The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-15 00:00:00

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Supply moderate, and trade dial. ~/lITECHAPEL.---Areadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 4l 83; Clover li ttn, 4/10 s 15s; O" Straw, 118 s tol l lOs ; Wheat a' ntrdar'sliu l ,2_ g l i i :h t d o e fa n il fl3s per ' load. A full average supply, berSeotuTiTAT. -, reAMAT IVIARXEITS. ----"'" 04-N. 1 4.—Although the supplies of fat stock In and ° , w - daY . wer .e by no means . extensive, the general de -4 ' s i na'.tlye at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 10d to 8 4,1 ; kuv b 3 ' . to 5, pee vos ( n n, s4d to 5s , Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 4s Rom-, ' "'' tour) JA , T 14 Sheep were in good demand, at full Price tour) Other ' ' kind; of stock were a slow inquiry. Beef, fro m c 43 , e 48 10d to 4!, 4d; Mutton, 3s 4d to bs 2d ; Veal, 4a . to ej -i d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10,i per Sibs. Suckling 7,;es, 18s to 30s • Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 205; and - ""eh Cows, • L E , . With ;heir small calves, 161 to 19l each. to s s ' l '!3, JAN. 13. —Beef, from 3s to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10d Sup ply ‘" . ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. In.oderate, and trade steady. Ertel- " I . 24II,I TGATE AND LEADENRALL. Wise ' kind of prime Meat sold freely, at full prices; ;Alien 7 2,, r 4. the d em d nd was in a very sluggish state. Be;ef, fron to 3 6d ' M utton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s 2 , !, to 5s 2d aKu Pork, 3s 10d to 58 4d per Slbs. ..._ CORN AV:I-RAGES. For th iI ,„ EI 'ERAI, A'ERAG4 PRICES OF BRITISH CORN Inspe"c/tV'eek ended J an . 10 ,1845, made up from the Returns of the Der in the ditr:erent Cities and Towns in England and Wales Quarter. I wuEsT. 1 BARLEY.' OATS. RYE. lIL A.NS. I PEAS. 16' 11:: 5 " 3d 313 Ind 215 8d 33s lld 36s 8d 385 11d 111 041 6s Od 5s Od 8s 6d 35 6d is 6d LOSDON JOINT-STOCK _ _ _ _ A. r, A BANK. —(THIS DAY.) A b''-',he:4l meeting of the shareholders of this Company , tb,e.id this day at the banking-offices, for " electing Prince's-street, City, Q B ,, '' Purpose of receiving the report of the Directors, and r etirin g , five gentlemen in the room of five Directors The m • kr, c meeting was very fully attended. The R uth ug, Chairman of the Directors, presided. c, T - ~EcRETArty then read the report as follows : th e 0. Meeting the shareholders at the beginning of the year, of tbetreturs have the satisfaction to state, that the . business from 4'ituk continues steadily to improve, as will appear to th e and balance -sheet herewith submitted for their perusal , infor,pr —.won. Bank, F ro —.won. this it will be seen that the transactions of the 20,13Vtring the past half-year, have netted a clear profit of 61 , Per - ,„, 83 • 8 d., which, after paying a dividend at the rate of git, "'M. e r a P annum on the capital stock, free from income reserr/1111 balance of 2,130/. Bs. Bd. to be carried to the th e wh ich, together with the interest due thereon, raises .i a i„ h mirit of the guarantee fund to the sum of 96,297/.25. 6d. ,oce e e seats in the direction to be vacated on the present Wu 1 1 % are those occupied by Archibald llastie, Esq., M.P., ,thy ham(l Mitcalfe Esq., Ambrose Moore, Esq., John Lino -44. e -, --: xle Y , EN ' and`,Villiarn Shadbolt, Esq., all of whom :-,6lVen notice that they are candidates for re-election. !Prieto' conformit,- with the recommendation of the Pro -414 zi s , at the Last General Meeting, that the Board shoi:ild fund I.° their consideratinn the practicability of instituting e me for the benefit of the clerks of the establishment, in Servi,ofeic:liness, age, or other incapacity arising while in the coin,: if the Bank, the Directors have to state that the re tie .lidation has had their anxious and deliberate consi- Nt len . ton e , , and that, with a due regard to all the interests sitti, fe ill ed, they have arrived at the conclusion that the . 4 1t, -PrY management of such a fund would be most diffi ,lll,e,rlithlefall,°atdoipmtiPens.sible' and they, therefore, cannot recom krida , half - year's dividend will be payabls on and after TO, the 23d T i r ector of " Pir eo e / un tm AArr ihen, Januar on the y inst. authority of the Board of kid ~e 1:1r auTuan decl afterward iv s moved that the a didend of 6 p reportp b t. peer received annum. The for th e use of the shareholders. C eP il l °ti 'll having been seconded, rath er 1 1 ,1 1 Owtzr rose and said, that although he would It ould , a ve Waited until Pne accounts had been gone into, he th e , as that t. var ag . re ,_appeared to be the prop . er time, refer to one of rb -re eted 7 P," of th e reort in which he was much in rieteit:ece.)34",„ey..trtigiaph stated ' that, "In conformity with th , Ing,..- "` l4, iOT . ~ -.g, th a T RI L AT - iOll of the Proprietors, at the last genera, le of , t iVj Board should take into their consideration L e rlts nf „i ca uili'tv of instituting a fund for the benefit of the lea;pkits„),`",,e t''..stallishment, in case of sickness, age, or other ,' ° u ha. ''' And the Directors stated that " the recommends t that they, l'a'd their anxious and deliberative consideration, but Lead,l4sol ,could not recommend its adoption. Now he 4 , A 5 i , t0 to ask if the Secretary might be permitted to c 43 11 4k; ,the meeting the minutes of the Directors on . that f "lie b•-`---(Cries of " No, no.") He could have no d . esir . e, 1 . It ble, r i ,, rec t°rs told him that this proceeding was objec m tion , 114. ; but he should like the answer from the • 4) c all uses „„_ 4 , AT.P thought it was a most irregular course thienaptEiViolts,F:,iDir.ectors to produce one of their minutes. th e r o theri v i se ‘ ti s ) aid,.God forbid that he should ask for any m bl spirit. He would be th re e P_ er iete lll rN all eillr tl; _; l LF in ld a t n o a pit the Directors against the la,ortet c4r:intriftiPiht . ~,b i rer e he'll) But h Proprietors against the Directors.— must confess that he . thought the e this occasion, and he could have s e aid . a . little more on this subject. H ti r t inde r .; ar in his opinion on . oe op ' 4 to vrithhaenldy ecto r . Ind him He had th m e o i t n iv fn e r s m i a v t h in ic n h de s s h ir o e u d h i l by influence the telle44Q-Lit question to sue d that was, if the clerks should "le -b") subscribe toa Il an fund among themselves, would dogrZeni?ailY 'z'biectionanOell the part of the Directors to their bl v ern e .141 1 1 ,,,,AN _w that he was speaking the senti- Mild , ° l ,, ,_ uretb as sure Cap t. 4 of, th e ~ .er Direct . ors t _ o w n hen he said that there Nin e , 11 '4 t Oughtest objec i • the - d lPoo r ... hen said that he would gladly place his c l ' as tre '''' he Was) at the top of the list for 501., and if i let ks irr,„i r e not carried out he was pretty sure that the ether i ir:id, 'return his money. He trusted that many gen- LMr. Si; ',rat room Would follow his example.—(Cheers.) . f lB 50/ -.4.'reALFE said that he should be happy to subscribe 4 1 :ttle ed ' i '.c)r such apurpose.—(Cheers.) The ques t tir e had ,glad t Jsen fully considered by the DireFttorrs, h "hich ' 5 ,:) 0 41 With the Honourable Proprie . o he i a n r u t a matter ~C A,`,..t_lid honour alike to his head and to his . .. 4 11‘ -vi4 ill Owks said that the dimculties contemplated by ll. 4th'jrectors were, he thought, ove r - ra t e d . H e had seen lien v :. 4ll da managed in the Honourable the East India Com rit,, 'ervice, as also in the service of her Majesty, and with i lle pL eeB h.ip vested in five members, three to be chosen from ',. eouicrPrietary, and two from the Board of . . Directors, he Th e 3 .. t e every encouragement to the undertaking. ~_l3, :ICI)ort was then carried unanimously. elik.,o motion of the CiIAIRMAN, seconded by . various *ere u Mers, the Directors who were in the retiring list Mr. n,atlirriously re-elected. iel_44lott,"AsTili briefly returne fo himself and his co: chttiirrta'f,The kindness the Proprietors had shown in se duties "'e was a proof that they had performed (lotieB and lie could assure them that those lir w ould i , ,_. - -°t be the less attended to in the time coming. 11110 14 ~.°(>l4; wished to know what the Directors intended bil,he Currelesn'aximum of " the guarantee fund?" ecto re `''TAst said that,when,it amounted t 0 .100,0001. the kr would take the matter into consideration. th ou e tlitir lark tins suggested that the Company should Dr °t th London from the burden of the i . ncome-tax. He th,BoPejity,eth_,. Joint Stock Bank was in such a state of 11, 41 er b". A this matter they could set an example to th,, ,-,e Banks 4 in London . i er. i : ee ters 4ll " S aid the subject had been considered by tiers atstarx(lt bl etlai:•, t he 1,1,400 RE assured the meeting that the sala the :„ 1 . 1 1 3; or i t ,R birt,e7e,, Were . every year fully considered by , . . en. the c) t vl 3, and where they thought the services of erde rie 4 , of h e r d : required it, an . immediate increase was a " hp 2reto eatiProved of the principle of shifting the Provp; i 7P 4 .2 ;416 Set of men's shoulders to those of another tor t ''4t r h l'e that experience and common sense would .- lan, 44,4 With mat votes were better left with the Dir t e i c e t ie:: to fir 'Yu the constituent body, for by allowing i 1 , 4 Nt tn4 h it t of h. aster ui Preceden this kind they would intro ' Nlv e ' B :Yatem of expenditure. rsation then dropped, and the meetin- - --.._ - broke ui he r : 4 41 , 80 C2URT ClRCUL AR. l 'itr, Pt ere: l 4 ;_,wxbistEs DAY .—The Queen a a n n d d P th ri e nc H e o tl e litui t !hi li moiled in the Castle precincts %tint it c zay . early. O n the return of her Majesty It °tlv e ' .° 4114Z' Co nsort, his Royal 1 1 , tte we _ . The M Highness left the l 4 41 4 11 0 r e In attendaanrecieulosnetfhe°Prmrienliced..e and Colone l accustomed itY; 41 riel a . 1 . 1 ‘atully were all taken their itti4134,46: Lo-day. !() /t'ltlti.,,e Hi ghness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar 4euNt e 41arshal the Duke of Wellington are expec ted der Ett the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Ma lti li ta , i"oli te?stY and Prince Albert walked out after ih he ~-is after feehklethPl diunertreiZt at the Castle this evening will Gamy g own al Highness y the Duchess of Kent, ne L l a s dL Th e scl .- cl, the Baroness de Speth, and Colo t h Qe bahaoPer 4 4(1 4 r. V er o(' the G renadier Guards will attend during at th e n Ma jesty's p r i vate b an d wi ll a f terwards at tr •Astle. lef t 1 ' Sere --- ~4 - ne Ili on ,i'larlhor .ighness Prince Edward of Saxe W a ei v m is a i r t " 4 0 g °ugh House yesterday afternoon, b k r a 'leen, at Wi C stle. g Sir it ß h i ht WortlloSfEti):l7,eesstt,uartnleya had an intervoiedwthwe It o u S il , e i.t.uay. Sir James Graham . a Lion. t , Y 44.er ber t had also interviews with the Right , 14, 'retiet, Ilci esi . e (41 Y 1 1 had an interview with the Earl of Dal- The Ye4terday, at the office of the Board ofTrad h e. ad a tgilsir Ecclesiastical C ommissioners for England hitehall (' ' el .meeting yesterda3, at the office 1)3110..13 o'-f-,ere were Present shop 1:I Y, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop Right Hon. ohr i N . P. the Earl of Besborough, and the o t f h in e Lo S ß V nt i l s o h n o , p the 1, 4 _ ieh o n . l'ettlrltlciur RON SIR G. MURRAY. qtliri,:,YeSterdity nao i g in Belgrave-square,t in fix had kased _it' o f the healthrnofnSir George was, that h e —The answ er .o I . 6, restless Clerksniht, but was rather better. t to tekerge returned to town yesterday, from a ge illarquis of Exeter, at Burghley. P t ti t ..... ii. .................___......—____---- LTS, SOMERSET, A ND 2,,,BOI.ITHAMPTON RAILWAY. „ ri t , ',. ZUE EDITOR OF THE SU N. Votit,,,'ln your list of Companies which had not de ..4llPeA4 Phtns, c , according to the standing o . rders, Ai s l the Wilts, *Somerset, and Southampton Railway. N'Nlilled is error. All the plans have be . en duly depo !ll,ori. e capital fully subscribed and paid up, the Act eZtaetit drawn and every preparation made for an . INitf„Nori,.--•:e spplicatiOn to Parliament for an Act to an d is" the construction of " the Wilts, Somerset, an 2arepton Railway." —I am, Sir, &e.. 6 , ~, 11. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary. "lreshatn-street, Jan. 15, 1846. t,: 1 1. 1 , ri 4 ei tit ° 'ln Sa.-- n inqu quest was held at '•ertrh ,i;le, on ltlonday, on the body of Eliza Porter, whose T r uro lts, ecsasioned by her having takernicsome fe (1 47 d g e s t e . t4,e b?cl37owrtalottlitlrlng ttte juryoretedma ve night thout the rites of et,a, burial, e e lain Li ner EE 114433 Es LIVERPOOL. —The working men of ._the to ' '''4 l °l, have resolved to bold a meeting on . the subject of `911.„ 'Awl. Thursday evening next is the time, and Clay -lAN the place appointed. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sitting in Banco.) clucurr PAPER. Their Lordships have agreed that the following shall be the ' circuit paper for the ensuing Spring assizes :- 1 Iforne—Lord Denman. and Baron Alderson Midland—Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Justice Coltman Oxford—The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Baron llolfb Norfolk—Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Made Northern—Mr. Justice Pattison and Mr. Justice Coleridge North Wales—Mr. Justice Williams South Wales—Mr. Justice Wightman Mr. Justice Erskine and Mr. Justice Creswell remain in town. , BOARD e. coL l i mAN . This was a writ of inquiry directed to the Sheriff of Surrey, to assess the damages due to the plaintiff from the defendant, for holding over some premises in Lambeth after the expira tion of a lease, and was executed on 19th Dec. last, when the jury found damages, amounting to 353/. Os. 4d. Mr. BURTON muted the Court for a new writ of inquiry, on the ground .t.'otit the damages were excessive, and against the evidence on the trial in the action of ejectment. A rula nisi was granted to show cause why a new writ should oot be had. Ur. ClibtVpit made a forcible address to the jury, com menting on the ill effects of gambling, and urging the ob jections already stated, and contending that the notice of dis honour was not proved, as C a pt. O'Grady might have been in America when the note wee left at St. JitmeS'i Hotel by Mr. Irwin. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT' OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 14. The proceedings thi‘ Court to-day were dull and fieuious, and not of the least interest to any one out die parties concerned. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then want through the evidence Vary minutely. In his summing up, The jury stopped him, and returned a verdict for the de fendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 14. CRIM. CON.—CLARKE V. DUNSFORD. Sir THOMAS WILDE moved for a rule to set aside a verdict for the plaintiff, given in last term, for an action brought against the defendant for criminal conversation with the wife of the former, and to enter a new suit ; or if not, to set aside the verdict, and grant a new trial. The ground on which he made the applica tion was, that the plaintiff had undertaken to give ma terial evidence against the defendant in the county of Middlesex, but which did not appear to have been the case. Evidence had been given to prove that the offence alleged had been committed in two places ; at the house of the plaintiff, and at a lodging-house in Bath ; and the general nature of the evidence was to the following effect, as far as the Bath part of the case was concerned, which it was alone necessary to refer to now. It was proved that Mr. Dunsford had called at a house in Bath under the name of Lyde, requesting lodgings. He saw Miss Withers, the sister of Mrs. Needs, the housekeeper, who was absent. He stated that he had just been privately married and was going to bring his wife to Bath for a short time, so that he wanted quiet lodgings. Miss Withers said she could flat give any answer herself, but he was requested to call again. In a day or two a letter came addressed from Swindon, in which he gave his name as Lyde, and directed a note about the lodgings to be addressed to him at the Bri tish and F,,reign Hotel, George-street, Hanover square, London. When Mrs. Needs came home a letter was sent to the above address accepting the cffer about the lodgings, and he arrived in a few days and took pos session. He continued several days and slept there, though the lady, who called nearly every morning and stayed for several hours, did not. Now the material question raised by the present application was, wl•ether that letter was in any respect either material to the establishment of the offence to be proved, or the assessment of damages. Lie thought decidedly not. Strike the letter out, and the case would be as complete as it was now. Other letters, addressed in the name of Lyde, had been identified as the de fendant's. The servants at the house in Bath, as well as Miss Withers and Mrs. Weeks, had identified him as well as the lady, and both had been proved respectively to be Mr. Dunsford and Mrs. Clarke. Nothing, there fore, could be added by the letter, or abstracted by its withdrawal. On these grounds he submitted that tht plaintiff had not succeeded in making use of this letter of Mrs. Needs, addressed to him, and supposed to be received at the British and Foreign Hotel, and in fact the only evidence relating to Middlesex material to the case. For these reasons he considered the application should be granted. After a long argument, of which the foregoing is the substance, their Lordships deferred their answer till to morrow. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) EXECUTORS(Bef reir. O U F Under-Sheriff This was an action brought to recover damages for dilapi dations, under the following circumstances:— The defendant suffered judgment to go by default, and the jury therefore had to assess damages. Mr. CLARKSON stated the case. The plaintiffs are executors of the late Rev. T. Lovell, rector of St. Luke, Middlesex, and the defendant was tenant ofDyson's farm, at Tottenham, which was attached to the rectory. According to the custom of England, the rector was bound to keep in order and repair all property coming to him by right as rector, and surrender the same to his successor. In the present case the defendant and his family had been on the farm for 15 years, and at the de cease of Mr. Lovell the dilapidations were found so exten sive, ar,d the land had been allowed to run so poor, that on a valuation as between the executors and ➢lr. Saunders, the succeeding incumbent, the executers were called upon to pay a sum of nearly 4001. Mr. WonuswouTit objected that the tenants were not bound by any claim as between other parties under any cus toni, and objection was allowed. Witnesses were called, who estimated the dilapidations at 195/., under an agreement between Mr. Lovell and defend ant's father, but the agreement not being produced, they were directed to confine the valuation as against a yearly tenant, or tenant-at-will, and they were of opinion that 671. *was a fair value. On the contrary, witnesses were called, who deposed that there had been great improvements on the farm, and that it was in a good staee of repair when defendant left, and that it now fetched 501. a year more than during Mr. Lovell's life time. WHARFAGE.-BENSON V. TEMPERLEY. This was an action on the case tried in this Court on the la December last, and was brought by the plaintiff to re cover from the defendant damages for having trespassed upon the ground of the plaintiff, opposite to his ship-building yard, abutting upon the river Thames, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages amounting to 50/. The plaintiff was a shipwright, and occupied premises ad joining the river Thames, and claimed the frontage before his yard over which the river ran for the purposes of bit business, and denied the right of any other person to place their barges there. Th e pl a intiff p rove d a prescriptive right of forty-five years. The plaintiff also claimed damages from the defendant for having injured the ground by digging mud holes in it. The defendant traversed the plaintiff's allegations, and denied the plaintiff's right to the sole nie of the ground in question, and put it in evidence that plaintiff had allowed a man named Vesey to moor his barges on the ground in question without interruption for two years. Mr. CTifx.NING now moved the Court fur a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted, or the damaged reduced to flirty shillings; and - contended, in support of his motion that the plaintiff had failed to prove the antiquity of his right to the exclusive use of the land before his ship building -yard, and that the plaintiff, by allowing the land to be occupied for two years, was proof of his doubting the validity of his right, and that the Lord Chief Baron in charging the jury had misdirected them, by assuming that the plaintiff's prescriptive right had been proved, whereas that right was Claimed by the defendant in common with the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel also contended that the damages were excessive, on the ground that the mud holes were necessary for the purposes of wharfage, and useful to theplaintiff. The UNDER-SHERIFF said that defendant had no right to claim for new premises, but if he put up new premises he was equally bound to keep them in repair, or would be liable for dilapidations.—Damages, 40s. There were thirty cases in the list, but the above occupied the whole of the morning, and the Under Sheriff intimated that he would not take any cases beyond No. 14, and that the Court would sit on Tuesday next at eleven o'clock, in order to clear up the arrear of causes. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Amy Hazel, a servant in the employment of Mr. Howell, landlord of the Hand-in-Hand, High Holborn, was charged before Mr. Hall with stealing is. 90. in copper from the till, and taking from the vats wine, gin, and ruin, to the value of Is. Bd. The LORD CHIEF BARON—If the defendant could have proved an adverse usage of twenty years against the plaintiff, there would have been some ground for the motion; and as to the damages, perhaps Mr. Jervis would consent to their being reduced to 20/. Mi.. JERK IS consented to the reduction on behalf of the plaintiff, and a rule to that effect was granted. Mr. Howell stated that having missed money from his till and spirits from the vats every day for some weeks, he deter mined to keep a watch, in order to discover who was the thief At about seven o'clock this morning he and a policeman saw the prisoner enter the bar, draw out the till, and take some money from it. She then drew the spirits from the vats into a pewter pot, and was about to leave the bar, but witness stopped her. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY REGISTRATION APPEALS. This was the first day of the present sittings set apart for the consideration of registration appeals. Several unimpor tant cases were argued, but of those submitted the following was the most important. COLVILLE P. THE OVERSEERS OP TIIE BOROUGH OF The prisoner admitted that she took the money and the spirits.--She was committed for trial. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, JAN. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 4 , / ,‘ p.—Chester and Birkenhead, New 201. Shares, 3 p.—Chester and Ma nc h ester Direct, 12s. dis. —Dudley, Iron Bridge, &c., dis.—Eastern Counties, Per petual, No. 2, 1 4 p.—East Lancashire, No. 1, 5 p.—East Lin colnshire, 1 p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 7-16 p.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., I%—Grand Union, par—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 6 3 / 4 p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, p.—Leeds and Li vedripsol3aliaidn dis.—Blanchester Newand Birmingham, Shares, 3 p.—Liver pool, Manchester, and I/2 Newcastle Junction, 11 % p.—London Quar ters,and `Windsor, 7 1 / 4 p.—Manchester and Birmi ng h am Cont i nuat i on and Welsh Junction, 1 / i dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenths, 3 p.—Nottingham and Boston, % dis.—Nottingham and Mansfield, dis —Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., dis.— Sheffield and Lincoln Junction, 23/4 p.—Sheffield and Man chester, Quarters, No. 3,3 1 A p.—Shrewsbury and Bir mingham, 1 1 4 p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 1 4 / p.—Southport and Euxton, 1 4 p. MILL, JAN. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 21 1 4—Leeds and Dewsbury, 3 3 / 4 p.—North British, Half Shares, 7 1 ,4—Ditto, Carlisle, 21.185. 9d.—Axholme, —Buckinghamshire, 3 / 4 p.—Dudley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 2%—East Lincolnshire, 25 ,i—Goole, Doncaster, She. field, &c., 3/. 17s.—Grand Union, 30s.—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, 9s.—Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, 41s. 6d.—Leicester and Bedford, 11. 16s.—Liverpool and Leeds, 2/. 6s.—Nottingham, Erewash, &c., I%—Rugby and Huntingdon, 1 3 / 4 —Shropshire Union, 1 A p.—Wakefield and Bradford, 2 1 A.—Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow, 33%_ Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 214. SHEFFIELD, JAN. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are —Sheffield and Man chester, Qnarter Shares, No. 2, 113 %—Grimsby and Sheffield, Extension, 3/. 4s. 6d.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 44—Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, 1. cuantAm. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAtit: appeared in support of an appeal against the decision of the Revising Barrister in a case sub mitted to his decision at the last Court held for the revision of the list of voters for the borough of Chatham. Mr. Col ville was the appellant in the case, and the overseers the respondents, and the point raised was the following :—Whe ther in regard to the borough 101. franchise the registration of the voter was to be allowed in consideration of being rated to the poor on a net annual rent of the value of 10/. ; or whether the rating must be on the clear annual value, after deducting repairs, insurance, and other expenses necessary to keep the premises in repair. The Learned Gentleman maintained the latter interpretation of the Reform Act. The whole matter was to settle what was meant in the Act by the words " clear annual value." He contended that the fair criterion of clear annual value was, the value of the premises to the landlord after all expenses were met, and not the net rent paid by the tenant. The Learned Gentleman quoted several casep in support of the view of the question he submitted, and said in addition that this was the legitimate construction of valuation, according to the Parochial Assess ment Act. Considerable discussion had arisen, not only at Chatham, but other places throughout the country, as to the real meaning of the words net or clear annual value, and the case was chosen, out of many others of the same character, for the decision of their Lordships. No Counsel appeared on the other side, and their Lordships reserved their decision. MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Christophe? Lewis, a powerful young man, was charged as follows : William Sullivan, taskmaster of the workhouse of St. George, Hanover-square, stated that the prisoner was a pauper there. Between seven and eight o'clock last evening, violent screams were heard to proceed from the room in which the prisoner was. He (witness) hastened there, and on entering found the prisoner in the act of throwing a boy headlong amongst a set of tea-things belonging to the attendant of the ward ; and, having been informed that he had put another boy on the ball fire, he caused the prisoner to be given into the charge of the police. James Colley, an intelligent boy between twelve and thirteen years of age, stated that the prisoner seized him as ha was passing along the ward, and holding him by the neck and leg, placed him on the range-fire in the hall. He screamed violently, and the taskmaster came and rescued him. Mr. HARDWICK said these outrages by paupers must be restrained. They might depend on an example being made of every one guilty of such misconduct. The pri soner he should commit to Westminster Bridewell for twenty-one days to hard labour, and if brought there again his punishment would be doubled. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice lirmutors.) CLARKE V. O'GRADY. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Fry appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Crowder and Mr. Ball fo► the defendant. This was an action brought by a Mr. Clarke, who is a wine merchant, residing in Bond-street, against the Hon. Thomas O'Grady, a captain in the 74th regiment of infantry, for the recovery of the sum of 501. upon a cheque drawn by the defendant, upon his army agent Sir John Kirkland. The defendant pleaded that he did not promise —that he did not draw the cheque—that no notice of dishonour had been served upon him. He also pleaded that it was given to the defendant for money to play at hazard in a common gambling-house, and that when the plaintiff gave the money, the defendant was about to play at hazard in a common gambling-house, and he (plaintiff) knew that he might lose it. Another plea entered by the defendant was that the document was not stamped. Mr. Sergeant BYLES made a few observations to the jury with regard to the nature of the pleas of the defendant, and then called The Hon. Francis Payne, who stated that he is a Lieu tenant in her Majesty's 74th regiment ; knows the Hon. Thomas O'Grady, but does not know his hand-writing. Witness never saw him write, and never received any letter from him. YORK, JAN. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar lington, Brandling, 54 1 / 2 —York and North Midland Exten sion, 39%—Newcastle and Berwick, 20 1 4—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 21 195.—London and York, 4—Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, 21. 1 78.—Leicester and Bedford: 1/. 148.—Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, Birmingham, and Trent Valley Junction, 2 1 / 2 —Mancheiter, Buxton, Matlock, and,Midland, 41. ls.—North Western, 3—Welsh Midland, 2. BRISTOL, JAN. 14. Srocx EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exe• ter, New, 8 1 ,i—Birmingham and Gloucester, Q uar t er Sh ares, (issued 7/ 2 dis.), 3/. ls. 3d.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 11 1 4—Taff Vale, 138—Great Northern of France (constituted), 7 3 / 4 . EXETER, JAN. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, B—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % dis.—South Wales, 3%. Mr. John Brook Irwin stated that he resides in Albany street; does not know the Hon. Thomas O'Grady. Has seen the paper produced before. Knows Sir J. Kirkland's bank ing -house in Pall-mall. Presented the cheque produced fur payment; does not know the exact date on which he pre sented it. It i.s in the same state as when it was presented. The cheque was dishonoured. Witness does not know the exact answer given, but only knows that no money was given. Witness wrote a note to Captain O'Grady at the St. James's Hotel, statir.g that the cheque had been dishonoured. (A discussion ensued, as to whether notice had been served for the production of that rote; which ended in the note being put in, but it was not read.) Sir John Kirkland was then called—He stated that he is an army agent, residing at No. 80, Pall Mall. He acts as a banker in one sense of the word. Agents of regiments are the persons through whom allowances or moneys intended for the use of military officers are remitted. It is no part of a banker's duty to transact the business of the officers of a regiment, yet it is a courtesy invariably extended by army agents, so as to enable officers to draw on them. Several officers keep accounts with him. Does not know Captain O'Grady, of the 74th regiment, but has paid cheques drawn by the Hon. Thomas O'Grady. Mr. CROWDER said that the witness could not say anything about the payment of cheques unless he paid them himself. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said that the general fact of Cap tain O'Grady keeping an account there was admissible. GLASGOW, JAN. 13. STOCK EXCNANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Exten sion, 59s.—Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 36s.—Dun dee and Forfar Junction, 578. 6d.—East Indian Railway, 235. —Forth and Clyde Junction, 45s.—Glasgow General Ter minus, 114—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 50s.—Glas gow and Garnkirk, 424—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardros san, 55s.—Great N or th and South * Wales, land, 4%. 9s.—South Mid- HOTEL AND TAVERN KEEPERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. The seventh anniversary dinner of the above-named insti tution took place on Wednesday evening at the London Cof fee-house, Ludgate-hill. The company numbered about 150, and the chair was taken by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, who w as • surrounded b y many influent i a l c i t i zens .' - The object of the institution. is a most praiseworthy one, ins much as it tends to " the establishment of a fund for the permanent assistance of hotel and tavern keepers, proprietors c-f club houses, confectionery establishments, cooks, and waiters, being members, and their widows, and temporary assistance of memb ers , t h e i r widows an d c hild ren , w h en in necessitous circumstances." After )justice bad been done to a dinner, which was of a most recherche description, and wines of flrst rate quality wer9. placed on the table, the usuilloyal.toa.sts were proposed frki the chair and duly respondglo. _ In proposing " Prosperity , to the Institution," the Chair man observed that the great object of the committee of management and those who were interested in the society was to raise as soon as possible a fund of 5,0001., which would enable them to commence their benevolent opera tions.—(Cheers.) The subscriptions and donations already amounted to nearly that sum, and he was sure that if those persons present took the matter into their hands with any degree of sincerity, that they would within a fortnight, not only accumulate a greater fund than that which was yet contemplated, but would create a degree of ardour in the cause which would be serviceable in the greatest degree.— (Applause.) His Lordship then proposed "The health of Mr. Bleaden, and , prosperity to the Licensed Victuallers' Assurance Society.' Mr. BLEADEN returned thanks, and said he saw present many of the most opul en t h o t e l and tavern-keepers in Lon don ; and acting upon the suggestion of their worthy chair man, he would beg leave to state, that if any of those gen tlemen would undertake to get ten subscribers of Si. each to the association within a fortnight, he would undertake to do the same.— (Cheers.) the association had now been seven years in existence, and he thought it was a shame that they had not yet been able to collect amongst them 5,0001. The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of Mr. New. bon and the Honorary Members of the Society, and in so doing, drew attention to a rule which prohibited honorary members having any greater interest than common life governors, He trusted that this rule would meet revision, and that Mr. Newbon, as solicitor to the Society, would con sider it with minute attention. Witness continued—Has received many letters from Cap tain O'Grady, but does not know him as the writer. Has paid money according to the directions they contained. There are several officers in the 74th regiment. Mr. Payne recalled—There is no officer named O'Grady in the 74th regiment but the defendant. Sir J. Kirkland was here asked if he believed the hand writing of the letter to be the writing of the defendant? Mr. CROWDER objected to the question. He said that the writer of the letters must be directly identified as Cap tain O'Grady, as any person might have gone on with an account in his name. Nothing had as yet been said to fix Mr. O'Grady as the writer of these letters. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS took a note of the objection. In answer, Sir John Kirkland said that he believed the documents to have been written by Captain O'Grady of the 74th. Never received a letter from Mr. O'Grady, specifically a t h n ,aT, u ths m wier b r i e r tt ewt o e f trihiei was cheques. fyooruam s referring to this cheque, but has received a letter referring to oefrbolilileg :T tt h e a r. t letter is from the same person oblige by not cashing any cheque purporting to be from me until further notice. " Yours most truIy,O'GRADY, i nth r e ec 74 ei t v h ed ße b g ef t o . :e Witness cannot say wheth er this letter was the presentation of the cheque or draft. The clerk who attends to the instructions of his customers is here. By Mr. CROWDER—AII the affairs of a regiment, as be tween the Government and the colonel, are transacted by the army-agent. All the money sent by the Government for the use of a regiment is sent to the army-agent, and books of that money are kept by him for the Government. Has never made any return of his house, as a banking-house, since the Acts of 7 and 8 Victoria. Is a banker, but his house in Pall-mall is not a banking-house. All the transac tions referring to Captain O'Grady took place in Pall-mall. No charge is made to the officers of regiments by the army agent, as they are paid by the public. By Mr. Sergeant BYLEs—Witness keeps accounts for offi cers; widows, officers on half-pay, &c. Witness also keeps accounts for about half a dozen private persons, and charges them nothing. Mr. Sergeant BYLES again proposed t o rea d th e c h eque, and Mr. CROWDER again objected on his former ground. Mr. BALL said that Lord Denman had lately held that where a party receives letters from another, he must after wards be introduced to the writer, so as to see him in order to identify him with the letter he was supposed to have written. Mr. NNWBON thanked the Lord Mayor for directing atten tion to the regulation in question. The sum already collected by the Society, including the amount of the evening's sub scription, was upwards of 4,0001. ; and the proposed exertion would, be had no doubt, raise it to the required amount be fore the termination of the year. The Vi c a e ß - P resident, t byTrustees,T . m an . d ß C ,t o co m i zi t t h te e e tre w as ere ure t r h . en proposed, h dresponded Subscriptions and donations amounting to upwards of 3001. were then announced by the secretary, and in which were included from the Lord Mayor, 10 guineas; the Lady may oress , 5 guineas; Mr. Maste rman, M.P., 10 gu i neas; Messrs. Lovegrcve, 5 guineas; Captain L amont , 10 gu i neas ; Mr. J. S. Newbon, 1 0 guineas; the Licensed Victuallers' Insurance Company, 5 guineas; Mr. J. Stewart, 5 gu i neas; Messrs.Alr. Thomas Brernbd,soo, 5 sguineas; Mr. Th ornton , 5/. ; guineas, Dr. Tayl or , 10 guineas, &c. " The Health of the Chairman" was proposed by M r . Clarke, and several other toasts connected with the official Bathe Clarkeaiand d ov departments of the society were also announced and re sponded to. The dinner did the utmost credit to the cuisine of the Messrs. Lovegrove, and the wines were excellent. The musical arrangements were well managed by Mr. Shoubridge, Mr. Moody, and . other professional gentlemen, and afforded much gratification to the company, who did not separate till a late hour. Mr. Justice WILLIA3IS took a note of the objection, and allowed the case to go on. Mr. CROWDER then objected to the document as being un stamped. The Stamp Act set forth that any order or orders, addressed to bankers or persons acting as bankers within ten miles of the metropolis, should be stamped ; and he (Mr. Crowder) c on t en d e d th at Si r J . Kirkland was a banker within the meaning of the Act. The place where the cheque or draft was drawn was not specified as the Act required, except by the words St. James's Hotel, which might be fifteen miles out of London, and so come within the meaning of the Act. Thirdly, it was not proved that the deed bore date as re quired, "on or before the day en which it was presented." All these objections were reserved for future consideration. Mr. William Paget, one of the clerks in the establishment of Sir J. Kirkland—The pencil memoranda on the letter produced were his. They were made at the dates mentioned, and from them he can see that he received the letter on the 18th of August, 1841. Witness knows Captain O'Grady, of the 74th regiment ; he has cashed cheques for him. The signature to the letter forbidding . the payment of any bills or cheques is very unlike his handwriting. Witness has often seen him write. REMOTE GENEALOGY OF THE CORN-LAWS.--CRXtOD and other old chroniclers assert that King John, having heard in the year 1216, that corn was very cheap, declared "He would, ere long, make it so dear that a penny loaf should be sold for a shilling." This drew upon him the deadly Pas i which,n and ag a i n ." r.av pas sions (according to the legend) of a monk of Swineshead Abbey. In Mr. Horne's "Ba l lad Romances," the above tra dition is turned to very striking account as the in the pre sentesubject of a R g .—An im portant ballad chronicle instinct wit h p ass ion and pathos. Few things in our language can exceed in grandeur the death scene of the King and the Monk. The poetry throughout cit lIM ed p oe m a is,incdoerid:lTaoßwfAa`D‘ghuiitgath MEETI N Giopn7 willfi '' b l e t is free-trade meeting was held in Brighton on Tues day, when several resolutions in favour of a repeal of the corn and provision laws were adopted with acclamation. The chair was taken by the High Constable, and the meet ing was addressed by Captain Pechell, M.P., and Lord Alfred Hervey. In the crowded state of our columns we find it impossible to make room for a report of the pro ceedings. THE MINISTRY.—There is no truth in the state ment that Lord Canning is about to succeed Lord Metcalfe as Governor-General of Canada. We have every reason to be lieve that it has been proposed to Lord Cathcart to succeed Lord Metcalfe, and thus unite in the same hands the civil and military government of Ca nada. The report of Lord Granville Somerset's retirement from office 18 altogether without foundation. The Earl of Verulam and the Earl of Harewood will attend at the first Council, to be sworn in as Lords Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire respectively. —Treasury paper. Lord and Lady Stanley,are still at Knowsley. Th e • Eon. E. fitanley haa arrived ga By Mr. CuowDEß—Cannot swear positively that it is not his writing—it might be. By the COURT—CouId not say on oath that it was not Captain O'Grady's handwriting, but should think it was not, as it was very unlike it. By Mr. Sergeant BYLES—CouId tell within 100 how many cheques he had cashed for Captain O'Grady. By the CoußT—Had a cheque signed with the same sort of signature that is to the letter been presented, witness would not have paid it, at any rate he would not pay it without making a strict comparison with former signatures. By Mr. CROWDER—At the time the cheque was presented witness had in his possession the letter forbidding payment, and it was in consequence of that letter that he did not pay it. By Mr. Sergeant BYLES—The handwriting on the cheque is more like the writing of the defendant than the writing in the letter. Mr. Irwin was then recalled, and from the additional evi dence he gave it appeared that he was a friend of Mr. Clark's, who had asked him to get the cheque cashed. He received the cheque in a gambling-house in St. James's-street. Mr. Clark was a friend of the proprietor of that house. This was the plaintiff's ease. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIN JANUA-r“ 15, 1846 GREAT MEETING fikim the West Riding of Yorkshire, which would be attended by Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and he (Mr. Wilson) dared to say that 20,000/. or 25,0001. would be put down at that meeting.—(Great cheering.) Now, he would discard the small sums. Let them take the sums collected at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, and they would challenge the Dukes of Buckingham, of Richmond, and of Norfolk, and the whole of them, with all the squirearchy of England to their back, to call meetings everywhere, and put down one-half the sum for the furtherance of the cause of protection, of which they were such stre nuous advocates. But that had not been all which had been done. Those meetings had never inter rupted the ordinary business of the League. Ile had the curiosity to reckon how many meetings they had had since October last, and he found that Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Moore had attended sixty two meetings in that time:—(Cheers.) He found also, that their excellent friends, in all tarts of the country, had had their meetings either for the opening of the ports or the furtherance of other objects, in accord ance with their views, and those meetings had num bered between 100 and 120. Well, they had heard of meetings on the other side—great meetings.— (Cheers and laughter.) He (Mr. Wilson) had re• ceived some information respecting some of those meetings. At a good many of them not more than sixty or seventy people attended, just enough to form a decent committee for a ladies' charity.—(Laughter.) One of their own speakers, at a meeting at Lincoln, said the other day that a cat might be seen at any part I of th e room, it was so crowded—(Laughter)—and the Chairman said it was the largest meeting of the kind he had ever seen.—(Cheers and laughter.) But they (the League) would admit that the protec tionists had exhibited unwonted alacrity, and had put forth una ccustomed strength. At 'Chichester— (Laughter) —and o th er places they had had great meetings. They should have all the benefit of it, and the Leaguers would ad m it t h at, with a good deal of abuse of Sir Robert Peel and of Lord John Russell and others, both those who did not come to the meet ing and those who did, but were not pleased after coming, they contrived to make up a very interesting report. But what did it all prove ? Merely that there were men in the country who would never yield until the minister had decided that they should be brought to book. Let them meet—let them abuse the League as much as they please—let them threaten them with the fabulous animal the British lion.—(Laughter.) Let them be loosed at them. The Leaguers would catch him and bring him to Covent-garden. Let the Protec tionists meet them at the qualification movement. They knew that they had already caught the people at that whilst they were asleep. But let them try it naw, and the League would beat them ten to one in any county they liked. But there had been another meeting—not one called by the Protection Society, nor by the Anti-Corn-law League —one furnished with no speakers from Willis's Rooms, but a meeting which, thanks to the Times, had been re ported throughout the breadth and length of the land. He referred to the meeting at Goatacre—(Great cheering—during a lull, in which a person in the second tier of the proscenium boxes called out, " Three cheers for the Goatacre labourers," which was re sponded to instantly by three distinct rounds.) And there, on a winter night, a thousand agricultural la bourers met together. For what? To abuse the League ? No. To support agricultural protection ? No. But to ask the Government to look at their pale and haggard features, and as they were actuated, or could be actuated by the feelings of humanity to open the ports, and give to them the advantages of free trade. Now, they w ou ld not put i nto the scale the advertised meetings of the League, or claim advantage for them over the protectionists, but the, would put in evidence against them that single meeting at Goat acre, and they would set that against all the meetings held under the auspices of the Protectionist Society, of 17, New Bond-street. They might meet at New Bond-street and announce that the agricultural la bourer was in favour of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) The meeting would be that evening addressed by Mr. Villiers and by Mr. Milner Gibson. Mr. Gisborn e, he (Mr. Wilson) regretted to say, was seriously in disposed in the isle of Wight, but his place would be supplied by Mr. Moore; and Mr. Houghton,.the largest farmer in the United Kingdom, was anxious to say a few words. He had, therefore, great pleasure in calling on Mr. Villiers.—(Cheers.) The Hon. C. P. Vieraeas, in coming forward, was received with most rapturous cheering. He thought they had come to that point in the progress of their cause, when every person was anxious to know what prospect there was of their success.---(Cheers.) What was going to be done ? The l as t ti nie t h ey me t i n that theatre, their spirits were much elated at the prospect their cause presented, owing to the position of political parties.—(Cheer s .) S evera l events h a d occurred since that time extremely interesting to their cause.—(Cheers.) Those events had been viewed differently by politicians of different parties, but when they assembled in that theatre they professed to have nothing to do with party politics. Parties of all creeds and opinions assembled there together, and they might be excused in considering those events, as they bore on the corn-law question alone, and in that view he ventured to express his opinion that nothing had occurred since they last met at all calculated to discourage or weaken those hopes which they en tertained upon that occasion. The moral of all these parties' mis-statements seemed tole, that their good cause of free trade was in the ascendant, and that they were approaching in their struggle to a speedy and successful issue. —(Cheers.) At their last meet ing Lord John Russell had received the commission of the Crown to form a Government, after having placed on record his identity of opinion with them selves. They had had the satisfaction of learning since, that those colleagues he had called to his councils had entirely agreed with him in his support of the measure of the League ; and they had further reason to believe that if he had succeeded in forming a Government, he would have received the cordial support of Sir Robert Peel, and such friends as he could influence. They had also the satisfaction of knowing that Lord John Russell did not complete his arrangement for forming a Government from any cause of a difference of opinion on the question of the corn laws—(Cheers)—and though it would have given the personal friends of Lord John Russell great sa tisfaction to have seen him in the post to which he was called by his Sovereign, and which he (Mr. Vil liers) believed he would have worthily filled, and would have had strength to support, notwithstanding what had been suggested by their worthy friend Punch.—(Great laughter.) Yet he was convinced that the force which would be presented in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws in the House of Commons would - be greater than it would have been under any other circumstances.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel had returned to power; his dissentient colleagues had returned to reason—(Cheers and laughter)—and there was nothing had transpired that would induce them to believe that any of them had returned to their former opinion in favour of the corn-laws ; and though it was difficult to confide in the course pro posed to be pursued by any public man—(Cheers) — yet he could not find it difficult to believe that Sir - Robert Peel would never ret urn t o p ower to call upon himself the universal odium of the nation.—(Cheers.) If his will was not wanted, he was now in a position that a Minister never was in before.—(Cheers.) He was relieved from all party consideration ; he had not only the whole patronage of the Government at hia command, but the Opposition.—(Cheers.) They were now, for the first time, united and decided, and de termined to extend to him their earnest and cordial , support if his measures were honest and complete— (Hear, hear)—but they were equally determined, if he was false to the interests of the nation, to resort to every means to obtain justice for the people. Under these circumstances, he (Mr. Villiers) felt sanguine of the success of their cause, and he could not bring himself to think thatthe ee pr r es.)sennt e'beaer. would pass away without some satisf ac t ory settleinent of the great corn-law question.—((;beers.) lieved that their rulerswouldths countryniotsofa far disregard to denyegardthe voicehetta of time had common sense in come when the question should be Whatever they might choo se t o settled.—(Cheers.) t d h . e — (Cheers.) do, of this he was convin ce d , t h at the time had come a Ns l ' \ ll ,a e 3 n ,..._ all (C tr h i e fl e i r n s.) trifling with h her had thise questionalways m huesetnbae realitypassed in the qu es ti on which time and circumstances would sure to aid. — (Cheers.) The corn-law now stood before the country stamped with being a law alike obnoxious to the obtaining of food and the trade of the country. (Cheers.) They had now reached that point in their progress when no Minister would undertake to conduct the affairs of the Government if he was to be responsible for the continuance of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) It was only the other day that they had learned from Mr. Gladstone's letter, that the party who would sup port the corn-laws would not be able to carry on the Government.—(Cheers.) They had shrunk from that test—(Cheers)---they wished to have all the advan tages from the corn-laws when they could be main tained quietly, but they would have nothing to do with maintaining them when there was any risk.— ' (Laughter.) In perusing the addresses of the pro tectionists it would appear that they claim superior integrity, a majority in both 'louses of Parliament, and seven-ninths of the population of the country. If such was the case, was it not curious that they would not undertake to administer the Government ? But no ; they turned from this duty, and they contented themselves in the most scurrilous abuse.—(Cheers.) They had now arrived to that period of the history of this monopoly when no man would undertake —no, not even the strongest Minis ter—(Cheers)—would attempt to govern the county, if, at the same ti me , h e must undertake the responsibility of maintaining the corn -laws.—(Cheers.) Such was the r esu lt o f this law after thirty years' ex per'ence--a law which prevented the proper supply of food to 9 8,000,000 of people.—(Cheers.) Yet they were told that they were not safe, that they were not out of danger; they were told that the parties opposing OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE The regular monthly meeting of the members of the Anti-Corn-law League was held last evening at Covent. garden Theatre. Long before the time ap pointed for taking the chair the theatre was crowded in every part. Amongst the distinguished persons on the stage were George Wilson, Esq. (in the chair), Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., Thomas Milner Gib son, Esq., M.P., Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., Sir Wil liam Brynes, Bart., George Thompson, Esq., John Houghton, E-q. (Broom Hall), Robert Mather, Esq. (Liverpool), Major-General Briggs, Dr. Cooke Tay lor, W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., P. A. Taylor, Esq., H. Ashurst, Esq., Norman Wilkinson, Esq., Messrs. Thomas Hodgkin, David Dewar, Thorne, Rawlins, J. B. Evans, Edward Lucas, Francis Place, Edward Brownley, Grant, Robert R. R. Moore, W, Wedgwood (New York), John Poulter, H. Brittain (Walthamstow), C. Constable (Surrey), Arthur Pat tison, J. C. Hutchinson (U.S.), T. S. Prideaux (Southampton), E. Davy (Crediton), T. Allerdine, Richard Ware Cole, Frank Eastwood, &c. Mr. WiLsosi, the Chairman, on rising, was re ceived with the most enthusiastic cheering, and on quietness being restored, he congratulated the meet ing on what might be, he thought, a very fair subject indeed for congratulation, namely, that after an up hill fight of seven years, the subject for the further ance of which they were assembled had lost none of its wonted interest. He took it for granted there were few at least in the present time so besotted as to think it requisite to ask of six thousand people met in Covent-garden, in the eighth year of the League's campaign, what the precise and definite object of the t great national organisation was, of which that great meeting was but a small fragmentary part. Seven years had brought great and sweeping changes with them. Many a good old prejudice had been ga thered to its fathers, and many an honoured and valued agitator, who had commenced the good work with them (the Leaguers), had been laid in the silent grave. But there they were. Great changes might have taken place within the time. Cabinets had been formed and had passed away. Power had changed from one administration to another ; but the principles of the Anti-Corn-law League had un dergone no alteration—(Cheers)—and nothing had sapped or undermined them. They stood there pledged to the same principles to which they had pledged themselves in 1838—to the total, the com plete, and unconditional abolition of the corn-laws.— (Great cheering.) It was in vain to deny that the present was a most thrilling —a most interesting— period of that agitation. All parties were agreed that the crisis of protection was now approaching. The intermediate ground had been altogether abandoned. The fixed duty party was gone for ever, and it be hoved every man to make his election at once—to stand or fall with that great party which asked for the total abolition of the corn-laws, or with that party which stood out for restriction and security.— (Hear, hear.) Next week . Sir Robert Peel would explain to Parliament the course which it should please him to adopt. He (Mr. Wilson) took it for granted that Sir Robert was already better acquainted than any man in the kingdom with the exact nature of the threatened scarcity of provisions, especially in Ireland. It bad been shown over and over again that the rate of mortality increased or diminished with the increase or diminution of the prices of provisions, and a great responsibility rested upon the man, especially upon the statesman, who could exert a guiding influence upon the cost of provisions Whatever course may have appeared judicious to the statesman at the head of affairs in the year 1815, when the corn-laws were established, in spite of public opinion, there had since sprung up in this country a party which must have some influence in the settle ment of the question to which those laws had given rise ; and it was to the state and position of that party to which he should draw the attention of the meeting that evening. The first great subject which the Anti-Corn-law League had in hand was the qualification movement.—(Hear, hear.) Why, it might be urged, what could the making of votes, which could be only used in October next, have to do with the settlement of a question which might be settled in February, or March, or at all events April ? He would tell them. If they had the question settled in February, or March, or April, it would be because their antagonists knew that they had the votes ready for use in October.—(Cheers.) Now the quali fication should be registered before the 31st of. January, and he would show them what had been the success which had attended their labours hitherto on this qualification movement. The Council of the League would have incurred a fearful responsibility if they, in getting up so enormous a fund as a quarter of a million, had not gi ven th e i r b est consideration to the most advantageous mode of disbursing it. They had to deal with the revision of registries containing 144,600 voters, a quarter of the whole franchise of England, and they had gained on those registries 1 6,446.—(Cheers.) But he (Mr. Wilson) did not come there to tell them what gains had been already made by that revision, but he would take from the mouths of the protectionists that which he was about to lay before the meeting. They all knew South Lancashire, the most populous county in England. At the last election the monopolists beat the free traders. How did it stand now? Lord Francis Egerton—and there he (Mr. 'Wilson) would take leave to say, that if a monopolist could be selected by him, a more honourable man or a more amiable one in private life could not be found than Lord Francis Egerton, the member selected by Sir Robert Peel "to move the address. Well, what said Lord Francis Egerton?—" I will fight no more. Look out for another candidate.— (Hear, hear, and laughter). I have had enough." And at the next election Mr. Villiers and Mr. En twisle would walk over unopposed.—(Cheers.) Then there was South Cheshire, represented by Tatton Egerton, and they had not a man of equal pluck amongst them. Well, what said he ? " Look out for another man.—(Laughter.) I have fought hard battles here for you. I have been at the head of the poll, but you must look out for some one else now."— (Cheers and laughter.) Well, let them next look at the West Riding of Yorkshire.—(Cheers.) That great county, with its million of population, and its 32,000 votes on the registry, and its majority of 800 on the last election. What was taking place there ? Lord Morpeth had been out on his canvass for the last fortnight, and not a man could be found to con test the county with him.—(Tremendous cheering.) Those, then, were a few of the results which had taken place. They knew of a great many others who were prepared to follow the example of those honourable members at the first convenient oppor tunity. and as surely as they (the League) had the slightest ground of excuse for continuing the agita tion for another year, so surely as their opponents left one single rag of protection to keep the League open, so surely would they proceed until they got the men of Scotland to cross the border, to join hands with the men of Northumberland, and Cumberland, and Durham, and thence they should _proceed to unite with the men of Yorkshire, and Lancashire, and Staffordshire, from whence they would pass to Birmingham, and if more was necessary, they should go on, and those should join hands with the men of London, who should go out on all sides purifying the counties and knocking down the monopolists one after another—(Laughter and cheers)—and if there should be one refractory county left, such as Buck ingham—(Laughter and cheers)—why then they would crowd sail on all hands, and take it out of the possession of the Duke. He (Mr. Wilson) next came to speak of the great League fund of a quarter of a million. It was agreed on a month ago—there were gentlemen then on the platform who could vouch the accuracy of this asser tion—that it did not take five minutes in debate before it was agreed on in the Council. There was a meet ing then called at Manchester, the greatest meeting he (Mr. Wilson) ever saw, where, at the rate of 5001. a minute, 6,00001. were at once subscribed—(Cheers) —and there were then upwards of 70,0001. There was another meeting at Liverpool last week in fur therance of the fund, where their excellent friend, Mr. Brown, presided, heading the list with a subscrips tion of 1,000/.—(Cheers). There was another gentle man present, Mr. Mather, who followed him with another 1,000/.—(Cheers.)—and they received somewhere between 12,0001. and 13,0001. in Liverpool.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Wilson) had letters from all parts of the kingdom, stating the ease with which the fund would be raised in all parts of the country. Mr. Baxter, of Dundee, presided at a meeting there, where, in twenty minutes, 1,600/. were raised for the League fund; and that very night there was a dinner at Leeds, of delegates THE PROJECTED RAILWAYS. (From the Times.) With reference to the list of "Defunct Schemes," pub lished in our paper of yesterday, we have received numerous letters, apprising us of amalgamations and other reasons for change of names, &c., to which we cannot say more in reply, than that our three lists, of the 17th cf November, 1845, and 7th and 14th inst., must be taken together—the first, as showing the schemes registered; the second, showing the plans deposited; and the third, those deficient; and which we believe will be found substantially correct. In a list ex tending to some thirteen hundred names—" Central," " Direct," " Great," " Grand Junction," " Union," &c., it would have been utterly impossible to be correct to the letter. We subjoin the following as desired to be corrected : The Direct Birmingham and Leicester, and the Direct Birmingham, Leicester, and Bolton—both registered, but did not deposit plans. The Lincoln, Wainfleet Haven, and Boston:Company have amalgamated with the Boston and Wainfleet, and Lincoln, Horncastle, Spilsby, &c. The Cheltenham, Oxford, and London, are afraid to be mistaken for the " Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junc tion." The Direct Manchester, Leeds, and York Railway Com pany, and the Direct Sheffield and ➢Macclesfield Railway de posited plans. The Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and Sheffield say they were originally registered as Lincoln, East Retford, and Sheffield Junction. The Deal and Dover are afraid this will be taken for " Dover and Deal." The Guernsey Railway and Pier Company say they have no occasion to deposit plans at the British Parliament-office. The Great Southern and Western and Waterford and Limerick Junction Railway say they have lodged their plans. (Their scheme does not appear in the list.) ' The Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire, the Hunting don, Isle of Ely, &c., the Wisbeach and Huntingdon, say that these companies are amalgamated into one, under the name of the Huntingdon and St. Ives and Wisbeach and Sutton. The Isle of Man Railway Company say they are not called upon to deposit before the British Legislature. The Leicester and Tamworth say they have complied with the standing orders. The London and Southend say they were originally regis tered as the "London and Southend Railway and Docks." The New; Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny say they have de posited plans. The Newry and Warrenpoint has been amalgamated with the Newry, Warrenpoint, and Ross Trevor. The St. Alban's, the St. Alban's and Hatfield, and the St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction Company say they have deposited. The Waveney Valley, or Thetford, Bungay, and Yarmouth, say the plans of "The Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Company" are deposited. The Wilts, Somerset and Southampton Company say they are ready to go to Parliament. The Worce — ster and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway have their plans registered, and were entered in our list of the 7th of January. FREE TRADE in the WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. At a very large and influential meeting, held at the Music Hall, Leeds, yesterday evening, the Secretary of the Asso ciation announced the subscriptions towards the quarter of a million fund, collected in various towns of the Riding. The amount received is upwards of THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS, and there is little doubt, when the returns are completed, that this sum will be augmented to FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS. The contributions from five of the principal towns are as ghhh:sLevet Sheffield Huddersfield Ai d Leeds er . 0:: follows: £B,OOO ,deEg 5,000 Halifax 4,000 5,000 B an r,r d T i 7.ePn enthusiasm u R s: a : n o b p d r e e n v , a j E le s d q ._ lS A l 3 :f .i e:d e s r; occupied pen.t. the chair at the meeting, ree • prevailed. — A dvertiser. vertiser d .j FREE-TRADE at LEEDS. LEEDS, WEDNESDAY.—The dinner which is to take place here to-night, in aid of the great League fund, promises to be a most brilliant and successful affair. Public attention is on the qui vivo, and much importance is attached to the number and nature of the free-trade demonstrations to take place be fore the opening of Parliament, as affording to Ministers a test of the depth and strength of the anti-monopolist move ment in the country. The dinner to-night will be presided over by the Mayor of Leeds. The company will probably amount to four hun dred, and will certainly include many of the most influen tial names in Leeds and the West Riding. Arrivals from the neighbouring towns—Bradford, Halifax, &c.—are hourly taking place. One of the objects of the dinner is the increase of the already immense League fund. The people of the West Riding will not lag behind their neighbours of Lancashire in this good work. The sinews of war will be well strung up to meet and overpower the last efforts of the monopolist. It is anticipated that subscriptions from the West Riding to the amount of 30,0001. will be announced, and that the town of Leeds will come down to the tune of 8,000/. or 9,000/. Here is a goodly tribute towards the quarter of a million ! Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright will of course take a prominent part in this evening's proceedings. Mr. Aldam, the Mem ber for Leeds, and Mr. Busfeild, M.P., for Bradford, are ex pected to be present. THE QUARTER OF A MILLION LEAGUE FUND.— During Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, the Manchester subscriptions, and those of the neighbourhood, to the great 250,0004 fund, bad been increased by upwards of 1,3001.; the amount advertised in our last being 75,7124, and the total up to last evening amounting to 77,021/. The additional sub • scriptions include 5001. received yesterday from Mr. William Eccles of Blackburn ; 200/. from Messrs. William Higgins and Sons, of Salford; 200/. from Mr. Clegg, of Manchester; and 1001. from Messrs. George Benson and Co., Stalybridge. The Liverpool subscriptions, up to last night, were more than 15,500/. ; and it is said that the Leeds subscriptions consi derably exceed 7,0004, though they will not be announced till the West Riding dinner, this evening. Deducting 1,5001. of Liverpool subscriptions, included in the total of 77,0001., this would give an aggregate total, from Manchester, Liver pool, and Leeds, to last evening, of ninety-eight thousand pounds !—Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. PEDESTRIANISM.—During the last year there were no less than 385 public foot-races, varying in distance from one hundred yards to twenty miles, and in stakes from 2/. to 501. DAMAGES. --What a man gets by going to law; and, as the word is derived from damnum, a loss, it is ex ceedingly appropriate.— Punch. DEAD WEIGHT. —Vide the National Debt and other blessings, which are among the venerable institutions of the country.—Punch. We regret to learn that Sir George Murray passed a restless night on Tuesday, and was not at all improved in health yesterday, the repeal of this obnoxious law were so formidable that they would exterminate any Ministry who wishecr to abolish it.—(Cheers) Now he (Mr. Villiers). thought there was not much danger in that respect.— (Cheers.) They had been told that the protectionists were able to follow closely in the steps of the League that they were about to raise a large sum of money for the purpose off meeting them in every attempt—(Laughter)—that if' the League raised a quarter of a millioh of money, they would raise half a one—(lncreased laughter)— and they had been told by Mr. Newdegate, the Member for Warwickshire, that the physical force they could bring against the people who were for free trade• they had no idea of at present.—(Great laughter.) He (Mr. Villiers) thought there was some prophecy of the kind two years ago, when these protection societies first appeared —at least he was much mistaken if he did not venture to prophecy of them in that place, that they would soon speedily disagree among themselves, and soon after disappear —(Cheers)--and it seemed that he was not very much out of his calculation in that respect, for he observed that Mr. Miles had said, " He was glad to see his friends again, because he had been oked what had be come of the local protection societies ?"—(Laughter.) He then inquired what the mother society was about, and the answer that he got was, that it also was doing nothing. The central society was idle, and the local societies were doing nothing, but waiting the direc tions of the central one.—(Cheers and laughter.) Now that the protectionists were aroused, and their machinery, such as it was, placed in operation, it ap peared that the arguments they employed were all of the old species. A good deal had been said of Dukes, and certainly, lately, they had figured in some strange scenes. If . he Duke of Norfolk spoke of a panacea for the distress of the labouring classes—(Loud laughter and ironical cheers)—the Duke of Richmond expressed himself as if sinking into the earth with shame at its declaration ; and, on tile other hand, in what satisfied his Grace of Richmond, the Duke of Norfolk saw nothing but absurdity and folly.— (Loud cheers.) And how did these two Dukes pro. pose to meet the crisis ? While the Duke of Nor folk proposed that which was likely to burn the insides of the labourer, the Duke of Richmond recommended the burning of the Times newspaper.—(Great cheering and laughter.) It seemed, that however much the Noble Dukes may differ in opinion, that their logic ends the same, which was to resort to fire. —(Loud cheers.) This was the instrument with which they aimed to keep up the protective system. But they ought to be cautious how they talked of burning, in case it might be taken up more eagerly than they desired.—(Hear, hear.) It was a lesson which might not be easily forgotten if it ever was learned ; nay, it was a lesson which the labourers had learned once before.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") But what was now to be the policy of the few who stood out for the perpetua tion of monopoly ? They were going to raise a fund to do battle with the League. If so, looking at the specimens of these protective gentry who had been before the public, and presuming the half a million —(lronical cheers)—they were preparing to raise was to circulate their speeches, the League, he was quite sure, would claim that sum of money as a contribu tion to their fund.—(Loud and general cheering.) Nothing, he was sure, would contribute so much to advance the cause of free trade than the circulation of such speeches as these protective gentry had been in the practice of deliverii;g..— (Cheers.) In looking through them, one-half seemed to contain nothing but complaints and arguments, if such they could be called, adverse to the cause they had undertaken to defend.—(Cheers.) Their arguments went to show that it was proper to make food difficult of access to the population ; their case one impressing the expediency of diminishing the quantity of suste nance—of making bread dear and scarce, instead of plentiful and cheap.—(Loud cheers.) They said how foolish it was to endeavour to bring plenty to the door of all ; that it was better that wheat should be dear and trade restricted, than trade should be free and the corn-laws repealed.—(Hear, hear.) Th ese were th e arguments, such was The policy, of the parties engaged in the present protection movement, than which no thing could be more conducive to the cause of the Anti Corn-law League.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Miles, on Monday, at the meeting to which he (Mr. Villiers) had already referred, mast a statement respecting what the trade and position of • this country with re gard to America would be if the corn-407's were re pealed. Now that statement, which seemed to be considered the strongest argument on the occasion against the measure proposed by the League, was the strongest that could have been urged in its favour— in fact, it was conclusive in support of the advantages that would result from the adoption of free trade. What was the position at the present moment of these gentry in the country ? They had arrayed themselves together for the purpose of preventing an abundant supply of good and wholesome food to the people. What the Queen had uttered they ob jected to. She had declared herself satisfied that a deficiency had existed in the supply of food, that the season had been unfavourable, and that she was ready to give her assent to any measure of relief that might be proposed to meet the exigency —(Loud and long- , continued cheering)—while these gentry declared they would stand between her and the people, and prevent that measure of relief being carried into effect.—(Hear.) They declared that they would take their stand on behalf of scarcity, and stand between their Sovereign and a suffering people, determined to deprive them of the abundance of the earth. They forgot, or did not seem to know, that the population of these islands was increasing an nually at a prodigious rate ; and that their half mil lion fund would not succeed in putting food into these additional mouths.—(Cheers.) It was to be raised, not for that purpos, but to aggravate the evil of scarcity already too extensive, and to deny the earnest cry and prayer raised by the population of this country for a plentiful supply of healthy food.— (Loud cheers.) Such was the position of the British aristocracy, who boasted and gloried in their pride and power, taking under their surveillance and direc tion fish, and flesh, and fowl and declaring that re garding these they would stand to the prices of 1841, and no other—(Loud cheers)—as a question involving the protection of the constitution of the country.—(Loud cheers.) In how little a position were the protection gentlemen placed by such pro ceedings as these.—(Hear, hear.) In 1:346 they de clared that the sliding-scale t cie(oornHnine estdarhtoe hnf ped s , , h aer o fft u e l oc d ft s r t e h m ef a iaandsysetotawctthaiot scarcity stationary, and that there was no deficiency of food for the poraila e don. That which had been yearly increasing in in tensityf forty rty years.—(Loud e f a o r r s . I ,ex e (eriar l t ti otti s ueo t —ndbiel forty years they declared has no existence. But at last they must be brought to know it ; say what they would, treat it as they would, to the acknowledgment of the pending danger must they come. That scarcity existed, and had been gradually increasing, had been declared, not alone at important gatherings of this kind, but at Goatacre, where the labouring men asserted that they _at least hear) —but that plenty of H t e o ar, th h e e m ae) fo . r , the last foodk n knew of hadof n a o t p l l e e a n s t t y What a whatcontrast the these datdhveoeaactceosuonft protectionof ain snake(P them believe.—(He ar s , poa h fr e eafodr food produced p H brro e idn deemed it right to u g e e u do n d p e o r yer the ir t (th e p no rotectionists) scarcity been povertyi:o food—that state rtath aet created disease.—(Hear, bear.) The sup porters disbelieve the monopoly inere nev aseo e have of the thepopaoffleaetteiodo of o f the country, but they have never been found using any exertions or power to meet the wants of this new population. They did not seem to see that the effect of a deficiency of food was to send thousands and tens of thousands into gaols and union work. houses, to become the victims of crime and de gradation, and premature death.—(Loud cheers.) Not a word about all this did they find spoken at any of the protection meetings that had been held during the last three months—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—but on every occasion the twaddle was how to make food dear.--(Cheers.) They looked not at the danger that threatened, but maintained that they held firm to the existing system, and that the duty on corn should at least remain as great as at present. Whenever there was a protection meeting, such were the sentiments declared.—(Hear.) And this in the face of the acknowledged failure of the potato crop—a crop which had failed, not only in this country. but in other countries, and which was likely to fail again. The disease had previously vi sited other countries, and experience had proved that if there was a failure this year there would be a greater the next, and a greater than that the year after, and so on for several years ; and yet these gentry say that not an iota of the protection now given them should be abandoned—that no sense of their duty to the poor will induce them to do it. " Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof" is their motto. That such evils had happened, and would happen again, and that they (the people) should be contented under such visitations of Providence. Seasons gai o f n . s scarcityuch washad t o h fte e n na oc tur c e urr o ed, fthaen dexcu s es ofeothunatrty syasttemall w p h ro ie t h ection m m e a e d t e ino. t s hro io ugh s o a u p t po t r h t e would fain attribute to the Deity. — (Loud cheer s re sulted "' from o y m ts ht system im s r el htfihas they lnyd hands, a g ad i sn maintained a t u i o si n n , g b t b u e t br w ft h er i e c pt h the ne g he ) the y pur posescAonudn thistia e n s d convenience of a few great families.—(Loud cheers.) Till the county representation was freed from the thraldom of these great houses, there would be no hope of realising that freedom of industy, and that improvement in the people, so imperatively required. Lord Stanley on a former occasion, had told them how these things were managed. A few families met together a short time before an election, and decided as to who the Member should be; and with• out consulting any one further, they decided, and always in favour of some family or class interest in the Member so appointed.—(Hear, bear.) Stich ....... ..."" . ...... . . ..... . ..... ' ........ ~ ..... .. ~,,....