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M LA W INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 31. (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE T. AND C. LOCKHART. The bankrupts were described as florists and seeds men of Cheapside, and came up on application for their certificate. They were opposed by Mr. Dowse, on the part of a Mr. Andrew Duncan, of Aberdeen and supported by Mr. Cooke. The principal ground of opposition was an alleged misrepresentation made by the bankrupts to Mr. Duncan upon his becoming one of their partners some time since, when they declared their stock to be worth upwards of 5,0001., and in consideration of which he (Mr. Duncan) advanced them 1,500(. Ills business was to attend to the books, which he did, and he was to have nothing to do with the buying or the selling. The negotiation for the partnership was chiefly managed by the bankrupt,' father, and a draft was prepared by their solicitors. Mr. Duncan was examined at great length by Mr. Cooke, and stated that he did not real the draft himself, and neither did he read it over to any other persons, though he would not swear that he had not had it for two or three days in his own possession. The only sum he drew from the concern was about 2434 including debts of the firm which he had collectei from the cus tomers for about 43/. Previous to the dissolution of his partnership with the bankrui is in July, 1844, he had employed a Mr. Elliott to value the stock, when he found that several valuable beds of ranunculuses were said net to belong to them, but to a Mr. Lightbody, of Falkirk. Upon his entering into the partnership the bankrupts stated to him that they were each to receive 600/. a year out of the business, and that sum was re cognised as the amount to be so drawn by their deed of partnership. Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD (to Mr. Duncan) — What are the profits said to be on flower s ? M r . Due can said he understood from the bankrupts th a t it was equal to 300 per cent. _ how some days can ho saved between Alexandria and vessel, Commander Smithett, arrived at Woolwich, yes .l.arseilles, and that all Mr. Waghorn succeeded in doing terday, from ()stand, accompanied by the Monkey steam when he made hi s experiment via Germany, was to gain vessel, which had been sent to assist her. some time between Suez and Alexandria, and that there- The Myrmidon was commissioned to-day by Lieu fore the German route or the French route had nothing tenant-Commander Jenkins, and the following appoint to do with the matter. ments have been made :—Lawrence Casey, assistant- In making these observations as to the superiority of surgeon ; William Byford, second master ; William J. the French route, we have no intention of disparaging Jenkins, clerk in charge. Mr. Waghorn's E tforts. That gentleman is, in our opi- The Manceuverer sailed yesterday, for Portsmouth nion, entitled to the public thanks for his unremitting and Devonport. exertions in expediting the Indian mails to England; and APPOINTMENTS. we belie►e that at this nriment the overland route would To the Grampus —M. R. C. Wilson, master's assistant. not have been adopted, but for his untiring energy and 1 To Black Eagle—H. J. Cunningham, master's assistant. erseveranee.—Herald. EMBARKATION Or CONVICTB.—The Sylph and Nymph Woolwich steam. packets brought down the river 198 conviets this morning, from Alilbank prison, and put them on board the China hired convict ship off the Royal Arsenal, for conveyance to a penal settlement. NAVAL IN TEL L liiEN CE. The following is sent us as a correct list of the ships of war commissioned during the put year :- LINE•OF-BATTLE SHIM-Hibernia, 120, Captain Peter Richards, C. 8., for the flag of the Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, G.C.8., commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean ; Trafalgar, 120. Captain William Fan shawe Martin, for the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White, K.C.B , commander-in-chief at the Nore; Caledonia, 120, Captain Hall Manley Dixon, for the flag of the Rear-Admiral Superintendent Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8., of Plymouth Dock-yard ; St. Vincent, 120, Captain Sir Richard Grant, lint., for the flag of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth ; Qneen, 110, Captain Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, K.C.8., for the experimental cruise, and subse quently for the flag of Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., commander-in-chief at Devonport ; Rodney, 92, Cap tale Edward Collier, C.B. ; Canopus, 84, Captain Fairfax Moresby, C.B. ; Vanguard, 80, Captain Geo. W. Willes. FRIG ATES.- Vernon, 50, Captain John Coghlan Fitzge rald, for the flag of Rear-Admiral Samuel H. Inglefield, C.B, commander-in-chief at the Brazils; President, 50, Captain William Pearce Stanley, for the flag of Rear- Admiral James Richard nacres, commander-in-chief at the Cape Station; Grampus, 50, Captain Henry Byarn Martin, C. 8.; Melanapus, 42, Captain John Norman Campbell; Endymion, 42, Captain George Robert Lam bert; Herald, 26, Captain Henry Kellett, C. 8., for the survey of the N.W.;coast of America; Calliope, 26, Cap tain Edward Stanley; Juno, 24, Captain Patrick Blake; Alarm, 26, Captain Charles Colville Frankland; Athol, 26, Master-Commander John Pearn, armed troopship; and Carysfort, 26, Captain George Henry Seymour. CORVETTES, BRIGS, AND , CUTTERS.-Nimrod, 20, Commander James Richard Dacres; Grecian, 16, Com mander Alexander Leslie Montgomery; Siren, 16, Com mander Harry Edmund Edgill; Bittern, 16, Commander Thomas Hope; Kingfisher, 12, Commander Charles Fore man Brown; Pandora, 6, Lieutenant-Commander James Wood; Seagull, 6, packet-brig, Lieutenant Henry Perry Dioken ; Heroine, 10, Commander Charles Edmunds ; Viper, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Edward Evans Gray; Seatiewei 6, Commander Justus Peter Roepel ; Spy, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Samuel Otway • Woolridge; Speedy, 3, Li eutenant -Commander George Spong ; Sylvia. 3, Lieutenant Henry Warren ; Erebus, discovery ship, CaPlsin Sir John Franklin, and Commander Jas. Fits:jetties ; Terror, discovery ship, Captain Richard Crozier. ; and Pagoda, surveying vessel, commissioned by Lieutenant Moore, at the Cape of Good Hope ; Ring dove, 16, Commander Sir William Hoste, Bart. ; Calypso, 20, Captain Henry J. Worth ; Rapid, 10, Com mander Henry J. \V. S. Gallwey. ST EA M -VESSELS.-Victoria and Albert, Captain the Right lion, Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence ; Vulture, 6, Captain John M'Dougall ; Retribution, 10, Captain Stephen Lushington ; Samson, 6, Captain Thomas Hen derson; Terrible, 10, Captain William Ramsay; Styx, 6, Commander William Wyndham llornby; Vesuvius, 6, Commander George O'Callaghan; Avon, 3, steam-survey ing vessel, Commander Henry Mangles Denham; Alecto, 4, Commander Francis William Austen . Scourge, 4, Commander James Crawford Catlin; Jackall, 2, Lieut.- Commander W. M. S. G. Pascoe; Spitfire, 2, Lieut.- Cone:slander James A. NPDonald; Fairy, Master- Cora meeder J. G. Thain; Bloodhound, 2, Lieut.-Commander Rebell Philips; Meteor, 2, Lieut.-Commander George Butler ; Lizard, 2. Lieut.-Commander II M. Tylden; Harpy, 2, Lieut.-Commander Edward B. Proctor; Fear less, Master-Commander Gco. Brockman; Janus, expe rimental steamer; Dasher, 2, Commander W. L. Sharing ham, fir the surveying service; Cuckoo, 2, Lieut.-Com mander Abraham l'arks, for the protection of the Scotch fisheries; Gladiator, 6, steam frigate, Captain John Robb; Wee-Pet steam tender at Malta, Second Master-Com mander George Duncan, and Myrmidon, 2, Lieut.-Com mander Charles Jenkins; arid Phrenix, 4, Commander J. S. A. Dennis. TOTAL.-Eight line-of-battle ships, eleven frigates, nineteen corvettes, brigs, and cutters, and twenty-five steamers. Corresponding number in 1844:-Three line four frigates, twenty-seven corvettes, &c., and thirteen steamers. SHIPS PAID 011 IN 1845. LINE - OF- BATTLE SHIPS. -Caledonia, 120, Captain Alexander Milne, flag-ship of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.8., commander-in-chief at Plymouth ; San Josef, 114). Captain Frederick W. Burgoyne, ordinary guard ship at Plymouth, and flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Super intendent Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.B. ; Formidable, 84, Captain George F. Ricb, flu ship of Vice-Ad m i ra l Si r Edward W. C. R. Owen, K.C.8., G.C.H., commander in-chief in the Mediterranean ; illustrious, 74, Captain John E. Erskine, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., commander-in -chief in the West Indies; St. Vincent, 120, Captain R. Freeman Rowley, flag-ship of Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., G.C.8., G.C.H., commander-in -chief at Portsmouth. FRIGATES.-Dublin, 50, Captain John J. Tucker, flag. ship of Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas, commander in-chief in the Pacific ; Alfred, 50, Commander C. Al. M. Wright, flag-ship of Commodore John B. Purvis, com mander-in-chief in the Brazils ; lsis, 44, C a pt a i n Si r John Marsh a ll, C . 8., K.C.H., from the Cape Station ; 13elvidera, 38, Captain the Hon. George Gray, from the Mediterranean ; Cambrian, 36, Captain Henry 1). Chads, fe.l3, commodore and second in command on the East India and China station ; Thalia, 46, Captain Char:es Hope, from the Pacific ; Volage, 26, Captain Sir Wil liam Dickson, Bart., flag-ship of Rear-Admiral W. Bowes, C. 13., commander-in-chief of the Irish station ; t 1 lle, 26, armed troop-ship, Commander William APLean ; Carysfort, 26, Captain Lord George Paulet, from the Mediterranean ; Spartan. 26, Captain the Hon. C. G. J. 13. Elliot, from the %Vest Indies. CORTETTES, BRION, AND Culerees.-Aigle, 24, Capt. Lord Clarence Edward Paget, from the Mediterranean ; lido, 20, Captain the Hon. Henry Kepple, from the East Indies ; Electra, 18, Commander Arthur Darby, from the West Indies ; Scout, 18, Commander the Hon. James R. Drummond, from the Mediterranean ; Harlequin, 16, Commander the Hon. George Hastings, from the East Indies ; Pelican, 16, Commander Philip Justice, from the East Indies ; Bittern, 16, Corn merrier Edmund Peel, from the coast of Africa ; Snake, 16, Commander the lion. W. B. Derereux, from the Mediterraneen ; Scylla, 16, C omman d er R o b ert Sharpe, K.H., from the West Indies ; Itingdove, 16, Com mander Sir William Daniell, Knt., from the coast of Africa ; Heroine, 10, Lieut. Commander Henry Foot, from the coast of Africa ; Rapid, 10, Lieut. Commander •Edinund Wilson, from the coast of Africa ; Viper, 6, Lieut.-Csinamander James Carter, from South America ; Cockatrice, 6, Lieut.-Commander Justus Oxenham, from ;South America ; Ferret, 10, Commander Josiah Oake, free) the coast of Africa - Linnet, 6, packet Pbrig, Li- ut. Henry P. Dicke n , f rom Falmouth ; Speedy, 3, Lleut.-Commander George Beaufoy, from Sheerness station ; Seaflower, 6. Li, utt . nant - Uommander Nicol as it titilliard, from the Jersey st ttion Lynx, 6, b r i gan " Ow, Lieut.-Commander John T. Nutt, from the Irish station ; Sylvia, 3, Lieut. - Commander Edward Tumour, frier) the Jersey etatien ; Snipe, 6, Lieut.-Commander George Reymond, from the Plymouth station, STEAM-VESSELX.-Styx, 6, Captain Alexander J. E. Vidal, from the Azores (surveying); Alecto, 4, Lieu tenant-Commander William Hoeeason, from the Medi terranean; Vesuvius, 6, Counnencler Erasmus Omman ney, from the Mediterranean ; Devastation, 6, Com mander William Kitchen, from the East Indies; Medea, 6, Commander Frederick Warder, from the Mediter ranean ; Fearless, e„,, from the surveying ser4nand" V. L Slieri"gharn' Claude 31. Buckle, from tichircpieetnsttrof ; GroA ler, 6, Commander Commander Edward J. Africa ; Geyser, 6, eoinmtauns s t e h i e i A fr l o e rn dit t e h r e . ranean; Ardent, 6, Commander ter' (f Africa; Meteor, 4, John ; EciatTrernaander George Butler, from the Irish station Ciinunander, Henry C. Harston, from the coak Of4l.£ri'ng.: Dwarf, Lieutenant- Corona older H. B. Proctor' fT ' ' Sheerness station; Polyphenniz4Licutenant•Comrnanreinier Thomae Sparks, from the Mediterranean. TOTAL.-5 line of battle ships, 10 frigates, 21 cor vettes, brigs, and cutters, and 13 steamers. Correspond ing- number in 1844:-S line of battle ships, 3 frigates, 20 corvettes, &c., 6 steamers. DEATH OF THE EARL OF PORTARLINGTON. The Noble Lord just deceased was in the 65th year of his fig.., having been born on the 26th of February. 1781. He had the misfortune to lose his father when only 17 years of age ; shortly before which event he entered the army, and served with his regiment durin 4 the disastrous campaign in Holland, when the late Duke of York had the command of the forces there employed against the soldiers of the young republic of France. Lord Pcrtarlington also joined the expedition which went to Hanover in 1805, and served throughout the Penin sula campaign of 1809, including the battle of Talavera. II is military ea.ver was further extended to the campaign of 1815. during which the actions of Quatre- Bras and Wa terloo were fought. In 1814, he was included in the pro motion which took place on the King's birthday in that ear (June 4), when he was raised to the rank of colonel in the army. It does not appear that he reached any higher dignity in his profession; and this will appear the more remarkable, when it is recollected that the length of his war services extended over seventeen years cf the greatest struggle in which thi s country was aver en gaged. Besides, it rarely happens that a man possessing the rank of an Earl goes through so much service for so moderate a reward. It will, probably, be inferred that he was singularly destitute of influence at the Horse Gnards, or remarkably unfortunate, or that he 1?!.- ' frayed some special inaptitude for the duties of a mili tary officer. His Lordship's father was the first Earl, and his mother was the fifth daughter of the third Earl of Bute. The Noble Lord just deceased, how ever' does not leave any issue, having died unmarried ; but there is no present danger of the P . ortarlington family becoming extinct, for his Lordship's relatives form rather a numerous race. The title devolves upon; Henry John Reuben Dawson Darner, son of the late Hon. Captain Henry Dawson, R.N., who assumed the names of Darner fur himself and issue ; this gentleman was second son to the first Earl. The family of the deceased peer had fly its founder Marinaduke l)'Ossone, who came to this country with William the Conqueror. The ancestor of the Irish branch of the Dawsons was William, who held the office of Collector of the Revenues of Down and Antrim in the reign of Charles IL, and whose son purchased estates in the Queen's county, where eventually he settled. It appears, however, that these estates proved of very little advantage to the Noble Earl, whose death took place on Sunday last, for it is understood that his pecuniary difficulties occasioned him so much anxiety as to have been the proximate cause of his sudden removal from this world. INQUEST ON THE BODY. On Wednesday an inquiry took place before William Carter, Esq., coroner for East S urre y, i n t h e d raw i ng room of the residence of the deceased, in the Kenning ton-road. The jury having viewed the body, Miss S. Barr was examined, and stated that the deceased Earl had resided with her and her father for the last two years ; his age was about sixty-three. On Sunday last he had been writing in the drawing-room, and ob serving a boy selling oranges in the street, had made a a remark that he thought it ought not to be permitted. He appeared then to be in excellent health, and after wards went to his bedroom to wash his hands. While he was there she thought she heard a gurg ling noise, which induced her to go to the door, and he appeared to have fallen down, as if in a fit. Mr. Nairne, surgeon, was sent for and came immediately, but he said he was quite dead. The Coroner—Did you I observe anything fall from his hand at the time? Tht witness replied that she did not. 'I he Coroner—Have you reason to think that he took prussic acid or any other poison? Miss Barr said she was satisfied he had not, for he clung too fondly to life; and his death was most unexpected, for he always boasted of the excellent health he enjoyed. He had been much distressed in his mind of late, arising, as she believed, from pecuniary 1 difficulties. In her opinion he died from natural causes. Mr. C. Nairne, of 8, China-terrace, Kennington, surgeon, ' deposed that about 2 o'clock on Sunday a very urgent message was sent to him to go to the deceased's residence, as he was in a fit. He did so immediately, but on his arrival found him dead. There was no external mark of violence, and nothing to indicate the cause of death. The Coroner said, that on the previous day, when the inquest was to have been held, he had been informed that such was the fact, and he bad in consequence ad. journed the inquiry for the purpose of making a post mortem examination of the body. Mr. Nairne continued, and said he had made the examination in the presence of Mr. Wildbore and Mr. Parrett. On opening the chest, he found the large vessels of the heart greatly ossified i the substance of the heart was quite healthy. There was congestion of the vessels of the brain, and considerable effusion of serum in the ventricles. The state of the heart and brain aas quite sufficient to cause very sudden death. There were no signs of his Lordship having taken anything. The Coroner having shortly adverted to the evidence, the jury returned immediately a verdict of "Died from natural causes." Early next year it is intended to send mail bags from London to Portsmouth six times a day, and we shall consequently have six daily deliveries.—Hampshire Telegrapla. Colonel Reid, the recently-elected M.P. for Wind sor, took leave of his regiment, stationed in that town, on Tuesday afternoon ; his retirement from the 2d Life Guards, upon half-pay, having been notified in the London Gazette on Tuesday evening. The Gallant Colonel intends to reside at Windsor, having engaged a house in the cloisters of St. George's Chapel, within the Castle precincts. NEW POTATOES.—Mr. Murchy, the gardener of W. P. Ruxton, Esq., of Red House, furnished that gentle man's table with a dish of new potatoes for Christrnas-day. At a time when serious apprehensions are entertained for the success of the seed of the present season, it must be most gratifying to find that an experiment made with them at so early a season has proved so very successful, as we area sured that these potatoes were of excellent quality, consider iug the early season in which they have been produced.— Newry Examiner. FREE-TRADE, BIRMINGHAM.—The Committee of the Anti-Corn-law Association have had a meeting on the subject of the proposed League Fund of a quarter of a million, and arrangements are in progress for aiding the League in this great effort. ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY HIGH: TIDE.—Wed. nesday morning the banks of the Thames were overflowed by another tide, which rose several inches higher than the mark by which high-water is measured. The overflow in the neighbourhood of Deptford and Greenwich was seriously ob structive to businees in the vicinity of the Creek, and several of the nursery -grounds tied cottages, as far from the banks as the terminus of the railway at Greenwich, lay for many hours under water, The general damage, however, is not so great as that which followed the late high tide. ARRIVAL OF THE 'MASSACHUSETTS, LIVERPOOL, WE AFTERNOON. —The auxiliary steam packet-ship Massachusetts reached this to- day, after pertieming the voyage from New York in twenty days. She brings a great many passengers, but the news contained in the papers sent by her have been anticipated by the arrival of the Cambria. THE LEAGUE QUARTER OF A MILLION FUND.— It will be seen by the advertisement elsewhere, that this great subscription, great in its very birth, a Hercules in its cradle, grows apace, and is already ripe for strangling a few of the Hydras of monopoly. Up to our publication of Saturday last, the amount subscribed was 65,4031. ; and the addi. tiunal subscriptions of Saturday, Monday, and yesterday, amount to 6,370/. ; making a grand total of 71,773/. ! Amongst the subscriptions is one of 1,000/. from Messrs. Richard, John, and Alfred Pennington, of Ilindley, gentle men of Conservative political opinions, but, as their liberal subscription significantly intimates, thorough free traders. Mr. William Brown, of 'Liverpool, "one of the future repre ssiotint,aotfives of South Lancashire," as he has been called by .\lr. Cobden, has also given 1,000/. Messrs. G. Andrew and Compstall-bridge ; Mr. Jolla Leech, of Staleybridge and Mr. Alfred Orrell, of Stockport, have given 500/. each. B oitt e s : l 7 : l l ; 77 t 3 ll ; e aza tse m beN o e u siu l l i b ts sc , there have been in three days two sebseriptions of 2501.; three of 2001. ; two of 150/. ; eight of 1 - 1)0 /.; and of 7 01 In one week, then, from ra gin,g more thraidnption has reached the amount Guardian. —Manchester TIIE FOREIGN' i‘thays issued on Wednesday 10,000/. Ia i ly. next mails for Gibraltar, M a l e General Post-office :—The The following notice was Egypt, India, Ceylou, and Chin a , tlre ,!c,e, the lonian Islands, morning of Saturday, the 3d of ,1 a ,: 11 be made up on the by the Achilles steamer Southaurear3; to be forwarded land mail to the Mediterranean, India! ) B, e . 1 . 13 , th e over on the the evening o f th e 7 t h . The mails for . ' Marseilles, p Oporto, Lisbon, Madei ra , C ad i z, and Gibraltar'e-,l3„runna' up on the mornings of th e 7th, 17 t h , and 27thofreacilt and forwa r d e d ma Southampton. Th e next mail made up on th e morn i ng of the 7th of -January. The ill pit,o due on the .sth of January. B r iti s h C olonies in the West Indies (except Honduras and Bermuda), Foreign Colonies in the West Indies (except Havannah). New Granada, Venezuela, and Madeira, are made up on the mornings of the 20 and 17th of each, month. Mexico, Honduras, and Ha vannah, on the morning of the 2d of the month. Ber. mitila and San Juan de Nicaragua on the morning of the 17th only. The next mail will be made up on the morning of Friday ' the 20 of January (to-morrow), to b e f orwarded by the ilianies steamer vii Southampton. Next mails due flout the West Indies, Mexico, &c., Jan. 7th. British North l America, Bermuda, and the United States. The mails are made up on the evenings of the 3,1 and IStli of each month, except in December, January, February, and March, and then (inky on the 3d, and forwarded rid Liver pool, Halifax, and Boston. The next mail will be made up on the evening of Saturday, January 3, to be f orwar d ed b y the Hiber n i a steamer. Next mail due at Liverpool, the Acadia steamer, on the 15th. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres. The mails are made up on the evening of the first Tuesday of each mouth, and forwarded by sailing packets Falmouth. The next mail will be made up on the even ing of the 6th of January. ller Majesty's brig Crane due on January 23. From August to -January inclusive the packet touches at Pernambuco and Bahia, on her outward passage to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on hie- homeward. Sydney, New South Wales, Port Phillip, and New Zealand on the evening of the last day of the month, by sailing packet from Gravesend. We understand, on good authority, that her Ma jesty's Regiment to the a s diverted it w steamer Resistance is to return to lonteA Video as s oon as she is retitted, ti a ( n )p d e, is it t s o o c r a ig rr i y na t l h d e e 4 st s i tnliationbefore Caieof Good to another purpose by Mr. Hamilton. W e are in formed, also, that Mr. Hamilton is recalled.—Ch ron i c l e. SOM E T H ING IN A NAME.—The second titl e o f th e - • y t e . p d sW to e lt changend e rst a s n a d r r t s h y e N present n hea i d i 1 of itshteh ailt lusoftEriaolorfaScuerirne tinttiovCocuwt.h therryhi;foriie Former insistiss merely aet thatthel'u i trtiwou._pun astheo c rilinal , And did 3Cu expect when you entered into the part nership that you were to get 6001. a year upon a capital of only I,sooo—Yes, sir, I did. Mr. Theodore Lockhart, in examination by Mr. Dowse, denied that he had ever represented himself to Mr. Duncan as having any property at Oxfordshire, although about the year 1837 or 1838 he had bought orne for his foster-brother, upon which the deposit money was paid, but he believed the property in ques tion was now in Chancery. Examined by Mr. COOKE.-4 showed Mr. Duncan all our books before the partnership, and be even assisted me in the business several times before the deed was completed. I positively swear that when Mr. Duncan joined us the stock was worth more than 5,0001. I have been in business for twenty-five years, during fifteen of which I was at Haerlem (Holland), and since that period in England. I had, as portion of my stock, from eight to ten thousand white turbans, a vast variety of elnoirs besides I was in the habit of serving one of the first florists in the kingdom. We had 200 other sorts, which would fetch in the shop ls. each, and the elnoirs 2s. 6d., as we had that species exclusively. We sent eight boxes of ranunculuses back, because they did not suit us, and Mr. Duncan himself wrote the letter which accompanied them. Mr. Charles Lockhart, in examination by Mr. Cooke, denied his ever having told Mr. Duncan that their profits were 1,8001. a year; on the contrary, he said it averaged rather better than 6001. a year. Mr. DowsE was heard at considerable length, and contended that from the evidence now before the Court, it was clear that the bankrupts had obtatned 1,5001. from Mr. Duncan, and that there could be no pretence fur not staying the certificate for some considerable period. Mr. COOKE, characterised this opposition as both vexa tious and vindictive. The names of these men were k nown as well in the land of Flowers as in England and in Scot land, and though they were bankrupts at this moment, they stood so high in character that their princical cre ditors were at once prepared to assist them upon their re-entering into business. The joint creditors were only 7331. ss. 9d., and the assets realised 7941., while upon the separate estate of one 16s. 7d. and upon the other 2s. 3d. in the pound, would be realised. He (Mr. Conke) with confidence asked for their immediate certi ficate. Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD—There was a good deal of peculiarity in this case, and much conflicting testimony. However, it appeared clear to him that no false representations had been made by them as to the value of their stock when Mr. Duncan joined them as a partner, and as that allegation was unfounded, the de cision of the Court was, that the bankrupts were en titled to have their certificates forthwith. SNIPS LAUNCHED IN 1845. - The Terrible, steam frigate, 800 horse power, at Deptford, built on th e d es i gn of Mr. Oliver Lang, master shipwright of Woolwich Dockyard ; Spitfire, steam skop, 140 horse power, at Deptford, built on the design of • Mr. Oliver Lang, jun., master shipwright of Chatham Dockyard ; Bloodhound, Jaekall, Lizard, and Harpy, iron steamers, of 120 horse power each, at Glasgow, built on the designs of Sir William Symonds, Knight, surveyor of the navy ; Fairy, steam tender to the Royal Yacht, at Blackwall, built by Ditchhurn and Mare ; Wee Pet, strain tender, at Malta ; Avenger, steam frigate, at Dev:mport ; Inflexible and Dragon, at Pembroke ; Cen taur, at Portsmouth ; Bull•dog, at Chatham ; and hurt', at Sheerness, steam sloops, of from 500 to 600 horse p.:met 00 designs by th e surveyor of the navy; Trident, of 400 horse power, at Blackwall ; and Birkenhead, of 500 h , )rse power, at Birkenhead, iron steamers, built by con tract ; Kingti •ber, 12, at P e mb ro k e ; Al arm, 26, at Sheerness ; Calypso, 20, and Activ e , 36, at C hatham l 26, at Devonport, on gni Ureo •e ,designs by the surveyor,,e the nav y ; arid Raleigh, 50, atChatham, sign 0 f 11r. Fincham, master shipwright of P ? rt stnoilt h I), iek vii rd.-1 frigates, 1 corvette, I b rig, an d 16 v,•eain vessels. SHERIFFS' CO UII7, Jan. 1. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELE.) CARR V. BRIDGES. The plaintiff in this action is a tailor, in the Edge ware-road, and the defendant a plumber and glazier. The action was brought to recover the sum of 51. 13s. for goods sold and delivered. _ _ Mr. Charnock appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Corrie (Judge of the Palace Court) for the defendant. The facts of the case were these:—ln 1844 the de fendant contracted a debt of 151. 9s. Bd. with the plain tiff; and afterwards took the benefit of the Insolvent Act, but just previously he had more clothing to the amount now demanded. In his schedule he only in serted the first debt of 15/. 9s. Bd., and now pleaded that he had been discharged from the debt under the In solvent Act. The plaintiff opposed at the time on the ground that there had been a fraudulent transfer of pro perty to defendant's father, and the defendant was re manded until 50/. was paid into Court on account, plaintiff being appointed assignee. Mr. CORRIZ argued that the plaintiff being assignee, ought not to bring an action for his individual debt, even though defendant was not exempted from payment by the operation of the Act, but that if any property was in possession of defendant, it should be paid into Court for the benefit of the creditors generally. Mr. CHARNOCK contended that the two debts were dis tinct, and that the defendant, having omitted the latter debt, could not now avail himself of the discharge under the Act. There was a serious difference in the amount ; had both been inserted, the plaintiff would have been a creditor fur above 201., and could then have obtained Q judge's order to detain the insolvent, but as it was, he got his immediate discharge by favour of his detaining creditor. The UNDER-SHERIFF Said it was a question for the jury whether there had been any "culpable neglect, fraud, or evil intention," i n t h e om i ss i on of the debt. If so, the verdict must be for the plaintiff. It was for the jury to ,ay whether they considered that defendant could have forgotten the last account. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. PARKIN V. MARTIN. ' The plaintiff in this action is an accountant, and the claim was for 5Z 55., for work and labour done in effect ing an arrangement with the defendant's creditors. It appeared that the defendant had originally employed Mr. Cross, a solicitor, but the plaintiff was subsequently engaged to compl e t e t h e negot i at i on. The defendant, who appeared in person, said that plaintiff was a mere clerk to Mr. Cross, and he (defendant) only knew him in that capacity, and never gave him any instructions except through Mr. Cross, whose bill he had paid. I The UNDER-SHERIFF said Mr. Cross had sworn he had referred defendant to plaintiff, although, at the same time, he had admitted that he was in the habit of em ploying plaintiff on other occasions of a like nature, and might have paid a portion of the present claim. Mr. Cross had also said he would have advanced the money to effect the arrangement. The question therefore was whether the retainer of the :plaintiff was by Mr. Cross or the defendant.- The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. SUNS fiIIoICEN CP IN 1845 Vill e de l'aris, 112 ; o , .negql, 72 ; Swiftsure, 72 ; m ~ ,,, ei,,,,n . ; „ yilfies. 16 ; Cli o, 1 6 ; J isseur, 16 ; rk-rn,lgai:4t,')._ 1 - 0 (s:Ad) . ; Skylark, 10 (wrecked) ; Fair 11 "' arc ""d , 6 ; Lynx, t; ; and Basilisk, 6 , condemned Ili llTlB,4lWitrilly in Soath America. Li•tc B lll.A IN COMMISSION ON THE , battle ship s at . - ,, f• for sea in , I«.l‘y re s p ect ..... 8( 9, and ready l sf.rAs [IA RI - , I 84 , 3. ... 12 Line-of-battle ships a;, ... ********************* :i' l i ** commission as ordinary guard ships ships, but 1 unfit for service St at a" receiving Frigates at sea and fitting C.:t;t' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 13 gun a s t the several ports, carrying from 26 to 50 Corvettes, , brigs, awl cotters (rx — :l. ''''''''' '' the..'''''''''''' 3;-) mouth packet brigs) of from 2 t ( ,, steam frigates, steam sloops, and °)44733agor7;teeacatnhe'r—s 83 (excluding the mail packet steamers t from i to 12 guns each .......................... Armed troop ships of from 10 to 20 it;''' • ... 95 Discovery ships, v i z ., E re b us, Terror and la . g . (Xia ' ' , ' Total ----- of all classes in commission ............ WooLwica, Dec. 3l.—The Princess Alice steam -43 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. The Lord Mayor received the following letter, to which his attention was particularly claimed, from the Water- man and Lighterman's Company:— " " Waterm an ' s Hall, Dec. 31, 1845. My Lord Mayor,—We are directed by the Court of the Master -wardens and Assistants of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the river Thames, to draw your Lordship's attention to the late proceedings at Blackfriars-pier of the Steam -boat Company called "The Waterman's Steam -boat Company," and as from the similarity of name your Lordship and the public may suppose that the Waterman and Lighterman's Company are parties to these proceedings, we take this oppor tunity of informing your Lordship (and perhaps your Lordship will have the kindness to make it known in other quarters) that the Waterman and Lighterman's Company are not parties to, or in any manner connected with, such proceedings, nor are they interested in the affairs of the Waterman's Steam-boat Company.—We have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor, your Lordship's very humble servants, " CLARKE and COOPER, Solicitors to the Waterman and Lighterman's Company. " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." The Loma MAYOR said it was very probable that the confusion apprehended to a certain extent existed, from the cause assigned by the gentlemen who had written to him, and he considered it extremely proper that there should be the be Waterman a va d t i e s r e m la a im n being conneetepdany: connexion ei: iko i n l (m be t t h is a 'een t and hHe t e h p a ot t ohroulig. aht et the rim Waterman's ernig, pac.et, Company.earndasLipg"hbteliremaasn'spoCsosmibpleantylpoofnatnhya• public appeals had h i n t , w too, h o t s o e S l e t te behalfa r Croat A. B. C., for the poor-bme'priu:fethr),dtiepnirwed " • cs profit from, the wat,ran,s ste with, and deriving . chase from hase i shares atu-packet Company, had nothing to do with that Com exception of the ittdvid ad any . No in ntohbeosdpeehulaatlise bitenednLldeed toilo advantage whatever as whatever The ,i'i hab b toe e l n e l l ' el atid l b - i t a r b o f d er u eo r g e imi hc t i ai r b b t e 'l i d . e f w o t l i r o i t e . hp l h tt O lh i r s s e . - , were again Time three children who had Lordship on Wednesday, at the instant. of ho a s g e e d n e t s lr t u rt te i conditionwho h a i hseisenLuoiridestilfipthsvern placed at the bar. The policeman appointed to make inquiry about the parents of the boy s , state d t h at he could learnnothing whatev er a b out t h em, as the children were entirely int: known in the places were they said they resided. The LORD MAYOR said the confusion evidently be came worse confounded, and that the necessity for the interference of the Legislature was every day more and more apparent in regard to the protection of poor children. He wished one of the acting Commissioners of Somerset House would take the trouble of visiting the justice-room, to witness a few of the scenes which daily occurred, exhibiting the totally destitute condition of so many boys and girls, and endeavour to strike out some plan for the consideration of the Legislature. It was impossible that he could send the children before him to prison, or into the streets. The officer of the City of London Union must take them to the house of reception at Peckham. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY iiio-711,NING, J.ANTIA RV' 2, 1846 Mr. Thwaitee, one of the officers of the City of London Union, having, at his Lordship's desire, attended upon the occasion, said, in answer to some question, that under peculiar circumstances the officers of the union accompanied the applicants for refuge to the house at Peckham, but they had not the power of compelling any pErsons to remain in it, for it was one of the regu lations that any inmate might discharge himself. The LORD MAYOR said he could not see how such a regulation could, with any degree of propriety, extend to children, and he was determined that these before him should be provided for by the union until their parents should be fuund. He was of opinion that the officers of the union ought to make out a list of cases similar to that which at that moment presented itself, and hand it to the Commissioners of the Poor-laa-, that they might, upon such unquestionable grounds, apply to the Legislature. Mr. Thwaites submitted to his Lordship that as asylums were in a state of preparation for the houseless, the est;l adverted to would, in a great measure, be remedied. The LORD MAYOR—But until the time arrives when such asylums shall be ready for the reception of the poor, the union must take care of those who appear within its limits. I must say that a vast deal of distress and misery have arisen from the fact that the City of London Union have no premises in the City ix which they could protect the poor, and it a ould appear as if the authorities kept their workhouse at Peckham in order that objects should have more than ordinary difficulties to encounter when seeking assistance. In such an ar rangement there certainly is no humanity. Mr. Thwaites assured the Lord Mayor that he and his brother officers left an effort untried to carry out his Worship's views, and that they were subjected, in the performance of their duty, to great annoyances from the violence and depravity of many of the parties who were constant customers to the union. The LORD MAYOR—I admit that you do your duty, but the board do not perform theirs. A board ought to be immediately called to take the matter to which I have called the peculiar attention of the powerful press of the country. I am resolved not to let the matter drop, for it is ultimately connected with the happiness of the community. The children were then conveyed to the union at Peckham by the officer. CLERKENWELL. Mr. George Smith, who described himself as a man of independent property, residing in Victoria-road, Peck ham, was charged with having been an accomplice with a female not in custody, in stealing from the house of Mr. William James Linton, engraver, residing at 85, Hutton-garden, several silver spoons, wearing apparel, and half a dozen of claret and other wines. Mrs. Doman, the female alluded to in the above charge, attempted to commit suicide by swallowing poison, from which she is still ill. The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner had been for some time visiting witness's housekeeper, who passed as the prisoner's wife. She declined to receive his visits latterly, and said he had beaten her; she seemed at times in very low spirits. On Christmas-day he left home fur his country house, leaving directions that the prisoner should not be admitted before his return on Monday ; he ascertained that the prisoner had been there until that morning, when he and the woman absconded. The wine, silver spoons, two cloaks, and other valuable ar ticles, were missed immediately after their departure. The prisoner acknowledged that he had taken the wine. The prisoner indignantly denied being the husband of Mrs. Doman. Ile had been invited to the house by Mrs. Doman, who he understood was an acquaintance of Mr. Linton's. He knew her only since April. He did not go to Mr. Linton's until invited. He then made a rambling, incoherent statement, to the elhct that Mrs. Doman had left Mr. Linton's house in April last, when lie first met her. Mr. Linton had sent her money and a testimonial, but the woman was in distress, and he (prisoner) gave her all the aid in his power. Mr. Cosier:—What are you ? Prisoner—l have no profession ; I live on my own fortune. Mr. COMBB—Where do you live ? Prisoner—l live in my own house, 5, Victoria-road, Peckham. Mr. CosinE—What have you to say to the charge ? Prisoner—l drank some of the wine. Mr. Cosmic—What wine did you drink ? Prisoner —I drank claret ; Mrs. Doman preferred sherry. Mr. COMBE—How do you live ? Prisoner—l said already that I lived on my means, and I say so still I have been bequeathed a considerable fortune within the last twelve months. The house is my own. I live rent free. Mr. COMBE—You are a very lucky man, when you can live rent free, and drink other people's claret free of cost. The prisoner here becarm, so much affected . and sobbed s., viidentiy, tbu, ShL was ob.g.td to tiv removed to the lock-up cell- by the gaoler. 1 1 .1"1RYLEBONE. William flooding, living in Little Marylehone-street, was charged wilh having suffered to go at large, un muzzled, a ferocious dog, for which offence, under the Police Act, he had rendered himself amenable to a penalty of 40s. Prisoner—l don't think this is a joking matter. The Clerk—l am sure Mr. Linton thinks with you. Prisoner—lf you doubt that lam a man of property, you can see the will at Doctors'-commons. Mr. COMBE —ls that the best account you can give ? Prisoner—Yes ; because it is the true account. Mr. CoMBE—Then I must tell you I don't believe a word or it. Mr. Linton said, he owed his life to Mrs. Doman, who came from the Fever Institution to nurse him. Prisoner—l wish to put a few questions to you, Mr. Linton. Alfred Henry Purday, 5, Bowling-street, near this Coart, deposed that on Monday morning last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, as he was passing by the house of de fendant, a dog belonging to the latter suddenly ran up to him and bit him on the leg. He repaired to a surgeon, by whom the part injured was immediately cauterised. He had not teased the dog in any way whatever. A penalty of 40s. was inflicted. ttnhope Aintfield, a cabman, was charged with having brutally assaulted Susan, his wife. It appeared that complainant (who gave her evidence with very great reluctance) was met by the prisoner on the previous night, and that he beat her with such se verity that the stick which he used for the purpose was broken in two. Mr. COMBE—I will remand you ; for I think you are one of those persons who live upon women or whoever else you can. So you can reserve your questions for the next occasion. Mr. Patrick Morney, a tradesman residing in Golden lane, St. Luke's, was charged with beating and wound ing his wife. The prosecutrix appeared in court with her head covered with plasters and bandages. It appeared fro m her evidence, that on the previous night the prisoner beat her violently on the head, and flung a chair at her. The wife begged, however, that the magistrate would not punish her husband, and declined to prosecute. Mr. COMBE said, that although she would not pros a cute, he must bind the prisoner over in proper sureties, and oblige him to enter into bail fur the next twelve months to the amount of 501. QUEEN-SQUARE, This Court, at which the business of the Westminsts , r division has been transacted frem time immemorial, wi s on Wednesday finally . closed at five in the evening. Ti.e business had been so judiciously arranged that nothin g but the night charges, which were few and of a very tr i • vial cr.aracter, occupied the attention of the Court ; an d Mr. Taylor, the clerk, and the officers of the establisl t alent were busily engaged during the day, and up to a late hour last night, in removing the books, papers, rald other official documents, to the n ew C ourt i n Vineet t °A/nice:l yesterday, und er th e ti t l e o f -court." Th e po li ce - stat i on of es t r he New-way, T ot hi ll street, was also tt s hh q ee u a , r , e B v division a e , s h t e c i h e issta was abandoned at twelve at night ; the inspector on duty pro ceeding at that hour to the new office erected in Roche ter-row, on on the west side of the police court. It may be as well to state that the Magistrate's entrance to tifie latter is in Vincent-square, but that intended for the public is in Rochester-row. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Emanuel Young, butler, in the service of Mr. Latham, 23, Norfolk -street, Park-lane, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick for assaulting Maria Young, his wife. The complainant, a young woman of very genteel ap pearance, with one of her eyes badly discoloured, said she went on Saturday last to Norfolk-street to ask her husband a question respecting their little girl, when, as soon as the hall door was opened, leer husband struck her a violent blow on the face and blackened her eye. Her husband then seized her and threw her down the steps into the street, falling on her with the force he used. Complainant was picked up almost in a state of insensibility by a match-woman, and conveyed home in a cab. The complainant's landlady proved that the com plainant was very much injured by the treatment she had received. Mr. Robinson, who appeared for the complainant, in stating the case, hoped the Magistrate would not inflict any fine, but send the defendant at once to prison, if the gross case of crnelty was established. The do endant said his wife had been separated from him for slime 3 ears, and had been more than once for • bidden to call on him at his master's house She came on Saturday last, and he ordered her out of the house. She would not go readily, and he opened the door and pushed her out. In the struggle she struck her face against the knocker, and caused the bruise which her face now exhibited. The complainant began to knock and ring, and defendant was obliged to use more force and as he was stronger than h:s wife, he compelled her to let go the door post, and in so doing both f 11 down the steps, and by so doing stood a chance of breaki. g their necks. The complainant told tho Magistrate that when her first t usband saw her he gave her a blow, and said, " you, I wish I could end you altogether." Complainant had not received a farthing from her husband for several years past towards her : upport. The defendant called two witnesses, but they did not disprove the assault. Mr. Haanwicx said he wanted no further evidence of the violence used by the defendant than the defend ant's own account of the transaction. Nothing could have been more unmanly and brutal than the defendant's conduct. It might have been indiscreet on the part of child, wife hild,hu t t o go ithts indiscretion person m s a n ke inquiries justification ab the for th e husband to use the shameful violence he had exercised. The law did not permit him to add imprisonment, other wise in addition to the 5/. penalty which he should in flict, he should certainly have sent the defendant for two months to the House of Correction. Mr. Latham (the defendant's master) said it was by his desire that the wife was prohibited from calling at his house. He should pay the 51. penalty for his servant. Mr. Frankling, the chief usher, said that complainant's arm was dreadfully swollen and bruised, and on the poor woman turning up the sleeve of her gown, the fact was fully apparent. Prisoner wus fined 31. or six weeks' imprisonment. LAMBETH. Benjamin 11‘ own, who has described himself as a rail way projector, and who has been before examined on a charge of defrauding Mr. Charles Jacobs of 451. in cash, and a bill, his acceptance, at three months, for 501., was again placed at the bar before Mr. Henry. Mr. Games attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Humphreys appeared on behalf of the prisoner. The prosecutor, after the evidence which had been given by him on the former examination had been read over, produced the following letters which he bad re ceived from the prisoner, during the negotiation for the situation:— "43, Moorgate•street, Dec. 4, 1845. "Sir,—lf you have business to settle, say on the 12th or 13th, you will be in London, and if you have no friends here I will see what can be done for you. "Sir, I am yours obediently, " To Mr. Jacobs." " B. BROWN. In the above the following was inclosed : " Jamaica Southern and Northern Railway, " 43, Moorgate-street, " London, December 5, 1845. " Sir,—Since you applied I have been offered 150, but 200 would make me forfeit my word: therefore, to make the matter safe, send up by return of post a 201. order, and on the 13th, '4l hen you enter the office arrange • ment, as proposed, for 301. and a bill. This may be shown to any of your advisers, but not to our firm, as it is a private and honourable transaction between us. I have private property lent out on mortgage, in Somerset. Income-tax office proves my income. if reference is required, apply to A. Aguilar, Esq., 94, Cheapside, London, or 4, Charlotte-place, Mansion-house, City." " Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and Northern Railway, 43, Moorgate-street, Dec. 5, 1845. "Sir,—Understand me that I di3 not want to cheat you out of 201. written for, but should the gentleman have called on me, who is about to become the secretary to this move, ask me who the clerk was, and I had men tioned your name, and then you to have failed in coming, it would have made me look very foolish. If you come to town on Wednesday I shall be most happy to see you ; but you will not till 13th, as the new effices will not be ready, and it will be a pity to waste the carriage of coming up twice Do as you please. Send on Monday, and then say when you will for certain be in London. " Sir, I am yours obliged, " To Mr. Jacobs." " BENJAMIN BROWN. Mr. George Taylor, assistant-registrar of Joint-Stock Companies, at the °Mee, Sergeant's Inn, Fleet -street, produced an index of all the joint-stock and railway companies registered, and found by it that no such com pany as the Prince of Wales' London and Oxford Railway Company was registered. Mr. HENRY told the witness it would be necessary to produce the books of registration themselves on the trial, as the Court would not be sqified with the index alone ; but would require to have the entries shown in order to negative the prisoner's representation. Mr. Taylor said that when the entry of registration was made, the parties received from the registrar, under his hand and seal, a regular certificate of the registra tion, so that if the prisoner had registered any parti cular railway, and that the fact was questioned, he could at once produce the certificate. The defendant said his wife lad left him of her own accord, and led an immoral life. Mr. Latham was Proceeding to defend the conduct of his servant, when Mr. HENRT here called the prosecutor into the wit ness box, and asked him whether, independently of the prisoner's offering him the place of clerk on a railway, he should have parted with his money, if the pri soner had distinctly told him that such railway was not registered. The prosecutor replied that he certainly should not have done so but for the prisoner's assurance that they were regularly registered, and that all was right. Mr. Games—With your Worship's permission, I beg to ask the witness a question which I have before omitted. Mr. HENRY —Certainly. Mr. Games—Then I wish to ask the prosecutor whe ther anything particular took place on the occasion of his paying the prisoner the 501., at 43, Moorgate street ? Prosecutor—Yes, the prisoner, while I was telling the fifty sovereigns on the desk, requested I would not make a noise. Mr. HAnnwrcK put an end t) further discussion, by telling Mr. Lafharn, that ; rs r man, it was quite impo4 sidle t suppose he could justify the use of brutal vio lence towards a woman, and that woman the assaulter's Mr. Games—He seemed afraid that the other pro jectors of railroad schemes in the adjoining room would hear the pleasing sound of the gold ? Prosecutor—lie seemed so. Mary Spencer, a femal,4 of miserable and dirty appear ance, about 30 years of age, evidently timid and trem- Between three e b b li a i r g ge fr d o m w i t t i h i e consequence ng of r h o a b b h i e t r t7 : Lintoxication, was into the shop of Mr. Samuel Bailey Morris, of No. 10, Walker's court, St. James's, hosier and linendraper, a nd , as sh e passe d t h rough the entrance part of the pre mises, lined with goods for sale, she was been to secrete about her person a pair of women's boots, of the price of 2s. as gcl ll She instantly made h er way from the shop, but the stolen Ns ed er , oanerd instanto n fa b la e l n i n da g t t t hh a ee x r e p d rf ei se with ot.n e rA the os r n o g b s ti b va e eh r nl y e , iwn l at e os t called fo on the custody. Mr. llAnDwrcic (to the prisoner)—What answer have you to make to the charge ? Prisoner—l didn't know what I was doing. I was drunk at the time, and drink has brought me to a pretty pass; but I deserve it. Mr. HARDWICK--I shall commit you for trial. Mr. Games—Did anything else happen about the room door? Prosecutor—Yes; the prisoner took the key out of the door, and shut the small bolt softly before I began to pay him the money. Mr. HENRY—And all this did not excite your sus picion? Prosecutor—No, sir, unfortunately it did not. Mr. HENRY here said he should commit the prisoner to take his trial for receiving the money under false pretences. SOUTHWARK. Charles Hallett, the proprietor of a shoe-warehouse in Thornton-street, Dockhead, was brought up, charged with indecently assaulting Mary Hambleton, a little girl 12 years of age, the daughter of respectable parents, living in that neighbourhood. From the complainant's statement, an interesting-look ing girl, it appeared that on the preceding day she went to the defendant's warehouse for the purpose of pur chasing a pair of shoes. At the time she entered the shop there was no person present but the prisoner, and he desired her to sit down, in order that he might fit her with the shoes she required. While he was engaged in trying a pair of shoes he availed himself of the oppor tunity, and acted towards the little girl in a scandalous and indecent manner. The defendant pleaded accident as the cause. The MAGISTRATE said that, with a view to save the feelings of a young girl like the complainant appearing in another Court to prosecute, he should deal summarily with the case, and inflict on the defendant the highest penalty the law allowed, namely .5/., and to find two sureties of 201. each to keep the peace and be of good behaviour fcr 12 months. HAMMERSMITH. Mr. Reuben Alfred Fitch, of Farringdon street, ap peared in discharge of a warrant issued against him, for having on the 15th of August last refused to pay the sum of one shilling to William Bonner, a conductor to the omnibus No. 2,024, being the amount of his fare for riding from Farringdon-street to the Railway-bridge, Kensington. William Bonner deposed that he was conductor to the omnibus No. 2,024, belonging to the Brentford and Hammersmith Conveyance Association; on the day in question, he took the defendant with a lady up at Far ringdon-street, and carried them to the Railway-bridge at Kensington. On their getting out the defendant paid him only one shilling, which was only one fare. The fare for the two by that omnibus was two shillings, and although witness told defendant so, he refused to pay it. Witness pointed out to the defendant that that was a long (Brentford) omnibus, and that the fare was stated inside the omnibus at one shilling. Defendant looked at the fare up in the omnibus, but still would not pay it. By Mr. PAINTER-The defendant acted for both, and gave the shilling for both, and not for himself only. He at first hesitrsted to give his address. A printed. table of the fares was then healed to the Magistrate, rand having perused it, Mr. PAM Tam said, he found by that table of fares, copies of which were stuck up in each of the omnibuses, from which it appeared that the fares were, from Hounslow, laleworth, and Brentford, to Piccadilly, Is., and further Its. 6d. From Kew. bridge to Kensington palace gates. 6d., and from the New-road to Charing cross, 6d., aed from the Railway-bridge, Kensington, to the Bank, 64 The card went on to state that was the up fare by .all the Association omnibuses. By the Me tropolitan Carriage Act (6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 86, sec. 7, it wa.s enacted, " That the proprietors of every metropolitan i stage-carriage shall, on the inside of every such carriwge, keep distinctly painted, in a. conspicuous manner, a. table of fares to be demanded of passengers by such carriage ; and the fares therein specified shall be deemed to be the only lawful fares, and may be re covered by the driver, or conductor, as in the case of hackney-ca rriages, in a summary way, before any jus tice of the peace ; and every proprietor making default in the premises shall forfeit the sum of 20s. for every offence." He, however, did not consider that the card produced, - which was stuck up in the omnibuses, was a sufficient compliance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament. It ought to be painted upon the omnibus, besides w hich, it only spoke of the up fares, and gave no down faros., except a proviso at the bottom, that " the Hounslow., Isleworth, Brentford, and Kew-bridge om nibuses, take no short fares until after leaving the White Ilorse-cellar," which was, in fact, not sayirg what the 'down fares were, but what they were not. lie did not, therefore, think that the proprietors had com plied with the provisions of the Act of Parliament under which tlsey claimed the fare from the defendant, and the complain t must be dismissed. The w arrant was accordingly dismissed. GREENWICH. After the night charges had been disposed of, a dray man, in. - the employ of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins, ad dressedi iMr. Jeremy, the sitting magistrate, complaining of an eat- policeman, and asking his Worship's advice. He said that he appeared before the Court some time since at the in stance of the toll-collector at the New-cross g a t e , for refusing to pay an extra toll demanded for driving his teem, on his return from Woolwich, with reins. H is WorsisiTp might remember that he decided that w aggons so dri rem were not liable to such a demand, inasmuch that the Legislature could never have contemplated such a liability. On that occasion a man named John Sed ger, formerly a police•constable i n t h e R division, ap plied to himself and mate, assuring them that he could get the :we reported in the newspapers, get the hearing of the se brought on without delay, and procure them The defendant's wife said the various sums were in serted in a book which she had left at home, and Mr. Broderip ordered Douglas, an officer of the Court, to accompany her to her house, and fetch the book. After an absence of a minute Douglas returned, and said the woman would not go one way or the other. She said she bad no account. Mr. BRODERIP carefully went through the accounts, and said he believed no more than 21s. Gd. had been ad vanced to the seamen. He found that 111. was due to the complainant, and he made an order that that sum should be restored to him by Ryan. He should also inflict a fine of 20s. on the defendant for unlawfully de taining the sailor's money. In default of payment of the money and fine, the defendant would be imprisoned for one month in the House of Correction. John Saunders, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Hoare, the brewers, and Mary Ann Saunders, his wile, appeared on their recognizances, before Mr. Broderip, to answer a charge of being in unlawful possession of 116Ibs. of sheet lead, suspected to have been stolen. It appeared, from the evidence of Inspector Falconer, of the Thames Police, that on the evening of the 23d ult., he wont to a marine-store shop kept by the defen dants in Old Gravel-lane, Wapping. He was induced to visit the place in consequence of information that two houses in the neighbourhood had been recently stripped of the lead. After some considerable time, and with much difficulty, he got into the house. The female de fendant was in th e b ac k p art o f t h e s h o p, an d th e in spector informed her that lead had been stolen, and asked if she had bought any that day. She at first said she had bought some on the previous day, on which Falconer commenced searching the place. She then pointed to a bin full of rags, and beneath them the in spector found 116 lbs. of sheet lead. It appeared to have gene round the skylight of a house, or had been taken from the gable end of some build ing. He asked the woman how she became pos sessed of the lead, and she said she bought it from time to time of a carpenter-looking man. lie asked her to let him look at her book, and she said she kept none. Falconer seized the lead, and soon afterwards the male prisoner came home. On the inspector asking him how he accounted for the lead being on his premises, he said he knew nothing of it, and was very seldom a t h ome . Whil e Falconer and . hit men were in the marine store shop, a notorious thie f, named Humphreys, came there with a piece of sheet le a d, which was concealed in his side-pocket. He a:tempted to make his escape when he saw the officers, but was pursued and detained. Mr. Thomas Holbrook, of the "Black Boy," had no doubt the piece of sheet lead taken from the thief was stolen from his house. He missed such a piece from the copper in his back kitchen; but he would not undertake to swear to it. Humphreys was fined 50a., and the dealer and his wife held to bail. Falconer now repeated his evidence, and said he had been unable to trace the owner of the lead. After further proceedings, Mr. BitoDEnn. said the Act of Parliament was specially directed against those receptacles called "marine store shops," and it was impossible for any one with their eyes open to walk along the streets and not observe what was going on in them. The marine store dealers, as they called themselves, bought of anybody and anything. He fined the defendant John Saunders 5Z for unlawful pos session of the lead. VICTORIA PARK.—In consequence of the very propitious state of the weather, the operations of digging and planting have been very actively resumed, and from seventy to eighty men are daily employed in these occupa tions. Within the last month upwards of ten thousand trees and shrubs have been planted, the avenues being lined with elms and horndeans, intermixed with laurels, chesnuts, and the true cock-spur thorn. Since the removal of the Three Colts public-house, and the adjacent houses in Grove-street, a very extensive view has been thrown open from the upper parts of the park to Temple Mills and the adjacent districts in Essex. Great activity is being exercised by building speculators in the vicinity, and some very handsome and uniform villas have been erected in the Bishop's-road, adi a _ cent to the new Bethnal-green workhouse. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE RIVER LEA.--Wednes day Mr. Baker held an inquest at Coventry-cross, B rom l ey, East Middlesex, on the body of Eliza Morris, aged twenty seven, the wife of Thomas Morris, a sawyer of Bromley. Sarah Stainback deposed that she was a neighbour of de ceased. On Saturday evening, about dusk, she saw the de ceased going towards the river Lea, with two pails, for the purpose of fetching water. On passing she asked her how she was, to which she replied she was but poorly, having a dead child at home, and there Was nothing but trouble for poor people. Another witness deposed that she was passing the river near Bromley-mills when she beard a splash in the water, followed by a female's screams. She gave an i, i alarm to the d oc k-k eeper, who procured the drags: an d less than ten min u t es t h e body was go t out. The deceased most have faflen in whil s t filli ng drownea on of her pails ., which was e ..7, " AccidentallY found in th e water. Verdict— Ve are informed. on what we consider good au 1 thority, that no less a sum than 70,0001. is to be expended in improvements on Dunrobin Castle. Such a sum, in such a district, cannot fail to be of immense benefit to the county of Sutherland in general—John o'Groat Journal. Thfl British Museum closed on Wednesday until Thursday, the Bth inst. EADYERTISEMENTI-THE MOST IMMEDIATE RE }troy Fort COUGHS AND COLDS IS HOLLOWAY'S PILLs.-- This celebrated and extraordinary medicine is not only a n effectual cure for coughs, colds, hoarseness, or even loss of voice, but is likewise a certain remedy in all cases of wheezings, shortness of breath, and isthmus. Persons who may be so bad as pot to be able to lie down in bed, lest they be choked with 04, & .,,,, may be radically cared by these Pills when every other means have tailed. This latter class of suf f erers may depend upon getting great relief in the first three da)s, and in ten days they will sleep almost as well as ever they did in their lives. Sold by all medicine vendors, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. an a'‘le I.4wyer to ennOl,et {tin v•as paid tor ilia pi . 0;1:18- d and ten in the hope that a lull report would appear in the news papers. After the case had been heard and disposed of, the party applied to his mate, near the brewery in South wark, and from the representations then made, his mate was induced to pay the man another sovereign ; this he was most clearly not entitled to, and this circumstance induced him to make the present application. Mr. JEREMY said it was most disgraceful that persons should hang about the Court, and beset suitors and ob tain money under such gross representations. The Secretary of State had very properly issued orders to put an end to mock attorneys practising at police courts, and steps should be taken to put a stop to proceedings equally disreputable. He would say the applicant had better go to the Court of Requests, for obtaining the first money without having given value. In respect. to the sovereign obtained from his mate by misrepresentation, the party so imposed on had better come to this Court and obtain a warrant, arid he (Mr. Jeremy) should know how to deal with the case. Mes,rs. Barclay and Co.'s servant then retired, de claring that he would follow the worthy magistrate's advice. Mr. Ffinch then drew up a notice, which was imme diately posted, warning mock attorneys and touters from appearing at the Greenwich and Woulwich Cuurts, or in their immediate vicinity. THAMES. James Ryan, a licensed agent for supplying seamen for merchant ships, and who also keeps a boarding house for sailors at No. 3, Princes street, Ratefill-high way, was summoned to answer the complaint of William Williams, a mariner, for unlawfully detaining 13/. Is. 61, his money. This was a case under the Merchant Seamens' Pro tection Act, which passed last session, and has already been of great service to the class it is intended to benefit. Williams said he came home in the brig Arrow on the 15th irst., and went to Ryan's house, where he remained a fortnight only. The second day after he had taken his things there, he gave the defendant 11s., and on the fourth day 17 sovereigns. He took an account of every. thing he had had during the fourteen days he remained in the defendant's house, and allowing 28s. for his board and lodging, he found he was indebted to Ryan 41. 9s. 6d. lie asked for the balance of his account pre vious to leaving the defendant's house, and he refused to give him a farthing. Three or four days before the de- fendant's wife offered him 11s., which she said was all that was due, and he refused to accept it. Mr. BRODERIP —You paid into his hands the whole of your wages, I suppose ? Williams—Yes, sir, every far thing, and he advanced me a shilling or two as I re quired it, and supplied me with the clothes I now have on. Ryan, in defence, said he was licensed by the Board cf Trade under the new Act, that the proceeding arose out of a conspiracy on the part of. the Jews and crimps in his neighbourhood, who were no longer able to supply seamen for merchant ships, and defraud them with im punity. Be then declared that he had only received a sovereign of Williams. The seaman was recalled, and swore positively to the payment of 171. lls. to Ryan and his wife. Ryan said he would admit his wife received sixteen sovereigns, but he only received one. Mr. BaopsalP could plainly see what sort of a person the defendant was, and asked what magistrate signed his certificate before he obtained his license from the Board of Trade ? The defendant replied, tnat he received a certificate of good character from Mr. Stutfield, a county magistrate, and proceeded to state that his bill amounted to 171. ss. 4d., and that only ss. Bd. was due to the man. Mr. BRODERIP asked the defendant for his account, which he put in, and said that on the 24th June, 1844, the complainant, who had walked all the way from Ply mouth, came to him quite destitute, and he boarded and lodged him until the 2d of September following. He clothed him, gave him an outfit, and procured a ship for him. During that time he never had a farthing from the seaman. He charged him for eleven weeks' board and lodging, in 1844, which amounted to 81 16s. Williams said he was employed as a runner and touter during the eleven weeks, and that when he obtained a ship, Ryan did supply him with his old sea clothes, for which he gave him his advance note. Mr. BRODERIP at once said he should strike out the 8/. 16s. for eleven weeks' board and lodging. It was clear that Williams was acting as servant to Ryan ; and if he had not, he could not take cognisance of a by-gone transaction. Williams then put in his account, in which he had made himself a debtor to Ryan for two weeks board and lodg ing, at the rate of 14s. per week. Ryan claimed 16s. per week, and as that sum was stated upon his card, it was allowed. The sum of 30s. was charged for a blue top-coat, of very coarse texture, and it was declared by Mr. Hart, a slop-seller, who was in Court, to be worth 20$. only, and the magistrate would allow no more. Ryan charged the seamen 31 for cash delivered at dif ferent times. Williams declared he had only received 11. ls. 6d. Mr. BRODERIP said that 31. was put down in a lump; he could not allow that. It wag the old trick, that was the way seamen were duped by the old crimps, and the licensed agents, it appeared, were playing the same game. Lf -I .S S OF TITT: 1 .711 - "NCH STEAMER, THE PAPII:4, WITH SEVENTY' SIX OF THE PASSENGERS AND CREW. (From the Paris Messages of Monday.) The Government yesterday received the painful Intel' ligence of th e l oss o f th e steamer P epiu, with one-hal f °I the persons on board. She left Cadiz at two in the after' noon of the sth inst., bound fur Senegal, keepiug steady course of south-west half-west. The weather was fine during the sth and 6th, but during the follow' ing evening the wind changed to west, and blew wil, k , extreme violence. Ab out ha l f -past eleven, in the night of the 6th the vessel struck on a sand-bank nine will to the north of Mszsgan, within th ree cab l es ' l ev gT at the utmost of the laud. It was impossible to bar' the engine a s t h e paddles were embedecd in the se°,,. For three hours, hoeever, she resisted all the feta of the waves. At four in the morning of the 7 , 111 she was full of water, the sea sweeping her deel' At five the funnel fall and crushed several who wer e . beneath it. A t half-past fi*e, M. M are y M ange , French Consul at Mogedore, who was at the extreme e nd of the poop, was washed by a wave down into the held, Sad there perished. Lieut. Deuil mes with the_same fete few minutes afterwards. Upon this, several of the crew threw themselves into the *ea with the hope of savhli themsel ves b y means of spars floating around ; but meet of them peri: bed also, and it was only by making th e mast desperate efforts that some rescind Azimoar, small village three miles to the north of the place wher e the Pepin struck. On the landing of these the Morse' eotnen hastened to receive and assist them. One W e his burnous to M. du Bourdieu, commissioner at Geree , who was a passenger in the Papin. Camels laden with brushwood were brought down, a great fire was lighted+ and the natives did all in their power to console and re' lieve the unfortunate sufferers. At eleven in the more' ing the persons who had suceeded in getting to land Were only thirty in number. The mainmast of th, e . vessel, which, until th en , had remained firm, althoug° the Pepin was cut in two, fell and crushed about thirty persons. Inspired by a generous devotedness, Dotes' uard, the sec on d master gunner, Mi ra b eau, the secoe°, maitre de ma noeuvres, D esforges and .Natalani, se ame n, so Royol, a voitigeur, of the 3d regiment of marine, 1 0 1 had resulted th e l an d, fi tte d out, with the authority 0` M. du Bourdieu, the whale-boat, which was thrown ° the coast in order to make an attempt to save the per: suns who were still alive in the vessel. They succeeds ( ' in getting through the first breakers, but were after wards upset and thrown on the shore, which the' reached safely. In the meantime, Mr. Redman, Oil consular agent of England, at Mazagan, and our ow" who had left on the same morning for Rabat, heard that a French vessel was wrecked on the coast, immediateli turned back, and arrived at the scene of disaster. .Afte r having provided with the most active solicitude for the first wants of the shipwrecked persons who had reached the land, Mr. Redman exercised his influence to induce the Arabs to go on board, and bring off the unhale persons who were still there. The Arabs showed ° this deplorable occasion as much courage as humanity In less than two hours they had brought to land fort four per s o ns , carrying t h em on their shoulders, 07 swimming whilst the tempest was still raging tires o ; fully. Aft er conv i nc i ng himse l f b y the information 0' three different envoys that ~ here was no longer any help% parson on board the Papin, and after having Oven th e burial rites to eight unfortunate persons, who had heel' washed ashore, Mr. Redman conducted all the abir, Wrecked pers o ns t o Al azagan, w h ere the most eager e° attentive care was paid to them by himself and , is We s brothers. The letters which have been received from Mazagan are f u ll o f eu l og i um o f t h e admirable condu ct of Mr. Redman. F our t y -f our persona, who remitine:', ou the vessel, ce r t a i n ly owe t h e i r li ves to him, 0, even those who h a d reac h e d t h e land are equal / indebted to him tor life,- considering the state suffering and destitution in which he found the o ; When the news of the loss of the Papin arrived Gibraltar, Sir Frederick Nicholson, commandant ° the British naval force, hastened to write to our sal, offering to send to the sp it the English stearet Flamer with the necessary succours. The Flamer, to lact, left immedia t ely f or M azagan . Th e Government ship Espadron was also to leave Cteiiz for the sam e place on the 20th. Mr. R e d man h as esta bli s h ed a gull of thirty men to save as muc h as may be possible of th e l materiel of the Papin. M. M oray M enge, the Con ed ( at Mugadore, M. Fl e uriot de Langle, the commandant ° the vessel, and all the staff of the vessel, with the 0' ception M. de St. Pierre, a volunteer, have perishe e di with abut half the crew, in all 75. The p ersons b ay are 76 in number. The following is a list:—Paseene saved—Messrs. 1)u Bourdieu, com m i ss i ona i re ordonne. teur at Goree; Delaporte, consular agent at Mogadorei Pusset, the consul's servant, and a Moor. (Here follow s a list of the persons of the crew, including Maret de P Pierre, a volunteer officer, and of the sold iers w h o veer , saved.) Passeng e r s D ea d—Alb ert, Li eutenant of y o ,' ' tigeure ; Dubree, garde du genie ; Tisseraut, a • siouary priest ; Moray-Monge, Consul at Mogadol; two Moors and a .few. Steff of the vessel—Fleull° de Lange, commander ; Dieu!, capitaine en second' Herente, enseigne ; Vicard, enseigne auxillaire ; Cht r ; bonnier, commissaire ; Broc, surg eon . (H ere follow &0./ names of the crew an d so ldi ers.) " —The Papin was 160 horse-power, and the machinery had been made England. This vessel was constantly employed in Ol e veying troops and letters in the Mediterranean. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.) IX.A.Ir In4.lltliCES. 8332Trurtam.—Meadow Hay, 8/ 10s • to 41 8s •; Clori t s ditto, 41 53 to 51 15 3; Oat S traw, 1/ 83 to 1/ IN; WI, Straw, 1/ 103 to 1/ 13 s p er l oa d. S upp l y good, a n d t rad e CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41 10s; Clol ditto, 41 5s to 6i 12s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 10 8 to 1/ 12s ; Whea Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s per load. Trade heavy, at t 7„ above quotations. W lI ITECHAPILL.-Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 41 5s ; Clod ditto, 41108 to 5/ 15 s ; O at s traw, 118 s to 1/ lOs ; Whit 4 Straw, 1/ lOs to 1113 s per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. MEAT IVIAIMETS. SOUTHALL, DEC. 31.--We had a very steady demand fat stock here to-day, and prices were well supported Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s to ss; Veal, to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to 5s per Sibs. ROMFORD, DEC. 31.—The trade with fat stock was agAi ri firm, at our quotations :—Beef. from 3s to 4s 4d; Mutto l4 4: to 55; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 3: 10d to 5s per 81i* Suckling Calves, 18: to 30s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 161 0 20s; and Mulch Cows, 161 to 18/ each. LEWES, DEC. 30.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 10d ; DifuttoLlt 3s 10,1 to 5s ; Veal, 48 to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s su per 81bs. WEITECHAPEL. The supplies of Meat on sale wet a by no means large, Irbil° the demand was steady at fall prices. Beef, f rom a s 8d 313 8d; Mutton, 3 s 6d to 4s 6d; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork/ 3$ I,od to 5s 4d per albs. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES or BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Dec. 27, 1845, made up from the Returns of lb! Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and wady per Imperial Quarter. I WIIEAT. I BARLEY.' OA TS. i RTE. 1 BEANS. I mos , . 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