The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-20 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY. - - - On Sattirday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, Mr. John Williams, of the Regent-circus, in the chair, Mr. NICTIOLAY gave notice that on Saturday next he should bring before the vestry a resolution " To discuss the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons to take such measures as they may deem fit and expedient to dispense with and relieve the country from the ser vices of the Poor-law Commissioners, whose arbitrary conduct and haughty behaviour, and irregular and un business-like acts, render them totally unfit fur the office they now hold ; while the cruel and oppressive mandates emanating from them, independently of their b e ing an irrespansible body, have at length called the att en ti o n and ?aroused the indignation of the country against them." l'Ar. G. DaatrEm. said the subject of the conduct of Vie Poor-law Commissioners having been mooted, he begged to ask the Hon. Representative for the borough, Sir Benjamin Hall, whether any, and what, steps had been taken by the Committee of the House of Commons to report to the House with respect to the district asylums. It would be remembered that a committee of that vestry had been appointed, of which he (Mr. Daniell) had the honour to be chairman, to watch the proceedings of the Parliamentary Committee, but they were unable to report upon the matter, as they could not ascertain what the Parliamentary Committee had done. He wished to know, therefore, of the lion. Baronet, if the report was printed, and what had been done? Sir B. Haw. said that the fact was, that the committee had not yet made their report to the House, and it was not printed. He had consulted with his Hon. Col league (sir Charles Napier) on the subject, and he had agreed to call the Committee together at an early day, fur the purpose of reporting, and he (Sir B. Hall) should take the opportunity of laying the whole matter before the new Home secretary (Sir George Grey), with a view to stop the proceedings of the commissioners in reference to those district poor-law asylums.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WILSON hoped that, pending the proceedings with regard to the district asylums, Mr. Nicholay would net persevere in placing on the paper such a motion as he had given notice of. He quite agreed with that gen tleman as to the distaste into which the Poor-law Commission had fallen with the public, but ho thought the present was not the time to bring such a wholesale condemnation of their conduct forward. Mr. JOSEPH thought it would not be wise to pledge the vestry at that moment to such a resolution. The Andover Committee were pursuin; their inquiry into the conduct of the Poor-law Commissioners steadily and faithfully, and that, coupled with what had been elicited in the district Asylum Committee, would, he had no doubt, be sufficient to dismiss them from office.—(Hear.) Mr. G. DANIELS said, he had been favoured by the Right Hon. Baronet, Sir B. Hall, with nearly all the evidence. He had carefully analysed it, and he found it proved, that although at first all the opposition to these district asylums was confined to Marylebone and another parish, they had now increased to such an extent, that the opposition to this asylum scheme of the Commis sioners amounted in number to no less than 1,254,000 persons, assessed upon a rental of nearly five millions of money. Mr. litcuoLAY observed that, in giving notice of this motion, he felt that the time had arrived when a step should ba taken by the country to rid themselves of that irresponsible body, the Poor-law Commissioners. ' Several vestrymen suggested that the motion should be withdrawn until the report on the asylum districts should be brought up ; and others that that day fort night would be a good day for the discussion of the question. The majority were, however, of opinion that such a resolution should be passed as soon as possible ; and ultimately Mr. Nicholay persisted in his original resolution of bringing on the motion on Saturday next. The vestry after some routine business adjourned. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The statement of our Cork correspondent, that Vice- Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., had declined the offer of the Government, of the post of first naval lord of the new Board of Admiralty, is correct. We are sorry to hear of this decision of Sir William, for we think the country will be the loser by it. At the same time, no one can blame the Gallant Admiral for pre ferring the comparatively smooth and quiet employment as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean to the ex tremely responsible, laborious, harassing, and, in many respects, most unsatisfactory duties, as First Naval Lord of the Admiralty. As Commander-in-Chief of a sta tion his income is above 1,0001. a year; more, strange to say, than he would receive at the Admiralty, as Commander-in-Chief, not only of all the naval stations, but of all the dockyards, too, under the Crown. In the former position, important and responsible as it is, some relaxation can be enjoyed at times by delegating the chief authority to the fl ig captain and the indefatigable and always able secretary ; but at the Admiralty there can be no cessation from continuous labour—even Sunday brings no relief. Our correspondent added— " The gallant admiral arrived on Monday in his flag ship, the Hibernia, 104, commanded by Captain Peter Richards, C.B. He received his orders for coming to Cork from the Trafalgar, 120, Captain Nott, which ship, from Plymouth, fell in with him on the 9th instant, and accompunied the Hibernia to this port. Sir William Parker will wait further dispatches from the Govern ment, and will then proceed to sea in command cf the Channel fleet." It is probable that when Sir William Parker communicated his decision to the Almiralty he had not received those pressing invitations to accept a seat at the Admiralty, which is said to have been writ • ten him by more than one Cabinet Minister; and it is not improbable that, upon second consideration, the gal. mat officer will be induced to alter his mind. Be this as it may, however, dispatches have been sent off to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, iu Scotland, offering him the vacant seat in the event of Sir William's ulti mate refusal. Captain Houston Stewart, C.B. (1317), has been ap pointed acting superintendent pro tem. of Woolwich Dockyard, vice Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., appointed a Lard of the Admiralty, vice Commodore Sir F. A. Collier, K.C.H., Commander in Chief pro tem. of the Channel fleet. Captain Houston Stewart was made a Lieutenant in 1811, and Commander in 1814. He was midshipman of the Inipericuse, and served in her boats in many of the gallant and daring exploits of Lord Cochrane on the southern coast of France, and at Rosas in 1807-8. Daring the operations on the coast of Syria, and at the capture of Acre in 1840, he commanded the Benbow, 72. The gallant Captain arrived at Woolwich on Friday afternoon. Commodore Sir James J. Gordon Bremer, K.C.8., on leave of absence from the Channel fleet, has left town for Cork, to re-hoist his pendant on board the Queen. He left Portsmouth for Plymouth en route on Friday evening. Captain Sir Watkin Owen Pell, Knight (1813), who lost his leg while midshipman of La Loire, at the cap ture of the French frigate Pallas, in 1800, who was ap pointed, in February, 184.5, from the superintendentship of Pembroke dockyard to Greenwich Hospital, will have the vacant C entnissioiership. Sir Watkin's brother, the late Lord Pell, Esq., who inherited the fortune of the late Sergeant Pell, brought into Parliament the late Lord Althorpfor Northampton. The pay of a Commis sioner is 6001. per annum, exclusive of perquisites. Capt. W. B. Dashwood (1818), who was senior lieutenant of the Active, and lost his arm at the capture of the French frigate Pomone, in 1811, commanded the Snap brig, and fought a gallant action with five loggers, capturing one, off St. Valery ; commanded the Prometheus at Algiers ; and Capt. F. Burgoyne (1815),, have been named as likely to succeed Sir W. O. Pell. THE PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT.—Various ru mours have been circulated with respect to the consum mation of this much-to-be-desired measure of promotion and retirement, and anxious have been the hopes of the old officers that they will speedily receive that justice from the present Government so cruelly denied them by the late Administration, but to which refusal, however, we are assured their Board of Admiralty was no party. It has been extensively reported that the scheme is to be promulgated on Monday next, but there cannot be any grounds fur expecting such an event so soon to take place. As a matter of course, the Admiralty must revise the proposed measure of their predecessors, and we believe in this work they are now sedulously engaged ; but as yet there is no senior naval Lord at the board, and whether it be Sir William Parker or Sir Chas. Adam who accepts the office, it must undergo his revision and have his sanction. It cannot, therefore, be promulgated on Monday, but we have faith in the good intentions of the present board with re spect to the measure, and in the weight of their recommendation to the Treasury, that it will be corn plated as soon as possible, and will not fall below th a t o f s the late board in liberality and extent. We have heard that Sir Charles Napier has recovered from his lethargy, and latterly has been most industriously employed in pushing on the adoption of some scheme of retirement and promotion in fact, that he will, on the naval estimates being brought for ward, raise a discussion on every vote, and divide the house on every item. We confidently believe that there will be no necessity for the execution of this threat, which, under the circumstances, may be deemed somewhat gratuitous. STEAMERS' BOATS.—The recent wreck of the Maiden City, near the Mull of Galloway, from which 110 per sons were providentially saved by the captain being enabled to run the ship on shore after she had struck on a rock, affords another proof of the necessity of adopting the recommendation of the committee on shipwrecks, that " all sea-going steamers should be provided with paddle-box safety-boats." To the fineness of the weather, and the assistance from the shore (which the steamer was fortunately enabled to reach in her sinking state), the passengers and crew, more than 100, owe their lives. In the Steam Navigation Bill now before Parliament, the boats to be carried by steamers are par ticularly alluded to, CHURCH FOR THE SEAMEN AT THE ISLE OF MAN.-- The authorities having determined to erect a pace of worship on shore for the seamen belonging tl and fre quenting the Isle of Man, the Admiralty, who some years since lent an old ship, called the Industry, for a floating chapel there, have most liberally given the vessel to them. The Industry will now be broken up, and the materials will be converted towards the con struction of the new church. THE ALBION'S SPARS AGAIN.—On the night of the 9th of June, after leaving Cork for Lisbon, the Albion ' 90, Captain Lockyer, C. 1., from a shift of wi n d, was obliged to bow a head-sea, when she pitched so tremendously heavy (bowsprit completely under), that she sprung her matntopmast, which, .however, she did not dare to shift until she arrived at L isbon. Although the rent is from the trussel trees to the cap, they have bound it together with iron hoops, and have thus made the defective spar to serve. We shall have some little more to say about this ship shortly, and the manceuvres on board.—lieruld. A crab fish of prodigious dimensions was captured yesterday Monday) morning, amongst the rocks near Lowca Ironworks, by a youth who had scarcely reached his teens. It measured nearly two feet from the extremity of one claw to the other, and the thickest part of the claw was full six inches in circumference.—Cumberland Packet. 'THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN"G, JULY 20, 1840: Tl:e jury, after deliberating for a few minute, returned a verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the Court. The prisoner, when called on, said he considered the clauses in the deed of sepration so stringent that he looked on the deed as equivalent to a divorce. M. Justice MAULE sail, thlt the prisoner was a surgeon by profession, and therefore must have known that persons could not be divorced merely by mutual consent. The crime he had committed was a very grave one, and might be severely punished, but as the jury had recommended the prisoner to mercy, and as this case was not of the wi rst description of its class, the Court would deal leniently with him. His Lordship sentenced the p r i soner to imprisonment for one year. No case of any public interest occurred in the Nisi Prius Court. Jacob Melry, who, as our readers will recollect, was the accomplice of the two men Biddle and Sheriff, now under sentence of death in Oxford, and th e pr i nc i pa l w i tness was himself t r i e d on Thursday evening, at pstealing, and h av i ng b een convicted was transportation hee for f ourteen years. sentenced against eftoerndc,e d t f l o l t e ro m, s RAIL` TAY COMMITTEES. (SATURDAY) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room A. CORNWALL.—WEST CORNWALL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.) On the conclusion of this witness's evidence a conversation of a discursive character took place between Mr. Austin and Mr. Rowe, who appeared for the petitioners. After this, Mr. Fox, a merchant carrying on business at Plymouth, gave evidence as to the great existing traffic, which, he said, would be much increased by the forma tion of the line. He also spoke to the general feeling in favour of the line. Being a member of the Town Council of Plymouth, he was well acquainted with the opinions of the members of that body, and he could say they were decidedly in favour of this line. The witness was cress -examined by Mr. ROWE at great length, and in the course of his cross-examination admitted that he was a shareholder in the South Devon, and as such was interested in the formation of this line, which would cause a great increase in the traffic of the South Devon. Mr. Fortescue, a landed proprietor between Liakeard and Lost withiel, was next called. llis evidence also was of a ge neral character. Here a desultory argument took place between Mr. Rowe and Mr. Talbot as to the propriety of certain questions re ferring to the " central traffic," that is, the traffic in the interior of the country. The Committee, after hearing both counsel talking together for about half an hour, deter mined to leave the central communication an open question for the present. Mr. Brunel gave evidence with respect to the renewed survey of the line made by himself after the original Bill had been thrown out in the session *of 1845, and also as to the general merits of the line. Notwithstanding the steep ness of some of the gradients, the line could very well be worked, and would most certainly pay. The line was in most respects the same as that of last year, and he thought any line that might be made through this district must oc cupy verynesrly the same ground as this would. The curves and gradients were much more favourable on this line than on that originally proposed. The curves were such as not only could he worked, but in fact were worked every day on many existing lines. The gradients on the old line were in some cases as steep as 1 in 40, but on this there were none steeper than 1 in 60. He thought both curves and gradients were such as might very well be worked consistently with the interests of the Company in a commercial point of view, and con sistently with the safety and convenience of the public. The total length of the main line was 63 miles ; that of the Bodmin and Padstow branch was 16 miles. The total esti mate was 160,000/. This was the estimate submitted to the House of Commons, and had been maintained, notwith standing the reduction of the probable cost by the throwing out of a branch called the Launceston or Double Boys Branch. ' The crossing of the Hamoaze, which was objected to by Lord Ellenborough's Committee of last year, had been avoided. Cross-examined by Mr. COCKBURN—Recommended the Launceston branch to the Commons' Committee as highly important, as the best that could be made to that place, and as one from the making of which great advantages would result. Was still of the same opinion. Mr. CocKnutus then read the following list of gradients ~rit he Launceston branch, which Mr. Brunel admitted to be correct :—Level, 3 miles, 9 chains ; 1 in 120, 1 furlong, 8 chains; one in 100, 7 furlongs, 1 chain ; 1 in 80, 4 furlongs, 8 chains; 1 in 67, 5 furlongs 4 chains; 1 in 63, 2 miles, 7 chains ; 1 in 62, 1 mile, 7 furlongs 6 chains ; 1 in 60, 9 miles, 2 furlongs—making, altogether, IS miles, 4 furlongs, 7 chains. The Learned Counsel also read a statement of the curves on the Launceston branch. There were on the part of the Bodmin and Padstow branch, between Clynn-bridge (where it leaves the main line) and Bodmin—the length of which was three miles and three quarters—gradients of lin 60, lin 57, and lin 50. The Learned Counsel then carried the witness through a series of details of the gradients en the main line (which are far too lengthy for insertion in our columns). Notwithstanding the steepness of the gradients and steepness of the curves, a speed of 40 or 50 miles an hour c,ould_easily be obtained. That was the speed at which it was intended to work the line. The height at which the line crossed the river Tamar, at Saltash, was according to the sections, 80 or 85 feet above high water mean mark, but he thought it more likely that it would be made at about 95 feet. That could very well be done, as the landowner s were all assenting. The . Admi ra lty had agreed to the making of the bridge at 85 feet; but it was more likely that it would be made at 9.5. Even if some of the landowners should object there was nothing to prevent the Company from making the arch at ninety or ninety-five feet above high-water mark. There were no piers. At this point the CHAIRMAN announced that it was past four o'clock, and the Committee must therefore rise. They accordingly rose and adjourned till Monday, to which day the further cross-examination of Mr. Brunel is postponed. Room D. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.) Mr. Hamilton, factor to the Duke of Portland, examined— A good deal of his Grace's property lay between Kilmarnock and Cumnock, and he had also an estate at Muirkirk. He had made great improvements in hi s es t a t e , h av i ng dra i ned about 10,000 acres. He had heard the evidence of Mr. Halston, and he generally agreed with it. He had no doubt the traffic in cattle and cows would be greatly extended were the rail way formed. The line would be advantageous generally to Ayrshire. Cross-examined—There was not much traffic from Ayr shire to the south at present, but that he thought arose from the want of travelling accommodation. With a line he considered a supply of coal would go south, but he could not say to what extent. No doubt a great proportion of the coal would continue to be used for the making of iron, still a portion might go south, notwithstanding the existence of the Sanquhar and Can o bi e coal-fields. lie did not think, with regard to Ayrshire that the Caledonian line would be a competing one with the present. They ran through en tirely different districts of country. Mr. Alexander, of Ballackmyle, examined—His estate was near Mauchline, on the extension line from Kil marnock to Cumnock. He had heard the evidence of Mr. Crawford yesterday, and generally agreed with it. The inhabitants of the district were generally in favour of the present line, as it would form an excellent communication with the south, give them additional markets, and bring them in connexion with extensive lime-works south of Cumnock. A large amount of dairy produce was raised in Ayrshire, especially cheese, and tile draining was carried on to a great extent. There were from forty to fifty tile works in the country, and the tiles cost from IBs. to 20a. a thousand. A considerable demand for those he had no doubt would take place in Dunfriesabire. Public meetings of both Renfrewshire and Ayshire had decided in favour of the present line. He was lord of the manor of Catrine, which was extensively engaged in weaving and spinning cotton, and contained 2,600 inhabitants. An extensive coal-field existed all wound here. Cross-examined—He felt considerable interest in the line. He was a holder of 150 shares, and a director. He was a director of the line last year in opposition to the Caledonian. He did not think the present line would take any traffic from the Caledonian that naturally belonged to it. He did not think the difference in gradients would enable the Nithsdale scheme to carry passengers from Glasgow to Carlisle as quick as the Caledonian. He was not aware that Mr. Miller had given such evidence last year. The Ayrshire cheese was the best made in Scotland, but it was not so good as the Cheshire cheese. He thought the Ayrshire cheese would find the southern market, as the price obtained there was better than the price obtained in Glasgow. He knew a portion of cheese was now sent, but he could not say how much. He could not say whether there was clay along the valley of the Nith or not. The cotton works at Catrine belonged to a large house in Glasgow. James Finlay and Colonel Eerier Hamilton, a landed proprietor and Deputy-Lieutenant of Ayrshire, gave evidence to the same effect as the previous witness. He considered the line would be a great benefit to all the property between Kilmarnock and Cumnock. He generally concurred in the evidence of Mr. Alexander. Cross-examined—lie only held twenty-five shares in the present line. He had taken them in order to support the line as a public benefit. If Mr. Lead bitter had stated, at a recent meeting, " that the late decision of the House of Commons had broken the back of the Caledonian Company, and that Glasgow would largely participate in the benefits of having two lines of railway communication with the south," he (the witness) could not understand what was meant; he could not, therefore, give an opinion on it. Sir David Hunter Blair thought the line would be of great beaetit to Ayrshire. The proprietors of land and inhabitants generally were strongly in its favour. It would be the means of granting great accommodation to both agricultural and manufacturing products. Cross-examined—He did not think the present line would affect the Caledonian much. He thought that no Glasgow through traffic would come upon the present line. Mr. Wood, factor to the Marquis of Bute, gave evidence on behalf of his Lordship, and in favour of the line. The line passed through his Lordship's estate for several miles, and there were minerals, coal, and iron underneath. Were the railway formed a great accommodation would be given for the transit of coal, lime. and agricultural produce. Beside coal and iron found on the estates plumbago was also found and wrought ; likewise sulphuret of antimony. If the latter were wrought the ore would all go south. A house in Birmingham had offered to contract for as much as they could send. Large clay beds existed on the estate, and tiles were extensively made. He had been told there was no clay in Dunfermline for the mak ing of tiles. cross -examined—No doubt a large amount of the coal in the district would be consumed when the proposed fur naces were in operation. He thought still there would be coal sent to the south as far as Thornhill, notwithstanding the existence of the Sanquhar coal- field. At present the plum bago raised was sent to Glasgow, but the price was not remunerative. No doubt if the line from Cumnock to Glas gow were constructed, the price of carriage would be reduced. Mr. J. Geddes, mining engineer, examined—He had had extensive experience in the coal-fields of Scotland. e ite ef an th d e S .l i i r cne Cli a a le r i l l e g s htt He o n w te a i s t h. engineer u e had a t d o t t r h a v e e il rs fa ed rci t u h is e o r f ou c t t certaining its mineral capabilities. with Mr. Wright and Mr. Christie, with The th s e ati ob ci object o e f e a a s l. - ception of a slight break, to Cumnock. Lme field was a very extensive one, and extended, s w te i n t e h w t a h s e aeixso i found in the same district, both in the Sanquhar coal-field, and at Closeburn as well as at Kelihead, near. Annan. He had found blackband iron-stone in the New Cum nock field, not very thick, but very good. Black band iron-stone was at present got and worked in the vicinity of Old Cumnock, and several furnaces were in opera tion. The Dumfries people, and those along the valley of the Nith between that town and Sanquhar at present carted their coals from Sanquhar and Mansfield, which was very tedious and expensive. The aggregate thickness of the Mansfield coal seams was about .forty feet. The coal was of very good quality, both gas and household coal. The price of coal here at the pit's mouth varied from 4s. 2d. to ss. 10d. a ton. At Sanquhar the price was ss. 4d. The price of Scotch coal at the same time was 13s. 6d., and English coal 183. 6d. a ton. If the railway were made a large red uc ti on would take place in p r i ce . Dumfries and Maxwelltown contained a population of about 16,000, and he knew no place from whence they could be supplied so cheaply as Sanquhar and Mansfield. He thought the Dumfries district would consume about 28,000 tons, the half of which would come from the former coal-fields and the other half from Canobie. About 18,000 tons more would be consumed by the other districts that along hraeta t t3dhoee:tolo line—making oi in sewould wouldou ladconsumption ne d o ,a t . ' av 3 ne 2 rd , O a °° , h e e tons assum edin all. A miles along the line. H e est i mated that 1,860 tons gas ' coal would pass along the line for use at various points, and that 10,000 tons would be shipped from the ports of Ayrshire. The line he considered would b e a great public benefit.- Cross-examined—He was employed by the various pro prietors to make the explorations he had done. He had also been employed by the Company to give his impressions of the mineral capacities of the district, and had in consequence gone over the district. At present the coals from Sanquhar and Mansfield were all carted, the expense of which he esti mated at 31. per ton per mile. With regard to the Mansfield and Sanquhar coal-fields he did not think much coal would go north except the gas coal. He believed Dumfries was at present supplied to a great extent with Cumberland coal, His estimate of the consumption of coal was at one and a half tons per head. The witness was here examined at sonic length on the details of his table of the coal con sumed in the several parishes which skirted the line, with the object of showing that he had over-esti mated the tonnage of coal that would pass along it. The pre sent consumption of coal at Dumfries was mostly English Coal, but if the line were formed he did not think English coal would be then used. The difference in price, he thought, would be so great as to drive the English coal out of the market. The present price of Scotch coal was 16s. 6d., and English 18s. 6d., but the railway would make a much greater difference in price. He did not think English coal would be reduced in proportion. Were a line formed from Dumfries to Canobie, the coil of the latter would equally drive out the English coal. Ile did not say that 30,000 tons of lime would pass along the line on an average of six miles; he said 13,000. The way he had calculated the coal and lime traffic was, by taking sta tions at intervals along the line, and t h en taking the popula tion surrounding them which would require supplies. He would supply in a table all the details thatarenecessary to illustrate the amount of traffic he considered would betaken by the line. To Mr. Sergeant Murtrav—He had on a forther occasion reported that iron was on the route of the Slamannan Rail way, but though that line had been in existence for several years, no iron had yet been found. It had recently amal gamated with two other lines, because it had Idled as a mineral line. lie was mistaken by appearances in re porting on the Slaniannan line, but in regard to the present line he had made a greater examination, and did nut think he had made any mistake. He had not, however, cal culated on iron going along the line. He had not examined into the plumbago and sulphuret of antimony; he only spoke of coal and lime. He co u ld no t sa y th a t coa l m i g ht be laid down in Dumfries from Marvport for 10s. The Committee then adjourned till eleven o'clock on Monday. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE CHANCERY COURT, July 13. BLAKE V. LORD WALLESCOURT. In this case two petitions have beeen presented ; one by the two daughters of Lord:Wallescourt, that .they may be removed from the custody of their father, and allowed to live with ther mother, and the other by Lady Wallescourt that she may have the custody of her infant son. The proceedings are instituted under Serjeant Talfourd's Act, and the grounds stated by the affidavits on the side of the petitioners are cruel and immortal conduct on the part of Lord Wallescourt, and that he is not a proper person to have the management of his children. The statements made relative to Lord `Val lescourt's conduct are denied by the affidavits on his side, in which he is stated to be a very religious man, and very careful in the education of his children. The arguments in the case are not yet concluded. RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—The following sums of money deposits on behalf of the undermentioned railway com panies, were ordered to be paid out of court :—The Huntingdon Branch of the Midland Junction Railway (v.ithdrassn) 36,2301. ; the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate (passed) 57,860/. ; the Liverpool and Preston, and the Manchester and Southport (rejected) 120,0001. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—Oakhum, JO!, 17. The people of the town of Oakhain were this morning awakened from their usually dull routine by the clamour of bell ringing, and the clatter of the little cortege of javelinmen in attendance upon the High Sheriff of Rutlaudshire, Mr. John Gibson, of Wing Uppingham, who awaited the arrival of Mr. Justice Patteson. His Lordship arrived at half-past 10 o'clock, and shortly after proceeded to the Castle. His LORDSHIP adverted to the light state of the calendar, which exhibited two cases only, one of which was for cutting and wounding, and the other for setting fire to a lock-up house at Oakham ; there was not, however, evidence to go to the grand jury, whereupon the indictment was abandoned. On the Nisi Prius side there was no entry for trial whatever. The only case indeed expected to be tried at these assizes is that of the " Syston and Peterborough Railway Company v. Lord Harborough," a case arising out of long standing dis putes between Lord Harborough and• the Syston and Peter borough Railway Company, and which have already formed the groundwork of two trials at °Ahem. On the present occasion the venue was laid for Rutlandshire ; it has, how ever, on account of the leading couniel on the Midland Circuit being detained at Northampton in a tithe case, been transferred to Nottingham. On the Crown side Frederick Lea stood indicted for cutting and wounding with a scythe with intent to do grievous bodily : harm. Mr. Roberts appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Wing for the prisoner. The facts of the case were as follows :—The prisoner, who was addicted to drink, was, on the 23d of May last, in a state of drunkenness and high excitement, and whilst under their influence, and affected • by family disturbances, rushed into the street i-rmed with a scythe blade, and the prosecutor, in attempting to capture him, received a wound in the face three or four inches long, and also had a piece of one of his ears cut off. constable who apprehended the prisoner, Joseph Cliff. the father of the prosecutor, and the prosecutor, deposed to the facts of the case, and another witness deposed that pri• sorter would have cut his and prosecutor's head off, if he could have done so. Mr. WING addressed the jury in extenuation, and called witnesses, who deposed to the good character prisoner had borne during twenty years. The jury, after some consideration, returned a verdict of Guilty.—Sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. This being the last and only case, the assizes terminated, and his Lordship proceeded on to meet Mr. Justice Coleridge at Lincoln, where the commission was opened on Saturday. NORFOLK ClRCUl7l—Huntingdon, July 17. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) Richard Hayes was charged with feloniously cutting and stabbing William Monk. Mr. Tozer was counsel for the prosecution; Mr. Prender gast appeared for the defence. It appears that the prisoner is a respectable carpenter, re siding in a village not far from the banks of the Ouse, which, as all who have travelled the fens in winter know, is fre quently flooded, carrying away timber and even stacks in its overcharged bosom. On one of these occasions, in the winter of 1845, the prosecutor, William Monk, found and captured a prize in the shape of some timber, which he in vain sought to find an owner for. At length, deeming that he might do as he pleased with it, he confided it to the pri soner for the purpose of being made into a box. The pri soner kept the wood for nearly three months without exe cuting his job, and, when questioned about it, intimated, first, that he " might get into a bother about it, as he did not know who the owner was," and eventually flatly refused to make the box or give up the " raw material." This, of course, irritated the prosecutor, who, on the day named in the indictment, met the prisoner at a public-house, and demanded his property. The prisoner, who was intoxi cated, evaded the demand, and on the prosecutor intimating his intention of going home with him, that he might get " a proper under s t an di ng " w i t h . hi tn, he cautioned him "not to come near him, or on his premises, else he would do him an injury." The prosecutor, however, followed the drunken man up to the threshold of his door, and the prisoner, having entered it, presently came out with a knife in his hand, swearing he would " stick it into the -----'s belly." His wife rushed between him and the prosecutor, and a struggle ensued, in which the prisoner thrust his hand over her shoulder, and inflicted a cut on the left cheek of the prose cutor' from which, though slight, the blo o d fl owe d rapidly. As the prosecutor did not quit the premises, the prisoner then went back, vowing he would fetch his loaded pistols and shoot him; but he either had none or could not find them, for he returned in a second or so with the knife as be &re, and then a passer-by, who- had been attracted by the noise, prudently withdrew the prosecutor, and so put an end to the matter. At the close of the case for the prosecution, His LonDstue intimated to the Learned Counsel for the prosecutor, that as he (Mr. Baron Alderson) thought the fe lonious part of the charge was not made out, he had better at once submit to a verdict for an assault, as the case must conic to that eventually. It was very clear that the prisoner was drunk when the wound was -given, and that being so, he could scarcely be said to have been actuated by any such in tent as was contemplated by the statute. The jury, therefore, under. his Lordship's direction, found the prisoner guilty of an assault only, and he was thereupon sentenced to pay a fine of 405., and to find surety to keep the peace for two years, and furthermore admonished to abstain from drink for the future, which he faithfully promised he would do. Ann Peacock, aged 20, was indicted for setting tire to a dwelling-house, called the Huntingdon Union Workhouse, William GeninLe and others then being in the same. Mr. Worlledge, for the prosecution, proved that the pri soner had been punished at least 20 times in the union for violence and insubordination to the powers that be r and that on the 17th of May last she took occas i on o f her being or dered to clean out a bed-room to set fire to one of the beds. Fortunately the cry of " Fire " was soon raised, for on the authorities bursting into the apartment, four beds were dis covered in flames, while the prisoner was quietly watching the progress of the devouring element, which bad evidently been created bt• the agency of live coals, some of which were strewn about the floor. When taxed with the commission of this offence, the prisoner quietly said, " Oh, I told you I would do it, when you stopped my dinner yesterday," a statement which did not receive either confirmation or refu tation during the progress of the case. It being at last, though with some difficulty, ascertained that a sufficient firing of the timber had been effected to pro duce a red heat, and so to bring the case within, the law, The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentence of death re corded, accompanied by an intimation that it would be com muted to a short term of transportation. OXFORD CIRCUIT.— Worcester, July 18. CROWN COURT.—(B e f ore M r. J ust i ce MituLE Richard Darn e l, o th erw i se Henry surgeon, Lee Paget , aged 3 .) 2, and r describedi.} ~ F.Y. Lin the ee conductedcalendar t as a wasindicted p for ri. i d bigamy. prosecution;the an soner was defended by Mr. Godson, ' Q•C ~ with whom was Mr. Iluddlestone. From the opening and the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor, Mr. George 11 luckarsie, a d ent i st, residing in King-street, Bloomsbury,, in London, was i ntroduced to the prisoner in 1833. The prisoner, who was th en a b out 21 years of age, and a surgeon, paid his attentions to Miss Geor• giana, the daughter of the prosecutor, in whose housa he was stopping, and ultimately, after a courtship of two years, was married to her, with her father's consent, at St. Pancras Church, in London, in the month of July, 1835. Immediately on his marriage he went to reside in Sidinouth•;street, Regent's-square, where he practised as a surgeon. After living with his wife there for six months he got into difficul ties, and being arrested, was placed in the Fleet Prison, when his wife returned to reside in her father's house. From the Fleet he took the benefit of the Act, and, his father-in law having paid all the fees, he returned to the house of the latter, and lived there till November, 1837, when he left for the country, whither his wife f o llow e d hi m . Th e y lived together at Newtown, in Montgomeryshire, where his wife, taking with her a gold watch, several trinkets, and a stock of wearing apparel, joined him, but she soon returned to her father with literally nothing left but what she wore. After 1838, when a deed of separation, which, though alluded to, was not produced in evidence, was entered into between the prisoner and his wife, she had never lived with him. On the 29th of June, 1830, a letter was received by Mrs. Durnell from a Mr. Edsprds, a surgeon of Walsall, in whose service the prisoner then was, enclosing a letter to her from her hus band, in which, using the kindest and mast affectionate lan guage, he begged of her to return to him. In Mr. Edwards's letter be requested her to give an early answer that matters might be settled which depended on her determination. She, however, declined acceding to the wishes of her husband, sending him as an answer to his note the deed of separation. The prisoner seems then to have wandered about, having al tered his name to that of Henry Lee Paget, and to have practised as a physician. On the 3d of March, 1844, he was married at Bath to Miss Alice Lovell, and they went to live at Bengeworth, which is about a mile from that town. When he had been residing there for about ten months he was apprehended and committed for trial on the charge of bigamy. Mr. GODSON then addressed the jury for the prisoner. The Learned JuDGE summed up, and LONDON SESSIONS. Tun RATING 0F TIIE BLACKPRIARS STEAM B)AT PIER. ...This case, brought forward on S atnr d ay, wus an cppeal against the parish of St. Anne, Blaeld r i ars, On t h e part ( a i s r s t r i .s le sn c i ( e ) n rp t o u r i a a t r i l ( t ) ! n f:;r l the relief 'e Cle of T.outiuti, resiket to of the p oor o f t h e sa id parish, as regards the rating of the pi er at Blaeldriars bridge. Mr. Maynard, who appeared on the p ar t o f t h e re spondents, said that, as the pier was built upon, and within the parish of St. An, Blackfriars, arid from which the corporation of the city of London obtained a beneficial occupation, the palish authorities had, in ac cordance with the common arid statute law, rated the said pier towards the relief of the poor. The amount at which the rental was fixed was 5001. per annum. lie, however, should be prepared to show that although the pier had only been erected nine mouths, that no less than 2,000/. had been received as pier dues, and that the pro the a ppellants, th e y h a d preferred no fewer fits were at least 1 , 00 0/. a year. Fro m th e case pre sented by than five objections, and which w ere as follows:—First, that the pier was not situate withi n t h e par i sh ; s e cond, that there was no beneficial occupation ; third, that it was not property liable to be rated ; fourth, it was as sessed beyond its rental ; and lastly, that the case was oppressive, illegal, and unjust. All these objections were bad. Mr. May, the assistant overseer, and Mr. Spilling, formerly one of the churchwardens, were called, whose evidence went to show that the houses from No. Ito Nc. 4, Chatham-pla ce , were exem p te d f rom t h e pay ment of rates by Act of Parliament, the rents being ap propriated towards the repairs of Blackfriars-bridge, but the houses were, nevertheless, in the parish, the boun daries being fixed under the second arch, beyond the distance unto which the pier extended. Mr. Woodrutio, from the Town. clerk's office, deposed that Blackfriar's-pier was opened on the 2-tth October, 1845, and that the charges made were 6d. cacti call by the steam-boats —that up to 15th of June 7161. 16s. Gd. hail been received—that there was owing to the . Navigation Committee 655/. 6d.—that the expenses for piermen, watchmen, &c., was 6021. 3s. 33., and that the building of the pier cast the city 3,oool.—that when the pier was opened it was estimated that the annual ex pense for maintaining it would be 1,089/. 4s. . Mr. Lewis contended that there was no evidence to show that the pier was in a rateable position, so that the corporation was liable to be rated. The city had built it for the accommodation of the public, and had been in duced to do so from the loss of life which had there taken place. That by an Act of Parliament the soil of the river was placed under the control of the city, and not under that of the parish. Richard Ware, the piermaster, was then called, who proved that when the parish officers perambulated the parish, they went down the steps next to the bridge, but never came on the pier. The REconuen, at very considerable length, then pro ceeded to give judgment, in the course of which lie ob cerved that although the evidence, as to the boundary of the parish was not so clear as he multi wish, yet there could be no doubt that the structure was within the pa rish, and that at present it was, to all intents and pur poses, a beneficial occupation. The rate would, there fore, be affirmed. The Corporation had the power to put an end to the rate at any time it thought proper to let the steam-boats take passengers away without charge. In the course Of the proceedings he had heard the pier ter med a nuisance, instead of which it appeared to him to be a great public convenience and benefit.—The rate was then affirmed, with the usual costs. THE WATERMAN AND IRON STEAM-BOAT COMPANIES. will be recollected that several convictions have taken place at the Mansion House, of persons in com mand of die boats belonging to the above companies, for an infringement of the fifth bye-law made by the Court of Aldermen. In all of the cases the parties were con victed on the evidence of Mr. Fellows, law student, and notice of appeal was given. The cases were fourteen in number. The various defendants were now represented by Mr. Pashley, Mr. Bramwell, and Mr. Maynard. To the first appeal an objection was taken, to the effect that the Mayor, after conviction, had ordered that in default of payment the defendant should be imprist ned for seven days, and thereby foregoing the intermediate course of ascertaining whether the defendant had any goods which could be taken in execution. Although Sir Peter Laurie, Sir George Carroll, and Mr. Alder man Challis considered the objection to be bad, the Recorder held the reverse, on the ground that the liberty of the subject was not to be played with, and the whole convictions on ibis point were in consequence quashed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 111 A NSION- HOUSE On Saturday, Mr. 316ses Abitbol appeared before the Lord Mayor, "to show cause," as the summons ex pressed it, " why he misapplied certain shares, and alio certain moneys, belonging to Francis Uncilla, entrusted to him for a specific purpose. Mr Cope, solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Humphreys appeared for the defence. The case drew together a number of persons to whom the defendant, who is a very public City man, appeared to be known. Mr. Uncilla, whose counting-h ouse i s at 20, Cullum street, stated that he was a merchant, and had been in London about eight months. He knew Mr. Abitbol. having become acquainted with him about two months ago, at a restaurateur's. Witness and his wife were there together, and Mr. Abitbol pressed them very much to accompany him to places of amusement, and an inti macy grew up between them, which appeared to be urgently desired by the gentleman. Witness, upon one of the visits of Mr. Abitbol to his counting-house, asked whether any Madrid and Valencia shares could be sold in London, to which Mr. Abitbol replied, " Yes, I am a broker, and do a great deal of business in them" "He then," continued the witness, "quoted a price, and advised me to write to Barcelona for some shares, and he would undertake to sell them for me, at the price he quoted, or thereabouts. I wrote accordingly, and I received ten shares, and entrusted them to him to sell for me on the 21st of May. Mr. Humphreys—Did you give them to him? Mr. Uncilla—l left them with his clerk, at his counting house, No. 35, Abchurch-lane, with instructions to sell them. Mr. Humphreys—Were they written instructions ? Mr. Uncilla—No; they were verbal instructions. The Loan MAYOR—Had you previously made any arrangement with Mr. Abitbol ? Mr. Uncilla—The only arrangement I made with him was, that I was to send for the shares, and he was to sell them for me. The next communication I bad from him was a letter stating that he had sold a Parcel of 200 Madrid and Valencia shares at Liverpool, for 20s. 6d. per share, in which parcel my ten shares were included, and that on the settlement he would send me a draft as usual. (Here the complainant produced the letter, at the conclusion of which was a very warm invitation to him and his wife to dinner.) . The LORD MAYOR —I suppo e you went to dinner ? Mr. Uncilla—Yes, we went to dine with him.—( A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—I dare say you said nothing about the shares at the dinner? Mr. Uncilla—We had no conversation about them then. I afterwards called upon him, and he gave me a contract in his own hand writing to the effect that be had sold ten Madrid and Valencia shares for tee at 20s. 6d., the commission being ls., statity , a balance due •to me of 91. 15s. ( l'he witness here produced the contract, which wag dated May 29, 1846, and was signed "M. Abitbol.) I wrote for some more shares in consequence of his advice. Mr. Humphreys submitted that there was nothing in the statement of Mr. Uncilla which called fur an answer on the part of his client. Mr. Cope—l shall prove in the first place that Mr. Abitbol is not a broker. The LORD MAYOR --That may be the subject of in quiry in another place. I cannot entertain it here. Mr. Cope —I can show it as a part of the constitution of the fraud which I say has been practised upon my client. Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) —The question then would b e w h et h er a b are li e to ld by a man that h e was a broker c onst i tute d a f rau d. Is it not plain that ordi nary prudence has not been used. Before Mr. Uncilla employed th e d e f en d ant b e ought to have inquired whether h e was a b ro k er. Mr ' Cope—l do not consider such a course is practised or necessary. If a man wants to employ an attorney he Mr. Cope— will not go to the Stamp-office to ascertain the fact. He will take the word of the party that he is an attorney, and I contend that it is an act of fraud in a person to personate either. The LORD MAYOR—If I were in want of an attorney I should certainly look at the Law List. is never done. Upon the faith of being a broker, Mr. Abitbol was entrusted with these shares. every Mr Hum h • •evident, my Lord, that p reys— t Its quite I assure your Lordship that such a thing twheisrebienfotrruesttehde wLi:hrodutmaaryt else, although he may not be a sworn broker of the city of London. This case must, therefore, fall to the ground , as to that argument. s u ppose he did say he was a m an is a broker who deals in shares or anything broker, and that the shares were intrusted to him, they merely left with, his clerk. The case is subject to another sort of proceeding than It is not recognisable in thii court. yers.pecific direction, but were Mr. Cope—There is no doubt that a m oral fraud has been committ e d, an d the presumption is that au actual fraud has b een committed. He p re tends that ho is a broker, and upon that false pre t e nce he gets shares to dispose of. The LORD M.tvon—There is no proof before me that the account has not been carried over to another day. ['here is no proof that the money has been received or that the shares have been sold. Mr. Humpbreys_And if such things were proved it would make it no more than a debt, on which an action might be brought. The LORD MAYOR —.There is nothing to show that the defendant sold the shares. If ho have sold them and he refused to pay, he is liable to the consequences of an action. Mr. Cope—Some money transactions took place, after the share business, in which Mr. Abitbol received 501, from my client, and neither in that nor in the share transaction just described did he ever receive one farthing from Mr. Abitbol. Mr. Humphries submitted that it would be useless to go into any other case. Mr. Goodman (to Mr, Uncilia)—Did Mr. Abitbol tell you that he was a member of the Stock Exchange ? Mr. Uncilla—l do not _know anything as to that, but he told me he was a broker, end I was not aware that he was not a broker, until I had intrusted him with my money and my shares. TLe LORD MAI - oil—With what money did you in trust him ? Mr. Uncilla—l intrusted him with 501. to buy stock ith, and I accuse him of having misappropriated that sum. The LORD MAYOR (having consulted with Mr. Good man) said it was evident that this case, as well as the former, must be decided elsewhere. They both con tained matter for actions. Mr. Goodman said, the case cou'd never bear an in dictment, and if it were nut inlictable, it could not come under the notice of the Lord Ma j or. If Mr. Abitbol bad said that he was a member of the Stock-Exchange, the responsibility would be different. Mr. Ml6lla—He said he was a member of the Hall of Commerce. Mr. Humphreys here produced a letter, dated the Ist of June, from the complainant to the defendant, in which the former requistei the latter to be kind enough to employ 501. for him in any operation for his interest. Mr. Humphreys—That letter puts an end to the business at one. Mr. Uncilla—l wrote that letter beforzi I had any idea that I should be treated unfairly. Mr. Abitbol was giving constant invitations to amusements, and I had no idea what would have happened. 1 was convinced than honourable would have taken place. Mr. Goodman—You may indict if you please, but the Lord Mayor cannot adjudicate in the matter. GUILDHALL. On Saturday two knowing-looking characters, named Henry Moore and Henry Jones, were charged with de frauding Mr. Farrier, the landlord of the Angel Inn, Farringdon-street, of sundry pork pies and pints of half and-half. The complainant stated that he opened his house at four o'clock in the morning, to accommodate the market people and those arriving by the waggons. That morn ing, shortly after he had opened his house, the prisoners came in, and in a very commanding manner asked him if he had any cold meat. He replied that he had not, but that he had some pork pies, which no doubt they would find equally agreeable. They answered, the pies would do as well, and were served with some, which they speedily, with several pints of porter, half-and• half, &c., put out of sight. On leaving, complainant asked them for payment of the refreshments, upon which they answered, " Money, eh we will pay you with a cut over the eye, and that is all the payment you will get from us." Jones made use of that expression, and, en deavouring with his companion to escape, a policeman was called, and they were given into, custody. The prisoners in answer to the charge, said if the land lord had allowed them to have gone home, they would have got the money and paid the landlord. Roe, the officer of the Court, remarked that these serious frauds on publicans were daily increasing. The metropolis abounded with such offenders as the prisoners, and the licensed victuallers were sad sufferers by their visitation , . Mr. Alderman litrxmat. regretted the law did not afford him au apportunity of punishing such characters as the prisoners in the way they so richly me: iced. There could be no doubt that such frauds going un punished was a great hardship on licensed victuallers ; such, however, was the inefficiency of the law, and he lamented it. Jones by his threat, however, had placed himself in his power, and he should call upon him to find two sureties of 20/. tacit, to keep the peace for the next twele months. Moore was discharged. BOIV-STREET. INSANITY.-Mr. James R. Smit k, a surgeon, of 43, Sackville street, was charged with wandering in the neighbourhood of Charing cross in a state of insanity, and annoying several persons. Mr. JAItDINE said a general order had been issued to the effect, that persons found wandering in the public thoroughfares in a state of insanity, should be in the first instance conveyed to the workhouse, in order that the case might be submitted to the medical attendant. Inspector Stevens said that the order would have been complied with had not the prisoner been annoying per sons passing, which constituted a distinct charge. Constable A 83, proved that he saw the prisoner about half-past one in Cockspur-street, Whitehall, &c., annoying ladies and gentlemen by laying hold of thorn. He also paid a visitito the Home office, where he applied to be appointed to a recordership, in consequence of which the doorkeeper received orders to refuse him ad mission in future. Witness followed him for some time, during which he entered numerous shops without any apparent object. He had behaved in the same extraor dinary manner on former days, on one occasion seizing the finger of a child and twisting it nearly out of jcint. The prisoner, in his defence, observed in a quiet and calm manner, that he had not annoyed any one inten tionally, and when he was alleged to have twisted the child's finger, he was merely inquiring as to its health. As to the Home-office, he admitted having been there for redress, as a lady of title at the West-end had bribed all the cab arid omnibus drivers to hoot him and call after him as lie walked, and their persecutions had caused him to lose almost all his practice. The annoyance from omnibus men had nearly ceased, but still two of the Marylebone police were constantly using offensive epi thets to him, and saying "Fie, fie !" Inspector Stevens informed the magistrate that the defendant had been fined 5/. at Marlborough-street for annoying a lady. In answer to the Court, the prisoner said he had given his right name and address; but he was now only consulted" by the faculty, his regular patients having left him, in consequence of the persecutions to which he was exposed. Mr. JARDINE ordered him to be taken care of, and desired the police-constable to confer with the parish authorities as to the best course to he pursued with him, LAMBETH. • On Saturday, two notorious smashers and utterers of gilt counterfeit half-sovereigns, were brought up for final examinatim, and though the witnesses had been in attendance for some hours, and that one of the pri soners had been remanded at the express desire of Mr. Powell, the assistant-solicitor to the Mint, in order that he might establish other charges against him, neither Mr. Powell, nor any person from him, had thought in g ro th s e n c e district c o e f a this p e r o o u p r e t r to a complainattend. . b i T t t it e e r tradesmen a c d tr esm tl e te n apathy on the part of the Mint solicitor and his assistants to this part of their duty. It would appear that Mr. Powell is the only individual to attend to this class of cases throughout the whole • country, as his principal, Mr. Blunt (solicitor to the Mint) has never thought proper to appear at any of the metropolitan police -courts, Mr. Norton has very fre quently complained of the present system of Mint pro secutions, ana the laxity on the part of the Mint soli citors, and it is much to be hoped that Mr. Sheil, the newly-appointed Master of the Mint, will turn his at tention to the matter. SOUTHWARK. Thomas Washington, police•constable of the M divi sion, was charged by Emery and Russell, two men, with a violent assault. The case was investigated by order- of the Police Commissioners. Russell w.,s shooting birds on the grounds of a mar ket gardener, whom the policeman informed of the fact. The former, hearing of the circumstance, felt aggrieved, and uttered invectives against the policeman, who again made his appearance in the room of a tavern in the evening, where Russell and Emery passed their time. Russell said he would match the policeman before night. On leaving the tavern, the parties again met, some angry words ensued, and IVashington, although not upon duty, drew his staff, and struck Emery to the ground by a blow inflicted with it on his head. Russell also was beaten by the prisoner until other officers arrived. The defendant said the complainants were the aggres sors ; he used his staff in self• protection. The illigistrate said his exercise of violence could not be justified ; but for the irritating language of the complainants, he should have dealt differently with the case. He should fine the defendant 10s. for each of the assaults, which rendered him incapable of future service in the police force. We noticed last week a strange report current in po litical circles, to the effect that Lord Arthur Lennox had felt 'MID elfcompelled to leave abruptly a recent protection ist dinner party given by Mr. Hudson, in consequence of eerain remarks made by his host. We have since received a letter from a protectionist partisan present at this remark able gathering, which goes far to confirm the truth of that report; for though it states that our version of the affair is incorrect, it admits the main fact, namely, that Lord A. Lennox on hea r i ng th e s p eec h o f Mr. ludson in pro posing Lord G. Bentinck's health, thought it incompatible with his personal or political respect for Sir R. Peel to remain longer in the company. Our gallant correspondent tells us, indeed, that it was not intended that Lord Arthur Lennox should have been one of the party, and that his presence there was owing to the accidental misdirection of an invita tion destined for Lord H. Lennox; but this mistake most assuredly ought not to have disentitled Lord Arthur to that gentlemanlyconsideration which a courteous host ever extends to his guest, even though he be not a welcome one, as in the present instance. In conclusion, we have to make, in all fairness to our correspondent, this proposition—namely, that as he and confident report are at issue as to the language used by Mr. Hudson in eulogising the public virtues, tried consistency, &c., &c , of Lord George Bentinck, he should furnish to us an authentic report of Mr. Hudson's speech, and thus enable the public to form their own conclusions on the subject. They will then be in a condition to decide whether, without the absolute mention of Sir R. Peel's name, he may not have been very offensively assailed.—Observer. FREE TRADE FESTIVAL AT WELLINGTON.—The working men and women of Wellington, who have taken a lively interest in the progress of the Free-Trade Measure, were not inclined to receive it in ungrateful and ungracious silence. They resolved to have a festival to celebrate the triumph ; on Friday evening they did commemorate it, in a burst of joy which was not the less fresh and genuine be • cause it gushed spontaneously from the people's heart —be cause it originated and was arranged by the working classes hemsalves, without the instigation or guidance of those who sually assume to lead the:n.— Menton Courier. SHEPTON MALLET.—The silk trade here is in a very prosperous state; the weaving of satins and other piece silks is just introduced, and 200 new hands are wanted in that dapartment.—Somerset aunty Gazette. INCOME IN BRISTOL.—We understind that the re venue from the Income Tax in Bristol has, by the late returns as compared with former, fallen oil to the amount of 15,000/. in one year, namely, from 40,0001. to 25,0001. This is not a cheering sign for the local trade; but the number of closed shops and warehouses, and the complaints we have heard during the last twelve months, in some measure prepared us for the information.—Bristol HOP INTELLIGENCE. EAST RETFORD, JULY 1.5, 1846..--The period of the year has again arrived when, if we cannot speak with certainty as regards the coming crop, we can assume from the aspect of the respective plantations, what we may reasonably anticipate in the forthcoming autumn. For the purpose of doing our best endeavours t , ) obtain a correct knowledge of the actual state of the gr minds, we have made an extensive tour through the district, and our report thereupon will be found in the subjoined district reports. Before proceeding to give these, we are, however, desirous of making a few general observations upon the district at large, as these were collected stn our recent visit. In the first place it is quite evident to us that the old Kent sets, which are in existence in many of our plantations, are this year proving a greater failure than any other ; but whether this may arise from the nature of this particular species of the plant, or whether from the peculiarity of the season, or from these two causes combined, is a problem beyond our province to decide. In the next place, with one or two trifing ex ceptions, the hops on the lighter and alluvial soils are in a more luxuriant state, and have a much greater abundance of bine than the argillaceous and strung adhesive clays. There is another matter to which we would call the attention of our hop-growing friend-) : it is this—finding the early Wight to be so extensive and severe, and thinking that it would ba useless to supply the usual dressing with manure at the accustomed pe riod, they neglected to perform this absolutely neces sary operation, which has already proved not only de trimental to the growth of the present crop, but will ultimately so weaken the stock as in a great measure to give it a fair chance of failing during the next year. This mode of dealing with a non-productive crop is highly censurable, and certainly ought no longer to be practised. I Our readers will perceive by a careful perusal of the subsequent part of this article that some whole parishes are failures, and that in many of the remainder the crop is partially so ; for whatever may be the nature of the coming weather it is a matter of perfect impossibility for those places where so much shortness of bine exists so to progress as ultimately to 3 ield anything like near a halt crop. After, therefore, carefully weighing over the district, and supposing the best portions to come to full perfection, and the others to progress in proportion, we think that it cannot pay a greater old duty than 21001. Of course, this is putting the best face upon the matter as to present appearances ; but that the crop has many casualties to contend with, this amount may be taken as a full aggregate. Supposing, therefore, that the North Clay district should ultimately pay 2,1001., and that the kingdom should pay in proportion, we cannot think that hops will be uncommonly cheap, because the old duty of the whole would not exceed 195.0001. Let us then see what stock there is likely to remain on hand in October, when the new crop shall be brought into the market. According to the most careful calculations made by persons well qualified to judge in the matter, it was found at the close of the year 1844 that not more than half a year's consumption, of all growths and of all ages, still remained in the country. The old duty of last year amounted to 158,0001., about 26,000/. more than the an nual consumption, which will give a surplus of hops in the old duty of 63,4361. at the close of the hop year in 1846. So that assuming the duty for 1846 to be 195,000/., it will have an aggregate of nearly two years stock on hand. But this is presuming upon the amount of the growing crop. If the duty should not prove to be greater than it is at present calculated upon, viz., 135,0001., it will at once reduco the amount of stock to about seven teen month's consumption, with the risk remaining of another year's probable crop. The estimated duty which Gve or six weeks ago was under 90.000/., has now advanced to 140,000/. ; still the accounts from the heavy districts in the south are so conflicting that we cannot at present, with any degree of confidence, look forward to a large crop. No doubt, in many of the best managed grounds in Kent and Sussex, the bine is promising and healthy; but in the aggregate, and judging frcAn the accounts which continue to reach us of the paucity of bine and the indifferent condition of many of the remainder, the planters and factors will be pleased to see 150,0004 realised upon hops of good quality. The absence of speculation during the last year, in this fluctuating article, has presented a re markable feature—but it is principally to be accounted for by the railway market having absorbed the attention of capitalists—and the present position of the market prestnts an anomaly scarcely to be accounted for on reasonable grounds, that with the doubt that must still exist as to the results of tile present year's growth, coupled with the fact that the stock, even of hops of a middling quality, is lighter than for many years past, that prices should even be full 20s. per cwt. lower than at the commencement of the season last October.—Don caster Gazette. STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, .JULY 1 7.—The demand for wool is still confined to the immediate re quirements of the manufacturers. In prices we do not quote any alteration of moment this week, although the tendency is downward. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, JULY 17.—A full average business has been done in foreign wools this week, and recent rates are very firmly maintained. YORK WOOL MARKET, JULY 16.—This market con- tinues to be well supplied with wool, and a steady busi ness doing, at prices nominally the same as last re ported. _ _ - BRADFORD MARKET, THIIRSDAY.—WooL.--The busi ness doing is still limited, and as the prices in the coun try have not been such us will meet the rates current here, it is more than probable the supply in the market will not be so ample as at present. YARNS.—There is an average business doing in general numbers of weft yarns, hut we do not learn of any improvement in prices. PIECES.—The buyers, both for home trade and export, are extending their purchases, and a fair business has been done. TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.— We are, if anything, progressing , though slowly, in the right direction in o ur cloth mar ket. Confidence is daily on the increase, seeing tiere is now all but a certainty that the harvest will be both early and abundant. Our home merchants are quite sanguine that flourishing times are at hand. The market closes to day very firm, and even buoyantly. Spinners of low numbers find a brisk sale at rather higher rates, and all numbers are firm and in fair request. THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL M'CASKILL, K.C.B. (From the Perthshire Courier.) The late Major-General Sir John M'Caskill, K C. 8., who died gloriously in the bloody engagement at Moodkee, on the 18th of December last, was a native of the Isle of Syke, the birth-place of many gallant heroes. Sir John M'Caskill was the last of four excellent brothers, three of whom died in the military service of their Sovereign and country. By his death his father's family became extinct, except two sisters, who still reside in their native island. These amiable ladies, whose moral worth render them worthy of being sisters of their gallant deceased brother, were libe rally supported by a h an d some annuity which he duti fully allowed to each. Their prospects at his death were, indeed, gloomy in the extreme, as they had no friend s cf whom to claim support, and no resources whatever to depend upon for their maintenance. They had no legal claim on Government, as their gallant brother left a widow and family to be supported by the public funds. Their case was alike distressing and hopeless; and although it was early represented at bead-quarters, there were no ta vourabre replie4, on account o i the stringent regulations o the War-office. The Rev. Alexander Macgregor, of Kilmuir, deeply sympathising with their afflicted condition, took the liberty of representing it by letter to Sir R. Peel, on the 18th of June. The appeal was not made in vain, and the result affords an illustrious display of the worthy Baronet's humane and generous heart. The following communications, iu the hand-writing of Sir R. Peel, are full of interest : " Whitehall, June 29, 1846. ' " Sir Robert Peel presents his compliments to the Rev, Alexander Al‘Gregor, and begs leave to inform him, that Sir Robert Peel has had great satisfaction in recommending to the Queen that pensions to the amount of 501. each shall be granted to the Miss M‘Caskills, in consideration of the gallant service of their brother, the late Sir John M'Caskill, and of his death on the field of battle." " Whitehall, June 29, 1846. "Sir Robert Peel presents his compliments to the Miss M•Caskills, and has great satisfaction in informing them that the Queen has been graciously pleased, on the recommenda tion of Sir Robert Peel, to grant to the Miss M'Caskills pen sions of 50/. each, on the civil list, for their lives." THE POTATO DISEASE. We understand a disease has, these few days, ea made its appearanceamongst seh a s tho early potatoes in t h e is formidablethan laston the This is the case, more particularly . neighbourhood of Aberdeen, much more last year. rti t ch is not more or less affected. The disease appears h side of the city, where scarcely a field . is to be seen to w fix on the stem about half way up, and in the course of a few hours the whole plant becomes blackened and decomposed in the same way as if it had been in a fermented state for days. On lifting the plant, the potatoes all present a yellowish mattery appearance at the end farthest from the stem ; and on cutting them through, the lairs are seen in circles outwards from a dull, blackish star in the centre. On cutting through the potatoe there is a toughness presented, as if it were clay. A friend with whom we conversed on the subject stated that he had just left a gardener in a field with all hands busy in pulling up the diseased stems, and gather ing them in heaps and covering them over with earth, in the endeavour to arrest the infection, as he conceived diseased plants were injuring the adjoining healthy ones. —!North of Scotland Gazelle. LISKE.I.ItO.—The prospects of the potato growers in the neighourhood of .Liskeard are gloomy in the ex treme. The disease is making fearful progress, and there is every reason to expect that the calamity will be equal to, or worse, than that of last year, for most of the seed of the present crop was corrupt. All the early sorts are affected, and we cannot flatter ourselves that the winter potatoes will be in a better condition when they arrive at the blossoming period of their existence. Some people have had recourse to the experiment of cutting off the tops; but decapitation seems a strange mode of preserving life. Although the disease is at first indicated by a decomposition of the leaves, it is quite evident that the malady originates at the:root ; for a more propitious season, as regards the influence of the atmosphere on vegetation, it is thought, has been seldom experienced: the luxuriant appearance of all other foliage, and the flourishing condition of the vegetable kingdom in general afford ample proof of it.—Plymouth Journal. We are sorry t o b e i n f orme d that in portions of the K King's C oun ty t h e new p o t a toes are infected with the disease which proved so destructive to the last year's crop. --Dublin Pilot. THE HAnvExi.—The wheat harvest has gene ra ll y begun in this neighbourhood, but i n some instances it has been suspended, the straw, which has dyed of a most healthy colour, being much forwarder than the- grain. So sapid has been the ripening of the spring corn, that it also will be ready next week should the rain continue to hold off. We have not heard any deficiency of labourers.—Chelmsford Chronicle. ROSSINI'S NEW OPERA . 0 For a long lapse of yea rs th e great R os sini, in O re l of every entreaty, and of every tempting - offer, has x , mained silent ; M.eyerbeer ultimately followed his? o, ample ; Dunizetti, seizA by sudden -moral effli ct : to retired from the field, and sev e r e ill ness appeareu xt , condemn the youn g 'Verdi to the same melanchnii, to ternative. When lyric a l com p os i t i on was r educe(' for this hopeless state, sudd en ly R oss i n i , a f ter res isting l b! years every advance, appears to have been excited o i the wish, with hi s s i ng l e mag i c power, to raise tbs great establishment, th e A ca de m i e d e Musique, from utter degradation i n t o w hi c h i t L as fallen since I ng days when, inste a d o f art ifi c i a ll y support i ng t h e fal courage of its artists, by the hint d applause of the c c valiers du lustre, Comte Cry and Guillaume Tell etcly 'd mended loud and spont aneous app l ause. I t was earn e ,'; g • urged uron Rossi n i by great personages that n"t'):0 but his interposition could save this national to of France from ut t er d es t ruct i on ; an d he gene° te, cons= to forego hi s c h er i s h e d h a bi ts o f r etireel l ' o o and extend an aid so v i ta ll y i mportant. M . Pellet not a moment in availing himself of Ro.sini's unexP e A c t W and unhoped-f er kindness, and he at once repair e "„ c e, Bologna. Scrib e , th e unr i va ll e d lib rett i st of Fril'"ith soon followed to h armon i se hi s i nspirat i on vino oin Rossini ; but he was taken so ill (11° 0 the journ e y, t h at hi s physicians intimated that if he contin ue d to exert hi mself he would be redti;te to the same st a t e o f menta l lethargy as the unfort,",o Donizati. Upon thi s , G ustave V at z was d i spatc h e d Paris to replace Scribe and fortunately Rossini s y highly pleased with the libretto he brought with hirl i n ft 4, specimen of his a bili t i es. R ess i n i i mmediately set and, at the outset, di spatc h e d to E ngland a person ''nre in his name, offered the ex c l usive en j oyment o f thetsc' to r on this side of the Channel to his friend the Pr° l/i • e ta te of her Majesty's Th ea ! re , w h o did not besld to secure this valuabl e p r i v il ege f or a i Oh sum. We mention this, not only because the :of public will. be gratified next season by this eP e nr e performed by the greatest lyrical artists, but still t 'd because the deed of purch ase , now d u l y . s i g ned or sealed, is an irrefragable proof how well founded to the rumours which have for the last three 101) . excited so many hopes and fears among the a dmire r : Rossini's geni us . I n d ee d , t h e news wh i ch we urciii fortunate enough to b e t h e fi rs t to authenticate v';' t he considered everywhere as a great event, and exelt e be e eager attenti on o f t h e whole civilised world with ' l 'd operatic perform ances h ave b ecome the most peral o " of all the intellectual resources of recreation. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS' MAN, JULY 18. STOCZ EXCHANGE.—The CHESTER sales are—Ambergate, NotiWg;., ` and Eastern Junction, 1% di s .—D er b y and Crewe, . 4% , e , Eastern Counties, York Ext e nsi on , 1 9-16 p.—East Laticas lll p.—Fleetwood, Preston, &a., 13-16 dl s. — G rand Union, 15,', ,',J, :pr y ; —Huddereileld, Halifax, and Bradfo r d, 2 p.—Lancashire 1113,“01.0" Yorkshire, 1% dis.— Leicest e r an d Bi rm i ng h am, 18s. dis. Ormskirk, and Preston, iii p.—London and York, 1% dis• 45 1 chaster, Baxton, Matlock, and Midland, 7.16 p.—Mancliat.,tell: Birmingham, Quarters (C), 9% p.—Manchester and Leed s r:;,;0 1 sion, 21s. dis.—North Briti s h, C ar li s l e B ranch, 1% p.-1` ort vi rtv , fordshire, 3 1 ,fi p.—Nortlt Wales, Mineral, New, 7s.—Oldhan u „. enhead, &c., 14s. 6d. dls.—Oxford and Birmin g h am June l ßpti' p.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 314 4 p.—Ditto, ditto ( 13) ' )50 Preston and Wyre Extension. 1 ,6 dis.—Sheffield an d Linea 3 ! Junction, 10s., dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated, 100 5 p.— Ditto, Halv es , N o . 4, % p.—South Midland, Par-- Riding Union, 2% p. S, JVLY 18. . 3 STOCK Excluxex.—lt is LEE n D ow apparent that money .. t s into the Share Market for investment, as a steady demand en,ld all good old St oc k s, and prices are in most Instances improveoe Scrip there is not much to note, save that in nearly all case' d Nr the success of Parliamentary efforts leads to the expectation 00 ther calls being m a d e on the shares, prices recede. There , an average demand In lines agreed to be abandoned, but of o " m :de li ' a rate .of discount greater than the am oun t supposed to be esP,:sio, i In general, where it i s lik e ly that a windup will take Pl a 'llite, money will eventually be realised by h o ldi ng on than by se present, but the delay will be considerable before all dispute u are adjusted and the final return of deposits made. There has,o a good deal of inquiry for time bargains in registered Ste c oloo very little encouragement has yet been given to such speeL D , t icir , ; The desire for prospective purchases shows, however, that 0",0 tions arc favourable to the probability of advancing prices li l tjr . than otherwise. The declarations of the July dividends w ill P t ; place shortly, and are looked forward to with anxiety- pei 9 6 j well if expectations on this head do not meet with some dis l)s. ment. The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Extension , 1, 4 p. —East Lancashire, 5% p.—Huddersfield and Manchester —Huddersfield and Shrtfield, 7 p.—Leeds and Bradford, , 3 ',71 , 7 0 Leeds and Dewsbury, 2% p.—Ditto, Branches, 7s. 6d. p.- - er s .csi'„ Thirsk, 6 dis. —Manchester and Leads Extenions, p. --- '`" e ot e 'i and Berwick, I p.—Newcastle and Darlington Junction jorj sions, 10% p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 20s. Gct• , and North Midland. Scarborough Branch, 5034—Ditto, '',Al) , '" . West Riding, 12% p.—Clitheroe Junction, 17s. dis.—Directi : ;: 1% dis.—Grand ULion, 17s. dis.— 6 lasgo w and Dumfries, 2 , Great Eastern and Western, 31s. dis. — Lancashire, Yorkst . North-Eastern, 445. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, l'',ols Leicester and Bedford, Bs. Gd. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, and Midland, 12s. p.—Midland and Thirsk Junction, 2 " s tallo e i W . Northumberland and Lancashire Junction 15s. dis.—North o d 0 4 , shire, . 4s. I , .—North Western, Gs . dis.—Oxford, 8 40 0. tenharn, 17s. dis.—South Midland, Is. p.—West Riding u l ' a dl4. —York and Carlisle, 2 dis.— Yorkshire and Glasgow union, HULL, JULY 18. 4 . 10' S" E71 1,1 N0 _ car% d srocK _;XCHANGE.—The sales are—North British, —Ditto, Dalkeith, 32—York and North Mllland, East :1 31 .',00 3,1, 14.-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, % 30. Wakefield, and Midland, 34s.—Hu1l and Barnsley Junetion , lia to , , , •-Leicester and Bedford, 9s. 6d.— Manchester„ Buxton, an d 410 Not tingham and Mansfield, V. 17x .—North :1 0 425. 6d.—Shettleld, shire, 5/. 6s .—Southli Crewe, 15s. 9d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 234 --York a lisle, 434. Paten; cf It" SHEFFIELD, JULY 18. mold "0 1 STOCK Exclunt.—The sales are—Grimsby and She t ool if sion, 275. dis . — Htaidersfield and Manchester, 11. dis. —L°- poic i ji, York, IN dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 19 9 - 'T . ter, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 21s. dis.—Sheffield, Euston, Potteries, and Crewe, 12s. dis.—West Riding Union 21. 6s. P• 01 NEWCAST LE - UPON-TYNE, JULY 'lB ' I is. STOCK EXCIUNGE.—The sales are—Euckingliamshirekx,ensi.fp Caledonian Extension, 11 s. Gd. dia.— t. dis.—Lance and North Yorkshire, 27, dis.- -Pswich and Mid ._ s ,,,ii , 401. Shares, lqi p.—North British , naives, carlisle, , 1 ,%, Eastern and Dover, 16s. 6d. p.—York and Carlisle, 335. uu• "" ..$. , P„ YORK, JULY 18. ,f0r , ...a... S' F ---- nary . lard, 3.,„..., - - - - STOCK , XCHANGE.-The sales are.-Eastern Counties, _Y..°L , ; 0 ;. t tension, 2/. Is.-Leicester and Bedford, 13s. 6d.-London „, 1 -Maßon and Mitfield Junction, 21. 75.--Manchester, lock, and Midland, 21. 145.--Newcastle and Berwick, 26% , vit", tie and Darlington, New. 111. 6 s . 3d . -N orth Br i tish, Carlisle 11:!4 sion, 2/. 65.-North Staffordshire, 5/. 65.-North West Riding Union, 4%-Y or k an d N ort h M i dland Bravo ,- -Ditto, East and West Riding Extension, 133 i, 11, EDINBURGH JULY 17. A be i,rOS ti i STOCK. EXCHANGE.-The sales are - Aberdeen, 81. to . Banff, and Elgin, U.N.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 31.88. ‘ , 4 4 and Forfar, 271. 108.-Ditto, Halt* Shares, 151. 105. - A,'lria"64, Portrush, 145.-Ayr and Galloway, it. Bs.-Ayrshire and .6 e db6 lf .d as t_r. ‘Veir, 21. 8 , ins, 2s.- Irish -Caledonian tffaeusiilhidnsi 00eNni,111(2i No l. rthern )3 ;Caledonian, 141.-Drtt°bJt°,J - 1 1 1 / t . a l_s l e l l e d a a o i ect 11. 18s.-Chelffisfor ~°o Bury, Centrall2s. 6d. Cl ydesdale Junction, 171. ss.- Cornwall so',/. , I/. 10s.-Deeside Railway, 31.-Dir ec t N or thern. ' Dublin and Enni s kill en, 21, 10s.-Dundee and Arbroath; 17,StPc Ditto, New, 211. U.-Dundee and P er th , 221.-Ditto, 1,11nr0%9 ~.i Mon, 21. 65.-E astern Counties Extension, 21.-East way, 9s. 9d. -E ast of Fife, 11. U.-Edinburgh and B a n.l/. ' 155.- Edinburgh and Glasgow, 741.-Ditto, Half Shares, , - Ditto, Quarters, 181.- Ditto, ditto, New, 18L-Edinbolsl. 0 1 Leith Atmospheric, IN.-Edinbugh, Leith, and Granton , -Ditto, Prefere nce , 191.-Edinburgh and Northern,7/ 155 ' • ba rg • Newport, 4s. 9d.- Edinburgh and Peebles, 11. 14s. 9d• - ' and Perth, H. 15s.- Edi n b urg h , Portobello, and Musselbuflli; N.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 1/. 195 .-Glasgow and A Q I . OS' 751.-Ditto, New Stock, 321. 105.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, l L e s, Glasgow and Belfast Union, 21. 6s. &I-Glasgow, Dun 6aw, Carlisle, 11. 13e. 6 d.-tliasgow and Dundee Junction, 11 . 1 7,t1f , Glasgow and Garnkirk, 40/. 10 s.-Glasgow General Terlti 15 0 ;, 12s. 6d..-Glasgow and Greenock, 161. 10s.-Ditto, New, 'l b l l ' Ditto, Preference, 1/, 155.-Glasgow Harbour Grand 7anctio $Ol, Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 1/. 7s. 6c1.-Glasgow, Killllo,n,°e„cos_.'f' Ardrossan, U. 15s. 6d.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesma'4. 168.-Granton Junction, 103.--Great County Down, IL, 1 6,,, UP„'s, Great North of Scotland, 10s.-Inverness and Elgin, 11 ..,,j;ine . ,,'4 Lanark and Lothians, 21. 4s. 6d.-Larne, Belfast, and n7,doil ss. 9d.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, 1/. 3s. Gd. -14)- 1,ol, Hounslow, 155.-London and Manchester ( Bast .), 3/. 14 15 . It. I, and Manchester (Remington's), 158.-London and York, Ditto. Half Shares, 155.-Midland and Eastern Counticsy Morayshire, 11.-Newcastle and B erw i c k, 261. 55.-Ne°l.t. Londonderry, 14s. 6d.-North British, 301. 158.-Ditto, 1 " 4,,. l.es,;to ,1). ss.- Ditto, Extension to C ar li s l e , 2/ . 6s. 6d.-Ditto, Extensi o t: i iiier7 r keith, 61. 10s. -North Staffordshire, 51. 65.-North Wales . 7 141. 10s.-Ditto, New, 8/. 5 5 .-P er th an d Invernes s. Scottish Central, 191. 10s.-Ditto, New, 71. 17s. 6d.-Scott"lu tral and Caledonian Junction, it. IN.-Scottish Grand _g i geo, 12s.- Scottish Midland, 71.-Scottish Southern, 1/. 17s• r „ bury and Hereford, 7s.- Shre ws b ury , O swes t ry, and chestcl:_sti; f South Midland, 1/.lBs.- Sti r li ng an d D un f erml i ne, 1/. 1 2 5 . 6 opio ling and Atidland, 2/. Bs. 63.- Strathearn Junction, 11, 10s. and Coltness. 471. 10s. 9 1, GLASGOW, JULY 17. slg o Broca EXCHANGE.—Th e sales are — Aberdeen , Banff, and osi'' 225. 6d.--Caledoni a n, New, 20s.—C aledonian and Dumbartoopc, Extension, 21 5.—Caledonian Direct Northern, 40s.—Clydesda le JOS; tion, 22% — Direct Northam, 205 . —Dundee and Perth, 2 2,, 1* - - -ibl l . i i Diane, Dounc, and Callalider, 20s.—East of Fife, 205. — r-" l t l e oer', and Northern, 5% Edinburgh and Peebles, 34s.—Glasgow 1011 0 ,, Terminus, 7% — Glasgow and Belfast Union, 458. Glasg ow * G loo o.4 . • nock, and .Ayr, Quarter Shares (5 per cent. guar.), HU — , Ard r o ci Dumfries, and Carlisle, 335. 9d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and es s 'yr, tarn, 35 s.—Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 325. 6d.—lnveroc,,,go, Elgin, 21s. 6 d.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 335. 6d.—Le , s ll _ l 4 3 j, itt" 555. 64 — Manchester and Southampton, 31s.—Scottish Cern 14 5.--Ditto, New, 7%—South Midland, 395. Tue s DANGEROUS TRICKS ON A RAILWAY.— On c to 0 last, six boys, of the respective ages of from twe a l t V wati l: teen years, were had before Wm. Delmar, Easc.narge of rtreet County Police-office, Canterbury, °a and Wh itstllu be ing placed obstructions on the Canterbury o ff t jj namesnßa a v n ay od • f , t ‘ t v i t : :: s c h eane l d v fea e nn re dgae ci t l ts c h u e l , a r t le e irv d r t o Tt t fo h m r t o ah w se traint ep h oa e nmsetnate:s.6 eo T arogs e Gower, Edward Cansdel', Felix Fiun, Robert Carey , o to Thomas Huret. It appeared that the youths had b e : p ing Whitstable on Sunday, a n d on t h e i r return in the ev` bY must needs gratify their mischievous propensitic s 9 , 14 placing on the li ne a p i ece of iron called a " shalt' which the rail s are f astened to the "sleepers i" cli ; pieces of wood ca ll e d " keys, " e " which are four tir long and an i nc h- and-a-half in thickness • about and stic ka 1 . 116 a crow bar in the middle of the rail. Edward PerTr o od , engine driver, on seeing the obstructions at Clowes' a c reversed the engine, and jumped to the ground for 01. a to pose of removing them, when he found them exteeuola the the distance of a mile and a half on the line. But he a n t.,° fireman considered the obstructions were such as go d bee'j endanger the lives of the passengers. The boys I l e ntif ie t cautioned against walking on the line, and were 1 _ oo oe,c ., by William Gibbens. Other matters transpired to to' them with the offence, and the six were committed w at the Kent Assizes. Kentish Observer. BIRTHS. I tont °t inst., at Malmsburv, Mrs. A. F. W. des On the daughter. on' , On the 15th inst., at Walmer, Mrs. J. B r id ges , o f s 5 GitA 4 On the 16th inst., at Camberwell, the wife of V" E q., sof a daughter. On the 16th inst., in Tilney-street, Lady Caroline TO ° e lcf of a daughter. On the 16th just., in the Strand, Mrs. R. Ody, of a s° , ll l;tet,' On the 16th inst., at Cl a pt on, M rs. F . Barry, of a da ti b Sof On the 17th inst., at L ans d owne Cottages, Lo we r- Islington, Islington, the lady of F. Vink, Esq., of a daughter. 10th MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at Bath, Lieutenant Lipscoti l no se, Navy, to limy, eldest daughter of the late D.anseY Esq., of Brincep-court, Herefordshire. (1 26. On the 4th i nst., at Holloway, Thomas Mounsevj.avj e el'' ll On the 16th i nst., i n C ar di gan-place, Hoxton; 1111% eilt , Harris, ag e d 91 . On the 16th i ns t ., Ed war d Smith, Esq., of Pelham-cress i's Brompton. p rfee t On the 14th i ns t., Ell en, infant daughter of Alfred - 8 Esq., of B roo k- s t reet, G rosvenor-square. GO rg e Oa the 14th inst., at lifanor-place, Edinburgh' a ds. Paterson, Esq, l a t e Lieutenant-Colonel liktiliite,.ilit, u b - ft, ' 2/ On the 16th inst., H anna h, th e w if e o f !fr. Nr: "'in-° Aldersgate-street, aged 81. oil Is On the 16th inst.. at Taymouth-terrace, Mile-en d ' widow of the llte Mr. Royce, aged 82. v.a On the 17th inst., , it Islington, R o b er t St ar ling. -'"' oft 0. of - 1 "' ; London: Printed and Publish e d b y hiIIIIDO YOUN‘,, rs ~,, lite ra l/ Strand, Printer, at The Su n Offi ce , N 0 .1 12, St ran d, in or the Savoy, In the C oun t y of Mickllesei, itiond9" 20, 1846. I 1 Rre ke tlir 1