The Sun. — London, England, 1846-06-22 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES. so: (SATURDAY.) HOUSE OP LORDS. ANTS= AND LINCOLNSEME. Th;Coranii 'nee assembled to-day at the usual hour, Lard Scans= lathe chair. i t e e du be recollected that in the course of the inquiries of this Committee the several schemes for communication be tween the manufacturing districts and the agricultural coun ties on the eastern coast have been brought under considera tion. The several companies are now arrived at a point where it is impossible to distinguish the opposition of their several interests, and instead, therefore, of using the titles of the several companies, It will be more intelligible to designate the group by the title affixed. The legal evidence continued this morning was on the Swin ton and Don ter line, which is especially opposed by the Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leedsline. Yesterday much dispute arose upon the respective position of these two companies, and it was decided that the former of these two companies could not appear as opponents to the latter. To-day a ques tion was raised on the disadvantage which the Swinton and Doncaster Company would be placed in by the right at that time possessed by the Wakefield and Doncaster in the power to call witnesses against their opponents while there could be no rebutting proofs. On this a long argument arose, the raona was cleared, and the Committee ultimately decided that the Wakefield and Doncaster Company should not bring forward evidence against the Swinton and Doncaster line, bat the landowners on the line were to be allowed to be called, and that Mr. Sergeant Wrangham should be per mitted to address the Committee on the evidence offered. Lord Wharncliffe was then called, and he testified as to the quantity of minerals raised, and stated his impression, that if the Swinton and Doncaster line were to be made the monopoly of the carriage of coals would fall into the hands of the Midland Counties. He was himself a l a r g e coal-owner and was anxious for a free transmission of . the coal from the West Riding to the Eastern Counties. Bes i des, there would be great di ffi culty in the return of merchan dise np the line. Mr. Martin, also a coal-owner and resident at Worsborough Hall, confirmed this testimony, and stated that on an average there were 75 vessels containing coals going on the canal of the Don River Company, averaging 40 tons each, and making a n aggr egate of 3,000 tons a y ear , an d t h at he thought was better than the interference with the general trade proposed by this new company. Mr. Byam, the agent of Lord Wharncliffe, gave similar testimony, but no new principle was elicited. Earl fitzwilliam was then called, and he eeplained his refusal, and assent and dissent from the line, by stating that he had, in the first place, objected to the Swinton and Lincoln, or, as it it is now called, the Swinton and Doncaster line, in consequence of the great injury it was likely to do to the residential property of Sir Joseph Copley; in fact, he believed that it was intended to tunnel under the house itself.—(Laughter.) But he had withdrawn his opposition when the line was carried on the other side of the river, and therefore avoided that injury. When, however, he gave that assent the line of the Swinton Company was to be carried as far as Lincoln ; and as the great object of the coal-owners was to get to the north of Lincolnshire, the case was materially altered when the line stopped s. ort at Doncaster; fir not only was that circumstance likely to interrupt the communication between the districts to be accommodated beyond each of the termini, but it would throw a monopoly into the beetle of the Midland Counties Company. I:e is chairman of the South Yorkshire Coal Company. theugh no railway director; and in that capacity he had to say that the proprietors would infinitely prefer a line which was merely a coal line to one which is intended for the mixed traffic of passengers and goods. With respect to the great supply of corn from the Isle of eteehohne, although he must allow that the Sheffield district was eminently important, he yet. thought the Leeds—the whole of the clothing district—trom its popula tion and wealth, was more so, and consequently, as be con ceived, there was five times the quantity carried up the Aire and Calder canal that was carried up the river Don. j The Committee here adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XVIII. EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER (LONDON, SAWS/IVRY, AND YEOVIL BRANCH). The Committee met at the usual hour; Mr. B. Denison in the chair. The Committee were occupied the whole of the day in pang the several clauses of the Bill, including a protecting clause to the Earl of Digby. Considerable discussion wit place as to the forms of the clause compelling the Exeter and Yeovil Company to lay down the additional rails for the convenience of the bread gauge traffic. Aclause was finally agreed upon, referring the matter in general terms to the Board of Trade, in accordance with the re,:olutions arrived at by the Committee yesterday. The several clauses were then passed, and the report agreed to. The Committee rose at four o'clock. GROUP XX. The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock, in Room No. 31 (Grand Corridor) ; present, Mr. Sotheron (chairman), Lord William Bentinck, Mr. Pigott, Mr. Tancred, and Mr. Ross. The Committee had adjourned from Wednesday to this day, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Cockbum's summing up and reply is the cases of the London, Hounslow and Western, and the Richmond Railway (Kew Branch), the evidence for and against those lines having been concluded. In consequence, however, of Mr. Cockburn's engagement at the Old Bailey, these cases were deferred, and the Com mittee proceeded with the only remaining Bill in the group, namely, WITAILIIST =ON IRAZIMITAir DESSOLVITTO. Mr. PAGET, for the promoters, stated the object of the Bill to be to enable this Company (which was incorporated by the Act the 41st Geo. III.) to sell the lands, houses, and other property of the company together with the navigable com munication from the dock of the company to the River Thames at Wandsworth, in the county of Surrey, and to dis solve the company. The inadequacv of the returns was of course the ground of application far this Bill. Mr. Cooic, for Messrs. Child, Lyon, Denison and other persons interested in the maintenance of the line, opposed the Bill, on the ground that capital had been expended in mills, wharfs, and other establishments, on the faith that the rail way should be maintained. The opposing parties claimed, on the alternative a reasonable compensation from the pro ceeds of any sale which Parliament might authorise. Evidence was given of the fact that the Company were almost wholly without funds, that there was little or no traffic, and that, in short, it was almost impossible for the company to keep the line open. There were but four or five persons who ever used the line; and Mr. Lyons and Mr. Child, who had branches to their mills, were among the number. This was originally a double line; but as it bad got very much out of repair, one line of rails wee taken up to repair the a :er. Mr. Burcham, solicitor to the South-Western R 4 ilwa Company, and also to Mr. Chapli n (th e Sh er iff o f London), who is chairman of that company, gave evidence of an agreement between his clients on the one hand, and the Sur rey Iron Railway on the other, for the purchase of the line by the former (in case this Bill should pass) for the sum of 14,000/. The South-Western Company were quite willing to keep their contract, although they had found they had made a bad bargain. They did not undertake to continue the railway, having carefully worded the contract in such a manner that it should only bind them to purchase the land. Be had, however, no doubt it would be continued as a rail way. When the compact was made, the South-Western Railway Company intended to apply to Parliament for a Bill to make a line from Wandsworth to Brighton, in con nexion with which this line would become profitable; but that the Bill, on being submitted to Parliament, was lost on the standing orders ; and a Bill for a line between the same termini had been obtained by the London and Bir mingham Company. The line would therefore be of less value than was originally anticipated. Upon the conclusion of M r . B urc h am ' s evidence, Mi. PAGET handed in a copy of the Bill, with some of the elauste amended, and others inserted, the object of which amendments and insertions he explained thus :—By the Lands Clauses Consolidation Actl the landowners upon aline of railway had a right of pre-emption, in case of a dissolu tion. If this provision was enforced in this case, the con tract of the South-Western Company would be void. Lord Shaftesbury had declared that he would not allow any Bill to pass the House of Lords without these clauses ; but on an application being made to his Lordship by the promoters, he said that if the Bill came before the House of Lords, he would have no objection to giving the South-Western Com pany an opportunity of buying the line if they chose, but it must be continued as a railway, and there must be a clause introduced, which would suspend the action of the Lands Consolidation Act, but would provide that if the line ceased to be used as a railway, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act should come into operation. Xn the clauses which he pro posed to be inserted it would be provided that in ten ears time, if the railway were to fall into disuse, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act should then come into operation ; but they would withhold the right of pre-emption in the interim. lb. Cauca, who appeared f o r Me ss rs. Lyons and Messrs. _ . and Dr. Reynolds, a petitioner who appeared in per ri,7hta:tressed=he Committee in reply, and urged that the clauses MoterTattim(a) ought to be maintained, and the Lands The room b e i ng n Act oug h t not to b e interfered with. n utted for a few r o i n t s t and the Committee h av i ng con rd. The Gualumie sa on o ur re _ th at the Lan admirrion, that the Com vithds Clauses Consolidation miLtee were of opinion Act ought not to be interfered D o eur Reynolds suggested and moved that the recitation of the contract in the preamble be st ruc k out Th e Committee declined to decide on this. Point until the case was concluded. The cases of the several petitioners were then p romu u tt with. Dr. Reynolds, and the Counsel on the pa of an eac d h th ef the other petitioners, addressed the Committee; cases being completed, The Committee declared the preamble of the Bill proved, n ed, but struck the recitation of the contract out . Th e q as to whether clauses should be inserted, allowing theintNip; tioners to recover compensation for the loss of the ra ilve . and also the arr angemen t o f some o th er clauses, was reserv ed . It was announced in the course of the day that Mr. Cock burn was detained so long at the Central Criminal Court, that it would be impos.ible for him to attend here to-day; and it was then arranged that his case should come on peremptorily at two o'clock on Monday. Some doubt was entertained as to whether there would be time before that hour to dispose of the clauses of this Bill, and it was there fore agreed that the Committee should meet on Monday, at eleven o'clock. It being past four o'clock when the Committee came to the decision as to the preumbre of the-Bill, they then adjourned. Soon after the arrival of the Emperor of Rucsia at Watiaw. says a Frankfort journal, as he was passing in a caleche, a Journey man mason, by some accident, lost his footing, and fell from a gres't height on the pavement. The Emperor immediately left the carrn.`ge, had the man taken Into a courtyard, sent far surgeon. and rossalne4 on the spot until the medical man declared that life bed fled. The Emperor the next day sent 150 Silver roubles to the father of the deceased. LITP.XLRY TaxeL.—The long-pending action of Tri nity college, Cambridge, against the Trustees of the British Museum, for the recovery of a manuscript alleged to have been purloined from the collections of the former, and In which a literary gentleman well known has been nalnftilly implicated, Is set down fur Tuesday at the 4:°G .L t of Queen's tieneh . JbIEALTH o/ THE CITY.—On Friday a deputation (WA the -National Philanthropic Association, consisting of the Duke of Gra;ton, Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart, Dr. Jordan I;ynelf, sir. Cochrane. Mr. B. B. Cabbell, F.R.S., &c., waited upon Lord ,Jelin Russell, M.P.; as one of the representatives of the I City of LondOn, to draw his attention to the present filthy and neg lected s t a te of ;ts courts and alleys, and ask his assistance in their improvement. fie matter is now taken up with more interest. from the circumstance ei the increasing prevalence of fevers from the in tense heat of the weather, and the apprehended visitation of Asiatic cholera. The object and views of the deputation met the most cor dial approbation of Lord John Russell, who stated that they should In every way have his voice and support, and a resolution was Passed expressive of the necessity for the immediate employment In amseping and cleansing of an additional number of hands. is which Ms Lords f hip promised his sr:lnane, in memeralieing the Commis. Iliona.l o %were. ~_ -~,, MARYLEBONE VESTRY. VOTE OF THANKS TO SIR ROBERT PEEL FOR iIIS MENSITRE FOR A REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. On Saturday one of the most numerous meetings of the Marylebone Vestry held for a considerable period (specially convened) took place at the Court House for the purpose of considering the following important reso hrion, of which notice had been given on the previous Saturday by Mr. Joseph : I " That this board, the representatives of nearly 15,000 rated inhabitants ' hereby tenders its grateful thanks to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury, for the untiring zeal, ability, and industry which he has displayed in carrying the Bill for the repeal of the corn-laws through the Commons House of Parlia ment. That this board deeply laments the bitter and factious hostility which the Right Hon. Baronet has been met with from interested parties during the pro gress of the measure. The board, however, begs to source ßaronet, express its earnest hope that thetr from whatever Right Ho n. regardless of opposition, no mate it may come, will continue his invaluable aid as First Minister of the Crown to the measures for the relief of trade now before Parliament, measures the most benefi cial to the nation at large that Ministers ever originated or legislature ever passed." The Rev. Dr. Spry presided, and Earl Manvers, Mr. Hume, M.P., Lord Montfort, Mr. W. Williams ' M.P., Bart., Sir James Hamilton, Sir Walter Stirling, Mr. P. Laurie, &C. &c., were present. Mr. JOSEPH, moving his resolution, observed that he considered it was the duty of that vestry, as a liberal public body, to look at measures, not men ; and when they found a man like Sir Robert Peel stepping out of the path he had p rev i ous l y f ollowed solely for the b enef i t of the country, the nation at large were bound to sup port him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. POTTER seconded the resolution. Sir Robert Peel had been abused by the Protection party in the House of Commons by language which was a disgrace to the lowest pot-house in St. Giles's ; but he had deter mined to support the rights of the people, who were, therefore, bound to support him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. H. C. WILSON said it was with much regret he felt bound to oppose this resolution, on the ground that it made the matter a personal and private question.— (Hear, hear.) He had not so high an opinion of the character of Sir Robert Peel as to justify the eulogiums which had been passed upon him, for he could not shut his eyes to the fact that he had been returned by the Protection party for purposes entirely opposite to those he had carried out, and he might in the same manner deceive those who now placed their confidence in him. He also objected to the resolution on the ground that it was without precedent to call upon the vestry to pass a vote of thanks to any individual member of a Govern ment. Mr. Wilson concluded by moving as an amend ment to the effect : " That the vestry having adopted an address to her Majesty, praying that she would be pleased to adopt necessary measures for repealing the corn and pro vision laws, desired to express its great satisfaction with the Bill for that object which had passed the House of Commons, and now before the House of Lords, believ• ing that the passing of such measure would be produc tive of the most important and beneficial effects on the interests of she nation at large." Mr. HARBERT seconded the amendment. Earl MANVERS said he was desirous of offering a few observations on this subject, being one of those who had been described in the resolution as an interested party in the opposition he had offered to the measure of Sir IRobert Peel.—(Hear, hear.) He had opposed it in every stage, and still was determined to do so ' • but st hilst he did s o , h e b egge d to say that he did not class himself amongst those who had indulged in violent and 1 s Aupere.,tive language in the House of Commons against Sir Robert Peel.— (Cheers.) He was opposed both to the resolution and the amendment, and would venture to submit that they should leave Sir R. Peel to steer his own ship without the assistance of a set of break pilots I , ke the Marylebonc vestry.—(Laughter.) Mr. HUME, M.P., supported the original resolution. Ife had been in Parliament for thirty-five years, and until late ly had always been adverse to the policy of Sir Robert reel. Ile had always been the advocate of measures, not men, and he would say in the case of Sir E. Peel with regard to the corn-laws, there was no minister who bad ever stood in the high and proud position in the eyes of the country that Sir Robert Peel did at this moment. Notwithstanding the vituperation which was heaped upon the Right Hon. Baronet, and the motives which were imputed to him by the Pro tection party, he (Mr. Hume) believed that the Right lion. Baronet, in carrying out the measures he had done, had acted on an honest conviction that they were measures for the benefit of the country. When he 1 (Mr. Hume) found a man sacrificing the power he pos sessed in both Houses of Parliament, as well as all the social ties of a party he had acted with throughout a long political career, for the benefit of the country, he considered he was peculiarly entitled to the thanks of the nation at large. Mr. W. Winnrsxs, M.P., also supported the original resolution. He considered there was never in the an nals of this country such an instance of a Prime Mini ster sacrificing his own interests for the benefit of his country as in the case of Sir Robert Peel. He hoped, therefore, the amendment would be withdrawn. After some private conversation, Mr. Wilson, by per mission of the vestry, withdrew his amendment. Sir W. STiniarna opposed the motion altogether, as fraught with the greatest mischief at the present crisis of the country. _ _ Mr. LAT}RIE condemned the whole of the proceedings, cn the ground that the vcstry was a parochial and not a political body. Sir J. HAMILTON took a similar view of the matter, and moved as an amendment that the vestry do adjourn, which was seconded by Sir W. STIRLING. And a division having been demanded by Mr. W. EYRE, tbere appeared—For the motion, 10 ; against it, 47 ; majority against the adjournment, 37. Whilst th© division was being taken, Sir W. Stirling, and one or two other Conservatives, attempted to leave the room, but, being observed, a motion was at once carried to station the beadles at the door, to prevent any member coming in or going out. The debate was resumed by Mr. Gomm, who moved the omission of the paragraph in the resolution relating to the bitter vituperation of the protectionist party against Sir Robert Peel, which being accepted by the mover and seconder, the resolution as amended, was put from the chair, and was carried but with two dissentients (Earl Manvers and Mr. Alfred Daniel), amidst loud cheers. A NOBLE FRIEND TO THE POOR. Mr. FLoop, the vestry clerk, laid before the vestry a rroposal which, though it was at that moment anony mous, was from a nobleman of very high rank, who had furnished him privately with his name, regretting, !hat under the present administration of the Poor-laws, there was no distinction made between the best and worst of mankind, and offering to place the sum of .SOO/. in the hands of the guardiars, providing a similar sum was added to it by the parish, for the purpose of placing that class of persons who had become poor from no misconduct on their own part, in a position where they would receive double allowance either in or out of the workhouse, and a separate apartment where the latter was the case. Mr. G. DANIEL moved that such a liberal offer be ac cepted, and at some length showed the advantages re sulting from a better classification between the really deserving. and idle, and dissolute poor. Mr. RIDGWAY seconded the motion. Mr. Jour; W ILLIAMS , in support of the moti o n, stated variousinstances of poor parishioners applying to him on the subject of being compelled to herd with all sorts of characters. He had no doubt but such a noble pro position would meet with a general response throughout the parish, and as an earnest of his feeling in the matter, he begged to put down his name at once for ten guineas.—(Cheers.) The rector approved of the proposition, and said he would add 501., recently left him in trust for the use of the poor by a deceased inhabitant, to that object. The resolution was carried nem. con., and a committee appointed to carry out the object. The vestry then se- I crated. BRITISH AND AMERICAN SQUA- DRONS IN THE PACIFIC. We may refer without inconvenience in this place to some communications we have received on the subject of the rela tive forces of the British and American squadrons in the Pacific. One of our correspondents has endeavoured to con vince us that the American frigates Congress, Constitution, and Savannah, which are unquestionably very tine vessels of their class, are line-of-battle ships in disguise, and superior to our own ships in weight of metal. It is even affirmed that these frigates have been sent out expressly prepared for an encounter with our 80--gun ship, the Collingwood. These apprehensions are altogether unfounded. In the first place, the list of the two squadrons which has gone the round of the papers, and was sent to this country from Lima, is in accurate ; two more f r igates have joined the British Ad rid. re of whi c h i s , we b e li eve . th e Grampus, a r azee d 74, taken j o the Trem en d ous. I n th e secon d pl ace , we h ave ai C ong :::T t st ble to compare the armament of the frigate the armame n t off riP Collingwood, mour. The co r m . of the American Commodore, and gives the following results flag-ship of Sir E. Sey 7.2.potutdde_r_ii on lower deck. Collingwood 4 68.-po lin d= O , l ° U l ow er deck. 24 32-pounders on ur n d d e ., e 2t L 24 32-pounders on upper 80 Besides ileld-pieces and boat-guns, which do n ot count is her mounted armament. I 6 68-pounders. Congress 50 long 32-pounders. Perhaps the American vessel mounts four more guns tha n are given in the return from which we quote; but without in the least detracting from the merit of those frigates, it is preposterous to put them on an equality with vessels of the class of the Collingwood or the Superb. We have, or shall soon have, in the Pacific one 80-gun ship, four frigates, three corvettes and two or three ste amers ; the Americans have three first-class frigates, four corvettes, and a schooner—no line-of-battle ship, and no steamer. With this force the American Commodore will be called upon to e an an active part in the warwith Mexico, to blockade a large extent of coast, perhaps to support operations in California, and to protect the immense fleet of whalers which resort to the South Sets from the ports of New England. We need scarcely add that a hostile collision with the British squad ron would be a most formidable addition to these arduous duties of the United States' officers on this station; and although we sincerely hope that no such calamity will occur, we cannot entertain the smallest apprehensions as to the re suit, and we are convinced that the superiority of our forces in the Pacific at this time will prove an additional induce ment to the maintenance of peace.— Times. Mr. David Pollock (elder brother of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer) has just received the appointment of Chief Justice of Bombay, the salary of which is 8,0001. per annum. Mr. Polloek now on circuit, discharging the duties of Commissioner of the Ingo!. vent Debtors' Court, which office he has enjoyed (or about two years having received that appointment on the death of the late Mr. Com missioner Bowen. The salary of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court is 1,5001. a year. Mr. Cooke, the eminent barrister, practising in tho Bankrupt and Insolvent Courts, is generally expected to All the vacancy caused by the removal of XL Pollock. THE SUN, LONDON ) MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1R46. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOL - SE OF LORDS, June 20. ct.An - ar: DERNSFORD—GRIM. CON. AND DIVORCE. This was a petition to the House, by the plaintiff; for a divorce, oil the ground of adultery. An action was tried for criminal conversation in February lsst, in which our readers will remember that the plaintiff was an attorney at Bristol, and the defendant a surgeon, then in partnership with the plaintiff's mother. It appeared, upon the trial. that the defendant had hired a house at Bath, in February, 1845, and he and the wife of the plaintiff were in the habit of meeting there under the assumed names of Mr. and Mrs. Nyne ; and from this and other circumstances, as well as from evidence of the confession of the parties, the criminal intercottrse was proved, and the jury returned a ver dict for the plaintiff, damages 5,000/. The defendant is in prison upon proceedings for the recovery of this sum. Mr. Austin and Mr. Butt now appeared in support of the petition for a divorce. No counsel erm-ared for the defendant. The evidence produced at the 1 id .vas gone into, and the facts of the case were fully corroL tat 1, after which, Lord BROUGHAM, who presides, s .id the case was one of the clearest he had ever heard, and in his opinion it was satisfactorily proved ; he should, therefore, advise their Lord ships so to report to the house, which was agreed to, and their Lordships adjourned. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH', June 20. (Sittings iu Banco.) BAT:1101T V. OLIVER. This is a seduction case, which came before the Court in the shape of an application for a new trial on the `round of mis direction, and that there was not sufficient evidence adduced on trial to show that the plaintiff had lost the services of her daughter. The plaintiff is the mother of Elizabeth Barrott, aged thirty-three, who resided with her, and kept a school at Saltash, in the county of Devon, and the action was brought against the defendant, a Mr. Oliver, who also resided in Saltash, fur the seduction of the daughter, thereby depriving plaintiff of the benefit of her services. The case was tried at the Devonshire assizes before Mr. Justice Coleridge, and a verdict was returned for the defendant. According to the evidence adduced on the trial, Elizabeth Barrott was residing with her mother in Saltash, and opened a school in order to assist her mother in maintaining the family. At this time the defendant was in the habit of visiting them three or four times a week. This ended in the pregnancy of plaintiff's daughter; and when she informed the defendant of her condition he gave her money to purchase drugs to procure abortion, and on several occasions she took turpentine, muriate of iron (tincture of steel), and savin, but they all failed. She received 30s. in all before the birth of the child, and 4s. afterwards. When it was publicly known she was with child, the defendant gave up his visits, and refused, when applied to, to do her pecuniary justice for the injury done. her pupils also left her; hence the action was itisti. tuted by the mother to obtain compensation. It was endeavoured by cross-examination to show that the daughter of plaintiff had bad connexion with another person of the name of Lander, and that she was not at the time in the service of the mother, but that the latter was only residing with the daughter for a short time, and that the latter was perfectly Independent of the former, having entire control over her own earnings. Mr. CSOWDES applied for the rule on a former day, on the ground of misdirection and that the evidence addued on the trial did not warrant the conclusion that the daughter was the servant of the mother at the time. Mr. NOTAGUE SMITH was heard this morning against the rule, showing that the mother was residing with the daugh ter before the seduction up to within a month of the confinement of her daughter, and then only going for a short time to Plymouth, leaving her daughter its charge of her brother. The Learned Gentlemen cited several parallel cases, in which it was ruled that there was proof of service. In the present case the daughter was in service when the mother sent for her home ; that when there she opened a school, being then under the jurisdiction and control of the mother, and that therefore the latter was fairly entitled to compensation for the injury done Iy the loss of service. Mr. CROWDEIt replied at length, contending that there was no sati.factory proof of service—that the daughter, with her brother, who kept a boys' schrol, kept a house jeintly, and paid rent, with which the mother had nothing to do— that the daughter had entire control over her own earn ings, the mother being more in the character of servant than otnerwise—that she had sufficiently art ived at the period of discretion, at least if years were any test of that—and that any incontinence on her part with the old gentleman in question, though its effects might become fit subject of pro ceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts, did not warrant the mother to compensation at common law. With regard to de bauching the plaintiff's daughter, there could not have been many seductive wiles employed, as it appeared from her evi dence she consented to connexion when asked to do so, and that the defendant was in the habit of entering her bed-room by a ladder at night, and that she was in the habit of returning the compliment by the aid of a ladder. Whether she Axed the ladder or not did not appear. He concluded by asking the Court to make the rule absolute. The COURT said that the practice of the law had always been to admit proof of service in actions for seduction, even when the evidence was not of the most conclusive character. _ . In the present case their Lordships were of opinion, looking to precedents, that s..rvice had been made out, and by ;n -ference they trust also conclude, there being no evidence, that there was loss of service. They, therefore, considered the jury were justified in coming to the verdict they did on the evidence adduced on the trial: The rule was accordingly discharged. .Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster, before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a Special Jury.) DONALDOON AND OTHERS It. BIRD. The Attorney-General, Mr. Butt, and Mr Peacock, were Counsel for the plaintiffs, and the Solicitor-General and Mr. Bovil for the defendant. The plaintiffs were the Commissioners of Sewers for West minster. and Middlesex. and the defendant was a party who had entered into a bond for the performance of certain works, under a contract made by George Bird, to make a sewer in Gloucester-road, Paddington. Dlr. George Bird performed this work, but the plaintiffs alleged that it was done in avert' incomplete manner. so much so as to make it dangerous to the public, and useless for the purposes intende 1. Two gentle men of eminence, Mr. Tite and Mr. Rennie, were called in to inspect the works, and to make a report of their union, and in that report those gentlemen stated that the works were de fective. Mr. George Bird was then called upon at his own cost to re-construct the works; he offered to do so at the cost price, provided the question as to his liability was reserved. This, however, the plaintiffs would not accede to, and hence the present action. "Very many witnesses, and among them Mr. Tite and Mr. Rennie, were called to show that the work was defective. They had examined the sewer after it had been finished. Upon cross-examination, they admitted that these defects cht to have been seen from time to time as the worked pro c( sled. The examination also contained a scientific view of the nature of the arches used. Mr. John Jay was employed by the Commissioners to put the sewer in a proper state, for which he had charged 2321. For the defendant it was urged that the plaintiffs were highly blameable in the course they had pursued, and that, if any mischief had arisen it wai in consequence of the neg ligence of their own officers, and it was also contentied that the plaintiffs' plans as to the arches were improper, and had led to the defect. The plaintiffs' officer had certified the work as perfect in 1841, and George Bird was then paid for it. The interest of the case was entirely confined to the Com missioners of Sewers, to the defendant, and to George Bird, fiur whom the defendant was surety. The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury retired, and having been absent about an hour and a halt, they came into Court, and wished to know if they could say that the work was done to the satisfaction of the Commissioners then acting? The officer of the Court informed them that the Learned Judge had left the Court, and that their verdict mu.t be for the plaintiffs or defendant. Tue jury then again retired. At length the jury came in and said they found a verdict for the plaintiffs; but they were of opinion that the work was done to the satisfaction of the Commissioners then acting.— Damages, 231/. 10s. 4d. was present when be came to Eaetcheap Drea-er s tid e WAS glad the (1,,, tor had COMP, fer he waist safferiog gre :1 pain, and he thought 'tin doctor wouSa do 'limn goo I. D:. Ellis said he had made up his mind that Dues: r would i:o down with him to Sudbrook Park that aftern ,on ; and m hat he would drive him down in his carriage. An appoint meet was made to meet Ellis at Sackvilleastreet, Piccadilly, at three o'clock that afternoon. Cross-examined—Dresser was acquainted with Dr. ElFe for some time, and was a great advo ca t e o f h y d ropat h y ; so far, indeed, as to publish cases of cure. Th e p a i n com pl a i ne d of affected hire in the hip joint, groin, and down the thigh, and in consequence, he walked with great difficulty. Dresser was not robust, but a strong, healthy man before that. William Glasgow Dresser, a cousin of the deceased, stated that his cousin was 45 years of age, a man rather strongly built, and capable of undergoing considerable fatigue. He believed him a person of average health. About two months deceaseed was affected with jaundice, but recovered of them. On the 28th Slay, the last day witness saw him alive, de ceased complained of pain from rheumatism. On the Tues day following, witness went to Sudbrook Park about -I o'clock in the afternoon, and saw the body of deceased, which was very much swollen, very dal k under the eye and behind the ear, froth issuing from the mouth. Witness saw Dr. Ellis, to whom he remarked as to the death from rheumatism, but Ellis said he had not died of that but from hepatitis. Ile had, however, treated him on his own statement, as suffer ing from rheumatism; but it was afterwards discovered that it was disease of the liver. Witness said deceased bad had a similar attack five years ago, and the gentleman who attended him said it was rheumatism. Dr. Ellis said that was no imputation on the skill of the gentleman, for the disease was of a very insidious character, and frequently only discovered by the use of the knife. Witness asked him shortly after something further, and Ellis said he would write him a diagnosis of the case. He accordingly drew up the paper produced in Court, and said he would b e h appy to ass i st a t a post mortem examination, or meet any medical gentleman. Cross-examined—Dr. Ellis said had he known it was hepa titis, he would have taeated him in another way. The patient was a man of a dark complexion, and the day when he saw the body was very warm. Dr. Ellis said the patient had warm baths in the evening and wet bandages. Eliza Murial—Knew Richard Dresser three or four years; and on the Friday, the 29th May, he was complaining of rheumatism. On the Sunday following, she and Mrs. Dres ser saw him at Dr. Ellis's in bed, when he appeared very poorly. Witness did not stay long in the room, and never saw him after alive. Harriett Dresser, widow of the deceased, stated she accom panied her husband in the omnibus to Ellis's on the 29th of May. She had seen the doctor that day before, who was called in by her husband's desire to see him. About six weeks before he had jaundice, and was then attended by Mr. Waterworth. When he went to Ellis's he was suffering from nothing but rhumatic pain. Witness herself knew Ellis for several years. He was at one time a seller of lace. It was between five and six o'clock in the evening when she and her husband arrived at Su lbrook Park, where she remained till about right o'clock the some evening. She saw nothing done to him while she remained. SI e went down again on the Sunday afternoon before five o'clock, and remained somewhat more than two hours. Her husband was sitting in the bed-room on the bed ; he was very . poorly and low, sitting oa the foot of the bed covered in blankets, under which lie told her he had wet bandages. lie did not seem so well as on Friday. He bad a bath while she was at Sudbrook. A long oval bath was taken into the room. She saw several pails of cold water, and a different water in another can, both which were mixed. She asked time bathman whether it was warm. On the Monday she again went down, and found her husband sitting up as before. He complained about his legs, and she in consequence put her hand to them, and felt them quite cold. He said they were perfectly useless. Dr Ellis afterwards came into the room, and she told him what her husband had said. and he placed a large wet towel, folded thick, on her husband's stomach. The towel was wetted in the wash-hand ba-in, with water from the ewer. Her husband had only a night shirt on at the time, and the wet cloth was applied to the skin. Dr. Ellis asked her husband whether he dreaded it, and the reply was, No. Ihe Doctor gave it as his reason for putting it on, that he was afraid of inflammation. She had tea then, .but her husband said he was not allowed any. After tea she was ordered to leave the room by Dr. Ellis, for he was to have a bath. Halt an hour after, when she saw her husband, he appeared very low; he was in bed. Her husband was changing colour, becoming very black, but Dr. Ellis said to her he would change, and become as yellow as gold. This darkness appeared particularly under the eves and about the lips. His breathing was very short. She asked Dr Ellis what he theught of the shortness of breath and change of colour; he said they were not desirable. She then took leave of her husband, and felt in kissing him that his lips were quite cold. Before she left the house, she had a message from Dr. Ellis in the ground, he wanted to see her. When she met with him, he said if she was not satisfied with his letter to-morrow, would she like to have him removed, or would she have further advice? She said she would wait anxiously for the letter. .Next day she heard her husband was dead. Her husband thought this water system would cure him, and he wished to try it. Cross-examined—That produced in Court was her own letter, written on the Friday morning to Dr. Ellis, in which she described her husband as "prostrate with rheumatics, as helpless as a child, and unable to walk." She wrote as her husband dictated. When they arrived at Sud brook he required to be helped in from the coach. He said that next morning he was so much better as to he able to walk in the grounds with the help of Dr. Ellis alone. On the Monday her husband said to her, that if Dr. Ellis had been his own brother he could not have been more kind. Some time before his illness it was agreed that lie should go down and audit the accounts of the esta blishment. She noticed there was no perspiration on the Monday evening. She knew Dr. Ellis had given up the lace trade and gone abroad, but did not know whether ho had studied at any of the colleges. She wished the body opened in consequence of what passed between her and Mr. Waterworth. She knew that her husband got sago, tapioca, and other farinaceous food, and had no sug gestion to make as to any illiberality connected with the establishment. Charles Waterworth, surgeon, New Kent-road, stated that the deceased was a patient of his, and he had attended him as his medical adviser for six or seven years. He had a severe attack of rheumatism about four years ago. In March last the deceased was attacked with jaundice; it was slight, and in a few days he was very well. He was not a robust man, but a person with a feeble heart and languid circulation. Witness was present at the post mortem examination. The chest was first exa mined, in consequence of the appearance of the le,ood from the lungs. The lungs were very full of Mood. The heart was large and gorged, and the walls of the heart rather thin. The witness . believed that the state of congestion of the heart and lungs accounted for death. Such a state would be accompanied with coldness of the limbs, and shortness of breath, terminating in death. They found the liver healthy, and saw no actual disease in the liver or heart. Witness had seen th e di agnos i s of Dr. Ellis, and in some particulars it corre sponded with the state of the body ; in s ome no r. There was tympanitis, and with that the diagnosis corre sponded with the actual state of the body. There was no hepatitis or suppuration. Witness thought it very difficult to ascertain suppuration of the lungs. Hepatitis would be accompanied with fever, and he thought it might be de tected by the symptoms. If hepatitis or suppuration bad been present the treatment was certainly not proper. The patient was more liable to congestion from such treatment as h e received than many others; this could be judged of by the pulse. Wet cloths on the Monday afternoon when his legs were cold were very objectionable, and in the judgment of the witness, after seeing the state of the lungs and heart, would accelerate death. Cross-examined —The post stortem examination was con ducted by witness and . his partner. He pr ocee d e d to t h e P()stmrte*fli th e e agxdaiminnaostlon with a belief that th e resu l t wou ld contradict is. Had any suggestion been made to have Dr. Ellis. or one for him prese n t, h e wou l d not have ob jected. He did not believe there was any congest i on o f the liver, it appeared particularly healthy. Hisopinion was that congestion was going on on the Mond a y even i ng , an d was accelerated by the application of wet clothes. Knowing the constitution of Mr. Dresser, witness considered the ap plication of wet cloths at any time very improper; but h e a d m itted that in this he had an advantage over a stranger. A congested state of the brain would produce congestion in the lungs. By Mr. HUDDLESTONE—He thought that water at a tem perature of 85 deg. would be too cold generally, and under the symptoms mentioned by Mrs. Dresser very consider ably so. The effect of it would be to drive in Cie blood from the surface. _ - - Mr. Hicks, partner with the last witness, stated that the countenance of the deceased was bloated, and bloody serum issued from the mouth and nose, and the whole appearance was of a person who had been drowned. Witness thought the liver had a' little too much blood, but other w i se p er f ect l y healthy. There was disease in the kidney, so muc h a s to interfere with the functions. In other respects he corrubo rated the former witness. John Maynard. an attendant in Dr. Ellis's establishment, at Sudbri)ok Park, near Petersham, stated that he was a bathing man, having certain rooms allotted to his section, and he attended all persons in these rooms. He had been there about six months. He saw Mr. Dresser on the Friday in No. 2, in the cottage, a part of the establishment, a bed room; Dr. Ellis was with him at the time, which was be tween seven and eight o'clock. Dr. Ellis said something to witness, but he did not recollect what he was. Dresser had a bath or' Saturday morning between seven and eight o'clock, the bath being carried into the room and Dr. Ellis being pre sent. The temperature of the bath was 85 degrees. The patient after remaining in it 90 seconds was taken out and well dried and put to bed. Witness took up water three or four times during the Saturday, about two quarts cold and two quarts hot ; each time at intervals of three or four hours. Dr. Ellis was there at these times; there was i o bath in the room. A cloth about two feet long was taken up with every quantity of water. On Sunday he had a bath of the same time of the morning as before. Dr. Ellis ordered that it should be at a temperature of 85 degrees, and that the patient should remain in it 90 seconds. Towels and water were taken up as on the day previous. In the bed-room his covering was two or three blankets. He had a bath on the Monday, but not quite so early, and no water or towels were sent up that day. Cross - examined—The rubbing down on Saturday morn ing, after the bath, did not cause so much redness as witness had seen in other cases. After the bath on Sunday he walked out, and felt•yery much better from Dr. Ellis's treatment, and said so frequently. He expressed himself to the same effect after the bath on Monday, and wished to have baths during the day, he felt so much relieved. He had no bath on Monday night. His food was tapioca, milk, bread, and through,Utter. His bowels w ere con fi ne d f rom th e ti m e he came on Friday till Monday morning; on Sunday some castor oil was taken into Dresser's room. Dr. Ellis sat up with his patient o a ti nd appeared Sunday and e r Monday v an xiou s nights, abou t the whole on 3 n l i o g n h - t day, at half-past six o'clock in the evening, witness saw no change in the patient. There were four or five gentlemen in the establishment at the time. Dresser saw ,rd il e e r( r i ah' b R i mo o u g tt e ot r h s, nir eb b e o ( o p, t , c a r : i cs n eke t i sn h e tf ehe e et s a a mf b .ti l e : s ir c h nho m o e nw n , e t r N , when Dr D h l e i r r e . cold. Witness sat up with him that night until I If )a -past three o'clock next m orn i ng , and during time the • pauent Ire. quently complained of pain in the side. This closed tie case for the prosecution. Mr. COCKBURN took three technical objections, two on the wording of the indictment, and one on the subject of the ju risdiction of the Court. ~.,...... Chief Justice TINDAL reserved the points. Mr. COCKBURN then addressed the jury, and delivered a long and elaborate defence of the prisoner, and finally put it to the jury whether they c,uld say there was congestion of the lungs, that that congestion was caused by the water treat ment, and that, even if that were so, Dr. Milos ignorance of tsile.heorr, liNnDfies: a latent disease of which his patient never spoke a syllable, was of that gross and culpable description which would jus tify them in finding him guilty of manslaughter. Several witnesses, patients of Dr. Ellis, were caned, who spoke to his care, skill, and humanity. to C th h e ie j f u j ry us , Ggilty. aluse by several in The verdict was received with great apP the Court, summe d u p P returned t he evidence, t t ve d a i e n t d o sent Net e i 1 NEW (,' RT. (Before the G , umort SERGFANT.) Henry &cup, a young rnan co vey respectable appear ance. who was Oescribed as a warchou.ietnan, was indict, d for quantity of French cambric and cambric hand kerchiefs, (Idle value of 49!. odd, the properly of his em ployers. Messrs. Lewis and James, warehousemen, Gutter hme, Cheapside. Mr. Be:•j. Lewis said be suspected the prisoner a few days after he hed left his employ. In consequence of such suspi• cion he had his stock taken, and found the property now produced missing. The cambric and the handkerchiefs erdctly corresponded with those in their (the prosecutors) possession, the threads where they had been torn off exactly fitting. lulls cross. examination by Mr. BALLANTINF., the prose cutor admitted that he had formerly entertained a very high opinion of the prisoner, and that there were other persons in his employ who also had access to the cambric. The account the prisoner rave of the transaction was that he had pur chased the articles from a Mr. St. Croix, who had been intro duced to him by a Mr. Bisson, a merchant, living at Jersey. Mr. Bisson had been, and prosecutor believed was still, on intimate terms wi.h the prisoner. That gentleman, however, denied ever introducing such a person as Mr. St. Croix to him. About the 26th February, prosecutor, who required the services of Mr. Bisson, as a witness against the prisoner, cautioned him, on being informed that he was going to dine with the prisoner, to be careful that he was not " drugged." George Hayter was next examined. He was directed by the prosecutors to go to the prisoner's warehouse and endea vour to purchase the cambric, they having been told that the prisoner had some for sale. He accordingly went to prisoner's shop, and there saw the articles produced and pur chased them. Cross-examined—The articles were lying exposed to view. Mr. BALLANTtNE wide a powerful address on beh•,lf of the prisoner, contending that it would have been absurd for a man in the prisoner's position, who was rapidly improving his condition, and had become the partner of a highly re spectable man, to run the risk of sacrificing his future prospects by committing a paltry theft.—Mr. Bisson, one of the prosecutor's witnesses, had placed between 6001. and 700/. worth of goods in the prisoner's possession since the charge had been brought, and such was the high opinion he enter tained of him that he would not have this property removed. There had been abundant opportunities of disposing of the articles said to have been stolen, if the prisoner had been so disposed, and he (Mr. Ballantine) would call a witness to prove that the purchase was it arse by the prisoner of a person answering the description of Mr. St. Croix at the very time and place stated. After a lengthened and feeling appeal to the jury, this wit ness was called, and corroborated the statement made by the Learned Counsel, after which Mr. CLAIIICqON said he was instructed to withdraw the prosecution; which announcement was received with accla math ns, and the prisoner left the doLk in compeny of his friends. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 20. Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.) TAI .ATTORNEY-GENERAL r. SCHULTZ. This was an information filed by the Attorney-General to recover penalties for a breach of the Customs-laws. It ap peared that certain parties had purchased twelve hogsheads of brandy in bond for the ostensible purpose of exporting them to Valparaiso, by the Rosalind, but, instead of having them conveyed on board that vessel, empty hogsheads were sent on board, and the twelve bonded hogsheads were con veyed to llnngerford market, and from thence to Mark• lane, to a wine-cooper's, where th e y were t aste d an d bottled off, and disposed of according to the orders of one of the principal parties concerned. It was now alleged against the present defendant that in his capacity as an officer in the Customs he had facilitated and connived at the completion of the fraud, and that he was to have received a sum of money out of the profits proportioned to the share le e had taken in the transaction. _ _ _ Mr. Chambers, with whom was Mr. Pigott, was about to address the jury for the defendant, when he was stopped by The LORD CHIEF BARON, who said that there was not sufficient evidence to go before the jury to connect the de fendant with the alleged fraud. Mr. Jervis then withdrew the record. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Chief Justice TINDAL, Baron Rm.-T . ; and Alderman THOMPSON.) Dr. James Elie surrendered this morning to take his trial, and was placed at the bar, indicted on the coroner's inquisi tion for manslaughter, in the case of Richard Dresser, who died while being subjected to hydropathic treatment under the care of Dr. Ellis, to which charge he pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Huddlestone were retained for the prosecution ; Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Prendergast, and Mr. Clark son for the prisoner. Mr. BODKIN, in laying the case before the jury, said they would be aware that it had features in it peculiar to itself —that a system of treatment for disease had been introduced from Germany, which was very popular in that country, and which was known as hydro• patliy, according to which, water is applied to the surface of the body by means of saturated cloths wrapt round the per son, and over them dry cloths, which prevent evaporation, and so excite great perspiration, which, in the belief of many r e m n tol month t h cured o effects great good. The deceased died, however, in conse quence of this kind of treatment. Richard Dresser, he would show them, was an accountant in Eastcheap. He was, ab ou t t fMoaf that ylast,daireasicte, he edw w it a l s i j a a t u ta n c d k ic e e d , b w u it t il be s i e n i g at a ic p a: p l l e establishment! 4 at e a deep-seated pain in the region of the kidney. Mr. Dresser, being acquainted with Dr. Ellis, proposed putting himself under his treatment, and did so on the 29th May last, on Tuesday after, June 2, the patient Park,v s / o a: i i b received as a patient at Dr. Ellis's m ie e n ot d ß ied ie . hea l Richmond, and was for t t o i l e ' j ii the r3, 1 3 n u t e e h ot as it was, evinced which evening to consider whether the treatment, other, either, on the one hand, a felonious' such gross ignorance as would put the patle e n r t:'s ea li t f h e gel . Mr. Bodkin havin g re f erre d to the Act of Parliament, un der un der which the case, happeni ng i n S urrey, b ut investigated b y a London Coroner, came here for trial. Mr. COCKBURN gave the Court notice that it was his in • tention to take the opinion of the Court on that point, The COVRT was of opinion that thi s m i g h t b e better done a t another stage of the trial. particulars whichappear address to the jury, in evidence, de tailing the diagnosis of Dresser's case, written after the death, by Dr. Mr. BODKIN proceeded with his ignorance as the diag- Bodkin) hoped, however, to Ellis, who attributed the death to diseased liver, ending in suppuration. He ( Mr. . be able disease in the liver, and of that the death arose in co . sequence .congestion. The jury prisoner guilty of man to show the jury . then would inquire w the deceased, coupled with nosis evinced of the disease of tha h t e t t h h e e r r e su w c - a h s gr no oss slaughter. n said he was a lighterman Thomas Hubert, being swor , treatment applied, would infer the Richard Dress er . He coal-merchant, and knew the deceased,. .e complained He saw him on Friday, the 29 th of May. when n of rheumatism, from which the witness knew he had suffered before. Witness knew that Pr, Ellis had been sent fur, and Gimptell to br:tv nil the patties who could hi•( , re any on the before him on a fuftu\. v.t!en he sh untcx w, !till inveAigwion of rt, e . c ase . THAit S Dennis Sullivan, en Ir;sh coal-whipper, of 1, Chuttle x-.'enli St. Grorge's- in the-East. was cha fed before Mr. Broughton with having assaulted the person of Mre. Alderton under the following brute! and aggrexated circumstances, and it is hoped that the particulars may act as a caution to females generally who enter the houses of the poor in the vilest neighbourhoods in the cause of religion or charity :—lt appeared from Mrs. Alderton's statement, who is the wife of a respectable shoemaker, that as she belonged to a society established for the pur peso of relieving the sick poor, and distributing tracts in and about the neighboto hood, she went ens in company with another ma; ren to perform what they considered to be their duty. After =oing to other parts they stopped at the place where Sullivan resided and commenced distributing tracts, when the prisoner came up and requested her to visit his wife, who he said was then lying on a sick bed, without the slightest hope of recovery. Mrs. Alderton, bedeving what he stated to be true, immedi ately consented, and accompanied the prisoner to the top room of one of the houses, where she discovered two empty beds and no other person in the place except the man and herself. On the instant she became alarmed, an i saw at a glance what was the intention of the pri soner, who immediately made proposals to her of an im prope•r -character, and afterwards attempted to violate her person. Fortunately, however, her cries brought the other matron to her assistance, and eventually the fellow was given into custody. Sullivan (who is a Catholic) pleaded in excuse that he only put his heed upon Mrs. Alderton's shoulder, and that he did not want any of her heretical tracts de livered about his neighbourhood. The MAGISTRATE. after se►erely reprimanding the fellow for his brutal, cruel, and dastardly conduct, fined him 405., or, in default, one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction. COMMISSION of LUNACY at BATH. A Comm•ssion de lunatico inguirendo was recently opened at the York House, before Francis Barlow, Esq., to inquire touching the state of mind of Dame Anne Hussey Bickerton (commonly called Lady Bickerton), of No. 15, in the Circus, Bath, widow of Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton, Baronet, deceased. Mr. Phinn, barrister, appeared as council in support of the com mission ; Lady Bickerton 'had no legal assistance. Mr. Phinn stated that Lady Bickerton had married, in 1780, Sir R. H. Bickerton, a baronet of an old family. possessing an estate in Huntingdonshire ; that she was at present in the receipt of an income between 1,500/. and 2,0001. a year ; and the present inquiry was reluctantly instituted at the instance of her two great nephews, Mr. S. A. Turner and Mr. C. Turner, for the safety and protection of herself and her property. The Learned Counsel then alluded to the various delusions to which the unfortunate lady was subject. one of which was that her husband (who died in 1831) was still alive, and she constantly had a cover laid at dinner for him; another was that her late sister, Mrs. Munro (who has been dead several years), was also still living, and what was still more singular was, that Lady B. mistakes Mr,. Pairhuret, the wife of a tradesman in Bath, for her sister, Mrs. Munro. Another singular delusion under which she laboured was that her house in the Circus was an inn, and she constantly treated her servants as if they belonged to an inn. It was also remarkable (and had been a source of some inconvenience to a neighbour) that Lady B. imagined that the next house to that in which she lived was her oNfn house, and she was continually goirg to the next door and demanding admission. Besides these acts, which, perhaps, of themselves would scarcely have been sufficient to justify such an inquiry, she had con tracted a habit of wand-ring about the town, and calling on all sores of people uninvited, and had proved beyond a doubt she was deprived of her reason. Her Lady ship was introduced into the mn, and took a seat beside the Commissioner, who put a variety of questions to her Ladyship, touching her domestic arrange ments, in regard to which her impressions and answers seemed extremely vague and indistinct ; and her replies were, for the most part, ramoling and irrelevant. The evidence of Mr. Wood, Dr. Spry, and Sarah Fountain, showed that the subject of inquiry did not possess the common reasoning faculties. The jury returned a unanimous verdict, " That Lady Bickerton was of unsound mind, and inca pable of managing her affairs, and that s h e h a d been so since the Ist of March, 1845."—Somerset GountyGazette. THE GREAT FRENCH NORTHERN RAILWAY. The inauguration of the Great French Northern Railway, on Sunday, has excited very lively emotion in Paris—an emotion which is shared, we are sure, by the whole of the vast district through which that line of 300 miles passes. The emotion to which we allude must not be understood to have its source in mere prospects of gain, promising as they may be. There is. for the French public, a more gratifying view of the matter than even this, to understand which we must look a few years back. When the Soult- Guizot Ad ministration came into power, nearly six years ago, there were not thirty miles of railway in the broad realms of France; she was, with regard to railway communication, not only behind all civi:ised Europe and America, but put to shame by little Belgium at her own door. Nor was there the slightest promise afforded of a disposition to shake off this almost middle-age state of backwardness. Nay, worse than that, the country of the revolution of 1789, and of the monarchy of July, had returned to the exploded system of fortification applied to a capital of a million of souls. While the rest of the world was swept into the current of newly-created enterprise, France was obstinately furbishing her rusty armour, and bolting and barring her doors upon her stagnant and profit less treasures, when all around were stripping for the race, and invoking light and air for cheerful and peaceful contests. With 6,000,000/. sterling pledged for walls and fortresses— with we know not how many millions engaged for war pur poses of all kinds—with a nation excited by its own work, fancifying itself offended, and bound to a quarrel—an active Opposition—an envenomed press—the Soult Guizot Ministry had to begin their work ; and what was the business they had to do? They had to create what was then unknown in France—the system of associating citizens for public works. The greatest financial operation at that time conceivable to the public was a loan, and all political financial experiment was bounded by a conversion of the Five per Cents. The idea of a public road being undertaken by any other being than the Ministre des Travaux Publics, or executed under any other eye than that of the engineers des pouts et chaussees, never entered the head of a people nursed in the lap of centralisation. To cure this de feet—to give the people the habit of taking an interest in their own business—to divert their minds by healthful em ployment from an eternal brooding over the injuries inflicted by a Government who would not let them loose upon Europe, the Cabinet conceived the happy thought of erecting the Eng lish mode—if we may so call it—upon the foundation already existing at home; and by the law of June, 1841. a Bill, marking out four great trunk lines, was submitted to the Chambers According to this law the Government was authorised to undertake at once the whole of the prelimi nary works, leaving to companies, to be accepted by public adjudication, the placing of the rails and the working of the lines. As soon as the principle originated by the Government had worked its way into the public mind —and it took two years more even to do that—aided un questionably first by the success of the Rouen, and after wards br t..e Orleans line. the reaction was as violent as the stagnation had been complete. Companies sprang up in scores, and the new care imposed upon the Government was to manage and direct the ardour which it had altogether called into lite Whatever evils may have sprung up by the side of good, the good itself was great and most wholesome. The feeling was like the discovery of a new sense. People fot nd that there were other stimulants than war. Peace, too, had been stainless conquests; victories over time and space were seen to be worthy of men. Tribute paid by pleasure-seeking strangers, or merchants diffusing wealth, was neither despicable nor inglorious. Meetings of direc tors were better than councils of war, and a plan for ' carrying a railroad instead of an army into the heart of a neighbouring country not unworthy the generals whose swords were turned into ploughshares —steam and elec tricity, science and commerce, tree intercourse, just ex change, honourable profits, bold speculation, and well conceived enterprise were found no bad substitute for all the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. France, too, began to be ashamed of her backwardness. and so eagerly have the railroad works been pursued that this Great Northern line, which has prompted our remarks, has been completed within four years from the passing of the general Act of 1841, at a cost of 180.000,000 of francs. Those who have taken the trouble of following us thus far will under stand why the opening of this railway ha, been marked as the occasion of a public rejoicing. We hear of flag: and banners. and discharges of cannon, and dinners, and public balls—of a King meeting the new invader on the threshold of his dominions, and greeting the conqueror, who is no less the conquered, for the victory is mutual. Conr.:e opened a siege to the seund of violins; why should not festivity mark these more happy triumphs of these our own times? The true victors are Soult and Guizot and Dumon. and as such they wilt be hailed by the electors in the appeal now about to be made to them for their ratification of the prolific peace deeds of the present Parliament.—Herald. THE POTATO CROP —SPREAD OF, THE DISEASE.-- Since our notice in Monday's publication we have received additional information on the subject of the disease in the new potato crop, information which leaves little doubt as to the correctness of the statement then put forth. We liment to have to confirm the sad intelligence which we then gave. We have been un easing in our inquiries and in endeavours to procure the most correct and trustworthy information, and we regret to say that in every case where the plant has ap t), oached maturity, and where artificial means to force the plant have not been resorted to, the disease of last year has manifested itself. We have lis morning communications from Ballymartle, as well as from Middleton and Carrigtwo; hill, mentioning the appearance of the blight in those dt - tricts. In our own immediate vicinity, in the southernex. districts especially, the disease has, beyond all question, the hibited itself. We could enumerate several pa factcr o p ishas s übecomeffi sufficient.—Cork le n t.— aff&c r te k d E , a bu cun t i t n l a i r e . of yesterday, a gentle- POTATO Hor.—ln the course simple statementces of the crop, in w hi ch us some stalks of potatoes of the now- growingthe developed towards man who resides northward of the city ls , he at s E ta a i h k eney, sent to harvest of the blight, as it appeared t. The disease ast year, was painfully eviden was full of appettrec part, Whi c h °trihnuet:riment to the tuber about to throw out a blossom, Which were manifestly sap, the leaves luxuriant, and the uer whence it appeared was ar ticularly full and green. About midway down all the stalks root. The whole the marks of blight were apparent. s c r ad e no t wa o lu e ww n ia t i e irc r dhs t hteernasilyti transmits tws a a t rtd a hs j e to run i t t h ru e " n ' bore, from the point where the brownish hue, and in the centre th disease struck • in, a to have become stagnant e "P itself seemed • man who transmitted us tiv, and corrupt. The gentle agriculturist, says—" Istalks, and who is an excelent with the rot or blight, send you a potato stalk attailced so much. The pouito from which li.at ppir's crop suffered pink eye, and planted from . which this stalk grew wa , a in, February ; the field in which it grew lid not the di - .ease last year." This is a matter which dignands, itnp,nn i v e B l , the gravest and the speediest atten tion, both at the hands 3. of the Government as well as private persons. Tho Town Council of Sunderland have memorialised Government tO introduce a Bill into Parliament for compelling Paving and Lighting Commisi , oner to transfer their powers to the Corporations, who are responsible to the NT pursuant to the lines Wm of the Municipal Act. It was stated on Aio•tduy, during the d.seussions on the subject, that nearly 30, 00/ have hod ex pended during the last sixteen years by the local Ito irds of Sunder land alole to 14ve, arising out of petty squabble, among nig 411ferent elquptuato. RICHMOND PETTY SESSIONS. CAUTION TO STEAMBOAT CA,PTAINII.—On Saturday, Thomas Grecn, the c;,ptain of the Echo, Richmond steamboat, appeared before th, bench, of which R. Gar rick, Esq. was chairman, to answer a summons laid wi der the 67th si.ction of 'the Waterman's Act, charging him with the avoidance of a fare. Th. complaint was made by Mr. W. Blake, a gentle man, residing at No. 3. Ailsa-park villas, Twickenham. H stated that on Monday last, a few minutes before twelve o'clock at noon, he saw the Echo steam-boat alongside the pier. When complainant got there, he found there was no ptwsibility of going on board from the pier, in consequence of the place for going on board not being or a level with the boat, which had not ar rived a minute. Some man afterwards placed a board in a nearly perpt-ndictilar position, so that they could not step on buard. lie askt'd them to move the plank ; they did so, Ittr, did re , t alter the position of the vessel, a d the result was that he ct.uld not step on hoard, and the captain (the detendant:, wade a signal, and the boat wt nt off without him. The corn lairant had no witness to support his state ment, and the defi ndant called as his witness, Timothy Rigby, a waterman, who stated that on Mon day last the complain; nt and a lady came to the pier and attempted to go on board the Echo steam-boat. There was a plank fri.m the pier to the boat, and the lady had got half %,av with a person on each side to as sist her, and the money-taker holding out his band from the boat to receive her, when by the desire of the complainant she turned back. The boat which was be bind its time of starting, was alre-ady out in the stream. and could not have moved nearer shore without injuring other boats. A lady had previously gone over the same plank, which rested one and on the pier, and the other on the rail of the stearn.boat. Richard Hancock, the money-taker on the Echo, cor roborated the major part of the preceding evidence, and proved in addition, that three ladies came on board without any inconvenience, but the complainant refused :and said, " That way may do for you, but it won't for we." Mr. Hancock, the part owner of the Echo, said the inclination of the plank was but the quarter of a foot in ten. He was .bout to explain how difficult it would have been for the boat to have come alongside, when The CHAIRMAN stopped him, and said they could per mit none other than a professional gentleman to offer any remarks. The bench were of opinion iluit the case of avoidance was made out, and they should fine the defendant 205., including costs. The fine was paid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY AND SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A BOY AT DULWlClL—lnspector Campbell, of the P division, attended before the Hon. G. C. Norton, in com pliance with a message sent to him to give an explana tion to come diielosurts made to the Hon. Magistrate late on Friday erenint , relative to the extraordinary and tn-picions death of George James Berns-ell, a laJ, aged fifteen, who had been teund dead in a muddy pond at the back of his master's house on the evening of Tues day week last, with a 28:b. metal weight tied round his neck, and both his hands tied together. The short facts of the case appeared to be these:— The deceased had been in the employment of a person named Evans, a manufacturer of " piqua," or British tea, as errand boy, since last April twelvemonths, and on the evening of Tuesday week his master and his master's son proceeded to Sydenham in a pony-chaise for the purpose of purchasing some greens, and on their re turn they found written on the foot- board of the deceased's bed in chalk an intimation that his body was in the pond at the back of the house. A board was also found floating on the poed, on which was written with chalk, " The body of George Benwell is in this pond." The body was found there, and upon being taken out a 281 b. weight was round his neck, and both his hands were found tied together. An inquest has since been held on the body, and, after a lengthened inquiry, the jury returned a vet diet to the effect that the deci ased had been the author of his own d• ath, and had committed suicide, Subsequent to the inquiry, Mr. Bishop, the half-brother of the deceased, had received several communications imputing the death of the deceased to very different cam-es ; and oni., in particular, from a female, named 'n;eobald, who had lived as servant with Evans, who states that there was an exceedingly bad feeling beta een the deceased and his mastkr, and that this had rec‘ ntly become considerably increaid on the part of the latter on account of her (Theobald) communicating to the goy the secret of the manufacturing to which he (Evans) Intd been engaged, and it was on the application of Mr. Bishop that Mr. Norton required the attendance of Mr. Campbell to give some explanation of the case. Mr. Campbell said that he had taken much trouble in and was still pursuing the inquiry into the case, which was one of the most suspicious and extraordinary that he recollected during his lengthened experience as an officer. When before the coroner and jury, Evans, the master of the deceased, who is a most eccentric charact r arid a Socialist, said that he did not observe anything wore than ordinary in the deceased's manner, when him self and his s' left home for Sydenham, on the evening of Tuesday week, yet when he had proceeded half his journey, he said that something struck him that all was not right at home with George. Upon this he was asked by a juror why he did not return, if such was his I el ing; and his reply was, that he slu uld have don'- so, but that he thought that if anything happened, he should be then too lute to prevent it, but the answer to this and other questions from the coroner and jury was con sidered anything but satisfactory to them. There were several points in the case which he (Mr. Campbell) could not reconcile to his belief that the de ceased had committed suicide, and even to say the least of them were of a highly suspicious cha racter. In the first place, the cord by which the metal weight was suspended on the neck of the y . t'ut h was so short, as to be barely sufficient to tie behind, and it was exceedingly doubtful to him whethe r the lad him self' would have been enabled to tie it in the mariner in which it had been round. In the next, if even he had so tied it and his hands, he had then to get over a wooden paling tour feet six inches in height, and such would be the difficulty of getting over such an imp &meat with a quarter of a hundred tied to his neck, that he (Mr. Campbell) should not be able toaccomplish it much more a boy of 15 years of age. In the third place, he (Mr. Campbell) tound in the boxes of the lad a copy book and other papers, which bore the hand-writing of the de ceased, and upon comparin g them with the chalk writing on the foot of the deceased's bed, and also the piece of wood found 1 ether on the pond, they bore no comparison what ever, and in his opinion had nev.-T been written be ihe same hand. The jury were of a similar opinion previous to the stepmother of the dec axed being called, but she swore point blank that both were in the handwriting of the deceased, and th's it was that principally induced the jury to come to the dec , sien they had. Since then the step-mother had been most anxious to get possession of b nth the writing and the board hearing the chalk marks; but he (Mr. Campbell) r/ fused to let her have them, par ticulsrly as he had found that Evans had been stopping ' at her house ever since the death of the boy, and some of her neighbours did not hesitate to impute a more than ordinary intimacy between the two parties. There was another circumstance which he (Mr. Campbell) felt it necessary to mention, and that was, that on a med.cal inspection of the body, appear /Lees of an extraordinary description, and which he could not pa7ticularly allude to, were found, and Evans had acknowledged to him (Mr. Cami,bell) and others, that he had been accused of an atrocious offence. Mr. Bishop, the step-brother of the deceased, here begged to mention another circumstance, which ap peared to add to the many other sus: icious iuciuents rnbed,arct of the the ease. The chalk writing on mid which he did not believethteo fhlavt_bennpNiVt-raist,t.:nsbiry, the deceased. ere in these words= cue to Inv friends, have the kindness to remember d at the back of t h e house „ George B ne ell is in 5;1 , , ,, and .‘ my friends," And after the words • 1 !' d. [his circumstance sati s fi t d there were comm.. p g t: not b . y the_ deceased , even if he a Ghhaed was t •' him that the wririn s oft gsruarhEnaanlr Olnaenndt,, when on the point palpably ignorant been, he doubted a of self. destruction, he would have taken the trouble to write s o methodically; and alto A et her he was very des stiti,fi , ( 1 with the inquiry, and hop e d h is Worshlp would not ,slow it to rest where it stood. Mr. NORTON admitted that the circumstances of the vase were exceed* suspicious, and direoted .k..AI - i--,;N't I)iiICE.S OF 5ti.,4.K1,,-,S ASSL - RANCE. AND 01}11 - .1 PAN LES' ST! 1;i.), F-orn te Officizi List, PUBLISHED EVERY TULADAY AND FRIDAY EViltiV.G. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19. JOINT-STOCK. 23.4.2iLii.5. Name of Company. Dividend er Annum. Amount of share. Australasia .. .. • ritsh North American Commercial 01 London Jolorial .. . Londit and Westminstr London Joint-Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New. National of Inland .. Nat. Provncial of Eng. Ditto, New... ...... Union of Australia.... Union of L0nd0n..... INS' same ®f Comi.any. Albion Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine... •• • • British Commercial eleri el, M ed. & en. Life I2ounty i!town • . • • •• Eagle • . • . • • Eng. & Scot. Law .. Europeaa Life •••• • • Freemasons' . • • • • • • • • Globe Guardian Imperial Fire • • • • • • . • Imperial Life . • • • • • • • Indemnity Marine.... Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire • • • • • • London Ship •.•.• • • • Marine.• •.. • • • • Med. Invild & Gen. Life National Lean Fund•. National Life • • • • • • .• Palladium Life Phoenix . • Protector Life Provident Life • . • • • • • Rock Life • . • . • • • • • • • • Royal Exchange Sun Fire.. .... Ditto Life Universal Life 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. Si. per cent. 6/. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. Si. per cent. 51. per cent. Si. per cent. 51. per cent. Cl. per cent. Si. per cent. *CE C Dividend per Annum. al. 10! 6 per cent. £l. per cent, 13s. 6tl. pr sh. 7s. per share td. per cent. 4 s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 1100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 pries Price 105. 65. 5/. per cent. 5% per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. and bonus 12s. 1/. sh & bs. 1/. 55. 4 N. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 10s. 10s. 51. rer cent. 141. per ct. 5/. per cent. 8/. per cent. 51. per cent. p. ct. & bs. 51. per cent. 1/. ss. 45. 51. per cent. 61. 10s. I/. 6s. 10 3 / 4 /. pr cnt 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 0 iSs 04 10i 7% tii 136 484 240 164 LIST OF SCOT' Name of Company. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland British Linen Company Commercial Bank . • • • National Bank Union Bank of Scotland Western Bank • • • • . - • • North of Scotland Bank Clydesdale Bank • Eastern Bank Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank City of Glasgow Bank . Scottish Union Ins. Co. Hercules Insurance Co. Insur. Co. of Scstlnd • • North British Insur Caledonian Fire Insur EditAurgh Life Insur Edin. & Glasg. Railway Ditto, Shares Edin., Leith, & Grantn Glasqw & Ayrshir Rail. Glasgw & Greenck Rail. Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. Dundee & Arbroth Rail. Standard Life Assa rnce, 'ISH CO. Dividend per Annum. 61. per cent. 6/. per cent. SI. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 7%1. pr cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 5/. per cent. 714 1. pr cent. 61. per cert. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. Si. per cent. 5%1. pr cent. 101. per cent. 61. per cent. 1/.los. perc. 78. 6d. p. a. 71. per cent 21. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. AV 11.TEZI- :P.S.N: Amount of Share. X s. d. !20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 `021,35.5. s' 3F Paid. X B. d 100 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 o'o 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 2 10 0 5 $3 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 All paid. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 50 0 0 All paid. 20 0 0 All paid. All paid. All paid. All paid. 2 10 0 Dividend Name of Company. per Amount of Paid. Share. Annum. X s, d. East London •••• •• 81. Grand Junction •• •• •• 3/. 10s. h ent ••••• • • • • • •• •• 2/. 10s. Vauxhall .• .• •• •• 5/. per cent. West Middlesex •• •• .. 51.58. pr cnt. EO , PriCe. 114 245. 9d 14% 1534 73% 163, 4034 1710. too ó 0 41 13 4 - 100 0 0 - 100 0 0 - 63 12 9 - CANALS.. 4.; Dividend Names of e. Dividend price. Names of 4 per Price. Companies. per Companies. Annum. cn Annum. ac Ashtn& 01.1 h 97 WM. p c 70 Monmouthsh 100 81. 1 93 60 Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100, 51. 38 Barnsley. •• • 260 121. 180 Macclesfield. 1001 - Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath •• • 100 171. 340 lirknk&Abrg'lso 5/. 85 Nottingham . 150 12/. Cromford • . 'lOO 141. 150 Peak Forest .78 31. 68 Dudley .• • ... 100 4/. - Regent's •.• • 33 1/. ss. 22g Derby ••• • • 100 61. 73 Rochdale .... 85 41. 77 Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 55 Shropshire .. 125 81. Erewash ... 100 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130 Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.LkFdSt 12 6/.p. C. 11 GrandJunctn 100 71. 95% Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 290 Grand Union 100 U. 10s. - ;Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh .1172 1.3%1. 210 iStourbrldge 145 20/. 318 Glstr&Brkly, 00 - - ;Strtfrdon Av 15 11. 10s. - Grantham • • 150 12/. 100 Severn and 1 Huddersfield. 57 - t wye Rail. .1 26 11. Bs. 32 Kennt & Avis, 39 7s. 6d. 10 Trnt & Mr- Lancaster ...! 47 1/. 10s. : . ey, .h. } 50 30/. - Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 520 Thams&Med 19 Leicester .... 140 10/. 105 Worcstr & 1 Leicstr & Nth 8.3, 4/. 60 Binning. 44 Loughborogh,l42l 70/. 850 Wilts & 131 ks 67 11. 11 MARKET NE WS.—(sAl URDA Y) COVENT-GARDEN. Pines, 7s to lOs per pound ; Strawberries, 4d to 8d ; and Rasp berries, 6d to Is per pottle ; Hothouse Grapes, 4s to 75, and (berries. 2d to 8d per pound ; Oranges, 4s to 12s ; and Lemons, 7s to 108 per hundred ; Rhubarb, Gs to 8s per dozen bundles ; Aspa agus, 2 1 to Gs per bundle; Kail, Is to 2s 6d per punnet; French Beans. 6d per hundred ; New Potatoes, 2d to 8d per pound; Cabbages. 6d to is per dozen; Greens, Is 6d to 2s per dozen bunches; Celery, Is ; and Horseradish, 2s to 3s per bundle ; Spinach, 6d to 8d per junk ; Cauliflowers, Is to 2s 6d per dozen ; Cucumbers, 4d to 2s 64 each ; Carrots, 3s to 45; and Turnips, I s to 2s 6d per dozen bunches; Gooseberries, is 3d to is 8d per half sieve ; Currants, la to 2a per HUNGERPOED. Very liberal supplies of most articles of produce were on sale, while the general demand ruled heavy, and prices had a downward tendency. NEWOATE AND LEA.DENBALL. Prime Mutton was in good request, at very full prices, °then'''. the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef from 2a 4d to 3' 6 d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s 2d ; Veal, 3s Sd to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per Blbs, by the carcase. Turkey , 3s 6d to 8s ; Goslings, 51 to 7s ; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 3d ; Ducklings, 3s t 3s 6d; Pigeons, 8d to is each; Surrey Fowls, 8s to 101; ►u Chickens, 4s to 7s per couple. Fresh Butter, 9d to Is per lb. NEWPORT. Beef from 2s Sd to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d ; Lamb, ss 44 to 61 8d Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s per 81bs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s Gd to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 43 : Lamb, 55 to 6s ; Veal, 46 to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per glbs. BILL= GSGATX. Full avenge supplies of Fish were ou firm, at fully previous quotations. Mier. yet the demand Wag BEEAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from Sd I° 814 d; of Household do, Gd to T%d prr 41bs loaf. - - IVE Market Hides, 561 b to RIDE 3d 641 b, ; do. IAB IL 641 b to T. 721 b, 3d ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3U d; do. 801 b to 881 b, 330 to 336 d ; do. 881 b to 96 1 F_ 3%d to 4d; do. 961 b to 1041 b, 44 to 4344; do. 1041 b to 1121 b, 434d,..7; Calt Skins, 3s 64 to 6s 6d ; Horn Hides, 13s ; Polled Sheep, Os to Os 04 ; Kents and Half Breds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, Os - Os Od; Lambs, 3s Oct to 4s 3d ; Shearlings, 10d to Is. a 4. Y IVl.a.s43lL2tTi. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 t o 4/ ; Clover ditto . 41 59 eto Pe r 51 lhs ; Oat Straw, 11103 t o 1/ 12 s ; W heat Straw, 1112 s to 11 144 P load. Supply good, and trade very cull. 51 CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 4 / ; Clover ditto, 415 to or its; Oat Straw, 1/ 10s t o II 1 2s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 12s to 11 14s P l u ad. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. .—M NV 51 niTEcnApELeadow Hay, 31 t o 41 ; Clover ditto, 4 14 4 to i6s ; Oat Str aw , 11 lOs to 11 12s; Wheat Straw, 11 123 to 11 o, per load. Both Hay and Straw met a very dull inquiry, at bare' late rates. New Meadow Hay was selling at from 2159 to 315 s per load. [ADVERTISEMENT ]—The Gentleman's Real Hold of air, or Invisible Vemilating Peruke, is so close a resets' blance to nature as to defy detection ; and to enable env tlernan to see the effect, a large assortment is always kept (O f inspectio n , any one o f w hi c h, if approved of, saves the purchee e'. , both time and trouble. These splendid specimens of the Per" ruquean art, superior to anything to be obtained elsewhere' either in Paris or London, ha ve on l y to be,seen to be i oinaireut and are the sole invention of Ross and Sons. 119 and 120 ' Bishopsgate-street, London. N.B. Splendid hair -cutting apartments on the ground-door, the whole of the walls being iced with looking-glass a /a mod* de Paris. [ADVERTISZIIENT.]—KING'S EVIL OR SCROFULA FRCTUALLT CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTNNNT.—Vert lately some of the roost Burp• ising cures in this terrible complain _ n r . It bysavle,abceeenwomuladdeperm t pow nt erful particularsvlrt virtues of of t w he in se e un fe i v.: ve r s cases mightme l ci n @ b e e. . cited, v, h wd , uld no doubt astonish our gre a test medical men suffice to say, th it many whe had b een cripple iyears have been restored to the use o f t h e i r li m b s , healed, while perfect health, by means fortunate as to use these their wounds being completely of the pills, has been the . and at portion or blessing of all who liNeb r i e ,g li n, Professor admirable remedi s.—Sold by loway's establikment, 244. Strand. • BIRTH& near Manchester, the lady of W. B. New• berg, At 1 Mrs. W. G. 2d inst., at .3 esße c k , of a daughter. Oa t he Ra i l a . , Vista,. of a on Mullens, of a son. Mrs. Richard3th inst., at Winchester, of a On the Iposthumous daughter, the , of the late Henry R. G. the 17th Just, at Nona , Spencer-street, Northam DalliaS E. , Li d w.dow , --,., entails= of the 3 3 orthatnpton-square• C. Hail, of a daughter. C. 3fadras Native Infantry. o n the 14th inst., at Bayswater, Mrs. on the 17th inst., in SUSS:garl, On the 17th hist , in daughter.f o st i on ~ Stratford, iiyd e B . p u a r e Bucks , the the ladyw i fe of f f :: ' on the 1.411 inst., et s ton Waugh, Esq., of a son. j:On the 18th inst ., ,in Argyle-square,Conilat-snt!liZtPheeariwoinfe, barrister -law, of a son. 01:111:Eet'shEqe:q1b8:th lust., at Tollington-park, Upper Hooll:rowa"asboynn:MArsdara::: Dean, of a Run, MARRIED. On the 16th hist , at St. Benet's, Paul's-wharf, the Bee. Calvert, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, A. 8., to Ellen Harrie t : el dest daughter of W. P r i tc h ar d, E sq., of D octors ' -commens, Mg' Bailiff of Southwark. On the 17th inst., at King's Langley, Huts, Mr. William Liddol l Howard, of Ilunton-bridge, near Watford, to Emily, fourth daughte t of Mr. D. Walters. of 'Wilson-street, Finsbury, London. On the 10th inst., at Ospringe, John B. Kentick, Esq., to Thotar sina Fanny, youngest daughter of Edward Toker, Esq., of the Osk& Ospringe, Kent. On the 18th inst., at St. Luke's, Middlesex, Mr. Thomas riot Ormes, of Upper Islington-terrace, to Elizabeth, younger daughter Mr. George Shirley, of Goswell-street. DIED. On the 18th inst., Elizabeth, the wife of J. T. Willmore. A.R.A., aged 44. On the 13th Inst., at Cheam, Surrey, Mrs. E. R. Brown, wide., of the late Mr. James Brown, of the Commander-in-Cbiers office. On the 16th inst., at Ditton-park, Jane Caroline, third dauglitar el the late I.ord M , ntazu, aged 38. On the 26th of March last, at Bombay, Caroline, the belayed Wif e of Lieutenant Wilmot Christopher, Indian Navy, On the 28th ult., at Boston, United States, Eliza, widow ofCaptsia Edward Davis. On the 16th inst., the Rev. James Price, Rector of Great Mnndea• Huts, aged 83. On the 17th inst., T. B. Stanbridge, Esq., of floxton, aged 61. On the 17th inst., at llitehin, /tens, Lora, widow of the late Wilshere, Esq. Lon !nu Primed xnr Published by tiltDO YOITNti. of No. 11S. Strand, Printer. A t Th e S un Office No. 112. Strand, in th e Precinct of the Savoy 21 , 1%46, is %SO County of Middlesex, Monday, JO. Paid. X s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 •35 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 0 1Y1PliNIES. Amount of el hare. Paid. X 5. 41. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 b 0 0 2 0 0 All paid. 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 6 15 0 t