Essex, Herts and Kent Mercury from London, London, England • 3

Mr Thoroyood of Chelmsford is still in prison having been incarcerated SEVENTY WEEKSor nonpayment of a Church Rale of 5 0 COLCHESTER may 23 ESSEX AND COLCHESTER May 21 1840 Admitted Discharged I Remain In-patients 9 5 I 75 Out-patients i 5 241 House Visitors Green ami Howard Esqrs Chaplain Physician Surgeon CORRESPONDENCE TO THE EDITOR Sir As myself arid neighbours have been much annoyed of late by finding our Homestalls completely overrun by rats which have evidently been brought and turned on alive by some of those gentlemen called rat catchers I beg to recommend each farmer in the Ten-dring Hundred that they see every one of those destructive animals killed before they are taken off their premises as the most effectual remedy against the above evil By giving this a place in your valuable journal you will much oblige Your obedient servant AGHICOLA NEGRO EMANCIPATION in a trial whether justly or unjustly we are unable to say for having had connection with tiie illicit traffic hut by some means or other they have escaped the meshes of thi: law ilia Majesty being determined upon entirely extirpating tiie fearful evil has issued very severe orders towards the south-western frontiers of the empire to prevent all importation from tiiat quarter There is a regular cordon to he drawn all along tiie confines of the celestial empire so as to render it a matter of impossibility to bring in a single grain Canton Reyister Dec 17 The Hoiborn The intended improvements upon the way from St Church to Hatton garden are now accurately explained From the plans drawings and prospectuses in the hands of Messrs Wire and Child solicitors it appears that tiie errors of former projections have been avoided Holborn-hill from Hatton-garden to tiie Head Skinner-street is to he widened where required so as to form a street of tiie uniform width of eighty feet This will be effected by tiie removal of some of the projecting houses in the line Iu the centre of the street will lie built a viaduct thirty feet in width and extending in a level line from Hatton-garden to Skinner-street This viaduct is to he used only for horses and carriages passing direct from Holborn-hill to the city and from the city to the west-end On either side the viaduct will remain the present streets leaving room on each side for two carriages to puss each other and an ample footpath This plan will therefore preserve to the present lino of shops all tiie advantages derivable from great thoroughfare while it will relieve the inhabitants from tiie pressure and inconvenience of those carriages which now merely pass their doors without contributing to their trade in order to give a free circulation to tiie air and to make tiie appearance oi tiie viaduct light and elegant it will be carried on arches and of a design so as at once to become an ornament to the city and by its utility add to the transit of its traffic It will also put an eml to those frightful accidents which are of almost daily occurrence Executions in London No execution except ior tiie crime of murder lias taken place in London tor more than seven years (for offences committed within the county of Middlesex) the last having occurred April 23 1833 The Drama in the Country The following is the heading to one of the Bath play-bills Theatre-royal Bath In consequence of tiie rapturous applause bestwed on grand opera sena the Maid Palaiscu produced for tho first time in the city of Bath on Tuesday May 5th hy eleven in tiie boxes I nine ill the pit I and twenty-eight iu the gallery I it will bo repeated this evening to give tiie lovers of music another opportunity of hearing the composition of that great Farming An old farmer remarks philosophers may err when they step out of their immediate province This was the case with Sir II Davy when he recommended carrying on long muck not thoroughly rotten to the fields supposing the land would thus be better separated and more oxygen introduced But Sir Davy forgot that undecaycd seeds would thus be conveyed and find new soil for their growth A common error with farmers is carrying the tops of their dunghills to their field which are covered witli foreign plants of different kinds these ought to he left as bottoms for new dunghills and not carried in that state to the field Prisoner was again indicted on a similar charge From the evidence it appeared that on the 13th April Sarah Whit-tlemore had a peck of flour of Bright and paid him 2s for it On the 16th Mary Ann Dale had 3 pecks of flour of Bright and paid Joslin 7s for it On the 20th Charlotte Poulten had a quarter of a peck of flour of Bright and paid him 8d for it Bright proved the entry of these suras in his book and deposed that he paid the two sums he received to Joslin counsel endeavoured by cross-examination of Bright to show that many persons had access to till and might have taken the money but Mr Ryland observed that even if that were the case how came there to be no entry by Joslin of the money he himself had received Mr Knox as on the late indictment urged that the omissions were caused by inadvertence and contended it was highly improbable that a man who had been in one service 30 years and bore so excellent a character would be guilty of such dishonesty as this The Jury deliberated some time and returned a verdict of Guilty Prisoner on the advice of his counsel pleaded guilty on a third indictment and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment without hard labour and to pay a fine of 10 Benjamin Phillips (31) miller was charged with having in like manner embezzled money the property of his masters William and Henry Marriage at Little Waltham Mr Ryland said he should otter no evidence in this case as there was reason to believe that the form of the indictment could not be sustained and it was considered that prisoner had acted under the example and influence of Joslin Mr Knox observed that he had an answer to the facts Mr Ryland said if he had known such an observation would have been made he would have gone into the case Elizabeth Drury (30) wife of John charged with having stolen six cast-iron shares the property of John Wright at Bill thrown out Jane Davey (23) wife of James and Jane Davey (22) singlewoman were charged with having stolen about 12 yards of cotton print the property of Stephen Alger at Sible Hedingham Not guilty Ann Cadbey (26) widow charged with having stolen a handkerchief four sovereigns and other articles the property of John Roberts at Nazing Three imprisonment and hard labour at Colchester Abigail Saunders (25) wife of William charged with having stolen 5 sovereigns and 14 shillings the property of Robert Ward at Loughton and with having stolen a coat and a pair of breeches the property of Henry Pavitt at Epping Seven years' transportation George Macro (25) labourer charged with having stolen an adze the property of George Ward at Otten Belchamp Fourteen imprisonment in Colchester Benjamin Bickers (60) labourer Jonathan Bickers (21) Mary Bickers (54) ife of Benjamin charged with having assaulted James Tavener in the execution of his duty as constable at Hatfield Peverel Not guilty Anil Saunders (24) single woman charged with having stolen half-a-peck of peas the property of Samuel Myhill at Chelmsford Two days imprisonment Wm Green (44) carter charged with having unlawfully harboured and concealed John Barrett knowing him to be under a charge of felony and to have escaped from a constable at Hadleigh was out on bail and did not appear recognizances estreated William Hymas (21) labourer charged with having stolen 2s 6d the property of George Strutt at Thundes-ley Six imprisonment and hard labour Wm Pig gram (22) labourer charged with having assaulted Henry Wellington Rian in the execution of his duty as peace officer at Braintree Three imprisonment and hard labour John Rees (51) charged with assaulting Henry Seers in the execution of his duty as police constable at Chipping Ongar This man is the son of a Welch clergyman and has very respectable connexions but indulging in idle and dissolute habits has frequently been in gaol In the present case he drew a knife on the officer Six imprisonment and hard labour John Smith charged with assaulting John Win Faiera in the execution of his duty at Stebbing Fined 40s Richard Humphrey (30) labourer charged with having stolen a silk handkerchief the property of Joseph Hawkes at Great Coggeshall Three imprisonment and hard labour Ann Holmes alias Godden (32) single woman charged with having stolen a hen the property of Wm Argen at Waltham Holy Cross Not Guilty The Session closed on Wednesday evening about halfpast six SOUTHWOLD Melancholy Loss of On Wednesday afternoon about two two brothers named James and John Clarke of Walberswick were returning home from fishing in Soutliwold Bay in a boat called the Elizabeth and Ann when a heavy squall caught the boat and she instantly upset and filled Some persons on the beach at Dunwich seeing the accident immediately shoved a boat off but before they could reach the spot where the boat upset she sunk and both the poor fellows met a watery grave they were both single men Fire On Thursday morning last about nine fire was discovered in a shed close to the barn in the occupation of Mr Samuel Bloom of Reydon and the wind blowing strong at the time it soon communicated to the barn stables and the outbuildings attached thereto which were altogether consumed together with some agricultural implements The horses and cattle immediately upon discovery of the fire were removed out of reach of the flames The fire engine from Southwohl was very promptly on the spot und from there being a plentiful supply of water prevented the flames spreading to a stack of corn which stood within a few yards to windward of the barn It is supposed the fire originated from the chimneys of the dwelling-house having been swept in the morning and the sweep having emptied the soot collected into a sack and rested it against the stable shed when is presumed there was some of the soot on fire and the wind being high it communicated with the shed At a meeting of the Committee of Commissioners of the Haven of Southwold and river Blyth held on Wednesday last at Ilalesworth it was resolved that Mr Walker the engineer be employed to continue his survey of the river up to the first lock at Bulchamp subject to the approval of the general meeting of the Commissioners to be held on the 3rd of June next and that the expenses thereof be paid jointly hy the Commissioners of the Haven of Southwold and the Commissioners of the river Blyth which empties itself into the said haven BECCLES Voluntary Subscription substituted for a Church Rate Several instances of distraint for the recovery of Church Rates have occurred lately in this place It cannot however be doubted but that the church is as heartily sick of her conflict'with reason with justice with peace and ith religion as her victims can be of parochial feuds and personal sacrifices The late Churchwardens went out of offiee leaving some of the Church Rates they had imposed undemauded while they succeeded in obtaining payment of a large proportion by means of urgent solicitation and by other legal means The Churchwardens appointed at Easter gave notice on Sunday week of a vestry meeting for making another Church Rate This led to the publication of a handbill drawing attention to the example of Dr Oliver the Rector of Wolverhampton who lately proposed to his parishioners to give the voluntary mode of raising the expenses of the church a fair and free declaring that he had no doubt whatever of the success of the voluntary system if properly tested We are happy to announce that the appeal was not made in vain at Beccles Before the vestry meeting took place overtures were made by the principal episcopal inhabitants to their dissenting neighbours for substituting a voluntary subscription and waiving a compulsory exaction which threatened to destroy even the common courtesies of society Some disposition was indeed manifested on the part of a very few to relax the powers of the church only for a month in order to ascertain whether the required sum eould be raised without putting them in force But this was over-ruled and a deciled inclination was expressed by Dr Owen (the Rector) and by almost all his principal parishioners connected with the establishment to try the voluntary principle fully and fairly without holding a rate in terrorem in the meantime Accordingly the vestry being assembled a resolution was moved and seconded by two of the most influential members of the Established Church to adjourn the making a Church Rate for twelve months and to set on foot a voluntary subscription in lieu of it Many Dissenters have expressed their readiness to aid this subscription on the ground that the concession which has been made will tend to heal dissensions of the most lamentable character and that they will thus be encouraging the members of the Church of England iu their first and honourable effort to commit themselves boldly and unreservedly to the only just and scriptural mode of supporting and propagating religion ARRIVAL OF MR KNIBB FROM JAMAICA On Tuesday evening a most numerous and highly respectable meeting assembled in the Town-lmll Binning-ham for the purpose of receiving the Rev Wm Knibb the well-known Baptist Missionary of Jamaica on ins arrival in tins country with Mr Barrett and Mr Beck-ford two emancipated Africans as a deputation to the au-proaching anti-slavery convention to be held in London next month Mr Knibh addressed the meeting at some length in an eloquent speech They hail heard of the abolition of slavery he had seen it They had caught the distant sounds of liberty from the Western Archipelago he had stood amidst all their thunders mul his heart had heat with iov never while memory held her seut or rameuibranceex-isted in his bosom should he forget the joyous scenes which lie had witnessed on tiie memorable 1st of August when things became men and those who were before but as goods and chattels stood in the possession of tiie common rights and privileges witli which God had endowed all his creatures! It had been said that tiie sacred duty of a Christian ministry had been surrendered for the stormy arena of political discussion but it was easier to make these charges than to prove them Hear hear If to defend the oppressed against the encroachments of arbitrary if to watch with untiring energy the first breathing of liberty iu the inhabitants of the if to sympathise witli tiie wretched and the unfriended anil strive by day and by night to give them those rights of which they ought never to have been if to succour tiie infirm and the helpless when in distress and ready to if to secure tiie hard-working peasant a just return for his labour if to endeavour to disenthrall his mind from the miasma and pollution of slavery and teach him to think of his rights ns a if to strike from the hands of tiie female the chain of bondage and place in its stead tiie child of her affection and toll her that her home was her place and not the unsheltered glare of a burning sun if these things were political then indeed would lie acknowledge that the Baptist Missionaries of Jamaica had been political Great applause lie should not insult an English audience by endeavouring to refute the slanders which day after day and week al ter week had been reiterated against him and his brethren he had brought his accusers to the bar of justice and defied them to prove a single act against them but like cowards they had slunk from the task Loud cheering Mr Knibb called tiie attention of tiie meeting to the vagrant laws recently enacted by which females could still tie worked in chains far (i0 days on tiie conviction of a single magistrate and their magistrates were not celebrated for their wisdom or their intelligence This iniquitous act had been passed since Sir Lionel Smith had left tiie island and lie trusted all who heard him would join heart and hand in denouncing these unjust and iniquitous enactments and urging on tiie British Government tiie policy and the justice of getting rid of them Loud applause The Rev Gentleman closed his address by an able and powerful appeal to professing Christians and ministers of religion in America to renounce the holding and traffic of slaves and wash for ever from their hands a stain which was alike disgraceful and inconsistent to them as men and Christians the privy but discovered no money He found a broken knife upon the prisoner the blade of which exactly fitted the marks upon the clothes chest were the lock had been forced ofl' Orrin a waggoner who slept in the same bed with Addy on Sunday night said he got up next morning at six He left the prisoner in bed the clothes chest was then Prisoner declared his innocence and was remanded till Monday Hannah Scowen charged with stealing a purse containing 16s in silver from the person of a countryman named William May was again remanded A young country bumpkin who gave his name Jeremiah Emery from Suffolk and who said he was on his return from a visit to his brother at Kingston in Surrey was charged with drunkenness He was found dead drunk and Blyth the officer said lie could neither lay walk stand nor go said he fell into the company of a sailor upon the road who made him drunk and afterwards bought his watch but had since returned The Mayor sentenced him to pay a fine of 5s and expenses 8s fid He said he would sell his watch to pay the money Abraham Gale a coach wheeler and William Raisin who said he was a bit of a shoemaker were also convicted of drunkenness and disorderly conduct on Sunday night To pay 5s and expenses 6s 6d each within a week or be placed in the stocks six hours Thursday May 21 Present The Mayor Savill andG Bawtree Esqrs Caution to Marine George Henry Green and iames Frostick apprentices to Mr Chamberlain ship owner of Wivenhoe were charged with absconding from their service on Saturday It appeared that they left the coal brig the on Saturday last which was discharging her cargo in the river at Wivenhoe John Allen the master of the vessel was directed by Mr Chamberlain who is part proprietor to proceed to London and offer a reward for their apprehension as it was suspected the prisoners had proceeded thither and on Tuesday morning they were apprehended at an eating-house near Tower-hill having engaged themselves to work in a vessel which was to start for a foreign destination in a few hours They were accordingly brought back to Colchesterand lodged in gaol Mr Abell on behalf of the prisoners stated that Frostick was 21 years of age consequently he was out of the jurisdiction of the Magistrates Mr Goody who appeared for complainants said indenture was dated the 4th of August 1837 and he was bound to serve his master 4 years His father at the time of binding stated him to be between 16 aud 17 years of age therefore there must have been some fraud practised if Mr statement was correct As no certificate was produced to prove that the prisoner was 21 years of age the evidence of the indenture ought to be taken as correct Mr Abell then called Ann Frostick the mother who said her son was 21 years of age last September She produced a written paper which she said was a correct copy taken from an old Bible of an entry made by her husband several years ago of the ages of all her children Mr Goody said he could not dispute such evidence and should not press the charge Frostick was discharged with an admonition The charge was however sustained against Green and Mr Abell addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment He was instructed to state to the Court that the defendant felt himself rather aggrieved owing to a change of diet amongst the crew since the present master had taken the command Previously to that it was usual for the boys on board to have a piece of meat and biscuit after they had been at watch of a night but now the supplies were withheld he had probably from some bad advice thought proper to leave his service Allen the master stated that it was not customary where the master found the provisions of the crew to give the boys more than three meals a day and he had always done so they had what meat they wanted at every meal with plenty of good bread and vegetables Mr Goody was instructed from Mr Chamberlain to say that it had become the custom of apprentices after they had served a part of their time to leave their service because they could obtain higher wages elsewhere and their original masters consequently were considerable sufferers it was not however intended to press for severe punishment The Mayor said the boy had subjected himself to three imprisonment and hard labour but as it was his first offence the Court would only sentence him to one hard labour Robert Derail (a painter) was convicted of an assault upon Cowell the policeman at a late hour on Monday night at Greenstead He was fined 10s and expences 6s to be paid in a week or be imprisoned Isaac Joseph the Jew who was remanded on Monday charged with stealing a half sovereign the property of James Addy ostler at the Sea Horse Inn was brought up for final examination Since the first examination of the prisoner prosecutor discovered that his watch had also been extracted from his chest and it was found by a waggoner in the employ of Messrs Bennell and Co secreted in a hamper slung at the hinder part of one of their waggons which was placed in the Sea Horse yard and which the prisoner had to pass when he ran away from prosecutor A piece of iron resembling what is called a little was found behind clothes chest supposed to have been placed there by the prisoner He was committed for trial at the next borough sessions Walter Roofe (horse dealer) was convicted of an assault upon Cardy one of the police and sentenced to pay a fine of 5s and expences 7s 6d which he paid PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY LONDON CITY MISSION Tiie Annual meeting of the London City Mission was held on tiie 15th instant in tiie great room at Exeter Hall Sheriff Wheelton took tiie chair Tiie Secretary read the report After regretting the loss hjr death of Mr David Nasmyth the founder of the London Missions and stating that a sum of £2000 had been raised for his widow it went on to state that there being some difficulty as to the undefined meaning of or the the committee had resolved upon taking as their field of operation tho districts included in the population returns of 1831 which contained a population of upwards of 2000000 of souls The present number of their missionaries was fifty-eight being an increase of ten upon the number'of last year The number of domiciliary visits made by tiie missionaries during tiie year was 223000 of which 27000 were to tiie sick and dying In the western part of London seven persons had been induced to close their shops on tiie Sabbath day who had previously been Sunday traders During tiie year 332000 of their tracts had been distributed makings total since the foundation of the mission of 1151712 Thenumber of meetings held for prayer and the exposition of the Scriptures during tiie year was 5609 being an increase of 529 on the preceding year and making a total from their foundation of 21688 These meetings had been held almost entirely in rooms provided by the poor themselves and without cost to the society Cheers Five schools had been formed exclusively for raggedly clad children in several of the poorer districts of London at which 500 children at present received instruction who could get admitted into no other school on account of their ragged clothes Cheers Ten couples who Were living in adultery had been persuaded to be married by their missionaries Tiie mission had also grappled with intemperance and socialism and their exertions had been attended with success They had presented a memoriid against increasing tiie licences for music-houses and through their instrumentality out of 32 applications 28 had been refused With regard to the finances of tiie mission the balance in hand last year was £871 Lis 6Jd although this balance was not at all more than tlicv ought to have to meet their monthly payments it had the committee regretted ted some to flunk that the mission was not in want of funds It was true that in the past year they had made exertions rather in the work of the mission than in the enlargement of their funds but they must now call upon their friends for increased aid The receipts for the year amounted to £3897 Is 7jd the expenditure £4408 5s 4d showing an excess of expenditure over receipts Of £601 3s still leaving a balance in hand of £270 9s Cheers The committee said tho members of tiie neglected poor of London notwithstanding all the exertions of tiie mission required a seven-fold increase of tiie missionaries and called the attention of mankind to some startling facts relative to the mortality and population of London It appears that about 900 persons die every week in Loudon and the increase of population in the metropolis is about 29539 per annum Since the commencement of the present year the number of deaths in London have equalled the whole population of the city of Chichester the town of Gosport and the village of namely upwards of 17000 souls Iu 1838 the number of deaths in London equalled the populations of Oxford Cambridge Gravesend and Knaresborough or amounted to about 52676 numbering as many as the entire population of Westmoreland and Rutlandshire BIRTHS On Friday week at Epping the lady of the Rev Sale MA of a daughter On Saturday last the lady of the Very Rev Sir Herbert Oakeley Bart of a son MARRIED Un Wednesday week at St Church Ipswich Mr Thomas Saul of Didlington Norfolk and one of the coachmen of the Yarmouth Star to Isabella sixth daughter of the late Mr Thomas Howard of London On Thursday week at Walthamstow Essex by the Rev Wr Wilson AM vicar Joseph Large Esq of Devonsliire-buildings Bath to Sophia daughter of the late Francis Underwood Esq of London On Thursday week at Great Oakley Mr Maurice Constable of Wix to Sarah eldest daughter of 1 A Bull Esq of Great Oakley Hall On Saturday last at Hampstead Church by the Right Rev the Lord Bishop of London James Whatman Bosanquet Esq second son of Samuel Bosanquet Esq of Dingestow-court in the county of Monmouth to Merelina onlv daughter of the Right Hon the Lord Chief Justice Tindal On Monday last at Prittlewell by the Rev Dr Nolan Mr Thomas Thorn butcher to Miss Eliza Serlev both of Southend On Monday last at the Office Halsted by Hustler Esq Mr John Roberts to Miss Sarah Bibby of Halsted On Monday last at Harwich Mr Fenner to Miss Lambert On Monday last at Harwich Mr Fenner to Miss Bennell of Bradfield Essex On Tuesday last at Harwich Mr Elliot to Elizabeth youngest daughter of Mr John Merchant fishmonger On Tuesday last at the Independent Chapel Sheerness by the Rev Richard Fletcher of Southend the Rev Elenezer Halliday to Maria Easterby both of Halsted On Tuesday last at Abney Chapel Stoke Newington by the Rev Jefferson Thomas youngest son of John Fulham Turner Esq of Walthamstow to Phebe youngest daughter of the late Ebenezer Rust Esq of Greenwich On Tuesday last at the parish church of Loughton by the Venerable Archdeacon Hamilton George Goddard Esq son of the Venerable Archdeacon Goddard of lb-stock Leicestershire to Sarah Sophia daughter of the lute David Powell Esq of Loughton Essex On Thursday last at the Abbey Lane Chapel Saffron Walden by the Rev Luke Forster Mr Peter Portway maltster to Sarah eldest daughter of the late Richard Cornwell of Pounce Hall both of that place DIED On the 25th November last at Gambia in Africa of fever Robert son of the late Mr Benjamin Barnes formerly of the Post Offiee Packet Service at Harwich On Saturday last in Lucas Street London aged 56 Mrs Barnes relict of the above-named Benjamin Barnes On Thursday week in his 22nd year George Percival youngest son of John Bigg Esq of Woodford Bridge Essex On Sunday last at Wivenhoe Mary Afine Havens eldest daughter of Philip Havens Esq in the 42nd year of her age On Monday last aged 55 Harriet the beloved wife of Robert Everard Eq of llochfords Wormingford Lately at his residence in Cambridge in his 71st year after a protracted and severe illness which for ten years had withdrawn him from his work as a minister the Rev Samuel Green For twenty years he had been pastor of the Baptist Church at East Dereham in Norfolk and afterwards for ten years of that at Bluntisham near St Hunts He died in the faith and hope of the Gospel At his residence 57 Baker-street Portman-square Colonel Robert Torrens late Adjutant-General of her troops in East India aged 56 years On Friday week Selina Lukin youngest daughter of Mr Grice surgeon Great Dunmow in her 10th year of her age and surviving her eldest son only 4 days On Saturday last at Puckeridge Herts in his 62nd year Mr James Grout On Saturday last Elizabeth the William Deane Esq of Stutton Hall in the county of Suffolk On Wednesday last at Harwich Mr Samuel Newton joiner and many years a member of the Rev Mr Church at that place much respected by all who knew him On Wednesday last Mr Henry Crawter of Cheshnut Herts land surveyor aged 78 Oil Wednesday last at Saffron Walden Mrs Burch relict of the late Mr Burch chemist of that town On Thursday last Mary Isabella third daughter of Mr Nicholson draper of this town aged about three years Division of Lord Bill Sir Smyth the Right Hon Herries Sir Walsh Bramston Palmer Round Round Dick Sanderson and Bailey Esqrs voted in the majority Sir Tyrell paired off in favour of the Bill Capt A Ellice voted in the minority There were 16 Liberals and one Conservative absent without pairing and three Liberals Lord Howick Mr Wood and' Mr Ainsworth voted with the majority The Remains of the late Smythies Esq were interred on Wednesday last in the family vault in St church yard The body was conveyed in a hearse drawn by four horses followed by two mourning coaches in which were the three sons' of deceased his executors and a few private friends The family carriage closed the procession- At the Moot Hall on Friday the 15th inst Samuel Manning who was remanded upon a charge of obtaining money under false pretences from Mr Smith of the George Inn was again brought up when another charge was preferred against him by Mrs Godden the landlady of the Waggon and Horses Inn of obtaining 4s under similar circumstances He was committed for trial upon both charges Never pre-pay your letters to Tories they complain of cheap postage On Wednesday last as Mrs Ambrose of Mistley and another lady were being driven by their coachman in a double-bodied phaeton down Jupes Hill on the Dedham road the horse which had before been considered a quiet one suddenly began kicking and running away the carriage was overturned by which both ladies and the coachman were thrown with great force upon the road they however escaped with a few slight bruises There is now growing upon the Rookery Farm at Ardleigh a field of Talavera wheat partially upon the ear Barnes Bloomfield This case was tried at the Sheriffs Court at Bury on Saturday last It was an action brought by the plaintiff a labouring man residing at Tostock Suffolk against the defendant a person of respectability living near Maldon Essex to recover £5 for money pretended to have been lent hy the plaintiff to the defendant in 1823 together with £3 2s for interest thereon Mr Eagle appeared for the plaintiff attornies Messrs Blake aud Young of Woolpit The evidence in support of the demand was that of a lad who stated that he was at Woolpit on Whit-Sunday last year and heard a conversation between the plaintiff and a man whose name he was told was Bloomfield and that in the course of it the person admitted owing Barnes £5 and that he had paid him a sovereign on account of it Witness did not see the sovereign paid nor should he know the person again if he were to see him The Jury after a few observations from Mr Way man who appeared for the defendant and without troubling the learned Under-Sheriff found a verdict for the defendant The Northern and Eastern Railway Bill was read a third time and passed in the Commons 011 Wednesday Chimney Sweeping A Bill is now before the House of Commons for ameliorating the condition of the chimney-sweeps by prohibiting the use of climbing boys Caution to the Benevolent Two men apparently about the age of 22 and 26 dressed as mechanics are travelling about the country leaving printed papers soliciting assistance They state themselves to be needle makers and that in consequence of a dreadful fire at Redditch by the bursting of a steam boiler 22 of the workmen lost their lives leaving 18 widows and 38 father less children and further that by the fire 700 hands are thrown out of employ The paper states them to be men of good character and whatever may be given them will be faithfully applied to the distressed The document in question which is signed Green and and Rev we have good authority for stating is a complete fabrication no such fire having taken place at Redditch On Tuesday week at Norwood Church Eleanor Willett eldest daughter of Osgood Hanbury Esqjunof Lombard-street banker to the Rev William Ayling of Til lington sear Tetworth Young love stuck his dart in fair heart (In truth he is omniprevailing She felt and she said from that hour Through life she would gladly be Ayling On Thursday week at Farnham the Rev Joseph Butterwortli AM of Henbury-court Gloucestershire to Mary Alexandrina eldest daughter of Captain A Bowen of the Hon East India service Since as noble and lovely a flower As ever existed on earth clear that with Joseph she happy must he So long as he is but her SHIP NEWS Maldon May Arrived Endeavour Staples Joanna Playle Louisa Cockerell William Carnish Newcastle coals John Barker Appleby Agcnoria Weatherhead Blyth ditto Mary Kemp Sunderland ditto Nathaniel -Tovee Endeavour Finch Hartlepool ditto Louisa Newton Stockton ditto Hope Brown Weymouth stone Bertholly Jones Port Madoc slates Henry Bangor ditto Jonathan Ward Hawk Raven Maid of the Mill Sibley Hope Sibley London sundry goods Sailed Faithful Jeffery British Queen Wright Young Mary Hudson Goole wheat Rose May Southampton beans venture Parker Maid of the Mill Sibley Fox Raven Resolution Raven London flour and grain Merton Nairn Arctic Huby Salamander Smith Billy Brown Agcnoria Weatherhead North in ballast COLCHESTER May 21st 1840 Arrived Amiable Perpetue Charon Charente brandy Kathleen tilings' Landshipping coals Sharp Meeling St Ann Burton Isabella Penney Jane Willett Garland Carnell Thomas and Mary Nesbitt Newcastle ditto Charlotte Gardiner Vesta Philbrick Effort Murrells Beatitude Barnard Stockton 'ditto Chance Lever general goods Union Grimwood Little Hermitage Kent Hope Austin Endeavour Johnson Industry Finch London Sailed Sharp Meeling Sunderland malt Royal Adelaide Colleer Pembrey barley flour Sarah Ann Wiles Goole wheat Two Brothers Sliead Woodbridge British goods Little Hermitage Kent Industry Finch Amity Withey "ane Cbithain Rebecca Collins Elizabeth Mary Nunn and Betsy Ham London malt flour wheat beans peas Ac SOUTHWOLD May 21st Arrived Hope Saver Ebenezer Welch London goods Friend Wayth Dover chalk Charles Simpson Norfolk Soans Tyne Wayth Heart of Oak Green Liberty Lilly Sophia Twaddeli Francis Griffiths Porrett Three Friends Smith Mary Ann Chittleburgh Fanny Barrett Newcastle coals Four Friends Waters Sunderland ditto Sailed: Permanent Wayth Damsel Jennings Commerce Church William ami Mary Wright Guardian Welch Gleaner May Heart of Oak Green Newcastle ballast them Mr Dennis of lnworth and James French of Stan way had employed him and always found him honest was convicted and the Chairman told him that there being a belief that the most guilty person had escaped the Court was inclined to visit him with a very lenient punishment and therefore sentenced him to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard labour Wm Palmer (19) Wm French A) and Wm Neer (Id) labourers charged with having stolen six ploughshares the property of Joseph Sach at Little Coggeshall on the 28th of April Robert Pilgrim saw French and Palmer carrying the shares across a field suspended from a stick Wm Gooday constable of Coggeshall took French and Neer into custody They told him they took the shares to sell them to a man who was waiting in the lane to buy them but seeing Mr Skingley they threw down the shares and ran away Palmer on being apprehended said he should not have cared if the boys had not spouted The Jury found French and Palmer guilty and aquitted Neer because he was not one of the two that carried the shares A former conviction for felony was proved against Palmer who had been also otherwise convicted The constable said that Neer though so young had been in gaol twice and once convicted of highway robbery Palmer was sentenced to seven transportation and French to three months' imprisonment and hard labour the last month in solitude Benjamin Law charged with having stolen a silk handkerchief tooth brush a china cup and other articles the property of Wm Reynolds at Epping Prisoner was in the employ of prosecutor as a labourer and his master having missed several articles and seen a silk handkerchief in possession he obtained a search warrant and in a box at his house which prisoner acknowledged to be his found the stolen property Three imprisonment and hard labour Win May (30) labourer charged with stealing half a cwt of coals the property of George and Sarah Coates at Springfield It appeared that Mr Clift clerk to Mr and Miss Coates on the eveuing of the 6th April walked down the Chelmsford navigation to a barge that had brought up some coals He saw prisouer in the barge putting coals into a sack On being detected he begged to be Verdict Guilty Six imprisonment and hard labour Peter Instance (29) labourer charged with having stolen wheat the property of his master Edward Smvthies Dakins a surgeon and farmer at Peldon Mr Knox was for the prosecution and Mr Dowling for the Prisoner was in Mr employ as a labourer and on the night of the 28th of April he took a quantity of wheat in a sack to the cottage of a man named Hance whom he called out of his bed He said he found it on his premises Hance said he would have nothing to do with it but prisoner left it Mr Dakins afterwards on information searched Hance's cottage and found the wheat which corresponded with the bulk which he had in his barn Prisoner was seen on the night of the 28th by a labourer named James Paine with the wheat on his back which he said he found on his premises Mr Dowling endeavoured to shake the credit of Hance but it appeared that though he had been in custody it was only about this wheat The Rev Mr Eden Mr Harvey a farmer and Mr Dakins gave prisoner a good character Not Guilty Mr Eden expressed his willingness to take prisoner into his employ Joseph Davison Dorking (29) labourer charged with having stolen two fagots of wood the property of John Burleigh at Toppesfield Not guilty Wm Owers 17 labourer charged with having stolen a handkerchief the property of John Arnold at Colne En-gaine Fourteen days' imprisonment in solitude and to be whipped Sarah Blackwell charged with having stolen a purse and 3s (id the property of Eliza Rivett at Belchamp St prisoner had been admitted to bail Six imprisonment and hard labour Isaac Preston (13) labourer Henry John Pratt (17) drover John Shannon (13) labourer charged with having stolen a coat the property of Abraham Dawson at Boreham One imprisonment and to be whipped Benjamin Bickmore (49) labourer lor having left his family chargeuble to the parish of Witham he having been before convicted of a like offence Six imprisonment and hard labour Stephen Stewart (48) shoemaker charged with the same offence at Witham Eight imprisonment and hard labour Nathan Joyce (12) labourer charged with having received six cast iron shares knowing them to have been stolen Bill ignored Isaac Smith (35) labourer charged with having stolen a hoe the property of William Martin at Walter Beauchamp Not guilty Samuel Ives alias Willis (35) labourer charged with having stolen three fowls the property of Joseph Middle-ton and Wm Brown (35) labourer with having received them knowing them to have been stolen Ives lodged at the Ship Avely and on the morning of the 12th of April the landlord Edward Thulby went into his loft and there found three dead fowls He gave information to John Barnes a constable who watched and saw Ives come into the loft and look at the fowls Ives then went away and came back with Brown who asked Ives if the fowls were good ones and he replied and gave him two As they were going away Barnes came out of his hiding place and took prisoners into custody Mr Middleton proved that the fowls had been stolen from him in the night of tjae 11th of April they were a very peculiar breed Prisoners were found guilty and sentenced each to twelve imprisonment and hard labour Joseph Porter (41) labourer charged with having stolen a calico shirt and a flannel shirt the property of the Guardians of the Dunmow Three hard labourer George Saveall (43) labourer charged with having stolen six pieces of hornbean stack wood and one ash pole the property of John Barrell at Ramsden Grays One imprisonment in solitude William Myhill Hedges and Uriah Fuller charged with having assaulted John Harrington with intent to rob him at Finchingfleld Prisoners had been out on bail Bill ignored Thomas Leaning (38) labourer charged with having stolen a leg of mutton the property of Stephen Chamber-lain at Stisted Six imprisonment and hard labour Samuel Doer (32) and Henry Moor (30) labourers charged with having stolen 2 dozen of port and sherry the property of John Boreham at Gt Wakering Six imprisonment and hard labour Geot'ye Warwicker (22) labourer charged with having stolen 8 live tame rabbits the property of Wilson Leeching at Great Six imprisonment and hard labour Richard Clarke (30) bricklayer charged with having unlawfully and maliciously set fire to and burned 15 acres of a wood called Stoney Moor Wood the property of the Right Hon William Henry Francis Lord Bill ignored Daniel Davis (40) labourer and Rose his wife were put to the bar charged with numerous offences of stealing goods from various shops in Chelmsford There were six indictments against the man and two against his wife The first case was a charge against the wife of having stolen a looking-glass the property of James Poulton a cabinet maker and the man with having received the same knowing it to have been stolen Mr Knox for the prosecutor admitted thatfthe male prisoner must be acquitted as the taking of the property by the wife to her own home the law did not view as constituting a receiving on the part of the husband as she had no other place to take it to The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty She was again indicted for stealing a waistcoat the property of Michael Brady at Chelmsford and found guilty on that The Court sentenced her to six imprisonment and hard labour Daniel Davis was then charged with having stolen two cheeses weighing 361bs from the shop door of Thomas Tidboald and James Felton grocers at Chelmsford lie was apprehended in the fact of stealing the Verdict guilty Prisoner was again charged with having stolen lOlbs of meat and a meat hook the property of John Wenden butcher at Chelmsford When dwelling was searched the meat and hook were found in his bed-room Jury acquitted prisoner in consequence we presume of a doubt as to whether there was sufficient proof of the identity of the property Prisoner was again indicted for having stolen a footstool the property of Henry Bedford cabinet-maker at Chelmsford The stool was also found at dwelling and identified as the property of The Jury found him guilty There were two other charges against prisoner but the evidence was not gone into on these cases The Court sentenced prisoner to 7 transportation John Spurgen (66) labourer charged with having stolen eight pounds weight of brass six pounds ot copper and two pounds of lead the property of Samuel Tayspill Day and Robert John Day at Halsted Prisoner who was a discharged soldier in the employ of prosecutors on the 18th April went to Colchester to receive his pension and then offered to Thomas Gill the shopman of Mr Catch-pool ironmonger at Colchester the property laid in the indictment Gill told prisoner he suspected the metal had been stolen and gave information to Harvey keeper of the borough gaol who apprehended prisoner and it turned out that the articles had been stolen from prosecutors Proof was also given of prisoner having been before convicted of felony He was sentenced to seven years transportation Thomas Ramsey (34) labourer charged with having stolen half a bushel of coals the property of George and Sarah Coates at Springfield The prisoner had been out on bail The circumstances of this case were nearly similar to those of William May Mr Clift clerk to prosecutors went oh board of a coal barge on the navigation at night and found prisoner there with something in a sack He asked him what he was doing and he said he was after a few coals Clift told him to shoot them out and he did so said this was the first time and hoped to be forgiven Hyland in addressing the jury contended that as the witness did not see the coals and as prisoner only said he was after a few coals there was no proof of stealing although prisoner might be there with an unlawful The Rev Bramston Elkanah Berrnet Henry Gladwin and George Alfred Willis gave prisoner a good Verdict guilty Six imprisonment and hard labour Thomas Joslin (56) miller charged with having embezzled divers suras of money the property of his masters William and Henry Marriage at Little Waltham Mr Ryland and Mr Marsh appeared for the This case excited great interest as prisouer had been 30 years in the employ of uncle and up to this period had enjoyed the highest character Prosecutors are proprietors of Croxton Mill in the parish of Little Waltham which they took from their uncle last Michaelmas their uncle requested them to keep prisoner em-ployed iii the mill as heretofore for a time he also wished them to retain another man named Phillips Prosecutors SirS11 n1! eir and sent another man named William Bright to the mill Joslin was to keep the books and enter all goods sold and monev received and to settle with prosecutors every week it was a retail mill Some suspicion arising prosecutors on the 11th April desired Bright to enter in a book the names of all persons who came to the mill and the goods sold On the 13th April Frances Turner went to the mill had some flour and paid Bright 3s llgo- Charlotte Poulten on the same day paid paid Joidin os 3d The same day Mary Ann Dale paid to Bright 5s3d Bright corroborated the statements of Turner and Dale and deposed that he paid the two sums to Joslin he had entries in his book of all three sums On the 25th April prisoner settled his book with prosecutors and paid £30 169 7 but there were no entries of either of the three sums above Mr Knox who was (with Mr Dowling) for the prisoner in addressing the Jury dwelt on the improbability of a man who had for so many years possessed the highest character being guilty of such petty dishonesty and observed that the most reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the facts was that the sum had not been entered through inadvertence The Learned Gentleman called Mr Wm Hitchcock Mr Joscelyne Mr Samma Mr A Emberson and Mr Mead fanners Mr A Smith corn dealer Mr Burton and Mr Skill millers Lucas Esq barrister Mr Matthews grocer and Hutchinson Esq surgeon who all gave prisoner the highest character Some had known him 20 and others 30 years The jury after a short deliberation acquitted prisoner CHELMSFORD A piece of ground has recently been purchased on the Moulsham side of the new bridge for the site of a Catholic Chapel On the 14th inst an action was brought by Mrs Sage keeper of a seminal at Romford against Mr Jones of Abridge in consepuence of his two daughters being removed without The Jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for the amount claimed Fatal Accident On Monday evening about eight as Mr waggon was passing through great Leighs on its was to London the guard named Robert Boughen who was riding in front asleep fell off and the wheels passing over his right shoulder and hack part of his head killed him instautly He has left a widow and six children and had been thirteen years in Mr employment and bore an excellent character He resided in Risbygate-street Bury A few evenings since as Mr Scale jun Mr Hustler and Mr Joseph Mayhew were returning from Pebmarsh to Halsted in a fly the horse shyed at a dog whilst turning the corner at Ashford Lodge when the vehicle immediately upset and the three gentlemen above mentioned each received a severe iujury The collarbones of Mr aud of Mr Mayhew were dislocated and Mr Hustler received a fracture of the left arm but we are happy to add that all the sufferers are in a fair way of recovery Remarkable Occurrence On Friday the 15th inst one of the inmates of a cottage at Panfield was married the following morning the bride became a mother a few hours after a sister of the bride died and thus a marriage a birth and a death took place within twenty-four hours in the same family and in the same house Raising of a On Tuesday last the ship The Commodore arrived along shore This vessel bound from the Indies to London was stranded in January last and some gentlemen of the town having obtained the aid of the sailors recovered the prize and brought it in with triumph Fatal Accident on the Thames at Death of one of the Eton Boys A lamentable and fatal accident occurred on Saturday evening about six to a young lad about fourteen years of age named Montague the son of Mr Montague of Clap-ham one of the Commissioners of Stamps who was rowing the river in one of those dangerous skifi's with which the Thames at Windsor abounds with two other Etonians They were proceeding up the stream and just as they had passed through Windsor-bridge they met a barge towed by horses towards tiie college Tiie persons who were on tiie bridge perceiving that their boat was between the towing line anil the shore called out to the hoys to lie down Two of them attended to these injunctions but young Montague who refused to do this called out to the men on board the barge to stop it hut at the rate tho vessel was proceeding and it being too close to tiie skiff to avert the danger that was impossible As tiie line passed over the boat and over tiie heads of the two boys who had laid themselves down Montague caught hold of it evidently for the purpose of throwing it over liis head Tiie line however appeared unfortunately to catch him under the chin and in an instant he was dragged out of the boat into the water Another barge passing by at the moment it went completely over the spot where he was thrown in and it was some seconds before he rose to the surface Boats immediately put off from the shore byit too late to save the poor boy as it appeared from liis struggles in the water that he was totally unable to swim Captain Blaine of the 2d regiment of 'Life Guards stationed at Windsor who (with some other officers) was in a bont on the river at the time hastened to the spot threw off his clothes and plunged into the streum (which at this place was upwards of twenty feet deep) in the vain hope of rescuing the unfortunate youth After the lad had been in the water nearly half an hour liis body (by means of the drags of the Royal Humane Society which are kept near the spot) was discovered under the centre arch of tiie bridge and taken to the Catherine Wheel public-house close by where unremitting exertions were used by the most eminent medical men in the two towns to resuscitate the body but without On Tuesday an inquest was held and tiie Jury returned the following verdict 1 Accidental death by drowning with a deodand on the barge horses and line of To which was The Jury are satisfied that every precaution is taken by the college to prevent accidents of this nature that every means were resorted to in this case to recover tiie body and that their thanks are due to the Humane Society to the iad Allen (who first went out witli his punt) and more especially to Captain Blane for his humane efforts to recover the It may be worthy of remark that no death from drowning lias occurred at Eton College notwithstanding the hazardous pranks played oil the water during the summer months by tiie Etonians and the highly dangerous nature of many of the boats let out to them during the last 14 years Another Fatal Case of Sta The neighbourhood of Biddenden in Kent has been greatly excited within the last few days on account of a tragical occurrence Hint took place in that neighbourhood OR tile afternoon of tiie 13th instant the result of whioh was tin: death of a labouring man named Munn who was stabbed by another man named James Bell witli a penknife in the heart It appears that on the day in question several labouring men had assembled at a public-house in the village of Sinasden near Biddenden and they were drinking together and among them were Bell anil the deceased a dispute at length arose between them as to tiie payment of tiie reckoning Munn insisting that share was greater than lie himself represented it to be and at length Munn seized Bell by the feet and dragged him from his seat and pulled him out of tiie house Bell went away in a great passion and said lie would fetch tiie constable and it appeared that lie made inquiry for him in the village and not being able to find him he returned again to the public-house and told the parties who were there that the constable was coining The dispute about the reckoning was then resumed and Munn and Bell were very angry with each other and the latter again left the house and it appears proceeded immediately to a shop in the village where lie purchased a small penknife for sixpence and then returned to the house and upon his taking his seat he dared Munn to touch him again The deceased got up and went towards him and just as he got close to him Bell made a back-handed stab at him and plunged the blade of the knife into his heart He fell to the ground exclaiming He has stabbed me and in five minutes he expired Bell was immediately secured and on his being told tiiat tiie man was dead he became almost frantic and begged the bystanders for sake to go for a doctor and try to save him and at the same time declared tiiat he did not intend to have hurt the deceased An inquest was subsequently held upon the body when the above facts appeared in evidence and from the evidence of another witness it appeared that Bell had declared that lie went out to buy the knife on purpose and that he intended to kill the deceased The jury however after a patient inquiry returned a verdict of against Bell and he was committed to Maidstone Gaol to take his trial at the ensuing summer assizes Railway Accident A serious accident occurred on the London and South-Western Railway on Sunday last Tiie engine of the train which left Vauxhall at ten on Sunday morning was thrown off the rail about five miles before it reached Winchester The engine driver and the stoker were both killed A lady ill one of the second class carriages had several of her toes hurt severely A servant in the same carriage was cut in the forehead but there was no fracture Further than this there was no injury of any consequence to any passenger One of the servants of the company was in the luggage carriage next to the engine and escaped unhurt No passenger in the first class carriages suffered anything beyond alarm except perhaps very slight bruises This accident is believed to have been caused by some mischievous person having wickedly put something across the rail It is very melancholy to witness tiie sudden destruction of two men usefully engaged in their duty but will strike tiie mind of observers tiiat the situation of those who conduct and manage these engines being obviously most exposed to danger supplies them with tiie most powerful motives for care and attention and cannot fail to operate beneficially on their condnct hy making them sober and careful and yields additional protection to those who travel by this mode of conveyance The Earl of Dundonald appears to have been one of the passengers and with the other passengers came forward to bear testimony in favour of the proper conduct of the servunts of the company At the inquest the Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death with a deodand on the engine of one shilling The House of Lords met for a short time on Monday to receive petitions in favour of the principle of nonintrusion No other business was brought on On Tuesday the Royal Assent was given in the usual form to a number of private Bills and a few public ones Among the former were four Railway Bills and seven Roads Bills The Bishop of Norwich presented a petition from Ipswich against Church Rates and took occasion to call the attention of their Lordships to the Church Rate question lie agreed with the petitioners that a Dissenter was not bound to support a Church or a Clergy to which he was adverse in all those luxuries provided for by Church Rates but he did not agree with them that Dissenters should be altogether excused from the payment of Church Rates because he conceived that those who had purchased property liable to that tax ought to coutribute to the support of those ancient edifices of which every Englishman whether Churchman or Dissenter must feel proud For his part were he living in a country in which the religion of the State was different from that which he professed and he had purchased land under liability to a certain tax he should think it his duty to pay it As to the person now confined in prison for the nou -payment of Church Rates for whose release the petitioners prayed he thought it being a matter properly decided by a Law Court the proper tribunal that neither he nor the petitioners had a right to interfere in the matter The Archbishop of Dublin presented a petition praying for the entire Abolition of the Puuishment of Transportation and after entering at great length into the subject in enforaementof the views of the petitioners concluded with moving a Resolution it is not expedieut to continue the puuishment of The Marquess of Normanby contended that it was impossible immediately to discontinue this punishment owing to the difficulty of finding a substitute and he therefore met the motion by moving the previous question The Archbishop did not press his motion to a division being satisfied with having elicited the discussion On Thursday Earl Ripon moved for returns illustrative of the state of the revenue the motion was agreed to The Commons were almost exclusively occupied during Monday Tuesday and Wednesday fw ith the debate upon Lord Irish Registration Bill On Monday after a great number of petitions had been presented relating to this measure as well as others for and against Church Extension the order of the day was read for going into Committee on the Bill upon which Sir Wm Somerville rose to move that the House should go into Committee on the Bill that day six months The speech of the Hon Baronet brought out the real facts of the case in a strong light While in England the rural population is estimated at 8500000 the constituency at 344000 in Ireland the rural population is 7000000 and the constituency under 60000 Moreover with an increasing population the number of voters is declining After exposiug the ruinous effect which the Bill would have upon the poor voter the Hon Baronet expressed his wonder that Hon Gentlemen residing in Ireland and acquainted with the country could support such a measure the result of which would be the succeeding in destroying the franchise but uot until it bad divided landlord from tenant even more than they unfortunately were at present it would create a spirit of revenge to an extent which no one could calculate and he firmly believed engender more evil effects than could possibly be worn out during the -life of the youngest Lord Russell said that the proposal before the House was to begin a retrograde course to diminish to restrict the franchise of one part of this United Kingdom and thus to show that hereafter it would be their endeavour and the aim of their legislation to go back from that franchise which the people had obtained from their hands to make that franchise more difficult to consider the man who asked for that franchise as a public enemy and by slow degrees to diminish and destroy that franchise which as he contended had been most liberally betowed On Wednesday the House divided Fpr the motion 301 against ir 298 Majority against Ministers 3 The Weaver Churches Bill was read a second time on Tuesday in defiance of numerous Petitions from the immediate district and other places in the county of Chester One was presented by Mr Wilbrnham from the place where it is proposed to erect the church stating that the population is only 2100 while there is Church accommodation for 2600 people and another by Mr Brockle-hutst from a public meeting at Macclesfield presided over by the Mayor which was signed by 3000 persons The question involved in the Bill was correctly slated to be whether the County Rates throughout the country were now to be made liable for the raising of churches On a division which was called for by the Tories who had got possession of the House the numbers were for the second reading 242 against it 166 majority 66 It is hoped that the Bill will not survive another stage On Thursday Sir Inglis deferred7 his motion on the subject of Church Extension to some day after Whitsuntide Very little business was done CONVICTION OF JOHN CLEAVE FOR PUBLISHING A BLASPHEMOUS LIBEL CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT May 6 Mr John Cleave a bookseller in Shoe-lane was indicted for a misdemeanour in having published a libel entitled Haslam's Letters to the Clergy of all Denominations showing the Errors Absurdities and Irrationality of their Mr Adolphus stated the ease for tiie prosecution which lie said had been instituted by her government in order to put a stop to the sale of such infamous publications as tiie one which the defendant was charged with having published The Learned Counsel then read extracts from the libel as follows What wretched stuff the Bible is to be sure! What an idiot tiie author of it must have been We advise every human being to burn tiie Bibles they have got tiiat posterity may never know that people believed in such abominable trash I renounce the Bible as a compound of filth blasphemy and nonsense and an insult to After reading some other extracts to the same effect the Learned Counsel said he should prove tiie publication of the libel by tiie defendant He believed the defence intended to be set up was that the defendant had merely sold the work in the way of his trade as a bookseller but if such a defence were allowed it would be productive of the most dangerous consequences to society He then called Alexander Kerr policeman 12 who proved purchasing the libel at the shop and that the defendant was present at the time of the sale Tliis was the only witness examined on the part of the prosecution The jury returned a verdict of Guilty Mr Chambers after tiie verdict had been pronounced said he trusted his Lordship would not pass sentence upon the defendant until he had had an opportunity of presenting a memorial to Government setting fortli the real facts of the case and showing that he had sold the work in the regular way of his trade and without being aware of tiie nature of it and that as soon as he was aware of its libellous nature lie discontinued the sale of it Mr Justice Coltman said tiie defendant might make an affidavit of those facts if he thought proper and that he would postpone passing sentence for some time in order to give him an opportunity of so doing Tiie defendant having made an affidavit to the above effect it was handed up tp the Court Mr Justice Coltman (laving read the affidavit said that he did not doubt the truth of it but the publication in question was one of such a dangerous nature that a stop must be put to the sale of it After some further observations lie sentenced the defendant to four imprisonment in Giltspur-street Compter to pay a fine of £20 to the Queen and to find sureties himself in £100 and two sureties of £50 each to keep tiie peace for two years Tiie defendant who sat by his counsel during the trial was then removed in custody SELECTIONS ANOTHER OUTRAGE COMMITTED BY THE FRENCH ON THE QUEEN AND GOVERNMENT OF TAHITI The piratical outrage committed hy the Captain of the French frigate Venus at Tahiti is not it appears the only case of the kind The Sydney Gazette of Sept 21 contains the account of a second transaction which reflects if possible still deeper disgrace upon the French name and to which it is the more necessary to call the attention of British Protestants because a British Journal in the pay of the Romish priesthood has audaciously defended the conduct of tiie Artemhe The Australasian Chronicle insinuates that this second aggression was warranted by tiie barbaraties more recently exercised at the instigation of the Methodists' on tiie French Missionaries aud the Catholics settled at The writer of this statement must have been conscious of the falshoodof this representation since no Roman Catholic Missionary either from France or any other place has visited the island since the departure of Captain Du Petit Thouars (or Thoire) No time ought to be lost in bringing the whole affair under the cognizance of the French authorities Tiie subjoined account of this second affair is furnished hy an eye-witness of the transaction and it is confirmed by a letter from Mr Pritchard the British Consul at Tahiti upon whom as the supposed informant the Australasian Chronicle pours forth a torrent of virulent and mendacious abuse quite in keeping with its ntorious character "to thk editor of the sydnkt oazkttk Having been a resident on The island of Tatiiti at the time of the visit of Captain La Place in the frigate L' Artemis and an eye-witness of the proceedings which you have lately brought under the notice of the public I trust you will allow me to state what passed under my own observation On the morning of the aist of April whilst running at the rate of -It knots an hour the frigate L'Artemise struck on a reef called in the native language Hati Bubbi or No Water lying off the south end of tiie island distant seven leagues The frigate remained on the rock beating for about two hours until after starting the whole of her water and trimming the ship by tle stern stie swung off with tiie loss of her fore-foot the whole other fase keel 36 feet of tiie main keel seven planks on the starboard side from the gahhert upwards and three feet on tiie larboard side making four feet of water an hour The pilot positively refused to take the frigate into the harbour of Papiete on account of her heavy draught of water and had it not been for the praiseworthy exertions of Captain Thomas Ebrill she must have sunk It was about 111 at night when tiie frigate anchored and late as was the hour tile chiefs (the Queen being absent when apprised of her distress despatched 21)0 natives on board to relieve the exhausted crew at tiie pumps The Queen on her return gave up her own house and ordered tiie houses of three of her relatives and several houses the property of private individuals to be given up for the reception of La Place and the crew and stores of the frigate Nor did the generous and humane conduct rest here for she continued to keep tiie natives at work on board the frigate and also gratuitously allowed Captain La Place to cut timber for the repairs of the vessel from her own grounds Captain La Place availed himself to he fullest extent of this permission but he was not satisfied to rest contented within the limits of the generosity for I have actually seen his carpenters engaged in cutting down the breadfruit trees on the premises of the poor defenceless inhabitants their entreaties not to be deprived of their principal means of subsistence being disregarded and in more than one instance where the natives attempted to prevent the Frenchmen from destroying their bread-fruit plantations Captain La Place despatched an officer with a party of armed men to quell tiie resistance It was not till the repairs were completed and the frigate ready for sea that Captain La Place gave any intimation of what seems to have been his intention in visiting Tahiti Without hinting his wishes tiie gallant Captain invited the Queen and tiie whole of the Chiefs to go on board the frigate Tiie Queen and her aunt went but the Chiefs having obtained an inkling of what was intended prudently remained on shore The Queen on her arrival was received by Captain La Place and Moiene-liout now tiie Frencli Consul who without loss of time informed her what she had been invited there lor Mr Moreneliout act-ing as interpreter informed her that she should nut he allowed to leave the frigate until she had consented to comply witli an order which was to the following effect You and your Chiefs shall most solemnly swear to honour the flag of His Most Christian Majesty the King of the French and to the very utmost of your power support and protect th Catholic religion and such priests of that religion as shall be stationed on your island by tiie order of the Catholic Bishop resident at the Gambier Islands and you shall aid and assist in the building of chapels and houses for the accommodation of the priests giving the land gratis in whatever part of the island they shall think proper You shall also receive the priests with the same honours and give them the eame protection from your subjects as they actually receive in the kingdom of France The smallest infrac lion of this promise will be immediately resented by His Most Christian Majesty the King of the This though not the exact words is the spirit of a document whirl Queen Fomare found ready prepared on her going on board and to which she was informed that she must affix her signature For some time he Queen refused but on Captain La threatening in the event of her continuing to refuse tiiat he would destroy the town take possession of the Island aud place a Roman Catholic Chief on tiie throne the poor young Queen bathed in tears affixed her signature to the paper and was then permitted to laud As soon as she came ashore the Queen summoned a meeting of the Chiefs and informed them of what had taken place on board the frigate The Chiefs one and all refused to obey Captain La mandate and were busily engaged in the several departments when I left the island swearing in the inhabitants to support them and the Prote6taut Missionaries in resisting Captain La Place's demands The frigate sailed on the 7th of June the day after this transaction I am Sir your very obedient servant Alex Doublas Home Sept 39 isjp" HALSTED PETTY SESSION May 19 John Osborne was charged with wilfully damaging a pipe upon Earls Colne church the property of Mr A Hayward of Greenstead Green Mr men were fixing the pipes on the steeple when the defendant with others went up and the rain having washed the dirt and stones near the pipe he kicked them in with his foot and blocked it up He was ordered to pay fid damage and 10 costs being unable to do so was committed for a month Robert Ellis was convicted of leaving his wife and family chargeable to Earls Colne and was ordered to pay Is fid a Week towards the expenses already incurred and 5s week for their future maintenance Mary Cow land was ordered to pay 20s fine and costs for assaulting Mary Pudney at Earls Colne Closing Public-Houses A report was made against Mr Moye of the White Hart Inn in this town by one of the police constables for having several persons drinking in his house at half-past twelve pm on Sunday last Mr Moye attended before the Bench and produced his license which said that his house was to be closed during the usual hours of Divine service which lie said he had attended to the service in the morning beginning at halfpast ten it is frequently over by a quarter-past twelve which was about half an hour earlier than most churches in the country the usual time of commencing service being eleven clock Bench wished it to be understood that there was no complaint against Mr- Moye the policeman had made a report only which they are bound to do as they have orders trom the Chief Constable to see that houses are not open before one I lie Bench took time to consider the question whether public-houses ought to be closed till one as many country people attended the different places of worship in the town where the service ended about the same ti as at tiie church and in the event of their being closed till one they would be obliged to wait about the town a considerable time SAFFRON WALDEN London Missionary The anniversary of the North-west Essex Branch was held in the Abbey-lane Chapel on Tuesday last May 19th The public meeting took place at two in the afternoon and was more numerously attended than any preceding anniversary Addresses were delivered by the Rev John Ely of Leeds Rev Johns Missionary from Madagascar Joseph Rasoamaka and the Rev Christie late Missionary in India Also by the Rev Messrs Bromley Sewell Forster and Madgin Great interest was excited by the address of Rasoamaka one of the Christian refugees from the island of Madagascar who before the persecution of Christians was a man of considerable importance and of the royal family He commenced speaking in English but in consequence of his having only a partial knowledge of the language he requested to be allowed to address them in his own which he used with great fluency Mr Johns acting as interpreter In the evening an eloquent and impressive discourse founded on 2 to 5 verses of 2 chap Isaiah accompanied with powerful practical suggestions was delivered by the Rev John Ely to a large and attentiv congregation The Rev Forsaith of Durham and tiie Rev Cousins of Ashdon assisted in the service The collections at the doors amounted to upwards of £23 During the tempest on Thursday May 14th the resi dence of Mr Martin grocer of Duxford was struck by the electric fluid which entered through the roof pro ceeding from the bed-room to the lower room and escaped up the chimney It destroyed several articles of furniture but Mr is fortunately insured HARWICH The progress of Dissent is rapidly on the increase here and at Dovercourt in the latter place the tive Methodists are very prosperous On the 18th large meeting was held at Mr near the toll gate the party took tea together on the teetotal system which is also gaining ground fast in this borough On the 20th instant a meeting of the Mayor and Town Council was held to determine on an answer to the Lords of the Treasury who had received a petition from the late Town Clerk and Borough Goaler for compensation fur loss of office their claim seemed so preposterous and unreasonable that not one of their Tory friends could be found bold enough to support them The Council re solved that neither the Town Clerk nor the Gaoler had right to any compensation whatever and an answer was returned accordingly OR1GI1AI POETRY Stanzas A LADY ON HER BIRTHDAY TO MISCELLANEOUS Lord Ward has forwarded £200 to the Worcester Diocesan Church Building Society on the completion of the proposed plans: 10501 sittings will be gained to the churches in this diocese of which 8076 are free at "a cost of £4610 Sir William Ingilby Bart lias presented £24 towards the fund for erecting a new independent chapel in Lincoln the first stone of which will be laid on the 26th inst A Good Cast A countryman the other day got into an omnibus in the Strand and after sitting for half an hour desired the cad to put him down "in St St echoed the ead going to the city What made you get into our bus for St James's-square answered the farmer just come from our lawyers and having told lum as how I wanted to go and pay tiie squire in St James s-square he said I was to get into the first omnibus I saw which is yours and my Taking the The Lomsmliey) Journal says The Woolverine girls gerous customers The Adrian (Michigan says tiiat a preacher at a late rehgiou town published the names of seven1 1 had on a previous attViowiig evening the whispering and laug ling with raw hides went aggrieved ladies provided him until lie had to the clergyman 9 young ladles may tiie rawest hide in the company 6 well be called o( the editor of the II alti- Americanisms hathehasto cut liis straps and more Clipper can see it Connecticut let himstlt up he nwulet in New York is tiie boy for a The editor ol that liis wife has to write all tho long nose ao long1' wvite hu now rubs out hi leader tor them to paper ldensas BY GEORGE CARR A bright and beautiful thing is life Ay ladye a beautiful thing Albeit to some it may seem a state Of perpetual sorrowing The fruits and the birds and the flowers of earth The and closing of day The moon and the stars and the glory of heaven Are lovely how lovely are they The of the bosom too sweeter by Each bud is a fountain of bliss Their fragrance will cling to the heart in its age As young and fond lips in a kiss Life is pleasant and good to the holy and true But ah 'tis not so to the base No joy for the present hereafter no hope No light in the lustre of grace Life is brief tho beautiful soon will it pass And another all-perfect succeed For the just endless youth endless love endless bliss-Let study to merit the meed Melford May 18 th 1840 A Travelling A very clever fraud lias re cently been committed on tiie continent by a knot of swindlers French German and Italian with we understand some English associates They forged circular letters of credit from a large banking-house in London and starting from Aix-la-Chapelle divided their forces and worked so well in Germany Belgium and the north and south of Italy that they have already raised £10000 As some of the party have gone to Athens Constantinople and Smyrna it is supposed they will reap further spoils from their well laid nefarious scheme Report says that two Frenchmen of rank and an English lady belong to the firm As an instance of the skill with which the affair has been managed we hear that the swindlers have in no instance drawn for the full amount of each letter of credit and the documents being consequently restored to them there exists no evidence of their torgery Singular An aged female named Betty Brooks who resided near Bolton was interred last week at the parish church Botton and by her own directions in a very singular manner Her husband died in 1825 and from tiiat time up to tiie period of her death she has taken great care of liis clothing His two coats were regularly brushed every morning and liis shoes and clogs poiished as often as was necessary to clear them from dust The pillow too upon which his head rested in tiie hour of death was an especial favourite By her orders the shoes were placed at her feet in the coffin the coats were laid under her body tiie pillow under her head and a clog under each arm and in this manner she was interred Execution of an Opium An opium smuggler was seized in tiie neighbourhood of Teenetsin and dealt witli according to the new law Tliis is the first individual tiiat has been decapitated in the capital as a warning to others Several mandarins have been involved MOOT HALL COLCHESTER Monday May 18 Before the Mayor and Savill and Bawtree Esqrs James Wclharn charged with robbing Mr Forster hi: employer was fully committed for It appears that up to the present unfortunate transaction the prisoner has borne an irreproachable character for honesty He is a married man with a family ROBBERY AT THE SEA HORSE A working optician from Devonport of the name of Issue Josephs a Jew 22 years of age was charged with stealing a half sovereign the property of James Addy the ostler at the Sea Horse Inn Addy stated that tlm prisoner lodged in the same room with him on Sunday night last About seven next morning the prisoner came down stairs and in a hurried manner asked for a parcel he had left in the bar and immediately left the house His manner excited suspicion in the mind of Addy who immediately ran up stairs to his bed-room and discovered that his clothes chest had been broken open and a half sovereign taken the piece of paper in which it had been wrapped was lying upon the floor near the box He pursued the prisoner and overtook him near the Moot Hall and told him the landlord wanted to speak to him he returned with him a short distance when he tried to effect his escape but Addy prevented him On being taken to the Sea Horse he denied all knowledge of the robbery and ran through the back yard into Culver Street followed by Addy who chased him into a privy upon the premises of Cowell the policeman who came down stairs and secured him but found no money upon him He also searched must give in to our friend over tho 'in tin- Herald office who never fired a rifle but once 1 1(- bullet grazed tiie point of liis proboscis New York What is tliis to the fellow who Rcrib-blos in the Boston Trumpet whose wife never begins to cook his steak till she sees the point of liis nose at the top of Silver-street and then tarnation sure lie will be in sight in an hour after Vermont Journal We have a tolerable nose that everybody knows but we know a certain editor out west whose nose is so long tiiat it takes him an hour to smell fixing the velocity of the scent at a medium Massuchuscts Chronicle A Malthusian In the course of an in quest held on Tuesday in Marylebone and the jury being somewhat tardy in assembling Mr Wakley observed that he found less difficulty in getting a jury at the village of Perrivale Middlesex though in that parish there were only thirty-two inhabitants and not a sufficient number of inhabitant householders to constitute a jury In it there was neither public-house nor beershop and in the reign of Charles the First it contained 26 inhabitants increasing only by six souls in the space of about two hundred years yet the parish was only seven miles distant from Oxford -street.