The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-11 00:00:00

v. " .." minutia, PARLIAMENT. BOMB OF COMMONS. —l l ‘lllla2, AUGUST 10. The followim is a report of the of the f "ftediage Lower Moon to the prceugatice JAMAICA. Mr. MILL asked the Under Secretary for the Colonies whether any further information had been received as to the appeekeessoes which he stated to be entertained by the as Widths in Jamaica of a new outbreak in the °okay sad whether he bad any objection to state more particularly to the house the information which had pre viously beta received on that subject. Dir. ADDKRIABY said that just before the recent debate the affairs of Jamaica, despatches were received, .sem Ulna it appeared that the custom of Metcalfe, who was a member of the government, anticipated the occur- IMMO of disturbances in that parish during the present nsenth. The government bad ascertained from the Admi xing that a considerable naval force was available to meet any each disturbances ; and Sir H. Storks felt no distrust et his ability to suppress any riots which might occur. Ho bad laid upon the table papers which would give the fullest information respecting the affairs of Jamaica up to tie mast recent date. NOTICES OF MOTION. WRECKS. Mr. DIME gave notice that early next amnion he would call the attention of the house to the fearful loss of Eng lish life, and property, which annually occurs off the coast of Ireland, and to the necessity of the establish ment of a harbour of refuge between Kingstown and Waterford. IC: TRADITION TREATIES. Mr. TORRENS gave notice that early next session he would move, " That our existing relations with foreign states regarding extradition are anomalous ancLunsatisface tory and require comprehensive revision." ADMIRALTY ACCOUNTS. Mr. SEELY inquired of the First Lord of the Admiralty whether be would allow the investigation which was agreed ' to be entered upon on the 6th March, 1866, to be continued; so that the correctness of his statements in the house relating to the management of her Majesty's dock yards, and the replies thereto or reports thereon of the Admiralty, as contained in papers 463 and 4&i I, might be amerbdasd. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that he was not aware to what arearneet the hon. gentleman referred. He had looked into Hansard for the 6th of March, and he could End no time of any such agreement. If the hon. gentle man himself desired to go to the office of the Accountant- General and investigate any part of the dockyard expendi tare he should be willing to accede to his wish, and pro mised that every information should be laid before him. But he trusted, indeed he felt sure, that the hon. gentle man wield conduct such an investigation in a fair spirit ; and he hoped that in the event of his coming to any en tries which he thought of a doubtful character he would ask for information from the offieers of the department oa the spot, and not come down to that house and make a complaint unless the information which he received was net satisfactory. (Hear, hear.) He made this remark because the hon. gentleman's secretary did not carry on his investigations in that spirit. The hon. gentleman stated in that house, on the authority of his secretary, that 5,6001. had been spent upon two boats, and when the error was pointed out the only excuse that he made was that his secretary had read the wrong line. The informa tion as to these boats was contained in a printed paper, and no roan of business looking at that paper could have made snob a mistake. He was therefore obliged to say, that while he would afford every facility to the hon. gentleman, be was not disposed to admit his secretary to the office again. At a later period of the afternoon, Mr. SEELY said that it always been his earnest _ . desire that every fact which be intended to state to that house should be known to the Admiralty before he made use of it, and therefore he must complain of the observa tions of the right hon. baronet as calculated to prejudice his reputation for accuracy and fairness. He intended that the Admiralty authorities should be made aware of every statement which he intended to make, but they as it were shut the door in the face of his secretary. They took sway the books that he had been examining when the knowledge that he had obtained—this was the inference that he was compelled to draw—was becoming rather un pleasant. What alternative, then, had he except to make his statement to that house ; He offered the right hon. baronet that every fact which he intended to submit to the house should be examined before he stated it, but the right hon. baronet refused that offer. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. In reply to Mr. M`Lamis, Sir S. NORTHOOTE said that there was no reason to complain of any incompleteness in the agricultural statis tics received from Scotland. SAVINGS BANKS IN THE NAVT. In answer to Mr. K INNAI nn, Sir J. PAKINGTON said that under the orders of the late Board of Admiralty an experimental savings bank had bees established on board the Victoria, one of the ships of the Mediterranean squadron. PRANCE AND PRUSSIA. Sir G. BOWYER asked the noble lord the Secretary of State fer Foreign Affairs whether he had any information as to the demands stated to have been made by the Empe ror of the Ftenoh upon the King of Primal' for the rectifi cation of the frontiers of France ; and what reply had been fives by Praia. Lord STANLEY—From information given to me, I hare no doubt that oommunicAtiont to the effect suggested by the hon. baronet have passed, and are passing, between the governments of Paris and Berlin. lam not in a position to state what is the precise nature of those communica tions, still Imam I able to say what the reply given by Prussia may be. THE CAPTIVES IN ABYSSINIA. Mr. B. COCHRANE inquired of the noble lord (Lord I Stanley) whether he had received any recent despatch I with regard to the position of the captives in Abyssinia? Lord STANLEY said that he had received no despatch which in any degree affected the statements upon this subject which had pieviously been made in that house. All the papers which be bad received, and they were of some importance, he had that day laid upon the table. The government were preparing to send out Mr. Fladd under such circumstances as they hoped . might enable him to effect the release of the remaining prisoners. Mr. H. SEYMOUR asked whether the noble lord did not think that some more energetic measures ought to be taken to remove the disgrace of our having two persons acting as unsuccessful envoys at the capital of a barbarous chief. Lord STANLEY said that he believed that sending back Mr. Medd in the manner proposed wits the course best adapted to obtain the release of the gentlemen now con fined in Abyssinia. If the hon. gentleman differed from him it was open to him to argue the question, and he should be prepared to defend the course which he had re commended. Colonel SYKES inquired whether the noble lord did not think that a present of a few rifles, and two or three barrels of gunpowder to the Ring of Abyssinia would en sure the release of the captives! (Laughter.) SHOREDITCH WORKHOUSE. In reply to Mr. Alderman LtIBIE, • Mr. HARDY mid that the oorrerpondence with regard to the Shmeditah Workhouse was still going on, and therefore the papers were not in a condition to be pre sented to parliament. THE BUST OF THE LATE MR. HUME. Mr. WALPOLE brought up the following message from her Majesty, in answer to the address of the house upon this subject:—" I have received your oddities praying that I will cause to be placed within the precincts of the House of Commons the bust offered by the widow of the late Joseph Hume, Eaq., who for nearly forty yy ears ably, labo riously, and assiduously servedhis country in the House of C 011111110011•, and I will give directions to my First Commis sioner of Works and Public Buildings to consider in what par: of the precincts of the House of Commons such bust may most conveniently be placed." THE NEW LORD CHIEF BARON. Mr. J. S. MILL rose to move for copies of all corre spondence between members of the government and Mr. Bagby Walesa, in relation to the appointment of Sir F. Se ffy m Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer ; and of ally correspondence between the members of the government and Sir F. Kelly upon the same subject. Mr. WALPOLE said that he had no objection to the first part of the motion. The second related to a com munication that had been made to him by the Lord Chief Baron, which he thought ought not to be produced, because it was more or less of a private cha racter ; and further, if any investigation was to be moved for, the Lord Chief Baron ought to have an opportunity of oonsideriug what answer he should make. (" Hear, bear," from Kr. Kugel The motion was than put and agreed to, with the omis sion of the part relating to correspondence between tee government and Sir F. Kelly. At two o'clock air Augustus Clifford, Black Rod, np pftred at the table, and summoned the house to attend in the House of Lords, whither the Speaker immediately pro. seeded, followed by all the members present except Mr. Henley. On the return of the right bon. gentleman, he took the place at the table usually occupied by the Chief Clerk, and read to those hon. members who had accompanied him back to the house a copy of the speech delivered by the royal commissioners. He afterwards shook bands with the gentlemen present—Mr. Disraeli being the first to perform this ceremony—end so ended the session of 1866. • Rarrime Maartwoa.—Last night a crowded re form meeting of the inhabitants of Woolwich, Charlton, and Plumatead was held at the Lecture-hall, Nelson street, Woolwich. The chair was occupied by Mr. B asset t, who =praised his entire concurrence with the ob,e a c a r of the meeting, and eulogised the conduct of the Lord Mayor in presiding at the reform meeting held at the Guildhall of the City of London. A resolution in aceordace with the ?Meet wee adopted.—At a reform meeting held last even nig in front of Gurney's Fountain, Stratford , it was re solved :—" That this meeting, deploring the defeat of the late goeern nest Reform Bill, declares that it will not be satisfied with anything less than reaidential and registered manhood saftrageand the ballot." il l I 0 . I I P ... 1 ii l t I ; • • l', , ' • iI t ; li I 1 i l I THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1866. ASSIZE INTELLIGEXCE. HONE CIRCIIIT.--GUILDTORT), AUGUST 10. (13efore Mr. Justice Wales end a Special Jury.) HARTLAXD V. Ma 0113171 AL EXCHANGB BANK (LIMTTZD).- • nil LATS PANIC.—BANCING DISCLOSIIIES. This was an action brought by the manager of the Ge neral Exchange Bank, which is now in course of being wound up nada. the Court of Chancery, to recover damages for having been wrongfully dismissed Iron his office. The defendants pleaded that the plaintiff had misconducted himself, and had not perfornted his duty properly, and that they were therefore justified in dismissing him. Serjeant Ballantine, Mr. Garth, Q.C., and Mr. Inder wick were counsel for the plaintiff Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Kemp appeared for the company. Serjeant Ballantine, in ()uingthe case, said that the plaintiff was a man of fo rtune , a magistrate for the county of Gloucester, and he was the son of a banker, and had been engaged in banking pursuits ill his life, and the present action was brought by him not so much fur the purpose of obtaining mere money com pensation as to vindicate his character from the aspersion that was cast upon it by the defendants, and to show that there was no legal ground for the course they had taken in dismissing him from the Nat he had occupied. In the beginning of the year 1863 the plaintiff was appointed manager of the Hamburg Bank, in Lombard-street, but before he entered upon his duties the bank got into diffi culties, and was wound up, and the plaintiff was appointed official liquidator of its affairs. The defendants, it ap peared, were anxious to obtain a portion of the business of the Hamburg Bank, and they amalgamated with it, and the plaintiff was asked by the directors of the Exchange Bank, to become their manager, and he consented to do so, and was appointed in September 1863. The engagement entered into was that he was to be appointed for three years at a salary of one thousand • year, and certain commission was to be allowed him upon the profits in addition, and the agreement was to the effect that, under all circumetanoes, he was to receive 3,0001. The jury were aware that from this time there was a period of very great commercial peril and difficulty, and the directors very imprudently, in the opinion of the plaintiff, were anxious to carry out amalgamations with other com panies. The plaintiff remonstrated with them repeatedly upon the subject, but it was of no avail, and the defendants amalgamated with two other companies, the Alexandria and Malta Bank, and another establishment called the Estates Bank. The latter, he believed, was nothing more than a building society, whose operations consisted in ad vancing money to builders to enable them to carry on their operations, the buildings se erected being mortgaged to the bank as security for the money so advanoed. The plaintiff did all in his power to prevent the amalgamation with this bank, and he pointed out the danger, if a time of pressure should arrive, of having securities that were not conver tible. The directors, however, determined to effect the amalgamation, and a sum of 12,400/. was paid by, the good will of the Estates Bank, 4,0001. of which was paid to Mr. Homer, who was one of the directors of the Estates Bank. and he also became a director of the General Ex change Bank. A sum of 2,0001. was also given to Mr. J. 0. Lever, a gentleman with whose name the jury were probably acquainted. In addition to these sums other amounts were paid for the branches of the Estates Bank, and the total amount so paid out of the funds of the General Exchange Bank was about :17,1101.. and this, and the liabilities they incurred in connection with the Estates Rank, was, as he was instructed, the cause of the failure of the former bank. The plaintiff, he believed. bad created some ill-feeling in the mind of Mr. Homer and other directors connected with the Estates Bank on account of his opposition to their scheme of amalgamation, and this had probably led to the result that had taken place. The plaintiff, how ever, without any notice, was dismissed from his situation as manager by • resolution of the board of directors, at which Mr. Roebuck, M.P., the chairman of the company, presided, on the 2nd of June, and he felt himself com pelled to bring the present action, and he said he was at a loss to know what answer the defendants were in a position to make to the claim, or what they meant by the pleas they had put upon the record. Mr. F. D. Hartland, the plaintiff, was then examined. He said that he had been engaged in banking pursuits a great many years, and had been employed as clerk and manager to the Gloucestershire Banking Company for several years. In the beginning of the year 1865 he was appointed manager to the Hamburg Bank in London, but before he entered fully upon his duties the bank was wound up, and he was appointed the official liquidator of its affairs by the Court of Chancery. An arrangement was subsequently entered into that the busi ness of the Hamburg Bank should be transferred to the defendants, and at the request of the directors of the General Exchange Bank he became the manager in Sep tember, 1665, and he was to receive a salary of 1,0001. • year for three years certain, and a commission of five per cent. upon the profits that were made in England, but his salary was not to exceed 1,5001. a year, and this agree ment was to take effect from October, 1805. Ho con tinued to perform the duties of manager until June the 2nd of the present year, when, at a meeting of the direc tors, at which Mr. Roebuck presided, a resolution was come to for hie dismissal. The resolution was put in and read. It was to the effect that, as the plaintiff had declared his inability to carry the bank through the pre sent crisis, it was considered advisable that he should be removed from his office, and that the directors should take the steps that were necessary in consequence of that pro seeding, to carry on the bank. By another resolution of , the board, Mr. Horner was appointed managing director. The plaintiff went on to say that after the resolution had been come to he spoke to the chairman, Mr. Roebuck, and said that it was a serious matter for any one connected with commercial affairs to be dismissed as be had been, and asked him the reason for it. Mr. Roebuck, in reply, said that there was nothing personal to him in the dim missal, but other parties thought they oonld pull the bank through if he was not present, and on that ground it was considered advisable to remove him ; but Mr. Roebuck at the same time said that the directors intended to adhere to the arrangement they had made with him. . . Cross-examined—The Exchange Bank was in exiseenee before the Hamburg Bank failed, and the business of the Exchange Bank was removed to theyremises of the Hamburg Bank in Lombardatreet, and witness purchased the lease for them for 19,0001. Hedenied thathehad made a profit of 2,000 f. by the transaction. The witness was ques tioned at oonsiderabld length upon the subject, but he per elated in his statement that the defendants were aware of the nature of the transaction, and that he made no profit by it. He said that he regularly laid the account of the assetsand liabilities of the bank before the directors, but, with the exception of the chairman, they very seldom looked at them, or took any trouble to see how it was going on, and their time was generally occupied in dis cussions shout amalgamations with other companies. He always protested against these amalgamations, because he felt that they were not likely to be beneficial. He remem bered upon the occasion of the proposed amalgamation with the Estates Bank that Mr. Horner and some of the other , directors of that company called upon him and proposed ' to amalgamate with the Exchange Bank, and the r-oposal they made was, that 4.200/. should be paid to Mr. Horner, 2,0 M. to the other directors, 2,000 i. were to be paid to some person who was in blank, and the name not filled in, 2,000/. to Mr. Lever, and 2,0001. to some other party, in all 12,4001., and this was to be considered as goodwill for the Estates Bank. When this proposition was made to him witness said that be considered it a commer cially dishonest proposition, and Mr. Horner then suggested that the amount should be paid in another form, namely, as commission upon the shareholders of the Estates Company that were introduced to the Exchange Bank by the proposed arrangement. Mr. Chambers—What did you think of this prepasitios? Witness--Ho considered it *as quite as commercially dishonest as the other. (laughter.) He went on to May that when the arrangement was completed the money was paid, but it was entered in the books of the company as "preliminary expenses." (A laugh.) In answer to farther questions the witness stated that the directors of the Exchange Bank completed the arrangement with the Estates Bank against his con sent, and in spite of his remonstrances, and very soon afterwards there was a run upon the branches of the Estates Bank, and this, in his opinion, caused the destruc tion of the Exchange Bank, which had weathered the panic, and he believed would have gone on prosperously if it had not been mixed up with the other companies. Mr. Roebuck was then examined—He said that he was the chairman of the company and he remembered the appointment of the plainti ff as manager. Witness was at the bank every day, and had opportunities of seeing how the plaintiff performed his duty, and he did se to his satisfaction. According to his judgment he gave the directors all the necessary information relating to the affair* of the bank, and conducted them with judgment and discretion. Serjeant Ballantine—Did he ever misconduct himself in any manner, or ever disobey the orders given to him by the directors? Mr. Roetatek—Certainly not. I wee perfectly salami with his conduct down to one particular occasion. By Mr. Chambers—The occasion be referred to was when the plaintiff sent for him one morning earlier than usual, and on hie going to the bank and inquiring if there was anything wrong, be replied that there was something eery wrong, and he at the same time handed him a written paper. The effect of this document was to vest the whole affairs of the bank in the hands of one person, by which the plaintiff. no doubt, meant himself, and wit ness remarked that to do this would amount to an act of bankruptcy, and he did not think the directors would agree to it. He also told the plaintiff that he most think the directors were fools to make such a proposition. Mr. Roe buck added—" but perhaps they were.' (Laughter.) In answer to further questions put to hint, Mr. Roebuck said that when the bank wee in difficulties some of the directors said they thought they could pull through if the plaintiff was removed, and it was on this account alone that the plaintiff was dismissed. Mr. Chamber' then addressed the jury for the defen dants, and he said that he really repremmted the share holders of the concern, and his object was to take care that the plaintiff did not take a larger amount out of the shareholders' pockets as damages in this action than he grad really entitled to. He then proceeded to argue at con siderable length that the plaintiff was a party to those proceedings that had brought the mischief upon the bank, and that it would he most unjust to give hint anything like the amount of sala to which he would have beep entitled for the full period of the agreement that had been entered into between the parties. Mr. Juati e Willes, in Knowing up, haring explained the nature of the inquiry, said that the jury, in consider ing the amount of damages, ought also to consider that the plaintiff would have ample opportunity of obtaining another appointment, and it was for them to decide what would be a reasonable compensation for him, having reg•.rd to all the factaof the are. The jury retired , sad after a short deliberation gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 8801. OXFORD CIRCIIIT.--GcorczeTsß, Auo. 10. atom( Courr.--(Before Mr. Justice Ghee.) CHARGE OP MURDER. Eliza Kirby, aged 36, a married woman, was charged with the wilful murder of a female child at Tredworth, near this city. Mr. Stanton conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Sawyer defended the prisoner. The prisoner is the wife of a respectable man who works in Gloucester as a moulder. In the month of June last she delivered herself of a female child in the kitchen. The child was taken care of, and was going on well, when about a week after its birth it was missed, and on the pri soner's daughter, a girl twelve years of age, asking her motherwLatbad become of it, she replied that a woman bad fetched it away. Search was made for it, and the body was found quite dead in the closet. When charged with killing her child, she said it was not a child, that it was the devil. The prisoner had betrayed symptoms of in sanity before the - birth of the child, and the medical men who had attended her having given their opinion that she was insane, . . . His lordship directed the Acquittal of the prisoner, inti mating that she would be kept in confinement. WESTERN CIRCITIT.—Bragror., Auousi 10. Mr. Justice Byles (after attending divine service at the Mayor's chapel) presided in the Crown Court. The calendar is a light one, only containing entries of twelve prisoners. Against one, however, there are three or four separate indictments. One charge is for feloniously wounding, and there are some for feloniously possessing dies for coining base money. The others are of a light character. The cases were unimportant. Mr. Justice Blackburn took his seat in the Nisi Prins Court at 10 o'clock, and proceeded with the trial of some common jury causes. The cause list contains 46 cases, of which 13 are set down for special juries. The cases tried were wholly devoid of interest, being ejectinents touching small properties at the east end of the city of BristoL NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—LivintrooL, Arra. 10. Caowii Couwr.—(Before Mr. Baron Martin.) A SON CHARGED WITH THE HURD= OT HIS MOTHER. Owen AP Cormick, aged 29, was indicted for the murder of his mother, Catherine M'Cormick, at Liverpool. From the evidence it appeared that about two o'clock on the morning of the 19th of,..hute the prisoner was drunk and lying on the floor of his room, No. 3, Court Thurlow street, Liverpool. His mother lived with him. She had gone upstairs to the room of a friend in eider to be out of his way. In a few minutes, however, she came down again in company with a little girl named Mary Hunt, with the view, if possible, of inducing the prisoner to get into bed. She said to the pri soner, in a kindly tone, Come up to bed," but he replied, "Get out of that," and used bad language. He then struck the poor old woman in the face, and knocked her down. The prisoner bad no boots on at the time, but when his mother wagon the door he placed his left foot upon her body while he stamped her face and head with Inn right foot. The prisoner appeared in &perfect paroxysm of rage ; he kicked his mother in the aide ; pulled her round the room by the hair of the head ; and afterwards beat her with a poker, and one of his boots. The deceased lingered for four days, and then died from the effects of her in juries. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, accompanying the verdict with a strong recommendation to mercy. His Lordship, having assumed the black cap, paned sen tence of death. The prisoner frequently asserted his innocence, and wept bitterly throughout the trial. He wee removed from the dock in the arms of the turnkeys. things, and appeared to entertain much bitter feeling against her. The constable said the pared of cloth now in question had bees pledged by Watson, and was at present in pos session. of the pawnbroker. Watson was at this period ordered back to the work house, and a cab was sent for for that purpose, the msgis trate consenting to take bail in two sureties of 301., if it could be procured for her. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. The report to be submitted to the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting on the 16th of August says:—" The half-yearly accounts to the 30th June, 1866, now submitted, show the net revenue for the six months, after deducting interest on loans and all other preferential charges, to be 15.5,04 W. 2s. rd. ; add the sur plus atDecember, 1865, 1,102/. 17a. 4d.—balance available for dividend, 156,151 i. 19s. 91 From the above sum the directors recommend that a dividend be declared at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, payable on the Ist Septem ber, amounting on 7,766,688/. 9s. Id. of paid - up capital to 155 , 3331. 15s. 4d.—Leaving to be carried over to the cur rent half-year, 8181. 4s. sd. The gross revenue of the com pany for the half-year ending 30th June shows an increase when compared with the amount for the corresponding half-year of 1865. This has been earned over an increased mileage. The traffic during this period has, however, been considerably affected by two causes of an extremely excep tional character, the one being the cattle plague, whereby (under the orders in council) the cattle traffic of the dis tricts through which the line passes was entirely for a period, and important local cattle markets ha l vtt P ut closed whilst the large and constantly increasing importa tion of cattle from the continent rid the port of South ampton to the metropolis, has been and is still wholly sus pended. This restriction the directors think very unne cessary, as foreign cattle are permitted to be brought to the port of London, and then driven through the streete to the market, whereas such cattle, rid Southampton, would reach the London cattle market direct by railway. The loss of traffic from these causes has been considerable. The directors had made arrangements for the development of the foreign cattle trade, not only by extensive alterations to their steam vowels, but had also placed new and pow erful steamers on the pine between Southampton and the French ports. The severe monetary pressure has also affected the traffic by the general contraction of trade and in the check which the passenger, particularly plea sure traffic, has thereby sustained. The heavy rate of discount which has prevailed during this year has caused the average rate on the company's mortgage debt to in crease from 4'28 to 411 per cent. The usual tabular state ments of the traffic and the analysis of the working expen diture are submitted in the customary forms. It will be observed that the increase in the working expenses is considerable, owing to the rise of wages which the en hanced pr een? provisions has rendered necessary, although this has been restricted as much as possible, and also to the extensive renewals of engines, carriages, and waggons as shown by the engineer's report, and the increase in the train mileage and the additional length of railway maintained and worked. The locomotive superintendent's report shows an increase of 272,974 train miles as compared with the half-year ending June, 1865. This has prin cipally arisen from the opening of the South ampton and Netley Railway, the working of the line from Alton to Winchester, and the new services of trains between Kensington and London Bridge, vitt the Water loo-station, and between Clapham Junction and Ludgate, over the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway." IFBOM LAST NIGHTS GAZETTE. INANE.% OF gOLTCITORS AND FURTHER PARTICULARS TO II OBTAINED AT THY OFFICE 01 TEIR OMIT REGISTRAR, court 01 IIANCRUPITTI, sunseauz-sruir.] BANKRUPTS. JOHN LOW ARMSTRONG, Mount-street, 134011TODONICIUMM, fish monger, to surrender August 24, at 11. TIMONIUM EATON, WAIOZNeIppArS, Kestalngten-road, general shop keeper, August 24, at 1. Josarn Comas, Middlesex-street, Whiter-kept'. rig dealer. August 22, at IsAso SHISH. Peatonville-road, coach builder, August 24, at I. ?BOYAR CLARKE, Plurnstead, Kent, tltualuseper, August 2!, d It Lstustas COUNT arrsasr,Church.place,Jennyu•st.,Aug.22o4 RICHARD JOHN KgAR , DOERCL-plAce, 110ROWAE-EOl4, bOOLIHRRCE, August re, at 1. ALYMILD yv..KD GALLOWAT, lincoln'sauts-Aelds, and Blahosond- road, Islingtoo, law clerk, August 22, at 1. WILLIAM WALK ica,Charles-st.,SLJohn's•wood,thflor,Aug. 23, g ll . CHARLES LARKING, C rsaley-terrace, Fulltam-road, upholsterer, August ES, at It WILLIAM THOMAS ORKENStADE, Town.hall Chambers, South- weak, bop merchant August Zt, at 12. flouts Stow, Itillbank.street, Westminster, and Vauxhall bridge.rosd, :Inc worker, August 23, at 12. Witttsit Ds% re, Southampton, broker,Angust 23, at 12. GEORGE COOK Br REY, Croydon, professor of wank, Aug. 22, at I. EDMUND }KART BEELINE, Tottenham, Ixdlder, August 24, at 11. ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE, Sutherland - street , South Belgravia, merchant, Await 24, at 12. BOSTON HULLS , Clifton-terrace, Wandsworth-road, ash driver, August U, at 11. JOSHUA BURR, High-street, Ilomerton, porter, Annutdia, at 11. JOHN CHARLES CARR, Deptford, watchmaker, August 24. at 12- PIRRCI ANTHONY Ronew, Duncan-terrace, Islington, clerk In her Majesty's Customs August St, at 12. WALT= Inum,Amherat-terrace,Shaokiewell,bufkler,Ang. 24 ,at I. BRNJAMIN JA , KSON SMITH, Datchet and Yton, Bucks, tailor, August 27, at 11. ROBERT WHITE, NOTlhßMigoti, attorney, August 27, at 11. GEORGE HENRY 11117cu5.m.., Southampton. manhunt:l eMrk, August 27, at 11. WILLIAM NMTTLETON LE GASEGICK, North Wharf-road, Padding ton, clerk, Alignst t 7, at It CHARLSB WILLIAM HAR3.I2, Gulldford-street, Russell-square, _ . builder, August 23, at 1. WILLIAM SWADZII, Birmingham, fishmonger, August 23, at It. SPENCER THOMAS GARRETT and ONDROS EILLICE OAIULETY, Tunstall, brick manufacturers, August it, at 12. EDWIN PHILLIPS, Dudley, grocer, and Westhope, Shropshire, farmer, August 24, at 12. Josses HODOKINOON, Derby, cabinet maker, August 21, at 11. °loans Far,Lynton, Devonshire, coal merchant, August2l, at 11. Etirtscrn ANDREW, Liulock, Cornwall, spinster, Aug. 21, at Ile. WILLIAM Litg and Joss LEE, Yeadon, Yorkshire, cloth manu facturers, August 23, at 11. JOAN OLDROYD, Dewsbury, coal agent, August 23, at 1L gummy Warn, Kinenton.upon-Hull, grooer, August n, at 12. THOMAS MENA, EDWIN TICKLER, and JOHN BIERS, KLY4OII4II - Lincolnshire, corn millers, August 22, at 12 EDWIN LATHAM, Liverpool, commission merchant, Aug. 23, 1111. WILLIAM HENRY BADGER and WiLLux BaMal CsociLin, Liver poo ship store dealers, August 28, at IL JOHN istoceox, Liverpool, builder, August 12, at 11. JOHN WILLIAM POLLARD, Liverpool. slater, August U, at 11. Desist 31 ruts, Blackburn, bookseller, August 22, at 12. ODONER MESON, Broughtomin-Purnees, Lancashire, surgeon, August 21, Atli. ' " " • " Ono Ben Dessmoron,Wrexharn.oll manufacturer, Ang.2B, at 11. Rau% ?ins°, Sunderland, Whit merchant. Sept. 4, at 12. ECSTA ma, Stratton, Cheshire, postanaster,Auguat Skid 1. JOHN STANDRWMN, Halifax, shoddy dealer, Sept. 14, at 10. Sweatt, TAYLOR, BaHlax stonemason, Sept. 14, at 10. THOIIAS WILLIAMS, Cheltenham, grocer, August 11. at 11. WILLIAM PAMIR, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, coal merchant, . . . august 23. at 11. WILLIAM EDWIN ILIVILL, Doncaster, joiner. Angasi 21. at It ABRAHAM BATLKY, Manchester, baker, August 21, at . 2 . 154zt Ink SCROLLS. Sharpies, near Bolter,. painter. Augu 22, at 10. JORN RIIIIHALCM, laneshaw bridge, Law:while, cotton manu- renewer, August 24. at 11 JOHN FIRTH, Todmorden, publisher, August IS. at It EDWARD Baru, Barton-upon-Trent, Inner, August 22, at I. Muumuu GILL, Gulseley, Yorkshire, late beechnut* keeper, August 20, at 12. JANIS ROBINSON, Bristol, general merchant, August 31, at 12. FREDIRTCR FARROW, Highbridge, Somersetabire, butcher, An- gnat it. at U. . Jonas Nzwmi., Nottingham, hook-k Oct 10, at 11. HMI t Jomi yircasu), Kayworth, Nottinghamshire, harness maker, 0,.t. 10, at 11 SAMUEL WRIGHT, StielGtOM, NI as)lum, Oct 10, at 4. 01105011 SMITH, New 13astord, Nottinghamshire, trimmer of hosiery. Oct. 10, at 11. WILLIILM Jour. Swansea, licensed victualler. Sept. 11, at 2. MARTHA WILSON, Swansea, licensed victualler. Sept. 11, at 2. JAMES 1101/1/Y, Went Stockwith, Notts. rupemaker. Am. 11, at 10. WILLIAM Davis, Southampton, builder. Angus( 29, at 12. CHABLIS WALLACH BRADLRY, Southampton, machinist. August keeper at an . . 29. at 1. WILLIAMRey, 07/iOTIISh baker, August 23, at L EDWARD Ito Damon, Cireystoke, Cumber land, tailor, Aust. 23, at 11. JAMES MORGAN, Pemboyr, Carmarlbeneldre, late carrier, Au gust 22. at 2. JOUR WOLSTONCROPT, Bury, Laucaab., ckgger, Aug. 30, at 9. WILLIAM TfoLLAND, Ilesses-o'-tb%Barn, Lancashire, cloth Masher, August 30, at IL JANIM FRMTNNT, Powey, Cornwall, cabinetmaker, Aug. 24.at19.}. lINJULT PRITCMARD, S t u dley, Warwieksk.. inskeeper,Aug.27,ad. TIMOTHY MALOT, Middlesbrough. Yerksbirderoorr, Ang.211,6111. GEoRGE NORTON. Rochester, builder, August 24, at 2. Stirling JORDAN, Reigate, bricklayer, August 21, at t LAST EXAMINATIONS Nov. 6. J. Rome, Sitnninghill, Berkshire, contractor-OA 6. H. Jones, Birmingham, gnnmaker-Oct. 3. 0. Peck,Birrninghsin, bone button manufacturer-August 31. M. Kearns, Liverpool, publican-August 31. R. Humphreys. Liverpool. Joiner -August 31. T. Wilaon. Liverpool, ironmonger-August 31. J. F. Davey, Liverpool, leather dealer-August 31. C. E. Bennett and T. K Mundt, Liverpool, timber vrierchanta-August 24. J. Williams, Penmorfa,•Carnerconshire, grocer-August 21. P.. C. Perry, Manchester, engraver-Augwit 23. J. Tbornber, Burnley, lan eastilre, cotton manufacturer-Sept. 5. T. Hammon, .7. Hihhert, and J. Smith, Stockport. hat manufacture's-Sept. 26. T. Monks, Birmingham, late provision dealer-Sept. 23. J. Blower. Bir mingham, carpeater-Sept. 25. F. Palmer, Birmingham, jeweller -Sept. 26. W. Smith, Birmingham boot maker - Sept 2R. T. Harnett Birmingham, carver and gilder-Sept. 26. C. M. Gwynn, Birmingham, watemuse clerk-Sept. 23. E Capewell, Birming ham, late boot dealer-Sept. 25. C. Jones. sen., Birmingham, en gine driver-Sept W. J. Beeson, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, commission agent-Sept. W. J. Heath, Dirmingluun, accountant -Sept. 23. T. Matthews, Birmingbant. Journeyman carpenter- Sept. 20. R. Cowles, Ipswich, general shopkeeper-Sept 20. H. Sadler, Ipswich. Innkeeper-August 14. W. Woodward, Saliba, Warwickahire. late farmer-Oct le. J. PAIR* Shepton Mallet, postmaster-August 22. K. H. Moore, Hawkwell, Ewe:, baker- Sept. 25. J. Taylor, Brierley-hill, Sta ff ordshire, late pump maker -August Y 2. 0. Morris, Claines, Worcestershire, late haulier- August 23. W. Thomas, Cardiff, beerhouse keeper-Oct. 6. J. Matthews, St. Asaph, Flintshire, tavern keeper-August 14. E. Twist, Birmingham,late fanner-Oet. 18. M. IL Lawton, Pero bridge, Herefordshire, grocer-August N. A. Jones, Livemool, medical dispenser-August 30. A. Stockwell * Everton.lanosalire, hosier-August 30. P. G. Thorns., Sonde, Larreashlre. engineer -Sept 20. 1. Barber, Ardwick, Manchester, cast dealer-nept. 26. J. Higgins, Opens haw, Lancashire, locomotive lahourer- Sept. 28. H. Manchester, printer-Sept. 26. F. Slllotooe, Hyde road, Lancashire, agent for candlewick-Sept 26.1. Hunt, gen.. rind J. Hunt, Jon. Droylsden, Lancashire, inners -A221142 24. W. Brown, Bolt®, Lancashire. elogger-August Et. R. Cotes, Plimpton St, Mary, , Dmronahlre, builder-August 28. J. havens, Walsall, miner-Sept. 27. J. S. Kaye, Ahnondbury, Yorkshire, auctioneer-August 31. Ft Ellis, Wellington, Mr/m*lore; clerk maker-August 31. 0. F. Lineker, Weitingtonstallor-Oct. 19. T. Jenkins, Yetradytodwg, Olainorganahlre, 19. D. Davies, Llantrthaant, GlantorganalOre, grocer-Oct. 10. T. M. Thomas, Swansea, general srnith-August 21. C. 011edore. dieshrough, Yorkshire. Joiner - Oct l. J. Gibbins, Adidas:, Northamptonshire, botcher. BANKRITPTCY Ammo* 7. WILLIAM JANE HOLT, Grantham, Lincolnshire, MS dealer. August 21. R. Rni= ier illiii.7o.;;;er—Angust t 5. T. Kidd, atanhoin, Dation', . • PARTNRRBEGYB DISBOLYED. W. Harley and M. barloy, Maeda*, Buckinghamshire . , grocers —J. R. Ygleslas, J. A. Ygleeles, C. H. Yglinias, and H. J. F. Rumen, Bond.court, Wel/rook merchants, so far as regards H. J. Y. Ager an d J. Milne. Northampton, 'hoe manufacturers—D. J. E. Penney and P. Borthwick, Liverpool, merchante—Barak Williams and Hamlet Maria Cooper, Bir mingham, milliners—W. llawksworth, H. M. Bealby, and Marsh Wright (administratrix of W. Wright, deceased), Marne-cross, booksellers—G. W. 8. Clark, W. H. Webb, and R. H. Webb, ion.. Bristol, tobacco manufacturers, no r far as regards G. W. 8. Clark—M. Maurice. H. Muller, and W. Craig, Manchester, wine merchant-0. Halbeard and T. Stamps, Birmingham, papier mach6 manufactarere—J. B. Thomann, 8. Bernal, and J. T. Paton, Liverpool, oil brokers—B, S. Harvey sad 8. Lowe, Lin soln, surgeons—N. W. Chfttenden and R. 11. Claxton, Mincing lane, colonial brokers-1. Hunter, W. English, and A. W u s rr h, Stratford, millwrights—W. Woolley and J r Welkin, Ore provision dealers—W. C. Yoshwy and G. L Fosbery, Liverpool, merohanta—R. T. Commas, T. Gooch. and J. 8. Colleens, City, wool warehouaemen, so .far an regards J. S. Cousens—.D. Robin son and T. Harwood, Trtunp-street, City, paper banging maim facturers—W. Newby and J. Woodhouse, Brighouse, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturers—C. Leaver and 0 F. Parsons, Birming ham, fevelleva-8. Wicks, men., and S. Wicks. jun., Birmingham, gun furniture polishers—P. E. Pratt, T. H. Pratt, and 11. 'Pratt, Fenton, Staffordshire, earthenware mannfacturers—T. Crosland and H. Crosland, Mark Bottoms MIII, near Huddersfield, club bing millet-a-6. W. Thomas and W. estop, Halifax, York shire, woollen cloth mannfacttnen—J. and T. Loeg- Agg, Liverpool, shipowners—W. F. .Batter, D. Main, and •W. Rutter, Newratestreet. City, d lntblishen. so x far ewport as regas W. Rutter P. Little an C. „Little , Monmouthshire. drapers-(. J. Whitehead. J. 'Whitehead. jun., and A. Whitehead, Fore-street, Limehonse, mast makers, so far as regards A. Whitehead—R. Wooley and B. %greet, Ber mingham. drapers—H. H. Price and T. Fox (Ninth Abbey Inge Company), Leath Abbey, Glamorganddre—S. Amer, ma. and p, Amer. jun., Birkenhead, bookbinders—A. Cunninghsme and W. Lightbody, Glaagow, and Georeetown, Demerara, merchant., .h. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS: (Before Mr. Serjeant Dowling.) Charles Le Blois, 25, a merchant , was brought up on an indictment, charging him with attempting to obtain by false pretences the sum of 22/. from Mr. George Benjamin Vickress, of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Eastbourne-terrace, Paddington. Mr. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Bibton defended. Prosecutor stated that the prisoner and his wife had been staying at his house since Tue.day fortnight. At the end of the week he gave the prisoner the account, which came to 81. 10s. On Friday last be gave prosecutor a cheque for VI. on the Union Bank of London, and asked for the change. Prosecutor sent the cheqve to the bank, and it was returned with the words, " no account° marked upon it. On mentioning it to the prisoner he said, " I've dated the cheque for to-morrow, and the money will ar rive to-morrow er Monday." On the following day he gave prosecutor a bill of exchange, and asked him to hold that as security. Charles Hewitt, cashier in the Union Bank of London, Prince street, said he did not know the prisoner. There was no account at the bank in the name of C. Le Blon. The bill of exchange produced was made payable at the bank to which witness was attached, but the acceptors had no account, and had not had since December, 1864. The cheque ass taken from a book issued by the bank to Almeida and Co., the acceptors of the bill in 1862. Inspector Steer, of the X division of police, said he apprehended the prisoner on the evening of the 17th ult. He received the cheque and bill produced from Mr. Vick real. He read the warrant to the prisoner, and asked him where he was staying and where his luggage was. He said, " I'm staying at 8, Garway-road." lie had no luggage, neither had his wife. Witness then took him to the station. Prisoner said he had an account last year at the Union Bank in Fleet-street. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Inspector Steer then informed the court that he had made inquiries respecting the antecedents of the prisoner, and found he had swindled many persons under similar circumstances. Amongst others, he had victimised the proprietors of the Albemarle Hotel, Albemarle-street ; Hotel de ]'Europe, Leicester-square ; Hotel d'italien, Golden-square; New York Hotel, Leicester-square ; Car rara's Hotel, Princes-etreet; Washington Hotel, Liverpool ; and several lodging-house keepers, in varied amounts, up to 301. Inspector Steer further said that he was informed that the father of the prisoner was a highly respect able man, but would not acknowledge the prisoner owing to his having formed an illicit connexion with a female at Newcastle West, near Limerick, Ireland, and pursuing the system of swindling he had adopted. At the time be apprehended the prisoner, he was living at 8, Garway-place, Paddington, where he had taken furnished apartments the previous evening. During the few hours be was there he had gone to the trades people in the neighbourhood, and ordered articles for his dinner and dessert, although he bad no means of payingfor them. When he was searched at the station-house, neither he nor his wife had sufficient to pay for a cup of coffee which prisoner desired, and prisoner said that neither he nor his wife bad any other clothing than that in which they appeared, and had no expectation of receiving any money from any source. Mr. Serjeant Dowling sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment with bard labour. THE POLICE COURT& WORSHIP-STREET. Jane Thomas, 23 yams of ace, cook is the family of Mr. E. T. Nobbe, a draper, in business at Albert-place, Shep herden-walk,NewNorth-road, Penny !Thrown, 20, a house maid in the same service, and Sarah Becker, alias Watson, 25, of Lucas-place, Horton, charwoman, were charged with being concerned in stealing a large quantity of cloth end other material, his property. Mr. Abbott, in conducting the prosecution, dated that although the girl Norman had clearly acted in complicity with the other prisoners and admitted it, he felt compelled to release her from the charge and place her in the witness box, indeed it was his impression that she had been led into dime by the others. The circumstances surrounding the case were these. Prosecutor had for a long time past been in the habit of taking all his family into the country on a Satur day, and remaining with them until the following Monday, leaving the shop open to his servants, of whose honesty he entertained no suspiciou, albeit he was frequently puzzled at discovering a dtminntion of stock for which he could not by any means account. One Monday morning this was is appezent that be ventured to take the liberty of over hauling a box in the possession of the cook, and greatly to his astonishment then perceived proof that he bad been robbed by one, if not more, of his own servants. The police were put in possession of the facts, and to them it was made known that the charwoman Seeker or Watson had been in the habit of visiting Jane Thomas, the cook, on Sundays, when the master and his family wire set, using the scissors freely on the goods in the shop, wrapping the stolen property up, and taking it away with her. To discover this woman, Police-constable Maynard, 266 N, busied himself for a long time ineffectually, but succeeded at last in ascertaining that she had just given birth to a child in the workhouse of St. Luke's. He, there fore, got the others remanded until she was declared able to attend and answer the charge, which was now the case. The Magistrate, on finding that the woman had been confined only 12 Jays, directed her to be removed from the dock with the infant in her arms, and seated at the at torneys' table. The following evidence against her and the cook was then given by Norman—Watson used to visit Jane Thomas at the pro secutor's house. She came on the 21st of Ju last. The cook had told me her name was Becker, not Watson.W On that Sunday morning I was in the shop with them. They cut off some Coburg cloth from • roll, also some other stuff. Watson made a parcel of it. I observed to her, " Don't you feel nervous ? I feel as though my feet would go from under me.* She replied, " Oh, you are a nervous_ littfe fooL” She afterwards to o the parcel dray. Waimea hare accused the witness of having done shellac NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the North Staffordshire Railway Company was held at Stoke-upon- Trentyesterday afternoon. The report having been taken as reed The &slaw+ (Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson) said there was a decrease in the mileage of 17,000 miles, but au in crease of 3,000 tons in the consumption of coal, a discre pancy due to the fact that the mileage given did not in clude the traffic over foreign lines to Liverpool, Man chester, and other places ; whereas the coal consumed in cluded that expended in working trains over foreign lines. He believed that at the present time the average consumption of coal per mile was 441 be. for goods, and something less than 341bs. for passengers, and that he understood was quite satisfactory. The new engines which had been pur chased would bear • pressure of 1401bs. to the square inch, as against 100Ibs. which represented the strength of those which had been superseded. The com y during the past half-year had carried 225,11 I more tons of merchandise than in the correspond ing period of hat year, and 114,000 more passengers, and therefore it might not unnaturally be asked how it was that the directors had not been able to recommend a better dividend. One great reason 11R/ that parliament had compelled them to reduce their canal tolls,and, speak ing generally, he might ;say that the directors had been anxious to do all in their power, by reducing charges, to meet the wishes of the district and prevent opposition and competition, having at the sametime due regard to the interests of shareholders. The advance in the prices of material' and of wages would account in a great measure for the increased outlay in the locomotive department, and in every railway report, which be had lately read, he found the same remark made. When he Snit addressed the shareholders as their chairman the district was suffering front the great strike amongst the puddler* and the direc tors were only able to recommend a dividend of 3i per cent., to provide which they were obliged to with draw 3,5001. from the reserve fund, and they left there the very small balance of 2611. They had since replaced the amount taken from the reserve fund, and after paying a dividend of four per cent., would have a balance of 4,5841. The new half-year had opened rather gloomily on account of the depression in the iron trade, but with the return of prosperity there was every reason to believe the affairs of the company would flourish, es the receipts had been in creasing latterly from day to day. The chairman *on eluded by moving the adoption of the report. Several questions respecting the accounts having been put by Mr. Porter and Mr. J. H. Goddard, and answered by the chairman, the report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend after the rate of four percent. per annum was declared. LONDON AND Ill.mnrwaxl, RAILWAY.—At the sixtieth half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors, to be held on Tuesday, the following report will be submit ted: "The directors have to report that they have received from the Great Eastern Railway Company the rents pay able under the lease for the half-year ending 30th June, 1866, and that a dividend fur that half-year, at the rate of 44 10s. per cent. per annum, both on the ordinary and preference stocks, may be declared and made payable on the 15th inst. The directors have not succeeded in obtain ing a settlement of the outstanding accounts to the 31st of December last, and are therefore unable to lay }afore the proprietors at this meeting a final statementof the accounts to that date, or to propose, at present, any further pay ment in the way of dividend. Captain Mangles having retired from the direction of this company, the east at the board thus vacated will not, pursuant to the provisions of the lease, be filled up. The board have appointed Mr. Venableu to snowed Captain Mangles as a director of the London, Tilbury, and Southend RailwCompany." SAD ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WALES RAIDWAY. —On Thursday evening a horrible accident happened on the South Wales Railway, near Magor, about seven miles from Newport, by which one man lost his life and another was so fearfully injured that but little hopes are enter tained of his recovery. A young man named Crawley, a clerk in the local department of the company, with a friend, at Mager, got into the luggage department of one of the carriages of the train due at twenty minutes past five o'clock at Newport. The train had not proceeded above a mile and a half from Magor when they both fell out of the carriage —how, it is impossible to say. Some parties who saw the accident raised an alarm, but those in the train did not hear it, and the train pro ceeded on its journey. When the parties went to the spot they found Crawley lying in an insensible state about three yards from the line. His head was dreadfully cut, and the flesh of his left cheek was cut completely off. His friend, who is a stranger on a visit, was ins dead from a blow on the temple. Crawley was broug ht on to Newport by the Bristol train. At Newport statics he was attended by Dr. Woollet, who dressed his wounds, and he was con veyed home to his father-in-law's (Mr. Lemma, super intendent of the locomotive department) home in a fly, attended by Dr. Woollet and Mr. Fatten, station master. No hopes are entertained of his recovery. POISONED BY GINGER BEER.—On Tuesday a, ly dressed young woman entered the shop of Mr. respectably dressed Ferdinand-street, Chalk Farm-road, and asked for a bottle of ginger -beer. Mrs. Hales having opened a bottle Matey's), filled a tumbler, and handed it to the young woman, who drank heartily. She had hardly I swallowed it when she was seized with burning pains in the throat and cheat, and suffered most exoratiating agonies. Mr. John Hall, a surgeon in Chalk Farm-road, being sent for, found the young woman had taken something of a most poisonous nature. On applying the stomach pump and other remedies he relieved the stomach of saw of its poisonous contents, though the pains continued. On examining the ginger-beer left in the tumbler,and breaking the bottle (one of the common earthenware sort) he found a quantity of &smite of copper adhering to the ine'de of the latter, and the former strongly impregnated with the poison. The sufferer still lies ins verydangerous state. Nam Poort-Lam Acr.—Yesterday an sot of par liament was printed to provide for the r.dief of the poor in the New Forest, Southampton. The Poor-law Board is empowered to set out the boundaries of the extra-paro chial lands in the New Fared, as also in "No Man's Lend" and the adjoining parishes. The board, with the consent of the Commissioners of Woods end Fonda, may divide the extra-parochial lands into townships, and jus tices having jurisdiction may appoint overseers. HEALTH AND STRENGTH RESTORED BY DU BARRY'S DELICIOUS RIVALLED. ARADICA AVID Width cares without medicine or ineoeventsece dyspepsia, Ina= cowl, asthma, consumption, debility, constipation, ota, palpitation, I nervous, bilious, liver, and *tooted* complaint& It eaves fifty times it, cost la other remedies, and is tie beef food for Infanta 60,000 ears annually.-11a Barry and Cc, lie. 77, Regent-street, Loudon. W. In tow at is. le& ; lib.. ts. Pd. is. ; bibs.. sea. : also at el, Gracscharrhotreet ; 4, Clwasekle; 6;6. /80, and MI Omordemset ; midst all grocers.—iAdvertimmanta , 500:ICH By4RIATRAII9NB. JOIIN 6JUR, Banohory, hotel keeper, August 17, et Crafts Hotel, Stoaahaven. Jones Branco, Aboyne, builder, August 17, at the LIPIZIOn Tree Hotel, Aberdeen. COMMITMENTS BY COUNTY Cousra.—Yesterday, at the Judges chambers, in the *sae " Lyons v. Pal. linger," a new point of law was raised es to a commitment by • county court. The defendant had made • deed and claimed protection under it. He was summoned so a county court for not paying when he had the means, and he claimed protection under the deed. On his commitment for forty days he applied to • judge at chambers, and it was submitted that the deed was a full protection. Mr. Baron Bramwell, however, viewed the commitment as a " punishment" and not a process to be reached by the deed, and he therefore refused the application to discharge. THE REARING FISHING AT DUNHILL —The pros sped' of the fishermen are considerably better this week, and a good beginning has been made. On Monday night all the boats, numbering about 150, went off. The night was altogether favourable for the fishing, being dull with an occasional shower. Instead of going far out to sea they shot their nets in the bay, between the harbourbead and Skateraw, and the trial was attended with favourable results. On Tuesday morning a number of them were well fished, having from twenty mans downwards, several reporting themselves at nineteen, eighteen, and seventeen wens. Others bad from eight down to two and three, and se a whole the take was pretty general. Prices ranged fray 34. to 40a. per teen in the morning, bat in the scares of the foreseen several shots were sold at a redwood rate. The fish were Urge, and of excellent quality. There was a large addition to the boats on Tuesday night, and 10010110 where about 200 were at the fishing ground. Tl'. at meazkat. 43 ; told. 39. TRAFFIC RETURN& Mae Par Mer- TM' ItULWAYIe. opla storm damMt Wm* sonny July ft o Ottoman Bot 41G nJ Week ending July ek Great Central of Belgium Lie 5.1 9 4 is 40 Loodos,Tilbury,anouttoad 2,126 34; THE Amt. —A huge ash tree is be 01 Rhode Island. At the ground mews it al6 Int cumference, 8 feet above the ground it erbuidi Ist sad here 23 branches diverge, each ma big . tree. The tree casts a circular shadow 7 5 test ix —Aso:ries* Paper. lAdvoyetasesnent. J —HOLLOWAY'S P ILLa-1 ening Weather —The sultry simmer days drilla d n o " e the feeble and d and Ma state eyesrai... unless some reetasWve, inch as the suriffisi p ays correct the disordering tendency. KODORIP ease to the nervous system, which h the tonna din 0 61 * meets, and praddes over every action which maistOsts and well- or the body. No nee can °retetio tip * shy of keeping the nerves well limns, and ate Mt these Pills aosompltah that awl. They ax ch. antidotes to indigestion, Irregular iarcuisam Psld headache, and costiveness, that were ever taveeted. sequence have attained the largest sale and WOW // TILE CATTLE PLAQUI. OFFICIAL RETURN% This return gives the number thisin ritain, which han bees ytee It Gr np artum of The divisions day e ‘ the werh ; " back " cases ausi 4 I Column I only r eoer ~ Ember shwa i n I • stteek.ed. he m • ! 1 *s link Coma Dirkdnas. 1 4 1 I ,4 1" HekoDolitn Natick 1 I am South u. Counties - oje , South Mid. Counties 37 42 SEW all L IN Eastern Counties _ 6 It 11410, seia South West. Counties S 271 I to -- I Mk West Mid. Counties 65 63' 7437 i eta North Mid. Counties 81 Is 19007 e 1 North West. Counties MN 90 UM 3 = Torkslure Northern Counties - an;;LT MonsouthshAWales 6 3 eau Iht Scotland - I Totals - SUU (Signed) WILLIAM CLOW., • • Statistical Office of the Cattle Hem Privy Council Office, An, The return shows that 221 attacks ran occurred during the week ended Age of 13 on the previous week. Ceor a digl ii adding an estimated average of attacks the week, but which may be rubsequarit n dia the heading ‘ . Back eases," the tounker Ai% be 243. Fresh outbreaks took pleas la *h is where cattle are kept ; the number of mei the previous week being 46. HMV-Three inSPectors, who re ported eills not repeated In time for this return, ek fa, M lAncoln, 1 ; Norfolk, I turd Maori. I. tbs. ported 3 cues last week. MARKETS SUGAR.-BRISTOL, Arcrs 10.-'lle . • dull-this week and sales small at ne w foi e raw and refined. COTTON. - LIVERPOOL, Accra 10.-:ffia cotton has been fair throughout the watt, le; sing innuendo of the maintenanc e o f the %am, • per cent. keeps the market hem, ems . almost every dmaription are reduced. Fie there is a pretty good inquiry, ma pa stead American is In general demand, sad gd, to ed. per lb. In the middle qiile t sales of Bawd have been to a Si: l o t prices have fallen 4d. to id. per 11 1 , h only a limited liminess has been done, sal g des been submitted to of id. to Id. per lb. Play a way id. to id. per lb. East Indlaa dewelptinr• in fair regent butyrrices are quoted is sue id. to id. per lb. lower than at the also dal Speculators have taken during the week 4,711 late Crte, 20,570 bales, and the trade th,370 tela ea r i a noderate demand to-day, and a Net aitta generally unchanged. The sales are B,olllld ik d 2,000 are for export and speculation. the the official quotations :-Fair OrlsW, ; Hid. air 'Mobile, 15id. ; raidelling,l3o. ; F 13id. COTTON GOODS.-thsweNsern, draw 1 thing has occurred since Tuesday to anesietril or lessen the difficulties under whack to. mew IA present suffering. The Bank rats renal • with the scarcity of money prices are dal** indisposed to give out orders. The angst kr yarns is very gnat to-day. There Ism* fWs ' Lion to do business at lower prier, kat lky se which spinners are not yet disposed to awe, mi qnently it has ended in nothing. Row *Os, been very Sat, and pins lower than as Tank, people ley that dur• the last half-hear t • rather more inquiry in this broach of thr mist rather more doing in fine yarns, bit in ii eh* report. Fine yarns, yarns of high counts,inerst much affected by dulness of late as low rig net. ben, which are in some instances id. to' 11 • • rates at which they could be bought lest oat. market is worse than 1t was on Tsetse marked unwillingness on the part of haw to business. Prices are lower. The prices eking lower, and such as manufacturers coat - - French note to Prussia is the source of a sad • • easiness, as are commercial rumours free • both have had • bed effect en the mark. X• Fender and Co., in their send-monthly rink f of yesterday, give their quotations far kstep• 9d. per piece under the rates they was teats set night Mo. TALLOW.-FluDair Evemwc.-Ths *mkt steady to-dsy, and prices are fairly lapportsi little business, however, has been doeeepicelerm quote r-elpot New, 44e. 3d.; Ukraine, 44•64; • September, 445. 6d.; October to Drank DeCrLhher, 455. 9d. to 465. • town tuna 4k cash. At the auctions, of iOO casks deed Odessa sheep, 435. ed. ; South Americas 4k Australian beef, 435. ed. very 6ne. Coceset Cochin, 535. Bd. ; Ceylon, 445. 3d. ; no Palm oil Arm ; 41s. tine Lagos.; 4tl.Zii• nut oil, 38s. 6d. CORN.-Cenuorrono, AVMs? 10.-Heager • settled, and heavy rain has fallen. Bat Lge an come to market. A few paresis shots to* 575. to 584. ; old red Is. dearer; whits ch barley shown red, hurow, wheat, and the trade was dell at led not • n Ao tG.s°. otr da. ar Yt lo s .- Is W .; e whi ha te ve ha-d 514. abredie,, which impedes 49a.ton im ls.; white hs . 54a. to to operathes. s7a Weathe r COALS.-Lornotr, Arousr 10.-WA its 90s. ed. ; Walls End Hetton, 20s. ed. ; Lyons, IS.. 3d. • Walls End South Elite, P Walls End Tuturiall, ISs. 6d. ; Walls ffier 19s. 6d. • Wallis End Heugh Ball, i l l. f4X; , Kelloe, 9d. ; Walls End Eut Walls End Tees, 201. 34. ; Brencepsth Q 5 ad' BIRTHS, MARRLAGES, AND DI BIRTHS. EVEEB.-Aagost 9, at Wrath wrne-park, the 'wife of G ase a moo. Hz'. • -Art ta at Porttaad, Weymouth, -the wife 8 lt. Matey, • sow Liaillir : l l7 - e jrji. O tA f - H.. All iae lg". K . e1 E:q 9.4:1 , ol6B4B7.adiso:rdfn"hcaugutdar" fee twat 8, at gydanitim•villa, Hiabb u r, 5 WASH .-August n, at . West Heston, the wife otE. lt XII of a RIPLEY. sew -A•zzust 9, at ltiotenroad, ClapasullWX thg H. W. Itapiery, Ifaq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ' _ _... BEwtmir—coLLES.--Aasast 8, fa Nenkstows on- C 316•000- A Matto AmmDtufwill,sophtio.. t ui. T. Ne uque n/W. Pai ofGlarioo.- of TrahlfPr-terraes, Monks town, count), Doltlio-,1 BKELTON-KVAPIB.--August 8, at St Pura , "'Z i ii likettoUt s q., of Clapham to Elizabeth Izabella, W. L _. Fl it or Alwww-rosd, Cottonton ..h., WOOWNOUPIE-B KELEY.-Auillta If• 41 ea ' ' I-. Xk 4 tfaB -11111 . by the 1141. 0. Vi. M00d120491. 0 . _ .. ...,, 61 MO ut J. P. Woodhouw, Emu of Lansdeam w- Matiton=oullary latesrard, daughter of C. X tn.. 08 -square, Nottlng-hill. DEATH& .......* IllklrXrGT•-.AngttW it, at Noribaseptoutelatit J '7 ,0 111.11..C.5. sod L.6.A., aged aa. NotUDE - bIE, seed ea. C°PPIN--Aniest 8, Mrs. E. Copprn, of {ad'""` 0 , J X DAND.- 6. at Brealraea-creseent. MIL widow AVM* Ur. J. Dead. ~,d 1 01 bIG. GLEADALL-Augurg 9, A Banger-lone , 914121- -. alleadmii. aged fili. tee O iC SMlTH:Anipizgl 0, hy,l o gge, !wham, Atm Banlauffsq.., ri, Of ° Wal ZAD.-Atillust 8, Eliza, relict of the Welt 0 head Inn., Clough old, Itsytenstall. Lratesehllt. GM 1 , tiny" irl Prlnteduariitli6o4 WSW ], i r ei g oi rrt ib i tt 011 e• tit 4Awilmorgit Pr" 11.1 W linviDay, Anon 11. iMIL IF