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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY LIVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1845

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By Mr. CLA RKSON—Iiad seen her mother about a
week previous to her death. Had not seen the note for
three months before the death of her mother. It was in
the possession of her father before her mother had it.
Her mother sometimes drank a little. Had not seen her
mother intoxicated for some time before her death. Had
known her mother to have taken poison, but she said it
was by a mistake. That was about three years ago.
She was then living in Douglus-street. Her family had
seen better days ; but her mother was not low-spirited.
Don't know what poison her mother took. Her father told
her that her mother had taken poison, but the deceased
insisted that it was a mistake. When the prisoner came
to witness on the day of the murder, witness
went instantly with her. Witness did not say, when
on the road, that if her mother did not alter
she would have her pnt into the workhouse. Witness
did say "If my mother dies to-day, before
to-morrow, I shall have nothing to answer fur."
When witness got up stairs and saw her mother dead,
she called out. The prisoner asked a Mr. Nightingale
to come up and cut the rope, but he declined touching it
as the woman was dead. The prisoner was not in the
room when the baker's boy cut the rope. Does not
know whether Mr. Graham told the prisoner to
rub her mother, but she did rub her. Does
not know whether any person said, " She is not
dead ; she moves her eyes and her mouth." The pri-
soner paid 1 s. 6d. per week for her share of her mother's
bed. The prisoner offered to lend witness some money
of her own accord. The fact that they were not well
off was very well known. Witness saw the prisoner go
into the water-closet, hut did not see her come out. Her
mother was not subject to fits, and witness never
knew her to have one. The jury returned a verdict
that the deceased destroyed herself while insane. Her
mother never made any attempt on her own life. Wit-
ness said on the inquest that her mother had taken
poison. Witness saw the prisoner at Queen-square.
She was in convulsions during the taking of the depo-
sitions

(The trial was proceeding when our report left.)

MARLBRo'-STREET.—(THISDAY.)

Thomas Hulbeit, a strong, able-b.odied young man,
was brought up on a warrant, by Lacy, the officer of St.
George, Hanover-square, charged with , having (con-
jointly with Elizabeth, his wife, not yet in custody)
deserted their children—Henry, aged eight years ;
Arthur, aged six years ; and Mary Anne, aged two
years—and left them chargeable to that parish. The
desertion took place in August, 1842, and the children
have since been chargeable to St. George. They were
brought to this Court by the directions of the overseers,
in order that the magistrates might satisfy themselves
as to the manner in which they had been treated at the
workhouse. Their appearance was very favourable, and
Lacy stated that the boys could read and write. Neither
of the parents had been to see their offspring since the
time of desertion. The prisoner is a carpenter, for-
merly in a good way of business, but ruined by his dis-
sipated habits. Latterly, however, he has come into
possession of several houses left to him by his father,
and last evening Lacy succeeded in apprehending him
at the Plough public-house, Notting-hill.
He was committed for one month to hard labour.
The wife will be apprehended as soon as possible.
Francis Hill, a working man, about 60 years of age,
James Wootton, aged 14 years, and William Ellen, aged
9 years, were charged on suspicion of feloniously and
burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house
of Mr. William Wyatt, of No. 17, Brick-street, Picca-
dilly, licensed victualler, and stealing therefrom a quan-
tity of wine, spirits, and other property, to a very con-
siderable amount.

It appeared that between five and six o'clock yesterday
afternoon Mr. Wyatt, jun., accidentally discovered that
a portion of the party wall in his wine and spirit cellar
had been loosened. On a closer examination he found
that such a quantity of brickwork could be removed as
would admit a child crawling through from the kitchen
of the adjoining house, which the prisoner Hill occupied,
the other prisoners lodging with him. The police were
immediately applied to, and on searching the kitchen
six bottles of wine of Mr. Wyatt's property were
found secreted under the flooring. On the mantel- shelf
was a bottle of pale French brandy, which had been
opened, and a small quantity taken out ; and about the
place were found a chopper and a small knife and fork,
which had been removed from Mr. Wyatt's cellar. Hill
was on the premises at the time, Worther was concealed
in a water butt, and Ellen was lying by the side of it,
pretending to be asleep.
The prisoners merely denied being concerned in rob-
bing Mr. Wyatt, and were committed for re-examination.

S DAY

CLERKEN WELL.-(T Hl._ - •)
A notorious thief, named Hearne, was charged with
attempting to pick pockets at. S Adler's Wells Theatre.
The prisoner, who although hardly eighteen years of
age, may be said to have passed the greater part of his
life in prison, took his stand at the door of the theatre
on the previous evening, a minute or two before the doors
were opened, when there was a large crowd and some
excitement. He dived into that part of the crowd where
there was a group of f-males, amongst whom he began
to ply his vocation. Reynolds, the constable of the
theatre, had however a sharp eye upon him, and before
he could fish up more than one purse, secured him.—lle
was committed for three months.

A M EIRICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.

The British and North American royal mail
steam-ship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, arrived in the
Mersey at half-past five o'clock yesterday morning,
having on board Lord Metcalfe, who leaves his go-
vernment on account of ill-health. Bishop Hughes,
of New York, is also a passenger. Lord Cathcart is
Governor of Canada till another is appointed. The
Britannia left Boston on the 2d instant, and Halifax
on the 4th. She met the Cambria when a few miles
from Boston, and brings 75 passengers.
The news by this steamer, especially the com-
mercial items, is interesting, though the public and
the press appeared to be rather at a standstill
till the receipt of the message of Mr. Polk. The
general impression appeared to be that, though
the President might perhaps reiterate his former
strong assertions, that his party in Congress
would take no action in the matter, but
that the affair would be negotiated in Washington.
The Union, published at Washington, and recog-
nised as the " organ," comes out in the strongest
terms for the "whole of Oregon or none ;" but
little attention had been excited by its remarks, as
it is known as one of the " alarmist" papers. The
negotiation, it was understood, is going on at Wash-
ington, not in London. Congress was to meet on
Monday, the Ist of December, when the President
will at once deliver his oration, which will probably
be brought to London by the Ashburton, which was
to sail from New York on the 6th instant, or the
Europe packet-ship of the Ist, which might possibly
lay over two days for the news. ' Mr. Polk would
recommend a reduction cf the tariff to a revenue
standard, but whether Congress will pass such a
measure is somewhat doubtful.

Accounts from Mexico are of the most pacific
character, the southern republic thinking it best
policy to spare at once their dollars and their terri-
tory, both of which would, in case of hostilities with
their neighbours, be lost to them. The Mexican
Government now desires to have a boundary defined,
to acknowledge Texas as one of the United States,
and to continue on the best terms possible with the
sister republic.
The last advices from the " army of occupation "
in Texas represent the existence of a great anxiety
to return hune, there being no fighting in prospect,
not much to eat, and no pay forthcoming. An im-
mediate recal was looked for.

Accounts from Havannah estimate the sugar crop
at 700,000 boxes. The crop of tobacco is also said to
be unprecedentedly large and fine. Business matters
were very thriving.
On the arrival of the Britannia, on the 20th, con-
firming the previous accounts of a short crop of
grain and potatoes throughout the United Kingdom,
the greatest excitement commenced in the corn mar-
kets at New York, and up throughout the interior of
New York State to Buffalo. Flour rose to 7 dolls.
25c., about 275. 6d. per barrel, but has since fallen
to 6 dolls. 88c., at which holders are very firm,
waiting advices by the Cambria. The quantity of
wheat and flour sent from Buffalo is unprecedented;
and:the list of vessels and their frights, from New
York to Liverpool, from the 24th to 30th of Novem-
ber, show that a considerable part of the increase is
destined for England. The wheat crop of the United
States is about 125 millions of bushels, the largest
ever known ; the crop of 1842, which was the largest
till this year, was 103 millions. The canals from
Buffalo to Albany were open on the 29th of Novem-
ber, and were expected to remain open perhaps a
wee'c longer. In the meantime, the departures of
boats from Buffalo for Albany, all laden with flour,
averaged sixty a day ! There were at the last ac-
counts 250,000 barrels of flour at Albany alone,
waiting shipments to New York or Boston.
The news from Liverpool by the steamer caused a
fall in cotton, at New York, of a quarter of a cent.
per lb. ; but since that time the market has been
gradually getting firmer, and prices had fully re-
sumed their previous level. Holders, however, looked
with some anxiety for the arrival of the news by the
Cambria.

Business generally at New York was good, parti-
cularly in all descriptions of provisions. Exchange
was lower, and still falling, being quoted, at the
sailing of the "steamer, at 8 to 8i premium; on
Paris, 5 27k.
All was quiet at Monterey, in California, on the
30th of September. A new Governor, with troops,
was expected from Mexico.
Papers from Guatemala to the 10th of September,
received in the city of Mexico, state that that unfor-
tunate republic at last enjoys some repose. The
commanders of the troops at San Salvador and Hon-
duras entered into an armistice on the 26th of August,
and commissioners were appointed under it to confer
upon the conditions of a general peace.
The accounts from Otaheite state that her Britannic
Majesty's ship Collingwood, Admiral Sir G. Sey-
mour, had arrived there and saluted the French pro-
tectorate flag. Sir.G. Seymour has command of the
English fleet stationed on the North Pacific coast, and
t o operate on the shores of Oregon, if need be. It is
this fleet that Commodore Stockton has just been
dispatched in the frigate Congress to watch. The
United States ship Levant, Commander,jd. N. Page,
was at Oahu on the sth of September, to sail next
day for California and the west coast of Mexico. The
United States ship Savannah, Commodore Sloat, was
daily expected at Oahu. The United States ship
"Warren, Commander Hull, sailed from San Pedro,
California, September the 6th, 1845, for Oahu.

CANADA.
We have Canadian advices to the 26th ultimo.

The departure of Lord Metcalfe is thus an-
nounced in the Montreal Courier :
" His Excellency the Governor-General has, we
believe, decided on leaving Canada immediately. Lord
Metcalfe did not tender his resignation to her Majesty,
but we are informed that: the state of his Lordship's
health being known to the Home Government, they
very considerately offered to Lord Metcalfe to relieve
him of his onerous office. We have not heard who is to
be Lord Metcalfe's successor. The government will in
the interim be administered by the Earl of Cathcart.
For the sake of the colony we cannot but regret that we
are to be deprived of Lord Metcalfe's services, but
knowing as we do the state of bodily suffering under
which he has been labouring for some months, although
he has supported his afflictions with the most heroic for-
titude, we cannot but be pleased that for his Lordship's
sake the cares of an onerous office are no longer to be
added to the sufferings of a painful malady."

The Gazette wiites—
" He will depart with the fervent good wishes and
sympathy of all the loyal and right-thinking inhabit-
ants of Canada, and have behind him a feeling of pro-
found regret fur his less ; and his departure will be at-
tended on the part of the inhabitants of this city by such
testimonials of their respect as harmonize with the pain-
ful occasion of his retirement, and with the obvious wish
on the part of the illustrious sufferer to escape the fa-
tigue and excitement of public leave-taking."
meeting of the Montreal Town-Council, held on
the 26th ult., agreed upon and presented to Lord
Metcalfe an address, expressing the deep sympathy
which, " in common with our fellow-subjects through-
out this province, we feel for the cause which has
necessitated your Lordship's retirement from the
government of British America."
"The discussion of the Oregon question," says a Mon-
treal letter published in the New York journals, " and
the probabilities of a war between the United States and
Great Britain are the chief topics at present with the
Canada press. The recent orders from the home Go-
vernment to extend the frontier fortifications, and to
erect new ones at several points on the St. Lawrence,
add not a little interest to the matter. The projected
improvements are on a magnificent scale, and, with all
the labour that could be had, will take two or three years
to complete them. From this fact alone, in my view of
matters, there is a great cry and little wod.' The en-
largement of the locks on the canals is not yet finished ;
and from the gigantic sise of the proposed ones (240 feet
long and 45 feet wide), it will take the whole of next
season to complete them. The improvements made this
season have already reached 2,000,000 dolls., and I am
informed by the engineers that there are at this time
about 7,000 labourers on the public works."*

OREGON.
(From the Boston Atlas, of Nov. 22.)
The forbearance of the Whig press, in reference to
Oregon, has encouraged certain editors, who are dis-
pose, d "to go for the whole," to assert that a majority
of tne people are in favour of that desperate course.
This forbearance has been commendable, inasmuch as it
indicates a willingness to let Government make the best
ofits negotiation. But when circumstances show that
advantage is taken of this well-meant disposition, and
that a misconstruction of public sentiment may lead to
measures fatal to the public peace, it becomes proper to
break silence, and to speak loud, as the least of two
evils, although the enemy must overhear. If it were really
true that a majority of the people are in favour of persever-
ing, at all hazards, in the extent of our claim to Oregon, it
might still be pertinent to inquire, what porticn of such
majority possesses the information which qualifies it
to decide upon the merits of a most grave and complicated
question of international law, which has occupied, for
forty years, the research of great jurists and statesmen,
with different results.. Is it disrespectful to assert that
the number of five hundred persons is a liberal estimate,
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of those who have in fact n ve,tigated the documentary
evidence on this subject ? Andndi
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persons. cAsit erable in reference to a majority of the
people, in the United States, are judges of the merits of
the claim, or can be ready, from their sober conviction,
to embark in " war to the knife," to maintain the say-so
of President Polk. If they push things to this extreme,
it must be upon advice of counsel, and not from their
own conscientious persuasion of the justice of our claim.
On such advice then, and such alone, it is to be feared that
many of our enlightened representatives are ready to
act, and will act. But it fortunately happens that,
while the great body of the people are, and must re-
main, ignorant of the merits of our r every man
of common understanding, is capable of estimating its

value—in which estimation, honour may be included—
and cf I,r! 7-ith hcneur anrl the
value of the subject in controversy, on one side, and
war on the
.other. But honour may be carried out,
blank.

Let us see, then, whether certain facts and probabi-
lities sufficient to guide the judgment, and decide the
course of every dispassionate friend to his country, are
not of public notoriety ? And first, everybody knows
that the question between the United States and
Great Britain is neither more nor less than a ques-
tion of title to land, either to be regarded as vacant,
or in the joint peaceable possession of both parties.
Consequently, no consideration of national honour is
involved in the nature of the claim. It belongs to a dif-
ferent category. Honour has no more to do II ith it than
in a dispute between John Doe and Richard Roe, tenants

in common of Black-acre or White-acre. As honour is
not at all, so interest is .in a very limited degree, the
" subject of the story." In the immediate view, the
value of Oregon, as land, is considerably minus nil. It
will be a drain to population, which we want, and aug-
ment the quantity of land in market, of which we have
enough and to spare. In a prospective view of com-
mercial and other contingencies, it may b2—though that
is doubtful—as valuable as a part of New Holland
woald have been, if, perchance, we had acquired the
same sort of title to it. One country is, indeed, about
six thousand leagues distant, and the other not much
more than four thousand—by sea. But, for all the pur-
poses of final and ultimate jurisdiction, the ocean bar-
rier would be as effectual in one case as the other. South
Wales, if annexed to our glorious Republic, would be
not less likely to remain a member, than Oregon. No-
thing can be more attractive to the taste of the " young"
West, than the splendid galaxy of patriots and states-
men, who generally form the group of a Washington
Cabinet—and the congregated wisdom, purity, and pa-
triotism, which adorns the halls of Congress. Still, in
process of time, the charm would not resist the barrier
of the Rocky Mountains ; and the " village Hampdens"
would set up for themselve, after Uncle Sam should have
paid roundly for building up the villages.
Secondly—lt is undeniable that offers have been re-
peatedly made, by our Government, to relinquish claim
to, and cede a portion of the debateable ground. There
is, also, good reason to presume tbat these offers, with,
possibly, some modifications not derogatory or injurious
to the United States, would be accepted.
Third—Each party has refused to cede its claim to
the entire territory. Hence, it plainly and inevitably
results, that the only alternatives are—first, a Compro-
mise on the basis of continuing the joint possesion, or
otherwise ; second, Arbitration.; third, War.
Now, to suppose that a majority of the American
people are ready for the last of these alternatives—or
that they will plunge into and support a war for these
Siberian wilds, until the other alternatives are finally
and offensively rejected, would be to imagine the case
of a nation run mad. Instances of such delirious infatua-

tion in popular governments have sometimes occurred.
It is, then, the duty of every man and community,
within their respective spheres, to resist the
first symptoms of this tendency—although there
is little doubt that the delirium would be of
short duration, and find its cure in the excess
of suffering brought upon the nation. The ca-
lamities of a British war lire fearfully inappreci-
able. The means of annoyance possessed by Great !Bri-
tain are multiplied, ten-fold, by the agency of steam-
power ; and ours, of defence, are relatively impaired, in
the same ratio. Every harbour, river, creek, and inlet,
would be accessible to their various craft. Our whole
seaboard would b© lighted up by successive fires—and
our commerce nearly annihilated. Such a war would
be terminated only by the exhaustion of our resources,
and the abandonment of its object ; and the country
would be driven back, in its career of prosperity,
quite beyond the point from which it started, at the
close of the last war. Great Britain, say our vapouring
statesmen, will not, dare not, cannot make war. No doubt
she will be extremely reluctant to draw the sword. No
doubt, a war would prove inconvenient, injurious, and, in
so far as it might tend to embroil her with other nations
—hazardous to her interests. But the ignorance of
those is an object of compassion, who can believe that
the sleeping lien will suffer our Government to tread on
his toes, without rousing him to action and to vengeance.
The true question is, whether, when the negotiation is
terminated, Great Britain will introduce, by sea and
land, an armed force into Oregon—under the pretence,
perhaps, of merely taking quiet possession. In that
event, our spirited Government and people can do no
less than attempt to follow suit—which, as respects an
expedition by sea, may be found no easy achievement.
Such a state of things would be, in its beginning, ex-
ceedingly like a war, but it would be only the ‘..‘ begin-
ning of the end."

If these considerations are well•founded, the time is
approaching—perhaps now is—when the people, espe-
cially of the Atlantic States, in every mode in which
their voices can be expressed and heard, should have it
understood, by the Government, that this war must not
be ; and that it is time for them to act under other
influence than that of the impassioned portions of the
Far West, who deceive themselves with the illusion
that national and individual glory consists in showing
fight, in every controversy; and that their local
and sectional interests may be promoted by a war,
whatever may befal their brethren on the seaboard.
The watchword,of considerate men, of all parties, who
are in favour of peace, should be, compromise, or arbi-
tration—but no war. The distinguished statesmen, of
both parties, should rally their forces under this stan-
dard. The north and the south should pull together, and
form a coalition of parties, on this ground ; regarding it as
distinct from all party questions, which may be left to take
their course. It is unimaginable, that the southern States
can be ready to provoke a war, pregnant with every danger
to themselves, and without any just reason or occasion ; and
their senators and representatives will, it is believed,
have sufficient independence to resist the first step, which
would be—notice to discontinue the joint occupation.
This step, if taken, must be followed up by military pos-
session, in some form, or government will be regarded
as a mad dog, showing his teeth; and, with this position,
our western fire eaters would not be content, even if
Great Britain should not think fit to forestall us, by a
fort or two at the mouth of the Columbia, and a few
steamers to play on and off. In short, there is a moral
certainty that war would shortly follow the first change
in the stutu quo.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

DUBLIN, DEC. 15.—The weekly meeting of the asso-
ciation was held this day, Alderman O'Brien in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN having expressed his gratitude to the
meeting for placing him in the position he occupied on
such an important occasion as the present, observed that
he scarcely ever remembered a period when a greater
anxiety pervaded the public mind to learn what would Le
the policy adopted, and what the course pursued by their
illustrious Liberator in the present crisis. 'Whatever
that course might be, he (the Chairman) felt confident it
would meet with the universal approbation of the Irish
people.
Mr. O'CONNELL, having read a letter from the Right
Rev. Dr. Blake, Bishop of Dromore, observed that the
time had come for every man to double his subscription.
—(Ci ies of " Hear, hear.") He (Mr. O'Connell) and his
family were accustomed to pay 11. each per month ; hence-
forth that sum should be doubled. He was impatient to
speak to them on the present posture of affairs. They
were too important to be postponed; but first he should
allude to his late visit to Waterford, and he was happy to
say that his mission had been crowned with the most
complete success, and the repealers of that town were
determined to struggle, in perfect unity, for the object
for which they were contending. Sir Winston Barron
had trilled with them too long. Neither he nor his col-
league, Mr. Wyse, were members of the confederation,
and they would therefore be relieved, at the next elec-
tion, from the trouble of representing the constituency of
Waterford. The electors of that town had two gentle-
men, who were identified with these in sentiment, ready
to stand at the next election—he alluded to the present
mayor, Sir Benjamin Morris, and the late mayor, Mr.
Meagher.

which, if the late Government remained in power, would
be spent in London, He had other demands on the new
Administration, and if they conceded them, they
should have the support of the Irish people.—
(Cheers.) He required that the dismissed magistrates
should be restored to their commissions ; he made
that demand on the part of the dismissed Orange
magistrates, as well as on behalf of his friends. It was
rumoured that they proposed sending Lord Fortescue
here as a Viceroy, but he was entirely opposed to
that appointment, as his Lordship had endeavoured to
re-nationalize the youth o!' Ireland, by declaring that no
person who was friendly to a repeal of the union should
13,4 promoted to any place ofemolument under the Crown,
He did not think the Government would have the hardi •
hood to send that nobleman here. It was of the utmost
importance that the people should at once he set to work,
and to effect that desirable end he would require the
Government to advance sums to the different railway
companies equal to the preseLt paid-up capital, nut as a
gift but as a loan ; the interest to be one per cent. for
the three first years, and four per cent afterwards, the
railways to be mortgaged for the amount advanced.
It were most desirable if such en arrangement could he
effected. He would also require that Ireland should be
placed on a perfect equality with England as regarded
the frarchise and corporations, and that they should
have I: just proportion of representatives—he would not
take less than one hundred and fifty. In conclusion, he
moved that a committee be appointed to watch over the
progress of registration throughout the country.
Mr. Caleb Powell, M.P., Mr. Henry Grattan, M.P.,
and other gentlemen having addressed the meeting, the
rent for the week was announced to be 207/. 19s. 11d.
The meeting then adjourned.