The-Protectionists have made a notable demonstration in the Metropo- lis:

The Diike.of Richmond and ten other Peers; with upwards of forty Members of Parliament, headed a crowchof landed proprietors,- merchants, and delegates from local Protectionist societies in the provinces,. at a meet= ing in the great room of the Crown and Anchor:Tavern, on Tuesday, to " consult on the present alarming position of agriculture and other native interests. " The delegates are said to have represented nearly every county in England, and several in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

.Thespeeches were of three classes,—statistical and. informatory ; declae matory and tending towards the seditious; soothing and cautionary. Those of the; first class fell from Mr. Booker and Sir Matthew White Ridley ; those of the second constituted the staple of the proceedings; those of the leer-were thrown in by three Lords who wound up the business of the meeting.

Mk. Booker, of Glamorganshire, appealed to returns to show that trade and-navigation are losing ; that the consumption of cotton has decreased 30 per eciii the year;. that the cultivation of wheat in Ireland haw faltei 'EOM. 1,059,628 acres in 1844:5 to 565,746 acres in 1348, and the tipert of Irish butter is melting. away. He hoped that, oppressed as the farmers are; they will remain uncompro- misingly, unswervingly; unseduccably loyal and true to the Queen. He re- pelled the fustian, in words as well-as merchandise, of Cobden—that-apostle of peace who, forsooth, would have-the manly quarrels of nations as well as ofeindividuala settled by palaver and by humbug instead: of by musketry and gunpowder. In the struggle that must ensue, their friends whin the midst of treaohery hail stood fast might be jeopardized in their legislative seats by a miscellaneous onslaught of Ministerial and Jacobinieal opponents. This dust not and should not be ; theymust be protected ; and therewere a thou- sand men who would put down. their 100/. each, and he would put down 1,4001. if need were, to form a fund for the national object of protecting tam at the hustings.

;Sic.Matthew White Ridley: gave some facts on the.atate of the labour- ing population and the position of the farming. interest in Northumberland.

llte ffinuelf used to give Ze. 4d. a day, he now gives but 2s. The agri- cultural boroughs feel a decline of 35. per cent in their trade, In New- castle the butchers cannot sell their, meat on a Saturday.; and 7,000- persons are receiving outedoor relief—rawly of these able-bodied men long- ing to work. Eari)Grey does not consider his • estates fre Northuniberlartd depreoiated: they are the pick of the coanq._ for quality of land; yet one for which. 2,2401: e year will be paid up to May next, has fallen so low in thomarket that it will remain on his hands. The present tenant has re- filmed to take it again at the Earl's offer of a reduced rent of 1,6001. Similar cases are numerous : a them of.SieJolmGrey's, formerly let at 7151., now lets at.6631. ; one of Mr. Shanks's has fallen, same the abolition of theCorn- laws, from 700/. to 5871. 108. ; another, from 442/. to 392/. ; one of Mr. Sta.- pylton'a, let at -500k, was advertised in vain at 300/. The reduction in the value of stock sold is from 20 to 40 per cent.

Mr. Chewier, a Nottinghamshire:tenant-farmer confirmed these state- ments of depreciation, and passed from them to those outspoken and prac- tical deductions which were the chief characteristic of the meeting.

A was now the general ;determination of the tenant-farmers, not only from necessity but from will, mid because they were driven to it, to send their surplus and unemployed labour to the workhouse. What would be the con- sequence ? The labourers tallied already of combination; andhe saw that this would progress. They might get over the next harvest, but that would be.the outside. He knew what the consequences would them be, and be should be sorry for them. A great deal had been said about the importance f the yeomanry of England. " Hitherto," said Mn Chewier, "the position we. have held hal:sheen one of peace and quiet ; we were not agitating men : but if labourers will congregate—they know the cause; and they do not blame ua-48 it likely thatwe shall mount our horses and come forward to stop our labourers from what we all know to be their just rights-? (Cheers.) If they are industrious and steady, they have the right to have the; means of living comfortably; and are we to mount our horses to stop them.? (Cries of" No, vat" and " I won't ! ") Mr. Cobden says if you attempt to reintroduce pro- tection what he will' de, and what will become of the landlords. But I say, that if the landlords stick to us we will stick to them."

[The assembly rose en masse and cheered passionately; Earl Stanhope struck the speaker. on the back with approbation, and the gentlemen on the platform rose as if ratifying his response to the appeal : a pause ensued; and then the meeting again rose and shouted .applause.] The speaker resumed. " But, gentlement we will go a little further. We have got nine-tenths of the horses of the kingdom, and we have got men to ride them. We will support the Crown as well. (The assembly again rose and cheered.) Her Majesty need not fear that if she turns her-back upon the too oepeople she will be left unprotected. We will protect her Majesty if she will protect us." (Great cheering.) Mr. Chewier did net fled fault with the gentlemen upon the platform, or with the landlords generally, because, as a oleos, he had seen them the beet friends of the people ; but in this par- ticular movement they had left it to the tenant-farmers not only to do the work—that he should not have so much compluinedef—but also to defray the expenses too. His opinion was, that without some alteration in the law this. country would be se shaken—after the harvest, and not before it—that it would be impossible.to preserve the public peace. (Cries of assent.) eir. Chewier concluded with a reference te-the Exhibitionof 1851, and the marolt. [mayor's). nest which Prince Albert has lately discovered in this city. Sir Robert Peel: was one of the. Commissioners : Lord Stanley,. for whom he had a great respect, was another how far he would. commout from among those. Royal Com:coalmen. withoutharm, how far he would come out from such a. den of—the meeting might supply the other epithet, without harm, re: mained to be seen.

Mr. Edward Birk spoke Me mint:Ito. the landlents first making- a salvo in favour of the useful; phihmtliceopie and honourable. men around hine, The agriculturiets.had. not fallen bykr-Cohdon's speeches; League stalker), nor the treachery, of Sir -Robert Peel ; but; because the landlords and, arises, creole of the country had not dorm their duty,(Cheers.) The landlords of this country had not properly responded: to the call which. had been made. upon them by their tenantry. The tenantry have readied: at all cost and.. peril to putdawis the Free-trade system. Mr. Cobden. said,.at Leeds, that if the landlords put a single shilling of fixeddirty on corn.he would create such . a tumult as would shake the kingdom to its centre. Mr. Bill ans " The sooner the better. (Cheers.) No worse can come. (Renewed cheers: Persevere in these lawn andthe farmer will be swept away, his home taken, from hint, and his chffiken narde paupers.. Axe they thus to be consigned tin ruin, ftem. fear of the threats! of. a demagogue ?' (.The meeting rose, and: shouted with excitement.) In the name of theteeantry of the country,lite. declared they were prepared to risk all, dare all. (The meeting again rose, waved their hats, and shouted- uncontroltablg.)* They would be prepared= the hour cif' the countrrepenT to take those-terrible steps,-most frightful to imagine, which neecesit-yams- driving them to contemplate. When the his of the passing age earnetobe written, itwouffirekte, that at the same. period there: was estatesmanin Italy who. was appointed the Pope's Minis-. ter, wha witnesseda rising tumult of the:penile, and who was warned: that if lie went to the Senate he would. be in danger of assaesination;. his answer. was, that when ha. took office . he accepted net. only its honour and ensolthe ments but also. its duties and.ita dangers ; he went,. and perished upon. the steps of the Forum. But our statesman had-slirunk-beneath the-danger and. bowed to the storm, and thim he hadbrought infamy upon his name and de- struction upon. his country. (Tremendous cheers; at the close of whick.a gentleman upon the . platform proposed three groans- for Sir. Robert Peel, " the arch' enemy of the Airman- spectes;"--aw appeal which was not re, spot:riled to.) Professor Aytoun of Edinburgh, here interposed some lighter oratorical.' stimuli; satirizing theinstructors of Sir Robert Peek—Mr. Caird, tr gene - tleman, who happened; net to be able to say ho had- ever made anything,' himself by farming ; Mr.' M‘Culloch, the two millions a week MA ; Mechi, of onexceptionable.rasor-repute, who is for teachingthe farmerse how to shave close; and Mr. Heatable into whose herd of swine :the- evil spirits of -free trade fled when they could find no other,refuge. This was only a diversion, however.

. Mr. Allnatt, of Wallingford a yeoman or'mirchi Will celebrity, de- clared that, he represented the feelings of the Berkshire and.Oxiiirdshiie farmers in stating that the insane abolition of protectiembas shaken the: . constitutional feelings of the agricultural bodyi. and their loyal attach, mint teethe Crown.

He.. agreed with those who think that. under. free trade the national,: faith is • in, danger. If they are still to be robbed of 91,000,000/.,. it ia..

impossible that they, should not at the Funds of this country. It in.. impossiblethat the working bees, when plunderedof.their, honey, should.any. longer supporethe diones. If the farmers be. robbed,. he-waned the fund= . holder that hit time will come, and that the term ' national. faith " not be found in thavocabillary of the farmer. (Mears.). Mr. W: Caldecott; of Fratin' g-Lodgee near olchestere a retired mere chant, declare:II that Load John Russell is- a "publie destroyer''; aid! suggested tint agriculturists must-band- thenrselOes together in. a-.firm. league to withhold the taxes until the Government listen to them. ' Mr. Henry. 'limbs,. from Herefordshire, concluded .9:lenity. oratien by lifting his vigorous =make =illustration, and exclaiming-

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our arms. (Laud cheers.). If they . won't heledby argument. and by ra, tional moans—if:the& won't listen teethe voice of reason, and to facts:an& to a force a- stronger 'character, and we will fight for it." (Tremendous: applause, waving of h.ats; and raising aleft of arms.)

The proceedings now assumed their. concluding phase. The Earl of, Eglinton, in moving.. a. vote: of compliment to the Dulteof Richmond: ens chairman, acknowledged, that the censure unsparingly showered on him; class had been justly showered; and avowed his made and pleasure that: those present had been thought undeserving• of it. Lord John Manners;; did not despair even of the present graceless House of Commons, seeing' how a Free-trade majority has dwindled from a hundredto a bare score. The. Duke of Richmond would not be bullied,' nor dictaffict to by a knot' of cotton-spinners;, he would not consent to lose our coltinies,. or to ruin our shipping interests ; and ,didn't approve of the forced emigration. of- honest, industrious, skilful.meehanies.;. neither would he let all. thelione our and gory of this great ccrantry he dependent on:Mi.. Cobden.. Pinfiree ing the eloquence he hind heard,. yet he *odd speak his mind, and. say that he. could. only recommend constitutional means,— " I certainly do not recommend any threats of using violence. ("Hear !").-A Still less do. I recommend binding ourselves together not to pay the. taxes. If we descend to the miserable tricks of the Anti-Corn-law League,. we 02.111e..• not be respected; because we eannotrespeet ourselves. We have come.from, all parts of the country, aa.the representatives of &truly loyal people ; let use do all things 'constitutionally, and we shall have reason to be proud_ of- our viotory. I will continue, as long as I have health„, to take every eppor- tunity of meeting the tenant-farmers of this country ;. and although I. may be told in the House of Lords, (in a majority of whom Lhave no conftdenee,) that by presiding at these meetings I am creating a panic among. the tenantry—and that is the last attack that has been made upon me—still I . shall.perseverein a course whieb..I know to be right." The Protectionist resolutions which furnished the framework of the pro. ceedings were of course unanimously adopted. The only one of external import is the following—

"That a memorial to the Right Honourable the First Lord of the Treasury be prepared, founded on the foregomg resolutions, protesting na. the strongest manner against the continuance of the present system of miscalled trade,' and solemnly casting on the Administration of which his Lordship is.. the head the heavy responsibility of rejecting. the appeals of the people for the abandonment of that system ; and that a deputation be appointed for. the purpose of representing to him the present critical and alarnng.poeition.. of many districts-of the country." The May meetings still afford only meagre gleanings of interesting news. The religious meetings of the week have been those of the British and Foreign School Society, the Earl of Carlisle in the chair; the Church Pastoral Aid Society, under Lord Ashley ; the Protestant Association, under the Earl of Roden ; and the London Missionary Society, under Sir Edward North Buxton- The meeting of the British and Foret School Society was marked by 2 speech from the Earl of Carlisle, referring in a characteristic manner to topics agitating the public mind,—the terrific evils of society ; the true but missed function of the Church; the fitness of education to meet some of the most marked wants of the times-

.11e looked upon it to be the mission—the true, obvious, and paramount mission, both of all individual men and of all corporate bodies, to wage in- zessant war against those evils which still disturb and desolate our globe. 'To do so is the real vocation of Christian men and the supreme glory of Christian churches. But is it not too frequently that our attention. and cnergy are diverted and distracted by differences sometimes trivial, more frequently uncharitable, often wholly immaterial as to any practical issue ? Are there not too frequently differences about the mode and form and ceremony of doing the thing, instead of a. determination that the thing shall be done ? Is it not too frequently a jealous exclusion or a vexatious worrying of ourselves and each other,. instead of a hearty wish to combine and a sincere effort to cooperate ? The pith of these charges did not appear to him to lie exclusively at the door of any church or denomination, but in some degree to influence and infect them alL Such considerations us these would tend much to discourage and dispirit him with regard to the prospects of the future, if ho believed that such dis- putes and differences as those which he lamented, if he might not say con- -demised, leavened the entire mass of those bodies to any very great or thorough extent. But he derived his-chief grounds of consolation and corn- fart from the hope thin those very differences and disputes do not extend far beneath the surface—that they are chiefly taken up and kept up by the more bustling, turbulent, and worldly spirits, and that beyond them, amongst -every one almost of our Christian churches and communities, there is every large and growing mass of humble-minded, peace-loving, unobtrusive per- eons, whose cry is not heard in the streets, but who, whilst scribes dispute and Pharisees. denounce, are ready to bend over the stricken on the wayside And to pour oil into his wounds Discussions have taken place elsewhere with respect to the policy of intro- ducing, as far as the State is concerned, a plan of. secular apart from religious .education. He did not propose to discuss that question there, or to offer any -opinion on one side or the other; but he knew that strong convietions must be entertained on that subject, and all he could exhort them was, if they -wished to avoid the adoption and sanction of principles and systems of which_ they do not approve, to do whatin. them Ilea to extend the basis and enlarge the operation of those systems of which they do approve. He felt convinced that this Society is calculated to minister to the deepest, the most essential, most indispensable wants of a. large portion of our fellow citizens ; that it -would enable them to open up to them the paths of credit, of respectability, of distinction it might be, but what signified infinitely more, of a. virtuous and religious life ; and that if they tare- not deaf to the invitation and in- sensible to the obligation of the call, it would furnish them. with the means. .-of :winning the souls of many of their brethren to their common Saviour.

The charitable meetings included those of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, at which the Duke of Cambridge presided, and the Austrian and American Ambassadors were speakers ; the-friends of the Royal Naval School, the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children, the Church-of-England Schoolmasters' and Schoehnietresees' Mutual As- surance Society, the Female Servants' Home Society, and the Western and the Surrey Dispensaries.

The Botanic Society exhibited in. the Regent's Park, on Wednesday, a collection of flowers "unsurpassed in excellence and number" ; but the weather being unfavourable, the visiters were few.

In the Court of Queues, Bench,. on Monday, Mr. C,ockbmar applied for a rule calling on Mr. John Murray, the publisher, to show cause why a crimi- nalinformation should not issue against him for publishing in the Quarterly/ -Review an article libellously imputing to Count Pulszky an actual agency in the crime of the murder of Count Latour during the insurrection of Vienna in 1848, and a subsequent participation in the act of distributing the price of blood. The article was alleged to refer generally to Hungarian refugees now in London ; and affidavits were made that Count Pulszky was specifi- cally indicated by the distinctive reference to "persons not only received into the chief houses of our gentry, but into the drawingrooma of our Minis- ters, and from time to time blazoned in the morning papers as honoured_ guests at their country-houses." Count Pulszky is the only Hungarian who was received into the drawingroma of the Marquis of Lansdowne, and a. visitor to the Marquis at his country-scat- Mr. Baikes Currie, and a writer eif leading articles in the Globe newspaper, made affidavits of their belief that Count Pulszky was the person meant ; and the Marquis of Lansdowne was ready to make a similar affidavit. Count Pulazky swore that he left. Vienna with his family, for Hungary, two hours before the occurrence of the -events in Vienna in which he is said to have shared; and. he swore that all the statements regarding him were wholly untrue. The Court thought the sifidavits were scarcely sufficient to establish that Count Pulazky was the person pointed at : there, was not, indeed, the smallest doubt that he is an. 'innocent and honourable man ; and probably his object had been fully an- swered by the affidavit he had made.

In the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, Chief Justice Wilde atated that the Court must delay till next term its judgment on Sir Fitzroy Kelly's application on behalf of the Bishop of Exeter for a prohibition to the Court of Arches against carrying out the sentence in the Gorham appeal case. The ("curt of Queen's Bench in its judgment stated a practice founded on "se- veral cases," "but the names of two cases only had been referred to." Such a practice is not wholly immaterial, and the Court of Common Pleas deems it material to obtain further information on the practice. The in- terval is short, and in the mean time, no doubt, the proceedings in. the Ec.. cleliastical Court will not lead to embarrassments to either party.

Vice-ChancellorKniight Bruce heard on Tuesday and Wednesday the argu- ments in the case of Thomas rersaa It ibarte, for and against the petition of Mr. F. P. Ripley to have a guardian appoilted by the Court over the person. of George Nottidge Thomas, an infant four years old, the son of George Ro- binson Thomas, one of the brethren of the Agapemone, near Bridgewater ; And also to prevent Mr. Thomas's seeking, by habeascorpus writ to recover the custody of his child. It will be recollected that Mr. Thomas was a gentleman who reached deacon's orders in the Established Church, but then became a follower of Mr. Henry James Prince, another clergyman of the Established Church, who founded the sect of the Lampeter Brethren ; and that he was one of three of Mr. Prince's disciples who married three other disciples, young spinsters of fortune named Nottidge, and so brought them and their substance into the society of the Agapemone. After living some time in the Agapemone, Mrs. Thomas became dissatisfied with its

doctrine and rule of life, and attempted by persuasions to withdraw her lumband and sisters from it ; but Mr. Prince's ascendancy, or the as- cendancy of his principles, was too great ; and at last, in the year 1846, Mnr. Thomas was expelled the society, and put away by her own husband, though then about to give birth to a ehild. She went to her husband's mother in Wales, and was there confined of assn; her mether-in-htwandsister-in-law treating her withgreat kindness : afterwards she returned to the residence of her own mother at Rosehill, near Wixoe in Sutiblk, and she has remained there since. Mr. Thomas has written a letter to her, renouncing her for ever, and en- closingairauthorityto receive the dividends-of herfortune, which was not settled on her at her marriage, and therefore became legally his property. The child is now four years old, and its grandmother has made provision for its education and ultimate fortune. On behalf of Mr. Ripley, who applies as the relative and "next friend" of the infant, affidavits were made setting forth the peculiar tenets and life of the Lampeter Brethren, and imputing to Mr. Thomas as one of them a moral unfitness to have the custody and education of the infant The application was resisted by Mr. Thomas in person ; whew read long counter-affidavits, and spoke in defence of his right to the custody of his own child. Mr. Thomas is said to have been very eloquent and per- fectly self-possessed : he denied with solemn earnestness the allegation that Mr. Prince or the other brethren treat the Scriptures with derision—they re- gard them as the holy work of the living tied ; he repudiated with the greatest horror the assertion that Mr. Prince is regarded by the brethren as a divine character ; and defied the whole universe to bring forward any charge against the Agapemone of immoral conduct among its members. "Our life is a holy life, a life of truth and purity ; and the Agapemone is a work of holy and religious." " It has been reviled, slandered, and maliciously spoken. of; but it is a work of God, and all will come to own_ and acknowledge that `it is the Lord's doing, and marvellous in our eyes.' Upon these grounds it is asserted, that for holding these opinions, for maintaining these truths, for living this life, I am an unfit person to have the care and guardianship of this infant. I leave the responsibility of judgment to this honourable Court."

The Vice-Chancellor reserved his judgment.

The case of the Queen versus Willmer and Smith, in the Queen's Bench, was an application by the Electric Telegraph Company for a criminal infor- mation against the defendants, for publishing in the Morning Jlerald, in 0e tober last, a letter libellously charging them with blunders and delays. the most monstrous and unpardonable and wilful impediments and tae vouritiam the most glaring, in the Wanamission of telegraphic news ; and with using the news for their own purposes as news-agents, con- trary to the law. The defendants showed cause against the application on Monday, and Sir Frederick Thesiger read a. number of affidavit& supporting- the charges by specific instances. The defendants contend, that by the 44th section of the 7th and 8th. Victoria, the Electric Telegraph Company is precluded from using on their own account the intelligence it. transmits ; and argued that the greatest public wrong might result from giving such a formidable power to the company as the exclusive control of the sources of intelligence. Communications by the Post-office are secret, but these by the telegraph are neceseurily.opeu to the servants of the come pan , and are discoverable even if sent in cipher. Yet the company have gradually assumed all the functions of regular news-agents: they supply early intelligence to the Times and other papers in London, and to news- rooms at Liverpool, Manchester, and other provincial centres, for a. regular yearly rent. The case technically rested more on the question whether the charges were personal imputations against the directors of the Telegraph Company, Messrs. Ricardo and others, of having used their powers forStockr Exchange purposes, than on the question of public right ; on which, lisweves, the Court expressed an obvious leaning to the defendants' reading of the lima The Court refused to make the rule absolute ; abstaining from any statement -: of reasons, as a civil action is pending between the same parties.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, an application was made in the case of Nolan versus. Moulding, to enter a verdict for the defendant as in case . of a nonsuit. The action brought by the Reverend. Mr. Nolan. of Manchester. against Pettigrew will be recollected, and its result. This was a second action. against a second person, involving the same charges and matter of defence., When the unffivourable verdict .in the first case was given, Mr. Nolan's( , counsel withdrew the record in the second case, —a proceeding which leaven him at liberty still to go on with the matter hereafter. The defendant wig urged that that step was a substantial yielding of his case and asked to have a verdict entered for him as if it had.been triectand the pliiintiffbeen.formalls nonsuited. Mr- Nolan's counsel urged that the case was only withdrawn on. aecount of the unfair excitement prevailing, on the subsidence of which ha may still proceed. and obtain a d i &rent result. Baron Alderson on. consulting Baron Rolfe, who tried the first case, found that he was rfectly satisfied

r:= with the first verdict, and considers there was no excuse r not p . with the present case. The present defendant's demand. was therefore by Baron Alderson, and he is to have a formal verdict entered in his vour..

At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday. Mr. Gourley, stated, to best physician, was tried for perjury. The prosecutor was Mr. George Jones, a. ppaerrssoon of some notoriety. Mr. Jones proceeded against Mr. Gourley in the y Court on a claim for 201. ; in the course of the trial, Mr. Gourds swore that certain documents had not been given by him to Jones, but been purloined_ This was the alleged perjury. Jones now stated that the accused had retained him to write some letters respecting a. misunderstand- , ing about a patient of Gourley's, the physician giving him the documents as a guide and warrant for his interference. Jones charged Gourley 401. for his services ; proceeded against him for 201. ; and got a verdict for 40s., or hem_ shillings each for four letters. Mr. Jones was cross-examined about his pri- vate affairs--his having a wife and family in America, his repeated insole vencies, and so on. He had assisted in raising a subscription to buy Shak- spere's house-70/. or 80/. ; he had not appropriated the money to his own use ; it had all' gone in advertisements and expenses. He had been made a Count by an Italian nobleman to whom he had presented an historical work; that Count had given him a diploma of nobility. As Mr. Jones had no-cor- roboratory evidence of Mr. Gourlay's having presented him with the docu- ments disputed, the Recorder held that an acquittal must be taken : there. was merely the oath of Mr. Jones against Mr. Gourley's, and nothing- could be decided in such a case. Verdict, "Not guilty" ; the Foreman ridding, that "the words uttered by Mr. Gourley were spoken in the height of passion."

The Judges were occued the whole of Wednesday in hearing arguments

in the ease of Laurie, Gordon, and Fad the men accused of forging a Russian bank-note. When placed in the k some time back, they de- murred to the indictment. This demurrer was now argued. The Judges in- timated that they considered some of' the counts would stead: the only question now was, should judgment be pronounced at once on the demurrer or should the men be allowed a trial ? The counsel then handled this point. The Court postponed judgment. On Thursday, the Judges gave this decision. The demurrer was over- ruled. The question of .judgment following without trial was an unusual one, and a similar case had not occurred for twenty years ; but upon fall consideration the Court held that judgment must follow : the accused had rested their defence on technicalities instead of facts, and must bear the con- sequence. They were severally sentenced to be transported for ten years.

Toecheck, a man convicted during a former Sessions of uttering forged papers at the Trinity House, with intent to obtain a certificate that he was qualified to be master of a vessel, was sentenced to six months' imprison- ment.

Alexander Moir was indicted for the murder of his wife. This was the shocking case which occurred near Drury Lane Theatre, the particulars of which have been already recorded. The evidence of the habitual brutality of Moir towards his wife was similar to that given at the inquest and before the Magistrate, but stronger. It was also proved that he had threatened to murder the woman ; he repeatedly said he would not murder her" outright," but would "kill her by inches,' so that the law should not be able to touch him---he would "cheat the Devil and the Government." Moir accused his wife of being a drunkard - she seems to have been somewhat addicted to drink, though the surgeon stated that the appearance of the viscera contradicted the assertion of habitual drunkenness. For the defence, Mr. Ballantine could merely strive for a verdict of manslaughter in place of one of murder. The Judge pointed out that the matter turned on the intention of the accused : did he ill-use his wife merely from cruelty, or with the express view of kill- ing her ? The Jury found a verdict of manslaughter, adding that the crime was of a most aggravated character. The Judge concurred; it was as near as possible to murder. Sentence, transportation for life.

Isaac Bowers, the Black who was imprisoned at Charleston, having ap- plied at the General Register Office for Seamen for a register-ticket, was re- fused. He complained to the Thames Police Magistrate; and a clerk at- tended on Wednesday to explain the matter. It had been found that Bow- ers, though he represented himself as a native of Antigua, was really a native of Boston in the United States : this was proved by some of his papers, while his own statements were contradictory ; so his ticket as a British sea- man was refused. The Magistrate expressed himself satisfied with the ex- planation.

At Marylebone Police Office, last week, Charles Jopling was charged with having attempted to administer chloroform to Mary Ann Elton, with intent to commit a criminal assault. Jopling had been courting the girl. The evidence was strong, and the accused was held to bail. On Tuesday last, the parties appeared again before the Magistrate, but this time as man and wife—they had been married by licence that very morning. A solicitor attended on the part of her friends, to urge that a conspiracy had been formed to entrap the girl into thee ; but he did not adduce any evidence. Mrs. Jopling declared repeatedly that she had acted quite voluntarily ; that she believed her husband would treat her well, and that they should be happy together. The solicitor for the prisoner claimed his discharge ; the woman no longer made an accusation against him, and indeed she could not give evidence against her husband. The Magistrate took time to consider, holding Jopling to bail for another week.

Mrs. Lucy Fox, the wife of a tradesman, was charged at Southwark Police Court with stealing five pieces of silk from the counter of Messrs. Olney, mercers in High Street, Southwark. A shopman saw her put the pieces of silk under her shawl, while the person serving her was getting change for a i

sovereign which she had given in payment for a small purchase : taxed with having something about her which did not belong to her, she denied the fact ; but presently drew forth three pieces of silk; • and afterwards two more pieces were taken from her. In her defence, Mr. inns urged that she had no intention of stealing : she had plenty of money to pay, being the wifo of a veg. respectable tradesman. Combs committed her for trial, but tOok baiL Mrs. Julia Gottheimer, and her daughter Miss Lavine Gottheimer, German ladies, were charged, at Clerkenwell Police Court, with stealing a bottle of perfume in the shop of Mr. John Hodges, Southampton Row. The ladies were examining articles, when Mark Johnson shopman, " fancied Miss Lavine Gottheimer had concealed in her pocket a bottle of perfume," ' and " accused her of having stolen something." The ladies were very indignant, and insisted on being searched on the spot ; and this being done by a female in the presence of a Police constable, nothing belonging to Mr. Hodges was found on them. Mr. Hodges now " requested permission to withdraw the charge, as he was satisfied there had been a sad mistake on thepart of his servant . he had known the defendants and their connexion for four or five years, and was " convinced they meant no wrong." During the last week or ten days considerable property had been purloined from his premises, and he had given instructions to his servants to be on the look-out ; and the movement of the younger prisoners in probably taking out her handkerchief from her pocket, or replacing it, might have been a ground of suspicion. He would honestly and candidly admit their innocence. Mr. Tyrwhitt admitted that such an am le avowal did him much credit. The elder prisoner complained

of being with her daughter, to the stationhouse, and there stripped and after having undergone painful and degrading ordeal at the prosecutor's. Prosecutor—" Had I been at home, it would not have hap- pened ; and this remark I will now make without any qualification : I am convinced of their innocence." Mr. Sidney feared, from the instructions he had received, that the matter would not end in that court. Mr. Tyrwhitt hoped it would ; for he must say that the prosecutor had behaved most hand- somely, and made, in words at least, every reparation in his power. The ladies, who were deeply affected, were then discharged.

At Lambeth Police Office, on Wednesday, two women, Leonard and Connor, were charged with robbing Mr. John Bass, in Clapham Park. At nine o'clock at night the women stopped Mr. Bass ; a man sprang upon him, felled him with a blow from a bludgeon, passed a wet cloth over his mouth, and then the women robbed him. Mr. Bass's cries brought a policeman to the spot, and the women were captured ; but the man got away.—Committed.

The inquest on Sarah Snelling, who was found dead in Mr. Maddle's house at Clapham, was resumed on Monday. The evidence was quite unsatis- factory. The surgeon had been able to detect no poison in the stomach by analysis, nor chloroform; and he was unable to account for death. She bey analysis, have died from fright. Mr. Meddle was proved to have left his house a little before eleven, when the deceased locked the gate after him. A youth saw an elderly man leave the house during the morning.. A labourer noticed a man under the garden-wall, as if ho had just got down from it ; there was a whistle, presently a second man joined the first, and the two went towards Battersea Fields. One had a bundle, the other a blue bag. The Jury consulted for an hour, and then returned this verdict-

" That the said Sarah Snelling was found dead under very mysterious circumstan- ces ; that there were no marks of violence or discolouration on the body, nor any trace of poison ; that the body had been opened and examined by a properly qualified me- dical man, together with an analysis of the contents of the stomach and bowels, but that there was no conclusive evidence to the Jury as to the cause of deceased's death."