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LAW INTELLIGEIcE, Dec. 5. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. (Before Sir W. P. Wood.) DRAKE V. SYNES. This case came on upon exceptions to answer. The bill was filed by certain shareholders in the International Life Assurance Society against the directors, and one of the securities on which the moneys of the society had been invested. Interro gatories had been filed, containing inquiries of a searching nature as to the business of the society, and requiring the defendants to set forth a list of the policies ;ranted and their particulars, and also the wav in which the funds of the society had been invested, what loans had been granted, and to whom, &c. The defendants in their answer had referred to the books of the society (38 in number and scheduled), as containing full and correct in formation as to the policies now in existence, and as to the particulars of the securities upon which the moneys of the society had been invested. The plaintiffs had applied for an inspection of the books, and it was decided in chambers that they were en titled to an unlimited inspection, the defendants having proposed to seal up certain portions. Not withstanding this decision the plaintiffs had on the same day excepted to the answer as insufficient in these particulars. Mr. Itolt and Mr. W. H. C)le, in support of the exceptions, contended that the plaintiffs were en titled to have the information sought for presented to them in a tangible shape, without being put to the trouble of sifting the 38 huge volumes which had been scheduled, for the purpose of collecting the necessary data for making their calculations and submitting them to an actuary. Mr. W. M. James and Mr. Cotton, for the de fendants, contended that the books contained full particulars as to everything inquired for by tho plaintiffs. The books were open for the inspection of the plaintiffs, and the directors had no further information to give beyond what was contained therein. Mr. Rolt replied on the question of costs. The Vice-Chancellor, after observing that it was desirable that great care should be taken in framing interrogatories so that they should not be oppressive, said that the information which was contained in the books ought to be pointed out in some easy and accessible form. With respect to the inquiry as to loans, &c., the Court would not require the names of the debtors to be set out. So in a litigation between the members of a banking firm, the partners would not be bound to set out the balances of all their customers. His Honour, after adverting to the circumstance that the exceptions had been taken after the order for inspection had been made, said that when a defen dant was asked to set out lists of this oppressive character, he was • justified in saying that all the accounts, &c., were contained in certain books, which books were true, provided that he referred to the books sufficiently to make them part of the answer. At the same time, in referring to books in this way, the defendant was bound to make the examination of those books as convenient as possi ble, by in some degree at least specifying and nar rowing the sources of information through which the plaintiff had to seek. It was not enough, therefore, when the inquiries were specific, to give a simple reference to these enormous books. It was surely for the benefit of all parties that the infor• mation should be given in the cheapest and most accessible form. The exceptions must, therefore, in strictness, be allowed, but he should reserve the costs until fur ther order. DIVORCE COURT. BELL V. BELL AND THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Dr. Deane, Q.C., Mr. Cleasby, and Mr. G. H. Cooper appeared for the petitioner. ; Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Dixon for the respondent, and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., with Mr. Gordon Alla% for the co-respondent. This was a petition by James Morton Bell pray ing for a dissolution of his marriage with! Ellen Jane Bell, on the Bound of her adultery with the Marquis of Anglesey, and also asking for damages from the co-respondent. The damages were laid at £lO,OOO. The respondent and the co-respondent pleaded a denial of the adultery. Mr. M. Chambers, in opening the case, said that the only object of the petitioner in asking for da mages was to place himself in the same position as before his marriage with regard to the money se cured by him to Mrs. Bell by the settlements exe cuted at the time of the marriage. By the 61st sec tion of the act of last session the Court had power to deal with marriage settlements in certain cases, bat it was doubtful whether it was authorised by that section to interfere with the settlements where, as in this case, there had been no children of the marriage. Mr. Bell had, therefore, been advised to insert in the petition a claim for damages. It appeared that the marriage took place at Pad dington, on the 10th of July, 1851 ; Mr. Bell being a merchant, the son of another merchant of consi derable wealth, and the respondent being one of the daughters of Mr. Berman, a wealthy stock broker. Mr. 13?.11 was 2.5, and Mrs. Bell, 21 years of age, and she was described as a lady of remark able beauty. They had a house in Gloucester-ter race, Hyde-park, and as Mr. Bernan resided close to them in Sussex-square, there was a great deal of intercourse between the two families. Mr. Ber nan also had a house at Worthing, where Mr. and Mrs. Bell were accustomed to spend a few weeks every autumn. No evidence was given as to the time and circumstances of the Marquis of Anglesey's introduction to the family, but it appeared that he used to visit the Bernans at Worthing with his children, Lord Berkeley and Lady Florence Paget, and that the Bernans and the Bells had visited him at Beaude sert. In Oct., 1858, Mrs. Bell was at Worthing, and on the 23d of that month, during Mr. Bell's ab sence, she left her father's house and went to Lil lyman's Hotel in Lower Brook-street, where she was joined by her waiting-maid, Sarah Denseley. The Marquis of Anglesey visited her there every day. After remaining for a fortnight she and her maid and the Marquis went together to the Calver ley Hotel at Tonbridge-wells. Mrs. Bell passed by the name of Mrs. Burton, and they occupied one sitting-room and two bedrooms near each other, and took all their meals together. About a fortnight afterwards they removed to lodgings in Halfmoon street, Piccadilly, where the Marquis and Mrs. Bell lived as man and wife, Mrs. Bell then taking the name of Lady Anglesey. They remained there until March, when Mrs. Bell went to the Castle Hotel, Richmond. A butler named Wicks, who had been in Mr. and Mrs, Bells's service, said, in his cross-examination, that they had slight differences at times, but never any serious quarrel, and that Mr. Bell used to complain of her seeing too much company. The attorney of Mr. Bernan, Mr. Sewell, also said that it turned out to be an ill-assorted mar riage. The Marquis of Anglesey was stated to be a widower. Mr. Sewell also explained the provisions of the settlements executed at the marriage, as to which it is only necessary to state that Mr. Bernan secured certain sums to his (laughter, and that Mr. Bell settled upon his wife the interest of £5,000 to her separate use for her life. Mr. E. James, in addressing the jury in mitiga tion of damages, fully acquitted Mr. Bell of any in tention to put money in his own pocket, and said that he was quite justified in wishing to relieve him self from the liability for the payment of the inte rest of £5.000 to his wife during the remainder of her life. He was not instructed to the slighest imputation upon the conduct of Mr. Bell, but the marriage was not a happy one, and there was no evidence that the Marquis had been guilty of any thing like deliberate seduction, so that it would be sufficient to award damages which would place Mr, Bell in the same position with regard to the settle ment as before the marriage. The Judge-Ordinary, in summing up, said the only question for the jury was the amount of damages, and in considering that question, they' were directed by the statute to be guided by the same rules as were formerly applicable to actions against adulterers for crim. con. He never remem bered to have heard it suggested that in actions of that kind the jury c ou ld lgitimately take into con sideration the provisions of the marriage settle ments. Mr. M. Chambers reminded his lordship that in the case of Dr. Lardner the settlements were given in evidence, and £B,OOO damages awarded in copse sequence of their provisions. The Judge-Ordinary said lie did not remember the case. lie could understand th f at the nature of the settlements might be atopic whator an address to a jury, but. he.eould not seeprinciple . the settlements could be niv l e ‘ n bo il w i o e ' i l l. f - e id m e i n o e h e t in b action against the adulterer. make ducks and drakes of the money ct c fl a c in d to her or c separate use, and the husband had no control over her, whether he lived with her or apart from her. However, after the preced en t - w hi c h th e l earne d counsel had cited, he would not withdraw the settle ments from the consideration of the jury. In as stessing'damages the usual course was to take into consideration the position in life of the parties, the terms on which they had lived together, the cir cumstances under which the adulterer was intro duced to the husband's family, and the means he had of paying damages, a - A to make the damages, as nearly as they could, a compensation—although it was a miserable thing to talk of money in such a matter at all—for the loss the husband had sus tained. If they thought the Marquis had taken advantage of the prestige attaching to his title and to his large possessions to induce a handsome wo man, perhaps fond of admiration, to give up her honour to him, and had thus robbed Mr. Bell of his wife, they would probably look upon it as a case for a serious amount of damages. The jury, after a short consultation, found. a Tcr - diet for the petitioner, and. assessed the damages at £lO,OOO. Their Lordships pronounced a decree of disso lution, and condemned the co-respondent in costs. BREACII OF PROMISE EXTRAOR DINARY. JULIA SARAH DE WINTON TROWSDALE v. HUGH STEWART. This was an action for breach of promise, tried at the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Friday, before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury. The court was densely crowded during the day. One of the side galleries was occupied by ladies. Mr. Sergeant O'Hagan, Q.C., Mr. Armstrong, Q.C., and Mr. Crawford appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., Mr. Macdonogh, Q.C., Mr. Joy, Q.C., Mr. Sullivan, Q.C.; and Mr. Falkiner appeared for the defendant. Mr. Crawford opened the pleadings. The sum mons and plaint contained three counts, alleging that, in consideration of defendant being then unmarried, he promised to marry plaintiff, nad alleging as a breach of the eontract that he married a certain other person named Lizzie Hope. One of the counts alleged that the promise was to marry the plaintiff in a reasonable time after the death of defendant's grandfather, and stated that his grandfather was dead, and the defendant married to Lizzie Hope. The defendant pleaded that he did not promise to marry the plaintiff as alleged. The issue for the jury was, whether the defendant did promise and undertake to marry the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant O'Hagan, Q.C., statedthe plaintiff's case. He said that it now became his duty to state the grounds on which the plaintiff claimed da mages, and large and ample damages, at the hands of the jury. The plaintiff, Miss Julia Trowsdale, was the daughter of an English gentleman, resi dent in Belfast, where he held the responsible posi tion of an officer of Customs for a great number of years. Between the families of the plaintiff and the defendant, or at least between certain members of them, great intimacy had existed for many years. OldiMr. Stewart, of Holywood, was acquainted with Mr. Trowsdale, the Customs officer in Belfast ; and the daughters of Mr. Trowsdale and the grand daughters of Mr. Stewart, the sisters of the defen dant, were sent by their respective parents to a place of education well known in the county of Antrim, Grace Hill, a highly respectable and ex cellent school, kept by the Moravian community. The young ladies of the two families formed an in timacy which continued until the death of one of the sisters. Whether previous to the autumn of 1856 there had been any acquaintance between the plaintiff and the defendant did not appear ; but about that time he met Miss Trowsdale at Sunny side, the residence of a lady named Mrs. Rounds, and on one occasion he accompanied her to her home, at a place called Ballyhackamore, between Holywood and Belfast. From that period very . close and intimate relations were established be tween the defendant and this young lady. He became a constant visitor at the house of her pa rents, and they having made inquiries as to his character and conduct, be did not appear to them to be an ineligible person to be a suitor to their daughter. His visits to the house continued from the autumn of 1856 down to the time almost at which he broke his contract. During the period a correspondence of a very voluminous nature was maintained between these young people, with the full knowledge and approbation of the families on both sides ; and towards the end of 1856 a positive agreement to marry was entered into between them: The correspondence proceeded throughout the year 1857, and until the death of old Mr. Stewart, in November, 1858 ; the defendant's visits to Mr. Trowsdale's were of weekly and almost daily oc currence' and (what might be expected between affianced persons) little love gifts, lockets, and "en gaged rings," as they were called, passed between them. Up to the period of his grandfathers death, the defendant was not possessed of much property himself. He possessed something less than £1,000; but he kept a yacht, and enjoyed himself as became a gentleman of fortune. The defendant, however, did not desire to enter into the marriage state until he became perfectly independent in the world. But it sometimes happened that love cooled, and that what a man intended to do when he was in poor circumstances, he shrank from doing when his cir cumstances improved. It would appear from the correspondence that Mr. Stewart, the grandfather of the defendant, died, leaving the latter property said to be worth £6OO per year, and that in a very short time afterwards the defendant began to cool in his attention to the plaintiff. Still the corres pondence went on. In March,, 1859, the plaintiff discovered the change that had come over her affi anced husband, having written repeatedly to him without receiving any answer. Then, for the first time, the defendant began to make an excuse for the purpose of avoiding the completion of his solemn contract. He stated as his reason for not having cor responded before, that he had heard from somebody of the plaintiff having exhibited his letters to other people. That was in March, 1859. The plaintiff answered that the charge was false—that she had ,n ever done anything so unmaidenly and unbecoming, and desired to know the name of the slanderer. The defendant's first answea was that the communica tion was confidential ; next, that it was made to him by a person who had gone to America, and that until he heard from him he could not state the name; then, that this nameless person tvas travelling abroad in America, and he could not tell exactly when a reply could be got. It would be found that, before a reply could have come, he had married another woman, and the jury would therefore come to the conclusion that the charge advanced against the plaintiff was merely a false and base pretence of the defendant to justify the breach of his contract made 18 months before. The learned counsel then read the following amongst other letters : " Holywood, Midnight of Saturday. "My dearest Julia,—l am sure you can but little imagine the pleasure I now experience in writing to you, although so immeasurably less than that of seeing and holding converse with you. Imagine, then, if the pleasure in writing to you be so great, what must it be that I shall experience at receiving a letter from you, dearest Julia. What a magic there is in that little word, Julia, and to what a source of hope and joy d)es the very mention of it give birth ! For strange, fond moods the spirit hath That never trod life's common path. And is this feeling, this emotion. love ? Yes, love for you, dear Jul:a, pure and fervent ; for is not that feeling love, that fills the soul to the complete annihilation of every other thought and feeling, thus enabling us, as it were, to lift the veil of the invisible world ? Oh, yes, love must be holy. Are there not moments to all of us, when clearer thoughts and more elevated feelings than are often wont to visit us take possession of our minds ? When, thinking on some beloved object, our thoughts are enabled to rise from the study and contemplation of the creature to the more fervent worship and adoration of the Creator. Do we not feel all t his to be the case when But excuse me, I feel that I am wearying you, and allowing my pen to wander from its original subject; but I know, dearest Julia, that you will excuse me, as the very fact of my writing to you is surely sufficient to ac count for my wandering. It has been wisely ordained by an all-wise Providence that we can in the ideal thus converse with those we love and honour; for remember, that although absent from you in per son, I am present in spirit ; for I never open a book, or look upon anything in the face of nature around me, in which I do not see, in plain and legible characters, your face and features there depicted before me; although were I to speak the truth, that face is never, even for a moment, absent from my mind : for surely it is this, that heart needed' heart. In. my dreamings of thee, Still I fear to depart; In my dreamings of thee, In that doorway I stand, Meet thy welcome so bland, And I still press thy hand In my dreamings of thee. I hope you felt no ill effects from your dancin 0. last night. May every happiness be thine, is, believe me, the fervent wish of your very deVoteilly attached and affectionate, " HUGH STEWART, Jun." In another letter, dated Holywood, Tuesday even ing, he said,— " There are moments when the heart glows with unutterable emotion—when the electric spark of love thrills our whole being with a joy too great for utterance. Would that at such moments, dearest Julia, language were given to express even a tittle of that love with which you are worshipped. There arc some whose natures are cold and paSsionless— whose hearts can never thrill with love's emotion— in whose bosoms no generous sympathy with spon taneous energy ever breaks forth—who, wrapt up in their own cold, selfish interests, alike insensible to every holy and kindly feclitig, walk this eutli as in a living tomb. So in love there are those who, when they love, love with their whole mind, their whole being—to whom no. possible sacri fice at the shrine of love would offer an impedi ment to their devotion ; and, again, on the other hand, there are those who would degrade that holy and blessed emotion, which is so cramped and deformed in their own bosoms as to be scarcely recognisable. But enough of this. I must crave your pardon for being so wrapt up in the ques tion of love that I almost forgot I was writing to you. Forget you, didit say ? Oh, no. I look upon °THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING; DECD MER 6, 1859. you should feel dissatisfied with me, but I have been so peculiarly placed for some time past that I hardly know how to act, and then you accuse me of being on the eve of marriage with some young lady or another. Than this accusation nothing could be more false. No thought of the kind could ever cross my mind. Indeed, I was so much put about by the death of my grandfather and the illness of my sister, that I scarcely "knew what to do ; so that, if I was neglectful to you it was not that my heart was pre-occupied with thoughts of another. No. I hope when we meet—which I hope will b soon —that I will be able to express myself more clearly. I met Miss Ifope one day towaodh the latter end of the summer. Do you ever see her now 9 Do you remember how Alai: ;'p4 and she were when going to Carrick 9" The letter concluded Believe me, your fondly attached Hugh." When the poor girl wtote to him complaining of Ins apparent neglect, even after he had protested his cohttnued affection for her, he wrote to her thus " I have to complain of you. I have not, it is true, been as attentive to you as I should have de sired, because I heard that you showed my letters to other gentlemen." She applied to her parent for advice and protection in her sorrow. When she received that shocking letter she gave it to her mother, who replied to it stating that it was false. She referred expressly, and in terms, to the engagement of that man with her daughter, and declared that there was no pre tence in justice, in morals, or in conscience, for say ing that that solemn contract should be broken by the defendant. Mrs. Trowsdale's letter was written about the 2d or 3d of April, 1859, and he replied on the 4th. He ought to have written to the mother, as she wrote to him, but wrote instead to Miss Julia Trowsdale herself : "I this morning received a latter from your mother in reference to my letter to you. I am sorry I cannot at present take the liberty to give you the name of my informant. What he told me he told in confidence—that he saw the letters, not through you, but through another. I intend, how ever, as soon as possible, to get his address and write to him for liberty to use his name ; of course I could not do more. I am, indeed, sorry that any thing of the sort should have occurred, and hope that it will still be satisfactorily explained. Your explaining this to your mother will suffice for my writing to her, and when I get an answer I will at once apprize you of it. Hoping to see you soon, and that all will still be settled, I am, my clear Julia, your own loving " HUGH" He (Serjeant O'Hagan) denied that there was any such person as was referred to by the defendant. He did not believe that there was the shadow of a shade of truth in that allegation with reference to those letters, and if there was, that was not the way in which the letter of the mother should have been answered. The poor girl wrote again to him, repeating her solemn denial, and on the 20th of May, 1859, she received his 84th letter " My VERY DEAR JULIA,-By yesterday's morn ing's post I received your, I must still say, fond letter. I assure you that this state of suspense is as painful, if not more painftfl, to me than it is to you. You think you are the only sufferer. How much are you mistaken ! Think you it is nothing for me to have my dearest and fondest hopes blighted--to be wakened from a dream of happi ness to —. But excuse4me. Time must, and will, and that shortly, reveal all things. Then you will see which is most to blame." Then he told her that, on receipt of her last, he wrote to the person of whom he spoke, but that his letter had to go to the Western States of America —(laughter)—and he promised when he got a reply to tell her of it. He added— " I fondly trust it will be one that will bring love and happiness to each of us. I could not tell you what was told to me in confidence. I must still subscribe myself your still loving and attached " HUGH." On the 16th of July he wrote, addressing thus: —" My dear Julia." It had of old been, "My own Julia," or "My dearest Julia," or, "My very dear Julia," and onee„'" My very, very dear Julia," — (Laughter.) Now it fell to "My dear Julia," and soon it tumbled to "Dear Julia," and that before he got the reply from the friend in the Far West. In the letter of the 16th July he told her he had got no answer yet from America ; that his friend was in business, and had lately moved from the place where he had located—(laughter)—on a kind of business tour ; he did not know his address, but when a reply was received it would be commu nicated. She wrote again to him, requesting that he would come and hear from her own lips the re futation of the calumnies of which he spoke, and he replied on the 19th of July, saying, " It would be very unsatisfactory for me to have an interview with you on a subject on which I am not yet at liberty to speak." Well, the anonymous slanderer never appeared ; no letter appeared ; no letter came from America ; the travelling trader never was discovered. Miss Trowsdale pressed still ; a matter not to be wondered at when her position—publicly known as it was that she hal pledged her troth to Mr. Hugh Stewart—was con sidered. She was to have been his wife. The time had arrived when his fortune enabled him to marry, and she was forced to appear before her family and the public in th e equ i voca l pos iti on o f a woman who, having been promis e d marr i age , h a d been thrust aside as if she had done some act dis honourablea woman—doubly dishonour aherbleto as to aher as woman who had been bound by this solemn contract. She implored of him to give her the name of her traducer, and t o a ll ow h er an op portunity of setting all things right. On the 14th of September he wrote the following letter, which concluded the correspondence on his part. H e be gins, " Dear Julia." What a tumble from "My own ever dearest Julia !" and its fond variations:— " You again ask the cause o f my s il ence. A s I before told you, havingi it was beca u se I did no t a t a ll re li s h the uo t uh idea kr of my letters to you exhibited. As wrote, but have not yet received disclose th e i n f orman t, & c. , t o w h om I ayoint know, vr to refer. 1 have also had great reason to complain of frequent statements made by you relative to your family affairs and expectations, which I afterwards discovered to be quite erroneous, and, I believe, made by you without any misapprehension of the fact. As I before told you, I will, on receipt of an answer, make it known to you. Till then, believe me, ever sincerely yours, " HUGH." The learned sergeant concluded with an eloquent appeal to the jury on behalf of his client. Several witnesses were examined for the plain tiff, after which the proceedings were adjourned to the following day (Saturday). ASSIZE INTELLIGENOE. WESTERN CIRCUIT. --WINCHESTER, DEC. 5. Michael Gittings and Thomas Hinds, two recruits, were indicted for burglary in the house of Thomas Budden, at Aldershott, on the 7th of October. Mr. W. M. Cooke was counsel for the prosecution. It appeared that a person who slept in the canteen heard a dog bak at 2 in the morning, and upon getting up he found a window broken. The money which had been taken the day before had been counted and packed up in paper at night, and con sisted of £2 15s. in copper. There was some parti cular writing upon the paper in which the money was packed. The packet was placed on a shelf under the counter in the canteen. There was also some silver money,.wbich was put in a desk in the parlour of the canteen. All was safe when the people went to bed at half-past 11 o'clock. On going into the bar at 7 the next morning it was discovered that a silver watch and the greater part of the copper money were missing. The window had been broken sufficiently to admit a person's hand to open' the window, and then a person could get in at the open window. The two prisoners had been in the habit of coming to the canteen for goods. In the course of that day Hinds asked a man to give him some silver for copper money Gittings came in at the time, and ho counted out some copper. While they were counting out the money the man sent to the canteen to give informa tion, and they were kept until the landlord of the can teen arrived, and the prisoners were then given into cu,tody. Upon being searched, the papers in which the money had been packed at the canteen were found in their pockets. On the road to the police station Gittings told Hinds not to split about the watch, as he would get over that and as much more. The learned Judge having summed up, During the time the jury were deliberating, one of the jurors said he was deaf, and had not heard the evidence or the summing up. The learned Judge said it was much to be re gretted that the juror had not said he was deaf be fore he was sworn. 1 he juror said he had hoped he could have heard, but he stood up and did his bast, yet he only heard a small portion. The learned Judge then directed the juror to come in front, and had all the witnesses again called, when he read over to them the evidence they had given, and asked the juror if he had heard,hip read the a evidence,sunim summed and he e h e said c as he e. had. His lordship and they h h i c cn aa The jury found the prisoners Guilty, were sentenced to be imprisoned. for 12 months, with hard labour. The deaf juror was then discharged from further attendance. John Manley, John Gould, and Charles Green wood were indicted for setting fire to a rick at Aldershott. Greenwood pleaded Guilty. Mr. H. J. Cole prosecuted. It appeared that on the evening of the 10th Aug. last liss Wilton, who was the daughter of a sur geon at Aldershott, as she was walking home, saw a Man in the uniform of a soldier strike a match and set fire to the rick in question. She saw another soldier with a woman standing near the rick. In a short time after this the prisoners, who belonged to the 60th Rifles,were taken into custody for being absent without leave. They at once said, " You did not see us do it," and they afterwards said they had dole it to get "lagged." The property de stroyed amounted in value to £97. The learned Judge, in summing up, said it was not necTssp,r7 that a man should with his own hand set the rink en fire. It was sufficient if they were all acting with one common purpose. The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they were seotenoea to be kept in penal servitude for szvc4 yoqvie-, Samuel Betts and Edwin Jackson were indicted for a burglary at the house of Henry Allen, at Al dershot, and stealing bottles of drugs, on the 15th of September. In his defence one of the prisoners said he went to visit Mr. Allen's wife, and had been let into the house. The jury found both the prisoners guilty. The learned Judge said the defence was most im pudent. The sentence was three years' penal ser vitude. Edmund Wardropor, a most respectable-looking man, and a solicitor, was indicted for forging a promissory note for the payment of £3.50, with in tent to defraud, at Petersfield. The prisoner was also indicted for forging a pro missory note for the payment of £275. Mr. H. T. Cole and Mr. Russell appeared for tho prosecution. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed. John Parker was indicted for forging a post-office order. Mr. Poulden and Mr. 11. T. Cole appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed. Elizabeth Adlam was indicted for the wilfu murder of her child. The grand jury threw out the bill. The prisoner waP arraigned upon the coroner's inquisition. Mr. Cole said that as the grand jury had not thought the evidence sufficient to put the prisoner on her trial upon the indictment, he should notoffer any evidence upon the coroner's inquisition. The jury would, therefore, acquit the prisoner. Mo. Poulden appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner was then acquitted. The learned Judge said the grand jury had re quested a bill to be sent up for concealment ; but, as the child was alive when it was found, that could not be done. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Dec. 5. Robert Davis, M, clerk, was indicted for em bezzling the sums et XII Os. 7d., £l2 Os. Thd., and £l2 10s. received by him on account of Messrs. Lindsell, Fletcher, and White, and others, his masters. Mr. Giffard appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner had been for about 10 years in the service of the prosecutors, a highly-respectable firm in Bed ford-row, and the total amount he had embezzled as ascertained up to the present time was about £190; his salary was £1 15s. per week, and the only rea son that could be suggested for his having robbed his employers of money received by him on their account was,that he had got married to a woman given to extravagance far beyond what his mens would justify, to meet which he had uses this money. The Assistant-Judge said this .was one of that class of cases which must ever be regarded as very serious, a robbery by a confidential. clerk. He sen tenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for 18 calendar months. The prisoner's wife subsequently applied for an order to see him, and she said he had been concerned in betting and other irregular practices, to which his present situation was to be attributed. A prisoner named George Smith was brought up for judgment. He was convicted at the last ses sions of a felony, and, as he asserted he could pro duce witnesses to speak to his former good charac ter, the learned judge deferred the sentence to afford him the opportunity of bringing them forward. None were in attendance, but since the last session he had been recognised in the House of Correction, and the officers now proved a former conviction and a sentence of four years' penal servitude against him, which he had undergone. The Assistant-Judge said this was a gross at tempt to deceive the Court, but the prisoner had, by endeavouring to play this trick, brought upon himself consequences which must result to a person convicted of a felony after the severe warning of four years' penal servitude, a sentence passed upon him, as it now appeared, on no less than six indict ments. The Court had no alternative, and the sen tence was now four years' penal servitude. Robert Barrington, 27, was indicted for unlaw fully and maliciously assaulting John Bagot and inflicting upon him grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor and the prisoner were glass blowers, and worked at the same establishment. There had been some angry words between them, and the prosecutor, having been directed to give some instructions to the prisoner from his employer with reference to some glass chimneys he was mak ing, the prisoner seized a red hot iron from a fur nace, and knocked the prosecutor about with it, in flicting such injury upon hiss that he was a patient at an hospital three weeks, but had now quite re covered. He said he did not believe th a t th e pri soner had really any ill feeling at heart against him. The jury found the prisoner guilty of a common assault. The Assistant-Judge said he must act upon the finding of the jury, but had the prisoner been con victed on the first count of the indictment he should have sentenced him to a long term of hard labour, for it was a base, cowardly, and cruel attack upon an unarmed man with a red hot bar of iron. The jury had found him guilty of a common assault, and for that he should sentence him to four months' imprisonment, during which ho might reflect upon the atrocity of his conduct. Felix Newman, 25, described as a vocalist, was indicted for stealing a cashbox, in which was the sum of £232 in notes and gold, the property and money of Thornton Moore, in his dwellinghouse. Ho pleaded guilty The prosecutor was a stationer in Lisson-grove North, and on Saturday the 29th of October a cash box containing £232 was stolen from under a chair behind the counter. The prisoner was detected in the act of carrying it off by the prosecutor's wife, wbo tried, to stop him, but so violent were his efforts to get away that he broke one of her ribs. From the evidence in the depositions there was no doubt the prisoner acted in complicity with another man and two women, who went into the shop on pretence of making a small purchase. While Mrs. Moore's eyo was turned away for a moment the prisoner slipped round the corner and took the box, which he had seen on Mrs. Moore taking it up to give change for a sovereign. There was a second charge against the prisoner of having stolen a diamond earring value £BO. from the shop of Mr. Frederick Hancock, 39, Bruton-street, and of an assault upon Mrs. Moore to resist his apprehension. He denied both these charges, but Mr. Hancock's assistant was sure he was the person. who took the earring. 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In tins, at Is. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d.; 51b., 125.; 121 b., • 265, The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. 1)u Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London' Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Gracechureh-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and GO, Bishopsmate street ; 85, Tottenham -court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Roiluburo, Raimes and Co.; at Liverpool ; Nixen and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp and s c ot ; tit York, Raitues, Blanchard,. and:Co. ;• at South ampton, ltnniall and Sou, • THE GLOUCESTER ELECTION: The Commissioners met yesterday at 8, Fludyer street, Westminster, to examine a few more wit nesses. The first witness called was Mr. Rose, of the firm of Baxter, Rose, and Co., Parliamentary agen t s , w h o stated that 'no acted professionally for the Conservative party at the last general election. On the Bth of April last a person called at his office and sent up a card bearing the name of Richard Thompson. Witness requested that the man should be admitted, and on his entering asked him whether he was Mr. Thompson. The man replied that the card sent up was his, but that his name was not Thompson, and he - went on to say, " I come to you from Mr. Crutwell, of Frome. I am told that there are anticipations of a great deal of illegal practices on the part of the Li berals, and I am ask e d f or a cons id era b le staff to watch the different publichouses ; but that requires authority and means, and I am come to ask you whether you will supply me with either the one or the other." Witness answered, "You have evi dently quite mistaken my . vocation. I never inter fere at elections, and can have nothing to say to you. Nor can I understand your coming to me in this way." The man said, " May I call again ?" and witness replied, "Of course, you can call again, but I think I shall h ave no other answer to give you at any time." Next day a similar card was sent up to him, and witness said he should decline seeing Thompson under any circumstances, and that there was no use in his waiting. The man said he hoped he should get his expenses, and witness replied that he must go to the person who had employed him for them. Memoranda of both these conversations were made at the time by Mr. Spofforth, a gentle man in witness' s o ffi ce. (Th e memoranda, which were here read, corroborated the witness's state ment.) Never saw Thompson before, and had never seen, him since, except once while crossing Parlia ment-street. He was a man with a very red pimpled face. The Chairman—Are we to understand, Mr. Rose, that. Thompson never went to Frome on any com mission from you ? Witness—He certainly never did. I must tell you frankly that I looked upon his calling on me as a " trap." The Chairman—Had Thompson the opportunity, while at your office, of seeing any paper containing a list of places to which it was proposed to send money for the elections on behalf of the Censerva tive party 9 Witness—lnasmuch as there never was anything in the nature of such a list there, it is quite impos sible that he could have seen it. The Chairman—We have had it in evidence that Thompson said he had seen a list of places among which stood Glocester with the sum of £2,000 ap pended to it: Witness—As no such list existed it is utterly im possible that he or anybody else can have seen it: The Chairman—We have put the question to you, Mr. Rose, in consequence of the statement which has been made to us. Witness—Thereis not one scintilla of truth in it. In reply to furthei questions, Mr. Rose added that he had taken no part in the Glocester election, and had no knowledge of any money having been sent to Glocester. He had been applied to in April last respecting the trustworthiness of Mr. Wood, of Sandwich, who had written a letter stating that 'Ar..r. Monk had on a former occasion been ready to stand for Sandwich on Conservative principles. Witness had directed a telegram to be forwarded to Glocester in answer to that application, and its purport was that Mr. Wood was a gentleman whose statements might be relied upon. Thomas Evans deposed that at the 1857 election for Glocester he received £ll or £l2 from Brewer _ Monk for the purposes of bribery, and that he bribed John:Hemmington, stonemason, and John Pucldick, householder, to vote for Price and Berkeley, George Allen received from £8 to £lO from Brewer Monk in 1857 to pay his own travelling expenses and those of five or six other voters who worked for him at Henley-on-Thames. None of that money went for bribery, and he regarded the transaction as a losing one. Mr. Wilton, surgeon, of Glocester, put in a corrected statement of the rentals of between 260 and 270 voters who had accepted bribes. Of the total number 123 were freemen whose rentals were mostly very low in amount, rang ing from £3 10s. per annum to £8 or £9. In one or two oases, however, the rentals of the bribed were as high as £4O. Mr. Wilton gave evidence as to the data on which his calculations were based, and his figures were confirmed by Mr. Ward, who had had local experience in such valuations. The name of Mr. Julian. Bernard was called in court several times, but no one appeared to answer the summons of the Commissioners on his behalf. It will be recollected that at the last public sitting of the Commission Mr. Bernard was prevented from attending by indisposition. Mr. Coleridge, the secretary to the Commission ers, now stated, in answer to questions from the Chairman, that he had addressed a summons to Mr. Bernard, at his chambers in the Albany, and that its receipt had ben acknowledged by Mr. Mount, Mr. Bernard's solicitor. A declaration, stating that Mr. Bernard was too ill to attend, and signed on the 30th ult. in the presence of a police magistrate, had also been furnished to the Commission. He had subsequently seen Mr. Mount, who had told him that any notice addressed to himself would be taken as served on Pair. Bernard, and had undertaken that that gentlenian should tender himself for re-exami nation as soon as he recovered. On his suggestion that he should write to Mr. Bernard himself at the Albany, Mr. Mount replied that Mr. Bernard was in town, but not at the Albany, and that though he was still unwell he hoped he might soon be able to be present. After that interview with Mr. Mount, he wrote on Wednesday last to that gentleman, in timating that the Commissioners had fixed the sth December as their next sitting for the examination of witnesses, and requiring Mr. Bernard's attend ance on that day. He had also sent a subsequent letter to Mr. Mount by the Commissioners' instruc tions, requesting Mr. Bernard to produce his cash and pass books. To these letters he had received no answer. The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Bernard not having thought proper to appear before them, they must conclude that he did not intend to come there to be examined again. The inquiry would be adjourned till Friday next, in order to give Mr. Befnard an opportunity of attending there if he wished to avoid the consequences to which he had exposed himself. .31R. RAREY AT LIVERPOOL. (From the Liverpool )flail.) Mr. Rarey has again gratified the lovers and ad mirers of that noble animal, the horse, by giving in Liverpool two more public expositions of his unique and unrivalled method of dealing with "horse na ture." We give a summary of his experiments in another column ; and we can state, from personal observation, that those experiments were witnessed, with intense interest and delight, by large and in telligent audiences; including, we rejoiced to see, not a few ladies. At each of the lectures, that re markable curiosity, the horse Cruiser, was intro duced ; and untamed and untameable as he is ad mitted to have been before Mr. Rarey mastered him--he followed that gentleman round the ring with all the docility and attachment of a domestic pet. Some little time ago, we chanced to see the Marquis of Westminster's celebrated horse Touch stone, who won the Derby, " the blue ribbon of the turf," nearly 30 years ago, and who is now enjoy ing a " green old age" in a paddock near Eaton-hall. When we saw him he was as quiet as a lap dog, and, in our judgment, " Cruiser" is now equally quiet to those who know how to handle him, as Mr.Ra.rey evi dently does. He is, in fact, the crowning triumph of that system of which the " law of kindness" is the foundation and the guiding principle, and which in Mr. Rarey's hands we venture to predict will never be found to fail. His success with the other animals which were submitted to his treatment was scarcely less marvellous. Wild, vicious, and apparently in tractable as they were upon their first appearance, they wore brought in an incredibly short time un der the most perfect and complete control ; and the universal testimony of the spectators was that the triumphs of the operator were not only unsur passed, but unsurpassable. The case of the chestnut stallion operated on on Thursday was perhaps the most extraordinary of all. Hitherto one man only has been able to approach him, and that man after Mr. Rarey had done with him proposed to muzzle him again before leading him home. Upon an in timation from M r . R arey , h owever , that this was wholly unneces sar y, h e very properly desisted, and the animal was l e d away b y an or di nary bridle, without any difficulty whatever, and without mak ing the slightest demonstration either of ill-temper or of vice. Mr. Rarey, besides having a pecuniary interest in the development of his system, is actuated, we be lieve, by a sincere desire to improve the treatment of the horse—an animal in which he evidently takes the deepest interest, and which• is too often as ill-used as it is useful. He gave a practical proof of this desire, on Thursday, by reducing his scale of charges to half their previous amount, in order that the great omnibus proprietors, and coach and car proprietors, might have au opportunity of send ! ing their horse-keepers and drivers, to see with their own eyes the wonders and the advantages of his admirable mode of treatment, and to learn from actual observation the lessons of tact, of kindness, , and of discretion which the actual display of these wonders and advantages cannot fail to teach. One gentleman, Mr. Busby, we are glad to see, availed himself of this opportunity, and sent in 50 of his servants, and we hope that at the next and closing l • ectute, on Monday, many other extensive ownerg of horses will follow so good an example. selves, we are still prepared to maintain —ill c °lll . Captal n mon with our old friend and neighbour — Mervyn Richardson, late of the 4th Light Dragoon:, with whom we have again recently compared not.es, and whose admirable treatise on Horsemanship is standard authority upon the subject, being at gnat thoroughly practical and thoroughly scientific--th Mr. Rarey is the foremost man in the world, both in the science and in the art of training and mann .- jug horses. For our - TILE BRITISH DISPUTE IVI2II TARAG It is understood that despatches will be forwarocu by , the mail of the 9th from Lord J. Russell t° Senor . Valdez, President Lopez's toisunder: Foreign Affairs, relative to the recent standing between the authorities at Asuncion at Mr. Henderson, our consul until lately in that.°l l P o tal,. respecting the imprisonment of a Monte citizen claiming to be a British subject, and I . l ll P a consr a l: cate . d, with several Paraguayans, in a having for its object the assassination of the Pre s to dent and the overthrow of the Government.. From with n. the fact of Lord J. Russell communicating Paraguayan executive, instead of through M r ' lle Minister for derson, who has withdrawn to Buenos Ayresl,o i ses t iT io . may . be assumed that his lordship recogn justice of Senor Valdez's representations as t ° • t h reasonableness of the Paraguayan aealinF. 6 1 0 0 offenders . against their laws in the wa wa, - a to laws enjoin; and that his lordship i f Pr e r r h e mild reserve all demonstrations of force, if suee• 5 0 . 15 1 of become unhappily necessary, until he is that . there . has been a design ' to act in a in hostility to British interests and honour.. In ed ( bolsi esi , tentio . n . of the sort has been emphatically in writing by Senor Valdez, on the part °f, es of dent Lopez.. Every proof of the till to such . disclaimer has been offered to be furnis his lordship,. should he cause the requisite 10 qi i i do to be instituted on the spot. No doubt he . wi t i o oi so ; for there ar e assure dl y sufficient comp in licil the Platine State s a l rea d w ithout f urtlier fore° b roilments through th e pressure of a Br itish there in the remoter waters of those reaions, ualqs and should be the most unmistakeablejustifietnilibioti. necessity for such manifestation.—LinerP°°'— nothing in which Ido not see you. Nay, I might almost say anything that to me is beautiful from you derives, either from association or imagination, that which makes it beautiful." • That was written by a gentleman at the ripe age of 25 or 26 to a girl approaching the age of woman hood. The jury would, perhaps, say there was a good deal of nonsense of expression in that, but they would say also what was the effect likely to be pro duced on the mind and feelings and imagination of a young girl by writing of tat description. An , other letter, dated Jan. 13, 1857, is addressed to Miss Dc Winton, one of the Christian names of Miss Trowsdale. In this he (Sergeant O'Hag-an) said he (the defendant) once more lifted his pen to convey, as some poet had said, " The throb of passion through a drop of ink." (Laughter.) " And oh ! my dearest Julia, though I feel our hearts beat in unison, and though not a single pulse of my bosom that does not throb for you, nor one thought of innermost feeling which in my devotion I would conceal from you—l love you more than aught else on earth, and would willingly make any sacrifice for you consistently with honour. I love and honour you with a devotion nearly akin to that which is due to celestial objects; yet, my own best beloved Julia, pardon me if, in the ecstasy of the moment, in the delirium of love—(laughter)—l should have become so far wrapped up in the pre sent, insensible alike to past and future, so far for getful of myself, as to offend you. Believe me, dearest Julia, I would not willingly for worlds offend you, or in any way hurt your feelings. Though I have my own errors and imperfections, yet no one could ever impute to me a mean or dis honourable action ; yet, dearest Julia, your happi ness and aught else in my hands are dearer to me than life itself. And now, my ever dear Julia, write me a long, long letter, and pray tell me that you pardon me for my thoughtlessness, for oh ! Julia, I now love you the more for your pure and confiding love and artless innocence. . . And now, dear, dear Julia, good bye for the present, hoping to hear from you soon, and in the meantime believe me your most sincerely attached and loving " HUGH." It appeared by one of the letters that he made her a present of a locket. She in return gave him a ring, and he, on the 30th of April, 1857, wrote : " Many, many thanks, dearest Julia, for the ring of your hair you gave me. I shall ever priza it as a sacred gift ; and when I look upon it it can not fail to drive from my mind any selfish or un charitable feeling that might otherwise lurk there. Oh ! how would it be ,possible, at the same time, to think of you, my own gentle, loving Julia, and cherish an impure feeling ?" At one period the plaintiff's family had got into some difficulties. The father of Miss Trowsdale had become security for the debt of another, and it resulted in the issuing of an execution and a sale. The family had transferred themselves from Bally hackamore House to Seville Lodge, and then the sale took place, and they had to submit to annoy ance and embarrassment. It was to that the de fendant referred, and for that he expressed his deep regret. The substance and effect of her letter was stating that there had been embarrassment and annoyance in connexion with her family, and if on that account he thought proper to do so, she was willing to allow him to withdraw himself from his engagement. That was true or . was false, and if at the end of the case it was proved true, the jury would say what effect it would have on their ver dict. It was written about the Ist or 2d of October, in reply to the sympathising letter of the defendant ; and he replied to that letter in a letter dated the 4th of October, to which he (counsel) would direct their attention in contrast with the final letter, in which he justified his abominable and flagitious wrong. That gentle innocent, confiding girl—the words were not his -(Sergeant O'Hagan's), but Mr. Stewart's—offered him a release from his engage ment, if he had the heart, if he was base enough to take it. The letter was as follows : "My very very dear Julia—l yesterday morn ing received your very long looked for letter, and now, love, with much pleasure sit down to answer it. I must say, dearest Julia, that you very much misjudge me when you infer that my love for you would wane on account-of your misfortune. No, dearest Julia, that is far, far from -the case. I did not love you for any supposed or imaginary wealth you might possess. In other words, I did not woo your money, but yourself. lam sorry, love, that you could ever have imputed tc me such sordid motives. I thought you knew me better, and would have considered my character superior to such meanness. That, dearest Julia, I have not seen you often of late is not my fault, but my misfortune. Yes, dearest Julia,- I am sure that even you yourself will acknowledge that were I master of my own movements I would be oftener found by your side. With regard to the insinuations you have made about my forsaking you for another—oh, could that ever bo possible, dearest Julia, to forget you, my own beloved ? Surely not. That is entirely falso, nor do I know how that report could at all have arisen—as I believe myself innocent of having over given cause for such a report." The post-mark of that letter was the 4th October ; it was in answer to the letter of the day before. The girl said to him she was ready to sacrifice her self, her hopes, and her happiness, if he chose to take his freedom. His answer was : "No ; I am too good, too noble-hearted, too chivalrous a man, to do any such thing. I wooed yourself, and not your fortune. I loved yourself, and not your wealth." On the 20th January, 1858, he wrote another letter : " llolywood, Tuesday Night. "My own dearest received your letter this morning, and now, near midnight, sit down to reply to it. indeed, my love, you very much mis judge me when you thus accuse me of indifference and carelessness to you ; but as you well know, unfortunately I am constrained from acting as my feelings would dictate. I am sure, love, you will not judge me too harshly, knowing, from what you have seen of me, that you alone possess my heart, to the exclusion of aught else on earth. I am, I am sure, Julia, you must allow, most painfully situated. I am, as it were, between two fires ; and even then, Julia, worst of all, you accuse me of insincerity and fickleness. Believe me when I assure you that I never yet expressed a senti ment to you that I did not feel—of course, making allowance for any poetical expressions—and yet even you, Julia. turn round and accuse me ! As I before said, had I my wish this moment, it were to be by your side, to clasp you in my arms, and press upon your check the pure kiss of confiding love. But stern Fate says otherwise, and a cruel destiny for the while imposes an insurmountable barrier to my fond desire. In this situation lam more to be pitied than you." What did the man mean who wrote that letter— the man who said that the thought of her banished from his mind every thought of impurity ? If he were not speaking to her as her affianced husband, would he have dared to use the words contained in that letter ? _Let the jury ask themselves, when his accomplished friend came to ask them on their oaths to say that there was no contract of marriage in that case—let them ask themselves what was the meaning of that letter. That was in January. After that lie (Sergeant O'Hagan) understood that Miss Trowsdalc went to London. It was desired by her family that her education should he finished, and she resided there with members of her own ftmily. She received there a letter from the defendant on the 28th June,lBsB. That letter was in these terms: "My very dearest Julia,—l this morning received your kind and affectionate letter. I was very glad, indeed, love, to find that you are in good health and enjoying yourself as you formerly used. You have also had your own share of annoyance and vexa tion ; but, as I have always said, these cannot last for ever. Is there not " a silver lining to every cloud ?" It seems a long time since I last saw or heard of you, and when I think of the many happy hours we have spent together, and our pleasant walks, it makes me sad to think of those happy times and contrastthenrwith the miserable present. Oh ! Julia, I am sometimes 'almost inclined to de spond, and balieve in such a thing as fate. But no, it cannot be possible. Brighter, at least as happy, dnys are in store for us ; for though at times the Almighty does often see fit to visit U 9 on earth with trials and difficulties, yet out of these the pure and trusting heart will rise the purer and stronger be cause of its trials, for even is it not a true saying, though common, that pleasure is allied to pain ?" That was the last letter which he (counsel) had, until a short and pert letter, announcing the death of the defendant's grandfather, of whom he was the heir, and from whom he was to receive an ample fortune. In that letter he wrote— "Of course you heard of the death of my poor grandfather. He hid certainly been ill for a con siderable time, but, withal, it was a greet shock to us all. Poor old man ! he was very patient and resigned, very different, indeed, to what - we could have expected." He concluded by saying— " You will please excu.3e,.dearest Julia, this me lancholy letter, bnt I cannot help it, and with kind remembrance to you all, believe me, my deafest Julia, ever your fond and attached " Humt." It would seem that, whether from Mr. Stewart's becoming a more eligible parti in consequence of the death of his grandfather, or from whatever other cause, rumour stated that he did not intend to marry Mies Trowsdale, but some person else—per haps a wealthier person.. With reference to these rumours he wrote thus on the ith of February, 1859 : "My very dearest Julia,—l have but just re ceived your very kind and affectionate letter, and at once respond to it; lam very sorry, love, that COUNTRY 11CARICBTS• OXFORD—DEC. 3. to•dal . r. An average quantity of grain of all kinds on °lre ! r so rt" The trade was good for fine samples of wheat; other as dear. White ruled at 45s to 525, red 40s to 39s Barley, 28s to 36s • oats, 19s to 28s • beans. 390 w kl ll4 hog peas, s9s to ' 42s ; boilers, 43s to 46s per q r. 33s per sack. Hay, from £3 5s to £4 Os per ton. CHELMSFORD--DEc. 2. r 0 10 1 1 The quantity of wheat shown to-day wa s a h e -6 e 6 with a very flat business. Holders were flrni,..~ . spr. week's advance declined is for the best qualities corn unaltered. 39 5 t° Wheat, white 43s to 53 s Peas, Partridg e •. 09, 0 to . 42 red 41s to 46s White ........ 395 go Barley 32s to 40s ...... 340 t ° Chevalier 34s to 45s Dun ......... . 3 6 a to , 5 . Grinding 23s to 29s Beans, Tick •• • • 4 2 0 04 0 Malt 60s to 668 Harrow Tic k° . 370 t 5 Chevalier 63s to 68s Mazagan ..... Oats 23s to 33s COLCHESTER—DEc. 3. pleg °I X; A moderate supply of wheat ; the boot scrap gol"„At last week's rates ; inferior parcels rather loWer.,' 00 0 ' sam ples v• barleys keep up in price, and grinding t p $6 6 qr. dearer. B e an s an d p eas as b e f o re. .32 0 4 84 Wheat, white 44s to 52 s ' B e ans Mazagti 380 t ° 00 red 38s to 46s Middle 4gr oil a 4OO t 0 gds Barley 36s to 50s White peas ...... 350 to Oats lBB to 2Ss Grey.. ....... DERBY—DEC, 3. Trri At market yesterday wheat was a moderator lir i i, of, ll/11 ; inactive, with a reduction of is upon the 0ur... 11 Oa' week. Oats a slow sale. Barley a small s ll °"' g pi scanty supply, but firm in price. d i n g . 2 1:1 -0 White wheat, new, 45s to 52s Barley, gril l— - . P".- W. Red do. 4os to 47s Oats, old, ****** 2 6 . - s, .• , Old white 4ss to 528 New do ******** 461n0 Red do. 403 to 47s vi Beans.. ...... :405,T! I Barley, malting 36s to 44s Beans, ne . ' ''' .- . NORTHAMPTON—Dv. S. n ot ti tt i ; At this corn-market wheat was in tolerable silifix a fair trade, at a slight decline—prices ranglilguerlr 46s for old ; new, 38s to 455. Thero was a - th a 9b v 10 passing in barley-28s to 41s per qr. Oat M B at 23s t 4 o os 3 . 4s ß p y e e r , 24 stott°l; 3 ' 4 6 d 4 " 4 o. to 50s; /11 4° —s to -- 0 t • 665. GLOUCESTER—DEC. 3. dan c e, y. ttendatt noes At our market there was rather a poor a t he c 440 a dull business was done. Prices were abou t o beail dt r. cies of this day se'nnight—viz , English w, te dso dt l ° :•o• to 46s ; red, 41s to 43s per qr.. Foreign. s"- qua" Barley is in less request, at 358 to 38s for mall . English oats, 26s to 27s ; Irish, S2B 6cl to 23s COAL MART (Prices of Coal per Ton at KET—DEc. 6• the close of in. 11 10-4 e t Walls .2 0 9 Haswell ..... Gibson .. ...... ' .18 Heugh ...... ••i$ " a Eden .......... •' " :1 5 6 Huuwiek ......... •• ' 19, 6 Thornley .......... • • : 1 0 Acorn Close ..... ' ; South Iletton ........ :115 • Whitworth ........ ' ' .19 a South Durhan i . • • • •••'' , 0 A 16 • Riddell ......... Hilda ........ •• • • 6 West Stan ley • • • ••:' ..19 6 Keiper Grange' •40;iPigi Fowell'BD u Do i ' Garwa y and .21 0 Malting • ••• • • • • ' Nixon's Puffrlll'' 71—So1d, 26. e. d. Bell's Primrose l3 6 Burnhope 13 6 13yass's Bebside West Hartley .14 6 Davison's West Hart ley 14 9 Lambert's West Hart ley 14 6 West Hartley l4 6 Holywell l5 0 Tanfield Moor l4 9 Tanfield Moor Butes l4 9 Wylam l6 0 West Wylam l4 0 Walker Primrose 13 6 Ward's West Hartley .13 6 Bates' _West Hartley. _l3 6 Hastings Hartley 14 6 Bower'sWestllartley 14 6 Ships at mark, FOREIGN MAIL TACKS. [eile t°ll.4 , drfiro In the following table E signifies that letter% T o w 0 1 '" i by evening mails from London, and 31 Wi n° 14e $ 1 life j Port Of ',llw DESTINATIONS. Despatch of Mails. De s p atch' ___--- '''' Australia and Mauritius, via ------ ~, le rk" i Ditto, via Marseilles aT a ew D SouthaniP• ye& Southampton Dec. .11 20, , 3:1 ! r,..i.v.e,rp.00. • ''' ; rec. qi i Bahamas and Havan I N York Dec. 23• _,.., ~ „ r poo • i Canada, Lc. (by Canadn. pckt ) Dec. 7, A '-'"'" JO' Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- r at ot p tno t , o . B n v ri aa zi Is, E Devon , ... 4 sion, and St. Helena, China, Penang, and Singa- 1.1 Sotilh aniP. . g e e e g pore, via Southampton - .. •• .• 1. Ditto, via Marseilles , Dec. 10, Ai •• • • ibataP D rs . Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 3, 3 f South Sou i'" --- India Hon du(rcaaslcauntdtaTealtivafields. Ceylon,.. . Dec. 17, M CO # P . via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles p i) : 10 India (Bombay), via South- OOP Pe t ' Li Da s m b i Marseilles ß u e 11DO ; OP pee , a Bf you p Dec.ile 12, U ., a Sso ,, u atbs o3.. ''' • L.,' : and P. Islands so Lisbon ,Mexicouth Vigo, aanindp tHo Southampton O a p o r t o . . . - - - ‘4 osAyres, Dec. - '''' Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via thita' en , 3l SOU- e d. Dec. -, , .. '' D , Ditto, via Marseilles - ' l - , '' '''''''''' Dec. --, Mk t S wa y , ... • Newfoundland United States and British N Dec. -, V' 6 Pe t ', u LiVerP p, America (by British packet) Dec. .--•-, „„„thara _,. 10 Ditto (by U. S. packet) Livery West Coast of Africa, Ma- E MO.' , dcira, and Tenerife Dec. 23 0 Pe ° West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey- „, s o uthan i r . 1 , town, New Granada, &c Dec. 17, Ja i —.lf bemol be 14 1 COMMUTATION OF PUNISHMENT'.. —It 9ltic,Perf collected that at the last session of the Cchtrarowreao Court we reported the trial of a man name d ii '„nos e. f .. P— I 0 who was found guilty and sentenced to d e ath ill 0210 of administering a quantity of sugar of lead w in er 4. c o?, Lambeth, with intent to kill and murder her. ''' c ogeei iie e since been received at Newgate from the 1° 111 „„ °- ( lerg ° , i r mutino• that sentence, and he is ordered...TO vi — i ii fo in i * servitude for the space of ten years. ne . I"'",,ciere removed to Millbank Prison, preparatorY term of his sentence. Pt square, T . O .O R n N ANSON.—On the 3d inst., Bl atl BIRTHS• Rector'', OP _ the wife of the Rev. Frederick Anson, of a son. rreyt t) , JJAZILGETTE.—On the 3d inst., at 3fordon, Su tli, wife of J. W. Bazalgette, Esq., a a dau j)erbt .. htet' 3101 ., til LEE. —On o f Rear-Admiral Ha.tho . rn, a peelgliter; ,tose t .— he °n s NotreeolL . 1. Chelsea, W. L the wife of Lazarus Lee, Esq., of a 8 sth inst. iantstl,2,at Boulogne -0v ii, Roy:1 E lff n — gl i n G e li e T rs .3l— . PRESTON—WILSON. CLARE It Louisa, onl el' . '''h Clare, Esq., 0 G e ___, Geo. ydaughter of the late en rs. Hall,of l u l l f o v r e d s , t the n l ° V itnt .htitSebte2or6p-'1 stAllltieinu°l i s is o t: n al:S. :P ettil.: ;ff er e'r;bs : :::::°515r1::: late • hci llif il T. W. Westmoreland, to Dorot , hy WORM ":,,,71,. W. Wilson, ES(I., of Fulford, near 1. D E A Thy S. AD tlts G. 11. Ad • ! _lnst., at . ~11,,q., , ams, of i , OakleyVtllas, Ado i. PO ° stead. . . ..—On the 11 • Close SalisrolorPittnr. rfis ANI)r h D i% 'Ely. Andrew, F.R S E &C. d BRAY.-13 •• ~ 101// a pd• —On the Ist inst., at Edinburg. , ou 10 11 Bray, l a t e , 39th 1.. ' t fie ~, n the 3d inst., at Brighton, Colone CAIIrI:I.I.L.—On the 3d inst., 7a0t•51, JernlY _, list n-st ree 1 sir Dennistoun Campbell, C B Lieut.-0)1°11v' lanclers, aged 43. • ~ s§lo o4 CASHCas - B• Crc'a g b .—On the Gth inst., at the Retreat, Feel ot Esq., aged 70. CRooKs.—On the 29th ult., at Brighton, Aeleficiajah°l.°ll - cs,oannaodfatkiveclsito, nag..eJdam36e.s Crooks, 0 .0 0 4113 li d t I KENNAwAx.—On the 29th ult., Gerard A.Cl£lll , of Sir John Kennaway, Bart., age d 15' - t r - 0 1r ° .614111: LorrooN : Printod and Published by , 140. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at .The Sun 0 Alie w °B 00 0 0 Strand, in the Precinc t of the Savoy. ill Middlesex, Tuesday, December 6, 18459' ; 1 1