The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

THE SLOANE CASE. In consecineuee of the rumoured intention of Mr. Sloane to apply to the Court of Q :nettle Beach to remove the indictment in this case into that court, the subject was brcuizttt under the consideration of the Board of Guardians of the West London Uni.in, last night, when Mr. Pon- Wel, the clerk to the board, 'titled that he hod taken eli the necessary precautiunary et, ps to pre vent the inning of the writ without notice of the intended application being given to him, by entering e more at the Jutgn•ehambere, and ales at the Crown-rake, sad i rviag the defendants' attornite notice of the fact, bat up to the present time he had received no notices of the application. Mr. Chant's, who appeared fir Mr. Sloane throughout the rumblings, and at the Central Criminal Court, it ham beta ascertained, has not received Weise. boats to apply for the writ, which eon only bs done, during term, by collage), and application to the court at West minster, a judge at chambers having no power during term to dirtet the writ to hew. Information has reached Mr. Bar, thee IHar, who holds the warrant against Mrs. Slow, that •he la residing at Boulogoe, under a feigned same ; end, fe eaueNuence, he has had several interviews wit► members of the II turd of Guardians end Mr. Pontifex ea to the tropriety of applying to the government to aid, through the French authorities, ►er apprehension is the event of her being found there ; bat, as his going over to Boob:Nine would he attended with eonsidersble expense, he (ftw) objects to do es unless indemnified by the guardians. It op.—ars, however, that there is a strong disinclination on the part of the guardians to do so, ender the ins.reni on that tie poor low auditors world dialing the mount. LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAT. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. bircaft Ym. Coluinotrma Houma Is is SAViLI._ —.— The barkrupt a mall drep.r, at St. Neotee, in Hunt. lagd.ras _i-e , apPlirri ho his cortifi , tate, supported by Mr,. Lieklater lila proved &Ira were 1,8501., aacl he gave map about GUI 1. in good dt ha tad praptrty. The way peculiarity la the wte that, while null tratiamen in the 1010. bewhool of the to trup.lis generally ascribe their nisi to the uproar'', of a ra.tway with Loader, 00 bankrupt curl hated his 'Wien to his being cut off Iron all railway C3lll - ----- Hie Realm granted a priond. elms certificata. IN EC JA1:141111. There wee a dividend meetior to-day is the matter of Jar One, the mammy of the ILreford Saviors Bank. Mr. Alfr..st Jones, who reprte•ntsd the assignees, stated that, vile time ago, Mr. Lawrence had put in a claim for 2,00td. c,a the port of throe depositors is the saviors book who might be held entitled to prove easiest the estate ot Jardiae. &tend had done so; and he now applied that the china sai.. tit be 'spur red, it beicr ussdentocd that It was eel; awe 101 the purpose o. re,erviog a dividend for such ver.ous a. milt prove. Those oh.) bad dace so wen mauled to a dividend. M. Liekiater (i.; the absence of Me. Ls smelt) said he hae ni instructions M the matter; het, it the trustees of the bank tame and a .ui•ht to turn the clam Into proof, they erastit to b. a• I;berty to address the court. TA. Cw.•teioocr. - 1t !hey 031 , 8 betas the imitates is done, I will hi sr wt.►t they . eve to say. Ply. Jan—!t is not very likely, et it has been decided diet they cannot prove. The Cunmissioner—l 'foal suppoec ;t is ; but we may as welt weir, en.: let*. eapusging of the claim be till the elan *lda hewer's — neva ie •pwaed. of 10,0001. el 'wets in hand, and the divirk . 4 ad I. :pc tied to be Cb.ut 10a in the posed, making, with the premiss dividend, 16i. in the pound. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. GUILDHALL. CANINO AN EDlTOll::Mr.latets, the *direr of 'a news. paper called the Natal Journal appeared to thy to pre fee a charge of 'resit agnnet Mr. Mime, the emigration scent. It appeared that the latter ge piteous, feeling offend. d at a paragraph in the Jostensl is question, m.t Mr. March in Great Wel thester•street, and areaulted biro with a stout validate cane, h.flicting unreal blows, the a.atka of which Mr. March exhibred to the magistrate. After a good deal of remiatination between the perdu., the magistrate (MA/r -ola& Unpelano) decided on seethe, the case to the it. salons, tequila, •Mr Elm, to Had bail himself in 201. and two 111•41.:1411 of 3Ut. to answer the sheave. BOW STREET. Rounv.ity tu wh3 me himself •p at the Chief-efae•, Seot:and-yard, a few days mitten, and eanisewd to 1 mug atemeosd sad stolen the sow of 181., the prop riy of his ma -ter, Mr. W. Bibtlerp, of Clare strict, Listsrizk, was 'swanned. The ine . pector stated that he bad written to air. Sibthorp eadireeeived a, answer, sieving that he did not intend to pro strate . Thy Loop etor hiving no warrant for his apprehen sion, the f t:toner was discharied. 61ARLBOROUGH.STREET. EI'HOLART IX TOTTENHAM 1:01:111-110AD —J. iTilltairw. allay Mallow Jack, J. Cutter, aliu /ono!, LeiskA San, W. Allasois, aka The Irian Ilesrlmr, C. Nonni, and C. Um hay, , has Little Charley, were fully committed for trial, en cleave of bugle/lowly entering the house of Mr. Varley, r, he., di, Tot:. nttam-court road, and stealing there at:as property to the amount of 140/. WORSHIP-STREET. Picittun rOCINTS in CHUSCH.—C. Baldwin and T. the elder of whom we. only about eleven year of it., were re ezamin 4, charged with haring peeked the leant of • lad named George Barker, during divine service at St. Mark's Church, Old-street, and also with haring ir , quitceel other places of public worship with intent to esuanid Cnnplainnt said that on Sundae evening he attended the shove church, and was informed by a lady that Baldwin, who It.l jar entered vri , h the other prisoner, and mated him telt 'pet him, had abstracted something from his pock.t, rehab he kW paned over to hie companion. Finding on examining his pnekct, that • clasp knifo bad beta taken from it, be at awe charged them with the robbery, which both of them dmied, at the same moment hastily ls.vicg the church. Thu were follow:.) into a chapel in the neigh. homeland, ands policeman found them in the gallery. He ordered them rut, • , 11 on lurching them found the knife and • Bible, evidenvly beloneing to 'member of the congregation, sad with the name and date, " Mary Ann Saunders, Dee. 15,"," inscribed within it. Baldwin had been see, ral bears convicted. Ile had been admitted into • philanthropic institution, and discharged as iutc.rrigible. The prisoners were committed to Newest/if*? trial. - - - Attaall'TED StICIDI or ♦ MAN ♦rD HIS C. 11.1sIoni, a thetemaker, and Mat,61.1 Belateam, his wile, bairn at N, 8, Goringotre et, H. atop, were charged with attempting to a remit auicide in the Regent's.eanal. P..licenam Alswortb,S 71, stated that shout three o'clock tilts slamming ►e wag on duty in Devonshire row, Hoxton, seer the Dental's-easel, when he limed a violent altercation between n sus and a woman. He arproaehed them, and suddenly heard a splash in the water. Upon gutting up to the emal he saw the male prisoner struggling is the triter, and he was harmed by the festal* that he h-41 thrown himself in for the purpose of ;drowning himself The stale prison., had reached the opposite side 01 the canal, and witness called to a policemen to endeavour to save him. At this moment the female primer, exclaimed that its, would destroy herself, and she was about to p:uoge in, but ima stopped by witness. Sae was gives into the crime, of the other constable. Witotus suboequently re.esed the mak prisoner. They wee.) both taken to the sta•ina.boom in Ito& rt-stror t, where they stated that they L. 2 b dt, strewn to drown themselves. Tee t..elr prisoner said that he sod his wife had been to a Lail, where they bad drank rather freely. When near the cunt they had a few words, and is a moment of excitement he ' , will) plunged into the canal. The pnsmers, Wisp tumble to find bail, wen locked up. RCICII.E.—Tbis morning Mr. Carter stated, at as irquest held by him at Comber'',ll, that be had last held so I, q.siry oe the body of a your" woman who destroyed herself hy pumping from Waterlaudoridge, the facts of which etched sot sun published. The ranee of the young woman was S phis Julia Offley, about 20 jean of age, and, it wee l•t I, AM been very respectably brought up, but had recently been out at service. About four amoeba ego her master sad mimeo left tow,. end she bad their authorhy to draw upon are of Ms clerks for her wages and any espouses which she might be at for the household. She over drew to the amount of a few shillings, and this led is extraordinary eseieement, and ultimately to her death. She west to her brother-in Isles, who le a tutor, in St. AIM'. coon, Holborn, sad declared she would sot ge hide to her mistress, but declined to seats the reseos ; aM was, however, prevailed on to return ; but again sad wu hied hams in Red Limey's's'. Her brother-is-law to)l her *co hi Me se. She bad written to him to say she hat done wrong, sad was detennised to destroy herself. Oa Ha day weak she west out I. great euitement, her brother shag as her to num back, bet she would not, sad the na• sight key bonnet was bead on Waterloo.bridge, and her bogy near it in the rim on Friday last. The jury returned a verdict " that the dammed destroyed herself while in a statist temporary tussahs." ROYAL BANK or AUSTRALIA. Yesterday there ars a sleadeg of his parte. Interested is the winding up of thi roarer,. Mr. Selwyn appeared on behalf of the North British lasursace Company, which claims to be a creditor et the bask Is riftvet of a loan of 27,00F1. time witnesses were called is support of the claim, and the further hearing of the matter was adjeurced at healed tow o'clock. TOR SOOT= !soar TRADZ.—An ladoeutial meetie, *ma is trade wee held yesterday (Monday) in Wasgow, toe Amide, what wins might be deem d desirable tourney's • of urn zot , pojulice found to exit in England against the um Sti.h iron. An effective committee was appointed for that rue,' ee. These gentlemen are to report to a subsequeut pa rot daCrtiLl; of the trade. The subject is of the highest Importance to a standard brach of our minimal industry; sad we have every coetidenc, in the steps taken by the com mittee Wag satisfactory Ia their rsaults.—Doily Mail. SHORT WEIGHT IN COALS. "CAPTAIN RAY" AT GUILDHALL POLICE COURT Mr. George Combee, Iva-mars:haat, drawing at Di leish and Taylor's wharf, tlootland•yard, was cbsrgfd with del:caring, or musing to be deliver.d, floe s.cks cal of Its. than tl.e legal weight to Mr. thithbart, to:low smelter, of Pat:rooster-row. This chart', originally pre %rred agait at a mythical " Capt. lily," was transferred to the present dsfeteant in conse quence of the evidence of a b y concerned in the delivery of the wools, who aloud that toe coals wars sent from Caosabea's c111,:e. An engisaman in Mr. Cuthb•rt's employ proved that 40 sacks of coal were delivered at his mastet's nn the 24th ult. The grass deficiency in their weight he ascertained to be 7 mt. 3 qn. 9 lbs. Crass examined—The auk' bad been full weight by the scale on all feigner occasions from the lame parties. Henry Hall, candle maker, was peen nt at the delivery of the male, and made a list of the weight of the sacks. The total deficiency wu between:seven and 'Wit owl. Hack, 371-1 saw the coals is question weighed at Mr. Cathbert's. I made out a list of the weight of each sark. Thera were upwards of 20 sacks deficient. Tne root were all a trine over weight. The SIBIZIIIIOOI Only refers to five sacks out of the whole tantalite, and the following is the amount deficient in each of thou: The 16th sack was 611 b.. short, the 20th 521 be, the 24th 46114., the 30 h 6016 s , and the 40th was 47Ibs. deficient. The tame and address of "John Elaith, Oravenor Basis, Westminster," wee on the waggon that brought the coals. It heel a weighir.g•maehtne and weights attar rd to it, bet the machine one broken after the sound auk was weighed through the carelessueis of one of the men throwing a s►ck too heavily on the PC4:e. Jolla Hurons Cuthbert—On the 21 b of December I re. CiliVIM 4 tons of coals. 1 seat a runner g order •o C ptirn Ray and Co. to send the same quantity in every Tuesday. 1 acdreued the order to Itebert street, Horon. Mr. Lewis—Rau you the orders you sent / Witnesa—l have not. Mr. LArts-11;;;Vou mutt not speak of any document yen do no: produce. I subsea., your worship. that unless the or:sre an produced acy allusion to them cannot be taken as evidence. Atelarmin Wit on—You know, Mr. Lewis, that it is not in nu, rimer to ',rookie., them, as to sent them to Captain R.y, who is tun to bri tuna. Utless you are appearing Lr Cap Ma Ray, I dos% am Mat )on um make soy ob J .l l! °e •.. - - Mr. Lawia-1 appear for Mr. Coombe', but as a lorg statement has gone torch to the public throush the without of the public press to the pnjadtes of wy client, I feel it a duty nut to allow martinis to be stated the% does not is ✓ecotately b - ar upon this cam as reminds Mr. Coombe'. Alderman Warns—We will take your object' in, but nevsnuelese we wiel also take the evidence, and ti aiterwards found lacurrect it can be expucged. Wrnen-1 sent severe orders to Captain Ray. I sent them by ps. The cense I received on the 24. b of Dec. cams in sonsequence of th,. last order I cent to Carat' Ray. received any cumusunicati,n frames/ram Ray, nor tad I ever me him. I visiays paid tee 010114 y to • boy woo sullowtd the waggon. I produce the bill of parcels of the lest lot of pude. It is made ou;. in the name el Ciptain Rsy, of Robert awe, lloston. I never saw any one who represented himself as the proprietor of the °missed to me. The b.iy who mede a trattencat here last Wedm.sdav applied for the money on the delivzry now in question. I reused to pay him. The coals were very gaud, and at Ihr. pa ton full welaht would have been et:eap John Wihis the boy rented to i.e Mr. Cu•hhert's nee)-1 Ins at 3, Denmark -street, Crumn.street, Soho. I espk,y, d e. 7 decedent. Intel, tickets that 1 hold in my hand ware made out by Captain Ray's clerk. 1 don'tknoe who he b. I don't know his name. 1 am not aware whether 1 raw h s make them out or not. I don's tl.h.k I ever saw the,, taelth.s before. 1 can't re raeinb-r twit I emu 1 made think out. I was so puss cd the lest time I was here, through Mr. flue &spring me through the musts I.ke r common Wan, that I don't know what I coded. 1 fe.`li'l snow aced usual sew Cap•ain Ray. I don't know wain the clerk is to be (evade I did net go with tks goals on the 24th of December. I merely helped the men to waken. I never asked Mr. Cathbert fur the minty. I LOS• r received any money Item him on Captain Ray's amount 1 bun,e the coals nose cum the same wharf where lam easp:oyed. 1 did nos eee toe coals go away, nor was 1 seat for abase/arum. I don't know anything abuu: them. Mr. Lewis—Niue, Willis. asserer dirinetly all questinus saw are pa•. to you, a1.,1 •peak V.e trim, no outttr whose la erset it easy tend to stfeet. W itases—tio I will, a , well as my memory serves me, tat I ate s darnel, you see. (Laughter ) Alderman WWll—Hare you aut mid on a (piquet treee.io• that tt a goals were eaten d in Mr. CO , .lll),i'i b , ok, and that you copied them out ta making nist the tickets ? Mr. L•wir—l realty must obj-et to this question btiefe put, subtle the I,fliner staeiliefn ie in writing. Alterman Watson—We have it in our nunlike, taken, on oath when wit..ess nu lut herr. }or the wamotawn and sataelacuoo of Mr. Lewis. that etateament was read over. Alderman Wilson-1 now repeat the question. is that a trip , state wow. ? Witness—lt is; hut I cannot recollect what I uid en that ore :won. My es limey is very bed. I did not make nut the •iekets iron Mr. Coombes's bulls. I don't know who did. I can't remember. I did not see them made oat t+,►t I know of. I can' , keep things is my bead so lone. 1 bedeve (bey wen toads out by Captain It e!'s clerk. I know they are set in my own handwriting. Jokes Tribe—l have been a carman, but wa• not on the 24th of December lest. 1 went with the cools on that day to must as a labourer. The coals come from Capt. Ray. They:were taken from Bcutlaad•yard. I don't Imow which 'hue. I did not OM tnem go ob the wharf. lam not in the employ of Capt. Rey ; ►is clerk sometimes paid nil. I don't know who be Is. 1 work for soy one, and frequently for Capt Roy. I don't know who has bird me, but it was generally the carman, whose name is on the waggon. ;John Bml% I believe, is the centimes came. Capt. May's clerk pays me when 1 go on the wharf, and the carman pops me ores I don't. I never saw Capt. Ray. I don't know soy thing about him. The MOULD bind me on his own account After the coals wire weighed, I war taken to the station. 1 did give the unto of John iSmith, foreman, Bbnrystreet, Pirnhoo. Um carman old sue to give the name that was on the ticket. I did rut see Willie present when the tools were being weighed. lit eam► up atterwards. I have seen him berm at Scotland yard. Sonsetinn s in DAIWA and Ta)lot's wharf, •ad sometimes in other,. I have oleo seen him occ..sio►ally in Mr. Coomb..s'a countingh nue. I did not apply to Mr. Cu•hbert for the money for the coals. Willis war acing as Mr. Cnombes's clerk, !list is, I mean as Capt Ray's clerk. I don't know for certain, tut I believe such is the feet Mr. Roc said that he had not br•ee able to find the owner of the waggon in the name that first appeared upon it on the delivery or the coals. No such same was known in„Orcevenor- Wain. Neither had he been able to serve the sumerms per mainly upon Mrs. Fewlets, at Robert street, lioxton, as she Lad got oat cf the way. AlitOTOilln Wilson—lt will perhaps be aminsary to remand this woe to bring up the other waterline. Mr. Lewis—lt is rent my client's intention to dear that he is connected with Captain Ray, or that Captain Ray's clerk is not his clerk also. We are perfectly willing to admit that such is the fact. Therefore I see no object in adjourning the use for witnesses to prove what has already been sdrritted. Alderman Wilaou—Then an you prepared to show that Mr.C4otatxs is not the seller. Mr. Lewis—l am prepared to show that Mr. Caombee, in eonjunetion with Captain Roy, is the seller, but that the onus of the short weight clots not rest will them, but with their servants. It does not necessari , y fellow, your worekip, that because coals are delivered short in weight, through the miscoaduct of the men, the master should be held responsible, and be subjected to the same result as if it were hie own action. It lusi already bees shown that the five previous deliveries had been all overweight, and it was absurd for the defendant to suppose for one instant that Mr. Cuthbert would neglect to weigh them the sixth time. Mr. Cuthbert had always bad full weigh., and that too at 18e. per ton. It was evident that the short weight originated with the men, as the lad Willis, in order that his master should nit find him out, asked for the money for what coals Mr. Cuthbert lad had, intending, no doubt, to make up the deficiency in amount to his muter out of his own pocket. Al term= Wilson—lt masters were not made answerable fur the conduct of their servants, it would only be an encouragement for to reb whenever the opportunity offered. Mr. Lewis—The act of perliament allows a penalty of from ls. to 64., se if your worship thinks that we are legally liable, I presume that the evidence ie not sufficient to induce you to inflict a penalty Creator than Is. =Such sack. Alderman Wilson—The muss point is the favour of Mr. Coombe* was the wielchisig of the coals la the five previous deliveries, and all being found full weight. But that a great fraud had been attempted on Mr. Cuthbert there is so doubt. It certainly looks very bad on the put of the boy, as far as he is concerned , to sak for payment of what trek bad been delivered, and act for the full quantity named in the bill made cut in the ass. of Captain Ray. Under all the cir 'soutane's, and presuming that Mr. Coombe" did not benefit by the short weight in the delivery of the coals to Mr. Cuthbert, I shall convict the defendant in the penalty of Is. for each sack Lamed in th^ summons, and order him to pay the costs, amounting to IL 9w in all. The money was then paid into court. It is stated that nearly 1001. has been subscribed on the Coal Eutaw, for the pupae of carrying on these and similar FATAL ETTTRTS OP PASSION. —An inquest MA held on Monday last, at the Gaildhall, before H. IL. Al. ridge, EN , coroner for Poole, touching the death of Ge3rge Allen, of the Star and Gtrter, beer shop. On the previous Saturday night there were sum five or eiz prams in hie home, about eleven o'clock, when his wife awoke a ma who was lying asleep on the settle, desiring his to loam the how, whereupon he struck a y3ung woman near his. Deemed immediately threw himself into a violent passion, and bromine so excited that he was Men ill. Three about ►int being alarmed, seediest aid was sent for, but he did not rally from the stupor into which he had fallen, and about two is'elock the unfortunate maa bad caked to exist. Hie death was octesioned by apoplectic byearia, brought on by • great 83w of blood to the brain, arising from excitement. The jury returned • verdict in owordwtoe with this evidence. It ww*leatly proved that ao blow had boos inliictod on him Uwewy. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, THE ST. KATHARINE DOCKS COMPANY. Yrststasy the half-yearly 'Reefing of this company was held at the Dm k-house on Tower.till, for considering ant a dividend, end on other busitoes. The chair was taken by THOMAS Tooze, Eeq., who said that ad soon as the revrt was dspoied of a lets' meat would be laid before the meeting, showing the po. ition of the company In respect to the dispute with the Board of Customs. bir JOHN HALL, the Secretary, then read the following ree tt The account, of the receipts ard expenditure of the cons pang for the year analog the 3111 D.:ember tut, have been accessible for in proprietor , by the propritlo daring the lest 14 der., and copies el them ere now upon the table. From these mounts it appears that the grow eathiage of the com pany, for the liar ended the 31st December last (omitting fractional parts) were 231,5521., which, es compared with those of the year 1849, ante noting to 2'21,012/., show au in crease in the gross canines of the pest y; it, of 7,5401.; but, from the eztrithrdinary expenses the company have been subjected to during that period, a considerable portion of which Sae been otos:ousel by the Froccediess of the cost toms in these docks, the charges under the head of expendi• tore in 1830 hive exceeded chops of the preceding year by 6,3351., which, deducted from the increase of grad earnings, leaves the n aa in 1850 exceeding that of 1849 by 1,20.51 : . . . " The proprietors will doubtless recollect that at the het half-yearly sleeting the directors announced to them that it would be necessary to write oil certain rums for bad and doubtful debts, as also for loans, outstanding rites, rent, sod charges upon goods sold by the company, which have not realised the amount due upon them. "These sums, winch were estimated not to exceed 20,0001., would, it was rated, when a written off, reduce what was then considered as the rest, standtog at 48,5831., to about 28,5001, subject to a fur her deduction of 1.3181, determined open at that meeting for the purpose of makiew up the amount it guired to pay a dividend then declared, at ths rate of 2 per can.. for the half year. " The result of an examination into the accounts by • special committee, a:Totaled by the court of direcort, established that the sums to be written off, atti r takinn credit f,r some other items standing open, amounted to 15,5354 instead of 20,0001, si el that therutore the balance in favour of the company was 33,0481., instead of 28,5001. as had been previously estimated... " As 'leather result of the exaction:ice referred to, it hes been deemed advisable to adopt a system cf accounts which ehould ►how at onto the eunings and liabilities of ,each year respectively, and for this important purpose the bateau sheet of the ye sr ended the 31st December, 1849, has been remodelled accortingly. " The t ifect of this remodelling has been to charge the year 1849 in addition to Lau debursementa of the twelve months, with trawl of a third hell-year, amounting to 28,1851., which, bet .g payable in 18.10, would, according bs the time which has prevailed in this establishment since the e.nim.nement of besintas have been charted to that year, het sow, being deducted from the 33.0481. before mentioned, eaves, azeordiug to the re-modelled term of &ascent, a final balance brought forward on the let of January, 1880, of 6,64 31. 13s. 31. " A statement explanatory of the eff,ct of this re.model. ling upon the belanc,theet of 1819 accompanies the ae. count., from which it ia apparent that the diminution of the sum reprise ntiug the balance his not ansca irom a decrease in the net earnings el the year. " The net income of the company for the past year wee 71,6131., out of which wee paid in Juiy las: a d.eidend of 2 p.r cent., atomising to 38,6051. ; the diffetenee, together with the baritone brought meant on the Ist of Jamsry, 1860, amounting, seededing to the rentodel.ed account, to 8,563/. 13s. 3J. , caniututea the preen: balance 07 30,6711. 18.. 21., which is appiicable to dividend. " lhe prdprittoeswill remember that at the half-yearly general meeting, iu July leas, it was resolved, for the per. pose of making up ;he dividend to 2 per cent , to take from the balance the sum of 1,31h1. 0 A divide ad et the same rate for the put hall-yetr would involve the neeeuity of farther trenehiae upon the b►ltnce, and the directors therefore recommend that the dividend now to be atelier. d ba at the rate of 11 per cent. for the hall year coded 31st 11. member last, which will 'Mile them to restore 1/1 tue balance a pomon of the 1,31b1. above meatioried. " Another noon the director have for recommending this CAUTSIFI is, that, although Ile prospects of the company r reepews augmentation of bushing are far .ura:.le, they deem at prudent to provide against the conungency of some diminution of income that may arise from a reduction of rces upon sere ml of the principal articles of impatation recently determined upon to the port of Loneloo, while at the s.ms time en increase of ezpenoiture mart ne contem plated as areeing out of the 'troceediogs of the custom.. The foil-wing returns of the quantities of goods landed and in warehouse, and also of the snipping and tonnage, that have entered the dear during the pars 1848 and 1840 reeptetiv,ly, sla w a general imprivement during the put 3 ear its the various herders of btvistess in these Oche : T. JLATHAIII4I DOCKS. Almtreat—Cl .ods and &pipping, 1849, 1850. (io els lauded. Durimmi. I lel: Ilkr4l,`°°:„ I °"` 1699, on 31st I)ecva, net et the foil wing years: Durum , r . 1 , 49 t 3 6: 4 1 5 21 tom la 1030 over lent, titaipvieg, 1975, 1849, 1860. 1816. 1841. 1820. SU" Toss. Mips. Tons. Ships. Tens. Entetwit with 643 155,002 675 133,932 703 131,048 Enteretl i risit to load. 223 33,907 253 41,637 259 48,621 Total b 72 1119,0 N 92s 193,789 9,2 200,670 Marlin in IPSO over Mill 90 Alp 11,441 ton% 0 1930 , 1949 19 „ PORT OP L ' uNDON 016mliRAL RETURN. " An account et the number of atom* with tam amount of their tonnage, that have intend the pin of Lyndon iron foreign north in the yean ended 6th hammy, 1850 and 1161 11130. 1831. nip. Taw. Ships. Tons. 6,91/ 1,414,311 8,197 1,379,233 3,013 463,923 3,413 347,174 the enstoms cr to the cause of justice, could result from the postponement. But it the directors thought in July lest that put cause existed for dissatisfaction at the delay in britgieg to • decision such • grave charge egainet the servants of the company, it may be judged how much more is now tteir ground for complaint. when it la stated that after due roues of trial, in the Court of Queen's Bench, havieg been given in November kit, naiderable expense incurred In prepanng for the defence, briefs delivered and witnesses eubieelatd,the Customr,on the very day appeinted for trial, unreel, rolicitor, and witnesses blies; present in courr, withdrew the record at the very last moment without assieeing any reason for to (Litt. " The earliest p rind at which the trial can now take place is in the beginning of next month ; but the same course of proceeding may then be repeated—the rtes'( ?my be ?gain withdrawn, and the tri may thus be ind, ioltely postponed, without the accused Mein? any trews of expo , . diting •he decision of the charge of felony, which is thus kept suspended over theta, and without their lot 7•„ g an y redress lot the expenses incurred, lheatlnch ea the crown pays no costs. "Be Os possibility could, under ordinary eircuesstancts, such a delay as that which has occurred in this esee in eons:quotes of the extraordinary privilege of the crown' take ;dace in the trial of a pri•oner at the Central Criminal Court. In that court, if a prosecute.? is not prepared to sub. standete his cheap, or to assign some reason which shell, in the opioioo of the judge, be sufficient for the thisy, the so. cased is peat on his trial, and or count acquitud. "Proceedings have also been taken by the Customs against six other of toe servants of the co:npany for penalties. These pr ceediep are supposed to twice out of • charge that pods have been removed out of the docks without payment of duty, by being concealed in a dust bin and taken out in concert with the dust contractor. " The six men who were charg.d with being concerned in this all, ' 4 robbery were arrest. d and taken to Woitecross street prison, but were afterwards Lberated on pr-,curing friends of their own to put in bail for their appearance. "10)112186one have been filed ageinst them, the trials upon wkich cannot come on haat February. •• It is proper to add that the company have not in any way made the:treeless responsible for the penal - he (it such should be recovered), irasmuch so, if suck roobery has been committed, the company isles much interested as the crown ' in bringing the offenders to justice; hut the direc ors have reason to believe that there will ultimately be found to be no tenth is obis char e. " TM third subject to which tba direet , rs deem it nee li my to allude is the seizure by the Customs of sweepings, Scrapings, and other pods. Os the 14th of September last the company received • letter fre m the Secretary of the Customs, stating that it web the Intention et the commisaioners that the goods under seizure in these docks should be returntd into the Conn of Exchequer, and a notice on the part of the company was sh , rtly afterwards serc d on the Cimino, that toe company claimed the goods so seined. '• On the 4th November then goods were returned into the Court of Exchequer. On the 11th of November, • for tura claim to them on the pert of the company was put in, sod on the 22nd of the same month that claim was perfected by the performance of certain formalities r equ i re d b e l aw. The text stip on the part of the Customs was the itlinz of intirer.atioris to the Court of Exchequer, and this might have been done immediately after the 22nd November, when the ctmpitny'e claim was perefeired, but none of such informations were filed until the 21st D.oember. The directors consider it to be of importance to no.ies here the dilatory nature of three proceedings, as an etu myt has been made through some of the crwspapers to lead the public to believe that the Customs were fully prepared with their case, and that the delay which hes occurred in bring ing these proceedings to • determination has been oteaaimud by this cmirtry. Instead of suds being the fee, the trn'b is, and it admits of being proves, that no eelay that lass taken place is attributable to this company ; whereas, on tie contrary, tome of the ensures having been made by the Customs upwards of a year ago, and they in every inetin.ce 'laving been tho initiatory parties, with theta the delay has rrated. The trials on these informations cannot now take place until the month of February. "IA the present state of the pree.edinua, the directors pur posely abstaio, from obvious reasons, from entariog upon the subject of the merits of the taizurer. "The only remaining subject between the empty and the Customs is a claim on the part ~ 1 the latter for arrears of duties spread over a period of ten years, for w'.eich an information has been recently filed against the company. As no claim had been made on the comp iny for any arrears of Jul prior to the Hang of this information, nor any kind of iodination given that such information would be filed, nor any inform.ation afforded of the apet.fio fartocharg.d, the uttioen of the company are at a low to commute upon wh.t ground. this claim for arriam of duties is made "There is one circumstance mor, which the directors have t imen•ion as beiaa cheese:Met/4ot the Ve1%1i011,4 nature of the proceedings of the Ciistotts towsrde the docks. Net SAtiFfied as It ehould seem with the results of the rigorous karninati in which Ice ma many te.onthe the often of the revenue hat been earning on throughout the dock premises, the commissioners suddeoly, on the dad October, tamed an order for taking stock in all the company's wareheuses and vaul's, in which at the time upwards of one million of packages of goods were deposited. This atoekteleine, which has now been going on for several weeks, end may last many more, is attended with very great 'epeeist both to the mown ' and to the dock.. And independentiy of the expense, this process invades* the liability to inj ury of the yrarrty sob. jeered to it by &melte to the packages and tt, ten ration of the goods from unpiling and reptiles, end the cosoquest inertia* of sweepbge and cute ; and it has hitherto, to the best of the information the directors have been able to obtain, failed of eliciting a single feet to justify the imputa tion of fraud which has been assigned as the tenon for these unwarrantable proceedings. In corelusion, the directors cannot but strongly &pim ento the ye:Views and harassing I rocredinge adopted by the Castoras towards this establishment, proceedings which unavoidably in'erfen wi h the ordinary octuotions of the r filores and servante of the company, and to a great extent impede the usual business of the dock,. Tee directors, however, firmly trust that the deeisnme on these proceedings will be such as to put an end to the aggressions of the Customs' authorities, and to moiety the public how little reaaon there was far the erraordinery measures which have Men adopted towards the company and its servants." The CHAIRMAN enntessed the: the only remedy for thins was tr get the natant* brought before porliement, when he hed no doubt it would be abated. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BUCKLE having eulogised the conduct of the dine tors and re.retary, and condemned the vexatious mode of I proceeding of the Board of Custom!, moved a vote of thanks to the board for their cervices during the past year. Mr. All. FARNCOME seconded the motion, which was passed with acclaim ion. The unclog then adjourned. THE DISTRESSING HOMICIDE AT BRISTOL.—The cotones's intrust on the body of Mr. John Frederick Bippert, of whom death, under peculiar circumstancea, some particulars *mom in hloaday's Express, was resumed that day at the Llandoger lion Tavern, King street, Bris tol, and veined to excite even a larger amount of interest than on the preceding Saturday. The jury re-sasembled at 11 o'clock, but owing to the crowded s.a.c of the room, seine ,onsialerable time elapsed before the inquiry could be proceeded wi Stone, of the west. ro circuit, ap peared, with Mr. Brook, Smith, for the accused, Mr. Philip Alexander.—The first witnesses called were Mr. Long and Mr. Lansdowne, two of the medical gentlemen who had attended the deceased, and by whom, in company with Mr. Wiltion and Mr. N. Smith, the post mortem examination had been made. Mr. Ling was examined at considerable length, and detailed all the particulars of the illness and treatment of the deceased. There was no doubt that the death was caused by strangulated hernia, which was of recent standing, although when GA could not say that itmight not have existed for weeks, or perhaps two mouths.—Mr. Lansdowne having given a 'Oathr opi. nion, James Panes, a Pf.l pilot, who was on b .ord the Adolphe at the time of the allege d smelt, was examined, but gave his testimony in ao unsatisfactory a manner that it was difficult to understand what he r. ally meant to say. We believe it was, that Mr. Alexander and the deceased el- bowed each other; that deceased was thrown down by " • kind of shove," and got up almost immediately without as sistance.—Joseph Carrot, a waterman, who was on board the v.uel, said the deceased, Bippert, was standing by the companion on the quarter deck, and on Mr. Alexander cueing on board he said to him, " You are too late ; I have got the ship's papers." Mr. Alexander told him to mind his own businue and not interfere with him, and then put his foot on the companion ladder to go down into the cabin. Diceued elbowed him, upon which Mr. Alexander said, " I will go down; I have as much right here as you ;" and elbowed him again. From the companion to the brink of the deck was about 18 inches or two feat, audit was about the same depth from the poop to the main deck. Deceased tell over the deck, and then got up again immediately and went into the cabin. Mr. Alexaader said, "If you put your head on me again, I'll knock you down, If it costs me 201.;" to which deceased replied, "I will meet you as a gentleman to-morrow."—John Henry Smith, a soliciting agent in the shipping line, stated the: he went on board immediately before Mr. Alexander. Deceased was standing by the companion, having his hands on it trona side to side, and he turned round and said in French, with • sneer, "You are too late, air," Mr. Alexander went to go into the cabin, and pat his right arm against deceased, who prevented his going down by retaining his hold of the companion, and putties out his elhow to obstruct him. Mr. Alexander said, " Don't push me, air," aod gave him a kind of shove, and he staggered back a few paces. Witness thought he was going to get something to strike Mr. AI, :- ander, but he tell over the deck. H. immediately got up and said, " What did you do that for ?" when Mr. Alexander said, " VII do so again if you interrupt me in my business." Deceased replied, make you pay for it."—Fred. James, clerk to Meure. Alexander, d epose d that he went on board with Mr. Alexander to present a bill which the captain had drawn on the bras at Nantes. As Mr. Alexander was going into the cabin, Mr. Blatant pushed him. Mr. Alexander pushed split with his right elbow, and caused de ceased to tall, but he got up again almost im mediately. The examination of the deceased taken before the magistrate and in 'hien be are that Mr. Alexander struck him with his fist without provocation, sad knocked him from the poop deck to the main, thus causing the in juries of which he died, was then produced and read; alter which Susannah Bippert, his widow, was called to prove that whet he went out on the 4th of December her hus band was quite well, and that on his return be was ill and complained of having been assaulted. The inquest was than adjourned till Wednesday. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RtILWAY.— Traffic for the week ending ha. 18, 1851 : —Number of passengers, 11.180; passettgen and parcels, 5191. Bs. led.; goods, 3371. 12s. 91. band, 8571. 0.. 101.; correspondin g woek 1650, 8321. ; 114. MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. ME LATE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN CHESHIRE. SIANCHESTER, JAN. 21. The inquest on the body of the late Mre. Mtry Kinder, of Hatt,rsley, a village on Werneth Lowe, Cheshire, who wu murdered on Thursday evening lent, wu held yes terday minting, and the prootedings listed till a rate hour of the evening. No further facts have teen elicited by the inquiry, and the eircumatancis of the murder are shrJude.i in greater rayresy eince the investigation, if pcnsible, then beture. Many people had (spewed that disclosures would coma out at ttit inque.t ti,..torinF Josiah 1 , 45, thz sarv.ht maul but &mita', the iejAlti to ire. him from ail tuspicion. His demeanour at the ihqu , at, and his etraightiorward statement. ha asawer to the coroner, et counting without reserve for the whole of hie time anil movements throughout the day, at ono. appeared to disarm suspicion, even it the probability that he knee where to find the money which the real plunderer of the house overlooked did no. point to some other torrent. The is.quest was held at the Stamford A sae lon, Hatters:oy, about a mils and a half from Um .cone of the murder, before Charles Hudson, Elq., coroi.er for the northern division of Cheshire. isthe evidence adduced at the leeriest: Bost Kinder was the first witness She paid the deceased, Mary Kioder, was my mother. Her age last birthday wet 77. See was t' •wi eow of Georg- Kinder, Ist* of Mitt.,. lie was a Cushier termer, and chid eight years ago. We 011120 to live at Hatters ey above: a year after his death. My mother, my sister (Mena), and aneclf, came to live there at a farm belongine to my mother, ',lied !Mocha Feld. We lived there toot years in the house before we canmeoc.d farming. We let the laud during the toot years to Mr. Jacksen, my brother in law. Far the last four years my mother has famed the land. Jonah Fox and Sarah Fox lived in the house, hisidee my mother and sister and salt. 'vitae Fox is the farm servant, end came to live with as when we began to tarn, ' four years more. lie bad previously lived with .lukson, my brother-in. law, eight )errs . S a rah Fox, wee es his wine, bas lived with us nearly five years. These were Man trusty and confidential 'eremite. Ths y hue with the family, and we got our meals together, and both of them would know all our Miasmic and private &dein and the 'Mies of the ready. O s Thursday lett myself and Bitter left home to go oar a visit. We left at the same time, between half-put nine and ten o'clock in the morning. We went to Arufleld, to speed the day with a .istir. It is five miles or so meant. We left Saul Fez is the house with my mother. Jcsiah was about, or lam not sure if he had not gone with trio milk. We left n.y sister's, at Arufield, to walk home, about halt pest seven the same night, and were met, about a mile god a half front A ',title, a: a lice called Mill Brook, by James Wit. bamsen, who came in a spring sari He told us first that my mother was poorly : he did not know that she was led when he left home. We returned home with him in the spring cart immediately. We Maud cur mother dead, sad Mr. didtbettem, surgeon, end ether p opk were in the home. I and my siater nave searched the house so sea it anything was miming, and there may be something gone, bet the only things we mite are one two purses. lam not tare there are two, but there is ens miming. It was a netted purse with a gilt deep at the top. It was of drab and scarlet alit. Lett time 1 saw the purse I had it in my pocket, three or tour doys age, and I believe I put it into a drawer (one of a chest) se the bedroem over the house (sitting. room) : that was in the badmen) of myself sad sister. I c meet thusly reunlect what was the day. There was some money in the purse, but I cannot say wee het I took the money out before I put the purse in the drawer. I know I ask some m. ney out, but I am not sure whether I teak it ell out. Triero was another pure, belenging to my meter, but we are not Matte whether that is gone till we have aearetcd further. That is a blue .ilk aetteo puns. &rah Fee sworn—l am 23 years of age. lem not mar. tied. I have lived in the home of Mr said fur the last eve years and a bait, but the first year and a half I was servant to William Jackson, Mr.. Kind* 's sthein.law, and only slept at Mrs. linicier's. Willie= Jackson lived near. For four yearn 1 tiara been Mrs. Kinde. uremia On Thursday lest the two Bliss Kind. re went to Artfieid. Myself sod brother and Mrs. Kinder wire lett et home. In the truly pert of the day, and nearly ell the day, was seeing. I was sewing in the kithen ' Of sitting room, slung with Mr,. Ki n d er . M y bra. ther was about the farm beatings till a little before coon, and then he went to Maple Mills. He um* bath in the afternoon. I c tricot just ley at what time, but it was beton dark. He had not his dinner with us. We had tea , a little before d,rk, I Lick, but lam not safe and ail. •rtes, myself, and brasher were ell in the hi use at the time. li l am nut sure limy brother had not his dinner with his tea. r tea I sat with Mrs. K.e.ds r in the kitchen, towel, ill a little before 1 went a milking. My brother left the home after tea to go to the farm 'millings. He would not have to get the cows up, braise they were in the klippen. We generally milk the c awe between 6 and 7at night. Alter tea I was sawing, and t hie wee: oat to the car:house e n tee oppente side se: the road tor some coals, weich I then threw on the fire. I next re MGT. d a cloth.. mei .en from the room, where Mrs. Kinder and I had b. en sitting. irtothe (Lazy. I then returned into the attitig room with the key of the dory. 1 meet oat that time by the front door. My brother wee out of doors. My brother had the key of tho door of the dairy it his Nike: when 1 went out with th. insidvn, and I fou'd him and received it from him at the pigeon • doer, seralv opposite the dairy, tan neer the shippen. Ai that time be must have taken three of the milting cans to the dairy, tor there was only one can kit on the stuns at Use deity deer. I teak the other can to the dairy myth... I west out that time by the back (gebl-) door to the shiepon. Weea I put the key into the kitchen wineow, after taking the maiden into the dairy, I entered the house by the front door. I die not see Mre. Kinder as I peesid through the sittiag.roent, where I ha, lest tier. Wain I left Kr,. Kinder Ido not thick she was Maki anything. i du not *now what time I went to milk. We had a eleck in the parlour, but it was somewhere about en hour too fast. When I went ln.o the shippon my brewer was tither at the shipeoa or stable door; I minuet soy welch. He had a lantern and lighted cendle with him. There were three cows to be milked. My brother bad not then begun to mile the cows. I milked two come, and be one. When he hod done milking he Wok the cows del./ ik Kase, but he did not leave the *happen, and I left Lim there when I took the milk to the deify. I carried tat milk to a stone bench at the dairy door, and pet It down there. I then went tato the house by the back door, and fetched the milk sieve, and also the key teem the window bottom, where I had left it, after taking the maiden into the dairy. I then went into the house (let° the se ting-rieth), where I bad left Mre. Kinder, for a light. I g.t a light from the tiro; there was net a candle lighted. I had not left Mrs. Kinder with a candle horsing. Mrs. Kind• r was not to the room when I win: fur the light. Her reeking-chair was in its usual place. The frost doer wee client. The door inter the parlour was wady shut, hut not quite. Atter lighting the thedle I went and sieved the milk in the dairy. I went out by the back (gable)door. After sieving tke milk 1 loektd the deity uoor, and went toned into the house by the back door with the milk. I put the milk cans down in the litti, bask kitchen. I then went into the holm place (or sitting room), and as I did not see Mr.. Kinder there, I went into the putout to look for her. I bad a candle In my hand. The parlour doer was a little way open. I pushed the dour epee, and saw Mrs. Kindt r lying on the floor. She ley on her ace, wr h her feet towards the deer. I thought the had fallen in a et. She has none that before. I clapped (put) the candle down on the table, against one of the walls. I then get hold of Mrs. Kinder, and heaved her tuft way up. I saw she was dead, and shit there was blond. Tier face lay in a pool of blood. Thu body was quite warm. I placed her da the eller again, and ran down to the shippon, and called on my brother to come. My brother, when I went there, was in the thippon cutting straw, or something. I then went back, going and returning this time by the front door. Tee front door was only latched, it was closed but not fastened. fly brother followed close lifter me. He said I most run for Diet. Wil liamson, and f told him he must go, and he went. Mu. Williamson is the neatest neighbour, and lives very near. Sue came back with my bro ther, end I then went for Mrs. Andrew, 'nether neighbour. Mr. Andrew sent for the constables, and he and my brother watched the window. and deers till the constables came. By the foreman of the jury—My brother before he began milking gave the cows their licking, and then left the lan tern with me and went out, saying he would go and put the horses in the stable. When we went to milk, the horse. were at the well in the fold. I cannot toy that I did hear him in the stable, for I was meleng the furthest cow. Hs was not above two minutes out et the Amino, and began milking the other cow. I did not hear the dug bask. Mr. Ralph Silebottom, surgeon, a: Mottle= stated that he was called ia to the deemed on the Light o f murder, and had since made a past mortens examinetion. His tun many was to the effect that the only mark of violence was a fracture on the left side of the head, extending sums the temporal, parietal, and occipital bones of the skull. The wound was about fire lecher long and t ree broad over tee ear. (treat violence must have been used, and from the nature of the wound it was thought it must have been caused by en instrument with a broad prejectiog unlace, which entered the skull, and in emerging dragged after it ' the rough broken Ogee of the skull, and left them handing by the scalp. It web% hive been done with a hammer, I mallet, or a heavy plea of timber, but not with a poker, or anything of that kind. This was the cause of death, and its edicts would be instantaneous. Sims of the fractured bones were driven into the bass of the brain at least two Lathes. . Mr. Joeepl. Little, special high constable of the Hyde division of county police, said he bad searcoed the premuses and neighbourhood, including the river Etherow, and the ponds and fields, to: the instrument of murder. In the nouw obut both wece 3irs rustyK,i er notand ware w markallih.crormsetalir andnean in any a way showing recent use. He had obtained no trace of the amp defer. Several other witnesses, including Josiah For, the farm servant, were examined, but their testimony th ew no light whatever on thin mysterious &Bair. The Coroner h.sving recapitulated, the jury returned a Tar ; iot of " Wslful murder against some person or persons unknown." UNSAILED ARegt3.—yesterday Mr. Co' llyer, late a stranger at the Mamba House, proceeded is the Clerken well County Court against Mr. Davey, a builder, who had left the areas of some newly-erected houses it Ryder-street, New North-road, without the protec ion of a raffial. The plaintiff was proceeding along the street ore zooming last Septembir and was lied :Pota.ly p tried cl,wo into the area by the throng of a fair held in the neighbuirhood. His leg was broken by the fill, and he we e rendered permanently incapable of discharging the duties of his situation. The court awarded damps 01,, the tall amosat claimed. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK [From the ()nett' Report The number of deaths registered last week in Lon don amounts to 1 037 ; while in the tea ceoresp.ending weeks of the !ears 134160, it varied from 960 in 1841, to 1,401 is 1848, and the average was 1,149. This average, if it he augmented in the ratio of ptevieui increase of :.)pulation (1.65 per cent. per annum) up to the present time, becomes 1,253, compared with which the present re turn exhibit: a great deer.sac; bat it wilt be borne in mind that violent ep:demice, which muhiplied the deaths o r eha period from which the avenge is drawr, have alto left • less poyeletina liild a tallier contribution of morality. It the two t.tisras of the last fortisf , •"• ""^—^-^' . - •• r. errors t ill " e a sy ended coiucide as regards the tidal :umber of • detaLs, they differ is the proporions in which prevailing diereses have proved fuel. The alsolia class of disesaes numbered 173 * death' in the preceding week (siding Jan. 11), bat in the lad week they roes to 196; whereas "diseases of the respiratory organs," under which were previansly enumerated 270, have sow declined ro 202, thonitt it will be teen that tin num. bees from phthisis (which U not included in the latter clue) have remained almost precisely the samf, or about 120. Is the previous week 47 children died from " convalsions ;" last week the number rose to 60, mare than belt of these being infants lees than three months old. Smell-pox was fatal last week to 21 persona, of whom 6 were adults. With regard to three of thy children who died, and two men, aged respectively 19 and ;/9 years, it is mentioned that they had been prui..tudy vaccinated. The registrar of Mile-end 04. Town 101,11 T, was informed by the father of a farafq, that two of his chit:rem hac 1). en suffering fr.in small. poi ; that one aged 3 y. are, who had been vaccinated at the age of 3 months, epporentlywith effect, died, end another, who had not been vaccinated, was in the way of recerry. A house in Wiii:echspel a also mentioned where then eh eldren were tactic:mg from the disease, who had all been vaccinated. Ted aie.tdet e etas to be rife in this neighbourhood, and one ul the medical men eaten that he has cow 29 CMOs under his core. The Registrar of Christchurch, lteryL bone, reports, /bat "between the beginning of Nevem. er, warn small vs suddenly brume prevalent, in his district, and tee rid of the year, 27 person, died of the dis e as e , an d in oily two a thew Casts bad vaccination been pert,..emed," BLit in order to settle the respective rates of mortality among the protected and the unprotected, it is obviously none ary to ascettaire th. number in each el:tali:ring in any district. In the routea• of last week eves localities are complained ' of as damp tran want of draw* or lowness of situation, or ethereal: spew...A:some ; in two of thus emilatine had been fatal to the children who dwelt in them; in three others pneumonia had been the unit of death; in one a child dirt tram " cholera infants's." A Cate of chorea, is a girl of 14, wha h..d been 111 two years, terminated fatally on the Eldi. A man and two women died from int, mperanoe. The birth. t 815 nye and 784 girls, is. all 1,699 child:en, wan registered in the week. Ihe average of su °nevi:head ing week, en 11 , 4•e.-50 was 1,395. At the 1[1,1,1 Otwervatory, therewith, the mean reading of the b..r00 e.er wu 29460. Toe mean reading of the therm:unit was 43 deg., which is 8 deg. above the average of the some weak in 10 years. The recess of the doily mean tea:venture 'ben the ge was on Sunday 11 6 deg., on Monday 9.9 deg., on Toc.cloy 7 deg , on Wunesday 8.5 &Jr, on rhursdey 6.9 deg., on Friday 8.8 deg , and on &teeth/ 4.1 deg. the wind was in the south and south- TS est. ABOLITION OF THE TAXES ON Bri: Lill Ivreign Total Decrease in 1830, 47 snips. Inertme in tonnage, 13,173 tali" .. - Fr to int balance V,..ct it appeared th.tt the total rem imp (tithe corop.oy during the peat 'car were 238,1161.75. 9d. and the total axpetditure 195,5431. 9e. 7d., leavin g a basso; 01 39,6711. 18.. 2.1. upplic.t,ls to a dtvi•lend. Altar some dise•Lason, the report, and dividend of If per pot., were !greed to unanintottaly. tlr JOHN HALL then read the following report in respect to the &Oran with the Bond of Custom : With re terenc; to the haattest qui sties, at issue be tween this cum pony and the Customs, the directors feel it to be due tattoo prupri tors to furnish some information upon • subject in values the interests of the company are so deepiy concerned, and therefore, though the directors are advised that it would be inexpedieut to the present state of legal proceedings to ester into details, they thick it incumbent upon them to Icy before the meeting each a statement of matter, pouting, with the Customs as can with propriety be given. " Tsai proprietors are aware that shies the I:aliening of the month of December, 1849, these docks have been subjected to proceedings on toe part of the Beard of Customs of the moat I striturdinaity and ha:rafting description, the ponteulars of winch up to the mouth of July last were adverted to in • atonement submitted to the proprietor at the last halayiarly meeting. " It is with regret that fie .irecters have now to notice the eontisusuca of a course of conduct by the Customs so Injurious mod unjust to that establishment, and productive of so much inconvenience to the ecearneree of toe port. Public bustrass in these docks continues to be seriously obstructed, heavy expenses are incurred, and trouble, end annoyance, are experienced by the company. "The proprietors may perhaps recollect the circumst meet set form in the statement before alluded to, of a trifi quantity of molasses 'Urged to have been improperly abstracted, but it may be worth while hers to recapitulate some of the leading features of this extraordinary else. " The Customs in the month of June let proceeded against some of the servants of this company es felons, pre ferring an indictment infers the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court, against one of the warehouse keeper. and nice other of the servants of the cowpony, for having stolen 800:bs of molasses, the property of the Queen. The only foundation for this extracrdinary charge was, that the parties referred to had (in the discharge of their duty) filled up some casks of molasses from a cask of overdrawing, belonging to the same cargo and the same owners, in ignorance at the time that • Customs' officer had marked the said cask of overdrawing, with a ' br oa d arrow.' The reason for his thus having placed under stop goods upon which the duty had been paid, ant which had been imported with due observance of every prescribed regulation, has never been expleaned, and even had all the Customs regulations not bees com,lied with, an idea may be formed of the frivolous grounds for so vexatious and opprenive • proceeding, from the fact that the gross value of the overdrawing. in question is only about 41, on which the duties amounted but to 27.. This duty, however, bad been paid, making, therefore, the entire proceeding the mote extrmadioery. " The grand jury ignored the bill as to six of the parties included in ie, but found a true bill as to the remaining four (of course upon ex parte evidence), who thereupon were taken into custody by the police, and conveyed to Newgate, where they would have been locked up as felons, had they not been released by bail being given by their private friend. for their appearance in due time. " This mode of preferring a bill of indictment before a grand jury in the first instance, without • preliminary ex• amination before a 'magistrate, is the most harsh and oppressive wane that can be adopted against as accused. ialenost universally in eases of felony an examination cake* place before a ma,ristrate, when the accused party has an opportunity of hearing the charge made against him, and of making his defence, but, io the present instance this, the usual course, was sot edopte I, • deviators from the same the more to be deprecated, as the directors feel assured that no magistrate would have committed these four men to take their trial on the charge of felony after hearing the ex planation that would have been giv.n of the transaction. " This case was specially ordered to be tend at the Central Criminal Conn by the Judges, and would. in the ordinary esarse, have been di.pueed of about the 10th of July last, isstead of which the trial of thiscbarge, so serious as against these tour men, who had been in the company's service and borne irreproachable characters for lona period., and, with out any reason being auigned for such an unusual course, taken from the ordinary tribunal for the trial of criminal charge, and removed into the Court of Qseen's Bench by a writ of certiorari issued at the instance of her Majesty's Customs. " The effect of this proceeding was to postpone the trial natil the beginning of December last, a course which the directors considered molt hush and uojustifiable, inasmuch as it did sot sppou that as, advaatago, tiller to 851. IMO wut DOE. An association baying this object in view WU , established in birruingham some eighteen months ego by a number of canp.iutora employed on the Leal newspapers. Since that time a number of more itiluential pent ne hsve become members of it, and the efforts of the association have been abetted tc thrr dissemination of internist:on by means of triers bluets afire of the injurious manner in which the paper, st..mp, and advertisement duty op er at es . Th e annua l meeting was held on Monday evening, et the Public Office; Mr. SCHOLePIELD, M P., in the chair. A repart was read by the steretary, setting forth the means which had been employed during the pas; year to further the purpose,' the assecuvion have in view ; there ' atter the Ch-3:anan add:erica the meeting at WIT.O kerb. Granting (he sold) that taxes were necessary evil% the next consideration was how they stiould b 3 im paled, so as t make them a burteen on the general body n: the community. L. was not to be won dered at th it, in a time of war, tares should have been loot on rather incongruously; but the time had now arrived (in fact it had aerivid long duce) when it was the duty of the government to see that the tax's were laid on the right shoulders. It was not s , much the weght of the tax-s tie complained of, as that the burthea Old nut tall where it ought :u fall, now, ly, on toe pr , pt•rty instead of tas indestry 01 Its country. Tits tax on property was souse:Nog like $ per ant; whereas upon tea, sugar, a e.,,mr, and other art.cles of large coneumption, it was as high es 30, 50, and seen 200 per ocr.t. Take the paper tax A:sett, which was found to be most injuriens in its apersti3o, for whilst it scarcely coat+ be said to a: all discourage tea riblieation of the mast expensiee cleat of books, It pressed most injurieue!y and Is.r.vily on works mimeo in a cheep toren, and WAS consequently slams! pro nibitory iiiia,u,t the issue of publications that would by their general circulation gr atly tend to the diffuhon of s mod and useful ihturreation amsnget ! the people. But it was not only here that the grievous ettar,c.er of the payer duty sew most sensibly telt ; he epe k. from experience when he said that the manu facturers telt it dstply. especially as regards I its drawback on their power to export goods to Its United States—in fact, (or teme desiniptions of Wolverhampton goods the cost of the paper was such, becau:o of the high rate of the duty, that it almost let d ininutactueers of the rower to send eat their goods. Tee roveriisemt nt and iiewaaper ramp duties he regarded as equally o4jectienalde, and the time had come for their roped. Kr. Aldermen BALDWIN also spoke strongly in favour of • repeal of th, se duties; it they were rem.ved rte beleved thatthey would have a goal daily paper for 2d., or at most 31. ; besides that, by the repeal of the paper may, emtloy meat would be Mend for thousands who could not at present obtain it. Buse of the beet parernrikers bad emigeced to America; era of his own men who had gone out bad written vi say that he was able to take be tares newspamrs daily , so cheap were they in cons. queues of the absence en probils:'ory duties. lie did nest doubt hut that 'ha gtvcrament would prefer taking off the win dow tax, because, u with all *spert.ive governments, they dreaded the spread of political inlormatiou amongst the mi lee. Us telt certain, Lowi err. that if the government ' was ufflcietvly premed on tLe euLj. c*. they would get some of these taxes, which were only made to keep 'the people ignorant, repealed doting the next ses sion. the generality of people had no idea of the amount of the paper duty, and with the view to make them fully acqoain;eil wilts it, he . uggi erect that on the outside of every ream of paper there should be pasted the amount of the tax epOn it. Mr. JO9BPIi BTUROB said that he was not only opposed to these particular saes, but to every indirect tax. It he could have Ilia way he would have a property tan to , morrow; at the some time he to ,kert upon the newspaper ' and paper duties aa the wont amongst all the texts, the re hire be was wait stroogly .opposed to them. Ile sour sted that twenty inemliers of parliament should immediately wait upon the Caanoellor of the Each. quer, and urge the repeal of all the taxes upon knowledge. Mr. Allem= BAWX.P.S, Mr. CutilleillOr ALLDAY, and other gentlemen h.vina sp,keu warmly in favour of the abolition of trete digits, the report was adopted; Mr. &bonnet& M.P., was re-appointed president, end a com mittee elect. d to carry out the ohjecta of the auociation during the meting year. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.-THE Divitiattn.— It if the intention of the directors cf this com pany, at the gmeral meeting to be he:d on the 18th proximo, to recommend a dividend f.r the half year ending 31,t of December, 1850, at the rate of tour per cent. per annum on the capital stack. CONFLAGRATION AT TOE VILLAGE OF GOMA N CHISTRY., HUNTIKODOMISHIRS.—Tee train Uriving at King's ero.s by the Great Northern Railway at 3 o'clock this morning, brings iutelligence of a fire which broke out in the village ot Godatanchester at 9 o'clock last night, and which w.s still raging at a quarter to two o'clock this morn ing. No part:colors can at lomat be gleaned. THE WRECK OF , THE FLAMER, it Monravia, on the tweet of Africa, which we reported in yesterday'', impres sion OS this paper, rill, it is 'bid, require a somewhat more starching inquiry than courts martial usually produce. it L stated that the commander, no doubt more from st al than any other feeling, thought proper to take the navigation, of the vessel out of the bands of the master, and do tat duty himself; having the immediate direction of her course in his own hands at the moment the Flamer took the ground. DEPORTATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN TO BERMUDA. - • Yesterday, at the meeting of the St. Panora Board of Guardians, a communication from the POW-1M Commis sioners was read, in which the guardians were requested to state whether a statement roads by Corkin Bar rows at the Marylebone board wee correct or not. The captain had informed the eubrilians of that union that he had noticed 60 children from the St. Pancras board to convey to &viands, and provide for them there. The chairman now eaiu that the children had been 'liken out, and he had letters from Mr. Stewart, a relsCve of the Judge Aiivocate of 11•701W111, stating that the viildren were happy, and well provided In under kind employers. The numbs,' sent out was forty one, and not sixty. Mr. Gordon said he had examined the arrangements of the verse), and found the ship such as he would be glad to send his own children out in. The hips and girls were 'spurted and mirky good superintendence. Tile children had, each, six pairs of stockings, two pairs of shoes, two suits of Food clo:Les, and while on board stood food, bed and bedding. Messrs. D . , B:ockton, Divan ham, Haley, Clerk., Billets, and other guardiabe, gave similar testimony respecting the children sent to B.rnaude, adding that they were not soot without their oonseiit and the cosiest of their parents, and that KM' of the children cried became their parents would not allow them to ge to Bet. muds. The chairman said that he had instructed a surto , • friend of his, who went to Bermuda, to itiquire int condition tattle children, and to report it to him, and to reward all those wLo were well conducted with 2a. , each, and that he (its chairman) would reimburse hie. Mr. Churchwarten Fuser moved that the vestry cli - 4 in, atchoriscd to rtp4 to the Poor Low Board, represouti be m real firma the case, and that he should forward to the apt Law Board copies of the letters sent by the children lop& Bermuda. Dr. Hickman seconded the motion, whio n .onk ended CON , aced Oda concluded the discusaion. •—• mod, a tolls d also !! 2s. 64. 0 his. er bq( -- :::: .....-:"":--... 1 t t ,- '7 ' .. ... ./. - •.•• e — j .4.1 ... 111, 11•0