The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-29 00:00:00

A to l 41 7 14) gov .TTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING, Sic o'cLocx. LINCOLN HURDLE RACE. 2 to 1 agst View Holloo 3 to 1 agst Melford LINCOLN TRIAL STAGES. 3 to 1 agst Lady Agnes 4 to 1 agst High Sheriff 4 to 1 agst lanthe 6 to 1 agst Maid of Lincoln CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Nancy 33 to 1 agst Ariosto 33 to 1 agst Grand Duke 33 to 1 agst Scarecrow 40 to 1 agst Cock-crow 40 to 1 agst Hothorpe 66 to 1 agst C out of Duc-an-Dhurras's dam 100 to 1 agst Burndale DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Augur 13 to 1 agst Ortlio 20 to 1 agst Kingston 20 to 1 agst Alfred the Great 30 to 1 agst Chief Baron Nicholson 30 to 1 agst Hotnebrewed LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE: 200 to 1U agst Hardwicke 12 to 1 agst La Gazza Ladra FRANCE. The Constitutionne/ contains an article on the recent decree of the Government relative to canals, in which it is stated that the fifteen canals the formation or termination of which was authorised by the laws of the, sth August, 1821, and the 14th August, 1822, are 2,515 kilometres in extent ; and that 2,818 kilo metres of them were executed by the State, at an expense of 284,903,2861. The estimated expense of execution was, it appears, only 126,000,0001., which was authorised to be raised by loan. That sum being found insufficient, credits had to be opened, and that closed delay in the execution. The total expense, how ever (on an average 130,000 f. per kilometre), did not ex ceed that of other canals in France or those of f o reign countries. The canals have been of great service in facilitating the communications of the country, espe cially in the coal districts. The receipts from them in 1844, were 3,382,5661. ; in 1847, 5,167,4881.; in 1848, they fell to 3, 193 , 0241 . ; but in 1850, rose to 4,251,82.5 f. The net revenue, after deducting extraordinary expenses, has averaged during the last six years, 1,209,0001. ; but taking a favour able year as the basis of calculation, it may be estimated at 2,245,0001. The receipts are much larger than they were some years ago, and this is owing to the adoption of moderate tariffs. Indeed, it is calculated that if the original heavy c h arges had been maintained, the traffic would hare been in considerable. One fact will show the importance of moderate tariffs :—During the last few years the Government fixed the tariff fur the conveyance of coal, on what are called the Quatre Canaux, at lc. per ton per kilometre ; the Canal Company demanded that it should be fixed at 9 c.; but if this had been granted, the cost of coa l s f rom the centre, d e livered in Paris, would have been 2f. 50c. per 1,000 kilo grammes more than Belgian coals. The consequence would have been that the French coals could not have supported competition with the Belgians. It is ex pected that now that the canals have passed into the hands of Government, important improvements will be effected in them. About two months since, says the Journal de Chartres of the 25th, the gossips of Chartres were all put on the qui rive by a report that a young work woman in that town, named Leonie Lehoux, whose parents were well known there, had suddenly inherited a considerable fortune, and this was borne out by seeing the father give up his situation as conductor of a diligence, the mother dressed out in the gayest attire, and Leonie assuming all the airs of a fine lady, and walking out attended sometimes by her femme-de-chambre, and at others by a footman in livery. According to some accounts the Bros lot in the lottery had been gained, while others at• tributed this sudden fortune to a legacy made to the demoiselle by some rich Russian or Englishman from a feeling of paternal remorse. All accounts, however, agreed that the fortune was an immense File. At length it was announced that the lucky heiress was about to be married to the son of a rich Lerner in the neighbourhood ; all the tradesmen in t"e place were put into requisition to furnish dresses, vellery, &c., a grand banquet was ordered for the 28th instant, and cards of invitation were already issued, when suddenly the scene changed. The grandfather of the intended husband appears to Lave suddenly entertained some suspicion, and on Taursday last, he called on the Bishop to ascertain the genuineness of two letters which had been re ived by the family, said to have been written by that dignitary, relative to the marriage .and to the redden fortune which the bride elect had inherited, aed which were immediately declared to be for .l-eries. It then became clear that a grand system of swindling had been carried on, and information having been given to the police, a domiciliary visit t ek place, when a number of letters, all pretended to .re been written by the Bishop of Chartres, and vin a sum of 200,000 f. to Leonie Lehoux, were found. The mother, daughter, and the two servants, are all arrested, and, after a preliminary examina tlor, committed to prison. A few years since, says the Siecle, a robbery was committed in an apartment in the Rue St. Honors, occupied by a N. de L-, an attach 6 to an em bassy. Among the articles stolen that which the owner most regretted was a snuff-box, set with diamond, a present from a foreign prince. That circumstance, and the intrinsic value of the article, were not, however, the only motives of regret for its loss. The box had a double bottom, which opened with a spring, and beneath which were toncealed a note and medallion. At the beginning of last week M. de L-, being at a soiree in a diplomatic saloon, was thunderstruck at seeing the identical snuff-box in the hands of a distinguished P e rsonage. He approached the group of which this gentleman formed part and related the history of the snuff-box. He afterwards borrowed from the and as if by gentle ram u % the b ox which he thou ht was hi , = accident, l e t i t fall. Thees g nuff thus ' thrown ut, he touched the secret spring and produced the note and the medallion. The gentleman in whose possession th e box hariallen offered immediately to restore it to him who'had so clearly shown himself to have been the original fused, being satisfied ownerof it, but the latter re objects which it contained.Tih m ec e overing the valued gentleman g ave the be had h n ame of the jeweller from wh d by the exertions of the police in Franceaspurchased it, been traced in its various peregrinatio ns and England, f2' Rd the robber discovered among the men taken during the razzias recently made by the police. RAILWAY is o f RE MARK BRISTOL, JAN. 28. ETS. 3Tocx ExckrAva.—The share market was more active to-jay, with a tende nc y u p wards. The tran sactions as follow:—Great W estern (Original Stock), 85 %—Bristol were and Exeter, 84—Taff Vale, Quarters, 34. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28. I "rocit EXCHANGE. —There was an improved feelin g ex bi,ited in the share market to-day, and a good business Ins been done at advanced prices. The transactions were as f()ll "—Caledonian, 1514—Lancashire and Yorkshir e , 621 A —Ditto, Fifths, 71. 13s. 9d. dis. -.Ditto, West Ridings, 534 dis.—Leeds Northern, 1414 —Liverpool , Crosby , a nd South port, 134 d i&—London and North - Wes tern, 116—Ditto, New Quarters, 3 P.—Ditto, Fifths, 234 P.—Ditto (C), Quarters, 1: 1 3 p.—Manche4ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 314—Ditto, 1 reterence. 12%_Ditto fla w , Midland, 56 3 4 —Ditto, iiN:boanrtha , 61. Preference, lls. 3d. p.— British, 7 —tiorth'Stl'ffN_oredwrehPirree,feBrtncdeikB-3.Sopudih-dEisa.s—te Dover, 201. Bs. 9d.— -., , _ Ditto, Preference, d ' is...... k, Newcastle, and Berwick, 11 ~ i, . York and North Midland, 21% Bi z ok en h ea d, Lancashire, and Cheshire j • Di!to (Chester and Birkenhead unction, 121% dis.— Iv:ad, 2u - Ditto, Preference 16n ), 1614—Chester and ynly , .4 Eastern Counties, L'e 2— ... Atabe o r erns, 1814 —Great W Fst eras, 86—Aberdeen, 11 314 dis. gate and E as t er n Junction, MANCHESTER, ,J A _ N. 2 , * ro ar EXCHANGL—There has be en -- a buoyant amount of business d o ne to-day, and prices were full rates of yesterday. The trans actions were at the ant 67 8 —East Lancashi re , I.e as follow : "'astern Counties, dunian, 15 1 4 Ditto, Preference, 7%—Midlaial3-16—Cale- Staith-Eastern and Dover, 204 4 Lancashire a n ti. 55 ' 4 ' * t ie—Ditto, Fifths, 6% Manchester, Sheffield, and orlishire, • "e, 101. Preference, 12 %Q —Dublin and Drogheda Lincoln —ll orth Midland, 6%. , Thirds, 11 FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT,—On Monday last an a "ident occurred at the RingleY Fold Colliery, near Bury, Lancashi re, belonging to Messrs. Scott and Knowles, wh ic h his re su l ted in the ith of three persons, viz., Thomas Hndley y , aged 19 years, Fleur Page, aged 28 years , and George Gruudy, aged 3') years. The accident occurred in consequen ce of the ignitio of foul air ; but the cause of the explosion has not yet been ascertained Ten other persons - ,vere in the pit at the time of the fatal occurrence, most of whom are so seriously burnt that there is not much prospect ;:f their recovery. The following Ire the sour, cheese, &c., importPd into quantities Gf for oign grain, Liverpool for the fortnight nding 21st January, 1 852 .... 5,437 bags wheat, 79,612 hu,hels ditto, 3,454 barrel s of flour, 7,028 sacks ditto, 25,081 toehels Indian corn, 2,118 ditto, 53,n0 bushels beans, 53 barrels oatmeal, 354 boxerscheese, and 16 casks ditto. FLOGGING YOUNG CULPRITs.—The Home Secre tary and Lord Advocate have aproved of certain regula tions necessary to the working of t the recent Prisons' Amend which magistrates will now be enabled to in dictament Act, by as a puT_sh_me t nt upon flogging young culprits. A pair ws are to be provided, o the satisfaction of the sheriff, and the punishment is not to exceed thirty-six lashes. The flogging is to take place in the prison at the sight of the Young culprits, and those surgeon ; and the age at which only of the male sex, may be whipped is limited to fourteen. —.North British Nail. NUN. GREAT REFORM MEETING. Oa Tuesday evening a numerously attended mee,t ing of the inhabita n t s o f Edi n burgh was held in tne Music-hall, to consider the subject of Parliamentary Reform. The chair was occupied by the Lord Pro vost, and amongst those present were--Mr. Cowan, M.P., Mr. J. F. Macfarlan, Mr. J. H. Burton, advo cate ; Mr. W. Duncan, S.S.C. ; Mr. W. Tait, and other influential citizens. The LORD PROVOST, in opening the business of the meeting, said it bad not been got up either to support or oppose the present Government, but simply to give the inhabitants an opportunity of expressing their views on the great question of reform. The first resolution to be submitted to them proposed that all who paid local taxes should be entitled to vote for Members of Parliament. The second pro posed that all small burgh constituencies should be extinguished, and the Members given to large towns, Scotland getting a fair share in the division. The third resolution proposed that the 40s. freehold should be extended to Scotland, and that all fictitious votes in counties should be extinguished by requiring residence and infeftment. The fourth resolution proposed that the list of tax-payers taken from the local rate-books should be transferred to the register of voters, w ith ou t th e necess ity for any claims being given in, a n d th a t th e f e e of 2s. 6d. n ow charged in Scotland, which deters so many voters from registering, should be abolished. The last resolution declared for the balloC, triennial Par liaments, and the ab o liti on o f th e proper ty qualifica tion which now exists for Members of Parliament in England and Ireland. His Lordship, after enforcing at some length the propriety of adopting this scheme of reform, which, he said, was substantially the same as that agreed to at Manchester, but modified so as to be applicable to Scotland, called upon Mr. J. F. AIACFA.RLAN, who moved the following resolution : " That provision should be made for a large exten sion of the constituency, which in England and Ireland should take place by conferring the franchise on all persons chargeable with the poor-rate; and in Scotland (where the poor-rate does not u❑iversally apply) by conferring the franchise on all persons who are charge able with any general local rate, such as an assessment or the support of the poor, for prisons, or for police purposes; and, in the event of there being any burgh or district in which no such rate is now levied, that in such cases the franchise should be conferred on all persons who would be chargeable with any such rate if it were levied." In supporting the resolution Mr. Macfarlan stated, that 880 parishes or combinations for support of the poor in Scotland, in no less than 226 the principle of voluntary contributions existed ; but no difficulty would be found in these cases in finding a mode of enfranchisement similar to that employed where rating for the poor prevailed. He then went into a variety of arguments to show the necessity of lower ing the franchise, and thereby adding to the number of the constituent body. Mr. APCREE seconded the motion. An amendment was proposed by Dr. GLOVER, a Chartist, in favour of universal suffrage, but only thirty or forty bands were held up in its favour, and the original resolution was carried by an overwhelm ing majority. Mr. J. H. BURTON, advocate, moved the following resolution : " That provision should be made for the extinction of all small burgh constituencies, either by such an amalgamation of burghs as would form a united consti tuency of not fewer than 5,000 electors in each group, or by merging the voters for small burghs in the constitu encies of the counties in which such burghs are seve rally situated; that the right to elect members no longer required to be returned for small burghs should be transferred, either to towns which have acquired a large population since the passing of the last Reform Act, or to burghs which have so much increased in population since the passing of that Act as to be uow inadequately re presented; and that in any re-arrangement of members, Scotland should have an equal proportion with England, having regard to the population of each division of the United Kingdom, and to the net amount of revenue con tributed by each for national purposes." The resolution was seconded by Mr. DURHAM, and carried unanimously. Mr. F. BUSSELL, advocate, moved— . That provision should be made for the establishment of the 40s. treehold franchise in counties throughout the whole of the United Kingdom; that all real property held by any other tenure than as freehold should give the same right to the franchise as freehold property; and that in Scotland provision should be made to prevent all merely nominal owners from being registered as electors by requiring all claimanta to make up their titles in the moat complete manner, by infeftment or otherwise; and that a residence of not less than three months yearly should be required within the county is which the pro perty is situated." Mr. W. DUNCAN, S.S.C., seconded the resolution, which was adopted unanimously. Resolutions in favour of an improved system of registration and the ballot were then agreed to ; and, after a few words from Mr. Cowan, M.P., a vote of thanks was given to the Lord Provost, and the mee ing separated. INVASION OF ENGLAND.-NATIONAL DEFENCES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—Under a similar title to the above the Times of to-day has an article well calculated to frighten all the old ladies of both sexes in the Queen's dominions, and I believe it was so intended, that the lieges, being thoroughly alarmed, may, without grumbling, con sent to an increase of the army estimates. That there are some old ladies in the House of Commons, who will be alarmed to the heart's content of the Times' writer, I verily believe. And lest your readers participate in this senseless feeling, I hope you will allow an old officer, who served during all the active period of the late war, and saw a good deal of French naval tactics, to tell them why there really is no cause for alarm. In the first place, Sir, allowing that the Ruler of the French should collect the vast army the Times names—say 151,800 soldiers — opposite the coast of England, I think we not only possess wooden walls enough to keep them out of England, but we have intelligence enough at the Ad miralty to direct that force so as to "confound their politics and make them fall " And I hope the follow ing simple ideas, struck off at the moment, may prove that, if required, the tars of Old England will con tinue to make Old England's colours fly. It is presumed that a large part of the intended in vading force shall sail from the port of Cherbourg, and others from Brest and other Channel ports. They are none of them to come from a distance—of course Johnny Crapaud will be too wise for that. Well, we have got the Channel only to guard therefore ; and that, mark Sir, only in fine weather—a most im portant fact, which the editor of the Times loses sight of, for reasons best known to himself. A large fleet, with numerous transports, and conveying some 70,000 troops, with all their necessary material, will never attempt to venture to sea in a gale of wind. It is clear, therefore, that when the weather allows that fleet to put to sea, intending to land that vast army on the shores of an enemy, it will also permit our ships to be in mid-channel to intercept them and give them a warm reception. The plan I should suggest to do that to most advantage is, to have, of course, plenty of men-of-war in all our channel ports ready to put to sea at a moment's warning ; but not by any means to rely on them only for the destruction of the invading fleet. No ; I contend that we should have spread over the whole channel, for a space of 200 miles, at an interval of only ten miles from each station, a series of large and powerful war steam ships, cruizing in couples; that is, twenty couples of large war steamers, at a distance of only ten miles asunder, or between each two. This would require only forty war steamers, as our advanced guard, out in all weathers when it were possible for the enemy to leav e hi s ports. Each of these couples of large fighti ng all but teamers, no s hi ps plaln,nwed tocontainould have accompanied by three small s t fitted for an ships. Alongustibles thisi and cordon be em poye of combustibles, d as steam fire- mb pass s a t le lf amo a e n vras h s o t fi v a r cihs f uti r iga o nnn m g one of o t i n oef " the en emy " would at , e x e e m t t s y t t h o the e nsn p other. pnseL the enemy seen by those of the cordon st a ti oned off Cherbourg the five vessels stationedar to to weigh anchor. In one hour the east, and the five to the west, would have Cherbourg. In one more hwonunrttylii miles a t five nd on each d the next the five off side would have steamed t i m e b u l e r d s them : and, at the end of three hours froma ss. joi n ne t signal of alarm, there . would be ten inoreass steam" or, in all, the whole stationed at seven stations, viz and these, at the end of the fourth hour, fourteen large war steamers and twenty-one joined by ten others. why, the whole of the enemy s transports. would fire-ships be , would be in a blaze by this time ; his large steanierat• and other ships crowded, with troops, as the Times describes, would be swept' with grape, and, a s I on ce witnessed m yself, bags containing 500 musket balls each would be discharg e d n longer,am on and dthetsheenlivuipnwhom few would sur vive to tell the tale. Ihe battle might rage for an hour of gwmoualscisesCome ten other vessels, with the broad As of England flying, and fresh and eager for the work ;• and if there were any of the enemy who had not found their way down to where the elastic cable lies, at the end of six hours from the time they started, why another batch of ten fresh ships would have reached the scene to help them there. The whole Engli s h f orce c ollected being by that time, ere th e t ransports could be bal f. c h anne l over, not less than 65 vessels, viz., 26 large wa r s t ea mers and 39 fire- s hi ps. When it happens, Si r, I hope the editor of the Times may be there to give a faithful report for the amusement of the frightened old ladies of England ; for I am sure by that time none others will read his paper if he go on erect i ng bug bears of the Iyohuarvse; scc., I hope, knock e d on t h e h ea d. I R. J. MORRISON, Lieut. R.N. London, Jan, 23, 1852. LONION HEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEER. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) In the week ending last Saturday 1,061 deaths were registered in the districts of the metropolis. In the two previous weeks the numbers were successively 1,111 and 1,096; the last returns therefore show a continuous decline, though not to any considerable extent. In the ten corresponding weeks of 1842-51 the average number of deaths was 1,089, which, if a certain amount be added for increase of population, becomes 1,198. On this corrected average the mortality of last week shows a decrease of 137. The present return compared with that of the pre ceding week exhibits an increase in the mortality from zymotic or epidemic diseases taken collectively, and a continued decline of fatal cases arising from affections of the respiratory organs. As regards epidemics, it appears that typhus (with continued fever, &c.), small-pox and scarlatina produce at the present time about the same amount of mortality, the first num bering 41 deaths, the second 39, and the third 37. Small-pox shows a disposition to increase, and the number of fatal cases actually recorded in the re gister books last week, which are about double the ave rage, concurs with the personal observations of the Registrars to prove that the disease is widely diffused amongst the London population. looping-cough car ried off 49 children, but measles has fallen remarkably low, the number of deaths now attributed to it being only 5, while in corresponding weeks it ranged from 11 to 43, and the corrected average is 29. Besides the above, there are 5 from croup, 6 from thrush, 3 from influenza, 1 from purpura, 3 from remittent and infantile fever, 1 from rheumatic fever, 6 from erysipelas, 1 from syphilis, 4 from puerperal fever (besides 2 other cases of death after childbirth). Last week 18 persons, of whom 13 were children, died of diarrbcoa; and in Hoxton Old Town, at 3, Whitmore-street, the daughter of a crape dresser died on the 29th January, at the age of 11 years, of "cholera, after an illness of 7 days." It was stated above that the mortality from diseases of the respiratory organs in the aggregate has declined; but it deserves notice that this result is observable chiefly in pneumonia, and that out of the 198 deaths enumerated under this class, 102 are caused by bron chitis, and only 59 by pneumonia (or inflammation of the lungs), a number exceedingly low compared with those of corresponding weeks. The following cases were registered in the Small-pox Hospital:— On the 11th January a porter from Wardour-street, Soho, aged 19 years, died " small-pox, confluent, un protected (20 days)." On the 21st January, an upholsterer, aged 25 years, " small-pox, confluent, unmodified (18days)." He was vaccinated in infancy at Strasburg—one very imperfect cicatrix. In Islington, East sub-district, at 3, Greenman's-lane , on the 20th January, the daughter of a labourer, aged one year, died of " small-pox (4 days from the appear ance of eruption), not vaccinated." Three children in the same family, who have been vaccinated, are recover ing from small-pox. Mr. Butterfield adds, that small pox increases in his district. In the sub-district of St. Botolph, at 35, Sun-street, on the 21st January, the wife of a cattle dealer, aged 32 years, died of " small-Pox and bronchitis, two days after labour." She was a fo reigner, and had been vaccinated abroad about 18 months ago ; another female, also a foreigner, died in the 'same room of the same disease, and a short time after labour. At Rose-alley, Bishopsgate , a child, aged 8 months, died of " small-pox (15 days). Mr. Spencer states that " vaccination had been neglected i❑ this case from ignorance; in this alley, which is crowded and close, several children are ill." Princes street, Aldgate, where a child died of confluent small pox, is described by the same registrar as " an unhealthy place and much crowded." At 4, Hammond•place, Lambeth, on the 21st January, the daughter of a brick layer, aged 3 years, died of " variola, confluent (14 days), pneumonia (2 days)." Mr. Mears was informed by the mother that the child had small-pox when two years old, and was marked with it, and this was a second attack of natural small-pox. Two other deaths of chil dren occurred in the same sub-district (Waterloo•road, first part), in one case vaccination having been performed after the infection was caught, and in the other per formed twice or thrice ineffectually and without leaving marks. Mr. Davis, the registrar of Lambeth, Waterloo sub-district, second part, has addressed the following letter to the Registrar-General:— " In Lambeth-square the mortality has "of late been excess i ve . I have registered since the 21st of May last 24 deaths, one of which was that of an adult, and all the rest occurred under 9 years, viz., 5 from small-pox, 10 from scarlatina, 2 from typhus, 4 from hydrocephalus, 1 from fever, 1 from convulsions, and 1 from hooping cough and measles. " The landlady being anxious to ascertain the cause has solicited the Board of Health to inquire into the facts, and one of their officers this week visited the houses. He informs me that he found several cesspools in a state very injurious to health, but it does not ap pear just at present that there was much illness amongst the inhabitants. The square numbers 35 houses, which, I believe, with three or four exceptions, contain 8 rooms each, holding a population - of about 434 persons. " Previous to May last, the deaths were far from ex cessive, as between August, 1849, and that month, I re gistered only 13, including 3 from cholera. " I may observe, that the square is always kept very clean, a beadle being appointed for that purpose, who excludes all horses and carriages; it is therefore found by the inhabitants to be a very safe and convenient place for their children, who, when the weather is fine, assemble in great numbers to play together, and this circumstance, perhaps, in the presence of agencies un favourable to health, may help to explain why small-pox and scarlatina have spread so widely amongst them. " I have been looking over the progress of mortality in other streets of my district in proportion to their population, and find that in many of them, taking the whole time from August, 1849 (when I first began to make memoranda), to the present date, and excluding cholera, the mortality stands as high as that for Lam• beth• square. 6' The officer of the Board requests me to give notice to him of any further cases of fever which may occur." In the sub-district of Lambeth Church, first part, at 3, Harper's•court, High-street, two daughters of a la bourer, aged 2 years and 9 months respectively, died on the 15th and 21st of January, of scarlatina maligns, after an illness of nine days. Mr. Greathead states that " the deaths of these children were not registered till the 23d of January, and both of the bodies were then lying unburied in the same house." In the sub-district of South St. Giles-in-the•fields, at 9, Great Wild-street, the daughter of a porter, aged one day, born prematurely, died of debility. Mr. Faulkner remarks, " This is one of the many cases of great dis tress I meet with in my district; the mother was con fined pr( maturely, I believe, in consequence of fever; the husband lies ill with fever in the hospital; the mother continues very ill, as well as another child, and has sold much of her necessary clothing to procure fire and provisions." _ _ _ It was shown in previous weeks that deaths from car buncle had been lately more numerous than usual; last week the following case was registered:—On the 22d January, at 47, Gibson-street, Lambeth, a dealer in skins, aged 60 years, died of " carbuncle (4 weeks), irritative fever (3 weeks)." There have, therefore, been altogether 6 deaths from this complaint within the last three weeks. One man and two women were the victims of intemperate habits. Eleven children died of inanition and want of breast milk; one person died from cold. STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK. SUNDAY.-The sky was for the most part clear throughout the day. MONDAY.-The sky was generally clear until Bh. r.at., and overcast afterwards. TIIISDAT.—The sky was overcast throughout the day. Frequent showers of rain. ‘N EDNISDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was covered with cloud throughout the day. Frequent squalls of wind and rain during the evening. THURSDAY.—The sky was clear till near noon ; three fourths were covered uutil 6h. P.:kr., and clear afterwards. FRIDAY.—The sky was generally clear throughout the day. SATURDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day. Heavy showers of rain fell. ELECTRICITY.—No electricity has been shown during the week. The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main mast, and read each day at 9h. A.m. was 41.3° ; and the mean reading at 9h. P.M. was 42.7°; the mean readings at the Royal Observatory for the same times were 40.4 4 and 42.2 Q respectively. The reading of the barometer increased from 30.10 in. at the beginning of the week to 30.24 in. by 10h. AM. on the 18th ; decreased to 29.18 in. by 9h. P.M. on the 22d ; increased to 29 . 72 in. by 9h. A.M. on the 24th ; and de creased to 29.47 in. by the end of the week. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent frora tho General Post-office by the nignt—and M by the morning—dispatch.) When made up in From what PLACES. General Post-office port dis- When London: patched. due. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Jan. 30 .. .. !Liverpool .. Feb. 1 America (by U.S. pkt.) N Feb. 10 .. • • 'Liverpool Feb. 4 America (by U.S. pkt.) M'March 3 .. .. I Sonthampt. Arrived Africa (West coast)•. N 14th of the month ;Plyraoßth Feb. 3 Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo.iDover .. Feb. 18 B e lgium . • • • •• N Daily • • • • ..iDover .. Daily Brazil .. . • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 16 Buenos Ayres .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Fob. l 6 California.(viaChagres)M 2d & 17th of month; Southampt. Fee. 5 Cape of Good Hope N 14 th of month !Plymouth— Feb. 3 N 7th 17th 27th of mo !Dover .. Jan. 30 Constantinople Tllusacvanaßnyia.B,....Nass:: .• • • Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. !Southampt. Feb. 5 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Frl.lSontbampt. Tu. Th. Sat Chill •• •• •• . M 17th of the month !Soutbampt. Feb, 20 France • .. M&N Twice daily ..(Dover .. Twicedally Greece* ••• • • .. 1717th 17th 27th of mo !Dover .. Jan. 30 llamburgh .. .. N'Tuesday & Friday (London .. Tiles. Sat. 1 I.l lim o e l d lin e d ri win .. (via .• M Wednes. & Satur.lLondon .. Men. Thur Honduras .. . N 17th of the monthlSouthamPt. F 20 Ireland .. .... M& N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead .. F eb. wicedaily India (via Sonthamp.) M'2oth of the month,Southzunpt. 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The mails French packet vi al M arse ' les. un es thus marked (*) are conveyed by The direct Havre mail from month will be made up th ree t. during this London via Southampton c .. CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to and fuiles a w. - ;ek only, instead of lailY• are now despatched and due b hoz Caihornia, via the United States Y every American pack** ------- BONCHURCH, ISLB of Wrouir.—Slcl. Europe, Sydney; Glaphyra, St. Kitts; Flora ship, Ealing Grove barque, aeveral others. D a le Park barque, James barque, Campb e ll b a rque, and TR/YR/MAY EV LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, ✓an. 23. (Sittings in Banco.) SPECIAL PAPER. - MILLER V. SALOMONS. Sir F. KELLY resumed his argument in this case at tho sitting of the C Art. The second proposition, he said, which he had to submit to their Lordships was, that under the Act of 6 George 111., cap. 53, upon which this action was founded, the oath of abjuration might be taken by a Jew with the omission of the words "on the true faith of a Christian." This depended, however, upon whether the provisions of the 10th George I. continued and remained in force at the time the Act of 6th Georgh 111. was passed. The Learned Sergeant (Channell) seemed to suppose that the Act 10th George 1., cap. 4, had expired; but he (Sir F. Kelly) would be able to show, that by a series of Acts to the 6th George 111., which imposed the oath now required to be taken, the Act of 10th George I. had been kept in force. The 6th George 111. enacted, that from and after the 4th of June, 1766, the oath of abjuration prescribed in the 10th George I. should be taken and subscribed within a limited time, but with benefit of the same savings, provisoes, and indemnities contained in any Acts then subisting. The question was then, whether the Act 10th George 1., which allowed the omission from the oath of abjuration when it was taken by a Jew of the words "on the true faith of a Christian," had ceased and expired, or whether it had been continued, and was in force at the time of passing the 6th of George 111., c. 53. (The Lord Chi e f B aron h ere inquir e d for a printed copy of the Act 10th George 1., c. 4, which had been referred to on Monday, and being informed by Sir F. Kelly that no copies could be obtained at the Q ueen 's printer's, although there was a copy in the lierary of the Inner Temple, his Lordship observed that ho thought it would be well if some Member of the Le gislature would suggest that, along with the numerous blue-books and papers published during every session of Parliament, some of the old public statutes should oc casionally be reprinted, for such statutes ought to be accessible to all her Majesty's subjects.] The oath of abjuration (Sir F. Kelly continued), which, in its pre sent form, was introduced by the Ist of George L, 0. 13, was repeated in the 9th of George 1., c. 24, which ex tended the time allowed for taking the oath. A further extension was afforded by the 10th of George L, c. 4, the 17th section of which allowed the oath of abjuration to be taken by Jews, with the omission of the words "on the true faith of a Christian." Now it had been contended by his Learned Friend Mr. Bethell, in the House of Commons, that this clause — The CHIEF BARON—I doubt the propriety of any re ference to the opinion of any living barrister, however eminent, delivered no matter where—whether in the House of Commons or in a parish vestry. It amounts merely to this, th a t a gentleman of dessrved eminence, and of great reputation in the profession, has somewhere or other said so and so. We are perfectly aware of Mr. Bethell's opinion. Baron A LDERSON—And of the opposite opinions ex pressed by other gentlemen.—(A laugh.) Sir F. KELLY said, if he had committed an error in referring to opinions expressed in the House of Com mons, he had been led into it by what fell from the Bench the other day as to the views of eminent Members of that assembly. He submitted that the provisions of the 10th George I. amounted to a legislative declaration that the words " on the true faith of a Christian" were no necessary or essential part of the oath of abjuration. The oath of abjuration sonsisted of many parts, as a de claration of allegiance and obedience to the reigning Sovereign, an abj ura tion of the right and title o the Pretender and his family, &c., but it did not contain as any part of the thing sworn to the fact or statement that the party :.swearing was a Christian, nor was it the meaning and intent of the Legislature to impose that oath, or any part of it, upon any person as a teat of Christianity. If the oath had been intended as a test of Christianity, it was impossible that the Legislature should have authorized its administration to a Jew. There was a series of Acts after the 10th George 1., from the 2d George 11, c. 31, to the 6th George 111., c. 7, enlarging the time allowed for taking the oath of abjuration, which was, by the last-named Act, extended to the 24th ,of November, 1766, se that the time thus allowed was carried beyond the passing of the 6th George 111., c. 53. He submitted, therefore, that the 10th George I. having sanctioned the omission of the words "on the true faith of a Christian," when the oath of abjuration was taken 'by members of the Jewish religion, and all the succeeding Acts re ferring to the same identical oath, the effect of these Acts was, that from the time of the 10th George I. the oath of abjuration, as taken by the members of the Jewish religion, would be taken with that omission. He main tained that whenever the law of this country imposed upon any subject of the realm the duty of taking an oath, the law not only permitted but required that that oath should be taken in such manner and form as to bind the conscience of the swearer. The oath of abjuration was not one which might or might not be taken, according to a person's pleasure or interests, but in many cases it became a matter of necessity on the part of members of the Jewish religion to take this oath, and the question was whether the law which com pelled a Jew to take the oath compelled him to take it in a way which would subject him to the guilt at once of blasphemy and perjury. It appeared from the Ist George 1., c. 13, and from the recital of the other Acts of Parliament, that their sole object was to secure the per son and Government of the Sovereign, and the succes sion to the crown, and to extinguish the hopes of the Pretender or his family, and that these Acts had no re ligious aspect or tendency whatever. It was in the first instance provided that all persons holding public offices should publicly take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, and afterwards it was enacted that these oaths should be taken by all Members of the House of Commons before they could sit and vote. It must be borne in mind that though it was competent to any man to accept or reject an office of profit, a person elected a member of the House of Commons became a Member of Parliament, with all the duties and liabilities, as well as with all the privileges of the position, whether he would or no. A person so elected could not reject the office; he was a Member by the election, and was subject to the jurisdiction of the House, even though he might have been re turned against his own will. The CRIEF BARON observed that a person did not be come a member of the House of Commons until he had taken his seat. Sir begged,i with great respect, to differ from He appr e h en d e d t h a t, a lthough a hisF KELLYLo Lordship. Member of Parliament was, by the express terms of the statute, prevented from voting, till he had taken the oaths, he was in every other respect whatsoever a Mem ber of Parliament before he had taken the oaths, whe ther with regard to duties, liabilities, or privileges, as he was after be had taken the oaths. It was stated in " Dwarris on Statutes," supported by reference to " Hatsell," that, notwithstanding all the forms which were introductory to a Member taking his seat in the House of Commons, a person when returned —though he might not have taken his seat—was to all ' intents a Member, except as regarded th e r i g ht o f voting, and was entitled to the privileges the same as every other Member. He begged their Lordships' attention to the 10th and 11th sections of the Act Ist Geo. 1., c. 13. The 10 le section empowered two justices of the peace, or any other persons specially appointed by the Crown , t o administer and t ende r the oath of abjuration to any p er son or persons whom they might suspect to be dangerous or disaffected to his Majesty, and if the person to whom!the oath was so tendered should refuse to take it, such per son should be judged a Popish recusant convict, and liable to the penalties of prremunire. So that not only at the time when the Act was passed, but at the pre sent day any two justices of the peace, if they suspected that any member of the Jewish religion was disaffected, might call upon him to take the oath of abjuration, and if ho refused to take it he became liable to the penalties of prasmueire. The 11 th section of the Act was, how ever, still stronger. It provided that two or more jus tices of the peace might, without any cause at all, sum mon any person to appear before them to take the oaths mentioned in the Act; and it such persons should not appear before the justices, or at the quarter sessions, they should be esteemed and adjudged Popish recusants convict. The question their Lordships had to determine, then, was, whether it was the inten tion of the Legislature, and whether it was the true legal effect and construction of the Acts of Parliament, that this oath, when tendered to a mem ber of the Jewish religion, should be sworn in such man ner as might be conformable to and binding upon the conscience of the swearer? If their Lordships held that the oath must be taken by Jews with the words "on the true faith of a Christian," either the Jew must take the oath, using those words, and so commit blasphemy and perjury at once, or he must refuse to take the oath, and so be liable to all the penalties imposed upon Popish recusants convict. It was absurd to suppose that the Legislature, when imposing an oath of loyalty and allegiance which persons of all classes were to be compelled to take, could have intended to frame that oath in such terms that ono class, at least, of th e community Would be unable to take it. Any one who looked into the recitals or enactments of the various Acts of Parliament from the Reformation to the pre sent time must be convinced that all the oaths and tests which were imposed were dir ec t e d so l e l y and ex clusively against P a pists, and that it was nev e r th e intention o f the Legislature to affect the Jews at lien. After analy z i ng the oath of abjuration, and contending that the w or d s " on the true faith of a Christain," formed no part of the oath or thing sw orn t o , Sir F. Kelly said, i f it could be shown that the Legislature in tended to impose this oath as a test of Christianity, and intended that the person swearing it should swear him self to be a Christian, he would admit that these were words of substance, and ought not to be rejected. The Cep BARON' observed that unless the words " upon the true faith of a Christian" were the form of oath, the re was no form at all, for i n the statute 6 George 111., the addition of the words, God," did not occur. Sir F. KELLY had just been about to mention that fact. In the 6th George 111., which contained the oath as it was now administered, and upon which exclusively this action was founded, there was no form of swear ing at all, unless they took the words " upon the true faith of a Christian" to be the form of oath. If the constr uction contended for on the other sid e were the true construction, the Acts of 1 George I. and 6 George 111. amo unted to this—that the L eg islature were de termined to ma k e al l t h u King's Jewish subj ects swear they wer e C hristians, or su ffer the penalties of _ a prweiunire. Sir F. K e lly, having referred t o the works of Bish op Sanderson and Puffondorff for definitions of the distinction between the thing sworn to and the mere asseveration or words of swearing, proceeded to argue that the Legislature of this country, in exacting these oaths from Jews as well as Christians, must have intended that the form of swearing should be such as would bind the conscience of a Jew. He contended that the prin ciple he was now maintaining had been established in the ease of e Omichund v. Barker —namely, that when the law permits or requires an oath to be taken, such oath must be taken in the form and manner binding upon the conscience of the party swearing, Ho eon . RNINA JAWITARY 29 ceived that the law of Enland admitted every descrip tion and form of words, and every decription of acts and ceremonies, which might be necessary , according to the religious belief of the swearer. He contended that the Acts of Perliameat to which he had refdrred were to be construed with reference to the reischief which the Legislature intended to remedy, and he would ask whether that mischief was anything but the hosti lity of the Roman Catholics and others who favoured the claims of the Pretender to the throne of Eng land? If their Lordships held the words "on the true faith of a Christian," to be part of the thing sworn to in the oath, it must follow that the Legislature intended that, besides swearing allegiance and abjuration, all persons who took the oath should swear themselves to be Christians. If that were not the intention of the Legislature, the words in question must be mere words of asseveration, by which the party taking the oath pledged his conscience to the truth of his declaration. The only remaining point on which he would address the Court was that arising under the statute Ist and 2d Victoria, chap. 105, which was entitled "An Act to remove Doubts as to the Validity of Certain Oaths," and the first observation he would make on that statute was, that it was declaratory of the law as it then stood. Mr. Baron ALDERSON — I take it that if the defendant had been elected, and he-I taken his seat when the 9th George I. was passed, he might have taken the oath under the 10th George I. without the words on the true faith of a Christian." Sir F. KELLY—That would, no doubt, have been so, but he would not further advert to the construction of those statutes. The present object of his argument was to show that under the Ist and 21 Victoria the de fendant was relieved from the necessity of taking the oath with those words. That Act provided, that "In all cases in which an oath might lawfully be adminis tered to any person in any court of law or equity, or on appointment to any office, or on any occasion whatever, such person was bound by the oath, provided the same should have been administered in such form and with such ceremonies as such person might declare to be binding." The only construction which this Act could fairly receive was that oaths ought to be now adminis tered only in such form as was binding on the parties taking them, and that it was competent to all who were required to take any oaths so to take them. This statute, then, virtually repealed the Acts imposing any particular form of oath, and that would entitle the defendant to the judgment of this Court. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Is not this point which you are now arguing the same in effect as that which you have just concluded, Sir F. Kelly? The question is— What is an oath? and whether certain words are part of it? Sir F. KELLY—That might be so, certainly; and under that view of the matter he felt relieved from the necessity of dwelling at any len i sth on this statute. He would, therefore, without recurring to the points already urged to the Court, bring his argument to a close. He felt it to be quite unnecessary to dwell on the vast im portance of the questions now raised for the opinion of their Lordships, but he might state that he should be much surprised, indeed, if his Learned Friend Mr. Ser geant Channel! should succeed in persuading them that the statutes discussed bore any other construction than that for which he (Sir F. Kelly) contended. He could not do so without persuading the Court that the Legis lature had committed the enormous crime of forcing all the subjects of this realm to take an oath which some could not take without incurring penalties of a most fearful character. That oath was to be taken by every one at the requirement of two justices of the peace, and it would be for the Court, looking to the form of it, to say whether the Act and the oath should be read so as to favour liberty of conscience, and thereby to do jus tice, or so as to introduce into this country the most in tolerable tyranny which could be devised. For these reasons, therefore, he submitted that Mr. Salomons was entitled to the judgment of the Court, and that these penalties could not be recovered. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL then replied, and at the outset remarked that he did not feel it incumbent on him to cccupy much of the time of the Court in so doing. It was not necessary, nor would it be proper for him to follow his Learned Friend into all of the argument he had addressed to the Court, for much of it was of a cha racter which would have been better suited to another place and another assembly, and would have come with perfect propriety from Sir F. Kelly, when returned as Member for the city of Exeter. Hera such topics were inappropriate, and he should not further notice them. He should recall to the recollection of the Court the principal points which he had submitted to them in his opening. These were twofold. He first objected that the oath was not properly taken on the Old Testament; and, secondly, that the oath was a Christian oath, and that, not having been taken in its entirety, it had mot been taken at all as required by law. He had sug gested that these questions should be viewed in the spirit of the times when the oath was imposed on Members by the Legislature, and, having ascertained that spirit and the nature of the oath, the Court should then proceed to inquire whether the oath had been altered or repealed by subsequent legislation. Much stress had been laid on the case of Omi chund v. Barker by the defendant; but the Court would do him (Mr. Sergeant Channel]) the justice to remember that he never flinched from that case. He knew the use to which it had been put elsewhere and what had been said about it; but all that was answered by the fact that that decision applied to a country and to a state of things where no precise form of oath existed, and yet where it became necessary to administer an oath in some form to a witness. That could not be better done than in such form as that witness should declare to be binding on his conscience, and the case was so de cided. But it presented no authority for saying that an oath couched in a form devised and prescribed by Act of Parliament with a view to Christianity could be taken legally in any other form and with any other ceremonies than those prescribed by that Act of Parliament. Such was the substance of the argument for the plaintiff, and the question it raised was, whether the 6th of George 111. was to be considered a dead letter or not, or whether " Victoria" should be substituted for the word "George." Now, every Act on the subject spoke of kings, not as individuals, but in their corporate capacity; and it was most absurd to say that these Acts did not so relate to them. The Act for the re lief of the Roman Catholics of George IV. spoke of the oath of abjuration as being. " now by law required;" and the 3d and 4th of William IV., which relieved Quakers, also contemplated its existence under a Wil liam; so that the argument as to the cessor of the oath fell to the ground. Authorities, too, showed that this ob jection was a futile on e . Th ey were, " R eg i na v. Green," Ventris 171, and 12 Coke Rep., 350. Then same the question, was this a Christian oath required to be taken in a particular form? and, in considering that question, he wished broadly, distinctly, and clearly to claim the right to examine contemporaneous Acts of the Legislature. He had a right to see what was done just before and after the passing of the Act requiring the oath of abjuration in its integrity, as a means of testing the meaning of the Legislature in passing that Act. That had not been used elsewhere, nor had Sir F. Kelly attempted to meet it here to-day. We must look at the spirit of the day to determine what the Legis lature meant. Such an inquiry was all-important on the question whether this oath was or was not meant to be a Christian oath. Those contemporaneous statutes showed that the oath was required to be taken on the holy Evangelists; that it contained the test of the " true faith of a Christian," and was accompanied by the necessity of subscription to the declaration against transubstantiation. All these things taken together showed to demonstration that the oath was saeant to be a Christian oath, and, unless we are to be met by the assertion that there is no such thing possible, we say that it is impossible to deny that the oath is such. Assuming that it is such an oath, the more important question remains, whether it can be taken without the words "on the true faith of a Christian ? " Now those words are part and parcel, and are of she essence of the oath, which is a statutable one. Sir F. Kelly contends they are not part of the oath, because the Legislature never could be suosed to have coespelled any man to commit blasphemy; but the answer to that is that the Legislature does not impose on Jews any obligation to take this oath. All that they say is, if you presume to sit, without taking a particular oath s certain conse quences shall follow. It is impossible to advert to the legislation of those days without recognising in it the spirit of persecution. Penalties were imposed on all who refused to take oaths in the abstract, and also on those who abstained from the parish church, and did not take the secrament ; and, though these restrictions were gra dually altered, they evince the spirit of the age, and throw light on the meaning of imposing a particular form of oath. Mr. Baron MARTIN—Does not the declaration against transubstantiation rather make against than for you ? It was imposed as a test, and is now repealed. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL—That was a fallacy. It did not follow, because one test was repealed, all others were also. these Mr words s n ha A d LD b E e ß en SON i — ntr Y h O d U u r ced arg in u t in o is a n h t we should look at the law as it now stands in struing that oath, and that, by the same reasoning,.st.was introduced look at the law as it stood when this o introduced ? Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL—Yes, om taking that meet. Though the Jews were relievedoft ligatory on all oath at quarter sessions, where it ss's oisa:ththuanotownif., followed that the oath persons to take it, it by no means I and not obligatory, of a Member, which was optional, well that the that was was also to be altered. It might be which was to Legis lature, in dealing with the 1 the argu under. a Protestant succee govern a Protestant country. n oath on Members, select when imposing a sion, should, a form which coul d only be taken by Chriss`tans , and an exam ination of the loth George I. showed tild at the was only al teration "for the purposes of tb at Act;" so t h a t the exception there really proved the ;stile. For these reasons it was contended that the oath was a Christian , oath, and must be taken in its entirety ; ; and assuming that the Court would give judges et t for the plaintiff, it only remained for him (Sergeant Ch annell) to s ay that, as to the 2d and 3d counts, he s'lonlo' enter a nolle prosequi. The declaration went for t hree penal ties; but, as the finding of the jury in the special' ver dict was distributive, and the three votes were ' son only liable one day, the defenda n t could give' for c see penalty. The Learned Barons havinc , deliberat e d a s h ort t i me, The CHIEF BARON stated' that the case had been very well argued on both sides, and that, as it involved questions of great importance, the Court, with reference to that and to the great length of the argument, would wish to consider its judgment, in order that they might have an opportunity of looking over the Acts. The judgment, without d s e sg• ; ng themselves to any particular day would bo given shortly. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 28. (Before Mr. Commissioner iONBIANQUE.) IN RE SOLOMON SOLOMON. The bankrupt was a tailor of No. 1, Strand. This was the certificate meeting. His mounts, from August, 1841, ~. =~v, to November, 1851, show the following iteati:—Credi- tors, 3,083/.; debwrs, good, 137/.; douAful, 1721.; pro-1 perty surrendered, 90/. Mr. LEWIS (who supported the bankrupt) wish( d to make a few observations in answer to the report of the official assignee. In 1845 the bankrupt had been be fore the Court, when ho immediately passed his exami nation, and the parties, who were creditors to the amount of 5,000/., were so satisfied with his conduct that they trusted him again. For the last eighteen months the bankrupt had not got into debt at all; when he found himself unable to go on, he did not then seek to obtain credit. There was no creditor who sought to charge any fraud against the bankrupt; there was no opposition, either by the assignees or creditors. The CommissroNEß—What was the dividend under the former bankruptcy? Mr. LEWIS—The dividend was about Is. 9d. in the pound. The bankrupt received an immediate cer tificate. The solicitor to the assignees offered no opposition. His HoNouu said there had been a previous failure, and under the former bankruptcy there was less than 2s. in the pound paid upon debts to the amount of 5,000/. The bankrupt had again failed, having creditors to the amount of 3, - 000/., and it was very doubtful whether there would be 300/. to distribute among them, after de ducting costs. The trade and personal expenses had ex ceeded the profits by about 1,600/. It was said that ho had paid off old debts, but he ought not to have done that till he had satisfied all his existing creditors. He (the Commissioner) stated it as a warning to other bankrupts, not to pay old creditors at the expense of new ones. It was a principle of common honesty not to rob one man to pay another. The accounts were not satis factory, but they were not very bad; they were not so good as they ought to be, but they were better than the average of persons in the same position as the bankrupt. There was a point very much in the bankrupt's favour, that for the last 18 months of his trading he did not incur new debts, and that would make a difference whe ther he should grant a second or third class certificate, and he should give him the benefit by granting a certifi• cate of the second class, after three months' suspension. Protection was granted. IN RE JOHN CLARKE SANDFORD. The bankrupt was a stationer and bookseller of Pater noster-row; his accounts, extending over two years, show debts, 1,4221.; assets, about 1301. This was the certificate meeting. Mr. Linklater supported the bankrupt. Mr. Innes ap peared for the assigness, and did not oppose. Mr. LINKLATER said there was no creditor complain ing, and he trusted his Honour would grant a certificate of the second class. His HoNouß granted a second class certificate, after hree months' suspension. Protection was granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, BO W-STREE T. Alfred Cowne was re-examined before Mr. Henry on the charge of forging and selling orders of admission to the theatres. The prisoner had been in the habit of visiting public houses, and tendering the orders to servants or othars with whom he could get into conversation. He described himself as a chequetaker at the various theatres, and very freely guaranteed the genuineness of the tickets, to which the names of " Thompson," " Williams," &c., were generally attached. He obtained from 6d. to 2s. for the pit orders, which, on being presented at the theatres, were detained as forgeries. Mr. HENRY, after expressing his surprise that the managers of some of the theatres did not take up the prosecution, instead of leaving it in the hands of a con stable, ordered the prisoner to be committed for trial. Mr. George Churchill, the publisher of the Lancet, ap peared on a summons to answer the charge of having neglected to forward certain copies of that publication to the British Museum. Mr. A. Panizzi, the keeper of the printed books. stated that the defendant had omitted to send the Lan cet regularly for some time, and it was desirable to let all publishers know that they were bound to supply the Museum with a copy of each of their publicatious with out being first requested to do so. It was no part of the business of the officials to apprise the trade of their obligations in this respect. Publishers were bound by the Copyright Act to furnish them, as a matter of course. Mr. Churchill explained that the omission on his part was merely accidental. He was aware of the obligation, and had every desire to attend to it; but from indisposi tion and a pressure of business, the matter had escaped his memory. He would undertake to supply copies with regularity for the future. Mr. HENRY, under these circumstances, imposed only a nominal penalty of Is. for each of three omissions spe cified in the summons. WORSHIP-STREET. James Turner and John Lye were charged with having, in conjunction with two other men not in cus tody, committed the following outrageous assault and robbery. Mr. Joseph Moses, a tradesman in Holywell-row, Shoreditch, was busy in his shop at half-past two on the day preceding, when upon looking out he saw one of the men not in custody lift up the prisoner Turner upon his shoulders, and Turner immediately pulled down the sign over his door and commenced breaking it in pieces. This was evidently done to facilitate their operations at plunder by keeping him employed, and he ran out to rescue his property from being destroyed, but the instant he got to the door the third man dealt him such a heavy blow between the eyes as to bring him to the ground, and inflict a serious contusion and swelling which he now presented. Upon recovering from the stunning effects of the blow he grappled with his assailant, be tween whom and himself a violent contest ensued, and in the course of it he felt his coat forced open, the pocket of his waistcoat torn out, and two sovereigns and a half which were in it were grasped by the third man, but not sufficiently tight to secure the whole, one of the sovereigns slipping through his fingers, and dropping at his feet. This was immediately caught hold of by the prisoner Lye, who attempted to dart off with it, but was seized hold of by the prosecutor's wife, who held him with such determina tion that he first thrust the sovereign into his mouth and swallowed it, and then flung her to the ground in the middle of the road. The woman, however, with spirited courage still clung to the prisoner, who could not shake her off, and both rolled on the ground strug gling together, when the prosecutor caught sight of the position his wife was in, relinquished his grasp of the man he was engaged with, and seized Ley by the neck. Lye called out to his confederates to assist him, and Turner and the two other men not in custody exerted themselves to make the prosecutor release him; but the prosecutor retained his grasp with such pertinacity, that they were obliged to cut the prisoner's neckerchief through with a knife, and they were all four about to take to their heels when the prosecutor flung his arms round the waists of Turner and Lye, and, in spite of the most desperate attempts at escape on their part, clung to both men until a constable came up, when they were at length captured by the officer, the two confederates at once disappearing, with the remainder of the money in their possession. The prosecutor, on concluding his evidence to the above effect, complained that he had been severely injured in the course of the contest, and that, in addition to the appearances which his face pre sented, he was still suffering from several other serious bruises on other parts of his person. The prosecutor's wifo fully confirmed her husband's statement, and having sworn to Turner as the man who cut Lye's neckerchief while the prosecutor was endea vouring to hold laim, deposed to distinctly seeing the latter prisoner thrust one of the sovereigns into his mouth, while one of the confederates who had escaped retained the other gold pieces in his hand. Both prisoners wished to make it appear that the whole transaction was nothing more than a drunken piece of folly, and Lye denied that he had ever seen the sovereign referred to; but a bookbinder named Scott, re siding in the Commercial-road, who was accidentally passing at the time and gave the prosecutor his address, swore positively to seeing Lye thrust it into din a rob and that, suspecting the man had been en g a g e firm hold he called out to the prosecutor's wife to keep hold of him. Mr. HAIKMILL was about to c ommit both p r isoners for trial, but it having been intimated thatno ious character o ne of the men who had effected their escap e .vas a tor well known to the police , wh o it was thou reght would not g his apphension also have much difficultyin en, Lye and Turner were committed that day week, e that the whole might be sent for trial together. LAMBETH- The young woman who described herself as Mrs, Caroline Bishop , the wife of a clereyman of the Esta blished Church, and who had,been previously exam i ned on a charge of illegally pawning a quilt and blanket be longing to her landlady, surrendered to her bail and at tended before the Hon. G. C. Norton. Mrs. Geohegan, the prosecutrix, a decent poor woman, s aid, that on the last examination the prisoner's husband had promised to pay her a sovereign off the debt which was owing for rent; but, instead of this, he had only given her 10s. the in reply to The prisoner,Magistrate said the last time she saw her hu s b an d he toleher he was ,going be to St. Albans to get so me money, she t expected would have been in attendance tand the court. Mr. NORTON o b serve d , that he was anxious prisoner's h us b an d , and as Mr. Elliott had sat on the nanr to see the day Mr. Bishop attended, he should allow the case to stand over to a future day, and allow the prisoner in the interim to be at large on her own recognizances. At a late hour in the evening Mr. Bishop presented himself before the magistrate, and complained of the report of the last examination of the case in the news papers as being most injurious to him, and calculated seriously to damage and injure his character. The reve rend gentleman declared he was not aware, when he at tended before Mr. Elliott on the former day, that the young woman charged with the offence of illegally pawn ing had represented herself as his wife, else he sh ou ld then most pos i t i ve ly have contradicted it, as sh e was not l f le w c i t f e e d perfectly we ll n e e r vtehde that r h a e c t r e e r e e o justified in assum i Mr. NORTON Ob i that the young woman had distinctly stated that she had been married to him (Mr. Bishop) three years ago, at L yie engton, and that he was in bed at the time she took the blanket from off it, for the purpose of pawning it to procure them a breakfast. Mr. Bishop denied this, and said it was as untrue as Tier' assertion about her being married to him. He said oust a representation had gone forth that he had been at 'owed as much as Si. and 3/, a week for his support, but this was untrue, as these sums were merely pro mis es to him, but the promise was never fulfilled. His prop erty, and which, he said, was in the hands of his assig nees, amounted to 23,0001., while his just debts did not el cceed 5,0001.; but he got so entangled in the hands of the s 'awyers that, though 13,0001, was actually due to him, ho could not get a pound, and so straitened was he in per 'uniary matters that he had been compelled to take the c twit from his back, and pawn it for los. he paid the Wadi* 137- Mr. Noserum remarked that he had read the trial on the prosecution ,of Mr. Bishop at the Old Bailey ou charge of pea jury in obtaining declarations on some guns pawned by tetra, and he believed him t Lihocent of the charge imputed, and this circinestance and his be having with great kindness and magnarqnity in a case in which he was before him (Mr. Norton) as a corn plainaur, though he had been grossly ill treated, gave him a favourable opinion of his character, and he was, therefore, anxious to see him that he mi'ht endeavour to bring about a reconciliation between him (the rev. gentleman) an•d his mother and sisters, who were, be understood, highly respectable, and naturally much in censed at his irregular mode of living. Mr. Bishop replied, that he should feel most grateful for his Worship's kindness, and said that, as it had not been the wish of his mother and friends to see him, ho did not wish to intrude on them. As regarded the pro secution to which his Worship had adverted, it occurred entirely through his not consenting to a friend of the prosecutor being his assignee to his insolvency ; and even the prosecutor's counsel admitted he had been hardly dealt with. In reply to the questions of the magistrate, the reverend gentleman admitted that he had slept at the house of Mrs. Geohegan, and supported the young woman who had so improperly assumed his name, and who, he said, he had first met with at Guy's Hospital. Mr. NORTON thought that, while his property was in abeyance, the reverend gentleman should look out for something to do that would support him. Upon which he replied that a college life had ill fitted him for busi ness; and his irregularities had been such, that he could not think of looking for a curacy. In conclusion, Mr. Bishop promised to be in attendance on the day on which the inquiry is adjourned to, and thus the matter stands. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. DIRECT EAST AND WEST JUNCTION. Yesterday a meeting in this matter was held before Master in Chancery _Ferrer. Mr. Speed appeared for Mr. Jeremiah Clarke, of Macclesfield, one of the managing committee, and contended that his client ought not to be placed on the list, which would have the effect of making him liable to pay debts, inasmuch as the committee of management held a deed of covenant from two of the parties who had brought in claims against the estate, and by which the committee were held harmless from liability, and that the parties ought to look for par ment to the funds of the company only. . . Mr. Roxburgh and Mr. \V. Galii . worthy having been heard on the other side, for Mr. Jay, the official manager, The MASTER, in placing the name of Mr. Clarke upon the list, said the object was not now to settle the general list of the contributories with the view of making a call, but simply to ascertain who were the parties responsible for the company's funds con tri • buted by the various shareholders, to whom they would be called on to account as trustees and as the acting committee. The Earl of Harrington, Colonel Elrington, Major Croft, and Messrs. Tyler, Spyers, King, and Can berledge were placed on the list in that capacity, thue. completing the settlement of the list of provisional and acting committee, leaving the general list of share holders to be proceeded with, and the charge o .the official manager, calli ng on the manag i ng co mmittee to account, to be brought in before the Master. NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND HEREFORD. --- T he works on this line were formally commenced on Wu: day by cutting the first sod at the intended cutting at Abergavenny and at Llanvihangel in the presence of a large number of persons amidst considerable rejoi' cing. Three of the directors ; Mr. Pritchard, th e secretary; Mr. Bachelor, the late mayor of Newport: Professor Gordon; Messrs. Rennie, Logan, ° et ; took Newport; the contra c t ors ; M r . D av i s , th e may e ` and Mr. S a y ce , t h e res id en t eng ineer, part in the ceremony. The line is to join at roar pool the Newport and Pontypool line, which is nor, completed and nearly ready for opening. The neW line will pass through Abergavenny and Ll an vihaw, gel to Hereford, a distance of 32 miles. Thera w ill be no tunnel on the whole line from Hereford to Pon' typool and Newport. The works are to be completed in September, 1853, and the line opened for traffic, The works were originally contracted for in 1 847 with the present contractors, when the price of every' thing connected with railways was exceedingly high, but subsequently the contractors, in a very conside rate manner, agreed to modify the terms in accord ance with present prices, and they also fulfilled their part of the origimal agreement by taking shares in the company to the amount o f 50 , 0001. A splendid banquet was given by Mr. Rennie, the contractor, at the Angel Hotel, Abergavenny, to about 70 gentle men interested in the undertaking. Several toa sti were drunk, and the pr ocee di ng o f the day ended 1 0 most satisfactory manner. SOUTH WALES.—The Vale of Neath .Railvv¢l Company are proceeding with the necessary preli m nary surveys for securing railway communicstie with the rich and important mineral valleys of C W/31 , a ; dare and Cwmamman. The T a ff Vale Compa n y projected branches to these places, but it is now tie; derstood that they h ave b een abandoned, the stencil orders of Parliament no t h av i ng b een com plied it s ass A fatal accident occ urre d on t h e l a t ter li ne a few o ago, when a w or k man was kill e d b y th e passeeg r he train from Merthy r p ass i ng over hi m , w hereby was literally cut into two. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND.—YeS ter S the standing orders were complied with in the cose. this company's Bill, to ena bl e the Eastern Couoti.ob, and Black we ll R a il way C ompan i es t o constructing with a pier o r j e tt y i n t o t h e Th ames and fic' e n .. stage at South en d an d Tilbury, and a steam collate d, nication connecting the railway with Greveseii h rt Mr. Fo w l er , the engineer to the co mpany, se t f on the esti ma t e d cost at 400,000 1 , to be rainseciort' shares, with p ower t o b orrow 133 , 0001. oPe- in a re gage. Four directors of the respective coroP enies der' to be a joi n t comm i t t ee f or carry i ng ou t the on taking. standing NORTH STAF FORDSHIRE .—Y es t e rday the been orders of the House were declared not to have "-for complied with in respect of the plans and sections ,es this company's Bill, to make a railway and brano°_, from Colwich to Wolverhampton and WednesburilY; and to establish the mixed gauge thereon, and on c l to North Staffordshire, with running powers, on, so make arrangements with various companies, al' i . ol estimated cost of 395,0001., power being sought o i, the company to use the Oxford, Worcester, and verhampton, and Great Western Railways. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSIIII I The standing orders were complied with in this or s for limiting the tolls now leviable upon the Tr i ! ., arid Mersey navigations and Macclesfield . Canal, c:lmanmehoedsatteiro,n Sheffield, o nsuch n a a n v d i ga ions Lincolnshiret o b e g o i n v epnaytot /3:t of the tolls demandable by the North Staffordshire. THE COUNTRY MARKETS..II L EE DS, JAN. 27.—We were moderately supplie d , vv 1 :s; t he advance demanded ch ec k e d busliw i p hwohledaetr' and holders,, were generally firm, an d price: )at j higher from Friday's rates. Barley was steady. •00. an d beans quite as dear. Other articles without alteratl-io Enisrctraom MEAL MARKET, JAN. 27.--There r b e i ti g t h e meal market to-day 9 sack s oatmeal, each 1 oclf 2801bs. imperial, which sold th us :-7 at iv.chol° 1 at I/ 9s 6d, and 1 at 1/ NOd ; average sold a the epriceo t f 119 s 10d 0-12ths. 1 sack p o t-b ar l ey , 261. i EDINBURGH HAY AN D STRAW' which MARKET, JAN. 2tro barley r em e • Oat straw, from 8s 6d t o lO s Ode ditto, k I of 16 ston es 0 • wheat ditto, 7s 6d t o 9s d '6s Od t° 713 Hay, from 9d to lld per stone. COAL MARKET.—YESTIRDAY. ...., Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market ..,,, sd Bate's West Hartley.. 13s 6d Lumley ................. 1,7 s 3d Carr's Hartley ..... ... 13s 6d Russell's Hetton ..... 1 60 1 Howard's W. H. Neth. 13s 6d Scarborough ........... . 175 6 ,1 Lo ngridge'sW.Hartley 13s 6d Stewart's —.— •••• " 15s 9 0 North Percy Hartley.. 13s 6d Whitwell • " ......... --- I, ' 3 3 ranfield Moor Butes... 12s 9d Kelloe Townley.. Triornley Wall's End, Su). Gosforth .. Eden Main ...... Bell ...........• 1 6 s 9 d Tees Belmont ................» 16s 9, Cowpen Hartley ...... Bradd . 17s 3d Nixon's Merthyr Ana os ° I yll Hetton —........................ ....... 17s 6d Cardiff ..... - Lambton ............. . 17s 3u Ships at market, 59 Sold, 45 BIRTHS. OF A SON ,010 11* On the 27th inst., at Compton-road, Canonbu r f ---. Mrs. Henry Ayscough Thompson. On the 24th inst., at Brecknock-creseent, Camde n- Mrs. George Wilkinson. OE • DAUGHTER. 014 On the 26th inst., the wife of William B. Houb' of Chepstow-villas West, Bayswater. if Of tile On the 25th i ns t., at D onn i ngton , S usse x, the Rev. George F. Daniell. MA Ou the 27th inst , at the RRIED rcl Chu of SL Pet er, wa of square, the Hon. Richard Cornwallis Neville , eldest 011 torr Tole' _ Lord Braybrooke, to Lady Ch ar l o tte Sarah Gra ham daughter of John Hector, late Earl of Norburp p. On the 26th inst., at St. James's Church, Taw:l°4oW merset, Alfred B. B. Watts, Esq., of Bagshot-villa, clogb' ington-road, Regent's-park, to Maria Elizabeth, onlY,ire, ter of T. L. Lowten, Esq., formerly of Manley, Cho,' DIED. Bridg e. On the 27th inst., Mr. Thomas Puddicombe, of 24, ove rs house - place, Newington-causeway, after a long al id illness, in the 58th year of his age. wilbel l3l ' On the 24th inst., at Rufford Abbey, Notts, d for Baron Osten, a General in the Hanoverian Service,. g ri n ce rs manly a Major in her Mejesty's • l6th Regiment a it, j owl- On the 24th inst., at Bathford, Bath, Colone l stone Cochrane, late Scots Fusilier Guards, age d : lnt Liou ttr On the 26th inst., at Eaton place , Sophia, w" - nant-Colonel the Bon. G . C ado g an . S, V A.' On the 26th inst., Lsetitia, wife of W. P. PhilliPP of the Strand. On the '27th inst., Mr. George Stuckey, of Gra cecillirell- Johl l street, aged 57. Rev- ..ae On the 2'.3d inst.. at St. Ives, Cornwall, the ,be ss.- - D un kyne Adams, 8.A., curate of Towedn ack, in ' co ptorir cou nty, aged 38. On the 26 th inst., at Champion-place, ijpper James Moul, Esq., aged 62. ...---------„......--... pie 01 ir OV %Se London : Printed and Published by MER I)° Ne',..oi No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Thz Sun Oftl a c " 0 00 1 1 Strand, in the Preeinct of the SavoY. ill 4 Aliddlosex, Thursday, January 29, 1802.