The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-07 00:00:00

who was in the habit of bringing notes to me -apcn
business.

What consideration did you give for these bills ?
Sixteen shillings in the pound for 18,5001.; and 17s.
6d. in the pound for 2,0001.
Was that paid by cheques or bank notes, or in
what manner ?—By cash or cheques, which I might
happen to have in hand at the time that I took to
(discounted) the bills, for I keep no banker.
Are these bills entered in any book kept by you ?
No.

Is any thing relating to these bills entered in any
books kept by you?—No.
Is the consideration which you have stated you
gave for these bills entered in any book kept by you ?
—No.

For your ordinary business purposes do you keep
books ? Yes.

Aro you sure that you have made no entry in these
books of the bills of exchange, or of the consideration
given for them ?—Sure, farther than this, if I have
had 201. out of my business, or any other sum, I have
charged myself with it.
Can you, by reference to your books, show any sum
whatever given by you for these bills Y—No.
State the particulars of the cheques whicliyou. say. •
you gave in part consideration for theSe•r
only speak of cheques I had in handomtPivhieh
might have received in business or otheriiisti,:;:Y`:
Can you show the source from which Yvii-OtaiNed'.l
either the cheque3 Or bank notes which you 'state yo.d
gave in consideration of these bills ?—.No.
Can you name any person capable of supplying the
information ?—No.

Did you take any thing in writing from Chandler
or any body else, which, if produced, would furnish
that information ?—No.

An application was here made to the Learned
Commissioner, by Mr. Delamere, but from the low
tone of voice in which he spoke we cowl d. not accu-
rately carch his object.
Mr. CommissionerFosßLAsQuE—lf I find assets I
shall direct a dividend to be made as rajidly as possi-
ble, and those creditors who do not cc,me in to prove
in time will most probably get nothirig. I have per-
mitted this examination to prom KI thus far in order
to affbrd every man mixed up in it, if he have a par-
ticle of reputation left, to manifo: t his anxiety to sup-
port it. My thorough determination is not to wait
the declaration of a dividend for tl..ose creditors who
have not proved. The creditors -w'bo have proved are
fully entitled to this inquiry, amt I think Mr. Dela-
mere will best discharge his duty to his client by
urging him to give the fullest ar.swers in his power to
all such proper questions as ma y be put to him.
By Mr. Nias—Has any portion of the considera-
tion which you say you gave for these bills ever
reached the hands of the bankrupt, to your know-
ledge ?
Mr. Delamere desired the witness not to answer
the,. question.
' Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE —lt is a question
as to a direct dealing with the b'nikrupt. As such,
it is a legal question, and if not answered I shall
commit the witness.

Mr. Delamere—lf, sir, according to your decision
in the matter of Angell, this witness is not in a con-
dition to be examined at all, then I submit that this
question cannot be put to him ; and if put to him
again, I advise him not to answer it.
Do you know W. H. Douglas, the endorser of these
bills ? Witness—Under advice I shall decline ans-
wering that question.
Mr. Delamere—The truth is, we do not wish to
prove.
Mr. Nias (to witness)—Sign your depositions.
Mr. Delamere—l advise him not to sign that which
contains your objectionable questions.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—The witness has
consented to answer certain questions. These ques-
tions are legal ; he must sign his depositions, and if he
refuse to do so, I shall commit him.

This decision had its effect, and the witnes signed
his depositions, when the Court rose, and the hearing
was adjourned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—While the Times is alternately exalting
and aspersing Bishops, it is seeking to revive one of
the worst claims of priestcraft in behalf of " Pres-
byters"—we mean the claim that auricular confe:sion
of criminals is to be held sacred to them. The Rev.
Henry Formby, curate of Ruardean, has been backed
by the Times in the announced resolution to plagi-
arise from the Romish Church (in contempt of
law) the doctrine that confessions made to him by . a
dying criminal are sacred from justice. His peni-
tent was a woman who had committed repeated acts
of infanticide—it is supposed with an accomplice—
and her dying confession Mr. Formby keeps secret.
The law recognises no such privileged communica-
tion ; the State, which upholds church endowments,
probably does not uphold them in order to maintain
functionaries who aid and abet crime, and comfort
criminals by easing their bosom of the perilous stuff,
which they are found so often ready to reveal to
justice rather than retain uncommunicated. We are
now told by the Times, and by the curate of Ruardean,
that the State ought to permit the clergy of its choice
to receive these confidences, under the seal of confes-
sion, and thus, in many cases, intercept them from
justice. It is easy to see with what motive a section
of the Anglican clergy may desire to snatch this
privilege of confdssion from exclusive enjoyment of
the Romish priest. It is a power over weak and
guilty minds, useful for priestly purposes. The
question is whether it is conducive to religious,
moral, or political ones. Whether the intention
of the State, in upholding a Protestant clergy,
is to revive the doctrine of a power in the Church
to absolve delinquents from their human duties,
and to defraud human justice of the benefit of
their confessions. This has always been held by Pro-
testants the worst relic of priestcraft among Roman
Catholics ; and the Times has not been the slowest to
denounce its supposed effects in Ireland. In those parts
of continental Europe which were long the most priest-
ridden, and partially are so still, the effects of the prac-
tice appear most unequivocally. "When in the South of
Eiirope" (we quote the late esteemed historian, M. de
Sismondi), we find all assassins, all thieves, all prostitutes,
very scrupulously fulfilling all the observances of re-
ligion, we are apt to accuse them of hypocrisy, and to
imagine that, by their exterior of Christianity, they
have no other object than to deceive those who observe
them. This is a mistake ; throughout the South of
Europe, this refuse of society is bona fide religious.
Malefactors becoming numerous, have found, have
formed bad priests, who live by their offer-
ings, and who, as they partake the product, are
always ready to sell the absolution of crime.
STANDARD.—We must respectfully claim the
attention of our readers to the proceedings in the
Court of Common Pleas yesterday, in the case in
which this journal was charged with libel. We
shall not be accused of having neglected to raise our
voice against the libel code until that code touched
ourselves : the readers of the Standard know that we
have never permitted any distinction of class, or sect,
or party, to restrain our protest against that op-
pressive and degrading code as often as the oc-
casion occurred. This has been our conduct through
a long course, in which extraordinary care,
and we hope the influence of an anxious desire, never
unnecessarily to damage the interests, or wound the
self-love of an individual, has obtained for us an im-
munity from libel prosecutions. Yesterday was the
first conviction—almost the first prosecution—of the
Standard for a libel, since its establishment, nearly
sixteen years ago, and of the offence, whatever it
might be complained of yesterday, the proprietor or
editor of the Standard was really as innocent as any
person who may read these lines. Under such cir-
cumstances it may be • forgiven us if we feel
deeply hurt by a conviction, and if we demand
to present our wrongs to the public. We feel
that we suffer a grievous injustice, not from a judge
or a jury—who must act as the law requires them—
but from a tyrant law ; and the individual's acute sense
of injustice it is a duty to proclaim, because the sense
of individual wrong, from tyranny of every kind,
serves to the social body that purpose of announcing
the approach of danger, which physical pain sup-
plies to the natural body. It is by practical expo-
sure, as instances occur, that the public is to be
taught the true character of that libel code which
places the property and reputation of every person
committed in the public Press, at the mercy of what
every individual pleases to indulge his cupidity or
malice at the expense of a newspaper proprietor. We
do not conceal that in the present case the command
of public duty is powerfully re-inforced by an earnest
wish to acquit ourselves of the moral stain, for as such
we esteem it, of a libel conviction. We are not con-
vinced by Sir Thomas Wilde's reasoning that a good
character is a bad thing, which ought to go in aggrava-
tion of the punishment of him who has earned it,
and thereon we shall try at whatever pecuniary
cost to preserve the character we have earned, re-
joiced that a good character is the only topic of
reproach which our general conduct affords to a vin-
dictive accuser. With infinitely more pleasure do
we pay 2001. as the penalty of a good character, than
we should obtain one hundred times the sum as the

fruit of acts that could justly fasten upon us a cha-
racter of an opposite description. We are not of Sir
Thomas IVilde s school of mercantile morality; we
cannot bring ourselves to think of money lost in da-
mages for libel as merely so much tare and tret upon
it may be a gainful trade : we might think so if it
were the money only that was lost, for that is
nothing; but no profit can in our judgment be set in
the balance against even a formal conviction of a vio-
lation of the law to the injury of a fellow-subject.

DREADFUL MURDER NEAR
CHEPSTOW.
CHEPSTOW, DEC. s.—On Saturday, the 3d inst.,
between the hours of twelve A.m. and two P.M., a most
atrocious murder was committed on the person of an
unmarried female, aged 36, named 3loxley, who re-
sided with her father at a farm called Ponlesasen,
about a mile from the village of St. Owen's, Mon-
mouthshire, and two miles from this town.
It appears, from the facts that have transpired, that
the father left home about eleven A.M. on the day of
the murder, for Chepstow market. On his return, at
two o'clock, he found the lifeless body of his daughter
lying in a pool of blood at the back door, and beside
her a large hedge-stake, by which it was evident the
unfortunate woman had been deprived of life. The
drawer in the house had been broken open, and about
201. in cr.sh stolen therefrom.

The Rev. Theobald Mathew is to visit Jersey and
Guernsey, by invitation, immediately after Easter.
We hear that the number of students at Gottingen,
in the winter quarter, which has just commenced, is
very much decreased.

m olrmd
emr d
ai a t
set r ionhfgo r mmaut
si ot
en
rof havingth
e beenneighbours given o
imme-
diately went in search of the murderer ' • and during
the day several persons were taken into custody on
suspicion, but from want of evidence were discharged.
Yesterday about noon the supposed murderer was
captured at Tintern Abbey, about two miles from the
scene of the murder. lie is now in custody awaiting
the decision of the Coroner's inquest, now sitting.
The prisoner, Edward Reece, is a man about 26
years of age, a near neighbour of the deceased. Sus-
picion fell upon him in consequence of his having been
spending considerable sums of money on the preceding
day; as he was merely a farm labourer it was at once
supposed he could not by honest means have been
in possession of the money. Since his apprehension a
shirt and waistcoat belonging to him have been disco-
vered in the thatch of one of the farm-buildings,
covered with blood. It appears the villain entered
the house while the woman was engaged in her do-
mestic duties, and struck her with the hedge-stake on
the hack of the head. The blow having failed to
stun the deceased, she appears to have struggled with
the murderer, as it is evident that she had moved
about the room previously to the villain accomplish-
ing his purpose in her final destruction. The prisoner
had been married the preceding Sunday.

Meyerbeer has suffered a great domestic calamity.
He has lost one of his brothers, scarcely 44 years of
age. This brother, to whom he was much attached,
was struck with apoplexy while walking in one of the
streets of Berlin. Ile dragged himself home with
difficulty, .and died two days afterwards.
THE SCILLy ISLES.—We believe we are correct in
stating that the regular mail communication between
Penzance and the Scilly Isles, and which has for so
long a time been interrupted, to the great distress, in-
convenience, and danger, both of the inhabitants of
those places and all others elsewhere, having corres-
pondents and business there, will be shortly resumed,
if, indeed, it may not be said already to have com-
menced. The differences existing between the Post-
office authorities, and the owners of the " Lionesse"
Scilly Packet, and from which all the inconvenience
alluded to has arisen, are, we are informed, adjusted.
I The Lionesse, (Tregarthen) brought over the ma 1
from Scilly on Tuesday, the 29th ult., as formerly,
and will take it when she sails again, on the Friday
following, and we hope and believe that no further
interruption will take place. We congratulate the
inhabitants of these places respectively on the probable
completion of this to them—important arrangement.
—Sherltorne and Yeovil Mercury.

IN.
Mr. Payne held an inquest last evening at the Ci
• ty
MR. TURNBULL AND THE AU-
-1 one of the inmates. It appeared,sintghfraoatmthlaerGgdeuecilseadqhusVairei had
body of 'William Smith, age ,I 18,
THORITIES OF CUBA.
Bridewell, upon the We have received, the following communication
from the British and. Foreign Anti-Slavery Society:—
been committed for two month
"DEAR 'S' NlRas,—sa:ltiNnf ass" üßraehdanthasat Monday last, for wilfully break'
interest in the ?
.nevements of any who are engage
_, plate glass in the window of Mr. Doudney, clothier,
whether officiral-
4or otherwise, in seeking to break Fleet-street, valued at 12/
unmingale i Thursday morning he complained of headache and cold
~ his plea being that he vas;
the iniquitous bonds of slavery, an remove fron 1 destitute, and wished to be sent to prison. lon.
the earth rm.-evil which is mire of An
4 this remove
adn 1
uhaisrstpresvvinolups-
curse, perk
the liber t..i .of troubling yor
aps, than any that, can be narrdt.ij e over his body, and was admitted into the Infirmary
There :are evils, and g ' Mr. Crooks, assistant-surgeon, attended him till- his-
- toms of typhus fever, and his medical attendant' had
.
:with this Valinnunl'i°l4.eil:
....e geo d decease on Sunday. Ile had all the
th.:ic, k no doubt it had been induced by
re At oe nryes,tahnatlassuld
as::.
arising from them, hat, at
is evil •' -
particularly exposure to the he
a tree bearing. none but deadly fruitunder la i
shadeFk. The ser •
rcuit is made a beast, and the mat. h •privations, •
amo ester. , having shept in the streets six nights beforadmission.
" l'he name rd T bll . .. was miserably filthy, and in an extreme state of
Turnbull u you may perhaps be farm- Ile
liar with. It • 'ion. Verdict—" .Died from natural causes."
is a name that deserves to be known exhaus. .
and.respect :expect, •ne held another •He was our Consul at Ilavannah for a Mr. Pit) 1 inquest at the Bal-ere
short tar ne, Tower-street, on the body of
, ..e, and was no discredit to the Government Hall, Harp-. a
V •"" aim he was appointed. Proving himself the Duncan 111,cra:. aged 24, a private in the Scotch
,-.. ener - 4 of injustice and the friend of the oppressed, he Fusiliers, at preset. .t
quartered in the Tower. John
`vas nit the sort of official the Spaniards wanted, and Matthews, the watchufan At the Custom-house, saw
!te ,1,..e the pro-slavery clamour for his removal. So the deceased at half-past tv7elve on Saturday night
14Tong, indeed, was the current of feeling against him last. He was leaning thcmgii:tilly upon one of the
* Ilavannah, that he deemed it unsafe to remain on gates leading to the water, arid aller remaining so for
'.,*.:tiore, and sought refuge on board the Romney, the a few minutes, he went down the
vatermeies path-
.. 4. (Tot for captured Africans lying in the harbour. He way to the steps, and the witness saw no more or
teas superseded in his office as Consul, but retained him. The Coroner and Jury censured this witness
that of ' Protector of liberated Africans.' The fide- very severely for his neglect in not wacning the de-
lity with which he discharged the functions of this ceased of the dangerous path he was purstring. The
important office is proved by the continued and in- witness said it was no part of his duty to. pr event
creased enmity of the man-stealing and slave-dealing people from going into the river if they were so in-
Spaniard. dined. Sergeant Baddelly said the deceased' 'was a
"In August last Mr. Turnbull visited Nassau. He native of Ross-shire, Scotland, and enlisted in .1839.
had received from our Government an official paper He bore a good character for steadiness and sobeety.
respecting some British subjects held in slavery in Verdict—S" Accidental death."
Cuba, who had been carried thither in direct contra-
vention of an Act that had passed the English Parlia-
ment for the purpose of preventing the exportation of
slaves to a foreign port or country. The intent of
the Act was clearly obvious, but one section not being
so declaratory as it should have been, these men (the
slave-owners), always distinguished for works of
supererogation, availed themselves of the defect in
the letter most flagrantly to violate the spirit of the
law. At different times, therefore, hundreds of slaves
were removed to Cuba, where they, or their descend-
ants, still are.
"Immediately after Mr. Turnbull's arrival here he
commenced his inquiries, in order to learn who had
been carried away, and by whom. A large number
of persons appeared to give evidence, some of whom
had children there, others parents, brothers, and
sisters. Some had themselves been there, and could
give the names of fellow-slaves, whom they left, and
who are now groaning beneath the iron yoke. It
was proved but too clearly, that a gentleman,
holding an office in the Court of Vice-Admiralty,
had British subjects as slaves on his estate at Cuba.
Mr. Turnbull, thinking that he should be able to
identify them, and obtain their liberation, or if not
all some one or two who would extend and increase
the evidence already supplied, and hoping, too,
to be able to visit several islands of the colony
from which people had been carried, and thus
collect more facts, left Nassau in the beginning of
the month of October. On the 16th of the month
they reached Gibara. The sloop did not
enter the harbour until Mr. T. had been gp shore and
ascertained from the proper officer if she might do
so, to which he at once assented. Accordingly the
sloop entered and was moored, but the crew were not
to be allowed to come on shore. Mr. Turnbull was
about to procure the usual securities for the crew„but
the officer, or commandant, told him that there was
no necessity for his being at the trouble of getting
securities, for that he himself would be answerable for
them. But all these movements were preconcerted,
for they had been apprised by some at Nassau of his
coming, and of all that he had done here.
" Mr. Turnbull had to go sixty miles inland to visit
the estate. lie obtained a horse and was accompanied
by three military men. He soon found that he was a
prisoner, and not at liberty to go where he chose. He
was taken before the Governor of the district, where
his passport was demanded, which he produced, and
this, contrary to all international law, was taken alto-
gether from him, and my informant tells me that it
was only by showing the firmest determination that
he obtained a copy of it.
• " No sooner had Mr. T. left the harbour than the
commandant, with his soldiers, boarded the sloop, and
made the crew prisoners. The next day Mr. T.'.
valet, the captain, and the pilot, were taken on shore
and put into the stocks. The day following the rest
of the crew were taken from the sloop and imprisoned.
Two days were these innocent men, British subjects,
confined in a filthy narrow cell, knowing the want
of both bread and water. On Mr. Turnbull's return
from the interior he was made acquainted with the
perfidy of the commandant, and, on his evincing deep
feeling for the unoffending crew, the officials grinned
satisfaction at their sufferings.
" Mr. Turnbull's valet had with him a large num-
ber of books; most, indeed all of them, were religious,
except an English grammar ; he had also a large
number of Spanish tracts, which he had receivedfrom
the Baptist mission at Nassau ; also a Bible and a
Companion to the Bible. All these they took away
and still retain. * 4 *
" 31r. Turnbull, when the sloop was sent away
from Cuba, was then in the hands of the Spanish au-
thorities, who were about to take him to Havanmah
to subject him to an examination, and to deal with
him accordingly. Some of the old slave-owners at
Nassau, I am told, were overjoyed at the good news
of his captivity, and his friends are thinking of the
possible issue with. anxious feeling_; but Mr. T. was
confident that he should be at Nassau about three
weeks from that date, Oct. 25.
" I shall be happy. if at Nassau when he returns,
to give other and further .particulars of this daring
outrage on the liberty of British subjects, and on
an agent of the British Government. Surely these
blustering slave-owners—these people long notorious
for iron-heartedness, treachery, and faithlessness—will
not be permitted to insult an accredited officer of a
mighty people with impunity.
•" Some indemnification ought to be made to the
crew for their ten days' suffering in their dark and
filthy cell. during a part of which time their feet were
made fast in the stocks. The offer of a thousand dol-
lars a day, the Captain of the sloop declared in my
hearing, should not induce him to visit Gibara again.
"I am, Sir,
(Signed) "H. CAPERN, Baptist Missionary."

The Dowager Lady Holland has been suffering froi
indisposition, arising from, a severe cold, at her Lady -
ship's temporary residence, Lord Kilmaine's mansion,

in .Fouth-street.
THE WEATHER.—During the whole of yesterday.
the metropolis was enveloped in a dense fog, render--
ing it necessary to use artificial light in all the City
offices and warehouses. This sudden change from
the fine open weather prevalent during the last few
days, may be considered the harbinger of winter.
The temperature throughout the day was much lower
than on Monday, and the market waggons from the
suburban districts were covered with hoar :frost
EFFECTS OF THE INCOME-TAX.---At a, recent
meeting of the Board of Guardians, the guardian
for Lostock, who is not of the school of Diogenes,
appeared in an exceedingly ill humour, its ebulli-
tions continually bubbling into all the business
of the Board. The Chairman, an Income-tar
Commissioner, at length said —"I think,
.Mr.
Shaw must have been before the Income-tax Commis-
sioners."—" Why ?" said Mr. Shaw.—" Because," re-
plied the Chairman, " you are so cross." The Chair-
man often speaks of the beauties of the new Poor-
law ; to put people out of temper appears to be one of
the beauties of the Income-tax.—Bolton Free Press.
THE PROPERTY TAX.—The Post-office revenue
promises to be considerably increased by the necessity
of serving proprietors assessed to property, who live at
a distance from their estates, with notice of the time
the appeals are fixed to be held. A letter from Rock-
ford division was lately received by an owner wherein
the tax amounted to 4s. 4d. and the charge for post-
age was 2d.—Essex Herald.

-LADY AUGUSTA SOMERSET.—The best practical re-
futation of the atrocious falsehood so industriously
circulated, and so eagerly caught up by the Liberal
press, derogatory to the fair fame of this amiable and
accomplished member of the ducal amuse of
Beaufort, is to be found in the fact that Badminton
Hall is at this moment the scene of a splendid reunion
of the nobility of the realm, in which his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George of
Cambridge take part.—Where and how the diabolical
rumour could have originated we are at a loss to con-
ceive, but we sincerely trust that it is now put at rest
fur ever.—Cheltenham Journal.

THE MANCHESTER AND BOLTON BAILWAY.--IM-
MENSE CONSUMPTION OF CAST IRON.—In conse-
quence of the intended junction of the Liverpool and
Manchester with the Leeds and Manchester Railway,
at Hunt's-bank. about 200 or 250 yards will have to
be executed by the Bolton Railway Company. It
will be formed entirely of cast iron, and will
be elevated some 18 feet above the level of the
street ; to effect which 51 immense cast-metal
beams will be required, each weighing about seven
tom, and a similar number of pillars, each weighing
five tons. Besides this, the entire length and breadth
of the road will have a complete cast metal flooring.
The estimated weight of the whole is 1,030 tons, ewe
elusive of the wrought iron and the rails. The rail-
way will be formed in the centre of Tee-street, leav-
ing a carriage road on each side. The design is
beautiful ; and the work, judging from appearances,
will be of the most substantial description.—Bolton
Free Press.

IRISH OFFICERS IN CHINA AND INDIA.-Sir Hugh
Gough, whose command of the British force in China
has been one* scene of victory and triumph, is son of
the late Lieutenant-Colonel Gough, of the City
Limerick Militia, and commenced his military
career in_ that regiment in 1793. As Major in
the 87th (or Faugh-a-Baullaghs) he commanded
that gallant corps at the memorable battle of Tala-
vera, where the 87th captured a French eagle, and
he was severely wounded. His gallantry, during the
siege of Cadiz was so conspicuous, that Sir Thomas
Graham (now Lord Lynedoch) honoured him with
brevet rank from the date of his dispatches, being
the first instance of the kind which occurred
in the British army. On the 31st of December,

1811, Lieutenant-Colonel Gough repulsed, at Ta-
rifa, with his eight companies, 500 strong, no less
than 1,800 picked troops, whi) assaulted a breach. A
general order on this occasion spoke of his conduct as
" surpassing all 'praise," and the Prince Regent
ordered the word " Tarifa" to be thereafter im-
printed on the regiment's colours. He next
commanded at Vittoria, where the 87th lost half
its number. On this occasion he was honoured
with the thanks of the brave Picton, and received a
third medal of distinction. He commanded at the
battle of Nivelle, and was severely wounded. On
this occasion he was honoured with the cross, and the
officers of his regiment presented him with a valuable
vase. Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, 9th Regiment, who
has so distinguished himself at Affghanistan, is bro-
ther of J. E. Taylor, Esq., Cranbrook, Fermanagh.
BLETSOE.—NoN-EMPLOTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL
LARoURERS.—I regret to inform you that indications
of a commotion among the agricultural labourers in

this hitherto peaceabledistrictlegin to develope them
afsasremmebrsle,
reacinudestinggoneemrpoluonydmenitn. bAandsbodtoy
selves. • Bodies of men have already begun
the
of seven or eight men belonging to Harrold
went round to the farmers of that parish about the
beginning of last month, and in some places expressed
themselves in strong language, saying "they could
not starve, and bread they must have: At length
one of the farmers gave them employment, but some
of them could not earn more than 6d. a-day.—Cor-
respondent of the Northampton Mercury.
BANKRUPTCY.—SuffoIk, Essex, Harts, and Barks
form the district allotted to Mr. Commissioner Meri-
vale.—lpswich Express.
TRADE IN NEW ZEALAND.—The whale-trade stands
prominent in point of importance compared with all
the other sources of wealth and naval power which
have opened in New Zealand. Hitherto, it must be
acknowledged the mother-country has not availed
herself to the full extent, of the advantages which
the new colonies have presented, especially in regard to
the enlargement of the mercantile navy, viewed as a
enurseryanscould oo ifo
boastr
about two hundred and fifty, ships, each from three to
seamen.
of having Severaln the years
Southago , Sea fishery
the Ameri-
cans
five hundred tons burden. The officers and crew of
every vessel amounted, on the average, to twenty-
five individuals, five of whom may be considered as
yall the whole of which
the
never having been at sea before. The voyage lasts
generallysailo r s aboutare afloat,
threeat
exposed ears,o ende
toa climates and-tor
every vicissitude of weather ; the tempests of Cape
Horn, the squalls of the tropics, the hurricanes of
California, and the typhoons of Japan, being equally
familiar to them. The employment of whale-fishing,
more perhaps than any oter, habituates the men to
danger, and calls forth such a degree of
skill, nerve, and presence of d min ,as renders them
well fitted for the duties of an armed ship. It de-
serves to be mentioned, too, that nearly half of the black
oil obtained by the adventurers of Nantucket and New
Bedford is conveyed to England, and sold
there
at a pro-
fit of 50 per cent., even after paying the duty chargeable
on it as a foreign commodity. This fact, if it does
not prove a great relaxation of enterprise on our side,
leaves no doubt as to the increasing activity and suc-
cess of the shipping interest in the United States, the
natives of which at once increase their wealth and
add immensely to the future resources of their coun-
try.—Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. XXXIII.
Polynesia.
INCENDIARISM.—The fearful spirit of incendiarism
has made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Col-
chester, and during the past week much alarm has
been occasioned amongst the inhabitants by repeated
rumours of fires in the adjacent villages. On Friday
night, we regret to state, a cry, too well founded,
was heard about seven o'clock, of a fire at West
Bergholt. The engines and firemen were dispatched
with the utmost promptitude, NI hen it was ascertained
that a detached barn was in flames, which with its
contents consisting of clover seed, the produce of
eight acres, rapidly fell a prey to the devouring ele-
-ent. The whole was the property of Mr. R. Brad-
rook,'b whose stock has been three times fired since
the harvest. The scene of the present burning was
but a very short distance from Mr. Thomas Daniell's,
the destruction of whose property
.we recorded last
week. Mr. Bradbrook was not inaured.—/Pswich
6 Express.