The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

••.•••••••11/114 . • AMC "-Z.! ___.....--...../.. ......................mm0r....... was ? a , ratoute, boarded.triErortn, Nov. 2 4.—The Rowena, of Jersey, , . _ . 1 ,,, , Oft Lyntno tit derelict, bv the Coast Guard; 1 8, . P'!` , '. -1 ' e . cub . , .. . . . u a ..,, of paint oil, and seven bags of nuts, On s nore, and secured ' LIM. i have ween o a. , ,1. , , i : t o h c nicK, Nov. 2 3.—Sea Lark. bound to 1) aloe, repcn - te i c , thatave capsized near Ballybunion 19th inst., has drifted iti i i baY bottom upwards • crew supposed to b. drowns.... Arrd. Primrose, Irv . . Q ' 1) • ; Thetis, liiigill, Quebec. SIIIELDS, Nov. 241. n—. Th u : cargo ec of the 13itai.:, Storey, on sho.re near N ov. is being saved. v,ALunououctr, Nov. 24.--The St. Lawrence, of and from a Ne wcastle to London. was in contact with a brig an '4.,,laged her quarter, but proceeded. rastnttar, Nov. 22.—Part of the Achilles, of St. Ives, ti nne On shore near Towin sands to-day, crew supposed to be !Iroirned. The Hero of Acre, of Liverpool, was passed, 2d .....1113t., waterlogged, dismasted, and abandoned, by the China, 7n ved at Bristo. 19tT l a , 1 K , Nov. 21.—The Nimrod steamer was in contact, ki tta ' r lat., with several vessels, among them the Wilhel sprit '• fro' Alexandria ; the Ann Laby, which lost bow -4; and the Caroline Sescar, which had stern stove. to b l.G ToNvx, NOV. 23.—The Wave, Smallman , from Quebec :i, struck on the Arklow. Bank last night, but came laterlogged and with loss of rudder. A steamer has 3 n a aent to tow her up. pot ; fl it , lv i i ...ex, NOV. 23 . —The Joana, Sims, of Dundee, which r o 7 ° _,tioly Island in a sinking state, has been towed in h ere ' is discharging. The cargo of the Elsina, Luckt, been saved, but the vessel is a total wreck. MAR RET NEWS. —(THIS DAY., CQD ii t . '",: l EX C RANGE —WEDNESDAY. il a -- ""°nich the arrivals of English Wheat since Monday Z 1270 been moderately good, the show of samples of that article ,Zso,ythia morning, Was small. The demand, therefore, e leciaaft.rynisatrekaedty, at fully the improvei currencies obtain d 'Jan and at which a good clearance was t ere t!?• The quantity of free forei g n Wheat was good; i i , naLueles, the sale for it was firm, at extreme quotations. C1),,_,‘,0111 under lock next to nothing was doing, owingtohe Preto der of the importers. Malting . and grinding Y as quit e as dear with a steady inquiry. In h_la . lt_, Itt4,3:l,rnoderate business was doin g at late rates. va.s, eas, and Flour supported previous figures. ARRIVALS. Nish .. Wheat. Barley. nail ** • • 1,410 qm 380 qrS. 40 1, 4 .. 1 50 700 I 4,110 Malt. qrs. ,We h , Wa rrECII.A.PE L. era h ,a 1 a full average supply of Meat on sale to-dy. t rois. h 'Peaking, the trade was heavy, onsomewhat easier Ve a l, 3 „ A oef, from 28 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton 3s 4d to 4s the rar ta , e : . 1(1 to 4 8 Gd ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 43 8d per lb, by Oats I Flour. 30 qrs. 1,230 sks. 150 I -- 870 SPORTING INTELL I GENCE ARECEIVED THIS DAY.) btp tETTING CHEER to p Y .---15 to 2 a gs t Van Tromp, 15 to colt (tak e " ",g3t Planet, 25 to 1 agst Sister to C (takt4 to 1 agst Glentilt (taken), 33 to lag agst Old Port I R a m g o A l Y. w E e girote, asst 'r t ,' s to 1 agst Johnny Armstrong (taken), 35 to I (oeered)e Miss Iris Cht colt (take n ), 5 to 1 agst Scott ' s lot laeld. s. , 4Eit fur (ENT Eit OR NOT).-50 to 1 offered on. the z oz , PEDESTRIANISM. l'hi s 1 10 ° , r Bradford) AND J. SMITH (of London).- - Rro uri , , 3ards race came off yesterday, at Bellevue - that t"' alanehester. W e need not say that the Braodr that tr e 4 h ad Et hies• reputation for fleetness of foot,. . y 41 1 tvhn-isunie attribute is freely conceded to Smith, D street - I; 4 '"' him iii Pedestrian circles as " the R x e c g i nt eted, and th e et.' Rence considerable interest Pl4 3ed gr°llad, despite the wetness of t w he as da e dis tayrled a rep, ~,a considerable assemblage. The men teinp":lll.lltes after one o'clock, after six or seven s at and he k,,,,' 'smith certlinly got the lead at going off , ittlpie:s4 til‘oi until al, )ut 70 yards, when Brian got abeam a r ilL Y il e 4 r. It was, however, only a transient s_t!ongi() I _ l ,°lo for his 44ends, in Smit . h ran fleetly and ut y,rds. lope eventually came the winner by a couple ste;uel--...AURRY.—(TII IS DAY.) . n. to 0 11 CRANcE R sat in his Court at West= aY at ten o'clock. n Ili D. ‘rettei..4,e -`l.,..el‘‘t COUNSEL.l_l.on7E;igartrlEesENBUSr, t for the . iZtotileit,-"'_?! the Under. Secretaries of called this ha and Member for Liskeard, was t Jiidge ta -A .e d vocate -181 ' 71 b 7 th L ll • (i -I le uf her,"lng been graciously pleased toea 1 N%ty h e ord Chance or within the b.anrt, him Bight e Hon. 41:11tleitiott'°,111,1 learned in the law. alhera oi,,r,lng received the congratulations Th of the we bar, withdrew. ),•'NI .i s , % se s,„_, ,cO4IIISTIAN V. FOS_TER.or f fi rs t s 444.4 in m n the giving t.o-d. the eal ("rues 411Y It e2t). " P°2tPoned it tillment, but kr. al b s. The 1:14:XLI. ree Pt i d E t v o . -Wi N n D t E his case, and einlll44trieet4t!ieLort postponed _his ai j f u o d r re e. t oriadiT h ar t i leet t,° the appeals of W PT/. r' %it* th Teen, ' were P ll the cases in his II : rose b e f ore . es disposed of a tiet 4, 1 was the h.livvelre o clock. postponed; anAd . d i hise ' e ' and his Lordship will ' agnin till th7 l(l of term,,, y next. v ict.c firstsett2lLi' , DAY.) ,N(Before RANcEity._(Tlilo D.) T his b . the ICE-CHANCELLOR of ExoLaie his lon ei ng the 1 Michaelmas t our th„ tr. gist day ofterm, his 01-Zsy, botwnoTnleee las t of England took me_ 4g the too n.i°/ tippo;Calesriiitiitr any interest came before the Court Ait•P. for Liskeard, havin ofhetene la ,l' eat,' by Queen's' Counsel, was in the course h i 't i ._,., "Y his Honour within the bar. not sit -44iest7etLerally iind d the Court w Hill h eat ' Inotionlntoots xt ' the first seal, witi h s n his Court Court at Lincoln'slnn. i lHonour ,fl (Before Sir J. aud, -LAIR 1., BROMLEyI. this morning. lii,e";ll,erit %as th livered in this cause conclusion .of tit4ena ~oxotra said that at theinion, to whiFh he o _ — V t a -G u ß ri A O m a • Ler. . ,h4till „I'Llits he had •or "red expressed - dec a i n cle o fipon ~, 04 1 / , , that he must claimed by the plaintiff. 'e L Y to the amountthe liability . . I to whether the act of William o t r,111.. Pay ,r,,t,,,ii question was, whio, iY should be seilto."e was one of the con a idere e d mh th er e s. act Th of e f t a h l e se m be admitted aed taken as t hr , 4 , ! ` i t c 'tis of Bromley must raise money firm m pre- f fsoormthe pointspurpose suchr ai raised I , l4lr :ji l tit ' d r" ) . rtitthee mortgage. firni to There were 't'. ''''t ''on into which he did . mot enter, i b ,),,, ussi un ,Y th e ( 4 . not the defendants. were inju w r h io te u h s y a e o ff t ected k w ' ae t of William Bromley, .. In order & t hat l'hlably constituted a suggestio Wm. broad the law on the :14- I )a s i s s decision might be placed . on as sijohtts Possible, he had looked into x -41 ii - b. t ,°, see how this matter could be treate h d a a t t th la e w re , ~:ere b,,-eved he a correct when he stated t ietZed-y-,lt:Tatils Im, which the plaintiff could have had a 11 , 1 'cue of 1.,,w,an consequence of that had re " ted t e iv •reitation, for the evil effects 'as, , William the intervention of the cate444, fialierrnte.the misrepresentations . of . ic. re and he eiti,oo4,,otesidered that .thdi.s.twioans of a that t e Pa thewould al,V'ithin the jurts ic Y would 14,,i, a decree that the hh..11 costs lii a, tlO 0.1„.°,.--,°N V • JUDGMENT. Court, wnn defendant should a 'L qeer:: ‘...'' also • •7°.illEdsg.. ent in this case. t°hlanlalisle%, end on to "a e. being - e°lll e as tnadeatve ti b al l certain parties to make N et 4, who n 44 ref eof those parties a married e etite the pph ed for _ a. used to join inth h e e c d o ir n e v e e t 3 e , d a n t c o e, ex tl e i_ dee t i of ' rode,3 that site should 1 :11. 3 1.. nture, which the grunted.urt Aae Eluitio'roie v BUCKLEY. 4,ttoei l b ef .. o l::ttht t eCo hered judg. went gise'lvill ef tia t on Saturday last.n income of a at ' Notint e testator direc inthis cause, which ted that a many persons to be paid to te ll t : 4 ltt e e stie h ltze lv s a t s of his stock to w which the in tlet, sheitidil ,43 who were the objects . ibed as being as ould admit. tech tlebe„.„ be given. They were.de.crnery in Not -41,..,R111iate Zpoesed curatos in a certain deanery t:it44elar bie`vreueenle fasaelnardiel by exceednot ttPliNlY to It was conteyntdhe the beneficed that this description e curates l.an o d f who that 15 wh o one .one class of persons only, vneamsulmY, f t . t „ r Per on'ti incomes did not exceed the h 14 1P$ tot w tina • It appeared to him that thesae_oworfdssuehisat,•,4 i o ° classes of p e rsons—namelyoho,e o .Ib tai n c° , ll te as was specified in the will, and those re fired ill'ltt-ee`4 the specified recommendation of the bene the, 3 of deanery. t U tPA T ofkk ~,- " ' S 1,--n. (THIS DAY.) t;24 k(is'at'd Strutt took the oaths on his acceptance iii,.• Chttruitte °f her Majesty's counsel. 4 14; 14 the b ass Buller, M.P., Judge-Advocate, was called .It Y's , 1 '... a ", he having been appointed " one of her ,1,11 llui,n,n 1 learned in the law." at LI, eNk„,,' QUEEN v. WATKINS AND OTHEuS. indictment, 4 ". 144 "antshad.been found guilty on an h Y tllla tice a ! le e of the Navigation Committee, of creating ti qiNsi% tto l n the T hames, at Garden-stairs, Greenwich, t i,,,,i t e r 4 ,4 In tnaintaining a pier there, after p kkti".°Ort ' llit 've it. The matter was brough r t e- b_ef . o v r . e_ tht,b°ll, eoL a ttd an. order was issued directing the Na I . th e ' , ead taittee to abate the nuisance. It appeared tliii itkttrl3,lblaUnderstood the order, and at once directed lii N la to ~alliff to remove the pier, and he accordingly tic: 4, 1 14 itaTe 28th of July last, the defendants assisting i tig (),Il thel:lova], believing that he was empow_ere 11 1, ey w! o rder of the Court, but subsequently, find . r l'4, r • W 0 In error, they forcibly replaced the p!et_7lo t he ',ll tnslrowrit now prayed the judgment ofiferlof ti ttptiiitLie defendants for transgressing the or stiv.lt ti,,,Pß°ant SHEA, who appeared fur the defendants, 'log vuo th e i, , 4tc 're , Y ti. ••e `!ct, that the order had been . misunder a4-c, were- e.avigattoo Committee, who, it was under kr,,,„t,lle n ot t° aPpoint a properly qualified person to see Ilg .`q. Th''ance was properly abated, not absolutely . re tOtlkr.: stc,ee s,Pier could not now be considered a nuisance , aidll'r, which was objectionable, had been re lied. m access to Garden -stairs might now be easily lvkft er yloase,B94te discussion, on the suggestion of Lord liitt., the Ives agreed between the parties that Mr. tklitilltorli:d tngineer, or properly qualified person to l 'tl, (t a te th Y Ittol, should be empowered to adjudicate la I ! . Of the tiinsance poseas little injury to the pro kteeobdants ible, the defendants to pay 14 . cuests. N B ete t his e THE v EEN I,• TUOMPSON. u Nllt , a:teioa rule had been obtained calling upon the Af t 'Thy he i l4 an attorney of this Court, to show tt e. • Virttt,i, suottld not be struck off the rolls. t1 4! 4 Ilia oPEttr,itsT, Q.C., showed cause against the t eo efeed Jections were—th t the ffenea imputed to ‘'', 4 stt.4 tha•leltti/v2,,3 clearly an indictable one, and, on ac • '44 4 - chid to ,_'',7 which had elapsed since the offence tipitl", hetre.'tve been cominitted—mamely, December, tolleyast J o '3 the rule was not applied for IlatOto o t f le. The defendant was charged .withontehe its" f alse 4 sears • . 4 pie - preterieer, ~ 3 conspiracy to obtain m . y pttti ~ ~,,,,,,,,]. , tle was charged with conspirinog proC'err; irlltsi:9,llfVhho, pitnonAsuhfrues,t,tolBo4oteonet '~~,.~~ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1 ‘25 ) 18,6 t. title in his name to some land, for the ..t upon 1. it., Luke luvi to the l: ,t..! 1 !h•o, the whole a I ' ,• !et' then the tu , •: y • on hearsay he d ti I:• Court would not take any procet:dings in a case in etch the offence charged was a criminal one, and consequently indict able. Besides, if, the case was allowed.to proceed in its present form, the defendant might be betrayed into the admission of statements which might be used against him on his trial. The proper time to make such an ,opposition was, when the ulterior pt.( ceedings had been completed. In a case re ported in the sth of Barnwell and Adolphus. Lord Dentn in was reported to have said with re spect to a rule calling upon two solicitors to show cause why they should not be struck' 4 the rolls for improper conduct, that the offence was an ineli:ea le one, and that the defendants should undergo the ordeal, of a trial before such an application was made to the Collet. The Learned Gentleman cited a number of other cases which favoured his view of the case, and trusted the Court would discharge the rule. Lord DENSIAN suggested that the matter should go before a master of the Court. • _ _ tr,:ttt , r wa 1 7 VVrrE11;s14)1;;;;1 the adoption of such a course, as the defendant preferred to have the whole mutter brought before the Court, and as an investigation before the master would be most expensive; besides he anticipated that a private investigation would not be so effectual as a solemn investigation before a judge and a jury. Mr. JAMES called the attention of the Court to the fact that the defendant had become a bankrupt, and that he had been examined before Mr. Commissioner Fon blanque, who had refused to certificate him en account of his improper conduct. He apprehended that the Court ought not to dismiss the rule until further inquiry was made into the defendant's case. Mr. WIIITEIIIIRST explained that the money was lent on a bill at two months, which became due on the 20th of December, 1844. the title deeds being given to Mr. Pell as security. The bill was not paid, and the pro•. perty to which the title deeds referred was put up to auction, but an arrangement was made between Mr. Pell and the defendant, by which he was to pay 101. a month until the amount of the bill and some other debt, amounting altogether to 1301., was settled, but the pay ments were stopped on aczount of the defendant becoming a bankrupt. The defendant, in the whole transaction, had acted as the attorney of Luke, who set forth in his affidavit that he purchased the property referred to i❑ 1803 ; that his name was feloniously entered in 1826, and the title deeds stolen; that he employed the defen dant to frame new ones, which he did ; that the pro perty was his (Luke's); and that the reason the deeds were renewed was, in order that he might place them with Thompson for 821. 10s., which he had agreed to obtain for him for two months. Other affidavits set forth that it was _ well known that the pro- perty did not belong to 'Luke, but to a person named Wyman, who only allowed him to occupy. . it on account of his poverty ; that the defendant had admitted that the deeds were fraudulent, and asked Mr. Pell not to take proceedings against him, which it appeared he indignantly denied. The Court should bear in mind that Mr. Pell wa3 a solicitor in the same town, and that he did not take proceedings until the defendant became a bankrupt, and long after the circumstances had taken place. (The Case was proceeding when our report left.) RAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) THE QUEEN V. THE TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. Mr. MANISTY moved on the part of the Keeper of the Queen's prison, for -an 'order upon the treasurer of the county of Cumberland, to pay a gum of money towards the maintenance and relief of poor prisoners, as directed by the Act 53d Geo. 111., chap. 113, sec. 2. By the 2d section oi that act, it was enacted that every treasurer of every county mentioned in the Act should, on or before the Ist day of August, in each year, pay from the public stock of such county, a certain sum of money, according to the terms mentioned by the Act to the treasurer of the county of Surrey, to be applied to the relief of poor prisoners in the Queen's prison. On reference to the schedule of the Act, it would appear that the treasurer of the county of Cumberland, was to pay 101. towards the Queen's prison, and 51. towards the Fleet prison. Then came the Act, 5 and 6 Victoria, chap. 22, by which the Fleet prison was abolished, and section 8 of that Act enacted that the money payable to the account of the Fleet prison, should be paid to the Queen's prison. By the 53d Geo. 111, it was also stated that in case of non payment, this Court, on the affidavit of the keeper of the Queen's prison, should have the power to make an order for the payment of the money. This was the first appli cation which had ever been made under the statute. Mr. Justice PATTESON—As it is the first application, you' may have a rule nisi for an order. The rule should be absolute. case. of the same company, to bind him for any contract eonnt cted with the Company, and that the solicitor in the suit hal the power to give a. y orders, and thereby bind the ttefetidant. We think that no such consequence follows as a matter of law. The mere fact of the defendant being a provisional committeeman, such agree ment amouLted to no more than a mere promise on his part to the effect " I will act with other persons for the purpose of carrying forward some scheme," it may be in a committee or in any other body who have taken upon themselves to perform that duty subject to the approval of the general body, the acts are to be confirmed by the great body whom they propose to act for. The agree ment to be a committeeman is an agreement to carry out a certain scheme under such circumstances as may have given rise to the scheme. The objects of a provisional committee may . be various, it may be to establish an hospital, or any other charitable institution, to which persons are to subscribe, - either for a charitable motive or any other, it may be to establish a school, or a place of meeting, in which the persons subscribing are to have beneficial interest as shareholders. It may be that a provisional committee is formed for the purpose of obtaining an Act for the construction of a bridge, a canal, or a railway. Whatever the object may be it makes no difference in the relations of a member of the committee, whatever be the object he seeks to obtain, and the legal consequences are the same in all cases, and if the object of the party be charitable cr not charitable, according as it is—if for improper motives it may excite upon some occasions improper prejudices in the minds of the jury who may have to dispose of the facts of the case. Such associations as provisional committees constitute, how ever, no agreement to share in the profit or loss of the concet n, which constitutes the real essence of partnership. It would be absurd to suppose that such a relation was meant to be made in any case in which a provisional committeeman consented to act as such. Now, applying these cases, in some cases there is evidence, beyond the mere fact of the defendant being a member of the pro visional committee, there are some instances where the question does not seem to rest upon the same grounds, and where there is evidence that the defendant has not only consented to act as a provisional committeeman, but has actually authorised his name to be inserted in the prospectus of the company. Now, in some of these prospectuses there are certain persons described as the acting committee, and in which there appears also the names of the solicitor, and the secretary to the company. In some prospectuses it is stated what are the duties and functions, and what the objects of the provisional com mittee; such prospectuses have, in many cases, been circulated by the defendant's express consent, and the jury would presume that if such prospectus were taken to the plaintiff, and that it had been showed to him, and that he had acted upon such prospectue in the per formance of his contract; and the question. therefore, is, what inference should reasonably be drawn from the contents cf such a prospectus. This would of course de pend entirely upon the terms of such prospectus, if stated the mere names of the committee, and nothin more ; and if no light could be derived from it w reference to the intentions of the committee, then does not alter the liability of the defendant, and he can not be responsible as a mere member of the committee; and the publication of the fact cannot therefore alter his position or relation. In some cases, however, there are acting committees, who take the whole management of the concern instead of the provisional commit- tee. The functions of the provisional committee having ceased, or in such cases it may mean that the provisional committee have appointed an acting coin _ inittee to act on their behalf, and to be their agent. In that case the proviFional committee would be clearly liable for the acts of the acting committee. Again, do such prospectuses mean where the solicitor or the se- cretary's name is inserted, that such persons are regu larly employed or appointed by the provisional cow: mitiee, Or by the acting committee, on their behalf Then, again,. another question rises, what bu siness should attach to the solicitor or the secretary in question. In all those cases the results must depend upon the particular terms of each prospectus, and the reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom. Now, applying these observations to the two cases which have alone been argued before us, Reynell v. Lewis and Wyld v. Hopkins, we are of opinion that in the first case there was some evidence to go to the jury, we think that the manner in which the question was left to the jury was perfectly correct, but we think there should have been i new trial upon payment of costa, but we think that a new trial should be had in order that the jury may have the opportunity of considering the facts of the case, according to the view of the Court. In the case of " Wyld v. Hop- kins," we entertain much doubt whether there was any evidence to go to the jury; and we think, therefore, that in the case of " Wyld v. Hopkins," a new trial . . should be had generally Upon the whole merits of the COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The Right Hon. Charles Buller, M.P., was this moin. ing called within the bar as one of the Queen's Counsel RE HEMSWORTH. The defendant, who bad been attached for contempt in refusing to deliver up certain wine warrants, in com pliance with an award which had been made an order of Court, was this morning brought up for judgment, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said the present case came before the Court on the report of the Master, in which the defendant was taken up on an attachment for a contempt of Court. With regard to the interrogations on which that attachment proceeded, it was shown that the defendant, formerly the plaintiff in the case, out of which the present proceeding had arisen, had been in repeated instances guilty of a con tempt of this Court, acting on the advice, it would appear, that he could defeat the award the Court hail previously ordered to be made. The defendant, how ever, would find any attempt of his impotent to defeat the enforcement of the award, and that he was utterly mistaken in supposing the Court had not full power Co vindicate its rules and orders. It was their determina tion to render the law effective in such cases as this as far as the Legislature had given them power to do so. Though it was to a certain extent uncertain whether the Court should fix a certain term of imprisonment, or order the confinement to be continued till the award, for the contempt of which the defendant was in custody, was fulfilled ; still they were strongly of opinion that any term of imprisonment they might order would not liberate the defendant from the contempt of the Court, but that he would still be liable to be brought op and committed for the same. The defendant was charged not with one act of comtempt, but for continued contempt, and any term , of imprisonment would not ex punge the liability, which could only be removed by the completion of the award, or by the payment of the value of the wine, spirits, warrants, &c., with the costs incurred, Looking at all the facts of the case, the Court were of opinion that the defendant had possessed the means of completing the award, and his not doing so, but acting in continued contempt, called for no consideration on their parts. With the object, therefore, of vindicating the authority of the Court, and giving effect to such awards, protecting the civil right of the parties interested therein, the judgment on the defendent was, that he be imprisoned for a period of two years, or until such time as he had paid the value of the property made in the award with the costs since incurred. The defendant was then removed in the custody of the officer of the Court. EDWARDS V. SRAW. This was an action brought by an attorney resident at Birmingham against the plaintiff, as Vice-Chairman and provisional director of a railway company, for work and labour done on behalf of the said company. The action was to have been tried at the last Warwick assizes, but before the case came on, it was arranged between the parties that the bill of particulars should be amended, so as to give the defendant credit for 5001., which he had paid. The action would then be for 3001., the balance alleged to be due. The defendant denied the liability, and through some mismanagement, which the plaintiff, in his affidavits, attributed to the neglect of the attorney of the former, the case as amended, was not entered in time for trial. A rule was moved this term, on behalf of the plaintiff, to change the venue to Middlesex, and to have the declaration and issue amended. d rg b e l an r. t M c e h l a lo n r ne a l pp fo e r ar it e . d this day againsti% Ru l ei r S madetehr e ge r a u n a l etb absolute. S and Mr. Mellor appeared this day against the rule ; Mr. Se SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) The whole of the cases this morning were undefended, chiefly on bills of exchange, and none were of the slightest public interest. The Learned SECONDARY said that much unnecessary trouble and expense was saved by the plaintiffs obtain ing a judge's order on the defendants to admit their sig natures to bills, as in a great number of cases the de fendants vexatiously pleaded non-acceptance, without having the slightest ground of defence. A verdict was given in each case for the plaintiff. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURP. Joseph Jones was indicted for forging an order upon the Bank of England, for the transfer of 3/. 10s. Bank Stock, the p ro p er t y o f G eorge Ed war d s a nd his wife, o f Ebury-street, Pimlico. Mr. Clarkson was retained for the prosecution ; Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoner. George Clifden, one of the Bank clerks, testified to the stock standing in the name of the prosecutgr pre vious to the transfer. Mr. Samuel Stephen Lowe, a clerk in the Long An nuities Transfer-office, witnessed the transfer on the skh of January last. George Edwards, a retired coachman, of Ebury-strect, Pimlico, deposed that his wife, whose name before her marriage was Sarah Swift, and himself, purchased the long , annuities in question on the 6th April, 1840. This stock he had never given authority to any one to dispose of in any way, and on the production of the Bank book declared that the signature in it was not his. He d-mi , :cl that the letter purporting to give the authority, which was also produced, was his, and said he knew nothing whatever of the transfer until he heard of it through a communication from his daughter. Cross-examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—Cannot read or write. The four first years after their marriage they had lived together, but since that period they had been separated, and had not received a letter from her for more than three 3 ears. He had given his wife the money from time to time to be taken care of, but what afterwards became of it be was not able to tell, though he believed it was to be put into the Bank. Mr. Thomas Crumpton, a stockbroker—Occasionally ,fficiated for Mr. Baillie, another stockbroker, who had an office on the same floor with himself in Lothbury. In January, 1842, he had transferred 31. 10s. Long Annuities for that gentleman, at the desire of a person whom he believed to be the prisoner. He had sold the stock to Mr. Clement Smith, a stockbroker, and paid the money over to the person who represented himself as George Edwards, ;he owner. ' The Learned JUDGE reproved the witness for his want of caution in identifying a person at the Bank whom he had never seen before that time. Carlton Anthony Goring, now a private i❑ the 31st Regiment, stated, that in 1842 he was clerk to Mr. Baillie, whose business Mr. Compton was in the habit of transacting when he was away from London. He confirmed Mr. Compton's evidence, and identified the prisoner, and also the paper which he had produced, as being Mr. Edwards' authority to her husband to sell the stock. Charlotte Arnold identified the writing of the pr soner. She had known him as Henry Clark. Mr. James Hunter, of 34, Bloomsbury-street, had known the prisoner under the name of Henry Hitch cock Barrow. The document produced, purporting to be the authority of Mrs. Edwards, was decidedly the prisoner's writing. • Mr. George Cowldrey, a goldbeater, of Eccleston street, Clerkenwell, stated, that he had known Edwards and his wife, the latter for twenty years. Knew the prisoner in January 1842. The last time witness stsw him was on his apprehension on the 9th of September last, when Mrs. Edwards was with him, and they gave their names as Mr. and Mrs. Jones. He had seen Mrs. Edwards in 1845, when he went with her to Mr. Peppercorn's, a . stockbroker, to purchase some stock ; and, in consequence of what passed then the Bank porter was sent for, with whom Mrs. Edwards communicated, and to whom she gave a de scription of the prisoner. After that witness and Mrs. Edwards went to Mr. Baillie's office, and told that gen tleman what had passed. Mr. Edwards immediately afterwards went to the Bank. On the 4th or sth August he saw her again at his'own house, in company with the prisoner at the bar, when she introduced him as her husband, under the name of Joseph Jones. Witness then immediately recognised the prisoner as the man who had, some years before, called with a message from Mrs. Edwards, and who then represented himself as Mr. Handley's servant, of Newark. Some conversation then ensued on the prisoner's change of name. At that time he saw a gold watch in the prisoner's possession, which he knew belonged to George Edwards. Mrs. Edwards at that time told him that her first husband had been dead for two years, and showed him a ring on her finger, which she said prisoner had put on. He identified the handwriting of the prisoner. The autho rity was then put in and read. Mr. PRENDERGAST addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, who found him Guilty. He was sentenced to be transported for life. NEW COURT. Thomas Watkins and John Hill were convicted of stealing rags to the value of I Os., from the warehouse of John Beamish, the master of Hill. Watkins, who had been before convicted, was sen tenced to seven years' transportation ; and Hill, who was believed to have fallen into the hands of an old thief. to six months' imprisonment. --------- MIDDLES EX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Ann Davis, an old offender, who had been already convicted about twenty times in this Court, Ives in dicted for stealing a quantity of meat, the property of Joseph Smart. Upon the prisoner being placed at the bar, the police constable, who had charge of the case, was not in at tendance, and the prisoner was consequently ordered to be discharged for want of evidence. The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE commented strongly upon the negligence of the constable, and ordered his recognisances to be estreated. Thomas Montgomery, anoth e r well-known thief, was indicted for stealing a handker c hi e f, the p ro perty of some person unknown. Mr. O'BRIEN, who appeared on behalf of the prisoner, took an objection to the form of the indictment, on the ground that the property was described as belonging to some person unknown to the jurors, while in point of fact the depositions showed it to be the property of a person named Frederick Martin. The Learned ASSISTANT. JUDGE coincided in the ob jection, and remarked that this appeared to be a parti cularly lucky day for thieves and pickpockets, as it seemed fated that the more notorious they were the more likely they were to escape--no less than four of the best known in the calendar having escaped that day without even entering upon the merits of the charges against them. Elizabeth Beazeley was indicted for robbing her fur nished lodgings of a quantity of bed clothes and furni ture, the property of William Hales. The prisoner must have been carrying on an extensive system of plunder, not alone in the lodgings where she was detected, but also in other places, as upwards of seventy pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon her when she was taken into custody. A verdict of guilty having been returned against the prisoner, she was sentenced to four months' imprison ment. James Wilson, was indicted for stealing a quantity of metal piping, the property of Henry Murray, his master. It appeared that the prosecutor was an , extensive plumber. The prisoner had been his foreman for three years. On Monday week he was observed by a police man to enter the shop of a marine store dealer several times with a bundle, and information of the fact having been conveyed to the prosecutor, it was ascertained that the prisoner had stolen a quantity of lead, which he disposal of at the shop for about a quarter of its value. He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' im. prisounient with hard labour. CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Whitehall, whose head scarcely could be seen above the bar, and who stated his age to be only 15 e n d end w r i a ti p i er r , o 3 b B b r j g_ ea h t i h s er e -l m an p e lo , y H e o rin, lbo A r i n r : Sears,T h p o o nl i a c s e w - c a Dobell, o s ns c t h a 153 N stated that last night about twelve o'clock as he was p ass i ng th e door of a brothel in Henrietta-street, Shoreditch, he saw the prisoner, who had a large bundle with him, standing inside, talking to a female. Discovering him to be an apprentice of Mr. Dobell's, he went up and asked him what he was doing in such a place at that hour, and also what he had in the bundle. The prisoner replied that he was taking the parcel to a lady at Lansdown-terrace, but not be lieving the story the constable took him back to Mr. Dobell, when the property was found to have been stolen from the stock. Mr. Dobell said he was knocked up out of his bed that morning by the constable, who inquired after the apprentice, when he said he was in bed, as he had no idea he was in the habit of getting up after all the rest had retired, and letting himself out with a second street door key, of which he had possessed himself. Mr. Dobell identified the property, which consisted of table cloths, napkins, and other articles, although he found that the private mark of the firm had been partly effaced with some kind of acid. The policeman said ho had ascertained that the pri soner, young as he was, had been in the habit of visiting the house in Henrietta. -street for a considerable time. The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial. JUPITER AND HIS MOONS.—There will be a most beautiful and interesting grouping of the moons of Jupiter on the evening of the 2d of November at nine o'clock, when all will appear to the eastward of their primary in rare and close companion.;hip ; the second and fourth m oon occupying a position nearly parallel with the belts, and onc e hi s di ameter from his limb; the first and third parallel with his equator, and distant two and three diameters. Owing to the rapid and now op posite moti on o f t h e first and second satellites this con vocation of worlds will be of short duration, and the beautiful group will separate; but not as a distinguished lecturer has said " never to meet at the same time on the same side of their magnificent primary ;" but again, on the evening of Dec. 30, at 76. 16m. mean time, as if by mutual concert, they congregate and occupy the opposite or western hemisphere of Jupiter, where in bold and beautiful relief they will exhibit the same triangular configuration as described on the 2d. The belts of Jupiter, which for a series of years have exhibited marked inequalitieS of distinctness, this year are stroßg and well defined.—New Bedford (United States) Mer cury. PEACE VERSUS WAR. —A very l a r ge mee ti ng was held at the H a ll o f Commerce, in Threadneedly-street, on Tuesday night, for the purpose of hearing Elihu Burritt, " the learned American blacksmith," deliver a lure oao e ,ffa c uws t nhcriovome o wr n dsaae t lld h aa e ri nng a dee b r o vi nne n g a: every ,ot partbli a o eb n r l eobbfpeywleoasancvrge,eesr belonged i n r d toeovs e t p h treh e ctetha e eb s , , tiwaesboaorl audience, s idd h ei. t m eyn e At i c n oe t eight o'clock, the hall, to whi c h there was f ree a d m i ss i on, Friends." Immediately after that hour Elihu Burritt commenced his lecture and continued it without inter mission for nearly two hours. " Thechlaeraaerntederis s which is attri buted seems like one who has laboured rather in the study than in the smithy, and does not exhibit mueh of . For nearly two the robust physique of the forge. His features are strongly marked, though of a mild and rather intellec tual on the misery b ed lac b: t th ua e l the precepts of slow expression, xwtopreosusri oracu l a r on , transatlantica n d kind h o i his delivery pronunciation b r ethr en i hours, with a strong, rough, but monotonous, and not the Scriptures, and its violation of all the softer feelings vaenrdy sinfulness distinct v o o i f c ew, war; its the opposition lecturer to ao i of humanity, aiding his memory from time to time with very copious notes. His argument was founded on the preaching and practice of our Saviour, and he con tended that under no possible circumstances could Chris tians justify an appeal to arms. Towards the close of the proceedings he was highly applauded, and the thanks of the meeting were given him by acclamation, and with long-continued and vehement applause. ."' THE LONDON CITY Mrssiort.—Last evening the fourth annual meeting of the members of the North London Auxiliary to this Association was held it the Music Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square. The Rev. Lord Wriotesley Russell, M.A., presided, and was sup ported by the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, the Rev. W. R. Dibdin, the Rev. E. Bickersteth, R. C. L. Bevan, Esq., and gentlemen. several other clergymen and From the annual report it app eared that during the four y ears o f its existence the auxiliary association had remitted to the parent society the sum of 128/. By the London City Mission 160 agents were employed, who devoted their whole time to the work of visiting the poor in their own habitations. The report showed in detail that the church accommodation of the metropolis was only for 351,290 persons, and the chapel accommodation 601,418, population of 2,103,279 persons. The re p ort was of a popu adopted, and resolutions expres sive of confidenc e in the i e meeting to its support, were mission, and pledging I _ passed. DETENTION OF THE OVERLAND MAILS.--Yester day the Post-office authorities gave notice that the Oriental, which sailed on the 25th of October with the mails for India, China, and Egypt, via Southampton, left Malta for Alexandria on the Bth inst. without the mails dispatched from London on the 27th of October vid Marseilles. the pac ket conveying these mai l s f ro m Mar seilles to AZalta not reaching that island till the 11th inst. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk yesterday, in the gardens and pleasure grounds of Osborne House. His Royal Highness Prince Albert afterwards rode out on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince cd Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, rode out on ponies yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was also taken an airing. Mr. Marjoribanks, Mr. W. Ewart, and a deputation of the College -of Preceptors, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. Mr. Arthur Crooke, from Liverpool, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street, and presented a memorial respecting sugar. Mr. Gregory had an interview with Earl Grey yester day at the Colonial•ofce. The Bishop of London had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. Mr. Warburton had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Rev. W. A. Soames, Vicar, Mr. E. W. James, Vestry Clerk, and two other inhabitants of the parish of Greenwich, had an interview wish Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home•office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood had a dinEer party yesterday at their residence in Eaton-square. Lady John Russell had an evening party yesterday at her residence in Chesbam-place. The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday for his seat Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor af Ceylon. THE LATE FIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—An exaggerated account having appeared in your paper of a fire that took place at one of our branch factories, quite detached from our principal works, we beg to state that the total loss is under 2,0001., that the greater part is insured, and that it will not interfere, in the slightest degree, with the conduct of our business.— We are, Sir, your obedient servants, Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, PALMER and CO. Nov. 25, 1846. We are authorised in stating that the Count de Montemolin, or, as he is called by his adherents, his Majesty Charles Luis King de jure of Spain, arrived in the metropolis on Sunday night. His Royal Highness travelled under the strictest incognito, and was accom panied only by General Montenegro, and his private secretary, Don Romualdo Mon. The Marquis di Villa Franca Duke di Medina Sidonia arrived in London a few days since.— Times. IMPORT OF PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES. —The Saranak, which arrived at Liverpool from Phila delphia on the 21st inst., brings 2,854 barrels of flour, 12,000 bushels of wheat, 5,000 bushels and 40 bags Indian corn, 30 casks of beef, 9 casks of bacon, and 7 barrels of potatoes. SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING AT LUCCA.—(Extract of a letter from Italy.)—His Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca having had experience of the ruin which gam bling tables have entailed on many visitors to the baths of Lucca, has by a royal ordinance, dated the sth No vember instant, suppressed all games of hazard in his dukedom ; and has directed that the casino erected at the Baths of Lucca, for the convenience of strangers, be converted into a reading room, &c., as well as that at Viareggio. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—Yesterday a deputa tion of gentlemen conducting private boarding schools, in different sections of the country, headed by J. Majori banks. Esq., M.P., and T. Ewart, Esq., M.P., had an audience of Lord John Russell, on the subject of the recently formed College of Preceptors. His Lordship received the deputation graciously, and patiently listened to a detailed plan of their future movements. FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING.—We are very sorry to have to record another of those unfortunate collisions in which the use of the knife has been resorted to, with, we fear, too great a probability of a fatal result. The particulars of the case, so far as we have been able to learn, are as follow :—At about one o'clock this morning the attention of the police was drawn to a squabble between two sea-faring men in South Castle street. When they came up it was found that one of the men was stabbed in the belly. The other was im mediately arrested, and on him was found a large broad pointed clasp-knife. The injured man was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he now lies in a most pre carious state. The wound, from which his bowels were protruding, is a little below the naval and about two inches long. His name is Charles Winslow, and he re sides at a boarding house in Barton-street, having re cently arrived from St. John's, New Brunswick, in the Champion, of this port. Liverpool Standard, of yesterday. PRICE or LAND.—Yesterday, by an order from the Court of Chancery, a piece of land, known as the Gospel Oak and Five-acre Fields, lying between Kent ish-town and Hampstead, so called in consequence of the bishops preaching the Reformation tit that locality, beneath an oak, which is at present standing there in the last stage of decay, was put up to auction at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, for the purpose of the erection of villas. The land was exonerated from land-tax and tithe free, save a payment of 4d. per acre, and a pay ment of 4s. yearly rent to the lord of the manor of Tottenham; it formerly being copyhold of inhwitanee of the manor of Tottenham. There were but little more than two acres, which sold for 1,4001., or 700 an acre. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PORTUGAL.—Though the probable result of the present struggle in Portugal is a problem that ordinary persons seek in vain to solve, it would seem that in very high quarters the difficulty is not so great. We judge so from a circumstance that has been stated to us on apparently good authority. We are assured that orders were given, before the departure of the Court for the Isle of Wight, for the immediate pre paration of aprtments in Windsor Castle, in case the Queen of Portugal, and the King-Consort—first cousin of his Royal Highness the Prince Field Marshal—should find it advisable to avail themselves of British hospita lity. Arrangements are also made for the reception of their Majesties four sons and two daughters, who may naturally be expected to accompany their royal parents in this involuntary visit. It is added that the mysterious mission of Colonel Wylde, about which people have wearied themselves with conjectures, had reference sim ply to the offer of this asylum to the royal family of Por tugal.—Morning Post. _ _ On Saturday night last, while a gentleman, who had just returned to Glasgow with the train from Edin burgh, was passing along London-street on his way home, a young fellow, dressed in moleskin clothes, suddenly rushed out of the through-going passage leading down St. Andrew's-lane, and darting his hand into his vest pocket carried off his gold watch, gold guard. chain, ring, and key, along with a button of the vest to which the guard was attached, making his escape by the same entrance from which he emerged. The whole was the work of an instant, and the villain was off before the gentleman had discovered his loss.—Glasgow Herald. MADAME ANNA BISHOP.—The engagement of this accomplished vocalist, at Drury-lane Theatre, will ter minate, on the 23d of December, after which Madame Bishop will make an extensive tour to fulfil her engage ments in the provinces. MADAME EUGENIA GARCIA.—This vocalist, who was the Prima Donna in turn at Drury-lane, the Prin cess's, and the Surrey, seems to have surprised the ama teurs at Rovigo, for she was called for at her benefit, if we are to believe tho France Musicale, 58 times ! ! in one night I ! - DUPREZ.—This artist having dedicated his "Art of _Singing " to the Duchess de Montpensier, her Royal Higness has presented hi m w ith a magnificent pencil case, surmounted by a rich diamond, accompanied by a letter, in which the wish is expressed that the pencil may serve to write another of the too rare vocal gems which Duprez has yet published. • CrEßMANY.—Mendelssohn's Paul has been given in Vienna by 1,000 executaats, Staudigl being the principal singer. Liszt has gone to Constantinople, and Ernst is about to visit Russia. Conradin ICreutzer has been no minated successor to Nicolai, at the Court Opera, the latter going to Berlin. ATTEMPTED MURDER.---1 COL REWARD.—Yester day's Government Police Gazette contained the offer of the above reward for such informatiun as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the individuals who, on the evening of the 20th ult., caused such injuries to Mr. David Congreve, near his own residence. on the Holbeach Turnpike-road, by shooting at him with slugs, as to endanger life—viz., 501. by her Majesty's Govern ment, and 501. by Mr. David Congreve. Lord ,Brougham left Paris on Monday on his return to England. ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24.—Yesterday morning a dreadful explosion of fire-damp took place at Harvey's Coppell Colliery, near Standish, Lancashire, by which several lives have been lost. It seems that the man whose business it was to renew the fires below omitted to do so, at three o'clock in the morning, and in consequence of their going out, fire-damp accumulated. When he went down at six o'clock, for the purpose of relighting them, an explosion took place. Three men were killed, several were seriously hurt, and it is apprehended that six others, in a different part of the mine, have also been killed. This report was brought to Liverpool yesterday morning, but no other particulars were known. DREADFUL MURDER IN FRANCE. A dreadful murder was committed yesterday morning in the Rue Bertin Poiree, No. 9. A girl, aged twenty -eight, by name Alexandrine Boulanger, was lately dismissed from the service of M. R—, a cloth merchant, who had just got married. She considered herself ill-treated, and complained loudly of what had been done, threatening vengeance on M. It— and his young wife. Yester day, understanding that M. R-- had gone to the country, she knocked at the door of his apartment, and seeing it opened by a young woman, she took it for granted that this was Madame R. She accordingly threw in her face the contents of a phial of vitriolic acid, and then, precipitating herself on her, stabbed her with a knife in eight places, leaving the unfortunate victim of her passion a corpse. She then threw herself out of the window of a landing into the street, but a market cart that happened to pass at the moment received her, and she escaped nearly unhurt. When taken out she de clared that she had killed Madame R. On persons going up stairs to ascertain the truth, it was discovered that it was the servant-girl who had succeeded her that had thus suffered by mistake. Alexandrine Boulanger has been removed to the Prefecture of Police.— Galignani. THE DEPLORABLE EFFECTS OF TIIE REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.—We understand that at the Michael mas audits of the Right Hon. Lord Feversham, held at Helmsley and Kirbymoorside, last week, not one of his Lordship's numerous tenantry made default, and that there was not a single arrear,— Yorkshireman. I LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, IN BANKF, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COX PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, ÜB LISHED EVERY TtrEsDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24. JOINT-STOCIE BANNS. Name of Company. Divpied:nd Amountt Paid. I Price A 211111121. Share. ----------- ----- --.... X s. d. £ s. d. iustralasia .......• • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 Britsh North American 51. p er cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 ommercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 .S'olonial . • Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 2 0 0 0 15 Londn and Westmi ns t r 61. per cent. 100 0 0 00 2 London Joint-Stock . 61. per cent. 5 0 0 0 00 0 Metropolitan ......... 10 0 0 25 0 0 Provincial of Ireland.. 81 . per cent. 100 0 0 2 5 l 0 0 0 4N Ditto, New... ••• •• • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 Nat. Provincial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 Ditto, New.— ... •• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0. 0 Union of London. —5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 of INSURANCE COMPANI ES. Dividend Amount e Y Name of Company. per of Paid. Pric Annum. Share. ry in X s. d. 4 a. d. Albion •.-•.•. • • • • • • 31. lOs 500 0 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18% at Ditto Marine.- -• • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5% Atlas ... .. .. .. ..... .. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15% ~ British Commercial .. 7s. per shar e 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% '''' Olcricl,Med.&Gen.Life 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 10 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle 6s. 50 9 0 5 0 0 53bxd Eng.& Scot. Law .. • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 3 European Life ••• • • • 53¢ per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' . - ...• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe - 135 Guardian ....... ••• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 473 i n Imperial Fire .....• -6/. and bonus! 500 0 0 50 0 0 230 : 1 1 Imperial Life •••• .. .• 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Indemnity Marine.. - 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31 10 Law Life.........• .. IL ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - le Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 Gii i n Landon Fire •••• •• • • 101. 25 • 0 0 12 10 0 1514 ..•ondon Ship •• •.•• • • 10s. 25 0012 10 0 15% - Marine .. •••••• • • • .. 51. per cent: 100' 0 0 lb 0 0 - Red. Invlid&Gen.Life 437. per Ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - ). National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - National Life.... Colladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os. Phcenbt - - 205 l e Protector Life.... •.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 - Provident Life •• IL ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 is (lock Life .... .. .. .... 4s. 50 .0 010 0 4% n 'loyal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - - s Cun Fire • • - - 210 Ditto Life U. 6a. - - 49 Jniversal Life - 0 1 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. I Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. 1 • . . B 4 s d flank of Scotland - 100 0 0 175 ' Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 159 ' British Linen Company Si. per cent. - 100 0 0 220 Commercial Bank -•• 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 16234 National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 141.14 s Union Bank of Scotland '7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 923 Western Bank • .... •• • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 85 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7% Clydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 4s Eastern Bank.. ... •• • 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank - 210 0 4/. lls Edinb.&Glasgowllank 61. per cert. - 50 0 71. Os City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 6s Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. Od Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Insur. Co. of Seetind- Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Incur... 534 /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 273¢ Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 223 Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 I) 0 12 10 0 183 i Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. per c. lib 0 0 50 0 0 7536 Ditto, % Shares.... 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 18 Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 18% Glaagw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 69 % Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 27. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 163 Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39% Dundee&Arbroth Rail. 67. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 ' Standard LifeAssarnce.l 51. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9 • CANALS. Names of g Dividend ) Names of d Dividend Companies. ~.,,d per I Price. Companies:per Price. , r/_• Annum . Annum. Annum. cc t X 5 IJ Ashtn& Oldh 57 51.55. p c 70 Monmouthah 100 8/. - d Ashby -d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. Barnsley.... 160 121. lBO Macclesfield. 00 - - Basingstoke.. 100, - L--• Neath ••• • - • 100 171. 340 C 7 Brknk&Abrg 1501 5/. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. - Cromford.... 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 , Dudley lOO 4/. - Regent's •• • • 33 1/. ss. - Derby ..• • • 100 61. 73 Itochdale .. • • 85 41. - Elismre&Chs 133 4/. 55 Shropshire • • 125 81. - st E:ewash •• • 100 321. - Somrset Coal 50 71. 105. 130 h i Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. c. - b , GrandJunctn 100 71. 83 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. 270 Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. - Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. - Stourbridge- 45 201. 315 hi • Ilstr& Brkly 100 ' - - Strtfrd on Av 79 17. 10s. - Grantham •• 150 121. - Severn and/ 26 11. Bs. 32 C h ( , Huddersfield. 57 , - - Wye )tail.s Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 5% Tnit &MI 50 301. ti Lancaster ..• 47 1/. 10s. - sey, 14 sh.tt Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 520 Tharns&Med 19 - - Leicester 78 V. 43 ti Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 52 Birming. j Loughborogh,l42 701. 850 Wilts & Brits 67 11. 11 Name of Company. Paid. I Price, - 99 - I -74 0 0, - mum penalty affixed by the Act of 1 and 2Wi IV., and also why the verdict for ten pounds on send. ing out an improper ticket with the coals should not be increased to twenty pounds, the maximum penalty im. posed,by the Ist and 2d Victoria. This rule was sought in order to raise the question whether. the .Court ought not at the trial to have fixed. the amount of the - several pena:ties, instead of leaving the question to be decided by the jury.—Rule granted. COURT OF COMHON PLEAS, Nor. 24. PICK V. LE BLANC.—QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT. Mr. COCKBURN appeared against a rule obtained by : Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, on the part of Mr. Aaron Pick. calling upon him to show cause why the entry of a book entitled " The Bible Students' Concordance," at Stationers' Hall, in the name of Colonel Le Blanc, of '54 Chelsea, should not be expunged, or the name of Mr. Aaron rick substituted as the proprietor of the said work. Colonel Le Blanc had assisted in collating tho work, had paid for the printing, and it had been agreed that the copyright should be vested in him. Mr. Sergeant TALPOURD having been heard in sup. pprt of the rule, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE suggested that an arrange ment should be come to, by which if the claim of Colonel Le Blanc was liquidated, the copyright of the work might be given up to Mr. Pick. Ultimately it was arranged that the rule should bo enlarged till next term, and that if in the interim the claim of Colonel Le Blanc was discharged the rule should then be made absolute ; and, further, that should there be any dispute as to the amount claimed, the matter should be left to the arbitration et' Mr. Mellor. THE EXTRAORDINARY ROB BERIES IN BERKSHIRE. ABINGDON, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The examination of the %itnesses still continues, but, both yesterday and to day, have been partially private, as was that of Mr. Salisbury, a large maltster and brewer, taken this after.. noon, but of the testimony given in open Court the fol lowing is the most important. No other person has yet been arrested, but it is said Superintendent Wyatt has warrants for the apprehension of several who are impli cated by the evidence of the last few days. William Beechey—About two years ago I was out of employ, and remember meeting Thomas Prior, the pri soner, on St. Helen's-wharf. He was boatman for Mr. Pemberton. He ai: d I had some conversation together. lie told -me he had some malt and hops. He said he shoved his boat up a back way, pointing towards Abing don-bridge, and they got out six sacks of malt and some hops. One of the men present had a blne coat on, with pigeon tails, and a bunch of keys on his arm. Prior said he thought it was the foreman, and said, " Why, that must be Jones," but he said, he thought it was Gardener. From the description of the other one, I thought it must be Edney; and there was another man, whom I did not kn ow . P r i or sa id that the man with the keys showed him about the place. " Th e brewery" was mentioned by Prior as the place where the malt and hops were got from, and by his saying he shoved his boat back up the water, I thought he must mean Miss Spenlove's. I understood he was going to take his: boat Birmingham way. This transaction was a common talk about the wharf at the time. I heard it spoken of twenty times. Prior told me he looked out in the night, and saw " Old Dusty" trying to take one of the sacks out of the boat, and he called out to him,' Let 'urn bide," and then " Old busty" cut. He soon after started with his boat. I don't know what Dusty's name is besides " Charley." (By "Dusty" is meant a man who has absconded.) ' The evidence of another witness proves a loss in Miss Splenlove's stock before the management was confided to .ar. Marshall. The interest as to the result of the inquiry daily in creases, especially in Oxford, in consequence of the re spectability of the alleged receivers in that city. DOCKS. Commercial •• ••.• • 1 31. per cent. East and West India... 6/. pr cent. East Country •. • . I!. per sh. I andon St. Katharine .. .. • • 5 per cent. Southampton ••.. • • • • Il• per cent. Dividend Amount per of Annum. Share. s. d. 5. d Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 '0 3iCZCS. WALTER= Dividend Name of Company. ' per East London... ...... . Annum. Grand Junction .•• • • • 3/. 10s. • • • • • • 21. 10s. Vauxhall ••••• • • • • • 5/. per cent. West Middlese . . . 51.58. pr cnt. Amount of Paid. Share. X s. d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 i - 100 0 0 - G 3 12 9 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 24. Price THE QUEEN V. MR. BUSFEILD FERRAND, M.P.-CRIMINAL INFORMATION.' Sir F. THESIGER (in continuation from our After noon Edition of yesterday) said—Then the letters referred to of Mr. Lewis's, and of which it was urged, copies should have been kept, partake more of the nature of private and confidential than of public documents. It was not a letter from the Poor law Commissioners, although the report which arose out of it was - ultimately presented to them. What had been the conduct of Mr. Ferrand during the whole of the years over which these transactions were spread? Had he come forward and said, " I believed at the time that there was a conspiracy, but, as I find I am incorrect, I feel happy in making all the atone ment in my power for the charges I have made?" No ; he bad persevered in his gross imputations ; he now persisted in them, and came forward to maintain them, saying that he bore no malice to Mr. Lewis. Oh! no ; but if his gentle nature could not be roused to any violence, how could he so grossly libel Mr. Lewis so late as August last, so grossly asperse his character, that if there were any truth in the charges therein made, he would be wholly unfit to occupy his position, or to fulfil the duties of private life ? The mistake of Mr. Lewis, in substituting Sir John Walshani for Mr. Mott in his examination before the Committee, was most excusable, as it was nothing more than a mis take, for it was notorious that Mr. Mott performed the first examination, yet Mr. Ferrand, in his letter, referred to Mr. Mott's report of the 30th of April, showing that he knew his was the first report, and that Mr. . Lewis, being confused by dates, made a mistake. Was there, then, not much boldness in Mr. Ferrand seeking to discharge the rule? If they did discharge it, Mr. Mott could not fulfil the duties of his office, because he was charged with conspiring with a great public officer to suborn a subordinate official, and an adverse decision wouldigmatise him as guilty of the charge, as unfit to hold IlEy public office. What ever might be the feelings lurking in Mr. Ferrand's breast, it was impossible, judging from his past conduct, to avoid the inference that he was a malicious libeller. Mr. PEACOCK was about to follow on the same side, but he was stopped by Lord DENMAN, who said, we are called upon for leave to grant a criminal information in respect of two letters containing charges conveyed in the very grossest lan guage. The excuse set up is that the gentleman who issued those publications was to a great degree inflamed by circumstances, which, although they might not justify the imputations which he has cast, yet might show him to be in a state of mind to which some reasonable indulgence ought to be extended ; and I own that there is such a complication of circumstances that I was very desirous to hear the statements on the other side, and of looking at the affidavits, before I came to a conviction, in order that I might see whether the defendant might not feel himself in some degree justified in the course he has pursued; but, after hearing the explanatiolna, manpder-faefettelry ethonevfiunleleddinscoutsosniolyn which has taken place, that there is nothing —not only no foundation for this conspiracy which the letters set forth, but also that there is nothing that has since occurred to give a reasonable ground for Mr. Ferrand to suppose that those imputations are just. Under these circum stances, it appears' to me—notwithstanding some matters showing, a degree of negligence perhaps, and some misfortune in not keeping copies of documents which it may be possible to refer to, has led to a degree of confusion in the opinions formed by the defendant in the proceedings of the Committee — that he stands without any excuse whatever for uttering such publication. It is nut, in my opinion, necessary to say more on the present occasion than that there i, nothing to show or raiseithe least reasonable ground for saying that Mr. Lewis employed Mr. Mutt , fur the purpose of doing any injury to Mr. .lerrand, or that Mr. Mott made any charge against Mr. Ferrand which called for those strong sentiments which appear to have been excited In his mind, or that Sir James Graham, or Mr. Mott, or any of them, have been engaged in any improper proceedings for the purpose of injuring Mr. Ferrand; and therefore I think it is quite imperative on the Court to say that this gentleman stands completely without justification for what he has done, and that this rule must be made absolute. Mr. Ferrand then left the court. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 24. MEREDITH V. HOLMAN. In this cause, in which in the early part of the day of Mr. Chambers obtained a rule for a nonsuit and arrest judgment, Mr. MARTIN moved, pursuant to leave given him at the trial, for a rule to show cause why the amount of the penalties should not be increased from one shilling on each sack of coals that were found deficient in weight to five pounds, that being the maxi- THE LATE COAL-MINE ACCI. DENT AT OLDBURY. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING.—The jury before whom the inquest was held at Dudley on the bodies of two of the sufferers, late residents in Worcestershire, by the coal-mine explosion at Dudley, returned a ver dict last evening of manslaughter against Thomas Harris, ground bailiff at Newbury pit—a verdict which has ex cited the strongest sensation in the district.., The adjourned inquest at Oldbury, in Staffordshire, was resumed at the Talbot Inn there to-day. The Coroner, before proceeding with the business, stated that efforts of a benevolent character had already been made, with a view to relieve the distress occasioned by the late accident in the mine. Charles Kennedy was the first witness examined. He had worked in the mine two years ago, but left on ac count of the sulphur that was in it, which he believed to have arisen from the detective character of the ventila tion. The witness, on cross-examination, admitted that a new gate_ road had been made since he left, as shown iu the 'plan. He bad been twice burned in the pit. Mr. John Brittle, mining surveyor, Dudley, had exa mined the pit with Mr. Yardley and Mr. Silas Elwell, yesterday, from one end to the other, and only found sulphur in one part of it. He attributed the explosion to the fact that one side of the work was not properly ventilated. He ecnsiclered the place where the men were at work sufficiently ventilated.. The state of the atmos phere affects much the condition of the sulphur in mines. Tuesday last was a very bad clay to work in pits. The colliers in several pits were at play that day, in conse quence of the sulphur in them, engendered by the damp and fegey atmosphere. Mr. Yardley and Mr. Elwell gave evidence to the same efloct, both insisting strongly that the state of the atmo sphere had much to do in causing the explosion. The CORONER then summed up the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death;" but ex-• pressing dissatis'aetion with the ventilation of the pit. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAi.—MAZieIiESTER, TUESDAY EVEN • ING.—This morning a collision ioJk place on the Man chester and Birmingham wit-thin of the London and North-western Railway, at :itockport, of a serious cha racter, but fortunately attended with no loss of life. The forty minutes past nine o'clock train, which left Manchester this morning_ for London, had just passed over the lofty viaduct which crosses the Mersey at Stockport, about seven minutes to ten o'clock, when the engine came in collision with a coal train, one of Lord Vernon's, which had passed the shunts to get upon the London (or up line), about nine minutes to ten o'clock, when the Superintendent of the Stockporte station stopped it, and told the engineer that the train from Manchester was due in a minute or two, and advised him to back upon the down line until it had passed. The engineer had proceeded to do to, and the whole of the carriages had cleared the up-line, when the passenger train ar rived, and came in collision with the tender and engine. The collision was dreadful, causing the engines of the two trains to rear up almost on end, and fall off the line. The front of one engine and the rear of the other were broken badly, and one of. the buffers of each were broken off. The tenders were als6 considerably damaged. Se veral of the passengers were severely bruised and in jured, and one had three teeth broken. They were all conveyed to the Stockport Infirmary, a very short dis. tance from the spot, and had their wounds attended to. Four of them were able to proceed by the train, which was not, however, in motion till about one o'clock, having been detained three hours. The shunts at which the accident occurred .was: only seventy ,yards from the Stockport station, where the passenger train was to atop, and it appears the engineer wasJo blame in not having slackened his speed sooner. Indeed, the signal was up for him to stop before arriving at the station, which he ought to have seen at nearly a mile distance. The en gineer and guard of the coal train had both jumped off Charlestheire nigArineterbbeofotrtoem, the e h driver collision, oof the passenger d e escad train,unhurt. jumped of, and had his ankle sprained, and John Fox, had his foot caught between the engine and the stoker, tender, and slightly hurt. DARING PLATE ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the Greenwich Police Court. an elderly man of shabby. genteel appearance, who gave the name of John Jackson, and a young man similarly attired, named Thomas Thorpe, were brought up on remand, charged with rob bing the house of Mr. William Hall, a merchant, of Wood-street, Cheap*ide, whose country residence is at Catford Bridge, near Sydenham, of a silver cruet stand, gold cayenne spoon, silver salt spc ons, and a number of table spoons, value upwards of 201. Ann Ward, house maid in the prosecutor's family, stated that on Thursday last she was directed to lay the cloth in the dining room, the window of which was partially open, and is situated about twenty yards from the high road. She did so, leaving the articles above enumerated on the table, from which they were missed a short time after. The articles were missed about two o'clock. Police a constable Carpenter, of the detective force, Blackheath on Thursday last he was on Bl °Pea rprisoners e e or parcel to nearas a b w o u t the t t h w ep o r souo'penpleoererkT, gateh w o r h p e e n f h e G o ra b e serv e d ebnanal.doli bera w te r l o y s gwa i n l k t e h d e t a r w a n ay s : and asked him what he action, he went up to the former, atheed, hands suspect i n g o was doing there, and what he had in his possession. t Ja ckson,he r t here va h something pass d e li said he was in the habit of sellin g. Witness which he .. asked him what was contained in the parcel he had Thorpe drew a packet of . black lead from his pocket., then the other paisoner. Thorpe replied he knew Thorpegno-vtehnintgo and d t h h e as p t a e r n c e e d l n af o t r er th th e e o p th r e is r ea m e a r n. jae H k e sa t n h , en w l h e a l upon observing him, ran away, and he ran after him. On the way he saw Jackson endeavour to throw the bundle over the park wall into the garden of Mr. Ky naston, of Croom's-hill, but which fell short. He picked up the parcel containing part of the property, and with the assistance of other persons who ran to his aid, se cured the prisoner. He gave Jackson into the custody of anether constable, and then went in search of Thorpe, whom he subsequently aurehended. The prisoners were committed for trial. r s , s w eu h %ct o v,, ha s it e wleetarro p rei a ltif, r e,y e lulh n ys t af, : dsri eo r in e .th. stea d ipasi e iet : fpfirl ,iarg(e N ; 6dov. fitfully e rn 2 h , aes ß ree e afh r la( m acei b d ay s r Sheerniyts. ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.--Emily White, aged 18 d. in street, onth mother, and during her temporary absence a saucepan, whither she was con oawnrarsl bo i ling neck, removed veyed in a blanket, in dreadful agony: ,and Rebecca North, aged five years, residing at No. 1, Grange walk, Bermondsey, whilst standing on the fender, set fire to her clothes, and, before the flames were extin guished, she was shockingly burned. She was taken to the same hospital. Slight hopes are entertained of the recovery of either. Ma. MniAm—The claims of this very clever and most unfortunate artist on the sympathy of the public h m a r v . e m be te e as n i m is o a re ga t in ha a n ca o n n d e i e i dat n e tr f o e d r ue th ed e e t l o sc o ti u o r n r o ea n d e. tfi rs o _ _ funds of the National Benevolent Institution, the elec tion for which takes place to-morrow. FAULKNER V. WALLER. Mr. HELL moved for a rule to show cause why the proceedings in this action should not be stayed until after an indictment, which was now pending in the Central Criminal Court, should have been tried. The Learned Counsel stated that the defendant in this case was an inspector of the City police, and in the month of March last the two plaintiffs were given into custody upon a charge of forging railway scrip. When they were taken to the police-station a very considerable quantity of paper, in the form of railway scrip, was found upon the m, and also the sum of 1,0251 in notes. Mr. Justice PATTESON—DO you mean genuine notes? Mr. HILL said that the notes were genuine Bank of England notes. These persons were taken before the magistrates, and were remanded from time to time, until, in the month of June, they were committed to take their trial upon the charge of forgery. The Bank notes and railway scrip were handed over to the defendant, as being one of the inspectors, to be produced upon th, trial. Mr. Allerrnan Gibbs made that order. The ial was post poned, fur some reason, until the month of October, and during the interval the plaintiffs were admitted to bail. At the October sessions the plaintiff Faulkner surren dered to take his trial, but the other plaintiff; Fabian, did not surrender, and his recognisances were estreated. Faulkner was acquitted, but the Learned Judge, after the trial, directed that 3601. should be paid out of the 1,0251. to the prosecutor, as he was enabled to identify that much of the notes as his own. The police were at present in search of Fabian, but Faulkner had com• menced an action against the inspector to recover the railway scrip and the remaining bank•notes, both of which it would be absolutely necessary to produce on the trial of Fabian, should he be taken. Under these circumstances, he (Mr. Hill) was intrusted to apply for an order to stay proceedings in the action until Fabian was tried.—Application granted. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN. REYNELL V. LEWIS. WYLD V. HOPKINS. Upon entering the Court,ceeded to give judgment in these cas e s , the LORD Cu E as B Ilo A w l s 10 : N pro. us we think the plaintiffs seek to In these cases a hich have latelyx ü b p e o e n n t a h r e 4 d u e e r d en b d e a fo n it: the liability tr of contracts, question pwhether n andsuch e or his age . nt. of e t p h r e esed Court or i s l m , This is a ques contract was i % t v h as th m e made by , the defendant himself, or his tionevid evidence o fact before fiir b t o h e J o u r r y t , h f o r o the th rhei c n o , ns a i l d id era it ti( i ' v n il o l i in order to show that the defendant had plain tiff to produce the proof in all these cases, en tered into such contract, expressed or impl ied expressly by making a contract with the plaintiff, im plied by giving the order to him under such circurn-. stances as would warrant the plaintiff in concluding, 13) reasonable inference, that he was liable ; and if the con tract is not proved to be made with the defendant per ' sonally it must be proved to be made with an authorised agent on his behalf. In the case of a number of actions brought against provisional committeemen it often happens that the contract is made by a third party, and in such cases the point to be decided is, whether such third person was the agent for the defendant for the purpose of making such contracts, and whether the plaintiff entered into the contract as such. Again, the order may be conveyed by an express authority on the part of the defendant with such third person to make such contract on his behalf, but he may net give him a a general authority to make general contracts on his behalf, or it may be enough to show that a general rule exists. In point of law, this would be sufficient to prove the affirmative on the part of the plaintiff, as, for instance, in the case of a partner, when their relations are complete, one becomes, in law, the agent of the other in all purposes, which are necessary for their mutual interests, or the relation of husband and wife, in which the law considers that the husband makes his wife the agent, and in all cases the husband is bound by such contract. This agency may be constituted by the immediate action of the parties, that is, by merely giving authority to the agent, or re presenting any relation to exist between the parties similar to that which the law recognises and makes, or by representing the defendant to the plaintiff as the party making the contract, and that such third person was his recognised agent, or that he had relations to create him such ; and if the plaintiff really makes the contract upon the faith of the defendant's representa tions, the defendant is then made the party to such contract, and the representatives of authority upon the part of the third party pro ad hoc, assumes that the re lations of agent are established between them. These representations may be made direct to the plaintiff, or made so public as to have reached him, or it may be made by word or by actual contract. In all such cases it will be for the jury to find upon the evidence with the assistance of the judge who may try the case. There are few, if any, of the cases which have come before us in which the contract is entered into directly by the de fendant, but they have been entered into by other par ties. In one case it was attempted to be proved by a conversation in which the defendant expressed his entire satisfaction at the expenditure which had been going on, he said the expenses were moderate, and that was evi dencetotrie w fu h t t th a n ec o o h r i d e i t ng poi t i o l o t f h e m.r c . i to go t o th e j ury, and entitled to more i rcti a m r t s i t n a ps c e a s r g u o - f h ra me a n n t c sl o - n a s s t . i t t l u i t a e t d d a m n raeslasotizaitionfna (pn.rogvninsisoincaolpcuormtnmeristhteiep-, in which he was an agent for all the purposes, and liable for all the expense s inc;dent to the preliminary proceed ings in obtaining an Act of incorporation ; and that the mere fact of his being a co-promoter was evidence to go to a jury, that he Mid authorised the contracts to be entered into, and insisted that if there wete no other evidence than the mere fact of the defendant having joined the provisional committee, yet that that was sufficlent evidence to go to a jury to prove the liability of the defendant, and his being a party to the contract, and that authority was given by the clefenclft% to every ether previsicnial ciPapiitteeman I - t t o o 7'4 _ to - to / too o 5 to - ttoo 5 to ' to ' to " 10 . to . to • to '.. to / to • to / 4 to to'' to to to to / ~ to to '/ to to ~, to ~, 0 0 , 0 /* 0' 0 ,. )" )1 1 44 ) _ 0 ) , 65 o , 0, 0„ 4 hl7! 93 O w 0 0 I , 100 o 0 0 0 Sr If ,00 elf AO' 00 OW' ette'