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MEETING AT "lIIE BANK. The half-vearly meeting of Batik Proprietors was held yester d4. The Novara sou took the I - hair at twelve o'clock. Th.: Sri: aft eAm V haying read the correspondence between the • edine nt and t he Bank , relat i ve to their c e din g so hof their ta i:.'accr as line ul btinkinl/4;compoliles tt tiox partners, at a certain itnia . from the titetropoos, and the minutes of the proceedings % , ,„„„i tomtit of Dveetors. in which they declared their cencur f -ICe iu the re :arliticialations of his Majority's 311 Toe ( :tat tt lAN rose to declare a dividend of him per cent. to Proptietota Lank Stock, for the half-year ruling the Leh of 3 1, you sft: submitted that the Cmirt ahnuld not concur in any ri ch division to their property, without an explanation of the state tit tacit affairs. Ile should not discharge his duty to the Company and Cie country at large. without demanding such explanation. in ~.ic ota l.; to the late distresses, and the atorances which the Bank hid i 0 4ot:ow:ce been called on to make, he thought that it was e-e 111 . the Coort of Directors to explain the principle on test had made these advances. Ile had no wish to pry into tiett yerets, hot the public had a right to be apprised of the plan. 'oat express his fears as to the Consequences of the Bill brought into Parliament, to accelerate the ope tm,„, o f t h e law of merchant and factor in favour of the Bank, ke:o siioold have been much better satisfied to let that law take its ro an: 1 1 course. Whether this measure was adopted at the instance of the Doi:ors. the ('ours did not know. Ile strongly deprecated the advance ot tooney on such a pawnlooking system. The next point t , w hi c h he wished to allude was the state of the manufacturing in ten"'. The individuals composing this interest bad been quietly ilr,aing their business, perfectly ignorant of the impending storm ha.! r ern taken by surprise, and thcir interests ought to be rattled by every possible means. These were the men to whom ;hoidil be given—not to those who had overstocked their e nefouses by over inhumation, or over-trading of any kittd. As tite state of the circulating medium, lie was afraid that the man ,:m of the Government and the Bank had been the menus of con ratan; its amount as much below the natural supply as it was last year a hoy? it. Both extremes were equally irjoriotta. Ile would p,C.!:11,.! the attention of the Court to the subject of mortgages. p anti 1;7 said. of great importance for the country to know what i r ae !!;•2 imentions of the Company in regard to them ; whether it a ,. intoition of the Company to make farther advances, or to with& ov any part of those already made. There was only another point till w hiCil he wished for information ; what views were enter tsitted by the Company as to the establishment of branch batiks ? If such branch batiks were to be established. he fur one thought that the charter ought to be extended beyond the year IBA air otherwise they would be making an experiment from which they could derive no profit. and which would only expose them to much risk and Ito,. In order to make himself more distinctly under stood, be should now propose a serifs of questions, on the several 'abject , on which he wished for information. In the first place he „j ette d t o know the outline of the oho on which the division was I „ n f,. tfe description of trader+, and the amount. .1 he CIIM R mAN replied, that the Book had not yet made any very considerable advances. With respect to the outline of the Tian. it seemed very important that committees should be appointed tot reel iving applications, and determining on their propriety. The cv ores hail beet principally made to manufacturers, and with an Vit-rst:tntlivg that it was the intention of the Bank that no ad nixes should he made in cases where they would be employed in sopoirting over speculation. (Iloir„ hear.) The goofs on which thi.o :Us:loves were made being estimated at their present depre crud role:, the advances were never more than one-half, or 'ome n , trio-thirds of this appraised value. The goods were deposited is scale of the Chambers of Coinmeree, or confided to the care of pe seas connected with tile business, but at present ireefrots the dis re,' and the keys were deposited in the hands of persons entirely tit t waken(' with the parties. Every precaution had been taken to filoa.n ample security tint the Batik. The advances were only made tor three mamba, without any agreement for a renewal, which, if' it should be found necessary, was afterwards to be effected as an en tirely new ,unmet. in some cases advances had been made on personal security. The advanrel had been made in London on ex actly the same plan as in the country. Mr. You an was much satisfied with the answer which had been given. lie was anxious. however, to know the actual amount which had been advata .1 to the manufacturers? The Citron max—A quarter of a million would very much ex ceed the whole ao.ount. (Hear.) Mr. You then asked what was the intention of the Bank in ri.si.cc: to mortglge, did they mean to make any more advances ? he Cita( it MAN replied that it was not the intention of the Bank to mak.• any further advances on mortgage. Mr. You ko wished to know whether it was intended to with draw aer part or the advances already matl.t ? The l'oat tt 3las said that this subject was at present under con. sideration. _ . Mr. I'm:NG iris desirous of knowing what was their intention in rispeet to 'te establishment of branch banks % The l lIAIRMAs said that this subject was also under considers. lion. The titt:e i•I the Directors hail been recently much occupied very inmovant matters, and they had as yet been unable to come to any arrang2 , iient on this subject. Mr. VoI:NG understanding that the Chairman would not give any more detai'ed answer. would riot press this question. Ile could not. hoatler, sufficiently impress on them the importance uf -- The Cita hee AN replied that the Court of Directors were per f.,tlv aware of toot, but the very great importance both of the 1;r:11c:ilk and the details of the measure would justify the,r delay. gIICSIIIIII W.VI then put from the Chair. and erred to without division. The d.videud warrants were ordered to issue on the 6th cavil. Yot:wc would only ask one question more. Dad the Di re; as taken into consideration his plan for preventing the fraudu lent twister of stock ? The plan he had proposed, of immediately c minunicating to any individual whose stock had been transferred t,.at hes had been dune, appeared to him a most ell'ectual remedy. the Cie Aln ciAN observed that this suggestion had been consi dered by the Diretion', and that it did not appear to them so sate a•.d r! -- ..ctual a preventive of fraud is the worthy Proprietor lime gelef SoLLY :Diced whether 80,000/. had been expended in the anew.. 70 get a note othieh could not be imitated ? the CHAIR 'IAN replied, as we understood him, that a very large ur h t.i I.)cot expended, but not so large as that mentioned. natet,ng then adjourned at a quarter before one o'clock. MESSRS. CHAMBERS AND SONS' BANKRUPTCY Yeverday the Creditors to this estate met for the final exarnina ni oC th. hat.krupts, at the Commissioners' Court, IDasinghall v:e4. A very el tborate statement was presented by Mr. Cho totters's S.:heitor, winch was coottnented on by Mr. Commissioner Trelseck, vein by item. The gross amount of outstanding deists tine to the crAiturs by the pubiic and private estates was estimated at 3`dt1,14101., .t.J the assets were con: inittd at 341,1)001., thus leaving a surplus in :•eiNir of the e,tate of I.4.issif. 3ir. Coinn.i l / 4 .ioner Taf.L ECK observed, however, that the se mum Low exhibited was in every respect the most uniu.tisfaetory Le had ever witneased. Alnictat every item was burthened with i:tunibrances ut co heavy a nature, as to leave nothing but a merely urninal value behind when they came to be analysed. With re t:eet to the Opera house, it was made to wand for 100,0001., whereas, tit bier, it atoned that )!r. Chambers had only accepted it as secure:) , a debt of 112,01.4.0. due by Mr. Waters to the bank ; a-A a ql:gi011 here aruse, whcher that had ever been a bona fide pitch:ls- ? Mr. Citamar.as observed there could be no doubt as to the rraitty ut the transaction. The fact was, he had accepted the offer at a hate when Le considered the sum due by Mr. Vi aters to be • LOU debt. Mr. 1. - irninissioner Tam,Ecx likewise observed, that the 'alum Cu. u:" the Enfield estate seemed to him to have been greatly over rad. It was set down in the account as worth 10,1M01., when there %a 3 (4v - image against it for 7,0081. Mr. CRAMIIER9, io explanation. remarked that he had put It d orin in this way, because it had been so valued at the General Meeting of t:reilitore in 1811, and had met with their concurrence ; at the sarr.e time ho was willing to admit that the present intrinsic sake 'timid, perhaps, be materially reduced, from the great dete rioration in property which had taken place in the interval. Mr. Commi.sioniv Taxtitxx reiterated his former opinion, that th, steour.t.s now exhibited were soy thing but what they ought to Ate been. - - 31r. CIIAMBEni declared that he had endeavoured to adhere to truth in every particular. He had no wish whatever to give the priperty an appearance of value which it would not eventually Ile wu then &worn, in the regular way, to the correctness ditto ac:Ainuo, and the uteeting adjourned. At the present ' when, from the low rate of wages, and the general scarcity of employment, most of our ope rative classes must be enduring severe privations, it gives us pleasure to record efforts adopted for their relief. In the beginning of last week the grocers in the west end of the town held a meeting, to take into consideration how they might best assist in relieving the wants of the ope ratives. Deputations were appointed to wait upon the tanners in the neighbourhood, and solicit from them donations of potatoes, cr whatever they chose to give. The farmers received the deputations handsomely, and in a very short ti me they collected about s e v e nty bolls of po tatoes, and a quantity of meal—each farmer sending his do rations into a store which the grocers had obtained. The grocers themselves contributed and furnished some other necessaries. IV hat was thus provided was distributed in .mall quantities, among families in necessitous circus:n en:vs, and who were not receiving relief fron, any other Several wholesale merchants, from a distance, l'at'e given small donations in money, to assist the grocers *e t their laudable efforts. We are assured that it was pleas ing to observe the gratitude evinced by most of those who ebtain e d t hi s seasona bl e supply • and that some cases oc curred wh ere a f am ily, composed Of several persons, had not a panicle of food. Although the smallness of the supply must give but a very transitory relief, yet it is a strong in 'lneement for others to enrage in simil ar exert i ons , t h at they will find hundreds Of the most pr o p er o bj ec t s , an d will readily obtain co-operation and support. —Waylay Courier. bource CIWELTY TO ANIMALS. -...1M.- We think we cannot more usefully employ a portion of our columns (particelaily on this altered day) than by in serting in them some extracts from Dr.Chalnurs's Discourse , delivered recently at Edinburgh on cruelty to animals. 11nn is the direct 4:Atilt of a wide and continual disiress to the lower animals. and the question is, can any method be devised for its allrviation ? lan this subject that scriptural image is strikingly realieet, "rile whole interior creation groaning and travailing to gether in pain,' because Mnna. It signifies not to the substantive amount of the suffering, whether this he prompted by the hardness of hi* heart, or only permitted through the heedlessness of his mind. In either way it holds true, not only that the arch devourer man stands pre-eminent over the fiercest children of the wilderness, as an animal of prey, but that for his lordly add luxurious appetite, as well as for his service or merest curiosity and amusement, Na ture must be ransacked thraughout all her elements. Rather than forego the veriest gratifications of vanity, he will wring them from the anguish of wretched and ill-fated creatures; rind whether for the indulgence of his barbararic sensuality, or barbaric splendour, can stalk paramount over the suffering of that prosrtrate creation which has been placer' beneath his feet. That beauteous domain whereof WI has been eons:dined the terrestrial sovereign, gives out so many blissful and benignant aspects; and whether we look to its peaceful lakes, or its flowery landscapes, or its evening skies or to all that soft attire which overspreads the hall and the valleys, lighted up by smiles of sweetest sunshine, and where animals disport themselves in all the exuberance gaiety—this surely were a more befitting scene for the rule of clemency than fur the Iron rod of a murderous and remorseless tyrant. But the present is a mysterious world wherein we dwell. It stilt bears much upon its materialisin of the impress of Paradise. But a breath from the air of Pandemonium has gone over its living generations. And so • the tear of man, and the dread of man, is now upon every beast of the earth, mid upon every Coati of the air, upon all that moved' upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into man's hands are they delivered ; every moving thing that liveth is meat for him ; yea, even as the green herbs, there have been given to him all things.' Such is the extent of his juristlic. Lion, and with most lull and wanton license has he revelled among its privileges. The whole earth labours and is in violence because of his cruelties; and, from time amphitheatre of sentient Nature. there sounds in fancy's ear the bleat of one wide and waive:sal suffering,—a dreadful homage to the power of Nature's consti tuted lord. •"rhese sufferings are really fedt. The beasts of the field are not so many automata without sensation, and just so constructed as to give forth all the natural signs and expressions of it. Na ture bath not practised this universal deception upon our species. These poor animals just look, and tremble, and give forth the very indications of suffering that we do. Theirs is the distinct cry of pain. Theirs is the unequivocal physiognomy of pain. They put on the sante aspect of terror on the dcincnstrations of a menaced blow. They exhibit the same distortions of agony atter the infliction of it. rhe bruise, or the burn, or the fracture, or the deep incision, or the fierce encounter with one of equal or superior strength, just affects them similarly to ourselves. Their blood circulates as ours. They have pulsations in various parts of the body like ours. They sicken, and they grow feeble with age, and, finally, they die just as we do. They possess the sank feel ings; and what exposes them to like suffering from another quarter, they possess the sante instincts with our own specks. The lioness, rubbed of line whelps, causes the wilderness to ring aloud with the proct imation of her wrongs; or the bird whose little househol 1 has been stole'', fills anti saddens all the gook with melodies of deepest pathos. All ehis is palpable even to the general and unlearned eye; and when the physiologist lays open the recesses of their system by means of that scalpel, under whose operation they just shrink and are convulsed as any living sub ject of our own species, tnere steeds forth to view the same sentient apparatus, and furnished with the same conductors for the trans mission of feeling to every minutest pore upon the surface. Theirs is unmixed and unmitigated pain—the agonies of martyrdom, with out the alleviation of the hopes and the sentiments whereof they are incapable. When they lay them down to die, their only fellowship is with suffering : for in the prison -house of their beset and bounded faculties there can no relief be afforded by communion with other interests or other things. The attention does not lighten their distress as it does that of man, by carrying off his spirit from that existing pungency and pressure which might else be overwhelming. Thtre is but room in their mysterious economy for one inmate, and that is the absorbing sense of their own single and concentrated anguish And so in that bed of torment whereon the wounded animal lingers and expires, there is an unexplored depth and intensity of suffering which the poor dumb animal itself cannot tell, and against which it can offer no remonstrance—an nn. told and unknown amount of wretchedness, of which no articulate voice gives utterance ; but there is an eloquence in its silence, and the very shroud which disguises it only serves to aggravate its horrors." The following observations relate to the benevolent en dowment in consequence of which this sermon wus de- livcred : " The institution of a yearly sermon against cruelty to animals, is of itself a likely enough expedient that might at least be of some auxiliary ope:ation, along with other and more general causes, towards such an awakening. It is not by one, but by many successive appeals, that the cause of justice and mercy to the brute creation will at length be practically carried. On this subject I cannot, within the limits of a single address, pretend to aught like a full or finished demonstration. This might require not one, but • whole century of sermons ; and many, therefore, are the topics which necessarily I must bequeath to my succes sors. in this warfare against the listlessness an I apathy of the public. And, beside the farce and the impression of new topics, if there be any truth In our doctrine, there is a mighty advantage gained upon this subject of all others by the repetition of old topics, It is a subject on which the public do not require so much to be instructed as to be reminded ; to have the regard of their attention directed again and again to the sufferings of poor helpless creatures, that the regard of their sympathy might at length be effectually obtained for them. This then is a cause to which the institution of an anniversary pleading in its favour is most precisely and peculiarly adapted. And besides, we must confess, in the general, our partiality for a scheme that has ori ginated the Boyle, and the Ilanipton, and the Warburtonian lectureships of England, with all the valuable authorship which has proceeded from them. An endowment fur an annual dis. course upon a given theme, is, we believe, a novelty in Scot land ; though it is to similar institutions that much of the best sacred and theological literature of our sister country is owing. We should rejoice if, in this our comparatively meagre and en. beneficed land, both these themes and these end.pvinents were multiplied. We recommend this as a fit species of charity, for the munificence of wealthy individuals. Whatever their selected ar gument shall be, whether that of cruelty to animals, or some one evidence of our faith, or the defence and itluatration of a doctrine, or any distinct method of Christian philanthropy for the moral regeneration of our species, or aught else of tnose innumerable topics that lie situated within the rich and ample domain of that revelation which God has made to our world—we feel assured that such a movement must be responded to with beneficial effect, both by the gifted pastors of our Church, and by the aspiring youths of greatest power or greatest promise among its candidates. Such institutions as these would help to quicken the energies of our establishment; and, through means of a sustained and reiterated eftbrt, directed to I.OIIIC one great lesson, whether in theology or morals, they might impress, and that more deeply every year some specific and most salutary amelioration on the principles or the practices of general society. " Yet we are loath to quit our sullen without one appeal mne in behalf of those poor sufferers, who, unable to advocate their own cause, possess, on that very account, a more imperative claim on the exertions of him who now stands as their advocate before you." GREAT VARIATION IN CONTRACTS.—A Correspondent kforms us that the contractor in a western parish paid the commissioners last year, for the ashes, &c. 2,800/., under taking, in the usual was, to cleanse the streets; and by his contract this )ear, for the same object, he is to receive the sum of SOW., creating a difference to the parish of 3,3001. In various manufacturing districts of England a partial revival of trade appears to have taken place. We would be glad were we enabled to ray the same with regard to our own town. Unfortunately however in this respect there is little or no improvement, and the number of weavers con sequently thrown out of employment has within these few weeks increased to an alarming extent. By a census re cently taken, on the accuracy of which reliance may be placed, it appeals that no less than 2,200 are at this moment without work, and if to these be added all those who in one way or another depend on them for support, the total Lum ber of persons already enduring the severest privations that flesh is heir to may, at the very lowest calculation, be esd mated at treble that amount. Melancholy as this prospect is, it is nevertheless gratifying to observe the fortitude with which these privations arc borne by our suffering towns men. More especially do they deserve the meed of our admiration for the high-minded reluctance which, in many instances, has been shown, even by those on the brink of starvation, to receive any description of eleemosynary re lief. In such an emergency prompt measures must be adopted. Accordingly, several meetings have been held by the local authorities • and, in the meantime, the Road Trustees have engag ed to find employment for a consider able number in repaiting roads in the neighbourhood. This, we can state on authority, is only the forerunner of more extended and efficacious measures for meeting the present exigency.—Poirlest Advertiser, March 18. FREE Titans. INDEED ! I—The following is a copy of a notice which was posted on the Roman Catholic Chapels in the neighbourhood of Finstone : " To the palish o fDrumragh—That if any of the Roman Catho• tics attends in future any markets and fairs in ' , intone, on week days, to buy or sell, until such times that there are another arrange. ment made, of which due notice will be given. Any persons at. tendin to Fintona after this notice (only for the Purpose of attend. ing on Sundays and hnlydays for prayers), will meet the severest punishment on their persons; and If their persons does not be got, they may expect destruction to be down on their cattle and pro party."—From the Potsiet of Saturday. THE BRITISH PRESS. PaYMENT OF EXCISE DUTIES. [From the Hereford Journal of March 22.] Our worthy representative, It. Pfice,.Esq. with his usual attention to the interests of this county and city, has made a successful application to the ,Lords of the Treasury, for an extension of time in the payment of Excise Duties due in the present week. The peculiar difficulties attendant on all money tranrattions since our Banks have been closed, inductil Mr. Price, without any solicitation. to submit an appeal, equally honourable to himself and beneficial to the parties particularly interested. It was met by the Lords of the Treasury with so obliging an attention, and so prompt a compliance, as to supersede the necessity of any further explanation : (COPY.) " Treasury Chambers, March 18. " My dear Sir,-1 have this day received your letter, upon the very •crious inconvenience to which many persons at Hereford, and in the neighbourhood. will be exposed, in consequence of the failure of the Hereford Banks, unless some indulgence be shown to them in the collection of the duties of Excise becoming payable early nest week, and I have the satisfiction to acquaint you, that the Lords of the Treasury have given immediate orders to the Board of Excise, to instruct their officers forthwith to afford every fnci!ity in the collection of the duties to those persons who may be suffixing under the peculiar circumstances of the times, which may he consistent with the ultimate safety of the revenue. lam afraid, however, that it will not be possible for the Board of Excise to de4ateh orders by the mail this night, but 1 trust that circum stance will not occasion inconvenience to any of the parties. `• I am, my dear Slr, " Yours very truly, " To R. Price, Esq. 81. P." " J. C. BERRIES. CORONERS' INQUESTS. An truptiaition was, on Wednesday afternoon, taken before .1. If. GF.1.1., Esq., at the Penitentiary, hlilliank, on the body of Anne M tickle, who was convicted of felony at the Old Dailey, but whose sentence way afterwards commuted into live years imprison. ment in that place. The Governor and Sirgeon attended to give evidence, from which it appeared that the deceased was in a very debilitated state when received into that prison, owing to her long previous dime lu e habits, and that, notwithstanding every attention was shown to her, she gradually became worse. She died on Monday last : . . The brother of the deceased attended, and expressed himself Satisfied that every thing possible had been done for his sister. The coroner obserted that there could be no doubt of that, although it was at the sante time a satisfaztion to find the friends of the acceitsed satisfied on that head. Verdict—•` Natural Matti." It may not he uninteresting to state, that persons dying In this prisms are buried in the ground attached to the chapel. Due notice of the event is sent to the friends, and, as far RS possible, the day and hour arrang,:al so as to meet their convenience. St . IC I DE.—Yestertlay evening an inquisition was taken at the Lo:nliin Hospital, on view of the body of an aged man named Hs .iel l•hatterly. The deceased was brought Into the hospital on the 26th of Fehritary, whit a lacerated throat. Ile was then quite sensible. and said that lie had intiiczed the wound himself, and did it at his liotivw in the parish of Slualwell. He did not appear in much dejection. He languished until Wednesday night, when he died. lie was 64 years of age. The Instrument he made use of to cut his throat was an old Knife. For eight or nine yearn previous he hail been out of his mind, and bad been partially afflicted for the last eighteen or nineteen years. His circumstances were good. The Jury returned a verdict of—" Insanity." DREADFUL SU ICIDE.--A Coroner's Inquest was held at the fork-niihster Arius, Foley-street, Marylebone, before T. STIR. LI SG, Esq. Coroner, on the body of John Holmes, aged V, who put a period to his existence by shooting himself, as mentioned in our paper of yesterday. After hearing the evidence of the surgeon who attended the de. meted anti of two other witnesses, . . . . . The Coitus; au said he had no doubt but the deceased's mind was affected in consequence of the unlucky attachment he had formed. Ile knew many instances of gentlemen having been de. prived of their reason during the whole of their fives, in consequence of similar disappointments. The Jury viewed the body, and returned a verdict-4 That the deceased committed the act himself, while in a state of tsmporary derangement." Friday last being the festival of St. Patrick, it was cele brated by the Sons of Erin in this town with great splen dour. In the morning a numerous and most respectable assembly attended the Catholic chapel in Seel -street, where an excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. Vincent Glover. At the close of the service the different benefit societies proceeded in procession through the principal streets, attended by excellent bands, who played some of the most popular Irish airs. In the evening they dined at their respective club-houses, and spent the day in convi viality and good humour.—Liverpool Courier. We arc happy to state, that the men employed at the Mold mines have at length returned to a proper sense of their duty, and that a great number of them signed a paper on Saturday last, testifying their willingness to abide by the usual regulations. An ineffectual attempt to create dissatisfaction among the miners on Halkin mountain, very probably contributed to make the Mold men return to their duty. The former declared, at a meeting of their body on Saturday, that they had no ground of complaint either against the Company, their rules, or their agents, and they cheerfully took their usual monthly bargains as before. A number of the Mold miners will, in consequence of their past conduct, be out of employ for several months, the mines being nearly full of water. Several of the leaders of the disturbance are now in custody.—Liverpool Courier. The farmers frequenting our market are at issue with the millers, who lately published their declaration that they would only purchase by the imperial bushel and the round strike. The corn growers, on the contrary, insist on selling by the Winchester bushel only.—Taunton Courier. Several hundred mackerel were brought on shore here on Tuesday, and sold at about 4/. 10s. per hundred, some of which were purchased by Mr. Wright, of the Grey hound, and sent to London.—Brighton Gazette. NATURAL Pirceomenow.—AbOut ten days since a cat produced four kittens, which a white terrier bitch took from her. and is now bringing up three of them, one hav ing died. The three are doing well, and although the bitch had no puppies, she has now abundance of support for them. The terrier will not leave the kittens even for her food, so fearful is she that the mother of them will take them away in her absence. The bitch and kittens may be seen at 13, Bristow -street, Blackfriars. Lieut. Robert Aiken, of the Hyperion, stationed on the Blockade Service, near Seaford, was drowned on the night of the 14th inst. The unfortunate gentleman, who had put off in a galley, was standing in the boat, when he fell overboard, and having on a thick dress, he sunk, and could not afterwards be discovered.—Brighton Gazette. The Arrow cutter. Lieut. A. Revoking, captured a fine French smuggling lugger off Beachy Head, on Tuesday night, with six Frenchmen on board. The lugger was little more than two miles from the shore when first dis covered, but the wind dying away, the galley was des patched, whiel soon came up. The prise it. named the Alexander, of Boulogne, with SW tubs of spirits and 11 bales of silk goods.—Brighton Gazette. On Thursday evening last, as Serjeant Wilson, keeper of the barrack at Glancree, county Wicklow, was return ing from town on horseback, with a bag behind him con taining tea, sugar, &c., he was accosted by a man in woman's clothes, who after a few Indifferent questions laid bold of the bridle, and giving him a violent blow on the arm with a stone which he had concealed in his hand, two fellows instantly started forward and dragged the sack away. The horse being frightened at t'his sudden assault, Wilson was thrown, and received a contusion on the breast. He, however, recovered, and got up, fortunately in time to give a stunning How in the face to one of the ruffians, who, after examining the bag, mover, probably with in tention to rob and murder lihn. Wilson then mounted his horse and escaped. He next day commenced a search for the villains, but we are sorry to say without effect.— Freeman's Journal. _ _ A daring attempt at highway robbery was made at Brixton, near the new church, on Wednesday evening. Mr. Wig. ton, of NVestniinster-road, artist, was atiazised on horseback by two fellows, one of whom Atomd at the horse's head, and the other demanded his money. Mr. ‘Vigton pretended to feel fur his money, and at the same time clapped spurs to his horse arid escaped. He gave information at the next public house, and at the turnpikes, but the two fellows escaped. Mr. \V. had tiOl. about hint, and a good watch. A must audacious burglary was committed at Stanstetl, Kent, on IVednesday night, on the premises of Mr. Vindgrove, clothier. by a gang of about seven fellows, who hail with them two carts. The robbery was committed about two o'clock in the morn. ing. and the thieves, it seems, Rained forth from a public.house in the neighbourhood of seven Oaks, passing themselves off as smug. glees. A man who saw the removal of the goods was secured by the parties, and taken away in one of the carts, and left in a place which he knew nothing of. The property stolen in cloth Is very considerable. A clue, we understand. is obtaintd, which it is Lop.d will lead to the apprchensbn of the rub'oers. LAW NOTICES. COIRT ov CHANCERY. It t. experted the Lor;7611;e:dlcor;;11:ii on Thursday or Ftldey next to hear the reasainlag Lunatic Petttions. MILLS COURT. General Petition Day at the Rolls on 'ftlamal.ty, the I Ith of April, at alz in the evening. Petitionaa taunt he tet d awn, aril copie4 left with the Secretary, by two o'clock un the preceding day. ECCLESIASTICAL AND MARITIME COURTS. The followie4 day) ore aFpoinVorl for the nittioge of tLeenCourtn during the Earkter Term : 'noir 5R...110V, Court of A t o t ee, Monday, Apiitii);A4mlralty, Tuegday, the 11th; Prerogativ., Wertnemlay, the 12th; lle.egates, Thuteday, the 13th; Curt et.tury, Ftiday, the 14th. lIRCO%D FRISION. Court of Arches, Stiturdriy, Tovoloy, the 18th; Prerogatfro, M'eclne4day, the 19:h; De:egotes, Tbur.day, the 20th; Con slstory, Friday, the 214. 9111.141011 Court of Arch..., Saturday, "2 mlr al ty , Tuenclay, the 25th; Prerogative, Wedrurotay, the 2.ith ; Delegaten, the 27th; Con. alvtory, Friday, the 2tlth. ►OCRT7I RKVVIfI Y, Court of Arches, Mondny, May I ; Admiralty, Tuesday, the 211; Prero gative. Friday, the bth ; Delcetteii, Monday, the dth ; Cenvi4tury, Tues day, the Bth. LA IV INTELLIGENCI?. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Tuunspir, 31Ancti 23 XETS n BUYAINT. POINT OF PRACTICE. „..._ Mr.Sramsros stated that, a day or two ago, he obtained the leave of the ('ours to make the present motion in this cause. A hill had been filed, and an answer put in by a defendant ; the bill was amended, and an amended answer tendered, which the SiA Clerks' Office had refused to receive, because it was not signed in the same way in which the original answer had been signed. The defendant having three names, he signed only two of them to the original answer, and his real name (in full) to the amended one. This application consequently was; that the Six Clerks might 'moldered to receive and file the amended answer. His II °sot; ft did not think the Six Clerks had acted wrong in refusing to receive the second answer under these circumstances. Mr. sirmottns could not conceive that the answer with the defendant's real name could legally be refused. Aoxoun said it was impossible the Six Clerks could have known that the name to the original bill was not the reel name of the defendant. There had been an imposition practised on the Court. Mr. SYMoNDS said the defendant was prepared to act in any way the Court night think proper. II is If oxoro considered the best order to be made was. provided the ;plaintiff did not object, that the defendant should withdraw the answer already filed, to add his I roper name to it, and thut the Six Clerks should afterwards receive it again, together with the amend ed answer. Mr. POLAN appeared for the plaintiff; and had no objection whatever to any order the Court might think proper to male, pro vided the plaintiff had his costs. His llwitoun made the order arcordlngly, directing the defen dant to pay all the costs attending this tits blunder. XTIIOSATTER OF SPARROW AND oTriEns, BANKRUPTS. A gentleman bAinti the bar moved for leave to open this com mission at Braintree, against Sparrow and others, who had carried on the business of bankers at Chelmsford and Braintree, on the ground that the great body of creditors lived near that place, and that it would be extremely incnnvenient if all the creditors had to come to London to prove their debts. The Learned Gentleman under. stood it was in the discretion of the Court to grant such leave, where the commission was a country one, and more than forty miles from town, as in this instance. . Leave granted. The Court, at rising, adjourned to the 4th April. ASSIZE IN7'E 1,13 GENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—HEREFOAD, MARcu 21, 1226. The Asaises commenced here this day. Mr. Justice Park pre. aided on the Civil sale, and Mr. Baron Garrow was on the Crown side. CIVIL. SID!. An almost anomalous proceeding took place on this side. There were sixteen causes for trial, and the first nine were disposed of in as many minutes: the consequence was, that the parties in the other causes were not ready to proceed, and the Court adjourned until to-morrow, after having sat only about half an hour. CROWN SIDE. Jolla Voice, the Captain of a barge on the river Wye, Jain Harris, Joseph Halton, and Paul Harrison, bargemen under him, were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 16th of August last, in the parish of Bolstone, in this county, one wether sheep, value 395., the property of Thomas Price. Mr. CITHWEST, for the prosecution, opened an acquittal of the prisoner Harrison. and then called the following witnesses : James Smith—l live at Bolstone, in this county. I have a field called Hancocks, on the banks of the river Wye. On Tuesday, the 16th of August last, I had some sheep there belonging to 3lr. Price, the prosecutor. There were 64, and I missed one on the morning of the 17th. I saw a part of the field which bore marks of a sheep having been slaughtered. In consequence of some infor. mation I went to a magistrate, and got a warrant to search Voice's barge, which was discharging a cargo of coals by the bridge here. I saw Voice on board, and told him we had a warrant to search his barge. Voice said, " what do you think to find there ?" The constable said " I see some mutton already upon a plate." Then he went into the cabin and pulled out three quarters of a sheep, and a fourth quarter with some cut off. One Joseph Hatton was also on board ; and we took them all before a magistrate. This was on the 17th, and on the Saturday following, the 20th, on dragging a part of the river pointed out by Hatton, near the spot where the sheep had been slaughtered, we found the skin of the sheep, with the head, entrails, and two large lumps of coal tied up in it. Joseph Hatton, the accomplice, was next put into the box. On the 17th of August lest. I was on board a barge with the prisoners, on the river Wye. corning from Redbrook to Hereford. That night we moored off a field, called Hancocks. We went on shore. Voice and Harris went with me. We went up the meadows to see if we conld find a sheep. We could not find one, and 1 said wa must go down to Hancock's and have one of them. [Here aeioee persons laughed.] Mr. Baron Omar —lf the javelin men will bring any of those persons into this part of the Court, I will make them laugh at the wrong aides of their mouths. It is most indecent for persons to be laughing in a Court of Justice when persons are on trial for their liven. Witness continued—Harris said he did not think we could catch any of them, because he had tried before and could no: succeed. We all went down the gate, towards a bridge that goes over a bit of a ditch. I tied a piece of cord across the bridge to stop the sheep, while Voice and Harris drove them up. We caught four, but let them go, except one. Harris was not present when the sheep were caught, but he was gone round another way to drive them up. Harrison was in the barge. One of the sheep I killed myself, and then went to look for a place to hang it up. We skinned it and left it hanging on a tree until morning. We threw the skin, the head, and entrails into the river, and Harris fetched two lumps of coal to put into the skin to make it sink. The next morning Hams and another, but 1 don't know which, went about day-break and fetched the otiose. I told all this story when I was calms be fore a magistrate. The witness was then cross-examined by . Mr. HORACI: Twigs, with whom was lie. JUSTICE ' , and admitted that he had been several times charged with different crimes, and once tried at Gloucester. The skin that was found on the spot pointed out by Hatton was now produced, and identified by the prosecutor as the akin of the lost sheep. Dlr. Baron Gan sow then charged the Jury, and summed up the evidence at length, telling them that the accomplice was con finned in every material particular. The Jury, however, found the prisoners Not Guilty. Mr. Baron Uaastow then addressed the prisoners, and paid. that though he wished it to be understood he was not displeased with the verdict of the Jury, yet the escape the prisoners experienced on the present occasion was extremely narrow. it was teo well known that most of the barges passing on, our navigable rivers were sup plied with all necessaries—bay for the horses and mutton for the men, by nightly rapine and plunder. It would become the pri soners to thank God for their escape from that fate which would in evitably have awaited them if they lied been found guilty, but not to indulge any Was that such an escape was often likely to occur either to themselves er their associates, if they pursued such courses of depredation as had evidently here been followed. The prisoners left the bar, too overjoyed with their good luck to pay much attention to the admonition of the Learned Judge. There was no other case worth mentioning. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YonE, Mmica 22. LIBEL. ROWER T. ALLIIIIIIOIf, PROPRIETOR 07 THE HULL PACKET NEWSPAPER. The damages were laid at 500/. Mr. SCARLETT stated the case to the Jury. The facts are shortly these:— The plaintiff is an attorney, residing in Beverley, in this county ; and the defendant is the proprietor of the Hull Packet, Com mercial, Literary, and General Advertiser. The plaintiff in the ex ercise of hisi profession, had been employed to defend some par. tics, against whom informations had been laid before the 3lagis 'rates, at Beverley and at Hull, by the Corn-Inspector at. the latter place. At the hearing of the case Mr. Bower thought it proper to have a Reporter to take down the speech lie intended to make on behalf of his client, and applied to Mr. Allanson, the proprietor of the Hull Packet for that purpose. The defendant, willing to please the plaintiff, and to procure (as he supposed he should) an article of stone interest exclusively fur his paper, sent a short-hand writer in his employment to the Guildhall, who attended two days, and took down what passed, and a copy of his notes was made, and de. livered by lain to the plaintiff, who objected that his own speech had not been taken down, and asked if there was any, and what ch egg. He was told that the Reporter had no charge to make ;* and as it was intended for publication in the paper, there could be none. Plaintiff then rook away the report, saying, he should return it corrected. 'r he Editor of the Paper, relying on the supply of mat , ter which the Neon would have afforded, was, in consetiortice of its not being returned, put to cost iderable inconvenience inSupplyingits place. Mr. SCARLET T, in his opening address to the Jury, spoke in PO low a tone, as made it wholly impossible to do justice to his speech; and we can rink form an idea of it from the witnesses called on du plaint ifrs behalf. Anthony Homer, examined by Mr. COLT M A W—Witntlit pro ducts the examined copy of m 3 affidavit of the defendant being the proprietor and publisher of the •' {lull Packet" newspaper. Mr. BROUGHAM took an ol•*!ection, that the number of *hit street where the paper was published, was not in the affidavit. The point, however, was conceded, and the trial proceeded. Paragraphs from the " Bull Packet" newspaper were then read by the clerk. The first yawl aced pet. 1), 1825, and ran thus:—. " 11 the man of letter does not immediately restore the maul. script he got in such a clandestine manner from our reporter, wei will honour him with • corner in the Parket, aye, though it should cost us six shillings and eight-pctice: we happen to know this limb of the law, and advise hint to act like a man of honour." The second paragraph— The petty-logging attorney, Bs", has not thought roper to restore our manuscript. We will, berearer, relate a pretty little honest sanecdote of this land-shark, by way of a caution to his clients, if he has any." • Thomas Bramwell examined— He is an attorney ; he went 'to the Hull Packet office, in consequence of tna paragraphs he had reed in that paper; he saw Mr. Allanson, the proprietor, an& mentioned the paragraphs to him ; he told him that thew were but two attortdes in Hull, whose names begin 'stets B, and wished to know if it applied to him, he said, there was only him and Mr. Burney; He told him be thought he ought to correct it, but he seemed to treat it very in.: differently ; he went with a Mr. Richardson who with him were about to leave the office, when the edimr, Mr. Hamilton (a clergy man) made his appearance; Mr. Atlanson was by, who said. be thought it might apply to some attorney who had attended at Hull, respecting an information laid against some penurns who had oft fended against the Corn Laws; that he had himself attended, and that this attorney had taken the manuscript away from the office in a very unhandsome way. Witness had no doubt but that be ailed ded to Mr. Bower. By the J VDG e—Mr. Bower lived at Beverley; he IS the Town Clerk there ; he was at that time a perfect teranger to him he had since occasion to transact nonce business with him : before, how. ever, he employed him to act, he thocght it neressary to have aoi explanation in writing, in regard to the truth of the report eon. ceming his conduct, as he entertained from it some suspicion of his honour as an attorney. This was wholly on account of the pats. gram he had read in the papers. Mr. BttOvGitAM—There are no special damages laid in the de.. elevation, and it was therefore irrelevant to the action. Mr. Justice BATLEY--Wh4t, if he lost the good opinion elf Mr. Bramwell, after the paragraphs had beer. read ? the coupe in the declaration was good. If he (the pleintiff) lost the good opinion of one or more of his 31ajesty's faithful subjects, was not that sufficient ? • Witness—lie had no other motive than to ta! - .e care that hip confidence was not misplaced. .31r. Bower asked him for art ex. ; planation fcr his requiring an undertaking, when he referred him to the newspapers, Cross-examined by Mr. BROllollAli—iir. Hionilten, he under. stood, was the short hand yrriter. He understoad front him, that Mr. Bower had called at the office, and got held of the manuscript report to make his own speech. (Loud laughter.) He is no aware he attended fifty-live minutes. It eras told hint, that he got the report sway in an unhandsome manner. fie thought he had seen the substance of tlyf report in another paper. fines not re.. collect that 31r. Bower had inserted his speech in that paper. (Rea newed laughter.) It was a garbled report. (Leighton) Can's say if all the anomie.; whose name began whii, n, were alarmed. (Laughter.) Can't say if all the attorneys in Beverley took fright. (Repeated laughter.) Don't know if there are inure than two there. Don't know any thing about informations. Re-examined by Mr. SCARLETTr—Doss not brow who made complaint. Mr. Hamilton took ;dries. He knows nothing about the speech ; it is all his Learned Friend's, Mr. Brougham's, WIS. gination. (Continued laughter.) Bramwell, examined by Mr. COLTMAN—Mc is Deputy Town Clerk of Hull. Remembers, in September or October, some information coming before the Magistrates on the aebiect of the Corn Laws. Mr. Frost was one of the attorneys who attended Oa behalf of the information. Cross-examined by Mr. Buourstram—He was present. Roofs nothing about the report. He is not n.practising attorney. He was there when Mr. Bower addressed the Bench. lie did not know of a short-hand writer being there. Mr. Bower spoke some time ; can't say it was a temperate speech. fit laugh.) Thought it a ‘ery long one. (Laughter.) Ile is not authorised to say it was an Impudent one. (Great laughter.) Somewhat so. CAn't say it would have done him any credit. (Much laughter.) • Mr. BuciUtsnem—But it was— " It was a little fonts, And a little :crone." Such a speech as that of his Learned Prietd. (Great laughter.) Edward Thomas cross-examined—He Is acquainted with Mr. Gorier; has employed him as an attorney in a question respecting the torn IAWS: he was successful ; he saw the paragraphs in the •` Hull Packet." He went, on the 13th of January, with. r. Bower, to Mr. Allann ; saw him and MT. Hamilton ; he is the editor of the " Hull Packet ;" he is a?lergyman. Mr. Bower produced extracts trout the 'paper to 31r. Xllanson, and asked him if he was the editor; when Mr. Hamilton came forward, and said he was the edi.or. Ile said he was not the author of the brat, but lie was of the last. 31r. Bower asked him, if the petty-fogging attorney alluded to him ? When Mr. Hamilton said, that he did not consider himself bound to ar.awer that question. Mr. Bower said, then, will you deny it. Alr. Hamilton said, he would make no promise, but that the person alluded to, was employed in the Corn Laws, and en. gaged their reporter. Mr. Bower said that he had not got the manuscript copy of the report, buts transcript; he wait dissatis fied, and said, you had better send for the reporter. gr. Bower left the officei he afterwards called again, and saw the proprietor and editor. Mr. Bower said, he was is'orry . he had not knovin this circumstance sooner, or he would have taken earlier notice of it. Mr. Allansou said, that he could not prove that the paragraphs al luded to him as the " asterisks, ft*** did nut accord with the num. Der of letters of his name." Dots not recollect if they offered to send for the reporter. Cross-examined by Mr. B1101:011AM—Mr. Bower raid he was not satisfied with the explanation, and said, he would take legal steps, that he would not disgrace himself by kicking him, but that he should. take legal means of redress. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. BROUORAM then rose to reply, and with that power of eloquence with which he is gifted carried his auditors completely away with him ; indeed the Court was in a roar of laughter the whole time. He lamented that he hail not his Learned Friend'* (Mr. Scarlett) power of face, nor that gravity which none knew so well to put on when it suited his purpose. (Loud laughter.)_Whas had Mr. Bower, as a professional man, to complain of ? Had he lost an iota of his good fame? Had he lost a single client ? What had he lost then? Why, his case Ind been reported, ant! thereporter had left out the speech of Mr. Bower, the advocate who conducted it. They . , had played the play with the omission of 1 lanske. This was. the head and front of Mr. Allanso.t's offending. He went before the Magistrate as au attMney, not as a speaker., and forsooth, because he had not his eloquence eulogiaed in Mr. Allan. son's paper, he turned round upon him in his proper and primary character, and called for daniagea---what damages were due? Would the Jury give any, because he had missed a place in the Hull Packet ? IVhat a mighty fun had this Learned Friend made about the letters F U It, the Lutin word for thief. Supposing that it was intended to convey the meaning that bad been put upon it, what damages could have been done 31r. Bower ? None. The secret might have been locked up in his own breast, but for his 10ee of speechifying; surely, he could not say that B• • * spelt " Bower," it was perhaps '• Boar," or " Bore." Mr. Justice 13arLET—But it might apply to his epeech. Mr. llactuonasr—lmpossible 1 my Lord. There was none re. ported. The paragraphs were only intended, that the person who took the speech away should bring it back again. This was all-t it could never be contended that it was to hold the defendant up to public ridicule; no person besides himself would have dreamt of its being intended for hint ; nor could it bring him—r• into great scandal or disgrace with any of our Lord the King's subjects." Had they not rand what suff.rings the poor Town Clerk had en. dured ? How the speech had set all the Magistrates so soundly asleep that even the Town Clerk could not wake them ! That long and never-to-be-forgotten speech which he was to judge.tbe poor Reporter about, when he was more particularly to point big pose. quill—that " Very long And very strong" speech which was omitted in the report, left it a body which bad "no soul—in fact he was the artificer of his own ridicule. Oh, it never could apply to him !--the Editor never meant it—it .was the imagination of his special pleader, and would have remained to the end of time a secret, had it not been for himself. The fraction of a farthing was sufficient damages for his alleged libel. His Lognantr, in his charge to the Jury, said, there were two (petitions for their eonsideration—first, did the paragraphs affect the professional reputation of the plaintiff, and, if they did, in the second place, whet damages he sustain-ed. His Lordship then went through the whole evidence, and le ft it to the Jury to say what compensation the plainti ff was entitled to receive at them hands. The Jury retired, and not agreeing to their verdict a little before Nix o'clock, Ws Lordship left the Court, having Intimated that their verdict would be received at his lodgings, thither, accordingly, they brought their verdict, by which they awarded to the plainufr —One reaching damages. THE RING ON THE PRJSI:GTITIO;OF RICITARD GOODY V. PETER HORSLEY, JUN. Mr. BROUGHAM opened this indictment, and Mr. CourstaN stated the facts to the Jury, which will best appear from the exa mination of the principal witness, Edward Rushwortli, an attorney of Hull. Edward Rushwarth examined by Mr. Tig9 . ll:ollAM—lle pro duces an examined record of a trial in Wordlist; v. Goody. He was present at the trial of the cause. He klibleS Peter Ilunsley ; he was examined as a witness in that causei be was present at the examination. Ilunsley was sworn to give evidence in the usual way. [Here his LORDSHIP ordered Mr. Goody out of Cour9 lie heard Ilunsley examined after he had been sworn. He could hear most distinctly. Ile did not take a note of his evidence at the time. heard him say he saw Wastling tender the rent to Good). litmasley swore that lie lent or gave IVastling the sum o f 3/. to give to Goo) , in discharge of his rent, and 21. 114. for costs. That Richard Goody then refused to accept it. Hensley was called back by the Judge (Mr. Justi:e Bayley) to tell what sort of latency Ito