The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-12 00:00:00

ettr* '.7.'tittton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA LAND COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The general meeting of this Company was held to-day at the offices of the Company, in Copthall-court; John Moxon, Esq., chairman of the Company, in the chair. The advertisement having been read, the Chairman called upon the Secretary to read the report, the sub stance of which was that a considerable advance has already been made in promoting the interests of the Company. But as the several points are comprised in the observations of the Chairman, it would be useless to state the contents of the report here. The report having been read, The CHAIRMAN said, that before he read the cash statement, he wished to observe that some eight or ten years ago the expenditure had exceeded the income of the Company by about 1,5001. or 1,600/., but last year it had been reduced to 9001., and now it was only 321 L, a much greater diminution than was anticipated last year. Had all the property been realised which the Company had to dispose of; there would have been a balance in their favour, while there was at present a small balance of 381. against them. But in 1846 he fully anticipated the difference would be on the other side to the extent of two or three hundred peunth. There was another topic which he ought to touch upon, and that was the possibility of a war with America, the commencement of which would subject the Company to the force of public opinion. He believed, however, that a war would in 11,, v. affect the pros perity of the Company, except to at for a while the tide of emigration, so that instead 0;* eight or nine thou sand emigrants in their territory, they would have only eight or nine hundred. Nova Scotia offered no oppor tunities for military posts of which the Ameri cans could take advantage, and the descent of troops from the upper provinces would, as had been the case with Belgium during the last war, where the presence of large bodies of troops, who had paid for what they consumed, had conduced very largely . to the prosperity of the country. Then, as to the project of the military road, he believed that since their interview with Lord Stanley last year, the Govern ment had given it up, and were very likely to render their assistance—probably- advance or guarantee the capital for a railroad from Quebec to Halifax, which was sure to be of great advantage both to the territory of the Company and this country generally. By the cash account it appears that the balance of money in hand is 1,3141. 7s. 2d., including the deposit at Wright's, on which dividends are still expected. The cash account having been read, The CHAIRMAN intimated that he had received notice of a meeting to further the interests of the Society for the Promotion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and lie would suggest that some of their body should attend there to stow what the society had done. They had built a church, and paid 521. a year to the resident cler gyman, besides several other advantages, which they conceived was the best mode of advancing the inte rests of any community. They were reedy to do the same for any other Christian body to a prudent extent, and the application of a respectable body of the Roman Catholic population was now before the board. To the inquiry of a SHAREHOLDER, The CHAIRMAN replied that they bad probably done more in this way than any other body connected with our colonies in North America. The outlay had been about 3001. in money, and 100/. in Lied, besides the stipend. The report was then adopted, and Mr. Philip Gowan, Mr. George Nicholls, Mr. Thomas Newnham, and Mr. Newman Smith, who went out of office by rotation, were re-elected directors, and Mr. John Norbury was re-elected to the office of auditor. Mr. Butts was then elected a director in the place of his father, deceased, and Mr. Richard Blanchard in the place of Mr. Ambrose Humphreys, also deceased ; the former was known to be a good man of business, and the latter, in addition to that quality, considerable knowledge of the colonies. In consequence of a suggestion of Mr. HANKEY, The CHAIRMAN explained that the deputation was only suggested to show the feeling of the proprietors, and not intended to commit the society to any grant of money. The church establishment has arisen in conse quence of a proposition from the Society in Pall-mall, who had given 100/. towards the pews and the paint ing of the church, and had proffered to give 100/. a year to the minister, provided the Society would pay anything like half, and that was the reason why the society had given 52/. a year, believing it to be wise that there should be a religious society of some kind.—(Cheers.) To a further suggestion of Mr. HANKEY, that there should be an equality of religious communi.ies, it was explained that the Society had been particularly careful to preserve that equality, and to prevent any difference of position whatever between the different sections on their territory. To an inquiry of Mr. COPE, The CHAIRMAN replied, that in the event of any other religious community coming forward, as the So ciety for the Promotion of the Gospel in !foreign Parts had done, that to the extent of their means the Society would render the same assistance. After some further conversation on this subject, it was decided that there should be no formal deputation of the Society to the meeting at the Mansion House, which was called on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Thanks were then voted to the chairman and directors, for their services during the last year, as also to the Chairman for his services this day. The latter returned thanks, and the meeting separated. At the close it was announced that Captain Hayne, the American agent of the Company, would leave America about the end of April, some time before which there is to be a meeting to consult with and take leave of him. TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING. SIX o'CLocK. CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Sweetmeat 20 to 1 agst Clumsy 25 to 1 agst Best Bower 25 to 1 agst The Baron 25 to 1 agst Hope 25 to 1 agst Miss Burns 30 to 1 agst Fitzallau 40 to 1 agst Discord 40 to 1 agst Billy Purvis 50 to 1 agst Weatherbit 50 to 1 agst The Magnet DERBY. 9 to 2 agst Sting 16 to 1 agst Brocardo 25 to l agst Tibthorpe 50 to 1 agst Poynton 50 to 1 agst The Premier RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY) Sub-Committee No. 1. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) SCOTTISH CENTRAL (PERMIT T7i2,1v11111 AND STATIONS). Mr. Weems appeared for the promoters. The formal proofs were gone into, and the standing orders were declared to have been complied with. ZDINBITEGH AND GLASGOV.T, SIONILLAND AND XIIVIUNTILLOCH, AND SLA- 14' N I~N. Mr. Sherwood appeared in support of the petition for this Bill, which was unopposed. The formal preof4 having been put in, the standing orders were declared to have been complied with. THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW', AND (SHAW AND COLTNESS ADEALCAVIA WON. Mr. Sherwood appeared for this Bill also. The standing orders were declared to have been complied with. Several other Railway Bills were then called on, but the parties not being in readiness, the Glasgow Union Arcade Bill was taken. Mr. Brunel appeared for the promoters, and the standing orders were declared to have been complied with. 'the Committee adjourned at, four o'clock. Sub-Committee, No. 2. NORTHUMBERLAND AND LANCASHIRE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The next allegation was abandoned. This terminated the ease of this petition. The CHAIRMAN then announced that in the case of this the standing orders had not been complied with. NEWPORT, ADERGAVANNY, AND HERE FORD. Previous to entering on the formal evidence, Mr. CO TES, t tl h i a e t a t T e nt h f ie o i r g t h h tes ana promoters of the Bill, said he would admit spans of all bridges on the plans de posited in the comity were incorrect, but that they were corrected in a sub sequent notice, and quite accurate - in the deposits of the 31st of December. The CHAIRMAN said that under these circumstances they must of course find that, with reference to the subject of the admission, the standing orders had not been complied with. The formal proofs were then taken. The petition against the Bill was from kr. j on behalf of Messrs. Morgan and Watkin, ownerse Hemming,oemfming, pro perty along the line, complaining of non-compliance with the standing orders. It appeared that the parties had Ivithdrawn their e p ti tion, but subsequently authorised Mr. Hemming to proceed- on the petition. Mr. VENABLES appeared in support of the petition. After some discussion on a technical point, evidence was heard to show that the consent of certain parties interested in the line, to lie heard on this petition, was obtained. The first allegation was that there was an error in the de lineation of the plans. The evidence in support of the allegation was then taken. Mrs. Edwards was examined—Was parish clerk of Idanrrhangel Duckta Rex.—(A laugh.) She did not go into the place where her husband, the late parish clerk, and give out the responses.—(A laugh.) (It w:s here announced that the Speaker was at prayers, which from its similarity to the question put to the witness, led to renewed laughter.) In oilier points she tilled the place of her husband. The Committee found that in this can the standing orders had been complied with, and adjourned, shortly after four o'clock, till Tuesday. SuL-Committee No. 6. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) CHICHESTEU AND BOGNOR. This case Wa.9 again brought before the Committe, and all the requisite proofs having been tendered, The standing orders were declared to have been complied With. WITILPORD, CIIXCHESTZIL, AND PORTS-, rdouTn. ',Faso Wes next ca ll ed on, but the petition not being N!thing, it was postponed until that docuna,ent wa; found vate Bill -office. Lmittee then adjourned. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Committee of the Standing Orders met this day, at half-past twelve o'clock; present—the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lords Redesdale, Hawarden, and Hood. EASTERN COUNTIES (MARCH TO LINCOLN EX TENSION). This line, which was strongly opposed, occupied the atten tion of their Lordships for the greater portion of the day. The Committee, after hearing the usual evidence, decided that the standing orders had not been complied with in several respects. One of the of upon which the decision was founded was, that the plans had been lodged with the clerk of the peace two hours too late ; another was, that some of the plans had not sections marked on them • and a third was, that two individuals had not b een served with proper notice. MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. In this case the Committee decided that the standing orders liAd been complied with save in two trifling exceptions. They therefore reported favourably on the Bill. MANCHESTER AND LINCOLN RAILWAY AND CHESTERFIELD AND GAINSBOROUGH CANAL. After hearing the usual evidence, the Committee decided that the promoters of this - , line had complied with the stand ing orders)! EASTERN COUNTIES:(CAMBRIDGE TO LINCOLN). This case was adjourned till half-past twelve o'clock to morrow. The Committee adjourned at five o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIA MENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being only thirty-four Members at Four o'clock, the House was adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Lonn CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. POOR-LAW. The Marquis of WESTMEATH presented a petition from Kiasale against the existing poor-law. The Marquis of CLANCARTY presented a petition to the same effect from other places in Ireland. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Air. Nathaniel Herbert, in the county of Herts, against the Direct Northern Railway Bill, complaining that the pro posed railway would pass for a mile through his estate and orchards, and close by his dwelling-house, and prayed their Lordships not to allow the proposed Bill to pass into a law. The Marquis of WESTMEATH felt the greatest sympathy with every word that had fallen from the Noble Lord in reference to Mr. Herbert. There were many other cases of a similar and even a more aggra vated naturein Ireland, and he hoped their Lordships would take them into consideration, with a view to pre vent the evils complained of. Lord BROUGHAM would, at a future period, move for a standing order, which would give to parties circum stanced as the petitioner was their expenses in opposing railway Bills. Lord CAMPBELL thought the best course for the petitioner to have adopted would have been to bring his case before a jury at Harts, and he would not only then have had compensation for the timber which had been cut down, but also damages for whatever other in jury he might have sustained. THE IRISH; PACIFICATION BILL. The Earl of ST. GERMANS moved the further con sideration of the report on the Irish Pacification Bill. Lord BROUGHAM would observe, in reference to the amendment of his Noble Friend (Earl Grey), that if such a clause were to be made a part of the Bill, it would be entirely ixoperative, for it would be contended in Ireland that the house of a sick neighbour was always between the offender's house and that of the clergyman. The LORD CHANCELLOR would move the read ' ing of the amendment, whi c h h e w i s h e d t o b e ma d e p ar t of the Bill. The Clerk at the table having read the clause as amended, The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the clause would require some slight alteration., namely, in reference to the applicatiou of the words "proof whereof," he would have the word " whereof" so placed in the sentence as to make it apply to the " law fulness of the occasion," of the absence of the party from his house during the proscribed hours, and not to the " suspicious circumstances." The Noble Lord then suggested an alteration in the clause bearing on the intimidation of witnesses, which, he said, only affected the grammatical construction of the sentence. insurgents. On the 28th of February there was not (as your correspondent in Vienna pretends to know already, on the 24th) a man of Prussian and Russian troops about Cracow. Why does your correspondent said you these unfavourable reports ? lie either can know nothing, or will know nothing. But what I know is, that it is a shame, on the ground of a mere report, to cast a slur on the honour of troops at the moment when they show a devotedness and fidelity which gain the admi ration of all foreigners, and still more that of their own countrymen. lIAMBIIRGH DORSENIIALLE, MARcn 6. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents • ... Bank Shares .. • • • • • • • • .• 1580 Anglo-Russian Loan .••• • • • • 106% 106sa Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate. 101 101 Ditto Ist series Inscription •• • • 102 Ditto, Mope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 98 Ditto, in Certificate • • • • • • .. ....• . New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. • • Ditto Stieglitz . ....... ••• • • • ..• 88 Spanish New 5 per Cent l9 18 1 ; Ditto 3 per Cent 30% Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent. • Dutch Actual Debt, 23 per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 80 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • National Bank 5hare5............... BELGIAN FUNDS.—likus'iLLs, MAac 10. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent- •• • Ditto Three per Cent .. •• Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto .• .• • • Ditto,ditto,lB4 , ) IGOI4 Ditto, ditto, 1842 • • . • • • • • Ditto, 1844.. • • • • • • • .• .. • • •• • • • • •• Ditto, 1836.. ... Ditto, 1838 Ditto of the City, 1832 ................ Ditto, 1843 • • • • •• • • • • • • • .. 100% Bank ofßelgium.... • • • • • ............. BGS —Brussels Papers. March 11. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 12, 1846. the moment the United States have put a period to the joint ' occupation, during which every permanent establishment is prohibited and impossible, they will plant their standard in all points ►here American citizens are to be found, that is, every where. They wilt execute justice, they \yin organise a government, thay wiii levy customs' duties, they will per form acts of exclusive sovereignty—they will do it a thou sand times for one. They will thus reduce England to the alternative of evacuating the Oregon altogether, or waking war for the maintenance of her rights in that quarter; and, after the vast preparations that she is making, and which Mr. M'Lane has sufficiently characterised, would England take the first part or the second? Thus, the vote of the House of Representatives is, at the bottom, an offensive one, and if it were thought that the Senate would the same measure, war must be expected. We perse•rere in hoping that the Senate will resist the fatal impulse to which the 'House of Representatives has yielded, more perhaps than it itself imagines; and all the acts which it has hitherto per formed confirm us in that hole." INSTITUTION OF CIVIL EN- GINEERS.—MARcu 10. (Sir Joux RENNlE,President, in the Chair.) The paper of the evening was an " Account of the Drops used for the shipment of Coals at Middlesborough on-Tees, with a description of the town and port of Mid dlesborough," by George Turnbull, M. Inst. C. E. The communication first gave an account of the town of Middleborough-on-Tees,and then described the docks, and the coal drops used there. The rapid rise of the town into commercial importance was treated of and accounted for, chit fly by the fact of a branch having been constructed from the Stockton and Darlington Railway to Middlesborough, which, as a port for shi, ping, pos sessed many Ldvantages over Stcckton. As an example of this increased importance, it was stated, that the quantity of coals sent down the gtoekton and Darlington Railway and Shipp' d at SLckton and Middleilii;.;congh, in :825 26, was 7,926 tons ; and in 1840-41 it had in creased to the comparatively immense amount of 493,092 tons. The handsome manner in which the t 0%% n was laid out and built, and its active ;pant:factories, were also noticed. This commercial activity necessarily caused the want of a dock to be felt, and the present works were accord• ingly executed, The approach to the dock was stated to be by a chan nel of more than a quarter of a mile in length, which was kept open by sluicing ; the entrance lock, built of stone, was 132 feet long by 30 feet wide, the area of the dock itself was about nine ecres. The branch railway diverges from the Stockton and Darlington line, and terminates in ten double iineF, lead ing to the ten coal drops. The manner of working the drops was thus described:—The loaded waggon is run on to a cradle or stage, which is arrested in a position immediately over the hatchway of the vessel to be loaded; it is then let down poppenclicularly, by means of counterbalance weights, and when it has nearly iewhed the deck of the vessel the contents are discharged into the hold; the counterbalance weights then preponde rate, and the empty waggon is raised to the level of the rails. At the ordinary rate of working about thirty waggons can be discharged an hour by each drop. In a statement annexed to the paper, it is mentioned that in the year ending July 1, 1845, 505,486 tons of coals were shipped by means of the ten drops here described. The cost of the drops was 7,3001 The total outlay for the whole works amounted to 122,0001. Th'ese worke were designed by Mr. W. Cubit, Vice-President of the Institntion Civil Engineers, Mr. G. Turnbull being the acting engineer. Mr. Slemen's chronometric governor was exhibited, and after being explained to the meeting, its merits as a regulator of machinery were testified to by several gen tlemen who had used it for corn and other mites, and it was acknowledged to be very superior to the ordinary pendulum governor of Mr. Watt. The following paper was announced to be read at the meeting of Tue;day, March 17 : N. 734.—0 n the relation between the velocity ar.cl the resistance encountered by bodies moving in fluids, by J. M. fleppel, Graduate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. January, IS37', it appears that there remained in the tin box 10,000!. of Exchequerebills belonging to the plain tiff. These Byrne delivered to the respondents to receive, as they heel done before, the interest thereon, and exehange ior bills, which was accordingly done. At thie period Byrne had a ba lance of something more than 1.500/. standing to his credit at his bankers, and certain bills of exchange of Byrne's became due at this time, and being presented for pay ment at the banking house, Messers. Barnett advanced Byrne a sum of 3,2001, which, with the balance of 1,300/. belonging to Byrne, was required to pay these bills. This transaction made a ballnee of 3,2001., in their books due to them from Byrne. The Exchequer bills belouging to plaintiff, at to 10,1001, Nvbich Byrne had last given to Messrs. Barnett, to receive the interest thereon, and exc - large thee; for new ones, not having been returned to i ~ Tne as usual in due time, he applied to Messrs. Barnett to return tin m to him, to be deposited in the tin box, as he had been theretofore in the habit of doing. Byrne, at this time, it appears, be came embarrassed in_ his pecuniary affairs, and owing Messrs. Barnett a balance of 3,200/., they refused to return him the Exchequer bills in question, claiming a lien upon them, according to the general custom of bankers in such cases, in older to secure the payment of the balance due to them from Byrne. The appellant, under these circumstances, brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas against Messrs. IZarnett, to recover his Exchequer-bills, or the amount thereof. Messrs. Barnett, in defence to that action, claimed as bankers the right to a lien (according to the czsturp pf bankers in their behllQ of the :P. K .- eht quer b:lis in 'question, whieh By roe had 'handed over to them, in o:der to secure the repayment of the ad vance they had made him. They bed never been in formed by Byrne, or had any notice, or the slightest notion, `bet guy pr all of the F l valn quer which Byrne kept deposited in the tin box, and which frem time to time he delivered to them (Messrs. Barnett) to receive the interest thereon and exchange for new Excheeuer-bills, wc7e the property of the uppaliant; but 4 they had eon sidcred and treated them as the property of Byrne, and therefore as such were liable to lie retained as a security by them. The appellant's case before the Court below was, that the Exchequer bills were never deposited with Messrs. Barnett, by Byenc, in the poneee of their busi ness as bankers they were never entered in their books to the account of Byrne, and the fact of their being always deposited in the tin box by Byrne, who kept the key, and being delivered by him only for a special pur pose, from time to time, to Messrs. Barnett l and then returned again to hien hy thew when that parti cular object was attained, showed clearly that Byrne was not dealing with them as his own property, and that, even if they had been, the bankers never beceme possessed of then; in such to way as would entitle tin ill to have a geneeal iieo on them for advances they might make to Byrne. Upon the trial of the action a special verdict was given for the appellant, which was afterwards turned into a special case for the opinion of the Court of Common Picas sitting in 12anco, 1) - pan argument the Count gave judguient In r 4 avour of the aepellant, holding that under the particular circum stances of this ease Messrs. Barnett had not, through Byrne, obtained or were entitled to a lien of these F.,x chever-sbille, the property or the appellant, The case was then carried to the Exchequer Chamber, upon a writ of error, by Messrs. Barnett, and the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas was reversed, the Judges being of opinion that Messrs. Barnett were entitled to a lieu on the property. From the decision of the F.auhcquer Chamber this appeal was brought. Their Lordships, at the conclusion of the arguments, postponed giving jadgenent. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROME CIR .7UlT—ilairt,torte, Tuesday. The Commission for the county of Kent was opened on Monday. There was nearly a hundred prisoners for trial, and on the civil side 29 cases are entered, three of which are special jury cases. The Lord Chief Justice sat at Nisi Prius, and Mr. Baron Alderson presided at the Crown Court. CROWN COURT. James Bowray, 24, wai indicted for a misdemeanour, in hsving unlawfully thrown a stone upon the Gravesend and Rochester Railway, and therehy endangered the safety of the passengers travelling upon the line. Mr. Smith conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Russell appeared for the defendant. From the evidence it appeared that some time prior to the 20th of .January there had been repeated complaints of persons throwing stones at the trains as they passed upon the line ; and, on the day in question, as the five p.m. train was passing under Ingham-bridge, the de fendant was seen to throw or drop a stone, which fell upon one of the carriages. He was taken into custody, when he admitted that the stone fell from his hand, hut he said he had no intention or idea of doing any mischief. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in parsing sentence, told the defendant that he believed that it was very probable that he did not intend to do any mischief, but stiil the (ffoet of his acting as he did might have been most serious, and might have occasioned the loss of life. Under these circumstances, and with a view to deter other persons from the commission of a like offence, he felt it to be his duty to pass a sentence of some s?verity, which was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.) HARTWELL t>. CURLING. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is the proprietor of a newspaper published in Surrey and Kent, called the Mercury, to recover the amount of his bill for advertisements connected with one of the pro jected Kentish railways, and to which the defendant acted as solicitor. The jury found for the plaintiff. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN.) 31`DOWALL V. DUNNINGTON AND OTHERS. This was an action brought to recover the amount of a bill for printing books of reference, circulars, and other matter in connexion with a projected railway called the London, Nottingham, and Sheffield Direct Railway. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Lush were for the plaintiff. Mr. Prentice appeared for the defendant. The plaintiff is a printer in Fleet-street, and he had been engaged to perform the work specified in the decla ration. The defendant, and other persons mentioned in the record, had taken proce:rdings in connexion with the railway in question, and they. were now sued as the parties who were responsible for the payment of the plaintiffs claim. The Jury having consulted for a short time, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE told them that there was no defence to the present action. The defendants had suffored their names to be put forth to the public as part of the managing commi►tee of the scheme in question, and they were legally responsible to the plaintiff. A verdict was then returned for the plaintiff, for the sum of 167/. 17s. 6d. N EIV S 1 eN Z±l 7 lr : 4 ' Af.A.GISTERIAL AUTHORITY. Earl CLANCARTY said that, on a late occasion, he endeavoured to impress on the House the importance of justices of the peace, in Ireland, being entrusted with the authority to compel witnesses to come forward and give information in cases where they .were cognizant of crimes being committed. On that occasion, he (the Noble Lord) distinctly stated that such power did not exist at present in Ireland, and that no person could be compelled to come forward and make a charge or supply evidence. In calling attention to that state of things he was met by a Noble Lord opposite, who stated that he (Earl Clancarty) had mistaken the law, as such power did exist with the magistrate to compel witnesses to come forward. Now, that Noble Lord being, in his opinion, a very high and eminent authority on such matters, he wished to know if a magistrate, on being informed by a policeman that a house had been burned or arms plundered, and that Aor B were cognizant of the fact, had the power to have arrested A or B with a view to compel him to give evidence?—(Hear.) Lord CAMPBELL replied that if there were not a higher authority than himself present, ha meant the Noble and Learned Lord who sat on the Woolsack, he would willingly answer the question. But he should then content himself with advising the Noble Earl to address his question to that quarter, where, he was certain, it would be fully and fairly answered.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) The Earl of CLANCARTY said that by the Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Campbell) refusing to answer his question, he had shrunk from the position he had perseveringly maintained. What he (Lord Clancarty) understood from the Bill was, that the magistrates had not power to compel witnesses who were cognizant of crime to give evidence. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had been re ferred to, but he did not think he was bound to answer the question. Lard STOURTON said that no language was too strong to express his conviction that such a state of things which existed in Ireland should be put down by the Lpgislature. He was therefore desirous that no impediment should be placed in the way of passing the measure. Still, he thought some exemp tion should be made in favour of those who were going for a priest, so that they might not be liable to arrest. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that nobody could doubt that a man going from one street to another, and going to a bed of sickness, was a perfectly lawful act, within the meaning of the Act of Parliament. Lord STOURTON wished to know, if a man, other wise guilty of crime, were to be found in the street, going to a bed of sickness, would ho be liable to be arrested ? The LORD CHANCELLOR said, of courso a man who had committed murder would be liable to be arrested at all times. The report was then received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, STATE OF IRELAND. Earl GREY gave notice of his intention, on Monday week, to move an address to her Majesty on the state of Iceland generally. RAILWAY BILLS. The Earl of DALHOUSIE morecithe suspension of the second, third and fourth sections of the 233 d stand ing order, requiring Select Committees on Railway Bills to take traffic evidence.—Agreed to. Their Lordships then adjourned. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, MARCH 9.—On the last market-day at Arlon there was a considerable fall in the price of potatoes. This happy circumstance is attributed to the fact, that this is the time when the farmers open the pits, in which they keep the potatoes during the winter, and that they have been found in a state of perfect preservation. We have nothing positive to say to-day as to the Ministerial crisis. If we are rightly informed, it was not till yesterday (Sunday) that M. Van de Weyer finally declined form ing a new Cabinet, at least it was yesterday that he in formed his Majesty cf it. All the information that we have been able to collect, agrees, that M. Van de Weyer had full power to re constitute the Cabinet, and that he was not confined to choose his colleagues among the members of the pre ceding Ministry, besides there was no reason to think that M. Van de Weyer could entertain the idea of turning his back on the programme contained in his speeches of the 17th and 19th of November. This same programme seems to be still destined to remain the basis of future combination. At the open ing of the Chamber of Representatives to-day, the Minister for Foreign Affairs proposed that the Cham ber should defer till Wednesday the discussions of the project of law on public accuunts, M. Malon, the Mi nister of Finance, who is to defend, being prevented by a severe domestic affliction from attending in his place to-day, was agreed to. To-morrow the Chamber will discuss the project of law on the tariff of Customs, of which M. Osy is the reporter. co A io N g D t G o A a Lt r t e c p u o r t Vienna jor p - a G p e c o rs er o a f l the 4th say,4.3RAaCcONVrd dated Bielitz March Ist, he had caused the point of other passag es , detachments Oswioezim (on the frontier of Cracow) and all the guarded by t h y attempts of theon the t Vistula, as far as:Podgorze, to be en s of troops, in order to prevent the river. VIENNA, MARCH 4. W e day, and perhaps s h a ll not which o r ec eived no news yester arany, till the arrival of the train by the railroad , usually comes about half-past two in the afternoon. Meantime o be paper (the Allgerniene Zeituig) which brings us much later news, of wttchor March, heard nothing, and probably never shall again. Ie mean have w the letter marked ' " -, in which there is not e word of truth: there was no attack on Cracow on the night of the 22d, consequently General Collin was not obliged by it to evacuate the city. The Cracow city militia (there was no national guard) behaved admi rably from the first to the last man. The commandant was not deposed by General Collin ; there was no deser tion of the militia, no general engagement, and there fore not two, much less 200 infantry and 140 cavalry (nearly all that was in Cracow), could be killed in that general engagement. The Archbishop of Cra cow, the Senate, anciGeneral Chlopictre quietly with drew with the troois :over the Vistula bridge , and no detachment wr s cut off. Not a man, much less a detach ment of the brave regiment of Nugent, deserted to the POLAND. The following notice of the extent and population of the different provinces which constituted the ancient republic of Poland will be read with interest at a moment when their inhabitants are snaking an effort to become independent of their present rulers. Gallicia, which now belongs to Austria, has an extent of 1,580 geographical miles, and a population of 4,797,243, nearly all Poles. About 2,000,000 profess the United Greek religion, about the some number are Roman Catholics. There are rather more than 250,000 schismatic Greek', 30,000 Protestants, and 283,345 Jews. The re publis of which Cracow is the capital has about 21 geograpeical square miles, and 145,7.87 inhabitants. The territory and the town form a republic, under the protectorate of Austria, Russia, and Prussia. The Grand Duchy of Posen, which forms part of the Prus sian monarchy, has a superficies of 536 square geogra phical miles ; a population of 1,290,187, of wbom 372,789 profess the Prussian Evangelical religion, and are chiefly Germans by origin and in language. There are 783,916 Roman Catholics, who are nearly all Poles. The Jews are in number 77,102. Prussia has also other populations of Polish origin in Silesia, and eastern and western Prussia, from Dantzic to the frontiers of Russia ; but as they have been sepa rated from the other Polish people for more than a century, it is not supposed that they will take any part in the insurrection. The ancient provinces of Lithuania, White Russia, and Samcgitia, form the Russian Go vernments of Wilna, Witepsk, Grodno, Kowno, Minsk, and Mohilow. Their population is 4,978,369. These countries have for four years been suffering from scarcity of provisions, and the people are, therefore, in a state of great excitement. The nobles and a portion of the people are Roman Catholic ; the rest, who were formerly of the United Greek Church, have now become, by choice or force, members of the Schismatic Greek Church, but a great number of the peasantry have refused to acknowledge the Russian bishops who were appointed to succeed their priests. There are also a few thousand Poles in the Russo-German governments of Courland and Livonia. In the Ukraine and Little Russia ; viz., the Govei nrnents of Volhynia, Kieff, Poltaa a, Kurks, &c., the nobles pro• fess the Roman Catholic faith, but the people now profess the same religion as the Russians. The population of these Governments, which are of great extent, amount,: to eight millions. What is called the kingdom of Poland, and which is under the authority of Gen. Paskewitch, is also of considerable extent, and has a population of 4,769,790. Thus there are in— Gallicia Cracow 145,787 The Grand Duchy of Posen 1,290,187 Lithuania 4,978,369 Little Russia The Kingdom of Poland Giving a total of 23,981,376 The population of Russia is 63 millions, that of Austria 37 millions, and that of Prussia 16 millions, indepen dently of the population of the different provinces:l'of ancient Poland. POTATOES. (From the Limerick and Clare Examiner, of March 7.) Through the kindness of an intelligent and benevolent landlord, who irstituted a statistical inquiry into the condition of the agricultural population in a very large and extensive county parish in the neighbourhood of this city, we are enabled to publish the following parti culars, the importance and alarming nature of which cannot be overrated:— The classification embraces the number of families, the number of persons comprising each family, the num ber of persons in each family under ton years, the num ber over ten year:, the number not employed, the num ber employed, the rate of wages per week, the quantity of potatoes on hands last November, the quantity on hands at present, the quantity of potatoo land tilled, the quantity of land sufficient, by whom employed, and remarks. The parish is divided into ten townlands, and contains 342 families ; populat;on, 1,942 ; number of persons not employed, 286. The quantity of potatoes on hand, in November, was 10,425 barrels of 48 stone each. At present there are but 2,245 i barrels, the greater part of which are rapidly running into decay I In one townland the number of families was 75 ; the population was 435 ; number of persons under ten years of age, 114 ; number of persons over ten years of age, 325 ; number not employed, 145 ; number employed, 45 ; rate of wages received per week, 64 shillings ; quantity of potatoes in November, 1,884 barrels ; quan tity now on hand, 3911 barrels ; quantity of potato land tilled, 53 acres 2 roods and 3 perches ; quantity of land sufficient, 36 acres additional The above is the list of labourers' holdings. Next is the landholders' list in the same townland. Families, 29, comprising 258 members, 54 under ten years of age, and 202 over ten. Quantity of potatoes on hand in November, 2,830 barrels; quantity now on hands, 501; quantity of land tilled, 781 acres; quantity of con-acre, 25 acres; produce of con acre in November, 1,013 bar rels; produce at present, 315 barrels; rate of con-acre average 71. 15s. per acre. The average of the remaining townlands is somewhat similar. There is no material difference ; and so it be comes unnecessary to publish particulars. The deductions are plain and appalling in the extreme. If 10, 425 barrels of potatoes were produced for a twelve month's consump tion for 1,942 people, each month's consumption would amount to about 870 barrels. The quantity on hands, even supposing the present potatoes to remain free from progressive disease, would only last for a little over two months ; that is to about May-day ; whilst the terrific certainty of an entire absence of food for five or six months stares us in the face. But, again, supposing that the disease progresses with a rapidity equal to what is experienced at present, the stock on hands will not last more than six weeks at farthest. The account of money re quired to purchase the necessaries of life fur the labour ing portion of the parish to which we have alluded at, say, 305. per head for the time stated, would be about 2,900/. The average fcr the county would be very near the enormous sum of 90,000/. This statement requires net one word of comment. THE AMERICAN QUESTION. The Journal des Debats has the following sensible remarks on the long-pending Oregon dispute:—"lt is not easy to ferns an idea of the object which President Polk and his coun cillors propose to themselves. On one side, they reject arbi tration ; on the other, they adopt in their arguments such premises as render it no longer possible to nego:iate; for the President always sets out from this idea, that the whole of the territory reverts to the Union, and that England has no right to retain the smallest portion of it. Now, to propose to a power purely and simply to abandon a territory that it now occupies by common consent, is to tell it that no nego tiation will be entered into. To speak of one's love for peace whilst putting forward such pretensions, is like talking non sense. The dispatches of Mr. Buchanan will be quite unin telligible to European diplomatists. In order to possess a key to this mystery, to try and measure the exact bearing of what President Polk is doing, the best way is to go back to his inauguration Message.' In that document was produced with eclat the doctrine that Europe has nothing to do with the affairs of America, and that no sew European establish ment can be tolerated on the new continent, especially in North America. The President, no doubt, considers that, in the present state of things, under the system of joint-occu pation, England has, strictly speaking, no establishment in Oregon. There exists in that territory, in fact, neither town nor fortress. All is reduced to a hunt for peltries, organised on a large scale, under the direction of the Hudson's Bay Company, and a few posts for the purpose of trafficking with the savages. The moment, on the contrary, the E ng li s h were placed in exclusive possession of a portion of the Oregon they would found a colony there—a political and com mercial centre of action : that is to say, just what the first magistrate of the Union has declared intolerable. Consequently, the Oregon must wholly revert to the Union. Such appears to be the object of his efforts— the tendency of his arguments. This is what he will have, no matter at what price, without being stopped by the news communicated to his Government by the American Envoy in I.oedon (Mr. M.Lane), that the English Government is perfectly p-epared to make war imme diately upon the United States, and to strike great blows at the first outbreak of hostilities ; and that it is impossible not to perceive that the immense maritime pre parations of Great Britain have at lea-t an indirect relation to the chances of rapture between that power and the Ame rican Union. If such be President Polk's idea, will the American people follow it up? Every day informs us that the most eminent men ara making manifestations in favour of the cause of peace. The last arrival brought two docu ments, one by Mr. Rivers, finanerly ambassador at Paris, who has long represented the state of Virginia in the :Fe deral Senate with much distinction ; the other by Mr. Gal latin, an illustrious veterar, who has resumed his pen at the age of 85, and descended into the arena to implore Isis fellow citizens not to precipitate themselves into the abyss that is being dug beneath their feet. The very amount of the majority that voted the resolution' of the House of Re presentatives seems of a nature to gi v e every sec u rity. !'his majority, nevertheless, includes a considerable number of orators, who have claimed for the United States the whole of the Oregon territory, and the excellent paper of Mr. Gallatin appears to us to de monstrate very clearly that the single act of the de nunciation of . t !is convention of 1827 wou ld ren d er th e maintenance ./c 23 A -ts extremely problematical; and, in fact, ADROIT SWINDLING. A person of respectable, not to say gentlemanly address, a f w days since presented himself at the count ing-house of Messrs. Southam and Evans, merchants, of this city, and stating that he was about to commence business as a dealer in guano, at Cardiff, requested to see samples of the articles which the above firm could supply to him. Accordingly the request was gratified ; and the usual preliminaries of business having been settled to mutual satisfaction, a sale of eighty tons was effected. The psnedo dealer now solicited the merchant's assistance in getting the guano shipped ; and search was made for a button, but unfortunately (or rather fortunately as it proved in the sequel) there was no vessel in the port wanting a freight, much to his disappointment. As it happened, how ever, the Henry Southan, steamer, which was on the point of starting for Swansea, had room f ten tons of goods, and it was arranged that that qantity of guano should be put into her hold for conveyance to Cardiff. This part of the lading completed, the dock-men asked their employer for some thing to drink, a request which he at fir:t put off on the plea that they should have it when the whole of the guano was shipped; but apparently on re-consideration, he changed his mind, and took them to the Trumpet public-house. There he ordered a plentiful " wet" for the porters, took a glass of grog himself, and on leaving the house, told the landlady that he should send the men there again on the next day, when they had completed the lading of his goods, and he would then settle the whole—a promise which was honoured by the grateful hostess with a low curtsey. From this period he was lost sight of on land, the merchants, naturally enough, taking no thought of him while the bulk of his " purchase" remained at their stores, and never suspecting that he might, by mere possibility, be " a land shark." It would appear, however, that the customer got on board the steamer, and after she had started on her voyage, got " unco cosy" with the steward. He eat, drank, and smoked to the top of his bent, and altogether enjoyed a pleasant voyage to Car diff. Arrived there, he unshipped the bags of precious stuff, which he was about to convert into gold ; and the weather being cold or wet, the s t ewar d, i n hi s s i mp l e good nature, lent his top -coat to the gentleman, who was so good a customer to the vessel, and the mer chants her owners. As for th e f re i g h t, h e i nt i mated that he had made it " all right" at Gloucester —and for the charges of the voyage he would settle on his return. No sooner was the gentleman with the guano ashore than he sought out an auctioneer, employed the crier to announce its sale, and i n t h e course of a very short period it was knocked down to the best bidder, " without reserve" the purchaser getting fur forty-seven pounds, goods which had been valued at, and ought to have cost 801., a few hours before in the Glou tester docks. The gentlem an , st ill i n a hurry, next co ntrived to cajole the purchaser out of a cheque for the purchase-money, forstallin g th e customary d eman d of the auctioneer ; immediately after which he disap peared, having diddled . merchants, ste ame r, steward, cryer, auctioneer—all lns. Employes in fa c t ; a n d he is, no doubt, now rejoicing n some choice obscurity, with many golden reasons, in having successfully subdued .6 that worst of earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills." —Gloucestershire Chronicle. NOVEL EXPEDIENT.—So rapidly do new fences, gates, and gate-posts disappear in the noighb our h oo d o f Lincoln, that, in self-defence against the plunderers for firewood, the owners of property have been compacd to adopt the follow ing novel expedient:—Holes with a large diameter are gouged into the wood, a quantity of gunpowder is then de posited in them, and they are carefully plugged up. When the stolen wood is cut up and placed on the fire, the gun powder explodes, and though the thi e f may no t b e d e t ec t e d, the damage inflicted on hia property ha s a t en d ency t o con vince him that honesty is the best policy. A CANDIDATE FO R TILE W EST RIDING.—We have heard some conversation in this neighbourhood as to the man to be proposed at the next general election as the col league of Lord Morpeth, end Mr. Cobden' s name h as be en mentioned. We trust . that this suggestion will find univer sal acceptance.— Weed Independent. On the evening of Monday last, a fire broke out in Lochend House, the seat of Sir George Warrender, Bart. It at one time bore a most alapning aspect ; but, happily, by the prompt measures uses', it was speedily got under, and finally extinguished. The house was full of cimpany at the time. The fire seems to have been occasioned by overheating the flues in the scullery room, and thereby igniting the sur• rounding lath and other combustible materials.—Edinbzugh Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 10. The House of Lords sat to hear writs of error. The peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. BRANDIO v. BARNETT. The arguments in this part-heard writ of error, were resumed and concluded to-day. The case has already occupied five or six days, and we have refrained enter ing into the facts, until the arguments were concluded. The case came before their Lordships upon an appeal in the nature of a writ of error, against a decision of the Exchequer Chamber, (sitting in error), whereby a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, given in favour of the appellant, was reversed. The facts of the case appear to be be these :—The appellant is a Portuguese merchant, residing abroad, and the previous ererviesopuosntdo Jan.iet ts arelBb3a7, the appellant . employed a nkers in London. For some time person named Byrne as his London agent, and he in structed him (Byrne) to buy for him, supplying him with money for that purpose, from time to time, cer tain amounts of Exchequer-bills. Byrne accordingly purchased for the appellant such Exchequer-bills as he required. Byrne kept at this period an account at the respondents' (Messrs. Barnetts') bank ; and he also, for the safe custody of all such securities as he might become possessed of, kept certain tin boxes at the banking house of Messrs. Barnett (as is customary with bankers to allow their customers to do) in which he, from time to time, deposited his securities, locked up, he ke-ping the keys himself. As Byrne purchased Exchequer-bills for the plaintiff he deposited them in one of these boxes, locked up, keeping the.key himself ; and when it bocAme nee2s sary that Ole interest on them should be received, and that they should be exchanged for new Exchequer bills, Byrne requested his bankers to do him the favour to receive the interest and obtain in exchange new bills. On those occasions Byrne took the Exchequer bills from the tin box, and banded them over to the bankers for the purpose aforementioned, and as soon as the bankers had received the interest thereon, and exchanged the bills fur new ones, these latter were, it was alleged, handed back to Byrne by the bankers, and they were again deposited by him and locked up in the tin box. Byrne had from one period to another purchased for the plaintiff Exchequer-bills to the amount of 30,000/., which were deposited in the box, and taken out occasionally by Byrne, and placed in Messrs. Barnett's hands for the purpose already stated, and they were always returned again by them to Byrne, who re-deposited them in their former custody. In FINLAYSON V. PILBROW. This was another railway case. The plaintiff is an engineer, and he sued the defendant, who is the well known atmospheric railway projector, for a balance due to him for services rendered in making rurveys for the Gravesend and London Diriet Atmospheric Railway, for which the defendant was the engineer. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Willis were for the plaintiff, Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Lush for the defendant. David Finlay son, the brother of the plaintiff, deposed, that in the beginning of October last he was in the Hall of Commerce in London, where he saw a person named Beaumo-t, who required the services of the plaintiff to survey the line, and make the levels for the proposed London and Gravesend Railway. An appointment was afterwards made to meet at the office of the Company, in King William-street, and they there saw the defendant, who said that any arrangement made with Mr. Beau mont was just the same as if made with himself ; and it was then agreed that the plaintiff was to have three guineas a day, but it was stated that he would not have any money on account because the depo&sts had not come in. In consequence of this agreement the plaintiff proceeded to make the necessary surveys, and was occu pied in so doing ur.til the 16th November. Cross-examined—He was not aware that Mr. Pilbrow had disposed of his atmospheric railway patent to a company, who were to work it on their own behalf. There might have been something of this sort, but he was not aware of the fact, and he always considered Mr. Pilbrow the responsible man. He took away one or two of the prospectuses, in order that he might see whether they contained the names of any responsible persons from whom he might recover the money due to him one of these odd days.—(A laugh) The company was in debted to him 32/ or 331. ler services he had rendered. Witness was emplOyed by Mr. Beaumont, who was the engineer, to take. beatings upon the line. Mr. Arthur Benjamin Burke, who described himself as a wine -merchant, gave similar evidence as to the character of the agreement. Cross-examined--Before witness was a wine-mer chant, he used to go on messages for the plaintiff and assist him in his business. Sometimes he gave him half-a-sovereign, and sometimes a sovereign, according to the manner in which he employed him. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. CHAMBERS said, the defence he had to offer to this action was that the defendant was not liable to the plaintiff, and had never entered into any such agreement as the one referred to. The fact was, he was the pro jector of a new principle of railway traction upon the atmospheric principle, and he had disposed of his in vention to the comp.iny in question, and the only con nexion he had with them was that he was occasionally consulted with regard to the details of his invention. The actual engineer was Mr. Beaumont, and he it was who made the arrangement with the plaintiff, and he was liable to him if any body was. Mr. Beaumont was called as a witness—He deposed that he was appointed engineer-in -chief to the Graves end and London Direct Railway. About the beginning of October they were desirous of preparing to go before Parliament. He went to the Hall of Commerce, and saw the plaintiff walking about with a level un his shoulder.—(A laughter.) Mr. Chambers—l suppose that was to indicate that he wanted a job.—(lmmense laughter.) Witness—He supposed it was. As there was a great demand for persons of that class, he entered into com munication with him, and eventually offered him three guineas a day, but as witness, at that time, had not, him self, made any practical engagement with the company, he was desirous of communicating with Mr. Pilbrow before he comp'eted the engagement, but when he did so, it was entirely upon his responsibility. He had paid the plaintiff 72/. 10s., and he considered this was a great deal more than he was entitled to. All he had for this sum was the small plan, which he now produced, and there was an error of fifty feet in the levels. which if they had gone to Parliament, would have had the certain effect of throwing out their Bill. V iln cross-examination the witness admitted that the defendant was frequently consulted in the course of the proceedings, and that he was considered a responsible party. Sergeant Seigg was about to reply upon this evidence. when the Lord Chief iustiee intimated that nothing had been proved to effect the plaintiff's claim. The jury accordingly returned a verdict for the plain tiff for the full amount claimed, 1171., over the s nug, he had received on behalf of the company, from Air. Beaumont. NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Bedford, March 9. The commission for this county was opened on Saturday afternoon amid great numbers of people, attracted, not only by the fineness of the weather, but als o by tha gaiety of the sheriff's equipage, which far outshone those heretofore " sported" in this county by his predecessors in that ancient and honoured office. The nisi prius business is not beyond its usual length, if the causes arc numbered, the - ce being only three on the list ; but there is one case among them which is to be tried by a special jury, in which the parties are master and servant, and the cause of action the alleged invasion of the latter's marriage bed by the former. The Attorney-G e n era l i s spe cially retained for the defendant, who is a justice of the peace and a rector of this county, and, moreover, a man of near " three score years and ten ;" so that, as may be expected, th e case is in everybody's mouth in the town. The calendar is heavy, containing the names of 37 pri soners, and embracing 25 cases, including arson, horse steal ing, poaching, and a variety of minor offences. ' CLONV.i•T COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAXIM, Charles a arner and William Farr were indicted for steal ing 19 fowls, the property of Mr. Hunt, at Luton, on the 28d December last. Mr. GUNNING conducted the case for the prosecution, and from the testimony of the witnesses called by the Learned Gentleman it was elicited that the prisoner Warner was on the rrrepaises, of the prosecutor, who is a respectable solicitor, on the Atli of December, working in his farm-yard, and that he bad made very rarticular inquiries both is to the num ber of the fowls on the farm, and also as to their nocturnal resting-place, which turned out to be an open shed, the door of which was only secured by a button. On the 22ti of December the fowls were counted and found to be imrect, their number being 31, but on the 28th only 12 were to be found. Fcr some time no trace whatever could be discovered either of the fowls or the ibwler who carried them off; though the fowl , boy saw Warner, and said he wished some body would find his fowls for him ; adding, that he knew the two cocks very well, fur they had been fighino the day be fore the robbery, and their combs were vary much pecked. Not long after this a clue vas Ennui to the thieves in the testimony of ona Dilley and his son, from which it app wed thi t t oa the 22d Warner, who lodged at Dilley's, said to Farr that " he knowed of a place where be could get a precious good haul of fowls f u their Christ mas dinner, and that it was at old linnt's." These worthies now appeared in the box Against their friends, and more over swore that on the night of the 23d the two prisoners cama llama with a lot of fowls in Warner's pocitets, which were plucked and made into a Christmas pudding, of which the whole party partook. This done, " Old Dilley" became compunctious, and ordered Ws lodger to take away the rest of the fowls out of his house, and accordingly War ner and ming Dllley baying cut off their heads and feet re moved the oareases to a place of security, while they threw the heads, feathers, feet, and ofial into a hedge close to the Rabbit public-house, where they were accordingly found by Dilley and the policemen, on the ldth of January following. When these relics. of the departed fowls were produeed to the fowlzb.oy, ha had no hesitation whatever in swearing to the heads of the two pugnacious cocks. So that the case being dearly made out, both the prisoners were found Guilty. Mr. Justice Maut,rl thtit proceeded to pass sentence upon the prisoners (who were but 19 years old), and in so doing pointed out to them the folly of their ways, as exemplified in their conviction to-day, on the evidence of their friend " Old Dilley," who, like all old thieves, had the wit to keep cut of harm's way, while he contrived to profit by the crime of others whom be afterwards assistel to bring to punishment, This, be hoped, would be a warning to them when they should have accomplished the sentence of the law, which was that they should each be imprisoned for the space of 12 months. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Lincoln, March 9. The Right Hon. Sir N. C. Tindal and the Hon. Mr. Justice Coltman arrived in this city shortly before 4 o'clock on Satur day, and immediately opened the commission, and charged the grand jury for the city at the City-hall ; after which their Lordships proceeded to open the commission for the county at the County-hall, in the Castle-yard. • Their Lordships attended Divine service at the Cathedral yesterday morning, and took their respective seats is the County-hall at 9 o'clock this morning ; Mr Justice Coltman presiding in the Crown Court, and the Lord Chief Justice on the Civil side. Both the Learned Judges commenced with the trial of the city prisoners —the former until the time-arrived for, and again after, charging the county - grand jury, and the latter until the nisi prius jury were ready. There appeared 8 causes for trial for the county, and 1 for the city, which latter, and 4 of the others, have been dis posed of to-day. he3ides one withdrawn ; so that 3 only re main for to-morrow. The calendar, as will be seen, is numerically, as well as in point of the heinous character of the offences, more than ordinarily heavy for this county. It presented the names of 39 prisoners, and 27 cases for trial, of which latter 4 were of burglary, involving 9 prisoners; 1 of sheep stealing, involv ing 4; 3 of robbery with violence, involving 6; 2 of un natural offence; 4 of arson; 2 of horse stealing; 1 of forgery (a Post-office order for 31/.) ; 1 of sending a threatening letter; 3 of being armed at night for the purpose of taking and killing game ; 2 of uttering and having in possession base money; and 1 of concealment of birth. CIVIL SIDE.--(Before the Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) THOMAS BROMHEAD V. THOMAS SPARLING. This was an action on the case to recover damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff by being bitten, and having his clothes rent by a ferocious dog, kept by the defendant. The declaration charged that the dog was used and accus tomed to attack and bite mankind, and did bite the plain tiff. First plea, not guilty; Second plea, that the defendant did not keep the dog. Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Wildman conducted the plaintiff's case. Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Willmore ap peared as counsel for the defendant. The plaintiff is a journeyman blacksmith, and the de fendant the keeper of a beer. shop in Far- street, Horncastle. As the plaintiff, shortly after ten o'clock at night, on the 27th of May last, was passing the defendant's house, in his way along Far-street, two dogs'of the bull-terrier breed, one being of a red and white, and the other of a black and white colour, rushed upon and attacked him, and the latter, having bitten and rent his clothes near the shoulder, very severely bit his right hand. A neighbour of the de fendant, seeing what was occurring, came out from his shop on the opposite side of the way and helloed to the dogs, upon which they :au away up the defendant's yard. The plaintiff then pursued his way until he met a policeman, to whom he made complaint of what had happened to him, and showed him his terribly lacerated hand, and who ac companied him back to Sparling's, and went up the back yard, where he saw the red and white dog, but not the other. He then went to the defendant and asked him where his dogs were, and he answered that they were both locked up. The policeman then said that he had just seen the red and white one up his back yard, upon which he demanded to know what business he had upon his premises, and stated that the other was locked up. The constable said, " Yes, but it was not locked up a few minutes ago," and the de fendant replied that it had been locked up all the evening. and a man named Attercliffe could prove it. The policeman to this answered that the man Attercliffe would swear to anything for a pint of beer, and he would not believe him upon his oath. Thomas Wilkinssn, a lad in the service of Mr. Cooke, a veterinary surgeon, living next door to the defendant, de posed that he kept a Tom and Jerry shop (beer-shop), and two dogs, one of which was red and white and the other black and white. The latter was of the hull-terrier breed, and very savage, and bit him (the witness) when he was going to Mr. Day's bakehouse, carrying the bread. He was on one side of the road, and the dog on the other, and crossed over to him, and he did not see hint until he got held of him. Both the dogs were at the plaintiff, and the black and white one bit his hand. Mr. Hewett, a potter, called out, and then both the dogs ran up the defendant's yard. He had fre quently seen them there, and knew them both very well.' Other witnesses proved the ferocious character of the dog, and that it was used to attack people, and left no reasonable doubt that it was kept by the defendant. The plaintiff haccsuffered great pain, and been ill for se • veral weeks; he had also incurred some small expense in ef fecting a cure. _ _ Th jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 25/. CROWN COURT.--(Before Lord Chief Justice Timm.) Two Irish labourers, of the names of Welch and Glynn, were indicted for a rape, within the precincts of the city, on the 22d of August last, upon the person of one Mary, the wife of George Lee, a monstrously dirty member of the gipsy tribe, at the age of about 60. Mr.•D'Eyrcourt conducted the prosecution; Mr. Macaulay defended the prisoners. It appeared that there was an encampment of gipsies in Greetwell-lane, in or near the city, on the night in question, which, at the dead hour of the night, whilst the tribe slum bered in peace was outrageously stormed by a party of wanton • Irishmen, who remorselessly demolished their tents, and sought to defile the female members of the tribe, succeeding successively in their base assault upon the prosecutrix, whilst her husband was engaged in running after his use, which had made off down a lane with a load of blankets at the out break of the engagement. She, with her husband, reposed in one tent, her two daughters, of whom one was a widow, in another, and a kinsman and his wife in another. She bad also a son, twenty-six years old, who seemed to have acted as patrol. The assault opened with an attack upon the tent of the daughter?, which, after they had refused to let the Irishmen go to bed to them, was carried, and razed to the ground ; but the Irishmen being, by recourse to throats and nails, repulsed in their further attack upon the daughters, turned off to the old woman's tent. While Glynn succeeded with the mother Welch held the widowed daughter, after which the prisoners interchanged their posi tions. There was a party of nine or ten Irishmen behind the hedge. The unhappy aged victim of Irish concupiscence deposed to the leading facts. The parties first began heaving stones. The two prisoners did it. The other nine or ten did not in terfere or throw stones. They knew previously that the men wanted to go to bed with the young women, who wouldn't have it on no account. One of the men hugged and ravished witness. Welch began. Welch then threw her down and ravished her. She struggled as much as she could while she had strength, but she was an old woman, and hadn't much strength left. Welch, with the blunt edge of a hatchet, be longing to the camp, struck her under the right ear after both had had connexion with her. They then dragged her about the road with violence. Each held the daughter Susan while the other proceeded with her. Cross-examined—One of those she called her daughters was a wife, and large in the family way, and was glad to rim away in her chemise with her baby tucked under her arm. Had no means of knowing where her husband was while she was ravished. They stoned him away. (The ex amination of the husband before the magistrates was here put in, which was upon several points very materially at variance with her statement here to day.) Welch used the hatchet. If she before stated it was Glynn it was because she was so frightened. Could take oath that both had connexion with her. They lost blankets and clothes, her husband's hat, and some strops. Her husband went right off towards Lincoln. After the ravishing they struck the daughter a blow, which made her reel across the road. f;tusan Herring, the widowed daughter, deposed to the same story that the old woman told to-day. The men came to their camp, and wanted to go to bed with them. They began to pull up their camps—her camp and another. All the rest but she and her mother went away. Glynn held her so that she couldn't assist her mother. [She then de scribed what was done by Welch to her mother.] They threatened to murder them if they gave any alarm. Welch afterwards dragged her (witness) about the road by the legs, and used her very bad indeed. She row said (having before the magistrates, like her mother, said re to both mat ters quite the core rary), that it was Welch who struck her mother with a hatchet before h e ravished her. The men all went away because they thought they would be murdered amongst so many. The mother and daughter both told their tale with an air of no:who/once, and quite con ornate. George Lee—Was the husband of the old woman. The two prisoners came to the camp and began to stone them. The two prisoners began to pull their tents down. lected their things and set them on his ass. Th e Y l is him, and he naught they had broken his thigh. ' - when he had packed it, ba7ted ard want lir a la r t 6 l .-aed after 1!, caught, th e excittai ; Ma pia a close. He wes . ;.4a hurt that he lay down - in a dttcb yards from the encampment. . Heard them t wo his wife and daughter —a ravishing of his 'wife, hu t P atiO a close look out neon his ass. In answer to (13„pl whether he assisted the women at all, he only eilid :lagb i ' ; followed my aes." Heard the cries of his wife and from the camp, but he was so frightened that be swll after his ass. sed l ' Thomas Ashton, police-constable, of Lincoln: dePe It' shortly before three o'clock A.M.on ' the 2 4 d of •It u gf, to o the on and kinsman came to him.. Went with the - 0 4, 1 - d encampment; saw the tents all torn up in the most tota ri state. Saw Mr. Lee about 30 yards froni the call?' si te i Lincoln. A quarter of a mile off found . 50 or GO 1r0b..,"., a barn. He first secreted himself, and saw the two P.; : •1 in the yard. To o k th em i n t o custody. The reina l 4# the 50 .or CO 'lrishmen were all undressed , aldeLlooll. coming up to thei r th roa t s , a ll l y i ng i n a row, bed' 44 This being the case for the prosecution, His LoaDsutp intim a t e d t o th e L ea rned Counseclaf°o;..". prisoners, that in a cas e w h ere th ere we re srch durations, he nced not address the lure upon the til p r eltl felony. As to an assau lt having been commit ted. cn evidence"cthifirmatory of the story told by the ` v°u s . he y might, if h e tholight proper, address thel.:.rY on r. MACAZLAY did so briefly. at al Mr. D'Eyscouaz the depOsitions having be en P behalf of the p r is oners , rep li e d , an d 15 06 The Learned JUDG E b r i e fly summe d t ip as to the whereupon „ n en The jury retired a ver di c t o f G u il ty o f a CO—, o tbsto4 The Learned JUDGZ ob serve d t h at it was de a '. o l6 prisoners had been gu ilt y o f a very a t roc ious as' 0 00; sentenced them respectively t o b e imprisoned in the ,p,a gaol of this county, and k e pt t o h ar d labour, for the six calendar months. la. WESTERN ClRCUlT—Salisbury , M ° ' h cr .) CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron 13° '; Ge,s Daniel Gallagher, a pri va t e i n t h e I s t Drag e° osllo6" was indicted, charged with having shot at Au g 1 ,„4 his wife, with intent to kill and murder her. •oer Mr. Ball appeared for the prosecution. Th e Pr' ti undefended. She stt O The first witness called was Ann Gallagher--,-,iteiev she was the wife of the prisoner, who was sPr' % d " 1 01 11 ? Ist Dragoon Guards. In December last she iive„oti. iX husband in the barracks at Trowbridge, in this c fl e ,i t i of 0 had had a fortnight's leave, and returned on the 4 .' et i it camber. During his absence the wife had re m3 gat r l n barracks, and when he came back she told bun or,j had been set afloat that - she had been cohabiting,lo the sergeants during her husband's absence, and : h ' s a e he would inquire as to who was the person w ee the report going. , Upon this they went hefer e t booP r ii of the prisoner's company, who said that in g, was clear that the woman had only been won'rn good nature, for the sergeants in the comPan,j„lre out their rooms, &c., and would not intet" o bit,r, matter. The witness, it appeared, had been in tb e , be it 1110 her husband was at home, of cleaning about ` trf sieu t ti and cooking for them. However, as the captain nd weev matter lightly, the husband was not satisfied, ~„1 1 0 0., 6 1 the canteen. This was about four in the af i f e— , o e,j+ witness then went back to her room, soon after sbe[i husband came home. Between six and seven , oe" him if he would have some tea. He said be v l . ll° for O n o' went out of the room, and she did not see doo r ' nutes. He then came back. She met him at saw that he had something in his hand, upon w`: l3 " to tte" away, being afraid he would strike her. She rani r ,l room at the end of the pas sage . Th er e was e P A er o ftli room. He followed his wif e , who ran to the er a " e 03,7, by the table. He then fired his carbine. He traded and out of his mind. H e was quite tiP4botoio not attempt to fire when he saw her in the Pas'ed. b .. r ' at the corner of the room. Sh e was a t the other dito table; she could not t e ll h ow f ar , b u t quite „bat l ;x 3 l l direction to her. He did not appear to lin°' w cle about. The conduct of the wif e was aftervia r ' to the satisfaction of the husband. be erl Cross-examined by prisoner —He has allv a) ' of' to me. • alike r. Ellen Allen—l am the wif e o f Williamo l , o o Bugby. WaS in a room i n th e b arra ck, ancy to tbe'o 4 I heard a scream, and M r s. G a ll ag h er came 11 ' and wished the door to be locked, and it was 5 ,t a s 11 , 1' three raps at the door. Bugby opened the - - of to. f,f , lagher came into the room. He appeared o ut . „ o pro i e t p Did not seem to know what he was about• si c ao , ;pl ,) his piece towards where his wife stood, ho t ' mg btee , whether he intended to injury h er . I was so '" I became insensible. Job Bugby—On the 29th of December I vre s h „, Goo s No. 11. Mrs. Gallagher came in. Soon aver followed, who came in very drunk. He .know what he was about. He tired his ear bi rfier i l i tt l ,': the direction of where his wif e was s t an ding!. „a O A t' from the stable we searched the r oom , and 11 11 ' bullet had gone. It was m o re th an a yard 11°. O' woman was standing. ha d °° I , ' 44 'd By the JUDGE—The prisoner ca me inside t-dtbe, fired his piece. The bullet went into the corner of about a yard from where she stood. She was e- n ay" oc . about:a - yard. This was the case for the prosecution.o Ole , t for the defence, but tP it The prisoner addressed the j ur y, a nd state h a e oele v time he fired the carbine he knew not what to he was mad through jeal ous y, an d h a d done to the De'o never done sinca he had been a soldier-0 e abee t ,',4„i and got drunk. Scarce knowing what he wa s seized his carbine, but at the moment when a t , t edl'oe;,l his wife his heart had failed him, and be b a , d i .,..t ier ' t e:e the mark. He also submitted to the jull" : 7; for .4a p: that he could not have meant to shoot his w''; o se he could not have missed her, as she was SO ptv be at the other side of the table. e cei le „ e pt The sergeant of his company gave bins and the ratter, both as a soldier and a humane man, o da The Learned BARON having minutely surni r . The jury immediately acquitted the prison e POLICE INTELLIGYiI" —. ob ; MANSION-HousE. wi l or dd l A young woman of very fashionable e% appeared before the Lord Mayor, under "hefolfr Maria Jarman, spinster, was charged unde r t " 0 - ci t li r ugly circumstances. Miss Frances Woollei, street, stated that on Monday she got in to 1 :00 13r , at King's-cross, for the purpose of comieAg " o f ler t w e P City, and carried with her half-a-ru nt :o l e e e which she had paid 2s. 7d. She der s ;dl°" s j, lll , , which was in a blue paper, on the seat , : — . O O omnibus reached Old Street-road, she omnibus, of course, proceed e d towards "le„Arae` had not walked far when she missed her Pd and she immediately called a cab and desirehe 0131 Y to go after the omnibus. At the flasks 4 the omnibus, which was then empty.h conductor of her loss. The parcel produrc 1, believed, that which she had left behind b e t .' nibus. She recollected that the defend 3;" tfory Lord Mayor, sat in the omnibus by her silt; );eOJ4,l` Frederick' Ansell, conductor of one 01:;;,,,h'eahi litan omnibuses, stated th a t the com Pit: defendant were passengers in his onieig # ll , - .. , t•r„ 0 6, 1 1' plainant got out at the corner of Oki °`",o - '' came up to him at the corner of Bartholoo:',. 0? said she had forgotten a parcel in the or:al i i l l l l° 4J that the defendant who was the last per s°- 1 0 : n 4 of the omnibus, was walking towards t 5 t ll ,„ e ' r t) : : change, he followed and overtook her. a c t! PiDelt her to return with him, and in turning r° 7, E , l mew-lane, she said she had taken up giF' r plat nibus, and wished to return, it. The C O 1 :, came up, and the d e f en d an t i mi nediat e ,lia 0 0$ 0 0/ parcel to her, sayi ng , "M y d ear lady, ,I;i o alt i fe / with any bad int en t ion , b ut I th o ught -L again." Mr. Bowl. attended as solicitor for 0 ; 4 1 who was bound over to appear at the C ell. Court. io n NOTICE TO DIARINEB S 'v e b. ' 24 i Hydrographic Office Ad m iralt3' , 4, ~r, WEST INDIES. , r 0 fil'„ t roPtr REVOLVING LIGHT AT PIJEin the e': A revolving light has been established a ' ar to g , the harbour of St. Juan, in the Island of and per lighthouse stands in 18 deg. 20 min. N . M o rro d g. 7 min. 15 sec. West of Greenwich, on th e ' - i t he r ‘i Is at an elevation of 187 feet above the level C l - g ol e o "' revolution is completed in two minutes, du r d il i o" 11,1,- val the light appears only for six seconds, 313 the distance of about five no enter i ~ SUPERSTITION IN THE FENS.—A c a ,7 n ii. , ,tr,,, at Ely, named Bartingale, being lately 111'',% - d eje," . that a woman named Gotobed, whom be "- e 191 1 SOS t hs one of his houses, had bewitched him• sembled in the tick man's chamber, og re l e , ori tc . way to protect him from the sorceries of t' e e o hoes send for the blacksmith and have three bors er r e ~,,, the door. An operation to this effect 1 05 ~Post e el' i to the anger of the supposed witch, who at r eVe re „,i I ri to the Dean, but was laughed at by his sti clP - 0 4 then rushed in wrath to the sick man's r oon). w ee. r , to tell passed the Rubicon despite the 110 0e : - I orrie,0 wonder ceased when it was discovered rbatlldoolc`lll the most by the job Vulcan had substitute .,c Of The patient is now happily recovering• ce il d i eti ( verliser. ma d e . i ? 0 AQUATIC.—A match has just been h te , ft° Cambridge and Oxford Universities, to row a 11'4 Mortlake, on the 3d of April. ..., ot ., / • BIRTHS beet, E o4 '' A On the sth inst., the lady of Henry T. Lam .. ,„,,a • I I Kent, of a daughter. vils. 4. , On the Bth inst., in Suffolk-place, the 'wife of j,- ~ r, r Esq., daughter. A rd f vste dC I On the Bth inst., in Soho-square, airs. Edw ard A ffi daughter. 0 0 On the Bth Inst., at Kent-place, Blackheath -hill, 0.) Bag - nold, of the Bombay Army of a son. ~.„, 00 114 On the 10th inst., at Port;nan-square, t'''' of a son and heir. A P l a ,' O° M ARRIED. o e- a , ..: On 4th last., at Southport, Lancashire, Joh n t• 1 4° ,. ~ 1* Iteedness; Yorkshire, to Frances Maria, daughter4eor,A I,' Esq., of Southport, and of Heath-bank, Chasidic, (iredetter'"ol On the 9th inst., at St. James's, PiceadillY,3.lla.'4l,4ll t. of the Quadrant, to Miss Elizabeth Moyes, third Mr. James Moyes, baker, of Heinming's.roW• 4 1 4 DIED. , 1 0r 0n1 ,t17 %,0 , , On the 11th inst., at Curzon Lodge, O'' ear. acPL., beloved wife of William Judd, Esq., in her 52c 1 " 1 „,,,,, A : J, On tha 19th of September, 1845, at the ,-.("walle? c. ' I Zealand, Elizabeth, the wife of the Rev. Iv • '', ' w ife ° 0 1° On the Ist ult., at St. Lucia, Elizabeth, We 01 0 Esq., Assistant-Corninissary-Ceneral. -'-^ Aloe, On the 26th ult., at the Croft, Inverness-shit /lio.r ter of the late W. Cameron, Esq. sq., "doe' i. 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