The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

HUSH RAILROADS, THE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN COMPANY. (From the Anus.) The importance of railways to Ireland is ehvieus. To country possessing almost every element of national prosperity except capital, they present the most direct means of ultimately supplying that great want. In the present circumstances of Ireland they are peculiarly valuable as a source of immediate employment, and as a vital agent for vivifying existing forms of industry and creating new ones. But railroad enterprise, to be of practical utility to Ireland, must be conducted with the utmost caution. The danger is as imminent as the utility. Ireland is not in a condition for experiments. She cannot afford failures. The only railroads that can, in the existing state of things, be of any use to Ireland, or that ought to be sanctioned in that country, are railroads that present a reasonable chance of success. Projects that are likely to expire amongst the gam blers in the share market—or upon which the calls are never likely to be paid up—or that' cannot yield remunerating returns, even if established—ought to be abandoned. The great money power of England enables her to play with risks which would be destruction to Ireland. In England it is all very well to say that wherever there is a turnpike road there must be a rail way ; and no doubt, in the end, the exulting prophecy will come to pass, because we have plenty of money to carry us over the unprofitable interval which must elapse before it can be realised. But in that interval the bulk of the subscribers to an Irish railroad would perish. These sounding generalities, which represent the omni potence of capital rather than the inevitable operations of necessity, are wholly inapplicable to Ireland. There is no money power in Ireland ; not a superfluous shilling to expend upon theoretical schemes ; hardly enough, indeed, to supply the exigencies of the hour. In Ireland, therefore, every advance made in this direction must be made with a forewarning of the gravest responsibility. There must be no squandering ; no wild speculation ; or, instead of conferring benefits upon the country, the extension of railways will only increase her embarrass ments, and place her still farther beyond the reach of ordinary social remedies. The company whose title we have cited above affords a very complete illustration of the practical evils we ap prehend from rash and ill-advised railroad speculations in Ireland. The objections to this line are so strong, and lie so conspicuously on the surface, that, had there not been a special inducement, to which we will come presently, it would be surprising how a sufficient num ber of subscribers could have been drawn together in the first instance, or why, having had ample time to con sider their situation, they do not now dissolve. The failure of such a line, with a rominal capital of a mil lion sterling, would entail incalculable calamities upon the country. She could not endure the consequences of so fatal an error. She lacks the elastic spring by which wealthier communities recover themselves from a false step. The objections to this line are twofold. First, it can- not pay—an objection large enough in itself to include all others. Second, it is impossible to raise the requi site capital. Undoubtedly these are peculiar features in a railway which has already procured its Act of Parlia ment. But it must be remembered that the scene of these eccentric ;operations is Ireland, and that the sub scription to the deeds was obtained at a time when na tional credulity was agape for every project, however absurd, and when it was believed that there was a sor cery in prospectuses to conjure traffic out of a desert. The line proposes to run from Dublin, through Wick low and Wexford, to Waterford. Any person ac quainted with the country must know that there is no business intercourse of any kind along this road. The only portion of it traversed by a travelling population is that which is embraced in the first fifteen or twenty miles into Wicklow, whose beauties, surrounded by a cestus of romantic hills, never fail to attract the wander ing eyes of visitors, and the picnics of the slumberous metropolis. Through the summer, possibly, a few pleasure-trains might yield a reernmerating return. The value of property, too, in the immediate neighbourhood, might be improved. But all this would be only fair weather prosperity. The moment winter sets in, the oc cupation of the green rallies and mazy woods is over ; and the business of a Wicklow railroad would virtually cease. People are not fond of making gay excursions in dreary December, or eating cold dinners on the saturated grass, under a forest of umbrellas. The rest of the line passes for the most part through a country dissually relieved here and there by stretches of sand, barren heaths, and long undulating hills. The population is wretched, and, in some places, plunged into the lowest depths of misery. A few farms are scattered at distant intervals, but none of them rich or large ; gentlemen's seats are still more rare ; and there are no evidences anywhere of the material progress which either requires a railroad, or which is likely at present to be benefited by one. The whole intercourse along the line is now carried on by two coaches—a morn ing coach and a night mail; and so languid is the traffic, that the post-office finds it necessary to allow a much higher rate of mileage here than in other places, to ena ble the contractors to make up for the deficiency of passengers. Yet an Act of Parliament has been ob tained for constructing a railway through these unpro fitable districts, over which a miracle must be worked before any prospect of a return can ever be looked for. The history of the company is instructive. It started under the auspices of the Board of the Great Western of England, who contemplated a chain of communication through the South line across to Wexford, and thence by this new line to Dublin, forming, upon the whole, a more accessible route between London and Dublin, than any now in existence. The name of the Great Western was a tower of strength. The Irish constituency be lieved that they were safe under the shelter of that vast monopoly; and in the confident expectation that the line would be either leased or purchased by the Great Western, the shares were rapidly subscribed. As the time, however, approached for closing the Parliamentary contract, it seems that there was not a sufficient amount subscribed to enable the directors to go before Parlia• meat, and during the last three days a number of in fluential gentlemen put their names to the contract for various sums from 10,0001. to 300,000/. each. They were just in time to save the Bill, and the Bill was saved accordingly. But it is now discovered that the Great Western has no intention whatever of either leasing or purchasing the line. The Great Western intends to wait very wisely till the line is formed; and then it is not im probable the Great Western may treat with the ruined directory. In the meanwhile, what course is the direc tory adopting? The English reader will infer at once that they have determined to wind up and dissolve, since the temptation which called them into existence is with drawn. No:—he xill never guess that, in the face of difficulties which may be described as being absolutely insurmountable, they have announced their intention of prosecuting their scheme! Now, this is precisely one of the projects which, if persisted in, must inflict irreparable mischief upon Ireland. The mass of the allottees are Irish; they are persons of Small, or of no capital; they subscribed on the faith of the Great Western; and now, finding that there is no expectation of assistance from that quarter, they would gladly retire from the speculation. But how is this to be done? The majority of them have parted with their scrip, although it seems not with their responsibility. The directors have announced their determination to re gister the original allottees, and thus :fix them for the calls. Let us see the effect of this proceeding. By holding the allottees to their responsibility, the directors deprive themselves of the means (if means can ever be obtained) of carrying out the line. The bulk of the allottees cannot pay their calls ; they could as easily pay the national debt. Any attempt to enforce payment will only aggravate the general difficulty. On the other hand, the act of shutting out from registration the pur chasers of scrip, who may he presumed to be upon the whole a more solvent class than allottees who subscribe and sell, is an act of gross injustice, which literally amounts to a forfeiture of property. This movement, then, of the directors affects two very large constituen cies—the allottees who are still chained to their respon sibility, and the holders of scrip who are threatened with confiscation. It has seldom h ippened that such a com plicated power of doing mischief has been roncentrated in the action of a Railway Committee. But what is to become of the great supporters of the line who subscribed 20,0001 and 30,0001. each ? Are they to be held responsible with thereat of the allottees? Everybody knows that subscriptions of this extravagant kind are merely intended as a sort of nominal guarantee to answer the immediate purpose of securing the Act, and never inte n d e d t o b e exacte d . Th e greater part of the shares of these gentlemen are, doubtless, distributed over a wide expanse in the hands of the men of straw. But the question still remains, what is to be done w ith them ? If the dir ec t ors mean' to deal out impartial jus Lice (or impartial injustice) alike to all, the question an swers itself, and these gentlemen must pay for their pa triotism. But, as the directors have a right to reject whom they please, there is an escape fur patriots which will readily suggest itself to the board. We presume that none of these large subscribers will be impounded for their subscriptions. But they grievously deceive themselves if they imagine that they will get loose from their responsibility in that way. They are in the per plexity of a man who, trying to escape from a fire, rushes into a pond. The choice is between burning and drowning. The dilemma is this. They are either liable, or not liable. If liable, they have incurred a responsibility which few of them, we suspect, will be very willing to discharge ; and if not liable, they have incurred a greater responsibility from the inevitable failure of the means to carry on the lint? ' through the pauperism of the parties to whom their shares have been transferred. In either case, the weight will finally descend upon them, either from their own direct responsibility, or from the extinction of all other sources of capital. It is clearly their own interest, therefore, as well as their duty to the country, to bring the affairs of this company to an immediate solution. We cannot conceive a single argument in defence of such a project at such a time. If there was the slightest prospect of eventual success ; if there was the slightest hope of being able to rase the requisite capital—the Perseverance of the directors would command, as it N:ould deserve our warmest applause. But there is no ouch prospect —no such hope. To persist in such a de dlignmett_a juncture like this is to draw down wilfully fresh o r f tai t7 .o b r rave the evil genius of the country, in the of the People. fortunes that already overwhelm the energies course —a s to dissolve true' policy—the honest and upright eev.eitilus hopeless company, and to re turn back to the olders all the money that can now be snatched from riP a career or of aimles s ex p en di ture . m Delay will only absorbthe deposit, an d l eave a scantier residue to be distributed.of It is possible the di rectors might open negotiations to lease or sell th e i r rights. Every effort of thi s ki nd should shall havebe tried i befo re the interests of the constituen c y sac rificed. Such arrangements hav e been England,frequentlyen finally and carried out with excellent results in might be attended with still happier effects in Ireland. But whatever course the directors may take, the al lotteei and wripholders Inge but one interest in common. fllE They constitute, in fact, the basis upon which the line rests. It is for them to decide whether they are pre pared to go forward with the scheme, or whether it ought to be abandoned. If they do not co operate and ex:xcise the powers con rerred upon them by the Com vanies' Clauses Consolidation Act, which enables them to demand and carry a dissolution of the company, they can have nobody to blame but themselves for any con sequence that may flow from their supineness. Since the above was in type, we find that the allottees and scripholders of this railway have in a great measure anticipated our advice. A meeting has been held in Dublin, for the purpose of devising some means to rescue all parties from the perilous position in which they are placed. We refer to the report of this meet ing for particulars, and trust that the committee ap pointed to watch over the interests of the shareholders will see the necessity of being prompt, as well as ener getic, in their movements. OPENING OF THE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. We mentioned in our last that a part of the directcrs of this line had proceeded on Friday morning on a trial trip from Carlisle to Lancaster. The directors were John Dixon, Esq., and G. H. Head, Esq., who were joined at Pen' ith by E. W. Hasel, Esq., chairman of the directors, A. Howard, Esq., of Greystoke Castle, and Lieut.-Colonel Maclean. 'they were accompanied by T. C. Heysham, Esq., P. Dixon, Esq., Mr. Steel, of the Carlisle Journal, Mr. Larmer, resident engineer, Mr. Collister, resident engineer of the Caledonian Rail way, Mr. Mould, Mr. Hemberow, Mr. Green, and two or three other gentlemen connected with the works. The train consisted of the engine, tender, and three car riages. It proceeded at a rate of upwards of thirty miles an hour, and would have reached Penrith (18 miles) in about 35 minutes, but for a slight accident when about two miles from that place. By some unfor tunate blunder the person appointed to attend to the switches, had neglected his duty—the points were in the wrong direction, and the engine and tender were thrown off the rails. The train was at the time pro ceeding at so slow a pace, that the shock caused by being brought to a sudden stand still was scarcely felt by the passengers. It caused a delay, however, of up wards of an hour, when the train again proceeded on its way—reaching Lancaster (70 miles) in about three hours of actual travelling,—the directors having stopped at several places to inspect the works. At Lancaster a board meeting was held—the directors resident in Liverpool, and Messrs. Locke and Errington, the engineers, being present, and various arrangements were made for the public opening of the line, should Captain Coddington, the Government inspector, give the requisite certificate. In the evening, the directors, en gineers, and friends dined together at the King's Arms Inn, and next morning were joined at breakiist by Capt. Coddington, who had just arrived from London. A little after eight o'clock, they started with a train of four carriages on the return to Carlisle. The day was excessively cold, with rain, sleet, snow, and frost by turns. At times, the rails presented the appear ance of long lines of ice, and were extremely slippery. The difficulty on such a day was the ascent of the great incline on Shap Fells—one of the severest gradients on any railway in England, and the whole party watched this with no little interest; and it must have been highly satisfactory to both en gineers and directors when Captain Coddington, who stood upon the engine and timed its progress, announced that the ascent had been made, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the rails, at the rate of twenty miles an hour—although the engine was an old one and not of the most powerful class. All the heavy works—the bridges, viaducts, cuttings, and embankments—were minutely inspected by Captain Coddington, who expressed himself, at the end of the journey, as highly pleased with the whole of the works— declaring that the public might travel upon the line with the most perfect safety; and immediately after wards gave the directors a certificate to that effect. We may mention here, that the line is double through out, with the exception of about two miles, near Low• ther. This portion will be made double in a month or less. The line is remarkably easy nearly throughout— the exception being a short distance where it has been recently ballasted; and it passes through a country which can scarcely be surpassed fur picturesque beauty and wildness of scenery. It was our intention to have given a full description of the line in this day's journal; but as the public opening is definitely fixed for Tuesday next, we think it better to defer our account until next week, when we can em body it with the proceedings of that day. It is our in tention to illustrate the account by various engravings, which will give our readers a faint notion at least of the various objects of interest which the line presents. As few events have ever occurred more interesting to Carlisle and the county at large, than the opening out of this most important railway, we trust the day will be kept as a general holiday—to mark the importance which is attached to it. A correspondent suggests that a public ball should be given on the occasion. The idea is a good one, and we hope to see it followed up. We believe Mr. Mould would gladly allow the splendid fittings in the Coffee House Assembly-room to remain fur this purpose after the contractors' dinner. The arrangements of the day are these a train will start from Lancaster for Carlisle, at eleven o'clock in the morning; and as time will be given to inspect the various wonders of the line, it will not probably reach here before three in the afternoon. At twelve o'clock a train will start from Carlisle for Penrith, where it will remain (probably about an hour) until the arrival at that place of the Lancaster train—when all will proceed together to Carlisle. At five o'clock the directors will give a splendid dinner to a large party of invited guests at the Athenaeum ; and on Wednesday there will be return trains for the guests from Kendal, Lancaster, &c. On Thursday the line will be opened for traffic—two trains a-day running each way. On Wednesday Messrs. John Stephenson and Co., the spirited contractors, who have so ably executed the work, give a dinner to a large party of friends at the Coffee House. for which the most extensive preparations are being made.— Carlisle Journal RAILWA Y SHARE I%IARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DECEMBER 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 1/ 3s. 9d. p.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7 3 4 p.-Chester and Birkenhead, 51-Dun dee and Perth, New, 5 1 4 p.-East Lancashire, New (Nos. 1 and 2), 3% p.-Ditto, New (scrip), 31s. 3d. p.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 74-Glasgow and Dumfries, 1 1 4 p.-Glasgow and Ayr, New, 6 p„.-Hudderstield Canal and Railway, 4 1 4 p.-Leeds and Thirsk, ex Preference, 2% dis.-Ditto, New Preference, 3 4 p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Janction, % dis-London and North-Western, 194-Ditto, New Quarters, 13 p.-Ditto (G. J.), Quarters, 20 3 A p.-Lon don and Manchester and Birmingham, 75-Manchester and Leeds (late Huddersfield and Sheffield), 4 1 4 p.-Matlock and Midland, 1% p.-Midland, New, 4% p.-North British, 38- Ditto, halves, 5 p. -Ditto, Quarters, 274 p.-Ditto, Quarters (scrip), New, 21 3. 3d. p.-Ditto. Thirds (scrip), 2ls p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Union (A), 225-North-West ern, % p.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 2, 23- Shrewsb iry and Hereford, 1 4 dis.-Shrewsbury, Oswestrv, and Cheshire, 11% dis.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 2IA p.-Ditto 91 12s. 3d. Shares (B), 1 1 / s p.-South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, 1 ,4 p.-West Riding Union, 1% p.- York and Newcastle, New, 71/s p.-York and North Mid land ( East and West Riding Extension), 12% p.-Belfast and Ballymena, 6 3 4 dis.-Dutch Rhenish, 1 1 / 8 dis. MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 1 / 8 dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 1 1 / 2 p.- Birmingham and Oxford Junc tion, 8-East Lancashire, No. 1, New, 3% c. p. -Ditto, No. 2, 3 1 / 2 ex n. -Ditto, New (scrip), 114 4 p.-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 1 % dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, lea p.-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4 1 ,4 p.-Ditto, Thirds. 1% p. -L ee d s an d Thi rs k , Preferen tial, p.-Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 91/ p.- Liverpool Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 3-16 dis.- London, Manchester, and Birmingham. 74 5 /-Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 41% p.-North Staffordshire, 3 11-1 G p.-North-Western, p.-Preston and Wyre, 32-Ditto, Sixths, 4 3 4-Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 2% p.- West Riding Union, 1% p.-Whitehaven and Furness, 2% dis.-York and Newcastle, Preference, 5 p. LEEDS, DECEMBER 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham and Ox ford Junction, 8% p.-East Lancashire, New, 3% p.-Ditto, New Scrip, p.-East and West Yorkshire, 16.5. dis.- East Lincolnshire, 15s. p.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3 1 4 dis.-Huddersfield and Manchester, 4 1 4 p.-llitto, Thirds, le g p.-Leeds and Bradford, 45 1 4 p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 10 1 / _ p. c. n.- Ditto, Half Shares, 6 p. c. n.-Ditto, Ex tensions (green), 1% p. -Leeds and Thirsk, 2% c. dis. c. n. -Ditto , New, ss. dis. c. n.-Ditto, Preference, 19s. p.- Malton and Driffield Junction, 21s. p.-Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares (late Huddersfield and Sheffield), 4 1 4 p. -North British, Thirds, 21/s p.-Ditto, Quarters (late Carlisle Branch), 48s. n. p.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), 19s. 6d. p.- North Staffordshire, 348 p.-North-Western, 10s. 6d. p.- Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 14s. n. p.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 2 p.-York and North Midland, Preference, 12 1 4 p.-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, par-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 12s, HULL, DECEMBER 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The feeling of the market to-day is decidedly firmer than could be said at the close of last week, and although on ly a li m it e d amoun t o f b us i ness con tinues to be done, our quotations generally range higher. The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 3s. dis. - North British, Q uarters, 88s. c. thirds-Ditto New Quar t CeorusnfisecarUnlP)ionl, 6dDit,,NoTrhthir!ws,e32t/e.rnl, 868.5.p.-York p.-Northern and Selby, Preference, 10/. is. 3d. p. YORK, DECEMBER 14. STOCK EXCHANGE. -Th e sa l es are-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 3 %-Malton and Driffield Junction , 31. 3s. -Newcastle and Berwick, 3 4 1 4-North B r i t i s h, Half -shares, 15%-Ditto, Thirds. 31. 1 45.-Ditto, Quarters, 31. 145.-Ditto, Extension, ii. 13s. 6 d. - North-Western, IBs. -West Riding Union, 3/. 175.-York and Newcastle, New, 121/-Ditto, Preference, 7-York and North Midland, Pre. ference, 12 1 4. GLASGOW, DECEMBER 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 455. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 38s. cum int.-Edin burgh and Northern, New, 585.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 38 3 / 4 -Ditto, Halves, .B.i. -Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle, 6/. 55. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 455. 6d.-Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction, 425.-Man chester and Southampton, 295.-Midland, Halves, 6 1 ,1- North British, Thirds, 725. 6d. THE DURATION OF MARRIED LIFE.—The tables of the mean joint lifetime of males and females show, that in this country husbands and wives married at the age of 26 live, on an average, 27 years together, the widows living rather morn tha❑ 10 years (10.4) after their hus bands' deaths, and the widowers nearly 9 years (9.3) after their wives' deaths. Where the husband is 40, and the wife 30, the mean term of married life is 21 years, the widows living 13 years after their husbands, and the widowers 5 years after the deaths of their wives. The tables furnish ready answers to a great number of ques tions of this kind, and others in which two lives are con gerned.—Registrar General's Report. REPRESENTATION OF BATH.—We have authority for stating that a letter was received on Friday from Lord Ashley declining to become a candidate, at the next dissolution or vacancy, for this city.—Keene's Bath Journal. SUN, -4 9 1 ONDON TrES G DAY EVENIN, DECEMBER is, 1141.3 CENTRAL OF SPAIN RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders in the above undertaking was held yesterday afternoon, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, tor the purpose of receiving a report upon the present position of the company, and taking into consideration the resignation of the Spanish direction. The Hon. Mr. P. 11. Butler, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said, perhaps the best course he could pursue would be to read the letter of resignation, re ceived from the Spanish direction at Madrid. The letter assigned three reasons for the resignation ; first, the want of confidence between the board at Madrid, and the English direction ; secondly, the want of confidence of the Spaniards in the result of the undertaking ; and, thirdly, the abandonment of the branch to Lisbon, through the disturbed political state of Portugal. The Chairman, after reading the letter, went o❑ to say, that at an interview he had with the Spanish direc tion, some few months ago, certain treaties and concessions were made, but subsequently the Spaniards repudiated the agreement, and proposed more stringent conditions, which he declined to agree to, pointing out to the direction that they had failed to subscribe a single ducat towards the undertaking, while they had delayed the issuing of the shares for speculative services. He then returned to England, and a third party was sent out to negotiate a peace. That peace was effected, but the _Spaniards again violated their agreement, and followed it up by sending in their resignation. It was, perhaps, ungracious in him to give such advice, after the reception ho had met with in Spain, but he felt it to be his duty to advise Eaglish capitalists not to speculate in Spanish undertakings, managed by Spanish boards of direction. There was no faith to be placed in these bodies, because they were generally under the thumb of large Spanish speculators, and the issuing of the shares and collecting of money was made subservient to their movements on the Bourse of Madrid. It was true their engineer's plans were rejected by the Spanish authorities, but really they were rejected because the capitalists he had alluded to had desired it. Now, the question for them to consider was, how far it was desirable for them to proceed with the undertaking. He had no doubt the line from Madrid to Badajoz would never pay, but a line from Badajoz to Lisbon and from Badajoz to Madrid would pay, but then it must be carried out by an English, and not a Spanish executive, and he would recommend them to carry out that line if they could get ample guarantees and securities from the Spanish Government. The report stated that the line was conceded in 1845, and 40,000/. were subsequently deposited with the Spanish Government as a guarantee for the due carrying out of the line, and after giving in detail the statement just made by the chairman, pro ceeded to add that the reason the plans were registered was because the Spanish executive of the company bad gone so far as to make a report against the plans of their own engineer. An embargo had been placed upon the deposits of the concessionaires, and if the share holders determined to break up the company, the Spa nish executive, in accordance with statutes granted to the company, would be compelled to defray their share of the expense which had been incurred. In answer to questions, The CHAIRMAN said' any shareholeer might have dis closed to him the details of the various negotiations if he would call at the office of the company, but it was not prudent to make them public. The basis and terms of the agreements which the Spanish 'executive had agreed to and violated, would be printed and forwarded to each shareholder. The report was then put from the chair and unani mously adopted. Captain WILKINSON !aid he wished to explain how it was that his plans were rejected. A SHAREHOLDER (a Spaniard) said be was convinced the shareholders threw no imputation upon Captain Wilkinson.—(No, no.) They had evidently got rid of a set of sharpers and tricksters, and there was no use paying any attention to their imputations. Captain WILKINSON said his plans were rejected simply because he would not connive at the truckling and dishonesty of the Spanish directors. On one occa sion the directors wanted him to wink at their exchang ing the shares of the company for property of no value whatever ; in fact, they wanted to give 35.0001. worth of shares for property scarcely worth 15,0001. Mr. SMITH complained that no statement of the ac counts had been made, and charged the directors with having put forward an advertisement unfounded iu truth. The first prospectus stated that all the deposits would be returned if no concession were obtained. Only a promise of a concession had as yet been made, and therefore the deposits ought to be returned. Fifty thousand shares were to be allotted in this country, but only 28,000 were allotted, and of that number not more than 10,000 were paid upon. He contended, too, that the engineer had been overpaid, and protested that the directors had been guilty of a dereliction of duty in not having rendered the directors in Spain more liable than they were at present. The CHAIRMAN admitted that some of the abuses had occurred, but it was before he became connected with the company. Upon a future day all these matters of account would be fully explained. The SECRETARY said that it was true that 50,000 shares were reserved for distribution in England, but only 28,000 were allotted ; and of that number about 10,000 were paid upon. There was no doubt that the concession had been made, and that the Spanish direc tion were certainly liable for their proportion of the ex penses. The money remaining in hand amounted to about 1,5001. Some of the servants and the engineer had been part paid for their claims in shares. ' Eventually a committee of inquiry was appointed ; and a vote of thanks having been passed to the chair man, the meeting broke up. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, Dec. 14. COLEMAN V. THE DIRECTORS OF THE EASTERN COUN. TIES RAILWAY. This was a motion on the part of the defendants to dissolve an injunction that had been obtained by the plaintiff on the 19th of November last. The injunction was to restrain the defendants from entering into a con tract on behalf of the Eastern Counties Railway with the Har‘tich Steam-packet Company. It appeared that the defendants and the other directors of the Eastern Counties Railway, conceiving that it would have the effect of bringing considerable traffic from Holland and the northern ports of Europe, were desirous of effecting an arrangement with the proprietors of the Harwich Steam-packet Company, guaranteeing them a certain interest on the principal, as well as funded capital of 150,0001. of the company, for the conveyance of their passengers to Rotterdam and other northern ports of Europe. The plaintiff, who is one of the share holders in the Eastern Counties Railway, was opposed to the execution of this contract, and filed a bill on be half of himself and other shareholders, and obtained the injunction in question, which the defendants now sought to have dissolved. In support of the motion, it was con tended that it was the wish of the majority of the share holders that this contract should be car ied out, the ad vantages of it being obvious, ;and that the reason of the plaintiff's hostility to such being effected, originated in the fact of his being the secretary of the General Steam Navigation Company, with whose interests it would of course materially interfere to hare such an arrangement as they proposed carried out. Messrs. Findersley, Groves, and Coolmister, appeared in support of the motion, and Messrs. Turner, Roupell, and another Learned Gentleman in behalf of the plaintiff The case had not concluded at the rising of the Court COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 1 4. LIBEL.-THE SPECTATOR NEWSPAPER AND THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.-RURLSTONE V. CLAYTON. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. Nibbitt produced the memorial which had been transmitted to the Hume Office for presentation to the Queen. - Mr. George Stevens, one of the managers of the in ' stitution, stated that the attention of the society had been directed to the publication of the notices of the Spectator, from the time referred to up to the present time; that tickets had during the whole of that time been regularly transmitted to the editor of the Spectator, as well as . noblemen, gentlemen, and Members of Parliament, for , private views of the exhibition, and that he had been • furnished with a season ticket which had not ex pired. He also proved that the names attached to the memorial were either the signatures of the persons themselves, or were affixed by their express permission. Mr. HILL, Q.C., then addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said the defendant, as soon as he ascertained that the writer of the article had fallen into an error on account of the hasty glance which he cast at the memorial, he made an ample apology, and expressed regret for its publication ; he was at a loss to understand why the plaintiff had not deemed that apology sufficient. On the evening of the day on which the article was published, Mr. Flight, the solicitor, and Mr. Hassall, the scere tary to the institution, callel at the office of the Spectator newspaper, and expressed a wish to see the editor. They were immediately introduced to Mr. Rin toul, the editor and prop:ietor of the paper, who, on hearing the statement that the article was de. void of truth, informed them that he should take the earliest opportunity of retracting the expressions contained in the article of which they com plained. He inserted a retractation in the following number, which stated that they (the Spectator) were bound to admit that the statement in the article was devoid of truth, and that as it was contrary to the poliev of the Spectator to publish statements which were untrue, they took the earliest opportunity of retracting the statement, and expressed their regret for its insertion. But after the interview with Mr.Rin toul, and before the publication of the retractation, and when it was fully uoderstood that the matter would be thus settled, the plaintiff intimated through his solicitor, Mr. Flight, that it would be absolutely necessary to bring the matter before a jury. He referred to a case tried before the late Lord Elh•nborough, which was an action brought by a Baronet. named Carr against a bar rister named Wood, for publishing a humorous parody on the works of the Baronet, but the jury give an adverse verdict. Li that case Lord Ellenborough held that a person publishing a b )ok, or exhibiting a picture, laid himself fairly out for criticism, and that a critic had perfect right to express himself according to his opinion. In this case nothing more had been done, and what :was incorrect had been amply atoned for. Here the defendant had been invited with others to criticise the exhibition, and it was criticised according to the opinion of the writer. Two editions of the Spectator were published, one on Saturday morning, and another in the evening, which contained the markets and the principal news of the day. A portion of the matter in the previous edition had to be withdrawn to make room for the later intelligence, and in this way the paragraph complained of in the article in question was withdrawn. Looking at the whole of the facts, he apprehended that the defendant was entitled to a verdict; but if they con sidered he was not, he thought they would be of opinion that the injury which the plaintiff had sustained would be met by mere nominal damages. --- - Mr. Ilatford, a compositor employed in the printing office of the newspaper, proved that the paragraph and a one-line paragraph from the fashionable intelligence were omitted to make room for the late news. Mr. Brimble, a clerk at the publishing office, cor roborated the interview referred to, and added that as soon as Mr. Rintoul discovered that the statement was er roneous, he directed him not to dispose of any more of the early editions. Sir F. THESIGER replied. He said the plaintiff con sidered the apology, as it was called, had aggravated, instead of destroyed the sting which the libel had in flicted. The defendant could hardly plead carelessness, as he had pursued the same style of criticism for many years; besides, he had not taken the earliest opportunity of retracting the libel, as he might have done so in the late edition of his paper or in the daily papers. Lord DENMAN summed up, and left it to the jury to say the amount of damages which the plaintiff was en titled to. It was true the defendant had made an apology, but he thought it would have been more satis factory, if, instead of saying he was bound to admit the incorrectness of the statement, he had stated that he was satisfl,d of its inaccuracy. The jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001. LEMAN, BROTHERS, V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY Mr. W. H. Cook, who appeared for Mr. Leon Solo mon, said I do not dispute the law, as laid down by Mr. Ball, but he has carefully avoided the question here. In the case of Greenacre the charge was for murder —a totally different offence from the present—which is one of forgery ; and when Faulkner and Fabian were taken into custody they admitted that the money taken from them was that which they had received from Mr. Solo mon ; and he identified some of the notes as those for which the forged scrip had been the consideration. They are intimately connected with the offence committed. They had money and other scrip raised from the sale of forged Buckingham scrip. It was admitted by the persons charged that 2001. found upon them were the proceeds of a previous transaction with Mr. Solomon ; and my application is that you will protect the interest of Mr. Solomon upon the strength of that admission. The inspector made the following statement, without being sworn—When Faulkner and Fabian were brought in custody to the station. house, Mr. Solomon came up to the desk to me with some forged scrip in his hand, and said the two persons were charged with forgery to the amount of between 6001. and 7001. Faulkner or Fabian answered, " Your money is there," referring to the money I had received from Faulkner at the station house. He handed it over to me, and Mr. S ,lemon said can I take it. I said certainly not. You have brought these persons on a charge of forgery, and now they are in custody I cannot give up any of the property. I de sired Mr. Solomon to send me the numbers of the notes he could swear to, and he did so the next day, and the numbers corresponded with the sales for 3601. I had in my possession. Mr. W. H. Read, bill discounter, stated the parti culars of what took place when he went with Mr. Solomon to the office of Faulkner and Fabian. What one of them said was immediately adopted by the other, and they said that whatever transactions Mr. Solomon had had with Mr. Richards they felt bound to take upon themselves. Inspector Walker said he had delivered up 360/. to Mr. Solomon, and 101. to Faulkner, holding in his own hands 6551. Mr. Cook—We claim 4801, and 2001., making toge ther 6801.. of which we have had 3601, and we do not claim the railway scrip. The cei‘e was then adjourned for two days. Alderman Gums yesterday delivered his decision upon the appication of counsel, as follows :—.` On the ap prehension of Faulkner and Fabian on a charge of for gery, the prisoners delivered up to inspector Walker sundry bank notes and scrip railway shares. After se veral examinations they were committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, but afterwards they were bailed by one of her Majesty's Judges. Faulkner surrendered at a subsequent seism,- --took his trial, and was acquitted. Fabian did not make his appearance there, nor has he surrendered at any subsequent session, and his recog nisances, as well as those of his bail, have been estreated. Application has now been made to ma, the committing magistrate, to order the property in the hands of In spector Walker to be restored either to Faulkner and Fa bian, the accused, or to Mr. Solomon, the prosecutor, and counsel was heard by me in support of the respective claimants. After considering the argument of counsel in the behalf of both parties, it appears to me that some portion—but what portion does not appear—of the pro • perty found upon Faulkner and Fabian, now in possession of Inspector Walker, was admitted by both of the ac cused to be the produce of fraud, and as Fabian, one of the accused, has not yet surrendered and taken his trial, I consider it a question still undecided to whom the pro perty admitted to have been in the joint possession of the accused, really belongs. Consequently, I don't feel justified in making any order. Thomas Johnson, who was charged by Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the carriers, with having stolen a truss of silk, value 125/., was brought up for final examination. Mr. Watts, of the firm of Goodman and Watts, of Cole man-street, appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Riches, clerk to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, upon being further examined, said he superintended the general delivery of the parcels. They were called over from a book. The prisoner had been sent, on two occa sions, to Messrs. Machin with trusses similar to the one lost. The word "silk" was put upon the delivery ticket, and the prisoner returned the ticket the same night. The prisoner packed the parcels according to the book, and there was only one truss sent out that day. Mr. W. Chappell, silk throwster, of Whitchurch, in Hampshire, knew Mr. Machin, of Twisters alley, and on the 23d of November sent a bale addressed to him, which weighed about 164 pounds. Arthur Stanbury, a person in the employment of the South-Western Railway Company, said he recollected the arrival of the truss on the 23d of November, and the delivery of it to the prisoner to convey it to Messrs. Machin's premises. It was placed in the centre of the van, and witness said to the prisoner, by way of -caution, this is silk. Mr. Cope, clerk to Messrs. Machin, of Twister's-alley, stated that a bale of silk was expected on the 24th of November from William Chappell, but it never arrived at the warehouse. The value of it was 1251. 16s. 10d. George Henry Williams, assistant to a chemist in Chiswell-street, stated that on the 24th November the prisoner called at the shop with two hampers, and on going left his book on the counter, and did not return for it, although called to in a loud voice. Afterwards a boy called for the book.—Committed for trial. THAMES. Edward Lock, alias Langliton, alias Locksley, who stands charged with stealing 951. from a cash-box on the premises of Messrs. Thomas Martin . and Co., linen drapers in the Whitechapel-road, was again brought up on remand before Mr. Yardley. The robbery was committed on the night of the 27th ult., when a cash-box was taken out of a desk in the counting house, the bottom of which was cut away. The box was afterwards found in a waterbutt on the premises. The papers and securities it contained were undisturbed, but the money was all gone. The thief who committed the robbery must have concealed himself in the cellars till the inmates retired to rest, and then obtained admis sion to the counting-house by cutting out a pane of glass. After the robbery was effected the shop door and street door wero broken open, and the thief escaped in that direction. The evidence against the prisoner, who was formerly in the employ of the prosecutors, was entirely of a circumstantial description. Mr. Pelham, for the prosecution, asked for another re mand, and said the police had obtained a clue which might lead to important disclosures. Mr. Ve;ey, for the prisoner, opposed this proposal. Mr. YARDLEY said there was a case of strong suspicion against the prisoner, and he was very reluctant to let him go at large. He could not, however, continually go on remanding the prisoner without evidence. He finally consented to accept of bail for the prisoner, himself in 501. and one surety in the same amount, for his appear ance on Monday next. SOUTHWARK. George Paul Fitt was brought before Mr. Seeker, charged with obtaining three several sums of money, amounting to 21. 145., under false pretences, from Eliza beth Ann Clay. The complainant stated that her husband was a dealer in timber, and that, about three months ago, he was con victed at the sessions of receiving stolen goods, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Brixton House of Correction ; that on the occasion of his trial a Mr. Ralph Games was employed as his solicitor ; and, that, subsequently to his conviction, she sent for the prisoner, who she was led to believe was was an attorney usually employed in defending prisoners at the police-courts and sessions. She exhibited the papers relating to her husband's case to the prisoner, and, after perusing them, he remarked that Mr. Games bad managed her hus band's business in a scandalous manner, and added, that if she gave him (the prisoner) two sovereigns, he would obtain his release from gaol with as little delay as possible. She handed him a sovereign, he promising to draw up a petition to the Home Secretary on the subject. He then went away, but returned the same day, and told her that he had had an interview with three barristers, to whom he represented the facts con cerning her husband's case, and that they advised that a writ should be preferred against Mr. Games for the manner in which he had acted in her husband's de fence, adding, that the expenses attending the process would be 10s. 6d. She accordingly paid him that sum, for which he gave his receipt (produced), and on sub sequent occasions the prisoner called upon her again and induced her to advance him other sums of money, for the purpose, as he asserted, of filing a declaration and adopting other proceedings against Mr. Games ; and, in order to obtain money from her, he informed her that if she did not proceed in the business after the writ had been served upon Mr. Games, judgment would go by default, and the latter person would be in a position yttenWhddeissnhepea t d it v i a o n n ce l d Prt to the prisoner, she set to seize upon her goods. At a subsequent interview the prisoner said that it was necessary for complainant to appear at the Rolls' Court, in order to make her affidavit in th.... action, and that then she would be in a situation h to make al elhsseosasisnsiedsrutehcdeh con sented to pay back the money he had obtained accompanied giy h . er husband's td a h n e of e prisonernedefence unscrupulous atthaen d sessions.ma another o n t n h e e r r while msah ne ome of her H_ e (the _ prisoner) called on conductingcourt in demandedChancery aoayeesingrdifr her husband's Chancery lane, and on that occasion he being apprised of the proceedings that Mr. Games, upon had made an that were taken against him, offer of gexLacted a further sum of 11. 5s had a f d u r h t r h o e u r g s h u t m t o o fw2i witness efaoar the e e tsrtarnasnagcetrio, nw. restitution, if the complainant consented to forego .9 complete adopted any proceedings art oh f u ueel r uire t a h ss e oe r a ir a p bn r u o nt c ev e sum she refused, and under the supposition that she had been defrauded of the previous complainant added, peti againstti °a , Mr. nor Games. h ad The about an inquiry, and ascertained that he had neither that since her husband's incarceration in gaol she was much reduced in circumstances, and, in order to raise the money for the prisoner, she was compelled to pledge various articles ; a feet of which he was aware at the time. swehnatteinvear Mr. Hill, a solicitor, gave evidence of his having searched the lists for November and December at the Writ-office, Queen's Bench, and that there was no pro cess filed by the prisoner against Mr. Games, as had been asserted by the former in his statement to the complainant. The complainant's daughter handed in a paper, which she received from the prisoner, and which purported to be a writ of inquiry fur damages, addressed to Mr. Games. Mr. Roberts, who conducted the case against the pri soner, said that there were other cases of a similar description against him, and that it would be necessary to remand him, in order to have the attendance of persons interested. The prisoner said that that was what he wanted, with a view to have the professional assistance of a barrister; and that it would be found he had faithfully performed the business he had undertaken. The prisoner was then remanded until Wednesday. Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., has been named as a candidate for Norwich, in conjunction with Mr. J. H. Gurney. FARM SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION. (From the Inverness Courier.) We learn from a correspondent in Ross-shire, that a meeting of a Northern Farm Servants' Association was held for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures attempted relative to the allowance of potatoes (already guaranteed to them) for the curt ent year, when the following resolutions were unanimously ap proved of:- 1. That the meeting think it putting the cart before the horse in the farmers of the North to call meetings of their farmer societies, in order to suggest, recommend, and lay down rules and regulations for converting the guaranteed allowance of potatoes to an equivalent in meal, seeing that, in this transaction, they are the par• ties failing to implement, and, at furthest, have only a right to come and ask us, the farm servants, what we will take to give up " the bond." 2. That although they find that they have the " whip hand" of their masters at the present " hour," they are noway disposed to lay on heavily, believing it to be the want of experience, rather than anything else, that wonld induce the farmer to propose a boll of meal in lieu of two bolls of potatoes. In order, therefore, to enable the farmers to fudge correctly in this matter, the meeting suggest to them to try the experiment upon themselves for the now current half-year 1 They would then be enabled to state more clearly the amount of food necessary for a working man, his wife, and family of five or six children. The meeting here take the liberty to remark, that the farmers in Scotland are proverbially a feeding and experiment race. The horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry, at agricultural meetings, are all in exemplary condition. The meeting admire this spirit of experimental feeding with respect to the lower animals, as it invariably consists of something added to their daily fare, but they cannot help seeing the discrepancy that prevails when human flesh is the subject of experiment : this, somehow, always tends (even at the present time, when farmers are obtaining such enormous prices for their corn) to the elucidation of the lowest diet that flesh and blood can hang toge ther upon. The farm servants of the north, therefore, as far as they are concerned, discard all experimental feeding of the human species, but they promise to give every facility to others to ride their hobby. in trying the experiment of feeding themselves, their wives, and children for half-a-year, on four and a-half bolls of meal each family. 3. The meeting have no wish to oblige their masters to purchase potatoes at an extravagant price, on their account, if an equivalent in wholesome food is substi tuted, but they know that a boll of meal is not equiva lent to two bolls of potatoes in the consumption of a family. They know, from experience, that a mixture of food is more healthful and less expensive than living upon a single species. They know that bulky food, like the potato, goes farther in stilling the calls of a hungry family, than the same amount of nutriment in a more concentrated state ; besides, they know that the very waste of the potatoes serves a useful purpose to them in assisting to feed the pigs and poultry ; but more than this, they see that a good part of their family's subsistence will be rendered null for the want of the potato. What can one make of a salt herring without a potato ? Why, the herring remains a dead letter, and the whole of the family must be on the meal. All these things considered, we, the farm servants of the northern counties, at this meeting assembled, have, after much experience and mature consideration, come to the conclusion, that one boll of oatmeal is only equivalent to one boll and a half of potatoes in the consumption of a family, and we firmly believe that the great bulk of the farmers in the north, if they would think seriously over the matter, would come to the same conclusion. 4. That as this food agreement is a matter entirely between each individal master and his servant, the far mers'societies had better leave it alone. SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY. POSES PL ASTIQUES. This week the inhabitants of " the faithful city" have been delighted by the performances of Professor Coli snd Company, who have been exhibiting very attractive living statuary and poses plastiques, at the City and County Library, and finished their exhibitions by the most singular and striking tableau of all at our Police office, yesterday (Thursday) morning. A week or two back a young man presented himself at Mr. Sefton's, printer, Broad street, and stating that he was secretary to Professor Coli, of poses plastiques renown, requested that some bills might he printed, an nouncing the extraordinary things with which they were about to please the people of Worcester; " and," added he, in the most straightforward way imaginable, " I am a perfect stranger, and therefore lam in the habit of leaving a deposit." He put down 10s. on the counter, and said the great Coli himself would pay the remainder. " You musn't be astonished," said he, " at his manner; he will probably come into the shop, take a chair, say you're the printer, I believe,' ask for the bills, put down all the money, and walk out again without another word. You'll be sure to know him, for he is a tremendous big fellow, quite sufficient to smash both of us if he pleased." With this pleasing intelligence the secretary departed, the bills were printed, and as the bill sticker, our own veritable Quin, pasted them on the walls, gaping crowds read of classical models such as " the Death of Denta tus," and "the Sleeping Beauty," &c. &c.; how Herr Dobelli would recite this and Herr Bradigni spout that, and how Boadicea would address the Ancient Britons as in days of yore—till their mouths watered and their ears tingled again. And what gave it all such an air of ge nuinenesa and authenticity was a line at the bottom of the placards stating that all bills were to be sent to Mr. Sefton's by Thursday morning at ten o'clock. The Monday when these grand performances were to take place arrived, and the company having taken up their abode at Mr. Sim monds's, in Mealcheapen-street, the secretary went to honour the various tradesmen of the city with a visit, and to procure from them the things necessary to their evening's doings. At Messrs. Hill and Turley's he bought 25 yards of green baize, a quan tity of cambric, cloak lace, binding, &c. &c. The things were to be sent to the City and County Library and the bill to Mr. Sefton's. Some inquiries were made at Mr. Sefton's, and the articles sent. The same thing was done at Messrs. Sidney and Hanson's, and several other places. On the Tuesday, the secretary and Herr Do belli walked into :dr. Sefton's and narrated how the cur tain would't act on Monday night, and how they hoped to do better in future, and at last how they wanted some fresh bills immediately. As soon as they were gone, Mr. Sefton writes the gentleman a note to say that it was not his custom to supply a second lot be fore the first was paid for. Down comes the secretary in a trice, and in a rage, too. He had never been served so in his life before. He considered he had been most grossly insulted. Let Mr. Sefton make out his bill in stantly. His purse, and he pulled one out apparently well filled, had enough in it to pay everybody, and fifty or sixty pounds besides. The bill %yes made out—Mr. Sefton didn't wish to hurt his feelings—the bill was folded up and placed in the pocket along with the purse—matters were made smoother—the secretary was rather appeased, and finally Mr. Sefton printed another Ist of bills, with out being paid for either. Soon, however, various tradesmen, with long faces, came to Mr. Sefton, to know something more about the Professor—who was he? 'where did he come from ?—and, finally, some of them determined to pay him a visit at his rooms that evening. Mr. Hanson accordingly went down just as the large and respectable audience were about to as semble, and demanded his money. The consequence was that the performers were brought to a dead lock. Their last appearance was never made—they deserted the rooms and fled. Then it was discovered that they had got all their things packed up, and had ordered a fly to be ready at the door as aeon as the p er f ormance was over, to carry them, Heaven knows whith er . T he Thursday morning would have aawned a blank, and Mr. Sefton would never have been visited by the tbryemaennddobuys, bi. , fellow of peculiar ma nner. Th e police, apprehended the performers at the Mouth of the Nile, on a charge of stealing a glass and a sheet from Mr. Simmonds s, and the officer set off to Spetchley in quest of the Professor him self, till at length, having ki c k e d his heels ab sut till two o'clock in the morning, peeping into the 'busses, and inspecting all the second classites t h a t were going off, he began to suspect the real truth of the matter, that the Professor was, to use an, expres sion of Jeremy Bentham's, a " fictitious entity," that is to say, he had no existence save in the imagination. On Thursday morning the five living statues, the poses plastiques themselves, were brought up. They consisted of three men and two y oung girls, a. mong whom the secretary figured conspicuously. He who formerly was Mr. Ludovick, the secretary, was now M r . S amue l C o l e , otherwise Prof essor Coli himself, it being usual, he said, to adopt aliases in the profession. Herr Dobelli ap. peared as plain Henry Dobell, and Herr Bradigni as Henry Br a dl ey, while the ladies, with high-sounding e uphonious appell a ti ons , sun k d own i nto ordinary Mary Ann Price and Mary Ann Roberts. The case, as de tailed above, was gone into, and at last the four subor dinates were dis c h arge d, while the active secretary, the embodiment of the Professor, was kept in custody, on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretences, and upon which he was committed for trial this morning. Nothing could be made out of the charge of stealing the glass from Mr. Simmonds's, as, though they had taken it without leave, it bad been returned again.-- Worcester Herald. THE POLICE OFFICER AND HIS VICTIM.—One evening during the present week, a police officer acting in a borough not more than 100 miles from Preston, being on the night beat, brought to the etation-house, an unfortunate delinquent on a charge of being " drunk and disorderly." Cruel to relate, the "keeper at the station house" thought the " preserver of the peace" as bad as his victim, and both being lodged in "durance vile" for the night, were brought before the magistrates the fol lowing morning, when they were respectively subjected to the usual fine of ss. each and costs. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT THROUGH THE FROST.--On Saturday morning an accident of a most frightful cha racter took place at the residence of Dr. Dakins, No. 40, Norland-square, Notting-hill, Kensington. About eight o'clock a female servant was cleaning the drawing -room on the first floor, she took a rug on to the balcony for the purpose of shaking it, and while doing so, with her arms extended over the balcony railings, owing to the frozen state of the bottom on which she was standing, her feet slid from under her, and she fell head foremost over the front of the balcony on the railings of the area beneath. The noise of her fall and her cries were first heard by Dr. Dakins himself, who ran to her assistance, and on getting outside found her hanging with her head down wards, her ankles being fixed between the tops of the area rails. She is stated to have been seriously injured on the head, that one of the spearheads of the rail pens. trated her thigh, and that not the slightest hope is en tertained of her surviving. PROMOTION IN THE CHURCH.—The Rev. William Gabbett has been appointed to the ineumb,ncy of St. George's, Suttoi:, Mace;esticid, vacant t the promotive of the Rev. John Burnet, LL.B., to the vicarage of Brad ford. COMPANY. This was an action brought by Messrs. Leman, Bro thers, carrying on the business of grocers, in Clerken well-close, against the Great Western Railway Com pany, to recover damages for the non-delivery of a chest of tea, valued at Si. Mr. Hayes and another Learned Gentleman, appeared for the plaintiffs ; the Attorney-General and Mr. Haw kins for the Great Western Railway Company. It appeared that Mr. Wm. Leman, one of the plain tiffs, purchased a grocery business from a person of the name of Colson, at Bridgewater. After the purchase he requested his brother in London to transmit him a chest of tea by the railway, but, as he was unknown at Bridgewater, it was to be directed to Mr. Colson. The chest was booked at the George and Blue Boar, and arrived at Bridgewater. The company, however, re fused to give it up, alleging as a reason that it was di rected to Colson, who had bolted from his creditors and become a bankrupt, and that they would detain it for the benefit of the assignees. _ _ _ -- Several witnesses were called on the part of the plain. tiffs. The defence set up was, that the tea had been fraudulently transferred to the plaintiffs by Colson, and that they had detained it and delivered it up to his creditors, believing that it truly belonged to them—in which they were perfectly justified. They believed they had performed a great public duty. The jury found for the defendants. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 14. Lord Chief Justice Wilde and a special jury were engaged the whole day in the trial of an action for an alleged illegal distraint under a fiat of bankruptcy. The case, which was of no interest except to the parties con cerned, was not concluded at the rising of the Court. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. The second session of the present mayoralty was opened yesterday morning. Mr. Samuel Taylor, of 2, George-court, Drury-lane, printer of the Patents Journal, was indicted fur the publication of a libel on Mr. Vincent Price, late the secretary of the London Mechanics' Benefit Institution, ascribing to him motives of personal interest in the establishment of the society, and describing him as unfit from ignorance for the situation which he held. Mr. Horry was retained for the prosecution, and Mr. Robinson for the defendant. _ _ Mr. Thomas Henry Smith, of Rider's-court, Leicester square, an ivory turner, stated that he was a member of the committee of the London Mechanics' Benefit Insti tution, and testified his belief that the description which appeared in the report that emanated from Mr. Taylor's printing-office could only refer to the founder, Mr. Price, and no one else. To ol.r. Robinson's cross examination, he replied that he was a member of the committee, but that several secessions had been made from the society since his installation in office, so that the committee could not be identified. George Henry Brankes, a member of the committee, said that, though constant in his attendance, there were three or four members that he had never met with. ---.... The policeman proved the identity of Mr. Taylor as the printer of the libel. The publication of the alleged libel having been proved, Mr ROBINSON submitted that Mr. Price had neither proved that he was the secretary of the society, nor that the society itself was a legal society. To make it the latter, it ought to have been registered under 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 110, s. 2. ; but this objection being overruled by the Judge, Mr. Robinson addressed the jury for the defence. He was prepared to prove that the libel was inserted in the journal, if libel it was, with out any countenance, or even partisanship, of the de fendant. This was a sufficient defence both in law and equity but there was a further proof in the readiness of the defendant to give every information that could be desired by the prosecutor, so as to enable him to get at the real author. Mr. Taylor had printed only two or three numbers of this journal, and could not possibly have either interest or motive to prejudice the character of the prosecutor. He then called George Wilson Bartlett, clerk to Mr. Warnford, the prosecutor's attorney, who proved that he had called upon Mr. Taylor, at the instance of Mr. Price, to complain of the libel, when the former stated that he was quite ready to give up the name of the author, but must first have an interview with him. At a subsequent meeting with Mr. Warnford, on the 3d of October, in Holborn, Mr. Taylor had expressly stated who was the author, and that two persons in his employment could prove the hand writing of that gentleman, as exhibited in the copy of the libel. Thomas Payne, a compositor in the employment of Mr. Taylor, who had been employed on this journal, proved that tie copy came into the office on a Wednes day evening, when Mr. Taylor was away from home. 111 r. Simpson, the overseer for Mr. Taylor, confirmed the evidence of the last witness. Mr. HORRY replied. The Comaussrolom summed up, stating that the jury must be clearly satisfied that there was a mischievous intention in the defendant, as also that he was the actual printer and publisher, before they could convict. After a short consultation the jury returned a verdict of Not guilty. John Brown, William Reynolds, and Robert Rose, were jointly iadicted for a conspiracy to defraud Thomas Stiff of 451., by means of false pretences. The two first named defendants were surrendered, Rose did not ap pear to take his trial. Mr. Ballantine prosecuted ; Mr. Clarkson defended Brown, and Mr. Parry appeared for Reynolds. From the evidence adduced in support of the charge, it appeared that the prosecutor is a job master in Quebec-mews, Portman-square, and on the 6th of Octo ber, the defendant Rose went to him and told him that Brown, who is the landlord of the Three Tuns p-üblic house, Oxford-street, had a horse in his possession be longing to a gentleman to whom he had advanced a sum o f mon ey, and that he was anxious to sell the animal, which he described as being worth eighty guineas, but which he said he could offer for a much smaller sum. The prosecutor accompanied Rose to Brown's house, when a very fine showy animal was brought out and exhibited, but he declined at that time to enter into any negotia tion for the purchase of it, expressing a wish to see the gentleman to whom it belonged, or, at all events, to be satisfied that Brown had his authority to dispose of it. A few days after this, Rose again called upon him, and said they had got the gentleman's authority ; and upon the prosecutor's going to Brown's public-house, that de fendant showed him a letter, signed G. A. Smith, which authorised Brown to sell the horse ; and upon this the prosecutor consented to give 45/. for the animal, which was then sent to his stables, and he very speedily dis covered that it was a regular " screw," being a roarer, and badly broken winded ; in:fact, perfectly useless ex cept as a means of fraud, for which, however, its showy and grand appearance rendered it peculiarly applicable ; and it appeared that only a few days before the present prosecutor was bit, a gentleman in Finsbury-circus had purchased the same ani mal for thirty guineas from Brown, and upon discovering its worthlessness, he sold it to him back the same day for 20/., resolving to lose the difference. The only evidence against the defendant Reynolds appeared to be that he had written the petitioner's letter in the name of G. A. Smith, but this fact was not clearly esta blished. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Brown, and acquitted the other defendant. A number of respectable witnesses were then exa mined to show that Brown had borne a good character previous to this transaction. Mr. BuLLoex sentenced him to be imprisoned for six calendar months. The indictment found at the last sessions against seve of cadetships, h as ral individuals f or having illegally trafficked in the sale been removed by certiorari from this Court to the Q ueen ' s Bench. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. THE QUEEN V. J. B. FAULKNER AND B. FABIA.N.- Mr. Ball RAILWAY SCRIP. appeared, on Thursday last, upon the part of J. B. Faulkner and B. Fabian, the former of whom had been tried at the Central Criminal Court, and the latter of whom h a d absconded before the day appo i nte d for his trial, th at the remainder of monies an d ra il wa y scrip in the hands of Charles Walker, one of the in spectors of the City police, might be delivered up t o them or to thei r attorneys. 9 The Learned C ounsel stated that I nspec t o r Walker i had n his possession certain railway scrip, and stock, and money, th e propert of Faulkner and F abian ; that Faulkner was :tried at the Central Crimin al Cou r t, and Fabian did not surrender• that M r . B o dkin applied for restitution of their property, and the Lear ned Judge did no t makean order, but it was afterwards said that such property a s Leon Solomon, who prosecuted, cou ld identify was to be given up t o him, and - 11 , e identified 360/, pa rt of 1,0651.; that the remainder was ex pected to be delivered to Faulk still in t ner ; th a t t h e money he Insp ec t or ' s han d s ; an d that afterwards an action was bro ug ht b y Fau lk ner and Fabian . against 'and other prop ert y . were Walker and upon t h at a rule was drawn up, whicts hav ing been argued, the Judge said h e thought the 3601 . ought to have b een i mpoun d e d. 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With Practical Observations on the Ti '•`* - 4 adver a skriSS4 112 Debility, Local and Constitutional W--- - 0:0 1 ; the Urethra. - 1711° By SAMUEL LA'MERT, COlO-- T London; 110110 9# 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-fal tu rrAho ar tioamit a Matriculated Member of the UniverSitYcal Bohai Member of the London Hospital 0.4 windin g°. Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., ka• Its im CONTENTS OT with jrni .swe CHAPTER 1. On the Philosophl 9 ' Unprontic.. Geopsd and 0 bligations, and en Infellcite lla Physiology of th, n , ost 1 7- CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy O l an d de retionS, Pre ll ..) — thf oss Organs, their functions, structures, neon their b 0.4 Mental and Physical Power are depend ant eftee 00 117, —CIIAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits; the ir 3 5ity of the w /11l Animal Economy concealed cause ef d D E e era' I reslll g> of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and Disorder l of Mental Faculties. Cmarrra 4. 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