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vart - It'4*Ar v 9 , %,u 4t TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. ►SIX O'CLOCIC. CHESTER CUP. 28 to 1 agst Ariosto—taken 33 to 1 agst Nancy 50 to 1 agat Cossack—taken SO to 1 agst Koh•i-noor 1,000 to 15 agat Duc-an-Dhurras — ta ken 1,000 to 10 agst Payment—taken DERBY. Offers to take 18 to 1 each about Orelio and Kingston• FRANCE. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The intended grand ball at the Tu ileries has been fixed for Saturday next. The Court of Accounts held a sitting yesterday, under the presidency of M. Barthe, for the reception of some of its new members. M. Sallandrouze de Lamornaix has written to the Constitutionnel to say that it is not true, as stated by one of the journals, that a sum of 25,000 f. has been awarded to him by the Royal Commission of the Ex hibition at London, for his services as French Com missary-General A sum of money was, he says, offered him by the Commission, but he declined to accept it. The Journal des Flandres of Ghent states that M. Cannot, ex-representative of France, who has been occupying a house near that city, has been conducted to the frontiers of Belgium by the gendarmerie. M. Mathieu (de la Drome), another ex-representative has for a month past been residing at 03tend. GERMAN Y. A Berlin journal states that the Government of Hanover has made another proposition to the Ger manic Diet, with a view to prevent-the dissolution of the German fleet. It appears that Hanover is dis posed to raise, in conjunction with some other states, the fu-}de necessary to prevent the projected dissolu tion of ihe fleet. The Augsburg Gazette states that Prince George of Waldeck, who attained his legal majority on the 14th, has refused to talc.. the oath to the liberal constitution drawn up in 1849, and left the government of his Principality in the hands of his mother until the mo difications thßt he desires cm be effected. He bas in the meantime returned to the University of Bonn to rem lie his studies. The Breslau, Gazette of the 18th stet-ls, under the head of Vienna, that the commission appointed to re form the laws of the Empire is composed of men justly entitled to pu'olie confidence, and that their names will shortly be submitted to the Emperor for his sanction. The Vienna Gazette announces several promotions in the hi4ner grafies of the army, and the appoint ment of sevorat generals as commanders of garrison towns and fortresses. The Customs Congress at Vienna adopted, on the 15 - b, the basis of the treaty propo::ed by the Austrian Government for a Customs Union between Austria and several of the German States. A letter from.Pestb, 12th, in a Bohemian journal, says:—" The missionaries of the English Bible Society, who bare been residing here for some time, have recently received orders to quit the Austrain States and to follow an itinerary traced out for them beforehand. They are not avowed to pass through Vienna. As the majority of these missionaries are men with families, they bad asked for some delay, in order to arrange their affairs ; but their request has been refused, and they have been ordered to leave by the, 15th inst. at the latest." A letter fram Hamburgh asserts that some of the Danish Ministers do not approve of the treaty relative to the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, recently con cluded by Count Rifle-Brea on the part of Denmark and the principal German powers. A Ministerial crisis was consequently considered probable. The Augsburg Gazette, under date of St. Petersburgb, Ist inst., says—" L otters from Tiflis announce the arrival there on the .sth of December, of the Persian Ambassador Extraordidary, Sada Mirza Mohammed Hussein, on his way to the Russian capital. The wishes of the Imperial Cabinet have been thus realised, as it could not pardon the Shah for having first sent au Extraordinary Am bassador to England. The eclat with which the new Ambassador was received at Tiflis proves that much importance was attached to his mission to St. Petersburgb, although it cannot be concealed that English influence appears to predominate at the Court of the Shah. The Ambassador was harangued on his arrival by the General-in-Chief of the army of the Caucasus, and by the authorities of the town, who accompanied bim to his residence. The Civil Governer sent him, according to the custom of the east, a present of the rarest fruits, and in the evening the Ambassador supped with the Persian Consul at Tiflis." It is stated by the Journal of St. Petersburgh that, in addition to the advantages in the Caucasus recently obtained by the Russians, Hadichi-Marad, one of the principal officers of Bellamy I, has made his sub mission to them. ITALY. A letter from Naples, .12th inst., announces the accouchement of the Duchess d'Aumale of a Prince, who received the name of the Duke de Guise. He was to be baptised on the following day, the King of Naples and the Dowager Princess of Salerno standing as sponsors. A letter from Bosnia, in the Milan Gazette of the 16tb, says that the Turks continue to oppress the rayahs just as they did before the rebellion ; that ex orbitant taxes weigh upon them, and that ten rayahs are enrolled in the army for one Turk. A late instance is related of a Turk stabbing a rayah who owed him 14 florins, and being acquitted upon his bare denial of the act. THE INHABITED tiOUSE-DUTY. -- . -- . - - - FROM A. - CORRESPONDENT.) The Government have calltid for returns of the o a r n d d e r t h t e o amoun t of the house-duty which will be raised, in waisnead,rtain, no doubt the difference between ' it tax. Nobility and gentry throughout the country have now set up as great a cry against the new their loss of the cluty as p 0 r tecionists have done at fact " that noblemen corn-laws. It is a "great their halls and mansions would have it believed that than a gentleman' s boy, are not worth more to rent have it believed that o t y Land the gentlemen would ade -ar residences are not worth more to rent than tr will have to make k ibition What will be the next 7..ee's houses and shops. Gentlemen will 1 , "Day Lords and have now, by the estimate th At all events they reduction let, made out a good make of their own residences have endeavoured to gentlemen o 1 their case for tenants to demand set up a low not dream rent roll. When noblemen and estimate on their own residences the of laying a foundation for tenants to y d lid tion. Rents must now come down i emand redlie- MR, HUM E, M.P , AND THE NEW REFORM BILL. At the recent meeting of a Reform committee ,„• Edinburgh the fo llowiu g letter from Mr. Hume , y — ea read : " TO THOMAS RUSSELL, ESQ., EDINBURGH. " Dear Sir, —I am favoured with your letter, a n d am pleased to learn that the Reformers of Edinburgh are about to meet me and to express their opinion of the necessity of Parliamentary Reform, and also of the extent to which the reform should extend in order to correct the abuses so glaring in our representa tive system. " Lord John Russell, who has intimated his inten tion of introducing a scheme of Parliamentary Reform in the ensuing session, has a right to know the opi nions of such large constituencies as th at of the metropolis of Scotland, and I consider that the Reformers should also be anxious to express their opinion on so important a subject, that his Lo rdshi p may attend to them or not as he may think requi si t e. After the experience we have had of the working of the elective system, as amended in 1831-32, I called together 60 or 70 of the Reformers in the House of Commons in 1849 ; an d , at their request, I submitted to the House of Commons a motion that contained the amendments that, in the opinion of our Meeting, if adopted by Parliament, would correct all or nearly the whole of the a buses that now exist in the el ec ti ve s y s t e m. " I raved ' for leave to bring in a B ill to amend ine national represen tation, by extending the elective) franchise, french' -Ise, so that every man of full age, and not sub ject to an y mental or legal disabi lit y , who shall have been the resident occupier of a house, or part of a house a s a lodger, for twelve months, and shall b fo a r ve th b a ee t n ..,_ duly rated to the poor of that parish an d be ent itled to t shall be registered as an elector, liament. Also, b 0 vote for a representative in Par by ballot, that theydenacting that votes shall be taken exceed three years ; uTatim of Parliaments shall not in a n nd that the proportion of repre sentatives be maandde wo re consistent with the amount of population sideration, I cannot, inpaemrty? And after great con sider condensed form, submit the amendments I think calculated to promote representative system, the harmonious working of o ur so as to obtain security to th u e r pee sona an d all classes of the communit y , wealutrhnlare property of • "I view Parliamentary R ef s n i l t or q e u i e n s t t e i r o e n s t e i d n ,r . ' which the trabeAncolfa s r s a e n s k w a h n i d ch are ....e.l' e, ,:- r new excluded fcom ,3t te ... s t te ,, , if e frame:l l v, and from their just and con . - . 4 gsgisre) share of the government of In the present - '-':a - -ii l as..e - \ 4,- e-:, ,o -ea. my 'view, most im the country —Pontine- • . ' '.... .. ''P , S stattibsitie for ttee future p eace ; should afford satis ..• •- le 4 -• ... i , nu quiet of this .:-: - couPtrY,,ilkt our elective system y j A 7 —;:- :.• ,~ ~~ ~ , E S faction to the masses of the people, now discontented by being excluded from the Parliamentary franchise; and I would entreat those men of rank and influence who have hitherto stood aloof from the reform move ment, to join cordially in promoting contentment amongst the millions, and in giving to them an in terest in preserving the peace, and in protecting the liberal institutions of the kingdom• I have seen with satisfaction the proceedings of the Reformers of Manchester, and am pleased that they have adopted the scheme of Reform submitted by me of late years to the House of Com mons ; and I hope the Reformers of Edinburgh will also give their countenance to those safe and consti tutional reforms. I would here guard Reformers against an error into which many well-disposed persons have fallen, of requiring, as a qualification for the voter, that he should pay up the taxes for which he has been assessed and registered. The payment of taxes to enable electors to give their votes was one of the most prolific causes of bribery and corruption in Westminster, Southwark, and other places, before 1831-32, and: ought, therefore, in any change that is made, to be altogether done away with. The assessment, registration, and residence, should be the qualification to distinguish the householder from the vagrant, which is all that ought to be done. The rate and register book and time of residence should be the proof of qualification; and the payment of the taxes or rates for which the householder has been assessed should be left in the same category with all other debts due by the householder. The laws to enable the collector to collect the taxes have equal if not more power than fur the collection of other house hold and personal debts ; and, therefore, no distinc tion should be made in those debts. "I think, when in Edinburgh, I stated carefully the distinction I have now more particularly made ; and I hope that the committee for preparing the reso lutions for the meeting will keep that distinction in view. "In conclusion, I would say that the events on the Continent of Europe should induce all classes to concur in improving the liberal institutions of our country, and implanting them on a still more perma nent basis, which has always been and is my object and aim as a reformer. —I remain, &c., " Josurn ITUME. " Burnley Hall, Norfolk, Jan. 6 " INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Oh Tuesday, (James Meadows Mendell, Esq , Pre sident, in the chair), the paper read was " On the Alluvial Formations, and the Local Changes, of the South Eastern Coast of England. Second Section— from Beachy Head to Portland ;" by Mr. J. B. Red man, M. het. C. E. Westward of Bsachy Head the effects produced by local variations in the beach were traced—the " fulls " tailing across the outfall of Cucktnere Haven, and driving the outlet eastward, creating a barrier of beach at Seaford—at an early period the outfall of Newhaven Harbour—where an ancient outlet existed on the site of the present entrance, subsequently pro jected eastward by the passage of shingle from the westward, until rendered permanent by piers. The recent degradation of the shore along Seaford Bay, from the shingle being arrested to the westward, and the unavailing attempt to stop this movement by blasting the cliff at Seaford Head, were noticed. The waste of the coast at Rottingdean, the modern changes at Brighton. the great variations in the outlet of Shoreham Harbour, until rendered permanent by artificial works, were examined, as well as the ana logous effects on the coast generally at Pagham, across the entrance of which a spit had been formed, similar to those at the ancient harbours of Romney and Pevensey. The anchorage of the Park, oft Selsey Bill, once presumed to have been a portion of the site of a bishop's see, prior to its removal to Chichester, owing to the progressive waste of the shore. At the back of the Isle of Wight, the peculiarities of the land-locked harbours, and the protection afforded by the shore defences to Ports mouth harbour, so little altered in its general outline, since the time of Henry the Eighth, were described, as also the remarkable promontory called Hurst Point, many of the characteristics of which were similar to those of the Chesil Bank, Calshot Point, and other formations, such as a low flat shore to leeward (east ward), and a highly inclined beach seaward, with a tendency to curve round to the northward and east ward, and eventually to inclose a tidal mere, or estuary. The elevation and size of the pebbles in creased towards the extremity of these points, and in places on the sea slope an intermixture of coarse sand and shingle, which bad become solid and homogene ous by age, cropped out through the modern beach. The remaining portion of the coast of Hampshire, end that of Dorsetshire, as far as Weymouth, were then minutely described, and the paper concluded with a particular account of the Chesil Bank, which in magnitude far exceeded all other formations of the kind, and which it was considered might be attributed to the waste of the great West Bay. Numerous diagrams, compiled from ancient and modern maps, together with sections and sketches of the various alluvial spits along the coast, were exhi bited, and it was shown that all these local accumula tions had many features in common, and were subject to the same alternating effects of loss and gain, and were the resultant of causes in constant operation, the whole exercising a most important influence on har bour and marine engineering generally. In the discussion which ensued, in which Sir C. Lyell, Sir E. Belcher, Mr. Rennie, Captain O'Brien, Mr. Scott Russell, and the author took part, the pe culiarities of the different parts of the coast were still further described, and the formation of the moles of shingle were attributed,:by some of the speakers, to ' the action o f th e tid a l cur r e nts, but more generally, by others, to th e mec h an ical power of the waves alone, which appeared to account for the apparently anomalous fact that the largest pebbles were always found on the summit and to leeward. Chesil, Hurst, and Dungeness beaches were referred to, us re markable instances of results produced by such causes; and the effect of the severe storm of November, 1824, on the base of Hurst Beach was alluded to. A short account of Mr. Deane's Submarine re searches on the Shambles Shoal, off the Bill of Port land, was read, describing that shoal to consist entirely of a bed of small broken shells, arranged is parallel shelves, or steps, instead of, as bad been supposed, being formed of boulders and pebbles. Tnis peculiar arrangement of light shells, at depths varying from four to nine fathoms, must be the result of the action of the currents forming a spot comparatively with out motion, and induced curious speculations as to the causes of the accumulation, and the effects that might be produced on similar aggregations by artifi cial works. The discussion was adjourned until Tuesday, Jan. 27, when, if time permitted, the following paper was announced for reading :—" Description of a Cast Iron Viaduct erected at Manchester, forming part of the joint Station of the London end North-Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways," by A. S. Jee, M. Inst. C. E. E SITY INTELLIGENCE. d ates who intend to offer them selvesUN' UNIV ER SITY 20.—The Junior Proctor will receive Term, on from two till three o'clock. the 26th instant, till Monda y , three o'clock. Responsions in Hilary the ° xF o rt r names p t ' h o of Under Tuesday, 28th, from twelve till three o'clock. Wednesday, the . ther bring in person, or trans mit Each candidate must either the 27th, from one theLreligiisstnrittart. through his tutor— • ts and books in which he pro- paper, or a copy of it attested by 2. A list of the subjects poses to be examined. th! T ii. l3 l; may need a te — Those in order to their dispensationhaving from the Vi ce - Chancellor and Proctors, are required attend at th e V ice -Chancellor's house on Tuesday, the the 2 7th instant , lat ten o' c l oc k , an d to b r i ng with them the head or t utor of their college or hall a written state ment of th e grounds on which the dispensation is sought. The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Mr. Hussey, of Christ Church') proposes to begin his lectures for this term on Monday, the 16th of February, with two classes, reading Eusebins and Bede. The lectures are open to members of the University who have passed the B.A. E xamination; and all who wish to attend them are requested to call on the Pro between at 25, Beaumont -street, on Saturday, Feb. 14, twelve and two o 'clock. n..., Jervis was H C A oI T o R n n i l henry court-martial, ofl wArhicCh sident, assembled in Chatham Barracks, f 20 .—A ge neral M`Cormick, of the 16th Regiment of nerCal°cTioßuTr; o tl f ie trial .„ oflorivate J. S. Wood, the brigade-major of the garrison,"Qt* -;alatain deputy judge-advocate, and read the charges officiated as prisoner. Charge 1. For having, on the nigat:fgainst the the 26th December, 1851, threatened to strike Lieutenant and C. S. Flower, with a life-preserver; 2. For threatening to Adjutant shoot the Ad j utant -Lieutenant C. S. Flowe r; 3 or at tempting to strike Corpo ral P. Linehan), 16th Fo o t ; and a a dditi ona l charge charg ed the prisoner for havin g , at Hythe Barracks, use d threatening . language to Lieutenant: and Adjutant Flower, on the 7th instant, by saying, " 111 have my revenge of you, Lieutenant Flower, you b—, dead or alive." To the charges the prisoner pleaded not guilty. Eleven witnesses were examine d for the prosecution, and five for the defence. The prisoner was found guilty. Several former convictions were proved against hm. The sentence of the court is not known. THE LIVERPOOL COAL TRADE.—We are indebted to Mr. Hamilton Laird for the following com p arative ac count of the co trade 1 a 'of L iver pool, in the years 1850 and 1851:—Countries bordering on the North a nd Baltic Seas, 1850, 3,559 ; 1851, 2,337. France, 1850, 17,9 P• 1851, . - - , 16,666. Countries and islands borderi ng on the Mediterra nean Sea, 1850, 30,184 border . ; 1851, 44 81,3 Countriesborder ing on the Black Sea, 1850 '- . , 1,0 . 98 West Indies, 1850, 12,642; 1851, 15,957. Portoal the Azores, and Madeira, 1850, 6,822; 1851, 8,810. Spain • 1850, 6,152 ; 1851, 5,459. North America, and the Canarnie_s, _ ~_, ~ 1810, 83,5 , ai . ; 1 01 73,198. South America, 1850, 60: 4 c o a i East Indies and China, 11'50, 19,0, . 1 ; 1851, 3809,. _ Islands, 1850, 654; 1851, 869. ' Africa, 28,617. Channel a, 1850, 1,493 ; 1851, 6,97'. Australis, 1850, 2,161; 18 - 400. Total, 1850, 251,601; 1851, 245,903. FURNESS Afip PILE HARBOUR RAILWAY.—The the cost of this proposed ne w line, with branc h fromOrgrave Tramway, is estimated by the engineer at 45,0511, LONDON, PRICES OF SHAT ES -IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COlll PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. tUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20. NOINT-STOCK BALINMS. Dividend . Amount i, :lame of Company. per of Paid. Price. t Annum. Share. t £ s. d. A i. d. Australasia .......... 51. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 - BritahNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - ` Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Colonial. 21, per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Gloucestershire •• • ... 15/per cent. - - - lonian .............. 61. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - London and County •• 61. per cant. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Loiadn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - . London Joint-Stook ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New.• •• • • ... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 11. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. l 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. ••••• • • 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Oriental Bank Corpora. i 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - South Australia •• -•• 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Union of Australia - 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto - ............ 61. per cent. - 210 0 - Union of L0nd0n..... ; 71. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Union of Madrid ..• .. I - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - . INISTIRANCII COMP.ELISMAS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ---..--- - ---. £ s. d. £ a. 6. Albion .... •• •• •• -•• 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86 Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 140. 6d.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 21 Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 43% Ail •s Argus Life ••••• • • •• 41. per cent. 100 8 0 16 0 0 - - British Commercial •• 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 27N County .... ••••• . • • • • 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Crown 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15 Eagle • Eqity and Law •• 4% per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 4% European Life ••• • • 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 12 General •••• • • • • • • - 5 0 0 o BM Globe . Al. per cent. Stock. 134% Gaardla.i • ... •••••• • • 51. per cent 100 0 0 45 fo 0 55% Imperial Fire -••• • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245 Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18 Indemnity Marine •• - I Lau. Sr. Ns. 100 0 0 20 0 0 49 Law Fire •--•• •• • • 25.& 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 3% Law Life ........ •• .• - 100 0 0 10 0 0 464 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 5% London Fire ........ 10s. & bs. 25 0 0;12 10 0 21% London ship • ........ 103. & be. 25 0 0112 10 0 21% arine •• ••••••• •• - 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 15% Med•lnvlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2% Monarch •••• .. • ... .. - 5 0 0 1 0 0 19s. National Lean Fund •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Ptiosaix - - 161 Professional Life.. •• •• 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 17s. Ed Provident Life •••• • • •• 1/. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 Bock Life --- .. .... ss. 5 0 0 0 10 0 G% Royal Exchane 6l. p.ct. & bs. stock. all 227 itm Fire. - „ 209 Ditto Life . 11. 6a. - 48 United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct.&bs. 20 0 0 40 0 4 Universal Life........ 10% ct.&bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - I Tictoria Life.. - 4 12 6 is% 137ILIDGES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - - -- --. A. s. d. A. a. d. Hungerford.• •• • • • • • • - - - 15 donthwrk •• -.•• • • • - 100 0 0 - - Ditto Nw of 7% p. c• 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 - It: Waterloo --••• • • • • • - 100 0 0 - 3 Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 21. Ss. Od. - 60 0 0 2224% Ditto Nw ditto oL7I. I 21. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 Vauxhall .... ..• Av. 21. 70 10 3 - 18 W.5.T1631-13703i1L5. Dividend Amount Same of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ------ -- A s. d. 4 s. d. East London...• ••• • • • 8/. & bs. 100 0 0 - 145 Grand Junction •• •• • • 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 67 Krnt...... .. -••- -4/. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 81 Lambeth .............Si. per cut. 100 0 0 - 97 Yew Ricer Company- 2/.los. - - 60 Vaulthail ............ 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 97 Welt Middlesex •. • 61.05. pr cat. - - 106 DOGILIS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ..-- --.- .£ s. d. £ s. d. Commercial •• .. •..... 41. pr cent. Stock. - ots% East and West Ind , a ... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 143 East Country ..... ... 208. per sh. 100 0 0 - - - 121 pr cent. Stock. - _ - 81 I.'3 i t . D n ic i d t e o t t h n o B e . r in n . * d e ' s ..... ...... ...... ••• ... 3 4 5 h. p p e e r r c c % a n t t . . St ock. Ditto Bonds •••• - • • 4361. pr cent. •-••- - Sout h a mpton .. ••• • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 - CAN 193.15. Names of 2 I Dividendl Names of i Dividend per C o mpanies. 4 1 I per Price. Cerapalllo 6 . 4 , 6 A nima. Price. w I Annum. gl 1 .............--- .£ —. _ .----- ‘ .. 7 ............... ............• 1 X tshtn lk Oldh 98'71. p. ct. 140 Macclesfield • 100 k 21. 10s. 50 darnsley— • • 160. Neatk ••• • • • 100 161. BrknklkAbrg 150 , 61. s 3 Oxford.. •• • - 100 j 13'. 135 Birmingham 40 41. 93% Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70 Coventry.. • . 100 251. 200 Regent's •• .• 33 1 li. 3s. 18% Derby ••• • • 100 , 61. 63 Rochdale...• 85; 21. 42 Ellsmre&Chs 69 25i p. ct. 35% Semrset Coal 1501 ,3rand.functn 100 31. pr. Ct. 48 Do.LkFdSt 12 : Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 61. pr. ct. 11U Stffril&Worc 1 40 281. 405 Grand Surrey 100, 21. Os. 32% !Shrewsbury.. 125 ;rand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridge.. 145 2 2 : 0 1 1 1 Kenntec Avn 39 4s. Ott. 5% Severn and Lancaster . 100, Wye Rall. S l 26 290 24 Leeds& Livrplloo 201. 405 Warwick& 1 Leicester .... :100 61. 66 Birming. .1 100 41. 40 LeicstrBcNth 183 41. 44% Warwiclas} Loughborlghll42 701. 510 Napton.. 100 31. 28 Nfonmouthsh, 100 ,Worcstr .t} 78 31. 33 , Intgemryski 100 , ) Birming. MeltnNiwbry 100 Wilts & Brks —115.6 d. 7% SAS-.7.3EGEL'X' AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --------- -_____ --.. X. s. d. A. B. d. British ••••••• • • • • • •• 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 113f e Ditto Provincial.... 11 . Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18 Brighton •••••. •• •• . , 51. 20 0 0 - - City of London .. •• • • 61. 160 0 0 150 0 0 130 ContinentalConsolidat. 608. 75 0 0 31 5 0 - Equitable .• • • • • •• .• •• 50 3. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27% imperial • • .... -.• •• 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 69% Independent ......... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46 - 50 0 0 50 0 0 ••••• - 50 0 o 50 o o - DO., Part.. Preference 61. 25 0 0 710 0 - ehcenix • • • •• • • • • • • .. 41. 50 0 0 49 0 0 26% Ra t c liff ••••••• • • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 - United General .....• 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 16% Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 - 42 Ditto, New ....., •• 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 , - s i zaT or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ..------ --_-_. X s. d. .£ I. d Bank of Scotland c:lritidi Linen. Company 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 182 Si. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 198% 3al cdonian Bank City of Glasgow hank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11% eilydesdale Bank-- 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12/ 13s commercial Bank .. - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 175 :astern Bank .....• •• 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9 ndinb.kGlasgowßank 6/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 33( ‘,Lz.i.hangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 42 0 0 8 National Bank S% • 1 er cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15 forth of Scotland Bank 5/.percent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% Voyal Flank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 ' 100 0 0 132 Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 88% Western Bank ...... • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 68 Alliance Fire and Life 1% /.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21 34 Liritish Guarantee Caledonian Fire Insnr. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. 158 Colonial Life Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 21% Tng.lk Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 3% Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/.per cent. 10 0 0 1 10 0 31. 15s National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 i255.6d North British Incur. •• 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 27% 3cottishUnionlnsrnco. 63(1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 298.6 d Standard Life .• •• .. • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 j 12% United Dep.Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1208 Od NEISCELLA.NDOI7B. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Pet Price. Annum. Share. ..-- - - - X. s. d. X. a. d. Assam Tea ••..•• .. .. .- 20 0 0 20 0 0 9% kuctien Mart •••• • • • • 21. 65. 50 0 0 - 26% Australian Agricultarl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 is Australian Trust •• .. 61. per cent. - 35 0 0 20X inglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 22 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 - British American Land --• - 38 10 0 - Canada ...- • • ...... Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 49 Do. 5 per cent Bonds - - - - Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 61. percent. - - 109 City Navigation Bonds 31 per - cent. - -93 X Gen. E(Lu i Revere.tablEquitab l e R 0 0 1 00 100 0 0 95 Ditto New ..• •• • • - v S5 e re n Invest.r y S S P I. p r. c cbesatt2l. 1001 50 0 0 710 0 - Gen.SteamNa . vigation 10 p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 28 Hudson's 8ay...... • • - Stock. - 206 Hangerford .......• • • 21. 58. - 100 0 0 47 London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 631 I•ew Zealand Company - 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New ...••• • • - 25 0 0 12 10 0 - ussell Institution.• • • - - 26 5 0 - recinslr& Orient•Stm. 81. p. c. & bs. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100% th Australian ..• • • 11. per share. 20 0 0 25 0 0 23% Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 77 Sell - 100 0 29 0 Q e I (Tan Dieman's Land.. A on MARRI AGE FRAUD.—At the Central Police Court a newly-married couple, re spectively named hht befoie Baillie Bogle, on the charge o f falsehood, fraud , g and wilful imposition, in so far as they, some means or other obtained possession of a certificate' of the Samuel M'Phee, ere brou " having by proclamation of banns in order to a marr i age between t memin M g Thee and Mary Ferguson or, he said Samuel M'Phee and a girl name d Ann Black, residing in Glasgow, did upon the Bth day of December last , within the college buildings, falsely re present to the Rev. Dr. Macfarlan, that Mary Ferguson was the person named Ann Bl ac k referred to in the certifi f w hich Dr. Macfarlan was induced cate, in consequence o and prevailed upon to solemnise a marriage between ders, them." On hearing the charge the defen _ d looking, pleaded g who uilty ; are b and young persons, and rather goo the male prisoner endeavoured to ex cuse himself by alleging that he had the sanction of Ann Black for the fraudulent upon the minister. p e rsonation which had been practise d Upon this th e g i r l B lac k came forwar d with the evident making the Baillie to the p erson of the " heartless deceiver, M'Phee, and Mary cut the matter short by ordering the man. days to Ferguson, his - wife,be sent each sixty young to Bridewell.— Glasgow Mail. MINISTER IAL M EASURES.— Th e Dubl in Telegrap h nit announces, " on good authority," that a Bill to abolish will be nisters' money in Ireland has been prepared, and __ brought in at the commencement of the session ; the incomes of the respective incumbents to be provided for by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ou t o f the funds at their dis posal. Our contemporary adds, " Another Bill is p re p ared to regulate the mode of taking corn averages in Ireland upon the British principle. It m in contempl a tion to convert tithe rent-charge in Irela n d i nto a redeemable land-tax, as recommended in the year 1832 by a Committee of the House of Commons, of which the present Earl of Derby (then Mr. Stanley) was chairman. I A Bill for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, is another of the ' comprehensive measures' to be launched in the coming session by the Russell Cabinet." THURSDAY EVENING, LAW INTELLIGENCE; COURT OF QUEEN'S .SENCH, Jan. 21. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. Lord CA M ;BETZ gave notice th at the Court would on Monday, the 2d, and Tuesday,. the 3d of February, hold sittings in banco out of tern t, and would do the same on Monday, the 9th, and T uesday, the 10th of February; and would likewise sit in banco on Satur day, the 21st of February- On Oat t first of these days the Court would take the coon try new trials, and then the Crown and the specie 1 papers, and such cases as might be selected. On Saturday, the 21st of February, the Court would sit to give judgments. COURT OF EXCHEQej ER, Jan. 21. (Sittings in Ba)wco.) FELL V. GOSLIN AND ANOTHER. This was a demurrer to a declaration; and the question which arose upon it whether a guaran tee which it set out, and in :respect of which the oi;.nt obligation on the action was brought, raised a j part of the defendants, or wheth wits effe..t was only to create a several liability, in the latter of which events there would be a misjo'n tder, as the plaintiff had sued both the sureties. Tbl expression in the quce tion arose is as fol lowsguarantee upon which the :—" We undertake to guara utee that the 4001. shall be duly paid to you (the plea utiff) when the said acceptance shall become d ue, a the proportion of 2001. each." Mr. Wiles appeared in Support of the demurrer. The CouRT, without hearing hi; n, called on Mr. IV in auppoz tof the declaration, whoargued oathat w u ,obligation raised by the gua rantee was joint, and relied on Byers v. Dobie," 1 H. 81., 206. The CHIEF BARON distinguisht id the case from that relied on. The question was,, what the parties meant ? He had no doubt the defendants meant to indemnify.thepalarit.n tiff as to the whole, by each guaranteeing a p Judgment for the defendants. COURT OF B A—N KRUP TCY, Jan. 21. (Before Mr. COM MiSSiOIIer FONBLANQUE.) IN RE CUMMIa 1,. The bankrupt, a bookseller i a Lamb's Conduit street, came u p on the question of certificate. The accoun t s were over a Period of f ray and a half years, and showed that the bankrupt, • rii ho had commenced with a capital of 1,1861., an d lia d since received a legacy of 4641, n ow owed to Unsecured creditors, 2,9261 ; secured, 1,1751. The ..sets, including pro perty in the hands of creditors, it mounted to 2,047/. Mr. LAWRENCE supported the bankrupt. Mr. IlunnAnn, for the assign e. s, stated that the as signees did not oppose, but he w a uld call attention to the fact that the assets were la me, notwithstanding that large sums had been expended, for discounts, and there WAS about 2,0001. of debts owing to members of the bankrupt's family. His HONOUR said be did not we anythink like un avoidable loss or misfortune in the case before the court, for the bankrupt's tradis I,‘ appeared to have been reckless, and a bill-book, he bail not e van kept although he had had bill tra n sections to a large a mount. Lookin g then to these circumstances, the certificate would be suspended for six months from the last examination meeting ; when granted to be of the third class. The bankrupt would , however , have protection. IN RE WHITM, Y.RE. This was also a cert ifi ca t e r oteeting. The bank rupt, Pascoe Whitmore, of Church-street, Hackney, draper, commenced with a capital, on the Ist January, 1850, of 5631,, and ended witia debts to the amount of 1,0211., to meet which there was about 480/. of assets. Mr. LAWa j iz ..., .._ __ CB suppertecl the plaintiff's appli cation. _ la. PRITCHARD appeared for the assignees to op pose, and having stated the grounds of complaint, including the obtaining by the bankrupt of a large quantity of goods shortly before the bankruptcy, and the indulging in railway shares and horseraeing, called the bankrupt. The bankrupt deposed that he had dealt in Great Northern, L ancas hi re a nd Yorkshire, and other rail way shares ; he h a d lost 241. in one day on Leeds fifths ; he did not deny having made some time bar gains. His HONOUR observed that it bad been held by se veral of his brother Commissioners that the penal clauses respecting gambling did not recognise losses by railway shares as gambling. The further examination of the bankrupt admitted that be had lost 51. on the Northumberland Plate, 51. at Goodwood, 51. on the St. Leger, and 8/. in one day at Hampton races. Being liable on some bills to the amount of 2501. in the hands of Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, and Co., he had called his creditors together, his estate allowing 159. in the pound. In answer to Mr.‘LAWRANCE, The bankrupt said that his betting was amongst his friends, and was generally " he would bet 51. on or against the field." He had only been once to the races—that was Newmarket. Mr. PRITCHARD said that the bankrupt's purchases had been larger than usual in March and April last, and he had endeavoured to excuse himself by saying it was in anticipation of the Exhibition ; but he (Mr. Pritchard) felt that such an excuse would not weigh with the Court. Mr. LAWRANCR con tended that the bankrupt had in no way indulged in gambling, and that what he had done was do ne b y gentlemen in a much higher pc sition—viz., to make a few p r i va t e b ets. std .ch the pr b o a p n e k nsity bankrupt had mixed in horse he would have been in a more racllinisg,HNb°ut°fuit wor f avo urable position, and railway shares ; and whether a man won or lost by betting, the prin ciple concerned was the same. With respect to the M purchases in‘ ay and Appl last, the Court did not think that they had been increased in con t em pl a tion of bankruptcy ; i f, with that view, they had been in creased, the Court . would have marked such a course. The gaming was disreputable in a trad er , and must be visited heavily. Credit would be g i ven the bank rupt as to the stateme n t tha t the pur c h ase o f goods had been larger n an ti c i pat ion of the E x hibition, all persons, particul i arly drapers a n d d ea l ers in art i c l es o f display, expecting .to do a large trade about that period. A fact creditable to the bankrupt was, that finding himself unexpectedly involv e d i n difficulties he had called his . creditors together, an d pu t himself under the protection of that Court when he had assets. The books had been imperfectly kept, and the certificate wo uld be siispended f our mon ths from the last examination meeting ; w h en granted to be of the third class, with protection in the meantime. MIDDLESEX SEssioNs, Jan. 21. (Before Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant -Judge, at .11Ir. .; the Guildhall , It esteninster.) The Court sat cFsin to-day at Westminster , t o dispose of the remaining appeals. Edward liamsny surrendered in discharge of his bail to appeal against a conviction of Mr. Pay rater for endeavouring to procure a charitable contribution under false pretences from Mr. Heald, the husband of the celebrated " Lola M ontes. ,, i Mr. Cockle appeared in support of the convictio n ; Mr. Rebton for the defend ant. Upon the case being call e d on, Mr. COCKLE wi sh ed it to be postponed, on the ground that a principal witness for the prosecut ion was then in Italy. The Learned Juno j 3 inquired whether he was pre pared with an affida vit to that eff ec t ? Mr. CociLLE said he h eld A Mr. Ballantine' s brief, and was not prepare d should, therefore, leave With such an affidavit. He the matter entirely in the hands of the Court. ......... The_ Learned dune °aid it was a very strange proceeding. .Mr. B C!wine had yesterday mentioned the case, which had b een postponed t ill this day to m eet the conveni inti mation of th e p ar ties concerned ;but he had neither dir ectly nor indirectly given any that the e -00 could not come on in conse quence of the absenc e of a material witness. . The Magistrates on the bench concurred in the observations , that had fallen from the Learned Judge. . Ihe Learned :r tive but to quash u UDC E said the Court had no alterna accordingly. the conviction, which was quashed POL ICE INTELLIGENCE, Henry Cron i MANSIOIV-HOUSE. well, c harged with having committed agreat numb er of f r auds upon wine merchants and others, was brouht before the Lord Mayor for fur ther. examination. . Th e justice room was filled by the victimised and the inquisitive before the prisoner Nas put to th e bar. The f o ll ow i ng new cases, t h e d v etails of which were frequently interrupted by laughter, were brought forward : , William Hen ry A l e o en , clerk to Mr. R. C. Mea aen, of N o . 35, walb • ok, wine merchant, said — On the 28th or 29th ofNro°veafber the prisoner called at our offices and asked if our brandy, gin, and rum were good, stating at the same time that he had been in the habit of getting v ery g ood from Mr. Alexander, who had f ormerly' occupied the premises. I told him we had a large" untiy t of Mr. Alexander's stock, and I could answer for its being very good. He then commenced givi n g a v ery long order. He I - . s u said he ould wan t a hogshead of p ale and - a hogshead of brown brandy, a hogs head of P a rt, a hogshead of sherry, 30 gallons of whiskey, 60 or 100 gallons of gin, a puncheon of Jamaica rum, a puncheon of Demerara rum, six cases of champagn, and 15 or twenty dozen of fine old crusted port at 48s. or 505. a dozen ; and he gave his name and address Henry Cromwell, 15, Seymour street, Euston..,qunrc. Ile then asked me for sam ples of the various spirit, and a bottle of port and a bottle of champagne as samples of the wine. I g ave him samples of spirits, but I refused to give him the port and charnp , a (me as I could not find his na me in Mr. Alexander's lint. He said he always paid Mr. Alexander cash, and his name was never entered in the books. I said it was strange his name was not in the books, as Mr. Alexander kept his books in a business-like manner. He observed that he had paid Mr. Alexander 700/. in two years. He then agreed to call next day, at three o'clock, to take away about 50 gallons of gin. As soon as he went I visited Mr. Alexander, at Kensington, and learned from him that he knew nothing at all about the prisoner. At the appointed time the prisoner called next day, and made him out the bill for the gin. He said be had sold a few more things, and that he wanted more and larger samples. I then told him I could not let him have any more samples, as I had seen Mr. Alexander, wbo knew nothing at all about hi m , an d I b egan to cross question him. He said that it was through customers that he paid that gentleman ; but wh en - I asked him their names he told me if I would open Mr. Alex ander's book he would show me plenty of them. In a week he called again, and asked me whether my brother was going to execute the orders. I said, "Riot without the money." "What," said he, "do you think people are such fools as to pay without knowing what they are going to have ?" The LORD MAYOR—Did you give him the samples upon the representation he made, that he had paid money to Mr. Alexander ? Witness—l did. The prisoner—What incomparable lies he tells ! Give him the book. Let him be sworn. The LORD MAYOR—He is sworn. The prisoner—Very well. Now tell me, do you keep a traveller ? The LORD MAYOR told the witness that he was not obliged to answer that, or any other question which was irrelevant to the charge. The nrisoner—l luk no irrelevant question: It is my wish to show what these wine merchants, or wine doctors are. I have one answer for the whole of them. Is it not usual to get up samples to give to travellers for what is called the wine business ? The LORD MAYOR (through Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk) intimated to the prisoner that the general mode of conducting business did not bear upon the question of his guilt or innocence. The prisoner—l require to be answered. Your Lordship is judging me without hearing me. I am able to rebut all this kind of accusation • but you allow a swarm of hornets to attack me, and deny me the opportunity or means of defence. Mr. Goodman—The Lord Mayor is anxious, for your own sake, that you should not make statements calculated to aggravate the character of the charges against you, and elsewhere operate to your prejudice. The prisoner—l thank his Lordship very much, but I want to trace the usages of the wine trade for the information of the people. I say it is the practice to. make up samples for the sale of all sorts of rubbish. 1 know all about it. They put a V upon a sample bottle, intimating that the article is " vapid," and they tell the simple customer that it means the " vintage. - - (Laughter.) I have seen their way of wine melting. I know how they strain the puddings.— (Great laughter.) The LORD Mayon—You are doing yourself no service by this mode of abusing gentlemen because they charge you with having defrauded them. Mr. W. Alexander, of Horndon, Kensington, said— I disposed of my business to Mr. Meader. 1 had carried on business in Walbrook far nearly twenty years. I never saw the prisoner before, and never received a farthing from him, either in the way of bu siress or any other wtty. The LORD MAYOR (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask Mr. Alexander any question ? The prisoner— No ; I know nothing about him.—(Laughter.) Now I deny the charge of this queer fellow altogether. This case has been regularly bolstered up. All my accusers have concocted the matter. It is well known that in every department in London where travellers are kept, whether upon salary or commission, firms are in the habit of supplying them with samples of the goods they wish to make sale of. Now, if a tra veller be upon a salary his time belongs to his em ployer. If he be upon commission then it is not the custom of the trade to require him to bring back the residue, or ends or bottoms of the samples left after tasting. The person who sells upon commission has to pay his own expenses out of his own pocket, and for wear and tear, unless he succeeds in making a sale, in which case he gets something like remuneration by way of commission. Now, could it be expected that a commission agent, not being a paid servant, should bring back the bottles ? No respectable house would think of such a thing. Now, to my positive know ledge it is the practice of many of those who call themselves wine merchants to use travellers as news papers for advertising all sorts of trash.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—I advise you to change your mode of defence. The prisoner—lf they play at bowls shall they not have rubbers ? Here they ail come down upon me with false charges, and shall I not retaliate by telling a little truth ?--(Laughter.) All these samples were given to me for the express purpose of trying to effect sales for the parties. I have always tried to sell, but I found it impracticable, on account of the immense difference between the value and the price. Now, there is an order, and the money ready, if be chosen to take it, for Mr. Harper, who was here the other day. As for the rest of my accusers, you may put them all in a bag and shake them up well to gether.—(Laughter.) Mr. Reader, of the firm of Reader and Howard, of the Neptune Brewery, to whom the prisoner referred Mr. Clay, the wine merchant, as stated on a former examination, attended, and stated that the prisoner never had been in the employment of the firm, and t' bre c w om er al s never bad been authorised to refer to the house. Mr. Goddard, the solicitor, appeared to charge the prisoner ef with embezzlement, be a z n e d le c m e e . n , house ,itvetehdileupionn the e e mployment of that firm. He said that the prisoner had upon one of the occasions in which he had appropriated the money of hi s employers shown great adroitness. A beer-shop keeper, who dealt with Messrs. Larchen and Co., had paid the prisoner 51. for the firm, and was requested by Mr. Larchen to give the defaulter into custody of a policeman. The customer once met the prisoner in the City-road, and accordingly collared him, and called for the police. The moment, however, the officer appeared, the prisoner turned the tables upon his accuser, charged him, and had him taken before the magis trate at Clerkenwell Police -court, when the unfor tunate beer-shop keeper was fined 403. for the newer rantable attack upon the gentleman.—(Laughter.) The prisoner was then committed for trial upon two charges, but remanded upon several others for some days. There were, the police-officers stated, 20 other cases in court against the prisoner ; but he very coolly said, that he could look down with dignity upon the whole set of fellows who assembled together in so base a conspiracy against an innocent and honourable man. .Remanded till Wednesday next. GUILDHALL. Mr. Lake, a straw hatmaker, of Aldersgate-street, appeared before the sitting alderman to expose a novel mode of swindling, of which he had been made the victim. At this time of the year tradespeople are sending in their accounts. Some parties watch the messengers, and as soon as they have delivered their bills call at the house and ask for them back, under the plea of a mistake having been made in the ac counts. By this means they obtain the invoice, and also the name of the tradesman by whom it has been sent. A. few days since he sent his porter with a bill for 61. to Dr. Bennett, of Finsbury-square, and shortly afterwards a man called there and asked for the bill back again, as there was a mistake in it which should be corrected. He obtained the bill, and in the evening a man, dressed like a butler, called at Mr. Lake's house to pay Dr. Bennett's account, and pro ducing a cheque for 121. 103. drawn in that gentle man's favour on the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company, at Newton Abbott, and signed Richard Hayes, no difficulty was made in giving the balance to him. The cheque was presented in due form, when it was returned from the manager of the bank ing company, stating that no such person had an account there, and that only a short time since another cheque, signed by the same party, had been presented there: Mr. Lane was advised to give information to tee police, and endeavour to trace the man who had brought him the cheque. BO 6Y-STREET. Yesterday a young man named Alfred Cowne, who described himself as an assistant to a soda-water manufacturer at Walharn-green, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, charged with obtaining money by means of forged orders for the Adelphi and other theatres. Serjeant Bashford, .5 F, said that having ascertained that a shopkeeper in Clare-market had purchased an order from the prisoner on the sth of D4cember which turned out to be forged, he met the prisoner, and, after taking him into custody, he discovered that he bad also sold such orders for nearly every theatre in town, to prove which he could bring forward wit nesses at a future day. Joseph Eagle, of 7, Little Ryder-street, St. James's, an attendant at the public baths, said +l3 he purchased the two orders produced d, from , a. ' th a e t prisoner for the Adelphi Theatre, " sit, Thompson." They were both f or the pit,ne and adding e after giving him is. 61, arid expressin g a w n e d r were should l correct, (l b e presented assured beforeh i m they ere genuine, opinion th ey seven an o'clock, that should he or his f r i en d s not b admitted, t o come to him, as he was a check-taker, and he would pass them. He subseqently gave named Curtis, and he 'was informed itelle to a friend Mr. William Wyld, sub-treasurer was a forgery. Theatre, said there was no El ttrer of the Adelphi who hod authority to write orders; named Thompson nor was there any such person as the prisoner employed d as a check taker. There were ten su c h being signed with the name of f or c ers presented, some Cooper; but no fuch person had any connexion with - the house. Mrs. Martha Hibbard oroved that sbe purchased an order from the prisoner, about fortnight back, s for the pit of the Princess' r Theatre, a for w hich she gave him 6d., and o n ,-,resent it she was refused presenting JANUARY 22, 1852, admittance. He called with it at her house, and said he was connected with the theatre. The prisoner declined saying anything in his de fence, and he was ordered to be remanded, in order to give time for further inquiries. LAMBETH. A HUNGRY POLICEMA.N.—George Reamington, a constable belonging to the P, or Walworth division of police, attended before the Hon. G. C. Norton, by by order of the Commissioner s , t o answer to the fol lowing complaint : Mr. Thomas John Seabrook, of No. 7, Lacy terrace, Penton-place, Walworth, deposed, that on Sunday, the 4th inst., his family had a loin of roast pork for dinner, and after supper, the joint was placed in a safe in the front area. On the following morn ing the safe was found open, and a considerable por tion of the pork gone. On the Tuesday following, a boiled rabbit which was left was placed in the same safe, and on the Wednesday morning the safe was again found open, and the rabbit partly devoured. Mr. NORTON—Was it your opinion that the cats got to the safe on both eccosions ? Witness—lt was, your worship ; though I was somewhat puzzled how they could get at the safe, particu after the first time, as I had tightened the button or fastening. On the morning of that day week, himself and his wife had been awoke at about a quarter to three o'clock, and they both ex claimed, almost at the same moment, "There are those troublesome cats again at the safe ;" and he got out of bed for the purpose of surprising them. lie went forth armed with a good stick, and on reaching the kitchen and pulling aside the window curtain to catch a sight of the safe, he was not a little surprised to see a policeman standing in front with his bull's eye turned on, and he had evidently been helping himself from the eatables. It was also quite clear to him (witness) that the constable must have caught instant sight of him, for he instantly hurried up the area-steps and ran towards the Ken nington-road. Sir. NORTON —From the view you had of the man are you quite sure he was a police constable ? Wit ness—l am quite certain of that, your Worship, though I - had no opportunity of seeing his number. Mr. NORTON—Then are you enabled to say the defendant is the man ? Witness—l should nut like to go the length of swearing positively to his being the person, as I had not an opportunity in the hurry of the moment to observe his number nor his features, but I have no moral doubt he is th e man. Mr. NORTON—Had the area-gate been locked ? Witness—lt has not been latterly, as the key had been lost. In his cross-examination by Mr. PaTry, the barris ter, who attended on be.half of the defendant, the witness admitted that on going to the station, as re commended by Mr. Elliott, the ni:igistrate, he, on a number of constables being drawn up before him, in the first instance, fixed on 307 P as the person whose figure closely resembled that of the man he had seen in his area, but he afterwards pointed out the defen dant, and believed him to be the person. Mrs. Susannah Collins, landlady of the Giraffe public-house, in Penton-';:lace, said that on Twellth Night, on going up stairs to her kd room, she looked from her window, and saw a policeman go down the area steps of Mr. Seabrcok's house, and return in about five or six minutes. She did not take any particular notice of the circumstance beyond mentioning it to her husband, as she thought he might have found the gate open, end gone down to see that all was right. Mr. Nowro:s—Or perhaps to look after the cats. Mr. Parry, in reply to the charge, said that on a representation of the circumstance being made to the Commissioners, an offer had been made to the defen dant to resign, and had he been guilty of the offence imputed to him, he (Mr. Parry) had no doubt he would have availed himself of this favourable offer. Oa the contrary, he at (maw refused it, and declaring his perfect innocence of the mean offence, and rely lug on 12 years' excellent character in the force, which Mr. Lund, his superintendent, was present to vouch for, he preferred the present inquiry. He (Mr. Parry) would be enabled to prove, beyond all doubt, that the defendant had not, been on duty at all on the first night that anything bad been missed from Mr. Seabrook's safe. On the contrary—and this was a singular fact—the very man which Mr. Seabrook had, in the first instance, selected, 307 P, was the person who was on duty on the beat in which Mr. Sea brook's house is situated, on that night, and this he considered an important and favourable circum stance to his client. The defendant had been, as he before stated, twelve years in the force, and bore a very good character, and he submitted that nothing that had been stated had affected that character in the slightest degree. His guilt was not to be inferred from the fact of his being a constable on the beat, as the officers on the adjoining beats had ample oppor tunities of visiting the complainant's larder while the defendant was on another part of his rounds. Mr. NORTON remarked that one thing was quite clear, and that was, that it was a police-constable who bad been guilty of this mean and contemptible con duct ; but, at the same time, he thought it would he very wrong to attach the guilt to the defendant or the other man. He regretted very much that the guilt had not been brought home to the proper party that they might be properly punished, and the innocent not be compelled to suffer the odium of their offence. Mr. Seabrook said he had brought forward the com plaint alone on public grounds. Mr. NORTON felt satisfied with the fact, and dis missed the charge. Yesterday Richard Jones, a little fellow only 1.5 years of age, was charged before the Hon. Cr. C. Norton, with being concerned with several other boys, not in custody, with assaulting and covering with mud two young women named Eslopp and Wall. From the statements:of the complainants it appeared that on the night before they had been assailed by the prisoner and several other boys, who, in the first instance, demanded some money of them as " fresh faces" on the Westminster-road, and said they had always been in the habit of demanding and getting money from all the new corners who walked the West minater-road. They (the witnesses) refused to give them anything, upon which they were attacked, thrown down, and covered with mud, so that their clothes were completely spoiled. The prisoner did not deny the charge, but said that he and the other boys had received 3d. from a person named Dickson, who keeps or lives at a brothel in Webber-row, in the neighbourhood, to pelt the two young women with mud and send them off the road. The complainant Wall informed the magistrate that on Monday night the person Dickson, after abusing her in the most scandalous manner, had knocked her down twice, and loosened her teeth so with the blows that she could scarcely eat anything. When asked the cause for the fellow so ill-using her, the unfortunate creature replied she knew of none beyond the presence of herself and her companions in the Westminster -road at night interfering with the wretched calling of the females at the brothel, with one of whom Dickson lived. On hearing this, Mr. NORTON at once directed that a warrant be made out for the apprehension of Dick son, and soon after a young fellow, of Jew-like ap pearance, and long curly locks, was brought up in custody of Saunders, one of the summoning officers, and placed alongside " the boy Jones." The complainant Wall was then re-sworn, and re peated her former evidence as to the prisoner Dick son's brutality, and her statement was fully corrobo rated by two other witnesses. A boy named Somes also swore that he was present on the night before when a woman, in the presence of Dickson, gave one of the women at a house in Web ber-atreet threepence to give to some boys to pelt the two young women with mud, so as to get them off the road, and Dickson at the time said he should give them sixpence on the next night to do the same thing. The prisoner Jones confirmed this fact; and Dick son, when asked what he had to say to the charge, acknowledged that he had knocked down Wall, but said she had first bit his hand. In reply to the ques tions of the magistrate, the fellow acknowledged that he lived with one of the females in the braoltkhienlg, the Webber-street; she was in the habit of w Westminster-road for her living ; but denied livin g on the wages of her prostitution. He earned own his living, he said, by playing an accordion at musical parties ; and added that the complainants were in the habit of annoying his young woman and other females in the Westminster-road. Mr. NORTON had very little doubt, though he denied the fact, that he was one of those fellows who lived on the wages of prostitution, and convicted him in the full penalty of 5/., or i n default to two months ' im prisonment, for the assault on the young woman Wall* The boy Jones was discharged on his father under taking to give him a sound flogging. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Ointment and Pills a certain Cure for Bad Legs.—Extract of l a B l s e l tter , fro T m o Mr. George Pates, chemist,Exeter, Dec. 31, h e many persons who Professor Holloway. Sir, —Among t excellent medicines, I may who she h w a a d s a u a a e d r have deri ve d b ene fi t f rom your mention a poor woman residinganat mK _ut obtained n o re li ef. months. She leg of a severe description for m ofsutrge parish kindly r a i se d a eons, b the care of several eminent At length the ciergymanh sub scription to purchase from me some of your Ointment and Pills, and in a few weeks they effected a perfect cure of her leg and restored her to good health."—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. ANALYSIS OF VINFGAIt:—We have to state that the whole of the samples, twenty-three i n num b er, purchased of h 0 dealers, were separately examined f or metallic impreg nations, an d that in no case was the presence of the smallest amount of any metal detected. This result is most satis factory, and contrary to the opinion generally entertained, that vinegars commonly contain either copper, lead, or zinc. Nevertheless, it is an unquestionable fact that vinegar acts with great readiness on metals; and, therefore, contact with them under no eireumst.inces—even for a short time— should be permitted, and the use of all metallic vessels, taps, &c, ought to be carefully avoided. From this it will be seen that the vinegar most liable to this dangerous impreg nation is distilled vinegar, in the preparation of which, on a large scale, metallic utensils are vory commonly employed.— Lancet. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 20.—A good inquiry for both wheat and flour, and pries a paid folly 2d per 701b5., and 6d per bwhel and sack over the rates of last Tuesday. Oats scarce; and all ld to 2,1 per 551133. dearer. Oatmeal fully 6d per load (barer. Beans, pease, barley, and malt ; each in request, at extreme rates. Indian corn in fair demand, and an advance of 6d per qr. obtained. Arri vals—lnland and coastwise wheat, 29; ditto barley, 419; ditto malt, 51; ditto oats, 440; ditto beans, 2. Foreign wheat, 655; (11110 balky, 350; ditto oats, 750; ditto beans, 4,780; elttto flour, 7,058 sacks and 2,690 barrels, LEEDS, JAN. 20.—We had a moderate arrival of ;wheat to-day, tor which there was a fair sale, at an ad vance of is per qr. on last Friday's rates. Barley was rather &arm*. .t.i , ays steady. Oats and other articles as before. Arrivals—wheat, 6,746; barley, 1,185; oats, 427; beans, 2 070; peusa. 50; linseed, 600. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. V.—There were in the meal market to-day 7 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs. imperial, which sold thus :—1 at 1/ 10 2 Od, 2 at I/ 9s 6d, and 4at 119 s Od; average price of the whole 119 s 3d 5-12ths. 1 sack pot-barley, which sold at 255. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JAN. 20. Oat straw, from 8s 6d to 108 Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 7s 6d to 836 d; barley ditto, tis 6d to 7s W. Hay, from 9d to lld p er stone . DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 19.—There Were 114 bags of oatmeal, 16 of barleyrneal, and 2 of pot barley, at this day's market ; sales ready. Oatmeal the same as last r. arket ; one lot of inferior quality sold at 25s per tack. Barleymeal also unaltered in value; pot-barley unsold. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 WS. First ' Second Third. imperial -.. 28s Od 27s 3d 26s 6d \ Barleymeal, per ditto ... 20s Od 193 61 18a 6d Peasemeal ... ... ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... ... ... ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Pot barley ... ... ... —s Od —s Od —s Od .L—YESTZRDAY. the close of the market : Eden Main ...... 163 6d Lambton Primrose ... 16s 6d Brad dyll ttton aaswell. . l7s 9d Keepier Grange Lambton Lumley _ l6B Oct _ _ Russell's Hettun Stewart's ....... 175 6d Caradoc ..... Cassop _ _ lleugh Hall _ _ Kelloe .. 178 Od South Kelloe 163 31 West Kelloe ...... Whitworth . 133 Od Hunwick N;;rth Hartlepool l4s Od Adelaide Tees Maclean's Tees lss Od Seymour Tees ...... Tee: West Cornforth Cowpsn Hartley Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff ;Sidney's Hartley Bynea handpkd. steam 18s 6d 69. Sold, 121. COAL MARX E' Prices of Coal per ton at t, Bate's West Hartley 14s Od Puddle's W. Hartley 14s Od I3urnhope l3s Od Cafes ilartley ..... " l4s Od Dean's Primrose Holywell ........ las ad Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s Ou Longridge's W. Hartley 14s Od Newcastle Hartley l4s Od Ord's Alain ...... 13s ad Tyne MAin 126 Od Ravensworth'sW.Hart 14s au South Peareth l2s 6d Tanfield Moor Fanfold Moor Butes... 13s Oc T0wn1ey..............._. 13s 6d Wall.er's Primrose ... 12s Od West Hartley .. l4a Od West Wylam Wylam Wall's End, &c. Aim Park lss 9d Gostorth , l5B Qd Harton Hcliburn ...... 15s Od Heaton • Riddell Abbey Iran' ey Wylarn Wharton ... 13s 9d Ships at market, RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of Traffic for the week ending Jan. 18: Passengers, parcels, mails, &c. £22,098 8 1 Merchandise ... ... 16.240 18 6 Cattle .. ... - 934 6 2 Total ....£39,203 12 9 Corresponding week last year ... 38,951 811 Ncte.—The returns as published are exclusive of the traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, Nerth Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor rion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAL—Return of traffic for the week ending Jan. 18 ... £13,906 14 2 Corresponding week last year... 13,611 0 0 THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY... (Miles in work, 241) —Return of Traffic for the Week ending Jan. 11, 1852: Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, dogs, and mails £4,377 4 1 Merchandise and. minerals 5,204 15 9 Cattle 162 18 1 Total .. ... £9,744 17 11 Corresponding week, 1851 (236 miles) : Passengers, parcels, &c. £3,862 1 1 Merchandise, Cattle, &C. ... B,odo 10 3 Total •.. ••• ...£6,892 11 4 LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Amount of Traffic for the week ending Jan. 18 : Passengers .•• ... ... £6,259 0 8 Goods ..• ••• ..... ... 2,209 0 6 Total ... . ... £8,463 1 2 Corresponding week last year... 8,250 19 9 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 MHOS open.)—Traffic for week ending Jan. 18 £15,315 9 6 Corresponding week in last year (260 miles open) .. ....£13,649 15 8 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.— (Miles open,ll2.) Return of traffic for the week ending Jan. 11 : Railway and canal ... £4,503 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,363 0 0 Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending Jan. 18 MAIN LINE. Passengers ... .£867 5 0 Parcels, H. C. and D. ... . 68 8 10 Goods, cattle, &c. ... 545 6 3 Mails ... 575 0 0 Total .. .£2,036 0 1 MOLD. Passengers ... £3O 10 4 Parcels, IL C. and D. • 1 16 8 Goods, cattle, &c. 57 10 9 Total £129 17 9 STEAM-BOATS. Passengers £ll7 8 7 Parcel, H. C. and D. ... 23 0 0 Total ~. ... £l4O 8 7 SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAT.—(Open 29 miles.).....TrainG for the week ending Jan. 18 : Passengers, parcels, &c. £294 8 8 Goods and live stock .. 181 4 3 Total £475 12 11 Corresponding week last year ... 352 1 11 CALEDONIAN RAILWAY...—(IB9i miles opened.)—Return of traffic for the week ending Jan. 11:-- Passengers, &c. £2,718 3 4t Goods, &c. 4,231 10 5 Total .. ... ... £6,949 13 9* Corresponding week last year ... 7,238 9 li RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been very inactive to-day, and the business confined principally to Midland Stock, which was done at 35 3 / 4 . LIVERPOOL, JAN. 21. STOCK EXcaeANoe.—The business to-day was very mode rate, and prices flat. The transactions were as follow:-- Caledonian, 134 —East Lancashire, I's —Lancashire and Yorkshire, X6ll L on d o n and North-Western, 1154 c.-- Ditto, New Quarters, 236 p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire, 32%—Ditto , Pre ference, 12 9-16— Midland, 5514-- St. Helen's (R a ilway and Canal), Preference Eastern and Dover , 2014 —York and North 140—Sonth. Midland, 22-- Waterford and Kilkenny, Preference, 14, di s . MAIN. CHLSTE it, JAN. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was more active to-day, with a tendency upwards. The transactions were as follow : —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 61 nalu 7 13-16 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Ll . 1 •re,4- . " South-Eastern and Dover, 20 1 A —North Staffordshire, oco 32 81iftdis.hilt London and North-Western, New Quarters, 2% p.—South Staffordshre, 1 1 ,4 dis. _ BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little or nothing done in the share market to-day. The only transactions reportel were—North Staffordshi re , 81 . lls. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 41. 11s. 3d. dis. The Marquis of Exeter has just entered four horses for the Doncaster St. Leger for 1854, a circumstance which shows that it is not his Lordship's present intention to retire from the turf. The Java Gazette of Oct. 29 states that in the night of the 7th or Bth of September a tremendous fire broke out in the Chinese camp of Pontianak, which had destroyed 124 houses and a Chinese temple, in spite of the assistance which had been promptly rendered. The loss was valued at 53,000 florins. In the afternoon of Nov. 2, 185 houses were thrown down by the violence of the wind at Bassoe mass. On the Bth twenty-eight houses suffered the sawn fate at Poerbolingo, and seventy-eight houses, as well as five indigo factories, at Poerwokerto. The rains had, during the same period, uprooted a great number of valuable trees in this part of the possession of the Dutch in India. BIRTHS. OF A 801 At Totworth-park, Gloucestershire, on th e 17 t h i ns t., WI Hon. Mrs. Percy Moreton. On the 17th inst., at Regent-road, Great Yarmouth, 08 ' wife of the Rev. J. I. 11. McSwiney. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 26th of November, 1851, at Keroly, Rajpootar s, near Agra, the wife of Lieutenant Monk Mason, 74th Regi ment Bengal Native Infantry, and political agent at Keroly- At Woodcote on the 19th inst., the Lady Louisa Cotes i On the 20th inst., at Cumberland-terrace, Regent's - Pa r Mrs. Jonathan Rashleigh. of On the 19th inst., at the Vicarage, Montacute, the wife the Rev. C. C. Goodden. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., H. Ainslie, Esq., to Sophia bar' youngest daughter of Thomas La Coste, Esq., of the Aer mill, Surrey. On the .sth inst., at Bromley St. Leonard's, Edmund Y.; Simpson, Esq., M.R.C.S., of Stepney, to Caroline Sarah , °11 ' .7 daughter of Mr. Henry Mower, of Aldgate. DIED. On Friday, the 16th inst., at Poringland, Norfolk , th j Hon. Mrs. Frederick Irby. widow of the late Pear-Addir the Hon. Frederick Paul Irby, C. 8., of Boyland-hall, Norfolic• On the 17th inst., at Farnham, Sir William Oglan deri Bart., aged 83. On the 18th inst., at Anglesey, Gosport, Admiral George McKinley, aged 85. Oa the 1 tith inst., at Barmby-moor, Samuel IlodgkinSon' Eeq., of Kilton, near Worksop, aged 87. —lll t- On the 19th inst. , Ha r riett Matilda, wife of Heal terbuck, Esq., M.D., of New Bridge-street, Blackfriare. do At Sussex -gardens, Hyde -park, on the 20th in Hawkins Whitehed, relict of the late Admiral of the Fl Sir James Hawkins WhAshed, Bart., G. C. 8., aged 8 London: Printed and Published by 2,111RD0 YOUN No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 14 _,„„o• Of Strand, in the Precinct of the 88170 V. in tna *ow' Middlesex, Thursday, January 2; 1802.