The Express. — London, England, 1865-12-09 00:00:00

14 ----- TIIS CLERKENWELL GUARDIANS ANp THE CLERKEN WELL WORKHOUSE. --- ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ... NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—LittcegrElt, DEC. 8. Mr. Justice Mellor mine from Warwick (on Wednesday *vetting, sad yesterday speed the 00011121116011 in this town. Wiiiiii,a ;Vizier, an engine driver, surrendered to take his trial, slurped with manslaughter. Be bad been com mitted by the coroner of Leicester upon the c harge, the death having occurred here, although the accident was between Crewe and Chester. On the 73rd of August last an excursion train of the London and North Western Rail way was returning from Chester, containing between 700 and 800 passengers, sod when near Wosverton station ran into a salt train that was being shunted. The deceased was in a second class carriage, and at first seemed only much shaken, but died on the rth of September, in coneeqshe ruencee , so the medical witnesses deposed. of thelinjuries aired when the collision took place. Mr. Merewether wu for the prosecution ; Mr. Orridge defended the prisoner. The learned Judge having directed a bill to be preferred against the prisoner at the present assizes, the grand jury, after considerable deliberation, ignored it. Coder thus carcanistances, Mr. hlerewether said, with the concurrence of his lordship, he should offer no evidence upon the coroner's inquisition. A verdict of Not Guilty wu then recorded. Mr. Orridge then called the attention of the court to the fact that the prisoner hail bees upwards of eight years in the service of the London and North Western B. &way, and had always borne a good character. The learned Judge said as the matter was now at an end it would be better to allow no discussion. The busiest' for the borough of Leicester with this case came to a close. Thi s morning Mr. Justice Mellor charged the grand jury for the cou nty and commenced trying the prisonereers oimple Two or th ree of the cues in the calerular w cases that ought tobave been tried at quarter sessions, and the judge expressed his surprise at their hiving been com mitted to this ;seize, the winter cause being expressly for ; the trial of crimes of a serious ammeter. ---- [SLIM 01 sociaroßts AND YIINTMER rAirrcutAan To or orrAnura at 21112 0711C11 07 TOT Cam.,011714.114 00011 01` gaggsurrcy, sAsomaLuA DANK ItUPTS. Saxon Moose, Oreen-etreet, lietlinallreen, corn chandler, to surrender O . 10, et 11. LOIS= erwrair, lyres -place, Dalston, dealer In beer, Dec. 10, at 11. cluauld cams, RNINDINDS, Upper Thameeetreet, and Lod dig....row, Hackney, agent toe the salsa sgric lllo / 211° P le " meats. Dec. 90, at 11. FREDERICK Passion, Queen-dreet, Pimlico, and Oreenwicb; miscellaneous salesman, Dec.2o, at 11. WILLIAM LOCK, LlDdpolt. HNINTOIDIKe, I IILe florid. Dec. tog 12. THOMAS HARDMAN. Portugaletreet, Iron moulder, Dec. Iri. at 12 lons Ilion An BRADLR. Ctoldoll-CONHOOD,IMIPONKSK,Dec.2O,atI2. TH O MAS HeJtaln, Drowning-place, Greenwich. carpenter, Dec. 20. at 12. JOHN CARMAN and 1211.1.1.L11 800111, Zatt-rolid.lel27-inesl. Deco mongers, bee. 10, at it 111D4RY 01KYKIL Yort-st., Old Hent-rd., carman, Dec. 10, at 1. WILLIAY Pout:Ll, Bridge.KoW, Pimlico, journeyman etatensason. Dec. 21. at il. WILLIAMDsvim, Clapham -place, Hackney, lOrtiMaii e Minder, Dec. 21, at 12. 6 sollGE WILLIAM socTawicu., Color. Northanipt onsblre. cooper, Dec. 21, at 11. JoHN HOWL% Tanbridge, Kent, coach builder, Dec. 21. st 11. andis.mns GIRT. labiord, Kent, tailors, Dec. 21. -- i;t 12. DANIEL BRCNIIZLL SUMS, New Windsor, Berkshire, attorney. Jau. 9, at 11. Y.DIITSD PTNIC, gingutreet, Aldgate, baker, Jan. 9, at 1. GEoROL NATHAILLI , Brugagiag, New Ow:eh-road, Camberwell, pyrotechnk artist, Dec. 18, at 2. JAILS DANCES, staying at the International Hotel, London bridp, Jan. 10. at 11. Jost* SPRINGFELLoW, Stratford, railway clerk, Jan. 10, at 11. CHARLRS PARKIR, Groat 112ch0eldntreet, Begent-street, lock manutaAurer, Jan. 10 at 12. GioRGE EDKN, Huntingdoantreet, Kinmdand-road, and Lever street, Rt. Luke's, shoe Manufacturer . Jan. 10, at 1 2 . 0201102 TWitutit, Llighetrect, Notting-hill, boot maker. Jan. 10, at 12. JOHN SCOTT, Lambeth-walk, chemist. Jan. 10, at I. EDRICSAUSuiIar, Birmingham, builder, Dec. 20, at 12. JOHN WILKINSON. Birmingham, draper, Dec. 911, at 11. JOHN Bitoolige, Birmingham, ironn,onger, Dec. 20. at 12. WILLIAM MORKL9 Davin, Ourestry, filitopshlre, draper, Dec. 22, at 12. EDWRD JAMES BEE,Whapkiale, Uncolosh., farmer. Dec.l9,st 11. HENRYR WILKINSON HAIIMoirD, GOlnersal, Yetkahlre, wool mer chant, Dec. 18, at 11. JOHN BROwna, York, Dee. 18. at It. SAMUEL WALLIM, Ablerfigate street, wooer, Dec. 22. at 12. TWOS As FISH 11. She Meld, steermerchant. Dec. 224 at 1 2 - Joint Owes, Llsodudno, !pine dealer, Dec. 19, at 11. WILLIAMS MASON TASH, Chester, tobacconist, Dec. 19, at at 12. 12. CHARLES PEARSON, Manchester , shipp in g agent, Dec. 19, MARL Nl= HELLS, Ashton-under-Lyne, machine maker Dee. 19, at 12. THOMAS IGIEDKRICI DotiDDIOTON. Manchester, merchant, Dec. 19, at 12. J suss Iloncsos sad THOMAS MASON, B or wick. Wharton, and Eigill, Lancashire, stone dealers. Dec. 20, 1 1 .. 11 . at 11. JoHN WILDMAN YATES. Ashburton, Devons hire., Dec. 20, WILLIAM BALL, Salford, Unmake, Silperintentleirt of machines, Dec. 10, at 12. WILLIAM RICHARD HARDT, Spalding, Lincolnshire, cabinet maker, Dec. 20, at 10. JAMES SMITH, Docking, Norfolk, tailor, Dec. 21, WILLIAM CARLIN, Allreton, Derbyshire, carrier, Dec. et l . DANIEL WYNNK, Abergele, Denbighshire, wheelwright, Dec. 18, at it. ROBERT DOWDISHELL, Cranium, Gloucestershire, innkeeper , Dec. 20, at 11. FRANCIS WALL, Eaton-under -Haywood, Shropshire, bladmadth, Dec. 21, at 11. Jos GREY, Shintleld, Berkshire, br'cklayer, Dec. 42 , at 11 . Jolts CANILLE iIrRNAND CLAUDE. Liverpool, clerk, Dec. 19. at 3. JAMES !Leeson. Bootle, Lancash. , commission agent, Jan.!, at 3. STkriirg lionsar hill. Liverpool, and New Brighton, Chasigre, areldteet. Dec. le, at g. THOMAS HOLDEN, Salford, salesman. Dec. 30. at 91. , JOHN Fortns, Self ord, late nurseryman, Dec. 3 0 , at 9 1. Jong herrn. salford, painter, Dec. 30, at 91. THoMAs WILLIAM Bitzgros, Bristol, late cashier, Dec. IS at 12. HENRY PRAMS, Flahponda, Gloucestershire, horse dealer, Dec. 22, at 12. DAVID FARRAR BOWER, Hunslet, Yorkahlre, MalMfaCtUrin chemist, Dcc. 19, at 12.1 WILLIAM MILKY, Halifax, beerhouse keeper, Dec. V. atilt WILLIAM 1115A212, Mbitilesvich, Che,hire, Miner, Dec. 19. at 3. JOHN Aln Ssycri. LAIVELL, Boston, Lissookiehlre, car penter., Dec. 20, at 10. JAMES GATr.S, Niudeld, Sews, butcher, Dec. 21, at 11. W mien Wetritsm, Galesborough , fellnionger, Dec. 19, at 1 0 . Grotto. clingers, Great Yarmouth, coalagent, Dec. ES, at 12. JAMES OWES, Macclesfield, Joiner, Dec. 19. at U. W ILLI A X TIFFIN, Carlisle, schoolmaster, Dec. el. at 11. Jolts BAINDRIDGF, Carlisle, innkeeper, Dec. 21. at 11. FAWKEv, Stapleton, Curnberland, labourer. Dee. 22, at S. .1 Ants HAYWARD, Southampton, boot maker, Dec. 21, at 12. JAMESSTANLZY, Manchester, provision dealer, Dec. 20, at lit. Eves JONIS, lianaslntfroad, Otrdigsnsh., labourer,Dec.2 tl. . JoHN BILL, Ramsey. Bunts, potato dealer. Dec. 20, at 10. wtudi liktbsk, litinta, farmer. Dee 90, at 10. u, FREDKRILK waiLsm Dnioirron, Cheaterfield, Derblshire. bar dresser, Dec. 19, at 11. 191881 FARMER, Ashford, Kent, late Innkeeper, Dec.2l, at 10. G goalie J ANN AN, Cambridge, fishmonger, Dec. 21, at 1. JOLLY KRUM, Braniley, Yorkshire, brick manna. Dec. 19, at 1!. BANK RUPTCIES ANNULLED. May 2.5. Justice fluerteg. Pulley. Yorkehtre, dealer in pigs. Dec. 4. GEORGE AIiGI:STCS SYMOIDS, Polandelreet. Orford" street, and Ealing, bill broker. Nov. 24. JAMES BINGHAM, Portobello.rOlid, Bayswater, builder. Dec. 4. JOAN MORRIS, Ithymney, Monmouthshire, and Pontlot tye, Glamorganshire. grocer. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES ACTS. ST. JAMIW INDESTRIALCo-OrERATIVI SOCIETY (UNITZT )) . Dec. 21. at 11, at Viestmbuter County Court—peUtiou for winding up. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. ISAAC BERSACD, South-street. Finsbury, merchant—Sad divi dend of 6 Dec. 13 and subsequent Wednesday. at Par. Baslughall-street. C ARO LINE ARNOLD, Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square, boarding house keeper—let dividend of Id., Dec. 13 and subsequeut Wednesday, at Parttime', Besinghallatreet. GEORGE WILLIAM fIAwLEY, Oakban,. Rutaedshire, coal Incr. chanay,t—iat st dividend of B leg. 34d, Dec. 13 and subsequent Wed nesd Perigee', asiegball-street. ELIZAHL - rii EMLING GoIiERET, Torquay, Devonshire, lodging house keeper—Did dividend of la. 311., any Tuesday or Friday, at CarriilC+, rioter. HENRY 'IIITH, F.celeshill and Gnoull, Staffordshire. chemist — dividend of 2s. I t , any Thursday, at Kinnear's, Birmlogbanl. JAMES itoisiNsoli ilortriE, Church Stretton, Shropshire, chemist —divideed of 41. any Tliiirsilay, at Kinnear's, Birming- ham. JONAS! AICORKW, Manchester, banker-lit dividend of Jan, 0, and any subsequent Tuesday, at Morgan's, Manchester. ALLEN Entiesusom and JOBE WIOGLISWORTLI, Burnley, Lanca shire. cotton manufacturers -Ist dividend of lid., Jan. 9, and any subsequent Tuesday, at Morgan's, Manchester. RouERTSON, Liverpool, mast maker -god dividend of v. 41.1., any Wednesday. at Turner's, Liverpool. Jong Wyss?. WILLIAM, Llandudno, propll dealer-Ist did. dend of Gd., any Wednesday. M Turner's, Liverpool. RoBERT STONE, Liverpool, joiner -Ist dividend of Is. 6 d. , a n y Wednesday, at Turner's, Liver Pool. DIVIDEND& Dec. If. J. Wilson, Old Leake. Lincolnshire, farmer-Jan. 24. G. Pearce, Kingston.upon.llull, bookseller -Dec. 19. E. Coward, Liverpool, grocer-Dec. 19. Laura Pemberton, Batton, Lanca shire, spinster- Dec. FL R. T. Fothergol, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and liebburn Quay, Durham, lamp black manufacturer -Dec. 22. W. Nieholson,thirilale, corn membant -Dec. 40. L Eaton, Mold, Inintshire, china dealer-Dec. 20. W. Sharp and B. Sharp, Mold, ironfounders -Dec. 19. W. Phillips. Bath -Dec. 19. 0. E. 811enz, Bath-lk c. 0. G. Howard, Tempsford, Bedfordshire, shoemaker -Dec. 20. A. Randall, Sutton, Bedfordshire, butcher - Dec. 20. W. Knight, jun., Bandy, Bedfordshire, tinplate worker-Dec. 20. J. Spring, jun., Sandy, hairdresser-Iles. 22. T. Holland, Cheadle Bulkelcy, Cheshire, candlewick spinner-Dec. 22. T. Farley, Woodplumpton, Lancashire, shoemaker-Dec. 22. R. Loader. Preston. French polisher-Dec. 22. W. Moulding, Preston, cut nsil nianufricturee- Dec. 19. W. Barr. Coveritry, wh• elwrlght- Dee. 21. W. Judd, Crewe, Cheshire, licensed victualler-Dec. 22. Mary rusriker, Landport, Hampshire, grocer-Dec. 22. J. G swat, Landport, superannuated grunter from the Mal IsavY-Den. ti. L. cross, Landport, baker -Dee. 22. G. Vanden, Landport, builder-Dec 22. Caroline Elizabeth Poole, tandoori, late grocer -Doc. 22. J. D.itterill, Ali erstokr, Ilanipshire. brewer-Dec. 22. W. S, Sole, Landport, caulker in Portsmouth Dockyard-Dec. 22. T. R Martin. Port-month, engineer In the royal navy-Dec 22. F. Tyer, Landport, beer retailer-Dec. 21. F.. J. A. Wigley, land port. builder-Dec. 22. W. Bubb, Southsea, builder-Dec. 42. Catherine Mary Grover. Landport, limeburner -Dec. 22. B. E . Landport, carpenter-Dee. 22 W. Keuderdine, southern, brewer -Dec. 22. J. Gibbs, Gosport. bootmaker-Dec. Yi IL Streek, Farcham, Hampshire, blacksmith -Dec 2. D. J. Simmons, Labd rt, butcher-Jan.?. W. A. Vaine, Sparsholt llTmpablre. pnb- V. , nean -Jan. 17. J. Chapman and G. Orange?, Oldbury, Mores'- , tersbire, iroummters -Jan. i. J. Crostliwaite, Liverpool. mer ch • nt. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Rorhi and C. A. P. Bullock, Evesham, Worcestershire, Rine merchnota—J. C. AtOstrlcb, A M•Ostrich. and J. Carmi chael Liverpool, drapers. so far aa regards J. C. IttOstrick - A. Schofield, .1. A. Schofield, and C. Schofield, Oldham, timber merchauts, so tar as regards J. A. Schofield—J. Milburn and J. Burnicle, 3liddleshrough, joiners—S. Steeds and T. Pilditch , Radstock, Somersetabire, coal merchants—J. Archer and W. Cope, Derby, silk dyers—J. White and W. White, Nottingham, lace rnabufacturers-1 1 . Ford and C. W. Duncan, Chester, attorneys—J. Moore and J. Winter, Jun., Whitehaver, Cumiv r land, c3rtera—J. Emanuel and 1. Pavia, Birmingham. merchants Morrell and F. Jackson, Bradford nd IgverponL °vision merchauts—J. Roberta, T. Dolma. J. 11 . Fraser, and J. Butler, Bristol, iron manufacturers —G. Osmond, C. R. Carter. and Osmond, Newington causeway Surrey, importers of marble chimney nieces—ti. Kb k, T. Kirk. and C. M. Dixon. Working ton. Cumberland, bar iron manufacture's, so far as regards C. W. Dixon—T. Elnor and J. Machin, Carlton, Nottinghamshire, malt stero—J. B. Brooke and T. AL Wood, Leeda, cl,th merchants— '''. Heading. jun., and W. Heading, Fennell, Norfolk. millers — R. White and W. Bennetts, Penance, COrawalL builders—W. Livesley. E. Powell, and F. Hanley, Staffordshire, china manufacturers, so far as W. Livesley—C. Carter and C. W. Carter, George•street, uston.road. nary warelsoasemen— D. Anderson. J. W. Anderson. and J. Robotson, Liverpool. dr.:pers, so far as regards J. Robertson—W. Holmes and J. Smith. It Finsbury, packing es.,e nukern—W. Bird sad J. Hanley. Liverpool—W. Harvey, .I. L. Harvey. and If. Neville, Stratford. Eno s . starch nianufacturers—W Latimer, L Sulky. and H. Simon. New York, United States, and Nottingham and Glasgow, Great Britain—H. IL Sykes and A. W. Sykes, Leeds. cloth merchanta. BOOTCS ESQUISTEATIONS. Riskier Ron PIM= and WILLIAM HARM Eirlienl, Eglidteld, coachbultders, Dec. IS, at the Guildhall, Perth. Jamas WooDS, PATRICK WOODS, and EDWAnD WOODS. Glasgow, fruit merchanta, Dec. 12, at the Faculty-hall. Glavow. Jolts F.ottaLn, JUR., Glasgow, merchant, Dec. 11, at the Faculty. ball. gleam , . EDWARD WiLLIRM Enormous, Edinburgh, clothier, Dee. 11, at Lyon and Turnbull's looms, Edinburgh. The London oorreepoedent of the Manchester Gearehasi, Morrie( to the Jamaica busies^ ways "There i. • troy painful maim correct that Cardwell has ressived despatches which he wiebea to with hold out the prates°e that they are unsuitable for trekker fiat. I. abaci abeam fortrogitt I sloped tb. Oeicsial Secretary et State will be only toe glad to make • 111611 S breast of it tor kis eve sake. There is. at ell aqua* ape thieg which Doweingatrest must set be Aetna se bold back, sad that is the orereepsadissee beams OesegeWdliast Gordon sad the Colosiel Secretary, serape (alp et witke bare hitherto belie permitted to appear. lam told the' It oentsies more this ass glue to the otbsswime easessaasable ctrtoay with which this safaciasste isatisoww was dime • TOE ff THE CONFERENCE OF HUSH MIIMBIRIf. -- • A special meeting of these guardians wog held! go a recent etening, to consider the desirability ti greeting a new workhouse on a more eligible and commodious site. The present building has long been a disgrace to the parish, and a cryiug scandal on the guardians. Its shortcomings have beeu frequently pointed out by the representative of the Poor-law Board ; the sanitary commissioner of our contemporary, The Lancet, commented upon them with well-merited severity ; and we have at intervals during the last two years drawn the atten tion of the public in these columns to the supineness and obstructiveness of the guardians of Clerken well, as evidenced by the wretched accommoda tion awarded to their poor. Exactly twelve months ago an official letter was I sent from the Poor-law Board to the following effect :—" Having regard to the size and mode of occupation of the several wards, and also to the confined area, and other circumstances of the workhouse, the board are of opinion that the number to be accommodated in the workhouse s hould not, with due regard to health, exceed 460 inmates." On Saturday tight last, 624 people slept iu the space which, according to the central authority, cannot house more than 460 without injury to health ; 60 of these were casuals, and the remaining 564 regular inmates of the house. Taking this pregnant fact as a text, one of the guardians proposed, at the meeting we refer to, the following resolution :—" That it is in the opinion of this board desirable that a new workhouse be provided for the poor of this parish, and that a committee be formed to consider and report to the board on the subject." Studiously mild as this proposition seems to be, it was rejected. The speaker, probably knowing Lis audience, went largely into statistics, and endea voured to show that a fitting workhouse could be built without any very great cost to the parish. So much for the site of the present house, so mica money to be borrowed from the Exchequer Bill Loan C omm issioners, and then, it was argued, by a small parochial rate the necessary change would be effected without any very alarming pecuniary mulct. The seconder of the proposal took a similar tone, and insisted that it made a Clerkenwell " rate-1 payer's blood boil to think of the inadequate ac commodation provided for the poor." From the placid and tractable tone of the ma jority of the guardians present when Mr. Parnell paid his official visit the other evening, it might have been fairly hoped that the necessity for a new workhouse would be readily admitted. The poor law inspector then commented, for perhaps the twentieth time, upon the wretchedly cramped cou dition of the present house, and ou the night of his speech there were, in the space for 460, 340 inmates, independently of casuals, out of which 226 were ou the books as sick. No word was then spoken iu favour of the workhouse, and it seemed to be tacitly admitted that the less said on that subject the better. Nevertheless the reasonable proposition just quoted was opposed with quiet vehemence. One guardian objected that the motion pledged the board to the erection of a new workhouse, the ne cessity for which he denied. Another bad no ob jection to a committee being appointed to check the first speaker's figures, but cautioned the board against acting rashly—save the mark I —in pro nouncing on the expediency of a new building. A third guardian harped upon the expense of send ing the paupers to a distant house—some ground at Islington, half a mile off, had been mentioned among other sites—and thought Mr. Villiers might "get a bill" to compel the people owning property at the back of the present workhouse to sell, that it might be en larged ; while a fourth insisted that poverty was decreasing in the parish, and that "it would be punishment for life to the poor creatures" if they were removed to a workhouse properly built and of sufficient size for health. Upon these intelligible grounds an amendment was put and carried, by 18 against 7, " that a com mittee should be appointed to consider the expe diency of erecting a new workhouse, and—and here was the real sting of the opposition—to lay such facts and figures before the board as they may be advised." It is difficult to avoid the couclusiou that, "considering the expediency" of what is pa tent to every visitor to Clerkenwell workhouse, is a diplomatic way of shelving the question. What the Poor-law Board has advised, what statistics prove to be absolutely necessary, and what no visitor can avoid pronouncing on gravely if not indignantly, is practically declared to be unneces sary—at least for the present. The proposer of the reform was gently bantered on having "in his zeal cut down his figures very low ;" and that great weapon in the hauls of those averse to change — delay—was gained by a dexterous appeal to the parochial pocket. Meanwhile cellars are turned iuto bedchambers, and hundreds of poor wretches are cramped up in rooms unwholesome from overcrowding, and with exercise yards which are so like dens as to be a mockery on their name. The Poor-law Board has the power of peremptorily closing this or any other workhouse as unfit, and but for the difficulty of providing for the aged and sick inmates this course would not improbably have been adopted years ago. It may be as well for the Clerkenwell committee to bear this fact in mind, and to remember that atoo slavish consideration for " figures" may result in their having to do compulsorily what they ought to have done lung auto, but what they have still the oppor tunity of doing voluntarily and with passably good POSTPONEMENT 0? THE, ROYAL AORD'ULTURAL SOCIETVA MEETING OF NEXT YEAR.--WO leAro from Nor wich that, owing to the cattle plague, the Royal AgE2l. tuna Society will hold no show next year. The Bury ht. Veined , meeting will be postponed until GOVERNMENT INSCRANCE AND ANNCITIES.— The following additional poet-offices will be open, en and after the 11th of December, for the receipt of proposals for the insurance of lives or the nurchaae of govern ment aunuities, under the act 21 and' 8 Viet., cap. 41, acd for the receipt of the premiums becoming due to the Post wiaster4 :moral, from time to time, under contracts for the insurance of lives or the purchase of government annuities, and for the payment of soy sums which shall become pay able by the Postmaster-General under the Raid contract , . : Sampton (Tiverton). Secclem, Bedworth (Nuneatoo), Blyth flforpetel. Caerphilly (Cardiff), Carlton (Nottingham). Ecaeslial!, Festit.ing (Cameroon), Heilehinn (Hurst:green), Harborne ( Birmingham). Kes sick (Windermere), Kings Langley (Watford), Kings Norton (B.rmilighme), Leather. heed, Llanheris, Llaubrynmair (Shiewsbory), Loetwithiel, Lyme (Dorset), Mennintrer, Market Dosworth (Mackie!) Market WerAhtoa (Stough), Matlock (Bah), Montgomery (,hrewshury). Newton (Montgomery), Pale smelly (Ne,s• port, Monmouthshire), Red Hill, Stanhope (Darling. lee). These offices will be open for such pur poses during the hours appointed for the trans action of money order business. A handbill con taining the p incip II roles of the G.veroment In nuance and Annuitywffice, and of the Pest office Savings Bank', lug been printed for gratuitous distribution, and copies may be obtained at the above-named offices. A translation into Welsh of the hand-bill has also been printed for distriliutioo in Wales, end copies may be obtained at any Post-office in Wales which has been opened fertile trans action of Government Insurance sad Annuity business. The measure will, from time to time, be extended to other post• news than those named above, and due notice will be given of such extensions . If app lication be made to any post. master for the sztenaion of the measure to his office, he will at mice report the circumstance to the secretary. LONDON NEGRO AID SOCIETY.—At the executive committee meeting, held at Aubrey-house, on Thursday, at half-past 2 o'clock, Profewor was elected presi deet of the society. Mr. W. Skeen and Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., were chomp members of the executive committee, which is appointed to inset the first Tnnrsdey in every month at Aubrephousa at half-past 8 o'clock p.m. At the general committee meeting, held en the woe day at o'clock p.m . the sum of 401. was voted by the society to be sent imme diately to the Freed Men's Aid Association at Boston, Mu mshunatts, to the care of the Hey. S May, jun., to be ex pended in blankets or clotbisg somrding to his judgment- CliltrraL PALACE.—In addition to the attraction of the meow% sad pronmeade this &Remo 0, Mr. Rowland Wood's prize shorthorn will he exhibited. This remarkable animal, as much admired for his beauty as for his prodigious nine, carried off the honours at the Birmingham Cattle Mew. Hem at the Pianos from Birmingham yester ay in perfmassy and in good health. The Alhambra Overt will he illuminated at dash for the first time, and the Palm* will be lighted up for promenade. The Leipzig Borseteblatt of the 4th inst. says it mast interest German hoessellers to Isere that the grandson of the well-known George Joachim Gosehee, the Leipsig =;eor, is a member of Earl Russell's oalsinsa.—TAs The folloWing were the gentlemen who attended the centimes of Irish members O f Paliament beld in Dublin on the fith ead fish end. :—. O r eville, Loggfeed County ; George Bryan, Kllkiiony County ; J. Bagwell, Clonmel • M. CoebOly. Meath Cooney • W. Moore, Tip perary o;aunty ; J. Sines, Limerick eionnty •R. Arm stroog. Sligo Borough • rt. Dementia, Weixfore Borough M. O'Reilly, Longford County ; T. Kennedy, Louth Count) ; Barry. Cork Comity ;P. Urquhsrt, West meath County ; J. B. Dill on , Tipperary County J. F. Maguire, Cork City ; J. A. Blake, Water ford City ; Sir James Power. Wexford ; Sir P. O'Brien, King's Consty • Sir John Gray , Kil kenn y City The O'D a noghue, iralee ; 0. Stock, Carlow ; J. Olaardoo, Athlone; W. Whitworth, Drogheda. A series of 14 reso lutions was adopted. Toe first of them appellate a com mittee on the Lind goodies, who are requested to under take to frame a bill providing adequate compensation for all temente' improvements, and to encourage and induce the granting of leases by such WISE, u in the judgment of the committee may be thought desirable and practicable. The bill when approved of to be introducied into parliament, aod the support of it by government claimed es essential to their acquiring the confidence of the Irish people. The following are the gentlemen appointed :—Mr. Maguire, Mr. Oortally, The O'Donoghtie, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Sisals, Mr. Dillon. The second resolution urges the importance of combi nation and coneentratims to obtain the settUment of the quits tioo. The third denounces the appropriation of the tootle aisstioal T0T116041 to the church of a minority as an intoler able grievance. The fourth pledges the members to take the opinion of parliament on the church question on an early day during the ensuing *realm. The fifth demands that the Catholic University should be put on a footing of equality with all other colleges. The ocieferenee, however, acknowledges the willingness of the government to meet the just claims of the catholies in the matter. The sixth pledges the conference to advocate the extension of the denominational system of education to Ireland. The seventh, that pending the legislative settlement of the gum tips, the system should be minified to model training schools. The eighth is a declaration in favour of an uniform oath for membersof *Waters and dike holders. The ninth is, "That it is the duty of the gevernment to consider the peculiar circumstances of this country, which does not, like powerful' England and Scotland, possess the tidewaters of a and com utiddle-clase and fully-developed manufacturing mercial resources, and which. moreover, is exhausted by an enormo us annu m drain in the shape of absentee rents. end the expenditure of a large portion of our public revenue in England, and to assist by wise and fostering legislation in developing the wealth of the oeustry and the industry and enterprise of its ; and that with this view innement of the fisheries , the improvement of the ha of the c ountry. the extension of arterial drainage, and the promo tioe of other productive improvements, require the attention of the government and the mutat:ice of parliament." The tenth appoints Mr. Bagwell, Mr. Maguire. and Mr. Blake to prepare a bill to change the grand jury law@ of Ireland. The eleventh approves the prompt action of the executive in regard to the cattle plague. The twelfth pledgee the conference to support adequate measures to re form the Irish system of railways, brought in on the respon sibility of government. The thirteenth pledges them to oo operate with the advanced section of the English liberal party. The fourteenth is in favour of exteing the fran chise ; but any measure applied to Ireland s h ould be aooom panied with the safeguards necessary for the security of the voter. The name of Mr. Jonathan teen of added to the committee cherged with the preparation of a bill on the land question, but as Mr. Pies did Dot take part in the con ference, and the secretaries have sot as yet hsd an oppor %natty of seeing him, his amoebas not been included in the kmm• "RESS, 2, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1865 FROM LAST NIGHT'S UAZETTE. LAW INTELLSENCE. COUNT OF COMMON FLEAS. Befoc —DLO Jostles . 8. Minim st Nisi Pries is Londoe.-(e Mr. Bytes and a (lemma, Jury.) astrots k KEZDALL.--BESACIt OF Minn or NABBILOZ. This was an maim= recover damages for breach of er • promise of marrisge, and the defendant among oth things pleaded that the plaintiff had retained him from his promise. Mr. Serjeant Hamitic° and Mr. Butler Rigby appeared for the plaintiff, end Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., mud Mr. beware for the defendant. Mr. Serjeent Ballantine said that the plaintiff was • young lady between 20 and 21 year. of age, and was Pew sawed be understood of considerable personal attraction ; she was a lady of unimpeaned honour and respecta bility and well educated. She felt obliged to bring this action against the defendant, who he (the learned acrjeant) was bound to say, down to the time of his breaking his pro mise, was a man who appeared to be every way q ualified to become the husband of • young lady like the pintiff. Re was extremely veil connected. and was working his way ii the world in • highly honourable career, the press. ile had b e en engaged upon one of the p rinci p al provincial papers, and afterwards became a parliamentary reporter for • London journal, a position, it might be said , not onl y of usefulness but of high honour. The parties made the &a quanauts of each other at the latter end of 1863, and &only at ter a correspondent. commenced between them. lie would refer to some of those letters, and he would say that, in his opinion, no living being could entertain • doubt that • contract of marriage existed between the parties. The first letter commenced "My dear Ma dam," but subsequently warmer terms were used. The defendant also wrote a letter of considerable length (which the learned counsel teed) to the plaintiff's brother, in which be requested his sanction to his becoming a suitor for the plaintiff's band, setting forth his present posititor on and futon proepeots. lie then filled the post of subed itor of a Hull paper, but expected shortly to obtain an appoint ment on the parliamentary staff of one of the Loudon papers. The defendant talked of the plaintiff's " future prospects ; but she had no prospects but those of a penni less girl. with a mother who had to work hard to support her family ; iodeed the plaintiff's only prospect was in forming • good oonnexion. The style of address, of the d e f e ndant soon became "Dear Minnie;" and the jury would not be surprised to hear that by the end of the year they had arrived at the stage of " Dearest." (A laugh.) Amongst the letters read was the following:-"Dear Minnie, - You have written three letters to me about my lo ng silence. The reason is, that very extraor dinary circumstances have occurred which may cause us sever to =ease& other again. I have already left London, perhaps never to return. You may as well know the reason. When to Hull, and since, during • career of dissipation, vie, and what is called fast life, I incurred debts to the am ount of nearly 1.000/. I left Hull because of differences at home ; those differences have since been trebled. My father his been in L 'mien some days, and refuses to accept the reeponaibility of those debts unless an I will th le e only g l ands Englanemos d. The debar lam pledged shall be paid, d far this to be done is for me to quit these shores. I intend, if I remain in the same mind, to go India, via Mar =Ries, but my plans are not in any way settled. I know not what to do. I have left London, and when I shall return I do not know. It is is reference to you that I feel the most. I told you always I was bad, but 1 had no idea things would come to this pen. lam glad, however, you have been saved from the preci- I pice, and that you may ye t get tome one worthy of you. cannot dwell upon the subject. You may address letters to the London address still; they will be forwarded, no doubt.-Yonrs, in great trouble, The learned serjeant stated that he was instructed that there was no truth in the statements in this THE BROMPTON ilosrirAt PATIENTS AT MADEIRA. letter ; no rumour of any dissipation or quarrel with —This time last month considerable interest was elicited his family bad ever reached the plaintiff's ly and as by the departure of the aft oonsomptive invalids selected to to the defendant leaving his country, he hd been conti winter in the genial climate of Madeira. The news of their nuously, and was still in this country, f ami ly , was be side =rival in the Wand, and a few particulars afforded by tiered in respectable emplotment at that very time. In the letters received by this mail from Captain Erakias conclusion he and the jury, not by their verdict to indict (H.B.M• Consul) and from the superintendent, will be ruin on this young ci ao, but still to award proper damages clay lass interesting. The steamer Maria Pia, whose to the lady who had had her feelings so cruelly trifled with. ond cabin was filled by the patients, sailed from Lo at Mrs. Elizabeth De la Hunt, the plaintiff's mother, said ae at 2 a.m. on the Btb November, arriving at Lisbon at 10 -In 1863 I was residing at Groombridge, near Tunbridge. km. on the 13th, having had • fair wind sod fios weather wells. The plaintiff will be 23 next March. I first saw the the whole way, though a rough sea. la crossing the Bay defendant when he visited my house in March, 1564. He of Biscay they experienced a heavy gale. To enable the cams es my daughter's suitor. He continued visiting my invalids to recover from the effects of this, the superin. hones until July or August in the same year. At one period s h o r e at thought it adviaable to give them leave to go on he remained at my house for 10 days. Sly son was an shore at Lisbon for • short time, which did them a great auctimiete at Tunbridgrawells, and my family were well deal of good. They left the Togas on the 15th, at 11 km., and known in the neighbourhood. My daughter's engagement arrived at Madeira on the 17th, at 5.35p.m. During the pas- was also well known in the neighbourhood. The defendant sage from Lisbon they bad continued fine weather and never gave me any reason for breakieg off the engagement. oo sea. Oa the arrival of the steamer, Captain Erskine and Crossexamined-I heard my daughter speak of the Dr. Brandt came on board, received the patients with all defendant's letter, in which he said she was saved " from possible tidier, and accompanied them to tbe sanitarium, the precipice." 1 , don't know of anybody replying to that where they were comfortably quartmed by 6.30 p.m. The letter, but I presume it must have been answered. I have invalids were visited the same evening by the Bishop of no recollection of any subsequent correspondence, but my Sierra Leone, who read &portion of scripture, and offered daughter kept the correspondence to herself. up a beautiful thanksgiving prayer for their safe arrival fopM omour -Did not the plaintiff object to any pro. in Madeira. The accounts of the patients' health were need ' against the defendant? favoursble. Although there had been the average amount Witness-I do not know of say objection. No doubt she of ma-sicknem, no spitting of blood had resulted from it ; would much rather the defendant had performed his con. but, on the contrary, it was considered that the voyage treat. (A. laugh.) She wanted to clear her character, for bad J ap e them all good, and cleared their complexions. each • thing casts • slur upon a young lady. He returned They appeared to have been well cared for on board, and the plaintiff's letters. Ido not know when it was. It spoke of the kindness of the two stewards who attended must have been after the letter in which the " precipice " upon th em. At the close of hie letter the superiutendent is mentioned, but I have no recollection. say :-" lam given to understand that the British in. Me. Seymour-Did the plaintiff object to bring the action habitants in general of Madeira have contributed in upon the ground that it would be • breach of faith after furnishing the sanitarium. Ihe walls of the rooms are the letters had been retuned ? hung with most beautiful paintings ; the furniture is Witness-I do not know ; I have no recollection. Ido first class, and nothing is wanted in that line. I consider, not know exactly bow they became acquainted. I do not jointly with my fellow patients, that our eauitarium would know of a previous affection of my daughter for Mr. not disgrace any merchant in London as a residence. We Oswald, of Hull. I do nos know that they made one all feel truly grateful to Almighty God for His bountiful enotber's acquaiotance by means of • correspondence with goodness to us ;and for placing it in the hearts of those Mr. Oswald, and exchaoging photogrepbs. Ido not know who have contributed towards our earthly comforts." Mr. whether the first interview with my daughter mid the Graves was re-appointed by the local committee as super- defendant was by appointment at • railway station. intendent at the sanitarium, jointly with the matron, Re-examined -My son has been unfortunate in come. whoee kindness and constant anxiety for the patients' coal. quence of not baying su ffi cient capital to carry on the busi • forts were alluded to in grateful terms. The following nets. The plaintiff and a second son, who is ill, resides pleasant expression of feeling was signed by all his fellow with me. patients, and presented to the superintendent at the end of This was the plaintiff's can. the voyage :-" We, the undersigned, desire to express our Mr. Seymour, in addressing the jury for tae defendant, heiutfelt thanks to 11r. Graves for the kind sod impartial said that actions for breach of promise of maxi gage differed manner in which he has discharged the responsible duty of verb materially ; in some no damages would be too high, superintendent during our voyage. We feel that be has whilst in others reasonable men would think that it was dooe everything he possibly meld for our comfort and better that the promise should be broken rather thao in enjoyment whilst on board, and be has drawn our hearts after-life the bitter consequences of an imprudent match closer to him by his oohs:ilea& and almost parent.' anxiety should be experienced. The defeodaut in this case was fur our welfare. We therefore take this opportunity, • young man, who had plainly tumbled over head and ears before leaving the ship, of thus expressing to him our in love ;and so far now from breathing any imputation sincere gratitude and appreciation of his kindness." Prince upon the plaintiff, he (Mr. Seymour) was instructed to Alfred was in the intend when the mail left, and it was ex. repeat what the defendant himself had said, that be hopes ported that his royal highness would visit the sanitarium that the plaintiff would find some one more worthy of ber. during his stay. This was a love which had commenced in romance, which had been carried on for long before the parties hail seen ROBBERY OF JSW ELLERY IN SIIEFFIELD.On each other through the medium of her Majesty ' s post, and Thumdfiy night a robbery of • very daring character, in. which was hardly to be expected to come to any satisfactory solving •a very large amount of valuable property, was cool. conclasion. There was a letter of the 17th October, 1863, Titled in cue of the principal thoroughfares of the towo. which detailed the circumstances under which the parties The audacity with which the robbery was planned and met. It was arranged that they should meet at a railway executed will be apparent from the following statement of station, and he said, " I shall travel in the centre =motet facts. It appears that for several days past, a Mr. Davies, ment of a first-class carriage. Oo my arrival you will easily who is a jeweller in a large wiry of busiseas in Loaders. recognise me b l ueng tall. I 011016 e dressed in • his& bat, has been in this town, transacting business with per. • tight fitting cost, and perhaps dark trousere." This waa sons in the same line. He Liss been staying at the Yellow how subeditors dressed when going to see their WIT loves. Lion, Old Haymarket, and on Wednesday and Thursday he (Laughter.) "I will only wear one kid glove, and . that on engaged a porter, not connected with the hotel , .to wheel the the left band, and on the fourth finger of the right hand you heavy cues containing his steeples, as he required him about will see a diamond ring. (A laugh.) I will also carry in the town. On Thursday night, soon after nix o'clock, Mr. my right band an umbrella. This description with the Davies went to the shop of an old customer, Mr. Schindler. carte de visite will. I think, enable you to recognise me." in Barker Pool. In the ordinary way of busincia he took Then the learned counsel, after referring to vario passages his sample cases one by one into the shop, leaving the in the correspondence, said that his case was th ins : the last porter in charge of the wheelbarrow and the other letter of the defendant was • breaking eff of the engage ment, eas e.. Gradually the whole of the samples a ccumulated and he should contend that the fact that there was no in the shop, and after transacting hit business with the answer to it. either by the plaintiff herself or by any oin thisf her proprietor of the shop, Me. Dims, with the help of the family, strongly tended to show that they acquiesced porter replaced the OWN on the wheelbarrow. Unfortu- course. This view of the eve was also supported by the fact stately just at that moment it struck him that he hail that the defendant bad retarnel the plaintiff's letters, which something fur thee to say to his customer, and he rerureed letter , if they had not been dertroyed, would probably show into the shop, leaving the man, as he expected, in charge tbat the plaintiff had releued tbe defendant f rom his proinise. of the valuable property upon the barrow. After remaining Th ere du , however ie existeuce core letter from the plaintiff in the shop a few minutes, he came out, with the intention to the defendant, Which, he suggested, was in answer to of returning with his samples tetra' hotel. To his astonish - one from the defendant asking for his letters back ; but is meet be could see no traces of either his property or its unfortunately it bore no date. It was in here terms :- rrIETROPOLITAN BOARD or \YORKS.—The weekly Peter presumed custodian. file imagined that the man had re- meeting of the board was held yesterday at Spring " My dear Dennis, -Having left all any papers at tamd to the Yellow LiOD., and he made the bast of his I borough lam unable to forward you the parcel which you a t aardens •• Sir .1. Thwaites pretided. A memorid was way thither. Upon reaching the house, however, he was asked me for, until Igo back again, which will not be for R th rbethe vestry, urpog that informed by Mr. Lanptaff that the cases bad not yak 1 • week Seymour) -With love, yours affactionately, MINDED." the board should take possession of the site for the new presented from th e o e been brought back, and he went out, accompanied by theSouthwark muc, and proceed to form the sae Ile (Mr. added that he would call Mr. Summers, 1 andlord, in search of the porter. On reaching tbe entrance 1 who would show that the statements in the defendant's in accordance w ith' the provision of the nor past ed ad for m e .. of the gateway they met the man returning, but without latter from Bristol were true. I purpoee. The memorialists stated they hey that it will raise the level of a portion of the site, the valuable property which had been left in his charge. Mr. Sunime-I am a solicitor at Hull. The defendant's Ibe neee°Bl " to He was asked what had become of it, and he replied. ! father is • cabproprietor, and keeps a small public-house. Didn't the master get another man to wheel it H e his two h suggest that if the formation and lay . pretext on his part,. and he was pressingly ', witness asked as to • proposition having ben made to the . • I executed in the parish, an opportuntty would be a ff orded for obtaining the refuse earth, Ac., from the sewer works, for raising the surface of the park where required, I n og out of the park should the f with =mid. cab.. I know the defendant , or per ape three , ,_ 1 and begged to down here ' " This was, of course, treated as • mere . w as in Bristol ; I think about September, 1864. (The I ...ne n " -, . I with the main sewer works now about to be ' after some further inquiry, to accompany the two defendant about that time to go to Bombay ; bat on tech gentlemen to the Tows Hall. There h i e nvieed wa: oonfrooted with the chief consume, en d h e wide th e =cal grounds the evidence eau not admitted.) The defea dant had no means except what be earned r and m aking and forming the roads therein, and so mate , following explanation : -That he had stood guard over •• a par IMOD- reall y reduce the expense thereof. Mr. Pa rka, in support t . l' , . into lordship, in summing up, said that there was ) 6O he em tg wheelbarrow but that the cases were returned . Hi s tare ammeter. to it, ao when Mr. Davies hul gone back the shop doubt the promise to marry had been made, and tbe . ;_ of ~.....t he memorial, remarked that nine-tenths of the pope the ....... surrou..._ fog the rite of the park consisted of labour. Ihe 'midway remembered that he was thirsty, and he went would therefore have to conaidar whether the defendant t into Br. Gleadall's public-house just below for • glass of bad been released from performing it. If they thought not :en with small mewls, who could sot take their wive , s sad children into the country. The park when finished would beer. On coming out of the hone he missed the wheel-bar. then the only question would be one of damage, el th 'be a blessing to such semen. The Chairman said the row, andcoocluded that Mr. Davies having missed him. had , • 0 amount whin the plaintiff would be entitled to would be , board had taken every step in their power to facilitate the engaged another man to wheel it down to the Yellow Lion. Mr. Jackson rightly judged that the story was full of sus- non • a sum as would compensate her for the loss which she ' Proceeding! and take possession ei the land, sad u wee se hadaints.usshtimeedoshbeyr ot not ais kuzi i o lame g 17.0 am toe ttillebewiadfe ofa wi ne hOdeuiefeti.• they were in legal possession of it they would devote it to pie o, and he ordered the man to be detained. The mini-the public ; but, having regard to the interests of the , Mon was strengthened when it was found that he bad given h o ld, : ratepayer., they must not act rashly. A deputation from an ioaccurate version of what took place at the public. , A j ars , jp a i re d w a i t ebe emit of this t r i a l wou ld he 1 the vestry of Bermondsey supported the memorial. aod ' house. The stolen property is valued st from 1,2001. to , His lordship I said that they were not entitled to receive ' both doeumeots were reared to the Streets Committee. 1,500/. information on that point. 1 A report was brought up from the Main Drainage CODS ' VAS on the subject of the new are brigade for the whole ! A DOG ls QuAltArroz.—The Cologne Gazette . The jury, after considering the matter fora short time, an • gives the following account of a singular ieeident whir& has found for the plaintiff-damages 704 of the =steepen& It defines the districts, and the staff to recently given rise to some diplomatic sorrespoedene bro. 1 i ~......, - .•-•-00, be appointed to earn out the duties. The greater part of twain the Dutch . end Promise eothe recommendation were agreed to. Some other business countess Bylandt, wife of the sew Dutch sinister at - venments' When I THE ColtPourrioN GAB WOIITA—We are re- lof as unintereatieg neon was agreed to, and the board & r h o . dee r t o j o i n h er h ee h oo d ems daps e i ne .. e h, quested te state that the sum of 425,0001. replants the , adi_ coursed. Prunes cust officers, acting under the regulations made estimated oast of the satire works ad plant, and not of the i FORMS ATTLE.— C A • to official d tugan ocn ,to prevent theme inioratios of the cattle diaens, refused to sit oily. of he proposed nodectakiek I meet just issued there ham bees a large increase (*win to tee disease) the importation of oxen and cows in alien her lapdog to pass the frontier without un dergoing SHOCKING CASs OR IztrAzencinr..—A dreadful the ea of this 1864. the preoseribed quarantine. In van did the countess pro- crime has boo committed at Birmingham by a young the three quarters . year, tom T o test that thou her favonite nine from Helloed, whore wean named Yeataran. She was delivered of as Wapiti. October the 31st this year the number imported weel7o,ooB the dreaded disease prevailed, it had sever boo DOW e• 0 Oath child ea Monday, and en Tuesday threw the infant ea against 120,568 in the pletedisi year. infected cattle, the otnoen persisted in releeteg, sad the aam leaving the home while it wee ensamed. A neigh. O Tug CATTLE PLLOVE.—Untt night's Gazette con poor animal was left to nodose its probation. • dinky boor fogad it bunting, and reported the circumstance to bins • umber of noting received by the Clerk of tile she eorreepoodnee was the amalgam" after wait!' Ike nee. The manse, wise is in wastody, admits having Council hem the local authorities appntated ander the sh e d e s n o ramp* Maned from qusisada. and senereg =be child en the bre, but denies that it wee alive at the orders taaaghtikitlag or raskietiag the notoval el Ur fief mishser. I oath In the MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. - (Before the Assistant -Judge.) 'align(' Lennox, • servant, was indicted for stealing diamond ring, the property of John Gideon, her master, of _ 57, Gower-street. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr . Collins p r osecuted ; Mr. Itibton and Mr. Montagu Williams defended. Mu. Sera Gideon, wife of the prosecutor, stided that about the pr i so ner was cook in her service, and had been so seve n weeks. She missed a gold and diamond ring, of the value of 251. Witness asked the prisoner if she knew any thing about it, the reply being, " What shall I do, I picked it up," and she subsequently said she had thrown it down the kitchen water.closet. Prisoner left without giving any notice, or asking for her wages. On the previous evening to witness missing the ring she was about to take a bath, and took off her watch, jewellery, ands` diamond rings, and placed them in a silver on the dieing room table. After the bath the housemaid took up the jewellery which bad lie tree, been left in the silver boat , and placed the rings on a on the dressing-room table. The night after, nine rings instead of ten were upon the tree. Prisoner, upon being spoken to about it, said she bad swept the dining room, but did not see the ring. She added, ' Is must turn up, for who would keep it from such a kind tidy as she (witness) had been to her and the other servants." In cross-exmination, witness said she did not want to punish anyone in her bowie, if she could find the risod prisoner said, whenever it was spoken about, that the ring w ould turn up. From the mo ment witness missed the ring, she said to prisoner that if she would tell witness where the ring was, she would say no more about eit, if when she said that it would turn up. She askd she might go, and witness, thinking she meant merely to leave the room, said yes. Her boxes were not searched. Witness had uot said so had the the priaoner as to the other ser vants. Witness had the interior of the water-closet taken out, but did not find the ring. By the Court—Witness was very anxious to get back her ring, and said she should out punish any one if it was forth coming. She was sure she said, "If tbe ring was toned." P o l ic s•Sergeant Ellis, 11 D , deposed to tatiog the weer into into custody, end in conversation she said, "I am very sorry for leaving the house in the manner I did, but the so frihtened me that I was beside myself, and I didn't know g what I told my mistress." She denied taking the ring. Cross-examined—She might have said she knew nothing about the ring. Other evidence having been taken it was stated that the prisonet had nude a confusion. The learned Judge decided that if a confession had been made it could not, under the circumstances, be admitted against the prisoner. After some considerable argument between the learned counsel sad the bench. A verdict of Not Guilty was recorded. SHOCKING DEATH FR oar STARVATION. Yesterday evening Mr. Richarls, deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the Black Dog Tavern, Church.strest, Bethoal-green, respecting the death, io the street, of Charles Prosser, aged 43 years. Thomas Cole, 36, Old Nichol-street, said that the deceased, who was his brother in-law, was a furniture packer, but, through paralysis, be lost his employment in September last. He had • wife and four children dependent on him. His wife, who was now in the workhouse laid up with fever, told witness that they then lived at No. 2, New-court, Spitalfields, under Mr. Henry Wearing, and that they had lived there five years. They were, however, unable to pay a sum of either 31. 3d. or rid. (witness could not remember which), and the landlord seized their goods and turned them out, and they bad no place to go to. Mr. Wearing gave them • pot and two chairs, and they came to witness's house, where they all lived in one room. They were often without food, and the wife got fever, and bad to be removed to the Fever HospitaL Deceased got relief in bread and meat for the children from the parish, but he tried to support himself by odd jobs. Some of the children getting the fever witness also took it, and having to go ioto the Fever Hospital himself, the deceased was left without • habitation. Police . con stable Briggs, 164 0, said that on Tuesday he was on duty in Churchatreet, Bethnal-green when be saw a crowd gathered around the deceased on the pavement. The deceased was very thin and miserable looking. He was so ragged that he bad to wear an apron to conceal the fact that he had on oolt the remnant oss f a trainers. Some parson was giving bim brandy. Wit tier said to him, " Where do you live''" and be answered, " 1 have been turned out of my lodgiogs at • house." Witness Witness proceeded to remove him to • lodgi a e g g house in Swan-street, but he died on the way, and before doctor could arrive. Upon searching him w itness found in his pocket £4d. in coppers, and • " petitioc," in which he stated binmisfortunes, and from which it appeared that to he had got various l ittle sums varying from 2d. 4.1., and in two instances to a shilling—in all 6e. 25. Dr. F. J. Bargees said that he was called to the deceased, and found him to be dead. The body was very much emaciated. The post-mortem examination showed that there wan no food io the stomach or intestines, and that death had re sulted from collapse of the heart from want of food. There was no smell of drink. George Cole stated that on Friday lost the deceased's wife came out of the Fever Hospital be cause her children had got fever. She met the deceased in the street by chance, and she remarked " that he was so cold — that he was as cold a s death." Be gave her 20. out of 64. that he then had. He was a sober steady man, but slime he was plunged in poverty he drank when he c ould get it. Mr. Burrows said that the workhouse people sent down to bring the deceased into the house on Tues day, but they found that he was then dead. The wife and four children were however taken into the workhouse, and they were all now dangerously iIL The Coroner having re marked upon the melancholy nature of the case, the jury returred a verdict " That the deceased was found dying, and did die from the mortal effects of collapse of the heart, -nosed by the want of the common necessaries of life." NAVAL AND JIII,I3'ARY. AMMIALYT, Dsc. —Arronmamcr.—Fegime J. Bethery, to toe *Ash& Amatitairic, DEC. 8.--APEOENTWIT...Ijet t . neat W. 0. Oldham to tte Daaatlas. MARKET& -4.-- SlTGAlL—Bilerot, Dec. B.—The market lir bo la nr , qu i e t dories the work, and but kw sales hays ben >a4 at rather easter Peter. Railed is awn, ustalsbleog Pieces Is. to 2s. &wiper. TALLOW.--FILWAT EVIMING.—The market Wad egg, ar.day. Spot, 495. Pi ; all the rat. Oes. ed. to ofi' . . J aa sory, 3d. ; March, 51s. 6d to lid. ; Aril to J ig : 51s. 68. to 525.; October to Deoembor, 51s. ' tellies." public sales, 1,521 corks o ff ered, and 1 , 443 sobs, 186' Y.C. 48s. to 48s. 6 d. ; Australiau beef, 475. 61 is 41,4 llos 'to 465. 6d. low ; S outh Americas, no fiat g offered ; seemed quality , 50s. 6d. ; town tallow, 49.7 . ; cash. Ooooaaut off steady ; Cochin at e2s. ; 0.0 0 .. 4 . 6d. ; Sydney, Gas, 475. so 475. 6d.; palm oil, 451. sse Lee, -- COTTON.—LivenrooL, DEo• B . — The cotton mane was firm oe Friday and Saturday, and on Monday b roe animated, with large immersions by the trade hi Wil si s peculation at advanced prices. Oa Tuesday sok "4 miles ware large, but bas fro closed quietly ape rob e less favourable amounts from Mancherter , than bad b ee enticipated. On Wednesday and yesterday the lake le e been on • cons/dankly reduced sad*, but quotatiose p a , rally rule decidedly above last Thursday's quotients!. b e Sea Inland a good business has spin been effected at fig prices. American has been in extensive deeded, le i *dream& about Id. in the early part of the week, ee l though during the last two days this advance he rut keel fully maintained, prime are quoted 4d. per lb. ia Gra mm and ed. lathe better qualities above last Thursday. e tu i under the excitement of Monday advanced folly it per lb., but dosed dull with this advance barely Ne e ' wood. utiqinmeulosie id. to 0. per lb. above Ise wee la fair q and under, after a rise of N. i s ig . a Saturday and y. In Smyrna a good buena b e b ees dose. especially in new crop, and price are id. le W. dearer. The demand foe East India has been very en., sive, espeeielly for the better qualities, and an adrift, If U. pee lb. was ',wally obtained, though cloidag abat e . soon at a par Mal r eduction of 4d. per lb. fres the b i b * point. The common qualities are @till difficult of se* teat are about 4d. per lb. dearer. Chlnaaod Japan meet e ke advanosa a bout id. per lb. Speculators ha ve taken duristits week 25,140 bales ; exporters, 28,170 hales ; and the teas, 45,840 balm al all kinds. We have had a moderate deaf to-day, and a quiet market ; prices unchanged. The Le are 7,000 bales, of which 3,000 are for export and weak. Sloe. The following sre the official quoted= o te OrlaUo, 233. ; middline, 210. ; fair Mobile, 21d. Ze dung, 214 d. ; - fair Uplands, 221 d. ; middling, 2114, COTTON GOODS.—Manciturreu, DEC. 8. —le dippe i arns our market has been ne vrey quiet to-ty, in fact, demi a . blank.on tat B t u h y e ers ver news t;e the rail!l appee rsia ar to h ie:T y n e :rape will being sdviere from the United States of lows , OM for cottoe, and consequently they believe they ea is better in yam by waiting. The market is very tame, fig sales have been next to impossible. Holes trade yen bare been very quiet, and prices are tending domes& Ths cloth market, like that for yarn., has hose qui* toning down since Tuesday, and the state of business es. seats a marked entreat as compared with Tuesday. Ire butanes find they can buy the lower numbers of yea e lower rates, and cloths generally are easier to bay; be maaufacturers are well engaged, and there is sot we pressure upon the market. CORN.—Centmaroun. Dec. B.—The weather la rte very unsettled and bad for corn the best Mae Mall fgy last week's prices. There was a brisk demand for mink at full prices. Red, 40s. to 46e.; white, 46e. to 505.; rota, 52 s .ii ` d 1; )7.17,2Zt 4 u7 4 ::: ° 2 l l ta." r allti 37l.i lL o lower. . ; ez wh. 40a. Beana sc a irce and fully as d v e:tr a - 1 40a ; Ili• sag= ticks, 43a. is 45. LOOOLS, DrO. B.—We hare bad a fair supply of eheat. but • large portion wee considerably affected in cause by the damp we Dry and floe parcels realiaed atm 6d. to la. per quarter &drapes. whilst damp and Weis hung on hand. Wheat, red, 435. to 4fis. Cal. ; white, bra Barley in fair request. awl micas an:banged ; griagiag, 27a. to 30s. ; malung, 355. to :395. Oats, 245. to 221. Linarooi, Dec. B.—We had a thio &Buckram at * day's market with a quieter feeling. Wheat was m hard demand at about Tuesday's rates. Floor was mall, quiet wed mess remain unchanged. Indigo core man better demand than other articles, but at Agars showier a °enemies of 9d. per quarter from Tuesday's ratty. Out • neglected. Oatmeal Cal. per toed easier. Balt stud!. Beans and peens unchanged. WAKIntLD, Bar. B.—Trade firm and healthy, sod tki extreme prices of last Friday are obtsieed both fee : De di saa new wheat. Fine barley rather dearer Average c wheat, 1,323 qm.,at 445. 11d.; tarley, VG qrs.,at 35a. 10114 oats, 103 qrs., at 284. 771 d. _ . COALS.—LosiDO9, DEC. 8. —Cowpen Hardev. 19L Hastings Hartley. I. ;if olyssell Main, 20s. , Wins End 111111/011. 21s. 6d. ; Walls End Reties, 21a 6d.; Walls End allays Hatton, 20s. 3d. ; Walls End Duassall, 19.. 6d. ; Walls End Tess, 21s. 3d. ; Camay and Diary' Nat*. 242. --Skips at market, 8 ; meld, 8. MTH! PLYmorrff, Dar. 8, EVA:CI/W.—The Havre and United States steamship Arago, from New York 011 the 25th tilt., arrived off Falmouth at 5 p.m. to-day. * lauded the passenger s for England, mod proceeded fee Havre at 5.30 p.m. The Arse had 31 pusengers to an d brought no mails. The Arse touched at Falmouth is order to avoid the quarantine imposed at Firm& ports apt vessels from Southampton. PROTECTION OF TRADE MARKS AND Drllol3 11 FOREIGN Contrrnnts.—Tbe first meeting of the previiimil committee of the above association, which bee sloe fee tar object the promotion of a bill to obtain the migraine d trade marks in England, was held on Tbutsday alterasoa the council room of the Chamber of Commerce, Banat ham. The business of the meeting was to app nted* des II pen. aionally of the rules as drawn up, which cou fitting the objects of the association, and the meatuses to the various local committees. It was decided that thirteen members should form the central committee, and that, subject to confirmation of a Meld aeons] meeting of the members, the heed dimemberm should be at Birmingham. When uy of the association ascertains that his trade mark or date is being forged or imitated in a foreign country. the sas• ciation will, at his request, inquire into the facts of the cue and forthwith take inch steps en m ay be den* exp ' edisot. The rate of su bscri p tion wee fired at 11. Is. per annum • and on th motion of Ur. E. Gem, wad.' by Mr. 'S. Bartleet,e Mr. Henry J. 11•Zaior. ocesebif to the Chamber of Commerce, wu appointed WWII te the association pro tem. Mr. Johnson (with referees, to the movement in London) read a letter frlP. es Mr. Alderman Copeland, anno unc i n g the wilfi of the Lord Mayor to preside at a Meeting shortly ti be held at the Loudon Tavern. From the statesman Wig sub at the committee it was sho wn that much interest is tar the questing, not only in the metropolis, bat thrugh prom:Sod manutacturing districts. As the govertiment w ts e not favoun i t i s ewer bly disposed to encourage the **DI 1 i ena ctment for the registration of trade make, sary that the feeling of those interested in th t hi s e use d should be freely expressed. and it is only is that the mercantile community pill Obtaa W full OM.* e ider so indispensably necemalry give theuinteeig value to the operations of the Merchandise Muksltetlde [Advertisement.}—HowwAY's PILL. --FWD' Unita' Disorders.—Who would be welt LOUllt Mid murals of the body does its duty fully and fairly, which ere* cer t a i n ly insure by occasionally resorting to there Pills , • tif taking • dose of them according to the penned down. folded round ach boo. Stomach, r, kidneys, an n bombe , all searched b e y their purifying and corrective pow" Sad al departure Rom their natant action is greuUously MANIA st ante: sad regularity enforced. baSlth nay steals W ucsi r e n, by attentive obedience to Holloway's directions and by medicine as advised by them. All obstructidna will lf moms be removed, the blood paridtxl. and its f ree sod *kW circulation established. MAARIAGES, AND DEATR& BIRTHS. ALLlREY.—Deeember 6, at Alter .toke, Gosport, the •le of L S. MOM. Esq., 75th Regiment, of a non. CH ETW Y :it) —December li, at Chetter.square, the Boa iis Chet'', ud, of a daughter. HEW ETT.—December 7. at Canonbury, Loudon, the wife ° IL F. Hewett. Esq.. of a daughter. 0 HART.—Deeember 7, at St. M a y's-road, Canonbury WPM wife of I. Hart, Req.. of a daughter. SlERlNE.—Deeember 6, at Ounbury, the w ife of the 110.1 Blaine. of a dauOter. YRATICS. —December 7. at Gloucester- cres cent, Liple-PWL lb wile of F. W. Yeates, Esq.. of a son. MARHILGFS. 811 IT-G VENS.—Decernber ,at St. John's. tit% ode by the Rev. W. Barker. Hr. J. Smith, of Roc -16 1 .,, — ,, atom, to Elisabeth Ellen Givens, of Perkeowt ,f.'" Holloway. THORNTtiN—ISCRRIDOL —December 7, at St HOW* therields. Loudon, by the Bee. H. T. Ridley, S. Thi n :. Esq., J.P., The Blew. B rrningham. to Ellubsth getitil_ s. ridge. oboe of the late 'themes Whitford, Bal.. bal . "' Colon:kb, ConswalL DF.ATBE. BOLL—December I, at Room Lodge, Uppea Norprcel.S. Bogor, , Decem aged ber 7o, 7, at Acre Rome, Belton, W 1 •—• Wife of B. Ewa& Iraq.. F.R Jam .0 fi., aged 50. 1101P3Z5.—Decomber T. Km rortmar late of Ye Tom` it nalallal. aged et. JuNse—Deeemsber 6, at Pouletose Cwt. Uelefor d " . ' widow of the late IL JOWL tat . aged $l. RHIN d Delichworth, war s Creld RhlndltraCha ell rlotte. daughter o a" 811111,41/t.—Deeember 7, at olt -mai Real& 2041. a. I. ghereria,..r . = 7l . at Ixo. apd WiligiKAT.Prlaited..:..l„..kadsLPubil.hed. w ar N a riAtt v is" . 4 7 Lo...ll:::::errowinioegoM3ll ettl La Lombard street, la the Prectact of fladallaar, DENIM& IJSL ~~ / w "~ ~~~~ No. 8,036 ] 11118Sitg. MO WIG! imagrar4NNY L-611" se A Fee IO ib. Docks os Petar EL ds,. ieedld clipper eld pXo Alpsv C11A2.1.210e. Cow ,Ill....lBrwicootwm es le'Sr ripply to ALLI WI LAY and WM - vig" ---- r - 1 ---BILAND. BLAO 1:0915 Uff Z.—Neer lieeersoost. Baduallositoll ita, *I a dagnii. aSige CLOOD, tOlt EZTUANZ. 1 AODIONabIe. nil !gowned c riff VirKliTliii=:: AO : 10 jast returned from lev*eiendaorlosprtle iden: Velataartliltdiesie!ci Use ; and T. U. XACI go, Podds. IC. dee---- MAX Rom uvissoot , Nor YORK., Tin( riIpirIIADLIVERPYLPHIA 11114.11 14 411 !/121/theratVmeretere_Stee.ll L tes °ll.6 "..imuzefoo.:ll rwaviry weassidar, sad Risen aro by the nail shwa 114 as sla di leti se • MI he work god the Ihtil lI&TTNNIMiIeOOi WHIM —4ol' ow, a i m= . U. Ktais -----1161.14. ND ROUTZ.- Aro( to ngDu aa tx t v k ., MAI 'al 111001 PANSINGiIin In=olls ior Gilpin& taio ntrolin la 1111 th e Ws 1 Itaytolidoe. an fflehrErmonin ; mi d llnfifserno BM Spar', I an tbo PM of men n si a• *ma:anal aim. LI t fa OlisaWilac44 *Whams Direct Ito L& ,c.,,t2,,, Osman iltiechei screw *tamer eta , be witched tram SocielY pswittatt, Itt il for parasites, 1 . UAW, dd led 'A; in a, sigiat-cfras, priDuni& rex to DELFZYL WHISPFJ la sr bdblkamerv• port TOllOl Mat Omega rates of frelo adiutd.—For bsw, !mum sod 00., St Utast WORWICH lINIC Am The fall benefit of the mt. fe riven to insurers of Alb reduction and the u 4 PL or Panty ....____ \ ------- M. et Polley. &uninsured. a 41.411 litt.4o 4"1 14 12,000 otors 11,800 505.,76 SAO rata Prinin do abet prthoiPoi Caen dat i y paid to Govern! N. • Oa amount to IS& . Yor apply to I may" RA; = "ilica Ni VI T HE IMPERIAL snow coma rubscribed. a Ow,aus-J( Saar-ilinjd This A serretatios mikes 1 ad other aocurities, sad re ir oboes ow 1014 Poriods. w V. raenradtcoseet, sc. THE 001i2dERCI Incorporated nail Cal Proseut lowa AIWA to lamase of olden capi Stuirehl Dealt ger-sppilestion- Ile call to mooed mil calendar It la not Intended to W. T. Y. TORRENTS, Eac Adman. _ Jorge Bravo, Esq. (Mee Bros,ir 11iweLt 1 ite. V. I. Charchft , Vahan Masi CUR, 1 Wird. 3167irisos Oman. rag. 0,1, se, Petaes4uuare Siersoder Rector, Yes., • Mon. elsarles HRob ▪ / H. Manners-Sutton awes Russell. Keg.. 4. Lamm OF STATIONS br. President (The National Loden— lloars. emf LlTOTpool—The Not Ilebebeeter - 71 Mews. Lan] Lukas— (Miura. Bra: Liverpool— Manche, 1011CIT0ILL—Messm Amon. - Masara.Cok SECIZTART (p • Tacaporary t ABB The Commercial Cow Yr the purpose of road YAM Muhl+ or Benin, d Afrtre. chide BY I , " rice...,:lopttrut ken ill +ha toroth or 111 holm as the most 1 li applied with palm c Derans ether trod uct+ sheentained by d earl. tatu; Pralds. ' I; aVeri u The Directors have • las already secured, ' It ni .. ....... s lielenied to il . with all Its IWese " Zia importan Ml which have boa d Ye capital of the als the trade. ._ _ °N.Pa i:lsd naaWni°buC°loaptin-fin e ie9d-la t ia: n ngit"ri'"l t Yle A lha:n e will" u it o li; f!ksaatable oondittoi the Company ; and t tlO,OOO will corer tb V the Company w Mae possessing to I with experienced an Ilse meek the .ham Laws an coo a l ki ne a c t ti aqdtal at a time wt ismanerative. As regards ageocl et erery kind of pi 'coda, eta fair cur APl t Alcations tor ko be bat with the M of Ll e sw i r n s i b u rtr i. illean be applied to Pied towards the Proapectsaes, an of the brokers, bar Corapaiq, whore 1.1 tegeabee with the Tr A Y 'l3 am mak FM tidy largely Mb dossed as • \ sakes. LemßE M mut. Pails Os heal se Sr Usk media WM 0 cob as mas-seNst. baths; , so sad aak 1,, I Ns swami as \