The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday, after the swearing-in of Alderman Challis and Mr. Kennard as Sheriff of London and Sheriff of Middlesex, a special Court of Aldermen was held, upon the application of Alderman Thomas Wood, for the pur pose of receiving certain papers and resolutions relative to the Talacre Coal Mine. As it was well-known that the production of these papers was intended to remove the injurious impressions against Alderman Wood, in consequence of his connexion with the speculation of the Talacre Mine, nineteen Alder men assembled immediately after the ceremonial above alluded to took place. A great number of persons occu pied the space below the bar, and the most lively interest was manifested. PAUPER LUNATICS. Sir P. LAURIE gave notice of a motion to take into consideration the expediency of erecting an asylum for the reception and treatment of pauper lunatics charge. able to the several parishes, or to the funds of the city of London. _ Mr. (late Sheriff) CHAPLIN returned thanks to the members of the Court of Aldermen for the very kind and courteous treatment he had experienced at the hands of every individual of the body. NEW CITY PRISON. In answer to a question from Alderman SIDNEY, The Loin MAYOR stated, that he should appoint an early day for the consideration of the subject of erect ing a new gaol.—(Hear, hear.) _ THE NEW MAYORALTY. By desire of the LORD MAYOK, who stated that he had received certain papers on the subject of the Talacre mine from Alderman Wood, The TOWN•CLERK read the papers, which were as follows: " Committee-room, Bow-lane, Sept. 25. " Sir,—l have the honour to transmit the copy of resolutions passed at a public meeting of the inhabitants of the ward of Cordwainers, and other friends of Mr. Alderman Wood. held this day, for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to secure his election fur Lord Mayor for the ensuing year.—l am, Sir, Your obedient servant, " WILLIAM MUDDELL, Chairman." "At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the ward of Cordwainer, and other friends of Mr. Alderman Wood, convened by public advertisement, held on Friday, the 25th of September instant, at the Crown Tavern Bow-lane—Mr. Deputy Muddell in the chair, "It was moved by Mr. Deputy Lake, and seconded by Mr. Wilson—' That the unabated confidence of this meeting in Mr. Alderman Wood cannot be more forcibly expressed than by an earliest assurance that each and every individual composing it will use his utmost en deavours to secure the election of the worthy alderman to the civic chair.' •' It was moved by Mr. T. Joyce, and seconded by Mr. C. Bleaden--' That a copy of the foregoing resolution be forwarded to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and to •ach member of the Court of Aldermen.'" The LORD MAYOa said he had also received a volu minous report of the judgment of the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, purporting to be the judgment upon the reversal of verdicts against Alder man Wood. He had, he said, been supplied with the copy by the Alderman, who, it appeared, had sent to each of the members of the Court a copy of extracts, which was enclosed in the following letter:— " TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COURT OF ALDERMEN. " Dear Sirs,—ln consequence of the statement made in the Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday last, relative to the late trials in Ireland respecting the Talacre Mining Company, in the cause of Howard v. Shaw,' being an action tried by direction of Lord Chancellor Sugden, at the request of the defendant, in order to test the validity of the plaintiff's claims against the defendant in respect of two uomissory notes, amounting to 7,0001., sought to be re‘Tvered from the defendant as a shareholder and director of that company, the defendant having disputed the same on the ground of the general fraud alleged to have been practised against him in inducing him to sign the notes. " The proceedings originally commenced in the Court of Bankruptcy there; and in order to try the point the Court considered only on condition of the defendant paying the amount claimed; viz., 7,0001. into Court to await the result. " Upen this condition the action was commenced, and ultimately tried, when, upon the gross misrepresentations of counsel, unsupported by evidence, as borne out by the Chief Justice, and, contrary to law, the jury found a verdict for the defendant. " The plaintiff thereupon filed a bill of exceptions to the evidence tendered, and upon a most important argument, and a full and searching investigation of voluminous documentary evidence, the Court came to the unanimous decision, that there was no fraud or imposition practised upon the defendant in this trans action, or upon any one else connected with it. " I did not conceive that this could have made any im pression until I heard that the newspapers reporting the trial had been received, while those reporting the judg ment reversing the verdict had not been heard of. " Under these circumstances I immediately obtained a eopy of the shorthand-writer's notes of the judgment, and sent a copy to the gentleman, who expressed his surprise that the verdicts were reversed, and being very voluminous, I have made extracts of the conclusions which form the judgment, a copy of which I now send you, an entire copy having been left in the hands of the Lord Mayor, which is accessible to any member of the Court of Aldermen. " This judgment not only goes into the general question of fraud, but takes up and exonerates me from the only censure of the Court of Queen's Bench in England, namely, as to Levason's Bills, which, with all becoming respect to that Court, appears to have been im properly considered, and leaves me now in a position to say, that after the fullest investigation, I have ju dicially demonstrated that there was not, and could not be, the slightest ground for the alleged fraud in these transactions, so far as I was concerned, or indeed, any one else. • "I might have given this information a little earlier, but until the last meeting of the Court of Aldermen, I was not aware that the papers which contained the in telligence of the verdict, in the first instance, would not also have contained the information of its reversal. " I am, dear Sirs, yours respectfully, " THOMAS WOOD. " 2, Corbet-court, Gracechurch-street, Sept. 23, 1846." " TALACRE MINING COMPANY. "Reseisal of Verdicti against Alderman Wood. 'lreland. " Court of Queen's Bench, Easter Term, 1846. 66 HOWARD V. SHAW. " Tuesday, April 23, 1846. " Extract from Judgment. " The Lord Chief Justice, in a voluminous judgment given in this action upon a Bill of Exceptions tendered against the evidence admitted on the two previous trials, upon which the defendant, who had obtained verdicts, was sued to recover the sum of 7,0004 upon two pro missary notes signed by him and other of the directors of the Talacre Company—the defence to the action being want of consideration in the plaintiff ; that they were obtained by fraud ; that the defendant had been imposed upon and defrauded by signing these notes ; that there was proof of a conspiracy between Levason and the other parties ; and that they were all in fur therance of the common object and contrivance to de fraud and cheat the public, and induce the defendant, amongst others, to take shares and become partners . in that company, and that the evidence given by them on the trials fully proved the same. " The Chief Justice, after recapitulating the evidence given, said—' When it was given and read, it was under the condition and on the assumption that proofs would be afterwards made to justify its admission and if such proofs were not made, the exceptions should have been and must now beallowed.' " His Lordship, after proceeding to show the de fendant's liability, says—' We have next to see did the defendant voluntarily, and with all due means of in formation, engage to secure Levason in the amount of these notes ; and to judge accurately on this subject, we must come to the transactions of the 17th, 19th, and the 20th Vibruary, 1841, which ere dates of the utmost im portance in this case. It is said that these transactions exhibit proofs,of imposition on the defendant, and igno rance on his part of his exact position on that day. That he believed himself liable to pay Levason, and was de ceived into this belief. Now I have sought in vain for any evidence of any such imposition—there is no evi deuce that &beds, books, or documents, or information, were withheld from him ; the contrary is fairly pre sumable, it not actually proved. There is no reality, no substantial difference, between the direct liability of the company to pay Levason, and its liability to pay those who owed it to him. The fact indisputably was that the company had Levason's property—were bound to pay for it—and it was immaterial whether they paid it through the medium of the eight directors, or paid it at once to Levason himself. But it is not necessary to con sider this part of the case further ; for it the defendant had, as it is plain he had, all the means of information that were requisite to enable him to discover the actual state in which he and the Company were placed by the deed of partnership, it is impossible for him to allege that he acted in ignorance, or was the victim of any de ceit produced in otaining those securities. " His Lordship, after going into the evidence, showing that the defendant was one of a committee who had in vestigated the whole proceedings of the company from its commencement, and who was a party in the report made by the committee as to the true state of the affairs of the company, says—' I do not see how the defendant can complain that he had not the means of informing himself of the true state of the company's affairs on the day he signed the notes in question. That it is scarcely necessary to again repeat what I have already stated on this point, and it is enough to add that it was utterly immaterial to the company who had not paid for the mines, whether they paid Levason or the eight directors. I must say, that, taking the report into considera tion in all its bearings, I find no evidence whatever of any suppression or imposition, nor is there any such evidence in the case.' " His Lordship then refers to the arrangement made by the eight directors with Levason, and says—' I can see nothing here amounting either to ignorance or im position.' " His Lordship then refers to the charge that Levason has no legal demand, and says,—' It is, therefore, not dealing with facts as they were known to be to argue that Levason had not a legal demand on the company. It may, however, be enough to say that he made the demand, and the company in securing it did not enlarge their preexisting o bligations, or did more t h an agree to pay their debts to the direct ors, b y p a ying it at their in stance to Levason.' " His Lordship, after entering very fully into the ar rangement which led to the signing of these notes, says —' And I must say that in no respect am I able to dis cover the imposition on the defendant, or any one else in the transactions which led to the compromise, and to the execution of the notes.' " His Lordship then, after entering very fully into the authorities in support of his judgment, concludes by Eating that it is the unanimous opinion of the Court THE S [IN, LONDON, TUESDAY"*EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1846. - that the exceptions must be allowed generally, and that a venire de novo do issue." Sir P. LAURIE, asked whether the judgment was final or whether the subject might not be matter for other judgments ? Alderman WOOD replied that the judgment was final, upon the new trial which had taken place, and in which the verdict had been returned for the plaintiff. Ho felt, as well might be imagined, the deepest anxiety on the occasion, for the most desperate prejudices had been raised against him. The full report from which he had made the extracts for the convenience of his brethren would, upon strict examination, show that he was com pletely exonerated from a participation in anything like fraud. The Alderman entered into a long detail of the circumstances attending the difficulty in which he be came involved by his connexion with the Talacre Com pany. The particulars differed in no respect from those which have appeared already before the public; he denied in the most solemn manner the mostremote knowledge of any intention of fraud upon the part of those with whom he was concerned in the transaction ; but he declared that he with others had been the victim of fraud, and upon his head had fallen all the obloquy. Sir P. LAURIE said he was no lawyer, but he should be sorry to take the dictum of a judge as evidence of the incorrectness of the verdict of a jury. He had not seen nor heard of, except from Alderman Wood himself, that the second trial had taken place. Alderman WOOD said the second trial had taken place and been decided by a verdict for the plaintiff. He had not the notes of the trial, but he should be able in a few days to produce them. He had the information upon the most unquestionable authority. Sir P. LAURIE said it was necessary, not only that the Court of Aldermen should be pure, but that, like Cremes wife, they should be free from the imputation of impu rity. He should feel the utmost gratification in taking Alderman Wood by the hand upon the removal of the ground of the imputations against him ; but he could not see that the papers just presented to the Court were calculated to accomplish that object. Alderman WILSON did not consider that the case thus brought before the Court had anything to do with the great questions shown by the Committee to be involved in the charges of corrupt conduct brought four or five years ago against Alderman Wood. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES wished that the findings of the Committee to which Alderman Wilson alluded should be read. Alderman FAREBROTHER said, that he had evinced the greatest and most sincere desire to assist Alderman Wood in getting out of the difficulty in which he had been placed by his connexion with the company. He wished Alderman Wood to go to the Livery and state to them his anxiety to clear up everything—to show that the charges and suspicions which had been accu mulated against him were unfounded, and to assure them that until there was not the slightest apparent founda tion for accusations he would not claim their suffrages.— (Hear, hear.) By such a course the public sympathy would 'be most powerfully engaged, and upon the proof of the groundlessness of the charges, the triumph of the accused would be indisputable. It was not too late to adopt that course at the present moment. The produc tion of the papers which had been laid before the Court was not, in his opinion, an answer to the charge, having been privy to the stratagem of sending to Ireland coals taken from an established pit as coals the produce of the Talacre Mine. He did not say that Alderman Wood was concerned in that project, but upon finding that such a fraud had been perpetrated, he ought to have indig nantly come forward and exposed and denounced it. The Towsr CLERK here, by the desire of the Court, read the findings of the Committee of the Court in the year 1843, upon the examination of the evidence in the Talacre case. The document stated, amongst other things, that it appeared that Alderman Wood had acted in the Talacre Company as vendor, and purchaser, and chairman, and director, and secretary, and solicitor. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES said, he had that mo ment heard for the first time that document read, and he could not help saying that the evidence produced by Alderman Wood did not in the slightest degree affect the serious charges contained in the simple enumeration of the different offices held by him in the company. How could such an imputation be removed by any pro ceedings taken in Alderman Wood's ward ? He would most willingly devote any period of time to an investi gation, with the view of removing from a brother alder man the heavy imputations against him, but it was quite impossible to give a vote in opposition to the re port of the committee without rational grounds. There were other things, too, which: it would be necessary to clear up. It was necessary for a Lord Mayor to have a local habitation. It was necessary, too, to have an explanation as to a certain sum of money which Alder man Wood, in connexion with others, was in honour bound to pay to the present chief magistrate. Alderman WooD.—What money ? Alderman H. HUGHES said, report stated that the present Lord Mayor had been obliged to pay a large sum of money which ought to have been defrayed by several persons, of whom Alderman Wood was one. Alderman WOOD.—It is paid. The LORD MAYOR.—I have not received it. Alderman WOOD said that some delay had taken place in consequence of the want of punctuality in others, but he had certainly paid the amount for which he was pledged, to the last farthing.—(Here some per sons in the Court, as well as below the bar, stated that the money had been paid that day.) Alderman COPELAND expressed deep regret that the question had been thrust upon the Court of Aldermen. He had expressed similar regret three years ago, and since that period there had been brought forward other cases connected with the matter in which the name of Alderman Wood had been treated with as little cere mony as it had been in connexion with that which had first given cause for complaint. He implored Alderman Wood, for the sake of his own character, for the sake of his family, and for the sake of his brother aldermen, to pause before he determined to make another experiment, until ho should have used every effort to wipe away the stain which at present attached to him. Alderman SIDNEY said, he did not consider that any imputation attached to Alderman Wood, except one of a pecuniary nature. He had voted against Alderman Wood upon a previous occasion, because he considered that Alderman Wood's pecuniary circumstances were not such as would justify him in taking the office of chief magistrate at that time. The imputations of another kind against him were such as might be made against others of the Court.—(A laugh.) He (Alder man Sidney) believed that he and other members of the Court might be charged with having been connected with companies, the characters of the concoctors of which they had now reason to suspect. He had been, he was ready to acknowledge, imposed upon, and he did not see why Alderman Wood should not have suffered from the base conduct of others. Alderman WOOD entered at considerable length into a reply to the observations made by the several speakers who wished him to postpone his intention to become a candidate for the mayoralty for another year. He had been, he said, assailed by the most atrocious slander. He had been selected, from the position in which he stood as the head of the company, to be aimed at with all the shafts of malice, although he was as free from evil intention as any man in the Court. He had, single handed, overcome all the charges with which he had been assailed, and that day he produced evidence to show that the only accusation which had not been fully answered upon former occasions was completely removed by the reversal of the judgment, which was considered to reflect upon him. He had done as much as man could do to prove that there was not the slightest foundation for a charge. It had been stated that he filled five or six dif ferent situations in the company. Why there were seve ral members of that Court, whose names had been used without their authority, in connexion in various ways with companies ; and was he, because he had been treated in a similar manner, to be accused of a participation which was T.Ol only absurd but impossible. He denied that such a sale of coals as had been imputed to him had taken place, or that in any trensactions with the company he had derived the slightest pecuniary advantage. He wished that all the members of the Court acted with such candour as Alderman Hughes, who in a manly manner had openly stated what others were whispering about. He had answered one of those charges, and he was able to prove that he was a resident householder in the city of London, and therefore that he had a local habitation.'He had been, as others bad been, most grossly dupe 4, but in no one instance had he done any act which he had cause to regret. Under all the circumstances, he begged to say that, although so stronz,ly solicited not to stand for the mayoralty, he cer tainly should beg leave to be excused from declining to act upon the suggestion, and come forward the next day on the hustings to ascertain whether the public would not sympathise with a man who had been most grossly wronged. (Several parts of the speech of Alderman Wood were applauded by the strangers behind the bar.) No motion being before the Court, Alderman H. HUGHES moved the adjournment of the Court. Alderman COPELAND gave notice of a motion for an application to Christ's Hospital to know whether there was any foundation for an imputation against one of the Court contained in an article in the Morning Herald, attributing to that member the corrupt bartering of a presentation to the hospital. Adjourned. TILE MINER'S SAFETY LAMr.-A committee of colliery owners and brewers in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, at the head of whom are the Mar quis of Londonderry and the High Sheriff of the county of Durham, Ralph Pemberton, Esq., have commenced a subscription for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Dr. Clanny, of Sunderland, as the first inventor of " the Safety Lamp." Dr. Clanny's attention being di rected to the subject of colliery explosion, he first con ceived the expedient of a safety lamp, different indeed from those now in use, its principle being that of an in sulated light being fed by atmospheric air from without. The committee do not assert any peculiar merits as be longing to Dr. Clanny's lamp, they only claim for him originality of conception, and the construction of the first safety lamp. Mr. Gesner, of Prince Edward's Island, has made a discovery of some interest. During a geological exa mination of the colony, he obtained from the Indians two kinds of farinaceous roots " as promising in their appearance as were the indigenous potatoes of Virginia, carried to Ireland by Sir Walter Raleigh, from which the common kind was derived." These roots are called by the Indians respectively " mus-qua-sete," and " san gaa. ban." Mr. Gesner says of the former—" As an ar ticle of food it is excellent, and as such is highly esteemed by the Indians, who generally remove every root as soon as the habitat of the plant is discovered. It contains much nutritive matter, is wholesome, and, I have no doubt, if properly cultivated, it will prove to be prolific." The other root is less liked by the Indians, but Mr. Gesner says, " I have eaten some of the roots, and found them dry, meally, and palatable." Dispatches were sent off last night from the Colon:Al t:6m for the GoTernor of the Gold Coast. THE REGISTRATIONS. WESTMINSTER. Mr. D. C. Moylan resumed the revision of the electoral lists for Westminster on Saturday, at the Vice-Chan cellot's Court, Westminster Hall. Mr. William Cribb. of Covent-garden, who had been objected to by the Liberals, appeared to support his vote, and stated that previous to the making out of the list of scot and lot voters he went to the vestry-clerk and inquired if there were any rates due, at the same time offering to pay them. Mr. Trott observed, that the tender was made, not to tht' collector but to the vestry-clerk. The parish autho rities could not alter an Act of Parliament, and in this case it was clear the rates were unpaid. Mr. MoYLAN—With respect to the first point, the word of the Act, " overseers," would include the vestry clerk ; and with regard to the second observation, it is true that the overseers could not overrule an Act of Parliament, but it would be hard to disfranchise Mr. Cribb for their error. The Learned Gentleman said the vestry-clerk must attend on Monday to prove the tender of the rates spoken of by Mr. Cribb. Mr. W. J. Barry's claim on Friday stood over, 'the Learned Barrister doubting its validity in consequence of the assessed taxes of the house occupied by the claimant not being paid. This omission being upon the part of the landlord, it was urged that it did not vitiate the right of the claimant to be on the register. Mr. D. C. MOYLAN said he had felt a strong adverse opinion upon the point yesterday, and that opinion was now still more hostile to the claim. Upon looking at the Act of Parliament regulating the payment of as sessed taxes, he found that if the landlord was charged, and neglected to pay them, a levy could be made upon the goods of the occupier. Therefore in this case Mr. Barry had become liable for the taxes at the expiration of twenty days after the sth of April, and it was his duty to see they were paid. Mr. Trott said there had been decisions in the City of London by Mr. Milne, and he thought also by Mr. Arnold, in favour of similar claims. The BARRISTER said, as he wished to admit the vote if possible he would not decide until he had consulted those gentlemen. In the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, James CovinsPn's name was objected to by the Liberals. Covington said he was street-keeper to the Grosvenor Trust, and resided in a house built by and belonging to the trustees. Before living in that house he had been allowed 151. a year for rent, but that was discontinued on accepting his present dwelling. Mr. Trott contended that the occupation was merely permissive, as that of a servant for the better gurdian ship of his employer's property. Mr. Score defended the vote. The Learned BARRISTER said, the man Covington paid rent indirectly, but virtually, and therefore the vote must be allowed. The vote of John Southerwood, objected to upon similar grounds, was also retained. The 'n'ame of Lord Francis Egerton was expunged from the register, his Lordship having been created a peer. In the parish of St. John, James Massey Wood, claimed to be placed upon the resister. In 1841 he made a claim and was put upon the list. The landlord farmed the taxes. Upon inquiry it appeared that Mr. Wood had made no claim to be rated this year. The claimant said he had done so in 1841, and did not think it necessary to repeat it every year. Mr. MoYLAN said it might be hard, but the Court of Common Pleas had decided that such must be done. Claim disallowed. Cornelius O'Driscoll's claim was disallowed, because the landlord had not paid the rates of 1845. The claimant was rated now, but the rate for which he was liable had been made since April 6th, the period up to which the Act of Parliament requires all taxes and rates should be paid. Mr. Trott endeavoured to show that as no rate had become due on the electoral year, from July to July, the claim was good. The BARRISTER, however, held that although the un paid rate was made and became payable in May, 1845, it remained so in the July following, and, not having been paid, the requirements of the Act of Parliament had not been complied with. _ _ Several other parties who had claimed were in a simi lar situation, and their names were consequently omitted from the register. At four o'clock the Barrister adjourned until Monday at eleven o'clock. SEPTEMBER 28. Mr. MOYLIN resumed this morning the revision of the lists of the parishes of St. John and St. Margaret. Mr. Cribb, of Covent-garden, who had been objected to by the Liberals, as not having paid his rates, this morning called _ _ _ Mr. Moseley, the vestry-clerk, who said that a few days before the printing of the lists Mr. Cribb called upon him and asked whether there was to be any " trickery" about the rate which had just been made. He (Mr. Moseley) replied he believed not, and in proof the lists were being printed with Mr. Cribb's name. Mr. Cribb rejoined that he was willing to pay the rate, if necessary, but did not exhibit any money. The BARRISTER said he was afraid he must allow the objection. It was a pity that Mr. Cribb had not gone to the proper person, the collector, instead of the vestry clerk. • Objection sustained. In the case of a claimant whose name appeared upon the rate, and against whose elegibility no doubt was raised, Mr. Trott complained of the conduct of the overseers in omitting this person, whose right to be on the register they must have been fully aware of. He hoped that the Barrister would think this a fit case for the infliction of a fine upon the parish officers. Mr. MOYLAN said the case was so clear that the claimant should have been placed upon the register that he coul3 not think the overseers had omitted the name by any wilful neglect, but purely by mistake. Mr. Keene was objected to by the Liberals, on the ground of non-occupation. It appeared that the house had been let furnished during two months, Mr. Keene reserving to himself one room, used as a store-room, and also the wine- cellars. Mr. MOYLAN retained the vote. In the case of W. J. Barry, standing over from Satur day, in which the assessed taxes due by the landlord of the house of which the claimant held a portion had not been paid, The Learned BARRISTER said, he was of opinion that the claim could not be sustained, but would grant a case, if desired. A case was then drawn up for an appeal, Mr. Score consenting to become the respondent. The following result of the first two days' proceedings was promulgated by the liberals ; REFORMEB3. Claims. Dis allowed. Allowed. St. Ann I 3 St. Clement. 5 St. George .l 31 St. Martin I 4 St. Mary 1 St. Paul Savoy 44 Failed, Of the Conservative claims two were allowed, one for St. George and one for St. Martin; and three disallowed, two for St. Anne and one for St. Clement. There were no objections. The Barrister on rising adjourned till Friday next. and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and bard labour. Thelnisoners were committed for trial, the woman as a principal, and her paramour as an accessory after the fact. WORSHIP-STREET. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— A decent-looking countryman, named Benjamin Daniels, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged, in the language of the police charge-sheet, on suspicion of having absconded and stolen the sum of 34/, the property of Mr. John Baxter, a master butcher residing at Norwich. Thomas Ashton, an inspector of the Eastern Counties Railway, stated that between one and two o'clock on Saturday afternoon a communication was received at the Shoreditch terminus, through the medium of the electric telegraph, from Norwich, to the effect that a man named Benjamin Daniels, whose dress and person were circum stantially described, had left that place by the eleven o'clock train, and directing on its arrival in 'town that he might be given into custody. The' nature of the offence he had committed not having been specified, a telegraphic dispatch was at once transmitted back for further particulars, the answer to which was, that the accused had absconded with 341., and that the prosecutor would come up by the next train to substantiate the charge. About three hours after the above interchange of communication, which occupied only about five minutes, the train in question arrived at Shoreditch, and as the person of the prisoner, who was one of the pas sengers, corresponded exactly with the description they had received, he was given into custody. Mr. John Baxter stated that he had had frequent deal ings with the prisoner, who was also a master butcher at Norwich, and about a week since sold two bulloeks to the latter for 34L, which the prisoner promised to pay when they met at market on the following Saturday. The prisoner, however, failed to keep his appointment, and having ascertained that he bad started by the rail way that morning for London, witness instantly hastened to the office of the electric telegraph and gave the neces sary instructions for the prisoner's apprehension. In answer to the charge the prisoner denied being ac tuated by any fraudu)ent intention, and expressed his readiness to satisfy the prosecutor's claim, notwithstand ing the harsh and injurious treatment to which he had been subjected. Mr. BROUGHTON considered that the prosecutor had been very ill-advised in the course he had adopted, as the transaction amounted to a mere matter of account between the parties, which ought not for a moment to be made the subject of criminal proceedings, and he should therefore order the prisoner to be discharged. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Retribution steam fri gate, Captain Lushington, arrived this morning at Spit head, about nine, and saluted the Commander-in-Chief with seventeen guns, in smart style, which was duly ac knowledged by the Victory. She left the squadron of evolution under the command of Vice -Admiral Sir W. Parker, on Tuesday night, at nint P.M. The squadron then consisted of the Rodney, 21, Captain Collier; the Vanguard, 80, Captain Willis; the Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer; the Superb, 80, Cap tain Corry; the Trafalgar, 120, Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer'.; the Cyclops steam frigate, Captain Lapidge; the Terrible steam frigate, Captain Ramsay; the Phoenix steam sloop, Commander Dennis; and the Spartan, 26, Captain Symonds. The Euridice, 26, Captain Elliot, parted company on the same night as the Retribution, for England. The Polyphemus steam sloop, Comman der M'Clearty, parted company on the same day for Tangiers; and the Rattler steam sloop, Captain Smith, for Gibraltar; the latter, on the day previous, having lost her fore and m a i n t o p mas t i n a heavy squall. The admiral seems to have given the superiority to the sur veyor's liners in all weathers. The Rattler among the steamers beat every thing; the Terrible was the next in his estimation, and the Retribution next. The Retribution sailed from Cork on the 31st of July, in the evening, at eight o'clock, and arrived at Gibraltar on the 6th of August, at six P.M. (Terrible in company the whole time); she sailed again from Gibraltar on the 9th of August, and arrived at Corfu on the evening of the 16th ; left Corfu with the right wing of the Rifle Brigade, on the 21st of August, and took the route by the Straits of Messina, arriving at Gibraltar on the even ing of the 27th. On the 28th the Fairlie and Equestrian transports arrived, and on the 29th left Gibraltar with the Rifle Brigade for the Cape. The Retribution left Gibraltar on the 4th inst., and on the evening of the sth observed Sir W. Parker, with his squadron, standing in to Lagos Bay, where she joined company. All the ships were then present except the Trafalgar and Ca nopus, which latter was at Lisbon. The Trafalgar re joined the fleet that same night, about twelve o'clock. The squadron sailed from Lagos Bay on the Bth inst., after hiving completed water with great expedition, much to•the satisfaCtion of the Admiral, and arrived at Cadiz on the afternoon of the 11th of September. The steamers, except the Rattler, were rather behindhand in getting into the anchorage at Cadiz, particularly the Retribution, which vessel had her floats on and did not anchor before nine that night, owing to strong adverse winds (all the steamers the whole time above detailed being under sail alone). The Terrible carried away her maintopraast in going in, owing to the bad way in which the topmast rigging is fitted, having so little spread for their lofty masts. This is a defect which all the steamers have to contend with. The squadron again sailed from Cadiz on the 17th inst. This time the steamers had all their floats off, and were well able to keep company with the squadron. It must, however, be said that the squadron were never under a very heavy press of canvas, except in light winds, and almost always close hauled. From the 17th to the 22d inst. the squadron were performing various evolutions (about 20 miles to the southward of Cape Spartell), consisting of " forming lines of bearing," " columns," and " line of battle," which w ere w e ll performed. - It was seldom, after long nights, that any ships of the squadron were found out of their stations, and those but very little who were so. The Retribution left the fleet about 40 miles due west of Cape Spartel, on the evening of the 22d inst. (Tues day), bringing dispatches from the Admiral, and arrived at Spithead, as above detailed, having been under steam and sail the whole way, with fine weather. The St. Vincent, Queen, and Eurydice may be ex pected shortly, the latter having left the same night as the Retribution; the Queen and the St. Vincent five days previous. Both the Retribution and Eurydice supplied the Van guard with all the provisions they could spare (at sea) before leaving.. The Eurydice had beaten the Spartan (her competitor), both on and before the wind in all the trials they bad had, and it is said the Eurydice carried the "cock" at her masthead. With regard to the Terrible, she is reported to be the finest of all the steamers except the Rattler, but might be much improved, especially with regard to her rigging. The crossjack and mizentopsail-yard do not appear to hare found favour in the eyes of Sir W. Parker, inas much as she was required one day during trial to set those sails, and she signalled " have none," clearly prov ing she only crossed those yards for show (which our readers will remember we hinted at, in drawing a com parison between her and the Retribution, whilst both were in this harbour prior to the sailing of the squadron for Spithead), and which were spare yards belonging to her fore and main masts. On the evening of the Retribution leaving, it was un derstood the Admiral would put his helm up for Tangiers; the same morning, however, the Phoenix arrived with important dispatches from the British 'Minister at Ma drid for the Admiral, which would perhaps alter the position of the fleet. It was at the same time reported that the Terrible whs ordered to proceed to Malta to bring to the fleet as much provision as she could carry. The Retribution was inspected by Sir W. Parker; at Cadiz, who expreiaa himielf much pleased with her efficiency and qualifications. Before she left Corfu her port main crank was cracked, and found defective, and condemned as unserviceable at Lagos Bay, after a strict survey, and her machinery being too powerful, she works much, and cannot stand up under her canvas as a vessel of such immense tonnage ought to do, but this matter is perhaps better explained in the following extract of a private letter from a scientific officer of much expe rience:— " However much the opinions of nautical men may have differed in regard to the Terrible and the Retribu tion steam frigates, there cannot now, I presume, be two opir ions upon their respective merits. That either of them answer perfectly as frigates is very doubtful; that either of them are worth the large sums of money which have been expended upon them, is equally doubt ful; and that the latter vessel is the greater failure of the two there can be no doubt whatever. On the Ist of August both vessels started from Cork together for Corfu, and, generally speaking, the Terrible was en abled, from the great power of steam, to proceed nearly as fast with two boilers as the Retribution could with three. When the latter became very light she certainly got on better; the consequence of this was, that the Terrible burned much less coal on her voyage than her companion. With regard to the stowage of troops, the Retribution bad the best of it, owing to her having a lower and flying' deck, the latter stowing the whole of the baggage, whilst the Terrible had to carry much on deck, thereby cumbering her guns, &c. This, in deed, is the great fault of that ship (the Terrible), owing to the manner in which her constructor has placed her boilers, viz , in line, extending over two-thirds of the main deck; the consequence is, that though upwards of 200 tons larger than the Retribution, she has, in reality, a shorter main deck. In point of sailing, how ever, she certainly in a breeze has a great advantage, being enabled to stand tfp under her canvas, whilst the Retribution is buried, heeling over in a royal breeze 10 and 11 degrees. In fact, the crankness of the latter ship was the ast on i s h ment o f t h e w h o l e fl ee t, an d we ll i t might, for when at anchor she never has a list either to port or starboard (according to the anchor down) of less than four, and somet i mes fi ve d egrees ; an d t hi s I f u ll y believe to be the sole cause of the Retribution's being now sent home disabled, for what machinery could staid being eternally laying over on its side ? Moreover, the ship is not strong enough for the heavy (800) horse power machinery, even if she did stand upright. * * " The Eurydice beat the Spartan both off and on the wind ; Captain Elliot, however, has declared his inten tion of leaving her. " The Vanguard beat the Superb and the rest on a wind. " The St. Vincent, Queen, and Eurydice are on their way ; the first and last to Spithead, the Queen to De von port. " The Admiral is gone to Tetuan ; the Terrible to Malta for provisions." The Favourite, 18, Commander Murray, was at Sierra Leone on the Ist of August. The Spanish felucca, name unknown, driven ashore by her Majesty's ship Flying Fish, off Elmina Cbika, on the 17th of April, lost, by capsizing in the surf, and drowned, H. J. Robins, senior Lieutenant of the Flying Fish, and four seamen. It was a new vessel and direct from Barcelona ; her main yard VMS upards of 120 feet in length, and she was capable of carrying between 300 and 400 slaves. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 28.—The Grappler steam vessel has been commissioned at Woolwich by Lieutenant H. S. Hawker, who will command her, and she is taking on board stores for service. The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master Commander S. B. Cook, is under orders to proceed to Rotterdam on the Ist of October, with her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia. It is expected that another Royal Princess will return in the Black Eagle, on a visit to this country. The Lightning steam-vessel, Master Commander Petty, when passing through the Downs, made inquiries of the various Government vessels she met in her course if they had seen the Kestrel yacht, having been ordered to Portsmouth to meet that vessel and tow her, with the remains of the late Earl of Yarlborough, to Grimsby, for interment in the family vault. In one of my former communications I stated that Captain Johnson, when adjusting the compasses of her Majesty's vessels at Greenhithe, had been under the ne cessity of framing tables for iron vessels to steer by, varying from those constructed of wood to a full point of the compass, and that in some instances the variation was so great, that a vessel steering due north would have her compass pointing west. It is more than probable it is owing to the Great Britain being constructed of iron, and the possibility of alterations being made in her with out again adjusting her compasses, that she ran aground on the coast of Ireland. The Plover surveying -vessel, Captain Collinson, C. 8., arrived at Woolwich yesterday from China, and is to be paid off here. The men commenced taking down her rigging to-day. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having given Mr. Haig the use of the Ariel steam-vessel, formerly one of the Dover packets; she has been fitted with his smoke-consuming apparatus, and went down the river to-day to ascertain its operation and capabilities of generating sufficient steam for the service of the engines. Mr. Haig's invention re quires no steam funnel, and the principle of its construc tion appears admirably adapted for the consumption of smoke. Lieutenant Vansittart, of the Gladiator, and Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard, went on board shortly before twelve o'clock, and the furnaces having been previously ignited the steam was got up, which is effected by five or six men turning a winch attached to wheels and pinions causing the rapid revolu tion of a fanner, across which the smoke endeavours to escape on its emerging from the furnace; but instead of escaping into the atmosphere, it is mixed with pure air and forced below the furnaces to nearly the front, where it is conducted by tubes, and, ascending through the bars into the fire, is partly consumed, and any portion that escapes is again arrested in its progress to the at mosphere by the fanners, and passed through the fur naces until every portion is consumed. On the Ariel leaving her moorings an endless belt was made to give the motion to the fanners, and they revolved with great velocity, causing a bright clear fire in each of the four furnaces, and generating, although in old and incrusted boilers, a sufficient quantity of steam for working the engines. The vessel proceeded down the river beyond Erith, and made several turns with and against the tide, without any smoke appearing to emanate from the works. The inventor laboured under considerable disadvantages during the trial, in consequence of the leather strap becom ing loose several times. A similar disadvantage occurred the first time the screw-propeller was tried in the Rattler steam-vessel, but the difficulty was easily over come by the introduction of cog-wheels, and the screw propeller now bids fair to supersede paddle-wheels for propelling steam-vessels. The application of cog-wheels to Mr. Haig's invention would give any degree of power, and prove regular in their operation, and in large vessels propelled by the screw, or even in vessels of moderate size, the whole apparatus could be fitted between decks. The Ariel returned to Woolwich at 5 o'clock, and during her progress appeared to surprise the passengers in the numerous river steamers who witnessed her going at full speed without a smoke funnel. Bence relating to the prospective value of the mine is of the most favourable kind. The directors have thought proper to issue 100 new shares, at par, amongst the holders of the original 500 shares ; but this issue has bad no visible effect upon the market value. Notwithstanding the excitement produced by the gold mine, the Burra Burra mines and the Association's shares still maintain their high repute and upward ten dency, shares having been sold by private contract, as well as at public auction at 331. and upwards per share, being 560 per cent. or more advance upon the original cost.—lbid. Intelligence was received yesterday in Sydney from the Bellinger River, dated the 17th instant, stating that Daniel Devlin, his wife, and Dennis Cleyne, all living on 'John Robertson's cedar cutting station, had been inhumanly murdered by the blacks. The same letter also states that a civilised black, who had been living for a considerable time with Commissioner Massey, has been decoyed away and murdered by the Maitland tribe on the M'Leay River. The white population of these districts are said to be out in pursuit of the savages. The particulars may be expected in Sydney in a few days. Mrs. Devlin has left a child nine months old. Her parents reside at the Fire Islands.—Sydney Morn ing Herald, March 30. A number of coolies were lately landed in Sydney, brought down from India in the Orwell, under indenture to Mr. Towns, Mr. Wentworth, and Mr. Campbell, of Bligh-street, as " menial servants." Some few of them suffered from the voyage, but the great majority appeared to be in good condition. Amongst them were some women and a number of piccaninies, who seemed healthy enough. They are to receive at the rate of five rupees per month, and a weekly ration of 71bs. rice, I Vbs. dholl, ilb. onions, Vb. salt, lilb. oil, and a suit of warm clothing each year. Besides this the parties to whom they are indented engaged to find a free passage to this colony, and to put on board for each of the coolies "a brass pot, a brass plate, blanket, cup, and dhooty, and jacket." Further, the parties to whom they are in dented, are bound to provide a return passage in five years from the date of their arrival. This importation of human flesh has excited a good deal of discussion by the colonial press, the indentures being looked upon as a mere evasion of the crime of slaving. NEW ZEALAND. HORRIBLE MURDERS ON THE HUTT. The town of Wellington was thrown into great ex citement, on Friday morning, by the report that Mr. Andrew Gillespie, an intelligent and industrious settler, together with one of his children, a promising youth of thirteen years of age, had been found dead—murdered —the preceding evening, near his house, on the banks of the river Hutt, between the bridge and the encamp ment. It appears that, towards dusk, one of the militia men, who was returning home from the bush, heard groans as if from some person in great agony, in the direction of Gillespie's house. On approaching the spot, he discovered to his horror and surprise the father and son, lying on the ground, brutally mutilated, and ap parsatly quite dead. lie instantly gave the alarm, and a number of the settlers speedily arriving, the bodies were conveyed into the house. The lad merely uttered a❑ exclamation of " my poor mother," and then expired. The father, though not quite dead, was utterly in. sensible to all around him. The father and son were discovered lying, one on each side of a tree which they were engaged in sawing, when struck down by the murderers. On examination, it became evident that all the wounds were inflicted with tomahawks, similar to those in use among the natives. The son, Andrew Gillespie, jun., had no less than 11 wounds, principally on the head. The father had seven wounds, most of which were also on the head. We forbear shocking the feelings of humanity by re lating the fiendish mangling of the bodies. Gillespie's tongue was not cut out as reported, but was contracted, owing to his severe sufferings. On Friday an inquest was held on the body of the son, before J. Fitzgerald, Esq., M.D., coroner, and a respect able jury of Hutt settlers. The evidence received merely related to the fact of finding the body, and to the number and description of the wounds, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or per sons unknown." SATURDAY, APRIL 4.—The Rauparaha sent in a letter, by Mr. W. C. Cowper, to the Rev: Mr. Hadfield, informing ham that the murders had been committed by some natives from Porirua, and that if the Governor would ssail five or six constables, he thought he should he able to deliver up one of the murderers. Acting on this letter, Ensigns Cervantes and Symonds, Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. M'Donogh, and four constables, set out for Porirua. On arriving at Jackson's, they ap prehended two deserters of the 99th Regiment, who were staying there. The party stopped at Jackson's all night, and in the morning proceeded to Mr. Cowper's. An interview took place between Ensign Cervantes and Rauparaha, who informed him that Rangihaeata would not give up the murderers without a struggle, and that he had espoused the cause of the Hutt intruders, heart and hand. SUNDAY.—A native arrived in town, bringing dis patches to the Governor, containing this intelligence. Orders were instantly issued for her Majesty's steamer Driver and her Majesty's ship Castor to prepare for sail ing, and 260 men of the 58th, 86th, and 99th regiments were conveyed on board. At half-past five o'clock in the morning, poor Gil lespie, after lingering for two days and three nights, ex pired. During the whole time no word escaped his lips, and he appeared perfectly unconscious. We trust he may have been unconscious both bodily as well as men tally. The body of the son was brought over from the Hutt, and placed in the Episcopalian church. MONDAY.—An inquest was held on the body of An drew Gillespie, before J. Fitzgerald, Esq., M.D., coroner, and another jury of settlers, empannelled for the occa sion. After receiving the evidence respecting the find ing of the body, &c., the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons un known." The foreman also gave the following letter:— "I, on behalf of the jury assembled on the body of Andrew Gillespie, do hereby state that it is our opinion that every attention and possible care was paid to the unfortunate deceased till the time of his death by Dr. Turnbull, M.D., of the River Hutt, and all other per sons about them. " April 6. " On behalf of the jury, " A, LUDLAM, Foreman. " To J. P. Fitzgerald, M.D., Coroner, Wellington." The body was brought-over and placed in the church, there to remain till the funeral. At seven P m. her Majesty's steamer Driver, six guns, C. 0. Hays, with his Excellency Captain Grey and suite on board, and a body of the military, departed for Porirua. Her Majesty's ship Castor was compelled to remain at anchor, owing to the unfavourable S.E. weather. Ensign Cervantes and party proceeded to Paramatta, the pah of Rauparaha. He delivered an address to his followers, of three hours' duration. About one o'clock the steamer hove in sight, and, on the anchor being dropped, Rauparaha went on board. He stated to Cap tain Grey his determination of taking part with the white men, and that if Rangihaeata would not give up the murderers, he would instantly go against him Rauparaha also told his .followers, that if they fought against the Europeans they would ultimately be entirely cut off. It is further stated, that from Wakanai to Manawatti the entire native population are prepared to join Rauparaha. Rangiliaeata has left Taupo, and thrown himself into a fortification lately built by the Ngatirangatahi, about four miles from the Bay. We are informed that the position is admirably chosen for defenee ; however, we think the tiger will soon be driven from his lair. His associates are murderers and robbers—determined and desperate men, and the sooner these hornets' nests are destroyed the better for Port Nicholson. The Wairau murderers—the Hutt robbers—and subsequent mur derers are amongst them. And Captain Grey, we trust, will hold no parley with these savages. Yesterday morning, her Majesty's ship Castor, 86 guns, Captain Graham, got under weigh, and proceeded to Porirua. At one o'clock, the remains of the unfortunate Gil lespie and son were interred in the public cemetery. The Rev.:R. Cole performed the funeral service. About one hundred and fifty of the inhabitants paid their last tribute of respect by following the funeral s . From what we can learn, it appears that a party:of natives came down on the Hutt from Porirua, bent on sacrificing any unfortunate white man they might come across. That three or four crossed the river, and per petrated the cruel deed we have above recorded, whilst the remainder covered the retreat of the murderers to the bush. Some blankets and a few trifling articles were taken from the house. The elder son of Gillespie had been sent down to the bridge on a message. Had he been present, there is every reason to believe that he would also have been sacrificed by the monsters. Gil lespie has left a widow and one son to lament his un timely end. We are also informed that the natives visited a dwelling-house lower down the river, but that, for tunately for the owners, they were absent at the time. The Government must now take energetic means to protect the out- settlers. Since the murder, a body of natives have been ob served hovering about the Hutt. In consequence, we believe, orders have been issued to the troops stationed there, under command of Captain Armstrong of th• 99th, to fire upon any armed body of natives who may make their appearance. Her Majesty's steamer Driver returned to port last night, and her Majesty's ship Castor this morning. Various rumours are afloat. We believe a combined movement will shortly be made against Rangihaeata.— Wellington Independent, April 8. ♦PPOINTMENTS. Captain Hon. C. J. 13. Elliot, to study at the Royal Naval College; F. C. C. Macdonald, Second Master, to the Merlin; Jabez Binstead, Second Master, to the De vastation; J. C. Little, Paymaster and Purser, to the Rattlesnake; Charles G. Johnston, Master's Assistant, to the Rattlesnake; Guy W. Acheson, Master's Assist ant, to the Victory; James Timpson, Clerk, to the Athol; Timothy Sullivan, Naval Instructor, to the Sidon; D. C. 0. Slaughter, Midshipman, to the Mutine; Hamilton E. G. Earle, Midshipman, to the Rattlesnake; Charles E. Burlton, Naval Cadet, to the Trafalgar; Robert Laing, Third Engineer Superintending, to the William and Mary; James Justice, Third Engineer Su perintending, to the William and Mary; Johh Parker, Third Engineer Superintending, to the William and Mary; John Brown, Acting Third Engineer, to the Acheron. PROMOTIONS. George Willis, to be Acting Gunner to the Ex. cellent; James Jeffery, to be Acting Gunner to the Ex. cellent. SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. Sydney papers, received yesterday, furnish intelli gence to the end of April from New Zealand. The Lieutenant-Governor had not attacked the natives at Porirua, because it was doubtful whether the murderers of the Gillespies were harboured among them. A large military force was, however, stationed there, and the district was proclaimed as being under martial law, ex cluding the town of Wellington. The Karori settlers were afraid of an attack from the natives, but had been promised adequate protection. A military road was to be formed. A considerable number of the natives were still in rebellion, but they were not committing any acts of violence. A free pardon had been granted to Kumeti, who was convicted of participating in the robberies at the Hutt. The revenue of Wellington for the quarter ending March 31st, was 7,8851., and the expenditure, 6,8471. In New South Wales there had been most refreshing rains, after a long period of drought that had run up the prices of provisions, fodder, and fuel, to a very dear rate. Wheat had been 6s. 6d. per bushel ; but was ss. 6d. to 6s. after the rain set in. The mercantile mar ket was good for imports generally, which continued to sell at remunerating rates, the supply being moderate, and as we hope, likely so to continue. The wool season was over, but there were still purchasers for any quan tity. The boiling down of cattle was about to com mence, and there is likely to be a further attempt to prepare soup fitted for English consumption. An ordi nance had just been passed for defraying the passage out of children belonging to immigrants who reached the colony prior to June, 1842. A most determined gang of bushrangers, headed by one Wilson, had been cap tured after a desperate conflict with the mounted police, who appear to have acted admirably on the occasion. There were several lives lost, and the leader of the gang was killed. The Crown Land Regulation Bill was to come before the Legislature in a day after our advices were dispatched, and caused some excitement at Sydney. - Froin Port Philip the advices are extremely satisfac tory. They are dated to May 22. Business was brisk, and the markets were steady. Money was plentiful; great public improvements were being effected, and not a single case was before the Insolvent Court, while both the tailors and shoemakeis were so well employed that they had all struck for higher wages. We have received files of the South Australian Regi , ter and Adelaide Observer down to the 9th of May. The following are interesting extracts:— DISCOVERY OF A GOLD MINE. The existence of the most precious of all the metals in this province has often been asserted in this journal, not only on the assurance of the scientific and disin terested Mr. Meng* who has been thought to intend that his knowledge of the veins of auriferous bdolah should die with him, but from other talented information, a s well as the known existence here of very remarkable facts in mineralogical analogy. But it was only seven days ago that surmise and hypothesis gave place to certainty, and the demonstrative fact that we may rank gold amongst our mineral riches—existing too, as re peated essays and analyses have subsequently shown, in a state of native purity unsurpassable, if not unequalled. To Captain Tyrrell, of the North Montacute mine, belongs the honour of this discovery, which was brought to light by him out of a shaft undertaken for the dis covery of copper ore under his directions, for " The Victoria Mining Company," in section No. 5,597, not far from the celebrated Montacute Copper Mine. The auriferous vein, which is described as " about two inches big," is composed of a rich ochreous gossan, more or less intermingled with native gold, in various forms, and of the utmost imaginable purity, some speci mens having the appearance of what is called "dead gold," and many portions possessing a high degree of brilliancy. _ _ As may be supposed, this '• crowning " discovery has been the engrossing topic of the week, and the di rectors of the Victoria Mining Company, as elsewhere named, after having instituted the necessary measures to protect the property, and " guard the approaches," seem to have betaken themselves to the study of that part of the royal statute entitled 5 William and Mary, c. 6, sec. 2, in respect of which interpretations unfavour able to the undisturbed possession of this treasure by the associated proprietors have rather authoritatively gone forth. Shares in the mine have been greatly in request, and really as well as nominally at very high premium, but until the relative position of the proprietors with re spect to this newly-discovered as well as unexpected wealth is ascertained, no rational quotation for our min ing share market can be propounded. At all events our fellow-colonists now have some. thing more to contend for, and an increased value ought to attach to those privileges and exemptions which dis tinguished their royal charter of colonial initiation, and of which the British Minister of the day has endea voured to deprive us, by one of the grossest instances of political fraud and scandalous hypocritical contravention upon record.—Adelaide Observer. ADDITIONAL FACTS. We lately performed the pleasing duty of announcing the discovery of native gold, in a state of great purity, in the North Montacute Mine of the Victoria Mining Company. All the particulars we then stated are abun dantly confirmed; and one effect of the discovery has been to cause a very great rise in the disposable value of the shares in the association with which it is identified. There are some holders disinclined to sell at any price offered them ; but among those of " the bird-in-hand" gentlemen who have thought proper to realise, one has sold shares which cost him 601. at the handsome advance of nine hundred per cent., thus clearing a net sum of 5401. by the transfer. The ore, or rather the auriferous gossan brought into town, is undergoing the process of separation prepara tory to some further careful assays; but in the mean time Dr. Davy has made trials upon a more extended scale then heretofore, and obtained pure gold at the rate of 84oz. poi: cwt. of gossan. The precautionary measures at the mine are under stood to be nearly completed, and the authorised intern- RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 28. STOCK EXCILINGE.--The sales are—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 1 dis. —Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 9s. dis.—East Lanca shire (late Blackburn and Preston), B', p.—East Lincolnshire, % dis.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 8% p.—Exeter and Exmouth 13a. 6d. dis.—Great Grimsby and Dock Extenbion, c. die.— Hud dersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, IN p.—lluddersfield and Manches ter Railway and Canal, p.—Huddersfleld and Sheffield Junction, 44 p.--Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 1 A, p.—Liverpool, Pres ton, Manchester, and Southport, sj dis.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 7% p.—Ditto, ditto (B), 7% p.—Ditto, ditto (C), p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, % p.—Man chester and Leeds Extension, 1 1 ,4 p.—Manchester and Southampton, 13s. 6d. die. —North Staffordshire, 24 p.—North Western, 2s. p.— Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., % dis. —Preston and Wyre, 31—Shrews bury and Hereford, % dis.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 9-16 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 7-16 p.—Trent Valley, Midlands, &c., 5-16 p.—West Riding Union, 1% p.—White haven and Furness, 34 dis.—York and Carlisle, 2 3-16 dls. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 28. SToex ExcnANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 1 p.—East Lancashire, 8 c. p.—Huddersfield and Man chester, 2s. 6d. dis.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 3 c. p.—Leeds and Bradford, 44% c. p. —Leeds and Dewsbury, 12s. 6d. c. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 5% c. dis.—Ditto, New, 3y 4 dis.—Manchester and Leeds Extension, l% p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 11% c. p.—North British, Half Shares, 4 c. p.—Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 445. p.—York end Newcastle, New, 9% p.—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 11 p.—East and West Yorkshire, 1 34 dig. — Leeds, Wakefield, and Idldland, Ile. dia.—Leicester and Bedford 12s. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 31. I Is. p.—London and Manchester (Remington's), 465. dia.—Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midland, lbs. 6d. ills. —Midland and Thirsk Junction, 18s. dis.—North Staffordshire, 2% p.—North-Western, 6d. p.—Sheffleld Rotherham, and Goole, ss_dia,--West Riding Union, 4/. Is. SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 28. STOCK Excxertax.—The sales are- Great Grimsby and Sheffield. Docks, 2% dis.—North British, 9 p.—Sheffield and Manchester, 98— Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, A dis.- 7 Direct Northern, 1 dis.— East Lincolnshire, 13s. dis.—Grand Union, 14s. dis.—Leeds, Wake field, and Midland, I Is. 6d. dis.—Manchester and Lincoln Union, 225. dis.—North Western, 6d. p.—Sheffield and Linceln, Extensions, 245. dis.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, par. EAST SURREY. Yesterday the revision of the list of voters for the Kingston district of East Surrey was commenced at the Court-hou.e, Kingston, before Mr. S. C. Fishe, Barrister. Mr. Russell attended for the Liberals and free-traders, and Mr. Meymott for the Conservatives. The district includes the parishes of Long Ditton, Ham, Hook, Kew, Maldon, Petersham, and Richmond. The abov e p ar i s h es were disposed of yesterday, but very few objections on either side (two Conservative and nine Liberal) were main tained ; most of them being mere objections of form for the sake of corrections and amendments. In several cases, the persons objected to applied for their expenses, but the Revising Barrister refused to grant them, as it did not appear that the objections were frivolous or vexatious. The list for the parish of Kingston will be taken at the sitting this day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THAMES, Mary Kirwan, a notorious thiPf, who has been thrice convicted of felony, and Daniel O'Leary, were brought before Mr. Ballantine; the former charged with stealing one half-crown and three shillings, the moneys of Peter Curvis, a cordwamer, residing in Broadwall, Blackfriars road ; and the other with feloniously aiding and abetting the said Mary Kirwan, after she had committed the felony, he well knowing she had done so. It appeared from the evidence, that on Sat u rd a y n i g ht the prosecutor was passing over Tower-hill, and upon reaching a place near where the sentinels were upon duty, he was accosted by the prisoner, who caught hold of his arm, put her arms round his waist, and asked him to give her something to drink. He told her to go away, but she kept her hands and arms about him, and he found one of her hands immediately afterwards in his waistcoat pocket, in which two half-crowns and four shil lings were deposited. He saw the edge of one of the half crowns emerging from the pocket, and exclaimed " You are robbing me." She laughed and ran away. C urv i s instantly missed one half-crown and three shillings from his pecket, and ran after the woman, who was soon overtaken close to the Woolpack:public-house, at the Tower-hill end of the Minories. Curvis had no sooner laid hold of the woman than O'Leary ran out of the public-house, and said, " What are you doing with my wife?" Curvis replied, " She has robbed me ; she has taken away a half-crown and 35." O'Leary said that would not do for him, and after strik ing the prosecutor dragged the woman away from him, and she immediately retreated into the public-house. Curvis ran after her and got hold of her again. O'Leary pulled her from him a second time, and she got away. Curvis then gave O'Leary into the custody of a City policeman, named Flashbourn, No. 522, and said he had rescued a man who had robbed him. O'Leary said he had only protected the woman from the violence of Cur vis, who was about to strike her, and he pulled her away. The policeman fortunately knew O'Leary, and locked him up. On Sunday night the woman was apprehended by Orams, an active police-sergeant, No. 18 H, close to the spot where she had committed the robbery on the preceding night, and where she was on the look-out for other victitns. It was stated that similar robberies had been of frequent occurrence on Tower-hill, and that a horde of dissipated women were constantly waylaying men on their way home after sunset. A former conviction against the woman was proved. She was tried and found guilty of robbery at the Clerkenwell aeesiona . bi February, 1845, Sus tained. Objections. With- Idrawn HULL. SIPTEMBER 28. STOCK Excnatioz.—The sales r and Bedibrd, 128. Leicester and Birmingham, 3s. 6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres ton, 31. 16s. p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 19s. p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 31. 12s. 9d.—North Staffordshire, 21. 9s. 6d. p.—West Riding Union, 31. 19s. YORK, SEPTEMBER 28. STOCK EXCNANGE.—The sales are —lpswich and Bury (Cambridge and Ely), 131—Leicester and Bedford, 10s. 9d.—London and York, 1/. 195.—Malton and DriMeld Junction, 21. 13s. 6d.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3/. Is. 6d.—North British, Carlisle Extension, 31. 13s. 6d. 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