The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-17 00:00:00

LAW DITELLIGEN COURT OF CHANCERY, April 16. HALL V. LUCK. The Lon]) CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case this morning. Rhich came before his Lordship ye,ter day upon a question as to the costs of the appeal. His .rdahip was of opinion, under all the circumstances, that there ought to be no costs of the appeal, and ordered ace , irdingly. IN THE 31ATTEIL OP DIVE SOMBRE, A LUNATIC. This case stood on the paper for the production of the evidence of the claim of the Baron Solana to 15,0001. His LORDSHIP being satisfied with the evidence, directed the claim to be allowed. IN THE NATTER OF THE PRINCESS BARIATINSKI, A LUNATIC. This case came before the Court upon the petition of the committee of the lunatic, praying an order for the see of so much stock as would satisfy the last half yearly amcunt allowed by the Court for the maintenance of the lunatic. The Court made the order as prayed. ICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, April 16. (Before the VICE - CHArrcE►LLoR of ENGLA)D.) RUSSELL V. SMITH. Mr. STUART applied in this case upon motion to dis solve an injunction that had been granted by his Honour during the Easter recess, restraining the defendant, who is a public singer, from singing or publishing. or other wise mblzing use of certain songs, some of which had been written, and others set to music, by the plaintiff. Among these songs were " Old Fools and Young Ones," " I've been Roaming," and " I'm Afloat." &c. The L arned Counsel was proceeding to read the affidavits on which th e application was made, when he was in terrupted by Mr. BETHELL, who requested that the case might stand over in order that the plaintiff might answer some of the affidavits filed by the defendant yesterday. Mr. STUART at once agreed to postpone the motion, the defendant being anxious .that the plaintiff should have the beuefits of all that he had " said o r sung ." The VICE-CHANCELLOR said that the present was a case to which the motto of audi alteram partem most aptly applied.—(Great laughter.) - (Before , Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) THE ATToRNEY -GENERAL v. THE CORPORATION 01 CONGLETON. Mr. ROMILLY continued his arguments to-day on the motion ror an injuncti on t o restrain the Corporation of Congleton from appointing a Master to the Free Gram mar School of Congleton, and from changing the order of the school, or otherwise interfering with it. ROLL'S COURT, April 16. LORD WELLESLEY V. THE EARL OF NORNINGTON. It was ant - eel by counsel that an arrangement had been mad, between the parties in this cause. The case came ori ginally bet ire Lord Langdale on the 28th ult.,in the shape of a motion to restrain the carrying into execution a contract, by which the defendant had agreed to sell Mr. Morris 3,500 oak trees. An application was made yea terday, on the part of the plaintiff, to make Mr. MNrris the defendant in the case, which was ordered to stand over till to-day, in the expectation that an arrangement would be made. Mr. Morris has consented to give up his contract, which of c mir-se terminates the law pro ceedings in this case, which has excited some little in tere*t from the rank of the litigants. His Lordship then proceeded to hear the unopposed petitions, of which there was a large number on the list. session of a piece of land held by the plaintiff, which it was alleged was a portion of the glebe belonging to the rectory. The piece of land was a slip of land alongside of the highway, and had been inclosed about forty-seven years ago. It was originally a waste, and inclosed by a person of the name of Llenot, who also built a cottage on it. It had since passed through the hands of three parties. The possession had been acquiesced in by four successive incumbents of the rectory. A verdict had been given for the defendant, there being no evidence to show that the land was ever considered a part of the glebe, and the Learned Judge (Mr. Justice Erie), before whom it was tried, having left it to the jury to consider, in the absence of such evidence, and the acquiescence of four successive incumbents in the possession, whether the possession was not good, the Learned Counsel now asked fir a rule to show why this verdict should not be set aside, on the ground that as sixty years in such eases was the statute of limitations debarring the re covery of such property, whereas possession had only been held for forty-seven years, and the acquiescence of the previous incumbents did not at all invalidate the title.—Rule to show cause granted. GAMBLE V. KURTZ. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict of the special jury in thi s case s hould not be set aside and a new trial granted. The case was tried last term, and occupied three days. It was an action for the infringement of a patent for an improved method of making sulphate of soda and mu riatic acid, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff, to the effect that though the principle was not new, the ap plication of it wa s . Th e L earned Gentleman now moved fur the defendant.—Rule granted. The Court then adjourned till to-morrow. BAIL COURT, April 16. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) ERPE V. FERRERS. In this case Mr. BAusrow, on the part of defendant, moved for a rule to enter up judgment, a. in case of a nonsuit. It will be remembered that in the action for breach of Eromise of mar r i age , b roug h t b y Mi ss S m i th aga i nst arl Ferrers, it was shown that the grandfather of the plaintiff (Mr. Erre), had advanced 1001., on the supposi tion that he was lending that amount to the noble de fendant. Subsequently an action was brought against Earl Ferrers for the amount, which was set down for trial in the Michaelmas sittings. The case, h-wever, never came before the Court, and hence the present ap plication.—Rule granted. No other motion of public interest came before his Lordship. COORT OF BANKRUPTCY, April 14. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) IN RE NEAL. The bankrupt in this case came up for his certificate. He had kept the Royal Oak Commercial Inn, Port--ea, and had also been a coach proprietor. His schedule showed debts to the amount of 3,6171. 11s. ; but there were no assets for the creditori. He was opposed by Mr. Phinn for the assignees ; and also by a creditor, a cigar dealer. Mr. Bagley supported the bankrupt. The grounds of opposition were, that he had kept no books ; that his expenditure was at least one-fifth more than the profits ; that he had assigned all his property to his brother and sister, who had swept all away, leaving the creditors without a shilling. It was al.() stated that the bankrupt had kept a thorough -bred horse, and was lavish in the display of diamond rings and other jewellery. Mr. BAGLEY said that it was chiefly for the want of ability, and partly for the want of time, that the bank rupt had kept no books. His great excess of expendi ture over his income was ascribable to his coaching trade being destroyed by the establishment of the South- We,tern, &c., Railway, while the assignments of his brother and sister had been executed as far back as the year 1842. His Hostoua said. that although innkeepers and coach proprietors seldom kept books, he bad generally found those most prosperous who did so. The great excess of expenditure over income was less excu,Jble; for, al though it was well known that railways had been injuri ous to such versons as the bankrupt, yet there had be-n full notice to enable persons going down hill. nut only to put the drag on, but absolutely to stop. The assign ments to the relatives, though of a somewhat remote date, and equitable in the eyes of the bankrupt, had nevertheless enabled him to get into debt with others. Under all the circumstances, he thought the justice. of the case would be best met by adjourning the certificate for twelve months, but with protection to the person of the bankrupt. SHERIFFS' COURT, A4pril 16. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) TUCKEY NAY. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 61. 6s. lid. for goods sold and delivered. The defendant pleaded that he was never indebted, satisfaction, and set-off. Tee plaintiff is a grocer in, George-street, Portman square, and the defendant is a surveyor. The satistec don was for making an appraisement for the plaintiff. An action was brought for the amount, which action is still pending. M-. Tnostas, for the plaintiff, contended that the appraisement, even if the defendant was entitled to charge for it, could not be pleaded in satisfaction, as the work was done previously to the goods being delivered. Mr. HAWKINS admitted that there was a tt chnical dif; ficulty as regarded that plea, but he should rely on the other two pleas. He contended that no d, bt arose on the delivery of the goods, as they were sent in as part payment for the work done by the defendant. Witnesses were called who proved that it was cus tomary for appraisements to be paid for at the time, but that the amount was allowed to stand over at the re quest of the plaintiff, who when he was applsed to for _the payment of 141. ss. for defendant, said that he had sent goods to the amount of 61. 6s. 3d. on account, bin he was aware that the defendant was not a licensed ap praiser, and therefore he should refer him to his (plain tiff's) attorney. The UNDER-SHERIFF suggested' that a juror should be withdrawn. Mr. Montss said he would agree if , the other action was discontinued. Mr. HAWKINS said he would rather take a verdict. Mr. THOMAS then urged that the plaintiff was en titled to be paid for his goods, and the detendant ought to be left to his own remedy. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing up said, that it was not a question tor the jury, whether the defendant was licen.,ed or not ; if not, he might be liable to a. fine, but at all events, any person t him was bound to pay. The question therefore was, how much he was entitled to, for he clearly had a right to set up his claim as a set-oft The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. Mr. ilikwinis said, now the case was closed, he was desired by the defendant to state, that the proe offing!, in the other case wouli be discontinued, as it was not the defendant's wish to press the plaintiff, but only to protEct himself. IN RE SMITH: Mr. KIIIDERSLEY presented a petition en the part of g r . Smith, praying for the payment of certain sums of money in Court to the credit of this cause. This case, which occupied the remainder of the day, has been before the Court at least a hundred times; and had reference to the taxation of a bill of costs. The facts ~f the t a .e have already appeared at such consider attle lenztb in T he Sun as to render unnecessary any &tad of its peculiar features. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 16. (Sittin.o in Banco.) BEYNON V. 3IARGARET JONES. Mr. V. Williams having obtained a rule, calling upon p'n miff to show cause why the order obtained at ehawb-rs, before Baron Rolfe. for the liberation orde fendant from custody of the sheriff of Carmarthen, should not be st-t aside. Mr. GRAY showed cause, and argued at great length in favour of'the order. He contencled, that there was no difference between the present case, and the common one against husband and wife, in which, as a matter of favour, Lb ugh not right, the practice usually was to liberate the wife. There was no ground whatever shown for a depart ure fr - ,u3 the usual course. The circumstance of the de fendant hating been married before judgment was ob tained, did not abate the action. In the case of King v. :Jones, where an application was made of the sLine nature, the application was made, n o t on t h e ground of defendant having no separate maintenance, but on the gratin I of irregularity. The COURT took time to consider. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, April 16. THE QUEEN V. BARNARD GREGORY. This was a prosecution on an indictment against Bar nard Gregory, editor or the Satirist, for a libel published in that paper on, and affecting th ec h arac t er o f t h e D u k e of Brunswick. The Duke, who conducted his own case at the time of the trial, was this morning in Court long before the rifting of their Lordships, and took his place within the bar, the place allotted for the Queen's counsel. Ile was in communication with his solicitor until their Lordships took their va's upon the bench. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD now entered and took his attar close to the Duke, with whom he exchanged a few words. The Learned Sergeant then rose, and said he was instructed to apply to the Court to have judgment pls,v-d upon the defendant, but he now understood that the jury panel was not in Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—The judgment is not signed, and the jury panel is not in Court. The case was thr n postponed for a few days, when the defendant, who was in Court, attended by hii so licitor, will be brought up and judgment will be vo n )unced. THE QUEEN V. PELHAN. The defendant in this case, Mrs. Harriet Eleanor Pel ham, was convicted some time back, before Mr. Justice Williams, upon the second and third counts of a n indict- which charged her with cruel and wilful neglect, and close confinement of her illegitimate son, Brent Spencer. The case again part-heard yesterday must still be fresh in the recollection of the public from the disgu4lng and filthy state in which the young man was found, and from its many other strange and peculiar features. The prosecution, it will be recollected, was instituted by the parish officers of Chelsea, oho discovered that the defendant had her son confined in her own house in the manner laid in the indictment and obtained a magistrate's warrant at Queen-square Police court to make search into the neitter. Ttie officers of police thus authorised en Bred the defendant's house, where they found defen dant end another son of hers, who were indignant at the , fficers entering the house, and questioned their au therity. On entering the room where Brent Spencer w s confined, they (the officers) were disgusted with the state in which they found the young man, rep re- MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, e :reel:reelby his mother and brother to b e a lunatic. ile (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a w .e: stretched upon a litter of the most filthy descrip. Bench of M. ieistrates.) tie. Ile sit up ind stared wildly at them wh en t h e y Joseph Allen and Charles West, two young men, were entered, hi s w h o l e appeara nce indicating that of a rt ., indicted, charged with having committed an assault on gle IA idiot. His mouth and chin were thickly covered Mr. Joseph Gibbon, son of the late Sir J. Gibb.m, Bart., wishwi, heart. The bed covering was thi c k w i t h verm i n, one o f t h e mag i strates of the county of Middlesex, on an t tee mettrass on which he lay, when taken up by the the 20th ult. offs Nee fell to pieces, bine , thoroughly rotten from soil, Mr. O'Brien was counsel for the defendants. ee;c. The room in which this scene of misery was eehi. In the course of the proceedings it appeared that the b , ted, rind which was most offensive in smell, was almost prosecutor, who is the son of the late and uncle of the da, k. the w;nd.)w, which was secured on the outside present Sir J. Gibbon, for many years a mest active with iron bars, being so thickly covered with dirt, as t o magistrate for the co un ty, i s i n th e possess i on o f a con tereetly exclude the light. The flour of the room was siderable property, and has for the lest ten or twelve also covered with. a .caked layer of dirt, defying the YPers devoted the principal part of his time to the , officers to tell what it (the floor) was composed of. In Watching and searching out the most notorious of the this melancholy state the young man had barn confim d thieves who infest the metropolis, and in procuring fir a space of ten years. There was a night-chair in their apprehension and conviction. It happened that Cie ro. co, but it did not appear that he at all made use some months since he had caused the apprehension of it. The officers removed him to the workhouse, where of the defendant West, who was subsequently the necessary care was taken of him. taken to the Clerkenwell Police-court, when the magi; _ The testimony of the medical officer of the WOI k- trate sentenced him to three months' imprisonment. bootie was winasansr,newhat is favour of the defendant, the On the afternoon of the 20th ult., the prosecutor good u.a _ t _ , Brent Spencer,. appearing to him to be in chancing to be wiplking along George-street, Bloomsbury, t h and plump is flesh ; and it further appeared ebserved that he was followed and watched by two men, that he did not; after' the R ea la lin the ward-for h e a c rd use the night t hair who afterwards proved to be the two detrulants. After however, he was occasionally ; heard In the ward, proceeding some distance on his way they came towards streked his beard, "- Whates - sh e eijat e ,a me y — o= g' as mail, him, when West, holding up his first, said, " You are the —; I'll give it you," and was apparently such as I am, should be kept in confinement as I have of s triking him, but observing that policeman on the paint was been." He aas understood to be- the illegitimate son of coming towards them, both ran off. Mr. Gib . h p o p n ro g „ j a a v e r t'le late General Spencer, and to be indirectly connected instructions to the policeman to pursue and taken. Mr. Gibbon there ! West, who was ev i ally with a noble family. c h t of the preciSe opening a conver. since the conviction of defendant, Mr. Edwin James upon came up, and el'u • (~,it h w ho m was Mr. Phinn), obtained a rule nisi, 'Me &dein with the m aletoadgewthheierhit:iesielend- Polioe was man n on the the set of , arre-t of judgment', and for a new trial. In support 4 charge, when he received a blow on su t l ii i e w the applicition fur arresting judgment, it was contended h;ne to the ground, and rendered hi that the ,econd count of the indictment w as b a d, b4_ sible for some time.. This blow was proved, by the caiist• it did not &lege in terms any ditty which o bli p id 1).4k-email who had taken him into custody, to h ave b een the defendant to take care of her grown up illegitimate given by Allen. son after he had reached •the age of 21 years; nor arty Mr. O'BRIEN, in addressing the jury on behalf o f t h e facts from which the law would infer the existence fie defendants, contend e d t h at the course which the prose any such duty; and the third count was bad, b ecaus t, tutor had adopted was calculated to produce very con theugh it alleged the duty, it did not allege any special siderable mischief, from the fact of his ast , w u h rnin e e to do ich injury as the r es u lt of the neglect of that duty: There that without any proper or legal au th or i ty ought was also no proof that there had been an imprisonmeht not to be done by any other persons than t h ose who of Brent Spencer by any r e st r aint cruelly acd unneueS- been appointed under the authority of th e law. TV, serdy exercised by the defendant. fact was, Mr. Gibbon had been playing th e part of an Mr. WATSON, Q C., yesterday showed cause againi3t amateur policeman. the rule, and in support of his arguments cited a ntip- The JUDGE said it was altogether a m a tt er o f taste. b e e i,f authorities. In the course of the Learned Gentl- This was Curious taste, no doubt, which had been carr i e d netn's arguments, it appeared that the defendant received out by this gentleman, but it, had for some time become 491 per quarter, payable through Coutts's Bank, for the a - matter of notoriety that Mr. Gibbon had been the care and maintenance of the lunatic—a n o bl e family di- cause as well as the moving instrument by whose ener recting the payment. The Learned Gentleman urged getic exertions very many of the worst of the metro that it; during the imprisonment, the lunatic (who wits politan thieves had been apprehended, and subsequently not c ipsble of taking care of himself . ), had lost his 1; 3 4 convicted. That being the case, it was not to be antici ky .h ! f xurctse of neglect of the duties which the 1 pated or expected that he had become an object of very ire;eosed, such as not feeding him, or other indirect iii. I particular endearment to the thieving fraternity. Al. jury, the case would be one of manslaughter against t e though Mr. Gibbon had been thus occupied in his pur suit, he had never heard that he hail upon any one ocea defendant, who h a d un d e rtaken the proper care of hi . Ile considered t h e d ec i s i on o f the jury good ; an , 1 sion lost himself as a gentleman, and he had undoubtedly tt , evefore, h„ p o d the verdi c t wou ld not be disturbed. . rendered a great public service. By the course he had Mr. Pities was yesterday :Tart heard in support Of adopted, however, he had made himself a marked man the ride for arrest of judgment, and for a new trial, end amongst the thieves of Leedom this noirilin Mr. Gibbon here stepped forward, and said that it was g resumed and concluded his arguments. ' ; H e was followed by Mr - James after which their ; a propensity T he laboured under, and could not help it. Lordships looked into • indictment,then elided from Mr. Gibbon that he had the and conferred It was together for some rime . 'I received or accepted any of the expenses allowed never The CHIEF JUSTICE then i said t was better to tare by the county. time to consider the matter. I I Mr. O'BRIEN then resumed his address to the j ur y , Their Lordships ' decision wa s consequentl . ' - ' and submitted that the greatest inconvenience as well as peril could not but arise from the exercise of this gentle mans 'particular fancy for enac tin g the character of an amateur policeman. He was a n irresponihle person, not like the police, all of whom were amenable to and governed by a certain co de of laws. Not so with an amateur constable. Ile contended that even if the pro secutor had been struck in the way he had described, he had simply been subjected to that inconvenience and treatment which a man was liable to if he interfered in defern COURT OF COM.WOIV PLEAS, April 16. (Sittings in Banco.) HARRISON V. HAMPSON. Me, Sergeant MANNING moved for a rule for a n w tria,itt. this case, on the ground of misdirection. e case wag tried in the last. sittings after term, before 1, r. Ja,tice Erle, and was an actiur brought by the Rev, r. Harrison,,scctor of s parish neat 'Taunton, to recover pos- 8U , St, I;(*YRD ON, PilibAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 184 a. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO US P,. A young man nan named Samuel Lea was charged wirh having embezzled various sums of money, the pro perty of Messrs. Morley and Co., lace manufacturers, of Manchester, and of Friday -street, Cheapside. Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, Mr. Wolfe for the prisoner. William Perry. a person in the employment of Messrs. Smith and Watkins, stated that on the 11th of June, he paid to the prisoner a cheque for 451 9s. for goods furnished to the firm by Messrs: Morley on the day be fore, as appeared from the invoice annexed to the cheque. Mr. J. R. Smith, one of the firm of Smith awl Wat kins, stated that on the lltn of June he pad to the pri s ner a eh. que for 321. 135., in payment of goods re ferred to in the invoice produced. On the 24th of June the firm recived goods by a porter from Messrs. Morley and Co., and an invoice for 16/. 7s. was brought with the goods, from receiving which witness gave to the porter a note containing a cheque f..r that amount. The three cheques produced for 451. 94., 321. 13s and for 6/. 7s. had been duly r e t urne d to the firm as paid. Joseph Stammers. a porter occasionaliy employed by Messrs. Morley and Co., was the bearer of the goods to the amount of 16/. 7s. referred to in the evidence of the last witness, and delivered the note containing the cheque for that sum to the prisoner. . . Mr. Edwin Newby, G o ld sm i t h- street , warehouseman, stated that on the 14th of August, 1844, he purchased goods of Messrs. Morley and Co. to the amount of 211. 125., and he paid to the prisoner on the same day the cheque product d for that sum. That cheque had been duly returned to him by his banker as paid, and the prisoner wrote the receipt at the foot of the invoice. Mr. Samuel Morley, a partner in the house at Man chester and in Friday-street, stated that the prisoner conducted the business in Friday -street as sale.man to the firm, and it was his duty to receive moneys on ac count of the firm, to furnish a weekly account on paper of the sales, and to enter in the book at Friday-street all sums of money received by him. Witness produced the prisoner's account of the week's sales, comprehend ing the 14th of August, 1844, and he stated that he had searched tv books, but found no entry of the sale of the goods, or the receipt of 211. 12s. from Mr. Newby. He also produced the weekly accounts, comprehending the dates mentioned on the other cheques. The receipts produced at the foot of the invoices were written by the prisoner. On his cross-examination the witness said there was no entry of a payment of 121. 12s. from Mr. Newby that he could find, but there was an entry of some of the same .:ort of goods to another person, on another dire. Alderman CHALLIS refused the application to acct:pt bail for the prisoner's appearance to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court, and committed him to New-gate. The prisoner, it was stated, had maintained an excel lent character for many years. Florence Collins and Albert Collins, his son, was charged with having committed- violent assaults upon William Leedham, City-policeman, No. 586. In this case the tables were turned upon the police man. The following is an outline of the matter, which was detailed at considerable length :—The coreplL inapt, at half-past ten o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, was what is called "larking" with another polieenian, who resided next door, and one of them threw a slipper at the other. The slipper, it was supposed, struck a child, who was playing in the court, and the mother of the child, who seemed to haVe sustained some injury, bitterly complained of the conduct of persons from whom protection against offences ought to be expected. The indignation of the complainant was strongly roused against the party who dared to question his authority to do as he pleased, and he forthwith began to show his sense of the power with which his dress and staff in• vested him, by most foully vituperating. Flonner Col lins not relishing the language used towards the woman, who happened to be his wife, expostulated with the cum plainant, but received the compliment of a violent kno,k ing about, and if his son, Albert Collins, hid not inter fered, would have been completely overpowered. The complainant received in the conflict what he very well deserved—a black eye ; and he was aided in his offen sive conduct by policeman, No. 552. W. J. Green, ward-beadle of Queenhithe, stated that he was present during the whole of the affair, and he bore testimony to the highly reprehensible conduct of the two policemen The. complainant was evidently in texicated, at least he was greatly excited, and he came down stairs and entered the apartment of the defendants, pulled out Florence Collins, challenged him to fight, and punched him most violently. Inspector Woodroffe, a shrewd and intelligent officer, who investigated the case at the station-house, did not hesitate to say that he considered the complainant was decidedly in error in the transaction. The defenclan*, he added, had determined to complain to the Commis sioner of Police, before whom an investigation was to take place. Alderman CHALLIS said he was happy to find that the ease was to be brought before the Commissioner, who, he had no doubt, would do justice upon the ( ccasion. The Alderman then discharged the defendants. MARLBOROUGH STREET. A middle-aged female, of superior manners, dressed in deep mourning, who described herself as the widow of an officdr in the army, was charged with refusing to quit the house of the Earl of Arundel, No. 11, Carltun terrace. Lord Arundel, who was accommodated with a seat on the bench, stated that the defendant called at his resi dence last evening, and was very importunate to obtain an interview with him, which was refused. Between nine and ten o'clock this morning she came again, and h tying gained admission to the hall, positively refused to leave the house, and it was found necessary to call in a police-constable to remove her. Edward Habbage, one of the Earl's domestics, stated that on his opening the door to the defendant this morn ing, she walked into the hall, stating that she wished to see his Lordship; he told her that she would not be per. mitred to do so, bat she said she must and would insist o laaving an interview. He endeavoured to persuade her to withdraw from the house quietly, but she per. s'sted in remaining until she was taken away by the constable to the station-house. Mr. IlinDwlcx asked the defendant why she did not leave his Lo dship's house when required to do so? The defendant said that certain circumstances eonn ected with business of the greatest moment and importance to her rendered her seeing his Lordship indisp( usable. If the hearing of the case was postponed until she had procured legal advice she should be most willing to go folly into all the circumstances, which would explain her reasons for seeking the interview with his Lordship. A. his Lordship had refuscd to see her she certainly did insist on remaining in the hall. Mr. Luke—Because I wish to inform them that any man who does so I will put a bullet in him. Mr. COMBE—YeII will pat a bullet in him? Mr. * Luke—Yes, my house is my castle. Mr. COMBE —Then, sir, I must teach you that such conduct will not be tolerated. You must find hail. If the sheriff.' officer does anything wrong, the sheriff, the highest officer in the county, is amenable for it. Mr. Luke—l'll try it, at any rate. Mr. COMBE—You are under a delusion. Mr. Luke was - hen obliged to find two sureties in 501. each to keep the p ,, ace. The case against Haden was th'en heard, aerl much conflicting evidence tendered. The matter endad in Haden tieing bound in his own recognisant, s. Mr. Hare said he would indict Mr. Luke for vitriol throwing. lladen's case against Mr. Luke was then heard. The complainant swore that he ibui been cajoled to leave the house by Mr. Luke, and when he thr,.ateried to force an entrance, Mr. Luke swore he would shoot him, and aimed a blow at him. One of Mr. Luke's party struck him so violently across the leg, when at tempting to cross the yard wall, that there was still a deep and extensive wound there; one of the party cried out, " Shoot him!" and he was obliged to retreat. The recognisances Mr. Luke had already entered into —two sureties in so!. each, and himself in 1001. —were deemed sufficient. Mr. ILtarrwrcaid his Lordship had a right to re live to see her it' he thought proper. If she 11,d any (+Jim upon his Lordship she mu,t enforce it in a le2al manner. She would not be p , rmitted to intrude hersel a person's house, where she had not the slightest right to be. _ — The defendant said she was without fortune and had not the means of instituting logal proceedings. His Lordship said all he kru-w of the defendant W 33 from her having, about six years ago, applied to him for pecuniary assistance, which he afforded her, and had done so several times subsequently. On one occa. sion he had called On her at her house, where she was living with her mother. She now appeared to be la bouring under some delusion that she had some con tif-xion or other wi h his. family, for w hi c h t h ere was not the sligEtast founiation. Defendant—Oh ! I'm moat' anxious to prove that I am not the daughter of Lord Henry Howard. Mr. HARDWICK said she had better consult hPr legal adviser, and having obtained from her a promise that she w , uld not go to his Lordship's house again, she was discharged. CLERKEN WELL. A mean-looking fellow, wl o gave his name as George Mortioch, was charged before Mr. Combe by Miss Sophia Edwards, daughter of Mr. Edwards, coffeehouse -keeper, of Ray-street, Clerkenwell, with disorderly conduct, and attempting to stab her with a knife. Miss Edwards deposed that On Monday evening, ahcut five o'clock, the prisoner entered her father's coffee room, and asked for coffee, eggs, bread, and butter, and a rasher of bacon, which were laid before him. She asked for payment, as a few days previously a gang of seven or eight such fellows consumed 4s. worth of food, and refused to pay for it. She said she must take what he called for away unless he paid the money, an d wa ., about doing so, when the prisoner seized a knife, started up. and using violent language, swore he would stab her to the heart if she dared to remove it ; an.l ho made a stab at her with the knife, but she retreated and avoid( d it. He made a second thrust at her, and she screamed for assistance. Her brother, ten years of age, was in the shop, and the prisoner threatened to stab him with the knife. Her father came to her assistance; when the prisoner threatened violence towards him also. The police were called, and he was given into custody. In answer to questions, witness said she felt assured that had she not moved aside when the prisoner made the thrust at her, the knife would have wounded her. It was a deliberate thrust at her person. Several other fellows were noticed in the shop at the time laughing. She knew them to be the persons who refused to pay fur what they had a few day s bet Witty, 112 G, said the prisoner e was charged with . felony a f ew osys st : o at this Court. lie' was connected with a set of fellows who were in the habit of going into elr C hat for which he had no authority fur the step he was coff;ezhouses, and eating and drinking at the landlord's taking. xpense, and refusing to pay. Several of them had The Learned JUDGE, in summing up the case, told the lately been sent to prison. jury that the prosecutor had a right to indulge in his Master Edwards corroborated his sister's evidence, as tsste, singular as it was, so long as he did not otr step did also Mr. Edwards, the father. the law. It did not appear that Mr. Gibber had ever The prisoner, in his defence, said he laid down a done that ; still less could it be contended that he shilling, which - Miss Edwards took up. He denied the had exceeded the law in the present case. He had charge of attempting to stab her. been, as he had already stated, the means of some I Miss Edwards positively denied that he had laid down of the worst of the metropolitan thieves being a Ailing. convicted, and, therefore, his peculiar inclinations Wiley said no money was found on the prisoner on had rendered a great public benefit to the cone- being searched. munity. With regard to Allen, the question was Mr. CoetnE fined the prisoner 403., or one month's whether he had administered the blow which had imprisonment it the House of Correction.—He could not knocked the prosecutor down and made him insen- pay the meney, and was conveyed to prison. sible ? That fact had been clearly sworn to by Tom- ASSAULT ON SHERIFFS' OFFICERS —Two sheriffs' liason, the policeman ; and then as to West. they would of named Johnson and Copeland, were charged with consider first whether h e h a d or had not held up his attempting to force in the door of Mr. Luke, a surgeon, fist in a menacing and threatening attitude ? and next, residing at 1, St. John's -street, and with creating a mob whether he bad instigated the otle r defendant, Allen, there, John Haden, another sheriff.' office r, livit.g at 4, to knock the prosecator down ? If they were in the Sam ille-lane, City, was charged with threatening to affirmative opinion on these points, the defendants would murder Mr. Luke ; and there was a cross chatge in then have been guilty. which Mr. Luke was charged with threatening to murder The jur3 found both defendants Guilty. the sheriffs' officere, also with throwing vitriol on them. Mr. Gibbon then begged to recommend Allen to Th e C ou rt was crowded, and the tura:section caused mercy, because he was inclined to think that- he hid the greatest excitement in the neighbourhood. been urged on to strike the blow by West. Mr. Hare, who appeared for the Sheriff of' Middle- The Learned JUDGE had , intended to sentence Allen sex, stated that an execution was put into Mr. Luke's to six months' imprisonment, but as he had been re- house on Thursday last, at the suit of a Mr. Lindus for commended to mercy by Mr. Gibnon, his sentence would 311. 3s. not be more than he should pass up, in his companion, Mr. Luke deposed that Haden, the sheriffs' officer, namely, imprisonment for three months. who held the warrant, went out of his own free will On Friday. Witness had received a bill of sale, which he considered as a sufficient indemnity to warrant him in relosnig admission to any other officer. Haden had at tempted to get in subsequently, but gas net allowed ad mission; arid en the following evening, at five o'clock, Johnson and Copeland came to his house, and coat i' menced beating at the door, which witness refusing to open, they threatened they would smash his brains out. An immense mob collected, and he gave them into custody. Mr. Hare said the bill of sale was not a bond-fide one. he fact was, Mr. Luke had kept Mr. Lindus out of the debt for six years, so that the statute of limitations had nearly come in. An action was taken, and it was only on Wednesday last (the Sth) the verdict was had. The officers, in attempting to gain admission, had been treated in the most ferocious manner—beaten with pokers, and vitriol thrown upon them. Haden had been cajoled to leave the house by Mr. Luke. Mr. Connß said he must bind the men ever in good . sureties to beep the peace. Mr Hare said, he feared that would paralyse the course of the sheriff. How was•he to enter? Mr. COMMIE said, if the entrance was legal the recog &sane! s weuld not be effected. Mr. Luke—Then they can break open my door? Mr. COMBE—I do not sit here to answer such ques. tions. TV ESTMINS TER. MURDEROUS As 3 r James L inch, a determined lookin., Irishman, was charged with the following mur derOus assault : r Mary .Drew, a mechanic's wife, was passing over the Woorlen.bridge at Chelsea, late on the taievious night, when hearing two men who were standing outside the King's Head, using threatening language of a very alarming 'character towards some person who appeared to be inside, she determined to watch the result. Shortly afterwards the men walked away down St. Georg,i's plaCe, but in a few minuies they returned, accompanied by the prisarisr and another nvtn, and stationed them selves by the side of the public •house tiror. Almost im mediately after this a man named Edward Wright left the house, when the prisoner advanced towards him with a pair of tor gs'which she had observed him previously ctmcenling under the tails of his coat, and struck him repeatedly on "the head with them, when both the pri soner and the object of his attack fell on the ground. The prisoner made a desperate attempt to escape, but the in jured man, although bleeding so profusely that his smock frock and other clothing were literally saturated with blood, grasped him tightly by the leg until a policeman came up, when he was taken tothe station. The wounded man was carried to the hospital, where he remains in a precari , us sure, suffering from two scalp wounds. • The constable visited him yesterday morning, when he was informed by the surgeon that it would be difficult to say until Friday what might be the result of the injuries re ceived. The prisoner, in a sullen tone, said hn never touzihed the man. A pair of fire-tongs, which the accused had thrown down on seeing the policeman approach were produced, and were Much bent and partially cracked. Mr. BOND remanded the prisoner until Stsnday. WORSHIP-STREET. Mr. John Caswell, a grocer and teadealer in Shore ditch, was charged before Mr. Broughton, with violently assaulting policeman Pollard, 214 G. The occurrence took place a week ago, but the defen dant, although taken into custody at the time, Could not then be brought before the magistrate on account of the serious injury he had himself sustained, and a medical certificate was produced, stating that his jaw was frac tured. attended for the defen dant.ir. Child, the solicitor, now The hearing of the case occupied several hours, but the facts may be briefly stated:— Pollard, the policeman, deposed that about half past one in the morning, he was endeavouring to clear his beat in S!aerediteliof some prostitutes and other disor derlies, when the defendant, who was drunk, came un to prevent his doing so, calling him vagabond and other ill names, anti so molested him that he took the defen dant himself into custody. Policeman 40 G coming up, the de . eodant said, " You know me, take me away from this vagabond." 49 G replied, that he did not know him, and must asii-t in taking him to the station as he was in custody, and that he had better go quietly. These and another constable then proeeeded towards the station-house, and they all said that he was drunk and very violent ; but on the way he suddenly sto sped, and, thrusting; his head between Pollard's legs. threw him over, and the constable falling heavily up,m his fore head on the stone=, was completely stunned anti uncon scion s of what foil owed, but the other conetablei said, that while he lay in that state the defendant seized him by the collar with one hand, and with the other beat him about the bead and face. With great difficulty he was dragged off the prostrate constable, and, after most violent struggle, was *ens-eyed to the station, co vered with blood and filth, and was subsequently found to have been injured in the jaw. He and his friends at tributed that injury to a blow from a policeman's trun cheon, but the constables all denied it, and alleged that he must have received it in a fall. On the part of the defendant, Mr. Robinson, a car penter ; Mr. Hopwood, a clerk at the London-docks ; and two theatrical performers, in whose company he had been drinking gin-and-water at the Georg,- public house, in Shoreditch, were called, and they all state ti that, on his leaving tint house, after one o'clock, he appeared to be quite sober, and it was alleged that he was merely waitme to get to his prvate door in a court. where the constable was ordering a • prostitute away, when he was himself laid hold of by the police. Mr. Mather, a surgeon in Bunhill-row, said he was sent for to the station-house to attend the defendant, whom he found there literally covered with blood and slush. The r?ofctid,nt, he 6ftid, was decidedly drunk, and was quite theatrical in his manner, amid could net be made to sit sell, so that the witness could not examine him, and was not aware that his jaw was broken. fondant e Arl. his own drunk en v i o l ence, b ut h e had co mmitte d a B b n u oz b u y 'r s o o l e a m fi e e a r ns a , r l e o e n e g ive ir d iq t i b ti e ry i , oi s u a r i y d t t b la r e ou r g l eh serious assault upon the constable, for which he must pay W., or be imprisoned for two months. balliashsetigmint in Wapping, The defendant paid the penalty. THAMES. BREAcu OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—On Wednes day. .hilm Andersen, a tall, well dressed Steitchinen, a Veulars. to answer a charge preferred by a little woman named appeared before Mr. BrodPrip Ann Gardner, who carried a child six weeks old in her arms, and swore he was the father of it. Andersen—l deny it all—l don't know her. s p i !k e riz t :t l isz g th a e s n s c e o r polled to enter into par- Tent in the family of Mr. Duncan, a Scotch provision merchant, in Wapping. when the defendant wooed her and promised her marriage. She yielded te his wishes, and the truits of the intercourse was the child, to which she gave birth six weeks ago. Mr. 131tonente asked if there was any corrob irative evidence, and th e girl said her late master had been in attendance several hours for the purpose of giving evi dence o f t h e defendant's courtship and promises, but had been compelled tei leave upon business. Mr. B eoneete said he either dismiss the case, Or Postpone it fur another week, for the attendance to Mr. finc4n Iltcpeetor llambro-.k, of the Thames Police, said he could ;site corroborative evidence. About four months ii l go he saw the partie s d r i n ki ng together in a publi c • " se in Wa rinnte. The n told the deeant s a e 'a r swprtznant, an d he said wom lie a would allow er One d shillin he g P l'he 1 ' and pay a ll the expenses of her confinement. etendant also said he would and white, and • - t for a sheet of paper to draw up an agreemen see t. The def - enfant here gravelysaid, he deny • must it all. The complainant mentioned h she was in the habit or meetingt bed t , fe e n v d a a r t i l t o . o various ces althouY a l s t . pretending to be a reliehin • rasa i constant practice oftekine n • timi it her to a broehel Rateliff-highwey. A, a fere- time berere she &scoter, d the rea c ' , tract. r of the houee. AfmQr he had seduced her he MUM. d mealier woman. .The defendant —I must deny it all.—(Laughter.) Mr. Pelham, jun., said he could throw some light on " London, 14th, 1845.—1 promise to M , .rrie Ann Gardner, as s , on as passable for wee to do, which I have not mentioned the time at present, but as soon as I can. Witness my hand—J. Anderson." " London, 16th, 1845.—This is to certify, that I, John Anderson, am to mary the Ann vvithin two years, or sooner if posable, perhapps in six months, or perhapps when I return. Vt uness my hand the slate, nth day of July, 1845 lam yours truly and affeetioned lover, John Anderson thy Jo."—(Loud laughter.) "I, John Anderson, promise to married you, Ann Gardner, as is posable for me to do." Mr. BRODERIP a,ked the defendant if he denied tle letters ? Thy defendant—Yes, they are not mine. Mr. BRODERIP —You deny everything, what will you deny next? I order you to pay 2s. Gd for the support of thv caiid. and the expenses. Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, n ill take charge of the letters. CHARGE OF FORGING A WILL. • WORCESTER, APRIL 14.-A very unusual charge was brought for bearing to-day before the Mayor and Ma gistrates of this city. The accused parties are Richard and Hannah Farley, husband and wife, in business at Gloucester, who were charged with uttering a forged will, with intent to defraud the heir-at-law of a certain estate in the parish of Aston Ingham, in the county of Hereford, of the property. The case excited a good deal of interest. Mr. Daniell, solicitor of this city, ap peared as attorney for the prosecution ; and Mr. Lewis, of London, for the accused. The facts may be thus briefly stated:— In the year 1841, William Welsh, died in the county of Monmouth, being then possessed of the Aston Ingham estate, and it is alleged by his eldest son William, that lie died intestate. William Welsh, the son, accordingly entered into possession of the farm and received tt e rents, but the accused, Richard Farley, set up an ad verse claim to the property in behalf of his wife, who was a daughter of the &ceased, and alleged that a will had been made in her favour. The heir-at-law denied the existeuce of such a will, and made repeated attempts. to get a sight of it. hut without success. At length ihe accused, insisting on the validity of their claim, effected a sale of the property to a client of Mr. Lea is, who thereupon set about investigating the title, and yesterday was fixed for a Meeting at Worcester. for the purpose of produeing the will for the inspe:•tien of the heir-at-law and his attorney. Accordingly the document was then aroduced. It purport( d to bear date in September, 1830, and to devise the estate in question to Mrs. Farley. There were three attesting witnesses, of whom only one is now living. The first witness examined was William Welsh. the eldest son of the testator, who deposed to his father's death some five years ago, at which time he was pos sessed of the Aston Ingham farrn... Soon after his father's death he entered into possession of the farm, and the tenants ateorned to him ; but the accused, Richard Farley, distrained up , n some of the tenants (there were three) for rent. on the ground that the old man had made a will leaving it to his daughter Hannah, whom Farley had married. Th-- original will set up by the Farley's was then produced in Court., it having been taken possession of by the police superintendent who rook the accused into custody, and the witness swore • positively that neither the body nor the signature to the will were in his father's handwriting. The will on in s p ec ti on prove d , as b fore stated, to bear date in September, 1830, and the' water-mark on the paper on which it was written was of the same year (1830). Mr, Daniell said, he had been instructed that the date of the will was anterior to the date on the paper made by the paper-maker. It appeared ovi Welsh's cross examination that prior to the death of his father the Parleys had been in pus session of the property in question for some fifteen years. The next witness was James Welsh, a brother of the heir-at-law, and of Mrs. Farley, who bring examined as to the signature to the will produced, said he did net believe it to be in his father's handwriting. He also spoke to a determination which he said his father had repeat edly expressed not to make a will, but to let the pro perty descend to the heir-at-law. Cross-examined—He (witness) could neither read nor write. He remembered attending at the office of Mr. Jackson, solicitor, of Ross, some time ago, w;th Mr. and Mrs. Farley, but he had not then seen the will, nor given any opinion as to the signatures. These were the.only witnesses who were examined for the prosecution, tut Mr. Daniell intimated that he had. others which he should produce if allowed time to an so. Mr. Lewis then addressed th e Ben c h, arid alleged that the will was a butill.fide doeauent, and had been duly executed by the testator, William Welsh. lle then pro ceeded to call witnesses to prove his statement. Ann Jones was first put in the witness-box. She stated herself to be the wife of Benjamin Jones, of Newent, in. the county of Gloucest er , an d deposed' to the execution of the will by the testator. The testator then lived at Newent, and asked witnuss to " see him sign something." Accordingly, she went with him to Mrs. Parley's, where she found Benjamin Grubb and Charlotte Farley. After the old man had signed the piper, it was witnessed by herself, Grubb, and Charlotte Farley, all of whom signed their names as witnesses. The witness did not at that time know what was the nature of the document which she signs-d. It was written out by a carpenter named Nurden, who, betbre it was signed, read it iover to th, deceased. It was about six teen years ago - when this was dune Cross-examined by Mr. ainiell—She had never seen the paper or will again until yesterday. She had been examined at Cheltenham relative to this will by Mr. Augustus Newt.4i, barriver ; and also by Mr. Wyse, attorney ; but the will was not produced then. Hannah Yend, sister . to the deceased, was also exa mined as to the handwriting to the will, and she believed the signature was in her brother's handwriting. On hcr cross-examination she admitted that she bad not seen her brother for ten years before his death, nor had she been in, the habit of receiving letters from him. The possession of the will having been by the neces sary evidence traced from the accused by the wife of th., plideinspeetmr, to whom it was given up by Mrs. Far when she and her husband were taken inta custody, the case was remanded fur a week, and the will tin pounded in the meantime. The prisoner's' attorney -intimated his intention of takinit immediate proceertings in Chancery for proving the validity of the will. The prisoners were liberated on their personal undertaking to appear when called upon. THE RECENT HORRIBLE DUEL IN AMERICA. (From the New York Commercial Adveltiser.) The horrible affair at Richmond, of whicn we spoke on Friday and Saturday, has terminated fatally to one of the parties. Mr. Pleasants died of his wounds on Frit:av morning. The Washington correspondent of the Balti more Patriot gives the following account of the combat : The quarrel had gone on in their newspapers to such an extent that Mr. Pleasants thought himself cared upon to bring the matter to a crisis. He therefore sent a request t!, tlr. Ritchie to meet .him at a specified place and hour across the river from Richmond, with side arms, Mr. Ravine sent word back that he could not con sent to settle the affair in that way. Mr. Pleasants then sett him word that the matter' must oe settled, and in that way. r. Ritchie then prepared himself with a revolver of six bArrels, two duelling pistols, and a horseman's short sword, and repaired to the place designated at the time ram. d. Mr. Pleasants arrivA, with two (or four, there is a doubt about this) common pist,lB and a sword cane. A 't-iend of Mr. Heasants' approached Mr.-Ritchie, and said - to him that he thought the difficulty might be settled if the latter would do one thing7—neknowledge that he beLesei Mr. Pleasants. to be a brave man. Mr. Ritchie repliA that, once he could have done this. but. now, Mr. Pleasants having called him there, he could not make such an acknowledgment. Soon after this Mr. Pleasants approached Mr. Ritchie, considerably in advance of the two friends who t,ad ac companied him to the spot. As he approached at rapid pace Mr. Ritchie fired s Jeceis . vely his two duelling pistols, resting each on his left at m, drawn up in an an..le for that purpose. He then presented his revolver and fired either four or five of its barrels. After he had fired first !Ton Mr. Pleasants the latter drew and fired thrL:e without effect, all the time - rushing up to Air. Ritchie, and when near enough he struck him with his sword cane, aheu the scabbard flew off, and Mr. Ritchie struck up the blade or spear with his short sword, in doing which he received ttse point in the cor ner of his mouth, cutting upward a slight gash. Mr. Pleasants then lel hosing received the wounds —one ball raked across the back of his left hand, carry ing away all the muscles and tendons Lading to the fingers—another passed through the fleshy part of his left arm, half way up from the dhow to the >boulder. Another entered the left breast, and ranged round under the arm. A fourth entercd the left groin, and proved mortal. The fifth wound was In the right high—either by a ball or thrust from the short. sword. So has ended the earthly career of the gifted, the high-minded, the generous, whole soul d John Hampden Pleasants l His loss to the community in which he moved, to the editorial fraternity of which he was ever a sparkling, brilliant member, and to the thousands of ev , rolefighted and instructed readers, will be most deeply felt, as his sanguinary exit will he sadly mourned, For many years he has been one of tile most vigorous, Original, and brilliant political writers in the country. He was a man strong impuls- s, and, in the excite ment of the moment, sometimes committed editorial errors, or did - hint opponents injustice ; but that man lived not who would more readily or amply atone for indiscretions or injuries of this nature. RENEWING THE SUGAR CANE FROM THE SEED.—The Royal Agricultural Society of Jamaica have been making inquiries on this important sulject ; Dr. Shier, the agricul tural chemist of British Guiana, having pressed it on their attention. They sent to Mr. Trail', the superintendent of the garden of Ibralmn Pasha, at Cairo ; but he reported that the cane is propagated in Egypt by cuttings alone, and is scarcely ever swn to produce flowers. Mr. Lambert, the secretary of the Ceylon Agricultural Society, stated that•he had-been unable to obtain cane seeds d :ring an employment in cane cultivation in Spain for fillet n years, and in Ceylon for four years. During his residence in Spain, he had only seen three canes in flower. He had heard that cane seeds did germinate in 25 degrees north latitude in India, but had been unable to ascertain the fact. It was stated that we must look for seeds of the plant front spontaneous vegetation in India or Chin t. There i. 4 rett=on to believe that in many parts , f India the flowering of the cane is deemed untOrtu nste, and prevented as much us wt., The Jamaica So ciety de,irt to have an agricultural c'tpthi:d f 4. the colony. They are about to send a Mr. Ci.urclid to study under Pro fessor Johnston, in Scotland. for six months, and probably then to study under Dr. Shier, in Guiana, for a further period. - this case. His father bad been concerned for the young woman, a ho charged Ander.on with aAsaulting her, and subsequently she was accus, , d by him with annoying hi m in the street. and going to his place of business. Mr. Pelham. jun., then produced three letters in the de fendant's hand wri:int!, which he had written at various times and given to the female he had seduced. They were to the f.liowing effect The salamander is a lizard without scales, the skin o', which, speckled with yellow, exhales a fluid which soul( persons have regarded as poisonous. This tact need, confirmation ; yet it does not seem destitute of foun dation. The toad, that degenerated species of frog, which is found in ruins and miry places, exudes from its whole holy, in the same manner as the salamander, a viscous fluid ; but this is not its true poison. All country peo p e are well aware that when pursued the toad ejaculate, an acid and corrosive liquid as if to obstruct its persecu tors. The Rtisonous quality of this liquid has been efen questioned by writ.-rs who have never observed its eff .cts ; but there are so many evidences as to the truth of this assertion that it would be presumptuous not to admit it as a demon-!rated fact. Matthiolus attributes to the poison of toads the sudden death of persons whe have eaten of strawberries, - mushroom s , or other legumes which the toad has besmeared with its venom. .A.nabrost Pare cites, among other facts, a case of poisoning proved beltre the legal tribunals, and which had been produced by pieces of sage over which a toad must have passed. According to Christopher Franc Paulini, a man, while throwing stones at a large toad, took hold of one which the reptile had polluted with its venom. His hand swelled up from the violence of the pain ; it became covered with phlyetwnm and visicles tilled with an ichorous sani , s the inflammation extended up the arm, and gave him the most acute torture for 14 days. At the end of the rhr, , e years, and 'on the exact anniversa y of the day on which he pursued the toad, the dis<as, returnee With all its original symptoms, and the ti an was cured on'y after considerable difficulty. Lo 4l vvi nh iek speaks of an am teur angler, who, being in the habi of haitieg his hook e ith frogs and toad . one day rec-ivel the flu d ejaculated by one of these batracii t p .0 the surface of Ills eye, and in consecrienee was attaekt d with acute ophthalmia. He speaks also of a dog which could tot catch a toad without a f terwards falling hi l eh m y i s i e l l a f ve ha p v u e rs o u f ewd n ; into par oxysms ejaculated n i ;l y n] to ad ,,d n ; ss w . seen the s a t r fl e a u Ci d ] was thrown out to a distance of 80 centimetres, it was of a greenish colour and reqlseous odour; but I had nothing at hand to experiment upon these animals. And ever i_h a d w e not so many evidences in mu:port of it, rature,. analogy alone would point .out to us that this liquid, ejaculated as a means of defence, trust be of a natare similar to that which the riper introduces for the same object into the flesh of its aggressor. We must then admit that this venom has a great share in the production of those cases or poisoning a hich seem to depend on some doubtful cause, and which arise after having eaten without precaution fruits or creeping vege tables, ind even mushrooms, which, from their g 4 nerd characters. would be classed am , tng the most inoffeasive species. How many accidents which could not be traced to any certain cause might perhaps be ref.-rred to,ke this kind of infecti o n! H ow many p e o p ' ev who have gave w ta ' aei up and stupfied from the sleep theythat on the grass, hav e probably hen indebted for their ill ness to this species of accident! THE PROTECTION PEERS.—We are informed, on au• thority which cannot be doubted, that "the die is cast." The monopolist peers have had their meetings, One after another, and the issue is, that the march of free trade is to b. resisted to the uttermost. Lord Stanley, never deficient in animal courage, and always forward when mischief is to be done, has undertaken so to mutilate and mangle the Minis terial measure in committee that it will be quite impossible for the free trade party in the House of Commons to accept it when it is returned to them. Our regret, we confess, is greater than our surprise at this information. Their Lord ships have always been tardy learners in the school of wis dom, and. therefore, we may not wonder at their preserving this characteristic of their order in the present instance. And what sve they to gala by playing this dangerous game with an irritated and envy people ? Or, rather, hat may they not lose by their appalling folly ? But, while such is the present. intention of the Lords, Sir R. Peel, we are as sured, is resolute and determined on the subject. He has made up his mind that he will take no measure but his own. It is aut exsar aut nail with him. He will have all or none. The monopolists must be prepared to form an Administration or face a dissolution of Parliament in the very hour when they give a mortal stab to his proposition. So stands the • case at present. We speak on the authority of one engaged I in playing the game himself..-•-. Liverpool Albion. TIIE PIN l'itatiE.—There- i, much talk amongst scientific person-, and those to whom t he welfare of our home in apufactures is of interest, respecting the improvements recently made in pin making—invrovements which have already caused preparations for closii g many large works .upon the continent. The machinery by.which the new pin, to which Mr. Kirby, of Newgate-street, the holder of the patent, has given the name of the Regina, is mad; i s o f t h e most extraordinary character. Strings of wire enter it upon the one side by thousamls, and almost immediately appear at the other as pins of the most perfect form, literally beaded and pointed to a degree of perfection defying microscopi c power to detect a fault in shape or finish. The sticking of the pins into paper is likewise completed by the same ,iniehinerv, in tis incredible a regular and rapid order, and it is a gratifying fact, that although the latter operation is a t ptished by this invention, great deniami caused by t coin the e•Jormouti reduction in the price of tne itece,a,rity cars together three times the iluinber of female assistants fur their preparation and "snaking up," &c., at more remtmtrative wages than by the old syatein. • SERPENTS. (From a New York ; aper.) We consoler tie following views by M. Rasptiil to pos sess much scientific as well as popular interest. Ser pents are divided into two grand classes, of which the one Mite without poisoning the wound, while the others have a venomous bite. The adder, the boa, Rec., belong to the first list ; the viper, the rattlesnake, Sec., are in the second ; and these species, fearful from the accidents consecutive to their bite, owe this property to two teeth of the upper jaw, which are moveable, of a creoki d figure. and p-rferated by a canal, which communieates with a glandular reservoir, in which the poison is elabo rated. When the animal c'ssi4es its jaws, these two teeth lie flat against the palate ; when, en the contrary, the animal opens its mouth, these teeth standing upright again, and the platy of the *males, by compressing the secreting organ of the poison, causes the liquid to pass into the dental canal, which thus deposits it i n th e wound. In the adder, and other non-venomous serpents, this apparatus is replaced by a second row of common teeth. Still, as there is nothing abrupt in nature, it is very possible that we may meet with intermediate states between these tele forms. and which thus tend only to confuse and embarrass cles.ifications. W e have no direct experience to show that those various influences which preside over the specific transformatscei or cross ing of the animal races may not clothe the one of these species with the character of the other, or, at least, pro duce a modification in the forms of both. Venemous serpents acquire a greater virulence ac cording to the elevation of the temperature. The viper of our climate is much more dangerous in the height of summer than at the commeecement of spring, in gravelly and arid plains than in shady positions ; the rattlesnake of the Indies is mere yeeenions than the viper of the north of Europe. The irritation of the animal mar render the wound more dangerous by infiltrating th'e poison more deeply into our tissues ; it is under such circumstances that the viper, biting twice, and thus leav ing four traces of its gripe, has led some ancient authors to believe that the females have four venemous teeth and the males only two e the female serpents, in fact, at the period of leaving their eggs, -or of incubation, are more irritable than the males. The ancients were perfectly aw ,re that the peison of the viper, so subtle when introduced by puncture, is in offensive in the stomach ; they wee-, in the habit of in troducing the viper, frequently the head as well as the tail, as an ingredient in their elect caries. But it is espe cially by the experiments of Redi Feintana and Charms that this previously popular belief has been rightly de monstrated. There are many other substances which we digest with impunity, but which become so many causes of poisoning if infiltrated into the blood by means et' a puneturil: is not pus, even %hen of good character, to be reek n d among this class ? In the various svesptoms of this kind of poisoning, as well as in the means which serve as its antidotes, every thing seems to indicate that the poison of s the viper acts by an acid p'operry, and by ceagulating, atter the manner of acids, the albumen of the blood ; for since the time of Fontana it is generally admitted that the best of antidotes is ammonia, applied externally as well as taken internally. The whole becomes swollen, red, and ecchymosed. Sometimes it is surrounded with anall vesicles of watery bladders ; every part brcome s congested—the head, the longs, the abdomen, the limbs, the face ; vertigo and stupor take place, to he shortly f llowed by delirium and camas The pulse falls ; the circulation, at first ir regular, grows weaker oil weaker, eir at every point it meets with an interruption from the coagulation of the blood. I. is a frigid poison ; the paralysed stomach rejects the nutriment. which acts upon it as a dead weight. The patient commences to vomit, but falls off into a state of (Laing :his agony i s a morta l s l ee p. The actual or potential cautery made upon the place immediately after the accident prevents all those disorders. Ammonia taken internally and Ammoniated frictions dissipate them at a more advanced period. Abandoned to its, If the disease is cured spontaneously only in those cases where the dose of the poison has been infinitely Serpents are fond of milk ; they are also greef:y of wine, which intoxicates them ; they have occasionally been seen to milk the cow, and they have been found drowned at the bottom of vat'. From persevering inquiries, I have become convinced that the power of fascination, which has been attributed to serpents, vipers as well as adders, is not a fable or vulgar fiction. It has frequently occurred to persons travelling through forests tit witness the poor little birds, While uttering a plaintive cry, descend &in branch tr branch, attracted as it were by some occult power, and yield themselves up within the jaws of a serpent lying hidden among the boughs of the tree—obedient victims to the glance of their ixecutioner. The thread of this charm is broken by simply whisking a switch through the air ; no doubt, from the fact, that the whistling of the air frightens the serpent, and thus parish ses its mag netic effluvium, What is the mechanism of this incre dible fascination, which so perfectly re-cats to one's mind the fables of the Sirens? There is undoubtedly here a physical cause, an emanation which envelopes the bird in an atmosphere iif asphyxiating gas, in the same way as the spider envelopes the fly in its gauze likanet.• To explain the phenomenon in a perfect menner, let us suppese that the serpent has the power of emitting (one on each side ,it its mouth) two streams of a poisonous [rid stu pifying gas, which proceed to unite above the head ce the bird. If the bird attempt to fly the danger, it can only do so by descesiding, for it is there only it will find a free space ; in proportion as it descends, the two jets will continue to mote and to follow it; and it is thus that to escape asphyxia the poet. bird drops within tie jaws of .the serpe e t ; it falls into S e) Il a i n avoiding Cho, rybdis. The power of fascination being common u vipers as well as adders, it is evident that these latter have the faculty of regaining, in certain cases, the cha. 'teeter which alone makes the difference of the two spe cies. The venom of the serpent partakes of the nature of all organic poisons; it does not lose its venetneus qua lities by drying; and the prick from the tooth of a dead viper or rattlesnake is as much f-ared by those who are in the habit eif meking preparations of these reptiles as that of the living animal. RAILWAILSR - ARE MARKETS. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.) 1 .4.11. Ta. SMITHFIELD.— w ll Meado H 44 0t ay, 3/ 5s 4/ 8s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 8s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 11 14s; Wheat Straw, 1/' 14s to 11 16s per load. A fair average supply, and a s!uggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 31 55 to 41 10s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 5/ 15 3; O at S traw, 1/ 12s to 1114 s; Wheat Straw, 1 / 1 5s to 1117 s per load. Trade dull, at tire above quotations. W HITEORAPEL—Meadow Hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 8s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 6/; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Strati, 11 14s to 11 I6s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. MEAT MARKETS. llAnstrnat, APRIL 15.—We had a fair demana here this morning. at but little variation in prices. Beef, from 3 s, to 4s 4d; Mutton, 8s 10d to 58; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s U. 4s 8d per Blbs. ARUNDEL, APRIL 14.—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3a 8d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 101; and Pork, 4s to 43 6d per Sibs. Supply moderate and trade firm. crucnEsTgft, APRIL 15.—Prime stock moved off freely at full prices. In other qualities very little was doing. Beef , from 3s to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d; Veal, 48 to 4s 104; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 295; Quarter- o ld S tore Pi gs, 17s to 20s ; and Mach Colts, with their swag Calf, 16/ to 18/ eac h. 18s SOUTHALL, APRIL 15.--,Although the supply o f s tock here to-day was by no means extensive, the general de mind need heavy at late rates. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d; Mutton, Zis 8d to 5s ; Lamb, 6s to 6s 104 ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; ; and P or k, 4 s to 4s 8d per Blbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, APRIL 15.—Prirne Sheep, Calves, and Pigs sold steadily; other kinds of stock slowly, st our quotations. Beef. from 2s 84 to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s ; Lamb, 6s to 7s • Veal, 4s 4(1. to 5s 2d. : an d P or k , 4 3 to 4 s 8/ i pe r Blbs. euckling Calves. 18s to 30s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to each 20s; and Mul c h C ows, with their small calf, 1610. 8/ . STEVITGATE AVM X.EII.IIMNIZATM. Each kind of prime meat was in fair request, at full price° , otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state.—Beef, from 2a 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Lamb, 5s 6d to 6A 8d; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 5e Pe r 81bs, by the carcass. - - - - C ORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN 'or the Week ended April 11, 1R46, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale , per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. i BARLEY.' OATS. i RYE. 1 BEANS. I PEAS. I PRICE .. 563 Od 30s 9d 22s 9d 33s 4d 35s Id 33s Sd DUTY... els Od ils Od 6s Cd 9 s - 6d $s 64 9s Gd GRESHAM COLLEGE.— Wed m a•lay being the first day of E otter term. Profe..nr Pullen delivered the first of his' eknwioary ourse of lectures on astronomy to an audience (emposed•f upwards of two hundred persons. %ACTS r •it bt.kDIUDA..— 1 ter 6;oi la, hired convict ship, was brought down the river on Wednesday from Dept ,where she took in stores to mt , orings opposite the Royal . Arsenal preparatory to taking on board convicts intended for Bermuda. An important piec e of news was in circulation a Constantinople when the packet left. It was said that the independent tribe of th e Ab azes, w h o occupy a vast district , on the Black Sea, had agreed tu. make common cause with the Circivsians against the Russians. Soliman, Lieutenant of Scham3l, had gone amongst the Abaze, and read a pro" clamation from that chief, which announced that he had nb" gained two victories over the Russians.--Calignani. [ DVVRTISEMENT J —CASE OF A BAD I.Ea OF TEEM YEAlie STANDI, ' carp BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS. - Copy of a lett r from Mr. Frederick. chemist. 32, Siclewell e .—sir,--I have the plea ; re to increasing. 3ou “ t T h o at P t href""n- l d'em(ani() w' dltio°ry, y ur pills and o i ntmen t rapidly veral remarkable and wonderful eio,es of cure t u r nxneltr7 the , r means have lately come to my notice. O ne in particular, an cici dh gentleman o hmairedAf this city who had a n u l cerated leg for sixteen year'. anad spent f pounds Without obtaining relief but was afterwards perfectly cured by the use of Holloway Oint'ment and by all dealers in medicine, and at Professor Hol °war° Establisnm: lit, 244, ht, sad, London. BIRTILY On the Bth inst., at Tavistock, Devon, the lady of Richard Robins, Esq., of a son. On the llth inst., at Halberton, Devon, the wife of the Bel George Newcombe, of a son. On the 11th inst., the lady of Joseph D'A. Samuda, BK. of a sen, who survival his birth only six hours. On the 11th iust., in Cornwall terrace, Regent's-park. th • wife of the Rev. J. C. Evans, of Stake Poges, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Norwood, Surrey, Mrs. Martin 0 . Baylis. of a son. Oa the 12th last., at College-street, Islington, Mrs. st Balfou^, of a son. On the 12th inst., at Tunbridge, Kent, the wife of Peter W. Barlow, Es q ., C. E , F.R.S., of a son. On the 12th inst., at Knole House, Frant, Sussex, the lady of S. Newington, Esq., 31. D., of a son. On the 13th inst., Mrs. Francis Ward, of Grosvenor-street West, of a daughter, still-born. On the 14th inst., at Trinity-square, Tower-hill, Mrs. Vi r • Charles Smith, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Upper Clapton, the wife of Mr. Jeb n Robinson Gibson, of Copth ail-court, of a daughter. Oa the 14th inst., at Clapton, the wife of Mr. E. RYiel' of a sc,n. MARRIED. On the I fth i ns t., at Trinity Church, Tunbridge-wells, B.• Apiley Ranger, Esq., of W, sbourne-villas, Harrow-road, W Eliza, only daughter of the late H. Chase, Esq., of Fulham - DIED. On the 3d inst. at Naples, Willi am C racm f t, E sq., l a te of the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Civil Service. On the 9th inst., at Brighton, Emily Margaret, daughter of James Hibbert Wanklyn, Esq., of Crumpsall House, ° ear Manchester. On the 11th inst., at Meadfoot House, Torquay, Demon , Barron Field, Esq., late Chief ju,tice of Gibraltar. On the 11th inst., in Queen-squa re , L ancaster , J o h n Stout, Esq., Magistrate of county of Lancaster, aged 83. On the 12th inst., Mr. James 'Maud, of Warkworth-terrac e . Commercial-road. On the 13th inst., at Lefton, Mrs.-James Roberts. In Guildford-street, Russell-square, the wife of James Dag Go-don, aged 22. .ondun l'rinteu avid Published by A tatno youNa, of No. 1 12 ' 6trand, Printer, at The Sun &Mice, Ne. 112, st ran d, i n the Precinct or the Sivroy, in the Cou*Sy of Middlesex, Friday. "O r ' 17, 1345. MANCHESTER, Aram 15. - STOCK EICAANGE.---The sales are-Derby and Crewe, 1 3-16 P. -Eastern Counties, York . Extension, j p.- Glasgow and Dumfries, 1 die. -Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 1 dia.- uddersticlil and Sheffield Junction, 3 p.- Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 2 p.-Liverpool and 'Bury, 6% p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, % c. p.-Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Stock port, % dis.- London and Manchester (Rem.), 358. dis. London and York, i 3-16 dis.-Manchester, Buxton, 3latiock, and Midland, par -Manchester and Birmingham, 75%- Ditto, Quarters (A), 7% IL -- Ditto, Quarters (B), 7 7-16 p. Ditto, ditto (C), 6% p.-Northumbef• land and Lancashire, 1 dls.-North Staffordshire, 1 15-16-Oldham, Iffrkenhead, &c., 1 die.- Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 2% p.- Ditto. ditto (It), 7s. 6d. p.--- Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters (No. 1), 4 p..-Ditto, ditto (No. 3), % die. -South Eastern and Dover, Halves, N 0.4, 10s. dis.-West Riding Union, 1 3-16.-Whitehaven and Furness, 6 die. - • HULL. APRIL 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.— Last .evening a meeting of shareholders in the East Coast Railway took place in the room of the Stock Exchange. The local solicitor of the line was in attendai.ce, and readily fur nished all information in his power. He stated that glom the esti mated traffic returns, the line. when completed, would pay ten per cent. ; that every one of the provisional committee had taken 100 shares each, and, with the exception of one gentleman who had sold fifty, they all held the shares,taken by them. The line, as originally brought betore the public, was intended to commence at the terminus of the Lynn and Derehain at Lynn, and form a complete coast line to Grimsby ; but the scheme of the East Lincolnshire meeting with greater support from the landed interest, and taking the same route, the committee abandoned that part of the line from Boston to Grimsby, retaining the remainder from 1.3 nn to Boston, being, with branches, about forty-five miles. It appeared, however, that not withstanding this abandonment enatil.-d the promoters to reduce the amount of shares from 22,000 to 10,000 of 501. each, there were not more than 8,000 to 9,000 taken up. The project appeared not divested of merit, as shortening, in connexion with other projected lines, the diAance front the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and to Lon don. It was stated by the solicitor, that should they succeed in the Comm MIS, a further call of 5 per cent. would be necessary to enable the Bill to go through the House of Lords. This appeared to tonally decide the meeting as to the course to be adoped ; and a petition to the House of Commons, praying the dissolution of the East Coast Railway Company, was unanimously agreed to. It was understood that the promoters would willingly accede to the wishes of the ma jority of shareholders. There has not been so much business passing to-day. The sales are—North British, Carlisle, 338. 6d. - Derby and Gainsborough 13s. 9d.— East Coast, 20s —Great North and South Wales and Worcester, 9s. 9d.—hull and Barnsley Junction, 23a. 6d. —Liverpool and I.,eds, 21. gs. 9d.-1 ondon and York, 265. 6d.— North Staffordshire, 41. M. — Northumberland and Lancashire Junc tion, 21s.—Shetileld Potteries and Crewe, 13s.—West Riding 3% l•orkshire'and Glasgow Union. 20s. 6d. LEEDS, APRIL 15. Sirocz Excnixot.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 13 p.— Itsubsiter and Birmingham, New Quarters (B), p.-Ditto, W,.° (c), t, 1 , 4 1,.--21eweastle and Darlington, Extensions, ni p.— Last Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington), 5s p.-.treat Grimsby and Sheffield, 5 dis.-Huddersfield and Manchester, 2es. dis. c.-Leeds and Bradt Td, 26 p. -- Leeds and Dewshury, Ire P. c.-North Bri tish, New Carlisle Branch, 10s. p.-London and - York, 275. 6d. dis. -Direct Northern, 245. dis. -West Riding Union, 31. ILL-Amber gate, Nottingham, and Boston, 275. 6d. dis.-Bradford, Wakefield. and Midland, uos. dis.-Chet, sford and Bury, 17s. 6d. dis.-Brand Union. 17s. d.s. -Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 12s. 6d. dis.-Man chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, par-Midland and Thirst Junction, as. 6d. dis - Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 215.-Ncrth Staffordshire, 2', P.-North Western, 3s. 6d.-Welsh Midlands, 255. dis.-York SHEFFIELD, APRIL s SToCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are- London and Croydon, 21N- Midland, Birmingham and Derby, 3 04-Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 14s. 6 d. - fluddersfleld and Sheffield, WA-East Lincolnshire, Iss. 6 d. - Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3U- shef- Sell and Lincoln Extension, 134 - Shefil Id, Buxton, Leek, PotterieS. and Crewe, 13s. NEWCSTLE-UPON-TYNE, APRIL 16. STOCK I:inns-ism-AThe sales are -Caledonian Extension, 1% dis. -North Staffordshire, 2 p. - Northumberland and Lancashire, 1% dis.-West Riding Unkm, 275. p. YORK, Aram 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are -Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), 134-Ditto, ditto (Cambridge and Eiy), 1%-Leicester and Redford, 65.-London and York, I % -- Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midland, 21. 3 5.-Newcastle and Berwick, 18-Newcastle and Darlington, Extensions, 8-North British, Carlisle Extension, 11. 145.-Welsh Midi .n.l, 11. 45.-York and North Midland, Exton. sion, 32-Ditto, New (East am/ west Riding), 8%. EDINBURGH, APRIL 13. STOCK EXCHANGE . .- The sales are - Aberdeen, 21.--Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, IL hs. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 21.-Arbroath and Forfar, 271.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. 10s.-Ayr and Galloway, 1/. IN.-Banffshire, 16s. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 2/. ls.- caledonlan, 61. 2s. 6d -Ditto, New, 1/. 10 s. -Caledonian Extension, 11. 155.-Caledoniati and Dumbarton, 11. 10s.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 11. 15s. - Clydesdale Junction, 12/.- Direct Northern, 11. 1 ls.-Dundee and Arbroath, 391.-Ditto, New, ?U.-Dundee and Perth, 14'. 108.-East of Fife, IL 10s. - - East Lothian Central, 11. 75. -Edinburgh and Bathgste, 21.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 721.- Ditto, Half Shares,l3/. - Ditto, Quarters, 171. IN.-Ditto, ditto, New, 151.-Editibtuvh, Glasgow, ana Dumbarton 18s. - Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 1/. ls.-Edlithurgh. Leib, and Granton, 161.- Dine, Preference, 19'.-Edinburgh MIK Northern, IL 14s 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 95.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 125.-Edinburgh and Peebles, It. 55.-Edinburgh and Perth, 21. ha-Forth and Clyde Junction, 11. 14s. 6d.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 70/. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 24/.- Ditto, Quarter harem, 17/. 10s.- “lasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. 2v. 6d. -41:asgow and Dundee Junction, 11. 14s. 6d.- Glasgow and Garnkirk, 401. 10s.- Glasgew and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, New' Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, IL 155.-Great North of Scotland, 11. 10s. -Granton Junction, IL -Inverness and Elgin, 1/. London and York, 11. 10s.-North British, 241. 55.-Ditto, HalveS, 81.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, I/. 13s. 6d.- Ditto, Extension In Dalkeith, 51. 15s. - Perth and Inverness, 1/. 10s.-Scottish Central, 131.- Ditto, New, 51.- Scottish Central and Caledonian J anction, 11 to -Scottish Midland, Si. Ms.-Scottish Southern, 11. 13s. 6d Stirling and Dunfermline, 11. 75. - - GLASGO W, APRIL 14. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are -Aberdeen, 558 . - Airdrie and Coatbridge, 4% Ayr and Galloway, 325.- Banffshire, 19e.-Bri tish and Iris!, Union. 445.-Caledonian Extension, 31s.- Caledonian and . Ayrshire Junction, 40s. 6d. -Ca!edoiliati and Dumbartonshire Junction, 28s. - Cab donian Direct Northern, 40s.- Cartiwath and West _Linton, 225. 6d.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 325. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 9s. 3d.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 181. 6d. -Edinburgh and Northern, 355.-Editiburgh and Peebles, 275.- - Edinburgh and Hamilton Direct, 305.-Forth and t lyde Junction. 355.-- Glasgow General Terminus, 8 % -Glasgow and Belfast Union, 325. 6d. - Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 325.-Glasgow, Kilmar nock, and Ardrossan, 325. 6d.- Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 33s -- GLA :ow Harlamr Mineral, 26e.-Great North and South Wales, 9s. 6d. -Great Indian Peninsular, 3s.- Kilmarnock an? Ayr Direct, 36s Lanark and Lothians, 425.-Lesmahagow, 435. 6d.-Perth and In verness, 318.-Scottish Central, 13 54 •- Scot tish Southern, 365.- Sla matman and Bo'ness, 38s. -South Midland, 37L-South and Midland Junction, !Ss.-Stirring and Dunfermline, 325. 6d.-Wishaw and Coltness, 47%.