The Express. — London, England, 1862-09-25 00:00:00

4 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Ms. Justice Ryles.) Marla "wit (Wier, 48. described ma tailor, was in dicted for the wilful murder of Elisabeth Corb7. The prisover wu charged upon the coroner s inquisition with the offeoee of manslaughter only. Mr. Sleigh, Mr. F. EL Lewis, and Mr. Edmund Bailey conducted the promotion. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Ribtoo and Mr. Whoa. Mr. Sleigh opened the Mee for the prosecution in a calm end temperate speech, and from the 'tidemark made by the learned counsel and the evidence that wee adduced to support it, it appeared that the prisoner carried on the business of a broker in a small way is Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, and that the deceased woman bad lived with him for several years as his wife, and the evidence left no doubt that they were both addicted to drinking to cum, and that while partially intoxicated they were in the Wit of quarrellfng. Mid both of them were guilty of acts of violets, to each other, and that upon cm occamoe, very shortly before the day on which the trauma tion occurred that was the subject of inquiry, an affray el this sort took place, and the deceased had two of her rlbe broken. The effuse imputed to the prisoner was repre sented to bars taken place on the Bth of August, and it appeared that on the afternoon of that day the prisoner I and the deceased bad been drinking, and • disturbance ' took plus between them on account of the deceased desiring to go out and the prisoner wishing to prevent her from doing so, and • violent strug gle took place, in the come of which the prisoner struck the deceased, and nearly tore all her clothes off. She, however, succeeded in getting out of the hone, and went to • ponce stoned M'Arthor, with whom she was on intimate terms, and who resided in Marylebone lane. Here, it appeared, she complained of the violence of the prisoner, and requested Mrs. M'Arthur to accompany her home, and mho did so, and it appeared that the prisoner then renewed his violence towards the deceased, and that he pulled off everything she had apron her person except the bandage that had been tied round her to secure the broken ribs. Mrs. M'Artbur was frightened and left the house, and for • short time it appeared that quiet wan restored, but at • late hour of the same night the other lodgers in the house were disturbed by cries of " Murder," and one of the witnesses knocked at the prisoaer's door, but could riot obtain admi lion, and she heard the sound of blows, and the prisoner exclaimed, " Halloo, halloo, hello° again if you can. Almost at the same moment the toned of a blow was heard, and thee all was silent. Os the following morning the prisoner told the persons in the home that he was afraid that his wife wearied, oast upon them going into his room, they discovered that the discerned was lying upon a sofa and quite dead. Upon a post mortem examination being made it sus discovered that the unhappy woman bad re ceived considerable injuries ea different parts of her person, bet the immediate care of Melt Ina an injury to the heed , which had produced as estramation of blood upon the brain, and this injury was alleged to have been received by the violence of the prisoner. With referenee to this point, however, Mr. Mason, the surgeon who was examined, stated it answer to • question put by Mr. Ribton in cross-exami nation, that the injury in question was of such • character that it was equally attributable to • fall as to • blow. It also appeared that the prisoner had repeatedly complained of the woman brArthur eoooeraging the deceased to go to her house and inducing her to drink ; and that when the prisoner was taken into custody he declared that all be had done upon the day in question was to endeavour to prevent hi wife from having the hones when she was in • state of intoxication, and that the charge had been made against him out of spite. It also appeared that the coroner's jury by whom the matter was fully investigated returned a ver dict of manslaughter only against the prisoner. Mr. Ribton, in the course of a very powerful speech to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, urged that the evidence that bad brae e given by some of the witnesses for the prose cution had evidently been very much exaggerated, and he contended that, even supposing the ntatementsthat had been made by them to be substantially correct, it was clear that when this unfortunate occurrence took place both the par ties were excited by liquor, and that • violent struggle took place between them, which unhappily resulted in the death of the deceased. There was, however, be said, no premedi tation on the part of the prisoner, and he submitted that the coroner's jury had come to the right conclusion when they decided that the case wee one of manslaughter only. He said, however, that he was in • condition to produce evidence to show that on the day in question this un fortunate woman was in a state of intoxica tion, and that she had fallen out of • cab and her bead came in contact with the road with great violence ; and if the jury should be of opinion that the fatal injury had been occasioned by this fall and not by any violence that was used towards her by the prisoner, be maid they would be justified in acquitting him altogether upon the present charge. Several witnesses were examined for the defence, and from the evidence that was gives by them, it appeared that on the day in question the deceased woman was drunk, and that she was riding about in • cab, with her hair hang ing loose over her shoulders, and • crowd of boys follow ing her and hooting after her. It was also proved that a woman, who was not, however, positively identified as being the deceased, on the day the occurrence was represented to have taken place, was seen to fall out of • cab on to her head ; sad it likewise appeared that when the deceased was drunk she was constantly in the habit of throwing herself upon the ground sad screaming " Murder," although no one was touching her or making um of any violence toward. her. It was likewise stated that when the deceased was in this condition she was exceedingly violent and difficult to manage, and that she was a tall powerful woman, and that she was iu the habit of challenging the prisoner to fight and the latter was described by several witneses who had known him a great maoy years as a good-tempered, well behoved man. Mr. Justice Byles having summed up the whole of the evidence with very great care rind impartiality, the jury retired to deliberate upon their verdict. They were not absent more then ten minutes when they returned and gave& verdict of manslaughter, which they accompanied by • statement that it was their opinion that the act bad been committed under circumstances of greet provocation. In answer to a question put to them by the learned judge, the jury also said that they were not able to express an opinion whether the fatal injury was received by the de clined by a blow, or by • fall while she and the prisoner were etru=ling together. The learned judge said he would consult Mr. Justice Keating before he passed sentence, William Davis. 37, shoemaker, was charged with the manslaughter al John Redford, the younger. Mr. Daly prosecuted. The facts of the ease have recently been given. It lip peered that tie the 11th of September the deceased, who writhe worse for liquor, was fighting with • man named M`Donald, in Priecesatreet. Leicester-square, and the latter ma away and said he had had enough. The deceased fol lowed hint, but was unable to overtake him, and he then went up so the prisoner and struck him, and • fight took place between them. During the struggle it appeared that the prisoner knocked the deceased down,and his head came is contact with the kerb stone, and he received an injury ef which he died very shortly afterwards. The jury returned • verdict of Not Gadfly. NEW COI7RT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) gums Arler, aged 28, spinster, was indicted for the raid murder of her male i n f ant c h i ld . . . --- Yr. Lilley 000 ducted the prosecution ; and Mr. Sleigh, with whom was Mr. F. H. Lewis, appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner, who it an ioterestioplookiug young woman, , sad astred to suffer the most intense mental was a llo wed to remain seated in the dock supported by one of the female warders of the prison. Mr. L;lley basing detailed the circumstaoces of the case, which were of a very painful character, proceeded to call the following witnesses. Ellen Emma Chapped deposed that she was a servant to Y. and Madame Otto Ooldschmidt, of Argyll-lodge, Putney. and the priemser was at the time of this occurrence a fellow servant On the morning of the 14th of July last !Use int nem'. attention was attracted to the prisoner, who was ' taken ill in their bedroom. When she saw her he prisoner wee lyiug on the bed, and she asked witness to get her • bottle of water. She did so, and the prisoner fainted, and tapes her recovery she asked her what was the matter with her. She replied that she did sot know, but thought she mat have caught • cold. Witness bed never suspected that the prisoner was in the family way; and then witness entered late a description of certain appousooes she saw in the bed room, aid also in the water closet, which are uufit for ; and on this her master, M. Ouldschmidt, was commu nicated with. In inly to Mr. Sleigh, the witness said the prisoner was a very well-conducted end kindly disposed young woman. M. Otto Goldsehmidt was next examined, and proved that the prisoner had been in his service for some time, and that when he was celled into the bedroom he found ber dressed and lying on the bed, apparently very ill. He asked her what was the matter and what ailed her, and she said " Nothing." He then found a letter, in consequence of which he put some questions to her in the presence of Ma dame Guldschmidl, and then required her to leave the room. The letter referred to some appointment to go out, which the prisoner bad put off, alleging a reason which be knew to be notate. Re then ;OW to her that it must corns to light and that it must tome out, slid he asked her for the keys of her bone. of which them were two in the room. After some heeitetioe the primer gave him the keys, sad co %berths( the key that would epee nee of the boxes the said to him. "In that box you will find a child's body." He then diroated the box to be taken into his study, sod asst for Dr. Wines, who came, and the box on being opened was found to eoutain some towels belonging to the house an ass bundle, and is another bundle, composed of some ideates batmen to the primer, was found the bodj e oL: eery floe folklore male child. The towels and woe all stained, as though they had been wed and wore at a roost essineeseet. olice. The witness subsequently gave I te Gra p t i r tius sply ts Ir. Sleigh the witness said that the prisoner ter a reseritably good-tempered sad well-disposed young WORM ter Ada. al re l metropolitan polios-etatio• nt tbo 100 ad bon callad to the bore ot sad UM* feud tbe bad , / al tie add r doeseilud. Es moombed bar beer but lord ao baby and is reply to tie qamoiooo she esid elm bed sot pm prod any. 21mo wire= was thou removed to re lalneasy, THE EXPEESS, at the Wandsworth workhouse, where ale remained until she was sufficiently recovered to be sent for trial. Dr. Wiles was the next witness, and he proved that be bad been sent for on the day io question to the residence of M. Goldschmidt, and on his arrival that gentleman gave Lira the key of a box, is which on being opened were found two bundles, one containing a quantity of linen stained with blood, a nd the other containing the dead body of a male infant child, wrapped up in some article of female clothing. The body war that of a fine, full-grown male child, and be observed that blood bad flowed from the right nostril, and woe remaining on the part of the bead and face. The lower part of the body was very pale, but the upperpart, from the chest to the crown of the head, was livid and of a dark purple colour. There was no abrasion or wound ex terually. He returned the body into the box and looked it again, and told M. Goldschmidt to communicate with the authorities. He was then intro- duced by Mr. Goldschmidt to the chamber of the prisoner, whom he found lying on the bed. He saw that she was very pale, and when he felt her pulse be found that she wee in a very exhausted state and directed that she should go to bed. At this time there was not the least sign of de lirium or wandering. From the appearances he saw in the room, and her cooditioo, he was convinced that she had been recently delivered of a child. He afterwards made an examination of the body of the child, and found • bloody serum on the utak, and clots of blood on both the parietal bones. The substance of the brain was healthy and un• injured. On examining the chest he found the lung of a pale may colour, fully expanded and overlapping the pen cerdium on both sides, awl from that examination his judg ment was that the child had been born alive and had breathed freely. On makicig an incision from the cheat op to the throat, he found an internal severance where there ought to be none, and this induced him to examine the mouth of the child, and on looking into the back of the mouth he found that the soft arches of the palate were torn, and that the mucous membrane was detached from its connection with the right jaw. He then laid the neck open and found all the parte, including the trachea, the jugular vein, the carotid artery, and all the muscles of the neck, bisected. MI these were not in a natural, but in an ab normal state. The appearance he discovered could only be produced by thrusting something, such as • jagged stick, down the throat with great violence. In his judgment, the cause of death was the injury done to the throat. The body was that of a very healthy child. In his cross-examination by Mr. Sleigh, the witness ad mitted that it was • common occurrence for • child to breathe during the process of parturition, and before it came into the world and was detached from the body of the mother. He had known instances of • child to my out during the process of its birth. On re-examination by, Mr. Lilley, the witness repeat 4 that from the rosy appearance of the lusts the child bad breathed freely, and had been bore alive, but had died from the injuries to the throat. This closed the evidence in support of the use for the prosecution. Mr. Sleigh then addressed • most feeling and impressive a pooch to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, contending that the medical evidence, on which alone the prisoner could be convicted, was based upon theories and hypotheses which were not supported by science or facts. The question was this, was the child born alive? In this the case was ear rounded by improbabilities, and though the evideace had been abundant in quentity . it was different in quality. There wee • suggestion about • jagged stink having been seen, bat no such instrumeat bad been found, and he submitted es his suggestion that the injuries to the mouth and throat which bad been described were far more likely to have arisen from the unhappy prisoner, in the agony of self-delivery, having inserted her finger into the mouth, to assist nature in bringing into the world the infant of whose being she was the author. Of course, he could not reeirt the fact that there had been a concealment of birth ; and the learned counsel coocloded an impusioried appeal by calling on the jury to acquit the prisoner of the capital charge, and to convict her of the minor offence to which he had alluded. _ _ . Yr. Justine Keating summed up the case with great minuteness and awe. The jury retired, and after an absence of a quarter el an hour, returned into court with a verdict acquitting the msoner of murder but finding her Guilty of concealing the birth of the child. Mr. Justice Keating expressed his concurrence in the verdict, and sentenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for fifteen calendar months ; the bard labour to be such as was oonsiateot with her state and condition. Adelaide Cole, 30, married. was indicted for the wilful murder of her son, Charles Cole. Mr. Bibtes and Mr. Winton appeared for the prosecu tion ; sod Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence adduced on behalf of the prosecution, that the prisoner was the wife of Mr. Cole, • re spectable cabinet maker, living in Brunswick place, City road, and that on the 7th of August last she was seas by her nurse and female servant to take the deceased boy, who was only fifteen months old, upstairs, and in a few momenta to come down alone. The domestics observing there was j blood on her hands, and also that there was a slight wound on her own throat, immediately went upstairs, it'd in the back bedroom found the body of the child quite dead, lying on ita side on the floor with its throat cut from ear to ear. Blood was still flowing. In cross-examination it was elicited f rore these witneesee that the prisoner had for a long time been in ill health. and that she wee very despondiog, noder religions delusions, ima gining that she was infested by evil spirits, that though she prayed her prayers were not listened to, that she should die and leave her children (of whom she was passionately . . food) unprotected in the world. . - Dr. Rogers, who had attended the prisoner, corroborated this evidence. and expressed sa his opinion that the delu sions under which she laboured had resulted in homicidal monomania, and that at the time the act with which she was charged was committed she was incapable of distin guishing between right and wrong. After an able address to the jury by Mr. Sleigh on behalf of the prisoner, and a careful summing up by Mr. Justice Keating, the jury Acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and the learned judge directed her to be detaioed in custody during her Majesty's pleasure. On the applicaticn of Mr. Beet, the trial of Robert Cooper, charged with the wilful murder of Anne Jane Ben ham, was postponed until the next 'Woe ; Mr. Clark and Mr. Beasley, who appeared for the crown, not oppouiag tG application. THIRD COURT. (Before Thomas Chambers, Esq., Q.C., Common Serjeant) Edward Heron M'Cabe pload o id e g uilty to an indictment charging him with uttering a f cheque for 5/. 11M. Mr. Roweon prosecuted, and r. Sleigh defended. It appears that the prisoner was mepeotably connectedfand was in distreis, and had separated from his wife, who had obtained a warrant against him for not maintaining her, and he, to prevent the consequences, bad signed a cheque in the name of a gentleman named Wilson, in whose service be bad been about two and a half years ago. The Common Serjeant sentenced the prisoner to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. Auguste Tortural, 26, ehopman, and Adrien Brun, 26, shopnien, were indicted for stealing • watch and chain, value lAt., the property of Charles White, in hie dwelling house. Mr. Paton prosecuted. the prosecutor ia a watchmaker and jeweller in Great Portland-street, sod upon the 25th of last month the pri soner Brun came into his thou and asked to look at some watches. He was shown some, and said they would not suit him, and went away, but came again on the 27th ult., in company with the other prisoner, and made a selection of • watch, which he requested the prosecutor to time for him. The prisoners then left, but returned the next day, sod eked to be shown some gold chains. Brim selected one, and asked the prosecutor to write down the price of it. At that time both the watch end chain were lying on the counter, and the prosecutor was about to do what he had been requested, when one rf the prisoners (he believed Brun) threw into his eyes something like salt and pepper, and seizing the watch and chain be and the other plumes ran out of the shop together. The prosecutor, however, ran out into the street, and after • hard chime overtook the prisoner Tortuml, end al terwards• the prisoner Bran, and gave both into custody. On the road the prosecutor raw Brun throw the watch away, and he (r ragecutor) picked it up. The prisoners when taken pleaded distress. The prisoners were both convicted, and severally un tamed to four years' penal servitude. FOURTH COURT. (Before the Recorder.) ThomaA Reran, 30, clerk, pleaded guilty to an indict/um charging him with stealing a cheque for 1,0001. Mr. Orridge prosecuted, end Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prisoner. The facts of the case, it will be recollected, were these. The prisoner wan chancery clerk to Mesas. Withal!, of Bedford-row, and had been so for 13 years, and the cheque in question, with another for 3004, OD which an indictment wu out premed, came from the Court of Chancery. It ap peered that the prisoner had given 2501. in money to a woman of the name of Louisa Tester, 1501. of which was found oe her and restored. . _ The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to three years' penal sernitude. THE POLICE COURTS. MANSION-HOUSE. R. ifocdoesa/d, • drama's is Ilse service of MONTI. Barclay and Co., was brought up on remand, charged with furiously driving, to the common danger of the public. end driving against the cart of James Bryant, • butcher, resid ing is Wal worth, and throwing him out of his cart, thereby seemly injuring hint Mr. Lewis appeared for the defendant. Upon the last examination the complainant was unable to attend, from the severe nature of the injuries he had re ceived, and he appeared yesterday with his arm in • sling. It appeared that on the afternoon of the 9th instant the complainant wu driving a horse with • cart over London bridge, when be heard the smack of a whip, and on turning round saw the defendant's bona trotting at the rate of about ten miles an hour, and the defendant appeared to be is an omnibus. He tried bp m the omnibus, sad is so drove spinet the mmpUissat's mil, whisk Mtn out into tberosd, sad thewbeel of ibe dray went mar his shoulder, and the injuries be had receiv.l were sash that be bad been is the hosoitsi ever slain. Several , .1110111SIVATi :EVENING, SEPTEMBER :25, 1862. witnesses stated that they saw the defendant ruing with the omeibus, and urging his horses on so as to get in advance of the omnibus, and one witness fearing, from the reckless manner in which the defendant was driving, that there would he an accident, followed Lim up and witnessed the whole occurrence. Yr. Lewis said the defendant's version of the matter was that the driver of the omnibus drove hie wheel against one of the defeadeut's boreal, which caused the hone to start forward, and that was the cause of the complainant being I knocked out of the cart. Be hoped his lordship would not prejudice his client by convictiog hint in any penalty, as he understood the complainant was going to take the matter before another court, for the purpose of obtaining compensa tion for the injuries he had received. Hu Lordship said two or three witnesses had distinctly swore that the defendant was urging his horses forward to get in advance of the omnibus. It was his duty to protect the public against such outrageous conduct, and he should five the defendant 40e. That was all be had the power to inflict, and he could not think of mitigating it; infect, he thought the fine of 54 would be hardly heavy enough for the offence the defendant had committed. The defendant paid the fine. admit him isltd the plies, 'maim had her sospiaimmaboat him. On the previous evening he called again and demanded to be admitted into Mr. Amim's rooms. Witness of course refused him, aid he went away. About heli port tou at night she wan alarmed at bearing some one attempting to open the street door. She descended and heard the nabs repeated. Wit ness then threw up • window and saw the prisoner leave the door. Au hour afterwards she was roused up by bearing a smashing of glass. She iontootly jumped out of bed mail looked agaiu out of the window ' when she saw the prisoner drop from the balcony into the front garden. She called out Harder" and " and about 12 o'clock she mew the prisoner in custody. Witness found that the hatch had been broken, and a piece of skeleton key was inside. One of the drawing-room windows was also broken, so that the window could be lifted up. Three shirts belonging to Mr. Arnim were missed. Poliosooonstable 228 31 said he received information of the occurrence, and • little before 12 o'clock he found the prisoner in the Roebuck Tavern. He denied having been at the prosecutor's house at any time in the night. When at the station-house witness found a bunch of small keys and skeleton keys under the seat where he was seated. One of the keys was broken, and the piece was in the latch in the prosecutor's door. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he was quite innocent, and knew nothing whatever of the keys produced by the constable. At the time mentioned by Mrs. Stock. ham he was at the Three Stags public-house, Kennington road. Mr. Combo inquired whether the prisoner was known to Mr. Arnim. The constable replied that be believed he was partially known to him, as they were countrymen, but Mr. Arnim had given orders that he should not be admitted into his room during his absence. Two young men from the Three Stags public-house stepped forward, and said that at 11 o'clock on the previous night the prisoner was at that house. He was keeping cow. ;say with the daughter. Mr. Combs observed that the finding cf the keys under the seat in the station- house, the broken part of one being in the latch, made the case very strong against the prisoner. It was requisite that Mr. Arnim should be present, there fore be should remand the prisoner until Saturday next. The prisoner asked if his worship would accept bail for his appearance. Mr. Combo replied in the negative. He must be remanded to prison. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY (LIMITED). Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the oseepsoy was held at the London Towers, to receive • report from the directors and • state ment of the revenue eseount for the half-year gad* 30th June. The report and statement of account' have already been published in our columns. Mr. F. J. Law, the chair man of the company, presided, and having explained that the meeting was not one of the ordinary general meetings contemplated by the deed of iecorporaion, which provided that • report and staten.eut of accounts should be aonually Lid before the proprietors, but an extra or half-yearly meeting held in accordance with a wish expressed by the shareholders to receive an ad inttrint report of the progress of the company for the six months since the date of the last annual report, he proceeded to say that never since he had had the honour of occupying the chair bad be met them with more agreeable feedings. They had now arrived at a state of solidity and steadfastness which could not but be gratifying to every shareholder. They bad rime, in a very brief period, from a position of extreme poverty to ow of independence and comparative affluence. (Hear, hurl They had paid off since the last year 37,5001. in the drama loans and other extraordinary liabilities. They hod added 718 to their stock of horees,and they hod 50 additional omni buses, representing 27,2001. value in addition, making, toge ther, 64,7001. as the amount at which they stood better than they did on the Ist January last. (Cheers.) No doubt they were indebted, to some extent, for this favourable re sult, to the Great Exhibition, but not entirely so, the re turn for the months of January, February, March and April having shown an increase of 13,6681. as compared with the corresponding mouths of previous years, affording. as he submitted, satisfactory proof of permanent improve- meet, irrespective of any exceptional cause. (Hear, bear.) Another favourable feature in the present position of their affairs was that while there was an increase in their receipts of 16,7871. upon the half-year, the expen diture had been 7,280/.lese than in the corresponding period of 1861. (Hear, hear.) Generally it was found in railways and other companies that increase in the receipts was ac ca:ruled with at least • proportionate addition to the ex penditure ; but it was not so here, the additional revenue having been obtained with a positive diminution of charge. This result had been brought about in some measure by the reduced price of horse provender, upon which a saving of 9,0001. had been effected during the half-year, and other reductions, 4,0001. odd, which they bad been enabled to make is favour of the present year, amounting aitegethee to 13,728. The directors had in their report of last year spoken of a project they had is sow templatios for • parcels service in connexion with their omnibuses. No expense had been incurred in carrying out that project at yet beyond the charge of showboards, eta tiotaery, and advertisements. It was, nevertheless, in course of gradualdevelopment ; 120 portals oflices,bid been opened, but the remuneration of the agents depended entirely upon the business they did, the payment to them being so much per parcel. At present the grew receipts from this service were from 151. to 201. a week. After the close of the Exhi bition more attention would be given to this source of revenue, and it was anticipated that it would yield an ade quate return. Theadlrectors spoke last year of a contemplated cheap in the system of lighting. That change had now beet carried i to effect, and the consequence was that an item which in a previous account stood at 9981. ss. Id., had entirely dis appeared, the present system being that the conductors found their own Lampe. There was an item for law charges consequent upon the necessity which the directors found themselves under of resisting unfounded claims against the company for compensation. The practice of speculative &Morose taking up cases of imaginary injury, in the coufi donee that the natural objection felt by public companies to appear in court as defeodante io such actieus would lead to a compromise which would secure paynient of costa, had grown to each • pitch that the directors felt it their duty to meet it with a bold front, and this determination on their part bad been so far rewarded that at this moment the London General Omnibus ,Congany had not a single lawsuit on their bands. (Cheers.) At thelast meeting the board pro posed a dividend of L. a share ; their recommendation had, however, been overruled by the French influence repre sented at the meeting, which had carried an amendment increasing the dividend to Is 6d. a share. The shilling dividend was proposed free of income tax, and the directors, feeling that it would be expected that the same principle would be applicable to the increased dividend, paid that also without deducting the tax. This nude a difference of 4741. 7s. 9d. in the Wa ltham. The board bad recently made a purchase of Messrs. Greenwood aid Tamer's stock of Manchester omni buses, which they considered a wise step, as obviating the possibility of that stock being bought up by other parties and made the nucleus of what might have become a formi dable oompetition. For the entire stock of 20 omnibuses, 258 horses, stalk materials, sod the whole of the working plant, 10,1581., and it had been valued by compe tent parties at 10,0001., so that for • trifle more than the selling vales they had obtained of the complete stock, with • guarantee rro a rt ' a b e vendor. that they would retire permanently from the Lon don trade, and in addition they received the profit' of the ' working of those omnibuses from the Ist of September. Since last year he was happy to say that the directors had been enabled to make considerable program' towards the re duction of their liabilities. At the present moment the logo debt was under 20,0001., and they bad a batmen at the banker's more than sufficient to clear that off, if it was thought desirable to do so ; but hav ing paid off 60,0001 of these loans, or extra ordinary liabilities, the directors thought it right to retain the balance in hand towards the ensuing dividend. (Hear, bear.) Steps were being taken, by memorialiaing the Chaucellor of the Exchequer, for reducing tee mileage duty, which was felt to be • very onerous, and, as compared with the charge imposed upon railway congeries, • very unjust burden. (Hear) Another impost which weighed heavily upon the company was the turnpike toll, but the directors were co-operating with several members of parlia ment and other influential persons, and they hoped with every prospect of success, to bring about the abolition of all turnpike tolls within four miles of Charing cross. Be was happy to tell them that the long-pending cause between them and the late Saloon Company was at length drawing to • close. The arbitrator had intimated that his award would be reedy on the 25th, and he had no reason to doubt that it would be favourable to this com pany. The horse stock of the company bad never been in a better condition, their omnibuses were largely increased in number, and at no period since their establishment had the directors been enabled to show so much value for the capital expended. (Cheers.) Sinister rumours had bee put forward to the effect that the sward in the mina omnibus case would destroy them ; but be bad no fear oa that score, neither did he believe in the anticipations of unfavourable results to their traffic from the opening of the Metropolitan Railway. So far as his experience went, railways always created omnibus traffic, and his belief was that the case of the Metropolitan would be no exception to the general rule. Mr. S. HEREPATE complained that the accounts now pre sented were nut so complete as the annual accounts. The CHAIRMAN replied that the understanding was that only a revenue account was to be presented at the half-yearly meeting. Mr. Hrn?ATH bad distinctly understood that the direct ton at the last annual meeting assented to the suggestion that a full account should be presented at the hall-yearly meeting, so that the proprietors should have the opportu nity of compariug the mileage receipt' and charges with those of the previous half -y ear. He questioned the wisdom of the directors in purchasing the Manchester omnibuses and plant just at the close of the Exhibition, when the probabi lity was that there would be little or no demand for them. The enamour' observed that they had paid only within a few pounds of what competent valuers ad estimated the worth of the vehicles, horse., and plant, in addition to which they had bad the profits of working the omnibuses from the let September, and had bought off what might have become a very formidable competition. He reminded the meeting of the expense to which the company had been put by the competition of the Saloon Company as an addi• timed justification of the purchase. A SHAREHOLDER asked what was the average note at which they had paretissed the homes of the Manchester Company. The CHAIRMAN—Twenty-four pounds ten shillings each. The SHARAHOLDDR—And what is the average cost of your own stock of bones? The CHAMlNAN—Tweaty4ix pounds, and those we have from the Manchester Company are trained runs ' s, hi ti l d therefore more useful to us than horses just brought from the country. Mr. LINGHTON, as a private omnibus proprietor, was of opinion that the directors had acted wisely in purchasing the stock of the Manchester company. If they lied not, he believed that the Manchester buses would have been placed upon the Hornsey line, where now they had no competition. Twenty-four pounds ten shillings was a low average price for the horses. Mr. Bosasqnwr also approved of the purchase, adding that it would enable the directors to meet the complaint that they had Dever fulhlled their pledge of introducing an improved description of vehicle. Several other shareholders expressed a similar opinion. A SRARLHOLDNR wanted to know how it was, with such im;roved prospects, that the shares were going down in the market. Mr. S. HEREPATH observed that that wen easily explained, by the fact that the French proprietors were, sod bad been for some time, large sellers in the English market. In reply to questions, The CHAIRMAN said they bad money enough in band to pay off the whole of their extraordinary debts, if the share holders desired that it should be appropriated in that way, instead of dividend. All ordinary debts were paid as they accrued—not one farthing was due to horse dealers or to anybody else for stook or forage, and their meets bad at DO previous time presented so high a value, as compared with the capital represented. The total ea Teary liabilities were under 20,0001., and they had in the bands nearer 25,0001. than 20,0001., after all ordinary were paid. The debt due by M. Carteret, oge e = French directors, was still unpaid, but his fete as • director were regularly written off, and there was emery reason to believe that he would soon be in a pewhioa to pay the balance, which Mr. Wilkiama, the sebil added hs Meow It. Carteret was sexless to do. The ware not responsible for Y. Carteret's =Ew e : mil as • member of the baud. the shairebolders **A ; and were Its sow removed another Fresh sad he appoiatei in his piths. - Mr. MACNAMARA &mete) had every soaddisaat that ultimately the whole et the debt in viatica wool be prat. After some farther discussion upon enimportout detailA, a vote of thanks was accorded to the chairmau, sod the proceeding. terminated, it haring been expleinedl that the meeting being en extraordion:y one, not prorld.•d for by the deed of settinuamt, the usual fennel vute Adopting the report was not to be suboaillei. RAILWAY OPPICIRS AND SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION. The first half-yearly meeting of this aasociation was held yesterday evening at the Cogs Hotel, Aldernian bury. The institution was established in May last for the purpose ad giving assistance, by means of members' 'cheerio. dos aided by benevolent oontributions, to railway officials in periods of difficulty and distress. It embraces amongst those to whom it addresses itself a class not hitherto cared for by any similar auomatiou—namely, the lower grades of railway employ,* stated in round numbers to include 150,000 nom ; and in addition to superannuation alkwaoces aid temporary aid in rases of accident and okaying', it pro. posse to establish a turd for the payment of a certain sum upon the death of subscribing members. The meeting was presided over by Mr. W. DTI% of the Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast Hallway, who briefly explained the objects of the society, and urged upon those present its claims to their support. He stated that at in. fluential meetinv of railway officials held recently in New. castle and Edioburgh, the principles of the emaciation had been unanimously and warmly approved of. The report, which wee read by the secretary, Mr. J. A. BURN, referred to some delay which bad taken place in drawing up the rules, but stated that the time had not been lost, inasmuch as it had enabled the committee to elicit at public meetings held in different parts of the kingdom opinions favourable to the principles of the emaciation from the employes of the London, Brighton, and South Coast, the South Eastern, the London and South Western, the London, Chatham, and Dover. the Great Eastern, the Newcastle and Carlisle, the North British. and other railway oompsniea. No less than 34:!./. bad been received up to the 30th of Jun* the close of tl half-year's accounts, with promises for hundreds of pourida more, and since that time a much larger aumber of mem. berg had been enrolled than before. A few applications had beep made for temporary assistance, each of which had been so promptly and liberally responded to that additiorod support had in oonsequenos been secured. The permeate up to the Mho( Joe amounted to 2401., leaving a lelance in bend of 1021. Se. Mr. WALLIS expressed as opinion that more confideke would be felt in the 'pokey if its rules were certified by ILL lidd Pratt. The (Mammas said that that point had not escaped the attention of the committee, bat he thought it would to better if aay decision upon it were deferred till the next half•yearly meeting. The SacarrAuy doubted whether their association wax if that description which would bring it under Mr. Tidd Pratt's notice. The report was then adopted, and votes of thanks having been accorded to the committee of management, the secre tary. and the other officers of the association, The meeting separated. GUILDHALL. Leopold Shake, a foreigner, who described himself as • couiruSion agent, was brought up for final examination on the charge of feloniously uttering a forged order for the delivery of goods to the value of 2001., and with conspiring with one Henry Cowen, who has since fled the country, to defraud the Tess Woollen Company, of Barnard's Castle, in the county of Durham, of goods to the value of 3,0004 Mr. Lewis, jun., conducted the prosecution. Mr. L. C. Lumley, of the firm of Lumley and Lumley, attended for the Tees Woollen Company ; Mr. Beard, for creditors of Cowen, the absconding bankrupt ; Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan. appeared on behalf et Mr. Venable' ; Mr. Orridp, instructed by Mr. Michael Abrahams, attended for Messrs. Spielmann and Co. Mr. Wavell, from Stubbs' Trade Protection Offices, and Mr. Pocock, from the Merchants' and Traders' Association, watched the proceedings on behalf of subscribers. Alderman Bose said he had given the best attention be could to the case, and he felt he should not be doing his duty if he did not send it for a jury to decide. It was urged that the prisoner was a servant, and had no guilty knowledge of these transactions; but he was found, according to the evidence, to have been sell ing the goods on the 13th of August, and on the following day in company with Cowen, the two representing that the goods were still wider their own control at the packer's, and offering to give Mr. Walker oontrol over them by an order on the packer, well knowing that they bad already been disposed of to Mr. Venable". He ulti mately dictated a letter in which he makes the clerk state that there hie been a delay in the delivery of those identical gosh in Paris, and when apprehended he at first denied all knowledge of them, and then said he supposed they had been shipped. Ueda, all the circumstances, he could only come to the concision, Cowen having escaped, that the prisoner, who was about to leave this country, in tended joining Cowan, to share in the proceed:Bo' these fronds, and he, therefore, bad no hesitation in committing him to take his trial for uttering a forged receipt and for conspiring with Cowen to obtain the good' and to defraud the Tees Woollen Company. Mr. Beard said every exertion had been made by the cre ditors, but they could not ascertain any club to Cowen's whereabouts at present. The prisoner was then committed for trial. Ball refused. We ail, requested by Mr. Walker to state that lie wan misunderstood in the last examination. He did not mean to say that the Tees Woollen Company sold goods below their invoice prices, as it was contrary to their practice to sell otherwise than upon the usual recognised trade terms for cub. WESIIIINSI'KEL. George Gardner was finally examined, charged with steal ing two shoulders of lamb, a quantity of hem, and some beef, from the refreshment department, International Exhibition, the property of Messrs. fiforrith and Co. The prisoner was observed, on the 18th inst., to be very bulky on leaving the building, where he was engaged as porter in ?dews. Morrish's employ, and on being searched the property in question was found on him. On his being brought before the magistrate he endeavoured to account for the possession of the meat by saying • man named Lockwood had given him the ham (which Lockwood denied), and that the other meat bad been given him by two of the cutters, and the case was remanded for the attendance ot sonic one from the refreshment department. Yesterday Mr. John Bertram, manager to Mean'. Mor. rich and Co., attended, and in answer to Mr. Aroold's in quiries, mid that it was distinctly understood in the build ing that nothing whatever was to be given away ; and, in order to impress this more fully upon the men in their em ploy, the following caution had been posted up : " Oantion.—John Taylor, • porter in our employment, was this day committed for one mouth to the House of Cor rection for stealing one pound and • half of tea, which be was carrying away in his pockets. The magistrate, T. J. Arnold, Eq., stated that if a similar case were brought be fore him he would indict the highest penalty, viz., three months with bard labour.—(Signed), F. E Morrish and Co., itefreehment Department, Exhibition Building, South Kensington, July 8, 1862." The refreshment contractors (Mr. Bertram continued) put these bills up every time they obtained • conviction. They were obliged to be very careful, having • staff of something like 1,100 men. Prisoner bad great facilities for stealing meat, as he was employed to remove it. Defendant declared that the men be spoke of had given him the meat for his supper. Mr. Bertram observed that the men had enough and to spare for all their meals. Mr. Arnold remarked if the defendant's amount of bow be got the meat were true, which be did not believe, still it was evident that he bad acted moat dishonestly, obtaining one lot of meat from one man, another lot from • second, and so on, concealing the fact that he bad received any before. He should convict him for the unlawful possession of the meat, and sentenced him to two mouths' imprison ment. A German, who gave the name of "John Smith." but wham real name subsequently turned out to be JoAnne Schmidt, a native of Mayence, was charged with stealing a ily of loegeloth, a cap, and some collars from the International Exhibition. Sarah Dirobledey, who bad charge of several cases in the Freech gallery, was last night covering up the things pre vious to leaving the building, when she saw the prisoner lurking about in a very suspicious manner. She watched him and saw him take the roll of cloth produced (a specimen of St. Quentin manufacture), double it up, and putting it under his coat, walk away. She pursued him, and seizing him by the collar, said, " Young man, give imp back that cloth, it's my master's property." He said nothing, but gave it up, and calling a policemen, she gave him in charge. Monsieur Henri Leseneur said be was the representative of several French departments in the International Exhibi tion, and had under his charge upwards of 20,0004 worth of property. Articles were constantly diaappearing from the French Court, and these were under his charge. The evidence having been interpreted to the prisoner, who said he knew nothing whatever about the affair, he was remanded for a week. WORf3HIPSTREET. Sarah Hayti/toe. a notorious was placed at the bar before Mr. Cooke, and charg ed having robbed an unknown person. There was no prosecutor present, the accuser Lavin/ died suddenly immediately after preferring the charge spinet the rimier. William Heaton, Policeman 407 N, stated that about four o'clock that morning, in Mount-place, City-mad, he found the primmer in altercation with a moos, who on the approach of witness gave her in chorea for robbing him of his puree, containing a sovereign, • half-crown , and • railway ticket. The man, who was not sober, was in a violent rage, and witness advised him not to give way to such excitement, bat shortly afterward' be fell down apparently dead, and • medical man who was sent for found life to be quite extinct. The witness, in reply to the magistrate's questions, said be found in the coat pocket of the deceased a purse now produced, but quite empty, and there was nothing what ever to afford a clue to his name or address. He, however, appeared to be from the country, and charged the prisoner with stealing his railway ticket as well es his money. He seemed to be a man about 60 yews of age. Mr. Cooke remanded the prisoner, and said that her attendance at the coroner's inquest that would in the mean time be held might be secured. /alias negro. • young German, was charged before Mr. Cooke with maliciously inflicting • wound upon Frederick Errington on the night of the 16th inst. Prosecutor, who has previously been unable to attend is court, stated —I am a greengrocer, living at 88, Hackney road. On the evening in question I was near my home, and listening to a German bend, of whom the prisoner formed one. Suddenly he struck me with his fist, and I returned blow for blow ; he then hit me with • knife in his right band. I was taken toe surgeon, and from thence to the London Hospital. By Mr. Cooke-1 had not spoken to him, nor laughed at or jeered him in any way. Ism a stranger to him, and know no motive for the attack upon me. Charles Gullidge, • shoemaker—l was in Londomstreet. Hackney-road. on the 16th instant, shortly after 9 o'clock in the evening, and I saw what I considered • fight between the young men ; they were parted, but got together again, and then I perceived a knife in the prisoner's right heed. It was open, and be struck prosecutor with it on the left side of the throat apparently. I called out, "He has stabbed him." Prisoner said, " I Led no knife in my hand." The knife I saw was like that produced (a penknife). Pri weer was taken into custody. Richard Jones—l picked up the knife now shown close to the spot where I was told that the fight had taken place. Mr. D. Dyte, house surgeon of the London Hospital. said— Prosecutor was brought to me on the night of the 16th inst. with an indeed wound immediately above the collar bone. It was half as nosh is length, and one - third of an inch deer. He has be an in-patient. The knife produced would marks soak a wound. Prisoner offered no defence, and was fully committed for trial. SOUTHWARK, _ A tall gontlernanly.:l;iiiii Young German, named Cori Grmeffe, who described himself as a medical student, was charged with attempting to break into No. 18, Webb's Gounty.terrace, New Kent•road, also with stealing three shirts worth Ms., the property of George Amim. Elira Stook hem mid she lived with her !mama at No. 18, Webb's Oreszt i ria7. A seediness istood t i t wbo was a tto silk merchant and towelor. Um, and occupied tint door. lest week the prima called et the boom to oak for him, but witting ditaltsoi o MYSTERIOUS MURDER AND murnirrom OP I Voilii. Yesterday afternoon Mr. J. Payne resumed an inquiry at the Saracen's Head, Northumrigandalley, Fen church-street, as to the mysterious circumstances attending the death al Elizabeth Gardiner, on the 15th inst. The evidence on the former occasion showed that the de mand, her husband (Samuel Gardiner), and • young woman named Elizabeth Humbler, all resided in thehouse, North umberlaad- +ll6y, apparently on very amicable terms, but it appeared that an intercourse of an improper nature existed between Gardiner and the girl Humbler, who was married to a man of that name. At four o'clock on the morning of the 15th. Gardiner went out to his work, leaving his wife and child asleep, and some short time afterwards the woman Humbler came down from her bed-room, which was at the top of the house, and entered that of Mrs. Gardiner, for the purpose of obtaining a Inciter match to light the fire. Being barefooted, she found something slippery on the floor, and on obtaining • light she discovered Met Gardiner on the door, cloee by the door, with her throat cut entirely roue, and both her hands mangled in • most frightful manner. One of her fingers was cut entirely through, the bone banging by the skin. She was weltering in her blood. and from her appearance it was evident that • deadly struggle bad taken place between her and her assailant, whoever he might have been. She was quite dead, but a little child three years old was calling to her murdered mother. Hum bler picked up the child and went for a policemac. Sergeant Mobtie,wea soon on the spot, and sent for Dr. Sequeira, a surgeon. He speedly arrived, but he found that life had for some time been extinct The body when found was lying ins perfectly horizontal position near the side of the bed, but with the right hand partially bent on the chest, and holding a knife with the sharp edge towards the left side. The husband returned home to his breakfast at about eight o'clock, when he was told by a person who met him at the door that she found his wife was dead this person wee the woman Humbler, upon which he said, "You wretch, you have done this." and she replied, " If you did it, you did it." The medical testimony being rather unastisfactory, a postmortem examination was ordered, which was conducted by several medical men, who now were unanimous that the death of the deceased was one of murder and not of suicide. At the meeting of the jury, yesterday, the following ad ditional evidence was taken : Sergeant Mobta, City police, said he bad made an exami nation of the house on Thursday. the 18th, and found nothing that gave the slightest clue to this affair. The inner room is used as • kitchen, above where the body of the deceased was found, and the room above where Humbler slept. He also examined the cellar and found nothing. On Friday they went again, and Gardiner was in the parlour. He pointed to the window, and Gardiner said, "sloe"—bat did not say who—" opened the window that morning." Witness then saw on the top of the window curtain a 4W, stein of blood, as if touched with the Gager. Witness then opened the window. One shutter was abut and the other was not, and there wee a finger mark of blood on the inside of the shutter that was shut. Gardiner said it was not there the day previous. He then odd, "Upstairs in the bedroom I maw other splashesof blood on the wall." Witness then went up stairs sod found several spots of blood at the had of the bed, likewine on the wall at the side of the bed. The bed was in • recces, and be found the blood on the well. Neer the fort of the bed was a large splash of blood Dearly r large as • man's hand on the walL On the font of the bed stead, at the left-hand earner, standing at the foot, there was the appearance of a large bloody cloth having been dawn across the bedstead. There were two spots of blood on the door near the lock. On • portion of the cornice of the bed, which had been pulled off, and standing at the head of the bed, there was a large splash of clotted blood, not then quite dry. Gardiner was there the whole time. and wetness said neither the wall, cornice, nor bedstead had any blood upon them when they ruched before. They bad searched it three days before most minutely, and there was no blood then. Gardiner said perhaps it might have 001130 from some cloths they cleaned the body with. Witness with his knife cut off the papers from the wall, and took them to Mr. Sequeira, and he gave it as his opinion that they were recent splashes. A desk car there, and Gardiner opened it. Some valentines were in a cupboard that was unlocked. In the top room the witness said be ford a copy of Aristotle's works, and he told Gardiner thatit was not there when he searched before. He said he could not account for it, but they MOWd them selves by yearling it. Gardieer said he believed Humbler bad murdered his wife, u she had to leave, and had threat ened to take her own life before. He rid some time aro he went up to her bed before she was up, and saw • knife sticking between the ledge of • door. He said he took it and asked her what she meant. She said, " Idid not intend you to find me alive." He said be had often seen her sharpening knives on the door-steps sod sink in the cellar, and when asking her what they were for, she has rid, sometimes, " for you," and at other times, " for myself." By the Jury—He had examined the water-olceet. and found nothing. He had examined the staircase, and found no marks of blood on them. No portion of the stairs had been removed sad replaced. By the Coroner—From what Gardiner said he bad no dif ficulty in Endre the spots of blood he alluded to. By • Juror—When he was first ailed to the house he found Humbler and another woman in the room, and be turned them both out. Every article of clothing belonging to the deceased and Gardiner had been easefully examined, and no marks of blood were to be found on them. The cornice on which coagulated blood was found could not have received it while the body was being washed Gardiner said that he had seen Humbler on more than one occasion sharp ening knives. Anthony Wilson Monger, detective officer of the City police, corroborated Sergeant Mobbs as to the search of the house. He added that he told Gardiner that he should like to look at the body, and be did so. Gardiner was with him. Gardiner burst out crying. MA said, "My poor wife has been murdered." Witness asked why he said so, and he replied that she was too feeble sod nervous to do it her self. Witness asked him if he suspected any one com mitting this murder. He aid, "Yes, Elizabeth Humbler." He asked him his rears for suspecting her, sod he said because he bad observed her several times sharpening kens. on the step of the door and sink down stairs. and on several occasions found the knives sticking in the wainscotting. He said be asked her what she meant be having the knife up there, and she said. " To rake your life sod then my own." On another occasion she said, '• To take your life away, Some else, and then my owe." Ou Saturday he went to Gravesend, accompanied by Sergeant Mobbs, and saw Humbler. She was first cautioned, and thee some questions put to her. She denied that Gardiner bad ever taken knives out of her room, sad the only time libe l had spoken to bee about sharpening a knife ou the door step be told her that she was only going outside to show herself to the public. In referesce to the morning when the body wee found, she said she went into Mr. Gardiner's room for a match, and having got a light she saw Mrs. Gardiner, and then she went for • doctor. Humbler said she bad not left her room from seven on Sunday night until half. past seven on Monday morning, when she went down stein to light the fire. The Coroner said at this stage of the preredings, consi dering the very serious aspect the case had wormed, be should order the man Gardiner and woman Humbler to be taken into custody and conveyed before the Lord Mayor. The jury having sat nearly four house, the receedinp were adjourned. (Advartimenbent).—RomowAir's Pau/L.—The bait known lamely.—The autumn htlnert with it leads= or the digestion, lungs, and circulation, causing many unpiessant and some serious symptoms. Holloway's Pills safely and et genially remove 01 imams action, and are the most reliable restore- Una VOW before promoted to the public. They filler all costa minaUons from the blood, renew t h e nervous power so apt to decline at this saver. and through lie Instrumentality rehab and Invigorate nary function and fibre, sad duly regulate every secretion. They vanquish the had effects of dissipation, 46- basebser. sad over satiety. Holloway's Pills are the beg sea broilers of flied , mach, liver. kidne3s, and bowels, and the surest regulators of all the vost organ' apes which hang happiness. Mans, rid eves lb Neill NARIEI'a TALL0W.—W99921909 EVINING.-11a• market Wit Bloody today:-Bpot sad Ileptorabar, 48a. 6d. ; October to Deoseober, 48a. 6d. to 48a. 3d. ; history to Mara, 49a. 3d. Delivery to Let veering, 486 cask' ; arrivals, 1.348 auk& oonoN.—LEvizroot,, Swpr. 24.—We hays littlidoisg fa our market to-day, wittiest obaege in prime. The sales are 1,000 hales, including no Amerman, at 22d. to E9d.; 300 Musk at 17d. to Eld.; 100 Egyptian, at 20d. to 30d; 20 Penmen, at 2bd.; 00 Maranlism, at 25d. to 29d. Of which 600 are for speculation and export. The week's ire. port Is 2,293 bales. - OORN.—Boerolt, Bier. 24.—Our market has been a slow trade at Is. to 2s. lower. Best white, from 00s. to 53t ; red, from 475. to 49a. Oats, 1s lower. Good beans, 44a. litrearronkoir-Tess, SZI•f. St —Mere was a good supply of new wheat at market Ibis morning from the growen ; a law portion of it being in bad condition amused it to hang heavily on band, the beet samples selling at a decline of M. per quarter ; inferior sorts, 35. lower. Barley. g rinding, unchanged. Oats 6d. per quarter cheaper. Beans natl. tered. The price of flour baa been reduced 3. per sack. Imports :—Wheat, foreign, 900 ern Barley, foreign, 2,712 cps. Oats, foreign, 376. CAITLE.—BoirrBALL, Barr. 24.—Trade wee heavy to-day, the butchers haws. • sleek domsod at home. Beef made from 3e. Od. to 4s. 161. ; mutton, 4e. Od. to se. 6d.; lamb, ss. Od. to ss. Bd. ; veal, 441. Od. to 4e. 10d. ; port, 3.. 4d. to 4e. Bd. par stow of 81 be. , sinking the offal. LEATHER AND HlDER.—During the past week and on Tuesday, at Lsadeshall, theirs win a few demand for mast descriptions of goods ; the supplies of fresh leather con. tines about equal to the waste of buyers. The articles mat in request are good mop Mike, about 45lbs. good English and foreign butts, light calf skins, and bestE: 1. kips. Prioes are unaltered. 00AL3.-LownOw, 24.-Bywde Beholds Wen Hartley, 16a. ; Craighead Steam, 13s. 98. • Illlierses Main Meant. 145.; Hutto. Hartley, 16s. ; Holywell Main, 15s. 6d. ; Lambert's West Hartley, He. 98. ; North UWE Gas. 13s. 3d. ; Tsntield Hoer Dates, 13s. •, West Wyk's, 15s. • Wylaw. 16e. 6d. ; Walls End Hadley, 16s. 3d. ;_ Wails End Riddell, me. 134 . • wan, End Bel • amt. les. 3d. ; Walls End Braddyl la Hatton, 17.. 3d.; Walls End Hatton, 18s. 6d. ; Walls End South Helton, 18.. 3d. • Walls End Stewart's, 18.. 3d. ' • Walls End Tun- I stall, 16s.'9d. ; Walls End Oaasop 17s. 3d. ; Walls End Caradoc, 17s. 3d.: Walls End leartlspoel. 16s. ; ; Walls 1 End Haugh Hall , 16e. ; Walls End Menne, 17n 3d.. Walls End South Hartlepool, 17s. ; Walls End South Kellen 17s. 3d. ; Walls End Trimdon Hartlepool, I U. , Walls Bed Whitworth, 111 e. ; Carway and Duffrvn An. thorn* 21s. 6d. ; Carway and Dutiryn Malting, 235. -Ships at market, 96 ; sold, 75. • VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Areline, Hector, from Maiselliss tor Martinique 1.5 dap, of Latepona. Cynosure, from Valencia for Patna, Supt. 4. lat. SS N., lon. 6 E. Hamburg (brit, 'bowing a nag, No. 606, olf Cape Ylnieterre. John Bunyan, trues Wars for Antwerp, Aug. El, off Cape A RAILWAY FOR NORTH SOYIIIIIIIT. —A pubic meeting of all parties favourable to the formation of a narrow gauge railway through North Somerset, thumb) effecting a communication between the illidlisod and South Western systems, wss beld at the Market-hall, blabocer tenon, on Tueeday, and was most onmeroualy and iofluea• tally attended. About 200 of the local gentry, humeri, and principal residents were present. A resolution was passed approving of the project—Wotan Daily Press. IMPORTING Ti, without oolour on the leaf pre- Yenta the Chinese passing off Welly leaves as the use kinds. liornimaa's tea Is uncoloured. therefore oleos good ant. gold by 2 46 0 Agent& —lAtlvertisersent.l BIRTHS, biARR,IAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. BROWN.—September 40, at Nackmanatreet, Southwark, th e wile of R. 6. Brown, Fag., of a daughter. DAVENPORT.—September SO, at Clarendon lodge. Belghtoe the wife of Deputy Commissary-General Darenport, of a daughter. JONAH —Bsptember 21, at Carlisle-terrace, Bandymoant, Doha. the wife of T. Jones, £,q., of a .00. LAURANCL--Beptember Clapluuniark, Surrey. the wife of S. Laurence, req., of a daughter. MONEY.—Beptember 20, at St. Leonard's-on •es, the wife of Captain 0. W. Money, gni Madraa Cavalry, of a um. MOROAN.—geptember SY, at Norwoch, the wife of J. B. Morgan. pßpp• F:al;7l4=neber 40, at Longton. Staffordshlin, the wile of A. Patterson, Esq., of a eon. USUAL —September kO, at Merthyr-Tydfil, Glarnorganaler, the wife of J. Raise% laq., of a daughter. THERR.---4eptember 10, at oath . Devon, the wife of J. H. Tozer, 1106, of a son. MARRIAGES. ARGIER—BRALL—ABAuIther 214 at Folkestone, by the ger. T. Math, Mr. J. of Bankatrest, Maidstone, to Con stance Jams, doughter W. Beale, EN., of Maidstone. HOODWIN—ORZWER.—Reptember 40, at the Coomegstiond Church. Torkatreet, Walworth, by the Rev. P.. 7. Tonotroa. W. Goodwin, lot, of Tryon's-terraos. Recliner. to te c ! . • daughter of the Tate J. Greiner. Fog , of Dotting. HALL—WAlNMAN.—Bepternber 33, at N. George's, ii loo,er. square, by the Rev. C. Hall, J. Hall. Fay.. to Mary An..:13. daughter of W. B. Wahunan, Esq., of Carr-Head, YorloOo n rq• JOHNSON 110111.— September 10, at St. Antie's, II the Rev. 0. A. Rogers, W. Johtwm. Req., of Olsac•. Helen, daughter of T. Buss, E• 11.. of Wiliasbolnuff 3 . Ke a. h Ifi7W N LAD—OLDFlRLD.—fieptember 44, at the punk olfor, of Weatbotwoe, Stamm, by the Rev. J. Sperling, 01 Commander Newland. R.N.. to Alicia. daughter of f OtdOeld, R.H., Commandant Royal Engineers, of ": Lawn, Sumer- DEATHS. BARER. September 21, at Tuscany Villa, Notting MU. M K C Baker, aged 70. CRAW FORD.—September 20. at atrathleven bow, MAW Wilshire, J. Crawford, £.q.. aged 47. CROXYOBI.I.-9eptember 9), at Lluednetreet, Bow, Hr. ( 7 * ford aged 70. DIXON.--deptember 20, at Rochester, Mr. K. Triton. '— seed DY NK--deptember 22. at Calverty.park, Tunbridge...o Mo- MN. Is. 73 . Brae. aged RAlll2.—deptember 22, at Deke4Areet. Bt. Jsale‘s, Kurd. aced 70 11111190N.—ftepttenber 21, at Roundhay, near Leeds, E. Mhos. age d luoisa.—diptembir 20, at Ayleaford, Kent. the Be.. I: 4/ Moak M.A., Viteral Aral. aged 90. 1101217MOIX—Iketmaber t 10 eri , at Cldppenbam, 11, liartinewe. mein. WKITLWIIITL-11aptember 00, at Nattaford Hesse, C isherte„W_ White-White. Km,, aged 42 W(l°D.—dOwl9. /UMW, Mr. H. I. Wood. spa a Mask sad Famished by wna.ur ran mum lamberumost. 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