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to all such charges as should be brought against him at the next Assizes for Lanitsbire. sr. JoakePaise—You Dave said nothing as to Wm. Wakefield I ,b a n glee judgmeist in both tiles together. 11: Tnenat.e.4 understood, roar Lordship, that I wits to ton. Spe m yself ro the caw of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Mr. Justice Paatt—Let the Officer read the hidieterient against William Wakefield. The Clerk of the Crown baring /tad the Intlictlitent, sated Wm. Wakefield whether he was guilty or not guilty? WiMam Wakefield—l leave it as to my Counsel. Mr. Comeau said, be believed The indictment now preferred against Mr. W. Wakefield Was founded upon the statute of Philip and Mary. ^ his re 3. Wassail's, for the proseention—He is bound by egralsassees before the Court of King's Bench to answer all charges which might be preferred against him. Mt. Justice Past —That Is the condition of his restornisanerse and I think, whatever becomes of Mr. Gibbon Wakefield. Mr. W. Wakefield must plead, end proceed to trial. Mr. COLTMAN submitted, that the teco,gnismces en 'mil into in the Court of King's Bench did not intend that Mt. Wakifiel .1 was to answer all 'Charges which might be peOetred against him at these Assizes. lrf that, were so,, be might be. called upon to plead to a libel, or to tut assault. • lith Jr! WM-Wits, on the part cf the prosecut ion, s }claimed;all zeal or anxiety to proceed to trial tinne zetsatily,. but' he thought the objection to plead rather laten?atoter grobably,.the pi isoner would not be ob li g ed . tottas.srsol...botthere could be no injury done to bun by,yleadj fle einhidered that the objections urged .by hisr:Learnediftriend did not apply to a case in which cbe patty, agaitist . wbom the indictment hadbeen found, ; was In custody. s Mr. BRoUGIIASI, on the same side, said, the proiecu toi had no. ish but to have everything conduCted Much of the argument of his Leatned iend: Might •)tave been spared, as the prosecutor did not 'mean to deny the Common Law right of the pi lustier to traverse, but then there was this question. Was not that Corn . mon Law right abridged by ths.Statute of Geo. 111. or, , set least, was he not bound to plead now that he was . in Court ? Mr. Justice PARR said, the usual course was, for the , accused, upon a charge of misdemeanour, to he ar , ra;gned to plead, and then to be asked whether he would traverse, or be tried? liar. BROUGHAM thought it too much, that Mr.Walce , Acid, being now in custody, should not be compelled to plead, and then tell the prosecutor whether or not it .airs his intention to go to trial. In point of fact, the prisoner had had sufficient notice of this indictment, for ,the only difference between it and the indictment which tn;ght he preferred for the capital charge was, that the word ." feloniothly," would he in °be, but not in the other. It was, therefore, idle to suppo e that the pri soner could be taken by surprise, by being tried now s instead of next Assizes. Mr. Cot.Tm AN said, their object in making the motion was to avoid falling into error. They could pot gain any time -by deferring to plead, because, whether they pleaded now or nor, they must go to trial next Assizes. Justice Pa Ri!—A re you ready to try the other Gentleman now upon both charges? Mr. Tuseat,t.-..ave, my Lord; not upon the second indictment. Mr. Justice PARS—As he is bound to answer " all charges." I Mk reeognitanees will be forfeited. If he don't appear to unmet. he most ray 2,0001. for himself, and 1,5001. for his bail. • A i lf..o(ll.ll4AN having been beard on behalf of Wm. Wakefield, against the second indictment for the conspiracy, . Justice l'esc— What difference can it make to him to be is 4 stow, instead of next Assizes? • • Mr. COLTSIA IS said, they stood upon their right. The party accused wished to postpone it, and he, cf course, , knew best what benefit could bedetived from the delay. • 'to the second indictment be thought it quite clear that the defendant, Mr. William Wakefield, could not be called upon to plead, as he was not in custody, and ' therefore the argument urged is the ,other case could mat be resorted to here. Mr. Justice Psure—Dirt he is under recognizance. to answer ,) SU charges. TINDALL—Yes, my Lord; but I submit that the .0.- true meaning of these recngnitances, in the Court of King's Bench is, that he will answer at these Assizes all -%'4sharges of misdemeanour which might be preferred against him in due order of law. He (Mr. Tindal) submitted to his Lordship, that as Mr. Wm. Wakefield :$l5l. common law right to invade, of which the 60th George 111. did not deprive him, the recognizance: • Weed into in the Cc tut of King's Bench could not be . construed in such a way as to be deprive the prisoner of a common law right, with which an Act of Parliament, passed for the regulation of such cases, did not interfere. Mr. PARR, on the same side, said, that with respect to the general words wed in the recognizance' entered into in the Court of King's Bench, he should merely observe, that in giving sureties before a Justice of the Peace, to appear at the ensuing Sessions, the words were as men • sive as those in the recognizance, now before the Court, but it never could be imagined that a person, on having entered into such sureties, would be compelled to answer all charges of which the Magistrates at Sessions could take cognizance. The 60 Geo. 111. confined its provi sions expressly to cases wherein the accused bad been in custody, or out on bail, for a poled of twenty days.— It might be said, that as Mt. W. Wakefield was in Court, his Lordship was bound to take notice of his *since, and to call upon him to plead. But he begged to remind those who west resort to such an argument, that Mr. W. Wakefield was in Court accidentally, and not in *custody, and that it had been decided by a ma jority of the Judges, in the famous case of the seven Bishops, in which it was held, that a person, voluntarily coming into Court, was entitled to ;wade. Under those iireonistances, he submitted, that the Court ought not to call upon Mr. W. Wakefield to plead to this indictment. Mr. J. WILLIAMS and Mr. BROUGHAM having on the other side contended, that the statute of. 60 Geo. 111. did not apply to the cases either of Mr. E. G. Wake field, or of his brother, W. Wakefield; that the rezgestae of the present indictment was the same as that of the charge upon which Mr. E. G. Wakefield was committed, and be having been in custody upon that charge. and Mr: W. W. having been out on bail upon a charge of misdemeanour, they were not entitled to imparle. Mr. Justice PARR delivered his opinion. There could be no doubt of the right of Edward Gibbon Wakefield to postpone his trial, and the only question upon which lie (Mr. Justice Pans) bad any doubt, was, whether or not L G. Wakefield was bound to plead now, or at the next Assizes? His present impression was, that E. G. Wakefield was bound to plead at this Assizes ; but he should not state that judicially until after he had the benefit of the opinion of his Learned Brother (Baron Ilullock).--With respect to Mi.W.Wakefield, he was of ()pillion, that his recognizances were so specially framed, that be was bound to answer at this Assizes all charges of misdemeanour which might be preferred againsthim, to appear, plead, and take his trial. Mr. William Wakefield was then arraigned upon the indictment for misdemeanour, preferred against him and his brother, and he pleaded " Not Gu lty. He was then arraigned uynn the see )nd indictment f.,e a conspiracy, and he also pleaded 4. Not Guilty." Mr: Justice Paims—Let him Se onomnitted. WO/asset objected to his etuntnitment, observing that he was ender reeosnitances to appear aeries the whole time of the ems- dainnee of the Assiites. • I Ills Lordship consented to let him go at large on his former re. engninante; but admonished him to be more nriet in his atten dance on the Court. . G. Wakefield also pleaded " Not Guilty" to the Indictment for the miuleameanour, as the main object of the argument had been to secure him the right of traverse. Ed. C. Wakefield and his Inaba Willis then severally pleaded " Not Guilty" to the indictment for din unorkagy. ldr. Justice PARK then Indinated kwrs Istestios of issuing a Bench warrant to apprehend Mrs. Femme Wakefield, against whom eke I bill foe conspiracy bad also been hied. Mr. Commas mid, that that Lady was in Conte, and was ready to plead, and entiir into recognisance,. She accordingly appeared just behind the Counsel's bar, and hav ing pleaded " Not Galley," tendered bail, which were accepted, without examination, by the proaecutOr's Counsel. The ball were Edward Wakefield (her husband, and father of the two defendants), of Reading, Becks Esq. and Dr. Davis, of Macclesfield, in the county of Chester (her father); and Daniel Wakefield, of Harehatcb, In the county of Berke, Esq. barrister at law. Mr. COLT MAN then applied to his Lordship to admit E. Wake field to ball. Mr. Justice Pant asked what should be the amount of the security P WiLLIAMs observed, that the prosecutor had not thought fit to Make the least examination with respect to the bail of Mrs. Wakefield; but there was a great distinction to be taken between the chief effender and a secondary party. Besides, if B. G. Wake. field was to be at hrge from these Assises to the next, there should be additional security to prevent him (torn again disturbing the peace of Mr. Turner's family. Mr. Justice Poet concurred In the observation, and said In should certainly think it necessary to oblige F.. G. Wakefield to enter lute securities to keep the peace towards Mr. Turner and all his family. The atnountof the reeognisanees was not determined on at seven o'clock, when our express lit Lancaster; but it was intimated that the additional sum would be himself in 2,5001. and two sureties in 1,2501. each. The personal appearance of B. IX Wakefield is not at all pre possessing. There is nisch aloggednessatsd inflexibility in his court &ounce, and none of that je or sfai goof air of gentility, which is said to be so irresistible in captivating the fair sex. Ins brother is a little better looking. Mrs. F. Wakefield, as f.tr as we could dis. cern her features, was a prettyish woman, and seemed to be 30 years of age, " there or thereabouts." An application Is expected to . be made to-morrow by Mr. W. Wakefield, on special affidavit, to put off his trial to the next Assizes. RIOTS AT ISLACILBUItN. James Riding, William Sukip, Richard Kay, James Latham, James Orm3nd, James Howard, am! Thomas Bolton, were indicted for having, on the 124th of A 1826, at Biackhurn, in this county, with force and arms, feloniously broken open a cotton mill belonging to Ban truster Eccles, and Co. and destroyed the machinery in the said milt. Mr. STAMM and Mr. Amusox conducted the prosecution. Mr. COLTMAN appeared for the prisoner Kay, but the other pri soners bad no Counbel. John Kay—l am a constable of Blackburn ;on Mon- day 24th of April last, about three in the afternoon, I was in Darwinstreet, Blackburn, where I saw several hundred persons, who were coming through the Mar ket place, towards Mr. Eccles's factory ; some of them were armed with pikes, and others with guns, axes, hammers, clubs, and sticks. They were walkine together as a mob generally goes; I followed them to Mr. Eccles's factory, which they reachei before me. When I got to the factory yard, there were many hundred persons in it ; those who carried the pikes and guns stood at the doors and windows; some of them had their pikes standing, and others had them shouldered. The mill was nearly full of persons.; I went into the mill, and at the de , r I met some men coming out; I wipped the first man, but as soon as he saw me, he got back again ! to the crowd ; I took the pikes, hatchets, and hammers, now produced, from the . persons in the factory yard. Whilst 1 was there, about 16 of the Ist Dragoon Guards arrived, and they assisted me in disarming the mob; several men escaped out of the yard, because they were so numerous that we could not keep them.— Whilst I was in the yard, I heard the breaking of win dows at the back pate of the mill, and the people, who were watching in the yard, said, that their companions were breaking through the windows at the rear. I went into tht lower room of the factory, au! I there saw all the machinery broken and destroyed. I know the pri soner, Sutcliffe. I met him at the door of the mill, and asked him what he was doing there ? He made no an swer, but got back as quickly as he could. I don't know anything about the other prisoners. Cross examined by Mr. Cutematt, as Counsel for the prisoner Kay—The people were in the factory about half an boar before the arrival of the soldiers. I beard no breaking of windows, except when the mob were escaping from the loitliers;- the factory was nearly full of persons. Cross-eutnined by the prisoner Satcliffe—The power-looms were actually broken when I saw you ; I did not see yen doing any thing. Mr. Eccles Shorrock—l had a cotton-mill in Black. burn, in April last, for spinning and weaving by power looms. My partners were 13.nnister Eccles, J•neph Eccles, and John Eccles. On the 24th April last, about three o'clock in the afternoon, I saw a mob of persons coming towards my mill ; the outer gates, and the doors of the lower rooms, containing 212 power looms, a lathe, and other machinery, were locked ; in the upper rooms there were dressing machines. The looms ro the lower rooms were fastened down to the stone floor by a hole drilled into the stone, and a wooden plug driven into it. The power of motion is commu nicated to tbose looms by a steam-engine, whicb is on the premises. The mob consisted of severaltundred per sons. After they brake open the gates, one party formed to the side of the mill. That party, consisting of aboin SO persons, was armed *kb pikes. There was an equal) number similarly armed on the other fide of the mill.— Others of the party broke in the doors of the mill, which I entered in about 33 minutes afterwards. I was in the warehouse, which overlooks the yard, and I saw the '' , people break into the mill, and shortly afterwards they brought out the twist beams (part of she poweeloorns); and several pieces of cloth which had been intim looms., Before the mob broke into. the mill, there were about 'OO pieces of cloth in the looms. The cloth • was torn in the yard in the presence of tire mob. The doors ap peared as if they had been broken by large hammers. The looms in the lower rooms were all broken. The cast iron wheels, and the drums of the engine were broken. It would require considerable force to break them. The shafts were thrown down, but they being made of wrought iron, about an inch and a quarter in diameter, could not be broken. The shafts were in caps 'or gallowses, which must either have been broken or forced before the shafts could be thrown down. Cross-examined by Mr. Comas—The prisoner Kaye was in my employment; and I think be was at his work on that day. When the attack was made nearly all the work people were out of, the factory. By his Loanamir--Ican'erzattly tell what Kay's wages WIT * but I think about nine or ten shillings a week. He was then its fill work. - CrOSII4WILIIIIOI4 by Mr. Col:swan—Some of the cross disks so* be taken down by taking out a pit MO a limb pin, which'is in the cap, but the main abaci are fastened to the floor. Neil. of the main shaftl were pulled down, but soave of she erbeels . of the main shafts were broken. the Corns—Oa the morning of the 24th of Aped all this looms were St for work t In the evening they could not perform any work. Rev. Richard Nuble—l am a Clergyman and iS Magistrate for thismm.4y. Qn_the day of the riot, I was in Darwin -'tree:; . Blackburn, which, together with the field s adjoining. wars filed with people. I had sit teen Dragoons and a 'small party of Infantry with 'Meg. We went the:nearest way to Mi. Eccles's factory, Use the crowd was so great outside the yard, that I could not get in until the.military made way. Num'sers•of persons, who were, making their escape from the tory yard, passed close by where I stood, and some ran against me. George Rigley...l live near Mr. Eccles's factory, and. I saw the mob, consisting of 500 persons, about the mill. They were doing nothing whilst the people inside were breaking the looms, but when the soldiers came, the mob took up stones, and threw them at the soldiers. John Morton-4 was in the employment of Kay; the constable of Blackburn. About three o'clock, on the 24th of April last, I was standing at die outer ,gates-ol the factory, when the mob, headed by the prisoner (Riding), came up. _He others of the mob clapped their hands, and then their shoulders, to the gate. I ha , e known him for several years, • and I spoke to hiat I on that day. They forced the outer . gates, .and I:s.au the prisoner go towards the place where ,the, Kneel looms are at work, I did not see bitnt go into the fac tory, bat in half an hour afterwards, 'I saw him coming Ism at the back window. Ile sweated very hard. Henry Hilton—l am a barber. I was at :Ur. Eccles's factory on the 9.4 th of April last. The looms were :,11 broken. I saw the pri soner Sutcliffe there, but I did not see him doing any thing, except wiping his fade. He seemed to be very warm. Cruss•etamined by the prisoner Sutcliffe—When I caw you there, the mob had not dispersed. John Morton re called—l saw Sutcliffe coming nut of the factory after the mob hail dispersed.: Ile was walking our. George Colburn, a little btu.-0,1 the 2lth of Apri last. I was in the employment of the prcisecutors.— When the rr\ob came 1 was is the factory, hut I left it and went collie top of the smithy; I could see what was doing in the factory from the top of the smithy; I saw the prison e[ Kay , striking the looms With (.1$ thought) a pi.ce of iron; when tsaw hini do this to the looms, I came down frOm the smithy, and I saw him come our of the factory door ; he swore by, his MAKER Olere was a gread smudge in the room, and he never would work there any more. • Ity the COURT—I am sure Kay .was not in the factory until be came with the mob. Cross-ezatnined by Mr. COLTXAN--• When I was on the smithy, the factory windows were shut ; when Kay came out of the fac tory, the mob was inside breaking the looms; he went away be fore the arrival of the soldiers.' Re-examined—When I ow Kay he was in the third room; he used to work in the fourth room. Betsy Longsworth—l was in the prosecutor's employ ment.. When the mob came to the factory, I saw James Latham 'and James Oi merod. Latham had a stone-b'eaking hammer in /I's hand; I was crying, and 'Ormerocl swore a great oath, and said he would knock me down if I did not hold my noise. I cannot say whet! er Ormerod had anything in. his band. They went int. the power-loom suLl ; Latham is 'a weaver ; I used to•work with him, I have known both prisoners about eight or nine years. Grace Orkes •was standing with ane at" the time. I did not see L itham do any thing with the hammer. Grace Oakes corroborated the. testimony of the last witness as to Latham. • _ _ ----- John Kay recalled-4 apprehended the prisoner Ormerml, and he told me be was not there at all. 'llr said he was at a stone deli at the time of the riot. _ _ _ John Mortowelattegalled, and he identified Howarth as one of the Antal who went into the factory yard. Howorth.had, in .his hand a hazle stick, with a large nob ors it; I :afteiWarda ,iew 14111 make his escape out of a back aindoir, whic.h.the'mob had broken. • Anne Seed—Po . the *ids 'Of April, the day of the riot, I was sit Staneyhursty where I saw Thomas Bolton, withive or six others. Re said, 4 , We have broken looms at Blackburn, and we. will break thn.e at Low Moor before we sleep." : He said he had bren, what he called, taken a prisoner; that be hadbeeti in-a , room three stories high, bdr that he puts hii 'kin no against the window and got out. James Callow—On the 24th of April, between :is and seven o'clock in the evening, I saw the prisoner Bolton with a person herhed•Eccles, 'about three miles from Blackburn. ge : ho a_ piece of cloth abOut two inches broid. a!ld.sis Wig; he said he got the cloth at Bannister Eccles's factory, where they broke the steam looms. He told me that he was shut up' in the factory in a room three stories high, but that he •btoke the 'window and got out. • The power hiom mill was proved to be in the parish of Blackburn. Stazgle said, that was his ease: The prisoners severally protested their innocence, and calleA wit nesses, viho spoke generally in favour of the prisoners, especially in behalf of Bolton. st STARZIE, for the prosecution, said, after the evidence which had beet: given, it was not his intention to press the case as against :110ton. His Immune, in summing up, said, he was sorry to say, that these riots had originated in great distress, lust the law did not admit of such an excuse for so gross an outrage. The Jury, hiving retired for a few minutes, found all the pri soners, with the exception of Bolton, Gui/ty, but recommended them to mercy. • BRISTOL, Aco. le. MAIIIFIELD AND WIFE V. TAYLOR. The female plaintiff was sister to the defendant. The parties reside at Bristol, and the actin was bi ought to recover damages for an assault committed by the de- fendant oh the female plaintiff. It appeared that she had some claim on her brother, whom she met in November last in the streets of Bristol, and enforced her claim in language, as it was said cm one side, very mild, and, as the other side contended, very violent and abusive. It was said by the plaintiff's witnesses, that he had pushed her almost off the pave ment. By the defendant's witnesses it was said, that she had *not only been very abusive, but had also taken her brother by the collar and shaken him. On this contradictory evidence the ease went to the Jury, who returned a •erdict for the plaintiff, with la damages. The rest of the day was taken up is the trial either of undefended cases or cases of no public iutesest whatever. Diartlx.--11ix himdred of the weavers employed at road labour in Dublin have returned to their work on the terms proposed by the Relief Committee; namely, the single men to receive sixpence a day, and those, with families au additional penny for every one in fa mily, not, however, to exceed one shilling in all. At Lancaster, on Monday, Richard Shorrock, aged 60, was convicted of rape on the person of Anne Iddle. ston, an orphan, aged 1# years; and sentenced to be ezecated. t The details we decline giving. ' Sic Inoarasi LAWRENCZ has achieved the highest triumph r his . a: tin a portrait of Lord Livia:root., now on hls easel; in which he has succeeded to admiration in the blended qualities of likeness, character, and ex quisite pictotial skill. From the Quebec mitres it appirars that the tonnage for the year 18G5 to June 1, lens sedrhe number of settlers 2,517: and that tor the same pati9d : in 1946, it was 65,646, and the number of. settlers 3029. THE ABDUCTION CASE • --- tefatenca to.-our Asincaerfa wi4o44l.Eitader in preisersion , of , the paelimitaries. ink . fir , (villa) * after all; hit tot diffiethiefte4veli twitkpecu -14641 Miserurier, iii thefiritlibEe,initplif i letss. its •the strict wow of the.term;itutiltit ts,not cipal difficulty. The gist of. the crime of abductiarklies in the forcible marriage. •Now the young Lady was 'carried away in England, where 'abduction is *aka, and she was marTiert in Scotland, where such abfliicpon is no crime at all: where the law supposes piety ; Woman in a capacity for marriage as soon as :be is , filuateen years of age, and holds all marriages valid if eodtnict&l above that age, and above twelve years in the)s4le, whether sanctioned by parents or guardians, orcoru. 11 Mr. Wakefield be tried for running away with Turner, and marrying her, he cannot - be teed , in England, for the crime was not comPletecrthers ; and if he be tried in Scotland, be must be atquitied, because .the law of Scotland does not recognise the offence. But there is a more serious tonsequeues to kiss T. She is to all intents and purposes, a married woman, by the law of Scotland ; and Scotch mart es, it is unnecessary to observe, have been recognize Cby the Courts of England repeatedly. WI ether, theseThres Mr. W. be punished ,oc acquitted, she is still his wife ; for the same law of Scotland, agreeably to which she was married, allows of no divorce, but for odultitry" or voluntary abandonment ; a rd trtairiages there,- though solemnized by minors, n.'t only without consept of patients, but in the hulk if their pjohibition s *o,every way binding; nor is the state of the questioil et all altered by the conduct of the parties alter the ceremony. It is a point that admits of no dispute, that were Mt. - Wakefield imprisoned two years, or twenty years, still he would be'endiled, if he pleased, by the l: w. of Scathed, to damns the yrnang,4aleyes his wife; and if she should comrade ansthei troarriagkedorlntlitelife, she would be obnoxious toga indictment fer bitamy, chil dren of such *Marriage would beilleakimate. "k. • CORNWALL AND DEVOWMINING CONTiNY. Monday; a Meeting Shatehnlderi of , thit9im. pang, who had • sired tlle . D'?ed . Of took place at their R. loan, in.toenbaidsstrect. LOidslUaionat PALliegit3Talt in the Chair. •-.• The scene was an extraordinary one, and detUid ad ditional interest from the appearance of Idr. Wi3 jun. who entered the room for the purpose of Anakitig his statement to the Company. -' .•~ The following Minutes were send by tbiSeetetary : " At a Special Meeting of the Board of Director s of Itte Oftrowall and Devonshire Mining Company, held the 7th of A 46081 6 .1 " Mr. Fisher, who was nominated by the DlftettmiStsiteitor to the Company, was directed to examine the sitoatleti of the Company, especially on the .question. as to the porebastraltd sale of the Minns in question, and also as to two notes, called prOinissory notes, for 5,0091 each, given by some of the Ditectdrs to the Bank ing-houses of Sir W. Kaye and Co. and Sir John Firming add Co. several Members of the two firms bring also •Directots of the Conipany. " Mr. Kershaw attended the Meeting of the Betardlbte fifty, Tie was asked who attended the Meeting on the 7th of"AptiVlB2s. lie answered, at this distance of time be c"uld not rkeoliect : he declined naming the other parties besides himself' who reteetved money from Mr. Walks: - " Questions put to Mr. Aston, and his xviswers;wiisiltteitied the Meeting at the Albiou, tm the lib of April, teed!' • :•• • ~. " Mr. Willis, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Sint, Mv. KershmeortypeiS and prrbaps others. :•• ••). " Mr. Aston was asked, if he knew whether abyversen tillho WAS now a Director had received .thy pioney?--"I beak rotas i and the Director I allude to is Mr. Moore.' f: • " Mr. Moore declared intmeillatkly, that po . liar) tistrieceivad ally monies. .• 2..1- • 1 . " On the motion of Mr. Sullivan, serondedligttatidorotslientpn. " It vrai Rentkimr=That irtittirruptnimelitthis boarda.ollai no r to person, havingelsecome a Director, orhaving it 111 erinnt•—t Ls become a Director of the Coniwall and bevatish* Mining Com . parr); cookliiiiiiiiiternly with .bit.datty:.as.a..-Dircrsarrlvs from Mr. Wicks any payment in consideration of, or in any way with re ference to, the formation of the tompany. " At a Meeting of the Board or Directors; held on the 7th of August, love, " Mr. Aston preduced •the list of persons-orb% bad reeeteed money. from Mr. Wilits:—S. Bell Barrett, Esq. M.P. William Kershaw, K'q. William Sins; Esq.'lP: %Phi, Esieltibstll;ay, Iraq. William Aston, E.g." • • ‘. e _•• • .;••• Lord PA LIIIIRIITOS moved, that the Minuteshe approl ; Mr..Wit.xs now addtessed ,the Mer.tintnn„t soh j ct of the charges brought against hio? by bAc t4 elyrke. all of which he designated as base calumnies .s .4, de fence consisted in :Taborting .tynn one pi,,ty(9 of tis colleagues a shasein the , transactions nlitch hilitbeen urged• as , constituting a fraud upon. the - .Ckyßany, especiallr as retelling to the purchase of some mines at an exorbitant pri,fit. '1 he. Directors, who. hall s ttceived snoney•fromtlim, had received it with/00401g any siemand upon ivip, and they ought to:retnrp thttfruney 40 bone but him, although he did not ask for tt. , was gross to state that his bilis fur shaves were clishondbred. Was not he (Mr. Wilk') the only peisnu who hid 'con %anted to receive his slimes in the Welshlrosi.Company, and had he not given in payment a hill for.soot. which bill was paid? Mr. Claske, had alisays,been.vely civil, until he (Mr. Wilks) objected to his admission to tke Welsh Slate Meeting. Mr. Cliike attacked ecinipanies, and spoke of private transactions which had no ieference whatever to the subject. Mr. Wilks then mentioned all which he said he knew about what waLealled the ; 4 4 Concoction" of the Company. He next entered into a vari.ty of explanations in defence of his conduct, wtich 'were f illowed by the statements of others.;:io the course 1 4 which much acrimonious and angry,lafignage was used, until Lord Palmerston declared he would quit the Chair it it was not disc ontinued. After much crimination and recrfiktination,• . Mr. CLARIS said, 1 trust t shall have access to the, doinments which may be necessary, aid I assure the. mooing, that.notbing shall deter me from doing all I can to have dais eerie ;01), investi gated at the OW Willy—(A laugh and applause). After the motion that the minutes be apprevesi, pud thanks Lad been voted to his Lordship, the • Meeting .separased.. - Dr. Gooch has been appointed Librarian, to the Kutch in the room of the late Bishop of Llandaff. The .HsAttir o like Sir Wu.t.itm KNIGHTON, has been one of . thc . .musf Awseysful Ay, coucheurs of his time. • • • -7 to: at- • CHESS. , • • Tuesday, the Pbilidorian Match veil p1#164 it Bristol, by lafr. Keen, of the Middle TernOlo..againd Mr; Riddle and Mr. Jake*. the city of Bristol. Mr; seen played two games at the same date one of them without seeing the pieces, geeing fur advantage of the pawn and move in the game which/splajt4 sveinplie Pkees. He won Both lames. . . .44 e•or GREAT MATCH. On Wednesday morning the 4d instant, a gentleman started from Edinburgh to ride to LochneU House, in Argykshire, baring re lays of horses at the end of each twelve miles. He accomplished the journey. stoppages included, in. ten hours, the distaste:Acing 122 miles. An accident occurred, which rendered the performance more difficult. A Highland lad to whom one of the boron was intrusted, with strict orders to walk it about, bad the folly to mount, and in endeavouring to pick up his bonnet which was blown of, he checked the spirited animal roughly, and canoed it to rear suede biekwards, when the horse and rider both tumbled over. o Arldiptto the depth of to or so feet. The hone was killed ga . th e sok an d tkit unfor tunate rider only survived a few hours.' •f • ' CORN =CHAIM& MARI:LA/4 4 14 Atitel6. The arrivals of all sorts of Grain are ezter'of Foreign Oats, the quantity of which is emeiderablo. , Wheat maintains the prices of Monday, with little doing. Earley, Beans, and Peas are unaltered in value. Oats may be conldered the same mast market day, with little business doing.—Arrivals r English Wheat, 1,690 qrs. Barley, 200 qrs. Oats, 715 qrs. Foreign Oats, 4,963 qrs. k