The Express. — London, England, 1863-12-24 00:00:00

t 4 lab InuUtgence. COURT OF 0011XON PLEAS.—Da v. xt. ffiatrep at ,Need Prins in Loarloo.—(Before Lord Chief Jodie* Erie and • Specie Jury.) =Ma O. COTTISCILL—BRIACII or MONIS' OF MAISKIAGE. This was as action to recover damages for a breach of premise to many. Mr. Iluddleston. Q.C., and Mr. H. James, appeared for tie plaintiff ; sad Mr. Serjeut Itallentine and Mr. J. Drawn for the defendant. Iffr. Huddlestos said that the plaintiff, Miss Frances Meyer, was • young lady 28 jean of age, the daughter of • gentleman who carried on business as an importer of foreign geode in Howesditcla The defendant was of more mature age—he was 60 you, old ; and having carried on • lucrative Maness u • merchant, he had retied to live is Noel-street, Islington. He bad been for some time a widower; and in July, last year, he became acquainted with some members of the plaintiff's family whom he had met at the syeagogne, both parties to the suit being of the Hebrew persuasion. Mr. Meyer had ten ehildreo, of whom the pillowf was the eldest. The defendant, having seen the plaintiff, requested permission to be introduced to her ; and be became intimate with the plaintiff's family in the course of August and September. In October his attentions to Mir Meyer became very marked, and they continued through the Mettiainble months of ISO. In May, Itki3, the defendant "eke to the mother of true Meyer on the subject of marry - wig the young lady, and he mentioned to the mother his posi tion in society. He said that he was a widower, and that be wan possessedof 6001. or 8004 a year derived from property. He elan said that he would be prepared to settle upon the plaintiff 5,0001., to be at her own dirpceal. Mn. Meyer said that she could scarcely make any arrangement without first having the consent of the young lady sad of her father. It was therefore desired that the defendant should see the young lady, make hie proposal, sad ascertain whether he would be accepted or not. Be bad an interview with the plaintiff, the accepted him, and be came out at the room in a state of great exultation, saying I that he had been accepted, sad from that moment the par ties were treated as being affiaaced o each other. The de fondant w very eager that the marriage should take plate almost immediately; indeed, he wasted to be married within a month after the proposal was made ; but the father sug gested that this wo old be too soon, and the sth of August was fixed for the wedding-day. After the proposal had been made the defendant took a bowie in Noel-street, 'sling toe, and began to furnish it. He visited the plaintiff con tinually, presented her with a gold watch and earrings, and said that he had been looking out for • diamond necklace, but could not find one that was suffleisailly expensive. He was also taken down to Rams pte, and introduced to the plaintiff's relations in that town, and everything was done upon the faith that the marriage was to hike place upon the 3th August. The defendant became ill, and during that illness he asked most tenderly after his intended bride, sod said that if anything should happen to him he had taken precautions that she should not suffer. Having recovered, the parties went for a drive in Victoria-park, and on that occasion the defendant asked her to accompany him to Scarborough, and she said that she thought that this would not bequito right notilaf tor they were married. Whether from this cause or not the defendant soon afterwards told the plaintiff's brother that he had changed his mind, and he refined to marry the plaintiff. The plaintiff's mother went to the defendant to ask him what be meant by this, and the only answer she got was, "I don't intend to marry her, and you may do what you like." In coaclusiou, the learned counsel said that he did not put this cue before the jury as one is which any great affection or romantic sentiment was involved ; bat still the fact remained that a lady of salters age had lost the chance of being settled in life, and Pees was no doubt that abe was entitled to substantial damages. Mr. SOrie•llt BAliketiAll—Will your lordship allow me to make one observation ! My client is here in court ready at any moment to marry the ledy ; and, indeed, is most anxious to do so. I may add that he very deeply deplores that there should have been any _breads of the engagement. Mr. Haddleeon—l wish he had said so before the matter got into the hawk of counsel ; but it is clear that the offer is now but as excites for evading damages. Mr. Serissat BsUantine—l repeat, the defendant will marry the *tiff. The Late Chief Justice—There may be something in that if you will pay 5,0001. into court upon the condition that it it to be paid to plaintiff if she is not married in • month. Mr. Sert Ballantioe—l will. Mr. liMasiston—Will you settle 5,000/. upon her Mr. Serpent Belantize—Ali, that is another thing. The outlines of the defendant has been somewhat exaggerated, bet 1 will take care that a sum of money which is amply solicited to bind the decedent to perform his contract ts pie into court. My cheat is reedy to enter into a oovenant to mike mach a settlant upon the lady as his means will Ow. The Lord Chief Justice—To make such a settlement as some emptiest person will say is reasonable. Mr. linddlestoe—How can I enter into this arrangement after the way in which the defendant baa treated this young i lady' My friend has never mentioned this proposal tome, and it is now only made for • purpose. The evidence was then mean, Mr. Me er—l am the plaintiff's father. lam a Binning. , 1 ham and warehoommaa, and an importer of foreign goods. In July, 1862, f maw the defendant at our place cif ; worship, and he spoke to me, sod said he was an indepea dent gentleman, was very lonely, and bad been living foe eight years Mired. Larked him to call at my home is messimmieme of his situation. I had known him two or three months before I asked him to call. In September or October he first called at my home, and continued to call from that time until May. 186.3. Is May my wife commit skated with me ea to • cameral:km she had had with the , defendant, and when be called on the following day I told him that my wife bad spoken to me respecting his proposition. I said, of course it was my duty es a parent to see to the interests of my daughter ,• sad I remarked that there was a disparity of age . He said with emphasis that be we. aware of that ; bat that pre. Timely to saying what he would do for the plaintiff he wished to see her privately. I said, "My daughter is in the drawing roam, and yen an go in there." He did so, and whea lie one oat amain he and he was perfectly satisfied end happy. He said "The proposal I make is to settle LOOK mon her to be at her disposal, and if she survives ohs will have the whaled my property, if we have no " He said he made this reserve because he was strong seed hearty and expected to have a family. As to his Moan* he referred me to Mame. Samuel and MaCtivoq who received his dividends. I aimed inquiries to be made, sad wen perfectly Mafia The defeorant mid, " I sa the happiest man is the world." He wanted to be married within a fortnight or three weeks, but we 'biotite& to that, nod the sth of August was fixed for the wedding. This date wudiatent five or six weeks. We proposed the sth of August, and he reluctantly accepted it. He warded to be married much earlier. I went with the de feadsat to Dr. Adler, the chief rabbi, and procured from him this Hebrew document. It contains the names of the par the, and fixes the day for the marriage. The defendant spoke te Dr. Adler, and said, "Am I not right, doctor, in getting married ?" AM the doctor said, "Certainly, by all reeme." After this I made preparations for the mar. rage, and expended meetly 1001. in doing so. The defendant presented my daughter with two silk dresses , a gold wat c h and chain, acid a gold bracelet. He said, •• These are only far common wear ; and I have been looking out for a da mmed necklace : bat I have seen nothing to my fancy, and I will look out for a better." He said he would get one. On the Nth June the defendant moved to • larger bones in Noelatreet, Islington. About that time my wife made • statement to me about furniture, aid I west to the defendant's house with my me. I saw the bedroom, and it was certainly not sufficiently furnished, accorchog to English notions. I spoke to the defendant about some extra furniture which he had promised to get. He said that he sees • German, sad that his house had always been furnished in the German style. I said he had promised tome the things, and that I was sorry to see that my daughter had so little influence with him. He asked me to look at the bedroom, sod I said, " Where is the wardrobe where say daughter can put her clothes?' There was no washing. stead in the room. He said that be would see my daughter end wife, and make it all right with them. This took place en the 9th July. The defendant said that be had 6001. or TOW. • year, sad that his property consisted of railway shares and homes in Berlin. Cross-examined—My daughter has made no other engage ment. She is entirely free now. I did not on the nth July find fault with all the furniture. Ido not think that there was anything I praised. I think the defendant's wife had been dead ouiy a few weeks when I made his acquaintance. When I alluded to my daughter haring little inflames with the defendant, I did not say that I could see clearly that they would not be happy together. I never mid it bad better be broke. off. My daughter had no !Mar from the defendant. ite-exeinieed—f never beard of any renewed offer by the defendant to marry my daughter tared this morning. In the defendant's bedroom there wise small bedstead end two or three chairs, and there might have Imo some few other articles. After the defendant's engagement he generally called every day to seem) daughter. Mrs. Harsh Meyer, the mother of the plaintiff, said— The defendant asked me at various times how it was my daughter WY not married, she being such a very nice young lady. I said, " Being se educated young lady she requires what I rimiest give —• fortune sufficiently large to put her in the situation I wished her to be in." He asked me this a great many times. He afterwards asked if she had any objection to • German, and I said, " Certainly not, for my family are German." My daughter speaks German. He afterwards asked if I had any objection to hi recommending a " partia." I said, "Certainly not." Two or three days afterwards he asked if I should hme any objection to himself. I was rather 'myriad and did not answer. He told see that his income was 600/. or 700/. • year ; that be would make a kid and affectionate husband, and that my daughter should have everything that • lady meld desire. He said be would settle upon her 5,000/, for her ewe um and diaposal. and that if be had no children be wield leave her the whole of his property. with the exam. lien el a legacy to his sister. Afterwards I saw the deleted. ant sad asked him if it was true what my ion had told me, Met he refuted to fulfil his migagement. He said. " Yee." Imbed/or the reason, and be got out of temper, and said he seder set he troubled and would give no answer. He said we might p to law or do what we liked, for be would not fen ha mangement. CIMOB•01111MBOLI- From 'equities of Messrs. Samuel and ihwisee we found that the defendant had to their •• • • EXPRESS, _THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER THE knowledge aa amount not squid to what he bad represented ; bet the defendant maid that he had landed property and State Palma. u they call them. in Berlin in addition. The defendant only kept oue servant. Nr. &russet Mantles—The defendant is nearly seventy, ie he not? Witoess—He told me he weighty. Mr. Seriesist Bailee tine—But would you believe an elderly gentlemen as to bis age! (Laughter.) Wither-1 believe he war not more than sixty, for he could walk smartly from Islington to Houndaditch. (Laughter.) Ite-rixaniined—The defendant said that after he was mar ried he would {tee? a cook and housemaid, and my daughter should have a lady a maid if she required it. Mr. Alfred Meyer-1 am the brother of the plaintiff. On the lath July I went with my father to the defendant. He said be would buy any furniture that was requisite. I law the defendant on the 12th July, when he was ill. He said his illness was caused by eating fruit, ice, and wine. (A laugh.) I saw him again with my mother. when be said, " Tell my deer Frances that if I die everything will be here" On Thursday, the 16th July, 1 saw the defendant, when he said he would not marry, and had changed his mind. He told me to carry borne the message. This was the day after the plaintiff had declined toga to Scarborough with the defendant until after they were married. ' Cross-examined—My father did not tell the defendant that be clearly Law the parties could not be happy together. I am not certain that the Thursday when I saw the defend. aot was the 16th July. Mr. Meyer, the plaintiff's father, recalled and examined by Mr. Serjeant Ballantine—l instructed my solicitor to write this letter of the 17th July to the defeudint. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine submitted that the promise here was to marry and settle 5,000 f., and that these two items formed one promise. This being so, the promise must be in writing. _ . . The Lord Chief Justice said there was no conditional pro mise to marry upon a settlement being made ; his opinion was that this action was brought upon the mere promise to marry. He thought that there was no founda tion for the objection. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine then addreeied the jury in miti gation of damages. He praised upon the jury the fact that Were was no scrap of writing is the case, and no witnesses bet members of the plaintiff's family, so that the jury had only heard one side ; and by law the defendant in a case of thin kind was incapacitated from giving evidence himself. A defendant was therefore left helpless in the hands of his 1100aliel, and behoved juries to watch evidence given for plaintiffs who sued for such a cause of action, in order to take carts that no undue weight should be given to it. The Lord Chief Justice in summing up went through the evidence, and in reference to what bad been said about the defendant now marrying the plaintiff, said that be regarded that offer as being in the nature of a thing done for dramatic effect ; for it was an offer which could hardly be accepted. It, however, confirmed the evidence that the defendant bad made a promise to marry, and the jury would have to say what damages the plaintiff was entitled to, for an unex plained, absolute, capricious refusal to perform his engage went. Tie jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found for the plaintiff, damages 750 i. This was the last ow tried, and at its conclusion the court nee for the boUdays. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRClTlT.—Entogrow ' Dr.c. 23. The comenaks for the county of Surrey was opened yesterday =cuing at ten o'clock by Yr. Baron Pigott- The calendar coatains the names of 18 primers, one of whom L charged with wilful murder. Some of the other charges are also of a serious character. At the cosclusion of the business at Lewes, the prisoners BUM Thomas and Stephen Willett, who had been convicted of a misdemeanour at common law for concea li ng a quantity of gold's: articles that had bean ploughed up in" . • did near Hastings, and which they purehased for a few and afterward. disposed of to a refiner in Lawless for S:WI ~ were brought up for judgment, and sentenced each to pay a fine of 2651., that being the total amount they had received, and the learned judge further ordered that they should be impri soned ontill the fine was paid. The priaosers said they were unable to pay the money, and they were consequently taken into custody. The business for the county of Surrey was disposed of M the Town•hall, in conseqcane of there being a came of scarlet fever in the building ttauslly appropriated for the me of the judge at the satiate, and, for the same reason it was also amassed that the teamed judge should take up his abode at theater and Garter, at Richmond. After the com mission had tees opened Mr. Baron Pigott proceeded to church. and he returned to the Town-hall at eleven o'clock, when the names of the 'read jury were called over, but very few of them were t, and it was with considerable difficulty that a jitry thirteen could be formed . . . . _ Emi Terry, B, waa charged with felonionaly setting fire to a Meek of straw, the property of Thomas Gledwin. Mr. Robinson prosecuted. This case was rather a peculiar one. The prosecutor is a farmer at Worplendon, near Guildford, and it appeared that on the night of the 21ith of November the prisoner was seen in his stack yard, sad very shortly afterwards a stack of straw, worth about 4W., was on fire and totally consumed. The prisoner was taken into custody. but the principal evidence against her was a statement she made to the police couetable, which was to the following effect :—"I did it—l did est the stack on fire. I did not do it through any spite to Mr. Gledwin, he has always been a good oath boor to us, bat I did it became I wanted to be sent away from home." The prosecutor said be believed that at the time the act was committed the prisoner was not in her right senses, end did not know what she was doing. Mr. T. 4. Bells, a surgeon, reading at Guildford, who was called as a witness, said that he saw the prisoner after she was in custody, and had a conversation with her about the fire, during which she said that she did not wish to hart Mr. Gledwin, and she bad set fire only to a stack of straw sad sot to a wheat stack. He reminded her that the straw stack might have ignited the others, and she replied, " No, that coaled not be, for the wind was the wrong way." ( laugh.) Mr. Sells went on to say that, under his certificate as to her being insane, the prisoner was admitted to Bedlam in 1861, and came out " on probation" about twelve swaths afterwards, and she then made an attempt to strangle her own. daughter, but the girl being strong, succeeded in Bedlam, away from her. He had her then lent back to and she came out last summer. During different conversations he had with the prisoner abe said that she should have drowned herself long before, but that she knew she could not die. Bane Pigott asked the witness whether he considered tint at the time the prisoner committed the act she was able to distinguish the difference between right and wrong, or whether she was aware that she was committing a wrong sot ? Mr. Sells said he could not take upon himself to state that the prisons did not know perfectly well that she was doing what was wrong when she set fire to the stack. He believed, however, that she was under a delusion at the time. Her object seemed to be that she might be punished. The prisoner, when called upon for her defeat*, began to my, and said she hoped they would not hurt her. Baron Pigott, in summing up the evidence, mid that the case was undoubtedly one of a very remarkable diameter. The l►w only regarded a person es irresponsible for his actions when it was made out that at the time the alleged offence wes committed, he was in such a condition of mind as not to be able to distinguish between right and wrong, or to be aware of the consequences that were li►ely to re. snit from his act. In the present ease, the prisoner would appear by some portions of the evkleace to have kr,own per fectly well what she waa about, but they most at the same time take into consideration the evidence that had bees gives by the surgeon, and form their own conclusions upoe the whole ease. jury,Tfs after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Gaiety, on the ground of inuoity, and the prisoner was entered to be detained in custody daring her Majesty's *mum Henry Matthews, who surrendered, sad Eli:a Simms, M 34, were charged with the nauslanghter of Elizabeth Mat thews._ Ili.Thotegeon prosecuted. The deceased was a child two years old, the daughter of the male prisoner, who is a labouring man residing in the neighbourhood of Guildford. His wife was in a lunatic asylum, and it appeared that be bad engaged the female prisoner as his housekeeper, and she had the charge of the child in question during the whole day while he was en gaged at his work. The child died at the end of September, and at that period, according to the evidence of Mr. Raw. • surgeon at Guildford. the body was in a most dread ful state of emaciation, the intestines being filled with • end not containing the slightest particle of food. The case on the part of the prosecution was that this condition was produced by the gross and cri• mufti neglect of one or tout of the prisoners. As regarded the male prisoner, however, there was very little, if iodised any, evidence whatever to support such a suggestion ; for it rem proved that he was wined at his work the whole of the day, and that every week be gave the other prisoner 15e., and sometimes more. to provide necessaries for the support of the family. With regard to the other prisoner, same of the wishbones dated that she was in the habit of Unties and otherwise ill-wing ths child, and that upon we cocasiou they had seen her take it down to the river sod dip it in. One or two witnesses aim said that they had told the prisoner that she did not feed the child properly, and that she ought to provide better food for it, but that she only abused them for so doing. It appeared, however, in the course of the case, that for some time before the pri soner had had the charge of the child it WAS in a very sick and weakly state, and that at first it appeared to improve under her care. The Lamed Judge having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty in favour of both prisoners. The woman less then tried upon another indictment, which charged her with a common utak upon the same child, and of this °Hume oho was found Guilty, and eau teemed to be imprisoned and kora to hard labour for throe months. CHILLIIB/011D, Die. 23. (Beton Mr. Bar= Mania ) The conintissiou for the county of Fees' wee opened this morales at the Court-house before Mr. Baron Illartio, Ceirieel Palmer, high sheriff of the county, he., In daisies the greed jury the learned judge said be rimy much regretted to state that is • calendar which oestaieed bet the games of sixteee pewnwre there should be no WO than cheesed with crime o f erne, and epee She ain't% on which be had hem engaged for the last three weeks these bad been tan cease of this kind, and it was to be regretted that whereas in the county be bad been engaged in the criminals in those cases ware all very young, it appeared that m this county the primmer' were all people of mature age. The evidence seemed to be the same as usual of persons who had those upon whom they inflicted the wrong. For himself he could only my that Mould this kind of thing be persevered in, and should he come as judge into this county again, he should most certainly inflict the most estreme penalty of the law. As it was be had imposed severe sentences, but if he had known bow common this crime was he should certainly have been still more severe. He was one of those who be lieved that a severe sentence had the effect of checking crime, and there could be no doubt that penal servitude was a terrible punishment. lie had heard it stated, and likewise read, that penal servitude was a slight punishment. Such was not the case. It was as severe a punishment as could possibly be inflicted upon a man. At Leicester he had an opportunity of seeing a man who was under sentence of penal servitude brought suddenly before the court from his cell to give evidence, and a more wretched, miserable-look. ing object be never wished to see. The man appeared to be completely heart-broken, and d those people who talked about penal servitude being a light punishment had but seen him, he (the learned judge) thought they would alt er th e i r opinion. There was but one °theism° which he should refer to, and that was one of manslaughter. It appeared that in this cue the defendant, it was alleged, neglected to give certain orders, and in consequence of this segligesee the mail train went off the line, and the engine driver was killed. No doubt a person causing death by negligence was guilty of manslaughter, and if the grand jury thoeida the evidence was strong enough to bring Knappet to trial, they would of course return a true bill. lu conclusion, the learned judge asked the grand jury to let the clerk have the bills as quickly as possible, so that they might . get on with the business end get away, as it was so near Ch ristmas, The business was at once proceeded with. JoAn M'Cate, 33, watch spring maker, was indicted fur sloniously and maliciously letting tire to a stack of cons, he property of Thomas Pain, at Southwesld, Brentwood. Mr. Pearce prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. It appeared from the evidence that on the 26th August some one set fire to a stack of corn belonging to the prose cutor about half-past two in the morning. Shortly after wards the prisoner was taken to the station on suspicion, when a boa of matches was found upon him. Upon being questioned he admitted his guilt, and said he bed set fire to the corn with one of the matches. He said be bed eons from Rochford, and added, " I got into the seam mesa at Rochford, but the man would not prosecute." He said be did it because he was hungry. In summing up the learned judge said that if the prisoner committed this crime without lawful excuse then he came within the limits of the act, and in this case the offence seemed to have been made out very clearly. The jury at once found him Guilty. His lordship reserved judgment. Wm. Griyys, 26, labourer, was indicted for setting fire to a stack of haulm, the property of Wm. Parra, at Shingled Mountfitchet. on the 15th December. Mr. Woollet prosecuted; Mr. Pearce defended. It appeared that this fire took place early in the mom *, the prisoner being seen near the spot at the tine. Matches were found upon him when he was apprehended, and it was shown by several witnesses that he was not in the habit of smoking. The prisoner was Acquitted. In the course of the forenoon the grand jury returned "no bill" in the case of George Boappet, a railway porter, for causing the death of Robert Parker through negligence. ge Tilb . tf, 63, labourer, was indicted upon a charge of stealing one ewe, value 40a., the property of ArthurShuttle worth, at Upmioster, on the 27th November. Mr. Pearce prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. In this case the prosecutor is a butcher, posesesiog some twenty sheep, which were turned out into a field to grass. In November me of them was missed, and on a search being made ita skin was found in • ditch, Suspicion fell upon the and ou his place being searched the ewe o n f salted dow. In his defame the prisoner stated that be knew nothing at all about the meat which was found at his house. A party had been lodging with him who had since absconded. The jury Acquitted the prisoner. Henry Townes, ZI, innkeeper, and Thomas Ayer, 19, labourer, were indicted for feloniously shooting at William Muriel, with intent to kill and murder him, at Rivenhall, on the 6th September. Mr. Busbby and Mr. Philbrick prosecuted; and Mr. Pearce defended. A number of witnesses were called, from whose evidence it Appeared that on the Sunday in question, about six o'clock in the morning, the prosecutor,who is a pmekemer, was out upon the grounds of his employer, together with several under keepers, for the purpose of watching some seam which were set ; they had not been there long before the two prisoners earns up, each carrying a gun, and upon going up to the snares the keepers rushed out, and a scrim mage ensued, in the course of which both the prisoners' guns went off the shot from that of Townes piercing the clothing of Mend and inflicting a very slight wound. When at the station, Townes said he did gone out for the purpose of shooting wood pigeons. He denied that be hid pure rely shot at Muriel, but said that as he was running away he bad seen a bare, when he was so startled that he up with his gun and fired. With regard to Ager, he ad mitted that he fired the gun, but with no felonious intent. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the teamed judge sentenced them to five years' peed servitude. judge ifellen,l9, labourer, was indicted for maliciously wounding and causing grievous bodily harm to Charles Miller, a police-coestable, with intent to maim and disable his, at the parish of St. Botoiph, Cokhester, on the 18th October. felogiousll Mr. Philbrick prosecuted, and Mr. Peirce defended. The facia of this me are very short. It appeared that on the night in question them was a mob collected in Botolph-street, and the prosecutor went to disperse them, when the prisoner struck him a tremeudone blow on the eye, which booked his eye completely out. He afterwards attempted to strike another officer with the same antra ment, which wu • long stick loaded with lead. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, 'sad the learned jodge sentenced him to three years penal servitude. James Wood, 40, wu indicted for maliciously setting fire to a stack of bay, the property of Abraham Jordan, of Warwick. Mr. Philbrick prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. ' The jury Acquitted the prisoner. Alfred Onto, a little boy eleven years old, was indicted for setting fire to a stack of oats, value 451. The prosecutor in this as is a farmer named Whitehead, of Da lil bury, in whose service the prisoner wee, and it appears that some dispute arose between them with regard to the bore not coming, and in revenge be set fire to the Auk. This, at leant, was what the prosecutor alleged. The jury Acquitted the prisoner. J. JeCabe was brought up for judgment, and was sen tenced to three years' penal servitude. George King pleaded guilty to a charge of setting fire to a stack. In passing judgment the learned judge said that bad the whole of the sin prisoners been convicted he should certainly have punished them much more severely. As it was, he should pan upon him the same mitoses as he bed in former masa. He then sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for three years. glary. Clement Inetcher, 24, pleaded guilty to a cbargeof bur- This can was a very bad nee. It appears that while in tlie 0001111/laol3 of the burglar, the primmer was detected by the servant, when he either designedly or in mistake fired off a pistol at her. He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude. This eau concluded the business of the assizes. NORTHERN ClRClllT.—Ernaponz., Dzc. 23. CROwa Courr.—(Bed ore Mr. Justice Willis.) A LA/WASH/RE NAGISTRATI 811fTLICED TO IItriESONNILTT. Wrn Staudt:A Carr Standish, of Du:berry Hall, near Prestos' (who had been out of bail). was indicted for unlaw =and maliciously woueding John H ee k e th an d J ame on the highway DOW Onnskirk, on the 84h of Sep tembe;. A second count charged bin, with an assault mils iss grievous bodily berm, and a third with • 000111200 assault. Mr. Holksr, for the prisoner, offered no evidenos on the first charge, and the prisoner pleaded guilty to the other two charges, and after some discussion he was placed in the dock for trial. Mr. Attorney.Cenersl James, Q.C., for the defence, said that in both came the injuries sustained by Baobab and Burke were of a trilling character, and whatever might be the judgment of the court, Mr. Standish was pre to compensate them to the fullest extent. Mr. eh had for several years past suffered from 0000aoggetion of the liver, • complaint always aggravated by rasidsooe is warm cli mates, yet la spite of this he 'erred with his regimest in India, and was prompt at the siege of Luclinow. Hers be became so ill that the commander-in-chief, at the request of his colonel, Sir William Russell, gave him permission to return to England. While at Calcutta en route for home, be had • sun stroke, which shattered his aervoua system dreadfully. On hie return home be coutinued very ill, and his liver complaint caused him such agony that he often could not Bleep, end he ennead often teatimes to try and lull his pain. It was after an unusually painful attack that Mr. Standish committed the dreams to which he that day pleaded guilty. lie (Mr. James) would therefore ex pires • hope that taking all the circumstames of theme into consideration, the ends of justice would be answered by kr. Standish giving security to such an amount and for such • period as would protect the public from a repetitioa of similar acts. Mr. Standish sod his friends ware also willing that he should he placed under whatever medical restraint and treatment should be thought advlnable. The leaned judge. in passing mutinies, said—William Standish Carr Standish, you hove pleaded frailty to an indictment for an assault committed apes a person of the name of ffeeketh, sad also for as eassalt against a pat ios of the name of Michael Burke. Your learned mama has urged upon the court various memo why they should pass • lenient meteor" upon you, and you may depen d upon it, aotwithstaeding the course which the court feels itself eeumelled to take in this cam, that all which has bees urged upon it has bees favourably received, mid that the contents of the a/Mesita containing the substance of what the Attorney-Oensral has just stated have been fully and anxiously comidered. You are here to answer for two assaults caoseg actual bodily harm, and there is also • roost for common .assault against you in each isdietment. There cm be no doubt that you did, on the Sib September let, Isom! year hone, attired is the Worm el a dill'. guished Yeomanry Corps in this comity, and that you did proceed to the country in • way which caused alarm to great number@ of her Majesty's subjects, and that you did in the course of your caner fire off • pistol, and that you did also draw your sword and flourish it about, one man receiving • trilling injury—au injury trifling in itself, as has been truly stated by your counsel , but an injury serious from the dia meter of the weapon with which it was inflicted, and above all (as von yourself must molt deeply feel) from the uniform Thess are circumstances which unites some substantial which was worn by the person who committed the act. ground is submitted to the court for the pur pose of inducing it to abstain from doing so, would call for the meet serious sentence, and noise the less because you are a person occupying a high position in the county, representing as it seems an ancient family, and you yourself losing • person who, the court cannot doubt from the affidavita, has been received with favour and affection amongst the most distinguished people of this county. The court, however, while it must take what I may properly call • " professicoal view " of the case—it is its bounden duty to do so—while it must in peeing sentence look to the security of the public, and take care that no person who is answerable for his *otiose—end I have no doubt upon the affidavits, and everybody mare rejoice to hear it, that you are now answerable for your actions—should serape an adequate punishment ; the court, while it must take care that the public is secured by a sub stantial senteoce upon persons who so seriously interfere with the public peace of the county must not forget what it is that has brought you into the state in which you committed this, which I may permit myself to call extraordinary and sin escaped.. The court must also consider the proba bility or improbability of similar acts being dace, either by you or by any person who would be in • position to do them. With respect to the latter, I repeat, the act is of an extraordinary description, unlikely to recur, and in that re spect, though the court must peas upon you a sentence most serious to you, they would not feel bound to pus upon you a sentence of a more serious kind. With respect to the former, there can be no doubt that the frenzy, as it has been properly designated by the Attorney-General on your behalf, in which these acta were committed, although in part it must have been occasioned by something which you had taken, is also in a msesure to be attributed to your having suffered f rom serious Ukase in the east in the service of the Queen, and that is the feature in the case to which the court looks with the greatest satisfaction, and we desire to allow it all due weight is passiog sentence upon you. It is also true that upon looking at the depositions the evidence makes it clear that the pistol which you fired was not loaded with a bullet. The other pistol which was found upon you appears to have had no bullet is it. Whether there was anything else in the pistol is not so clear. One may suspect or speculate upon it, but it is clear to my mind that the pistol was not loaded with ball, and that the person who was hit with that pistol was not even wounded. It appears to have been fired close, and the contents to have reddened his shoulder. I must say here that I commend the course takea by the able and discreet counsel wbo ace duets the prosecution, in not proceeding with the graver charge upon that indictment, for it appears to me clear upon the evidence that you could not have been convicted of the graver charge. With respect to the injury inflicted on the other man, it was fortunately also of • slight character, and upon that also / think • proper course has been taken, look ing to all the circumstances of the case. I have now re viewed all the facts, and it remains for the court to say what sentence shall be pronounced upon you. The court in this case has • discretion vested in it to sentence you to fine or to imprisonment, or to require securitygfor your future con duct. lam bound to say that I don't think the office of the court would be judiciously exercised in requiring securities for your future conduct, for you are a person of ' fortune and of friends, and no doubt yourself a person of education and of discretion, such SA the experience of your life must have given, and the court has • complete assurance from these circumstances, much more than from any security for your good conduct, in saying that such • security would in this case be nuga tory. Then comes the questioo whether you are to be fined or imprisoned, or both ; and I very much lament to say that, having given this case my moat anxious consideration, although the court thinks that to • certain extent a fine may be substituted for imprisonment, it is of opicion that, looking to this having takes place in a public highway, and it being impossible to treat you as • person not responsible for your actions, it is neceenry to pass noose sentence of imprisonment upon you, even looking at it from the point of view which must be taken with reference to the mere police treatment of the subject. The oonrt, however, has determined with reference to that Mr cuniatance which has been already adverted to and suffi ciently dwelt upon—the fact of your having suffered in the East, an illness brought on by that havirg had so much to do with the act which you committed—the court has de termined to 'antelope you to a short imprisonment, and to substitute • fins for the remainder of the sentence which it is proper to impose upon you. Of course the fine must be of • substantial character, rather with reference to your position as an 'stated man than with reference exclusively to the consideration of the offence for which you have been properly advised to plead guilty. Under all the circum stances of the case the judgment of the court upon you is that you be imprisoned in the common gaol of this county for one colander month, and that you pay to our lady the Queen • fine of 3001., and be further imprisoned until that fine be paid. The prisoner was then taken below. SURREY SESSIONS. OLD COURT. (Before J. E. Johnson, Esq.) Rd ward John Pretty,l7, was indict ed for haring wilfully smashed a pane of glen in the shop windowfof lir. Abra ham Clifton, watchmaker and jeweller, 24. Lower-marsh, Lambeth, and stealing three watches v alue 51. It appeared from the evident* of the prosecutor that he left the shop unprotected for a few minutes about cue o'clock on the afternoon of the sth ultimo, and on his return be disco,ored his shop window smashed, and missed from the inside three watches. A lad named Flownden, residing with his parents in a court near the prosecutor's, said he was standing neer a lamp-post opposite about one o'clock on Messina day, when he saw the prisoner approach the prosecutor's window, de liberately smash it, and take something from the inside, with which he ran off. Jane Bough, a girl about 12 years of age, gave similar evidence, and mid that the prisoner came up to her and told her if she did not split be would give be: a shilliog, but if she said anything he would have four years. lie then ran off. On the Saturday he came to her mother's house and offered her a shilling, and to give her a new silk dress, when her mother went for a constable, but during her absence be ran off. Feline-constable Hudson, 140 L, said be tookehe prisoner into custody, when be denied all knowledge of the robbery. None of the lost property bed bow found. Mr. Gordon Allen then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, mud a verdict of Chilly was returned. Mr. Keene, jun., reed a long list of previous convictions spinet the prisoner, showing that, although so young in yawed e 1111.11 old in crime. The Chairman sentenced him to three yews' primal servi tude, leaving the government to make arrangements fur training him to industrious habit& THE POLICE COURTS. WESTMINSTFJI. write Fitzgerald and Ewafy Buet&nq, two girls about 15 Tears of age, were charged with unlawfully having pro. perty in their possessioo supposed to have beet stolen. Richard Randall, a polios-constable, said that at half. past eight the previous evening he was in the Fulham-road, when be sew the prisoners together, and knowing them, watched them. They went into a great many tradesmen's shore of different descriptions, and at length were finally hastening away when be stopped them, and found two boxes of tip under Fitzgerald's shawl. Mr. Arnold—What is known of Fitzgerald? Constable—She wee here only a fortnight ago, charged with stealing some stoekiogs, sod on that owasion her sister, who is a highly respectable young woman, came for ward sod promised to take her into the same employment as herself, sod to keep her out of bad company ,• but she did not succeed in doing so, for the very first night after her discharge from borealis was out in the streets in company with two notorious thieves. Mr. Arnold—lid she been m custodybefore the time you mention . _ _ Witoesa—Yes • she bad been tried said convicted at the sessions, and after that she was sent to a reformatory, but that was no good. They had triad to reclaim her before, but it was useless. She was sent for three years, hut was there only a very short time. She told them she was over age, and in consequence of that they told her that she might go, and she did. Mr. Arnold—What is her age ? Witeess—We cannot ascertain. Sometimes she is sail to be 13, arid at others 16 years doge. Mr. Arnold—She ought not to have been told that she might leave the reformatory—it was very improper and irregular, and demands en inquiry if it really is as stated. What is keown of Bunting' Witness—She is a common associate of thieves. Bunting's mother stood forwud, and said her daughter bed fallen into bad company, and stood a good chance of being ruined. Mr. Arnold was of the same opinion, and said he thought he would deliver her up to her mother. Booting—l won't go home any more, if you please. Mr. Arnold—Won't you? Bunting—No. Mr. Arnold—Then you are committed for ten days to prism Fitzgerald will find bail for bar good behaviour for six mouths.—Committed is default. THAMES. _ _ A coloured lad, who g;;;titeUarne of Jabs Freeman, was brought before Mr. Woolrycb charged with stealing MM. of beef, 2 shirts, a pair of drawers, end other property, from the schooner Elisabeth, in the Regent's Canal Dock. Mr. William Wales, mate of the Elisabeth, said the pri mmer came on board on blondsy morning last in a destitute coeditioe, and mid he was starving, and in weal of a berth. Some questions were put to him, and u it appeared be bed bees a sailor he was provided with food and clothing, and treated in the most hospitable manlier. When the captain came on boar! in the evening be allowed the boy to remain on the ebip, sod signed the LAWN' of agreement to proceed on her intended voyage. In the night time the prisoner helped himself to the beef, shirt., drawers, and other pro perty, and west ea she., is as shies beat. 24, 1863. Alfred Nichol!, a police coaakabie, 496 A, said be found the prisoner it. the Rate!HY Cross Refuge on Tuesday sight and on taxing him with the robbery he admitted it, and said he bad disposed of the beef sad on* of the shirts to • imam Tower-hill. One of the shirts and the clamors were found upon him. Mr. Woolrych—Where are they' Witnesa—Here, air. I made him take them off. The prisoner, on being asked if be bad aey account to give of himself, mid that he was a native of St. Helena, and that he had wades voyage in an American ship to Ham burg, where he was discharged. He fell into distress, and was aent to London by the British consul as • distressed British subject. Mr. Woelrycli—And you were treated with kindness, warmed, and fed on beard the Elisabeth by vary kind hearted people, and tie captain agreed so take you to sea with him. You are • most uograteful fellow, and have made a very bad retails for the kmilneas shown you. I sen tence you to one mouth's imprisonment and hard labour. SUSPECTED SUICIDE IN THE REaENrs- CANAL. Yesterday morning Mr. Raffles Wa!thew, deputy coroner, resumed an inquiry at the Black Horse Tavern, Kingsland-road, touching the death of Mr. Thomas Cos tello', aged 48. It appeared from the evidence that de emed had held a good situation at a warehouse in Friday street, Cheapside, for the last 22 years. He left the seta blishment to go to his dinner at midday but Friday week. He was out seen alive after. On Thursday morning his body was fond in the kegeut's-canal, near the Queen's road-bridge. There was only one penny in his pocket. Mrs. Cadence, 9, Cross-street, Hackney-road, said that on the Friday morning her husband left home in his usual date, and she never saw him alive after. He had threatened to commit suicide, and he was very sober and steady. There was, however, latterly a slight falling off in hi. health. There wan nothing to make him unhappy. A nephew of deceased said that be had often spoken of pain in his heed. There was little doubt that he bad committed suicide. He was in good circumstance.. Dr. Major Greenwood said that he wee called to see the body of the dammed oo Thursday. It had certainly not been in the water from the previous Friday. It ooald not have been immersed much more than twenty-four hours. He could not say whether death arose from drowning, bat there were no marks of violence visible on the body. The Coroner mid it was most extraordinary that a re spectable man, in good circumstances, should suddenly dis appear, and no trace be found of him for such an interval as between Friday and Wednesday, the day of bis @opposed suicide. Henry Luke Costello said that hi father was very cheerful prior to his disappearance. Wittman never heard him say that he would commit suicide, and there was no reason why he should have drowned himself. Mr. Waller, coroner's officer, said that he bad made inquiries, and found that deceased was in high esteem at his em ployers' warehouse, in Friday-street, Cheapside. He could not be traced anywhere during the interval between the Friday and the time he came into the anal. There were some words found written en tke Quess'exced-bridge, which at first were believed to have reference to deceased. They were " Mr. will be found in the canal." Os minute inspection, however, the name appeared to be not " Costellos, but "Cooper." The comer said that the sees was most mysterious and unsatisfactory. The family ap peared to consider that the deceased had cow nutted suicide, but there was really no evidence of the fact. The jury re turned a verdict —" That deceased was found dead in the Regent's-canal, but bow he same into the canal there was no evidence to show." SHOCKING TREATMENT OP A DAUGHTER. A case has just been brought to light at Parkgate, near Rotherham, showing the moat shocking and inhuman treatment of a daughter by her father and stepmother. The matter is creating a considerable stir, sad is freely canvassed in the locality, but it would be premature to mention names. For several years it has been we ll known in the neighbour hood of Par kgate that a young woman was shut up in the house of her parents, but for what reason and under what cir cumstanoseno one knew. Persons who have occasionally heard her crier and feared she was subjected to cruel treatment have spoken of it to the police and others, but nothing was done to ascertain the real condition of the girL Lest Saturday night, however, she seized a favourable opportu nity and eansped to the house of • neighbour. Her appearance excited feelings of horror, and the tale she told of the sufferings she bad undergone could scarcely be cre dited. She returned to her "home," and information was given to the police. On the following morning, Sergeant Horne went to the father's house and insisted upon seeing his daughter. After some little hesitation site was called, and an object presented itself that could scarcely be reoesniaed ss • human being. Wrapped around her were a few rap in • meet filthy condition ; her eyes were black and nearly closed ; her lips were swollen to as enormous size ; and on one of her ears was a large wound, from which blood was flowing. Her features were shrunken sad die. torted, and altogether her appearance was of the most sickening description. The officer tried every means to induce her to speak, but he was unable to elicit a word from her. He then asked to be shown the room from which she was called, and a small place like • recess on the stairs landing was pointed out to him. There was just room in it for what was used as • bedstead, but which was in reality a heap of filth, and the place was in a most disgusting state. Persons who live near state that it is at lead fourteen years since the poor creature disappeared, and they speak of her as being then about fourteen years of age, and a lively intel ligent girl. Although she is now therefore shout twetity. eight years of age, she is not so tall as an ordinary girl of twelve—having rather diminished in stature than grown during her long and dreary inearcoratioo. As soon as the facts of the case became known to Superintendent Gillett, steps were taken with the view of bringing the matter before the proper authorities. At the meeting of the board of guar dians oar Monday the cue was brought before them by Mr. Oxley, of Parkgate, and an investigation was ordered to be made. The most extraordinary feature in the case is that the father is in comfortable circumstances, and well able to support his daughter peoperly.—Najjidd Independent. ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR STA M FORD. —Ann Webster, the wife of • farming man living at a somewhat lamely cottage at Castertan, near Stamford, was, on Saturday evening, fired at by some ace outside, receiving part of the charge in bee head. She rushed out of the house and haw • man whom she did not know, and then ran to the farm residence of Mr. Dawson, several hundred yards distant, where she arrived bleeding. In the meantime, however, two labourete who had paned the house but • • few minutes before ea their way home heard the report of • gun, followed by shrieks. They turned back in the direction whence the noise came, 'bee the y maw • man running down the road leading from the house and coming towards them. They state they saw him hide something i• a rut in the road, and afterward, pick it up sad throw it in a hedge. They stopped him and raked him what he had done, and he replied that he had dose nothing. They took him back to where they saw him throw something in the hedge, and there found a gun, whereupon he wan con veyed to Mr. Dawrion's and haodcuffed. What could have led to the commission of the act cannot at present be stir factorily ascertained. The woman, it is thought, will re cover. —Sheffield Ihdependent. THE bIORDER IN WILTSHIIM—The inquiry by the magistrates into this case terminated on Tuesday. Four persons were originally apprehended on the charge. On Saturday the two youngest were set at liberty, and the other two, named Hicks and Kendall, remanded. At the examination ma Tuesday • woman named Hall stated in evidence that on Hicks being told that deceased (whets in custody on a charge of stealing donkeys) had implicated him aa having two of the animals, he (Hicks) flew into • passim, and said deceased ought to have his tongue pulled out. It was shown by Saperiotendent Wright that • toe.tip on Hicks's boot, which attracted attention on hie being apprehended, was, on his being searched at the station next morning, missing, and he denied having taken it off, or knew what bad become of it. A portion of it was afterwards found inside a ventilator of Lis cell. At the close of the evidence Mr. Min applied for Keodall's discharge, es there was clothing to warrant bis committal. To this the beach, after • private coosultation, consented, but intimated that Hicks must go for trial. His counsel therefore declined to say anything, and he was committed for trial at the next arises. THE EIRE AT laWlBllA3l.—This fire is suspected to be the work of an ioaendiary, arid in the cotuee of the day Samuel Dorman, aged 2i, describing himself as a labourer, from Lincoln, was brought up at the Green wich Police Court, charged with being the guilty party. Inspector Townsend identified the prisoner as a man who worked at the engine at this fire, and also at a fire on m.a adjoining farm a fortnight previously, about the same tame in the morning and under similar mysterious circumstances, when farm produce valred at 5067. was destroyed. In con sequence of this he called the prisoner from the eosins and questioned him as to where he bad passed the night. The prisoner replied that be had slept at • beer-shop near the Lewisham toll-gate, ad that having heard the alarm of " Fire" be got up and dressed himself and went to it. This was within three-quarters of an hour of the fire first brooking out, sod the distance to the spot when the prisoner said he had slept was two miles and a half. The prisoner was then searched, and in the breast of his shirt was found the straw of • bead of rata, and on the back of the blouse he was wearing, and also in his boots, were traces of his having been lying among straw. The prisoner was thee asked if he was • smoker, and carried Inciters about with him. lie replied that he did not ; but on being searched the limiter, produced were found in his waistcoat pocket. The prisoner bad since been taken by a constable to point out the beershop at which he said be bad slept, but bad failed to do so. The prisoner, in answer to the magis trate, said he let himself out of the house uoksown to the landlord, but as be had only engaged his lied at ten o'clock the previous night, and he had never before been to the house, be woe unable to point it oat to the constable. Yr. Traill said the evidence was very suspicious against him, and he would, therefore, be remanded for a week. It is now conclusively established that no other Oil ran possibly produce the same beneficial effecta as Dr. de Jonah's oil on the consumptive invalid. A. tliattaway. goo., Surgeon, of Leominster, writes Having far setae yean ea. tenotely used Dr. de Jonah's Light Brown Cod Liver Oil. both In public and private practice, Is the treatment of ear am - option, I have us hesitation le stating Its effects are veil far Amportor to thuwe of soy other Cod Liver Oil." Sold only Is capsuled bottles, ra. Oil, 40. 9d., sod es, by the ode Annie, Ansa.% Harlon!, and Co., 17, Wand. Landon, and cheiststa.- [Ativertioement]. MARKETS. TALLOW.—WEDMIDAT EYECUP:L-71A market wm arm to-day :--Spot sad ell the south, 41e. to 41.. 31. ; Joimiory. 41a. Bd. ; Monk 41r. Sid. to 435. ; April to Jour, 43. to 438. Dolirowp to loot .Haas, 615 cooks ; arrivals, 356 maks. COTTON.—Lieurom., Dec. 23.—The market remains aged. Saha, 3,000 bales ; speanktica and import, 1,000 bale.. 500 Almeria's, 25441. to 270. ; 1,990 Swat, 150. to 231.1. ; 500 Egyptian, 271 d. to Akl. ; 10 Smyrna, 220. The week's import is 18,242 bake. WOOLS.—HODDEIMFICLD, Dsc. 22,—The woo' market bu been very quiet to-day, bat some moderaterized parcel. have changed bands during the week on neat year's woman. Priors are firm, and as unproved demand expected on the opening of the sew year. LEATHER.—DerIag the last week the amount of buil. sees does in the leather trade has been limited in extent. Oa Tuesday at Leadenhall the sm ply of fresh goods wu about equal to the demand, which was small. Prices were withered. Light common dressing hids were the article, most in request. There was a large supply of market hides, which were sold at lower rates. OORN.—BowrOe, Dec. 23.—We had a small supply of wheat, which was taken off at the extreme rates of last week. The demand for spring corn was slow, but prices were not lower. Wheat, red, 39a. to 41a; white, 425. to 44e. Baena old, 395. to 40a. ; new, 335. to :its. Peat, bl ue , 33 . t o 34 4 .; white, 31s. to Ms. Oats, 17s. to 20a GLASGOW. DEC. 23.—0 f wheat rid Clyde the week's sup. plies era sgaia to a fair extent, 2,074 qrs., together with 2.800 qrs. beans, being from Egypt, and 6.246 qrs. wheat, along with 930 barrels floor, from Canada sod America ; rid Grangemouth, 1,820 qrs. wheat from the Baltic, constitute the foreign arrivals, and 1,494 qrs. wheat are reported coastwise, but • number of vessels from Baltic porta are kept out b 7 adverse winds. A few speculative purchases of American wheat ware made at the end of the week, but fie the whole the trade has been very quiet, and prices is favou r of buyers. In floor there was little passing. Oats and oatmeal, as well as other articles, met • very limited inquiry, all classes of buyers restricting their operations as mach as poasible, as is madly the case when the end of the year approaches. At this day's market few transactions in what were reported, and quotations are 3d. to lid. per boll lows, on the week, bat the tom was firmer than on Friday. For flour previous rates were required. Oats 3d. per boll, and oatmeal 6d. per load cheaper. Barley 6d. and beans 31. lower. Indian corn and pew unaltered. CATTLE.—SoirreaLL, DEC. 23.—Trade was very limited today. There was but little clock on offer, end scarcely any demand for it. Beef made from Si. 6d. to 4s. 10d. ; mutton, ss. to 6s. 2d. ; veal, 51. to ss. 6d. ; pork, 3s. to 4a. 6d. pa stone of Sam sinking the ofaL 00ALf3.-Lonna, Dsc. 23.-Byares Baba& Wad Earthy, 16e. id. ; Cowpen Hanky, 16a. 6d. ; Enig' Earthy, 164. 6d. ; Eolywell limn. 17a. 9d. ; Lawberra West Hartley, 16e. 3d. ; Waldrulia Gu, 19e. ; Water Primrose, 154. ; West Hartley, 164. 6d. ; Wan Wylsat, 16e. ; Wylarn, 17e. 6d ; Walls End Byron, 18s. ; Well. Ead Glostatils, 17s. 9d. ; Walls Ead Harlon, 17s. 9d. ; Walls lEnd Wharnelifle, 18a. ; Edon Ilan, 18s. 6d.; Walls Fad Braddylls Hatton, 19s. ; Walls End Pranswellinte, 18s.; I Will. Hod Haswell, 20s. • Walls End Ituasers Halloo, 194 ; Walls End South Eaton, 20a. ; Walla End Tanks% 18a. ; Walls End Casson, 19e. • Walls End Candor, 19.. 3d, ; Walls End Hartloof 190. 9d. ; Walla Ead Haugh Hall, 194. ; Walls E 19s. ; Was End Ban Hartlepool, 204. • Walls Ead South Hartlepcol, 184. 9d. ; Was End Saab Hellos, 194.-Ships at market, 87 ; .old, 63. TRAFFIC RETURNS. Miles Pas- Mer- Total, Total, RAILWAYS. open. *engem 1863. 142. Week ending Oct. 4. ,E Bombay, Daroda, and C.l. 1851 1,890 1,070 :2,466 2.0 u Week ending Oct. 26. Great Italian Peninsula 634 1,261 6,306 8.067 1.:371 Week ending Nor. 21. Northern of Canada .... 96 399 1,067 1,483 1,6:1 Week ending Dec. A Grand Trunk °Monads —lO9O 0,702 15,000 21,822 21,5:x, Week ending Dec. 12. Illeoitts? North Nugent .. 4,94) 4,6e8 Week ending Dec. 18. Lrnierick and Ennis 79 76 164 113 Luaereck and Yo ea Waterford end Bllkeep 2l 140 161 301 355 Waterford and Limerick Week ending Dec. 19. Cork and Bandon 2O 189 163 362 nlO Week iambi* Doe. 90. Cornwall .... . 7 859 491 1,350 _s,:i lancsahlre & Yorbhlre. 402 12,557 13,257 36,624 31,614 IM 6,000 12, MS 11563 1.4.910 North Inuit - - VESSELS 8P013121 WITH. City of Amoy. from Calcutta for London, Nov. 6, lat. 35.63., lon. 23 26 E. Duckwitz (Danish barque, from Shanghai for New York, Aug. 15. Eclair, from Dune for Valparaiso, Nov. 13, lat. 10 N., lon. 24 W. King of the &as, from London for Melbourne, Nov. 1, let. 6 5., lon. 35 W. Patna, from Canton for Liverpool, Nov. 3, let. 34.38 8., lon. 26 E. Pitton, from Calcutta, Oct. 12. lat. 31 8., 10n.67.30 Pindar American ship., Dec. 17, lat. 49 N., lon. 4.2 W. Stniibmore, from Shanghai for London. Nov. god Cape Agulhas. Stranger, from Swansea for Coquimbo, Nov. 1,. Titania, standing westward, Nov. 22, let. 21 N., lon. S 5 N. Tara, from Quebec for Llaneily 19 days, Dec. 15, let. 49.14, lon. 10. Zerlma, ""u irom Kurrachee for Load" Nov. I 8 3., 1011 . W OUTWARD AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAUS.— Yesterday the Inman steamer City of Baltimore wee de spatched from Liverpool for New York with the United States mails, 25 cabin passengers, sad a full cargo. To-day (Thursday) the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's steamer Bohemian will sail from the Mersey for Portland with mails for Canada sad the UMW States. Os Saturday the Cunard steamship Africa will leave Liverpool for Bos ton with mails for the United States, British North Ame rica, and Newfoundland. Letters, &c., will be received at the Post-office until 9 o'clock a.m., and rid Queenstown without tall 8.30 p.m., and with !stets.' of ld. nattl9.3s p.m. EXPORT OF COAL FROM GREAT BRITAIN AND SCOTLAND.—Memrs. W. mid B. Laird, of Liverpool, have (just published their zonal monthly export coal circular, rum which we extract the following general abstract of the shipment of coal from the followrog porta for the past mouth :—Northern ports, 269,721 tons; Yorkshire 21,149 tons ; Liverpool, 69,8 IM toes ; Severn porta, 2174M 4 tons ; Scotch porta, 44,571 tons — ma king a total of 615,529 tons fur the mouth just ended, being an increase over the same month of last you of 120,057 toes. The total exports from January to November biologies were 7,042,748 tone, those for the same period of last year being 7,115,500, .bowing a decrease in the exports of the pelmet year, when compared with those of last year, of 73,752 toes. ACCIDENT ON THE GREENWICH RAILWAY.—At a late hour on Tuesday evening a shocking aczident hammed at the Greenwich Railway station to Mr. Bremerton, a tradesman of that town. It appears that the uofortuute man was a passenger from London, and that on arriving at Greenwich, rostaud of alighting on the platform be opera the door of the carriage oo the wrong side, and gut oar to the Rae of rails. At this instant the engine which had brought the train from London, having been shifted oo the turntable, was running along the metals to be attached to the neat op train, and knocked the unfortunate MAO down, one of his feet !mien cut off sad also the other leg beer the knee joist. 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