The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-22 00:00:00

4t Tiii, DISTRESS INTHE MANUFACTURING LISTRICra. CHESHIRE COIYN I Y MEETING. STOCKPORT, SATURDAY. This afternoon a meeting of the nobility and gentry of the county of Chester was held in this town, at the t °lantern Armoury, kaviog been convened by the High Sheriff, for the puma,* of promoting the subscriptions in of the unemployed operatives. Thera were present, be- aides the Huai Simon , (Mr. T. Alderney), who took the chair, the Marquis of Westminster, the Eahop of Cheater, lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Egerton of Tattoo, klajorGeneral Sir E. Cast, Sir H. Main wiring, Mr. W. Egerton, M.P.. Mr. J. Tollemache. M.P., Mr. G. C. Legh, M.P., Sir P. Egerton, M.P., Mr. IL Brocklehuna, M.P.. Mr. Humberaton, M.P., Mr. W. J. Legh, M.P., Mr. Laird, M.P.. Sc. Altogether about • thousand persons attended, including • large number of the operative class. Mr. POTTS, the clerk of the peace, reed • low list of sub. scriptions, which bad been promised at this meeting. The list included the following ; The Marquis of Westminster. in addition to • former subscriptioo, 2,0001.—(loud cheeral— the Marebloaem of Westminster, 501. ; the Marquee of Choi zaondeley, 5001.: the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, 1,000/. ; Lord Berman, 5001. ; Earl Grosvenor, 100/. ; Vis count Combermere, 1001.; Lady Combermere. 501. ; Lord H. Cheilmoodeley, 200/. ; Lord de Talley, 50/. ; Sir P. Egerton, 100 f.; Major Egerton Leigh, 100/., in addition to other sub atriptioes; Mr. R. H. Greg, 2007.. besides three local subscrip tioae; Mr.& Barboar,loo/., in addition to formersubseriptions; Lord Crewe, 1001. ; Mr. J. Tollemache, 3001., in addition to a former subscriptioo, and 2,0001. in works ; Sir E. Cost, 1001. ; and the Bishop or Chester, 1001. There were severed other subscriptions of 1001., and • large number of smaller sums. . n- Sabscriptions were handed in to the chairman of various amounts, including 5001. from Mr. Richard Sykes (in addi tion to former subscriptions), 500/. from Mr. E. Moreland (ditto). 200/. from Messrs. Andrew and Sons ; 1001. and 3CO for of coal, from Mr. W. Jackson, M.P., of Birkenhead ;1001. from Sir J. Watts (in addition to 5001. previously given); 32 1 . from the Cheshire Constabulary ; 'AI. from Mr. T. Alsiersey. The total amount of subscriptions raised, in cluding the sums announced at au earlier part of the meet ing, reached 13,4091. MANSION-HOLM Courrrxr..—On Saturday a further instalment of 1,0001. was received from the pariah of Paddington towards the relief of the dis tressed operatives, making the fifth subecriptimi of that amount in as many weeks. Amongst the chler done time received were Great Western Railway Engineer ing Department, 2021. 19e. 10d. ; Clanton Congregational Chapel, 2741. 3s. 6d. ; collected at St. Mary's Church, Woodford, 1161. 14g. ; collected' at the Temporary Church at St. George's, Tufuell-park, 36/. ; o ff ertory sod boxes of St. Mary's, West Brompton, 24/. 04.3 d. ; Glass, Elliott, and Co., third instalment, 251. ; em yes at Waring Brother, ; gran receipta at Heir Ernst Pauses Piano- forte Recital, Rooms. 16th instant, first instalment, 100:. ; St. Dunstan's-in-theWeat, fourth week, 1001. ; St. Augustine's and St. Faith's parish, 1021. se. ; John B. 13atemao ' 100/. ; Chelsea, second instalment, 300/. ; col lected at Hackney Church, zes. ; Copestake, Moore. and Campton. fifth week, 501. ; workmen at Charing-cross Railway, 511. 11d. The total amount received in the coarse of Friday and Saturday was about 4,4001. Poaxs.—The committee of the Art Exhibition have received from the authors, Christina Rossetti, George Macdonald, W. Allinghi?, , Moockton Milos, "V. " Mary liowitt, "G. E. M., B. R. Parkes., ass Craig, sik others, a collection of poems, which will be published for them by Miss Emily Faithfull, printer and publisher in ordinary to her Majesty. Miss Faithful has undertaken the publication of this work as an offering in aid of the distress in Lancashire. All the persons emp lo yed in her establish ment have also offered their gratuitous services for the printing of this work. C_VIVE.RSITY INTELLIGENCE. OAXBRIDGE, Dec. 20. PROFISSIONAL CIMTPICATZ EIAMUIA77OI. DOW2;7No Plt71;ISS80 ."" I and approved. First class —Thompson, Corpus Christi College; Cooke, Emmanuel College. Second class.— Ashton. Daniel, Ovintley, Saumsures, Trinity College ; Scholefield, St. John's College; F. A. Smith, Corpus Christi College; Wynne Trinity College. (Signed.) W. Le Birkbeck, J. B. Phear, Examiners. LONDON ORDINATION. Yeeterday morning the Bishop of London held a general ordination in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. The following gentlemen were admitted into holy order, the deacons being presented by the Rev. Joseph Berber Lightfoot, ILA., fellow of 'Trinity College, Cambridge; and the priests by the Rev. Professor Arthur Pilules Stanley, D.D., Canoe of Christ Church, Oxford. The deacons were afterwards licensed to the coatis; appended to their cameo. Bract)Ns. Charles Compton Aldridge. RA.. Oriel College Oxford, cur icy of Putney; Bradley Hurt Alford, M.A., Trinity Cal ler, Cambridge, curacy of St. Michael's, Pimlico; Alfred Ernest Bull, 8.A., Emanuel College, Cambridge, curacy of St. Luke's, King's-cross; Albert Cook Daymond, St. Merles College, Chelsea, assistant curate of St. Mark's College and Chapel,Chelsea; W. Hodgeon,B. A. , St. Peter's Collage,Care. bridge. curacy of St. Philip's,Stepnev ; William Thos. Holden, RA., Trimly College, Dublin ; Blomfield Jackson, 8.A., Exeter College, Oxford. curacy Stoke Newington ; Jerome John Mercier , St. Mark's Col lege, Chelsea, assistant tutor and curate of St. Mark's College and Chapel,Chelsea; Joshua llottram, curacy of St. Stephen's, Spitaffields; Alfred Josh. Myers, RA., Queen's College, Cambridge, curacy of St. John's, Deptford; Reginald Jollitfe Roberta, B.A. Christ's College. Cambridge, curacy of Sotners.town Ctari; Arthur Henry Stanton, 8.A., Trinity College, Oxf , curacy of St.* Alban, Holborn ; Reginald Take, theological associate of King's College, London, curacy of St. Mary, Soho ; George Tripp, theological associate of King's College, Lon don, curacy of St. Paul's, Whitachapel ; Thomas Russell Wade, of the Church Ilissiouary College, Islington, for the colonies. Rev. Charles Tabor Ackland, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin. curate of St. Barnabas , Kensington ; Rev. Geo. Alder, 8.A., Queens College, Cambridge, curate of St. Peter's, Great Windmill-street ; Rev. Charles Henry Andras, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, curate of Greenwich ; Rev. Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, curate of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields ; Rev. Hugh Swayoe Baker, B.A. Gonville and Caine College, Cambridge, curate of St. Peter's, Islington; Rev. William Edgar Headstock, 8.A., Braeenose College, Oxford, curate of Holy Trinity Church, St. Giles's-in-tlie-Fields ; Rev. Henry Russell Dodd, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, curate of St. James's, Paddington; Rev. Henry Griffith Evan., 8.A., Corpus Christi College Cambridge, curate of St. Thomas's, Charterhouse ; Rev. John Flather, 8.A., St. John's Col lege, Cambridge, curate of St. Mary Somerset, Thema street ; Rev. Henry perry, 8.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, curate of All &Outs' Church, Haggerstone ; Rev. Hugh Reginald Hawaii, 8.A., Trinity College, Cam bridge, curate of St. Peter's Church, Bethnal Green ; Rev. Edward Kemble, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, curate of St. Bartholomew's Bathos! Green ; Rev. JOllll King, ' 8.A., Queens' College, Cambridge, curate of Hampstead Rev. Alexander Davis Mathews, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, curate of St. Stephen's Chunk, Islington; Rev. George Stopford Ram,Wadhaiu College, Oxford, curate of Heston ; Rev. Walter Thaodoret Rowley, Theological Associate of King's College, London, curate of Plumatesd ; Rev. Charles Shakespeare, curate of Quebec Chapel, Sk Msrylehooe ; Rev. Frederick Shepherd, M.A., Worcester College, Oxford, curate of Uxbridge ; Rev. Thomas William Sidebotham, BA. d Magda= Hall, Woad, curate of Hadley. CHRISTMAS BRIIRPACTIONS TO POOR OLEROYMRN. The governors of the corporation of the Sons of the Clergy held a meeting, Lord CRANIVOILIII, viorresi dent, in the chair, on Saturday, at th eir house, o. 2, Bloomsbnry-place, ior the distribution of certain minuet benefactions among poor clergymen, especially curates. The sums granted oe this occasion amounted to 1,4701., the Dumber of recipients being 130. It appeared that the dig. tress in Loncashire has materially affected the circum stances of marry of the applicants from that part of the country, reducing them t. privations of a morn than ordi nary character—pew rents, church fee., subscriptions to school., and other parochial objects, fall off seriously stretch a time, whilst the calls upon the clergyman's time, energy, and pocketincrease considerably. The entire sum annually given away by the corporation ,in donations to clergymen, pensions to their widows and egad single daughters, and grants towards educating and placing out in life the chil dren of poor cleigymeu, is about 17,0001. The funds are administered without reference to locality, personal induence, or party views in the chinch. The only points to which the governors direct their sttentioe. and of which they require to be satisfied, are the personal worth and Decessity of the applicant., and when these are established assistance is given temporarily or perinsuently, according to the age, income, Dumber of children, mad other circumstances of each case. The corporation received its charter from Charles IL, and during the long interval which has since elapsed has become possessed of considerable funds entrusted to its charge by benevolent persons in successive generations who have witnessed the privations of the poorer clergy ; but it is obvious that in the preaeut times, when the number of curacies and scantily endow. d benefices is rapidly increasing, the Dumber of applications for assistance fmtn the corporation must also greatly increase, and u n less the funds of the society are proportionately augmented, they muht soon become very inadequate to meet the pressing demands made upon them by one of the most meritorious and awls' classes et the community. [Adgerliftelni - HOLLCrITAT'a OINTMENT AND PJLL..—lfiectm of —ln many periods of the year almost every current of air ut with .me throat... Influenza, and a almil.r host of dirorders. All may he readily subdued bYrnbni ter Holloway's Ointment extern Ily over the affected parts, which nnickly penetrate. any diseased or disordered part of the body and whatever or wherever the seat or nature of the malady may he searches out He cause, and safely elfeets the pn cue remedial action required without weakening the system, or leaving behind any particle of the disease. Holloway. Pills mitly midst this curative setion. The nick of ail eations have volentarily brews teetiremey to the extraordMary ears, performed by thew mestioamenda. Ma IntlMona. METROPOLITAN COUNTY COUR7 4. iliting days appointed foe the present week. M 1112101111% Ilarike'e-lano.—Monday, Dec. t 2 ; Rehm. day, Et MakirtzsOnl. liarylebonetcad.—Monday, Dec. 22. Mkitebead4-Vove.,-Tuestlay, Dec. 23. CLEReINWILL, DUACAMAOTT•OO.—TuemIay, Dec. 23. MBIAIDPTCH, Old-Meeet-read..--Monday, Dec. 2 . fluidity, 23. HITECH ABBE, Greet Prtecoreelavet.— urelay, HOTTA WA YE, SwanAHT•ol.—Theaday. De... 23. LAMBETH, Camberwell New-road.—'l newlay, Dec. 23. cm of Lennon, Oulldhall-buildint.A.—Monda). Dec. EP ; Weduteclay, ti EQUITY COURTS.—Dec. 20. ifiefore ViceChracelke Sir R. T. Maderaley.) This 'nit was instituted by the official manager of the Warwick and Worcester Railway l'ompany, and the de fendants are Masers. Format Weiss, John Douglas Hopkins, F. H. Edlin, George Carpenter, and Sir John Edmund De Beauvoir, who were directors of the company. The Warwick sad Worcester Railway Company was formed in 1845, the capital being 700,000/. in share. of 20/. each, the object of the company being to make a railway from Warwick to Worcester with a branch to Drostwicb, and the provisional contract gave power to the di rectors to amalgamate with any other railway company. At a meeting of the directors, held on the 6th October, 1845, Mr J. E. De Beauvoir, and Mews. P. H. Edlio, F. F. Weise, It. Carpenter, and Seth Rattail Fisher were ap pointed the finance committee, and it was agreed that any three of that committee should be a quorum ; the funds of the company were placed at their disposal, and the com mittee had power given them to draw cheques, signed by not len than three of their number. In the same year two other companies were formed which had suirtentally the name object, one being called the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company, and the other the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby ; and besides these there was the DavtfutrY. Leamington, and Warwick, subsequently called the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Company, which was formed with a view of making a railway from Northampton to Warwick. The latter company entered into an agreement, on the 21st October, 1845, with the Warwick and Birmingham Canal company, and with the proprietors of the Warwick and Napton Canal, for the purchase of those two canals, and paid 10,0001. on account of the purchase money. On the 13th October, 1845, an agreement was come to for the amalgamation of the Warwick and Worcester, the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company, and the London and Birmingham Extension Company, which was carried out by an indenture dated Ist January, 1846 ; and inasmuch as the latter company, in consequence of pay ing the 10,000/. to the mural companies, had not sufficient to make the naceenary deposit on melting application for its bill, the amalgamated company agreed to advance the am ceaaary funds for that purpose. Shortly afterwards these companies agreed to amalgamate with the remaining com pany, the Warwick, Worcester, and Rugby. and that agree meet was carried out by an indenture dated 28th January, 1846. At that time the deposits by the shareholders of the Warwick and Worcester which had been paid to their bankers amounted to 39,0491.10 x, and it was recited in the deed that the expenses of the company bad amounted to 24,049/. 10a, leaving 15,0007., which was brought into the stock of the amalgamated company, the Rughy,Warwick,and Worcester, and the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, each bringing in 27,0004 The London and Birmingham Extension it had been agreed should remain an independent company, the directors not having power to enter into an amalgama tion without resorting to their shareholders, but the direc tors of that company were the same as the directors of the Warwick and Worcester Company. The amalgamated com pany was not registered under the 7th and Bth Victoria, nor was it in any manner legally constituted. It applied to par liament for its bill, but failed. On the 26th May, 1849, an order was made by HA:smart for the winding up of the War . wick and Worcester Company, and plaintiff was appointed official manager. Three suite were alto 'manta, " Sharp v. Goodman," " Goodman and others v. De Beauvoir," and " Goodman v. De Beauvoir," under which plaintiff has received 4,6811. sa. out of the sum deposited by the company when theapplication waemade to parliament. Plaintiff now charged that the two sums of 14.2091, 155., and 1,9867., part of the sum deposited by the , shareholders of the Warwick and Worcester Company, were drawl out of the bank by two cheques on the 29th of October, 1845, and employed on the Stock Exchange in what is called " rigging the market," and were lost. and the object of the bill was to obtain a decree against the defendants to recoup three sums as well as the 15,000/, a portion of the funds of the Warwick and Worcester paid to form the stock of the amalgamated company, and also that the defendants , account for the remainder of the sums received by them from the shareholders. The respective defendants met the aim in various' ways, the counsel for Sir J. De Beauvoir and Mr. Hopkins contending, on the authority of the "Grand Trunk Railway Company v. Brodie," and other awes, and of the 7 and 8 V ataxia, chap. 10 then and 12 Vict., chap. 45, and 12 and 13 Vie., chap. 108, that it was not competent for the plaintiff to sue. It was also con tended on behalf of Hopkins that, be having answered, and having been subsequently examined on the part of the plaintiff, that amounted to a creerexamination, end that being so. under the rule laid down in " Bernal v. Lord Dougal." the plaintiff could get no decree avast him. Mr. PAC Mr. Glasse, and Mr. Frye. appeared for the plaintiff ; the Solicitor-General, Mr. Bade, Mr. Kenyon, Mr. Hetherington, Mr. Roxburgh, Mr. Martina% and Mr. Tool, for the defeedants. The Vice-Chancellor said he was of opinion that this bill could not be supported. The bill was in effect a statement that the defendants had applied a large portion of the funds of the company for purposes not beneficial to the company, and the prayer of the bill was that they be decreed to ac count for then moneys. This was an unincorporated com pany ; it was merely an anxieties of persons combined to carry into effect a certain undertaking which they could not carry out without an act of parliament. He was of opinion that under the 50th section of the Winding-up Act of 1848, the official manager of an unincorporated company could out sue a portion of the members for the benefit of the rest. It was clearly not the intention of the legislature that the official manager should represent a section of a company, however respectable, but he was to represent all the con tributors, and then the question arose as to who were to contribute towards the payment of the debts, and who were to make good to the others money. which might have been misapplied ; and all these questious were to be determined by the Master. This suit could not be maintained, and must be d i smissed; but inasmuch as he dismissed it on a point quite irrespective of the went', and which might have been taken on demurrer, he dismissed the bill without costa. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY • 04141h46t, DECEMBER 10 o'clock. Having the papers before me, 1 said, "I have one or two questions to pet to you, Mr. Hudson, about the Ridgemont estate." He said, • ' Are you not going to continue your examination of the previous mewing and complete it! because I wish to mike an ex planation with referent's to as answer of the prem. ceding evening," and BMA be would think me to hand him over the letters I did se, by passing them in a proper manner, and the master taremeirer quietly handed them to him. He bad asked for them io a civil manner. When he got bold of them be folded them up, put them in his pocket, !maimed up hi. coat, folded his sums, and in au insolent manlier sold we should not have them, and that we were a set of blackguards ever to have got them. He certainly applied it to me. He wee in an ex cited state. He abused and defied the bench. He said he thought he was in the society of gentlemen, bat that he had been treated by them as a blackguard, and at that moment I don't recollect anything more wee said, for a scene commenced. He was very violent—shaking his tisk and so 00. When is that attitude the master treasurer I said, " Mr. Hudson, be seated." He replied, " I act with ' advice (or sdviaedly). I have got the papers, and I intend to keep them." I then said to biro, "I handed you those letters expecting you to return them. I have treated you as a gentleman, and I ask you for them back." One or two other benchers, with Mr. Bovill red Mr. Bagshawe, civilly remonstrated with him, and asked him to return the letters in civil language. The under-treasurer, on approaching Mr. Hudson, wee told by the latter, "If you lay a finger on me, T will knock you down." The master tremors', I th i nk. then said, "We must have those papers, and you cat i tt be perm itted to leave the chamber without returning them." Mr. Hudson said be would not, and that he would keep them in spite of everybody. I don't recollect him 'laying to the under-treasurer, " You are an old man ; don't interfere with me. The under-treasurer then went out and brought in the porter. I think the treasurer desired him to do so. I did not me Mr. Bovill put his back to the door. I don't think any of the heathen had moved from their teats at this time, except Sir W. Alexander and Mr. Reynolds, who backed &little when the plaintiff got up in such an excited state. The porter came in, and be was told by some one, I can't say who, to take some papers from Mr. linchion. The under porter was also in the room, and they endeavoured to get the letters from the plaintiff. He was oath, ground, with his back towards the chair. The porters made an at tempt, but were unable to get the letters from him. Some of the benchers were then moving about, and there was a certain amount of confusion in the room. Not one of the honcho?, took any part in getting the book of letters from him. One or two of them said, " Make him give it up," or "Get that book from him." I did not see him raised from the ground and held up in the air. He might have been mimed from the ground to the chair. When he got up he was let alone. Soon after that two policemen came in, and then Bye and Warren, the under porter, were endeavouring again to get the letters from him. The honcho's were then rather more clustered mooed tae master treasurer's chair. In the second attempt I saw no beneher lay hands on the plaintiff. I don't believe it wee done. Mr. Baphawe took no pert in the emelt, either with his fist clenched or unclenched. Plaintiff was not taken off the ground by half a dome people. I did not see Mr. Dakyns put hands on the plaintiff. I got up from my seat, but I did not move from it the whole time. Mr. Green and Mr. Baphaws were sitting by the side of me. I was talking to Mr. Begshawe the principal part of the time. I taw Mr. Bovill on both sides of the table at different times. He took so pert in the assault. I think Sir F. Slade had been sitting near Mr. Hodson. He went up to him within a yard, but took no part in the assault. He said " You shall given') the papers. Hudson said, " And pray who are you, sir II" He replied, "I am Sir Frederick Blade." Plaintiff maid, "Oh, I am a neighbour of your sister, and I have no desire to make your acquaintance. Yen call yourself one of the celebrities of the law, but you are a fool." (laughter.) It was mid in a most offensive manner. The le:ten were not taken from the plaintiff, in consequence of the interference of the police. There was no third attempt made, and I was astonished to hear the plaintiff say there was. Directly the polies came in there was a certain amount of Quiet. I did not see Sir Frederick Slade take bold of him by the collar, or hear him say, "D— it, I will have it." I think some one said it. I cannot, " or any other man "—(laughter)—pledge myself to the conversation. The Lord Chief Justice asked what the laughter was &bent. Mr. Chambers said he understood that there was song "Any other Man." (Laughter.) The Lora Chief Justice (laughing) said he had not the least notion of it, and was at a loss to conceive what caused the outburst of laughter. Mr. Rodwell then said that Mr. Bagshawe moved that the plaintiff should be given into custody, but nobody seconded it. The plaintiff was removed in custody, but I don't know how it happened. Plaintiff asked if they gave him in charge, and addressed himself once to Mr. Bovill by name. I can't recollect any precise order being given to take him in charge. After plaintiff was gone 90029 one said," Who is going to the police-station?" Mr. Begshawe said, "I will," and lett the room with Mr. Dalryna. I followed, and over took Mr. Baphr we in Temple-lane, and walked with him to th m irtioe-station in Fleet-street. Mr. Hudson asked Mr. i we if be charged him with stealing. lie replied, " I charge you with having taken improperly the book belonging to the bench." Hudson repeated his question, and Mr. Bffigahawe stated to the official where the book had been taken from, that it was in the plaintiff's poessoision, and that he wanted to regain its possession. Yr. Bageluiwe mid "taking" and "stealing" arethessme. Mr. Hudson said " No, give me in charge for stealing." Mr. Bagshaw still said " charge you with taklog," and did not move from it. I don't recollect Mr. Hudson's illustration of the difference be tween taking end stealing. Mr. &tympani once or twice entreated Mr. Hudson to give up the book. Mr. Digby Seymour said it was cruel in him not to do so. The further bearing of the case was adjourned to half past ten o'clock on Monday. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Dsc. 20. After Term Sittings at Niel Prim at Gaik!b!lL—(fore Lord Chief Jo;tioe Cockburn cod a Spordol Juri.) HUDSON T. SIR F. SLADE, BART., Q.C., AND OTHERS. — ASSAULT AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT. (ooutinued from Saturday's EspreAs.) Serjeant Shea then called the following witnesses Mr. &dwell— I am a Q.C. and bencher of the Middle Temple. I was associated with Mr. Green and - Mr. Bsgshawe in investigative the charges preferred against Mr. Digbv Seymour. The bench varied from 10 to 15 is number. On one occasion it was leas. One of the prois'm was with reference to Mr. Seymour's deposit of 20,000 Waller Gold Mining shares with Messrs. Coutta and 1 Co., and also with some transactions connected with Cap tain Robertson relating to Waller Mining shares. There was also a question about the purchase of the Ridv,emont estate in Virginia. Mr. Seymour made statements on , several occasions before the benchers with reference to these I matters. He made certain statements upon which he pro- , potted to call evidence, and be principally relied on Mr. nucleon with regard both to the Waller case sod Parker's case. He repeatedly desired to have papers and documents produced. He implored myself, Mr. Green, and Mr. Bag- thaws to procure papers connected with the Waller Com pany, and we took every means in our tower to procure in formation. He mentioned persons and places where infor mation was to be obtained. In consequence of that I and Mr. Bagalmwe made inquiries. and Mr. Brown was called as a witness. I did not know of the existence of this book till after his examination. I got it from him a few days before July 8. Mr. Hudson was called before the bench by Mr. Seymour with reference to the deposit on the theme and Robertson's cue on the Bth July. He was examined at considerable length by . Mr. Seymour. He entered at length into its financial position, its history, and his and Mr. Sey mour's connexion with the company. The duty of exa mination devolved upon me. I was requested to do so, having previously read the letters in the hook. I exa mined him on the paying of the dividend for which the 3,000 f. was required. It lasted an hour, owing to his pe rusing the letters before he gave his lingerers. The bench that day sat at 7 o'clock, and continued till about half peat 11 o'clock. I conducted the examination remarkably courteously. He was very polite to me, and 1 endeavoured to treat him the same. He made no complaint, and from his manner and gesture he invited me to go ou with the examination. Two or three benehers did not put questions at a time. My questions were not put so rapidly that he was in arrest in answering them ; perhaps during the last ha f-dosen questions there was &little more animation ; with the exception of that it was remarkably tame. That had . reference to an expreesioo in one of the letters, " D— to hell," or some such thing. The only interruption was 'by Mr. Green, who had a abort abstract of the letters. There was no interference with hie reading the whole of the t letters. He was sometimes told the part referred to in the 1 letters, but be was He was not interrupted when giving an answer. Mr. Green's remark, "Lorca it not amount to a fraudulent statement?" was put in the form of a question. The Lord Chief Justice—So it appears from the shorthand writer's notes. Mr. Bothwell continued—l passed the letters on this oc mien, the Bth July, to the plaintiff without his asking for them. The book was not thrown to him, bat passed is the ordinary way one gentleman pauses p thing to another, and so returned. Near the close of the examinatiou Mr. Hod eon asked where the book came from, end Mr. Green im mediately replied, " Prom Mr. Brown." I did not say. I "Go on, air, with your answer" when the plaintiff asked / the question. Nothing was said as described by the plaintiff i —not one syllable. It was arranged in • friendly mariner that Mr. Hudson should attend the following evening for fur , ther examination, and to give certain,explamitions. During , my examination on the Bth the letters were frequently passed and re-pumed and he read them earafully sad nu safely. Os Ikestk July the *WWI meals alliasdad, about SECOND 001711 T. Sittings at Niel Prins after Term at GuildhalL —(Before Mr. Justice Crompton and a Common Jury.) A strange occurrence took place in oonnezion with the case of " Thewlis v. Mumford"—an action for seduction. The jury retired and were locked up from 1 o'clock till 10 at night through the obstinacy of one juryman, who would I not yield his opinion to the other eleven. During their deliberation several angry altercations took place between them, in the course of which the obstinate man struck a brother juryman, and afterwards hulled a chair at him. At last the others, feeling so much annoyed and diaguit( d at his conduct. set on him, and in the course of thescrimmage got him against the door. The usher in charge, thinking they were knocking for him, opened the door. and he fell on his back with his head out ou the passage. At 10 o'clock they were called into court, and it being found they were not likely to agree they were discharged without giving verdict. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. Dac. 20. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) TOASTER F. FORSTER AND BERRIDOL.—DAMAGES, 5,0001. (Concluded from Saturday's Express.) Emma Forster, the daughter of Major Forster, examined —She came over from India in 1850. Her sister was then with her. She went to live with her aunt, Mrs. Burmeeter, in August, 1861. Her father CAMS to see her in March, and stayed a day. He mentioned Mrs. Ellis's name frequently, and said they were his fellow-munesgers. He extolled her beauty. She heard her father say that the Ellises bad gone to Paris ; sod then he came and stayed a mouth with them. He received letters from Paris. One day after one had come for him he said be must go to town. He wanted to go that rely evening. He said that Mrs. Ellis had returned to Rog- land. When the Billies came down to Chertsey my father ordered dinners to be sentin for them from the confectioner's. He also got a carriage for them from an inn. My father had some beautifully fine cambric handkerchiefs with scolloped edges marked "J. E.," which he took away with him to London. He once brought down a programme of the Trovalore, and I think he said be had been to the theatre with Mrs. Ellis. Some petticoats were sent to a washer woman at Chertsey for Mrs. Ellis. My father packed them up for her, sod took them away in his box. Cross-examined—My father had made all the arrange ments to take me and my sister out with him to India. I went sod saw the cabins. We were to have started on the 15th of September. I left my aunt's and went to my mother's at Bayswater on the 31st of August. After Mrs. Ellis came back from Paris my father gave my sister and me a) watch each which she had purchased for us. I have seen Mr. Berridge very frequently. I saw him last two days ego at Ginger's hotel, Westminster, at which we were skipping. I saw him in the passage. He did not ask for any ore. I canrot tell whether he saw m mother. Be has seen my mother in the court. I have seen Mrs. Affisek at 67, kV impole-street, but I have never spoken to her. No. 67, is Mr. Lowe's. Ido not know that Mr. MBank is one of Mr. Lows's clerks. My mother told me afterwards that it war Mo. Affieck. My mother was at Lowe's on busi ness. My father allowed my aunt IW. a-year for the main tenance of myself and sister Charlotte. Re-examined —Ginger's is the hotel where we were stop ping during the trial. I did not return with my father to India because he had ill-treated me so ; bad neglected me so while he was is this country. By the Judge-1 first saw Mr. Berridge at Dove's, in Bloomsbury-square. I also saw him in Heathcote-street. At this stage of the proceedings the court made its cus tomary adjournment for a few minutes. Os its reassembling, The Queen's Advocate said he had a oommnoication to make es to the course which he should take upon himself the responsibility of adopting. He had already intimated that they had so answer to make with regard to the case against Mrs. Forster ; but he had been led to believe that be should be able to lay before the court evidence conclu sively establishing a charge of adultery against the peti tioner with Mrs. Ellis. He bad listened with the greatest attention to what had been stated by the witnesses, a nd he must admit that it did not so clearly substantiate the charge as to warrant him in persevering with the defuses. Although he might think that it did make out a ease of levity, imprudence, and indiscretion, he could not say that it would justi f y him in causing Serjeant BaUantine to put Mn. Elbe into the box, as be understood his learned friend would have done if the defence had been persisted is. He therefore thonghtit his ditty to take upon himself the respossibility— and a serious and painful respoe. sibility it was—of abandooing the charge of adultery against Ma* Forster. Mr. Mostegue Smith then addressed the jury in mitigs ' ties of flamers, contending that the pelittoner had not afforded his wife proper protection while she was is Baglasd. Mr, pary~l Bs.Matins admitted no levity, imprudonoe, or mieoaadael on the part of his client either with Mrs. i t Ellis ',anybody site. The defame was • perfectly scanda lous ose—ssandalons, in its eoaceptioe, in its details, and in the way in which it had been sought to be worked out. Major Forster was first charged with adultery in India—nit • syllable bad been adduced in proof of that. Next he was accused of neglect, and conduct towards his wife conducing to adultery—not • word of evidence to rapport that. Lastly, there was this shameful accusation against Mrs. Ellis, which he almost regretted had been withdrawn • for Mr. and Mrs. Ellis had come all the way from Gibra ltar to vindicate their honour, and were per frotly ready . to disprove the calumnies which had bean uttered against them. The head and front of thin scan. dalous defence was the on respondent, and he trusted that the jury would mark their sense of his misoonduct by awarding exemplary damages against him. Sir C. Creswell thought the queen's Advocate had done himself honour in withdrawing the charge Mrs. Ellis ; but he wished the learned gentleman given them some explanation as to the failure of the expected evidence which had induced him to take that course ; for he (the judge) felt satisfied in his own mind that if counsel had but fairly known the limited extent of the wretched evidence that would be placed at their disposal, they would never have felt justified in promul main' such • charge at all. The jury could not forget the position in which the parties stood to each other. Here was au officer, past the meridian of life, coming from India to Europe for the express purpose of instituting this suit. On board the vessel he had become acquaint ed with an invalid brother officer, with a beautiful young wife. Probably, from them he had received much kindness and sympathy • and because • • certain degree of familiarity bad sprung up between them—the most strikiog acts illustrating which had taken' place uuder tb e very eye of the husband, with the exception of one which was sought to be established by the contradictory evidence of the two Bartholomew. — they were asked to infer that the intimacy was • guilty one; asked to infer it, too, on evidence which had bees procured through the instrumentality of the co-respondent's mistress —a woman who, they had beard, bad been reviled by the respondent in the coarsest terms, but who now appeared before them in the capacity of her friend, engaged in getting up the case for bar defame. It was sot to be supposed that twelve special jurymen in this enlightened country would eves for a moment listen to such • tale. The learned judge then proceeded to sum up the case, remarking that the fact of Mrs. Forster having lodged and bearded at Dove's with the co-respondent himself was proof sufficient that • suitable provision had been made for her maintenance. The argument applied with still greater force to her residence in the house in Hesthcot?-street Either her means must have been ample to have enabled her to take that house, or she must have been placed there by the co-respondent ; and in that case it would tend to show that he bad made use of bin wealth for the purpose of car opting her. It was only in that w►y that the jury had any concern in the property of the 00-respondent ; but it was considered that where a man was obliged to employ his wealth in seducing a woman she mos; have required a great effort on his part to lead her astray, and must therefore have been so much the more valuable a wife to her husband. He (Sir C. Criswell) might also remind the jury that the co-respondent had constantly allowed Hrs. Forster the use of his brougham, and that the circumstances surrounding the birth of the child seemed to show that the illicit inter course had commenced about the time of her removal to Heathoote-street. The jury, after a moment's consideration, found a verdict for the husband on all the issues, and assessed the damages in 5,0001. ; whereupon the court made a decree nisi with costs. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCMT.—Ti ITIRON, Dac. 20. (Before Mr. Judie* Ryles.) Joseph Langley was indicted and charged on the coroner's inquisition with the manslaughter of his ion, Charles Langley, on the 6th of December. Mr. T. W. Saunders conducted the prosecution, sod Mr. Pridesux the defence. Te prisoner is the landlord of the George Inn, at Nettle bridge, in the parish of fdialsoiner Norton. On the evening of the day in question a quarrel arose between him and hia ion, who was about 21 years of age, and after a good deal of coarse language bad been exchanged between them, the son struck his father, who thereupon stabbed the deceased in the abdomen with a clasp knife which be had in his hand at the time. Both the prisoner and the deceased were the worse for liquor. After stabbing his son, the prisoner appeared very much d i stressed, and said, " Oh, I'm afraid you re does for. You will never hit your poor father any more. I wish some one would do the same for me." The deceased was attended by Mr. Gartner. surgeon ; but the wound proved fatal, and the deceased died on the following Monday morning. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mery on the greund of the provocation he had received. His lordship said the recommendation of the jury should receive consideration, and mused a sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labour. THE POLICE COURTS. MANSION HOUSE. George Ration sad Ames BeMie, both described as shipowDers at Liverpool—the latter, f ormerly the captain of a vessel called the Joseph Home, of which the former was the owner—were brought before the Lord Mayor on re mand upon a charge of unlawfully conspiring together to defraud the Universal Marine Insurance Company. Corn hill, of the sum of 6001. by means of a fraudulent policy of assurance. After hearing the additional evidence adduced in support of the charge, His lordship committed both prisoners for trial, and refused to reduce the amount of bail. GUILDH ALL. Ferdinand Arthur Neiman. a foreigner, described as a merchant, trading in the name of De Nieniann end Co., at 48, Fenchurch-street, was charged with conspiring, with Richard Pearson, to obtain geode to the value of 1,9001., under false pretences, with intent to defraud Mr. Jeremiah Walton, a woollen manufacturer, of(Bradford. There were several other charges against the prisoner, and among the number two for forging endorsements to bills of exchange. This case has been on various occasions before the court. A letter written by the Prussian authorities, in answer to in quiries respecting the psorer states that his real name was Charles Fordinand William Hellwig. In 1848 he was convicted of a robbery, with violence, In his own country, and sentenced to six yeah' imprisonment. In 1850 he Was again convicted of fraud, and fined 25.000 thalers, and sen tenced in default to nine years' penal servitude. Be had been guilty of various acts, in respect of which proceedinp had been taken against him. Committed for trial. BOWSTREET. Richard Gray was charged with lurking about Par liament-street after midnight, and with assaulting policeman. On Saturday morning, between three and four o'clock, prisoner was seen by Coneta ble 72 A standing concealed in a doorway. On asking him what he was standing there for, prisoner replied, "Plun der." Thinking from this answer the man was drunk, he told him to go away. Prisoner became very violent, and asserted his right, as an Englishman, to stand where he liked. The constable again begged him to move on, but as he would not he put his bands on his shoulder to compel him to come out of the doorway. On this be raised a thick whip handle, made of whalebone and loaded at the knob, and struck the officer with all his force over the bead. The blow fell upon his bat, cutting a great piece out of it, and caused a bruise on his forehead. The constable thereupon sprang his rattle, and assistance arrived, but in consequence of his violence it took four policemen to remove him to the station. The prisoner said be was a scavenger, and stood upon his right, as an Englishman, to stand where be liked. He exhi. kited his knuckled, and complained of being treated brutal! by the police. Fined 51., or a month's imprisonment. CLERKENWELL. George White. a young but desperate thief, well known to the police, was charged with stealing a pair of boots, the property of a tradesman at Islington. - Wakeling appeared for the prisoner. The evidence went to show that the complainant has during the past four or five weeks lost several pairs of boots, and on more than one occasion be has seen the prisoner running away from his shop. Early in the week he saw the prisoner steal • pair of boots ; he gave chase to the prisoner, but was unable to overtake him, but from the description given to the polios be was apprehended. and when told the charge, he said he could prove au alibi, as he was only running past the complainant's shop to get out of the wet. The defence set up for the prisoner was that the complain ant was mistaken in the identity. The polio° said the prisoner bad been several times in custody, and a former conviction was put in that showed that the prisoner hod been convicted from the serious for felony. He had only bees out of prison about six or seven weeks, and the day after he came out he was again taken into custody, but was discharged. The Prisoner—Yea, that was a pretty charge ; to lock up a young chap on anspicioe. It's very hard that a young chap can't walk the streets without being pounced on by • lot of policemen. Mr. D'Eynoourt uid it was • case he should send for • • trial. The Prisoner—Settle it here, and I will plead guilty. I am very sorry, bat since 1 have been out of prison I have beau trying to reform, and to lead a virtuous life. Mr. Myncoart said that he considered it • stranf id, ./u . to reform, and fully committed the prisoner to the sex Sessions for trial. WORSHIP. STREET. JosepA Lortys and Astkofay Beckroy, natives of France, and of gentlemanly e xterior. were charged with violently assaulting Mr. Frederick Lae and Mr. Edmund Dolman. Mr. Lee stated that be bald a situation in the Customs. Between 11 and 12 o'clockmt Friday night he Ives in corn. y with two friends, some distance iron . home . and, °beery uga cabdraw op at the corner of York.street, Kinpland, from which two gentlemen slighted, he made towards it, d w than : i t v h orthe t . he H p da u e rpose iespdate of t Lovs e to ngs ui gi eremar n m g a t u h , e kt ca; . . h...y Th doun e oha d wo ef v e . ride m:o n aboosydo te:r e er: o; standing on the pavement, apparently settling with the shown, your MM.. Whores was greatly satosisked at this etawnretiss, sot loswwWli wither of the primes's. &Mho 12, 1862. replied that he should:do nothing of the kind, whereupon Loupe struck him a temble blow on the nage with his fist, causing him to reel spinet same iron railings. His bead wu struck, uud be fell on the pavement insisseible. blood flowed from his head and his nose, and be wee severely brained and in great pain. He was now unable to attend to his official duties. _ . . . . Mr. Dolman, of Isie.villas, Ashton, entirely oorroboratad this statement, and added that the other prisoner Amok him down. . - Mr. J. Prince, the third of the party, gave • similar ais count of the tra nsaction, but be wee not touched. Mr. Abbott, who appeared for the prisoners, said they were both persons of position. Mr. Loeys was a wiserner chant, and bad long been a client of his; and he felt sera that they would Dot have conducted themselves in this way without provocation. Their statement was that the three prosecutors suddenly came up to them, and so interfered while they were settling with the driver, that they attri buted it to an intention of committing personal wrong, so they took the Initiative. Mr. Leigh said there was not a particle of excuse for the defence set up. The prisoner Lonys had most insultingly spoken to Mr. Lee, and when reproved had followed up his remarks with an mown of no common character. It would be trifling with the case to finellthe prisoners 51., and he should therefore commit them for trial, but would wept bail in 801. Anne Stevens, a woman who when gist brought to this court eight years ago was a person of very genteel ap pearauce and demeanour, was charged with being drunk and riotous, . . . — Thepri;Oner has been charged at this court no less than fifty times. In the early stage of her appearances some es deavours were made to reclaim her from the vicious corn* of life she was leading, and she was sent by Mr. Arnold borne to her friends, who are very respectable, but reword in lees than a week and resumed her former habits. Eltep by step she has desoended the bidder of vice and violence. On two or three occasions she has burled concealed mis siles or the office inkstands at the magistrate's bead. On being placed before Mr. Paynter, heinquired whether she bad anything in her hand ? The gaoler replied is the negative ; everything, even the hats of persons, bad been put out of her reach. Prisoner— I have got something in my hand ; don't you see, I pin holding my drew up. Look, you—. Mr. Paynter—You must keep yourself quiet. Prisoner—Or else you'll transport me, of course. You would like, wouldn't von ? A policeman proved that be found the accused intoxicated in a gentleman's doorway in St. George'saquare, at air on the previous evening, and endeavoured to remove her when she used the most horrible langusge. Prisoner (to the magistrate)—Well, now, what would you like to do with me, eh? I came out of prison yesterday morning; you'd send me back. Mr. Paynter—What did she have last time? Gimlet —A month, and her conviction was returned. Prisoner—Yes, her coo riction was returned, and ohs had been returned to liberty two days in the last four months. You are making me quite reputable. I have no op,or'unity of being otherwise, unless I do wrong in pi oon. Mr. Paynter— I shall remand you for the production of your last conviction, and then send you far three months. The prisoner's conduct here beggars all description. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR MANCHESTER. _.... MANCHESTER, Dec. 21. The exprees train from London to Manchester last ght was nearly annihilated when within about four and a half miles of its destination. It left the Euston station as usual at five o'clock p.m., and was due at Manchester at 10.10 p.m. It was nearly twenty minutes behind time on passing Heaton Norris (Stockport), and had only proceeded e abort distance beyond that st•tion when the engine and carriages left the metals. From what canoe the train went off the rails is not known, bat it went off on the out or westerly side. His believed that the points were at fault at the juoction of the line to Guide Bridge. Owing to the line being ballasted at ail, part with sand, the train warn brought to a stand without much damage either to the nmages or pas genera, and the guard, whose van was next to the engine, ran towards the rear of the train with his red (danger) lamp. Almost before he could get therm! however, an engine came up behind and ran into the train with great force, almost smashing the entire of it to atoms. The train consisted of two first-class and a second-class carriage, be sides the van, and one of the brit class we broken through the middle, the wheels were knocked off, and the body knocked almost into splinters. The saved-clam carriage was also a complete wreck, the only portion of it left above the bed of the carriage being one single partition (the central one). 911 the carriages were thrown into or across a deep trench by the side .1 the line, intended to drain it. The engine which completed this catastrophe was a pilot engine, follow ing the express, and it is said that the driver states that, seeing the tail light of the express train bad suddenly dis appeared in front of him, he concluded that the exposes me further in advance than be bad supposed, and had gases round the curve at Levenshulme, a mile ahead. He them ' put on steam, and consequently the collision was the more severe. It was a dark and stormy night, and it is sup %tthat when the expressgot off the line, either its e tt were extinguished by the jumping of the train, or were hidden from the driver of the following en gine by the abutments of a bridge. Both en gines were damaged, but that of the express not so badly as the other one. The passengers (of whom there were fortunately but few) escaped better than might have been expected. So far as we can learn none were killed, but several were badly injured. The railway officials lost no time in obtaining sasistaece for the passengers in jured, or in getting conveyances to send them forward. One of the passengers most injured is said to be a soldier. A gentleman who escaped with his forehead slightly cot said he gut out through the roof of the carriage, which had been ripped off, and through this he also dragged a lady who was little injured. The whole of the night end the greater part of to-day have been taken up in repairing the line and re moving the ditris of the train. RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR LIIRD&-011 Friday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, an aoeident oc curred on the North Eastern Railway, between the Bram hope tunnel and the Horsforth station, from a ballast train running tot° the tail end of a goods train which was at that time standing near to the Moseley siding. The engine of the ballast train came into collision with the other train with such velocity that the guard's van and one of the trucks were smashed, the engine itself being thrown off the up, and projecting across the down line. The guard of the goods train, observing his danger, jumped out of the van, and thus escaped injury, and the driver and fireman of the ballast train were equally fortunate. The line was com pletely blocked up, and a number of men having been ob tained,, under the direction of Mr. Donaldson and Mr. Johnson, the traffic and locomotive superintendents, the broken fragments of the waggons were cleared as rapidly as possible, but the line was not in proper working order until about midnight. The 'MSc during the evening, between Artbiogton and Honfortb, was worked by pilot engines, and the passengers each way had to change trains at the place where the collision occurred. MARKET& TALLOW.—BATUIDAY EVINIIO.—The market was quiet to-day. Spot 'Lod all the math, 45e. 3d. b 45e. 6d.; Janu ary to March, 43.. 3d.: March alms, 45a. N.; April to Jape, 43.. 3d. Delivery to last evening, 1,528 mama arrivals ditto, 561 COMM 007701C—Lrvearo0L, Dxc. 20.—Then is a moderate business doing in cotton today, with • steady market. The sales are 4,000 bales, includip .100 American, 2ljd. to 245 d. ; 3,360 Swat, 14d. to 17 • ; 200 Egyptian, 21d. to 31d. ; 30 Yernam, 224 d. •; 11 liaranluun, 24d. to rod. ; of which 2,000 are for speculation end export. Today's import is 100 bales. ______ • ()CMOS 000D8.—Magegittagg, Dgc. 20.—The sees in in yarn and cloth during the past week has not bees so large as the trade were led to expect it would be oa Tues day. On that day the market was considerably stimulated by the activity iu the cotton market and the rtee in prices, and a good deal of yarn was sold at id. told. per 113. ad vance, attracting more or leas buyers for all marta. For cloths there was a demand both from speculators sad legitimate buyers, but a rise of 6cl. to 18d. per piece s program. A fair business wsa done where more reaso ta Xl d e proposals were listened to. Since Tuesday the market has been gradually losing in strength, pricers having receded at Liverpool about a third of what they bad pined hers. Both spinners and manufacturers are trying to hold out for the advance of Tuesday, and stocks of yarn being • good dal reduced by sales forconsumptiod they are tolerably arm in price. The sales of cloth, however, are slow, and the amount of shipping being small. and the home demand limited, very little impression is being made at present on stocks. Orders are being given ' as stated in a previous r eport, to manufacturers for cloths out of stock and for new kinds, different in weight, length, pick, and reed, to come in cheaper as substitutes for other kinds in foreign markets, and purchases of cotton for these have no doubt helped to stimulate prices at Liverpool. WOOLLEN.—Liums, Dt.c. 20.—Tbs markets this morn ing were not characterised by any great amount of anima tion. In the Coloured Hall the chief demand was a pro. spectirs one for lightspring fabrics, chiefly Melton, in plain and fancy styles.. Tweeds are now oomparatively easy to buy, and are beginning to show an accumulation on the manufacturers' hands. In the White Hall the principal inquiry was for light mediums, other goods not being much sought after. Rates continue firm. HARDWARE—BIRMINGHAS t MEC. 20.—The trade of this town is undoubtedly becoming quieter ; but notwith standing that we are so close upon Christmas, when, se usual, there are very few orders coming in, the manniam Mirka generally have been on at full time, and , most of them have sufficient to do to carry them quite op to the holidays. In some of the fancy trades there has been rather mere ; stirring of late, the teams' travellers having reported teem favourable ; business in that department is better than it has been for the last two or three years at this period, end stocks have been to some extent redused. In other et Ilea great staple trades there is a good average amount of hod sees doing. The manufacturing trades of the adjoitileg trict are steady • the chain makers are complaining, and at Walsa ll the giddier.' ironmongers have been short of adorn, UM in other of the principal branches them has been a good avenge amount of busters doing. COBN.-Caunaroom Dec. 20.-Good dry wheat made rather more mosey. Barley in limited supply, and Is. dearer. Wheat, red, 425. to 48a. ; barley, 32a. to 38a. ; beans, 34.1. to 40a. ; cam, 20a. to 26e. per qr. CARLISLE, Dec. 20.-Good supply of wheat and can, and large of barley. Wheat was again in bad oosdftion, and met a dull sale at last week's rates. Oats met a fair demand at last week's rates. Barley dull of sale and 6d. per Carlisle bushel lower. Wheat, white, new, 16s. 6d. to 20s. 6d. ; old, 21.. to 245. 6d. ; red, new, 166. to 19e. ; old, 19.. 6d. to 291. 6d. ; horny, new, I Is. to 12e. sd. Oat., potato, new, lie. to 9s. 3d. ; old, 9a. to lb; 0001nlolk, me, 7s. toga ; old, b. to 10e. GUILDFORD, Dm. 20.-A fair supple of wheat today. there was a good demand for the finest qualities, which mods from le. to 2e. per qr. more mosey ; other dincrip. Mess at !sat week's "minims. Barley and one at late rates. Wheat, 44a. to ON. ; barley, 30a. to 395. ; oats, lila to 26a ; beans, 40a. to 43. pree qr. ligurroan, Doc. 10.-We had • fair supply of *beat. Prices fully as dear, and a rather brisk demand for dry samples. Barley extremely dull, aid lower priors taken to force sales. Oats and beans in retail at late rates. Wheat, red, 30a. ; old, 32a. ; white, An. per load. Barley, 40e. per qr. Oata, new, old, 28e. per qr. Lumunran, Den. 20.-Then was more life in the trade to-day, and prices for selected lob were Is. per qr. higher. New whim may be quoted at 48s. to boEls. ; sew red, 44.. to 47a.; old white, 58e. to 60e. ; old red, Ms. to 575. per 36 stone. The quantity of barley at market was fair ; sales were made slowly at late rates for fine sorts, but other kinds were lower ; malting, 34e. to 38e. per qr. ; grinding, 28e. to 30s. per 30 stone. The show of oats was folly equal to the demand, and prices had • receding tendency ; old, 28e. to 32a. ; now, 21.. to 25a. per 24 stone. Nsecterce.urou-Truz, Dm. 20.-At our market this morning we had a better supply of wheat from the growers, but factors being indifferent sellers of south oountry deacriptions • clearance was made at rather over previous rates ; for Wiebech new red 48.. to 48e. 6d. per 5041 be. ex ship was willingly paid, and to such sorts the demand was almost exclusively confined ; grauaried aorta, whether English or foreign, were mostly withheld from the market, holders being unwilling to sell at the prices now prevailing. Flour bad rather more tone, but in its value little change can be reported. Extra mating barley quite se dear, but to make progress with totems diate descriptions • decline of at least la per qr. had to be conceded; little stirring in grinding. Malt still in. alining cheaper. Nothing doing in beam. Boiling peas held firmly. Oats in moderate request, and most difficult to quit, excepting at lower rates. The arrivals this week are :-Wheat, coastwise 4,231 qrs. ; foreign, 420. Barley, °carters.), 1,719. Malt, coastwise, 467 qrs. Oats, coast wise, 631 qrs. Peas, foreign, 30 qrs. Beans, coastwise, 70 qra. Flour, oosstwise. 691 sacks. Noawica, Dec. 20.-There was • much better supply of wheat at this market to-day, but the condition being very moderate the gales made proceeded slowly at rates the tura is favour ol the buyer, although the best and driest samples were fealy as dear. The supply of barley was fair, and malting qualities were fully as dear, while other aorta could not be bought oa lower terms. In oats, beans, and peas there was nut little doing. Flour without alteration in price. White wheat (weighing 571 b. to 63 lbs.). 46,. to 50s. ; red ditto (ering 57 lbs. to 6311 m.). 435. to 47e. ; beet chevalier malting barley (weighing 5311*. to 54 lbs.), 36.. to 375. ; runs chevalier ditto (weighing 52 lbs. to 53 lbs.), 33e. to 355. ; distilling ditto (weighing 4911 x. to 51 lbs.), 28s. to afla ; oats, 245. to 28e. Norms/any Doc. 20.-There was a moderate show to- day. The best sorts were held at rather more money ; in ferior =mitered. Old white realised Sirs. to63s. ; old, red, 52.. to 56e. ; new white, 425. to 52a ; new red, 41s. to 48e. per 36 stone. The show of barley was tolerable, but gales took place quietly, and late rates were paid . ; new malting, 345. to 425. ; foreign, 34e. to 39e. per qr. ; grinding, 28s. to 30e. per 30 stops. Oat. were a moderate show. and prices tended downwards ; old, 25e. to 31s. ; new, 22a. to 265. ; foreign, 255. to 27a. per 24 stone. OXFORD, Doc. 20.-The attendauoe was large, ..ronse. quent upon the weather being fine, sad alai being the butchers fat Christmas show of beef, mutton, de. Although we cannot quote higher prices, sot even for the best kinds of wheat, than last week, it may fairly be stated that there was • firmness prevailing throughout the market in moat descrip tions of grain, most of which same to hand in much better condition, owing to the late dry weather. Quotations for flour (seconds), 36t. to 384. per sack. Pereamauguit, Doc. 20.-We had a fair quantity of wheat here to-day, fine dry samples made last week's prices; other descriptions hard to sell. Barley as last week. Oats and beans were both easier to buy. READING, Dcc. 20.-There was a moderate attendance at ' our market, this morning, and the supply of wheat was Alen moderate, the condition of which still motion."' bad, and the checked millers buying more then just rufficient to inset present demands Prime are firm, but with no quotable advance. I o other articles no alteration. Bocmiterea, Dec. 20.-Wheat was in fair supply at this Cern Embange, and this attendance of the town and country trade rather tarp . For all kiods of boot sample; prices were very firm; and in some Manner holders demanded a twining avarice, without, however, leading to • general rise. Best maples of white were 5411. to 60a., and red 50s. to 545. per quarts; inferior and se con dary white, 48.. to 545., and red 44.. to 50s. per varier. Best descriptions of barley maintained former values, prime malting kinds selling at 365. te 40a., sad grinding at 265. to 300. Of oats there was • fair supply, but the operations were confined to the beet saroples,which sold at late name. For ben Poland. the rates were 265. to 29a, and other kinds 235. to 265. per quarter. Wrangle, Dec. 20.-We had only a moderate supply of gain at market to-day. Best dry wheat met a ready sale at an advance of Is. per qr. Oats also rattier in favour of the seller. Other spring corn without alteration- Prices to the grower :-Wheat, whita_46e. to 49.., fifth.. per bushel ; red, 45a. to 47.. Oats, 10}.1. to Hid. per stone. Beans, 34a. to 36e. per pp% of 19 stone ; old, 445. WORCLB7I3, Dm. 20.-A t this day's market there was rather • shorter supply of wheat from the farmers, and on both English and foreign the turn was in favour of sellers. Barley, beans, and peas rather lower. Oats unaltered. KIRKCALDY, DEC. 20.-We have had • week of change able weather. A great deal of rain fell on Tuesday. Latterly, we have had very stormy weather. Wind from B. W. and N.W. At our country markets this week we had leas grain offering than of late, still, alas were slow. Wheat brought last week's prices. Ru by lower sod one higher than last week. Here, to-day, we had moderate stipple* of all kinds of grain. Wheat and barley sold at just about last week's pricer. Oat., 6d. to la. per qr. dearer. Wheat, old and new, 265. to 51.. Oat. per qr.; barley, new, 19s. to 295. ; oats, new, 18., 6d. to 2‘. 13d. Yoix, Dec. 20.-The attendance was moderato, but the show of wheat was hardly an average for the seem e. A better demand took piece, and late prices were fully made. New white sorb changed bands at 50a. to 6f*.; new red, 44e. to 48s. per 36 stone. Of barley, the supply was prett7 fair, and with a slow feeling in the trade last week s rates were sustained malting, 33e. to 365. per qr. ; feed aorta, 30s. to 32.. per 30 stone. There was a dull demand for oats, and in some cases a alight decline hod to be sub mined to; DOW, 20e. to 24e. per 24 stone. WATIRIORD, Dec. 20.-Our supplies of home -grotto grain have again fallen off, and the imports of foreign eon tinue on • very limited scale. Our market, notwitlistandiog, has been dull this week at barely previous prices for nearly all articles. Farmers' wheat of flue quality canaot be quoted cheaper, but secondary sorts are the turn in favour of the buyers. Foreign rather more saleable at a reduction or 3d. per barrel. Oats can he bought at • trifling decline on the currency of this day se'noight. Barley unaltered in value. lodian corn in better demand at last week's rates. Best qualities of flour quite as dear, but the coarser kinds hare • downward tendency. I m p o rts this week:-Wheat, 2,675 qn. ; Indian cm 13, 3.810 ; floor, 250 barrels 2 . 0 sacks. Exports this week :-Barley, 53 barrels ; oats, 5,105; flour, 951 sacks. CATTLll.—CseLtetz, Deo. 40.—There was an itemize supply of Irish cattle on offer io our market this morota;, and the general quality was good, the stock being chief' composed of the better ciao of animals. There was a god inquiry during the forenoon, but sales were slow. There was a seasouable supply of pigs-4d cartloads—aud a good business was done. Very few small animals were shore, the stock Laing almost entirely comprised of the Leger and better class. There was a large attendance of buyers, and several dealers from the east made large purchaser. Prices ranged from Sa. to 125., and up to 16.., the average ' 1 " being about ils. 6d. ; she* 30a. to 35a. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. 111141011THF.—December 17, at 'outman, Wellington, Sower. aet., the wife of W. Inworthy, Faq., of a eon. GODFlEDettember 19, at 4. Cioudealey stree t, Islington, the Y.— wife of Yr. Jcseph Godfrey, of a daughter. GEAHT.—December 17, at Hereford-road North, Bayswater, the wife of J. IL Grant, Esq., of a son. HULL—December It. at Perk-rill/a, Oxford, the wife of the Rev. 9. J. Hahne, of a daughter. WHlLEA.—Dectual.er 17, at Seaforth House. End, near Farnham, the wife of Captain .1. 31•Crea, of • delight". of J. PERIIIIIL—Derember 19, at Flizroy-terrace, the wife _ Perrier, Esq.. of a daughter. RALTlRL—Docember 17, at Sudolvrood, the wife of .1. Req., of • son. SlMMONDlL—Decemberßlooneldetrect, Pinabtl7l.&ol4 tbs wife of J. L. alstrounda, Ent., of a son. MARRIAGES. BERNARD—MOYBRY.—Deermber 18, at fild m oulb. Devoe. by the Net. C. Woodcock. Francis George, sou of the Inc Err. W. Bernard, of Clatworthy, somerset. v$ Louisa Muer Harriet. daughter of the Rev. F. L Moysey, Vicar of Shimoutttshy . Rem CB URCH—BRNTLILY. December 17 , at in. Mary Alibo Manton, by the Rev. V. D. Maurice, the Rev. A. Church. to Charlotte Isabel* daughter of the late Mr. A. C. kieutts7. of Southampton. lIAREPEACE—VYVVAN.—December 14 at St. Antlitl s. fly mouth. by the Rev. H. H. B. Paull, R. Mokepesco, bag • Teignmouth, Devonshire, to Henrietta Charlotte, widow oi ta• late Colonel Vyvyan. of Trevut•park, Cornwell DEATH& RlZlDoll4.—Deeember 11, at Dnumwiek-pleee, Itairs.pondwea d . Aaa, wife of Captain J. Budges, R.N. OLOVA—December 17, at Quentertreet, Hammersmith, Hal Leedea. daughter of Mr. 0. Closed. J7. IV A 101.—Deosesber 16, at Llindotlgb kadOry, near Cardin, th e Rey. J. Beans, R.D., aged vt). FRNN.—December 17, Anna Mary wife of J. Penn. EN.. of Neirgste.itreet. Printed wet Tuhlimbed hy Wltutm ROO Utufn of o. Loroberd-etniet, In the City at leedon, Printer. al the Mos, ht LeonleareleAmost. In the Precinct al wbiiimin.. - • MONDAT, W