The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-25 00:00:00

hank. Tho engineman escaped, though much scalded in the fue, and injured in the head. Several of the workmen were also seriously injured by the flying bricks, but are all expected to recover. An inquest was held on the bodies. ♦erdict, "Accidental death." Tae IturnXSrKTATIOV or KlNDlL.—Within the last few days a letter has been received by Mr. R. Wilson, from Mr. Werburtin, the member for Kendal. announcing his Intention to resign his trust at the dissolution of the present parliament, and retire altogether from public life. Mr. Warburton, we ( IV-stmorelartri Gorelee) understand, gives, as a reason for this step, his growing disinclination for the turmoil of polities, and the labour of par'iamentary business, stating that, as he has now attained his 83rd year, he feels it due to bis o era health and comfort to free himself from legis lative reeponsibilities. Mr. Warburton says, also, that he has received aii offer from the liberals of Westminster, to return him at a trifling expense for thAt large constituency, but that he has declined the offer. He also expresses his respect and attachment fur hie friends in Kendal. DURHAM. THR MILSONR . STRIKE AT SUNDERLAND.—This strike terminated on K. mday last, in consequence of the masters ■►ving acceded to the full demands of the journeymen, via., twenty.seren alkaline' a week waces, and to be allowed to leave work nt four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, instead of five o'clock. "'"'""" RETORTED CONFESSION o r ri VllB, THE MURDERER.— The Derby Afero , y of yesterday rap, " During Monday it was currently reported that Platte , who was on Saturday last convicted of the murder of Collie. at Chesterfield, had unreservedly confessed to having been • direct party in that trig. dy. 1 t will be recollected that there were three in divi;'.uvE, concerned in it; Platte, Morley, and a person at prevent unknown ; and that Morley died 'before the body •f Collis was discovered, and, of course, before Platte was taken into custody; no clue having yet been oitained as to the name of the third man. We are informed that in the presence of several magistrates, Platte made • statement which, although of a very rambling description, left oa their minds no dual): whatever of his guilt. It most be very satisfactory to the t) know that the verdict of the jury has been th : admitted to be just. Platte conduct during his trial altos an almost entire in sensibility to the position in which I c was placed; and we understand that since then his behay.aur has not materially improved. It is stated that the exe:ution is fixed to take place on Thursday, April 1." A STEAM INCENDIANT.—An extraordinary conflagration was seen, on Saturday, in • field which adjoin* the Midland railway, near Bank Clem. The field had yielded • large crap of aftermath, which had never been eaten, and woe conse quently full of dried grass. A strung west wind was blow ing when the express train swept by, and bore into the field some sparks from the engine; them ignited the grass immediately, and the tiro spread with a swiftness which ter rified the beholders. The hedge* soon caught the flames, and burnt furiously, and the residence of W. Drabble, Pam., as well as • large haystack in the next field, were considered to be in danger. The tire destroyed all the verdure, and left the hedges in a blackened state. Great exert Mas were made before it was put out. WARI the late public meeting at Brentwood had an interview with the Attorney-General upon the subject of the retool. A long and interesting conference relative to the charities took place. It is lasted that the learned gentleman gave the committee the assurance that, if the patron and master do Dot consent to a reasonable and benefic ia l scheme for the re gulation of these charities by Easter Monday next, he, no Attorney-General, will at once proceed to tile a fresh infor mation, including that which was regarded by thew' who took part in the matter as a fatal omission in the former information—a prayer for the appointment of a receiver of the revenues of the charities. Tbi. intention Am been dis inctiv snit definitively notified to the moron and master. and the committee appear sanguine as to its efficacy in pro ducing a satisfactory settlement. ANOTHEIL FIDE took place at Felstend on Friday, which it soprars was the work of an incendiary. The produce of 30 a ree of wheat, a barn, cart-shed, wan. e, and various farm ing implements were destroyed. When Mr. Brown, the occu pier, came to the spot, he found that a tub, which wow standing in the cart-shed, had been removed into the b -,rn, and contained a quantity of tar grease, added to which some straw had been placed round it, so that all endeavours to extinguish the blue were utterly iueffectual. The dwelling-house twice eintaht fire, but was saved by a plentis ful supply of water. The estimated damage is 1000!. COM:HEATED FOOTPATH AKBOCIATION.—This Inca society for the preservation of public footpaths continues in active operation. By prompt massures, and the outlay of a small sum of money raised amongst its members, it has succeeded in rescuing several footpaths which had been unceremo niously appropriated by owners of property in the neigh bourhood. TILE CHANNEL ISLANDS. JERsEY.—The Constitutionssel says:—" We learn that her Majesty's government have before them a plan for the construction of a naval part at Rowley-bay, which was pre. pared by Mr. Walker during his recent stay in this island. Two main nava., it is said, have induced the government to alter the site of the port: first, the exorbitant price de manded by the owner% of the ground required for the ap• prosehes to the harbour and the fortifications necessary for its defence, which would carry the cost of the works to a sum out of all proportion to the advantages to be derived from establishing the port at St. Catherine's; whilst, if it were constructed at Bouley, where the coast forms part of the common of the fief of Diaament, the seigneur and the tenantry would relinquish their rights without re compense, being amply indemnified by the consequent sup mentsti in of the value of all their properties situated in the fief ; next, the sole reason for which the preference had been accorded to St. Catherine's bay being the difference in the relative expense of making the harbour, if this, difference be counterbalanced by the enormous sums necessary for dis bursement in the purchase of the ground, the advan'oge rests with Bouley, where the port would be on a grander scale, acd, from the greater depth of water there, accessible to the lamest vessels of the Royal Navy, and where the ex penses of fortifying would be much less considerable ; nature having already done more in this way for Bouley than art could do for St. Catherine's." News FOR HOLIDAY•MAILERIL—There is a rumour 'Boas that the steam packet companies Intend reducing the fare to and from Jersey and Southampton. and that during the I summer months the prices will be 10s. tor the main cabin and se. the fore cabin. The Guernsey Star says the prices will be iris 10s., and 55., thus making the expense of peri gee from 1:ondon amount to li,. 6d., by the cheapest mode of travelling. AN lIXTRNIIITO PI;; .. OOC —.— UItRID AT HITNNINOBIIRY near Leamington, on Haturday evening. It broke out on some premises occupied by a baker, and although there was an almadstit supply of water, nearly fifteen houses were totally destroyed, whilst several others sustained consider able damage. Fortunately no lives were lost. • OF • FELON'S REAL ESTATES TO THE Crowe.—ln the month of January, 184.5, Thomas Brough, of Sidduldi, in this county, was murdered by his brother John, who struck him on the head with a hammer, and afterwards put him in a sack, and carried him upwards of • mile and • half and threw him down an old atone quarry, where be was found by some boys. At the spring assizes following, the murderer was tried and convicted, and alter wards eimerted, having confessed the crime, and acknow ledged the justness of his sentence. Thomu Brough, at the time he was murdered, was wised in fee of an estate at Biddulph, which, in consequence of his brother (the mur derer) being his heir-at-law, desei ads I to him, but by his attainder the same became vested in the crown by escheat. In consequence of the escheat the widow of the murdered marl was left destitute. The circumstances having been represented to the Lords of the Treasury by the widow, their lordships directed that a commission should be issued to find her Majesty's title to the estate, which was accord ingly issued, and bore date the 24th day of Feb. last. di recting Messrs. U. Corbet, J. !si'Mahon, and R. P. Tyr whitt, and two other commissioners, or any three of them, to inquire of what lands and tenements John Brough, the murderer, died seised. The three commissioners above named entered on the inquiry on the 20th instant, at Staf ford, when, atter the jury were sworn, and charged with the nature of the inquiry, Mr. H. B. Raven, from the office of the solicitor to the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury, examined the following witnesses : Mr. Charles Hodges, of Burdens, in the Staffordshire Potteries, proved the execution of the conveyance of the estate to Thomas Brough. Mary Drones, the mother of Thomas Brough, proved her marriage; that Thomas was her eldest, and John her second son, and consequently the heir-at-law of her son Timms. Hannah Brough, the widow of Thomas Brough, proved her marriage, of which there was not any issue ; that her husband at the time of his decease was seised of the lands And tenements is question ; that several years before her husband was murdered he made his will, which he gave into her care; that she locked it up in a dresser drawer, front whence she took it after his decease, and banded it to her solicitor, Mr. Redfern, of Leek. Mr. Abra ham Kershsw Kilmister, an attorney at Leek, proved the execution of the will, which being read, it appeared he gave and devised all his real and personal estate to his wife • but at that time Tie was not possessed of the estate in question, consequently the game did not pus by such (levies. Mr. Thomas Redfern, a solicitor at Leek, produced certifi cates of the marriage of the father and mother of Thomas and John Brough, of their baptisms, and the marriage of Thomas Brevet with his present widow. Mr. William Stonier, of Bssidulph, proved the value of the estate. Whereupon the jury found that the raid John Brough, im mediately on the committal of the murder, was seised to him and his heirs of the estate in question. and that the same were holden by the said John Brough of her Majesty in free and common aocage, in right of her regal crown, 'but not subject to any services or rent in respect thereof, except fealty ; and that by reason of the premises the same had de volved auto her Majesty as an escheat, by virtue of her prem. gative royal. By the finding of this verdict, the estate be t:onus the property of the crown and the same is accordingly seised. Tne widow of the mu rdered man has petitioned the crown to grant the lands to her, which, it is supposed, the Lords of her Majesty's treasnry will recommend to be done, subject to the same being liable to the payment of her late husiband's debts, if any are owing.—Times. •141.14.rraaLLZIon. DIN Pares or L Arru. —A piece of freehold garden land, situated in Broad-street, Ely, containing one acre twenty four perches (with a road set out 500 feet long by 22 feet wide, retained by the venders), was sold, in Al lota, by pub lic auction, on Thursday se'nnight, and realised no lees a 1 sum than ,1584 NORFOLK. Doris AT Lrtsw.—The Admiralty has consented to give its assent to the construction of docks at this port, as pro posed by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, on condi tion that the company undertake to divert and alter the mouth of the Na, on a plan approved by the Admiralty, and • clause be introduced subjecting the company's jurisdiction over the rivers in the neighbourhood of the dock to the con trol of the Admiralty. A 1111COISIT1ON to M;7l3reasll;7 , ; comae of signature in this county, calling upon him to come forward at the neat election. -----.........,.... Tug BIRKILIT Taoo p ßristol Times states that after several ineffectual attempts to induce his Gram the Duke of Beaufort to appoint another captain in the place of Grantley Berkeley, the members of this troophave been absolved from their military allegiance by Earl Fitz herding.. 0 tottozer RR tuts become involved in litigation; and, whe tter the eau At be won by the charity trustees, who are the plaintifil, or by the corporation, who are the defendants,; the citimen must be mulcted in the damage. The charity trus tees having discovered that in 1845 a sum of 2,3001. had been diverted from the object for which it had been given by Sir Thomu Bich to the purposes of the corporation, commenced a Chancery emit for its recovery; and the corporation, being convinced that they are defendants, hive agreed to refa=, on condition that the charity trustees would abate the inte rest. The Attorney-General, however, as the curator of the public charities, demurs to the propriety of this arrangement of an irregularity or mal-administration, whichever it may he ; and, in consequence, the corporation will have to pay 32 years' interest, which will swell the principal by several thousands. The charity trustees have also commenced a suit for the recovery of some ten or twelve thousand pounds which they allege the corporation have abstracted from Dame Joan Cooke's bequest; and the suit is jut now in the Court of Chancery. MISSEC. Ho BANAU ELTC77oX.—Daring the put week the electors of this town received en address from .R. S. Fitzgerald, Esq., of Holbrook, stating his intention to offer himself, at the comic" election, as a candidate for the representation of the bovoutth. Strong symptoms of opposition have been manifested, by the circulation of hand-bills, and a strong contest is anticipated. Toll MANAOIHMICT OP SHENTW 000 SHADW/ SCHOOL has meanly given rise to hash angry discussion ia this scanty. 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Se he See leer ineigh, nee_ lime le .t. lse retalhil. seek an ono* Ise llie lea ans, hes these Impe sepia heti& eillengere mg physis, he W Ina ill wooly _Oen set of he leer omen by ordsrtag he gad& mph le Mon le heir MUHL Thk strew stateseang 1, k he rasimbired, entirely Mph*. - Oa Friday hid, the sighs essamies appointed at THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1847. LITERATURE. New Brunneiel.; wish !Cower Emigrants. By Anasasx 0 ESNlitt, Surgeon. New Brunswick was 'separated from Nova Scotia, and made a distinct government, in 1784. The ter ritory had been subject to Great Britain since 1760. At the time it was acquired by this country, the population consisted of straggling Indian tribes, who led an unsettled life along the valleys of the great rivers ; of French settlers, thinly scattered along the shores of the St. Lawrence and the innermost recess of the Bay of Fundy; and half-breeds. The first attempt at an English settlement on the St. John was made in 1760; but it was not till 1766 that a number of families from Massachumetts obtained the grant of a township on that river, and settled in what is now the county of Sunbury. A short time after the taking of Quebec, a Mr. AS siker, from Scot land, formed a settlement at Bathurst harbour in Bay Chaleurs. In 1764 Mr. Davidson, also a Scotchman, established himself at Miramichi, where he was after wards joined by Mr. Cart, from Aberdeen. The St. John's settlement was reinforced at various times during the American war of independence by emi grant loyalists from New England. After the recog nition of the United States by Great Britain, several thousands of disbanded troops were removed from New England to New Brunswick; considerable num bers of loyalist refugees accompanied or followed them. These were the elements of the population— in number about 11,500—0 f that colony at the time it was erected into a province. In 1840, the population was found, by census, to have increased to 156,162; in 1815 it was, by estimate, 192,867. This increase has been owing in part to emigration. Of late years, on an average 6,000 emigrants have arrived in the province annually, of whom, however, about 2,500 med to the United States. Irish constitute the larg est portion of this body. The Scotch come next. he preponderating ingredient in the society of the province, however, still continues to be the descendants of the old settlers. The families of the first American settlers and loyal ists are chiefly to be found on the banks of the St. John, in the counties of St. John, King's, Queen's, Sunbury, York and Carlton, which are crossed in suc cession in ascending that river; in the county of Charlotte, which occupies the triangle in closed between those counties, the St. Croix and the shores of the Bay of Fundy; and in those parts of Westmoreland (extending along the shores of the Bay to the eastward and reaching the St. Lawrence) immediately adjoining St. John's. The descendants of the Acadian French occupy villages bordering upon the great marshes of N 1 estmoreland (at its N.E. corner), and scattered settlements along the whole northern coast from Bay Verte to the Resti gouche; they also occupy the banks of the Upper St. John at Madawesca. The Indians have village% at some sixteen different points in the colony, where re serves of land have been set apart for them. The Irish immigrants are to be found in the new and remote clearings of every part of the country. The Scotch abound most in those . parts where settlement is more advanced; with this limitation, they are also pretty übiquitous, but their strongholds are along the north shore, at Miramichi, and on either side of it. The preponderance of the descendants of the American loyalists accounts for a circumstance generally remarked that the customs and manners of New Brunswick are more similar to those of the United States than to those of any other British province. A disposition still lingers in secluded districts to regard the country as the e ' j inheritance of the loyalists, but it is disap- peering before the influence of immigration. The immigrants, however, generally conform to the social tone of their new habitation—with the exception of an occasional Irishman too much elated with com petence and independence to be able to keep down a joyous swagger. The descendants of the French Aeadians cling to the manners of their forefathers. Except in St. John's, with its 26,000 inhabitants, and in Fredericton, with its military and civil employes, and their imitators among the bourgeoisie, the popu lation is decidedly rural—rural in its occupations and amusements. Education is generally diffused, but manners are primitive, and little of a go-a-bead spirit prevails. Slight outbreaks there are, it cannot be de nied, of jealousy towards their provincial neighbours and visitors, but there is a large fund of general kindliness and good-will. It is alleged that the inha bitants of the northern coasts are a shade lees hospitable and courteous than those of the south, and that the people of Charlotte are most civil to strangers. - The 192,867 inhabitants of New Brunswick occupy a territory of 18,500,000 acres. The population does not amount to one-tenth of that of London. The valley of the St. John alone contains more, and more natu rally, fertile, land than the valley of the Thames. Its cultivators have great and increasing markets for their agricultural produce, of easy access. By sea, they are within short distance of the manufacturing districts of the United States. Since the Ashburton treaty, the United States territory on the Upper St. John has been rapidly filling up; and, at present, difficulty is experienced in collecting adequate sup plies of food for the lumberers, and the tr ad esmen to when they give employment. The climate of New Brunswick is sufficiently favourable to agricultural enterprise. It differs little from the climate which prevails in Maine, Lower Canada, and part of Michigan. Except on the shores of the Bay of Fundy, where thick fogs prevail during mummer, wheat comes to perfect maturity and good quality. Even the fog-lands, especially the Westmoreland marshes, are admirably adapted for the growth of vegetables, and dairy farming. The dairy produce finds ready markets at St. John's, in the mining districts of Neva Scotia, and in the New England states. The analogy between the marsh region and the fertile districts of West Friesland is striking. Up the valley of the St. John, and along its numerous tributaries, all the cereals thrive. Thinly though the province is peopled, the progress of clearing has already ameliorated the climate When the Loyalists landed in 1783, snow was lying on the coast in June : such a phenomenon has not been witnessed of late years, with the exceptional case of 1816. Even on the shores of the Bay of Fundy, pulmonary consumption—moat to be dreaded in such a climate—is not more frequent than at New York ; while intermittent fever, tho scourge of the backwoods, is unknown in the province. Here, then, is a province still all but unoccupied— in nowise differing, so far as amenity of climate and fertility are concerned, from territories where the An glo- Sax^n race have founded prosperous states—belong ing to Great Britain, and within a fortniAlit's voyage l of our shores. In it the small capitals which can not find profitable investment, and the labourers who cannot find remunerative employment, in the mother I country, may find both awaiting their acceptance. Almost the only unaccustomed difficulty that the British agriculturist has to encounter in transplanting himself to New Brunswick, is the flooding of the country when the ice breaks up. The most fertile soils are the " intervales," or alluvial bottoms. These, when "ice-jams" obstruct the rivers, are overflowed, and the inhabitants obliged to betake themselves to the higher grounds, or to small eminences islanded in the flood. But the danger and inconvenience are not greater than are experienced at the breaking up of the ice by the inhabitants of the valley of the Rhine, or any other great river of middle and northern con tinental Europe. When the occurrence is known and anticipated, provision is made to meet it, and the fer tility which the overflowing rivers deposit, like the Nile, is an ample compensation. One disadvantage with which the new settler will have for a time to struggle is the result of human mis management. Out of 16,500,000 acres, according to Dr. Cleaner, 6,000,000 have been granted, 10,500,000 remain ungranted ; and of these, 9,000,000 are fit for cultivation. But he nowhere informs us what pro- , portion of the granted lands remains unreclaimed. Yet this is an essential question. "The Harvey settlement," eays Dr. Gesner, in his special notice of the county of York, " borders upon a fine tract of hard woodland of good quality; but it is owned by absentees and rich land proprietors, who will, doubt less, let it remain in its present state until its value is increased fourfold by the roads and surrounding clearings of the poor backwoodsmen." These " dogs in the manger," who have obtained large grants of land, which they allow to lie waste until the clearing of the surrounding district gives them a value, are the bane of a colony. They obstruct the opening of roads, the facility of communication, and the natural progress of settlement. Land regulations, to prevent individuals from acquiring property in lands they do not intend to use immediately, are requisite for the future; and, to ameliorate the evil already done, a swingeing tax on waste lands the property of private persons, is probably the best lenitive. We are anxious to call attention to this part of the British territory so near at hand, offering such an asylum for our enterprising surplus population. In the work of Dr. Gesner they will find, not perhaps the best possible account of the country and its capa bilities, but the best that has been published. The doctor, too, has seen and closely examined much of the country in person, and has had access to the most authentic sources of information. In stating this, we reply to a number of letters which have flowed in upon us since the publication of the communication relating to New Brunswick, received by last mail, which appeared in the Express of the 18th inst. ff2u . Tne NittstcAL UNION. Our musical readers are aware that this is an association consisting of a large number of distinguished amateurs for the performance of the highest class of instrumental chamber music. Prince Albert is the patronof the society . ; the Duke of Cambridge and the Earl of Westmoreland are its president and vice-president; and its affairs are managed by a committee, of which the Earl of Falmouth is chairman. The musical arrangements are directed by Mr. Ella. At its meetings, the quartets and quintets of the great master, are performed by the most able Instrumentalists, without any admixture of vocal music. The first meeting of this season (the third) took place on Tues day afternoon, in Willis's Rooms, when three master-pieces in their several styles were performed: Haydn's quartet in C, N 0.32; Hummel's pianoforte quintet in E flat, op. 87; and Spohr's third double quartet. The performer* were violins, Messrs. Sainton, Deloffre, Ooffrie, and Thirlwall ; violas, Messrs. Hill and H. Blagrove; violoncello, Sig. Pi itti ; contra-basso, Mr. Howell ; and pianoforte, Mr. Benedict. Our limited apace prevents us from making any particular re marks on the above pieces and their performance ; but we may say in general that they were exec fi ted in a highly finished style, and warmly applauded by the audience. CLERICAL APPItOPIIIATION or PrirstrCV.WoraTaw.—A question of some illl - io referenoe to the appropriation of pew by clergymen, has lately arisen in the Consiatory Court, Carlisle. The Rev. G. Bell, in cumbent of Kirklinton, was ciied by the churchwardens of th it parish "for hating taken upon himself, of his own mere authority, capri ciously and improperly to allot and appropriate the pews in the new church." The court &creed on Wednesday last. that the appropria tion was null and void, and imposed upon the defendant the cams of the suit. NAVAL Dmoseoae, Haunt 23.—PWirMel, 10, was this del Wend to be oomuissioned by Com.Wood.—Kent, 76, has been lowasli atom her moorings In Hansom alongside the deck-yard, te Yen Ws internal fittings eosepleted.—Linnet, 6, la ordered lobe Wade Onward he eonunissico, and was taken into doe* this mewling bke Atte& Woommen, Maack 24.—Bloodhound, teen st-v., has been docked at Deptford 1a consequence of there balm ie dock meant at this port. Blenheim, 56, st. guard hip, mom deiced on Sunday, and is now being prepared to kave her errew.geopiler hied.—Terrible, tw-frigate, wee taken out of the basin on fiewany eflonesseq 1n con sequence tithe spring tides falling oil. Sir is Is be bead et Wool wich with wheat and other seeds on Friday, galas in lid De m i s t d e ready for sea In a sky or two: the preimbly Len ter early in the week. la addition to her aerdesey palatal= imeek she will carry an ext. kat of that build for bowies bur inew es We coast of Ireland. North Star, 26 guns, fitted for a sunk' idp. wee towed down to the Royal Arsenal, where she Is to le seleinna.as fM Unite Hospital ship will require to be sent In lb. dockyard kr repairs. MILITARY. Aatev COINIIMIONI, —A Mum of the number of non-eoramiseloned Means appointed to commleadons in each year from the the Sat of Jan. 1336, to the Mat of Dec. 1046, shows the number to have been as follows : 14 cornets, 132 mikes, 20 adjutants with the rankof comet, 29 **Wats with the rank of ensign. and 131miarternmaten, making a total of 376. . . ANOTIPIt OOPPAXT OP Tile ROYAL APPILLPIT bas sorbed at DA from Woolwich. The will lnereme the force la that garrison ; . ci e = companies of 80 men each, instead done as heretofore. A detachment marched into Plymouth Citadel OD Monday last, where, leen the crowded state of the bursas, they are (metered in the bomb proof. under the ramparts. Two detachments of tie Royal Ar tillery have Unwire gone to Drake'. Wand, and one to Boviaand. Lient.-Col. T. Gordon Higgins is ordered to premed to Quebec, to relieve Lieut.-Col. P. W. %eller io the command of the. Royal Artillery at that station. Capt. J. W. Iltanuyer joined at bead quarters on Tueeday from Barbadoes, and sentries the command of tha 7th compy. Bth tett. Royal Artillery, which le umber ceders for CeYl°°' tats intrlltatnce. ROUSE OF LORDS. Present—The Lee Cita - 40r1W iL;tl and Lard Campbell. EURO AND OTHERS V. Score AND OTRIMUL—DEED OP 81TTLEMENT.—PROVISION POR YOUNGER CHILDHEN.— ACCRUIML—Tbie appeal from a decree of Vice-Chanoellor Knight Bruce was opened on Monday, and was further heard on Tuesday. The question was, whether a sum of 3,0001. or 7,0001. was to be raised out of certain estates com prised in a poet-nuptial settlement, dated in 1794, and made between Charles Evans, of Ifiglrve, county ot Gloucester, and Mary Caroline, his wife, w ith other penes' as trustees, By a clause in that deed, trustees of a term of 800 years, thereby created, were, after the death of the survivor of the said C. Evans and wife, to raise by sale, mortgage, or devise of said estates, 1,0001. for the portion of every daughter and daughters, younger son or sons of the said C. Evans and wife, to be paid to the sone on attaining 21, and to the daughters at that age, or marriage, Verdi ages or marri age, should happen after the death of C. Evans and wife ; and in case of the death of any son or daughter before the said events (of their age of 21, or marriage in the case of a daughter), the portion of such person so dying should sur vive and accrue to the survivors, to be divided equally among them. and to be parable with their original nortionn There were. besidea the eldest son, eight children of the said C. Evans and wife, one of whom died before the date of the deed, and four move after wards, daring the life of their parents, under the ages; of 21 and unmarried. C. Evans himself died in 1819, and his wife died in 1837. The eldest son died in 1841, leaving a eon who is one of the respondents. The three surviving children of C. Evans and ha said wife, together with the trustees of the said term, proceeded in 1842 to raise (by mortgage if the term to the respondent Stott) their own portions of 1,0001. and also 4,0001. more, the portions of the four children who died subsequent to the date of the deed. The eon and heir at law of the eldest son (who died in 1841) filed his bill for the purpose of preventing the raising of more than 3,0001., insisting that the clause before stated dace:fuer of the portions of the four deceased children never took effect. The Vice-chancellor was of that opinion, and decreed accordingly. Mr. Turner and Mr. Wigram, with whom waa Mr. Gifford, supported the appeal, contending that the clause of Kerner had come into operation. Mr. .1. Russell for the respondents supported the decree. The further hearing was at four o'clock postponed 'to Thursday. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Pefore Mr.7terjeent Adams sal a smelt of IlidatitzstalL On Tuesday the adjourned session foe March was held at fiche s-hall , Clerkenwell. ROBBINO Fussier: ZDLODOINGS.—Ann Shand Harris. • decently-attired woman,wu plated at the bar to receive judg ment, she having been convicted, lut session, of Meiling and pawning articles from ready-furnished lodgings. Consider- able sympathy for the prisoner was felt at her triad, and judgment wig respited in order that inquiries into the pri soner's character might be made—The learned judge said, frost inquiries he had made and from information he had received, he learnt that the prisoner was connected with a gang of persons who lived by plundering ready-furnished lodgings. lie had received a letter from Mr. Tracey, of the Westminster Bridewell, by which it appeared that the pri soner was a pawn of some education and respectable con nexions, but had lived for some time by practis ing the most consummate fraud and deceit--a system which she had carried on fur seven yearn. Dozens of lodging-house keepers had been plundered by ber and her gang, being deceived by her address and plausibility of manner. SW gave references to persons following the same practices, who lived in good to ighbourhoods ; and a worsecharacter, or a more determined thief, was in custody. She was well known at Boulogne, where she had played the same trick., by absconding end leaving empty trunks. The whole co,.rt had felt a sympathy for the prisoner, but this was a case which showed hew dangerous it was for us to ' allow our feelings to overcome us. Fry the first offence she was to be imprisoned six calendar months; and for the second, two calendar months, and kept to hard labour. In the course of the day several children were convicted of larceny at the instance of their parents. The learned judge' ' said the present system enabled parents, who were depraved enough, to procure the conviction of their children, and Irons that moment they were relieved of all responsibility of their support. They became " children of the state." ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, MARCH 23. There were fourteen crown cases remaining for trial this morning, though this is the commission day for Shrewsbury. Some of these, being indictments for perjury, in which the accused were out on bail, were ordered to stand over till the neat assizes. Their lordships remained all day to try the other rases. It wss said that Mr. Serjeant Talfourd or Mr. Serjeant Allen would open the commission at Shrewsbury, and that business will not commence there till Thursday, it being intended to observe to-morrow with all the strictness suitable to a day set apart for national humiliation. Omni Comm—Before Mr. Justice Mimic. MANSLAVOHTER.—B. Cooper woo indicted for the man. slaughter of F. Taylor, on February 2.3rd.—Mr.Vaughan ap. peered for the prosecution ; Mr. Meteyazd defended the prisoner.—From the evidence adduced it appeared that at four o'cleck on the morning of the day in question the de ceased woo engaged with a man named Thom is in sinking a coal-pit at Wine:than, and the prisoner was employed as " Wakeman" at the same time at the mouth of the pit. It is a part of the duty of the banksman, upon the " skip or bowke " being drawn up containing materials sent up by the men in the shaft, to cover the mouth of the pit with a waggon, and secure the same with a pin, to prevent the waggon from slip ping, and so leaving a portion of the mouth uncovered before the howke is emptied of its contents. On this day a bowls. full of bricks had been sent up by the sinkers, and on its reaching the mouth of the pit the prisoner drew the waggon across the heading, hut omitted to secure it with the pin : in consequence of this omission the waggon slipped and left part of the mouth uncovered, through which some of the bricks from the bowke, on striking against a part of the tackle, were precipitated down, and falling upon the deceased in the shaft caused his death. The horned judge summed up and told the jury if they thought that from want of due and reasonable care on the part of the prisoner the deceased came by his death, he was guilty of man slaughter. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and his lordship sentence d him to be imprisoned with hard labour for two calendar months. l'Acebe Winkle was indicted for concealing the birth other illegitimate male child on the 9th of November last. Mr. Vaughan conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was unde fended. It appeared that the prisoner was in the service of a Mrs. Davis. and that on the day in question Mrs. Davis, suspecting that she had been delivered of a child, asked her whether the fact was so. The prisoner denied it. Her mistress thereupon insisted upon going up stairs to her room and examining her box, and therein found a new-born child, quite dead. A surgeon, who made a past-Herten examina tion, said that the child had never breathed. The prisoner, on being now called on for her defence, merely charged her mistress with assisting in the concealment. She was found guilty, and his lerdship, in parsing sentence, said the greatest aggravation of her offence was her telling such a wanton lie of her mistress • hut ax she had been already imprisoned so long, he would direct her to be imprisoned ter only ten days more. - _ Before Mr. Serjeant Caselee. Edward Nightingale was indicted for forgery under the following circumstances: The prisoner was a pan -h constable, at Wedneebury, and came with a number of witnesses from that neighbourhood to the last assizes in *his town, to prose. cute a man of the name of Joseph Bate fur manslaughter. After the trial he got an order in the usual form from the deputy-clerk of assize on the county treasurer for the pay meat of the witnesses' expenses. The order directed the pay ment of 171. Gd. each to (amongst others, two persons named Daniel Harper and Samuel Egginton. It is the usage for the treasurer to pay the order on having it presented to him with the name of the payees signed on the back of it, with the sum due to them opposite their names, as " Daniel Harper, 17s. Gd. ; Samuel Egginton, 17s. Gd." The pri soner forged the above names and sums on the back of the order, presented it, and got the money, and gave the par ties only 14s. each, telling them thd that was all they were allowed. On their discovering the real circumstances, a prosecution was instituted against him, and he was now put to the bar to answer—first, to an indictment charging i him with having forged Daniel Huper's name, with suteell to defraud that person.—Mr. Kettle prosecuted, and Mr. Iluddlestone defended the prisoner.—lt was proved that it was the custom in the office of the county tummy to Ipay the money to the person bringing the order, en seeing the names of the parties written opposite the sums directed to be paid to them. If the constables did net bring the order with the names on, it would not he psi& Harper proved that he had not written hie name on the order, or any one to do so. The prisoner gave him only 14s. altogether, but did not say anything as to how much wea l due to him. After paying that sum, be desired the prosecutor to meet him at the railway station in order to get a ticket home, but did not say who was to pay for it. The charge for it would be 2s. Mr. Huddlesume objected that the ' document in question wan not a receipt or acquittance as de. scribed in the indictment, but an order for the payment of money. That even if it were in fact on the evidence a receipt or acquittance, yet as it did not on the face of it purport to be either a receipt or acquittance, the I indictment was bad for not stating bow it was a receipt. Mr. Kettle having proceeded to answer the objection, was stopped by—his Lordship, who said he bad no doubt on the question, but, if necessary, would reserve it for the con sideration of the judges.—Mr. Huddleston having addressed the jury, contending that there was no proof of any fraudu lent intention on the part of the prisoner, as he meant to apply the remaining 3.. 6d. towards the expanse of taking the pro secutor home.—His Lordship summed up, and the verdict was .VolGialty.—The prisoner was again charged on a similar indictment, charging him with an intent to defraud Samuel Egginton. The evidence was the same as in the last case, except that Egginton said the prisoner told him the fourteen shillings was all that was coming to him; that the prosecutor paid his own fare from Bescot to Stafford ; that the witnesses walked from home to Bescot station on corniest° the *raises, and that the prisoner did not say a word as to taking the witnesses back home in a cart from Bescot Station.—The I prisoner was again acquitted. iod=Cooke Thomas Wright, and Elijah Moore, wine for cutting and wounding Thomas Hughes, a Pla lkw-easetable, at Stoke-upon-Trent, on the 25th of Num. bee Huddlestone conducted the prosecution; Mr. Meteyard appeard for Cooke ; and Mr. Woolrych for the other two prisoners.—lt appeared that on Sunday, the 2.5t1 Nov. last, at twelve o'clock at night, the prosecutor directed • man named Rhodes, whom he called • suspicions character, to go home, and on his refusing to do so collared him, and ems thereupon assailed by seven or eight men, and received from the hand of one, who he swore was Co oke, • wound en the cheek, from which he bled so profusely that his life was endangered sad the side of his face paralysed. He swore that Wright was one of the party, and struck him with a stick, and that another of them resembled Moore. Wright was seen a mile and a half off, at Fenton, half an hour after the outrage. When the prisoner Cooke was taken into cus hotly there were spots of blood on his jacket and trousers; and conversations were deposed to by two policemen, which were overheard from the passages between the cells where the pri men were confined, and tended to show that the prisoners wars together on the night in question when the attack oe the prosecutor was ma de , and were concerned in it. Cer fain were also proposed to be given in evidence which had been elicited by questions put to the prisoners separately, when in custody, by the superintendent of the police ; but the learned judge expressing disapprobation of soak a made of obtaining evidence, the counsel for the pro secution declined to give them in evidence. It was elicited es eniewexamination that two policemen had been put into the IPA cells with the prisoner disguised—one in a smock beck the other also in some ordinary dress—for the purpose of entering into conversation with the prieoners, and obtain kg evidence against them ; and it was suggested, on the part of the prisoners, that they pretended to have been committed, one for a felony, the other for disobedience to a bastardy eider. Hughes swore he did not strike Rhodes when he was wounded. Mr. Meteyard addressed the jury, contending that the prosecutor was mistaken as to the identity of Cooke. —Mr. Woolrych, for Wright and Moore, urged, first, that the wound was the act of one person, in which none of the others were implicated; and secondly, that there was no evidence to connect Wright and Moore with the transaction. Several witnesses were called to prove that the policeman struck Rhodes on the night in question. That person had been found soon after the affray, near the spot, covered with blood. A number of witnesses gave ell the prisoners good characters —Mr.H uddlestone replied.—His lordship summed up, and all three prisoners were convicted, and transported for ten year. The proceedings of the assizes were finally brought to a close at half-past sax o'clock. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEICESTER, MARCH 23. Before Mr. Juana" Pontoon and a medal jury. FALSE IMPHISONMENT.—TYLER AND WIFE V. THE Rev. JOHN DUDLEY AND ANOTHSH.—Tbis was= SCUM CO recover damages for false imprisonment —Mr. Hurofrey, Q.C., and Mr. Macauley, were for the plaintiff.; Mr. Whitehunt, Q.C., and Mr. Bantaby, were for the defendants.—The defendants, Mr. Dudley and Mr. Danvers, are two of the magistrates of the Loughborough district of this county; Mazy Anne Tyler is the wife of the other plaintiff, who is a labourer, living at the village of Wymeswold, in this county. I This woman happened to have a difference with another of her own see, and epithets were exchanged, the nosh of which was en application to the magistrates against the female plaintiff. She acknowledged she had made use of the offensive epithet imputed to her, and expressed her regret at having done so. The magistrates, the present defendants, said they had no ' jurisdiction in a case of bad language, and cautioned her to be careful for the future, &miming the complaint, and ordering Mrs. Tyler To pay the ceeta to the amount of 11. 18e. The poor woman said she could not pay—eke was told the must pay in a week, or go to prison. At the next weekly meeting plain. tiff attentlid and stated she bad a family of small children, she was poor, and could not pay the costs imposed, and that, if it was insisted, she must go to prison. To prison she accordingly we nt, for costa in • case in which the magistrates said they had no jurisdiction ! It seems that one of the visiting magistrates (liodgenn)seeing this person in the gad, and being struck with her cleanly 'appearance, inquired the reason of her being there, and upon being informed, lie made it his busbies, to see the commitment, and feeling it was bad, he communicated with Mr. Frere, the clerk of the peace, whoconfirmcd Mr. Ilodgeon in his previouslysformedopinion. It appeared from the commitment, that the magistrates in this very ease, in which they dismissed the complaint for want of jurisdiction, had actually sentenced this woman, whose charm - ter was without spot or blemish (save in this particular instance), to fourteen days' imprisonment and hard labour, merely for default of payment of fees which they had no right to impose. Upon application to the Secretary of State she was released. Actions were then brought by the plaintiff, Thomas Tyler, for the loss of his wife's services, nod • second action in their joint names. In both, five pounds had been paid into court, and • plea entered of no further damage. In the action by the husband alone, the 5/, had been taken out in satisfaction, but the jcint action was proceeded with. This case would hoe been tried at the last selves, but for the application of the defendants vi postpone it, on the ground of the ►bsence of a material witness. Since that time they had made the case asp:•ciul jury one. The learned judge, in his summing up, told thejui y the muiv rates had clearly mistaken the law. 1 hey had nn jurisdiction in the case brought before them, and the only question for the jury was, whether the five pounds paid into court were a sufficient compensation for the damage austained.—The jury gave, for the plaintiff, fifteen pounds over and above the sum paid into court. CRIMINAL Cot., HoMe STEALlNO.—Jarnes Brown, aged 23, and Robert Brown, aged 24, were charged with stealing three horses on the 11th, the property of a Mr. Wells. Mr. Barnaby was for the prosecuti at, and Mr. Mellor aad Mr. King were for the defence. The prisoners (who were brothers), were very gentlemanly-looking men, and what is more, they seemed to think so. The tucts deposed to were—that three mares and a horse were locked up in a stable at Plunger, on the day previous to the (mein question, and, on the following merit ing, two mares and a horse were missing. The priaonein were seen, on the afternoon previous to the robbery, within three miles of Plunger, they were inked by a person who met them where they were going; they re plied, "To Melton," but they went in a con trary direction The prosecutor stated he knew George Brown, who wan formerly in his service. The pri soners were seen the morning after the robbery with the hones in question. and offered them for sale at Great Glenn. They were juut eh.iut concluding a bargain for the sale, when Mr. Goielyer. the superintendent of the county arrived in search. The prisoners gave so salirfactory account how the animns came into their possession. 'I hey were convicted, and sentenced to seven year's transportation. The commission for the southern division of the county of Warwick was opened this day at Coventry. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, MARCH 23. Not Pates.—before Mr. Justice Cceinwril and a 'annelid jury. BERCOURE e. ASHPITAL.—CHAROR OP FRAUD AOAINST • RAILWAY COMPANY.—Mr. Batt, Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, and Mr. Oreenwoo: f-r the plaintiff; Mr. Crowder Mr. Cockburn, and Mr. Montague Smith for the defendant. — The plaintifii. this case wan a merchant in Exeter, and he sought to recover from the defendant, who was a gentleman of independent property, residing in London, thu cum of 262/. 10s., being the amount of deposits paid by him on 100 shares in the Metropolitan Junction Railway Company, of which company the defendant was • provisional committee man. It appeared that the original promoter of the scheme was Mr. J.hn Barber, the attorney for the de fendant in the present action. The project was commenced in July, 1845; and Mr. Barber, having secured the co-operation of three other persons, won himself ap pointed solicitor to the company ; and the first prospectus was provisionaPy registered on the 9th August, 1845. In that prospectus the re were no names of any directors, or pro visional committee, or committee of management ; but the particulars of the line were fully described. The object of the company was stated to be the formation of a railway to circumscribe the metropolis at an average distance of 20 Milos from the town. The capital was said to be 2,500,0001., is 100,000 shares 4251. each, the deposits being 21. 12s. 6d. on each share. On the 29th September, the second pro ,pectue was registered, and in that prospectus the defendant's name appeared an a member of the provisional committee, and described as a " magistrate for the county of Middlesex." On the 14th of October, 100 there' were allotted to the plain tiff, and on the 20th of the same month, which was the last day fixed for the payment of deposits, he pail 262/. 10s. on these share*. He afterwards discovered that the company had allotted only 6.5,000 shares, having kept in reserve 3.5,000, although it was their duty to allot the whole of the glares mentioned in the prospectus. They, however, pub lished a report, stating that the amount of deposits which had been paid was 27,0001, although it was necessary, in order to satisfy the standing orders, that 10 per cent. upon three-fourths of the capital should have been subscribed. A return was also filed, announcing I that the company had received 19,800!., and that their lia bilities amounted to 17,200!., leaving a balance in hand of 2,6001. They moreover stated that they had expended between 3,0:501. and 4,e00L in buying up 1,195 shares at a premium, and upwards of 6,000/.ln th, purchase of letters of allotment. These disbursements were the avowed cause of the company'. stivieg that they had received only 19,8001. The members of the managing committee were thirteen in number, and of these only four paid any depo sits, and four others, in executing the parliamentary deed, alleged that they had each paid the amount of their deposits, when, in point of fact, two of them had not paid anything. It appeared, however, that they paid at a subsequent period. Towards the latter end of October the scheme was abandoned, and on the 30th of that month a prospectus was issued announcing the commons usent of a new undertaking, and stating that the capital hal be. n reduced from two millions and a half to two milliner, and the shares from 100,000 to 80,000. The original provisional committee was changed, but the name of the defendant still appeared in the prospectuses a member of the managing committee. A proposal was made that the promoters shauld have 10.000 shares allotted to them, and one of those gentlemen was reported to have said that " If the share* had come out at a good premium they would have made 10,0001. by the job." They then commenced bu3ing up the shares, and in that man ner they spent upwards of 11,0001. out of the money which had been subscribed. The shareholders l.eginning to suspect that the proceedings of the committee were of a fraudulent ebaractor, caused an inquiry to be made, and they discovered that the first cheque, drawn for the purpose of buying up the shares, in which 11,0001. had been expended, was signed on the day after a sub-committee had been appointed. This committee was formed, it was said, not for any legitimate purpose, but in reality to " watch the stateof the market." Complaints were made against the directors, and they alleged, in answer, that with respect to the" 10,000 shares" said to have been allotted to them, the arrangement had been spoken of, but not determined upon. And as to the charge respecting the appointment of a subcom mittee, they stated that it was usual to have asub-committee to watch the interests of the company. As to the number of shares purchased by the directors they stated that they amounted to 1,195, and that they had bought them with a view to raise the value of the scrip. They did not attempt to justify the conduct of the two gentlemen who had signed the parliamentary contract without paying their deposits; but in reference to the charge that the company was dis solved, they stated that the scheme wan not abandoned, but that they should be prepared to go to parliament in the mires of the next session. In order, however, to prove that the scheme was abortive, evidence was given to the effect that in the month of Jan., 1846, the promoters issued. circular to the shareholdenstating that they were employed in arranging the affairs of the company ; and in the month of April following another circular was published, in which they stated that " the failure of the scheme must be attributed to the non payment of the deposits," and that they must call upon each shareholder for 6e. in order that the expenses might be paid. In July, 1846,the directors issued. statement to the effeetthat " they could not but advise a eliesolution." Under all these eiscumetances, the plaintiff sought to establish the fact that the scheme was tainted with fraud from its commencement, the object of the promoters being, as it was slleged, to " rig the market," or, in other words, to attach a fictitious value to the shares . . For the defence, Mr. Barber was called, and also Mr. Moorsom, an engineer, who stated that the line in question was well chosen, and, if properly managed, was likely to be remunerative to the subscribers. It was contended, 'more over, that the scheme was a bond fide undertaking, and that there was no fraud in the proceedings of the company. It was also urged that the plaintiff had not signed the par liamentary deed, and that he could not by refusing to execute it, place himself in a better position. He bad written • letter, requesting an allotment of shares, and stating that he was willing to swept the same, " "abject to the provisions of the subscribers' agreement" He also undertook to execute that or any other agreement, and to pay the deposits when called upon. The deed gave the di rectors power to dispose of the funds as they might think proper for the interests of the company, and the plaintif f could not, because he had refused to sign it, object to the way in which hO money had been expended. Mr. Justice Cremwell, in summing up, told the jury that if they were of opinion that the undertaking wee abandoned at the time the action was brought, the plaintiff would he entitled to their verdict. He would beg them to consider this question in the first instance. The jury, after s moment's deliberation, returned • verdict for the plaintiff foe the full amount of damages. His lordship then re quested them to answer the following queries:—let. Was the scheme originally a bona )(de project, as far as the defen dant was concernel 2nd. Whether, at the time the depo aits were paid up on the 20th of October, the directors had any honest hope or expectation of going on with the scheme? 3rd. Whether they continued to entertain such hope or ex pectation on the 3rd of December, when they ten dered the deed for execution, and proposed to exchange the letters at allotment for scrip ? The jury retired, and after a short absence returned into court with the following answers "That the scheme was concocted in fraud, but that there wee no evidence that the defendant was aware of it at first; although by his mbar quent conduct be became implicated with the promoters et the scheme." The two remaining questions were answered in the negative, and the learned judge said he should Area • verdict to be entered for the plaintiff on all the points. Cam Coom—Beibins Mr. Jrtire THE PIT/if:HI:4O A.I7IAY.Z-Henry WOeven, convicted of manslaughter yesterday, was arraigned this morning for feloniously shooting at Robert Rendell, at Coombeinteignhend on the 6th of September, under cireumstanees similar to those of the previous case. No evidence was offered in support of this indictment , and his lordship sentenced the prisoner, for the offence of which he had been found guilty, to transporta tion for life. The amine terminated this evening. NORTH WALES.—MONTGOMERYSHIRE. MARCH 23. These assizes were held at Welava , ' on Wednesda y, Thursday, and Friday last. The criminal easel were of alight importance, but a special jury cause, reported below, excited great interest. Dux: DEM : POOLE O. VAUC TIAN. EJECTMENT. —A a action of ejectment wan brought by the Rev. Wm. Jukes Poole, perpetual curate of Llanflhangel, in the Isle Anglesey, the lessor of the plaintiff, to recover possessdon real estate, which had been taken possession of by y o h e Vaughan, Esq , of rentnaen Dovey, Montgomeryshire, but which, it was alleged, had been devised to the former under the will of Miss Ann Vaughan, aunt of the defendant, dated Dec. 2, 1843. The defence suggested that undue mean. had be en exercised by certain parties to influence and control the testatrix—who, it was raid, was a person of very wee} mind, of intemperate habits, and altogether incapable making a will—in devising the property in question to as entire stranger, while her only nephew, the defendant, was living in the immediate neighbourhood of her residece s Bart Cottage, near Machyrilleth, and who was on Ms most kind and friendly terms with her. The s i d,, dcnce was extremely voluminous; the ease cu b mencing at eight o'clock on 'Wednesday morn% and the arguments not closing till late on Thursday enema., For the plaintiff it was urged that the testatrix was pee, fectly capable of making a will, and though not a pentad very strong mind, yet sufficiently qualified to conduct big awn affairs with discretion ; that though the plaintiff was warily unknown to the testatrix, she sent for him, and ra s h numerous inquiries respecting him. Several other strange legacies were devised under the will which was dictated b y her. The defendant had taken possession of the estate as and the present was an action of ejectment For the defence it was argued that the testatrix was quir e childish, and much addicted to drinking, swallowing to one ' day as much as two bottl.s of wine, besides brandy and other spirits; and that she had been drinking excessively about the time the will was made; that after the had made the will, she repented making it, and would have destroyed it, only she was prevented by parties interested ; that, in proof of her unsoundueri of mind, she had at one time in. sisted upon her servants dancing with the cat, and other equally insane manecu vres.—The defendant's CA ne haring closed, the counsel for the plaintiff replied, and the judge, Justice Coltman, summed up.--The jury then retired, end, after being locked up till eight o'clock on Friday morning without coming to a deciaion, were discharged; and the cue now rests as it did before the trial commenced. The judge certified it was a proper ease for a special jury. —Counsel Inc plaintiff, Messrs. Yardley, Egerton, and Bevan; for defen dant, Messrs. Temple, Welsby, and Townsend. POLICE. WOOLWICII.—During five days of the past and present week, not a single person was given into the custody of the police at Woolwich, a circumstance which Mr. Traill re. marked was of a very gratifying character. The police dis trict embraces a population of nearly forty thousand penone, including three thousand military. MONEY MA RAW. WEDNEiDAT STUMM. The day has been observed in the City as a fast. We have no arrivals, have the usual continental mails, which do not bring intelligence of any interest. EICHANDIA AND STOCK! , ARNOLD. For i Pm brews. PAZ'S. I E 4OI . " 21.427. I ommoibm. limbos. Looms. 1 amine I per antSo OS 1 Ts se • in - 4C Till is is 4 Do. . 114 00 I IBS Of Ito SO 114 21 I 111 la 41 Do. • 107 SO .• or sr a 4 Do. . 1 103 sr my • s• 041415 a 1.11 1 44 I 102 • Do. 3. 1043 sr Do. Si. I Si, 14 _, Do. • Nook* Drove I Iva sr Boman 1.440 1 102 a Tram", hood. 1 • .4 Vont Ohareo . 1210 ! 11..1a010 os Looks (OD SAM. 22 24. Do. Do. 440 !an). L. RAILWAY NEWS. MEETING.-WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND sun.—Merfiy ofShareholtiers thitteht to the Direetors.—lkthha, March, n.-Mr. Osborne in the chair. The object of thw wen( wan to consolirate an opposition on the part of some lA.II shrirehoides to the course now adopted be the directors, and to the proceelaig re. oently had in London. It was determined that a bill should be pre sented in Chancery against the further prestress of the company, and to restrain the directors from proceedmi to mien, the roll recently made until the application to Parliament to dissolse the company shall have been decided on. A subeeeiplion of one shilling per Alum woo asked for to defray the expenses &these antagonistic proceethnit. PARIS, 31. m. 23. 3 1 o p . UP^II3O Pam sell ° rime I - T3711 1370 t ab Part. sad Reuss... 203 806 03 _lOO 041. VW Name .. 663 664 26 887 On 26 Notre ( 2 026.0 ••• :t; 213 2 6 8 7 2 30 3 1 6 II """' 1173 73 I 623 73 623 631 3$ .1711 76 117 ■ ITT Is as N SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Gursorsv, Armies 24.—Arrind : 23.—Baionet, Rambla% Dn. biee, larder, 24.—Maria, Lroten ; Neptune, Oetend ; Triton, Oa tend; Helena, ; Ada, firstborn; British queen, Gtiernsiy; Agnes, Guernsey; Mary, Guernsey; Solaria, Rotterdam; remands, Demerara; Vivid, Sni3rna ; Two Smaller., Dunkirk. Sailed: 23. Aimee Duncan, St. Lucia; Lima, Jersey, Ike. 24.—Lora, fir-Domingo; Switserland, New York ; City of Rotterdam, Rotterdam ; Rainbow, Rotterdam; Blanche, Cadiz; sir Ed. Banks, Ostend; Mcbe, Bor. deaux ; Johanna Caroline, flambee' ; Wilberforce, Ilambro ; George, Bremen ; Wyvern, Liebon ; Ouderneiming, Antwerp ; Iklluee, Gee. relines; Aline, Ireland; Rainbow, Rotterdam; Rope, Stockton; Fro Marie, Amsterdam ; Victoria, Valparaiso • Arrow, Cape ; Su tots Moffett, Quebec; Amelia Genoa; Haack, Tricate; Magnet, Har. tinges. larssroor, MANCH 24.—Arrived: Agatha, Amsterdam; Alidm Rotterdam; Bosnbay ; Princess Victoria, Maranbani; Martin Luther, Demerara; Irlam, Rarbades; Monorch b j at. Leda, Edmund Perkins, and Losalitank, New Orleans; Burro and Alla Lodge, Charleston; Diana, Philadelphia; Akbar, New York; (L• bridge, New York; name, New York ; Facia; New York ; !imam; Elba, St. Michaele ; Storm, Venice; Edwani, DeNtilg A V, _ (onto, Rabat; Elisa,Porter, NewY orb ; Seraphim, NewOrlsana. gala Arnim:sine, Africa; Elsinore, New York; Vulcan, Memel; Twig^ Galata; Heroine, Africa; Patriot, Fenian; Acadia, Malian; Rabat, Revel; Acadia, New York. 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