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no power to withhold or grant pensions, but it was provided that the payments should be made through him. Instead of pensions being paid, as hitherto, by a clumsy and cumberous process, they would be paid directly by a staff officer, under the general superintendence of the Secretary-at-War After a few remarks from Captain PECHELL, the Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed on Friday next. SUPPLY. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, when, on the motion of The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, 1300,000/. was voted to the use of her Majesty. THE METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. The report on the South Sea Company's Bill was then brought up, and agreed to, LACE FACTORIES BILL. Mr. THOMAS S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from 3,426 individuals engaged in lace factories, praying the House to pass a Bill for the limitation of the hours of night labour in all factories where bobbins and net and warp lace machinery was in use. They stated that the present hours of labour were so long that their health and morals were destroyed, and they prayed that the House might pass a Bill to shorten their hours of labour per day, commencing at six o'clock in the morning and closing at not later than ten at night. Ordered to lie on the table. The How. MEMBER then introduced a Bill grounded on the above petition, and as that petition had been received by the House he hoped that no opposition would be offered to the Bill. Sir JAMES GRAHAM bad always had an objection to interfering with the hours of labour. The Hon. Gentleman bad stated very fairly that he had not refused his assent to such a Bill as this being brought in. He did this because until he had enjoyed an opportunity of considering its provisions, he had always understood that the lace trade was different from those in which machinery was the chief means of production; and that, therefore, there was not the same objection to long hours in this business; but when the Bill was brought in he would be able to state more explicitly his opinion respecting it. Mr. FOSTER said that the Bill thus announced was in direct opposition to the rules which had always been laid down of not interfering between the adult labourer and his employer. It was going in the teeth of all they had been doing during the last twelve years. He had another ob jection to this Bill, for it appeared that it would allow children of tender age to be engaged during the excessive hours of from six in the evening till ten at night; and he thought., there fore, that it would be but wise, in the Hon. Gentlemen who were about to bring in this Bill, to attend to this particular point. Colonel ROLLESTON had observed with pleasure that the Hon. Gentleman opposite had presented a petition from the men of similar spirit to that which he had presented from the masters, and he should be happy to give his feeble aid in the promotion of any measure which was likely to abateso great an evil as that of which the petitioners, both masters and men, complained. Mr. HEATHCOTE stated, that he had found it beneficial to his own interests to reduce the number of hours in which the persons were employed in his manufactory ; he would support the introduction of the Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that the proposal of his sill was not to compel the persons employed in the lace and bobbin-net trade manufacture to work for sixteen hours a day, but to prevent them working at all hours of the night. He thought it would be better, in conse quence of the peculiar nature of the present case, that, a ft er the second reading of the Bill, a Committe should beappointed to inquire into the circumstances of the case. Mr. FEILDEN said it had been proved that in many cases young children were compelled to work twenty hours a-clay, and that with two sets of hands, who worked ten hours each ; he thought that there could be no necessity for such night work when there was so much machinery. Sir J. GRAHAM said, perhaps the Hon. Member would allow some time to elapse before the second reading, in order that he (Sir J. Graham) might have an opportunity of making some inquiry with regard to this very important subject, as considerable caution was required before any alte ration could be introduced. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Mr. BROTHERTON moved for a return of the number of bricks upon which duty has been paid in each year, between the sth day of January, 1838, and the sth day of January 1846,. in England and Scotland ; distinguish ing the number of bricks upon which duty has been paid in each county, and the amount paid thereon respectively (in continuation of Parliamentary paper No. 217, of session 1838).—Azreed to. ( ' Intain PECHELL moved for copies of all letters from the Poor-law Commissioners and the Assistant-Commissioner, from the 22d day of March, 1842, to the 7th day of November, 1845, respecting the erection or alteration of buildings or places for mills or other machinery for the purpose of grinding bones and preparing bone dust; likewise, copies of all rules, orders, or letters issued to the several boards of guardians respecting the employment of vagrants and pau pers in pounding cr grinding bones.—Agreed to. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Five. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (Front the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, MARCH 10. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES. Motion made, and Question proposed, `• That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to take into her Majesty's most gracious consideration the petitions of the people presented during the present session of Parliament in favour of a restoration to their native land of Frost, Williams, and Jones." The Mouse divided : MINORITY-AYES, 31. Aglionhy, H. A. Dundas, Adm ral Pechell, Captain Ainsworth, Peter Ellis, Wynn Plumridge, Captain Bannerman, A Escott, Bickham Somers, J. P. Berkeley, Craven Etwall, Ralph Strickland, Sir G Blake, M. J. Evans, Sir De Lacy Turner, Edmund Bowring, Dr. Fielden, John Williams, W. Colborne, W. R. Gisborne, Thomas Wyse, Thomas Collett, John Hall, Sir Benjamin Collins, William Hume, Joseph Crawford, W. S. James, William Disraeli, B. M'Carthy, Alex. Duncan, George . Pattison, James TILLZIS. buncombe, T. Wakley, Thomas MAJORITY—NOES, 196. Acheson. Viscount Evans, William Manners, Lord J. Acland, T. D. Finch, George March, Earl of A'Court, Captain Fitzroy, Henry Muterman, John Adderley, C. B. Flower, Sir J. Maxwell J. _ __ _ . Antrobtis, Edmund Arbuthnutt, Hugh Floyer, John Forman, T. S, Meynell, Captain Miles, William _ Arkwright, G. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Baillie, Colonel Saline, H. J Baine, Walter Banker, George Darkly, Henry Baring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Forster, Matthew Fox, C. R. Frewen, C. H. Fuller, A. E. Gardner, J. D. Gaskell, J. M. Gill, Thomas Gladstone, J. N. Wynne, Sir S. Mitcaife, Henry Mitchell, T. A, Molesworth, Sir W. Morgan, 0. Morpeth, Viscount Mundy, E. M. Napier, Sir Charles Newdegate, N. O'Brien, A. S. Barrington, Lord Beckett, William Benbow, John Bentinck, La i d G. Beresiorti, Major Bodkin, W. IL Boldero, H. G. Borthwick, Peter Bottleld, Berlah Bowes, John Bowles, Admiral Bramston, T. W. Brisco, 11. Broadley, Henry Brook, Lord Brotherton, Joseph Browne, W. • Bruce, Lord E. Bruce, C. L. C. Buller, Charles Buller, Sir J. Y. Cardwell, Edward Carew, W. 11. POle Chandos, Marg. of Chichester, Lora J. Cholmondeley, H. Christie, W. D. Christopher, It. A. Churchill, Lord A. S. Clayton, R. R. Clerk Sir George Clifton, J. T. Cockburn, Sir G. Cole, H. A. Coote, Sir C. H. Copeland, Alderman Corry,' Henry Cowper, W. F. Craig, W. G. Cripps, William Deedes, W. Dick 1115 m, F. F. Douglas, Sir C. Drummond, H. Duckworth, Sir J. Duke, Sir J. Duncombe, A. Du Pre, C G Eastnor, Viscount Ebrington, Viscount Egerton, Lord F. Gordon, Hon. Capt. Goulburn, Henry Graham, Sir J. Greene, Thomas Grey, Sir G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Halford, sir 11. Hall, Col. Hamilton, W. J. Hamilton, Lord C. Harris, Hon. Capt. Hawes, Benjamin Hayes, Sir E. Bart. Heathcoat, John Heathcote, G. J. Ileathcote, Sir W. Henley, J. W. Herbert, Sidney Hildyard, T. B. Hill, Lord M. Hobhouse, Sir J. Hodgson, F.: Hodgson, R. Hogg, J. W. Hope, Sir J. Hope, G. W. Hernby, John Hotham, Lord Howard, C. W. Howard, Henry Hudson, G. Hughes, W. B. lngestre, Viscount Inzlis, Sir It. James, Sir W. Jermyn, Earl Jocelyn, Viscount Johnstone, Sir J. Jones, Captain Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Knight, F. W. Lambton, H. Lennox, Lord H. Liddell, H. T. Lockhart, A. E. Lockhart, W. Lowther, Colonel Macaulay, T. B. Mackenzie, W. F. Mackinnon, W. A. M'Geachy, F. A. Packe, C. W. Pakington, J. S. Palmer, R. Palmer, G. Peel, Sir Robert Peel, Jonathan Phili pa, Mark Polhill, Frederick Protheroe, Edward Rashleigh, W. Reid, Sir John Reid, Colonel Richards, Richard Rolleston, Colonel Round, John Russell. Lord John Sandon, Viscount Scott, Robert Seymer, H. K. Seymour, Lord Smythe, George Smollett, A. Sotheron, T. H. Spooner, Richard Stanton, W. H. Stewart, John Strutt, Edward Taylor, J. A. Thompson, Aid. Thornely, T. Tollemache, J. Tower, C. Trelawny, J. S. Trench, Sir F. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Vane, Lord H. Vivian, J. E. Vyse, R. Waddington, H. S. Walpole, S. H. Walsh, Sir J. IL Wawn, J. T. Wellesley, Lord C. White, Samuel Wodehouse, E. Wood, Colonel T. Wortley, J. S. TILLERS. 'Young, John Baring, ',fury E - 4‘..ourt, T. G. Mahon, I;lscount PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, MARCH 10. The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills ordtired to be brought in sty the undernamed Hon. Members : Mandiester and Leeds and Leeds and Bradford Amalgamation— Mr. Entwisle and Mr. Gibson. Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction Railway Terminus—Mr. Bouverie and Mr. Duncan. Louden, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction (Basingstoke to:Yeovil)—Sir W. Iteathcote, Mr. Benett, and Mr. Seymer. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. The following resolutions were reported frotithisdommittee :- 1. That, in the ease of the Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction Rail way Terminus petition, the standing orders ought to be :dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on correcting the errors on their plan ; but that they shall not take power to make that part of the line in which the standing orders have nut been complied with, namely, a Railway connecting the two forked terminations at the Harbour of Glasgow, without the consent of the owners of the property over which it passes. 2. That, in the case of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction railway (BalingAtoke to Yeovil) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with : —That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, en inserting a clause restraining them firom making the alternative Line and alternative Branch to Yeovil, sad restraining them from, taking compulsorily any lands in the parishes of East Cokertand Sutton Bingham. 3. That, in the case of the Manchester and Southampton Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the par ti es be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on inserting a clause restraining them from compulsorily taking a walled garden, omitted t o be marked separately on the plan, but appearing to form part of a field, No. 46a, in the parish of Appleshaw. That the Committees on this and the preceding Bins do examine, in the first place, how far such orders have been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill. 4. Tha t , in the case of the West Riding Union Railway petition present a petition for a Bill, the standing order ought to if,ordliesapvee to eseciwith : —That the parties be permitted to present a peti tion accordingly. s. That, in the ease of the Somersetshire Midland Railway peti the sessional order ought to be dispensed tion to present the RI% with :-..j'hat the parties be permitted to present their Bill accordingly. 6. That, in the Case of the orsley Roads petition, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. First, second, thi rd, fourth, and fift h r esolutions agreed to.—Re port to lie on the table. SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY RILLS. MONDAY, MARCH 16. Leeds, York, and Midland Junction. Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke (Tring to Saunderton). TUESDAY, MARCH 17. Manchester and Hyde. Direct Birmingham and Leicester. Runcorn and Preston Brook. 3lanehester• and. Poole (Luggershall, Salisbury, and Poole). SINGULAR FORCZ OF VEGETATION.—There is Singular instance of the force of vegetable growth, in penetrating " through a brick wall," now to, be witnessed in the garden of Mr. John Owen, solicitor,. Stretford, near the Corubrook toll- bar. A mushroom bed is bdtitidef.l by a fence wall, and some of the mushrooms growing close to the wall have forced their way through the inter stices occupied by the mortar, and though the brickwork is fourteen inches thick, some fine mushrooms may be seen protruding from the opposite side of the wall.—Manchester Guardian. MR. CIiARLEB MACKAY.—On Friday last the Senatus Aeademicus of the University of 01asgow. by an unanimous vote. conferred upon Mr. Charles Mackay. the author of the " Hope of /he World," " The Salamandrine," and other poems, the degree of LL.D TlikE SUN, LONDON, TIITTRSDAY M-ORNING, MARCH 12, 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 10. The House of Lords ,sat to hear writs of error. The peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brough3m, and Lord Campbell. BRANDAO V. BARNETT. The arguments in this part-heard writ of error, were resumed and concluded to-day. The cue has already occupied five or six days, and we have refrained enter ing into the facts, until the arguments were concluded. The case came before their Lordships upon an appeal in the nature of a writ of error, against a decision of the Exchequer Chamber, (sitting in error), whereby a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, givenin favour of the appellant, was reversed. The facts of the case appear to be be these :—The appellant is a Portuguese merchant , residing abroad, and the respondents are bankers in London. For some time previous to Jan. 1837, the appellant employed a person named Byrne as his London agent, and he in structed him (Byrne) to buy for him, supplying him with money for that purpose,. from time to time, cer tain amounts of Exchequer-bills. Byrne accordingly purchased for the appellant such Exchequer - bills as he required. Byrne kept at this period an account at the respondents' (Messrs. Barnetts') bank ; and be alio, for the safe custody of all such securities as he might become possessed of, kept certain tin boxes at the banking house of Messrs. Barnett (as is customary with bankers to allow their customers to do) in which he, from time to time, deposited his securities, locked up, he keeping the keys himself. As Byrne purchased Exchequer-bills for th plaintiff he deposited them in one of these boxes, locked up, keeping the key himself ; and when it became neces sary that t'e interest on them should be received, and that they should be exchanged for new Exchequer bills, Byrne requested his bankers to do him the favour to receive the interest and obtain in exchange new bills. On those occasions Byrne took the Exchequer bills from the tin box, and handed them over to the bankers for the purpose aforementioned, and as soon as the bankers had received the interest thereon, and exchanged the bills for new on es , th ese l a tt er were , it was alleged, handed back to Byrne by the bankers, and they were again deposited by him and locked up in the tin box. Byrne had from one period to another purchased for the plaintiff Exchequer-b'lls to the amount of 30,0001., which were deposited in the box, and taken out occasionally by Byrne, and placed in Messrs. Barnett's hands for the purpose already stated, and they were always returned again by them to Byrne,' who re-deposited them in their former custody. In .January, 1837, it appears that there remained in the tin box 10,000/. of Exchequer-bills belonging to the plain tiff. These Byrne delivered to the respondents to receive, as they had done before, the interest thereon, and exchange them for new bills, which was accordingly done. At this period Byrne had a ba lance of something more than 1,5001. standing to his credit at his bankers, and certain bills of exchange of Byrne's became due at this time, and beingepresented for pay meat at the banking house, Messers. Barnett advanced Byrne a sum of 3,2001, which, with the balance of 1,300/. belonging to Byrne, was required to pay these bills. This transaction made a balance of 3,2001., in their books due to them from Byrne. The Exchequer bills belonging to plaintiff, amounting to 10,1001, which Byrne had last given to Messrs. Barnett, to receive the interest thereon, and exchange them for new on es, not having been returned to Byrne as usual in due time, he applied to Messrs. Barnett to return them to him, to be deposited in the tin box, as he ha d been theretofore in the habit of doing. Byrne, at this time, it appears, be came embarrassed in his pecuniary affairs, and owing Messrs. Barnett a balance of 3,200/., they refused to return him the Exchequer-bills in question, claiming a lien upon them, according to the general custom of bankers in such cases, in order to secure the payment of the balance due to them from Byrne. The appellant, under these circumstances, bronchi an action in the Court of Common Pleas against Messrs. Harnett, to recover his Exchequer-bills, or the amount thereof. Messrs. Barnett, in defence to that action, claimed as bankers the right to a lien (according to the general custom of bankers in their behalf) of the Ex chequer. bills in question, which Byrne had handed over to them, in order to secure the repayment of the ad vance they had made him. They had never been in formed by Byrne, or had any notice, or the slightest notion, 'hat any or all of the Exchequer-bills «hich Byrne kept deposited in the tin box, and which from time to time he delivered to them (Messrs. Barnett) to receive the interest thereon and exchange for new Exchequer-bills, were the property of the appellant; but they had con sidered and treated them as the property of Byrne, and therefore as such were liable to be retained as a security by them. The appellant's cave before tbe Court below was, that the Exchequer bills were never deposited with Messrs. Barnett, by Byrne, in the course of their busi ness as bankers ; they were never entered in their books to the account of Byrne, and the fact of their b. ing always deposited in the tin box by Byrne, who kept the key, and being delivered by him only for a special pur pose, from time to time, to Messrs. Barnett, and then returned again to him by them when that parti cular object was attained, showed clearly that Byrne was not dealing with them as his own property, and that, even if they had been, the bankers never became possessed of them in such a way as c ould entitle them to have a general lien on them for advances they might make to Byrne. Upon the trial of the action a special verdict was given for the appellant, c hich was afterwards turned into a special case for the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas sitting in banco. Upon argument the Court gave judgment in favour of the a ipellant, holding that under the particular circum stances of this case Messrs. Barnett had not, through Byrne, obtained or were entitled to a lien of these Ex chequer-bills, the property of the appellant. The case was then carried to the Exchequer Chamber, upon a writ of error, by Messrs. Barnett, and the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas was reversed, the Judges being of opinion that Messrs. Barnett were entitled to a lieu on the property. From the decision of the Exchequer Chamber this appeal was brought. Their Lordships, at the conclusion of the arguments, postponed giving judgment. COURT OF CHANCERY, March 11. NICKELS V. TURTON. Mr. BETHELL, with whom was Mr. Campbell, moved for a special Injunction to restrain the above-named defendant, who rest les at Nottingham, from making, selling, or using the braid, or otherwise infringing a patent granted to the plaintiff, Mr. Christopher Nickels, for " improvements in machinery for covering fibres, applicable in the manufacture of braid and other fabrics." Mr. ItErnELL, after describing the nature of the invention, which he said was at once very ingenious and simple, and the product exceedingly valuable, and which had been of vital service to the glove and hosiery trade of the midland counties, proceeded to state that the defendant and others had for some time infringed his patent, and that from the manner in which they carried on their business, and the clandestine purchases which had been made from them by certain manufacturers, some delay had taken place before the evidence could be perfected. It had, however, now been made complete and the patentee had taken and would take every means to protect his rights and suppress the piracies. After further briefly alluding to the nature of the invention and reading the affidavits, his Hosoux, the Vice-Chancellor, directed the injunction to be granted. Solicitor for the patentee, Mr. W. H. Ashurst. spoke highly of the conduct of the reverend defendant dur ing the whole period he had been chaplain. The evidence of Spackman, on the 1 Rh article (this witness, too, being a convict, and not a compete t witness, except under the last Act of Parliament), the Court was bound to receive, but with great caution. The Court was of opinion that, from the Acts stated, there was nothing wrong to be imputed of the character charged. There might have been a weakness or indiscretion, but that there were any such guilty motives oF the character named had not been proved. The other witnesses examined to support the charge were also con victs under sentence of transportation. It was clear that the reverend gentleman did shake hands with the boy, and affectionately talk and laugh with him, but that was done iu the presence of the turnkeys and others of the prisoners in the gaol. The principal foundation of the charge was that the Rev. Mr. Hodgson was shut up upon several occasions with the boy for half or three-quarters of an hour at a time in the day-zoom; but from this the Court could not infer any such immoral conduct as that imputed. The Rev. Mr. Hodgson told the gaoler that he took a warm interest in the fate of the boy, and the Court could not infer that there were improper motives in the conduct of the rev. gentleman towards the party. The Rev. Mr. Hodgson might have acted with weakness, but the Court could not hokl that there was any criminality. The Learned Judge, upon the whole case, held that the articles exhibited against the Rev. Dlr. Hodgson bled not been proved, and dismissed him from the suit, but the Court would not say anything as to costs. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, March 11. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLLNQUE.) IN RE LOUIS. This insolvent, who was a foreigner, came np for his final order, which had been adjourned. The insolvent had carried on business as a shoemaker, :at the west end of the town, and was opposed on the ground that he had con tracted debts without reasonable prospects of being able to pay. It appeared by the evidence that in June last, the insolvent obtained furniture, from the opposing creditor of the value cf 1001., and filed his schedule in the following August. Ihe insolvent was examined through an interpreter, and said that he had not taken away the property, and still carried on business at the same place as heretofore. The Learned Commission= said, he should adjourn the case, to admit of the insolvent paying 201. every half year till the whole of his debts were paid. The insolvent asked what he should do if he could not pay. The COMMISSIONER—TeII hiru I shall withdraw all protection, and he must do the best lie can. IN RE SIMPSON. Mr. STURGEON opposed in this case, on the ground that the in solvent had not inserted the amount he had reserved, beyond the amounts mentioned in the schedule. Yet the insolvent had paid money to his attorney, and had also given security to pay any fur ther costs. The Learned Commission= said that he should have been sorry to have agreed with the objection, on the simple want of form, but where it was shown money had been reserved, and security given, to an =ascertained amount, he should dismiss the petition. SECONDARIES COURT, March 11. (Before Mr. Secondary PorrEa.) JAHROLD AND OTHERS V. ANDREWS ♦ND OTHERS. This was an action to recover the amount of a joint and several promissory notes. Two of the defendants had suffered judgment to go by default, but the other, Henry Andrews, jun., pleaded his minority. Mr. WinnE, who appeared as counsel for the plaintiffs, said the plaintiffs were members of a society at Manchester, called the Man. chester 501. Loan Society. The defendant, Henry Adams, was an iron. merchant. The Society had been formed for the assistance of persons in trade in time of need, each shareholder being entitled to receive on each share 501., as funds were in hand, giving a bonus. The defendant had received the money, but now pleaded his minority. He (Mr. Wilde) however, hoped to establish the fact that the de fendant had done an act which bound him in law, notwithstanding his minority, for he had at the time of making the engagement asserted that he was of age. Mr. H. Elliott said he was an auctioneer at Manchester, and se• cretary of the society. Defendant became a member by signing the deed, and he would Hot have been admitted had he not said that he was of age. He paid up several instalments, but there was Si. 6s. 10d. still due. Defendant distinctly said he was of age. He is an iron merchant. The deed had not been enrolled, for when :the Company was established, the Act requiring it had not passed. Mr. JOYCE, for the defendant, submitted, in the first place, that the defendant was a partner in the society, and consequently could not be sued for debt. • Mr. WILDE urged that there was a covenant authorising the trustees to sue and be sued, and that by the same deed the defendant, as borrowed, had admitted his liability to be sued as for liquidated damages. The SECONDARY said that as it was a case which must go before the Court above, he should not give an opinion on the point. The objection however only went to the " account stated," it was still necessary for the defendant to make out his pea of minority. , Evidence was adduced, clearly proving that the defendant was under age. The SECONDARY left it to the jury, who found a verdict for the defendant, on the plea of minority. The Learned Judge said the other question could besaised in the Court above. Ills own opinion was that the action could be maintained. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIR .7UlT—i'Vlaidvtone, Tuesday. The Commission for the county of Kent was opened on Monday. There was nearly a hundred prisoners for trial, and on the civil side 29 cases are entered, three of which are special jury cases. The Lord Chief Juttice sat at Nisi Prins, and Mr. Baron Aldason presided at the Crown Court. and there was an error of fifty feet in the levels. which if they hail gone to Parliament, would have had the certain effect of throwing out their Bill. In cross-examination the witness ailmitt d that, the defendant was frequently consulted in the course of the Proceedings, and that he was considered a respont-ible pa •ty. Sergeant SIIEE was about to reply upon this eviderce. when the Lord Chief Justice intimated that nothing bad been proved to effect the plaintiffs claim. The jury accordingly returned a verdict for the plain tiff for the full amount claimed, 1171., over the sum he had received on behalf of the company, from Mr. Beaumont. IVORFOLK ClRCUlZ—Bedford, March 9. The commission for this county was opened on Saturday afternoon amid great numbers of people, attracted, not only by the tineneas of the weather, but also by the gaiety of the sheriff's equipage, which far outshone thoSe heretofore 'sported" in this county by his predecessors in that ancient and honoured office. The nisi prius business is not beyond its usual length, if the causes are numbered, there being only three on the list ; but there is one case among them which is to be tried by a special jury, in which the parties are master and servant, and the cause of action the alleged invasion of the latter's marriage bed by the former. The Attorney-General is spe cially retained for the defendant, who is a justice of the peace and a recur of this counts', and, moreover, a man of near " three rcdre years and ten ;" so that, as may be expected, the case is in everybody's mouth in the town. The calendar is heavy, containing the names of 37 pri soners, and embracing 25 cases, including arson, horse steal ing, poaching. and a variety of minor offences. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAums.) Charles ffurner and William Farr were indicted fur steal ing 19 fowls, the property or Mr. Hunt, at Luton, on the 23d December last. Mr. GUNNING conducted the case•for the prosecution, and from the testimony of the witnesses calied by the Learned Gentleman it was elicited that the prisoner Warner was on the premises of the prosecutor, who is a respectable solicitor, on the Bth of December, working in his farm-yard, and that he had made very particular inquiries both as to the num ber of the fowls on the farm, and also as to their nocturnal resting-place, which turned out to be an open shed, the door of which was only secured by a button. On the 2•? d of December the fowls were counted and found to be correct, their number being 31, but on the 28th only 12 were to be found. Ftr some time no trace whatever could be discovered either of the fowls or the fowler who carried them off, though the fowl• boy saw Warner, 'and said he wished some body would find his fowls for him ;. adding, that he knew the two cocks very well, for they had been fighing the day be fore the robbery, and their comba were very much pecked. Not long after this a clue was found to the thieves in the testimony of one Dilley and his son, from which it appeared that on the 22d Warner, who lodged at Dilley's, said to Farr that " he knowed of a place where he could get a precious good haul of fowls for their Christ mas dinner, and that it was at old Hunt's." These worthies now appeared in the box against their friends, and more over swore that on the night of the 23d the two prisoners came home with a lot of fowls in Warner's pockets, which were plucked and made into a Christmas pudding, of which the whole party partook. This done, " Old Dilley" became compunctious, and ordered his lodger to take away the rest of the. fowls out of his house, and accordingly 'War ner and young Dilley having cut off their heads and feet re moved the carcases to a place of security, while they threw the heads, feathers, feet, and offal into a hedge close to the Rabbit public-house, where they were accordingly found by Dilley and the policemen, on the 10th of January following When these relics of the departed fowls were produced to the fowl-boy, he bad no hesitation whatever in swearing to the heads of the two pugnacious cocks. So that the case being c'early made out, both the prisoners were found Guilty. Mr. Justice MAULE then proceeded to pass sentence upon the prisoners (who were but 19 years old), and in so doing pointed out to them the folly of their way.:, as exemplified in their conviction to-day, on the evicience of their friend " Old Dilley," who, like all old thieves, had the wit to keep out of harm's way, while he contrived to profit by the crime of others, whom he afterwards assisted to bring to punishment. This, he hoped, would be a warning to them when they should have accomplished the sentence of the law, which was that they should each be imprisoned for the space of 12 months. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—Lincoln, March 9, The Right Hon. Sir N. C. Tindal and the Hon. Mr. Justice Coltman arrived in this city shortly before 4 o'clock on Satur day, and immediately opened the commission, and charged the grand jury for the city at the City-hall ; aftei which their Lordships proceeded to open the commission for the county at the Countv-hall, in the Castle-yard. Their Lordships attended Divine serv,ice at the Cathedral yesterday morning, and took their respective seats in the County-ball at 9 o'clock this morning ; Mr Justice Coltman presiding in the Crown Court, and the Lord Chief Justice on the Civil side. Both the Learned Judges commenced with the trial of the city prisoners—the former until the time arrived for, and again after, charging the county grand jury, and the latter until the nisi prtus jury were ready. There appeared 8 causes for trial for the county, and 1 for the city, which latter, and 4 of the others, have been dis posed of to-day. besides one withdrawn ; so that 3 only re main fur to-morrow. The calendar, as will be seen, is numerically, as well as in point of the heinous character of the offences; more than ordinarily heavy for this county. It presented the names of 39 prisoners, and 27 cases for tile], of which latter 4 were of burglary, involving 9 prisoners; 1 of sheep stealing, involv ing 4; 3 of robbery with violence, involving 6; 2 of un natural offence ; 4 of arson ' • 2of horse stealing ; 1 of forgery (a Post-office order for 310 ; 1 of sending a threatening letter; 3 of being armed at night for the purpose of taking and killing game; 2 of uttering and having is posse:siou base money ; and 1 of concealment of birth. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) THOMAS BROMIIEAD V. THOMAS STARLING. This was an action on the case to .recover damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff by being bitten, and having his clothes rent by a ferocious dog, kept by the defendant. The declaration charged that the dog was used and accus tomed to attack and bite mankind, and did bite the plain tiff. .First plea, not guilty; second plea, that the defendant did not keep the dog. Mr. Whitehursi, Q.C., and Mr. Wildman conducted the plaintiff's case Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Willmore ap peared as coursel for the defendant. The plaintiff is a journeyman blacksmith, and the de fendant the keeper of a beer shop in Far. street, Horncastle. As tac plaintiff, shortly after ten o'clock at night, on the 27th of May last, was passing the defendant's house, in his way along Par-s'reet, two dogs of the bull -terrier breed, one being of a red and white, and the other of a black and white colour, rushed upon and attacked him, and the latter, Lavirk bitten and rent his clothes near the shoulder, very severely bit his right hand. A neighbour of the de fendant,seeing what was occurring, came out from his shop on the opposite side of the way and helloed to the dogs, upon which they ran away up the defendant's yard. The plaintiff' then pursued his way until he met a policeman, to whom he made complaint of what had happened to him. and showed him his terribly lacerated hand, and who ac companied him back to Sperling s, and went up the back yard, where he saw the red arid white dog, but not the other. He then went, to the defendant and asked him where his dogs were, and he answered that they were both locked up. The policeman then said that he had just seen the red and white one up his back yard, upon which he demanded to know what business he had upon his Premises, and stated that the other was locked up. The constable said, " Yes, but it was not locked up a few minutes ago," and the de fendant replied that it had been locked up all the evening. and a man named Attercliffe could prove it. The policeman to this answered that the man Attercliffe would swear to anything for a pint of bear, and he would not believe him upon his oath. Thomas Wilkinsm, a lad in the service of Mr. Cooke, a veterinary surgeon, living next door to the defendant, de posed. that lie kept a Tom and Jerry shop (beer-shop), and two dogs, one of which was red and white and the other black and white. The latter was of the bull-terrier breed, and very savage, and bit him (the witness) 'when he was going to Mr. Day's bakehouse, carrying the bread. He was on one side,of the road, and the dog on the other, and crossed over to him, and he did not see him until lie got held of him. Both the dogs were at the plaintiff, and the black and white one bit his hand. Mr. Hewett, a potter, called our, and then both the dogs ran up the defendant's yard. He had fre quently seen them there, and knew them both very well.: Other witnesses proved the ferocious character of the dog, and that it was used to attack people, and left no reasonable doubt that it was kept by the defendant. The plaintiff had suffered great pain, and been ill for se veral weeks ; he had also incurred some small expense in ef fecting a cure. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 25/. CROWN COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) Two Irish labourers, of the names of Welch anti Glynn, Were indicted for a rape, within the precincts of the city, on the 22'l of August last, upon the person of one Mary, the wife of George Lee, a monstrously dirty member of the Om , tribe, at the age of about 60. Mr. D'Eyncourt conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Macaulay defended the prisoners. It appeared that there was an encampment of gipsies in Greetwell-lane, in or near the city, on the night in question, which, at the dead hour of the night, whilst the tribe slum bered in peace was outrageously stormed by a party of wanton Irishmen, who remorselessly demolished their tents, and sought to defile the female members of the tribe, succeeding successively in their base assault upon the prosecutrix, whilst her husband was engaged in running after his Ilse, which had made off down a lane with a load of blankets at the out break of the engagement. She, with her husband, reposed in one tent, her two daughters, of whom one was a widow, in another, and a kinsm a n and his wife in another. She had also a son, twenty-six years old, who seemed to have acted as patrol. The assault opened with an attack upon the tent of the daughters, which, after they had refusedto let the Irishmen go to bed to them, was carried, and razed to the ground ; but the Irishmen being, by recourse to throats and nails, repulsed in their further attack upon the daughters, turned off to the o ld woman's tent. While Glynn succeeded with the mother Welch held the widowed daughter, after which the prisoners interchanged their posi tions. There was a party of nine or ten Irishmen behind the hedge. The unhappy aged victim of Irish concupiscence deposed to the leading facts. The parties first began heaving stones. The two prisoners did it. The other nine or ten did not in terfere or throw stones. They knew previo usl y th at the men wanted - to go to bed with the young women, who wouldn't have it on no account. One of the men hugged and ravished witness. Welch began. Welch then threw her down and ravished her. She struggled as much as she could while she had strength, but she was an old woman, and hadn't much strength left. Welch, with the blunt edge of a hatchet, be longing to the camp, struck her under the right ear after both had had connexion with her. They then dragged her about the road with violence. Each held the daughter Susan while the other proceeded with her. Cross-examined—One of those she called her daughters was a wife, and large in the family way, and. was glad to run away in her chemise with her baby tucked under her arm. Had no means of knowing where her husband was while she was ravished. They s toned him away. (The ex amination of the husband before the magistrates was here pat ie, w hich was upon several points very materially at variance with her statement here to day.) Welch used th e h atc h et. I f s h e b e f ore stated it was Glennit was because s h e was so f r i g h tene d. Could take oath that both had conn ex i on w i t h h er. Th ey l os t blankets and clothes, her husband' s h a t , and some strops. Her husband went right off tow ar d s Lincoln. After the ravishing they struck the daughter a blow, which made her reel across the road. Susan Herring., the widowed daughter, deposed to the same story that the old woman told to-day. The men came to th eir camp, and wanted to go to bed with them. They began to pull up their camps—her camp and another. AII the rest but she and her mother went away. Glynn held her so that she couldn't assist her mother. [She then de scribed what was done by Welch to her mother.] They threatened t o mur d er them if they gave any alarm. Welch afterwards drag ge d h er ( w i tness ) a b ou t the road by the legs, and use d h er very bad indeed. Sh e now sa id (having .before the magistrates, like her mother, said as to both mat ters quite the col trary), that it was Welch who struck her mother with a hatchet before he ravished her. The men all went away because they thought they would be murdered amongst so many. The mother and daughter both told their tale with an air of noncharance, and quite con amore. George Lee—Was the husband of the old woman. The two prisorers came to the camp and began to stone them. The two prisoners began to pull their tents down. He col lected their things and set them on his ass. They struck him, and he thought they had broken his thigh. His ass, when he had packed it, bolted and went up a lane. He bolted after it, caught the excited animal, and placed it in a close. He was so hurt' that he lay down in a ditch 100 yards from the encampment. Heard them two men with his wife and daughter—a ravishing of his wife, but he kept a close look out upon his ass. In answer to a question, whether he assisted the women at all, he only said, "No, I followed my a-s." Heard the cries of his wife and daughter from the camp, but he was so frightened that he still ran after his ass. Thomas Ashton, police-constable, of Lincoln : deposed that, shortly before three o'clock A.M. on the 22d of August last, the son and kinsman came to him. Went with them to the encampment; saw the tents all torn up in the most desolate state. Saw Mr. Lee about 30 yards from the camp, towards Lincoln. A quarter of a mile off found 50 or 60 Irishmen in a barn. Ile first secreted himself, and saw the two prisoners in the yard. Took them into custody. The remainder of the 50 or CO Irishmen were all undressed, and in sacks coming up to their throats, all lying in a row, bedded down. This being the case for the prosecution, _ _ His LORI;SIIIP intimated to the Learned Counsel for the prisoners, that in a case where there were such grave consi - derations, he used not address the jury upon the charge of felony. As to an assault having been committed, there was evidence confirmatory of the story told by the women, and he might, if he thought proper, address the jury upon that. Mr. MACAULAY did so briefly. Mr. D'EYNCOURT, the depositions having been put in on behalf of the prisoners, replied, and The Learned JUDGE briefly summed up as to the assault, whereupon . _ The fury retired a verdict of Guilty of a common assault. The Lamed JUDGE observed that it was clear that the prisoners had been guilty of a very atrocious assault, and sentenced them respectively to be imprisoned in the common gaol of this county, and kept to hard labour, for • the space of six calendar months. POLICE INTELLIGEN CE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young woman of very fashionable exterior, who appeared before the Lord Mayor, under the name of Maria Jarman, spinster, was charged under the following ugly circumstances. Miss Frances Woolley, of Argyle street, stated that on Monday she got into an omnibus, at King's-cross, for the purpose of coming towards the City, and carried with her half-a-pound of tea, for which she had paid 2s. 7id. She deposited the tea, which was in a blue paper, on the seat, and when the omnibus reached Old Street-road, she got out, and the omnibus, of course, proceeded towards the City. She had not walked far when she missed her parcel of tea, and she immediately called a cab and desired the.driver to go after the omnibus. At the Bask she overtook the omnibus, which was then empty, and she told the conductor of ber loss. The parcel produced was, she believed, that which she had left behind her in the om nibus. She recollected that the defendant, before the Lord Mayor, sut in the omnibus by her side. Frederick Arsell, conductor of one of the Metropo litan omnibusei, stated that the complainant and the defendant were passengers in his omnibus. The com plainant got ont at the corner of Old Street-road, but came up to hiM at the corner of Bartholomew-lane, and said she had forgotten a parcel in the omnibus; observing that the defena ant who was the last person who got out of the omnibhs, was walking towards the Royal Ex change, he followed and overtook her. He then a.ked her to return with him, and in turning round Bartholo mew-lane, she said she had taken up a parcel in the om nibus, and wish ed to return it. The complainant then came up, and the defendant immediately handed the parcel to her, saying, My dear lady, I did not take it with any bad intention, but I thought I should tee you again.' Mr. Bozor attended as solicitor for the defendant, who was bound. over to appear at the Central Criminal Court. NICKELS V. ROSS, JUN. Mr. BETHELL also applied for an injunction to restrain this de fendant, who also resides at Nottingham, from manufacturing, using, or selling the braid. He stated this case to be similar to the pre ceding, but with the additional aggravation, that this defendant knew that a verdict had been obtained against his father, with whom he had been closely connected, for infringing this same patent, and that the patentee had found on issuing execution, that the defendant in that action had sold off, or removed his machines and furniture, locked up his house. and left the town. In this case, also, his Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR granted an injunction. Solicitor for the patentee, Mr. W. H. Ashtast. ARCHES' COURT, March 10. (Before Sir 11. JENNER FUST.) THE OFFICE OF TILE JUDGE PROMOTED BT MR. BURDER V. THE REV. C. 11. HODGSON..-JUDGMENT. The arguments in this case occupied the attention of the Court for several days in the course of the last term. It is a proceeding by articles against the rev. defendant, the chap lain of the county gaol of Salisbury, for having been guilty of improper conduct towards a boy of the name of Bcsant, who had been convicted of purloining valuable property from letters which passed through the Post-office, in which Besant had been employed. The office of the Judge was promoted by Mr. Burder, the secretary of the Bishop of Salisbury. For some time the Court had thought that, there not having been a preliminary conviction, it could not accept the letters of requisition, but, in order to rid the Church of England of such a scandal, he (Sir H. J. Fust) accepted them, so as to give the party proceeded against the opportunity of deny ing the imputations alleged against him. The offences charged were of a peculiar nature, and the case came be fore the Court under somewhat novel circumstances. The Court would not enter into the disgusting details that were of necessity referred to in evidence, and in the argu ments ; and should he (Sir H. Jenner Fust) be thoroughly satisfied that the charges laid were fully proved the strongest sentence that could be passed must be pronounced. The party proceeded against had been the chaplain of the gaol from 1828 till 1843, a period of very nearly sixteen years, holding also several offices in the Church. Did the articles propounded against the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, and the evidence produced in support thereof, show that-the crime alleged had been perpetrated? The Court went over the articles in which the alleged crime was referred to, a further allusion to the nature of which cannot with propriety be made here. The boy, Besant, was committed to gaol for a post office robbery, and sentenced to transportation for life, but, through the in strumentality of the Rev. Charles Henry Hodgson, the sen tence was commuted. Undue familiarities between the rev. gentleman and the boy (who was firm seventeen years of age) have been alleged—that provisions and wine were given by the rev. defendant to the lad, contrary to the regulations of the prison ; but of this there was not any legal proof. There was no doubt that thechaplain did interf ere in order to obtain a commutation of the sentence, as it was the boy's first offence, and having come from respectable parents. There was no secret about this. It may have been weak on the part of the chaplain to have shaken hands with the boy—it may have been foolish to have acted on his part as he had done—but as chaplain of the gaol, and this boy being a juvenile offender, the Court could not consider that such c e on et d n u a c ts tearried with it any suspicion of undue or immoral purposes.hehr The Lea rn ed Judge then went over the evide nce of y respectsee principal the thelat t letters witnesses received( lalconvicts),lbyi lr. Ho d gson,antl held that and wa s delivered any to the improperboy,object p in ur v t ie d w id i n n ot t d he isc a o t y t e e r nt t i l o la n t s there were paid. As t o th letter from the Secretary of State, commuting the Sentence from transportation for life to seven years, that was a puy t e h d e oculnent, and was of course n. h. The Court must known by the governor ing wrong on the consider and presume that therepwrias: part of the Rev. Mr. Hodgson in obtainin g t commutationtitleur of so severe a sentence; on the contrary express its conviction that the object was a most Cour t must e worthy one. But it was said that the attentionsra'asid by the rev. gentleman were more particular than to paid other prisoner. The Court did not think this could be made a charge, especially to support such a heinous offence as that alleged. The rev. defendant might have been weak in those attentions, but the Court could not infer that a crime, such as had been alleged, had been committed, or that any implication of the kind could by possibility be inferred. After adverting to many other branches of the case, a detailed re ference to which, under the circumstances, ought not to be given, the Learned Judge held that there was not any im proper partiality shown towards the boy Besant; that the endearing appellations made use of, such as calling him " his dear boy," showed nothing of guilt. The reverend defendant was an old man, and made use of foolish expressions. That this was the opinion of the Governor of the prison, Mr. Dowding, there could not be any doubt. The Governor " . "'.!!"11.r.^4. CROWN COURT. James Bowray. 24, wai indicted for a misdemeanour, in having unlawfully thrown a stone upon the Gravesend and Rochester Railway, and thereby endangered the safety of the passengers travelling upon the line. Mr. Smith conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Russell appeared for the defendant. From the evidence it appeared that some time prior to the 20th of January there had been repeated complaints of persons throwing stones at the trains as they passed upon the line ; and, on the day in question, as the five p.m. train was passing under Higham-bridge, the de fendant was seen to throw or drop a stone, which fell upon one of the carriages. He was taken into custody, when he admitted that the stone fell from his hand, but he said he had no intention or idea of doing any mischief. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in passing sentence, told the deft ndant that he believed that it was very probable that he did not intend to do any mischief, but stud the effect of his acting as he did might have been most serious, and might have occasioned the loss of life. Under these circumstances, and with a view to deter other persons from the commission of a like offence, he felt it to be his duty to pass a sentence of some severity, which was, that he be imprisoned and ktp: to hard labour for six months. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.) HARTWELL V. CURLING. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who i 4 the proprietor of a newspaper published in Surrey and Kent, called the Mercyry, to mover the amount of his bill for advertisements connected with o:ie of the pro jected Kentish railways, and to which the defendant acted as solicitor. The jury found for the plaintiff. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN.) WDOWALL V. DUNNINGTON AND OTHERS. This was an action brought to recover the amount of a bill for printing books of reference, circulars, and other matter in connexion with a projected railway called the London, Nottingham, and Sheffield Direct Railway. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Lush were for the plaintiff. Mr. Prentice appeared for the defendent. The plaintiff is a printer in Fleet-street, and he had been engaged to perform the work specified in the decla ration. Tho defendant, and other persons mentioned in the record, had taken proce, dings in connexion with the railway in question, and they were now sued as the parties who were responsible for the payment of the plaintiffs claim. _ _ _ The Jury having consulted for a short time, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE told them that there was no defence to the present action. The defendants had suffered their names to be put forth to the public as part of the managing committee of the scheme in question, and they were legally responsib!e to the plaintiff: A verdict was then returned for the plaintiff, fur the sum of 1671. 17s. 6d. FINLAYS )N V. PILBROW. This was another railway case. The plaintiff is an engineer, and he sued the defendant, who is the well. known atmospheric railway projector, for a balance due to him for services rendered in making surveys for the Grave::end and London Direct Atmospheric Railway, for which the defendant was the engineer. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Willis were for the plaintiff, Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Lush for the defendant. David Finlayson, the brother of the plaintiff, deposed, that in the beginning of October last he was in the Hall of Commerce in London, where he saw a person named Beaumont, who rectuired the services of the plaintiff to survey the line, and make the levels for the proposed London and Gravesend Railway. An appointment was afterwards made to meet at the office of the Company, in King William-street, and they there saw the defendant, who said that any arrangement made with Mr. Beau mont was just the same as if made with himself ; sod it was then agreed that the plaintiff was to have three guineas a day, but it was stated that he would not have any money on account because the depos'sts had not come in. In consequence of this agreement the plaintiff proceeded to make the necessary surveys, and was occu pied in so doing until the 16th November. Cross-examined—He was not aware that Mr. Pilbrow had disposed of his atmospheric railway patent to a company, who were to work it on their own behalf. There might have been something of this sort, but he was not aware of the fact, and he always considered Mr. Pilbrow the responsible man. He took away one or two of the prospectuses, in order that he might see whether they contained the names of any responsible persons from whom he might recover the money due to him one of these" odd days.—(A laugh) The company was in debted to him 321. or 331 for services he had rendered. Witness was employed by Mr. Beaumont, who was the engineer, to take beatings upon the line. Mr. Arthur Benjamin Burke, who described himself as a wine -merchant, gave similar evidence as to the character of the agreement. _ Cross-examinee—Before witness was a wine-mer ' chant, he used to go on messages for the plaintiff and assist him in his business. Sometimes he gave him half-a-sovereign, and sometimes a sovereign, according to the s manner in which heemployed him. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. CHAMBERS said, the defence he hail to offer to this action was that the defendant was not liable to the plaintiff, and had never entered into any such agreement as the one referred to. The fact was, he was the pro jector of a new principle of railway traction upon the tmospheric principle, and he had disposed of his in vention to the company in question, and the only con flexion he had with them was that he was eccasLinally consulted with regard to the details of his invention. The actual engineer was Mr. Beaumont, and he it was who made the arrangement with the plaintiff, and he was liable to him if any body was. Mr.. Beaumont was called as a witness—He deposed that he was appointed engineer in-chief to the Graves end and London Direct Railway. About the beginning of October they were desirous of preparing to go before Parliament. He went to the Hall of Commerce, and saw the plaintiff walking about with a level un his shonlder.—(A laughter.) • Mr. Chambers—l suppose that was to indicate that he wanted a job.—(lmmense laughter.) Witness—He supposed it was- As there was a great demand for persons of that class, he entered into com munication with him, and eventually offered him three guineas a day, but as witness, at that time, had not, him self, made any practical .engagement with the company, he was desirous of communicating with Mr. Pilbrow before he completed the engagement, but when he did so, it was entirely upon his responsibility. He had paid the plaintiff 721. los., and he considered this was a great deal more than he was entitled to. All he had for this sum was the small plan, which he now produced, BOW-STREE T. A man of very gentlemanly appearance, who gave his name as Charles Nicholson Leefe, was charged with having committed an as sault on a man na med Donovan, the porter at the Victoria Saloon, in Brydges-street, L rury-lane. It appeared, from Donovan's own'account, corroborated by that of a fellow-servant, that, about a quarter to three o'clock yesterday, the prisoner, with three friends, was leaving the Saloon, when be, Donovan, interrupted him, and asked him to "remember the porter." He said he would see him d-i first; and Donovan persisting in his claim, he seized him by the collar, and struck him several times. They strtr4gled for some time at the door and in the street, and Do novan ult'.mately gitve the prisoner in charge. The policeman who took the charge said that he saw the prisoner and Donrovan struggling in the street, and did not see Donovan strike the prisettier. The prisoner said that on his refusal to " remember the porter," Donovan shut the door and would not let him out. He attempted to fbrce his way out, and Donovan struck him in the face. He then re turned the blow, and he certainly did struggle with him, but it was in endeav ouring to force his way out. Mr. JAEDINE asked whether the prisoner had any witnessas ? The prisoner said that his three friends went with him to the stat'ou house, and when the charge was made there he wished them to be examined, but the inspector refused to hear them, and he (prisoner) told them not to come to the Police-court, as he thought it useless if they would not be heard. Mr. JmunNE said it was not the inspector's duty to hear evidence on - the part of the prisoner, but if the witnesses were present they would now i)e heard. The prisoner said they were not present. Mr. Jaunt NE said that he would give the prisoner an opportunity of sending for hi friends that they might be examined. The prisonor said that it would be useless to send for them, as they were professi mai men, and would not be at home. Mr. JARDI CE said that as there was no reason to suppose that the witnesses weiz not speaking the truth, and as there was no evidence on the other sick, he must convict the prisoner of tke assault, and he would line him :31., or in default of payment, one month's impri sonment. • Inspector Peat ce, of the F division, said that ho wished to ob serve that the VI 3toria wine-rooms were a very great annoyance to the police. CorrOaitits were very frequently made against Donovan by gentlemen from whom he had obtained money, but that few gen tlemen were willitg to come torward against Donovan, as they did not wish to expose tAemselves. GOWNSMEN'S BRAWLS AT CAM- BRIDGE. (From the Cambridge Independent.) We very much regret to state that Tom Thumb's exhibi tion was considered by the "gentlemen" of the University a good opportunity for favouring this town with one, or rather a series, of those disgraceful rows, in the indulgence of which they appear to take great delight. On Morriay evening a performance was given at nine o'clock, at the reduced price of 6d., to enable the humbler classes to be present, when a "band of fierce barbarians," in academic costume, meanly availed themselves of the lowness of the charge to go and make a disturbance; and not content with an exhibition of ruffianism to women and children, they damaged the Town hall, for the repair of which General Tom Thumb has had to pay W. At the, conclusion of the performance they com mitted several assaults upon townsmen in the Petty Cury—a disturbance and fight' were the consequence, and as usual with these silly gentlemen, they ran away, glad to escape chastise ment, at the expense of their caps, two or three of which were afterwards found in the Curl., and served as footballs to the little urchins who were attracted by the disturbance. On the following evening the sane conduct was again displayed, and for several hours the Market-place and Its vicinity were disturbed by fighting and rioting, the indecent violence upon unprotected females, exceeding, if possible, that of the pr,!- ceding evening. The police interfered, and on Wednesday morning warrants and counter warrants were granted against several of the, parties, and the cases heard on Friday. Surely the University might adopt some steps to prevent the repeti tion of such disreputable proceedings. POLICE COURT', CAMBRIDGE, .4 . RIDAY.---The Hon. G. Calthrop, an undergraduate of Trinity College, was charged with assaulting p.c: Freestone on Tuesday night, at Tom Thumb's levee. Mr.- Calthrop had also taken out a warrant against the policeman ; but when the case had proceeded to sonic length, and as the magistrate (Mr. Fisher) said, proved against ➢Zr. Catthrop, our chief constable of police, Captain Bailey consented to abandon the case, and each party were ordered to pay their own evpenses. However, the public shall haw a full report of the proceedings next week, and they will then be able to judge for themselves. At the same time another person was charged with an assault, who did not fare so well as his aristocratic co-defendant. His name was " Billy Moden," who was fined 10s. for an assault on R. Freeman. Mr. Calthrop had been requested to take a seat, and Moden, until removed, persisted in occupying the same place, saying, amidst the laughter of the Court, "he had as much right to sit as the other gentleman." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE BELLEROPHON, 78, AND CALCUTTA, 84, ADVANCED SHIPS FITTING. • It affords us much pleasure and satisfaction to report the extreme activity and seamanlike work displayed by the officers and crews of the Rodney and Albion in the fitting out of . the Bellerophon, 78, at Portsmouth, and the Calcutta, 84, at Devonport. Nothing can pos sibly exceed the apparent enthusiasm, good humour, and skill, with which these tine fellows progress in their work. At Portsmouth, in fitting the Bellerophon, every person, from Captain Collier to the smallest boy, seems to take a delight In trying how much can be done In the shortest possible time, and their pro gress has astonished all the old veteran officers who assemble daily in the dockyard to see them work. As we before stated, the officers and crew were all turned over to tho Bellerophon on Saturday, and live on board her. On Monday, at four A.st., the fellows turned to work, and left off at Seven P.M., when the liberty men were allowed on shore. The tops and caps were got over on that day, the lower rigging on, the bowsprit gammoned and partly clothed; the topmast, crosstree.s and caps put on, and the topmast rigging got over, and topmasts lidded, and the mainyard got across, all heavy work, besides which the tanks were hoisted on boa r d and the water filled. On Tuesday (yesterday) the rigging was set up and rattled down, the topgaPanunasts lidded and rigged, bowsprit com pleted, bobstays and shrouds set up, and fibbooin got out, various spars and stores received, and a number of the main and lower-deck guns got on board ; and advantage was taken of the beautifully this weather to paint her sides, which will give her a complete appear ance. Should this fine weather continue there is no doubt she will be ready to go to Spithead, or to sea, if required, by Thnrsday even ing, instead of Saturday, as we before stated. • At Devonport the Albion's officers and crew went to work on the Calcutta, 84, on Monday monfng, with similar spirit, and the pro gress they made in a few hours proved teat Jack was put en his inettle. By twelve o'clock the lower rigging was on, set up, and all three topmasts were on end. At 2 15, P.m., the mizen topgallant mast was up, and wizen topsail yard across. It has been boldly . asserted that the Albion numbers among her crew some of the finest and ablest seamen hi the world.' Mr. Henderson, the assistan imaster attendant ol Davonport Dock yard, with a party of riggers and seamen from the eivedonia, 120, ordinary guard-ship, is ordered to proceed in the Devon lighter to Pembroke, to take charge of the 50-gun frigate Constance, when launched, and navigate her to Devonport, where she will be fitted for commission, Mr. Mill% supernumerary master of the Caledonia, with a party of seamen, are ordered from Devonport to Liverpool, to navigate the iron steam-frigate, Birkenhead, to Woolwich, to be fitted for the pendant. The Rodney, 90, Captatn Collier, C. 8., will be taken 'out of the dock at Portsmouth this day. The Carysfort, 26, Captain Seymour, was paid advance wages at Spitheal yesterday morning, and will sail for the Cape on Thurs day evening. The Scout, IS, Commander Loring, is still at Spithead, but will shortly proceed to Plymouth to be paid advance and wait orders. The Snake, 16, Commander Brown, I:as not yet arrival. at Spit head from the Nore, but Is hourly expected. The Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Commander J. Macdonald, arrived at Spithead from Brighton on Monday. The i)iligence, transport, Martin, master, arrived at Dovonport on Sunday from Cork, with some supernumerary seamen and stores from Haulbowline Island. The Camel, lighter, Faben, master, arrived at Devonport with stores from Pembroke on Monday. The Retribution, steam frigate, Captain Ludington, went to Spit head yesterday morning, where she is ready for service, and will await orders ; it is uncertain where she will go to. The Rattler, steam screw-sloop, Commander Smith, having embarked the -baggage and wives and families of the Royal Marines appointed to do duty in Irsiand, left for Cork on Sunday evening. Fleet, who vas at the /went Bucks Assizes, sentenced to be :executed, has been reprieved. He was tried before Baron Parke, and convicted of having caused the death of Ann Ray, a Young woman, by giving her corrosive sublimate to procure abortion. REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE DURING TIIE PAST WEEK. We have on faultier occasions intimated, that though un foreseen events of a pollical character have hitherto pre vented the advance in the price of Wheat, which, from the indifferent result of the harvest and the disease in the potato crop, all parties engaged in the trade confidently expected would have occurred, still we can see no reason to alter our opinion as regards the facts of the case. The shortness of the produce of Wheat, and the disorder which has affected potatoes, •may have been made the most of for party pur poses ; still it cannot be denied that these two principal articles of food suffered so much from the excessively wet weather experienced during the summer and autumn, as to afford just reason for concluding that both will run short before the time can come round for gathering another crop. With respect to potatoes there is also ground to apprehend that the malady may not prove temporary ; indeed it has been recently proved, by carefully conducted experiments, that the diseased potatoes when planted—though they vege tate freely—do not yield a sound return, the young tubercles exhibiting the disorder of the seed at an early stage of their growth ; we maintain, therefore, that abundant cause exists for surprise at the present position of affairs, and that there is every prospect of business assuming a more healthy tone so soon as the long protracted discussion on the corn-laws shall have been disposed of in one way or the other. The necessary out-door work, preparatory to commencing spring sowing, has been steadily proceeded with, notwith standing the somewhat showery weather ; and from present appearances there is every probability of the Lenten crops being well got in. The occupations in the field have left little leisure for thrashing, and only moderate supplies of grain have been brought forward at most of the provincial markets held since our last. As already remarked, there has been very little animation in the demand for Wheat ; sellers have nevertheless manifested considerable firmness, and at Liverpool, on Friday, fine qualities of new brought Id. to 2d. per 701bs. above previous rates. There is now scarcely any free foreign Wheat remaining in granary at all suitable for mealing purposes ; the few good lots on the market have been held high in comparison to the value of similar sorts in • bond ; the pressing wants of the millers have, however, obliged them to comply with the demands of factors, and the retail business done has been at quite as high prices as those of Monday last. Bonded Wheat has met with no attention as an article of invest ment, notwithstanding the moderate terms at which it has been offered; fair to good red Baltic might easily have been bought at 50s. to 525., and Dantzic at 545. to 58s. per qr., which, presuming that the duty will, before the end of April, have been reduced to 45., certainly appear tempting prices, free Rostock Wheat being at present worth 65s to 665., and fine Dantzic very near 70s. per qr. The transactions in lock Wheat have, nevertheless, been of very little importance, the only bargains having been small purchases made by millers to supply pressing wants. To liberate what has been bought for immediate use, bonded certificates have been in great re quest at about 12s. 6(1. to 13s. per qr. In consequence of the very inferior quality of most of the English Wheat of last year's growth, the averages continue to decline; and the aggregate return for the last six weeks, by which the duty is regulated, having fallen below 555., the duty has risen to 18s. per qr. REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE. There have been several arrivals from the United States this week; but, as far as regards the grain trade, the news received is of very little interest. At New York, and most of the other large markets, the price of flour had remained nearly stationary; and good brands of western were, on the 11th February, still quoted 5 dolls. 56i cents, to 5 dots. 62i cents. per barrel at the first named place. A few orders had been received, from time to time, from England; but not to sufficient extent to cause excitement. At the prices quoted, adding freight and insurance, the article might be laid down here at about '26;, per barrel; if, therefore, the present corn-laws are to be repealed, and Sir Robert Peel's scheme substituted, it might pay to import from thence. The exports of flour from the Ist to the 10th of February had amounted to 17,546 barrels; besides which, upwards of 100,000 bushels of Indian corn had been shipped from New York to various destinations. From the North of Europe the most important news is that from Poland, where something very nearly approach,ng a re volution has broken out, owing, v. e believe, principally to the scarcity of food. From Dantzic we learn that holders of Wheat had re mained very firm, and that it was looked upon as so nearly certain that Great Britain would, sooner or later, require extensive assistance, that no one felt anxious to press btki new,. The demand had, however, been far from active ; and, on the whole, the tendency of prices had been rather downwards. At several of the lower Baltic ports the value of Wheat ap pears also to have. slightly given way; nevertheless, quota tions are far too high there, as compared with prices here, to hold out any prospect of profitable business. From Stettin we learn t hat few merchants were then willing to enter into contracts to deliver line 61 to 62 lbs. Wheat, free on board, in Spring, below 475. to 41s. per qr.; and at Rostock, on the 2d instant similar, rates were asked. By letters from Hamburg, of Tuesday, we learn that since the previous post-day scarcely anything had beentone in Wheat, except for local consumption : for which purpose good old 61 lbs. Saale had brought equal to 50s. 9d. per qr., and other sorts at rates in proportion. In Hol'and and Belgium the demand for Wheat seems to have fallen off, and by the latest advices from Rotterdam and Antwerp it appears that former terms had barely been supported. From the Mediterranean the advices are of much the same character as before. At Marseilles, on the 28th February, Wheat was dull of sale, owing to the large arrivals, and a falling off in the export demand. At Malta, on the 27th ult., there had been less speculation in the article than earlier in the Month ; and advices having been received there that the Pachsi of Egypt had again per mitted the export of Wheat, a decline had taken place in the value of Egyptian. The latest accounts from Odessa are of the 16th of February. For some days previous Wheat had rather re ceded it value, and good qualities were then obtainable at 345. per qr.—Mark-lane Express. . TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. Mann, grocer, Warwick—first div. of 3s. 6d. in the pound, any Friday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Bir mingham. C. Carter, miller, Saddinton, Leicestershire—first div. of Is. sd. in the pound (on new proofs only), any Friday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. G. Last, general merchant. Birmingham—final. div. of lid. in the pound, any Friday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. J. Tomlin and W. Man, merchants, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill—second div. of 24d. in the pound. any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Bwinghall- street J. Wartnabv, shiphroker, Adam's -court, Old Broad- street —first div. of sid. in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street. T. F. Lucas, coach. proprietor ,Long Buckby,Northampton shire—first div. of 3s. 10d. in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. J. Thorn, paper-hanger, New Brentford—first div. of 4s. 2d. in the pound, March 14, and two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane. G. Thomson and J. Forbes, torn-factors, Crutchet-friars— first div. of 2s. in the pound, March 14, and two following Saturdays. at the office of Mr. Groom, Abcurch• lane. G. and w. Noel, bootmakers, Jermyn-street, St. James's —a aiv. of 3d. in the pound, March 11, and three follow ing Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms yard, Moorgst?-street. B. Todhunter, drysalter, Mincing-lane—first div. of 20. in the pound,March 11, and three Mowing Wednesdays, at the office - of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate street. B. B. Cross, glover, Woodstock—a div. of 61d. in the pound, March 11, and three following Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Belcher. King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street. G. Chapman, cowkeeper, Pullin's-place, Islington —a div. of llid. (making with former div. 3s. Hid.) in the pound, March 11, and three following Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Moorgztte-street. G. Mavwoorl, brick:ayer, Luton, Bedfordshire—first did. of ls. 3cCin the pound, March 11, and three following Wed nesdays, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street. J. B. Bucklee, mercer, Kidderminster—first div. of se. 6d. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. T. 112 - Creigh, eartwright, Newcastle-upon -Tyne—first and final div. of 6d. and 9 10ths of a penny in the pound. any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Kent, beer brewer, Stowmarket, March 20, at twelve --G. Graham, T. Adams, and M. B. Macfarlane, calico printers, Cheapside, March 20. In the Country. Batchelor, butcher, Bath, March 31, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—W. Newton, cod merchant, Bath. April 2, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—G. Brooke, banker, Honiton, Devonshire, April 2, at one, at the Exeter District Court—A. and F. Atkinson, colour manufacturers. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. April 3, at twelve, at the Newca-tle upon-Tyne District Court—A Atkinson, colour manufac turer, Newcastle-upon-T.ne, April 3, at twelve, at the New castle-upon-Tyne District Court—F. Atkinson, colour manu facturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 3, at twelve, at the Newcastle• upon -Tyne District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Warren, dentist, George-street, Hanover-square, March 31—E. Streeter, builder, Bristol, April 3—F. Lingard, teacher of music, Durham, April 3—W. W. Spence, woollen draper, Newcastle-upon Tyne, April 2—J. Denbigh, wool merchant, Bradford, Yorkshire. April 2—J. C. Platt, printer, Sheffield, April 3—T. C. W. Pierce and G. Homan, mer chants, Manchester, April 3—F. Whitworth, cotton manu facturer, Shawforth, Lancashire, April 7—J. Kelsey, builder, Manchester, April I—T. Findley, painter, Manchester, April I—J. M‘Lean, Sun -street, Bishopsgate-street Without, March 31—J. Brown, builder, Hornsey-road, March 31— G. Hind, grocer, Bishop's Waltham, Southampton, March 31 —E. Smith. innkeeper, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, March 31—J. Gainer, dyer, Bridgend, Gloucestershire, March 31. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Young and H. Weston, linendrapers, Albion-place; King's-cross—E. T. Archer and T. J. Taverner, house de corators, Old-street, Goswell-street—G. Grimley and W. Kirkby, boot manufacturers, Nottingham—C Perry and J. Lateward, coachbuilders, Wolverhampton—W. F. and C. Br ..ad, Itnendrapers, Wigan, Lancashire—G. Young and N. Peppercorne, blacking manufacturers, Cousin- lane, Upper Thames-street—T. P. Tvacke and J. G. Plomer, attorneys, Helston,.Cornwall—J. S - hoolbred, G. Cook, W. Shepherd, and 11. Brown, linendrapers, Tottenham-court-road (so far as regards W. Shepherd)—W. and J. Alexander, saddlers,. Hungerford,Berkshire—E. and E. Williams,schoolmistresses, Newport., Monmouthshire—J. Aitken and J. Mapleton, leather dressers, Russell-street, Bermondsey—A. and J. Bourra, ' , dyers, .Edgware-road--H. Day and E. Marshall, schoolmistress, Balham-hill, Surrey— G 11. Cottrell and T. Morley, leather dressers, Ba , bican—T. Shepherd and 'l'. Pye, lacemakers, Nottingham—J. B. Roberts and E. Cheetham, hharebrokers, Sheffield—J. M. and E. Maude, cement manu facturer?, Rotherhit he—P. Cruiltshank, Melville, R. Ramsay, and W. F. Street, Austin-friars, City (so far as re gards R. Ramsay)—W. and T. Shaw, machine makers, Leeds—C. Cole and W. Gell, furniture brokers, Nottingham —J. Rigg and C. Boykett, slaters, Liverpool—J. Travis, J. Barcrofc. and J. Whitaker, woollen printers, Green-bridge, Lancashire— S. Waters and G. Freeman, straw-bonnet manu facturers, Luton, Bedfordshire—J. Salmon, jun., and R. C. Salmon, coal merchants, Beaumont, Essex—E. Harratt and T. Balbirnie, builders, Huntingdon—T. Sharpus, W. Cuilurn, and J. W. Sharpus, glass dealers, Cockspur-.treat, Charing cross—H. Donaldson and Dixon, Mark-lane—J. Hopwood, W. C. Menee; and H. Jackson, coal masters, Barnsley, Yorkshire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. James 11PLeod, cartwright, Glasgow; March 13 and April 13, at two, at Cameron's Bowling-grecn Tavern, Glasgow. Gentl,ra Stertv.nson, F q., 11::s sent a challenge to Mr. Ilrunel, to the effect that he N, ill put insKipt. down with him to build an engine on the narrow gauge v, hth 6h,iil beat anything constructed for the L,road. The challenge has not been. accepted.— Derbyshire Courier. LATEST PRICES OF SHARV" v IN BANKS, ASSURANCE. AND OTHER C VANIES' STOCK. Fr om te Ol List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY fficia AND FRIDAY z“ -- LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10. zoirrr-sTociit Dividend Amount rio' paid. Name of Company. per of Annum. ghare. ------- .../ ----- i x s. d. X S. 1 1 'Si Australasia .......... 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 I 0 BritshlSorth American 51. per cent. 50 0050 0 0 Commercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0020 0 li, Colonial.. ........... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 l 6l Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0010 10 461 0 Metropolitan . - 25 0 0 Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 11% Ditto, New......... Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 1:) I l d National of Ireland • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 0 Ditto, New....... • . N. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 25 Union of Australia .... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 2 16 Union of L0nd0n..... Si. per cent. 50 0. 0 10 .........../ INSURANCE Ccoii.a.Nr-Es, Dividend Amount raid. PO Name of Company. per of ....4" Annum. Share. .....--...-•"-- Albion .............. 31. 105 1 8 0. d. 0 X 5 0 s e (1° , : ; 1 1 7 4 4 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 00 1 ° 6 ' 5 0 0 )61i Ditto Marine.- .. • • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 ' 5 - 0 0 1% Atlas ..,~•.•• 61 British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 10' 0 Clericl,Med.br. Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 2 ,; County .............. 3/. 100 0 0 1 0 n s ' 0 -- q i Crown .............. 10s. 50 0 0 5 s 0 • ki:agle .•.. 0 0 ' Economic Life.. • • 3 1000 0 0 25° 2i 20 0 0 Eng. & Scot. Law .. .. • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 ~, - f ad. - European Life ...... 5% per cent. 20 0 0 4 r, P - 0 0 Freemasons' ...... •• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 . - 50 Globe Guardian ••••••• • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 3. ''A 50 0 10 Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 Imperial Life •••.- • • • • 125. 100 0010 0 1 19 Indemnity Marine.. • • 1/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 13 ,, bl ii Law Life.. ..... •• .. 3/. Os. 100 00 10 Ib7 . 0 -L. Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 12 10 192 London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 London Ship ........ I Os. 25 00 12 1 l r Marine .. ..... •• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 6 sli Med. Invlid& Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 10 10.% National Loan Fund.. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 National Life..... •.• • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 % 06 Palladium Life.. . .....Si. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 ~, ....- 0, - Phoenix - Protector Life ••.. • • • 5/. per. cent. 20 0 0 I n o ° n A Provident Life Rock Life . -- 210 Royal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. ..... II Sun Fire ......... • • • 61. 10s. - -- 1 1 Ditto Life ........• • It. 6a Universal Life .• __/-/ DOCKS. ..------ Dividend Amount TO I Paid' Name of Company. per of Annum. ~- Share. ..................., 1...... 11 Commercial Stock. d. 4 .. - l i East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. East Country • .... •• . 1/. per sh. 100 0 0 --‘ I li ' -- L mdon St Katharine ••••• • • • 15 per cent. Stock. „ - n 0' Southampton ••..• . • . 41. per cent. 50 0 0 5 . - 61. pr cent. 1/. per sh. 5/. pr cent. 5 per cent. 41. per cent. WATER-WORHS _____------- - r 4' Dividend Amount VA' Name of Company. , per of ..- Annum. Share. --- .15 X s, d. '',.o East London.... .... . • 81. 100 0 0 1 - 0 Grand Junction •... • • 1 31. 10s. 41 13 4 ' _. 51 Kent ........ • • .... •. i 21. 10s. 100 • 0 0 9O Vauxhall .......• •. • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 West Middlesex LIST or SCOTTISH compaNzres, 'Fr Dividend Amount 0. 1 • F , Name of Company.; per of Annum. Share. ......._......- - 1 --- 110 4 s. d. 1 19 Bank of Scotland 15° 100 0 1 , Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. --161 British Linen Company 81. par cent. - 1 00 147, Commercial Bank ... • 61. per cent. - 100 0 National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 ,Il Union Bank of Scotland 7% I. pr cent. - 50 10 Western Bank ...... • • 61. per cent. - 50 10 0, 5 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 11 0 1 Clydesdale Bank... .. • 61. per cent. - Eastern Bank• •••• • • • 51. per cent. - 10 5 1 , 2 1 Caledonian Bank - 01 10 Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 10 111 City of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. - I,„, Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 ~1 v", 7 Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 1 , fl u 0i . 0 1 Insur. Co. of Scetlnd Si. per cent. 10 0 0 !",,, 0 01 North British Insur. ••5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 !„' 0 1 1 • lialedonlan Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 r.' la 1$ Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 .1 o 1 9 , Edin.BcOlasg. Railway 11.10 s. per c. 50 0 0 s , n v p si • 1 1 ' Ditto, 4 Shares• 7 1 Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 .`' B sl • 4 1 Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 "'' 41 • I!, Glasgw&Greenek Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 Au „41 • 0 Olsgsv &Garnkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 oct Dundee &Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 722 .... !„ ) ~ Standard LifeAssarnee. 5/ per cent. 50. 0 0 ' CANALS. 4 plo od 2 re .; 1 1 Names of Dividend' Names of - P er u ° ' / Companies. ! Price. er . ! p Companies. 4 M ri; Annum. co .....,,,/, ' IP 4 1 X g i. 0 Ashtn& Oldh 97.51.55 . p c 70 Monmouthsh 1 00 il. 1,, i Ashby-d-la-Z 1131 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 1 00 ..... SO Banaley. .. .. 1601 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 , 7 1. . Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath ......10 0 o, 10 Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham. 150' l' 31. $; Cromford ..• • 100 141. 150 Peak Forest •7 8 pi, 5 1 ' I' Dudley...... 100 4/. - Regent's .• • • 33 41. A Derby ...... 180 G/. 73 Rochdale .. • • 8 5 8 1. IF Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 65 Shropshire .. 125 ~, pp li Erewash .•• 100 321 . 300 Somrset Coal 150 1 7 n c• 50 0 Forth & Clyd 100 4/. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6 `' 2 ;/ ' ils 0 GrandJunctn 100 71. 94% Stffrd&Worc 140 0/. II Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. IV 0/. / Gifunorgnsh. 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 14 5 ~ 100* 0 Glstr & Brkly •00 - - Strtfrd on Av 19 li b ' Grantham • • 150 121. 100 Severn and 26 1. f 130• • / Huddersfield. 57 - - Wye Rail. 3 101. Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-1 60 - Lancaster... 47 1/. 10s. - sey, % sh. 3 , , ii Leed.s&Livrp 100 341. 517 Thams &Med 1 5 1. , Leicester.... 140 10/. 105 Worestr 8:7 78 ' ' Leicstr &Nth 83• 41. 60 Birming.3 ~ 1i . .. Loughborogh 142 701. 850 ,Wilts SC, BlkS 6 ' _,,,,41,)/ A I 1 1 i cav MARKET NEWS.—(yEsTr , — CORN-EXCHANGE. beeft,cie ,0 The present week's arrivals of English Wheat har n . t a very moderate scale, and the show of samples of nt Pl' o c to-day was small. All descriptions moved off stead l -4 , 0 "" trO o nothing quotable beyond, Monday's prices. t e l o tsiV l -e t yr in free foreign Wheat were trifling, yet the u or c 1 1, 1 ' ne jfi firmly supported. A few sales of Grain, under loolEr;,,,er 0;01 very full currencies. Malting Barley was the turn 0 7, vii° o o,o kinds of Barley very little was &Mg. The Malt w i gs of . JP' but we can notice no alteration rn value. Sweet lA t , es s, o ' firmly ; other qualities slowly, at late rates. BeanS, ne, as last advised. 00 14,9 1,1 5° 4°. 120 i AtO Malt, 1,200 ars. ; 0 WHITECHAPEL. 3 e f at, '` . o o , , 11 We had a steady demand here fur all kinds f fro' , had, in some instances, an upward tendency. Bc e 6,1; 3s . 8d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s 6d to 0 3s 8d to Os 2d per 81bs. by the carcass. English ...... 1ri5h........ Foreign ...... Wheat. 2,270 qrs. ARRIVALS. Barley. 1,960 qti. 1,6 10 5,510 I , isl tO° 56 o i 411 THE GREAT DIVISION. -- There are e England, which contain above 25,900 inhabitantS, AvdetartnelloP aggregate 105 Members ;in Scotland there are el! $7:4i ( , 1 11 0/ standman members;tghiuns the whole :—Voted de I fio r 2 e r6 l tahncd. Members, c s o e m v me Committee, returning whoseulr nuivn;ogtalt li' It a i " of r 52,70,11,10; vote, 10; total, 126. Which confirms the accero' .titlit fi t)/ statement. —Manchester Guardian. ter e ‘ 411 2 PEDESTRIANISM.—On Monday some -n t oe , o ,pc• ii n races came off at the Beehive-ground, Walwor th . ; as celebrity of the men who had entered their nell ie° ,oo,' the spectators attracted to the race were very rior; e r 3sv„, race was for a silver cup, and was contended for O es. P e 6,4 grountl and fifteen hurdles placed at equal diett n in c a ori e v i O t . was between Martin, Patterson, Fibbins, and J en , - veril i est i ,A; Stag). The first heat was won by Martin very c'e,,,e, second. The men having been allowed breathing "5,00;00' the second heat. Patterson took the lead Lill r „, th d e ies 11 ' vett when Martin ran by him, cleared the rematning,h— • t or, style, and shot in the winner. 'I he time was gow'„d Ti' m "'„(0 0 oRTHING • MARCH 8 —Sir Robert Mr. F. Peel, and a daughter of the Premier, arr,iteo7fer day by railway, and immediately proceeded o arl e- a OfjP , where a suite of apartments had been previous l 5 1ife i t a le d The arrival of so di , tinguished a person as tile r r in t • known all over the town, and the utmost desire ^ to ono), O A those who had never seen the Right Hon. Barone t r ooi 01' of him. The weather being very fine In Saterds,„a 0 1 fo rt Robert and his family walked by the sea ,idtdiesiloagefil principal streets of the town. Sir Robert Peel_L e 4,100 4. to-morrow morning, but the family will remain so , s ,f e$ THE N'ILDNESS OF THE SEASON. A 00 0 ,, HEALTH.—The Registrar-General's ordinay diminution in the average amount of Ola the o fic is i oc , past quarter. From the return, it appears tha t for , t lfer e ,ii! been below the number in the December VC' t his . O A6l l ' years, but in the corresponding quarter of last Ye 3r ,' o l ro t o f" nearly double that in any previous year. The AC' ta titi r •e`" this quarter amounted to 31,178, the calculated to° r srl y A th Quarterly' returotoortali!toty, so that the number of deaths was less by 6,469, or De TO Y than the estimate. S 11", FADVERTISEMENT.3—COUGHS, C° 1 ' 1) ;10 1r co 'l I° o l AND WHEEZINGS ON THE CHEST, CURED BY I! ° , L i n bad o re in pil When no other medicine will afford the least reh e ' a vet I C I , 0 1 1 4 et colds, Holloway's }'ills will almost immediately case, however desperate ; and what is more extr a. rn 'o D e , 0 ,714 'and wheezings, even of several years' standi:g_,,aOY, ea tli: t , got rid of by following the directions which P e fto 4 b e 7c r t it this celebrated medicine. Many who were not being able to lay down in their beds, fearr, oe ctusi t i o diS phlegm, have had asthmatic complaints sd that not the least symptoms remained. all by at Professor Holloway's Establishment, , O• _-------- 041 Ps4 - On the 16th of December, 1845 BIRTHS _..,, ' tb. a t ArequiPa , d Went, Esq., of a daughter. WV On the 6th inst., at Wolverton House, Bucks , th . Ati , ..,bto'ol o Harrison, Esq., of a daughter. of a d4 lO O On the 7th inst., Mrs. Turner, of Percy-street, __,,,-. et , SY On the 7th inst., at ,, the Vale, Ramsgate, the ~,-• A di ll A, Esq ,of a son. of A-$ or r On the Bth inst., In Dorset-square, Mrs. R. Bn'l t .', go „%. On the Bth inst., Mrs. Henry Lee, of Hellion, 0 D oti. _ A O. On the 9th inst., the lady of George Fria, E sc ° f aelP i Regent's-park, of a daughter. Jol lo On the 9th inst., at Upper Sydenhaill, Mil' of a son 1 44 ------------------- tlls f t , MA lifilED. „ ec he , r of 4, On the 3d inst., at Annonay, Departement des Artlieougo er ' laughters of John Marshall, Esq.— 3latilda, to ' only 0 4 11 , . oti Esq., of the same town; mid Phoebe, to JaltteP , ~,ito -. A, ts. O P O r Iloltzer, Esq., of the Sauvagnier. On the 4111 Inst. at the Old Church, frail - to Sykes, Esq., of ' Queen Ann-street Cavendish-sqi. orii pi daughter of Frederick Esq.,of It(l!..__d-ecei t, Perkins,, i fol i Brighton, o re, D troy _____ ----- Oa° .1 DIED. Charle'' A et, 71 - 3, On the 9th inst., in Argyle-street, Glasgow, ct fIO P C I,II Mr. Mackenzie, editor of the " Gazette."a g ed 2 ,, till • On the 9th inst., at the house of her father. , vr . Jo 01 wife of Mr. Crisp, of London, and only daughter o f "" ,t O c ed of Buitgay. ,1 ifo gto o. o gr oj ill On the 27th ult., at Souldern House, near 1), lire o f til , ftt , vaneed age, Catherine Botry, the last r ePreseti tati o nshi re 'tosit eo.i ' Botrys, of Marston, St. Lawrence, No-thauipt oneo t ir ja 4 e r long resident and highly esteemed through math - r O a - f f "" deceased was endeared to her numerous friends fo , poo 4 , her manners and amiableness of disposition, An d to . t" ot ' unostentatious charities and seasonable benevolencietcoifer.,s7. 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