The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

FRENCH CHAMBER of DEPUTIES.
The Members of the Chamber of Deputies assembled
on Tuesday in their bureaux for the purpose of elect-
ing the Committee to draw up the Address in answer
to the Speech from the Throne. On this occasion
there was, as usual in each bureau, a discussion on the
foreign and domestic policy of the Government.
In the first bureau M. Berville attacked the Ministry
for the convention of July, for its policy as 'regards
Spain, for the reduction of the navy, and, in fact,
all the measures which meet with disfavour from
the Opposition. M. H. Passy defended the con-
duct of the Government on every point assailed
by M. Berville, and declared that all that France
requires, in order to maintain a proper position in Eu-
rope is a firm and resolute policy. M. Gaulthier de
Remilly took the same line as M. Berville, and was
followed ;by M. d'Herambault, who said that the true
policy of France was to act chiefly against England as
her true rival. On the ballot the numbers were, for
M. H. Peggy 24, M. Berville 9, M. Gaulthier de Re-
milly 1, M. d'Herambault 2. M. Passy was conse-
quently elected.—ln the second bureau, the Ministry
were attacked sharply by M. Delespaul, and in a minor
degree by M. Piscatory. M. Isambert followed in
nearly the same strain as M. Delespaul, and was re-
plied to M. Hebert, who supported the Ministry. M.
Isambert having, in the course of his speech, alluded to
the affair of Dupoty, and attributed the condemnation
to the doctrine of moral complicity, M. Hebert de-
glared in strong terms that the charge of the Hon.
Deputy was unfounded. M. Billaut spoke with
much energyogainst the Government, and, passing
in review all- its acts, bestowed upon them un-
qualified censure. The only candidates in this
bureau were M. Benjamin Delessert and M. Billault.
Tee former was elected by a majority of 19 to 16.
The third bureau, after an uninteresting discussion, in
which M. de Carne, ono of the candidates, expressed
his general approbation of the conduct of the Go-
vernment, and M. Lacave-Laplegne, the other candi-
date, expressed his dissatisfaction at the policy of the
last Cabinet, el acted the latter, who had 19 votes,
and M. de Carne 13.—1 n the fourth bureau M.
L'Herbette spoke at some length, and with great ani-
mation, against the whole policy of the Government,
particularly the attacks upon the press, and he blamed
with much severity the recognition of the right of
• maritime search, demanded by the British Govern-
ment. M. Cunin Gridaine, the Minister of Com-
merce, replied to M. L'Herbette in a speech of
much length and ability, which was, however, chiefly
a reproduction of the arguments brought forward
by the Cabinet on different occasions in support of the
foreign policy. It is the less necessary to go into any
detailed account of the speech of the Minister of Com-
merce, as the greater part of it was on the Eastern
question, respecting which every thing that could be
said has already been said in the two Chambers. With
respect to the attacks upon the public press, the Minis-
ter said all that the Government wished was to repress
licentiousness in respecting liberty, and it would suc-
ceed in its object, for in this attempt it would, he was
sure, have the support of the Chamber of Deputies. M.
Vivien made a speech, in which he attacked many of
the measures of the Cabinet, and was replied to by
M. Muret de Bord, who said that, although he did
not approve of all the measures of the Cabinet without
distinction, he was well satisfied with the general re-
sults of its policy. M. Charamaule blamed the con-
duct of the Government, and particularly as regards
Spain. M. Jaubert followed in the same strain. He
said the Government was weak internally and externally,
and must be so with its present policy. The two can-
didates in this Bureau were M. Muret de Bord and M.
Vivien. The former had a majority of 21 to 18.—In
the fifth Bureau a speech was made by M. Duvergier
de Hauranne against the policy of the Government as
regards the question of the East. The Hon. Deputy con-
tended that the interest of France had been compro•
mised, and demanded the production of papers. M. de la
Tournelle replied, that if the papers connected with
the affairs of the East, and for the production of which
M. Duvergier appeared so anxious, were to be pro-
duced, he would see that the interests of France had
been fully appreciated. M. F. Delessert followed M.
de la Tournelle, and, like him, contended that the in-
terests of France had in every case been protected.
M. Dupin said a few words on the late census. He
expressed his regret that this subject was taken up by
the Opposition on political grounds. He should
like to see it treated exclusively as a financial
question. The candidates were M. Dupin and
M. Duvergier de Hauranne. M. Dupin was elected
by a majority of 26 to 10.—The most remarkable
fact in the discussion of the sixth bureau was the
answer given by the Minister of the Interior to M.
Desmousseaux de Givre, on the ques:ion of Algeria.
M. Desmousseaux de Givre said he supposed the allu-
sion in the speech from the throne, relative to Algeria,
was connected with the appearance of a squadron off
Tunis.—The Minister of the Interior replied that the
passage of the speech referred exclusively to the pro-
jects which the Parte was said to have upon Tunis.
The French Government had declared that it would not
permit the present regime in Tunis to be disturbed, as
the overthrow of the authority of the Bey might create
embarrassments and difficulties for the French posses-
sions in Africa which it would be prudent to prevent.
The Minister, in reply to a question from M. Lacrosse,
as to the words in the Speech, sons afaiblir noire orga-
nisation mihtaire, said the navy was alluded to as well
as the army. The Government, he said, was desirous of
having the navy as strong as possible ; but, in order to
establish an equilibrium in the finances of the St ate,there
must be reduction of expenditure for the navy as for the
army. Order in the finances was, said the Minister, an
element of national power, as well as the army or the
navy. The candidates in this bureau were M. Dumon
and M. de Tracy. The former said a few words in de-
fence of the policy of the Government. M. Dumon was
elected by a majority of 22 to 9—The discussion in the
seventh bureau was short. M. Jacques Lefebvre
called the attention of the bureau to the paragraph
relative to the extension of our commercial relations,
and alluded to the negociations with Belgium. M.
Thiers thought that although a customs union might
create apprehensions in some branches of commerce, it
would have the advantage of attaching Belgium still
more closely to France, and prevent her from yielding
to the influence of Germany. This union, however,
was, he said, no longer in question, and the matter in
consideration was a treaty of commerce. Without ab-
solutely repelling all the treaties of that nature, it was
only requisite that the interests of France should be
considered in these negotiations. M. Teste, the Mi.
bister of Public Works, observed that the question of
extending the commercial relations of the country was
one of great importance, and it was the duty of the
Government to give all possible development to trade
and manufactures, -but in doing this prudence of course
was necessary. The election in this bureau fell upon
M. Jacques Lefebvre, who had 2.5 votes. His compe-
titor, M. Moreau (de la Sein), had only 9 votes. There
were three candidates in the eighth bureau—M. Fould,
M. Leon de Malleville, and M. Amilhau. M. Fould
spoke in favour of the Ministry in connection with the
quertion of the East. He said France had got out of
the difficulty better than could have been expected,
and bad resumed her place honourably in the Euro-
pean compact. M. de Malleville said France had
received no reparation for the insult which had been
put upon her, and then entered upon a censure of
the policy of the Government -relative to the cen-
sus. On the ballot, out of 33 votes, M. Fould
had 18, M. Leon de Malleville 8, and M. Amilhau

7.—ln the ninth bureau, after a diseunion be

tween M. Rivet and M. Lanyer, in which the former
expressed a wish to know whether the allusion in the
Speech from the Throne to the disturbances occa-

sinned by factions was to be received as an announce-
ment that none of the projected reforms were to be
adopted ; and the latter immediately replied that in the
present state of things there ought not to be any inno-
vations. M. Oditon Ilarrot observed that in the dis-
cussion on the Address, nothing could be more impor-
tant and significant than the words which had just been

exchanged: Thanks to the candour of theseexplana-
tionP, the confusion had reigned in the Chamber,
and rendGred its legislature abortive, was about to

cease. There was riot, nor in fact cou!d there be, in
the political world, more than two serious and sincere
parties ; the party of those who conceived that the

country was in possession of the full amount of liberty
and security which were due to it, and the party of those
who, on the contrary, thought that certain institutions,
certain guarantees were in want of a more complete de-
velopment. It was to this last party that the elections
of 1839 gave a marked victory. It was with joy he saw,
after so many differences which could net be justified,
all the elements which had caused a temporary division
of this party again formed into one common opinion.
Men henceforth would be divided only by their opi-
nions, and not by personal combinations, which the
country could never comprehend. M. Dejean declared
that lie would oppose all attempts at innovation. M.
Durand de Roniorantin, on the contrary, demanded
reform, and complained that the policy of the Govern
merit was not sufficiently enlightened and national. M.
Bignon defended the conduct of the Ministry.—The
candidates were M. Bignon and M. Rivet. The for-
mer had 21 votes, and the latter 19.
M. Sancet has taken possession of his official resi-
dence in the Palais Bourbon, as President of the Cham-
ber of Deputies.

Mr. Sotheby, for upwards of half a century at
the head•of the firm of the same name in Wellington-
street, died on
Tuesday morning, at his residence,
Cleve's Lodge, Chelsea, in the 71st year of his age. This
firm, which was the first established in this country for
the exclusive sale of litorary property by auction, com-
menced in the year 17.1-3, and has continued ever since to
be the principal channel through which the most noted
collections of hooks, prints, and other objects of vertu,
both public and private, have been brought into the
market.

An old man of 90, named Thomas Chew, died
at Leighton Buzzard a few days ago. The deceased was
a most eccentric person ; he died with his best clothes
on, and particularly requested that he should be so in-
terred, not forgetting to put on his great top coat, hat,
and handkerchief, and which request has been complied
with.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. _

GLOBE.—Everybody must be struck with the
complacency with which Sir James Graham talks of
his colleagues and himself ; and the contrast between
this complacency and the absence of any cause for it
known to the public, is equally striking. The most
sterile of all Ministries, is, nevertheless, the most
self-complacent. With what unction Sir James
talks of the Premier, the Duke, and himself 1 Yet,
except a barefaced attempt to take the credit of
the Anti-slavery Treaty, he does not produce a single
good deed done or intended, as a pretext for his unc-
tuous complaisance. " Look at me and my col-
leagues—did you eyer see the like of us r Yet not
one good thing can he adduce. " Did ye ever," said
a happy father, addressing a Scotch hostess, " did ye
ever see sic a sight in your house before, as me and my
three sons a' placed ministers o' the Kirk o' Scotland ?"
" Never, Sir," was the reply of the dame, remembering
that none of her guests could preach a good sermon,
" but once, when I had a Highland piper and his three
sons o' Highland pipers, and deil a tune amang them."
Of all the Administrations which have held power of
late years, none has equalled the present in sterility of
ideas. Their friends, when saying the best they can
for them, have merely hinted they still have sense
enough to adopt parts or imitations of the measures of
the men they have displaced. Ideas of their own they
have not, nor pretend to have. Nobody knows what
they will do, nor does any one of themselves know. Sir
James Graham only seems to think it clever to vapour
about how soon and readily they will resign. Search
the universe. and you will not find a more con-
temptible sight than a purposeless Government
And the Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel is purposeless.
Observers, who have Tory friends, know that they
always consist of two kinds—men who wish to retake
power which has been conceded to the people, and men
who wish to concede still more power to democracy.
In Ireland there are men resolute for taking away
the grant to Maynooth, and those who are bent on
conciliating the priests by increasing the grant and
giving endowments to the entire priesthood. Yet these
men of opposite purposes both belong to the Govern-
ment party. Scotland has Conservatives determined to
give up their party if a power is not given to the people
in the election of their clergymen ; and the strength
of Scotch Toryism lies in the patrons from whom this
power must be wrung. How long will these men hang
together? In England, an active and zealous body of
Tories are Ultra-Protestants, who have societies all over
the land for agitating against Romanism. Another, and
a more powerful body of Tories, are banded together to
make the Church of England more like the Church of
Rome. Can these persons continue to pursue the same
path ?—to form companies of the same army in the same
war ? We trow not. Again, in the last general elec.
tion the rallying cry of the Tory party was, the preser-
vation of the Corn-laws untouched. Already the
altering of these laws is reckoned a certain thing—per-
haps prematurely enough. Undoubtedly, however, the
Tory party is divided on this very matter, and consists
of free-traders, who feel the necessity of coacessions to
allay the distresses and the discontents of the manufac-
turing interests—and of bigots of aristocracy, who
menace the Government with destruction the instant a
reforming hand is lifted up against their monopoly.
STANDARD.—That the public distress has had
some influence upon the revenue, if not in producing
the whole or any considerable part of the Excise de-
crease, at least in preventing an increase, which the
great increase in the other sources of revenue would
seem to promise, we aro not disposed to deny. The
sinking of the edifice is first felt by those en the
ground floor, and they are unhappily the last to
emerge from it. The humbler classes, the great con-
sumers of exciseable commodities, are always the
earliest in suffering by general distress, and the latest
to enjoy a recovered prosperity. That the nation is re-
covering is proved by the signal improvement in the
Customs' revenue. Allowing, as we have done, that
some of this improvement is borrowed from the Excise,
still an improvement in the Customs, at the rate of
1,658,0001. per annum, manifests a wonderful aug-
mentation of public confidence, and a corresponding
revival of foreign trade—the trade upon which so
many tell us the happiness and security of the country
depends. It will not do to say that this improvement
in the Customs is all the produce of corn duties, be-
cause it is an increase upon a quarter of the same year
in which 1,200,0001. was received in corn duties ; and if
414,0001., or any great proportion of it, has been realised
upon corn duties,—much of these duties being col-
lected at the rate of one shilling the quarter,—what is
to be said of the practical exclusion of foreign corn, It
is idle, however, to pursue the inquiry further, until we
shall have before us the particular details. We have
now but to congratulate our fellow-subjects upon the
first financial fruits of Sir Robert Peel's Government,
the enjoyment to which for many years they have been
unaccustomed, of a well-grounded prospect of improve-
ment in the revenue of the country.
COURIER.—We do not seek to justify the indis-
cretion, for it scarcely amounts to more, committed by
the Herald in fixing the imputations falsely current in
public rumour with apparently so much distinctness on
one or two noble persons, and two there were equally
answering by title and other circumstances to the one de-
scriptive process employed; but we may be allowed to say
that had the existence of such rumours only been referred
to, without personal application, the Herald was no more
than in the just performance of its duty towards the
public, not only without prejudice to individuals, but
the reverse, for the notice of such rumours would
have lethio more particular inquiry on all sides, and I
thus parties injuriously and falsely implicated, but still
in ignorance of the privately circulated slander by
which their fair fame was hourly being assailed, would
come to cognisance of the fact through some friend
or other, so as to enable them at once to meet the ca-
lumny, and vindicate their reputation. What most
surprises us, in the otherwise proper retractation of the
Herald, is the terms in which it is made, at least se far as
the first paragraph, as follow In our piper of the
21st ult. we noticed upon authority, on which we have
been accustomed to place implicit reliance, the exist-
ence of rumours relative to the Exchequer bill fraud,
which we were assured had gained an extensive circu-
lation in the City. The result of inquiries which we
subsequently instituted on the subject now leads
us to the conviction that we have been im-
posed upon, and that such rumours had gained
no such circulation as our informant confidently
stated." We can only say that the Herald,
if imposed upon at all, was grossly so, but not certainly
by the informant by whom the " existence of the ru-
mours" gas asserted and their circulation in the City.
The " inquiries instituted" must have been conducted i
in a strange fashion to lead to the " conviction" that
the rumours alluded to "had gained no such circulation"
as stated. For in fact they were unfortunately the
talk even in taverns of public resort. From the moment
that the rumours were first guardedly broached in the
Times we ourselves heard them broadly connected with
names, not in the City merely, but in the west end of
this metropolis. We sincerely rejoice that at length
they have been disposed of, as the base fabrications of
calumny for which there existed not the slightest foun-
dation.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The following notice relative to Exche-
quer bills has been issued from the Treasury :
" Applications having bee❑ made to this office by
holders of unstamped Exchequer bills, who have hitherto
omitted or been prevented from sending in such bills for
examination, notice is hereby given, that on Friday next,
the ith inst., all such bills as shall be presented between
the hours of ten and three, under the regulations pre-
viously in force, will be examined, and where found ge-
nuine, will be stamped and returned to the owners.
" MONTE AGLE, Comptroller-General.
" Exchequer, Jan. 4, 1842."
There is another rumour to-day concerning Exchequer
bills, which is supposed to contribute towards their sus-
taining their present high price. This is to the effect,
that by an alteration in the system, Exchequer bills, in-
stead of being payable for duties at stated periods only,
will be continually payable, and bear interest from the
day of their date to the date of such payment. As
such an arrangement will give an additional facility for
making use of the unfunded securities, the rumour in
question naturally increases their value. If the altera-
tion should actually be made, it will be a return to sound
principles, from the system of jobbing with Exchequer
bills, introduced by Mr. Spring Rice. The partial de-
cline observable in Exchequer bills to-day is not to be
attributed to any change in public opinion, but merely
to sales in consequence of their high price.
HERALD.—Notwithstanding the approaching pay-
ment of dividends, and the abundance of money which
is usually anticipated to follow the payment and partial
dispersion of several millions among the public, which
is usually an element in the calculations of speculators
and capitalists for a rise in stocks, the home funds have
presented but an unsteady appearance for the last two
or three days, and the previous improvement has been
followed by a gradual decline. The cause of this de-
pression of prices is variously accounted for. By some
it is attributed to the belief that various foreign loans
are in preparation, the weight of some of which
is likely to fall upon this market, In France,
it is well known, that large amounts of money
will be wanted, not only to make good the
past, the present, and the prospective defi-
ciency of revenue; as compared with expenditure
arising out of the late warlike preparations, but also for
the purpose of those vast internal improvements, such
as the great lines of railroad, announced to be under-
taken on account of the State. From Austria there
are similar advices ; there also the Government has for-
mally notified the intention to execute on its own ac-
count all the preliminary and expensive workings of a
general railwa: system, so far as the great lines, after-
wards to be farmed out to public competition so far as
the conveyance of goods and passengers, and the supply
of locomotive carriages and machinery. These enter-
prises for France and Austria alone, independent of
what may be intended by other Sovereign Powers in
..Germany and in Prussia, or elsewhere in Europe, will

necessarily require the outlay of many millions sterling,
which can only be raised by way of loans to be con-
tracted, or by the more simple and direct process of an
emission and gradual sale of State bonds upon the stock
and money markets here and abroad for the account of
the different States, and without the intromission of ca-
pitalists and contractors, as upon the old system. It is
understood that the Hebrew party have been the chief
operators for the fall.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY COURT, Jan. 5.
THE OCEAN QUEEN.

This was a motion to arrest a vessel under the 3d and
4th Victoria, c. 65. The vessel was built and registered
at New Brunswick, and was the property of a firm
carrying on business at Liverpool, in Nova Scotia.
Having arrived in the Mississippi, to obtain goods on
freight, the master left the vessel in the river, and went
up to New Orleans to see if freight could be procured,
and there applied to the house of Lizardi and Co. for
advice and assistance. He had goods on board, taken at
Panama, and under the American navigation law he had
rendered his vessel liable to seizure and condemnation in
an American port ; whereupon Lizardi and Co. advised
him to put to sea again, but he wanted funds to pay for
necessaries, and neither he nor his owners had any credit
at New Orleans. Lizardi and Co. accordingly advanced
the necessary funds, amounting to 2501., for which the
master gave bills of exchange payable in London, but
they were refused acceptance by the owners at Nova
Scotia. The :vessel had now arrived in the port of
London, and a warrant of arrest had been applied for on
behalf f Lizardi and Co., who had a house in London,
which the registrar had refused to issue, on the ground
that the 6th section of the Act gave this Court jurisdic •
tion in such cases only over " foreign ships or sea-going
vessels." It was contended that the word " pr." being
disjunctive, placed all " sea-going vessels" within the
jurisdiction.

- Dr. LUSITINGTON, however, was of a different opinion,
and rejected the motion.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 6.
BRYDEN V. SYDNEY.

In this case the plaintiff was a partner in the firm of
Boyle, Bryden, and Co., the publishers of the Court
Guide, carrying on business at 290, Regent-street ; and
the defendant, Sir William Robert Sydney, wash lawyer,
residing at No. 11, New Palace-yard, Westminster.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of 151.
for work and labour done, and upon an account stated, to
which the defendant pleaded that he never was indebted
except in the sum of 10/., which he paid into Court. Mr.
Bryden had been a Parliamentary and house agent pre-
vious to his joining the establishment in Regent-street;
and in May last Sir W. R. Sydney called at the plain-
tiff's office, and said he was recommended by a Lady
named Boyle to apply to him to dispose of his house in
Palace-yard. He said he wanted 400/. for the lease of
the house, but if that could not be got, he would accept
of 1501., or even 501, as he wanted to be rid of it.
Under these circumstances, the plaintiff caused three
advertisements to be inserted in the Morning Papers,
and the lease was subsequently sold for 50/. to a gentleman
named Rickworth, who took the fixtures at a valuation,
and upon informing Sir Robert he told the defendant to
call the next morning and he would settle the account,
which at the rate of 5/. per cent. on the rental of the
house and the incidental charges, formed the amount of
the present demand. Next morning Sir Robert left town
saying he would remit the money to plaintiff.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF having summed up, the
Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the full
amount claimed.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 6.
IN BE THOMAS F. BALLS.
The bankrupt was an extensive omnibus proprietor,
who ran between Vauxhall and Oxford-street. His lia-
bilities were considerable, while his available assets will
scarcely pay Is. in the pound.
A number of omnibus proprietors, horse. dealers, and
persons connected with the trade were in attendance to
prove claims, and after a long discussion Messrs. Week-
ley, coach-maker, and Ashland, corn-factor, were chosen
assignees.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

THE POST-OFFICE CASES.—H. Warner, aged 18, who
yesterday pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him
with stealing a letter containing a 101. note, was brought
up for judgment this morning, and sentenced to trans-
portation for 15 years.
Richard Horton, who was yesterday convicted of
stealing a post letter containing a sovereign, received a
similar sentence.
THE FORGERY CASE.—John Mathews and John Bar-
bcr, who were yesterday convicted of uttering a forged
10i Bank note; were this morning brought up for judg-
ment, and respectively sentenced. to transportation for
15 years.

-
STREET ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE.— Thomas Muller,
aged 20, was indicted for assaulting William Cannon on
the Queen's highway, and stealing from his person a
knife, and ls. 6d. in money.
On the night of the 17th December the prosecutor
was attacked in Wentworth-street, Whiteehapel, by two
men, who knocked him down and took from him the
property in question. lie believed the prisoner to have
been one of them.
Sarah Ward witnessed the attack on the prosecutor,
and swore distinctly to the prisoner as one of the assail-
ants; she gave information to a policeman, who took the
prisoner into custody. When taken by the policeman
the prisoner s sleeve was covered with blood.
Mr. PAYNE having addressed the Jury for the pri-
soner,
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Ho was sen-
tenced to fifteen years' transportation.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.--Ann Gifford, aged 27, yes-
terday pleaded guilty to ten indictments, charging her
with stealing in a dwelling-house. This morning
Alphonso Gifford, aged 25, was placed in the dock,
charged with feloniously receiving certain of the goods
stolen by Ann, well knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. C. PHILLIPPS stated the case to the Jury, and called
Mrs. Watson, who resides in Shoreditch. The pri-
soner Ann came to her house sometime in December,
to offer as a servant. The prisoner gave a reference,
and Mrs. Watson went there, but found the reference
was a false one. During her absence the female pri-
soner stole a watch from the drawing-room.
The female servant of Mrs. Watson corroborated her

mistress's testimony.

The shopman of Mr. Hazard, pawnbroker, proved
that the male prisoner had pledged the watch at his
master's shop, and, at the time of doing so, said he had
frequently pledged the same watch before, which had
belonged to his father.
_ _

Th; police inspector who took the prisoner into cus-
tody found the duplicate for the watch on his person.
lie said the female prisoner was his wife.
Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—He said he had
been only recently married to her. The prisoner af-
forded him every facility in making his search.
Mr. BALLANTINE having addressed the Jury for the
prisoner, and called several witnesses to character,
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found
the prisoner Guilty.
In answer to a question from the Jury,
Mr. Baron GURNEY stated that the female prisoner
had been before transported.
When the prisoners were called up for judgment the
male prisoner said that he was not aware that his friends
had employed Counsel to defend him, or he should have
given his Counsel information to conduct his defence.

He then entered into a long rambling statement as to his
conduct, with a view of showing that he had no guilty
knowledge of the acts of his wife. During his address
to the Court the female prisoner fainted away. On her
recovery,

Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced her to transportation for
15 years, and Alphonso Gifford to transportation for 14
years —They were then removed from the bar, the male
prisoner making vehement protestations of his innocence.
Antvemahn, a Malay, 30, and Samut, a Japanese,
25 were indicted for cutting and wounding Hassan, a
Chinese, with intent to do him some greviously bodily
harm.

The prosecutor, upon getting into the witness's box,
had a saucer handed to him, and he kneeled down im-
mediately and broke the saucer upon the rail in front of
the witness-box.
Mr. Harker, the usher, then administered the oath to
him, according to the Chinese form, in the following
words—" You shall speak the truth, and the whole truth
—the saucer is cracked, and if you do not tell the truth
your body shall he cracked like the saucer."
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Hassan, the prosecutor, was then examined, and it ap-
peared that he and the prisoners belonged to the Scales-
by Castle E4ast Indianian. A quarrel and fight took
place between the Malays and Chinese on board the
vessel, and in the course of it the prosecutor received
the injury in question. There was no evidence that
Samut had assaulted the prosecutor, but it appeared that 1
Antvernahn had struck him with a bamboo.

Mr. Phillips, who was instructed on behalf of the pri-
soners, was about to address the Jury, when the Court
intimated that the offence only amounted to an assault.
The Jury found Antvemahn guilty of a common as-
sault, and acquitted Samut.

Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN having ascertained that the
vessel would sail in about a month, ordered the prisoner
to be confined for fourteen days.
George Young was indicted for cutting and wounding
Jane Griffiths.

The prosecutrix being called, mounted the witness-
box with difficulty, and stammered out, " lam not fit to
be examined."

Mr. Baron GURNEY—I see you are not. Who has
been giving you liquor ? Prosecutrix—l gave it to my-
self ; I have been up all night, and I am very drunk.
The case then proceeded, but there being no evidence
to show that the name of the prosecutrix was Jane Grif-
fiths, the Court directed a verdict of Not Guilty to be re-
turned.

NEW COURT.
William Todd, aged 28, a shoemaker, was convicted of
stealing at Greenwich, on the 14th December, two spoons,
value lOs., the property of William Cox.
The prisoner was sentenced by the Court to six months'
imprisonment and hard labour.
A CHRISTMAS FREAK.—James Low was indicted with
stealing, on the 27th of last month, a silver watch, a gold
ring, a purse containing money, a pocket-book, and other
articles, the property of Mr. Robert Reid.
The case came on before Mr. Halls, at Bow-street a
few days ago, and the facts have been already given at
length. From the evidence, it appeared that ;Ir. Reid,
who resided at Hastings, had come up to town to enjoy
the amusement of- Christmas. That on the 27th of last 1
month he dined with some friends and drank more wine