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nsgb, held on Friday, there was manifested strong op position to the rate in aid proposed, which of course rests oo very different grounds from the question of what a marmum shon'cl be. . . _ _ _ An emigrant ship—the Lord Swami—was burnt at Moses. ha value was 2,0001. No lives were lot. The vessel was uninsured. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. Ouou, Fu. 27.—A meeting of UN Graduates In the rooky of Theology was bld this vaossulwi, in the Conewstion- Imp% when the lee . 11. B. Wihon. . renew of IR. John , * Coll. tsee nnenintoody elected to the (Ansel Lasasiose, ander Me pool *wed the new I ate, De Dsaciptiaa Theologies. IS • COMVOCATIOX, to be held so Tittiesday nest, it will he premed to miler the hofterszy degree or Douce fe Divialty ea the Iter. 0. ugUI, of Magde'estabell, Bishop Deeigaate of Hew Yon. NAVAL. PORTillorti. Fes. 21.Liieriney 92, was irspeeted yet berdey by str T. Copal, who Domed this ship In the flora order. she re IW kastrowit this Say to pews for plying off.—flarbmain, 12. =roe, allimsd h•nie from lAA m.--01xliptor pt. is hourly st this port from the liediternmesn, and so ber ordeal oil: peresel be paid eft MILITARY. The anal ludf-youlyctiar4aii quarter' of the brigade eut Camels takes plate this day, am the &maw sre:—Onowliat Oalodo-Ist adsalke from lit. Joho's-moi fa lteinmegrie bar. mho; land but.dman from *Donlan to Vfladoir; from Pertaan 4 q 6 age 10 Wellington botraolia Wain= Ganda —tot latudioa from Winds,' to at. Omega's homy, lid bt wl. fn. a. Cleorges barracks to Tome. Is As Penner Ometwlst Whitlock 60111 Chichester to St. Johatorood ; lad WWI= trim WsWar.os loaralas to adeamor. FEIEBBOKII, FEB. 25 —no flora, with a detochusont of tho 70ta Wet. at board fur WM, pat bask awls tbaamils area of weather, sal the crew refuter to ea tow to Mr the w sot able to puma oe hcr Toyaa until yeetaday. TM mikes wen brought be bre alto scagidratee at Itarerfordwert. by °apt. Pugh, the w- Ma statue tba: the mat retesed to dead, duty as bawd the Alp." Game so milkiest near for emelt reterab. dory were rash easealtte to the lice,. d Canaan, to be at bard barer lee the blare ol thirty dApt. name, at sosolftrabb dilleulty. provand Mob heal. Captaa Yap proceeded es Ida voyage yesterday. SPORTING. SPRING MEXTLX43. - --- ° Liwzaroor.:Trzosat Brix vac Fara Toxic —The Ibilowlso tones Into waved ar tar assidearse, to strata. to Own wwwstoad to war Isst pad : ells Mak The Vatic Tipper pory lay, Peas Env* kny, and Spans. Pam Osarva, how d, sad Mar ars lo the orialabsarbord. Osedary bylabbba, Nt. Wlad Laser, Callow Thwart" sad laparrao aro out to arm It zeparad tart woefi win MIA to the post Mar, k sal,wet wilt a bad saolisat set Chdasiwas yowarday, and Yla rasa draw. as aro biro ke to. Ilarloo Cap camel Prises MAN who Is aqpnald. sad Parasy. who met vlab ma mart ca alto wad sod Is ono Ysi. TM Warr Cop 4 ant Wanly to be • walk oar far Perilks. alettark Tarbegillik, sod provably Tres ware will *Wm Ow to, lOwenky, sod all that was cared last atilt toe the Trial and Selling Prate% except Rodney ' will start. The Wed steeple weather le ell o hed. and lb@ gruawl excellent ortkr both fur flat NTallta ON MONDAY NIOHT. TRIAL Rusts —Blr Richard, b • by Sir Twat oat of Re ber" two*, Pealeastrier,llodaec Tegoffer. Ada bkry, ristr.lso itraus.--hlogador, Jalk Cade, Wiseacre, Lis smut. Wiesseab. iLatu InttUtatnce. COURT OF ITCHRQUER—Tarrinumy. Na Pasts.—Nsixs Pelosk, C. 8., sad Landes Spend Juries. BMX s. Tuz Grirsaaa. Snam Ittectorrtox COMPLNY.— Bw•wroro ► B►YON UN TN - 11 THAN►I This action, which was part heard on Monday, was brought to mover 7 ,as compensation kr loran sustained by reason (tithe plaintiff's barge having been swamped by the Soho etromer, of which the defendants were propriston. It appeared that on the 16th of May last the barge was being loaded with coals from a vessel celled the Lord Al thorp, ' , Aug at *eh .r on the Thames, near the basin of the Regent's canal, when the Soho c.me up the river at the rate of tea knots an hour. The barge, which was capable of air ** 42 toes, had only 3.5 tons of cool, and had 14 inches of *are board. The swell caused by the rapidity with which the steamer was g.ing swamped the barge, although they were 40 yards 'maiden., and ake immediately sank. By a rule of the corporation, mule in pursuance of the 57th and 106th clauses of tie 7 & 8 Geo. IV. chap. 7, vessel above two bundled tons were prohibited from gulag faster than Mx miles an. hour upon the Thanes, with the tide, or four miles au hour ausiost it. Nine witnesses called for the Vaintiff considered 10 knot+ an hour a moat den. prone sin ed on the Thames, and attributed the accident en- Willy to the swell caused by the Soho, which came up abroad of the barge at that rate. They stated that if she had' been at the speed directed far a vessel of ber tonnage (292 owe) by the by-laws, the aced& nt would not have da mned. Foe the defendants there we re four • itneeses called, who stated that the stammer stopped within 100 or 150 yards of the Lord Althorp, and slackened bar speed until she passed the barge. They had been going at VU rate of nine miles an hour until they reached Durant 's Point, and after wards hey slackened the steamer to half speed. The barge was tied to the Lord Althorp, and, if she had been loosed in time, she would not have been sunk. The de fendants' witnesses attributed the accident to the swell canoed by two other deviants, the Ruby and the Royal William, which proceeded in en *prow, direction jest about that time. The defendants' eonerd cos ended their liability to be bound by use by-law a/thee:m*ol%oos but denied that there was any intention to vielate it. They submitted that the swell by which the accident woe caused had been produced by the two other steanten, and rrhepe by the Soho proceeding in an opposite direction, bat that every precaution bad been taken by the defendants' servants, and they should not therefore be made responsible be an un avoidable oecurrenee.—The Jury returned a verdict for the Bopintiff, with 761. diakonal. MISTO v. FLIIIIING AND ANOTHRIA—LBIL.—UOVIsan- MEN? COPITIACTS. This was an action to recover compensation in damages (laid in the decimation at 10.00 W ) for en alleged libel con tained in • letter written by the &tandems to the Hon. Mr. Dundee, More-keeper general to the Admiralty Board.— It appeared the plaintiff; who had been In partnership with one &WU, as timber meekest§ in the ally of London, entered into a contract to supply the Adulealty with a large gusto, of Ilmidur-s mahogany. In Danembeff, 1846, the plaintiff purchased of Mr. John Carmielmel el Liverpool, through the agency of Meters. Flessiog smell Meaner, tim ber brokers, also of that town, a cams of mahogany, then on its passage on board the Pension, from Honduras The term agreed upon were that 7501. should he paid down, and that the remainder should be paid on the arrival of the timber by the plaintiff's orders on the Admiralty. The stipulated sum was paid ; but, after the deli r a,t Pem broke Dockyard of • large portion of the as say, the plaintiff declined to give the defendants the p mien. They then, upon the 22nd of February, 1847, wrote the letter complained of, soliciting the inter ference of the Admiralty, stating also that the plaintiff had been but recently ot4 to compound with his creditors—that he had procured the delivery of the Argo by collusion with the captain of the Pandore, and as he bad attempted to violate his egrenaserg with the defen dents, they would have vary little chasm of getting $ far. thing of the balance due to them for the winheggsay, amount ing to 3,5001., if the Admiralty would aot intepese. They further requested that no part of that sum shcald be paid over to Mr. Roberts until he settled the matter with them. It was alleged this letter had dome the ~mnekelemage, and that he had ever dose urabb Npi eentritil with the Admiralty. The original letter anal the defendants' handwriting proved. The farthing. jury found a verdict for the plaint& Damages am The Doi Chief Baron refused to certify. The guidon of malice, he said, had been left to the jury, and they had found the extent to which the plaintiff had suffered dung,. The effect of his lordship's ruling will be that each party will have to pay his own ants. ARCHES' COURT.—YreraiDAT. Before SIT Harbert Jowl Ti.o Commit v. Tii BISMOP 07 BIRTII.—Tas Vtc►a 07 ST. Jl:ll7.—RzarizzATzox HT BAPTISM. The ugusa etstila thissiTie sloe. span apetiticWpreent ted to the court, by the Rev. George Cornelius Gorham, 8.D., Vicar of St. Itar-la-reueritb, Corawallocktag it Minding kin is the Vicarage of Brampford Speke, is the county of Devon, to which be had been appointed by the Lord Chat. came, as the lord bishop of the diocese had refused to do so, amidering the rev gentleman was sot of sound doctrine ha dosylag the efficacy of beptim sad subtilising "tha t the infant eras not regenerated and mad* the child of God by the userament at the fent ;" and. further, that the litho, had forfeited hi. right to examine him, it net having less done wit' in twenty-eight days of the appdatmeat assindhig to the 95th mon. _ _ _ __ _ — The ;14;6A relative to the right of the bishop to examine a clerk after the expiration of 28 days, was argued in the early part of Hilary Term. Dr. Addam and Dr. Robinson were baud kg the Bishop of Exeter ; and Da- DaYford and Dean for the Rev. Mr. Gorham. On Saturday, the 17th Feb , Sir H. J. Fust gave an elaborate judgment upon the steam, and which appeared in our journal of the Monday foDowlag. It was in favour dale bishop's tight Imxamediately afterwards the second question—the sound ness of the Rev. Mr. Gorham's doctrines, so as to justify the bishop in the course he had pursued, in refusing to institute the rev:gentleman in this living—case on for 'mamma. Dr. Addams, in opening the argument, said, he wished to call the attention of tie court to the feet that the bishop was not the plaintiff in this ease, but the defendant. The book s ha had been published by Mr. Gorham (gated that the bishop had so right to examine Ilia He (Dr. Addams) would contra] that the bishop had the sight, although Mr. Outs= had bun instituted by the hiaLogii to a former Barg, and why was this done ? bums the bishop did not then suspect that Mr. Gorham had ethathined doetriaes of an unsound character. It was stated by Burnet, in 18.58, and also by A rc hbi s h op Seeker a sea Ji be last-rate 'sinews both as a theologian sad se i s l sr, thee a club being presented to ordinatio a living he mad pith ea mina nation—that after n also be may be esemied—that reexamination is a somata Wag. The imam of emit amble bedew bees aided, ass the Mien bed thud that' Mr. Gorham was em of sound &oafs*, wad th erefore, not fit to lamb in the church. In hi s boo k Mr. Gorham chug. the bishop with being had of controversy, whereas it was very clear that it was Mr. Gorham who was the man most fond of controversy. It was not in the power of Mr. Gorham to say he was Ignorant of the point upon which he was to be examined; it was a question epos which two parties were now fighting for mastery, the ques tion of "Reg eneration by baptism or non - regeneration. In the fittb, sixth, and seventh vandals, the bishop mks Mr. Gorham if be held " that every lean . baptised with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is made by God in such baptism a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven? Are they received into the number of the children of God, and litho of everlasting life ? Do you hold that all Infants so Menlo& are bwe again of the water an 1 of the Holy Ghost Y' To this question Mr. Gorham replied, " The nil point in this illumine &eft vs not merely to infants bet to adults, and thn question cannot be fairly dissevered from the efficacy of the other sacrament, that of the Lord's Supper, and that none have • beneficial commu nion of the body and blood of Christ but such as rightly, worthily, and with faith, receive the same"—" such is the doctrine of the church on the efficacy of both earn meats, sad, therefore, of baptism—where there is no worthy receptoe there is nor bratownamit of grace—that it the pro. muses made at the baptism be not fulfilled, the blessing is not cont. reed, lie." It woe thew queeti x s which Mr. Gotham' said wire the platform of the controversy. The question before the court is, whether, aLe r this exasairta ti2O. Mr. Gorham is of sound or of unsound doctrine ? If he be proved of miscued doctrine the court must dismiss him, and with him the cost.. The point in cl ispute between Mr. Gorham and the bishop is, that Mr. Gotham main tains the insufficiency of regeneration by ben i.m, and the conditional efficacy of the aseramenu. The tishop limited these questioos to tie baptism of infants, and held it to be unconditional; end referred to what the Saviour said " Suffer little children to come into me, de." He the re promises them et- real The learned advents then referred to the 3rd chapter of St. John, also to St Peter, where he calls upon them to repent and be baptised, that they shall then receive the remission of their sins, and the Holy Ghost would be bestowed upon them" It was here an admitted fact that this call upon them to repent before they would receive a rernimion of their sins referred to adults. Mr. Gorham contend, " that this sacrament is delusive, that it has a lamentable tendency to enslave if not destroy the soul ;" and yet be asks to be insti tuted a sinister of that church where it will be his duty to catechise the children weekly, while in the catechism the doctrines he denies are upheld. T e learned advocate then quoted Jackson, who, in his time, was said to be the ornament Oeford, and who sap, " children are regenerated by baptism;" also the articles of the church, supposed to ha.e been drawn op by Crammer, in the time of Edward VI., in the years 1549, 1652, and 1662, which confirm each other in the same doctrine. The first articles of the church were sum a .d to have been drawn up by Creamer, in the year 1636. In all three articles it is set forth " that by baptisms children are made the children of God," to. He contended that the very basis of the reformation was upon the religions views of the ancient fathers; it was formed teem the antiquity of the (Id Greek and Latin When, all of whom advents the I fficicy of bap. tiro. The Bishop of Llandaff in hie works held the same doctrine as to " the efiemy of baptism to regimen's i Ail." It is asserted by these authorities that all their deetrines are founded upon scriptural authority, end upon this wee based our reformation. The doctrines laid down by our pri mitive church were the most simple and unatab4u cue, but Mr. Gorham holds it to be the reverse, " that there are many hyperbolical expressions in our church." Watermen, when writing on the Eucharist, reins to Temullim, who contended that the llcly Spirit did not descend upon things inanimate ; therefore, not on the water, but on the person baptised. In anus er to the 15th qui mins put to him by the bishop, whether he held " that the enter. mg of infanta into these stipulations, repentance and faith,' by their representatives, is necessary to their receiving the spiritual grace of baptism," Mr. Gorham says, "I held that no spiritual grace is conveyed in baptism, except to worthy recipients; and as infanta are by nature unworthy recipients, ' being born in sin and the children of wrath,' they cannot receive any benefit from baptism, except there shall have been a prevenient act of grace to make them worthy." The learned advocate proceeded in a clear sod powerful strain of arpument to prove that the bishop was ful'y justified, by the bighoffice he hold, and the importance of thequestien to the interest of the church of ti.ia cast empire, in adopting the cosine be hid by refusing to institute Mr. G. rham to the living of Brunpford Speke, as the bishop held Mr. Gorham to be of unsound doctrine in his views of the sacrament of beldam. '1 he learned civilian, in support of his argument, made copious quotations from the writings of Cranmer, Paley's " Life of Land," B shops Lauda, Tomlin, Beve ridge, Welahm..n, Archbishop Yardley, Drs. Nicholls, Bennett, Hampden " The Filth Beok of Hooker," Tay lor's " Life of Ch rist," various homilies, and numerous other ecclesiastical authorities, in support tithe view taken by the Bishop j Exe*er, and which u tilled him in refuting to in stitute Mr. 0 ohein to the presents ion ; citing likewsse the fallowing anecdote :—At the period of the Hampton confer ence., a Scotch clergyman, swing with King Junes, asked him if be thought • child baptised out of the co,greparion would be damned ? To which James replied, ono. " Bu"," continued his Majesty, "if a child out of the con gregation is et.upht to be baptised, and you refuse to attend h'm, I think you will to damned." This might be the position of some oth-rs at the present moment. In the time of James I , at the Hampton Court con'erer.c., the presSjtcrists would n t admit of baptism out of the mope gation, and that • 'Moister of the church could alone be per mitted to administer this sacrament. Mr. Cartwright, who was at the head of this party, objected to many posterns of the church litur.y, and women were not allowed to offer up prayers; and in the time of Cheeks the Common Prayer was not allowed in private families. Mr. Macaulay, in his history, states that such was the objection to it in those times that children were not allowed to hold privets. In the Appendix to Nape work, he states that priests alone were allowed to administer the baptismal sacrament, and not pri vate panne; that by this alone were the children made the children of God, and received into the beam of the church, and until then they are not made the children of Gad. It was not until the Restoration this prayer was used again, and which was in 1658, in the time of Charles the First ; this took place at the Savoy conference. The doctrine of regeneration by baptism is supported, not only by the articles of the church, but also by the church liturgy. Now, if the doctrines of the church are to be founded upon the opinion of Mr. Gorham, they are very different to than that have hitherto been received by our church, and many have seceded from this very church, because they could not subscribe to those doctrine.. In Carter's book, page us, be s'atee that there was an address to Tannin Whore of that day, who reviewed the book of cos mos prayer. They then met at the Savoy, when the Puritans, who were represented by Baxter, made en ex emption to this book ; their exception was first made is general terms ; it was aftetwords objected to on particular prayers, Loth in the morning and evening mein. In page 323, he states, they made a particular objection to the sacra ment of baptism, which they contended should be public, as when the children were bsptised in the flood of Jordan, the, Puritans held the child was regenerated, received a wear Mon of its sins, and was made the child of God by baptism ; they did not say it was by faith, and therefore they wished that portion, in reference to private baptism, to be altered ; they were then visibly admitted into the church of Christ, ite., and that without it confirmation was a gross abuse. We will now see what was the answer to the bishop on this exception. lie says these were only the private opinions of private piteous ; that our church is a charitable church, and therefore receives the children into it, which the dissenters did aot. The learned advocate then dwelt upon part of the Acts of the Apostles, also 31 chap. of St. John, where it is distinctly laid down that by this very act of baptism the child is regenerated and be comes the child of God. He (Dr. Addams) felt that Mr. Gorham, by his views and opinions, was not only deceiving the world, but himself, by such a doctrine. The sacrament must have its effect, if it be not abused by being administered in private places. The Lord said, " Only be baptised by water and the Holy Spirit," which the church held to be complete; for anything done in private is not admitted in pubba. On that comma the Mabee win baptised and fully baptised, and it was net necessary to have them confirmed. Children were regenerated by water and by the Holy Ghost ; it was in consequence of this view of the question that the liturgy was revised and adopted by the church, and afterwards by par liament. This was the arbitrary decision of the conmaimaissa sitti at the Savoy and adopted by the parliament ;it co uld not therefore be held that the private opinion of any one or more individuals wee preferable. If this, therefore, is not a public document, we bays no public document as an authority, but I say it is a public authority. When it nes Mr. Gorham, he can cite it as a public autho rity, for he refers to it in his mower to the 43 questions, also in page 168 of his book. He further states that the bishops were not expounders of the doctrines of the church, but simply commissioners to suggest matters to the eonvocation for the consideration and adoption of pavliame'se, and that the Thirty-nisi Articles were not submitted to them. He (Dr. Abeam) could not for a moment think this was the minis* of private individuals seated at that conference, but was a document presented by the bishops, and he was tothink any pines mild offer such an opinion on the deshina of the Savoy conference. He (Dr. Addams) led Isitherte abstained from quoting individual evil:titles, and womb elniblie te de so; but the authority he was about to sir WWI d 010111 emsequince. He would name Archbishop Lennie, as set forth in his Bamford lectures delivered in 1804, in his eighth Derma, where this dormice was approved of so ismaded by Luther; and he felt it not ne M ear any name for so doing. Mr. Gorham, c r a gs beck page 180, says, in his answer to question 101, in referees* to Jewel, whom he quotes as an authority, that "we essentially put on Christ by faith, not by baptism," he also says that there are persons who say all children an not regenerated, but only • few. The learned advocate then quoted from the Augsburg conference, the Archbishop of Cologne. Ile contended that this quince of regeneration by baptism or iginated with the diseenters, and not wish the churth, or with those who should be dissenters. Such opinions might emanate from dissenters, but not from a si nner of our church. Dr. Philip Doddridge was • dis senter, and a wry learned man; he propounded the same doctrine as Mr. Gorham in his second vol., page 383, of his works. lie says berism is not sufficiert for spiritual rege neration ; but the whole tenor of scripture proves it to be amain which Dr. Doddridge denies. This might be well coming from Dr. Doddridge, but not from Mr. Goy , ham; and these two gentlemen know nothing of the doc trines of the church, for they both assert that regeneration comes by faith. There was a Mr. Jukes and others who gave up their livings because they weld not subccribe to this of the church, as laid down in the Litany. tithe, had not felt this woe part of the doctrine of the church which they dissented From, as Mr. Gorham does, they would not , have given up their living. On one occasion no less than 2,000 acted is the same manner. If these gentlemen had acted se Mr. Gorham bas done, Bann might have been the of Coventry. There was a meeting of the monsames held at Islington, where 100 gentlemen wen present. Mr. Cunningham and others spoke at that meeting; IMO of these held that baptism might clangs the Mate bat not the nature of the child. Mr. Burgess held that the child did receive a remission of its sins by baptism, and became a member of divine life and received the Holy Ghost, but Mr. Jukes differed from all of them. There was another gentleman of great celebrity, a Mr. Baptist Noel, who bad dissented from the church. He says regeneration by baptism is co Many to the authority of %ciphers. But he (Dr. Addams) was net there to argue the doetrine of the THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1849. &Hiltons, but that of the church ; if he were, he should select another time and another place. lathe 27thArtic'e it is said it is not only • also, bat • sew birth unto righteousness; as also stated by Bt. Paul, Mr. Noel said he latrund bard to convince himself of the truth of this doctrine as laid deem by oar church, but it was too plain and he could not. He (Dr. Addams) was astonished that any wan could so de lude himself as, although disbelieving this doctrine, to re. main • minister of the church and weekly instruct the chil dren of his parish in the catechism where the very doctrine is upheld, and he was there to prove to the court that Mr. Gorham's doctrine was opposed to that of the church and nothing else. It Mr. Gorham remains in the church, be must put aside all the doctrines of the church and base his opinion upon the 39 articles, which were, no dimbt, very flexible. There was • eau in this very court • little time since; it was a Mr. Oakley, who could rub scribe to all the articles and yet believe in all the practices of the Roman catholic church. The high tractarians distorted these artie'es too much one way, while the evange lical party did the same the other way.—Mr. Gorham states that a large body et the clergy of the church entertain his very views; he (Dr. Addams) felt such • statement was essentially libellous; if such were the fact, they must be dis honest members of that church. The dissent of Mr. Gorham is not a modest dissent, and he now puts himself forward es the champion of those very dissenters,and in opposition to his bishop ; and further, he had brought an action in the Court of Queen's Bench. He (Dr. Addams) could not help think ing there was • great deal of contumely in such conduct. The questions put by the bishop were consistent with the doctrines of the church, and there was no one part in the examination which could show the smallest inelinati..n for web oversy. In the whole course of his sip fiance he met with a book with less knowledge o' the subject on which it treats than that published by Mr Gorham. In querioos 5, 6, and 7, he declines answering them separately and distinctly, but puts them together, then answers them by • discursive sr gement. If the opinions there set forth are thou of Mr. Gorham, why does he remoin a minister of the church ? Why not join those ei t.nguished men who, difLring from Its doctrine, could not any longer conscientiously remain in it, and therefore retired ? How can he (Mr.Gorham)isonreien. dowdy remain a minister of that church whose doctrine he denies? He (Dr. Addams) would no. quote the 10th clues tien and answer to prise* this. "Do you mean that faith is an indispensable and essential erudition to salvation in all pawns ?" " Yes, I mean that." He further states they must all be worthy reeinienes. It we, not es aeorable to supp se the church would adopt the views of Mr. Gorhsm, no change that opinion which had been upheld for 1,500 years Mr. Gorham says this sacrament is conditional, the bishop na)s it is ureondirienri. Mr. Gorham further states, that faith goes before landisin, and thi the blessing is conferred by faith, In liege 143 he comments in severe terms upon the cordunt of the bishop, who, he says, " acts untemmirely in interfering with the privileges of the crown, for rot insti Luting him who bad been a clerk for upwards of 37 years." Waterman, in writing on the sacrament of baptism, says, in referring to St. Au-tin, that all others were founded on this very wt, that they were nothier without it, and he con sidered the Lord's Prayer a quotidian sacrament. In Let, the dissent of Mr Gab en, as he bed said before, was not • modest dissent, bet a noisy and rancorous one, which he seem. d proud to proclaim to the word. He (Dr. Addams) felt he had proved to the emit that the Bishop of Elec. r had shown enough to justify him in refusing to insti tute Mr. Ourinm to this living, and that the court would dismiu Mr. Gorham's petitionwith eau. Dr. Robinson followed on the same tide. He raid, by the conduct of Mr. Gorham the peace of the church was threetened to be disturbed, and .sot by the Bishop of Exeter, who was now before the court; 'he rgitarion was commenced by Mr. Gorham, for the Bishop was only doing his duty in examining Mr .O st ham, whc says he brought this case into the court to decide a great and momentous public question. The learned advocate then went through • variety of the questions and answers, as published In Mr. Oorham's hook, whereon he combated the erroneous opinion, as be stated,adopted by Mr. Gorham. In doing so be writ through many potions of the church liturgy, wherein the doctrine of cogs neration by baptism is clearly laid down in a variety of prayer'. lie then quoted from Bishops Cranmer, Gardiner Jewell, Hooker (Book 6, or!. 2), Barrow (vol. 1, p. 544), Watermen (vol. 6), Beveridge on the Thirty-nine Articles, p. 456. He felt the views of Mr. Gorham were not those of the church of England; he (Dr. It linson) was sensible of the import ance of this question, for it shuck at the very rot of the re ligion of this country. If Mr. G 'ham made his own opinion on this quistien available, then where would be the eats blished church ? But he must say this was the distinct opinion of Mr. Gorham, and not that of the church, sr let forth in his answers to the Bishop of Exote is questions, and he was satisfied the court would bee that a sufficient ease had been 1112411 out for it to condemn Mr. Gorham in the coats whlis it dismissed his petit ion. This closed the case for the Bishop of Exeter. Drs. Bay ford and Dean remain to he heard fur Mr. Gorham. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—YESTIMDLY. Beim Mr. Commierianer Fonbianque. &fore Mr. Conimitoirmer Ilaroyd. Es HVNTIIII. Jos. Hunter, merchmt, of King William street, applied for his certificate. He was sueperted by Mr. Lawrence. and append by Mr. Hatton, on behalf of the pmidoning en ditor, Mr. Urch. The bankrupt's debts and liabilities were 3,0001.; estimated meets, 8751, of which about 2001. bad been realised.—Mr.Lawrence maid the hearing had been ad journed on a former occasion, for the bankrupt to supply ems dates, and for the sake of seeing what the assets eniiht realise; he submitted that no new ground of opposition could now be opened, as ths party appearing to oppose did not appear on the former occasion.—Mr. Hatton urged that the trade assignee was a friend of the bankrupt, and that consequently there had been no fair investigation into the I affairs. He bad been bankrupt before, and paid no dirt dend.—Mr. Groom, the official assignee, In answer to the ' Commissioner, said he thought it probable the property recovered would realist 11001. ; there were debts in Java and Hong-Kong, of which he could form no estimate.—The Commissioner thought there was a prospect of a tolerable dividend. It was true he bad been bankrupt before, but that was twenty years ago. lib expenses, tol, had been 1 1,0001. within his profits. The certificate must be granted. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-7ESTIIIDAT. Before Mr. Coeinaletoser Hark TR RE THOMAS WILLIAM PARINI. This insolvent, an attorney, who ba- been a partner in the house of Partite and Son, Gray's-inn, as also a partner in the home of Parkes, Carey, Blount, and Brookfield, and subsequently in practice at Hereford, was opposed, ea his application for his discharge, by Mr. Nichols, for Mims. Hoskins, bookers, at Hereford t • by Mr. Begley, for Thos. Bodenkam, Esq. ; by Mr. Dowse, for creditors named Pocock ; and by Mr. Elmwood, for the detaining endive, Mr. Andrew Jackson.—Mr. Cooke supported the insolvent. The inquiry in tile case, whichoccupied five boon, was prin cipally in relation to property. The aggregate debts were 45,726 E, comprising three clams, of which the consideration debts were 25,6621. On the other side the claims were 7671. and:hers was a statement of property to 22,9401., which amount was termed by Mr. Buoyed, as far es the creditors were concerned, "mere moonshine." A long statement was made respecting the property, in which the insolvent alleged that he had an interest, and let forth the same for his creditors. The insolvency was attributed to hoses by bad debts, to the depreciation of property, and to law ex penses for ems years. The insolvent underwent a long tenni , . ation. It appeared that in 1846 he purchased the business of an attorney at Hereford of Mr. Charles Blount, and became receiver for Mr. Bodenham. Accounts were opened at Messrs. Eakins', the bankers, at Hereford, and a separate account was kept of the " Rotherwas" property, belonging to Mr. B sdenham, which the insolvent subsequently transferred to the general account, and a long investigation was insti tuted connected with the transfer, with the view to other proceedings. There were some Chancery proceedings in which the Insolvent was a party. and the inquiry now made was of a general character. Re was separated from his wife, who was possessed of property; and one of the learned conned (Mr. Bargood) represented her trustees, on whose behalf It was &Dia that the insolvent was entitled to certais preperty set forth in the schedule. Three counsel opposing, Mr. Bagley, Mr. Dowse, and Mr. Sargood, disclaimed asking for a remand, the first learned gentleman stating that the Insolvent had given an account, now on oath, which he had before given to Mr. Bodenham, respecting the transfer of the money, and proceedings would be adopted against Messrs. Hoskins. On the pert of Mr. Nichols, it was stated that he would not la for a remand, but subsequently it was stated that he intended to urge the ease u one of reckless conduct, under the discretionary clam. Mr. Cosa. Harris was of opinion that there was no evi dence of reckless conduct, an 4 nothing to bring the insolvent under the discretionary clause. It would be advisable to amend the schedule before the insolvent was discharged. Mr. Cope, an attorney, claimed 3001. as a year's salary as secretary to the Candidate Life Assurance Company, of which he said the insolvent was attorney end manning director. The insolvent now stated that he was merely the attorney. The Court ordered Mr. Cope to be inserted for 51., which would raise the question at a subsequent stage of the pro nedings.—The insolvent, subject to the amendments to be made, was discharged. I much oothfainatutad when they were told they were unable to bear the bordea of a farthing Bute. There was another objection which had found its way before the public, and re lilted to the peculiarity of the times. In answer to this, he ' would merely remark that if her Majesty's ministers thought, Is order to get a cheap loaf for the poor man, or to proteet the industrial part of the tem- InonitY, that trade should be free, it was rot for them to murmur or allow their public duties to be influenced by the consideration whether free truth would affect agricul ture or not. There were public duties to be performed, espe cially by magistrates, and they ware bound to take care that irveryttuog relating to the adminittation of public justice was Properly and eflleisutly provided for. The pnucipsl oklectkn to courts at Reading was that they afforded no accommodation to the public, many of whom ware com p-lied to attend by *aspens' and liabilities to fines. He would ask whether it was to be tolerated that the wife of a p:or labourer, compelled to attend the mixes, should have no seat •or even protection from the weather ? It was a well-knowa fact that in bad weather many were obliged to stand outside of the building, and, though the magistrates and jury were aceommodated, no one else could get a seat. Surely suit a state of things ought not to exit, and, feeling a conviction that the public were trampled upon, he conceived it to be his duty to communicate to the ere en what he knew upon the subject, and he regretted that for a time it bad been found necessary to remove the anise, to Abingdon. Surely it could not be the beggarly rate which was the obstacle to new courts. Was it, then, on lo:al pro-suds that they were objected to ? Was it to obtain political influence on a future occasion ? If so, it would be the duty of her blojestp's ;retirement and de• serving of their attention to inquire whether persons who so prostituted their influence should be allowed to remain in the commission of the peace. (Great sensation.) (B. Wroughten, Esq., one of the magistrates interfered at tois point and expressed a hope which elicited some approbation from the grand jury, that his lordship would allow a reply to hie obsereatiors ) His lordship ex pressed hie surprise that, sitting there as the representative of his sovereign, be shou:d meet with such an interruption at d did he expect to hear a murmur of approbation from the magistracy around him, and ha could venture to remind the gentleman wbo had addressed him, that accord ing to the law of the land ;he who interrupted a judge in the exercise of his duty was liable to imptisotment. He had felt it to be kis duty to address the observations which bad fallen from him, and in conclusion would only observe that whatever might be the situation of any gentleman, the laws would aot be diverted from the right hand or the lett, but must be vindicated and upheld. Before Mr. Baron Plitt. HIGHWAY HOBBERY.—J. Hargrave was charged with assaulting on the highway W. !damson, with intent to rob him, on the night of the 19th of August last. Tae 'prose cuter, who is a farmer, stated that on returning from Abing don on the night in question, about a quarter before 9, he pautd the prisoner. After having passed him a few yards the prisoner came up to him, struck him on the head with • Mier, and 'mended his money. He refused to give it to him, and said ne would fight for it. upon which they had an encounter, the prisoner atrikii g at him, while he parried the blows with an umbrella which he had. In the stru:gle he dropped hie basket, which the prisoner ran away with. Two days after the prisoner was taken into custody at Abingdon, on a chug: of attempting to rob the till of Mr. Smith, chemist, whose son caught him in the ac'. The prisoner, having shrewdly cross-extmined the wit nesses, without shaking their evidence, thejudgesunneed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The judge, in passing sentence, told tho prisoner that he was too clevsr and too desperate a character to remain in this country, end adjudged him to be transported for ten years. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT.-Yr.mmiwAy. Rect., the Recorder. ___ THE ATTEMPT TO DE;liaL'D 71i171*101 TIT WEATENN RAIL WAY COMPANY. In the ow of R. Duncan, 47, haymaker, Mary Duncan, his wife, who surrendered to take their trial, and P. W. O'Brien, 30, printer, who were indicted for conspiring to gether to obtain money from the London and North Western Ralway Company by false pretences, a verdict of Not Guilty was taken u to the female priciner, and the jury, after a short deliberation, retlrned a verdict of Guilty against the two male defendants, but recommended O'Brian to mercy, upon the ground that he had been made an instrument by Duncan. _ _ The Recorder sentenced Duncan to be imprisoned for 12, and O'Brien for 6 menthe, his lordship at the same time observing that the statute gave him only the power to order the imprisorment to take place in the corium gaol, and without the addition of hard labaur. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—lssarronn, FEB 27. • The basins.. of this circuit comm•noed to-day at 12 o'clock. In corsequente of the heavy criminal calendar which is to bi (reposed of, both the learned judges (14r. Baron Puke and Mr. Justice Wigli'man) will take criminal cases on Wednesday, and It is arranged that the Nisi Prios kidneys shall not commence until Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. The taus. list will not be bated tell that day, but it is said that it is much hearer than is tonal in this county at the spring Wild. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Antsosos, FEB. 27. REMOVAL OF EMI ABSIZIA.—Mr. Baron Platt cora wooed his charge to the grand jury by remarking that when he had the honour of appearing before them m the same capatity three years ago, the courts of Reading were complained of, and at that time he was apprised that the magistrates were on the point of taking the matter into consideration, and, as he understood, were about to pro vide a place for the administration of justice, and he then congratulated them on such a prospect. In the ODOM 01 =resent year, however. he heard with much pain that a of the magistrate, of the county Wino:ceded in dererrZtt decency so necessary for public business, and on the grounds that the ra•e payers sou' d not bear the expense, was Informed that the estimates for the new courts fell within 6,0001., and in this wealthy county a farthing rate produced 7001., so that this great benefit to the county meld be theomplithed by the extension of a farthing rate OM a period of :en years. Upon this point he could not reftsin from remarking that the farmers of this county were not RAILWAY NEWS.-TUESDAY. Shares were in demand to-day, and prices rising, and but for the beavineas in Console would have been better still to all appcaran7e. It is, however, alto gether evident that public opinion is turning in favour of railway securities. SHAKE LIST.-LONDON, FEBRUARY 27. Toles—The quotation. of Una. In Roman characters olenta actual 1111111Seilass: thous of Una in Italics salon' prise. 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Pm , * and Orkatis Parill wet Rosa !aria mud Strrboun Route Dad Ilene Sambre end Boum Nun and Neatr West Pitualors 14 314.. 10 0 13* 13 "641.4. TA I -101 i i i 4; In 36 U , ' , 131 41 14 2i4 1 13 D.. d.. RAILWAY MEETINGS. CALEDONIAN. Half-yearly Meeting.—Ediahurgh t Feb. 20 HINDE, Esq., in the chair.—The following is an abstract of the report of the directors: The traffic receipts for the half-year ending 31st December amounted to 130,9681. ; and the charges, including reeve, in terest on loans and on preference shares, 99,0611. ; leavine a balance of 31,9071. to which the balance of account at 30th cf June hat, 21,8091., is added, making a disposable balance of 53,7161.; out of which the directors recommend a dividend on the ordinary share capital of the company at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, which will amount to 31,5001. on the consolidated stock, and 6,1741. 15s. on the quarter shares, making, in all, 37,6741. The re will con sequently remain a surplus of 16,6111. to be carried to the ensuing half-year. At 30th Dec. het there was a balance against the capital account of 557,6031. ; but there was a sum of 983,0261. from arrears of calls, guaranteed capital, ite. which remained to be realised and placed ainst this balance, , so that there would be a surplus of 425,4 ag 231. The company have also the power (not yet exercised) of raising a further sum of 200,0001 on loan, under the acts of the com pany authorising the capital already created. The capital of the company is thus amply sufficient to meet all engage ments, and finish all the works now in progress of con struction. The average weekly receipts during the half year amounted to 6,0371 , being nearly at the rate of 2,0001. per mile per annum. The working expenses are stated to be 41 per cent. on the receipts. " The Clydesdale Junction, and the connexions with the Greenock, Barrhead, and A yrshire Railways, and the Har bour of Glasgow, are nearly completed. It is expected that the branch to Buchanan-street, Glasgow, will be completed, and the station opened, in the course of the summer. These works embrace the whole now in course of execution. " In their report to the last half-yearly meeting, the dime. tors intimated that an arrangement of differences previously subsisting in regard to traffic had been effected with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company. The condi tions of arrangement had then been specified and agreed upon, /abject to the adjustment of certain minor details; but since that period the Edinburgh and Gla s gow Company have demanded that certain important stipulations should be ow ceded to them, which the directors consider to be both incon sistent with :the original agreement and prejudicial to their interests. The negotiation is in consequence at an end. The failure of these negotiations has necessarily pre vented the directots fronemetint upon the resolutions passed at the special meeting of shareholders, held in London on the 10th November last, by which they were authorised to com municate or give over to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way Company , an interest or share in the existing agree ments with the Scottish Central Railway, and Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Companies, in regard to the lease and working of the said lines;' and by which they were further authorised, along with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, to enter into an agreement for the lease and working of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway.' It consequently became neces sary to withdraw the bills introduced into parliament in the present session for the joint leasing of the Scottish Central, Scottish Midland, and the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railways; and the directors have accordingly to report that these bills have been withdrawn. " The directors have, however, to report that the working of the Scottish Central line has been placed under the united superintendence of the London and North-Western, and Lancaster and Carlisle Companies, and of this company, under a working contract, the practical ef fect of which it, that the Scottish Central company will be entitled to draw half-yearly the sum of 35,70001. out of the above-mentioned traffic fund, before the other companies can obtain repayment of the working ex penses advanced by them. Experience has already shown that the Scottish Central company bare the power of direct ing traffic to a much larger amount than is sufficient to coun terbalance the risk which will be encountered in working the line en the above terms; and the directors have no doubt that the arrangement will prove a fair as well as a beneficial one for all concerned. " In consequence of the withdrawal of the bills already ' alluded to, the bills now before parliament are reduced to two, vise., the Wisbaw and Column, and Glasgow, Barrhcad, and Neilaton, lease bills. It is of the utmost consequence to wry through the Withal, and Colinas home bill without further delay, as the necessity of having this line entirely merged in the Caledonian becomes every day more and more apparent in conducting the business of the railway. With pawa regr k l tha : end th taryirec e G toex i e .go beins l g , , Barr wanert h o at e us ad otn , oe an ati t inied N o e if i no lseo cupirtron it direct a it trth rl bill might be allowed to stand ever till next session, but hay hog been implied to by the directors of the Barrhead Company to allow them to introduce the bill, their request was to, on the condition that they would undertake the ir r e d risk and expense of the application to parliament. They now consider themselves fortunate in baring made this arrangement, looking to the steps lately adopted by the eornbieed Ayrshire and Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Companies, for hastening the completion of the rival through Ilse between Glasgow and Carlisle. " The directors announce that, in order to give effect to the wishes of a portion of the English shareholders, to be more fully represented at the board, they have availed themselves of a vacant y occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Monteith. of Cuitairs, to elect Alderraan Thompeon,M P., of London." The CHAIRMAN said that not only had the traflle considerably increased up tel the end of the year, but a return which he had before him of the goods and cattle traffic showed that it had been iecreasirme since that time. This return did not include the passenger traffic, nor the mineral or local traffic of the Garnkirk and Wishaw line - . For the first week in January last there was derived 1,8891. ; for the second week, 1,7911. ; for the third week, 1,88'21.; end for the fourth week, 2,0581. For the first seek in February there wee received 2,1456 ; fur the second week, 2,4421. Showing a regular progressive increase every week from 1,6891 to 2,4521. The chairman then cot, red into details of the negotiations with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, which, as stated in the report, had been broken off. The next point upon which he wished to address the share holders was in reference to the Scottish Central line. With re gime to the validity of the %aching contract into which they had entered with that line, they had consulted the highest legal authorities, and it was their opinion that that contract was entirely free from any legal objections. The chair man then referred to the traffic which bad been diverted to the Caledonian by means of the Scottish Central dur ing the last four months, which amounted to 8,2671, being nearly 600/. a week. Ile then stated that the dingo. ment which had occurred between the Caledonisu and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Companies had, as the directors of the Celedoniso stated previously to the sharekoliers, compelled the Caledonian directors to withdraw their leasing bills tor the Scottish Central, the Durdee and Perth, and the Scottish Midland Railway Companies. As regarded the Scottish Midland they had no working eontract at all. The relation in which they stood to that company was precisely that in which they stood previous to the sanc tion of the *harsh , lders having been obtain. d fm leasing it. With regard to the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Junc tion Company the case was different, for a working contract was entered tote with them in November, 1817. Under that contract the directors of the Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Compapy applied to the Caledonian directors to make good to tee& the cliff react between the earnings on that line and a dividend of 8 per cent., to which they cansidered themselves entitled under float contract. Tee directors of the Caledonian Company were advised that, at all events at present, as they had Lever worked the line, and as there was no direct communication between Dundee, Pcmh, an 1 Aber deen, they were not bound to make airy such payment, and troy sem- nngly declined making payment. The chairman then stated that he now came to a subject on which lie was desirous to hive the fullest information to the shareholders —he meant the subject of shares which were pure used by the directors of the Caledonian in c ther companies in behalf of the shareholders of the Caledonian. (Ile tr.) As the shareholders acre aware, from time to time es these shares were pu-ehased, the particulars of the payments cn account of these shares were catered on the books of the company, end °maimed in the halance-sheet which was a ibtnitted to the auditors previous to each haifyearly meeting ; but these accounts wire not included in the printed state ments which were submitted to tho shareholders along with the report. This was the point which he was anxious to explain—namely, the grounds on which the di rectors deemed it inexpedient—and this was a very weak word to express what he meant, or rather detrimental to the interests of the company that these amounts should ap pear in the printed accounts of the company. If they had pub lished the'o transactions its their printed statements, and the reasons they had for acquiring these shares, their policy would be mule known to the very railway companies to ouster rct whose plans was the object they had in view; and they would thus have b. en defeated, Tue . ,. would also have been obliged to Oct r ir.to a full explanation of the policy which dictated purchstes in:these lines; and for these reasons they had abstained from introducing the subject into the published account, not because they wish to conceal what they were doing from their own sheath dilms, but because they t'id not wish to let rival companies know what they were doing. Oa thesul ject of these shares, a letter has been published by Mr. FARO, tt, enclosing a letter from Mr. Douglas Campb 11 and Mr. Mi emicking, prefacing to give an account of share transactions from the books of the company. lie usumed that this letter was not pubiithed on Mr. Campbell's autho rity. The chairman then entered into an explanation of what paned between them and Mr. Campbell and Mr. Mac micking, when the two latter gentlemen waited upon them after having examined the books of the company. They stated that they thought it would be better that the directors should divulge to the shareholders what had bet n done ire the transfer of sharer, rather than that information should Le communicated by a shareholder. Of course he readily believed that Mr. Fawcett was nut aware of th e understand ing which existed between these gentlemen and the directors. Mr. CAMPBELL said that Mr. Macmicking and himself felt great al Lin when they discovered, after examining the company's books, the dangerous position in which the direc tors had placed themselves. They stated to the directors that they ought to tell their own story. The directors would not consent to this; but they would delay till the Saturday following, when they geld they would give an answer as to whether they would publish these transactions themselves Or not. The CHAIRMAN said he would state hie rensons why he regretted that this mibunderitanding had arisen on the part of Mr. Campbell and Mr. Macmicking. If three gentlemen had stated that they intended to publish this statement, instead of having recommended the directors to publish a anew nt themselves, regarding these share transactions, the directors would have taken care to have given them such information as would have prevented them publishing an erroneous statement, which this was in several respects. They have made out that the ditectors have perch .sed, in behalf of the company, capital to the extent of 562,0001. In this amount, however, it would at fun be seen, that there were two items included which had no connexinti with share capital. Oae of these items was in reference to the Glasgow General Termieus Railway; but this wee not the cost of shares purchased in that line. It was for the cost of the line, for which they had the parlismentary sanction; it being intended to form the terminus with the Greenock lines. This was a large item, amounting to 120,0001., which would fall to be de ducted from that statement. The next item to which he begged to call attention was the plant stated to hate been furnished to the Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Railways, and which was set down as costing a sum of 60,0111. This, however, was not plant furnished to these railways; but it was plant purchased off them. There had originally been an agreement, by which, among other thinge, the , Caledonian undertook to furnish them with plant, but in consequence of that agreement not being carried out the directors became bound to take that plant back from them at prime cost. These two itemi, therefore, must he excluded from the capital expi nded by the directors on shares. He also, while upon this subject, wished to set right a mistake into which several of the ehareholciers had run, in supposing that the amount expended on there shares was an excess over what was stated by the directors to be necessary for completing the lime. He had to state that when the proposal to issue guaranteed shares was before the meeting of shareholders the directors took into ac count any possible lose that might arise on these shares. They took distinctly into consideration, that if these shares were forced into the market at the present time, a great lass would accrue. They believed that if allowed to negotiate in reined to these shares in the way that would be hest for the company , the ultimate less would be small indeed. Another suggestion has been made, of which I must show the fallacy. It was this, that if the direc ton had not made these purchnes, it would have brcn on. necessary for them to have raised money by the issue of guaranteed shares at all. In answer to that, he bad a plain and simple statem . nt to make. At the time the authority was got to raise this guaranteed stock, money had been raised on the credit of the directors to a larger amount than the sum expended in the purchase of shares is then companies. Not only had the directors provided the sum necessary for meeting the calls on then shares, but they hid raised large funds in order to complete the works, and the truth was, if this money bad not been raised on the credit of the directors the works would have been entirely stopped. (Hear.) He would refer, on this point, to the printed accounts of the company, subwitted at the halfiesrly meetings. These, as he had already stated, did not include any sum in reference to these share transacticns ; and vet, in December,lB47. they would find that a sum of 288,0061. had been expended more than had been received. On the 21st of June, 1848, that amount was increased to 337,0001., and bathe lest account which occurred, and without ineludins the cost of these shares, this amount was increased to 557,0001., being a sum greater than that which was spent altogether on these shares; so that if no transaction of this kind had been entered into at all, it would still have been necessary to have raiv d that amount by the creation of preference shares. It was perfectly tree Oat the interest on these shares had been placed in the genuine accounts of the company ; and that bed been done consistently with the views of the company ; for if the audi tors had stated that that interest was improperly placed, it would have been entered in another place. He referee dto the auditors' report, therefore, in justification of the directors for placing the interest where it bad been placed. He might state, in the first instance, with regard to these shares, that they had not been entirely unproductive. They had received dividends from the Scottish Midland. (A voice : " Yes, out of their capital.") There was also one transaction in connexion with these shares by which the company had made &profit of 36,0001. The comp any had received the benefit of that. He next proceeded at great length to explain the grounds on which the directors had made these share purchases. He always wished to be plain-spoken. Now, the charge which he was told was made against the directors was, that they purchased these shares with the view that, if they should rise in price, they should put the mosey in their own pockets ; or, on the other band, that if the transactions should turn out unfavourable, they should then saddle the company with the burdens. This was a plain statement of what he had alleged. If the directors had been guilty of such conduct, it would, he had no hesitation in saying, be difficult to con ceive of conduct more discreditable; but if, on the other band, these charges had teen falsely and sl:nderously made, with a view to a particular object, for in the instance to which he alluded they were addressed to a 'gentleman who had been easeassed for his vote against the directors—then he hardly thaw in what terms to eharacterise them. (Hear.) The question at issue oa this point was for the deter mination of the shareholders, and the evidence of its truth or frierhood was in that room ; and he had no hesitation in say * that that evidence conclusively showed the's the diree•ors Medd not have turned the property of the cempacy to their teen private purposes unless they had either burned or faki ng the books. (' Hear," and apple-, t ae.) Mr CAMPBELL said that, sitar the books, he had no hesitation in saying ttat • 'Vowed for such a charge. Qt - I , I 7 1 .7 4 ' 0 > (1. Liter P OLICE.-YESTERDAT. GUILD H ALL.—ASSAOLT ON THE Poi.' ca.—A nn Elliot, was charged with violently assaulting several ;police officers. A constable said that about a quarter to It o'clock the previous ev Mug, he saw the prisoner and a gentleman getting out of a cab in Finsbury-place, South, when there arose a dispute as to the fare, and they refused to pay the cabman. Tte gentleman will intoxicated, but the prisoner was not, and they ammenced rolling about the street and created a great crowd. He went up to take the gentleman to the station house, but the prisoner clung so closely to him that he was compelled to call the wigwam of another offi cer, upon which she attacked him in a most violent way and scratched his face. A third officer arrived whom she served after the same fashion, and fought so desperately that it took five officers to carry her to the station house. Constable 115 said, he came to the assistance of the last witness, when he saw • crowd of about 200 persona. The gentleman and prisoner were on the ground, and she swore he should not go to the station. He tried to part them, when she flew at him, gave him a tremeadeus blow on the nose, which made it bleed for nesrly half an hour afterwards, and then scratched his face. Another officer then came up, when she said, that if she must go she would have • fight for it ; and she then attacked the other constable. A man here supped forward, and said that he was the prisoner's husband, and he was sorry to see her in such • position. The fact was, that if she took a little drink she became like a mad woman. She had never been in trouble before. A constable said, he believed the man who said he was her husband, and his friend who was in court, were nothing but bullies. They had been el the morning trying to bribe him and his brother officers to suppress their evidence. The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. On hearing the lenience she screamed violently, and was taken from the bar by main force. On the husband protasis hi; that she should not again be guilty of a similar offence, the sentence war commuted to a fine of 40e. BO W-STREET.—ALLIGED EILIBIZZLIMINT.—H. E. Russell, described as a clerk, was charged with embezzling money received by him on amount of the governors and direct= of the Westminster Fire-office, in whose ferric* he haC been for several years. It was stated that the prisoner's de&lcatioas amounted to 8001.—Mr. R. Hughes said that on the 29th January last he called at the Westminster Fire office, where he paid the prisoner 61. as insurance money, and got om him the receipt produced —Mr. W. M. Browne, secretary to the directors of the Westminster Fire-office, stated that the prisoner was in the service of the company on the day mentioned by the last witness, and it was his duty to receive money on account of the company. The pinta' form produced was used ao a receipt for money, but the counteifoil in the book relating to the sum in question was filled up with another name In the handwriting of the sans person who pawed the receipt. The prisoner should have entered the amount in the books, but on examining them no sun item could be found. The prisoner left the establish ment on the 7th February, and on the suite day witness received the letter produced, which, however, bore no date : Bir,—l must confess to you that I been =fortunate enough to do that which Is wrong, and that my account is ear considerably in t s u s . I will give you an explanation tomorrow morning, but to- day it is =pashas. I hope, in consequence of my long, and I may add fora long tline, faithful services, that the =teens. In oonaltiera. Wm of my family, and ciicumstanoes unknown to them, will be as leek= an p00h... I may also add, that nobody is impikabed in this matter but myself. The letter was in the prisoner's handwriting, and had his name attached to it. Mr. Humphries, for the prosecution, sail that for the pre sent he should not offer any farther evidence, and applied that the prisoner might be remanded.—Mr. Rowlett, a solicitor, who attended for the prisoner, applied that the do- cuments found upon him might be restored, which was refused ; and the prisoner was remanded. CMAROn Or HONIIIIIT AGAINST • LETTIR•CARRIER.- 8, Penton-street, Pentonville, Feb. 27, 1849.-81R,—In your journal of this day, I have permed a police report, in which the name of " George Hilton" is introduced, under a charge of robbery as a letter-carrier. I have a brother, a letter carrier in the General Post-office, but he has never been charged with any offence whatever. The false report hes caused me much annoyance, and I trust to your sense of justice to rectify it.—l am, sir, &C., DAVID HILTON, News. vender. -- _ - -- CaRKENWELL.—Sanctus AFT/LAT.—J. Carroll, whom head was much disfigured with contusions and blood, was charged with being concerned in an affray which took place on 3lenday night between the Irish residing in the neighbourhood of Saffron-hill—A police-constable said that on the night in question, being on duty in Cow crow, he beard a great noise of yelling and shouting, and found an assemblage of about 140 or 150 Irish fighting together. Having obtained the aid of several brother officers, they dis perse.' the mob all r much difficulty and risk, and witness, with the other constables, proceeded on their beats, from which, however, they were again speedily drawn to the same scene of action, when they disowned a number of persons lying on the ground bleeding and calling for help, amongst whom was a man named Donough, who complained that his leg had been broken This proving to bej the case, he was removed to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and the accused having been pointed out as the person who had caused the in jury, be was taken into custody. The officer had been to see ,the injured man, and stated that Donoagh exonerated the prisoner, sad gave information implicating other parties.— r. Combs immediately discharged the accused, and ordered the officer to act on the particulars he had obtained. MARTLEBONE...-UNAROI OF CIIILDDICRDZIL—EIisa Mitcha was charged with murdering her female infant The evidence brought forward on the first occasion by Berg. Meelesday was that information wee commuilleated to the polies with regard to a robbery committed at the bows of Mn. &show Lodge Vill e, St. John's-wood, and with whom Mitchell lived as servant. He repaired to the residence of the lays _from whom he learnt that Mitchell was suspected as OW Shia He searched her box, and in it found some of the stolen articles and a quantity of baby linen which had evidently been warn. Mrs. Ballow told wither that she had a character from her (Mitchell's) sister, from whom she had understood that Mitchell was a married woman and the mother of a child. Hockaday questioned Mitchell as to where the child was, when she alleged that she had given it to the motherof B.Maisey, coachman to Mr.lierne of Long. acre Oa being further pressed the prismer burst into tears, and said what she had stated about the matter was not true,for it we. Many to whom she gave the child. Hcckaday went to Mr. Hume's, where he saw Maisey, who denied the truth of the young woman's statement, and he went with out hesitation to Mrs. Benbeees with the officer. On his arrival there, Mitchell repeated that eke bad given the infant to him. It was further shown that the parties had lived together as servants at Mr. Horne's private residence, in Maids-vale, where the intimacy took place between them, which resulted in the birth of a child. They had taken lodgings sa man and wife. They temaised there till 30th Dec., the infant having been taken oat by Mitchell on 29th, she alleging on her return that ate had left it with some one who would see that it was properly suckled and nursed. Eden Dimock, servant t 3 Mr. Newtan, Holland.cottage, Kensington, deposed that on the night of the 2dth December, she saw a female, whom she believed to be the prisoner, standing at the garden.gate with an infant in her arms. Twenty minutes afterwards she heard a child cry, and found an infant lying on the gravel path ; it was very cold and was screamiag. She took it to the station-house.— The idc•itity of the child was established beyond a doubt with retard to marks upon its person and the apparel in which it was elad.—Maisey, who had been required to sam consequence of Mitchell's statement, was dis charged, on his promising to attend nest Tuesday, until which day the prisoner Mitchell stands remanded. ,: