The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-26 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. THE QUERN v. WATKINS AND OTHERS.—Gascoincs Fraa.—Mr. Bagley, with whom was Mr. Wordsworth, prayed the judgment of the court on the defendants, who had been convicted of a nuisance at the last Spring assizes for the county of gest. On the last day of Trinity term a similar =Aka had bees made, and the court had respited the judg um; lAMB, It to the Navigation Committee of the City proc af Leedom, reeeetain and carry into effect the eedings sessurey fee abating the nuisance. The Navigation Com ramjets :tie ewe to the conclusion that the nuisance, which of a floating pier for passing into the steamboats of the dahuhmea, so moored as to obstruct the passage to and flea is badfisretitirs at Greenwich, mud be removed abso lutely. It was removed by the water-bailiff, and some of the defendants gave him their assistance for tat purposo. Shortly afterwards, h owe ver, it was replaced and almost in the identical spot. The prosecutor, therefore, found it ne cessary to press for the judgment. Mr. Serjeant Shee and Mr. Pigott, on the other side, contended that then Co object of the court in referring the matter to the Navigatiom mittee had not been the removal of this pier absolutely, which it could at once have ordered, but the determination of some moans by which the interests of these poor persons could be reconciled with the interest of the public. It was not asserted by the prosecutors that the wish of the court could not be realised, and the defendants asserted that it could. The court was of opinion that the judgment ought to be again respited, subject to a refereace to Mr. Walker, the government engineer, or his nominee, and compli ance with the directions to be given by him. PEARCE S. CHAPLIN.—MOTION TO RESCIND BO MUCH OF • JUDGE'S ORDER POR SETTING ASIDE A JUDGMENT FOR IRKEGULA.RITT, AS IMPOSED TE E C Hill showedagainst a rule for setting aside so much of an order of the Chief Baron, for setting aside for irregularity a judgmeriseired in this ' case, on which execution had issued, as ire the condition that no action bo brought had byb teen he irregular, and defen t. It was admitted that the judgmt the attorney for the defendant had protested against the condition which the Chief Baron intimated that he would impose; but the learned judge persisted in his determina tion after the merits had ban gone into. The defendant took the order in the form made, served it, had the benefit of it, and could not now repudiate any part of it.—Mr. Petendorff, on the other side, contended that as the defen dant had been entitled, as a matter of right, to have the judgment set aide, the Chief Baron had been bound to set it wide, and therefore had not had jurisdiction to impose the condition that no action should be brought. As to any constructive assent by the defendant to be inferred from the subsequent adoption of the order, there was an execution in the man's house at the time, and he had no other means of ridding himself of it. The court, how ever, was of opinion that, as the defendant had received the advantages of the order, he was bound by its conditions, and that this rule, therefore, must be discharged. IN THE MATTER OF RICH--COMPENSATION FOR A CON TINGENT LOBS OP Orrren.—Mr. Watson, Q.C., applied for a rule nisi for a writ of mandamus to the Lords of the Trea sury, commanding them to award compensation to a gentle man named Rich, for the loss of his office of second se condary to the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, abolished by the Exchequer Offices Bill, and also of his ultimate right to the office of first secondary, to which, according to the practice of the office, he would have succeeded, in the event of that office not having been abolished, and his surviving the first secondary. The court was of opinion that the appli. cant was entitled to compensation for the loss of the office which he had actually held, but that it could not grant a writ of mandamus to award compensation for an alleged loss of office so very remote a wholly contingent Is that to which he had had but the nd right of succession. Rule ac cordingly. IN THE MATTER OF VAN BOOEN AND ANOTHER. — HABEAS CORPOS.—SMUGGLING.—The Attorney-General and Mr. Lewes had yesterday been heard in opposition to an application by Mr. Lush, for the discharge of two persons who had been convicted of having been found in a foreign vessel having tobacco stalks on board within a distance from the coast of England prohibited to vessels so laden by the Smuggling Act of 8 & 9 Viet. The question in' i the case was, whether the conviction could be sustained, since it was founded on an information that did not negative the excep tions to the offence already mentioned, contained in a section of the act subsequent to that which created the offence. The court had postpon ed the decision. Lord Denman now said that he wasinion that the prisoners ought to be charged. Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Erie, however, thought that the information was not bad ; and the prisoners were therefore remanded. IN THE MATTER OF --- A LIINATIC.—HABEAS Conrus.—As the court was about to rise, application was made for a writ of habeas corpus, to bring up the body of a gentleman, whose name did not transpire, alleged to be confined, at the instance of his wife and grandson, in a luna tic asylum in Lancashire. In support of the application, affidavits had been filed, from which it appeared that five different persons had had emus to the alleged lunatic, and were of opinion that he was perfectly sane. Lord Denman said that a writ returnable at chambers might issue. The court rose at a quarter-past seven. BAIL COURT. FAULENER AND FABIAN V. WALLER.—FOROERY OP RAILWAY SCRIP.—Mr. Hugh Hill moved on the part of the defendant for a rule to show cause why proceedings in this case should not be stayed till after the trial of Fabian, for forgery, at the Central Criminal Court. The action was is trover for bank. notes and railway scrip which had been given to the defendant, as inspector of police, for custody, and which had been found when Faulkner and Fabian were taken into custody on the charre of krging scrip. Faulkner had been tried and acquitted, but Fabian had not appeared to' his bail, and his trial was still pending. Faulkner and Fabian had brought this action jointly &goblet the defend ant to recover the notes and scrip in question. On the sug gestion of the learned judge, a rule was granted, giving time to plead a month after Fabian's trial, the case having only gone as far as declaration. IN THE MATTER OP THE TOWN CLERIC OP THE BOROUGH OP CONOLETON.--CERTIORARL—Mr. Hoggins moved for a certiorari to bring up an order of the corporation of the bo rough of Congleton, for the payment to the town clerk of the costa of the proceedings in certain suits in Chancery. The question in dispute was the appointment of a master to a grammar school, and minister to a chapel attached to it, which was vested in the corporation, and who had attempted to ap point a person to those offices not a member ofthe Established Church, !which from time immemorial had been the case. It was contended that as the costs were incurred by the wil fulness of the corporation in those proceedings, they would not be paid out of the boro u g h fund.—Rule granted. WILTON V. CHAMBERS.--RIGHT OP AB,I GN EE BOLVENCY.—CHAMBERS'S BANKRUPTCT.—MV. Justice Pat teson igave judgment in this caw, Which was argued on Saturday last,sand decided that the gat interest in the judg menta in question were ...A in the provisional assignee in insolvency; and witlthut attempting to decide whether the Court of Chancery was right or wrong, the assignee had a right to come to this court and as IV made a party to the sore facia. The rule, therefoze, would be absolute. IN TEE MATTER OP --4IAINW3.—THE EXPLOSION AT OLDBURY.—Mr. Whitmore obtained a rule to admit to bail Haines, the bailiff of the mines at Oldbury, where the recent explosion took place, a verdict of " Manslaughter " having been returned against him by the coroner's jury. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Ban "' (The following was briefly reported in yesterday's Express.) REYNELL V. Lzwis.—Vi r YLD V. HOPKINS.- - JUDGMRNT. —NON-LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL CONICITTERIIEN.— Verdicts having passed in both the above cases for the plaintiffs (as recently reported in this paper), upon the ground that the defendants, as provisional committeemen, were liable for contracts made by the solicitors of the " Cen tral Kent," and the " Peterborough and Nottingham Junc tion" Railways, although in either case the defendant had not expressly given any authority, but merely upon the implied authority alleged to have been given to the solicitors by having consented to become members of the provisional committees : the arguments of counsel occupied the greater part of four days of the present term. Sir F. Pollock, C.B. : In these two cases the plaintiffs sought to fix the defendants with liability for work alleged to have been done by them upon contracts either express or implied, and the main question was whether those contracts were with the defendants or their agents by the "laintiffS or mw-uestinn fact which it was the province of the a ir y to determine. was clear that the plaintiffs, sloe whom the burthen of proof lay, should show that the defendants had contracted with them (+wisely Or iMPlieeLly, and, if the contracts were not ma& with the defen dants personally, it should be shown that they were made by persons duly . and properly authoriaed. In almost all actions against provisional committeemen of railways and it happmed that the contracts were made by third parties in all those cases the question was, whether those parties were duly a nd properly authorised. It was con tended that the relation of provisional committeemen was analct of ogousthe to that of partners, and that each was bound by the a other ; but it clearly was not so. Agency might be created by giving express authority or a general authority to do all things necessary ; for instance, for the attainment of a par ticular object ; in the latter case, a man receiving authority would become, by law, the agent for the other, who should be responsible for all contracts made for purpoeas necessary for carrying on the business. Agency might be created by the admiadon or representation of the principal that a particular person was his agent ,• and if a party making such a representation was sued upon a contract made en his behalf by the agent, he would be stopped from denying his liability, In the relation of husband and wife, the latter was the agent for the former—in all those cues the princi pals were bound by the acts of their agents. Agency might also he created by the immediate acts of the party himself, or by acts oonstitudng a relationship from which agency . might be inferred—er, as regards third parties, if the principal directly or indirectly sanctioned the representations of the agent, that he bad authority to make contracts, and that they were made upon the faith of those repremesintions, the prin cipal was, quoad hoc, precisely in the sow sondition as if the contracts bad be made by himself calumny. Upon none of those propositions was there the slightest dotibt, but the diffi culty was the application (by the jury) of the principleaof law to the particular fasts of each case ,• and to enable pries to a pply those principles properly, the courts oilmen sender every posdble mistime. In very few of the coo before the olurt, it was contended that the contrasts were mils by y; in the case of " Rey na e. sall a r li the defendant had sanctioned the his satisfaction that the arra ne very " moderate; " but when were proved, they should be of the jury, whose duty It they were entitled to. It (who argued both the relation of pro an association or . member was liable that as co-promoters or as committeemen they were liable for preliminary ex penses, and having famished no money to pay them, even where there was no other evidence of agency except the feet that a party consented to be a member of the provisional committee, coupled with the fact that no money had been given by him for the payment of the preliminary expenses, it created an implied age nc y to p led g e the credit of i: visional committeemen for those expenses, and it was in sisted that the fact of a party haying simply consented to be a provisional committeeman was in itself sufficient to esta blish a case for the mnsid eration of a jury, and that it con rtituted an authority to the solicitors and agents consenti of the company to pledge the cred it of the party so ng to act. The court, however, thought that no sue consequence followed as matter of law, from the mere fact of the defendants consenting to be members tens to of the provisional committees. That consent amoun no more than that the person who bad given it promised to sanction the scheme, and consented to act in that capacity as he approved of the undertaking. The term " committee man " meant nothing more than that he who became one had taken upon himself the performance ofd in acts and duties for the general body, and to put things in a proper train for the attainment of the object the general body had in view. The only agreement entered into was to be come one of the provisional body. There was a variety of for which such committees might be formed—the es Pur Zrhment of an hospital, or a plan for emigration; the building of a bridge, a canal or a railway ; might give rise to the formation of provisional committees ; but it seemed to the court to make little or no difference as to the position or liability of persons consenting to be members of such bodies, whether their objects were benevolent or commercial. Such an association, or relation, as that subsisting between provisional committeemen, consti tuted no agreement to share in profits or to participate in losses, which is the very essence of all copartnership associa tions. Besides, the intention of the parties must be taken into consideration ; and, looking at all the circumstances, it would be absurd to my that all these who consented to be provisional committeemen, intended to hold themselv rred es out as responsible for the expenses which might be incu, or meant to constitute as their agents all other persons who might act in furtherance of the objects sought ed to be attained. However, there was, in one of the cases argu, evidence of the defendant having done more than merely consenting to become a provisional committeeman, as he had authorised his name to be published in the prospectuses in which certain per sons were described meeting committees, and the prospectuses professed to state the objects of the scheme—the duties the provisional committeemen undertook and were expected to discharge, also the names of the solicitors, engineers, and other officers. If it appeared that those prospectuses were published te the world with the defendants' consent, and that they had knowledge of their contents, the inference of law, as well as that which any reasonable man would draw, should be that they meant to be responsible for statements contained in them, but whether that rendered them re sponsible for the acts of the solicitors and others, whose ap pointment appeared in those prospectuses, was a question entirely for the jury. If the prospectus merely stated the names of the provisional committee and nothing more, that circum4ance could not render them liable, but in stating the names of the acting or managing co mmittee also, it , might suggest that they acted to the exclusion of ' the provisional committee and had the whole con trol. As to the question whether provisional committees were liable for contracts made by solicitous, whose names were published in prospectuses containing the names of the provi sional committeemen, it should be ascertained whether soli citors had authority at all to pledge the credit of eommittee men for matters not strictly within the sphere of their profes sional duties ; and, next, what were the duties understood, in 1845, to be properly the duties of solicitors with reference to provisional committees. In all these cases the result of the inquiry must altogether depend upon the particular terms of each prospectus, and the reasonable conclusion to be drawn from those terms. If a knowledge of the contents and pub lication of the prospectus be traced to the defendant, it must be taken to be just as binding upon him as if it was his own direct act, or as if be had himself written and published it. Applying those observations to the two cases last argued, the court were of opinion, thet in the case of Iteynell v. Lewis, there was some evidence to go to the jury, and that the manner in which it was left to them was perfectly correct, but that there ought to be a new trial, upon payment of costs, in order that another jury might i have an opportunity of considering, with reference to these observations, the proper effect of the terms of the prospectus, and in the case of Wyld v. Hopkins, the court entertained so much doubt that there was any evidence at all of the de fendant's liability,they thought there ought to be a new trial generally. —The rules were accordingly absolute in both CON. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Berm Mr. Oommisaioner Evans. Incoinscr DRSCRIPTION.—R. Carlisle, a book and print seller in the strand, came up for an interim order. His debts are about 2301., and his assets ft/.—A question was raised as to whether the insolvent had not been indicted, and pleaded to the indictment, at the Old Bally, in the name of "Thomas Paine Carlysle." The insolvent admitted that he had done so. The opposing solicitor then contended, that as the insolvent was not so described in the petition, it must be dismissed.—The learned Commissioner was of a different opinion, and granted the order. Before Mr. GoDushedemer Shepherd. TITS LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM ExTeNSION TO LEA miNOTON It4ILWAT COMPANY.—This day a meeting was held in the cemmistioner's private room up-stairs, for the purpose of opening a fiat against the above company, at the suit of Mr. Lawrence, on behalf of a Mr. Wilde, but reporters having been excluded from the meeting, w et a state with accuracy any of the part i culars, except that his Honour, assisted by Mr. Commissioners Fonblangue and Holroyd, refused to open the fiat, considering that there was no act of bankruptcy: Heine str. Commissioner Foublanque. Ormawax.—ISIPORTANT Pomr.—em insolvent, named Parker, who has property in Jamaica, valued at 10,0001., and who is a prisoner for debt and an outlaw, applied to this court on Tuesday last for an interim order, when a question, which involved the extent of the court's jurisdiction, was raised. Mr. Lucas, for the opposing creditor, contended that his Honour had no jurisdiction to interfere with the personal liberty of the insolvent ; at all events, on the ques tion of interim order and as regarded property, he (Mr. Lucas) contended 'that was all vested in the crown, because of the outlawry.—His Honour said that the point was • new one to him, and one of great importance.—Mr. Wood, for the insolvent, submitted that by the powers of the old Insolvent Court, to which this court was equal, it could grant an outlaw his discharge ; and therefore he (Mr. Wood) hoped that his Honour would do so.—Mr. Lucas cited several cases to show that the property vested in the crown, and that the act of parliament would not permit the commissioner to grant an outlaw discharge upon the interim order.—After some further discussion, it was agreed that the petition be dismissed, the insolvent paying certain of the I coats of the opposition. His Honour thought it the best course for Ur, raker to go to the Insolvent Court. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—YESTERDAY. OLD Before Mr. Justice Coltman. 11. Hitchcock, alias H. Hitchcock Barrett, alias H. Barrett, alias 11. Jones, 27, described as a valet, was indicted for felo niously forging an order for the transfer of certain stock in the Long Annuities, standing in the names of George and Sarah Edwards, with intent to defraud the governor and company of the Bank of England.—Mr. Clarkson and Sir J. Bayley conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoner.—ln 1833, George Edwards, who had been a gentleman's servant, married a woman named Sarah Fitch, and after they had lived together two or three years, it was arranged that the wife, who had before been in ser vice, should resume that occupation, and she accordingly went to live in the families of different gentlemen, and only occa sionally saw her husband, although they continued on good terms towards each other. In April, 1840, the wife, who had just left a servi ce , went to her husband and lived with him for a short time. At this time they had both saved a small sum of money, and the husband gave hie savings to his wife, instructing her to invest it in the Long Annuities in the Bank of England, and it would appear that she did so, and purchased stock to the value of 31. 10s. per annum, in the names of herself and husband The parties again separated :storey afterwards, and the wife again went to service, and it would appear that the husband made no inquiry, and did not take any proceeding or reference to the stock, until the fraud wh was the subject of the present inquiry was dis coved. It seemed that the prisoner was butler in one of the er families where the woman was employed, and that a very close intimacy sprang up between them. On the 6th January, 1842, the prisoner presented himself at the ofSae of Mr. Bayley, a stock-broker, i n Lothbury, and exp_ressed a desire to sell out the stork in question, and, as Mr. Bayley was at the time out of town, hwas referred to another s t oo k-broker, named CrompLn, who was in the habit of 1 transacting business for Mr. Bayley in his absence, and the prisoner produced to that gentleman a letter from Sarah Ed wards, who he stated was his wife, requesting that the stock in the Long Annuities, standing in the names of herself and husband, should be transfer and sold. Mr. Crompton said it was the usual course under such circumstances, to have a power of attorney from the wife, if she could not attend personally, and the prisoner said that his wife was ill and could net come to town, andte‘litized the business could be completed without he r, as he to take upon the money beck with him to the country. Mr. Cr to go to Mr. Smee, the chief accountant of the =of England, and represent the circumstances, and, as it appeared that the Bank authorities could not leg.ally . resist the demand of a husband to have stock standing in the names of himself and wife transferred, upon his own appli cation, it was suggested that the prisoner should make • written demand for the transfer of the stock before it could be ellwasil. The prisoner, upon this, wrote a demand for the treasem which he sigued as George Edwards, the hus band at tank the parUes whose names appeared in the books of the Bank. The stock was then duly transferred, and the procees, mounting to 431. 15e., were banded over to the puma: The band, it ar- ed, was not discovered until very ressntly, when Mrs.Bdwards, who, it seemed, had for the last three years given up all communication with km knaland, went with *e prisoner to the house of a seabed Coldish, and she er h represented =dm prisoner was her husband, and that his herWl Joseph Jones, and she added that Edwards, We llama husband, had been dead for two years, mad MO an one but the prisoner had put on the ring which tbsa =I to be on her finger. It was remarked at one et*, ewe with Mr. Coldrey, that the prisoner had in lb pemaion a gold watch, which was recognised as having Wawa to Gangs Edwards, and this, and some ether cu.- eumetname, mating suspicion, deswere made, which led to tbe spgmbssides et desand his committal uma tbe rand in the course of Ids miasma% sakVit—illiimillied poisoner as George "awards la the arms et AM connected with the trembly at the Bank ; altbeakh be abutted that he was an entire stranger to him—Mr. sake Coltman said he ought to have been aware that it was a most incorrect proceerbng to speak to the identity of a person under such circumstances Mr.ropton said he acted on the supposition that blz.Bayley's clerk, who brought the man to him, was acquainted with the prisoner Edwarda.—Mr. Justice Coltman said it was a very Improper proceeding.—/dr. Clarkson observed, that at the period in question these proceedings were very common, but arena different course was now adopted by the authorities of the Bank.—lir. Crompton said he did not think he was doing anything wrong.—Mr. Justice Coltman told him be must not attempt to justify his conduct. It was a most in cautious act,—ln addition to the facts above stated, other evidence was adduced, which left no reasonable doubt that the prisoner ltad committed the offence imputed to him.— hlr. Justice Coltman having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Gstitty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life. NEW WART.—Before the Comm Seejeant. JIIVINILB 111011 WAY ROBBREY.—.7. Jones, &little urchin only 12 years of age, was indicted for stealing with force and violence, 17 silver groats and one sixpence, the property of Edward Chaddick, from his person. The prosecutor in this ease was a little boy, who w a d s employed by a baker. On the nieht in question he had received his wages, and was returning home when he wu attacked a nd knocked down by the prisoner and another boy who a a little taller than the prisoner, and while on the gr the money in question was forcibly taken from his pocket by the prisoner, and the other boy escaped. No defence wasoffered, and the prisoner was found Guilty : The Common Serjeant said he could not think of passing sentence upon a mere child without learning more about him, and he then ordered that the prisoner should be brought up to receive sentence on Satur- the — drfeinfante Leceomally • in the Cal Lamb," it was ada Oa defendant hicarrd 17tee Ids y et c declarations of that On Were pro submitted to the of the , Ina to eve than whatever welg t ih n ey oar fo was oleo nts 3 111) • that the ' a l q constituted uad co which each at the iota at and ti THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1846. POLICE v .--_ FATERDAL_ LAMBETH.—Taa CHARGE or ABDIICTION AGAINST AN Ex-Pomona/oe. James, Grant, late a constable in the P or Camberwell division of police, was placed at the Du before Mr. Elliott, for final examination o n a charge of abduction, and of subsequently marrying, a young female, na med Elizabeth Ann Currant, not sixteen years of age. Mr. Games, who appeared for the prosecution, observed that the declaration of the daughter of the prosecutrix, at the termination of the last exa mination, namely, that her deposition, upon which a war rant had been granted against the prisoner, was uatrue, placed him in rather an awkward positron. It was the anxious wish of the mother of the young woman to prosecute the prisoner, but after what had taken place that determination would much depend upon her daughter's answers to some ficeis that he (Mr. G rant,, to put to her, and he had therefore to request that Mrs. as she now undoubtedly was, might be called into the witness box.--Mrs. Grant ascended the witness-box and was sworn.—Mr. Games :At the conclusion of the inquiry on the last day, you said some. thing about the deposition then read to you not being true. —Witness : Yes, sir, I arid so.—Mr. Games . Although it had been read over to you, and you had signed your name to it ?—Witness : Yes, nr.—Mr. Games : Do you mean to swear that the whole of it is untrue ?—Witness : No, sir, not the whole, but parts of it —Mr. Games : Well, now, we will see what arts of it are true, and what part false. Is it true that for the greater part of the two months and upwards that you had been with Grant, he did not prevent you communi cating with or going to your mother ?—Witness: No, he did not.—Mr. Games : Be careful, young woman. Do you mean to say that, fur the whole of the time that you had been with the prisoner, you were not prevented by him from going home or elsewhere if you liked ?—Witness : No, I was act. I might go home.—Mr. Games : Then did be make use et threats of injury, if you communicated with your mother. —Witness (after a bale hesitation) : No, he did not.- -Mr. Games: Then, am I to understand you to say that all you have done has been by your own free will and consent ? —Witness: Yes, sir.—Mr. Games here said he should ask no more questions, but, merely observing that the answers just given by the witness were in direct opposition to her sworn deposition when the warrant had been obtained, would leave the case in the hands of his worship, and should it be his (the magistrate's) opinion that it was one which should be sent before a jury, the mother of the young woman was quite willing to prosecute.—Mr. Elliott remarked that, inde pendent of the extreme improbability of a jury finding the prisoner guilty of the offence of abduction after the evidence just given, he did not think the taking sufficient to warrant a conviction. The worthy magistrate here read to the Ist of " Carrington and Kirwan's, ' the report of a case tried at the Stafford March Assizes, 1844, when a female named Mary Ann Meadows was charged with the abduction of Caroline Allen. a girl under sixteen years of age. It was decided by Baron Parke in that case that the charge of ab duction had failed, as the child had voluntarily accompanied the prisoner. With such a judgment before him, he (Mr. Elliott) must discharge the prisoner.—Grant was accordingly discharged. THAMES.—IMPORTANT DECISION TNDER THE SAHA TOUT Acs.—A case of importance, arising out of a question under the 9th and 10th Viet., c. 96, was heard at this court. A summons was issued at the instance of the parish authori ties of St. Paul's, Shadwell, against Mr. Lewis Cowan,,n extensive bone-burner and tallow-chandler, residing in Gina Prescott-street, Whitechapel, but whose place of business is in New Gravel-lane, Shadwell. Mr. Peter Mellish, vestry clerk of Shadwell, appeared on the part of the parish autho rities to promote the suit, whilst Mr. Lewis attended as soli citor for the defence. Mr. Mellish opened his ease by put ting in two medical certificates, one signed by a Mr. Daniel Ruse, surgeon, High-street, Shadwell ; and the other by Mr. Alexander Henry, stating, that the effluvium arising from the premises of the defendant was of a highly deleterious nature, and peculiarly calculated to injure the health of those raiding in the neighbourhood. The evidence taken was en tirely confined to the testimony of medical men, and much difference of opinion existed. Mr. A. Henry, a physician and surgeon, and Mr. D. Ross, surgeon, High-street, Shadwell, gave tes t imony as to the de leterious nature of the exhalations proceeding from the heaped-up accumulation of bones on the premises of the defendant when they visited them on the 28th of October. Mr. Lewis attempted a cross-examination of both witnesses, who, however, de clined to enter into analytical chemistry, but swore 'mai tively and distinctly that the odour emitted from the bones when th visited them was of a most putrid and highly noxious character. For the defence, it was endeavoured to be shown that the offensive smells complained of arose out of some neighbouring premises, but Mr. Broderip observed that, as far as the evidence then went, it only proved a " compound of villainous smells." Before calling his wit nesses, Mr. Lewis said that the question was one which would affect his client to the extent of several thousand pounds. For twelve years the business had been carried on, and no complaint had been made before the present time. He was in a position to prove, by the highest medical and scientific testimony, that no deleterious gas emanated from the premises of his client. —Dr. John Ryan, professor of chemistry, on being called, stated that he had examined the premises on Monday, and found a vast quantity of bones which emitted a strong odour of ammonia ; but though he tried the gases by shwas usual test papers, he did not find that any deleterious gas volved. The ammonia itself wee not deleterious, but, on the contrary, acted as a corrective of, and antidote to, other deleterious gases with which the vicinity appeared to abound. The papers with which he made his tests would evince the presence of a dele terious bas even to the hundred thousandth part. He also stated that none of the flesh adhering to boiled bones could ever, after having been boiled to a heat of 212 deg., become putrescent.--Dr. G. Smith, of Sackville-street, member of the College of Physicians, and lecturer at the Charlotte-street School of Medicine, gave evidence cone spending with that of Dr. Ryan.—Mr. Broderip said the ease had not been put before him in such a manner as would enable him to pronounce upon the actual merits. The words in the act were, " where the existence of any offensive or noxious matter could be proved." This term "existence of," created the entire difficulty in the case, and rendered evi dence, which at first appeared so contradictory, perfectly compatible. Premires, which on the 28th of October might emit most baleful effluvia, would, perhaps, when visited on Monday last, yield only the effiuna of ammonia. The medical men visited the same place on the same day, and should their testimony under the circumstances have proved so conflicting, though his inclination would probably have been to have sent the case to a jury, he might not, under the circumstances, guided by his own knowledge, hesitate, what ever pain it might impose upon him, to decide between the conflicting evidence of men who must be presu med to be c ompetent witnesses in such a case. The phrase exanng," however, put the case out ofhis jurisdiction, according to Use evidence which he bad just hemd, and he must dismiss the summons. — Mr. Pelham, who attended for three other defendants, named Synott, Romsey, and Parsons, who were summonsed under the same clause of the act, said that his worship had anticipated the objection which he was about to take, and he therefore ed that Mr. Mellish would abandon these cases.— r. Mellish concurred in the magis trate's reading of the set, and agreed to do so. MONEY MARKET. WSDNINIDAT BINNING. In the early part of to-day Consols were steady at 94; buyers for to-day and to-morrow, but later This the qu o tations were reduced to 94 1 to 1, and so left off. " put" and " call" day, the declarations of which it is the rule to make at a quarter before 3 o'clock. The compara tively short variations in prices in the account due to morrow did not permit these options to come into play with any, or at least with very ht, advantage, although for jobbing purposes from da y to day they might be worked and operated against with both the profit and security which are the usual induce ments to transactions of that nature. It is understood, however, that some mall quantities of stock were put by determined speculators for the fall, which, as making money stock more easy to the extent, led probably to the fractional decline in Consols at the close of business. Re duced Threes were 934 to 1; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 954 to 1. The government broker took 1,3001. New South Sea Annuities at 941 for the reduction of National Debt Account, and 15,0001. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. for the Savings Banks. Exchequer Bills, Ss. to 124. pre mium; India Bonds, ISL to 235. premium ; Long An nuities, 9/ to 15-16 ; Bank Stock, 205 to 6 ; India Stock, 256 to S. Money was easy in the house at 2 to 24 per cent. on stock. The business to-day was chiefly con fined to transactions for making up and balancing accounts for to-morrow. There is scarcely any change to report in the foreign market, although late in the day there was a show of rather more activity and frequency of dealing!. Braailian were done at 85, but remain quoted 84 to 6. Mexican, 21; to 21. Peruvian, 33 to 6. Spaniel! Fives, 25; to ; ; the Threes, 36; to 7 ; Deferred, 16; to 4 ; Passive, 5; to t. Dutch Two-and aMalf per Cents., 69 to ; ; the Fours, 911 to 2. ram= FUNDS. Bank Stock, WS 5 India Bonds, under 10001., 18 211 3 per Ct. Bad. Anne., 9344 South Sea New Anna., Hi S per CCO!IIOII,AMA,. 1 f Cons* for Amt., 114 i 1 New a 4 per Ot. Amu, see lisasquer 811/e, 51,000, lid,. Lows /as., exp. Oth Jan., IMO, 13 S 300, 919 9 6.16 Ditto /. India Stock. 876 7 i Do., aman, FOREIGN FUND& b per Ct. Mural= ads., 85 5 per Ct. Spanish Ws., dlr. tram Ditto New Bd. 1829 and 39, 841 'Mar, 1343, 20 3 per (3.. Mei • min, 1816, 38 Di ditto, e, 51 1846, 194 5 per Ct. Mexican Am., Nov. 30, Ditto Pawne 214 Ditto Deferred, 161 6 per Ct. Peruvian Bds , 34 3 per Ct. Ditto, 37 61 ' 5 per Ct. Portuguese BM., 85) 2 per Ct. Venezuela Bas., 40 4 per Ct. POrtn Bonds, 3131 5 per Ci. French Rennes, ll7f., ex. 5 per Ct. Bpapleh Bonds, dlv. from 23f. 70e. Nov., 1840, 2 34 24 per Ct. Dutch Ex. 12 Gel., 594 Ditto, May, 1841, 21 4 per Ct. ditto Certificates, 911 EXCHANGES AND STOMA ABROAD. nue Nov. 24.—Three g a rients., 81 70 • Five per Cents., 1H; Four per Cents., 105 60; Mve per 1640 i 9 0 1; 1.014 M u tes, 102 ; Roman Loan, ; Treasury Bonn, 31, mobt.; &amp on use" ( 10 days), 11 45 ; din e . (9011278) Mee, 1333 ; ea, 25 Maxelp.32. Nov. 18.—Three per 341; Four =M., ; Five pet dee*, :II 21 1 PaileleeS 6 1 on 16 8. VICXXA, Nov. ff.—Fire rer Celts. 106 ; one per Cent*, 97 1 Three per Cents., 711 ; Loan of BA IN, Ditto, 1 839 , 126; Bank Shares, 1,585. MINTICIDAY, Nov. 23.—Act. Debt, Twoand-eJlalf ps: amts., s sl. 384; Do., Three per Cents , 70 1 70 1 ; Do., Four p er Cents., V; 111. ALUMS Synd. Fonr-Hal-Half per Cent., 874 874 ; Commercial Coen- Den Foarand-a.Half per Cats., 1724 173 ; East Indian Lean, y , P per Cen 91. Exchanges: On Landon, 15 12 ; two mon our ths, 11 93 ; w on Hamburg, 33 69 ; two months, 33 23 ; on Paris, 36 37; two months, 56. BMW!, Nov. 20.—St. &hold Soh. Thresoadsta-Half par Cents., 931921. Foreign Exchanges: on London, two months, 623 6221 ; on Hamburg, SOO marts. 149 1. Baomms, Nov. 23.—Loan 1840, 991 ; 1842, 1011 ; Ditto, 1814, 971. Loan of the C it y , 1842, 1004; Ditto, 184 S, 99. — Exchange on London, 23f. 60c.; two months, 23f. 43e. Airmail% Nov. 23.—Exchange on London, 25ts 60e.—ditto, two months, 23f. 43e. OVATKIILL& Dwar.--Sir,—As a regular subscriber to your paper ever since the Ist of June last, and an admirer of the way it has been conducted Up to tha present time, could you give me, an =fortunate holder of Central American or Guatemala Bonds, any in formation respecting that country and its foreign debt, as I never see or hear a word of Central America 1 In Marek 1642, at a meeting of the bondholders then called together, It was mid that some arrangement bad been come to by our Coasul-General out there Mr. F. Chatfield, and in Aped, 1644, Costa Ries, one of the State's, paid off its portion of the debt, when it was said that Honduras and Nicaragua had loth commenced remitting money on account of their portions also; and at that period about 2,000 f. had been received by Mesas. Finlay, Hodgson, and Co., agents of Mr. Chatfield on amount of the bondholders. Since then not a word can I learn further ; and as the debt now due between the other Central American states, tire in number-Guatemala, Alms, St. Sal vador, Nicaragua, and Honduras, amounts to tidy 748,000=11am, or abrut 130,000 t, besides interest from February 1 1828, it is very hard for the bondholders to have been kept, now above 18 years, with out interest for their money, and their capital also gone;—only for the time however I hope. J. B. [J. B. should apply to the Spanish American Committee for information, as they should be in possession of all the facts, the more particularly as some of the body were very intimately concerned, its understood, with the contract of that unfortunate loan, and the emission of the bonds. Possibly a conversion scheme may be iu agitation in that quarter. Mr. Chatfield would seem to have done his duty faithfully, for it is well remembered with what grateful sur prise the intelligence of his successful and little expected interference was received here at the time. Wherever the moneys received may be in deposit, it is clear they should have been distributed instanter, or it is high time they should be now. By the way, we do not recollect such a place or territory as Alta% forming a state of the Central American federation.] MOVEMENT OP SPECIE.—The rate of exchange on the principal markets of Europe has undergone lately a consi derable fall, owing to which a great movement has taken place in specie. Some millions of francs in of. pieces have been lately sent from Strasburg to Frankfort, and one million in gold has been sent from London to France and Hamburg. England has also sent 100,0001., in gold, to New York, for the purchase of corn. It is more than six years since the rate of New York exchange on London has fallen so low as at the date of the last arrivals. RAILWAY NEWS. Shares and scrip were not doing quite so well yes terday. The heavy share stocks were flat, and with a ten dency to decline. Great Westerns were actually done, it is said, at 39 premium, although quoted in the official list at 45 premium. The sale at the lower rate might be an excep tional case, but it is to be observed that a very considerable bulk of the dealings in railway shares take place out of the Stock Exchange, and are not therefore admissible, with the prices•at which effected, into the official list at all. Such dealings are done betwixt one broker's office and another, or among a class of jobbers and agents, or brokers, who collect about the Hall of Commerce. The transactions in these eases are not of a lea' legitimate character, so far at least as for money, than those which take place on the Stock Ex change. It will happen therefore frequently that the official list does not really represent the true state of buying and selling prices, although a faithful record of the truism:- dons and prices at which effected, in the house itself. To that office it is strictly limited by the rules of the quiui stock corporate body. It happens not unfrequently therefore that a single bargain through collusion of interested dealers in the house desirous to establish a higher or lower price for any particular security, may be done at a rate agreed upon, which of necessity must be noted in the official list, and yet that rate shall be no fair criterion of the real state of the share-market, either in or out of the house. The prices quoted for the single bargain may be much above or below the ruling rate', but more often the former, when no active demand exists for the particular article. Parties at a distance having business to transact, whether in buying or selling shares, should bear these expla nations in mind, and take their informations and measures accordingly. When prices are unduly exaggerated or de pressed in the manner stated, none of the blame of which attaches to the official list, it is easy to arrive at the proof by inquiringl of respectable brokers and dealers in the house and out what arc the prices at which business can be done both for selling and buying. North Staffordahires were in request in the former part of the day, but fell off towards tho close, and declined in price. Shrewsbury and Birmingham"' were rather better. London and :Kurth Westerns were heavy, and done out of the house at 191. French lines coming better from Paris were nominally better. There was a moderate busines; done in the Liverpool share market yesterday, but in most instances at a small re duction on Tuesday's prices. Amongst new lines Glasgow and Dumfries, and Shef fi eld,Rotherham and Goole were(bet. ter; North Staffords also were rather firmer; but the general tone of the market was not improved. The Manchester market continued very languid ; prices slightly in favour of the buyer, North Stalfordshires ex cepted, for which the inquiry was lively, and prices rather higher. At Leeds, onWedaesday, the share market was active, yet nearly the whole of the transactions effected were done at prices a shade lower than on the preceding day. Leeds and Thinks declined from If dis. to 21 dis.; hew Thinks from 2s. lid. dis. to 10s. die. ; Dewsbury Branches from 71 to 71 pm. ; and North Staffords from 31 to 3i pm. At Bristol the market was rather more active. There was a good deal of business in Midland (new) 501. shares, which opened at 6, were afterwards done at 51 and 51, and closed at 51. 18s. 9d. ; Bristol and South Wales Junctions were done at 11; Caledonians, 231, ; Manchester and Leeds Extension, 31. 2s. ; Midland (new), 401. shares, 31; Bi • ham and Gloucester (quarter shares), 32; North Staff o 're, 131 pm. ; Ta ff Vale, 1331 ; Vale of Neath, 18s. 9d.; York and Newcastle (preference) 5 pm. RAILWAY SHARE LlSTS.—Lownorr. Nov. 25. Nora — tam of lines in Roman characters denote actual : those of lines in Italics sellers' prioes. P• 11). Lrysirom, Nov. —Chester, Birkenhead 51—Dublin, Drogheda, 121 d.—E. Counties, 221, 1 —Unsaster, Preston, (Ish.), 141.—Londom N. Western, 193.—Ditto (New 1 sh.), 12i, 13, 121 p. Ditto (1 eh., G. J.) 204 p a -Manchester, Birmingham ( . 1 sh. B.), 71-- fl(401. slikivi?._,lttozie. 2011., ,(4 ail! A...) ) , Eastern (N R—thuo New ew sla, No. 4), York, Selby, (Pref. sh.), 94 p.—E. Lam:Rehire, 44, p.—TJitto, o. 1 New We), 4L 4 p.—Ditto (No. 2, new sb.), 4i(B rae x add. .k.)--ihiddirded. & ft, (IS 1 4 / 2 6, 4 1 —Ditt° ! 71 p.—Leads, Dewsbury, llf. 4, , p.— tto ( Branches, blue) , 7 p.—Ditto (Ext., green), If, 1 p.—LeedA Think, 24, `d.—Ditto ( B ei= d.—Limerick, Waterford, 134 d , — Liverpool , Bury, 31 p. 'sod, Lanes:hire, Cheshire Janet., IL 4 p.—Birmingham, Dadiey, 54p.—Ilirmiagham, Oxford Janet., 64 J p.—Glasgow Dum fries, par. 4, Is. 3d., I p.—Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle n., / d. London, York, 1 d.—Direct Northern, 4 d.—Newport, Hereford, Abergaven If IL—Newry, Warrenpoint , 21 p.—N. Staffordshire, Western, il , Sc. 9d., I p.—ehrewebury, Birmingham, (A), 1 p.—Shropehire Un., R. and C., Bs. 9d., d.—West Riding Unlm, 1 la—Leicester, liedfred, d.--Manchester, Southampton, Ile. &L d. rALII. Nov. 24.—Parts and Orleans, 1220 ; Paris and Rouen, 87250; Rolm and Havre, 1130 ; Miglloll and Marseilles, 860; Strasburg and Bale, 217 50; Centre (Virzon), 565 ; Bordeaux, 515; North,63l 25 ; Paris and Strasburg, 478 75; 5 Tours and Nantes, 488 75 ; Paris and j . .iasis, 502 50; Montereau and Troyes, 340; Amiens and Boulogne, 430. v raj 20.—Northern, 1671; Gkggnitx, 124 ; Venire and Milan, 1064 ; Leiter% 954 relths 86 Sienitae 76 ; Gowen°, 914. LONDON.—WitergaraltD AND iirILKENNT.—The halt yearly meeting took place yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. P. S. Butler, M.P., in the chair. The meeting was "to be made special for the peewee of authorising the directors to borrow money under the act ofpollausene t Captain Currie, the secretary, read the directors' report. Wens laded that 5 4 miles of the railway are now nearly c ompleted. and the ether works, including the viaduct over the river Nore to Thoutsseeme. ht to highly responsible parties The directors have for NM dalll peg been corresponding with the Irish govern ment for the pie pies of borrowing money ; but, in coneequence of the impractical OlNlffilitil which the Board of Works desired to impose, no arrangeneset has yet been made. The directors entertain hopes that, modified terms will soon be agreed upon. In that case it will not be necessary to make another call till June, 1847, when they would sail f or St. share. In making any contract of this kind the directors the shareholder would pay up their arrears of mills, shish without the works must stop at Thomastown. As soon as the Cerise line was completed to Waterford, the whole comment calks between the latter town and Dublin would be open. From the balenee4heet It appeared that the total receipts were N,8731. lies. I Id., and the balance in hand wits 13,8721. 9s. ltd. The report of the engineer (Mr. W. 8. Moorson) was also read, in which it was stated, that if all the calls were paid up, the en the line would be completed within two years. The chairman, m moving the adoption of the report, adverted to the retest completion of railway communication from Dublin to Carlow, us one great link in the entire chain contemplated. The directora hoped, he mut, soon to obtain aid hem the govenunent. A presentment had been made in the Ivens sessions of 14,000/. towards the construction of the line; another was about to be proposed; and if these presentments were sanctioned. they would prove very beneficial in relieving the existing &Ina& —The motion having been desponded, Mr. Seocombe complsiesd of the state of the amounts, which was such, he said, that se one could understand the items. He knew many persons who hied thought of investing in the line, but had been deterred hum tieing WO by the brokers' statement that no confidence could be Dr the management. Unless greater economy were practised. Dr int would never be carried beyond Thomastown. Mr. Dever.= MM• dueed the question of certain claims by his father, on account of see rico performed as solicitor for the company. He also contended that the accounts were presented is an unintelligible form ; and that, for that reason, the meeting itself was liberal — The Chairman objected to the reference made by Mr. De venue to his father's claims as irregular. A desultory die cuesioa ensued on the accounts, the liabilities of the com pany, and the question of adjournment. Mr. Seccombe moved "that a committee of the shareholders be appointed to investigate the amounts, to confer amicably with the directors as to the state and =of the company, and to report to the shareholders by eircu " Mr. Pagan. in the course of some observation.. on the =e r r and handed to the directors, a protest from Dublin representing 820 shares, in which it was suggested that the beard of directors should be remodelled, that being the only elms* al redeeming it from its present sinking couchtion. He him nil SI sot believe that the directors bad been guilty of any improper .as t.. A director asked if the protesting shareholders had paid link talk 7 Mr. Fagan replied that they stated that a want of 4104 Menet in the directors had prevented them from doing so. 'They thought that the affairs of the company would be better managed on the other side of the water. The chairman said, the English capi talists,'wbo constituted the majority ot the shareholders, were not likely to consent to the substitution of an Irish for an English direction. To prove that economy was practised, he stated that only 10/. was allowed be a director for the journey is and from Kilkenny, including travel- Beg and all other expenses. Mr. &wombed motion for a committee of investigation was then agreed to, and the committee nominated, with power to add to their number. The report was also adopted. The meeting wu then made special, and the following resolution carried: "That the directors be and they are hereby authorised to raise money by loan, on debentures or otherwise, to the amount aancticaed by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Act, ISO." MADRID AND VALENCIA.—A special general meeting of shareholders was held yesterday (by adjournment from 20th Oct. last) at the London Tavern. The chairman of the beard of directors, Wrn. Chadwick, Esq., presided on the occasion, and opened the proceedings of the day by reminding the shareholder; that the meeting had stood adjourned for a specific object, as would be explained in a hort report. The Secretary then read the fialowing report " The directors of this company have convened this adjourned monk& tt moordanec with a resolution adopted by the shareholders et a wide genera meeting held on the 20th October last, when, on the =lke of Dr. Dowring, it was resolved that this meeting do now =7LE order to give the director* an opportunity of considering 1 ' =TIMM' means can be found to enable discontented share holders to withdraw from the undertaking. The directors have, lace thatperiod, given thatquestion their most anxious consideration, end, in order to remove any doubt which might appear to exist, they have had prepared by their !elicitor a special case. embracing every particular in detail since the formation of the company, and they had laid the same before Mr. Rolt, Q.C., and Mr. Jacob Wake. the standing coansel of the committee, whose joint opinion , the 'directors now begged to submit to the oonsiderationof the shareholders." In accor dance with the request of the chairman, the solicitor of the company read, in extesm, the case and opinions of counsel upon it. The former was extremely voluminous embodying a detail of all the proceedings of the company, from it formation to the present moment, promedings which are so familiar to those interested, that their recapitulation is wholly superfluous. With re spect to the opinions of counsel, it in sufficient to say statutes th went to the extent of declaring that, regard being had to thepaesed by the government of Spain in reference to the Spanish shareholders, rendered it impoodble todimolve the company, or to relieve the &neon tented shareholders ; that Lord Dalhousie's act, the 9th and 10th Vie , eh. 28, did not present any mess of retiring from the difficulties at present in the way of the company ; and counsel concluded by creme me their inability to suggest any means of relief. The Chairnian ob served, from the opinion which had just been read, that the directors could not comply with the request conveyed in the resolution moved by Dr. Downing (whoee absence to.day he mach lamented) at the last meeting. The only mode which struck his (the chairman's) mind, was Wen deavour to bring to bear a plan, with respect to which he Ras now in negotiation with parties who thought highly of the pro jected line, and were willing to embark their capital in the under taking, by paying off the discontented shareholders. (Hear, hear. If this could be effected (and the matter Noe in treaty), the o bjects of those who wished to have their money back would, he trusted, shortly be mallard. A lengthy diecussion, in which Mr. Drewry, Mr. Cha rettee. Mr. Briggs, and other proprietors took part, followed, but was brought to a close by the adoption of a motion propoued by Mr. D. W. Harvey, that, with a view to the completion of such an arrange ment that suggested by the chairman, the meeting be adjourned to a term to be fixed by the directors, not exceeding six weeks front that day. Thanks were then voted by acclamation to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. INSPECTOR.° BNERA.L OF RAILWATII.—Captain Joshua Coddington, of the Royal Engineers, Deputy Inspector-General of Railways, has been appointed Government Inspector-General of Rail ways, vice Major-General Charles Wm. Pettey, C.B. PROVINCES.—bIatCCHESTER. AND LIBDS.—A special meeting of this company waa held, on Wednesday , at Manchester, and was the most numerously attended of any ever yet held. Henry Houldsworth, Lan. (Chairmanof the Beard) presided, and a report was read which recommended the appointment of the following gentlemen on the board to make up the additional number of direc tors required by the amalgamation ucts :—Dr. Buchanan, of Ponte fract ; J. Croethwaite, Esq., of Liverpool ; W. Moron, Esq., of Ponte fract ; J, Mellor, Lice, of Okiham ; W. Stuart, Dn., of Liverpool ; 11. Stuart, En.q., of Manchester; O. Wilson, Esq., of Manchester; W. Entwiele, Esq., of London ; J. Aualue, }eq., of Lads; 11. It. Greafell, laq., of London. In the creation of new shares for the amalgamated companies, the report elated that the Mancheater, Bolton, and Bury shareholders are entitled to onenew Den/. share (93/. paid up) in exchange for each of their original shares, on which the same ameunt has been paid. The Boltonshareholdershaso take their pro portion of Nth shares, subjectto the payment, on the let of Jan. next, of 4/. per share in addition to the IL already paid by them. From that date, as regards the 10e/, and fifth thane, they will stand in the same petition as original Manchester and Lee& shareholders. They are also entitled to their equal proportion of the extennlon shares.— The Liverpool and Bury shareholders are entitled to one uew Ste. share in exchange for each of their aO/. shares in that railway, the amount pidd up on their original shares being placed to the credit of the new charts,", and also to me new 50/. share, for every five 10!. amalrima don scrip shame held by them. In order to place these latter shares on a par, as regards the amount paid upon them, with the original 59/. charm, the holders will be required, on exchanging their scrip for cern& cum, to pay up In addition to the former depoeit of IL on each fifth, the further sum of 3/. 16e, making together a payment equal t0 ... 2 , 41er 50/. share, the amount which has been called up on the shares. - Tile West Biding Union proprietors take one new share in lieu of each 201. share in their undertaking.—The Wake field, Pontefract, and Goole shareholders, in like nuance, will receive for each 501. and 25/. share in that railway, a new share tithe same nominal amount of Manchester and Leeds stock.—Under the Liverpool and Bury Amalgamation Act, to raise the further capital of 300,0001. required for the extensions, it is proposed to create an additional num ber of 32/. shares, or thirds, so that the resolutions of the lan meeting for the distribution of the new third &arm emongst the holders of Manchester and Leeds, and Manchester . Bolton, and Bury extension scrip in the proportion of one 821. share for every two 20!. extension scrip shares, might be carried into effect.—The New Undertakings would be a revival, first, of the Oldham Alliance Railway, with some modifications , including an improved line to Manchester. The new company lase been formed by a union of the contending par ties of tha last seaman, and the length of the proposed new lines is about twenty miles, requiring a capital of 4 50 ,u 00 /., to be provided in equal shares by the Oldham district, and Oldham, Manchester, Liver pool, and Birkenhead Junction Railway companies of last year, and the Manchester and Ueda Railway Company.—Seeond, of the Man chester and Southport Railway, a continuation of the Liverpool and Preston, Manchester and Southport scheme of last rear, omitting the line between Liverpool and Preston. With its branches, about 45 miles in length. The capital required, 600,0001., towards which the Manchester and Leeds Company continue their former subscription of 400,0001.—Fourth,Ertensions of the Manchester and Leeds Company's Slain Lines, comprising Extensicas of the Hudddersfleld and Sheffield Junction Railwano Banudeyand Holmfirtle and several minor branches from, and extensions, deviations, and alterations of, the Manchester and Leeds ileywoad Branch, and of the Liverpool and Bury, Maack*. ter, Bolton and Bury, and Weal Riding Union Lines, at a probable cost of 300,000/.—Fourth, the Leeds Central Station, at a coil of 240,000!. — Filth, the New Station of the Hull and Selby Railway, to Deconstructed jointly with the York and North Iffidland Railway Company, at &met of 50.000 L--Sixth, Extensions of the Great Northern Railway. The Great Northern Railway Company having certain Extensions from Methley and from Wakefield to your directors have arranged with that company for a transfer to e Manchester and Leeds Com pany, in the event of their application to parliament being successful, of the portion of the new line extending from Wakefield to the junction with the line from Methiey to Leeds, and for mutual rights of working traffic over portions of each company's lines—Seventh, the Rochdale Canal Purchase.—The chairman then entered into a very elaborate statement of the prevent position and future prospects of the company, and in the course of his address adverted to the supposed injury received by this com pany from the rnee=? Monday m when the London and North Western Company of the Leeds and Dewsbury line, and consequently independent emus to Leeds, through limber , ter. He said some people were of opinion that by each a line getting into the handed a rival company, it was more injurious to than if it were retained by local parties, but he did not think was so. He discarded :the notion however that the London and North Western had obtained it with a view of competing for the " through" traffic, or with any unfriendly intention. If they had, the Lee& com pany was In a petition {to protect its interests, especially with the alliances which rt would be forced into with other companies running south (who must be equally injured by any such course), sad which, indeed, would enable them to compete with all oppoeition. Bath a contention, however, would be like the fight of the Kilkenny eats, end he thought the good sense of all partite would restrain them from entering upon it. With reference to the reduction of dividend at the hat half-year Croce Bto 7 per cent., he said the fears of soineparties had led them to expect the reduction would have to be carried still further. It bad been asked, would they divide, next time, 6 per cent.l Ilewas in a position to say that from the present receipts, and everything by which the directors could form a judgment, they would not only be able to continue the dividend at 7 per cent., but also to carry a large sum at the half-year's end to the reserved fund. The profits of the line, in fact, were the dividends not extended over calla, Mo., would give a dividend of 9 pet cent. A series of 12 reiffintiall, were after wards put and carried, empowering the directors to carry out all the proposition' and schemes of which a programme 0 given in the above extract from the report, and the meeting apps ses s fled with the statement of 'Mrs laid before them. BRISTOL AND POOL. HaRROUR.—A ny s , motes of this undertaking wee held yesterday, at i man Pountney in the chair. The chairman said been called for the purpose of giving information proposed formation of a line of railway between At present there was no communication between end the south of England, except by a tedious nos Land's end, or by means of slow stage was unusually tardy and expensive, ited " ram mode of transit were provided, the dealer might hm I being able to dispose of his goods, and turn hia times over. It was now an axiom universally aim money, and as time thrown away was money th em of importance to provide a good means of cor waggon communtiOn was just as obje c t gone were unloaded at tftailliridge, half , and Bristol, and oftentimes goods :ffnailla flit they reached their place of destination. the railways from the west of England ran id were the only place worthy of a consideration. (1 proposed line would cross them all, running re while they ran from east to went It would derive arising from commwdeaUon with those liaise , whi run parallel for more than a few mike; with any c not be regarded as competing with any.. The line communication between the aorth and south of En had nothing to fear from that. The chairman ne pre-enihkehee at Bristol for the manufacture of et black bottles, and flint-glass, and said, if by or rauaication with other parts of the kingdom demand for their manufactnres, they would factories established in their city, and, al increased employment given to its pupal alluded to the importance of the projected line as a the Somerset coal dale to supply the south of Ei Islands, and the coast of France. At present the their coal from a great distance and at meat expe Dorset must alao derive very greet benefit from a line. At present the farmers had but small mar grain, and cheese, or else were compelled to send such BS Salisbury, or Warminster, at a heavy expel rif a line of railway would place them in ea•y com large markets of England, while it would enah artificial manures, and other articles of agricui The landowners along the proposed line had been one exception were, he was happy to state, faro The line had been mom carefully surveyed, and the goods as from passengers, must be very great passed approving of the line and pledging the met Sorts DEVON.—A mewing of the pn convened immediately, for the purpose of t 4 atlon the propriety of diverting the course inland, which will prevent a recurrence of dab which has recently taken place by the overflowing FOLI.EIGN.--FaaticE.7ehtArrEtt or . . _ itoarunaw Liwa.—The train which left Pari lug, did not arrive at liniment until half-past twe May was caused bye seeks of little accidents on tl and which, happily, had no rerioun result. in tt Fontaine, that to between ten and twelve leagues fr of the engine became deranged, and it was necesw of another. This one bad drawn the train barely the steam failed, and a still longer delay was the t this circumstance the train did not reach Arnim usual time, and the station, which has but • 'noel occupied by another train, so that it was necessary started. Again, after passing Douai, another c cause of which is not explained. During this ti waiting at Mons to be taken to Brussels, and afte irregularity, wereat length conveyed on by special plaints have recently been made of the irregulariti BELGIAN RAILWAY.—During the moat! the receipts of the national railway were 637,13 f gets; 51,6611. 42t. for luggage ; and 566,8711.1 ' , number of passengers was 330,371. NAMBURON, Nov. 19.—Hamburgh-Berst burgla.Berlin, ; Altona-Kiel, 1041 ; Rendsban Ghickstadt-Fimshorn, 66; Copenhagen-Roe:Ude, fitt ; Magdeburg-Wittenberg, b 74. VIENNA, Nov. 17.—North, 1671 ; Mogi 106 k; Leghorn, 951 . ; Path, b 6; Sienna, 76; Gre R.AsiltPour, Nov. 21.—Louia Betbach William, 701 ; Taunus, 3581. BERLIN, Nov. 19.—Potsdam-Madpho Anhalt, 108 ; Dusseldorf•Filherfeld, 104 ; nine 104 i ; Lower Silesia, 661; /kr 105 ; stadt, 1041. COMMERCIAL AND MAR, PRODUCE.-31utento-LeNr, Nov. 25.—The dull today, and a small amount of business done. of Wait India only sold; 250 hhils. of Cuba Moron sale, but the greater part was withdr.sn for want rotes; prices chiefly ranged from 48s. to 525. Rai standard quality, 645. The Customs' report of d scriptions of gwar in London, Liverpool, 114 Clyde, to last week, was—total, 4,056,313 cwt,. 1945, 4,033,471 esti. The public Wes of Cod bags of Plantation Ceylon, which were chiefly mark, and sold from 68s. to 795. 6c1., which were of native went off heavily, common good ordinary lower ; a small portion aivery good ordinary sold full price.—Cottonremainsneglected.—Tallow, du spot.—Tea is firmly held at the late advance, the 6 etcadily, but spoculators have not been in the mar 1846 to last week :—Lcadon, 23,602,170 lb. ; Bristol, 694,286 ; Hull, 221,735 ; Clyde, 1,802,047; Rice: Imported into London front lit Jan. to British ILI., 290,807 bags; delivered during tt home consumption, 143,105 bags ; for exponents rent stock on hand, 73,635 bag'; at the same per bags.—Pepper : Black, Imported from let Jan. 49,052 bags; delivered for home conturuption, portatien, 19,288 bags; present stock, 72,332 hap last year, 71,582 bags.—Pimento: Imported fr Nov., 1846, 4,163 bags ; delivered for home coast for exportation, 5,443 bags: present stock, 2,93 period last year, 9,231 hags.—Saltpetre : Import 21st Nov., 1816, 7,567 tons; delivered, 8,897 tons tone; at the same perlod last year, 2,794 tons. — imported from let Jan. to 21at Nov., 1346, 27,51 27,272 chests ; present stock, 33,701 cheats ; at I year, 33,900 sheets. COTTON.—Lrvriersxit., Nov. 25.—We had am day. The sales were 5,000 &ilea, 350 for export. COALS, Nor. 25. 7 Shipe, 36 ; 51 sr Eden Main . Walls End E Walls End 13 Walls Sind Davison's i`Fealisirtley 166 Jd Hastings Hartley . Stewart's Hartley lbe 9d West Hartley l6s 3d SHIPPING INTRI sat. DCL. tat. art 3 Dublin . . . I 0 1101Iard . .to I Waterford .. 0 I Flanders . . 0 Daananhadee 0 I France . . 0 3 Osern.t.Ters. 0 0 Liston N0v.26, 0 Hatntounr . 0 0 Medlterran. .01 Gnarracin, Nor. 45.—Arrived Thohrin, gni St. Petersburg; Oberlin, New Ohioans; Elizabel Fourth, Pillau ; Amalia, Malaga Prince Charlio Berbice ; Viso:matzos Canning, Africa; Vangut tima, St. Petersburg ; Elizabeth and Quern tic Anderson, Now Orleans; Quiz, Smyrna. Christ Caen; Loyal Briton, Sagurnay; Europe, Qui Mrditerninean ; Bling, Adelaide; Tropic, Jan Waren- LiVERPOOL, Nov. 25.—Arrivals Ilydappes, 61 Quebec ; Admiral, Quebec; Buona Maria, Sep Malaga Frances, Elarbadoca ; lord Ashburton, Pratt, New Orleans; Sclenoe, Santa Martha. ;LIGENCI 1.41 a FT.i! iiTiii;: No [Advertisement.]—liOLLOWAVß for all Female Com*ints.—Wonien, from a more often out of order than men, 'and require suitable to their sox to operate so searchingly u an to produce the effect required. Thus the ma the middle-need frequently stand is need of at and there certainly to none that will bring about cure of female complaints an Holloway's Pills. been well for years might in a few days derive C use which perhapo had long been sought for in vat by all druggist., and at Professor Holloway's Strand, Leaden. BIRTHS. ALLEN.—Ifoo. 23, the wile of the Rev. .1 Allen, Chi Loadon, of a daughter . BOOLE —Nov. 2u, at 12, Woudslde.crescuut, Glue daughter. BROOKE—Not'. el, at height's-hill, flusiow-p Of 11l two CONOLLY.—Nov. 19, at Tractoo, Cork, the wife of t CCI.LINOTO97.—Nov. 23, the wife of D. Wing= street, of a daughter. D'ARCY.—Nou 19, at Dublin, the wife of Captain regiment, of a am. FLO V. 1.21.—N0v. 21, at Croydon, Mrs. T. W. Flow* HART —Nov. 23, at 3, lite% street, Fimbury-sonat ILAKVEY.—Nor.2I, at Oroarenor.place, Britton, •• solicitor, of • son. HUDOSINSON.—Nos. 22, at Stoke, the wife of Majesty's ship Caledonia, of a daughter. MORTON.—Nor. 05,00 Csaterbut7, the wife of W her Majesty • ship Thetis, of a daughter. JOH Naelli.—leor.22, at Clapham. Mrs. S. Johnson, JOHNSDONE.—Nov. IT, at Willow Part, Green. • dattpleter. LECKI.—Nov. 18, at Drumeondra, the .it. of A. I REIDIFIT.—Nov. LI, the wife or K. Itemmett, of of • daytime, 8100.-34.. 29, at Regency +loan., Brighton, the Tarutoet+quare, of a sos. TREVOR —Nov. 33, to Beller.street, Chester, the a son. **ALFORD —Nev. 23, la Use Charter House, the , ford, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BARLOW..—firm. 14, at Manchetter. by the Rey. C Barlow, Em., of Greenheys. to Hannah mho' , Keanley, Esq., of the same piece . Bl'ltKE.—Nev. 11, at Coonough, Kildare, W. Burk to Marla, third daughter of the late F. Boylan, E JONES.—Nor. 21, at St. James's Church, by Ike Re C. H. Jena, PayMaSter and Parser, 8.14., to Mat atraviat child of Mr. Cherry, of imam-street. EEON.--lior. 21, at the 11104/W0 Embower CUT M. 0. X• 011, lip., 01117 net of the late M. Hem Matowly, of Been Brooke, Leitrim, to Anne de I sr Major Bowles, late of her Majesty's 21st Ligb 1137.14.—N0r. 21, at Manehester. by the her. E. B Merchant, of Hannah, us Moneta, daughter o' Ma House, Chorltortupon•Medloct. PARRY.—Nov. 24. at Cheodle, by the Rev. H. St Cheater, H. A. Parry. Esq., of Hendon, to I daughter of E. R. La More, Eog., of Belmont. HITEHEAD.—Na. 21, at Cain church, Alban' Moms, the Rev. W. Whitehead, Fellow of W and curate of Camberwell, to Maria, youngest R. Lozharn, of Masai WILIIRAHAM.—Nor. 21, at Gresford, by the Rev R. Wilbrobsm, of the Royal Fusiliers, third NI of Rode-hall, Cheshire, to Eisabeth lemma, late W. Egerton, Esq., of Graford• lodes, Denbl DEATHS. BANICART.—Nov. 21, Mau Elizabeth, eldest Bankart, of Champion park, Ihnumark-bill, oleo bROWN.—Nor. 21, at Albert-terrace, Glasgow, the late W. Brown, Egg., of Easiteed. a/LB.—Nov.ll, Marla, wife of Mr. T. Cole, of 41 IftSuare PON.:-Now. le, at Mftry H M. E surylvlau aon of the La te K. L. Ey s t:n , i , Log., of 1 alted FOSTP.II.—Nov. 241, at Wens, Joanna Slade, rell late prebendary of Wells cathedral, aged 6i. HOZIER.—Nov. 22, at Northorkk.terrare, St Jol formerly of Kingston, Jamaica, aged H. JOILXSTMICE.—tios. 21, at Willosupark, Green° Johnstone, Eon. KHIML — Not. 23, at Gloucester place, Pontos _ aged M. LAI'RI F.. —Nor. 21, at 11, Ciettrec. of W. A. Laurie, Bad., aged 19. MACPARLAN.—Noy. b, to 19, Polloekutreet, Infant daughter of Kr. J. Macfarkut, of tha CIA WILLS.—Nov. 22, Albert, youngest tom of tbe deafen -tall, Gareth. MORGAN:Nov. IS, Mary, relict of the late Col.] and eldest daughter of Dr. 1. Warton, head AN aged 82. NICHOLSON.—Nov. 21, at Cp2cr Ciento., 3. aged 65. PARLETY.—Noy. 13, at Enfield, Mr. W. Barlett Woodford, aged 70. ROBERTS.—Nov. 21, a Croydo, Dr. Bober% el STANFOR.D.—Nov. 22, t Mary.relict , of the la Preston.place, Brighton. TitemsoN. si, at 20, Montelthyow, 010.1 Thomson, Zap., of West Arbackle. WORTILUL-2100. 19, at Marlborough, C. P.l BUstingtord, aged M. platted Putlidmitnrur- P.dlnte oy Wlts.aoloomeJoy. the pariah of St. BOY, Ls the City of Lando Mere. Dsossoite an d Sem, to Lostord :White:Tian, la the City of Loudon, County —NO ****** 15, IMO PM. P•IP. 20 Aberdeen. lB 115 Lynn and Dereham...llsl sa 24 Ambergate 2l 4ss Manchester & Leeds.. 1014 2Or 42s Dirs. (Vol. 4 Dudleys Ip. 38 De. thorax 7 7493 p . :71 1001ifirothigh. 4. Gloster.l 7 42 9 2 Do. 374 Do. New (lily 74d.) 30 32 5 Do. 9 I 2 Birm. & Oxford June. 8 5 1 64 Do. SUcteenthe 1 14p. eh 75 Bristol and Exeter ... 81 1 42 s Do. E xtension. l p. ti, ...... 3 4p. 40 Manchester 4. Bien. 72 74 lu 30 Bristol & Gloster 50 5 Do. 1 shares A l2 111 ta 84s Buckinghamshire Id. 5 Do. Do 13 l2 ce 23 Caledonian 231 41 1 1 Do. Do. C 6 7p. 11.1 21 Do. 1 shares. 21 1 42e Stanch.. Buz., & Mat li.. to 274 Chester 4 Hotylsead. 3_ld. 2 March. & Southamp I 1 01 2 Charred and Blythe. 100 Midland 1 242 3 21 I Coniston 34 aka. 24 Do. New lei i 1 1 , 1 24 Do. 1 shores 2 lid. 2 Do. N ew . 4 6 , c 24 Direct - Northern ll 100 Do. Bkva..9lt Derby 100 n 1 2, Dublin .4 Beilast.lost 8&L 20 Neves/Ale &Berwick. 331 4 4 i i ! , 144 Eastern Counties 22 1 3 5 NeW2ll. and Chestd.... 51 I Do. New 74 p. 35 North British 371 i 1, 2' Do, Trk. Extension 311 I S Do. 1 shares. lBl 0 14 East Lancashire 1 1 5 Do. pp,. h 5 Do. New 1 I :11 Do. I abates 21 0 21 p. s 24 m ew (late Pr. 4 I Do. Extenslon 1 Orwss.). 1 'Norfolk 14 But Linooldshire..... 11 1 9 Do. 4 shares. III • 35 Eastern Union 514 I A Do. Betension 4 1 50 Ildisibirph&G 71 76 50 Northern & Eastern 74 h t 10 Do. 4 shares 10 Ilp. 45 Do.Serip (iss.s die.) 4 p. a 11 Do. 1 shares l7l 124 Do. 4 shares 1184 1941 e 1 ,Edinb. k Northern... 15 1 Do. New 26 W r 12 , Ely & Huntingdon ... 12 1 42s North Staffordshire... 31111 p t .P.zeter, leor., Dorch, 2 4 11d. 17 : 10xL, Waster., & WoL 13 c 42s 1 Gook, Done. & Shall , . Portsmouth Direct ... 1 27/iD(. So. .2 West. (fret.' 2p. Preston and Wyre.. . 4 I 10 Dt. North of Englandl24s 237 44 Do. 4 shares 34 44 I 5 Do. Nov .54 32 1 1 . II Royston and ilitehen 11 1 15 Do. New., Se 40P. 100 Sheffield Month._ 4 Month. 4 . 14 Do. New 18 1?p. 424 Scottish Central 191 185 Great Western 12 6 28 • lit Scottish Midland Ipar. Ip. ,30 Dol . shares 1 7 6 3 Shrewsbut7 & Birm... 1 1, 10 Do. shares 117 18 42s Shropshire Union-. . 20 Do. 'tithe 4O 'South Deco% • 2 Do. New 7 331 S. Pastern and Dover 464 113 Iluddersheld, Manch 184 20 D0.N.(155.321.)N0.1 23 2 r 3 Do. Extension 4_2p. 12 Do. N.(3.31.85.8d.) 2111 450 Hull and Selby 1 08 74 15 Do. N. a ro. SO L) VlB 4 25 Do. 4 shares 271 28 24 Do. N. do. 15L) 43 21 124 Do. 4 sham. lO4 11 . 3 south tg ea 34 4 114 Ipor. & Bury St. Elai 12 4 11 Waterford 4 /Bikes 7 sd. , 21 Do. do. Norwich-. 21 1 42s West Riding Union ll fp P5O Lancaster & Carlisle.. 891 15 Witte, Soni..d. /Vera 6 sd. g 5 Do. New 10 25 York and Newastle., 374 1 e 30 Leeds and Bradford 175 5 Do. New , 171 Leeds and Thirsk 114 led. 2 Do. Preference 12 1 '. 5 Do. New ;4a. 41). SO York and North Mid. 7. 221 Ueda, Dews., Maneh j 33 25 Do. 4 shams. 45 w 2 I Do. do. Br. sh.(Blue) 10 40 Do. Selby 33 37p. a 2, Do.do.Exten(Oreen) 44 20 Do. Extension 37 1, 220, Leicester . Bedford.. i id. 2 Do. Preference 11 4 4 e- 22 8 1LeicesdBireinasstrsas 5 Do.E.JSW.Ridg.Ex I 24' Lir. Man. & N. June. t - IlLondce & BlsokiralL. Poulos ii•ILWATI. a 3 Do , New I 16 Boulogne and Amiens 131 0_ 50 74 lend. Do. B Et riat tenrion s.co 584 4 2 Bord.TouL & Cette ...1 1 44 le 40 Do. Do. Mt 7 Bp. 54 Direct Borab.&Madre ti 9 Do. Do.Ousrn. 5 p.C I 13 Load= it Oressidsh9l 5s East Indian I" 18 Do. Preference .. ...2 23 Ss Gt.SoidAn.of ?dares er .... er 1 London & N.Wattern 192 3 1 Ss Great West. Bengal. re 2 Do. 1 shares 2il 5 Greet Nor. of Frame. 101 91 2 Do. New shares.- 1 1 1 8 Louvain ala Sambre If 61 2 Do. lrifths. 1 18 4 Luxembourg A. 124 Do. Bightlw I n.. 7 8 Newer and Lieye„ 1 44d. 5 Do. N. 4 sh. {s' 10 learn and Viersan 1424 8 D0.401.5h., L. 4M. 6 k Bank's' 71 1 1 414 London &8. Western 624 4 5 Paris & Lycra 5 4 12 40 Do. New Cons. St 8 10p. 20 Paris and Orleans , 224 Do, New 28 7 20 Paris and Boom 34 3 18 Do. Now.. I 4p. 5 Peris.Stradt la ld. id,. ILondossand Pork 4 id. 20 Roses (1114 i Ham 244 254 Do. 4 shares lO Sambre and Meuse ... 1 Lon., SeUs.,_& Y 11 5 Tours& Nantes 15 Lyon and Di 151 6 West F1ander5......... I