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RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (SATURDAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XVII. MANCHESTER AND SOUTH &MPTON. The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock. Mr. Brunei, the engineer to the Great Western, was then called and examined by Mr. Ammar—He concurred in the evidence given by Mr. Locke, and considered that the line now constructing from Reading by Basingstoke, by the Great Western Railway, would afford much better communi cation with Southampton than the Manchester and South ampton. He was of opinion that there was not sufficient traffic to justify the construction of the proposed line. No doubt, if absolutely necessary, the narrow gauge would also be laid down from Oxford to Basingstoke, Is well as on the Oxford and Rugby, thus completing narrow gauge accom modation from north to south. He agreeewith Mr. Stephen son, that if a railwry communication vas required between the north and Southampton, that it should be made at the least possible expense. By the Ctialeataia—There was nit sufficient traffic between Cheltenham and Southampton tO pay a line of any length between these points. From Cleltenham to Swindon, from Swindon to Marlborough, met from Andover to Southamp ton, as not an available route for a railway. He could not see why another line should be made between Swindon and Cheltenham. It was possible, in the increased demand for railway communication, that a line from Swindon, by Marlborough to Salisbury, might be constructed with ad vantage. By 3fx Aunts —Had heard that the Manchester and Southampton proposed the removal of the station at Swin don. The cost of this would be about 30,000/., but if they removed the engine •houses also the cost would be 100,000/. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM—The dis tance from Southampton to Manchester by the Manchester and Southampton was 112 miles and a quarter, and by the Rugby route 131 and a bale but he considered that the gradients by way of Rugby would compensate for this dif ference of 17 br 18 miles. Knew Mr. Locke surveyed a line from Basingstoke to Didcot, and that the country was rough in that quarter. The object of the Cheltenham and Oxford line - was to shorten the distance between that line and London, but it had gradients of 1 in 63, 1 in 75, 1 in 80, and I in 100, and so on, which were worse than that in one part Of the Manchester and Southampton, between Cheltenham and Swindon. If the line from Cheltenham to Swindon was a continuous one there would be some advantage in favour of it over the Cheltenham and Oxford, as it was 14 miles less, so that a person going from Cheltenham to Swindon would no doubt use that line. There would be delay in getting the carriages on the Great Western line at Swindon. Every train stopped tea minutes at Swindon, in order to enable the passengers to obtain refreshments. AIL the trains were compelled to stop there in accordance with an agreement enforced by law. Was engi neer to the Cornish line rejected last year, which had gradients of lin 40. This year they were lin6o ; but they were not more severe than a portion of the route which the Manchester and Southampton followed, the Licky for instance, on the Bristol and Birmingham. There would be no change of management at Rugby. The CHAIRMAN—Then it comes to this, that if the public require railway accommodation, gradients are not of much consequence. 11r. Brunel was then asked by the CHAIRMAN if he con sidered, that the line being shorter, would divert the traffic from the Great Western ?-11e said be did not think it would, because the-traffic from Cheltenham to London would take the route of the Worcester and Oxford. The CHAIRMAT—Then, will you tell me, if it will not dive et the traffiz of the Great Western, and will be of ad vantage to thrpublic, why they oppose it ? Mr. Brunel gave no direct reply. The CHareetas—Do they oppose it to save the share holders of this line ? Mr Brunel—No. Mr. BEATING said that was a question for the board of management to reply to, and did not come within the pro vince of the engineer. The witness was cross- examined by Mr. KEATING at some length, without eliciting any point of importance. Lieutenant Haswell, examined by Sir T. PHILLIPS—Had been acquainted with the Southern Channel for twenty years. Preferred Plymouth to any of the southern ports, both for passengers and exports, and for those from the southern counties, because it was the western depot for troops, and possessed an excellent breakwater and harbour, which prozected the ships from danger during the prevalence of heavy gales. It was superior to the port of Southampton, the approach of which from the Needles was a source of great anxiety and danger. Cross-examined by Mr. GURNEY—Had heard that the Oriental and Peninsular Steam-packet Company intended, no matter from what point the mails left, to keep their station at Southampton. Convoys, during the time of the war, started from Southampton and Portsmouth, and put into Plymouth on their route. The Channel packets for the last twenty years had left Southampton, and generally at night. Could not say be ever heard of any accident to those boats. Capt. Robert White corroborated the evidence of the last witness. The Committee adjourned at three o'clock. GROUP XXXIII. WARWICKSHIRE! AND LONDON (THREE LINES), AND THE BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION. (E3ontinued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. Cooper, Mr. Smith, Mr. Osbourne, Mr. Wright, Mr. Buckingham, Mr. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Bedford, civil engi neers, were then called, and gave evidence in corroboration of that of Mr. Hughes. Mr. Comenuan then said that he wished to give some further evidence, but. was not prepared to go on with it at present. Mr. AUSTIN wished to know what course the Committee supposed his clients must take with regard to the case now set up? Were they t o h ave th e i r whole line re-surveyed? If so, tlaej must have time. Tb. CHAIRMAN said that the Committee could not clic tat4 to the counsel what course they should take. Mr. COCKBURN—But that must not interfere with the Coming on of our case. Mr. AUSTIN— Certainly not. All the landowners' cases on our side can proceed. It was accordingly agreed that Mr. Alexander should pro ceed with his case on the part of the Birmingham and War wick Canal and Lord Warwick, petitioning against the Bir mingham and Oxford Junction. The only witness called wag Mr. Collins, who put in a plan of the line, representing the land of the assenting par ties in blue, and that of the dissenting parties in black colours. The black certainly predominated. He got his data from the assents and dissents put in by the promoters of the Bill, and from the signatures to the several petitions. He stated the number of miles belonging to assenting, to dissenting, and to petitioning landowners on the line, be tween certain points on the line. It is enough to state, that in one place, 25 miles out of 30 miles, and in another, 18 out of 31, belonged to petitioners. In cross-examination, he ad- milted that many dissentients and some petitioners had ceased to be opponents since the plan was made out, and that mapy others might have done so, although he was not aware of it. He was not aware whether in the Warwickshire and London railway there were 4 miles of assent and 30 miles of dissent. Mr. ALEXANDER then addressed the Committee, on the part of the Canal Company, the Earl of Warwick, and other Landowners. The Learned Counsel laid great stress on the fact that the Birmingham and Oxford line crossed the canal in four or five places ; destroyed the canal company's wharf and two corn-mills in their possession, and passed through their reservoir. Even if the Bill were passed, he hoped clauses would be inserted to protect them, so that the rail way company would not be allowed, while entering into competition with the canal company, to deprive the latter of the power of competing with them, by destroying the reser voir by which the canal was supplied. They must, at least, be bound to leave the same depth and area of the reservoir, and to supply the loss of the wharf. Dir. likt.ton. then proceeded to open the case on the part of the trustees of the Independent Chapel at Birmingham and other petitioners. The Learned Counsel reserved his speech until after his evidence. Mr. Hedge, architect and surveyor, gave evidence as to the manner in which the line would injure the chapel. Ac cording to the plans it was to pass through the chapel, but it had been proposed to pass under it in a tunnel, by a devi ation. If this were done, the roof of the tunnel would be but five feet beneath the floor, and there would, therefore, be a great noise and vibration in the chapel, and when a train passed there would be a great interruption to the devo tions of the congregation. Mr. Hine was then called to prove that he had made ex periments as to the amount of noise and vibration produced by trains passing through tunnels. It was his opinion that the congregation would be very much disturbed. In cross examination he said, that he was an assistant at the Green wich observatory, and had made the experiments with a view to ascertain the effect that would be produced on astro nomical instruments. If the railway was carried beyond the chapel, so that no part was under the building, the noise would be lessened, but the vibration would not. Mr. Smith, the town surveyor of Birmingham, gave simi lar evidence. He had had considerable experience as to the effect.„ of railway tunnels on buildings, and indeed bad once owed a house near which a railway passed within twenty great t t.. e4 nal intervening. The vibration produced was so -so/ eot% placed • way off wse a „,in the middle of a table found its passed. The inconvenience was so great that he wa a =, yeued to leave the house. Mr. Hope, an brother of the ministe r c , t a e t Birmingham, and Mr. James, gave similar evidence. eha➢el and one of the trustees, Mr. COCKB IRN here rose, 9 : 11 , 1 that c a lie o n n ts did not ar ,pe u i su wouldbe consider that the inconvenience to the ~,.41 16r anything like what the trustees of the anticipate, but at the same time they believ e d no 7 d ed itix :. t o e be sincere in that anticipation, and they could floc latter to their right to compensation in case the injury wastv be so great as they expected. He therefore bad ta_pro that a clause should be inserted to the e ffect that if the in ouvenience was found to be so °Teat as was expected by the trustees, that the promoters should build another chapel on auy site that might be chosen by the trustees t hemselves. Mr. MELLON. would be very happy to accept his learned friend's proposition, if he saw any chance of arb itratin g it fairly. He must request time to consider the proposition. The case for the chapel trustees therefore stood over. Mr. MXLLOR then proceeded with the case on the part of Mr. Wyse, a petitioner. Mr. Birdwell, a surveyor, gave evidence as to the nature of the Snyary done to Mr. Wyse's property. A proposition for arrangement was- here made by Mr. COCKBURN, and this case also stood aver, the Committee ex pressing a hope that the matter would be arranged before Monday. Mr. MELLOR then proceeded with the case for Sir E. Smythe, another petitioner against the Bill. Mr. Jenkins gave evidence as to the manner in which the property was affected. Mr. Howton was called to prove the nature of the injury done by the line to the property of Mr. Creswell, a petitioner against the Bill. On the conclusion of this gentleman's evidence a discus %ion arose as to the manner in which the question of the levels should be disposed of, and it was agreed that an engineer should be appointed by each party, and an umpire chosen, t 6 re-survey the line from a point beyond the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Worcester, and that they should rekort to the Committee en Wednesday next. ' ThiCommittee then rose at five o'clock, and adjourned till Tuesday next. EAGLES.—A great number of eagles' nests have ap peared on the estate of Applecross this season, and notwith etending the "unions of the gamekeeper to get the birds deitroyed 7 they,iimn to increase. It is singular that game it ilicreasing very rapidly in the immediate vicinity of these eyries, and it would appear that the eagle will not molest game if it can 6btalit-serrion. Applecross abounds naturally . to a very great degrerwith vermin, and it is nevertheless as well stocked with genii as any estate in the Highlands. A number of corn-fiekttplose to the villages were perfectly destpiyed last barvelf by herds of red deer which invaded thim.-4/stvrness Courier. COURT OF ALDERMEN. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN THE COURT OF ALDERMEN AND THE COMMON COUNCIL IN REFERENCE TO THE LATE ADDRESS TO THE KING OF THE FRENCH. On Saturday a Court of Aldermen took place at Guildhall, when Alderman Copeland brought this sub ject before the Court, in consequence of the strong ex pressions which had been used in the Court of Common Council respecting their separate vote congratulating the King of the French on his escape. He said the Court was perfectly justified in acting independently of the Common Council, who be said had always adopted separate addresses upon occasions of a similar nature. Sir PETER LAURIE differed from Alderman Copeland, and said that it was always understood that the joint addresses of the two bodies should be presented as coming from the Corporation of the City of London. Alderman FAREBROTHER said he agreed with Alder man Copeland, and described the vocabulary of the Common Council as that of the fish market. Alderman MACNAY said he could not conceive how the Court of Aldermen could, after the Court of Com mon Council had agreed to adopt their address, resolve to present a separate one. Alderman HUMPHERY followed on the same side, when, as no motion was made upon the subject, the mat ter dropped. TIIE CONSERVANCY OF THE THAMES. Alderman WlLsex addressed the Court upon the sub ject of the necessity of taking a view of the upper dis trict of the Thames, and argued that at so peculiar a time, when there seemed to be the strongest disposition to interfere with the privileges of the City, it was im perative upon the Chief Magistrate to do all in his power, by observing the ancient forms of the Mayoralty, in asserting his jurisdiction to protect those privileges. He moved that the Lord Mayor be requested to make 1 the view accordingly. Sir PETER LAURIE opposed a motion of so extensive a nature, and submitted an amendment, to the effect that the view should be limited to Staines. After considerable discussion, the amendment was negatived, and Alderman Wilson's motion was agreed to. The view will, it is believed, be taken, with all the necessary forms and the usual splendour, in the course of the ensuing month. MARYLEB3NI VESTRY. STREET ADVERTISING VANS.—COMMUNICATION FROM SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—On Saturday, at the ordinary weekly meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, Mr. H. C. Wilson in the chair, Mr. FLOOD, the Vestry Clerk, stated, that in ac cordance with the resolution of the vestry, the com mittee appointed to draw up a statement to Sir James Graham, with respect to perambulating advertising vans, had met, and forwarded such statement to the Home Secretary ; and he had also to announce that he had received from Earl Manvers, as chairman of the committee to whom it was ad dressed, the following communication from Sir James Graham on the subject : "My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the statement signed by your Lordship, on be half of a committee of the vestry of the parish of St. Marylebone, relative to the nuisance arising from ad vertising vans which are driven through the streets, and I beg to inform your Lordship that I have the subject under my consideration, with a view to provide a remedy.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's obedient-servant, " J. R. G. GRAHAM. " The Earl Manvers, Portman-square." Sir PETER LAURIE moved that the reply of the Secre tary of State be entered on the minutes. He thought, since the van nuisance had been brought before the public, it had increased rather than diminished. It was only the previous day . (Friday) that he encountered no less a number than eighteen of these monster machines between Westminster-bridge and his residence in the Regent's Park. He had no doubt but the Home Secre tary was quite alive to the luisance, and that in a short time the public would have to congratulate themselves Upon its abolition. As a proof of the danger from these Machines, he had received a letter from Mr. Whitehair, the governor of Giltspur-street Compter, in which he stated that some time ago he was riding through Cheap side, on a horse well accustomed to the streets of the City, when he met one of the advertising vans ; his horse became alarmed at it, plunged on the foot pave 'bent, and fell. The horse was blemished, and he was himself much bruised, and the bone of his arm was in .tired. lie had been desirous of punishing the pro prietor of the nuisance, but he was informed that he had no remedy. This case was sufficient to prove the neces sity of some protection being afforded to the public. The resolution was seconded, and carried unani mously. DEPUTATION TO SIR ROBERT PEEL. Just as the vestry was about to separate, Mr. HUME, M.P., entered the board•room, and inquired if anything had been done with reference to the deputation to Sir Robert Peel to present an address to the Right Honour able Baronet on the subject of the Corn Bill ? Mr. JOSEPH said he had not taken any step in the matter, in the absence of the Hon. Member for Mont rose, but he now felt great pleasure in moving, " That a deputation be appointed to wait upon Sir Robert Peel to present, as an address, the resolutions come to by the vestry on the previous Saturday, thanking the Right Hon. Baronet , for having passed the Corn Bill." He (Mr. Joseph) could not, however, allow the present opportunity to puss without expressing his sincere re gret—and he believed every one present would join with him in that expression—at the loss which he feared the country was about to sustain by the resignation of one of the most upright and honourable men, and enlightened statesmen, that ever filled the office of Prime Minister of England.—(Cheers,) He believed the Right Hon. Baronet had left London for Osborne House that morn- ing, to tender his resignation to her Majesty, and he thought it highly desirable, if possible, that the address should be presented before Sir R. Peel's retirement took place.—(Hear.) Mr. RIDGWAY seconded the resolution. If there was nothing else to endear the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) in the minds of his fellow-conntrymen, it was the last act he had done in his private capacity in support of the fine arts, and a lamented and talented contributor. —(Hear.) The conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet to the late unfortunate Mr. Hayden, when he could not have expected that his benevolence would be made public, would occasion his loss still more to be regretted by the country.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HumE, M.P., remarked that he never gave a vote in the House of Commons with more regret in his life than he did on Thursday evening against the Right Hon. Baronet on the Irish Coercion Bill, as he was convinced that he could not relinquish office without the result being most disastrous to the country, which could ill af ford to lose such a Minister at such a time.—(Hear.) The resolution was then put and carried nem. con., and Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Mr. Joseph, Mr. Potter, and Mr. George Daniell were ap pointed as the deputation to present the address to Sir Robert Peel. The vestry then broke up. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 27. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice WIOHTMAN and a Special Jury.) IMPORTANT TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. FARRAR V. WILBORZ. This was an action brought by Mr. Farrel-la master cabinet-maker, residing in Curtain-road, Shoreditc , against Mr. Wildbore, a surgeon of extensive practice in Shoreditch, for damages arising from the unskilful treatment of a frac ture of one of the bones of the wrist, called the radius. The damages were laid at 1,0001. The Attorney- General, Mr. Sergeant Shee, and Mr: Char sock, appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Watson, Mr Jervis, and Mr. J. Hill, for the defendant. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened the case by a detail of the particulars that had led to the present action, and which he intended to prove in evidence. He said the plaintiff was a respectable tradesman, residing in Curtain-road, Shoreditch, who happened, on the 6th of April, 1844, to meet with a serious misfortune in the fracture of the radius bone of his wrist. This caused him to call in Mr. Wildbore, the defendant in the present action. Mr. Wildbore could not, from the largeness of his practice, at tend personally, but his assistant, Mr. Gillott, attended in his stead. The fracture was set, and the defendant's assistant continued his attendance for six weeks, when his attendance was no longer continued. Shortly after this, the plaintiff finding that his arm was not in the condition which he ex pected, called in another surgeon, who, on an examination, intimated that the treatment he had received was improper, and that the arm could not be restored to its original strength and usefulness, In the course of time the plaintiff, finding that his arm could not be employed in any kind of heavy work connected with his business, and being advised, from most respectable me dical authority, that he had good ground of action for im proper and unskilful treatment, he decided to bring the pre sent action. By the witnesses he should call, both medical and otherwise, he should establish the fact that the plaintiff had been improperly treated, and that he had since been unable to attend to his business as he had done before. Th 4, Learned Gentleman concluded by calling his witnesses. 's son and daughter, and several other per accidelitTam the neighbourhood, were called to prove the th e w it eesi Zttr t tence of Wildbore ' s assistant , and that able to use his armr e. e trea tment of the fracture, had notbeen befo ra r rnation of some of these had It came out in witnesses that Mr. Fan the fracture had taken pla ce , ,„: 1 1 1 .a *e , arm in sawing since called in to attend on Mrs. p uwa t z ''' ti:•:Wildbore had been after the alleged unskilful treatment et th' e e r t eight month s Mr. Gill, the medical gentleman 130 wsa t n h y at k. th s was su i bse- Ind of heavy vr O n great measure quently n W ea i p ld ab b l o a re o , f d u eP se Ya n i . a RI h f t reat on t e rac ure ment which had been bestowe and that its present state had arisen from the unskilful t to f on the same side. They had street, and Mr. Barron followed . st of Professor Partridge, Mr. Merrit, surgeon of Leadenhall. P and were of been called in to examine the wrist in such a case , not the best that might have been emplo yed _ opinion that the treatment em p lo y ed by the defendant was and that it had been evidently very unsuccess ful nt to be consi derable difference of opinion as to the best treatment to t In cross- examination they a dmitted that ther e was pursued in such cases. They could not sa y positively ha_ the treatment was unskilful. In any case of fracture, such as the one under consideration, they did not believe that an arm ever became as strong s 'was before. This closed the case fort 1 e plaintiff. Mr. Jaavrs opened the case for the defence in a speech of some length, in which he denied the allegation of an unskil ful or improper treatment, which he would prove by the most eminent gentlemen in the medical profession. While he would prove that the treatment had been right and proper, he would also show that any damage that had since arisen to the arm of the plaintiff beyond what would result from such a fracture after it had healed, was caused by the plain tiff making an improper use of his arm. The case was originally one of simple fracture, and treated in the usual way, and the projection of the ulna now complained of by the plaintiff, and which was part of his case, had arisen from the way in which the bones necessarily joined together, combined with the too early and improper use of the arm by the plaintiff. The - lied for the defence. le witnesses were then ea, Mr. Gillott, the assistant of Mr. Wildbore, who attended on Mr. Farrar, but also is now surgeon on his own account, was the first witness examined—He described in detail the nature of the accident, and the particulars of the treatment he had pursued. It was a case of simple fracture, and he pursued the system of Mr. Lawrence, or the straight system of effect ing the union of the bone. He splintered and bandaged the arm. In about five weeks he discharged the arm as cured. It was then as perfect as was usual in any similar case of fracture. It had all the motions, though, of course, it was not so strong as it bad bean before the accident. The witness was cross-examined at some length, but nothing of material importance was elicited. Mr. Robert Liston said he had examined the arm of plaintiff yesterday, and again to-day. He had also heard the evidence of Mr. Gillott. With regard to the pro jection of the ulna, it was a case that might happen from the most skilful treatment. He had seen many cases of the same kind, and some much worse, after very good treatment. The arm in its present state seemed a very good arm, and appeared to have been used a great deal. Anything bad in it might have been occasioned by improper care on the part of the plaintiff. He thought the treatment of the defendant very proper treatment. He had heard the evidence of Mr. Gillott, and he thought it very good. Cross-examined—He did not think such a case of fracture difficult of treatment, though the projection of the ulna might arise after taking the greatest care. Mr. Bransby Cooper, surgeon of Guy's Hospital, said he perfectly agreed with Mr. Liston in all that he had stated both regarding the treatment pursued and the condition of the limb, He had attended Dr. Edwards for a similar frac ture, and he did his best to care him. In that case the pro jection of the ulna which ensued was worse than plaintiff's arm. _ _ Dr. Edwards, who was in Court, was called to show his arm in corroboration of witness's evidence, Mr. Jolly, surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, gave evidence to the same effect. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN left it to counsel for the plaintiff whether they would, after such decided evidence for the de fendant, allow the case to go to the jury. After a short consultation among the parties, Mr. Sergeant Sxi intimated that he would withdraw the record. The record was withdrawn accordingly. The Court throughout the proceedings was crowded with professional men, who seemed to take great interest in the case. (Sittings in Banco.) LAWTON v. HICIMAN. This was an action in the form of an action for goods sold and delivered to recover the value of some scrip certificates and shares in the Grand Union Railway Company, a com pany which had only been provisionally registered when the shares were sold. The defendant pleaded that this was a company com menced after the Ist of November, 1844; that it had not been completely registered under the 7th and Bth Vict., c. 110 ; and that the sale of the shares was therefore illegal. This objection to the legality of the sale of shares was founded on the 2d and 26th sections of that statute. The second section provided " That this Act shall apply to every joint-stock company as hereinafter defined established for any commercial purpose, &c. (except banking com panies, schools, and scientific and literary institu tions), and also friendly societies, loan societies, and benefit building societies duly certified," &c., under pre vious Acts. This section contained the following proviso : " Provided, nevertheless, that except as hereinafter specially provided, that this Act shall not extend to any company for executing any bridge, road, cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, waterwork, navigation, tunnel, archway, railway, pier, port, harbour, ferry, or dock, which cannot be carried into execu tion without obtaining the authority of Parliament." The ' 26th section enacted, that "with regard to subscribers, and every person entitled or claiming to be entitled to any share in any joint-stock company, the formation of which shall be commenced after the Ist of November, 1844, that until suck joint-stock company shall have obtained a certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or per son shall have been duly registered as a shareholder in the said registry-office, it shall not be lawful for such person to dispose, by sale or mortgage, of such share, or of any interest therein, and that every contract for the disposal of such share or interest, shall be void, and that every person entering into such contract shall forfeit a sum not exceed ing 101." The plaintiff replied that this was a railway company, established for the purpose of maintaining a rail way under the authority of an Act of Parliament, to be obtained for that purpose, and that its works could not be carried into execution without obtaining such an Act. The defendant demurred to this replication, and raised by his demurrer the several points noticed in the judgment. The case was argued some time since by Mr. Pashley for the defendant, and Mr. Cole for the plaintiff, and the Court took time to consider. Lord DENMAN now delivered judgment. This was an action for goods sold and delivered. The defendant pleaded that the goods and chattels were shares in a joint-stock com pany, illegally sold after the Ist of November, 1844. The plea set forth all the facts necessary to show that the com pany was a company of the kind described in the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 110, and was not completely registered within that Act. The plaintiff replied that the company was a company for the purpose of making a railway to be called the Grand Union Railway, under the authority of an Act of Parliament to be obtained for that purpose, and that the sale of the shares was therefore not illegal. The defen dant demurred to this replication, and the question raised was whether the facts stated in the replication made the sale of shares legal. One of the causes of demurrer was that the power required from Parliament for the execution of the works of the company was not specified, and that the appli cation was, therefore, too general. The answer to that was, that the description following the words of the Act was sufficient. Another objection was, that the replication did not say that the execution of a railway was the sole purpose of the company, but that was not necessary. The proviso in the statute did not require in terms that it should be Ss, and the Court would not of itself assume that the company had any object in view. To make that question available, it ought to have been specially averred that the company had some other purpose in view, besides the execution of a railway. Then it was objected that the railway shares were not goods and chattels. But the Court did not con sider this objection to be tenable. The Courts had already recognised them to be goods and chattels in several in stances: The great question raised for decision here was, whether the circumstance that the company was established for the execution of a railway, requiring the authority of Parliament, prevented the 26th section of the statute from rendering the sale of the shares illegal. The proviso in the second section was most remarkable in its terms which di rectly prevented the application of the statute. (His Lord ship read the words of the proviso.) In the opinion of the Court, the Act did not operate upon a railway company at all, unless there was some special provision to direct its ap plication to such a company, and then it would only apply as specially provided. The proviso in the second section was not of the ordinary kind, namely, something engrafted on a preceding enactment. It was an enactment prevent ing the operation of the statute, except in particular in stances. The proviso must be taken to have been repealed at the end of each enactment, and must be considered as a statutory declaration, overruling the whole statute and exempting companies not falling within its special provi sions. The 4th, the 7th, and the 9th sections of the statute were not brought under the notice of the Court of Exchequer in the argument in the case of Young v. Smith, but this Court had considered them, and was of opinion that they were not sections, which by necessary inference rendered the 26th section of the statute applicable to railway companies. The 25th section did not make the 26th section applicable, and the Court observing that the 26th section made it penal to deal in shares of companies not completely registered, could not but remark that it did not extend to railway com panies, unless it was so specially provided by the Act. When the Court searched for this special provision, it found none. The intention of the Legislature most pro bably wad to deal differently with railway companies from other joint-stock companies, and the special provision in tended to apply to railways might have been omitted by accident. It certainly was not to be found in the Act, upon the words of which alone the Court had authority to proceed, and therefore the plaintiff was entitled to the judgment of he Court. LOONIE V. OLDFIELD. This was an action for work and labour in purchasing shares and scrip certificates in certain railway undertakings. The defendant pleaded that the shares were in a joint-stock railway company commenced after the let of November, 1844, and not completely registered under the 7th and Bth Vict., c. 110. The plea set out all the particulars, and com pletely negatived the exceptions contained in the second section of that Act. The replication was, that this was a company the works of which could not be carried into execu tion without the authority of Parliament. There was a de murrer to this plea, on the ground that it did not show in what way the works could not be executed without the au thority of Parliament. The COURT did not think that this demurrer was sustain able. Enough appeared to show that the company was a railway company, and the Court would take notice that a railway company WAS one the execution of the works of which could not be carried on without the authority of Par liament. The judgment must, therefore, be given for the RAY C. FIIRST. Lord DENMAN delivered judgment in this case, which was exactly the same as the last case, except that the plea did not negative the exceptions contained in the proviso of the second section of the statute. There had been a demurrer for this cause, and the Court held the objection to be fatal. Judgment for the plaintiff. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, June 27. RICHARD DUNN AND MISS BURDETT COUTTS. This was an application to Mr. Justice Patteson to remove the true bill found by the grand jury, at the last sitting of the Central Criminal Court, for perjury, in swearing that Miss Angela Burdett Coutts was indebted to him in the sum of 100,0001., with the view of making that lady a bankrupt. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Humphreys, of Newgate-street, at tended before the judge to resist the writ of certiorari being issued; and the unrelenting Dunn was in attendance, un mindful of the Bench warrant that is in force against him for his apprehension. However, there is an old problem of lawyers being their own clients. Mr. Dunn produced a very lengthened affidavit, setting forth all his wrongs and grievances, his imprisonments in debtors' and felons' gaols, his importunities to carry off the fair heiress of the- house of Burdett, and the annoyances he had been subjected to by the receipt of numerous letters coached both in prose and poetry. His affidavit set forth that he had received, by post, a letter, which ended at the bottom of each verse, " For in the till there is plenty of tin." The same document authorised him to draw upon Messrs. Coutt'a bank for 100,0001. for his loss of time, Ito.; and that, finding his acceptance was dishonoured, ha had applied to Miss' outts for the money. The affidavit is altogether of a most extraordinary character, and consists of about forty folios. I:thiefl M olTousr il le . ideo ß tn: : le d lao k yL lin ing said that, after perusing this singular do prosecutrix would require time to answer it, earned Judge decided whether the certiorari h Learned Judge assented, and the case was adjourned current, the is a copy of the affidavit Byrn issue. Court of Bankruptcy by the defendant, and whir't to in the • barrister-at-law, Peritir. late of tie,—Rgaanveelarighsa ksettrhatotoanth- to ,, th ß e ic i h n a d r ic d tm D e u n n t n fo , r street, and of the Farringdon Hot el, St o r o a ff n N d, o. m l a Courts, of bailli of Westminster, is di h d ar a d w D n r y n t , h i i n s Bl virtue it'det o t f street, and of 59, Strand, •hoth in the ci t y and saith, that Angela justly and truly indebted to this depona l l ?;, the sum of 100,00019 by deponent upon the bank a Messrs. Coutts 59, Strand, in the said city of Westminster, b Company, tii of authority in writing given by thesaid Angela grdete special to this deponent, which said bill was so directed to b t e C°utts drawn by the said Angela Burdett Coutts in and for ropnc=i for divers injuries and imprisonments done an d inflinen, ela Burdett C outts, and this deponent by th e said Ang for which injuries this de p onent hath com ALd legal comm -- , v proceedings against the s aid Angela Burdett Coufts, and which said bill the said Angela Burdett Couts promised iti writing to this deponent should be duly paid; but which said bill, although duly presented by this deponent for pay ment at the said bank of Messrs. Courts and Company afore said, was not paid or honoured, and which said bill remains wholly due and owing to this deponent. And tt this deponent further oaf that the eaid Apple Hurd e this is a ~, --- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1846. partner in the said bank aforesaid, and a trader within the meaning of the laws now in force concerning bankrupts, as this deponent verily believes. (Signed) " RICHARD DUNN. " Sworn at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, in the City of London, this 31st of March, 1846. " J. F. MILLAR, Registrar." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A man in the dress of a messenger appeared before the Lord Mayor, leading ina miserable-looking lunatic, and presented to his Lordship a letter, of _which the fol lowing is a copy : " BRITISH CHARITABLE FUND—UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR, PARIS." ",Committee-Room, 7, Rue d'Assineau, June 23, 1846. "My Lord—l am directed by the Committee of the British Charitable Fund to recommend to your Lord ship the bearer of this letter, Thomas Stone. This young man was horn in France, of English parents, both of whom are dead. He has fallen into a state bordering on imbecility, and he has no means of subsistence here, nor does the British Institution possess the funds neces sary for permanently supporting English paupers in France. The only relief its resources allow it to afford, is to send to England those who are unable to defray their expenses. Under these circumstances, the Com mittee trust your Lordship will kindly direct that Thomas Stone shall be placed in an asylum.—l have the honour to be, with respect, my Lord, your Lordship's humble servant, " J. F. OLIFFE, M.D., " lion. See. end Treasurer, Brit. Charitable Fund." The LORD MAYOR said he could not interfere in the case of the pauper, who had no claim upon this country. The messenger—My Lord, he has no claim upon France, for he is an Englishman. The LORD MAYOR—How can that be, when he was born in France, as your society acknowledge ? The messenger—He was born of English parents, and that makes an Englishman. It at all events places ulna England the responsibility of looking to and supporting him. The LORD MAYOR—Not at all ; I shall have nothing at all to do with him. The messenger—What am I to do with him ? The LORD MAYOR—Take him back, of course. He was born amongst you. I never send over to France any persons born in England of French parents in a state of pauperism. You must take him away immediately. Mr. Goodman—There is no proof of any claim upou the part of the poor man on the Lord Mayor. The LORD MAYOR regretted that in France the very extraordinary system had been adopted of sending over any lunatics that may be found about the streets. He certainly should not follow the example, nor countenance it by consenting to receive such favours in the city of Loudon. The messenger of the society then left the justice room, evidently much chagrined. GUILDHALL. CUSTOM IN THE PRINTING TRADE.—On Saturday the complaint of George Bartlett, a pressman, against his master, Mr. Stevens, a printer, in Philpot-lane, was heard before Mr. Alderman Sidney. It was a complaint for non-payment of a fortnight's wages, alleged to be due by reason of a peculiar custom of the trade—that when a master takes an apprentice to work at the press, and has selected a skilful journeyman to instruct him, he shall give the journeyman a premium of two guineas and a portion of the boy's earnings, or an increase of wages equivalent thereto, for one year. A contract of service for one year certain is, therefore, tacitly raised, during which the journeyman cannot discharge himself, nor can he be discharged by his toaster, without good cause. In this case Bartlett had received the premium, but giving offence a few days afterwards, he received a fortnight's notice to quit, which he refused to pay any regard to, alleging that he was hired for a year. At the previous hearing of the case, the evidence of several respectable journeymen was brought forward to prove the custom of the trade. Mr. John Killingback, secretary to the Pressman's Union Society, gave evidence to the same effect. Mr. Justine, for the defendant, said he came prepared to prove that there was no such monstrous and absurd custom in the trade. Some masters were in attendance for that purpose, and he had been kindly favoured with letters from eight others. But he had evidence on ano ther point which would preclude the necessity of troub ling the magistrate with such a mass of evidence. It was admitted that, notwithstanding the implied contract for a year, a master might discharge the man for miscon duct at any time, and he should show that Barlett had been guilty of misconduct. Besides knocking down the overseer, he had used gross and insulting language to his master. Mr. Wooler, on behalf of the Pressmen's Union, said he thought the custom was admitted at the last hearing, but he had now, as he had then, some of the oldest men in the trade to prove that it was an old custom, practised generally throughout the trade. He would establish the custom beyond the possibility of dispute. Mr. Justins said, that custom was not law, but this even was not a custom; it was at best a bad usage. Mr. Wooler observed, that our most valuable privileges had been established by custom rather than by law. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY admitted that he thought the custom was established, but he was open to hear evi dence against it. Jt was shown that two journeymen, who were instructing apprentices, and who left in the course of the year, were compelled to return by their masters because they had received a premium to bring up the apprentice for one year. There must be a reci procity of obligation in the contract ; if the man was bound to serve for a year, the master was bound to em ploy. The contract, of course, was subject to be deter mined by the death of parties or the act of the law in certain cases. Mr. William Stevens, the brother of the defendant, was then examined as to the complainant having at various times used gross, insulting language to his master, and that on one occasion he had either by negligence or wilfulness removed some type and caused it to tumble to pieces, and thereby rendered useless all the labour be stowed upon it. Mr. Wooler cross-examined him as to not having him self been an apprentice in the printing trade, and other matters, but left untouched the fact of the man having used the gross language. An errand-boy was called to prove the using of the of fensive expression. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said he had paid great attention to the case, and he had no doubt that he had jurisdiction to entertain it, and to receive parole evidence of a cus tom in this trade as to general hiring for a year. The weight of evidence, as to the custom, stood at present in favour of the complainant. During the first year of a boy's apprenticeship the man he was placed to work with received 3s. extra per week. As this was part of the remuneration for initiating the apprentice, it was due only to him who bad all the trouble at the beginning, and inferred a contract to hire the journeyman for a year. However, he did not mean to decide the question of custom. When a servant treated his employer with such disrespect, and used such language as had been proved in this case, it was surely good cause for dis charging him, without a breach of the custom. He therefore dismissed the case. When a larger sum was due for wages, the complainant might, in effect, appeal from this decision by summoning his master to the Court of Requests, which, in fact, was a more suitable court for the recovery of wages. LAMBETH. Mrs. H. (the particulars of whose case appeared last week), the wife of an insane author and actor, brought on through distress, came before Mr. Norton, in order that she might receive the subscriptions which had been forwarded to this office immediately after the particu lars of her case appeared in the newspapers. She stated that she had just seen her husband, who was in the workhouse in a most deplorable condition, in consequence of his not having been able to earn one penny for a long time past, and seeing herself and seven children in a nerving condition. Mr. NORTON said it gave him pleasure to say that he had received a few subscriptions from charitable per sons (which might be increased in a day or two), who he was glad to say came forward whenever such a case as the present was brought before the public. Mr. Norton then handed over to her 5/. 12s. 6d., which she received with grateful acknowledgments, and left the office appa rently satisfied. CHARITABLE TRUSTS. Bill for procuring Accounts of Receipt and Expenditure by all persons administering Charitable Trusts in England (first prepared and introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Hume and Dr. Bowring). 1. That all persons in whom any property is vested on any charitable trust, or who act in the administration of any property appropriated to charitable purposes in England, shall from time to time, in all cases in which no other provision is made for the appointment of a clerk to the trust, appoint, one of themselves, or some other fit person, to act as the clerk of such charitable trust, for the purpose of keeping the accounts and mak ing the returns required by this Act. 2. That the clerk of every such trust shall, in books to be kept for that purpose, enter, or cause to be en tered, true accounts of all moneys received and paid on account of the said trust, and of the several matters for which sums shall have been received and paid. 3. That the said clerk shall, on or before the first day of March, in the year One Thousand Eight Hun dred and Forty-seven, send to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State a statement of the real and personal estate vested for any charitable purpose in the trustees whose clerk he is, and shall at the same time, and also on or before the first day of March in every following year, send to the said Secretary of State a statement of all moneys received and paid by the said trustees on account of the said trust, within twelve calen dar months next before the time of making up the said account, and of the moneys and securities for money then standing to the credit of or owing to the said trus tees, and of the debts and liabilities far which they are then liable ; all which statements shall be prepared in such form and manner as the Secretary of State shall direct ; and an abstract of such statements and accounts under general heads shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament during their sitting in the same year in which the said statements shall be so sent. . 4. Act may be amended or repealed. DEATH FROM BEING OVER• FED.—Yesterday an in quest was held before Mr. W. Baker, jun., at the Globe, Goldsmith's-row, Shoreditch, on the body of Eliza Anne Elizabeth Storey, aged eighteen months. It appeared from the evidence that en Tuesday morning the mother of the deceased while at breakfast gave her the yolk of two eggs, also a piece of bread and cheese, which she shortly after vomited. The deceased continued to get worse, and on Wednesday morning it was found necessary to send for Mr. Wallace, a surgeon in Hackney, but before he arrived the child expired. A post mortem examination was afterwards made, and IMr. Wallace stated that from the appearance of the brain he should say the deceased died from convulsions, arising from its; being over-fed. The jury returned s verdict to that effect. W ILLS. LATE EARL OF Vintrum.—Probate has been granted of the will, with two codicils, of the late Right Hon. Jame Walter, Earl of Verulam, Baron Verulam, of Gorhambury Hertfordshire, Viscount Grimston, and Baron of Dunboyne, in Ireland, and Baron Forrester, of Costorphine, ih Scotland, and a Baronet, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Hertford. The acting executors are his sons, the present Earl of Verulam also the lion. Robert Grimston, and the Hon. and Rev. E ' H. Grimston. The personality was valued for duty at 25,0001. Bequeaths to his Countess a sum that will make her income 3,0001. a year, and to his younger children a sum that will make up with other provisions 10,0001. to each. The will was made in July, 1843, and the _ . codicils last year. His Lordship bad attained his 70th year, and left issue five sons and four daughters. LATE VISCOUNT HOOD.—The Right Hon. Samuel Tibbitts, Viscount Hood, of Whitley Abbey — , near Coventry, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, and Bryanston-square, London, had recently purchased the inheritance in fee-simple of the estates in Whitley and Penley, Warwickshire, adjoining to part of the settled estates of the family, with a sum of 23,0001., derived from property of his wife paternal grand father, and which, with all other real estate, he has devised with the settled estates. From his personal estate, valued at 35,0001., he leaves an annuity, to be secured on 4,0001., for his mother, the Hon. Caroline Hood ; leaves an immediate pecuniary legacy to the Viscountess, and the carriages, horses, farming stock, furniture, books, and jewels ; the plate, bearing his arms and coronet, in trust for her life, anti then to the eldest son ; the residue amongst his younger children. The acting executor is the Hon. Lieut.- Col. Francis Grosvenor Hood, the brother, and, with the Viscountess and the other executors, the Hon. Samuel, Baron Bridpert (the uncle), and the Hon. Alexander Nelson Hood, are appointed guardians of the children. He has left three sons and one daughter, and died in his 38th year, on the Bth of May last. General Sir Henry Bayly, C. 8., Colonel of the Bth Foot (King's regiment) who died in April last, at the advanced age of eighty, by his will, executed in August, 1845, has di rected 2,000/. to be invested for the benefit of Hugh Forbes, late of the Coldstream Guards, and 3,0001., equally between Hugh Forbes, the younger, and Archibald Forbes; on failure of both attaining twenty-one, the whole for the children of Mrs. Buchanan, wife of John Buchanan, Esq., Carbeth, North Britain. The residue and reversion of his personal estate, together with his real estate, he leaves to the said Mrs. Mary Louisa Buchanan, for her own absolute use and disposal, and has appointed her solo executrix. She has duly admi nistered to the will in London. The personal effects were estimated at 6,0001. Rear-Admiral Valentine Collard, late of Teddington, has left the property which he acquired by the will of Mr. James Forth, distiller, at Kingston-upon-Thames, the uncle of his deceased wife, to her brother, Mr. W. H. Kempster, and the books, plate, furniture, &c. ; a legacy of 2001. to Mr. Chris topher West, commander R.N. ; and legacies to other of his friends. The residue, real and personal, he bequeaths to his nephew, Mr. Robert Lendrum, and has appointed him and Mr. Kempster, together with James Williamson, Esq., of Gray's Inn, the executors. The personality was valued at 9,000/. He made his will in January, 1845, and a codicil in February, 1846 ; the death of this gallant admiral occurred on the 18th of March last, at the age of seventy-six. The late Colonel the Hon. Fulke Greville Howard, of Castle Rising, Norfolk ; of Ashstead Park, Surrey ; of Levens, Westmoreland ; of Elford Hall, Stafford ; and of Grosvenor square, London ; died without issue. His estates in West moreland and other hereditaments comprised in bis marriage settlement, subject to his wife's interest and disposition, he has devised to his nephew, the Hon. G. F. Upton, second son of Viscount Templetown, those at Kilburn, Middlesex; to his nephew, the Hos. Arthur Upton ; his estates at Elford and Stafford, except certain estates at Fisherwick and Elford which he has devised to Captain Henry Bagot, son of Sir Charles Bagot, are left under same trusts as the estates of Stafford, by the will of his late father-in-law, Richard Howard, and those of Ashstead and Castle Rising, to wife for life, and then in the same manner as the estates of Ashtead and Headley are derived by the same will, the bulk of the estate at Castle Rising being limited to appointment by the Honourable Mrs. Howard. The personal estate, which was valued for probate duty at 120,000/., he has disposed of by a codicil, made only the week before, his death, leaving legacies to his godchildren, and specific bequests to his family and acquaintance. To his brother, Viscount Templetown, the whole of his valuable collection of pictures, except the pictures of one room, to his sister, the Hon. Sophia Upton, and two pictures at Ashstead, of St. Mary in Egypt, and the death of Seneca, to the Marquis of Bristol. To his nephew, the Honourable Henry Montagu Upton, all his books, and the reversion to the pictures on the death of his father. His musical instruments to his brother, General the Honourable Arthur Upton, with a pecuniary bequest. He has left liberal legacies to his servants ; to his steward at Ashstead, 500/. ; his personal servant, 4001. •, to his gardener at Levens, 400/. ; the gardener at Ashstead Park and at Elford Hall, to each, 300/. ; and the like legacies to his coachman and cook, and to the porter, at Grosvenor-square. The residue he leaves to his wife, the Honourable Mrs. Howard, whom he has ap pointed, together with his said nephew, the Hon. H. M. Upton, and the Rev. William Legge, rector of Ashstead, to be the executors of his will, with a legacy of 500/. to each. The Hon. and Gallant Colonel died at Elford Hall, on the 4th of March, in his 73d year. The late Sir William Boothby, Bart., of Ashborne Hall, Derby, Receiver-General of her Majesty's Customs, had made his will in 1833, during the lifetime of his former wife, Lady Boothby, and, in the event of her surviving, had made a provision for her of 300/. a year; but Sir William did not alter his will on his intermarriage with Mrs. Nesbitt, nor has he made any testamentary disposition in her favour. To his daughters, Louisa, Caroline, and Maria, he leaves 3,0001. each ; and as the late Earl of Liverpool has amply provided for two of his children, Cecil and Fanny, he leaves to them, as a mark of affection, 100/. each. The residue of his pro perty, real and personal, he leaves to his son, Sir Brooke William Robert Boothby, Bart., who is the acting executor. The freehold in Derbyshire, and all other estates, he directs to be sold, the funded and personal property amounting to only 2,0001. The late Elias Goldsmid, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, left personal property to the amount of 16,0001., and has be queathed to his brother Aaron Goldsmid, Esq., for his life an annuity of 300/., the surplus, together with the principal, he bequeaths to his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Levieu, under the like trust of their marriage settlement. The will of the Honourable and Very Reverend H. L Hobart, D.D., late Dean of Windsor, and of the Collegiate Church of Wolverhampton, was proved in London on the sth of June, by two of his executors, Captain Sir George Tyler, R.N., and Edmund Fitzmoore, Esq., of the Inner Temple; a power being reserved to the Honourable Mrs. Hobart, his relict, to whom he has bequeathed an annuity of 300/. in ad dition to the provisions under marriage settlement, and leaves to her his carriages, horses and furniture; the residue of his property he leaves to be divided amongst his children. The personal estate was estimated at 35,000/. His will is dated in 1829, and he died on the Bth of May, in his seventy fifth year. He held the livings of Great Hasely, Nocton, and \Vantage, and was Registrar of the Order of the Garter. The late Rev. Dr. Walton, Rector of Birdbrooke, Essex, has bequeathed the following charitable bequests :—To the Clergy Orphan Society, 1001. ; to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 100/. ; to the Society for the Propa gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 100/. ; to the Charity for the Essex Clergy, 100/. ; and to the poor of Birdbrooke, 10/. ; also to the trustees of the district church of St. John, Finchingfield, Essex, 100/. for the repairs of the church ; and to the Reverend John Russell Stock, minister of St. John's Chapel, and his successor, such books out of his library as he may consider necessary to form a foundation for a useful library in his study. All his freehold and copyhold estates in Fordham, Warningford, Coln, and other parts of Essex, he leaves to his nephew, the Rev. Russell Skinner, M.A., Rector of Sweffling, Suffolk, and appoints him, together with J. D. Williams, Esq., of Essex, and J. Roberts, Esq., of the Middle Temple, executors. Leaves to each of his eight godchildren 100/., and the residue to the children of his said nephew. The iersonalty was valued at 7,oool. —Post. A KING CONDEMNED TO IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR.—We find the following curious account in a letter from Copenhagen of the 15th :—",Our prison has just received two remarkable guests, an African King and his prime mi nister. At the beginning of last year, this black monarch, whose name is Aquatimozin, and who was under the sove reignty of Denmark, as the country over which he reigns forms part of the Danish possessions on the coast of Guinea, entrapped into his territory another African king and his prime minister, and at night, with the aid of his own minister, attacked them and put them to death. The murdered prince was sovereign of another portion of the coast forming part of the Danish possessions. The murderers were arrested and brought to trial before the Danish colonial tri bunal. The defence made by the advocate en gaged by the prisoners was, that Aquatimozin, as a sove reign prince, had a right to put his enemy to death, and that Kongitl, his minister, being under his orders, was only performing an act of obedience, the refusal of which would have caused his own death. This defence did not avail, and the ex-king and ex-minister (for both had been deposed by orders from Copenhagen) were condemned to die. The pri soners appealed to the King of Denmark for mercy, and were so far successful as to have the sentence of death com muted into perpetual confinement in the prison of Copen hagen, to which they were brought in the Eagle corvette. Aquatimozin is 72 years of age, of small stature, excessively thin, and with white hair. Kongiti is in the prime of life, and very stout and tall. These two men, who a year ago governed a kingdom and had a large revenue, are now K ork ing in prison, rasping dye-woods, for which each receives two skillings (less than a penny English) per day. Aquati mozin appears very resigned, and works assiduously. His ex-minister has less philosophy, and is only kept to his work by the frequentapplication of the whip." EMBEZZLEMENT AND FLIGHT OF A CLERK OF MONEY CLuns.—A series of frauds, by which a number of respect able parties in Sheffield will sustain great loss, has just come to light by the sudden flight to America of James Charles Simpson, of that place, pawnbroker. The accused was clerk to a number of money clubs, and he enjoyed such a high degree of confidence that the committees of the clubs were lulled into security, and he seems to have managed them almost as he pleased. Previous to his leaving home on the 23d May, he disposed of a valuable collection of pictures (of which he was a great connoisseur), and his stock of goods, transferring the pledges to Mr. Eaton, who paid him the money lent upon them, and his household furniture. He set sail for America on the 28th ult., on board the John R. Skiddy packet, accompanied by . one daughter leaving his wife and another daughter in England to shift for themselves. Yesterday week a fiat in bankruptcy was opened at the Sheffield Court, and we understand it is in contemplation to send out a messenger by the next steamer to arrest the delinquent, and recover the property in his pos session. The extent of the frauds he has committed has not vet been ascertained. There is no doubt that they amount to 3,0001. or 4,0001., and probably a much larger sum.— Doncaster Gazette, June 26. AN INFIDEL WIFE.—We read in a letter from Berlin of the 20th, published by the Gazette des Tribunaux, " About three years ago Mr. and Mrs. Aston, natives of London, ar rived at Berlin with their daughter, then two years old, and soon afterwards fixed their residence here by virtue of a spe cial authorisation from the Minister of Justice. Towards the end of February last Mr. Aston applied for a divorce from his wife, on the ground of her having for some time openly professed atheism, and he at the same time demanded that the child might be given up to him, in order to prevent its being educated in the atheistical principles of the mother. The Tribunal of First Instance of Berlin, after having re ceived from the mouth of Mrs. Aston an avowal that she did a not believe in God, pronounced the divorce, and orderedwtehe t . the child should be given up to the father withinhea Upperk This sentence was, upon appeal, confirmed, t Court. Scarcely an hour after the confirmation o b the director of of the judg ment, Mrs. Aston received an order f police to quit Berlin in two days, a King, but received for d the Prussian territory within a week. She appealed to the_ form odifying this order ; reply that there was no and she has left Berlin for groundStrasburg. rots, and it sleepers in PENCIL CEDAR. — Nearly woaolld, irtanilowva.ory America are made of this It • exposure to wet. is now being introduced hardens by into some of the railways o i e n xt t e h o e si n ve o l r y sethuofd oEinglaAiner England for the r sa me purpose; it is ship building, having the property, wrien used with othe.i wood, of preventing its rotting. There is no limit to the quantity that can be obtained of this wood, if required. Its Dresent selling price ayeragel About Si the superficial foot,— U•Tts Builder. THIRD REPORT of the COLONIAL BISHOPRICS' COMMITTEE. The Committee appointed to arrange measures, in con cert with her Majesty's Government, for the erection and endowment of additional bishoprics in the colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, cannot commence their third report without an expression of joy and thankfulness at the progress which, by God's blessings has been made in the great work since the time when it was committed to their care. During the past year the important colony of New Bruns wick and the Island of Ceylon were constituted independent dioceses, by the erection of bishops' sees at Fredericton and Colombo; and the committee are happy in being enabled to state that her Majesty the Queen has given her royal con sent to the immediate subdivision of the diocese of Aus tralia into three distinct bishoprics, by the establishment of one see at Morpeth for the northern division of New South Wales, and of another at Melbourne for the district of Port Phillip. These new sees, which could not have been constituted but for a generous sacrifice of private interest of the part of the Bishop of Australia, will derive a considerable portion of their endowment from the colonial bishoprics fund. Thus, then, within the space of five years, which have elapsed since the " declaration of archbishops and bishops" was signed at Lambeth, nine new sees have been erected. Of these, two—namely, Gibraltar and Fredericton, derive their endowments almost exclusively from the fund placed at the disposal of the episcopal trustees • and four others — namely, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melbourne, and Morpeth, receive important assistance from the same source. The re maining three—namely, Antigua, Guiana, and Colombo, have been endowed by. means of a different distribution of the iunds at the disposal of the imperial or colonial Government for ec clesiastical purposes. The foregoing summary will show that of the original de sign. as set forth in the declaration of archbishops and bishops" great part has been already accomplished ; and the Committee have much satisfaction in reporting that no less a sum than 15,0001. has been contributed towards the endow ment of a bishopric (not originally contemplated) within the British possessions in the Chinese seas. Of this endowment fund the sum of 5,0001. has been most liberally given by two individuals (over and above their donation of an equal sum for the erection of a college); 6,0001. was raised by congregational collections in the dio cese of London, under the authority of the Bishop's pastoral letter; a grant of 2,0001. was voted by the Society for Pro moting Christian Knowledge, and about an equal amount has been remitted to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, by individual contributors. But a considerable addi tional sum will yet be required, and a special committee has been named to collect such further funds as may be neces- sary to make a permanent provision for the see. Of the colonies still remaining without episcopal superin tendence, the Cape of Good Hope and South Australia have been mentioned in preceding reports as presenting the strongest claims; and it would have been the duty of the Committee on the present occasion to renew the appeal on their behalf, had it not pleased God to put it into the heart of an individual member of the Church, by an exercise of al most unexampled liberality, to guarantee adequate endow ments for a bishopric in each of those colonies. It is well known that the Lord Bishop of Calcutta is using the most strenuous efforts to obtain a subdivision of his own enormous diocese, by the erection of a bishopric at Agra, for the north-west provinces. Such an arrangement is impera tively required for the welfare and extension of the Church of England in Northern India: while the recent wonderful spread of Christianity in the southern provinces of Tanjore and Tinnevelly must, ere long, force attention to the im• portance of sending forth a chief pastor for the special over sight of those infant churches. The Committee, before concluding their report, consider it a duty incumbent upon them to specify those other pos sessions of the Crown which, from their imp - ,rtance, as well as their distance from any existing see, appear to re quire resident bishops. They are principally Sierra Leone, Western Australia, the Mauritius, and Prince Rupert's Land. But it is obvious that a further subdivision will era long be required in many of the existing dioceses, and even at present, the rapidly-increasing population of Canada, taken in connexion with its vast territorial extent, demands for the efficient administration of the Church within that pro vince an addition of at least two bishops. Upon the whole, although the Committee do not look for ward to an early termination of their labours, they cannot but regard the success which has hitherto been vouchsafed to them as an encouragement to persevere in the good work which they have undertaken, till the Church, by the Divine bleesing, has been fully organised in every dependency of the British Crown. This important end, however, cannot be attained without a strenuous and united effort on the part of the church at home ; and the committee feel assured that they shall not call in vain upon the faithful members of that church to help forward its extension, by their active co-operation and their continual prayers. W. CANTUAR. C. WINTON. E. EBOR. E. DUNELM. JOHN G. ARMAGH. G. ROCHESTER. RD. DUBLIN. J. LINCOLN. C. J. LONDON. 79, Pall-mall, May 18, 1846. The statement of the accounts, appended to the report, shows the following results :—Received from the commence ment of the fund, January, 1841, 81,8901. Ils 4d. The ex penditure consists of—Payments for New Zealand, 4,070/. 7s. 2d. ; Tasmania, 7,101/. 2s. Bd.; Gibraltar, 5,415. 9s. 6d.; Frederickton, 1,274/. 10s. ld. ; Miscellaneous expenses, 891/. 9s. Id. ; Capital purchased, Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, 12,000/t; Exchequer-bills, 1,1301. 13s. 9d.; London and Birmingham Railway Debenture, 50,000/. ; Balance in Bank of England, Slay 1, 18.16, 61. 19s. ld. Total, 81,8901. Ils. 4d. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, JUNE 26.—N0 great amount of business has been done in foreign wools this week, the choice at present in the maket being only in- Efferent. We learn the prices paid at the earlier German fairs have been fully supported at the mere recent ones, and the bulk of the wools had obtained a ready sale. The continental manufacturers had, for the most part, purchased freely, but the English dealers had operated to a much more limited extent than in former years. The wash is, on the whole, considered inferior to tbat of last year. ENGLISPI WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, JUNE 26.—There has not been much done in sales of wool this week. The manufacturers hold off as much as possible, and rather lower prices have been submitted to. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JUNE 26.—There is again no relief to the dull state of the trade reported for some weeks past, and many consumers being buyers of the new clip from the growers, it has caused sales to be more than ever limited this week. YORK WOOL MARKET, JUNE 25. Our market continues to be very largely supplied with wool, and the buyers in attendance to-day were exceedingly nu merous. In the morning a tolerable business was done, but a heavy rain, accompanied with lightning and thunder, coming on at noon, and lasting for more than two hours, nearly put a stop to the trade for the rest of the day. Lower prices in consequence had to be sub mitted to, but many lots remain over until next week. Ewe, I ls. Bd. to 12s. 6d.; hog and ewe, 13s. to 14s. per stone of 141bs. LEEDS.—There has again been very little business done at the Cloth Halls this week. The result of the wool sales at Liverpool, and the sales in London next week, will tend to settle the question of prices for the autumn, and until then little improvement is expected. Very few buyers have been down this week, and in con sequence, business has been dull in finished goods. The foreign houses are also doing little, until they see how prices rule. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, JUNE 25.—The mar ket was in all its branches, viz., wool, yarn, and pieces, so similar to what it has been the last two weeks, that it is needless giving any report_ On all hands it is stated that the new clip is of most excellent quality, and the staplers have considerable stocks on hand. The spinners buy very sparingly, and for immediate consumption, and are working in great part at order, which keeps up the prices even to the present low rate. Some manufacturers' stocks of pieces are very heavy. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have no new feature in our cloth market to report this week; the demand, however, is to a fair extent, but there is no life nor elasticity in the trade. The opinion is gaining ground that the cotton crop of 1845 was really deficient to a considerable extent, and that the prices will be maintained for some time to come, so that manufacturers and spinners will not, it is thought, find any relief by a decline in the staple. So that low, or rather no profit, is likely to be the order of the day for some time to come. The home trade continues very inanimate, and probably will now continue till after Midsummer. Yarns can be disposed of in large quantities, but at no improvement ; in some cases they are a little lower. BARNSLEY.—The trade of this town is still in a de pressed state. The number of hands out of employ, or partially occupied, causes considerably distress in this neighbourhood. LEICESTER.—There is no improvement to announce in the demand for manufactured goods this week. Worsted yarns remain the same. There has been but little doing in wools, buyers holding off until the fair, which will take place on Wednesday next. DESTITUTION IN HARRIS.—If the Shetlanders are badly off, the poor Hebrideans of this island are in a much worse condition. Contrary to expectation, the potato crop which was stored in pits, turned out all but a complete failure, hundreds of barrels having been found, on examination pre paratory to planting, in an unsound state, and not even fit for cattle. Many of the tenants who were wont to have 60 and 100 barrels, could not muster a sufficient quantity for seed; and it was with great difficulty that many procured the same even at an exorbitant price. Tht potato crop being thus nearly exhausted, nothing remains for their support but a part of the small supplies of barley and black oats, which grow on the bleak and sterile hill sides, or in the mossy swamps on the low ground—and with many this is even exhausted. If such, then, is the present condition of the tenants, what must that of the paupers be, who are almost wholly dependent on them for support—albeit_ the tenants pay 31( 2 d. per pound of assessment t_ena? f or one poor on the amount of rent payable by h te case of death from alleged starvation has curred near Tarbert. Such is the destitu a l ny fis o h f poor, that they go to the sea- shore and b digging in the cockels, and other shell fish ; d ) g a t s a h t l e a r r t e e a l d i m o y f p a t o h t e s e] c sa a n il d ed s soafndSeceallistaonththeyesee, them subsist. Even h bed-ridden, who, from dire getandi-latni:Tseecioenslyo,f dosinmal shell-fish. ea-shore, live on I learn from along to the s unfortunate people, that half a - -barrel of necessity, are forced to t leave their sick beds and crawl one of those days, allowing only tw cockles is required for the support of his fqtnily (three in , ber) every two . %meals per diem, nanuduthat he has to dig several square yards of sand before getting sufficient to fill his creel. The poor man says that if he had as much meal as would enable him to take a little gruel with the cockles, be would feel contented.—Caledonian Mercury.A COUNTRYMAN AT FAULT.—O n W e d nesday morning, a man, dressed like a mechanic, called at a bookseller and stationer's shop in Stratford, and inquired for 4, Stratford place. In answer to some inquiries, he said he had a cheque in his pocket on the branch office of the London and West minster Bank, held at that place. He was told there was no banking-house in Stratford, when he produced the draft, which was for 451., and drawn on the Marylebene branch of the latter bank, which is 4, Stratford-place. He stated he had come from Whitechapel, thinking the place must be at Stratford. After scratching his head and exclaiming, " Dang it, I s'uo , ri I must g, hick 1 ,,,, 1 tintl Nlaiy'bone out," he left the shop for that purpose.—Essex &catchy d. An Eidvertisenieni, in an American paper, gives the following as part of the description of a runaway appren tice :—" He is thick set, usually wears a glared liAt five feet high• maci Ina shcia With ma old", - _ RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, JUNE V. STOCK ExenINGE.- The sales are-Bideford and Tavistock, 215 dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1 p.-Blackburn, Cher ley, and Liverpool, 1% dis.-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham. 155.-Derby and Crewe, 3% p.-Eastern Counties, Perpetual, 5 per Cent., No. 2, 7 In-Ditto, York Extension, 7c 3 p.- Goole, Dcncaster, and Sheffield, 165. dis.-Grand Union, dis.- Huddersfield, HaNex, Ste.. 1 y p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, % dis.-Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 15-16 p.-Manchester and Birmingham, .Quar ters (B), 9)6 p.-Ditto, ditto (C), 8% p.-North Staffordshire, .. 1 % -North Union (A), 213-Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., dis.---Bontln - Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, par- West Lancashire Coasts 11-16 dis.-West Riding Union, 11 % p. LEEDS, JUNE 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.-Great political events have occurred this week, the repeal of the corn-laws having been immediately succeeded by the defeat of Sir Robert Peel on the Coercion Bill, and probably even now the Peel Administration is broken up. The effect which a re peal of the corn-laws might have had in forcing up prices of railway stock has been counteracted by the depression consequent on the , change of Government, and old stocks remain stationary. Somo scrips have declined a little, but as an immediate dissolution of Par liament is not anticipated, the reduction of price is not general. It is understood that the Leeds and Bradford Convany have agreed to connect themselves with the Midlands, but the terms of arrange ment have not yet publicly transpired. ' The rumour has had the effect of causing a strong demand for the former shares, which close with buyers at 34/. p. The sales are-Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 20s. p.-Leeds and Bradford, 34 p.-Newcastle end Dar lington Junction, Extensions, 9 1 ,6 p.-North British, Carlisle ilrastch, Bs. p.-York and North Midland, East and West Riding, lOni P. Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 14s. dis.-Leicester and Becl1: 4111, ss. dis.-London and Portsmouth, 12s. 6d. p.-Manchester, BuxtOsZs Matlock, and Midland, Bs. 6d. p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.- Nora Western. Is. 6d. p.-Welsh Midlands, 28s. 6d. dis.-West Riding Union, 3/. 17s. SHEFFIELD, JUNE 27. STOCK Exestaxne.-The sales are - Grimsby and Sheffield Exten sion, 1% dis.- Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14s. dis.-Lends, Wakefield, and Midland, 15s. cis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 125. 6d. p.-North Western, Is. dig-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 75. dis.- Ditto, Extension, I% dis.--Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and. Crewe, 13s. 6d. dis.-South Midland, I6s dis. HULL. June 27. STOCK EXCHANOE.-The sales are-North British, Carlisle Braelch, 31s. 6d. -Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, &c., 22s. -Derby and Gainsboroug, 155. 6d., scrip - Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 365.- Leicester and Bedford, 15s. 6d.- In icester and Tainworth, 245. 3d. -London and York, 295. -Mahon and Driftield Junction, 465.- anchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 2/. 9s %d. - North Western, 1 1 - tits.- North Staffordshire, 5/. 145.-South Midland, 14s. 6d. die. West Riding Union, 3/. 12s. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Jrses: 27 STOCK EXCHANGE.- The sales are - Leicester and l'eMworth, 181 . dis.-North British, Halves, Carlisle, 7 s. 6 d. p.-Newctistle and Car lisle, 103%--Northumberland and Lancashire, 155. dis. YORK, JUNE 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are - Leicester an d Bedford, 16!. Melton and Drifneld Junction, 21. 75.-Manchester, Buxton, Mal" lock, and Midland, 21. 1 1 s.-Newcastle and Darlington, New, 91i- North British, Carlisle Extension, 1/. 1 la.-North Staffordshire, 5% -West Riding Union, 3%- York and North Midland Extension, 333-Ditto (East and West Riding Extension), 11 1 .4. EDINBURGH, JUNE 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.- -The sales are-Aberdeen. 81. 12s. 6d.--Aber deem Band, and Elgin, IL 6s. 6d. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 21.175. 6d. -Arbroath and Forfar, 271. IN.-Ditto, Half shares, 15/. 10s. -Armagh and Portman, 145.-Ayr and Galloway, It. ft. -Ayr shire and Bridge of Weir, 2/. 4e.-Banffshire, 165.-Belfast and County Down, 1/. 155.-British and Irish Union, 21. 2s. 6d.-Cale (lonian, 151. 55.-Ditto, New, 1/. 55.-Caledonian Extension, IL 2s. 6c1.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 11. 45.-Caledonian and Norther* Direct, 1/. 155.-Chelmsford and Bury, 12s. 5d.-Clydesdale Junc tion, 141. 10s.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 1/. 105.-Deeside Rail way, 31.-Direct Northern, 1/. 1 is. - Dublin and Enniskillen, 1/. 105. -Dundee and Arbroath, 381.-Ditto, New, 211. 55.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, 1/. 165. - Dundee and Perth, 22/.-DlttO, KT an s. Extension, 21.65.-Eastern Counties Exten sion, 11. 55.-Enst' l an d Railway, 93. 6d.-East of Fife, 11. 2 5. - East Lo thian Centr es Tyne Valley Junction, I/. 65. -Edinburgh and Bathgste, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 751.-Ditto, Half Shares, 171. 105. .Itre os : Quarters, 181.- Ditto, ditto, New, 18/. -Edinburgh and Leith _A-uu pheric, 18s.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 15/. 10s. rt, Preference, 19/. -Edinburgh and Northern, 5/. gee-Ditto, Newr_. 10s. 6d.- Edinburgh and Peebles, IL I Is. 6d.-Edinburgh and I' . 1 74 1/. 15s. -Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 11. 95.-For ta , z `fw Clyde Junction, 11. 19s.- Glasgow and Ayrshire, 741.-Ditto, Stock, 321. 10s.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 111/. 105.-Glasbo 18 Belfast Union, 21. 35.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 1/. 125. -Glasgow and Garniu;(l 401. 10s.-Glasgow General Terminus*, Si. 125. 6d.-Glasdoc 'l. Greenock, 161. 10s.-Ditto, NeW, 8/. 155.-Ditto. Preference le 155.-Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 1L -Glasgow boor 11 145. -- Mineral, IL 155.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and A.rdrossarn - Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 21. 102.-Granton of jSCOt. Ditte, tion, 10s.-Great County Down, 1/. 12s. 6d.-Great !forth.,,d land, 1 1. 2s. 6d.-Inverness and Elgin, It. Is. 3d.-Lan aT ' 6 8 , --Lon' Lothians, 2/. 4s. 6d.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, How. slow, 155.-London and Manchester (East.), don, Bristol, and South Wales, 11. Os. 9d.-London Manchester (Remington's), 155.-London and York, 1/. 1 75 . Ditto, Half Shares, 21.-Midland and Eastern Counties. 175.-Mora. T nradonderrYn shire, I/.-Newcastle and Berwick, 25L -Newry and Vaal -165.-North British, 301.-Ditto, Halves, 111. 2s. 6d.- Ditto, s 7 6d. sion to Carlisle, 1/. 135.-Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 6/. North Staffordshire, 5/. 175.-North Wales Mineral, 14/. 105.-_-ePni_uil New, G/. 10s.-Perth and Inverness, 11. 123. 9d.-ScottishC Caledonia n 171. 155.-Ditto, New, 71. 55.-Scottish Central alle,„,k nand. Junction, 3/. 145.-Lauondtion,da-02: 11. lOs -Scottish Grand Junction, 129. ScottonHerefornrd, 71.-Scottish Southern, 1/. 175. -Shrewsbury Shrewsbury, Os westry, and Chester, 3/. 65.- 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline, It. 12s. --Stirling 511. and 45.-Strathern Junction, 1/. 10s.-Wisbaw and Coltness. GLASGOW, JUNE 27. thgate, 72e. 6d. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Airdrie and B ic e _ way, 9s, 9d. -Cornwall and Devon Central, 293.-East Indian an lenomock, and AT -Edinburgh and Bathgate, 465.-GlasgoW, - b7s. 6d. drossan, 335. 9d .-Glasgow, and Dundee Junction, tish Southern, 375. 6d.-Slamanna and I3orrowstoUness, So u u n tl d t 11. d 6 2 8 1 ; n 31s. 6e1.-17- FATAL ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG UrENTLEIMAN.--'wl Saturday an inquest was held at t he residence of Capta, elve Carew, of Beddington Park, near C ro y don, upon the body years oo. Patrick Maxwell Shaw Stewart , a fine lad, tw.wa! age, the son of Captain Hous ton Stewart, R.N., who shot on Thursday last under the following circustances the :r Mr. John Carew, a son of Cap tain Carew, deposed that deceased had been on a visit to his father, and on the wont ing in question he accompanied him into the g r o u nds. Thney, intended to amuse themselves by shooting ld n s ci w a it ! fishing. The deceased had a double-barrelle:A ness a fishing-rod, and when they had got Eig,u)mn the house, be (witness) went to a place ca in ( carpenter's shop, and left the deceased by himself, and Ho a few minutes he heard the report of a gun. pro ceeded to the spot from whence the report appeared to proo adlliesdtanthcee ceed, and he there found the deceased lying upon th ground, quite dead, and his head appeared literally bIoWLI to atoms. In answer to the Coroner, the witness said deceased had one of his shoes off, and it appeared to witness, from the position in which he found him, that he had sat down upon the stump of a tree, across which his body was lying, fur the purpose of taking his shoe off to remove a piece of gravel or stone from it, and that in rising some-part of his dress had accidentally touched one of the triggers and caused the gun to explode. Lieutenant Pearson, who was also a visitor at Captain Carew's at the time of the melan choly occurrence, confirmed the evidence of Mr. Carew as to the position in which the deceased was found. The coroner having briefly addressed the jury, and explained that woubyd the law the instrument causing the deat h of a party l become forfeit to the Crown unless there was some deodati4 placed upon it by the jury, they returned a verdict of Acci dental death, with a deodand of five shillings upon the gun._ I RIS H PROVISION s.—The arrivals at the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, in a lesser degree, f p o_ rovi .sions from the neighbouring portion of the U nited King dom. have continued to be of an extensive and important charac b " ter, and have comprised large quantities o f butter, aeont pork, lard, general provisions, hams, meal, porter, the various descriptions of grain known under the general head of core, and other articles of food and general merchandise, usually_ brought from that fruitful island. Hour space permitted it, we could give the list of articles which have arrived daily from the quarter alluded to, which would amply prove the correctness of our remarks, but we must content ourselves with saying that they have been of an extensive character, and that among the more noticeable articles of supply, the importation of w hich possess some novelty, those of fresh salmon, to a considerable extent, and in one instance, of live horned cattle, in addition to the usual supplies of the 10611 6 species, may be particularly mentioned. One ship, which arrived in the river Thames, on Wednesday, brought no least than 263 packages of this esteemed and luscious description of fish. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, —Yesterday morning the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Worcester, delivered a sermon at St. Mark's District Chapel, North Audley-street, on behalf of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the chest. The Rev. Prelate took his text from the 9th chapter and 16th verse of the Gospel of St. Luke, and after very energetic appeal, a collection was made, amounting to 591. 9s. 7d. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 26.—There has been a better demand for West India sorts this week, and the market having been freely supplied with samples, about nine hundred hogsheads and tierces have found buyers at steady prices; middliug to good grocery 525. to 555., fine 565. to 575., low middling fine 505. to 515., loose brown to good strong refining descriptions 48s. to 53 5. 6 d. Nothing dout4 in Mauritius or Bengals. Ruin is still very quiet, en" nothing done worthy of notice.---Bristol Mercury. ELECTION OF CHIEF RABBI OF THE JEWS IN FRANCV. T p th r h o ee ce pr e re d oscue t le o tdin t o he fg election of a Chief Rabbi. —PARIS, JUNE 17.—At seven o'clock this evening the Central Consistory and the delegates met at the Hotel de Ville, to and Halevy were not present, and Dr. Cahen, the delegate the districts of Paris, entered rather a serious protest agairl f4 s th o e f s t c h ni e tcionlylegae,ppaeanrdedabtsotabineedas ffroollnot votin • the number of votes were eighteen, out of which Chief Rabbi Ennery had 17.---L' Univers Israeli/e. Messrs. Anspacli Mr. John Duncan, the African traveller, has ju4 arrived in London from Dahomey. He is the bear er of sa proposal from the King of Dahomey, an intelligent chili a for the suppression of the slave trade. Such a treaty wll have the most beneficial effects, as the seaboard of Dahonlei is now the chief slaving ports on the west coast o f Africa:. Mr. Duncan's description of his reception at the Court et the King, is truly interesting, as showing the rapid progreag c towards civilisation which has in a short time taken pla! in that kingdom under the rule of a sagacious chie f, and ,_ example bids tair to extend itself all over Soudan, We have to record a further proof of the kind consid er ration felt by Sir Robert Peel for the afflicted family of the late Mr. Haydon. Not content with the prompt pecuniarY assistance extended to that lamented artist in the last hours of his life, nor with the liberal sum transmitted to his be reaved widow and orphans, the Premier has made permanent provision for a son of the deceased by appointing h erver. v im to the situation of landing- waiter in the Custows.—Obs Mr. Augustus Paget, précis- writer to the topesEar of Aberdeen. has been appointed second paid attachi British Embassy at Paris.-ob.server. _—_______ BIRTHS. On the 23d inst., a, ~ Edinburgh' the Lady Jane Johnstone Poughters of a son. at Park House, near Maidstone, the wife of g' On the 24th Just ~ of a daughter. L. L us hington, ET' lady of Thomas Birkbeek, Esq.. of Staa b:Rise, near Settle, o Coln' On the 25th in till str t Inst., i - ee , Berkeley -square, the lady of George Hope, RN., of a da ughter. mender Lauren On the 25th inst., Mrs. Charles Templer Depree, of Lawr lane, Chapside, of a daughter. lOU' On the 25th inst., at Lensdale-square, Mrs. J. R. Morrison, of a ~,,.. On the 24th ins ~f t a h e e on. On the 25th inst., at Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, the wife of 1, Haggard, Esq., of a son. a. On the 25th i ns t ., at the Retreat, Rushey-green, Lewisham,— m John Smith, of a daughter. On the 25th i ns t . , M rs. S. Moss, of Bernard-street, Russell-Ku a re, of a son. At Olten, Canton Solcure, Switzerland, the lady of Henr y Belfleld Lefene, M.D., of a daughter. ____.......0 MARRIED. On the 24th Inst., at Camberwell Church, Mr. John Walk&L „i Lawrence -lane, to Emily, fourth daughter of George Shaw, EOP , Coburg-road. o a ul, On the 25th Inst., at St. Gllea's Church, Norwood, J. H. Esq., surgeon, of Camberwell House, Camberwell-road, to 31 ''"' Ann, only daughter of F. G. Aubin, Esq., of Westow-hill, SueY DIED. On the 28th inst., in George-street, Hanover-square, Christina , t" wife of T. Lamle Murray, Esq, On the Bth inst., at Malta, Frederick Annesley James, second gild yonngest son of the late Bishop James, of Calcutta. On the 14th inst., at the Tower of London, Henry Dealtry Thoni 3l4 son of the Rev. Henry Thomas, of Calcutta. On the 21st inst., at Crouch-end, Hornsey, John Grant, Esq. • On the 21st inst., at Vioux Luc, Calvados, France, Maria, the L " fant daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Carmichael. Rad' On the 21st inst., Samuel Lewin, Esq., of Womaston House, norshire, aged 46. On the 25th inst., at Brighton, Catherine, wife of Thomas KO S Holmes, Esq. On the 25th inst., at Weybridge, Surrey, James Taylor, Esq. . On the 25th inst., at Grove House, Battersea, Surrey, Dun a " 31‘Kellar, Esq., aged 91. 'he 28th Ranulph, youngest £Oll of Charles Cooley Cra Yer, f nil., ol' 1.1411 c,:, London: Printed and Published by 1117RDO YOUNCI, of No. 1 1 ''' Strand, Printer, at The Sun Oftlee, N 0.112, Strand, in the Prec 1U of the Sayey, IP the County of AUC141.110.14 Utratiq's JN r), V