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RA TESEND STAR and 13LAC1KWALL ? kb , PACKETS. an d Railway Fare included in one payment upon every 11.11 Passage. , alti t i . -.0 other Packets call at the GRAY'S or GREENHITHE ir z atou THE NEW TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. , IX; -• 1)41 .-At 7, 71, 9%, 9%, 114, 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, G , s ti d 6. tad R . 4 e lB . -At 7, 71, 8%, 11%, 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6. 6%, 7,7%, Ase FRO THE BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL. s tarting One Quarter of an Hour before each of these times. ' , I D AYS.-At 994 10% 11, 1134, 12, 134, 214, 3% , • _ , , • RN- 0 and 7%, 6 , 7, ' lB . -At 8%, 9, 934, 10%, 11, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5 , p. 714 . k k a - -To or fro m L on d on -F ore ca bi n , and Secoad Class Rail- To„_ sr , Saloon and First Class Railway, ls. moo d Blackwall and intermediate Piers-Fore Cabin, Gd. ; Pkets for Excursions.-Apply to Mr. W. Morgan, Star' Office, TioTee_a-street Terminus of the Blackwall Railway. 1 4046 I . For Twelve months, 4/. 45.; Six months, 21 15s. ; Three ` i ' 153 . To be had of the Collectors on board the packets ; Mek w Mo nk, Te rrace Pier, Gravesen d ; or ' o f M r . S aun ders, Bruns , Blackwall. I dressed the Committee, and stated that thk the Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway wet trict entirely without coal, while the Sheffi. shire line goes for the first eight miles through a district en tirely filled with coal. This coal was precisely of the same nature as the black strata of the Hunstone bed. It was further remarkable that the beds of ironstone, the convert ing coal, and the black shale lay in such a series, that they must be severally won in the reverse of the order stated, be fore they could be aa that:the pleas of neces s i ty must fail. In conclusion, lle_wiall4.l.4calL upon the Committee, if not for the sake -01-the shareholders, at-least for the sake of the country, to throw out the Bill, and prevent the loss of capital which must otherwise ensue. Mr. Thomas Dunn, of the firm of Houusfield and Co., explained the geological map, which was put in to show the several series of the Derbyshire coal measures. He stated that they worked the new pit at Sheffield, the Birley pit, and the Manor House pit. The price of the black shale coal is . 69. Bd. a ton at the pit's mouth, and of the converting coal 125., two tons being required to make one ton of hard coke. The quantity raised at the Soap house colliery was 2,500 tons a week ; and when the arrange ments, now in progress, were completed, the firm would be able to raise double the quantity. Of late years the demand for hard coke had greatly increased, and his impression was that the Sheffield coal and coke was quite as good as that brought from Dronfield. It is a fact, that coal and coke are cheaper at Sheffield than in any other manufacturing town in the kingdom. The firm had been applied to to raise the price of coal, but they had de cided not to do so, believing that it was a matter of great int. portance that Sheffield should be well and cheaply supplied. Messrs. Frith and Co., who had been customarily supplied half from the Dronfield collieries and half from the Sheffield collieries, had applied to Brooms field and Co. to let them have half of all they required, on the ground that the coke from Dronfield had decreased in value. The only coal in which the Sheffield mines are deficient is the converting coal, and this would be largely opened by the Sheffield and Lin colnshire line; that line, indeed, would open up all the series of the Yorkshire beds to the southern districts, and his im pression was that if that line were made, the greater portion of the Hunstone coal would go southward, in consequence of ita commanding a better price. He disagreed with Mr. Scholefield, for he believed that there had never been more than 500,000 tons of coal consumed in a year in Sheffield. He conceived that the mistake arose from Mr. Scholefield having taken the whole of the 168 steam-engines as working, like his own, on the high pressure principle. He had assumed the consumption of each engine at forty tons a week, whereas the bulk of the engines in Sheffield work on the low pressure principle, and the outside of their consumption was taken into consideration. lungaritirt in bail for )13F to 01 4 2 ;WO lOW' 17! ring a— ,o,d, a nd 1 11 , 4 i f colour, , both ualut; ,use to V og l ,undrY Ong. 0 ? °11 ,„e both D ° ' c ie, Lbolomeri',/, morning,f, v to hi' P. ',11 )ats. _ The y No. 16,791. LONDON, TUESDAY - y 14, 1846. IC olt N G S N 7 PRICE SD. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. R OYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, TRAFAL GAR-SQUARE. The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN. Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling. Catalogue, One Shilling. HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Sec. CONFLAGRATION at ST. JOHN'S, NEW FOUNDLAND. The Committee fo r Promoting a General Subscription in AID of the SUFFERERS by this AWFUL CALAMITY, which caused the loss of a million of property, and rendered houseless and destitute more than ten thousand inhabitants, hereby give notice, that a PUBLIC MEETING will be hell at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, on' 'WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 15th instant, at Eleven for Twelve o'clock precisely. The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR in the Chair. Dated Committee room, I I, Leadenhall-street, July 9, 1846. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Buchingliam, July 11. The commission for this county was opened on the 10th, by Mr. Justice Williams. The calendar contained the names of seven prisoners only, of whom one was chaged with arson, three with burglary, and three with larceny. Of these one could neither read nor write, one could read imperfectly, and the others could read and write, but only imperfectly. Tile calendar contained a list of persons now confined on orders in the gaol and in the house of correction—they are 49 in num ber ; of them three can read and write well, 22 can read and write imperfectly, 13 can read imperfectly, and 11 can neither read nor write. The cause list was unusually light; two cases only were tried, and the one only was defended. The assizes were brought to a close before five o'clock on Sa- turday, but the judges and the bar will remain until after the entertainment on Monday, to which they have been in vited by the Duke of Buckingham. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) The witness then handed in the letter in question, and it was formally read as evidence. Another letter, written after the plaintiff had commenced his action, and in which the defendant complained of his being compelled to defend an action on account of his having exposed what he considered a very great abuse in the admi nistration of justice, was also put in and read. Cross-examined—Sir James Graham sent down Mr. New man Rogers to inquire into the circumstances of the com plaint, but that gentleman had not yet made a report. Mr. Henry Edwards deposed that the letter was in the handwriting of defendant. Cross-examined—He was a bankrupt two years ago, and he was one of the bail in 2001. for the prisoner Hutson. Witness was formerly a clerk in Muskett's bank, at St. Alban's; and Mr. Blagg was their professional adviser, and used to raise money for them when the bank was in difficul ties. He had raised thousands of pounds for them. He re membered a transaction with two bank post bills, payable 40 days after sight, one for 2001. and the other for 100/. Mr. Blagg got the money for these bills, and there was an under standing that fresh bills should be given to take them up when they became due. Baron PARKE—What kind of bank post bills do you mean? not Bank of England bills? Witness—Oh no, my Lord, St. Alban's bank bills—(Roars of laughter.) Cross-examination continued—Mr. Muskett's bank was not now in existence. He found a box in the possession of Hutson, which contained a great quantity of bills of ex change, but he did not examine them to see who were the parties to them. - - - NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York Castle, July 9. The York Summer Asriises commenced to-day, immedi ately on the arrival of Sir William Wightman, Justice of the Queen's Bench, at seven o'clock in the evening. The high sheriff of the county, James Walker, Esq., was in waiting at the terminus, and conducted him in his state carriage, pre ceded by the civic functionaries, a guard of javelin men in the sheriff's liveries, and three trumpeters, to the castle, where the royal commission was read, and the assizes opened with all the imposing ceremonies peculiar to this ancient city. 1 1 -- door wan seei?t i , , =tide 1 1 li " k the P O ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, A New and Interesting LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, on the PHENOMENA and EEFECT.S of HEAT and COLD, at Half-past Three ally, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine o'c'ock. Professor Bachhuffner's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant experiments, daily. MAC INTOSII'S REVOLVING ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined Planes, FARRELL'S ARCIII MEDIAN RAILWAY, the ATMOS PHERIC RAILWAY, all in action. PORTRAITS of Distill guished Men in the GOVERNMENT and ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE- exhibiting a fine Collection of Living Objects. A beautiful Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENT of St. CA THERINE'S, Jerusalost, by Mr. Charles Smith, is one of the Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS just introduced. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. , oil violenc e leer spoOel t" EDITORS.—WANTED by a PARMA , Ittr o tTAßY REPOR TE R, an en g a g ement as a REPORTER, cO tt ..J:ER and SUB-EDITOR, on a PROVINCIAL NEWS iFX., Mr. Fllowes, bookseller and news Tottenham-court-road, London. ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY. Under the Especial Protection of her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Founded 1827. PRESIDENT—ABRAHAM WILDEV ROBARTS, Esq. TRUSTEES. William Taylor Copeland, Esq., Alderman, M.P. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Georce Carr Glyn, Esq. The Subscribers are respectfully informed that a GENERAL MEETING will be hoiden at the LONDQN TAVERN, Blshopsgate street, on MONDAY, the 25th of January, 1847, for the ELECTION of ANNUITANTS. 'Friday, July 10. To - day, Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Justice of the Common Pleas, having a l so arr i ve d, b o th th e Learned Judges proceded from their lodgings in the high sheriff's carriage, and, ac companied by a guard - and trumpeters, reached the castle at twelve o'clock, when Justice Wightman, in the Nisi Prins Court, proceeded to.try the city prisoners. The Criminal Court was opened by Justice Cresswell. The list of magistrates for the west, north, and east riding was called over. The first twenty-three who answered to their names were then sworn in as the grand jury, Sir Digby Ledger, being the foreman. y denied. A most ... Eno prisoner; fallen fr° EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL ArAY. *it ie l P EXCURSION TRAIN to NORWICH and YARMOUTII :1 00 don, o n S ATURDAY , the 18th instant, at One p.m., 442, ottenhaan, at 130 p.m. Cov er r, to Norwich or Yarmouth and back:—First Class, 205.; ? k ir Carriages, 10s.; Open Carriages, 7s. 6d. a tturu es may return any day during the week, up to, and including ~ D.te the 25th of July, by the train leaving Yarnlouth at Three 19:41Zl Norwich, at Four p.m. The number of First Classtickets By order, Office C. P. m RONEY, Secretary. ......._ t oreditch Station, July 10th, 1846. THE QUEEN V. LAWRENCE HUGHES, JOSEPH PEARCE, AND avy bail ip his wife,, the 2a their dal rs old. Til e d cord roun to that n t . )/ cord trarj„, HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL STREET, HAYMARKET, Eight doors from Coventry. Persons eligible as candidates are decayed merchants, bankers, professional men, their widows and clerks, and single females, daughters of such persons. Printed forms for the recommendation of candidates can be ob tained of the Secretary, by whom donations and subscriptions in aid of the funds will be most thankfully received. STEPHEN J. ALDRICH, Secretary, 36, Coleman-street, July 8, 1846. street. - I.IMENSE ATTRACTION—Fifth appearance in this.country of the new and graceful fema'e model, whose personation of various characters has elicited acclamations of delight. Diu, not!ce will be given of her first appearance in the tableaux of " Venus rising from the Sea," " Queen of the Fairies," " The Lute Player," and several other new and highly interesting Posse PlaAlgae, now in rehearsal. Professor Tumour has succeeded in re-engaging that much admired and highly interesting artiste, Mdlle. Drummond, who will on MoxnAY, the 13th inst., after five months' absence, re-appear as one of the Graces, as originally sustained by her; also as " May," " Myrna," " Amnia," and several other favourite and established models. C sTE R Llt i zirt o oir i DEBENTURES.IA RAILWAY. Ittcx4 ll „, 6 - DIRECTORS of this COMPANY are p re p ared to (ander thwers of their of Parliament) TEN kel_tor LOANS of e MO po NEY on Security of Debentures, bearing ego at the rate of 4% per cent. per annum, the Interest pay -Yearly, viz., 10th January and 10th July. 14 4 4 -- ` l .-" .1, stating amount and term of years for which it is proposed to be addressed to the Secretary, 61, Moorgate-street, By order, GEORGE KING, Secretary. tir *wards is sear; ater fir e imporn, seen glittn A adjourn' A at tbk. ) ussEx ARMS lIOTEL, WATFORD. FREDERICK WEBB (late of the Castle Hotel, Tamworth) having succeeded to the proprietor hip of the above hotel, begs to state that he has adopted every means to maintain the character it has long enjoyed under the management of its late proprietor, and to make surl additions as cannot • fail to secure it the approbation of those who may now be induced to visit it, either as a temporary re sidence for families, for whom it presents unusual inducements, or for casual visitors, whom the renowned scenery of Cashiobury, now oc cupied by her • Majesty the Queen Dowager, must attract to the neighbourhood. Mr. Debenbam, the solicitor employed by Mr. Kinder to prosecute Hutson and Gutteridge, deposed that he was pre sent at the examinations before both the liberty and the borough magistrates, and he expressed his opinion that Mr. Blagg did no more than his duty justified him on both occasions ; and he said he had no complaint to make of the manner in which the cases were conducted. . 4 ,* The three principal female artistes are now sustaining cha racters in seven new and highly interesting Tableaux, and will con tinue to do so through the week. Doors open at Half•past Two in the Afternoon, and Eight in the Evening.—Stalls, 2s. ; Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ed SW ° moper CO, of the e‘, inst the '' iim a silt e the co,' CLAUDET'S COLOURED AND NON INVERTED DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS. Commercial Gentlemen will likewise find the Essex Arms pecu liarly adapted to their purposes on the score of comfort and attention, as well as for the excellence of its fare,' and the economy of its charges. Royal AdeL Mr. CLAU 113, King William-street, Strand. litgft, who latradneed to England Poit Horses and conveyances' alwayis reads ,Aube ltallway Station. distant one Mile from Watford. The" pestling department will'be conducted on a scale of' completeness unsurpassed by any establish ment in the kingdom. the Daguerreotype process, having purchased, in the year 1839, frdm Mr. Daguerre himself, the right of exercising his patented invention. This right has been confirmed by decisions of the High Court of Chancery, the Court of Queen's Bench, and the Court of Exchequer. Mr. Claudet's establishment is, therefore, quite independent and sepa rate from any other of the same kind ; and his process, which is entirely peculiar, is practised only by himself. )ut his go ief as her Dinners, for large or small parties, on the shortest notice. FRE E 111 ASON S' AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 1,74 .....'"-I VERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NE W CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. REGISTRATION OF SCRIP. the 'l kAtt , for incorporating the . Subscribep in this Company with ;t o oll474ribers In the Lancashire th and t NorthYorkshire d ßailway Jett of thew" kin the Liverpool, g Manchester. and Neweagtte - uP°P - L i kt, sil i t e tkel Railway Company," having received the Royal Aa 'wee, li e r.lsone holding Scrip Certificates for Shares in the Liverpool, „",,e.reqn.*"._,. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company, ' oefo '''"`eo to transmit them to the Secretary, at these Offices, on and re the 20th day of July instant, with their names, professions, be ~,441leeS distinctly written in full, in order that the same may The ZY entered in the register of the CompanY• tl ' e eeni.. t arY will give an acknowledgment for the Scrip, an . cl .br on Certtri ca tll of the registry each 251. share will be Company.exchangedt a Au e,„., for 20/. share, under the common seal of the et 'Thai/ notice will be given of the first meeting of the Company, --''' reSiStered shareholders alone can vote. By order, _22, p_ ..aatnent-at L i__ reel, Westminster, July 1, 1846. .. W. H. INGRAM, Secretary. 4vERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and N ► ~1 . ,y mate EitsTLE-lIPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY co? kid meas er noi , Marilrester, and Newcastle-uon-T:le , Tile Act 1107,.:_nrliNorth Yorkshire Railway C omp s es)Yerkshire Xeilway Company ma gamating the Lancashire and North JtuPnAction, 11powTyne Junction with the Liverpool Manchester, and New , castle- CompaniesueritiwstYleCaennmdPatilitYlethe laid rr the ntverpooL Man Master,l. and Newcastle-upon-TCompany, 'eTongeeeiceived the royal assent!' e Junctionand for incorporat ng . of - N_ti s hereby given, that the FIRST GENERA of R ailwa L y lop SHAREHOLDERS in the 1 ANCASIIIRE and NORTII CAST SH IRE, and the LIVERPOOL, MANC iiESTER, and NEW MEETING COMPANIES, liho I,.''IJPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY at th e T been registered in the incorporated Company, will held 'sly in . elatine Hotel, Manchester, on SATURDAY, the w 2sth day e . of of the t a , lt, at Twelve o'clock precisely, pursuant to the previsions ...And nl ' a llies' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, •eterpr4,,oe is hereby further given, that the said MEETING will t4erelses be Made SPECIAL an the purpose of confirming, or rr i3 lree: cer tain agreements which have been enterandso between I. l lst t. ° re of this Company and the Manchester Leeds, the 4 kt b it ,Z,..euhire, the Great North of England, and the Newcastle "'gton Railway Companies. By Order, W. 11. INGRAM Secretaries. .C. MOORE WILSON 1 Jul gE REMINGTON'S LINE. DIREC'f INDEPENDEN T LONDON 4..14 pur s an d MANCHESTER RAILWAY COM r.A.N Y. 11-" tit i, s ' a flee of "An Act to facilitate the dissolution of certain Cera Penif's 9 and 10 Vict., c. 28. A MEETING of the I ,er n IlhO DERS Of this COMPANY will be held at the London D 0 .. -ti 'deyt h oPegate-street in the City of London, on TUESDAY, the meLJiilY instant, at Twelve o'clock precisely, for the pur. Le rmining whether this Company shall be dis , olved, and if ,k t itk bted. to decide whether such dissolution shall or shall not Ors ' be an Act of Bankruptcy for the purpose of having the % lue Company wound up under the provision of the Act 7 111 or whether the same shall be wound up by the Cm scre management. ,stitute such meeting, persons representing at least one- Vier t Z r t of the shares actually issued must be present and vote,. 4t,jesi e ti ,,, ti 'e Seri pholders unable to attend are requested to appoint Iti u sg o oft,7 N'oris of which, with directions for use, may be obtained L'eh e ,e of the Company, on paying the stamp duty of 2s. 6d., in st-r ttee unnecessa& to produce the Bankers' Receipt or iir,,` fl ir ting ; but all other persons who for the time being -,cybi Possession of Bankers' Rect•ipt or Scrip not specified in the 4 't Produce the same, and will then be entitled to vote. M. T. BASS, on behalf of the Committee. HENRY W. MAT CHEWS, Secretary. : k foorgate-street. London, July 14, 1846. 11114VNtLE PLE A SURE. t.raidstE the bright scene we delightfully treasure, Thei r wi tness with ecstasy juvenil e pl easure ! light-heart e d reve l s we c h er i s h with joy, whilst the face is illumin'd of each beautiful boy I uti I there is not a youth, we may venture to say, It i o t w en ti r r a ir i mi t ;e lt : ae l lt oo outha k ti s np2 f l o e r as th es to so the bright holiday ; tlatetenust all the transports, and many are tinge, New Clothes ! The ye *--"' w e freely acknow rn le u d c g h e " with tru n th, ransaamenti3, high provides for each Y°u .' For Hussar Suits re4„ilou. pricesh unies of noel At Inc and ip great namexo Of his splendid us e e n ow will dispose Clothes ' cu e rtment of Juvenile • Ifs and Guardians are res pectflilly invited to inspect the im- Zn ie v.riety of Boys and Youths' Clothing always k!Petfieltheadn, hand at tEstablishment. An Immense saving in price d 'w7 gen:tient Warranted as to d urability, quality, an LIST OF PRICES. fashion. dligre„ Dr ess Coat, Coat, b ra i ded edge 5.......... from 1 e. d. 1 0 knouts, do ........ • • .... 1 5 ° Trous er ; 0 8 6 _ 0 ,in cloth and doeskin . ;. :: :•• • • • --„..i..? users, in Tweed ....... •• • • 0 6 6 . •••• • •• , Walt either in cloth or fancy Materials • • 0 4 6 SU MMER GARMENTS. • ... 84in nler Coats in endless variety .. .... n 9 G ....lunere Ditto • • 0 12 6 rip • ...... • •• •• •• •••••• Risesng or Shootin Ditto 0 7 6 e Ditt g ° • • • • • * • • • • • • • • Rise o •• ..... •••••• • • • . • .... • • 0 9 6 r,, in countless pr0fu5i0n.. ........ 0 2 6 •irotisers, in all the newes washing • V!.!t, ditto, Designs guaranted to retain th eir colour ••••••••••••e • • • • ' ' • • • • 0 2 9 MADE TO R. iDress Coats, made to measure . OR . D .. E .. from 1 10 0 ~,rtouts, ditto • ...... ......... ••..• • • • 1 15 0 .rous er lest, di,tto ditto • . .. . •••• . • .. • ..... • • • • .. • SUMMER GARMENTS. 11 la Hyarnonias Paletet, a fashionable Over -coat, made to order, extremely light and well-adapted for the present __ seas on • • • riN ••••••• • • • • .. . ..... . .. .. .. censers, of peculiarly light fabrics Vesta, in rich Cashmere and printed . Quiltings, French patterns 0 7 6 4* - ',..tilimause Stock of Youths and Boy's Clothing at proportionate es. Money will be returned to any purchaser, should he not b.!! of his purcha-e after seeing the articles at his awn house. I.7ess transacted on Saturdays until the evening. SAM. Pantechnetheca. 36 (lracechurch-street. London. li.----__tQasTERED PALETOT of LLAIAA ! 1 , , A, , , 3 „,._ _ CLOTH, 6 and 7 Victoria, cap. 65. c a i l l i t at i' v 'eu by the Prince Consort, Prince George of Cambridge, the . 1 / 4 ,t,,,, c , eu,,,,higton, and the following distinguished visitors to this --- t h ? e Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the King of no ' E ing of Saxony, the King or Holland, Prince William kanNk' end further honoured by the continued patronage of all ttaikffLin unaffected gentlemanly appearance. The cloth is l ett44l:4Fe V9ool, a fabric most agreeably soft and elastic to t ut ihe N °e third the weight of ordinary woollen clothes, bt 444 : , 4 , : tit r .,!11ades of colour. It is very durable, and naturally a ~144, - mu? Z: YThese advantages, o with i t the a very moderate price Pe lfst e ,kiz itat ' i rc tll i e aB ß ed eg i i h ste L r e e n d d P e a e le e to t t t w he or p th e 3 t r en th te e es at e t h e l n y tio a n t o t f h al ei l r . e ttin.,!' I ter4ent-street, and 22, Cornhin, der! GT, tilt\ 4 m ag 4 ,88 j ;L-P ARRANGEMENT of LOOKING ° "e• 44 ' a ' - '"uncin the effect of a long arcade, and so bewil- Th ia , '' a doubt g whether you are in London or in old 4 41 441 90' 'Areli follows arch, and pile succeeds to pil . e." 18 0 ," a ncl ft antb4nent is devoted to cutting and arranging the hair in, hi! begt t , t • In e . . 11 , 4 ,1 1 1ng a beautiful view of Naples, are on the ... .ap ...-- noti ee - , - ,..fg attention to their establishment, Rose and to ,....:,e ntkaa,, ..ie ... n,. -.vantages of their s vstem —viz., they never t e n n's r e e le k : kta n I„ gt lfi r tlP in a men from the country, nor object to ath ed and gushe..%ame man to wait upon them. Every per ..Addr(ss 1? riles are the never b lused twice without being allo g i • oss and be in --.........ve lesson s i ' o ils, 119 n hair drew and 120, Bishopsgate-street, IN ho Cd . to buy things they do not want. TIRITIS H e n , ng. M ''I'LL GE OF HEALTH, °IIISC 'N'S PILLS'NENV'AD LONDON. oe,.._A, gent for the An T HE VEGETABLS lINWERSA.L MEDICINE. t hrfi r e t° k "' l a la th e sal e of the ki ct ig•ont th 6 Unit ed ici above Medicine is to be found in ye o d n on tl 1 3 , Cill er e world n Ooln. and most of the principal cities X, la ere en • •- , ve that the words . Morlson's Universal tteleranll-.Willte lettgreras a,;. ~,.: nh elnists or athe Government stamp affixed to each un without which none can be 4Yrget,t'st3lmfollowing are druggists t iare allowed to sell Morison's me e principal depots in London 11' .. sleid j e _ 36 a, Strand 34; ,. (4 . 0a 0, Quadrant, Re ki:karts,'2 63 ,, , Cambrid Regent street. ),I ' , gik -. ark. 1 ge-street, Edgeware-road. - P.,/ PPel, 18 4 ~ P nee. Mile -end-road. It ,. . 141 ,, , t.o mbard-street, Cornhill. 1117,k Dare; 55 liew.ro a d, St. Ge orge , s _i n _ the _ East. N . Ife s i 4 r eldwi7'4 s . Watling -street. .ae yai . i. 4 8. 2_ , Great Tower -street. y ra. l eh au u s aY and Co., Perfumers, GS. Oxford-street, and 14 . I 44e he b r . 1 1 t ... nn tir . 28, Tottenham-court -road. 14 0 1. Wi tt ! , Post-of Bent ford. er. att e ,'"ls' 6, Sloane-square, Chelsea. . Lanese a Library, Clapham. It • It, y, 53 G . -ur. 1r et uisou Chart - street, East-road, Ilostton. )g,.. brace , . perfumer,.&c., 68, CornhUl. 44, l allett, 83, High Holborn. 4 orif iln ,., Great Queen-street. • •••,-.......L / 7 4 t . 2 . Strand. le._ ----- ---:___ dth Cottage of Health. New-road. 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Contents :—Row to ensure perfect digestion, tranquil feelings, a g e o n o cl ,a n n i e g e h o t's ft h r e e s n , s a t ru e l e e t ar i n s h e h a d e r , e n n ° a nt e: i n t neC t e h d e m f i e n e d b . l e B t y h e a nob ner vously delicate, even to the most shattered constitution, may acquire the greatest amount of physical happiness, and reach in health the full p ,, er n io o d w o w f l e lf s e h al o, l i o ld tt l ed ive to man.mliat eat, what drink, what shun, To reach in health fnll threescore years and ten." These interesting little volumes, although bearing upon subjects of very delicate import, as their titles imply, will be found of immea surable and general utility, for they tell of matters everyliving crea ture able to understand ought to know, but which information in these enlightened times, except that quality promulgated through questionable channels, is at a very terrible discount. In the exposition hereby offered of the till now hidden truths of nature, of human disappointments and their ways of relief, it h it ys is ic n ia o n t contended that every reader shall become his or her s a h n o y a ln d o k re no th w an o t e heir of but ou it r o t: , a insisted organisation, u pon thatthhee healthy llat ti v e s simple o wn principles er' states depend, the duties that are expected of us in our individual capacities our existence and the issue thereof in their„several dividua . l capacities in the family circle, and the terms on which the to rely. health and happiness of the present and future race of mankind have By such knowledge, and which is herein faithfully imparted, health will be found to be in our own keeping, and happiness within the attainment of all; by the availment hereof in fulfilling our duty to ourselves, we secure the lit e advantages on our offspring to follow, and finally by the cultivation 3f our faculties, which is in consistent with degenerate health, the mind as well as the body may be exalted to the summit of perfection, as best becomes the highest of God's creations. 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PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price is. 9d., es. 6d., and I ls. per box, are the most effectual remedy for strictures, inflate. mation, &c., without hindrance to business. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. Minute detail of cases necessary. Messrs. R. and L.-Perry and Co., sur;ecng, may be consulted, as ante, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London. dally, and at 106, Duke-erect, Liverpool, every Thursday, Frida, - ;, and Saturday ; and at 10, St. John-street, Deansgate, Manchester, on Mnedaye, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. DIVIDENDS. Notice is hereby given, that the Half-yearly Dividend to the 30th ult. are now in course of payment to the respective Shareholders. JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary. 11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, July 11, 1846. THE DISSENTERS' and GENERAL LIFE and FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the SIXTEENTH HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND at the rate of five per cent., declared on the Bth instant, is payable to the Shardholders, without deduction of Income Tax, at the Offices of the Company, No. 62, King William-street, London bridge, between the hours of Ten and Four. By order of the Board, THOMAS PRICE, Secretary. July:l3, 1846. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for .eiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; ilso the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS, The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per ceitt. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. 1 ...... .:q ' 4 i-4 = ,; = Premium .' Bonus Bonus iii g 2. . g Assured P Premium. '' added. V Cash. `4 ':1 may 47 , 4- 4 Borrow. j£ £s d 018371X217 15 1 £lOO 0 11..£16 0 4 . . 1838, 192 3 0 87 1 4; 13 10 2 , ,i 0 1000 74 3 4 j1839' 165 11 10 74 1 9, 11 3 11 ;1840 116 7 6 .54 .0 10' 718 10 . :1841 111 6 8 49 10 0 710 41 '£445 0 0 395 11 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in December of the present year. F. FERGUSON CA3fROUX, Secretary. T HE CATHOLIC, LAW, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Cheadle, Staffordshire. The Right Hon. the Earl of Traquair, Traquair House, Peeble shim North Britain. The Right Hon. the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk. A. H. Lynch, Esq., Masteri n Chancery, 33, Queen-square. Thomas Barnewall, Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's Park. Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62, Pulteney-street, Bath. DIRECTORS. The Right Rev. Wm. Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex, The Hon. Edward Petre, 26, Wilton-crescent. Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the Hon. East India Company, and of the London Joint-Stock Bank. The Very Rev. Mons. A. Magee, D.D., 9, Romney-terrace, Westminster. Rev. Thomas Doyle, D.D., London-road, Southwark. Henry Clark Daiwa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton. Francis M'Donnell, Esq., Usk, Monmouthshire. James Reade, Esq., 13, Lower Berkeley-street, Director of th National Bank of Ireland. William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square. AUDITORS. E. Jernlngham, Esq. I James Marshall. Esq. CONSULTING PHYSICIAN—James Copland, M.D., F.R.S., 5, Old Burlington-street. CONSULTING SURGEON—WiIIiam Teevan, Esq., 23, Bryanstone square. STANDING COUNSEL.- England—Mr. Serjeant Shee, Sergeants' Inn. Edm. Keales, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn. Ireland—Sir Colman O'Loughlen, Bart., Merrion-square, Dublin. SOLICITORS. England—Messrs. Norris and Sons, 2, B edferd-row, London. Ireland—Messrs. P. and D. Mahony, 23, William-street, Dublin. CONSULTING ACTUARY—WithaI:II Lewis, Esq. BANKERS. The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. The London Joint Stock Bank, 69, Pall. malt. SECRETARY—WiIIiam Norris, Esq. The Deed of Settlement of this Company having been approved of by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, is now lying for Sig nature at this Office, and will remain until Saturday, the 13th inst., inclusive, from Ten, A.m., to Four, rat. June 4, 1846. 1) A i s. I S E d S p i e S r lb. ;FIN Genuine 6Md. Yellow w N s D oa L p E 4 2 5," 165., 525., and 58s. per 1121bs. ; Mottled, S'is., 60s. and 645. ; Wax Candles, Is. per lb. ; German, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Trans parent Wax, Is. Bd. ; Genuine Wax, 2s. ld. ; Store Candles, 534 d. ; Extra Waxed-wick Moulds, 6% ; Genuine Sperm Oil, 7s. per gallon; Solar, 3s. 3d. Pale Seal, 3s. 6d. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d. ; Windsor Soap, ls.t I. per packet ; Palm, is. 4d. ; Old Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. R 33 e. 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. ; Hale's erior Paragon Composite, requiring no snuf fing, 9%d. For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house. ELECTION MOVE MEN TS. MANCHESTER. All remains as quiet in this city as the most ardent lover of peace could desire. The Right Honourable Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, has addressed himself to a very large body of the electors ; but beyond that, as not the slightest show of opposition was made, nothing the least exciting has been done. The nomination (no doubt the election also), is fixed for Monday, the 13th, when Mr. M. Gibson will be returned. LICHFIELD. No doubt whatever is made of the :re-election of Lord Alfred Paget, as no opposition has been started. The nomi nation is, we believe, appointed for Wednesday, the 15th instant. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. No opposition to the return of Colonel Anson, who has accepted the office of Clerk of the Ordnance, has been spoken of, and his return is undoubted. The election will take place on the 17th, at Lichfield. THE WEST RIDING. Lord Morpeth stands unopposed—even. Mr. Ferrand has not the temerity to speak of contesting the election with the West Riding's own. The nomination is fixed for the 18th inst., at Wakefield, when of course Lord Morpeth, the new Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, will be returned. SOUTH LANCASHIRE. ➢lr. William Brown will not be opposed in contesting the seat rendered vacant by the raising of Lord Francis Egerton to the Upper House as Lord Ellesmere. The free-traders of South Lancashire will return him as the colleague of Mr. Entwisle. The nomination is fixed for the 21st inst., at Newton. OXFORD. In consequence of Mr. Maclean, the Member for Oxford, having been made a bankrupt, that city has virtually but one Member to represent it. Under these circumstances it is ex pected that should not Mr. Maclean resign the important trust confided to him immediately, a meeting of the electors will be held for the purpose of requesting him to do so. Great dissatisfaction is felt by the Conservative party at the humi liating position they are placed in, and we have no doubt but that the greater portion of them will join the Liberals in call ing upon the Honourable Gentleman to resign ; in the event of his doing so, it is rumoured that a requisition will be pre sented to a gentleman residing at Oxford, who from his thorough business habits and general intelligence, has long been thought by a portion of the constituency a proper per son to represent this ancient borough. PLYMOUTH. RETURN OF LORD EBRINGTON. SATURDAY NIGHT.—The polling commenced this morn ing, Lord Ebrington led from the first, and hour after hour increased his majority. At the close of the poll the num bers were— Ebrington Vincent PERTII. RETURN OF MR. FOX MAULS. PERTH, JULY 11, 1846.—Mr. Fox Maule was to •day re elected for the borough of Perth without apposition. A. D. GIIEIG, Esq., proposed, and Bailie CLUNIE seconded the nomination. Mr. Fox MA= then shortly addressed the electors, assuring them of the intentions of the Government with which he was connected to persevere in the footsteps of com mercial and general reform. MEETING OF lII.ONMASTERS AT DUDLEY.—DUDLEY , SATURDAY. -This evening the last of the quarterly meetings cf masters in this district took place at Smith's Hotel, in tins town, at which the prices agreed to at Birmingham were ioritirmed. The ir on t ra d e o f thi s di s t r i c t i s now in a very prosperous state, and is likely to continue so for some length bf time. Many heavy o r d ers h ave b een g i ven during the week at the various meeting!_=, which have been held for iron, particularly for pig, for which kind alone orders were received for about 25,000 tons. Under these circumstances no reduc tion may be expected for the present. Her ilajesty's proclamation against vice and immorality was read by Mr. Pritchard, clerk of arraigns. Silence then being proclaimed by the crier, his Lordship addressed the grand jury. Gentlemen of the grand jury,—l am happy again to have the pleasure and honour of addressing you, although I must confess there is nothing in the nature of the calendar before me upon which I have to offer you any congratulation. In the table just pUblisited by the authorities of the Home Office upon the state of crime throughout the country it is stated that there has been a decrease in the number of crimes committed generally, and that in the last year there has been a great decrease in the number of commitments within the county of York. lam sorry to observe it is not so on this occasion, for the number is greater than it was at the as sizes at this period last year. Neither is there anything very encouraging in the character of the offences with which the prisoners are to-day charged. Certainly last Summer Assizes there were menyAketek-*;erge*:4 - Sptegegel-r there are but five, nor hey u. e a toos a a scription ; yet it is to be regretted that there are nine of man slaughter this assize, in a brutal, savage manner, too often resorted to in this and the adjoining western county, by means of fighting up and down, and kicking a man, when down on the ground and helpless, with heavy or armed shoes, a cruel and unmanly practice, only to be exceeded by an attack with a deadly instrument. There are but too many cases of violent attempts against young unprotected women. In one case four men are charged with the offence, in which it must be obvious that it is quite impossible and hopeless that a young female, by anything she could do, should be able to offer any effectual resistance to the completion of the offence, when assailed by a combined attack of four men. There appears to be nothing complicated in these cases, only it should not be overlooked by you, that when several per sons are in confinement, charged with being engaged in the same offence, what one may say to criminate the other will alone be no evidence of the guilt of his comrade. There are two cases of murder on the calendar, the first by a father of his child. It did happen that on the inquiry before the coroner the evidence of the prisoner's wife was admitted against him. Such evidence is, by our law, inadmissible, and you, gentlemen, will not suffer it to weigh with you when the bill of indictment is submitted to you, and will see that the charge is supported by other evidence before you find a bill under such circumstances. In the other case, Robert Knowison is charged with the wilful murder of his father, in which there is but too much reason to believe, from his previous conduct, that the prisoner laboured under insanity. If there are circumstances which manifest that the prisoner was so insane, of course you will do well to find no bill. If you doubt the evidence on that point, you will best consult the interests of justice by presenting the bill to the petty jury, and if the prisoner be found not guilty on the ground of insanity, then the law will find means to protect society from danger by providing for the continued imprisonment of the prisoner as an insane person. The case of Collins is happily the only one of incendiarism or arson in the calendar. There is, I believe, no evidence of his guilt except that which is supplied by his own testimony, and you will do well to see if that sort of evidence is corro borated by other credible evidence before you find a bill. The case of Mary Chapman is singular. She is charged with manslaughter. I may not perhaps have all the depositions taken before the magistrates in this case; but if I have I must confess I am surprised to find her here on such a charge as manslaughter. She appears to have been called in at a labour. The woman she attended was very ill, and the case one of difficulty. The woman was delivered with some as sistance, but subsequently she died. It does not appear there was any gross rashness or gross negligence in the pri soner's treatment of the deceased; and as to the question whether the prisoner was a licensed practitioner or not that will not affect her upon a charge of manslaughter, whatever its effect may be as to subjecting an unlicensed person to penalties. I confess, without gross rashness or negligence being clearly proved, I think this case must fall to the ground. The case of Martha Dulk is that of a woman charged with exposing her infant child in the open air, with intent to murder it. The child, it appears, was left out in a hedge. However, it is now living, and in health, which will dispose of the charge of felony, though not perhaps of the misdemeanour. With the aid of these few observations I have no doubt you will be enabled to find your way very clearly through the cases that will be submitted to you in the discharge of your important duty. The grand jury then retired to their room, and soon after appeared with bills they had found. The calendar contains the names of 104 persons charged with offences, of whom 76 are in custody; 2 are accused of murder, 9 of manslaughter, 12 of rape, 1 of incendiarism, 8 of burglary, 12 of cutting and wounding, or wounding with a gun, 3of bigamy. The rest are charged with street robbery, forgery, riot, felonies, and misdemeanours. The trial of Julius Marcus Herman, admitted to bail last assizes, on three indictments for forgery, but postponed, was again postponed upon his application, through Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, until to-morrow. _ _ , His Lordship proceeded to try some forgery cases of little or no interest. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Abingdon, July 11. CROWN COURT.--(Before Mr. Sergeant GASELEE.) David Stroud, a saddler and harness. maker, carrying on business at Aldermaster, in this county, was indicted for having administered iti September last noxious drugs to one Maria Nash, who was occasionally in his service, with in tent to procure abortion. It appeared on the investigation of the case, that the defendant had written a prescription which he gave to a fellow -servant of the prosecutrix, a man named Harris, who sent it to a druggist at Reading; that the prosecutrix took a few of the pills which the druggist sent back ; that the medicines mentioned in the prescription were merely strong aperients, which, unless taken in large quantities, could not produce abortion ; that she did not take them in large quantities; and that a healthy child was born in due time, and was now living. For the defendant it was attempted to be made out that Harris, not the defendant, was the father of the child, and that Harris and the prosecutrix induced the defendant to write the prescription in order to effect their own objects against him. The jury, after a quarter of an hour's consultation, Acquit ted the prisoner. He had been prosecuted by Mr. V. Lee, and defended by Mr. Carrington and Mr. Pigott. MUADER.—Sarah Wickens, aged 23, was indicted for the wilful murder, on the 16th of March last, of a male child, four months old, which in some counts of the indictment was laid as her own child, and in others not. She was also charged on a coroner's inquisition with the same offence. Oa the case being called on, and It being discovered that the prisoner had no counsel, the Learned Judge requested Mr. P. Mahon to defend her. The prosecution was con ducted by Mr. Carrington. The facts of the case were these:—On Saturday, the 14th of March, the prisoner was seen sitting on the side of the road leading from Reading to Aldermaster by a Mr. Packer, a music-master, of Reading, who was driving by in his car riage ; but, on noting her condition, alighted. She had a child in her lap, and a bundle by her side. She was crying, and appeared very rinses able, and told him that she had no suck for the child, and no money or victuals ; and that she was going to Crookham-common to get something from the father of the child. The latter was extremely emaciated, and was wrapped up in a flannel dress, or something of that sort, by which its head was partially covered. lie did not give the woman anything, as he feared she might be a tramp; but he desired her to go to a lady's in the neighbour hood and use his name. He was talking to her at the ut most about a quarter of an hour. On the night of the same day, about eleven, a man named Hoare found the pri soner lying near a hayrick inside the read, with a baby and a bundle. She seemed very weak, and the child in a most emaciated condition. He took her to his house, and kept her there till eleven the next day. She was very kind to the infant, and did all for it that a fond mother could. When she went away she left a bundle behind, as she was unable to carry the child and the bundle. A man named Goddard saw her on Sunday. She asked leave to come into his house and warm the baby. The ehild seemed cast away for want, and kept fretting all the time the prisoner pre mained in the house, which was abou t an hour. She was saidit a she child h in d left B i r t: a m t the on h - l o a u n s e e very attentive and kind to t he child. At a little after five o'clock—about a quarter a fter five — on Monday, the 16th, Mrs. Goddard saw a woman w and at half-past five the prisoner came to Hoare's house, which is between a mile a nd a mile an d a half from Bromp ton-lane, and asked for her bundle ; an d on getting it went inquiry y cle of ohfis his, who lived a b out four miles off. She had not the chi ld when she came then, t and, in o a answer s o w n e Hazel, e r to a i a n n q from Brompton-lane. It was at that time raining heavily. Between seven and eight o'clock that evening she called at Hazel's, but never left a child there. Hazel did not know that she had had a child. On the 27th of March, as two sweeps named Rawlins were going along Brompton-lane, a dog of theirs pulled out the body of a child from a large hole formed by the excavation of the earth from under the roots of a tree growing on the top of the hedge. At the bottom of the hedge the road was a hard gravel one. The hole had been Made by rabbits, and was apparently a resort for them, and the child was so placed in it that a person going along the lane would have seen it if he had looked carefully in that direction. They took away the body. A n inquest was held upon it the next day. Hoare came and looked at the body of the child, but could not say that it was the child he had seen with the prisoner. It did not appe ar th at Goddard saw the corpse. Mr. Packer sa w it after the inquest, and swore positively to its identity with that of th e child he had seen with the prisoner : he knew it by its emaciated state and high cheek bones. A Mr. Cox, a surgeon, proved that the death of the child must have been caused by its head being struck against a hard substance. or a hard substance being struck against the head. He added, that generally the cheek bones were not more prominent after than before death. No evi dence fltS given as to th e conduct or proceedings of the pri soner since the 16th of Ma rch. Mr. P. M‘MA.HoN having addressed the j ury on b e half of , K the prisoner, His LORDSHIP read over the evidence, and summed it up with great care and attention. The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. O x f o rd, July 11. Mr. Justice Maui,, after disposing of the cases at his Court at Abingdon, came over here an d opene d t h e com mission Sergeant Gaselee will attend Church to- morrow. Th ere are His Lordship and Mr. with the usual formalities. nine causes in the list, of which three are for special juries. There are in the calendar one case of murder, one of rape, one of burc:lary, two of arson,. one of ho use b rea ki ng ; one o f poaching, one of horse-stealing, several larcenies, and one assault; and the names of nineteen prisoners altogether. ROBERT SHOPPEE. BURGLARY.—REMAREABLE PRESENCE OF MlND.—This indictment charged the defendants with having burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Richard Weatherby, at Iver, and with having stolen therefrom a watch, a pistol, a gun, and a snuff-box, on the night of the 3d of May last. From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor, who lives at the Parsonage Farm at Iver, retired to rest on the night already named about ten o'clock, and placed on the table in his room the keys of a chest standing near his bed side, in which he had locked a canvas bag that contained the sum of 1901. At that time all the doors and windows were safely locked and bolted. About two o'clock he was awakened and found four men in the room, one of whom stood over him with a stick while the others ransacked the place. On the keys being found the chest was opened, and the men be gan to rummage it. The prosecutor, who was now aban doned by the person who had stood over him, perceived that they overlooked the canvas bag. He raised himself in his bed—stretched his arm to it—conveyed it rapidly under the bed-clothes, and then began to call aloud for his servants. The call was answered and the men made off—one of them rushing to the head of the bed, and snatching away the prosecutor's watch as he went. The prosecutor, though nearly seventy years of age, got up at once— stumbled over a large stick, which he seized—ran down stairs, attacked the tWeres in' the passage, and dealt to one a tremendous blow on the face. As soon as the house was cleared, an examination of the premises took place. It ap peared that the house had been entered by means of a panel broken in the back door, in the path leading to which the footmarks of four men were to be seen ; in the passage of the house, and also in the family room, the floor was deeply in dented with the impressions of a man's boot; and a strange hat was discovered in the passage. The prisoners, who had been seen in company near Iver, both on the night before and the morning after the burglary, were soon afterwards taken into custody. Hughes was identified as the man who had stood over the prosecutor. The boot of Pearce corre sponded exactly with that of which the impression had been left on the floor. Shoppee exhibited on his face the marks of a blow recently inflicted with a stick; and the hat was found to be that of Hughes. Mr. Saunders and Mr. Wells conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Tozer addressed the jury for Hughes and Pearce. Mr. Baron ALnEssoN having left it to the jury to say whether the evidence of identity was satisfactory to them, a verdict of Guilty was returned against all the prisoners. Shoppee, who had been previously convicted of felony, was sentenced to transportation for life, and the other two to transportation for 20 years. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a Com- men Jury.) GLADDEY V. STUCIIBERRY.-THE FUNCTIONS OF CONSTABLE. The plaintiff, who is a labourer, and one of the choristers of the church of Brill, in this county, thought proper, on the evening of Saturday, the 14th of March last, to go to a house in that place, called the Rose and Crown. Notwith standing that the plaintiff is now in very humble cir cumstances, he was formerly well off, and he chose to enter the parlour of the public-house, where the baker and other magnates of Brill were assembled. After some time he volunteered t o entertain the company with the old song of " Tom Bowling ;" and, whether it was that the song was obnoxious to the personages present, or that the com pany of the singer was disagreeable, at the conclusion of the second verse his face was blackened with soot and candle grease, his hat was thrown_on—to the fire, and on the defendant Stuchberry, wtlois the constable of Brill, coming into the room, the plaintiff was given in charge for disorderliness. Stuchberry inquired whether the per sons giving the plaintiff in charge were in earnest, and on receiving an answer in the affirmative, immediately attempted to take him into custody. A scuffle ensued, and the two fell, Stuchberry, who is a powerful man, being uppermost. One of the bones of the plaintiff's leg was slightly fractured. Ile was led home, inflammation ensued. and he was confined to his room in great pain for some weeks. On his getting well he brought this action for the recovery of damages against Stuchberry and the other per sons concerned in the assault. The defence was that Stuch berry was justified in attempting to take the plaintiff into custody, the injury to the leg accidental, and the whole quarrel one of a series of public-house brawls, of which the plaintiff had been the hero. It appeared also that blacken ing the face with soot and grease is a punishment inflicted according to the unwritten law of this county on those who offend against the rules of decorum to be observed at meet ings such as that at which the cause of this action arose. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. O'Malley were counsel for the plaintiff, who is a pauper; Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Power represented the defendants. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS told the jury that a , constable had no right to apprehend except on a charge of felony, on his own suspicion of felony, or for an assault committed in his own view, and left it to them to say to what damages, in the event of the witnesses being deemed worthy of credit, the plaintiff was entitled. The jury consulted for a short time, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 51. HOME ClRCUlT.—Hertford, July 10. CIVIL SID E.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE and a Special Jury.) BLAUG V. STURT. This was an action for libel. The declaration charged the defendant with having published a letter accusing the plain tiff of having, in his capacity of clerk to the justices of St. Alban'e, corruptly conspired and procured the release of a prisoner charged with embezzlement, and also with sharing the money he had embezzled with him. The defendant put several pleas upon the record, but their effect was a justifica tion of the statement. Sergeant Shee, with Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Grunston, ap peared for the plaintiff; Mr. Martyn Chambers, Mr. Ryland, and Mr. Peacock, for the defendant. Sergeant SIIEE stated the case, and said that the plaintiff was a professional gentleman, residing at St. Alban's, where he filled the office of town-clerk, and also clerk to the borough justices, and who he believed was generally well knowu and respected throughout the whole county, and he appeared before them that day to complain of a most foul and malicious attack that had been made upon him by the defendant, and which was calculated to destroy for ever his professional prospects and also his position in society. The Learned Sergeant then proceeded to state that in the borough of St. Alban's there were two separate jurisdictions of ma gistrates, one for the borough and another for the liberty, both of them being entirely distinct and independent of each other. The plaintiff, Mr. Blagg, acted as clerk to the borough magistrates, arid of course, in his capacity of attor ney, lie was called upon occasionally to appear before the other bench of magistrates, either as attorney for the prosecution or to defend a prisoner, and inasmuch as it was an entirely independent jurisdiction, and had nothing whatever to do with the borough justices, it appeared to be clear that there could be no objection to this course of proceeding on his part. In the month of April in the present year, Mr. Kin der, a brewer at St. Alban's, made a charge of embezzle ment against one of his clerks, named Gutteridge, and he was taken before the liberty justices, and Mr. Blagg attended as his solicitor. Every proceeding was taken in a perfectly regular manner, and the result of the inquiry was that the prisoner was committed for trial. Shortly atter this a per son named Hutson, the uncle of Gutteridge, who had also been in Mr. Kinder's employ, was taken into custody on the charge of embezzlement, and he was taken before the borough magistrates. A solicitor attended on his behalf, Mr. Blagg took the depositions, and the magistrates committed the ac cused for trial, but consented to take bail, himself entering into a recognisance of 800/., and finding four sureties in 2001. each. Everything during these proceedings had been conducted in the most regular manner, and the plaintiff was, therefore, astonished to find that the defendant had taken upon himself to write a letter to Sir James Graham, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which he made statements of such a character as were calculated to have been his utter ruin, if he had not had an opportu nity of contradicting them. Sir James Graham, upon seeing the contents of this letter, however, very properly sent a copy of it to the magistrates; and upon the plaintiff be coming acquainted, through them, with the contents, he im mediately commenced legal proceedings against the defendant. The Learned Counsel then read the letter which formed the subject of the present action. It was addressed to the Secre tary of State, and the following is a copy : " St. Alban's and Hefts Bank, April 23, 184 G. " Honourable Sir,—Deeming the due administration of justice of paramount importance, and that those who ad minister it should be not only pure, but above suspicion, I ' beg to call your attention to the following facts, showing the anomalous position of a certain functionary in this borough. At this time there are two persons fully committed for trial for felony, one by the liberty magistrates, and the other by the borough magistrates. The parties are related, being uncle and nephew, and lately clerks to a brewer, whom they are charged with having robbed for a number of years. The nephew was taken into custody first, and was com mitted by the liberty magistrates, and is now in our gaol, bail having been refused. This prisoner is defended by the town-clerk of this borough. The uncle was committed by the borough magistrates, the town-clerk taking the evidence, and acting as the legal adviser of the magistrates, a friend of his acting as legal adviser to the prisoner. The most close intimacy has existed for years between the town-clerk and the two prisoners, and when the nephew's papers were yes terday examined, an enormous amount of accommodation bill transactions, and legal proceedings arising therefrom, amounting to many thousands, were discovered, the said town-clerk and others with whom he is closely associated , being the parties thereto, thus clearing up the mystery as to the uses to which the plunder has been appropriated. Deem ing this a state of things demanding a remedy, I respectfully call your prompt attention to the same, feeling assured that von will institute the necessary inquiry, and take such steps as the justice of the case and the crying evils pointed out demand. " I have the honour, &c., " G. STURT." The Learned Sergeant proceeded to state that this letter clearly contained the insinuations charged in the decima tion ; and when the jury recollected that it was written by a banker, and a person consequently of station and respecta bility, they could not but feel that it was calculated en tirely to destroy the plaintiff, and when he had satisfied him, as he had no doubt he should do, that there was not the slightest foundation for such charges, he called upon them to give such exemplary damages as would effectually re-establish the character of the plaintiff in the minds of his fellow-townsmen and the county with which he had been so long connected. The Hon. Arthur Dillon was then sworn—He deposed that he held an office in the home Secretary's department, and he had attended with the letter addressed to Sir James Graham on the 23d of April, 1846, but before he produced it he begged to be allowed to state that Sir James considered it a confi dential communication, and had instructed him not to deliver it up unless his Lordship ordered him to do so. Mr. Baron PARSE—Do you decline altogether to deliver it up, or will you abide by my decision respecting the point? Witness—l shall do u your Lordship directs. Baron PAints—Then I think you ought to let us see it. ➢ir. Grove Lowe, the clerk to the liberty justices, gave similar testimony. This was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. CHAMBERS submitted that the letter was merely such a comment upon the conduct of a public officer by a party interested as was sanctioned by the law, and that, therefore, it was a privileged communication, and could not be made the subject of an action for libel. Mr. Baron PAHKE said he thought there was a question for the jury whether the letter was written bond fide, with the view suggested by the Learned Counsel, or whether the writer was actuated by malice in making the communication. ➢lr. CHAMBERS then addressed the jury, and he argued that it would be very unjust to convict the defendant of having published a libel under the circumstances that had been detailed. lie submitted that the defendant had told nothing but the truth, and he would ask the jury whether the plaintiff was not really placed in an anomalous position in the borough? He appeared before a bench of magistrates one day to defend a prisoner, and when that prisoner's ac complice in the robbery was charged before another set of magistrates he had to appear as clerk and legal adviser to the bench, and in the result bail was refused for one of the parties accused, and he was committed to prison ; and in the other, where the plaintiff was clerk, and where he would have to advise the magistrates as to the course they ought to pursue, the prisoner was allowed to go at large upon bail. He would put it to the jury whether such a pro ceeding as this was not calculated to create a suspicion as to the purity of the administration of justice, and whether the inhabitants of the borough of St. Alban's could feel any con fidence while such a system existed. The defendant, as one of those inhabitants, and therefore having a deep interest in the pure administration of the law, did feel that such pro ceedings were improper; and what course did he pursue? Why, he wrote to the Secretary of State, the properly-con stituted authority, to inquire into and remedy such griev ances, asking him to make that inquiry and afford the remedy demanded. As to the inuendos contained in the declaration, that the defendant intended to charge the plaintiff with con spiring to obtain the discharge of the prisoners, -and that he had shared in their plunder, be denied that the letter could fairly be said to convey any such charges, and it merely stated facts which he submitted had been fully proved by the witnesses for the plaintiff. All the defendant said was, - that Mr. Blagg was acting in the borough of St. Alban's in a double and doubtful capacity, and could the jury come to any other conclusion with regard to his position, upon the fads that had been laid before them ? Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up, The jury, after deliberating for a few minutes, returned a •,erdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001. HERTFORD, JULY 13.—The business of this assize has been heavier than has been known for many years. The criminal business was concluded on Saturday in the middle of the day, and Mr. Justice Coltman then proceeded to try one or two of the civil cases, and Mr Baron Parke was engaged in the other Court until nearly ten o'clock at night, and there were three special jury cases remaining to be disposed of; one of them was subsequently adjourned to the next assizes, and the remaining two were tried this morning. (Before Baron PARKE and a Special Jury.) BEADLE V. MURRAY . This was an action for falsa imprisonment against Sir Robert Murray, a magistrate of this county. Mr. Montague Chambers, with Mr. Wallinger, appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Petersdorff for the defendant. - This case was tried on Saturday, and was not concluded until near ten o'clock at night. It appeared that Sir Robert Murray, who resides at Yardley Bury, in this county, had some fowls stolen from his poultry house about the 23d of December last, and in consequence" of the information he gave to the police, they instituted inquiries,—and upon going to the village of Walkern, not far from the residence of Sir Robert Murray, they found some fowls in a shed answering the description of those that had been stolen, and which the plaintiff, who is a labouring man, and a Niggler, and a travelling dealer in poultry, claimed as his, and said that he had bought them, and expressed his readiness to give the police the names of the parties from whom he had purchased them ; and at their request he accompanied them to the residence of Sir Robert Murray, who, upon seeing the fowls, immediately declared that three of them, which were of a rather peculiar colour, were part of those stolen. The plaintiff repeated his story, and offered to go with the police to the persons who had sold him the fowls, but it appeared that instead of this being done he was taken into custody, handcuffed, and conveyed in a cart through the village where he resided, on Christmas-day, and was confined all night, and next day taken before a ma gistrate, where it was pretty clearly made out that Sir Robert was mistaken with regard to the identity of the fowls, and upon this Beadle was discharged. He subsequently attended at the quarter sessions, but no bill of indictment was pre ferred against him, and due notice having been given to the defendant, in conformity with the statute, the present action was brought to recover damages from him for the alleged illegal arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff. On the part of the defendant it was urged that he was not responsible for the apprehension of the plaintiff, but that the police had adopted that step in the execution of their duty, believing that a felony had been committed, and that the stelen pro perty was in the possession of the plaintiff. A number of witnesses were called on both sides, and their examination and cross-examination extended to a considerable length. Mr. Baron PARSE having summed up, the jury, after deli berating for about half an hour, returned a verdict for the defendant. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room B. The Committee met this morning at eleven; present, the Earl of Lonsdale (in the chair), Lord Ilawarden, the Earl of Warwick, Lord Ellenborough, a vi d th e D u k e o f Grafton. LEICESTER AND BEDFORD. Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and others were retained for the promoters of the Bill, and Mr. Austin, Q.C., Mr. Hildyard, Q.C., and Mr. Hope, on the part of the inhabitants of North ampton and the London and Birmingham Railway, opposing. Sergeant WRANGIIAM, in opening the case for the pro moters, said, the length of the line was 63 miles, to be con structed at an estimated cost of 1,500,000/. ; and was in tended to connect not merely Leicester and Bedford, as the designation might imply, but passed 16 miles to the south of Bedford on to Hitchin. The number of those in the neighbourhood of the line who would immediately en joy the accommodation was about 200,000; but that which was the great object of the promoters of the Bill was, the line opened the London market to a large rertile agricultural district, and would carry coal into that.district at a reduction of 10s. per ton. The line would form a junction with the Leicester and Swannington Railway at Leicester; and though a petition had been sent up by the last company against the Bill, because a Bill was in their Lordship's House forming a junction between the Leicester and Swannington and the Midlands line, a Bill which had been delayed there till the fate of the present Bill should be known, the Learned Sergeant contended for the superiority of this junction over the other, and proceeded to call evidence to satisfy their Lordships. Mr. I'acke, Member for South Leicestershire, said, on his examination, that being well acquainted with the district through which the line passed he believed it would be of great advantage, as giving the farmers a transit to the south for their produce, and opening the Derby and Leicester coal fields to Bedford, Northampton, and Hertfordshire. He had presented petitions to the House of Commens in favour of the line from those who owned about sixty thousand acres in the district. Mr. HILDYARD was proceeding to cross-examine wasthe witness, on behalf of the South Midland project, which thrown out in the House of Commons in favour of this Bill, when Sergeant WRANGUANI objected to his being heard. Mr. AUSTIN contended that precedent concurred with the common sense view of the jurisdiction of their Lordships' House, that a project, though rejected by the House of Com mons, ought to be permitted to appear before their Lord ships, otherwise they must judge only of such lines as the Commons chose to select. Sergeant WRANGIIAM having replied, the room was ordered to be cleared. - Parties, on being re-admitted, were told that the Commit tee considered the project to be a competing line, and that Mr. llildyard might, therefore, proceed with his examination. Cross examined by Mr. ITILDYARD —Mr. Packe recolleted that Parliament, in 1836, ordered the Midlands Company to suspend their Bill for the line between Leicester and Rugby, in case them might be a direct line from Rugby to North ampton. Mr. Paget, formerly Member for Leicester, corroborated the last witness. Mr. Maunsell, M.P for Northamptonshire, gave evidence in favour of the line. Mr. Weston, mayor of Leicester, said a petition in favour of the line had been sent up from the town council and from a numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants, who, after considering the two modes of joining the Leicester and Swannington Railway, decided for the one embodied in the present Bill. Other witnesses were called and examined on traffic. The Committee then adjourned till eleven to-morrow. Room C. _MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MID LANDS JUNCTION. The Committee atsemb!ed this morning, Earl Radnor in the chair, when _ _ Mr. Holm called for the contract of the Company, and contended that the evidence was not in accordance with ita terms. On a revision of that document, however, the Committee decided that there was no discrepancy suffacient to throw out the Bill. Mr. WILDMAN, who appeared for sweral landowners, ad- Mr. T. D. Jeffcock, who was cross-examined by Mr. WILD.. MAN, stated that he estimated the deposit of the diluvial de posit at 90,000,000. When cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant MERIWICATIIER he stated at 41,000 tons. The coal-field comprises 13,000 acres on the Dronfield and Hunstone line. Newbold he stated to be twelve miles from Sheffield, and two miles from the Midland. Mr. Rigby, the mining engineer of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway, stated that he had great experience In the ascertainment of coal measures, and could confirm the state ment already given. Mr. Crossland, a valuer at Sheffield, stated that he had valued the land and buildings to be taken at 121,171/. 15s. 100., including 268 dwelling-houses. The value of the Ton tine Inn, at Sheffield, he rated at 13,0001., but this did not include the compensation for houses of 10/. a year, which he rated at the usual calculation. Mr. John Fowler was then called by Mr. HOPE, who stated that the junction of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway with the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line, was 16i miles,while the junction by the proposed line would be l3l } miles. By Mr. Vignolos' statement. it appeared that one in 300 had no reference whatever to the ruling gradient. The curves, as far as compared with the gradient, are much mere severe, being one in 20 chains. On the Midland they were much more severe, and he had no doubt that the difference of dis tance (3i miles) would have no effect upon the distance. To the CHAIRMAN, the witness replied that he took the whole course, and he allowed for them. To Mr. HOPE, the witness replied that he had considered the difficulty of the arrangement between the Sheffield and Midland, and the arrangements had been made in accordance with the understanding into which he had entered, and if there were any deficiency it could be easily arranged. Mr. Horn wished to know whether the communication between London was in any way provided for by that line? The witness replied that there would be a saving of nine miles between London and York, the Sheffield line joining this at Retford. To the CHAIRMAN, the witness replied that they had entered into arrangements with the London and York, whereby all difficulties would be obviated. With respect to the Leicester and Bedford there would be no doubt. With respect to Newark, the distance by the London and York he believed would be much the same. An endeavour was here made by the Committee to aster. tain what were the respective interests of the several lines. , Chesterfield it appeared was a small place, not extending for three-quarters of a mile or perhaps the half of that. An endeavour had been made to amalgamate the several lines of the Swinton and Lincoln Company, but a disagree ment ensued on the terms. Taking the several stations of the Midland Company, and that of the proposed line, he could say that the making of one line was not more facile than the other. But this he must say, that parties coming from Sheffield would have to back a mile into the Chesterfield station. To the CHAILMAN the witness replied, that inasmuch as there was no first-class station within twenty-four miles, there was no alternative, the nearest station ifeiilg Brighton:` To Mr. HOPE, the witness replied that tiTere tivas no objec tion to that line. ~ Mr. Fowl.Es had prepared a table of population between Sheffield and Chesterfield. The witness had taken the town ships, including many villages a long way from the line. - The result was, that the total polmlatuewas a considerable number of which were excluded from the line. The population of Norton is nearly 2,000, a great part of which is situated immediately above the long tunnel. -At Dronfield the same case holds. For a great part of thd- coal-field the line is inconveniently laid out, going through a valley and a cutting. There was a differ ence between last year and this year ; the one in the furmer case going on the level, and that of this year going through a cutting of from thirty to forty feet. To the Earl of CHICHESTER, the witness replied that he deemed it at all times advisable that every advantage should be given to the coal proprietors. They had this year sacri ficed especially the Dronfield beds for the sake of a better line, although a better line might be laid out. TO Mr. IroPE, the witness expressed his opinion that Mr. Vignoles's estimate was about correct. Ile estimated the whole cost at 867,000/., the land and buildings at 687,000/. The land for spoil was 149 acres, and taking all the cuttings this was a fair estimate. Mr. Vignoles proposed to take a retaining valley, but though restricting to space, there would be an increase of expense. To the Earl of CHICHESTER, the witness replied that In the case of Blisworth, where the upper stratum is rock and the lower portion clay, the cuttings were necessarily of greater amount, and in any case the station to the tontine of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line was not at all likely to be made. Mr. Hope's examination having concluded, the Committee adjourned till to-morrow. Room D. The members of this Committee, consisting of the Earl of Kingston (chairman), Lord Churchill, Lord Wharncliffe, and Lord Camoys, assembled to day at twelve o'clock. The following Bills have been referred to this Committee, viz.:—Eastern Counties Enlargement and Extension Rail way, and the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds Railway (Nor wich Extension.) EASTERN COUNTIES ENLARGEMENT AND EXTENSION. Mr. TALBOT, Q.C., opened the case, and stated that the railway would meet a great requirement. Mr. Warren appeared for the commissioners of paving. Mr. Bidders, engineer, was examined, and gave general evidence, of the usual character, in support of the line. After hearing some evidence in support of the Bill, Mr. FORSYTM addressed the Committee on the part of Mr. Cook son, petitioner against the Bill, who contended that the in terference with his property, at the new road going down to Whitechapel, was uncalled for, inasmuch as Brick-lane and Charles-street afforded sufficient access to the stations of the South-Eastern Railway. Mr. Taylor, architect and surveyor, was called, and stated that the injury which the petitioner complained of would be inflicted. After a long conference and discussion between the counsel for the parties, the Committee decided that the preamble of the Bill was proved, and that they would report accordingly. The Committee then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. CALEDONIAN EXTENSION. This Bill having had the preamble proved on Saturday be fore the House of Lords' Committee, was referred this morn ing to the chairman of the Committees on Bills. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met in Room 1 (House of Lords) at the with.b nAI usual hour; Lord Shaftesbury took the chair according to custom. There were nineteen Bills on the list, and of these all were railway Bills. ST. ALBANS, LUTON, AND DUNSTABLE. This ease, which stood over from Saturday, and, indeed, had been part heard on a previous da2 o -, m w p t e s te ar t i h n e e s a t l an led din o g n d a fDs rt heard on former days. The this ordersThism weremorni n g, aiHERTFORDgdse he when, I d h a e r a n e ; d s o t c h o b e m e lepnrci part Committee now declared the standing orders complied with. EAST LANCASHIRE (DEVIATION AND BRANCHES ). The same observations apply to this case, and the result was the same. SIIREWSBURY AND HEREFORDSIAIRE. Also an adjourned case ; standing orders conplied with. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND CARLISLE JUNCTION. A similar case ; standing orders complied with. GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY AND CANAL SALE AND PURCHASE. Their Lordships declared the standing orders complied with in this case also. NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON (PONTOP AND SOUTH STATELDS PURCHASE). A similar decision 'Was given in this case. SWANSEA VALE. This Bill was opposed 1)y the Duke of Beaufort, but on hearing the case their Lordships were of opinion that net one of the allegations of his Grace's petition was proved. Petition therefore not sustained and standing orders, so far complied with. 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