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The case came before ttLhaPratil° Court p o o i f i an i3 appeal from a judgment of the 5, in an action in which reaciP„PQllant was Bombay, and the respondent ret t . : 11t, , in which plaintiffthe Court directed a ver ,Oe 1 ',„ ; °e entered for the defendant on the only d Llit" ft nned in the cause, and afterwards gave ju g mil i t -l. the defendant. The only question in this uP o : l' lth ieli s 'k wh ether a vessel called the General Woo . d, t i iltlrtittoue aPplicaut is owner to the extent of eight sixty Litextipirzeiajanteioenooafuotirfee i ce rtie ttsl, Was entitled to be registered, and to v g ial i n s r ot g p rant d to her at Bombay, under , Act for prescrib asse e d by the Governor-General I‘ t he rul es to . , end entitled "An Ac eri t i o . be observed in order that vessels be- Itl ellt . t° Ports Withia the tierritorieshue.nodegr_ethge govern , ne : a f the East India su b je c t s !ri, or their or ?.. 4:nor-General in ,Lielege of British shi to native th e Victoria, ea un s ci es e l entitled to sk er ti 4th de P i r n pursuance of the e p o s ' 11;idayer become aeeninoclamation of the %L e , , under that act,P.to r . e ister and grant cer theifi 9 " ma The respondent is t t . h_e_ 4 4 4 . 4111 Tat 1e 0 5 f e . 1 , 3 at the port g of Bombay. From tinerai w"be Learned Counsel, it appeared that the ugeen,. ." co d was built at Damaun, a Portuguese set IV° India, for a Portuguese subject. From the . m lle pLto 1841 the ship was variously owned - 0 1 :e lh: Of t 1" by Portuguese subjects, sailing under Il Aitib . "t nation ; at other pericds by British subjects,_ Nia ti nder the British flag; and at other periods by 1 ‘ 11 11 ."4 su bj ects, sailing under the flag of Denmark. 4 ,lje t t i, l9 1 844, the vessel was sold to . Sir Jamesetjee ; Past a t "" ° Y, Sons, and Co., British subjects, and mei' tty, f _ ing at Bombay,. k r esid' ' who afterwards sold eight ttiat, to parts or shares in the said ship to the appel subject, resident at i; tab , e 4 arid still being a British " I tl i ' w he, on the 11th of September,.lB4_4_,. late r th r eef to the respondent, and required h " e ttir -le Chip at the port of Bombay, and to 1 grant a him to n r o e- - t° ti leute o f such registry, which the respondeptre t sed e $l-1 1 ) t .' whereupon the appellant brought his action in h Hence t4l tt li e . t .! le Couit, but the Court found against him. t rie b al -4u • Vo • 'a, rtorGRAM at the conclusion of the arguments, o it ju n u gbaent, reversing the decision of the Court ' " Il ti giving judgment for the plaintiff. ITh ;. ,._ II ANCERY—(THIS DAY.) I'd Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Ne ur d. , -1 took appeal motions to-day. His Lordship wa t s th r ` e(l the rnin with the further argumen 5 o e mo g part - heard appeal motion - of Toulmin v. Copelam. s I r, - 0 - CHANCERY—(THIS DAY). • % —.ore the VICE CHLLOR Of ENGLAND. XLECTR iC TELEGRAPH ANC COMPANY V. GAMBLE AND NOTT. res EnS TER, at th e sittit,g of the Court, was about 1• .1 1 ,: 146 ty arguments on th e part of the defendants • C„ c ase, which our readers Will recollect came before 31111etC4't Yesterday for the purpose of obtaining an in the ,2 1 1 to restrain the defendants from making use o trapV t ent they had obtained for making electric tele- Pttt s4t B, ()11 the ground of its being an infringement of the 4 b of the plaintiffs, when he was interrupted by en'IIIELL, who stated that that had been done tilt ni g h t u ? x pected ; namely, an affidavit had been filed %trli z „,,_ by the defendants, which he submitted, ac -1114 rsA tP the practice of the Court, his Honour could the Ile wished, therefore, to know from his 30 b 6 26 Paid. X s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 20 0 25 0 20 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 Paid. X s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 All paid. 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 6 15 0 Paid. X 5. d. 50 0 0 Paid. £ s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 Amount of Share. X s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 [OO 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 0 Amount Share. X 8. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 'ORES Amount of Share. £ 8. d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 :PA.NIES' PRII Amount of Share. Paid. X 6. d. X a. d 100 0 0 100 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 All paid. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 50 0 0 All paid. 20 0 0 All paid. All paid. All paid. All paid. 2 10 0 'Dividend per Annum, 171. 121. 31. 11. 3s. 71. 10s. 61. p. c. 28/. 15/. 201. 1/. 10s. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 6/. pQr cent. 6t. per cent. 81. per cent. 8/. per cent. N. per cent. 51. per cent. Si. per cent. 61. per cent. 5/. per cent. Dividend per Aiinum. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 7 % /. pr cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 7%1. pr cent. 61. per cert. 51. per cent. 5 1. per cent. 71. per cent. 5/. per cent. 5 %1. pr cent. 10/. per cent. 61. per cent. 1/.los. pert. 7s. 6d. p. 8. 20 0 0 1100 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 71 . percent. 50 0 0 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 AL per cent. 25 0 0 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 5 /. per cent. 50 0 0 CANALS. Namos of Companies. Price 100 100, 106 100 1501 5 . 3 3xd i Honour, whether, under the circumstances, he would receive it or not. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said he should certainly re ceive the affiLlavi:, because sometimes justice required that affidavits should be made even during the hearing of a case. Mr. BETHELL observed, that such being his Honour's opinion, the case could not proceed, as there were state ments in that affidavit which called for au answer from the plaintiffs. The VICE-CHANCELLOR had no objection to the case standing over, and he would, in order to facilitate the matter, if the parties chose, direct that the plaintiffs should bring such action as they might be advised. Mr. WEBSTER, on the part of the defendants, had no objection to the adoption of such a course ; that was all they wanted. Mr. STUART, who had just come into Court, and who was with Mr. Webster on behalf of the defendants, said that he had felt all along that such must be the end of the ca , e ; it was a purely legal question, and he con sidered the course that had been pursued yesterday by the leading counsel, on behalf or the plaintiffs, in forcing on the motion, for the injunction was one of the most un just exercises of the power of counsel that he had ever witnessed in that or any other Court. Ile should always consider it inexcusable and most unjustifiable. The only redeeming part of the drama of yesterday was the excellent and instructing speech of Mr. Webster, and the lucid explanations he had given with respect to so valuable an invention. his clients had been charged yesterday with fraud and falsehood, and the Court had been occupied the whole day with a case which, it was clear from the beginning, must end as it had done, by being sent to law. Mr. BETHELL, with some warmth, observed that they would now proceed to some other portions of the busi ness of the Court, which he trusted would not be at tended with such loud and uncalled-for declarations as those that had been made that morning by Mr. Stuart. The motion was then ordered to stand over, the plain tiff being at liberty to bring such action as he should be advised to try his legal right. The Court then proceeded to hear motions, the third seal being continued. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIaRAM.) DAWES V. BETTS. This bill was filed for the specific performance of an agreement made by Mr. James Betts, on the part of his brother, Mr. Wm. Betts, the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was proprietor of a house in Highbury place, Islington, which Mr. James Betts agreed to take from him for the use of his brother, who was then on the continent. It appeared further, that the defendant had purchased in January, 1843, the interest of a gentleman named Salamons, in the house in question, together with the lease of a field and other ground at the rear of the house, which he now alleged should be in eluded in the lease granted by the plaintiff to him. It was, however, admitted in the answer that this field, &c., was at that time let to different persons. Messrs. Robin son and Hyne were the solicitors employed by the defendant, whom he had consulted as to the best method of obtaining a removal of the lease of the house. On the 20th of May, 1843, the solicitors of the plaintiff re ceived back a proposal from the defendant's solicitor respecting the premises, with an agreement signed by the defendant's brother on his behalf. The agreement was to the effect that Thomas Betts, the plaintiff, having purchased the interest of Mr. Salamons in the house in Highbury-place, Islington, and the letter containing the offer of the plaintiff to give a renewal, having been handed to the defendant, who bad signified his consent to the terms of the plaintiff's proposal through his bro ther. The receipt of this letter was acknowledged, and in that answer it was distinctly stated that the field, &c., were not included in the agreement. It was denied by defendant, in his answer, that Mr. James Betts was au thorised to act for him in this case. Mr. James Betts, in his reply to this last communication, stated that his brother was then on the Continent, but would return shortly; he returned in the latter part of De cember, and took the draft of this agreement to Messrs. Robinson and Hyam, so that it was evident he was aware of this agreement. On the 29th of September, 1843, a letter was sent by the defendant, requiring to know if he was secure from the erection of any build ings likely to annoy him in the neighbourhood of the house in llighbury-place. Shortly afterwards a letter was received from the defendant's solicitors making some inquiries as to the field at the rear of the house, and expressing a wish that their client should have that, together with some other ground; to which the plaintiff replied that he could not give the land in question, which was at that time let to other persons, bat that he could let him have another field near the house. Plaintiff then stated that he heard no more of' the matter till the 6th of October, when Messrs. Robinson and llyam returned a draft of. the lease which had been perused by the defendant and his solicitor no less than three times. In November, 1843, a note was received by the plaintiff from Mr. llyam, stating that he had been expecting a deed of engrossment from Mr. Betts, which delayed the proceedings. Defendant was all this time occupying the house in question. In the April following the house requiring some repairs, plaintiff sent his surveyor to inspect the premises, between whom and the defendant some altercation took place. But up to this period there was no denial oa the part of the defendant for the authority of his brother to act for him, or of his being bound by the agreement that had been executed in his behalf. However, in seven months after he entered into posses sion of the houses, he called on the solicitors for the plaintiff and stated, for the first time, that Mr. James Betts bad no authority to sign the agree ment, but he did not even then state that he would not comply with the agreement, or sign the lease; the rent which had become due, was offered to Mr. Jenkins, plaintiff's solicitor, provided that it should be considered not to prejudice the position of Mr. Betts, by being with th h e is ag n e d m a n r d defendantJenkins, taken as a recognition on his part of a right to comply with re tren ent.l solicitor his wascalledre refus ed and the lease was examined, and it was ad mitted by Mr. Robinson, that the defendant was not entitled to the field at the rear of the house. Mr. prove his claim, proceeded a second time to put the matter in a train for trial, and it was arranged that it should be tried before the Sheriff in six weeks, and a fresh notice of trial was prepared, but served a day too late by the defendant. He then took another step, which almost any competent practitioner must have known would only be incurring additional expenses. He went before Mr. Justice Wightman, at chambers, in order to get the rule set aside, which the Learned Judge refused to do, but told him that the order was a peremptory one, and that he could not interfere with a rule of the superior court ; but he advised him to apply to the Queen's Bench, in banco, to enlarge the order. He might have done this on the 2d November, and no doubt the Court would have acceded to such an application, but he did not take any such step, and on the sth November judgment was signed by the defendant "as in case of a nonsuit," so that the action was at once brought to an end. The de fendant had notice of the taxation of the costs, which were taxed at about 18/., and no doubt attended to it, but he gave no notice to the plaintiff, and the first inti mation he received of the fact was the visit of a sheriff's officer, and the putting of an execution into his house. The levy came to 21/, and as he happened to have the amount in the house, he paid it out. The plaintiff, there fore, sought compensation for the expense of the levy, and the costs of the debt, which were about 101., as well as compensation for the injury which he had sustained on account of the negligent conduct of the defendant. Mr. Driver, an attorney, the plaintiff's brother-in law, was examined at considerable length, from which it appeared that he had taken an active part in the legal proceedings in the case of Briggs ; but he stated that he merely acted as the plaintiff's friend, and under the directions of the defendant, his sole object being to forward the matter. It was shown that the defendant did not live far from the plaintiff, and that a notice was placed on his former residence showing where he had gone. Mr. PARRY, in his address to the jury, contended that the defendant, by the course he had adopted, had placed the plaintiff in a position to renew his claim against Briggs, as the witness referred to was still absent, and that it °Quid be renewed now with a reasonable proba- bilty of success; that Mr. Driver was the agent of the plaintiff in the matter in question, and had transacted, and consequently knew all about the proceedings, and that, if any mistakes had occurred, they were clearly attributable to him, and to no one else. Great difficulty had been experienced in commu nicating with Mr. Driver ; and as he was an attorney, and had acted as Mr. Smith in the case, some latitude was allowed him by the defendant, and because he had acted erroneously was the defendant to be blamed ? Mr. Walker, the defendant's clerk, gave evidence con firmatory of the defence set up. Mr. WATSON having replied, Lord DENMAN summed up. He considered that the defendant was not free from blame, and that he ought to have known that the application to Mr. Justice Wight man, at chambers, would be of no avail, as the strict rules of the Court could not be departed from. He left it to the jury to say whether the plaintiff was or was no; entitled to damages, and, if so, the amount. The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 301. helpless in the passage, where she had been thrown by a blow on the face. Having taken her up, and while about carrying her up stairs, she was again struck, and knocked out of his arms with so much violence as to render her insensible. Mr. CLARKSON, for the defendant, contended that the cause of the mischief was Mrs. Heeley's intemperate habits. The following evidence was offered for the defence:— Joseph Goodby, waiter of the Red Lion, proved that the separation had taken place, and that oa the day in question the prosecutrix had returned to get her clothes, being at the time in a state of intoxication, and while in the house she was guilty of such outrageous conduct, that he was obliged to send for his master, who, at the time, was living away from the place. Several other witnesses stated that the prosecutrix was intoxicated at the time of the commission of the alleged assault, and the prisoner had merely endeavoured to get her to bed quietly. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was then sentenced to two months' im prisonment in Giltspur-street Compter, and to enter into his own recognizance for 5001., and to find two sureties for 501. each, to keep the peace for three years. NEW COURT. Thomas Johnson, a carter in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the railway carriers, was indicted with stealing, on the 12th of last month, a b a l e o f silk, the property of his masters, of the value of 1261. From the statements of counsel, and the evidence adduced, it appeared that on the day in question the prisoner, accompanied by a lad named Fry, fetched the silk in question from the South-Western Railway ter minus. The bale was directed to a house in Bunhill-row, and the prisoner, on his way there, as it was alleged, purposely left his parcel book at a chemist's, where he had to call, in order that he might get rid of Fry, by sending him for it. This was done, and in the interim the bale was missed from the cart. According to the evidence of a man named West, the cart of the prosecutors had been fol lowed by a van and thr ee men from the ra il way sta t ion up to the time when the boy Fry was sent for the parcel book, and that immediately upon his leaving, the silk was put into the van and the men drove off with it. Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution. Mr. HUDDLESTONE was counsel for the prisoner, and contended that he ought to be acquitted on the ground that West was a witness unworthy of credit. The jury acquitted the prisoner. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) The two brothers Frost (not Ross, as was stated in a former report by mistake), who stood remanded to this day, the one for stealing, and the other for unlawfully receiving a coat, the property of a gentleman named Robinson, from the stables of Mr. Guy, of Earl-street, Blackfriarc, where the elder brother, James Frost, was occasionally employed as helper, were fully committed for trial by Alderman Moon and Alderman Gibbs. James Gandy, and Mary Gandy, his daughter, were charged before Mr. Alderman Moon, th e fi rst with steal ing, and the other with receiving a 'valuable ring and three sovereigns, the property of her master, Mr. Taylor, of the Britannia public house, Golden-lane. It appeared that the master's suspicions, upon missing a quantity of property, were drawn upon the female prisoner, by hearing from a friend that her father, who was out of employment, had been seen with a number of sovereigns in his possession. The girl confessed to stealing the ring and three sovereigns, but the whole amount of Mr. Taylor's loss, in sovereigns only, is forty pounds. They were remanded to Thursday, for the purpose of giving the officers time to procure the attendance of an important witness. MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Richard Hawkins was charged with throwing a boy over the gallery of the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham street, Tottenham Court-road. William English said he was sitting in the front seat of the gallery last night, and behind him the prisoner and two girls. In the course o f the n i g h t a quarre l arose between him and the p risoner, because he had been leaning back on the seat behind him, and about a quarter past twelve o'clock, as complai nan t was r i s i ng to leave the house, while his back was t owar d s t h e p i t, the prisoner struck at him and knocked hi m over th e front of the gallery into the pit, a height of twenty-five or thirty feet. William Webber, who was with the complainant in the theatre, corroborated the evidence which he had given. The prisoner said the girls that sat on th e same sea t with him, and also the complainant were all strangers to him, but as the complainant persisted in lying back against the girls' knees, and thereby a nnoying them, he interfered, and requested him to desist, when the com plainant would not desist he went out and brought up the o ffi cer, who, after cautioning him, felt it necessary to remove the complainant and his companion into the back seats. lie returned and swore -he would wait for him (the prisoner) that night. At the conclusion of the per formance the complainant got up, and, planting his back against the front rails, struck him several blows. Prisoner was aided by his friends. Ho (the prisoner) had not struck the other at all. The only way in which the fall could be accounted for was, that the rails, which were high on each side, wore very low in the centre of the gallery, and that the complainant, slipping his back along the rails following him, had lost his balance, when he came upon the descent of the rails, where they were not more than six inches high. lie had not struck the complainant at all, and interfered only at the request of the girls to protect them. Myers, the officer of the theatre, said he had been compelled by the conduct of the complainant to his com panions to remove them to different beats. He saw them annoying the girls behind them, and also the prisoner, who was very quiet all the night, but because he had brought up him (the officer) the complainant swore that he would mark the prisoner before the night ended. Mr. LONG said the evidence of the complainant was entirely contradicted by that given on the part of the prisoner, and the complainant was certainly proved to have been the aggressor. On that account he could not believe that the prisoner had intended to throw the complainant into the pit, or even that he had done any thing to cause it ; and therefore he must dismiss the case. Robinson then handed the plaintiff the amount of the half year's rent, which he suted was due by Mr. Betts. Defendant contended that this money was paid under protest, which was denied by the plaintiff, and the pre sent bill was filed. The arguments having concluded, his Honour deferred delivering judgment till he had read the bill and answer, as well as the evidence. The Court rose at half-past three o'clock. (Before Sir J. K. Baum) BORRER V. THE BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HASTINGS RAILWAY COMPANY. This was a motion for a new trial on the ground that the jury had not given a verdict according to the evidence. The case was tried in July last, before Lord Denman and a special jury, on three issues— the first, as to whether a road between Chinckly turn pike road and the Lewes turnpike road was a public road ; the second, what was the width of the arch of a bridge constructed by the defendants the at a certa win p as in oint o n the line ; an d, thirdly, whether bridge height, width, and position, such as the defendants were bound by the Act of Parliament to construct. The arguments having concluded, His HONOUR said he was of opinion that in finding a verdict for the defendants the jury had not paid atten tion to the charge of Lord Denman, with reference to the dedication of the whole road in question to the pub. lie, and, therefore, on the second and third issues he would direct a new trial. The Court then rose. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) William Francis, an elderly and respectablo looking man, was charged with conveying spirits exceeding two gallons, without a permit, whereby he incurred a penalty of 100/. Bayford, an Excise officer, stated that between seven and eight o'cl oc k th at morning he met the defendant in Free-school-street, Horselydown, carrying a bag. He stopped him, and, on examining the bag, found it con tained a large bladder of illicit spirits. He took the defendant into custody, he having no permit. The defendant said, as he was proceeding into town that morning, he met a person w i t h w h om he !vas ac quainted, and he asked him to carry the bag and its con tents to Whitecro ss - s t reet, and prom i se d to rewa rd him for his trouble. lie added that he was not aware that he was acting contrary to law at the time. Mr. &MEE, said, the full penalty was 1001., but he should e xerc i se t h e power given to him, an d mitigate it to 251., and in default of payment the defendant must be committed for three months to Kingston Gaol. QUEEN'S BENCH . --(THIS DUN N. THE QUEEN V. C R; —{ abroad that this THIS DAY.) remarkable case would be t ried a special jury An impression seems to have gohneere to. day. notion was erroneous. The case is The g to s w the of the one, ith ou a t nd a cannot beaptprliiecdationduritnog thesecosuirtttin appoint a day before t h e e xpiration or dinary sittings. No application of this was made du r i ng t h e morn i n g, which was occupied with a running -down case of not the slight est interest, The except to the parties immediately concerned. Queen v. Dunn st an d s 92 i n the printed list. In a ll pro bability it will be tak en i n i ts ordinary course. NEGLIGENcE OF AN ATTORNEY—S3IITH V. sli Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Borrill were for the plain tiff, and Mr. Parry for the defendant. This was an action of a novel but an important character. The plaintiff is a surgeon, an d the defendant an attorney, on Fish -street-hill ; and the action was brought to recover compensation in da mages for the want of proper care and skill on the part of the defendant in conducting an action which the plaintiff had brought against a person named Briggs. By his carelessness and want of skill, it was alleged, a judgment had been obtained against him, and an exe cution put into his house on account of it, of which the plaintiff had received no previous intimation from the defendant, and which had cost 21/. The defendant had placed various pleas on the record, setting forth that he did not promise, that he had well and faithfully discharged his duties, and also that he was unable to inform the plaintiff that a judgment had been obtained against him, as he had changed his residence. Mr. WATSON, Q.C., stated the case to the jury. H e said the plaintiff, Mr. Smith, was a surgeon, who fiad carried on business at Walworth, but who now resided at Stockwell, and that the action was brought to recover compensation in damages from the defendant, who had acted as his attorney. The defendant had car ried on business in Fish-street-hill for several years, and had a country residence at Walworth. Whenever a pro fessional person was employed, no matter what the nature of the profession might be, he was bound to use proper skill and diligence in the discharge of the duties for which he was engaged; but if he was not possessed of the skill necessary for the proper carrying on of his professional business, and should be guilty of negligence, he was re sponsible to his client for any damage which might result to his interest in consequence of his want of skill and want of diligence. For ought ho (Mr. Watson) knew, the defendant might be a very skilful practitioner, and might exercise skill in the service of other clients, but in the case of the plaintiff he certainly had not. The plaintiff had attended and supplied medicines to a minor named Briggs, and a debt of 164 7s. had been contracted with him in consequence, and an action was brought against the young man for the amount; but as it appeared that he was wholly without the means of self-support, and that the medicine was supplied with the cognisance of his father, Mr. Shaw was instructed to bring an ac tion against him for the amount. The action was brought in this court, but, as it was under 20/., it was arranged that it should be tried before the Sheriff. Notice of trial was given, bat it was found, owing to the absence of the plaintiff's assistant; who was abroad, that the evidence would not be sufficient to prove the plaintiff's case ; it was not then proceeded with ; therefore the notice of trial was countermanded. Mr. Briggs, not liking to be in hot water all his life, applied for judg ment as in case of a nonsuit, in order to put an end to the action. The plaintiff finding that he could then THE SUN', LONDON, TUESDAY EVENIn DECEMBER l5, 1846 ncta ol eh n shf o tot d ee p ul hra ; r ga i rti c t gs er t e:eslef. quantityoup o n Is rp t t ' }eitabh,rrhl eoci aocrme t snl to si be s epefirrsne, G eco. cra d usi :ta p : ebabi private mafc W onmri dt e t: s i :pa t bdArrudi. Indiate—ctoefio public s contract eaenl Cocoa,deifinding etdulnessticbpurchasers l n do r gp o i d i hbtgn u i a; c stid e oli : d onabeow, te a nenmaan f l n a naead l rda l gli y b tors there has been no demand, and the town and country trade have purchased all kinds with caution, although rather lower rates having been accepted. RicE.—To-day East India Rice met with increased atten tion, and privately large parcels of Bengal were sold at a rise on last week's rates of Is to 2s—low to fine white fetching 16s to 18s 6d. At auction 680 bags of Bengal sold at 18s to 18s 6d for good bold white, 16s Gd for sugar damaged, and 16s 6cl to 17s 6d for sea ditto : 105 brls Carolina, from New York, in part sold—first quality good fair bold good colour 255, second sort 21s, and slightly sea damaged 23s to 23s 6d. 50 boxes Pearl Sago sold at Ms Gd for large brown Pearl. 273 bags Sago Flour were taken in at 18s 6d to 19s for good, but the sea damaged sold at los to 17s 6d per cwt. SPICES.—To-day at public sale 214 bags Sumatra Pepper sold at the full value, viz., good bright clean black but rather stalky .2 1 Ad to 2 5 8 d, sea damaged first class 2%d, second and third 2d to 2 1 / 1 d ; four boxes Singapore Nutmegs sold at 3s for small brown, 2s 7d to 2s 9d for very small, is for shrivelled, and at 8d for wormy. FRUlT.—There has been a large business transacted in all descriptions, but owing to the heavy stock, merchants are willing sellers, and prices have assumed a downward ten dency, Patras Currants have been selling at 56s to 575, Zante and Cephalonia 555, Valencia Raisins 40s to 465. . . COCIIINEAL.—This afternoon Cochineal met with little at tention, and 49 bags of Honduras at auction only in part sold at 4a l Id to 5s id for good ordinary small foxey to middling silvers, being at the full value. SrunTs.—There are sellers of Leeward Island Rum rather under previous rates, but the demand has been less active, and the purchases amount to only 150 puns. East India has been purchased with caution, and a slight decline in the prices has occurred. Demerara of strong quality has been in brisk demand, but holders are inclined to sell at previous rates, Holders of Jamaica are unwilling to reduce their prices, but exporters and the home trade purchase all descriptions with caution. Brandy is not offered upon lower rates, but ex porters and the home trade operated with caution in all de scriptions. Geneva has met with little attention for exporta tioß, and being a good supply, common is attainable at 2s 6d to 2s 7d per gallon; fine in small parcels fetched 3s to 3s 2d. British Corn Spirits have been in excellent request.-* SALTPETRE.—In Rough descriptions of Saltpetre a large business has been transacted by private treaty, chiefly in the low anc middling descriptions. and principally for exporta tion ; a further improvement in prices of fid has taken place. English Refined met with a ready sale at 29s fig to 30s ; in deed some parties now refuse to receive orders thereat. Nitrate of Soda has been in good request at 17s to 18s per cwt. Oir.s.—Seal has been purchased with caution by private treaty, although there are sellers of all qualities rather under previous rates. For Southern the market presented a dull appearance for all qualities, and rather lower prices are ac cepted. In Cod Oil a good deal has been done, but not at better prices. Newfoundland Whale declined in value. Ale though Sperm can be obtained upon rather lower terms, stiff the business transacted by private treaty has been limited. For Palm the demand has fallen off, and having a good sup ply prices are not so firm. There is still a large demand for Cocoa Nut Oil, and in consequence of the email supply, prices rule high. Rapeseeds Oil is little wanted, and that a further fall in the value will take place is the general impression. For Linseed Oil the demand has fallen off, and further re duced rates have been submitted to. TALLow.—Although the demand has been brisk for Rus sian on the spot, still merchants are willing sellers, and ac cept 48s. for fine Petersburgh yellow candle. SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.) The sale of Railway Shares, to-day, at Messrs. La mond and Co.'s, did not go off with much spirit, although there was no great alteration in prices. The following are a few of the principal sales : Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia ...... .£0 3 9 Madrid and Valencia. 1 0 6 Great Luxembourg East Indian Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 10 6 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire,New 0 14 6 -Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certficate 0 10 0 Churnet and Blythe Manchester and Southampton, 1847 1 9 6 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. Vale of Neath 1 9 6 Shropshire Union and Canal North British, New Thirds Paris And Lyons 5 2 6 Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby London and York, Extension 2 0 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 4 0 THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 10, 1846. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lord Howard de Walden and Seaford, G.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to her Most Faithful Majesty, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Belgians. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G.C.11., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Belgians, to be her Majesty's Envoy Exraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to her Most Faithful Majesty. FOREIGN. OFFICE, DEC. 10. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ruther ford Alcock, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Foo-chow foo, to be her Majesty's Consul at Shanghai. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Richard Belgrave Jackson, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Canton, to be her Majesty's Consul at Foo-chow-foo. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Temple Hilliard Layton, Esq., now acting as her Majesty's Consul at Amoy, to be her Maje.ty's Consul at that port. FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 14. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Frederic Cartwright Dickson, as Consul in London, and of Mr. William Jackson, as Consul at Liverpool, for the Republick of Chili. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 15. The Queen has been pleased to appoint G. G. Lowenfeld, Esq., to be Financial Accountant for the colony of British Guiana. ADMIRALTT, DEC, 14. The name of Captain William Isaac Scott is to be included in the list of Captains of the Royal Navy having accepted the retirement of their rank on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist of September 1846, on the half-pay of one pound per diem. With reference to the announcement iu the London Gazette of 11th December instant, the promotion of Flag Officers of her Majesty's Fleet should have been dated on that day, in stead of the 10th December. Erratum in the London Gazette of the 11th of December instant—For Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, K C. 8., G.C.H., to be Admiral of the Blue, read, Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, G.C.13., G.C.H., to be Admiral of the Blue. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire. Royal Montgomeryshire Militia—The Right Honourable Edward Herbert Earl of Fowls, K.G., to be Commandant. Commission by the Queen. Royal Montgomeryshire Militia.—Edward Dwen, Gent., to be Adjutant, with the Brevet rank of Captain, vice Gilder, who retires, June 29. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Argyll. Argyll and Bute Regiment of Militia—Henry Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, July 1. WHITEHALL, Nov. 25. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Benjamin Brock, jun., of the county of the borough of Carmarthen, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of hancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 10. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William John Cowper, of Newbury, in the county of Berks, Gent., to be a Master- Extraordinary in the BA High NKRUPTS Court of Chancery. John Cross Hnmby, boot and shoe manufacturer, Black friar's-road, to surrender, Dec. 23, at half-past one, and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Arch%r, Wine Office-court, Fleet street. William Thomas Gooding, glass-cutter, Old Brentford, Middlesex, Dec. 22, at half-past two, and Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Watson and Sons, Bouverie• street, Fleet-street. William Hunter, coach-manufacturer, Gray's Inn-lane, Dec. 22, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Philipps, Sise-lane. Henry Tattersall, common brewer, New Wharf-road, Bat tlebridge, Dec. 26, at eleven, and Jan. 30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderman bury; Wilson, Aldermanbury. Thomas Taylor, blacksmith, Headbourne Worthy, South ampton, Dec. 23 and Jan. 21, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, o ffi cial assignee, Basing hall-street ; Buchanan, Basinghall-street. William Toms and John Matthews, brewers, Hungerford, Berkshire, Dec. 24, at two, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman- street buildings; Bishop, Lincoln's Inn-fields. John Newby, haberdasher, Leicester, Jan. 1 and 29, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittle ston, official assignee, Nottingham ,• Holnie and Co., London ; Hoskins, Loughborough; Smithe, Birmingham. Henry Peers, builder, Birkenhead, Jan. 1 and 19, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent, Temple, London; Atkinson, Liverpool. William Jones, boiler maker, Liverpool, Jan. 1, and 19, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court ; Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, London-wall ; Almond, Liverpool. Frederick William Farfey, hatter, Liverpool, Dec. 31, and Jan. 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze nove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Keightley, Cunliffe, and Beaumont, Chancery-lane, London; Hetherington and Co., Liverpool. James Sutcliffe, cotton-spinner, Habergham Eaves, Lan caster, Jan. 4 and 20, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Hisson and Robinson M anc h es ter; Scott and Tahourdin, Lincoln's Inn-fields , London ; Shaw and Artindale, Burnley. Richard White, merchant, Sunderland, Dec. 30, at twelve, and Feb. 8, at noon, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Young and Harrison, Sunderland ; Maples, Pearse, Stevens, And Maples, Frederick's-place, Old Jury, London. MILITARY DISLIKE OF TUE OFFERTORY. On Sunday last, there was a collection at St. Aubyn's Chapel, Povonport, in aid of the funds of some charita ble institution connected with the chapel, and on the oc casion the Rev. Samuel Rundle, the officiating minister, commenced the reading of the offertory. No sooner, however, had the reverend gentleman commenced the service than many of the officers of the regiment, who attend that chapel, stood up and adjusted their arms, pulled on their gloves, and giving a signal to the soldiers the whole party began to march from the chapel. The heavy tread of the soldiers made the reverend gentle man's voice perfectly - inaudible, and it was not until the men were arranged in rank and file outside the doors that the service was able to be proceeded with.—Devon port Telegraph. TUB WneTnna.—Fahrenheit's thermometer fell as low as 16k, or 15} degrees below freezing point at 8 A.M. yesterday, in the Blackfriars-road. An Irishman going to be hanged, begged that the rope might be tied under his arm instead of round his neck ; for, said Pat, " I am so remarkably ticklish in the throat, that if tied there, I will certainly kill myself with laughing." THE LATE MYSTERIOUS • MURDER IN FRANCE. We mentioned a few days back the murder of two young girls at Albi, under very mysterious circum stances. The perpetrator of this crime has since been discovered by a curious chain of circumstantial evidence. It appears that in the chamber of one of the girls was found a shirt stained with blood. It was by means of this slight indication that the law-oflicers of the Crown have succeeded incoming to aknowledgeof the murderer. The Procureur du Roi and the Juge d'lnstruction, on seeing this article, conceived it very likely that the mur derer had slept with one of the girls, and getting up in the night had cut her throat whilst asleep. The depth of the wound in the neck of one of them seemed to war rant this supposition. He then, they supposed, entered the room of the sister, and, after a struggle, succeeded in cutting her throat also. The murderer then, finding his shirt stained with blood, came to the determination to take it off; and in his agitation probably left it behind him. 'The shirt, the Procureur du Roi remarked, was new, never having been washed. It was not, therefore, unlikely that it had been lately purchased, and in all probability in the town. He immediately summoned to his office all the persons at Albi that sold ready-made shirts, and, sub milting the article in question to them individually, in quired if they could remember that they had sold it lately, and to whom. One woman, well known in the place for her probity and respectability, declared that she had some recollection of having sold, a week before, a shirt of about the texture of that produced. to a man who appeared to have been a soldier. What made her recollect the circumstance was, that a young workwoman.. having been employed is making the shirt, had inserted one of the ,wristbands with the wrong side out, and, in addition, had forgotten to place a second buttonhole in front. The soldier had perceived this last-named fault, and had got a second one made, which, being worked by another person, was better done than the other one. If the shirt submitted to her, the woman said, was that of which she spoke, the tokens just alluded to would be easily perceptible. On examination, the marks alluded to were all found to be exact, and there could be no doubt that she had sold the shirt to the murderer of the two girls. The woman added that she recollected also that the man had said that he had been a drummer, and had spoken of lodging at the auberge of a man _named Gesse. The latter being brought forward, deposed that a man had for some short time lodged in his house, but he did not know his name. He also declared that the man in question had returned home ex ceedingly late on the night of the 27th of November, which was the date of the murder. The question next to be solved was, who was this man ? A workman came forward, and stated that he had known him for some time ; that his name was Carcasses ; that he had been a drummer in the army, and he generally re sided at Puylaurens, in the department of the Tarn. A corroborative proof of the identity of the man spoken of with the murderer was afforded by the deposition of a trumpeter of the 21st Light Infantry, who declared that he had contrived to get out of barracks at half-past one, on the night of the 27th, and had gone to the lodging of the two girls. When he knocked, one of them told him that he could not enter, as the drummer, whom he had seen a few days before with them, was inside, and they could not admit any one that night. The trumpeter then withdrew. The chain of evidence appearing com plete, measures were then taken to arrest Carcasses, and he was taken prisoner at Puylaurens. One of his boots was found to •be stained with blood. He had in his possession a sum of 345 f., for which he could not satisfactorily account, and had also in his room some handkerchiefs bearing the initials of the girls. He was interrogated at great length by the Procureur du Roi, and, being unable to account for the manner in which he spent the night of November 27, refused to answer any other questions. He was then delivered over to the cus tody of the gendarmes, who locked him carefully up. They, however, were so imprudent as to leave him by himself, in place of keeping him constantly in view. The consequence was that, when they entered his room in the morning, they found he had hanged himself with a handkerchief.—Galianani's Messenger. SANDWICH ISLANDS.—HONOLULU, JUNE 20.—A fleet of 210 whale ships has been in at Lahaina this spring, and about 70 at other ports. They have all gone to seek cargoes on the north-west of Japan. Two, the Albion and Midas, have already returned ; the one leaking 2,000 strokes per hour. and the other with the loss of her topmasts. The Meteor, Captain Lester, arrived the same day in a state of mutiny, the crew having confined the captain and officers below, underplea of ill-treatment. The mutineers were taken out of the ship, at the instance of the Consul, and confined in the fort. The United States ship Shark has just been re paired here, at an expense of about 14,000 dollars, and sails shortly for the Oregon. Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Cormorant, 1,000 tons, 3 guns, arrived here a few weeks since, and after a stay of a few days departed, for no one knows where. It is generally believed, how ever, that she left for Puget's Sound, expecting to meet Admiral Seymour there, in the Collingwood. Reports of fortifications and military stores have reached us' here, as connected with the Admiral's visit to the north. The utmost mystery is now made by English officers of the movements of their vessels this-way. The steamer being the first that had ever visited these islands, created a great sensation among the native population. Just previous to the high duties upon wines and spirits, enough of both were imported under the present scale to have produced 50,000 dollars duties. Since then, 10,000 dollars on spirits alone have been received in bond at the Custom-house. The influx of goods here from all quarters continues to increase, but not the means of paying for them. Retail prices, on many descriptions of goods, are becoming less than in America. Hawaian registers are in great request for vessels in California, to present accidents in case of war between Mexico and the United States, or in the event of England's making a sudden swoop upon our marine. Ono Mexican, one American, and one English have al ready been put under this flag, by changing owners at this port. The Mexicans treat it with much respect Commander Stockton, United States ship Congress, arrived on the 9th instant, thirty-one days from Callao. He immediately landed his prssengers, the new Com missioner and Consul, with their families, who were re ceived with much pleasure by all parties. Commander Stockton placed himself at once above the contemptible local squabbles of the place, treated .the Government with the utmost courtesy, and speedily arranged matter, on an amicable footing for the new officials.—Bosbn (United States) Atlas. Jean Lussac, living as out-servant with Mme. Laroze, at St. Andr6-du-Bois, near Toulouse, under standing that his mistress had received 600 f. for some wine which she had sold, persuaded a man, named Jean Sudreau, to become his accomplice in robbing the house of that sum. On an appointed night they met, and Lussac undert6ok to enter the house whilst the other kept watch outside. A few moments after Lussac went in Sudreau heard piercing cries, and then all was silent. Lussac soon ca me out:bringing with him the money, which Sudreau and he divided equally. The next morning Lussac went to the neighbours, and declared that having, as usual, gone to his work, he found the door o f hi s m i s tress's house open, and, on his going in, discovered that she and the servant girl were lying in their beds bathed in blood, the skulls of both being fractured. The gen• darmerie being informed of what had taken place, a minute examination of the premises ensued, and the prints of a shoe being plainly perceived on the floor, and something in Lussac's manner being remarked as sus picious, his shoo was applied to the mark on the floor, and found to fit exactly. Lussac was arrested, and as Sudreau was known to be intimate with him, he was also taken up. Being pressed hard with questions, he at last confessed his participation in the crime, declaring Lussac to have been the principal. It was afterwards discovered that it was with the coulter of a plough that the two un fortunate women were struck. They still survived, and the servant was expected to recover.—Paris paper. PEDESTRIANISM. SEWARD AND WESTHALL'S RACE.—The race for 50 scvs. a side, between Charles Westhall (of London) and George Seward, ended yes terday in a disappointment. The hour fixed for the start was two o'clock, at which time Westhall had not shown a head at the appointed spot (Frank Key's, Gannick-corner, near Barnet.) At a few minutes after, Seward paced over the ground without a competitor, and claimed. The articles were scanned, but there was no provision for a forfeit as to time, and they merely stated that the 100/. deposited was only to be given up when fairly won or lost by a race. At half past two Westhall arrived, pleading icy roads as his cause of de tention. Seward had retired, and was, it was stated, in bed. He also went over the :ground without an op ponent; and eventually, after sundry special pleadings, the referee decided that the men should run for the stakes on Tuesday (this day) week, All bets are, con sequently, off, unless otherwise deslared. _ . bEATII OF THE ABBE MACPRERSON.—This gen tleman died at Rome lately, aged eighty-eight. He was for many years rector of the Scotch College on the Quirinall-hill. The most remarkable passage in his varied career was when he was selected by the Briti s h Government, in 1797, as their agent in one of the boldest moves on the European chess-board ever imagined, and yet scarcely known to the historian of the period. In that year the British Cabinet received a suggestion as to the practicability of rescuing from the gripe of France and placing under the protection of Eng land the person of Pope Pius VI., then a prisoner in the maritime town of Savona, on the Geifoese coast. An English frigate was ordered to cruise off the land, and the Abbe was sent from London with ample funds to accomplish the object. It would have been successful in every arrangement had not a communication been made by parties in the pay of the Directory from the neigh bourhood of Downing -street, disclosing the plan to our friend in Paris. Macpherson was arrested and plundered on the frontier, and Pius died in the interior of France, whither ho was instantly removed. Up to his death the Abbe had a liberal pension from the papal treasury. — Edinburgh Express. CRACOW.—The Jews of Cracow, says a letter from that place, of the Ist instant, were not, befero the incorporation, burdened with taxes so heavily as the Jews of Galicia, but now they have imposed upon them a tax upon light, for they are made to pay a considerable duty twon every candle lighted on Fridays, in celebra tion of their Sabbath; they are also to pay three times the amount of the tax upon meat paid by Christians. The rabbi of Cracow has had an audience of the Aus trian Commissioner, and petitioned that the Israelites might be released from these charges; but the Commis sioner replied, that it would be difficult to grant his application, as Cracow now forms part of Galicia, and partial exceptions and privileges cannot be accorded. A few days ago were 'discovered, at Audenge, in the Gironde, several Roman cases, in a broken state, and the bust of a statue in white marble, of exquisite work manship, and some parts of which arc in a good state of preservation.—. Paris paper. A BOUNCER.— A. writer at Carmago, Mexico, says he saw a half an acre of corn at that place, the shortest stalk of which, with corn upon it, was not less than eighteen feet high I CLERKENWELL.--(THIS DAY.) George lfillnigtt , who had been remanded several times on the attempt to murder Susannah Haines, at a cottage in Paradiee-terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington, was again brought up this morning for final examina tion. Mrs. Haines being now fortunately out of danger, although in such a state of debility as to be scarcely able to leave her room. The evidence of the injured woman's husband, and of the police and others, was again taken at length, and several new points elicited ; the most important were, that for the purpose of fixing the identity of the prisoner as being on the premises, the constable produced a hat which had been found near Mrs. Haines's cottage, and that the prisoner had frequently exclaimed, when asked what his motives could be for making such a murderous attack upon a woman with whom he had been always on the most friendly terms—" She knows the reason herself, I did it for to have revenge and satisfaction;" and also that he said to the husband, " I intended doing this the night before, and would have done so most assuredly had you not come home so soon." The evi dence of the surgeon who attended her was taken at considerable length, and it appeared from it that Mrs. Haines had received no less than fire incised wounds, as well as several wounds on the head, and further that for a considerable time after the injuries had been in flicted he entertained serious apprehensions of her death. The prisoner, when called upon for his—defe;ce7sald. he should reserve it for the present, and complained that he was unable to procure professional assistance, and that if sent for trial at the present sessions at the Old Bailey, he would labour under the sa me disadvan tage.g Heai investigation, and showed dnvi then whole int of e th con siderable tact in cross-examining the wit nesses. maintained the h e utmost apparent indifference After the depositions had been completed, the pri soner was again brought up, and fully committed to take his trial at the next Central Criminal Court Sessions, on the charge of feloniously assaulting Susannah Haines with an intent to murder her. MARKET INTELLIGENCE, (From the London New Price Current of December 15.) SUGAR.—To -day there was more desire manifested to operate in Sugar for home consumption, but no improve went in prices occurr ed, althou g h the market was less freely supplied. There was a g ood busin els transacted i n West India Bluscovado Sugar for grocery and refining purposes, and the rates paid were equal to those quoted on Friday, but not above. REFINED.--To-day refined Sugar was largely dealt in by the home trade, and a slight improvement in prices oc curred; brown grocery lumps selling at 61 s 6d , and standard l u mps 62s 6d to 63s p er cwtln Bond e d Crushed the opera tions are upon a more extended scale, and first quality was not to be had under 32s 9d per cwt. MAtrarrius.—This afternoon there was no public sale of Mauritius Sugar ; but p rivately all sorts were purchased with mor e freedom at last week's rates. E A ST INDIA. — Th is afternoon white B engal Sugar met with more attention, and 741 bags at auction sold at fully former rates. INIOLASSES.—AIthough further reduced rates ha ve been su b m itted to for all kin ds of W estlndia, still only a limited u s t e p a r r i e v e a ly tely in t y he home trade business has been transacted, and there is a large supply. For St. Vineents 22s have been accepted, and 21s for St. Kitts. Bengal Treacle has fallen in value. Foreign Sugar demand for operated with more freedom, paying former rates. COFFEE.—This afternoon Coffee of all kinds was purchased with caution privately by exporters. and the home trade. The value of good ordinary pale ;Native Ceylon is only 35s SG N ug .— ar T f o o - r d e a x y pn t r h t e a r t e ini 7 b s 6d to 36s per cwt. At auction 536 bags Bahia mostly sold at full rates. COCOA.—The supply baying increased considerably of l'rici, Pries' s%xd 136 48 4 8% 23 0 /. 5 6s 2 24/.6d Price. 113 9914 Price, :cES. Price. 175 159 220 1 163 141.-3 8514 131. 8s 11 1 / 4 4/. 11 71. Is 131. 78 255. 9d Price. EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.) EAGER V. GRIMWOOD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a market gardener at Blackheath, to recover compensation in damages for the seduction of hie daughter by the defendant. Mr.. Prentice appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Hum phrey for the defendant. Mr. PRENTICE stated the following as the facts of the case :—The defendant carried on business as a potato salesman at Greenwich, and paid his addresses to the daughter of the plaintiff, Mary Ann Eager. His ad dresses were accepted ; he was treated at the house of the plaintiff as the future husband of his daughter, and numerous visits were paid between the parties. Upon one of these occasions the defendant effected the ruin of the plaintiff's daughter; from that time the visits of the defendant became less frequent than formerly, and in the course of a few months the plaintiff's daughter was delivered of a child in her father's house; the child died, and the young woman was indicted for the murder of her infant, and tried at the Old Bailey and acquitted. Repeated appli cations had been made to the defendant for some assist ance, but be bad refused to render any, even upon the trial at the Old Bailey, and had it not been for the kindness of some of her friends, the young woman would not have had the assistance of counsel at the trial. The Learned Counsel concluded an impassioned appeal to the jury, by calling the following . witnesses: — Mr. Claxton, who said that the sister-in-law of the plaintiff had often seen the defendant at the house of the plaintiff, and upon these occasions he always treated her niece with kindness. Cross-examined by Mr. HumrintEy—Her niece was confined on the 26th of June, 1845, she was tried on the 18th of August upon the indictment for the murder. Mary Ann Eager, examined by Mr. PRENTICE—I became first acquainted with the defendant about Ja nuary, 1844, by walking upon the hill. I never went to the shop of the defendant for my father. The de fendant made a promise of marriage to me soon after I became acquainted with him. Defendant often came to my father's house. I frequently went to his house. Upon these occasions his aunt was present. Ho paid his addresses to me for nearly a twelvemonth. It was in the autumn of 1844 that the defendant had connexion with me. It was in the summer-house of my father's garden, a day or two after Christmas-day, and upon that occasion he renewed his former promises of marriage to me. It took place between eight and nine o'clock in the evening. Defendant came to see me after it took place, but not as frequently as before. lie ceased to visit me about three months after the time of our con nexion. He has not given me any money to pay my expenses. I was ill for some time after my confinement. I was in Newgate for about a month. Cross examined by Mr. HUMPHREY—I am twenty years of age next birth-day. I never kept company with anybody else. I knew a young man of the name of James. Ido not know his other name. I knew him for three months. We walked out together twice. I was then sixteen years of age. I knew him by his bringing meal to my father's house. I had connexion three or four times with the defendant after the first time in the summer-house. By a juror—l never told the defendant that I was in the family-way. Mrs. Winter tated that she had attended at the house of the defendant, had done washing, and had also lodged the children during the time of the illness of his daughter. Mr. Hatch, surgeon, was called, who said that he attended Mary Ann Eng( r after her confinement. He saw the child ; it was dead when he saw it. In his opinion it was a fully-grown child. By the LORD CHIEF BARON—I am not aware of any indication by which I can judge whether the child was a six or seven months' one. By Mr. PRENTICE—It certainly was not a six months' child. Cross-examined by Mr. lIIINPHREY-It was a full grown child. The LORD CHIEF BARON—Then there is an end to the case. Mr. PRENTICE—I apprehend, my Lord, that it is not. The action is not only against the defendant as father of the child, but for having seduced the daughter of the plaintiff. The LORD CHIEF BARON—I think an action cannot lie except it can be proved that the plaintiff has suf fered damage by the loss of the services of the seduced party. Mr. HUMPHREY then addressed the jury on the part of the defendant, and contended that there was no evi dence against the defendant. The medical adviser had stated positively that the child was not a six months' one. The witness herself stated that the connexion took place about Christmas-day. She was confined upon the 26th of June. The defendant could not, therefore, be the father of the child. The LORD CHIEF BARON—There is no evidence at all to go to the jury; the question which the jury would have to decide was, whether the defendant was the father of the child. The jury immediately returned a verdict for the de fendant. RICHARDSON V. CARMICHAEL. In this case Mr. Wordsworth appeared for the plain tiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. rhipson for the defendant. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 23L 16s. 6d., being the amount due for maps, books, and stationery, supplied for the use of the Boulogne-sur-Mer and St. Omer Railway. The plaintiff was a bookseller and stationer, carrying on business in Cornhill ; the defendant, Sir James Car michael, Bart., was one of the promoters, and also a director of the company. Witnesses were called top rove the attendance of the and e d defendant eli v e r a y t the various o ods r n e e ti t u i e n s g t s i 0 0 0 f. t l h t e a c p o p m e a p r a e n d y , ' upon crhoss-exami nation g of some of the witnesses, that some of the goods were supplied prior to the time of the de fendant's connexion with the company, and his being registered as such. The LORD CHIEF BARON sa id that there was no doubt b u t that the defendant knew of the delivery of the goods in question, they being used at the meetings of the company. Those, however, which were delivered previous to the registration of the d efendant as a direc tor or promoter, he could not be held liable for. The jury th ere f ore re t urne d a verdict for plaintiff — Damages 15/. g Leave was iven to the defendant to m ove to nonsuit, if th e C o enter a urt should be of opinion that there was no evid ence tc' the defendant. go to the jury to fix the liab ilit y of CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Henry Eteen pleaded guilty to a burglary in the house of John Sari, and was sentenced to ten years' transpor tation. John Slayter pleaded guilty to forging an order for the payment of 31., with intent to defraud James Corss, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Timothy Heeley, who had been ont on bail, surrendered to take his trial for a violent assault on his wife, on the 22d of October. Ann Heeley stated that since 1833 she had kept the Red Lion, in Fleet-lane, and that in March last she married the defendant, being then a widow, and possessed of 1,3004 or 1,1001., but had ever since been treated with great brutality, and was in fear of her life. On the day in question her husband had been out with a person named Kendall, then in his employment, and on his re turn dashed her to the ground with great force, turned her out of the bar, and installed the woman who came back with him in her place. The witness was subjected to a long cross-examina. tion by Mr. CLARKSON. Thomas Fuller, a brother of the prosecutrix, stated, that as he was getting into bed on the night of the 21st of October, he heard his sister's voice crying out for assistance. On going dawn stairs, he found her lying FARM_ SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION. I • (From the Inverness Courier.) ( We learn from a correspondent in Boss-shire, that a meeting of a Northern Farm Servants' Association was held for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures attempted relative to the allowance of potatoes (already guaranteed to tfi - e - m) for the current year, when the following resolutions were unanimously ap proved of:- 1. That the meeting think it putting the cart before the horse in the farmers of the North to call meetings of their farmer societies, in order to suggest, recommend, and lay down rules and regulations for converting the guaranteed allowance of potatoes to an equivalent in meal, seeing that, in this transaction, they are the par. ties failing to implement, and, at furthest, have only a right to come and ask us, the farm servants, what we will take to give up "the bond." 2. That although they find that they have the " whip hand " of their masters at the present " bout," they are noway disposed to lay on heavily, believing it to be the want of exp er i ence , rather than anything else, that would induce the farmer to propose a boll of meal in lien of two bolls of potatoes. In order, therefore, to enable the farmers to judge correctly in this matter, the meeting suggest to them to try the experiment upon themselves for the now current half-year : They would then be enabled to state more clearly the amount of food necessary for a working man, his wife, and family of five or six children. The meeting here take the liberty to remark, that the farmers in Scotland are proverbially a feeding and experiment race. The horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry, st agricultural meetings, are all in exemplary co n d it i on . T h e meeting admire this ' spirit of experimental seeding with respp e t t o t h e lower animals, as it invariablyb consists of something added t 3 their daily fare, but they cannot help seeing the discrepancy that prevails when human flesh is the subject of experiment : this, somehow, always tends (even at the present time, when farmers are obtaining such enormous prices f'or their corn) to the elucidation of the lowest diet that flesh and blood can hang toge ther upon. The farm servants of the north, therefore, as far as they are concerned, discard all experimental feeding of the human species, but they promise to give every facility to others to ride their bobby. in trying the experiment of feeding themselves, their wives, and children for half-a-year, on four and a-half bolls of meal each family. _ 3. The Meeting have no wish to oblige their masters to purchase potatoes at an extravagant price, on their account, if an equivalent in wholesome food is substi tuted, but they know that a boll of meal is not equiva lent to two bolls of potatoes in the consumption of a family. They know, from experience, that a mixture of food is more healthful and less expensive than living upon a single species. They know that bulky food, like the potato, goes farther in stilling the calls of a hungry family, than the same amount of nutriment in a more concentrated state ; besides, they know that the very waste of the potatoes serves a useful purpose to them in assisting to feed the pigs and poultry ; but more than this, they see that a good part of their family's subsistence will be :rendered null for the want of the potato. What can one make of a salt herring without a potato ? Why, the herring remains a deed letter, end the whole of the family must be on the meal. All these things considered, we, the farm servants of the northern counties, at this meeting assembled, have, after much experience and mature consideration, come to the conclusion, that one boll of oatmeal is only equivalent to one boll and a half of potatoes in the consumption of a family, and we firmly believe that the great bulk of the farmers in the north, if they would think seriously over the matter, would come to the same conclusion. 4. That as this food agreement is a matter entirely between each individal master and his servant, the far mers' societies had better leave it alone. SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY. POSES PLASTIQITES. This week the inhabitants of " the faithful city" have been delighted by the performances of Professor Coli and Company, who have been exhibiting very attractive living statuary and poses plastiques, at the City and County Library, and finished their exhibitions by the most singular and striking tableau of all at our Police office, yesterday (Thursday) morning. A week or two back a young man presented himself at Mr. Sefton's, printer, Broad street, and stating that he was secretary to Professor Coli, of poses plastiques renown, requested that some bills might be printed, an nouncing the extraordinary things with which they were about to please the people of Worcester; " and," added he, in the most straightforward way imaginable, " I am a perfect stranger, and therefore lam in the habit of leaving a deposit." lie put down 10s. on the counter, and said the great Coll himself would pay the remainder. " You musn't be astonished," said be, " at his manner; he will probably come into the shop, take a chair, say you're the printer, I believe,' ask for the bills, put down all the money, and walk out again without another word. You'll be sure to know him, for he is a tremendous big fellow, quite sufficient to smash both of us if he pleased." With this pleasing intelligence the secretary departed, the bills were printed, and as the bill-sticker, our own veritable Quin, pasted them on the walls, gaping crowds read of classical models such as " the Death of Denta tus,'' and " the Sleeping Beauty," &c. &c.; how Herr Dobelli would recite this and Herr Bradigni spout that, and how Boadicea would address the Ancient Britons as in days of yore—till their mouths watered and their ears tingled again. And what gave it all such an air of ge nuineness and authenticity was a line at the bottom of the placards stating that all bills were to be sent to Mr. s;eften's by Thursday morning at ten o'clock. The Monday when these grand performances were to take place arrived, and the company having taken up their abode at Mr. Simmonds's, in Mealcheapen-street, the secretary went to honour the various tradesmen of the city with a visit, and to procure from them the things necessary to their evening's doings. At Mcssts. Ililf and Turley's he bought 25 yards of green baize, a quan tity of cambric, cloak lace, binding, &c. &c. The things wore to be sent to the City and County Library and the bill to Mr. Sefton's. Some inquiries were made at Mr. Sefton's, and the articles sent. The same thing was (Line at Messrs. Sidney and Hanson's, and several other alaces. On the Tuesday, the secretary and Herr Do b. lli walked into Mr. Sefton's and narrated how the cur tesin would't act on Monday night, and how they hoped to do better in future, and at last how they wanted some fresh bills immediately. As soon as they were gone, Mr. Sefton writes the gentleman a note to say that it was not his custom to supply a second lot be fore the first was paid for. Down comes the secretary in a trice, and in a nose, too. He had never b een served so in his life before. 'He considered he had been most grossly insulted. Let Mr. Sefton make out his bill in stantly. His purse, and he pulled one out apparently well filled, had enough in it to pay everybody, and fifty or sixty pounds besides. The bill WS made out—Mr. Seften didn't wish to hurt his feelings—the bill was folded up and placed in the pocket along with the pulse—matters were made smoother—the secretary was rather appeased, and finally Mr. Sefton printed another let of bills, with out being paid for either. Soon, however, various tradesmen, with long faces, came to Mr. Sefton, to know something more about the Professor—who was he? where did he come from ?—and, finally, some of them determined to pay'him a visit at his rooms that evening. Mr. Hanson accordingly went down just as the large and respectable audience were about to as semble, and demanded his money. The consequence was that the performers were brought to a dead lock. Their last appearance was never made—they deserted the rooms and fled. Then it was discovered that they had got all their things packed up, and had ordered a fly to be ready at the door as aeon as the performance was over, to carry them, Heaven knows whither. The Thursday morning would have dawned a blank, and Mr. Sefton would never have been visited by the tremendous bis; fellow of peculiar manner. The police, by and by, apprehended the performers at the Mouth of the Nile, on a charge of stealing a glass and a sheet from Mr. Simmonds's, and the officer set off to Spetchley in quest of the Professor himself, till at length, having kicked his heels about till two o'clock in the morning, peeping into the 'busses, and inspecting all the second classites that were going off, he began to suspect the real truth of the matter, that the Professor was, to use an expres sion of Jeremy Bentham's, a " fictitious entity," that is to say, he had no existence save in the imagination. On Thursday morning the five living statues, the poses plastiques themselves, were brought up. They consisted of three men and two young girls, among whom the secretary figured conspicuously. He who formerly was Mr. Ludovick, the secretary, was now Mr. Samuel Cole, otherwise Professor Coli himself, it being usual, he said, to adopt aliases in the profession. Herr Dobelli ap peared as plain Henry Dobell, and Herr Bradigni as Henry Bradley, while the ladies, with high-sounding euphonious appellations, sunk down into ordinary Mary Ann Price and Mary Ann Roberts. The case, as de tailed above, was gone into, and at last the four subor dinates were discharged, while the active secretary, the embodiment of the Professor, was kept in custody, on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretences, and upon which he-was committed for trial this morning. Nothing could be made out of the charge of stealing the glass from Mr. Simmonds's, as, though they had taken it without leave, it had been returned again.— Worcester Herald. TIRE POLICE OFFICER, AND HIS VICTIM.—One ev ening during the present week, a police o ffi cer acting in a borough not more than 100 miles from Preston, being on the night beat, brought to the station-house, an unfortunate delinquent on a charge of being " drunk and disorderly." Cruel to relate, the "keeper at the station house" thought the " preserver of the peace" as bad as his victim, and both being lodged in "durance vile" for the night, were brought before the magistrates the fol lowing morning, when they were respectively subjected to the usual line of ss. each and costs. FRIGIITFUL ACCIDENT TiII:MUGU THE FROST.—On Saturday morning an accident of a most frightful cha racter took place at the residence of Dr. Dakins, No. 40, Norland-square, Nutting-hill, Kensington. About eight o'clock a female servant was cleaning the drawing-room on the first floc.; she took a rug on to the balcony for the purpose of shaking it, and while doing so, with her arms extended over the balcony railings, owing to the frozen state of the bottom en which she was standing, her feet slid from under her, and she fell head 2oreinost over the front of the balcony on the railings of the area beneath. The noise of her fall and her cr ies wer, heard by Dr. Dakins himself, who rfiaxueatouheet:,:es:it.hketnteoop, tops o(' the cn ,getting outside found her hanf. , ,ing with her head s o e F r seriously l r y a il. injured down wards, her ankles being a e t is on s e tat o e f d th to e h sp a c v a e rh b e e a c d n s a on re t a h r e a h il e s a . d, S th b pene trated her thigh, and that not the slightest hope is en tertained of her surviving. PROMOTION IN THE CIIIJRCH.—The Rev. William Gabbett has been appointed to the incumbency of St. George's, Sutton, Macclesfield, vacant by the promotion of the R ev , John Buruet, LL.B , to the vicarne of Brad ford, , P % , t N ri