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AT DUBLIN.
) the circumstances connected with the
n, a few brief particulars of which ap-
' a few publications since, has been
and terminated on Monday, after
The extraordinary mystery
created a painful interest among all
I length of the investigation height-
'•uning degree of excitement. At
jury consulted for about half
turned the following verdict :--" We
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by several wounds and hi-
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at said place, on the. even-
' February, 1841, causing i.mme-
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near Dublin, Ireland, for
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present, aiding and abet-
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ao suspicion whatever
diens charged with said death. A
t on foot for the relief of the Italians
-.- been much injured by the immtations
)on tfteir characters ; they having been originally
ered the perpetrators of the bloody deed.

Em; erini Vatliatint.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuzsDay

returns from the poor-law union of Clonmel. Mr. Pedder,
an attorney, residing in Clonmel, was also examined, after
which it was reared that Mr. Hall, from the office of the
poor-law cornminioners, should be ordered to attend at the
Friday next, and Mr. Hawley (one of the assistant
aw commissioners) on Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMON

TUESDAY

_ .
Lord J. RUSSELL, in a reply to a question from Sir R.
Peel, said he should proceed with the early clauses of the
poor-law amendment bill that evening, in order to give an
opportunity for discussing the various amendments, of which
notice had been given. He should then propose to resume
the committee on Friday and Monday next, after which he
intended going on with it de die in diem.

On the motion for committee, on the poor-law amendment
bill.

Mr. H. HINDE said he hoped there was no intention to
hurry the bill through the house before Easter.
Lord J. RUSSELL said there was no such intention. He
thought, however, that in committee, long intervals between
each sitting were detrimental.

Sir E. SsiJGDEN hoped that some clause would be intro-
duced to enable married couples to live together in work-
houses. The separation of man and wife created a strong
feeling against the poor-law.

Colonel WOOD said that in the,Staines union aged couples
were not separated, but were allowed a room to themselves,
with a fire in it, where they might live comfortably.

Mr. WAKLEY quoted a correspondence respecting the
Uxbridge union, where the board of guardians had refused
to sick paupers the diet ordered for them by the medical
attendant. In gaols the medical officers had always absolute
power in this respect.
Mr. DARBY said that under the old poor-law the order of
the medical attendant must be confirmed. If the articles
ordered were withheld there was an appeal to a magistrate,
and so there was still.

Lord HOWICK said that no board of guardians would
refuse to attend to the orders of a medical attendant without
strong and just grounds. It might happen that a man pro-
fessing a medical education might also possess an anxiety to
acquire a low and despicable popularity, and might be capa-
ble of abusing a trust reposed in him. If the board of guar-
dians suspected a medical officer of an attempt to set aside
the regular system of relief, they would be quite right to set
aside his orders. He could scarcely credit it to be a fact, so
discreditable to the gentlemen of England, as that a board
of guardians would refuse articles really necessary when or-
dered by a medical man.

Some discussion followed, in the course of which General
JOHNSON declared, that it was with great pain he had heard
what bad fallen from Lord J. Russell on Friday night.
Mr. GROTE contended for the propriety of a check, on the
part of the guardians, over the medical attendant ; because,
otherwise, the whole control of the union would rest with
the latter functionary.

Mr. EASTHOPE contended that there was ample security
against any improper interference on the part of the medical
attendant, who might be discharged by the guardians ; but
it was not right that he should be limited in what he thought
proper to order.

Mr. W. Arrwoon said, the lives of the paupers could not
be considered safe if the medical attendant was not to be en-
trusted with any discretion as to their diet.

After some further discussion, in the course of which some
warm observations passed between Mr. Ward and Mr. W.
Attwood, the house resolved itself into committee, and the
first clause, fixing the period for which the poor law commis-
sion shouldexist, was moved by Lord J. RUSSELL.
Mr. EASTHOPE thought five years too long a period for
the prolongation of the commission, and moved as an amend-
ment, that it should extend only until 1843.
Mr. GROTE was of opinion that the period should not be
shorter than five years. He denied that the powers of the
commissioners were arbitrary, although they certainly were
large, because the important duties they had to perform re-
quired that they should be so.

Mr. WAKLEY said the hon. member for London ran no
risk of being classed amongst the mischievous demagogues of
the metropolis. The hon. member, however, had not ad-
vanced a single reason why it was necessary to renew the com-
mission for five years. In reference to what had fallen from
Lord Howick, the hon. member for Finsbury replied with
considerable spirit and effect, and contended that the noble
lord's contemptuous remarks were directed less against him-
self than his constituents. There were already 13,000 pa-
rishes incorporated into unions, and the hon. member con-
tended that as only 700 parishes remained, it could not be
necessary to continue the commission for five years.

Mr. HAWES said he had known the workhouses under the
old law, and he had a good deal of experience of union work-
houses, and he solemnly declared that under the old system
many of the workhouses were as bad as gaols, in which treat-
ment was experienced by the paupers which might justly be
called torture ; and yet hon. members now sought to destroy
the only system which had ever grappled with the enormous
evils of the old law. He denied that the present system
could be fairly designated harsh or oppressive in its opera-
tion, and said he was willing to share all the unpopularity
which might be incurred by the hon. member for the city of
London, for defending this bill, having neither wish nor de-
sire to sit in that house upon such popularity as might he ac-
quired by opposing this bill.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said the question really at issue was,
the extinction of the commission, or its perpetuity, and con-
tended that the law could be better administered without a
central board, by leaving its provisions to be carried out by
the boards of guardians throughout the country. The hon.
member then quoted instances of great cruelty which had
been perpetrated in union workhouses, and asserted that un-
der the old law no such cases bad occurred.
Mr. DARBY supported the amendment.
Mr. HAMILTON contended that the poor law bill had failed
in one of its main objects, that of raising wages. On the
contrary, it might easily be shown that its effect had been to
reduce them. He admitted that nothing could be worse than
the old system ; but it did not follow from that that they
should " go the whole hog" with this measure, and have
" the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill." He
thought it might be necessary to continue the con-mission,
but he should vote for its continuance for the shorter period.
Sir G. STRICKLAND would also vote for the shorter period,
and was of opinion that, unless some material changes were
made, the present system could not continue to be the per-
manent law of the land.

Mr. VILLIERS supported the clause.
Mr. 'W. Arrwoon supported the shorter period, in order
to give a more frequent power of revision to the House of
Commons. It was said that this was done indirectly, be-
cause in the estimates the question might be brought annually
under consideration ; but if so, there could surely be no ob-
jection to do that directly which was not deemed injudicious
when done indirectly.

Mr. MUNTZ thought it might be as well, in accordance
with the principle of voting the continuance of this commis-
sion for five years, to similarly vote the mutiny bill and the
estimates for five years. _

On a division, the amendment was negatived by a majority
of 174 to 135.

Mr. H. lIINDE proposed that, after the words " year
1846," the words "no longer" should be introduced.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the introduction of the
words was useless, for the powers of the commissioners would
necessarily cease in 1846, and it would require a new act of
parliament to renew them.

Mr H. HINDE declined to press his amendment, but re-
minded the house that the bank restriction act had been fre-
quently annually renewed " for ode year and no longer."
Colonel SIBTHORP said be should take the sense of the
house upon the reduction of the salaries of the commissioners
from £2OOO a-year to £lOOO, and their travelling expenses
from three guineas to one guinea a-day, which he thought
quite enough to keep them in " good working condition."
He should also move to reduce the salaries of the assistant-
commissioners from £7OO a-year to £3OO a-year.

On the motion that the clause should stand part of the bill,
Mr. J. FIELDEN moved that it be expunged.
The committee again divided, and the amendment was ne-
gatived by a majority of 163 to 49.

_
The clause was then agreed to, the chairman reported pro-
gress, and obtained leave to sit again.

HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY

The Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill were both
read a third time and passed.

The amendments in the Tithes Composition Bill were
agreed to, and the bill was passed.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the second reading of
the East India Rum Bill.

Lord ASHBURTOY doubted if it would be possible to dis-
tinguish between rum made from dates and from rice and
that made from cane.

After some observations from Lord MONTEAGLE, in sup-
port of the bill,

Lord ELLENBOROUGH expressed his gratification at the
introduction of this bill, and was satisfied it ought not to be
any longer delayed.

The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Friday.
Their lordships then adjourned till Thursday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUESDAY.
Committees were appointed to try the merits of the peti-
tions against the returns from the electors of Walsall and St.
Albans.

Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that on the 6th of April he
would move the adjournment of the house until the 20th of
April.

Lord MAHON, in pursuance of notice to that effect, rose
to move a resolution declaring it to be the opinion of the
house, that the large increase in the number of convicts per-
manently confined in the hulks in Great Britain, although

,
noble lord contended, at great length, that the government,
by this course of proceeding, was guilty of violating the spirit
of the law, even though its letter might not have been in-
fringed. It had been found that the puniihment of confine-
ment in the hulks had not been productive of the same salu-
tary effect as resulted from a sentence to transportation when
enforced. It was found that owing to the construction of the
hulks, it was impossible to introduce those improvements
in prison discipline which had been reantly adopted in most
other prisons. The strongest objection-to imprisonment in
the hulks, however, was, that the convicts, on their dis-
charge, found difficulties all but insuperable to obtaining
honest employment. The system of transportation, he
thought, had been rather hastily condemned. There had,
doubtless, been many abuses connected with it, but many of
them might have been removed.:Even with all its abuses the
punishment of transportation had been followed by very con-
siderable benefits, the reformed offenders punished in this
way being far more numerous than those reformed from a
similar class of offenders remaining in England. Great
dissatisfaction prqvailed in New South Wales in consequence
of the cessation of the supply of convict labour. He was
of opinion that a new colony might be established on the
north-west coast of New Holland, where the evils which
had attended the assignment system in New South Wales
might be avoided.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he was borne out in the course he
had pursued by the result of the inquiries instituted by the
transportation committee. It was not enough for the noble
lord to point out the evils of confinement in the hulks—evils
inseparable from such confinement ; he was bound to suggest
some new plan before he called upon the house to say that
the present system is inconvenient. There was not, after all,
so great a difference of opinion on this subject between the
noble lord and himself as the noble lord appeared to imagine.
The difference was one of degree, for the noble lord admitted
the evils of the system of assignment which formed the prin-
ciple of the colony of New South Wales. He (Lord John
Russell) could not agree, however, with the Archbishop of
Dublin, that transportation should be altogether abolished.
Many convicts were still sent to Australia, but under less
capricious regulations than those which formerly existed.
He was of opinion that it would be well to retain the prac-
tice of employing convicts in the dockyards when sentenced
for a short term of years, but this was a punishment which
should be regulated by an act of parliament, and not by the
Secretary of State. The noble lord concluded by moving as
an amendment " the previous question."
Mr. PARINGTON said, that under the present system a
judge passing sentence on a criminal could not tell what the
effect of his sentence would be to the prisoner. Let the
sentence be understood, and let it be carried out to its tenor.
Tmroasats portation might, under proper regulations, be made a
valuable secondary punishment, and ought, therefore,
to be retained.
Mr. HUME acknowledged all that had been done by the
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punishments, in order that capital punishments, which were
a disgrace to a civilised country, should be abolished.

sir, Loy eartderoned the yrsAtici of commuting atattucti
of transportation, In many instances wrung by a sense of
justice from the judges, by a subsequent order of the Secre-
tary of State. The punishment of imprisonment, notwith-
standing all the improvements in prison discinl
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as in-

'effectual as respected the reformation of the criminal. From
his own experience, he believed it to be hopeless to expect
such reformation, for nothing was more common than to
have prisoners arrested for crimes they committed on the
very day they left the walls of the gaol. He was, therefore,
an advocate for the punishment of transportation, for if that
should fail as a ----

econdary punishment, he confessed he knew
not what could be substituted for it.
Mr. Fox MAuLE said, that, in consequence of the effect
produced on the public mind by the report made by the
transportation committee, it became necessary to abandon
the former system of transportation. Having no other sub-
stitute than the hulks, they were of necessity obliged to have
recourse to them until some better mode of secondary pu-
nishment should he adopted. The right hon. gentleman was
of opinion that the discretion placed in the hands of the
Secretary of State, of regulating the amount of punishment,
was an improper one ; but as Lord J. Russell had a system
of secondary punishments under consideration, he hoped the
noble lord (Mahon) would be satisfied with the publicity
which would be gained by the debate, and' not press his mo-
tion to a division.

Mr. ESTCOURT was averse to the hulks as a system of
punishment.

Lord HOWICK hoped the house would not adopt the reso-
lution of the noble lord (Mahon), as its only effect would be
to drive them back to the former plan of transportation,
which would be a serious evil.

Lord Mahon said he had heard nothing to induce him to
withdraw his motion.

Upon a division, the resolution of the noble lord was car-
ried by a majority of 49 to 28.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD then moved the following resolution :
" That the assessment of all property, real and *sons!,
within the United Kingdom would be a fit and proper substi-
tute for such of the taxes of excise and custom as press most
heavily on the middle and industrious classes ; and that such
alteration in the mode of raising the public revenue would be
calculated, in a high degree, to enhance the value of all pro-
perty, particularly by 'leading to the fuller developement of
the copious sources of wealth in this kingdom and its vast
dependencies."

Mr. MUNTZ seconded the motion, and said it was one of
the opportunities given to the house of proving its sympathy
with the pOorer classes of society.

Mr. E. TURNER complained of the thin state of the house,
and more particularly of the ministerial benches, when a
question of such importance to the working classes came be-
fore it.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS said that the taxation a the country
was thrown upon the poor and the middle classes of the po-
pulation, which was an unfair shifting of the burden from the
shoulders of the aristocracy.

Mr. J. FIELDEN supported the motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no
doubt the thinness of the house was to be attributed to the
fact, that the English people were essentially a business
people, and as there was no important business of a practical
nature on the paper, it was not very surprising that the house
was not very full. The right hon. gentleman contended that
it NOuld be absurd to agree to an abstract propoiition like
the one before them, and if the hon member thought his
principle good, he should come down to the house prepared
with a tax on property to place before the house for its con-
sideration. He hoped that under these circumstances the
hon. member would not think it necessary to press his mo-
tion to a division, but he must meet it with " the previous
question.." _ _ _

- Mr. HUME contended that the taxation of the country
pressed most unequally, and he would say unfairly on the
industry as compared with the aristocracy of the kingdom.
Property, he said, monopolised the. power of legislation to
itself, and in its legislation it took care to exempt property
from taxation.

Mr. GOULBURN could not vote for a resolution which bore
so manifestly on the very face of it a positive absurdity, for it
asserted that to tax all property, real and personal, would
enhance the value of all property. The right hon. gentleman
contended that it was far more beneficial to the public to
take taxes from capital in• its used state instead of taxing the
capital itself as property, and thus preventing it from being
diffused with such utility in giving employment to all the
middle and working classes of society.

Mr. WARLEY complained that dUring the discussion of a
question of such importance there should have been only 38
members in the house at one time, 37 at another, and 36 at
another period of the evening, and that throughout the dis-
cussion the leaders on both side 4 of the house were absent.
He supported the motion.

ColOitel SIBTHORP said if anything could make him believe
that there would be a general election in a short time, which
he feared be could not bring himself to hope for, it would
be the motion brought forward by the hon. member for Bir-
mingham, a motion which he should certainly oppose.
Mr. M. PHILIPS suggested to the hon. member for Bir-
mingham to withdraw his motion, and bring it forward in a
house more full, and, of course, more capable of discussing
so important a measure with advantage. If, however, he
persevered he should vote with him.

....
General JOHNSON advised. the hon. member for Birming-
ham to divide the house by all means on the question.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD replied, and on a division the previous
question was carried by a majority of 40 to 27.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY
The House of Lords did not sit to-night.

•
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that he intended to propose
some alterations in the Poor Law Amendment Bill, and also
enumerated the amendments proposed by other,honourable
members, which it was his intention, either partially or
wholly, to adopt.
Mr. E. TENNENT moved the further consideration of the
report on the Designs Copyright Bill.
Mr. LABOUCLIERE suggested to the hon. member to have
his bill reprinted with the amendments, and to postpone its
recommittal until the house would have time to consider the
numerous amendments which it was proposed to introduce.
Mr. ,E. TENNENT was unwilling to accede to the sugges-
tion ; and a discussion followed on the propriety of postpone-
ment, in the course of which it appeared that the copyright
of designs in glass and some other articles formed no part of
the original resolution of the committee of the whole
house, upon which resolution the bill was, according to the
forms of the house, necessarily founded. Those articles
were superadded to the bill.without having recourse to a new
resolution of the whole house. A suggestion offered by Mr.
Hume was, after some conversation between Sir R. Peel,
Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Tennent. eventually adopted—
namely, that the present bill should be withdrawn altogether
—that the house should resolve into committee of the whole
house to-morrow to agree to a resolution including glass,
&c., and that the new bill should be allowed to proceed un-
opposed to the stage at which the bill withdrawn had arrived.
The bill was accordingly withdrawn, and Mr. TENNENT
gave the requisite notice for to-morrow (Thursday).

MURDER OF GARLAND, THE ASHTON SAWYBR

CAPTURE AND COMMITTAL OF THE PRINCIPAL,

Seldom have the perpetrators of murder been so studiously,
perseveringly, and successfully pursued, as in the case of the
two unfortunate men, Cooper and Garland, who successively
fell victims to a murderous combination at Ashton-under-
Line. Not above two months elapsed between the two mur-
ders. Cooper was shot in December last, and Garland was
waylaid on the highway on the 31st of October, beaten wip
bludgeons, and, after suffering for fourteen days, died of his
wounds. It will be remembered that the whole proceedings
connected with these murders have been traced beyond the
shadow of doubt to the sawyers' union. The officers calcu-
late that they have not travelled less than 3000 miles in the
pursuit of the prisoners.

They travelled the mining districts among the Welsh
mountains, in one of which they obtained positive Sinforma-
tion that one of the ringleaders was at work—this proved
true, but such was the sympathy,' protection, and vigilance
shown to the culprit by the miners, and such the communi-
cation kept up (indirectly) rith him from the Lancashire
sawyers, that he eluded the pursuit. The officers report,
that the Cambrian iron mines, nine miles from Bridge End,
Glamorganshire, are filled with depredators and deserters,
and that only a week before they arrived, two murderers were
taken by a London officer. In this district there is a popula-
tion of 8,000, and only one solitary constable, who considers
his office, from his inability to perform it, merely a nominal
one, contenting himself merely with serving summonses, for,
to use his own observation, to interfere with the miners,
would be as much as his life was worth. Throughout vari-
ous districts of England, attended with more or less success
(frequently puzzled by intentional misdirections), the pursuit
has been silently continued ; but it was not until Thursday,
the 11th instant, that they succeeded in arresting Joseph Hol-
land, who stands charged with having struck the fatal blow,
upon Garland, and which it is now proved, was executed with
a heavy iron weapon used by sawyers in their business. The
officer Green had been three days in Dublin, when in the
street he met Holland, and secured him. The latter denied all
knowledge of the offence with which he was charged, and
gave a fictitious name. He was subsequently brought to
Manchester, and on Saturday last underwent an examina-
tion before the Ashton magistrates, when he was recognised
by several witnesses, and admitted his proper name. It was
proved that on the day Garland was murdered, Holland
attended a meeting of sawyers at the King's Head, at which
meeting the murderous attack was arranged. He was recog-
nised by another witness as one active in the attack upon
Garland, and this witness swears he saw the prisoner pull
the iron instrument from under his coat and inflict the blow.
Another who witnessed the parties running away produced
the piece of iron, called by sawyers " a pricker," which
he found upon the spot at the time. Upon this evidence the
prisoner has been committed to Kirkdale, to take his trial
on the charge of wilful murder. Robert Holland, the father
of Joseph, was at the same time held to bail on the charge
of conspiracy connected with the same transaction; and
Thomas Hassell, on a like charge, was committed to Kirk-
dale for trial at the ensuing Liveipool assizes, his bail having
delivered him up. _

Thus three parties now await their trial on the capital
charge of committing the before-named murders. Several
will be tried as accessories, and many for conspiracy.

STEAM TO THE EAST INDIES,

From Times.)
An arrangement of the greatest public importance is on
the point of being concluded between the East India Com-
pany and the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company. It is well known to all persons con.
netted with India how great and constant an effort has been
made to extend the advantages of steam communication to
Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, and other places besides Bombay,
and how much blame has been thrown upon the East India
Company for not assisting cordially in such extension. Tfiey
are now, it seems, about to relieve themselves from that im-
putation, if not by taking the whole matter under their own
superintendence, at least by lending very powerful assistance
to other parties with whom there is every prospect that what
is required will be done effectually. They have therefore
proposed to the company abovementioned to grant to them
a premium of £20,000 per annum for five years, which will
commence as soon as the first of their vessels of 1,600 tons,
and 500 horse power shall be put on the line between Cal-
cutta and Suez, and with the further stipulation that within
one year from the date of the first voyage, an addition shall
be made for the service of that line of twp vessels of equal
power. This grant is independent of ark' contract for the
conveyance of the mail on the route mentioned that may sub-
sequently be entered into, only that it is to merge into any
such contract as may be concluded in the course of the five
years in which the premium or gratuity is to operate. The
East India Company will thus be placed in a situation to
judge of the competency of the parties to fulfil the higher
duty which would be confided to them, in the event of their
having the conveyance of the mails on so important a route
before they thereby subject the public to any risk. The
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THE AMERICAN STEAMERS:—The Morning Post of yes-
terday announces that the Belgian government has purchased
the two splendid steamships, the President and the British
Queen, for the purpose of converting them into war frigates.

ifiROPSHIRE ASSIZE

CROWN COURT—TUESDAY, Vi —.ARCH 23.
(Before Mr. Baron Gurney.) •
TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF JOSIAH
MISTER.
This day having been fixed for the trial of Josiah Mister,
accused of an attempt to murder Mr. William Miller Mack-
reth, the greatest anxiety was felt touching the inquiry and
its result. The court was very full.
Mr. F. Valentine Lee appeared to defend Mister.
At nine o'clock precisely the prisoner was brought up, and
placed at the bar.• He is described in the calendar as 25
years old, but does not look more than 21. He is under the
middle size, and slightly made. He was dressed in a dark-
green coat, with velvet collar, dark figured satin waistcoat.
grey trowsers, with black stripe, black satin stock, with small
embroidered sprig. His shirt collar and wristbands were
slightly exposed. He wore his hair (which is dark brown)
divided near the middle, and smoothly brushed down at each
side. His eyes, which are rather large, are very dark and
bright. His complexion is dark. He has scanty black
whiskers. On the whole, his appearance was decidedly "in-
teresting," (we believe that is the conventional epithet) and
he did not look a person likely to commit the atrocious crime
with which he stood charged. We observed that his mouth
was very firm. He appeared remarkably self-possessed, and
occasionally took notes of the evidence. He leaded " Not
guilty" to the indictment in a very emphatic manner, and in
a loud voice.
After the Clerk of Assize had stated the counts of the in-
dictment, Mr. Sergeant Ludlow proceeded to address the
jury for the prosecution. He said that in the statement he
should make, he would confine himself, as much as possible,
to a mere narrative of facts. The offence with which the
prisoner stood charged was committed at the Angel Inn, in
the town of Ludlow. on the 20th of last August. On that
morning, at the hour of four, Mr. Mackreth awoke out of
his sleep, and found himself severely wounded. A grievous
offence had been committed by some one. There could be
no doubt that it had been committed with a felonious intent
—with the intent to murder or do great bodily injury. This
was an important question, for with this crime the prisoner
was charged. He had to state for the satisfaction of the jury,
and under correction by the learned judge, that the character
of the crime would be in no degree altered if another person,
and not Mr. Mackreth, was the intended victim. So it would
be no answer to this charge that the blow had fallen upon
another person. It would be necessary that in this state-
ment he should mention circumstances which would carry
back the prisoner to a period antecedent to this affair, and
show how the parties got together. Mister was at Shrews-
bury on the 12th of August, having previously ascertained
that a gentleman named Ludlow would, on that day, be at
the Unicorn Inn, in that town. He repaired to that inn,
and ascertained in what bed.room Mr. Ludlow, who always
put up at that house, was accustomed to sleep. But an acci-
dent prevented Mr. Ludlow's having his usual bed-room,
and he slept in a double-bedded room on that night. A
gentleman named Jobson (who, like Mr. Ludlow, dealt in
cattle,) was also at the Unicorn, it being Shrewsbury fair day.
The prisoner appeared to quarter himself pretty much upon
Mr. Ludlow, and must have heard him agree with Mr. Job-
son to attend the next Ludlow fair. He should be able to
trace Mister from his leaving Shrewsbury, on the 13th of
August—his sleeping at Church Stretton the following night
to his arrival at Ludlow on the 19th. On that afternoon,
from the hour of four until that of seven, he was in the com-
pany of some persons who were fishing in the river Teme,
and having quitted them, he went to Ludford Bridge, which
was adjacent, and made repeated and particular inquiries
when the Red Rover coach would arrive from Birmingham.
It would appear that he entered the town with that coach, so
as to be at the Angel Inn when it arrived. It would be
shown that on Mr. Ludlow's getting out of the coach, which
he did on the side nearest the Angel Inn, the prisoner, who
was standing on the other side, went round, joined him, and
followed him in. The result was that the people thought
the prisoner came with and belonged to Mr. Ludlow. They
thought he was of Mr. Ludlow's party. When they went in
Mr. Ludlow recognised him and said—" So you are here.
Did I not see you at Shrewsbury fair ?" They went into the
Commercial Room. One of the persons who occupied this
room was Mr. Mackreth, who travelled for the respectable
house of Christopher, George, and Co. of Bristol, and
had arrived there about four or five o'clock that even-
ing, but was then out, and did not return until 10 o'clock.
Mr. Ludlow retired into another room with some friends,
and was absent for some time. The prisoner went to bed,
being lighted up by the chambermaid to the bed-room which
is designated No. 20. It was a curious fact in connexion
with this, that the prisoner had in some manner acquired
the knowledge that No. 17 was the room usually occupied by
Mr. Ludlow. But, on that night. it was occupied by Mr.
Mackreth. The chambermaid having lighted the prisoner to
No. 20, shut the door of that apartment: By reference to
the model which was ou the table, they would perceive that
No. 20 was a room in a corner, and that No. 17 was in a
passage,—there being another passage down stairs which was
near it. The chambermaid shut the door and left it shut. In
half an hour after she conducted Mr. Mackreth to No. 17.
When she had left him, he locked his door. It would be in
evidence that when the chambermaid so conducted Mr.
Mackreth to No. 17 she found prisoner's door not quite
closed, and a light still burning in his room. It was an old
house, and it might be alleged—and be would not wish to
deprive the prisoner of whatever benefit the suggestion might
afford—that the shutting of one door in the same passage
might open the other. This would have exactly as much
weight as it deserved.—lt was clear that whoever committed
the assault, was in Mr. Mackreth's room at the time that
gentleman -went to bed, and actually must have been con-
cealed under the bed at the time. This was obvious, because
no force had been used to break open the door which Mr.
Mackreth had locked, and no entry had been made at the
window. The person must have kept himself hidden under
the bed, and, indeed, when an examination was made, there
was seen the mark of some person's figure under the bed,—
the mark being made in the dust. On the next morning, at
4 o'clock, Mr. Mackreth found himself suddenly awakened.
He found that his throat had fallen in, from an immense
gash, and that he had also received some extensive gashes on
his mouth and cheeks. There was a great effusion of blood.
He immediately started up, and, on attempting to jump out
at the right side, found himself pulled back by some person
on the left. He shirt was torn in the struggle. The medical,
attendant who would be examined would testify that the
cuts had been-drawn from sight toa left. There was a chest
of drawers-between the bed and the door. Mr. Mackreth
never lost his presence of mind. It was in favour of the
prisoner that Mr. Mackreth had not been able to recognise
him. He does not even profess to have seen the figure of
a man. On finding himself wounded, Mr. Mackreth rushed
to the window, but was unable to throw it up. He then
pushed his band through a pane of glass and called out
Fire !" He broke a second pane and again gave the alarm.
He succeeded in finding the door, but it was unlocked and
open. he then went out into the passage, proceeded down
the stairs, and, when he had reached the bottom, went back
again. The stairs were deluged with blood. The first im-
pression of the landlord, who first saw him, was that he had
laid violent hands upon himself. When Mr. Mackreth had
got back into his bedroom, the enquiry was made " Who is
he ?" Unable to speak, but perfectly aware of what was
passing, he took his keys, opened his drawing box, took out
some of the cards of the house for which he travelled, and
handed them to the persons around him. Very soon after he
gave the alarm some persons came in. Among them were
Mr. Peach and Mr. Cross. The former went into Mr.
Mackreth's room, but, by one of those accidents which some-
times lead to important results, Mr. Cross occupied himself
in tracing the stains of blood from Mr. Mackreth's door. The
staircase down which he had gone was quite wet with blood.
and it occurred to Mr. Cross to examine the floor of the
passage. He found drops of fresh blood along the door from
Mr. Mackreth's room to the prisoner's door—and even on the
sill of that door. Not a continuous stream of blood, but a
train of small drops of blood. This occurred immediately
after the alarm was given. The prisoner had not then been
in Mr. Mackreth's room, after the outrage, and the question
would be, how came the track of blood to his door? Mr.
Crawford, a surgeon from Shrewsbury, slept in one of the
rooms of the inn, and immediately gave his assistance to the
prosecutor. While he was thus engaged, the prisoner was
seen four or five times. He was in his shirt, undressed, and
at one time stood with his back to the wall of the passage—
at another time he was anxiously waiting at Mr. Mackreth's
door,—and he entered the room once and asked for his
stockings. - He had gone to his bedroom in his boots, and he
came into Mr. Mackreth's room to ask for his stockings:
A very important part of the evidence was the condition of
the prisoner's bed-room. When he went to bed, there was
half of a candle in his candlestick, and a large jug of water
was left in his washing-basin. There was also a napkin.
The next morning the candle was burnt down in the socket,
As the chambermaid had seen a light in his room, the candle
must have been left to burn out. The napkin was missing,
and has never been found to this hour. The water-jug was
empty. When the alarm was given the prisoner was found
in bed. The contents of the water-jug were found in the
chamber utensil, and it would be shewn that the liquid in
that vessel was impregnated with other materials. The pri-
soner's bed occupied all the breadth of No. 17. It was a
tent bedstead, with curtains. Part of the curtains over-hung
the window, and the window overlooked a yard belonging to
Mr. Whatmore. On the curtain were found the marks of
blood, not casual marks, but impressed by the act of touch.
The prisoner's shirt also had marks of blood ; there was one
large spot of blood upon the sleeve, but a great part of the
blood bad been extracted, apparently by suction. The water
in the chamber utensil was found to be strongly impregnated
with alum, which had the effect of getting out stains of
blood ; and it was worthy of notice that some alum was found
in the prisoner's possession. A silk handkerchief was also
found on him ; it was damp, as if wetted and then squeezed.
The prisoner complained that his stockings had been lost,
and the landlord gave him a pair to wear. He had his
breakfast in the commercial room. It was in his favour that
he had not made any attempt to go away, nor ,had he con-
-cealed his name. But, indeed; he had been recognised be-
fore, so that concealment would not have; been of any use.
The wound which the prosecutor had received had been made
by a sharp cutting instrument capable of inflicting a long and
severe cut. Iu the passage leading from the prisoner's room
to the room of Mr. Mackreth there was a window of moderate
height, to which the prisoner had access. Situated as this
window is anything thrown from it could not be cast very
much to the right. About six in the morning a razor was
found in the yard; it was partially wet with blood, and was
found exactly opposite the prisoner's window ; it was a black-
handled razor—there were probably many thousands such--
but'it was not set. He would be able to shew that the pri-
soner had had two black-handled razors in his lodgings at
Birmingham' previous to this affair, only one of these razors
was found. No razor was found in his possession at Ludlow.
no portmanteau, and only one
Indeed, he had no baggage,
penny in his pocket. His circumstances, evidently, were
not in a condition to allow him to go to such an inn as the
Angel, at Ludlow. He left Shrewsbury without paying his
bill at the Unicorn. He passed the intermediate time in
sleeping in hay-lofts and begging for food. Another circum-
stance required their attention. Underneath the prosecutor's
bed were found some lucifer matches and sand paper. The
use of these was to strike instantaneous light. Mr. Mackreth
had no lucifer matches, nor were any found upon the pri-
soner. But, a day or two before he went to Ludlow, some
boys were taking wasps' nest, and the prisoner produced a
lucifer match from his waistcoat pocket, and enquired if that
would not be of use to them in what they were doing. He
had hlso to state that in the month of October two pair of
stockings had been found on the premises at the Angel Inn ;
it would be shown that the prisoner wore cotton stockings
when at Shrewsbury, and when he arrived at the Angel. Mr.
Serjeant Ludlow said, in conclusion, that it would not suffice
for the jury to believe that the circumstantial evidence which
they would hear was quite consistent with the prisoner's
guilt. It must appear to them not only consistent with his
guilt, but reasonably consistent with his innocence. If they
had any reasonable doubt of this they must give him the
benefit of the doubt. But if they thought that the facts which
would appear in evidence cannot exist with his innocence,
they were bound to convict him.
A number of witnesses were then examined who very
clearly corroborated the various facts as detailed by the
learned counsel, but nothing new or of importance was
elicited during their examination.
Mr. Lee then rose to address the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, commenting upon every portion of the evidence
which bore at all in his client's favour. His address occu-
pied an hour and a half.
His lordship then proceeded to sum up the evidence, which
he did in an extraordinary clear manner, recapitulating what
may be called the history of the case, as detailed in evidence.
He then commented upon different points of it, and remarked
that Mr. Ludlow was-evidently the object of prisoner's pur-
suit,—that blood had been continuously traced from Mr.
Mackreth's room to within an inch or two of the door of No.
20,—and that there was a smear of blood on the curtain in
that room, on a line with the window. Mr. Cooke had ad-
mitted that, as the prisoner stood near the wounded man,

IMMO blood ttight hare of upon his shirt, The difficulty
of the case was whether blood bad been upon his shirt and
washed out. Alum would do it, and alum had been found
in the prisoner's possession. There was the strongest pre-

sumption that the deed had been committed with the bk;ody
razor found in Whatmore's yard. This razor might have been
thrown out of .ether window, for it was found 28 feet from
the prisoner's window and 35 feet from the passage window.
His lordship did not attach much importance to the finding
of the stockings ; but thought it extraordinary how the pri-
soner could have lost his. The question was who but the
prisoner could have committed the deed? Every person in
the house, except Mr. Cooke, who was unable to appear, had
been examined. It was almost impossible it could have been
done by any person but one an inmate of the house at the
time. The person must have been concealed under Mr.
Mackreth's bed, and got out by unbolting the door. His
lordship observed that the prisoner's tracking Mr. Ludlow
gave ground for strong suspicion. The able counsel who
pleaded for the prisoner had not been able to trace any inno-
cent motive by which the prisoner could be actuated. He
concluded by saying that be agreed with Lord Hale, that the
first and most sacred duty of Justice was to perfect innocence,
but its next obligation was to detect and punish guilt. The
question for their consideration was—had the prisoner com-
mitted the outrage upon Mr. Mackreth ? They had a solemn
and sacred duty to perform, and he now would leave them
to discharge it.

At a quarter-past seven o'clock the jury retired to delibe-
rate on their verdict. The foreman requested that the shirt,
curtain, and razor, should be given them to examine. The
learned judge directed them to be handed up, saying that
they were not of much importance, and that the linen would
not exhibit the same appearance now as it did in August.
After an absence of thirty-five minutes, the jury returned.
While their names were being called over, the prisoner, who
had nreserved a remarkably fine demeanour up to this period,
cast his eyes very anxiously around the court, and at them.
When the foreman pronounced "guilty," he suddenly
swerved back as if from a blow. He then shaded his face
fOr a minute 'with his hand, and, for the first time during the
day, appeared unnerved. He partially recovered his firmness,
and when the Clerk of the Assize demanded what he had to
say why judgment should not be given, that he should die ac-
cording to law, he replied, in a subdued tone, " 1 am not
guilty of it."

Proclamation was then made ; when the judge put on the
black cap, and, in a very feeling manner, passed the sentence
of DEATH.

The prisoner was then removed, after a very exciting in-
vestigation, which lasted nearly twelve hours.

HUNTINGDON ASSIZES—MAncn 18

James Niglett, a man who had reached the patriarchal age
of 94, was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying Eliza
Harlot, by administering to her in a rash and careless man-
ner, a poisonous drug.

Mr. Gunning con-ducted the prosecution, and Mr. Byles
the defence.

The prisoner, it appeared, is what is vulgarly called a
" cow-leech," or cattle-doctor, at St. Ives, and the deceased
was a young woman who, having failed to obtain any relief
for some distemper from the prescriptions of the regular fa-
culty, applied to the aged cow-doctor of the neighbourhood,
to take her case in hand, auguring well of his skill in treating
the human subject, from his reputation for curing the ail-
ments of oxen, sheep, and hogs. She at first appeared to
get better under his treatment, and it was the opinion of one
of the sagacious folk of St. Ives, that she would have " got
quite well if she had not died," an observation which may be
sometimes applied to the patients of other practitioners than
• " cow-leeches." One day he gave her a mixture which was
supposed to contain arsenic, after which she suffered, as
people do who take more than a medicinal dose of that drug,
with vomiting and purging during two days, at the end of
which she died. At first there was no suspicion that she
died of any other cause than the distemper for which she
had taken the prescription of the " cow-leech," and the
body was interred. Soon afterwards rumours were spread
abroad that she died of poison ; whereupon the coroner had
the body exhumed, and an inquest having been held, a ver-
dict was returned implicating the ancient cow-leech in the
charge of homicide, by want of skill and gross negligence. He
had used somc expression after her death which seemed to
admit that he bad given her arsenic, or some poison, as me-
dicine, such, for instance, as saying to a sister of the deceased,
who told him that " his stuff had killed her," he " had only
given her half a grain, though he had given his own son a
whole grain, and it had cured him." The usual tests of
arsenic were applied by medical witnesses to the contents of
the stomach. After having in vain sought for corrosive sub-
limate, which they at first suspected to be the cause of death,
a very minute quantity of metallic arsenic was reproduced
and exhibited in court, and three medical witnesses gave it
as their opinion that, from the appearances presented on a
post mortem examination, the arsenic was the cause of death.
Mr. Byles addressed the jury in an ingenious speech for
the prisoner, dwelling much upon the circumstance of arsenic
being used medicinally in many distempers of the human
frame, and that any medical might have acted as the prisoner
had done, and in neither could the death be considered other
than one of mischance.

Chief Justice Tindal told the jury that if any person, whe-
ther a regularly educated medical man or not, administered
a dangerous drug medicinally, under circumstances which
betrayed rashness and gross negligence and want of skill, be
would be liable to the penalties of manslaughter. But whe-
ther arsenic, or any other deletezious drug had been admi-
nistered in this case it was for them to say, whose duty it
was to determine on the evidence.

The jury after a short deliberation found the prisoner
guilty of having administered a deleterious drug with gross
negligence, which subsequently they turned into the general
verdict of Guilty, and the Court, taking the advanced age of
the prisoner into consideration, sentenced him to be impri-
soned for one fortnight.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE

(From the Times of yesterday.)

Yesterday afternoon the following painful intelligence
reached the underwriters at Lloyd's, relative to the loss of
the Mary Stuart, of Cardiff, and the death of Lieutenant
R.N.,end five of the coast guard, which happened on
the morning of Tuesday last, near Penzance, in Cornwall. At
about half-past 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning theinhabitants
of Portleven, a small village situate on the sea coast, ten
miles from Penzance, observed a vessel lying off Prad Sand
Bay in distress. They immediately hastened to the spot to
render assistance, but the sea being rough, and the wind
blowing a gale from the south-east, it was impossible to
launch a boat in safety. The vessel proved to be the Mary
Stuart, a schooner, .laden with iron ore from Cardiff, in Gla-
.morganshire, and bound to Constantinople. It appeared
to those on shore that her rudder had unshipped, and the
crew were unable to perceive the precise spot where they
brought up, and at daybreak the gale had commenced, and to
alter the position would occasion her immediate destruction.
Towards nine o'clock the gale increased in severity; and
by ten it blew a hurricane. The crew expected the vessel
would every moment part from her anchors, and in the hopes
of saving their lives, cut away her masts, which in falling
overboard nearly capsised the ship ; however she righted,
and the anchors kept fast until about 12 o'clock, when a
heavy sea broke her cables, and she went ashore. By that
period several hundred people had assembled on the beach,
and there was also a strong detachment of the coast guard
service, under the direction of Lieutenant Smith, of the royal
navy.

The spot where the ill-fated vessel grounded was within
half a mile of the shore, and Lieutenant Smith determined
to make an attempt to reach the vessel, and accordingly one
of the boats belonging to the service was got in readiness,
but owing to the heavy swell it was found impossible to carry
this intention into effect. In the course of an hour the sea
becoming somewhat abated, Lieutenant Smith and five of
the men jumped in and pushed off, amidst the loud huzzas
of the assembled multitude, but scarcely had the cheers died
away before a tremendous wave broke over the boat, and
swamped it. For a few seconds the gallant fellows were ob-
served buffetting the waves; their struggles were, however,
of short duration, and they one by one disappeared. What
renders this unfortunate occurrence still more melancholy is,
that the whole of the persons who had been drawn to the
spot beheld them perish without being able to afford the
slightest assistance to the brave fellows, and among them-
were the wives and children of four of them.' About seven
o'clock in the forenoon her Majesty's revenue cutter the
Sylva arrived from Penzance, and succeeded in rescuing the
crew, who were in an exhausted condition. The vessel, it is
feared, will become a total wreck. She was a new ship, and
this was her first voyage. We regret to state, that none of
the bodies, at the time our information came away, had been
found. A general gloom pervades the place, the unfortunate
men leaving 26 children to lament their loss.

THE WRECK OF THE THAMES STEAMER

[This narrative has been communicated by a gentleman
who gathered it from the lips of one who witnessed the last
dreadful scene of despair on board this ill-fated vessel.]
The Thames steamer was an old vessel; the captain, or
commander, had been several voyages in her, and, therefore,
knew the coast. In passing St. George's Channel, early in
January, 1811, she shipped a heavy sea, that is, was struck
with great force with a wave, which, breaking over the deck,
. extinguished the fire engines, and thereby impeded her pro-
gress. About 4 o'clock a.m., the revolving light to the
west of the Scilly Isles was seen, and is said to have been
taken for the fixed light at the Land's End. At this time
the weather was stormy, without rain or snow. A conside-
rable quantity of water had entered the ship, and was making
its way into the ladies' cabin. To gain the nearest land was
the best chance of safety, and the captain made towards the
Scilly light. Suddenly the vessel struck against a rock, but
not violently, and as three boats were seen approaching to
afford assistance no immediate danger was apprehended.
As soon as the first boat came alongside of the steamer,
the captain ordered that the females should first descend ;
but owing to the agitation of the sea this was not effected
without difficulty, and a woman, who was unwilling to part
with her infant, lost the opportunity, and perished with the
rest on board. Fearing that a general rush would be made
at the boat, or alarmed at the appearance of an approaching
squall, the men, eight in number, who manned the boat, sud-
denly raised a cry that they would wait no longer, and im-
mediately bore of, and with some risk landed safely on shore
with Miss Morris and two female stewards. " That young
lady is my daughter," exclaimed Mr. Morris, as the boat
broke away. " Then, sir," replied the captain, " you shall
go in the next boat."

The situation of those on board became at this moment
most perilous ; an awful dark cloud was rising from the sea,
with every indication of an approaching storm. The two
boats that were seen coming to their assistance suddenly
turned, and with difficulty gained the shore, whilst women
were seen descending in haste the hills, and screaming for
the safety of their husbands who manned the boats. About
20 Irish recruits now seized the steamer's boat, which was
soon sunk, and all perished. A raft was then made, on which
some committed themselves to the waves, but this separated,
and all on it met with a similar fate. In the meanwhile the
mast gave way, and inflicted serious injury on some who had
collected round it for protection. The storm continued, and
at seven o'clock all was silent—

" Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash
Of billows, but at intervals there rose on high
Accompanied with a convulsive splash,
A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry,
Of some, strong swimmer in his agony."

Fourteen bodies were taken up and buried ; as no more
have been washed on shore it is supposed they were taken by
the current up the channel. To an indifferent spectator, if
any there could be at that awful time, it must have presented
a singular but distressing scene to observe the different ways
in which the fear of death operates on a collection of indi-
viduals of various pursuits and avocations of life, united in
one common danger. If report be true, several by their
prayers showed themselves members of the Catholic church
—whilst some prayed the first time perhaps for some years.
In the cabin was a large Bible, this was opened reverently by
some, and passages were read from it, which seemed but lit-
tle applicable to the occasion ; whilst others leaning against
the side of the ship concealed their countenances in their hats,
and were supposed to be employed in prayer. There was an
individual, tall in prson, and past the meridian of life, who
seemed to invite others to pray—his attempts were loud and
persevering—he seemed welt skilled in extemporaneous
prayer, elicited by the impulse of fear and danger, to use so
inappropriate a term, " be wrestled manfullywith the LORD."
If his prayers were sincere, in charity we may hope they were
not made in vain. It is calculated that about 61 persons
perished on board ; among these were seven cabin passengers.
—Western Times.

THE BOY JONES

(Prom a Sunday Paper.)
I trust you will allow me, through the medium of your
columns, to lay before the public my complaint regarding the
unjust and illegal treatment which my boy has experienced
from the Home-office. My boy, who is not yet 17 years of
age, has possessed an insane idea for some time of intruding
himself into Buckingham Palace, in order to learn the say-
ings and doings of the Court. The first visit he made to the
palace the authorities had him tried by the ordinary court,
and he was acquitted by a jury of Englishmen; but the second
time he was caught in the palace they were afraid that the case
should appear before a public court, as their own, conduct
was highly culpable, and they adopted the, novel and un-
English mode of trying him by a secret court, where he was
not allowed either access to his friends, or the assistance of
counsel. The consequence was, he was sentenced without
any trial (for hearing only one side of the question cannot be
called a trial) to three months' imprisonment in the House of
Correction. When my boy was sent to prison, in December
last, he was stout and strong, but when he came out of
prison, on the 2d of this month, he was as thin as a skeleton,
and evidently sinking under the effects of overwork and un-
der diet ; yet he has-again been sent to the same place with-
out trial, and without my being allowed to communicate
with him, for the same offence, namely, entering the Queen's
palace, which appears to be so very carelessly protected that
a child, with no otherobjectin view than a child's stupid curi-
osity, can enter when be pleases. It would be much more to
the purpose, and more like justice, if the officers of the house-
hold were discharged out of the house along with the boy, than
that he should be punished in prison, and they retained in the
palace. A few days before my son cadre out of prison, Mr. Hall,
the magistrate of Bow-street, sent for me, and proposed he
should be sent to sea. To this I had no objection ; and, an
order being given, his mother and myself saw him in prison ;
but he refused to consent, saying it was time enough to talk
of that after he got out of prisorf. On his liberation, my wife
and I were again sent for ; but Mr. Hall's proposal appear-
ing to my wife unnecessarily harsh, he upbraided us
for changing our minds, and told us we might go away. From
the time of his liberation until Monday, the Bth instant,
Edward was anxiously looking for something to do, but found
that his having been in prison was a complete prevention. On
that day he said to me, " Father, I find here every one says,
' That's the boy that was in the palace,' and nobody will
employ me : I will go to Mr. Hall, and beg of him to get me
sent to sea, or somewhere,. that I may have a chance of get-
ting on." He accordingly waited on Mr. Hall, when I was
sent for, and after having been talked to in a very rough man-
ner, I was told I might go. This preying upon the boy's
mind has, I believe, been the cause of his committing the
offence again. The conduct of the authorities since he com-
mitted the offence the last time is what 1 have most, how-
ever, to complain of Edward left my house on Monday
evening last; a few minutes after eight o'elock, saving
that he was going to the temperance meeting opposite,
and the next I heard of him was from an officer of
police, who told me he was in custody, that he was
to be taken to Bow-street at ten o'clock, and that I might go
there if I chose. I accordingly went there with my wife, and
we were ushered into a room, when four gentlemen came and
said, " Where is that boy ? " On their going away, we were
told !` to go through that door," and found ourselves in a
waiting room, where, after remaining an hour an a half, and
refused leave to see our son, we were told we might go away,
as he had been sent to the Home-office some time since ; but
that we had not been told of it lest we should make a noise
in the street. We went to the Home-office, and were denied
entrance to where he was, even to inquire if he wanted any
assistance for his defence. After waiting two hours we came
away : and the next news I beard of my boy was from pub-
lic report, which stated that he had been convicted. Com-
ment upon these facts is unnecssary ; and I think it will re-
dound more to the credit of the executive to make arrange-
ments for providing for him otherwise than by killing him
by inches with under-diet and over-work.

HENRY JONES

16, Bell-yard, York-street, Westminster

PARIS POLICE

THE Two LOVERS ; OR, THE L ANGER OF BEGGING.—
In a small village on the banks of the Loire, almost door to
door, resided two old women, both of them widows and mo-
thers. The only difference between the two neighbours was,
that one had a little house, a small field, and a small pension ;
whereas the other possessed nothing but what she earned by
manual labour, and that, alas ! was not much. The two
women were both reduced to widowhood by the scourge of
war—their husbands having been killed at Algiers. It is,
however, necessary to add, that one was an officer, while the
other was but a private.

The officer's widow had an only daughter, 17 years of age ;
the private's widow an only son, entering upon manhood.
To say they loved would be telling the reader nothing new;
but the passion had grown with their strength. Mary, when
she began to walk, was often supported by the protecting
hand of John, who was her defender on all occasions. At
the village dance John was always favoured with the first and
last waltz, and thus by degrees their love broke out into a
flame, and John hastened to Mary's mother to solicit the
hand of her daughter ; and great indeed was his surprise
when the prudent mother objected to his suit, adding that
she could not think of his marrying Mary until he had ac-
quired 1,200 francs (£50.)
John of course made known these dreadful tidings to
Mary, and intimated his intention to proceed to Paris to earn
the 1,200 francs necessary to secure his earthly felicity.
Mary employed every offort to divert John from his purpose,
but in vain.

When in Paris, John called on several persons, and at last,
by dint of recommendation, succeeded in getting a place as
valet de cliambre with 500 francs wages. But John was more
expert with the spade than with the brush, and could not re-
tain any situation. At last, reduced to the most wretched
plight, the luckless lover conceived the idea of asking cha-
rity, and was in consquence arrested and brought up before
the correctional police, on the charge of being a vagrant, on
Friday last' after having been confined 25 days.
Poor John, with a face bathed in tears, related his pitiful
tale, and his gratuitous counsel presented a few observations
on his behalf ; but the most forcible of all was a letter from
Mary, in reply to one from John, in which he informed her
of his imprisonment and all his .mishaps. The letter was as
follows

"My dear John,—l cried a great deal on receiving your
letter. I told you that misfortune might attend your leaving
our village ; but you told me over and over that it was for our
mutual happiness. How comes it that you have been thrown
into prison, my own dear honest John? I have good news
to send you. Mother consents to my being your wife. I
send you 36f. (X 1 10s.) which I have saved out of my earn-
ings. I intended to have bought myself a new gown for the
wedding of Simon and Josephine, at which I am to be brides-
maid. I thought that this gown would also serve for my
marriage. But Josephine will take me without a new gown,
and we will marry, no matter in what dress. So make haste
here, for mother is going to have our bans published.
" YOUR LITTLE WIFE MARY."
You see, continued the counsel, that the poor girl is expect-
ing her bridegroom—you will not disappoint her loving heart.
Poor John awaits but your verdict to fly to his fond mistress.
This appeal had the desired effect. The court acquitted
the prisoner.

We have heard an anecdote of the Chinese expedition
which will, we are sure, be interesting to our readers. The
son of a nobleman now resident in this town, a boy of about
14, who is serving as a midshipman in China, having incau-
tiously strolled with an equally youthful comrade too far into
the country, was taken prisoner, and given in charge of two
soldiers, who led him off to the interior. "Watching au op-
portunity, he drew a pistol from his pocket, with which he
shot one of the soldiers dead ; and while the other was
kneeling over the body, the middies ran off, and luckily suc-
ceeded in regaining their ship.—Brighton Gazette.

13ALLANTRAE.—MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Fri-
day, on the return of one of the fishing-boats from sea, with
a cargo of herrings, it was resolved by the crew, in conse-
quence of the dull state of the market at Ballantrae, to try
Stranraer. The day was as fine as could be wished, but very
foggy, and the tiny bark was moving leisurely along the pre-
cipitous coast which bounds the lands of Glendrisaig, when
unexpectedly it struck a rock, and almost immediately filled.
The crew, Robert and John 111`Williana (brothers), Robert
M'Credie, and James Eaglesham, clung to the boat • Robert
INl`Williain endeavoured to swim for the shore, which he had
reached to within twenty yards, when he sunk to rise no
more ; the three others were picked up by a boat, which was
fortunately near, in a very exhausted state. It is eleven
years since a like accident happened, and is the third in the
memory of the oldest person in the place ; consequently this
loss has cast a gloom over the village.—Scottish Standard.

TIIE FEMALE SWINDLER.-Between two and three weeks
' ago, a female calling herself Mrs. Allen, decamped from
Glasgow, accompanied by her husband, after having taken
in various parties to the amount of one thousand pounds,
which she had managed to accomplish by representing herself
as the daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale, and heir to the prin-
cipal part of his large estates. Immediate pursuit was made
by some of the parties whom she had swindled, but we re-
gret to state that although the delinquent was traced to
Liverpool, she fairly eluded the search of her pursuers, and
so far as we are informed, is still at liberty to pursue her ne-
farious practices. From the following details, however,
taken from the Sheffield Iris., it appears that Glasgow has
not been the first field upon which Mrs. Allen has tried her
operations with success. " Many of our readers," says this
newspaper, " will no doubt recollect, about eighteen months
ago, a female.styling herself Mrs. Allen, from Oldfield-lane,
commenced business as bone-setter, -&c. on Sheffield Moor.
It appears that she represented herself as the daughter of
the Earl of Lonsdale, and that she would become possessed
of property in coal mines, &c. to the amount of £lOO,OOO
per annum, (to prove which she exhibited various legal docu-
ments, attested -by different persons) 1-- but in consequence
of having married'a painter named Allen, with whom she had
eloped from Whitehaven Castle, the seat of her father, her
inheritance was for a time withheld from her. Improbable
as the story appeared, we are sorry to say that it gained
credit with sundry linen-drapers, grocers, mercers, and
others, and enabled her to obtain in money and goods, pro-
perty to the amount of at least £2OO, with which she de-
camped. Why the affair was not entrusted into the hands of
our active constables, we are at a loss to conjecture ; for had
such been the case, it is more than probable she would have
been prevented from plundering the good folks of Glasgow in
a similar manner, but to a much greater extent. She had
promised her victims in Sheffield—and no doubt those in
Glasgow too—numerous situations as stewards, butlers, &c."
—Glasgow Constitutional.

TIIE GUIANA EXPEDITION.—Letters were received yes-
terday announcing the safe arrival at Demerara of the Guiana
expedition, and containing some interesting particulars of its
future route and destiny. The Cleopatra, in which the ex-
pedition sailed, reached there in 28 days, with a fair passage
from the Lizard. On their arrival, the party, consisting of
five persons, were severally introduced to Colonel Light, the
governor, who expressed his desire to forward their contem-
plated operations to the utmost in his power, and provided
them with a house in the best part of George Town, to which
they had removed the whole of their instruments, having had
two tents erected in the garden. Mr. Schomburgek was en-
deavouring to procure the Parade-ground, a fine, open, and
commanding tract, on which to erect a temporary observa-
tory, forming a position from which, as the centre of the co-
lony, all the observations:he may hereafter make will be con-
nected. The mayor and town council were against this
appropriation, although the governor and the attorney-general
had given their assent ; but it was thought that their objection
might be overcome. Mr. Richard SchombuFgck, who was
attended by Mr. Hancock, both in the service of the Prus-
sian government as naturalists to the expedition, had made
a short tour in the country,when the. former was seized with
the epidemy of the country, and tor some time his life was
despaired of. The expedition was to start in six or eight
interior,
weeks for the proceeding up the coast as far as the
Parimer, where it would place a boundary mark to distin-
guish the Spanish from the British territories; from hence
it would make a detour towards the Cuyunumy, and sailing
down this river till it arrives at its junction with the Esse-
quebo, return to George Town ; thus leavinc, the more dis-
puted, or south-western boundary, until they have summed
up observations and recruited themselves. In concurrence
with the views of the expedition the governor had just de-
spatched to Pirara (on the Portuguese boundary line) the
inspector-general of police for the colony, together with two
officers of regiments, to show the claim which Great Britain
had to so distant a spot, and to see that no more encroach-
ments should be made, nor atrocities committed, upon the
natives, our subjects. It is feared that when they arrive at
this spot the expedition may meet a skirmish with the Bra-
zilians, for which purpose they and their attendants are well
armed, and are to be placed under military law. Two officers
of the expedition are very sanguine as to their ultimate
success.—Morning Herald.

THEATRE•ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

icr the Management of Mr. CLARKE

Sole Lessee,

MR. WALLACK,
Of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, is en-
gaged for a Fortnight, and will make his fifth appearance
here since his return from America, this Evening.
Mr. WALLACK having been greeted with the most rapturous
applause on Monday night, in the characters of Julian St.
Pierre and Dick Dashall, the drama of THE WIFE and
the farce of MY AUNT will in consequence be repeated
This Evening.
THIS present FRIDAY, March 26, 1841, will be per-
formed Mr. Knowles 's popular Play of

THE WIFE :
A TALE OF MANTUA. /
Julian St. Pierre Mr. Wank.
Leonardo Gonzaga.... Mr. H. HA.
Ferrardo Gonzaga. Mr Grfay.
Lorenzo.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Bartok', .. Mr. Baker.
Mariana.. Mrs. W. H. Bland. Floribel. .... Miss Chaplin

After which, a petit Drama, called
MY AUNT.

Dick Dashall .. Mr. Wallack,
(As originally performed by him in London.)
.... Mr. Baker. l Mrs. Corbett.. Madame Simon
To conclude with the Farce of
THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM.

Rattle,

TO-MORROW (Saturday), the Comedy of TOWN
AND COUNTRY. Reuben Glenroy, Mr. Wallack ; Co-
sey, Mr. Baker; Mrs. Glenroy, bliss Cleaver; Mrs. Trot,
Mrs. Clarke; Rosalie, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—After which,
the Bur letta of MIDAS.—To conclude with the Burlesque
Tragedy of BOMBASTES FURIOSO. ,

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH7kREET.

The PETITION to HER MAJES' yk for a SECOND
LICENSED THEATRE in Liver 00l has now received
nearly ELEVEN THOUSANA SrIGNATURES.
LAST WEEK OF T.VE SEASON •
BUT ONE.
THIS present FRIDAY, the 26th, and TO-MORROW,
the 27th instant, the Evening's Entertainments to com-
mence with an entirely new and Historical Drama of intense
interest, entitled
THE TOWER OF LONDON;
OR, THE FATE OF LADY JANE GREY!
Adapted expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. Higgie, from the
istly-celebrated and highly-popular work of that name,
written by W. Harrison Ainsworth, author of " Jack Shep-
pard," " Rupkwood," " Old St. Paul's," &c.

After which a new Interlude, written expressly for this
Theatre, and founded on a popular Story in
" Blackwood," entitled
TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR.
A HIGHLAND FLING, by Miss DE BLAQUIERE•
The Entertainments will conclude with a Melo-Dramatic
Spectacle, founded on events incidental to the Penin-
sular War, and abounding in the most
- interesting situations, entitled
ADVANCE GUARD;
OR, THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE!

On FRIDAY NEXT (April 2d), a VARIETY of EN-
TERTAINMENTS, for the BENEFIT of Mr. RAY-
MOND, and LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.

Jr B. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and. PRINCIPAL
• REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard,'" respectfully
informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties,:rnterested, that
he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIA REPORTS of
the Tria:s in the Nisi Prius Court at the eidisuiug; Assizes, on
terms peculiarly moderate. _

References Permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re-
spectability.__ _ _

Letters:addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive
immediate attention.