
chiefs which she wore. The fluid appears to hays run down
her body, for her shoulders, hip, and leg were scorched, and
her socking was burnt to some extent. It at last made its
exit by the ceiling, passed through the garret, overtu+ued part
of the wall, and set fire to a cherry-tree 15, feet from the
house. Two other women who were in the room with Madame
Jour-d'hui were unhurt.
M. Charles Maurice, the proprietor, and M. Le-
maitre, the responsible editor 'of a journal called the Courtier
des Theatres, appeared on Wednesday befsre the Correctional
Tribunal, to answer a charge of having fraudulently evaded
the law, requiring that the responsible editor of a daily journal
should be the real owner of one-third of the cautionnemsat
of 100,000 f. It was proved that M. Lemaitre was not in this
position, and that M. Charles Maurice had provided the funds
for him, in order that he might take his own p ace as a respon-
s ble editor, and thus relieve him from the consequences of
condemnation for libel. They were both found gu lty, and
ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 f., each being liable to the whole
fine in the event of non-payment of any portion by the other.
The Tribunal also ordered the suppression of the journal.
The Polish Literary Society celebrated on Tuesday
the fiftieth anniversary of the Polish Constitu'ion of 1791. AP
the Poles in Paris, and a great many foreigners, were pre-
sent. Prince Czartoriski presided, and delivered a speech, in
which he expressed the gratitude of himself and his country-
men for the asylum granted to the refugees by both France
and England. Several other Poles of distinction also expressed
the same sentiments.

THE ITARKETS—YFSTERDAY.
c: !RN EXCHANGE.
Last week's arrivals of English gr in were moderate, but good
of Irish Oats The f esh supply was also moderate. Wheat,
both Engli,h and foreign, maintained their former value, with
a slack demand. Barley is. per quarter lower. Beans and
Peas met a fair sale at last quotations. Oats heavy in dis-
posal, and hardly supported their former prices. The Flour
trade dull.
kIittIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK
s\• heat. diarlev. ; ours. Flov•
3,84? ri. I 4,587 q rA. I 5,4.9 i 4,6","6 sac v
12,3'8 141
6,•.97 ,rls

English
Irish 1
F.reign
rxicys ox BOARD OF %PIP.
Wheat,lted (old) s —s. Beans, Small new;.,......37i 339.
White (01d)..... --.41. -s. -.--•-•••• '(01(4) .. ...... 4'2 488.
ited",l/,-1i) .sos. 545.
-- Fine abs co; —'old) 38, 408-
-Superfine 61s. 6:ls. Harrow (new) ...... ;31,33s-
- White (1841) 3 s. sss. — (old) 38,.4:28.
--- Fine 'B, 6N. Brook „,—s--8-
Superfine 6.8. t:Bs. Oats,Feed
—.....--Foreigniree 535. 725. -- ties, l4s.`lB.
I:,c '3`,B. 40s. Poland r., ii
3.lris,:, • •,tis 325. ----NeW 155,`214.
----- Grinding ':fis 2SB. Potatoc
----- Malting 20;.345. ---'slew 125'. 268.
Malt s6s, 60s, Scotch "5. .575.
Fine New t'''s. 445. Irish 14s. ... 17-.118.
Pepe, Grey, New 305. 325. Flour Town (per 5ack)....546 Os.
Maple New ils. 345. 500511(18 to 548,
-- White 345. 3611. - -- Nwrth Country ....48, 50s.
I.;.c.ilers 36, 38,. I Bran B, 9s.
SMITHFIELD.

The supply was large, and there being a good attendance of the
trade, the best qualities met with ready buyers at rather
higher prices; the middling and ordinary without alteration.
Beasts, 4,366 ; Sbeep and Lambs, 24,310 ; Pigs, 391 ; Calves,
119 ; Beef, inf., 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 3s 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal,
3s tid. to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 2s. 2d. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, 6s. 61
to is.