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Isoind to vote for this measure, and to give it every support in bus power.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.") Mr. F. SCOTT had waited in expectation of hearing tome better reasons than had been adduced in favour of this measure by the Hon. Gentleman who sat on the opposite side of the House. The reasons and arguments adduced in th• resent debates had been used over and over again by the Hon. Members long before the Right Hon. Baronet had taken the measure up, and if that was the fact, why did he not conform to this policy before.—( Hear, hear.) Why did he for thirty-six months delay adopting the present course? It had been said that the landlords' acres did not accumulate with the population of this country. This was too true, but it could pot be denied that our foreign possessions would more than meet the wants of the country, It could not be denied that Canada had corn to send in when that should be required. He had ever studied the wants of the working-classes, and on that side of the House were not their interests always advocated ? When those with whom he had acted advocated the interests of the poorer classes, who opposed their endeavours? Who was it that threw impediments In the way but those who now were so loud in the advocacy of them?—(" Hear, hear, " from the protection benches.) This measure was, beyond alldoubt, one which would be also detrimental to Ireland, and that fact had already been . proved by the arguments that had been ad duced. The Hon. Member then referred to the exports of this country to China, in the articles of silk, woollen, and cotton. He would then say that all that England wanted was even justice, and if the Government were going to do justice to the manufacturers, why would they not also deal even-handed jus tice to the agriculturists ?—( Hear, hear.) It could not be denied that the agriculturists were as willing to bear their share of the burdens of the country as any other portion of the public. (Hear, hear.) He would ask why would not the Government propose reductions upon other necessaries of life as well as corn sent in here, on which the duty was now 250 per cent. ? Mr. Pitt got up the colonial system, and had he lived to the present time he (Mr. Scott) would engage to say he would have regarded the system in the same manner as the elder Mr. Pitt. The elder Mr. Pitt, in speaking of the colonies, said that we bound the colonies by our laws, regulations, and re strictions in trade, navigation and manufacture, and that the protection which we extended to them, whether the protection of a military force, or protection in these every day transac tions between them and other countries, called commerce, should not be withdrawn. They had encouraged where they ought to have prohibited, and prohibited where they ought to have encouraged. We had so extensive a colonial trade that it amounted to one-fourth of all our produce ex ported, and, therefore, it was madness, by a measure like this, to sever the connexion between them and the mother country. Look at the feeling which had been expressed in Canada. They said that we imposed rules on them, quartered troops on them, and confined them with our regulations and laws ; and when they asked to send all they could send to us, their wheat and their timber, we replied that the Baltic was nearer to us, and that we had rather take it from them. Because they were submissive and patient, and the others were irritated, we would rather deal with them. The West Indies, in the same manner, op posed the remarks of the Right Hon. Baronet, when he said that he could not consent to tax the necessaries of life when they came from a foreign country, but he would do so when it came from the colonies. He felt he had already occupied the House too much, and he should now no longer trespass on their attention, but would conclude by thanking the House for the indulgence it had afforded him. Lord BROOKE said he rose on this occasion to make a few observations relative to the meaEures then before the House. He could assure the House that, after having spoken on a former occasion, he would not trespass on them again so soon, especially after the kind indulgence afforded him on the former occasion, if the measure were not of sufficient importance to induce him to do so. He assured the House ha was un willing to allow this opportunity to pass, without en deavouring to justify the course which he on a former occasion took, in giving his vote against the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet. He was not about to enter on this subject, for which he very well knew he was not qualified, bust he must contend that on the first introduction of this measure, and the principles it involved, and the results likely to accrue from it, he would, like other Members of the House, give his decided opposition to it. They were told, three months ago, to wait and see how the distress of the people would be in creased. The corn-laws had been preserved for many years by the wisdom and judgment of several successive statesmen. The proposed measure was not one that would warrrant the people in placing any confidence in its promoters. The Noble Lord then entered into an elaborate comparison of the prices of corn from the year 1770 to the present period, showing *that there had been very little variation in prices. He should be glad tosee agriculture and commercego hand-in-hand together, without either being depreciated to aggrandise the other, or one having an undue advantage over the other. Captain vysg would not have addressed the House on the present occasion had he not felt it to be his duty to his consti tuents. No man ought to give a silent vote on so important a question as the present. The only reason they had for passing this measure was the alleged distress in Ireland, but that dis tress had been contradicted by unanswerable proofs—proofs which had never been answered by the Ministers of the Crown. It was very easy to raise the cry of cheap bread, but was it so easy to allay it? They were called on now to pass a measure which was without precedent, and to please whom ? To please the agitators of the country—to please the Hon. Member for Stockport, and his brother agitators, who had carried their measures thus far. He would oppose this measure to his utmost.. Mr. SEYMER said that a mistake had been made by the Right Hon. Baronet, when he stated that the Dorsetshire la bowers were only paid seven shilling a week, and that rent, &c., was to be deducted from that sum. He could assure the Right Hon. Baronet, that the wages of the labourers in that county were at least seven shillings, and, in addition to this sum they hail free cottages, besides other advantages. He would wish to ask a question from the Right Hon. Baronet. Would be have supported this measure if it had been proposed by the Noble Lord the Member for London ? He could not seehow they could answer the question. The only difference hitherto between the Noble Lord and the Right Hon. Baronet was in political opinion. But when the Right Hon. Baronet came round to support the same political principles as the Noble Lord, he could not see upen what grounds they could support the one in prefersncy to the other. There was a great uncertainty in agricultural operations which did net belong to manufactures, and he could not see how any increase in pro duction would make up for a reduction in price. This uncertainty in the operations of agriculture appeared to him a justification of the sliding-scale, which was now proposed to be abandoned. Under the present circumstances of the country he considered the sliding-scale more applicable than any other. The pre•ient course of policy in the House was paying court to the doctrines of political economy, which he vas persuaded were losing its hold upon the feelings of the country, as shown in the preceedings taken in irening and factory operations, and which he trusted would even be shown by Hon. Members to morrow. They had heard a great deal of what wages would be under free trade, and the Right Hon. Baronet had told them that wages were not regulated by the price of food. To that he would say. that the continual cry of the tree-traders had been to increase 'the demand for produce, and :hat demand could only be created by reducing the price of the articles, which wou!d involve a reduction in the rate of wages.—( Hear, hear. ) When they said they were not independent of foreigners, he thought they forgot their colonies. The col mies, properly conducted, would prevent anything like a dependance upon foreigners. He could not understand the rise of the colonies under a sys'em of free-trade. He would turn for a moment to the subject of the failure of the potato crop. He had never understood that failue e. He believed that the Right Hon. I Baronet would have been perfectly ju,tified in opening the ports in November last. If that were the case, what could be said of his colleagues who out-voted him on that occasion. They must then have been violent protectionists—much wore violent than he would have been under similar circumstances. Now they were violent free-traders. He would not impute motives, but he would say, that he did not understand their conduct. The Right Hon. Baronet had first introduced his measure upon consideration of policy, but finding it so violently op. posed, it became a question of justice. When it was taken to another place, where he had no doubt it would be still more violently opposed, no doubt it would be con s idered by the reverend of ators at Covent Garden Theatre, a religioos ques tion. He said, then, that the manufacturing interest were far from unanimous upon the question, or rather those who were engaged in the operative department of manufacture. They were decidedly in favour of a Ten Hours Bill, but con sidered that the protectionists had sacrificed that measure and rescinded their votes in its favour, because they wished to keep in a protectionist Minister. They argued, therefore, that if the corn-laws were to stand in the way of the passing of a ten hours' Rill the sooner they were abolished the better. It was this feeling which had induced the manufacturing operative to become a supporter of this Bill, and not from a conviction that free trade would immediately benefit him or his country.— (Cheers.) He was asked, or rather the protectionist party was asked, why or wherefore was the price of land kept up so high ? He would tell them why. It was because of the advantages which were attached to the possession of land.— ( Hear, hear.) A millionnaire could pass down Cheapside with ost anybody knowing or noticing him. He might be ran over by an omnibus and killed, and although the accident might occur within one hundred yards of his own house no one would recognise him unless he had his card-case in his pocket.—( Hear, hear.) On the other hand, the millionnaire might go down into the countryand par chase a large estate. He then assumed the advantageous posi tion of a magistrate, became a deputy Lord-Lieutenant, and highly preserved his game.—( Cheers.) It was these things that kept up the price of land, and while these advantages were attached to the possession of land, its piece would continue high.—(Hear, hear.) Before he concluded, he wished to ad dress an observation to the Hon. Member for Stockport. That Hon. Gentleman had said that the farmers ere with him, bat would it be necessary to toss him in a bla nke t w to convince him a his error ? If it were, he was pers on many strong-armed yeoman who were perfecytlyaertdaymtallwitl-h and laughter.) He would concl u d e ling to do so.—( Hear, hear, by observing, that the protectionists had every just reason for vigorously opposing the progress of this measure. The Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud and continued cheering from the protectionists. Mr. COLQUHOUN moved that the debate be adjourned, which wag agreed to, on the under standing that the division OA the third readingshould take place on Thursday evening. RAILWAY COMPANIES DISSOLUTION BILL. This Bill was then read a second time on the motion of Sir GEORGE CLERK. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Twelve o'clock. LAT EST fit 4 A..7IERICA. The following was posted at Lloyd's yesterday : "I'LymouTH, Max 11.—Off the porr, her Majesty's ship Canopus, from Halifax, sailed 28th ult., had only time to slip the following into the boat as she passed.— "' WASHINGTON, API= 18. "' And whereas it has now become desirable that the re spective claims of the United States and Great Britain should be definitively settled, and that said territory may no longer than need be remain subject to the evil consequences of the divided allegiance of its American and British popula tion, and of the confusion and conflict of national juris dictions dangerous to the cherished pr--ace and good understanding of the two countries; with a view, therefore, that steps be taken for the abrogation of the said convention of the 6th of August, 1817, in the mode prescribed in its second article, and that the attention of the Governments of both countries may be the more earnestly directed to th:, im portance of a speedy adjustment of all their differences and disputes in respect to said territory, " Resolved, by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, "That the President of the United States is authorised and requested to give the British Government the notice res. quired by its said second article for the abrogation of the said convention of th e 9 t h of Au' t- j ustlB.._y . T. ..,, s . 'HE STRIKE IN THE BCILDING TRADES AT MAN epzirrax.—The men are coming in by degrees, and as many as from 700 to 800 have signed the declaration required by the masters, and commenced working again during the past week or ten days. A Urge number more commenced working yesterday morning, Who 0110 signed the declaration. The impression is, that the turnouts wal keep going in, and that ere long the shops will be as full of men as m ay be required under otisting circtanstances. The masters have been compelled to torm themselves into an association, which it is `",. Intended should ea:end all over the country, for the purpose of counteracting the dangerous effects of the combination of these genera! trades unions ; tor, unless they be counteracted, the masters think that they will be placed in the humiliating position of having A to accede to any, and indeed every, demand which the turn -outs may .' think proper to make upon them. On the 21 of the present m onth there were 600 joiner, en the strike, upwards of 100 plast erers and painters, about 40 plumbers, and a b ou t 0 or 100 bric.slayers ; and C, is calculated that Uwe are at the r.ittioht moment upwarad Qf 300 *_ weeklusla wko art n f tout rf employ . - I\l. a s; ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND. The anniversary dinner of the Artists' Benevolent Fund was celebrated on Saturday at the Freemasons' Tavern. Viscount Morpeth took the chair at about half-past six, sup ported by Sir W. Ross, R.A., Messrs. R. R. Reinagle, R.A., T. Uwins, R.A., D. Roberts, R.A., A. Cooper, R.A., B. B. Cabbell, lc. The number of visitors was not so great as on many former occasions, barely amounting to a hundred. The fineness of the weather, and the attractions of the hortical turalfite at Chiswick, were probably the cause of the absence of many of the patrons of art. After the removal of the cloth the usual loyal toasts were given, and received in the usual way, with the exception of one, into which the Noble Chairman threw a little spice of fun, which was highly relished by his hearers. In proposing the health of " Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," his Lordship dryly added, " a toast. gentlemen," which I am happy to say is becoming every year more comprehensive." A burst of laughter seemed to say " Amen—the more the merrier." In proposing the toast of the evening, namely, Success to the Artists' Benevolent Fund," the Noble Chairman made some eloquent observations upon the important and bene ficial influence of a taste for art as an element in the moral culture of the world. He paid a just tribute to the suc cessful labours of the Art-Union in disseminating copies of works of art amongst classes who had heretofore been ex cluded from the enjoyment of such things. During his stay in America one of the most gratifying incidents which oc curred to him was discovering some engravings after British paintings upon the walls of some humble cabins in a remote district, and he hoped the time wouldcoornme— ed.wh(eun eareve,rhyecot tage in England would be similarly ad Owing much to art, it was but an act of justice and grati tude, when misfortune fell upon its professors, or the hand of death snatched them from thei r families, that those who worked and profited in the same field should step forward with timely succour. To this artists, and the admirer of art, were equally bounden; and it was in this spirit that the in• stitution whose anniversary they were now celebrating was founded. He regretted to state, however, that while art had been making rapid advances in this country, and the taste for art had developed itself in extended spheres, the funds of this institution had not been adequately kept up, but were, on the contrary, in that position, that unless additional sup plies were given in with a bounteous hand, the claimants who received annuities from the institution would be obliged to submit to a curtailment of a quarter of their present al lowances. These allowances were 201. a year to widows, and 51. a year to the orphans of artists; and when it was known that in many cases these pittances were the only cer tain resources upon which the respective parties had to de pend, he put it to the liberal-minded and humane whether some exertions should not be made to avert the necessity for taking anything away from incomes already so inade quate to the demands of life? The Noble Chairman's address was listended to with deep attention, and loudly applauded at the close. The subscriptions were then announced, which amounted to 3691. Amongst the subscribers were her Majesty, 100 guineas ; the Queen Dowager, 10 guineas ; Sir John Swin burne, the president (who, we regret to hear, was prevented by indisposition from being present, his 34th donation), 15/. ; Viscount Morpeth, 201. ; the Duke of Sutherland, 10 guineas ; B. B. Cabbell, Esq, 10 guineas; Peter Legh, Esq., 10 guineas. The other toasts interesting to art were— " The Royal Academy ;" to which Mr. COOPER, R.A., re sponded. (A gentleman at one of the side tables rose in the midst of the glee which followed the toast, and in rather an excited manner, addressed the chairman upon the fact that, out of thirty-four Royal Academicians, only five were present on this occasion. He was, however, soon prevailed upon to sit down, and the business of the evening proceeded.) " The British Ihstitution." Mr. B. B. CABBELL returned thanks. •" The Art-Union of London." Mr. GODWIN, the secretary, returned thanks, and took oc casion earnestly to draw the attention of his hearers to the position of this institution, and to the loss and discourage ment which would ensue to artists whose works it had been the means of encouraging, if the Legislature should refuse to legalise its proceedings. Of its utility in the actual encou ragement of art as a school he could mention one instance. Some time back a gentleman, two of whose works were selected and purchased by prizeholders in the Art-Union, came to him (Mr. Godwin), and, after mentioning his name, told him that he had since sent in a cartoon to the exhibi tion at Westminster Hall, which, but for the money which he received from the Art-Union, he would not have been able to have done. This work did not receive a prize, but it was seen by some gentlemen interested in founding the School of Design at Glasgow : they gave this gentleman the appoint ment, and he was now pursuing his useful vocation in that city.—(Hear, hear.) The whole of the arrangements of the stewards afforded complete satisfaction. The dinner and wines were excellent ; and Messrs. Broadhurst, Hatton, and the Misses Pyne sang very pleasingly between the toasts. Mr. Higgins officiated as toast-master. FARMERS, IS THIS YOUR THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY_MORNING, MAY 13, 1846 tion in respect to character and competency between the two classes, that none in intrusting the care of their for tunes and interests need ever err. We have viewed with great interest the late proceed ings of the benchers of the Middle Temple on behalf of candidates for the bar, and we humbly think that the time is now arrived when the articled clerks should put forth their claims to the consideration and assistance of the attorneys and other members of the legal profes sion, upon the subject of education. The present ap pears, for this reason, to be a very happy crisis, and if we delay urging this subject now, we shall suffer such an opportunity to pass unimproved as may not occur again for many years. The character of the society will not, of course, be collegiate, but institutional. It is intended to be a valuable auxiliary to the office or chambers ; and whilst at the institution the theory and principles of the law are principally learned, the practice at the office or chambers will he rendered more interesting and instruc tive. It is hoped that theory and practice will be thus happily combined ; and that whilst the institution may be as a study, the practice at the office may bear the same relation to the lawyer as the experiments of the laboratory to the chemist. We have not at present entered minutely into the de tail of our scheme, further than was necessary to satisfy ourselves and to convince your Lordships of its import ance and practicability ; and we have thought that, as so much would depend upon the sanction of your Lord ships to the principle of the measure, it would be better to apply for that in the first instance. Your Lordships will already have collected the general character of the proposed institution ; but we would more par ticularly state, that the specific objects which we have at present contemplated are—the formation of an institution where suitable lectures would be delivered ; the formation of a library ; and, we would here state to your Lordships, that there is not a public law library in London accessible to the general body of articled clerks ; also the formation of classes, under competent tutors and professors, for pri vate instruction ; the institution of periodical examina tions, and the award of prizes, honours, and distinctions to (those who most distinguish themselves. Another object would be (as before stated) protective—namely, for the general conservation of the political and social interests of the articled clerks as occasion might here after be found to arise. Although the majority of those undersigned have but a short time to serve under arti cles. and are therefore unlikely to reap any of the pro posed advantages, yet we are so fully convinced that the scheme we have suggested would effect a more im portant reform in our department of the profession than has ever yet taken place, that we have resolved to devote our time and energies towards the accomplishment of our object ; and we very earnestly and respectfully solicit your Lordships to take the subject into your con sideration, and kindly to give your sanction to its prin ciple, which we feel no doubt would insure to us abundant success. We fear that the importance and number of your Lordships' engagements will prevent your Lord ships from giving us advice or directions in aid of our proceedings ; but it is needless to say with how much respect and gratitude any such suggestions would be re ceived by us. In conclusion, we would state to your Loidships that we represent a very numerous body of articled clerks, equally desirous with ourselves for success. With great respect, we have the honour to remain, your Lordships' most obedient, humble servants, NV, W. WILSON, EDW. TURNER PAYNE, GEO. MARSLAND, jun. S. S A NSOM, T. COOKE. London, 13th March, 1846. To the Right Hon. the Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, To the Right Hon. the Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls. Copies of the above letter were forwarded to each of the above Noble and Learned Lords, and the following answers have been received from their Lordships' re spective secretaries: (Copy.) George-street, 28th April, 1846. Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Lord Chancellor to acknowledge the receipt of your lett r to his lordship, and to state, with reference to the scheme proposed in it, that the Lord Chancellor's engagements prevent his entering into the details of the scheme, or offering any suggestions respecting them; but that, so far as he has had time to examine it, there does not appear any ob jection to the plan proposed for increasing the profes sional knowledge of the members of the intended society. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your very obedient servant, H. I. PERRY. Sir,—On receiving your letter of the Bth inst. I laid it before the Master of the Rolls, and his Lordship di rected me to offer the following observations in reply. His Lordship is satisfied that much may be done to encourage and promote the instruction and educltion of articled clerks, and it would give him very great satis faction to hear of a well-considered and practicable plan being established for that purpose ; but he thinks that such a plan cannot be formed and carried into execution without the advice and assistance of experienced attor neys and solicitors, who may be able to direct attention to the most advantageous course of study, and concur in the application of the time which may be required for pursuing it. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, G. W. SANDERS. Rolls, 15th April. 1846. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, MAY 9, 1846. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing Thomas Flower Ellis, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Thomas Bros, Esq., barrister-it-law, her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the criminal laws now in force in the Channel Islands. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Charles Clark. Rig., barrister-at-law, to be Secretary to the said Commis sion. DOWNING-STREET, MAT 9. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Augustus William Hanson to be Chaplain for her Majesty's Forts and Settlemer ts on the Gold Coast. Her 3 ajes y has also been pleased to appoint Wm. Whaley Billyard, Esq., to be Chairman of Quarter Sessions, acting as Civil and Criminal Judge for the colony of North Australia. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Mar 11. Errata in Gazette of May B.—The Christian names of the under-mentioned Second Lieutenants should be as follow: Royal Regiment of Artillery—Edward Eldon Robert Dyneley, not Eldow ; Dominick Sarsfield Greene, not Scarsfield ; Archibald Motteux Calvert, not Mottram. Corps of Royal Engineers—Anthony Reynolds Vyvyan Crease, not Vivyan. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshira. Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—R. T. Adderley, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Cornet J. Roberts to be Lieutenant, vice Hand, resigned; J. Spode, Gent., to be Cornet. vice Roberts, promoted, May 9. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire. Royal Flintshire Militia—R. P. Puleston, Esq., to be Cap tain, May 7. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire. Shropshire Militia—E. L. Gatacre, Esq., to be Major ; J. N. Heathcote, Gent., to be Surgeon, May 8. South Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Badger to be Lieutenant, vice Charlton, resigned, May 8. North Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry F. Fitz Giffard Mytton, Gent., to be Cornet, April 28. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry — T. G. Parry, Gent., to be Cornet, vice C. Boevy, promoted, May 9. OFFICE OF METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS, ADELPHI- TERRACE, STRAND, APRIL 16. In pursuance of the Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 84, intituled ; 4 An Act for regulating the construction and the use of buildings in the metropolis and its neighbourhood," the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, has appointed Ambro?e Poyn ter, Esq., architect, of Park-street, Westminster, and John Shaw, Esq., Architect and Surveyor of Christ Hospital, to be Official Referees of Metropolitan Buildings. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Chamberlain, grocer, East Dereham, Norfolk. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Fearnly, worsted stuff manufacturer, Windsor -ter race, City-road, to surrender May 19, at half-past eleven, and June 19, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Loughborough, Austin-friars. Nathaniel Levy, carcase butcher, Butcher-row, Aldgate, May 19, at two, and June 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Smith, Barnard's Inn, Holborn. John Green, coal merchant, Yarmouth, May 20, at one, and June 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bel cher, official assignee ; Nixon, Clifford's Inn, London ; Moores, Sunderland. Charles Culledge Barley, grocer, Wisbeach St. Pete r ' s , Cambridge, May 20, at half- past one, and June 23, at eley ea , at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Hill and Mathews, St. Mary Axe. Brookes Hugh Byllock, wine merchant , Nicholas-lane, City, May 20, at twelve, and June 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderman bury; Walter and gemberton, Svmond's Inn. Charles M•Kinnell, wine-merchant, Fenchurch- street, City, May 19, at half-past two, and June 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Vandercom and Co., Bush-fare, Cannon-street. Robert Hearn, commission agent, Wood-street, Cheapside, May 20, and June 18, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street -buildings ; Moss, Queen-street, Cheaps:dc. William Wells and John Claxton, coal merchants, Bank side, Southwark, May 22 and June 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Jorde,on, St. -dary-at-hill, Eas:cheap. Frederick Savery, baker, Hillingdon, May 21, at two, and June 22, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street, London ; Bur bridge, Hatton-garden. Charles Frederick Carne and Maurice Telo, merchants, Liverpool, Jur;e 1, and 22, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Bird, official assignee Liverpool; Chester and Co., Staple Inn ; D ave nport and Collier, Liverpool. George Whitfield, wine and spirit merchant, Nottingham, May 2:3, and June 11, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Brown, Nottingham; Smith, Birmlnghani. Richard Lees, ironmonger, Wolverhampton, May 23, and June 13. at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittle ston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Crisp, Wolverhampton; Geddy, George-street, Mansion-house, London. John Andrews, share broker, Hill-house, near Hudders field, M a y 25, an d J une 15, at el , :yen, at the Leeds District Court. Rynaston, official assignee , Leeds; Clar k e , Chan ce, y-lane, Lond on • Bird, Huddersfield ; Sanderson, Leeds. Samuel B rear Sowden, share broker, Leeds , May 26, a nd June 16 , at eleven at the Leeds District Cou r t . Young, assignee,official Leeds; liushwolth, Staple Inn , London; Sanderson, L ee d s . John Bacon, carpenter, York, May 26 , and Ju ne IC, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Brook, Featherstone -buildings, London; Hodgson, York ; Caries, Leeds. William Badger, boot maker, Rotherham, Yorkshire, May 22, and J une 12, at eleven, at t h e Cutler's-hall, Sheffield. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Tattershall, Great James street, London ; Broadbent, Sheffield. Edward Linley and Aaron Linley, cut nail manu&cturers, Sheffield, May '22, and June 12, at eleven, at the Cutler's- LEADER ? " We want a 'leader,' an uncommon want, When every day and year brings forth a new one. Till having filled all the gazettes with 'rant,' The ' clique' discover he is not the true one." We feel for Stafford O'Brien ; and we doubt not his constituents deeply sympathise with him. In truth the painfulness of his position is enough to melt the heart of a bullock, to say nothing of a Northampton shire grazier. The political monopolists, at the commencement, of the present session, were in great straits for want of an effective leader. The act of defending monopoly had convinced every public man of note in the protectionist party that monopoly was indefensible. It had been thoroughly exposed in all its naked deformity through out the length and breadth of the land. One could not get into a railway-carriage or an omnibus without hearing disquisitions on the laws governing the ex change of commodities, which, ten years ago, would have done no discredit to professors of political economy. Monopoly, which is vice in one of its most noxious forms, had been seen by the British public, and of ne cessity it had become thoroughly detested. Then there was the failure of the potato crop, a failure which the monopolists, notwithstanding their asseverations that th - .re was none, well knew to be But the dominant landocracy of the realm had no disposition to abandon their monopoly, because it had been demonstrated to he mischievous to the public, in. furious to the operative, and. above all, ruinous to the farmer. They knew, or at all events, had a supicion, of all that before. Monopoly is not loved by the snonopo -I,st aristocracy, on account of the things about wnich they have talked, tat for its effects, of which they say nothing in public. It was not merely for the sake of liigh rents that they hugged the corn-law with such desperate energy, as to peril their social position and constitutional power in its defence ; for rents may be, and where the farmer can make a fair bargain, will be, as high, or higher, under free-trade than under monopoly. But they wanted the high rents of the present times and the feudal power of bygone ages. They wished to receive the high rents from a dependent, servile, cap-in -hand tenantry, who would march to the poll at the command of the land lord's steward, and fare) according to the capricious will of the landlord's game-keeper. Our agricultural readers will well nndersand for what it was the monopolist landlords wanted to preserve mo nopoly, though perhaps the inhabitants of towns will scarcely comprehend its full extent. Landlordism should be seen on its own ground to be under stood. They who have not seen landlordism at petty sessions, in the poachers' wing of the county gaol, in its dealings with the tenantry and so forth, know nothing about it. Nevertheless, these things are grievous, cruel realitie3; and such things were to be maintained. Hence, though the brains of the monopolist party had been knocked out, monopoly did not die. Then came the question of leadership. Disraeli might be retain ed as a sharpshooter, and would appear to the greater advantage from being the only man amongst the party who can pretend to sharpness. But Disraeli, the ex " sedition" loving candidate for Marylebone, who may be taken as an examplar of lack-land political adventurers, would not do to lead the squirearchy. They wanted some one of more weight. The dull Bramston had tried his hand at " lard and grease," and made a sad mess of it. The duller Miles had not been very successful in his opposition to the " invasion" of foreign cattle ; while Bankes, the dullest, had been saved from conspicuous failure by his very dulness. Nobody could ever see that he had any object or purpose, and his speeches were commonly supposed to relate to the objects he had in view. He is one of those who make a dark subject darker by talking about it. At this period of monopolist despair, the commence ment of the present session, Mr. Stafford O'Brien chi valrously undertook the post of monopolist leader in the House of Commons, and by his first speech in that cha racter proved himself to be a person of some dexterity and adroitness. But his very talent proved his ruin as a monopolist leader. He had been through the last three or four sears of the corn-law discussion, and he attempted to make a plausible defence for monopoly, after all, and with the knowledge of all, that has been proved and admitted against it. Moreover, his own speech proved that he was undergoing that pro cess o f convers i on to free trade which every man of average i ntellect , and or di nary political ho nes ty, who has se ri ou slyattempted to defend monopoly, has invariably undergone. The very measure of his success in that speech, him to be no gen u i ne mono p o li st. This would prov od tdo for his party. H e was t oo c l ever, too plausible, toc solicitous of finding reasons—albeit not very good ones —for monopoly. , Monopolists don't want reasons. They therefore, bethought th emse l ves o f start i ng some man as their leader, who would not attempt to reason, who knew nothing of the subject ' • to whom all that had been said or written f or the last seven years, for and against monopoly, was as if it had not been said or written. They wanted the freshness of profound ig norance. -- 21 iover, they wanted some one with recklessnes s recklessnes s enough to say all the exploded saying ; o all the prejudices, without the responsieility of one with owning. Brainst ., n , \ides , Bankes , O'Brien, were m lan. e d of large possessions ; they had a certain status in society ; if they had the power, they had not the w ilt to fling themselves into the breach made in the fortres. of landlordism with the daring of one who would stake, ail upon a desperate chance. Seeing, then, the qualities, positive and negative, wanted in their leader by the monopolists, they could not look in a more likely place than the racing . stable. There they sought, and there they found what they wanted. Lord George Bentinck now leads the monop-list host, much to the satisfaction of the genuine monopolists. But, farmers, is he your leader? Does he represent your opinions? Are you content to be represented iti Parliament by the unflinching and unscrupulous defende of the garne-laws? Ask any of the farnier-uitnesses examined before the Game-law Committee what they think of Lord George Bentinck? whether they like the courtesy, the fairness, or the accuracy of this new "farmers' friend?" Let farmers, too, read his speeches—if they can, for truly 'tis a heavy task—" your true no meaning puzzles more than sense"—and see whether the description Sir Robert Peel gave of the speech of the new and fast leader of the monopolists on Irish scarcity, when he said " the multiplication of letters from parts of the country where disease does not prevail, forms no contra diction to the fact that there does exist in other parts that country disease arising from scarcity of food." Rut this bpi always been the game of the naonopo• lists ; they are ever looking beside the mark ; and being unable to avow their real objects in maintaining mono• poly, talk wildly about something else. Farmers are now becoming aware of this, and the new leader, from Newmarket, of the monopolists will help to make it still clearer.— The League. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. The forty-first general meeting of this society was held yesterday in Exeter-hall. The attendance was very large, the hall being completely filled. The Right Hon. Lord John Russell was unanimously called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN said—ln opening the forty-first anniver sary meeting of the society, he would venture to address to them a few words previously to the reading of the report. It was scarcely necessary to state that there bad been no change in the fundamental principles on which the society rested ; but that they were unchanged in their opinion that the Scriptures ought to be taught to every child who could be brought to receive instruction within these kingdoms ; that they were no less unshaken in their opinion that the schools ought to be made as general and diffusive as possible ; and that the separate instruction of each religious persuasion should be left to parents, and to the teaching of the places of worship ; and that there should be no exclusion on account of differences between Christians in the schools themselves. But while their principles in that respect had remained for 41 years unmoved and unaltered, they had participated in the general progress which had been made in the science and the art of education. With respect to the improvements which had been adopted from time to time, and the suggestions of benevolent and able men, they had not been slow to avail themselves, of which any one who would visit the normal school of the Borough-road would see ample proof. The contributions of the public had enabled the society to adopt in that school the improvements which tended most to the progress of education in the land. But when he said this, he wished he could say that any improvements which they had adopted, or any contributions that they had received, or any subscriptions made either by the state, by communities, or individuals, had enabled them to keep pace with the want of education.—(Hear, hear.) He was sorry to say that the utmost they could do was to keep down the weed of ignorance from overspreading the land, and that they were very far from having succeeded in eradi cating it. They would agree with him when he told them that it would appear in the report that in the neighbouring county of Essex alone there were now 40,000 children who did not receive the benefit of instruction ; and he might add further, that while they were proceeding to the utmost of their power, that while there had been new schools added, containing room for 13,000 children, in addition to those who were provided for last year, that the supply was far from keeping pace with the yearly increase of population in the country. This want was felt by all classes of the commu nity. Lord Ashley, whose name was never to be mentioned without honour—(Cheers)—in moving an address to the House of Commons on the subject of education, and parti cularly on the state of the manufacturing districts, was an swered with regard to one great manufacturing town, that of Leeds, by the experienced pen of Mr. Baines; but he suc ceeded in proving, not only the ill condition of Leeds, but that the city of Westminster, in the very heart of the metropolis, was even in a still less satisfactory state. So that if they went to the rural districts they would find whether, by re ports cf commissioners on education, whether by reports of commissioners sent by Government, or chaplains of gaols, that there were thousands of children to whom the first elements of religious teaching was entirely unknown — that if the name of Jesus Christ was mentioned to them, they were in ignorance of its meaning, and igno rant of every doctrine of Christianity. He said then that the present was no time to • wait. There was another point to which he would call their attention — the state of the schoolmasters. He had mentioned the great improvements which had been made in the modes of teaching, by which the disposition and understand ing of the children were brought into activity, but still nearly everything depended on the capacity and disposition of the teacher. One who merely taught children by rote, either to read or write, left them when they left the school in possession of nominal rather than of real knowledge. He asked them if it was not fit that an effort should be made to raise both the emoluments and rank of the schoolmasters? It had been supposed that teaching was an easy art, that persons who had retired from other businesses could well undertake that of instructing youth. But every year they lived, every step they took, only tended more and more to show that to teach well, to elevate the mind of children, to implant religious and moral principles, and to send them from school in a fit state to take a part in the community—that this was one of the most difficult tasks that any man could undertake. With one observation more he would leave them to the report. In stating last year in the House of Commons the want of education, he had pointed out that there were reasons why a great portion of the labouring population of this country were unable to educate their chil dren as they might wish ; and he could trace that those who received a certain amount of wages could lay out a certain portion of their earnings in the education of their children; that where they received less wages, they could dispose of less in that way, and were unable to obtain the comforts and clothing which were necessary to maintain a decent appear ance even as a labouring man ; and that if the labourers re ceived only the lowest rate of wages, the greatest portion of it went to pay for the necessary bread for the sustenance of themselves, their wives, and families. He trusted, however, that they would see in the progress of events, and by the wisdom of the Legislature, that the labouring classes in this country would speedily be enabled to obtain such a command of the necessaries of life—{Loud cheers)—that they might be able to devote a greater portion of their incomes to the edu cation of their children. He was sure they would wish to do so if they were able; but he had always held that all those great questions were connected together, and that it was unwise end unworthy to look only to one portion of their task. The man who looked only to the education of the people, and would not care what was their physical condition, left out a most essential element of his duty ; and he who, on the contrary, would only endeavour to improve the wealth of the country, and not cast an eye to see whether this was an educated, in structed, and religious people—that he likewise only took half of his duties, and had a limited and narrow conception of the duties which belonged to them all. He said, let us endeavour to improve the physical condition of the people ; endeavour to improve their instruction ; and let us, with a population in Great Britain nearly double what it was at the commencement of the century, endeavour so to raise the condition, so to improve the education of the people, that we may be thought not unworthy to be directors of a great people in an enlightened age.—(Loud applause.) The SECRETARY then read the report, which was of great length. The total number of students, it stated, admitted to the normal schools since the opening f the institution, was 45,889. The financial condition of the society was more satisfactory than it had ever been; for the first time they were in a healthful condition. Within the last few days the liberal donations that had been made had been increased by a donation of 1,0001, which the donor would only allow to be announced as from " a lady." The total receipts were 14,664/ 18s. The balance at the end of last yesr was 756/. 15s. The first resolution, moved by the Marquis of Lorn and seconded by Lord Kinnaird, was for the adoption and print ing of the report, and was carried unanimously. The second resolution expressed the satifaction of the meeting at the formation of county associations for the pro motion of county education, proposed by the Bishop of Nor wich, seconded by Lord Monteagle, and supported by the Rev. G. Smith, of Poplar, was also unanimously carried. The Rev. lotus STOWLER, of Kensington, seconded by the Rev. W. Fraser, of Stockwell, proposed the third resolution, " That the remuneration of teachers of all kinds should be better," and was also carried unanimously. Mr. FINLAY, M.P., proposed the fourth resolution, ex pressing the acknowledgements of the meeting to the Queen and Prince Albert for their munificent annual donation of 1001. This was also agreed to, as was also the last resolution, thanking the Duke of Bedford for a donation of 1001. to the society, and Lord John Russell for his conduct in taking the chair. _ _ The Noble Lord having briefly returned thanks, the meet ing separated. PROCEEDINGS of LAWSOCIETIES (From the Law Times, May 9.) ARTICLED CLERKS' SOCIETY. The gentlemen who, so creditably to themselves, pro posed the formation of this very useful society, of which the plan was suggested by a correspondent some time since, have, in pursuance of their object, addressed the following letter to the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls, who have promptly transmitted the replies which we subjoin. The suggestion of the Master of the Rolls will, we hope, be adopted by the attorneys, who should give their cordial aid by contribution and advice to this endeavour of their clerks to obtain the most effi cient means, for that best of all education, self-improve ment : My Lords,—We, the undersigned committee of ar ticled clerks to attorneys and solicitors in England and Wales, having met together for the purpose of consi• dering the propriety aad necessity of establishing a general Law Students' Society, and having resolved that such a society would be a great boon to the pro fession to which we have the honour of belonging, it was determined that our first step should be to obtain the saection of your lordships. We have, therefore, taken the liberty of addressing to your Lordships the following observations, under the full conviction that, as your Lordships have ever lent your powerful influence towards the promotion of all wise and judicious re forms in the law, and of all measures tending to raise the legal profession in efficiency and public estima tion, your Lordships will not deem it an intrusion on your valuable time when we humbly state that we entertain the highest sense of the importance of the society in question ; but that, on the contrary, yo ur lordships will grant us your sanction, and render us all proper encouragement. Our objects may be briefly stated to be educative and protective. We humbly think that nothing will tend so mach to secure the honour, respectability, and efficiency of our profession as carefully watching the education of its rising members. It was to promote this (as your Lordships are well aware) that the examination pre paratory to the admission of attorney s and solicitors was established, a measure which, in our humble opinion, has already been of great advantage, and which bids fair for much greater hereafter. Your Lordships' atten tion may not have been called to the fact that there is no institution existing, either in the metropolis or e_ls:o where, receiving the general support of the profession, calculated to assist the articled clerk in his studies or to consequentlyaaisnuirda,t ithel h ae m in his nds iffi(irticosurtil institution at. hsinoe epa ttnh oactflr clerk might hrt ekh o atotaaot fo t sritrh:iehe advice ) frequently e ao x nm a dm mia io ae n r s sc emta r en i , c and t h et owf hit tt i i hs asto a s h t a r e ug ie g n le e h w i i m th se s l o f tuow -1 e o pd d gs e eu s ffi p a a cc i ici r e un o it f r acquiringekedvneomrweldvg knowledge fo sound aobel ecshiailonnmonods,tt to co mpy hass, k e n n : ive t r o t the knowledge of his profession, an d a i ms solely at getting s and than s i o ch m which, much being eat ; rafted fi rm l y i n hi s mind, and made, as it were, attained; owingitsh e m c o a r s e e , s h p e e e f d a s y , o a r, p a a s rt is o f f re h q i u m e s n e t l l f y , to his want of inclination or ability, as of that assistance cad stimulus which the generality of youth so much re • q• uire We would also requ es t y our L ordships ' attention to the fact that, although amongst articled clerks are to be found youths at least equal in ability to those of any other profession, and although their number is so great' yet few ever a ttain to eminence or disti nc ti on i n their t as we would humbly submit crofession, cause d , to your Lordships, by the absence of an institution such as we now propose. , Another consequenceis, that the profes sion and the pu blic are much exposed to the malpractices m en, who, having but a sup e rfi. of artful and design.itng with the l:sw, make it an instrument of oppression. Thus t cial acquaintance wi he public are injured and the pro fession disgraced. The remedy, we humbly suggest, is to be found in the establishment of an institution which will raise the qualified practitioners abovea line of demarca . of t hese indiricluals, and drew 50 hall, Sheffield. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Moss, Serjeant's Inn, Feet-street; Raynor, Sheffield. William and James Fox, oil and colourmen, Manchester, May 22 and June 12, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Bower and Son, Chancery-lane, London ; Atkins, Manchester. John Wilmot, coach proprietor, Lenten, Nottinghamshire, May 22 and June 12, at eleven, at the Cutler's Hall, Sheffield, Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Johnson and Co., Temple ; Bowley, Nottingham. John Page, iron dealer, Walsall, Staffordshire, May 22 and June 23, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Suckling, Bir mingham. Thomas Hartley and Robert Ingham, stock brokers, Lcds, May 27 and June 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Nelson and Co., Gresham place, Lombard-street; Nelson, Leeds. Thomas Rogers, surgeon dentist, Bradford, Yorkshire, May 26 and June 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee ; Butterfield and Co., Bradford ; Bond, Leeds. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. Hill, currier, Birmingham—first div. of ls. 6d. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bir mingham. B. Wade, tailor, Strand—first div. of 2s. 3d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. D. Smith—first div. of 28.2 d. in the pound, on any Wed nesday, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol. I. Blackburn, engineer, Minories—first div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound, on Wednesday, May 13, and two following Wed nesdays, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Old Jewry. R. Pettit, livery-stable keeper, Exning, Suffolk—first div. of 3s. 7d. in the pound, on Wednesday, May 13, and two fol lowing Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Old Jewry. T. Sims, licensed victualler, Whitechapel-road—first div. of 2s. 10d. in the pound, on Wednesday, May 13, and two following Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Old Jewry. A. A. Dobbs, wine merchant, Liverpool —a div: of 20s. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Liverpool. __ T. E. Golborne and A. A. Dobbs, wine merchants, Liver pool—fourth div. of Is. 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. . _ At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. R. Garland, corn chandler, Welham-green, June 3, at eleven—D. Marks, pen manufacturer, Hounsditch, June 11, at one—A. H. Chambers, jun., banker, New Bond-street, June 2, at two—W. H. Matthews, cheesemonc.er,Blackfriars road, May 22, at eleven—H. J. Murton, Lieutenant-Colonel, R. M., Hill- street, Brompton, May 22, at half-past eleven— J. Quarrel], Napier-street, New North-road, Floxton, May 22, at half-past eleven—L. B. Bartholomew,Whitley, Berkshire, May 22, at twelve—J. Peters, Reading, Berkshire, May 22, at twelve—J. Sergeant, haberdasher, High-street, Poplar, May 22 at twelve—W. M'Millan, carpenter, Lambeth-road Southwark, May 24, at eleven. In the Country. J. Radhone, broker, Alcester, Warwickshire, June 19, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—C. Harrington, plumber and glazier, KitLerminster, June 16, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—S. Rogers, earthenware manufacturer, Burslem, Staffordshire, June 16, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Scholefield, cutler, Cheapside, June 3—W. Kearton, cheesemonger, Laub-street, Spiral-square, June 3—G. B. Earp, shipbroker, London, June 3--111. Jones, grocer, cheo bald's -road, June 2—J. Shirt, grocer, Broad. street, Lam beth-butts, June 4—F. Herpent, warehouseman, Sherard street, Golden-square, June 4—P. Crispin, carpenter, Bath, June 5—S. Vertue, merchant, Liverpool, June 2—G. Wil liams, watchmaker, Bristol, June 5—M. I'. Knight, uphol sterer, Bath, June 4—G. Brown, banker, Shiffnal, Shrop shire, June 6—J. Bromiley, manufacturer, Bolton-le-Moors, June 2—T. Clifton, printer, Barnard Castle, Durham, June 2—J. Bowman, woollendraper, Carlisle, June 2—W. White, tailor, Aylesbury, June 2—J. B. Gillett, dyer, Apperley bridge, Yorkshire, June 2—J. Sisley, carpenter, Margate, June 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Reed, E. Roberts, A. Roberts, and C. A. Roberts, mil liners, Liverpool—C. L. Brocklehurst, T. Bn cklehurst, and W. M. Hunter, linendrapers, Holmtirth, Yorkshire (so far as regards C. L. Brocklehurst)—J. Darby and R. Garlard, warehousemen, Wood-street, Cheapside—R F. Long and W. H. Job, saw-mi:lowners, Lim house—T. W. W. Smart and E. C. Hill, surgeons, Cranborne, Dorsetshire—W. Simpson and G. Boyes, stockbrokers, York—F. and J. Protheroe, coopers, Bristol—T. Huffman and D. T. Westaway, tailors, City-road, Finsbury—R. and H. J. Bellingham, chemists, Strand—T. H. Hadfield and T. Bailey, silk dyer, Barton upon-Irwell, Lancashire—G. Gregory, W. llarding, and J. Whicber, millers, Fisherton-Anger, Wiltshire—J. Watson and T. Jackson, corn millers, Leeds—G. Blogg and L. Sa mwd, Bucklersbury—J. Hebdin and R. Parkinson, jun., sharebrokers, heeds—J. Lomax and S. Kay, cotton spinrers, Hall-fold, Lancashire—T. Bull and W. Nash, provision mer chants, Minories—G. Jones and J. Walker, ironfounders, Bir mingham—J. and H. E. Boucher, drapers, Birmingham—E. A. and J. Sewell, wholesale toy merchants, Fore-street—W. and J. Wilson, linendrapers, New Bond- street—J Smith and J. W. Browne, attorneys, Swindon, Wiltshire—G. W. Wat kins and G. Gaundry, oil warehousmen, Oxford-street—C. Adshead and J. Goodband, commission agents, Leicester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Archibald Couper, jun., salesman, Glasgow, May 18, and June 8, at two, at the office of Mr. Young, Glasgow. George Sanderson, baker, Colinton, May 18, and June 8, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Robertson, Edinburgh. LAW 1N TELLIGEIN CB, COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 12. (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) THB QUEEN V. 0913ORNE. This case was resumed at the sitting of the Court to-day, and closed at half-past one o'clock, when the Learned Judge commenced charging the jury. The allegation, as deposed to by the different wit nesses, was that the defendant had cleared out twelve casks of brandy for Valparaiso, but had landed them at Hung,erford Market. The penalty incurred by this proceeding was 2,G42/. 135., being three times the value of the article, which was 8821. 4s. 4d., including the duty, and which penalty the Act gave the informer the power to sue for. The jury, without a moment's consideration, found a verdict for the Crown. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then said that according to the powers of the Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 87, section 105, it was necessary to prove the formal conviction of the defendant, which was the source to be adopted after verdict; and the Act provided that in such case, in lieu of penalty, the party convicted should be imprisoned for a period of not more than twelve, nor less than six months, in the House of Correction. The defendant's Counsel opposed such a course, on the ground that it was a new charge, upon which they were not prepared, and it was also a question of identity. His LORDSIIIP said it appeared to him that in this case the ju - y had nothing to do with it, they having already found the verdict. But the case should go up to the Exchequer in banco, where it would be competent for the Crown to pray the judgment of the Court. COURT OF CO,tI.IIOIV PLEAS, May 12. This Court was occupied the whole day in hearing actions for the recovery of the amount of bills of exchange. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER and IVIr. Alderman Htlona.) STEALING OATS.—Thomas Savell and Thomas Crane, the first a carman and the latter a groom, were char4ed with stealing a sack and three bushels of oats, the property of Mr. Hansen, the late em ployer of the first-mentioned prisoner. The prisoner Savell was defended by Mr. Payne; the prisoner Crane by Mr. Ballantine. After evidence had been received, and Counsel had spoken, The RECORDER summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty Sentenced to imprisonment for three months in the House of Cor rection, and to be kept to bard labour. ROBBERY, FROM TUE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—John Tapson, aged 23, a plasterer, and John Beard (the latter of whom had been out on bail), were indicted for stealing a portmanteau, a gown, a pelisse, a watch, and other articles, the property of the Great Western Railway. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin were for the prosecution ; Mr. Bid 'entitle and Mr. Parry for the prisoners. Mr. CLARKSON opened the case, and detailed the circumstances connected with it, which will be fully understood by a reference to the evidence adduced. The following witnesses were then called : David Williams said that he lived at Breath, Brecknockshire,—nd on the 31st of March last they were passengers by the train, which reached the station at Paddington at half-past eight. He had a port manteau on the luggage-box, addressed " Miss Williams, passenger." That portmanteau had gone. The contents were principally articles of dress belonging to his dauihter, and might amount to 151. Sarah Williams said that she accompanied her father to London, and she had a portmanteau on the luggage box, which was found to be gone on arriving at the station. Mary Elizabeth Wetherden was residing with her father in Palace New-road, Lambeth. She knew the prisoner Tapson in Cornwall. Their acquaintance was very slight. On the 19th March he called at her father's to giveinformation of her friends in the country, and be asked if they had a spare bed with which they could accommodate him. On March 31st the prisoner said that he would take her little brother to meet two cousins of witness's who were expected by rail way, and he should . bring them home. She had not expected these relatives. Her cousins were named May. She (witness) went out on the same evening, and did not return till a quarter past ten, and she found Mr. Beard down stairs, and in a quarter of an hour Tap son came down. He said that his key would not fit the box, and he would be obliged to cut it open. Beard asked whether his (Tapson's) friends had sent him any cream? Beard said, when he was going away, that he would endeavour to get Tapson into the Old Bailey to hear the trials—(Laughter) —on the next day. Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—She had never seen Beard before, and the only other time she saw him was when he was in custody. Beard did not go up stairs at all ; he said, "I wish Tapson Would make haste, for I'm in a hurry to go." Edwin Wetherden, a boy of eight years old, had gone oat on the morning of the 31st with the prisoner Tapson. The prisoner took him to the Ship public-house, where he changed his coat, and he afterwards took him to Covent-garden Market, were Tapson hired a cab and called upon Mr. Beard, who came away with them. They then went to a beer shop, and afterwards to the Great Western Railway. Witness got sick from the higher were n picking sight o o f u t e t a h e ehportmanteau.otheether. beer he had had in the beer shop. He remembered the train coming in, and Beard calling out several times (w il‘r i r t na Be ard ye s . s ' who told him to take hold of the portmanteau a little way. Mr. Tapson took the portmanteau out of one of the railway carriages. It was put into )w a s a r 12 . d T w a i l f i r. sh°n Tapson,i w 'a a p so u n the cab, and they drove to the New Inn, in the Edge ware - roa d , where they drank something. They then drove to Lambeth, t o hi s father's house, where the cabman gave the portmanteau to the ser vant, and she put it outside the kitchen door. Mr. Tapson after wards took the portmanteau up stairs. Elizabeth Curtis, servant to Mr. Wetherden, corroborated the fact that Tapson had returned at night in a cab, bringing a portmanteau with him. Joseph David, constable at the Great Western Railway, saw the prisoners on the platform on the evening of the 31st, accompanied by a little boy. Wm. Aires, shopman to Mr. Pollee, pawnbroker, in Westminster. road—the prisoner Tapson, on th e Ist April, brought a satin dress, valued at 81., a pelisse, &c., and asked 16s. on then. Witness asked him where he lived ? He said at Gravesend, and that a female had given them to him a fortnight ago. When asked why he had come up from Gravesend to pawn them, he said tiiat hi had slept the night before in Red Lion-street, and that he had that day accompanied a friend to Charing-cross, and had just stepped over the bridge. Witness told him that he would be justified in de taining the things ; and he sent the boy out for a policeman. The prisoner then left, saying something about "law." He returned again at half-past nine at night, and was given into custody. Police-constable L 52—Took the prisoner Tapson into custody. Its said he ha 1 got the dresses from Miss Cato, St. John's-wood. He could not say more particularly where she lived. He found on searching him 21. and odd monies, and some duplicates. He found some papers in his pocket with the address of Mr. Wetherden and Mr. Beard, and on going to the first-named gentle man's residence he found a portmanteau, which had been cut open and rifled, with the exception of one scarf. He after wards went to Mr. Beard's, in Basinguall-street, and took him into custody. Robert Wetherden corroborated the evidence of his daughter, and a shopman to Messrs. Whistler, pawnbrokers, Strand, proved the pledging of several articles of female dress with his employers for 6s. Joseph Collard, Superintendent of the Great Western Railway Po lice, was examined at considerable length by Mr. Clarkson, and his evidence was confirmatory of the previous witnesses. A statement of the evidence taken before the magistrate was put in, and singu larly enough tile prisoner Tapson there admitted that he had taken the portmanteau, but on opening it, did not know what to do with the contents. Mr. Parry and Mr. Ballantine having replied ; the Recorder summed up. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty in the case of Tapson, but with a recommendation to mercy, as they (the jury) considered the offence was committed while in a state of drunkenness, and there fore not fully conscious of his actions. Beard was declared N ot Guilty. _ Evidence was then given to show a previous conviction against Tapson in Cornwall. The RECORDER. in passing sentence, said he wished both the pri soners to remain at the bar while he did so, in order that Beard might understand from him that if the jury had come to adifferent conclu sion in his case, he (the Recorder) should have been pertectlysatisiled with that finding, and should have acted upon it to the extent of sending huh out of the country. Ile thought it right to igy this, because he felt it to be his duty to pass a sentence of transportation upon his companion Tapson, and that sentence was that he be trans t.ort_d for seven years, and he trusted that all persons who had been concerned in pillaging railways would understand that in every case of conviction of that offence a sentence of transportation would inva riably follow. Mr. DOANE applied to the Court for IDe expenses of the prosecutor. The RECORDER said, certai n ly they `Would' be allowed. It was a very proper prosecution, and the Court would take care to throw its protection over property which was necessarily placed in the hands of the proprietors of public conveyances of this description. William Mortimer, 24, baker, was indicted for stealing thirteen spoons, sixteen f,rks, and other articles of plate, value 351., the pro perty of Maria Travers. Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution. It appeared that the prosectitrix is a lady residing at Clapham New Park, and on the 27th April, the prisoner was seen lurking about the house, and eventually he pushed up the window of the room, in which there was a quantity of plate upon the sideboard, a portion of which he succeeded in making his escape with. Ile was not apprehended until some time afterwards, when he was clearly identified as the man who had been seen to act in the way described, and in addition to this his shoes tallied exactly with the marks upon the chair, in which he had stepped from the window .nto the room, None of the stolen property was recovered. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. A certificate was then produced to show that the prisoner was convicted at the Kingston Assizes, in 1842, and sentenced to be trans ported for seven years. _ . The RECORDER inquired how it happened that the prisoner came to be at large, after being sentenced to transportation for seven years, in 1842. Mr. Cope said that the prisoner was sent to the hulks, but in con sequence of his good conduct he received a free pardon, after being there three years and a half. The RECOEDER sentenced hhn to be transported for ten years NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Alderman FAREBROTTIER.) John Rogers, aged 20, remanded from last sest-lon, was indicted for feloniously breaking into and entering a building within the curtilags of the dwelling-house of John Hillyer, and. stealing one live fowl, value one shilling. Thu young man was surprised as he was leaving the outhouse by a young woman, who called her brother. Several skeleton keys were found on the prisoner, and, on looking into the building, the fowl in question was seen lying dead on the floor, and its head wrung off. Mr. BALLANTINE, in his defence of the prisoner, contended that the fowl was not alive as stated in the indictment, that there was no evidence that the fowl had been stolen alive. The COMMON SERGEANT observed, that the objection was taken on a point of law, which would be perfectly satisfied if the fowl had only been removed a single foot and then killed. It was next to impos sible that one could wring off a fowl's head while it sat on the perch, and it was at least unusual far fowls to wring their own heads off. Mr. BALLANTINE said the point was, whether the fowl had been stolen alive. It might have been on the floor as the young man entered, and if it had been killed without being lifted from the floor, the jury must acquit the prisoner. The Comfort SERGEANT said it was for the jury to determine the probability of the fowl being killed as the Counsel represented. The prisoner was found Guilty, and as this was not the first con viction, he was sentenced to ten years' transportation. William Gay and William AP !Was% two young men, were indicted for stealing two asses. Gay gleaded guilty. John Brown said, he had two asses on Wimbledon Common about the 6th of April last, and missed them on the 7th; but saw them in keeping of a policeman the same day. The constable stated, that he met the two prisoners in Brixton, leading the donkeys; and, on accosting them, Gay said they were his, and M'lutosh that he had been with Gay to bring the donkeys home. The COMMON-SERGEANT directed the jury to acynit Wlntosh, for there was no evidence before them that he knew the donkeys were not the property of Gay. When the jury had found M'lntosh not guilty, Gay's story was then heard. It appeared that he had failed in establishing a business as a pork-butcher, and that when he was in a state of comparative destitution he met with Wlntosh on the day in question, and not before. The Comfort SERGEANT had no doubt that the prisoner M'lntosh, who had been convicted several times before, had induced Gay to commit the theft, and then to tell the story he had, in order to save M'lntosh being transported. As the evidence was, the jury could come to no other verdict than they had already given. In consideration of t.ay's position he was sentenced only to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. Benjamin Norman and John Paterson were placed at the bar, in dicted for stealing a chest of tea, value 121., the property of John Eve. WiMan S. Strata, carman to the preseCutor,.stted - that he called at the French Horn public house, Crutched-friars, on the Ist of May, and left a chest of tea under the care of the prisoner Norman, who was officiating at that time as pot-boy, until he returned. When he had loaded with some other articles, he returned to the French Horn. where he was told that a man had called and taken away the chest, and that Norman, who had absconded, helped him away with it. John Scott, a porter, was in the tap of the French Horn on the Ist of May, about one o'clock, when a man whose face he did not see came in and said lie was sent for a chest of tea for John Eve. Norman replied," I have one here," and assisted to place the chest on his shoulder. After the man had gone t the hostler said, " Harry, do you know that man " No," was the prisoner's reply; upon which the hostler remarked upon the folly of giving away the chest to a stranger, and witness agreed with him. In a short time the man returned with the chest on his shoulder and called out to the potboy, " Norman, where shall I take it to?" " Oh, just outside to the cart there," said Norman. The hostler corroborated the last witness. Norman said he was employed by the carman to send up the chest to him and employed Paterson. The jury, after consultation, could not agree, and retired. After half an hour's absence they returned, with a verdict of Not Guilty in reference to each of the prix mers. The Court did not appear to expect the verdict which was returned. Thomas Winch, aged 29, was indicted for se.ealing a purse and ten sovereigns, the property of John Lynas, master of the brig Yorkshire. John Lynas said tl:at he went on the 14th of February last and cashed a cheque for 10/., an", being in Gracechurch-street imme diately after, he met with a gentleman, a stranger, who invited him into the Bell Tavern to take a glass of ale. They had not been long there before the prisoner came into the room and sat down. The prisoner then inquired if witness had ever been in New York, and added that a friend of his lately died there, and left him an estate and a large sum of money in the bank, and if a hundred or two pounds would be of advantage to him, he would lend it on security. Upon this the person who had first met with witness chimed in, say ing he wished to have a loan of some money, and he would take a hundred or two, if the gentleman would make him the loan. The prisoner agreed to do so, and the other urged the witness to take a loan of a hundred or two, but Mr. Lynas refused, saying he had no need of it. The other then said he would go out for a stamp receipt, and moved towards the door, but when th re the prisoner called to him, " Are you coming back ?" and again, " Are you sure to come back, then ?" By this time witness had risen to ac company the other, when the prisoner said to him, " What, then, are you going too ? Are you coming back ?" The other then cried. " I'm sure to come back," repeating it once or twice, and then threw down his purse on the table as a security for his returning. The witness Lynas seeing this, Immediately took out his purse, containing ten sovereigns, and threw it down to the prisoner. Lynas and the other walked towards the door of the tavern, where witness's companion slipped him, and on witness returning to the room he found that the prisoner was gone with the purse and all it contained. Witness never saw prisoner after till he met him in Threadneedle•street on the 7th April Prisoner immediately dropped his umbrella so as to hide his countenance, and when he saw witness following, ran across the street till he was taken in Pleugh-court, Lombard-street. John Banger, City constable 562, saw the prisoner running and the witness after him, and took the former in Plough-court, Lombard street. OR being charged with swindling the witness out of 101. he said he owed a great many persons, he did not knew the witness, but if he was in debt to him he would pay it At the station-house he was searched when two counterfeit bills, dated from Quebec, ene for 1111. and one for 601., were found on him and two purses, one Of them containing a counterfeit guinea, which appeared to some in Court to be a gilt shilling. Henry Martin, policeman, assisted to take the prisoner to the station-home. It was observed that the prisoner did not bring his umbrella into the station-home, but it was Sound outside, and in it a purse containing twenty-six counterfeit sovereigns and nine coun terfeit halt-sovereigns. Mr. BALDwiN defended the prisoner. The jury found him Guilty, and the prisoner Ins sentenced to seven years' transportation. POLIcE iiN thLLIGENCE BOW STREET. Mr. John Docker, a medical student, and .211 r. Roper, a fellow-student and companion, both of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, were finally examined on suspicion of stealing a silver fork from an oyster-shop in Vinegar-yard. The depo-itions of - the former witnesses were fully taken, and the following additional evidence elicited := John Tozer saw his sister, who served the oysters, carry up two silver forks for the use of the prisoners, and, with her, missed one of them immediately after the departure of the young men from the shop. His sister went to look for them, and meanwhile Dowker returned for his umbrella, and was instantly charged with having taken the fork. He said, if anybody took it, it must have been the young man who ac companied him, and whom he had known only a few hours, having met him at MoncriefT's, where he had been playi ng at cards with him. He was dien given into custody. Sergeant Chadwick took him to Bow-street. Dowker de nied that he had taken the fork; but offered him half-a sovereign not to take him to the station-house. He said, in the first place, that he was a student in King's College; but after inquiry Lad been made, he referred witness to St. Bar tholomew's. Witness did not think him drunk. He ap peared confused, and might have been drinking; but he knew what he was about. Whilst at the police-station he wrote a note to Mr. Clark, of the Artichoke public-house, in White Hart. street, in the following words :—" Dear Clark,—Come, and bring all the friends you can, as I am accused of stealing a silver fork from an oyster shop." Inspector Black took the charge at the police-station. Dowker there stated that, " as he was passing along Holborn (not knowing his way to Catherine-street), he met this man in the street, and asked him Li show him the war ; upon which they walked together to Moncrieff's, in brydges street, and had some ale and played at cards together, after which they went to the oyster-shop." He also told witness that he knew Moncrieff; but, on the latter being sent for, he said that "he never saw Dowker before, that he had not been to his house, and that there was no such thing as a pack of cards in his place." The only evidence against the other young man (Roper) was, that he was the party who accompanied Dowker to the oyster-shop, having previously dined with him at Clark's. where they were in the habit of meeting. Immediately on hearing that he was suspected jointly with Dowker, he sur rendered himself for examination. Mr. HALL decided on committing tLem both to the sessions for trial, but consented to admit them to tail. WORSHIP-STREET. John Conway, a powerful Irishman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with the following brutal out rage, and two other men, named Joseph Conway and James Mann, were charged with attempting to rescue the first named prisoner from custody, and violently assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. It appeared from the evidence that at 12 o'clock on Satur day night the prisoners forced their way into the Crown public-house, in Church -street, Shoreditch, and demanded to be served with drink, but the barwonian, in consequence of the lateness of the hour, refused to comply with their orders, and requested them to leave without; on which John Conway seized a large tumbler from the counter, and, smash ing it to pieces, flung the fra g ments at her head. On hear ing the uproar occasioned by the prisoners' conduct, Joseph. Drew, the potman, hastened to her assistance, and was re monstrating with the elder Conway, when he seized Drew by the hair, and forcing him against the wall, attempted to gouge out his eye with his thumb, and although thwarted in his intention, inflictecrauch a severe laceration on the upper part of the cheek with his nails that the eye became blood shot and much swollen. He finally struck the witness several blows about the head, and was proceeding to further vi&ence, when several policemen, who had been attracted to the house by the disturbance inside, succeeded in getting in and seizing the first-named prisoner; but the instant two of them, Sergeant Price and 1 1 1‘Govern, 66 H, had done so, they were struck down an severely kicked by the other two men, who expressed their determi nation to rescue their co m p anion, and resisted so vio lently prisoners the all leaded p intoxica tion, and declared t h at t he y that it required the uni ted efforts nu tsofrescitxillceocitiisotnabwlehsattoevoerve(f r ) - po l w n er an tl s i w em er atondthceoachvggtehem to the anything that bad taken place. 1 This assertion, however, was positively contradicted by police, who described them as being both sober the sensible of what they were doin g , and perfectly Mr. BINGHAM said he was sorry to see that the horrible practice of gouging, which had been imported from th e most barbarous part of th e b ac k settlements of ra pidly gaining gro un d i n this country; and America, was as he was deter mined, in every case o f t h e kind that am check such br u t a lit y as much as possible, e he should or d er e before hi m , t o the elder Coowav to pay a penalty of 4/. Drew, or, in default of so d o i n gytofor his attack u p on undergo six week s ' im prisonment i n t h e House of Correction, that, should comm i t hi m for and in a dditi on to without the infli c ti on of any the further term o f one mont h , penalty the police ; and sentence each ofthe , for the assault upon ot her prisoners, whose conduct had been of a less violent. description, to 21 d a y s ' imprisonment in th e H ouse of Correction, also without the option of paying any penalty, for theirparticipationin the outrage. outrage. ET INCITING A SERVANT LAMB TO PLUNDE H. R 1115 EMPLOYER.— T 1 omas Smith, Edward Wader, George Greenhick, and Wm. Henry Alexander, all of whom are «ell known to the police, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of in citing William Curtis, a servant in the employment of Mr. Stokes, a boot and shoe-manufacturer and leather-cutter in au catenaive way of businesa in tha Walwyrth-rcad, ty plan der his master. It appeared that Sergeant Morton and Po lice-constable Quinnies, of the P division, had discovered that the lad Curtis had been hi the habit, for some weeks past, of assembling with the prisoners, and, knowing the characters of the latter, they acquainted Mr. Stokes with the circum stance. On examining his stock Mr. Stokes missed a quan tity of leather, and also some shoes and boots, and, Curtis being charged with taking them, he made a disclosure which led to the apprehension of the prisoners. Curtis, who was placed at the bar with the other prisoners, made a lengthened voluntary statement, in which he said he had been beset by the prisoners, who first by entreaties endeavoured to induce him to rob his master, and offered him half the value of 'every article he procured for them. He, however, declined to do anything of the sort, upon which they threatened to inform his master of c;riett.ing that would transport him ; and, before doing this, they also threatened to give him a couple of good thrashings. At length, by their repeated threats, he complied with their request, and had on more than one occasion handed them pieces of leather over a fence flora the premises of his master. They subsequently pressed him to lock them into the shed of his master some night, so that they might rob the pre mises; and also asked him if he was aware whether his master kept much money in the house, and, if so, if there would be much difficulty in getting at it. He refused to lock them into the shed, and told them that his master had bells to all the doors and windows in his house, and also kept loaded firearms. One or two of them said that, this being the case, it was "No go ;" but they still kept urging him to get articles of property for them, and he did so up to the time he made the disclosure to his master. The prisoners de nied much of the statement of the lad, and said that the offer to rob first came from Curtis himsalf; and that he fre quently requested them to bring a truck with them, and he should fill it for them with his master's leather. The pri soners were all remanded to a future day, Curtis being ordered to be kept apart from the others. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY). 13.6.1 r 11 , 1.61.726LET5. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 315 s to 41 8s; Clover ditto, 41 55 t 51 15s ; Oat Straw, 1112 s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. Supply moderate and trade dull. Cumasiiiirin. —Meadow Hay, 31 Si to 41 lOs ; Clover ditto, 41 41 to 51 12s; Oat Straw, 11 13s to 1/ 158; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 171 per load. A fair average supply, and a heavy demand. WHITECHAPF.L.—Meadow Hay, 31 3a to 41 138 ; Clover ditto, 418 s to 61; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, It 14s to 1116 1 per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. (From the London New Price Current of May 12.) SUGAIL—To-day West India Sugar was wanted, and an advance of 6d per cwt for all descriptions took place, but business of moment was prevented by the show continuing scanty. The quantity disposed of was 250 hhds and trcs. REFINED.—To-day Refined goods were in excellent request by the home trade, and advanced rates were paid. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was in ex cellent request, and at public sale, 6,814 bags 71 casks were all sold at an advance on former rates of 6d per cwt for yellow, indeed the rise on brown and grey kinds was gene rally is per cwt. EAST INDIA. —This afternoon there was no public sale of Bengal Sugar, but privately some parcels have been sold at prices rather above those previously quoted. SPlRM—Leeward Island Rum cannot be obtained upon lower terms, as the quantity at market is small ; but the bu siness transacted has been trifling, at 2s per gallon, proof strength. Calcutta is little wanted, and prices are not so firm. The demand is less for Jamaica of low and mid sorts, prices not so firm, but good and fine are wanted, at full rates. Demerara has been sought after, but no further advance in the value tias t iken place. The deliveries of Brandy are on the increase, still the demand bas been limited since this day week, and holders experience difficulty in getting former rates for any kind. Geneva is dull of sale, and there are sellers of common export at Is lld to 2s, and fine for home cousumptiec at 2s 6d to 3s per gallon. English Coin Spirits are little wanted, and there are sellers at lOs 6d per gallon nett cash. COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon was purchased with more freedom, and 490 bags at public sale were sold at full rates. Of Native some parcels were sold, and 101 bags at auction brought full prices. Of Quilon 430 cases and 313 bags were offered, and nearly all taken rather above the value. TEA—No further advance has taken place in the value of Congou, but a good demand has been experienced for all de scriptions. In Pouchong several sales have been made at 4d to 7d, and better quality at 8d to 10d. Twankay is wanted. For Gunpowder and Imperial, prices cannot 10 quoted higher. In fine scented Orange Pekoe, there has been a large business done. Hyson has been in excellent request/ prices are firm. Rim—To-day Bengal Rice met with attention, and 4,23 5 bags at public sale were all sold, and the rates obtained were generally equal to those that previously existed. SPICES.—This afternoon a fair business was transacted privately in Black Pepper at full rates, and 325 bags at auc tion were sold at 2d to 2id for good fair Black Penang, and at 2id to 2id for sea damaged; 50 cases of Bengal Ginger were sold at 28s to 29s for middling small home consumption kind, and at 26s to 27s for low quality. COCOA.—This afternoon 104 bags of Trinidad at public sale were sold at firm rates—good middling red at 44s 6d, mid dling 41s ad to 425, and ordinary dull at 33s per cwt. Hors.—Many parcels have been disposed of, bat at no int provement in prices, although the supply at market is but moderate. The accounts from the plantations are now be coming interesting—the Hop Plant has made considerable progress, and tying is now become general. hintGo.—Several purchases have been made in East India since this day week; the rates paid have been fully equal to those of the last quarterly sale itnd in some cases rather above for the better sorts. SALTPETRE.—For English Refined reduced rates have been taken, but at 293 6d to 30s per cwt a good business has been transacted. Holders of Rough are still inclined to realise , and accepted prices 6d per cwt under those that previously prevailed, but the trade have operated with caution privately. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon a good demand prevailed , and 110 bags of Honduras at aaction were sold at stiffer rata, viz., at ss. 7d to 5s lld for silvers, and good to fine at 65 W 6s 3d per lb. Olin.—This afternoon at public sale 10 tuns of Sperm Oil were sold at 801 for Colonial. 70 tuns of Southern sold at lower rates, viz.—at 251 to 251 5s for fine, 24/ lOs to 24115 s for good, and at 231 158 to 2415 s for low and middling quality. TALLOW.—Purchases to a fair extent have been made in Russian on the spot at full rates. At auction 200 casks of Odessn Beef Tallow were nearly all taken in at 41s 9 1, Although there are sellers of Russian for the last three months of the year upon lower terms, still buyers are cautious in their proceedings. A good demand has existed for Austra lian on the spat,' but better prices have not been obtained. Other sorts have been in fair request at about the former currencies. WEST WHEAL JEWEL MINING COMPANY.—'T h e annual meeting of this company was held yesterday, a t the arce in Old Bond-street. It appeared from the report, that the north partfl the mine had not turned out profitable ; th e wes t ern part h . .: equalled the expectations, and held out every i n d ucemen t for / 1 . 1 , creased operations. The agents recommended anot h er call of IL without which they would lose 2001. a month. 90,0001. had already_ been expended on the mine. The directors hop e d , by confining they , operations to the profltabie part of the min e , not on l y to pa y o ut la y' but to realise a di - idend for the sh are h o ld ers. Mr. D. Moo. moved a eta of thanks to the directors, which was seconded by l ir Commander, when the meeting adjourned. PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SoCIETT.—on the thirty-fourth annual general meeting of the supporters of ° li society (the object of w hi ch is to circulate at home and abroa d ' Prayer-books and all other works of the church) was held in th e lower room, Exeter-hall. The Marquis of Cholmondeley was in the chair. The report set forth that a fifth edition of the liturgy in Chinese had been printed. The Reformation in Germany had celle d forth the energies of the society, Its correspondents in that country having been supplied with copies of the prayer-took and of some of the homilies in the German language ; also the Thirty-nine Article , of religion both in German and Latin. The attention of the mana gers of Om society was in a great measure directed to the spiritual condition of British seamen, and during the past year no fewer than 3,667 vessels in the port of London had been visited, making a total within the last twenty years of more than 50,000 ships of 'radon. kinds Agents had been stationed at the principal ports of the king' dont for the purpose of distributing religious books amongst th. crews. The Lord Mayor went to Spithead, on Sunday morn ing, to 'view the line-of•battle ships previously to their departure itir the Mediterr nom. W e have reason t( , ) beli-ve that there is not the slightest truth in the rumour that the Hon. Member for Oxford, Mr. Maclean' inten Is to resign his seat in Parliament. Intl ligence has been received at Manchester House, announcing the decease of the Marquise Dav oure , mother af T i e . Countess d St. Aulaire, who expired a few days s i nc e, at the a vanced age of 81. GOODWIN AND WILLIABIS.—These well-known Pl e n rowed a match yesterday for 20 sous., from Putney-bridge to 11 1 °' lake. After a smart contest, the former drew ahead, and Made • triumphant finale of a clear six-boats' length. .„. n FATAL FIGHT ON A SUNDAY.—A fight took plat °,,,, Sunday last, in a field near the Marley tunnel on the South Del - ,, - Railway, between two " navies," when one of them fell a corps e _ - r e the spot, just as he received a blow from hie antagonist.—DO°fir- Teegraph. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—SURPRISING CASE OF THS RE . COVER Y OF HEALTII BY HOLLOWAY'S I ' ILLS.-31r. Roberts, A 1 10; tertian reading in New street, Birmingham, has b een suffering the heart, from a disordered liver, deranged stomach, palpitation 0 100 , heart, e:iortness of breath, swelling of the hands, feet, stud ielli f low] e•s of spirits, and want of strength and en erg y, w hich state 0. thin : 4B was slowly breaking up his constitution; and finding nO, 1 1 0 neat from the medical treatment at Birmingham, he proceildeu be Loncle,,, where he resided for six month s , I n or d er to c onsult t oe most eminent of the faculty, which he did to no advantage• d then tried these extraordinary Pills, which i n t h ree wee ks restor e d him to periect health and vigour. —Sold by all d rug gists, and At Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. t o [ADVERTISEMENT.]—BOTANIC WATER AND Mal i , f Ii GREAsE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and falling 0 Lfeanfoytrfeurgtuhaenrteitvyidue:::: the only effectual reanedy, besides shaving the bead, is the 0 56 tel —the be" of the two above-named articles, some of the North .A 0" tanic water to cleanse the roots fro . a r p e p s r i c i e e u d t rf sufficient answer. Ross and Sou* a l andtehr n stimulant,a rasenaoy y atings n . and the bear's grease as a nourisher. street, who first introduced the use , : r accoun of preserving e r r e v q i u n i g re t d h of e h t a h ir e virtues of o t f u te n i n t e e d d- 0. by n the pot, or ri a l n le d ,a,n th l e nadm length iaenssanwdß o ni f fdb f ddo a rp i e r sgbses o ar b taer t : i and 120, of bear's grease in this eou e nt t ry, and who fat and kill the ani mals,o purchase none other but with their n the changes are •obtaining a spurious article. All applied t° their vegetable oils the hair are worse than useless. recommend the publi c BIRTHS bell. On the 11th inst., the wif e of Mr. John Rhoades, of a son an d -fA On the 9th inst., in E a t on-place, the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anien' ° son, still-born. ^ O. On the 4th inst., a t S tockwell, Mrs. Winterbottom, of a daug— M tt , of On the 4th i ns t , at Southsea, the wife of Dr. Charles H. 6 c ° a daughter, prematurely born. On the Gth i ns t ., the lady of Robert Gee, Esq., of Hollywood' 00 Stockport, Cheshire, of a, son. , b 0 f. On the 7th i ns t ., at Marlborough, the wife of the Rev. Jobs Brackenbuiy, of a son. of W I. On the Bth i nst., at the Avenue, Streatham, the wife Sidgwiek, Esq., of a daughter. ~,, Herne, On the Bth i ns t ., at lionterton, the wife of Abraham i, Esq., of a son. CM the-tit-I.:inst., Mrs. John Rawlngs, of a bo. On the 9th last., at St. Andrew's i place, Regen y t's-park, the lady °f William Forsyth, Esq., of a son. ritisk°4 On the 9th inst., a t St. J o h n ' s - woo d, th e w if e o f T. Henri - jun., Esq., of a daughter. _.—........"-"' MRRIED. On the 2d inst., at St. Mark's, A Kennington, Thomas San ke Y , jog., of Islington, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of John Cater, V*, North Brixton te On the ith inst., John I). Jones, Esq., of Queen's-road, -- o f the Louisa Frederica, eldest daughter of Moritz Schmack, same place. DI On the 17th of March, at Chuprah ED. wife Of , Bengal, Anne Jane, - W. M. Dirotn, Esq., Hon. Comany's Civil Service. d -,, i raer oo On the I Gth ult., at Fort William, Inverness-shim, M iss -- Culehentia, sister of the late Sir J. Cameron, K.C.R., aged 79. On the sth inst., Mr. E. 11. Hodson, surgeon, of Burton -up ." Trent. 70. On the ith inst., Mr. De Ville, lamp manufacturer, Strand, fed 78. On the 7th inst., at Weston, near Bath, iss Jane Upton. fig` On the Bth inst., Mr. Thomas Lyne, of Park - plac e, Sevenoak!: , 0 On the Bth inst., Sarah Ann, the second daught er of Mr. Uus"" Ellis, of Cumming-street, Pentonville. ire Of On the Bth inst., in Portland-place, Islington , A nn, the w We t wi Esq. f of Jul' On the Bth inst., at Sunbury, Middlesex, Mary. --e Mit , hison, Esq , aged 64. On the 9th inst., Charles Henry, son of Mr. Wadsworth. Mfg ° Broad-street, Golden-square. London: Printed and Published by harllDO YOUNG, of N 0 .11 2. 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