Monmouthshire Merlin

LOVE ON. Love on, love on, the soul must have a shrine, The rudest breast must find some hallow'd spot. The God who formed us left no spark divine In him who dwells in earth, yet loveth not." Devotion's links compose a sacred chain, Of holy brightness and unmeasured length; The world, with selfish rust and reckless stain, May mar its beauty, but not touch its strength. Love on, love on, aye even though the heart, We fondly build on. proveth like the sand, Though one by one, Faith's corner stones depart, And even Hope's last pillar fails to stand Though we may dread the lips we once believed, And know their falsehood shadows all our days, Who would not rather trust and be deceived, Than own the mean cold spirit that betray. 1 Love on, love on, though we may live to see The dear face whiter than its circhng shroud, Though dark and dense the gloom of death may be, Affection's glory yet shall pierce the cloud. The truest spell that heav'n can give to lure, The sweetest prospect mercy can bestow, Is the blest thought, that bids the soul be sure 'Twill meet above the things it lov'd below. Love on, love on, creation breathes the words. Their mystic music ever dwells around, The strain is echoed by unnumber'd chords, And gentlest bosoms yield the fullest sound. As dowers keep springing, tho* their dazzling bloom Is oft put forth for worms to fced upon So hearts deeply wiunp by traitors and the tomb, Shall still be precious and shall still love on. ELlz" COOK.

LIGHT READINGS. It was said by Fuller: Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning, it is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all the night, with some serious work. Peoole would rather pardon the defects you have, than the affectation of virtues you have not. If a man do not make new acquaintances as lie advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. An ardent youth the other day mounted on a ladder, and was observed with his lips pressed to Ibe telegraphic wires. He was Kissing bis wife in Darlington. It was discovered that he had just married. THE PHONETIC Ntvvs.—The following joke appears in the Mun in the Moon :— Sakred 2 de memmuri oph DEFONETIC N U Z, witch expiured Martsh. 1849, ephtur linguriog 4 sum 2 hoi thre weex In de gratist pane opb de publishers' windo knolt witi iiselpb, but de cors oph wit in odeis itz desees will be ainseerli regretted bi itz 8unyving publisher. AfHixyuns soar long tynue it boar, Fizishuns was in vane It wood knott sel, sow doun it phel, And eye ope dey wont tri it agaoe. WttgCK-WHY-BSS-KAT rUN P A S E V I Somebody who writes more truthfully than poetically, says: A ° angel without money is not thought o much of as a devil with a bag full of guineas. Scarce one person out of twenty marries his first love, and scarce one out of twenty of the remainder has cause to rejoice at having done so. What we love in those early days is generally rather a fanciful creation of our own, than a reahty. We build statues of snow, and weep when they melt. Why is the horse of a life-guardsman like a fashionable tailor ? — Because it's a heavy charger. Why is the letter N the most sorrowful of lettenl-Becaule it is always in-coNsolsble. Laugh at no man for his pug nose for you can never tell what may turn up. Recreation is to women what the sun is in the Rower; if it is moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and improves; if immoderately, It withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the dUllelof domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps 8S necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shadow are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and in- creasing ita fragrance. IRISH ELOQUENCE.—It is written of Dean Kerwan, one of the most eloquent of the Romish priesthood, during the latter part of the last century, that when bat young, and as he waa passing through the town of Gal way on horveback, in company with some friends, he and hia party found themselves, unexpectedly, in a crowd assembling to witnesa the execution of a man convicted of murder and before they could well ascertain the cause of the concourse, it grew so dense that, retirement became impracticable, aDd he was compelled, sorely against his will, to be a spectator of the awful and revolting scene which ensued. The culprit, who soon appeared upon the scaffold, bellowed and blasphemed with outrageous violence, to the dismay and consternation of two affrighted ecclesiastics by whom he was attended, and who, having previously used every means in their power to awaken him to a sense of his condition, seemed to give up their task in mute despair; and, in this fearful condition, the wretched man was about to be burned into eternity. The swelling heart of the future preacher almost burst its narrow bounds. His melting eye and quivering frame bespoke tbe inteosity of the excitement by which he was agitated. He sprang from his horse, rushed through the guards, and before his friends could recover from their amazement, he was beside the murderer upon the scaffold, who looked upon him with strange bewilderment, and seemed to regard, as a messenger from the other world, the apparition by whom he was accosted, and who, in words and tones which made themselves be heard, warned him of the judgment to come.— madman (" he exclaimed, seizing the astounded convict by the ears, Hear!—the God of Heaven is merciful Covered as you are with guilt, he would yet snatch you as a brand from the burning Your Saviour iiveth to make intercession for yoo, as be did, upon the crosp, for the penitent malefactor! See there," said he, pointing to heaven, towards which the eyes of the fascinated convict almost mechanically followed his directing hand and he then gave impassioned utterance to the first burst of that burning eloquence which, in after years, wrought such miracles upon his hearers but never a greater one than at that moment, when it penetrated the stony heart of the blaspheming murderer, whose prayers, and tears, and convulsive sobs, evinced the effect which had been produced upon him, and who met death confessing hia misdeeds, and looking for forgiveness, with trem- bling hope, to the merits and the sufferings of the Redeemer. SCARBOROUGH ALGERINES.—The male poition of the inha bitaQtlof this Yorkshire sea port are so called (to the present day) 00 account [ suppose of the piratical aod wrecking propen- sities of their grandsires. It is likewise hinted that if a poor sailor was cast ashore with a little life remaining in his body, they did not hesitate to hasten its exit by tendering him a kick on the head more especially if they thought him a subject in possession of a little of the white or red monie." We ate also told, that a hopeful young urchin, who bad followed ita "daddy" on one of these lucky occasions down to the sea-beacb, still per- ceiving signs of life in a luckless wight, (who had already u- perienced at least balf-a-dozen of these "Scarborough Favours,") when instantly it clapped its little hands, and in the exuberance of its joy called out as lustily aa it well could, Kick him again. Daddy he isn t dead yet. The benediction and prayer taught by these gentry to their offspring ran thus,—"God bleas Daddy God bless Mammy God send a ship ashore afore morning. Amen LIFE. What is this passing scene? A peevish April day < A little sun, a little rain, And then night sweeps along the plain, And all things fade away. KIHKB WHITI.

PUNCH,TLUTUS, AND KING HUDSON. (From Punch.) (A dialogue after the manner of Lucian.) PftDch: Who is it that runs this way, followed by a pack of curs that bark about his heels, while that abort figure in glisten- ing dress of gold foil strives to frighten them away by shaking money. bags ? Enter the King and Plufus, out of breath. What! the Irvo Kiag—hat), O monarch But what means this dismay, these tattered garments, those dints on thy crown of iron 1 Plutus: Cheer up, 0 friend-øee, already the pack slink backwards, cowed, as it seems by the baton of this stranger. King H.: I bis 0 Plutus, is a stranger, indeed, to thee alone of all the Gods: the Muses know him, and Phoebus, nor is the 800 of Mals himself averse from him. This, 0 Plutus, is Punch, the son of Momus and Eumonsia. Plutus Hail, 0 Punch I am the God of Wealth, and ] concert even among men. And now 1 protect my friend here, who has sacrificed much on the altar, from those dogs yonder, who yesterday licked his hand, and fawned upon hia for scraps, but now would tear him. Punch: I have seen many dethroned kings, 0 Plutus amongst them, Louis, the aged king of the Gauls. Plutus Him I knew well—a coostaot worshipper of mine, but I cannot prop up thrones. I can only break the fall from them on my mooey-bags. Punch: And hast thou also fallen, O king 1 B"'t by they King H. I learn it only by these barkings. B*t why tbey golden ^ra0ages°.o"mfe' wTcSlT™ g*.Ut. and -te 'nuch dirt at guld.n images to me, an ca d 01 ns ':itb patience. I hue R. und they were ,till welcome done nothlDg that lu 00 <0 P„encbUmBOf.r,0O ng!bdo the crumbs still fall as before! Dogs must be fed or they will bark, and tby woi- ahippers were but those dogs, that would now tear thee. kulg H.: Give me gold, O Plutus, that I may throw it to tlUpiutus 0 my friend, I cannot. What I bad for thee, thou hadst, and hast turned it into iron. Punch Hear, O king, and I will tell thea a fable. Two gold diggers sat by the Sacramento. And they digged, and the one got much more gold than the other, lor he plunged deeper in the mud 01 the stream. And the other worshipped him, but it was the gold that he reverenced, and not the digger. But at last the strongest digger got out all the gold in that place, and then he sat aod rested hts hands; and the other then, seeing his hands, called out, "0 how dirty are thine hands, thou vile digger of ) gold? and reviled htm. Bat his friend said to him, "Look at thine own hands. Thou hast not gathered so much gold as I, i but no less dirt has stuck to thy fingers." Thus it is, 0 king, I wiih thee, and thy worshippers of yesterday. Hadst thou gone < 00 grubbing for gold, and given them of it, they would not have noticed the foulness of thy Lands, but rather kissed them e for the odour of gold thathuag about them. < Kmg H.: Hut they worshipped me. Punch Nay, not thee. but the gold that came from thee. 1 But now art thou like the King of Brass, that sat at the Cross t of Charing, in the city of London. He was taken down and 1 buried, aDd one sold knives and forks, which the seller said < were cast from the brass of him. So tboa shalt be taken down, I and out of thee shall men make iron rails, and ihou shalt be < railed upon in many ways. I Plutus: Thou sbouldst have known, 0 king, when thou didst 1 become my worshipper, that the crowns L can bestow are not < lasting crowns, and that the iron in thine did not make it more I durable. Nevertheless, 1 pity thee. < Punch: And 1, that never bowed down to tbee, while tboa i worest thy crown, -1 will keep off the dogs thftt now map at the I I tattered hem of thy royal robe. o, aKftkg fci. '• O friend, 1 think thee. )) THE LOST PLEIADE. A new ballet, of extraordinary attractiveness, has just been produced at her Majesty's theatre, a description of which, even, goes far to compensate those in the provinces who may be una- ble to enjoy its performance. U This ballet," says a London contemporary, is one of the most beautiful, most tasteful, and most thoroughly poetical ballets we have ever seen, and does in- finite credit to the graceful taste and poetical feelings of M. Paul Tagliom, its inventor. The scene is laid in Norway, and the lost Pleiade beautifully represented by the star of the ballet, Carlotta Grisi, falls in love with a mortal, Ehrick, a hunter (M. Paul Taglioni), and for him she leaves her starry sphere and sacrifices her immortality. But Ehrick, alas is betrothed to Edda (Marie Taglioni), who on discovering his love for the iost Pleiade, dies of grief. The last scene ot the ballet (we quote from the authorised version of the plot distribu'ed in the theatre), takea place in the Empyrean. The starry divinities, moved to pity by the devoted love of Electra, and the death of Ellda, restore the former to her station in the firmament, and Edda to life. Ehrick is liberated from ill-starred influence, and touched by the sufferings of Edda, bestows on her once more all his affection. The stars shed their brightest rays, and join in the rejoicings, which conclude amidst all the splendour of the Empyrean. The last scene is one of the most original, and, at the same time, one of the most beautiful scenic effects ever attempted. The fifth tableu, Ie hie des etoiles, represents a beautiful lake by starlight; around it are grouped the spirits of the stars; gradually hazy clouds gather over the lake and hide it from view, the haziness becomes diffused, and tinged as it were with light; through this baze the Pleiades, each bearing a lamp, are indistinctly seen, and the lost Pleiade rises and rejoins her sisters as the curtain falls. The ballet opens with the Valel des Rubans, danced by Mdle. Marie Taglioni and the ladies of the corps de ballet. This dance is exceedingly graceful, and is ex- actly suited to the peculiarities of the style of Marie Taglioni. In the next scene we have a most piquant fas, beautifully given by Carlotta Grisi. Her hunter lover has taken from her the star adorning her forehead, which she endeavours to regain. Carlotta Grisi surpassed herself in this scene, and it was impossible to decide which most to admire, the brilliancy of the "many twinkling" steps as she followed him round the stage, or the grace and beauty of the poses which succeeded them. The triumph, however, was La lutte, a grand pas de deux, between Carlotta Grisi and Marie Taglioni. Each exerted herself to the uttermost, and their respective styles of dancing differ so completely, that it is a lutte without rivalry—a lutte in which both may, and in which boih did, come off victorious. The groupings were the most exquisitely graceful we have ever seen. The scenery of Mluhall was superb, and the music by Pugni appropriate. Cailotia Grisi and Marie Taglioni were called for at the conclu sion, and were led on by M. Paul Taglioni to receive the ap- plause which their exertions so richly merited. The ballet was preceded by the opera of Norma, in which the acting and singing of Parodi was magnificent. It is necessary to see Parodi to Norma oftener than once in order properly to appreciate her transcendent powers. Taken as a whole, Norma has never been more perfectly performed than it was by Parodi. There was not a weak point about it, simply because there was no attempt at point-making. She acted and sung the part as a whole consci- entiously it is as a whole it must be judged, and as a whole it is perfect." [Parodi is a new star, of wondetful powers of voice and beauty of dancing, which are attracting over-flowing houses, just as was the case when Jenny Lind first startled England.]

THE NEW GREAT GRIMSBY DOCK. One of the most important of our great national undertakings has just been inaugurated under riicumsMnces of peculiar iD- tereat by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The founda- lion-stone of the Great Grimsby Dock was, on that occasion, deposited in its lesting place ùy tbe august visitor of Lincoln- shire. As an appropriate indication of ihe magnitude of these extraordinary works, this stone was of unusual magnitude, weighing no less than eleven tons. Nor was that indication in any respect hyperbolical for the enterprise which has been now formally adventured upon by the Dock Company is evidently destined to influence io a very remarkable Inlwner the inlernal and maritime traffic of our gigantic empire. It must effect im- measureabiy more than the transformation of an obscure fishing village into a thriving seaport—for, on the completion of the establishment, it will draw iuto it not ouly the whole of the steam packet business of the Humber, but will command the entire of the trade in timber aud manures with Northern Europe —it will imbibe into that estuary the enormous commerce of the German Ocean-it will comlllunical6 ioland by railways directly with the aricultural counties of Lincoln, of Norfolk, ol Cam- bridge, of Northampton, 01 Leicester, and of Nottingham, wiih the extensive manufacturing towns of Nottingham, of Leicester, of Sheffield, and of Manchester, with the collieries of Yotkahire, with the salt mines of Cheshire, and with the great port of Liverpool, commanding the trade of the Atlantic, The establish- ment of a new seaport destined to accomplish so much is some- thing more than an ordinary exploit, aud it was consequently but a fitting mode of enhancing the pomp of the celebiation, that of obtaining the presence of the illustrious Prince, the Consort of the Sovereign. During a considerable period it has been painfully manifest that some more commodious and accessible port than Kingston- upon-llull was essential to the safety and the facilitation of our mercantile intercourse with the north of the European continent. Like Bristol, Hull had continually languished from the necessity of a more immediate contiguity to the ocean. Situated high up their respective rivers, both of renowned seaports were per- petuslly struggling with the disadvantages of their geographical situation. To obviate this difficulty upon the Humber, an Act was passed in 13 15, for the purpose of empowering a compaoy to construct docks, and by constructing docks, to lay the founda- tions of a vast seaport on the site of the village of Great Grimsby, on the southern banks 01 the entrance to the estuary. En- couraged by the consent of Parliament, the Company shortly entered upon their stupendous undertaking, In 1816, the first pile of timber was driven and in reference to that first pile, it was yesterday remarked by the Earl of Varborough, that he well recollected its being theD asserted—" There is an end of G> imsby Docks the first pile, on being tapped on the head by the en- gine, went through the quicksand, and is nowhere to be found." So far from this having been the case, it appears that, under the superintendence of the eminent engineer, Mr. Rendell, no less that one hundred aod thirty-five acies have bem reclaimed from the sea-Ii mammoth cofferdam extending to a ci;cumference of one mile and three-quarters, having been constructed with seven thousand pieces of Memel timber imported directly from the Baltic. Supposing the works to be prosecuted with the rapidity of action which has marked their commencement, it is calculated that the whole will be cnmpleted within a period of about two years' duration, or rather that the Great Grimsby Docks will be opened somewhere about the summer of 1851. To achieve so much within so brief an interval will be numbered amongst those glorious victories of engineering Icience for which Eogl3nd has already acquired a very brilliant celebrity-tbe works in question embracing 1. An entrance basin, the area of which is sixteen acres, and which wilt be accessible to the largest vessels at any times.-2. Piers suitable for all vessels not requiring to enter the docks.—3. The great lock, 300 feet in length, and 65 feet in width.—4. The small lock, 200 feet in length, and 45 feet in width.—5. The dock, with an area of 29 acres, accessible for all vessels for 20 hours out of the 24.—6. The west wharf, 200 feet in length, with railways, &c., upon it, and comprising an area of 12 acres.—7. The east wharf, 2,000 feet in length, and 970 in width, lo be appropriated to warehouses.—8. A goods'siation, with railways laid to every part, and embracing an area of 42 acres.—Such is the colossal enterprise inaugurated on the 18th April, 1819, by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort.—Sun.

THE ENGLISH VISITORS IN FRANCE. INTERNATIONAL BALL. The L'Annonce Anglo-Fruncaise gives the following glowiDg description of the ball given by the French to their English guests at Boulogne last week :—" The arrangements exceeded anything of the kind we had ever beheld. The coup-d'ceil on entering the theatre was transcendent. The onion of the French and British flags, but above all the union of French and British hearts, was extremely delightful. The first view was fascinating, and the fairy spectacle was really dazzling. The brilliant lights] the drapery, the garlands of flowers, etc., were beautiful. The saloon of the theatre was decorated with a taste exquisitely sim- pie; the national colours intermingling themselves with the light draperies. On the balcony of the galleries, above ihe orchestra, were perceptible the following devices, elegantly inscribed' Angleterre, Union, trance." Above the entrance-door, in conspicious letters, "Fraternity." On the fight and ieft A la reine Victoria A" President de la Repnbli^ne On alÎ sides the national colours of both countries were united. The royal standard mingled with the folds of the republican drapery would to God they had been always so! The new saloon was most beautifully decorated, and seemed like a military tent. When the English deputation appeared, the anthem God save the Queen was played with exquisite taste, and was received with all the eclat and enthusiasm which was accorded to their national Marseillaise which followed. The merry dance continued till morning, and the whole party, consisting of above 3.000 joyous souls, acknowledged that they never witnessed so cordial or so brilliant a fete. In justice we must say that too much praise cannot he bestowed on the commissioners and all the authorities for the admirable manner in which they conducted this tru'y grand scene. Its unprecedented success will in part remunerate them for their extraordinary exertions, and Boulogne must long remember with pride, pleasure, and gratitude, the excellent and durable foundation thus laid for a lasting and in separable union among the bravest people of the world. The English visitors returned to their native shores highly delighted, chanting as they glided away :— So warmly we met, and so fondly we parted, Thai which was the sweeter we could not now tell. The first look of welcome her sunny eyes darted, Or that tear which at parting blcss'd our farewell. To meet was a heaven, and to part was another, Our joy and our sorrow seem'd rivals in bliss; And woman's bright eyes are not liker each other, In smiles and in tears, than THAT moment to THIS. The first was like day-break, new, sudden, delicious, The dawn of a pleasure, scarce kindled up yet, The last was that farewell, of daylight more precious, More glowing and deep, as 'tis nearer its set. Our meeting, though happy, was tinned by a sorrow, To think that such happiness could not remain, While our parting, tho' sad, cave a hope that to-morrow Would bring back, the best hour of meeting again.

LOCOMOTIVE WONDER—NEW MOTIVE POWER. Count de Werdinsky has communicated to the Mining Journal a discovery, which he believes he has made, by which a conve- nient, inexpensive, and highly effective motive power can be obtained from xyloidine, or guo cotton. He crowns this dis- covery by another, which he declares he made in the course of nperimcDts for rendering the first elKcacious—nothing less than a miraculous principle by which rapid locomotion is obtained without any sort of propulsion. These are his words :— I have been engaged in constructing an engine and locomo- tive, to be worked on the common roads by xyloidine, on the following plao :—Small quantities of xyloidine are exploded suc- cessively into a copper recipient of a spherOIdal form of 13 in. diameter, and 1 in. strong in metal. Each separate explosion is adequate to produce, by means of double cylindeis, a complete revolution of the crank. The object of the copper recipient is merely to allow the intense gases thrown into it room enough to expand, and thus to chaoge their percussive intensity into a more gentle dynamic power, without in any way losing any of the quantity of that power. I can, therefore, let out from that copper recipient 8S much of the gases, lhrough f1 stop-cock, all would produce a pressure of from 30 to 60, or 120Ibs. upon the square inch of the piston moreover, by the very heat accumu- lated in the metal of the recipient, the gases are kept up to their original strength, so that, the longer the engine continues 10 work, the greater the comparative economy of xyloidine, on account ot the heat of the recipient and of the machinery, which serve to keep up great expansion, and consequently great power in the gases. My experiments with a steam-engine of about horse power, on the above principle, answered admirably; but while ihese experiments were going on I made a further discovery, and this last one is verging almost on a mirade. The moitt promi. nent features of my last discovery are—that the propulsion of carriages on railroads and on common roads, will be now effected without engines, steam, water, magnetism, air, or animal power, and propelling of ships without either of the above means, sails, or paddles, or any propellers whatever."

A "CALIFORNIA" IN BELGIUM.—The Huinault nf the 13th inst. contains the following paragraph :—" A party writing from Gilly to one of our subscribers, says Some time past, a mining labourer of our ccmmune gave his daughter in marriage, and by a deed executed before the notary Vandamme, of Chaileroy, he assigned to her a dowry of 20,000 francs, which was paid down immediately. Every one was astonished at this circumstance, but the general surprise was increased when it came to be as- certained that this obscure labourer, who was known to have succeeded to no property whatever, had, moreover, placed a con- siderable sum in the handa of Messrs. Brichon, Brothers, and expressed the intention of connecting himself with the establish- ment called the Société Anonyme de Couvin. People were lost in conjeotures. The workmen with whom he laboured made strong remarks on this sudden accession of fortune. They fol. lowed him, watched his movements, and perceived that he was always at work in the fosses of the Ardinoises, frequently sepa- rating himself from his companions on the pretext of going to amoke hia pipe in a corner. A few days since the parties who had kept their eye upon him surprised him in the act of detaching from a stratum with a hammer a fragment of rock, which he concealed in his His example was imitated, and, the next day, several of his fellow-workmen produced quantities of mioerallubstance from which a chemist extracted 20 per cent. of gold, some silver, and 1 t per cent, of platina. Activereaearchee are directed towards the spot where this magnificent discovery was made, and by which the whole of the Charleroy Basin was throw into < commotion, La Cah/ornie/«ra It (our ciu monde," )

GENERAL NEWS. It is said Prince Albert felt so peculiarly the dangerous situa- tion in which he was placed when laying the foundation stone of Grimsby Dock, that he was dumbfoundered by thinking it not unlikely the waves might come. It is reported that Captain Codrington, C.B., of H.M.S. Thetis, at Leghorn, is shortly to be united to a very wealthy young lady, of the family name of Smith, residing at Florence. A fancy ball upon an extensive and magnificent scale will take place in the course of the summer in the grounds of her Majesty's Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, in aid of the funds of the society for the relief of distressed needlewomen. Ihe Duncan, CapUin Henrichson, (husband of the unfortu- nate lady murdered at Liverpool,) did not arrive out at Calcutta till the 25th of Februaiy. In the county court held, lately inWilliton, it was decided that a plaintif fwilfully perjuring herself for the purpose nf damaging the defence was, nevertheless, entitled to costs of attendance Intelligence has been received from Montreal, which proves ihe great excitement caused all over the country by the ministe rial measures for the payment of ex-rebels. A serious riot had been caused by it at Toronto. The number of gentlemen applying during the Eastern term for admission to practise as attorneys, is 140.-What a thriving business is law The postal communication between this country and the chan- nel islands, costs the government about £6,000 a year. A man has been taken into custody at Auchterless, on a charge of violation and muider. The victim is an old woman, named Smith, who was at the time of the crime the only inhabitant of a small cottage. Rebecca Archer, aged 28, destroyed herself in London, last week, through destitution and Mr. Daniels, a bootmaker, Blackfriars, poisoned himself because his own children had uu- kindly treated him, after some losses which he had experienced in business. A Church of England Metropolitan Training Institution is to be formed in London, for 160 male and female teachers, who will be able to teach 160,000 children. The Ajax has just sailed from Liverpool, with about sixty passengers, among whom are some enthusiasts from Hereford, all sailing for the new El Dorado—California. No one has yet been appointed to succeed Mr. Ward, M.P., as secretary to the admiralty. The office seems to be going a begging.—We know several talented public men who would be glad to accept the office and its emoluments. At the Central Criminal Court, Richard Loder, late overseer of convicts at Woolwich, who had pleaded guilty to having stolen £7:;5, the property of her Majesty, was sentenced 10 seven years' transportation. In Scotland, a general reduction from the rents realised last year has taken place, ranging in general from 10s. up to £1 10s. per acre, and even io some cases higher. Notwithstanding the very inclement weather and the dreari- ness of the prospect from a heavy fall of snow on Thursday the 19th instant, the cuckoo announced his periodical and welcome arrival at Potterne, near Devizes. One of the most remaikable features in the importations at the present time is the arrival of window glass, particularly from Bel- gium. One vessel, the Princess Victoria, has just arrived io the fiver, from Antwerp, with 990 cases on board, consigned to a firm in the metropolis. The American government have just appoinled a overnor of California, at a salary of £600 a-vear. The English government have appointed a governor at Labuan, at a salary of two thousand a year.—Well; and good reason for the difference. One goes to a golden country and the other to a fever country. Eating a little lump of sugar is said to be an excellent snti dote to any bad effects that frequently result from a dinner of which pork had formed a part. The Ccunt de Montemolin is again a refugee on the British soil. Large quantities of green peas and new potatoes have been received in London from Lisbon. Lord Lismore has returned no less than 40 per cent. to many ol the tenants on his Trish estates. Tlio magistrates of Hull have resolved to impose upon eveiy publican, convicted before them of keeping his house open after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, a fine of 20s. for the first ijflence, and 15. for the second. There is now in the Couit of Bankruptcy the fiat of a bank. rupt, named Allen, an innkeeper, in the county of Norfuik the debts and liabilities amount to upwards of while the as- sets in the hands of the official assignee (Mr, Johnson), amount to £2 Te restoration of the western fiont of the Gloucester cathe- dral is about to he resumed with vigour. The cholera had mude its appearaoco at Panang; many of the cases has proved latal. It had attacked Ihe hoises in a violent manner, many of which had died after a few illness. The duty on hops, of the erowlh of the year 1848, amounted altogether to the sum of £ .">8S,007. A redbreast has built its neat in a bird cage, which was hang- 109 with the door open, in an outhouse at Halifax. At the present moment, the merchant service employ 10,000 or 11,000 more apprentices than the law necessitates. Twenty yeais ago the county rate of Middlesex amounted but to {42,000, and it is now £72.000. A Birmingham pohce constable, who had recently been en- trusted with three ,t,'[) notes to get changed for payment of the men's wages, decamped with the cash but having been cap- turellln Wales, he has been committed for (rial. Prince Albert, in a speech at the Grimby Dock ceremony last week, said in effect that the mutual advantage of laodloid and tenant depended on mutual trust and confidence, rather than on the mere letter of agreement. There are two sides to the ques- ion,"how( ver. The Eatcrn Counties Railway Company had the good taste last week to provide cheap trains, or moveable pillories," from London 10 Norwich, that the public might be gratified by a nice view" of the hanging of Rush at the latter place 00 Sa turday.—" To what base uses may we come, Horatio The official bulletin of the indirect portion of the French re venue for the first three months of 18-19 is more fuvouroble than most people were prepared to expect. Mr. IIume will bring forward another Parliamentary Reform measure on the 1st of May. Ilavannab accounts of the 21st of March, state that sugar and molasses had advanced considerably, on account of the increased continental demand and the shoit crop. Lord John Russell has had an inteiview with the Irish mem- bers, on the subject of extending the income tax in Ireland, rather than the rate-in aid. If they resolved to take the tax, Lord John informed them they must take a number of other taxes now psid by England also. They have declined agreeing to anything like an income-tax. A Cheltenham paper has erroneously announced that Jenny Lind was last week married to Mr. Harris. Tbe Kestrel, Bremmer, from Newcastle, which has arrived at Singapore, was plundered by a pirate brigastine, of about 200 tons, aDd a crew of about 90 hands, 22nd November last, in lat. 22 S., long. 20 W. Valparaiso dates of February 6tb, announce the arrival on the 5th, of two ships from California, with 150,000 dollars in gold. A young female, named A on Gear, had just thrown herself from Southwark Bridge, one day last week, when a passenger se- cured her hand, and held her in that frightful position till help arrived, and she was saved. So many bank note forgeries have taken place in London, that tradesmen and others will not now take notes at all. An assistant-surgeon, named Clarke, has been committed, by the Marylebone magistrates, on a charge of rape on a young fe. male, named Mary Hunt. & A female, named Wetherelt, assuming the title of The Countess of Carlisle," has been duping the tradesmen of London pretty heavily. She is in custody, and affects insanity Mr. Hudson, late The Iron King," tendered his resignation of the office of chairman of the Midland Railway Company on Thursday last. Mr. Chadwick, chairman, and Mr. Marriner, late secretary of theNorth Wales Railway Company, were in custody of the" gen- tleman usher of the black tod," for a breach of privilege in not conforming to the order of the House of Lords, to appear at the ber of that bouse, to produce documents in respect to ibeir rail- way. The second reading of tbe Protection to Women Bill is to be moved in the Lords, by the Bishop of Oxford, on the 7th of May next. No less than 13,000 persons have been turned out of the Kil- rush workhouse, homeless and starving, during Ihe past year. An eminent physician in Ireland says that lie has observed, in the gaping, starving, vacant looks, aod hideous ugliness of ex- pression, among the junior Irish paupers—fathers and mothers ol a later race-all the indications of IUclpleotldlOcy ot insanity, —Poor unfortunate country There is great agitation ia Scotland against that clause in the Registration Bill which excludes dissenters from the office of re- gistrar. Mr. Peter Mann stands charged with having, while chief clerk of the Leeds Water Works Company, embezzled nearly £5,000 of the company's money, which he had invested in trade for himself, hoping shortly to pay with ease. He has assigned all his property to the company, but tho amount is not nearly met. A human skeleton has been discovered at Haddock, in Essex, supposed to be that of a young man, named Veal. who was missed in that neighbourhood fifty years ago. A clerk in Dumferline has forged his employer's name for £490, and having got the cheque cashed, he decamped, and has not yet been apprehended. The namber of visitors who arrived at Boulogne during last month, from England, greatly excelled the numbers of previous months. A female, named Jane Castle, in a state of insanity, threw herself out of a window, in London, last week, and was literally impaled alive upon the spikes of the area railing. She lived when taken off, but cannot recover. Cargoes of gold seekers a e still being imported into California, even from New South Wales. The British war ship Calypso will leave America shortly for England, with a freight estimated at 2,000,000 dollars. It is recommended, that as chicory is quite harmless, and some people love iI, there should be a duty put on the article, and a penalty for selling it as coffee. A small estate, called Woodbine Cottage Farm, situate at linslington, about two miles from Bristol, comprising about forty acres, and let for £80 per annum, was brought to the ham- mer, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol, on Thursday last, and forty-six years' purchase, ex- clusive of the timber.—Cheering fact, that, 101 landlords The Great Western Railway is about, not to re-adopt, as it has been slaied, its old system of return tickets, but to issue day tickets. The return tickets, allowed three days to the passenger going to and returning from Exeter. The day tickets will be prectsely what their OFlfttHI daQulc-. A coil ol tubing, 940 feet 10 length, has just been manufac- tured by the Gutta Percha Company for a gentleman in War- wickshire, to convey the supply of water from the park reservoirs to his mansion-house. The body of a tman. named Marchant.was exhumed at Bath on Friday lasl, his" disconsolate widow" having xctted a sus. picion of loul play, by her marrying again a week after his de- cease. The following are the police charges in Bristol, in one week -Felony, 16; misdemeanours, 13 drunkenness, 7 vagrancy, 6 obstructions, O.-Total, 42. Committed for trial, 9 sum- marily convicted, 17 remanded, 3 discharged, 13. Mr. W. London, silveismith, 1 aunton, went out in his garden to walk, one evening last week, when he fell down, and expired soon after. By Lord Sherbourne's permission to his tenants to destroy all game on their estates, hares have been killed in droves" of fifties, and given away for nothing. Mr. Bartholomew O'Brien, a native of Clonmel, who emi- grated to Canada, 30 years ago, died at Montreal, last month, and bequeathed £1,000 to build an asylum for destitute Irish orphani, and a similar sum to the poor of Clonmel. About 2[;0 Roman funereal vessels, some coins, and other ob- ject*, have been dug up in the neighbourhood of Colchester. Mr. J. L. Beardsall, reports (in the Lancet), some instances of successful treatment of asthma, by chloroform. It is proposed to use Farriogdon market, London, W'HC "as been unoccupied for several years, for a model lodging-house, and baths, aDd wash-houses. One of eight prisoners who lately escaped from thegaot.at Castlebar, has returned 10 the prison of his own accord, saying that he preferred the prison to staivation out of it. The Marquess of Waterford, in order to give food to the pea santry. and thereby repress crime, is now employing on his es- tate 1,000 labourers, in draining, ditching, hedging, and other occupations. The Angel inn, at Grantham, in Lincolnshire, is subject to a rent charge of forty shillings for a sermon against drunkenness, on the bequest of a Dr. Solomon, who looked upon that sin to be the inlet of nearly all others." An ounce weight of Flanders thread has frequently been gold in London for £4., and its value, when manufactured, has been increased to £40., more than ten times the price of standard gold. The Cingalese believe in the transmigration of souls. The present Chief Justice of Ceylon was menaced by a convict. You can make me die," said the man, but I shall assume the shape of a cobra capello, return, and sting you to death." A temperance lecturer, in Devonshire, a short time sioce, finished his discourse thus And finally, my hearers, why should any of you drink ardentspUlt. My son Tom has got as good cider as any in the county, at sixpence per quart." A little boy, under five years of age, has perished at Wainford M lis, in Norfolk, by falling into the hopper, where he was suf- focated in the flour. The disaster was discovered by the boy's father, who found his corpse while emptying the hopper. An inquest waa held on Friday, on the body of Thomas King, aged 50, who was discovered io his bedroom, on the preVIoUS Tuesday, hanging by the neck to a bedstead, and quite dead. On a table, in the same room was a piece of paper, with the fol- lowing words—" Make haste and cut me down, fot roy neck ,QbGII. Vsidict—Temporary insanity,

STANFIFXD HALL MURDERS. EXECUTION OF RUSH. NORWICH, SATUKDAY, APRIL 21. Saturday morning is always one of great bustle and movement in Norwich, and the surrounding country. From an early hour, even on the most ordinary occasions, for twenty miles round, the whole population is in motion. Every road, east, west, north, and south, is covered with people progressing towards the city, intent either on business or pleasure. If such be the usuat state of tbe city and neighbourhood on an ordinary market-day, one may form some slight conception of what was likely to take place when, in addition to the attractions of the maiket, there was to be witnessed the execution of so atrocious a criminal as James lilomfield Rush. Not by dozens, or fifties, or hundreds, did the people flock into the city on this eventful morning, but by teus and twenties of thousands, by every avenue, north, east, west, and south, the cry was still they come." Every inn and pub- He. house was filled with customers at an early hour in the morn- tng. The graziers, large numbers of whom attend the market, had their cattle driven on to the Castle-hill, immediately in front of the bridge 00 which the execution of criminals usually takes place. Drovers and caitle seemed to be alike jaded and worn down, probably by a week's or a fortnight's joutneyiogs through ["ad, an(j mjre> anc| rajn f0P ag yet the railway does not bring half the caltle to Norwich maiket. On all sides loud cries, with horrible oaths and execrations, mingled with the cracking of whips, and the shouts of the drovers, were heard. The most horrible jests were indulged in with reference to the forthcoming melancholy pioceediugs on the scaffold. The ignorant men who indulged in jibes and jeers on the subject of the execution, threatened, with frightful imprecations, which made the blood run cold, that rather than not witness the death of the convict they would tear down the prison gates. The excellent arrange- ments which were made by Mr. Yarrington, the superintendent of the city police, rendered any disturbance of that sort very un- likely. The Newmarket nnd Ipswich roads presented scenes of the utmost animation. Numberless carriages and vehicles of every description were crowding in from the country, some laden wish passengers, and others with provisions of the choicest kind. Country cars came jogging along, drawn by fast-trotting horses, driven by homely dames, ensconsed amidst a multitude of "peds" and market baskets. Iiinerant pedlars trotted forward with carts full of crockery and cutlery to the same place, where they were soon to hold forth to admiring crowds while vending their wares. We now turned once more towards the city, where the curling smoke was rising from innumerable chimneys, denoting that preparations were being made for the early morn- ing repast. The streets resounded with the cries of itinerant venders of various eatables. Inns, taverns, and eating-houses were filled with hungry people, who had travelled many miles to catch even a glance at the dying criminal. The universal theme of conversation was Rush and the Stanfield Hall murders. Various were the speculations as to the conduct of the criminal —would he confess, or would he die with the secret in his breast? Would he express contrition for his guilt, or would he die in im- penitence and sin 1 Would he die hard, or would the execu- tioner's be a comparatively easy duty 1 These and similar queries engaged the attention, aod were the theme of conversation of the anxious and expectant visitors, who came to witness the death struggles of the murderer. For the next hour, that is up to about ten o'clock, the bustle and hum of preparation for the day ceased, and all appeared anxious expectation. The streets were again fil/ed with eager people, passing to and fro, the rattling of carts and carriages, the lumhling of wheel barrows, and the quick tread of pedestiians continued to increase. Now the shop. windows, many of ihem of plate-glim, were decked out with everything that could dazzle the eye or allure the appetite. About this time the tritins brought in a fresh iolhu of visilor from 1111 places along the 1100. Omni- buses, cobs, and carriages from the stations, laden with passengers, drove thlough the de!1sely,clowded streets. Perhaps the most offensive part of the proceedings, at this early hour in the morning, was the conduct of six or eight ballad-mongers, who persevcringly continued bawling in doggtel ihymes the murderous deeds of Rush. The castle is well situated for any public sight. It is a massive and imposing object, being a large square Norman structure, budt on the top oi a mound or hill. It is steep on all sides, one side descending to the market place, and the opposite side to the river Yare. On every side, over ail the wide extent of country, masse* of human beings might be seen travelling lowaids the place where public justice was about to be vindicated before assembled multitudes. The castle-hill all around presented a curious and amusing spectacle, crowda of farmers, tradesmen, salesmen, (actors, agents, dealers, and drovers. The numerous taverns round the hill were full of customers, and places at every available window were engaged at high prices. The excitement which prevailed during the morning, by no means diminished towards the time appointed for the execution. As the hour approached when the criminal was to meet his doom, and answer to offended justice for his numerous crimes, u feeling of overpowering oppression—a sense of awo and conster- nation—pervaded a large portion of the crowd, as they gazed upon that teuible instrument on which the convict Rush was destined to end his miserable existence. The gallows was erected upon the Saxon Bridge, spanning the castle moat, and its dreary and dismal appearance accorded well with the purpose for which it was designed. Over the entrance to the castle a large black Hag floated, raiding in the minds of all thoughtful persons feeliog6 of deep emotion. During the previous evening and night there had been no alleration whatever in the prisonei's conduct. lie went to bed between nine and ten ocicck, and got up again at two o'clock, and when he arose he said, "Thank God lor a good sleep but it was evident to those who were watching him that he did not sleep, and that his rest had been greatly disturbed. Between two and six o'clock in the morning his time was chielly occupied in reading a religious book. in which he made notes, and under- lined various pass3ge. During the night he did not assert his innocence, nor did he make the slightest disclosure. He had sent for the Rev. Mr. Blake, a gentleman with whom he had quarielled, and he received his ministrations with those of the other clergymen, but showed no signs of contrition on account of the great crimes with which he was charged. In the morning he asked for some hot water to wash himself, and to have a clean neckdoth and clean shirt; and he expressed a wish that he should be buried ill his shirt. At eleven o'clock the weather became finer, and many thousands had collected in front of the scaffold. They were nearly all of the lower orders of the country people. A large proportion were females. At half-past eleven the number of people on the hill greatly increased, and before twelve the hill all around pieseoted a dense mass of human beings standing as close as possible upon the ground. At eleven o'clock the repre- sentatives of the press were admitted into the shire-hall, from whence they passed along the garden walk and up the steps at the bridge, to the Castle-walk. From this elevated position they had an excellent view of the vast mass of people, and of all that passed. Between eleven and twelve o'clock the bell of St. Peter's Man- croft tolled the death knell of tbe criminal. As he came from bis cell to iii £ recftiving-room he walked with a firm steady step. In that he vas pinioned by the executioner (Calcraft), whom he requested not to do it too tight. A. procession was then formed to the scaffold, the Chaplain (the Rev. James Brown) being in front; Mr. Pinson and the prisoner followed. The Iligh-Sheriff (Colonel Mason) was present, and aho the Under Sheriff (F. J. Blake, Esq.,) and the Deputy Under-Shenff (A. Taylor, Esq.) Within two or three minutes after twelve o'clock the mournful cavalcade proceeded from the interior of the castle to the spot on which the gibbet waa erected. The distance between the cattle door and the gallows was about sixty yards. The chaplain, who headed the procession, read a portion of the burial service. When the proccssion left the castle gate to proceed to the gibbet, Rush presented a melancholy and dejected appearance. He was dressed in a plain suit of black, wearing no neckkerchief. His shirt collar was turned down. For about twenty yards he walked with a firm unwavering step, but in a moment afterwards he raised his pinioned hands to his face, and trembled violently. He then removed his hands from his face, and turning up hit eyes to Heaven assumed the altitude of penitence and prayer. On reaching the foot of the gallows the rev. chaplaiu offered up a prayer; and while it was being read the condemned seemed to be greatly impressed with the awful character of his situa- tion. Immediately on the close of the prayer he beckoned to Mr. Pinson, the governor of the castle, who was immediately by his side. The following brief conversation ensued :— Rush — Mr. Pinson, I have a last request to make to you. It is that the bolt may be withdrawn while the chaplain is read- ing the benediction, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore." The convict, accompanied by the officials, and Calcraft, the common hangman, then ascended the gallows, a clumsy and in convenient structure, as badly arranged, and as unsightly in structure as any one could conceive. It seemed to be the work of a most unskilful designer. Rush looked ghastly pale, and dreadlully emaciated. Either conscience or fear had evidently done its woik. The hangman then placed the unhappy con- vict under the beam on which be was to hang, and affixed the fatal rope around his neck. Rush said For God's sake give me rope enough!" and with his own hand adjusted the cord upon his neck. The rev. chaplrin proceeded with the prayers, and Calciaft withdiew the bolt, the platform fell, and the convict went down iike a lump of lead, shaking the whole gallows by his fall. lIe remained quiescent for about two minutes, then there was a convulsive stiuggle, and aU was over. From first to last his hands were closely clasped together. His death was greeted with loud applause by the immense crowd who had as- sembled to witness the execution. At one o'clock he was cut down and removed from the scaffold. The mass of people remained for some time on the hill; vaat numbers keeping their places until the murderer was taken down at one 0 cIock. It is stated that Mr. Pinson, the governor, during the whole anxious period since the first committal of the prisoner to his execution, showed great forbearance and patience. The criminal gave much trouble, and always appeared dissatisfied with what. ever was done for him. Rush's behaviour was at times so un- becoming that it was necessary to have a double guard upon him COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAI'LAIN OF TIIR GAOL. On Saturday night, the representatives of the London and Provincial press assembled at the Castle, Norwich, by the invi- tation of Mr. Pinson, the governor of the gaol, to hear a state- ment lelating to the culprit, Mr. Pinson said that he had asked the chaplain to draw out the following remarks, which we give verbatim. From the commencement of the imprisonment of James Blomfield Rush he has assumed the character of innocence and piety, and so eolgerly asserted his pretensions to it, so over-acting his ptrt, that he at once brought suspicion on his sincerity. He took every possible opportunity of asserting his innocence, pro- fessing peifect tianquillity, and unhesitating confidence in his acquittal, and his restoration to society. His continued language was, That, thank God, he was quite innocent, and quite com- fortable in body and mind-that he ate well, drank well, and slept well, and was quite happy." His sleep, however, was oh- seived by his attendants not to he so quiet or composed as he represented. He was constant in his attendance at chapel, and very soon after his committal he requested the chaplain to ad. minister the sacrament to him privately. This, of course, was refused. After his conviction he requested that the Rev. W. W. Andrews and the Rev. Charles Jaques lilake, the ministers of the parish churches he had frequented, might be peimitted to visit hio>, in company wiih the chaplain. He continued to assert his innocence to the two last named clergymen, but when he found that he could impose on neither of these gentlemen, and that they believed in his guilt, he lost all confidence in them. He placed much reliance on hia own defence. The chaplain, who had determined to refuse to him the sacrament, was appre- hensive he would request to have it admiuislered on the day of execution; he, however, made no such request, but about five "rinutes before he was led out for execution, he said he hoped that it had been the intention of Messrs. Bever and Andrews to receive the sacrament with him. The chaplain was early with hIm this (Saturday) morning he seemed glad to join in his devotions, but whenever his guilt waa assumed, and confession and repentance were urged upon him, he said, that God knew his heart, that the Almighty was his judge, and the chaplain had prejudged him. rhis concluded the written observations of the chaplain, and Mr. Pinson then expressed his readiness to afford the fullest information in his power relative to the last moments of the murderer. We give the narrative in the governor's own words Last night I went into Rush's cell, about one o'clock, to speak with him. I had two doors to unlook close to his bedside, and made a good deal of noise. Before 1 approached him, he professed to be in a sound sleep; ho had then been in bed nearly half an hour. I was perfectly satisfied he was not asleep, no more than I at this moment. He pretended to rouse himself up, opened his eyes, and conversed with me on indifferent sub- jects for a mioute or two, and then he pretended to fall asleep again. He kept his bed till eleven or twelve at night, when he awoke up, or pretended to do so, and said what a beautiful sleep I have had," at the same time I am perfectly satisfied from the report of his attendants (two men sat up with him) that, with the exception of five or six minu'es, he had not slept at all, and that his eyes were constantly on his keepers, who were, however, on the watch, and iheir eyes were constantly upon the culprit. In consequence of Rush's dissimulation, and the fear that he might do something very extraordinary, the turnkeys never took their eyes off him. About twelve or one o'clock he rose from his bed and dressed himself, and commenced reading a religious book, which he wo. very anxious should go into the hands of his family. lIe continued reading the woik, or ap- parently reading tt-for It is impossible to say with confidence what he did, so much did he dissemble—for nearly three hours, and after that he went to bed again, but he could not rest; in- deed, in spite of his attempts to appear otherwise he was very restless. He got up again about seven o'clock this (Saturday) morning, and applied for his breakfast, and wished for some gruel, rernarklOg coolly that was all he wanted. The chaplain went jo him at half.past seven o'clock, and spent from an hour to an hour aud a half with him. In ihe course of the conversa- tion with the chaplain, he repeatedly said he had endeavoured to do what was light; ho was, thank God, quite innocent. The rev. cuapUin endeavoured, but all to no purpose, to bring the wretched man to a due sense of his awful situation, but Rush continued in the same strain till his protestations of innocence and his assumption of integrity and good feeling became quite distressing. The chaplain prayed with him till nine o'clock, and then left him with his attendants till ten o'clock, when he attended chapel, and a full service was performed, which lasted till twenty minutes before twelve. Tho Rev. Mr. Brown read everything fiom the church service applicable to Rush's case, and he seemed to listen respectfully 10 what was said, but did not betray any particular emotion. After the chapel service was over,! left him with the Rev. Mr. Brown and the Rev. Mr. Andrews, for a few minutes, until I should want him. When I saw him again, the executioner began to pinion his arms in the turnkey's room and as soon as the executioner began to do so, he remarked, in a careless tone, Is this the person to do the duty—this job ? to which I replied in the affirmative. Rush's arms were no sooner pinioned than he began to shuffle about, end before it was (juite finished he moved his arms, and said, "This don't go easy—that don't go easy," his object evidently being to loosen his arms. In going from the gaol door to the scaffold, he whispered to me and was particularly anxious to know what would bo the concluding words of the service, and requested that it might conclude with the words, "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ," and that the drop might then fall. Mr. Pinson proceeded to explain to the reporters, that for reasons which must be obvious to every one, it was not thought prudent to comply with the last wish of the culprit, and that the drop fell on a given signal, when the minister had finished another sentence. While the executioner adjusted the rope, the culprit moved his head several limes, nnd said, "It don't go nicely-it don't go cosy-put it a little higher up. Take your time; don't be in a hurry; and by the motions of his head appeared to assist the executioner. The world immediately afterwards closed upon Rush, who dissembled to the very last moment of his existence. Among other statements made by the governor, it appears that Rush wrote a letter to the Queen, but finding that he could not send it out of the prison without the knowledge 01 the governor, he destroyed it. The prisoner has not left behind him any letters of consequence, and none of them approach to anything like a confession 01 his guilt. Since the incarceration of the prisoner the most ridiculous let- ters have been received by the Governor of Norwich Castle, some expressing that the writers were the real murderers, and that Rush ought not to be hanged. These epistles were signed Catch me, if you can." Rush received a very affectionate letter from his daughter on Friday night. He consigned the letter 10 the flames after he had perused it. The body of Rush was placed in a shell directly after it was cut down. Just before sunset, the hair had been shaven off 10 enable a perfect cast to be taken. The face was calm and placid, and had not the appearance of one who had met with a violent death. There was of course a deep indentation and slain about the throat. The corpse was that of a stroug muscular man. ——— The Norfolk Tragedy (says the Observer) ia at an end, in so far as the principal actor therein is concerned. Hush has left the stage, and the curtain has fallen upon his existence. He is justly designated as one of the worst criminals known to the annals of justice in this country. The murderer's cunning was as great as his ferocity and in this he certainly indicated the savage blood which is said to have run in his veins— his mothsr, according 10 well informed autho- rities upon the subject, having been a pure gipsy. Months— nay, years—were devoted by him to the coroplelion of a plan which in the end overwhelmed himself as well as his victims. It is said that he was the half brother of the elder Mr. Jermy, and that he has been, therefore, a fratricide, as well as a mere inuiderer. This, il jit be a fact, however, scarcely aggravales the horror ot his crime, so tlonible is II already in every aspect under which it has been presented to the public. Nevertheless, it would be a circumstance as singular as it would be frightful if it were ao. One brother netting another-weaving around him the meshes of death-engaged iu thtlt awful occupation for a considerable period of time-and finally assuming the form ol his eSlthly destiny, the minister of death, and murderlUg 111m and his household in cold blood, "at one fell swoop." It is awful From the very commencement of his career, Rush seems 10 have been a criminal. Unbridled passions, sensual vices, gioss depravity, were Ills characteristics as a young man though as he grew older Ift learned to conceal his propensities Irom the world without abandoning one iota of their indulgence in private. His mother was twire married first to a farmer named Blomfield, who was his putative father, though, it is 8aid, he WOs horn within four months after the wedding and secondly, to a farmer named Rush, whose name the criminal adopted. His puiutive father died when he was young, and therefore there are no traces of the deportment of the criminal towards him on record hut his second sire, Rush, died by violence. Whether dim violence WAS committed by his own hand, or by that of lilt son-in-law is not uow apable of proof; but it is a faCllhnt his neighbours, one and all, suspected ihe criminal who has just expiated his crimes 10 be the murderer of the old man. The unbridled passions of the criminal led, as they usually lead, to the necessity of indulgence, and involved him in more than one dilemma. Several cases connected with his conduct to women have been alluded to as the cause of trouble to him. Rush's appetites grew with what they led on; indulgence in crime demanding further indulgence. But as he had no inde- pendent property upon which he could take Ills slund and laugh the woild to scorn, he was compelled to sacrifice, io some .'Cose, to the conventionalities of society. Hence he took to "iea and tracts" in his own neighbourhood; hence he became a recipient of contributions lor the conversion of the Jews lo Christianity; hence, in a word, he added rank hypocrisy to his other tnouuous vices. And it is a lamentable fact, which pioves at once ihe plasticity and peiversity of man's nature, that so ingrained had his hypocrisy become, that he put in practice the tormsof prayer to the Almighty, at the very moment when he meditated many of his outrages against leligion, decency, and humanity'—as was proved by the evidence of Emily Snudford. To sustain his newly-assumed character of a staid and sober man oi buuness all tlw better in his own neighbourhood, and with the greater effect among those whom he had doubtless mar- ked down in his mind as his future victims—his neighbours he removed the scene of his vicions indulgences to this metropolis. H *re he Cfuld practise, unnoticed, and unknown, those propen- sitiei which may not be indulged in at a distance from this huge i i y, without exciting suspicion and abhoirence; besides which, in no part of the rural district is there, happily, the means of procuring the incentives to vice, the "provocatives to crime, tha j utifonuuately exist in London. But though this immenst metropolis contains many villains, it is safe to say that it his noe at any time, contained a moie fearful criminal than ihe blu » farmer, Rush. It was during oue of ihese periodical visits iff the metropolis that he alighted upon Emily Sandford and as ho was the destiny of Mi. Jermy and his sjn, so she was his destinye How they became acquainted does not clearly appear, nor isi. at all important. In the capacity of a governess she was cer-t lainly introduced to house and famIly; though the departure o his famity {rom hia roof io a very short time after proves that in this capacity they did not choose to view her, hot in another and more objectionable one, which it is needless to mention.

EMILY SANDFORD. Upwards of six hundred pounds have, we observe, been al- ready subscribed for Emily Sandford, the mistress of the diabo- lical miscreant who on Saturday expiated his crimes on the scaffold. A smaller sum has been accumulated in the name ot liliza Chestney—the sufferer fiom the wretched man's attempt at wholesale assassination. Tho contrast afforded by the amount of the two collections tells, we fear, rather against the purity of this spontaneous outburst of benevolence. It indicates that much of the generosity of the publicaiises from a morbid, rather than from any very elevated sentiment. No doubt the paramour of the murderer is a most unfortunate person, a person whose calamitous position is deserving of every forbearance and alleviation. But we cannot but feel indignant at that want of discrimination which lavishes upon her a larger amount of kindness than upon the amiable and unblemished girl, who was the unoffending victim of brutality. Even with reference to Eliza Chestney, we have considered the enthusiasm betrayed in her regard as a very exaggerated display of a very mawkish sensibility. One maniac has gone so far as to propose a monument to peipetuate the heroism 01 the "good servant" to the most remote posterity !—placing the housemaid of Stanfield- hall above the level of such men as Dennis Affre and William Wallace. We have been incapable of appreciating that sub- limity in the conduct of Eliza Chestney which seems to have led to the derangement of one or two respectable gentlemen. We look upon her with the complacency inspired by a good, warm- hearted girl, who ran to her mi; tress, and flung her arm round her waist and offered her solace, if not protection, when the butler was boiling himself in the pantry and the flnnkey was swimming across the moat. But if we view the behaviour of Eliza Chestney in this moderate aspect—we certainly regard the misfortunes of Emily Sandtoid as of an inferior bitterness, as far as her own partial culpability is concerned. It should not be forgotten that the latter isof a sullied, and the former of an un- sullied reputation—that beside being the concubine of the mon- ger who perished by the hands of the hangman on Saturday Emily Sandford was his accomplice in his forgeries. For these reasons, and from these considerations, we are distressed to ob- serve the demoralizing disproportion between the subscriptions now making lor the servant and the paramour.—Suiu EMILY SANDFORD—All persons holding subscriptions for Emily Sandford or HJiza Chestney will have the goodness to pay the same to the "ankers immediately, the foimer being about to emigrate under the protection of a brother. Mas. JKHMY AND ELIZA CIIF.STNF.Y.—The accounts from Stanlield-hall are, in both cases, decidedly of a favourable character. Mrs. Jermy continues to recover, and has been able 10 leave her bed and sit up for some hours every day. Eliza Chestney continues to improve in health, and has also been able to leave her bed, and to move about a little on crutches. The subscription for her amounts to £553 8s. 6d. ♦—

OPENING OF THE NEW DOCK AT GLOUCESTER.— On the morn- ing of the 18th, the vessels in tbe old dock were decorated with their flags. At twelve ° clock, the Toirance Rowe, of Wexford, from Constantinople, entered the new dock, with her yards well manned aod colours flying, guns finog, and cheers from an im- mense concourse of persons assembled lor the occasion. She was followed by English, irench, Prussian, Austrian, Hanoverian, and Dutch vessels, some of which immediately commenced dis- charging their cargoes into trucks on the railway, which were in readiness. ,,e Persons employed at the basin were afterwards entertained at the joint expense of ihe Cnnal Company and Mr. Guest the contractor. The new basin nenly doubles tl e quay- side accommodation, and there are two additional cranes, each capable of lifting upwards of twenty tons. At present, the basin will be annrooriated to the discharge of enrgoessent by rail, which accommodation was much required. At ihe genera, meet,ng of Ihe Canal Company held on the same day, it t»U fctiraifled to ppole the Severn Navigation BUL

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. »— Though the weather has been very severe during the week. the thermometer having, on more than one occasion, fallen below the Ireczing point, no apprehension appears to be entertained by agriculturalists respecting the crops in the ground. We are, however, disposed to think that the orchards must have suffered from the keen north-east winds, and should certainly not be sur- prised if it should hereafter be discovered that the young barleys had been more or less injured. In legard to wheat there is no reason for uneasiness indeed, we question whether the benefit which may result from the destruction of slug and other insect depredators, will not moie than counterbalance any injury which the plant may have sustained from the frost. The season in, however, so far advanced that increased warmth would be very desirable but a tine May would, probably, set all right and on the whole, we regard our prospects for the future as fa- vourable. The principal subject of interest continues to be the war be. tween the Germans and Danes, and its probable effect in di- minishing tho supplies of foieign-giown glain in this country. Many parties are of opinion that the Danish navy will haidly have sufficient strength to carry out the blockade effectually, and that shipments from the lialtic will not be wholly suspended, even if the war should be protracted. Whether it has been in consequence of this belief, or owing to the idea that sufficient grain will reach us from other quarters, we are not prepared to say, but that the upward movemcnt has already received acheck, is certain. From Scotland wc learn that a considerable quantity of snow had fallen, and that the weather had been of a wintry character this had been regarded with little or no uneasiness. There as with us, the upward movement in prices had caused buyers to pause and though all sorts of grain were dearer at Edin- burgh and Glasgow on Wednesday than on that day week, bu- siness was not by any means brisk, the improvement in prices being paid with evident unwillingness. "The accounts from Ireland, relative to the manner in which the sowing of the spring crops has been completed, are of a satisfactory character. The more encouraging reports from this side of the channel had given an impetus to business, and with only moderate deliveries from the growers, prices of wheat, oats, &c., had risen. Indian corn had been in lively request,and had brought materially enhanced rates. The quantity brought forward at Mark Lane by land-carriage samples from the neighbouring counties has been equally small, and the transactions in English wheat have been of quite a re- tail cliaricter.-Alai-k Lune Express.

LONDON MARKETS, fee. MARK LANE, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23. 1849. By the advices received from the Baltic this morning, it ap. pears that the blockade was not being very efficiently carried out by the Danish fleet; letters fiom Danzic, Stettin, and Rostock, all asserting that no cruizers were in sight. The grain trade was less animated this morning than last week, and the tendency of prices was rather downwards. There was somewhat more wheat exhibited on the Essex and Kent stands than of IlIte, and though the quality and condition were good, sales were made with difficulty. The best parcels brought previous terms, but the commoner sorts scarcely sold so well as on Monday lat-t. The csquiry for foreign wheat was decidedly slow, the country demand having lallen off. Flour moved off very slowly at the recently enhanced rates. There was not much barley fresh up, and full prices were in- sisted on and obtained. The operations in malt were unimportant, and its value under- went no change requiring notice. There was a plentiful display of oats, and the dealers who have lately got into stock, were not inclined to follow up their purchases. Scotch Oats were certainly easicr to buy than on Monday last, and though foreign were not offered lower, it would have been impossible to sell to any extent withoutmaking some concession. Beans were scarce, and the turn dearer. W IlIte peas brought full rates, and grey and maple were like. wise quite as high as OH this day week. We heard of no sales of floating cargocs of Indian corn. Shillings per quarter. Old. New. Wil FAT. E- ssex c'x Kent, white 46 63 44 53 Ditto red 4' £ 46 41 46 Norfolk and Suffolk — — 42 47 ttyp 22 '25 BAUI.EV, Essex, Kent Distillers'&Grinding Norfolk,and Suf- J coin. Malting — — 29 30 folk ) Chevalier 30 33 MAI.T, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. 58 69 Kingston, Ware, and town made 58 62 OATS, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire. Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, feed JQ jq Pitto, Poland and p.otato. ]6 20 Northumberland, Berwick, and Scotch feed J 8 21 Devonshire, an(T West Country feed or sack — — 14 16 Dundalk, Newry, and Belfast, potato — — )8 22 Limerick, Slipo, and Westport, potato — — 17 ai Ditto, feed — — 19 Cork, Waterford, Dublin, Youghal, and Clonmel, black — 14 19 I)itto, wilite I.o — 16 19 (;aiway — 12 15 nEANS,TICks — 27 30 Harrow. — SO 35 PEAS, n(.ii-boiling o. — 24 '25 Hog and gray — — 28 30 FLOUR, town made (per sack ot 28<)lbs.) — — 39 44 Norfolk and Suffolk, household (ditto).. — — 32 J5 WF.DNKSDAY, ArniL 25. The arrivals are short, of all grain. To-day there is very little trade doing in any description of grain, at steady prices. AtiltIVAI,Englisit: wheat,960 barley, oats,1,170; frish: barley, —; oats, GOO. Foreign: wheat, 1,100-; barley,—; oats, 1,200 qrs. English Flour, 990sacks. SMllIIITEIJD CATTLE MARKET,MONDAY, APRIL23. An immense supply of hoine-fed beasts, even the lime of year considered, was on offer this morning—it exceeding 4,000 head, in admirable condition. Although the attendance of buyers wag tolerably good, the beef trade, owing to the heavy supply-it amounting to more than 1,000 head above that exhibited at the corresponding period in 1848—and the unfavourable state of the weather for slaughtering, was excessively dull, at a decline in the quotations of 2d. per 81 bs. At the close of the market large numbers of stock were turned out unsold. Theie was a very extensive increase in the numbers of sheep, and which far exceeded the wants of tho butchers. AH breeds met an unusually heavy sale, and prices receded quite 4d. per tHbs. We had a fair demand for lambs, and prices were fairly sup- ported. The arrival from the Isle of Wiglu comprised 135 head of sheep and lambs. In calves exceedingly little business was transacted, at a fall in the currency of 2d. per Bibs. Pigs were very dull, and in some instances prices ruled some- what lower than last week. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. d. a. d. s. d. d. Coarae and Inferior Prime coarse wool- Beasts 2 2 2 4 led Sheep .3 6 3 8 Second quality do.2 6 2 8 PritneSouth Downs Prime large Oxen.2 10 3 2 ditto .3 2 3 6 i'rime Scots, &c..3 4 3 6 Large coarseCalves3 2 3 8 UoarseaudInterior Prime small ditto 4 2 4 fi Sheep .2 6 2 8 Large Hogs .3 2 3 8 Second quality do.2 10 3 4 Neatsmall Porkers.3 10 4 2 u Lambs 5 0 6 0 Sucklieg Uaivcs, 18s. to 27s.; and quarter-old Store Pigs, 16. to 21s. each. LONDON PROVISION MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL23. IRISH BUTTER. S. S. CHEESE. R. R. Carlow New 80 to — Double Gloucester. 56 to fiG 76 80 Single ditto 016 56 Uanbridgo 56 71 1st 70 86 Derby 62 66 YVatorlord 7 ci American 50 6t Edam and Gouila 40 48 ENOUSH BUTTER, per cwt. IJACON New 70 Dorset OG Middle 60 60 HAMS. FOREIGN, per cwt. Irish Prime Frieslaud 98 — Westmoreland sn Hd I'rime Kiel 80 90 York fi, Fresh Butter, <Ss. Od. to 13s. Oil. per dozen* WHITECHAPEL, WEDNESDAY, Aran,25, 1849. The supply to day was good, but trade slow, at the annexed prices:- Best beef, from 2i. I Od. to 's. fid.; inferior ditto, Is. 4d. to 23 J;d. best mutton, 3s. 4d. to 3s. 8d. inferior ditto, (id. to 3s. Od. lamb •Is. 8ds. to 5s. 8d.; veal 3s. 8d. to Is. 4d,; pork, .'Is. -Id. to 4s. <Sd. ner' SIbs. by the carcase. SEED MARKET. The operations in the seed market were altogether unimportant, and quotations can only be regarded as nominal. Cloverseed, red, ;j;")s. to 40s.; fine, 45s. to 63s. white, UI. to 48s Cow Grass -8. tQ Linseed (per qr.) .sowing 56s. to 60s.; crushing 42s. to 48S Linseed Cakes (per 1,000 of 31bs.each) £ 8 10s. to T10 O* Trefoil (per cwt.) Rapeseed, new (per last) to Pitto Cake (per Ion).. £ 4 l5g t0* £ 5 Mustard (per bushel.) whites. 8s. to Hk; brown (nominal) Canary (per qr.) 95s. to 105s.; fine lOBs. to 11u. Carraway (per cwt.) 28s. to 2!>s new, 30s. to 313 BARK. Per load of 45 cwt. English, Tree £ 15 0 0 to £17 0 0 T Wpice 16 0 0 18 0 0 LIVERPOOL (DUTY FHI V.).—Quercitron, fg. 6s. to £9. 6g Dutch Oak, per ton, X4. to £5.; German, J3. 10s. to J6. BRISTOL HAY MARKET. Hay per Ton £2 12 6 to £ 3 10 0 Straw per Dozen 0 1 0 to 0 1 6 Vetches. 0 0 0 to 0 00 LATEST CURRENT PRICES OF METALS, LONDON, APRIL 11 ENGLISH IRON. a c ton ENOt-ISH eoprER. d Bar,bolt,& square, LondonfiO 15 0 Sheets, sheathing, and i 0 10 Nail rods 7 5 0 bolts, per lb. J 10 0 10 Hoops ••••_ nS,l7„Gr9 Tough cake per ton 88 10 O = .) 1r, 0-10 Tile JQ Q Bars,at Cardiff & Newport 5 15 0 Old copper* pry- ib. o o si Ilcfincd metal, Walesf 4 5 0 JOKKION corpEit. f Do. authracitef 4 5 0 South American, in bond 73 — 75 Pig,No.l,Wales,cold-blast 4 0 0-5 ENGLISH lf.AD c Do. do. hot-blast 3 10 0 Pig, .per tan 16 0 O Do.,No. I,Clyde—net rash 2 7 0 Sheet 1C IS 17 Blewitt'sPatcntRefined"l Red lead 17 0 lion for bars, rails,&c. ( White ditto "2 0 O free on board at IN ew-j Shot (patent) J" j9 15 q portt J ROHEION LEAD, h Do., do., for tin-plates,7 Spanish, in bond U, 5 is in boiler-plates, Sic., ditto J American, ditto Stirling'sPatcnt inOlasg. 3M 6 ENGLISH TIN "i Toughened Pigs J 111 Wales 40.4 15 Illock .per cwt 4 9 0 Staffordshire bars, at> 7 ]0 Q Bars 4 l0 6 the works j FOREIGN TIN. k Pigs, ditto. 30.3 IS Danca, III bond. 15 0 Rails ••••• 5 150.6 Strait, 4 100 Chairs 4 5 0 Peruvian(f> mo. 2Jp.c.dis.) —— I'OREUiN IKON, h TIN PLATES. I Swcrlbhi 2 10-13 IC Cote per box 1 10-1 ll CCNl)^, —— JO Charcoal I 14-1 lg l'Sr .—— IX ditto I 18 6 GourdiefT SPELTER, M Archangel .12 10-13 Plates, warehoused pr.ton\6 5-16 lo roREloN STEEL. c Ditto, to arrive.16 0-16 5 Swedish keg 14 5 0 ZINC, n Ditto faggot 15-15 10 English sheet.per ton 22 0 0 UuicKsii-vsa 0.. per lb. 034* TERMS.—«, 0 months, or 2J per cent, dis- t>, ditto; c, ditto; if, 6 months, or '.i per cent. dis. c, 6 months, or J|per cent. dis.; f ditto c ditto; h, ditto; i, ditto; k, net cash V mont'ls' or 3 per cent. dis.: m' net cash 11, 3 months, or 14 per cent* J j'. '°' 'i discount. t Cold blast, freeonboaid in Wales. REMARKS.—We have t0 CO"NIIED depression in the iron market. Welsh bars 1 'ned full 5S> per lon> present price £ 5 15s-. Q -j al 'he poit, whilst second- hand parcels are offering considerably kelow tllis figure. Scotch pig-iron is also 1sx sales l(«ve been made during the week at lbs. 6 -.cash; and also at 4tis., bill at three months. GLASGOW, P • We have had a very quiet market this il.!syear%nd th^ blockade o"f Sfi r sh'p,ne,nU; ^roughout tin nno nf ",e German ports by the Panes— J," SI 1SZ '•JSCS is the result of COTlJparative production anJ shipments of pIg- 1st 10 1\1: loan '■xcess of production Tons 22,000 decrease ol shipments, 1849 25,067 47,067 »Vluch added to the stock at Dec. 31 last—say 100,000 flakes present stock .Tons 147,067

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THE NATIONAL HANGMAN. Subjoined is a brief abstract of the history of the hangman Calcratt, which may not bo uninteresting at this moment. Ho was born about the year 1801, of humble but industrious parents, at a little village a few miles out of London, situate in the county of Essex. But, alas he never had (lie opportunity of going to school to be taught how to shun ihe « bioad way leading to destrnotion-for those who might have nourished him, in the way he should go,' were snatched from him ere he had reached the tenth year of his age. To seek a chance for- tune he travelled up to London, where his ignorance and forlorn condition shortly enabled that demon which ever haunts the foot- steps of the wretched, to mark him for her own. The same social arrangements that create victims for the gal lows, induced William Calcraft to become a hangman. As each day dawned, he was compelled to scheme for that day's existence. He had not then been taught the trade he has since learned, that of shoemaking nor had he any friend, to set befoie him a better way. To use the expressive words of Hugo, he was doomed like 'one of those wretches whom we scarcely look at when they pass us in the street, to whom we never speak, and whose filthy contiguity we religiously avoill; one of those unfor- tunates who, in their ragged infancy, ran about with feet in the highways and streets, shivering with cold upon the quays, warming their foet by the stuam that issues from tite kitchens of the grand hotels at which we dine; dragging forth here and there a crust of bread from a heap of dirt, and wiping it ere it be eaten fishing all day in the gutters to catch halfpence; hav- ing no other amusement than the gratuitous spectacle of king's 01 queen's birthdays, and the executions on the Place de Greve, at Paris or before the debtors door at the Old Bailey, London whose taste, if such as they have taste for reading at all, leads them to preter perusing the NewgateCalcndar,or the last dying speeches and confessions of murderers,' and accounts ot their various bloody exploits. Poor devils, whom hunger urges on to want, and want to do more. In course of time, Calcraft got initiated into all the mys- teries of 'the profession,' as it is termed. It is but an act of strict justice due to Calcraft to state, that the common rumour respecting his having been convicted of felony, and that he after- wards received a pardon on condition of his becoming a hang- man, is not founded on fact; while the fact of his undertaking to learn to be a shoemaker, and of his own accord endeavouring to shake off his companions, 10 set his living in a better manner, Proves that he only wanted to be surrounded by lavourable cir- cumstances, when, without doubt, he would have made what the world calls a • bright man.' Messrs. Read and Company, the Rfeat porter-brewers in Liquorpond-street, Gray's Inn-lane, a"°ut the same period, took him into their employ as a private watchman, and he might lo this day have continued there, or ollowed some more advantageous employment, had not his evil genius still haunted him. He, by some means or other, became cquainted with 'Old Tom Cheshire,' the late executioner, Old* T UCCt' to acccP* l',e °ft'ce deputy hangman. W hen he succeeded to the post of chief executioner, Sii '^If 7 '°^ow'ng the fashion of appointing an assistant to ■ nse ,but w?lg overruled by his employers, the sheriffs, in con- JhoUfinC?«- a off of orders' in the hanging line, through ,0 on of that mode of punishment for robbery and for- gery. His present age is about forty-nine. The reward that he re- ceives amounts to twenty-five shillings weekly, paid by the authorities of the City 01 London and Middlesex; and £5 a quarter contributed by those of the county of Surrey, for execu- tions done at the Horsemonger-lane jail- He also appropriates n iatever property may be on the persons of those he executes, illcludlOg tlie clothes they die in. unless when especially ordered, in accordance wlh the dying wish of a favoured criminal, to be given to the rvivors, for the value of which he is not allowed anything.

MAGISTRATES' OFFICE, HIGH STREET, NEWPORT' SATURDAY. Magistrates present—Revds. J. Coles and T. Pope, and John HusselI, Esq. Thomas Kenvin, of Risca, keeper of the Colliers' Arms beer- house, was charged with allowing beer to be consumed in his house between 11 and 12 o'clock at night.—James Savin, a constable, proved that he was served with beer at the above hour, and that there was a great number of persons drinking there. Thomas Kenvin, cousin of the defendant, whose style of doing duty as a constable we gave in our last, also proved having beer in the house.— Fined 20s. and costs. John Jones and Joseph Gibbons, for trespassing in Rcdbrook wood, Machen, were each fined Ws., including costs.

NEWPORT TOWN IIALL.—SATURDAY. Magistrates prcsent- William Evans, Esq., mayor, aud Thomas Hughes, Esq. CDAnGE OF fORGERY. William Withers, sen., and William Withers, jun., horse- dealers, appeared to answer a charge of forgery made against, them by Mr. Isaac Sarjeant, of Machen-place. This case arose out of a proceeding in the county court on Wednesday last, where Sarjeant was defendant, and the younger Withers plain- tiff in an action for £ '29, for false warranty of a horse. It appeared that Serjeant sold to Withers a horse, at. the White Inn, St. Mellons, on Llandaff fair-day, 1818, which soon afterwards died. It was alleged by Withers that a written warranty of the soundness of the horse was signed by Sarjeant at the time of the bargain. That warranty was pioduced, and sworn toby Withers, as the one Sarjeant had signed and in accounting for a diffeience of ink between the signature and the body of the writing, Withers said that the ink was upset, aud the irl had to bring in ftesh ink. The judge of the county court impounded the warranty,on Sarjeant's ptotestation that he never signed or saw it, and gave judgment for plaintiff upon a verbal wairanty, which Saijeant had also given at the time of the sale. The Christian name Isaac," on the alleged forgery was so exactly like Sarjeant's writing, that it puzzled not a few to make out how it could have been written by any one but Saijeant himselt. He however denied it, and obtained a warrant against the prisoners, who were now brought up fur examination. Mr. Owen appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. PhilIpotts for the defence. In addition to Sarjeant's evidence, the irl, Emma Hedges, from the White Hart, was produced,and proved that no ink was upset at the time of the bargain, and that no writing took place between the parties. Mr. Cathcart produced the document, and a sufficient case being made out for the decision of a jury, the prisoners were bailed to appear at next assizes. MONDAY. Magistrates present-William Evans, Esq., mayor, and Thomas Hughes, Esq. An ancient man named Edward Burke, whose years should haAc kept him in paths of rectitude, was charged with having stolen some iron, the properly of the Monmouthshire Canal Company.—It was proved by Thomas L'ittman that he caught prisoner in the act ofslealing the iron; by P.C. Lloyd that he had received the iron produced, from the last witness; and by Mr. Bebell, agent to the company, that the iron, which was worth about s. 6t1., WitS the property of the Monmouthshire Canal and Railway Company.— The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. STI:AIINO COAI.. Thiee females—an old one and two young ones, who pretended to be in great grief—were charged with stealing coal, the property of the Dos Works Company.—In the spirit of humanity, Mr. Cordes 5t'Ht to say he declincd prosecuting.—Mr. Hughes said hesaw no reason why the prisoners should not he summarily convicted, as being in the canal boat with intent to steal. How- evcr, as Mr. Coules had dcdlbed to prosecute them, they were now discharged but if they again were brought before the court, they niigbt not escape punishment. William Morgan, a youth of unenviable notoriety, was charged with having been found in possession of a piece of iron called a spindle. AIR. Supeiintendent English proved taking the iron from prisoner, wrapped in a good covering of an umhiella—No prosecutor appearing, the Bench severely censured the habits of liie pursued by the prisoner, and discharged him. A warrant was ordned to be issued against Mr. Denis Burns, late a temporary practitioner as an heibalist, and curer of all diseases" 10 which flesh is heir," in this town, ho not having a printer's name, nor his own number, on hishawkei's bills. f'l'HrOU5I.Y I) it I v I N G James Hitchens, coach driver, was charged with driving his vehicle very fast and furiously across the bridge.—Sergeant lluxtable proved seeing defendant posting along at a terrific rate, over Newport budge, theie being two other coaches leading, and a large number Ilf persons, anJ a vehicle or two, upon hc road. Witness told the father of the defendant that this was improper conduct; hut thc reply WQS, he paid for his license, and his coach should go as fast as they pleased.—The Bench strongly commeuted on the piactice ol those toulas who infest the bridge ways, and drivers of coaches who put her Majesty's subjects' lives in danger, hy chasing each other at such a furious rale, to obtain passengers and goods.—Fined "20S., and 13. Gd. costs.— The Supeiintendent was d Ílceted by thc Bench to keep a sharp look-out for persons ollenrllllg in a way perilous to the public" I wo beer-house keepers were fined ôs. each, aud CObtS, for Sunday morning selling. MTCK I.FL: DEFEAT ED. Henry Carroll and John () Neil, stewards of a benefit society, weie summoned on a disputed mailer charged against them by one of the members, named Michael I ce. — Complainant conducted his own case; but hadn't a bit of chance in competition with the antagonist provided by the stewards, in the ready tongue and keen discernment ol their clerk, Mr. John Ablari, who. befole the case commenced, said, wilh t1uent tongue, anù loud voice: It's useless for you to go into the case, gentlemen I rcfer you to tbe 10th George 1 V., cap. 56, which says Here, Michael, seeing how determinedly his antagonist was pounding awayin the mortar of law, tried to edge in a word or two; but Mr. A blait continued, flourishing a small bit of paper, as an aUorney might that under this act, gentlemen, you have no jurisdiction; and I heg-Ieave to submit to you, that the matter should be referred to arbitration, as you will find by the IJrd rule of the amended laws of the society, which orders that all disputes shsll be referred to arbitration, the arbitrators to he elected the fiist night after the enrolment of the ruies. Now, gentlemen, this hr's not been done; and therefore you have no jurisdiction. [rhe stewards here looked very approvingly at their advocate; and Mr. Phillpotts, solicitor, appealing to think his" craft in danger," suggested to the Bench that no gentleman had a right to plead, unless duly entered on the rolls.] — Michael: Well, then, I gave notice of arhitraion; and paid the 7s. Gd. fee.—Mr. Phillpolts: Ah! just one shilling more than an attorney's fee.—(Laughter.)—Mr. Ablart: Na), Michael Lee, you haven't done it. Gentlemen (to the Bench,) I claim your attention to the 4th and oth W dliam IV., which orders that we should have forty hours' notice of his intention to submit a dispute to arbitration and as this has not been done by Michael Lee, why, gentlemen, you have no jurisdiction.— Michael: I did give notice, and paid the fee and was told that one arbitration had refused to sit.—Mr. l'ox, who had been consulting with the Bench on Mr. Ablart's objection respecting the notice, here said I think you are right as to the forty days' notice. It has not been given i and the Bench have, therefore, no jurisdiction.—The mayor dismissed the case.—Mr. Ablart and the stewards gave a look towards tbe Bench, which said: "Of course; very proper; our law is riht I" and then left the court and fees to Michael. W. Brewer, Esq., took his seat on the bench in the course of the ensuing case. INTENDED EMIGRATION.—SERIOUS CHAROE; John Anderson. tailor and grocer, Cross-street, was charged with stealing £95, the money of Rjichael Daley; and John Hughes was charged as an accessory.—Mr. Phillpotts defended —-Without detailing the evidence given by about a dozen witnesses, and what might have been given by half-a-tlozen more in reserve, the following outline of the case will be perhaps sufficiently explanatory The prosecutor, with his wife and children, intended emigrating from Newport for Boston, United States, on this day week; and with a view to raising Ihe capital, prosecutor, who kept the Emerald Isle, a beet-house in Cross- street, after some years' business as a packman, sold a lot of goods,waistcoat pieces, two watches, &c., to Anderson and a the previous Friday night. Anderson talked, also, of taking 10 the beer-house and fixtures for £13; but afterwards said he could not raise the money until he had seen his brother-in-law. On the Sunday night, while packing up his goods for starting next morning, prosecutor had the prisoners in Ills house all night, who saw what was going on. That night, prosecutor counted his money upstairs, and found that he had 10S. in sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and in silver; and net morning, when the prisoner Anderson (lid get the money for coming.in, (then reduced to .£ 11) and paid it to prosecutor, the latter added it to the stock already in the box, making altogether £!J5, among which were three silver pieces, one marked with the letter S., and another with A., and a third with a hole, which prosecutor and others had particularly remarked. The money-box, a large one, WRB carefully locked, and was to have been taken next morning to the Bristol packet, with the other goods,fo,t)ans)t with the family per Troubadour from Bristol. While the family weie going by the packet to Biistol, piosecutor was going to Bridgend to see his sister, and would await his family per Tioubadour, touching at Swansea. On getting all the boxes into the hold of the Bristol packet, the brother-in-law of prosecutor, named Cokeley, who managed the departure, thought the important money-chest was missing. He therefore returned to the house, but found the door fastened. He knocked, and presently one of the piisoneis unfastened the door, and admitted him. He had left both prisoners there, when going to the packet, and found them on his return. lie asked where the box was. They denied ali know- ledge of it; he searched the two front and back rooms, but could find no money box so, feeling assured it must be among the luggage in the hold, he returned to the packet, but it was still I not to be found. another of the intending emigrants, a female, returned for a letter, and found the door fastened. On knocking two 01 three times, Anderson asked from inside who she was and what she wanted. On her replying, the letter was fetched, and thrust out under the door. William Hayes and another man also went to the house, and, after some dclay, they were admitted by Anderson, when they saw Hughes coining down stairs, lie asked what those fellows wanted AUD they then left, when tha door ws aain fastened. I hese men then siood outside, and afterwards heard some knocking going forward inside. When the party reached Bristol, the brother-in law found that the box in which the money was (or ought to have been), was not there and he started off on foot for Newport, to make inquiries. On auiving here, he gave information, AND Seigeant Harlow went to the Emerald Isle beer-house, where he found on the floor, near the box, which had been broken open, two hawker's cards, a book of rules, &CC which Daley's wife swore she had in the box when the money was put there. Mr. English examined the box, and found that it had been forced open. apparently with a coal-hammer, usually kept downstairs, hut then found upstairs. Mr. ENGLISH, Cokeley, and Sergeant Harlow then pioceoded to Anderson's house. Mrs. Anderson told him they had only a few sllllltngs-no gold. They found a tea canister, which was proved to have been in the box, and in the desk a sum of money amounting to £39 16s. in gold and silver. Anderson was known to have paid some debts, since the occurrence, which would about make up the money missing and among the silver now taken from the desk, were those very marked pieces whioh prosecutor and others had noticed, when putting away the cash into the box.—1 hese were the chief features of the case but Mr. Phillpotts elicited in cross-examination of the prosecutor, that he was going away in debt £17 to Pinehin, of Bath, for beer, and £3 Us. to Palmer, of Newport, for ditto, &c., which, with other little matters, he intended to pay, ,¡ when he got his own."—Mr. Phillpotts strenuously defended the prisoner: but they were committed to take their trial at the next sessiom, and Mr. Daley, who was levanting from his creditors, with Cokely, who had given up his situation, and sold all his goods, and a third party, with their wives and children, are all disappointed of their transatlantic trip, and may perhaps suffer inconvenience and distress for a long time to come. THURSDAY. Magistrates present—Thos. Hughes, and Wm. Jenkins, Eøqrs. Cornelius Reynolds, who has figured several times lately before our police magistrates, was charged by P.C. Hath, with begging in the streets.—Prisoner: Och, murtlllr, if your rivirince will let me go this time, begorra you will never see me more and suiting the action to the words. Corny dropped on his knees, and with odd grimaces, implored the magistrates to forgive him this time Ochone! my honey, do let me go; God bless you; you may transport me, if you ever find me here again.—Mr. Hughes: Reynolds, you have been here too often already. We cannot trust to your promise of leaving the town.—Corney still begged hard to he forgiven, but the worthy magistrate was inexorable, and sent Corney to his old quarters at Usk, for one month.—Corney still clung to the bar, and prayed to be forgiven, and had to be removod by force. Alfred Morris and Peter Doherty were committed to Usk for one month, for sleeping on the lime at the Rodney wharf. Harriet Randall and Mary Jenkins, two disorderly prostitutes, were charged hy Sergeant Harlow with using obscene language, in High-street, the night previous.—Discharged, with a caution. Daniel Crowley was charged with stealing railway chairs, the propelty of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company. The prisoner was detected with the iron in his possession. Committed to the sessions. _i. Timothy Cochrane and Patrick Cochrane were ANFJ going to the shop of Mrs. Ann Nelson, of Llanarth-s re » obtaining a loaf of bread, having no money TO PAY '"J. Nelson not wishing to prosecute, the prisoners were • T • Captain Connors was summoned for £ 2,$*■ 6d., wages due to John Wance.—Ordered to pay, with 9S\6"- COS ». Edward Burke was charged with stealing „ » £ p r> the Monmouthshire Railway and CA THPTMN i ■" Hopkins met the prisoner on the Cana- />nnin 111 8 possession, and found it to have 16 r Pany— Rhys Thomas proved it to be the property ot the Company.— IM £ JI TJ: ",e "W" the Monmouthshire RAILWAY and ^ANAL Company.p,(J Williams slated that on luesday, he met the prisoner in High. street, with the iron in his possession; he asked him where HP got it from, and he staled that he got « two Mi|ES out of t o town, on the Pontypool road.-IUiys Ihomas proved the I^ON » be the property of the company.—Committed to the session. Thomas Rafferty w.,S charged w„h assaulting h13 wife -ned 40s. and costs, or two months' imprisonment.

PotiTt ANn.—Within this past week th« «,„^I » « R British troops in the colonies, and 28,000 in India, to provide the requsile reinforcements for relieving the troops IN'the colonies and in India, we are compelled to keep up an eslablishent at home of something like CO,000 men, of which about 25.00U are stationed ia lSnglaud, and the rest in Ijeland.