The Welshman

THE MURDER OF JANE JONES, I From statements which Good li,is made, it appears that upon the night the murder was discovered he tied to South-street, Manchester-square, and remained there until the following iiinriiiiig he says he laid down and rested himself, but did not go to sleep. lie then took a cab and removed the things belonging to Jane Jones to the Spotted D,),x, Strand, wh. re he leit them, and pro- ceeded to Moltv Goi-id, in Spitalfieids. 00 his way thither he got M-Evoy to write the letter to Mr. Slieill for his w.iges, and at this time, he adds, I was dressed in a pUid stuff" cloak, which Jane Jones used to wear, hut which belonged to mv wife." This agrees with M'Evoy's description of him. He returned with Molly Good on the Thursday to the Spotted Dog, and fetched away his luggage in a cab, and the same morning he went into the borough and saw a relation. He afterwards wtlnt to Deptfod to ec a nephew, who works near the Creek, at an iron-foundry, and again returned to the Borough, where he slept on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Good says on Friday he came into the city, and on passing over London bridge lie heard a man crying out the particulars of the murder, and selling the printed accounts, and he stopped for a minute or two and listened to him. On Saturday he again visited Depttord, and in the evening returned to the Borough, when his relation, with whom he was staying, said the man at the pav-table" had been reading the newspapers (this is Good's own account,) and that he must be off He re- marked. "Oh, there is more Daniel Goods than one," and they then went and purchased the dress in which he was taken and a new hod, and lie started for Deptford, where he slept that night. On Sunday morning he set out, with his hod across his shoulder and his clothes tied up in a bundle under it, to Bromley where he went to a barber's to be shaved. Here he says he fellratlier con- fused, as lie recognized the barber as the same man who had shaved him a week before, when he was dressed in his livery, and had driven his in ister' Ltluily to Chiselhurst. However, the l)\r!}['r did not know him agiiin, and having coolly sat out the operation of shaving, he started for Sevenoaks, upon reachmsr which place he got the master of an inn to direct his bundle to Tonbridge. j He blames Susannah Butcher for being the author of his miserv and apprehension, and insists that in the week previous to the murder she passed the night with him in the harness-room on the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. He states that he went to his master's house on those nights, and after the other servant1! were in bed he returned" to the stables to Susannah Butcher. He be- came acquainted with her, he says, from her having been a nursery-maid at Dr. Parkins's when his wife was there, and declares that he has cohabited with her since Christ- mas last. He says that they (meaning the prosecutors) cannot prove that lie killt-d the woman but when any ) material point is mentioned to him, he shrugs up his shoulders, and, scratching nis head, observes, u Y lS, that's rather st'ong." Oil Friday the prisoners were again placed at the bar. ?>Ir. Mauie, the Treasury solicitor, was again III at- ) tend-incf, and said he was under the necessity of asking that the examination ot the two prisoners at the bar should be postponed. Many of the witnesses yesterday examined who had comeltoin the country and were kept until a late hour, had been allowed to go away. After some conversation the prisoners were ultimately re- manded until Monday morning next, at hall-past ten. THE PRISONER GOOD S CONDUCT IN NEWGATE, &'C. On Thursday, on Good being brought from the House of Correction for final examination at Bow- street, he was placed, until the arrival of the magistrates, in one of the cells of that Court, Pohce-ccnstable Thompson. F 39, was placed with him.. and we understand that, in the course of the conversation that olficer had with Good, the latter said. in allusion to the man in custody as an acces- sory after the murder, and who is suspected of having supplied Good with the clothes he wore at the time ot his apprehension, Oh, ah, I know GammelJ. but I have not seen or heard of him these eleven years." Speaking I also of the female, Lydia Susannah Butcher, to whom he had given the clothes of nis mordered victim, he said he knew what -lie had said about his acquaintance with her, by what he had heard read from the newspapers, and he added, Between her and the other woman I am between two iires." The constable a,ked him what other woman he meant, when Good replied sharply, "W hy, I mean she that's murdered." He further said he had no one to thdiik tor all his troubles but Susan Butcher, and begin declaring, I loved her to distraction- I even dotted on the ground she walked upon." He presently said lie i had always loved her dearly, until he found out she was given to drink, and lie declared that he had been in the habit of sleeping with her in the stable where the mattress and blankets were found, frequently since Christmas last. She had been, lie said, in a situation where he had been in the habit of visiting her; and that he became very jealous of her lately in consequence of having found in the stable a letter which had been sent tal her by an obtlcr with whom she was acquainted, ihe purport of wiiich letter, he had ascertained from seme person to whom he had given it to read, was to induce her to obtain a holiday by s<iying a member ot the family was ill-tliat she had done so, but instead ot going home to Woolwich she had gone with the osrler to Greenwich Fair, and been absent from her place three days and nights, for which she hid been discharged by her master. He likewise lI:iid that to his knowledge she was four or live months enceinte. lu allusion to his wife, Molly Good. who is still in cus- tody, he said (without directly alluding to the murder,) "She knew all about It, and so did Butcher." He further said he had never liked Molly, who was a very bad wo- man and he added, i would" never have left anything with he:' had I known it." He "Iso said he had been mar- ried to another woman since he left old Molly, by whom he had had the hoy who has given evidence against him, and three other chlldren, all of whom are dead, as well as the mother; who died five vears since. He afterwards stated that he never was in the army, but had becn h the service of a Colo ""I, with whom he had been abroad for some nme, and obtained a good knowledge of the French I and Spanish languages. After his committal for trial and removal from Bow- street, he arrived at Newgate at about eight o'clock. During his removal he conducted lllmself wIth greatappa- ret.t fortitjide; and on his entrance into that prison he was immediately placed in a ward in the chapel-yard where a fire IS. kept; not, however, out of elemenev to him, but out ot chanty to the two wardens who have been placed to take care of him, and are with him day and night, Since he has been in Newgate he has, we are positively assured by Mr. Cope, the governor, made no admission of liis gu IIt, nor has he appeared at all desirous of d-ing so. At an early hour on Fridav morning he was visited in his cell by the Rev. At, Carver, the chaplain of the Jul, who also saw him two or three times afterwards in the course of 1 riday and Saturday, on one of which occasions the rev. gentleman remained in the cell alone with him I for about three houts; and if, during that conversation, Good made any statement relative to the murder, the knowledge of the tact is ,till confined within the chap- tun s breast. Mr Sheriff Magnay also visited him at an early hour on Friday. and again in the afternoon, and Satui aiiy; also Mr. Aldermen Wilson,and Nl r. Alderman Humphrey, wno IS the visiting alderman for the month. 1\1 r, Cope has SP visited him both in the presence of the alderiiic-ii and alone. He converses freely, but on one sunject only, and that is about his money. On each occasion of Mr. Cope's visiting Good, he harped on that subject, and requested the governor to write to Mt. Shieli, his late master, about his wages (the 71. 10s. mentioned In the letter written by the witness iNlIEvoy), that they might be placed in Mr. Cope s charge. He also wished that gentleman to write in the letter, that he had left behind him, on making his escape from Putney Park- lane, a livery < reat-coat, which had cost him 21. l-5s.; but as it would now be of no use to him, Mr. Shieli might have it for 21., and place that, with the wag-s, in Mr. j Cope's hands. His sole object in requesting Mr. Cope to do so appears to be that the money may be given to his boy (of whom he seems doatingly fond) before his trial. On one occasion Mr. Cope asked him if he would nut himself want some of that money, as he world, of course, employ counsel to defend him; hut Good immediately replied, "No, I shall not spend itiy money to defend myselt—I do nut tee any use in ptying anything to the lawyers, S"d deprive my boy of the advantages of it. I hope the Sheriffs will do something in that way for in, THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS.—Saturday the Police Commissioners held a meeting at Scotland-yard, for the purpose of investigating the conduct of the police in allow- ioCT the culprit Good so long to elude the vigilance of justice. The Commissioners have suspended Inspectors Frowd and Tedman until after the trial of Good, and it j will then be decided if they will be entirely dismissed the force. The Maryicbone vestry have taken the matter up, and they, with the parishioners, intend to memorialise the Secretary of State on the subject. Mr. Jowett said, the events of the last tew days had clearly, if any oth. r proof were wanting, demonstrated the fact that, as a detective force, the police were wotully deficient. It was a con- vincing proof that there was something radically wrong in the conduct of a police lorce that could allow the mur- derer Good to escape in the way he did. and remain out of the hands of justice for ten days.

FINAL EXAMINATION OF MARY GOOD AND RICKARD GAMBLE. Last Monday the final examination of Mary Good and Richard on the charge of bei g aces-orles after the fact in the murder of Jane Jones, alias Jane Good, took place. Mr. Pelhan, the solicitor, attended on behalf of Mary Good. The Earl of Uxbridge and Lord William Lennox were again present. The evidence adduced on this occasion was the same as that which has before been published in our columns— excepting only the following which is partly fresh. Thomas Sayh-s, of 19, Drury-court. I am at present a porter at Mr. Pedley's, the soda-watcr-manufacturer. in the Strand. On Thursday, the 7th of April, I was waiter at the Spotted Dog, in the Strand. I have seen Daniel Good. I saw him in Newgate on Saturday night. On Thursday, the 7th April, Daniel Good and the prisoner came to the Spotted Dog" together at about eleven o'clock in the morning. Guod brought a beaf-steak in his hand which he asked me to cook. But there was a very bad tire, and I said "You c^n't have it cooked at this ti-ne in the morning. It is a very unlikely time." I noticed th;it he was very much agitated and trembled very much, which I thought at the time was from cold. He said, when I told him I could not cook it. I don't mind about waiting if you will but coo k it fur me, for I uni very hungry, and have had nothing to eat all night." lIe said 1 have been travelling by railway all night." I saiti, Our's was a strange house to come to after travelling by railway," and asked him what railway. lie said,"he dir not know;" but, after a pause, sdid:" I have come from Bristol." The fem;«le prisoner at the bar was with hi n 1 afterwards cooked the beef-steak, and they both par- took of it, and had a pim of porter each. I observed thai the female was in very high spirits, and that they wen in deep conversation together. J heard the prisoner. Daniel Good, sa),, "That b- will not trouble you nr more." The female prisoner afterwards asked him i they had not better take a cab to go to Whitechapel. I replied it would be cheaper to go by omnibus, as plenty pssscd by our dour. She saidBut those are aii our things which lay before the bar." This I was not previ- ously aware of. Good then uent out, made an engagement with a cab-man at the stand opposite the door, alld the things were put into the cab. Good seemed very restless, and got up eipht or nine times while the steak wai c)ok! ing, and even afterwards; W.,ile the steak was on the plate he got up several times. At the close of the case for the prosecutor Mr. Hall said. W hat argtmfnts. Mr. Pelhain, do you wish to address.' Mr. Pelhain —If the deceased woman were the w.fe o: Daniel Good, rhen it would be no felony in him in taking the goods in question, and the female prisoner cannot be indicted as a receiver. If she were not his wife. and he stole the things now produced, and gave them to the fe- male prisoner, then she cannot be indicted as a receiver. And it she (the female prisoner) be his wife. then she cannot be indicted for receiving or harbouring him attter the fact, supposing him to be guilty thereof. Mr. Nlaule admitted the dhiicuhy as stated by Mr. Pelham. Mr. Hall said he would relieve Mr. Maule from this, and ask him to state what course he intended to adopt. Mr. Maule thought there was sufficient evidence to prove that both the prisoner* were accessories after the I lelony, and he should therefore propose that they both ¡ be committed as such for the murder. Mr Hall remarked, that all through the inquiry not.1 the slightest evidence was given to show that the de- ceased was the wife, or til a t the prisoner at the bar was he therefore intended to de-ii with the proceedings as jj" i IJclther 01 the females were in that position. Witn regard j to Gamble, ho did think the evidence was sufficiently strong to conn-.ct him with being an accessory alter the fact, but there could be no doubt that he had a guiliy knowledge of the robbery, and :liereiore he proposed to COllliUit Gamble as a receiver. M itu resptet to Mary G"od, the evidence was much stronger, but lie thought it would be safer to commit her for receiving the slPJdl property. The gentleman who was engaged tor the pro- secution could, if he tiloligilt proper, prefer another in- dictment a'.r dast the prisoners as access«oi ies atu-r the! murder, as well as fur being the receivers of stolen pry- J perty. The prisoners were then fully committed.

MURDER NEAR KAGLAND, MONMOUTH. On the 13th instant, a revolting murder was commi. tted at a place called Co. u-y-vedw, which is the name given to a tew cottages about two miles and a halt iro.n Rat;- 1 and, on the road to Monmouth. The victim was a child one your and two months' old named Eilzi 11 ugnes, who died by the hands or its own inotuer, by drowning in a par. llf w iter, and then cutting open the abdomen during a fit of insanity. Th j unhappy woman is <>:■) years ot age, a fit o f ilisiiii i t y and has been married about three years. She was, it ap- pears affected by the aoove in the autumn of last year, but from which s he recovered, and no rent-wed syinp- toms discovered themselves until d few ddY" before the coiamittal of the rleeijt di-viidftjl deed, when she appeared, low spirited and dejected, but not sufficiently so as to cause alarm to her husband and neighbours. ,Un the d:.y of the murder her husband returned home to dinner rather before the usual time, and told his wife that as he w s in a hurry lie would not wait fur his dinner to be cooked, but would have bread and cheese. He played with the child on his knee during the time and on going back to his work the liitie creature followed him to the door. The mother told her husband to take her up and kl's-; litr, wnich he dId-and it must have been soon alter his rte- parture that the unhappy wuman destroyed her resistless offspring. She immediaU'lv posted to a neighbour a quarter of a iiiile from the house, and narrated the par- ticulars ot her crime, and was soon after apprehended at Penrose. Si: :ce her apprehension up to the time of her being conveyed to the county gaol on Monday evening she was cxceedl' gly violt'llt and outrageous, but did not make the least allusion to her child. On Monday week a coroner's inquest was held on the body of the infant, when evidence was given, the nature of which will he seen by the summing up ot the Coroner, who recapitulated it, and observed that there could be no matter of doubt as to the cause of the child's death, as from the statement ol Maria Hughes, it was evident it had died bi her hand. To constitute murder it must be proved, not only from the fact itself, but from malice pre- pense and also that the individual charged Inust be in iier right mind. The evidence clearly snowed that the murder was malicious and premeditated, as proved by the prisoner's own statement, and confirmed by Andrews. At the commencement of the enquiry he felt considerable difficulty and donbt as to the advice lie should consider it his duty to give the jury in ieadi:)? ihe.n to their decision. It was quite competent for the jury, and strictly within their province, to ent'Ttsin the question of the prisoner? state of mind, but upon mature deii?fration he f?Jt it his duty to advise the jury not to enter upon that point. They had evidence that in auturnn last the prisoner was insane, and they all had ploof of her present state, aE well as the opinion of Nlr. Alc Allan, the surgeom Still the only evidence they had of the woman s state ot mind on the day of the murder was decidedly opposed to such a conclusion. Her next-door neighbour saw nothing unusual in her manner during the conversation she had with her. Andrews, of Ragland, failed to mark anything unu-ual, and indeed lu-r correctness in remembering the precise sum she went to pay him, as well as her manner, evinced much coJlectedncss; and her narration, too, of the dreadful act she had committed, in all its details, to Mary Barnold, did not betray any symptoms of insanity. Her present state may be feigned, or it may be the result of compunction of conscience. lie, the Coroner, believed that her general conduct evinced insanity; and that in any further investigation her life would be spared, but relying upon the evi dence which had been given, he thought it better for the jury not to decide that point, but to leave it for a judge and another jury. The jury then retired, and after a shcrt interval re- turned a verdict of Wilful Murder agninst Maria Hughes. The witnesses were bound over to nive evidence, and the wretched woman, who was perfectly furious, was forth- with conveyed to the Monmouth gaol. Her bereaved husband, who is a labourer, and appears to be a qUIet, decent man, is, as mav be expected, deeply affected by his melancholy situation. His wife was a religious woman, though not a member of any body, but attended church and the meetings of the Primitive Methodists. It was stated that her insanity was induced by an enthu siastic connection with tite "latter sect, but J we believe without any foundation. She continues in a very violent aud ungovernable condition.

COURT AND ARISTOCRACY. I Urn MAJESTY IN MASK.—At her Majesty's fancy ball, the Queen, it is reported will enact Queeu Phdi, pa. and Prince Albert, the hero of Cressy THE ROYAL MASQUE.—Her Niajesty,, still the ruling topic. Her Majesty has signified her gracious permission that each fair leitdei- of fashion should bring her own baronial court to pay liege homage to Edward and Philippa, and in the costume of such epoch I as best may suit themselves, their sworn knights, and d imes. The most remarkable addition to the splendour of the pageant, on the 12th of Way, will be the Court of the Duchess of Carubiidge. Her Royal Highness, with characteristic good taste, has adopted the character ot Anne de Breb gne. The costume cf this Princess is the most beautiful, and is preserved in many illuminated volumes with its original grace and splendour, and in the minutest detail; this celebrated beauty having brought the largest province of France as an accession to the French crown, and married successively two Sovereigns ot that great country. The costume belongs, besides, to one of the most splendid and Lhivalric periods ot' French anna)s. Fifty fuHnwers are to accompany her Hoyal Highness most of them wearing the costumes of the great dignitaries of the Court of Charles the Eighth and his successor. This now determined tete hys been re- ceived by all classes with general acclamation, minis- tering, as it will, not only to the pleasures of the great, but to the resources of the industrious. Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert have been gi-aciou-ly pleased to signify it as their intention to honour the grand ball for the benefit of the Spitalfieids silk trade, at the Italian Opera House, on the 26th cf the ensuing month. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their suite, and escorted by a detachment of the 11th Dragoons, left Buckit,ghttin Paiace on Friday for Claremont. On Saturday evening the Queen and Prince Albert went to the Italian Opera. On Monday they were present at ) the rehearsal of the Ancient Concert in the morning, and went to the llav'Aitiar?-e? Theatre in the evening. On Tuesday, Prince Albert was present at a meeting of the commissioners for promoting the fine arts in the rebuilding of the Houses of Parji?mem. On Wednesday evening, her Majesty gave a [inner ai Buckingham Palace to a distinguished pdrty, including their Royal H ighnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Augusta ot Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge; the Archbishop of York, the Duke of Wellington, &c., and afterwards went with her royal and illustrious visitors to i the Ancient Concert. Prince Albert has accepted the appointment of Warden of the Stannaries and Chief Steward of the Duchy in Cornwall and Devon. The salary and emoluments hitherto attached to this important office have been abolished by his royal liighness's desire. We understand that the Earl of Chesterfield has given instructions for his splendid stud of horses to be brought to the hammer next month. The Duke of Wellington and the whole of the foreign r()rp. d¡pIOlIF¡Jlquc with the cabinet ministers and their ladies, have been invited to the grand banquet, in honour of the fete day of King Louis Philippe, on Monday se,laniglit, at the French embassy. The assembtv at Manchester-house held on Wednes- day evening by the Countess St. Aulaire. was one of the rn,g- brilliant par'ies the scasca has produced  A FRENCH CREc-?ACRE.— There ia new lying | In the prison of Organs, an inåiyiùn;¡! scutced to .he guillotine for a murder, attended with circutn stances of as great and singular atrrjeity as that ascribed to Daniel Good. the individual in ques- tion, whose name is Le Blane, is a retired Lieu- tenant of Chasseurs, and his victim was Made- .noisei!eJu!ieDeicroix. ?bo for some time lived Wltn him Ps his :nis?ress. She was missed sud- denly, when he represented tbm she h.?d rerurnfd to her parents, at Dijon, but it afterwards appeared, that having murdered her, be at first buried the body, coverinjr it over %i itb quicklime., iu order to consume it. This not having the desired effect, I in order to escape detection, he exhumed the body, which he burnt. A small portion of the skull which tvas left unconstlmed sufficed, however, to point Olt the atrocious deed, and the person of; the victim. He was apprehended after a lapse of six months, during which time Le managed to elude the oiffcers of justice, and at the last conn d'ass'ze at Orleans, received the sentence which he now awaits. A few days a<r<i there died in,service, as a cook, in the Hue de B rndv, a female who was grand- j niece of Cornoilie and niece of Foutenelle. Her uncle, Fonteneiie, who lived to the age cf 99, was rich, but instead ot leaving; his lortune to his tela-, tive, he bequeathed it to two femnles and to ser- vants, who had, in hi$extreme old aje, induced him to make a will in their favour.— Galignaiu. AWTUL VISITATION. — A crcntleman and lady, a few u.tys ago, took their breakfast at an botl in the neighbourhood of the Tuileri es. As they re-j mained upwards to two hours without rinsing, one of the waiters went up and entered :he room. He found it in the utmost confusion, the table J overturned, and the. gentleman !yina lifeless on the il'jor. A commissary of police and physician were called in, and it was soon ascertained that ther? were no chances of recovery, the dea,cd: having been struck with apoplew. Tne lady havir, I)e,?ii t'ii 8,)o!.)It?xy. '11:-ie !I vi !;is bodv a:id ttic M?r?ne. wh re it was tqkerl t(tb(- ic ii,its i sjou --=--

A \VIN-NFAIT ror. THE EX'EQVFP.—Mr. bourn has published a note to the following effect, dated from Djwnmg-street, ISiIi inst.:—"Tho Chancellor of the h\chequer begs to acknowledge the receipt of £SQO (transmitted to him under c.ovcr to Mrs. Goulbnrn) by one who styles him- self 'A sincere admirer of the manly spirit in which you hve met the d'ttlcultie? of your posi- tion by a direct taxation and to ac.o'uuut htm that the said sum will be paid into the L>.che- ")r Contracts have men mad by s;:wer'1mn f?r qucr. 1)()Ot- iii d ShDc, f',jr ttic "71,- CO.0?0 pair" of hootg?nd shoes f?r the army, a¡d 8,000 p?irs for convicts. The Ghte instances as a practical lustration of the special fsvor tilth which the Premier in this present peculiar and ticklish position with res- pect to bis Income and Tariff, is disposed to re- gard the labouring classes, that although he refused to abandon his contemplated redaction in the duty on foreign fancy pap'ers upon the mas- ters' application, he told the men afterwards that the duty on foreign fancy papers shtmkl remain un- touched by his second edition of the Tariff. Our xreat rival ill this manufacture is France. Fancy paper may be bought in Paris of as good, it not better, quality, and of superior style, at a franc, than can be procured in this country for two shii- linsrs per square yard the only difference beinir that our paper is 21 inches wide, and that of France IS inches—a very slight difference when compared with the disproportion in the prices of the two articles the wages of the workmen in the two countries be;ng in the proportion of IS,. or 20s. in France to £ 3 or +4 in England, for the same France to ?3 or ?4 in F.tc?n d ibr t h '? sa:?' description and quantity of work. JOSEPH HUME IN FARLI ■. >:K >T AOAIN. — THU news will sadly discompose the premier, and abso- lutely horrify the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Indefatigable, dogged d'seiole Cocker, as he i' Hume frill, once more, bring his powers cf arith- metical analysis to scrutinise every estimate and challenge every official calculation. The minis- terialists will, no doubt, call him a bore, but Joseph is not to be put down by a cough or a sneer, and he will cross-examine the gentlemen of the Treasury, and call for explanations, with an unrullled countenance, and without seeming to care whether they like his interrogatories or not. No more tricks with the revenue accounts, for it will be impossible to include such an item as the Canton ransom monev in the receipts of the quarter without immediate detection. Mr. Hume will, no doubt, require the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give a proper account ot the anony- mous donation of £ 500, which some one, with more money than wit, sent this week, undercover, to Mrs. Goulburn. The Gazette of Tuesday an- nounced the return of Mr. Hume for the burghs of the Montrose district, for which place he was elected, "without opposition, on Saturday. A most important and beneficial regulation, re- lating to chaplains in her Majesty s Navy, is about, to take place. When those gentlemeh qualify and perforin the dutv of naval instructor and school- master in ships," thev are to have, in addition to the pay of chaplain, three-fourths of that granted to naval instructors, and after a certain period, a similar portion ot half-pay. Thus a clergyman of a man of w,ur, combining the duties of chaplain and naval instructor, will have set pay amounting to near £ 260 a-vear, in addition to £ 5 a year from each of the voun"- gentlemen he educatcs--tlte latter will, however, most probably be discon- tinued.— Vnital St •rvice Gazette. DISSF.\T £ RS_ '{he Nonconformist in estimating the ditTVulties that stand in the wav of separating the church from the state says :—" Neither must we leave out of account, the all but universal igno- rance of dissenters in respect of their own dis- incti, e principles. Before the national church IS overt hrown, unless, indeed, it he overthrown by political violence, these men must be fully ùi- structed. Truth must be driven into their hearts, not struck mcrelv into their opinions. Whether this is to be done by the energy of some man thoroughly in earnest, or by successive blows of smart persecution, done it must be, ere the sepa- ration of the church lrom the state is effected. The jndolcnce which is the offspring of ignorance is not at all likely to uproot the system." THE CONFLICTING ARGUMENTS fOR AND AGAINST THE CORN BILL. -'I'h c debate in the House of Lords on Monday night suggests SI. recnrrenre to that now somewhat trite topic—the New Corn Bill. Never, certainly, was there a subject on which such a variety of contradictory facts were asserted, and when asserted put to such a vari-:ty of purposes. Support's of the bill tell us that it will bring down the price of food, and therefore the consuming population are to demand it: supporters of the hill tell us it will rot bring down the price of food, and therefore the farmers are not to oppose it. Opponents of the bill tell tis it v,i," bring down the price of food, and therefore the j farmers are to withstand it to the death oppo- nents of the bill tell ua that it will not bring down j the price of food, and therefore it is not worth having. Supporters and opponents of the bill, ( each for their respective purposes, tell us that n will encourage foreign countries to grow corn for; our supply. Supporters and opponents of the bill I tell us. each again for their respective purposes. that it will so raise the price of corn in th' j foreign markets as to make the change neither formidable to the farmer nor beneficial to the con- sumers. What is a plain man to make out of this concordia disenrs, this agreement to differ on facts and applications by which he tind" hur-selt stunned and bewildered 7 tines. A SIIIF ON FIIlE AT Sr.—The following is an A SIIIP ON Fit',r, AT Sl- extract from the log of the Columbia-.—" Wednes- day, the 13th of April, wind 8.S.W., lat. 47 16. long. 29 30, distance run 200 miles, A.M., fresh breezes and cloudy at ten o'clock; saw a ship on the at twelve o clock—passed her a short distance to windward — hove-fo to get the boats ready—ap- peared to be a large bark of 400 to 500 tons bur- deii the fore and mainmast and bowsprit gone —the mizenmast standing, but no mizen-topmast: appeared to be w ithin about two or three feet 0) i the water; remained by her till 1 30 A.M. burnt [blue- lights a&d rockets from tec o'clock." J THC REGENT'S PAKK MCRDF.R FrvI: YEARS AOO — There are many strange and very contradictory statements relative to a clue having at iength bet a | obtained, which, as alleged, will in aii probability han THE effect, of causing the SPEEDY capture of the murderer of Eliza Dr-vies. who was barmaid to Mr. W-id ley, landlord of the King's Arm; Frede- rick-street, REGENT S Park. ITALIAN OPERA.— Labiacbe and Mario HAVE made their nppearance with Mad. Persiani aod Ronconi, in Donnizetti s L Eihir d' A more. An amusing one-act farce, entitled a Lortr lif Proxy, was produced at the Haymarket on Thurs- day evening, and was received. Mr. Sams the well-known bookseller of St. James's Street, wa? unfortunately killed by an overset of his carnage, which he was driving from town, on Saturday evening, to his residence at East Sheen. He lingered till Tuesday. W'IGSEY'S BASKRUT'ICY.—Mr. S. W. Bennett, acting fi:1r a large body of creditors, asked Mr. Isaac Wigney most pointedly, when he was under examination at the first meeting, held on the 23;U tilt., whether, -on Saturday the 5th of March, a t- good were removed from his house;" and he gave an answer in the negative. For the convenience of those w ho have not a file of papers to refer to, we extract. from our report what transpired OA this subject — Mr. 1. N, Wigney examined by Mr. Bennett: Yott had a private residence in I Adelaide-terrace?— Yes. On Saturday the 5th of March, THER^"were goods rem()\-cd :()t thai [ F know of. DO you Know that there were goods dl not. Were you not waifuiu; [backwards and forwards w hen there was aca)t being iadeu with your gond, ? — I was not. Have there been any removed and sent by THE railroad?—I know of none. Neither belonging to you, nor any of your family ?—The only Lilat t am aware of are my cmidreu'S clothes. How many packages have been removed during the last month ?-I do not know. Not one that I know of. Will you swear there have not BEEN ten '—I am not aware ct' one. Will you swea: there has iic)t I will not. Then have there been any removed in your brother's cart?—I am not aware of it. BUT you will not swear thera have not B^N ? —N I will not. Have you GIVEN. --in v orders, dneci or INDIRECT, for the removal of í;'J',JS !-l';o. By Mr. F. Cooper:—To your L:I;OW:2DR"> or bthef HIS PR'IP-TTV re- I moved I'r.cn Adeiai LC-tcrrace beyond the wearing apparel OF yourself, your wife, and family — None." No. withstand this stout a strong bsdief was en ertaining that property had been carried on, and much keen iuquiry has d on foot otf, ;iid iiiii,:Ii !t-.en iuq,ili-v I!es -?t on loot I that hd, On Frid,iv li?'.st do?h?s wre I converted into confirmed truth by the discovery 01 four packages SECRETED at the brewery belonging to the Wigney family in Ship-street. Oi) o! the t packages was a very otrge tin case stuffed flill ivith valuable eliec:? of various descriptions, a second case filled wiih cut glass, a third contained wine, and the fourth, t trunk, was crammed with wear- ing apparel, much "f it of a costly and gorgeous c haracter. We believe, too, that E shall be borue out by the fact, when we state that, several DAYS prior to this discovery, two oases of "wine were brought back" H'.M some hiding place to which j they had been removed for concealment. The property thu« recovered has all been taken PQ- | session of by the messengers of the ASSIGNEES; AND from information already obtained—aud which cannot fail to lectd to the eliciting of a great deal more—no doubt is entertained but that a very 1 irge quantity of property has been removed to London from time tc time, by parties closely a?UedLo tL? '?.rkruptS.—.Dr?? Gaaidi'un. J EFFECTS O^ Ku:.f?\ns.—At tl«-3 FORMERLY FLC?- r?s?umr villace of Hour.siow, so prc-AT ic now *b? depreciationoi property on account of the traus- for cf TRA;T:C to the railroads, that in a window at { one of the chief inns is an inscription that "NEW i- I and cream is sold here;" wblle ANOTHER an- nounccs the profession of th e chief occujuer as j that of nitt U rig boots and sboe.s. T::E JOCKEY CLCE. — A letter FROM AE Duke of Portland P;!L>ished. in whictflus states that. "ro fu as MI. Thorn RUN is concerned, he has n It consented to carry out the decision- of the Jockc, Club, "in warning DEFAULTERS off THE j heathdeclining, therefore, to BECOME the in- strumeat of attack on that geLUleinan/' ??TtiOpTs?..—D--?c' 'he ?st year c:?ht Metho- d'5t preachers of L?ncash'?c, RENOUNCED ) their conne\!?n. and obtained td?s?oi to the privileges of Church communion. C\SE.—It is s lid that the special re- tain ing fee to Sir W. Follett, for h:s half-hottr'* work in the Court at Gloucester, was 1,(.01) guineas; that, of Mr. Fitzroy Keiiy. 5YJ guineas; and that of Mr. Butt, 300 guineas; beside several minor fees paid to each of them. To thIs may be added the lets paid Mr. Cripps, M.P., and Mr. Keating; fees of 45 guinea's paid to the jury. and lawyers and iawvers' clerks innumerable. A FILTH" BEAST.—At the police court on Wed- nesday, Edward Jones, whitesmith, a married man, and father of one child, WAS charged with indecently exposing his person to a respectable female. The prisoner had made a similar disgust- J ing exhibition on Sunday week to two females, in the neighbourhood of Kitigsland. Tue prisoner WAS ser-t ro the house of correction tor three months, Farlow stating that he had been convicted and imprisoned for a similar offence at Oxford.— j Shrctcsbury Nctrs. A"OT¡¡r,R FEW AI.E SAILOR. — A youn g woman, IN the of a sailor, was brought to the office (1f Commissioner Dowling; at Liverpool, ON Men- day, fallowed by a crowd anxious to make them- I selves acquainted with her history. She had au extremely masculine appearance, and the hard- ness efne- l hands, caused by the labour on board sh;n; tended still further to conceal her sex. It was ascertained she was a native of Cheshire, had been in service, and that, having been thrown on !)eer, n ser-, i ce, the world in a friendless state, she assumed male j attire MID shipped as a sailor on board the Pan, for Glasgow. On her arrival there, she re-shipped on board a small craft, for Liverpool, which was navigated by herself, the captain, and his son. I On arriving at Liverpool she was recognised by a fornhr acquaintance. She had altogether been j ABOUT two months and a bail' at *ea, during which period her sex. bad never been discovered. Sb unrobed at the commissioner's o!?ie<\ and, havin g put on her natural attire, was seir back to Ches- litre, there being no euarge against her except tea Very pardonable one stated. She is a robust young woman, aged about eighteen or nineteen. "Too BAD."—An Irishman, named M'Carthy, i was caught by some policeman at Derby, very anxious to obtain the reward of by our Sovereign Lady the Queen, for the apprehen- sinn ot Good, who dragged hiin off to gaol amid great popular excitement. The magistrates, we suppose not knowing wbat to do with their prize, committed him for fourteen days as a rogue and a vagabond, as it appears he was found in a state of vagrancy. SSIZTJP.E OF THE STEAM-RACKET II MONTROSE. The steam-packet •' Montrose, Captain Wilson, which arrived at Falmouth on Saturday nisrht, with the Peniusula mails, has been seized bv'the Custom-house authorities, in consequence of a large quantity ot contraband tob-w'co haviug been found on board. The late Miss Isabella Balfour, of Culrnss, bas thus disposed of the. following sum.To the Church extension scheme, £ 400; to t1J!' East India mission. £ 400; to t.he Jewish mission, £,100: to the Colonial Churches, £ 200; to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, A:! (JO; alid to the Deaf and Dumb On Wednesday, Francis Hughes was executed at Armagh, for the murder of Mr. Powell, and the wretched mau solemnly protested, to the last, that he was innocent. The Tippcrary Fret Press mentions aD attempt which was made on Sunday week to burn down a fine oak wood at Port!aw. the property of the Marquis of Waterford. by setting fire to the game covers immediately adjoining iu The liames were extinguished by the exertions ofthe truan-Lry of i the noble lord, assisted by the police, but not be- fore ten acres and a half of woodland were des- troyed. The fire, it is supposed, was the work of poachers, in revenge for the cOllvÎcwm of somo of their comrades at the last quarter oesaiow-